Winning Films of the International Competition, Part 1

Time and place

Saturday, 28 October 2023 at 15:10

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

Description

"The Bitch", dir. Carla Melo Gampert. Colombia, France, 2023, 14 min.
"Fragments from Heaven", dir. Adnane Baraka. Morocco, France, 2022, 84 min.

"La Perra / The Bitch"

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Carla Melo Gampert

Screenwriter: Carla Melo Gampert

Producer: Franco Lolli, Capucine Mahé, Julie Billy, Naomi Denamur

Producer company : Evidencia Films, June Films in coproduction with Arte

Year: 2023

Country: Colombia, France

Duration: 14 min.

Description

Synopsis:
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.

About the director:
Carla Melo Gampert. Director, animator, visual artist. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and from the Film program at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Her graduate thesis, the animated short film “Por ahora un cuento”, had its international premiere at Annecy. She curates audiovisual exhibitions focusing on experimental animation. “La Perra” is her first professional animated short.

"Fragments from Heaven"

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Adnane Baraka

Operator: Adnane Baraka

Screenwriter: Adnane Baraka

Producer: Adnane Baraka, Jean-Pierre Lagrange

Producer company : Alpha Ursae Minoris Productions, JPL Productions

Year: 2022

Country: Morocco, France

Duration: 1 h. 24 min.

Languages: Amazigh, Arabian, French

Description

Synopsis:
Searching for stones in the vastness of the Moroccan desert may seem absurd. Unless these stones are celestial and have the power to change the lives of those who find them. That’s the story of Mohamed (a nomad), Abderrahmane (a scientist), and other bedouins.

About the director:
Adnane Baraka. A Moroccan independent filmmaker born in 1987 in Marrakech. After studying at ESAV film school in Marrakech/Morocco, Adnane graduated in directing in 2011. In 2010, he directed his first short documentary “Talbanine”, awarded in FIFE Casablanca. In 2019, he finished his first documentary feature “Wandering Stars”. He is also a musician, researching in acoustic and synthetic sounds through InCave and SENT projects.