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Berwick New Cinema: Surge Channel

21 September 2017

Run Time

93 mins

The very best in artists’ moving image and new filmmaking

Berwick New Cinema includes feature films, competition screenings and seminars.

The second edition of the award features resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation. Chosen by an international jury, the Berwick New Cinema Competition features some of the most exciting and ambitious filmmakers working today.

High cities of bone

Altas cidades de ossadas

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated.

Nights of vigil are spent under a sweltering tropical heat. Among the sugarcanes, a rumour emerges—Karlon hasn’t stopped singing.

High Cities of Bone is a stark, steady and humane exploration of Karlon’s memories and institutional sieges, unearthing stories from a dark time.

Director

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Dialogue Language

Creole

Primary Contact

Pedro Peralta

Duration

19 mins

Producer

João Matos

Director of photography

Vasco Viana

Editor

João Salaviza, Edgar Feldman

Sound design

Rafael Cardoso

Camera Threat

Camera Threat

Somewhere in the dreary nooks of Mumbai’s film industry, between star-cult, superstition and daily gridlock, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent, sometimes paranoid relationship the Indian film capital has with the moving image.

Director

Countries

Year

2017

Premiere

Dialogue Languages

English Hindi

Primary Contact

Bernd Lützeler

Duration

30 mins

Actor

Mansi Multani Pushpendra Singh Girish Pardeshi

Voices

Shai Heredia Harish Bhimani

Camera

Janantik Shukla Shakir Shaikh Shashank Peshawaria

Music composer

Guido Möbius

Music performer

Guido Möbius

Sound design

Johannes Hampel

Animation

Satish C Ajgaonkar

Production company

Philip Widmann

Other

Swapnil B Sarnaik Shashank Peshawaria

Producer

Bernd Lützeler

You Are Seeing Things

Estás vendo coisas

It is all a dream” she sings, “a hallucination. You are seeing things… estás vendo coisas!” In Estás vendo coisas (You Are Seeing Things), two protagonists of the ‘tecno brega’ music scene stage a musical in which they appear as the stars.

Directors

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Primary Contact

Benjamin de Burca

Duration

17 mins

DISINTEGRATION 93-96

DISINTEGRATION 93-96 is an essay film about the undocumented Filipino American experience, retracing connections between 90s home movie nostalgia, post-colonial identity, and the disintegration of traditional family models.

Director

Countries

Year

2017

Premiere

Primary Contact

Shireen Seno

Duration

5 mins

Distributor

Shireen Seno

Year 2017

A walk around the filmmakers’ apartment, assembled with photos of previous residents. Objects are cut out of photographs, objects that have been with the filmmaker for years. they shine red. Narrated by a repeating phrase, the film searches for the past through the eyes of a soul turned backward.

Director

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Primary Contact

Wojciech Bąkowski

Duration

6 mins