Réalisatrice, Scénariste, Assistante à la réalisation, Productrice exécutive, Scripte

“Céline” : Clotilde Hesme
“Jeanne” : Laetitia Dosch

Directed & written by : Alice Douard
Producer : Marie Boitard et Alice Douard / Les Films de June

Elise Gaiardo is a French director and screenwriter. After a career in the advertising agency, Publicis, she quit to open up to the world of Film making and began her career in Paris as an actress. There, she discovered acting and directing. In Los Angeles, she ran her own production company, The Wild and The Free Inc., and wrote the TV show CONFUSED, for which she produced and directed the 45-minute pilot. CONFUSED was nominated for the NEW YORK TELEVISION FESTIVAL and won the CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL CULT FILM FESTIVAL. In Los Angeles, Elise also produced music videos, commercials and developed her One Woman Show. She wrote a mini-series concept for CANAL+ and the Accor Hotels. Since her return to France, Elise has been developing a new TV show: JULIETTE (10×26), a feature film and has just shot the short film BIGGER (10 min). The theme running through all her films is freedom. Elise loves the extraordinary in the ordinary. She creates strong, intimate worlds, where aesthetics reveal the uniqueness of the human being, often with a touch of humor.

“Le livreur” : Sofiane Chalal
“La cliente” : Kelina Riva

Directed & written by : Elise Gaiardo
Producer : Khalide Tahhar & Stephen Cafiero
Avec le soutien de Sézane

Jingshu Lu

In 2020, my father, who had been divorced for many years and lived in other places, returned to Shenzhen from Dalian to live permanently. It was also at this time that the Covid-19 just came. After school started, I didn’t go back to school and I asked my father to go to the beach every weekend. We have changed from seeing only two or three times a year to once a week for a small trip, and our relationship has become closer. The feelings that used to be as light as ordinary friends have become complicated and deeper. I realized the responsibility and fetters of my father, and there is a subtle difference between getting along with friends. One weekend I went diving on a whim. This was the first time I went into the sea after seven or eight years. Over the years, I have always been fear of drowning because my father pushed me too excitedly into the deep waves when I was a child. Swimming in the sea is psychological trauma. So going into the sea this time was a kind of impulse for me. Why did I suddenly want to go into the sea? I pointed this vague answer to the sense of security that my father and I have deepened our bond. During the diving process, I was first afraid and difficult to adapt, and then excitedly explored the beautiful scenery in front of me, and experienced the feeling of fear and excitement intertwined. After going ashore, I hadn’t taken off my surfing suit and was still reluctant to part with it. The boss lent me a surfboard. As a lazy person, I just lay on it and let the waves push me to float, from the sea to the shore, over and over again. Indulging in the buoyancy it holds me up, I feel that that kind of floating brings me an unparalleled peace in my life. Peace is a more vast force, and the state of insensibility is beyond life and death. Just like the ocean behind it, it also has some kind of natural and mysterious power, and it is the place where life on earth is born and destroyed. When people see the sea, they will have two feelings, one is that the sea is unpredictable, boundless, and even a little scary; the other is to feel the majesty and majesty of the sea, and the infinite energy it contains. These two feelings are like the two phases of Avalokitesvara, compassion and wrathful Vajra, all in the mind of the viewer. These two characters of the sea first dispel people’s self-consciousness, which can form a strong reversal and constitute drama. This made me think about how to construct the conflicting opposites of this story: the terminally ill and the surfing full of vitality, the father who refused to give up and the daughter who returned to peace.
The film is based on the aesthetic awareness of wabi-sabi, which generally refers to things that are simple and quiet. It comes from the general three dharma seals of Hinayana Buddhism (all actions are impermanent, all dharmas have no self, and Nirvana is peaceful), especially impermanence. Wabi is the integration of simple beauty in simplicity and tranquility, and sabi is the luster of time. The film runs through the concept of continuation of time, impermanent fate and calm and light choice, remembrance and letting go.
The keynote of the video can refer to that summer, the tranquil sea. Contrary to explicit, direct, and sharp emotional expressions, it is graceful, serene, and soft. Such as “the place where the clouds are full of spring flowers”. There is silence accompanied by faint shadows, as Ya Changming said, “In the autumn sky and evening, there is no news.” Especially early morning scenes.

“The father” : Junyu Tao
“The daughter” : Yeer Yang

Directed by : Jingshu Lu
Producer : Qi Yang
Director of Photography : Evan Feng

Junior Malta is a director and cinematographer working in film and advertising for over 20 years. He grew up around film sets. Since a very age, Junior would shadow his father, who is a well known gaffer in the industry. Hence his passion for lights and shadows. Junior graduated in Cinematography at Maine Media College. Junior has worked in over 60 Brazilian and international film, and hundred of commercials.

“Marcão” : André Ramiro
“Mendes” : Marcello Gonçalves
“Jairzão” : Miguel Nader

Directed & written by : Ulisses Malta Jr. & Gustavo Azevedo Santos
Producer : Ulisses Malta Jr., Gustavo Souza, Rodrigo  Conceição 

Hannah Elbke

Hannah Elbke is an exciting up-and-coming director who graduated from the esteemed Danish Film School Super16. Her graduation film “Wild Minds” just won a Robert at the Danish Film Academy for ‘Best Short film – fiction and animation’. Hannah has worked as the director at the tv-series Akavet llll at DR Ultra and as the director’s assistant on the popular Netflix tv-series The Rain. Her short film BLEED was nominated for a danish Film Academy Award last year and her first documentary “The Healing”, which she co-directed and co-edited, premiered at CPH:DOX ‘21. At the moment she is developing her first feature film.

Hannah’s work often centers around loneliness versus being part of a community and the threshold between action and passivity. She is passionate about creating universes that question, what we perceive as normal. Hannah loves to bring humour into her work through absurd and awkward situations that makes you want to laugh eventhough the topic is serious. She finds it important to tell about topics that make the audience reflect on how they encounter and engage with the world.

“Bella” : Signe Egholm Olsen
“Daniel” : Elias Budde Christensen

Director : Hannah Elbke
Writers : Hannah Elbke & Henrik Binger
Producer : Johannes Rothaus Nørregaard & Laura Valentiner-Bohse

Jawad Maakor & René Huwaë

“Firas” : Yassine Fadel
“Karam” : Mohammed Azaay
“Alya” : Seloua M’Hamdi
“Sylvia” : Daniela Zacherl
“Nine” : Solace Lawrence

Directed by : Jawad Maakor & René Huwaë
Written by : Jawad Maakor
Producer : Jawad Maakor & René Huwaë

Wong Hei-ji : Aaric Yim Sheung-chi
Mimi : Boggs Sarinna Hoiching
Sam : Kelvin Chan Kin-long
Ji’s Mum : Luna Shaw Mei-kwan

Written by : Jomin Chan Po-man
Written by : Jomin Chan Po-man, Kung Siu-ping
Producer : Jomin Chan Po-man, Elson Chan Tsz-yan, Wylie Chan Wai-yee, Sam Ip Siu-chung, Una Wang Oi-mai

Romuald Boulanger is a writer and producer, known for Pokers (2014), Like Me (2016) and Mère et Fille, California Dream (2016).

Elvis : William Baldwin
Gary : Paul Spera
Mary : Vanessa Guide
Dylan : Tom Hudson

Written and Directed by : Romuald Boulanger
R-LINES PRODUCTIONS

Micah Doye

Writer, director, producer and actor

James Laker ( the insecure young man) : Torren Simonsz
Gerard (the doctor! : Anthony Wise

 

 

 

Written and Directed by : Micah Doye
Produced by : Seth Somers, Torren Simonsz, Micah Doye
Director of Photography : Lorena Pagés

Suzanne Andrews Correa

Green:Erol Afsin
Abi: Aziz Çapkurt

Directer : Suzanne Andrews Correa
Writters  : Suzanne Andrews Correa & Mustafa Kaymak
Director of Cinematography : Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi
Producers : Mustafa Kaymak & Michael Peters
Editor : Pinar Yorgancioglu
Sound : Eli Cohn