The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films that will be part of the competition section and we find Italian illustrator Virginia Mori, Columbia Film program grad and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film profiled Annie Ning, American-born Irish actress Saoirse Ronan first foray into filmmaking and Between the Temples‘ Nathan Silver offers (out of competition) an eight minute docu titled Sounds From Home. Here are the selected films:
ANGELO AZZURRO
by TOMMASO ACQUARONE
with Thomas Di Federico, Pietro Paolo Marziani, Vida Tunguz / Italy / 20’
TESZTPÁLYA (TEST TRACK)
by LYDIA CORNETT
with Hunor Zsédely and the Zsédely family / Hungary, UK, USA / 15’
MOTHMAMA
by JESSICA DI COSTA
with Gabriella Hirschson, Audley Anderson / Australia / 12’
UNA FORTALEZA (A FORTRESS)
by ALBA GAVIRAGHI
with Antonia Pereira, Francisca Gavilán, Catalina Huerta, Daniela López, Luciana Sobarzo / Chile / 14’
LOS PODERES
by SALIM JALLER
with Daniel Ochoa, Victoria Escobar / Colombia, France / 20’
HEAD OF A CAMEL
by SHANNON LEE
Animation / USA / 4’
ΤΡΟΠΙΚΌΣ ΤΟΥ ΘΡΗΝΟΎΤΟΣ ΓΚΈΚΟ (THE TROPIC OF THE MOURNING GECKO)
by STAVROS MARKOULAKIS
with Dimitris Lagoutis, Amaury Foucher, Anastasia Galerou Vlassi / Greece, France, Netherlands / 19’
SASSO, CARTA, FORBICI (ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS)
by VIRGINIA MORI
Animation / Italy, France / 9’
BLEU AU LOIN (DISTANT BLUE)
by AMIR HOUSHANG MOEIN
Animation / France / 10’
MAN MADE LAKE
by ANNIE NING
with Lou Justine Moua Nédellec, Cao Ciong Zhang, Jing Ji Liu, Nola Kalata / USA, China / 17’
QUELQUES INSTANTS DE BONHEUR (A FEW MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS)
by SHADEN SAFIEDDINE TAZI
Documentary / France, UK / 18’
ТИША (SILENCE)
by PAVLO SHPEGUN
with Hryhoriy Naumov, Iolanta Bohdiun / Ukraine / 14’
PAPER PLANE
by SAOIRSE RONAN
with Martha Malone, Clare Dunne, Tim Creed / UK, Ireland / 15’
OUT OF COMPETITION
IL SENSO DELLA TERRA (THE SENSE OF EARTH)
by ALESSANDRO INGARIA, SIMONE MASSI
with Valentina Carnelutti, Sebastiano Kiniger, Beatrice Elena Festi, Shukuru Zanon / Italy / 14’
SOUNDS FROM HOME
by NATHAN SILVER
Documentary / France, USA / 8’
