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AT CANNES 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS Check the screening schedule for Swiss films in Cannes in our e-booklet.
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International Competition
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Special Screenings
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Director’s Fortnight
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Talents Adami Cannes
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ACID 08 Marché du Film
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Coming Soon
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Producer on the Move 2015
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Beyond Cinema - Swiss Digital Culture
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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN C ANNES 2015
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Date Time Cinema May 14 09:00 Théâtre Croisette 1 7:30 Palais B 19:30 Théâtre Croisette May 15 12:00 Olympia 8 14:00 Le Raimu 1 5:1 5 Théâtre Croisette 15:30 Olympia 6 18:30 Studio 13 May 16 10:00 Lerins 2 11:30 Arcades 1 11:45 Théâtre Croisette 17:30 Théâtre Croisette 18:00 Star 1 May 17 14:00 Alexandre III 18:00 Olympia 8 18:30 Studio 13 May 18 09:00 Théâtre Croisette 11:00 Studio 13 11 :30 Palais B 11 :30 Palais J 13:30 Bazin 15:00 Salle Buñuel 16:00 Olympia 5 17:00 Le Raimu 17:30 Théâtre Croisette 18:15 Olympia 5 20:00 Arcades 1
Film In The Shadow Of Women A German Youth In The Shadow Of Women In The Shadow Of Women In The Shadow Of Women In The Shadow Of Women Sworn Virgin In The Shadow Of Women Amnesia In The Shadow Of Women Arabian Nights, Vol 1 Arabian Nights, Vol 1 Arabian Nights, Vol 1 (be)longing In The Shadow Of Women Arabian Nights, Vol 1 Arabian Nights, Vol 2 La vanité A German Youth Amnesia Amnesia Rewind Arabian Nights, Vol 1 (be)longing Arabian Nights, Vol 2 Arabian Nights, Vol 2 La vanité
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Director Philippe Garrel Jean-Gabriel Périot Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel Laura Bispuri Philippe Garrel Barbet Schroeder Philippe Garrel Miguel Gomes Miguel Gomes Miguel Gomes João Pedro Plácido Philippe Garrel Miguel Gomes Miguel Gomes Lionel Baier Jean-Gabriel Périot Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Frédéric Mermoud Miguel Gomes João Pedro Plácido Miguel Gomes Miguel Gomes Lionel Baier
Section Screening Note Page Q&A 6 Director's Fortnight 10 M Marché du Film Director's Fortnight Opening 6 Director's Fortnight 6 Director's Fortnight 6 Director's Fortnight 6 M Marché du Film 11 Director's Fortnight 6 M 4 Special Screenings Director's Fortnight 6 Director's Fortnight Q&A 5 Director's Fortnight 5 M Director's Fortnight 5 ACID 8 Director's Fortnight 6 Director's Fortnight 5 Director's Fortnight Q&A 5 ACID Q&A 9 M Marché du Film 10 M 4 Special Screenings P 4 Special Screenings Talents Adami 7 M Director's Fortnight 5 ACID 8 Director's Fortnight 5 M Director's Fortnight 5 ACID Q&A 9
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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN C ANNES 2015
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11:30 Palais H
Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Sweet Girls La vanité Arabian Nights, Vol 2 Amnesia Youth Arabian Nights, Vol 3 Youth Arabian Nights, Vol 3 Youth Amnesia Youth (be)longing Amnesia Youth Arabian Nights, Vol 3 (be)longing Pueblo (Shorts programme 3) La vanité Pueblo (Shorts programme 3)
Stina Werenfels
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Xavier Ruiz Lionel Baier Miguel Gomes Barbet Schroeder Paolo Sorrentino Miguel Gomes Paolo Sorrentino Miguel Gomes Paolo Sorrentino Barbet Schroeder Paolo Sorrentino João Pedro Plácido Barbet Schroeder Paolo Sorrentino Miguel Gomes João Pedro Plácido Elena López Riera Lionel Baier Elena López Riera
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Lerins 1 Riviera 3 Studio 13 Salle Buñuel Lumière Théâtre Croisette Lumière Théâtre Croisette Lumière Riviera 3 Salle du 60ème Studio 13 Olympia 1 Olympia 2 Studio 13 Arcades 1 Théâtre Croisette Alexandre III Studio 13
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I N T E R N AT I O N A L
COMPETITION
Youth
La giovinezza
Paolo Sorrentino
Italy / Switzerland / France / United Kingdom 2015, 120 min. Original language: English World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Michael Caine / Harvey Keitel / Rachel Weisz / Paul Dano / Jane Fonda Production: Indigofilm, Rome / C-Films AG, Zurich Medusa Film spa, Rome / Barbary Films, Paris Number 9 Films, London RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera France Télévisions / Teleclub AG World Sales: Pathé International, Paris www.patheinternational.fr Cannes: T +33 (0)4 93 68 24 31 International Press: Le Public Système Cinéma Agnès Leroy, Elsa Leeb aleroy@lepublicsystemecinema.fr eleeb@lepublicsystemecinema.fr
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. With curiosity and tenderness they look on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick struggles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants to hear him conduct again – at all costs.
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* 1970 in Naples, Italy. Works as screenwriter and filmmaker, known for his awardwinning films THE GREAT BEAUTY (2013), THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (2011) and IL DIVO (2008), all screened at the Inter national Competition of past editions of the Festival de Cannes. THE GREAT BEAUTY won Best Foreign Language Film of the Year 2014 at the 86th Academy Awards as well as at the Golden Globes Awards 2014, the European Film Award 2014 and numerous further prizes.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Amnesia Barbet Schroeder
* 1941 in Tehran, Iran. Swiss citizenship. After a childhood in Colombia moves to Paris in 1952, where he studies Philosophy at the Sorbonne. 1958 – 63 Works as journalist and collaborates with Cahiers du Cinéma. 1962 Assistant to Jean-Luc Godard on LES CARABINIERS. 1963 Founds the production company Les films du Losange and produces Eric Rohmer's first two films. Schroeder directed big budget Hollywood films such as SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (1992) or MURDER BY NUMBERS (2002). He received the César (Best Documentary) for TERROR’S ADVOCATE in 2007.
Ibiza, the early nineties, Jo is a twenty-five-yearold music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island, Amnesia. Martha has been living alone in her house facing the sea for forty years. One night Jo knocks on her door. Her solitude intrigues him. They become friends even as the mysteries around her accumulate: that cello in the corner she refuses to play, the German language she refuses to speak… As Jo draws her into his world of techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.
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Switzerland / France 2015, 95 min. Original languages: English/German World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Marthe Keller / Max Riemelt / Corinna Kirchhof / Joel Basman / Fermi Reixach / Marie Leuenberger / special guest: Bruno Ganz Production: Vega Film AG, Zurich Les films du Losange, Paris SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Les films du Losange, Paris T +33 (0)1 44 43 87 10 www.filmsdulosange.fr
DIRECTOR’S FORTNIGHT
Arabian Nights
As mil e uma noites
Vol 1: The Restless One Vol 2: The Desolate One Vol 3: The Enchanted One Miguel Gomes
Portugal / France / Germany / Switzerland 2015, 380 min. (Vol 1: 124 min, Vol 2: 131 min, Vol 3: 125 min) Original languages: Portugese/French/German World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Crista Alfaiate / Dinarte Branco / et al. Production: O Som e a furia, Lisbon / Shellac Films, Marseille Komplizen Film GmbH, Berlin, Box Productions, Renens / ARTE / ZDF / RTP RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SSR SRG Agat Films & Cie, Paris World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH, Cologne T +49 221 539 70 90 www.the-match-factory.com International Press: Wolfgang W. Werner, Public Relations, T +49 170 333 93 53 werner@werner-pr.de
In Portugal, a country in crisis, a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he's immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As nights go past, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore she organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country …”
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* 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied Film at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon. 1996 – 2000 Works as a film critic. Gomes directed his first feature in 2004: THE FACE YOU DESERVE and continued his successful international film career with OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST (2008). He won several awards for his latest film TABU (2012), such as The Alfred Bauer Award and the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlinale 2012. TABU has been sold to over 50 countries.
DIRECTOR’S FORTNIGHT
In The Shadow Of Women L'ombre des femmes Philippe Garrel
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make cheap documentaries and live on odd jobs, day by day. When Pierre meets Elisabeth, a young and beautiful intern, they quickly become lovers. But Pierre won’t leave Marion. He wants them both. * 1948 in Paris, France. Works as a director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, actor and producer. Several of Garrel's films have screened at the Venice Film Festival for example A BURNING HOT SUMMER (2011) and REGULAR LOVERS (2005), awarded with the Silver Lion, as well as at the Festival de Cannes such as LA FRONTIÈRE DE L’AUBE (2008) and LIBERTÉ, LA NUIT (1984), awarded with the Perspectives du Cinéma Award.
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France / Switzerland 2015, 73 min. Original language: French World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Clotilde Courau / Stanislas Merhar / Léna Paugam Production: SBS Productions, Paris Close Up Films, Geneva RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: SBS Productions, Paris T +33 (0)1 45 63 66 60 contact@sbs-productions.com International Press: Magalie Montet T +33 (0)6 71 63 36 16
DIRECTOR’S FORTNIGHT
TA L E N T S A DA M I C A N N E S
Pueblo
Rewind
Elena López Riera
À rebours Frédéric Mermoud
Switzerland | Fiction, 2015 | 27 min. Original language: Spanish
France | Fiction, 2015 | 13 min. Original language: French
World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Rafa Alberola / Lucas Vázquez Production: Garidi Films, Geneva Vermut Films, Madrid World Rights: Garidi Films, Geneva T +41 78 835 24 88, contact@garidifilms.ch International Press: Olimpia Pont, presspueblo@gmail.com
World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Audrey Bastien / Paul Granier / Lou Granarolo / François-Xavier Phan Production: Mon Voisin Production, Paris ADAMI, Paris World Rights: Mon Voisin Productions, Paris T +33 (0)1 77 35 07 23, www.monvoisinproductions.com
Returning to his hometown in the south of Spain after many years in exile, Rafa is confronted by all the ghosts he left behind.
Julie, 23, tries to borrow money from her brother in order to pay back her dealer, who has been threatening her. A simple story told from three points of view.
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(be)longing Volta à terra
João Pedro Plácido
* 1979 in Lisbon, Portugal. He began directing and shooting music videos at 19, and later attended the School of Theatre and Film (Lisbon) and the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (Babelsberg). João Pedro Plácido has been working in features, shorts, documentaries and commercials all around the world since 2000 and since 2009 as a cinematographer. His work has received national and international awards. (BE)LONGING is his first film as a director.
At Uz, a tiny hamlet in Portugal's northern mountains, emptied by emigration, only a few dozen peasants remain. As the community gathers together around the traditional August holidays, the young shepherd Daniel dreams of love. But the immutable cycle of seasons and the work in the fields quickly become the priority again …
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Portugal / Switzerland / France Documentary, 2014, 85 min. Original language: Portuguese World premiere: Doclisboa 2014 Production: O Som e a Fúria, Lisbon Close Up Films, Geneva Les films de l‘air, Paris RTP Radio e televisão de Portugal World Rights: O Som e a Fúria, Lisbon T +351 21 358 25 18, www.osomeafuria.com
ACID A S S O C I AT I O N F O R I N D E P E N D E N T CINEMA AND ITS DISTRIBUTION
La vanité Lionel Baier
Switzerland / France 2015, 75 min. Original language: French World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Patrick Lapp / Carmen Maura / Ivan Georgiev Production: Bande à part Films, Lausanne Les Films du Poisson, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR World Sales: Wide, Paris T +33 (0)1 53 95 04 64 Loïc Magneron T +33 (0)6 60 43 96 86 www.widemanagement.com International Press: François Hassan Guerrar guerrar.contact@gmail.com T +33 (0)6 23 24 08 90
David Miller is ill … so ill that he has decided to end his life. But despite his best efforts at choosing the place, the date and the method, nothing works out as planned. All of those who said they would be at his side back out. David Miller has no choice but to set out on the home stretch with complete strangers. Lives intersect, clash and unfold as he meets Espe, the substitute at the suicide assistance association, and Tréplev, the young prostitute in the next room. At the end of this night which is meant to be the last, will death be waiting?
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* 1975 in Lausanne. Works as a director and teacher. Baier studies Arts at the University of Lausanne from 1995 – 98 and is the Head of the Cinema department at the ECAL (École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne) since 2002. In 2009 Baier cofounds Bande à part Films together with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud. Baier is known for his films STUPID BOY (2004), ANOTHER MAN (2008) and the award-winning LONGWAVE (2013), which was screened all around the world and for which he received the Trophée Francophone for Best Director in 2014.
MARCHÉ DU FILM
A German Youth
Dora or The Sexual Neuroses Of our Parents
Une jeunesse allemande Jean-Gabriel Périot
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern
Stina Werenfels
France / Switzerland / Germany | Documentary, 2015 | 94 min. Original languages: German/French
Switzerland / Germany | Fiction, 2015 | 90 min. Original language: German
World premiere: Berlinale 2015 Production: Local Films, Paris Alina film Sarl, Geneva Blinker Filmproduktion, Cologne World Sales: Films Boutique, Berlin T +49 30 69 53 78 50 | www.filmsboutique.com The documentary tells the history of the Red Army Faction as well as the images generated by this story. The film, entirely produced by editing visual and sound footage, aims to question viewers on the significance of this revolutionary movement during its time, as well as its resonance for today’s society.
International premiere: Berlinale 2015 Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, ZH | Niko Film, Berlin Aleppo Films, Zurich | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | Magmafilm GmbH, Essen World Sales: Wide, Paris | T +33 (0)1 53 95 04 64 www.widemanagement.com
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At the age of 18 Dora starts to discover her sexuality. Her mother Kristin recently took her off her medication. Shortly after the mentally disabled teenager becomes sexually involved with a stranger, Kristin is shocked. Without her parents’ knowledge, Dora continues meeting the rather shady man. While her mother tries to have a second child in vain, Dora becomes pregnant. www.dora-derfilm.ch
MARCHÉ DU FILM
Sweet Girls
Sworn Virgin
Jean-Paul Cardinaux / Xavier Ruiz
Laura Bispuri
Switzerland | Fiction, 2015 | 100 min. Original language: French
Italy / Switzerland / Germany / Albania / Kosovo | Fiction, 2015 | 87 min. | Original languages: Italian/Albanian
Production: RCE - Ruiz Cardinaux Entertainment, Geneva | SRG SSR World Sales: Media Luna New Films, Cologne | T +49 221 51 09 18 91 www.medialuna.biz Elodie and Marie, two “sweet” teenage girls in a commuter town, are faced with a lack of opportunities for the future and see their chances of independence gradually disappear. Elodie, suggests an extreme solution: empty the apartments occupied by “the wrinklies” who are responsible of the situation. The encounter between two generations leads to a surprising and poignant story.
World premiere: Berlinale 2015 Production: Vivo Film, Rome | Colorado Film Production, Rome | Bord Cadre films Sàrl, Geneva | The Match Factory GmbH, Cologne | Erafilm Productions, Tirana | RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera | RAI Cinema World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH, Cologne T +49 221 539 70 90 www.the-match-factory.com
Vergine giurata
The story of a woman who sacrifies her femininity for freedom, and then decides to wipe out her honour to become a woman again. A film about being stuck in invisible prisons and then finally learning how to breathe – a journey inside femininity, told in its thousand fold and contradictory forms.
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COMING SOON
EXPECTED FALL 2015
7 Days 7 giorni
Rolando Colla
* 1957 in Schaffhausen. Joint Swiss and Italian citizenship. Since 1978 lives and works in Zurich. In 1984 Colla founds the production company Peacock Film AG, in 1985 receives degree in German studies and Romance languages from the University of Zurich. Since 2002 lecturer at the EICT (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Colla is known for his OBJECTION series (1999 – 2012) and for SUMMER GAMES (2011), for which he received the Swiss Film Award 2012 for Best Fiction Film and Best Screenplay.
Ivan and Chiara meet on a Sicilian island to prepare the wedding for Ivan’s brother and Chiara’s best friend. Despite the fact that Ivan is determined not to repeat the failure of his last relationship and Chiara does not want to jeopardize her marriage, the two fall in love with each other. They resolve to live their relationship for only a few days and then break it off when the wedding guests arrive on the island. But can love be controlled? Or is it love that controls us?
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Switzerland / Italy Fiction, 116 min. Original languages: Italian/French Cast: Bruno Todeschini / Alessia Barela Production: Peacock Film, Zurich Solaria Film, Prato SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera ARTE World Rights: Peacock Film, Zurich T +41 44 422 47 70 www.peacock.ch
COMING SOON
EXPECTED FALL 2015
A Bell For Ursli Schellen-Ursli
Xavier Koller
Switzerland Fiction, 90 min. Original languages: Swiss-German/French/Italian Cast: Jonas Hartmann / Julia Jeker / Marcus Signer / Leonardo Nigro / Tonia Maria Zindel / Laurin Michael / Martin Rapold / Sarah Sophia Meyer / Andrea Zogg / Herbert Leiser / René Schnoz / Peter Jecklin Production: C-Films AG, Zurich La Siala Entertainment, Bergün SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR RTR Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha Teleclub World Rights: C-Films AG, Zurich T +41 44 253 65 55 www.c-films.com
Based on the famous children's book “A Bell For Ursli” (“Schellen-Ursli”) by Selina Chönz and Alois Carigiet. www.schellen-ursli.com
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* 1944 in Schwyz. Academy Award winning director Xavier Koller lives and works in Los Angeles. He attended the Theatre Academy of Zurich and worked several years as an actor, before he started making films in 1969. Koller directed DAS GEFRORENE HERZ in 1979, which became a Swiss film classic. In 1984 he founded the production company Catpics AG. For JOURNEY OF HOPE (1990) Koller received the Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. He is also known for his films GRIPSHOLM (2000) and THE BLACK BROTHERS (2013).
COMING SOON
EXPECTED FALL 2015
Amateur Teens Niklaus Hilber
* 1970 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Studied directing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and screenwriting at the AFI in Los Angeles. Since 1998 works as screenwriter and director. Lives in Zurich. He is known for his films AIMLESS (2014) and CANNABIS (2006).
A group of ordinary 15-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zurich, hungry for life, insecure, full of longing and anxiety. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards being cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. A tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.
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Switzerland Fiction, 93 min. Original language: Swiss-German Cast: Fabrizio Borsani / Annina Walt / Chiara Carla Bär / Luna Wedler / Benjamin Dangel / Jérôme Humm Production and World Rights: A Film Company, Zurich T +41 43 322 18 22 www.afilmcompany.ch
COMING SOON
EXPECTED SUMMER 2015
For This Is My Body Paule Muret
Switzerland Fiction, 100 min. Original languages: English/French Cast: Carl Barât / Audrey Bastien / Thibault de Montalembert / Fanny Ardant Production: Close Up Films, Geneva RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Close Up Films, Geneva T +41 22 808 08 46 www.closeupfilms.ch
A famous and exhausted rocker, at the height of his glory and of his disappointments, will draw new strengths, during one day, from the contact with a groupie who worships him. A confrontation made of love and humiliation which can be fatal. Swiss citizenship. Works as a director and writer. Paule Muret is known for her film RIEN QUE DES MENSOGNES (1991), which was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1992, starring Fanny Ardant and Alain Bashung. In her new film FOR THIS IS MY BODY (2015) she will represent the poetry of Rock and Roll by uniting Carl Barât, Fanny Ardant and the young french shooting star Audrey Bastien.
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COMING SOON
EXPECTED WINTER 2015
Heidi Alain Gsponer
This is the story of Heidi, the internationally famous young mountain-girl, who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Her happiness ends when her aunt takes Heidi to Frankfurt.
* 1976 in Zurich. Joint Swiss and German citizenship. 1996 – 97 Attends Schule für Gestaltung Bern. 1997 – 2002 Attends Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Directing department. Alain Gsponer has recently directed the award-winning films THE LITTLE GHOST (2013) and AKTE GRÜNINGER (2014). Gsponer lives and works in Berlin.
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Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 105 min. Original languages: German/Swiss-German Cast: Bruno Ganz / Anuk Steffen / Quirin Agrippi / Peter Lohmeyer / Hannelore Hoger / Katharina Schüttler Production: Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH, Munich Studiocanal GmbH, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Teleclub World Sales: Studiocanal / International Sales Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France T +33 (0)1 71 35 35 35 www.studiocanal.com
COMING SOON
EXPECTED FALL 2015
Keeper Guillaume Senez
Belgium / Switzerland / France Fiction, 90 min. Original language: French Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein / Galatea Bellugi / Catherine Salée / Sam Louwyk / Laetitia Dosch Production: Iota Production, La Hulpe Louise Productions, Lausanne Offshore, Paris Savage Film, Brussels RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR Be TV World Sales: Be For Films, Brussels T +32 4 89 80 21 23
Maxime and Mélanie, both 15 years old and barely out of childhood, are in love. One day, Mélanie finds out she's pregnant. Maxime wants to keep the baby no matter what. www.keeper-film.com/en * 1978 in Uccle, Belgium. Joint Belgian and French citizenship. After graduating from INRACI (Institut National de Radioélectricité et Cinématographie) in 2001, he directs three short films which have been rewarded in numerous festivals worldwide: SQUARING THE CIRCLE in 2006, IN OUR BLOOD in 2009 and U.H.T. in 2012. KEEPER starring shooting star Kacey Mottet Klein (HOME, SISTER) is his first feature film.
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COMING SOON
EXPECTED SUMMER 2015
Köpek Esen Isik
A day in the megalopolis of Istanbul: Cemo, a ten-year-old who sells paper tissues in the streets; Hayat, a beaten wife; and Ebru, a transsexual prostitute. All are trying to make their dream of true love come true. An unadorned story about a longing for somebody, about love, destiny, injustice and violence. * 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey. Joint Swiss and Turkish citizenship. Isik lives in Switzerland since 1990 and studied Film at the Zurich Universitiy of the Arts (ZHdK) from 1992 – 97. Esen Isik received the Swiss Film Award in 2000 for Best Short Film for STOLEN FATHER (1999) as well as in 2012 for her short film YOU & ME. KÖPEK means dog in Turkish and is Isik's eagerly awaited first feature film.
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Switzerland Fiction, 94 min. Original language: Turkish Cast: Oguzhan Sancar / Cagla Akalin / Beren Tuna / Baris Atay / Cemal Toktas / Hakan Karsak / Bekir Sevenkan / Salih Bademci Production and World Rights: maximage GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 274 88 66 www.maximage.ch
COMING SOON
The Master and Max Der Meister und Max
Marcel Derek Ramsay
Switzerland Fiction, 2015, 79 min. Original language: Swiss-German Cast: Max Rüdlinger / Christine Lauterburg / Polo Hofer / Clemens Klopfenstein Production and World Rights: Cinéma Copain Ltd liab Co, Zurich T +41 43 322 05 11 www.cinemacopain.com
Max is a fictitious character, born out of Klopfenstein’s fantasy, the filmmaker who also created Max’s beloved, though she constantly rebuffs him. Because the director has had a creative crisis for a long time now, his characters haunt the film world of their creator – until Max calls on his “master” and obtains special permission. The compilation film, assembled from works by the famous Swiss director Clemens Klopfenstein, ventures something entirely unique in film history: it tells a new, self-contained story based on the works by one sole director.
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* 1969 in Switzerland. Works as a photographer, cinematographer and film editor, among others for Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), for advertising films as well as for animation and documentary films. 2008 he founded the production company Cinéma Copain Ltd. THE MASTER AND MAX is his first feature film as a director.
COMING SOON
EXPECTED 2015
The Miracle of Tekir (working title) Miracolul din Tekir (working title) Ruxandra Zenide
* 1975 in Bucarest, Romania. Joint Swiss and Romanian citizenship. 1998 Receives degree from the Institute HEI (Hautes Études Internationales) in Geneva. Ruxandra Zenide studied film directing at New York University and at FAMU (Filmová a Televizní fakulata Akademie múzických umení), Prague. She has received many international awards for her short film GREEN OAKS (2003) as well as for her first feature RYNA (2005).
In the heart of the Danube Delta, earth and water, superstition and religion are mixed together to make up the mysterious and miraculous Tekir’s mud. Accused of witchery and chased away from her village, Mara finds herself employed at the Tekir Hotel, specifically in charge of the rich and eccentric Mrs. Lili, providing her treatment with this miraculous mud. The relationship between the two women will become the key of the miracle of Tekir, between magic and power, tradition and modernity.
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Switzerland / Romania Fiction, 90 min. Original language: Romanian Cast: Dorotheea Petre / Elina Löwensohn / Bogdan Dumitrache / George Piștereanu Production: Elefant Films, Geneva Elefant Film, Bucharest RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SSR SRG World Rights: Elefant Films, Geneva T +41 22 301 65 00 www.elefantfilms.ch
COMING SOON
EXPECTED SUMMER 2015
Wonderland
Heimatland
Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 100 min. Original languages: German/French Cast: Peter Jecklin / Michèle Schaub-Jackson / Liana Hangartner / Nicolas Bachmann / Morgane Ferru / Viola von Scarpatetti / Dashmir Ristemi / Julia Glaus / Florin Schmidig / Egon Betschart / Roberto Garieri / Issaka Sawadogo Production: Contrast Film Bern GmbH, Bern 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich Passanten Filmproduktion GbR, Munich World Rights: Contrast Film Bern GmbH, Bern T +41 76 316 76 76 www.contrastfilm.ch
A hurricane of catastrophic proportions is brewing over Switzerland. The last three days of the country are imminent. A state of emergency begins. Ten directors of a new generation of filmmakers tell how differently people in Switzerland cope with the worst imaginable disaster; the fact of being dependent on other countries.
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Lisa Blatter Gregor Frei Jan Gassmann Benny Jaberg Carmen Jaquier Michael Krummenacher Jonas Meier Tobias NĂślle Lionel Rupp Mike Scheiwiller
ALINE SCHMID P RO D UCER ON THE MOV E 2 0 1 5
Twenty of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Festival de Cannes 2015. Representing Switzerland this year, as recommended by SWISS FILMS, is Aline Schmid (Intermezzo Films, Geneva). After studying Social Sciences and Screenwriting she worked as Head of Distribution at Cineworx and as the managing director of the Cinema Tous Ecrans Film Festival. In 2011, she joined Intermezzo Films. Her much-acclaimed production BROKEN LAND was screened in Locarno and Rotterdam. Her two latest films – HORIZONTES and GANGBÉ! – have celebrated their world premiere at Visions du Réel 2015. Aline Schmid is looking for coproducers for Katharina Wyss' feature debut SARAH PLAYS A WEREWOLF and for Jacqueline Zünd's creative documentary ALMOST THERE about three men searching for meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives. Filmography (selection) Almost There by Jacqueline Zünd (Switzerland), documentary in development A Matter of Liver and Death by Res Balzli (Switzerland), fiction in production Sarah Plays A Werewolf by Katharina Wyss (Switzerland), fiction in development Horizontes by Eileen Hofer (Switzerland, 2015), documentary Broken Land by Stéphanie Barbey and Luc Peter (Switzerland, 2014), documentary Cantos by Charlie Petersmann (Switzerland, 2013), documentary Bloody Daughter (Argerich) by Stéphanie Argerich (Switzerland, France, 2012), documentary
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B E YO N D C I N E M A – S W I S S D I G I TA L C U LT U R E B E YO N D C I N E M A : T H E S W I S S V I RT U A L R E A L I T Y A N D D I G I TA L R E V O L U T I O N A showcase of five Swiss virtual reality and digital projects that challenge the film industry PAVILION NEXT | Sunday, May 17 | 4 pm In association with Swiss Digital Alliance, Lift conference, Cannes Festival’s NEXT Pavilion and with the support of Pro Helvetia, the Geneva International Film Festival/Festival Tous Ecrans is delighted to present “Beyond Cinema: The Swiss VR and Digital Revolution”, a showcase of five groundbreaking Swiss digital and virtual reality projects at the NEXT Pavilion of the Cannes Film Festival.
Programme Keynote Speech "Financing innovation: news from the Swiss digital culture funding battleground", by Sylvie Reinhard, Lift Conference / Migros Engagement
Showcase Sequenced
(spatial story for mobile and VR, apelab)
Ma vie de Courgette
(animated film and transmedia project, Rita Productions /apelab)
Late Shift
(interactive film for mobile and theatres, CTRLMovie)
MindLeap
(brain-powered VR game with integrated motion capture, MindMaze)
Plug & Play
(short movie and app, Michael Frei) Contact in Cannes Emmanuel Cuénod, artistic and general director, Geneva International Film Festival ec@tous-ecrans.com 25 Ma vie de Courgette
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SWISS FILMS SWISS FILMS in Cannes 2015 Neugasse 6 | Postfach | CH-8031 Zurich Village International, Pavilion No. 121 T +41 43 211 40 50 T +33 (0)4 92 59 00 11 info @ swissfilms.ch www.swissfilms.ch