A second birthday|Movement arising|Maria’s way||Rain project|13, 14, 15|
Home is not a place|Champions|Ciudad Maya|Bei Wind und Wetter
A second birthday
A film by Georg Zeller
Nine year old Misha has to face a big challenge.
His father follows him during the months of preparation for a liver transplant filming their conversations about the big issues of life
Director Biography
Georg Zeller was born in Stuttgart/Germany in 1973. After his studies at ZeLIG Filmschool inBolzano/Italy and at the Hochschule der Künste/Berlin, he works as a filmmaker and cameraman in Italy and Europe. He worked at ZeLIG as tutor and production coordinator for many years and has been teaching at Izmir University (Turkey), „Mov(i)e it!“ (Italy) and elsewhere.
Movement arising
A film by Mashahiro Tsutani
Different movements caused by different relationships between minute units such as structures and cells in mouse brains, as well as particles and lines in non-living matter.
Director Biography
Mashahiro Tsutani born in Japan in 1968. Graduated from Nagoya Institute of Technology. His movies have been screened at many festivals including Berlin Int’l Film Festival.
Maria’s Way
A film by Anne Milne
A seemingly mundane daily task soon evolves into a humorous and charming observation on the importance of purpose, commitment and tradition.
Director Biography
Nomad, filmmaker, adventurer, curious bystander, Anne Milne is an award-winning
documentary filmmaker. She is an explorer of both people and places.
Notturno
A film by Fatima Bianchi
A group of blind women talking about themselves.
Their ways of seeing emerge through sensorial memory, song and dream.An imaginary landscape at the edge of obscurity gets reconstructed through their voices.
Director Biography
Fatima Bianchi is a visual artist, and a director of documentary. She lives and works between Milan (Italy) and Marseille (France). Her artistic production is expressed through documentary and video installation.
Rain Project
A film by Oleg Chorny
Armed with his brushes, the mural painter Gamlet Zinkivsky roams the streets of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, 20 km from the front line. The artist’s initiative does not go unnoticed.
Director Biography
Oleg Chorny born in 1963. Graduated from the film director’s department of the State Institute of Theatre and cinema in 1985. Shot a number of feature shorts, documentaries, ecological and promo films and musical video clips. His short feature movies and documentaries participated at the programs at the Ukrainian and international festivals.
13, 14, 15
A film by Claudius Beutler
Summer in Siberia. During a few short months, the vast, bleak expanses of snow and depressing darkness make way for cheerful greenery and soft light: lots of soft light. 13, 14, 15 subtly copies the style of silent films from the earliest years of film history. Boys and girls acting silly, the axe cleaving through wood, driving wild horses. Simple and traditional, and close to Mother Nature: this is the pure life.
Director Biography
Claudius Beutler, born in Berlin 1986, studied documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich.
Home Is Not A Place
A film by Clara Trischler
A Slovak family that lives in Kenya and Bangladesh has to choose between their freedom and a reunion with their family.
Director Biography
While studying film, Clara Trischler discovered her love for documentary filmmaking shooting “The First Sea” in Israel & the Palestinian Territories.
Champions
A film by Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger
On the day of the European Championship finals 2016, a group of Kurdish children from a refugee camp in north Iraq try to contact FIFA to apply their Kurdish team for the Football World Cup 2018.
Director Biography
Anastasija Harrowna Bräuniger works as an artist, actress and director.
She grew up in Germany, Moscow and the UK and had an early interest for performing
and visual arts.
Ciudad Maya
A film by Andrés Padilla Domene
A group of young urban Maya operate mysterious technological instruments to carry out a kind of archaeological survey of a ruined site.
Director Biography
Andrés Padilla Domene is a Media artist born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He has exhibited his work in art spaces and film festivals internationally. Lives and works between Mexico and France.
Bei Wind und Wetter
A film by Remo Sherrer
Wally’s childhood is increasingly turned upside down by her mother’s alcohol addiction. She experiences the excesses and consequences of addiction first hand. Desperately, the eight-year-old tries to keep up normality in her own life and the life of her family by any means. A roller coaster ride between helplessness, excessive demands and desperation begins. It’s a daily struggle for survival.
Director Biography
Remo Scherrer is born in 1986 in Mutschellen, Switzerland. 2003-06 Apprenticeship as chef. 2009-13 Attends HLSU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst). 2013 BA in Animation from HSLU. MA in Film from HSLU.