Thursday, 19 December 2019

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of Short Film BEN AND MIMI – MIMI AND BEN from United States directed by Eva Rini May Cragg

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of  Short Film BEN AND MIMI – MIMI AND BEN from the United States directed by Eva Rini May Cragg

Synopsis: 
Taking care of her husband Ben, who refuses to permanently remove the washcloths tied to his hands, Mimi finds her marriage rotating in an almost surreal routine. Suppressed by his weakness, while simultaneously enabling it, she misses a connection to the outside world and to nature in all its harshness.
Acting upon these claustrophobic feelings, Mimi secretly opens a window one night and allows a caterpillar to enter their home. Getting closer to the animal, she slowly rediscovers a more primal, free and almost mystical side of herself.

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of Feature Film The Donbass children from Ukraine directed by Lyubomir Dankov

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of  Feature Film The Donbass children from Ukraine directed by Lyubomir Dankov

Synopsis: 
This is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. You will hear the stories of so-called "ordinary people". These people suffered from irrational from a military point of view strikes on civilian targets. They are victims of someone's desire to wage war on their territory at all costs.
There are no author's comments in this movie and no censoring of the thoughts of the local people. This film was made especially for spectators in Europe, who do not know what is happening in Eastern Ukraine.
The purpose of the film is to arouse interest in the ongoing six-year armed conflict and to make people start to think about the responsibility of each of us for peace in Europe.

Wednesday, 18 December 2019

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of Short Film Baby from Peru directed by Thais Drassinower

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of  Short Film Baby from Peru directed by Thais Drassinower

Synopsis: 
An unnerving encounter with her estranged father at a night club while on a weekend back home in Lima is enough to remind Lía (19) that there are unhealed wounds. She will be forced to understand that the only person who can take care of her now is herself.

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of Short Film AURORA from Germany directed by Philip Escobar Jung

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of  Short Film AURORA from Germany directed by Philip Escobar Jung

Synopsis:  
1979. Aurora, a little girl who lives in the Bavarian Alps, goes on a trip to the mountains with her father Valentin to watch a falling rain of stars. Aurora and Valentin take photos of the event that Aurora wants to show her mother Sylvia the next day. But on the way down, something unexpected happens that will be a big challenge for Aurora's inner world ...

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of Short Film ANYWHERE from Switzerland directed by Juliette Menthonnex

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival l welcomes the submission of  Short Film ANYWHERE from Switzerland directed by Juliette Menthonnex

Synopsis: 
Mia, a former trapeze artist from Florida finds herself at the head of a small circus with her husband in German-speaking Switzerland. Despite an exhausting nomadic lifestyle, Mia has faith in the circus tradition and patience while passing on this cultural heritage to her daughter Simone.

Tuesday, 17 December 2019

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival welcomes the submission of Short Film FEBRUARY 27th from Western Sahara directed by Marie-Thérèse Jakoubek

5th Banjara International Touring Film Festival  welcomes the submission of  Short Film FEBRUARY 27th from Western Sahara directed by Marie-Thérèse Jakoubek

Synopsis: 
For 42 years, around 210.000 Saharawi have been living in camps in the Algerian desert due to the occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco. The film tells about their life in a temporary existence that evolved into home against their will and to this day symbolizes their resistance and resilience.