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Tęsdami kino operatoriaus ir režisieriaus Petro Abukevičiaus kūrybinę tradiciją, įvertindami dešimtmečio patirtį, vykdant projektą „Gamtos dienos“ respublikinis vaikų ir jaunimo kino forumas“, į kūrybinį Forumo procesą, kviečiame kino profesionalus iš Lietuvos ir kitų pasaulio šalių.
2015 m. rugpjūčio 28 – 30 dienomis rengiame “Tarptautinį nepriklausomo kino vilkų festivalį” (“WIIFF”, Wolves international independent film festival). Tai tarptautinis nepriklausomo kino festivalis, kurio pagrindinė vyksmo vieta – Saldutiškis rugpjūčio 28 d. ir 30 d., o rugpjūčio 29 d. filmų programa, rengiant susitikimus su kino kūrėjais, bus pristatoma Utenoje.
Festivalio tematiką apibrėžiama gamtos, ekologijos, istorinio ir kultūros paveldo temomis.
Galimi įvairaus žanro filmai.
Pristatomi filmai bus vertinami, įteikiami festivalio diplomai, bei „Canis Lupus“ statulėlės už „Geriausią festivalio filmą“, „Geriausią ilgo metražo filmą“, „Geriausią trumpo metražo filmą“, taip pat skiriamas „Petro Abukevičiaus apdovanojimas“ ir renkamas „Geriausias „Gamtos dienų“ filmas“.
Daugiau informacijos www.ramuno-atelje.eu
Ramūnas Abukevičius
WIIFF
Wolves Independent Internacional Film Festival
Tarptautinis Nepriklausomo Kino Vilkų Festivalis
2015
PROGRAMA
Rugpjūčio 28 d. Penktadienis
Saldutiškio kultūros namuose
12.00 val. Festivalio atidarymas
12. 30 val. Festivalio atidarymo filmas – Baobabs between Land and Sea
Baobabai tarp žemės ir jūros
Rež. Cyrille Cornu
FRANCE – PRANCŪZIJA
Dokumentinis,trukmė: 55:10
By their sheer size and original shapes, baobabs are among the most remarkable trees on the planet. Relatively unknown in Madagascar, these giants are currently threatened by deforestation. To study them, in the heart of their forests, Cyrille Cornu and Wilfried Ramahafaly travel by pirogue, exploring 400 km of wild and isolated coastline in the south-west of Madagascar.
Director: Cyrille Cornu
Cyrille Cornu was born at Bourges, France in 1968. He has been doing ecological research for over 15 years. His work has led him to travel to many countries. He studies tropical dry forests and uses satellite images to characterize their biodiversity, degree of deforestation and the impacts of climate changes. For the last 6 years, he has focused on the baobabs of Madagascar, and has become one of the world’s leading specialists. Each year, he organizes unique expeditions that use local traditional transport to access the heart of isolated forests that are home to the baobabs.
The island of Madagascar is a great source of inspiration for filmmakers and photographers. It is unique in many ways. Its biodiversity and landscapes are exceptional, and the social diversity is remarkable. Cyrille has been a keen photographer for many years but with “Baobabs between Earth and Sea”, his first documentary film, he has evolved to another level. The desire to share his adventures is at the heart of his approach to filming, sharing his travels through the nature and the encounters with the people living in wild regions.
The story of his first film is intimately related to traveling. Content and form are changing to the rhythm of different discoveries, a desire to place the viewer at the very heart of the voyage.
13.30 val. The Magic Train
Paslaptingas traukinys
Rež. Joe Chang
CHINA – KINIJA
Vaidybinis – Animacinis, trukmė 01:27:00
The story of Magic Train was based on a girl called Lin Lin, who was an American Born Chinese and brought up overseas. During her trip to China on a traveling train, she had experienced series of amazing things from what she saw in China. The film was particularly concerned about different aspect of artistic levels. From the unique style and technique of animation, the film had shown the humanistic feelings from the combination of Chinese traditional cultural and modern life. It also had a lot of entertainment and artistic affection, too.
The whole film was consist of ten different little stories in sequence, and had 87 minutes in total. The dialogue was little and the music was adapted from Chinese traditional well-known music scores. The audiovisual feeling of the film was like a song, a picture, a poem and a dream. These could touch deep through the heart of different age group audiences.
Director: Joe Chang
Joe Chang is an award-winning director, animator and artist. He studied at Lu-Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China and Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan and the animated short the Chinese Violin (2000) was his first animated film with the National Film Board of Canada. His most recent animated feature film is The Magic Train (2015). Currently, Joe is an artist and independent filmmaker, and he also working at the School of Art, Zhejiang University of Technology as a Dean and professor in Hangzhou, China.
15.00 – 16.00 pertrauka
16.00 val. Icaros
(Ikaros – Šamanų daina, bendravimas su dvasiomis)
Rež. Georgina Barreiro
ARGENTINA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 01:11:00
Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets outs on a journey to discover the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca, mentored by a wise shaman and by his mother, a master healer.
Director: Georgina Barreiro
17.15 val. Trumpo metražo dokumentinių filmų programa:
Lašišų sugrįžimas
Rež. Tim Plowden
UNITED KINGDOM – ANGLIJA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 7:42
The theme of The Return Of The Salmon is the final stage of the salmon’s lifelong odyssey. The salmon’s single-mindedness and determination is the driving force for the story. This short nature documentary zooms in on salmon as they deal with challenges during their migration to their natal rivers in the vast Alaskan wilderness. What unfolds gives an insight to the key role of salmon in their environment and reflects the cyclical nature of life.
Director: Tim Plowden
Award-winning photographer Tim Plowden comes from the British Isles. Tim has travelled far and wide to photograph wildlife. His work has been published in newspapers, magazines, books and been featured in exhibitions. After recently spending a month in Alaska, Tim is currently in Southeast Asia.
2. Kyoto Maiko
Kijoto Maiko
Rež. Jeremy Hoare
UNITED KINGDOM – ANGLIJA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 2:42
A short film of Maiko (apprentice geisha) going to their evening appointments in Kyoto.
Director: Jeremy Hoare
Photography has since dominated my life in many ways; through television, film and stills. Since quitting television as a Cameraman and Lighting Director the majority of my work over the last two decades has been as a commercial travel and documentary photographer which has taken me to around sixty countries.
Like all professional photographers I also do my own projects which I can develop without anyone telling me how I should do it and at my own pace.
Gegučių vaikai
Rež. Inesa Kurklietytė
LITHUANIA – LIETUVA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 25:00
Twelve lost children live in a remote country house near Silute town. Their mother is Ona who was an orphan herself. Ona takes her foster children to meet their real mothers. She wants them to know their roots. Three colourful meetings after not seeing each other for several years. Do cuckoos recognize their children?
Director: Inesa Kurklietytė
Lithuanian film director.
“I was born in 14 of March, 1968. All my following studies were devoted to cinema”.
Studied directing in Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy and in Paris ESRA and FEMIS. Working in Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, coordinator of EC intensive programme „International workshop for European Film, Music and Theatre scools“ during 1997 – 2014, directed 4 shorts, two feature fiction and 8 documentaries.
Film „Cuckoos‘ children“ the Best dokumentary award in „Olympia“ International film festival ( 2013). 2014 – Silver Winner Award in International Independent Film Awards. Los Angeles, USA. 2015 m. 18th International Film Festival ZOOM Zblizenia, Jelenia Gora, Poland – Best dokumentary. 2015 m. DOCfeed, Documentary International Film Festival Eindhoven, Netherlands – Best International Short Dokumentary.
4. End of Times
Laiko pabaiga
Rež. Sergio García Locatelli
PERU
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 8:558:55
Three young guys wander deserts and towns after the end of the world. One of them decides to face the desolation of this event.
Director: Antolín Prieto
(Trujillo, 1980)
Editor/Director. He has worked in a dozen of feature productions, fiction and documentary, as assistant director and editor. He is a member of the documentary collective DOCUPERU. He has directed three shortfilms: “Reunión”, “San Felipe” and “Fin del Mundo”. He took part of Berlinale Talents 2014 and Guadalajara Doculab 2014. Nowadays, he is working on his first feature film.
Medvilninės svajonės
Rež. Sandeep Balhara
POLAND – LENKIJA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 14:30
The side effects of a growing economy and extensive use of biotechnology pushed indian farmers into the world’s greatest agrarian crisis. “CottonDreams” delves into life of one such family and brings out a tragic tale of love, life and sacrifice under extreme living conditions in rural India.
Director: Sandeep Rampal Balhara
Sandeep Rampal Balhara is a film director of Indian origin currently studying at Lodz film school, Poland. He has made several short fiction and documentary films (including Absinthe, CottonDreams, SóI i Pieprz, Wszystko w Porządku), which depict his subtle observational standpoint about the complexities of human emotional existence. He also writes for the screen and often edits his own films.
His second year documentary project CottonDreams is an emphatic portrayal about how a poor family is enduring the world’s largest agrarian crisis in rural India. The short documentary acclaimed 14 awards and special mentions; and has been nominated at 64 International Film Festivals across the globe.
Londono grindinys
Rež. Dustin Morrow
USA – JAV
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 7:41
Ground London is an experimental documentary that explores the British capital with a very specific point-of-view, locked in photography that never gets more than three inches off the ground, along with heavy manipulation of both sound and image, exposing a London seldom examined: a city that moves poetically and with great order when observed slowly and in minute detail.
Director: Dustin Morrow
Dustin Morrow is an Emmy-winning filmmaker, author, programmer, and educator. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches courses in digital cinema production and film studies. He earned his MFA in Cinema from the University of Iowa and taught media production at Temple University in Philadelphia for seven years before moving to Portland. His films have won numerous awards, earned critical acclaim, and been shown in venues around the world. He has written extensively about film, pop culture, technology and pedagogy for a host of online and print publications. Before entering academia, Morrow was an editor and director of short-form projects and series television in Los Angeles, for such clients as MTV and the Discovery Channel, and such filmmakers as Spike Jonze, Michael Apted, and Steven Soderbergh. He continues to operate his own independent production company, for which recent projects have taken him as far away as the Aleutian Sea.
He is also the producer and host of the popular cinema-discussion web series Film versus Film, and the founder and director of the Portland Music Video Festival, one of only a handful of festivals in the world dedicated exclusively to the art and craft of the music video. He was previously the founding director of the Greenfield Youth Film Festival, one of the largest youth media education programs in the nation. His feature film musical Everything Went Down is currently playing the film festival circuit. His book Producing for TV and New Media was recently published worldwide by Focal Press, and his next book, a collaborative work with the legendary actress Kathleen Turner, is due early next year.
Hegelis ir peteliškė
Rež. Bartosz Warwas
POLAND – LENKIJA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 4:57
This brief and creative documentary is probably closest to, in the Polish film tradition, the style of Wojciech Wiszniewski. Performances by a human-butterfly became fodder here to express the dialectic of our collective and individual history. After the thesis and antithesis there must come the synthesis. Will it be the same in life as in the film?
Director: Bartosz Warwas
Bartosz Warwas (1978) was born in Cracow. Since 2006 he has been studying at the directing department in Polish National Film School in Lodz. His films have been screened on numerous international festivals including Berlin, Bilbao, Paris, Chicago, London, Dresden, Monterrey, San Francisco, Shanghai, Mannheim and Rio de Janeiro.
His master degree diploma film tittled “The Caged Swallow” is the second full length diploma film in the Lodz Film School history after Jerzy Skolimowski “Identification Marks: None” from 1964.
8. Speechless: The Polar Realm
Be teksto: Poliarinė karalystė
Rež. Richard Sidey
NEW ZEALAND – NAUJOJI ZELANDIJA
Doumentinis, trukmė: 44:00
Beautifully filmed over a decade in the Arctic, Antarctic and subpolar regions by Nature Photographer Richard Sidey, The Polar Realm is a visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe.
Director: Richard Sidey
Independent Filmmaker, Expedition & Nature Photographer based in Wanaka, New Zealand
19.00 val. Agnus Dei
Dievo avinėlis
Rež. Agim Sopi
KOSOVO – KOSOVAS
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 01:50:00
A young man Peter, who is around thirties, lives a desperate life with his mother Maria and her husband Stojan in one village of Serbia. Peter is born in Kosova from a forbidden love between his mother Maria and the young Albanian man, but for this he is not aware Is the period of time when the relations between Serbs and Albanians are inimical, exactly is the time of the beginning of war. Peter is forced by his mother and the others to go to the war. He intends to escape the war and goes to the West. He is mobilized forcefully in one paramilitary unit in Kosova’s war. In one action prepared as a revenge, he kills his father Dini whom he never had the chance to meet. Being not able to bear the arbitrary crimes, Peter, deserts from the army. He takes Dini’s daughter Maria and together they escape to the mountains. During their dangerous trip they are followed from both sides of enemies, Serbs and Albanians. Peter and Maria fell in love. They reach to come back in Peter’s home in Serbia. As soon as they returnee home, Peter realizes that he had killed his biologic father and he had fall in love with his sister. Not being able to stand this spiritual condition he commits a suicide.
Director: Agim Sopi
He is born on 23.07.1956, in Prishtina / Kosovo. He attended the University of Zagreb (Croatia). He has graduated on the Academy of Arts, the branch of directing the film. He is the professor of The Film Theory in Faculty of Arts – Prishtina University.
The documentary films: The waiting (1980), The midnight guards (1981), Beyond the death (1999).
The feature films: The man of earth (1984), Anathema (2006), Agnus Dei (2012)
The Tv-films:
The Pelerine (1982),The flower of love (1988),
The Tower (1990). The autumn of roses (2000).
21.00 val. What Are The Wolves Howling About?
Apie ką staugia vilkai?
Rež. Inesa Kurklietytė
LITHUANIA – LIETUVA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 57:00
It is a story about uncompleted last movie of a well known cameraman and director Petras Abukevicius. In the personal cinematograph’s archive remained a footage of the shooting team’s working commonness, communication attitudes and the wolf’s lives. Moreover, the conversations of the director reveal his own attitude.
In 1995-1996, cinematic operator and film director, Petras Abukevičius, made his last film – life story of the wolves. Cinematic team lived with wolves for two years, observing them day and night, reacting to every wiggling “of forest brothers”. Although established in different sides of the yard, they became the members of one cinematic pack.
In the personal archive of the cinematographer, filmed material survived from which the film director, being struck by the disease, wasn’t able to arrange the film. Observing the material, the peculiarities of wolves’ lives became clearer, their communicative features, also there unfold the habits of animal behaviour.
In the aviary of the territory of one hectare, there were six wolves, brought from various zoos, accommodated. They were observed for some time on purpose of looking for the most suitable “artists”. After selection, in the aviary a formed couple was left and other wolves were returned to the zoo. In the filmed material, we observe the interrelations of the wolves, the choice of the couple, hunting, as well as birth of the wolf babies, their breeding, care and surveillance.
Director: Inesa Kurklietytė
2011 m. Film “What are the wolves howling about?”, Best film award in “Green film festival” in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Rugpjūčio 29 d. Šeštadienis
Utenos kultūros centre
11.00 val. Festivalio pristatymas
11.20 val. Trumpo metražo filmų vaikams programa:
1. Gumball
Kramtomos gumos rutuliukai
Rež. Hunter Hopewell
USA – JAV
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 3:58
Walking aimlessly from his latest rejection, Gumboy stumbles upon a malfunctioning gumball machine that redirects his fate.
Director: Hunter Hopewell
Hunter Hopewell is a 40-time national award winning filmmaker, musician and Film Major at the UNLV Honors College. At nineteen, Hunter is currently working on his first feature film, with lifelong aspirations of becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member.
Savarankiški laiškai
Rež. Lala Severi
URUGUAY – URAGVAJUS
Animacinis, trukmė: 2:52
An employee whose hours pass by coordinating files at an archive is surprised to receive a blank paper, this will bring him the possibility to make an unexpected change.
Director: Lala Severi
3. Rhodes Learns from the Things
Rodas mokosi iš daiktų
Rež. Alex Pop
CANADA – KANADA
Vaidybinis – animacinis, trukmė: 4:30
The teacher tells Rhodes and the other children that all people are the same, later he hears the things in the class talking and tells them what he just learned. In the end he gets confused at home when he finds out from his father that people don’t eat the same amounts of food. He decides he has to let his teacher know about this discovery.
Director: Alex Pop
Graduate of Trebas Institute – Film and Television Production and Post-Production (October 2010 – January 2012) – certificate of excellence.
Director of 9 theatre plays between 1999 and 2001 in Romania.
Writer of around 15 short screenplays and a feature screenplay.
Director, writer, producer and animator for “Rhodes Learns from the Things” – short film released in May 2015 – Official Selection at Los Angeles Cinefest Festival (Los Angeles, USA) June 2015, official selection at the COLOR International Film Festival of India (Ahmedabad, India) August 2015, official selection at the Near Nazareth NNFestival (Afula, Israel) 2016, official selection at San Antonio Laughs Comedy Film Festival (San Antonio, Texas) November 2015.
Septintas dangus
Rež. Or Tilinger
ISRAEL – IZRAELIS
Animacinis, trukmė: 10:30
Somewhere on faraway China, on a huge rock forest, living on the edge of a cliff, a shepherd named Jasio with his sheep. One day they find themselves stuck in the other side far away from home after an earthquake crosses the rock into two separate parts. Jasio will do everything to return home, but whether he will leave his sheep behind and chose to return home without them?
Director: Or Tilinger
Or Tilinger, was born in Kfar Saba and raised in Hadera, Israel.
Graduated 4th year animation studies with honors at Minshar Art College, Tel Aviv.
Majors in 2d animation, Flash and After Effects.
His short movie “Strangers’ Faces” participated in the “2012 Maratoon”.
His work was chosen to be presented in the “MiniArt” exhibition at the Jaffa Antique Museum.
He is a children’s books illustrator, graphics designer and composer.
5. Unordinary journey in an ordinary day
Nepaprasta kelionė į paprastą dieną
Rež. Yoshino Aoki
CANADA – KANADA
Animacinis, trukmė: 3:07
6. Golden Bird
Auksinis paukštis
Rež. Debraj Sarkar
INDIA – INDIJA
Animacinis, trukmė: 10:40
A child came to his village home and listens a story from his grandmother. In earlier days the elders used to tell stories of imaginary characters to encourage children. Those imaginary things captured the children too much that they remained with them even in their later years. In this tale a grandmother captured the confined life of a child with that very story.
A child’s life should be formed of independent, colourful things of imagination. Nowadays children are spending a confine life since childhood. Their life is colourless. They doesn’t have the chance of indulging in imagination. Since childhood they become part of a mechanical life. Less people live in a village. Still a child is not bereft of company. On the other hand in spite of so many people in the city, man is confined in loneliness. Nothing is so painful for a child life being confined to a place.The Golden Bird is a symbol here disappearing fear enlightens one’s mind.
Director: Debraj Sarkar
Name- Debraj Sarkar
Date of Birth – 25.04.1989
Education: High School – Basirhat High School,
Graduation – Bachelor of Fine Arts – Indira Kala Sangeet University
Artistų nemiga
Rež. Mauricio Vides Almonacid
ARGENTINA
Animacinis, trukmė: 7:08
After a night of failed attempts to sleep, the artist tries to overcome his insomnia by working on a painting. However, something extraordinary occurs with his paint, when during the process, they come alive.
Director: Mauricio Vides Almonacid
Mauricio Vides was born in Tucuman, Argentina. His father is Bernardo Vides, an internationally-awarded movie animator. From a very young age, he worked with his dad bringing still characters to life on screen. Mauricio began his studies in the National University for Cinema in Tucuman, and later moved on to Pampa Olivos Center in Buenos Aires, where he assisted professors in teaching animation courses. He then moved on to teaching his own workshops and lectures in Stop-Motion Animation. In 2012, he created his own project, named ‘Los Glubis’, which won a contest for Best Animated TV Series, to be funded by the National Cinema Institute and aired on National Public Television. This project launched his career from teaching young children, to giving lectures for fellow animators internationally. Mauricio now keeps expanding his horizons by continuously working on bringing his many scripts and characters to life.
8. The Predators of Transylvania
Transilvanijos plėšrūnai
Julia Kolenakova
SLOVAKIA – SLOVAKIJA
Animacinis,trukmė: 6:25
Kids are followed by a great wolf. They are trying to escape from large sharp fangs by climbing on a tree. The dawn comes and first rays of sun reveals, that nothing is, as it seems.
It is worth to mention the fact that the director Julia Kolenakova is deaf and the music was composed by visually impaired Ondrej Rosik.
Director: Julia Kolenakova (deaf)
Is deaf film director, animator and artist. In 2014 she finished studies of animation on Film and television faculty of the Academy of fine arts in Bratislava. The Dean of the Film and Television Faculty awarded her the prize for outstanding academic results and sucessful representation of Film and Television Faculty in the arts.
For the bachelors film Suitcase (2012) she received a creative award for animation in the Igric competition, an award for a best student film on Neum Animated Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina (NAFF 2013) and an award on the International student film festival in Písek in Czech Republic (MFSF 2013).
She graduated her studies with a film The Predators of Transylvania (2014). The curiosity from this film is that the music was composed by blind musician Ondrej Rosik, while Julia is a first deaf university graduate, what makes this film unique among the country.
In years 2003-2007 she studied at Private secondary school of art and animation in Bratislava. In 2007 she graduated with a film Perníkový človiečik (Little Gingerbread Man), that won 3rd prize at International animated film festival of secondary schools Animofest in Bratislava. In 2009 she finished her film Strach (The Scare) and won 1st prizefor a best animated film in a National competition of amateur filmmaking CINEAMA and a certificate on International animation film festival on Hiroshima 2010.
9. A Lifestory
Gyvenimo istorija
Rež. Abelardo Fernandez Bagues
SPAIN – ISPANIJA
Animacinis, trukmė: 4:20
A little cat that lives in a dying planet has to leave. In this voyage he will face dangers and adventures but ultimately, he will return home. A Lifestory is a metaphor about life as a circle, that began when we were just childs, at home. Based freely on the II century poem; ‘The hymn of the pearl’.
Director: Nacho Rodriguez
Nacho Rodríguez works as a 2D animator since 2002. He has directed shorts for internet, advertisements and videogames. He spent a year and a half in France working as animation director for the game Ozen by Ubisoft. He has directed 6 official music videos as a freelance animator, 4 of them in collaboration with illustrator Gina Thorstensen. His ‘Mr Coo’ and ‘A paedophile’ animations as well as Gotye’s music video ‘Giving me a chance’ have been widely acclaimed online and awarded in international festivals.
10. Pawel The Polish Mouse Goes to The Moon
Pavelas, lenkiškas peliukas, skrenda į mėnulį
Rež. Pawel Stec
UNITED KINGDOM – ANGLIJA
Vaidybinis – Animacinis, trukmė: 3:37
Pawel The Polish Mouse has a dream to go to the Moon. The only person to help him build a rocket is John, his human friend. The dream comes true but leaves Pawel The Polish Mouse with a slight disappointment.
Director: Pawel Stec
Pawel Stec is an editor and motion designer who combines a flare for creativity with commercial understanding. Originally from Poland, Pawel has been raised and educated within the respected Polish film tradition. He has an unique style which balances between bold cinematic ideas and mainstream sensibility.
Pawel started his filmmaking career at Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland where he received his MA in Producing for Film and Television .
Pawel moved to the UK in 2002 to work in post production houses in London. He started as an assistant but soon became an editor working on various film and advertising productions for companies like Sixteen Films, Warp Films, BBH and BBC. In 2009 he edited his first award-winning independent feature “Eve” dir. Jack Davies.
In 2013 Pawel has joined National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK where he did his MA in Editing.
11. The Bear
Lokys
Rež. Avtandil Chachibaia
USA – JAV
Vaidybinis – Animacinis, trukmė: 9:57
A Moral fable about a bear trying to get revenge on humans who took the life of his mother.
Director: Avtandil Chachibaia
Originally from European Georgia Avtandil Chachibaia moved to the United States in 2009. He was working as freelance photographer/director for various companies including NBC Universal, Cosmopolitan and Playboy Magazines. His student film “Smell of Old House of Ours,” which he made while attending Brooklyn College, premiered at Cannes in 2012 and was a semi-finalist for the 2012 Student Academy Awards. His second student film has premiered at BCFF and won National Board of Review Student Grant.
12.30 val. Donaleitis
Donaleitis. XVIII a. Mažosios Lietuvos tautinis kostiumas
Rež. Ramūnas Abukevičius
LITHUANIA – LIETUVA
Dokumentinis – Vaidybinis, trukmė: 01:10:00
The film portrays the birth of the distinctive national costume that was popular in Lithuania Minor (Prussia) in the 18th century and reveals every stage of an authentic process of making the costume: wool combing, spinning, weaving, etc. Today’s craftsmen preserved the working traditions that were prevalent among our ancestors and they let the camera capture how the costumes are being recreated.
Scenic stages of the poem “The Seasons” by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714 – 1780, UNESCO protected) will reveal the labouring for breath of authentic time spirit.
Director: Ramūnas Abukevičius
Actor, film and stage director, screenwriter, producer, head of film production company “Ramunas Atelier”.
Film „Donaleitis“ awarded „2014 Silver Winner Award“ in International Independent Film Awards. Los Angeles, USA.
13.40 – 14.30 Pertrauka
14.30 val. Susitikimas su filmų kūrėjais.
15.00 val. God is American
Amerikietis yra Dievas
Rež. Richard Martin-Jordan
FRANCE – PRANCŪZIJA
Dokumentinis, trukmė: 52:00
Since the end of World War II, the people of Tanna, a remote island in the South Pacific in the archepelago of Vanuatu, idolize an American prophet. His name is John Frum. The islanders believe he is an American pilot that returned to the United States after the war, and will come back to Tanna with riches from the US that they call « the Cargo ». They pray to an American flag, awaiting his return. One man, Isaac the Last One, chief of the « Cargo cult », claims he is Frum’s son. He has formed an army of GI’s to celebrate the return of the prophet John Frum.
Director: Richard Martin-Jordan
Selected movie in forty international film festivals around the world. A dozen awards achieved to date.
15.30 val. Trumpo metražo vaidybinių filmų programa:
1. Light Years
Šviesų metai
Rež. Wesley Shrum
USA – JAV
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 5:23
Since the beginning of modern cinema, viewers and critics alike have been transfixed by light contrasted with darkness. This interplay of light and dark was typical of film noir, a metaphor of good and evil in plots that featured crime, detectives, and mystery. We celebrate this genre through a salute to Augustin-Jean Fresnel, the inventor of a lens for lighthouses that was later used for movie and theatre lighting. Light Years features serial murder and a star-studded group of suspects over a half-century of film. Whodunnit? Ultimately, we learn that the Fatal Fresnel Lens has incinerated five cameras that recorded their own demise.
Director: Wesley Shrum
2. Exchange
Mainai
Rež. Arnolda Noir
LITHUANIA – LIETUVA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 7:15
Two women, who are strangers, are standing at the ends of Brooklyn bridge at the crack of dawn. One moment, once they are passing each other, between them starts a recognition of loneliness in each others eyes. The movement becomes a dance which is as real as is life in the midst of the city that never sleeps.
Director: Arnolda Noir
Arnolda Noir – is a Lithuanian based actress, first time filmmaker. In 2014, Arnolda graduated from New York Conservatory for dramatic arts. From previous university experience, She also has MA in Law. She has been researching Movement and dance for the past three years, especially started to appreciate movement when she couldn’t move after four broken bones in summer 2014. She gathered her tribe in New York city in spring 2015 to shoot her first dancerama ‘Exchange’ which was funded by indiegogo campaign.
Nesantis cirkas
Rež. Lisa Svelmøe
DENMARK – DANIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 19:09
Jenny is incapable of processing that her father is dead. In total despair she flees from the scene. Reality and fantasy melts and she finds herself in a magical tale about a lost circus where she searches for the father. But the events in the strange world turns her quest upside down.
Director: Lisa Svelmøe
For det fælles bedste (2014) – For the common good.
Ude i Skoven (2013) – In the woods.
En Knap Beslutning (2013).
Ballerina (2012).
The Second Attention (2010).
Best Before End (2009).
Relative Reality (2008).
4. Yellow
Geltona
Rež. Harriet Lenneman
USA – JAV
Animacinis, trukmė: 3:18
Grover and Myrtle are a haggard couple who live in a house where every action and object is so ordinary that it becomes surreal. Everything makes sense because nothing makes sense. Grover reads a newspaper with an ad that says, “Love dies at the touch of dishpan hands.” Myrtle is trapped inside the monotony of life within the domestic sphere. While she enjoys a cup of tea, Grover’s fate falls to the callous whim of Myrtle’s dishpan hands.
Inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
5. 97%
Rež. Ben Brand
NETHERLANDS – OLANDIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 8:07
Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% lovematch is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line?
Director: Ben Brand
Film has been selected and awarded in 12 festivals.
Ėjimas pėstininku
Rež. Sergio García Locatelli
PERU
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 17:41
A pawn moves two squares forward and starts off four duels in a bar. Each character’s strategy, what to say or leave unsaid, builds up a game on the board until one of them wins —or loses.
Director: Claudia Córdova Zignago
Claudia Córdova Zignago estudied Comunications at the Uninversity of Lima and later a diploma in Cultural Managment at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú. She has developed as a cultural manager and in the last years she has worked in different proyects of theatre, being in charge of production, direction asistance or photography, discipline in wich she has always been involved. “Pawn 4 king” is her first film work.
Ferdinandas Knapas
Rež. Andrea Baldini
FRANCE – PRANCŪZIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 14:57
Ferdinand Knapp is the pre-eminent actor of French theatre, revered by all. In preparing for a new play, the lines between his character’s malevolent personality and his own begin to blur. His double warps his reality into a nightmare and compels him to commit an irredeemable act.
Freely inspired by the « astronautic-cathodic vicissitudes of the great mining engineer of the mental system », Oreste Fernando Nannetti. He died at the Volterra psychiatric hospital in 1994. But still he endures, like a shadow beneath the cosmos.
Director: Andrea Baldini
Andrea was born in Italy and lives in Paris. After studying Cinema at the University of Pisa, he directed two short films chosen for numerous festivals. His video installations have toured Europe and he was commissioned to direct an official project for Nuit Blanche in Paris. His feature script L’homme le plus drôle du monde is in development.
Kraštovaizdis su sulaužytu šunimi
Rež. Orazio Leogrande
ARGENTINA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 14:00
“Landscape with broken dog” is a requiem for a cinema that has been dismembered. It is the story of a journey to the impossible. It is a film that traces back the original instability of vision using archival footage of various origins.
Director: Orazio Leogrande
Orazio Leogrande is an italian filmmaker based in Buenos Aires. He has written and directed “Splendeur” (2004), “Il segreto” (2006), “El vulnerable margen de los cuerpos” (2008), “La vida anterior” (2010), “And they took my eyes” (2012).
9. ARAM
Aramas
Rež. Havi Ibrahim
UNITED KINGDOM – ANGLIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 18:40
After a long confrontation, Aram a young Kurdish boy gradually give up waiting for his mother, and realises she will not be joining him and his father for a new life anymore.
Director: Havi Ibrahim
Havi Ibrahim is a British-based film director originally from the Kurdish region of Iraq. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2001 and studied Contemporary Fine Art at the University of Lincoln. He then finished his BA (Hons) in Television and Film Design, also at the University of Lincoln. Two years after finishing his BA, Havi completed a Master’s Degree in Media and Communications on the subject of Cinema and Film Production at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2014.
His first film was the featured Kurdish animated work entitled The Legend of Kawa the Blacksmith (2009), with versions in both Kurdish and English that were released through Elevation Sales on DVD. His films have been screened at several film festivals around the world, including the RTS Student Awards 2009 where he was a runner-up in both the fiction and factual categories. Havi Ibrahim was also a Jury Member at the 6th London Kurdish Film Festival in November 2009. He is now working as an independent film director, animator, editor and producer.
10. Game of life
Gyvenimo žaidimas
Rež. Agnès Vialleton
FRANCE – PRANCŪZIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 12:30
Mathias and Alex meet in the early morning, on a small parking lot in the middle of nowhere. The two men know each other well, but they seem to be worlds apart. However, they share a secret. This year again, nothing could distract them from what they’re determined to accomplish.
What will their mysterious and whimsical undertaking reveal?
Director: Vialleton Agnès
After a Bachelor in Italian literature and culture, and the Cours Florent, Agnès Vialleton started working as an actress.
She has played in about 40 films, series and tv films, and a dozen theatre plays. Whilst working as an actress, she started writing. First a play – “De Pire en Pub” – performed at the Café de la Gare. She then wrote an episode for the series “Commissaire Rocca”, entitled “Pièces Détachées”, for Protécréa and TF1. She submitted a project as part of a call for proposals by TSR, who ends up pre-buying the pilot for her short program concept. She won a script competition for Bénédicte Brunet, prizewinner for the Prix Orange/ Formats Innovants, and supported by the CNC.
She is the writer and director of a very short film for an online competition. Her short film “Proverbe Timmy” won the “Jury’s Favourite” Award, presided by Jan Kounen. For the 4th edition of the same competition, she won the same award again, this time with a jury presided by François Bégaudeau.
She has just finished her first version of a full-length feature film, “Plus on est de Fous”, the story of a young actress who agrees to put together a theatrical play with characters suffering from psychotic disorder, hoping to get a part in a movie.
“Un Grand Jeu” is Agnès’ first short movie.
Tuštumos kilpos
Rež. Gabrielė Labanauskaitė
LITHUANIA – LIETUVA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 9:38
“The Loops of Emptiness” – it’s a visual poem, where words are translated into cinematographic language.
Director: Gabrielė Labanauskaitė
Poet, novelist, playwright. Since 2009, the doctoral study of theater and drama taught the history and theory of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Apprenticeships on Italian, Finnish, Greek and universities in the US and in England organized by the film and theatrical drama courses. Gabrielle – group AVaspo member and founder of the poetry festival and audiovisual BETWEEN author of the idea.
Adomas Jablonskis – Cinematographer Lithuanian film legend – Cinematographer Algimantas Mikutėnas – pupil. Adomas career began in the documentary, and currently works with most of feature film. Short feature film “The Loop of Emptiness” for Adomas directorial debut.
12. The Survivor
Maitintojas
Rež. Ahmad Mokari
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN – IRANAS
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 2:00
The Man Lives In Such a Conflict Oriented World. He Created His Own World In spite Of Hopelessness And Naught
Director: Ahmad Mokari
13. Tree of Life
Gyvenimo medis
Rež. Garrett Hunter
UNITED KINGDOM – ANGLIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 4:55
A young girl goes for a walk in the park with her father. On discovering a miracle of nature she questions her father about its purpose. The true meaning of his answer she must wait many years to fully understand.
A young girl goes for a walk in the park with her father. On discovering a miracle of nature she questions her father about its purpose. The true meaning of his answer she must wait many years to fully understand.
18.30 val. . Così x Caso – Dogma 95 (Version 2015)
Kosi ir Kaso – Dogma 95 (2015–tųjų versija)
Rež. Cristiano Ceriello
ITALY – ITALIJA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 01:39:43
March 20, 2015: 20 years after the Manifesto of the World Movement “Dogma 95”, Cinema Distribuzione proposes the version 2015 (remastered, re-made in more extreme form in compliance with the rules of the “Vow of Chastity” and reassembled) of the NEW ” COSÍ X CASO ” , the Ultimate OFFICIAL MOVIE IN THE HISTORY OF DOGMA 95, feature film that closed the international movement of Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and other “Dogma Brothers” … at the least: The last DOGMA! …. The Story of the Film : “in the faded images of a reality that is not the most beautiful and colorful for anyone, everyone is looking for their own piece of happiness that the world can offer. Lucio, sweet and dreamy autistic boy, runs away and does not return to the Institute where his brother, Cristiano, let him regularly. The color and the curiosity of the roads are at some point to his eyes more attractive. Wandering the streets to look for its colors and thoughts, Lucio meets Flaviana that is desperately at a crossroads in his life. A friendship develops between the two that will change forever the lives of all”.
Director: Cristiano Ceriello
20.15 val. Respublikinio vaikų ir jaunimo kino forumo “11-tosios Gamtos dienos”, 2015 metų filmai.
“Lithuanian film forum for youth „Gamtos dienos“ („Nature days“), was led by a professional team of tutors: film director Inesa Kurklietytė, cameramans Algimantas Mikutėnas, Adomas Jablonskis, sound designer Ramūnas Jasutis and editor, director Ričardas Matačius. Pupils had lectures of filming, recording and editing and made his independent films. An artist and film director Ramūnas Abukevičius was a leader of workshop. Here we present films, made by the participants in 2015 summer camp.
20.45 val. Susitikimas su filmo “Pagalvės mokesčio rinkėjas” ir “Donaleitis” kūrybine grupe.
21.30 val. Capitation Retriever
Pagalvės mokesčio rinkėjas
Rež. Inesa Kurklietytė, Ramūnas Abukevičius
LITHUANIA – LIETUVA
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 01:01:08
The film is produced according to the recollections of Fiodor Jevlasovskij (1546-1619) The memoirs created by Fiodor Jevlasovskij, the nobleman of the Great Duchy of Lithuania, in the end of the 16th c. the beginning of the 17th c., are considered the first autobiography written in GDL. It is a unique literature work, revealing the human’s relation with himself, the surrounding environment and the world.
Fiodor Jevlasovski served to the noblemen of GDL, the Radziwiłł and Chodkiewicz family, worked in Vilnius manor of the kings, Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Báthory, closely communicated with Mikolaj Krzystof Radziwill “Sierotka”.
The film is produced by according to the recollections of Fiodor Jevlasovskij, (1546-1619) not only vividly described the reality of the Great Duchy of Lithuania of the joint of the 16-17th c., but also emphasized it distinctively and assessed individually. His memoirs – an authentic story of a human’s life, full of suspenses, earthly joys, losses, melancholy and despair.
2015 film „Capitation Retriever“ in Eurofilm festival in Spain, awarded for Best female interpretation.
Rugpjūčio 30 d. Sekmadienis
Saldutiškio kultūros namuose
13.30 val. Kartojama trumpo metražo filmų vaikams programa:
1. Gumball
Kramtomos gumos rutuliukai
Rež. Hunter Hopewell
USA – JAV
Vaidybinis, trukmė: 3:58
Savarankiški laiškai
Rež. Lala Severi
URUGUAY – URAGVAJUS
Animacinis, trukmė: 2:52
3. Rhodes Learns from the Things
Rodas mokosi iš daiktų
Rež. Alex Pop
CANADA – KANADA
Vaidybinis – animacinis, trukmė: 4:30
Septintas dangus
Rež. Or Tilinger
ISRAEL – IZRAELIS
Animacinis, trukmė: 10:30
5. Unordinary journey in an ordinary day
Nepaprasta kelionė į paprastą dieną
Rež. Yoshino Aoki
CANADA – KANADA
Animacinis, trukmė: 3:07
6. Golden Bird
Auksinis paukštis
Rež. Debraj Sarkar
INDIA – INDIJA
Animacinis, trukmė: 10:40
Artistų nemiga
Rež. Mauricio Vides Almonacid
ARGENTINA
Animacinis, trukmė: 7:08
8. The Predators of Transylvania
Transilvanijos plėšrūnai
Julia Kolenakova
SLOVAKIA – SLOVAKIJA
Animacinis,trukmė: 6:25
9. A Lifestory
Gyvenimo istorija
Rež. Abelardo Fernandez Bagues
SPAIN – ISPANIJA
Animacinis, trukmė: 4:20
10. Pawel The Polish Mouse Goes to The Moon
Pavelas, lenkiškas peliukas, skrenda į mėnulį
Rež. Pawel Stec
UNITED KINGDOM – ANGLIJA
Vaidybinis – Animacinis, trukmė: 3:37
11. The Bear
Lokys
Rež. Avtandil Chachibaia
USA – JAV
Vaidybinis – Animacinis, trukmė: 9:57
16.00 val. Festivalio laureatų paskelbimas:
Geriausias forume “Gamtos dienos” sukurtas filmas.
Geriausias trumpo metražo filmas
Geriausias ilgo metražo filmas
Petro Abukevičiaus apdovanojimas
Geriausias festivalio filmas
17.00 val. Apdovanotų filmų peržiūra