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| Monday 21 | Tuesday 22 | Wednesday 23 | Thursday 24 | Friday 25 | |
| 10.30-11.30 | COMPETITION Films competition A |
SEMINAR Eva Steegmayer Strategies for submitting your film to festivals |
MASTERCLASS Thomas Lauterbach Proximity and distance: from interview to conversation. |
COMPETITION Films competition A Q&A Session |
SEMINAR Gül Dönmez The shoot is over. Is it really time to take a break? |
| 11.45-12.45 | SCREENING Films selection O |
SCREENING VSMU University |
SCREENING Films competition B Q&A Session |
SEMINAR Bora Egemen The craft of directing |
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| 14.00-15.00 | COMPETITION Films competition B |
COMPETITION Films competition C |
SCREENING Films selection W |
COMPETITION Films selection C Q&A Session |
SCREENING Films selection Y Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey) |
| 15.15-16.15 | COMPETITION Films selection D |
COMPETITION Films competition D Q&A Session |
COMPETITION Films selection D |
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| 17.00 | OPENING CEREMONY* | ||||
| 19.00 | AWARD CEREMONY* |
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
After careful consideration our programming team have nominated the following 13
finalists in the 2019 international student film competition:
Terror
Yonatan Shehoah
Maaleh School of Film and Television
Israel, 2018
16.00
Dan, 45, is a Jerusalem supermarket employee who suffers from ptsd after being
caught up in a terrorist attack.
On a day in which multiple attacks hit Jerusalem once again, Dan is asked to
serve at the meat counter alongside an Arab co-worker. As more and more
fatalities are reported on the news, Dan tries desperately to reach his wife who
was shopping in the area of one of the attacks, but without success. Dan’s fear
and panic result in severe consequences for himself and for others.
Yonatan Shehoah was born and raised in Mexico City. From 2013 to 2017, he
studied directing and cinematography at the Maaleh School of Film and Television
in Israel, graduating in 2018. Terror is his graduation film. Shehoah was also
the director of photography for five of his fellow students’ films.
I See in the Dark
Lana Bregar
Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television
Slovenia, 2019
16.00
We follow three individuals who have lost their sight. Their intimate narra¬tive
takes the viewer on a journey to their world and feelings about their loss of
vision.
Lana Bregar (1998) finished Secondary School for Design and Photography
Ljubljana, studying Photography as her main course of studies. She ex¬pressed
her enthusiasm for photogra¬phy at the time of Secondary School, but her desire
to connect stories into a more unified whole has brought her to cinema. In
Secondary School, she shot her first movies, with some of them being awarded at
festivals. She continues her education at Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and
Television, studying Film and Television Directing.
Airship of Unknown Direction
Alexandra Galitskova
VGIK Russian State University of Cinematography
Russia, 2018
5.00
This story is about Rain, who wants to learn how to fly. Rain was walking on the
ground. Suddenly he saw the serene airships in the sky. And the rain had a
dream. He dreams of floating in the sky with them too. This is a story about a
poet who gives himself to everyone.
Born in Moscow in 1990. Attended the Art School 548 between 2004 - 2007. Between
2009 - 2013 she worked as an artist in BUKA entertainment company. She has been
a VGIK student between 2013 and 2018. She has been working as an animator at the
studio SOUZMULTFILM since 2019.
The School Bus
Ramazan Kılıç
İstanbul Şehir University
Turkey, 2019
13.00
Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has just been appointed to a rural village school
in Anatolia. She realizes that her students are struggling to arrive at school,
hitchhiking tractors, using whatever means they can find. She asks the Ministry
of Education for a shuttle, but without a driver, the vehicle is useless. So,
she decides to be the bus driver for her students but she does not know how to
drive!
Ramazan Kılıç, who was born in Ağrı in 1993, studies Cinema-Tv at İstanbul Şehir
University. His first short film Penaber was awarded the first prize at the 29th
Aydın Doğan Foundation Young Communicator Competition and it was awarded the
second prize at Sabancı Foundation Short Film Competition. The film has many
additional awards at national and international festivals. The School Bus is his
fourth short film and he is currently pursuing his career as a screenwriter and
director.
Transhumant
Fatih Ertekin
Çanakkale 18 Mart University
Turkey, 2019
22.00
The documentary film focuses on the culture of transhumance (herding in
mountainous pastures) kept alive for centuries by Georgians living in Şavşat’s
İmerhev region. Using Cancir plateau’s cultural and aesthetical aspects as a
backdrop, the documen¬tary follows the lives of transhumant women, who live in
Cancir plateau for 2 months, through the story of Heva.
He was born on July 28, 1995, in Artvin. Due to his interest in docu¬mentary
film, he enrolled in Radio, Cinema and Television department at Çanakkale On
Sekiz Mart University in 2013, and in 2016, he launched his first documentary
film project, Clouds Behind. He continues to work on documentary films.
Dhacka
Devik Rathod
Whistling Woods International
India, 2018
15.00
Lata, a 50-year-old woman, is the string that holds her family together. Lata’s
husband and her son are always at loggerheads with each other, while her
daughter is completely detached from everyone. The family is on their way to
attend a wedding. Due to their internal clashes, they lose their way, forcing
Lata to take control. After her failed attempts to drive the car herself, she
makes her daughter drive while enjoying this newfound power. Losing the way even
further, their fight escalates.
Hailing from Gujarat, Devik Rathod studied Civil Engineering. However, the world
of cinema had always fascinated him from a young age. Determined to learn
filmmaking, he let the internet become his teacher and made several short films,
sketches, and advertisements with the members of a film club co-founded by him
in college. Having his loyalties set straight, he pursued a Diploma course in
Filmmaking at Whistling Woods International which gave him his desired platform.
Devik is currently working as a freelance writer-director and aspires to work on
a feature film in the near future.
A Sail on the Shore
Murat Can Yağbasan
Dokuz Eylül University
Turkey, 2019
14.00
It’s the 15th century. Fights for the throne have been going on for years,
weakening the Ottoman Empire and abandoning its people to their fate. Students
of Sheikh Bedreddin, Börklüce Mustafa and Torlak Kemal rebel so that they can
build a new order that would eradi¬cate poverty in their region. To quell the
resistance, the Sultan sends his son Murat to the region.
Born in 1995 in İzmir, he studied graphic design in high-school. During that
time, he published a humor mag¬azine with his friends. While creating comic
strips, he got interested in Animation design. He enrolled in Do¬kuz Eylül
University’s Animation Film Design and Directing department. He produced graphic
novel projects and he still continues to do so.
Invisible Women
Pablo Cruz Villalba
Escuela Superior de Cine
Mexico, 2018
17.00
Hipolita works in Samuel’s house. Her growing class-consciousness and the
invasion of her privacy lead Hipolita to take control of her work and her life.
Pablo Cruz Villalba (Mexico City, 1992) studied Philosophy at UNAM and
Cinematography at ESCINE. He produced and directed Invisible Women. The short
film premiered at the 16th International Morelia Film Festival, it won at the
5th Campeche Film Festival and was presented at more than fifteen national and
international festivals.
Biotope
Paul Scholten
University of Television and Film Munich
Germany, 2018
10.00
Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb, is quaint. It is a safe neighborhood, where
people know and always greet each other. Everybody has his own backyard; single
car garages are lining the narrow footpaths and everything is groomed. But for
some time now that peace¬fulness has been a troubled one be¬cause refugees are
supposed to move in next door. As some of the residents are afraid of the noise
they are sure the foreigners are going to make, they are putting up a noise
protection wall. Biotope shows the life of the locals and gets to the bottom of
the reason for building that wall.
Paul Scholten was born in 1996 in south Germany. He started film¬making when he
was 17 years old. His films were screened at various international festivals.
Since 2017, he has been studying at the University for Film and Television
Munich in the field of documentary film.
A Moment of Love
Julian Rachev
National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts
Bulgaria, 2018
29.00
Magda and Kalin are deeply in love, but their time together is too short. This
relationship creates conflicts at home between Magda and her hus¬band, Ivailo.
They love their son Joan very much. Magda is under excessive pressure and she
has to make a decision. The pain is inevitable.
Born on July 15, 1984, in Ruse, Bulgar¬ia, Julian Rachev is a director, writer,
editor, and actor. He studied acting in theatre college Luben Grois 2005 - 2008.
He has more than 20 roles as an actor in television and cinema. In 2018 he
graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, NATFA. He has
around 40 shows as a director on the most-watched tv show on Saturday night in
Bulgaria - The Show Of The Channel. He was the director of 25 fiction and
documen¬tary short films and 10 music videos. Editor of more than 50 documentary
short films. Creator of over 100 videos and commercials.
Eavesdropper
Ahmet Toğaç
Okan University
Turkey, 2019
22.00
Working at the old switchboard of a company about to move to a big cen¬tral hub
and waiting for his transfer, Selamet spends his days listening to the phone
calls of strangers. With no activity in his life aside from solving Sudoku
puzzles, Selamet discovers that he feels a growing intimacy towards a stranger
on the phone and attempts to imitate the life of that stranger.
Ahmet Toğaç was born in Erzurum in 1995. He graduated from İstanbul Okan
University Cinema and Televi¬sion Department in 2019. He wrote for Film Arası
Magazine and various web sites such as Sinema Mynet. He currently writes for the
82Ekran web magazine, as one of the founders, and he works for the Center for
Turkish Cinema Studies. His first film Eavesdropper (Kulak Misafiri) is his
graduation project.
Daughter
Daria Kashcheeva
FAMU
Czech Republic
14.00
In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little
girl she tried to share her experience with her Father about an injured bird. A
moment of misun¬derstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all
the way to this hospital room.
Daria Kashcheeva studies animated film at FAMU in Prague. Her student films
featured at many international festivals. Daria’s original To Accept won the
Nespresso Talents 2017 film competition in Cannes. In Daughter, her Bachelor’s
puppet animation, Daria experiments with camera motion and explores the topic of
a father-daughter relationship. The project was pitched within the CEE Animation
Forum 2018. The film has a premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival and got
Cristal for the Best Student film and Young Jury award in the Student film
section. Daughter has been nominated for the Student Academy Award in the
category Animation (International Film Schools).
Wild Cab
Elisa Gómez Alvarez, Paul Choquet, Olivia Frey, Moustapha Guèye, Yoro Mbaye,
Tianze Song
Ecole Cantonale D’Art de Lausanne
Switzerland, 2019
17.00
Dakar, district of Pikine. Yadou is a clandestine cab driver. Diégui is a
schoolgirl. Today, she is late for class. She negotiates a fee for a ride and
hops on Yadou’s taxi. It might have been the wrong choice: the wild cab is slow
as molasses. Rolling through the city, Yadou and Diégui bond while facing the
urban transformation of Pikine. This encounter will stay on Yadou’s mind for the
rest of the day.
Coming from various geographies and backgrounds, Elisa Gómez Alvarez, Paul
Choquet, Olivia Frey, Moustapha Guèye, Yoro Mbaye, and Tianze Song all met in
École cantonale d’art de Lausanne and produced their first short film together,
Wild Cab.
Guest School
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
(Ludwigsburg, Germany)
FaBaden-Württemberg
Since it was founded in 1991, the Filmakad¬emie Baden-Württemberg has become one
of the world’s leading film academies. The project-oriented “learning by doing”
concept has greatly contributed to this. The students are taught and mentored by
highly-qualified experts from the film and media industries. The overriding
objective of the program is to prepare the 480 students of the academy in the
best possible way for a successful career in the film and media industries.
About 250 films of all genres and formats are produced every year by teams of
students enrolled in the subject areas advertising film, animation,
cinematography, documentary film, editing, fiction film, film music, sound
design, interactive media, motion design, production, production design,
screenwriting, and TV journalism.
Since 2002 the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has also been home to the
Animation Institute which has since become one of the world’s leading
institutions in the fields of animation, VFX and interactive media.
The Filmakademie’s appeal is further enhanced by the postgraduate program
Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris and the neighboring partner school Academy of
Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg, resulting in several interdisciplinary
collaborations.
Blind Audition Andreas Kessler Germany 2017 18’
Dear guests and participants,
I sincerely welcome you to our 6th Contact International Student Film Festival.
Yaşar University is proud of hosting you all in Izmir for this wonderful
international art event. This Festival is designed and organized by our
University’s Faculty of Communication.
The main objective of the Festival is to create a challenging international art
atmosphere for our students. Internationalization is one of the main strategic
pillars of our university’s philosophy. I am sure that Contact will to
contribute to this strategy. Contact has already become a six-year matured
festival with ever growing participation. We are proud of organizing it this
year again. This year, we have 2943 applicants from all over the world and 13
films are selected for the Final competition from the participants of Russian
Federation, Germany, Czech Republic, India, Slovenia, Mexico, Israel,
Switzerland, Bulgaria and Turkey. Festivals are very important artistic events
in the career of film and television students. I am sure our Contact
International Student Film Festival will provide a creative and artistic
opportunity for all of you, the prominent directors and filmmakers of the
future.
I congratulate the finalists for their successful participation to the 6th
Contact International Student Film Festival, and wish them further chievements
through their career.
I hope that the participants from all over the world will enjoy a wonderful
company with our students.
This year, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg from Germany is our Festival’s guest.
We believe, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg as one of the best European film
schools, will significantly contribute to our Festival. On behalf of Yaşar
University, I thank them very much and wish to advance our academic relations to
a higher level.
Festival’s Jury Members are also another source of pride for us; all being
highly acclaimed on international cinema circles; I am pleased to express my
thanks to them.
This year’s Festival was possible with the support of many generous
contributors.
Goethe Institute in İzmir supported us in many respects. Lastly, the devoted and
hardworking organizers of the Festival merit special credits; especially the
Festival Director, I thank and congratulate all members of the organizing
committee. I wish you a very joyful festival.
Prof. Cemali Dinçer, Ph.D.
Rector, Yaşar University
In the last six years, Contact International Student Film Festival has
established itself as an exciting, vital cinema event with its one of a kind
approach in Turkey to celebrating and promoting the works of film students.
Our goal has always been creating a festival where students and teachers of
cinema and media from different cultures can come together and speak the same
language - the language of film. So, through that language, they can learn from
each other, and in doing so, improve each other. In that respect, I believe we
have met our goals. Thanks to each of our guest schools who come here and visit
a country maybe they have never been in before, in order to meet with other
students and teachers, all of us were able to create a unique, impactful
identity for our festival.
Now we look forward to widening our horizons with even more diverse
participation from all across the world. We are confident that Yaşar University
management will continue to encourage us to do even better. We also know that
institutions and organizations who support and believe in us will be by our side
as we move forward confidently. For that, we are forever thankful to everyone
who made this festival possible.
I believe in cinema. I believe that it has an important role to play in making
this world a place worth living in, that it has many different lessons to teach
all of us so that we can hope to become better people. To that end, we wish to
go on sharing these stories with everyone with the help of this festival, making
sure that young directors can participate and have their say in what kind of a
world we are going to be living in.
I wish you a festival week with many meaningful, surprising and enjoyable
encounters.
Prof. Nazlı Bayram, Ph.D.
Festival Director
MONDAY 21st OCTOBER
10.30|11.30 films competition A
11.45|12.45 films selection O
14.00|15.00 films competition B
17.00 opening ceremony
opening film Blind Audition, Andreas Kessler, Germany, 2017, 18’
TUESDAY 22nd OCTOBER
10.30|11.30 strategies for submitting your film to festivals, seminar, Eva
Steegmayer Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
11.45|12.45 VŠMU University school screening films selection V
14.00|15.00 films competition C
15.15|16.15 films competition D
WEDNESDAY 23rd OCTOBER
guest school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
10.30|12.45 proximity and distance: from interview to conversation, masterclass,
Thomas Lauterbach
14.00|16.15 films selection W
THURSDAY 24TH OCTOBER
competition films and Q&A with the filmmakers
10.30|11.30 films competition A
11.45|12.45 films competition B
14.00|15.00 films competition C
15.15|16.15 films competition D
FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER
10.30|11.30 the shoot is over.
Is it really time to take a break?
seminar, Gül Dönmez
11.45|12.45 the Craft of Directing seminar, Bora Egemen
14.00|15.00 Yaşar University school screening films selection Y
19.00 award ceremony
Ceremonies will take place in the Yaşar University Conference Hall, Yaşar
University Campus, Bornova.
Screenings and seminars will take place in the Mini-Movie Theater (Cep
Sineması), F Block, Yaşar University Campus, Bornova.
FILM SELECTIONS IN COMPETITION
Terror / Yonatan Shehoah / Israel / 2018 / 00:16:00
I See in the Dark / Lana Bregar / Slovenia / 2019 / 00:16:00
Airship of Unknown Direction / Alexandra Galitskova / Russia / 2018 / 00:05:00
The School Bus / Ramazan Kılıç / Turkey / 2019 / 00:13:00
Transhumant / Fatih Ertekin / Turkey / 2019 / 00:22:00
Dhachka / Devik Rathod / India / 2018 / 00:15:00
A Sail on the Shore / Murat Can Yağbasan / Turkey / 2019 / 00:14:00
Invisible Women / Pablo Cruz Villalba / Mexico / 2018 / 00:17:00
Biotope / Paul Scholten / Germany / 2018 / 00:10:00
A Moment of Love / Julian Rachev / Bulgaria / 2018 / 00:29:00
Eavesdropper / Ahmet Toğaç / Turkey / 2019 / 00:22:00
Daughter / Daria Kashcheeva / Czech Republic / 2019 / 00:14:00
Wild Cab / Elisa Gómez Alvarez / Paul Choquet, Olivia Frey, Moustapha Guèye,
Yoro Mbaye, Tianze Song / Switzerland / 2019 / 00:17:00
Chaos / Samuel Auer / Germany / 2019 / 00:05:00
Good Intentions / Anna Mantzaris / 00:UK / 2018 / 00:05:00
Birthday / Atefeh Khademolreza / Canada / 2019 / 00:25:00
Fuse / Shadi Adib / Germany / 2018 / 00:07:00
FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
Follower / Jonathan Behr / 2018 / 00:10:00
The Captain / Steve Bache / 2019 / 00:14:00
Am Cu Ce-Pride / Hannah Weissenborn / 2019 / 00:20:00
As Bright as Night / Julius Schmitt / 2019 / 00:14:00
Nö! / Christian Kaufmann / 2018 / 00:06:00
VŠMU ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN BRATISLAVA FACULTY OF FILM AND TELEVISION
Poetika Anima / Kriss Sagan / 2018 / 00:05:00
Pura Vida / Martin Gonda / 2018 / 00:30:00
Neptune / Tereza Dodoková / 2019 / 00:04:00
The Gleam of Delicate Irony / Kristián Grupač / 2019 / 00:07:00
Man in the Attic / Matúš Ďuraňa / 2018 / 00:08:00
YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Double Shift / Ataberk Kırçuvaloğlu / 2019 / 00:16:00
Gods of Turkic Mythology / Bartu İmamtorunu / 2019 / 00:07:00
Outsider / Gülce Candaş / 2019 / 00:17:00
Yusuf the Great / Atakan Çalışkan / 2019 / 00:06:00
— Intermission —
The Purified / Yiğit Erkol / 2019 / 00:20:00
Waiting for the Stars / Irmak Emeklioğlu / / 2017 / 00:04:00
Dolos / Doğaç Su Gündoğ / 2019 / 00:23:00
GUEST SCHOOL
FILMAKADEMIE BADENWÜRTTEMBERG
Since it was founded in 1991, the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has become one
of the world’s leading film academies. The project-oriented “learning by doing”
concept has greatly contributed to this. The students are taught and mentored by
highly-qualified experts from the film and media industries. The overriding
objective of the program is to prepare the 480 students of the academy in the
best possible way for a successful career in the film and media industries.
About 250 films of all genres and formats are produced every year by teams of
students enrolled in the subject areas advertising film, animation,
cinematography, documentary film, editing, fiction film, film music, sound
design, interactive media, motion design, production, production design,
screenwriting, and TV journalism.
Since 2002 the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has also been home to the
Animation Institute which has since become one of the world’s leading
institutions in the fields of animation, VFX and interactive media.
The Filmakademie’s appeal is further enhanced by the postgraduate program
Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris and the neighboring partner school Academy of
Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg, resulting in several interdisciplinary
collaborations.
Monday 21st October
17.00
opening film
Blind Audition / Andreas Kessler / 2017 / 18’
Tuesday 22nd October
10.30-11.30
seminar
Eva Steegmayer
Strategies for submitting
your film to festivals
Wednesday, 23rd October
10.30-11.30
masterclass
Thomas Lauterbach
Proximity and distance - From interview to conversation
Wednesday, 23rd October
14.00 - 16.15
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Film Screening
Follower / Jonathan Behr / 2018 / 10’
The Captain / Steve Bache / 2019 / 14’
Am Cu Ce - Pride / Hannah Weissenborn / 2019 / 20’
As Bright as Night / Julius Schmitt / 2019 / 14’
Nö! / Christian Kaufmann / 2018 / 6’
PRE-SELECTION JURY
Nazlı Bayram
PROFESSOR AT YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Nazlı Bayram studied Cinema and Television at Anadolu University. Her short
documentary, titled Moment, was screened at film festivals in usa, Germany,
Portugal, Turkey and was nominated for the best documentary by siyad and best
film by Exground Film Festival. She is also one of the directors and the
producer of the documentary film İnsan Kent (City of People). She is the head of
the Radio, Television and Cinema Department at Yaşar University. She is teaching
screenwriting and directing.
Ürün Yıldıran Önk
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Ürün Yıldıran Önk graduated from Gazi University, Faculty of Communication,
Department of Radio-Television and Cinema in 2002. She completed her MA (2004)
and PhD (2011) degrees at Dokuz Eylül University, Fine Arts Institute,
Department of Cinema-TV.
Her recent research focus on television studies. She has been working as
full-time Assist. Prof. Dr. at Yaşar University, Faculty of Communication,
Radio, Television and Cinema Department since 2007 where she lectures several
media, television and cinema courses for undergraduate, masters and doctorate
programs. She is also an advisor for Production Project I and II courses in
which the students design and produce their graduation films.
Çağrı İnceoğlu
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Çağrı İnceoğlu graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Cinema and
Television. He holds master’s degrees in Social and Political Thought from The
University of Warwick (2005) and Arts Management from Yeditepe University
(2001). His doctoral research is about Modernization and Turkish Cinema. His
main research interest is film studies and he has been teaching media,
communication, and film studies to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Markus Berger
INSTRUCTOR AT DOKUZ EYLÜL UNIVERSITY
Markus Berger works as a full-time instructor at Dokuz Eylül University Fine
Arts Faculty in İzmir, teaching 2D, 3D, digital and analog animation. Born and
raised in Austria, he studied Media Technology and Media Design and Digital Arts
at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. His graduation film, a short
animated documentary, Replay: Kindheit in der Sandkiste, was screened at several
festivals and won an audience award at the asifa One Day Animation Festival
Vienna in 2014.
Burcu Dabak
LECTURER AT YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Burcu Dabak completed her BA in Radio, Television, Cinema at Ege University and
her ma in Film and Drama at Kadir Has University. She then completed the
foundation program of the SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies University
of London with her Queer Turkish Cinema thesis. She won the Pam Cook Scholarship
in 2014, and got her PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2018. She was the
assistant director to prominent directors, films with high box office numbers,
popular and long-running television series and advertisements. She is also a
director with award-winning short films and documentaries.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT JURY
Steve Bache, Jonathan Behr, Gülce Candaş, Yiğit Erkol, Christian Kaufmann, Eren
Özsaran, Julius Schmitt, Hannah Weissenborn.
JURY
Eva Steegmayer
Grew up in Stuttgart. After studying German language and literature, psychology
and sports education she worked as a public affairs assistant and translator. In
1994, she found a way to combine her love for cinema with a job and started
working for the newly founded Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg at Ludwigsburg.
Since 1997, she is in charge of festival coordination and distribution. She
represents the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in the federal short film
association AG Kurzfilm, where she is also a board member.
Thomas Lauterbach
Thomas Lauterbach was born in 1976 at Wetzlar. His documentaries Hochburg der
Sünden (Stronghold of Sin) and Das kalte Eisen (The Cold Iron) received several
national and international awards. The TV documentary series Europas Muslime
(Europe’s Muslims), Unser Deutschland: Zwei Syrer auf Winterreise (Our Germany:
Two Syrians on a Winter’s Journey), and Kunst der Provokation (The Art of
Provocation) caused lasting debates. He also develops communication concepts for
exhibitions and museums such as the Stasi Memorial Hohenschönhausen, the world
heritage coal mine Zeche Zollverein or the Makkah Clock astronomy exhibition at
Mekka. Besides teaching documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
he also has teaching assignments at Hamburg Media School and Hochschule
Darmstadt.
Bora Egemen
Bora Egemen is a filmmaker based in Istanbul. He graduated from Anatolian
University Film School. After his graduation, he attended international training
programs for 3D animation and 2D compositing. He directed nearly 300 TV
commercials for national and international brands. Bora also directed a
documentary film named Smell which was screened in national festivals and
written a feature film script named 12 Moods of Love which gained support from
the Turkish Ministry of Culture for the writing process. In 2018, Bora directed
a feature film named My Son. He has been lecturing on Directing, and Visual
Story Telling courses in film schools since 2006.
Şebnem Vitrinel
Şebnem Vitrinel entered the cinema and TV sector in 2003 as a TV series writer.
In 2011, she won the Best Script Award at Izmir Film Festival with What Remains,
as producer and the co-author. She worked at Eflatun Film for four years and
during that time, apart from being a copywriter and script editor, she worked as
the executive producer of Thou Gild’st the Even by Onur Ünlü. In 2014, the film
they wrote with Murat Düzgünoğlu, Why Can’t I Be Tarkovsky? won the best script
award in Frankfurt Film Festival. The same year, she was also the executive
producer of But Müzeyyen, This is the Deepest Desire. In June 2019, she became a
partner in a cinema-based training center and artist residence initiative under
the name of Katadrom Art Colony in Eskişehir. She is currently working on their
third feature film script with her sister, director Çiğdem Vitrinel.
Gül Dönmez
Gül Dönmez was born in Ankara. She graduated from Bilkent University’s Faculty
of Art, Design, and Architecture, Communication and Design department in 2003.
During the following 16 years, she worked in different fields of communication
and film making businesses. She continues her adventure as a Post Production
Producer in Böcek Yapım since 2011.
FILMS IN COMPETITION
MAALEH SCHOOL OF FILM AND TELEVISION
Terror / Yonatan Shehoah / 16’ / Israel / 2018
Dan, is a Jerusalem supermarket employee who suffers from ptsd after being
caught up in a terrorist attack. On a day in which multiple attacks hit
Jerusalem once again, Dan is asked to serve at the meat counter alongside an
Arab co-worker. As more and more fatalities are reported on the news, Dan tries
desperately to reach his wife who was shopping in the area of one of the
attacks, but without success. Dan’s fear and panic result in severe consequences
for himself and for others. Yonatan Shehoah was born and raised in Mexico City.
From 2013 to 2017, he studied directing and cinematography at the Maaleh School
of Film and Television in Israel, graduating in 2018. Terror is his graduation
film. Shehoah was also the director of photography for five of his fellow
students’ films.
ACADEMY FOR THEATRE, RADIO, FILM AND TELEVISION
I See in the Dark / Lana Bregar / 16’ / Slovenia 2019
We follow three individuals who have
lost their sight. Their intimate narrative takes the viewer on a journey to
their world and feelings about their
loss of vision.
Lana Bregar (1998) finished Secondary
School for Design and Photography
Ljubljana, studying Photography as
her main course of studies. She expressed her enthusiasm for photography at the
time of Secondary School,
but her desire to connect stories into
a more unified whole has brought her
to cinema. In Secondary School, she
shot her first movies, with some of
them being awarded at festivals. She
continues her education at Academy
for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television,
studying Film and Television Directing.
This story is about Rain, who wants to
learn how to fly. Rain was walking on
the ground.
Suddenly he saw the serene airships
in the sky. And the rain had a dream.
He dreams of floating in the sky with
them too. This is a story about a poet
who gives himself to everyone.
Born in Moscow in 1990. Attended the
Art School 548 between 2004 - 2007.
Between 2009 - 2013 she worked
as an artist in BUKA entertainment
company. She has been a VGIK student
between 2013 and 2018. She has been
working as an animator at the studio
SOUZMULTFILM since 2019.
VGIK RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
Airship of Unknown Direction / Alexandra Galitskova / 5’ / Russia 2018
Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has
just been appointed to a rural village
school in Anatolia. She realizes that
her students are struggling to arrive
at school, hitchhiking tractors, using
whatever means they can find.
She asks the Ministry of Education
for a shuttle, but without a driver, the
vehicle is useless. So, she decides to
be the bus driver for her students but
she does not know how to drive!
Ramazan Kılıç, who was born in Ağrı
in 1993, studies Cinema-Tv at İstanbul
Şehir University. His first short film
Penaber was awarded the first prize
at the 29th Aydın Doğan Foundation
Young Communicator Competition
and it was awarded the second prize
at Sabancı Foundation Short Film
Competition. The film has many
additional awards at national and
international festivals. The School
Bus is his fourth short film and he
is currently pursuing his career as a
screenwriter and director.
İSTANBUL ŞEHIR UNIVERSITY
The School Bus / Ramazan Kılıç / 13’ / Turkey / 2019
The documentary film focuses on the
culture of transhumance (herding
in mountainous pastures) kept alive
for centuries by Georgians living in
Şavşat’s İmerhev region. Using Cancir
plateau’s cultural and aesthetical
aspects as a backdrop, the documentary follows the lives of transhumant
women, who live in Cancir plateau for
2 months, through the story of Heva.
He was born on July 28, 1995, in
Artvin. Due to his interest in documentary film, he enrolled in Radio,
Cinema and Television department at
Çanakkale On Sekiz Mart University
in 2013, and in 2016, he launched
his first documentary film project,
Clouds Behind. He continues to work
on documentary films.
ÇANAKKALE 18 MART UNIVERSITY
Transhumant / Fatih Ertekin / Turkey / 2019
Lata, a 50-year-old woman, is
the string that holds her family
together. Lata’s husband and her
son are always at loggerheads with
each other, while her daughter is
completely detached from everyone.
The family is on their way to attend
a wedding. Due to their internal
clashes, they lose their way, forcing
Lata to take control. After her failed
attempts to drive the car herself,
she makes her daughter drive while
enjoying this newfound power.
Losing the way even further, their
fight escalates.
Hailing from Gujarat, Devik Rathod
studied Civil Engineering. However,
the world of cinema had always
fascinated him from a young age.
Determined to learn filmmaking,
he let the internet become his
teacher and made several short films,
sketches, and advertisements with the
members of a film club co-founded
by him in college. Having his loyalties
set straight, he pursued a Diploma
course in Filmmaking at Whistling
Woods International which gave him
his desired platform. Devik is currently
working as a freelance writer-director
and aspires to work on a feature film
in the near future.
WHISTLING WOODS INTERNATIONAL
Dhachka / Devik Rathod / 15’ / India / 2018
It’s the 15th century. Fights for
the throne have been going on
for years, weakening the Ottoman
Empire and abandoning its people
to their fate. Students of Sheikh
Bedreddin, Börklüce Mustafa and
Torlak Kemal rebel so that they can
build a new order that would eradicate poverty in their region. To quell
the resistance, the Sultan sends his
son Murat to the region.
Born in 1995 in İzmir, he studied
graphic design in high-school. During
that time, he published a humor magazine with his friends. While creating
comic strips, he got interested in
Animation design. He enrolled in Dokuz Eylül University’s Animation Film
Design and Directing department. He
produced graphic novel projects and
he still continues to do so.
DOKUZ EYLÜL UNIVERSITY
A Sail on the Shore / Murat Can Yağbasan / 14’ / Turkey / 2019
Hipolita works in Samuel’s house.
Her growing class-consciousness
and the invasion of her privacy lead
Hipolita to take control of her work
and her life.
Pablo Cruz Villalba (Mexico City,
1992) studied Philosophy at UNAM
and Cinematography at ESCINE. He
produced and directed Invisible
Women. The short film premiered at
the 16th International Morelia Film
Festival, it won at the 5th Campeche
Film Festival and was presented
at more than fifteen national and
international festivals.
ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE CINE
Invisible Women / Pablo Cruz Villalba / 17’ / Mexico / 2018
Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb,
is quaint. It is a safe neighborhood,
where people know and always greet
each other. Everybody has his own
backyard; single car garages are lining
the narrow footpaths and everything
is groomed.
But for some time now that peacefulness has been a troubled one because refugees
are supposed to move
in next door. As some of the residents
are afraid of the noise they are sure
the foreigners are going to make, they
are putting up a noise protection wall.
Biotope shows the life of the locals
and gets to the bottom of the reason
for building that wall.
Paul Scholten was born in 1996 in
south Germany. He started filmmaking when he was 17 years old.
His films were screened at various
international festivals. Since 2017, he
has been studying at the University
for Film and Television Munich in the
field of documentary film.
UNIVERSITY OF TELEVISION AND FILM MUNICH
Biotope / Paul Scholten / 10’ / Germany / 2018
Magda and Kalin are deeply in love,
but their time together is too short.
This relationship creates conflicts at
home between Magda and her husband, Ivailo. They love their son Joan
very much. Magda is under excessive
pressure and she has to make a
decision. The pain is inevitable.
Born on July 15, 1984, in Ruse, Bulgaria, Julian Rachev is a director, writer,
editor, and actor. He studied acting
in theatre college Luben Grois 2005
- 2008. He has more than 20 roles as
an actor in television and cinema. In
2018 he graduated from the National
Academy of Theatre and Film Arts,
NATFA. He has around 40 shows as
a director on the most-watched tv
show on Saturday night in Bulgaria -
The Show Of The Channel. He was the
director of 25 fiction and documentary short films and 10 music videos.
Editor of more than 50 documentary
short films. Creator of over 100 videos
and commercials.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THEATRE AND FILM ARTS
A Moment of Love / Julian Rachev / 29’ / Bulgaria / 2018
Working at the old switchboard of a
company about to move to a big central hub and waiting for his transfer,
Selamet spends his days listening to
the phone calls of strangers.
With no activity in his life aside from
solving Sudoku puzzles, Selamet
discovers that he feels a growing
intimacy towards a stranger on the
phone and attempts to imitate the
life of that stranger.
Ahmet Toğaç was born in Erzurum
in 1995. He graduated from İstanbul
Okan University Cinema and Television Department in 2019. He wrote
for Film Arası Magazine and various
web sites such as Sinema Mynet.
He currently writes for the 82Ekran
web magazine, as one of the founders,
and he works for the Center for
Turkish Cinema Studies. His first film
Eavesdropper (Kulak Misafiri) is his
graduation project.
OKAN UNIVERSITY
Eavesdropper / Ahmet Toğaç / 22’ / Turkey / 2019
In a hospital room, the Daughter
recalls a childhood moment when
as a little girl she tried to share her
experience with her Father about an
injured bird. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has
stretched into many years all the way
to this hospital room.
Daria Kashcheeva studies animated
film at FAMU in Prague. Her student
films featured at many international
festivals. Daria’s original To Accept
won the Nespresso Talents 2017 film
competition in Cannes. In Daughter,
her Bachelor’s puppet animation,
Daria experiments with camera
motion and explores the topic of a
father-daughter relationship.
The project was pitched within the
CEE Animation Forum 2018. The film
has a premiere at Annecy Animation
Film Festival and got Cristal for the
Best Student film and Young Jury
award in the Student film section.
Daughter has been nominated for
the Student Academy Award in the
category Animation (International
Film Schools).
FAMU
Daughter / Daria Kashcheeva / 14’ / Czech Republic / 2019
Dakar, district of Pikine. Yadou is
a clandestine cab driver. Diégui is
a schoolgirl. Today, she is late for
class. She negotiates a fee for a ride
and hops on Yadou’s taxi.
It might have been the wrong
choice: the wild cab is slow as
molasses. Rolling through the city,
Yadou and Diégui bond while facing
the urban transformation of Pikine.
This encounter will stay on Yadou’s
mind for the rest of the day.
Coming from various geographies and
backgrounds, Elisa Gómez Alvarez,
Paul Choquet, Olivia Frey, Moustapha
Guèye, Yoro Mbaye, and Tianze Song
all met in École cantonale d’art de
Lausanne and produced their first
short film together, Wild Cab.
ÈCOLE CANTONALE D’ART DE LAUSANNE
Wild Cab / Elisa Gómez Alvarez, Paul Choquet, Olivia Frey, Moustapha Guèye, Yoro
Mbaye, Tianze Song / 17’ / Switzerland / 2019
AWARDS
The international jury of the 6th
edition of Contact International
Student Film Festival will award
the following prizes:
Grand Prix for the Best Short Film
WITH NO TIE EXCEPTIONS
The winner will receive a cash
prize of 1000€, kindly offered by
Yaşar University Rectorate.
Böcek Yapım Award
The winner will receive post-production support worth 750€ for
their next film, available to be
used within one year after claiming
the prize.
SenEDIT Award for the Best Story
The winner will receive a cash
prize of 500€ and a SenEDIT software package complimentary unlimited access,
kindly offered by our
main sponsor SenEDIT.
Best Cinematography
The winner will receive a cash
prize of 300€, kindly offered by
Yaşar University Rectorate.
Student Jury Award
The international student jury will
award the Student Jury Award.
OUT OF COMPETITION
Chaos is a one-shot fairytale about
the devil. What are one jogger, one
hobo and two pigs doing in a forest?
Chaos is a story about greed and
time. It’s a deconstruction of known
genres and forms.
Born in 1986 in Hamburg, Germany,
Auer finished high-school at
Heilwyg-Gymnasium Hamburg
and his undergraduate degree in
Communications and History at the
University Erfurt. Since 2012, he has
been studying directing at German
Film and Television Academy Berlin.
BERLIN FILM ACADEMY
Chaos / Samuel Auer / 5’ / Germany / 2019
After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange and
spooky things start to happen...
A small thriller about people that
are not always the best at making
decisions.
Anna Mantzaris is a Swedish
stop-motion director and animator
based in London. She has worked on
commercials and feature films, most
recently on Wes Anderson’s critically
acclaimed Isle of Dogs.
Anna’s first-year film Enough is
currently being screened at festivals
worldwide and received a Vimeo Staff
Pick Premiere. Her second-year film
Good Intentions will premiere at the
BFI London Film Festival.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Good Intentions / Anna Mantzaris / 5’ / United Kingdom / 2018
The film is about three new immigrants who came to Toronto
(a Serbian divorcee, a Syrian
boy, and an Afghani dishwasher),
connected only through a series of
soft-wipe split-screens.
At first, they appear to form a
single family as they prepare for a
birthday celebration. As the story
unfolds, we realize that the only
thing connecting them together is
the thread of loneliness.
Atefeh Khademolreza, born in Iran, is
a graduate of The University of York,
with an MFA Degree in Film Production. The subjects of her work are concerned
with migrating populations,
both cultural and political experience
of disorientation expressed through
poetic and experimental productions.
During her career, she had many
achievements, including directing
10 short films that were screened in
some prestigious film festivals such
as Berlinale Talents.
YORK UNIVERSITY
Birthday / Atefeh Khademolreza / 25’ / Canada 2019
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market
place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in
the little box.
One after the other, they try to trump
each other’s sadistic fantasies, and
even a stranger’s suggestion to let the
creature loose turns out to be a sick
manipulation. But as the macabre
game unfolds and spirals out of control, both victim and tormentor suffer
the same fate.
Shadi Adib finished with a master’s
degree in animation at the University
of Tehran and attended Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg. Her graduation
film Fuse is currently running for
competition in renowned festivals
around the world. After her work on
The Amazing World of Gumball, she’s
currently working with Studio SOI.
Her latest short film from 2019 is a
commissioned work called Ode.
FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
Fuse / Shadi Adib / 7’ / Germany / 2018
SEMINARS
Tuesday 22nd October
10.30-11.30
Strategies for submitting your film to festivals
Eva Steegmayer
Wednesday, 23rd October
10.30-12.45
Proximity and distance - From interview to conversation
masterclass Thomas Lauterbach
Friday 25th October
10.30-11.30
The shoot is over. Is it really time to take a break?
Gül Dönmez
Friday 25th October
11.45-12.45
The Craft of Directing
Bora Egemen
FILM SCHOOL SHOWCASE
VŠMU Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava Faculty of Film and Television The
Faculty of Film and Television has been founded in 1990 as the youngest of the
three faculties of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. With more than
150 films produced every year, ranging from short exercises to medium-length
films, it is the most important film school in Slovakia. Housed in a modern new
building, the faculty offers ten academic specializations: scriptwriting,
fiction film directing, documentary film directing, editing, cinematography and
photography, animation, sound design, production and management, audiovisual
studies and last but not least, visual effects. The facilities of the faculty
include a film studio, editing rooms and a sound studio. The fundamental
objective of our school is the education and training of high quality
professionals in artistic production of film and multimedia. We encourage
experimentation and research in artistic creation and help our students to adapt
to the professional needs of contemporary audiovisual and multimedia arts.
Tuesday 22nd October
11.45 - 12.45
VŠMU Academy of Performing
Arts in Bratislava - Faculty of Film and Television
Film Screening
Poetika Anima / Kriss Sagan 2018, 5’
Pura Vida / Martin Gonda 2018, 30’
Neptune / Tereza Dodoková 2019, 4’
The Gleam of Delicate Irony / Kristián Grupač 2019, 7’
Man in the Attic / Matúš Ďuraňa 2018, 8’
YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Communication
RADIO, TELEVISION & CINEMA DEPARTMENT
The aim of the department is to raise individuals that will participate in mass
communication processes. Apart from the academic
projects it leads, the department also adopts
the principle of continuous production.
Students learn by practice; they have their
education in an environment based upon exercise. They take part in their
instructors’
films. They take advantage of the photography,
television and radio studios, camera equipment and editing units.
The department offers students different
options in the Erasmus exchange program for
them to embrace the world and introduce them
to internationally acknowledged and experienced field experts with workshops and
seminars to benefit from their experiences.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN DEPARTMENT
The aim of the department is to bring up
graduates who can combine theoretical knowledge and practical skills to design
diverse,
distinctive and aesthetical artifacts.
Our graduates have the possibility to work as
designers in advertising, media, communications and digital industries. Various
fields
are explored during the study such as desktop
publishing and corporate identity, infographics and data visualization, video
and film
production, animation and 3D modeling, web,
ui and ux design, interaction design and interactive installations.
Friday 25th October
14.00 - 15.00
Yaşar University Film Screening
The Purified / Yiğit Erkol 2019, 19’
department of radio, television and cinema
Outsider / Gülce Candaş 2019, 17’
department of radio, television and cinema
Gods of Turkic Mythology / Bartu İmamtorunu 2019, 7’
department of visual communication design
Yusuf the Great / Atakan Çalışkan 2019, 5’
department of visual communication design
Waiting for the Stars / Irmak Emeklioğlu 2017, 3’
department of visual communication design Faculty of Fine Arts
FILM DESIGN DEPARTMENT
Department of film design focuses on fiction cinema. The courses are mostly
based on application, supported with theoretical lectures. The main aim of the
Film design department is to provide education in five basic areas: scenario,
production, filmmaking, cinematography and editing. The students are educated as
future artists of cinema.
Friday 25th October
14.00 - 15.00
Yaşar University
Film Screening
Double Shift / Ataberk Kırçuvaloğlu / 2019 / 16’
Dolos / Doğaç Su Gündoğ / 2019 / 23’
TEAM
festival director
Nazlı Bayram
festival coordinator
Ürün Yıldıran Önk
pr & ceremony coordinator
Ebru Gökaliler
video & photography coordinator
Dilek Kaya
visual identity & design coordinator
Daniele Savasta
editor
Baran Akkuş
web management
Mert Seven
catalogue design junior
Çakıl Ece Çakmakcı
teaser
Güven Zararsız
special photography
Güven Selçuk
social media
Simge Saner
ceremony presentation
Turgut Onarır
Kutay Altunkaynak
technical advisor
Cenk Sönmez
screening and technical coordinator
Burcu Dabak
hospitality, events, production
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