Participants 2022 - Munich Film Up!

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PARTICIPANTS 22/23

The 6 promising young filmmakers are offered a 8-month journey that starts & ends all together in Munich (at the Film School Fest Munich at first & at the Filmfest München at the end), with individual 3-week-long Pop Up Film Residencies in between.

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Sadeq Es-Haqi

I belong to the generation of Iranian young filmmakers who are exploring the least discussed aesthetic and thematic issues in Iranian cinema.

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Double Blind (WT)

The story takes place in a criminal city. The life of a young girl is turned upside down during the course of one day.

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Hang L Nguyen

A Vietnamese woman filmmaker who cares to explore the transnational female identity in relationships with family dynamics and grief. With a morbid sense of humor, occasionally.

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Rooftop Lempicka (WT)

A coming-of-age drama with magical realist elements. In 2002 Saigon, Vietnam, a ten-year-old girl learns her first lessons about womanhood and sexuality by possessing a nude painting book by a female artist, and befriending her conservative parents’ new tenant.

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Soham Kundu

Soham is an Indian born, London based Writer-Director, an alumna of University of the Arts London (Directing), NFTS (Writing the TV Pilot) and a recipient of the JN Tata Scholarship. His latest film ‘Love Death and Everything In Between won the ‘Prix Interculturel Award’ at Film School Fest Munich’.

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The Sea Urchin (WT)

The Sea Urchin follows the story of Vitthal, a Bangladeshi immigrant in the UK, who comes to terms with his own identity, triggered by the untimely demise of his schizophrenic brother. While in mourning, he forms a unique friendship with a deaf woman who shares a similar desire to escape from the responsibilities and mundanities of everyday life.

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Nancy Calmado

I am Nancy and I grew up in the Italian Alps. After studying at the HFF, now I’m based in Munich.

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Wolf (WT)

Will be my debut film. It is a crazy, hilarious horror/thriller mix about the return of the ,,evil” wolf in Europe.

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Viv Li

Viv Li is a Chinese filmmaker and artist based in Berlin. She likes to approach everything with humor, especially her films.

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A Hazy Romance (WT)

A Chinese layabout and a Swiss photographer accidentally drive themselves into China’s deep west. Despite the clash in culture, the two strangers must learn to trust each other in this strange get adventurous journey.

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Ashmita Guha Neogi

Ashmita Guha Neogi (1991) is a filmmaker based out of Delhi, India. She studied Scriptwriting & Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She is currently developing her debut feature, Cold Ashes Can Cause Forest Fires.

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Cold Ashes Can Cause Forest Fires (WT)

During a winter vacation, the teenage daughters of two families slowly discover secrets that exist between the families, threatening their own friendship.