Bones for Otto                                                                                                                        Matei Lucaci-Grunberg                                                                                                      Romania. 2016. 29 min

Two prostitutes meet on a deserted road. One is used to the nightly routine but is having trouble coming to terms with the competition – a naïve beginner who is just discovering what the oldest profession is all about. Time spent together gradually reveals that neither has anything to reproach the other for. They both need money, whether to feed their family or to fulfill a lifelong dream. With its comic tone, Bones for Otto doesn’t take aim at women on the streets, presenting them instead as strong individuals whose lives have taken an unexpected turn.

Matei Lucaci-Grunberg

Matei Lucaci-Grunberg (b. 1989, Bucharest) is a theater and film director, screenwriter, and playwright. He earned his bachelor’s in film direction from the National University of Theater and Film I.L. Caragiale (UNATC) in Bucharest. He completed his master’s at the same university and is currently pursuing a doctorate. His theater and film productions have earned him national and international awards.

CONTACT

Matei Lucaci-Grunberg

E-mail: m.lucaci.grunberg@gmail.com

Romanian Film Promotion
52, Popa Soare Street, 023984, Bucharest
Romania
Tel: +40 213 266 480
Fax: +40 213 260 268
E-mail: info@romfilmpromotion.ro
www: www.romfilmpromotion.ro

Meral, Kizim                                                                                                                            Süheyla Schwenk                                                                                                                  Germany. 2016.  21 min

Meral, a young paraplegic girl, is not only bound to bed because of her illness but also to her traditional family – which she thought she had escaped long time ago.
No one can accept her illness, only to her younger sister she has a special relation.

SÜHEYLA  SCHWENK

Süheyla Schwenk was born in Sweden / Göteborg. When she was five, she moved with her family to Turkey, where she grew up. She studied acting in Istanbul and completed with the master degree. Now she lives in Berlin since 2009. Since 2012 she studies directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). She makes movies which are about politics, social and woman rights.

FILMOGRAPHY 

2016/ SEVINCE/ DCP/ 30Min (Toronto International Film Festival 2016, Max Ophüls Preis 2017)                                                                        2015/ MERAL, KIZIM/ DCP/ 22Min (Achtung Berlin 2016 Best short Movie Award, !f Istanbul 3. Audience Award, Max Ophüls Preis 2016, Lausitziale 2016, 45. Lubuskie Filmsummer, World Cinema Amsterdam 2016.)

2014/ PERI GEHT AUS/ DCP/ 7Min

2013/ STEMPEL/ DVD/ 5Min

2012/ DER ANFANG/ DVD/ 2Min

2012/ OPFER/ DVD/ 6Min

CONTACT

Production:
DFFB (a.zaluska@dffb.de)

Sevince  (Germany)                                                                                                              Süheyla Schwenk                                                                                                                  2016.  30 min

Peri wants to leave and to be free; she does not just exist for her husband and daughter. It’s not only the Burka creating the borders of her life in the German society, her mind is divided too. She is convinced that she doesn’t have the right to live out the life she wants and worries what will happen to her if her secret is discovered by a her husband who has just made a decision that will throw her life off track.

SÜHEYLA  SCHWENK

Süheyla Schwenk was born in Sweden / Göteborg. When she was five, she moved with her family to Turkey, where she grew up. She studied acting in Istanbul and completed with the master degree. Now she lives in Berlin since 2009. Since 2012 she studies directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). She makes movies which are about politics, social and woman rights.

FILMOGRAPHY 

2016/ SEVINCE/ DCP/ 30Min (Toronto International Film Festival 2016, Max Ophüls Preis 2017)                                                                        2015/ MERAL, KIZIM/ DCP/ 22Min (Achtung Berlin 2016 Best short Movie Award, !f Istanbul 3. Audience Award, Max Ophüls Preis 2016, Lausitziale 2016, 45. Lubuskie Filmsummer, World Cinema Amsterdam 2016.)

2014/ PERI GEHT AUS/ DCP/ 7Min

2013/ STEMPEL/ DVD/ 5Min

2012/ DER ANFANG/ DVD/ 2Min

2012/ OPFER/ DVD/ 6Min

CONTACT

Production:
DFFB (a.zaluska@dffb.de)

The End (Jiri Volek) Czech Republic                                                                           27 min.  2016

Mara, an exemplary factory worker and father of two is striving for a better life for his family. His efforts are derailed by his brother-in-law Paja, a hopeless teenager roped into the football hooligan life by his girlfriend, Dana. When Mara’s wife asks him to tag along with Paja at a football match, he has no idea that his life is about to change. In an unexpected turn of events, Mara gets in.

JIRI VOLEK

Jiri Volek was born in Kolin, Czech republic, right next to the grocery store from Forman’s Black Peter. He studied architecture and graphic design in Prague and later on he started his film studies at FAMU with Vera Chytilova as his mentor. In 2010 he shot the movie “Bastards” about growing aggression among teenagers and the thin line between foolish pranks of boredom and pathological violence.

In 2012 he made his movie “Open Call” that was nominated for the Best Student Film at Cesky lev national film awards. This movie is a bitter sweet summer story about two girlfriends stranded in a carousel of questionable castings for young girl models. Jiri is also an author of a very successful chapter “Flag Bearers” in the project “Tribes 0” where he reveals the onset of the british hooligan “illness” during 1970’s. He also shot a television adaptation of this chapter for Czech television.

With his currently finished movie “The End” he won Czech television’s competition “The Accelerator“ selecting the most ambitious scripts from all Czech film schools for future co-production.

FILMOGRAPHY

The End / 2016
Open Call / 2012
Rays Of Death / 2012
This Is The End / 2011
Bastards / 2010
Anticorra / 2009
Way Back / 2007

CONTACT

Tomas Smrcek | Punch
+420 737 411 965
tomas@punch.cz

Amir & Sara (Jalal Hussaini) Afganistan                                                                 11 min. 2014

Amir and Sara live a normal life together. Amir goes to work and comes back home every day until he has an accident that forces him to open his eyes… Only to find out that everyone around him live with theirs closed.

JALLAL HUSSAINI

Jalal Hussaini had studied cinema in Kabul University. He started by
editing for other students and his first short film was ANGELS OF
EARTH earned many awards inside the country. Jalal’s short films got selected in many festivals and residences worldwide, including
the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Asian film academy in South
Korea.

In 2014 AMIR & SARA got selected in Clermont Ferrand in France and then he decided to go to Germany  and start a new life.

FILMOGRAPHY

2017 My Brother Is Coming Back
2014 Amir and Sara
2012 The Outpost
2010 1988-2010
2010 In The Name of Opium
2010 Parenthesis
2009 Angels of Earth

CONTACT

Tora Bora Media
info@toraboramedia.com

Red Light (Toma Waszarow)  Bulgaria                                                                     2017. 22 min

In a small village, a bus stops at the only intersection, where the traffic light is stuck on red. The bus driver, refuses to move forward which provokes a conflict with the passengers and the local law enforcement. A story about the funny side of apathy, selfishness, and loneliness in a world where following the rules is a misunderstanding.

TOMA WASZAROW

Toma Waszarow is a director, producer and editor. Founder of production and distribution company – REVO FILMS, based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Studied Film and TV Directing at SW University, Bulgaria. Participated at Berlinale Talent Campus, Sarajevo Talent Campus, TOSMI, How to Say It.
His director’s debut THE KISS is 1 minute short, selected to more than 40 festivals, 5 times awarded and was seen by more than 13 millions of viewers in YouTube.
In 2015 and 2016 Toma Waszarow was awarded by the Bulgarian Film Academy as the best film editor for editing the feature film SINKING OF SOZOPOL.

FILMOGRAPHY

RED LIGHT
NOON
ANYTHING FOR YOU
THE KISS
GIFT
REVOLUTION
BORETO

CONTACT

Production company:
Revo films Ltd.
ul. Buzludzha 43/2
1463 Sofia
Bulgaria
+359887436227
info@revofilms.com
http://www.revofilms.com

Kurli                                                                                                                                               Natesh Hegde                                                                                                                       India. 2017. 17 min

Siddi Subba steals banana in his landlord’s farm where he works as a servant. His three children go to catch crabs in the same farm, then the landlord and his son realized that some one stolen banana within their periphery when they found bunch of banana hidden in a pit. One of the Siddi Subba’s son accused as culprit. Father is not accepting his own guilt he committed, accused child is unaware of the situation.

NATESH  HEGDE

Born and brought up in kottalli a small village in Western ghats of karnataka India. Studied postgraduation in journalism under karnataka University Dharwad.
Written short story in kannada language and published them in leading newspaper and magazine of karnataka.
Made two short films. Kurli is the first short film.

CONTACT 

Production Company :  Kadalivana Chitra (India)                                             Ph: 9480014236

Kajal (Paakhi A Tyrewala) India                                                                                   20 min. 2017

Like all elements, humans have a saturation point. What happens when a woman – constantly bullied by her boss, harassed by strangers and abused by her husband – finds an abandoned package one night?
A package that holds an answer to all her demons. A package that triggers an inner change in her the moment that she lays eyes on it.
Kohl captures a turning point in the life of a woman, in a world claimed by men.

PAAKHI  A  TYREWALA

Paakhi A Tyrewala is a writer turned director from the Indian Film Industry. Having started her career in films as a child artist at a young age of two and a half years age, deep in heart she knew she belonged to cinema. She has been through a long and interesting journey of exploring various departments in the industry while being behind as well as in front of the camera.

Her first shot at direction was a song she directed in ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’. Recently, she has been in the news for the success of her directorial short ‘Kajal’ – a film about Women’s right to be.
The film had its world premiere at the New York Indian Film Festival and later had an Indian premiere in Mumbai. The film has already been selected/screened at few other prestigious film festivals across the world.
Paakhi’s directorial feature ‘Pahuna’ will also be out in theatres in the next few months.
Currently under post, Pahuna is the journey of three kids from Nepal who get separated from their parents and find a home for themselves in the beautiful Indian state of Sikkim. The film has been made in Nepali, a language unknown to Paakhi; proving her to be a fearless filmmaker.
Paakhi has three films credited to her as a writer and acted as the lead in two. She is associated with the Art of Living for over 10 years and it has given her a unique perspective of the world view.

CONTACT

Siddharth Jain
(Producer)  kajaltheshortfilm@gmail.com
Kohl (Kajal)
Phone: +91 95295 06814