Sugar
Tereza Vejvodová
Czech Republic.  2019.  25 min

Eighteen year old Maria strives to stand on her own feet.  She lives with her boyfriend but secretly works as a sugarbaby, providing company to older men. The film explores the theme of closeness as a commodity,  in a society where capitalist principles rub off onto personal relationships.

Tereza Vejvodová

Tereza Vejvodová studied Film Directing at Film Academy Of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).  She directs her projects and also is a scriptwriter.  Her short film A Part (2017) was nominated for the Magnesia Award by the Czech Film and Television Academy and was featured in the National Competition at Prague Short Film Festival.

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FAMU :    alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz

Plus One
Myroslava Klochko
Czech Republic.  2019.  23 min

Happy newlyweds Ida and Jura are expecting a child.  Ida suddenly finds out that the child will be special.  She is unsure of how Jura will react when he learns the news, or what life with an extraordinary child will bring.

Myroslava Klochko

She was born in Ukraine. Now studying film directing at FAMU (Prague).  “The others perspectives” is her other documentary work at FAMU.

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FAMU :    alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz

128 Thousand
Ondřej Erban
Czech Republic.  2018.  16 min

Right now almost one in ten Czechs over the age of 15 are facing some form of distraint, under which their property is seized to obtain money they owe.  Every day more and more people are falling into the debt trap, but Karel is on the other side of the barricade – it is his job to collect their debts.

Ondřej Erban

Ondřej Erban (1986) is currently the student of FAMU (Prague, Czech republic). *One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand is the second film he has directed during his FAMU studies. Before entering FAMU Ondřej has gained a master degree in Media studies at Charles University Prague and nowadays is working as a journalist in Česká televize (Czech TV).

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FAMU :    alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz

Home Sleep Home
Adam Koloman Rybanský
Czech Republic.  2018.  23 min

Dealing with strangers is a consistent feature of our lives.  Some people try to avoid interacting with new people whereas there are those who relish the chance of meeting someone new. Home Sleep Home looks at how strangers interact, focusing on two Czechs who are travelling abroad. The pair are strangers to one another.  The film documents the conversation these compatriots have when their paths cross on holiday.  This chance meeting sees the two discuss current concerns about societal polarisation, racism, nationalism, and the rise of right-wing popularism.  These issues are not only confined to Central Europe, but have global relevance and greater poignancy, particularly when talked over by strangers.

Adam Koloman Rybanský

Adam Koloman Rybanský studies master’s degree at the FAMU In Prague.  His bachelor film The Friendly Sport Meeting was nominated for the Magnesia Award for the Best Czech Student Film. He has embarked on a number of international festivals.  He works mainly with non-actors, he is interested in a common people and various forms of racism.

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FAMU :    alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz

We are the Rovers
Antonin Michaud Soret
France.  2018.  24 min

A fantastic paramotor adventure to discover the beauty of Norway’s unspoiled landscapes and where the human factor, laughter, discoveries and the unexpected come together in an unforgettable way.

ANTONIN  MICHAUD  SORET

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Echilibru
Eve Cerubini, Victor Jullien, Jerome Fatalot
France.  2018.  27 min

Bears dance every year end in the Romanian Carpathians. During this ancestral celebration, men dont bear furs and parade the streets. The wear the courage of this great predator and summon the strength to face the year ahead.
In a country that hosts the largest bear population in Europe, men and bears have been close neighbors for centuries. Nowadays, the borders between their territories are thinning. To the point they sometimes intertwine…
Echilibru offers an insight into a world without borders, at the dawn of a new equilibrium.

JEROME  FATALOT

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The Warden
Nima Javidi
Iran.  2019.   100 min

In an ambitious follow up to his award-winning “Melbourne”, Nima Javidi’s thrilling second feature is as astutely crafted as it is suave and seductive.

In 1966, a prison in south of Iran is being evacuated because of the proximity to the city’s new airport. Major Jahed, the warden, transfers the prisoners to the new prison and then soon receives a report that one prisoner, sentenced to death, is missing!

With its high concept premise of a frantic manhunt for an inmate in the very building that’s meant to keep him imprisoned, Nima Javidi nimbly reflects on notions of freedom and the fragile nature of authority.

NIMA  JAVIDI

Javidi, born in 1980, started filmmaking with a short film named ‘Marathon Champion’ (2000) when he was 18.  His first feature ‘Melbourne’ (2014), was the opening film in Critics’ Week in Venice Film Festival. He has attended more than 80 festivals around the world including Tokyo, Stockholm, Zurich, Cairo, Mar del Plata, Shanghai, Istanbul, Dublin, etc.  He also received 14 international awards for his first film including,  Best Film in Cairo Film Festival (2014), Best Script in Stockholm Film Festival and Asia Pacific Awards (2014), Best Director, Best Script and Best Young Jury in Gijon Film Festival (2014), etc

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Mohammad Atebbai :    info@iranianindependents.com

Odd Couple
Prashant Johari
India.  2019.   117 min

The movie revolves around two couples of age gaps of 15 years.

Yogesh is a Berlin return 40-year-old renowned painter and Nivedita is 39-year-old interpreter who lives alone in her flat no. 404. The other couple Piyush 25 year is a social entrepreneur and his girlfriend Navi is 24-year-old a free soul.  They both are in relationship lives in the flat number 304 of the same building. One fine day they both couples decides to get married with their own reasons and somehow their marriage gets exchanged at the marriage register office due to the name and address confusion.

PRASHANT  JOHARI

Prashant Johari was born in Patna, Bihar and graduated in 2015 from the renowned fashion college NIFT.
He has directed and written his first Hindi feature film “Odd couple” with some well known assembled casts.
“Odd Couple” is travelling worldwide to the film festivals and tentative to get a release date on mid of 2020.  Johari has completed the writing of his second feature film Happy Birthday Mummy and resourcing on the finance for the same.

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Prashant Johari :    prashantjohari@hotmail.com

Deer
Koldo Almandoz
Spain.  2018.  88 min

Khalil is a young man torn from his roots who lives on the edge of town, where the industrial estates merge into the river and the marshes. Khalil gets by as best he can and spends his time with an old poacher, who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he hasn’t spoken to in years. On the banks of the marshes, the tides mark the time of love and heartbreak, of friendship and revenge.

KOLDO  ALMANDOZ

Koldo Almandoz has written several short films, documentaries and experimental pieces, such as Belarra (2002), Columba Palumbus (2007) and Hubert Le Blonen azken hegaldia (The Last Flight of Hubert Le Blon, 2014). His first feature, Sipo phantasma (Ghost Ship, 2016), screened in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section at San Sebastian.  That same year he participated with the segment Narcisso in the collective film Kalebegiak, also screened at San Sebastian, in the Velodrome. In 2017 he returned to Zabaltegi-Tabakalera with the short film,  Plágan (Plague).  In 2008 he was a member of the Altadis-New Directors Jury in San Sebastian.  DEER is his second feature.

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Maider Intxauspe :    maider@txintxua.com

Asfixia
Kenya Márquez
Mexico.  2019.  88 min

After getting out of jail where she learned how to take care of the sick, Alma, an albino woman, decides to recover something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma is forced to take care of Clemente (a hypochondriac with an OCD to avoid a sudden death) at night. The relationship between them will transit from suspicion and fear to tenderness and love.

KENYA  MÁRQUEZ

Kenya Márquez is a Mexican director, writer and producer, born in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1972.  She graduated from the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA), with a Bachelor of Science and Communication Techniques.  First she worked as a journalist, started covering the source of the red note, later, she went on to cover sports and finally in general news. She was working in journalism for about 8 years but chose to dedicate herself to cinema, although what she really wanted to do was write books. At first she could not enter any film school for which she applied, so she sold all her things and went to Europe to try her luck.  Fate would play in Kenya’s favor when, inside a telephone booth, she found filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. She confessed that she wanted to make movies but had not had good luck.  Almodovar only said: “go back to your country, make your script and try to lift your film”, which Márquez did.

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Kenya Marquez :    dis.kenya@gmail.com