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2017

I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

Synopsis
Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she does not know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern-day Britain. 

Foreign Body

Foreign Body

Synopsis
A foreign body lives its own life. You're not able to get rid of it, it's always with you, you need it. Caress that odd part of yours, don't try to shave its long-tousled fur. This is a story about something that's considered to be strange at first but turns out to be the dearest thing to us. About the transformation of inside and outside.

Talal Afifi

Talal Afifi is a Sudanese film curator and creative producer, as well as founder and director of Sudan Film Factory, a production house and film culture platform that works since 2010 in empowering and building youth capacities in the field of documentation, film making and freedom of expression. President of Sudan Independent Film Festival since 2014, and manager of Karmakol International Festival. Member of the executive committee of the Sudanese Writers’ Union.

Enrico Vannucci

Enrico Vannucci works as short film advisor at Venice Film Festival and as short film programmer at Torino Short Film Market. He has been working in film festival programming teams since 2010. He has also written essays regarding the short and feature film festival ecosystem. Moreover, as a journalist he has been covering major film festivals since 2009.

Mette Hjort

Mette Hjort is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Affiliate Professor of Visual Studies at Lingnan University, and Affiliate Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She serves on the board of the Danish Film Institute, appointed by the Ministry of Culture. Mette's research interests include talent development based on transnational partnerships.

 

Greet Stevens

For almost 20 years now, Greet Stevens has been the responsible for the educational activities of MOOOV (Belgium). MOOOV aims to show a representative sample of the rich offer of world and arthouse cinema both during a yearly festival (held on 8 locations in Flanders), as on a weekly basis in several cinemas and cultural centers, and as a distributor for the Benelux.

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