FILMER FORGE 2018

SELECTED PROJECTS FOR PITCHING  

 

 

BAIKAL (dir. Deyan Bararev / prod. Angel Ivanov / Bulgaria / 10`00``)

CERBERUS (dir. Jeremy Adonis / Belgium / (15-20`00``)

DESPOT (dir. Petar Krumov / Bulgaria / 15`00``)

HAPPY NEW YEAR 1982 (dir. Sokol Keraj / Albania/Colombia / 25`00``)

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID (dir. Stanislava Ivy / prod. Vlady Gerasimov / Bulgaria 13`00``)

LOSING GRACE (dir. Athena Mandis / prod. Liz Farahadi / England / 15`00``) 

LOVE INCOMPLETE (dir. Ilina Perianova / prod. Irina Gurova, Ilina Perianova / Bulgaria/ 15`00``)

PSYCHICKEN (dir. Ata Mojabi / prod. Nicoletta Cataldo / Italy / 11`00``)

SACRED THINGS (dir./prod. Anna Nevander / prod. Thea Marti / Sweden / 20`00``)

SCAR (dir. Thanos Psichogios / prod. Olga Moustaki / Greece / 18`00``)

SNAKE (dir. Andrej Ilievski – Volkashin / prod. Elena Stanisheva / Macedonia / 20`00``)  

SPELL (dir. Victoria Karakoleva / prod. Lyubo Yonchev, Ivo Nikolov / Bulgaria 20`00``)

THE RUINS OF EVERYTHING I LOVE  (dir./prod. Maya Yotzova / Bulgaria/Canada / 8`00``)

THE ANIMAL (dir./prod. Vilma Kartalska / prod. Lyubo Yonchev / Bulgaria /10`00``)

THE ARCHITECT (dir. Kiril Todorov / prod. Irina Gurova / Bulgaria / 15`00``)

WRITER’S BLOCK (dir. Todor Velev / prod. Eleni Dekidis / Bulgaria / 15`00``)

WALL UNIT (dir./prod. Joanna Polak / Poland / (8-9`00``)

Please confirm your participation to filmerforge@inthepalace.com

FILMER FORGE 2018  

CALL FOR PROJECTS

 

 

Dear film professionals,

We are thrilled to inform you that 15th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival CALL FOR PROJECTS is now open!

 The Pitching Panel, part of Filmer Forge Programme, is aimed at film authors and producers who seek (co-)producing and funding opportunities for their current or upcoming short film project.

 Pitching Sessions Dates:

• 29 June 2018 
• 30 June 2018

 Application deadline:

•  15 June 2018

 To apply for Filmer Forge Pitching of 15^th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, please fill the form (registration_form.doc) and send it to filmerforge@inthepalace.com before 15^th June 2018. Applications sent after the deadline will not be considered.

 More information about Filmer Forge programme you can find here.

20 days to 15^th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival opening: Balchik is still here where we left it last time and (almost) ready to welcome the festival and its guests again. The recently planted summer flowers in the Botanical garden begin to thrive and will be ready to blossom for the festival days. The sea is getting warmer and warmer, Balchik moon is preparing itself to rise full and red for the last days of June. Film programme is in preparation, call for pitching to be announced, open-air screen and DJ stage project under construction, Silver Princess award statues in foundry, new volunteers just arrived and still do not suspect anything…in one word, IN THE PALACE is IN THE PROCESS.

What has already been processed :) is our honored jury! We are pleased to welcome all of them in our 15^th anniversary between 23 – 30 June in Queen Marie Palace, Balchik. They will be engaged with the hard job to judge wisely all films in competitive programmes and film projects in Filmer Forge Pitching. Therefore we kindly advise you to do the same :).

20 more days to go and then let the jury be with you!

More information about 15^th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival jury members here: http://www.inthepalace.com/en/15th-palace/festival/jury-members.html

15^th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION

 

OSCAR® QUALIFICATION CONTENDERS COMPETITION

• BEST FICTION CATEGORY

#BURNING (dir. Nathalie André / Afghanistan / 2016 / 19`00``)

14 YEARS AND ONE DAY (dir. Lucía Alemany / Spain / 2015 / 12`14``)

ACIDE (dir. Just Philippot / France / 2017 / 17`30``)

AGAIN (dir. Lu Pulici / Italy / 2016 / 15`00``)

CLÉO (dir. Julie Navarro / France / 2016 / 27`18``)

DOWNSIDE UP (dir. Peter Ghesquiere / Belgium / 2016 / 15`00``)

FAUVE (dir. Jeremy Comte / Canada / 2018 / 16`24``)

FORMERS (dir. Irina Bas / Russia / 2017 / 15`00``)

GOLIATH (dir. Loïc Barché / France / 2018 / 18`06``)

HAVE NO FEAR (dir. Marco Calvise / Italy / 2016 / 19`46``)

HEADBUTT (dir. Daan Bunnik / Netherlands / 2017 / 09`11``)

HOWLS (dir. Catriona MacInnes / United Kingdom / 2017 / 16`20``)

ICARUS (dir. Nicolas Boucart / Belgium / 2017 / 27`11``)

LITTLE HANDS (dir. Rémi Allier / Belgium/France / 2017 / 15`00``)

LITTLE NOAH`S LAST ADVENTURE (dir. Shariff Nasr / Netherlands / 2017 / 10`00``)

MAKE ALIENS DANCE (dir. Sebastien Petretti / Belgium / 2018 / 25`14``)

MARE NOSTRUM (dir. Anas Khalaf / France/Syria / 2016 / 13`00``)

NEXT TIME (dir. Adriano Giannini / Italy / 2016 / 15`00``)

PUSHING NIGHT AWAY (dir. Jade Aksnes / Norway / 2016 / 22`33``)

RABBIT PUNCH (dir. Keith Farrell / United Kingdom / 2017 / 15`00``)

RIKISHI (dir. Julien Menanteau / France / 2017 / 19`34``)

SATURDAY (dir. Sokol Keraj / Albania/Colombia/Romania / 2018 / 26`30``)

SERVAL AND CHAUMIER, MASTERS OF SHADOWS (dir. Arthur Goisset & Bastien Daret / France / 2016 / 20`00``)

SHADOW BOXER (dir. Andreas Bøggild Monies / Denmark / 2017 / 22`00``)

SO BE IT (dir. Cristina Spina / Italy / 2016 / 19`00``)

THE CAMEL BOY (dir. Chabname Zariâb / France / 2018 / 15`13``)

THE GLASS PEARL (dir. Tommi Seitajoki / Finland / 2017 / 15`00``)

THE TERRIBLE TALE OF HENRIETTA TATE (dir. Tom Beckwith Phillips / United Kingdom / 2017 / 15`25``)

ULISES (dir. Jorge Malpica / Mexico / 2018 / 07`53``)

WAVE (dir. Benjamin Cleary / Ireland / 2017 / 13`47``)

WAWA (dir. Anj Macalanda / Philippines / 2015 / 10`11``)

 

• BEST ANIMATION CATEGORY

A THOUSAND KISSES (dir. Richard Goldgewicht / Brazil / 2018 / 16`00``)

AND THE MOON STANDS STILL (dir. Yulia Ruditskaya / Belarus / 2017 / 10`43``)

BERNARD (dir. Anna Oparkowska / Poland / 2017 / 06`11``)

CARLOTTA'S FACE (dir. Valentin Riedl / Germany / 2018 / 05`00``)

CONFINO (dir. Nico Bonomolo / Italy / 2016 / 11`00``)

ETHNOPHOBIA (dir. Joan Zhonga / Albania/Greece / 2016 / 14`20``)

FLATMAN (dir. Philipp Bürge / Switzerland / 2018 / 14`04``)

FRAMED (dir. Marco Jemolo / Italy / 2017 / 07`00``)

LOST PROPERTY OFFICE (dir. Daniel Agdag / Australia / 2017 / 09`45``)

MERMAIDS AND RHINOS (dir. Viktória Traub / Hungary / 2017 / 15`34``)

NOCTURNE (dir. Anne Breymann / Germany / 2016 / 05`19``)

SOPHIA (dir. Zsofia Opra-Szabo / Canada / 2017 / 10`54``)

THE GAP (dir. Patrick Vandebroeck / Belgium/Netherlands / 2016 / 14`41``)

THE HERMIT (dir. Raul Diez / Spain / 2017 / 10`00``)

WEASEL (dir. Timon Leder / Slovenia / 2017 / 11`35``)

WOOLWORLD (dir. Joanna Polak / Poland / 2018 / 10`00``)

YELLOW (dir. Ivana Šebestová / Slovakia / 2017 / 06`00``)

 

• BEST NATIONAL FILM CATEGORY

FICTION

CLOTHES (dir. Vesselin Boydev / Bulgaria / 2016 / 23`00``)

KOLIVA (dir. Andrey Ilievski Volkashin / Macedonia/Bulgaria / 2017 / 24`10``)

LEA (dir. Pavel Pavlov / Bulgaria / 2017 / 9`30``)

REFLECTIONS FULL OF LIFE (dir. Marieta Petchanska / Bulgaria/Netherlands / 2017 / 26`30``)

ROBBERY (dir. Maria Nikolova / Bulgaria / 2017 / 27`15``)

SHAME (dir. Petar Krumov / Bulgaria / 2017 / 24`00``)

TIMMY (dir. Lyubo Yonchev / Bulgaria/Germany/Belgium / 2018 / 15`00``)

TRIALS (dir. Boya Harizanova / Bulgaria / 2017 / 28`08``)

TRIALS (dir. Lyubomir Pechev / Bulgaria / 2017 / 13`00``)

TRUST EXERCISE (dir. Vilma Kartalska / Bulgaria / 2018 / 06`46``)

 

ANIMATION

BANGO VASSIL (dir. Milen Vitanov / Bulgaria / 2016 / 08`30``)

GRANDMOTHER (dir. Roza Kolchagova / Bulgaria / 2017 / 6`00``)

HAPPINESS (dir. Dimitar Dimitrov / Bulgaria / 2018 / 6`00``)

THE RETARDED CHILD (dir. Dimitar Dimitrov / Bulgaria / 2016 / 0`59``)

UGLY FAIRY TALE (dir. Radostina Neykova / Bulgaria / 2017 / 11`00``)

 

 

DOCUMENTARY & EXPERIMENTAL COMPETITION

• BEST DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY

CHILDLESS (dir. George Nicholas / Bulgaria / 2018 / 10`10``)

EN LA BOCA (dir. Matteo Gariglio / Switzerland / 2016 / 25`00``)

IT'S NOT SILENCE (dir. Joonas Salo / Finland / 2018 / 25`00``)

JOE BOOTS (dir. Florian Baron / Germany / 2017 / 29`50``)

MERYEM (dir. Reber Dosky / Netherlands / 2017 / 17`00``)

MON AMOUR, MON AMI (dir. Adriano Valerio / Italy/France / 2017 / 14`30``)

NATURAL LIGHT: VIVI'S STORY (dir. Ivy Yukiko Ishihara Oldford / Canada / 2017 / 08`50``)

RAKIJADA - DISTILLATED VILLAGE TALES (dir. Nikola Ilić / Serbia/Switzerland / 2016 / 18`45``)

ROAD TO GLORY (dir. Bruno Pereira, Luc Godonou Dossou / Switzerland / 2016 / 15`00``)

SAND MEN (dir. Tal Amiran / United Kingdom / 2016 / 13`56``)

THE THEFT (dir. Anna Nevander / Sweden / 2017 / 14`57``)

UNLOCK THE STAGE (dir. David Julius Roston / Bulgaria / 2017 / 26`48``)

VULTURE'S LOVE (dir. Maia Iotzova / Bulgaria / 2016 / 06`07``)

WHOLE TO PART (dir. Vahid Hosseini Nami / Iran / 2017 / 16`00``)

 

 

STUDENT COMPETITION

• BEST STUDENT FICTION CATEGORY

14.74 OR THE PURSUIT OF MEDIOCRITY (dir. Antoine Dengler / Germany / 2017 / 16`30``)

A STATE OF EMERGENCY (dir. Tarek Roehlinger / Germany / 2016 / 12`00``)

AAMIR (dir. Vika Evdokimenko / United Kingdom / 2017 / 16`22)

APLOMB (dir. David Thibaut / Germany / 2018 / 09`26``)

APPLES (dir. Milda Baginskaite / United Kingdom / 2017 / 18`15``)

ARIANA FOREVER! (dir. Katharina Rivilis / Germany / 2015 / 23`00``)

ARSENIC (dir. Vanesa Prieto / USA / 2017 / 13`39``)

ELISA (dir. Kristina Shtubert / Germany / 2016 / 15`53``)

EVIL DEEDS (dir. Piotr Domalewski / Poland / 2016 / 24`00``)

FEDRA (dir. Malo Bara / Belgium / 2017 / 13`31``)

FIST (dir. Sarah Al Atassi / France / 2017 / 21`00``)

FRIENDLY SPORT MEETING (dir. Adam Koloman Rybansky / Czech Republic / 2017 / 17`57``)

FUCKING DRAMA (dir. Michael Podogil / Austria / 2017 / 17`01``)

GENEK (dir. Raushaniya Rakhimov / Russia / 2017 / 19`36``)

IRON HANDS (dir. Johnson Cheng / USA / 2017 / 11`00``)

LABELLED (dir. Violetta Moshkova / Russia / 2017 / 24`07``)

LIKE WOLVES AND LAMBS (dir. Federico Troisi / France / 2018 / 12`14``)

LILY'S PAIN STORE (dir. Chen Li China / 2017 / 25`00``)

MILK (dir. Urszula Morga / Poland / 2017 / 15`00``)

MILLIMETERLE (dir. Pascal Reinmann / Switzerland / 2016 / 15`45``)

MIMICRY (dir. Jennifer Von Schuckmann / Germany / 2018 / 26`21``)

NEW BRONX (dir. Filip Ignatowicz / Poland / 2017 / 14`59``)

PALEONAUT (dir. Eric McEver / Japan / 2017 / 16`00``)

SERAFIM (dir. Vanya Doneva / Bulgaria / 2017 / 15`12``)

SHADOWS (dir. Victoria Karakoleva / Bulgaria / 2018 / 27`00``)

SHORT DISTANCE (dir. Giovanni Pierangeli / Poland / 2017 / 20`00``)

SIRENE (dir. Zara Dwinger / Netherlands / 2017 / 26`12``)

SKIN (dir. Emma Blakey / Australia / 2017 / 17`04``)

SNOWGIRL (dir. Ilina Perianova / Bulgaria / 2016 / 27`38``)

SOLO (dir. Yves De Prà / Switzerland / 2018 / 14`41``)

SON OF ICARUS (dir. Jérémy Adonis / Belgium / 2016 / 21`37``)

THE GIRL (dir. Petar Minov / Bulgaria / 2017 / 10`29``)

THE LIFE OF ESTEBAN (dir. Inès Eshun / Belgium / 2017 / 15`49``)

THE SUITCASE (dir. Abi Damaris Corbin / Switzerland/USA / 2017 / 21`00``)

WHEN DEMONS DIE (dir. Daniel Ruebesam / Germany / 2016 / 19`00``)

 

• BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY

CHAMPIONS (dir. Anastasija Bräuniger / Germany / 2016 / 08`00``)

EDUCATION (dir. Emi Buchwald / Poland / 2016 / 20`00``)

HOW TO BECOME A POPE? (dir. Justyna Mytnik / Poland / 2017 / 16`00``)

KIS (dir. Svetlana Bolycheva / Russia / 2016 / 20`00``)

KSENIA PETERBURGSKAYA (dir. Sybilla Tuxen / Denmark / 2017 / 23`00``)

SUEDWESTWIND (dir. Annika Sehn / Germany / 2017 / 18`37``)

THE MUSIC STOPS HERE (dir. Adam Farkas / United Kingdom / 2017 / 20`25``)

THE SANDMAN (dir. Lauren Knapp / USA / 2016 / 18`45``)

 

• BEST STUDENT ANIMATION CATEGORY

GREATER THAN (dir. Sebastian Hühnel, Kate Haase / Germany/Switzerland / 2017 / 09`00``)

HAPPY END (dir. Jan Saska / Czech Republic / 2015 / 05`43``)

I - ONE OF YOU (dir. Eva Georgieva / Bulgaria / 2018 / 05`15``)

LIGHT SIGHT (dir. Seyed M. Tabatabaei / Iran / 2016 / 07`34``)

MASTERCLASS (dir. Ewa Drzewicka, Dominika Fedko, Weronika Kuc, Malgorzata Jachna, Malgorzata Jedrzejec, Aleksandra Rylewicz, Grazyna Trela / Poland / 2018 / 06`28``)

NOBODY (dir. Elham Toroghi / Iran / 2016 / 09`17``)

REM (dir. Artur Hanaj / Poland / 2017 / 03`00``)

THREE WOMEN ON A BENCH (dir. Karolina Borgiasz / Poland / 2017 / 03`50``)

WHAT HAS TO BE (dir. Jerrold Chong / Singapore / 2017 / 10`45``)

YOUME KNOWS WHAT MEYOU WANTS (dir. Mona Keil / Germany / 2016 / 02`25``)

 

On behalf of the festival team, CONGRATULATIONS to all selected and good luck!