Telefon ART

Szczecin Film Festival 2021: 13.10.2021, Wednesday, 10:00
Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: The Boundaries of Cinema '21

observed events, striking life situations, inspiration by the reality that surrounds us can often become the subject of the film. The competition of short film forms TELEFON ART, with its open formula, does not limit authors with the technique of performance. Thanks to this, we can see interesting works, films on the border of genres, interesting narration and author's convention.

Films

  • (Un)known neighbours / Veïns (des)coneguts3

    I recently moved to Barcelona and, during this time, have got to know my new neighbours. I’ve calculated that hundreds of people could live in my Eixample block. Different lives with diverse ideals, routines and behaviours, all coexisting wall to wall, day after day.

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  • A Barefoot Buddha / 光脚的佛9

    A young man, eager to transcend the worldly troubles in his daily life, embarks on a Buddhist quest. What he finds is shocking as well as thought provoking. The visual style of this animation draws inspiration from two-thousand-year-old murals in the Buddhist caves in Dunhuang. The narration is delivered in the form of traditional opera by well-known Chinese shadow-play musicians and singers.

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  • It must be worse till it becomes better / Es muss schlimmer werden bevor es besser wird6

    It must be worse until it gets better.

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  • Kiki The Feather / Kiki la plume6

    Kiki the canary only knows his cage and the old lady who feeds him. He dreams of flying with the free birds from outside. When at last the door of the cage stays open, he escapes and discovers the big outside where it’s necessary to know how to fly. Finally, being a free bird, it’s scary.

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  • Neighbooor / Vecinooo11

    Luis lives by himself, and he is handling the quarantine quite badly. One day, while he is in the bathroom, he hears a voice coming from the air vent, calling for him. It’s Rosa, an enthusiastic neighbour who starts invading his privacy every time he goes into the bathroom. Luis puts up with every conversation with the politeness of a selfless neighbour but, for him, it’s a nightmare. It gets worse when she asks him for a favour.

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  • The Shadow of Who I Was / La Sombra de Quien Fui7

    Alone and locked in his abandoned mansion, a man faces age, madness, and his very own past as he tries to survive one more night.

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  • The Sleeping Prince / Le Prince au bois dormant5

    Tom would like his dad to tell him a story, but Daddy’s not available so Tom invents a story by himself, mixing all his favourite characters: pirates, knights, T-Rex, cowboys. In this joyful mess, a little princess will be much more brave than the sleeping prince.
     

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  • The Statue / Peykareh9

    The sculptor engages with the mud of his sculpture and shapes it.
     

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  • The Sunset / El atardecer5

    As part of repressive methodologies used by the state during the Social Revolt, Carabineros de Chile (the police) has systematically shot the protesters in the eyes. Hundreds of people have partially or totally lost their vision.

     

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  • Trash mail / Søppel Post3

    A collection of some of my best and most imaginative spam mail in an animation made on my tablet.

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  • Vultures7

    Samuel Mbatha has worked on the Willis property for years. His relationship with the owner, Martin Willis, is a working one, strained by racial interaction. Samuel keeps to himself as much as possible. He leaves the property whenever he can as a means of escape. One night he returns to the house to find Martin in his car, in the process of gassing himself. Sam’s immediate reaction is to save Martin, but a combination of Martin’s refusal, Sam’s respect, and the barriers between them, convince Sam that he must not act.
     

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Associated artists

  • Álvaro Sancho Mauleón

    He is a young film director born in 1999 in Zaragoza, Spain. Currently combines his university studies in audio-visual communication with filmmaking and criticism. He has more than twenty nominations at national and international film festivals for his work as a director on previous pieces and has been credited to attend the Cannes International Film Festival three years in a row.

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  • Grant Sissons

    Has an educational background in Science and The Arts, with a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology. He is a multi-disciplinary artist skilled in videography, video editing, illustration, music composition, production, and screenwriting. Grant has won awards in both music composition and screenwriting.

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  • Isaac Rodríguez

    Co-founder and member of Trieb Films and Avista Films. Focused on the field of documentary, his works have received more than twenty awards and a hundred selections at international festivals. Moreover, he works in other audiovisual fields such as experimental, musical and corporate. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra University and Creative Documentary Master at the same university. He has complemented his training with personalities such as Albert Serra, Mercedes Álvarez, María Cañas, Los Hijos and Martín Hernández. Isaac stands out in teaching cinema and audiovisual skills both in adolescents and in prisons. Additionally, he is being part of different film festivals, like the young jury at the Sitges Film Festival, Punto de Vista Film Festival and Mecal.

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  • Jan Soldat

    Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in 1984. He has been making short films at Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt since 2006. He studied film and television directing at the Konrad Wolf College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He has presented his films many times at Berlinale and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He won the CineMAXXI Award for best short film at the 8th Rome Film Festival. 

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  • Julie Rembauville & Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

    The director’s duo has been writing and directing animated short films for about 15 years. After a first collaboration in 2015 with La Luna Productions for “Once Upon Three Times” one of the 10 films of the Canal+ Animated Collection “Draw Always!,” they make “A Story by Jeannot,” co-produced by Xbo films and broadcast on France 3 channel. They have just finished OLD HAG, whose screenplay was awarded in 2016 at the Annecy Film Market and pre-bought by Canal+.

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  • Martín Emiliano Díaz

    He is a filmmaker and video artist born in Buenos Aires in 1987. Currently presents the video-art “The sunset” and his first feature fictional film, “Inhabit.”

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  • Mohsen Salehi Fard

    Born in 1984 in Najafabad, Iran. Filmmaker of the Iranian Young Cinema Association. Director of several short films and animations.

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  • Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

    After studying applied arts at the Duperré School in Paris, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin published about twenty youth albums as an illustrator. At the same time, he co-directed about thirty animated short films with Julie Rembauville, for which he designed the graphics. The films then travelled to many festivals around the world.

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  • Paco León

    He has voiced Alex, the lion of “Madagascar” and “Valiant.” In cinema he plays in films as “Dieta Mediterráea,” “La dama boba” or “Toc Toc.” He got a Goya Nomination as a new director in his first film “Carmina o revienta.” He directed, produced and starred in the series “Arde Madrid” on Movistar+, achieving a lot of domestic and international awards. He has participated in “La Casa de las Flores” for Netflix.

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  • Sabina Jacobsson

    Lives and works in Oslo. Jacobsson works with mixed media, mainly film. She is looking for new links between idea and technique, where the spontaneous and unpredictable intertwine with the conceptual. Jacobsson experiments with methods both in terms of directing on film and with analogue techniques such as drawing and sculpture. With this as a starting point, she creates playful and thoughtful works.

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  • XUE Feng

    A multi-award winning animation artist. His films have been shown at the International Animated Film Association’s ANIWOW!, La Paz International Film Festival, China (Hangzhou) Animation Biennale for Young People, and many more. As an active member of the Chinese independent and experimental animation scene, he curated a number of important animation events in China. Xue currently teaches at Nanjing University of the Arts.

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