COURAGE
In the course of the presidential elections in Belarus in the summer of 2020, three actors from an under- ground theatre in Minsk get caught up in the maelstrom of mass protests. They are drawn to the wide streets of Minsk to protest vociferously for freedom of speech and the long-awaited change of power. But the people‘s voice is brutally crushed by the regime‘s security apparatus. Members of the theatre group and many other people get arrested. The country is on the brink of civil war. COURAGE accompanies the courageous and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis before and during the protests. The film takes a very personal look at the events and thus provides a close and gripping insight into the lives of people in today‘s Belarus who are fighting for their freedom and the right to democracy.
Director and Author:
Aliaksei Paluyan
Editor:
Behrooz Karamizade
Feature Documentary - 90 min
Sound: 5.1
Screeningformat: DCP
Funded by
LAKE OF HAPPINESS
In a small Belarussian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja, a nine-year-old girl, has to deal with her mother's death. Her father decides to send her to an orphanage. But one day she decides to run away and go back home.
Director and Author:
Aliaksei Paluyan
DoP:
Behrooz Karamizade
Shortfilm 4 K - 30 min
Sound: Stereo
Screeningformat: DCP
Funded by
Selected Festivals:
CLERMONT-FERRAND Festival du court Métrage - Int. competition
25. Palm Springs Int. Short Fest
19. Nevada City Film Festival - Best of the Fest Award, Best Narrative Short Award
44. Odense International Film Festival
12. International Short Film Festival Bueu - Jury Prize, Best Actress, Best Art Direction Awards
25. Drama International Short Film Festival - Best Director Award
53. Internationalen Hofer Filmtagen
26. Minsk International Film Festival Listapad
36. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
49. Alcine – Festival de cine de Alcalá de Henares - „Alcine“ Award
64. Cork Film Festival
33. Leeds International Film Festival
24. Int.Short Film Festival of Dijon
25. Leuven International Short Film Festival - Candidate to European Film Awards 2020
12. Küstendorf Film and Music Festival - Silber EGG Award
31. Trieste Film Festival - Best Short Film
32. Dresden International Short Film Festival
Candidate to European Film Awards 2020
HESSEN FILM AWARDS 2019 - Best Short Film
nominated to German Short Film Award 2019
ALL WRAPPED UP
Three sisters growing up in today's Germany. Nora is living on the streets as a punk. Lisa locked herself into her room. Hannah wants to save them and endangers their lives.
Director and Author:
Rike Holtz
Editor:
Behrooz Karamizade
Shortfilm 2K - 30 min
Sound: Stereo
Screeningformat: DCP
Selected Festivals:
World Premiere at the 66. INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL MANNHEIM - HEIDELBERG
9th Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards - Lisbon, Portugal.
- Prize for best medium or feature film
ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
ALL ABOUT PEOPLE is a film about the first poem and the last hope, the first love and the last breath, the first conversation with the sun and the last thanks to her.
Director and Author:
Giorgi Abashishvili
DoP (of one Episode)
and Co-Author :
Behrooz Karamizade
Episode FIlm HD-72 min
Shot on RED EPIC
Sound: 5.1 Dolby Stereo
Screeningformat: DCP
Funded by
Selected Festivals:
12th International Film Festival Gibara, Cuba
8th Comedy Cluj - International Film Festival, Romania
10th International Children's Film Festival, Bangladesh
4th ARFECINE International Film Festival, Buenos Aires
10th LICHTER Filmfest International, Frankfurt
7th Philosophical Film Festival Skopje "Golden Owl" Jury Award, Audience Award
TICKET FROM THE PAST
Little boy Frieder grew up in the late 1930ies in Germany close to a railway station where he fell in love with locomotives. The war destroyed his hometown, but till today Friedrich Weissbach kept his passion and collects railway treasures to build a museum - up to an original placed in his garden.
Director and Author:
Miriam Steen
Editor:
Behrooz Karamizade
Documentary HD - 20 min
Sound: Stereo
Screeningformat: DCP
Selected Festivals:
13th International Ethno Film Festival Đakovo - Croatia
27th International Festival of Archaeological Film Rovereto - Italy
4th AegeanDocs International Documentary Film Festival Mytilene - Greece
25th International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrad - Serbia
9th International Jahorina Film Festival Pale - Bosnia and Herzegovina
19th Int. Documentary Film Festival "Meetings in Siberia" Novosibirsk - Russian Federation
4th Arkhaios Film Festival Hilton Head Island/South Carolina - United States
El FestiMal de Ojo - Festival de Cine Etnográfico Quito - Ecuador
18th International Festival of Archaeological Film Belgrad - Serbia
19th Ismailia International Film Festival Ismailia - Egypt
4 Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura Mexico City - Mexico
5th Zlatna International Ethnographic Film Festival Zlatna - Romania
ULTRAcinema Puebla-Cholula - Mexico
