main pageSTUDENT ETUDES COMPETITION
Student Etudes Competition presents etudes selected from submissions sent by film schools from all over the world. The competitive films will be judged by an international Jury comprised of the recognized personages of film industry:
The screenings of the student etudes will be traditionally held on Wednesday (December 2nd).
The competitive movies are:
AFTERPARTY
original title: Afterparty
cinematographer: Jacek Kędzierski
director: Jan P. Matuszyński
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
"When pain becomes unbearable, When love is unconditional, When chance dictates the sequence of events, Everything is possible..."
AMOKLOVE
original title: Amoklove
cinematographer: Dominik Berg
director: Julia Kaiser
school: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
country: Germany
A magical moment between two people in the subway, but then it is all over and they will never see each other again – wrong! Fabian fights for his love and chases Marie through Stuttgart.
AND SHE FLIES
original title: And She Flies
cinematographer: Tanvir Mir
director: Mugil Chandran
school: L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy
country: India
Ammu, a girl born in the Tamil refugee camps in the north-east part of Sri Lanka desires to fly. This desire leads her into a path of Mystery and Magic.
AORTA
original title: Aorta
cinematographer: Daniel Wawrzyniak
director: Bartłomiej Żmuda
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Aorta – big arterial root, the branches of which supply blood to all tissues.
ARIA DLA SZATNIARZA
original title: Aria dla szatniarza
cinematographer: Tomasz Ziółkowski
director: Mark Wegner
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Staszek works in a cloakroom. Helena sings opera. Bogusia cleans the toilets. A boring story about a boring day at the opera.
BEHOLDEN
original title: Beholden
cinematographer: David Gibb
director: David Jibladze
school: Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University
country: USA
Anna needs money. Not for herself. For her son. The father says no. Swears he’s got none. Some men show up. They have a gun.
BIRTHDAY
original title: Födelsedag
cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
director: Jenifer Malmqvist
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland, Szwecja
Sara loves her wife Katarina. She's making a surprise for her birthday. Katarina has a surprise for Sara as well. Sara has to handle the unexpected news, while taking care of the birthday party. Her joy is mended with growing feelings of isolation and frustration.
BLACK MOUNTAIN
original title: Czarna góra
cinematographer: Joaquín Del Paso
director: Joaquín Del Paso
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
They both work in the factory. They meet during the break in front of the black mountain and spend some time together. One day he doesn’t show up and all her fears materialize into a dark, industrial tunnel.
CELL, THE
original title: Kletka
cinematographer: Maxim Zhukov
director: Alexandr Kargaltsev
school: VGIK
country: Russia
You dressed the table for the six, / But with six the world did not die. / More than the scarecrow midst the live / I want to be a ghost - with (mine), / Yours... Shy just like a thief, / O - never touching but a soul! - / Behind the silverware unmade / I sit as seventh one, uncalled.
CLOSED SEASON
original title: Schonzeit
cinematographer: Lorenz Merz
director: Irene Ledermann
school: Zürcher hochschule der künste (ZHdK)
country: Switzerland
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents. While the younger of the two withdraws into his own world, the older tries to make up for what is missing. They cope with the daily routine – a lonesome twosome.
DAY'S WORK, A
original title: A Day's Work
cinematographer: Nicola Marsh
director: Rajeev Dassani
school: USC School of Cinematic Arts
country: USA
Alone in Los Angeles, Enrique doesn't speak a word of English. Forced to work as a day laborer to earn money for loved ones back home, his loyalties are put to the test when a simple job escalates into a matter of life and death.
DESERT TRAINS
original title: Desert Trains
cinematographer: Gideon Smilansky
director: Boaz Armoni
school: Beit Berl Academic College of Arts - Film Department
country: Israel
Shuli dreams of life in another place, maybe Tel Aviv. In the meantime she lives in a god-forsaken desert town and works in a spring factory. Eli, the local macho, tries desperately to win her heart, and brings her a foreign worker to do her work as a present. An unexpected twist in the relationships and Shuli might see her dreams come true.
DIRTY WORDS
original title: Brzydkie słowa
cinematographer: Weronika Bilska
director: Marcin Maziarzewski
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
A sound engineer named Piotr suffers from a rare condition, Tourette’s syndrome, manifesting itself in a compulsion to shout profanities or invectives, among others. A tragicomic tale spun around a battle with one's own limitations in order to find communion in a relationship with another man.
EM
original title: Em
cinematographer: Karol Stadnik
director: Sindre Sandemo
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Have you ever said you wanted to kill someone but deep down inside knew you would never actually do it? That is not the way EM feels.
END OF SEASON
original title: Koniec sezonu
cinematographer: Oskar Kozłowski
director: Oskar Kozłowski
school: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
country: Poland
A nostalgic yet unsettling film poem about transience. It tells the story of man’s dualistic destiny: the full enjoyment of life equals yielding to inevitable death.
KID
original title: Kid
cinematographer: Sam Care
director: Tom Green
school: National Film and Television School
country: UK
A boy travels a distance too far into his father's world.
LOVE
original title: Love
cinematographer: Jordi Hernández
director: Biel Mauri
school: Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya
country: Spain
Love is the love story of an unconventional family. A family in which everyone suffers some kind of mental disability. All but Karen, a precious 12-year-old girl.
PANI MUCHOMOR
original title: Pani Muchomor
cinematographer: Paweł Tarasiewicz
director: Paweł Tarasiewicz
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
It is an abstract story of the Professor, an expert on colour, who guides us into the world of his beloved Miss Mushroom. As we follow Miss Mushroom, it turns out that a playful, dark figure present around her is a manifestation of the Professor, which unfortunately ends tragically for him.
ON LEAVE
original title: Regila
cinematographer: David Rudoy
director: Asaf Saban
school: Beit Berl Academic College of Arts - Film Department
country: Israel
Yotam came back from the army. He met his dad. He met his mom. He took his girlfriend for a ride. Yotam came back home, but something went wrong on the way.
OSIEM
original title: Osiem
cinematographer: Anna Rzepka
director: Artur Gortatowski
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
Set in the 80s, the film follows a man with a suitcase who while driving a car becomes dazzled by the headlights of on oncoming vehicle and crashes. In the event he passes out and dies...
PAN SKRZYDLATY
original title: Pan skrzydlaty
cinematographer: Remigiusz Wojaczek
director: Piotr Kolski, Remigiusz Wojaczek
school: PWSFTViT
country: Polski
Pelagius left. When he was going through the courtyard, full of noise from the nearby factory, he noticed that there is something in the middle of courtyard. Something was moving in the mud... Something like a huge bird. When he came closer he saw something extraordinary . In a quagmire of feathers and mud, there was an old man that was clumsily trying to get up…
PASAJERO
original title: Pasajero
cinematographer: Cristina Molino
director: Miguel Gabaldón
school: Escuela de Cinematografia y el Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid
country: Spain
One day in the life of two teenagers on the outskirts of Madrid who, to escape the routine, go around the neighbourhood playing heads or tails to see who will carry out the next piece of mischief. As they open up to each other, they will begin to doubt everything, even whether their relation will become something else; the coin will decide for them.
PICK UP
original title: Pick up
cinematographer: Grzegorz Hartfiel
director: Arkadiusz Biedrzycki
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
A story about a feeling impossible to realise.
SEGAL
original title: Segal
cinematographer: Ben Aviv
director: Yuval Shani
school: Tel-Aviv University Department of Film & Television
country: Israel
Androgynous old man who lives in his late mother house, runs sterile life style away from all human contact. His life is shaken up when he gets a rare opportunity to rebuild his relationship with estranged daughter. To do so he would have to fundamentally break the complex patterns in his identity. Would he be willing to pay the price for a possible chance of human contact?
SHADOWS
original title: Varjot
cinematographer: Arttu Peltomaa
director: Hanna Bergholm
school: University of Art and Design Helsinki, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design - Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
country: Finlandia
Shadows is a film about Anna, who as a child was afraid of tales and as an adult is afraid of reality.
SORES & SÎRÎN
original title: Sores & Sîrîn
cinematographer: Moritz Schultheiß
director: Katrin Gebbe
school: Hamburg Media School
country: Germany
Sores and Sîrîn, brother and sister, survived the Iraq war as children and began a new life in Germany. But what feels like home to one feels alien to the other.
SO SOON FORGOTTEN
original title: So soon forgotten
cinematographer: Steve Whitehead
director: Zack Bernbaum
school: School of Image Arts at Ryerson University
country: Canada
As thousands are sent to the gas chambers, one SS Officer tries to save a train full of Hungarian Jews on its way to Auschwitz.
SPARROWS
original title: Spatzen
cinematographer: Armin Dierolf
director: Jan Speckenbach
school: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
country: Germany
A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again.
SUNSTROKE
original title: Napszúrás
cinematographer: Maly Róbert
director: Horváth Lili
school: Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem (University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest)
country: Hungary, Germany
Two women meet and three lives will be changed forever. Maja is 17. Still a child, but at the same time already the mother of a 6-month-old baby. The two of them live at a reformatory institute together. Maja is simultaneously fighting against her role as a mother and her desire for freedom. Her story comes to a turning point when she gets to know her new educator, Rózsa.
THROUGH GLASS
original title: Przez szybę
cinematographer: Jakub Czerwinski
director: Igor Chojna
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
A young man arrives late in a tiny village in central Poland for his aunt's funeral. He's confronted by a number of women, who challenge his presence, as he is the only outsider that has interrupted the life this hermetic community. After he misses his last bus he is forced to stay for the night.
UNITED WE STAND
original title: United we stand
cinematographer: Arsen Sarkisiants
director: Alejandro Pedregal
school: University of Art and Design Helsinki, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design - Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
country: Finland
An outsider threatens the peace of an upper-class Finnish family. The stranger is not taken seriously until he proves that he knows more than he should. The family must realise that they should stand united or their life together might collapse.
ZA STREFĄ
original title: Za strefą
cinematographer: Arkadiusz Żyłka
director: Marcin Kamiński, Arkadiusz Żyłka
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Having entered the country illegally, a young Ukrainian flees from a unit of the Polish border guard. A female caravan dweller comes to his help but in return she demands payment.
ZUZANNA
original title: Zuzanna
cinematographer: Monika Kotecka
director: Daria Kopiec
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Zuzanna is an observation of a relationship set in a modern-day urban milieu. However, neither the relationship nor the city is ordinary. The film explores the world dominated by mysterious characters and unexpected events.
SCREENINGS TIMES AND DATES:
ACROSS THE LINE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
AFTERPARTY
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
AMOKLOVE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
AND SHE FLIES
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
AORTA
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
ARIA FOR CLOAKROOM WORKER
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
BEHOLDEN
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
BIRTHDAY
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
BLACK MOUNTAIN
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 15:45
CELL, THE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 15:45
CLOSED SEASON
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
DAY'S WORK, A
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
DESERT TRAINS
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 15:45
DIRTY WORDS
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
EIGHT
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
EM
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
END OF SEASON
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
KID
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
LOVE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
MISS MUSHROOM
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
MR. WINGED
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
ON LEAVE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 17:00
PASAJERO
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
PICK UP
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
SEGAL
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
SHADOWS
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
SO SOON FORGOTTEN
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
SORES & SÎRÎN
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
SPARROWS
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
SUNSTROKE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
THROUGH GLASS
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 17:00
UNITED WE STAND
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
ZUZANNA
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
- Sir Alan Parker - Jury President (director - Pink Floyd The Wall, Evita, Harry Angel, Birdy)
- Don Burgess (cinematographer - The Book of Eli, Forrest Gump, Contact)
- Don McAlpine (cinematographer - Tempest, Moulin Rouge)
- Lilly Kilvert (production designer - Legends of the Fall,The Last Samurai, The Siege)
- Lorenzo Codelli (film critic, advisor at Cannes festival and author)
- Allen Hughes (director, producer - Menace II Society, Out of Hell, Dead Presidents)
- Michael Seresin (cinematographer - Angela's Ashes, Mercury Rising, Birdy)
- Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer - Absolute Beginners, Buffalo Soldiers)
- Paweł Pawlikowski (director - From Moscow to Pietushki, Last Resort, Stringer)
The screenings of the student etudes will be traditionally held on Wednesday (December 2nd).
The competitive movies are:
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AFTERPARTY
original title: Afterparty
cinematographer: Jacek Kędzierski
director: Jan P. Matuszyński
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
"When pain becomes unbearable, When love is unconditional, When chance dictates the sequence of events, Everything is possible..."
 |
AMOKLOVE
original title: Amoklove
cinematographer: Dominik Berg
director: Julia Kaiser
school: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
country: Germany
A magical moment between two people in the subway, but then it is all over and they will never see each other again – wrong! Fabian fights for his love and chases Marie through Stuttgart.
 |
AND SHE FLIES
original title: And She Flies
cinematographer: Tanvir Mir
director: Mugil Chandran
school: L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy
country: India
Ammu, a girl born in the Tamil refugee camps in the north-east part of Sri Lanka desires to fly. This desire leads her into a path of Mystery and Magic.
 |
AORTA
original title: Aorta
cinematographer: Daniel Wawrzyniak
director: Bartłomiej Żmuda
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Aorta – big arterial root, the branches of which supply blood to all tissues.
 |
ARIA DLA SZATNIARZA
original title: Aria dla szatniarza
cinematographer: Tomasz Ziółkowski
director: Mark Wegner
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Staszek works in a cloakroom. Helena sings opera. Bogusia cleans the toilets. A boring story about a boring day at the opera.
 |
BEHOLDEN
original title: Beholden
cinematographer: David Gibb
director: David Jibladze
school: Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University
country: USA
Anna needs money. Not for herself. For her son. The father says no. Swears he’s got none. Some men show up. They have a gun.
 |
BIRTHDAY
original title: Födelsedag
cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
director: Jenifer Malmqvist
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland, Szwecja
Sara loves her wife Katarina. She's making a surprise for her birthday. Katarina has a surprise for Sara as well. Sara has to handle the unexpected news, while taking care of the birthday party. Her joy is mended with growing feelings of isolation and frustration.
 |
BLACK MOUNTAIN
original title: Czarna góra
cinematographer: Joaquín Del Paso
director: Joaquín Del Paso
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
They both work in the factory. They meet during the break in front of the black mountain and spend some time together. One day he doesn’t show up and all her fears materialize into a dark, industrial tunnel.
 |
CELL, THE
original title: Kletka
cinematographer: Maxim Zhukov
director: Alexandr Kargaltsev
school: VGIK
country: Russia
You dressed the table for the six, / But with six the world did not die. / More than the scarecrow midst the live / I want to be a ghost - with (mine), / Yours... Shy just like a thief, / O - never touching but a soul! - / Behind the silverware unmade / I sit as seventh one, uncalled.
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CLOSED SEASON
original title: Schonzeit
cinematographer: Lorenz Merz
director: Irene Ledermann
school: Zürcher hochschule der künste (ZHdK)
country: Switzerland
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents. While the younger of the two withdraws into his own world, the older tries to make up for what is missing. They cope with the daily routine – a lonesome twosome.
 |
DAY'S WORK, A
original title: A Day's Work
cinematographer: Nicola Marsh
director: Rajeev Dassani
school: USC School of Cinematic Arts
country: USA
Alone in Los Angeles, Enrique doesn't speak a word of English. Forced to work as a day laborer to earn money for loved ones back home, his loyalties are put to the test when a simple job escalates into a matter of life and death.
 |
DESERT TRAINS
original title: Desert Trains
cinematographer: Gideon Smilansky
director: Boaz Armoni
school: Beit Berl Academic College of Arts - Film Department
country: Israel
Shuli dreams of life in another place, maybe Tel Aviv. In the meantime she lives in a god-forsaken desert town and works in a spring factory. Eli, the local macho, tries desperately to win her heart, and brings her a foreign worker to do her work as a present. An unexpected twist in the relationships and Shuli might see her dreams come true.
 |
DIRTY WORDS
original title: Brzydkie słowa
cinematographer: Weronika Bilska
director: Marcin Maziarzewski
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
A sound engineer named Piotr suffers from a rare condition, Tourette’s syndrome, manifesting itself in a compulsion to shout profanities or invectives, among others. A tragicomic tale spun around a battle with one's own limitations in order to find communion in a relationship with another man.
 |
EM
original title: Em
cinematographer: Karol Stadnik
director: Sindre Sandemo
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Have you ever said you wanted to kill someone but deep down inside knew you would never actually do it? That is not the way EM feels.
 |
END OF SEASON
original title: Koniec sezonu
cinematographer: Oskar Kozłowski
director: Oskar Kozłowski
school: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
country: Poland
A nostalgic yet unsettling film poem about transience. It tells the story of man’s dualistic destiny: the full enjoyment of life equals yielding to inevitable death.
 |
KID
original title: Kid
cinematographer: Sam Care
director: Tom Green
school: National Film and Television School
country: UK
A boy travels a distance too far into his father's world.
 |
LOVE
original title: Love
cinematographer: Jordi Hernández
director: Biel Mauri
school: Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya
country: Spain
Love is the love story of an unconventional family. A family in which everyone suffers some kind of mental disability. All but Karen, a precious 12-year-old girl.
 |
PANI MUCHOMOR
original title: Pani Muchomor
cinematographer: Paweł Tarasiewicz
director: Paweł Tarasiewicz
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
It is an abstract story of the Professor, an expert on colour, who guides us into the world of his beloved Miss Mushroom. As we follow Miss Mushroom, it turns out that a playful, dark figure present around her is a manifestation of the Professor, which unfortunately ends tragically for him.
 |
ON LEAVE
original title: Regila
cinematographer: David Rudoy
director: Asaf Saban
school: Beit Berl Academic College of Arts - Film Department
country: Israel
Yotam came back from the army. He met his dad. He met his mom. He took his girlfriend for a ride. Yotam came back home, but something went wrong on the way.
 |
OSIEM
original title: Osiem
cinematographer: Anna Rzepka
director: Artur Gortatowski
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
Set in the 80s, the film follows a man with a suitcase who while driving a car becomes dazzled by the headlights of on oncoming vehicle and crashes. In the event he passes out and dies...
 |
PAN SKRZYDLATY
original title: Pan skrzydlaty
cinematographer: Remigiusz Wojaczek
director: Piotr Kolski, Remigiusz Wojaczek
school: PWSFTViT
country: Polski
Pelagius left. When he was going through the courtyard, full of noise from the nearby factory, he noticed that there is something in the middle of courtyard. Something was moving in the mud... Something like a huge bird. When he came closer he saw something extraordinary . In a quagmire of feathers and mud, there was an old man that was clumsily trying to get up…
 |
PASAJERO
original title: Pasajero
cinematographer: Cristina Molino
director: Miguel Gabaldón
school: Escuela de Cinematografia y el Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid
country: Spain
One day in the life of two teenagers on the outskirts of Madrid who, to escape the routine, go around the neighbourhood playing heads or tails to see who will carry out the next piece of mischief. As they open up to each other, they will begin to doubt everything, even whether their relation will become something else; the coin will decide for them.
 |
PICK UP
original title: Pick up
cinematographer: Grzegorz Hartfiel
director: Arkadiusz Biedrzycki
school: Uniwersytet Śląski - Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. K. Kieślowskiego
country: Poland
A story about a feeling impossible to realise.
 |
SEGAL
original title: Segal
cinematographer: Ben Aviv
director: Yuval Shani
school: Tel-Aviv University Department of Film & Television
country: Israel
Androgynous old man who lives in his late mother house, runs sterile life style away from all human contact. His life is shaken up when he gets a rare opportunity to rebuild his relationship with estranged daughter. To do so he would have to fundamentally break the complex patterns in his identity. Would he be willing to pay the price for a possible chance of human contact?
 |
SHADOWS
original title: Varjot
cinematographer: Arttu Peltomaa
director: Hanna Bergholm
school: University of Art and Design Helsinki, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design - Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
country: Finlandia
Shadows is a film about Anna, who as a child was afraid of tales and as an adult is afraid of reality.
 |
SORES & SÎRÎN
original title: Sores & Sîrîn
cinematographer: Moritz Schultheiß
director: Katrin Gebbe
school: Hamburg Media School
country: Germany
Sores and Sîrîn, brother and sister, survived the Iraq war as children and began a new life in Germany. But what feels like home to one feels alien to the other.
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SO SOON FORGOTTEN
original title: So soon forgotten
cinematographer: Steve Whitehead
director: Zack Bernbaum
school: School of Image Arts at Ryerson University
country: Canada
As thousands are sent to the gas chambers, one SS Officer tries to save a train full of Hungarian Jews on its way to Auschwitz.
 |
SPARROWS
original title: Spatzen
cinematographer: Armin Dierolf
director: Jan Speckenbach
school: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
country: Germany
A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again.
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SUNSTROKE
original title: Napszúrás
cinematographer: Maly Róbert
director: Horváth Lili
school: Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem (University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest)
country: Hungary, Germany
Two women meet and three lives will be changed forever. Maja is 17. Still a child, but at the same time already the mother of a 6-month-old baby. The two of them live at a reformatory institute together. Maja is simultaneously fighting against her role as a mother and her desire for freedom. Her story comes to a turning point when she gets to know her new educator, Rózsa.
 |
THROUGH GLASS
original title: Przez szybę
cinematographer: Jakub Czerwinski
director: Igor Chojna
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
A young man arrives late in a tiny village in central Poland for his aunt's funeral. He's confronted by a number of women, who challenge his presence, as he is the only outsider that has interrupted the life this hermetic community. After he misses his last bus he is forced to stay for the night.
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UNITED WE STAND
original title: United we stand
cinematographer: Arsen Sarkisiants
director: Alejandro Pedregal
school: University of Art and Design Helsinki, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design - Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
country: Finland
An outsider threatens the peace of an upper-class Finnish family. The stranger is not taken seriously until he proves that he knows more than he should. The family must realise that they should stand united or their life together might collapse.
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ZA STREFĄ
original title: Za strefą
cinematographer: Arkadiusz Żyłka
director: Marcin Kamiński, Arkadiusz Żyłka
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Having entered the country illegally, a young Ukrainian flees from a unit of the Polish border guard. A female caravan dweller comes to his help but in return she demands payment.
 |
ZUZANNA
original title: Zuzanna
cinematographer: Monika Kotecka
director: Daria Kopiec
school: PWSFTViT
country: Poland
Zuzanna is an observation of a relationship set in a modern-day urban milieu. However, neither the relationship nor the city is ordinary. The film explores the world dominated by mysterious characters and unexpected events.
SCREENINGS TIMES AND DATES:
ACROSS THE LINE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
AFTERPARTY
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
AMOKLOVE
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
AND SHE FLIES
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 09:00
AORTA
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
ARIA FOR CLOAKROOM WORKER
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
BEHOLDEN
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 12:30
BIRTHDAY
Grand Theatre, 02 Dec, 20:15
BLACK MOUNTAIN
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CELL, THE
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CLOSED SEASON
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DAY'S WORK, A
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DESERT TRAINS
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DIRTY WORDS
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EIGHT
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EM
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END OF SEASON
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KID
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LOVE
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MISS MUSHROOM
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MR. WINGED
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ON LEAVE
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PASAJERO
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PICK UP
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SEGAL
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SHADOWS
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SO SOON FORGOTTEN
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SORES & SÎRÎN
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SPARROWS
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SUNSTROKE
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THROUGH GLASS
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UNITED WE STAND
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ZUZANNA
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