Amor, Avenidas Novas
Duarte Coimbra
Portugal.  2018.  20 min

Lisbon, 2017. Manel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion,  he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon.  Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed by girls.  One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern who helps with the mattress. They talk. This encounter has a profound effect on Manel who goes home to reconsider his life sinking into a magical feeling of passion.

DUARTE  COIMBRA

Duarte Coimbra was born in 1996, in Lisbon, and has a degree in Cinema Directing at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC). While at school he worked as a production assistant for the film O Meu Pijama (2017) by Maria Inês Gonçalves – selected for IndieLisboa 17′,  was the second assistant director in the film A Barriga de Mariana (2018) by Frederico Mesquita, and also directed music videos for the musicians Luís Severo and Primeira Dama. Amor, Avenidas Novas, produced within the school, is his first film as director.

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Three Years Later
Marco Amaral
Portugal.  2018.  13 min

A woman returns. As night falls, a storm’s coming.

MARCO  AMARAL

He studied at both an art school and a film school.  Working with movies since 2010, he has credited in over 100 short and feature-length films as a colorist.  In 2014, the short film Outono premiered at the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival and traveled through several international film festivals. In 2018, he finished the short film 3 Years Later.

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The Night of Agama
Tomáš Janáček
Czech Republic.  2018.  33 min

Radka, together with her little daughter, a suitcase and a gym bag, gets off a bus. Down the streets of the same city, Ludek is taking his time going home, aware that nobody is waiting for him there. For a couple of hours before dawn, what was meant to be a fateful connection with one purpose only might resemble a family.

Tomáš Janáček

Tomáš Janáček is finishing his studies at the directing department at FAMU (Prague).  He published articles about film and used to work as an assistant director of David Jarab in his Theatrical work.  Aside from his own projects he work as a script analyst for Czech TV and pre-selector for Karlovy Vary IFF.

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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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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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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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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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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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