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DRAMA, THRILLER 82’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2021 FINLAND • Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti Extra Offi- WATCH THE TRAILER cial Selection DIRECTED BY Teemu Nikki (Euthanizer) Jaakko is blind and disabled, tightened to his wheelchair. He loves Sirpa. CAST Living far away, they have never met in person, but they meet every day Petri Poikolainen over the phone. When Sirpa is overwhelmed by shocking news, Jaakko de- Marjaana Maijala cides to go to her immediately despite his condition. In any case, he just needs to rely on the help of five strangers in five places: from home to taxi, Hannamaija Nikander OFFICIAL SCREENING Matti Onnismaa from taxi to station, from station to train, from train to taxi and finally from Samuli Jaskio (Heavy Trip) WEDNESDAY 8 taxi to… her. Rami Rusinen 9h00 PM @ PALABIENNALE PRODUCTION PRESS & INDUSTRY It’s Alive Films Wacky Tie Films WEDNESDAY 8 2h00 PM @ SALA GIARDINO DESERTO PARTICULAR COMPLETED

DRAMA 120’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2021 BRAZIL, PORTUGAL • Venice Film Festival - Giornate Degli Autori WATCH THE TRAILER - In competition DIRECTED BY Aly Muritiba (Rust) 40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under inter- CAST nal investigation for violence. Antonio Saboia When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive Pedro Fasanaro north in search of her starting on what is apparently a fool’s errand. Thomas Aquino (Bucurau) He shows Sara’s picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until Laila Garin (“3%”) OFFICIAL SCREENING eventually a guy pops up saying he can put the two in touch under very specific con- ditions. Cynthia Senek (“3%”) TUESDAY 7 PRODUCTION 4h45 PM @ SALA PERLA Grafo Audiovisual Fado Filmes PRESS & INDUSTRY THURSDAY 2 2h00 PM @ CINEMA ASTRA 1 - 2 MOTHER LODE COMPLETED

DOCUDRAMA 86’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2021 FRANCE, ITALY, SWITZERLAND • Venice Film Festival - International Critics’ WATCH THE TRAILER Week 2021 DIRECTED BY Matteo Tortone (First Film) OFFICIAL SCREENING Jorge leaves his moto-taxi business in the suburbs of Lima and his family to seek fortune as a miner, reaching the highest and most dangerous Andean gold- CAST mine in Peru. José Luis Nazarios Campos MONDAY 6 1h15 PM @ SALA PERLA Lost under a glacier in the mountains, La Rinconada is “the closest city to the Damian Segundo Vospey sky”. It attracts thousands of seasonal workers like Jorge, seeking a lucky strike Maximiliana Campos Guzman PRESS & INDUSTRY and a better life. Juan José Nazario Campos Here starts a journey full of presages, where reality and magic blends together, where the myth of richness is built over a sacrifice: every now and then, miners PRODUCTION SUNDAY 5 9h00 AM @ SALA PERLA mysteriously disappear, since gold belongs to the Devil, El Tio de la Mina requires Wendigo Films sacrifices. Malfé Film C-Side Productions MARKET SCREENING The gold rush at the times of neoliberalism, a descent to hell, mirroring a relent-

less world where everything and everyone is expendable in the name of profit. FRIDAY 3 11h30 AM @ ONLINE LOVE IN A BOTTLE COMPLETED

ROMANCE, COMEDY 80’ 2021 NETHERLANDS WATCH THE TRAILER

DIRECTED BY Paula Van Der Oest (Academy Awards Lucky and Miles cross briefly at an Italian airport, hurrying back home to their respective countries, nominated for Zus & Zo) COVID19 has just hit. They’ll like to linger, but the flights are being called. Back home, Miles gets a video call and stares surprised into Lucky’s eyes. How can it be? Easy: she’s stolen his suitcase label. CAST Does love at first sight exist? How do you know who is ‘the one’? You talk, check musical tastes, James Krishna Floyd (My Brother the Devil) favorite books, movies, food, political tendencies, philosophy of life. You try to disagree, look at Hannah Hoekstra (EFP Shooting Star 2017) each other a lot, you dance, you laugh, you probably touch each other, eventually… you make love. But what if you are forced into a social distancing and how far can your feelings and desires melt with PRODUCTION your imagination? Levitate Film BV

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DRAMA, MYSTERY, COMING OF AGE 85’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2021 TURKEY, ROMANIA • Berlinale Panorama 2021 - Fipresci Award WATCH THE TRAILER • Hong Kong International Film Festival 2021 - DIRECTED BY World Cinema • Jeonju International Film Festival 2021 - Cine- Ferit Karahan (The Fall From Heaven) ma Fest Yusuf and his best friend Memo are Kurdish pupils at a boarding school se- • Moscow International Film Festival 2021 - Miss- cluded in the Anatolian mountains. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is CAST ing Pictures • Shanghai International Film Festival 2021 - Siff forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school’s Samet Yıldız repressive authorities to try to help him. When the adults finally understand Ekin Koç Highlights: Viva La Festival • Fajr International Film Festival 2021 - Best the seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the Mahir İpek Script Award school is cut off from the world by a heavy snowfall. With no way out and now Nurullah Alaca • Valencia Cinema Jove 2021 - Best Film Award desperate to find help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where Cansu Fırıncı and Audience Award grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks merci- Melih Selçuk • Seoul Guro IFF 2021 - Kids Vision lessly on. • Giffoni Film Festival - Generator +16 Competition PRODUCTION • Palić European Film Festival 2021 - Best Direc- Asteros Film tor Award • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2021 - Flama Booking People Next Door • Sarajevo FF 2021 - Network of festivals • Montenegro FF 2021 - Network of festivals • Kazan International Muslim FF 2021 - Main Com- petition N-ICE CELLO COMPLETED STORIA DEL VIOLONCELLO DI GHIACCIO

DOCUMENTARY 78’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2021 ITALY • Trento Film Festival 2021 - Special Event WATCH THE TRAILER

DIRECTED BY Corrado Bungaro (First Film) From the heart of a glacier in the Italian Alps, at 2.800 meters of altitude, an CAST American sculptor, Tim Linhart, shaped a Cello, fully made of ice. Together Giovanni Sollima with cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima they start a journey through Italy Tim Linhart performing in the main cities to end up in Sicily, 1.500Km southern, for the last show in the magnificent Palermo theater. PRODUCTION An on the road impossible journey, a real adventure challenging time, compli- Naturalmente Arteventi cations and forces of nature to keep alive the most fragile freight ever. Wasabi Film Makers NIMBY COMPLETED NIMBY– NOT IN MY BACKYARD

COMEDY, DRAMA 95’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2020 FINLAND • Warsaw International Film Festival 2020 - WATCH THE TRAILER Free Spirit Competition DIRECTED BY • São Paulo International Film Festival 2020 Teemu Nikki (Euthanizer) - International Perspective • Outshine FF Fort Lauderdale A comedy about intolerance among tolerant people. CAST • Amsterdam LGBTQ FF 2021 - Official Susanna Pukkila Competition Mervi travels to her hometown in Finland, with her German-Iranian Almila Bagriacik • FRIBOURG IFF 2021 - Midnight Screenings girlfriend Kata, to confront her parents and come out of the clos- Elias Westerberg (The Other Side of Hope) • Annapolis International Film Festival 2021 et. There, she finds out that she’s not the only one hiding secrets. Matti Onnismaa • Bifan - Bucheon INternational Fantastic The two girls will find themselves in the middle of social mayhem Mari Rantasila (Absolution) Film Festival - Audience Award in a community of gang bangers, bisexual pastors, activists, rac- Antti Reini (The Man Without a Past) • Revelation Perth International Film ists, refugees, alcoholics and drug abusers. Finally, a belligerent Ona Kamu (Juha) Festival 2021 neo-Nazi group break in. Jouko Puolanto

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DRAMA, COMING OF AGE 94’ Dog days of summer in a Kurdish city in Turkey, two unruly bright twins 2021 TURKEY from a poor neighborhood are distracted by their daily routine and school duties, having an only goal in life: to dive into a proper swim- DIRECTED BY ming pool, one in particular, in the luxury site on their way to school. Aydın Orak (First Film) Between them and their dream, a boundary wall and behind it the stubborn and irreproachable watchmen who‘s everyday their laughing stock. They CAST will start their little own class warfare. Mırza Zarg Mırhat Zarg Pelın Batu Iştar Gokseven Alı Seçkıner Alıcı Ferıde Çetın Rıza Sonmez Aydın Orak

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DOCUMENTARY 80’ Camilo,(37) has been exiled from Colombia since he was 10. Son of two late guerrilla fighters, his 2021 ITALY father was a leader of the rebellion and his mother was ‘desaparecida’ since he was just 5 years old. For the first time, he travels back to Colombia with his own son. The family welcomes them and DIRECTED BY opens up with their own memories. Together with the intimate videotapes and writings of his fa- Flavia Montini (First Film) ther, a story starts picturing the why of the impossible dialogue between his growing up self and a charismatic father married to the revolution. A revolution that he’d put over his personal feelings CAST and above the life of his wife and family. With the hovering ghost of a wiped out woman: Camilo’s Juan Camillo Zuluagas Tordecilla mother.

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DRAMA 62’ Diyarbakır, Turkey. The film portrays the ordinary under the enduring state 2021 TURKEY, ITALY of exception, from the perspective of its three characters. A painter living with her parents: Gulbîn is trying to make her own way DIRECTED BY in life, while obsessively painting a portrait of her mum with inspiration Ali Kemal Çınar from Whistler’s Mother. The mother models for her daughter while trying to insulate her house from the noise of the bombs to no avail. The father, CAST whose health is deteriorating, tries to reimagine his war-stricken city with Gulbîn Bozan old photos. Rabia Çınar Hüsnü Timur İhsan Şakar Lisa Çalan

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