Events :: The European Competition Blok 3 :: Szczecin Film Festival 2022

The European Competition Blok 3

22.10.2022, Saturday, 20:00
Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: The European Competition'22

Films

In the mountain. In A Costa da Morte (Spain). An old lady. A house. A computer. An attempt to communicate with the outside.

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Authors:
- Paula Amor
Maldita. A Love Song to Sarajevo2022 | 27’ | SPA
His God is Love. His homeland is Earth. Its gender? Human. In Maldita, a love song to Sarajevo, Božo Vrećo, the most revolutionary of the Balkan artists, sings to life, to overcoming obstacles and to the love story between two cities, Sarajevo and Barcelona, which knew how to find each other in difficult times to never say goodbye.

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Authors:
- Raúl de la Fuente Calle & Amaia Remirez
Mothertruckers2022 | 15’ | SPA
“Mothertruckers” is an insight into the untold story of female truck drivers. Taking place after Brexit and during the UK transport and fuel crisis, it addresses the conflict of being a female lorry driver in a male-dominated profession and explores the romantic idea of finding freedom on the road compared with the hard work and unconventional lifestyle of being a lorry driver.

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Authors:
- Paula Romero
Murmur2021 | 10’ | AUT
What would happen if at some point, natural and human-made sounds became indistinguishable from one another? Today, birds imitate telephones and people put little chirping boxes in their homes. Katharina Pichler soberly compiles such observations while nature and civilization come together audio-visually to ultimately merge in a portentous alliance.

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Authors:
- Katharina Pichler
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy | Rosa Rosae. La Guerra Civil2021 | 6’ | SPA
Saura creates and recovers more than thirty images, drawings and photos that he prints, manipulates, plays with and then films, to create a story that, recreates the Spanish civil war, but also reflects the horrors of a universal war, from the gaze of a child and its environment.

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Authors:
- Carlos Saura
The road bad and the place dark2021 | 23’ | SPA
Sierra Leone is the second poorest country in the world. After overcoming one of the toughest and bloodiest civil wars, in 2014 its citizens had to face one of the most devastating epidemics in living memory, the Ebola epidemic. The consequences of those horrors ended up with extinguishing the spark of development and plunging the population into total darkness, in which they have been living since 1992. The lack of stable light supply is a major constraint for the development of medical work, directly affecting the life expectancy of Sierra Leone people. The images obtained are part of the reality encountered at the hospital wardens in the Koinadugu district.

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Authors:
- Borja Larrondo

Associated artists

Borja Larrondo
Filmmaker and photographer with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2012 he attended the International Master of Documentary and Narration at Efti and is currently studying Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UNED. His work is based on the exploration of narrative-visual worlds, as well as experimental documentary filmmaking. He focuses on the idea of error and memory (real or imaginary), he translates fiction as part of a scene from reality; a personal imaginary made up of portrayed feelings and emotions. Defined as a multidisciplinary artist, his work and his installation stem from an interest in sociology and anthropological narratives as part of popular culture. He works on identity, psyche and perceptive capacity, raw and decadent. “The Road Bad and the Place Dark” is his first short film as a director.
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Carlos Saura
Born on the 4^th of January 1932, is a Spanish film and theatre director, photographer and writer. He is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. His films have won many international awards and he had been nominated to the Academy awards (Oscars) three times.
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Katharina Pichler
Born in 1995, is a sound designer and filmmaker currently based in Graz, Austria.
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Paula Amor
Studied Film Direction at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) and completed the full training of performing arts at Estudio Corazza (Madrid), as well as Musical Theater at AMDA (New York). She works as a Theater Director, Film Director, Assistant Director and Acting Coach. She has directed the feature-length film “Los golpes de la vida”, fashion films and advertising, and she is currently working in audiovisual projects in development. “Beautiful House” is her first short film as a director.
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Paula Romero
Journalist and filmmaker based in Bristol (England). Has more than five years of experience in the creation of visual content and documentaries for personal projects and clients in the UK, Spain and Latin America.
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Raúl de la Fuente Calle & Amaia Remirez
Directors, screenwriters and producers, Amaia and Raul have been working together for more than 20 years. They have received more than 150 awards at national and international festivals with projects such as “Minerita” (Oscar Shortlisted, Goya 2014) and “El Infierno” (Goya 2020 nominee, Hollywood SIMA Award for Best Photography and Documentary). With “Another Day Of Life” they premiered at Cannes Official Selection and received the European Film Award, a Goya and Platinum for Best Animation and the Audience Award at the SSIFF. Looking for stories with social themes – gender violence, child soldiers, imprisoned minors, they have traveled through Angola, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Peru, Canada, Sarajevo and Mexico.
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