2022 International Competition

Nathalie Dunselman

5’
The International Film & Television
School Paris Eicar
France 2021

Two divorced parents come together on a parking spot to talk. They left both a child in their car. A half brother and a half sister who never met. They are going to discover each other through the windows of the cars.

Nathalie Dunselman is a 22 years old dutch writer/director. She was 10 when she started to make short movies with her parents iPad. She never stopped since that day making films and learning as much as she could about this art.
She is now in her 3rd year studying cinema at the international film school in Paris.

Danilo Stanimirović

12’
Faculty Of Media And
Communications Belgrade
Serbia 2021

“Prokop”, Belgrade’s central train station, is a living architectural organism which drags traces from many epochs in which it existed, however it was never completed. The station itself was never a train station only, and it was always absorbing the consequences of human acts.

Danilo Stanimirović is a young film student from Požarevac, Serbia and alumni of FIDCampus Marseille, Ateliers Varan and Sarajevo Talents Campus. His short documentaries Migrations and Prokop have been screened at festivals such as DokuFest, Beldocs, Pravo Ljudski Sarajevo, Free Zone Belgrade… His fiction film Bambiland was premiered at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, screened at over 80 festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Currently, his 3 new short films are expecting premieres.

Bartosz Brzeziński

30’
Warsaw Film School
Poland 2021

Kuba is growing up in a small village where nothing ever happens. He’s being raised by an alcoholic father, a ship breeder. One day, an old friend from a big city appears in the village. The protagonist begins discovering his sexuality and is soon faced with a tough choice.

Bartosz Brzeziński – born in 1995, a graduate of directing at the Warsaw Film School and a student of cultural studies. Creator of short films and music videos.

Nooshyar Khalili

3’
Luca School Of Arts
Belgium 2022

Will You Remember My name is an experimental short animation showing women fighting for their rights in the Middle East. Women who have suffered throughout their lives and have often been forgotten in history. This 2D animation has been projected on the women’s body as it is the first and the most common tool for the patriarchal societies to oppress them with.

Nooshyar Khalili was born in 1993 in Tehran, Iran. She studied Archaeology for her bachelor’s in the University of Tehran and after finishing her studies, She followed her passion for art and animation and start her career as an illustrator and animator in advertising agencies. 
Meanwhile, she started teaching animation to children in schools and private institutes and designed animation courses in participation with Kaan Group which helped children to tell their stories using various mediums. She co-directed a My Beautiful Train (2020) music video, made from children’s doodles and paintings, which was selected for the 33rd Isfahan International Film Festival for Children and Youth. Afterward, she directed a short cut-out film, Portrait of Mahvash, about an old pop star and sex idol with Nairy Eivazy in 2020.
Nooshyar is interested in subjects related to women’s rights, politics, and history.

Sorao Sakimura

12’
Kyushu University, School of Design
Japan 2022

I sink into myself and pick up a stone with suffering. At a certain moment, that stone starts developing its ego and becomes something different from myself. Then he picks me up and takes me to a place I never imagined.
I have spent a dizzying two years living alone, studying at University in the Corona Disaster, and suffering from a relapse of depression. This is a work about a scene I saw while continuing to create in the midst of it all.

Born in Miyazaki, Japan in 2001. I have loved creating since childhood and spent my elementary and junior high school years enjoying creating various kinds of things.
In 2018, when I was in my first year of high school, I created a short animation ‘The Corridors’ by groping my way through the world. This was the beginning of my fascination with visual expression, which allows me to express in reality what was only in my mind.
In 2019, during my second year of high school, I created a short animation work, ‘The Sound of Cicadas, Touch the Wind’. This work, which depicted my own life-sized conflicts and impulses through a combination of hand-drawn drawings, 3DCG, and live action, won the Grand Prix at the Wired Creative Hack Award 2020, Youth Gold at the 22nd DigiCon6 Japan, and was nominated for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2020 U-25 Project.
Since then, I have accelerated my activities as a filmmaker and an animation artist, participating as an animator.
Currently, I am enrolled in the Media Design Course, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, where I am studying various forms of expression, not limited to animation.

Siriu Cui

8’
Huace Film Academy Of
Communication
University of Zhejiang
China 2022

The first full process plot short film based on LED Virtual Production technology produced by grade 19 students of Communication University of Zhejiang. In the future world, the natural environment is seriously damaged, and the two young people at the bottom of the society can only numb themselves and feel the nature through the virtual world, while their last longing for the nature also disappears under the reality factor.

Grade 19 Student of Huace Film Academy Of Communication University of Zhejiang.

Lucas del Fresno

26’
Sarajevo Film Academy
Spain 2021

Pedro, a foreign worker in Switzerland, learns that his mother is in the hospital
in Spain. Cut off from the world on his employer’s farm, he is asked to take
one of the cows to slaughter before returning to his country. Waiting for
news from Spain, he arrives late at the slaughterhouse, already closed.

Born in 1993 in Oviedo, Spain. Spanish citizenship. In 2016 he graduates with
a university degree in Cultural Studies in Madrid. 2017 Master in Directing in
Barcelona. 2018 follows the program created by Béla Tarr, at the Sarajevo
Film Academy (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

Razan Hassan

15’
The Netherlands Film Academy
Netherlands 2022

Anne couldn’t accept her own child Felix, who was born with Down syndrome. Anne tries to process her struggle through making theater with Sara, a 32-year-old woman with Down syndrome. Will it be possible for Anne to connect with her motherhood through her encounters with Sara?

Razan Hassan is a Syrian-Dutch filmmaker and video artist currently living in Amsterdam. In 2017, she worked as an assistant programmer in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA. In addition to her passion for film, Razan works with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) – Psychology department as an assistant researcher. Her award-winning film Before I Forget was shown in several film festivals around the world such as: Symi International Film Festival 2018 (Best Director)(Winner), Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase, Common Good International Film Festival 2018, St. Louis International Film Festival 2018 (Best Documentary Short Award) (Nominee), London Migration Film Festival 2018, Around International Film Festival Amsterdam 2019 (Award winning), Bethlehem Student Film Festival 2019, and Cinema Arabe Amsterdam 2019.

Konoplya Oleksandra Andriyivna

21’
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema And Television University
Ukraine 2021

Lisa lives with her mother, an indifferent sister, and a silly dog. She sincerely
believes that she will be able to fall in love with Vadik. Once, having received an invitation to a party from Vadik, Lisa, under the careful guidance of friends, decides to achieve her goal and meet the guy of her dreams. However, the reality is not as fabulous as her dreams. Despite Vadik’s
indifference, Lisa persistently tries proves to herself and the world that this is true love. Painfully overcoming the indifference of family, friends, and management, she hopes to hear the coveted “I love you.”

Konoplya Oleksandra Andriyivna, was born February 22, 2000, in Mariupol, Donetsk region. In 2006 I went to the 1st grade of school No.3. In 2009, I and my family moved to Kyiv where I entered school No. 181. During my school years, I attended art school, dancing, and acting classes, was part of school and district self-government, and created performances. In particular, I repeatedly took part in district concerts as a presenter. In my spare time, I wrote novels and poems. Journeys have always been an integral part of my life – I travel to learn the culture and traditions of different countries of the world. After having graduated from school with honors, I entered Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (TV Direction Department). I have been a member of the creative association “Vitryak” since 2018.

Anna Jasińska

8’
Film School In Łódź
Poland 2021

The tale of a beautiful Nymph who falls in love, and a young man who will do anything for her. She uses the man to fulfill her bloody whims. The fool in love plucks his own Adam’s apple for her and he dies at her feet. Then, a curse is put on the Nymph. The curse rots and stings her legs and the only way to get rid of the spell is a kiss from true love.

Anna Jasińska, a graduate of the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Kielce witha specialization in workshop graphics. Winner of many art, photo and film awards, a also the scholarship of the Prime Minister in
2015/2016. Currently a student of the Film School in Łódź at the Department of Animation and Special Effects.

Engin Ökmen

16’
Dokuz Eylül University
Turkey 2022

Before the cockfight of the evening,
İrfan’s favorite roosters refuse to fight.
Provoking Derya and Murat into a fight,
İrfan will make sure that the evening’s
fight goes on as usual.

Engin Ökmen graduated from Dokuz
Eylül University’s Department of Directing
in 2021. His short film Bi’ Zahmet
won the first prize at the TRT Future
Communicators Competition and Adana
Golden Boll Film Festival. The film, which
received the Environment Special Award
from the Sakarya Short Film Festival, was
a finalist at the Güzel Ordu Short Film
Festival and the Young Creative Awards
held in France.

Duhan İbrahim Eren, Erim
Erdoğan, and Halis Eren
Koçyiğit

10’
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Turkey 2022

A documentary project about the
story of the social transformation
of the Moda district in İstanbul in
the last 150 years. A chronological
journey through time and around the
mansions, the old and new apartment
buildings of a social place, to the
accompaniment of music.

Duhan İbrahim Eren was born in 1999.
He worked in festivals such as Altın
Koza; he was a camera assistant,
cinemotagrapher in the industry
and many student films. Halis Eren
Koçyiğit was born in 1998. He directed
short films, Ayna, Zaman ve Yalnızlık
Üzerine. The latter was a finalist in
the 2020 Shortcut Homemade Short
Film Competition. Emin Erdoğan was
born in 2001. He directed and edited
various student films. He is currently a
freelance writer.

Polina Kondrateva

18.00

Directing Faculty Of The Gerasimov
Institute Of Cinematography (VGIK)

Russia, 2022

Junior sergeant Komarov takes a detainee, Grisha, to the station to process the case. On the way the policeman finds out the details of what happened to the suspect. Money-wise Grisha helped an elderly woman, Marya Nikolaevna, to defend her apartment against the raiders. In self-defense, Marya Nikolayevna maimed the raider. For woman’s protection Grisha decides to take all the blame. Having learned everything, Komarov faces a moral dilemma: to follow the letter of the law or remain human.

Poliba was born in Moscow in 1998. She secretly from parents applied to the Directing Faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and entered it. Student of the workshop of A.K. Kott and V.K. Kott. Since the freshman year she has began to work on the sets of large acting films. In 2019 Polina with some of her friends started a video production company.