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0,8 Amps of Happiness
112 Weddings
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 90’ Original Language: English
0,8 Ampère Geluk Saskia Gubbels
Doug Block
http://112weddingsmovie.com/
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‘There will come a moment when I decide to lie down in the snow to die. Because living like this isn’t much of a life. It really isn’t. It’s death. ’ These are the opening words of Lidwine in this documentary. Severely depressed and suicidal, she has tried everything to break free from the downward spiral she finds herself trapped in. Electroconvulsive therapy, popularly known as electroshock therapy, is her last resort. Director Saskia Gubbels intimately portrays three people who undergo electroshock therapy. Will this treatment give them back just a tiny shred of their former state of happiness they so long for?
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Zeppers Film & TV Frank van den Engel
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Judith Vreriks
1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: KRO-NCRV Television – The
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www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
As a part-time wedding videographer, filmmaker Doug Block has taped 112 weddings. Doug long wondered what became of those marriages. Driven by deep curiosity, he begins to track down and interview his wedding couples, juxtaposing wedding day flashbacks with present-day reality as he explores themes of love and marital commitment. Canada (all rights) not available. USA, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Israel, Finland, South Korea, Spain, Australia (TV rights) not available.
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PRODUCTION 112 Weddings, LLC Lori Cheatle
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Director Saskia Gubbels intimately portrays three people who undergo electroshock therapy. As a part-time wedding videographer hired for his intimate documentary style, filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street, The Kids Grow Up) has taped 112 weddings.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
17 Not Required Indians
1971
United Arab Emirates / Pakistan / India, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Hindi/English Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
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2010 UAE -17 Indians were sentenced to death for murdering 1 man. They would have ended up as statistics, but their families who garnered support of local media and Human Rights Lawyers, pressuring both governments, into a fair trial. Sharing spaces through this trial, watching them collect proof of innocence, leads us into an unseen world of migrant slavery, starting in Punjab it entraps workers into Sharjah. Human Rights Lawyers reveal there are 1700 more Indian migrants languishing in UAE jails-approximately 200 on death row- testimony to the urgent need of representation by Indian Embassy overseas.
How did an anti-war effort turn into one of the greatest heists in US history? The year a few ordinary citizens took on over-reaching powers of the FBI. The never-before-told heist story has striking parallels with current headlines about privacy issues and government surveillance in light of the Wikileaks scandal and Snowden’s revelations about the NSA.
Soniya Kirpalani
Johanna Hamilton
http://cargofilm-releasing.
SALES / CONTACT: Soniya Kirpalani Sprocket Science Films 2104 Shiv Tapi, Hughes Road, Gamdevi
PRODUCTION Sprocket Science Films Soniya Kirpalani CO-PRODUCTION: Indovision Films – England
SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing 611 Broadway #630
PRODUCTION Big Mouth Productions Katy Chevigny Marilyn Ness
10012 New York
4000007 Mumbai
USA
India
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tel: +91 2223670830
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1989
2013
Denmark, 2014 color / black and white, video, 58’/97’ Original Language: Romanian/ Hungarian/German/Russian/English Subtitles: English
Belgium, 2013 color, HDcam, 49’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
A young and unknown technocrat, Miklós Neméth, is brought in to become Hungary’s new prime minister. He is to save the country’s appalling economy and soon decides to remove the massive border control apparatus from the state budget. He soon finds out that this decision sets him up against formidable adversaries and communist hardliners. Director Anders Østergaard (Tintin and Me, Burma VJ) recreates the events of 1989 and invites the audience into the secret meeting rooms through a mixture of ’testimonials’, archive material, recreation, and reconstructed dialogues lip-synch’ed to archive footage of the real political key characters.
2013 looks back on a whole year with ten unknown people filming their own lives. Twelve episodes look back on twelve months, with ten personal stories. A special mirror with a moving, emotional trip along our daily lives.
Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz
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PRODUCTION Magic Hour Films
SALES / CONTACT: Sue Green
Lise Lense-Møller
The New Flemish Primitives Huart Hamoirlaan 107
8050 Zurich
CO-PRODUCTION: Proton Cinema Kft. – Hungary,
Switzerland
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Belgium
tel: +41 44 3122060
GmbH – Germany,
tel: +32 470991891
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Substans Film AS – Norway,
www..tnfp.tv/
stories@firsthandfilms.com
Radiator Film ApS – Germany
sue.green@tnfp.tv
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
1030 Brussel
PRODUCTION Woestijnvis NV Erik Watté INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SBS Belgium – Belgium
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VPRO – The Netherlands, A political drama about the – Germany collapse of ARTE theDeutschland Iron Curtain.
January 2013 in the lives of ten very different people: young and old, men and women, high end, low end…
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24 Hours Jerusalem
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov
Germany / France, 2014 color, video, 26’/1440’ Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic/English Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 83’ Original Language: not applicable/ French/Lingala Subtitles: English
Following protagonists from all religions and backgrounds the event is a message from the heart of a deeply conflicted region. More than half of the world population believes Jerusalem to be their religious center. The city is an icon since hundreds of years, and makes the news headlines around the world almost every day. Amongst the symbols and politics, daily life of the city’s diverse inhabitants clamors on, intertwining the stories of Jerusalem.
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a film about African beauty. Directed by Oswald von Richthofen and produced by Roland Emmerich. It is no classical documentary. No boy soldiers. No hunger. No safaris. Rather a poetic homage to the eternal beauty and sublime strength of Africa. An exemplary tribute to the Surma tribe of Southern Ethiopia, the dandy movement of Brazzaville and the voodoo wrestlers in Kinshasa. The filmmakers show three unusual facets of Africa. The result explodes cinematic aesthetics. 35 Cows and a Kalashnikov will illuminate your view of the Dark Continent.
Volker Heise
Oswald von Richthofen
www.35cows.com
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Zero One Film GmbH Thomas Kufus
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zurich Switzerland
CO-PRODUCTION: Alegría Productions – France
tel: +41 44 3122060
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BR – Germany,
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NRK – Norway, YLE – Finland
Shot by 70 crews, this is a portrait of one day in the life of the world’s most famous city. Behind the harsh politics of our days lie daily routines familiar to all.
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GmbH
CO-PRODUCTION: Lohmann Medien GmbH – The
Beethovenplatz 2
Netherlands
80336 München Germany tel: +49 172 8957789 andrea.zimmermann@ berghauswoebke-film.com
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
5 Days in New York
The 50 Year Argument
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English
USA, 2014 color / black and white, video, 96’ Original Language: English
On June 28th 1969 the New York Police Department conducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. To the surprise of the policemen, the partying bar patrons decided to defend themselves and fought back. Today, this incident is celebrated in a series of colourful and flamboyant parties in cities all over the world. Everywhere, people are remembering the pioneers of the gay and lesbian movement 45 years ago. 5 Days in New York takes the viewers back to the origins of the gay pride movement in New York City.
Martin Scorsese and his longtime documentary collaborator David Tedeschi’s The 50 Year Argument rides the waves of literary, political and cultural history as charted by its subject: the influential publication The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over fifty years.
André Schäfer
Germany, France not available.
Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi
SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films
PRODUCTION Florian Film GmbH Anna Steuber
P.O. Box 15703 1001 NE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4040707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
USA, Japan, Scandinavia, Canada, Portugal, Latin America (TV), Central Europe (TV), Netherlands (TV) not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil 18 Levontin St. 6511207 TEL AVIV Israel tel: +972 3 5664129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il4x zelfde bedrijf +1 INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: HBO Enterprises – USA,
Gay Pride on the Hudson River.
BBC Arena – England, WoWoW – Japan
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6 Degrees
A 60 km/h
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 81’ Original Language: Polish/Spanish/English Subtitles: English
Uruguay, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
The film is inspired by Milgram’s ‘Six degrees of separation’ theory with its assumption that every person in the world can be reached through 6 personal connections. The crew tries to explore the chain of connections between two randomly drawn protagonists: a young punk-rock musician from Warsaw, Poland and a farmer from little village in Mexico. Movie camera follow the everyday life of all our protagonists and try to discover what’s hidden beneath their everyday masks. Doesn’t the longing for love, acceptance, career, friendship and a decent life reminds us of ourselves?
What if you are 50 and you realize you are making the same mistakes as your father? Which borders are you willing to cross to avoid this? Wanting to change his life, 50-yearold Mario Sabah from Montevideo decides to leave everything behind. He repairs his 1977 Mehari and recruits his two sons to embark without money on a life-changing journey of 150. 000 kilometers, 45 countries and 5 continents. Through interviews and footage shot during the trip, At 60 km/h tells us about family and sacrafice. And about the value of keeping one’s word.
6 Krokow Bartosz Dombrowski
Facundo Marguery
www.a60km.com
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
PRODUCTION Otter Films Anna Wydra
SALES / CONTACT: Virginia Hinze U Films
PRODUCTION U Films Virginia Hinze
Echevarriarza 3377 bis
Videitos Films
11500 Montevideo
Matias Sabah
Uruguay tel: +59895372938 www.a60km.com/ vikahinze@gmail.com
Which borders are you willing to cross in order to not make the same mistakes as your father? Would you accept his offer to travel around the world?
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The 986 Patent
Act and Wind
Sweden, 2013 color, video, 59’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English
Brazil, 2014 color / black and white, 16mm/HDcam/35mm/video, 72’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Ato, atalho e vento Marcelo Masagão
Michael Collaros, Felix Etzler
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The story of one of the biggest patent disputes in European history, over a patent for color graphics displays invented by Swedish genius Håkan Lans. What began as a dream of adding color to the everyday world of computing soon turned into a nightmare, involving high-powered lawyers, FBI and multinational corporations. The film is a fascinating documentary about Håkan Lans and his struggle to defend his patent against giant multinational corporations willing to do anything to avoid having to pay the inventor. The documentary features interviews with Noam Chomsky, Apple’s founder Steve Wozniak and Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari.
SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
PRODUCTION Bob 601
Act and Wind is a film montage, made of clips of more than 150 fiction films and documentaries. The film prioritizes the most important ACT in the cinematographic activity: THE CUT, the passage from one time-space unit to the next one.
SALES / CONTACT: Marcelo Masagão
Michael Collaros
Agência Observatório
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Felix Etzler
Estrada do Layer
S-10510 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
06079-240 Cotia
Sweden tel: +46733651151
– Sweden
tel: +55 1146124886
PRODUCTION Agência Observatório Marcelo Masagão
Brazil
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paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
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What began in 1975 as a dream of adding color to computer monitors soon turned into a nightmare for the inventor Håkan Lans, involving high-powered lawyers, FBI and multinational corporations. 20
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Art / Music / Culture
Advanced Style
Afternoon of A Faun
USA, 2014 color, video, 72’ Original Language: English
USA, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: English
Lina Plioplyte
Nancy Biurski
http://advancedstylefilm.com/
www..afternoonofafaun.com
The recent emergence of street style as a cultural phenomenon has changed the way we look at fashion forever. In 2008, Ari Seth Cohen began a blog depicting the style and stories of the city’s senior set. As Cohen’s blog comes to the attention of the international fashion community, an industry traditionally associated with youth, the ladies find themselves in a position of new-found fame and cultural influence. The documentary focuses on some of Ari’s favourite subjects, whose eclectic personal style and spirit have guided their approach to ageing. Each offers their own unique perspective on overcoming life’s obstacles with style. USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Baltics, Iceland, Japan, Australia, NZ, UK, Korea, Israel not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Teenage Peanut Ari Seth Cohen
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 2536244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. Because of her extraordinary movement and unique personality on stage, she became a muse to two of the greatest choreographers in dance, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, who created his famous version of Afternoon of a Faun for her. Then, at 27, she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again. The ballet world has been haunted by her story ever since.
SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc. 333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York
PRODUCTION Steeple Chase FIlms Ric Burns INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WNET – USA
USA tel: +1 212 6296880 alivemindcinema.com elizabeth@kinolorber.com
The story behind the fashion blog which became an international phenomenon.
Tanaquil Le Clercq was the prima donna of the ballet world until she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again. This is her story. 22
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
The Age of Love
Agora. From Democracy to the Market
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: English
Greece, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’/95’ Original Language: Greek/English Subtitles: English
Addie, 71, out late at a dance club, doesn’t mince words, “I’m not looking for some baggy-assed man to buy me a fish fry. ” And long-divorced at 74, insists she’ll still find her “Fred and Ginger romance. ” What brings these seniors together is an intriguing announcement: a first-of-its-kind Speed Dating event exclusively for 70- to 90-year-olds. This heartwarming and surprising film follows these intrepid, pre-war speed daters over one summer and brings to light the unexpected hopes and emotions of older adults who must now take stock of aging bodies and life-worn hearts.
A feature length project covering four years of Greek economic and human downfall, with the point of view of a long time world documentarist and reporter filming his own country with impartiality, delivering the chronicle of the on progress laboratory of the country’s public economical and social fabric dismembering, meeting with his fellow citizens with humanity and empathy, reflecting their devolution, and addressing economic governance, when accessing the testimony of its national and international key actors and first hand backstage insiders.
Steven Loring
Yorgos Avgeropoulos
www.theAgeofLoveMovie.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Steven Loring Film Productions Steven Loring
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
Widowed and alone in his small apartment in Rochester, NY, Matt, 79, sighs, “I just need somebody to be romantic with!” 24
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PRODUCTION Small Planet TV Productions Yorgos Avgeropoulos
174, rue Stevin
Anastasia Skoubri
1000 Bruxelles Belgium
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WDR – Germany,
tel: +38 5915185577
Al Jazeera Arabic – Qatar
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The cost of greek crisis on human lifes, witnessing the rise of fascism but also solidarity, while investigating the global systemics and the governance conducting high-risk economic experiments. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Alive!
Almost Friends
France, 2014 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Israel, 2014 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic Subtitles: English
Five men meet for a first parachute jump experience. Held by intense and vertiginous moments, a growing friendship and hilarious moments, the film is an opportunity for them to express profound feelings about living with HIV.
Samar, 12, lives in Lod, a mixed city marred by poverty and crime. She has an Arab Israeli mother and a Palestinian father from the Occupied Territories. Linor, 11, lives in Tlamim, a religious jewish settlement. There are only 67 km between Lod and Tlamim, but the girls are separated by a vast national, cultural and ideological abyss. As participants in an education and technology program, their relationship starts from online correspondence. Meeting face-to-face adds an intense component to the two girls’ lives, sweeping them and their families into a profound and complex experience.
Vivant ! Vincent Boujon
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Kim’at Chaverot Nitzan Ofir, Nitzan Ophir
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SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films 25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France
PRODUCTION The Kingdom Marie-Odile Gazin CO-PRODUCTION: Rendez-vous – France
tel: +33 4 75943467
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Lyon Capitale TV – France,
www.andanafilms.com
Cinaps TV – France
contact@andanafilms.com
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zurich
PRODUCTION Heymann Brothers Films Barak Heymann INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Yes Docu – Israel
Switzerland tel: +41 44 3122060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Two girls, one religious Jewish and the other Israeli-Arab whose father is from the Occupied Territories, start to correspond online, and find themselves deep in a surprising, exciting, and stressful experience. 26
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Always Together
Ambush
Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 85’/52’ Original Language: Czech Subtitles: English
France, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
25 years ago, Petr and Simona stood up refusing to sacrifice their freedom to society standards, to be self-sufficient, to put love and togetherness above all material assets, and go living in trailers in a god-forsaken czech meadow with bare essentials. Their alternative lifestyle sometimes take on extreme forms, as rejecting convenience for a radically different path, bringing pain and sacrifices to the whole family. What happens when fatherly love becomes strangling for his nine children? Controlled with no alternative than fearfully running away into the unknowned civilization, will they ever have a future growing up in a modern society?
This is the story of 31 French paratroopers who were thrown into chaos for more than 20 hours of continuous fighting with no cover. They were up against heavily armed Taliban forces that outnumbered them 5 to 1. A story of heroism, sacrifice and blood. 9 were killed, 16 were injured and only 6 escaped unharmed. This band of brothers were all from the 8th RPIMA Parachute Regiment, they were friends and most of them were young. Brought to life with animated sequences, Ambush allows the survivors to tell the story of that fateful day.
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L’Embuscade Sébastien Dupouey, Jerome Fritel
SALES / CONTACT: Iva Tkalec Visible Film
PRODUCTION Endorfilm Jiri Konecny
174 rue Stevin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Ceská Televize – Czech Republic
1000 Bruxelles Belgium tel: +38 591 5185577 www.visiblefilm.com sales@visiblefilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films 38 Quai du Point du Jour
PRODUCTION Brotherfilms David Andre Emmanuel Francois
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: +34 634869646 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.fr
The dream of an alternative family life which just went too far.
The story of 31 French paratroopers thrown into chaos for 20 hours of fighting with no cover as a result of an ambush - only 6 escaped unharmed. 28
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Anarchic Harmony
Andy Holzer - Beyond the Light
Turkey, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: Turkish/English Subtitles: English
Austria / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: German/English
Andy Holzer - Jenseits des Lichts Werner Bertolan
Koray Kaya
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Anarchic Harmony leaves an open field to investigate and wander with musicians that follow John Cage’s principle of the same name. John Cage’s theory carries music to an experimental dimension and proves that a music piece can be composed by using all sorts of sounds that exist. The striking Istanbul Gezi riot scenes boosts as an antidote for the present decay whereas the interviews reveal the conservative and cliché stand-point of neoliberal make-believe games.
SALES / CONTACT: Basak Callioglu ARTvoltage
PRODUCTION Watch My Soundtrack Koray Kaya
Konaklar Mah. Otoyolcular Sit. 1A-2 Besiktas 34330 Istanbul Turkey tel: +90 2129242427 www.artvoltage.com basak@artvoltage.com
Despite being unable to see, mountaineer Andy Holzer, has experienced sacred places in Jerusalem, the Jordanian desert and the rocks of Wadi Rum. Blind from birth, Holzer, from Osttirol in Austria, became famous for his climbing and mountaineering skills. This documentary is not only about his achievements, it is also about a pious man and his journey to and across the Holy land following Jesus’ Passion. This journey leads through the desert of Jordan and ends in Wadi Rum where Holzer tries to climb dangerous ridges.
SALES / CONTACT: Berend Dreier Red Bull Media House
PRODUCTION Timeline Production Reichel & Hinterbrandner GbR
Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15
Max Reichel
5071 Wals
Red Bull Media House
Austria
Hans-Peter Stauber
tel: 00436622240-0
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berend.dreier@ at.redbullmediahouse.com
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Arctic Spleen
The Arms Drop
Italy, 2014 color / black and white, video, 64’ Original Language: Greenlandic/English Subtitles: English
Denmark / Sweden, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English
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Arctic Spleen is a personal intimate journey inside the Greenlandic juvenile world where nature, violence, boredom and a strong cultural legacy have been claiming for decades the highest and saddest “toll”, lives. A documentary that offers a different social perspective to the 3. 000 Inuits community of Tasiilaq and the other 6 villages that make up the East coast of Greenland, one of the currently lesser known societies in the world.
SALES / CONTACT: Ilaria Malagutti Mammut Film Srl via Bizzarri 13 40012 Calderara di Reno Bologna
PRODUCTION Mammut Film Srl Ilaria Malagutti CO-PRODUCTION: – Italy
Italy tel: +3951727536 www.mammutfilm.it malagutti@mammutfilm.it
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Former British arms dealer Peter Bleach is convicted of dropping 4 tons of weapons over West Bengal in order to start a civil war – facing a possible death sentence in India. Bleach was indeed part of the arms drop, but he was working as an MI5 informer with a view to capturing the mas¬termind behind it, international activist Niels Holck, who was also on board the plane. Whereas Niels Holck made a dramatic nocturnal escape from the Indian police at Mumbai Airport where they had detained the plane, Bleach was left to rot in an Indian jail for eight years.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Fridthjof Film
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Miriam Nørgaard Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C
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Denmark
Corporation – Denmark
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Around the World in 50 Concerts
Art and Craft
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/94’ Original Language: Russian/ English/Dutch/Spanish Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 87’ Original Language: English
In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra tours the whole world to celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50 concerts spread over 6 continents. Unbounded passion and love for music brings musicians and concert goers together. Documentary maker Heddy Honigmann lands with the orchestra in Buenos Aires, Soweto and St Petersburg and shows how the ensemble succeeds in gaining the hearts of people with a different cultural background. A journey to the kernel and the power of music which knows how to touch unexpected emotions and which helps to overcome the pain of living.
Art and Craft follows a prolific forger of European masters from Picasso to Monet, who donates his work to museums instead of selling it. The film uncovers a curious story at the intersection of art and philanthropy.
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SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Cobos Films
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock
PRODUCTION Purple Parrot Films
Carmen Cobos
Autlook Filmsales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Kees Rijninks
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Non Sequitur Productions
1217 ZL Hilversum
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: AVROTROS – The Netherlands
1070 Vienna
Jennifer Grausman
Austria
CO-PRODUCTION: Yellow Cake Films – USA
The Netherlands
Sam Cullman
tel: +31 35 6773561
tel: +43720346934
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www.autlookfilms.com
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
andrea@autlookfilms.com
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Heddy Honigmann shows the tour over 6 continents made by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to celebrate its 125th anniversary.
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Art and Craft follows prolific art forger Mark Landis just at the moment his elaborate 30-year con is exposed.
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Art of Darkness
Asger Jorn / Go to Hell With Your Money
Canada, 2014 color, video, 85’ Original Language: English
Denmark, 2014 color / black and white, video, 58’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English
Art of Darkness is a feature documentary intimately profiling controversial painter and performance artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. Bryan is renowned for his commitment to producing a self portrait every day, which, to date, number well over 10,000. A complex individual with admitted psychopathic tendencies, Bryan narrates his dark, compelling process and the experiences that have shaped him and how he uses art to help tame his inner demons. Bryan’s famed ‘drug series’ of self portraits while under the influence of a variety of mind-altering substances, has made him an internet sensation garnering a legion of loyal fans worldwide.
The personal story of Asger Jorn, the celebrated Danish painter and founder of the COBRA movement who struggled to achieve recognition in his native country throughout his life. He sacrificed everything for his art – including his wives and his children. His story is the myth of the penniless artist who must endure so much for his art and who only achieves world fame late in life. Asger Jorn’s story is told by the people who knew him, including his son who never learnt to call him father and the painter Bodil Kaalund whose father was convinced that “Asger is destined for greatness”.
David Parker
Lene Borch Hansen, Anna von Lowzow
www.artofdarkness.ca
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PRODUCTION DapaKapa Productions Inc. David Parker
16 Howie Avenue M4M 2J1 Toronto Canada tel: (416) 465-2190 parkerink@rogers.com
A feature length documentary profiling controversial painter and performance artist Bryan Lewis Saunders who’s captivating self portraits have gone viral, garnering a legion of loyal fans worldwide.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Fiona O’Doherty, Louise
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Birk Petersen Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
Asger Jorn only lived to be 59, and the film pays homage to an uncompromising man with unfailing faith in himself.
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Backlight: Making the Future
Backlight: Power to the City
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: Dutch/English/German Subtitles: English
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Martijn Kieft
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Kasper Verkaik
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Decreasing costs of materials and tools and the availability of all kinds of information mean everyone can become a maker, developer or entrepreneur. Is this mass-production in reverse and the start of a new industrial revolution?
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2
PRODUCTION VPRO Helen Goossens
1217 ZL Hilversum
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The Netherlands
Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
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While national governments are mired in party politics and their own bureaucracy, the cities are bursting with energy, optimism and a sense of resolve. Where national governments fail, on a city level many problems - in the fields of the environment, poverty, food production and care - are solved more quickly and together in collaboration with citizens. Isn’t it high time that our cities are given more power? What would happen if pragmatic mayors took matters more into their own hands and tried to turn their cities into administrative centres - outside the scope of national politics? Fuelled by a creative community of empowered citizens, the city can become a new breeding ground for change, that’s open to experiment. A city where new forms of collaboration and binding referendums would once again make citizens part of a real democracy. The new city-state. Inspired by the books by of political theorist Benjamin Barber (“If Mayors Ruled The World”) and Bruce Katz (“The Metropolitan Revolution”), and the mayors and citizens of Seattle, Eindhoven and Hamburg, VPRO Backlight explores the growing and innovative power of the city.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Helen Goossens
Bart de Graaffweg 2
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO Television – The
1217 ZL Hilversum
Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
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Backlight: Regreening the Planet
Ballet Boys
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: Spanish/ Arabic/English/Hindi/Dutch Subtitles: English
Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’/58’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English
Rob van Hattum, Gijs Meyer Swantee
Ballettguttene Kenneth Elvebakk
https://www.facebook.com/ballettguttene
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Two years ago, in the episode on ‘Regreening the desert’, the makers of Backlight showed that greening deserts is very well possible. They followed the American-Chinese ecologist John D. Liu. He recorded how a dry mountain area was miraculously turned into a lush and green oasis. He has since travelled the globe to inspire people in other countries to follow this example. The Dutch ecologist Willem Ferwerda was inspired by Liu and decided to work with him. Meanwhile, that partnership has grown out to a new organization, Commonland, a foundation with a clear mission: worldwide and large-scaled restoration of ecosystems.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Helen Goossens
Bart de Graaffweg 2
SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House 9 rue Bleue
1217 ZL Hilversum
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO Television – The
The Netherlands
Netherlands
France
PRODUCTION Indie Film Carsten Aanonsen
75009 Paris
tel: +31 35 6773561
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The Dutch ecologist Willem Ferwerda works together with the American-Chinese ecologist John D. Liu to green deserts.
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Ballet Boys takes you through disappointment, victories, forging of friendship, first loves, doubt, faith, growing apart from each other and finding your own way and own ambition. In short, everything about being a teenager, all mixed with the beautiful expression of ballet.
It’s not easy being a teenager, especially not seen through the eyes of these three ballet boys - a film about friendship, ambitions, identity and passion.
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Bamako, Year 0
Beats of the Antonov
Mali / France, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: French/Bambara Subtitles: English
Sudan / South Africa, 2014 color, HDcam, 65’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
Aminata, Djibril Djeneba Hassan, Kadiatou, Madou. They are Bambara, Peul, Tamasheq, Songhai, Malinke, Arabic. Boys and girls, young and old, men and women. They are Malians, currently living in Bamako and trying to survive in a country in crisis. While the situation threatens to explode in northern Mali, which seceded from March 2012, the population pays the price of a State that has disintegrated and of a dire economic situation. The city holds its breath: the war may break tomorrow. How do they survive in everyday life? Welcome to Bamako, YEAR 0.
Beats of the Antonov tells the story of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life in these areas, but now, it has a new role in a society challenged by war.
Stanislas Duhau, Julien Fiorentino
Hajooj Kuka
SALES / CONTACT: Jean-Christophe Soulageon Les Films Sauvages
PRODUCTION Les Films Sauvages
SALES / CONTACT: Steven Markovitz Big World Cinema
Jean-Christophe Soulageon
PRODUCTION Refugee Club Hajooj Kuka
33, rue de Clichy
1st Floor, 27 Caledon Street
Big World Cinema
75009 PARIS
8001 Cape Town
Steven Markovitz
France
South Africa
tel: +33 142295504
tel: +27 21 4615962
www.filmsauvages.com
www.bigworldcinema.com
festival@filmsauvages.com
steven@bigworld.co.za
What about people Malians people after 2012’s events?
Music, identity and war in Sudan. 42
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Beaverland
The Bee Effect
Chile, 2014 color, video, 68’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English
Antonio Luco, Nicolás Molina
Tina-Marie Qwiberg
https://www.facebook.com/beaverlanddoc
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Biologists and lovebirds Derek and Giorgia have a mission: to do something about the plague of beavers on Tierra del Fuego. In 1946, fifty beavers were introduced to the island, in the hope they would lead to a fur trade. Without predators, the pesky creatures have thrived, and now evidence of their industriousness is everywhere -- elaborate dams, and gnawed trees being plentiful. In fact, they are completely changing the ecosystem. The locals are not happy, and wish Derek and Giorgia all the best. The trouble is, the beavers are rather good at eluding capture.
SALES / CONTACT: Francisco Hervé Panchito Films
PRODUCTION Panchito Films Francisco Hervé
Eulogia Sánchez 015 depto. 30 7500895 Santiago Chile tel: +56 978075885 www.panchitofilms.cl francisco@panchitofilms.cl
In recent years there has been a dramatic reduction of pollinators, mainly due to pesticides, diseases and changes in the agricultural landscape. If this trend continues a large part of our food production is under threat, and life as we know it will look very different in the future. This beautifully photographed film is a wake-up call about an environmental disaster happening right in front of our eyes. We get to meet scientists, farmers, beekeepers and bumblebee producers from USA, Spain, Slovakia and Sweden. The film is also available in 4K.
SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå Oxenstiernsgatan 26
PRODUCTION Triq Produktion Tina-Marie Qwiberg
S-10510 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
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Before the Last Curtain Falls
Before the Silence
Belgium / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’/52’ Original Language: French/Dutch/English Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: Dutch/English
The film dives deeply into the exceptional and heart-warming stories of a group of aging transsexuals and drag queens, who summon up their bravery to take the stage once again – perhaps for the last time. For two years the protagonists have been touring five continents, performing a spectacular dance, theatre and music show called “Gardenia”. Both tender and lascivious, the stories unfold with all of the glamour, courage, tragedy and turbulence of lives lived as gender and sexual rebels. Director Thomas Wallner creates a profoundly human portrait of our persistent longing for love.
A non stodgy documentary where every person deals with their fears and vision on the approaching death. In Before the Silence we see through their eyes and learn to think in a different way about hospices and experience how to make the last moments count, that are brought with humour and touch the core of palliative care. There is the story of a man of nature, a man with a criminal past and a nun with a secret. Seven people give an insight in their ending lives and experience that life has more to offer to them, than they expected.
Voor de Stilte Richard Dols
Thomas Wallner
www.voordestilte.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion GmbH
18, rue Quincampoix
Kerstin Meyer-Beetz
75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION: Savage Film – Belgium
France tel: +33 144617748 http://catndocs.com/index.html
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cat@catndocs.com
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PRODUCTION Stichting Zuyderzigt Richard Dols
Achter de barakken 31a 6211RZ Maastricht The Netherlands tel: +31624870269 www.zuyderzigt.nl info@zuyderzigt.nl
A documentary about life of dying people in a hospice. During these last months with fears, it appears that life has more to offer to them, than they expected. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Beginning with the End
Between Heaven and Earth
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English
Spain, 2013 color, video, 52’/80’ Original Language: English/Catalan/Spanish Subtitles: English
Entre el Cel i la Terra David Fernandez de Castro, Tono Folguera
David Marshall
www.bspfilms.org
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Emma and Ernie ate lemon meringue pie together. Ernie taught Emma about life. And Emma helped Ernie to die. In 2002, a high school teacher in Rochester, NY, invited nine high school seniors to attend his new class. The name of the class: Hospice. A decade later, the program continues with student volunteers learning about and providing comfort care for the dying and their families. The film follows the real-life stories of four student volunteers through their senior year. In the quest to understand “the big sleep,” they find a whole new kind of awakening.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION BSPfilms David Marshall
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358
Between Heaven and Earth is the story of a group of young people who dared to challenge the system preset. Fighting with all their courage and ingenuity, stopped the destruction of what eventually has become one of the largest bird sanctuaries in southern Europe, a struggle which ended on October 13, 1983 with the creation, voted in Catalan parliament unanimously, the first Natural Park in Catalonia.
SALES / CONTACT: Belen Sanchez Lastor Media
PRODUCTION Intropia Media Tània Balló
44, Ronda Sant Antoni 3-1
Lastor Media
08001 Barcelona
Sergi Moreno Castillo
Spain
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Televisió de Catalunya – Spain
tel: +34 627018858
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A group of young people, take the initiative to paralyze the destruction of one of the largest bird sanctuaries in southern Europe. “I held a woman’s hand who knew as little about me as I knew about her. Her name was Ernie. She didn’t mind when I held her hand”. (Emma, 15) 48
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Big Fish Small Fish
Bittersweet
France / Ireland, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Gaelic/English Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
John O’Brien, a fisherman from the small island of Bo Finne in Ireland found himself embarking on a crusade he initiated, with an insular group of international experts and NGOs; a European campaign to regain his ancestral right to fish. Filmed over 8 years, this film is a modern “David v/s Goliath” tale of one man’s struggle to change the system that took everything from him and to try to understand and influence the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels.
Filmmaker Marieke Niestadt gives us a unique insight into the world of female boxing. At the same time, this documentary is showing a behind the scene close up of what goes on inside the mind, the heart and preparation of a female fighter who wants to became the best of the world. It is an exciting and heartbreaking story showing vulnerability, the fight against inner demons and facing the loneliness that may be encountered at the top.
A Contre-courant Loïc Jourdain
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Marieke Niestadt
www.widehouse.org
www..mariekeniestadt.com/bittersweetfilm
SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House
PRODUCTION Lugh Films Loïc Jourdain
9 rue Bleue
Idee Originale
75009 Paris
Carole Mangold
France
CO-PRODUCTION: Irish Film Board – Ireland
tel: +33 153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org
France, Ireland not available.
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France 5 – France,
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Marieke Niestadt
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
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Black White
Blood is Thicker than Water
Slovakia, 2014 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Slovak Subtitles: English
Spain / Chile / Armenia, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 52’ Original Language: German/ Armenian/French/Japanese/Arabic/ Spanish/Croatian/English Subtitles: English
Cierna a Biela Samuel Jasko
Cristián Leighton Cerda
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This is a film unveiling the true sense of help, inspiring tolerance and openness. It describes and analyzes the cohabitation of two women unknown to each other through their testimonies and memories. Both Lucia and Katarína tell their own life story. At one point, their narratives intersect and we find that the two women have much more in common than just the same residential address.
SALES / CONTACT: Samuel Jasko MAO production
PRODUCTION MAO production Samuel Jasko
Tematinska 2
CO-PRODUCTION: RTVSLO – Slovakia
85105 Bratislava Slovakia tel: +42 1905734492
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTVSLO – Slovakia
A series of trips, where ten Chileans travel to the place of their origins. Recorded in different countries of the world, the protagonists confront the challenge to dig into their family history and ancestors. In this way, through the affective memory, they search into the past to resolve questions that’ll allow them to live better in the present.
SALES / CONTACT: Daniela Bunster
PRODUCTION Surreal Películas de la Realidad
Surreal Películas de la Realidad Ltda. Ltda. El Bosque 1867
Daniela Bunster
7510920 Santiago Chile
CO-PRODUCTION: Hayk Documentary Film Studio
tel: +56 228138198
– Armenia,
www.maoproduction.com
www.surreal.cl
Zinea Sortzen – Spain
samo@maoproduction.com
dbunster@surreal.cl
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Television Nacional de Chile – Chile
Docu-drama about an aging psychologist living together with an adult Roma woman.
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Blue Notebook
Bombs Away
Poland / Switzerland, 2014 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Russian/Polish/English Subtitles: Polish/English
Australia, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: English/German
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A documentary about famous polish composer, Witold Lutoslawski, a brilliant musician and a mysterious gentleman whose work and private life becomes a great challenge for a contemporary composer, Leszek Mozdzer. He travels across Europe, meets Lutoslawski’s friends and family members trying to understand the origins of Lutoslawski’s method. He also finds the enigmatic Blue Notebook which covers 25-years period – Witold Lutoslawski’s observations and opinions on the world, human nature, music and art…
At the end of World War 2, the world’s largest art collection was stored in the salt mines of Altaussee, Austria. Next to it were crates full of bombs that the Nazis intended to use to destroy the mine, in order to keep more than 6,000 art treasures from falling into the hands of the enemy. The film Bombs Away depicts the enthralling events surrounding the mine, and shows the circumstances under which the Rembrandts, Vermeers, Breugels, Raphaels, Titians, Michelangelos and the Ghent Altarpiece were saved.
Natasza Ziolkowska-Kurczuk
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Werner Boote
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SALES / CONTACT: Leszek Bodzak Aurum Film
PRODUCTION Telewizja Polska S.A. Witold Bedowski
ul. Niecala 15 lok.4
Aurum Film
20-080 Lublin
Leszek Bodzak
Poland tel: +48 515 640 155
CO-PRODUCTION: Polish National Broadcaster –
www.aurumfilm.pl
Poland,
matuszak@aurumfilm.pl
Lightcraft – Poland
SALES / CONTACT: Berend Dreier Red Bull Media House Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15 5071 Wals Austria tel: 00436622240-0
PRODUCTION tv and more.netTV & More Rudolf Klingohr CO-PRODUCTION: Red Bull Media House – Austria INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Servus TV – Austria
berend.dreier@ at.redbullmediahouse.com
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This documentary tells the true story behind the events that inspired Hollywood’s The Monuments Men.
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Bordering on Treason
Boredom
USA, 2013 color, video, 42’ Original Language: English
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English
Trish Dalton
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Albert Nerenberg
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Bordering On Treason tells the amazing story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist who travels to Iraq continuously for nine years to put a human face on a horrific global tragedy. Visiting military units and Iraqi families beyond the green zone, she evolves from naive civilian to established journalist. Through Lorna’s personal journey, Bordering On Treason explores the complexities of this war and the possibility of hope.
SALES / CONTACT: David Hooper Espresso TV
PRODUCTION Trish Dalton Films Trish Dalton
25 York Villas BN1 3TS Brighton England tel: +44 1273730929 www.espressotv.co.uk david@espressotv.co.uk
The story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist who travels to Iraq continuously for nine years to put a human face on a horrific global tragedy.
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What is boredom and where does it come from? Can one really be bored to death? How can you fight it? These are only a few of the essential questions posed by journalist and documentary maker Albert Nerenberg, whose earlier films have explored the themes of stupidity and laughter. Despite its satirical tone and entertaining use of the cliched television reenactment, Boredom offers some serious food for thought on the evolution of boredom, education and the younger generation and our relationship with new technologies.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Intuitive Pictures inc. Ina Fichman
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
The most dangerous creature on this planet is a bored teenager.
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Born to Fly
Boxing for Freedom
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: English
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 52’ Original Language: Afghan Subtitles: English/Spanish
Elizabeth Streb is not a choreographer; she is an action architect, constantly pushing herself to jump a little higher and fall a little harder. She reflects on her evolution and influences and her theory of movement – to walk on walls; dive through glass; move so fast you disappear and. . . fly. Can adrenaline be a form of medicine? When does movement become art? How does this practice look on dancers’ bodies? How do race, gender, sexuality appear on their bodies? Born to Fly pulls these elements together, to give a stimulating and exciting texture to a tale that speaks to Streb’s remarkable trajectory.
Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer in Afghanistan, but she must deal with her country’s traditions, fear and her own fate in order to be a free woman. Sadaf and her sister Shabnam joined the newly created women’s boxing team at the age of 13, when they returned to their country after being refugees in Iran. Her boxing and academic achievements will turn Sadaf into an example for many Afghan young women, but her path will not be without threats and difficulties.
Catherine Gund
Juan Antonio Moreno, Silvia Venegas
www.borntoflymovie.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Films Transit International Inc.
Catherine Gund
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Aubin Pictures
H3L1A8 Montreal
Catherine Gund
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
Spain not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin
PRODUCTION Making DOC Gorka Gallier Silvia Venegas
75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
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Brakeless
Bringing Tibet Home
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 77’/59’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English
USA / India / South Korea, 2013 color, video, 82’ Original Language: Tibetan/English Subtitles: English
In 2005, a commuter train crashed into an apartment building in Japan and killed 107 people when a driver tried to catch up with an 80-second delay. Piecing together personal accounts of those affected by the train crash, Brakeless looks at a society which does not seem to know when to stop its pursuit of efficiency. It examines the way in which the characteristics that are considered national virtues - punctuality and loyalty to protocol - have become societal impediments and ultimately, dangers to the people of Japan.
When New York based Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol’s father passes away in exile with an unfulfilled wish to take his last breath in Tibet, Tenzing realizes that his father’s dream to return home to his lost nation is shared by all exiles. Driven by this realization, the artist embarks on a mission to reunite the Tibetan land with its people, literally, through an art project that involves smuggling 20,000 kilograms of native Tibetan soil to India.
Kyoko Miyake
Tenzin Tsetan Choklay
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Bungalow Town Productions Rachel Wexler
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
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France
IKON – The Netherlands,
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
DR – Denmark,
http://catndocs.com/index.html
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cat@catndocs.com
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Through a fatal train crash and its aftermath, Brakeless considers fundamental aspects of Japanese society punctuality and punishment.
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PRODUCTION Five by Nine Films Tenzin Tsetan Choklay
8434 60 Rd Middle Village
Tenzing Rigdol
11379 New York USA tel: +1 646 353 0222 fivebyninefilms@gmail.com
When a Tibetan refugee dies in exile, his last wish to set foot on his native soil remains unfulfilled. until his artist son, embarks on an unthinkable journey.
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Broken Land
Bronx Obama
Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: English Subtitles: German/French
USA, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
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Broken Land is a journey with US citizens living in fear along the border with Mexico. They talk about murders, dangers and invasion. Anxiety is palpable. In front of them stands a wall and around them the Border Patrol is in action to protect their land. Why is America, a country so emblematic of freedom, is erecting a fence to respond to its border war?
When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn’t see himself - a middle-aged, unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx. He saw the face of change, of hope. . . of money. The film tells the strange and improbable tale of an Obama impersonator who tries to cash in on a “look of a lifetime”and chases a fevered American dream from opportunity to oblivion.
Stephanie Barbey, Luc Peter
Ryan Murdock
http://deckert-distribution.com/
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SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig
PRODUCTION Intermezzo Films SA Aline Schmid INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTS – Switzerland
Germany tel: +49 341 2156638
SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Ryan Murdock
611 Broadway #630 Ne... 10012 New York USA tel: 2129958139
www.deckert-distribution.com
CargoFilm-Releasing.com
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Bruise
Bugarach
Iran, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/45’ Original Language: Persian Subtitles: English
Germany / Spain, 2014 color, video, 95’/52’ Original Language: Dutch/French/English Subtitles: English
Khoon Mordegi Mohammad Kart
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www..nooripictures.com/
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Bruise is the true story of a youth gang in Shiraz; a historical city in Iran which beautifully and poetically depicts the people of a poor neighborhood who are trapped in the vicious circle of violence, ignorance and superstitions. Israel not availabe.
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PRODUCTION Mohammad Kart
84, Avenue de la République, 75011Paris, France 75011 Paris France tel: +33 676 418967 www.Nooripictures.com katysh.01@gmail.com
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Bugarach. Nothing ever really happens in this bucolic village in southern France at the base of the mountain that gives it its name. But the villagers’ peace and quiet vanishes when the news story circulates around the globe like a viral video that this close-knit community of 194 inhabitants will be the only place on the planet to survive the December 21st apocalypse foretold by the Mayans. Bugarach dives deep into the subject of the apocalypse to reflect on the fears and coping strategies of humankind in times of deep material and spiritual crisis in the Western world.
SALES / CONTACT: Thomas Tielsch Filmtank
PRODUCTION Nanouk Films Ventura Durall
Lippmannstr. 53
Filmtank
22769 Hamburg
Thomas Tielsch
Germany tel: + 49 40 431 861 0
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www.filmtank.de
TVC – Spain,
filmtank@filmtank.de
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Five characters face the alleged end of the world in Bugarach, the only place worldwide supposed to be saved. An existentialist comedy about the spiritual crisis of the West. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Burden of Peace
Cain’s Children
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/Dutch
Hungary / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 104’ Original Language: Hungarian Subtitles: French/English
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Burden of Peace follows Guatemalas first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. After taking office Claudia obtains spectacular results and many high level arrests are made. But her determination encounters strong resistance from powerful elites that have up to then felt above the law. Will Claudia be able to win this battle? We have unlimited access to Claudia from the beginning of her term. Witness her battle against corruption, impunity, crime bosses and former political leaders responsible for genocide. Watch an epic tale of personal sacrifice and opposition, of change and of hope.
Three men, they all committed murder as children. They passed their entire youth in communist Hungary’s most brutal prison, where they were first filmed. Disturbing archive footage shows them confessing details of their crime, and sharing their plans for the future. Thirty years on the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known. Fate, sin, and legacy – seen through the eyes of Cain’s children.
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SALES / CONTACT: Bart Voorsluis Framewerk
PRODUCTION Framewerk Annemiek Munneke
Kalkmarkt 8
Bart Voorsluis
1011BD Amsterdam The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
PRODUCTION JBA Production Jacques Bidou
Marienplatz 1
Marianne Dumoulin
04103 Leipzig Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France,
tel: +49 341 2156638
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www.framewerk.nl
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bart@framewerk.nl
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A documentary about Guatemala’s first female attorney general who battles impunity and prosecutes former political leaders for genocide.
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Calabash
The Case Against 8
England / South Africa, 2014 color, video, 82’/54’ Original Language: Spanish/English Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 112’ Original Language: English
Gerardo Chapa, Alexander Flick
Ben Cotner, Ryan White
http://thecaseagainst8.com/
kickstarter.com/projects/2021606417/ calabash-a-documentary-film
Calabash is the story of the first African World Cup, told through the lives of several extraordinary characters. A Mexican fan attending his thirteenth consecutive World Cup leads us into the historic event while the native South Africans prepare for his arrival to the temporary football mecca. In the weeks before the tournament, each of the South African characters provides glimpses into South African society during this historic window of time, as they chase their elusive World Cup dreams.
SALES / CONTACT: Gerardo Chapa Window Payne Productions 1856 Micheltorena St. 90026 LOS ANGELES USA tel: 7138704785 gerardochapa3@gmail.com
PRODUCTION Window Payne Productions Gerardo Chapa
A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. The film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the center of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U. S. Supreme Court. Denmark, Finland, Sweden (TV right) not available. Thailand (all rights) not available. Australia (DVD & TV rights) not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION HBO Documentary Films Ben Cotner
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Shot over five years, The film offers an inside look into the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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The Case of the Three Sided Dream
Cechanok
USA, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French
Iran, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Subtitles: English
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was more than a blind musician who could play three horns at once, more than one of the most exciting and amazing sax players who ever lived. Beyond the ability to play multiple melodies at the same time, he was a warrior against racial injustice, fought for people with disabilities, and was a tireless campaigner for a wider appreciation of jazz. Packed with electrifying archival footage, intimate interviews, and inspired animated sequences; Kahan’s film is a look at the man who wouldn’t even let partial paralysis keep him from pursuing what he called “The Religion of Dreams. ”
This movie illustrates the full cycle of falcon hunting and its method of smuggling into its demand market. It also shows the training methods of dealing with birds and its use and importance for the Arabs.
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PRODUCTION Adam Kahan
194 18th street
NO30,beheshti9,shahid beheshti
11215 Brooklyn
9813757544 Zahedan
USA
Iran
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tel: +98 5433218169
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Each step in the cycle of Arabic falconry: in observational style, we see everything from catching field mice to falcon hunting. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Chameleon
Chikara - The Sumo Wrestler’s Son
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Denmark / Japan, 2013 color, HDcam, 32’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: Danish/English
Chikara - Sumobryderens Søn Simon Lereng Wilmont, Simon Lereng Wilmont
Ryan Mullins
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Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a name everyone in Ghana knows, but a face that no one knows. A confessed crusader of justice and champion of the ordinary people, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s mission is to root out and expose corruption in all levels of Ghanian society. He has been called the James Bond of journalism. Going deep undercover, he disguises his identity with Mission Impossible style makeup and costumes. Chameleon takes us behind take us behind-the-scenes of the Tiger Eye Investigation bureau and on the heels of Anas’s next big case.
SALES / CONTACT: Luke Brawley Dogwoof Dogwoof EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 72536244 www.dogwoof.com luke@dogwoof.com
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Chikara - The Sumo Wrestler’s Son follows 10-year-old Japanese boy, Chikara, and his struggle to become a Sumo wrestler. His father was a professional Sumo wrestler, so expectations surrounding Chikara are extremely high. The national Sumo Championship is approaching and Chikara wants to do well, especially to impress his father. It’s a story of a small boy in a tough sport, parental pressure and expectations, but above all, it’s a universal narrative about the relationship between father and son.
SALES / CONTACT: Peter Jäger Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real Monica Hellström Weston
Spittelberggasse 3/14 A-1070 Vienna
CO-PRODUCTION: Nordisk Film & TV Fond – Norway,
Austria
Danish Film Institute – Denmark
tel: +43 720 346934 www..autlookfilms.com peter@autlookfilms.com
Chikara is the story of a boy in a tough sport, parental pressure and expectations and the universal narrative about the relationship between father and son.
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Children 404
Children of the Holocaust
Russia, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 51’/58’ Original Language: English
Putin’s new law that forbids “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors“ hits millions of gay/ lesbian youngsters in Russia. Parents and friends of gay kids now are obliged to tell them they are sick, sinful and abnormal. These teens have no forum, find no help in Russia, you won‘t even find them on the internet: Error 404. For the first time, the bravest of them turn to the camera in the new film of Winter Go Away-filmmaker Askold Kurov.
Six remarkable stories of survival from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War 2, brought to life for a young audience through animation and a series of follow on interviews to camera. Ruth, Martin, Trude, Heinz, Arek and Suzanne. All well spoken elderly survivors who recount their childhood experiences of Nazi atrocities; their escape from occupied mainland Europe to Britain; adapting to life in the UK; and the impact on their lives subsequently.
Deti 404 Askold Kurov, Pavel Loparev
Zane Whittingham
http://childrenoftheholocaust.tumblr.com
www.riseandshine-berlin.de
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine Schlesische Strasse 29/30
PRODUCTION Askold Kurov, Pavel Loparev CO-PRODUCTION: – Russia
10997 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.
SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films P.O. Box 15703 1001 NE Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Fettle Animation Limited Kath Shackleton INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BBC – England
The Netherlands tel: +31204040707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
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Children of Transition
Chosen Ones
Croatia, 2014 color, HDcam, 81’ Original Language: Croatian Subtitles: English
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: English/Finnish Subtitles: English
Djeca Tranzicije Matija Vuksic, Matija Vuk ic
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Children of Transition is a coming-of-age story about David, Natalija, Lana and Marta. What do a happy childhood and healthy growing up look like? Are they possible in a society which has not yet reached its own maturity? This is a film about the environment we create for our common future.
SALES / CONTACT: Nenad Puhovski Factum
PRODUCTION Factum Nenad Puhovski
Nova Ves 18 10 000 Zagreb Croatia
Chosen Ones is a story about dancers from the Finnish National Ballet preparing to perform The Rite of Spring at the Bolshoi in Moscow. With 125 jumps, dancing the solo piece is compared to running a marathon. But for the main characters, the journey to Moscow is about more than just the physical efforts. It is about overcoming fear, realising dreams and being in constant dialogue with your own body.
SALES / CONTACT: Jenni Tuovinen Ja! Media Production
PRODUCTION Ja! Media Production Anna Blom
c/o Anna Blom, Valhallankatu 14-17 b INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: 00150 Helsinki The Finnish Broadcasting Finland
tel: +385 1 5484 321
tel: +358443755437
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The Circus Dynasty
Circus Without Borders
Denmark, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’/58’ Original Language: Danish/English/German Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English
Benny Berdino, the owner of one of Europe’s biggest circus, has a dream. To make sure that his dynasty will carry on, he hopes that his grandson, Patrick Berdino, and the award winning circus artist Merry Lu Casselly will marry and one day carry on Circus Arena. With their looks and skills they would be the perfect match. But his dream is threatened, because mixing love and business is difficult and the Casselly family is offered a lucrative contract from the biggest circus in the world, Ringling Brothers, in USA.
Circus Without Borders tells the inspiring story of two youth circuses from remote corners of the world – an Inuit village in Canada, and Guinea in West Africa. The film traces their intersecting journeys as troupe members confront heartrending challenges and become internationally-known performers who return home to transform their communities. We record the troupes’ triumphs and struggles, many of which are the enduring legacy of a history of colonization. We witness poverty, deprivation, suicide and other overwhelming social problems, but also grace, resilience, the redemptive power of the natural world, and the beauty of the human form.
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SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
Susan Gray
PRODUCTION Hansen & Pedersen Film og Fjernsyn
18, rue Quincampoix
Malene Flindt Pedersen
75004 Paris France
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TV2 – Denmark,
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
NRK – Norway,
http://catndocs.com/index.html
SVT – Sweden
cat@catndocs.com
SALES / CONTACT: Susan Gray
PRODUCTION Northern Light Productions Linda Matchan
300 Western Avenue 02134 Boston USA tel: 1617-789-4344 x214 sgray@nlprod.com
Two world-class circus performers from opposite sides of the globe return home to transform their struggling communities through the joy and hope of circus. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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CITIZENFOUR
City of God - 10 Years Later
USA / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 114’ Original Language: Portugese/ English/German Subtitles: English
Brazil, color, video, 52’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the process of constructing a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
City of God – 10 Years Later revisits the actors of Brazil’s defining film that received 4 Oscar nominations in 2004. What has changed for the residents of Rio de Janeiro’s most famous slum as well as the actors? While some of the stars are able to continue their acting careers, like Alice Braga (I Am Legend, Predator), others glide into obscurity or even worse criminality. A cultural reference for Brazil’s social problems, crime and violence.
Cidade de Deus - 10 Anos Depois Cavi Borges
Laura Poitras
www..autlookfilms.com/film/185/
https://citizenfourfilm.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Dirk Wilutzky Praxis Films Berlin GmbH Hufelandstr. 36
PRODUCTION Praxis Films Berlin GmbH Dirk Wilutzky
10407 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARD/NDR – Germany,
Germany
BR – Germany
tel: +4942803403
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Luís Carlos Nascimento
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43720346934
www.praxisfilms.org
www.autlookfilms.com
wilutzky@mac.com
andrea@autlookfilms.com
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A Civilized Country
Coast Modern
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 58’/75’ Original Language: English/Danish Subtitles: English
Canada, 2012 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: English
Jørgen Lange Thomsen is a forensic expert, used to examining the dead and determining how they died. But one day he is hired to solve a different type of case that involves a group of Iraqis who claim to have been subject to torture during the Iraq war – and under the International troops watch. The case is of political importance and the forensic expert’s conclusion is vital to whether the case ends up in court, accusing the Danish State of war crimes in Iraq.
Travelling along the Pacific North West coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies. Stepping inside the most inspired dwellings on the west coast, we feel how the light and space of a classic Modernist home can work in collaboration with the natural environment, taking us back to the basics of true living – a sense of place, light, and a deep connection to the earth.
Et Civiliceret Land Nanna Frank Møller, Nanna Frank Møller
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Mike Bernard, Gavin Froome
www.twofold.ca
SALES / CONTACT: Helene Aurø
PRODUCTION Made in Copenhagen
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Helle Faber Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR Danish Broadcasting
Denmark
Corporation – Denmark
tel: +45 35203957 www.dr.dk heau@dr.dk
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Twofold Films Inc Leah Mallen
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
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Comeback
Concrete Stories
Slovakia, 2014 color, video, 85’ Original Language: Slovak Subtitles: English
France / Czech Republic, 2014 color / black and white, video, 52’/75’ Original Language: Czech/ French/Russian/German Subtitles: English
Time in one of Slovakia’s most guarded prisons, where most of the prisoners return regularly, passes very slowly. Once out, they are empty-handed with a criminal record. Will they be able to start from scratch and is it safe for the society? The story of repeat criminals’ reintegration and being trapped in a vicious circle.
In Concrete Stories, people from different countries who live in concrete buildings tell their stories as they relate to industrial housing in the time of clashing ideologies between East and West. The film puts forward a European story of standardization that has ruled the lives of entire generations, connecting various stories from all around Europe to erase the stigma concrete panel buildings often have, by relating their historical and European meaning.
Lorenz Findeisen
www.comebackmovie.sk
Slovakia not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Barbara Harumová Hessová AH production Irkutská 14/D
PRODUCTION AH production Barbara Harumová Hessová
85110 Bratslava
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Slovakia,
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www.ah.sk
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hessova@ah.sk
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTVSLO – Slovakia
Coming out of the prison two recidivists evaluate their past and look into the future outside. Once out, they fight with the reality. Can somebody find a solution? 84
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SALES / CONTACT: Veronika Janatkova Axman Production Senová né námestí 10
PRODUCTION Axman Production Veronika Janatkova
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France
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Both a capitalist invention and a Soviet symbol, the concrete slab buildings link a whole destiny of people. A film about a shared reality. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Counterfeit Culture
Creators of Tomorrow
Canada, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English
Austria, 2014 color, HDcam, 25’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Geoff D’Eon
Max Haidbauer
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Welcome to the dangerous and sometimes deadly world of fake, fraudulent, and faux products. For many of us, the imitation industry is all about fake designer handbags, watches, and shoes Today it has mushroomed into a global phenomenon, fuelled by our own desire (or need) to buy things cheaper and cheaper. Counterfeit goods today include pharmaceuticals, food, toys, electronic goods, car parts, microchips and even spare parts for airplanes. The traffic in counterfeit goods is now estimated at a staggering $700 billion representing nearly 10% of all global trade.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Tell Tale Productions Inc. Edward Peill
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
1 billion people do not have access to clean water. 10% of children in Haiti are orphans. 3 million people in Mexico are without electricity. But there is a solution… In 2014, we follow 3 social entrepreneurs who are using their talents and creativity to create positive change in the world. Unscripted, authentic dialog. Filmed and edited like a serial drama. Resulting in a never seen before television experience.
SALES / CONTACT: Berend Dreier Red Bull Media House Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15 5071 Wals
PRODUCTION OceanWatch Production Group Sumesh Thakur CO-PRODUCTION: Red Bull Media House – Austria
Austria tel: 00436622240-0 http://premium.redbullcontentpool. com berend.dreier@ at.redbullmediahouse.com
Counterfeit Culture is a one-hour documentary that explores the dangerous and sometimes deadly world of fake, fraudulent, and faux products.
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Cyber-Seniors
DamNation
Canada, 2013 color, HDcam, 74’ Original Language: English
USA, 2014 color / black and white, video, 87’ Original Language: English
Saffron Cassaday
Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
www.cyberseniorsdocumentary.com
www.damnationfilm.com
A humorous and heartwarming doc where senior citizens learn about computers from teenage mentors and the connections made both on and offline. The film focuses on five individuals ranging in age from 77 to 93. While the seniors are absorbing the power of technology, the teenage mentors slowly come to realize the spirit of life and the interesting backstories of their much older pupils. Patience and a sense of humor are necessary for all parties involved, creating a very interesting, entertaining and meaningful story for the viewer.
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
PRODUCTION The Best Part Inc. Brenda Rusnak
This powerful film odyssey explores the sea change from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing aware- ness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
SALES / CONTACT: Liza Watt Tiller & Tide Media
PRODUCTION Felt Soul Media Travis Rummel Stoecker Ecological Matt Stoecker
Australia tel: +61 415 098024 www..tillerandtidemedia.com liza@tillerandtidemedia.com
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Dancing with Maria
Dark Side of the Chew
Italy / Argentina / Slovenia, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Canada, 2014 color, video, 61’ Original Language: English
Maria Fux is a 90 years old Argentinian dancer. In her studio in the heart of Buenos Aires She accepts all kinds of people in her classes forming integrated groups of dancers. After a period of training with her, a lot of them spring out, as if something new is waking up. Maria Fux is not an exception. She is pushing her old body to the limits, but there’s an unknown force coming from inside, that drives her students to a concrete change and makes her still dancing.
It’s the world’s second most common form of litter. It’s invisible to most. Yet it lurks everywhere (including the bottoms of tables, desks and shoes). How did we become so addicted to chewing gum and how is our consumption of trillions of sticks a year impacting our health and our planet? Join filmmaker Andrew Nisker as he travels our planet and speaks to manufacturers, activists and scientists to unravel the shocking truth behind our obsession with the seemingly innocuous, but not harmless, product. Full of unexpected twists and bubblebursting surprises, Dark Side Of The Chew will give you a lot to chomp on if you’re hooked on this seemingly innocent, age-old habit.
Ivan Gergolet
SALES / CONTACT: Manuela Buono
Andrew Nisker
PRODUCTION Transmedia S.p.A.
Slingshot Films International Sales Igor Princic via Salita di Gretta 7/1 34136 Trieste Italy tel: +39 3476273390 festivals@slingshotfilms.it
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PRODUCTION Take Action Films Andrew Nisker
867 Dovercourt Rd M6H2X4 Toronto Canada tel: 1-647-882-9458 pj.prieur@gmail.com
Join filmmaker Andrew Nisker as he travels our planet and speaks to manufacturers, activists and scientists to unravel the shocking truth behind our obsession with chewing gum. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Dark Star - HR Giger’s World
Daughters of Dolma
Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 95’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English
England / Hungary / Nepal, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’/54’ Original Language: Tibetan Subtitles: English
Dark Star - HR Gigers Welt Belinda Sallin
Adam Miklos
www..darkstar-movie.com
www.daughtersofdolmadoc.com
He feels at home in places we would flee from and lives his life among the very things we fear. Throughout his life, HR Giger had inhabited the world of the uncanny, a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss. It was the only way this amiable, modest and humorous man was able to keep his fears in check. Giger was merely the bearer of dark messages, charting our nightmares, drafting maps of our subconscious and moulding our primal fears. A film with and about the internationally acclaimed and controversial painter, sculptor, architect and designer (Oscar for “Alien”).
SALES / CONTACT: Marcel Hoehn T&C Film Seesetrasse 41a
PRODUCTION T&C Film Marcel Hoehn
8002 Zürich
CO-PRODUCTION: Lucky Film GmbH – Switzerland,
Switzerland
SRF Schweizer Radio und
tel: +41 44 2089955
Fernsehen – Switzerland
www.tcfilm.ch
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SRF Schweizer Radio und
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Daughters of Dolma takes viewers on a journey revealing a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. The documentary brings to the screen not just Buddhist spirituality and qualities like compassion and kindness, but Tibetan Buddhist nuns as full individuals beyond their monastic vows and religious practices. US not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION Alex Co and Adrian Szaki Adrian Szaki
333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York USA tel: +1 212 629 6880 alivemindcinema.com elizabeth@kinolorber.com
Fernsehen – Switzerland
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Daughters of Dolma reveals a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. The documentary explores how gender and spirituality are being redefined. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Daughters of Mother India
David & Me
India, 2014 color, HDcam, 45’ Original Language: Hindi Subtitles: English
Canada, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Vibha Bakshi
Ray Klonsky, Marc Lamy
www.daughtersofmotherindia.com
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The eyes of the world are on India’s rampant gender violence that suddenly has hit the world’s headlines. An insightful look inside the Indian society, the Government and the swift and radical changes being made in the Police, the Judiciary and the community groups, who are provoking for the first time a national dialogue on the current sexist attitudes of Indian society and how to change them.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
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PRODUCTION V2 Film and Design PVT Ltd Vibha Bakshi
Filmmaker Ray Klonsky wasn’t alive when 16-year-old Brooklyn teenager David McCallum was arrested for the kidnapping, robbery and murder of Nathan Blenner. David sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for those crimes. The conviction in 1985 lacked physical evidence and was based on coerced testimonies and a very questionable police investigation. Upon hearing of his story, Ray vowed to find the evidence that would vindicate David, now his friend. The process leads to roller coaster moments surrounding David’s potential release. Ray’s determination, along with help from Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, makes this an emotional story about friendship and perseverance.
SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni
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Aaron Hancox
611 Broadway #630 Ne...
Markham Street Films Inc.
10012 New York
Michael McNamara
USA tel: 2129958139 CargoFilm-Releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
David McCallum is a convicted murderer from the mean streets of Brooklyn who has spent 29-years in prison. Ray Klonsky is a middle class, Jewish-Italian kid from Toronto. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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David Lama - Off Limits on Rock and Ice
Davids and Goliath
Austria, 2014 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English
Canada, 2014 color, video, 66’ Original Language: Mandarin/English Subtitles: English
David Lama - Das Unmögliche möglich machen Hans-Peter Stauber
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Leon Lee
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Lama, 23, is the son of an Austrian mother and a Nepalese father. He grew up in Tyrol surrounded by mountains. He was only five when he attracted the attention of legendary mountaineer Pater Habeler; he was only 10 when he climbed his first 8a-route. In 2010, he left the indoor climbing walls and started concentrating exclusively on mountaineering. It was in 2012 that he set out for the first free ascent of the ‘Compressor route’ on Cerro Torre in Patagonia.
SALES / CONTACT: Berend Dreier Red Bull Media House Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15 5071 Wals
PRODUCTION Red Bull Media House Hans-Peter Stauber INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Servus TV – Australia
Austria tel: 00436622240-0 http://premium.redbullcontentpool. com berend.dreier@ at.redbullmediahouse.com
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When reports first emerged from China that state-run hospitals were killing prisoners of conscience to sell their organs, it seemed too horrible to believe. But as human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian member of parliament David Kilgour began to uncover the mystery, the true picture became all too clear. Their evidence suggests that tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed to supply an ongoing illegal organ transplant industry. The story of how they pieced together the evidence and continue to fight against this crime against humanity is a riveting tale of both personal triumphs and unimaginable horror.
SALES / CONTACT: Leon Lee Flying Cloud Productions Inc.
PRODUCTION Flying Cloud Productions Inc. Leon Lee
112-618 East Kent Ave S V5X0B1 Vancouver Canada tel: +1 7789960616 www.flyingcloudproductions.com info@flyingcloudproductions.com
Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour use their wisdom and courage to fight against one of the world’s worst crimes against humanity. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Day That Changed My Life
Dead Sea Living
New Zealand, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English
Canada / France / Palestine, 2013 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English
The Day that Changed my Life is a gripping and emotional documentary that features ordinary people’s extra ordinary stories about the day that changed their life forever. This powerful documentary is built around raw, heartfelt, never-seenbefore interviews captured in the immediate aftermath of the February 22nd 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. An insight into what it was really like to be there on that fateful day. A blend of carefully selected archive and powerful dramatic reconstructions creates a compelling and poignant story of how the day unfolded for the trapped, the searchers, the rescuers, the hopeful and the grief-stricken.
Who has not heard of the famous Dead Sea, the world’s saltiest water, its unique geographical form. Tourists worldwide bathe in its waters for its unique medicinal qualities. But the sea is completely isolated with only the Jordan River supplying water. Today it is shrinking as the water input has been cut off to save the water from the river for agriculture. As a result, the Dead Sea is dying. The film looks at solutions such as the Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal.
Chris Dudman
SALES / CONTACT: Polly Fryer
PRODUCTION Polly Fryer
34 Baildon Road
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TVNZ (TV1&2) – New Zealand
1021 Auckland New Zealand tel: +64 272 356 531 polly@munchkinfilms.co.nz
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German Gutierrez
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Intuitive Pictures inc. Ina Fichman
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
A gripping account of ordinary people’s extra ordinary stories about the day that changed their life forever. Meet survivors of the 22nd February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Death - A Series About Life
The Decent One
Norway, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Norwegian/English Subtitles: English
Austria / Israel / Germany, 2014 color, video, 96’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
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www..thedecentonefilm.com/
We are all going to die – sooner or later – but there can be great differences in how we relate to death. It can appear frightening or engage us, provide food on the table or even entertain us. There are those who avoid it and those who deal with it on a daily basis. What is death, and how do we best live with it? A father and his 8 years old daughter whose mother has died lead through five episodes. Travelling the world they appreciate life the more they learn about death.
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Flimmer Film AS Johnny Holmvag
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Lars Løge
8050 Zurich Switzerland
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NRK – Norway,
tel: +41 44 3122060
YLE – Finland,
www.firsthandfilms.com
RUV – Iceland,
stories@firsthandfilms.com
SBS – Australia
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Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, theThe Decent One exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless “Architect of the Final Solution” Heinrich Himmler. Himmler writes, “In life one must always be decent, courageous and kindhearted”. How can a man be a hero in his own eyes and a mass murderer in the eyes of the world? A unique portrait of one the most prominent figures of the Third Reich: The Reichsfuhrer-SS: Heinrich Himmler.
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Realworks Vanessa Lapa
18 Levontin St. 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il
Through previously undiscovered personal letters, photos and diaries, found in 1945, the film exposes a unique access to the life and mind of the merciless “Architect of the Final Solution”. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Deep Love
Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Jan P. Matuszynski
Molly Bernstein
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: English
Poland, 2013 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Deceptive Practices traces Jay’s achievements and mentors. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances (doing 3-card Monte with Steve Martin on The Dinah Shore Show) and told in Jay’s inimitable voice, this is a remarkable journey inside the secretive world of magic and the small circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual devotees.
Asia is a life partner of Janusz, an experienced scuba-diver who suffered from a stroke. For Janusz life is pointless without his passion. Together with his friend Arthur, he is planning to go to Blue Hole in Dahab. All three of them are aware of the fact that this may be Janusz’s last trip. Asia is facing a possibility of losing her partner forever. At the same time she understands janusz passion. Despite her inner objection, she will accompany Janusz and Arthur in the preparation to the trip and the journey to Egypt.
www..rickyjaymovie.com/
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SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION Alicia Sams
333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York USA tel: +1 212 6296880 alivemindcinema.com elizabeth@kinolorber.com
Deceptive Practices is a portrait of Ricky Jay, the world-renowned magician. It reveals the secretive world of magic and the small circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual devotees. 102
SALES / CONTACT: Marta Lachacz Cor Leonis Production Al. KEN 22/28 02-797 Warszawa Poland tel: +48 504 025 052
PRODUCTION Cor Leonis Films ltd Marta Lachacz CO-PRODUCTION: Otter Films – Poland INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: HBO Europe – Poland
martalachacz@gmail.com
Janusz is an experienced scuba-diver who suffered from a stroke. His life is pointless without his passion. Will his partner Asia support his come back to diving? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Dickumentary
Die Before Blossom
Canada / Japan / USA / United Arab Emirates / Germany / India / Iceland / Bulgaria / South Korea / England / Greece, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’/60’ Original Language: English
Indonesia, 2014 color, HDcam, 89’ Original Language: Indonesian Subtitles: English
The Dickumentary tells the story of the penis— from its evolution as a biological structure millions of years ago in prehistoric fish, to today. Cultures have worshipped it, and circumcised it. Men have sought ways to make it larger. Traveling across 14 countries, featuring interviews with more than 40 experts, it’s an epic journey through a subject that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough in polite society.
An observational documentary about the end of childhood, describing how young Muslim girls grow up in Indonesia’s middle class of today. The film portrays two families during a decisive period of their daughters’ school careers in Yogyakarta. In the meantime, the public education system in Indonesia is changing under pressure from Islamic politics parties. The once secular institution is more geared towards shaping millions of submissive youth by including more religious activities into the school life.
Layu sebelum berkembang Ariani Djalal
Sofian Khan
www.diebeforeblossom.com
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Capital K Pictures Sofian Khan
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about the penis, but were afraid to find out.
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PRODUCTION Tanamera Ariani Djalal
Jalan Multikarya 1/21 Utan Kayu 13210 Jakarta Raya
CO-PRODUCTION: Goethe Institut Jakarta –
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Indonesia
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The film tells about teenager stories that reveals significantly, yet the changes are not always visible in Conservative Moslem Culture omnipresent.
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Dinosaur 13
Dior & I
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 95’ Original Language: English
France / USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: French/English
When Paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research made the world’s greatest dinosaur discovery in 1990, they knew it was the find of a lifetime; the largest, most complete T. rex ever found. But during a ten-year battle with the U. S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists, they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well.
Dior & I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behindthe-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new artistic director - a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators. Melding the everyday, pressure- filled components of fashion with mysterious echoes from the iconic brand’s past, the film is also a colorful homage to the seamstresses who serve Simons’ vision.
Todd Miller
Frederic Tcheng
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SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof 19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
PRODUCTION Statement Pictures Todd Miller
SALES / CONTACT: Vesna Cudic Dogwoof
PRODUCTION CIM Productions Guillaume Roquemaurel
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com vesna@dogwoof.com
Frédéric Tcheng’s solo directorial debut brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house. The true tale of one of the greatest discoveries in history. 106
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Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
Disportrait: Coming to Russia Proves to Be no Fairy Tale
David Shulman
Alejandro Alvarez, Ulrik Wivel
USA, 2014 color / black and white, video, 82’
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The untold story of how Black landowners in Mississippi - who controlled over 1 million acres of land - were the secret weapon of the American civil rights movement in the 1960’s. How a group of Black farmers in the Delta miraculously acquired 10,000 acres of the most fertile land in Mississippi as a result of a radical ‘New Deal’ experiment in the 1930’s and its knock on effects for the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. Narrated by Danny Glover.
After his controversial dismissal by the Spanish Minister of Culture from the Madrid-based dance company he directed for 20 years, Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato takes on the directorship of the Mikhailovsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, seeing it as a chance to redeem himself professionally. However, great artistic challenges lie ahead as the classical dancers of the traditional ballet troupe struggle with his contemporary vision for a new Russian ballet. Plunged into cultural and social isolation, the new “Maestro” of the Mikhailovsky Ballet–a gay icon in his native Spain-must now face these challenges and prove his standing.
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SALES / CONTACT: Sally Miles Passion Distribution Ltd
PRODUCTION Thunk It Media David Shulman
77 Fulham Palace Rd W6 8JA London England tel: 44 207 2586800 sallymiles@passiondistribution.com
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation
PRODUCTION Talal Al-Muhanna, Katrin Pors
Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
The film is an extreme and exhilarating close-up of one of Europe’s biggest artistic personalities.
The real story behind ‘Mississippi Burning’ - how Black landowners in Mississippi provided armed protection to the non-violent civil rights movement of the 1960’s. 108
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Divine Location
Do I Sound Gay?
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: German Subtitles: French/English
USA, 2014 color, video, 77’ Original Language: English
A light and often absurdly comic film about the transition from an industrial to a leisure society. We watch as a beautiful artificial lake is developed on the vast site of a former steelworks plant: Lake Phoenix. In the middle of one of the largest industrial areas in Europe, Germany’s Ruhr region, a luxurious residential area has been developed, marina and lake-side piazza included. We meet old locals, attend client meetings and accompany new residents who tell us of their plans and dreams. Wir beobachten, wie sie zu Gewinnern oder Verlierern dessen werden, was man gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt nennt. We watch as they all become winners or losers in the game called social progress.
Journalist David Thorpe embarks on a hilarious and touching journey, confronting his anxiety about “sounding gay” with comprehensively exploring the linguistic, cultural and historical origins of the stereotype of the gay voice. Enlisting acting coaches, linguists, friends, family, total strangers, and celebrities, he quickly learns that many people — both gay and straight — often wish for a different voice. Drawing upon movie and television clips, the film traces a cultural history of the gay voice which places Thorpe’s self-consciousness in a broader context and illuminates the complexity at play.
Göttliche Lage Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken
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www..doisoundgay.com
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SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS
PRODUCTION filmproduktion loekenfranke gbr Ulrike Franke
Dasselstr. 75-77
Filmproduktion Loeken Franke
50674 Koeln
Michael Loeken
Germany tel: +49 221 16819743
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elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
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In the middle of one of the largest industrial areas in Europe, the Ruhr region, a beautiful, artificial lake with a luxurious residential area has been developed – marina and piazza included. A light and often absurdly comic film about 110the transition from an industrial to a leisure society.
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Howard Gertler, David Thorpe
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
A hilarious and touching journey, confronting the anxiety about “sounding gay” with comprehensively exploring the linguistic, pop cultural and historical origins of the stereotype of the gay voice. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Dockers at work
Does God Love Women ?
France, 2013 color, video, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Houdt God van Vrouwen ? Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Bruno Raymond-Damasio
https://www.facebook.com/ dockerslefilm?ref=hl
The dockers of Nantes Saint-Nazaire have been most directly hit by the drastic competition from the Northern European ports, and also by the latest port reforms, forcing them to adapt to the new situation. This film gives a voice to the men on the wharves. It reveals how they work, and provides some answers. . . A rough and genuine documentary composed as an opera.
SALES / CONTACT: Guillaume Josset la mandarine
PRODUCTION la mandarine Guillaume Josset
24a rue Pouchet 76000 Rouen France tel: +33142170103 www.lamandarine.com productions@lamandarine.com
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Does God Love Women? portrays Hilligje Kok, a deeply religious but free spirited woman in Staphorst, a village located in the Dutch “Bible Belt”. With passion and humor, Hilligje seeks to improve the position of women within her church as well as in the orthodox Christian political party SGP. But a visit by Hilligje’s gay son Willem brings her off balance. Why did she not show up at his wedding? Hilligje’s well-intended struggle for equality is now putting at risk her friendships, family relationships as well as her position within the congregation.
SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films P.O. Box 15703
PRODUCTION NOCTILUCA Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
1001 NE Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31204040707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
Does God Love Women? portrays Hilligje Kok, a deeply religious but free spirited woman in Staphorst, a village located in the Dutch “Bible Belt”. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Domino Effect
Don’t Lose Heart
Poland / Germany, 2014 color, video, 76’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English
In Abkhazia, a post-Soviet “frozen conflict” zone, patriotism runs deep. While Sports Minister Rafael is busy organizing an international domino event to put his motherland on the world’s map, his beloved Russian wife is just an unwelcome foreigner. A black sea black comedy with socio-political commentary.
Hella de Jonge didn’t always get on with her 88-year-old father. When he had to move recently, she acquired the legacy of her great aunt, who survived the Nazi terror along with Hella’s parents. A publicity photo from 1885 of her great-grandfather as part of a comic duo then inspired Hella to investigate the history of her family. With the aid of photos and documents, a videotape of Hella’s mother’s testimony made as part of Steven Spielberg’s Shoa project, conversations and visits to places with painful memories, father and daughter have grown closer together.
Domino effekt Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski
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www..autlookfilms.com/film/184/
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SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna
PRODUCTION Otter Films Anna Wydra CO-PRODUCTION: Zero One Film GmbH –
Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION De Roje Hel Hella de Jonge
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
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Dora Maar in Spite of Picasso
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
Dora Maar a Pesar de Picasso Angel Bofarull, Alejandro Lasala
John Pirozzi
USA, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 107’ Original Language: English/Khmer/French Subtitles: English
Spain, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 50’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Revelling in the songs of the Beatles and the Bee Gees, in the 1960s young Cambodians built a wildly popular new type of pop that combined funk, soul and rock with the hypnotic rhythms of their own traditional music. But when the Khmer Rouge came, the musicians were the first against the wall, and most of what once existed was lost forever. Combining rare archival footage, never-before-heard recordings and interviews with the few surviving artists, this is an impossible-to-resist portrait of a music like no other – and the power of rock ‘n’ roll to save a nation’s soul.
The 50 minute documentary begins by taking a look around the Dora Maar Nonostante Picasso exhibition, which took place at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, in the Spring of 2014. In the course of a detailed interview, Victoria Combalía, curator of the exhibition and Dora Maar’s biographer looks back on the photographer’s life and work, situating her within the artistic context of surrealism and photography in the France of the 1930’s.
http://doramaarinspiteofpicasso.es
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION DTIF Cambodia LLC John Pirozzi
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html
SALES / CONTACT: Pablo Damme
PRODUCTION Mercedes Palomar
c/ Pintor Salvador Abril
Althea media s.l.
34 valencia
Silvana Pizzol
Spain tel: 00 34 626041056
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cat@catndocs.com
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Drawing against Oblivion
Drawing Dead: The Highs & Lows of Online Poker
Bärbel Jacks
Mike Weeks
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam/ DCP, 60’/52’/45’/67’ Original Language: German/Polish/English Subtitles: German
USA, 2013 color, video, 75’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French/Italian/Japanese/ English/Portugese/German/Spanish
www.drawing-against-oblivion.com
The film Drawing Against Oblivion documents the creation of Manfred Bockelmann’s series of art works by the same name. In powerful pictures, carried by the intensity of the artist’s undertaking, this film bows to the countless children who were murdered by the Nazis, and with distressing stories at the same time reminds us of those who survived and still live with the incomprehensible past today. „What happened to the children who lay in the wrong crib, what is their story?“ asks the Austrian artist. Born in 1943, he dedicates his life to a mission: his goal is to exhume the personalities of countless children and teenagers who were murdered by the Nazis and disappeared in the archives as a mere statistical number . Using charcoal on burlap, portrait after portrait emerges from horizontal lines. Seen with the eyes of the artist, the film embarks on a journey to the Auschwitz concentration camp and the US to meet children from those times, Holocaust survivors. The result was an emotional enmeshment that strikes the audience with its pithy associational language and imagery. A moving narrative of associations and images captivates the viewer, making this film something unique for a documentary dealing with this particular past: Without the usual archival footage of many documentaries, the film visualizes the horrors inflicted in the name of racist mania. The topic is children, the most innocent members of society. This film does not look for perpetrators. It reminds us of the value of empathetic humanity – not only with a view to the past but also to now and here, in our present-day lives. “Without past there is no future. ” (Helga PollakKinsky, Holocaust survivor) World premiere still open. 118
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SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Zimmermann
PRODUCTION Klaus Brecht
Kurfürstenstrasse 29
Final Frame
80801 Munich
David Kunac
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION: Graf Filmproduktion – Austria
tel: +49 0172 89 577 89 zimmermannandrea@t-online.de
From the Poker Boom of 2003 to Black Friday, April 15th 2011, when the US Department of Justice shut down online poker, Drawing Dead follows the lives of two players, Michael and Dusty, as they deal with the highs and the lows of America’s future favorite pastime, online poker. NOT available for US Distribution (US rights purchase by Brainstorm Media in partnership with DirecTV).
SALES / CONTACT: Lucy Matthais Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION Bread Bag Boot LLC Mike Weeks
4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton, KT7 0RY Surrey England tel: +44 (0) 208 786 6058 www..journeyman.tv films@journeyman.tv
Remembering the Nazi terror through the eyes of an artist who draws portraits of children murdered in the name of a racial fanaticism. Drawing Dead is a documentary film exploring the highs and lows of online poker from two very different perspectives: an online pro worth millions, and a gambling addict. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Dream House by the Border
The Dream of Shahrazad
South Korea / France, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 89’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
South Africa / Egypt / France / The Netherlands / Jordan, 2014 color, HDcam, 108’/56’ Original Language: Arabic/ English/Farsi/Turkish Subtitles: English
Lyang Kim
François Verster
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The film carries on to the succession of the DMZ inhabitants’ accounts, in rigorously frontal frames, completed by an exploration of their interiors. After the war, the region was covered with mines, and it has been abandoned for 20 years. The Park dictatorship took the initiative to clear the land toward the end of the 1960s, in order to disengage the country from a rampant famine; this salvaging plan took as its model the Israeli kibbutzim.
http://dreamofshahrazad.com
SALES / CONTACT: Lyang Kim
PRODUCTION Lyang Kim
2, bis Rue des Cascades 75020 Paris France tel: +33 14 2467707 lyangkim@hotmail.com
This film signs the collective memory of these people who live close to the DMZ in South Korea, under military control.
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Weaving together music, politics and storytelling, this film explores recent political events in the Middle East through the lens of “The 1001 (Arabian) Nights”. A charismatic Turkish conductor uses Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Scheherazade’ suite as a tool for political education. A young Lebanese woman makes peace with her past through storytelling. An older visual artist obsessed with The Nights finds new life through meeting a beautiful young storyteller. Members of a Cairo theatre troupe meet with mothers of martyrs of the Revolution and turn their testimonies into new storytelling performances.
SALES / CONTACT: Heather Millard Spier Films
PRODUCTION Fireworx Media Neil Brandt
42 Vicarage Crescent.
Middlewest Films
SW113LD LONDON
Wael Omar
England tel: +447793030475
CO-PRODUCTION: Volya Films – The Netherlands,
www.spierfilms.com
Melia Films – France,
heather@spierfilms.com
Hakaya – Jordan
The Dream of Shahrazad explores recent political events in Turkey and Egypt through the lens of the famous story collection “The 1001 (Arabian) Nights”.
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Drone
Dusty Bin Dreams
Norway / Denmark, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 79’/78’/58’ Original Language: English/Pashtu/Urdu Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Swahili/English Subtitles: English
Drone brings us inside the covert CIA drone war. The film follows people who live under drones in Pakistan and drone pilots who struggle with the new warfare. Drone covers diverse ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions, the re-definition of “going to war”, to the moral of engineers behind the technology, the world leaders giving the secret “greenlight” to a targeted killing program outside declared war zones, and the people who fight for transparency, accountability and justice. Facing fast technological advancements and lagging international legislation the film shows how drones change wars and possibly our future.
Eriss Khajira (1987, Kenya) grew up on the largest dumpsite of East Africa: the Dandora dumpsite. Tens of thousands of people live on and around this dumpsite, scavenging through the waste of Nairobi’s residents. Khajira goes back to the place of her youth and she portrays five dumpsite inhabitants. The result is a touching and shocking documentary that shows the strengths, the sorrows and the dreams of her slum neighbors. Dusty Bin Dreams tells the story of African poverty from the inside: a story of hope, friendship, despair and betrayal.
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Anne Campenhout, ERISS KHAJIRA
www..dronethedocumentary.com
SALES / CONTACT: Tine Klint LevelK Gl. Kongevej 137 B, 3rd F 1850 Copenhagen Denmark
PRODUCTION Flimmer Film AS Lars Løge CO-PRODUCTION: Radiator Film ApS – Denmark
tel: +45 48442201
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE/ZDF – Germany,
www.levelk.dk
TV2 Norway – Norway,
freja@levelk.dk
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SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum
PRODUCTION EO Herma van Boven INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: EO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
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Drone brings us inside the covert CIA drone war. The film follows people who live under drones in Pakistan and drone pilots who struggle with the new warfare. 122
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El Gusto
Elephant’s Dream
Algeria / Ireland / United Arab Emirates / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Arabic/French Subtitles: English
England / Belgium, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’/52’ Original Language: French/Lingala Subtitles: English
Safinez Bousbia’s ambitious and moving documentary tells the amazing story of the reunion and reconciliation of a group of Muslim and Jewish musicians fifty years after their separation during the Algerian Civil War and follows their story as they are brought back together to form a new orchestra, “El Gusto,” and perform at an extraordinary concert in France.
Elepehant’s Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo. The interwoven stories of a female post-office clerk in the dilapidated Central Post Office, two colleagues at the railway station and the group of firemen in the only fire station give an insight into their daily lives and survival in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa. Their world is so different from ours, yet at the same time so familiar and universal. Together we question how this society copes with the current states and how it could see a revival.
Safinez Bousbia
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Kristof Bilsen
www..quidam.ie/projects/elgusto.html
SALES / CONTACT: Nelleke Driessen Fortissimo Films
PRODUCTION Quidam Productions Ltd Safinez Bousbia
Van Diemenstraat 100
Heidi Egger
1013 CN Amsterdam The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION: Eikosi Productions – The
tel: 31206273215
Netherlands
www.fortissimofilms.com info@fortissimo.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Associate Directors Mark Daems
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION: Man’s Film Productions –
France
Belgium,
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
Limerick Films – Belgium,
http://catndocs.com/index.html
Roast Beef Productions – England
cat@catndocs.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTBF – Belgium
Elepehant’s Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and their workers in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
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The Empire of the Scents
Ennahdha
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: English
Belgium / France, 2014 color, video, 69’ Original Language: French/Arabic Subtitles: English/French
This unique film embarks on a kaleidoscopic portrait of what is the sense of smell, exploring the rarest of saffrons, exotic perfumes, follows Italian truffle hunters as they explain the aphrodisiac powers of the praised mushroom. Astronaut Chris Hadfield describes the smell of space, food molecule expert François Chartier talks about the sound of flavors, and Guido, a metaphysical perfumer who has created the scent of a woman, explains how his perfume came to be. The film also talks about whale poop, also known as ambergris, the rare and expensive substance that gives perfumes their seductive animalistic odor.
Tunisia, end of October 2011. 10 months after the fall of Ben Ali, the constitutional elections bring Ennahdha, an Islamic party totally underrated by the international opinion, to lead Tunisia. 18 months later, in spring 2013, Ennahdha that failed to introduce the essential reformations and to infuse the air of the revolution to the country, will present itself once more in front of the voters.
Kim Nguyen
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SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
Christophe Cotteret
PRODUCTION Lowik Media Lucie Tremblay
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada
SALES / CONTACT: Benoît Roland Wrong Men North
PRODUCTION Wrong Men North Benoît Roland
10, box 3, Morisstreet 1060 Brussels Belgium
CO-PRODUCTION: Veilleur de Nuit – France
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +32479439822
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE G.E.I.E. – France,
www.filmstransit.com
www.wrongmen.be
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info@filmstransit.com
info@wrongmen.be
It is through our sense of smell that we feel, lust and create and yet we know almost nothing about this most direct of our senses.
This documentary is a political and historical autopsy, of an Islamic party anticipating to establish its authority on the future of Tunisia.
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The Erpatak Model
The Escape
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Hungarian Subtitles: English
Germany / Denmark, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 58’/45’/26’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Die Flucht Jesper Clemmensen
Benny Brunner, Keno Verseck
http://hansenogpedersen.dk
Zoltán Mihály Orosz is the hyper energetic and ultra nationalist mayor of Érpatak, a village of 1,750 inhabitants in eastern Hungary. Mayor Orosz is possessed by delusions of order, discipline and control. He divides the villagers into “builders” and “destroyers”; supporters and opponents of his Érpatak Model. The mayor’s ultimate goal is the creation of a “sacred and organic dictatorship” where the supreme values are order, discipline and fighting spirit as they unite the community on a local level and the nation on a country level.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION 2911Foundation Benny Brunner
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION Hansen & Pedersen Malene Flindt Pedersen
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Anders Riis-Hansen
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION: Kloos & Co. Medien – Germany
Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de
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While millions fled from DDR to West Germany some families chose to travel the other way. The Escape follows Christoph Sender in his search for answers. Why did his parents leave the West? Why did they have to flee 16 years later? And why did he have to loose his father and his two sisters? With stunning archive material and high quality re-enactment, The Escape is a highly emotional story of a family that puts everything at stake to live in freedom during the heydays of oppression in the GDR.
The touching story of one family´s dramatic escape from East Germany.
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Escaping Riga
Euromaidan. Rough Cut
Latvia, 2014 black and white, 16mm, 68’ Original Language: English
Ukraine, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Russian/Ukranian Subtitles: English
Davis Simanis
Roman Bondarchuk
www.facebook.com/EuromaidanRoughCut
Two young boys are forced to escape their native city of Riga. Later these same boys turn out to be among the most extraordinary personalities of the previous century: one becomes a leading commie film director and the other a mentor to the entire British Empire. This story will reveal the secrets of the remarkably parallel lives between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin.
SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandar Govedarica Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION Mistrus Media Ltd. Gints Grube
7 Granard Business Centre NW7 2DQ London England tel: +387 66 405623 www.taskovskifilms.com festivals@taskovskifilms.com
Three months of revolution. From indignant protest to national unity. From pots on their heads to batons and body armour. From the euphoria of victory to the mourning of the fallen Heavenly Hundred. Revolution as an explosion of revived dignity, as the euphoria of freedom, as the pain of awareness at the cost, as the birth of the modern history of Ukraine. Experience the three months of struggle with young Ukrainian documentary filmmakers, feel and see the revolution through their eyes.
SALES / CONTACT: Yulia Serdyukova Docudays UA International Documentary Film Festival
PRODUCTION Docudays UA International Documentary Film Festival Dar’ya Averchenko
11 Mala Zhytomyrska str., office 10
Roman Bondarchuk
01001 Kyiv
Yulia Serdyukova
Ukraine tel: +380 67 240 21 39 www.docudays.org.ua yulia.serdyukova@gmail.com
A garrulous philosopher and flamboyant film director trying to survive the extremes of life somewhere between a tsar, a king and Stalin.
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Three months of struggle. From indignant protest to national unity. A chronicle of the Ukrainian revolution in ten episodes as seen by young documentary filmmakers.
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Evaporating Borders
Face it!
USA / Cyprus, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 73’ Original Language: Greek/English/Arabic Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders is guided by the filmmaker’s curious eye and personal reflections. Through people she encounters along the way, it dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus: an exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets; activists organize an antifascist rally; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean. Evaporating Borders investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in one of the easiest ports of entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves themes of tolerance, identity and belonging.
A personal, investigative documentary about menopause. Like many women, director Ingeborg Beugel didn’t know what was happening to her. She was irritated, confused, depressed and didn’t feel like being intimate anymore. She didn’t recognise herself anymore and thought she was driving insane. Too late she found out that all these changes in her life were linked to menopause. Beugel started investigating and learned there is still a lot to be exposed about this phase in a women’s life.
Ingeborg Beugel
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Ivaasks
Leandros Savvides
503 Lafayette Ave 3F
Transient Pictures
11205 Brooklyn, NY
Landon Van Soest
USA tel: +1 917 6697584 www.ivaasks.com ivarad@gmail.com
Evaporating Borders is a poetically rendered film about tolerance and search for identity. Told through five vignettes portraying the lives migrants in Cyprus, it weaves themes of displacement and belonging.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2
PRODUCTION Interakt Mira Mendel
1217 ZL Hilversum
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: KRO-NCRV Television – The
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Factory Complex
Faith Love Desire - World Religions and Sexuality
Heung-soon Im
Glaube Liebe Lust - Sexualität in den Weltreligionen Heinz Greuling, Hilka Sinning
South Korea, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: Khmer/Korean Subtitles: English
South Korea’s drastic economic development once surprised the rest of the world. However, behind of it was an oppression the marginalised female labourers had to endure. The film invites us to the lives of the working class women engaged in the textile industry of the 1960s, all the way through the stories of flight attendants, cashiers, and non-regular workers of today. The form of labor seems to change its appearance but the essence of a breadand-butter question remains still. The film ends up in Cambodia, where we encounter the repetition of the history of labor that took place in Korea.
Germany, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Hebrew/Thai/ Hindi/German/English/Arabic Subtitles: English
SALES / CONTACT: Jihye Park Documentary Airways
PRODUCTION Bandal Doc. Min-kyung Kim
#101, 3, Jahamun-ro 33ga-gil, Jongno- Min-kyung Kim gu 110-030 Seoul South Korea tel: +82 10 71572015 www.docairways.com docairways@gmail.com
Female labourers in South Korea in 1960s were treated with lower wage and sexual harassment. Such unfair history of labor is being repeated in different forms and in other countries. 134
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How can the anarchic power of sexuality be tamed when one is young? What is permitted and what is not? What effect do the values prescribed by various religions have on love, marriage and sexual activity in our present day and age? The three-part series Faith Love Desire explores this in five world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. A global odyssey charting a course between love’s intoxication and taboos and a fascinating exploration of life’s most intimate and beautiful side.
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Birgit Schulz
8050 Zurich Switzerland
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NDR – Germany,
tel: +41 44 3122060
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www.firsthandfilms.com
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stories@firsthandfilms.com
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Intimate beliefs as told by Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists. Is Eros a devine gift or diabolical power? Throughout the ages all religions tried to control people’s sex lives... International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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farEAST - From Berlin to Tokyo
Felvidek - Caught in Between
Germany, 2013 color, video, 52’ Original Language: German/English
Slovakia / Czech Republic, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Czech/Hungarian/Slovak Subtitles: English
FernOST - von Berlin nach Tokio Manuela Jödicke, Johannes Unger
www..autlookfilms.com/film/145/
Felvidék - Horná Zem Vladislava Plancsikova
www.hornazem.eu
A unique adventure on the UNESCO’s Asian Highways, the largest system of roads worldwide. A journey through the heart of Asia by means of a real voyage, focusing on the people they meet along the way and their stories. For the first time in years, a camera team was allowed to travel on the road through Iran and Myanmar!
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
PRODUCTION Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias Siebert
Felvidek is a multiethnic Slovak/ Hungarian region in southern Slovakia. Far too often the region has been trapped in between the opposing interests of political elites; far too often its people have been tossed around by the twists of history. In the 1940s, many of them were forced to leave their homeland. Some wounds are hard to heal, some questions remain unanswered but the future brings hope for reconciliation. When memories are not enough, the stories come to live through animation.
SALES / CONTACT: Tomás Kaminsk Mandala Pictures
PRODUCTION Mandala Pictures Tomás Kaminsk
Mariánska 18 900 31 Stupava Slovakia tel: +421 908 201674 www.mandalapictures.eu tomaskamin@mandalapictures.eu
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary not available.
The film combines oral history documentary, archive footage and animation. The narrative deals with a sensitive theme: the forced resettlement of ethnic Hungarians in postwar Czechoslovakia. 136
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The Fencing Champion
Fest of Duty
Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 27’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
Iran, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Persian Subtitles: English
Fægtemesteren Simon Lereng Wilmont
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The film follows 10-year-old Ruben through a season of fencing. Ruben has a great passion for fencing and has to defend his title as Nordic champion, a title that gives him a lot of respect from the boys in the club. We follow Ruben while he is preparing for the big annual championship. Alongside the drama that is played out on the fencing piste, an even a greater story is unfolding about some of the universal challenges that children experience at this age like trying to understand girls.
SALES / CONTACT: Peter Jäger Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14
PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real Monica Hellström Weston
A-1070 Vienna
CO-PRODUCTION: Story AB – Sweden,
Austria
Sant & Usant AS – Norway
tel: +43 720 346934 www..autlookfilms.com
The “Fest of Duty” is a religious ceremony in Iranian elementary schools designed to inculcate Islamic beliefs and values in girls when they reach the age of nine, traditionally recognized as the start of puberty according to Islamic practices. This documentary follows two adolescent girls as they transition into adulthood, eight years after their official “Fest of Duty”, and observes the impact of religion on their public and private lives.
SALES / CONTACT: Firouzeh Khosrovani
PRODUCTION Firouzeh Khosrovani
Africa Blvd., Tandis St. N.6, Apt.18 1915613643 Tehran Iran tel: +98 21 22050729 fkhosrovani@gmail.com
peter@autlookfilms.com
The Fencing Champion follows 10-year-old Ruben through a season of fencing and some of the universal challenges that all children experience at his age for instance trying to understand girls. 138
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The Final Stretch
Finding Fela
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Catalan Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 119’ Original Language: English
The Final Stretch is the story of a community paralysed by unemployment and immersed in its own Grande Bouffe in a place, on the delta of the Ebro river where the land is disappearing each year, swallowed up by the sea. A journey along the final stretch of the river, an area submerged in an overall crisis –economic, social and environmental–, the reflection of a society abandoned to excesses and gradually devouring itself.
Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, using that forum to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan Africanist politics to the world. The power and potency of Fela’s message is completely current today and is expressed in the political movements of oppressed people, embracing Fela’s music and message in their struggle for freedom.
El Tram Final Oscar Pérez
Finland not available.
Alex Gibney
http://findingfela.co.uk/screenings?gcli d=COSWur6l28ACFUfnwgodjkYA4w
SALES / CONTACT: Irena Taskovski Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION Getsemani Produccions, S.L. Oscar Pérez
7 Granard Business Centre_Bunns Lane_Mill Hill
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TVC - Spain – Spain,
NW7 2DQ London
YLE – Finland
England tel: +44 387 65652046 info@taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com
Life inside a community paralysed by the recession and immersed in its own Grande Bouffe, in a place where the land is gradually disappearing, swallowed up by the sea. 140
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SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Jigsaw Productions Alex Gibney
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row
Jack Gulick
EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 2536244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Finding Fela is the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, music, and political importance.
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Fire in the Blood
Fireflies in the Abyss
India / England, 2012 color, HDcam, 60’/90’ Original Language: English
Nepal / India, 2014 color, HDcam, 99’ Original Language: English/Nepalese/Hindi Subtitles: English
Fire in the Blood is the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and gouvernments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south during the 2000’s – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, here is the important, never-before-told story of the unlikely alliance which came together to stop ‘the crime of the century’ and save millions of lives in the process.
In the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India, boys and men descend into the abyss of the ‘rathole’ to scratch coal out of hard rock, with nothing more than a pickaxe and a head-torch. Suraj, an 11 year old says, that’s where you meet the Dedhfoot – a creature who is black as coal, stout as a monster and just a foot and half tall. When one meets this creature you fight to stay alive or else you’re dead. Even with the odds stacked against him, Suraj battles his way out of the pit to eventually put himself in school.
Dylan Mohan Gray
Chandrasekhar Reddy
www.fireintheblood.com
www..firefliesintheabyss.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East
PRODUCTION Sparkwater India Dylan Mohan Gray Rumana Gray
H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
SALES / CONTACT: Chandrasekhar Reddy Mayabazaar Productions
PRODUCTION Mayabazaar Productions Chandrasekhar Reddy
23 Shantivana 2nd Cross, Sahakarnagar PO 560092 Bangalore India tel: +91 98 80628388 www..firefliesintheabyss.com/ chandra@mayabazaarproductions. com
An intricate tale of ‘monopoly, medicine and mass murder’.
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Men and boys are driven to the coal pit for many reasons. But once there, only some are able to escape - most don’t.
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Five Days to Dance
Flight of the Time
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 55’/79’ Original Language: Spanish/ English/German/Basque Subtitles: English/Catalan/Basque/Spanish
The Netherlands / Russia, 2014 color, HDcam, 37’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
Monday morning, two choreographers show up in a High School in San Sebastián, Spain. They have five days to get a classroom full of teenagers on stage and perform a dance theatre. The dance forces the teenagers to break their social roles right on the moment of their lives when they are being strengthened.
The dreams of the three generations of residents on a village on the Volga. Some old people they tell about their first love, which is the best memory remains. One young man of the village, he was in the war in Afghanistan, which has determines his life. A boy of 16, thinks back to his childhood, when he could swim, run, was in love with a girl. It is a sad but sometimes funny story of three generations, whose best and strongest times seem to be in the past, perhaps just as the country itself.
Vlucht van de Tijd Masha Novikova
José Andreu Ibarra, Jose Andreu Ibarra, Rafael Molés Vilar
www.novdoc.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zurich
PRODUCTION SUICAfilms Rafael Molés Vilar CO-PRODUCTION: REC Grabaketa Estudioa – Spain
Switzerland tel: +41 44 3122060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
“If people can dance together, people can live together.” - A microcosmos where a little big-bang takes place, an ode to youngsters. 144
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PRODUCTION NOVDOC Masha Novikova
Frans de Wollantstraat 18 1018 SC Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 621686907 masha@novdoc.nl masha@novdoc.nl
A sad but sometimes funny story of three generations of village residents on the Volga, whose best times seem to be in the past, perhaps just as the country itself.
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Focus on Infinity
Fonko
Austria, 2014 color, video, 79’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, video, 52’/90’ Original Language: English/ French/Portugese/Wolof Subtitles: English
Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence. It is a very personal and intuitive investigation into the roots and boundaries of our imagination dominated by sensual perception. Not unlike an adventure, the film dares to voyage into the unknown, to the structures of our intellectual capacity and drive to explore. It focuses on the restlessness that characterizes the natural sciences, and underpins the never-ending human ambition to fully understand our world.
The great music revolutions of our times have come from Africa, and the next one is brewing there right now. Soon, our local music industries will be swamped with it. Afrobeats, Azonto, Kuduro and South African House are club music styles based on traditional rhythms, becoming a means of expressing the identity for an entire generation. Well known musical icons will take the viewer on a ride into the depth of a continent in deep social, cultural and economical change.
Joerg Burger
Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén, Göran Hugo Olsson
SALES / CONTACT: Dietmar Schwärzler Sixpackfilm
PRODUCTION Mischief Films Joerg Burger
Neubaugasse 45/13
Georg Misch
1070 Vienna Austria tel: 0043.1.526 09 90 15 www.sixpackfilm.com office@sixpackfilm.com
Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence.
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SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
PRODUCTION Story AB Tobias Janson
8050 Zurich
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,
Switzerland
SBS – Australia
tel: +41 44 3122060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
From the award winning makers of Concerning Violence and The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, narrated by Neneh Cherry. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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For Being Alive
For the Love of God
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 71’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, video, 55’ Original Language: English
In the end of 70s Wroclaw, city in the west-south of Poland, became one of the most important hubs of the new, independent music scene. It was also part of a broader phenomenon which began at the time - the great boom and probably the greatest development of Polish rock music. Outside the official circuit - rebellious and anti-system Polish punk rock scene was born. The film brings up the story of how it was to be a young man in Poland at that time.
Former IT worker Alan John Miller believes he is Jesus. He lives in Queensland, Australia with his partner Mary Magdalene. From what we are told, his reach is global and his believers travel thousands of miles to hear him teach. The press claim he is a worrying Jesus Cult leader, and with unique and exclusive access, this documentary sets out to find the truth behind his belief, as he claims: ‘I am Jesus and I am serious’.
Za to, ze zyjemy, czyli punk z Wrocka Tomasz Nuzban
Thomas Leader
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SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945
PRODUCTION touchFILMS Aleksandra Wojtaszek
SALES / CONTACT: David Hooper Espresso TV
PRODUCTION Revolutionary Leader Thomas Leader
25 York Villas BN1 3TS Brighton England tel: +441273730929
www.polishdocs.pl
www.espressotv.co.uk
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
david@espressotv.co.uk
Examining the world of a man who believes he has had a 2000 year existence as Jesus - and he is not alone...
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Forbidden Flight
The Forecaster
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
www..zuidenwind.nl/Verboden-Vlucht
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The fascinating escape story of the eastern German family Anhalt. In the early 80’s the young couple Anhalt from the GDR was building a single engine aircraft to escape from the communist dictatorship. They were betrayed, arrested and imprisoned. Relatives took care of the upbringing of their two children. Thirty years later the family looks back on their history. What have been the consequences of the failed escape attempt? And how do these events affect their ideas about freedom?
Martin Armstrong, once a US based trillion dollar financial advisor, used the number PI to predict economic turning points with precision. When some big NY bankers asked him to join “the club” to take over Russia, he refused to join. A few days later the FBI stormed his offices accusing him of a 3 billion dollar Ponzi Scheme - an attempt to stop him talking about the real Ponzi Scheme of debts that the US has build up over the years and which he thinks starts to collapse after October 1, 2015, a mayor PI turning point he has forecasted.
Hester Overmars
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Marcus Vetter
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SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2
PRODUCTION Zuidenwind Filmproductions Joost Seelen
1217 ZL Hilversum
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: KRO-NCRV Television – The
The Netherlands
Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Marcus Vetter Filmperspektive GmbH
PRODUCTION TV Plus Michael Heiks
Sickstr. 36
Eikon
70190 Stuttgart
Ulli Pfau
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION: C-FILMS AG – Switzerland
tel: 7071368163 www.filmperspektive.de Marcus.Vetter@t-online.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SWR – Germany, NDR – Germany, ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany
Martin Armstrong developed a computer model based on number pi to predict economy. Now his model is forecasting the world debt markets starting to collapse after October 1, 2015. 150
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A Forgotten Crime
Foucault Against Himself
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Farsi/English/German Subtitles: English
France, 2013 color, video, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Foucault Contre Lui-même François Caillat
Remmelt Lukkien, Elli Safari
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During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) Saddam Hussein bombarded Iran with chemical weapons, while the world looked on without interfering. In A Forgotten Crime political and military leaders, medical experts and contaminated people relate how this drama was experienced in isolated Iran. The film irresistibly drags the viewer into the ever increasing humanitarian, military and political drama of this chemical warfare, which has determined Iran’s position in the international political arena until this very day. Former UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar and Joost Hiltermann, author of A Poisonous Affair provide additional information. Contains unique archive material. Mostly filmed in Iran.
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PRODUCTION Lasso Film & TV Production Remmelt Lukkien
Louise Wentstraat 268
Kino Safari
1018MS Amsterdam
Elli Safari
Michel Foucault died in June 1984. He left behind a legendary work that has been translated into all the languages of the world, and that has been the subject of a thousand interpretations. The man was much like his work: complex and contradictory. Our film mirrors all the facets of his hectic life.
SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films 25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas
PRODUCTION the factory productions Frank Eskenazi CO-PRODUCTION: INA – France
The Netherlands
France
tel: +31 20 6383930
tel: +33 4 75943467
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France,
www.lassofilm.nl
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TV5 Monde – France
lassofilm@gmail.com
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How the international community let Saddam Hussein bomb Iran with chemical weapons for 5 years without interfering, and how this humanitarian drama made a lasting impression on the Iranians. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Franco’s Promise
Freak Out!
France / Spain, 2014 color / black and white, video, 123’ Original Language: Spanish/French Subtitles: Spanish/French/English
Germany / Sweden / England / Norway / Denmark, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 58’/86’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: French/English/German
La promesse de Franco Marc Weymuller
Carl Javér
www..letempestaire.asso.st/Letempestaire/ La_Promesse_de_Franco.html
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Belchite, Aragon, is an emblematic town of te collective amnesia that struck Spain after the civil war. Today, the injured memory of the population is getting lost among the ruins of the old village, destroyed after the fratricidal fightings of the civil war and the streets of the new village, built by Franco.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Siméon Faites un Voeu
PRODUCTION Les Films de L’Avalee Simon Gillet
14 rue de Mutzig
Faites un Voeu
67000 Strasbourg
Catherine Siméon
France
CO-PRODUCTION: Pantalla Partida – Spain
tel: + 33 9 54 32 51 42 www..faitesunvoeu.fr catherine.simeon@faitesunvoeu.fr
Long-haired barefoot people. Free love! Veganism! Experiments with drugs… The sixties, right? Not quite. Over a hundred years ago just outside the little village Ascona, in southern Switzerland, the alternative movement was born. This is their forgotten story. Freak Out! tells the untold story of a group of middleclass kids who in 1900 revolted against their time and started the original alternative community. A community based on veganism, feminism, pacifism and free love. Soon it attracted most of Europe’s cultural radicals. Through their eyes we unfold the uncanny similarities between our time and what they revolted against in the early 20th century.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION Vilda Bomben Film AB Fredrik Lange
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Germany
– Germany,
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Filmgate Films – Sweden,
www.deckert-distribution.com
Final Cut for Real – Denmark,
info@deckert-distribution.com
Hallum og Jensen AS – Norway INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: MDR – Germany, ARTE France – France, SVT – Sweden, DR – Denmark, YLE – Finland
Belchite, Spain - the lost village. When the last living witness of Franco is gone, will the civil war finally come to an end? 154
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Freedom is our Business
A French Laundry
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 30’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English/Dutch
France, 2014 color, video, 45’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Hannes Koch (23) and Benny Schaschek (27) decided after a master class audio engineering in Australia to buy a Sailboat instead of flying back to Germany. Their mission sail back to Germany and record a CD with local musicians. After 40. 000 km and recordings in over 20 countries around the world, they discovered that people liked what they were doing. So decided to make their dream business. The documentary follows them in Jamaica and tries to find out what freedom exactly means in the eyes of this new generation of youngsters.
Somewhere In the French Riviera, François patiently irons a shirt with some seasoned material from his laundry. He makes slow yet confident gestures. From every standing point, his store seems to wear its history on its walls. It won’t be long until François (currently 89 y. o. ) quits what he’s been doing forever, thus putting an end to a daily routine that has lasted for 45 years in his shop. As he’s fronting this prospect of oblivion, his face shows nothing but bleakness.
Blanchisserie de France Elisabeth Vogler
Marc van Fucht
nvt
Morbid Eye Pictures
PRODUCTION Morbid Eye Pictures Marc van Fucht
Linnaeuskade 8-2hg 109 BD Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6944448 morbideye.com
SALES / CONTACT: Prune Allain-Bonsergent
PRODUCTION Laurent Rochette
7 passage Gustave Lepeu 75011 Paris France tel: +33 6 82555935 prune.allain@gmail.com
marc@morbideye.nl
Two young German students buy a sailing boat on Ebay and sail back from Australia to Germany and record songs in every country they encounter. Their freedom becomes their business. 156
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François, a 90 years old man, is working in his dilapidated laundry in south of France. It won’t be long until François quits what he’s been doing forever. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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From Caligari to Hitler
From My Syrian Room
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, video, 113’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Syria / Lebanon / Germany / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: English/ French/Arabic/German Subtitles: English
Von Caligari zu Hitler Rüdiger Suchsland
Hazem Alhamwi
www.caligarihitler.net
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„Metropolis“, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, M, “Nosferatu“, „People on Sunday“, all rank among the most influential films of European Cinema. From Caligari to Hitler tells the story of early German Cinema as the story of social and cultural upheaval in the first republic, between 1918 and 1933. Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the groundbraking book “From Caligari to Hitler” on this “Weimar Cinema”, is a central figure, as is Fritz Lang, the most versatile of all Weimar directors. An entertaining rollercoaster-trip to the best period of German cinema and into the abyss of German subconscioussness.
SALES / CONTACT: Martina Haubrich LOOKS Filmproduktionen Luetzowufer 1
PRODUCTION LOOKS Filmproduktionen Martina Haubrich
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION Cosmographe Productions Nathalie Combe
04103 Leipzig
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Syria,
tel: +49303230600
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haubrich@looksfilm.tv
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10785 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE/ZDF – Germany
How can you keep your humanity in a country where you’re educated to erase in yourself any singularity? In his early years, the Syrian painter and filmmaker Hazem Alhamwi felt free by drawing ob-sessively in his own room. When the Revolution started, he was unable to face this terror immediately. Through his memories, he tells about the will of freedom of a whole country.
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How can one become a free and responsible person when he’s been educated to remain a little soldier of the Assad’s Regime?
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The Future Is Ours
Gabriel Reports the World Cup
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
Die Zukunft Gehört Uns Marisa Middleton
Gabriel Verslaat het WK Els van Driel
http://indifilm.de/realisiert/projekte/
http://mensjesrechten.nl
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A story of two seniors who found a second love at the age of 70 and 68. Both did not expect this and would like to enjoy the new feeling. But a new love also means dealing with new challenges.
SALES / CONTACT: Arek Gielnik Indi Film GmbH Talstraße 41 70188 Stuttgart
PRODUCTION Indi Film GmbH Arek Gielnik INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SWR – Germany
Germany tel: +49 711 99797767 www.indifilm.de stuttgart@indifilm.de
Because of the 2014 World Cup, the life of the Brazilian Gabriël is turned upside down. A new rail line is being developed straight through his neighbourhood. Houses are being demolished, entire families are forced to move and even the children’s local football pitch will soon disappear. For Gabriël this is a nightmare. Gabriël is angry at the inequality in his city and puts self-made footage of bulldozers tearing down his neighbourhood on a blog. By becoming a journalist he tries to stand up for his rights.
SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON
PRODUCTION IKON Anouk Donker
Oude Amersfoortseweg 79 1213AC Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6474208 www.omroep.nl/ikon anouk.donker@ikon.nl
The Future is Ours accompanies an aging young love from moving in together to the daily routine, looking closely at the conflicts that emerge in the couple’s social environment. 160
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Garden Lovers
Garnet’s Gold
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/72’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’ Original Language: English
The film peeks behind the pretty facades of middle class life as the protagonists tell their stories about relationships, love and disappointment. The scenes of action are their gardens, which offer an unorthodox point of view to the hopes and anxieties people have in our society.
Twenty years ago Garnet Frost escaped London and headed into the desolate Scottish wilderness. When disaster struck, he found himself trapped near the mysterious Loch Arkaig. He was saved and since then has been haunted by a memento from his doomed trip: an unusual wooden staff he found, believed to be a marker for one of history’s most famous lost treasures – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s spectacular fortune. Garnet’s Gold is more than a fascinating historical insight into a lost treasure: it’s a journey into the mind of a man searching for meaning, about dreams, inspiration and the resonating power of hope.
Virpi Suutari
Ed Perkins
http://garnetsgold.com/
http://autlookfilms.com/film/149/
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14
PRODUCTION MADE Ulla Simonen
1070 Vienna
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland,
Austria
Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany,
tel: +43720346934
RTS – Switzerland
www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
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SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Simon Chinn INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BBC – England
18 Levontin St. 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il
Follow one extraordinary man’s quixotic and recklessly brave adventure in search of hidden treasure, in a belated rite of passage to rediscover the meaning of his life.
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Garwin
Gas Leaks
USA, 2014 color/color / black and white, HDcam, 67’/57’ Original Language: English
Chile, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/French
Escapes de Gas Bruno Salas
Richard Breyer, Anand Kamalakar
www..garwinthemovie.com
http://escapesdegas.cl/
A feature length documentary film about a scientist who is behind many important inventions, including the hydrogen bomb and the touch screen. Richard Garwin has advised every president since Eisenhower to Obama. He was part of an elite group of scientists who were asked to help fix the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and find solutions to contain the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
SALES / CONTACT: David Hooper Espresso TV
PRODUCTION W&B Productions Richard Breyer
25 York Villas
Trilok Fusion Media
BN1 3TS Brighton
Anand Kamalakar
England
Chile, 1972. During Salvador Allende’s Government the building in which the Third Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD III) would take place, was built in a record time of 275 days. Gas Leaks delves into the convergence of 34 artists convoked to integrate their art to the building’s architecture, and what would later become of these pieces in Chilean history.
SALES / CONTACT: Bruno Salas TRAMPA films
PRODUCTION TRAMPA films Bruno Salas
Monjitas 658 8320104 Santiago Chile
tel: 441273730929
tel: +56 2 2934 9382
www.espressotv.co.uk
www.trampa.cl
ronja@espressotv.co.uk,
bsalas@trampa.cl
SALES / CONTACT: Anand Kamalakar Trilok Fusion Media
Garwin is a feature length documentary about a scientist who shaped history.
138 South Oxford Street, 2b 11217 Brooklyn USA tel: 011-7183980333 trilokfusionmedia.com anandk@trilokfusion.com
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The Gas Weapon
Gay Meets Girl
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Swedish/ English/Russian/Ukranian Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2013 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English
Een Man Weet Niet Wat Hij Mist Tim Besten, Nicolaas Veul
Alex Shiriaieff
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En route to Ukraine on a journey to investigate the role of gas in Russia’s expansive foreign policy, director Alex Shiriaieff unexpectedly found himself in the middle of the Euromaidan protests. The emotions on the barricades in central Kiev formed a stark contrast to the cold calculations of energy superpower Russia, striving to keep a firm grip over its most important neighbor, Ukraine. This offered a new sense of urgency to the film, it offered a David vs. Goliath dimension. Or, if you wish, a Gas vs. Euromaidan dimension.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig
PRODUCTION Dixit International AB Malcolm Dixelius INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden
Germany tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
The film offers a factual background to the complicated relations between Russia and Ukraine and exclusive, emotional footage from the dramatic events during the last winter in Ukraine’s capital. 166
Friends and filmmakers Tim (26) and Nicolaas (29) go searching for the boundaries of their own sexuality. They’re both gay, at least, they think so. Tim decides to step outside his box and tries, for the first time in his life, to have sex with a woman. Through this experiment Tim wants to find out what the boundaries of his sexuality are. They ponder their own sexuality in the documentary, and how it is defined. When they find a girl, the guys travel to Paris, where she lives. Are the boundaries of Tim’s sexuality really as fixed as he always assumed?
SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films
PRODUCTION VPRO Karen Dijk
P.O. Box 15703
Madeleine Somer
1001 NE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4040707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
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Genetic Me
Genoveva
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English
Chile, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 68’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Pernille Rose Grønkjær
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Our main character, Lone Frank, wants to know how the advent of personal genetics will change our individual view of ourselves and affect our understanding of human nature, the understanding of your own personality. Lone comes with a rather un-agreeable personality herself, that has given her many problems through life and she is determined to change personality – she simply wants to become someone else. To find out how to change, she has herself psychologically tested and she gets relevant genes mapped out. Lone believes solely in biology and believes that the solution lies in knowledge of your brain and genes.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation
PRODUCTION Katrine Sahlstrøm
Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
SALES / CONTACT: Paola Castillo Errante Producciones
PRODUCTION Errante Producciones Paola Castillo
Holanda 3634 7790765 Santiago Chile tel: +56 2 22092628 www.errante.cl pcastillo@errante.cl
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This documentary film takes us on a journey into the new genetics of human psychology and behavior. It takes the format of a personal quest.
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Genoveva brings together family memories and associations concerning discrimination towards indigenous people. A picture of an elderly mapuche great-grandmother that nobody knows is the starting point for this documentary essay. Through the analysis of that image, speaking with family members, a trip to the towns of southern Chile, and an actress stages the photo, we see the existing prejudice against indigenous people. It is a story about how the image creates reality and the importance to recognize our mestiza identity.
The search for my long lost great-grandmother, who was “Mapuche”, orchestrates a story that links family memories with prejudices behind contemporary images of indigenous people. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Georgica
A Gesar Bard’s Tale
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Finland / China, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/82’ Original Language: Tibetan Subtitles: English
We float above the plains of the Flevopolder, the last reclamation project of the Dutch government. We see how various farmers carry out their occupations in that ordered landscape. Over two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Vergilius wrote an ode to farming and to life in the countryside: Georgica. Some things have remained the same: the seasons, the ground has to be ploughed, the weather, the sounds of the birds. However, when the farmers hear the old texts, they spontaneously conjure up stories on what has changed, about the influence of the food industry, about contemporary regulations.
As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad. At 13 his life changed. Through a series of visions, Dawa received the gift of reciting Tibet’s King Gesar epic story. Thousands of verses of the world’s longest epic started pouring out of the nomad boy, who would go on to becoming a famous Gesar bard.
Katelijne Schrama
Donagh Coleman, Lharigtso Tibet
www.gesarbarddoc.com
SALES / CONTACT: Digna Sinke SNG Film Van Hallstraat 52 -2h 1051 HH Amsterdam
PRODUCTION SNG Film Digna Sinke INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BOS – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
Finland not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION Illume Oy Jouko Aaltonen
333 West 39th St. Suite 503
Jenny Timonen
10018 New York
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland
USA
tel: +31 20 6867837
tel: 001 212 629 6880
www.sngfilm.nl
alivemindcinema.com
info@sngfilm.nl
elizabeth@kinolorber.com
Over two thousand years ago, Vergilius wrote an ode to farming: Georgica. Is there something to be found for a farmer in Flevoland that has not lost its relevancy? 170
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Ghosts from the Past
Giovanni and the Water Ballet
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 17’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
In solitary confinement of a prison Viggo wonders why he developed from a sensitive little boy into a merciless criminal. He decides to give up his criminal existence for good and dives into his past to avoid making the very same mistakes a second time. Viggo realises that the damage he suffered because of his family might jeopardise his new life. His quest, in which he drags his two sister, leads to painful confrontations with their past and also with one another. The secrets of their incestuous family and manipulative father are unravelled little by little.
Ten-year old Giovanni has a dream: he wants to compete in the Dutch Synchronized Swimming Championships. Because his chosen field is viewed as typically one for girls, not everybody is as understanding as they could be. But Giovanni runs his own race and Kim, his (girl)friend does get what he is trying to do. When they are alone they chat about the future. Will Giovanni be able to take advantage of Kim’s support and make it to the Championships?
Spoken van Viggo Cinta Forger, Walther Grotenhuis
Giovanni en het Waterballet Astrid Bussink
www.windmillfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Annemiek van der Hell Windmill Film BV
PRODUCTION Windmill Film BV Annemiek van der Hell
Moreelsestraat 2 1071 BK Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 6 53148543 annemiek@windmillfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Hasse van Nunen Een van de jongens De Kempenaerstraat 11B
PRODUCTION Een van de jongens Renko Douze Hasse van Nunen
1051 CJ Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 8943628 www.eenvandejongens.nl info@eenvandejongens.nl
Ex-criminal Viggo decides to make a clean sweep of his past. His quest, together with his two sisters, leads to confrontations because of the secrets surfacing from their incestuous family members. 172
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God Is Not Working On Sunday, Eh!
Gitanistan: The imaginary State of Salento-Gyspy families
Gitanistan: Lo Stato Immaginario delle Famiglie Rom-Salentine Pierluigi De Donno
Leona Goldstein
Italy / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 65’ Original Language: Romany/Italian Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color, video, 82’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English
Oronzo Rinaldi, son of Giuseppe Rinaldi called “The Gypsy”, is a butcher. Born horse trader, then become a butcher. In the 70s his family traded about 300 horses every week. Claudio Giagnotti called “The Horse”, grandson of Oronzo Rinaldi, is a musician and music producer known and appreciated in Salento and the Mediterranean. Son of a Gypsy woman and an Italian, he feels 50% Gypsy. Gitanistan come into the houses of Gyspsy families in Salento, South of Italy, discovering the history of a merger and an interaction.
Despite their divided histories, the women are struggling for a common goal: reconciliation, equal rights and political empowerment. Godelieve and Florida represent thousands of women who, without financial means or any specific education, have managed to build a vibrant, independent women’s network. Today they play a decisive part in reconstructing their communities, reconciling relationships, and driving social change. Rwandans cannot simply wait for other forces – godly or governmental. They see themselves as the only guarantors of a better present and better future.
www..gitanistan.com
www.godisnotworkingonsunday.org
SALES / CONTACT: Pierluigi De Donno Maxman
PRODUCTION Maxman coop Paolo Marzoni
Via Delle Drapperie 8 40124 Bologna
CO-PRODUCTION: FREIM – Italy,
Italy
Dilinò – Italy,
tel: +39 32 77933467
Apulia Film Commission – Italy,
www.maxmancoop.net
Cineteca di Bologna – Italy
pdedonno@maxmancoop.net
QA story of butchers and horse traders. Two circles meet, farmers and Gypsies, interacting and merging in new families: The GypsySalento families.
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PRODUCTION Veronika Janatkova
Sonnenallee 65 12045 Berlin Germany tel: +4915784740921 beruveru@gmail.com
Women organizing collectively to drive social change in the Rwanda of today.
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The Gold Spinners
Good Things Await
Estonia / Finland / Russia / Latvia, 2014 color / black and white, 35mm, 72’ Original Language: Estonian/ Russian/Finnish Subtitles: Estonian/English/Russian
Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’/58’ Original Language: German/Danish/English Subtitles: English
The Gold Spinners is a story about the birth, glory, and disappearance of a peculiar, invisible, and mighty business empire – the film studio Eesti Reklaamfilm, the only company producing commercials in the Soviet Union. It might have been born in the head of one man, but during its heyday, the studio provided employment for hundreds of people and its clips won the hearts of millions. All this took place in the „socialist empire“, under the conditions of planned economy and universal lack of everything.
Niels is 79 years old and one of the last idealistic farmers in the agricultural country of Denmark. He makes some of the world’s finest products, praised by the consumers, prized by the world’s best restaurant, NOMA in Copenhagen, and nursed in harmony with the universe. But Niels’ ways of farming in accordance with the planets and the primal instincts of the animals are not too popular with the authorities. They are threatening to withdraw his license to keep cattle, the buildings are deteriorating, and with no successor to take over, Niels risks seeing his life fall apart.
Kullaketrajad Kiur Aarma, Hardi Volmer
Bondemanden Phie Ambo
SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandar Govedarica Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION Traumfabrik Kiur Aarma
7 Granard Business Centre NW7 2DQ London England tel: +387 66 405623 www.taskovskifilms.com festivals@taskovskifilms.com
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Danish Documentary Malene Flindt Pedersen
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION: Vintage Pictures – Iceland
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark,
http://catndocs.com/index.html
SVT – Sweden,
cat@catndocs.com
RUV – Iceland, VPRO – The Netherlands, Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation – The Netherlands
The Gold Spinners is a story about the birth, glory, and disappearance of a peculiar, invisible, and mighty business empire.
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With the help of microorganisms and planets, he makes some of the world’s finest products.
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Goodbye Gauley Mountain
Google and the World Brain
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’/54’ Original Language: English
England / Spain, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English
Stephens and Sprinkle, two ecosexuals in love, raise performance art hell in West Virginia to help save the region from mountaintop removal destruction. This film, chronicles their love, activism, and struggle to save their family home, climaxing with their wedding to the Appalachian Mountains.
Accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and behind closed doors, Google has been executing a project to scan and digitize every printed word on the planet. However a diverse coalition of people mobilizes to stop the fulfillment of this ambitious dream as it uncovers a high-stakes multinational heist.
Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens
Ben Lewis
http://goodbyegauleymountain.org/
SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION Beth Stephens
333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York USA tel: 001 212 629 6880
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Polar Star Films S.L. Carles Brugueras
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358
alivemindcinema.com
www.filmstransit.com
elizabeth@kinolorber.com
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Stephens and Sprinkle are two ecosexuals in love. This film, chronicles their love, activism, and struggle to save their family home, climaxing with their wedding to the Appalachian Mountains. 178
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Greece: Days of Change
The Ground Beneath Their Feet
Greece, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Greek Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 72’ Original Language: Urdu Subtitles: English
In times of recession here is a portrait of three Greeks trying to take their destiny in their own hands. We follow Giorgos finding the strength to overcome his difficulties and put his life back together. Then, Grigoris’ family as it seeks a better quality of life leaving the city. Finally, meet the activist volunteer group behind the “potato movement”, Ilias, as their activities impact the society as a whole by challenging the commercial foods supply chain and practicing solidarity and direct democracy. As the economic crisis lingers and deepens, we may see the necessity for initiatives like in Greece.
The Ground Beneath Their Feet tells the story of two young women who are paralyzed when a devastating earthquake strikes the north of Pakistan. Khalida and Ruqiya have not only lost the use of their legs, but also their place in society as their disability will not allow them to fulfill their culture role of becoming wives and mothers. What does this mean for their future? We follow their journey over the course of fives years as they struggle with their physical and emotional recovery, and redefine what it means to be a woman in the Muslim world.
Elena Zervopoulou
Nausheen Dadabhoy
www.onevibefilms.com
www.thegroundbeneaththeirfeet.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
PRODUCTION One Vibe Films S.r.l. Elena Zervopoulou
SALES / CONTACT: Nausheen Dadabhoy DadaGirl Films
PRODUCTION DadaGirl Films Nausheen Dadabhoy
511 S. Woodland St. 92869 Orange USA tel: +92 321 208 2861 www.dadagirlfilms.com ndadabhoy@gmail.com
Paralyzed in an earthquake two Pakistani girls must redefine what it means to be a woman in the Muslim world. 180
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Guidelines
H2Omx
Canada, 2013 color, HDcam, 76’ Original Language: English
Mexico, 2013 color, video, 82’/51’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
La Marche à Suivre Jean-Francois Caissy
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José Cohen
www.nfb.ca
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Guidelines explores the world of adolescence through a series of tableaux that illustrate the occasionally trying existence of young people at a rural secondary school. During closeddoor meetings, the teens interact with various authority figures whose job it is to “set them straight. ” Outside classroom hours, though, they regain control of their world, the natural surroundings becoming a playground where they can test the limits of their temporary freedom. A work of patient observation relying mostly on uninterrupted long takes, Guidelines emphasizes the contrasts between the regulated environment of the classroom and the beckoning freedom of the great outdoors, gradually revealing the interior drama of adolescence, with its shifts from fragility to reckless abandon. The result is an original yet universal portrayal of a sometimes overwhelming life journey that we all take.
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SALES / CONTACT: Chanelle Routhier National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Johanne Bergeron
3155 Cote-de-liesse Road H4N2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1 514496 0693
Can a mega-city mobilize its’ 22 million citizens to become water sustainable? Mexico City was built not near water but in the middle of a lake. To supply it with fresh water is such a task that it makes it compulsory to bring it from other states. In addition once sewage water leaves the city it ends up in agriculture. This film is an environmental case study of the Valley of Mexico as it struggles to save itself while its population grows.
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14
PRODUCTION Cactus Film and Video José Cohen Alejandra Liceaga
1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43720346934
www.nfb.ca
www.autlookfilms.com
c.routhier@nfb.ca
andrea@autlookfilms.com
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Youth
Haga Palace - A Royal Home
Haiduc
Sweden, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: English
Haga Slott - ett Kungligt Hem Sara Bull
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A unique film about Haga Palace in Stockholm, the home of the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, her husband Prince Daniel, and their daughter Princess Estelle. This is the first time the Crown Princess admits a TV team into her home, and they were able to follow the family for a whole year. The result is an interesting documentary about Haga Palace’s exciting history, as well as an insight into what it means to be member of a Royal family today. In the film old archive footage is intertwined with newly made interviews with the Crown Princess and her family.
SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
PRODUCTION SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
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His nickname Haiduc means gangster and it matches Nicu’s tough character. He lives in a rough world; he ran away from home aged seven, spent years literally underground, in the sewers of Bucharest, and is addicted to drugs. Now he lives with Raluca. She keeps an eye on the boys that, just like Nicu, came from the streets. He has a bed and is given meals. But the drugs have all but ruined his body and he has to decide: stop or become even sicker.
SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON
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Nicu spent years underground, in the sewers of Bucharest. Luckily he found a home. But he is still addicted to drugs. He has to decide: stop or become even sicker. 184
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A Haircut Story
Happy Valley
Cyprus, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: English/Greek Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 88’
In March 2013, Cyprus became the first Eurozone member state to be subjected to a bail-in on deposits, as a means to rescue the island’s problematic banks. Depositors of the two largest banks of the island experienced a dramatic haircut of their life savings. In this documentary, seven stories emerge from the black hole of the banks.
The town of State College, home of Penn State University, lies at the heart of an area long known as Happy Valley. Its iconic figure for more than 40 years was Joe Paterno, head coach of the school’s famous football team, known affectionately as “Saint Joe. ” But in November 2011, everything came crashing down on Paterno and Penn State. Former Assistant Coach, Jerry Sandusky, was charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse. Filmed over the year following Sandusky’s arrest, Happy Valley chronicles the ensuing media firestorm.
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Amir Bar-Lev
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SALES / CONTACT: Danae Stylianou Greenroom Productions
PRODUCTION Greenroom Productions Danae Stylianou
P.O.Box 51961 3509 Limassol Cyprus tel: 00357 25 354810 sharinganisland@gmail.com
Seven stories emerge from the black hole of the banks, one year after Cyprus became the first Eurozone member state to be subjected to a bail-in on deposits.
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Java Films
John Battsek
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Passion Pictures
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
John Battsek
France tel: 0034 634 869 646 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.fr
This is the story of the paedophile scandal that rocked America in the town of State College, home of Penn State University, in an area called Happy Valley. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Harder They Fall
Heaven Adores You
France, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 104’ Original Language: English
Worth an estimated €350 - €450 billion, sports is the undisputed king of entertainment, an ever expanding business untouched by economic crisis. But as the revenue generated increases, so too does the price demanded of high-level athletes. More and more events, matches and competitions to keep the public and their sponsors satisfied, fill the coffers of club owners, and boost profits for television networks. Eager for achievements, records and rankings, the sports industry has become a well-oiled grinding machine. Countless champions end up physically and psychologically broken by the hellish pace of the sporting calendar. . .
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith (1969-2003). By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in — Portland, New York City, Los Angeles — Heaven Adores You presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer’s prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.
Sport: le Revers de la Médaille Xavier Deleu, Yonathan Kellerman
Nickolas Rossi
heavenadoresyou.com
SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films
PRODUCTION YUZU Productions Fabrice Esteve
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Découpages
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Ségolène Fossard
France tel: 0034 634 869 646 www.javafilms.fr
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PRODUCTION Heaven Adores You LLC Jeremiah Gurzi
673 Oak Street, #1
Kevin Moyer
94117 San Francisco
Nickolas Rossi
USA
Marc Smolowitz
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Hip Hop-eration
Home
New Zealand, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
These senior citizens may each be almost a century young, but for Kara, (94) Maynie (95) and Terri (93) the journey to Las Vegas and the World Hip Hop Dance Championships is just the beginning of a life’s journey. Along with twenty-seven other nonagenarians, they defy the odds and hip-hop their way into the hearts and minds of young fans from around the world as they learn to throw away their wheelchairs and walking sticks and push their bodies and artificial joints to the absolute limits of old age. “You’re all going …even if its in an urn”
Forced to leave his home for another country, Cyriaque Kouenou has ended up in a surreal no-man’s-land. As a fugitive, Cyriaque, has been wandering from derelict churches to abandoned buildings, never sure of when to pack his belongings. Not able to return to Ivory Coast or stay in the Netherlands he’s forced to continue his Odyssey. Ramon Gieling follows Cyriaque during his performances as a musician and tries to fathom the African mystic and hermit. Like a filmscore his music echoes through no-man’s-land.
Bryn Evans
Ramón Gieling
www.inkubator.co.nz
www.pvhfilm.nl/home
SALES / CONTACT: Alex Lee Inkubator Limited
PRODUCTION Inkubator Limited Paula Jones
Suite 2:3, 72 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden 1024 Auckland New Zealand tel: +64 9 3600222 www.inkubator.co.nz alexlee@inkubator.co.nz
SALES / CONTACT: Pieter van Huystee Big Pete
PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39 1015 NA Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 421 0606 www.pvhfilm.nl pieter@pvhfilm.nl
A fugitive coping with his surreal circumstances. Not allowed to stay and not able to return to his home. You’re never too old to go on the journey of a lifetime! A troupe of courageous cheeky senior citizens head to Las Vegas to perform at the World Hip Hop Championships. 190
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The Homestretch
The Hospice
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’
South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 109’/54’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
Kasey, Anthony and Roque are smart, ambitious Chicago teens. Like many their age, they struggle to keep their grades up so they can graduate from high school. What sets them apart from others is that after the school day ends, they don’t go home. Instead, they spend their nights looking for a warm, safe place to sleep. They’re among the 19,000 homeless students in Chicago public schools, and like so many, they’ve fallen victim to issues of juvenile justice, immigration, foster care and discrimination.
This film is set in a hospice located outskirts of Seoul, where terminal patients who cannot find any more hope come to finalise their lives. On average, a patient spends his or her last 21 days in the hospice, trying to make the most out of what remains of life and preparing for a peaceful death. Some succeed in spending quality time with their beloved, but others keep struggling against the reality of their imminent death. The film invites the audiences to the hospice and offers a unique opportunity to observe the patients and how they deal with death.
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Chang-Jae Lee
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SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films
PRODUCTION Spargel Productions, LLC Kirsten Kelly
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Anne de Mare
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
CO-PRODUCTION: Kartemquin Films – USA
France tel: +34 634 869646 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.fr
SALES / CONTACT: Min-Chul Kim Documentary Airways
PRODUCTION BaekDu-DaeGan Films NagYong Choi
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Chang-Jae Lee
110-030 Seoul South Korea tel: +82 10 72190049 www.docairways.com docairways@gmail.com
Three homeless teenagers brave Cicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future. The terminal patients in a hospice near Seoul are facing imminent death. The patients and their families adopt diverse ways of coping with this unavoidable course of life. 192
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Hotel Nueva Isla
The House of Windsor: Royals & Animals
Spain / Cuba, 2014 color, 35mm, 75’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: French/English
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English
The formerly luxurious Hotel Nueva Isla, now in ruins, is a shelter for people living on the fringes of society. Jorge, a solitary government functionary retired who is losing his memory, spends his time locked up in the building until the evacuation becomes imminent.
For the first time, this film documents the extraordinary relationship between the Windsors and their animals. The revelations come courtesy of staff who cooked and cared for them. From the footman who walked the Queen’s Corgis, to the chef who cut carrots for her horses, they tell a tale of pampered palace pets - and hypocrisy. The Windsors seem to trust their pets more than most humans. For good reason: a dog’s wagging tail trumps the contrived smile of a courtier. . . and none of their horses talk to the tabloids.
Irene Gutiérrez, Javier Labrador Deulofeu
John Curtin
www.hotelnuevaisla.com
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PRODUCTION El Viaje Films
Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster Jose Alayon
Camino Viejo 61. Portal A, 1º derecha CO-PRODUCTION: 38028 Tegueste Producciones de la 5ta Avenida Spain
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tel: +34 691 814 018 lrenart@webclac.org
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Kaos Productions John Curtin
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
Don Quijote in Havana.
Pet-crazy Britain has a monarch to match. It is said the Queen’s private passions follow this order: “horses, dogs, husband and kids.” 194
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House on its Head
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy
Dom na Glowie Adam Palenta
Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
Poland, 2014 black and white, HDcam, 19’ Original Language: No dialogue
USA, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 62’ Original Language: French/English
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This unusual documentary shows the family life of Wojciech Zamecznik (1923–1967), an architect, set designer and eminent poster artist. The film was made thanks to the private archives of the artist who loved to record his family life, meetings and trips with friends. Graphic works and experimental materials, never published before, complement the documentary material. The film provides not only an interesting perspective on the artist’s everyday life, but also a rare opportunity to find out about the life in communist Poland of the 1950s.
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
PRODUCTION Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii Karolina Puchala-Rojek
Filmmaker Les Blank visits his friend and colleague Richard (Ricky) Leacock at his farm in Normandy and records conversations with him about his 70 years of filmmaking and his other passion - cooking! In the early 1960s, Leacock and others built hand-held cameras that could record synchronous sound, gaining unprecedented access to their subjects and creating a body of work that influenced the following generations of filmmakers. Clips of Ricky’s films, and his talent as raconteur bring to life the highlights of Ricky’s career and the magic moments on film that, until 1960, had never been seen.
SALES / CONTACT: Gina Leibrecht Les Blank Films
PRODUCTION Les Blank Films Les Blank
176-A Chattanooga St.
Gina Leibrecht
94114 San Francisco USA tel: 4156720245 www..ginaleibrecht.com giner@mac.com
Les Blank’s joyful and moving tribute to filmmaker Ricky Leacock as these two seminal filmmakers explore Leacock’s historical adventures in filmmaking and his other passion — cooking! 196
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I Am Here
I Am Kuba
China, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: Mandarin Subtitles: English
Norway / Germany / Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
During the summer of 2013, 12 young boys with dreams who are born after 1990 battle each other for the No. 1 spot in “Super Boys”, an “American Idol”-style TV talent show with 10 years history in China. They discover who they are and learn to love others in the process.
When the family business goes bankrupt, Kuba’s (13) and Mikolaj’s (8) parents are forced to leave Poland to work abroad. Kuba struggles with the different roles in his life, shifting from being the older brother in charge of the house and a teenager who wants to explore and hang out with his friends. By following Kuba the film tells a story that has become typical in modern Europe. It is estimated that over 100,000 Polish children are left by their parents to be raised on their own, or by aging grandparents.
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SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Oriental Companion Media Rebecca Liu
18, rue Quincampoix
Yun Zeng
75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Sant & Usant AS Tone Grøttjord
18, rue Quincampoix
Anita Rehoff Larsen
75004 Paris
Anita Rehoff Larsen
France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
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I Am Here follows the eager young hopefuls who audition for the country’s most famous televised singing competition.
MDR – Germany, TVP 2 – Poland
Kuba’s parents have left Poland to work abroad. A coming-of-age film, following Kuba (13) struggling with teenage dilemmas while taking care of his brother Mikolaj (8). 198
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I Don´t Belong Here
I Want to Be a King
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Iran, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Farsi Subtitles: English
Peter Schuster lives in an institution for mentally handicapped patients. But then things change for everyone. New housing is built enabling the mentally disabled to live next door to and among ‘normal people’. Stalenhoef follows Peter during this seven-year building process. At first Peter is delighted by the development, but this rapidly changes for him and his fellow companions, resulting in insecurity, fear and stress. Due to the financial crisis a lot of houses are not sold and Peter and his fellow residents are left to live together in an empty neighbourhood. Now, more than ever, Peter’s dreams seem unattainable.
Abbas has turned his own home to a guest house in a nomadic area of Iran. With the support of his wife and three children, he runs a successful ecotourism business. He has an ambitious dream, creating a new tribe by his own and becoming the sovereign. Therefore, he plans seriously to fulfill his dream and searching for a nomadic girl to be the queen of his tribe. Since he is Muslim, he has the right of taking more than one wife at the same time. His current wife and children are against this idea and break up with him.
Ik Hoor Hier Niet Thuis Mercedes Stalenhoef
Man mikham shah besham Mehdi Ganji
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SALES / CONTACT: Pieter van Huystee Big Pete
PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39 1015 NA Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 421 0606 www.pvhfilm.nl pieter@pvhfilm.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Mehdi Ganji
PRODUCTION DEFC - Documentary and
Experimental Film Center Ground Floor, No 116 Shokrollah
Sahar Razavi
Street, North Karegar Ave 1413673871 Tehran Iran tel: +98 21 88639437 Mehdiganji57@gmail.com
Mentally handicapped Peter trying to persue a life according to his standards.
Abbas, an Iranian ambitious job-creator, has a successful business in ecotourism with his family’s help, now he wants to remarry to promote his business, but his wife is against him. 200
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I Will Not Be Silenced
I’m Ringo
Australia, 2014 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Argentina, 2014 color, video, 106’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
In Nairobi, an Australian woman’s gang rape leads to a seven-year highly publicised court case. Victims rarely report rapes or testify against their attackers in Kenya because they fear for their lives. Much is at stake as Charlotte seeks justice against all odds. Her attackers are in detention but her life is in constant danger. Her indomitable strength and sense of outrage at the lack of rights for Kenyan women is her inspiration, and encourages many rape victims to break the silence. This is a test case for women in Kenya and those who work for law reform there.
Argentine Boxer, Oscar Natalio Bonavena, popularly known as Ringo, was murdered at the gate of a brothel in Nevada, Reno, in the USA in 1976. Ringo, who had fought with Muhammad Ali, had never lost hope of having the chance of a revenge with the American boxer. It`s still unknown how Bonavena was murdered; however, it`s well- known that he was killed by a security guard called Brymer who had been probably sent by Joe Conforte, the owner of the brothel.
Soy Ringo José Luis Nacci
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SALES / CONTACT: Georgie Eyre Off The Fence
PRODUCTION Rymer Childs Lois Harris
Herengracht 105-107
Judy Rymer
1015 BE Amsterdam The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SBS – Australia,
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SALES / CONTACT: Gabriela Aparici gapz cine srl
PRODUCTION gapz cine srl Gabriela Aparici
Lavalle 3726 1190 Buenos Aires Argentina tel: 5491154554919 www.gapzcine.com.ar gabriela@gapzcine.com.ar
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Imagined States of America
Imperfect Harmony
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English/Dutch
Les États Inventés d’Amérique Alberta Nokes
Imperfecte Harmonie Carmen Cobos
www.cobosfilms.nl
When you hear the word “America,” what springs to mind? Car culture, big business, advertising, religious fundamentalism, the consumer society, militarism, suburbia, office towers, and the technology of paranoia? Imagined States of America takes on the big American myths to get at the heart of a country that continues to fascinate the world. Inspired by the photo collages of Quebec artist Pierre Guimond, and incorporating an intricately built soundscape, the film is like a dream on the verge of a nightmare, revealing an America that’s rich in paradoxes.
SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Johanne Bergeron
3155 Cote de liesse Road
Les Films de l’Isle
H4N 2N4 Montrealq
Ian Boyd
Canada tel: +1 514 951 6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
Inspired by Pierre Guimond’s photo collages, and incorporating an intricately built soundscape, the film resembles a dream on the verge of a nightmare, revealing an America that is rich in paradoxes. 204
In Imperfect Harmony we follow Andriessen and Jansons closely, witnessing the final days of their strained relationship. With barely a week of rehearsals before the world première, they must attempt to reconcile their radically differing sensibilities. But is it possible for an austere, intuitive minimalist to compromise with a conductor steeped in a German Romantic repertoire, or will he end up playing the second fiddle? Will the concert be judged as Andriessen’s capitulation to the establishment or as a vindication of his entire career? And will they overcome their musical differences? At times the outcome is far from certain.
SALES / CONTACT: Kees Rijninks Cobos Films
PRODUCTION Cobos Films Kees Rijninks
Nicolaas Witsenkade 18-d 1017 ZS Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: AVRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31203203368 www.cobosfims.nl kr@euronet.nl
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In a Foreign Land
In Between
Spain, 2014 color, video, 72’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Israel, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English
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It is Spring of 2013 and a devastating crisis in Spain means unemployment in excess of 27%. For youngsters under 25, the figure is over 52%. The collective “Youth Without Future” denounces this forced exile to Europe and Latin America, which includes many graduates with tertiary education and professional training. They are not leaving they assert, but being thrown out.
Dana and Amit met when they were 25, they married and had 2 children. Soon after their second child, Amit turned ultra-orthodox. Dana stayed secular. They are still very much in love. Will their love be able to overcome the growing gaps between them?
Beno Le’Bena David Ofek, Neta Shoshani
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Spain not avalaible.
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SALES / CONTACT: Lina Badenes Turanga Films S.L.
PRODUCTION Turanga Films S.L. Lina Badenes
Israel, Sweden not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION
Go2Films
Miki Shalom
37/8 Issar Natanzon
My TV Communications
28004 Madrid
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TVE – Spain,
97787 Jerusalem
Lee Yardeni
Spain
Canal+ Spain – Spain
Israel
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C/ Escorial, 14-3D
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A married couple struggles when husband, Amit, turns ultra-orthodox and wife, Dana, stays secular. Will their love be able to overcome the growing gaps between them?
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In Country
In God’s Hand
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: English/Vietnamese Subtitles: English
Belgium, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 69’/56’ Original Language: German/Dutch Subtitles: English
In der Hand Gottes Peter Woditsch
Mike Attie, Meghan O’Hara
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In Country is an immersive feature documentary about a platoon of soldiers who are recreating the Vietnam War in the woods of Oregon. The question at the center of In Country is why? Why would these men – many of them combat veterans of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, still haunted by their own experiences on the frontline – try to recreate a war that so many Americans have tried to forget?
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Marienplatz 1
Mike Attie
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION: Naked Edge Films – USA
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One day they followed their vocation. As priests, they preached love relentlessly, sacrificing body and soul. But slowly, doubts started to grow. In order to keep their faith alive, they decided to leave the church, without looking back. The story of three former priests, a Belgian, an Austrian and a German; Three intimate confessions confronted with the personal view of the film director.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Sophimages Sophie Schoukens
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
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To preserve their faith, they had to leave the Church.
An immersive feature documentary about a platoon of soldiers who are recreating the Vietnam War in the woods of Oregon. 208
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In Papa’s Words
In the Dark
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Hebrew/Russian Subtitles: English
Serbia, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Serbian Subtitles: English
“My dear sweethearts, today I discovered that in spite of everything, I only have four-five months of normal life left. Starting today I will be talking to you as long as my hand can hold a pen. “ Anna (the director) was four years old when her father, Dr. Semyon Gurevich, passed away in the Soviet Union. Years later, in Israel, she finds his diary and discovers the legacy her papa wanted to pass on to his daughters after learning he had just months left of his life.
An intimate portrait of Davor, a young miner, working with his father in a coal mine in the south of Serbia. He struggles to fulfill his father’s expectations while trying to find his own way out. How much can he do when everything seems to be decided for him. The film explores the metaphor of working in the dark. It provides us with a frame through which to observe life in Serbia today, the disappearance of hope and belief in changes, the resignation with which people are approaching the new reality.
U mraku Goran Stankovic
Anna Gurevich
https://www.facebook.com/in.papas.words
www.thisandthat.rs
SALES / CONTACT: Anna Gurevich
PRODUCTION Lior Sagi
10 Weisel st. ap. 1
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: yesdoco-DBS Satellite Service
6424112 Tel-Aviv
– Israel
Israel tel: +972 52 4227224 anya.gurevich@gmail.com
SALES / CONTACT: Snezana Penev This & That Production Juzni Bulevar 126
PRODUCTION This & That Production Snezana Penev CO-PRODUCTION: Three Moons – USA
11000 Belgrade Serbia tel: +381 11 786 2930 www.thisandthat.rs snezana@thisandthat.rs
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Anna, the film’s director, finds her father’s personal diary that he kept during the last months of his life.
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Davor, a young miner, works with his father in a coal mine in Serbia. He struggles to fulfill his father’s expectations while trying to find his own way.
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India’s Daugther
An Insidious Trap
Denmark / India / England, 2014 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Hindi/English Subtitles: English
France, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
On 16th December 2012, Jyoti went to see ‘Life of Pi’ with a male friend. At 9pm, they boarded a public bus to reach home. On the bus were 6 men - a driver, conductor, and 4 male passengers. The men beat her friend unconscious and gang-raped her for an hour as the bus rode round the highways. After raping her, the men shoved an iron rod into her vagina. The youngest of the rapists (17) put his hand inside her and pulled her intestines out. The couple were thrown out of the moving bus, naked and bleeding.
From 1969 to 2001 an experimental school, invited 400 kids to sail away for many months to fully live an adventurous life. This utopia revealed to be one of the worst stories of paedophilia. A trial finally took place in 2013. The film helps us understand why silence and guilt have kept the children from denouncing their aggressor. It shows the ravages such acts have caused in their lives.
Ecole en Bateau, l’Enfance Sabordée Xavier Esnault, Réjane Varrod
Leslee Udwin
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SALES / CONTACT: Helene Aurø
PRODUCTION Assassin Films Limited
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Leslee Udwin Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark
SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films 25 route de l’Echelette
PRODUCTION Les Films du Tambour de Soie Nicole Levigne
07170 Lussas
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France Télévisions – France,
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RTS – Switzerland
tel: +45 35203957
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The rape case that shocked India and the world. The film examines the societal values and we follow the events leading up to the incident and the aftermath.
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Into the Clouds We Gaze
Invasion
Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 66’ Subtitles: English
Panama / Argentina, 2014 color, HDcam, 93’/60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Women pass through Ráda’s life as quickly as tuning meets. The only constant is his Ford Escort, which isn’t exactly in best shape but means everything to him. Ráda’s miniature world on wheels is lined in white plush, illuminated by green diodes, and loaded with a roaring exhaust. But when he leaves this small world, he runs up against harsh reality and his own limitations.
Invasion is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U. S in 1989 serves as an excuse to explore how the people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order re-define their identity and become who they are today. The Invasion of 1989 is a platform, a pretense, to talk about the perils of sovereignty, democracy and other endangered virtues of today’s ultra-capitalist world, and to explore the mechanisms through which memory is turned into history, and how our recent past shapes the identity of a new Panama.
SALES / CONTACT: Kamila Zlatusková Czech Television
Abner Benaim
PRODUCTION Ceská Televize Kamila Zlatusková
Behounská 18 65888 Brno Czech Republic tel: +420731433442 www.czech-tv.cz kamila.zlatuskova@ceskatelevize.cz
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SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil 18 Levontin St. 6511207 Tel Aviv
PRODUCTION Apertura Films Abner Benaim CO-PRODUCTION: Ajimolido Films – Argentina
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il
Following the 1989 U.S. invasion, the film explores how the Panamanians remember, transform, and often forget their past in order re-define their identity and become who they are today. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Invisible
The Invisible Friend
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 23’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 72’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Krystyna, who is almost 90, lives alone in a small flat surrounded by books and tens of copybooks which she incessantly fills with the poems that come to her mind. There would be nothing strange about it if not for the fact that Krystyna is almost entirely blind. Thanks to the help of others she can communicates her vision of the world, which does not cease to delight her. In the meantime, she is preparing for an important journey to a declamation contest where she hopes to share her poems with the audience.
Filmmaker and parson’s son Hans Busstra hoped to make a documentary about the faithful whom are not hindered by any doubt and go on with life with Jesus at their side. He found them. Ultimately however he ended up mainly with himself in front of the lense. His film about religious doubtlessness became a film about his own deep-rooted doubt in faith. Eric, a non-believing friend tells him comfortingly: ‘If Jesus truly concerns himself with you, then he will surely understand that you are searching’.
Niewidzialne Zofia Pregowska
De onzichtbare vriend Hans Busstra
www..sngfilm.nl/UK De Onzichtbare Vriend.htm
SALES / CONTACT: Zofia Pregowska
PRODUCTION Warsaw Film School Maciej Slesicki
Przechodnia 2/614 00-100 Warsaw
CO-PRODUCTION: Prego media – Poland
Poland tel: 48698242645 zofia.pregowska@pregomedia.com
SALES / CONTACT: Digna Sinke SNG Film
PRODUCTION SNG Film Digna Sinke
Van Hallstraat 52 -2h 1051 HH Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: EO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6867837 www.sngfilm.nl info@sngfilm.nl
Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude you?
Krystyna, almost entirely blind old lady, lives alone in a flat surrounded by books and tens of copybooks which she incessantly fills with the poems that come to her mind. 216
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Iraqi Odyssey
Island 36
Switzerland / Germany / United Arab Emirates, 2014 color, video, 162’ Original Language: English
Germany, 2014 color, video, 65’ Original Language: English/Arabic Subtitles: German/English
Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war, and foreign occupation of Iraq.
Berlin. A hip melting pot. It’s the place where the cool kids meet in cafes. In the middle of the Kreuzberg district is a camp – also known as the protest-camp. For one year asylum seekers have been living there in tents by choice, to take a stand against isolation of refugees. Among them is only one woman, the Sudanese Napuli – her objective: the change of asylum-law. While district residents do not want to have the refugee living in their neighborhood and politics do not meet the demands of the refugees, Napuli is always giving the occupants of the camp hope.
Insel 36 Asli Özarslan
Samir
www..autlookfilms.com/film/191/
www.insel36.de
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Samir
1070 Vienna
Werner Schweizer
Austria
CO-PRODUCTION: Coin Film – Germany
tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
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Island 36 is documenting Napulis fight for freedom, her life at the camp and illegality from her perspective. The film displays how dangerous it is for asylum-seekers to claim their human-rights. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Johan
Junior and the Swan
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 15’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English/German
Johan (12) dreams of going out and discovering the world. He decides to join a camping trip: a survival week in the woods. During the camp he finds it difficult, being the new boy, to secure his place in the group and then as night falls he suffers an attack of pitch-black homesickness. Johan fights an internal struggle to overcome his fears in order to become a valuable member of the scouting group. The documentary portrays a young adolescent struggling to leave his comfort zone.
October 1998. In the last Cold War spy trial, three US citizens were convicted of being agents for East Germany: Kurt Stand (“Junior”), his wife Theresa Squillacote (“Swan”), and James Clark (“the Professor”). The verdict ended their long careers as “Kundschafter”. Very few Americans had sympathies for Communist East Germany. Spying for it was unthinkable. Why did these three believe they were fighting for a just cause?
Junior und der Schwan Daniel Ast, Konrad Ege
Sjoerd Niekamp
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Cerutti Film Willemijn Cerutti
Sumatralaan 45
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NCRV – The Netherlands
1217 GP Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6775318 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@omroep.nl
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SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS Dasselstraße 75-77 50674 Koeln
PRODUCTION astfilm productions Daniel Ast INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RBB – Germany
Germany tel: +49 221 16819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
Johan fights an internal struggle to overcome his fears in order to become a valuable member of the scouting group. In 1998 three US Citizens are convicted of spying for East Germany. What motivations did these three agents have and why did they believe they were fighting for a just cause? 220
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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Just Gender
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 57’/90’ Original Language: English
After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. Realizing that one in 10 people is food insecure, the images they capture of squandered groceries are shocking. Just Eat It looks at our obsession with expiry dates, perfect produce and portion sizes, and reveals the core of this seemingly insignificant issue that is having devastating consequences around the globe.
Just Gender tackles the all too often misunderstood world of transgender, from common myths and misunderstandings about transgendered people, as well as the distinction between sexual orientation and gender identity. Through the stories of transgender individuals and their spouses, friends, and allies, the film explores the confusion, the isolation, and the fear felt by many transgender persons. It also reveals their growing awareness and acceptance, and ultimately their joy in blossoming comfort as transgendered persons.
www.foodwastemovie.com
George Zuber
http://http://alivemindcinema.com/justgender/
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Peg Leg Films Inc Jenny Rustemeyer
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
We all love food and devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. But we throw nearly 50% of it in the trash! 222
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SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION Buddha Dog Productions George Zuber
333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York USA tel: 001 212 629 6880 alivemindcinema.com elizabeth@kinolorber.com
Just Gender explores the diversity of persons under the broad umbrella of “transgender,” including cross dressers, gender questioning, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Just Playing with the Birds
Kamchatka - The Cure for Hatred
Switzerland, 2014 color, DCP 2K, 88’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Russia, 2014 color, video, 45’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
The water in the creekbed getting lower. At the village work is scarce, those men who emigrated are having difficulties coming back and those who dreamed of leaving no longer dare. Ezequiel, elder of the village, remembers what was the hacienda. Now his grandchildren starting to be independent and he’s seeing the deserted streets and dry fields. The wind whooshes along the streets. Farm animals are on the brink of starvation and cactus is the only source of nourishment left.
A film portrays Vechyaslav Nemyshev, a military news reporter and a writer. He is a typical representative of the generation of people badly abused by the Chechen War. And, having been there 27 times, he was not able to come back to normal life and he just ran away to Kamchatka. He was filming this “experiment on himself” for two years in hopes that he would find the answer to the question “How to get rid of the nightmare inherited from that war?”
Jugando con los pajaros Simona Canonica
Julia Mironova
www.jugandoconlospajaros.com
SALES / CONTACT: Michael Beltrami E-Motion Films
PRODUCTION E-Motion Films Michael Beltrami
Via Gratello 18 6616 Losone
CO-PRODUCTION: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –
Switzerland
Switzerland
tel: +41 91 791 65 01 e-motionfilms@bluewin.ch
SALES / CONTACT: Julia Mironova
PRODUCTION St. Petersburg Documentary
Saint-Petersburg Documentary Film Film Studio Studio
Alexey Telnov
Sizova, 25 197349 Saint-Petersburg Russia tel: +7 911 2475800 www.cinedoc.ru mironovajul@gmail.com
So close to the promised land, yet so far away. In a dusty Mexican village, even dreams of the future just seem to evaporate.
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Video-diary of Vyacheslav Nemyshev, a military news reporter who decided to quit with war and start his new life on the «End of Earth» Kamchatka.
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Katharine Hepburn, The Great Kate
Kidnapped For Christ
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’/76’ Original Language: English
USA / Dominican Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 85’/52’ Original Language: English
The Great Kate peeps behind the scenes of the golden era of Hollywood to discover exactly how and why Katherine Hepburn became one of the most famous actresses in the glamorous world of cinema. She was an intellectual outsider with a headstrong personality who embodied a completely new charismatic female on screen. Creating an image is nothing new in Hollywood, but she managed to control her own by skilfully playing with the studio system. Katharine Hepburn managed an unbelievable 60-year career, keeping an outstanding open mind, staying provocative and timeless – something that still fascinates us even today.
Every year, thousands of American teenagers are kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad on their parents’ orders. Many of these teenagers are gay or deemed ‘troubled’ and their parents hope these schools will transform them into ‘healthy Christian adults’. When young missionary, Kate Logan, learns of one of these schools, Escuela Caribe in the Dominican Republic, she sees the perfect opportunity to make a difference. Knowing nothing of their methods, and hoping to document the positive effects a place like this could have on struggling youth, she is allowed to live on campus for a summer.
Rieke Brendel, Andrew Davies
Germany, France not available.
Kate S. Logan
www..kidnappedforchrist.com
SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films
PRODUCTION Florian Film GmbH Anna Steuber
P.O. Box 15703 1001 NE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE G.E.I.E. – France
The Netherlands tel: +31204040707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION
Java Films
Paul A.Levin
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Look Closer Media Inc.
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Kate S. Logan
France tel: +34 634 869 646 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.fr
The complex tale of a film star - a woman well ahead of her time, a woman regarded as the greatest American actress since film began. Every year, parents get thousands of American teenagers kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad. Many of these teenagers are gay or deemed ‘troubled’ ...
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Killer Slope
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 108’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
France, 2014 color, video, 54’ Original Language: Hindi Subtitles: English
Geertjan Lassche
Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz
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April 2014 a Dutch expedition start to climb the Cho Oyu, the sixth mountain in the world. During earlier expeditions two Dutch died at this Himalayamountain. Filmmaker and investigative journalist Geertjan Lassche closely follows the group on their way up to top. What drives these people? How ruthless do you need to be? And are these mountain climbers really as arrogant as they seem to be? The closer the group gets to the top, the more we see all kinds of universal dilemmas in and about mountaineering. And then, after six weeks, the mountain itself turns against the climbers.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION EO Hans Van der Linden
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION: Braambos – Belgium INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: EO – The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
Filmmaker and investigative journalist Geertjan Lassche closely follows a Dutch expedition on their way up to top of the Cho Oyu.
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The Sonepur Fair in India is about to begin! Colourful multitudes cut through the dusty, sticky air as the ecstatic sound of drums fills the space. An event like no other, it’s a carnival of magical realism inhabited by exotic dancers, exorcists, stuntmen and elephant tamers. “Roll up, roll up, our circus has come to you,” cries a squeaky voice from the loudspeakers. Prepare yourself for sensory overload.
SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films
PRODUCTION Studio Shaiprod Jérôme Aglibert
25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com
The Sonepur fair in India is a gigantic carnival where each is going to give itself in representation for the pleasure of spectators in search of shivers.
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Kung Fu Elliot
Lambert & Stamp
Canada, 2013 color, video, 88’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 117’ Original Language: English/French/German
Matthew Bauckman, Jaret Belliveau
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Kung Fu Elliot tells the story of Elliot “White Lightning” Scott, an amateur martial artist who dreams of becoming Canada’s first action hero with his low-budget karate epic, Blood Fight. This surreal documentary captures two years in the lives of a passionate amateur filmmaker, his supportive partner Linda, and their outrageous cast—all trying to realize their dreams.
SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Matthew Bauckman,
Jaret Belliveau, David Eberts
611 Broadway #630 Ne... 10012 New York USA tel: 2129958139 CargoFilm-Releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
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Lambert & Stamp tells the remarkable story of Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, New Wave filmmakers from opposite sides of the tracks who set out to make an underground movie, leading them to discover, mentor and manage the iconic band known as The Who. This complex relationship, deeply tragic and brilliantly comedic, fueled the band’s development leaving an indelible imprint for generations to come. Charged with a mad concoction of noise, love and rebellion, director James D. Cooper takes us on the surprising ride and universal search examining the sensitive and frightening bonds that make it possible to create.
SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION MOTOCINEMA, INC James D. Cooper
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 72536244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, two aspiring film directors form to find a rock band for their underground movie, leading them to discover and manage the iconic band, The Who. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Last Gigolos
The Last Hour in the Sun
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 82’/54’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 22’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The last gigolos are greying, but nonetheless suave, gentlemen. They spend their golden years on cruise ships – as dancers and entertainers for solvent, lonely and amusement-hungry women of 60 years and over. Slowly, the film reveals that happiness is mainly down to everybody’s individual skill and luck. But nevertheless, they will never give up trying.
In The Last Hour in the Sun, director Suzanne Jansen portrays her brother Emile – a talented pilot – who has been looking for employment for over six years. Ever since the economic crisis, it has become very hard for graduated pilots to find a job in aviation. This film shows the origin of his passion. Flying enchanted him, it was carefree. Just how different is that feeling, years later, now his pilot’s license has expired and his student debt torments him and our parents? A documentary about letting go of expectations and the ongoing exploration which comes next.
Die Letzten Gigolos Stephan Bergmann
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Het laatste uur in de zon Suzanne Jansen
www.hetlaatsteuurindezon.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION Made in Germany Filmproduktion
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Melanie Andernach
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION: ZDF – Germany
Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF – Germany
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin. de
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Randy Vermeulen
1012KL Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 6 44042556 www.bnnz.nl randy@bnnz.nl
A young pilot can’t find a job in aviation because of the economic crisis. Now, he has to let go of his expectations and the guild he feels towards his family.
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The Last Impresario
The Last Limousine
Australia, 2013 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: English
Germany / Russia, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’/75’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
Gracie Otto
Daria Khlestkina
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A portrait of Michael White, the enfant terrible of London’s theatreland in the 70’s, the man responsible for introducing Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch to the international audiences. He challenged censorship with his hit erotic revue Oh! Calcutta!, struck gold with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and A Corus Line and produced Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Dinner with Andre, and John Waters’ Polyester. Fifty of his closest friends (including Yoko Ono, Kate Moss, Anna Wintour, John Waters and John Cleese) introduce us to one of life’s true originals. USA, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, Italy not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Wildflower Films Nicole O’Donohue
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 2536244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Faced with the relentless demise of the factory they work at, Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Luda – bosses, foremen, engineers and workers of the giant Moscow automobile plant ZIL – cling to established routines and professional pride to stay upright in a world which crumbles around them. When an order comes in for the production of three of the factory’s legendary hand-made limousines, once the center-piece of Soviet military parades on Moscow’s Red Square, Mikhail’s team of handpicked specialists throws itself at the opportunity to show what they are worth.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION Marina Razbezhkina Studios Marina Razbezhkina
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Germany
– Germany
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The most famous person you’ve never heard of.
Moscow’s legendary ZIL automobile plant receives an order for three new government limousines for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union... 234
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Last Stop
LAW not WAR
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam, 77’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 102’ Original Language: English Subtitles: German
A vast and violent labyrinth lies right in the heart of Tel Aviv. It is the Central Bus Station, Israel’s main transportation artery. Living in and around it are thousands of refugees, children of migrant workers with no identity of their own, and hard-scrabble Jewish families who feel like strangers in their homes. This labyrinth is at the center of their lives. Chaos rules in this impossible meeting place. The racism that erupted from its cellars has gotten out of control and life continues precariously, as if perched on a keg of gunpowder. A war of all against all.
Moving portrait about the last living Chief Prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials - the 94 years old Benjamin Ferencz. The film is not only a looking back to history but an actual contribution to questions of war, justice and the International Criminal Court (ICC). As a young soldier he collected evidence in the concentration camps and at the age of 27 he became Chief Prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial. Later he became a passionate fighter for the ICC, and today he embodies the continuity from Nuremberg to The Hague. Till today he is fighting for peace and law instead of war.
Tachana Sofit Julie Shles
Ullabritt Horn
www..go2films.com/Anthropology/Last-Stop
SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION
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Dana Eden
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Shula Spiegel Ltd.
97787 Jerusalem
Shula Spiegel
Israel
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Yes Docu – Israel
tel: 97225831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
Israel not available.
Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station is a perplexing labyrinth attracting mainly refugees, children of migrant workers and hard-scrabble Israelis. The portrait of the place mirrors the face of the country. 236
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PRODUCTION Ullabritt Horn
Hochstr. 23 D 90429 Nuremberg Germany tel: + 49 911 9291804 Ullabritt.Horn@t-online.de
Moving portrait of the last survivng Chief Prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials, peace activist and architect of the International Criminal Court in The Hague - the 94 year old Benjamin Ferencz. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Leninland
Lessons of Basketball and War
Russia / The Netherlands / Germany, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 56’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Askold Kurov
Ron Bourke
www.lessonsofbasketballandwar.com
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In the USSR, the cult of Lenin had replaced the Orthodox religion that Communists wanted to eliminate. At the end of Soviet era, in the village Gorky, near Moscow, the last and the most ambitious Museum of Lenin was built. In former days it had 3000 visitors per week, now it’s only 20. Today it looks like a temple of forgotten civilization, a place that has fallen out of time. But faithful to the ideas of Lenin the keepers of the museum remain. They wait for random visitors in the abandoned halls – and for the return of former times.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
PRODUCTION Ethnogeographic Research Foundation
Marienplatz 1
Vlad Ketkovich
04103 Leipzig Germany
CO-PRODUCTION: Saxonia Entertainment GmbH –
tel: +49 341 2156638
Germany
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The most ambitious Museum of Lenin was built in the USSR in 1987. Now this “Temple of the God” is still open, reflecting the situation in society and in the country.
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Lessons of Basketball and War explores universal issues of violence, cultural identity and conflict resolution as seen through the eyes of adolescent girls – refugees from war and famine in Somalia who have resettled in a strange foreign city. Will Muslim tradition and beliefs survive the onslaught of sexualized, celebrity obsessed America? Will teachers be able to help students with little previous education, rudimentary English and a propensity for an abhorrent form of personal violence? This film offers an entertaining and moving account of a year in their young lives and the challenges faced by one dedicated educator and peacemaker.
SALES / CONTACT: Ron Bourke Ron Bourke Films
PRODUCTION Ron Bourke Films Ron Bourke
11211 NW College Drive 97229 Portland, Oregon USA tel: +1 503 888 5386 www.lessonsofbasketballandwar. com rbourkefilms@hotmail.com
Somali refugee girls struggle to put the hostility and distrust of war behind them with the help of a dedicated educator and peacemaker. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Letting You Go
A Life after Trafficking
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 18’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English
Twenty-seven-year-old Sanne suffers from borderline personality disorder, chronic depression and insomnia. After nine years of intensive treatment with no positive results, she has decided she does not want to live any longer. Because she doesn’t want to traumatize anyone with her death she chooses self-euthanasia. Letting You Go is a short documentary about a psychiatric patient’s right to self-determination, the longing for peace and the biggest sacrifice a father can make out of love for his child.
Over the past years many European countries have seen a sharp increase in the number of Nigerian women involved in prostitution. The overwhelming majority of these women are victims of human trafficking. Many arrive in Europe following a horrifying journey across the African continent. Once the women arrive at their destination, the traffickers present each of them with a fictitious bill of 60,000 EURO, payable at once. Prostitution is the only possible way out of the debt. One woman who experienced this nightmare is Joy. Joy was trafficked to Denmark for prostitution.
Ik laat je gaan Kim Faber
Et Liv efter Trafficking Anja Dalhoff
iklaatjegaan.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Randy Vermeulen Bananaz Rokin 69 1012KL Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31644042556 www.bnnz.nl Randy@bnnz.nl
PRODUCTION Bananaz Anna Beerstra Randy Vermeulen
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Anja Dalhoff
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Emil Holms Kanal 20
DR Danish Broadcasting
0999 København C
Corporation – Denmark
Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
The film depicts Joy’s journey back to Nigeria, her encounter with the destitution and chaos of Lagos and how Joy establishes a new, independent life for herself and her children. 240
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Life as Gift
The Lion’s Mouth Opens
Iran, 2013 color, video, 16’ Original Language: English/Persian Subtitles: Persian/English
USA, 2014 color, video, 28’ Original Language: English
This Documentary film, recounting the memories and experiences of an Iranian woman with the heart failure who require heart transplantation which she has finally received, while depicts story of the suffering families who are donors of the organs of their lost loved one but bringing life to the others.
This verité documentary is about confronting life’s most daunting moments with purpose and grace, and about the impact of genetic bonds and genetic testing on the people we love and on how we face our destiny. Stunningly courageous young filmmaker-actress Marianna Palka gathers her friends around her as she finds out whether she has inherited Huntington’s Disease, an incurable degenerative disorder which took her father and now has a 50% chance of taking her body and her mind. Intimate, suspenseful, and emotional, The Lion’s Mouth Opens ultimately inspires us to find a new dream no matter what.
Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh
Lucy Walker
www..lucywalkerfilm.com/THELION-S-MOUTH-OPENS
SALES / CONTACT: Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh
PRODUCTION Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh
No.1703, 7th Floor, Doubral Bldg. (Armineh, Ario, Armita), Khovardin Blvd., Phase#1, Shahrak-e-Gharb 1465953111 Tehran Iran tel: +98 21 88572959 sharmin_mojtahedzadeh@yahoo.fr
The story is about the life of an Iranian woman, who has waited more than a year for a heart as a gift of life and finally received it. 242
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PRODUCTION Julian Cautherley,
Marianna Palka, Lucy Walker
10016 New York
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A courageous young Scottish actress takes the boldest step imaginable to confront her risk of having inherited the incurable Huntington’s Disease. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Little White Lie
The Look of Silence
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 66’ Original Language: English
Denmark / England / Indonesia / Norway / Finland, 2014 color, HDcam, 99’ Original Language: Indonesian Subtitles: English
Lacey Schwartz
Joshua Oppenheimer
http://littlewhiteliethefilm.com/
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Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical middleclass Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — that is until she discovers that her biological father is actually a black man with whom her mother had an affair. What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents’ stories as well as her own.
SALES / CONTACT: Lacey Schwartz Lacey Schwartz
PRODUCTION Truth Aid Mehret Mandefro
195 Plymouth St 11201 Brooklyn, NY USA tel: (646) 845-9302 littlewhitelie@truthaid.org
Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother’s murder – something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power. USA, Italy, UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Indonesia, France, Germany, The Netherlands not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil 18 Levontin St.
PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real Signe Byrge Sørensen
6511207 Tel Aviv
CO-PRODUCTION: Piraya Film AS – Sweden,
Israel
Making Movies Oy – Finland
tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il
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info@cinephil.co.il
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Love and Engineering
Love in a Straw
Finland / Bulgaria / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: English
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
Our modern way of life is largely designed by engineers. They are people who like to invent and structure technical things and who are more at ease with figures and drawings and natural science than in relations with opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian computer engineer living in Finland claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely ( and shy…) engineers find real love and real happiness? Atanas is trying to develop a scientific formula for mating and the finding of a perfect wife. He uses other engineers as his guinea pigs.
Family patterns are changing. In Denmark sperm donation can still be anonymous and the number of women from around the world travelling to the country to conceive by artificial insemination has soared. More and more single women now go on the internet to buy semen and get inseminated by a midwife in a clinic. But what motivates single women to make this choice: to become pregnant without a father to the child?
Kærlighed på strå Søs Hoffman
Tonislav Hristov
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358
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SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION DR Danish Broadcasting
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Corporation Emil Holms Kanal 20
Thomas Houkjær
0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 3520 2299
www.filmstransit.com
www.dr.dk
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In many countries around the world it is illegal, but not in Denmark: to be artificially inseminated as a single woman.
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Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship
Made in BY
England, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Italy, 2014 color, video, 52’/90’ Original Language: English/Russian Subtitles: English
Love is All is an exploration of the celluloid depiction of love and courtship through the twentieth century, Longinotto (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties) and collaborator Ollie Huddleston crafted the film entirely of archive footage, featuring some of the most iconic British cinema classics from hundreds of hours of film from the BFI archives. Set to the haunting, beautiful music of legendary musician Richard Hawley, we see the very first screen kiss, rebellious teen love, couples flirting, gay love, free love; Love is All captures the spirit of all our love experiences, young and old.
In the hearth of the civil and democratic Europe there is still a dictatorship stuck in the URSS times. Known as Europe’s Black Hole, The Ghost Country, the Republic of Belarus is an independent state on the border between two continents and two civilizations. Made in By tries to look inside Europe’s last dictatorship using the field of art as access-key to enter the belarusian society, and test how high are the limits of freedom of expression.
Kim Longinotto
Luigi Milardi
http://madeinby.net/
http://dogwoofglobal.com/films/love-is-all
SALES / CONTACT: Vesna Cudic Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Crossover Labs Mark Atkin
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row
Lone Star Productions
EC1V 3QN London
Martin Rosenbaum
England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com
SALES / CONTACT: Luigi Milardi
PRODUCTION Luigi Milardi
via di sotto, 5 65125 Pescara Italy tel: +393496096887 fiveservice@live.it
vesna@dogwoof.com
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Love is All takes us on a journey through the Twentieth century, exploring love and courtship on screen in a century of unprecedented social upheaval. 248
An insider’s look at Belarusian regime trough the eyes of its most creative citizens. Arts, literature, cinema, music and theatre: the struggle for freedom of expression in Europe’s last dictatorship. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Making of Heimat
The Malagasy Way
Germany, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 119’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Madagascar / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Malagasy Subtitles: English
Ady Gasy Nantenaina Lova
Jörg Adolph, Anja Pohl
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making-of-heimat/
Making of Heimat observes all stages in the creation of this challenging film and takes on Edgar Reitz’ point of view on filmmaking. And in his case filmmaking means a nearly four hour long afterthought of the “Young German Cinema” movement in digital cinemascope and black and white! The filmmakers strictly followed Edgar’s dictum: “Don’t do an ordinary makingof but make a film that shows how films are made!”
SALES / CONTACT: Ramona Sehr ARRI Worldsales
PRODUCTION if... Productions Ingo Fliess
Türkenstraße 89 D-80799 München Germany tel: +49 89 38091288 www.arriworldsales.de rsehr@arri.de
“The Chinese make things, the Malagasy fix them. ” Just for the time of a film, let’s reverse roles: let’s imagine it isn’t for the economists to demonstrate their growth model, but for the farmers, artists, craftsmen, and streetwise venders to showcase their skills. Some recycle tires into shoes, some make lamps from cans, some transform zebu bones into soap and medication. Welcome to Madagascar, the island where we prefer proverbs and picturesque speech rather than equations. In times of crisis, the Malagasy way of life is a mix of inventiveness, music, fraternity, and above all, a sense of creative recycling.
SALES / CONTACT: Marie-Clémence Paes Laterit Productions
PRODUCTION Endemika Films Eva Lova
9 rue de Terre Neuve
Laterit Productions
75020 Paris
Marie-Clémence Paes
France
CO-PRODUCTION: Autantic FIlms – France
tel: +33143727472 www.laterit;fr laterit@laterit.fr
In between celebration of his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto, Edgar Reitz shot his latest film – continuing the legacy of his world famous Heimat trilogy. 250
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Maldarno
Mamis: a family portait
Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Cuba / England / Spain, 2013 color, HDcam, 19’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Tayu Vlietstra
Virginia Fuentes
www..mamisdocumentary.com
The film Maldarno narrates the story of the Arno, up to the present day, describing the deep bond between Florentines and their river, which apart from being a symbol of Florence with its bridges and buildings overlooking the river, has been its lifeblood, the main means of transport and the driving force of its industries. It collects interviews and testimonies of those who are “in love” with it today. With new images it introduces the aesthetic dimension experienced by visitors and guests of the city, citizens of the world with whom the river speaks a universal language of beauty.
SALES / CONTACT: Tayu Vlietstra Fusionefilm via Pastine 23, Barberino Val d’Elsa 50021 Firenze
PRODUCTION ff Fusionefilm Tayu Vlietstra CO-PRODUCTION: Regione Toscana – Italy
Italy tel: +39 055 8075408 www.fusionefilm.net tayu@fusionefilm.net
Maldarno is a tribute to the river and the city of Florence. In the flowing of its water, dialogues and dynamics, forms between different generations, conveying its state and soul. 252
Being gay in Cuba has never been easy. Despite things have changed considerably, homosexuality remains to be a taboo. Women face the double standard of being women and gay in a very machista society - more complicated is being a lesbian mother. They don’t have access to adoption or IVF techniques. This is a story about some Cuban women who found their way. Women who never liked to ask for permission to live their lives, despite the prejudices of Cuban society. A story about families who are tired of being treated as second-class citizens.
SALES / CONTACT: Virginia Fuentes
PRODUCTION Virginia Fuentes
Calle estrella Canopus 20 p1 2c 41015 Seville Spain tel: 0034 676144735 virginiafuentescordero@gmail.com
Mamis is a story about Cuban lesbian women who decided to cut their own way. A story about families who are tired of being treated as second-class citizens. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Man who Saved the Louvre
The Man who Saved the World
France, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 90’/105’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
At the dawn of World War II, a resistance group organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces from the Louvre Museum to save it off the Nazis’ hands. The man leading the operation is Jacques Jaujard, museum’s director, using his knowledge of the system and his audacity to serve a universal cause: saving the world heritage.
The story of Lt. Colonel Stanislav E. Petrov who held the fate of the world in his hands for a few crucial minutes. When an alarm went off indicating that five American nuclear missiles had been launched against the Soviet Union, he followed his gut feeling and went against orders, convincing the armed forces that the threat was a false alarm saving the world from a nuclear holocaust. Three decades later, after his life unraveled around him, his contribution to the world today is recognized, and he embarks on a spectacular journey to save himself.
Illustre et Inconnu - Comment Jacques Jaujard a Sauve le Louvre Jean-Pierre Devillers, Pierre Pochard
Peter Anthony
www.widehouse.org
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SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House
PRODUCTION Ladybirds Films Hélène Badinter
9 rue Bleue
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France 2 – France
75009 Paris France tel: +33 153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Statement Film
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Jakob Staberg Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C
CO-PRODUCTION: WG Film AB – Sweden
Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
“We don’t choose our enemy, but we pick our fight.” Jacques Jaujard (1895-1967)
It is an epic tale about a man who is put to the ultimate test, when he has to make a decision that can change our world forever. 254
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Manislam
Maravilla
Norway, 2014 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Norwegian/ English/Arabic Subtitles: English
Argentina / USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: Spanish/English
Why does a man in Kuwait inspired by the 99 names of Allah and the Quranic stories create comics about super heroes called the 99? Why does a man in Bangladesh travel from one village to another where he teaches the community how to play a board game? Why does a man in Indonesia encourage other men wearing miniskirts in a demonstration? They all have the same target. They want to challenge the dark side of the masculinities and they want to reform Islam.
At 37 years-old, time is not on his side. Sergio ‘Marvelous’ Martinez can drop the world’s best boxers with his lightning strikes, floor the most beautiful women with his devastating looks, and has a hard-scrabble immigrant story and work ethic that make him the hero of the Latin street. But not having a powerful promoter and speak truth to power, has left him a virtual pariah in the notorious corrupt world of professional boxing. This is story of a man fighting to fight. But the clock is ticking. It may already be too late.
Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Juan Pablo Cadaveira
www.maravillamovie.com
SALES / CONTACT: Helene Aurø
PRODUCTION Integral Film AS
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Jørgen Lorentzen Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35203957 www.dr.dk heau@dr.dk
Director Nefise Lorentzen, wrestles with the male power of Islam, questioning its masculinity by introducing us to the male Muslims who are working against a Muslim patriarchy. 256
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Juan Pablo Cadaveira
125 East 87th Street, #15B
Blue Production Company
10128 New York, NY
Juan Pablo Cadaveira
USA
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tel: +1 914 450 6781
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A world champion boxer fights an unjust boxing industry to reclaim the title he rightfully owns. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Marienborn
A Match Made in Heaven
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 54’/74’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Israel, 2014 color, video, 45’/52’/75’ Original Language: Hebrew/Yiddish Subtitles: English
The village of Marienborn in Germany once was world-famous. It was the most important and most guarded border crossing of the Iron Curtain. These days, Marienborn is a quiet place. The Stasi-offices and checkpoints are boarded up; grass is growing through barbed wire. For 40 years the border determined the lives of all 500 villagers. Some acquired power and status at Stasi border control. Others simply secured a little job and kept their mouths shut. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Marienborn became a broken community amid the ruins of a fallen regime.
Dating and matchmaking in the “Haredi” (ultra-orthodox Jewish) world has always been mysterious and intriguingly different from the secular world. At a time when the institution of marriage in the modern secular world is about to go bankrupt – increasing divorce rates, infidelity, the trend of extended bachelorhood, single parenting, etc. – the question arises: where are we going wrong? And what is it about Haredi relationships that keeps them strong and stable? A Match Made in Heaven explore the world of matchmaking in the different sectors of the Haredi world and observe couples in different stages of relationships.
Shiduch mi Shamaim Natalie Ginat, Ronnie Kay, Shay Werker
Sabine König
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SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
PRODUCTION Zuidenwind Filmproductions Joost Seelen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NOS – The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Bdalak productions Natalie Ginat
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Shay Werker
8050 Zurich
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Yes Docu – Israel
Switzerland tel: +41 44 3122060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
For the first time orthodox Jews in Israel allow a camera to enter their personal lives on an intimate level, enabling us to discover the wisdom behind their way of life.
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Match Me!
McIndoe
Germany / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: German/ Finnish/English/Lithuanian Subtitles: German/English
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English
How does dating and finding love work in an era where partnerschip has been radically redefined? All people share the yearning to connect and belong with others and the hope of experiencing genuine intimacy. Our three protagonists Sarah (Austria), Johanna (Germany) and Sampsa (Finland) search for love in very different ways and show that having faith in the most unusual of methods can open up undreamt of opportunities…
This documentary follows celebrated sculptor Martin Jennings in the making of a public statue of World War II hero, Sir Archibald McIndoe. As a pioneering burns surgeon, McIndoe rebuilt the faces - and shattered lives - of hundreds of fighter pilots shot down in the Battle of Britain. One of his patients was Jennings’ own father. As the figure of Archie comes to life in the hands of the sculptor, so too does the story of this charismatic man. . . dedicated to his work, to his patients - and to living life at full tilt.
Lia Jaspers
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SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS Dasselstraße 75-77
PRODUCTION Evolution Film Production Sonja Kulkarni
50674 Koeln
CO-PRODUCTION: University of Television and Film
Germany
Munich – Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743 www.newdocs.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany,
elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
ARTE France – France
SALES / CONTACT: Paul Loman Homegrown Films
PRODUCTION Homegrown Films Paul Loman
18 Surrenden Crescent BN1 6WF Brighton England tel: +44 127 3505474 www.homegrownfilms.co.uk paul@loman.net
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Memory of Ashes
Metal Bread
Spain, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 60’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Switzerland / Kyrgyzstan / France, 2014 color, video, 45’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: French/English
Memoria de las Cenizas Mariano Agudo
Chingiz Narynov
www..3boxmedia.com/en/video/ history/memory-ashes
The spring of 2015 will be the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps of Mauthausen, Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Neuengamme. . . Places where thousands of Spanish republicans were kept prisoners. Memory of Ashes features the heartbreaking testimony of four survivors of the Nazi horror, who represent the voice of thousands of Spanish Republicans who were killed in the extermination camps. The story of these men full of ideals flows through all the great dramas of the 20th Century: misery, fascism, war, deportation, genocide, exile.
SALES / CONTACT: Valentín Romero 3boxmedia Hirschbergstr. 16 50939 Köln
PRODUCTION Intermedia Producciones S.L. Eduardo Moreno INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Canal Sur Television – Spain
Germany tel: +49 (0) 221 16924890 www.3boxmedia.com valentin@3boxmedia.com
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The town of Mailuu-Suu was built in 1945 in the south of the Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, to accommodate a processing plant for uranium mined in the area. The plant was replaced years later, when the mines were closed, by a light bulb factory. At the time, this large factory employed a third of the local population. Since the demise of the Soviet Union however, there have been massive personnel cuts on a regular basis. Tanya lost her job on the lamp factory in 2005. She was forced to find new ways of livelihood.
SALES / CONTACT: Tuba Gultekin Roche Rhizome
PRODUCTION Rhizome Samuel Aubin
2 Rue General Brulard 69003 Lyon France
CO-PRODUCTION: CityLab – Kyrgyzstan INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Lyon Capitale TV – France
tel: +33478095558 www.rhizome-production.fr production.rhizome@gmail.com
Tanya tries to find new ways of living after having lost her job in a bulb factory in Mailuu-Suu, a small town in the south of ex-Soviet Republic.
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Miners Shot Down
Mission Rape - A Tool of War
South Africa, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/86’ Original Language: Xhosa/Zulu/English Subtitles: Portugese/Spanish/ French/English/German
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Albanian/English Subtitles: English
Rehad Desai
Katia Forbert Petersen, Annette Mari Olsen
http://deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/ current-affairs-politics/miners-shot-down/
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the POV of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down, follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company, Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
PRODUCTION Uhuru Productions Rehad Desai
Marienplatz 1
Anita Khanna
04103 Leipzig Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: IKON – The Netherlands,
tel: +49 341 2156638
DR TV – Denmark,
www.deckert-distribution.com
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info@deckert-distribution.com
RTS – Switzerland, NRK – Norway
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Despite increasingly refined technology mass-rape as a tool of war is used in modern combat. 25,000 – 40,000 women were victims of mass rape during the Balkan war 1992-1995. When a woman is raped, the entire family is affected for generations to come. 20 years after these crimes only very few cases of war crimes of sexual violence have been investigated and prosecuted. For the women in the film the rapes remain a heavy, dark shadow in their lives enshrouded by taboo. For these women legal justice is the only hope to regain integrity and life.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Sfinx Film/TV ApS
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Katia Forbert Petersen Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
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Mom is Not Crazy
Money in Minutes
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/90’ Original Language: Arabic/Chinese/ Spanish/Italian/Nepalese/English Subtitles: German/French/English
Ima Lo Meshugahat Mordechai Vardi
Matthias Heeder, Monika Hielscher
www..go2films.com/Family-Socialissues/Mom-is-Not-Crazy
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Amira is mentally ill with a high risk of suicide (Borderline Personality Disorder). Married to Michael, they have four children. She is an intelligent woman, with a wide knowledge of Judaism. She feels she must reveal her secret and share it with her community in order to feel safe in the outside world. Being a religious woman makes this all the more difficult. She meets with Rabbis to try and make them understand. The film follows her struggle to stay alive, raise her children, and convince people that having a mental illness does not mean that you are crazy. Israel not available.
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SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION
Go2Films
Ami Drozd
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Veradim
97787 Jerusalem
Mordechai Vardi
Israel
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Yes Docu – Israel
tel: +972 25831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
The film tells of a lesser-acknowledged aspect of globalization: international work-related migration as the business foundation of financial service providers. According to World Bank estimates, around 420 billion US dollars circled the globe in 2013, money that is earned in the affluent North by migrant workers and sent home to their families via companies that are specialized in money transfer, like Western Union and MoneyGram. Their money transactions produce the materials that convert into profit. The film describes the incredible logistics and controversial strategies of an industry that shapes the financial infrastructure of migration, using it as an economic resource.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
PRODUCTION ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Marienplatz 1
Heino Deckert
04103 Leipzig Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WDR – Germany,
tel: +49 341 2156638
ARTE France – France,
www.deckert-distribution.com
Al Jazeera English – Qatar
info@deckert-distribution.com
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Monsoon
Monte Adentro
Canada / France, 2014 color, video, 106’ Original Language: English/ Hindi/Marathi/Assamese Subtitles: English
Colombia / Argentina, 2014 color, HDcam, 79’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
A cinematic journey into the terrain where nature, science, belief and wonder converge in one of the most astonishing and breathtaking landscapes on earth, Monsoon is a film that captures the timelessness and rich human drama of our engagement with the natural world.
Monte Adentro explores the universe of one of the last muleteer families in Colombia and follows the lives and mule train of two brothers - one living in the city, the other still in their mountain house - as they get together for an epic mule driving journey to the highest peaks of the Andes.
Sturla Gunnarsson
Nicolas Macario Alonso
www..monsoonmovie.com/
France, Canada not available.
www..monteadentrofilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil 18 Levontin St.
PRODUCTION Intuitive Pictures inc. Ina Fichman
SALES / CONTACT: Heike Maria Fischer Flor de Producciones
CO-PRODUCTION: Point du Jour – France
Velazco 1536, P.A.
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France,
Argentina
tel: +972 3 5664129 www.cinephil.co.il
CBC – Canada
www.flordeproducciones.com
6511207 Tel Aviv Israel
info@cinephil.co.il
1414 Buenos Aires tel: +54 11 48580258
PRODUCTION Flor de Producciones Heike Maria Fischer CO-PRODUCTION: Señal Colombia – Colombia INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Señal Colombia – Colombia
hmariafischer@flordeproducciones. com
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Mother of the Unborn
The Motherload
Egypt / United Arab Emirates, 2014 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
Canada, 2014 color, 16mm, 60’
In a forgotten corner of Egypt lives a woman who is yearning for a child. Having no option but to live on the fringe of her community because of her infertility, Hanan lingers between a dream that is slowly slipping away and her struggle to find a place where she belongs. While everything that surrounds her bustles with fertility and mortality, she wonders how to give meaning to the time that she has in between.
The Motherload takes an in-depth look at the daily struggle of working mothers - the current issues, challenges and triumphs that they all face. Women today are paying a heavy price physically and emotionally while trying to strike a healthy balance between work, life and raising children. The Motherload asks the question – why are women still not able to have it all? Produced for CBC’s DOC ZONE.
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Cornelia Principe
www..bei-distribution.com/tmlindex.html
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SALES / CONTACT: Maartje Alders Hassala Films
PRODUCTION Hassala Films Maartje Alders
25 Shabrawy Street PO Box 46 Rod-el-Far Cairo
CO-PRODUCTION: Albatrik Art Production and
Egypt
Cinema Services – Egypt
Breakthrough Entertainment
PRODUCTION Border City Pictures Cornelia Principe
35 Britain Street M5A 1R7 Toronto Canada
tel: +20-1005162801
tel: 416.366.6588 ext.234
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sshahin@
maartje@hassala.org
breakthroughentertainment.com
The absolute truth lies in the notions of life and death...fertility indeed is the miracle of creation. But does it answer the question of happiness, or is it just an illusion? 270
SALES / CONTACT: Shabnam Shahin
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Mugshot
Mulhapar
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English
Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 93’/52’ Original Language: English/Urdu/Punjabi Subtitles: German/French/English
Originally a law enforcement tool, the mugshot has deviated from its fundamental purpose as a source of criminal identification. It has been sensationalized through the world of the celebrity, exploited by the leniency of freedom of infor-mation, but has also captivated the attention of the art world. American Mugshot explores the personal stories of those whose lives have been affected by this iconic photograph. As one retired police officer points out: “Mugshots are the most important police innovation next to the nightstick, flashlight and the gun”
Mulhapar is a village on the great Punjab plain in Pakistan. A country now associated by many with the violence and intolerance reported so often in the media. Instead of focusing on those dark aspects, this film goes to the heart of humanity itself, in a mixed community of rich and poor, Muslims and Christians, young and old, male and female. Mulhapar interweaves their family destinies, individual stories and anecdotes into a living mosaic. With its richly diverse images and philosophically pensive narrative, Mulhapar is a poetic film committed to showing up the essence and diversity of human existence.
Dennis Mohr
Paolo Poloni
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMugshot
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Rock Yenta Productions Inc. Charlotte Engel
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Public Pictures
H3L1A8 Montreal
Dennis Mohr
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION RECK Filmproduction Franziska Reck
Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin. de
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The Murga
My 89 Generation
Spain / Uruguay, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Poland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 64’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
An extraordinary music trip to the roots of the Carnival and one of its most captivating, complex symbols: the murgas, bands of strolling workingclass poets and musicians in clown-like painted faces, whose lyrics conform a tool of social criticism targeting allegedly corrupt politicians in a festive mix of artistic and political expression.
The My 89 Generation project is a crowdsourcing documentary film, that consists of footage recorded by the protagonists of the movie themselves: young people born after 1989. The director asked them to send him their own films. Out of tens of hours of footage seven main characters were chosen. They are young people striving for their dreams while living through their first loves, betrayals and breakups. In this movie the generation forms the background, the movie itself is about love and dreams of people on the threshold of their adult lives.
La Murga. Ópera Popular David Baute
Moje 89 Pokolenie Pawel Jozwiak Rodan
SALES / CONTACT: Luis Renart
Camino Viejo 61. Portal A, 1º derecha CO-PRODUCTION: 38028 Tegueste Guazu Media – Uruguay tel: +34 691 814 018 lrenart@webclac.org
The Murga: a pop opera.
PRODUCTION TINGLADO FILM
Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster David Baute
Spain
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SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation
PRODUCTION Projekcja Identyfikacja Pawel Jozwiak Rodan
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
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My Beautiful Broken Brain
My Dearest F#cking Phone
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 83’ Original Language: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 17’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Lieve K#ttelefoon Eef Hilgers
Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland
http://mybeautifulbrokenbrain.com
https://eenvandejongens.nl/en/ project/lieve-kttelefoon
My Beautiful Broken Brain is a profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic. From unpredictable first-time neurological experiments, through to the extraordinary revelations of her altered mind, Lotje takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating and exquisite.
SALES / CONTACT: Sophie Robinson My Beautiful Broken Brain
PRODUCTION My Beautiful Broken Brain Sophie Robinson
10 Vespan Road W129QQ London England tel: +44 7976 365 361 sophie@mybeautifulbrokenbrain. com
Claudia (14) has, like many teenage girls, an intense love-hate relationship with her smartphone. She feels alone and insecure, fueled by the pictures of beautiful, successful and fun-loving friends on Instagram. She herself has made sure she is hard to find online. She considers herself not pretty enough. It’s no wonder that she is dreading the vacation because that means no Internet. Strinkingly enough, these days without a Wi-Fi connection turn out to be a breakthrough for Claudia.
SALES / CONTACT: Hasse van Nunen
PRODUCTION Een van de jongens Renko Douze
De Kempenaerstraat 11B
Hasse van Nunen
1051 CJ Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: IKON – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 8943628 www.eenvandejongens.nl info@eenvandejongens.nl
Her brain is broken. Her mind is limitless. By turns excruciating and exquisite, this is a genre-twisting voyage into a young woman’s life after a brain haemorrhage. 276
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My Farm Is My Castle
My Friend the Enemy
Czech Republic, 2014 color, video, 83’ Original Language: Ukranian Subtitles: English
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 56’ Original Language: Polish/Ukranian Subtitles: English
Natasha Yurchenko used to live in a small village before developers decided to rebuild the area. Her family resisted the developments and they are now trapped between the highrise buildings. She wants to fight for her home but conflicts surface in the family. How far will she go defending their home? A film portrait of 5 years of life of one (extra)ordinary family in the current Ukraine.
A story from Western Ukraine that is both universal and grimly relevant today. In the summer of 2013 we follow a group of Poles whose families survived massacre by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. They visit their former homes, now empty fields, and meet their old neighbors. Ukrainians and Poles tell stories of horrific slaughter, but also of complex and moving relations between people who had lived alongside each other for centuries, and of how some Ukrainians risked their lives to save their Polish neighbours. Tales of memory and reconciliation set in a timeless lyrical landscape.
Jáma Jirí Stejskal
Mój przyjaciel wróg Wanda Koscia
www..myfriendtheenemyfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Katerina Safarikova nutprodukce
PRODUCTION nutprodukce Tomá Hrub
Bubenska 1
Pavla Kubecková
17000 Prague 7
CO-PRODUCTION: Czech Television – Czech Republic
Czech Republic tel: +420604821642 katka@nutprodukce.cz
One woman, two husbands, four children, seven pigs and a herd of goats surviving on the last farm in the modern district of Kiev.
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SALES / CONTACT: Wanda Koscia Grupa Filmowa
PRODUCTION Grupa Filmowa Miroslaw Chojecki
64 Philbeach Gardens
Wanda Koscia
SW5 9EE London
Piotr Weychert
England tel: + 44 20 7373 3492 wandakoscia@gmail.com
Survivors of a massacre return to find the enemies who saved them.
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My Life My Lesson
My Love Don’t Cross the River
Sweden / Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English
South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
My Life My Lesson is a raw yet tender documentary that follows 16-yearold Felicia over the course of two years as she is attempting to live a normal teenage-life, having been brought up witnessing her step-dad abusing her mum. It’s a unique and intimate portrait of a family living with the collective scars of domestic violence. Directed & produced by award winning Åsa Ekman and Oscar Hedin.
There is a couple known as the ‘100-year-old lovebirds’. Like characters in a fairy tale, the husband is strong like a woodman, and the wife full of charms like a princess. They dearly love each other, wear traditional Korean clothes all the time, and still fall asleep hand in hand. However, death, quietly sits between them, like a thief. This film starts from this moment, and follows the couple until the last moments of their 76-year marriage.
Åsa Ekman
Moyoung Jin
mylifemylesson.org
Sweden not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Anna Hagnefur Film and Tell
PRODUCTION Film and Tell Oscar Hedin
Film and Tell 11739 Stockholm Sweden tel: 46736567732
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Argus Film Kyungsoo Han
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
www.filmandtell.com
http://catndocs.com/index.html
anna.hagnefur@filmandtell.com
cat@catndocs.com
Felicia wants to live a normal teenage-life but growing up in violence as a child has scarred her. A couple who have lived together for 76 years faces the last moment of their marriage. 280
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My Mother, a War and Me
Naked
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: Ukranian/ German/Russian Subtitles: German/English
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English/Danish Subtitles: English
Meine Mutter, ein Krieg und ich Tamara Trampe
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December 1942. WW II. A snowfield behind the Russian lines. That is where my mother gave birth to me. She was a nurse in the Red Army back then. She never talked about the war. ”Leave me alone”, she used to say. Only two years before she died, we began to talk in front of the camera. This footage and many questions were in my bag, when I went back to Russia and to Ukraine. What was it to be a young woman at the front, what was the attitude to life?
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION Johann Feindt Filmproduktion Johann Feindt
04103 Leipzig
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF – Germany,
Germany
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SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Made in Copenhagen
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Helle Faber Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark
tel: +49 341 2156638
tel: +45 35202299
www.deckert-distribution.com
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Russia 1942, a spectacular wartime birth: In her film Tamara Trampe searches for the pieces of a puzzle – Tamara’s family history and a chronicle of the 20th century emerge. 282
Denice is 25 years old and has starred in hundreds of porn films. For the last three years she has been working hard to start her own company. But Denice decides to make a comeback in Porn Valley, LA, in order to make a quick buck. Ten young porn models live together in this house – some of them as young as eighteen and about to make their debut in the tough industry of porn.
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Naked Island
Naked on the Net
Croatia, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Croatian Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English
Uppdrag granskning: Naken på nätet Hasse Johansson, Nicke Nordmark
Tiha K. Gudac
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Decades ago, a man disappeared for four years. He returned a changed man with a painful secret that became the foundation of his family life. Naked Island is his granddaughter’s quest to understand the family legacy, an investigation upon the ruins of the past, a mosaic made of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a group of people brought together by a former Gulag-like camp on the “Island of Broken Souls”. At the same time, it is a fascinating portrayal of a moment in which the past can finally become history and a brave documentary defying silence and fear.
SALES / CONTACT: Nenad Puhovski Factum
PRODUCTION Factum Nenad Puhovski
Nova Ves 18 10 000 Zagreb Croatia tel: +385 1 5484 321 http://factum.com.hr/en info@factum.com.hr
A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on ‘an island of broken souls’ and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
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Young Swedish girls are lured into sending nude photos of themselves, by an unknown man with a fake identity. And as soon as a girl has sent a daring photo she is blackmailed into sending more nude pictures, or otherwise the man will publish them on the web. Despite receiving several reports from victims of the blackmailer the Swedish police drop all investigations, seemingly without doing anything at all. Now it is up to SVT’s reporters Nicke Nordmark and Hasse Johansson to find and catch Sweden’s worst sextortionist. A reportage produced by SVT’s current affairs magazine Uppdrag granskning (Mission: Investigate).
SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT
PRODUCTION SVT Lina Makboul
Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 73 3651151 http://svtsales.com/ paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
A man with a fake identity lures young girls into sending nude photos of themselves, which he then uses for blackmailing purposes. SVT’s reporters set out to catch the blackmailer. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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National Diploma
National Gallery
Congo / France, 2014 color, video, 92’ Original Language: Lingala/French Subtitles: English
USA / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 174’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French
National Diploma follows a group of young Congolese high school students who are about to sit the exam for their National Diploma, the “Final Exams”, in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Dieudo Hamadi’s camera films them as they prepare for the exam, from the benches of the school that they are regularly ejected from because they haven’t paid the ‘teachers’ fees’ to the “maquis” (a communal house) where they gather to revise and the chaotic streets of the city where they spend their time “looking for a living”.
National Gallery takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.
Frederick Wiseman
www..agatfilms.com/fiche-film_en.php?id=641
www..docandfilm.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil
PRODUCTION Agat Films & Cie Marie Balducchi
18 Levontin St. 6511207 TEL AVIV Israel tel: +972 3 5664129 www.cinephil.co.il
France, USA, Mexico not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film
PRODUCTION Idéale Audience International Pierre-Olivier Bardet
13 Rue Portefoin
Zipporah Films
75003 Paris
Hannah Horner
France tel: + 33 1 42 77 56 87
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: PBS – USA,
g.gallier@docandfilm.com
Canal + – France
info@cinephil.co.il
Congolese high school students, who are about to sit their Final Exams, in Kisangani, DR Congo, are challenged by school fees, greed and corruption. 286
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Examen D’Etat Dieudo Hamadi
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Navy Mids
Naziha’s Spring
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Arabic/Dutch Subtitles: English
Adelborsten Walter Stokman
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Naziha’s lente Gülsah Dogan
http://ijswater.nl/films/projects/ info.php?project=161
Navy Mids follows a group of young men and women who see a future for themselves as an officer at the Royal Netherlands Navy. The Navy a long-traditional institute, in which history, hierarchy and rituals still play an important role; matters that are not so present in modern society anymore. The film will follow them during their first military initiation and on their first trip aboard a naval vessel as a lower class seaman. They choose a life that will not be easy; what does this tell us about them, and about the time we are living in?
SALES / CONTACT: Marc Bary IJswater Films Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4 1079LD Amsterdam
PRODUCTION IJswater Films Marc Bary INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BNN – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 442 17 60 www.ijswater.nl marc@ijswater.nl
Navy Mids is about the first months of training of officers for the Royal Netherlands Navy. The transformation to the military group culture is placed next to their personal experiences. 288
Since she divorced her husband, Naziha, a Morrocan-Dutch woman fights to keep her ten children on the right track. She has been struggling for years against the pressure of her Morrocan community in Amsterdam, the government’s interferences and sons who wish she would behave as other Moroccan mothers do. With willpower, courage and humour, she is slowly starting to lead a free life where she can make her own decisions and offer the same to her youngest child and only daughter. But just as the tide seems to have turned, disaster strikes.
SALES / CONTACT: Fleur Knopperts Volya Films
PRODUCTION Volya Films Fleur Knopperts
Mauritsweg 56
Denis Vaslin
3012 JX Rotterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31104155621 www.volyafilms.nl fleur@volyafilms.com
Naziha’s Spring gives an intimate and moving insight in the life of a MoroccanDutch divorced mother of ten and her struggle to regain power over her own life.
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The Need to Dance
Nepal - Journey to the Crystal Mountain
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Spanish/English/Dutch Subtitles: English
Austria, 2014 color, HDcam, 47’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English
De Nood aan Dansen Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Nepal - Auf dem Weg zum Kristallberg Andrea Thek
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The Need to Dance is the portrait of the Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most versatile and successful dance artists of our times. The documentary follows him as he travels all over Europe. As the film observes him creating and performing widely different styles of dance, he talks in an interior monologue about what lies behind his irrepressible urge to create. As the son of a Moroccan father, a Muslim, and a Roman-Catholic Flemish mother it was anything but obvious that he would become an artist. While imitating, as a child, the choreography in video clips by Madonna and Michael Jackson, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui discovered that dance gave him the opportunity to express himself and to cope with his problems. He made an unconditional choice for a life in the arts. It gave him happiness, but it did cause the definitive break with his dominant father. Growing up in two cultures is still the rich source of the dance pieces he creates.
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SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Monique Busman
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION: NTR – The Netherlands INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6775318
The Crystal Mountain in north-western Nepal is the brother of Mount Kailash. This is where the Shey Festival is held every twelve years. In the company of his old friend Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Professor at the University of Vienna, embarks on a journey across a remote, breathtaking landscape to a mountain that – to Buddhists – is far more than just a huge rock.
SALES / CONTACT: Berend Dreier Red Bull Media House Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15 5071 Wals
PRODUCTION Red Bull Media House Andrea Thek INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Servus TV – Austria
Austria tel: 00436622240-0
www.nposales.com
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kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
com berend.dreier@ at.redbullmediahouse.com
A portrait of the FlemishMoroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most versatile and successful dance artists of our times.
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Neuland
Never a Dull Moment
Germany / Switzerland, 2013 color, HDcam, 93’/57’ Original Language: German/Farsi Subtitles: French/English
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 59’/91’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English
Afghanistan, Serbia, Venezuela – the new students of Mr. Zingg in the integration class Basel have a long journey behind them. Sheltered and protected from society, they learn the language and culture of Switzerland in just two years. Mr. Zingg, the teacher, has only one goal in sight: to help the young people who have been traumatized by so many hard strokes of fate to find a job in the new society. But as the end of their schooling approaches, these young migrants have to ask themselves a harrowing question: is there a place at all for me in this country…?
Told in amazing archival footage only, showing the turbulent life of the jewish Sam Waagenaar, a bon-vivant, who many times changed the course of his life in the 20th century. Successfully moving from being a publicity manager for MGM in the thirties, actor in Hollywood, to operetta singer in France and war correspondent, finally ending up as a photographer travelling the world after the war. The film is based on Waagenaar’s unpublished autobiography. With a voice-over he reflects on his life, and on a tendency towards optimism that was severely tested more than once.
Daniel Kunle, Holger Lauinger, Anna Thommen
Pim Zwier
http://neuland-film.ch/
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION Fama Film AG Stefan Eichenberger
Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste –
Germany
Switzerland
tel: +49 30 47372980
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SRF – Switzerland
www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin. de
Neuland accompanies young migrants during their twoyears of schooling in the integration class Basel on their uncertain path to a better future.
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SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films P.O. Box 15703
PRODUCTION seriousFilm Marc Thelosen
1001 NE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Joodse Omroep – The
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Netherlands
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Told in archival footage only, showing the turbulent life of the jewish Sam Waagenaar, a bon-vivant, who many times changed the course of his life in the 20th century. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Art / Music / Culture
The New Foodies
The New Rijksmuseum - The Film
France, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 90’ Original Language: Dutch/English/Spanish Subtitles: English
This is the story of a generation radically changing the notion we have of gastronomy - lighter, more fun, spicy and sometimes surprising. The story of a change in attitudes, sudden and radical, which made a practice still considered as bourgeois and stuffy, a glamorous and desirable movement, the forefront of a broader awareness of the importance of “healthy” food, in every sense of the word.
The magnificent Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the world’s preeminent museums, home to Rembrandt - Vermeer, is renovated. Battles between the museum’s director, curators, politicians, designers are filmed over 10 years. 4 part series and feature with a glorious ending.
L’Amour Food Olivier Joyard
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Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum - De Film Oeke Hoogendijk
www..autlookfilms.com/film/180/
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris
PRODUCTION Agat Films & Cie Gorka Gallier INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Canal + – France
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna
France
Austria
tel: +330142775687
tel: +43 720 346934
www.docandfilm.com
www.autlookfilms.com
g.gallier@docandfilm.com
andrea@autlookfilms.com
PRODUCTION Column Film Gijs van de Westelaken CO-PRODUCTION: Discours Film – The Netherlands
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The Newsroom - Off the Record
Next Goal Wins
Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, video, 93’ Original Language: English
We love to hate them. They are limitless, amoral and sensationalistic. They prey on the lives of politicians, exaggerate every detail on the front page, and they would do anything to be the paper, everyone else talks about. The movie follows the paper throughout one of the most turbulent years with catastrophic reader numbers and numerous controversial cases. At close range, we get insight into how the newspaper’s staff handles the many ethical dilemmas that they face every single day.
After suffering a world record 31-0 defeat to Australia in 2001, American Samoa, the world’s worst national football team, are still searching for their first win. When maverick Dutch coach Thomas Rongen arrives on the island to help the team achieve this goal, he discovers that his ramshackle team includes an emotionally scarred goalkeeper and the first transgender player to play international football. With the team about to embark on a gruelling World Cup qualification campaign, Rongen has one month to transform this band of losers into a winning team - and perhaps learn a little about himself along the way.
Ekstra Bladet - Uden for citat Mikala Krogh
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Mike Brett, Steve Jamison
www.danishdocumentary.com
SALES / CONTACT: Sigrid Dyekjær Danish Documentary Kvæsthusgade 5c, 1. floor 1251 København K
PRODUCTION Danish Documentary Sigrid Dyekjær INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TV 2 – Denmark
Denmark tel: +45 26162535 www.danishdocumentary.com sigrid@danishdocumentary.com
The danish tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet is hated and loved among the Danish citizens. This film gives a unique behind-the-scenes portrait of Ekstra Bladet entering a new era. 296
SALES / CONTACT: Carl Clifton K5 Media Group GmbH
PRODUCTION Archer’s Mark Mike Brett
Konradinstr. 5.
Agile Films
81543 Munich
Kristian Brodie
Germany tel: +49 89 37 50 559 10 www..k5mediagroup.com/intro carl@k5mediagroup.com
USA, UK, France, Australia, Japan, Middle East not available.
Following the fortunes of American Samoa, the world’s worst football team, Next Goal Wins is a hilarious, moving exploration of what it really means to be a winner in life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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History
Nick and Chai
Night Will Fall
Philippines, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Filipino Subtitles: English
USA / England / Israel, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Russian/English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
Charena Escala, Rowena Sanchez
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Andre Singer
www.hirayapictures.com
http://cinephil.co.il/night-will-fall/
On Nov 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan claimed the lives of Nick and Chai Quieta’s four children, leaving them with nothing but each other and a house torn to pieces. Now, four months later, we step inside the Quieta home and observe how they cope with their loss. What is it really like to lose all your kids all of a sudden?
SALES / CONTACT: Rowena Sanchez Hiraya Pictures
PRODUCTION Hiraya Pictures Rowena Sanchez
37-B. P. Oliveros St. Purok Sinkalan, dela Paz, 1870 Antipolo Philippines tel: 632 6619078 www.hirayapictures.com wenna.sanchez@gmail.com
Night Will Fall tells the story of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration camps. Using remarkable archive footage and testimony from both survivors and liberators, it tells of the efforts made to document the almost unbelievable scenes that the allies encountered on Liberation. The film explores how a team of top filmmakers, including Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock came together to make a film to provide undeniable evidence of what the allies found. Each new generation deserves access to this evidence. UK, Israel, Italy, USA, Canada, Germany, France not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Angel TV Sally Angel
18 Levontin St.
RatPac
6511207 Tel Aviv
Brett Ratner
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129
CO-PRODUCTION: Cinephil – Israel,
www.cinephil.co.il
Final Cut for Real – Denmark
info@cinephil.co.il
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: MDR – Germany, NDR – Germany, ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany, Keshet Broadcasting Ltd. – Israel, Channel 8 – Israel
A couple from Leyte (Philippines) tries to recover after the strongest typhoon in history claimed what’s most important to them- their four children. 298
Using remarkable archive footage and testimonies, the film tells the story of the Nazi Concentration camps’ Liberation by the allies and their efforts to document the unbelievable scenes they encountered. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons under Threat
No Lullaby
Belgium, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’/72’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English
Olivier Malvoisin
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Nirgendland Helen Simon
http://deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/ authors-documentaries/no-lullaby/
“Search a barometer for freedom of expression and understand any taboos in a particular country, then take a look at its political cartoons”. Throughout history the fight and defence of freedom of expression is a fight that continuously needs to be fought. No Laughing Matter revisits a number of incidents around cartoons that have made world headlines in recent years and talks to prominent cartoonists in Israel, in Palestine, in Germany, in Tunisia, in France, in Belgium and in the United States and asks the following question: where does freedom of expression stand today?
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Plexus Productions Olivier Malvoisin
The film documents the lifelong struggle for normality by a mother and daughter who were sexually abused over many years. The family was sworn to secrecy about this horrific secret. The mother and daughter pay the ultimate price when they break their silence.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Marienplatz 1
H3L1A8 Montreal
04103 Leipzig
Canada
Germany
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +49 341 2156638
www.filmstransit.com
www.deckert-distribution.com
info@filmstransit.com
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PRODUCTION Filmallee David Lindner Leporda INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BR – Germany
Three generations silenced by a gruesome family secret and a society refusing to see reality behind closed doors. 300
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No Word for Worry
Of Men and War
Norway / Canada / Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Norwegian/English Subtitles: English
France / Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 142’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French
As one of the last indigenous sea nomads, Hook must make a courageous voyage deep into uncharted waters outside Myanmar to salvage the remains of his unique oceanic culture. The film follows Hook from the bottom of the modern social ladder on a voyage into the heart of the Moken’s aquatic territory. On his quest to salvage the remains of his legacy, he faces the universal questions of identity, love, loss and belonging. A unique insight into the words last ocean dwellers.
Anger consumes a dozen veterans long after their return from the front. These warriors come home to the United States, but their minds are stuck out on the battlefield. All have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. Wives, children, and parents bear the brunt of their fractured spirits. At a first-of-its-kind PTSD therapy center, the protagonists resolve to end the ongoing destruction. The boys’ therapist helps them forge meaning from their trauma. Over several years, Of Men and War explores their grueling paths to recovery, as they attempt to make peace with themselves, their past, and their families.
Runar Jarle Wiik
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Laurent Bécue-Renard
www.projectmoken.com
www.ofmenandwar.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Hallum / Jensen Christian Lien Jensen
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Ten Thousand Images
H3L1A8 Montreal
Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France
PRODUCTION Alice Films Laurent Bécue-Renard CO-PRODUCTION: Louise Productions – Switzerland
tel: +33 144617748
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTS – Switzerland,
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Lichtpunt – Belgium
cat@catndocs.com
France, Switzerland not available.
Years after coming home, a dozen veterans continue to wrestle demons from the war. Will their therapist help them find meaning in their trauma and leave the war behind? 302
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Off Road
Olya’s Love
Italy, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Austria / Russia, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 68’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
Elisa Amoruso
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Kirill Sakharnov
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olyas_riot_kirill_sakharnov/
Pino is a mechanic and a rally car champion who decides to become a woman. As a transgender, he meets Marianna. Beatrice and Marianna fall in love. Fighting the prejudice of established society, both dressed as brides, the two of them manage to get married in Rome. In high heels, Pino/Beatrice continues to work as a mechanic and to pursue his passion for off-road racing. A love story, a ride through the life of a a very unconventional family living in a very conventional country, Italy.
SALES / CONTACT: Raffaella Di Giulio
PRODUCTION Alfredo Covelli
Viale Gorizia, 19 00198 Rome
A lesbian couple living in Russia. Olya is a fighter, active member of the LGBT community, her partner Galiya doesn’t want to let politics rule her life. Their love is strong, and they want to have a baby together. When Russian Duma launches their discriminating laws against homosexuals, Olya starts to fight even stronger. But their love is put to the test . . .
SALES / CONTACT: Ksenia Sakharnova SugarDocs film production
PRODUCTION SugarDocs film production Ksenia Sakharnova
Pervomayskaya st. 66-111 105043 Moscow
Italy
Belgium
tel: +39 06 85218155
tel: +7 499 3677185
raffaella.digiulio@fandango.it
sugardocs@gmail.com
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Pino is a mechanic and a rally driver who decides to become a woman. A love story, a ride through the life of a very unconventional family.
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Olya’s love faces the Duma homosexuality ban, the street riots, and finally, is put to the test.
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History | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View
On the Bride’s Side
Once My Mother
Palestine / Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
Poland / Australia, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 57’/75’ Original Language: Polish/English/Ukranian Subtitles: English
Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry
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Sophia Turkiewicz
http://deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/ authors-documentaries/once-my-mother/
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of three thousand kilometres. This emotionally charged journey not only brings out the stories and hopes and dreams of the five Palestinians and Syrians but also reveals an unknown side of Europe.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
PRODUCTION Gina Film Antonio Augugliaro CO-PRODUCTION: DocLab srl – Italy
When Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her?
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION Change Focus Media Rod Freedman CO-PRODUCTION: Kalejdoskop Film Studio – Poland
04103 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ABC – Australia
www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned her in an orphanage and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag. 306
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Art / Music / Culture
One Man Show
One Minute for Conductors
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
Spain / Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’/87’ Original Language: German/ Japanese/English/Italian Subtitles: English
Marcin is a 33-year-old actor, who has never played a significant role in a significant movie. Marcin has bent his life to his dream of becoming a great actor. He tries to fulfil himself as a cabaret actor and a stand-up comedian. Despite his frustration and problems, he keeps on fighting. Every year, for the last seven years, Marcin spends six weeks working on a farm in Norway. The money he earns gives him relative financial independence for the rest of the year. The film shows one year in the protagonist’s life.
A special look into a week-long, nervewracking competition in which about 130 young people from all over the world, take part and of which one is to be crowned best conductor. We see the preparations of five finalists, their love of music and the complex art of conducting. The beady-eyed jury follows every participant’s gesture and movement, who panics about blackouts, or a poorly rehearsed piece of music. Interviews are intercut with footage of the competition. The calm, soothing sounds of the classical compositions contrast more and more starkly with the rising tensions in the run-up to the final.
Jakub Piatek
Angel Esteban, Elena Goatelli
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation
PRODUCTION Telemark Maciej Kubicki
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films
PRODUCTION Kottom Films Elena Goatelli
P.O. Box 15703 1001 NE Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4040707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
Marcin is a thirty-three-year-old actor, who has never played a significant role in a significant movie. Despite his frustration and problems, he keeps on fighting. 308
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Human Interest / Social Issues
Only the Best for our Son
The Optimists
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Norway / Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’/90’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English
Optimistene Gunhild Westhagen Magnor
Monique Nolte
www..selfmadefilms.nl/nl/onze-producties/ bekijken/het-beste-voor-kees-2014
An intimate and cinematographic portrait about of Kees (49) who is autistic and is still living with his parents. Mother, father and son are living together in a symbiotically relationship. Over the years the parents have adapted themselves to Kees his demands, in order to make him as happy as possible. Being used to 24/7 care of primarily his mother, Kees fully depends on her. Kees’ father tries to create a future perspective for his son, but finds himself being obstructed by his wife.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
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PRODUCTION Selfmade Films Niek Koppen
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Jan de Ruiter
1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: KRO-NCRV Television – The
tel: +31 35 6773561
Netherlands
Despite their weekly training sessions the volleyball ladies on the extraordinary team called ‘The Optimists‘ (age 66-98) have not played a match for 30 years. Now this is exactly the plan. But against whom? Rumours say there is a group of handsome Swedish gentlemen across the border. Goro (98) is the Queen of the team with her will power and purple Converse shoes. Laughter is their match strategy.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Skofteland Film Hilde Skofteland
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION: Mantaray Film – Sweden
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
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kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
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The volleyball ladies The Optimists (66-98) haven’t played a proper match in 30 years. Until now. Fearing age? Queen of the team Goro (98) might change your ideas.
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The Orchestra. Claudio Abbado and the Musicians of the Mozart Orchestra
The Other Man - F. W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid
Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: German/English/Italian Subtitles: English
USA / South Africa, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’/52’ Original Language: Afrikaans/English
The Mozart Orchestra has been founded in Bologna (Italy) ten years ago by Master Claudio Abbado. The Orchestra brings together the best classical music performers in the world by mixing young promises and well established solo artists. Among them: Johani Gonzales, a young double bass player coming from one of the worst slum in Caracas and the famous German trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich. The documentary, following the Orchestra’s European tour in 2012-2013, offers a unic and favourite glance on Master Abbado’s work and on classical music player s’job in contemporary times.
F. W. de Klerk was South Africa’s last white apartheid-era President. In less than four years he went from being Mandela’s jailor to his deputy president. Together Mandela and de Klerk changed the face of South African history and warded off a potential civil war. Yet little is known about de Klerk. Through his probing lens, award winning director Rossier explores de Klerk’s fascinating political journey and controversial legacy. The film features in-depth interviews with de Klerk himself, Thabo Mbeki (former president of S. A. ), Albie Sachs (anti-apartheid activist) and many others who played a vital role in pre- and post-apartheid South Africa.
Nicolas Rossier
L’Orchestra. Claudio Abbado e i Musicisti della Mozart Helmut Failoni, Francesco Merini
www..mammutfilm.it/index.php?id=1379517835
Italy, Italian Switzerland not available.
www.deklerkthefilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Rudi Gaudron EuroArts
PRODUCTION Mammut Film Srl Ilaria Malagutti
Bundesallee 39 - 40 10717 Berlin Germany tel: +49 (0)30 863 90 35-25 r.gaudron@euroarts.com
SALES / CONTACT: Carol Spycher Accent Films International Ltd. Rue de la Gare 46 1820 Montreux
PRODUCTION Baraka Productions Nicolas Rossier CO-PRODUCTION: Naason Zalk Media – South Africa
Switzerland tel: +41 21 9639300 http://accent-films.com/ cspycher@accent-films.com
The last tour of the great Maestro Abbado and his Mozart Classical music Orchestra. The Other Man is feature documentary about Nobel Peace Prize laureate F.W.de Klerk, South Africa’s last white apartheid-era President.
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Othon
Our City
Portugal, 2014 color, HDcam, 37’/30’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
Belgium / The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Guillaume Pazat, Martim Ramos
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Once a mark of glitter and success in the heart of Sao Paulo, OTHON Palace Hotel met its days of decay until it eventually closed in 2008. Four years later, the abandoned rooms behind closed doors were squattered by more than 800 people claiming the right to a house. They are families unable to pay the overrated rents of São Paulo. From the everyday struggle of carrying water through the stairs to the sharing of expectations and dreams regarding the future, these inhabitants open themselves and share their daily routine as poor men in the richest city of Latin America.
SALES / CONTACT: Fernando Centeio Zul Filmes
PRODUCTION Zul Filmes Fernando Centeio
Rua Nova da Trindade, nº1, 2º Drt 1200-301 Lisboa Portugal tel: +351 21 346 6427 geral@zulfilmes.com
Brussels, the capital of European abstraction is digging its contemporary grave, a giant empty office, while the Brussels that still breathes resists in the narrow spaces forgotten by the administrative grip. You can hear its multicultural heart beating and make out the traces of all those other cities that everyone carries within oneself. The film sails over these turbulent waters in search of a distance that could give back some meaning to what has has lost it, in the form of a social poem or a documentary musical based on intimacy and reflection.
SALES / CONTACT: Pieter van Huystee Big Pete
PRODUCTION Wildundomesticated Maarten Schmidt
Noordermarkt 37-39
Maria Tarantino
1015 NA Amsterdam The Netherlands
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In the heart of Sao Paulo over 800 people occupy a former luxury hotel. They struggle for a decent life and fight for a place they can call home. The city of Brussels, portrayed through a hybrid narration between documentary musical and social poem: the capital of Europe we think we know but actually never see. 314
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Our Colonial Hangover
Parador Húngaro
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, video, 55’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English/Dutch
Colombia / Hungary, 2014 color / black and white, video, 79’ Original Language: Spanish/ Hungarian/English Subtitles: English
Zwart als Roet Sunny Bergman
Patrick Alexander, Aseneth Suárez Ruiz
www.paradorhungaro.com
Sunny Bergman analyses the debate in the Netherlands around the racist component in the attitude towards Black Peter. Is the black face assistant a children’s friend, an insulting stereotype with roots in a colonial past, or is he part of an innocent tradition that should not be tampered with? The Pro and Against stood face to face last year. The question arises how tolerant Dutch society really is. In a personal quest Bergman charts subconscious prejudices, every-day racism and the heritage of the colonial past. She has conversations with friends and exposes the phenomenon “white privilege” in her own circles.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Schollenbrugstraat 4 1091 EX Amsterdam
PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Margreet Ploegmakers INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6633303 www.nposales.com monique@defamilie.net
A Hungarian soldier escapes to the West in the 1950s. The son of a U. S. soldier runs to the East in the 1990s. When their paths cross in Bogotá, Colombia in 2006, this odd couple form an unlikely friendship by sharing memories of the same land but of very different times, and old feelings get stirred up, for better or for worse. Parador Húngaro is a reflection on immigrant identity: what we leave behind, what we learn anew, and what it’s like to go back ’home’ again.
SALES / CONTACT: Aseneth Suárez Ruiz Maquina Andante
PRODUCTION Maquina Andante Andrea Said
Gellerthegy utca 6
Aseneth Suárez Ruiz
1016 Budapest
CO-PRODUCTION: Umbrella – Hungary
Hungary tel: + 36 70 353 75 74 www.paradorhungaro.com asenethdoc@gmail.com
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The story of what happens in between where we are born and who we decide to be. The only place we can really call home. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Paraguay: Chronicle of a Foretold Coup
Partner With the Enemy - Making it in the Middle East
Paraguay, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’/105’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 56’ Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic Subtitles: English
Paraguay: Chronicle of a Foretold Coup is a Shakespearian drama about power. In a political thriller crescendo, we follow the adventures of Fernando Lugo, former bishop of the Liberation Theology elected President of Paraguay in 2008 and his staff. Until the tragic ending, the coup d’état of June 2012, we benefit from a unique behind-the-scene point of view. A unique period in history is documented in an intimate, universal film, providing an insight on the fragile nature of politics.
Brought together by a shared business acumen of the logistics industry, the women combine forces to help Palestinian businessmen navigate the everyday absurdities of the Israeli occupation. But while they help their clients overcome the obstacles of bureaucracy and security, will they overcome their own differences?
Anna Recalde Miranda
SALES / CONTACT: Anna Recalde Miranda
PRODUCTION Anna Recalde Miranda
50 rue piat
CO-PRODUCTION: La compagie de Phares et balises
75020 paris
– France
Duki Dror
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Zygote Films Duki Dror
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zurich
France
Switzerland
tel: +33671932760
tel: +41 44 3122060
recaldemiranda@gmail.com
www.firsthandfilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 2 – Israel
stories@firsthandfilms.com
The dream for a change has finally come true: the Bishop of the poor became President. The nightmare for him is about to begin...
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An Israeli and a Palestinian are trying to build a business partnership against all odds.
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Peep Show
Paths Through the Labyrinth - The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki
Wege durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki Anna Schmidt Germany / Poland, 2013 color, HDcam, 104’ Original Language: Polish/German Subtitles: German/Polish/English
Matthias Schmidt
Germany, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English/French
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Even at over 80 Krzysztof Penderecki is still an unflinching and highly active composer and conductor. Director Anna Schmidt followed Penderecki´s paths for a year – in the process interviewing such worldfamous artists as AnneSophie Mutter, Julian Rachlin and Janine Jansen as well as Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) and legendary film director Anrzej Wajda. As a result, Paths Through the Labyrinth has become a comprehensive “work in progress“ documentary. Thoughts, dialogues, encounters and extracts from several famous Penderecki compositions coalesce into a fascinating, multilayered portrayal of one of today´s most influential musicians. Germany, Poland, Japan, Russia, Ukraine not available.
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SALES / CONTACT: Elmar Kruse C Major Entertainment GmbH Kaiserdamm 31
PRODUCTION EIKON Media GmbH Ulli Pfau Holm Taddiken
D14057 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 30306465 www.cmajor-entertainment.com i.rost@cmajor-entertainment.com
Live Peep Shows were a magnet for many men in the 1970/80s, but now are a dying breed. The film takes a look at the comings and goings of a phenomenon that some regard the last step in the fight for sexual liberty. It visits peep shows around the globe, looks back into their history and meets the last of their kind and the people involved who witness the end of a disputable institution. Germany, France not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION Little Kong Films Ito Herrmann
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Matthias Nerlich
10997 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany
Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin. de
A portrait of Krzysztof Penderecki because of his 80th birthday which gives away exceptional insights to a man with various passions: Music, Botany and Philosophy.
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Pekka
Penthouse North
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English
On November 7th 2007, eighteen-yearold Finnish student (Pekka), shot eight people at the high school in Jokela, a small town north of Helsinki. Pekka reconstructs the events that led to this terrible act, committed by a boy who seemed to be such an ordinary kid. Spree shootings are a phenomenon that only seem to occur in the Western world.
Former Swedish cover-girl Agneta Eckemyr’s days of living the high-life are over. At one time, a sexy bombshell with a promising movie career, today at 62, she is alone and broke. The one thing she does retain is a beautiful rentcontrolled New York City penthouse. But, the landlord of the Central Park apartment is evicting her. Her chaotic lifestyle and delusional way of thinking makes things worse. She can’t even find a copy of her lease. If Agneta’s fortune was her face was she truly fortunate?
Johanna St Michaels
SALES / CONTACT: Yaniv Wolf Submarine Arie Biemondstraat 111 1054 PD Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Submarine Femke Wolting CO-PRODUCTION: Vaski Filmi – Finland
The Netherlands tel: +31203301226 www.submarine.nl yaniv@submarine.nl
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SALES / CONTACT: Robin Brinster Illumina Films
PRODUCTION Saint Michaels production AB Johanna St Michaels
Leidsestraat 106-lll 1017PG Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,
The Netherlands
YLE – Finland
tel: +31 20 6248395 www.illuminafilms.nl robin@illuminafilms.nl
Former supermodel Agneta Eckemyr days of living the high-life have come to an end. Her beauty faded, she’s alone and broke struggling to hang on to her New York penthouse. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Pepe Mujica - Lessons from the Flowerbed
Pervert Park
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/90’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: German/English
Sweden / Denmark, 2014 color, video, 52’/75’ Original Language: English
Pepe Mujica - Lektionen eines Erdklumpens Heidi Specogna
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Pepe Mujica has become famous for being the „world’s poorest president“. The former guerilla fighter and flower grower is currently considered one of the most charismatic politicians of Latin America. Old and young believe in him thanks to his humble lifestyle and his unconventional manners, where political protocol is concerned. His political visions, among them his sensational regulation of the marihuana market, have created international interest. In private meetings and conversations with filmmakers on his farm, which he still runs with his partner Lucía Topolansky, he grants them an insightful glimpse into his unusual believes and visions.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
PRODUCTION ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Marienplatz 1
Heino Deckert
04103 Leipzig Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WDR – Germany,
tel: +49 341 2156638
ARTE France – France,
www.deckert-distribution.com
SRF – Switzerland
info@deckert-distribution.com
Florida Justice Transitions is home to 120 convicted sex offenders. Like in many other U. S. states, sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1000 feet of places frequented by children. Because of this, many sex offenders live under bridges or in woods – or in the trailer park Florida Justice Transitions – known as Pervert Park The crimes committed by the residents range from simple misdemeanors to horrendous acts unbearable to contemplate. The characters in Pervert Park are all fighting their own very different battles and demons. They tell us their stories as they have never told them before.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION De Andra
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Frida Barkfors Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
Pervert Park follows the everyday lives of the sex offenders in the park as they struggle to reintegrate into society.
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Piel Marcada
Pixadores
Switzerland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Finland / Denmark / Sweden, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
Tuulensieppaajat Amir Escandari
Franziska Engelhardt, Christian Wyss
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There is no war – nevertheless, Central America has the highest homicide rate in the world. Gangs known as the Maras terrorise the populace. The film embarks on a road trip to explore the phenomenon of violence in Guatemala, Honduras and in El Salvador, portraying the brutal realities on various levels: the source of the violence, those who orchestrate it and those who suffer because of it. An informant working for the police offers rare insight into the phenomenon: he explains everyday life, structures and the Maras’ actions with dreadful ease.
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International
PRODUCTION Franziska Engelhardt
13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
German Switzerland not available.
Central America has the highest homicide rate in the world. Gangs known as the Maras terrorise the populace in Guatemala, Honduras and in El Salvador.
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Djan, William, Ricardo and Biscoito are four young men with a drive and inspired vision to make a difference. They are street artists with a mission. They climb the highest buildings, at huge personal risk, to paint their messages. Called anarchists or criminals, they call themselves soldiers. When invited to Berlin, in recognition of their art, noone can suspect what they will do. Their belief in pushing the boundaries, of defying laws or standards, can only end up landing them in hot water. For all their adventure, their recognition and good intentions, there is, ultimately, a price to pay.
SALES / CONTACT: Chris Howard The Yellow Affair Götgatan 9
PRODUCTION Helsinki Filmi Miia Haavisto
11646 Stockholm
CO-PRODUCTION: Fridthjof Film – Denmark,
Sweden
Story AB – Sweden
tel: 004686451212 www.yellowaffair.com chris@yellowaffair.com
The adventurous story of four young impoverished Braziliians who push boundaries, risking their lives to get out their anarchic message. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Placebo
Planet Asperger
India / Finland, 2014 color / black and white, video, 96’/60’/52’ Original Language: Hindi/English Subtitles: English
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/French
After witnessing an act of brutal violence, a film maker starts following the lives of four students at one of the toughest med schools in the world. However, as the camera starts infiltrating this complex mindscape of ambition and restless youth, a startling new reality begins to emerge- one in which lines between life and death blur easily.
They have always known that they’re different. They didn’t understand the rules of this “normal planet”. Now they know that they have Asperger Syndrome and that the force that pulled them towards their inner world was autism. This documentary explores the behaviour of Michelle (16), Regina (31), Marcos (12) and Victor (22) dealing with their Asperger’s diagnosis with the purpose of portraying their particular way to see the world and their efforts to fit in ours and to be understood.
Planeta Asperger Maria Barroso, Ricardo De Gracia
Abhay Kumar
www.planetasperger.com
www.storytellerink.net
Finland not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Storyteller ink. Abhay Kumar
18 rue Quincampoix #133
Archana Phadke
75004 paris
CO-PRODUCTION: Helsiniki Filmi Oy – Finland
France tel: +33 1 44 617748 www..catndocs.com/
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland
cat@catndocs.com
In the dorms of the toughest med school in the world, the lives of four students start unraveling in unexpected ways as a camera infiltrates their tight knit universe.
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PRODUCTION Elamedia Roberto Butragueño
c/ eros, 7 28045 madrid Spain tel: 0034687104929 www.elamedia.es roberto@elamedia.es
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Plaza Man
The Polgar Variant
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English
Israel, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 68’ Original Language: English/ Hebrew/Hungarian Subtitles: English
Variant Polgar Yossi Aviram
Kasper Verkaik
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On the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, November 22 1963, it was Robert Groden’s 18th birthday. Kennedy’s death changed his life profoundly. In 1975 Robert shocked millions of Americans when he released the classified Zapruder film on national television. This amateur footage of Kennedy’s brutal murder forced US Congress to reopen the case, inviting Robert to join the investigation. It was the start of an obsessive crusade that would make Robert Groden America’s most famous JFK conspiracy theorist. But privately, as a father and husband, his obsession came at a high price.
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Zeppers Film & TV Frank van den Engel
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: IKON – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
The Polgar sisters did not choose to become the heroines of this story. It was their father, who, driven by his educational vision, determined their destiny before they were even born. László Polgár believed that “Geniuses are made, not born,” and he set out to prove it. The canvas he chose was his three daughters. The medium he chose was chess. No kindergarten, no school…. Three girls, isolated from the normal world of kids, studied and practiced chess – with surprising and remarkable results.
SALES / CONTACT: Ruth Diskin
PRODUCTION
Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.
Amir Harel
P.O.Box 7153
Lama Films
91071 Jerusalem
Ayelet Kait
Israel
CO-PRODUCTION: Lama Films – Israel
tel: +972 2 6724256 www.ruthfilms.com cara@ruthfilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Second Authority for Televison – Israel
For 50 years now Robert Groden has tried to find the truth about who killed President John F. Kennedy. The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters. 330
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Polish for Beginners
The Possibilities Are Endless
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 26’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English/Dutch
England, 2014 color, DCP, 83’ Original Language: English
Stella Maris is home to 400 migrant workers from Poland. The Dutch hotel offers comfortable, renovated rooms, Polish television, entertainment, and a gym, so the residents do not want for anything. But do they find what they are looking for? Life in Stella Maris is overshadowed by the hopes of another life, raising the question: What are your dreams worth? If we think only of our future, does the presence lose its meaning? Polish for Beginners is a quiet portrait that sketches the reality of waiting and of the hope for a better future.
The Possibilities Are Endless tells the incredible story of Edwyn Collins, the Scottish songwriter who suffered a stroke, an explosion in the brain so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. After a career as an internationally acclaimed lyricist, he lost all language and was only able to say two phrases: ‘The Possibilities are Endless’ and ‘Grace Maxwell’. The film is narrated by Edwyn, trapped inside his devastated mind and his wife Grace, the woman who pulled him back to life. More than just a story of determination against all odds; it is an intimate and life-affirming journey of rediscovery that celebrates how love, music and language shape our lives.
Pools voor Beginners Josefien Kooten, Anna Witte
James Hall, Edward Lovelace
SALES / CONTACT: Jeroen Neus Lumineus Filmproducties Reduitlaan 27-1.1
PRODUCTION Lumineus Filmproducties Carine van Vugt CO-PRODUCTION: Roos Breukel – The Netherlands
4814 DC Breda The Netherlands tel: +3176 8200194
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Omroep Brabant – The
lumineus.nl
Netherlands
carine.vanvugt@lumineus.nl
Polish for Beginners is a quiet portrait of a Dutch hotel for migrant workers, that sketches the reality of waiting and of the hope for a better future.
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PRODUCTION Pulse Films Thomas Benski
17 Hanbury Street
Julia Nottingham
E1 6QR London
Lucas Ochoa
England tel: +44 (0) 207 426 5700 julia.nottingham@pulsefilms.co.uk
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Pretty Ugly
Pretty Village
Germany, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English
Wales / Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2014 color, HDcam, 67’ Original Language: Bosnian/English Subtitles: English
Schön Kann Jeder Jan Tenhaven
Lijepa Sela Dave Evans
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In the age of photoshop, the pressure on the ugly, wrinkled and pigeonchested has never been so great. But Del Keens, a selfconfessed gargoyle, is here to turn the tables. After being scouted by an advertising photographer and fronting major campaigns by Levi’s and Calvin Klein, he’s forming his own modelling agency – good-lookers need not apply. But is this a liberating counter concept? Or simply coquetry to reaffirm our ideal of beauty? Journeyman Pictures holds worldwide distribution rights, with the exceptions of the Germanspeaking countries and France.
www.pretyyvilagefilm.co.uk
SALES / CONTACT: Emma Simpson
PRODUCTION
Journeyman Pictures
Christian Beetz
4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton,
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Surrey, UK
GmbH
KT7 0RY London
Susanne Radelhof
England tel: +44 208 3984616 www.journeyman.tv emma@journeyman.tv
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Twenty years after the end of The Bosnian War, concentration camp survivor Kemal Pervanic returns to his village to find a community still at war with itself.. The events of that war continue to resonate as Kemal’s family and neighbours search for their loved ones while their former neighbours remain silent. When Kemal tracks down the school teacher who tortured him in the camps he is forced to ask if reconciliation can ever be possible while the perpetrators of terrible crimes are still free.
SALES / CONTACT: Dave Evans Wing & A Prayer Films
PRODUCTION Wing & A Prayer Films Dave Evans
38 Marion Street
Pretty Village Films Ltd.
CF24 2DJ Cardiff
Kemal Pervanic
Wales tel: +44 790 4524475 www.prettyvillagefilm.co.uk daijevans@btopenworld.com
Kevljani, Bosnia, 2014: A small band of exiles return to their ruined village. As they rebuild their lives they find that their former neighbours still have secrets to guard.
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The Price Of My Life
Priest of Burden
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/90’ Original Language: Ukranian/ English/Romanian/German Subtitles: German/English
Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: Spanish/Sami/ Norwegian/English
Human life is priceless, as they say, and yet numbers of experts around the world maintain that they can calculate the monetary value of a human life. They juggle numbers in the name of their countries’ governments, for insurance companies, health agencies, the military, etc. . . “What am I worth?” is the question that filmmaker Peter Scharf asks himself as he reaches midlife and sets out to find these various calculators of human life. The result is an absurdly comical and enlighteningly unsettling trip that takes him through six different countries and examines the most bizarre and bold calculation methods.
The priest Boerre Knudsen is the most famous anti-abortion activist in Norway. His extensive demonstrations made him a hated man. He was accused of having a psychiatric diagnose and stealing the famous Edward Munch painting «The Scream» from The National Gallery. Knudsen has now developed Parkinson`s disease and his wife is caring for him in everyday life. It is an intimate loving life between an elderly couple, but also a life in despair, about lost ideals and the damaged relationship with their five children. This is a film about fighting for what you believe in without thinking about the consequences.
Was Bin ich Wert? Peter Scharf
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En Prest og en Plage Fridtjof Kjæreng
fx.no/eng
SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS
PRODUCTION Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH
Dasselstraße 75-77
Birgit Schulz
50674 Koeln Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/3sat – Germany,
tel: +49 221 16819743
WDR – Germany
www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
SALES / CONTACT: Benedikte Bredesen f(x) produksjoner as Bakkelokka 2 3490 Klokkarstua
PRODUCTION f(x) produksjoner as Benedikte Bredesen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NRK – Norway
Norway tel: +4798048899 fx.no/eng benedikte@fx.no
Questioning the value of one’s own life. A journey through the world of the people who calculate the monetary value of other people’s lives.
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Print the Legend
Probation Time
USA, 2014 color, video, 98’ Original Language: English
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English
Tkufat Mivchan Avigail Sperber
Luis Lopez, Clay Tweel
http://printthefilm.com/
www..go2films.com/NewReleases/Probation-Time
3D printing is changing the world – from printing guns and human organs, to dismantling the world’s industrial infrastructure by enabling home manufacturing. It’s “the next Industrial Revolution. ” For the first time in history, the stories of the human beings building an industry have been filmed. The result: Print the Legend, which follows the people racing to bring 3D printing to your desktop and into your life. For the winners, there are fortunes – and history – to be made. Print the Legend is the definitive 3D Printing Documentary.
SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Audax Films Seth Gordon
19 - 23 Ironmonger Row
Dan O’Meara
EC1V 3QN London
Chad Troutwine
England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
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Avigail, the director of this film, is dealing with a break-up from her girlfriend and with raising their child. At the same time, her religious family in Jerusalem is struggling with the “demons” threatening to overwhelm their daughter Ariella: alcoholism, petty thefts, and prison. Ariella is an Ethiopian girl, who was adopted by Avigail’s parents when she was four. Does the story of Ariella have an inevitable ending? Can she accept and absorb the love and concern that surround her? Is her family able to love her unconditionally? A portrayal of the fragile bonds that make up a family.
SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films 37/8 Issar Natanzon
PRODUCTION Ilanit Baumann, Enav Shenar INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Yes Docu – Israel
97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: +972 25831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
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Projections of America
:Puck and the Riddle of Codes
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 54’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English
In the 1940’s Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up an American secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world amidst World War II. They produced films that showed America’s strength not through images of tanks, but instead in portraits of farmers and window washers. Projections of America tells the dramatic story of Riskin and his team, and the risks they took to project a profoundly democratic vision of the nation that would soon emerge as the most powerful on earth.
Puck does not remember exactly, but it was somewhere around the age of seven when he taught himself the English language. He had to do so because he grew up with the Dutch language, which was not suitable for programming with languages such as Java (JS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). According to Puck, this programming lingo is his actual mother tongue. At twelve, he mastered eight languages. Puck sees the world, the ubiquitous digital technology, as one big playground. A world of unlimited possibilities, where rules can be unclear and Puck often outsmarts the adults . . .
:Puck en het Raadsel van de Codes Tessa Boerman
Peter Miller
www.docdays.de
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Docdays Productions Christian Popp
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
Riskin’s unit created brilliant, moving portraits of America that were unlike any films ever made before.
SALES / CONTACT: Suzanne van Voorst IDTV Docs
PRODUCTION IDTV Docs Carolijn Borgdorff
Kraanspoor 50
Suzanne van Voorst
1033SE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 314 3100 www.idtvdocs.nl docs@idtv.nl
Thirteen-year-old whiz kid Puck masters programming codes like no other. He calls for a great deal of admiration, but also awe; he leaves a trail of confusion. 340
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The Queen of Silence
The Queen’s New Garden
Germany / Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/80’ Original Language: Romany/Polish Subtitles: English
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
Dronningens Nye Have Jacob Topsøe
Agnieszka Zwiefka
http://deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/ authors-documentaries/the-queen-of-silence/
10 years old Denisa is an outcast in many ways. She is an illegal citizen of a gypsy camp in Poland, a woman in a patriarchal gypsy community and most of all – she doesn’t speak as no one has ever diagnosed her with severe hearing disabilities. She lives in a world of her own, full of rhythm and dance, imitating the glamorous women from the Bollywood DVDs she found in a nearby garbage. Dancing she can be anyone she wants, even a queen, and express what she can‘t say – joy, sadness and fear.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH
PRODUCTION ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Marienplatz 1
Heino Deckert
04103 Leipzig
Iris Pakulla
Germany tel: +49 341 2156638
CO-PRODUCTION: Chilli Productions – Poland,
www.deckert-distribution.com
Stefilm International – Italy
info@deckert-distribution.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: HBO Polska – Poland, ZDF – Germany, ARTE France – France, YLE – Finland
A deaf girl from an illegal Roma settling escapes the brutal reality of everyday life into the world of rhythm, dance and imagination. 342
For years the Danish monarch Queen Margrethe II has been looking out on a palace garden in sad decay. But then a large-scale project begins, involving hundreds of professionals. The goal: To make the gardens at Fredensborg shine again, as they did in their prime two hundred and fifty years ago. The Queen herself joins the decisionmaking processes, as historic trees are felled, tons of dirt moved around, and unique sculptures given new life. The job is in the hands of some of the kingdom’s most skilled architects and artisans. But nature puts up plenty of resistance.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation
PRODUCTION Ulrik Skotte
Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk
The documentary includes interviews with the Queen, describing her relation with Fredensborg and commenting on the work going on in the garden
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Race to the Bottom
Radical Evil
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English
Austria / Germany, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 52’/93’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English
Østarbejdernes Bagmænd Poul-Erik Heilbuth, Georg Larsen
Das Radikal Böse Stefan Ruzowitzky
www..radical-evil.com
We go behind the scenes of the companies that make fortunes sending workers from one part of Europe to another: from East to West. The enlargement of EU has embraced a large population of poor workers from Eastern Europe, who are more than willing to travel for work and to work for less under horrible conditions. The huge labour migration is being run by companies like Irish Atlanco and Polish Budomex who value discretion as exploitation, tax-evasion, illegal working conditions etc. seem to be the order of the day.
SALES / CONTACT: Helene Aurø
PRODUCTION DR Danish Broadcasting
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Corporation Emil Holms Kanal 20
Sidsel Marie Jacobsen
0999 København C Denmark
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR Danish Broadcasting
tel: +45 35203957
Corporation – Denmark
www.dr.dk heau@dr.dk
Radical Evil is an extraordinary film marked by Oscar®-winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky’s scenic transformations for which the film’s DoP Benedict Neuenfels has developed a unique visual language. The perpetrators are members of the Nazi death squads, who killed about 2 million Jewish civilians in Eastern Europe. We hear their thoughts as they wrote them down in letters, we hear what they said at court: Why they did not refuse to execute the horrific orders, how killing became a routine, how they were manipulated by their leaders. A panel of psychologists, historians and genocide experts helps us to understand.
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
PRODUCTION docMovie GmbH Wolfgang Richter
8050 Zurich
CO-PRODUCTION: Aichholzer Filmproduktion –
Switzerland
Austria
tel: +41 44 3122060 www.firsthandfilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF – Germany,
stories@firsthandfilms.com
ORF – Austria
A film about a world full of fraud, false expectations and loads of cash going in the wrong pockets. Why do normal people become mass murderers? Why do decent family fathers end up killing women, children and babies on a daily basis? 344
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Raiders
Ready to Live!
Israel / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
Georgian Republic, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English/ Russian/Georgian Subtitles: English
Approximately twenty thousand Russian houses, businesses, factories and private land have all been victims of hostile seizures annually, not by individuals, but by an organized corporation. This “enterprise” comprises criminal bosses, well-known politicians, oligarchs, police officers, judges and prosecutors – the “Raiders” – who will commit any crime in order to take over a lucrative business. The film offers a fascinating close-examination, by following raided victims, some of whom are now London-based exiled businessmen.
A celebration of the human spirit, this film features old people united in their passion for theatre and their need to escape the perils of old age and the everyday realities of life. In a ramshackle apartment in Tbilisi they hold public auditions and rehearse for their amateur theatrical review. The company comprises a former theatre prompter, a life model, an acclaimed scientist, a 99-year-old clown, a revolutionary poet, an opera singer and several aging prostitutes. Then Sian Philips, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Anne Firbank arrive unexpectedly. The result is life affirming and funny, even when their apartment building is demolished.
Alexander Gentelev
George Levashov-Tumanishvili
http://cinephil.co.il/raiders/
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment GmbH Simone Baumann
18 Levontin St.
Sasha Klein Productions LTD
6511207 Tel Aviv
Sasha Klein
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – Germany,
www.cinephil.co.il
ZDF – Germany,
info@cinephil.co.il
IBA - Channel 1 – Israel
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Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law – the “Raiders”. 346
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PRODUCTION Moon Globe Productions Marina Tsitsishvili
62 Titsian Tabidze St., 0179 Tbilisi Georgian Republic tel: +995 32 222293959 marinaesu@yahoo.com
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Rebellion
Relief
Poland / Qatar, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
USA / Mexico, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
The Round Table talks and the first, partially free, parliamentary elections in June 1989 brought hope for better future for many, also prisoners, often convicted because of minor criminal and economic offences. Great hopes for amnesty aroused at first soon billowed into disappointment, discontent and revolt. The documentary presents the largest prison riots in Europe after World War II that took place in the penitentiaries in Nowogard, Czarne and Goleniów.
Blanca, Angeles and Lupita grew up in different regions of Mexico with an abusive father figure and a submissive mother who failed to protect them. With their stories, each of them represent a different form of abuse towards women which still prevail in low-income Latin America. After many struggles, these single-mothers seek to educate themselves and acquire a profession they consider to be their true calling: Becoming Nurses. It is through their daily work with patients that they discover a path for emotional healing, learn to come to terms with their past, and enable a better future for their daughters.
Alivio Carla González Vargas
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a
PRODUCTION Vision House Krzysztof Dzieciolowski
31-143 Krakow
CO-PRODUCTION: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Poland
– Qatar
tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
The documentary presents the largest prison riots in Europe after World War II that took place in the penitentiaries in Poland in 1989.
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PRODUCTION The Whistling Man Liliana Pardo
12610 Promontory Road 90049 Los Angeles, California USA tel: +13105954990 carlagonzalez@mac.com
Three low-income, single mothers, from different regions in Mexico, attempt to heal painful memories through implementing a profession they’ve fought very hard to achieve: being nurses. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Rich Hill
Rio 50 Degrees
USA, 2014 color, video, 92’ Original Language: English
Brazil / England / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Julien Temple
www..richhillfilm.com/
The tragic and intimate Sundance winning story of 3 young boys living in desperate poverty in a poor Missouri town. Stores closed, people moved away, farms sold. The story of Rich Hill could be told in hundreds of towns across America. Amongst the squalor and shattered dreams the camera achieves a relationship with the boys that is startling in its unabashed honesty and crafted quality.
Not available: Latin America, USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan, France, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany, Norway, Taiwan, Iberia, BeneluxExclusive Pay TV rights, Non exclusive TVOD/SVOD Asia means Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia/Kampuchea, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar/Burma, North Korea, Palau, Pakistan.Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, YemenAlbania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey.
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PRODUCTION
Journeyman Pictures
Andrew Droz Palermo
4-6 High Street
Dinky Pictures
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
Tracy Droz Tragos
England tel: +44 20 87866059 www.journeyman.tv
A journey through time that reflects on the social, political, financial, musical and cultural revolutions that have taken place in Rio over the past 40 turbulent years. It is also a journey through the city’s evolving and eclectic music scene, and an expression on the power of music - as a form of protest and comment - that can be a catalyst for change. UK, France, Germany, Brazil territories not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Andre leBrocquy Metro Films
PRODUCTION Film & Music Entertainment Ltd. Mike Downey
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Samantha Taylor
WC2A 3ED London England
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BBC – England,
tel: +44 207 3965301
WDR/ARTE – Germany
andre.lebrocquy@Metro-Films.com
sales@journeyman.tv
Sundance winning doc on young rural Americans living in poverty. 350
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The Ritthem Bomber
The Rwandan Night
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Rwanda / Switzerland / USA, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 115’ Original Language: English/ Kinyarwanda/French Subtitles: Italian/French/English
De Bommenlegger van Ritthem Patrick Bisschops
La Nuit Rwandaise Gilbert Ndahayo
www.cobosfilms.nl
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On the Friday evening of September 23, 2011, a bomb exploded on the beach near Ritthem in Zeeland, the Netherlands. On October 6, 2011, two weeks after the explosion, the police, with a big display of power, handcuffed the Den Heijer family and transported them to a detention center in Middelburg. When two other men confessed to be responsible for the explosion, the family’s name was officially cleared. But for Ernst, Conny and Bob the harm was already done: the consequences of the miscarriage of justice turned out to be for life.
SALES / CONTACT: Carmen Cobos Cobos Films
PRODUCTION Cobos Films Carmen Cobos
Nic Witsenkade 18 D
Kees Rijninks
1017 ZS Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3203368 www.cobosfilms.nl ccobos@cobosfilms.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Gilbert Ndahayo Rwanda The Movie 60 STEUBEN STREET, APT. # 1 02909 PROVIDENCE
PRODUCTION Rwanda The Movie Gilbert Ndahayo CO-PRODUCTION: TRANSPOESIS – Switzerland
USA tel: +1 917 2754648 www.ndahayo.com g.ndahayo@me.com
Rwanda not available.
The Ritthem Bomber reconstructs the personal drama of the Den Heijer family who were wrongfully accused of a bomb explosion in Zeeland, The Netherlands.
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In The Rwandan Night, Ndahayo initiates dialogue between survivors and those attempting to place the genocide into a broader context. Handheld shots of remembrance gatherings featuring chilling eyewitness accounts by survivors alternate with interviews with academic researchers. At the heart of the film is a long and mesmerizing monologue by Fidele Sakindi, who describes how as a fouryear-old he survived the first genocide of 1959 and how the repeated flare-ups of ethnic violence have cast a dark shadow throughout his life.
Ndahayo’s second documentary feature The Rwandan Night is a gripping monologue chronicling the haunting memories of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda told from seven vantage points. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Sacromonte. The Wise of the Tribe
Saken
Spain, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 52’/94’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Jordan / Palestine, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
During the last 200 years Sacromonte, a neighborhood of Granada, has been the cradle of Flamenco and an international reference of cultural tourism. It has given birth to many of the best artists and it is a must for the travellers that visit their Cuevas (Caves) to enjoy their Zambras, the quintessential show of Flamenco at the Sacromonte neighbourhood. Until 1963, 4. 000 gypsies lived in this neighborhood, all of them had a direct connection with Flamenco and were a permanent school to new generations which learnt from the elders to sing, dance and play music. Flamenco was the soul of Sacromonte.
In the 1970’s the Palestinian Revolution, which was based in Lebanon, was fighting for the freedom of Palestine. Ibrahim a young 18-year-old Palestinian left his family in Kuwait to join that revolution. Two years after joining them, Ibrahim was shot leading to his paralysis, ending his dream of being a fighter. Saken is a film about Ibrahim and his caretaker Walid. Walid, an Egyptian man who came to Jordan to find work, unaware that his path would cross with Ibrahim’s, and that together they would experience one of the strongest bonds two human beings could share.
Sacromonte: Los Sabios de la Tribu Chus Gutierrez
Spain not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International
PRODUCTION Revolution Films Gorka Gallier
13 rue Portefoin
PIZCA GUTIERREZ, S.L.
75003 Paris
Pizca Gutiérrez
France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
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SALES / CONTACT: Majd Hijjawi
PRODUCTION Red Carbon Productions Majd Hijjawi
Jabal Amman 841292 Amman Jordan tel: +962 7 77385551 majd.hijjawi@gmail.com
Saken is a film about friendship and sacrifice, how some people’s destinies are linked and hard to be broken. 354
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Salam
Samba-Jazz Rio de Janeiro- New Orleans
Belgium / Chile, 2014 color, HDcam, 77’ Original Language: Urdu/Spanish Subtitles: English
Brazil, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: Portugese/English Subtitles: English
Constanza Erenchun, Tarek Raffoul, Yassin Velásquez
Jefferson Mello
www..terrabrasilisfilmes.com.br
Ibrahim, a converted Muslim, comes back to his country with his family after studying Islam for 7 years in Pakistan. With quiet tenacity, and supported by his faith, he must guide his family to carry on with their beliefs in a prejudiced environment, so they can reach internal harmony. By coincidence the family has chosen to live at a stone’s throw from the most important religious festival in Chile, an unorthodox mix of Christianity and indigenous beliefs. The juxtaposition of this devout Muslim family with a massive, colorful festival gives the ideal framework to examine human differences and human tolerance.
SALES / CONTACT: Giancarlo Nasi Cañas Don Quijote Films
PRODUCTION Don Quijote Films Giancarlo Nasi Cañas
Boonen Rivera 2427 7770049 Santiago Chile tel: +56 2 22043400 www.donquijotefilms.com giancarlo@donquijotefilms.com
Ibrahim Hanif is a converted muslim, he gives a second thought about the life style he has chosen, while we observe his complex daily life. 356
Directed by Jefferson Mello, author of the book “Os Caminhos do Jazz”, the film portrays, through unusual situations, the authentic artistic expression of distant peoples, but with a feeling in common: a passion for music. The aim of the work is to expose the similarity of musical and behavioral aspects of people of these two cities: it is samba and jazz, its myths, its agents, its traditions, freedoms, adjustments and mergers, their knowledge, inclusion or marginalization, artists from stage and from streets and the whole atmosphere of the rhythms. It is history, culture and entertainment condensing into a single composition.
SALES / CONTACT: David Hooper Espresso TV
PRODUCTION Terra Brasilis Filmes Lara Velho
25 York Villas BN1 3TS Brighton England tel: 441273730929 www.espressotv.co.uk ronja@espressotv.co.uk
This documentary intends to draw a parallel between Jazz and Samba, showing in the cities, in which they are most present: Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans.
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Sanda
The Saturn V Story
South Korea, 2013 color, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English
Here are a few middle-aged men who have been working for KT, suffering a great deal of hardship all along. They refused the company’s demand for early retirement. As a revenge, the company transferred them to remote regions, assigned them unusually hard tasks, and even bullied them in an organized way. The early retirement program was implemented with such an intensity especially towards the employees who were active in the progressive trade union.
In 1961, no one believed President Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. To win the race to space, the USA needed to create a multi-billion dollar space program. Using stunning NASA footage, this inspirational film tells the story of the colossal challenges NASA faced to fulfill Kennedy’s pledge. With the accolade of flying 24 men safely to the moon, Saturn V is considered one of mankind’s greatest technological achievements. This is the story of the most powerful machine ever built, and the men and women who believed it could fly.
Mi-re Kim
Elliot Weaver
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SALES / CONTACT: Mi-re Kim orifilm Taeyoung Apt. 1607, Hongje-dong Sudaemun-gu 120-093 Seoul South Korea tel: +81 10 87464827 sandaorifilm@gmail.com
PRODUCTION orifilm Mi-re Kim
SALES / CONTACT: David Hooper Espresso TV
PRODUCTION Free Spirit Film Chris Weaver
25 York Villas BN1 3TS Brighton England tel: 441273730929 www.espressotv.co.uk david@espressotv.co.uk
Poland, UK not available.
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Saving Mes Aynak
Sculpting the Spirits
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Afghan/English/French Subtitles: English
Scotland / Portugal, 2014 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Creole Subtitles: Portugese/English
Os Escultores dos Espíritos Luís Correia, Noe Mendelle
Brent Huffman
http://www..savingmesaynak.com/
www.bijagos.com
Saving Mes Ayank follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temore as he races against time to save Mes Aynak, an ancient 5,000-year-old city in Afghanistan, from its imminent destruction by a Chinese state-owned mining company. The Chinese company is eager to mine $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. Local Afghans witnessing the loss of their homes, cultural heritage and environment see no benefit from these corrupt deals. Saving Mes Ayank focuses on the Afghan archaeologists as they face an impossible battle against the Chinese, the Taliban and local politics to save their culture from imminent erasure.
SALES / CONTACT: Peter Jäger Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION German Camera Productions Brent Huffman
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Kartemquin Films
A-1070 Vienna
Zak Piper
USA tel: +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com peter@autlookfilms.com
Saving Mes Ayank follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temore as he races against time to save an ancient 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan threatened with imminent demolition by a Chinese mining company. 360
Sculpting the Spirits is about the magical world of the Bijagós people whose close and interdependent relationship with spirits and nature informs their daily life. It is through sculpture that the Bijagós best express that relationship. Banca, feeling old, tired and worried for the future of a society in profound transformation, does his last sculpture instructing his son in the hope he will take over. Guided by a storyteller and our characters’ voice in a journey exploring how women embody spirits while men sculpt or perform them.
SALES / CONTACT: Noe Mendelle SDI Productions Ltd
PRODUCTION Scottish Documentary Institute Noe Mendelle
74 Lauriston place
SDI Productions Ltd
EH39DF Edinburgh
Noe Mendelle
Scotland
CO-PRODUCTION: LX Filmes – Portugal
tel: +44 131 6515866 www.scottishdocinstitute.com n.mendelle@eca.ac.uk
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTP1 & 2 – Portugal
Sculpting the Spirits is about the magical world of the Bijagós people whose close and interdependent relationship with spirits and nature informs their daily life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Search for General Tso
See No Evil
USA, 2014 color, video, 60’/75’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English
Ian Cheney
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Jos de Putter
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Using this Westernized dish and its mysterious mastermind as a lens onto a larger story of immigration, adaptation, and innovation, the film follows a lighthearted journey, grounded in cultural and culinary history, through restaurants, Chinatowns, and the American imagination. Visits to present-day Chinese restaurants spark forays into the past, guided by chefs, scholars, and the occasional opinionated customer. The film’s lively soundtrack and shadow-puppet animations contribute both whimsy and momentum, as viewers find they’re on a search to answer a deeper question: how did Chinese food become so… American?
SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Wicked Delicate Films Ian Cheney
611 Broadway #630 Ne... 10012 New York USA tel: 2129958139 CargoFilm-Releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
A glance at an ape seems always a glance in the mirror. Consequently, a film that takes place in retirement homes for elderly apes is also a picture of human civilization – old, sometimes tired, sometimes happy, sometimes amazed, sometimes violent, sometimes playful. While we have trained them, taught them tricks, music and language, used them to obtain knowledge of space, velocity, immune systems and intelligence and admired them for all those capacities, we forgot about the essentials that they can still show us: empathy and compassion.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION DIEPTESCHERPTE Wink de Putter
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
It is almost impossible to look at an ape, a chimpanzee or bonobo in particular, and to see nothing but an ape.
The Search for General Tso is a documentary tracing the origins of Chinese American food through what is arguably one of the Western world’s most popular takeout meal––General Tso’s Chicken. 362
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Sentenced for Life
Shadow in Baghdad
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
France / Israel / USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 65’/52’ Original Language: Arabic/English/Hebrew Subtitles: French/English
Levenslang Carin Goeijers
Tsel be’Baghdad Duki Dror
www.pvhfilm.nl/sentencedforlife
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Hardly anyone in the Netherlands is aware that a life sentence in Holland literally means life imprisonment. Carin Goeijers portrays the married life of Louis, serving a life sentence, and his wife Jacqueline. Louis has been convicted for a double murder in 2005. In this film we slowly discover the essence of their unconditional love. In the routine of daily telephonecalls, letters and visits we follow Louis and Jacqueline in their struggle for justice. Through the inner workings of their relationship we come to understand what it means to be serving a life sentence in the Netherlands.
SALES / CONTACT: Pieter van Huystee Big Pete
PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39 1015 NA Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 421 0606 www.pvhfilm.nl pieter@pvhfilm.nl
During the Baath Party reign in Iraq tens of thousands Iraqis were abducted by the regime never to be heard from again. Forty years after she fled the country, Linda, an Israeli journalist revisits the dark pages of her native Iraq’s history in an attempt to piece together the story behind her own father’s disappearance. As Linda delves deeper into her family’s past, she comes to rely on her unlikely bond with an Iraqi journalist who helps her to uncover her father’s fate. Israel, the Netherlands not available.
SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films
PRODUCTION Zygote Films Duki Dror
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Seconde Vague productions
97787 Jerusalem
Paul Saadoun
Israel
CO-PRODUCTION: Zygote Films – Israel
tel: 97225831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Yes Docu – Israel
A thrilling cinematic journey to Baghdad in search of a missing father and a lost community. Portrait of Louis, serving a life sentence, and his wife. We come to understand what it means to be serving a life sentence in the Netherlands. 364
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The Shadow Lawyers
The Shelter
Egypt, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
Switzerland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 101’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Azeeza, Mostafa and Mohamed are three human rights lawyers in Egypt. They aren’t under spotlight; revolution creates doubled momentum in their work, personal life and political choices throughout three years. Although, the repeated challenges on different levels and they are concerned about the future but they continue. . .
A winter spent in the heart of an emergency shelter for homeless people in Lausanne. At the entrance to this hidden bunker there unfolds every night the same dramatic ritual, leading to occasionally violent confrontations. The watchmen have the difficult task of “sorting the poor”: women and children first, men later if there is room. Even if the shelter can hold 100 people, only 50 “chosen ones” will be allowed inside to receive a hot meal and a bed. The others know that the night will be a long one.
Mo7amy El Zell Samir Eshra
SALES / CONTACT: Samir Eshra Misr Alarabia Film Production 5 El Petrol St. from El borg, Lebanon Square, Mohandseen, Giza 12411 Cairo Egypt tel: +201224607691 eshra.samir@gmail.com
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L’Abri Fernand Melgar
PRODUCTION Misr Alarabia Film Production Ahmed Afifi
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
PRODUCTION Climage Fernand Melgar INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTS – Switzerland
France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com
If your aim is to achieve justice, be ready to the challenges. 366
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Youth
Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Shepherd’s Son
The Shore Break
Poland / Armenia, 2014 color, HDcam, 30’ Original Language: Armenian Subtitles: English
South Africa, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: Xhosa/English Subtitles: English
Somewhere in the high mountains of Armenia, there lives a blind shepherd Khachik. In spite of all the adversities, he has set up a family and leads a quiet life, single-handedly herding his goats on the steep slopes. However, when it turns out that his only son is losing his sight too and has to move to Yerevan to attend a school for the blind, Khachik faces a dilemma: should he keep on living the life of a humble shepherd, or should he move to the capital city too to be with his son?
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa’s Wild Coast. Nonhle wants to preserve their traditional Pondo lifestyle and graves through ecotourism while her older cousin Madiba intends to mine their land for titanium and to support the South African Government’s controversial plans to build a highway through the Wild Coast. Meanwhile, their Pondo King and Queen are dethroned by Government after speaking out against the developments. To fight for their throne the Pondo Royals must take Government to court who have replaced the King with his pro-mining nephew.
Piesn Pasterza Vahram Mkhitaryan
Ryley Grunenwald
www.theshorebreakmovie.com
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
PRODUCTION Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o. Katarzyna Slesicka
SALES / CONTACT: Ryley Grunenwald Shore Break Movie (Pty) Ltd
PRODUCTION Frank Films Odette Geldenhuys
9 rue Paul Gauguin
Marie-Vérité Films
76240 Le Mesnil Esnard
Ryley Grunenwald
France
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Knowledge Network – Canada
tel: +33 980520264 www.theshorebreakmovie.com ryley@mvfilms.co.za
Two cousins have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa’s Wild Coast. Meanwhile, their traditional King and Queen resisting unsustainable development, are deposed by the South African Government. 368
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A Shtetl in the Caribbean
Silenced
Israel / Belarus / Netherlands Antilles / USA / Ukraine, 2014 color, video, 99’ Original Language: Ukranian/Papiamento/ Hebrew/English/Dutch/Russian Subtitles: Dutch/English
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 102’ Original Language: English
Mark and Tsale, children of Eastern European Jews that fled to Curaçao, travel back to the home countries of their ancestors. We witness their discoveries, courage and despair while they are reminded of the sacrifices their parents had to make to provide their family with a better future. The film originated from a strong emotion: we are all part of the same family, no matter how different we are. The film is an homage to Curaçao, a small island with a big heart, and a place that has been a safe haven for strangers.
Behind world-changing headlines are those who risk everything to speak truth: the whistleblowers. AcademyAward-nominee James Spione shows what it means to challenge unethical behavior in the corridors of power in a post 9/11 US. Introducing three highly prominent contemporary whistleblowers, for the first time in one film, we gain access to the courage it takes to speak up, and the harsh consequences whistleblowers face. Following an alternative narrative of the post 9/11 national security establishment from within, the film exposes an increasingly harsh response by US governments to unauthorized disclosures. Two of the whistleblowers are now counsel to Edward Snowden.
Een Sjtetl in de Cariben Sherman de Jesus
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James Spione
http://silencedfilm.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Cecile van Eijk
PRODUCTION Memphis Film & Television Cecile van Eijk
Maliebaan 24-26
Sherman de Jesus
3581 CP Utrecht The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION: De Joodse Omroep – The
tel: +31 30 2332023
Netherlands
info@memphisfilm.net
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: De Joodse Omroep – The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Naked Edge Films Daniel Chalfen
18 Levontin St.
Morninglight Films, Inc
6511207 Tel Aviv
James Spione
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il
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Three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest corners of America’s war on terror, challenging a government that is increasingly determined to maintain secrecy. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Silent Night - the Real Story
Silicon Wadi - A Hightech Soap Opera
Austria, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English
USA / Israel, 2014 color, video, 82’ Original Language: English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
Stille Nacht - die Geschichte eines Weina Kurt Reindl
Yossi Bloch, Daniel Sivan
https://premium.redbullcontentpool.
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In 1831, the Strasser family, from Laimach in the Zillertal valley, made their way to Leipzig in Germany, where four of Strasser children performed Stille Nacht outside Austria for the first time. From there, the carol has made a triumphal march all over the world. One hundred and eighty years later, it has been translated into more than 300 languages and acknowledged as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. Servus TV retraced the Strassers’ arduous journey, shooting in locations including Leipzig and the small Strasser house in Laimach. Part 2 in production.
SALES / CONTACT: Berend Dreier Red Bull Media House Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15 5071 Wals
PRODUCTION Red Bull Media House Andrea Thek INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Servus TV – Austria
Austria tel: 00436622240-0 http://premium.redbullcontentpool. com
SALES / CONTACT: Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Plan B Productions Ronen Ben-Tal
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Ronen Ben-Tal
8050 Zurich
CO-PRODUCTION: kNow Productions – USA
Switzerland tel: +41 44 3122060 www.firsthandfilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YES – Israel
stories@firsthandfilms.com
berend.dreier@ at.redbullmediahouse.com
This documentary retraces the origins of the most renowned Christmas Carol in the world - “Silent Night”, that started its triumphal march from the Zillertal valley, Austria. 372
Israel is known in the world as a startup nation. There are actually more startups in Tel-Aviv than in the whole of Europe and more Venture Capital is invested per person then anywhere else in the world. 4 startup teams are accompanied for 2 years, from having an idea on a napkin and until they hit the jack pot or go bust. Throughout their personal rollercoaster of voyage we catch an intimate and exciting glance on how the ‘High-Tech Nation’ really works.
“Silicon Wadi” follow those who give everything to pursue their startup dreams. They sacrifice their families, friends and bank account and keep on fighting until they’re bankrupt - or millionaires. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
Simha
France / Syria, 2014 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: French/English
France, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 83’ Original Language: Georgian/ French/English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then die, others kill then film. In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and edit the footage posted on YouTube. From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young Kurdish from Homs began to chat with me, asking: ‘If your camera were here, in Homs, what would you be filming?”. Silvered Water is the story of that encounter
Borh in 1930 in Düsseldorf, Simha Arom’s family fled from Nazi Germany just after the KristalNacht in 1938. Simha miraculously escaped and managed to pass the Pyrénées and join Palestine in 1944. He then became a French horn player in Jerusalem Orchestra and had the opportunity to travel to Centrafrican Republic to create a brass-band there. This is how he got in touch with Pygmy musicians and spent the rest of his life to decipher and analyze traditional music. Today, at 84, his new challenge is to study Georgian polyphonies.
Ma’al al-Fidda Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan
www..docandfilm.com/
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SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film
PRODUCTION Proaction Film Diana El Jeiroudi
13 rue Portefoin
Les Films d’Ici
75003 Paris
Camille Laemle
France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
A young Kurdish from Homs began to chat with me, asking: ‘If your camera were here, in Homs, what would you be filming?”. Silvered Water is the story of that encounter 374
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SALES / CONTACT: Gabriel Chabanier Le Miroir
PRODUCTION Le Miroir Gabriel Chabanier
99 Boulevard de l’Hôpital 75013 Paris France tel: +3344240740 gabchab@lemiroir.com
Simha is a Jewish musician who became a world-famous ethnomusicologist by deciphering the polyphonies of the Pygmies of Central Africa. The film travels along his fieldworks and personal eventful life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Sleepless in New York
Sluizer Speaks
Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, DCP, 89’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Often laughed off as nothing more than an affliction of adolescence, lovesickness becomes the topic of a sensitive and compelling documentary film. Christian Frei dives into the frenzied nights of the newly rejected. Nights full of pain and tears, yet also wakefulness and creativity. Anthropologist Helen Fisher researches the astounding and profound processes that are unfolding in the brain of the lovesick. Has nature overdone it? The film explores the difficult path out of self-destructive obsessive behavior, toward a new self. And it wonders about the unwavering desire – despite it all – for love.
Sluizer Speaks tells the story of international filmmaker George Sluizer (The Vanishing, Dark Blood). The documentary follows the director from the moment he decided to finish his final film, Dark Blood, until his recent death. During this period Sluizer looks back on his life and his films.
Dennis Alink
www.sleepless-in-new-york.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION Christian Frei Filmproductions GMBH
SALES / CONTACT: Dennis Alink Dennis Alink Films
PRODUCTION Dennis Alink
Zuiderzeeweg
CO-PRODUCTION: – The Netherlands,
H3L1A8 Montreal
1095KJ Amsterdam
– The Netherlands
Canada
The Netherlands
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +31 6 42957000
www.filmstransit.com
dennisalink@hotmail.com
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Christian Frei
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Heartbreak, though underexamined, affects us all. Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei teams with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher to examine, through intimate portraits, the power and resilience of love despite it all. 376
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Sluizer Speaks follows international filmmaker George Sluizer from the moment he started working on his final film until his recent death.
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SmoKings
The Solitude of Memory
Switzerland / Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: German/English/Italian Subtitles: English
Mexico / USA, 2014 color, video, 20’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
¿Por qué el recuerdo? Juan Pablo González
Michele Fornasero
http://deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/economy/smokings/
The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in Turin, Italy. Originally Yesmoke was an online store for cheap cigarettes, selling mainly Philip Morris to millions of customers around the world. When “Big Tobacco” sued them for 550 Million dollars, they shut their website down and decided to build their own cigarette manufacturing company in the outskirts of Turin, taking the fight to Philip Morris. It’s like a gangster movie: there are no good guys, just small bad guys fighting big bad guys. Who’s going to win this unfair battle? David or Goliath?
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638
PRODUCTION Indyca
José, Nando’s father, remembers repeatedly the last words that he spoke to his son before he decided to take his own life. José then lives his days without him in a remarkably personal film, charged with poetry and introspection.
SALES / CONTACT: Marcela Arenas
Simone Catania
PRODUCTION Sin Sitio Producciones Juan Pablo González
CO-PRODUCTION: Ventura Films – Switzerland
5 de Mayo, # 37, Col. Axotla, Del. Álvaro Obregón
CO-PRODUCTION: University of Texas at Austin –
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RSI – Switzerland
01030 México D.F.
USA
Mexico
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A profound meditation on memory and grief achieved through the dialogue between its formal elementos and its characters. Two millionaire brothers declare war on Big Tabacco and against the Italian State. A war without good or evil. Who’s going to win? 378
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Solo - Out of a Dream
Something Better to Come
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Portugese/Dutch Subtitles: English
Denmark / Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
In 1994 Leonardo and Anselmo, 11 year old kids from the slums of Rio de Janeiro were portrayed in the Award-winning documentary Solo – the Law of the Favela. They dreamed of becoming soccer players, to escape poverty and violence. As a result of the film, Leonardo was invited to join Feyenoord. He made his dream come true: he played for Feyenoord and Ajax, and other teams in Europe. 20 years later, Solo - Out of a Dream tells the story of a life that was was miraculously destined by the camera. Leonardo realizes that nothing can be won without loss.
People struggle to live there, including eleven-year-old Yula, our protagonist. We follow Yula until she is twenty-five. Yula’s dream seems to be quite ordinary, she dreams of getting out of the dump one day. People still laugh, love, support and help each other in the face of horrible adversity. They still hope that one day their life will change for the better. Yula loses her father, she falls in love, gets pregnant, and gives her child up for adoption. Finally one day she breaks out and leaves the garbage dump in search of a new life. . a normal life.
Jos de Putter
Hanna Polak
www..danishdocumentary.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Jos de Putter DIEPTESCHERPTE
PRODUCTION DIEPTESCHERPTE Jos de Putter
WG Plein 385 1054SG Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31206766717 info@deepfocus.nl
1994: Leonardo dreams of becoming a soccer player to escape the slums of Rio. A film makes his dream come true. The sequel reflects on life & film, gains & losses.
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PRODUCTION Danish Documentary Production Sigrid Dyekjær
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Hanna Polak Films
H3L1A8 Montreal
Hanna Polak
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
It is an extraordinary, thirteen-year personal journey set in one of the bleakest urban places in the world: a large “svalka” ( garbage dump) just 13 miles away from Moscow. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Songs for Alexis
South To North
Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’ Original Language: English
France, 2014 color, HDcam, 109’ Original Language: Mandarin Subtitles: English
Sud Eau Nord Déplacer Antoine Boutet
Elvira Nana Lind
www..dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/ en/86679.aspx?id=86679
18-year-old Ryan is a talented musician and transgender, and began his transition from girl to boy 4 years earlier. He is wildly in love with the beautiful and enigmatic 16-year-old Alexis, but her parents’ disapproval of Ryan forces her to choose between her family and an unsafe future with the man she loves.
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SALES / CONTACT: Malene Iversen Copenhagen Bombay Refshalevej 147 1st floor
PRODUCTION Copenhagen Bombay Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes Julie Leerskov
1432 Copenhagen Denmark tel: +45 25419911 www.copenhagenbombay.com malene.iversen@ copenhagenbombay.com
The Nan Shui Bei Diao – North South Water Transfer – is the world’s largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China. Following the steps of this national project, this film maps the ever-changing state of a territory redesigned by engineers, where cement reaches beyond the grasslands, rivers leave their beds, deserts become forests, and where voices gradually grow stronger, asking for justice and the right to be heard. While matter is decomposing and individual concern is rising, an artificial, science fiction landscape is taking over.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Les Films du Présent Patrice Nezan
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com
Songs for Alexis is a classic coming of age love story about two passionate teenagers stuck in American suburbia. Following the Big Project of Chinese Rivers Diversion, Antoine Boutet makes a film about a territory transformation that is the consequence of a political choice. Is it the good choice ? 382
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Spartiates
Stand by Your President
Switzerland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 80’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 92’ Original Language: Georgian/Russian/Dutch Subtitles: English
Nicolas Wadimoff spent weeks filming in Marseille’s “Quartier nord”, a district of the city mainly known in the media for its drug trafficking, gang shootings and kalashnikovs. There, he met an amazing person, named Yvan Sorel. He runs a MMA (Mixed martial Arts) club in the middle of this neighbourhood. Day after day, all on his own, with no support from the state which gave up on this area a long time ago, he fights to keep the children and teenagers on the “right” path. Spartiates is a film about violence, education, moral values, faith and dignity.
Feature documentary about Sandra Roelofs, a Dutch girl who became the First Lady of exotic but politically instable Georgia. After ten turbulent years in office her husband, the now controversial Mikhael Saakashvili, cannot be re-elected. The presidential couple become citizens again. What does a life in the political limelight entail, and what is the price paid in your private life?
Nicolas Wadimoff
Ineke Smits
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris
PRODUCTION Akka Films Gorka Gallier INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TSR – Switzerland
France
SALES / CONTACT: Suzanne van Voorst IDTV Docs
PRODUCTION IDTV Docs Suzanne van Voorst
Kraanspoor 50 1033SE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +330142775687
tel: +31 20 314 3100
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Yvan Sorel runs a Mixed martial Arts club in Marseille. Day after day with no support from the state he fights to keep the children and teenagers on the “right” path. 384
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Standard
The Starfish Throwers
Belgium / France, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 52’/90’ Original Language: Dutch/French Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English
ONE CLUB! ONE COUNTRY! Throughout the last decades, Football has become the lowest common denominator of thousands of cultures. But this sport remains underestimated from a social point of view as a melting pot of exchanges between people. Standard is a comedy documentary which follows the daily life of various characters and their personal relations to their country and their football club, the «Standard Liège», the most popular & mythical club of Belgium.
Poignant, touching and stimulating, The Starfish Throwers explores how three of the world’s most fiercely compassionate individuals fight hunger and struggle to restore hope to the hopeless in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways. Half a world apart, a five-star chef in India, a retired school teacher in the US Midwest and a sixth-grade master gardener in South Carolina fight for a seemingly lost cause—hungeruntil they discover their impact may reach further than their actions. In each of their unique journeys, these unforgettable individuals are constantly reminded that hunger is far too big for one person to solve. But is it?
Benjamin MARQUET
Belgium, France not available.
Jesse Roesler
SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International
PRODUCTION Tertulia Gorka Gallier
13 rue Portefoin
Tarantula Belgique
75003 Paris
Joseph Rouschop
France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Films Transit International Inc.
Melody Gilbert
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Duende Cinema LLC
H3L1A8 Montreal
Jesse Roesler
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
Standard is a comedy documentary which follows the daily life of various characters and their personal relations to their country and their football club, the «Standard Liège». 386
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Starting Point
Stealing Socialism
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 25’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
Estonia, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Estonian Subtitles: English
Aneta ‘rebelled to the max’ at the age of nineteen and wound up in prison for murder. Nine years later, her daily routine takes her from behind the walls of the prison to a care home for the elderly. One of the residents, Helena, has been ill ever since infancy. In her opinion, the young woman has everything she could want for. And so Helena, whose knowledge of the world has come “from the windows of hospitals and coaches”, avidly asks Aneta about her life. A test awaits Aneta… and help will come from Helena.
A jolly documentary that tells a story of Soviet time life style when stealing from the state was an act of honour for common people. Stealing from corrupted state helped to get by and held moral high. The common man felt that the state was stealing from him all the time – so one had to get something back from the real robber – the state. When all bits and pieces of rubble were stolen from the state – the Soviet Union colossus fell apart.
Punkt wyjscia Michal Szczesniak
Riigivargad Manfred Vainokivi
https://www.facebook.com/Riigivargad?ref=hl
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a
PRODUCTION Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association
Ewa Jastrzebska
31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945
SALES / CONTACT: Marju Lepp Filmivabrik oü
PRODUCTION Filmivabrik oü Marju Lepp
Kunderi 8a 10121 Tallinn Estonia tel: +3726426228
www.polishdocs.pl
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Aneta at the age of nineteen and wound up in prison for murder. Nine years later she’s behind the walls of the prison to a care home for the elderly. Lively story of Soviet people who found ways to live under totalitarian pressure. The state robbed from citizens, but citizens also robbed the state and thus all 50 years. 388
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Storm in the Andes
The Storm Makers
Sweden / Peru, 2014 color, video, 140’/56’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Cambodia / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 66’ Original Language: Khmer Subtitles: English
Josefin grew up in Sweden with a family myth about how her Peruvian aunt Augusta died struggling for the poor in Peru. Augusta La Torre created the violent maoist guerilla Sendero Luminoso - Shining Path - together with her husband Abimael Guzman. In 1980 they initiated an internal war that lasted nearly twenty years and still profoundly marks Peru. Josefin defies her Peruvian/ Swedish family and travels to Peru to find out the truth. It changes her life forever.
At the age of 16, Aya, a young Cambodian peasant, was sold into slavery by a “Storm Maker” - a human trafficker – who promised her a job as a maid in Malaysia. Now back in her village, she is just as poor as when she left. Dishonoured and traumatised, what is left of her humanity? Aya’s fate, intertwined with the testimonies of human traffickers, offers an unsettling view of contemporary Cambodian society.
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Peru not available.
Guillaume Suon
SALES / CONTACT: Mikael Wiström Månharen Film & TV Barnängsgatan 60
PRODUCTION Månharen Film & TV Mikael Wiström
11641 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,
Sweden
NRK – Norway,
tel: +46708439509
YLE – Finland
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Tipasa Production Julien Roumy
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France
France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
www.familiafilm.se AND www.
http://catndocs.com/index.html
compadre.se
cat@catndocs.com
mikael@compadre.se
Swedish Josefin travels to Peru to find out the truth about her aunt Augusta who became a myth after her death as a terrorist leader in 1988.
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At the age of 16, Aya was sold into slavery. The unveiling of her fate, intertwined with the testimonies of human traffickers, offers an unsettling view of contemporary Cambodian society. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Storming Paradise
Sugar Blues
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 46’ Original Language: Dutch/English/Arabic Subtitles: English
Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 78’/52’ Original Language: English/Czech Subtitles: Czech/English
What drives young Western men to leave everyone and everything behind and travel to Syria to become a Jihad fighter? The media portrays these boys as vulnerable and derailed. Is there another side to this picture? In order to understand why they feel called upon to pick up arms and leave everything they know behind, filmmaker Floor van der Meulen abandons her Western perspective to be able to see things through the eyes of the fighters.
Sugar can kill! The director, Andrea, is diagnosed with gestational diabetes. She must avoid any form of refined sugar. That soon proves impossible though, because she finds sugar everywhere and in everything. Fear for her unborn baby changes the eating habits in Andrea’s family and motivates her investigation of the sugar industry. The quest begins at Andrea’s kitchen table and continues worldwide over nearly five years. A tragicomic, vibrant and emotional story that is informative and inspiring. . . A film that will set you free from the Sugar Blues!
Floor van der Meulen
Andrea Culkova
http://keydocs.nl/nl/movie/paradijsbestormers
http://sugarbluesfilm.com/en/
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
PRODUCTION KeyDocs Janneke Doolaard INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BNN – The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT: Daniel Tucek Golden Dawn ALDOVA 187/7
PRODUCTION Golden Dawn Daniel Tucek
18000 Prague
CO-PRODUCTION: Czech Television – Czech Republic,
Czech Republic
Karel Janecek – Czech Republic
tel: +420 224 826 725 goldendawn.cz dan@goldendawn.cz
One mother’s fight against the global sugar mafia. 392
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Sumé - The Sound of a Revolution
Super Unit
Denmark / Finland, 2014 color / black and white, video, 52’/73’ Original Language: Greenlandic/ English/Danish Subtitles: English
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
They took a nation’s heart and gave it a beat In the nineteen seventies the Greenlandic rock band Sumé released three albums that changed Greenland’s history. Sumé’s political songs were the first to be recorded in the Greenlandic language - a language that prior to Sumé didn’t have words for “oppression” or “revolution”. They influenced an era, boosting the political process of establishing Greenland’s Home Rule Government and the country’s first uprising against the Danish colonial powers.
Superjednostka (Super unit) is a huge block of flats designed as a “housing machine”. Up to three thousand people can live on 15 floors of the building. The main characters of the documentary are people living in Superjednostka and going through important moments of their lives there. This is where their emotions throb, their expectations engender, and their desires come true. . . or not. 762 flat doors and 762 stories. We are opening only a few of them.
SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Euroman
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Emile Peronard Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299
Superjednostka Teresa Czepiec
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation
PRODUCTION Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o. Katarzyna Slesicka
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945
www.dr.dk
www.polishdocs.pl
kimc@dr.dk
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
Sumé - The Sound of a Revolution is the story of an indigenous peoples’ fight for political freedom and cultural identity. 394
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The Supreme Price
Tea Time
USA / Nigeria, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Chile, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
La once Maite Alberdi
Joanna Lipper
www..joannalipper.com/
filmmaker/supreme-price
In 1993, Nigeria historically elected M. K. O. Abiola as president, promising to end years of military dictatorship. The election was later annulled in a military coup. Abiola was imprisoned and his wife, who became leader of the pro-democracy movement, was then assassinated, having fought against human rights violations by the military dictatorship. Their daughter, Hafsat, took over her parents’ fight for democracy, and heads a progressive women-empowering movement, trying to dismantle the patriarchal structure of Nigerian society. The film provides an unprecedented look inside of Africa’s most populous nation from the perspective of women, exposing a deep history of political corruption.
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Vertumnus Productions Joanna Lipper
18 Levontin St. 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il
Five elderly women religiously gather for tea, once a month, for the past 60 years. They argue and reconcile, evoke their common past, and try hard to show they are still current. Their personal stories and present events force them to question their education and beliefs. Despite all of them having attended the same religious school, they lived through a period of radical historic changes that few of them can comprehend and adapt to. Time flies, and it seems that nothing in their lives changes, until the absence of one of them makes them go through a period of evident transformation.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
PRODUCTION Micromundo Producciones Clara Taricco INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ITVS – USA
France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com
USA not available.
Hafsat Abiola strives to transform Nigeria’s corrupt governance culture into a democracy, capable of serving its most marginalized population: women, and to increase their participation in leadership roles. 396
Six elderly women have gathered for tea once a month, for the past sixty years. In this meetings they share their last years forgetting completely the short time they have left. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Temple of Dreams
That Sugar Film
Sweden, 2014 color, video, 59’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English
England / Australia, 2014 color, video, 101’ Original Language: English
Åsele is a depopulating community in remote Sweden, struggling for survival. When a Buddhist congregation plans to build a huge temple there the municipal councillor Bert-Rune Dahlberg puts all his efforts into the project. In the film we get to follow the home-loving Bert-Rune on an unlikely journey, taking him to the other side of the world. Critics mock him and the whole temple project, while Bert-Rune firmly believes it is a unique possibility to revive the whole community. A warm and humorous film about fighting against all odds and never giving up.
In the vein of “Supersize Me”, Damon Gameau becomes a human guineapig when he puts himself through a gruelling 6 week diet consuming the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. . . the average daily amount consumed by teenagers!
Jan Färingö, Ola Holmström
Damon Gameau
SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
PRODUCTION SVT - Sveriges Television
SALES / CONTACT: Andre leBrocquy
ABLuleå
Metro International
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Eva Sandelin
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
S-10510 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
WC2A 3ED London
Sweden tel: +46733651151
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tel: +44 20 73965301
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PRODUCTION Madman Entertainment Nick Batzias
England andre.lebrocquy@metro-films.com
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
A depopulating Swedish community suddenly regains hope as a Buddhist congregation plans to build a temple there. But will the temple become reality, or is it just an idle dream? 398
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This is My Land
This is Opera
France, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew Subtitles: English
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 45’ Original Language: Spanish/ German/English/Italian
Following several Israeli and Palestinian teachers and their pupils over one academic year the film reveals the different approach each of them uses to teach the complex narrative of their country’s history. The chosen schools are set in locations that emphasize the changing daily life within the conflict: Jerusalem, The North of Israel, Nablus, Ramallah and in a Jewish settlement. Through observing their exchanges and confrontations with students,the viewers obtain an intimate glimpse into the profound and long lasting effect that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict transmits onto the next generation.
This is Opera is a collection of the history of opera set in a full HD 30 x 45’ format, from Monteverdi to Bernstein. Innovative, imaginative edutainment. A format that provides the keys to understanding and enjoying the most popular operas in history. This Is Opera’s stunning visual approach takes the viewer on a journey of discovery for the secrets behind each opera and visits the exact locations where the stories take place: Vienna, London, Barcelona, Cairo, Paris, Rome, Venice, Bayreuth,. . . Pure emotion.
Tamara Erde
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Ramon Gener
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal
PRODUCTION Iliade & Films Tatiana Bouchain CO-PRODUCTION: SAYA – France
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
SALES / CONTACT: Arlette Peyret
PRODUCTION Brutalmedia Raimond Masllorens
Pujol, 22 ent D 08022 Barcelona Spain tel: +34 6 25494711 apeyret@brutalmedia.tv
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How do the Palestinian and Israeli education systems teach the history of their nations? This is Opera provides the keys to understanding and enjoying the most popular operas in history. 400
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This Lovely Horrible Life
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Farsi/Greek/ Arabic/Bengali/Italian/Tigrigna Subtitles: English
Mariachi is an essential part of Mexican culture. It’s more than just music; it’s a lifestyle that views the world from a macho perspective. The business is tough and women are seldom appreciated in this strictly male domain. Nevertheless, a handful of female musicians choose to be Mariachi. Against the backdrop of the folky ‘Día de los Muertes’ celebrations, we discover the female musicians who perform on the streets of Mexico. They lead two lives unlike their male counterparts. When the Mariachi women sing about death, love and poverty, life’s heaviness lightens
As a group of refugees tries to enter Europe illegally by boat, a storm suddenly appears and all hell breaks loose when an old man falls overboard. His reality shifts into another dimension, a dark, hallucinatory place where his soul seems to be stuck. Driven by a mysterious power and desperately in search for his loved ones, his soul passes by the everyday reality of many castaway refugees at the border of Europe. Wandering through this purgatory, he questions the meaning of his existence.
Que Caramba es la Vida Doris Dörrie
Morgan Knibbe
www.quecarambaeslavida.com
SALES / CONTACT: Robin Brinster Illumina Films
PRODUCTION Flying Moon Filmproduktion Helge Albers
Leidsestraat 106-lll 1017PG Amsterdam The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION: Senator Film – Germany INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WDR/ARTE – Germany
tel: +31 20 6248395 www.illuminafilms.nl robin@illuminafilms.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Katja Draaijer BALDR Film
PRODUCTION BALDR Film Katja Draaijer
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77
Frank Hoeve
1012 DC Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3032670 www.baldrfilm.nl katja@baldrfilm.nl
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Mexico City’s Plaza Garibaldi is the epicenter of mariachi music. Que Caramba es la Vida follows the women of mariachi, an underrepresented but bold presence on the Plaza Garibaldi. 402
Those Who Feel The Fire Burning offers a unique glimpse into the everyday life of real refugees, but in an aesthetic way never seen before.
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Those Who Go Those Who Stay
Those Who Said No
Austria, 2013 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Hebrew/French/ German/Arabic/Italian Subtitles: English/German
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’/89’ Original Language: Persian/English Subtitles: English/German/French
Ruth Beckermann
Nima Sarvestani
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Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories – leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily, an Arab musician in Galilee, nationalists drunk on beer in Vienna, the Capitoline Wolf, and three veiled young women trying for minutes to cross a busy road in Alexandria. Threads, cloth and textiles pop up like book marks in a fabric of movement, of travelling or seeking refuge.
SALES / CONTACT: Dietmar Schwärzler Sixpackfilm Neubaugasse 45/13
PRODUCTION Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
Ruth Beckermann
1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 1 52609900 www.sixpackfilm.com office@sixpackfilm.com
After decades of silence survivors and relatives of the victims of a mass atrocity establish a People’s Court. They will testify against a crime carried out by the Iranian regime, a crime that has been kept secret from the public for more than 25 years. Those responsible for these crimes now hold high government office in Iran. In 2013 an international tribunal, the Iran Tribunal, is convened in The Hague Court of Justice. Now is their chance to put Iran on trial for their crimes against humanity.
SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution GmbH Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION Nima Film Nima Sarvestani
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Germany
– Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,
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Those Who Go Those Who Stay is a story of being on the move, in the world and one’s own life. 404
For the first time an International People’s Tribunal convenes in The Hague court of justice to investigate the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran during the 1980s. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Time and Place
The Time There-After
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2013 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The mother of the filmmaker tells about how her life has gone when she first came to live in a neglected canal house fifty years ago. The rapid career of the father the dramatic separation; her four children she raised alone; she tries to remember the whole story. But she doesn’t want her face in the picture and there are only a few photo’s. Her story is however told in a visually attractive manner using unorthodox reconstruction techniques. In the end not everything will be as ‘real’ as expected.
A film about life with HIV and AIDS. We meet three men and two women; together their five life stories give a clear picture of how the impact of HIV differs from person to person. A life with HIV cannot be generalized. Being infected in the 80’s means you have to deal with more physical problems than those more recently infected. This documentary shows the drama of the 80’s and the 90’s, the enormous progress that has been made, life with HIV nowadays and the dreams and tasks for tomorrow.
Tijd en Plaats Martijn Veldhoen
Willem Aerts, Erwin Kokkelkoren
www..detijddaarna.nl/
SALES / CONTACT: Pieter van Huystee Big Pete
PRODUCTION Dutch Mountain Film René Huybrechtse
Noordermarkt 37-39
Pieter van Huystee Film
1015 NA Amsterdam
Pieter van Huystee
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 421 0606
CO-PRODUCTION: Pieter van Huystee Film – The
www.pvhfilm.nl
Netherlands
pieter@pvhfilm.nl
SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales
PRODUCTION IDTV Docs Anne Blom
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Les Enfants Terribles
1217 ZL Hilversum
Bert Oele
The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
A film about five people who talk about their life with HIV and AIDS nowadays and the dreams and tasks for tomorrow.
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Tito’s Glasses
To Russia with Love
Germany, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 80’ Original Language: Russian/English Subtitles: English
Adriana Altaras is a director, actress and writer. And she is from a country which no longer exists: Yugoslavia. The daughter of Jewish partisans who fought for Tito and later started a new life in post-war Germany, in this lovely film she tells the story of her “high maintenance family”. what can be seen as typical of the generation born after the War, and despite a high standard of living, the wounds from her parents’ past can be felt, even to this day, and the search for her own roots are her constant companion.
Leading up to the Olympics in Sochi, a law banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors” was passed in Russia. Gay Olympians were confronted with a tough decision: whether to protest in defense of their Russian comrades or compete in silence. Featuring world medalist Johnny Weir, Billie Jean King, Greg Louganis, Martina Navratilova, Simona Meiler and others.
Titos Brille Regina Schilling
Noam Gonick
www.ruthfilms.com
SALES / CONTACT: Ruth Diskin Ruth Diskin Films Ltd. P.O.Box 7153 91071 Jerusalem
PRODUCTION Zero One Film GmbH Thomas Kufus INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SWR – Germany
Israel
Cinephil
PRODUCTION Public Studio Elle Flanders
18 Levontin St.
Little Punk Inc.
6511207 TEL AVIV
Howard Gertler
Israel
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: EPIX film production, Inc. – USA
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www.ruthfilms.com
www.cinephil.co.il
cara@ruthfilms.com
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Drector, actress and writer Adriana Altaras is from a country that does not exist - and the search for her own roots is her constant companion. 408
SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky
Gay Olympians in Sochi 2014 confronted with a tough decision: whether to protest in defense of their Russian comrades or compete in silence.
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Tomorrow We Disappear
Top Doctors
USA / India, 2014 color, video, 84’ Original Language: English/Hindi Subtitles: English
Belgium, 2014 color, HDcam, 45’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Delhi´s most fascinating community the Kathputli Colony gives home to over 3. 000 artists, magicians, acrobats and puppeteers and their families. When their home is sold to real-estate developers these street artists must find a way to unite—or splinter apart forever.
Top Doctors closely follows ten Belgian specialists, in their extraordinary profession. Each day, they decide on the fates of people like you and me. They’re ambitious, determined and go to any length to solve the toughest medical problems. They challenge science and face the vulnerability of life. Like no other, they know euphoria and disappointment in their work. Ten of Belgian finest top doctors grant us a look into their heads and hearts.
Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber
Annick Bongers
www..twdfilm.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock
PRODUCTION
Autlook Filmsales
Joshua Cogan
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Old Friend
1070 Vienna
Jim Goldblum
Austria tel: +43720346934
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SALES / CONTACT: Sue Green The New Flemish Primitives Huart Hamoirlaan 107 1030 Brussel
PRODUCTION Woestijnvis NV Leen Lombaert INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VIER - SBS BELGIUM – Belgium
Belgium tel: +32 470 991 891
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Ten of Belgian finest top doctors grant us a look into their heads and hearts. 410
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Torsions
Toto and His Sisters
Australia / Bangladesh, 2014 color, HDcam, 108’ Original Language: Bengali Subtitles: English
Romania, 2014 color, video, 93’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: English
Torsions gathers together the rhythms, events, spiritual processes and phenomena of two religious festivals in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. The work intimately explores the actions of believers experiencing transcendent moments in the midst of the large, worshipping crowds to create a deeply sensorial experience of spiritual form.
Following his Emmy award-winning observational documentary, Alexander Nanau brings us the astonishing family story of Toto (10), and his sisters, Ana (17) and Andreea (15). During their mother’s imprisonment, Toto passionately learns dancing, reading and writing, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childhood should be. What happens when we discover that we can get more from life than our parents have to offer?
Toto si Surorile Lui Alexander Nanau
Omar Adnan Chowdhury
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SALES / CONTACT: Kate Vinen Parallel Cinema 14 Winburn Avenue 2032 Sydney
PRODUCTION Parallel Cinema Kate Vinen CO-PRODUCTION: Studio OC – Bangladesh
Australia tel: +44 7539 661 599 kate@katevinen.com
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Strada Film Marcian Lazar
Spittelberggasse 3/14
HBO Europe
1070 Vienna
Alexander Nanau
Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
Filmed in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, Torsions explores the actions of believers experiencing transcendent moments in the midst of the large, worshipping crowds to create a deeply sensorial experience of spiritual form. 412
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The Trail
Train Goes To Moscow
Switzerland, 2014 color, video, 75’ Original Language: French/Russian Subtitles: French/English
Italy / England, 2013 color / black and white, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Kolyma, some 10 000 km away from Moscow. A single road circumscribes the region: the Trail. Artist André Sugnaux takes us down this 2000-km long trail that was built by the gulag inmates and still affords access to the area’s rich goldmines.
It is 1957 and Alfonsine is just one of the many small towns in Italy’s EmiliaRomagna region where communist local governments have reigned supreme in the wake of the destruction wreaked by the war. Sauro and his friends dream of a world of peace, brotherhood, and equality: they dream of the Soviet Union. A once in a lifetime opportunity comes their way when they have the chance of attending the World Festival of Socialist Youth in Moscow. Sauro and his friends arm themselves with an 8mm camera to film their great journey. What happens when they come face to face with their utopian dream?
La Trace Enrico Pizzolato, Gabriel Tejedor
Il Treno va a Mosca Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
SALES / CONTACT: Priscilla Frey Earthling Productions
PRODUCTION Earthling Productions Priscilla Frey
Rue de la Coulouvrenière 8 1204 Genève Switzerland tel: +41787433734 pfrey@earthling-prod.net
Kolyma, 10’000km away from Moscow. A single road circumscribes the region: the Trail. This 2000-km long trail built by the gulag inmates and still affords access to the area’s rich goldmines. 414
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PRODUCTION Kiné Produzioni Audiovisive
Slingshot Films International Sales Claudio Giapponesi via Salita di Gretta 7/1
Vezfilm
34136 Trieste
Francesco Ragazzi
Italy tel: +39 3476273390 festivals@slingshotfilms.it
The Train Goes to Moscow chronicles the end of an era and the end of a dream through the eyes of Sauro Ravaglia, an amateur film-maker, barber and communist. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Transfixed
Trees that Walk
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’ Original Language: English
Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Transfixed tells the story of a very unconventional romance: transsexual Martine and straightidentifying John are “underdogs” with Asperger Syndrome, which makes communication with others extremely difficult. Despite their social limitations, both dream of getting married, but John refuses to tie the knot until Martine gets “a real vagina. ’ The only problem: no doctor in Canada will perform the surgery because Martine’s obesity makes her too great of a surgical risk. Will Martine and John find the happiness together that they deserve?
The tree is a figure that is the opposite of movement: it dies where it’s born. But there exists a second life that starts as soon as its saps stop flowing inside its vessels. Such is the life of wood. Its magic is not just that it burns, that it offers a campfire for warming the human race; there is a second life of the wood, it becomes boats for sailing or musical instruments for playing. . .
Alberi che Camminano Mattia Colombo
Alon Kol
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION Transfixed Films Alon Kol
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
SALES / CONTACT: Mario Lanti OH!PEN Italia srl
PRODUCTION OH!PEN Italia srl Mauro Calevi
via attilio benigni 60
Paola Porrini Bisson
00156 Roma
France
Italy
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
tel: +39 3927785345
http://catndocs.com/index.html
mariolanti@gmail.com
cat@catndocs.com
Transsexual Martine and her fiancé John have Asperger’s. They are so unique and different, that they break every possible convention.
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Trees that Walk recounts the life of the trees and their deep relationship with people that every day work hard to give to the wood a second life.
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Tristia - A Black Sea Odyssey
True Appaloosa
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 98’ Original Language: Ukranian/Bulgarian/ Romanian/Russian/Turkish/Georgian Subtitles: German/English
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Stanislaw Mucha takes you on an astonishing journey of 5,000 kilometres along the coasts of seven countries. Tristia captures the collision of mythic images, which seem to have overcome time, with the rapid, multi-cultural changes, as determined by postcommunist ideas: the megalomaniac highway and Olympic madness. The Black Sea is a place of contradictions: It is where Orient and Occident meet, splendor and tranquillity, civilization and barb. With his usual humorous glance, the German-Polish filmmaker Stanislaw Mucha discovers a region of Europe, which previously was hidden from our attention.
Scott Engstrom is a life long dedicated breeder of Appaloosa horses – a hardy North American breed known for its colourful spotted pattern. Scott has long believed that the true source of the North American Appaloosa horse was Asia and not Europe as the history books would have you believe. Then one night watching her TV, she saw a horse that looked like an Appaloosa in Kyrgyzstan. She contacted the producer of the show, Conor Woodman, and convinced him to return with her to Kyrgyzstan to find that horse and prove that Asia was the source of the True Appaloosa.
Conor Woodman
www..trueappaloosamovie.com/
SALES / CONTACT: Gerd Haag
PRODUCTION TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion
TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion GmbH GmbH & Co. KG & Co. KG
Kerstin Krieg
Apostelnstr. 11 50667 Cologne Germany tel: +4922165025900 www.tagtraum.de info@tagtraum.de
Once around the Black Sea: This odyssey leads through the fascinating coastal areas of seven countries, where romantic cliffs and picturesque harbors collide with colorful post-communist ghosts and Olympic-mania. 418
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PRODUCTION Hustler’s Trumpet Conor Woodman
124 St Georges Avenue N7 0AH London England tel: 447811123567 editorgr@yahoo.co.uk
True Appaloosa is an adventure story set in the wilds of Central Asia. An Appaloosa Horse breeder goes in search of the original horses that might have started the breed. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Tundra Tale
Twilight of A Life
Germany / Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Russian/Sami Subtitles: English
Belgium / Israel, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 65’/52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
At the outermost edge of Europe, 150 kilometers away from the nearest road lies the picturesque Sami village of Krasnoschchelye. It is the ancestral home of Alexandra Artieva and her family, traditional tundra reindeer herders. But they have a problem, their life sustaining tundra is also rich in minerals and other resources. Alexandra is a member of the newly formed Russian Sami parliament. She faces government and big business to save her village and culture from aggressively encroaching mining and other business ventures which are destroying her beloved tundra. 13,000 Sami villages have already perished.
How a son and a mother deals with aging in an optimistic way full of humor, sensitivity and hope. When the doctor told me that my mother, aged 94 had just a few weeks to live, I left my home and came back to Belgium to say goodbye. But my mother decided that the time to pass away had not yet come. We shared weeks and months of uncertainty and mystery. I found myself filming hours of incredible conversations, humoristic situations, poetic moments. Twilight of A Life is an Ode to Life!
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Au Crépuscule d’une Vie Sylvain Biegeleisen
SALES / CONTACT: Robin Brinster Illumina Films
PRODUCTION Lichtblick Filmproduktion Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
Leidsestraat 106-lll 1017PG Amsterdam The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION: Relation04 Media – Norway INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany
tel: +31 20 6248395 www.illuminafilms.nl robin@illuminafilms.nl
Alexandra, a member of the new Sami parliament in Russia, struggles to save her village and culture from encroaching mining and other business ventures which are destroying her beloved tundra.
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION ZEN PRODUCTIONS Sylvain Biegeleisen
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
CO-PRODUCTION: Take Five – Belgium INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 2 – Israel
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Twilight of A Life is an Ode to Life. How a son and a mother aged 94 deals with Aging in an optimistic way full of humor, sensitivity and hope.
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Two Raging Grannies
Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work
Norway, 2013 color, HDcam, 77’ Original Language: English
Austria / Switzerland / Germany, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Ulrich Seidl und die Bösen Buben Constantin Wulff
Håvard Bustnes
www..tworaginggrannies.com
www..autlookfilms.com/film/192/
A combination of curiosity and frustration with the status quo drives Shirley and Hinda, two gutsy, nearly 90-year-old American women, to seek answers to the burning question on everyone’s mind: How do we get out of this economic mess? Armed with courage, humour, a long friendship and a zest for life, Shirley and Hinda take to cities and towns across the US to engage everyone from the recently homeless to economy students, questioning the sustainability of continued economic growth, and demonstrating that it is never – ever – too late to get out and make a difference.
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Films Transit International Inc.
Håvard Bustnes
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Faction Film AS
H3L1A8 Montreal
Christian Falch
Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
Two Raging Grannies is a road movie where two old ladies embark on a quest to seek answers to the question: How do we get out of this economic mess? 422
The film portrait depicts the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a vivid picture of the much-debated “Seidl method”: The camera patiently looks over Seidl’s shoulder during the shooting of ‘In the Basement’ and accompanies him during rehearsals for his latest highly provocative stage production ‘Böse Buben/Fiese Männer’. In a suggestive montage, combining extensive interviews and clips from his earlier movies, this film gives a glimpse into the world of a fascinating and exceptional artist.
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14
PRODUCTION Navigator Film Produktion & Co. KG
Johannes Rosenberger
1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
This film portrait depicts the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a vivid picture of the much-debated “Seidl method”. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Under the Stars I Felt at Home
Unearthed
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Dutch
South Africa / USA / Canada, 2014 color, video, 93’ Original Language: English/Afrikaans Subtitles: English
Anneloor van Heemstra
http://mensjesrechten.nl
Jolynn Minnaar
www.un-earthed.com
Ilia is homesick, he longs for all the happiness he used to know. Even though he was born in the war, his life was almost normal in Afghanistan. Until the Taliban killed his brother and grandfather. Then everything changed forever. Now Ilia is living in the Netherlands, along with his sick mother, in a room as small as a closet. The other family members are not allowed to stay with them. Living in a asylum seekers’ home is downright rotten, Ilia feels. He wants to show this to other children.
SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON
PRODUCTION IKON Anouk Donker
Oude Amersfoortseweg 79 1213AC Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6474208 www.omroep.nl/ikon anouk.donker@ikon.nl
Even though Ilia was born in the war, his life was almost normal in Afghanistan. Now Ilia is living in the Netherlands in a room as small as a closet. 424
When Jolynn Minnaar first heard about the fracking in the Karoo, her home district, she was optimistic. Companies seeking to drill in this semi-arid area of South Africa promised the process of gas extraction would bring widespread prosperity for the poor communities. But after stumbling across a case of water contamination in Pennsylvania, Jolynn is drawn into an investigation which takes her across the United States - the home of the fracking technology. Her discoveries leave her horrified. As her government lifts the moratorium on fracking, the race begins to share her findings with the Karoo - before it’s too late.
SALES / CONTACT: Dylan Voogt Stage 5 Films
PRODUCTION Zootee Studios Stacey Keppler
2 Harlea Court, 38 Breda Street,
Stage 5 Films
Oranjezicht
Saskia Schiel
8001 Cape Town South Africa tel: +27 766391914 www.stage5films.com dylan@stage5films.com
The deeper the dig, the darker the secrets. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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The Unwelcoming
Uyghurs, Prisoners of the Absurd
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew Subtitles: English
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 98’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
The challenges of immigration are exposed in this touching film where we follow a family who moves to Israel in 2006 from the Tunisian Island of Djerba. Though the community to which they arrive seems like the most natural place for them to set up their new home, tensions soon arise between the wider community and the Uzan family – and within the family as well. The younger generation want to integrate into their new surroundings, while their father feels that his honor is lost. The realities of his new country are at odds with his desire to earn an honest living.
The incredible odyssey of a group of men from China’s persecuted Uyghur minority, detained in Guantánamo as terrorists. Exposing the cold logic of post–September 11 geopolitical gamemasters who flout international law as they shift their pawns, this documentary is part human drama, part political thriller, and both thoughtprovoking and moving.
Zeit Al Ma’a Robby Elmaliah
Ouïghours, prisonniers de l’absurde Patricio Henriquez
www.ruthfilms.com
SALES / CONTACT: Ruth Diskin Ruth Diskin Films Ltd. P.O.Box 7153 91071 Jerusalem
PRODUCTION Yulari Films Ruthie Shatz INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 8 – Israel
SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION Macumba Media Patricio Henriquez
3155 Cote de liesse Road
National Film Board of Canada
H4N 2N4 Montrealq
Colette Loumède
Israel
Canada
tel: +972 2 6724256
tel: +1-514-951-6512
www.ruthfilms.com
www.nfb.ca
cara@ruthfilms.com
l.price@nfb.ca
Tensions arise between the wider community and within the Uzan family, who have recently immigrated to Israel from Tunisa. 426
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Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment | Experimental
Varvilla
Vast
Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Argentina, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
At the gates of the National Park of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, in Succiso, the inhabitants have managed to save their small country from abandonment by creating a cooperative community. Valley of the Knights, cooperative’s name, now runs a bar, a farm, a grocery store and is active in the tourism, farming of sheep, the maintenance of the territory and in the management of the national park’s visitor center. Economics professor Naori Tsuda Osaka University who is conducting a study of cooperative communities spread throughout the world, says that a similar pattern exists only in Australia.
Vast is a documentary which, adapting its duration to the geographical location it portrays -Argentina’s Pampas-, cannot ‘end’. The question arising from the images is, perhaps, as old as our country: How to conceive of this area which is almost boundless, immeasurable -not only in its physical but also in its social dimension- as a ’shared ground’?
La extensión Christian Delgado, Nicolás Testoni
Valerio Gnesini
SALES / CONTACT: Valerio Gnesini Kaleidoscope Factory Via Dello Sport 19
PRODUCTION Gadoev Valentina Damiani CO-PRODUCTION: Kaleidoscope Factory – Italy
40124 Bologna
SALES / CONTACT: Nicolás Testoni &
PRODUCTION Nicolás Testoni
Tucumán 120 8000 Bahía Blanca
Italy
Argentina
tel: +39 347 3759248
tel: +54 0291 4523207
valeriognesini@hotmail.com
nicolastestoni@gmail.com
A unique example of cooperative community, which is useful to prevent the depopulation of the smaller countries.
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Vast is a film about being lost in your own country.
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Vessel
Voices from the Booth
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: Portugese/Dutch/ Swahili/Spanish/Arabic/Polish/English Subtitles: English
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam, 49’ Original Language: Hebrew/Russian Subtitles: English
http://vesselthefilm.com/
Voices-from-the-Booth
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts sails a ship around the world, providing abortions at sea for women with no legal alternative. With each roadblock she faces comes a more refined mission, until Rebecca realizes she can use new technologies to bypass law – and train women to give themselves abortions using WHO-researched protocols with pills. We witness her create an underground network of emboldened, informed activists who trust women to handle abortion themselves. Vessel is Rebecca’s story: one of a woman who hears and answers a calling, and transforms a wildly improbable idea into a global movement.
We meet them at school gates, in underground parking lots, at the entrances of shopping malls, and many other places. There are tens of thousands of security guards in Israel, most of them of Russian origin. They immigrated to Israel at an advanced age and found themselves doing security work in order to survive. Many of them used to be well-respected professionals or artists in their pasts. The heroes of our film, former musicians, a writer and a surgeon, insist on remaining creative in spite of it all – an optimistic note in the quasi-tragic destiny of these people.
Kolot Mi-habudke Lina Chaplin
Diana Whitten
www..go2films.com/Coming-Soon/
SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Mitchell Block, Diana Whitten
18 Levontin St. 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il
USA, Sweden not available.
Rebecca Gomperts sails a ship through international law loopholes, providing abortions at sea, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to self-handle abortion. 430
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SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films 37/8 Issar Natanzon 97787 Jerusalem
PRODUCTION Daniela Reiss Razon CO-PRODUCTION: – Israel
Israel
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: 2nd Broadcasting Authority –
tel: 97225831371
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www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
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We meet them everywhere in Israel, tens of thousands security guards, mostly immigrants of Russian origin. Some of them insist on remaining creative in spite of it all. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Vulva 3.0 Between Tabu and Fine-Tuning
W. Sisters’Beauty Salon
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 30’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
The world around us constantly puts naked women and their genitalia on display. But many women are still deeply prudish when it comes to the relationship with their own body. In public we see airbrushed anatomies, which conforms to the porn industry’s ideal image of the smooth, perfectly shaped vulva that has little to do with the actual shape of most female genitalia. The insecurity of many women is a goldmine for cosmetic surgery promising the perfect vagina. VULVA 3. 0 looks at sex education and censorship, the airbrushing of ‘misshapen’ labia in pornographic images, the cosmetic genital surgery.
In 2012, a peculiar beauty salon was opened in Szczecin. It is the only beauty parlour for women with cancer. It is run by two sisters, Joanna Wiszniewska and Jolanta Wiewióra, who know from their own experience how troublesome it may be for patients to visit to a hairdresser or a beautician. Their establishment is different. Clients have an opportunity to talk freely about their dreams and fears related to the illness.
Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann
www.mmmfilm.de
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION MMM filmproduktion Ulrike Zimmermann
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada
Salon Siostr W. Jakub Stozek
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation
PRODUCTION AFILM Anna Zajaczkowska
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.filmstransit.com
www.polishdocs.pl
info@filmstransit.com
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
We live in hypersexualised times. The world around us constantly puts naked women and their genitalia on display. 432
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Waiting for August
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
Belgium, 2014 color, HDcam, 92’/52’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: English
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: English/French/Spanish Subtitles: English
Georgiana Halmac, eldest daughter of her family, is turning fifteen this winter. She lives with her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau (Romania). Their mother Liliana, an economic migrant in Torino, will not be back till the summer. During mother’s absence, Georgiana is catapulted to the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short, when she becomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she moves ahead improvising. Phone conversations with her mom are her only guidelines.
Walking hundreds of miles with only nature and their own thoughts for company, our characters are forced to step out of their comfort zones, look inward and confront their fears and doubts. Whatever their motivation, no one can anticipate the challenges and triumphs the Camino has in store for them or what transformations they will undergo by the trail’s end. A surprising and moving film which has sold out or won awards at every festival it’s featured in.
Lydia Smith
Teodora Ana Mihai
http://waitingforaugust.be/
www..caminodocumentary.org
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION Clin d’Oeil Films Hanne Phlypo
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Antoine Vermeesch
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION: A Private View – Belgium
Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VRT Canvas – Belgium
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.
SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films
PRODUCTION Sally Bentley, Theresa TolliniColeman
38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: 0034 634 869 646 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.fr
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Walking Under Water
Walls
Poland / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 77’/52’/43’ Original Language: Indonesian Subtitles: English/German
Spain, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 10’ Original Language: English Subtitles: Spanish/English
Eliza Kubarska
Miguel López Beraza
www..agenciafreak.com/en/film/WALLS-/497
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The Badjao are sea nomads living near Borneo. For centuaries, they lived on the sea and from the sea. But the fishing industry and diving resorts make it difficult for them to survive. With his uncle Alexan, young Sari goes on his first fishing trip, an initiation into the adult world. A fantastic underwater documentary with beautiful imagery and a moving story. Germany, France not available
SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION Rise and Shine Monika Braid
A day in the life of Mr. Istvan and Ms. Magdi, neighbors for many years, is narrated by the building of Budapest where both live. The walls surrounding them reveal their small passions, stories and routines.
SALES / CONTACT: Millan Luis Vazquez-Ortiz Freak Independent Film Agency
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Braidmade Films
10997 Berlin
Monika Braid
28036 Madrid
Germany
Spain
tel: +49 30 47372980
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www.riseandshine-berlin.de
Germany,
www.agenciafreak.com
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PRODUCTION Making DOC Silvia Venegas
Hiedra, 2C
tel: +34 67 9134021 millan@agenciafreak.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany
Walking Under Water will take us under the waves to walk with the last compressor divers from the Badjao tribe in Mabul Island.
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The Waltz
The Wanted 18
Chile / Argentina, 2013 color, HDcam, 80’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Palestine / Canada / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: English
The tale of two parallel stories narrates the student movement in Chile. A teenager immersed in the political climate in his school and a former political prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship find in the social and student’s movement the sense to their own history. Darío (17) and Miguel Ángel (58) both join the “1800 hours for free education”- marathon, one of the most important expressions of the Chilean student movement in the past years. Together with the viewer they share their different experiences and points of view, connecting history with the current capital of Chile.
Soon after the dawn of the 1987 Palestinian uprising, residents of the town of Beit Sahour secretly bought 18 cows from an Israeli kibbutz. Documenting this seemingly small act of resistance – one that allowed Palestinians to provide milk for their children – The Wanted 18 encompasses comedy, drama and absurd tragedy.
El Vals de los Inútiles Edison Cajas
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Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali
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SALES / CONTACT: Valentín Romero 3boxmedia
PRODUCTION Cusicanqui Films Catalina Donoso
SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION Intuitive Pictures inc. Ina Fichman
3155 Cote de liesse Road
National Film Board of Canada
H4N 2N4 Montrealq
Lorne Price
Germany
Canada
tel: +49 22116924890
tel: +1-514-951-6512
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www.3boxmedia.com
www.nfb.ca
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valentin@3boxmedia.com
l.price@nfb.ca
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Hirschbergstr. 16 50939 Köln
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War and War Crime
War of Lies
Belgium, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’/52’ Original Language: Vietnamese Subtitles: English/French/Dutch
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: Arabic/English Subtitles: English
The Vietnam war made allready 4 to 5 million victims, Orange Agent, sprayed by U. S. aircraft to defoliate and weaken the enemy, is continuing its chemical destruction work. Thousands children are born each year, severely disabled by this persistant contamination. USA refuse to acknowledge their strategy’s consequences, and Monsanto was just granted a Protection Act by President Obama.
This is the story of an Iraqi refugee, whose information about portable weapons of mass destruction passed through the hands of the BND, MI6 and CIA intelligence agencies, finally to be used by the U. S. government as the legitimation to invade Iraq in 2003. Today we know the war was based on a lie. The press portrayed Rafed Aljanabi as the man who bears the blame of war. However he proudly presents himself as the man who helped remove Saddam Hussein. How could one man walk all over the world’s intelligence services and how came a lie the pretended truth?
Krieg der Lügen Matthias Bittner
SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Ventes - CBA/WIP Sales PIL, Bat. T, c/o WIP, 36 rue de Mulhouse
PRODUCTION Luna Blue Film Serge Kestemont INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTBF – Belgium
4020 Liège Belgium tel: +3243401040 www.ventes-cbawip-sales.be ventes-cbawip-sales@skynet.be
The Vietnam war, soon on a 50 years commemoration, is still on for many vietnamese families, as many babies are born with severe handicaps, due to the use of orange agent. 440
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SALES / CONTACT: Ori Bader Cinephil
PRODUCTION Zischlermann Filmproduktion GmbH
18 Levontin St.
Susanne Mann
6511207 Tel Aviv
Paul Zischler
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129
CO-PRODUCTION: Film- und Fernseh-Labor
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Who really is the man behind „Curveball“ and what decisive role did he play for the War in Iraq? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Warriors from the North
We Are 18
Denmark / Somalia, 2014 color, video, 59’ Original Language: English/Danish Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
In a marquee in Mogadishu, the newly graduated doctors are being celebrated. In the front row, a young journalist covers the happy event. No one knows that this young “journalist” in just a few seconds, will blow himself up and take several young doctors with him in the blast. Warriors from the North is about young Somali-European men who leave their comfortable everyday lives in European cities to become fighters, and perhaps even suicide bombers, in Somalia - one of the most dangerous and impoverished places in the world.
A group of 18-year-old boys from very diverse backgrounds is put together disconnected from the outside world. They talk about what it is like to be on the border of adulthood: all the options and opportunities and the freedom to make their own decisions. And they all have an entire lifetime ahead of them, filled with choices to make. Kaan wants to condense this moment and make us relive it: that envious, confusing and almost terrifying energy that comes with being 18. The film is structured like a boys novel and balances on the thrilling edge of fiction and non-fiction.
Wij zijn 18 Tomas Kaan
www.hazazahpictures.com
SALES / CONTACT: Helene Aurø
PRODUCTION Made in Copenhagen
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Helle Faber Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR Danish Broadcasting
Denmark
Corporation – Denmark
tel: +45 35203957 www.dr.dk heau@dr.dk
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PRODUCTION HazazaH Pictures Maarten Kuit INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31204226422 hazazahpictures.com maarten@hazazah.com
Confessions on the magical moment of transition into adulthood. Who are they, those 18-year-old boys? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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We Are Twisted Fucking S*ster
We Were Rebels
Germany / USA, 2014 color / black and white, video, 136’ Original Language: English
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 93’/58’ Original Language: English/Dinka/Arabic Subtitles: English
Andrew Horn
https://www.facebook.com/
Florian Schewe, Katharina von Schroeder
www.perfectshotfilms.com
TwistedSisterTheMovie
In their club days, Twisted Sister were the Grand Funk of Glam and the NY Dolls of Metal, channeling youthful fury - and a wicked sense of humor - into a sort of blue collar performance art, both sustained by, and trapped in, the “velvet noose” of suburban bar-band superstardom. If you know them from their hit songs, MTV videos and massive stadium shows, this is the untold story of how they became that band. A smart, savvy, and savagely funny story of a 10 year odyssey to overnight success.
SALES / CONTACT: Andrew Horn
PRODUCTION Andrew Horn Filmproduktion Andrew Horn
Marienburger Str. 28 10405 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 441 9233 ahorn101@gmail.com
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Agel, a former child soldier, returns to South Sudan to help build up his country. As captain of the national basketball team, Agel coaches the team through their first international match. The conflicts within the team bear a striking resemblance to the political problems festering across the country. An injury ends up forcing Agel to leave the team, and he goes on to form an NGO. Today, the world’s youngest nation is once again teetering on the edge of a precipice: More than half a million people are fleeing the country, and Agel is fighting as a soldier once again.
SALES / CONTACT: Irena Taskovski Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION Perfect Shot Films Michael Bogar
7 Granard Business Centre NW7 2DQ London
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF – Germany
England tel: +44 79 57105672 www.taskovskifilms.com irena@taskovskifilms.com
We Were Rebels tells the story of Agel, a former child soldier who returns home to help build South Sudan – the youngest country in the world.
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Web
Web Junkie
USA, 2013 color, video, 58’/83’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Israel / USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’/52’ Original Language: Cantonese Subtitles: English
Michael Kleiman
Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam
http://cargofilm-releasing.
http://webjunkiemovie.com/
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For 10 months, award-winning director, Michael Kleiman, lived with families in small villages in Peru’s Andes Mountains and Amazon Jungle as children there experienced laptops and the Internet for the first time via the One Laptop per Child program. The film captures both the villagers’ first interactions with connective technologies – their discovery of tools like Google and Wikipedia, their hilarious search through videos on YouTube, and poignant moments in which they connect with family members they haven’t seen in years.
China is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. Web Junkie exposes a Beijing rehab centre where Chinese teenagers are being “deprogrammed”. SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Righteous Pictures Michael Pertnoy
SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION
Dogwoof
Shosh Shlam
611 Broadway #630 Ne...
102 Hatton Sq
kNow Productions
10012 New York
EC1N 7RJ London
Neta Zwebner-Zaibert
USA
England
tel: +1 2129958139
tel: +44 2078317252
CargoFilm-Releasing.com
http://dogwoofglobal.com/
dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
ana@dogwoof.com
Available in 58’ & 83’
Web is a cutting-edge documentary film that mixes a deeply personal story about people in the most remote parts of the world using digital technologies for the first time. 446
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Werka
What’s Left ? Adventures in Italian Politics
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 40’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
What are the limits of personal sacrifice? The film tells the story of a match factory worker who takes up a remarkable challenge. We observe several crucial months in her life, as she attempts to turn her dreams into reality. It’s the story of extraordinary transformation. About love that gives her life meaning.
Both filmmakers, frustrated in their hope for a shift to a more equal and progressive Italy, decide to find out why theirs is such a persistently right-wing country – and what it still means to be on the Left today. As they set off on their quest they also look back to what Italy used to be, through their own family history. Luca grew up in a communist family when Italy had the strongest communist party in Europe, while Gustav grew up in the conservative mountain area of South Tyrol, far away from any leftish ideals, until the Green Party was born.
Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Pawel Lozinski
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
PRODUCTION Lozinski Production Pawel Lozinski
SALES / CONTACT: Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION HiQ productions Gustav Hofer
252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L1A8 Montreal Canada tel: 1-514-844-3358 www.filmstransit.com info@filmstransit.com
What happens when a country loses its political identity? Is the concept of “left” and “right” a thing of the past? 448
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What’s next Karolinka - Norwid and Nicole
When People Die They Sing Songs
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
Russia / USA, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 48’/40’/30’ Original Language: English Subtitles: Russian
Co dalej z toba, Karolinko - Norwid i Nicole Karolina Bendera
Olga Lvoff
http://whenpeoplediefilm.com
An extraordinary common day of a single mother who brings up two kids. In 2001 she took part in a feature film by Robert Glinski „Hi, Tereska” where she played one of the main characters. She received Young Artist Awards for Best Young Actress in USA. In 2003 the documentary was made about her when, as a teenage mother, she was trying to build a normal home for her child. A decade later we can watch her in another documentary where she struggles with the hardships of being a single mum.
SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
PRODUCTION Filmpolis Agata Szymanska
It is a story of mother and daughter who resolve to uncover their wartime past buried half a century ago. After suffering a stroke, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Regina is getting music therapy. Accompanied by music therapist, Regina sings Yiddish and French songs of her youth. Her daughter Sonia is with her at every session. This revitalizes their mother-daughter relationship and emboldens them to revisit their past. With Regina’s help, Sonia tries to capture their family story. The past they were so eager to forget they are now anxious to remember. But Regina’s memory is rapidly succumbing to dementia.
SALES / CONTACT: Olga Lvoff DiploDocus
PRODUCTION DiploDocus Olga Lvoff
165 East 118 Street, 2L 10035 New York USA tel: +1 917-254-0279 klyachinao@gmail.com
Yiddish songs make a Holocaust survivor Regina uncover her past after decades of silence. Her daughter races with her mother’s dementia to capture the story. 450
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White Death
Who the Fuck Is Jett Rebel
Chile, 2014 black and white, 16mm, 17’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English
White Death is the impressionist portrait of a landscape marked by tragedy. A ghostly stroll among the vestiges of a story where forty-four young soldiers and one sergeant were pushed to their deaths in the mountainous Antuco.
Dutch musician Jelte Tuinstra (23) is widely seen as the biggest rock star promise The Netherlands have seen in decades. He dreams of living a life of rock ‘n’ roll and more so: fame. There is only one problem: Tuinstra himself is way too shy to hit the spotlight. Therefore he creates a daring alter ego he calls ‘Jett Rebel’. Shortly after that Tuinstra gets confronted with the downside of his decision: while his alter ego Jett Rebel is gaining fame very fast, Tuinstra himself is getting isolated and more and more insecure.
Muerte Blanca Roberto Collío
Linda Hakeboom
SALES / CONTACT: Isabel Orellana Guarello
PRODUCTION Isabel Orellana Guarello
Los estanques 1916 7500731 Santiago Chile tel: +56 9 56395746 isa.orellanag@gmail.com
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PRODUCTION Linda Hakeboom
Weissenbruchstraat 8
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VARA – The Netherlands
1058 KM Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31650410820 www.lindahakeboom.nl linda@lindahakeboom.com
To be able to cope with the pressure of fame, Dutch musician Jelte Tuinstra (23) creates a daring alter ego but finds himself even more isolated and insecure. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Wind on the Moon
Winter, Love & Other Rules
South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
Iran, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Persian Subtitles: English
Charming the world’s documentary fans with the love story of a deaf blind poet in his previous work Planet of Snail, the director switches the focus to a mother whose daughter was born with the same condition in his new film, Wind on the Moon. Without having seen or heard anything for the last 19 years, Yeji looks as if she’s floating in the space like an astronaut. Still the mother cannot give up, since she encountered some magical moments of being connected. The film invites us to a mother and daughter’s journey into finding the words of their own.
The Wood and Paper Industries in north of Iran exploit forests so all the animal farmers should leave the forest as soon as possible. The advantage of the farmers is to get either land, money or job in return. But Sabz Ali, a 71-year old animal farmer whose job is not recognized by the Forestry Administration, is struggling to prove to the public that he’s right. The film follows him in his actual life and his past which is about the history of a simple animal farmer in this century in Iran.
Zemestan, Eshgh va Sayer-e Ghavanin Yaser Khayer
Seung-Jun Yi
www.nooripictures.com
SALES / CONTACT: Jihye Park Documentary Airways
PRODUCTION Minch & Films Min-Chul Kim
#101, 3, Jahamun-ro 33ga-gil, Jongno- Bluebird Pictures gu
Seung-Jun Yi
110-030 Seoul South Korea tel: +82 10 7157 2015 www.docairways.com docairways@gmail.com
Having been blind and deaf her entire life, Yeji’s world seems inexplicable. The film invites us to a mother and daughter’s journey into finding words of their own.
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SALES / CONTACT: Katayoon Shahabi Noori Pictures
PRODUCTION Yaser Khayer
84, Avenue de la République 75011 Paris France tel: +33 676 418 967 www.Nooripictures.com Katysh.01@gmail.com
The film follows Sabz Ali in his actual life and his past which is about the history of a simple animal farmer in this century in Iran. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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With or Without You
Wolflady
South Korea / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 92’/52’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 65’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Maggi and Chunhee lived for 45 years under one roof as wives of one man. Now they are old and approaching the end of their extraordinary intertwined lives. The film follows the two women during their daily life in the Korean countryside. It intensively captures their intimate and very special relationship, one in which they share night and day side by side. It is not always an easy life, but it is always marked by deep respect and love and the extraordinary humor of both of them.
Musician Oscar Holleman is astounded upon hearing the voice of Sharon Kovacs. Kovacs, nicknamed The Wolf Lady, approaches Holleman, a music producer thirty years her senior and makes a pact with him. Their musical exploration takes them to Cuba, London, Hamburg, Berlin and New York. We are witness to Sharon’s demons, her urge to create and her craving for recognition. Together the two of them go through ups and downs, pills and drugs, fighting and loving, with cigarettes and mental setbacks, yet always with an ever-lasting ‘all or nothing’ mentality, laying the foundation for Sharon’s musical selffulfilment.
Daan Willekens
www.pvhfilm.nl/wolflady
SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION HiHarbor Production Kyungsoo Han
18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION: Filmquadrat.dok GmbH –
France
Germany
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 http://catndocs.com/index.html
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
cat@catndocs.com
Danmarks Radio TV International – Denmark, BOS – The Netherlands
Two women lived for 45 years under one roof as wives of one man. Now they are old and approaching the end of their extraordinary intertwined lives.
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PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39 1015 NA Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 421 0606 www.pvhfilm.nl pieter@pvhfilm.nl
The musical exploration of Sharon Kovacs and her producer takes them through ups and downs, pills and drugs, fighting and loving, yet always with an ever-lasting ‘all or nothing’ mentality. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Yalom’s Cure
Young, Fit & Dying: The Truth about Running
Sabine Gisiger
Michael Dorgan, Daniel Smith
Switzerland, 2014 color, video, 53’ Original Language: English
England, 2014 color, video, 59’ Original Language: English
Bestselling author, popular scholar and existentialist Irvin D. Yalom is one of the most influential living psychotherapists. This cinematic feature is more than a classic biography. Together with Dr. Yalom we travel in a existential journey through the many layers of the human mind while he shares his fundamental insights and wisdom. Dr. Yalom’s books sold millions of copies worldwide and critics describe him as: mind-bending, stunning, inspiring, haunting, lifechanging…
Young Fit and Dying: The Truth about Running investigates a spate of recent marathon running deaths in young people and the effect of modern running practices on our bodies. Presenter Michael Dorgan questions whether recent marathon deaths were preventable, consults top scientific experts and runs a gruelling 8 marathons in 8 days from London to Brussels to test the true limits of the body. Michael is concerned that the average age in marathon deaths is just 33. He investigates these deaths, finding out why runners are dying and if he is putting his own life at risk by being fit.
www..autlookfilms.com/film/181/
www.goforth-films.com/production
SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Philip Delaquis
1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com
This cinematic feature is more than a classic biography about bestselling author Irvin D. Yalom, one of the most influential living psychotherapists. Dr. Yalom’s books sold millions of copies worldwide. 458
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SALES / CONTACT: Felicity Mungovan Go Forth Films, a division of MX Multiplier Limited
PRODUCTION Go Forth Films, a division of MX Multiplier Limited Michael Dorgan
139 Park Road
Felicity Mungovan
TW11 0BS Teddington England tel: +44 7581 048808 www.goforth-films.com felicity@goforth-films.com
Young Fit and Dying: The Truth about Running investigates a spate of recent marathon running deaths in young people and the effect of modern running practices on our bodies. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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