Filmography — STEPHANIE SANT

Song of the living rocks (2024)

After the fire, a teenage girl searches for new life. A woman on top of a volcano guides her from afar.

La Palma, Canary Islands 7’51 Language: Spanish

This short film was realised from scratch and completed during the 10 day accelerator with Werner Herzog and guest mentor Peter Zeitlinger in La Palma (Canary Islands) organised by La Selva Coop that took place from the 20th of September to the 1st of October 2024.

Starring: Rosangela Ayala Varona and Carmen Gonzalez Diaz

written, directed, composed and edited by Stephanie Sant

cinematography by Sebastian Ferrari

Sur les fleurs la nuit (A short film about flowers at night) - 2021

One speaks, the other listens, as they walk in a floral garden at dusk. Together they marvel how the scent of the flowers has intensified as the light around them dwindles. Excited by their blindness and intoxicated by the perfume that surrounds them, they boldly take a leap of faith together into the night.

Malta- France, 2021. duration 3'33 language(s): French, English

written, directed and composed by Stephanie Sant

Premiere at the 34th festival Instants Video, Friche de la Belle de Mai (Salle de la Cartonnerie), Marseille 2021
In Competition at Olhares do Mediterraneo Women’s Film Festival, Lisbon 2022
In Competition at Kinemastik International Short Film Festival, Malta, July 2023

Perpetual Child - 2020

Egaline, Oskar and Amante while away their time, each in their respective world, as they await the return of their parents.

Malta, 2020. duration 10' Language: Maltese, Gozitan

co-produced, written, directed and composed by Stephanie Sant

cinematography by Monika Kotecka
produced by Stephanie Sant, Sajjetta Films
selected for Euro Connection 2018 at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
awarded by the Malta Film Fund 2017

actors: Mikela-Ivy Cutajar, Maia Micallef, Matteo Calleja Tonna
Premiere at Kinemastik International Short Film Festival 2020

Selected Screenings:

Rising Sun International Film Festival, Kitakyushu, Japan (November 2020)

Minikino Film Week 7, Bali, Indonesia (September 2021)

Fest New Directors Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal (October 2021)

Festival Music and Cinema, Aubagne (May 2022) out of competition

Camilla - 2018

Brokenhearted Laura becomes enthralled by the older and mysterious Camilla, a reclusive woman who writes epitaphs for a living.

Malta, 2018. duration 20’ Language(s) Maltese, English, Italian

co-written by Teodor Reljic and Stephanie Sant, directed by Stephanie Sant

cinematography by Jonas Schimpf

produced by Shadeena Entertainment, Funded by the National Book Council

actors: Steffi Thake, Irene Christ

available for free on Youtube (18+)

Ir-Raġel tal-Klieb (The Dog Man) - 2019

After spending his life controlled by his wife, a widowed old man gives in to his obsession of adopting all the street dogs he can find.

Malta, 2019. duration 15’ language: Maltese

adapted by a novella of Oliver Friggieri by Stephanie Sant

directed by Samuel Sultana

produced by Shadeena Entertainment
awarded by the Malta Film Fund 2016

premiere: Valletta Film Festival 2019

in competition at Tangier Film Festival 2019

Encounters short film festival, Bristol 2019

actor: Philip Mizzi

available for free on Youtube

DIAMOND - 2016

Diamond and S have a conversation together in a bleak studio space. Diamond picks up objects and S prompts him to explore them through different lives (the life of a sad writer, or the life of a rough construction worker, the life of an English+ Japanese garden). Their improvised conversation echoes the multiple facets of a DIAMOND and the multiplicity of one human fighting a society that tries to sterilise and reduce man to one characteristic only.

London, 2016. duration 7’ language(s): English, Japanese

written and directed by Stephanie Sant
performed by Soon Park and Stephanie Sant

Screened:
Nanny Cam organised by The White Pube (June, 2017)
La Casa Amarilla, Malaga, Spain (2015)
Central Saint Martins Degree Show One, London (2016)

available for free on Youtube

Ira and the blue rock - 2014

A crepuscular happening involving Ira and my blue turquoise rock in my hometown.