Julie and the Demon of the Night
Jan Vondrácek
Czech Republic.  2019.  20 min

One day before meeting her father that she has never met, a half sleeping young woman leaves her apartment against her brother’s wishes. During the eclipse of the moon, she meets juvenile figures of her own unconsciousness and descends slowly into her fear of an unknown.

JAN  VONDRÁCEK

During 2007 to 2011,  he received several awards for  amateur and independent films in both domestic and international competitions. It was significantly influenced by his work for the Czech National Film Archive Cinema. In 2012,  started studying Prague’s FAMU. His first year’s film was scheduled to premiere at the BFI London festival.

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Still Rolling: The DDLJ Story
Natashja Rathore
Great Britain.  2016.  35 min

What makes a film do a record-breaking run of over 1000 weeks at the box office? A filmmaker takes a journey from London to Switzerland, to India to rediscover the magic of Bollywood’s longest running film ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’.

NATASHJA  RATHORE

As a Filmmaker, Natashja has crewed on Feature Films, TV Shows and has directed and produced a number of Short Films and Documentaries that have travelled to festivals – including ‘Still Rolling’ the documentary on the popular Bollywood sensation ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’. Natashja has consulted and created content for notable Brands such as Roseate Hotels & Resorts, Belvedere, Kotak, Hero etc. and her work has been seen on platforms such as BBC Asian Network, Mediacorp, National Geographic and Condé Nast.

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Caitlin Quinlan :    c.quinlan@lfs.org.uk

The Binoculars
Rahul Sharma
Great Britain.  2019.  15 min

Cadence runs away during an unwanted road trip with her mother. Looking through her binoculars leads her to an unexpected meeting with two refugees.

RAHUL  SHARMA

Hailing from a small town in Northern India-Kanpur,  Rahul moved to Mumbai, a metropolis, at an early age and inculcated a best of both world.  Interested in cinema from an early age, his influences include Satyajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, François Truffaut and Bahman Ghobadi. Centred on younger protagonists, his short-form work includes Story of a Lonely Goldfish and The Binoculars, the latter being his graduation film for the London Film School where he recently obtained an MA in Filmmaking. Currently, his feature-length documentary Three Losses shot over three countries is in post-production.

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Caitlin Quinlan :    c.quinlan@lfs.org.uk

10 x 10 Feet
Dhruv Tripathi
Great Britain.  2018.  18 min

More than 60% of the people in Bombay actually reside in houses of 10×10 feet or worse. ’10x10ft’ revolves around a newly married couple, who is frustrated, as they have to share a one room house with the groom’s parents.  This frustration is further increased by the fact that getting a bigger space is a leisure that they can’t afford. In this city of crowded homes and cramped desires, where does one find the space to make love?

DHRUV  TRIPATHI

Currently working on Graduation Film for the 3 year MA Filmmaking course at London Film School.

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Caitlin Quinlan :    c.quinlan@lfs.org.uk

Holy Family
Margarida Lucas
Portugal.  2019.  20 min

Holy Family is dark humor comedy that tells the story of a family of 5 brothers, a single mother and a grandmother who live tight on a small apartment in Benfica.  The mother (Bela), permanently unemployed, has the fantasy to enrich herself. Liliana, 19, is an addict and struggles in school.  Zé, 21, works at the grocery store. Artur, 11, speaks little but is still the quietly responsible figure of this family, taking care of his younger twin brothers,  Gil and Ricardo. Finally, Dona Laura, is an eccentric old lady obsessed with football. Everything is complicated on the day that the emblematic Sardoal FC mascot escapes and the club is at risk of losing the championship.

MARGARIDA  LUCAS

Born in Lisbon, 1983. Margarida moved to London when she was 18 to study Media at UWL.  She did an MA in Cinematography at ESCAC, Barcelona.  In 2009 she moved to New York where she currently lives and works as a film editor.

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Emanuel Oliveira :    emanuel@curtas.pt

Look no Further
André Marques
Portugal.  2019.  25 min

Elsie wakes Löic from a hidden grave in the forest.  He does not remember anything, just what they are: vampires.  With his memory slowly returning,  Elsie fears that the love she feels for Loïc may not be enough to keep him by her side.

ANDRÉ MARQUES

André Marques (1984, Setúbal, Portugal) studied cinema at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and he is an awarded Portuguese writer/director.  His work has been developed through various genres – fiction, experimental, documentary – with films and projects selected in several internationally renowned festivals such as Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Palm Springs, Leeds, Vila do Conde, Gijón, Doclisboa, among others.  Marques has been the subject of six retrospectives: by the Bucharest Cinematheque (Romania) in 2015, by the TV channels TVCINE (Portugal) and FicBueu Film Festival (Spain) in 2016, by the Burgas Film Festival (Bulgaria), Ymotion Festival (Portugal) and Fundação Gulbenkian (Portugal) in 2017. He was one of the selected filmmakers for the Berlinale Talents 2016.

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Emanuel Oliveira :    emanuel@curtas.pt

The Hissing of Summer Sands
Catarina Mourão
Portugal.  2018.  18 min

“The whistle man” was a typical character of the portuguese sea-side during the Fascist Portugal.  His story has so many versions that he has become a myth:  A poor crazy man who lost his baby girl, a professional homeless who lived from the charity of rich families, a pedofile or a summer father Christmas. His whistle announced his arrival and attracted boys and girls or made them run away. Last year I found 30 seconds of footage of this man which until then was just a memory. Is he more real now?

CATARINA MOURÃO

She studied Music, Law and Film (MA Bristol University). In 1998 she was a founder of Apordoc, Portuguese Documentary Association and started teaching Film and Documentary in 2000. In 2000 with another filmmaker (Catarina Alves Costa) started Laranja Azul, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon.

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Filipa Henriques :    pf@portugalfilm.org

These are My Hands
André Miguel Ferreira
Portugal.  2019.  8 min

For the last nineteen years,  Adelaide Ribeiro goes on the same trip twice a week.  These Are My Hands is the result of the documentation of what makes this ritual essential for the director’s grandmother, and of the analysis of the deep connection that binds them.

ANDRÉ  MIGUEL  FERREIRA

André Miguel Ferreira completed the Bachelors in Theatre Production and Management at The Lisbon Theatre and Film School.
He interned with Bruno Bravo at Primeiros Sintomas and Sara Machado at Cumplicidades – International Contemporary Dance Festival of Lisbon (Cumplicidades – Festival Internacional de Dança Contemporânea de Lisboa).
Currently studying Photography and (Post) Cinema at NOVA School of Social Sciencias and Humanities (NOVA – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas)
The are my Hands marks his derectional debut.

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In Case of Fire
Paula Marques
Portugal.  2019.  23 min

It’s summer in rural Portugal, but while festivities take place young Chico is haunted by the memory of a hate crime committed against another boy to whom he was secretly close. Pressured by friends to conform while hiding his fears and desires, the night becomes a journey of discovery from which Chico might never return.

PAULA  MARQUES

Tomás Paula Marques (she/they, b. 1994) is a filmmaker from Porto, Portugal. Having completed a master’s degree in Filmmaking at Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián), she previously did a postgraduate degree in Sociology at ISCTE (Lisbon), and was originally trained in Directing and Cinematography at ESTC (Lisbon). Paula Marques directed the films IN CASE OF FIRE (2019), BLINDMAN’S BUFF (2021), WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN (2022) and DILDOTECTONICS (2023). The characters in her films tend to face difficulties when questioning or breaking expectations of gender and sexuality. These themes are informed by her lived experience and by a historical and sociological research, which is part of her practice. Paula Marques often collaborates with other visual artists, and she has also worked as a cinematographer, editor and script supervisor.

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Nyo Vweta Nafta
Ico Costa
Portugal.  2018.  22 min

Ico Costa returns to Inhambane, Mozambique, where he lived in 2010. He is looking for his friend Nafta, but he also takes the temperature of the young generation.  King-Best. Samsung Galaxy. Versace. White rooster. There are no toothpicks in Norway. Coconut trees. Baobab fruits. Superfruits. Vitamin C. Passiflorine. Megabytes. Coffee is a white man’s addiction. Ngadzango. Nafta.

ICO  COSTA

Ico Costa was born in Lisbon in 1983. He studies at the Portuguese National Film School (ESTC), in Lisbon, and at the Universidad del Cine (FUC), in Buenos Aires. In 2011 he was admitted at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, in France, which he finished with Distinction.  He directed the short films “Libhaketi” (2012), “Quatro Horas Descalço” (2012), “Corrente” (2013), “Antero” (2014) and “Nyo Vweta Nafta” (2017).  His work was shown at several film festivals, such as the Critics’ Week of Cannes IFF, Locarno IFF, Rome IFF, Indie Lisboa IFF, Bradford IFF, Durban IFF, Curtas de Vila do Conde ISFF, Jihlava IDFF, among others.

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Filipa Henriques :    pf@portugalfilm.org