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DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY CATALOGUE 75. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica

La Biennale di Venezia La Biennale di Venezia Director General and its collaborators for Andrea Del Mercato Digital Video Library Catalogue Jacopo Fabris Artistic Director Erika Giorgianni of the Cinema Department Lara González Lobo Alberto Barbera Mariachiara Manci Chiara Marin Venice Production Bridge Sara Mazzucchi Pascal Diot Alessandro Mezzalira Savina Neirotti Nikolas Montaldi [email protected] www.labiennale.org www.veniceproductionbridge.org THE VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF FESTIVAL SCOPE

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Digital Video Library Catalogue brochure for 2018 has been edited using the information assembled by August 30th, 2018. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS Eighty years ago, the Italian population, who had not a tradition We sink in our choosing to go along with the herd, wicked of anti- Semitism, was pushed by the fascist propaganda into and enjoyable in its own right. What nadir must we reach before 1938 - DIVERSI accepting the persecution of a minority, which had been living A LETTER the young people are shocked about what their parents in Italy for centuries. How was that possible? Even today, how and grandparents did and stop imitating them, an emulation 1938 - DIVERSE much do we know about this historical moment? TO A FRIEND for the worst. Let us allow ourselves a minute of optimism The film displays how the implementation of such laws entailed and assume that the question will be asked before it is too late. on the life of Italian Jews, and how Jewish and non-Jewish IN GAZA Amira Hass – «How did you destroy villages? One daughter will ask» GIORGIO TREVES population experienced racism and persecution. Through the voices of some direct witnesses and eminent scholars analysis YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES with the help of animation reconstructions, the film invites to AMOS GITAI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES reread this dramatic historical period under a new light, capable PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Israel to disclose the role of mass media in one of the most tragical RUNTIME SALES COMPANY racial persecutions in the history of humankind. Fiction / 34' Cinephil MAIN CAST ADDRESS Makram Khoury, Cinephil YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Clara Khoury, 18 Levontin Street 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Hilla Vidor, 65112 Tel Aviv PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy Amos Gitai Israel RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PRODUCER IN VENICE Documentary / 62' Upside Distribution Amos Gitai Philippa Kowarsky PRODUCER ADDRESS +972544961114 Carolina Levi Upside Distribution [email protected] (Tangram Film) 33 Quai de Dion Bouton 92800 Puteaux France IN VENICE Carolina Levi (Tangram Film) +39 3888788337 [email protected]

4 Venice Production Bridge 2018 5 Digital Video Library Catalogue FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS In Jerusalem, the tramway connects several neighborhoods, Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn from East to West, recording their variety and their differences. as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn A TRAMWAY This comedy looks with humor at moments of the daily life ADAM UND EVELYN finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for of a few passengers, a series of brief situations that occur the holiday on her own. She travels to Hungary, trailed by Adam. IN JERUSALEM on the way to Jerusalem’s «red» tram line, unfolding a whole ADAM & EVELYN As the border with Austria falls, everything changes in Hungary. mosaic of human beings. The frontiers are open, as the new possibilities for Adam and Evelyn to decide in which world – Eastern or Western – they want AMOS GITAI YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES ANDREAS to build a happy life. The film is based on the novel by Ingo 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES GOLDSTEIN Schulze “Adam und Evelyn” which was translated into more than PROJECT TYPE / All available except for France, 10 languages. RUNTIME Israel and Switzerland Fiction / 94' SALES COMPANY YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST Orange Studio 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Yael Abecassis, ADDRESS All available except for France, Keren Mor, Orange Studio PROJECT TYPE / Estonia and Russia. Yuval Scharf 21, rue Jasmin RUNTIME Fiction / 95' SALES COMPANY PRODUCER 75016 Paris Pluto Film Laurent Truchot France MAIN CAST (Agav Films) IN VENICE Anne Kanis, ADDRESS Laurent Truchot Florian Teichtmeister, Pluto Film +33 643418481 Lena Lauzemis, Bayreuther Str. 9 [email protected] Milian Zerzawy, D-10789 Berlin Christin Alexandrow Germany PRODUCER IN VENICE Heino Deckert Margot Haiböck (ma.ja.de. Fiction), +49 03021918220 Helge Neubronner [email protected]

6 Venice Production Bridge 2018 7 Digital Video Library Catalogue FINAL CUT IN VENICE SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS Imider, Southeastern Morocco. A rapacious silver mine has Between April and June, large shoals of bluefin tuna come siphoned aquifer water for decades, drying out the almond in from the ocean to reach the clear and warm waters of the AMUSSU groves belonging to a small Amazigh community. Fearing their AS IF WE WERE TUNA Mediterranean Sea. And skilled Italian tonnaroti, the tuna fragile oasis might disappear and their livelihoods destroyed, fishermen, lay in wait, casting big and complex nets into MOVEMENT the villagers peacefully rebelled in 2011 and shut down a major the sea - tuna traps tied to floats and ready to lead the fish water pipeline heading towards the mine. Seven years later, they through a maze of chambers. Among the various chambers continue to occupy it in a protest camp which has now practically FRANCESCO ZIZOLA created by the nets, the most important for the purpose of fishing NADIR turned into a small solar-powered village. However, backed by and catching tuna is the death chamber, so called because conniving intelligence services and aggressively protected by the it hosts the killing or la mattanza. La mattanza is not only BOUHMOUCH police, Africa’s biggest silver mine is no easy adversary. Dozens the closing act in tuna fishing, but is also a sacred ritual have been arrested for taking part in what the villagers have which has inspired poets and philosophers through the ages. called “Amussu xf Ubrid n ’96” (Movement on Road ’96). Nonetheless, the resilient villagers continue to resist with YEAR OF PRODUCTION PRODUCTION COMPANY the little means they have — songs, dry bread, weekly protests, 2018 10b Photography a flimsy camera, a film festival and endless ingenuity... PROJECT TYPE / ADDRESS RUNTIME 10b Photography Documentary / 18' Via San Lorenzo Da Brindisi, 10b YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PRODUCER 00185 Rome 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Francesco Zizola Italy Worldwide PROJECT TYPE (10b Photography) IN VENICE Documentary PRODUCTION COMPANY Francesco Zizola CURRENT RUNTIME / Movement on Road ‘96, [email protected] ESTIMATED RUNTIME Local Film Committee of Imider 100' / 90' ADDRESS PRODUCER 151 rue Oussama Ibn Zaid, Sophia Menni Maarif (Local Film Committee 20330 Casablanca of Imider) Morocco IN VENICE Sophia Menni +212 679777702 [email protected]

8 Venice Production Bridge 2018 9 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. The former star of a short-lived television sitcom, Fabien drinks too much to remember everything he does and not many surprises him anymore. When his path crosses Yoni’s, he is not ALL INCLUSIVE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES BÊTES BLONDES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES surprised to discover, in the wake of this young, tearful, military PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide BLONDE ANIMALS man, the head of yet another young man, beautiful like a dream, RUNTIME SALES COMPANY a memory, a reproach. CORINA Documentary / 10' Ouat Media SCHWINGRUBER ILIC´ PRODUCER ADDRESS ALEXIA WALTHER, Stella Händler Ouat Media YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES (freihändler 2844 Dundas Street West, MAXIME MATRAY 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Filmproduktion) M6P 1Y7 Toronto PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Canada RUNTIME SALES COMPANY IN VENICE Fiction / 101' Ecce Films Wouter Jansen MAIN CAST ADDRESS (Some Shorts) Thomas Scimeca, Ecce Films +31 622076717 Basile Meilleurat, 47 rue Polonceau [email protected] Agathe Bonitzer 75018 Paris PRODUCER France Emmanuel Chaumet IN VENICE (Ecce Films) Louise Rinaldi +33 142583714 [email protected]

10 Venice Production Bridge 2018 11 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Blu tells a nocturnal and underground journey inside Joana grew up in Paris surrounded by rock and literature. the TBM, the machinery used to dig tunnels and subways around But in 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, Joana moves back BLU the world. The film’s gaze is aimed at inaccessible and invisible DESLEMBRO to the country she barely remembers, overnight and against her places and shows the indissoluble link between men will. In Rio, she recovers pieces of memories from a fragmented BLUE and machines, between technology and manual labor, UNREMEMBER childhood and a missing father. Not everything is real, not between security and ancestral fears, between programming everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana is able MASSIMO D’ANOLFI, and randomness. Blu is a tribute to all invisible workers. FLAVIA CASTRO to write her own story in the present tense. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MARTINA PARENTI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY RUNTIME (theatrical distribution) Documentary / 20' Montmorency Film Fiction / 96' SALES COMPANY PRODUCER ADDRESS MAIN CAST Loco Films Massimo D’Anolfi, Montmorency Film Jeanne Boudier, ADDRESS Martina Parenti Via Burigozzo, 8 Sara Antunes, Loco Films (Montmorency Film) 20122 Milan Eliane Giardini, 42 rue de Sedaine Italy Hugo Abranches 75011 Paris IN VENICE PRODUCER France Martina Parenti Gisela Camara IN VENICE +39 3358436922 (Tacaca Filmes) Florencia Gil [email protected] +33 762994919 [email protected]

12 Venice Production Bridge 2018 13 Digital Video Library Catalogue BIENNALE COLLEGE SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS In the small Romanian town of Deva, Kato, a teen girl living Emma Peeters will soon be 35 and has yet to accomplish in an orphanage, gets electrocuted while drying her hair. something. After years of hardship in Paris in trying to become an DEVA This apparently banal event will completely turn things upside EMMA PEETERS actress, an idea strikes her fancy: bringing her days to an end in down around her. The orphanage is invaded by electricians, a week’s time, on her birthday. In the process Emma meets Alex and a new volunteer, Bogi, is hired to help to restore the order. Bodart, a fanciful funeral home employee who will help her in her ˝ Kato will become infatuated by her to the point of reconsidering NICOLE PALO reckless endeavor. By dint of hard work to hide their respective PETRA SZOCS the way she views her world. feelings, it seems they may succeed in bringing about Emma’s final objective... YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / All available except Fiction / 82' FP Films RUNTIME for Canada and the Benelux MAIN CAST ADDRESS Fiction / 87' SALES COMPANY Csengelle Nagy, FP Films MAIN CAST True Colours Glorious Films Boglárka Komán, Zrinyi u. 14. Monia Chokri, ADDRESS Fatma Mohamed 2890 Tata Fabrice Adde True Colours Glorious Films PRODUCER Hungary PRODUCER Largo Italo Gemini, 1 Péter Fülöp (FP Films) IN VENICE Gregory Zalcman 00161, Rome Péter Fülöp (Take Five) Italy +36 304439893 IN VENICE [email protected] Catia Rossi +39 3465125862 [email protected]

14 Venice Production Bridge 2018 15 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS VENEZIA CLASSICI SYNOPSIS A gunshot breaks the silence of the night. Four men run from Friedkin Uncut offers an introspective glimpse of the life the crime scene. Umberto “Yes & No”, the infallible killer of the and artistic career of William Friedkin, the extraordinary FINO ALLA FINE Caputo clan, just murdered the wrong man. Now he has to deal FRIEDKIN UNCUT and unconventional director of cult movies such as The French with the boss. Unfortunately, the victim is the nephew of Tonino Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Cruising and To Live and Die UNTIL THE END “The Infamous”, the most feared boss of the whole town. in L.A. For the first time Friedkin has decided to lay himself bare However, this is not the biggest problem, as Umberto “Yes & No” FRANCESCO ZIPPEL and guide viewers on a fascinating exploration of the themes is hiding a dreadful secret. and stories that have had the greatest influence on his life GIOVANNI DOTA and his work. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PROJECT TYPE / All available except 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME online distribution PROJECT TYPE / All available except for France, Italy, Fiction / 15' SALES COMPANY RUNTIME North America and Latin America MAIN CAST Prem1ere Film Documentary / 107' SALES COMPANY Lino Musella, Nello Mascia, ADDRESS MAIN CAST Doc & Film International Vincenzo Nemolato, Prem1ere Film William Friedkin, ADDRESS Riccardo Maria Manera Via Nazionale Terza Traversa 3 Ellen Burstyn, Doc & Film International PRODUCER 70128 Palese (Bari) Gina Gershon, 13 rue portefoin Elisabetta Bruscolini Italy Juno Temple, 75003 Paris (CSC Production) IN VENICE Wes Anderson, France Roberto de Feo Dario Argento, IN VENICE +39 3333134229 Samuel Blumenfeld, Daniela Elstner [email protected] Damien Chazelle +33 682546685 PRODUCER [email protected] Federica Paniccia (Quoiat Films)

16 Venice Production Bridge 2018 17 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS In a world where nature prevails, a man and a woman live their In the creative process of a great writer of our time, as is Annie lives as the last survivors of their species. Working as farmers, Ernaux, every word-image is chosen to spark an episode in the GAGARIN, they deal with the fatigue, the silence, and existence. Driven GLI ANNI reader that is worth reliving, in the same way the author herself by the desire to escape, the man finds refuge in his imagination. has absorbed it. A woman gives voice to The years text, a few MI MANCHERAI He explores abandoned villages, scavenges for junk and designs THE YEARS collected fragments on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. improbable flying machines. The woman watches him from afar Places from her past drawn from the family films, emerge like GAGARIN, but stays at his side with the care and the self-sacrifice reflections of a fragmented and ever-changing memory, I WILL MISS YOU that someone would offer to a madman. At least until something SARA FGAIER uncovered by a new light. Bodies and shadows, small objects falls from the sky, breaking into their lives. An unexpected guest and landscapes compose the verses in the story of a life, like that will force them to wonder about themselves, about reality a renewed promise, placed in the exchange between archive DOMENICO DE ORSI and desire, and the act itself of imagining. and words.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide PROJECT TYPE / All available except RUNTIME SALES COMPANY RUNTIME for France and Italy Fiction / 20' Purple Neon Lights Fiction / 20' SALES COMPANY MAIN CAST ADDRESS PRODUCER Films Grand Huit Nicola De Paola, Purple Neon Lights Marco Alessi ADDRESS Marina Savino Circonvallazione Casilina, 130 (Dugong Films) Films Grand Huit PRODUCER 00176 Rome 13 rue des Trois Couronnes Domenico De Orsi Italy 75011 Paris (Purple Neon Lights) IN VENICE France Domenico De Orsi IN VENICE +39 3490514405 Marco Alessi [email protected] (Dugong Films) +39 3358447617 [email protected]

18 Venice Production Bridge 2018 19 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS On her ninetieth birthday, Marilyn Monroe receives a letter from Three brothers, accompanying their only sister, drive to a far a journalist who would like to interview her. The great Hollywood unknown village to bury their newly deceased father according GOODBYE MARILYN diva hasn’t given an interview for fifty years, not since her HAMCHENAN to his will. The hot air and the long road make the condition unexplained permanent retirement. Surprisingly, Marilyn decides unbearable, especially when the body is rotting. This is the time to make an exception. The journalist tries to decipher the mystery KE MIMORDAM for the older brother, so exhausted and angry, to expose his MARIA DI RAZZA behind the woman who, at the height of her success, gave up hidden annoyances towards the younger brother, who has been fame in the name of freedom, and became a legend. AS I LAY DYING taking care of the father by himself for years.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES MOSTAFA SAYARI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Israel RUNTIME SALES COMPANY RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Animation / 13' Zen Movie Fiction / 73' Persia Film Distribution MAIN CAST IN VENICE MAIN CAST ADDRESS Maria Pia Di Meo, Giulio Mastromauro Nader Fallah, Persia Film Distribution Gianni Canova, +39 3287957032 Elham Korda, 9, Mozafari St., Mirdamad Lucia Rocco (voices) [email protected] Majid Aghakarimi, 1545654478 – Tehran PRODUCER Vahid Rad Iran (Islamic Republic of) Antonietta De Lillo PRODUCER IN VENICE (marechiarofilm) Abbas Amoori Ali Haji Ghasemi (Farhang Film Tehran) +98 9123184641 ghasemipersiafilmdistribution.com

20 Venice Production Bridge 2018 21 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS VENEZIA CLASSICI SYNOPSIS This is an auteur film—like the ones I made in the past. Humberto Mauro is a documentary tribute to the filmmaker At the same time the film features the extraordinary young Humberto Mauro considered the pioneer of Brazilian and Latin HAPPY LAMENTO director Khavn de la Cruz from Manila and his work “The fleeting HUMBERTO American cinema, directed by his grandnephew, André di Mauro. Life of an Ember.” Taken together, the result is a music film The film shows the life of Humberto Mauro through his films of a special kind. At heart, the film concerns electric light, MAURO in a narrative composed of audio interviews of him in the 60’s. ALEXANDER KLUGE the circus, the song “Blue Moon”, and street wars among Humberto Mauro is a broad dynamic and human panel on children’s gangs in North Manila, a wilderness otherwise Mauro’s creativity and cinema, exposing the unusual technical inaccessible to western eyes. “Blue Moon”, the song once ANDRÉ DI MAURO solutions to making his films and the adversities inherent in identified with the voice of Elvis Presley, refers to a phase of the pioneering such a task at the beginning of the twentieth century moon that might never actually appear: just as things can often in a small Latin American city. go with love. But sometimes “never” comes to pass. The film is a production in cooperation with the young distributors and YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES “pearl divers” of Rapid Eye Movies, Cologne— who also brought 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES me together with Khavn de la Cruz. PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Brazil RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Documentary / 90' DiMauro Filmes YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST ADDRESS 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Humberto Mauro, DiMauro Filmes Worldwide distributor: PROJECT TYPE / Zequinha Mauro Rua Cupertino Durão, 132 RUNTIME Rapid Eye Movies PRODUCER apt 405 - Leblon Fiction / 93' SALES COMPANY André Di Mauro 22441-030 Rio de Janeiro Rapid Eye Movies MAIN CAST (DiMauro Filmes) Brazil Helge Schneider, ADDRESS IN VENICE Heiner Müller, Rapid Eye Movies Daniela Menegotto Galina Antoschewskaja, Antwerpener Str. 6-12 (Lança Filmes) Peter Berling 50672 Köln +55 51 981267000 PRODUCER Germany [email protected] Alexander Kluge IN VENICE (Kairos Film) Stephan Holl +49 015119156986 [email protected]

22 Venice Production Bridge 2018 23 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS Elia, the last inhabitant of Providence, a town destroyed by an Jose (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala City - earthquake, refuses to move with rest of the community to “New a typical lower- class existence in one of the world’s most IL BENE MIO Providence”. They try to chase him away, but for him that place is JOSÉ dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. She never had still alive, and he begins to feel a new presence in town as well. a husband, and Jose is her youngest and favorite child. Her life MY OWN GOOD JOSE is her church and selling sandwiches at a bus stop. Jose spends YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES his days on cramped buses and fighting traffic as he runs food 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES to waiting drivers. Aloof and resigned to things as they are, he PIPPO MEZZAPESA PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide LI CHENG fills his free moments playing with his phone and random sex RUNTIME SALES COMPANY arranged on street corners and dating apps. When he meets Luis, Fiction / 94' True Colours Glorious Films a migrant from the rural Caribbean coast, they pursue MAIN CAST ADDRESS an unexpected relationship and Jose is thrust into passion Sergio Rubini, True Colours Glorious Films and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable. Sonya Mellah, Largo Italo Gemini, 1 Dino Abbrescia 00161 Rome PRODUCER Italy YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Cesare Fragnelli IN VENICE 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES (Altre Storie) Catia Rossi PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide +39 3465125862 RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY [email protected] Fiction / 85' YQstudio LLC MAIN CAST ADDRESS Enrique Salanic, YQstudio LLC Manolo Herrera, 2493 E Geddes PL, Ana Cecilia Mota 80122 Centennial PRODUCER United States George F. Roberson IN VENICE (YQstudio LLC) George F. Roberson +1 7208781698 [email protected]

24 Venice Production Bridge 2018 25 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Isfi can wear her comfortable pants among her guy friends but Fresh out of jail, Ulysse has only one idea in mind: making money. has to wear hijab to be accepted at Nita s house. Two days to Nita Confronted by his depressed mother, Gabrielle, the bills that KADO s birthday, all Isfi wants is to prepare the best gift in Nita s room. L’ENKAS never stop piling up and his desire to live his life to the full, he makes a plan. With his best friend, David, he travels from A GIFT YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES THE TRUK rave to rave, selling a mixture of water and Ketamine from their 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES food truck. Together, they hit the road… PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide RUNTIME SALES COMPANY ADITYA AHMAD SARAH MARX YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Fiction /15' Miles Films 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES MAIN CAST ADDRESS PROJECT TYPE / All available except for France Isfira Febiana, Miles Films RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Anita Aqshary JL RC.Veteran Raya Fiction / 85' Versatile, PRODUCER No 555 Unit F & G MAIN CAST Orange Studio Mira Lesmana Bintaro Pesanggrahan Sandrine Bonnaire, ADDRESS (Miles Films) Jakarta Selatan 12330 Indonesia Sandor Funtek Versastile 65 rue de Dunkerque IN VENICE PRODUCER 33124 Paris Mira Lesmana Hamé Bourokba France +62 811936044 (La Rumeur Filme) [email protected] Orange Studio 21, rue Jasmin 75016 Paris France IN VENICE Barbara van Lombeek +32 486546480 [email protected]

26 Venice Production Bridge 2018 27 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS When at the end of the summer the last ferries with tourists leave 1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn and most of young Marc-Antoine’s friends have left for the night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells L’ÉTÉ ET TOUT mainland to study or to work, he and his friend Mickael remain LA NOCHE in a secret military operation. The order is precise: “As we can’t behind on the deserted island. Mickael is full of plans to leave, kill them, let’s drive them mad.” The three men will remain LE RESTE but is Marc-Antoine able to escape his solidified routine? DE 12 AÑOS in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them is Pepe A TWELVE-YEAR Mujica – later to become president of Uruguay. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES SVEN BRESSER 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES NIGHT YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / Switzerland, Belgica, Fiction / 18' IJswater Films ÁLVARO BRECHNER RUNTIME Germany (No pay TV) MAIN CAST ADDRESS Fiction / 123' SALES COMPANY Marc Antoine Innocenti, IJswater Films MAIN CAST Latido Films Mickael Danguis Fasolo Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4 Antonio de la Torre, ADDRESS PRODUCER 1079 LD Amsterdam Chino Darín, Latido Films Steven Rubinstein Malamud The Netherlands Soledad Villamil Calle Veneras, 9 (IJswater Films) IN VENICE PRODUCER 3 Izq 28013 Madrid Wouter Jansen Mariela Besuievsky Spain (Some Shorts) (Tornasol Films) IN VENICE +31 622076717 Francesca Perin [email protected] +34 915488877 [email protected]

28 Venice Production Bridge 2018 29 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Yanni’s mum is running late to an audition as a Shakespearean Three teenagers, Mateo, Alejo and Sofia, spend a day in an Viola. After she learns that her son is left home alone, she will a apartment that doesn’t belong to them. They pretend to live LEOFOROS fight to balance her most important roles in life through a series LOS BASTARDOS the life of the owners, exploring and wondering through the of phone calls, in a single-long- take shot in the most different rooms and spaces: wearing their clothes, using their PATISION controversial area of central Athens: Patision Avenue. THE BASTARDS makeup, reading their books, playing their video games PATISION AVENUE and eating their food. The tension between Mateo and Alejo YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES builds up, but as night arrives, they all dance, hug each other, 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES TOMAS POSSE sweat, smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol in ecstasy, until fear PROJECT TYPE / All available except and jealousy break in. Things don’t go so well and a foreign THANASIS RUNTIME for Greece and Cyprus guest tests their strength. Fiction / 12' SALES COMPANY NEOFOTISTOS MAIN CAST Radiator IP Sales Marina Symeou ADDRESS YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2017 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PRODUCER Radiator IP Sales Worldwide Ioanna Bolomyti Handelskaai 17 Bus 11 PROJECT TYPE / (Argonauts Productions) 1000 Brussels RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Belgium Fiction / 16' Rocamora IN VENICE MAIN CAST ADDRESS Ben Vandendaele Malena Villa, Rocamora 4121 +32 477632746 Juan Ruax, 1184, Buenos Aires [email protected] Fernando Malfitano Argentina PRODUCER IN VENICE Malena Kremenchuzky Tomas Posse +54 91133351760 [email protected]

30 Venice Production Bridge 2018 31 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS VENEZIA CLASSICI SYNOPSIS Saeed is a young cinema passionate trying to teach other young Director of photography Robby Müller is one of the few people people in Eastern Ghouta in Syria the rules of filming, but the in the world who knows how to play the sun. How to catch its rays LISSA reality they face is much more harsh to respect any rule. LIVING like butterflies. For her film essay Living the Light - Robby Müller, His friend Milad is on the other side of the fence, in Damascus, director and director of photography Claire Pijman had access AMMETSAJJEL under the control of the regime finishing his studies in Fine Arts. THE LIGHT – to Müller’s personal archive: thousands of Hi8 videos, personal At one point, Milad decides to leave the capital and joins Saeed pictures, set photos and Polaroids that he shot throughout STILL RECORDING in besieged Douma where they set up a local radio station and ROBBY MÜLLER his career. The film intertwines these images with excerpts a recording studio. They hold the camera to film everything until of his oeuvre, creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. one day the camera films them... With his ground-breaking camerawork, inventive and innovative SAEED AL BATAL, CLAIRE PIJMAN lighting methods, his exceptional sense for depth of colour, freedom of framing, and his on-going quest for simplicity, GHIATH AYOUB YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Müller has encouraged generations of directors of photography PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide to discover their own eye. Even when his films are finished, RUNTIME SALES COMPANY his images keep on moving. The light never fades because Müller Documentary / 116' Bidayyat fort Audiovisual Arts always created space for the story to speak through the images. PRODUCER ADDRESS Mohammad Ali Atassi Bidayyat fort Audiovisual Arts (Bidayyat fort Audiovisual Arts) Gouraud st., Gemayzeh YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 0000 Beirut 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Lebanon PROJECT TYPE / All available except IN VENICE RUNTIME for the Benelux and Germany Mohammad Ali Atassi Documentary / 86' SALES COMPANY +961 3766632 PRODUCER Wide House [email protected] Carolijn Borgdorff ADDRESS (Moondocs) Wide House 9 rue bleue 75009 Paris France IN VENICE Anais Clanet +33 153952441 [email protected]

32 Venice Production Bridge 2018 33 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS M explores the relationship between sexuality and death, which After 15 years of imprisonment, Ziad struggles to adjust to appear to be at opposite poles, but in fact, they merge in all of us, modern Palestinian life as the hero everyone hails him to be. M disguising the fear of death or the desire to die, the world of Eros. MAFAK Unable to distinguish reality from hallucination he unravels and drives himself back to where it all began. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES SCREWDRIVER ANNA ERIKSSON 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY BASSAM JARBAWI PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Fiction / 90' Ihode Management RUNTIME SALES COMPANY MAIN CAST ADDRESS Fiction / 108' Dialectic Anna Eriksson Ihode Management MAIN CAST ADDRESS PRODUCER Itäinen viertotie 2b Ziad Bakri, Dialectic Anna Eriksson 23500 Uusikaupunki Areen Omari, 385 Argyle Road, Unit 5K (Ihode Management) Finland Jameel Khoury, 11218 Brooklyn New York IN VENICE Yasmine Qaddumi, United States Kati Nuora Mariam Basha, IN VENICE +358 505689191 Amir Khoury Shrihari Sathe [email protected] PRODUCER +1 6465938494 Shrihari Sathe [email protected] (Dialectic)

34 Venice Production Bridge 2018 35 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Luciano is serving time under house arrest. He lives between Manila, July 7, 2009. As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays narrow walls and days feel always the same. Time goes by slowly, throughout The Philippines despite terrorist attacks in the south, MALO TEMPO marked by actions repeated over and over again. He is sentenced MANILA an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to to the void, the anxiety of a life spent waiting for something that impress his father. However, when the patriarch and his friends does not come. Luciano fills his time singing melodramatic songs IS FULL OF MEN embrace the new child as one of their own, the question must be TOMMASO PERFETTI full of passion that perhaps nobody understands. His parents asked: what determines who is more valuable of attention? take care of him, but they are also his jailers. With the face NAMED BOY and the body of a criminal, Luciano gets ready to start over again. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES STEPHEN LEE 2017 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION PRODUCTION COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide 2018 Enece Film RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / ADDRESS Fiction / 21' Flourshing Films RUNTIME Enece Film MAIN CAST IN VENICE Fiction / 19' Via Paullo 6 Jon Norman Schneider, Themba Bhehe PRODUCER 20135 Milan Bembo Rocco, +1 2404236398 Giulia La Marca Italy Reynald Rassiel [email protected] (Enece Film) IN VENICE PRODUCER Giulia La Marca Caleb Negassa [email protected] (OOH YOOH)

36 Venice Production Bridge 2018 37 Digital Video Library Catalogue VPB – DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY SYNOPSIS FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS Mediterranean Diet Example to the World is a poetic journey told Arturo is the owner of an art gallery in Buenos Aires; charming, through the eyes and words of a wise old man who, after sophisticated but rather unscrupulous. He represents Renzo, MEDITERRANEAN wandering the world and seeing humanity brutalized by hunger MI OBRA MAESTRA a complex and extremely unruly painter undergoing a steep and misery, returned to Italy to his homeland, Cilento. decline. Their relationship is one of love and hate. One day Renzo DIET EXAMPLE Here, through his wisdom, we will get to know the land where MY MASTERPIECE suffers an accident and loses his memory. Taking advantage the Mediterranean diet was born and which lifestyle was of this situation, Arturo comes up with an extreme and risky plan TO THE WORLD proclaimed UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity to return them to the top of the Art Scene. on November 16th, 2010 in Nairobi. We will see an area full GASTÓN DUPRAT of wealth, natural biodiversity, culture, and agro-food that holds YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES FRANCESCO the secret to longevity and was appreciated by the greatest 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES GAGLIARDI nutritionist of the XX century, Ancel Keys, who moved here PROJECT TYPE / All available except for “to prolong his life by twenty years”. The Mediterranean diet, RUNTIME Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, as defined by him, is much more than a diet. It is a model Fiction / 101' Brazil, Peru, Spain, Andorra and Portugal of seasonality, authenticity, biodiversity, and it’s emerging MAIN CAST SALES COMPANY as a representative lifestyle of the link between man and land. Luis Brandoni, Guillermo Francella, Latido Films Raúl Arevalo ADDRESS YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PRODUCER Latido Films 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Mariano Cohn Calle Veneras 9 28013 Madrid PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide (Televisión Abierta) Spain RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Documentary / 30' FG Pictures IN VENICE Antonio Saura MAIN CAST ADDRESS +34 915488877 Franco Nero FG Pictures [email protected] PRODUCER Via Quattro Novembre, 75 Stefania Capobianco 00043 Ciampino (FG Pictures SRL) Rome IN VENICE Stefania Capobianco +39 3280248668 [email protected]

38 Venice Production Bridge 2018 39 Digital Video Library Catalogue FINAL CUT IN VENICE SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are A blissful night is unexpectedly interrupted by a sound from traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. downstairs. Different reactions are triggered as well as the MOTHER, She is followed by sellers, beggars and passers-by, outraged NA LI relentless indifference. voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd I AM SUFFOCATING. of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains DOWN THERE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES THIS IS MY LAST into the heart of the city, just to find itself dangling, skinned 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. While under the scorching PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide FILM ABOUT YOU sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting ZHENGFAN YANG RUNTIME SALES COMPANY a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face. Fiction / 11' Burn The Film Mother is a symbolic ridden social- political voyage of a society MAIN CAST ADDRESS in a spiral between religion, identity and collective me. Angel Anqi Gu, Burn The Film LEMOHANG Songhua Wang 14-2 Rui An St. PRODUCER 430000 Wuhan, Hubei JEREMIAH MOSESE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Shengze Zhu China 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES (Burn The Film) IN VENICE PROJECT TYPE Worldwide Shengze Zhu Fiction PRODUCTION COMPANY +86 13128413678 [email protected] CURRENT RUNTIME / Mokoari Artist Collective ESTIMATED RUNTIME ADDRESS 54' / 60' Mokoari Artist Collective MAIN CAST Schandauerst. 4 Thato Khobotle, 12045 Berlin Mercy Koetle, Germany Napo Kalebe, IN VENICE Molibeli Mokake Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese PRODUCER +49 17645694018 Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese [email protected] (Mokoari Artist Collective)

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SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Ermanno lives surrounded by commonplaces about Naples You cannot choose your parents or the place where you are born. and Scampia: harassed by crime news that describes these cities These are the thoughts of a daughter who cannot rebel. As a little NESSUNO as a Dantesque inferno of shootings, murders, drug dealers. QUELLE girl, she spent a lot of time with her mother, a fervent Catholic Nevertheless, ordinary good people who do not get into the news woman. She would have rather spent time with her father, È INNOCENTE live in Scampia. When he finally gets to Naples to sign a deal BRUTTE COSE but he was busy hiding an extra-marital affair everyone knew as a contractor for a project that will boost his career, he has but kept quiet about. Today, time goes by slowly inside and NOBODY’S to face reality: the meeting is in a warehouse in Scampia. THOSE BAD THINGS outside their home. Family problems are silenced, the Campania INNOCENT region suburbs lie on the background. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES LORIS GIUSEPPE NESE 2017 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES TONI D’ANGELO PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Fiction / 20' Minerva Pictures RUNTIME SALES COMPANY MAIN CAST ADDRESS Fiction / 11' Loris Giuseppe Nese Salvatore Esposito Minerva Pictures MAIN CAST ADDRESS PRODUCER Via del Circo Massimo, 9 Rossella De Martino, Lapazio Film Gianluca Curti 00153 Rome Gerardo Trezza, Via Luigi Settembrini 1c (Minerva Pictures) Italy Margherita Rago 84128 Salerno IN VENICE PRODUCER Italy Francesca Delise Loris Giuseppe Nese IN VENICE +39 3464130050 (Lapazio Film) Loris Giuseppe Nese [email protected] +39 3209709408 [email protected]

42 Venice Production Bridge 2018 43 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS He is charming, ironic, nostalgic. She is full of life, smart, Isabella still sings “Tic Tac”, the song that made her famous passionate, she lives in the moment. When they meet, they fall in in the early nineties, when she was only seventeen. Her place RICORDI? love instantly. Later on, as they grew up next to each other, their SAREMO GIOVANI is the Big Star, which has also become her second home. personalities have evolved: while He is getting light hearted, Her young son Bruno is her guitarist. The two are inseparable, REMEMBER? She is the one starting to feel melancholic. Thus, as the love E BELLISSIMI they perform every night together and they share a ramshackle story will be told from two different perspectives, his and hers, but happy life of unpaid bills and midnight strolls around the city. reflecting the moods and their inner changes, we will be WE’LL BE YOUNG Bruno, however, dreams of a different musical career. VALERIO MIELI confronted to the fact that there might be as many love stories AND BEAUTIFUL as there are points of view. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES LETIZIA PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italian TV 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / All available except LAMARTIRE Fiction / 92' Rai Com RUNTIME for Italy and France MAIN CAST ADDRESS Fiction / 106' SALES COMPANY Barbora Bobulova, Rai Com MAIN CAST Le Pacte Alessandro Piavani, Via Umberto Novaro, 18 Luca Marinelli, ADDRESS Massimiliano Gallo, 00195 Rome Linda Caridi Le Pacte Federica Sabatini Italy PRODUCER 5 rue Darcet PRODUCER IN VENICE Angelo Barbagallo 75017 Paris Elisabetta Bruscolini Cristina Cavaliere (Bibi Film) France (CSC Production) +39 3334481036 IN VENICE [email protected] Natalie Jeung +33 144695959 [email protected]

44 Venice Production Bridge 2018 45 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS The 30-year-old Iskander is a food- photographer who, due to his Giulia is getting ready to spend the weekend with Lucio. own indecision, experiences a crisis both in his work and in his However, she does not find him waiting for her at the villa where SEX, STRAKH sexual relationship with his colleague and beloved Laura. SI SOSPETTA they were supposed to meet. She finds three women instead, He wants to change his situation by completing a promising they are Lucio’s lovers, who two days before received the same I GAMBURGERY project for a popular fast food chain. Because of a “Red level IL MOVENTE message from him. No one can find him and the women have of terrorist threat” in the city, he ends up locked in the fast food the same question: why did he get them all together there? SEX, FEAR, with a random customer, Anat. The two have sex, then Iskander PASSIONALE The four enemies have to become friends to survive the situation. AND HAMBURGERS backs out, but Anat finds a way to get satisfaction. She teaches CON L’AGGRAVANTE him not to be afraid of mistakes. Iskander gains self- confidence YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES and shows his courage in his job and in sex with Laura, DEI FUTILI MOTIVI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES ELDAR SHIBANOV who finally gives him her respect and love. UNDER SUSPICION PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Fiction / 15' Zen Movie YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES FOR A CRIME MAIN CAST IN VENICE 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES OF PASSION Irene Ferri, Giulio Mastromauro Worldwide PROJECT TYPE / Anna Ferraioli, +39 3287957032 RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY AGGRAVATED Pilar Fogliati, [email protected] Fiction / 19' Artdepartment.kz Nina Fotaras, MAIN CAST ADDRESS BY TRIVIALITY Marco Giuliani, Chingiz Kapin, Artdepartment.kz Marco Giallini (voice) Aissulu Azimbayeva, Koktem1, 45-35 PRODUCER Viktoriya Mukhamejanova 050040 Almaty Cosimo Alemà PRODUCER Kazakhstan COSIMO ALEMÀ (9.99 Films) Yuliya Levitskaya IN VENICE (Artdepartment.kz) Eldar Shibanov +7 7772934739 [email protected]

46 Venice Production Bridge 2018 47 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Gemma and Marcello are about to get married. They waited so Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent long for this moment to come. The ceremony is about to begin SONI crimes against women. However, their alliance suffers a major SUGARLOVE and they are both overwhelmed by their emotions, their fears, setback when Soni is transferred out for alleged misconduct and expectations. Like every other couple they support each on duty. Soni’s professional life is further strained by certain other and fantasize about their future, they swear eternal love developments in her personal life when she is forced to deal to one another, but they are not just like any other couple who IVAN AYR with the sudden arrival of her estranged husband. LAURA LUCHETTI are about to get married. Gemma and Vittorio are two sugary statuettes on top of the wedding cake. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy Fiction / 97' Jabberwockee Talkies, RUNTIME SALES COMPANY MAIN CAST The Film Cafe Animation / 9' Kino Produzioni Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, ADDRESS MAIN CAST ADDRESS Saloni Batra Jabberwockee Talkies Pierfrancesco Favina, Kino Produzioni PRODUCER VPO Shergarh 146001 Anna Ferzetti, Via Giovanni Antonelli 49 Kimsi Singh Hoshiarpur Punjab Andrea Bosca, 00197, Rome (Jabberwockee Talkies) India Claudia Potenza, Italy IN VENICE Fabrizia Sacchi (voices) IN VENICE Kimsi Singh PRODUCER Giovanni Pompili +91 8427138439 Giovanni Pompili +39 3290076649 [email protected] (Kino Produzioni) [email protected]

48 Venice Production Bridge 2018 49 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS After leaving the ship on which she works, Sanja finds herself Egor is a fearless state forest guard in the Siberian Taiga. stranded, with nowhere to go but home. The shipyard has filed He is a good family man, respected by his fellow villagers. TI IMAŠ NOC´ for bankruptcy, leaving many workers out of work. Boats covered TCHELOVEK KOTORIJ He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. But one day with tarpaulin are scattered around the landscape, set aside for Egor finds out that he has cancer and only two months left to live. YOU HAVE better days. A storm comes; one life is lost. Luka is waiting for the UDIVIL VSEH No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save him. Finally, night in the woods. The night when everything could change. left with no other options, he takes a desperate attempt to trick THE NIGHT THE MAN WHO death. Egor chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES SURPRISED of fighting the disease. His family and the local society now have IVAN SALATIC´ 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES to accept his new self. PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide EVERYONE RUNTIME SALES COMPANY YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Fiction / 82' Pascale Ramonda 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES MAIN CAST IN VENICE NATASHA PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Ivana Vukovic´, Pascale Ramonda RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Momcˇilo Pic´uric´, +33 662013241 MERKULOVA, Fiction / 105' Pluto Film Distribution Luka Petrone, [email protected] Marko Štibohar, ALEKSEY CHUPOV MAIN CAST ADDRESS Jasna Đuricˇic´, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Pluto Film Distribution Boris Isakovic´ Natalia Kudryashova Bayreuther Str. 9 D-10789 Berlin PRODUCER PRODUCER Germany Dušan Kasalica Katia Filippova (Meander Film) (Pan-Atlantic Studio) IN VENICE Margot Haiböck +49 157 510 19 543 [email protected]

50 Venice Production Bridge 2018 51 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS India, 19th century: on the outskirts of a decrepit village called Antonio is seventeen years old and has a dream: to be a Tumbbad lives Vinayak, the stubborn, conniving bastard son footballer in a great team. He lives in a small village, where TUMBBAD of the village lord, obsessed with a mythical ancestral treasure. UN GIORNO getting away is not always that easy. In addition, there is Miriam, He suspects the secret lies with his great-grandmother, a cursed a kind and gentle, but highly problematic mother, who Antonio witch sleeping for centuries. Confronting her finally puts him face ALL’ IMPROVVISO loves more than any other person in the world. RAHI ANIL BARVE, to face with the guardian of the treasure, an evil fallen god. What IF LIFE GIVES starts with a few gold coins, quickly spirals into a reckless, YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES ADESH PRASAD perpetual yearning, spanning decades. Vinayak s greed keeps YOU LEMONS 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES escalating until he unearths the biggest secret of all, something PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide more valuable than the treasure itself! RUNTIME SALES COMPANY CIRO D’EMILIO Fiction / 88' True Colours Glorious Films MAIN CAST ADDRESS YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Anna Foglietta, True Colours Glorious Films 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Giampiero De Concilio Largo Italo Gemini, 1 Worldwide PROJECT TYPE / PRODUCER 00161 Rome RUNTIME PRODUTION COMPANY Maurizio Piazza Italy Fiction / 109' Sohum Shah Films (Lungta Film) IN VENICE MAIN CAST ADDRESS Catia Rossi Sohum Shah, 77, Aram Nagar 2 +39 3465125862 Deepak Damle, Off Yari road, Versova [email protected] Mohd. Samad, Andheri west, 400061 Anita Date, Mumbai Jyoti Malshe, India Ronjini Chakraborty IN VENICE PRODUCER Adesh Prasad Sohum Shah +91 9987654889 (Sohum Shah Films) [email protected]

52 Venice Production Bridge 2018 53 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend’s house Syria, 2012. During the coldest winter the country has witnessed, and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times all Sana dreams of is cooking gas to prepare a meal for her son. VILLE NEUVE of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their YOM ADAATOU She takes a day off from her job to search for a gas cylinder and stormy reunion. suddenly finds herself stuck in the besieged area. It is then that ZOULI she discovers that people lose their shadows during the war. FÉLIX YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES THE DAY I LOST 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES DUFOUR-LAPERRIÈRE PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Canada MY SHADOW 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES RUNTIME and France PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Animation / 76' SALES COMPANY RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY PRODUCER Urban Distribution International Fiction / 94' KAF Production Galilé Marion-Gauvin ADDRESS SOUDADE KAADAN MAIN CAST ADDRESS (Unité Centrale) Urban Distribution International Sawsan Erchied, KAF Production 14 rue du 18 Août Samer Ismael, Beirut Raouche 93100 Montreuil-sous-Bois Reham Alkassar Lebanon France PRODUCER IN VENICE IN VENICE Amira Kaadan Amira Kaadan Delphyne Besse (KAF Production) +961 76034782 +33 672729193 [email protected] [email protected]

54 Venice Production Bridge 2018 55 Digital Video Library Catalogue BIENNALE COLLEGE SYNOPSIS BIENNALE COLLEGE SYNOPSIS Veysel’s wild solitary life in the woods is disrupted when Maia, called “Zen”, a rowdy yet solitary 16-year-old tomboy, lives the land he inhabits is sold to investors. One day, his younger in a small village on top of the rough and beautiful Italian YUVA brother Hasan comes from the city to convince him to leave. ZEN SUL GHIACCIO Apennines. She’s the only girl of the local ice hockey-team and As the imminent threat of eviction rapidly grows, the belated she is constantly bullied by her teammates for her masculine confrontation of the two brothers leads to the discovery SOTTILE attitude. When Vanessa - the beautiful and bewildered girlfriend of a magical home: a universe under the ground. of the team captain - runs away from home and hides in Maia s EMRE YEKSAN ZEN IN THE ICE RIFT family lodge, Maia feels free to trust someone for the first time. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Led by the need to break away from the roles that the small 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES MARGHERITA FERRI community has forced them to play, Maia and Vanessa embark on PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide a journey of self-discovery: an exploration of their gender identity RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY and sexuality, liquid and restless like the troubled time of youth. Fiction / 119' istos film MAIN CAST ADDRESS Kutay Sandıkcı, istos film YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Eray Cezayirlioglu Muhmane Cad 39 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES All available except for Italy, PRODUCER Karakoy, Beyoglu PROJECT TYPE / San Marino and Vatican City Anna Maria Aslanoglu 34425 Istanbul RUNTIME (istos film) Turkey Fiction / 94' SALES COMPANY IN VENICE MAIN CAST Media Luna New Films Anna Maria Aslanoglu Eleonora Conti, ADDRESS +90 5352175210 Susanna Acchiardi, Media Luna New Films [email protected] Fabrizia Sacchi Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6th Floor PRODUCER 50672 Cologne Chiara Galloni, Germany Ivan Olgiati IN VENICE (Articolture) Floriano Buono +49 1738046153 [email protected]

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