European Competition Blok 4

Szczecin Film Festival 2020: 25.10.2020, Sunday, 17:30
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Blok tematyczny: European Competition'20

Films

  • Blue Eyes and Colorful My Dress54'

    Full of curiosity and self-confidence, three- year-old Zhana explores her surroundings over the course of several summer days. Making discoveries as she bravely goes on her small adventures, she skips through puddles, gets to know some cats and a dog, and freely interprets the games of the older children. Zhana’s own little magic world is on the playgrounds and small peaceful streets and squares of a Bulgarian housing estate where time seems to have stood still. Told intimately through the child ‘s-eye view, this documentary accompanies its curious little protagonist through her everyday life and creates a portrait of poetic simplicity.

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  • Chrishna Ombwiri12'

    Chrishna became a woman again. As the water goes by, she remembers and tells us. The spirits of the river are keeping a watchful eye…

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  • In the Company of Insects10'

    Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focusing on something smaller.

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  • My Country So Beautiful / Mój kraj, taki piękny30'

    A documentary portrait of Poland, in which we see a clash of two forces representing completely different worldviews. The left-wing vision of the country against the homogeneous Poland built by the extreme right. Among these ideologies there are people who fight in the name of their own values and principles. There is one main disagreement – nationalism.

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  • The CoRaven (with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe)2'

    Locked in the loneliness of self-isolation, our Poe-tagonist receives a dark visitor.

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Associated artists

  • Claire Doyon

    Claire Doyon directed her first feature film “Les Lionceaux” in 2002 and presented it the same year at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. She then directed several short and medium films, “Le vent souffle où il veut,” “Kataï,” “Son of a gun” (co-directed with Antoine Barraud) and “Pénélope,” which were selected and awarded at festivals such as Locarno, Venice, Turin, FID Marseille and Clermont-Ferrand. In 2013, she created the production company Cofilms with Coco Tassel. She is also the founder of the experimental institute Maia, located in Paris.

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  • Darren Mark Douglas

    Award-winning filmmaker, writer, editor and film jury member, located in Gdansk, Poland. He has a strong background in fiction and documentary film-making, and has recently had a flurry of creativity due to the pandemic crises. Over the past ten years, he has worked with various art communities and cultural institutions around Europe, directed music videos for upcoming artists, and experimented with short films and art videos. Having studied drama in college and obtained a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Moving Image from the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, he continues to hone his craft of counter-style directing and has developed a keen eye for abstractions.

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  • Duncan Cowles

    BAFTA Scotland Award winning documentary filmmaker whose short films have been selected for various film festivals including internationally and won a selection of awards. Duncan has been commissioned to make work for Channel 4, STV, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio 4, TED Talks, Adobe and more.


    Filmography
    Taking Stock (2017)
    Alexithymia (2017)
    Isabella (2015)
    Directed by Tweedie (2014) 

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  • Grzegorz Paprzycki

    Born in 1984. A graduate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He has worked in local television as a cameraman and editor. Currently studying directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice. To this day he has made three short films that have took part in various film festivals.

    Jestem (2017)
    Pani Bovary to ja (2017)
    Głód (2016)
    Polowanie (2016)
    Okruszki (2014)

     

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  • Polina Gumiela

    Bulgarian-Polish artist born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1981. She emigrated to Berlin in 2000. Her first interest belonged to photography which she started at highschool and brought her some acknowledgement before giving it up for filmmaking finding it more fulfilling. She has studied American Studies at the Free University Berlin and is a graduate in film directing from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB).
    She commonly films, directs and edits her films herself, focusing on intimate portraits and day-to-day matters. “Blue Eyes and Colorful My Dress” is her second feature-length documentary.
     

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Gallery

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