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SACAVÉM

Júlio Alves | Portugal, 2019, 65'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

"Sacavém" is a journey through Pedro Costa’s films and focused on his work on "Casa de Lava, "Ossos", "In Vandas Room", "Colossal Youth" and "Horse Money". Built on the visual and sound landscape of Pedro Costa’s films and accompanied by his owns reflections on the matter, "Sacavém" serves the audience has a window on how Costas cinema is sensed and conceived.

Photography: Miguel Saraiva
Sound: João Alves, Hugo Leitão
Editing: Hugo Santiago
Production: Júlio Alves / Midnight Express

Júlio Alves

Lisbon, 1971. He began working in cinema from an early age. He was production assistant or director in several film productions in countries such as Portugal, France and Spain. "Afirma Pereira" by Roberto Faenza with Marcello Mastroianni, stands out. He has made several short films of different genres: fiction, animation and documentary. He directed four feature-length documentaries. All of his films have been screened at national and international festivals. He made tv commercials for national and international brands in different European markets. He is currently completing his PhD in Communication Sciences, at Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa with the thesis "Cinema and Objects". Three films are part of the thesis: Objects Entre Nós, Casa Encantada and Sacavém.

LÚA VERMELLA RED MOON TIDE

Lois Patiño | Spain, 2020, 85'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Time seems to stand still in a village in the Galician coast. Everybody there is paralysed although we can still hear their voices: they talk about ghosts, about witches, about monsters. Three women show up, they are trying to find Rubio, a sailor that has recently disappeared in the sea.

Photography: Lois Patiño
Sound: JUan Carlos Blancas
Editing: Pablo Gil Rituerto, Óscar de Gispert, Lois Patiño
Production: Zeitun Films

Lois Patiño

LOIS PATIÑO (Vigo, Spain, 1983) combined his studies in Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid with cinema studies at the TAI School. He continued his cinema education at the New York Film Academy and the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Master in Creative Documentary). His short film Mountain in Shadow won different awards, and at the Locarno International Film Festival he received the Prize for the Best Emerging Director for Costa da Morte. His short film Night without Distance was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, among others, and was awarded the Best Narrative Short at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His latest short film, Fajr, was premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Red Moon Tide (Lúa Vermella), produced by Zeitun Films, is his second feature film to date.

GUERRA WAR

José Oliveira, Marta Ramos | Portugal, 2020, 105'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Based on the recollection of a current Portuguese language teacher, we will follow Manuel, his father, a former combatant in our colonial war and constantly tormented by these memories. We will go with him to the depths of the physical spaces that obsess him - from the training barracks to the lakes and gardens of his youth and falling in love - as well as the abyss of his memory - war and passion together, inextricable, in a battle that asks or screams as immemorial existential doubts.

Photography: José António Loureiro, Manuel Pinto Barros, Pedro Bessa
Sound: Felipe Zenícola, Bernardo Theriaga
Editing: José Oliveira, Marta Ramos
Production: Abel Ribeiro Chaves - Optec - Filmes, José Oliveira, Marta Ramos

José Oliveira

Is a film director and professor. He founded the Lucky Star Cineclube de Braga and teaches History of Cinema and Filmmaking at Cascais School of Arts & His last films were: LONGE (presented at the official selection of Locarno 2016) and Os Conselhos da Noite (released this year) . Guerra, co-directed with Marta Ramos, has occupied them for the past

Marta Ramos

Was born in Lisbon, in 1984, and graduated in Architecture in the same city. She has collaborated, for the last 10 years, in the production, editing and directing of independent films. She also devotes her body and soul to singing, an artistic expression she has recorded in close cooperation with José Oliveira.

iHUMAN

Tonje Schei | Norway / Denmark, 2019, 99'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

iHUMAN is a political thriller that explores the creeping expansion of artificial intelligence under an illusion of democracy and freedom of choice. The film follows pioneers on the front lines of the invisible AI revolution, exposing how this technology is being developed and implemented. In iHuman, some of the brightest minds in the AI industry decryot a roadmap to our future. Who is really holding the code?

Photography: Henrik Bohn Ipsen
Sound: Sølve Huse-amundsen
Editing: Torkel Gjorv, Aleksander Kvam
Production: Jonathan Borge Lie For Upnorth Film

Tonje Schei

Tonje is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has worked with independent documentary production since 1996. Her films mainly focus on human rights, the environment and the changing relationship between man and machine. Tonje directed DRONE, a documentary on the secret CIA drone warfare. Since its release in 2014 DRONE has won Best Norwegian Documentary and Checkpoints, the human rights award, at Bergen International Film Festival and the Film Peace Prize at Tromsø International Film Festival. The film received the award as The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year at Cinema for Peace in Berlin. DRONE won the Amanda award, The Norwegian Oscar equivalent, and Gullruten, the Norwegian Emmy, for Best Documentary 2015. Tonje directed and produced PLAY AGAIN and INDEPENDENT INTERVENTION, which have won several international awards. Tonje is the Co-Founder and director at UpNorth Film in Oslo, Norway.

DENTRO DA MINHA PELE IN MY SKIN

Toni Venturi, Val Gomes | Brazil, 2020, 86'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

A powerful impression of deep-rooted everyday racism in Brazil. The last country in the western world to abolish slave labor. The film is a superbly composed blend of interview clips, poetry, music, historical material and reflections.

Photography: Daniel Fagundes
Sound: Evelyn Santos
Editing: Marcola Marinho, Paulo Alberto
Production: Camila Abade

Toni Venturi

Holds a degree in film from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He was one of the creators of the documentary series Gente que Faz, an innovative format on television in the 1990s. Currently, he takes care of the creation and artistic supervision of the projects for production company OLHAR IMAGINÁRIO. In July he released the 26-episode series Cena Unquieta about Group Theater on SESCTV and is releasing the documentary Dentro da Minha Pele on GLOBOPLAY about structural racism.

Val Gomes

Is responsible for the ANTI-RACIST AUDIOVISUAL PORTAL, which aims to enable the making of films and series by talented black artists. With a degree in Social Sciences, she worked directly on issues such as domestic violence and gender equality and human rights. She has published monographs and articles, such as Police Apparatus and Domestic Violence: Inaccuracies in Police Reports. In 2012, she dedicated herself to the theme of state violence of the military dictatorship and the contemporary performance of the Military Police, which resulted in the publication of the text Educação em Direito à Memória e a Verdade."

STRIP AND WAR

Andrei Kutsila | Poland / Belarus, 2019, 68'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

The film tells the story of a small family, consisting of a grandfather retired from the army, and his stripper grandson. It is not just a story of a relationship, but rather a reflection of entire Belarus and the post-Soviet, pro-Russian world. Moreover, it’s a universally-recognized reflection of a generation gap.

Photography: Andrei Kutsila
Sound: Mihail Knu
Editing: Andrei Kutsila
Production: Belsat

Andrei Kutsila

Born in 1983 in Baranovichi in Belarus. In 2007 he earned a degree in journalism from the Belarusian State University. In 2009 he finished the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Currently he works as a freelancer for studios and TV. He made more than 10 short and mid-length films. Andrei was a participant of many international educational projects (IDFAcademy, Berlinale Talents are among them). In 2018 Andrei got the IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary for his film “Summa”. "Strip and War" is his first feature-length documentary film.

COLOMBIA IN MY ARMS

Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas | Finland, 2020, 91'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Ernesto is one of many FARC guerrillas who dream about a better country worth fighting for, but this time without a weapon. However, the peace agreement — aimed at ending 52 years of armed conflict — throws the polarized society into chaos, with everyone fearing for the future and their own survival. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country when doing the "wrong" thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle? Colombia in My Arms is an intimate, strong and sincere portrait of people at the extremes of Colombian society.

Photography: Jussi Rastas
Sound: Rasmus WINTHER Jensen
Editing: Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas, Sully Reed, Antti Jääskeläinen
Production: Markku Tuurna

Jenni Kivistö

Is a Finnish documentary film director who has lived and studied in Colombia for 7 years. She graduated from the Black Maria film school in 2013 (Colombia), and iscurrently completing her Documentary Film Master programme in Aalto University (Finland). Her short film Äiti (Mother, 2017) was awarded the Silver Mikeldi at ZINEBI and has beenscreened at major festivals like Clermont-Ferrand and Cairo International Film Festival. Herfirst feature-length documentary, Land Within (2016), had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig in 2016 in the Next Masters competition.

Jussi Rastas

Is a Finnish documentary film director and cinematographer who has lived 4 years in South America; in Colombia, Peru and Chile. Jussi has graduated as a Master in Digital Media (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and studied cinematography in Spain (ESCAC). In recent years, Jussi has directed a documentary short film series about racismo and discrimination and worked as an audiovisual delegate for the Red Cross in conflict and disaster zones in Ukraine, Syria and Africa. Colombia in My Arms is Jussi’s first feature-length film as a director.

OECONOMIA

Carmen Losmann | Germany, 2020, 89'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Layer by layer, OECONOMIA reveals how the rules of the contemporary capitalist game systematically precondition growth, deficits and concentrations of wealth. With particular shrewdness and rigor OECONOMIA articulates the more egregious aspects of capitalist economy rendered invisible by the prevalent media coverage.

Photography: Dirk Lütter
Sound: Peter Rösner, Till Röllinghoff, Etienne Haug, Detlev Schmelzenbach
Editing: Henk Drees, Carmen Losmann
Production: Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener

Carmen Losmann

The German filmmaker Carmen Losmann was born in 1978. After three years of study in Cologne and England (Bachelor of Arts Marketing) she joined the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and graduated with a diploma in film. Her debut film – the feature-length documentary WORK HARD - PLAY HARD – deals with the effects of modern human resource management and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the prestigious German Grimme Prize 2014. She received the Gerd Ruge Project Scholarship for the documentary OECONOMIA. Carmen Losmann lives and works in Cologne and Templin. OECONOMIA is her second feature-length documentary as a director.

AQUI Y ALLI, JOURNAL D’UNE EXILÉE AQUI Y ALLI, DIARY OF AN EXILED WOMAN

Emma Fariñas | France, 2020, 52'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

As she was cleaning her grandmother’s flat, who had just died, Anna found a notebook. In there, she discovers a secret love story, lived during the Spanish Republic euphoria in the 1930's. Photographies are interlaced and bring back memories of times gone. Between France and Spain, Lucia's singular route is revealed, the voice of a woman forced into emancipation in the tumult of History.

Photography: Emma Fariñas
Sound: Alexandre Lesbats
Editing: Ugo Zanutto
Production: Les Productions de L’oeil Sauvage /// Les Zooms Verts

Emma Fariñas

Emma Fariñas was born in 1982 in Toulouse (France). After taking a degree in Cinema (University Paris 8 and Famu in Prague), a degree in audiovisual and in Spanish literature (University Toulouse 2), she has been working in both documentary’s production and direction since 2006. Through her own creations she tries to find the right way to tell the world. She talks about memories with La valeur des objets (photographic and audio essay), about tradition with Les Mécanographes de Mexico (testimonies of public writers), she proposes a reflection about photography with the documentary Instants saisis. Cuando se fueron los olivos (40 min, 2017) takes us again in the past and present, througt the intimacy of a Spanish patio. Then, Aquí y allí mixes with sensibility a personal story with History, a documentary with fiction, and photography with sound.

VISÕES DO IMPÉRIO VISIONS OF EMPIRE

Joana Pontes | Portugal, 2021, 93'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Visions of Empire is a collective journey to the colonial past through a selection of photographs from the Portuguese Empire, taken between the end of the 19th century and the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which put an end to both the political regime that governed Portugal and the colonial status of several African territories which only became independent in 1975, after a protracted war.

Photography: Rui Xavier
Sound: Armanda Carvalho
Editing: Rui Branquinho, Joana Pontes
Production: Filipa Reis, Patrícia Faria

Joana Pontes

The Portuguese director has a degree in Psychology from the University of Lisbon. She studied cinema at ESTC, the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, and studied television at Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, having completed training in TV Production at the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation. She was a director at SIC, Sociedade Independente de Comunicação, from 1992 to 2002, having left to dedicate herself to academic work. In 2002/2003, she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was an adviser for documentary programming at the RTP. She obtained her PhD in Contemporary History in March 2018, with a scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She dedicates herself to writing and directing documentaries. She currently teaches at the ESCS – School of Communication and Media Studies, in Lisbon.

THE ENCHANTED WORDS OF THE HUPD’ÄH OF THE AMAZON - MASTERS OF KNOWLEDGE

Mina Rad | France, 2020, 52'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

“Humanity is nature,” the Hupd’äh say. The Hupd’äh are one of 210 Amerindian groups in Brazil. They live in the Uaupés river basin, in the heart of North-West Amazon. In their cosmology, there is no separation between the animal, plant and mineral orders. Music and words have transformative powers, which are often incomprehensible to Western societies. This film provides a new approach for debating the relationships between humans and non-humans. It is based on ethnographic notes, sound and footage produced by ethnologist Renato Athias in the 1980s, from his interactions with the Hupd’äh clan chiefs Bihit, Mehtiw and Casimiro – the Masters of Knowledge.

Photography: Mina Rad
Sound: Mina Rad
Editing: Isabel Castro
Production: World Cultural Productions

Mina Rad

Mina Rad holds a degree in Communication and History from the University of Paris. She was an international journalist, radio and television presenter and cultural reporter. She has been a documentary filmmaker since 2013 after having attended the Ateliers Varan. She is the founder and president of APRÈS VARAN, an alumni association of Ateliers Varan created in 2013. She is co-director of the APRÈS VARAN Documentary Film Festival. Mina also coordinates the Women's Film Festival for Women's Day. A frenchwoman of Iranian origin, she’s lived and worked in Europe and in different parts of the world: USA, Central America and Asia.

DISPLACED

Sharon Ryba-Kahn | Germany, 2020, 90'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Sharon is Jewish and a third generation of survivors. When her estranged father Moritz contacts her again after 7 years, it becomes an impetus for her to reconstruct her father’s family history. From here on a journey begins in which Sharon tries to understand who her father is and who his parents were.

Photography: Omri Aloni
Sound: Kai Ziarkowski
Editing: Evelyn Rack
Production: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski

Sharon Ryba-Kahn

The French-Israeli director was born in Munich in 1983 and spent her first 14 years in Munich, before moving to Jerusalem in 1997. In 2001 she moved to Paris to study acting, she pursued her theater studies in New York under the direction of Mike Nichols. After directing and acting in various theatre productions, she continued her education at the NYFA and studied film production. In 2007, she moved to Berlin and began freelancing in the film industry. In order to improve her craft as director, Sharon applied and got accepted into the prestigious MA program in documentary film directing at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. During her time in the program Sharon directed three short films and “Displaced“. Sharon is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and is an ELES research fellow, a scholarship for gifted Jewish students in Germany.

DIYALOG DIALOGUE

Selim Yildiz | Turkey, 2020, 93'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

We are witnessing a long-lasting and devastating war with deep roots in Turkey, in Kurdistan, in spite of the changing facets of the seasons, mother Besna longs for her son Enes’ return with the same compassion, fixing her eyes at snowy mountains and deep valleys in Mezra Sexan, a village of Bahçesaray, Van. It is heard about Enes, who suddenly disappeared in 2008, that he joined PKK (Kurdistan workers’ Party) ranks, but until 2015 his family is unaware of whether he is alive or not. Having learned that Enes is in Rojava, mother Besna’s dark, desperate anticipation is replaced with lively hopefulness and the longing for reunion.

Photography: Selim Yildiz
Sound: Selim Yildiz
Editing: Selim Yildiz
Production: Selim Yildiz

Selim Yildiz

Selim Yildiz (1985) was born in van, Kurdistan. While studying photography, he worked as a builder. He organized the exhibitions 113 years of resistance – Kurdish media and Child Migration. in 2013, he spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29. His second movie called I Remember was about the Roboskî Massacre. He received the Johan van der Keuken New Talent Award in Documentarist. He is currently working on the 4th documentary film project Monologue.

PRAZER, CAMARADAS!

José Filipe Costa | Portugal, 2019, 105'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

1975, the year after the Carnation Revolution. Eduarda, João and Mick come from Northern Europe to work in the co-ops in the occupied farms of Portugal. They come to help with the land and the livestock, give medical appointments and family planning classes, show sexual education films and participate in traditional dances. They ask a lot of things, but the “comrades from the South” have more questions than answers: Do you want to know who we are? How we treat our women and children? How we live together and how we love? Come! We will find each other peculiar, and we will surely disagree on many things, but it’s all part of this revolutionary celebration!

Photography: Hugo Azevedo
Sound: Rúben Costa
Editing: João Braz
Production: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra

José Filipe Costa

Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London. He has written and directed several short films, including A Rua (2008), Chapa 23 (2006), Domingo (2005) and the documentaries Prazer, Camaradas! (2019), Linha Vermelha (2011), Entre Muros (2002) present at international film festivals, such as the Locarno Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Viennale, Cinéma du Réel, PlanetaDoc, Fórumdoc.bh, Fidé Brasil, Festival OF Short films from Rio de Janeiro, IndieLisboa, short films from Vila do Conde, among others, and with screenings on several television channels such as RTP, Futura-Brasil and ZDF-Arte. He was screenwriter and director of the popular science series Stories of Life on Earth (2008). He was a visiting professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and has taught at IADE, ETIC, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and in the course DocNomads, Documentary Film Directing Erasmus Mundus.

AMOR FATI

Cláudia Varejão | Portugal, 2020, 102'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

Amor Fati seeks out parts that complete each other. These are portraits of couples, friends, families and pets and their owners. They share the intimacy of daily life, habits, beliefs, tastes and even some physical traits. From their faces, from the choreography of their gestures, we unveil the story that binds them. Drawn from everyday life, right before our eyes the film portrays a chorus of affection and the collective memory of a country, evoking Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium: Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night to be in one another’s company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become one.

Photography: Cláudia Varejão
Sound: Cláudia Varejão, Takashi Sugimoto, Adriana Bolito
Editing: João Braz, Cláudia Varejão
Production: Terratreme Filmes

Cláudia Varejão

Claudia Varejão was born in Porto and studied at the Creativity and Artistic Creation Program of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in partnership with the German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin and the São Paulo International Film Acadamy. She also studied Photography at AR.CO in Lisbon. Cláudia’s films have been selected for and awarded at the most prestigious film festivals, including Locarno, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, Cinema du Reel, Karlovy Vary, Art of the Real - Lincoln Center, among many others. Besides her work as a filmmaker, she developed a career as a photographer and she’s a guest professor at AR.CO and the Catholic University of Porto. Her work, whether in film, photography, documentary or fiction, is based on its proximity to the people portrayed.

ANA E MAURIZIO

Catarina Mourão | Portugal, 2020, 64'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

The painter Ana Marchand always felt a bit dislocated in her family. The love of art and travel, where did she get those from? As a young woman she saw a travel book written by her uncle Maurizio Piscicelli and finally understood. Catarina Mourão (Pelas Sombras, A Toca do Lobo, O Mar Enrola na Areia) follows Ana’s familiar and spiritual journey. Who was Maurizio? Who is Ana? The face of one, the face of the other. Reincarnation are the several lives we live.

Photography: Catarina Mourão, Tiago Figueiredo
Sound: Armanda Carvalho, Catarina Mourão
Editing: Pedro Mateus Duarte
Production: Laranja Azul / Catarina Mourão

Catarina Mourão

Studied Music, Law and Film (MA Bristol University). In 1998 I was a founder of Apordoc, Portuguese Documentary Association and started teaching Film and Documentary in 2000. In 2000 with another filmmaker (Catarina Alves Costa) we started Laranja Azul, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon.

ACASA MY HOME

Radu Ciorniciuc | Romania, 2020, 85'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

In the Bucharest Delta, the Enache family lived in perfect harmony with nature for two decades, sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded, and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area is transformed into a public national park, they are forced to leave behind their unconventional life and move to the city. As the family struggles to conform to modern civilization they each begin to question their place in the world and what their future might be. With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers viewers, in his feature debut, a compelling tale of an impoverished family living on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version of freedom.

Photography: Radu Ciorniciuc, Mircea Topoleanu
Sound: Alex Campan
Editing: Andrei Gorgan
Production: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan

Radu Ciorniciuc

In 2012, Radu co-founded the first independent media organisation in Romania - Casa Jurnalistului a community of reporters. Since then, he has been working as a long-form writer and undercover investigative reporter. His researches are focused on human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues across the globe. His investigative and reporting work was published on most of the major international media organizations in the world - Channel 4 News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, etc. - and received national and international awards. His journalistic work was acknowledged by Royal Television Society UK (2014), Amnesty International UK (2014), Harold Wincott Awards for Business, Economic and Financial Journalism (2016), and by other international and national prestigious institutions.

LIFE OF IVANNA

Renato Borrayo Serrano | Russia, 2021, 82'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT OR MEDIUM LENGTH FILM

Strong and passionate, Ivanna is a young Nenets woman and mother of 5 children. Alone with them in the harsh environment of the Arctic tundra, she lives the traditional way of life of Nenets nomadic people: herding reindeer through the vast tundra in small nomadic communities, moving their houses on sleds and enduring extreme colds. Ivanna does the work that is traditionally done by two people, husband and wife, for her family to survive. The father of her five children, Gena, has become an alcoholic. Given the fast deteriorating conditions of her life in the tundra and in order to take her life in her own hands, Ivanna decides to emigrate to the city. Both an emancipatory drama and a melancholic requiem for the lost way of life in the tundra, this film depicts with great intimacy, the feelings of a woman in the transition to a new life.

Photography: Renato Borrayo Serrano, Darya Sidorova
Sound: Israel Bañuelos
Editing: Inge-Lise Langfeldt, Renato Borrayo Serrano
Production: Ethnofund Film

Renato Borrayo Serrano

Born in Guatemala, Central America. Since 2012 lives and Works in Russia. In 2017 graduated as a film director specialized on documentary film, from the All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov. On 2017 coursed the the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theater. Currently based in Moscow. Since 2014 he´s works have participated in many international film festivals, in Russia and abroad. His film Film for Carlos recibed the honorary mention of the shorts competition jury at Dok Leipzig 2017 edition and also a honorary mention from the jury at Art Dok Fest 2017, the bigest documentary film festival in Moscow and won the Price for Best Short Film at DocuDays UA 2018 in Kiev.

ENTRE LEIRAS THE LIFE WE KNOW

Cláudia Ribeiro | Portugal, 2020, 82'

Running for the Jean-Loup Passek Award for
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM

In a hamlet of Portugal’s remote inland, between the rivers Douro and Tâmega, there live about thirty people. At the top of a hill, we find sisters Ana and Glória living in an isolated place which the baker, the fishmonger, the grocer, and their children visit once a week. Everything else comes from the soil, which the two sisters work from sunrise to sunset, amidst the strips of farmed land. We follow the agricultural cycle over the course of a year as the relationship between the director and the protagonists ripens. The veil is lifted on these women’s day-to-day lives and their deepest thoughts about life in the countryside, the only life they know.

Photography: Cláudia Ribeiro
Sound: Cláudia Ribeiro
Editing: Cláudia Ribeiro, João Miller Guerra, Raul Domingues
Production: Cláudia Ribeiro, Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra

Cláudia Ribeiro

Cláudia Ribeiro was born in 1990, in Guimarães, in the North of Portugal, and currently lives in Porto. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Film and a Master’s in Anthropology - Visual Cultures. Her work is focused mainly on the concepts of culture and identity, moved by a constant questioning of human behaviour, memory, representation, and the concept of reality. THE LIFE WE KNOW is her debut in documentary film, the result of 7 months of painstaking fieldwork in a small inland village in northern Portugal.