2019

2019

IHR

  • Directed by Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle
  • Country of Origin Switzerland
IHR (THEM) is the story about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different character follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard. What seems harmless in the beginning, one night escalates to a total disaster.
Directors Biography - Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle
LOUIS MÖHRLE
Born 1993 in Lucerne. After an apprenticeship as draughtsman, he finished his Bachelor degree in Animation 2D at Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst in 2019. Co-Founder of the creative collective „KulturKonsumEnten“ in 2017 and of the VJing collective „Teichprojektionen“ in 2018. Since Summer 2019 he works as a freelanced Animator and is co-founder of the collective "Studio PIAF" in Bern together with Amélie Cochet.
AMÉLIE COCHET
Born 1996 in Bern, raised bilingual (de/fr). After the preliminary course in arts at the art academy of Bern (HKB) in cooperation with the Talentförerung Arts & Crafts at Highschool Hofwil, she finished her Bachelor degree in Animation 2D at Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst in 2019. 2018 she was an Intern for five months at YK Animation in Bern where she worked on the film „The Germans“. Since Summer 2019 she works as a freelanced Animator and Illustrator and is co-founder of the collective "Studio PIAF" in Bern together with Louis Möhrle.
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2019

The Lost Pen

  • Directed by Beraat GOKKUS
  • Country of Origin France
Karam is a Syrien poet and journalist who is in exile in France. He is living at the Maison des Journalistes, an association that hosts exiled journalists around the world in Paris. One day Karam has a new poem but he can not write it. Because he lost the pen that he uses when he is writing a poem. That pen a gift from his mother who lost her life during the Syrian civil war. Without this pen, Karam doesn't write any poem. So he starts to search his pen in the Maison des Journalistes to be able to write again.
Director Biography - Beraat GOKKUS
Beraat GOKKUS is a Turkish director and journalist who lives in Paris France since 2016. He studied Political Science at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey. Gokkus is an award-winning director. With The Lost Pen, he won SmartFone Flick Fest 2020 Best Director and Best Film Awards. The Lost Pen also won African Smartphone International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. With his short documentary Breakfast of Champions (2017/Paris) Gokkus won Best Short Short Film award in Berlin Independent Film Festival 2018 and Best Short Short Film award in Berlin Short Film Festival 2017. Gokkus’s short films are selected many times by international film festivals. Nowadays he is working on his feature film projects, a documentary and a short film project too.
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2019

A Democratic Proposal

  • Directed by Chandana Prasanna
  • Country of Origin Sri Lanka
Just after a proposed suitor and his family had visited and left, Kanchana’s whole family start to try and pitch her the marriage proposal. Kanchana, who didn’t like the idea of seeing proposed suitors in the first place, is annoyed, but find it hard to argue with the elders who aren’t ready to listen to her. Amid one- sided arguments and emotional blackmailings from her family and relatives, she tries to build up some courage and figure out a way to escape.
Director Biography - Chandana Prasanna
Chandana Prasanna started his film career as an editor, Chandana currently working as a writer and a director as well. His first short film, Ape Kale Weerayek (2005) was selected best film in short film competition held by Sri Lanka National Film Corporation. He has worked in several TV and film projects. Being a multi-potentiate, he has also worked as a journalist, designer and an advertising copywriter and political activist. He is also a foodie and love to cook whenever he is free.
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2019

Topiaskop

  • Directed by Josephin Boettger
  • Country of Origin Germany
A city builds itself. Demolition follows construction follows demolition. In "Topiaskop“ dimensions and relations are dissolved, the certainty of place and time is dismantled: the concrete city of Hamburg becomes the site of an absurd tale of growth.
Director Biography - Josephin Boettger
Josephin Böttger is a video artist who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. In her early career, she produced various short films such as experimental and drawn-animation works, shown at international film festivals. Since receiving her diploma at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg 2002, she has worked on multi-channel video installations and single-channel videos, shown at international exhibitions and projections in public spaces. Her work examines the metamorphosis, chronology, and aesthetics of urban space.
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2019

Per Aspera Ad Astra

  • Directed by Franck Dion
  • Country of Origin France
The daily life of a little hen housekeeper, torn between her work, her children and her old mother.
Director Biography - Franck Dion
Franck Dion has made good use of his talent in multiple areas along the years. He first took lessons to become an actor in the American Center, then in the “Théâtre de l’Archet”.At the same time, he became passionate about cinema and learned by himself to sculpt, to draw and to paint. He worked with editors and magazines, designed theatre sceneries and animations for documentary films. Franck Dion is now working on several new projects.
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