Fields of Experimentation
The film school is a terrain of unique experimentation, a distinct context of the classic production process. Its production conditions, from shooting to budget, to team, equipment and time availability are subject to an energy and special conditions that lead us to think about and to look at these films with a different attention.
It seemed appropriate to create a special section for school films, a format we have been receiving since the first edition. For this edition, with the approximately 80 school films we registered, we built two sessions. They reflect the particular vision of young Mediterranean students tied to learning productions, but carrying much spontaneity and freedom.
In the films submitted, documentaries had a strong predominance, often creative in style, indicating a growing development of the genre. The fictions showed us recurrent and geographically cross-cutting concerns, such as the passage of age (adolescence or old age), the position of women in the family and their relationship with it, with the environment, domestic violence, tradition and rurality, gender issues…
Our choice aims to convey the variety of themes and the different genres of films we have received. We strove to create a dialogue between these multiple early looks [começar a olhar] proposed by the students of the Mediterranean through their cinematographic productions.
Programme
All the films were made in a school or learning context and are all eligible for the special jury award COMEÇAR A OLHAR
COMEÇAR A OLHAR Award
THU | 28 SEP • 14h | Room 3
O CABO DO MUNDO | The Edge of the World
Kate Saragaço-Gomes | Portugal | doc | 2016 | 15’
MARTINA, AY MARTINA | Martina, oh Martina
Fátima Martín | Spain | fic | 2016 | 12’
DUVDEVAN | Cerise | Director present
Hila Amir | Israel | fic | 2016 | 25’
JE SUIS LÀ | I’m Here
Farah Abada | Algeria | doc | 2016 | 12’
A PEDRA | The Stone | Director present
Ana Lúcia Carvalho | Portugal | fic | 2016 | 9’
صوت الشارع | Cloch’Art | Director present
Katri Manel | Tunisia | doc | 2016 | 22’
ZAŠTO | Why
Iva Božić | Croatia | anim | 2017 | 7’
THU | 28 SEP • 19h15 | Room 3
BOẐJA NAPAKA | God’s Mistake
Anna Savchenko, Catarina Leal e Eva Matarranz | Slovenia | doc | 2014 | 23’
FRI | 29 SEP • 14h | Room 3
DEBATE after the session
ISTISS IMETSEN | Women of Imetsen
Hilali Kawtar | Morocco/Switzerland | doc | 2015 | 31’
MONDAY | Director present
Laura Carreira | Portugal/United Kingdom | fic | 2016 | 11’
TUTTE LE COSE SONO PIENE DI LEI | Everything Is Full of Her
Maria Tilli | Italy | fic | 2015 | 23’
FRES-BOI
Cristina Vilches Estella e Paloma Canonica | Spain | anim | 2015 | 8’
LUGAR EM PARTE NENHUMA | A Place in Nowhere
Bárbara de Oliveira e João Rodrigues | Portugal | anim | 2016 | 7’
LE BLEU DE TES YEUX | Bluer Than Your Eyes
Amal Mokded | France | exp | 2016 | 4’
FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
Tal Greenberg | Israel | fic | 2015 | 19’
FRI | 29 SEP • 16h30 | Room 3
EL PESO DE LA MANTA | The Weight of the Blanket | Director Clelia Goodchild present
Francesca Romana Degl’Innocenti, Aisha Doherty, Julie France, Clelia Goodchild, Leanne Hayman, Becky Lamich, Prunelle Mathet Girardeau, Toulla Mavromati e Cindy Parker
Spain | doc | 2016 | 36′