In development/in production.

What do lakes contain? Landscape fluctuations and dying languages, literary utopias, bygone eras that flow to the future. How to grasp them? By exploring, comparing, connecting, going under, sinking in. What do you call the study of lakes? Limnology.  

Credits
Directors and writers: Dane Komljen and James Lattimer
Producer: Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Flaneur Films)
Co-producer: Montse Triola (Andergraun Films)

Funded by and awarded at
Jeonju Cinema Project 2018 - Special Mention
FIDLab 2018 - Kodak and Silverway Award
Medienboard Experimental Fund

Bio/Filmo
Dane Komljen, born in 1986 in SFR Yugoslavia, is a Berlin based filmmaker. All the Cities of the North, his first feature, showed at more than 50 festivals and was theatrically released in USA since its premiere in 2016 at the Locarno Film Festival. Phantasiesätze, his last short, is showing at the Jeonju IFF.

James Lattimer is a film curator, critic and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin. He started working at the Berlinale Forum in 2008 and joined their selection committee in 2011. He co-directed his first short film All Still Orbit with Dane Komljen in 2016, which was presented at numerous international festivals.

Project in Development.

A hybrid documentary that looks to women's language, gesture, rhythm and the public voice as modes of resistance. A social science-nonfiction in celebration of women and alternative voices.

Credits
Director, Author, Producer: Deborah Stratman
Co-producer: Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Flaneur Films)
Executive Producer: Benjamin Cook (Lux London)

Bio/Filmo Deborah Stratman
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work that investigates issues of power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. Recent projects have addressed freedom, sinkholes, comets, orthoptera, surveillance, manifest destiny, infrastructure, levitation and faith.
She has exhibited internationally at venues including MoMA NY, Centre Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Mercer Union, Witte de With, the Whitney Biennial and festivals including Sundance, Viennale, Berlinale, CPH/DOX, Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, Full Frame and Rotterdam. Stratman is the recipient of an Alpert Award, Fulbright, Guggenheim and USA Collins Fellowships and grants from Creative Capital, Graham Foundation and Wexner Center for the Arts.
She teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

"Optimism" 2018, 15:00 min., video
"Siege" 2017, 7:00 min., video
"Xenoi" 2016, 15:18 min., video
"The Illinois Parables" 2016, 60:00 min., 16mm
"Second Sighted" 2014, 5:05 min., video
"Hacked Circuit" 2014, 15:08 min., video
"Immortal, Suspended" 2013, 5:50 min., video
"Musical Insects" 2013, 6:30 min., video
"The Name is not the Thing named" 2012, 10:30 min., video
"Village, silenced" 2012, 7:00 min., video
"A Throb" 2011, 1:14 min., video
"…These Blazeing Starrs!" 2011, 14:15 min., 16mm
"Ray’s Birds" 2010, 7:07 min., 16mm
"Shrimp Chicken Fish" 2010, 5:13 min., video
"FF" 2010, 2:45 min., video
"Kuyenda N’Kubvina" 2010, 40:00 min., video
"O’er the Land" 2009, 51:40 min., 16mm
"The Memory" 2008, 2:00 min., video
"Butter and Tomatoes" 2008, 4:00 min., video
"The Magician’s House" 2007, 5:45 min., 16mm
"It Will Die Out in the Mind" 2006, 3:50 min. video
"How Among the Frozen Words" 2005, 0:44 min., video
"Kings of the Sky" 2004, 68:00 min., video
"Energy Country" 2003, 14:30 min., video
"In Order Not to Be Here" 2002, 33:00 min., 16mm
"Untied" 2001, 3:00 min., 16mm
"The BLVD" 1999, 64:00 min., video
"From Hetty to Nancy" 1997, 44:00 min., 16mm
"On the Various Nature of Things" 1995, 25:00 min., 16mm
"Iolanthe" 1995, 4:30 min., video
"Waking" 1994, 7:00 min., video
"Palimpsest" 1993, 3:00 min., 16mm
"In Flight: Day No. 2,128" 1993, 2:00 min., 16mm
"the train from la to la" 1992, 8:00 min., video
"Possibilities, Dilemmas" 1992, 10:00 min., video
"A Letter" 1992, 7:00 min., video
"Upon a Time" 1991, 10:00 min., 16mm
"My Alchemy" 1990, 7:00 min., 16mm

Project in development.

A Pilgrimage to Frane Selak is a road film featuring numerous documentary elements and elaborate musical sequences. A group of five young people with the Williams syndrome board a magical water temple and embark on a pilgrimage to find the semimythical patron of chance and luck – Frane Selak.

Credits
Director and Author: Krzysztof Kaczmarek
Producer: Monika Derenda (Poland Studio)
Co-producer: Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Flaneur Films)


Bio/Filmo Krzysztof Kaczmarek
Visual artist and filmmaker. He co-founded Artpol Gallery in Cracow. Lives and works in Warsaw and Vienna. Represented by Dawid Radziszewski Gallery in Warsaw.

Pawel and Wawel (2014)
Von Haus zu Haus (2013)
Pompenzuballen (2010)
Buchbuch (co-directed with Łukasz Jastrubczak, 2010)
Heavy Rain Fell and in the Summer John Smith Traveled to the Farmland (co-directed with Elena Cooke, 2008
Holiday Film (2007)
Aleksandria (2006)

Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?

Credits
Director, Writer, Editor: Dane Komljen
Producer: Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Image: Jenny Lou Ziegel
Sound: Simon Apostolou
Music: Aaron Hemphill
Archive: Anatolij Gora

Technical Information
Germany, Denmark 2017 | DCP | 1:1,85 with Pillarbox I Original Format 4:3 | 5.1. Mix |
17 Min

Commissioned by CPH:Lab; with the support of BKM and Freundinnen und Freunde der Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Festivals & Awards
Locarno FF, Signs of Life - Fundación Casa Wabi-Mantarraya Award
Toronto IFF, Wavelengths
New York IFF, Projections
Pančevo FF
Batumi International Artouse FF
FICValdivia
Pravo Ljudski FF Sarajevo
IFF of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao Zinebi - Audience Award
Mar del Plata
Around the World in 14 Films
Belgrade Auteur FF
Human Rights FF Zagreb
Transcinema FF
FICUNAM
CPH:DOX
IFF of Uruguay
Locarno in LA
Beursschouwburg Brussels
EMAF
Kiev ISFF
Martovski Festival
FRONTEIRA – International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival
Jeonju IFF
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
IKFF Hamburg
Encuentros Cámara Lúcida in Ecuador
Moscow International Experimental FF
Guanajuato IFF
Belo Horizonte ISFF/Festcurtash
"Les États Généraux du film Documentaire" Lussas
ZINEBI at Tabakalera- International Centre for Contemporary Culture of San Sebastián and at the Spanish Cinematheque
FRONT IFF

Distributor
Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst
Kinoscope

Bio/Filmo Dane Komljen
Dane Komljen was born in 1986 in SFR Yugoslavia, studied film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Serbia and contemporary art at Le Fresnoy, France. His short films have been shown and awarded at the Locarno Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, FID Marseille, Festival de Cannes, Sarajevo FF and the Lincoln Center in New York. All the Cities of the North, his first feature, premiered last year at Locarno Film Festival.

Phantasiesätze, 17' (2017)
All the Cities of the North, 100' (2016)
All Still Orbit, 23' (2016)
Our Body, 15' (2015)
A Surplus of Wind, 25' (2014)
Tiny Bird, 30' (2013)
Bodily Function, 40' (2012)
I Already am Everything I Want to Have, 35' (2010)

Melissa and Gustavo cross the Atlantic to start a new life. They set sail on making films, friends and music, but fear awakens when a secret emerges. A cosmic portal opens up inviting them to expand their journey beyond time and space.

MUITO ROMÂNTICO is a stream that carries along hearts and minds. A playful rearrangement of experiences, memories and fantasies into a journey transcending space and time.

Credits
Screenplay, Direction, Editing: Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn
Producers: Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn, Gustavo Beck
Cinematography: Ville Piippo
Assistant Director: Bernardo Zanotta
Sound Design & Mix: Jochen Jezussek
Associate Producers: Zsuzsanna Kiràly, Michel Balagué
With Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn

Technical Information
Germany, Brazil 2016 I 72min I 1:1,78 I 5.1 I DCP 2K

Festivals & Awards
Berlinale - Forum Expanded / Montevideo IFF / New Horizons IFF - Special Mention in Films on Art Competition / Semana dos Realisadores / Melbourne IFF / Torino IFF / Berlin Art Film Festival / Transcinema / Janela de Cinema de Recife / Mostra de Sao Paulo / Cineesquemanovo / Artloop

Distributors
Arsenal / Germany
Vitrines / Brasil


Bio/Filmo Distruktur
Melissa Dullius (born in Porto Alegre, 1981) and Gustavo Jahn (born in Florianópolis, 1980) form the artist duo Distruktur since 2006, when they moved together from South Brazil to Berlin. Distruktur's body of work takes form as films, photographs, film performances, music, text and graphic. It crosses the borders between art and film, experimental and narrative, photography and moving image. Characteristic of their work is the use of 16mm film, mostly processed through handmade techniques. They are founding members of the analog film association LaborBerlin e.V.

Muito Romântico (2016)
A máquina do tempo (2014)
In the traveler's heart (2013)
Don't look back / Labirinto (2012)
Fotokino (2012)
Cat Effekt (2011)
Triangulum (2008)
Éternau (2006)

A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspires to shape an intimate and private place of her own while connecting to the world around her. When she receives a letter from home, it provides the conduit she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she’s always known herself to be.

Credits
Story and Direction: Matt Porterfield
Producers: Zsuzsanna Kiràly, Matt Porterfield
Director of Photography: Jenny Lou Ziegel
Editor: Amanda Larson
Sound Design: Gene Park, Danny Meltzer
With: Hannah Gross,
Jean-Christophe Folly, Angela Schanelec,
Gob Squad - Sebastian Bark, Mat Hand, Tina Pfurr, Sharon Smith, Laura Tonke, Bastian Trost, Simon Will

Technical Information
USA, Germany 2015 | DCP | 1:1.85 | 5.1 Mix | 30 min

Festivals
Berlinale Shorts Competition / Art of the Real at Lincoln Center / IndieLisboa / Maryland IFF / Melbourne IFF / Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad - Asia and India Tour / La Roche-sur-Yon IFF / 2MORROW Zavtra IFF / AFI Fest / Kurzfilmfestival Köln / Diálogo de Cinema IFF / Berlin Art Film Festival

Distributors
Arsenal / Germany
Stadtkino Verleih / Austria
Grasshopper / North-America


Bio/Filmo Matt Porterfield
Matt Porterfield has written and directed three feature films, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011) and I Used To Be Darker (2013), all produced in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was born and raised. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Harvard Film Archive and has screened at the Whitney Biennial, Walker Arts Center, Centre Pompidou, and film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and the Berlinale (Forum, 2010 & 2013). Matt teaches film theory and production at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Sollers Point, feature film (2017)
Take What You Can Carry, narrative short film (2015)
I Used To Be Darker, feature film (2014)
Days Are Golden Afterparty, experimental short film (2011)
Putty Hill, feature film (2011)
Hamilton, feature film (2006)