BEAST IFF

Synopsis

A reflection of contemporary society through manipulated moving images.

A satiric critique of the current social and political changes that are happening in Slovenia, in Europe and in the World aesthetically explored through (de)formation of landscapes and cityscapes. Phoney Sights considers social and political issues and even science when searching for an answer to the questions: Where are we? and Where are we going?

BIOGRAPHY

Ana Čigon (1982) is an artist from Slovenia that works in diverse artistic fields like film, video art and performance. She studied video and new media art in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Linz (Austria). Her projects tackle social issues, such as under-representation of women in history, LGBTIQ+ topics and marginalised social groups, the pursuit of happiness, the effects of neoliberalism on society and such. Her works often contain elements of humour and irony.

She is the winner of OHO Award 2010, a finalist for the Slovenia Henkel Award and finalist of Vordemberge Gildewart Foundation Award. Her films have been presented at international film festivals worldwide, for which she received numerous nominations, two audience choice awards and three jury awards.

• Ana Čigon
• Slovenia
• 2019
• Exp./Doc.
• 19’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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Maternity is a film about the fatigue of a mother of two small kids. The act of self-sacrifice for the sake of a child that absorbs all the time and leaves no space either for consumption or for satisfactions or vanity becomes a chance for a devoted woman in a state of the physical and emotional exhaustion to reach the transcendental state close to spiritual ecstasy. Lacking resources for proper functioning, her organism starts disassociating information and enters into a seeming madness, when the brain is unable to control thought process as usual, and because of a total focus solely on a child, all the rest in the world ceases to be of any importance, freeing her from everything excessive and superfluous.

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Nataliya Ilchuk was born in Ukraine in 1985. She graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France in 2020. Since 2006, she independently directed many short films alongside experimental documentaries and art videos of hybrid form, mixing different media.

• Nataliya Ilchuk
• Ukraine
• 2019
• Exp./Doc.
• 17’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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The sounds as witnesses. They blur into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. The fluctuation between imagination and reality. Rocking pictures in the mind, pulsating dark emotions. A horrible secret in the raging wind of our cells.

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Gabor Ulrich is an animation film director & fine artist awarded with the Balázs Béla prize. At first, he made experimental works with organic bases. His films have been selected in the competition programme in film festivals from over 30 countries. He won numerous national and foreign awards. He is a member of the Hungarian Film Artists Association.

• Gabor Ulrich
• Hungary
• 2019
• Exp.
• 4’
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Memories of a never visited place being the leitmotif of the film, this cinematographic project is balancing on the thin border between memory and fantasy. The border is a place where it is difficult to distinguish a fantastic image of a real place from a fantasy of an imaginary place. Even if some places exist only in our memories, they are not necessarily mere fantasies. And the other way round, the image of a never visited place, can still be based on memories.

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Jozef Eduard Masarik, is an American-Slovak multidisciplinary artist working with time-based mediums compressing and expanding time to immerse the viewer in theoretical worlds. The performative and cinematographic formats he is developing are an opportunity for exchanges, for testing theories and confronting them with various realities. Jozef’s works are nourished by his experience in theatre stage design. His interdisciplinary formation at HEAD – Geneva, Switzerland; Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia; and Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel encompasses a wide range of media including fine arts, design, theatre and film.

His works have been presented internationally, in Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States, in institutions such as The Museum of Kyoto; GAM, Santiago, Chile; Cité de la mode et du design, Paris; or BOZAR, Brussels. Jozef’s work was selected for Operae festival in Turin by Alice Stori Liechtenstein. His projects have been mentioned in publications such as Domus or Vogue Italy. Among the scholarships and residencies he was awarded we could find those by CEDIT (Ceramiche d’Italia) or LAGO.

• Jozef Eduard Masarik
• Switzerland
• 2019
• Exp.
• 8’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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An apple, three slices of dry toast, a yoghurt, and an athletic track from the director’s very old diary entries evoke in her memories of important moments in her life.

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Anita Čeko (1987) lives in Zagreb and works as a screenwriter and a dramaturg. She holds an MA of film dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and an MA of Psychology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She is a member of the Cinema Club Zagreb.

• Anita Čeko
• Croatia
• 2019
• Exp.
• 9’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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The main theme for the “story” is set up by the undefined, the precarious, the unpredictable state of the material. Filmed in remote areas of the Panama jungle and the Atacama desert, on untested and predominantly dead film stock. The project became a living object on its own, and the film/journey, an experiment on spontaneous synchronisation of uncertainties. The material is edited using another tool of uncertainty – the Tarot, and the narration is built upon and around two cards drawn from the deck.

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Ana Buljan (1978, Zagreb, Croatia) is an artist/filmmaker working with still and moving images. She has a Masters degree in Alternative Cinema ( EICTV, Cuba), Fine Art & Design from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and one for  Italian Language and Literature from University of Zagreb. She also works as a production designer in film and theatre. Her work has been exhibited at the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Tent in Rotterdam and at the Microscope Gallery, NYC. She currently lives and works between Rotterdam and Croatia.

• Ana Buljan
• Croatia
• 2019
• Exp.
• 12’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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Instagram star Táňa perceives her life as a routine. Into her world of colorful hairstyles and milkshakes enters Ari, her secret and very shy fan. But newly acquired friendship doesn’t need to save every falling star.

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Štefánia Lovasová (1995) was born in the small town Spišská Nová Ves. Her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava are almost finished, therefore she starts working in the audiovisual industry directing spots, video clips, or short documentaries. She is also a founder and member of Desant Film Hub, an atelier focused on issues of young filmmakers.

• Štefánia Lovasová
• Slovakia
• 2019
• Fic.
• 19’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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The story moves us back to Hania’s childhood. The girl especially recalls the figure of her mother, who was always dragging her into her problems. Hania tries to escape the sense of guilt by closing her eyes. She tries to disappear.

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Klaudia Folga was born on 25 March 1991 in Zawoja (Poland). She graduated from Antoni Kanar High School of fine arts in Zakopane in 2011, and earned her diploma in the sculpture studio. In the years 2011-2015 she studied Classical Philology at the University of Warsaw. In 2015 she started film studies at the Film and TV Direction Department in the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz. The short film “Jaskinia Żółwi” (The Turtle Cave) is her third-year film, made under the artistic supervision of Mariusz Grzegorzek.

• Klaudia Folga
• Poland
• 2019
• Doc.
• 20’
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A newly married woman lives with her in-laws while her husband works in the neighboring country, Greece.

One day he discovers a corpse and the whole small town faces a battle to get coverage on national television.

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Lorin Terezi is an Albanian author, mostly known in his country as a theater director.

In Cinema, he directed TIRANA 100Km, a short film selected in more than fifty International Festivals.

The News is his second short film co-produced by Mailuki Films.

• Lorin Terez
• Albania
• 2020
• Fic.
• 23’
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Dan, tired of all the problems he has to deal with at home, decides to spend the night at Ștefan, an old acquaintance. Their uncanny interaction peaks when Ștefan’s hospitality turns into persuasion.

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Student at the Faculty of Theater and Film within UBB Cluj, specialization in Documentary Filmmaking. His first short film, The Bed of Procrustes (2018), made in the second year of university, had its international premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival – Pardi di domani 2018 and was later accepted in other festivals, both national (Next, TIFF, Anonymous, Filmul de piatra) as well as international (Auteur Film Festival – Belgrade, Serbia).

• Andrian Împărățel
• Romania
• 2018
• Fic.
• 18’
• Sub. PT/ENG

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