Emerging Filmmaker

Jullo, Edo and Chiara: three adolescents like thousands of others. Three teenagers whose lives are sport. Jullo “is” his skateboard; Chiara conquers the world on skis; Edo a sprayer.

Director Invited
History professor Lewis Birch attempts to reignite his career and make amends with his estranged family by recreating the most famous expedition in American history.

Batko Stamenov, a student in communist-era Bulgaria whose entire life has been built on deception, creates his own ring of spies in this satirical black comedy. After being dismissed from the government’s espionage agency, Batko enlists the same radical student group he had infiltrated to become his own web of informants. Soon thereafter the group turns on itself, then on the government, and then on Batko. By film’s end the line between victim and villain becomes impossibly blurred.

Injecting energy and complexity into a turning point in medical history, this intelligent, sexually-charged debut from director Alice Winocour explores a psychology experiment in 19th century France that quickly turned into an exploitative exercise for both doctor and patient. When a beautiful housemaid, Augustine, is diagnosed with hysteria, famed French psychologist Jean-Martin Charcot sees an opportunity to secure funding for his hospital, but Charcot’s true intentions don’t go unnoticed by his patient.

Rivaling the excitement, action and inventiveness of Hollywood thrillers, 7 Boxes follows teenage Victor, who ekes out a living delivering packages in Asunción, Paraguay. On a hot, sticky Friday amid the city’s tangled streets, Victor receives a request to deliver 7 boxes in exchange for $100 -- it is too good an opportunity to pass up. But this seemingly easy job soon gets very complicated. Something in this cargo is highly coveted, and Victor quickly finds himself boxed in.