The European Competition
The European Competition of documentary films is a platform for discussing the present-day art of the documentary in the Polish-German border region. Apart from film screenings, the international documentary filmmakers scene meets with the audience during discussions. The tension between the traditional and the avant-garde, the formal and thematic explorations, the defying of genres, and the changing of cinematic customs: this is what defines the SEFF. A multicultural background and the dialogue of committee members guarantee that the audience gets a broad view of modern documentary cinema, its artistic and social involvement, as well as the commitment to a singular protagonist.
This year, the Polish-German Selection Team, consisting of Bartosz Wójcik, Jörg Foth, and Damian Romaniak, has selected 34 films for the European Competition. The list of qualified films is as follows:
"À tous les fils de notre mère" – Antonin Blanc, BE, 2016
"The Burden of Proof" – Stefan Kessissoglou, DE/CZ, 2015
"Bussresan" – Sarah Gampel, SE, 2016
"Capsule" – Simon Welch, FR, 2016
"Casa Blanca" – Aleksandra Maciuszek, PL/MX/CU, 2015
"Come Sopravvivere alla Banda" – Vittorio Antonacci, IT, 2016
"Condrong" – Gonçalo Almeida, UK, 2016
"The Deal" – Ewa Smyk, UK/PL, 2015
"Diagonale du Vide" – Guillaume Ballandras, FR, 2015
"Djinns, les Esprits de Patras" – Jean-Jacques Cunnac, FR, 2015
"Gestern gings noch, Herr Schürmann" – Jan Krämer, DE, 2016
"La Historia de Samuel" – Oliver Hardcastle, UK, 2016
"How Long, Not Long" – Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot, DK, 2016
"If I Were a Filmmaker" – Mark John Ostrowski, ES, 2016
"Le Journal de Théodore Kracklite" – Jacques Lœuille, FR/IT, 2016
"Make Music, Not War" – Denys Kushnarov, Oles Seredytskyi, UA, 2015
"Matkalla Aleppoon" – Vesa Rajala, Juuso Lavonen, FI/SY, 2016
"1975. Mensaje navideño de su majestad el Rey de España" – Antonio Antón, ES, 2015
"Monica" – Dimitris Argyriou, DE, 2016
"Nu am, moarte, cu tine nimic..." – Olga Lucovnicova, RO/MD, 2016
"Obiekt" – Paulina Skibińska, PL, 2015
"Papiers d'Arménie" – Ornella Macchia, BE, 2015
"The Postmodern Pioneer Plaque" – Boris Kozlov, ES, 2016
"Rèsce la Lune" – Gloria Kurnik, Giulia Di Battista, PL/IT, 2016
"Rotten" – Mehmet Selçuk Bilge, TR, 2015
"Shujayya" – Mohammed Almughanni, PL/PS, 2015
"Six Degrees" – Trond Kvig Andreassen, NO, 2015
"Sıra Dışı İnsanlar" – Orhan Tekeoğlu, TR/RU, 2015
"A Story of Anticipation" – Freja Andersson, SE, 2016
"Time Capsule" – Jan Ijäs, FI/ES, 2016
"Vsi smo tu že od nekdaj" – Peter Cerovšek, Neža Grum, Matevž Jerman, SI/HR, 2016
"War Scarred Berlin" – Roland Fuhrmann, DE, 2015
"Wreck" – Jan Ijäs, FI/IT, 2016
"West Empire" – Mathieu Le Lay, FR, 2015
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