24.10.2024 at 15:50. IC-7: Dom Kino

Time and place

Thursday, 24 October 2024 at 15:50

Dom Kino Cinema Center – Big Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12

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Description

Fár / Intrusion

Il Compleanno di Enrico / The Birthday Party

To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion

Pleine nuit / Full Night

Panadrilo

Chūn Èr shí sān / Sping 23

Filmen Känns För Vit / The Film Might Be White

The Damp Ground

Pleine nuit / Full Night

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Manon Coubia

Operator: Robin Fresson

Cast: Salome Richard

Producer: Manon Coubia, Nicolas Rincon Gille, Jérémy van der Haege

Producer company : The Blue Raincoat

Year: 2023

Country: Belgium-France

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: French

Description

One morning, the police defines a security perimeter on the edge of a lake, in front of the family house where Louison came for the holidays. Weapons from the Second World War have been detected by divers. Louison’s grandmother could be complicit…

О режиссере:

Manon Coubia
Director, producer. She graduated from INSAS in 2007. In 2016 she received the Pardino d’Oro for Fullness of Time. The following year, Children Leave at Down was selected at the Critics Week in Cannes. In 2019, Maree, selected in Locarno, continues the exploration of the mountain. In 2021, with Nicolas Rincon and Jeremy van der Haegen, she founded “The Blue Raincoat” in Brussels. Her first feature film is in development.

Chūn Èr shí sān / Sping 23

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Wang Zhiyi

Operator: Wang Zhiyi

Screenwriter: Wang Zhiyi

Cast: Xie Weifa, Wang Jiansheng, Huang Mengyun, Hu Haoran

Producer: Wang Zhiyi

Year: 2024

Country: France

Duration: 13 min.

Languages: Hunanese

Description

After enduring three years of the Zero-COVID policy, the Chinese government suddenly relaxed its pandemic control measures in early 2023. The lives of many elderly individuals faded away before the onset of spring. Following the careful handling of the funeral arrangements for both parents, a young man decided to purchase fireworks for the imminent Spring Festival, despite the prohibition on igniting fireworks and firecrackers.

About the director:

Wang Zhiyi
Director, cinematographer. He is a London Film School trained filmmaker. His first short film, Some Manifestations of the South, premiered at Clermont-Ferrand in 2021. Spring 23 is his second work.

Il Compleanno di Enrico / The Birthday Party

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Francesco Sossai

Operator: Giulia Schelhas

Screenwriter: Francesco Sossai

Cast: Nicola Cannarella, Matthias Tormen, Denis Fasolo, Elia Luciani, Luisa Trigilla, Livio Pacella

Producer: Cecilia Trautvetter, François-Pierre Clavel

Producer company : DFFB, Kidam

Year: 2023

Country: Germany-France-Italy

Duration: 17 min.

Languages: Italian

Description

December 1999. Amid the widespread madness surrounding the Y2K problem, a father takes his son to a friend’s birthday party. This innocent celebration becomes one of the boy’s first lessons in the confusing, adult world.

About the director:

Francesco Sossai
Director, scriptwriter. He was born in the Italian Dolomites area. He started filming short films at an early age. He moved to Rome where he graduated in English and German Literatures. He was then admitted at the DFFB in Berlin. His first feature length film Altri Cannibali celebrated its world premiere at PÖFF 2021 where it was awarded as “Best First Feature”. The film subsequently had its Italian premiere at the 39th Torino Film Festival and was screened worldwide in numerous other festivals. Francesco is currently working on his second feature Le città della pianur.

Filmen Känns För Vit / The Film Might Be White

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Sebastian Johansson Micci

Operator: Maja Dennhag

Screenwriter: Sebastian Johansson Micci & Manne Indahl

Cast: Anna Azcárate, Carita Ivanova, Daniel Nyström, Elle Kari Bergenrud, Jessica Liedberg, Mattias Silvell

Producer: Manne Indahl, Sebastian Johansson Micci

Producer company : S.J.M. EF., Film Stockholm AB & SVT

Year: 2023

Country: Swedish

Duration: 14 min.

Languages: Sweden

Description

A ﬁnal feedback meeting is being held prior to the release of an art school’s new commercial. Everyone is happy, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. The meeting escalates to a debate about how it happened, if it can be solved and above all – whose fault it is.

About the director:

Sebastian Johansson Micci
Director and screenwriter based in Stockholm. He graduated with a Bachelor in ﬁlm directing from Academy Valand in Gothenburg in 2020. His short ﬁlms The Class Trip (2015), Cancel (2018), Sustainable Professionality (2020), The Drowning Goat (2020), Promotion (2022) have been screened and awarded at festivals around the world, including Warsaw Film Festival, BFI Future FF, Gothenburg FF and Reykjavik Int. FF. Sebastian is currently developing his debut feature The Earwig.

Panadrilo

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Marcela Heilbron

Operator: Madeline Leach

Screenwriter: Marcela Heilbron

Cast: Génesis del Monte, Mónica Bartholomew, Carina Weber, Francisco Carrasco

Producer: Marcela Heilbron

Producer company : Hypatia Films

Year: 2024

Country: Panama

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: Spanish

Description

Immigrant Juan sets out to move to the USA but is swallowed by a crocodile along the way. Surprisingly, he finds this new state quite cozy—perhaps even an ideal fate for him and others like him.

About the director:

Marcela Heilbron
Director, producer. Born in 1991 in Panama. She moved to the United States, where she majored in choreography and dance, and went on to study anthropology at Fordham University in New York, which sparked her interest in film. She worked as an executive producer on Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon (2022). Her short film debut God Is in the Breath (2019) was featured programme in the Toronto International Film Festival. She is now back in Panama, where she directed Panadrilo.

To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Valentin Noujaïm

Operator: Alex Brack

Screenwriter: Valentin Noujaïm

Cast: Kayije Kagame

Producer: Manon Messiant

Producer company : Iliade et Films

Year: 2024

Country: France

Duration: 14 min.

Languages: French

Description

Claire, a businesswoman promoting a new skyscraper office in La Défense faces increasing scrutiny and isolation. The cold, grey offices amplify her loneliness, driving vivid dreams of setting the tower ablaze.

About the director:

Valentin Noujaïm
Director, screnwriter. He is a screenwriting graduate from La Fémis Paris. His audiovisual works such as Before She Forgets Heliopolis (2019), The Blue Star (2019), Venus Retrograde (2020/2021), Daughters of Destiny (2021), Saturnalia (2022) are focused on the discovery of improvised lives, compressed lives and extinct lives, while discussing French societal issues and balances of power. His art works have been displayed at venues such as Salon de Montrougeand Centre Pompidou.

Fár / Intrusion

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Operator: Eli Arenson

Screenwriter: Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, Anní Ólafsdóttir

Cast: Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, Jörundur Ragnarsson, Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir

Producer: Rúnar Ingi Einarsson, Sara Nassim

Producer company : Norður

Year: 2023

Country: Iceland

Duration: 5 min.

Languages: Icelandic

Description

A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.

About the director:

Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Director, actress. After gaining a B.A. in theater directing at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, Gunnur is currently studying acting at the University of Arts in Iceland. She is an Edda Award nominee as best supporting actress. Intrusion is her third directorial work.

The Damp Ground

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Maxim Kuzhba

Operator: Alina Nadezhdina

Screenwriter: Maxim Kuzhba

Cast: Dmitriy Bogdanov, Olga Cherkashininova, Feya Korostyleva

Producer: Maxim Kuzhba

Year: 2024

Country: Russia

Duration: 17 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

The morning of 11-year-old Zakhar begins with the news of his grandfather’s death. From that moment, irreversible changes begin to take place within him.

About the director:

Maxim Kuzhba
Director. Born in 2003 in the settlement of Kirpilskaya, Krasnodar Krai. Currently lives in St. Petersburg. Graduated from Artur Aristakisyan’s workshop at the St. Petersburg School of New Cinema. His other film Tell Her Everything Is Alright (2021) was screened at the ‘Typography’ Contemporary Art Centre as part of the ‘Russia–Germany’ festival.