BEAST IFF

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Sweat recounts three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zając, whose presence on social media has made her a celebrity. Although she has hundreds of thousands of followers, is surrounded by loyal employees and admired by acquaintances, she is looking for true intimacy.

BIOGRAPHY

Magnus von Horn was born in 1983 in Sweden, Gothenburg. He is living and working in Poland. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Łódź in 2013, where he now teaches directing. Magnus made a successful entrance with his short films: Echo (2010) premiered at Sundance FF and Without Snow (2011) premiered at Locarno FF. His debut feature The Here After was premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight 2015 – Cannes FF and won two Swedish Guldbagge Awards for Best Film & Best Director and travelled to festivals such as Toronto, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastian and was sold to more than 10 territories. With Sweat, his second feature-length fiction, he took part in Torino Film Lab.

• Magnus von Horn
• Poland
• 2020
• Fic.
• 106’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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Spiral is about letting go. A strange triangle story by a mysterious lake, between one man and two women. Sometimes we can’t let go and this might result in consequences that end in tragedy. There’s only one thing we can do: face ourselves.

BIOGRAPHY

Cecília Felméri was born in 1978 in Cluj, Romania. She graduated at Sapientia Univ. in Cluj-Napoca and has been doing her PHD studies at  Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Her shorts were in competition at Locarno IFF, Warsaw IFF, Mar del Plata IFF, DokLeipzig, Transylvania IFF, and won more than 20 prizes. She is a director and writer, known for Spiral (2021), Cuckoo (2008) and Végtelen percek (2011). 

• Cecília Felméri
• Hungary, Romania
• 2021
• Fic.
• 94’
• Sub. PT/ENG

FILMIN

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The year is 1980.

Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give in to the temptation and choose the easier way of collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police.

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Born in 1972 in Žilina, Slovakia, Ivan Ostrochovský studied documentary directing and worked as a director and producer in Bratislava. After making several short documentaries and series, he directed his first feature-length documentary, Velvet Terrorists, which premiered at the 2014 Berlinale and won several awards. His debut fiction feature film, Koza, screened at the Berlinale in 2015, received various awards and was selected as Slovakia’s 2016 Oscar entry.

• Ivan Ostrochovský
• Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic
• 2020
• Fic.
• 80’
• Sub. PT/ENG

FILMIN

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Milan, a posted worker in Germany, returns to his village in Slovakia for Christmas where his wife and three children are waiting for him. He discovers that his eldest son has become involved with a paramilitary youth group, suspected of bullying one of his classmates and leading to his death. In order to uncover the truth, Milan must call into question the deep-rooted traditions of his faith and village. 

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Marko Škop, born in 1974, in Prešov, Slovakia received degrees in journalism at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1996 and in film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 2001. He gained his PhD in Mass Media from the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava in 2005.

• Marko Škop
• Slovakia
• 2019
• Fic.
• 93’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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Ola, a seventeen-year-old from a small city, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It will turn out to be the trip of her lifetime, a trip into the unknown, on which she will try to reconnect with her estranged father. In Ireland, she will come to know a different world and meet people who will change her approach to life. 

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Piotr Domalewski is a film director, screenwriter, actor and laureate of Munk Studio’s prestigious “30 minutes” programme which supports outstanding young filmmakers. His short films have won awards at various festivals across Europe. His feature film debut Silent Night (2017) won the Grand Prix in Gdynia and Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay as well as the Discovery of the Year Award at Polish Film Awards. 

Piotr is also a writer for theatre, his play Five Square Meters won the Audience Award at the Polish competition for playwright Metaphors of Reality.

• Piotr Domalewski
• Poland, Ireland
• 2020
• Fic.
• 100’
• Sub. PT/ENG

FILMIN

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No equal signs of justice can be drawn between those who are accused of a crime, those who are convicted of a crime and those who are the true offenders. That triangle always contains the accused who are not guilty and true offenders whose guilt cannot be ultimately proven. Throughout history, one of the greatest deviations in the strive towards equality has occurred in the triangle of guilt in sexual crimes, where guilt is largely proven on the basis of a woman’s will.

“As Far as I Know” is based on a true-life story and talks of the complicated process of criminal proceedings initiated due to rape from the perspective of the victim’s spouse Dénes. Years of failed attempts to get pregnant lead Nóra and Dénes to the decision of adopting a child who would unite them as a family and save their crumbling marriage. After another dinner full of arguments, where the message of joy is dampened by pity from friends, Nóra decides to take a city bus home alone from the restaurant. When Dénes wakes up in the morning, the bed beside him is empty. Nóra, who finally staggers home after a frantic search, claims that she has been raped. In the absence of any tragic injuries and actual evidence, Dénes gets an ever-deepening feeling that his wife’s claim is yet another desperate cry for help in order to gain attention. That is the beginning of a sharply tense hunt for truth on the trail of suspicions, in the course of which the prejudices of the audience are also incisively mapped.

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Nándor Lörincz and Bálint Nagy are former high school friends and graduated from the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest. Nándor studied screenwriting, while Bálint got his degree as a cinematographer. They are co-writing and co-directing all of their films, with Bálint also serving as the DOP. 

• Nándor Lörincz, Bálint Nagy
• Hungary, Romania
• 2020
• Fic.
• 117’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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Chronicle from the lives of Kharkiv students, whose stable university life was suddenly disrupted by KVK, “The Club of Funny and Inventive People”.

• Students of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, supervised by Arkadii Faustov
• Ukrainian SSR
• 1965
• Fic.
• 9’
• Sub. ENG

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A well-known professor from the Institute of Cybernetics becomes a victim of an armed attack, which was immediately reported in the central newspapers. It is suspected that this is a special operation of the CIA to kidnap the country’s most powerful “brains”.

• UPV ART GROUP and Viacheslav Buhaevskyi
• Ukrainian SSR
• 1967
• Fic.
• 4’
• Sub. ENG

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A psychedelic trilogy of animated horror movies, consisting of miniatures “Escape”, “Guest”, and “Kolobok”, immerses the viewers into the eerie world of the collective unconscious pattern of the early 1990s.

• Volodymyr Honcharov, Valerii Konopliov, Vadym Tiuriaiev, Oleksandr Bubnov
• Ukrainian SSR
• 1991
• Fic.
• 9’
• Sub. ENG

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Hunger makes a village lad drink fresh milk right from the neighbours’ cow. A family of local moneybags considers this seemingly innocent act a crime and decides to teach the thief a lesson.

• Roman Balayan
• Ukrainian SSR
• 1969
• Fic.
• 11’
• Sub. ENG