DIRECTOR Sergei Loznitsa

SCREENPLAY, EDITOR Sergei Loznitsa
DOP Pavel Kostomarov
PRODUCERS  Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova-Baker
PRODUCTION, SALES  Atoms & void

A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house in a remote village in the North-West of Russia. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted.

Sergei Loznitsa (1964) has a degree in applied mathematics and filmmaking. His feature debut My Joy (2010) premiered at the Festival de Cannes, and two years later he was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the same festival for the film In the Fog.

DIRECTORTom Van Avermaet

SCREENPLAY Tom Van Avermaet
DOP Stijn Van Der Veken
EDITOR Dieter Diependaele

CAST Matthias Schoenaerts, Peter Van den Eeden, Laura Verlinden, Benjamin Ramon

PRODUCER Ellen De Waele
PRODUCTION Serendipity Films, Perspective Films
SALES Premium Films

Stuck in a limbo between life and death, Nathan Rijckx, a deceased World War I soldier, has to collect shadows to regain a second chance at life and love.

Death of the Shadow – first professional short film by Tom van Avermaet (1982) after the thesis film Dreamtime (2006), has garnered nominations from both the European Film Awards and the US Academy Awards.

DIRECTOR  Cathy Brady

SCREENPLAY Sarah Woolner, Cathy Brady
DOP Nick Cooke
EDITOR  Matteo Bini

CAST Eileen Walsh, Johnny Harris

PRODUCER  Cathy Brady
PRODUCTION, SALES CherryRED Pictures LTD

A distraught woman doesn’t want to be disturbed, but the front doorbell keeps ringing and the caller won’t leave until she answers.

Cathy Brady graduated from the National Film School at IADT 2010. She won the 2011 Irish Television and Film Award for Best Short for her first film Small Change, which also screened at Sundance and Palm Springs.

DIRECTOR Sergio Oksman

SCREENPLAY Carlos Muguiro, Emilio Tomé, Sergio Oksman
DOP Migue Amoedo
EDITOR  Fernando Franco, Sergio Oksman

PRODUCER  Sergio Oksman
PRODUCTION  Dok Films

After appearing in the Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his wife and son. They shut themselves inside a dark apartment. Thirty years later, hundreds of family’s photographs and documents appeared on the sidewalk like a jigsaw puzzle.

Sergio Oksman was born in Sao Paulo, in 1970. He studied journalism and film. He works as a film teacher in Madrid and heads up Dok Films productions.

DIRECTOR Jochen Kuhn

SCREENPLAY, DOP, MUSIC, NARRATOR, PRODUCER Jochen Kuhn

EDITOR Olaf Meltzer

The third part in a series about Sunday outings. In Sonntag 3, the protagonist has a blind date with the chancellor.
Jochen Kuhn was born in 1954 in Wiesbaden. He makes films, painting, scripts, music for films and photography. Since 1991 he works as a professor at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Jochen Kuhn is a member of the Akademie der Künste and the Deutsche Filmakademie.

DIRECTOR Cristina Picchi

SCREENPLAY, EDITOR Cristina Picchi
DOP Saulius Lukoševičius

PRODUCERS  Tanya Petrik, Guillaume Protsenko
PRODUCTION  Mirumir Studio

Winter portrays a reality where the boundary between life and death is so thin that it is sometimes almost non-existent. A journey through North Russia and Siberia.

Cristina Picchi (1981) is an Italian filmmaker and writer based in London. She holds a degree in European literature and MA in screen documentary from Goldsmiths University in London. Short documentaries: Under Your Skin (2011), Fragments of a Dream (2011), Il disassociato (2013).

DIRECTOR Omar Robert Hamilton

SCREENPLAY, DOP, EDITOR Omar Robert Hamilton

CAST Kais Nashif, Maya Abu Alhayyat, Selwa Nakkara, Hussam Ghosheh
PRODUCER Louis Lewarne
PRODUCTION, SALES RiverDry Film

He has returned to Palestine. On the fraught road through the country he relives the choice that sent him to America and the forces of history now driving him home.

Omar Robert Hamilton is an independent filmmaker, producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature and a founding member of the Mosireen Collective in Cairo. His films have appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera; his articles in the Guardian, the BBC, the Big Issue, and his photographs in the Guardian, the Economist, the Daily Beast.

DIRECTOR Miguel Fonseca

SCREENPLAY Miguel Fonseca
DOP Mário Castanheira
EDITOR Sandro Aguilar

CASTAndreia Contreiras, Alice Contreiras

PRODUCERS Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
PRODUCTION, SALES O Som e a Fúria

Beautiful, truly Portuguese seascapes swept before my eyes. Tied up in these images was my youth, my paradise lost. The vast sea, the beach, the people, all waiting, all dying gently, sadly, beautifully. And the waves, indifferent to everything.

Miguel Fonseca was born in Lisbon in 1973. He studied philosophy. His first short film is Alpha (2008). He produced an experimental short film I Know You Can Hear Me (2010).

DIRECTOR Chema García Ibarra

SCREENPLAY, EDITOR Chema García Ibarra
DOP Alberto Gutiérrez

CAST Angelita López, Antonio Blas Molina, José Manuel Ibarra

PRODUCERS  Chema García Ibarra, Leonor Díaz

Mother, father and son. The trio is heading for a crisis. As in the tradition of Spanish painting à la Velázquez, there is more to the image than meets the eye.

Short films by Chema García: Ibarra (1980), The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 (2008) and Protoparticles (2010) were selected to 500 film festivals, and won almost 150 awards, including two honourable mentions at Sundance.

DIRECTOR Hu Wei

SCREENPLAY, EDIOTR Hu Wei
DOP Jean Legrand, Stéphane Degnieau

CAST Genden Punstok

PRODUCTION Ama Productions, Goya Entertainment
SALES L’Agence du court métrage

A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture in front of various backgrounds.
Filmmaker and visual artist Hu Wei (1983, Beijing), he followed several courses in these arts, at La Femis, in the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, and Le Fresnoy.

DIRECTOR Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

SCREENPLAY Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
DOP Dmytro Sannykov
EDITOR Kristof Hoornaert

CAST Sergiy Gavryluk, Svenlana Shtanko

PRODUCERS  Volodymyr Tykhyy, Denys Ivanov
PRODUCTION  Arthouse Traffic Llc

Sergiy and Sveta live in Chernobyl. Sergiy is a truck-driver at a radioactive waste utilization plant; Sveta works at a radioactive decontamination laundry. Their work and their life are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm with clockwork precision.

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (1974) graduated from the Kiev State Institute of Theatre and Arts. His second and third film Diagnosis and Deafness have both been nominated for Golden Bear.

DIRECTOR Bülent Öztürk

SCREENPLAY Bülent Öztürk, Mizgin Müjde Arslan
DOP Hadewych Cocquyt
EDITOR Bert Jacobs, Pieter Smet, Jan Hameeuw

CAST Mizgin Müjde Arslan, Seyithan Altiparmak, Emine Korkmaz

PRODUCTION Clin d’oeil films, The Fridge.tv

A powerful portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish Southeast of Turkey. 22-year old Dilan has shamed the family and must die at the hands of her own brothers. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated.
Born in 1975 in Turkey, Bülent Öztürk lives in Antwerp since 1995. In 2011 he obtained his MA for film direction. Since 2010 he is developing his first feature film Blue Silence.

DIRECTOR Jamie Stone

SCREENPLAY Jamie Stone
DOP Robin Whenary
EDITOR James Taylor

CAST Thomas Brodie-Sangster, MacKenzie Crook, Bronaugh Gallagher, Bob Goody

PRODUCERS Chee-Lan Chan, Len Rowles
PRODUCTION No Logo Films, Humdinger Films

Earth’s orbit. The distant future. Two star-crossed lovers overcome all probabilities and sacrifice everything they have in order to spend one perfect moment together.

Jamie Stone is UK’s 2012 Screen ‘Star of Tomorrow’. He is currently in development on various feature films.

DIRECTORS Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

SCREENPLAY, EDITORS, SOUND, PRODUCERS  Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

The body as a wound that never heals.

Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller predominately make use of found footage. They have presented their films in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, at Tate Modern, receiving the Prix Canal+ Award at Cannes Film Festivals and arte-Short Film Prize, to name a few.