Author: Arianna Di Iorio

Eat

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Eat by Moritz Krämer (Germany, 2012)

Biographical note of the author
Moritz Krämer, born in 1980 in Basel Switzerland, grew up in the Black Forest in Germany. He went to school in Freiburg, Germany and studied Video and Text at Berlin University of the Arts. Moritz Krämer worked as a video artist, composer, song writer and musical director at different theaters in Germany.

Synopsis
A photo shoot. The model Helen is unnerved. Back in the changing room she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible.

Der Rest Vom Fest

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Der Rest Vom Fest by Pierre-Yves Dalka (Germany, 2015)

Biographical note of the author
Pierre-Yves Dalka grew up in South Africa and studied cultural and comparative literary studies in Germany. He’s been making fiction and documentary films from a young age with a special focus on social issues intertwined with individual biographies, such as refugees in Germany and the oppression of homosexual relationships.

Synopsis
The Oktoberfest in Munich at night – when the roller coasters are asleep and cleaning vans roam the earth.

Aurelio

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Aurelio by Diego Somarribas (Costa Rica, 2016)

Biographical note of the author
Diego Somarribas is a Costa Rica based adventure and sports Photographer, Film maker and 3D Artist Website.

Synopsis
Aurelio represents the middle-class workers, overwhelmed by the daily routine. Every morning, the alarm sound starts up to a day equal to all the others.

Quello che non si vede

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Quello che non si vede by Dario Samuele Leone (Italy, 2016)

Biographical note of the author
Dario Samuele Leon was born in Bra in 1978. Graduated at University of Bologna in 2005, he attent a course at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia at Rome in 2006.

Synopsis
Everyday a man hides himself in a coffee machine e makes coffee instead of the machine. His name is Elio, a 57 years old dwarf, fighting against a life rich of efforts.

Judgment
For the ability of interpreting a story and human condition through refined but not artificial creative filming invention. Therefore thanks to a remarkable interpretation of the leading actor.

Where have the flowers gone?

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Where have the flowers gone? by Sin-hong Chan  (China-Hong Kong, 2016)

Biographical note of the author
Sin-hong Chan is a animator and motion graphics designer based in Hong Kong. He is a BA Fine Art graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Afterward he has done different kinds of job likes reporter, programmer, video editor, designer, animator.

Synopsis
A piggy pursuing dream in the big factory but in reality all efforts seemed powerless and even kill himself. The concept is inspired by the classic movies of the silent era, Metropolis and Modern Time

Judgment
In order to harmonize force and poetry in the narration of immense production machinery which swallows and crusches everything it comes into contact with. A striking and dark but at the same time delicate and poetic animated film, like the flower which accompanies the protagonist throughout the plot. The film describes the industrial revolution which has recently taken place in China leading to the disappearance of entire rural communities, the migration of the labour force into new jobs and anonymous habitations.

We want to retire at age 55

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We want to retire at age 55 by Alessandro Diaco (Italy-Tunisia, 2016)

Biographical note of the author
Alessandro Diaco is a director and independent author of ethno-fiction and sociological films.He prefers to produce and narrate stories which diverge from the mainstream.

Synopsis
A multi-coloured fresco about work conditions in a dangerous industrial context.

Judgment
With the power of images, the short represents incredibly clearly the work conditions in an industrial contest so dangerous and it offers an important contribution to the representation of demands of contemporary labourers.

Call of beauty

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Call of beauty by Brenda Lien (Germany, 2010)

Biographical note of the author
Brenda Lien was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany in 1995, she works as an independent filmmaker and film music composer. She has been studying art with a focus on film and animation at the University of Art and Design Offenbach since 2012. In 2017 she is  selceted to the Berlinale Shorts competition with her film.

Synopsis
Two young women making videos for their Youtube channel, stuck in beauty-industryand product placement. A tyranny of clicks, likes and follower, a gamble with truths andauthenticities.


Judgment
The short deals with the back office of a popular and new job: the youtuber/make up stylist. It shows how different it is from what we see on the net, passing through bright atmospheres and a back office made of darkness and effort, with a storytelling that shows this activities primarly as a work.

Senor o Senorito?

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Senor o Senorito? by Cristina Piernas (Spain, 2015)

Biographical note of the author
Cristina Piernas was born in 1987 in Madrid. She Began her studies on “European Expert on Visuals and Window Dressing” and now she is working as Art Director in short film.


Synopsis
What if during a job interview someone asks a men all of those questions usually asked a woman – how about your marital status, maternity and work-life balance? The short moves from this paradoxical question to an ironical representation about the overturning of roles, giving a deep reflection about how much heavy is gender dimension in the workplaces.

Judgment
To  have  condensed  within  an  ironic  and  brilliant  storytelling  many  problematics  related  to the  influence of gender on job. What would happen if during the job interview a man will be asked the same questions that are considered to be a norm for a woman? It seems this is the question that runs throughout the narrative of this short film that in a grotesque and satiric roles reversal, reveals a series of problems related to the link between gender and work. They vary  from  the  premise  and  promise  of  not  to  plan  other  children,  to  the  need  to  adopt  a certain type of dress code that might better satisfy male tastes, to finish then with the work -life balance needs.

Gruneres Gras

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 Gruneres Gras by Veronika Hafner (Germany, 2014)

Biographical note of the author
Veronika Hafner was born in 1989 in Schwaben (Southern Germany). In 2013 she got her master’s degree in Psychology, German and Geography at the “Ludwig Maximilian” University in Munich. Since 2013, she has been studying film/documentary at the University of Television and Film in Munich

Synopsis
What a man I would be, if I had went to another school, moved to another city or taken another job? We can’t turn back time to find out. So we continue to follow our secret dreams. Because grass is always greener on the other side.


Judgment
A simple  work  that  perfectly  represents  the  distance  between  the  real work,  asitis,  and  the ideal job.  A carousel of dissatisfactions  and desires of change, a spiral in which someone else is already doing the work we would do. A  tour  on  this  merry-go-round  is  sufficient  to  remove  the  idea  of  work as  a  vocation  and  to swallow the corporate myth of the right person at the right place.

Dust

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Dust by Chandrasinghe Nayani (Sri Lanka, 2013)

Biographical note of the author
 NayaniSandya Chandrasinghe, 28 years old, is a short film maker, creative writer from Kandy, Sri Lanka. He studied at Mahamaya Girls College Kandy and graduated in Arts from University of Peradeniya. At the university she studied Film & Television. After the graduation she entered to the SLF Digital Film Academy and there she directed Dust, Autumn Leaves, Numb, Dreams Weavers and Viewers.

Synopsis
Nazaar. His job is to collect the gold dust that washes away from the workshops of the chettis’ during the process of refining and making of jewellery. Once Nazaar has collected the gold dust for the day, he goes through a simple chemical process which separates the gold dust and makes it into a small golden nugget, useful to feed his addiction on drugs

Judgment
Extracting gold from the sewage (to maintain the own addiction).
To document it you must observe very closely and at the same time maintain the distance needed to not be involved empathically.