Wednesday November 8th, 2017
We announce the Student Etudes Panorama of the 25th anniversary edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE.
After making a devastating discovery in the forest, Rose stumbles into a world where morals no longer seem to apply. Everyone has an animal living within them: the forest unearths it.
Director: Alexander Cole
Cinematographer: Pedro Takahashi
School: University of Westminster - the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design
UK, 2017
Badylok is a sixteen-year-old boy who shares his life with his mother, grandmother, and sister. They live in a house isolated by water from the rest of the world. Badylok secretly creates a flying machine that will help him to flee the house. Will he finally decide to rise into the air? Short student film. The narrative voice in the film speaks in the characteristic Upper Silesian dialect. This dialect is also reflected in the English subtitles.
Director: Karolina Kłapkowska
Cinematographer: Karolina Kłapkowska
School: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego (UŚ WRiTv)
Poland, 2017
András is a doctor in his late 50s. His detailed, lonely life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old Syrian refugee. Without understanding each other’s languages, an unlikely friendship emerges.
Original title: Légmell
Director: Ambrus Fatér
Cinematographer: Dániel Kóródi
School: Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem - University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest (SZFE)
Hungary, 2017
Tired of life, after work Janek spontaneously decides to seek solitude to rest and also look at his life from a different perspective.
Original title: Ciasteczka
Director: Łukasz Woś
Cinematographer: Maciej Sawczak
School: Akademia Filmu i Telewizji
Poland, 2017
During a routine psychological consultation, the psychiatrist Konstantin dives into the mind of his young patient Emilia. He discovers not only the universe in her mind and the rooms of her fears and emotional memories, but also encounters his own underlying mental secret.
Original title: Kosmos
Director: Manuel Meinhardt
Cinematographer: Manuel Meinhardt
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Germany, 2017
For almost two years, Natalie’s husband has fought as a jihadist in Syria. The two are finally reunited when he returns to Germany. But not for long, as Emin plans on returning to the Jihad the next morning – together with Natalie and the baby.
Original title: In Ayahs Augen
Director: David Wagner
Cinematographer: Arend Krause
School: Hamburg Media School (HMS)
Germany, 2017
A woman returns to the desert in search of her husband, who disappeared nearly 30 years ago.
Original title: زميني كه در آن غرق مي شوم
Director: Negin Khazaee
Cinematographer: Negin Khazaee
School: École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son - La Fémis
France, 2017
A post-apocalyptic vision of the world. An elderly man meets an unexpected guest on his way.
Original title: Mały
Director: Stanisław Cuske
Cinematographer: Stanisław Cuske
School: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego (UŚ WRiTv)
Poland, 2016
Layla and Ziad have just met at a party, and end up spending the night together in Beirut’s streets. Ziad has just been released from jail after serving time for weapon theft 10 years ago, a crime that led to his victim becoming paralysed. Layla has planned this evening to take revenge for her mother – Ziad’s victim.
Original title: ليلة
Director: Judy Lamaa
Cinematographer: Jean Boutros
School: Université Saint-Joseph (IESAV)
Lebanon, 2017
Conflict is, after all, a battle between stories and memories. Through the stories of Anshel, a Jewish man, and Haneen, an Arab woman, Our Heroes asks questions about the connection between ‘story’ and ‘experience’, and our ability, as those wrapped up in this war, to rise above it.
Original title: Giborim
Director: Yair Agmon
Cinematographer: Guy Sahaf
School: Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
Israel, 2016
Michael is a charismatic and much-admired Rabbi at a Jerusalem yeshiva. A revealing confession by Gadi, his favourite student, will shake the rabbi’s familiar and secure world.
Original title: Ha'rav
Director: Uriya Hertz
Cinematographer: Tal Ninyo
School: Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
Israel, 2016
Routine duty turns into a life-threatening act of self-defence for police officer Kappler (49) when, after 30 years of service, he has to use his gun against someone for the first time. As doctors fight for the life of the severely injured perpetrator, Kappler finds himself stuck in an eerie and desperate situation that is about to turn him into an executioner against his will. Based on true events.
Original title: In Scherben
Director: Torben Liebrecht
Cinematographer: Jana Lämmerer
School: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München - University of Television and Film Munich (HFF München) Germany, 2017
Sophie tells the story of Archer, a time machine operator who is plagued by an event in his past for which he feels responsible, but believes he can reverse.
Director: Philip Ledingham
Cinematographer: Laurent Murray
School: National Film School (NFS) at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology (IADT), Dublin
Ireland, 2017
Driven to reconstitute his past, an ageing man searches for his most precious memory.
Director: Andrés Gallegos
Cinematographer: Andrés Gallegos
School: San Francisco State University
Chile, USA, 2016
The lonely Alyona nurses her mother, who has lost her speech and mind to Alzheimer’s. The daughter works from home and watches travel TV shows. One day, Alyona invites a man over, but her mother scuttles the date. On the same occasion, the daughter gets a opportunity to entirely change her life.
Director: Ekaterina Selenkina
Cinematographer: Alexey Kurbatov
School: Moscow School of New Cinema (MSCN)
Russia, 2017
After refusing a ritual intended to usher him into manhood, Rene-boy (10) tries alternative methods to remove this mark of cowardice.
Director: Phil Giordano
Cinematographer: Malay Prakash
School: New York University (NYU) - Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Film and TV)
Philippines, 2016
A high-school student attempting to complete his musical opus keeps getting distracted by the intense fights between his mentally imbalanced father and overly doting mother.
Director: Nasos Gatzoulis
Cinematographer: Jesper Duelund Hansen
School: American Film Institute Conservatory
USA, 2016
A boy lives in a scrap recycling yard. His hobby is to collect old cameras and videotapes he gets from children who bring him metal cans. He accidentally gets a camera working, and has the idea of making a movie with the help of his friends. Will he be able to?
Original title: zero mm
Director: Semaa Samir
Cinematographer: Khalid Al Baiaty
School: College of Fine Arts, Baghdad
Iraq, 2017
During a humanitarian crisis, Nikolai desperately tries to preserve ethical and moral values in the largest refugee camp behind the great wall.
Original title: Zorn dem Volke
Director: Lorenz Piehl
Cinematographer: Jonas Schneider
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Germany, 2017
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Each year hundreds of students from all over the world come to Camerimage. For many of them, a week at the festival feels like they are taking part in a short yet extensive film course. It’s like a knowledge given in a nutshell.
We know how important, especially for young filmmakers, who are just at the beginning of this tough and demanding path is the opinion and advice of experienced filmmakers.
That is why, this year, the Student Etudes Panorama will be followed by the Round Table session – equal and open discussion devoted to the cinema. The authors of presented films will be joined by the acclaimed filmmakers Oliver Stapleton, BSC and Stephen Lighthill, ASC.
We believe that the participant of the very first Round Table will gain a valuable experience, and will get to know not only other fellow filmmakers but thanks to that they will have a unique chance for knowledge exchange.
After each block of the Student Etudes Panorama, approx. 60 minutes discussion will be carried on, conducted by Oliver Stapleton, BSC and Stephen Lighthill, ASC and with participation of the authors of the screened etudes.
(In English Only)
Oliver Stapleton, photo by fotografowie.com
Stephen Lighthill, photo by fotografowie.com
FINANCED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND AS PART OF THE TASK: CO-ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024
CO-FINANCED BY: THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
