The Film Verdict: European Films At TIFF Preview

HOLDING THE EURO UMBRELLA AT TIFF

EUREKA! The Europeans Are Coming

48th Toronto International Film Festival Shines A Light On European Cinema

Kevin Jagernaut, August 28th, 2023

TFV, August 28th, 2023

European Film Promotion (EFP) returns to Toronto International Film Festival, with over 25 EFP members films screening at TIFF with a mix of features, documentaries & shorts, including 11 World premieres and 11 North American premieres.

Under EUROPE! UMBRELLA, international filmmakers can meet with EFP European member companies, which include; Beta Cinema (Ger-

many), Films Boutique (Germany), Global Screen (Germany), LevelK (Denmark), Media Luna New Films (Germany), Picture Tree International (Germany), The Yellow Affair (Finland) and TrustNordisk (Denmark) and representatives from the Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Flanders, German Films, Icelandic Film Centre, Screen Ireland, Norwegian Film Institute and the Swedish Film Institute, along with Eurimages.

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The Toronto International Film Festival has burnished its reputation as one of starriest and glitziest festivals in the world, with a vibrant acquisitions market that’s also a critical stop for films looking for awards season oomph. However, with the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes threatening to keep Hollywood’s biggest stars off the red carpet, TIFF is seizing the opportunity to remind audiences and the industry of its longstanding and impressive world cinema credentials. And in 2023, TIFF is putting the emphasis on international.

Last month, as the industry wondered aloud about the impact of the strikes on festivals, TIFF leadership issued a statement noting that over 70% of the 2023 lineup features non-U.S. producers, from over 70 countries around the world. Sections such as Centerpiece (formerly World Contemporary Cinema) and Discovery have

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Through EFP, Europe! Umbrella unites its members to establish a joint European presence and visibility and to increase awareness for European cinema, particularly on a Business-to-Business level offering the European and the international industry a platform to network, and to boost the distribution and circulation of European films worldwide.

Everybody interested in Europe is invited to join the stand which serves as a promotion base for all European films at TIFF and as an info center for all things European, stresses EFP.

Europe! Umbrella is open Thursday Sept. 7 to Tuesday Sept. 12 Sept from 9am-6pm.

It is located at the TIFF Industry Centre 350 King St West, #12/13

Additionally, EFP will offer an online session to highlight a selection of European world premieres at TIFF before the festival starts.

There will be 25 EFP member films screening at TIFF with a mix of features, documentaries & shorts, including 11 World premieres and 11 North American premieres.

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long served as hubs for the festival’s international films, which span its entire lineup. In 2015, TIFF furthered its commitment with the launch of Platform, a juried competition section specifically designed for films that don’t have North American distribution.

European cinema in particular shines this year as the programming team have ensured there’ll be no shortage of highly anticipated World and International Premieres from prominent filmmakers — such as Ladj Ly (Les Indésirables), Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache (A Difficult Year), and Lukas Moodysson (Together 99) — to slot alongside their curated selection of hot titles from Cannes and Berlin that continue to

buzz among cinephiles (including Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of A Fall, Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, Music, Robot Dreams, Last Summer, and Fallen Leaves).

Digging deeper into TIFF’s 2023 lineup, the strong presence of European films — many of them tagged by the EFP (European Film Promotion) this year — further amplifies the festival’s global reach, with numerous surprises waiting to be uncovered. In the Platform section, filmmakers and jury members Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), Nadine Labaki (Capernaum), and Anthony Shim (2022 Platform Prize–winner for Riceboy Sleeps) will consider a strong batch of For Full Article, Click here

Claire Pommet stars in Spirit of Ecstasy / La Vénus d’argent, directed by Héléna Klotz.

TFV chats with Sonja Heinen

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ki about EFP & TIFF

EUREKA! The Europeans Are Coming

EUROPE! UMBRELLA BACK IN FULL FORCE

TFV, August 28th, 2023

TFV:A question to you both; how many times or years have you attended TIFF, Toronto for European Film Promotion?

SONJA HEINEN: This year, it is EFP’s 25th year at TIFF! We started back then with a small table with a sign on it saying: “The Europeans.” In 2016 we re-invented this idea and organized a EUROPE! UMBRELLA booth for the first time, and since then, we have continuously expanded our collaboration with TIFF. It has been one of the best gateways to the North American market for us.

TFV: Other than TIFF, is there another film festival that you have attended as much as TIFF?

European Film Promotion (EFP) returns to Toronto International Film Festival.There are over 25 European films screening at TIFF with a mix of features, documentaries & shorts, including 11 World premieres and 11 North American premieres. Under EUROPE! UMBRELLA, international filmmakers can meet with EFP European member companies, which include; Beta Cinema (Germany), Films Boutique (Germany), Global Screen (Germany), LevelK (Denmark), Media Luna New Films (Germany), Picture Tree International (Germany),The Yellow Affair (Finland) and TrustNordisk (Denmark) and representatives from the Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Flanders, German Films, Icelandic Film Centre, Screen Ireland, Norwegian Film Institute and the Swedish Film Institute, along with Eurimages.

SONJA HEINEN: Of course Berlin and Cannes, which we have attended since EFP was founded in 1997. In Berlin we run our program EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS and at Cannes we introduce annually our EUROPEAN PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE.

TFV:Can you explain your role leading up to TIFF, and while you

Through EFP, Europe! Umbrella unites its members to establish a joint European presence and visibility and to increase awareness

are at Toronto, what exactly is your role?

for European cinema, particularly on a Business-to-Business level offering the European and the international industry a platform to network, and to boost the distribution and circulation of European films worldwide.

SONJA HEINEN: Our goal is to promote the European films at TIFF, to help them get enough attention, to attract buyers to them, and to give support and a platform to the sales companies to sell them to North America and worldwide.

We are matchmakers and are present at TIFF with our EUROPE! UMBRELLA representing many European countries, which serves as a meeting point and a one-stop-shop for all you might want to know from Europe.

Everybody interested in Europe is invited to join the stand which serves as a promotion base for all European films at TIFF and as an info center for all things European, stresses EFP.

Europe! Umbrella is open Thursday Sept. 7 to Tuesday Sept. 12 Sept from 9am-6pm.

It is located at the TIFF Industry Centre

TFV:? What are the major changes to TIFF that you have observed over the years?? Are there more Euro Films now at the festival?

350 King St West, #12/13 Additionally, EFP will offer an online session to highlight a selection of European world premieres at TIFF before the festival starts. For a list of European films in Toronto, page 10.

SONJA HEINEN: The number of European films at TIFF has considerably increased in the past 25 years, but maybe not in the past 2-3 years. TIFF has always been a very good launchpad for European films in North America, but due to Covid-

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Sonja Heinen

Sabine Rolinaki

EURO PREMIERES AT TORONTO

Woodland / Wald Directed by Elisabeth

Scharang

Homecoming / Máhccan Directed by Suvi West & Anssi Kömi

Spirit of Ecstasy / La Vénus d’argent Directed by Héléna Klotz

Austria CENTERPIECE

For her latest feature, writerdirector Elisabeth Scharang drew inspiration from Wald, a 2015 novel by the bestselling author Doris Knecht, as well as her own traumatic experience witnessing the 2020 Vienna attack, where a terrorist rampage killed four people and injured 23.

The film is shot by Jörg Widmer, who previously worked with Scharang on Jack (TIFF ’15) and Heart Hunting, and also shot Benjamin Millepied’s Carmen (TIFF ’22), Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life (TIFF ’19), and Wim Wenders’ Pina(TIFF ’11). Out of any comfort zone with seemingly no way back, Scharang’s haunting film asks: When everything collapses, how do we grieve the past while learning to live in the future?

Director: Elisabeth Scharang

Cast: Brigitte Hobmeier, Gerti Drassl, Bogdan Dumitrache

Johannes Krisch

Executive Producer: Ulrike Lässer

Producers: Veit Heiduschka

Michael Katz

Production Company: WEGA

Filmproduktion

Finland, Norway TIFF DOCS

As museums are increasingly pressured to return cultural property, co-directors Suvi West and Anssi Kömi share a personal and insightful story about the return of Sámi artifacts — long held in a museum — to their homeland.

The camera follows West as she visits Sámi artifacts housed in a Helsinki museum being prepared for their long-awaited return to Sápmi, the Sámi nation in northern Scandinavia and northwestern Russia. Keen to discover if any of her ancestors’ belongings are among the collection, West carries us through the intricate and emotional depths of the repatriation of Indigenous cultural and spiritual property to their homelands.

Directors: Suvi West, Anssi Kömi

Cast: Suvi West, Heini Wesslin, Eeva-Kristiina Nylander, Áile AikioCinematography: Anssi Kömi

Editing: Hanna Kuirinlahti

Producer: Janne Niskala

Production Companies: Vaski Filmi, Ten Thousand Images

France PLATFORM

Eleven years after her feature debut, Atomic Age, Héléna Klotz returns with a character study of Jeanne Francoeur, a young non-binary person from a long line of gendarmes. Jeanne (French pop star Claire Pommet,) lives on a military base with an abrasive father, caring for their younger siblings while dreaming of becoming a high-powered financial analyst.

Jeanne navigates the derision of their father and the return of an old love, who left for military service after their upsetting first sexual encounter. Jeanne’s laser-like brilliance and ambition do not add up to coldness, but rather an unerring self-possession and confidence in who they are and what they can achieve.

Director: Héléna Klotz

Cast: Claire Pommet, Niels Schneider, Sofiane Zermani, Anna Mouglalis, Grégoire Colin Producer: Justin Taurand

Production Co: Les Films du Bélier

International Sales Agent: Pyramide International

EURO PREMIERES AT TORONTO

Not A Word / Kein Wort

Directed by Hanna Slak

EFP Member Films

Solitude

Directed by Ninna Pálmadóttir

I Told You So / Te l’avevo detto

Directed by Ginevra Elkann

Germany, Slovenia, France PLATFORM

Nina Palcek (Maren Eggert) is preparing for a concert of Mahler’s 5th Symphony at the Berlin Philharmonic when rehearsal is interrupted by news that her teenage son, Lars (Jona Levin Nicolai), has been injured at school — perhaps by his own hand. She whisks Lars away to a remote island where the family used to summer.

With the onset of a storm, the pair are cut off from the mainland and confined to a cliffside house where Nina begins to find her child’s behaviour increasingly disturbing. She begins suspecting her quick-to-anger child of involvement in the death of a schoolmate. The pair edge towards a gripping climax, somehow drawing Nina closer to her son and to Mahler’s music.

Director: Hanna Slak

Cast: Maren Eggert,Jona Levin

Nicolai, Maryam Zaree, Mehdi

Nebbou, Marko Mandić

Producer: Michel Balagué

Production Companies: VOLTE, Ici et Là Productions, Tramal Films

International Sales: Beta Cinema

Iceland, Slovakia, France DISCOVERY

A cross-generational friendship provides some solace to two lonely misfits in Icelandic filmmaker Ninna Pálmadóttir’s first feature.

The sole resident of a farm in rural Iceland, Gunnar (Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson) may have been alone for too long to necessarily understand the delicacies of social interaction.

When he is forced to relocate, his ill-tempered dealings with a 10 year old neighbor, Ari (Hermann Samúelsson) evolves into friendship. Solitude celebrates the comfort and solace that an unexpected connection can provide.

Director: Ninna Pálmadóttir

Cast: Þröstur, Leó Gunnarsson, Hermann Samúelsson, Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir, Hjortur Jóhann Jónsson

Producers: Lilja Osk Snorradottir, Hlin Jóhannesdóttir, Elli Cassata Rúnar Rúnarsson

Production Companies: Pegasus Pictures, nutprodukcia:,Jour2Fête, Halibut

International Sales: The Party Film Sales

Italy PLATFORM

It’s a January like any other… except for an unprecedented heat wave — that has locals dripping and brought to the edge of sanity.

Amid the bustling streets and piazzas, Gianna (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) is honing a decade-long obsession with her ex–best friend Pupa (Valeria Golino), an aging, bankrupt porn star from the ’80s desperately clutching to her golden days with cosmetic retouches and corny appearances.

This star-studded romp through Rome amid the unprecedented heat wave increasingly melts — and melds — the lives of a group of individuals, each on the brink of insanity.

Director: Ginevra Elkann

Cast: Marisa Borini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, Danny Huston, Sofia Panizzi, Alba

Rohrwacher. Greta Scacchi, Riccardo Scamarcio

Executive Producer: Elena Recchia

Producers: Lorenzo Mieli, Simone

Gattoni, Malcom Pagani, Moreno

Zani, Mauro Monachini

Production Companies: The Apartment Pictures, Rai Cinema, Tenderstories, Small Forward

International Sales: The Match Factory

EURO PREMIERES AT TORONTO

A Happy Day Directd by Hisham

Zaman

EFP Member Films

Shame on Dry Land / Syndabocken

Directed by Axel Petersén

Working Class Goes to Hell / Radnicka klasa ide u pakao

Directed by Mladen Djordjevic

Norway, Denmark CENTERPIECE

Love upends the plans of three teenage friends longing to escape a Norwegian centre for young asylum seekers in Hisham Zaman’s equally funny and poignant third feature.

Drawing from his own e xperiences as a refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan and working with a cast of new discoveries, Zaman finds a fresh and unconventional means to portray the lives and hopes of young asylum seekers. While A Happy Day conveys the despair and anxiety that exists in its characters’ lives, it is just as vivid as a celebration of their resilience and uniqueness, too.

Director: Hisham Zaman

Cast: Salah Qadi, Ravand Ali Taha, Mohamed Salah, Sarah Aman

Mentzoni, Hilde Skovdahl, Aryan Pezeshki, Thea Sofie Loch

Næss, Stig Frode Henriksen, Anja

Saiva Bongo Bjørnstad

Producer: Hisham Zaman

Production Companies: Snowfall

Cinema, Zentropa, Rein Film, Take1

Sweden, Malta PLATFORM

An anxious former fraudster comes ashore at Malta only to find big trouble among a hedonistic community of Swedish expats, in Axel Petersén’s thriller. At the film’s center is a man whose desperate efforts to contain his inner turmoil may actually give him the agility he requires to survive this steamy snakepit.

Shame on Dry Land fits into a lineage of thrillers about untrustworthy people. With its take on hedonism’s dark heart, there are echoes of Petersén’s debut Avalon, which premiered at the Festival in 2011.

Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Romania

MIDNIGHT MADNESS

A small-town labour union turns to the dark arts for empowerment against the corrupt forces in their community in Mladen Djordjević’s timely socio-horror satire.

Djordjević once more offers up a view of the disturbing absurdities of living under an oppressive oligarchy, As his proletarian protagonists turn towards the supernatural, Dordević soaks their increasingly sinister activity in an absorbing chiaroscuro horror aesthetic, conjuring a malaise of uncomfortable dread. Yet he also cuts this tone with sly and sardonic satire - one is reminded that sometimes the only salvation for the working class, besides solidarity, is a sharp sense of humor.

Director: Axel Petersén

Cast: Joel Spira, Christopher Wagelin, Julia Sporre, Jacqueline Ramel, Michal Axel Piotrowski, Tommy Nilsson, Erica Muscat, Owen SCIRIHA

Editing: Robert Krantz

Producer: Sigrid Helleday

Production Companies: Fedra AB, Pellikola, Film Stockholm, SVT, Strictly Post

Director: Mladen Djordjevic

Cast: Tamara Krcunovic, Leon Lucev

Producers: Milan Stojanovic, Mladen Djordjevic

Production Companies: Sense

Production, Agitprop Ltd., Homemade Films, Adriatic Western, Kinorama, Tangaj Production. Sense

Production, Banda, Cinnamon Film, ERT

De Schutter Shines Optimism

Newly Elected EFP Board Members chats with TFV

The Film Verdict had the opportunity to speak to newly elected European Film Promotion Board member, Christian De Schutter, a veteran of the film industry and of Toronto. For the last two decades Christian has been with Flanders Image and he remains optimistic, dynamic and innovative as ever. Flanders Image was the first agency in Europe to embrace digital technology with an array of products and features. As a newly tapped Board Member of EFP, TFV wanted to get his insight into EFP at Toronto.

THE FILM VERDICT: Christian, first and foremost congratulations on your new role as a newly elected European Film Promotion board member, which means, as managing director of Flanders Image as well, you will be wearing two hats. How do you reconcile those two roles? Are they ever in conflict?

CHRISTIAN De SHUTTER: In all honesty, I don’t see that much of a conflict between what we do at Flanders Image and what EFP does; on the contrary, I mainly see the same objectives, similar ambitions or goals. And one of these ambitions is to help our films and our filmmakers be as visible as possible in the international marketplace. I genuinely believe that all of us together, EFP and all its members, can be a force to be reckoned with.

TFV: Rastislav Steranka, director of the National Cinematographic Centre of the Slovak Film Institute, has also been elected to the EFP Board. Have the two of you discussed how you both wish to influence EFP?

CDS: I believe I also speak for Rastislav when I say that we did not join the EFP Board to influence the organization. I joined the Board to serve EFP and its members. We live in very challenging times, and it is important to find answers to, or take positions on, the challenges we face. I want to actively contribute to the solutions, be a part of them, rather than resign myself to the problems. My biggest shortcoming, and that has always been the case, is that I am an optimist, so I am confident that there is a future for both European talent and the ‘content’ that is made here!

TFV: As a board member of EFP, what will you be focused on? You have led Flanders to embrace digital technology, run its own promotional VOD platform at screener.be and created many successful events, such as CONNEXT – we can’t imagine that you will be a passive board member? Will you bring any of those innovative and digital ideas over to EFP?

CDS: EFP is blessed with a very active and strong team in Hamburg. They are, and they always will remain, in the driver’s seat. You should see the board much more as a sounding board within the organization, representing all members. And as a board member, I am more than happy to share my experience about such initiatives as CONNEXT or how we deal with the Oscars with other members, but I am also keen to learn from other members, how they operate, what they do and how they do it. This exchange of information between members is one of the real strengths of EFP.

TFV: You will be attending Toronto, not for the first time, on behalf of EFP. What is your mission at TIFF for EFP? And what is EFP doing during Toronto to promote European films?

CDS: EFP again runs its Europe! umbrella booth at the TIFF Industry Office, the place to meet up with the Europeans in Toronto. Besides 10 agencies, a growing number of sales agents will also operate from this booth. They include Beta Cinema (Germany), Films Boutique (Germany), Global Screen (Germany), LevelK (Denmark), Media Luna New Films (Germany), Picture Tree International (Germany), The Yellow Affair (Finland) and TrustNordisk (Denmark).

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Christian de Schutter cont’d

For me personally, it will be my very first TIFF since Covid. So my mission will be to see and experience how much TIFF has changed and how we can adapt to this new reality. I will be there to talk with a lot of people and find out what their take is on the changing festival landscape and marketplace. And there is of course also our film, Here by Bas Devos which premiered in Berlin where it won the Encounters main prize, and in the meantime has become one of this year’s festival favorites. It has its North American premiere in Toronto, before it goes to New York, Busan…

TFV: Both with Flanders Image and EFP it is perhaps difficult to quantify “success” – how will you quantify a “successful Toronto” for EFP?

CDS: Success is something that you can’t always measure or quantify instantly. A festival can be successful if it turned out to be the ideal launching pad for your films, with sales and/or festival invites - not to forget media attention and visibility. But it could also be that it is successful in terms of meetings and maybe leads to things to happen in the not so near future.

TFV: How do today’s European film companies differ from film companies of ten to twenty years ago, and how are they addressing the marketplace when they attend a festival like TIFF?

CDS: It’s a tough market for quite a lot of players, and not just for the Europeans. There’s been Covid and the slow recovery from it, the sudden reality check for streamers forced upon them by Wall Street, the end of peak TV as we were used to… and I could probably still go on for a while. The result is that everyone, from festival curators to sales agents and distributors, to streamers, have become far more cautious, more conservative in their programming. For instance, the so called more controversial films that festivals would have been fighting for 10 or 15 years ago today hardly manage to secure a festival invite, let alone sales or distribution. This is a warning sign we can’t ignore. Besides being shown, it’s also of the utmost importance that they are reviewed, that they get coverage. I do hope this “hesitancy” to present more controversial subjects out of fear of audience reaction will turn out to be something temporary. Having said that, there are still plenty of examples of real auteur-driven movies that still manage to reach and move audiences around the globe.

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EUROPEAN FILM PROMOTION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2023 / 2024

The current board of Directors was elected in May and announced during the Cannes Film Festival. The Board consists of seven industry professionals, with a term of office lasting for two years.

Markéta Šantrochová, EFP President

Head of Czech Film Center

Simone Baumann, EFP Vice President

Managing Director German Films

Daniela Elstner

Executive Director UniFrance

Eda Koppel

Head of Marketing Estonian Film Institute

Stine Oppegaard

Manager International Relations Feature Films, Norwegian Film Institute

Christian De Schutter

Managing Director of Flanders Image

Rastislav Steranka

Director of the National Cinematographic Centre of the Slovak Film Institute.

From left to right: Rastislav Steranka, Markéta Šantrochová, Simone Baumann, Christian De Schutter, Eda KoppelStine Oppegaard © Kurt Kireger / EFP. Not pictured: Daniela Elstner

EUROPE! UMBRELLA

European Film Organisations at TIFF

Under the EFP flag, these member organisations come together to jointly promote the diversity and spirit of European cinema at key film festivals and markets worldwide. Europe! Umbrella is open Thursday Sept. 7 to Tuesday Sept. 12 Sept from 9am-6pm. It is located at the TIFF Industry Centre 350 King St West, #12/13

Austrian Film

Anne Laurent-Delage Executive Director

anne.laurent@austrianfilms.com

TIFF Highlight: Woodland

World Sales:

Picture Tree International

Croatian Audiovisual Center

Karla Bacić-Jelincić

Department of Promotion & Festivals karla.jelincic@havc.hr

TIFF Highlight: 1001 Nights

Production: Eclectica

Danish Film Institute

Lizette Gram Mygind

Festival Consultant lizetteg@dfi.dk

Jacob Neiiendam

Head of International jacobn@dfi.dk

TIFF Highlight:

The Promised Land

World Sales: TrustNordisk

Finnish Film Foundation

Jenni Domingo Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Feature Films jenni.domingo@ses.fi

Arttu Manninen

Festival Coordinator

arttu.manninen@ses.fi

TIFF Highlight: Homecoming

Flanders Image

Christian De Schutter General Manager cdeschutter@vaf.be

TIFF Highlights: Here

World Sales: Cinema Guild

Screen Ireland

Desirée Finnegan

Chief Executive

desiree.finnegan@screenireland.ie

TIFF Highlight: Flora and Son

Norwegian Film Institute

Stine Oppegaard

German Films

Simone Baumann

Managing Director baumann@german-films.de

Nicole Kaufmann

Head of Regional Desk, USA & UK kaufmann@german-films.de

Sara Stevenson

German Film Office

sara.stevenson@goethe.de

TIFF Highlight: Not A Word

World Sales: Beta Cinema

Manager International Relations, Feature Films

stine.oppegaard@nfi.no

TIFF Highlight: A Happy Day

Icelandic Film Centre

Christof Wehmeier

Head of Festival Promotion christof@icelandicfilmcentre.is

Gísli Snær Erlingsson Director

gisli.s.erlingsson@icelandicfilmcentre.is

Christof Wehmeier

Head of Festival Promotion christof@icelandicfilmcentre.is

Gísli Snær Erlingsson Director

gisli.s.erlingsson@icelandicfilmcentre.is

TIFF Highlight: Solitude

World Sales:The Party Film Sales

Swedish Film Institute

Theo Tsappos

Festival Manager, Feature Films theo.tsappos@sfi.se

TIFF Highlight: Shame on Dry Land

World Sales: Levelk International Co-Production Fund / Partner, France

Enrico Vannucci

Deputy Executive Director enrico.vannucci@coe.int

Iris Cadoux

Project Manager

iris.cadoux@coe.int

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European Films At Toronto

Austria France, Belgium, Qatar, Palestine, Lebanon, Denmark

world sales: Lightdox Here by Bas

Devos

Belgium

world sales: Cinema Guild

Mambar Pierrette by Rosine Mbakam

Belgium, Cameroon

world sales: The Party Film Sales

World Premieres

Woodland by Elisabeth

Schrang

Austria

world sales: Picture Tree

International

Sundown by Steve Reinke

USA, Canada, Austria

Film Sculpture (1), Film Sculpture (2), Film Sculpture (3), Film Sculpture (4)

by Philipp Fleischmann

Austria

Canadian Premiere

NYC RGB by Viktoria Schmid

Austria, USA

Belgium

World Premiere

The Rye Horn by Jaione Camborda

Spain, Belgium, Portugal

world sales: Films Boutique

North American Premieres

Green Border by Agnieszka Holland

Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium

world sales: Films Boutique

Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera by Chantal Akerman

Belgium

Bulgaria

World Premiere

The Reeds by Cemil Agacikoglu

Turkey, Bulgaria

world sales: Wide Management

Croatia

World Premieres

Working Class Goes to Hell by Mladen Djordjevic

North American Premiere

1001 Nights by Rea Rajcić

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World by Radu Jude

Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia

Czech Republic

North American Premieres

Green Border by Agnieszka Holland

Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium

world sales: Films Boutique

Electra by Daria Kashcheeva

Czech Republic, France, Slovak Republic

world sales: Miyu

Denmark

World Premiere

A Happy Day by Hisham Zaman

Norway, Denmark

Together 99 by Lukas Moodysson

Sweden, Denmark

world sales: REinvent

International Sales

Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina

Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Romania

Soualem

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Sundown

The Rye Horn

The Reeds

Working Class Goes to Hell

Together

Green Border

European Films At Toronto

North American Premieres

Bye Bye Tiberias

by Lina Soualem

France, Belgium, Qatar, Palestine, Lebanon, Denmark

world sales: Lightdox

Canadian Premiere

The Promised Land by Nikolaj Arcel

Denmark

world sales: TrustNordisk

Finland

World Premieres

Homecoming

by Suvi West, Anssi Komi

Finland

Estonia

Germany, Iran, Frankreich

world sales: Visit Films

After the Fire by Mehdi Fikri

France

world sales: Bac Films, Goodfellas Widow Clicquot by Thomas Napper

France

world sales: Independent Sisterhood by Nora El Hourch

France

world sales: Memento Films

Spirit of Ecstasy by Héléna Klotz

France

world sales: Pyramide Films

Les Indésirables by Ladj Ly France

world sales: Goodfellas

The Movie Teller by Lone Scherfig

France, Spain, Chile

About Dry Grasses

by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden

world sales: Playtime

Banel & Adama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy

Mali, Senegal, France, Qatar

world sales: BFF Sales

Inshallah a Boy by Amjad Al Rasheed

Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt

world sales:Pyramide International

City of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

France, Mongolia, Portugal, The Netherlands

world sales: BFF Sales

by

Miikko

Oikkonen

Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia

world sales: Beta Cinema

North American Premiere

Nun or Never!

by Heta Jäälinoja

Finland

Canadian Premieres

by Katja Gauriloff

Finland

world sales: The Yellow Affair

Fallen Leaves

by Aki Kaurismäki

Finland, Germany

world sales: The Match Factory

World Premieres

world sales: Embankment Films

Wicked Little Letters by Thea Sharrock

France, UK

world sales: Studio Canal

Titanic, Suitable Version for Iranian Families by Farnoosh Samadi

Iran, France

International Premieres

The Monk and the Gun by Pawo Choyning Dorji

Bhutan, France, USA, Taiwan

world sales: Films Boutique, UTA

A Difficult Year by Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache

France

world sales: Sphere Films

North American Premieres France

Achilles by Farhad Delaram

Robot Dreams by Pablo

Berger

Spain, France

world sales: Elle Driver

Sira by Apolline Traoré, Burkina Faso

Senegal, France, Germany

world sales: Wide Management

Sweet Dreams by Ena Sendijarevic

The Netherlands, Indonesia, Sweden, France

world sales: Heretic

The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri

Canada, France

world sales: mk2 Films

The Settlers by Felipe Gálvez Haberle

Chile, Argentina, France, Denmark, UK, Taiwan, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany

world sales: mk2 Films

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Estonia Sira

European Films At Toronto

Germany

Bye Bye Tiberias

by Lina Soualem

France, Belgium, Qatar, Palestein, Lebanon, Denmark

world sales: Lightdox

God Is a Woman by Andres Peyrot

France, Switzerland

world sales: Pyramide Internatonal

In the Rearview by Maciek Hamela Poland, Ukraine, France

world sales: Cinephil

Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros by Frederick

Wiseman

France

Viva Varda!

by Pierre-Henri Gibert

France

world sales: mk2 Films

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

by Radu Jude

Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia

world sales: Heretic

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An Vietnam, France, Singapore, Spain, world sales: Cercamon, Kino Lorber

The Beast by Bertrand Bonello

France,

world sales: Kinology

Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania

France,Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia

world sales:The Party Film Sales

Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio

Italy, France, Germany

world sales:The Match Factory

Last Summer by Catherine Breillat

France

world sales: Pyramide

International Music by Angela Schanelec Germany, France

world sales: Cinema Guild

Youth (Spring) by Wang Bing

France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

world sales: Pyramide

International

Canadian Premieres

They Shot the Piano Player by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal

Spain, France

world sales: Film Constellation

Orlando, My Political Biography by Paul B. Preciado

France

world sales:The Party Film Sales

Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet

France

world sales: mk2 Films

La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher

Italy, France, Switzerland

World Premieres

Arthur&Diana by Sara Summa

Germany, Slovenia, France

world sales: Square Eyes Films

Achilles by Farhad Delaram

Germany, Iran

Not A Word by Hanna Slak

Germany

world sales: Beta Cinema

Boy Kills World by Moritz Mohr

Germany, USA world sales: Capstone Pictures

International Premiere

An Endless Sunday by Alain Parroni

Italy, Germany

world sales:Fandango

North American Premieres

The Teachers‘ Lounge by Ilker Çatak

Germany

About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden

world sales: Playtime

Sira by Apolline Traoré

Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Senegal

world sales:Wide Management

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Viva Varda!

Youth (spring)

Arthur&Diana

La Chimera

European Films At Toronto

I Told You So by Ginevra Elkann

Italy

world sales: The Match Factory

Shoshana by Michael Winterbottom

Italy, UK

world sales: Vision

The Settlers

by Felipe Gálvez Haberle

Chile, UK, France, Denmark, Argentina, Germany

world sales: mK2 Films

Music by Angela Schanelec

Germany, France

world sales: Cinema Guild

Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio

Italy, France, Germany

world sales: The Match Factory

Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania

France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia

world sales: The Party Film Sales

Canadian Premiere

Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki

Finland, Germany

world sales: The Match Factory

Hungary

World Premiere Without Air

Katalin Moldovai Hungary

world sales: Hungarian Film Institute

Iceland

World Premiere

Solitude by Ninna Pálmadóttir

Iceland, Slovak Republic

world sales:The Party Film Sales

North American Premiere

Fár by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Iceland

world sales: Salaud Morriset

Ireland

Canadian Premiere

Flora and Son by John Carney

Ireland, USA

Italy

World Premieres

Holiday by Edoardo Gabbriellini

Italy

world sales: Memento

International

Walls by Kasia Smutniak

Italy, Poland

world sales: Fandango

International Premiere

An Endless Sunday by Alain Parroni

Italy, Germany

world sales: Fandango

North American Premiere

Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio

Italy, France, Germany

world sales: The Match Factory

La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher

Italy, France, Switzerland

world sales: The Match Factory

Lithuania

The Peasants by DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

Poland, Lithuania, Serbia

world sales: New Europe Film Sales

Luxembourg

World Premiere

Kanaval by Henri Pardo

Canada, Luxembourg

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The Settlers

Without Air

Solitutde

Flora and Son

I Told You So

The Peasants

European Films At Toronto

Canadian Premiere

They Shot the Piano Player by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal

Spain, France

world sales:Film Constellation

Norway

North American Premieres

Youth (Spring) by Wang Bing

France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

world sales: Pyramide International

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World by Radu Jude

Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia

world sales: Heretic

The Netherlands

North American Premieres

Sweet Dreams by Ena Sendijarevic

The Netherlands, Indonesia, Sweden, France

world sales: Heretic

City of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

France, Mongolia, Portugal, The Netherlands

world sales: BFF Sales

Youth (Spring)

by Wang Bing

France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands

World sales: Pyramide International

The Human Surge 3 by Eduardo Williams

Argentina, Portugal, The Netherlands, Brazil, Taiwan, Peru, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong

world sales: Rediance Films

World Premiere

A Happy Day by Hisham Zaman

Norway, Denmark

The Tundra Within Me by Sara Margrethe Oskal Norway

North American Premiere

Songs of Earth by Margreth Olin

Norway

world sales: Cinephil

Poland

World Premieres

Irena‘s Vow by Louise Archambault

Canada, Poland

world sales: Westend Films

Walls by Kasia Smutniak

Italy, Poland

world sales: Fandango

The Peasants by DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

Poland, Lithuania, Serbia

world sales: New Europe Film Sales

North American Premieres

Green Border by Agnieszka Holland

Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium

world sales: Films Boutique

In the Rearview by Maciek Hamela

Poland, Ukraine, France

Canadian Premiere

The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer

UK, Poland, USA

world sales: A24 Portugal

World Premieres

Toll by Carolina Markowicz

Brazil, Portugal

world sales: Luxbox Films

The Rye Horn by Jaione Camborda

Spain, Belgium, Portugal

world sales: Films Boutique

Shrooms by Jorge Jácome

Portugal

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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

Sweet Dreams

Song of Earth

Walls

Toll

European Films At Toronto

North American Premieres

World Premiere

The Human Surge 3 by Eduardo

Williams

Argentina, Portugal, The Netherlands, Brazil, Taiwan, Peru, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong

world sales: Rediance Films

City of Wind by

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

France, Mongolia, Portugal, The Netherlands

world sales: BFF Sales

The Daughters of Fire by Pedro Costa

Portugal

world sales: Cinema Guild

Romania

The Peasants by DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

Poland, Lithuania, Serbia

world sales: New Europe Film Sales

Working Class Goes to Hell by Mladen Djordjevic

Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Romania

North American Premiere Music by Angela Schanelec

Germany, France, Serbia

world sales: Cinema Guild

Slovak Republic

North American Premieres

Close Your Eyes by Víctor Erice

Spain,Argentina

world sales: Film Factory Entertainment

Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger

Spain, France

world sales: Elle Driver

Upon Open Sky by Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga

Mexico, Spain

world sales: Film Factory Entertainment

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An Vietnam, France, Singapore, Spain

world sales: Cercamon

North American Premiere

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World by Radu

Jude

Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia

world sales: Heretic Serbia

World Premiere

Solitude

by Ninna Pálmadóttir

Iceland, Slovak Republic

world sales: The Party Film Sales

North American Premiere

Electra by Daria Kashcheeva

Czech Republic, France, Slovak Republic

world sales: Miyu

Spain

World Premieres

The Rye Horn by Jaione Camborda

Spain, Belgium, Portugal

world sales: Films Boutique

Nada de todo esto by Francisco Cantón, Patricio Martínez

Argentina, Spain, USA

world sales: Salaud Morriset

Canadian Premiere

They Shot the Piano Player by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal

Spain, France

world sales: Film Constellation

Sweden

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Music

City of Wind

Close Your Eyes

Unicorns

European Films At Toronto

World Premieres

Shame on Dry Land

by Axel Petersén Sweden

world sales: LevelK

Together 99

by Lukas Moodysson

Sweden, Denmark

world sales: REinvent International Sales

Unicorns by Sally

El Hosaini, James Krishna

Floyd

UK, USA, Sweden

North American Premieres

Sweet Dreams by

Ena Sendijarevic

The Netherlands, Indonesia, Sweden, France

world sales: Heretic

About Dry Grasses

by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden

world sales: Playtime

Switzerland

The Settlers by Felipe

Gálvez Haberle

Chile,Argentina, France, Denmark, UK,Taiwan, Sweden, Germany, Swtzerland

world sales: mk2 Films

International Premieres

Been There

by Corina Schwingruber Ilić Switzerland

world sales: Ouat Media, Square Eyes Films

Ever Since, I Have Been Flying by Aylin Gökmen

world sales: Ouat Media, Square Eyes Films

North American Premiere

God Is a Woman by Andres Peyrot

France, Switzerland

world sales: Pyramide Intenational

Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars‘ by Jean-Luc Godard

France, Switzerland

world sales: Goodfellas

Canadian Premiere La Chimera by Alice

Rohrwacher

Italy, France, Switzerland

world salesThe Match Factory