Short Film Competititon 2

Short Film Competititon 2

Adieu Gaston

France

2023, Color, French; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 16 dk

2023 Feel the Reel International Film Festival; Best of the Fest, Best Director, Best Screenplay

Director: Victor Guilbaud

Screenplay: Victor Guilbaud

Music: Michael Chereau

Editing: Maxime Sebeo

Producer: Thibault Bilien

Cast: Michel Vigne, Vincent Schmitt

Synopsis

Emile is a contract killer. A hired killer who travels by bicycle and who kills in exchange for a few tickets left in a small mailbox lost in the middle of the fields. This time, the man to be slaughtered is named Gaston Pouget and lives at 7 rue des Peupliers, which is a shed on the edge of a highway. Only here, when arriving on the scene, Emile is surprised by a birthday in honor of Gaston who should arrive soon. Emile was not invited.

Victor Guilbaud

Formerly a student at ESRA International Film School in Paris, Victor Guilbaud has already been a cameraman and chief operator on short films and video clips. He directed his first short film “Adieu Gaston” as a graduation film. Today he is looking to work as an intermittent on image teams, and work in parallel writing screenplays.

Istanbul Istanbul

Turkey

2022, Color, Turkish, Greek; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 20 dk

2022 Uluslararası Uşak Kısa Film Festivali; Best Art Direction Uluslararası Kızılay Dostluk Film Festivali; Neşet Ertaş Amity Award

Director: Demir Özcan

Screenplay: Demir Özcan

Cinematography: Müslüm Şahin

Editing: Doruk Kaya

Music: Sarp Keskiner

Production: 3T Production

Cast: Ünal Silver, Emine Şans Umar

Synopsis

Konstantin, who retired after years of working as a tailor, the profession he took over from his father, lives alone with his wife in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. The couple in their 70s, who have never had children, haven’t left Istanbul as the other Greeks who had to emigrate from this city. And they could not be separated from Istanbul. One morning, Konstantin, who has prepared the breakfast table, finds his wife passed away in bed. Konstantin, who identifies his beloved wife with his beloved Istanbul, falls into thoughts and dreams about the past with this loss.

Demir Özcan

Demir Özcan is a writer, director and producer based in Istanbul. He has written, produced and directed various commercials, documentaries, and promotional films. As an in-demand script doctor, he has also written various original screenplays for film and television. “Istanbul Istanbul” is his first original short film and he is currently working on his own feature film script.

Sister

Switzerland

2022, Color, Albanian, German; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 14 dk

2023 Festival International de Films de Fribourg; Foreign Visa Prize

Director: Dorentina Imeri

Screenplay: Dorentina Imeri

Cinematography: Aurelio Ghirardelli

Editing: Valentin Raeber

Sound: Kathleen Moser

Producer: Arzije Asani

Cast: Leonitta Berisha, Violeta Berisha, Arben Biba

Synopsis

An Albanian family struggles to stay afloat and integrate in Switzerland. In the process, the learning disability of the youngest family member puts the family to an additional test. The parents lack the time and money to support her in school. The older sister, who is still a child herself, takes over the responsibility and puts her needs in the background.

Dorentina Imeri

Born in 1993 in Solothurn, Switzerland. In 2019, she completed an exchange semester at SVT (School of Visual Theatre) in Jerusalem. In 2021, her first short doc TomBoy had its world premiere at the Tirana International Film Festival in the category Divergent Minds. In 2022, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film. She then completed an internship in Cinema Studies at the Institute of Performing Arts and Film. She currently is now in postproduction of her first feature length documentary "Mjegull" and in preproduction of her first feature film "E Vjedhur”.

Love Has Nothing To Do With It

Israel

2022, Color, Hebrew; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 15 dk

2023 Gula Jewish Film Festival; Best Screenplay Award

Director: Yotam Knispel

Screenplay: Yotam Knispel

Cinematography: Zohar Mutayn

Editing: Yotam Knispel, Lynn Laor

Sound: Yossi Appelbaum

Producer: Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg

Cast: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Avi Azulay, Osher Maimon, Nili Tserruya, Yossi Yarom

Synopsis

Rina can't look into the eyes of her son, Dean, who's under house arrest at her home. Tomorrow his trial begins, and Rina doesn't know if she can handle an extension of the house arrest. When her doubts regarding his innocence are undermined by increasing hostility from her neighbors, Rina is required to be a supporting mother despite his (alleged) acts. Today, she will have to look in his eyes and hear the truth.

Yotam Knispel

Yotam Knispel is a screenwriter, director and lecturer for screenwriting at Beit Berl College. Nominated twice at the Israeli Academy Awards, for two of his recent short films "Love Has Nothing To Do With It" and "Girl With a Fork in a World of Soup", which won Best Short Film Award at the 35th Jerusalem Film Festival. Also his other short films won various awards in over 100 international film festivals. Winner of screenwriting grants and residencies in Europe and the USA. Currently working on his first feature film.

The Other

Iran

2022, Color, Persian; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 14 dk

2023 Concordia Film Festival; Lights Out Lights Out Best Film Award

Director: Negah Sohrabi

Screenplay: Negah Sohrabi

Cinematography: Mohammad Hashmfirooz

Editing: Negar Soofi

Music: Nikdokht Faridnian

Producer: Aboofazel Amir

Cast: Zahra Mousivand

Synopsis

Based on the novel "Aura" by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, this puppet film depicts the mysterious world into which a young man falls. Farhad is a young historian who is hired by a widow to organize her deceased husband's diaries. During the process, he meets the old woman's neice and falls in love with her. Their romance takes an unexpected turn when Farhad realizes that he is, in fact, the old man born into a new body.

Negah Sohrabi

Born in 1998 in Tehran, Iran. BA student in sociology and also a graduate of puppet theatre. Besides her film and puppetry works, she is a member of an author board which has ten books published in the disciplines of poetry and short stories. Translated Simon Hood's poetry book for children titled "Hedgehog”. Having stepped into cinema at an early age, she has made a total of 12 short films since 2011.

Bitter

Turkey

2022, Color, Turkish; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 12 dk

Director: Burak Oğuz Saguner

Screenplay: Burak Oğuz Saguner

Cinematography: Deniz Göçmen

Editing: Burak Oğuz Saguner

Sound: Berke Gülbakan

Producer: Burak Oğuz Saguner, Emma Doxiadi, Mert Güncüer

Cast: Selver Kınık, Filiz Demiralp, Mehmet Demiralp, Gürsan Piri Onurlu

Synopsis

Esra and Ahmet are guests at their friends Aslı and Mustafa's new home to celebrate the good news and to enjoy a salça-cooked meal. Made by reducing the water content of acidic fruit known as tomato to a rich, thick paste, when fried in hot oil, salça turns into a red sauce with a bitter taste… Like most bottled-up emotions and resentments. The evening unfolds smoothly until what begins as a heated argument from a near-by unit turns into a vicious fight. As four friends debate what to do, they fall into a dispute that will challenge their principles, characters and friendship.

Burak Oğuz Saguner

Burak Oğuz Saguner completed his postgraduate degree in Cinematography at the Australian Film TV and Radio School in 2014. His works won numerous awards, including Best Achievement in Cinematography at the Oscar-qualifying St Kilda Film Festival and Best Directing at the Dallas Independent Film Festival, and have competed at prestigious festivals such as Berlinale and Warsaw Film Festival. He is currently developing his first feature film.

Sleeping Beauty

Russian Federation

2022, Color, No Dialogue; Turkish captioned, 16 dk

2022 Amarcort Film Festival Rimini; Honorable Mention 2022 Northern Character International Film & TV Festival; Best Cinematography

Director: Jana Nedzvetskaya

Screenplay: Jana Nedzvetskaya

Cinematography: Grigory Yablochnikov

Editing: Vasily Ocheretnyuk

Sound: Olga Dianova

Producer: Jana Nedzvetskaya

Cast: Ilya Romanov, Anastasia Medvedeva, Sofya Fadeeva, Eduard Akhmetshin, Olesya Skeeter, Regina Akhmetshina

Synopsis

The childless royal couple expected a child for many years. They have got a real monster after the birth of their daughter. The young princess made life in the castle unbearable. The bullying of the governess, who turned out to be an evil sorceress, turned into a curse for the whole family. Fortunately, the kind fairy turned the curse into a test of strength and gave the young princess a groom and eternal love.

Jana Nedzvetskaya

Born in 1957 in Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia. She is a Russian designer, filmmaker, a member of the Union of Russian Writers and the founder and creative director of LO brands; JanaNedzvetskaya (JN), Lolly (children's collection). For the first time in the world she presented a collection of clothes for water in an online show. Graduated from Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering (MISI), The Gerasimov Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) as a film director.