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RAGFF
RETRO AVANT GARDE FILM FESTIVAL
Cari Registi e Pubblico, A causa del Covid 19, quest'anno non ci saranno proiezioni dal vivo a causa delle misure di sicurezza e per il dovere del festival non essere parte di ulteriori o possibili contagio.
Il Festival avrà alcune attività online, interviste, workshop e bandi di produzione. Queste attività saranno programmate durante le prossime settimane e condivise con tutti i follower nei nostri canali media.
@retroavantgardefilmfestival
Dear Filmmakers and Audience, Due Covid 19, there won't be live screenings this Year due safety measures and for the festival duty not be part of any further or possible contagious.
The Festival will have some Activities online, Interviews, Workshops and Production Calls. These Activities will be Schedule during the next weeks and share with all Followers in our media channels.
@retroavantgardefilmfestival
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AWARD WINNERS
Best Director Feature Film
Winner
Roman Nesterenko Viktorovich
" Bumping Bliss "
Russian Federation
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Best Director Short Film
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Alessandra Gonnella
" A Cup of Coffe with Marilyn "
Italy
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Best Actor / Actress Feature Film
Best Actor Feature Film
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Numan Cakir
Toprak
Turkey
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Best Actress Feature Film
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Deborah Staples
Coming up for Air
United States
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Best Actor Short Film
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Francesco Tasselli
YourBnB
Italy
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Best Actress Short Film
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Ines Schiller
Two Sisters
Austria
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Retro Short Film
Winner
Spec- i -men
Dir. Lynne Sanderson
Australia
Retro Documentary
Best Italian Retro Documentary Feature Film
Winner
FLASH La Storia di Giovanni Parisi
Dir. Marco Rosson
Italy
Finalist
L’I Italiano che invento’ il cinema
Dir. Stefano Anselmi
Italy
Best Foreign Retro Documentary Feature Film
Winner
Searching for Skylab : America’s Forgotten Triumph
Dir. Dwight Steven-Boniecki
United Kingdom
Finalist
The Minds of Men
Dir. Aaron Dykes, Melissa Dykes
United States
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Best Italian Retro Documentary Short Film
Winner
Her story : The Short Biography of Adriane Chraibi or how the
Mind catcher was Conceived, Made, Used then Destroyed
Dir. Simon Barletti
Italy
Best Foreign Retro Documentary Short Film
Winner
Voyage to Morocco
Dir. Andre Lage
Brazil
Finalist
Something for Yourself
Dir. Alexandria L Vicari
United States
Best Cinematography
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Best Cinematography Feature Film
Winner
Cutlass
Dir. Burri-Taka Bolalima
Cameroon
Best Cinematography short film
Winner
Vesania
Dir. Elisabet Terri
Spain
Best Original Music
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Best Original Music Feature Film
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Wuthering Heights
Best Original Music Short Film
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Thule – Beyond the borders of the known world
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Best Screenplay
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Best Screenplay Feature Film
Winner
Transference : A Bipolar Love Story
Dir. Raffaello Degruttola
United Kingdom
Best Screenplay Short Film
Winner
Padre Vostro
Dir. Milo Vallone
Italy
Finalist
Follow the Arrow
Dir. Marc Saez
France
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Best Makeup / Hair Style
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Best Makeup / Hair Style Feature Film
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Fall Back Down
Dir. Sara Beth (SB) Edwards
Canada
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Best Makeup / Hair Style Short Film
Winner
The Role of a Lifetime
Dir. Marc Saez
France
Best Edition
Best Edition Feature Film
Winner
Fall Back Down
Dir. Sara Beth (SB) Edwards
Canada
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Best Edition Short Film
Winner
The Role of a Lifetime
Dir. Marc Saez
France
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Winners
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Official Selections
Best Retro Avant Garde Feature Film
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Winner
Bumping Bliss
Dir. Roman Nesterenko Viktorovich
Russian Federation
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Synopsis:
Light comedy about happiness and life journey, mirages and mindfulness. Saint - Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century. A huge stir is going on in the well-known comic magazine "Carousel" - the Owner is on his way.
This is a chance of a lifetime for a talented writer Kukushkin. He is ready for it; also for the editor of the magazine Kukushkin is just an acquisition - his works are juicy, colorful, considerable and his topics are practically crossing the line.
Suddenly everything gets turned upside down - the Owner received a note and... The trigger has been pulled: intrigues, love, betrayal and amazing humor, humor of the "king of laughter" of the beginning of the twentieth century
A. Averchenko leads Kukushkin to his happiness. Action begins in the pre-revolutionary Saint - Petersburg.
The main attention of the creators was drawn to the aesthetic of the beginning of the twentieth century,
despite that, this movie will be interesting to anyone who likes to laugh, relax or even reflect on.
"Bumping bliss" is a movie - bookcase, bookcase of meanings, and, without any doubt, the topic of life journey
and a wish to be happy is bugging and will bug viewers for many centuries.
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 85 minutes
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Best Retro Avant Garde Short Film
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Simulacra
Dir. Curry Sicong Tian
United States
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An old Geisha’s life journey about identity, perception, relationships between
Eastern and Western Culture, and circularity/dualism.
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Finalist
Life is Now
Dir. Michael Coppola
United Kingdom
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The video is a conceptual and surrealistic montage. It is a visual poetry with a young, male playing the protagonist, whilst a female plays the dancer. The aim of the video is to show our perceptionof time through the use of artistic choreography
and poetry. It present the theory that our brain is constantly creating an illusion about our present and that our constant focus on the future is keeping us away from appreciating the present moment.
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Best Feature Films
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Winner Best Drama
Life Itself
Dir. Guillermo Salinas
Chile
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Winner Best Comedy
That's so Funny
Dir. Mohamed Farouk
Egypt
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Winner Best World Feature Film
Mora Mora
Dir. Valerio Orfeo
Italy / Madagascar
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Winner Experimental Feature Film
Napoli Eden
Dir. Bruno Colella
Italy
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Winner Musical Feature Film
Il Suono della Voce
Dir. Emanuela Giordano
Italy
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Human Rights
Winner Feature Films
Township Yogi
Dir. Peter Matthews
South Africa
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The Common Ground
Dir. Andrea Franceshini
Itally
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I Live
Dir. Rok Matic
Slovenia
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Winner Short Film
The Heart has no Boundaries – Il Cuore non ha Confini
Dir. Paolo Milocco
Italy
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Best Docuementary
Documentary Feature Films
Winner Best Italian Documentary Feature Film
Il Talento della Fantasia
Dir. Gianni Ciuffini
Italy
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Winner Best Foreign Documentary Feature Film
Handmade in Bangladesh
Dir. Florian Wehking & Liz Bachhuber
Germany
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Pescamare
Dir. Andrea Lodovichetti
Italy
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A Cambodian Winter
Dir. Forest Wise
United States
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GUCA : Serbian Detox
Dir. Igor S Rados
Canada
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Documentary Short Films
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Winner Best Italian Documentary Short Film
The Road, the lives and the courage
Dir. Luciano Urbani
Italy
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Winner Best Foreing Documentary Short Film
Colombia
Dir. Simon Straetker
Germany
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Hurricane
Dir. Nick Fitzhugh
United States
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Under the Skin – In Conversation with Anish Kapoor
Dir. Martina Margaux Cozzi
Italy
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Sealand
Dir. Vincenzo Campisi
United Kingdom
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The Heartbeat of Life
Dir. Giuseppe Malpasso
Italy
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Pugni Chiusi – il pugilato in carcere
Dir. Alessandro Best
Italy
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SHORT FILMS
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Best Drama
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3 Sleeps
Dir. Christopher Holt
United Kingdom
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The Chant of the Sea
Dir. Walter Della Mura
Italy
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Your BnB
Dir. Francesco Tasselli
Italy
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Growing up
Dir. Steven Renso
Italy
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Vesania
Dir. Elisabet Terri
Spain
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The Circle
Dir. Mo Gohary
Egypt
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Best Comedy
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Compendium of the Impossible
Dir. Andrea Marchese
Italy
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Super - Soup
Dir. Iacopo Fulgi & Valerio Maggi
Italy / Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
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Social Distancing Age
Dir. Robert Ralston
Italy
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Bad Cop Bad Cop TM “The Dance”
Dir. Lala Costa
United States
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Ringo Rocket Star and his song for Yuri Gagarin
Dir. Rene Nuijens
Netherlands
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Festival of the Midnight Sun
Dir. Bjorn Rallare & Niklas Mertel Ekelund
Sweden
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Zoo
Dir. Veine
France
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Winner Best Science Fiction Short Film
Proofs From the Past
Dir. Christophe Ledard
France
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Winner Best Fantasy Short Film
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God )
Dir. Mat Braddy
United Kingdom
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Thule – Beyond the borders of the known world
Dir. Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Iceland
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Scleroderma Domesticus
Dir. Mattia Lunardi
Italy
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Dora
Dir. Joanne Delachair
France
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A Woman with a Camera
Dir. Tiago Luri
Portugal
Best Noir and Horror
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Winner Best Noir Short Film
The Man Dressed in Orange
Dir. Elvir Ali
United States
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Winner Best Horror Short Film
Laugh Club
Dir. Jindrich Vosecky
Czech Republic
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Five Course Meal
Dir. James Cadden
Canada
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Best Friends ForeBEAR
Dir. Pablo Semper
United States
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Kage
Dir. Felix Dumeril
Switzerland
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The Music Machine
Dir. Frida Feline Nilsen
Norway
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Snow Babel
Dir. Rossella De Venuto
Italy
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When Darkness Falls
Dir. Emilie Kroyer Koppel
Denmark
Best Art and Surrealism
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Winner Best Art Short Film
Studies at Huningue / Basel or the tree to sleep
Dir. Lutz P. Kayser
Germany
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Winner Best Surrealism Short Film
I see you
Dir. Anna Iunes
Canada
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Discorso sopra i massimi sistemi della produzione cinematografica
Dir. Pietro Angelini
Italy
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Hie ego novi
Dir. Michal Slawecki
Poland
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The Detached Observer ( L’observatrice Detachee )
Dir. Serena Marija
United Kingdom
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Lux Clara
Dir. Vukasin Zivaljevic
Serbia
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L’Arriere-Pays
Dir. Federica Foglia
Canada
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Before Me
Dir. Luca Nicolosi
Italy
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Queen of Dots
Dir. Michael Lyons
Japan
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Fucking Down
Dir. Amanda Lago
Spain
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Incredible Machine GlassBody
Dir. Katarina Poljak
United States
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Welcome to Milan
Dir. Giacomo Boeri & Matteo Grimaldi
Italy
Best Experimental
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Save Me
Dir. Michael Coppola
United Kingdom
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dir. Marc Elsner
Germany
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The Centreline
Dir. Elliot J. Spencer
Australia
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Film Me
Dir. Ed Picard
France
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New York Minute
Dir. Lynn Bianchi
United States
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Knowing Each Other
Dir. Cherie Carson
United States
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The Protocol
Dir. Avatara Ayuso
United Kingdom
Best Expressionist
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Oblon
Dir. Fabio Falzarano
Italy
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The Incantatory Magic of the Symbolic Gesture
Dir. Carla Geronimi
United Kingdom
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Dreamer
Dir. Michael LaRocco
United States
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Ally
Dir. Louis May
South Africa
Best Animation
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Monster News Feed
Dir. Cara Hagan
United States
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Beatrice
Dir. Vincenzo De Sio
Italy
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La Rana
Dir. Mario Kreill & Cristina Dezi
Italy
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La Danza del Crisantemo
Dir. Jose F. Sanchez
Spain
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The Water of the earth
Dir. Romain Claris
France
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Llaves (Keys)
Dir. Mayra A. Flores & Nicholas Manting Brewer
United States
Best Music Video
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Winner
Little Big – Go Bananas
Dir. Alina Pasok & Illiya Prusikin
Russian Federation
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Seru “Dark”
Dir. Alison Martin
South Africa
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“ Once Again ” by Sycamoreage
Dir. Cameron Turnball
United Kingdom
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There are heroes ( Stay Put Blues)
Dir. Paul Helou
United States
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Touch the weather
Dir. Ioan Gavriel & Fjodor Carl Kelling
Austria
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Welcome to your World
Dir. Michele Cesarato
Italy
RAGFF Venezia 2019
Screening Times & Official Film Selections