Synopsis
La Herida Luminosa
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloudcovered kingdom.
Eeva
It’s pouring down with rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
Chhngai Dach Alai
A young indigenous Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural village in northeastern Cambodia, before an impending move to the capital city in search of a more prosperous life.
Back
A chase, footsteps closing in; as you approach your house, it moves further away.
CHRISTIAN AVILÉS
Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1997, he’s a writer and composer. He studied a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Media in Escac university, specializing in Direction. LA HERIDA LUMINOSA, is his final degree project and his first short film, a fiction in which he delves into themes of teenage spirituality, magic and suicide - International premiere in the 73rd Berlinale Shorts Competition.
Morten Tšinakov
Morten studied animation in Estonian Academy of Arts and made two films in the process. After his studies he has been working in Eesti Joonisfilm where he directed three films together with Lucija Mrzljak – DEMONSTRATION OF BRILLIANCE IN FOUR ACTS, THE STORK and EEVA.
Lucija Mrzljak
Lucija Mrzljak (1990, Zagreb) is a Croatian animation film director and illustration artist based in Tallinn Estonia. In 2016. she completed her MA in animation in Estonia as a student of Priit and Olga Pärn. Her student films SHUMA and KUT were screened and awarded at numerous film festivals around the world. Since 2016 she co-directed three short films in collaboration with Morten Tšinakov in Eesti Joonisfilm studio in Tallinn and Adriatic Animation studio in Zagreb: DEMONSTRATION OF BRILLIANCE IN FOUR ACTS, THE STORK, EVA. In 2019 she collaborated with Oscar winning musician Glen Hansard, directing a music video THE CLOSING DOOR. Besides animation Lucija works as a freelance illustrator, she published several illustrated books for children in collaboration with Estonian authors and has exhibited illustrations at numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe and Russia. She is a guest teacher at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts, teaching animation and illustration.
Polen Ly
Polen Ly paused his studies in medicine to pursue his filmmaking path in 2012. He has directed several shorts and documentaries, which explore social issues related to the environment, human rights, including LGBT+ and indigenous experiences. FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY, received the SEA-Shorts grant from Singapore International Film Festival. Polen is now in early production on his first full-length documentary, THE TONGUE OF WATER, which has received funding from IDFA (Netherlands), DMZ Docs (South Korea), and the Sundance Institute (USA).
Yazan Rabee
Yazan Rabee (1994) was born in Syria and fled to the Netherlands in 2016, with the singular goal to become a filmmaker. Six years later he graduated from film school and went on to release two short films nearly simultaneously: fiction short BEYOND THE SUN, Official selection Netherlands Film Festival 2022, about the brainwashing program of the Syrian regime, and BACK, Official selection Netherlands Film Festival 2022, Official selection Berlinale Shorts Competition 2023, an introspective documentary about a recurring nightmare shared by many Syrians who have fled their homeland. In his work, which spans the range from fiction to documentary and often intertwines the two, he chooses to focus on mentally and socially damaged persons, often drawing from his own memories and dreams.
