Opening Scenes Lab

Tatjana Fanny, the director & producer of Sonnenhof – a short film selected in the Opening Scenes Competition – will be taking part in the in the Opening Scenes Lab.

Wang Yu, director of Under One Roof

I’m Francisco Armenteros. In my last year in film school, I directed beside three of my colleagues the film “Ruinas Futuras” which has been selected in the Opening Scenes Competition. My goals at the festival are to discover new films and to learn more about documentary filmmaking with the advice of professionals. I also participate in the Openings Scenes Lab, where I expect to start developing my next project

Company : ECAM Personal profile : RAN CHEN, come from CHINA and stay in Spain for now. Rigorous and responsible in my work, efficient in editing. I communicate well with groups and think flexibly. I have a very high level of concentration. Good at self-directed learning and eager to keep improving. Goals at VdR & mention : be able to communicate with many filmmakers and to promote my films and harvest other people’s opinions. Project selected in the Official Selection : Opening Scenes Competition

Director of How Are You, Baba? (Official Selection)

Alhasan Yousef,1991, is a Syrian documentary and fiction filmmaker and photographer. He has a Bachelor’s in Audiovisual and a master’s in Documentary Film Directing from the DocNomads program across Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Alhasan has a unique approach to his fictional works, often portraying norms in a way that encourages viewers to analyze alternative truths. In his documentaries, he strives to fuse the lines between fiction and non-fiction in an experimental and personal manner, drawing on his subjective viewpoint to recount experienced social, political, and emotional narratives. His latest documentary, “Locus Cordis” premieres at Visions du Réel film festival 2023 for the Opening Scenes Competition, Lab and Film Market. Currently, Alhasan is developing a new project on “helping out of helplessness”, after the recent earthquake in his hometown, as a Syrian living in exile.

I am a director, I was selected by Opening Scenes with my short film Once More. I am currently developing by myself my debut feature film, a biographical and experimental documentary, and I am looking for creative producers to help me to end up this project that I’ve been shooting for 5 years. The shooting is almost finished but now I need a creative support to rewrite the story in editing, to find archive materials and to post-product the film.

My graduation short film ‘For Mouna’ is selected at this year’s festival in the ‘Opening Scenes’ program. I took my final student-freedom at film school to heart as I experimented a lot while making this film. I filmed 90% of it all by myself. For my next project, I want to prove my abilities in mise en scene. I am writing a story right now and I hope to find out as much as possible about what I want to convey before shooting so that I can make very deliberate decisions on set. I am very interested in sports, especially ball sports. I love old surrealist cinema. I started making lamps during the lasts couple of months. I hope to see some inspiring stuff at the festival and have some good laughs and refreshing conversations with fellow movie makers during the opening scenes lab!

Réalisatrice du courtmétrage ‘Future Ruins’ qui fait partie de la section officielle. Je suis interesée par les documentaires réalisés par des jeunes filmmakers et les film plus expérimentaux.

My project will screen in Opening Scenes, and I will be participating in the Opening Scenes Lab.

I realized L’arrestation de C and would be interested in meeting distributors / festival selectors / producers. I like movies that questions the boundaries between docs and fictions, and that find specific cinematographic dispositif, take risks. And can still use dramatic ancestors at some points.

My film “Do You Get Me?” is going to be screened in the Opening Scenes Section.

The short film “The building opposite” is a project where reality and imagination have been of equal importance. My starting point was the apartments in the building opposite mine, where actual people live their lives. From there on I´ve let my imagination explore what could take place in some of the empty spaces next door. Some of the apartments were studio built and after that merged with the actual facade of the building. Most scenes are montages created with visual effects. “The building opposite” appears in the Opening Scenes Competition category and has its world premiere at VdR.

Hi! I’m Carolina, from Spain. The film Future Ruins which I produced and co directed has been selected in the Opening Scenes Competition. During the lab, I would also like to be advised on the new script I’m writing, although It’s a fictional, animated movie. Regarding the kind of films I enjoy the most, above all, I am interested in humanists stories told through a transgressive lens. I don’t have a preference on the genre, but the passage of time, youth and gender are my preferred topics. Among my favorites: Entre Nous (1983), Solitary Acts (2016), The Double Life of Véronique (1991), No Home Movie (2015).

Opening Scenes Lab participant