Attack
Roberto Chinet
Spain. 2020. 20 min

March 11, 2019. A date marked in the life of Manu to avenge, fifteen years later, the death of his father. But it is also a very important day in the life of Monica and her family. Two pieces of life, two stories full of hatred and misunderstanding, that inevitably intersect in a street.

ROBERTO CHINET

Roberto Chinet, director, screenwriter, editor and producer, is a Canarian filmmaker and audiovisual teacher. Diploma in Directing and Screenplay at C.E.C.C. and postgraduate in post-production. With a lot of experience in the audiovisual sector, he has worked with prestigious directors such as Ton Tywer, Santiago Zannou, Ventura Pons or Isaki Lacuesta. In these years he made 15 short films, highlighting: “Novilunio” (2009), “Estrella” (2014) and “El gigante y la sirena” (2017). As a screenwriter he has developed several feature film projects, two fictions and a documentary. In 2021 he hopes to shoot what will be his first feature film entitled “Monsters”. In 2016 he founded the audiovisual production company NOVILUNIO MUSIC AND FILMS.

DIRECTOR,S STATEMENT

The film invites the public to take a trip to the world of Manu, the protagonist, on the 15th anniversary of the death of his father. The day chosen to avenge his death. But also, it invites us to make another journey into an upper-middle-class family, Mónica’s family, a young woman who crosses paths with Manu on a tram. Two scraps of life separated by the social condition of each one, but united by the hatred and misunderstanding with which they coexist, which will inevitably cross that same day to modify their destinies.

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Wind
Dadren Wanggyal
China. 2020. 97 min

Gelak is an illegitimate child, living with her mom Samdan alone in a distant Tibetan village, where women are not allowed to join the Sang Offering to the Sacred Mountain. Samdan has always relied on men for a living, and Gelak has been treated as a vicious witch by the villagers. Fed up with the prejudice she has to face growing up, Gelak decides to challenge the traditions and fight for herself.

Based on the award-winning novel by the famous Tibetan author A Lai, Wind unfolds an authentic painting of the astonishing landscape and the ethnic culture in Tibet, enpowering women on the plateau.

DADREN WANGGYAL

Born in Songpan, Sichuan, Dadren WANGGYAL holds a degree in Film and TV Production from the Communication University of China, and a postgraduate degree in Photography from the Beijing Film Academy. Dadren has 6 years of experience as press TV cameraman, and is the first Tibetan director who enters documentary projects in CCTV.

His documentary Little Monks Spring Festival was nominated as the Best Documentary at The 9th FIRST Film Festival.

Wind is Dadren Wanggyal’s first feature film.

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Miranda Liu : liu.qianmeng@hishow.net

Casiopea
Fernando Manso
España. 2019. 14 min

Casiopea is the journey to life itself.
A captivating adventure that unravels the eternal question of humankind: What happens before/after life?

FERNANDO MANSO

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Yaq Distribución : raul@yaqdistribucion.com

The Unseen River
Pham Ngoc Lan
Vietnam. 2020. 23 min

The film explores the magic, beauty and intensity of the Mekong River by following several humans and one animal as they all traverse its banks. A young couple visit a pair of monks in a futuristic temple; two former lovers reunite by chance years after their affair; and a spunky black-and-white dog deftly navigates the river landscape tying them all together. Magic and melodrama mix and meld mellifluously along the Mekong.

PHAM NGOC LAN

Phạm Ngọc Lân (1986, Vietnam) is a film director with a background in urban planning and architecture, based between Hanoi and North Carolina. Lân’s debut short film The Story of Ones (2011) has been screened in numerous film festivals and art museums, including Visions du Réel (Swizterland), CPH-DOX (Denmark), New Cinema and Contemporary Art – Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin) and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. His first two short fiction films, Another City (2016) and Blessed Land (2019) both premiered at the Berlinale Shorts Competition. Lan is currently developing his first feature film Cu Li Never Cries.

Filmography

The Unseen River, 2020
Blessed Land, 2019
Another City, 2016
The Story of Ones, 2011

CONTACT

Wouter Jansen : info@squareeyesfilm.com

Return
Selman Deniz
Turkey.  2019.  18 min

Eyüp crosses the mount Ararat and starts to look for his aunt in the Yerevan by following a mad man’s words. His aunt also expects someone to come from behind this mount for years. Eyup can not be sure about the one who he found behind the blue door, whether his aunt or not. Because they can’t understand each others.

SELMAN DENIZ

He was born in 1989 in Mardin. He got primary and secondary education in Mardin. In 2013 he graduated from Faculty of Education at Ahi Evran University. He joined various Cinema Workshops and took part in short films. He worked at film festivals in Mardin and Silopi. His second short film script “The Return” won production support from Turkey-Armenia Cinema Platform. Currently he is working in film sector. Living Spain.

Filmograpy:

Mamoste/ 2014/ short/ Directed
Veger(Return)/ 2019/ short/ Directed-Scenario

DIRECTOR,S NOTE

The main character Eyüp has grown up knowing the story of his grandfather who has survived the genocide and adopted by a Kurdish family. This minority cannot maintain their identity and they are assimilated into Kurdish in period of one century. As the time passes by, the stories of genocide are replaced by violence stories of ’90s. A family that has been driven away from their land, witnesses the torture and suppression in a different land and under a different identity. Eyüp who is doing sheepherding at the foothills of Ararat, likens the mountain to a lover. The more İbrahim tells him about his aunts affection, the more Eyüp perceives the mountain as sanctuary which can save him from all the evils that he is experiencing. When İbrahim gets killed during the curfew, Eyüp decides to pass the mountain as a sign of his devotion to Ibrahim’s memory.
With this film I will be able to touch the stories about the Armenian massacre that I have heard during my entire childhood and which has become a part of my personality. For me, this film is a reflection of all of those stories.
In the film, in accordance with lyricism of the story, the photography will be at the forefront. While the camera shuttles between Kurdistan and Armenia, it will focus on the love of these two lovers.
As there is no time and space in the story, the camera movements will stay away from exaggeration and will move calmly.

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Selman Deniz : pele47@hotmail.com