european short films - documentary, set 1
Printed Matter
Printed Matter is a chronicle of private life meeting global geo-politics. Director Sirah Foighel Brutmann’s father was a press photographer who covered the Middle East for two decades until his untimely death in 2002. His photo collection is an archive of both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Brutmann’s childhood. The director uncovers intimate scenes of family life mixed with protests, violence, pain, and political posturing on both sides.
Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat
Sirah Foighel Brutmann (graduated P.A.R.T.S, Brussels, 2008) and Eitan Efrat (graduated Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2011) are working in collaboration for several years, under the name of Til Far. They have created works in fields of video, film and performance.
2008 Complex (short, doc.)
2011 Druki / Printed Matter (short, doc.)
Lack of Evidence
This animated documentary brings us into the emotional world of a Nigerian boy forced to flee his home when his own father condemns him to ritual killing. The minimalist animation illustrates a first-person narration. It is the story of one boy, but also a declaration of conscience against archaic practices that disregard the value of individual human lives.
Hayoun Kwon
Born in Seoul in 1981. After art school of Nantes, she got into the studio Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts. She practice performance and video installation, documentary, animation. She has hitherto produced 26 short videos. Hayoun especially explores the story of her country and the difficult and complex relationships it has been maintaining with Japan.
2006 Hesitation (short)
2007 She (short, doc.)
2009 Carpet (short)
2010 Walls (short, doc.)
2011 Brak dowodów / Manque de preuves / Lack of Evidence (short, doc.)
The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simón Bolívar
Director Igor Drljača builds the drama of his documentary on home footage chronicling his own childhood in early 1990s’ Sarajevo. The clips tell the story of a young boy’s wide-eyed view of the world and register the final days of peace before a devastating war embroiled the country.
Igor Drljača
Born in 1983 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor completed his BFA with Honours (2007) at York University and MFA (2011) in Film Production at York’s graduate program. Igor is an award winning filmmaker whose short films have screened at the Toronto IFF, Telluride, SXSW, Vancouver, Tampere, Palm Springs, Cinema du Reel, among many others.
2006 The Battery – Powered Duckling (short)
2008 Mobilni Snovi / Mobile Dreams (short)
2009 On a Lonely Drive (short)
2010 Žena u Ljubičastom / Woman in Purple (short)
2011 Bezpiecznik albo jak spaliłem Simóna Bolívara / Kako sam zapalio Simóna Bolívara / The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simón Bolívar (short, doc.)
Viva Paradis
Images of calm, deserted areas of Tunisia interspersed with indelible marks of the recent revolution. Viva Paradis shows a country whose recently flourishing tourist industry has all but collapsed. Can it raise itself again? Director Isabelle Tollenaere offers a bleakly ironic vision of the new Tunisia.
Isabelle Tollenaere
Director Isabelle Tollenaere was born in Ghent in 1984. She lives and works in Antwerp. She studied film direction at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Her diploma film Still Life (2007) received top honors at the Courtisane Festival in Ghent in 2008, as did her follow-up work Trickland (2010) three years later. She is currently working on her first feature film, Journey into Noblivion, produced by Michigan Films.
2007 Stil Leven / Still Life (short)
2010 Trickland (short)
2011 Viva Paradis (short, doc.)
KEDI
This experimental documentary is composed of film portraits of several people – of different ages, sexes, and life stories – who successively construct a fictional story about… a cat.
Stefan Neuberger
Stefan Neuberger was born on 23th July 1983 in Nürnberg, Germany. In 2005 he started to study documentary and cinematography at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. 2012 he finished his diploma with his short experimental documentary KEDI. He lives and works in Berlin as an director as well as a cinematographer for documentary, experimental and fiction cinema.
2012 KEDI (short, doc.)