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AT BERLIN 2015 Please visit us at the European Film Market Martin Gropius Bau Stand Nr. 117 T +49 30 209 159 436

Swiss films at the 65th Berlinale Catherine Ann Berger Managing Director caberger@swissfilms.ch T +41 76 368 02 65

Berlinale screening schedule

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Selina Willemse Head of Festivals & Markets swillemse@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 286 51 88

Aida Suljicic Programme Curator asuljicic@swissfilms.ch T +41 77 431 87 79

Peter Da Rin Manager Festivals & Markets pdarin@swissfilms.ch

Forum Expanded

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Generation Kplus

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Berlinale Shorts

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Perspektive Deutsches Kino

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Sven Schelker Shooting Star

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Swiss short nominated for 87th Academy Awards

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Berlinale Market Screenings

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Coming Soon

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Fresh out of festivals

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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN BERLIN 2015

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Fish Plane, Heart Clock A German Youth Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents A German Youth Money Buddies Chrieg Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents The Island Is Enchanted With You Concrete Love – The Böhm Family Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor A German Youth Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Iraqi Odyssey The Island Is Enchanted With You A German Youth Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Iraqi Odyssey Sweet Girls Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth Of An Actor Air-Mail The Little Bird And The Squirrel Therapy For A Vampire Chubby A German Youth Spartans Electroboy Iraqi Odyssey Pause

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Xavier Beauvois Arvo Leo Jean-Gabriel Périot Stina Werenfels Jean-Gabriel Périot Daniele Ciprì Simon Jaquemet Stina Werenfels Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Maurizius Staerkle Drux Ursula Meier Jean-Gabriel Périot Stina Werenfels Samir Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Jean-Gabriel Périot Stina Werenfels Samir Jean-Paul Cardinaux / Xavier Ruiz Ursula Meier Isabelle Favez Lena von Döhren David Ruehm Bruno Deville Jean-Gabriel Périot Nicolas Wadimoff Marcel Gisler Samir Mathieu Urfer

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Please verify screening schedule with official schedule Like A Cast Shadow The Island Is Enchanted With You Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth Of An Actor Gineva Like A Cast Shadow P Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Air-Mail The Little Bird And The Squirrel P Sworn Virgin M Like A Cast Shadow Sworn Virgin Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents The Island Is Enchanted With You Like A Cast Shadow Air-Mail The Little Bird And The Squirrel Sworn Virgin Gineva Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth Of An Actor Sworn Virgin Iraqi Odyssey Sworn Virgin Iraqi Odyssey Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents The Island Is Enchanted With You Air-Mail The Little Bird And The Squirrel The Island Is Enchanted With You A German Youth The Island Is Enchanted With You Chrieg P

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Michael Krummenacher Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Ursula Meier Nicolas Cilins Michael Krummenacher Stina Werenfels Isabelle Favez Lena von Döhren Laura Bispuri Michael Krummenacher Laura Bispuri Stina Werenfels Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Michael Krummenacher Isabelle Favez Lena von Döhren Laura Bispuri Nicolas Cilins Ursula Meier Laura Bispuri Samir Laura Bispuri Samir Stina Werenfels Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Isabelle Favez Lena von Döhren Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Jean-Gabriel Périot Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt Simon Jaquemet

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COMPETITION

Sworn Virgin Vergine Giurata

Laura Bispuri

Italy / Switzerland / Germany / Albania / Kosovo Fiction, 2015, 87 min.

Original language: Italian/Albanian World premiere: Berlinale 2015 Cast: Alba Rohrwacher / Lars Eidinger / Flonja Kodheli / Luan Jaha / Emily Ferratello / Drenica Selimaj

The story of a woman who sacrifices her femininity for her freedom, and then decides to wipe out her honour to become a woman again. A journey inside the complexity of a women’s universe; a film about being stuck in invisible prisons and then finally learning how to breathe.

SWORN VIRGIN is a journey inside femininity told in its thousand fold and contradictory forms.

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

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* 1977 in Rome, Italy. Italian citizenship.

Received degree in Cinema from La Sapienza, University of Rome.

Attended directing and production school Fandango Lab workshop.

2010 David Donatello Award, Best Short Film for PASSING TIME. 2011 Nastro d’Argento, Emerging Talent of the Year.

PA N O R A M A S P E C I A L

Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents

Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern Stina Werenfels

* 1964 in Basel. Studies Pharmacology at the ETH, Zurich. 1991-94 studies film at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Her famous short PASTRY, PAIN & POLITICS was selected for many international festivals in 1998 and was awarded with the Swiss Film Award. Werenfels also received the Swiss Film Award for her acclaimed first feature NACH­BEBEN (GOING PRIVATE), which celebrated its premiere at Berlinale Pano­rama in 2006. Stina Werenfels lives and works in Zurich. © Photo: Katharina Lütscher

At the age of 18 Dora starts to discover her sexuality. Her mother Kristin recently decided to take her off her medication. Shortly after the mentally disabled young woman becomes sexually involved with a stranger, Kristin is shocked.

Without her parents’ knowledge, Dora continues meeting the rather shady man, who is fascinated by her unrestrained sensuality. While her mother tries in vain to have a second child, Dora becomes pregnant. www.dora-derfilm.ch

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Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 2015, 90 min.

Original language: German Cast: Victoria Schulz / Jenny Schily / Urs Jucker / Lars Eidinger International premiere: Berlinale 2015 Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich Niko Film, Berlin | Aleppo Films, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Magmafilm GmbH, Essen World Sales: Wide Management, Paris | T + 33 1 53 95 04 64 www.widemanagement.com International Press: Matt Johnstone | Matt Johnstone Publicity Los Angeles / New York | +1 323 938 7880 mattjohnstone-pr@sbcglobal.net German Press: Greenhouse PR |Silke Lehmann +49 151 68 10 00 88 | lehmann@greenhouse-pr.com

PA N O R A M A D O K U M E N T E

Iraqi Odyssey Samir

Switzerland / Germany / United Arab Emirates Documentary, 2014, 162 min., 3D Original language: German / English / French/Arabic Festivals (selection): Toronto International Film Festival 2014 (World premiere) Abdu Dabi Film Festival 2014 Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich, Coin Film, Cologne SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk Sanad Fund, Abu Dhabi Furat al Jamil, Baghdad World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna T +43 720 34 69 34 | www.autlookfilms.com German & International Press: Media Office | Edith Kleibel T: +49-30-88 71 44 0 M: +49-172-99 16 43 3 info@media-office-presse.com

Bombs, bearded men, sobbing women, shattered cities: Iraq, as seen through the eyes of the western media these days. These images are juxtaposed with those from the fifties and seventies: films with frivolous music, unveiled women who study; elegantly dressed men in Bagdad, a modern city. Film director Samir tells the story of his globalised middle-class Iraqi family, scattered around the world. www.iraqiodyssey.com

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* 1955 in Baghdad, raised in Switzerland.

In 1994 he cofounded the production company Dschoint Ventschr and has been working as independent director and producer of both fiction and documentary films. After his renowned documentaries BABYLON 2 and FORGET BAGHDAD acclaimed Iraqi expatriate filmmaker Samir returns with IRAQI ODYSSEY and traces this time the global migration of his own family from the Middle East over more than half a century.

PA N O R A M A D O K U M E N T E

A German Youth Une jeunesse allemande Jean-Gabriel Périot

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. * 1974 in France. Works as filmmaker, having perfected an innovative personal filmmaking approach by focusing on archival editing. Between documentary, animation and experimental, most of his works deal with violence and history. His films have been screened worldwide in numerous festivals and were honoured with many prizes.

France / Switzerland / Germany Documentary, 2015, 94 min.

Original language: German/French 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

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Fish Plane, Heart Clock

Gineva

Arvo Leo

Nicolas Cilins

Switzerland/Canada | Experimental Documentary | 2014 | 60 min.

Original language: English Festival: Berlinale 2015 (International premiere)

Switzerland | Experimental | 2015 | 43 min.

Original language: Romanian/French/English/Spanish Festival: Berlinale 2015 (International premiere)

Production: Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva BC Arts Council World Rights: Arvo Leo / arvoleo@gmail.com +1 604 786 4206 / +49 174 466 4563 Hunter-turned-artist Pudlo Pudlat was part of the generation of Inuit in the 1950s who were given pencils and paper and asked to ‘draw their thoughts. Over the next 30 years Pudlo would produce over 4000 drawings, many of which have never been exhibited. 22 years after Pudlo’s death, Arvo Leo traveled to the the Canadian arctic to spend the spring living where Pudlo lived in order to create a film that dances back and forth between Pudlo’s fantastical drawings and scenes from around the town.

Production and World Rights: Nicolas Cilins, Carouge T +41 76 236 20 54 www.nicolas-cilins.com Adi and Florin are two Romanian guys, who have come to Geneva for some quick cash and perhaps a bit of fun along the way. In the course of a night they re-enact their antics in front of a blue screen.

Truth and play, fiction and reality become inseparable while the men act out scenes from their daily life on- and off-camera.

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G E N E R AT I O N K P LU S

G E N E R AT I O N K P LU S

Air-Mail

The Little Bird And The Squirrel

Messages dans l’air Isabelle Favez

Der kleine Vogel und das Eichhörnchen Lena von Döhren

Switzerland | Animation | 2015 | without dialogue | 6 min.

Festival: Berlinale 2015 (World premiere)

Switzerland | Animation | 2014 | without dialogue | 5 min.

Festivals (selection): Hiroshima Int. Animation Film Festival 2014 (World premiere) / Fantoche Baden 2014 / Ottawa Int. Animation Festival 2014

Production: Nadasdy Film Sarl, Geneva | Folimage, Bourg-Les-Valences RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Nadasdy Film Sarl, Geneva T +41 22 300 20 54, www.nadasdyfilm.ch A young woman lives alone with her cat in a small town. The two are complete opposites: whereas the woman is good-hearted and benevolent, the cat is a hunter-killer type. The young woman has a secret: she is in love with her neighbour, a boxer. Thanks to her cat’s adventures, she will have closer contact to him.

Watch online: www.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary

Production: Schattenkabinett GmbH, Bern SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Magnetfilm, Berlin T +49 163 801 07 53, www.magnetfilm.de It’s autumn. At the end of a branch hangs a red leaf. A little black bird comes along to water it. Suddenly a squirrel nicks the bird’s bright green watering can. The bird follows the cheeky thief: this is the start of an exciting chase through the forest. But behind the trees the fiery red fox is already waiting for his chance.

Watch online: www.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary

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BERLINALE SHORTS

Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor

The Island Is Enchanted With You

Kacey Mottet Klein, naissance d’un acteur Ursula Meier

La isla está encantada con ustedes Alexander Carver / Daniel Schmidt

Switzerland | Documentary | 2015 | 14 min.

Original language: French Festival: Berlinale 2015 (World premiere)

USA / Switzerland / Australia | Experimental | 2014 | 28 min.

Original language: Spanish/English Festival: Berlinale 2015 (International premiere)

Production: Milos-Films SA, Neuchatel | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse La Lanterne Magique, Neuchatel World Rights: Milos-Films SA, Neuchatel T +41 76 365 98 87, milosfilms@gmail.com 8 years. 12 years. 15 years old. A body is growing and developing in front of the camera, absorbing sensations and emotions, con­ fronting its limits and its darker hidden parts. A body that through the years abandons itself to the character, transforming what could be seen as simple (children’s) play-acting into the true work of an actor. A portrait of an adolescent who has created himself with the camera.

Watch online: www.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary

Production: Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva Unity, New York World Rights: Unity, New York T +1 203 824 85 19, theunityofallthings@gmail.com A lyrical work tracing the parallel histories of colonial power dynamics in Puerto Rico in the 16th century and a shift toward concerns about public health in the 19th century, all refracted through the lens of contemporary neurosis and erotic comedy.

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PERSPEKTIVE

D E U T S C H E S K I N O

Like A Cast Shadow Sibylle

Michael Krummenacher

* 1985 in Schwyz, Switzerland.

2005 Attends Filmmaking Intensive Workshop at Columbia University, New York. 2006-14 Attends HFF (University of Television and Film Munich), directing department. 2009 Cofounder of Passanten Filmproduktion. 2010 he directed his first feature BEYOND THESE MOUNTAINS that was shown at several festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Sibylle, architect, mother and wife, witnesses a fatal accident of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this, the perception of her life and her family starts to change.

Something inside her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything by which she has defined herself. A very unique and haunting dark family drama. www.sibylle-film.de

Germany Fiction, 2015, 87 min.

Original language: German World premiere: Berlinale 2015 Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle / Thomas Loibl / Dennis Kamitz/ Levi Lang / Heiko Pinkowski / Elisabeth Rath / Thomas Fränzel / Franziska Rieck / Andreas Lust / Teresa Hoerl Production: Passanten Filmproduktion GbR, Munich Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich BR Bayerischer Rundfunk World Rights: Passanten Filmproduktion GbR, Munich T +49 176 327 697 24 www.passantenfilm.de

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SVEN SCHELKER S W I S S S H O O T I N G S TA R 2 0 1 5

© Hannes Caspar

Born 1989 near Basel, Switzerland. A graduate of Munich’s Otto Falckenberg School, Sven Schelker has been a member of the acting ensemble at Hamburg’s Thalia Theatre since 2012 with roles in Macbeth, Platonov and The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, among others. During his studies, Sven received the Migros Culture Percentage Acting Student Award in 2010 and 2011. He made his film acting debut in one of the leads – as Röbi Rapp – in Stefan Haupt’s award-winning THE CIRCLE which was Switzerland’s Official Submission for Foreign Language Film at the 87 th Academy Awards®.

S W I S S S H O R T “ PA R V A N E H ” N O M I N AT E D F O R 8 7 T H A C A D E M Y A W A R D S Born in 1979 in Teheran, Iran. Joint Swiss and Iranian citizenship.

Talkhon Hamzavi grew up in Switzerland and completed her Master studies in Film at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) with PARVANEH in 2012. The winning short fiction film is a snapshot depiction of a young Afghan immigrant's fate in Switzerland.

Hamzavi had already won the Silver Medal for Best Foreign Film at the 40 th Student Academy Awards with PARVANEH in 2013.

"It's incredible. When I began the project, my aim was to tell a brief yet touching story about 'being a foreigner'," explains Hamzavi. "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine our film would make it to the Oscars. I am absolutely delighted - and very proud of the film and all those involved in it."

www.efp-online.com www.shooting-stars.eu

Parvaneh 13

by Talkhon Hamzavi Switzerland | Fiction | 2012 | 24 min.

Original language: Afghan/German/Swiss-German Watch: swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary

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Chrieg

Chubby

Bouboule

Concrete Love – The Böhm Family

Simon Jaquemet

Bruno Deville

Maurizius Staerkle Drux

Switzerland, Fiction, 2014, 110 min.

Original language: Swiss-German World premiere: Festival Internacional de cine de San Sebastian 2014

Switzerland / Belgium Fiction, 2014, 83 min.

Original language: French World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2014, Busan International Film Festival 2014

Germany / Switzerland Documentary, 2014, 86 min.

Original language: German World premiere: DOK Leipzig 2014

Production: Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 42 08 24 80 www.picturetree-international.com 15-year-old Matteo feels like the world is against him. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe.

One night two men carry him off: his father sends him to a “youth camp” on a remote alp, where he is forced to spend the summer. When Matteo arrives, a surprise awaits him.

Production: ICAB Productions, Chavannes-près-Renens Versus production, Liège | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse | RTBF Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française World Sales: Films Distribution, Paris T +33 1 53 10 33 99 www.filmsdistribution.com Chubby, that’s how people call Kevin, 200 pounds, age 12, and certainly not destined to a glorious future. Gobbing in fries, patisserie, and dairies, he’s only waiting for the cardiac arrest. Unless he changes. And Kevin will change! But not exactly like imagined.

Production: Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Cologne | 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk BR Bayerischer Rundfunk World Rights: Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Cologne , T 49 221 925 75 20 www.lichtblick-film.de Gottfried Böhm is one of Germany’s most important architects. The Pritzker prizewinner learned his trade from his father.

At the age of 94, he still works every day on projects with his three sons. But then the family loses its emotional centre: Elisabeth, wife, mother, architect and their most important source of inspiration.

Gast der Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Die Böhms – Architektur einer Familie

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Electroboy

Money Buddies La buca

Pause

Marcel Gisler

Daniele Ciprì

Mathieu Urfer

Switzerland, Documentary, 2014, 113 min.

Original language: Swiss-German/English/German World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2014

Italy / Switzerland, Fiction, 2014, 104 min.

Original language: Italian

Switzerland, Fiction, 2014, 82 min.

Original language: French

World premiere: September 2014

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2014

Production and World Rights: Langfilm/Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 42 08 24 80 www.picturetree-international.com Trials and tribulations in the life and family history of Florian Burkhardt, who abandoned the constraints of his background to set out into the world in search of fame and recognition. His quest is a mercurial search for identity that ends in fear and disillusionment but also in a return to his true self. www.electroboy.de

Production: Malìa produzione, Rome Imago Film SA, Lugano RAI Cinema RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH, Cologne T +49 221 539 70 90 www.the-match-factory.com Oscar and Armando - two men in their fifties who become friends after a chance encounter. Oscar is a failed lawyer, Armando has just been released from prison after twenty-five years for a crime he did not commit.

Production: Box Productions sàrl, Renens RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 42 08 24 80 www.picturetree-international.com Sami, a laid-back songwriter, is shocked when Julia, a brilliant lawyer with whom he’s been living for the last four years, decides to put their relationship on hold.

Coached by his friend Fernand, an elderly alcoholic country musician, he tries to prove to her she’s the only woman for him.

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Spartans

Sweet Girls

Spartiates Nicolas Wadimoff

Jean-Paul Cardinaux / Xavier Ruiz

Switzerland / France | Documentary | 2014 | 80 min.

Original language: French World premiere: Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montreal 2014

Switzerland | Fiction | 2015 | 100 min.

Original language: French

Production: Akka Films, Geneva | Alegria Productions, Paris | SRG SSR Alegria World Sales: Doc & Film International, Paris T +33 1 42 77 56 87 | www.docandfilm.com Yvan Sorel runs a MMA (Mixed martial Arts) club in Marseille’s “Quartier nord”, a district of the city mainly known in the media for its drug trafficking, gang shootings and kalashnikovs. 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. A powerful film about violence, education, moral values, faith and dignity.

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.

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The Price Of Fame

Therapy For A Vampire

La rançon de la gloire Xavier Beauvois

Der Vampir auf der Couch David Rühm

France / Switzerland / Belgium | Fiction | 2014 | 114 min.

Original language: French World premiere: Biennale di Venezia 2014

Austria / Switzerland | Fiction | 2014 | 87 min.

Original language: German World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2014

Production: Why Not Productions, Paris | Rita Productions, Geneva Les Films du Fleuve, Liège | Arches Films, Paris France 3 Cinéma | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse RTBF Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française World Sales: Wild Bunch, Paris | T +33 1 53 10 42 50 | www.wildbunch.biz Vevey, at the end of the 1970s. Upon his release from prison, Eddy lives with his friend Osman. It’s Christmas season. Their shared, grinding poverty has made Eddy quite bitter. When Charlie Chaplin’s death is announced, as well as the true extent of his fabulous wealth, he comes up with a crazy idea: what if he stole the actor’s corpse and demanded a ransom from the family?

Production: Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion, Vienna Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 42 08 24 80 | www.picturetree-international.com Vienna, 1930: Count Geza von Közsnöm has come to Vienna with his wife Elsa, to be treated by Sigmund Freud. He is tired of life and has had enough of his wife and her constant whining. Not knowing that the Count and his wife are vampires, Freud introduces his mysterious patients to the young painter Viktor. While visiting the painter, the Count takes an instant liking to Viktor’s girlfriend Lucy.

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COMING SOON

EXPECTED SUMMER 2015

A Decent Man (working title)

Nichts passiert (Arbeitstitel) Micha Lewinsky

*in 1972 in Kassel, Germany. Grew up in Switzerland. Since 2000 works as screenwriter, since 2005 also as film director.

2008 Micha Lewinsky was awarded with the Swiss Film Award Best Fiction Film and Best Emerging Talent for his first feature DER FREUND.

Like every year, Thomas, a likeable man in his mid-forties, takes his wife and teenage daughter for a week of vacation in the Swiss Alps.

This time another girl joins: Sarah, his manager’s daughter. Thomas is looking forward to fun and relaxation on the ski slopes. But already after the first night, things take an irrevocable turn. Sarah gets into trouble, Thomas feels responsible. The dilemma of avoiding conflict but then creating more, grows day by day.

He will fight for a peaceful solution. Violently, if need be.

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Switzerland Fiction, 2015, 92 min.

Original language: German Cast: Devid Striesow / Maren Eggert / Lotte Becker / Annina Walt / Max Hubacher / Stéphane Maeder / Beat Marti Production: Plan B Film GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Teleclub World Rights: Plan B Film GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 271 65 55 www.planbfilm.ch

COMING SOON

EXPECTED DECEMBER 2015

Heidi Alain Gsponer

Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 2015, 105 min.

Original language: German/Swiss-German Cast: Bruno Ganz / Anuk Steffen / Quirin Agrippi / Peter Lohmeyer / Hannelore Hoger / Katharina Schüttler

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, Switzerland. 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.

Production: Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH, Munich Studiocanal GmbH, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Teleclub World Sales: Studiocanal / International Sales Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France T + 33 1 71 35 35 35 www.studiocanal.com

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COMING SOON

EXPECTED FALL 2015

Polder Samuel Schwarz / Julian M. Grünthal

Samuel Schwarz * 1971 in Langnau in Emmental, Switzerland. 1994-98 Studies film directing at ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). 1999 Cofounder of 400asa. Works as theatre director in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia and China. Together with Julian M. Grünthal he already directed the feature film MARY & JOHNNY. © Photo: Stephan Rappo / 13 Photo Julian M. Grünthal * 1981 in Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. Since 2001 in Zurich. 2001-05 Attends ZHdK (Zurch University of the Arts) Theatre Department. 2014-15 Prague Film School - focus camera, film directing and screenwriting. Numerous works with his own group “Grenzgänger Zurich” and with the collective 400asa. Works as independent director for film and theatre, as cinematographer, photographer and film editor.

When Marcus, the chief developer at an entertainment company called NEUROO-X, disappears his wife Ryuko begins searching for him.

The clues and riddles he left behind lead to the magical, virtual parallel world of NEUROO-X games.

Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 2015, 90 min.

Original language: German/Swiss-German/Japanese Cast: Nina Fog / Christoph Bach / Pascal Roloefse / Wanda Wylowa / Philippe Graber / Samuel Schwarz / Friederike Kempter / Sira Topic Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich Niama Film, Stuttgart Kamm(m)acher GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SWR Südwestrundfunk World Rights: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich T +41 44 456 30 20 www.dvfilm.ch

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EXPECTED SUMMER 2015

Wonderland Heimatland Lisa Blatter Gregor Frei Jan Gassmann Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 2015, 100 min.

Original language: 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

A storm is brewing over Switzerland. Ten directors from an emerging generation of filmmakers take this bleak forecast as an opportunity to look at the multifaceted realities of the Swiss Confederation today.

Benny Jaberg Carmen Jaquier Michael Krummenacher Jonas Meier Tobias Nölle Lionel Rupp

Production: Contrast Film Bern GmbH, Bern 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich Passanten Filmproduktion GbR, Munich

Mike Scheiwiller

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Above And Below Nicolas Steiner

Broken Land Stéphanie Barbey / Luc Peter

Confusion

Artistic collaboration: Peter Mettler

Laurent Nègre

Switzerland / Germany, Documentary, 2015, 118 min., Original language: English Festivals: Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2015 (World premiere), International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015

Switzerland, Documentary, 2014, 75 min.

Original language: English Festivals: Festival del film Locarno 2014 (World premiere), International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015, Solothurner Filmtage 2015

Switzerland, Fiction, 2014, 71 min., Original language: French/English/Swiss-German Festivals: Festival Tous Écrans Geneva 2014 (World premiere), Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2015, Solothurner Filmtage 2015

Production: maximage GmbH, Zurich Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ZDF/3sat World Rights: maximage GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 274 88 66 | www.maximage.ch A rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride showing survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world: Rick & Cindy and Godfather Lalo in the flood channels under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry, lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. The viewer is whisked away to an unfamiliar world where we discover its inhabitants to be souls not unlike our very own. www.aboveandbelowfilm.com

Production: Intermezzo Films SA, Geneva RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR | ARTE World Sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH, Leipzig T +49 341 215 66 38 www.deckert-distribution.com Seven Americans – neighbours of an immense fence, erected to control Mexican immigration – unfold how the nearby USMexican border transforms their lives. Out in the desert they observe the haunting traces left by the crossing migrants. They confide their fear, defiance and at times even their compassion. www.brokenland.ch

Production: Bord Cadre films Sàrl, Geneva Recycled TV AG, Bern World Sales: Bord Cadre films Sàrl, Geneva T +41 22 320 90 25 www.bordcadrefilms.com The film shows 24 hours of the astonishing fate of an ex-prisoner from Guantanamo who is granted asylum in Switzerland.

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The Drift Driften

They Chased Me Through Arizona

What’s Between Us

Karim Patwa

Matthias Huser

Claudia Lorenz

Switzerland, Fiction, 2015, 93 min.

Original language: Swiss-German/English Festivals (selection): Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2015 (World premiere), Solothurner Filmtage 2015 Cinequest San Jose 2015

Switzerland /Poland, Fiction, 2014, 86 min.

Original language: Polish Festivals (selection): Festival del Film Locarno 2014 (World premiere), Solothurner Filmtage 2015

Switzerland, Fiction, 2015, 94 min.

Original language: Swiss-German Festivals: Palm Springs Int. Film Festival 2015 (World premiere), Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2015, Solothurner Filmtage 2015

Production and World Rights: Langfilm/Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein T +41 44 865 66 27 | www.langfilm.ch Robert, a former driver in illegal car races, returns to his hometown after a very long period of absence. He is determined to put the past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a car-repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to unravel – they are connected by the strong bond of a dark past.

Production: ventura film sa, Meride | Lava Films, Lodz RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: ventura film sa, Meride T +41 91 646 20 21 | www.venturafilm.ch The analogue era is over and so it seems Leonard & Marbella’s marriage. Leonard’s job is to dismantle all telephone booths scattered over the countryside. Together with Ben, a convict on parole, he drives in a pick-up truck among flat landscapes and post-industrial sites.

Production: Peacock Film, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Film Republic, London T +44 203 287 91 12 | filmrepublic.biz After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also Alice and their three children undergo an irreversible change. The film uses simple scenes to talk about everyday family life – unspectacular, subtle and humane.

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