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

Old Men Never Die
Reza Jamali
Iran.  2019.  85 min

Aslan, a former hangman, left his home in fear of retaliation from the families of the criminals he killed and moved to a remote village far into the north-western mountains of Iran.  A physically crooked old man, his arrival at the village 45 years ago has since brought the life of its inhabitants to a halt; the men have all continued to age but have yet to die.  Aslan, at the age of 100, is one of many centenarians in the village and like the others, he is tired of living.  As they lament over not having married, not having any children, the local undertaker going out of business and generally being tired of life, word of their situation has spread to other villages and attracted others looking to extend their own lifespans.

REZA  JAMALI

Born in Ardebil, Iran in 1978, Reza Jamali is a filmmaking graduate. He has made many short films which have been screened at national and international film festivals and have won many awards.  Old Man Never Dies is his debut feature film.

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Ali Ghasemi :    ghasemi@persiafilmdistribution.com

The Sky is Partly Cloudy
Joydeep Mukherjee
India.  2020.  105 min

The film connects apparently disconnected stories of two men who have lost their way of life as a consequence of unexpected lockout or closure of factory.  Rasomoy Bagchi used to work in a Jute mill as a labor until his factory announces an unexpected Lockout.  Life of Rasomoy, his wife and daughter was shattered all of a sudden. Another story unfolds 7-8 years later.  Anirban Sarkar a brilliant student of University has to leave his study midway to search a job to support his family when his father’s factory declares lockout and he becomes jobless. Despite of being capable he fails to secure a respectable job for himself due to corrupted political system.  Then suddenly one day Rasomoy and Anirban two perplexed men come across in a bus.

JOYDEEP  MUKHERJEE

Joydeep Mukherjee is an independent film maker and screenwriter from Kolkata, India. He completed his Masters in Business Management from University of Calcutta, India. Presently, he is a Guest Lecturer and Doctoral Researcher in University of Calcutta. He studied film making from Chitrabani, Kolkata. He directed two short films ‘Education Opens the Door’ and ‘A Pair of Shoes’ which were critically acclaimed in many film festivals. ‘Akash Ongshoto Meghla’ (The Sky is Partly Cloudy) is his debut feature film. He also penned the screenplay for the film.

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Joydeep Mukherjee :    mailtojoydeep@ymail.com

Raudram 2018
Jayaraj
India.  2019.  80 min

14 AUGUST 2018. The aged couple; Marykkutty teacher and Narayanan who has fully succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease are all set to fly to the US to visit their relatives there. The sudden floods that submerged the roads force them to return home from their travel to the airport. This is their story of survival in the disaster that happen in Kerala 2018.

JAYARAJ

Jayarajan Rajasekharan Nair, professionally credited as Jayaraj, is an Indian filmmaker, who predominantly works in Malayalam film industry. He is the founder of the Birds Club International and is actively involved in philanthropic work.  Jayaraj is a recipient of the Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Peacock award at the IFFI, the Golden Crow Pheasant award at the IFFK, the FIPRESCI Award from the International Federation of Film Critics, the Don Quijote Award from the International Federation of Film Societies, The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) award and a special mention award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He is also a 7 time recipient of the National Film Award and several Kerala State Film Awards. His notable films include Desadanam (1996), Kaliyattam (1997), Karunam (2000), Shantham (2001), Daivanamathil (2005), Vellapokkathil (2007), Ottaal (2015), Veeram (2017) and Bhayanakam (2018).

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