{"id":24560,"date":"2020-10-20T01:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/?p=24560"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:19:43","slug":"sklad-konkursu-krotkometrazowych-filmow-dokumentalnych-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/sklad-konkursu-krotkometrazowych-filmow-dokumentalnych-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"DOCUMENTARY SHORTS COMPETITION 2020 LINE-UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We announce the line-up of the Documentary Shorts Competition <\/strong>of the 28th<\/sup> edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography EnergaCAMERIMAGE.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The aim of the competition is to recognize the art of documentary filmmaking as creative interpretation of reality. Putting emphasis on the visual and aesthetic aspects of the selected nonfiction entries, the jury awards the best cinematographers in the competition.<\/div>\n
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The prestige of Documentary Shorts Competition<\/strong> was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/strong> which has chosen EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival as the ACADEMY AWARD\u00ae<\/sup> qualifying festival in the Documentary Short Subject category<\/strong>. This means that the Golden Frog award winners in\u00a0 Documentary Shorts Competition<\/strong> at EnergaCAMERIMAGE will qualify for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Annual Academy Awards\u00ae<\/sup> without the standard theatrical run, provided that the given film complies with other Academy rules.<\/div>\n

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BEFORE I DIE<\/span>
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On a small island in Lake Victoria, Kenya, fishermen believe that they are entitled to everything. Meanwhile, women and girls are forced to carry the weight of their silence. In a close journey through her childhood memories, a young woman decides to tell her story to lighten her burden and find hope.<\/p>\n

Director: <\/strong>Iker Esteibarlanda
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Iker Esteibarlanda
\n Produced by:<\/strong> I\u00f1igo Ruiz Aquerreta
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Spain, 2020<\/p>\n

\n BLOOD RIDER<\/span>
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Amidst a blood shortage crisis and near-constant standstill traffic in Nigeria, it can take over 24 hours to transport blood to patients in critical need. Joseph, one of the city’s motorcycle “blood riders”, can deliver blood to hospitals in under an hour. For mothers in labour, this is often the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Jon Kasbe
\n Cinematographers:<\/strong> David Bolen, Jon Kasbe
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Kasbe Films
\n Country and year: <\/strong>Nigeria, USA, 2019<\/p>\n

\n BY THE RIVER<\/span>
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Stretching along the River Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India\u2019s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of achieving moksha \u2013 becoming liberated from the cycle of rebirth. Several so-called \u201cdeath hotels\u201d exist to accommodate believers who abandon their lives and come here to wait for death \u2013 some for as long as 40 years.<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Dan Braga
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Caleb Ware
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Roomour Films
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Australia, India, 2019<\/p>\n

DAUGHTER OF…, THE<\/strong><\/span>
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<\/em>When Mica was three years old, her mother was kidnapped and disappeared. As the police ignored the case, Mica\u00b4s grandmother Susana Trimarco began a legendary fight against human trafficking. In the public eye, Mica became the daughter of \u201cthe kidnapped\u201d. Now 20, Mica wants to define her identity herself.<\/p>\n

Original title: <\/strong>Die Tochter von…
\n Directors:<\/strong> Joakim Demmer, Verena Kuri
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Joakim Demmer
\n Produced by:<\/strong> ZDF – HR Internationale Fiktion\/Dokumentarfilm
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Germany, 2019<\/p>\n

\n DINO<\/span>
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Dino, a young man with physical co-ordination disorder dyspraxia, takes us on a dream-like journey through his disability as he reflects on his place in society and his struggle to find himself.
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Director:<\/strong> Emilio Gamal Boutros
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Lee Thomas
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Nice Shirt Films
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, 2020<\/p>\n

\n ELSA IN-BETWEEN<\/span>
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<\/em>Elsa is 20 and graduated from high school last summer. She spends her days sleeping, reading, and thinking. Everyone else has made up their minds: voluntary social year, world trip, or studies. Elsa can’t decide. She wants anything but to be confronted with the fact that the future is a wide field \u2013 undescribed and directionless. Her attitude towards her situation changes between “luxury” and a real problem. Completely free and unbound, easy and carefree \u2013 but at the same time infinitely burdened by the serious decision: who do I want to be? Who will I be? A film about this moment of not-yet-being and the pressure to make a decision.<\/p>\n

Original title: <\/strong>Dazwischen Elsa
\n Director:<\/strong> Katharina Pethke
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Christoph Rohrscheidt
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Christoph Rohrscheidt
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Germany, 2019<\/p>\n

\n HEARING EAGLES<\/span>
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Hearing Eagles<\/em> is an experimental short film in the form of a documentary trip about the creative process and everything it involves \u2013 doubts, certainties, memories, and impressions. A mix of images and sounds captured over five years on various trips to Albania made by the director, Marco Lled\u00f3 Escart\u00edn, through which he reflects on the experience lived during the production of the feature film The Invocation of Enver Simaku, the first Spanish film shot in the Balkan country.<\/p>\n

Original title: <\/strong>Oyendo \u00e1guilas
\n Director:<\/strong> Marco Lled\u00f3 Escart\u00edn
\n Cinematographers:<\/strong> Pau Colomina, Mar\u00eda Santolaria
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Pegatum Transmedia
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Spain, 2019<\/p>\n

HOLLIE’S DRESS<\/span>
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As 14-year-old Hollie sews her first dress with her mother, she faces the decision all Mennonite girls must make when they reach adulthood. Will she put on the dress, become a full member of the Mennonite church, and assume her role as a mother, or will she join the wider world?<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Annie Sakkab
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Annie Sakkab
\n Produced by:<\/strong> B707 Productions
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Canada, 2020<\/p>\n

\n HORSE HAS MORE BLOOD THAN A HUMAN, A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An older Azeri couple leave Tehran and return to their idyllic home town on the Turkish border, but their dreams of quiet retirement are shattered by the realisation that their town has become a smuggling gateway into Europe, and everyone they know is involved.<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Abolfazl Talooni
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Mehdi Azadi
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Snow Films
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Iran, UK, 2020<\/p>\n

\n INVISIBLE MONSTER, THE<\/span>
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Aminodin\u2019s father always smiles because he says, \u201chappy people live longer\u201d. That\u2019s why, at eight years old, Aminodin puts his best smile on while working at the Papandayan dump, where he lives with his family. His cousin, Aliman, on the other hand, lost his smile when bombs started falling from the sky in the city of Marawi.<\/p>\n

Original title: <\/strong>El monstruo invisible
\n Directors:<\/strong> Javier Fesser Perez, Guillermo Fesser Perez De Petinto
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Jairo Iglesias
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Luis Manso
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Spain, 2019<\/p>\n

LOOSE FISH<\/span>
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Loose Fish<\/em> portrays a few days in the life of Ismail, a boy growing up in a port town in Morocco as he prepares to escape into a different life than the one in store for him.<\/p>\n

Directors: <\/strong>Francisco Canton, Pato Martinez
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Matthew Ballard
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Anonymous Content & Pantera
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Argentina, 2020<\/p>\n

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MY BROTHER’S KEEPER<\/span>
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My Brother’s Keeper<\/em> is about the remarkable friendship between former Guant\u00e1namo detainee, Mohamedou Ould Salahi, and his one-time American prison guard, Steve Wood, who gradually became convinced of his innocence. Two years after Mohamedou was released, the two men are reunited in Mohamedou\u2019s home city of Nouakchott – a city perched on the edge of the Sahara – where they rekindle a friendship that profoundly changed their lives forever.<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Laurence Topham
\n Cinematographers:<\/strong> Tom Silverstone, Laurence Topham
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Laurence Topham
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, 2020<\/p>\n

\n OBRAD<\/span>
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Obrad is a quiet old man who diligently does his job day after day. The film follows a man who, despite the unusual circumstances, does his job with great care and love.<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Branislav Milatovi\u0107
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Lazar Radi\u0107
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Bitter Frames Production
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Montenegro, 2020<\/p>\n

\n SHADOWS OF YOUR CHILDHOOD<\/span>
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<\/em>The house becomes shrouded in the silence of night. It grows long shadows, accentuated by the random flickers of the kerosene lamp. For little Stesha, the darkness becomes a way into another world that is both frightening and fascinating. Fragments of elusive memories, voices, and shimmers of light \u2013 these are the flickering sensations of childhood, and they stay with us forever.<\/p>\n

Original title: <\/strong>Teni tvoego detstva
\n Director:<\/strong> Mikhail Gorobchuk
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Mikhail Gorobchuk
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Irina Kalinina, Vladislav Shuvalov, Ekaterina Vizgalova
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Russia, 2019<\/p>\n

\n SONNY<\/span>
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This film is a very subtly told story about a difficult love between father and son and the image of a constant struggle for freedom. There are not many words, these are gestures and actions that speak about a family relationship. Marcin, our main character, has been deeply hurt by his parents. His mother drank during the pregnancy, and as a result, he was born with FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome). Because of their addiction to alcohol, at the age of twelve, he was taken away from his parents. The orphanage took his childhood away. There, he felt like he was in the army. Despite many bad experiences, after reaching adulthood, he decided to return to his father and try to fix their relationship. Finding his own place \u2013 a refuge, which for Marcin turns out to be a birdhouse \u2013 gives him hope. Still, the constant care for a father who is an alcoholic clips his wings.
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Original title: <\/strong>Synek
\n Director:<\/strong> Pawe\u0142 Chorz\u0119pa
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Pawe\u0142 Chorz\u0119pa
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Studio Munka SFP
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2019<\/p>\n

\n WHITE JOY<\/span>
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<\/em>A funeral ceremony is the last ritual of life. It marks the departure of a person from their family and society. When an elderly person passes away, it is known as \u201cwhite joy\u201d. An ensemble of suona plays throughout the days of mourning, the sound both joyful and full of sorrow. The joy signifies the completion of a life cycle and the sadness for grieving the deceased. This piece captures the last day of the funeral ceremony \u2013 the banquet, the procession, and the burial. This is a profile into Dong people\u2019s peculiar ritual, their idea on life and death, moral ethics, religion, family, and social structure.<\/p>\n

Original title: <\/strong>Bai Xi
\n Director:<\/strong> Luis Cuenca Castro
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Luis Cuenca Castro
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Mudbath Film Production
\n Country and year: <\/strong>China, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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