The European Competition Block 2

Szczecin Film Festival 2021: 16.10.2021, Saturday, 17:30
Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: The European Competition '21

Films

  • Before I Die / Antes De Mi Muerte14

    In a small island of Lake Victoria, Kenya, fishermen believe that they are entitled to everything. Meanwhile, women and girls are forced to carry the weight of their silence. In a close journey through her childhood memories, a young woman decides to tell her story to lighten her burden and find hope...

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  • Love Story / Opowieść o miłości39

    The love story of a Jewish girl and a Pole during the World War II. Romantic moments, the hell of war and chilling events. Bogdan Jastrzębski – Righteous Among the Nations, returns to the times of the War, when he fell in love with the only one, the Jewish girl – Krystyna Geisler, for his whole life. First dates, shy kisses, the drama of the Jews in the Częstochowa ghetto and a daring rescue action on the streets of Częstochowa, under the watchful eye of the Germans, which was the only way to save the life of the beloved woman. And then they lived happily ever after. This film is a combination of a classic documentary and a hand-drawn animation. Animation by Łukasz Rusinek.
     

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  • Maalbeek16

    Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.
     

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  • Weeks of sand, months of ash, years of dust / Semanas de areia, meses de cinza, anos de pó20

    Through the form of a personal yet distant essay film, “Weeks of sand, months of ash, years of dust” introduces Macao, a former Portuguese colony handed over back to China in 1999. Having partly grown up in Macao, the filmmaker revisits the learned history of this territory from a Portuguese perspective, addressing post-imperial forms of disavowed political affect alongside the progressing dementia of her own mother.
     

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  • Shānzhài Screens23

    Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.

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Associated artists

  • Iker Esteibarlanda

    Born 1992, works as a filmmaker, screenwriter and editor. He premiered his first short film entitled “Beneath the Trees” in 2014, and he was the youngest director in the Official Section of the 15th Lanzarote Film Festival. From that time on, he has developed his career as a documentary filmmaker and producing corporate videos, always revolving around telling human stories. “Before I Die” (2020) is his second short film.
     

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  • Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

    Born in France in 1988, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis lives and works between Paris and Brussels.
    He is developing a “cinématière”, a hybrid artistic practice that expands cinema to the field of contemporary art. His work questions technologies, memory, the virtual and explores the porous worlds of the image. His films have been selected and awarded in numerous international festivals.
     

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  • Paul Heintz

    Born in 1989 in Saint-Avold, France. He is a Fine Arts graduate from Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains. His work goes through object, sound, video, installation and films. Paul Heintz’s field of action is a bizarre set of cases where what is real is largely imbued with fiction, and where social normativity also makes its weight entirely felt. There is an inherent toxicity to imagination and fiction when they combine their approval of the social norm, as is the case with storytelling for example. From there, Paul Heintz enters the logic of fiction, takes it further and lets through redeeming current.
     

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  • Rafał Bryll

    Film director and editor. Documentary filmmaker. Author of numerously awarded documentaries: “Wydarzenia Zielonogórskie 1960. Bitwa o dom katolicki” (2017), “Kresy” (2018), “Opowieść o Miłości” (2021). In 2019, he produced his feature debut “Pewnego razu w ogródkach działkowych.”

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  • Rita Macedo

    Portuguese filmmaker and video artist based in Berlin. Fascinated by the poetic affinity between moving images and fluxes of thought, Rita’s works often operate within the realm of documentary and speculative fiction, with a focus on meaning, memory and history. Her films have been shown at numerous festivals.
     

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