International Competition 8

Time and place

Tuesday, 24 October 2023 at 18:20

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

Description

"Patient", dir. Lori Felker. USA, 2023, 23 min.
"Light Falls Vertical", dir. Efthymia Zymvragaki. Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, 2022, 83 min.

Q&A with director Efthymia Zymvragaki.
Q&A with director Lori Felker, online.

"Patient"

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Lori Felker

Operator: NK Xiong, Liz Sunday, Lori Felker

Screenwriter: Lori Felker

Producer: Lori Felker

Year: 2023

Country: USA

Duration: 23 min.

Languages: English

Description

Synopsis:
Fiction, reality, the private, and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical center.

About the director:
Lori Felker. A filmmaker, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her award- winning short films “Spontaneous” (2020), “Discontinuity” (2016) and “Imperceptihole” (2011) and feature-length documentary “FUTURE LANGUAGE: The Dimensions Of VON LMO” (2018), have screened internationally at festivals including Rotterdam, Slamdance, Festival du nouveau cinema in Montreal and Kinodot in Russia. She has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and/or actor and has programmed for the likes of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Slamdance, and Roots & Culture Gallery in Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University in Chicago.

"Ara la llum cau vertical / Light Falls Vertical"

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Efthymia Zymvragaki

Operator: Efthymia Zymvragaki

Screenwriter: Efthymia Zymvragaki

Producer: Angelo Orlando, Efthymia Zymvragaki

Producer company : Gris Medio, Kaboga Art & Film, Thurnfilm, Eur Film, Novena Nuve, Witfilm

Year: 2022

Country: Spain, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands

Duration: 1 h. 25 min.

Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, Greek

Description

Synopsis:
When I left the island where I was born, it wasn’t a departure, it was an escape. Years later, I arrive on another island, a barren place that feels strangely familiar. I have come here for an encounter with a man. He says he is willing to expose the violence that he carries within. But when I venture to get closer to the harmful, desperate man, I realise that he also holds the key to my deepest fears, echoing in the violence of my own past. Now his story will never be separated from mine.

About the director:
Efthymia Zymvragaki. Director, cinematographer. She got her Master’s Degree in Artistic Productions and Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and trained as a photographer at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. From the University of Crete, Greece, she got a degree in Psychology. She is an alumna of IDFAcademy 2020; Circle – Women’s Doc Accelerator 2020; Accióproducció – Dones Visuals 2021; LIM Development Angels; and dok.incubator 2022. In 2015 she directed the documentary short Refrán. Light Falls Vertical is her first feature.