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Short Waves Festival
Short Waves Festival is an annual international short film film festival, festival held in Poznań, Poznań, Poland. Its main characteristic is inclusion of not only live-action, documentary and animated films, but also music videos, experimental films and video-art. It is one of the main events of its kind in Poland. The event's slogan hails it as "the most concise short film festival". History Since its commencement, the festival is organized by the Ad Arte Foundation from Poznań. Short Waves started as a multi-location event held simultaneously in various cities. The first edition in 2009 encompassed 28 locations in Poland, as well as Berlin, London and Dublin. Twelve Polish short films were screened in every city and the viewers voted for their favorite. The winner was chosen by counting the total number of votes from all the locations. In the next years the number of participating cities and countries increased. The record 2015 edition had more than 90 towns on 6 continents. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (''Jarmark Świętojański''), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect. Among its most important heritage sites are the Renaissance Old Town, Town Hall and Gothic Cathedral. Poznań is the fifth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. As of 2021, the city's population is 529,410, while the Poznań metropolitan area (''Metropolia Poznań'') comprising Poznań County and several other communities is inhabited by over 1.1 million people. It is one of four historical capitals of medieval Poland and the ancient capital of the Greater Poland region, currently the administrative capital of the province called Greater Poland Voivodeship. Poznań is a center of trade, sports, education, technology and touri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Cuzuioc
Pavel Cuzuioc (born 1978) is an Austrian, Moldovan, Romanian filmmaker. Early life and education Cuzuioc was born in Moldova. After studying law in Bucharest, Romania, he graduated from the State University of Moldova. In 2000, Pavel moved to Austria, where he took a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. From 2003, he followed courses on film directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and since then has been working as a filmmaker in Austria, Romania, and Moldova. Career Pavel's films have been screened and won several awards at various international film festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Clermont-Ferrand, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, DocAviv, TIFF, FIPA, VIENNALE, and others. Cuzuioc's DOINA GROPARILOR aka DIGGING FOR LIFE (2011) is a 55 minutes documentary, produced by HBO Europe, on the career gravediggers at Moldova's ''Doina cemetery''—the larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lendita Zeqiraj
Lendita Zeqiraj is a film director from Kosovo. She was born in Prishtina, Kosovo. Her sister is filmmaker Blerta Zeqiri. In 2008, she released the short film ''Balcony''. In 2018, her short film ''Fence'' ("''Gardhi''") won Best International Short Film at DokuFest. It also won Best Narrative Short at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival. Her debut feature film, ''Aga's House'', is about a young boy looking for his father and about trauma and rape survivors, set after the Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Kosovo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Polonski
Miki Polonski (born 1982) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. Born in Bat Yam, Israel, in 2015 he graduated from the Film Department of Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv. Polonski directed a number of internationally awarded short films. His 2015 film ''Ten Buildings Away'' was selected for the 68th Festival de Cannes’ Cinéfondation competition. The same year he won the Best Student Film award in DocAviv and Best Student film award in the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers’ Forum competition for documentary film ''1 Building and 40 People Dancing''. In 2017 his short film ''Shmama'' won the Pardino d’argento Award at the 70th Locarno Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ..., while his first short film, ''Albina 12'', was nominated for the Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
Niki Lindroth von Bahr (born 14 February 1984, Stockholm) is a Swedish director and animator based in Stockholm, Sweden. Biography von Bahr studied animation at the Royal Institute of Art. She received her master's degree in fine art in 2016. Her films ''Bath House'' (2014) and ''Tord & Tord'' (2010) have been screened in prestigious festivals such as Berlinale, Sundance and Annecy. ''Tord & Tord'' was nominated as Best Short film at Guldbaggegalan (Main Swedish film award) 2011 and won the Grand Prix of Fredrikstad Animation Festival the same year. In 2017 von Bahr released ''Min Börda'' ('' The Burden''), a dystopian animated musical. Her short was nominated for the Prize for Best Short Film 2017 at the Directors' Fortnight (''Quinzaine des Réalisateurs'') during Cannes Festival in May 2017. One month later, ''The Burden'' won the Oscars qualifying Cristal Award for the Best Animated Short at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. Since the release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Burden (film)
''The Burden'' (Swedish: ''Min börda'') is a Swedish independent animated drama short film directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr produced by Malade AB. It was released on 12 June 2017. The film has won several prizes, including The Annecy Cristal of the Best animated Short at the 41st Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Best International Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival 2017, and nominated for the Prize for Best Short Film 2017 at the Directors' Fortnight (''Quinzaine des Réalisateurs'') during Cannes Festival 2017. Plot A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator. Accolades The short was part of the world touring screening The Animation Showcase 2017. References External links''The Burden''on Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbrevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaveh Mazaheri
Kaveh Mazaheri ( fa, کاوه مظاهری; born 14 September 1981 in Tehran) is an Iranian Director and Scriptwriter. He started his work by writing a film critique in magazines. After graduating in railway engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2005, he made his first short narrative film entitled "Tweezers". He has directed four independent short narrative films and more than twenty short and medium-length documentaries. He has won numerous awards from national and international film festivals for short film Retouch, such as "''Best Short Fiction Film''" at Tribeca, Kraków, Palm Springs, Stockholm, Tirana, Fajr Film Festivals Movies Long Films * ''Botox'' (2019) Short Narrative Films * Tweezers (2007) * Cockroach (2016) * Retouch (2017) Documentaries * Waxinema (2008) * Day of Blood (2008) * Soori's Trip (2010) * A Report about Mina (2015) * Flight to Pardis (2016) Awards * Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan 2015) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retouch (film)
''Retouch'' ( fa, روتوش ''Rutuš'') is an Iranian short film directed by Kaveh Mazaheri, which was co-produced by Kaveh Mazaheri and Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS). The film is one of the most successful Iranian short films that won the Best Short Fiction Film Award from the Fajr Film Festival and the best international film festivals such as Tribeca, Krakow, Palm Springs, Stockholm, Ojai, Tirana and Traverse City. Retouch has enjoyed a successful film festival run, winning at three Oscar qualifying film festivals, including: Tribeca Film Festival (Best Narrative Short), Palm Springs Shortfest (Best Live Action Over 15 Min) and the Krakow Film Festival (Silver Dragon for Best Short Fiction Film). Plot Maryam's husband has an accident at home and, rather than saving him, she stops helping and watches him die. Awards * Short Waves Festival (Poland 2018)- Winner International Competition 2nd Award * Tribeca Film Festival (USA 2017)- Winner Best Narrative Short, Winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Ellis (film Director)
Simon Ellis is a British film director. Films Ellis' short films have received many awards, including the International Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, Best Short Film at British Independent Film Awards, BIFA, and BAFTA and European Academy Award nominations. Working in fiction, animation, hybrid documentary and interactive, his work been presented collectively in dedicated retrospective shows at numerous international film festivals. He continues to attend festivals as either filmmaker or juror and has mentored short film directors in both the UK and overseas. ''Ellis comes out of a strong tradition of regional British filmmaking. He is a very resourceful filmmaker who had embraced a DIY ethic even before digital technology made that option straightforward. Most importantly, he's an actor's director, and his ability to draw out convincing performances, often from inexperienced young actors and non-professionals, makes his films powerful, what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Vázquez (artist)
Alberto Vázquez Rico is a Spanish ( Galician) comic book artist and filmmaker born in A Coruña in 1980. He has received three Goya Awards for his animated films. His most famous work is '' Birdboy: The Forgotten Children'', a feature-length animated movie based on his own graphic novel. He is also a drummer in the ''Mano de obra'' band. Career He studied on University of Vigo and University of Valencia. One of the co-founders of Polaqia comic-book creators group, he published his first album in 2002. His comic books include ''Freda'' (2003, with Kike Benlloch), ''Psiconautas'' (2006) and ''El evangelio de Judas'' (2007). His drawings were published in '' El País'', he also illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. In 2011, together with Pedro Rivero, he adapted his own graphic novel, ''Psiconautas'', in a form of a short animated film under the title ''Birdboy''. It won a Goya Award and encouraged them to direct the 76-minute version, '' Birdboy: The Forgotte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Waves Festival
Short Waves Festival is an annual international short film film festival, festival held in Poznań, Poznań, Poland. Its main characteristic is inclusion of not only live-action, documentary and animated films, but also music videos, experimental films and video-art. It is one of the main events of its kind in Poland. The event's slogan hails it as "the most concise short film festival". History Since its commencement, the festival is organized by the Ad Arte Foundation from Poznań. Short Waves started as a multi-location event held simultaneously in various cities. The first edition in 2009 encompassed 28 locations in Poland, as well as Berlin, London and Dublin. Twelve Polish short films were screened in every city and the viewers voted for their favorite. The winner was chosen by counting the total number of votes from all the locations. In the next years the number of participating cities and countries increased. The record 2015 edition had more than 90 towns on 6 continents. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raisa (film)
''Raisa'' is a short film directed and written by Pavel Cuzuioc starring Cristina Flutur. Synopsis Moldova. One winter day, Raisa travels into the city hoping to get something that could change her life. Production notes Raisa was filmed during five days in January 2015 on locations in Chisinau and surroundings. The script is based on non-fictional stories by Aurelia Zavtoni. Post-production took place in Vienna, Austria. The film is starring Cristina Flutur, who won the Palme d'Or for best Actress in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Technical Details Raisa was filmed in HD at 25 frames per second on Canon C300 The EOS C300 is a digital cinema camera in the Cinema EOS range. It was announced by Canon on November 3, 2011. The camera is offered with the option of Canon EF or Arri PL mounts. It has been available since January 2012. In September 2015, .... The screening format is DCP, 2K, with an aspect ratio is 1:2.39. Awards and nominations References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
