EFP Screenings of A c a d e m y A w a r d® E n t r i e s from Europe
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27 films submitted in the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM category
October 25 - November 08, 2015 Wilshire Screening Room, Beverly Hills
SCREENING ADDRESS
Wilshire Screening Room 8670 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills Free parking available European Film Promotion invites you to the screenings of 27 films submitted in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 88th Academy Awards®.
Please RSVP for the individual screenings to screenings@efp-online.com editors: Jo Mühlberger, Vanessa Stein. design: Nanke Siemon
European Film Promotion Jo Mühlberger Project Director Hamburg, Germany muehlberger@efp-online.com phone: +49 40 390 6252 cell: +49 170 800 4156 MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson Publicist Los Angeles tatsfilm@gmail.com cell: +1 310 260 2800
Contact during AFM EFP Umbrella Office Loews Hotel #765 phone: +1 310 458 6700 ext. 765
SCREENING SCHEDULE Sunday, October 25 7:00 PM Czech Republic: HOME CARE by Slavek Horak (92 min) followed by Q&A with the director Monday, October 26 6:30 PM Italy: DON’T BE BAD by Claudio Caligari (100 min) 8:30 PM Romania: AFERIM! By Radu Jude (105 min) Tuesday, October 27 6:30 PM Serbia: ENCLAVE by Goran Radovanovic (92 min) 8:30 PM Georgia: MOIRA by Levan Tutberidze (95 min) Wednesday, October 28 6:30 PM Slovak Republic: KOZA by Ivan Ostrochovský (75 min) 8:30 PM Ireland: VIVA by Paddy Breathnach (100 min) followed by Q&A with the director Thursday, October 29 6:30 PM Norway: THE WAVE by Roar Uthaug (105 min) followed by Q&A with the director 8:30 PM Bulgaria: THE JUDGMENT by Stephan Komandarev (107 min) followed by Q&A with the director Friday, October 30 5:00 PM Spain: LOREAK (FLOWERS) by Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga (99 min) 7:00 PM Portugal: ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME 2, THE DESOLATE ONE by Miguel Gomes (131 min) Saturday, October 31 3:30 PM Greece: XENiA by Panos H. Koutras (128 min) 6:30 PM Croatia: THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanić (123 min) Sunday, November 1 3:30 PM Belgium: THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael (113 min) followed by Q&A with the producer 6:30 PM The Netherlands: THE PARADISE SUITE by Joost van Ginkel (123 min) Monday, November 2 6:30 PM Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: HONEY NIGHT by Ivo Trajkov (89 min) 8:30 PM Montenegro: YOU CARRY ME by Ivona Juka (162 min)followed by Q&A with the director and the producer Tuesday, November 3 6:30 PM Latvia: MODRIS by Juris Kursietis (98 min) followed by Q&A with the director 8:30 PM Albania: BOTA by Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci (106 min) Thursday, November 5 6:30 PM Estonia: 1944 by Elmo Nüganen (100 min) followed by Q&A with the producer 8:30 PM Poland: 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski (81 min) with a guest Friday, November 6 5:00 PM Luxembourg: BABY(A)LONE by Donato Rotunno (98 min) followed by Q&A with the director 7:00 PM Republic of Kosovo: BABAI by Visar Morina (104 min) with a guest Saturday, November 7 3:30 PM Switzerland: IRAQI ODYSSEY by Samir (162 min)followed by Q&A with the director 6:30 PM Finland: THE FENCER by Klaus Härö (98 min) followed by Q&A Sunday, November 8 3:30 PM Lithuania: THE SUMMER OF SANGAILė by Alantė Kavaitė (88 min) 6:30 PM Sweden: A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH RELECTING ON EXISTENCE by Roy Andersson (100 min)
Home Care Czech Republic Directed by
Slavek Horak
Sunday, October 25 at 7:00 pm
Home Care
(Domaci pece)
Czech Republic Directed by Slavek Horak
Synopsis Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too. Director’s Statement My aim was to create an honest film about universal subjects that people are hesitant to discuss, in this case the subjects of compassion and dying. I wanted to infuse an emotional drama with specific humor, to tell a story that will remind viewers about their mortality, in order to better appreciate their loved ones, and also to remind them to take better care of themselves. As our heroine fights for her life, she contends with the ordinary daily life of her picturesque southern Moravia village, her husband‘s dismissive humor and the spiritual mentality of her younger friend. These tensions create powerful dynamics as three different worldviews clash against each other. I chose to play the journey of self-discovery with a very particular local twist; drama and comedy always balancing each other. This specific approach enriches the emotional experience – and this was my vision, to communicate subtly, yet directly “from heart to heart”, even if the film risked bordering on the naive. After all, it is a story of a good-hearted, simple character getting to know herself late in life, so a certain bittersweet kindness and my fondness for these characters were absolutely crucial for finding a true feel for this film. The biggest challenge was to make the film come alive, with a big, pulsating heart. You can tell us if we succeeded with this labor of love called “Home Care”.
Director Slavek Horak Screenplay Slavek Horak Main Cast Alena Mihulova, Boleslav Polivka, Tatiana Vilhelmova, Zuzana Kronerova, Sara Venclovska Co-prod. Country Slovak Republic
Genre Drama Language Czech Year 2015 Length 92 min Format DCP. 2D, Color Screening ratio 1:1.85
www.home-care-film.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdP5dEndQkI
Contact International Sales M-Appeal Berlin, Germany Maren Kroymann P +49 17 29 57 00 51 mk@m-appeal.com Production Company TVORBA Films Prague, Czech Republic Slavek Horak P +420 603 206038 info@tvorbafilms.cz www.tvorbafilms.cz Co-producing companies Czech television (Czech Republic), Fog’n’ Desire films (Czech Republic), Svoboda & Williams (Czech Republic), Sokol Kollar (Slovak Republic), RTVS (Slovak Republic) Publicist for Oscar campaign MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson tatsfilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Czech Film Center Markéta Šantrochová Národní trída 28 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic P +420 22 1105 321 info@filmcenter.cz www.filmcenter.cz Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Karlovy Vary IFF, Crystal Globe Award - Best Actress • Busan International Film Festival, Flash Forward • Haifa International Film Festival (Israel) • Vancouver International Film Festival • Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Germany) • Leeds International Film Festival (UK) • Arras International Film Festival (France) • Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt) • Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival (Estonia) • Dubai International Film Festival
Don’t be bad Italy Directed by
Claudio Caligari
Monday, October 26 at 6:30 pm
Don’t be bad
(Non Essere Cattivo)
Italy Directed by Claudio Caligari
Synopsis In a life filled with clubs, cars, cocaine and booze, Vittorio and Cesare can’t be separated. When the call to find a greater purpose threatens to pull them and their lifestyles apart, they struggle to keep their bond strong. Director’s Statement Having made Amore Tossico in the early 1980s on the colonisation of Pasolini’s working-class suburbs by heroin – a film which became a cult, capturing generation after generation, and is constantly talked about on the internet, on blogs and in forums – I confess that I have often cherished the idea of returning to those locations with the aim of recording the change in the consumption and selling of drugs (in those suburbs, as is common knowledge, it is never a question of just consumption). But only a series of recent trips into what remains of those worlds and the related discoveries helped me grasp what could really be done: not a simple factual slice of the new junkie world, but a more ambitious snapshot of the final outcome of Pasolini’s world. A wealth of facts and stories came out of the twenty years – and more – which range from the period in which Amore tossico is set out onwards: a striking anthropological framework in terms of both quantity and truths. A framework which, to keep playing with the references, rather than a new Accattone or a new Amore Tossico, could produce a new Mean Streets.
Director Claudio Caligari Screenplay Claudio Caligari, Giordano Meacci, Francesca Serafini Main Cast Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D’Amico, Roberta Mattei
www.nonesserecattivo.it www.vimeo.com/136661164
Genre Drama Language Italian Year 2015 Length 100 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39
Contact International Sales Rai Com Roma, Italy Mattia Oddone mattia.oddone@rai.it Production Company Kimerafilm Roma, Italy Paolo Bogna P + 39 06 45496945 paolobogna@kimerafilm.com www.kimerafilm.com Co-producing companies Rai Com (Italy), Taodue Film (Italy), Leone Film Group (Italy) in cooperation with and supported by
Istituto Luce Cinecittà Filmitalia Annabella Nucara Via Tuscolana, 1055 00173 Rome, Italy P +39 06 7228 61 a.nucara@cinecittaluce.it www.filmitalia.org Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia (Out of Competition) • Premio Francesco Pasinetti MIGLIOR FILM • Premio Pasinetti maschile 2015 (Venezia 72) a Luca Marinelli • NuovoImaie rivelazione ad Alessandro Borghi • Premio Film della Critica del Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani (SNCCI) • Premio Schermi di Qualità • Premio Fedic (Federazione Italiana Cineclub)
AFERIM! Romania Directed by
Radu Jude
Monday, October 26 at 8:30 pm
AFERIM!
(AFERIM!)
Romania Directed by Radu Jude
Synopsis Eastern Europe, 1835. On a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia, gendarme Costandin and his son are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master after being accused of having an affair with the nobleman’s wife. While the unflappable Costandin comments on every situation with a cheery aphorism, his son takes a more contemplative view of the world. On their odyssey they encounter people of different nationalities and beliefs: Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and Hungarians. Each harbors prejudices against the others which have been passed down from generation to generation. And even when the slave Carfin is found, the adventure is far from over... Director’s Statement I don’t know which psychologist said that a person is mentally healthy only if they know where they come from, where they are and where they want to go. I believe this applies to societies too, not only individuals. The Romanian society will not be truly healthy until it faces its past with honesty and lucidity – be it the recent or the remote past. The movie Aferim! is an attempt to gaze into the past, to take a journey inside the mentalities of the beginning of the 19th century – all epistemological imperfections inherent to such an enterprise included. It is obvious that such an effort would be pointless should we not believe that this hazy past holds the explanation for certain present issues. “We research each period firstly for the promises they contain for the following period” says cultural historian Johan Huizinga. More than anything, I want this film to be a stimulus that makes the audience question in a deeper and more systematic way the issues I was only able to bring up. Director Radu Jude Screenplay Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu Main Cast Teodor Corban, Mihai Comānoiu, Cuzin Toma, Alexandru Dabija, Luminita Gheorghiu, Victor Rebengiuc, Alberto Dinache, Alexandru Bindea, Mihaela Sîrbu co-prod countries Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France
Co-prod. Countries Bulgaria, Czech Republic , France Western, Genre Historical Drama Language Romanian 2015 Year Length 105 min Format DCP, 35mm Screening ratio 2.35:1
www.bigworldpictures.org/films/aferim/index.html www.vimeo.com/135831249
Contact US-Distributor Big World Pictures Brooklyn, New York, USA Jonathan Howell P +1 917 400 1437 jonathan@bigworldpictures.org www.bigworldpictures.org International Sales Beta Cinema Oberhaching, Germany Dirk Schürhoff P +49 89 67 34 69 828 Dirk.Schuerhoff@betacinema.com www.betacinema.com Production Company Hi Film Productions Bucharest, Romania Ada Solomon P +40 21 252 48 67 office@hifilm.ro www.hifilm.ro co-production companies KLAS Film (Bulgaria), endorfilm s.r.o. (Czech Republic), EZ Films (France) Publicist for Oscar campaign Shotwell Media Sasha Berman SashaBerman@mac.com in cooperation with and supported by
Romanian Film Promotion Cristian Hordilă 52 Popa Soare St., apt. 4 023984 Bucharest 2, Romania P +40 21 326 6480 info@romfilmpromotion.ro www.romfilmpromotion.ro Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Berlinale, Silver Bear (Best Director) • IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, Grand Prize City of Lisboa (Portugal)
Enclave Serbia Directed by
Goran Radovanovic
Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30 pm
Enclave
(Enklava)
Serbia Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Synopsis In war-torn Kosovo, Nenad’s family lives in a Serbian Christian enclave surrounded by a large Albanian Muslim community. When his beloved grandfather dies, the ten-year-old boy is determined that he should have a proper burial even if the cemetery is outside the enclave. His quest will take Nenad across enemy lines and he will find friends in unlikely places. Director’s Statement With this film I want to explore the essence of the Serbian/Albanian dispute, which resulted – fifteen years ago – in war, destruction and crimes. But I want to raise the following question: is coexistence still possible between these two communities in a reality marked by the presence of enclaves, isolated islands of Christian minority surrounded by a sea of Muslim majority? My answer is crystal clear: hated based on fear of what’s different and diverse still lingers between the two ethnic communities. And fear is the absence of love... That’s why the hero in this story is a ten-year old boy who dares to do something unimaginable for both communities in Kosovo – Christian and Muslim: to gain a friend on the opposite side! I want to make a film based on the eternal and edifying story about forgiveness and love.
Director Goran Radovanovic Screenplay Goran Radovanovic Main Cast Filip Subaric, Denis Muric, Nebojsa Glogovac, Anica Dobra Co-prod. Country Germany
Genre Drama Language Serbian Year 2015 Length 92 min Format DCP Screening ratio 1.85:1
www.enklavafilm.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddfro-Vt9M
Contact Production Company NAMA FILM Belgrade, Serbia Goran Radovanovic P +381 63 206440 princip@eunet.rs www.enklavafilm.com Sein+Hain Film GmbH Stuttgart, Germany Nico Hain P +49 711 217 201 210 mail@seinundhain.de www.seinundhain.de Co-producing companies Nama Film (Serbia), ZDF in cooperation with ARTE (Germany) Publicist for Oscar campaign Joshua Jason Public Relations Joshua Jason joshua@joshuajasonpr.com in cooperation with and supported by
Film Center Serbia Miroljub Vučković Koce Popovica 9/3 11000 Belgrade, Serbia P +381 11 262 5131 fcs.office@fcs.rs www.fcs.rs Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Moscow (Audience Award) • National Film Festival Vrnjacka Banja (Grand Prix) (Serbia) • Monterrey (Audience Award), (Canada)
Moira Georgia Directed by
Levan Tutberidze
Tuesday, October 27 at 8:30 pm
Moira
(MOIRA)
Georgia Directed by Levan Tutberidze
Synopsis After Mamuka is released from prison, he tries to rescue his family, who live in a seaside town, from poverty. His mother is working abroad, father is confined to a wheelchair, and his unemployed younger brother seems drawn to a criminal life. Mamuka takes out a bank loan and buys a small fishing boat. He is eager to work and intends to bring his mother home. The brothers name the fishing boat after Moira – a goddess of fate. But fate is often blind and merciless …
Contact International Sales MOIRA-FIlm Tbilisi, Georgia Levan Tutberidze P +995 59 9912 260 moirathefilm@gmail.com Production Company Cinetech Film Tbilisi, Georgia Nikoloz Abramashvili moirathefilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Georgian National Film Center Tamara Tatishvili 4 Z. Gamsakhurdia Sanapiro Str. 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia P +995 32 2999 200 info@gnfc.ge www.gnfc.ge Festivals and Awards (Selection) • San Sebastian International Film Festival, main competition SIGNIS Award • Warsaw International Film Festival, main competition
Director Levan Tutberidze Screenplay David Pirtskhalava, George Kobalia Main Cast Paata Inauri, George Khurcilava, Zaza Magalashvili Jano Izoria Keti Tskhakaia Anna Bebia
Genre Drama Language Georgian Year 2015 Length 95 min Screening ratio 1:2.35
www.filmmoira.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m9ylUgh19U
Koza Slovak Republic Directed by
Ivan Ostrochovský
Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30 pm
Koza
(Koza)
Slovak Republic Directed by Ivan Ostrochovský
Synopsis Peter “Koza” Baláž is a former Olympic boxer. He and his girlfriend Miša live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. When Miša learns that she is expecting a baby, she decides to terminate her pregnancy and asks Koza to find the necessary money. Koza, who has not trained in a while, steps back into the ring, hoping to earn some much-needed cash and possibly change Miša’s mind. He and his manager, Zvonko, embark on a “tour” through uncountable fights, where success seems impossible. How many blows must Koza take, in order to earn a decent family life? Director’s Statement Koza is a simple guy from a special school for kids with learning disabilities and disorders, but what I really respect about him is that considering the situation he grew up in, he worked his way up. His parents left him with his grandmother and since Koza’s father was a boxer, too, Koza wanted to impress his dad and started boxing because of him, hoping the parents would take him back. Koza is a nice person, but he’s somehow struggling to get control of his life. I knew that hiring him to do the film would also make his life a bit easier – he would get paid and would get some extra cash beside his low disability pension. He was glad to have this opportunity and he hoped his life would change.Of course, nobody can change your life for you. You only can do it on your own. But what helped Koza is that for four years, during the time we were preparing and shooting the film, he was in contact with a different reality, which, of course, influenced him, changed his perception of life, moved him into a different direction. Koza’s story is tough and sad, it deals with several pressing and complicated issues, but that was not the storyline we wanted to emphasize. On the contrary, we even wanted to repress it to avoid the pathos which usually emerges when one stresses pain, misery and misfortune. To express the “step-back” formally, as well, with cinematographer Martin Kollár we decided to shoot the film with a static camera and in long shots. That gives the audience a bit of a psychological distance and emotional freedom in the film. Director Ivan Ostrochovský Screenplay Marek Leščák, Ivan Ostrochovský Main Cast Peter Baláž, Zvonko Lakčević, Ján Franek, Stanislava Bongilajová, Nikola Bongilajová, Tatiana Piussi Co-prod. Country Czech Republic www.kozamovie.com
Genre Roadmovie Language Slovak, Czech, English, German Year 2015 Length 75 min Format DCP Screening ratio 16:9 / 1:1,78
Contact International Sales Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH Berlin, Germany Patricie Pouzarova P +49 30 2191 8220 info@plutofilm.de www.plutofilm.de Production Company Sentimentalfilm Bratislava, Slovak Republic Marek Urban P +421 915 574 258 marek@sentimentalfilm.com www.sentimentalfilm.com Co-producing companies endorfilm (Czech Republic), Czech Television, Radio and Television of Slovakia, Punkchart Films (Slovak Republic) in cooperation with and supported by
Slovak Film Institute Alexandra Strelková Grösslingová 32 811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic P +421 2 5710 1503 sfu@sfu.sk www.sfu.sk Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Nomination for Best First Feature Award, Berlinale • Best Film, Vilnius FF (Lithuania) • C.I.C.A.E Art Cinema Award, Vilnius FF (Lithuania) • Award of the City of Wiesbaden for Best Director, goEast Wiesbaden (Germany) • FIPRESCI Award, goEast Wiesbaden (Germany) • TVCine & Séries Special Mention, IndieLisboa IFF • Best Film, Neisse FF (Germany) • Best Film, Olhar de Cinema (Brazil) • Abraccine Critics’ Award, Olhar de Cinema (Brazil) • Seyfi Teoman Award for the Bravest First or Second Feature Film, European FF Palić (Serbia) • Best Film (Neighbours and Friends Programme Jury), Pula FF (Croatia) • Special Mention (International Programme Jury), Pula FF (Croatia)
VIVA Ireland Directed by
Paddy Breathnach
Wednesday, October 28 at 8:30 pm
VIVA
(VIVA)
Ireland Directed by Paddy Breathnach
Synopsis Jesus does make up for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father Angel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.
Contact International Sales Mongrel Media Toronto, Canada Charlotte Mickie P +1 647 919 0226 charlotte@mongrelmedia.com www.mongrelmedia.com Production Company Treasure Entertainment Dublin, Ireland Claire McCaughley P +353 475 8820 claire@treasure.ie www.treasure.ie in cooperation with and supported by
Irish Film Board Teresa McGrane Queensgate 23 Dock Road Galway, Ireland P +353 91 561 398 info@irishfilmboard.ie www.irishfilmboard.ie Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Telluride Film Festival (USA)
Director Paddy Breathnach Screenplay Mark O’Halloran Main Cast Jorge Perugorría Luis Alberto García Héctor Medina Co-prod. Countries Cuba
Genre Drama Language Spanish Year 2015 Length 100 min Format DCP Screening ratio 1:240
The Wave Norway Directed by
Roar Uthaug
Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 pm
The Wave
(Bølgen)
Norway Directed by Roar Uthaug
Synopsis Experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes underground. Kristian gets worried, and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many as possible including his own family. Director’s Statement With «THE WAVE» I wanted to bring a traditional Hollywood genre closer to home. Moving away from president’s speeches and megacity mayhem, I wanted to experience the destruction through a normal family and the small community they live in. Working from the thought that the closer you feel to the characters, the more impact the imposing disaster will have. This choice also influenced our visual approach to the story, shooting most of the film in a handheld almost documentary style. I wanted the audience to feel like they were thrown into this world with our characters - running for their lives, gasping for breath. And although we of course wanted to create spectacular action sequences through practical and visual effects, the biggest impact should always come from the emotions of the human drama.
Contact US-Distributor Magnolia Matt Cowal P + 1 212 379 9703 MCowal@magpictures.com International Sales TrustNordisk Copenhagen, Denmark Susan Wendt susan@trustnordisk.com Production Company Fantefilm Fiksjon Oslo, Norway Are Heidenstrøm P +47 95 163191 are@fantefilm.no co-production company Film Väst (Sweden), Filmkraft Rogaland (Norway), Storyline Studios (Norway), Gimpville (Norway) Publicist for Oscar campaign MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson tatsfilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Director Roar Uthaug Screenplay John Kåre Raake, Harald Rosenløw Eeg Main Cast Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Oftebro co-production country Sweden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIj4v8TfnyU
Genre Disaster film Language Norwegian Year 2014 Length 105 min Screening ratio 2.39:1
Norwegian Film Institute Stine Oppegaard Dronningens gate 16 0105 Oslo, Norway P +47 22 4745 00 stine.oppegaard@nfi.no www.nfi.no Festivals and Awards (Selection): • Toronto International Film Festival • BFI London • Fantastic fest (USA)
The Judgment Bulgaria Directed by
Stephan Komandarev
Thursday, October 29 at 8:30 pm
The Judgment
(Съдилището)
Bulgaria Directed by Stephan Komandarev
Synopsis Mityo has lost everything that matters to him: his wife, his work and his son’s trust. Out of desperation, he agrees to smuggle illegal immigrants from Syria into Bulgaria. On his final trip, Mityo’s left at a mercy of Judgment Mountain. Can he be forgiven for a terrible sin committed 25 years ago? Director’s Statement I arrived at the idea for this film while shooting three documentaries in the Southeast of Bulgaria, near the spot where three borders meet – Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish. I spent quite a bit of time there – I found many real stories and interesting characters. They are now in the film. During the communist period, up until twenty years ago, would – be defectors from the communist bloc were trying to escape to the West by illegally crossing Bulgaria’s southern border. Today, thousands of migrants from Syria also try their luck crossing the same border, but in the opposite direction – to the “Promised Land” of the European Union. This strange correlation between different time periods and one and the same place was what inspired me to make this film.
Director Stephan Komandarev Screenplay Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiyski, Stephan Komandarev Main Cast Assen Blatechki, Miki Manojlović, Ovanes Torosian Co-prod. Countries Germany, Croatia, Macedonia www.thejudgmentmovie.bg www.thejudgmentmovie.bg/en
Genre Drama Language Bulgarian Year 2014 Length 107 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.35:1
Contact International Sales PREMIUM FILMS Paris, France Jean Charles Mille P +33 1 42 77 06 39 jcm@premium-films.com www.premium-films.com Production Company Argo film Sofia, Bulgaria Stephan Komandarev P +359 878 308 238 argofilm@abv.bg www.argofilm.eu Co-producing companies Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion (Germany), Propeler film (Croatia), Sektor film (Macedonia) Publicist for Oscar campaign MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson tatsfilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Bulgarian National Film Center Irina Kanousheva 2 A, Dondukov Blvd., 7th floor 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria P +359 2 988 38 31 nfc@nfc.bg www.nfc.bg Festivals and Awards (Selection 2014) • Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria) • Warsaw Film Festival (Poland), International competition • Haifa International Film Festival (Israel), East of the West • CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival (Luxembourg), Cinéscope • ALTCINE Panorama of European Cinema (Greece) • Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo (Brazil) • Arras Film Festival (France), Visions de l’Est • Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival (Bulgaria), Competition: Best Film and Best Actor • Goa International Film Festival (India)
Loreak (Flowers) Spain Directed by
Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga
Friday, October 30 at 5:00 pm
Loreak (Flowers)
Spain Directed by Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga
(Loreak)
Synopsis Ane’s life takes a turn when a bouquet of flowers is delivered to her house every week, always at the same time and always anonymously. A similar mysterious delivery of flowers also affects the lives of Lourdes and her mother-in-law Tere. A weekly bouquet, left by a stranger in memory of someone important in their lives causes subtle changes in their relationships. This is the story of three women, three lives altered by the mere presence of bouquets of flowers. Flowers that will make feelings blossom inside them that had seemed long forgotten ... Director’s Statement We live surrounded by flowers. Flowers at weddings, and at funerals, flowers on the table, flowers on walls, in a garden, or by the road. It’s as if we’re constantly turning to their image to say what often can’t be expressed in words. Few images serve to convey such a large variety of things. Depending on the context in which they’re given, the meaning of these flowers can change dramatically. And depending upon who sees them, or who receives them, the meaning can also differ. “Loreak” arose from this ambiguity and these possible meanings. We found it interesting to explore how something like a bunch of flowers, at first so stripped of meaning, can become the clearest of messages. And with that, can change the reality of its recipient. “Loreak” is a film packed with flowers. Flowers in different contexts and, therefore, flowers that tell different stories but that, in the end, converge into one single message.
Director Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga Screenplay Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño Main Cast Nagore Aranburu, Itziar Ituño, Itziar Aizpuru, Josean Bengoetxea
Genre Drama Language Euskera Year 2014 Length 99 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39
www.loreakfilm.com/es www.filmfactoryentertainment.com/ficha.php?id=127
Contact US-Distributor Music Box Chicago, Illinois P +1 312 241 1320 info@musicboxfilms.com www.musicboxfilms.com International Sales Film Factory Entertainment Barcelona, Spain Vicente Canales P +34 933 684 608 info@filmfactory.es www.filmfactoryentertainment.com
Production Company Irusoin San Sebastian, Spain Xabi Berzosa P +34 943 317 695 berzosa@irusoin.com www.irusoin.com Co-producing company Moriarti (Spain) in cooperation with and supported by
ICAA (Spain) Rafael Cabrera Plaza del Rey, 1, 3a 28004 Madrid, Spain P +34 91 701 7259 rafael.cabrera@mcu.es www.mcu.es/cine/index Festivals and Awards (Selection): • San Sebastian IFF (Spain) • Palm Springs FF (USA) • Cleveland IFF (USA) • Miami IFF (USA) • Guadalajara FF (Mexico) • Bergamo FF (Italy) • Vilnius FF (Lithuania) • Festival du Cinema espagnol de Nantes (France) • Washington FF (USA) • Semana de Cine Español en Polonia (Poland) • Palace Cinemas
ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME 2, THE DESOLATE ONE Portugal Directed by
Miguel Gomes
Friday, October 30 at 7:00 pm
ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME Portugal Directed by 2, THE DESOLATE ONE (AS MIL E UMA NOITES – VOLUME 2, O DESOLADO)
Miguel Gomes
Synopsis In Portugal – one European country in crisis – a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As the nights pass, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore Scheherazade organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries…”. Director’s Statement As Mil e Uma Noites is inspired by the structure of the book Arabian Nights. Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. But the stories narrated here are not the Persian, Egyptian or Indian tales of the book. They are stories that originate from the reality of a disgraced country, Portugal, over one year. This country lives the effects of an economic crisis that spurred a financial aid programme coordinated by the self-named “troika”, consisting of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.
Director Miguel Gomes Screenplay Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro Main Cast Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Luísa Cruz, Gonçalo Waddington, Joana de Verona, Teresa Madruga, João Pedro Bénard Co-prod. Countries France, Germany, Switzerland www.osomeafuria.com/films/3/66
Genre Language Year Length Format Screening Screening ratio
Drama Portuguese 2015 131 min 35mm, 16mm DCP 2:40 scope
Contact US-Distributor Kino Lorber New York, USA Rodrigo Brandão P +1 212 629 6880 rodrigo@kinolorber.com www.kinolorber.com International Sales The Match Factory Cologne, Germany Nadja Jumah P +49 221 539 709 0 nadja.jumah@matchfactory.de www.the-match-factory.com Production Company O Som e a Fúria Lisbon, Portugal Fabienne Martinot P +351 21 358 25 18 fm@osomeafuria.com www.osomeafuria.com Co-producing companies Shellac Sud (France), Komplizen Film (Germany), Box Productions (Switzerland) Agat Films (France), Arte France Cinéma (France), ZDF Arte (Germany) in cooperation with and supported by
ICA (Portugal) Vítor Manuel Pinheiro Rua Luís Pastor de Macedo, 25 A 1750-156 Lisbon, Portugal P +351 21 323 0800 vitor.pinheiro@ica-ip.pt www.ica-ip.pt Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (France) • Sydney FF (Australia): Sydney Film Prize • New Horizons IFF (Poland): FIPRESCI Prize • New York Film Festival (USA) • London Film Festival (UK) • Toronto International Film Festival (Canada) • Midnight Sun FF (Finland)
XENiA Greece Directed by
Panos H. Koutras
Saturday, October 31 at 3:30 pm
XENiA
(XENiA)
Greece Directed by Panos H. Koutras
Synopsis XENiA follows two young brothers in search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother Odysseus who lives in Athens and they journey to Thessaloniki where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the television talent show “Greek Star” where he pursues his fantasy of becoming a singing star. A comic and touching road trip of two brothers connecting and searching for their dreams. Director’s Statement The main characters of this story Danny and Odysseus could easily belong to those fairy tales about children who get lost in the woods or they are forced to grow up on their own in a hostile environment, abandoned by adults who have already rejected them long before. They are born and raised in Greece in the last breath of the previous century, the two brothers are missing the all-important Greek ID. In a country where nationality is defined by bloodline rather than birth place, Danny and Odysseus are still considered foreigners, growing up in a country in a financial turmoil, amidst violent change, racism and broken dreams. As they roam through the country, the two brothers will test their limits and conquer their fears, make friends and enemies and come face to face with themselves. Their weapon is a song their mother taught them when they were young and that they never stopped singing. A song that bids farewell to a world that ends, celebrating a new age of possibilities, values and understanding for those who dare to sing it. XENiA could be a love song for those few brave men from the first generation of the 21stCentury. Director Panos H. Koutras Screenplay Panos H. Koutras, Panagiotis Evangelidis Main Cast Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Romanna Lobach, Marissa Triandafyllidou, Yannis Stankoglou, Patty Pravo
Co-prod. Countries France, Belgium Genre Drama Language Greek, Albanian, Italian Year 2014 Length 128 min Format DCP Screening ratio 1.85:1
www.strandreleasing.com/films/xenia-2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yPiz6rJICk
Contact US-Distributor & Publicist for Oscar campaign Strand Releasing Los Angeles, USA Marcus Hu P + 1 310 836 7500 marcus@strandreleasing.com www.strandreleasing.com International Sales Pyramide International Paris, France Eric Lagesse P + 33 1 42 96 02 20 ilaria@pyramidefilms.com www.pyramidefilms.com Production Companies 100% Synthetic Films Ltd & Wrong Men Athens, Greece Eleni Kossyfidou P +30 6946 127354 eleni.kossyfidou@gmail.com Co-producing companies MPM Film (France), Entre Chien Et Loup (Belgium), Arte France Cinema, Greek Film Center, Nerit et Nova in cooperation with and supported by
Greek Film Centre Stavroula Geronimaki 7 Dionysiou Areopagitou 117 42 Athens, Greece P +30 210 367 8530 info@gfc.gr www.gfc.gr Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard • Toronto International Film Festival • Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Hugo Best Film, Winner • Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian FF • Seattle International Film Festival • Frameline Film Festival
The High Sun Croatia Directed by
Dalibor Matanić
Saturday, October 31 at 6:30 pm
The High Sun
(Zvizdan)
Croatia Directed by Dalibor Matanić
Synopsis Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love. Director’s Statement As a filmmaker, I have been long intrigued by the ever-present inter-ethnic hatreds in the Balkan region, and conflicts rooted in war, religion or politics. With this film, I wanted to explore three separate stories of a Croatian boy and a girl from a Serbian family, across three decades. The stories all take place in the same location, in the sun-scorched villages, and the young lovers are always in their early twenties. Using the lens of these three stories, I wanted to tease out the accumulated atmosphere of evil that smoulders among the damaged communities in this region. My aim as a director was to contrast the lush natural world and the carefree certainty of youth with human actions that are the fruit of long-standing hatreds, history, tradition, confusion and fear, and to use cinematic storytelling to analyze the conditioned changes that influence the lives of young people in this region. I have always wanted to make a film that would act as a mirror for all of us in these regions; that would bring us face to face with the moments when we allowed ourselves to act, not as ordinary people, but as a community controlled by darker, pre-conditioned urges. I want to show what happened when people followed a path that led to shameful euphoria in the short term, but that ultimately caused deep unhappiness and unnecessary suffering. The High Sun celebrates selflessness and love – the very best of human nature that is still struggling to re-emerge victorious in our region. Because there is one thing I am sure about: at the end of the day, politics and extreme nationalism never win. Love does. Director Dalibor Matanić Main Cast Tihana Lazović, Goran Marković, Nives Ivanković, Dado Ćosić Co-prod. Countries Slovenia, Serbia
Genre Drama, Romance Language Croatian Year 2015 Length 123 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.35:1
www.zvizdan.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcWDMgipJ78
Contact International Sales Cercamon Paris, France & Dubai, United Arab Emirates Sebastien Chesneau P +33 6 21 71 39 11 / +971 566 06 38 24 sebastien@cercamon.biz www.cercamon.biz Production Company Kinorama Zagreb, Croatia Ankica Jurić Tilić P +385 98 465 576 ankica@kinorama.hr www.kinorama.hr Co-producing companies Gustav film (Slovenia), SEE Film Pro (Serbia) Publicist for Oscar campaign Weissman / Markovitz Communication Leonard Morpurgo leonard@publicity4all.com in cooperation with and supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre Mario Kozina Nova Ves 18 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia P +385 1 604 1080 mario.kozina@havc.hr www.havc.hr Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Cannes Film Festival 2015, Cannes, France, „Un Certain Regard“ - Jury Prize • 62. Pula Film Festival 2015, Pula, Croatia - Grand Golden Arena for Best Festival Film, Golden Arena for Best Director, Golden Arena for Best Actress (Tihana Lazovic), Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actress (Nives Ivankovic), Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actor (Dado Cosic), Golden Arena for Best Costume Design (Ana Savic Gecan), The Octavian Award Croatian Society of Film Critics • European Parliament LUX PRIZE 2015 (Official Selection, Nomination) • Sarajevo Film Festival 2015, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Art Cinema Award (CICAE)
The Brand New Testament Belgium Directed by
Jaco Van Dormael
Sunday, November 01 at 3:30 pm
The Brand New Testament
Belgium Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
(LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT)
Synopsis God exists. He lives in Brussels. He’s odious to his wife and daughter and spends his days in front of his computer inventing laws of universal hassle (“the toast always falls jam side down”; “you always choose the slowestmoving line”). We know a lot about God’s son, but very little about his daughter. Her name is Ea and she’s ten years old. One day, she revolts against her father, hacks his computer and leaks to the entire world by SMS everyone’s death date. Some people have little time left; others have a lot. Some drop everything and stop going to work. Others change nothing. Some hurry to achieve a childhood dream. Others try to kill themselves before their time, to no effect. Everyone is confronted with the question: What should I do with the rest of my life? It’s up to Ea to perform her miracles.
Contact International Sales LE PACTE Paris, France Camille Neel P +33 1 44 69 59 59 c.neel@le-pacte.com www.le-pacte.com Production Companies Terra Incognita Films Uccle, Belgium Jaco Van Dormael P +32 2 654 00 22
Climax Films Braine-L’Alleud, Belgium Olivier Rausin P +32 2 705 25 20 candice.falesse@climaxfilms.be www.climaxfilms.be Co-producing companies Après le déluge (France), Juliette Films (Luxembourg), Caviar (Belgium) Publicist for Oscar campaign MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson tatsfilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Director Jaco Van Dormael Screenplay Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael Main Cast Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau, Francois Damiens Co-prod. Countries France, Luxembourg
Genre Fiction Language French Year 2015 Length 113 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2:40 scope
www.le-pacte.com/france/prochainement/detail/le-tout-nouveau-testament
Wallonie Bruxelles Images Eric Franssen 18 Place E. Flagey 1050 Brussels, Belgium P +32 2 223 2304 eric.franssen@wbimages.be www.wbimages.be Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Festival de Cannes, The Directors’ Fortnight (France) • London International Film Festival (BFI) (UK) • Fantastic Film Fest Austin, Best Comedy (USA) • Haifa International Film Festival, Feodora Awards (Israel) • Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund, Audience Award – Ray of Sunshine • Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) • Hamburg Film Festival (Germany)
The Paradise Suite The Netherlands Directed by
Joost van Ginkel
Sunday, November 01 at 6:30 pm
The Paradise Suite
The Netherlands Directed by Joost van Ginkel
(The Paradise Suite)
Synopsis THE PARADISE SUITE is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly: For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite of what she hoped for. Her grueling captivity forces the angelic African, Yaya, to fight for her freedom - a dangerous fight in which he loses everything but his beloved faith. The Serbian war criminal Ivica, who has just become a father, is painfully confronted with the fact that crimes will never go unpunished. Bosnian Seka has nothing left to live for except her vengeance but as it turns out, it’s that same vengeance that brings love back in her life. And when the Swedish piano-wonder boy, Lukas, runs away from his new temporary home, his father Stig finally realizes that their mutual passion for music is damaging to their relationship. Director’s Statement Although I know I can’t change humankind, hopefully the film will create some awareness about the complex and sometimes ruthless society we live in. The storylines and characters are based on true stories. We all are able to relate to these stories somehow. The Paradise Suite is an observation of a period of time but is a poetic interpretation of that reality. The Paradise Suite is a both raw and poetic praise to human strength for survival.
Director Joost van Ginkel Screenplay Joost van Ginkel Main Cast Anjela Nedyalkova, Jasna Djuricic, Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw, Issaka Sawadogo, Magnus Krepper, Dragan Bakema, Victoria Koblenko Co-prod. Countries Sweden, Bulgaria www.prpl.nl/portfolio/theparadisesuite
Genre Drama Language French, Bosnian, Serbian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Dutch, Russian Year 2015 Length 123 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39
Contact US-Distributor Media Luna New Films Cologne, Germany Ida Martins P +49 221 510 91891 idamartens@medialuna.biz www.medialuna.biz Production Company PRPL Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ellen Havenith P +31 20 7370189 ellen@prpl.nl www.prpl.nl Co-producing companies GötaFilm (Sweden), Film Väst (Sweden), KaBoAl Pictures (Bulgaria) Publicist for Oscar campaign Dada Films / Required Viewing MJ Peckos /Steven Raphael mj@dadafilms.net in cooperation with and supported by
EYE International Marten Rabarts IJpromenade 1 1031 KT Amsterdam, The Netherlands P +31 20 7582 375 international@eyefilm.nl international.eyefilm.nl Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Toronto International Film Festival, Discovery • The Netherlands Film Festival • Black Nights Film Festival, International Competition (Estonia)
Honey Night Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Directed by
Ivo Trajkov
Monday, November 02 at 6:30 pm
Honey Night
(Medena Nok)
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Directed by Ivo Trajkov
Synopsis In Skopje, at the beginning of the 90’s; the national celebration the newlyestablished independent state of the Republic of Macedonia, coincides with the tenth anniversary of Deputy Minister Nikola and his wife Ana. Throughout a single night, during which their marriage faces a crisis flashbacks reveal that Nikola is involved in a political scandal at his Ministry related to the privatization of a state-owned company. Heated arguments between Nikola and Ana, bring all of their problems, frustrations, and secrets to the surface. The tension of this marital drama is further intensified by Nikola’s fear and paranoia as he searches for his report on the privatization of the company, which has led to the arrest of the Minister and several of his associates. They are not alone on this long and exhausting night. Their home has been tapped…
Contact Production Company Kaval Film Skopje, Macedonia Robert Jazadziski P +389 70 279092 robert@kavalfilm.com.mk www.kavalfilm.com.mk Co-producing companies i/o post (Czech Republic), A Atalana (Slovenia), Soundsquare (Czech Republic Publicist for Oscar campaign Kean & Kolar Communication Jan Kean & Deborah Kolar JanKeanPR@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Director’s Statement Marriage is a political thriller. Macedonian Film Agency Darko Basheski St. 8 Mart no. 4 1000 Skopje, Macedonia P +389 2 3224 100 d.baseski@filmfund.gov.mk www.filmfund.gov.mk
Director Ivo Trajkov Screenplay Ivo Trajkov Main Cast Nikola Ristanovski, Verica Nedeska Co-prod. Countries Czech Republic, Slovenia
Genre Drama Language Macedonian Year 2015 Length 89 min Format DCP Screening ratio 1.1:85
www.honeynight.themovie.mk/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Rwjs9wmjY
Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Skopje International Film Festival, Skopje (Macedonia) • International Cinematographer’s Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Bitola (Macedonia) • Let’s SEE Film Festival (Austria) • Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece) • Film Festival Cottbus (Germany) • Eastern Neighbours (The Netherlands)
You Carry Me Montenegro Directed by
Ivona Juka
Monday, November 02 at 8:30 pm
You Carry Me
(Ti mene nosiš)
Montenegro Directed by Ivona Juka
Synopsis Three daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities. All three carry their fathers, yet they need them to confront themselves. It’s a story about empowerment, love and internal strength. Director’s Statement Some societies prize sons more than daughters, with fathers who traditionally still wish for a male offspring to carry on the family name and often inherit them. At the same time, the role of daughter in many societies often includes being a primary caregiver to aging, frail parents. In the societies with high life expectancy, daughter‘s identity of a „mother“ is in a way extended on her own parents in their old age. Daughter – the „inferior“ offspring in father‘s young age – becomes the „more important“ offspring in his old age. This story explores woman as daughter, and what that role may imply. That‘s why I decided upon a tryptich, three different stories about daughters of different age, status and families, in order to show more than one intimate relationship and cover a wider range of relations. One daughter is just starting to build her relationship with her father; the other is irretrievably losing her established relationship with her father; and the third one is confronting her broken relationship with her father in order to accept her future more easily. Their stories take place simultaneously, but independently, because they are all intimate and authentic. They brush without knowing how much they have in common. All three daughters carry their fathers, yet they need their fathers as well in order to confront themselves. The daughter-father relationship is strong even when it is under strain, just being built, or deeply marred by past events. Daughters in this story are strong personalities with many flaws, limitations, fears and defeats, daring to deal with their own mistakes and transformations. They are antiheroines who have no illusions about themselves, but they never give up and never surrender their dreams about a better future. Director Ivona Juka Screenplay Ivona Juka Main Cast Lana Barić, Vojislav Brajović, Helena Beljan, Nataša Janjić, Goran Hajduković, Nataša Dorčić, Filip Križan, Sebastian Cavazza
Co-prod. Countries Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia Genre Drama Language Croatian Year 2015 Length 162 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39 scope
www.youcarryme.com www.vimeo.com/132074081
Contact International Sales 4film ltd. Zagreb, Croatia Anita Juka P +385 14 828 774 office@4film.hr www.youcarryme.com Production Company 4film ltd. Zagreb, Croatia Anita Juka P +385 14 828 774 office@4film.hr www.youcarryme.com Co-producing companies Galileo Production, Vertigo/Emotionfilm (Slovenia), Sloane film production (Serbia) in cooperation with and supported by
Ministry of Culture of Montenegro Ilija Subotić Njegoševa St. 81250 Cetinje, Montenegro P +382 41 232 571 ilija.subotic@mku.gov.me www.mku.gov.me Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival • Pula Film Festival. Breza Award for Best Debutant, Golden Arena for Best Visual Effects, Golden Arena for Best Music (Croatia) • Sarajevo Film Festival, In Focus programme • Avvantura International Film Festival, Grand Prix Award for Best Movie • Filmski Festival Herceg Novi Montenegro, Golden Mimosa Award for Directing • Avvantura Film Festival Montenegro • Let’s CEE Film Festival (Austria)
Modris Latvia Directed by
Juris Kursietis
Tuesday, November 03 at 6:30 pm
Modris
(Modris)
Latvia Directed by Juris Kursietis
Synopsis Based on a true story, MODRIS depicts the downward trajectory in the life of a 17-year old boy. A conflict with his mother proves to be a fatal turning point when she turns him over to the police to teach him a lesson. Director’s Statement Modris’ story is based on real life events. It was told to me by a lawyer who worked on the case and as same as him, I just couldn’t forget it. I couldn’t forget it because after hearing this, how an individual, a young boy, had all his life more or less destroyed fear arose in me how easy it is in Latvia to lose someone in the justice system. What happened at first seems very simple: a mother tried to teach her son a lesson and went a little too far. But what struck me the most was that the Latvian justice system just didn’t, or didn’t want to see the bigger picture. Besides the conflict of the governing system and the citizen, another conflict – the one of the parent and child touched me in this story. It seems that at some point – maybe the absence of the father – the relationship of the mother and son turned so bad, that they couldn’t return to a beginning point and try to solve this. It seems that today more and more families are living with this – the helplessness of dealing with their relationships and problems within them. A complete opposite are the relationships between Modris and his teenage peers. And that’s what makes this story so beautiful. We see that just one person has so many angles to his ways of communicating, living and co-existing with so many sides of the everyday life. The question is, why are they so drastically different? With the story of Modris we show this. Every person has at least one story worth telling – Modris’ one is special and I hope that the cinematic experience after watching the film will be as great as the realization of the social problems around us. Director Juris Kursietis Screenplay Juris Kursietis Main Cast Kristers Pikša, Rēzija Kalniņa Co-prod. Countries Greece, Germany
www.modrisfilm.com www.vimeo.com/105247493
Genre Drama Language Latvian Year 2014 Length 98 min Format DCP, Blu-ray - 2K Screening ratio 1:2.39 Cinemascope
Contact International Sales Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH Berlin, Germany Heino Deckert & Torsten Frehse P +49 30 2191 8220 patricie@plutofilm.de www.plutofilm.de/films/modris/0006 Production Company Red Dot Media Riga, Latvia Juris Kursietis P +371 67188440 juris@reddotmedia.lv www.reddotmedia.lv Co-producing companies Sutor Kolonko (Germany), Boo Productions (Greece) Publicist for Oscar campaign Kean & Kolar Communication Jan Kean & Deborah Kolar JanKeanPR@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
National Film Centre of Latvia Dita Rietuma Peitavas 10 1050 Riga, Latvia P +371 6735 8878 nfc@nfc.gov.lv www.nfc.lv Festivals and Awards (Selection 2014) • Toronto IFF (Canada) • San Sebastian IFF (Spain) - Special Jury Award • Warsaw IFF (Poland) • Film Festival Cottbus (Germany) • Thessaloniki IFF (Greece) • Leeds IFF (UK) • Indian IFF in Goa (India) • Tbilisi IFF (Georgia) - Best Director • Riga IFF (Latvia) - Best Debut Film
BOTA Albania Directed by
Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci
Tuesday, November 03 at 8:30 pm
BOTA
(BOTA)
Albania Directed by Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci
Synopsis In a remote Albanian town where the residents claim nothing ever happens, down-to-earth Juli, entrepreneurial Ben and free spirit Nora run a quirky cafe/ bar called Bota. But progress is coming in the form of a highway construction project which also brings a secret from the villages traumatic past. Director’s Statement No matter how hard we try to forget, our past is always present. It is inescapable. The most we can do is comprehend and try to live with it and ourselves. Growing up in socialist Albania, I experienced first hand the immense transformation the Balkans have undergone these past twenty years. Myself and my co-director have felt compelled by this same inquiry. What are the daily confrontations and lingering traumas of men and woman, born and raised in extreme circumstances? How does one survive? How do we go on? For many years, we have immersed ourselves in Balkan heritage and history. But more importantly, we met many people who lived through these times and collected their stories. Our goal with BOTA was to capture not only the surface dramas but also the tiny nuances that reflect the lasting truth of these radiant and desperate people. BOTA is a metaphor for Albania’s journey from totalitarian dictatorship to socalled democracy. The main character, Juli, sees the future staring right at her, yet weighed down by the past, prolongs the necessary leap into real life. The challenge with BOTA was to create a uniquely Albanian vision illustrating that even in a desolate swampland there is something vital and alive.
Directors Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci Screenplay Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci, Stefania Cassini Main Cast Artur Gorishti, Flonja Kodheli, Fioralba Kryemadhi, Tinka Kurti, Albani Ukaj, Luca Lionello Co-prod. Countries Italy, Kosovo
Genre Drama Language Albanian, Italian Year 2014 Length 106 min Format 1:85 Screening ratio DCP
www.erafilm-albania.com www.cineuropa.org/vd.aspx?t=video&l=en&rdID=258630
Contact Production Company Erafilm Production Tirana, Albania Sabina Kodra P +355 69 2055 550 contact@erafilm-albania.com www.erafilm-albania.com Co-producing company Partner Media Investment (Italy) in cooperation with and supported by
Albanian Center of Cinematography Majlinda Tafa Aleksandër Moisiu 77 1012 Tirana, Albania P +355 4 2378 004 info@nationalfilmcenter.gov.al www.nationalfilmcenter.gov.al Festivals and Awards (Selection) • FEDEORA critics prize (East of the West competition) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic) • FIPRESCI critics prize, Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland) • Audience Award, Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland) • Critics Prize, Cinedays Film Festival, Skopje (Macedonia) • Best Director, DEA International Film Festival, Saranda (Albania) • Best Film, Balkan Film Festival, Pogradec (Albania)
1944 Estonia Directed by
Elmo Nüganen
Thursday, November 05 at 6:30 pm
1944 (1944)
Estonia Directed by Elmo Nüganen
Synopsis On Estonian turf, during the last year of World War II, men are fighting on the border between Europe and Russia. Some fight for the Red Army, some for the Waffen SS. On the Eastern Front, two Estonian soldiers must choose a side and fight against their countrymen.
Contact International Sales Eyewell AB Stockholm, Sweden Michael Werner P +46 70 733 2855 m.werner@eyewell.se www.eyewell.se Production Company Taska Film Tallinn, Estonia Kristian Taska P +372 520 3000 film@taska.ee www.taska.ee Co-producing company MRP Matila Röhr productions (Finland) in cooperation with and supported by
Estonian Film Institute Edith Sepp Uus 3 10111 Tallinn, Estonia P +372 627 6060 info@filmi.ee www.filmi.ee
Director Elmo Nüganen Screenplay Leo Kunnas Main Cast Kristjan Üksküla, Kaspar Velberg, Maiken Schmidt Co-prod. Country Finland
Drama Genre Language Estonian 2015 Year 100 min Length Format DCP Screening ratio 16:9
www.taska.ee www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqt9y4bhoU
Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Let’s Cee Film Festival (Austria) • Camerimage Film Festival (Poland) • Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt) • Arras Film Festival (France) • Festival of Tolerance - JFF Zagreb (Croatia)
11 Minutes Poland Directed by
Jerzy Skolimowski
Thursday, November 05 at 8:30 pm
11 Minutes (11 minut)
Poland Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Synopsis A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns. A cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine. In an unsure world anything can happen at any time. An unexpected chain of events can seal many fates in a mere 11 minutes. Director’s Statement We tread on thin ice. We walk the edge of the abyss. Around every corner lurks the unforeseen, the unimaginable. The future is only in our imagination. Nothing is certain - the next day, the next hour, even the next minute. Everything could end abruptly, in the least expected way.
Contact International Sales HanWay Films London, United Kingdom Jonathan Lynch-Staunton P +44 207 290 0750 jls@hanwayfilms.com www.hanwayfilms.com Production Company Skopia Film Warsaw, Poland Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski P +48 22 465 2490 skopiafilm@skopiafilm.com www.skopiafilm.com Publicist for Oscar campaign Kean & Kolar Communication Jan Kean & Deborah Kolar JanKeanPR@gmail.com Co-producing companies Element Pictures (Ireland), HBO (Poland), Orange Polska (Poland), Telewizja Polska (Poland), Fundacja Tumult (Poland) in cooperation with and supported by
Director Jerzy Skolimowski Screenplay Jerzy Skolimowski Main Cast Richard Dormer, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik, Piotr Głowacki, Jan Nowicki, Łukasz Sikora, Paulina Chapko, Agata Buzek, Anna Buczek, Mateusz Kościukiewicz
Co-prod. Countries Ireland Genre Thriller, Drama Language Polish, English Year 2015 Length 81 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39
www.11minut.com www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=DaMrMzYOQ04
Polish Film Institute Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik ul. Krakowskie, Przedmiecie 21/23 00-071 Warsaw, Poland P +48 22 4210 497 pisf@pisf.pl www.pisf.pl Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia (Competition) • Toronto Intenational Film Festival (Official Selection) • BFI London Film Festival (Best Film Nominee) • Gdynia Film Festival (Official Selection) (Poland) • Busan International Film Festival
Baby(a)lone Luxembourg Directed by
Donato Rotunno
Friday, November 06 at 5:00 pm
Baby(a)lone
(Baby(a)lone)
Luxembourg Directed by Donato Rotunno
Synopsis X and Shirley are only 13 years old. But they know all about violence, drugs and pornography: they are experiencing these every day at school. Among those hopeless and too fast growing children, they will come together as a unique couple. Loneliness is indeed easier when somebody shares it. Sometimes you even feel like being understood … Along the film, these two preteens will try to create themself a world of illusion and hope. A rush forward to find love they are desperately lacking…A violent and rough journey with some intense moments of genuine childish happiness like they have never experienced. Director’s Statement A perpetual Move – I have been working for several months with Tullio Forgiarini and Nicolas Steil to make this film. Tullio is the author of the original novel: “Amok” and also a teacher. Nicolas is the co-writer and producer of the film. This film wants to be the voice of a young adolescence in need for love. The urgency of filming – The children we casted were totally inexperienced. They had no theatre background nor had acted in a film or television production. A child is physically and psychologically constantly changing. Therefore, we had to shoot quickly. We started shortly after the finalisation of the casting and some workshops with the young actors. I helped them to discover and construct their character. They had to work hard. Everything was new for them. Technically and psychologically they had everything to learn. The scenes they had to play were sometimes violent and tense. It was hard form them to cope with this. I needed them to interpret this violence as I did not want them to be just physically violent on screen. Technically – Keeping the children’s focus into the filming process was a challenge. I tried to keep them into the center of the image. I avoided any technical cut of film sequences to let them work freely. Along the shooting days, their coming of age awkwardness found its place into the film narration. Their lack of experiences became a real plus for the credibility of the story. The way they walk with hesitation, their childish way of talking, the fear they had of holding each other’s hands, all these details found a place into the film narration. I was almost afraid they would turn into real actors as I did not want them to lose their naivety. Director Donato Rotunno Screenplay Tullio Forgiarini, Donato Rotunno, Nicolas Steil Main Cast Joshua Defays, Charlotte Elsen, Etienne Halsdorf www.baby-a-lone.lu www.vimeo.com/119741780
Co-prod. Country Belgium Genre Drama Language Luxembourgish Year 2015 Length 98 min Format 2048 x 858
Contact Production Company Iris Productions Luxembourg Nicolas Steil P +352 27 39 70 12 20 nicolas.steil@irisproductions.lu www.theirisgroup.eu Co-producing company Iris Films Belgium in cooperation with and supported by
Film Fund Luxembourg Françoise Lentz 5, Rue Large 1917 Luxembourg, Luxembourg P +352 2478 2179 francoise.lentz@filmfund.etat.lu www.filmfund.lu Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Festival de la Quinzaine du Cinéma Francophone • Award Best Script Trophées Francophones du Cinéma, Abidjan (Ivory Coast) • European Union Film Festival, Ottawa • Film Festival Goa (India) • Brussels International Film Festival (in competition) • Stockhom Film Festival (in competiton)
BABAI Republic of Kosovo Directed by
Visar Morina
Friday, November 06 at 7:00 pm
BABAI
(BABAI)
Republic of Kosovo Directed by Visar Morina
Synopsis Ten-year old Nori and his father Gezim earn their living by selling cigarettes in the pre-war Kosovo of the nineties. Gezim wants to hear nothing of Nori’s mother. He is an expert at escaping the past, and now he wants to flee Kosovo without Nori. But the boy tries everything in his means to prevent his dad from leaving. An accident lands Nori in the hospital, and when he gets out, his father is simply gone. Angry, yet determined, Nori sets out on a perilous journey to find his father and indeed finds him in Germany. With the persistence only a child can have, he confronts his father whom he cannot forgive for his desertion. Director’s Statement BABAI depicts a pre-war atmosphere in which people become the playthings of abstruse political powers. They sit, a bomb beneath their asses, and talk about the weather. It is precisely this feeling and its naturalness that I want to capture - without comment or condescension. The film’s core is Nori’s personal story. I imagine the figure of the father as a centre point around which Nori revolves and through which Nori is introduced to life. His absolute trust is destroyed when the father leaves. From Nori’s perspective there is nothing that would justify this separation. Nori fights against it with all his strength. His behaviour is an attempt to maintain his own innocence. The pain he feels from separation is less due to the fact that he has to live without a father and more that he must live without trust.
Director Visar Morina Screenplay Visar Morina Co-prod. Countries Germany, Macedonia, France
www.vimeo.com/138627375
Genre Drama Language Albanian, Serbian, German Year 2015 Length 104 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39
Contact International Sales HERETIC Outreach Athens, Greece Ioanna Stais P +30 210 600 52 60 ioanna@heretic.gr www.heretic.gr Production Company NiKo Film Berlin, Germany Nicole Gerhards P +49 30 27 58 28 36 n.gerhards@nikofilm.de www.nikofilm.de Produksioni Krusha Prishtina, Kosovo Visar Krusha P +386 49 224 983 vkrusha@gmail.com Co-producing companies Skopje Filmstudio (Macedonia), Eaux Vives Productions (France) in cooperation with and supported by
Kosova Cinematography Center Arben Zharku Qafa, Galeria nr.15 Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo P +381 38 213 228 info@qkk-rks.com www.qkk-rks.com Festivals and Awards (Selection) • German Cinema New Talent Awards for Director, Film Festival Munich • German Cinema New Talent Awards for Screenplay, Film Festival Munich • German Cinema New Talent Awards for Actors, Film Festival Munich • One Future Price, Prizes Overcoming Borders, Film Festival Munich • Best Director Award, Karlovy Vary IFF • Europe Cinemas Label Award, Karlovy Vary IFF
Iraqi Odyssey Switzerland Directed by
Samir
Saturday, November 07 at 3:30 pm
Iraqi Odyssey
(Iraqi Odyssey)
Switzerland Directed by Samir
Synopsis Angry bearded men, veiled women, demolished cities: Iraq, as seen through the eyes of the western media. What happened to the enlightened society of the 1950s and 1960s? How did it come to this? A globalized middle-class Iraqi family in diaspora speaks. Director’s Statement I spent my childhood in Baghdad in the early 1960s in a typical middle class family at that time in Iraq. My grandfather was a judge. My aunts and uncles, engineers or doctors. I grew up with Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Shakespeare and the modern sciences and, of course, the Arab classics and the singers Fairuz and Umm Kulthum. When the army staged a coup, I first heard the name of the future dictator: Saddam Hussein. He was then an assassin. We fled to Switzerland, where I grew up. During my childhood, I was irritated by the fact that I knew about many European artists while my classmates didn’t know anything about the Arab world. At best, they confused Iran with Iraq. Later on, when I visited my aunts and uncles in exile, we used to make fun of the ’ignorant western people’. In 2003, the invasion of the US troops wiped that smile off our faces. Now, my family is scattered all over the world. From Auckland to Los Angeles, from Moscow to Paris and London: we belong to the 4-5 million Iraqis who do not live in their home country anymore. Like many other Iraqi middle-class families, we’ve become a globalized family that is now well integrated into the western society. Only a few old aunts have stayed in Iraq. Thanks to them and the modern information technologies and social media, we now know more about the developments in Iraq than we ever wished for … How did it come to this, that all our dreams of a renaissance of the Arab world and the wish for a transformation into a modern, just society were so abruptly and brutally destroyed? Is there a possibility to reconstruct this dream by building on our experiences of migration? «Iraqi Odyssey» tells this story. Director Samir Screenplay Samir Co-prod. Countries Germany
www.iraqiodyssey.ch/en www.vimeo.com/66626437
Genre Documentary Language German, English, French, Arabic Year 2014 Length 162 min Format DCP Screening ratio 1.85
Contact US-Distributor AFD/Typecast Films Seattle, USA John Sinno P +1 206 322 08 82 John@typecastfilms.com www.typecastfilms.com International Sales Autlook Filmsales GmbH Vienna, Austria Salma Abdalla P + 43 676 900 3771 salma@autlookfilms.com www.autlookfilms.com Production Company Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG Zürich, Switzerland Joël Jent P +41 44 456 30 23 joel@dschointventschr.ch Publicist for Oscar campaign Kean & Kolar Communication Jan Kean & Deborah Kolar JanKeanPR@gmail.com Co-producing companies Coin Film (Germany), SRF Zürich (Switzerland), WDR (Germany) in cooperation with and supported by Swiss Films Catherine Ann Berger Neugasse 6, Postfach 8031 Zurich, Switzerland P +41 43 211 4050 info@swissfilms.ch www.swissfilms.ch Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Toronto International Film Festival 2014, Documentary Competition • 65. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2015 – Berlinale Panorama, Dokumente - 3rd Place Public Award • BAFICI Buenos Aires • ADFF – Abu Dhabi International Film Festival 2014, Documentary Competition, Best Asian Film Award
THE FENCER Finland Directed by
Klaus Härö
Saturday, November 07 at 6:30 pm
THE FENCER
(MIEKKAILIJA)
Finland Directed by Klaus Härö
Synopsis A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950’s, having left Leningrad to escape the secret police. He finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students, where he starts teaching them his great passion – fencing. Disapproving, the school’s principal starts investigating Endel’s background. Fencing becomes a form of self-expression for the children, and Endel becomes a role model and father figure. He learns to love the children, many of whom have been orphaned as a result of the Russian occupation. When the children want to participate in a national fencing tournament in Leningrad, Endel must make a choice; risk everything to take the children to Leningrad or put his safety first and disappoint them. Director’s Statement Stories about encounters between children and adults have always interested me. Almost all of us can remember an adult whose presence or words at the right time in our childhood have inspired or given the crucial nudge in the right direction, helping us to realize a dream or pursue our dream job. I had teachers who encouraged me to make films, and I don’t think I would be a director without them. The core theme of THE FENCER is the role of adults in children’s lives, how adults see children and their interests, and how adults can steer children in the right direction. It’s a question that fascinates and puzzles: how do people become who they are? I want to tell stories that tell the truth about life.
Director Klaus Härö Screenplay Anna Heinämaa Main Cast Märt Avandi, Usrula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere, Lembit Ulfsak, Liisa Koppel Co-prod. Countries Germany, Estonia
Genre Drama Language Estonian, Russian Year 2015 Length 98 min Format DCP Screening ratio 2.39:1
www.facebook.com/Miekkailija-736733499758460 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShMAkhyC6bY
Contact International Sales The Little Film Company USA Robbie Little P +1 818 762 6999 info@thelittlefilmcompany.com www.littlefilmcompany.com Production Company Making Movies Oy Helsinki, Finland Kai Nordberg & Kaarle Aho P +358 40 507 3936 / +358 40 725 3936 kai.nordberg@mamo.fi kaarle.aho@mamo.fi www.mamo.fi Co-producing companies Kick Film GmbH (Germany), Allfilm (Estonia) Publicist for Oscar campaign MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson tatsfilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by Finnish Film Foundation Jaana Puskala Kanavakatu 12 00160 Helsinki, Finland P +358 9 6220 300 ses@ses.fi www.ses.fi Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Festival du Film Historique ASBL (Liège, Belgium) • Kyoto Historica International Film Festival (Kyoto, Japan) • Arras Film Festival (Arras, France) • Cairo International Film Festival (Cairo, Egypt) • Una Finestra sul Nord (Florence, Italy) • Palm Springs International Film Festival (Palm Springs, CA) • Nordic Lights Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
The Summer of Sangailė Lithuania Directed by
Alantė Kavaitė
Sunday, November 08 at 3:30 pm
The Summer of Sangailė
Lithuania Directed by Alantė Kavaitė
(SANGAILĖS VASARA)
Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Sangailė is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste, a local girl of her age who, unlike Sangailė, lives her life to the full with creativity and daring. As the two girls become lovers, Sangailė allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret, and finds in her teenage love the only person to truly encourage her in flying.
Contact US-Distributor Strand Releasing Culver City, USA Marcus Hu P +1 310 836 7500 marcus@strandreleasing.com www.strandreleasing.com International Sales Films Distribution Paris, France
Director’s Statement When I was 17, like most teenagers, I was in a hurry to make choices while all the while being filled with doubt and fear. I wrote the story for The Summer of Sangailė with the guiding idea that sometimes it only takes a chance encounter with someone who helps you see yourself in a different light to overcome certain difficulties. I wanted this kind and caring individual to be another young girl of the same age, but whose personality was diametrically opposed to Sangailė’s in order to bring out her flaws and contradictions. Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making, which is at the heart of this story. From the writing stage I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adole scent unrest and self-destructive behavior, for with hindsight, obstacles that seemed insurmountable at the time are now put in their proper perspective. Yet, the joys of adolescence remain intense. Moments of fear and suffering appear to us today as necessary steps to find balance in our lives, emancipate ourselves and grow up. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact. I spent my adolescence in Lithuania, a country with a special, practically obsessive relationship with aviation. Every summer, like everyone, I went to see a great number of air shows. It seemed to me that this popular Lithuanian pastime would be the perfect metaphor for Sangailė. Aerobatics, an extreme sport, requires true self-control and that is just the thing that Sangailė seems to lack the most. She has to struggle within to free herself and achieve her dream.
Production Company Fralita Films Vilnius, Lithuania Živilė Gallego zivile.gallego@fralita.com www.fralitafilms.com
Director Alantė Kavaitė Screenplay Alantė Kavaitė Main Cast Julija Steponaitytė, Aistė Diržiūtė Co-prod. Countries France, The Netherlands
Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Sundance, Award for Best Director (USA) • Berlinale, Panorama (Germany) • Kinopavasaris, Competition (Lithuania) • Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) • Outfest Los Angeles (USA) • Baltic Debut, Award for Best Director (Russia) • Athens (competition), Award for Best Director (Greece) • Pusan (South Korea) • Varsovie, Competition (Poland) • Stockholm, Competition (Sweden)
Genre Love, Coming of Age Language Lithuanian Year 2015 Length 88 min Format DCP Screening ratio 1.85
www.facebook.com/SANGAILE?fref=ts www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64GsuzuJHo
Les Films d’Antoine Paris, France Co-producing company Viking Film (The Netherlands) in cooperation with and supported by
Lithuanian Film Centre Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson Z. Sierakausko st. 15 03105 Vilnius, Lithuania P +370 5 213 05 47 info@lkc.lt www.lkc.lt/en
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Sweden Directed by
Roy Andersson
Sunday, November 08 at 6:30 pm
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Sweden Directed by Roy Andersson
(En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron) Synopsis A man dies of a heart attack while his oblivious wife noisily prepares dinner; a dying woman clings to her money and jewels; a ferry passenger collapses after paying for his lunch. Death, like life, is often absurd. Reminiscent of a modern Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us through a series of surreal, kaleidoscopic vignettes. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humor and tragedy that is in us, life’s grandeur as well as the humanity’s frailty. Director’s Statement With this project I have the ambition to take the spectator on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moment, the pettiness of others, the humour and tragedy that is in us, life’s grandeur as well as frailty of humanity. Above all my ambition is to create all this with utmost visual power combined with a very simple but distinct dialogue.
Contact US-Distributor Magnolia Pictures New York, USA Arianne Rocchi P +1 310 312 2314 arocchi@magpictures.com www.magpictures.com International Sales Coproduction Office Paris, France Olimpia Pont Cháfer P +33 1 5602 6000 olimpia@coproductionoffice.eu www.coproductionoffice.eu Production Company Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB Stockholm, Sweden Johan Carlsson P +46 8 662 57 00 johan@royandersson.com www.royandersson.com Co-producing companies 4 ½ Fiksjon AS (Norway), Essential Filmproduktion (Germany), Parisienne de Production (France), Sveriges Television AB (Sweden), Arte France Cinéma (France), ZDF/ Arte (Germany) in cooperation with and supported by
Director Roy Andersson Screenplay Roy Andersson Main Cast Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Törnros, Jonas Gerholm, Ola Stensson, Oscar Salomonsson, Roger Olsen Likvern www.royandersson.com www.vimeo.com/104770932
Co-prod. Countries Norway, Germany, France Genre Drama Language Swedish Year 2014 Length 100 min Screening ratio 1:1:85 for cinema
Swedish Film Institute Pia Lundberg Int. Department, Borgvägen 1-5 102 52 Stockholm, Sweden P +46 8 665 1100 pia.lundberg@sfi.se www.sfi.se Festival • Venice Film festival, Golden Lion (Italy) • Toronto International Film • Festival (Canada) • Sydney Film Festival (Australia) • Busan Film Festival (South Korea) • Hong Kong International Film Festival