FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA E SAÚDE MENTAL

This is the documentary which throws light upon a psychological phenomenon called sleep paralysis.

Lúcia, grávida de seu primeiro filho, está a preparar-se para ser mãe solteira.

Davi Mello nasceu em São Paulo em 20 de janeiro de 1993. Formou-se em Cinema na Universidade Anhembi Morumbi e possui vários curtas-metragens, totalizando mais de 40 festivais. Ele também é escritor, tendo algumas histórias curtas e poemas publicados em revistas especializadas.

Lúcia, pregnant with her first child, is preparing to be a single mother

Davi Mello was born in São Paulo on 20 January 1993. He graduated in Cinema in Anhembi Morumbi University and has several short films, totaling more than 40 festivals appearances. He is also a writer, having some short stories and poems published in specialized journals.

The Woman open the front door. Two man appears: "Good morning, my lady, we came to install fear."

Rir: movimento da boca e outras partes do rosto, que expressam felicidade. E se alguém não souber como fazê-lo?

SARA GARCIA

Começou a atuar aos 12 anos de idade. Ela participou em várias companhias de teatro. Em 2011, fez a sua estréia no grande ecrán.. Desde então participou numa série de curtas e longas metragens. Em 2017, decidiu fazer a sua primeira curta, desta vez atrás da câmera. Agelasta é a sua estreia como realizadora.

Laughter: Movement of the mouth and other parts of the face, that express happiness. What if someone doesn’t know how to do it?

Sara Gracia started acting at the age of 12. She participated in several theatre companies. In 2011, she made her acting debut for the big screen. Since then she has participated in a number of shortfilms and feature films. In 2017 she decided to make her first shortfilm, only this time behind the camera. Agelasta is her directional debut.

"É natural que quem quer "elevar-se" sempre mais, um dia acabe por ter vertigens. O que são vertigens? Medo de cair? Mas então porque é que temos vertigens num miradoiro protegido por um parapeito? As vertigens não são o medo de cair. É a voz do vazio por debaixo de nós que nos enfeitiça e atrai, o desejo de cair do qual, logo a seguir, nos protegemos com pavor." Milan Kundera, A Insustentável Leveza do Ser

SALOMÉ LOPES

Nasceu em Almada em 1998. Frequentou a Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio tendo concluído o Curso Artístico Especializado de Design de Comunicação. No entanto frequenta atualmente a licenciatura de Pintura na Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. O seu trabalho é variado no que diz respeito aos suportes, com especial interesse pelo audiovisual e pela instalação. 

Um homem, uma mulher.

Duas existências escapando umas das outras e se perdendo na dissensão de corpos, corações e vozes.

A man, a woman. 
Two existences escaping one another, and getting lost in the dissension of bodies, hearts, voices.

O filme “O Corpo em Terapia” - sete passos de um caminho de autoconhecimento, apresenta o processo terapêutico com abordagem Corporal Transpessoal, adotado com três pessoas em um intensivo terapêutico realizado durante uma semana com cada participante. O filme documenta a transformação de Roberta, Pedro e Tania, onde o diálogo da razão com o corpo nos permite visualizar o resgate da dimensão da transcendência e o encontro com nós mesmos.

The documentary reveals the therapeutic process adopted with three patients during an intensive therapeutic process, where the dialogue of reason with the body, allow us to see the rescue of their transcendent dimension and the encounter with themselves. 
The film shows us the journey of healing and self-awareness through art and body consciousness, dispensing the use of medicines because the overrun of each case comes from the person's internal strength. 

Marcia Paveck has a Bachelor Degree in Audiovisual Communications - Cinema Studies by UNISINOS (2005-2008). She began her career in 2008 and since then she works as a director of documentaries, assistant director in films and as a coach of actors. 

In 2013 she began her Postgraduation degree in Transpersonal Psychology in ALUBRAT - Campinas/ Brazil and graduated in 2015. She get especialized in Art Theraphy and Body Therapy. 

She majored in Renaissance Therapy by Escuela Conexión Consciente de Rebirthing Internacional España/ Spain, by Fanny Van Laere following the founder Leonard Orr. 

Marcia Paveck is also graduated in Dance by Beatriz and Ligia Gutierres Dance School of Porto Alegre, where she studied and practiced classical ballet and various types of dance from 1991 to 2004. 

Integrating all her repertoire in the visual and healing arts, she currently works as a body, transpersonal and rebirth therapist, based in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre. 

Marcia conducts group work facilitating self-awareness processes and consciousness awakening, as from the body and the arts. 

Laura é uma cantora jovem de inspiração budista. Ela está vive com psicose. Buddha of Superposition é um filme de ficção de 11 minutos que usa um design inovador de som e imagem para levar a audiência para dentro da doença mental de Laura e contar a história das suas tentativas de se medicar através da tecnologia, imaginação e religião. Desenvolvido em discussão com profissionais da Psicologia durante a captação e edição, Buddha of Superposition também tenta aumentar a consciência e a compreensão da doença mental. Leva-nos além das alucinações auditivas e visuais ao mundo interno da psicose.

Laura is a Buddhist and young aspiring dramatic-singer. She is living with psychosis. Buddha of Superposition is an 11-minute fictional film that uses innovative sound and visual design to take the audience inside Laura's mental illness and tell the story of her attempts to medicate through technology, imagination and religion. Developed in discussion with psychological professionals during shooting and editing, Buddha of Superposition also attempts to raise awareness and understanding of mental illness. It take us beyond audio and visual hallucinations to the inner world of psychosis.

ALEXIS KIRKE

Is a award-winning filmmaker whose work has been called “the future of film-making” by Movies.com and whose screenings invites include  BBC TV, NPR, Indiewire, Movies.com, El Pais, The Verge, Filmmaker, Stuff, The Times, Al Jazeera TV, Gizmodo, New Scientist, and Digital Filmmaker. Alexis has worked as a Project Manager and a Stock Market Analyst (where he developed some of the foundation concepts of the industry textbook ‘Optimal Trading Strategies’), and has published articles on Algorithmic Performance. He has completed two PhDs, one in Arts and one in Technology. Alexis is also poet and critic who has written for publications such as Terrible Work, Oasis, Tremblestone (UK) and Transmog (US). He has been invited to read at Glastonbury Festival, and was editor of the UK’s first poetry webzine ‘Brink’.

A ansiedade de Kate é esmagadora e pedir ajuda parece impossível. Uma exploração desta perturbação de humor muitas vezes esquecida e a coragem necessária para começar a enfrentá-la.

Kate's anxiety is overwhelming and to ask for help feels impossible. An exploration into this often overlooked mood disorder and the courage needed to begin to tackle it.

Infelizmente, a depressão ainda é vista com algum tabu e preconceito na nossa sociedade. O documentário "Clausura" (Encerramento) tem como proposta principal: conseguir quebrar esse estigma. Levando o público mais perto do tema, através da arte, onde artistas da cidade de São Paulo descrevem como é viver com a doença e como ela interfere nos seus processos criativos.

Unfortunately, the depression is still seen with some taboo and prejudice in our society. The documentary "Clausura" (Closure) has as main proposal: to be able to break such stigmas. Bringing the public closer to the theme, through art, where artists from the city of São Paulo describe how to live with the disease and how it interferes on the their creative processes.

MARIANA FRANÇA DE LIMA

Tem 29 anos, é natural de São Bernardo Campo, São Paulo, Brasil. Atriz, formada em Artes de Atuação pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo e pós-graduação em Gestão de Cultura do Senac University Centre de São Paulo. Ele trabalha na Os Satyros Theatre Company e participou de vários filmes curtos para cinema. O documentário Clausura é a sua primeira experiência como diretor de cinema.

29 years old, São Bernardo Campo, São Paulo, Brazil. Actress, graduated in Performing Arts from the Methodist University of São Paulo and postgraduate in Culture Management from the Senac University Center of São Paulo. He works at the Os Satyros Theater Company and has participated in several Short Films for Cinema. The documentary Clausura is her first experience as a film director.

Todos dizem que estamos a flutuar numa nuvem se seu filho acabou de nascer. Mas e se essa nuvem não for rosa, mas preta?

Depois que a filha nasceu, a documentarista Anne-Marieke Graafmans sofreu uma depressão pós-natal. Ela perdeu-se e lutou contra seu sofrimento e não amou o seu bebê. O mundo exterior não sabia dessa luta, apenas as pessoas mais próximas a ela. O tabu que cercava a depressão pós-parto impediu-a de falar sobre isso. Para criar mais atenção e compreensão para esse assunto, ela decidiu fazer um filme. CLOUD NINE é um documentário sobre a depressão pós-parto contada a partir da perspectiva de quatro famílias jovens. Um filme íntimo e sincero sobre o que é ter de lidar com isso.

"Eu não senti amor. Senti um grande ressentimento com ela. Eu senti raiva e raiva. Eu sabia que não era culpa dela, mas, ao mesmo tempo, eu sabia que a miséria em que eu estava começara depois que ela nasceu ".

Everyone says you’re floating on a cloud if your child has just been born. But what if this cloud is not pink, but pitch black?

After her daughter was born, documentary maker Anne-Marieke Graafmans ended up in a postnatal depression. She lost herself and fought against her grief and not loving her baby. The outside world didn’t know about this struggle, only those close to her. The taboo surrounding postnatal depression stopped her from talking about it. To create more attention and understanding for this subject, she decided to make a film about it. CLOUD NINE is a documentary about being in a postnatal depression told from the perspective of four young families. An intimate and candid film about what it’s like to have to deal with this.

“I didn’t feel love. I felt a lot of resentment towards her. I felt rage and anger. I knew it wasn’t her fault, but at the same time I knew that the misery I was in had started after she was born.”

Anne-Marieke Graafmans graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2011 with the short documentary ALS IK JOU NIET HAD. Anne-Marieke received several awards and nominations for this film, including Best Student Film at the IDFA. After graduating, she took part in the IDFA Summer School with her new film plan WHEN THE ICE MELTS and in the IDFA Mediafonds workshop with the project VOLGENS PROTOCOL, which was nominated for a Golden Calf award in 2015. In that same year she made the documentary WIBI SOERJADI, which garnered a lot of interest and will premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival.

Se não germinei, se fiquei por florescer, é porque me envenenaram as raízes. Eu sei que é falso, um erro provocado, mas... este sou eu.

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If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

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Partindo da montagem de imagens de arquivo, “Confidente” traça uma narrativa utilizando métodos de desconstrução do cinema experimental e associações de ideias próximas do surrealismo. Pela repetição obsessiva de sons e imagens é traçado um retrato psicológico de um homem, através de breves apontamentos associados a eventos passados.

From the editing of archive footage, “Confidente” traces its narrative using methods of deconstruction from experimental cinema and associations of ideas close to surrealism. An obsessive repetition of sounds and images is used to sketch out a psychological portrait of a man, in brief notes associated with past events.

O videoclipe conta a história de uma empresária que passa por uma situação inusitada. Após o seu automóvel estragar misteriosamente em frente a um parque de diversões, a criança interior que habita em seu coração decide entrar no parque, e como "Alice no País das Maravilhas", se aventura sem imaginar que acabou de ser transportada para um mundo fantástico povoado por Steampunks. O enredo está repleto de alusões sobre o maior questionamento da humanidade “Quem está no controle, você ou o destino?”

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The story of a businesswoman. After her automobile crash mysteriously in front of an amusement park, the inner child who lives in her heart, decides to enter the park, and just like "Alice in Wonderland," ventures without imagining that she has just been transported to a world Fantastic populated by Steampunks. The plot is replete with allusions about humanity's greatest questioning "Who is in control, you or fate?"

Doença mental - é algo que muitas vezes é considerado tabu. É algo em que as pessoas muitas vezes não querem falar ... algo que as pessoas às vezes fingem que não existe. No entanto, a doença mental é uma parte proeminente da minha vida, é parte de mim e é algo que penso em todos os dias. É por isso que escolhi adaptá-lo a uma animação CGI ou a uma "galeria" usando o software como se fosse um meio de arte. Trabalhei com metodologia experimental e não com o pipeline tradicional.

Mental illness - it’s something that is often considered taboo. It’s something people often do not want to talk about…something people sometimes pretend doesn’t exist. However, mental illness is a prominent part of my life, it is part of me and it is something that I think about every single day. That is why I chose to adapt it into a CGI animation or ‘gallery’ by using software as if it were a fine art medium. I worked with experimental methodology rather than the traditional pipeline.

My goal is to adapt some of the mental illnesses and disorders that I struggle with. I mostly focus on Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Generalised Anxiety Disorder. My project aims to personify these disorders in an ambiguous manner so each viewer has a unique interpretation after experiencing the film.

Deanna Crisbacher is an American student studying BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts at The University for the Creative Arts at UCA Rochester. After living in the New Jersey (USA) until the age of 16, she moved to the UK and studied A-Level Art, Textiles, and Business Studies at Anglo European School. She then pursued Fine Art at the Foundation program at UCA Canterbury before progressing onto the BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts course at UCA’s Rochester campus. Her passion and enthusiasm for creating art and films has allowed her to succeed in her studies.

Uma voz bonita nos vem do outro lado da eternidade deste filme sobre a vida da cantora irlandesa seminal Eithne Ní Uallacháin.

O filme segue Eithne, o seu marido, Gerry e sua banda, Lá Lugh, enquanto eles forjaram uma nova musica mundial influenciaram o som na música irlandesa tradicional, lançando três álbuns para aclamação da crítica.

Independentemente do sucesso, na década de 1990 Eithne estava a lutar com a depressão. Apesar da natureza debilitante de sua doença, ela estava determinada a aumentar sua produção criativa. Ela voltou ao estúdio para começar a trabalhar no seu primeiro álbum solo, mas antes do álbum estar completo, ela acabou com a sua vida em 1999, com apenas 42 anos.

No entanto, a família e os amigos de Eithne finalmente se aperceberam de sua visão musical ao lançar sua primeira gravação solo, Bilingua, em 2014, garantindo que o espírito e o talento de Eithne viverão para sempre.

A história de Eithne é contada da perspectiva íntima de familiares, amigos e colegas músicos. O filme foi dirigido e produzido por seu filho Feilimí O'Connor.

A beautiful voice comes to us from the other side of eternity in this moving film about the life of seminal Irish singer Eithne Ní Uallacháin.

The film follows Eithne, her husband Gerry and their band Lá Lugh as they forged a new world music influenced sound into traditional Irish music releasing three albums to critical acclaim. 
Regardless of success, by the 1990s Eithne was struggling with bouts of depression. Despite the debilitating nature of her illness, she was determined that her creative output would flourish. She returned to the studio to begin work on her first solo album but before the album was completed she took her own life in 1999, aged just 42.

However, Eithne's family and friends finally realised her musical vision in releasing her debut solo recording, Bilingua, in 2014 ensuring that Eithne's spirit and talent will live on forever. 
Eithne’s story is told from the intimate perspective of family, friends and fellow musicians. The film was directed and produced by her son Feilimí O’Connor.

Baseado nas histórias de vida de crianças com necessidades especiais, o documentário “Equoterapia - a esperança e vencer” mostra a importância deste método terapêutico que utiliza o cavalo dentro de uma abordagem multidisciplinar.

Embarcamos no emocionante relato de famílias e profissionais da área, para entender como a Equoterapia mudou a vida dessas crianças.

Twenty-something Ivor suffers from bipolar depressions and has psychotic episodes. In the Dutch documentary Everyday Madness Ivor looks for positive recovery in a world where depression and psychoses are commonplace. He fights his own everyday battle against his mental diseases, and against the current stigma. But what happens if his illness continues?

Entre o mar e o campo. Uma mulher, uma esposa, uma mãe. No silêncio da dor, uma esperança.

Between sea and land. One woman, one wife, one mother. In the silence of pain, one hope.

Tom, Brian and Milena live clockwork existences, dictated by a strict regime of medication and the challenging physical reality of living with Parkinson's. Meanwhile, a team of dedicated scientists in Galway are developing a new medical device, which could potentially halt or even cure the devastating disease. Woven together with observation and animation, the film invites us to witness the story of groundbreaking medical science taking place in Galway and the profound impact this will have on people with Parkinson's Disease both nationally and worldwide.

Tom, Brian e Milena vivem as existências do relógio, ditadas por um rigoroso regime de medicação e a desafiante realidade física de viver com Parkinson. Enquanto isso, uma equipe de cientistas dedicados em Galway está desenvolvendo um novo dispositivo médico, que poderia potencialmente parar ou mesmo curar a doença devastadora. Tecido junto com observação e animação, o filme convida-nos a testemunhar a história da ciência médica inovadora que ocorre em Galway e o impacto profundo que isto terá sobre as pessoas com doença de Parkinson, tanto a nível nacional como mundial.

Florence is a teenager enraptured by her unusual perception of the world. Socially maladapted, she is misdiagnosed and prescribed psychotropic medication.

Florence é ums adolescente encantada pela sua percepção incomum do mundo. Socialmente inadaptada, ela é diagnosticada e prescrita com medicação psicotrópica.

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Com humor e inteligência, 4 irmãs cantoras excêntricas da Lituânia exploram a vida, a morte e as atrocidades perpetradas pelo império soviético em toda a família.

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With humor and wit 4 eccentric singing sisters from Lithuania explore life, death, and the atrocities perpetrated by the Soviet empire upon their entire family.

Hum’ is an intimate portrait of artist and singer-songwriter, Kevin Nolan. Diagnosed at 19 years old with schizoaffective disorder - which has been described as the 'unhappy marriage of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder’ - Kevin has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for much of his adult life.

Although a self-described music lover since early childhood, Kevin’s relationship to music began to change after his diagnosis. Kevin soon discovered that writing and performing his music allowed him to regain some of the freedom he’d lost as a result of his illness. In spite of the on-going restrictions placed on him by his illness, Kevin has managed to forge a highly accomplished and undeniably original body of work.

Documenting both the day-to-day challenges of living with mental illness and the fascinating relationship between Kevin’s condition and his art, ‘Hum’ delves into the truly unique and theatrical world of Kevin Nolan.

Over the past few years, Nathan Fagan has directed a number of short documentary films. He also works as a freelance editor and videographer. His previous short documentary, 'Fallen Bird', won the Audience Award for Best Short Documentary at the IFI Documentary festival and screened at numerous festivals, both in Ireland and abroad.

Butembo, North Kivu, D.R. Congo While following Jemima, a little curious girl who wanders through dusty roads, crowded markets, slaughterhouses, furnaces and bat hunters we get acquainted with three women who describe the harsh realities of being born female and deaf in a society that discriminates against both women and people with disabilities.

The stories of Immaculée, Sylvie and Stuka are stories of everyday struggle against marginalization, abuse and oppression, but despite the insurmountable obstacles imposed on them by society, the protagonists show us how their strong and undefeated will allows them to take hold of their fate every single day and reveals the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.

ANTÓNIO SPANÒ

After graduating from the University of Siena, Antonio Spanò decided to leave a career in law behind in order to pursue his love for documentary filmmaking. His first experience as an independent filmmaker was in Kurdistan, Iraq when he was 22 years old. 
His previous films The Silent Chaos and Animal Park both set in Congo, won many awards in 2013-2014. Both films are a Journeyman Pictures exclusive international distribution and have been broadcasted in many countries around the world. 
Antonio currently works as a freelance camera operator and has traveled to Afghanistan, Libya and Haiti working for TV productions (RAI, MTV), reportages and film productions.

Jonas, um morador de rua que caminha pelas sombras da solidão, espera seu fim enquanto convive com o sofrimento e a dor de suas lembranças.

A homeless man walking through his loneliness shadows, wait for his end, living with suffering and pain of his memories.

"Laika Stardust" é um filme experimental rodado na casa de uma família italiana da classe alta, num futuro não muito distante. Cada membro da família é cativado pelo uso da tecnologia, quase ao ponto de obsessão. O título do filme é o nome do videogame jogado pela criança na família. Quando a criança fica gravemente doente, a sua mãe começa a desvendar e descobrimos a verdade escondida por trás de seu coração ...

"Laika Stardust" is an experimental film set in the household of an upper class Italian family, in the not-too-distant future. Each family member is captivated by their use of technology, almost to the point of obsession. The title of the film is the name of the video game played by the child in the family. When the child becomes seriously ill, his mother begins to unravel and we discover the hidden truth behind her heartbreak…

Antonin Bobo is an Italian perfomer,he was born on 23.12.1986 in Pescara, Italia, and then he moved to Rome following his passion: theatre and cinema. FILMOGRAPHY: 2016 - "Laika Stardust", short film / debut New Reinassance Film Festival, Best International Short Film Prize (2016, Great Britain, London) 30under30 Film Festival, Best DoP Prize (2016, USA, New York) Pietrasanta Film Festival, Best Short Film Prize (2016, Italy, Pietrasanta)

ike I'm Flying is a documentary film that explores the amazing power of dance and movement. True health lies at the intersection of the body and mind and dance is a compelling force that can align these elements in harmony. This film is a testament to the power of movement and its ability to transform the lives of individuals and communities.

Dance/movement therapy transform lives is primarily about forging a healing relationship where movement and dance are the media, just as words are the medium in verbal psychotherapy.

Lúcio vive tranquilamente em seu mundo até que uma noite é incomodado pelo barulho da vizinha de cima

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Um idoso construiu cinco palcos de teatro num grande armazém. Agora ele olha para a reconstituição das mais lindas lembranças de sua vida, para que ele possa sentir como ele fez quando sua esposa ainda estava viva.

An old man has build five theater stages in a large warehouse. Now he looks at the reenactment of the most beautiful memories of his live, so he can feel like he did when his wife was still alive.

O nosso trabalho pode durar uma vida. Este foi o caso de Lurdes e da ''sua'' Lavandaria do Idoso, um espaço onde se lava e engoma a roupa às pessoas mais velhas do concelho de Almada. A escassos meses da sua reforma, acompanhamos Lurdes e os seus últimos dias na lavandaria.

Our work can last a lifetime. This was the case of Lurdes and “her'' Laundry of the Elderly, a space where the clothes of the elderly in the municipality of Almada are washed and ironed. A few months before her retirement, we accompany Lurdes and her last days at the laundry.

Pedro Ramalho Marques trabalha em televisão e publicidade desde 2004, tendo iniciado o seu percurso como assistente de produção. Depois de vários anos a trabalhar nessa área, a partir de 2008 começou a trabalhar regularmente como editor de imagem, tendo tido a oportunidade de editar vários tipos de formatos televisivos: reportagens, grandes-reportagens, magazines, documentários, reality shows, videoclips, anúncios, vídeos institucionais, entre outros. A possibilidade de experimentar todos estes formatos e as diferenças e semelhanças nas abordagens narrativas de cada um é algo que o fascina. Este é o seu primeiro trabalho como realizador de documentário.

Pedro Ramalho Marques has been working in television and advertising since 2004, having started his career as a production assistant. After several years working in this area, from 2008 he began to work regularly as an image editor, having had the opportunity to edit several types of television formats: reports, large-reports, magazines, documentaries, reality shows, video clips, advertisements, institutional videos, among others. The possibility of experiencing all these formats and the differences and similarities in each one's narrative approaches fascinates him. This is his first job as a documentary filmmaker.

Hugo, um novo escritor, apresenta seu primeiro romance numa conferência de imprensa. Lá, ele conhece uma jornalista que se sente atraída pela história por trás do seu livro. Devido a este interesse, eles acabam tendo uma conversa com uma cumplicidade tão inesperada, que poderia causar uma mudança em ambas as vidas.

O realizador e guinista Toni Morejon nasceu em Barcelona em 1990. Depois de estudar Comunicação Audiovisual, começou a fazer filmes curtos de forma amadora.

Após a estréia de "Vacuity", a sua primeira curta-metragem, selecionada em vários festivais internacionais, ficou imerso em seu trabalho mais importante e pessoal até a data, "Midnight". Desta vez com um orçamento, recursos profissionais e tempo para realizar.

Atualmente, "Midnight" está em processo de distribuição por festivais em todo o mundo.

Hugo, a new writer, presents his first novel at a press conference. There he meets a work placement journalist who feels attracted by the story behind his book. Due to this interest, they end up having a conversation with such an unexpected complicity, that it could cause a change in both of their lives.

The director and screenwriter Toni Morejon was born in Barcelona in 1990. After having studied Audiovisual Communication, he started making short films in an amateur way. 
After the premiere of "Vacuity", his first short film, selected at several international festivals, he got immersed on his most important and personal work to date, "Midnight". This time with a budget, professional resources and time to carry out. 
Currently, “Midnight” is in the process of being distributed by festivals around the world. 

She’s young. She’s in trouble. She’s staring at the mirror looking for answers. But what she's about to find can change her life.

Sara Eustáquio, born in September 1999, is a Portuguese young filmmaker who currently lives in Los Angeles. She is a BFA student majoring Film and Video at CalArts (California Institute of The Arts).

Passionate about photography and movies since the childhood, she shot at 14, in Portugal, her first short film, "Elizabeth" (about teenage bullying), with a small digital camera. The project began as a simple artistic presentation for an English class in high school. The enthusiasm with which it was received led her to upload it on YouTube. Surprisingly, the homemade video reached over 10,000 views in the first days (http://youtu.be/qjYyB8MQZQU).

After that, she started becoming involved in some local school and youth associations' video productions.

In May 2016, at 16, Sara released "4242", her first short fiction narrative film, also produced in Portugal. So far, "4242" got 50 awards, 27 nominations and was officially selected for 148 international film festivals in 36 countries (http://youtu.be/oemLpOFHnnE).

In August 2016, she successfully completed an intensive summer program in filmmaking at New York Film Academy, in New York City, where she made her second narrative fiction, the micro short mystery film "Mirror" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5958158). So far, "Mirror" got 62 awards, 21 nominations and was officially selected for 142 international film festivals in 27 countries (http://youtu.be/BV8VQ94ecsg).

In October 2016, Sara wrote a short script entitled "Neverland". So far, the screenplay got 1 award, 1 nomination and was officially selected for 6 international film festivals in 3 countries.

In November 2016, Sara was awarded a medal of merit by the mayor of her hometown, Torres Vedras, for her remarkable personal achievements in filmmaking. In January 2017, Sara was awarded another prize of merit by the board of her high school, Escola Secundaria Henriques Nogueira, for her remarkable personal achievements in filmmaking and inspirational path for Portuguese students.

In April 2017, she was awarded a scholarship by the Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation for her college studies.

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« Je t’écris dans un souffle. Ma vie, elle peut s’envoler si je ne me bats pas. Contre moi, contre ce vent. Avec toi, je pourrais braver des tempêtes. Pour toi, je pourrais braver des tempêtes. Parce que demain je ne sais pas où je serai, dans un souffle, je t’envoie tout mon amour. J’espère que le vent l’emportera… »
Ma sœur a 15 ans lorsqu’elle m’écrit ces mots. Elle souffre alors d’anorexie. Dix ans après, nous
revenons sur cette période de notre vie qui nous a profondément liées et marquées.

"I write to you in a breath. My life, it can fly away if I do not fight. Against me, against this wind. With you, I could brave storms. For you, I could brave storms. Because tomorrow I do not know where I will be, in a breath, I send you all my love. I hope the wind will prevail ... "
My sister is 15 when she writes these words to me. She suffered from anorexia. Ten years later, we come back to this period of our life which has deeply connected and marked us.

The precipitous fall of an achiever and his inability to work: the psychiatric diagnosis reads «depressive exhaustion», the symptom commonly known as «burnout». But the time period after the major collapse often proves to be even more insidious, as is portrayed by Matthias N.’s story. In the course of his nearly two-year healing process, the former manager’s fear of failing again in his profession triggers recurrences of new minor «burnouts». Will he ever find his way again in the working context?

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Nos últimos tempos tem havido um aumento crescente e silencioso de ataques de pânico e pertubações da ansiedade numa alta percentagem da população. A partir de uma montagem poética e científica, este documentário analisa o impacto sobre a mente humana da sociedade em que vivemos. Um sujeito dominado pelo terror, a solidão, o individualismo e medicado com drogas psicoativas, é imobilizado para reagir social e politicamente.

In recent times there has been a growing and silent progress of panic attacks and anxiety disorders in a high percentage of the population. From a poetic and scientific montage, this documentary analyzes the impact on the human mind of the society in which we live. A subject dominated by terror, loneliness, individualism and medicated with psychoactive drugs, is immobilized to react socially and politically.

Mother and son wander through the city.
Already have nowhere to live or what to eat. But it does not matter, what matters is to appear normal. Show others what you would like to be even if you aren’t. Important is what it seems, not what it is.

Born in 1973 in Germany.

Master degree in Production, Editing and Communication of Multimedia Content from the University of Algarve.

Teaches the disciplines of Photography and Multimedia in public education.

Directed the short film "Mister Valéry" the homonymous work by Gonçalo M. Tavares. "Mr. Valéry" had its first public performance at Fnac Chiado in Lisbon with live soundtrack by Carlos Bica. Among other awards this film won first place at the festival Farcume 2012.
He has also made several micro-short films and won the first prize at the one minute festival in Brazil with the film "The Bicycle", based on "Short Movies" by Gonçalo M. Tavares.

More recently made three documentaries about the Algarve mountains for the Performing Arts Center of the Algarve with the meetings of DeVir 2012. 

In the two last years, directed the shorts “Lúcio” and “Planets aren’t going anywhere” selected and shown in Fantasporto Festival 2013 and 2014 respectly.

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Sem esperança. Uma vida arruinada por um grande desgosto. Sem caminho de retorno. Uma maré cheia de medicamentos, sem utilidade para um estado psíquico complexo.
Três actrizes espelham os pensamentos de uma mulher anónima, que afunda numa depressão profunda, suicida e sem regresso. Representada por estados de consciência e inconsciência, de memória e esquecimento, de confusão e de tomadas de decisão, uma mulher é perspectivada do seu interior, na sua forma mais cruel de sofrimento e de fragilidade. Perdida no limbo do real e do fabricado pela sua mente doente, esta mulher constrói a sua autodestruição de forma compulsiva, alheia a tudo o que a rodeia, vivendo os espaços como vazios de memória.

A depressão nervosa afeta algumas mentes adolescentes, muitas vezes de forma tão subtil que mesmo os parentes mais chegados e amigos pensam: “é só uma fase”, “é da idade”. O desafio para as jovens actrizes consiste num alerta para a sua geração, para as depressões que são fabricadas em lume brando e com as quais convivemos sem saber. Estarmos atentos e sermos felizes, é uma missão de vida.

Uma visita ao meu avô no seu lar de idosos.

Jenae Hall é uma animadora de Hobart, Tasmânia. Está actualmente no seu último ano de Bacharel em Animação de Belas Artes no Victorian College of the Arts. Seus filmes de animação stop-motion foram exibidos em festivais em todo o mundo.

A visit to my Grandad in his nursing home.

Jenae Hall is an animator from Hobart, Tasmania. She is currently studying in her final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts Animation at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her stop-motion animated films have been screened in festivals globally.

O personagem principal é o Max de quinze anos. Procura o motivo pelo qual ele não consegue atender às expectativas de seu pai. O menino procura a ajuda de um terapeuta. Enquanto isso, o terapeuta não toma a questão a sério. Ele descarta as preocupações de Max levando-as como parte do comportamento dramático que um adolescente típico tem. Embora, após o terapeuta ouvir a história de Max sobre uma viagem de caminhada na floresta que o menino uma vez levou com seu pai, fica claro que o problema é real e é o pai de Max. Finalmente, o terapeuta decide que a única maneira para o pai reconhecer seus erros é se ele se colocou nos sapatos de Max e se ele tenta olhar para o mundo da mesma maneira que Max faz.

The main character is a fifteen-year-old Max. He is looking for the reason to why he can’t meet his father’s expectations. The boy is seeking for the help of a therapist. Meanwhile, the therapist doesn’t take the issue seriously. He dismisses Max’s worries by taking them as part of dramatic behavior that a typical teenager has. Although, after the therapist hears Max’s story about a hiking trip in the forest that the boy once took with his father, it gets clear that the problem is real and it’s Max’s dad. Finally, the therapist decides that the only way for the dad to acknowledge his mistakes is if he puts himself in Max’s shoes and if he tries to look at the world in the same way that Max does.

Ignat Kachan was born on June 16, 1992 in Minsk, Belarus. He studied at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, as an actor of drama theater and films, in 2011 (at the end of the second year) he left his studies and started studying camerawork and directing skills on his own. In 2013 he began to shoot social advertising and art commercials. . In 2014 he founded the film studio named BK Films. In 2016 Ignat made a short film "Under the canopy of trees". Now he working as a writer and director.

A two-minute short film about a young woman experiencing music through a psychotic phase.

Em Marselha, longe dos holofotes, Eric Alcala pinta incansavelmente os seus sonhos e medos. No meio de uma separação com o seu parceiro vitalício, ele também está percebe que ele pode ser bipolar. Desesperadamente procurando respostas, visita vários terapeutas com opiniões divergentes; do seu médico, ao seu psicólogo, a um curandeiro. Entediado, ele é incapaz de se unir para se preparar para uma próxima exposição de arte. Através de sua criatividade, ele externaliza sua dor, ele a chama de "doença que cura", mas em que medida?

Eric é espirituoso e cativante, seu humor o salva de uma melancolia. Com leveza, o filme entre o passado e a condição presente com insônia, fibromialgia e instabilidade mental. Um eterno marginalizado social, suas experiências de infância são os alicerces de sua arte ingênua e comprometida. Um homem que se esforça para avançar no mundo da arte, ao tentar realinhar sua mente, corpo e alma turbulentas - a própria fonte de sua criatividade.

In Marseilles, away from the spotlight, Eric Alcala paints restlessly his dreams and fears. In the midst of a breakup with his lifelong partner, he is also realising that he might be bipolar. Desperately seeking for answers, he visits multiple therapists with diverging opinions; from his doctor, to his psychologist, to a healer. Overwhelmed, he is unable to pull himself together to prepare himself for an upcoming art exhibition. Through his creativity, he externalises his pain, he calls it the “illness that heals” , but to what extent? 

Eric is witty and endearing, his humour saves him from drifting in melancholy. With lightness, the film weaves between his past and his present condition with insomnia, fibromyalgia and mental instability. An eternal social outcast, his childhood experiences are the foundations of his naïve yet engaged art. A man striving to breakthrough on the art world, while attempting to realign his troubled mind, body and soul – the very source of his creativity.

very autumn I get heavily moody. This is caused by the loss of the light. 
Last summer I heard from the radio a tune called " the House of the Rising Sun ". 

At once I was on a wintery road, with a very low light - and having an impossible opponent against me – Lee Van Cleef .

I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland in 1997 – sculpture as main interest. It consisted of four years of very classical approach to the art – sculpting and drawing live model mainly.I now consider that simplified method as the greatest ability to deepen one’s perception on arts of any kind.That is persistent concentration on the subject.

After school for 3-4 years I went through a drawingproject to study more improvisationary aspect of doing art. As being a very thorough person that produced more than a thousand pieces of drawings. 
After a long period of depression, five years and during which I couldn’t make any artistic efforts whatsoever, I fell into photographing. At the moment, photographing has emerged to a moving phase - to a journey through short films.

Laura e Richard são conhecidos de uma festa; Foi desde aí desencadeada uma faísca que os leva a namorar assiduamente. Os dois aparentemente parecem muito felizes e apaixonados, tanto que decidem viver juntos, mas Richard é revelado quase que imediatamente altamente ciumento, possessivo e violento. Comece as primeiras brigas dentro da casa, ela enfrenta ataques quase diários junto com ameaças de morte. Laura não pode acreditar que o homem que parecia amá-la tanto, agora se transformou em um indivíduo tão maligno e perverso. Durante uma noite sem dormir, sozinha na cama, pense nos momentos felizes passados ​​com ele, mas essas lembranças doces são imediatamente interrompidas por amargas lembranças e experiências dolorosas relacionadas a incidentes de violência. Eu agito fortemente a consciência das lembranças de Laura que decidem, na manhã seguinte, chamar a anti-violência central. A mulher está sendo recebida nos escritórios do centro de aconselhamento por um psicólogo e um advogado que conta sua triste história. O vídeo termina com uma "recuperação total" alternada com os extremos extremos de um grupo de mulheres (algumas das quais são verdadeiramente vítimas de perseguição e violência), que ofereceram sua imagem para despertar a consciência de outras mulheres que sofreu e sofreu violência, visando promover uma campanha de denúncia e conscientização contra a violência contra a mulher.

Laura and Richard are known to a Party; each other immediately triggered a spark that leads them dating assiduously. The two apparently seem very happy and in love, so much that they decide to live together, but Richard is revealed almost immediately highly jealous, possessive and violent. Begin the first quarrels within the home, she faces almost daily beatings along with death threats. Laura can not believe that the man who seemed to love her so much, now has turned into an individual so evil and wicked. During a sleepless night, alone in bed, think about the happy moments spent with him, but those sweet memories are immediately broken by bitter memories and distressing experiences related to incidents of violence. I strongly shake the conscience of Laura memories that decides the next morning to call the central anti-violence. The woman is being received at the offices of the counseling center by a psychologist and a lawyer that tells his sad story. The video ends with a "total recovery" alternated with the extreme close-ups of a group of women, (some of which are truly victims of stalking and violence), who have volunteered their image in order to arouse the conscience of other women who have suffered and suffer violence, aiming to promote a campaign of denunciation and awareness against violence against women.

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DANIEL MERCATALI

Daniel was born in Faenza Mercatali March 9, 1985 by a photographer father, who later became known in the photo as the winner of several national and international competitions. 

In 2003 he qualifies in Kitchen and Pastry at the 'Cesenatico hotel management school. 

Since 2008 he began to work turning many videos in which puts into practice the techniques of photography taught by his father; since then in 2011 produced the short films: "The infamous" and "Hope of Tomorrow" will present at the Festival "Cinema Avvenire of Rome" in 2011 was selected in the Official Selection. 
In 2011 he started working for Teleromagna specialized in shooting and editing video. 

In 2012 presents the short film "Hope of Tomorrow" to an International Festival A Film For Peace "was selected in the Official Selection. 

Since 2012 he is passionate and dedicated to the social and decides to produce the documentary film "Dead Soul" which deals with the issue of stalking, screened in cinemas in Emilia Romagna in 2015. That same year, produces and distributes a music video titled " Dead soul " from the soundtrack of the documentary film as a spin off of the same, sponsored by several Italian municipalities that have screened in cinemas, theaters, community centers, libraries, film libraries, tourism buildings and town halls on the occasion of November 25 . 

In 2015 the broadcaster Teleromagna projects the video calling on the director and the main actors in the studio during an episode dedicated to the theme of violence against women, for 2016 schools of the various regions that have joined and supported the project have already set a tight schedule of screenings in the classroom. 
Following produces the short-movie "Unhealthy Love" always with thematic paid to violence against women and the short film "Butterflies in the dark", from a strictly social content that deals with the sensitive issue of blindness, due out for the year in progress through film circuits.

Sabrina é uma jovem costureira que vive em sua casa bagunçada, cercada por manequins, tecidos e móveis antigos. O ambiente bagunçado se opõe à arrumação obsessiva dentro de suas gavetas e poltronas. Pierrecat é seu animal de estimação, com o qual ela compartilha tudo: vida privada, trabalho, alegrias e preocupações. Madame Dusseux é a figurinista de Sabrina, uma mulher com uma forma imponente que invade a casa de Sabrina muito cedo. Sabrina pânico pela visita inesperada de Madame Dusseux em sua casa. O que acontecerá em sua cabeça?

Sabrina is a young dressmaker who lives in her messy house, surrounded by mannequins, fabrics and old furniture. The messy environment opposes the obsessive tidiness inside her drawers and armchairs. Pierrecat is her pet, with which she shares everything: private life, work, joys, and worries. Madame Dusseux is Sabrina’s costumer, a woman with an imposing shape who breaks into Sabrina’s house too early. Sabrina panics over Madame Dusseux’s unexpected visit in her house. What will happen in her head?

Desde há cinco anos, Vivian, a irmã da realizadora Ingrid Kamerling, não está mais. O que aconteceu com ela? Neste documentário criativo, Ingrid Kamerling explora o que aconteceu com Vivian. Ela tenta entrar na cabeça de sua irmã, por meio de material de arquivo, material que ela filmou pouco depois da morte de sua irmã, entrevistas com amigos de Vivian e imagens das pessoas que ficaram para trás. Ela tenta conhecer Vivian pela forma como as pessoas a conhecem. As imagens abordam a realidade e a imaginação, subconsciência, sonhos e pensamentos. O filme registra o eco da existência de Vivian; em suas coisas restantes, os espaços onde ela morava, nas lembranças das pessoas, a estrada que ela levou para sua última ação.
Durante o Festival de Cinema Holandês 2013, Ingrid Kamerling foi selecionada pelo Dutch Film Fund como um dos três talentosos jovens cineastas na Holanda, com base em seu filme de graduação na St. Joost Art Academy em Breda. Recebeu um "Cartão Selvagem" de € 40.000, - para desenvolver ainda mais seu filme. "Dentro da cabeça da minha irmã" é o resultado disso. O Fundo VSB apoia o filme com uma concessão adicional.

Vivian, Vivian é produzida por Basalt Film
Este filme é suportado por um Wildcard pelo Netherlands Film Fund e VSB Fund

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Since five years Vivian, the sister of director Ingrid Kamerling, is no more. What happened to her? 
In this creative documentary, Ingrid Kamerling explores what happened to Vivian. She tries to get inside the head of her sister, by way of archival material, material she filmed shortly after the death of her sister, interviews with friends of Vivian and images of the people that were left behind. She tries to come to know Vivian by how people have known her. The images touch upon reality and imagination, sub consciousness, dreams and thoughts. The film records the echo of Vivian's existence; in her remaining stuff, the spaces where she lived, in the memories of people, the road she took to her last deed.



During the Dutch Film Festival 2013, Ingrid Kamerling was selected by the Dutch Film Fund as one of the three most talented young filmmakers in the Netherlands, based on her graduation film at the St. Joost Art Academy in Breda. She received a 'Wild Card' of € 40.000, - to further develop her film. "Inside my sister’s head" is the result of that. The VSB Fund supports the film with an additional grant.

Vivian, Vivian is produced by Basalt Film

This film is supported with a Wildcard by the Netherlands Film Fund and VSB Fund

Vincent ouve vozes e maravilhas de onde elas vieram. Guiado por dois psiquiatras idosos e os tons de seu Sarangi, ele começa uma busca dentro de si mesmo. As vozes são alucinações ou espíritos de outro mundo?

Vincent hears voices and wonders where they come from. Guided by two elderly psychiatrists and the tones of his Sarangi, he starts a search within himself. Are the voices hallucinations or spirits from another world?

Maarten Kal is fascinated by characters who explore the twilight zone between philosophy and foolishness. Having a background in visual anthropology, Maarten worked on several creative documentaries both as a director and a cinematographer. Voices of Vincent is Maarten Kal’s film festival debut.