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Carolina Kzan is a filmmaker based in Paris, blending live action, animation, and sound to push cinematic boundaries. As creative director at Omaro Productions, she explores fiction, documentary, and experimental film. 


Filmography

Les Chaussures Rouges

  Short Film | 2025 | France, Spain | 10’
Production: Independent
Roles: Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Colorist
Synopsis:
Maylis is about to leave Joséphine, her wheelchair and faithful companion. This dance film explores the emotions of this separation, between grief and rebirth.

Festivals:

  • 10th annual F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement (2025) – Official Selection (Vancouver)
  • Power 24 International Film Festival (2025) –      Honorable Mention
  • Festival Toi Femmes, Paris (2025) – Official Selection (France)
  • Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico (2025) –  Official Selection
  • Seize the Film (Uhvati Film) – Films on Disability (2025) – Official Selection
  • Videodance Patras Art Festival (2025) – Official Selection
  • MIRADA CORTA Short Film Festival (2025) –      Official Selection
  • San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2025) –      Official Selection (USA)
  • Vessels: A Night of Dance Film Festival (2025) – Official Selection 

Des petits rêves

Short Film | 2022-2023 | France, Spain | 28’
Production: Independent
Roles: Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Colorist
Synopsis:
Frida, an ordinary woman in her thirties, walks down a quiet street and enters an unusually ordinary building, where she dreams with open eyes. Through the unusual images created in her mind, we embark on a journey about sisterhood and the transmission of life experiences between women of different generations and backgrounds.
 

Festivals:

  • Palma Film Festival (2024) – Official Selection  (Spain)
  • Porto Femme  International Film Festival (2023) – Official Selection (Portugal)
  • Valkyrie International Film Festival (2024) –  Official Selection (USA)
  • BEE Film Festival (2023) – Honorable Mention: Best International Short Film | Best Actress (Brazil)
  • Campinas Film Festival (2023) – Best  International Short Film | Best Direction Award (Brazil)

Visible

  Short Film | 2021 | France | 3’16
Production: Independent
Roles: Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Colorist


Festivals:

  • Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico (2025) – Official Selection
  • Cannes Short Film Festival (2022) – Official  Selection
  • Paris Movie Awards | PAMA (2022) – Best Visual Arts in Motion / Experimental
  • Videoskin III  (2023) – Official Selection
  • Delta International Film Festival (2022) – Best  Silent Film
  • Indiefare International Film Festival (2022) –  Best Silent Film
  • Film Fest by Rogue Dancer (2021) – Official Selection 

Hel Questioning Out Loud

Short Film | 2021 | France | 8’30
Production: Independent
Roles: Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Colorist


Synopsis:

 Hel, a non-binary independent researcher and performer and Carolina, a filmmaker and photographer, have known each other for years. One day, Hel asks Carolina to take some pictures of them as a way to record their gender transition path. However, what was supposed to be a photo shoot ends up becoming an honest and sweet record of Hel's questions and points of view in relation to their experiences on the gender spectrum.

Festivals:

  • TRANSFORMA - Santa      Catarina's Diversity Film Festival (2023) – Official Selection
  • Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival (2021) –  Audience Choice
  • Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival (2021) – Official Selection

Exitum

La Corde

  Short Film | 2021 | France |  4’17
Production: Independent
Roles: Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Colorist


Festivals:

  • Dancentric Film Festival (2021) –  Best International Film 
  • Online Performance Art (2021) – Official  Selection
  • The Holy Art (2021) – Official Selection

La Corde

La Corde

  Short Film | 2019 | France | 9’

Production: Independent
Roles: Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Colorist

Festivals:

  • Nikon Film Festival (2019) – Official Selection

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Short Film | 2015 | Brazil | 19’
Production: Independent
Roles: 1st Assistant Director, Editor, Sound Mixing, Foley
Synopsis:
Losing a child is a pain without a name.

Festivals:

  • Festival Guarnicê de Cinema (2015) – Best Film, Best Director, Best Photography, Best Actor, Best Actress
  • Festissauro - Festival de Cinema de Sousa (2015)  – Best Director, Best Short Film, Best Editing, Best Actress
  • Broadcast on Canal Brasil (Brazilian TV Channel) on March 18, 2015
  • Festival Internacional de Cortos Independientes (2018) – Official Selection
  • Festicine Curta Pinhais (2016) – Official Selection
  • Arraial CineFest  (2016) – Official Selection
  • Los Angeles CineFest (2016) – Official Selection
  • X Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes      Experimentales – Fincortex (2016) – Official Selection
  • Festcine Poços de Caldas (2016) – Best Director, Best Short Film
  • Festival VerOuvindo (2016) – Best Audio Description 

Hooji

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  Short Film | 2012 | Brazil | 18’
Production: Independent
Roles: 1st Assistant Director, Editor, Sound Mixing, Foley
Synopsis:
A Japanese widow prepares to celebrate the Buddhist ritual of hooji in honor of her husband’s soul. She waits for her daughter and son until a mysterious call disrupts everything.

Festivals:

  • Festicine Curta Pinhais (2012) – Official Selection
  • MOSTRA: Brazilian Film Festival (2012) – Official Selection
  • Curta Cabo Frio      Film Festival (2012) – Official Selection
  • Muestra Itinerante de Cine en Femenino (2012) – Official Selection
  • Bahia Independent Cinema Festival (2012) – Official Selection
  • Festival Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes ABC (2013) – Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional de Cinema de Luanda (2013)      – Official Selection
  • IV Cine Riba (2013) – Best Film, Best Director, Best Photography, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Sound Mix
  • II Muestra de Cine Centroamericano (2014) –      Official Selection
  • Festival Ícaro El Salvador (2014) – Official Selection
  • El Corto del Año – Promofest (2014) – Official Selection
  • Festival de Audiovisual de Belém – FAB (2014) –  Finalist: Best Editing, Best Actress, Best Photography
  • Muestra de Cine Centro e Iberoamericano (2014) –      Official Selection
  • Festival de Cinema de Três Passos (2014) –      Official Selection
  • Festival Luz de Cinema (2014) – Official      Selection
  • Festival Nacional Curta Pensar Filmes (2014) – Best Short Film

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