International Competition 2

Time and place

Saturday, 21 October 2023 at 18:30

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

Description

"Dentures", dir. Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama. India, 2023, 15 min.
"Sonnenhof", dir. Tatjana Fanny. Switzerland, The Netherlands, 2023, 22 min.
"The Castle", dir. Martín Benchimol. Argentina, France, 2023, 77 min.

Q&A with directors Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama.
Q&A with director Tatjana Fanny, online.

Dentures

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama

Operator: Jigmet Wangchuk

Screenwriter: Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama

Producer: Prabhav Sharma, Siddharth Potade

Year: 2023

Country: India

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: Hindi

Description

Synopsis:
Today is a day of celebration for Ajju: his father is turning 90 However, the old man no longer recognises his loved ones and embarks on a singleminded quest to find his lost dentures in the halls and corridors of a hotel, hewer the celebration is taking place. For him, the hotel is a strangely familiar non-place, completely devoid of memories, which he wanders through in a disconcerting hallucinatory quest for his missing prosthesis.

About the director:
Siddharth Potade. Director, screenwriter. He was born in Ratlam city of Central India. After graduating in mechanical engineering he shifted to the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry. He has been working since 2015 as an assistant and associate director in film and commercials. «Dentures» is his debut short film.

Nikhil Lama. Director, screenwriter. He was born in Ratlam city of Central India. He works in the Mumbai-based film industry as a professional assistant writer for Films and Television. He have worked in development of web shows and TV series. «Dentures» is his debut short film.

El Castillo / The Castle

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Martín Benchimol

Operator: Nico Miranda, Fernando Lorenzale

Screenwriter: Martín Benchimol

Producer: Mayra Bottero, Gema Juárez Allen, Clarisa Oliveri

Producer company : Gema Film, SISTER Productions

Year: 2023

Country: Argentina, France

Duration: 1 h. 17 min.

Languages: Spanish

Description

Synopsis:
Having worked as a housekeeper all her life, Justina inherits from her former employer an enormouscastle in the middle of the Argentine pampas. The only condition is that she must never leave.

About the director:
Martín Benchimol. Director, cinematographer. Was born in Argentina in 1985, he studied cinema at the University of Buenos Aires. He directed two documentaries with co-director Pablo Aparo: “La Gente Del Rio” (2012) and “El Espanto”, which won the IDFA Award for Best Medium-length film in 2017, prizes at Guadalajara IFF, Krakovia IFF and Docs Barcelona, among many other international and national awards. “El Castillo” will be Martin’s solo feature film debut.

Sonnenhof

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Tatjana Fanny

Operator: Xenia Patricia

Screenwriter: Tatjana Fanny

Producer: Rafael Manuel

Year: 2023

Country: Switzerland, The Netherlands

Duration: 22 min.

Languages: Swiss German, Serbian

Description

Synopsis:
The idyllic Swiss family estate – Sonnenhof – no longer feels like home to Dijana, now that her daughter has moved away. She slowly begins to look beyand its borders and seeks comfort in the fragments of the previous life she left behind in former Yugoslavia.

About the director:
Tatjana Fanny. Filmmaker. She lives between Zurich, London and San Sebastián. She has a background inpainting and religious studies, the latter of which she studied at King’s College London. Since 2022 she has been studying for a Master’s degree in Film Creation at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE). A hybrid documentary “Sonnenhof” is her first short film. She is currently developing “Mädchenmorgen, Blütenträume”, a project that explores the inner, secret bonds that are passed down from one generation to the next.