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1-16 November 2017

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Founded in 1987 nearly 100 years after the world’s first films were made in Leeds in 1888 by Louis le Prince, Leeds International Film Festival is an epic annual experience of discovery, community and celebration. This year, LIFF features its Leading Funders most extensive selection yet of new and archive European cinema, achieved through partnerships with Creative Europe, the European Parliament, the European Film Academy and institutions from across the spectrum of Europe’s extraordinary filmmaking culture. The catalogue for LIFF Leading Partners 2017 presents every film in detail from the entire programme of features and shorts, selected this year out of 5,078 submissions received from 103 countries. Thank you to all our partners and team members for their dedicated support for LIFF, and to our audiences for their passion for film culture in Leeds. Major Partners

Contents Official Selection 9 Cinema Versa 29 Fanomenon 47 Retrospectives 69 Leeds Awards 91 Meet the Makers 113 Exhibitions 122 Index 123

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Leeds Palestinian Film Festival

Centre for World Cinemas School of Modern Languages and Cultures

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LIFF 2017 Design Credits Design by Lee Goater (leegoater.com). Artwork by Scorpio Design (scorpiodesign.co.uk). Map by Tom Woolley (tomwoolley.com). 6 LIFF 2017 Team

Chris Fell Director Colm McAuliffe Programmer Alex King Programme Manager Andrew Moore Programmer Nick Jones Communications Manager Tom Vincent Programme Advisor Molly Cowderoy Programme Coordinator / Short Film Manager Laura Ager Short Film Programmer Jamie Cross Production Manager Sylvia Barber Short Film Programmer Martin Grund Design Manager / Programmer Robb Barham Short Film Programmer Lucile Bourliaud Print Traffic Manager / Short Film Coordinator Rebecca Hill Short Film Programmer Aglaia Gelpke Guest Relations Manager David Maguire Short Film Programmer Debbie Maturi Young Film Manager Gitta Wigro Short Film Programmer Gage Oxley Meet the Makers Coordinator Andy Wood Short Film Programmer Kirsty Pearson Volunteers Coordinator Evelyn Griffiths Venues & Volunteers Supervisor Mosa Mpetha Venues & Volunteers Supervisor

Leeds City Centre Box Office Staff Shirley Shortall, Helen Richmond, Ashley Sagar

Venue Coordinators Sue Barnes, Georgina Booth, Josh Cherrington, Alice Duggan, Nils Finken, Matt Goodband, Tom Kendall, Katie Lee, Nick Randles, Vicki Rolley, Sacha White, Sarah Wilson

Runners Anne d’Abzac, Samuel Barrett, Declan Bracewell, SJ Bradley, Jake Cooper, Stephen Creek, Megan Rose Antrobus Dobbyn, Geoffrey Humble, Alexandra Karavi, Yannis Paraskevopoulos, Jasmine Stainton, Naomi Walsh

Venue Assistants Ben Addlestone, Kafayat Adegoke, Hibah Zareen Ahmed, Sanah Akhtar, Daoud Al-Janabi, Matthew Albrighton, Max Ardron, Jonathan Atkinson, Robb Barham, Louise Barkes, Christopher Jonathan Bartlett, Emilia Bastiani, Michael Bell, Federica Benvenuto, Sílvia Blanco Tejerina, Charlotte Booth, Angie Bourdillon, Olivia Bower, Simon Brett, Zuzana Brnovjakova, Hannah Broadbent, Michael Brough, Jenna Brown, Julie carrack, rebecca chapman, Arshdeep Chawla, Shang Chuluo, Arron Cockell, Lucy Cook, Céline Crouzillat, Alison Devine, Daniel Dryan, Clarissa Ducie, Pauline Duverger, Marianne El Hadari, Lorna Ellis, Luke John Espin, Mahya Faraahi, Hazel Fraser, Julie Ann] Frein, Yang Gao, Joseph Gaskell, Elliot Gaynon, Hannah Goddard, Connor Goldsmith, Nick , John Grieve, Theo Hargreaves, Martha Harris, Bethany Hazard, Halle Henderson, Katie Hodges, Elliott Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgson, Holly Hodson, Teodora Hristova, Fangyi Hu, Peter Hughes, Rory Hughes, Joseph Jackson, Yujie Jiang, Rachel Johnson, Oriel Kenny, Kelsey Killick, Alexandra Kinmont, Millie Kirkpatrick, Ursula Klingel, Lai Kwan, Samuel Lanchin, Daniel Lenartowicz, Joshua Levin, Jieshu Li, Jue Lin, Veronica Lissandrini, Alfredo Luiz dos Santos Filho, Llauren Magnay, Leonardo Magnelli, Sinoxolo Mantana, Christopher Martin, Nathalie Mayer, Teresa Mayoral Duran, John McAndrew, Kate McCall, Sam McCall, Dominique McLachlan, Louisa Mitchell, Ilaria Modesto, Hannah Myers, Jonathan Newell, Zoe Nguyen, Sarah Parkin, Alexander Parry, Anuja Pathak, Eloise Frances Pearson, Joanne Perry, Queenie Qureshi-Wales, Holly Radford, Daniel Reddington, Sophie Victoria Rolls, Lou Ross, Marina Salvarani, Emma Sanderson, Pia Schuster, Lucy Mae Seymour, Alicia Shearsmith, Ellie Sheldon, Chloe Smith, Steven Smith, Hannah Stacey, Kate Stevens, Eleanor Storey, Shi Tang, Deirdre Thackray, Caroline Thomas, Melissa Thomson, Marina Torruella Bonsoms, Zeynep Uludag, Phil Urmson, Nina Vredegoor, Sophie Warwick, Louise Weaver, Amy Louise Wilds, peter williams, Sylvia Winnington, Tian Xintong, Robert Yates, Huiling Ye, Li Yun, Amy Zhu

Digital Content Manager Sally Molineaux for Molineaux Productions

Digital Content Assistants Sanah Akhtar, Oliver Asadi, Yandan Bian, Hannah Broadbent, James Brook, Jaya Chen, Lucy Dalton, Ioannis Damopoulos, Carrie Domendziak-Forth, Steve Evans, Lewis Gilfillan, Tyler Gordon-Fordyce, Rahman Hassani, Lucy Ingram, Safiyyah Jackman-Williams, Emily Killoran, Lenka Komarkova, Mia Lanny, Emma Lycett, Nicole McHardy, Alice Miller, Evangeline Robinson, Joseph Scott, Niki Stavrianou, Char Wetherhill, Carl White

LIFF is organised by the Leeds Film team at Leeds City Council. Based at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds Film also organises Leeds Young Film Festival, Independent Directions Film Festival, year-round film and education programmes. 7

Official Selection Official Selection

In Official Selection, we present some of the most anticipated films of 2017, alongside outstanding debuts – all hand-picked as exclusive screenings for Leeds audiences. Don’t miss acclaimed new films by Barbara Albert (Mademoiselle Paradis), (), Clio Barnard (Dark River), (Happy Ending), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and (Loveless). Discover remarkable new talents including Marine Francen (The Sower), Atsuko Hirayanagi (Oh Lucy!), Michael Pearce (Beast), Ofir Raul Graizer (The Cakemaker), Ana Urushadze (Scary Mother), and Chloé Zhao (The Rider). 9 10 Official Selection Mildred andEbbing’s lawenforcementescalates. Rockwell) getsinvolved, thebattlebetween his second-in-command, OfficerDixon(Sam the town’s reveredchiefpolice chief.When at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), her townwithacontroversialmessage directed a boldmove,posteringthreesigns leadinginto murder, makes Mildred(FrancesMcDormand) After monthswithoutanarrest in herdaughter’s McDonagh (InBruges,SevenPsychopaths). hit fromthemasterofdarkfilmcomedyMartin film festival,ThreeBillboardsisthelatestaudience Winner ofthePeople’s ChoiceAward atToronto Three BillboardsOutsideEbbing,Missouri:ClosingFilm the edgeandtakeshismuseumwithhim. Christian ismuggedforhisphonehegoesover centrepiece gonehorriblywrong.When (ElisabethMoss),andaperformance journalist a PR campaign,anawkwardflingwith faces aseriesoftroubles,includingbackfiring Square, museumcuratorChristian(ClaesBang) opening amajornewexhibitioncalledThe led byPedroAlmodóvar. Onthevergeof and wentontowinthemainprizeofjury the mosttalkedaboutfilmatCannesthisyear world,was satireoftheart Square, astartling Swedish provocateurRubenÖstlund’s The The Square:OpeningFilm Official Selection Presented in partnership withBrooksPresented inpartnership Macdonald. McDonagh,director laughs.’ Martin going togofor the truthandhonestyfirst, letsomeoneelsetakecareof the andmakeitfunny-funny. thatthey’regoingtotry never havetoworry They’re oftheideaastruthful as possible.Ifyougetactorslikethesethree, the germ tragic place,andthecomedybalances thedarkness,butwewantedtokeep working inAmericanmoviestoday. from quiteadark, Thisisafilmthatstarts andWoody[McDormand] [Harrelson]are threeofthemosttruthfulactors it wasamother, almostwroteitself.[…]Sam[Rockwell], Frances thestory to putsomethinglikethatupoutthere.OnceIdecided and painnecessary made mewonderwhatkindofpersonitwasthatwouldhave thekindofrage stark,angry, we revealonthebillboards.Itwasavery brutalmessage,and it ‘[17 yearsagowhiletravelingacrossAmerica]Isawsomething similartowhat Ruben Östlund,director create asymbolicplacewhereweareremindedofourcommonresponsibility.’ producer friendofmine,KalleBoman,wecameupwiththeideathatshould on theoutside;welookthatasathreat.”Sointhiscontext,meandfilm aggressivewayofsaying,“Weis avery arenottakingresponsibilityforwhat’s tobuildthefirstgatedcommunitiesinSweden.Acommunity also started adults aspotentialthreatstoourchildren.AndwhenIwasdealingwiththis,they would helpyourchildreniftheywereintrouble.Today wetendtolookatother it wassoobviousthat,atthattime,youlookedotheradultsassomeone of Stockholmtoplay. Asix-year-old boyincentralStockholm,allbyhimself.But ‘50s, hisparentsputanaddresstagaroundneckandsenthimintothestreets ‘My fathertoldmethatwhenhewassixyearsold,andbroughtupinthe UK Distributor Curzon Film Editor Leading Cast Producer Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country UK Distributor Fox Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status Jacob Secher, Schulsinger Fredrik Wenzel West ,ElisabethMoss,Dominic PhilippeBober Erik Hemmendorff, Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund English, Swedish,Danish 2hr 22min , , , Carter Jon Gregory Ben Davis Weaving PeterDinklage,Samara , Graham Broadbent,PeterCzernin McDonagh Martin McDonagh Martin 1hr 55min UK, USA Official Selection 11 un č Maya Maffioli Jim Williams Northern 1hr 47min Michael Pearce Michael Pearce Ivana MacKinnon, Lauren Dark Johnny Geraldine James, Jessie Buckley, Flynn Benjamin Kra Altitude Films Yorkshire UK, USA 2hr 1min Faris Valerie Jonathan Dayton, Boyle , Danny AndreaEmma Stone, , Riseborough Pamela Martin Official Selection Official Film Editor Original Music Premiere Status Country UK 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer UK Distributor Premiere Status Premiere Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Fox ‘I’m from Jersey, and during the 60s, there was a guy called the Beast of Jersey ‘I’m from Jersey, who terrorised the island. When I was a kid I was always horrified by this story because I had such an idyllic childhood - this beautiful landscape is a great place got its fair share of dark stories and dark folklore, to grow up as a kid. But it’s and that duality was really interesting to me, so I tried to explore that, in the landscape, and within this character that goes on a journey and falls in love with a guy who might be the prince charming, or might be the big bad wolf. […] I find writing quite a difficult process. It took me something like five years to really get the script to a place where I thought I’d be comfortable to go on set and known to be one of the most difficult aspects of filmmaking, this direct it. That’s solitary initially it’s process. The other aspects are incredibly collaborative, but just you, a laptop and a blank page.’ Michael Pearce, director ‘We were alive when the tennis match happened and that wasn’t enough to enough tennis match happened and that wasn’t were alive when the ‘We our first sports movie a movie about a tennis match. It’s make us want to make were all the other we’d do one. What interested us in this and we never thought storystories, particularly of her marriage and her awakening, getting Billie Jean’s with a woman while being under theto know herself and having her first affair were so many interesting ways in to thispressure leading up to this match. There story aspects that made us want to make the film. […] and so many interesting want to do was a lot of tennis movies and what we really didn’t watched We What ultra-cinematic point of view. overdramatize the tennis, or see it from an it was photographed, was dramaticinterested us was the actual match, the way point of view you realize the wholeto us. When you watch it from that broadcast it that way and all those eyes were onworld, 90 million people, were watching Faris, co-director our two main characters.’ Valerie Michael Pearce’s thrilling debut feature is an Michael Pearce’s atmospheric psychological drama set on the Moll, a troubled woman living island of Jersey. finds herself pulled in an isolated community, between her oppressive, controlling family Pascal and the allure of a mysterious outsider, (Johnny Flynn). When Pascal is suspected of a series of brutal murders, Moll defends him at all costs whilst learning what she is truly capable of. This film expertly explores that there is a hidden darkness inside all of us. Beast From the acclaimed directors of Little MissFrom the acclaimed playful true storySunshine comes this of gender wars on the tennis court. In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement, the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King world champion women’s champion Bobby () and ex-men’s Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the ‘Battle of the Sexes’. This became one of the most watched sports as the events of all time, but tennis rivalry was fighting intensified, each more personal and complex battles off court. Battle of the Sexes the of Battle 12 Official Selection ingredient ofbakingpleasure. a tenseandmoving dramawiththeadded Ofir RaulGraizer’s award-winningdebutis can hegountil his realidentityisuncovered? cakes thathelpherbusinessthrive, buthowfar towork for AnatandcreateGerman starts widowed wife,whoownsasmall café.Thomas he infiltratesintothelifeofAnat, hislover’s regarding hisdeath.Underasecret identity, travels toJerusalemseekingfor answers Oren diesinanaccidentIsrael,Thomas has frequentbusinessvisitsinBerlin.When affair withOren,anIsraelimarriedmanwho baker,Thomas, ayoungGerman ishavingan The Cakemaker experience. heartwarming wonderful, heroes ofeachtale,andtheiranticsmakefora to finish.Thestableofanimalstarsarethe adventures thatareaction-packedfromstart animalcaricaturesonmadcap his cartoonish and co-writerJeanRegnaud.Rennersends quick witandsophisticatedhumourofRenner different animaltales,eachinfusedwiththe is setupasaplaywiththreeactschronicling Adapted fromRenner’s owncomics,thefilm the delightfulTheBigBadFox&OtherTales. a LIFFaudiencefavouritein2012),comes &Celestine, BenjaminRenner(Ernest cartoonist From talentedfilmmaker, animator, and The BigBadFoxandOtherTales Official Selection managed tofight forit.’OfirRaulGraizer, director said“chopchop,cut cut,it’severyone toolong.”Butitfelt right. I’mproudI issetandreadyso let’severything takethetime.Let’s notstop andcut.Inediting, gaze[…]Myinstinctstoldme: tell themto.ButIalsoreallylove adocumentary I likeaestheticsandhavingthings plannedandthecharactersmovingwhereI sexuality, ofreligionor nationality. observance Thesethingsarenotimportant. want tobe,thoughitmightseem kitschtosaythis,humanbeings,notdefinedby all haveincommonisthatthey don’tway. wanttobe definedinacertain They The peopleinthefilm–protagonist, hislover, andhislover’s wife–whatthey ofnotjustfacts but culturallyaswell. question ofhowyoudefineyourselfinterms died. Thatstruckme.Itwasnotreallyinterestingtomeifhe gayornot.It’s a fromhis wife thathehad men. Therearemanypeoplelikethis.ThenIlearned isamanIknewwho,whilehavingfamily,‘The originofthestory wasmeeting Benjamin Renner, director Lenôtre patisserie.TheBigBadFoxislighter, it’s allaboutthegags.It’s a sweet.’ andCelestinewaslikea act, wefoundapretexttolinktheseepisodes.Ernest it. Butthat’s youdon’t alsowhatmakesitscharm: haveafirst,secondandthird because wehadtostitchthesestoriestogether, hencethe‘frankenstein’feelto noticed that,ifwelinkedthethreestories,hadafeature.Iwasworried filmsforthetelevision.Itwasproducerwho supposed tomakethreeshort Atfirstwedidn’t parts. planforittobeafeaturefilm.sacrifice certain Wewere dense,wealsohadtomake choicesand isvery voices. […]Sincethecartoon -length,frames, follows hisownrhythm,whereasafilmimposeseverything thereader much morework!Therhythmiscompletelydifferent:inacartoon, would beeasy, thatIwouldjusthavetoanimatemydrawings.Itactuallytakes ‘Transposing wasarealchallenge.Inaiveenoughtothinkit thecartoon UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language French Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 France Country Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status Studio Canal MarcelLepage Robert Benjamin Massoubre Bouchede Céline Ronté,BorisRehlinger, Guillaume Didier Brunner, DamienBrunner Benjamin Renner BenjaminRenner Patrick Imbert, 1hr 23min Northern Films Boutique Michal Oppenheim Omri Aloni Sarah Adler, ZoharShtrauss,Tim Kalkhof Itai Tamir Ofir RaulGraizer Ofir RaulGraizer Hebrew English, German, 1hr 44min Germany, Israel Northern Official Selection 13 UK La caméra de Claire France, 1hr 9min Korean, English, French Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo Hong Hong Sangsoo , Kim Min-hee, Shahira Fahmy Lee Jinkeun Hahm Sungwon Dalpalan , France, , USA France, Brazil, Italy, 2hr 12min French, GermanEnglish, Italian, Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino Chalamet, Timothée Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg Sayombhu Mukdeeprom Fasano Walter Sufjan Stevens Official Selection Official Premiere Status Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Finecut Contact [email protected] Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Sony ‘I choose a few locations and usually two or three without knowing how I will use them. I then have two or three informal interviewsactors and with the begin shooting with a few pages of notes, of which I’m not sure any will be used. as I move along, and I Other locations and actors are then chosen, if necessary, script each morning, usually starting at 4 a.m. That proceed to write each day’s takes about four to five hours, and I’ll then print out the script and let the actors memorize the first scene. I write usually three to five scenes for the average day The initial editing finishes of shooting, and finish shooting those scenes that day. within a day or two after the final day of shooting. Then I’ll let it simmer for about a week or two, and look at it again and sometimes do some minor changes. The preproduction takes about a month; the production about three weeks or less; the postproduction about a month.’ Sang-soo Hong, director ‘I would say the reason this film is striking deep chords is probably due to the this film is striking deep chords is probably ‘I would say the reason I asked myself if I It was a way of absolute simplicity. way I approached it. that was a sortwanted to create a piece between the storyline, of conversation wanted the characters and the storythe characters, and the medium, or if I just and this And I said to myself: “Step back! Have faith in these people to flow. the most lightheartedsetting.” So I chose to make the movie in and simple way. movie I made with the most calmness, applying in a very probably the I think it’s should live with a sense of joie despecific and literal way my motto, that we co-production and everythingvivre. […] It became this Italian, French, Brazilian shot this movie in May, just for the pleasure of doing it. We came effortlessly, It was edited in June and July. near where I live [in Crema, Northern Italy]. We very director simple.’ Luca Guadagnino, Sang-soo Hong’s wry view of romantic mis- Sang-soo Hong’s adventure draws ever closer to his own world in this latest film. Set at the , Camera was shot there in 2016, when Claire’s lead actress Kim Min-hee and Isabelle Huppert were presenting The Handmaiden and Elle, Kim plays Man-hee, a film sales respectively. manager who is abruptly fired by her boss, though her drunken night ostensibly for dishonesty, Claire with a filmmaker may have been a factor. (Huppert), a teacher from , walks around Cannes with her polaroid camera and after she approaches Man-hee for a photo, the two form a English. in halting friendship, amusingly conducted Claire’s Camera Claire’s Somewhere in Northern Italy in 1983, and spending another Elio is virginal 17-year-old his academic father andendless summer with Into this balmy idyll steps postgraduate mother. spontaneous a man of lusty, student Oliver, Elio is soon senior. pleasures years Elio’s a changed man, and his burgeoning feelings Shotfor Oliver offer a climax to their vacation. with painterly beauty and full of delicious, sensual ambience thanks to a wonderful cast, Name is a romantic highlight Call Me By Your of contemporarycinema. European Call Me By Your Name By Your Me Call 14 Official Selection genuine charmer. Europe,Djamisafreshand politics inSouthern eyeonthenew non-stop energyandwithawry volunteer butsincelostherway. Suffusedwith befriends Avril, a Frenchwomanthereto forhisboat,she to Istanbulretrieveapart family. When herstepfatherdispatchesDjam it theknackofliftingspirits of friendsand Djam hasalyricforalloccasions,andwith ofdefiant,working-classGreeksong. a form whom wefirstmeetbeltingouta‘rebetiko’, Irrepressible DjamisayoungGreekwoman Djam Yorkshire’s contentfund. byScreen for years.Thisfilmissupported traumatic memoriesthathavelaindormant unearthing 15 yearstoclaimthefamilyfarm, homeforthefirsttimein death Alicereturns the Yorkshire moors. Followingtheirfather’s aoncebeautifulsmallholdingon family farm, in theirbitterdisputeoverthetenancyof Alice (RuthWilson) andJoe(MarkStanley) feature. DarkRiverfollowsestrangedsiblings home countywiththisemotionallychargedthird toher (The SelfishGiant,TheArbour)returns Acclaimed Yorkshire directorClioBarnard born Dark River Official Selection arrived inGreece withRebetikointheirluggage.’ ,director came fromTurkey, from wheretheywerechased inthe1920sbyAtatürk.They ofthisworld. TheseGreeksthatwesee in thefilmoriginally to refusethemisery Rebetiko, apopularmusicfrom GreecethatIlike,andwhosemusiciansseem was writing.Ontopofthat,Iwanted totalkabouttheexileofGreeksthrough Turkish songthatIknewandinspiredme. Andothers,thatIdiscoveredwhile pointofthefilm.TherewasalsoAmanDoktor,text tobethestarting anoldGreek- know howto lookatit.”SoDjamisamusical,because Iwantedthissongand world becauseitiscruel.”“No,” saysthefather, “this worldisbeautifulwhenyou I giveyouthisworld,takeitandcherishit.”“No,”shereplies, “Idon’t wantthis this oldTurkish thatImadeintoaworldstory. song.Alovestory “Mydaughter, through thesongsaswelldialogues.Oneofinspirations forthefilmis issues,thatwouldbeexpressed ‘I wantedtomakeafilmaboutcontemporary director Clio Barnard, the subjectmatter, tohoneitdown.’ thatistobeavoided.Soitwasabouttrying intoafeaturefilmitbecomesmelodramatic. Given condense thatamountofstory but thebookhasmoreplot,andit’s moreofathriller. oftheriskisifyou Andpart focus, the became that So it’s thisthingneitherofthemhaveeverspokenabout. witheachother, butunabletobecausecommunicationisbrokendown; and sistercharactersbothhadthesamedifficult history. They are desperate to film wasadifferentprocess.[…]Ithinkwhatfascinatedmethatthebrother livesofthesechildrenIhadmetwhenmakingTheArbor.the contemporary This was adeliberatecontrastbetweenOscarWilde’s and story Victorian fairytale process, like[fitting]asquarepeginroundhole. With TheSelfishGiant,there fantastic becausetheyweresaying,“We wantyourvoice.”Butitwasadifficult came backfromthefinancerssaying,“Makeityours.”Insomewayswas ‘Initially Iwroteafaithfuladaptation[ofthenovelTrespass], andthenanote UK Distributor Arrow Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 UK Country Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status Harry Escott Harry Nick Fenton,LukeDunkley Adriano Goldman Ruth Wilson, MarkStanley, SeanBean Tracy O’Riordan Clio Barnard Clio Barnard 1hr 29min Northern Les FilmsduLosange Evangelos Paschalidis,KonstantinosVelliadis Monique Dartonne Patrick Ghiringhelli Cayon Maryne Daphne Patakia,SimonAbkarian, Delphine Mantoulet Tony Gatlif Tony Gatlif French, Greek 1hr 37min France, ,Turkey Northern Official Selection 15 Northern 1hr 45min Paul McGuigan Barbara Broccoli, , , Ula Pontikos Nick Emerson J. Ralph Northern Senegal, Germany, , France, Lebanon 2hr 3min Lingala, French Alain Gomis Alain Gomis Arnaud Dommerc, Oumar Sall Mputu, Gaetan Beya Véro Tshanda Claudia, Papi Mpaka Céline Bozon Gomis, Fabrice Rouaud Official Selection Official Premiere Status Country UK 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Lionsgate Premiere Status Premiere Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor UK Distributor Mubi really liked the simplicity of the love story, but the most important thing that I ‘I really liked the simplicity of the love story, loved about the story in her was that it was about an older woman, a woman badly behaved, she’s a strong woman, she’s 50s, who is sexually active. She’s and you see why a young man a flawed character but you fall in love with her, often see that in films unfortunately. don’t would want to be with this woman. You where it, end of the story, Usually the guy gets the younger woman and that’s this is much more complex. Underneath all that, there is a complexity to Gloria It was taken a biography. and I really liked that it wasn’t character, Grahame’s book. […] Annette Bening from Peter Turner’s from a really strong point of view, about observationjust with Annette. She It’s makes you better as a director. a student and needs a slight adjustment, or needs you to really listen. She’s a master at the same time. She really wanted to get to know Gloria.’ Paul she’s McGuigan, director ‘I that a film is created over years, and by summoning a multitude of different over years, and by summoning a ‘I feel that a film is created to mainly in this one are real people, women I’m close things. At the origin of everything accept compromise, who tackle who don’t Senegal. Strong women I had a certainhead on and refuse to give in no matter what. admiration for this on the notion of bending life to one’s rectitude while, at the same time, reflecting struggle and acceptance that is a themewill. So I was interested in this dialectic of a young cousin I’m verycommon to all of my films. On top of that, close to had an care, lost his leg. I’ll never forgetaccident and, as a result of inadequate medical sense of levity – for whom life was kid who’d lost all his expression: a 17-year-old who was suspected His story mother, was also tied to that of his as good as over. confronts the invisible on a daily basis isof shady dealings. This simple reality that a kind of Faust…Then I discovered thethe foundation of the film. So I had intended of that.’ Alain Gomis, director music of Kasai Allstars, which captured all In this extraordinary true-life story, AnnetteIn this extraordinary true-life story, Bening plays ageing star Gloria Grahame, who meets and falls in love with a much younger (Jamie Bell) while As performing in in the 1970’s. the two embark on their romance, we follow them from to , from to hospital, and from laughter to tears. Paul endearing retelling based on the McGuigan’s features memoir by British actor Peter Turner, Vanessa an all star cast including , Redgrave and Kenneth Cranham. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Film Stars Don’t The life of a fiercely independent club singerThe life of a fiercely in Kinshasa is turned upside down when her horrific and expensiveteenage son suffers a accident. Proud of her independence, she’s forced to swallow her pride and run through the list of possible donors to help her cause. This quest sends her on a fast-paced journey through the streets of the Congolese capital. of the Silver Bear Grand JuryWinner Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, this fourth from feature isSenegalese-French filmmaker Alain Gomis steeped in visual and musical lyricism. Félicité 16 Official Selection African friendsreprising theirmeetingswithhim. and place, featuresthereal-lifeGabriel’s is arichanddistinctive studyofcharacter leading himastray. ThisCannesprizewinner creeps acrossGabriel’s personality, gradually by girlfriendCristinainMalawi, aslowchange behind butsolidfriendships.Yet whenjoined traveling responsiblyandleaving nothing in Kenya,heishappyandself-sufficient, When wemeetheadstrongbutlikeableGabriel quixotic missiontoclimbMountKilimanjaro. lapsed academicGabrielBuchmannandhis ofyoung Braziliantravellerand The truestory Gabriel andtheMountain hilarious.’ (LittleWhiteLies) (Willem and Dafoe).‘Beautiful,vibrant,heartfelt hotelmanagerBobby them insteadiswary in foodandrent.Castingawatchfuleyeover toprostitutionkeepthem that shehasturned is largelyabsent,andMooneedoesn’t know serioustroubleasbestshecan.Mom swerving out withherpalScooty, avoidingadultsand six-year-old Moonee,abrattychildwhohangs Florida motel.Livingthereonthebreadlineis of Tangerine fleapit isset inadown-and-dirty festival, thislyricaldramafromthedirector The buzziestfilmatthisyear’s Cannesfilm The FloridaProject Official Selection fictional form.’ Fellipe Barbosa, Director fictional form.’ a side, althoughithas natural andmagical. Itgivestothefilmadocumentary themfree so theycouldimprovise.Theprocess wasthusquite wanted topreserve a 70days’time lapse.Ididn’t show thescripttoactorsduring theshooting.I film. Ihadascript,writtenscenes whichcontainedwhathappenedtoGabrielin I encounteredthemduringthe location research.ButIwantedtomakeafiction andrecordtheirtestimoniesas real peopleGabrielhadmetduring hisjourney went therein2007.Icouldhave beenGabriel.Iunderstoodhadtofilmthe well-being thathemanagedtofindandIalsofoundwhenfirst a certain rare,forusBrazilians,totravelAfrica. Gabrielwassearchingfor also very It’s anon-cynical, ratherclownishcharacter, thatisseldomseeninfilms.It tell inthebeginning,butnowitseemstomereminiscentofVoltaire’s Candide. iswell-knownin Brazil.Ifigurethathisidealismtouchedpeople.couldn’t story ‘Gabriel wasoneofmyclassmatesandfriends.Hedisappeared in2009.His Baker, director Butitdoesn’tformats. giveyouthatorganicqualitycelluloidbrings.’Sean to haveagloss,berich.Digitalisgreat,Iseethebenefitsandbeautyinboth a 6-year-old. Andherworldisalwayssomewhatcandy-coated,soIwantedit throughtheeyesof totellthestory classical feelof35mmwasweweretrying ofthereasonwewentwithmorecontrolled, to workwiththistime—part the guerrillafilmmakingtechniquesweusedon Tangerine, butIhadabitmore colors, sothere’s We’re ahyper-reality toeverything. stillemployingsomeof my cinematographerandproductiondesignerreallyembracedthoseFloridian Being intheFloridianenvironment,there’s ofstylethat’s asort imposedonyou: kind ofpopvérité;Ireallyloveddiscoveringthatstyle,sowantedtocontinue. ‘My workhasalwaysbeenrootedinrealism,butTangerine elevatedthattoa UK Distributor Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 USA Country Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Original Title Premiere Status Altitude Films Sean Baker Alexis Zabe Cotto ,BrooklynnPrince,Valeria Sean Baker, ChrisBergoch Sean Baker, ChrisBergoch Sean Baker 1hr 55min Northern Films Boutique B.Gillette Arthur Théo Lichtenberger Pedro Sotero Alembe João PedroZappa,CarolineAbras,Alex Rodrigo Letier, Berliner Roberto Fellipe Barbosa,KirillMikhanovsky Fellipe Barbosa English,French Portuguese, 2hr 11min France, Brazil Gabriel eamontanha UK Official Selection 17 Northern 1hr 41min Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie , Josh Safdie Oscar Boyson Sebastian Bear-McClard, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh Ben Safdie, Ronald Bronstein Northern Bulgaria, Greece 1hr 41min Valchanov Kristina Grozeva, Petar Taralezhkov Kristina Grozeva, Decho Valchanov Kristina Grozeva, Petar Margita Gosheva, Stefan Denolyubov, Ana Bratoeva Krum Rodriguez Petar Valchanov Hristo Namliev Films New Wave Official Selection Official Premiere Status Country USA 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Curzon Premiere Status Premiere Slava Original Title Country 2016 Year Running Time DCP Format Bulgarian Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor ‘Our second feature was more difficult from a structural point of view. Whereas of view. was more difficult from a structural point ‘Our second feature the storyin The Lesson we follow in Glory of one single protagonist, two we have it was a challenge for us to intertwinemain characters, and their stories in a way why we approached our co-, that felt organic. This is one of the reasons - to help achieve this much-needed balance. […] What we Decho Taralezhkov with Glorytried first with The Lesson and then repeated was to mix professional is that directors while shooting Glory, and amateur actors. What we also found, are veryThere was one particular good at acting. day during filming when there Lazarov (Alienation) in the role ofwere more directors on set than actors: Milko (Three an investigative journalist, () and Nikolay Todorov Ralitza Petrova Sardjev (shortDays in Sarajevo) as police officers, Dimitar film Portrait of a (short film Family) as a cameraman from the PR department, and Pavel Vesnakov exactly seven directors on set; the two of us, that made Pride) as a jailbird. With Kristina Grozeva, co-director it was quite funny.’ ‘When we were doing research on the character of Connie […] I met this guy photographing for the Daily News, [who] used to be an evidence photographer for the NYPD. I remember this case about a con man who posed as different people, shot the contents of the con critic! The photographer Voice including a Village bag, and it was insane - one little Jansport a miniDV tape, backpack with man’s and this cheap, a lot of different IDs, weird essays photocopied from the library, walking around with a guy’s This crummy-looking book, Disguise Techniques. handbook on how to con people? I thought that was fascinating. So I buy the book, like, one of the great manuals, like an acting book. It ended up informing and it’s, When I read this thing and I gave it to Rob to read. the wardrobe of Good Time, about how to truly get away with crime, to use municipality to its advantage, where the orange sometimes the best way to blend in is by standing out. That’s jackets in the movie came from. These investigations end up being really fruitful.’ Joshua Safdie, co-director Good Time After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas (Robert Pattinson in a revelatory performance) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city’s underworld in an increasingly desperate — and dangerous — attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night, Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance. ‘Tense, immersive and excellently assaulting, Good is hella time.’ (Globe and Mail) Time Winner of Best International Feature at Winner and Bulgaria’s the Edinburgh Film Festival Glorysubmission to the Oscars, is a thought- provoking drama that critiques modern day an unassuming railroad When Tsanko, society. finds a pile of money on the train worker, tracks, he immediately notifies the authorities. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new watch, which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia, the head of PR for theministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Tsanko’s olddesperate struggle to get back not only his watch, but also his dignity. Glory Prize) LUX the with association in (presented 18 Official Selection Screen Yorkshire’s content fund. by world disintegrates. Thisfilmissupported begin topiecehis lifebacktogetherjustashis loss andwithhis personalityaltered,Matty the realfightbegins.Suffering frommemory his livingroomfloor. Awaking from thecoma, Mattycollapseson controversial AndreBryte, and babydaughter. Afteranepicfightwith the secure ahomeforhiswife(Jodie Whittaker) his boxingcareerandplansone lastfightto (Considine)iscomingtotheend Matty Burton rebuilding hislifeafteranear-fatal injury. debut Tyrannosaur ofaboxer withthestory Paddy Considinefollowsuphisdirectorial Journeyman opera.’ (TheGuardian) ‘As grippingasasatanicallyinspiredsoap with asurprisingbigdashofgallowshumour. media influenceandhypocrisy, andsignsoff updates hisfamiliarobsessionsoftaintedlove, cinema, directorHaneke(Hidden,Amour) most exhilaratingandincisiverunofEuropean destruction orescape.Concludingoneofthe astheyretreatintoself- family memberinturn, moral mis-steps.HappyEndfocusesoneach industrial accidentbymakingaseriesof ofaserious family dealswiththeaftermath Haneke-style. AwealthymiddleclassFrench Brace yourselffortheendofhumanity, Michael Happy End Official Selection how it started togenerate.’ PaddyConsidine, director how itstarted gone andit’s just youandthepeoplearound youthatloveyou.That’s thebasis of what happensin thatsituationwhenthecrowds disappear, when theadulation’s atthe timebutwasstillwheelchair-bound. Iwondered He wasmaking arecovery Eubank. Iwasalwaysleftwitha lastingimageofMichaelonthepitchatArsenal. big boxingfanatthetimewhen MichaelWatson againstChris sufferedhisinjury a such incidenthappenswhenafighter doesgetinjured.Iwasateenagerand highlighted withintheboxingworldwhenone injuries occurinthefightgame, very andwasaware how boxing fan,Iwasalwaysaware ofthedangerssport of itandseemedliketheright timetorevisititasanidea.Isupposebeinga in mymindasaprojectforfewyears.Earlierthisyear, afriendremindedme boxing matchisover. longtimeagoandit’s brewingavery beenaround Itstarting where thecharacterisredeemedbyanultimatefight.Thefight beginswhenthe we’renotbuilding somenarrative ‘That mightsoundabitodd,butinJourneyman director without broachingtheevolutionofitsmeanscommunication.’MichaelHaneke, in thisrightfrommyfirstfilms,asyoucan’t understandtheevolutionofsociety of humanitywiththeevolutionmeanscommunication.I’vebeeninterested the iceberg.In20years,worldhaschangedlikeneverbeforeinhistory isjustthetipof we reallyknowiswhatwe’veexperienced.Allthisinformation Butthetruthiswedon’tbeing keptinformed. knowanything.[…]Theonlything […] We’re andoperateundertheillusionthatwe’re bombarded withinformation problem, IcouldhavemadethesamefilminGermany, Austriaorelsewhere. beyond theendofournosesinthisworldaroundus.Andit’s notaFrench onourwayofliving,thiswehavenotlooking bitterness out ofacertain clichés. Ihavetobemovedbysomethingfortherestfollow. Thisfilmwasborn ‘I neverlookforspecificthemes,Ifinditboringandthat’s how youendupwith UK Distributor Curzon Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 UK Country Premiere Status Monika Willi Jean-LouisTrintignant,Isabelle Huppert, Margaret Ménégoz Michael Haneke Michael Haneke French, English 1hr 47min France, ,Germany Northern Studio Canal John Boughtwood Pia DiCiaula Laurie Rose Popplewell Paddy Considine,JodieWhittaker, Paul Scrimshaw Diarmid Paddy Considine Paddy Considine 1hr 32min Northern Official Selection 19 Northern d’un jour L’amant 1hr 16min Philippe Garrel Jean-Claude Carrière Saïd ben Saïd, Michel Merkt Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte François Gédigier Northern France, 2hr 7min Andrey Zvyagintsev Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Sergey Melkumov Alexander Rodnyansky, Hope, Aleksey Maryana Spivak, Yanina Rozin Anna Mass Galperine Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Altitude Films Official Selection Official Premiere Status Original Title Country France 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language French Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor UK Distributor Mubi Premiere Status Premiere Nelyubov Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Russian Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor ‘I usually need just one take, although there can be more, it is not a rule. The reason I can film so quickly when I’m on the set is because so much of the work the shooting lasted has been done prior to the shooting. For Lover for a Day, There is a unity of only 21 days. That film could have almost been a theatre play. place, as I realised when we were rehearsing (every months, maybe Saturday for a year). When the actors and I arrive on the film set, we have a head start on as if this thing that we are making preexists the shooting, and the technicians. It’s The scenes are not a fantasy then it is up to me to make everything work together. born in my head that the actors have then to recreate. I look at how everything was put together in real life, and then I capture it, almost as a documentary.’ Philippe Garrel, director ‘I love all [my characters]. I feel no disgust or any kind of animosity towards them I feel no disgust or any kind of animosity ‘I love all [my characters]. with all our hidden allow us to look deep inside our souls because these characters political aspect to this So I love them. […] There is a fears, problems and challenges. film, although certainly as in Leviathan. But in Loveless I do show not as pronounced which the storythe political context, the political climate in takes place, or February see footage of the war and conflict with the Ukraine 2015 to be precise. We who sets out to make politicallytowards the end. But generally I’m not someone never been my intention. […] Of course parts of the film oriented films, at least that’s effect. As for the problem of the lack ofare hyperbolized, exaggerated for dramatic it certainly in Russia but I think exists love, of people being distant from one another, mother is a character that symbolizes the no more than anywhere else. Zhenya’s a scenario that shows you It’s relationship. continuance of the central mother-child than the one she had and it goes have had a different daughter this mother couldn’t director Andrey Zvyagintsev, on like that from generation to generation.’ A tantalizing relationship triangle from French Philippe Garrel. Heartbroken and Jeanne returns to her homeless, 23-year-old small Parisian apartment. There she father’s is surprised to find that his new girlfriend, Ariane, is not only his student but is also 23. attention swiftly Having to share the same man’s reveals their short tempers, but soon the become inseparable, sharing views on With stunning everything from love to fidelity. cinematography and poignant narration, Lover for a Day is a passionate and intimate study of human nature and relationships. Lover for a Day A diamond-hard stare into Russia’s pitiless into Russia’s A diamond-hard stare and unnervingsoul. This thrillingly precise and Zhenia, a couple indrama follows Boris nothing the process of a frosty divorce. With withmuch left to say to one another and each barelya new relationship to occupy them, they notice the presence of their only child Alyosha, much less his need for love. When Alyosha fails to return from school, Boris and Zhenia are compelled to hunt for their son, but can they confront what they’ve done? By multi- award winning director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan). Loveless 20 Official Selection about analmost mythicalkiller. intelligent cinema Smart, rational ornormal. has muchtosay aboutwhatisconsidered source isaterrific2012graphic novel),and isconveyedinastrikingvisualstyle(the story his peers...uptoapoint.Thisintelligent origin alcoholicteenager.worryingly Hefitsinwith years andrevealsahunched,awkward and Friend DahmerhonesinonJeffrey’s high school killer, theso-called ‘MilwaukeeCannibal’.My notorious, andnotoriouslygruesomeserial a youngman,JeffreyDahmerbecame Could they, shouldtheyhaveknown?As My FriendDahmer either talentandfameorherhealth. her musicalitydiminishes.Nowshemustchoose Paradis soonnoticesthatashersightreturns, seems tohaveanalmostimmediateeffect, doctor FranzMesmer. Whilethetreatment overprotective parentsseekoutcontroversial talent. Inaquesttorestorehervision, renowned asablindpianistofremarkable Mesmer. , Paradisis In18thcentury Paradis andpioneeringphysicianDrFranz ofblindmusicianMariaTheresiavon true story An exquisitelycraftedperioddramatellingthe Mademoiselle Paradis Official Selection Marc Meyers,director some aspectsof thegraphicnovelexecutedin thefilm.Iwantedtohonorthat.’ aware thatthere wasawiderfanbaseofthe book, andtheymightwantto see Itwaslikecollaging themtogether.them intothestoryboard. AtthattimeIwas created. Whenthescriptoverlapped Iextractedpanelsfromthebookandpasted to remindmyselfofwhatscenes wereloyaltothebookandwhichonesIhad boarding Irevisitedthebook, the scriptlandedonBlackList. Duringthestory thewholething assoon boardswellinadvance,Istoryboarded with story home lifecamefrom.Knowing withindependentfilmyouneedtobeprepared I neededtofocusonhowbestmakeitamovie.That’s wheredevelopingthe about whatitshouldbe.ThenIputthebookaside.NowI’dgot theinformation, and Jody Girgenti,wetalked AdamGoldworm with myproducingpartners fromthebookintoafirstdraft, and re-outlinedit ‘After Iextractedinformation director Albert, about theirspecialstatusandhaveownenvyambitions.’Barbara understood oracceptedbysociety, andwhoaresufferingbecausetheyknow characters, inner conflictbetweentwoextraordinary Wunderkinder, whoarenot theconflictofmaincharactersisan amount ofmoneyasmen.Nevertheless, women haveinsistedontheirrighttothesamedegreeofvisibilityand over thelastfewyears,wehaveseenthatithasbecomeevenmoreintense,as of sensesandtruth.Thegenderconflictitselfseemsquitedeeptome.Especially seeing andbeingseen,asubjectoranobject–abouttherelativity characters, butalsoaboutpowerandsociety, andaboveallabouttheactof really inspiredme.Andthenthere’s isnotonlyaboutthe thefactthatstory Theresia ParadisandthedoctorhealerFranzAntonMesmerfascinated ‘The strongandambivalentcharactersoftheblindpianistcomposerMaria Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language German Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 USA Country Premiere Status Austrian FilmsCommission Lorenz Dangel Niki Mossböck Christine A.Maier Thomas Anton,AttilaBeke,MariaDragus Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Kathrin Resetarits,AlissaWalser Barbara Albert 1hr 37min Austria, Germany UK Altitude Films Andrew Hollander Jamie Kirkpatrick Daniel Katz Roberts ,Vincent Kartheiser, Dallas Jody Girgenti,MarcMeyers Backderf Marc Meyers,Derf Marc Meyers 1hr 47min Northern Official Selection 21 Northern USA, 1hr 35min English, Japanese Atsuko Hirayanagi Atsuko Hirayanagi Kito Yukie Han West, Josh Hartnett, Kaho , Minami Paula Huidobro Kate Hickey Erik Friedlander Elle Driver Northern NadaA Fábrica de 2hr 57min Portuguese, French Pedro Pinho Hespanha, Luisa Homem Tiago Joao Matos, Leonor Noivo Carla Galvão, Njamy José Smith Vargas, Sebastião Feldman Claudia Oliveira, Edgar Pedro Rodrigues Jose Smith Vargas, ICA Official Selection Official Premiere Status Country 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Original Title CountryPortugal 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor ‘The project began as a collaboration between me and another Portugese a collaboration between me and another ‘The project began as musical about a factory wanted to make a that Jorge Silva Melo. We director, the film in my he had to pull out of the project, I took is about to close. When them taking into accounthands, and I tried to make these ideas mine and relate the reality of what was happening in Portugal at that time. The idea of making with workers, do that in a factory, a musical and questioning how we could The closing of a factory complicates is a moment that enchanted me somehow. family lives, so the film portrays personal lives, It takes place in that. people’s an elevator factory while we were in the process of writing the film, we because had the chance to find this factory self-managed from 1974, the that has been Portugese took the control of their factory. revolution, until 2016. The workers time, from this this legacy from another The architecture of this empty factory, and frame.’ Pedro Pinho, director industrial era, is a space that I loved to film it is important for me to find and portray‘As a storyteller, a character that I and seen before on screen. Everyone haven’t has a story to tell and things to say, I feel this is especially true of the quiet ones. I remember being asked during the admissions interview you don’t for film school, “describe a person in your life like”, and then the interviewer in goes, “now make that person the protagonist a movie, and tell me that story…”. me, so I This question somehow stuck with often find myself looking for the unlikely protagonists. I believe that in the centre of things, at the verythat core, I core, we are all the same. So if we dig into believe our fears are buried in there. If we’re open to showing these fears, being honest, we may be able to understand each other better - and just connect. […]. Perhaps audiences connect with Setsuko because they see some of those raw and unmasked moments, and can relate to her fears.’ Atsuko Hirayanagi, director Oh Lucy! Atsuko Hirayanagi’s hilarious and poignant Atsuko Hirayanagi’s middle debut feature, follows the life of shy, aged Setsuko. After adorning a blonde wig and taking an English class taught by the unconventional and wacky John (Josh Hartnett), Setsuko is transformed into her new confident Lucy awakens unspoken persona she calls Lucy. desires in Setsuko but, when John suddenly Setsuko travels to disappears from , California on a mission to find him. There, in an unfamiliar world of tattoo parlours and seedy family ties are tested as she motels, Setsuko’s struggles to preserve her of Lucy. This -hopping surprise from PortugalThis genre-hopping surprise begins in a lift factory where the owners have One morningabandoned the workers. the men discover that some key equipment has been taken away overnight - perhaps to be sold off? Sure enough, the sheepish bosses emerge imminent closure. to confirmA the factory’s politicsmysterious figure emerges to debate the and then things take of the workers taking over, a turn and for the surreal. Ostriches, sex, punk andsong-and-dance numbers take centre stage, ofwhat begins as a realist drama ends as one the most singular films of 2017. The Nothing Factory Nothing The 22 Official Selection the cowboylife. andfullofthetextures atmospheric, warm, of thisyear’s Cannes selection, TheRideris the rodeoringorriskcatastrophe. Ahighlight is forcedtostayawayfromhis passionfor with deterioratingfaculties,this giftedtrainer to hisskull.With ametalplateinhisheadand has recentlysufferedalife-threatening injury tough existence.Headstrongyoung riderBrady and beautyoccasionallyigniteanotherwise rodeo lifestyleofSouthDakota,wherepassion Chloé Zhaothrowsusintotheno-nonsense This expressivedramabyChinesedirector The Rider Thai prisondrama.’(ScreenDaily) through Jean-StéphaneSauvaire’s hard-edged young BritishactorJoeColepoundshisway unknowable andneverwillinglysympathetic, ‘Fists-punching, face-pulping,defiantly, flailingly toredemption. him onanincrediblejourney in theprocess,findsabrotherhoodthatwillguide ofMuayThaiBoxing,and student ofthelethalart Refusing todieinsideprison,Billybecomesa sent tooneofThailand’s mostnotoriousjails. (played byJoeColefromGreenRoom)whois ofatroubledyoungBritishboxer the truestory boxer BillyMoore,APrayerBeforeDawnis best-sellerbyLiverpool Based ontheinternational A PrayerBeforeDawn Official Selection together insteadofmaking themenemies.’ Chloé Zaho,director forfeminism:bringingmenand women I thinkthat’s important alsovery They shouldknow thatarealherocanbevulnerable, cry, andstillbeloved. broken dreams, butarealheroissomeonewho keepsondreaminganyway. the toughwinnersonourscreens. Iwanttotelloursonsthattheycanhave to tellourboysthatit’s okayto bevulnerable,thattheydon’t havetobelike malecharactersthroughafemalegaze.Iwant my callingmoreinportraying of greatfemalefilmmakers -andmalearedoing that,butIfind daughters cangrowupwatching themselvesauthenticallyonscreen.Alot throughthemalegaze,sothatour characters thanhavebeenportrayed my career. Of course,Idothinkit’s tocreatemore nuancedfemale important interested intellingstoriesaboutmenthanwomen -atleastthusfar my blood.I’maprettyindependent,feministperson.Yet Ifindmyselfmore ‘I wenttoawomen’s collegeinMassachusetts,soobviously, feminismisin director helped creatingthisfeelingoftotalimmersion.’Jean-ChristopheSauvaire, dimension, andthefactthatweworkedwithnonprofessionalactors,also us get whatthecharacterdoesandnotunderstand.Thedocumentary inner demons,inmakingthefilmfollowhispace.Imageandsoundhelp the consumptionofnarcotics.IwasinterestedinvisuallytranslatingBilly’s brutalway,in avery andrecreateBilly’s totry mentalchaos,intensifiedby us cometo ofthefilm,piecesinformation hostile.Inthefirstpart first very it isliketobeinaring,ondrugs,feelaloneworldthatat Moore’s pointofview, todiscovertheprisonthroughhiseyes,feelwhat imagined afilmtoldinthefirstperson.IwantedspectatortoadoptBilly first, andasafilmmaker. I Iwanttoexperienceafilm.Fromthestart, ‘I’m interestedintheimpressionofbeingimmersedafilm.Asspectator UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 USA Country Premiere Status Altitude Films Nicolas Becker Marc Boucrot David Ungaro Shake Joe Cole,Vithaya Nicolas Pansringarm, Rita Dagher, NicholasSimon Jonathan Hirschbein Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire English, Thai 1hr 56min France, UK Northern Altitude Films Nathan Halpern Alex O’Flinn Joshua James,Richardson Jandreau Brady Jandreau,Tim Jandreau,Lilly Mollye Asher, SachaBenHarroche Chloé Zhao Chloé Zhao 1hr 44min Northern Official Selection 23 UK Sashishi deda Georgia, Estonia 1hr 47min Ana Urushadze Ana Urushadze Lasha Khalvashi Nato Murvanidze, Dimitri Tatishvili, Ramaz Ioseliani Mindia Esadze Alexander Kuranov Nika Pasuri Alief LLC English 1hr 50min Swedish, Saami Amanda Kernell Amanda Kernell Lars G. Lindstrom Erika Sparrok,Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Maj-Doris Rimpi Sophia Olsson, Petrus Sjovik Anders Skov Official Selection Official Premiere Status Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Georgian Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Sameblod Original Title CountrySweden 2016 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Sales Company LevelK Contact [email protected] ‘I wanted it to be a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with with story, ‘I wanted it to be a coming-of-age and a South Sami I have a Swedish mother family. a knife. I’m from a Sami they really want nothing to do with But some of the elders in my family, father. badly about them, but they areSami people. They speak quite harshly and grew up with having Sami asSami themselves. I’d always known that they at all as children, in the traditionaltheir mother tongue, not speaking Swedish they have other names, first names and surnames, way of living. But now, to do with their siblings, their oldand have another life. They want nothing So I was wondering - what happened? If you life, and their old identity. way of behaving, can you reallychange your name, your language, your same old person inside? Wherebecome another person or are you still the does it do to you to cut alldoes this shame and anger come from? What and your culture - full assimilation?’ Amanda ties with your past, your family, Kernell, director ‘It may sound weird, but when I’m writing, I never ask myself anything. I only It’s just follow the flow and my thoughts as I put them down on paper. afterwards, when the story the original source settles down, that I understand of my inspiration and why the storyIn Scary followed the path that it has. perhaps came from members of my family, the source of inspiration Mother, as is usually the case. My mother had an on and off relationship with writing, and my sister is a writer working on her first novel. My grandmother also wanted to be a director but then she decided to follow a different profession. So, the main theme of self-realisation was already around me, affecting me… but of course nothing to do with There was some inspiration from my family, to me in this see anything related don’t I me personally. character or father the aspect of the script, except for the urge to do your own favourite thing, which Ana Urushadze, director comes from the female members of my family.’ Scary Mother Ana Urushadze’s prize-winning debut is Ana Urushadze’s a powerful mix of domestic drama and a middle Manana, . aged housewife in Georgia, has to choose between her family life and a love of writing she has repressed for years. The tension between realising her creative ambitions and the expectations placed on a mother in a traditionally patriarchal society threaten to tear her apart. But, when Manana finally decides to follow her passion, she is ready to sacrifice everything for it both mentally and physically. One of three films nominated for the EuropeanOne of three films nominated Lux Prize, Amanda Kernell’s Parliament’s powerful is a vibrant coming feature debut Sweden. Elle, a of age drama set in 1930’s reindeer herding Sami teenager is forcibly removed from her family and sent to a state theboarding school. Exposed to the racism of school and facing a society rife with prejudice and discrimination, Elle is forced to choose between remaining with her people or pursuing the education and opportunities otherwise denied her. Sami Blood (presented in association with the LUX Prize) LUX the with in association (presented Blood Sami 24 Official Selection tainted byherloyalty tohersisterhood. than done,asthe feelingsoffirstloveare amongst them.ForViolette thisishardersaid oath thatifamancomes,hewill beshared Astheseasonspasstheytakean their harvest. showing remarkableresilience astheytendto III. Thewomenspendmonthsin totalisolation deprived ofallitsmeninacoup byNapoleon in 1852whenhermountainvillageisbrutally and firstlove. Violette isoldenoughtomarry debut, isatributetofemalefriendship,survival Marine Francen’s magnificentlyphotographed The Sower unlike anyotherfilmyouwillseethisyear. creating asoulfulpieceofauteurfilmmaking stirring traditionalmusicsessionsinthepub, the idylliclocalesthrougharchivefootageand Heaney emerged,theaudacioussweepsfrom the westofIrelandlandscapesfromwhich ways: thegorgeouscinematographytraversing account ofHeaney’s lifeisremarkableinmany came atapersonalcost.PatCollins’fictional upbringing, hisemergenceasagiftedartist Shaped bythemyths,fablesandsongsofhis the greatsoftraditionalIrishsean-nóssinging. Enigmatic andcomplex,JoeHeaneywasoneof Song ofGranite Official Selection them to trust thetiniest, almost imperceptible details.’Marianne Francen, director dialogues andthe intentionsIwaslookingfor in theirfacesandgestures.Iasked the freedomtopropose things,butIhadafairly preciseideaofthemusic working withtheir bodies,andtheirrelationswith eachother. Ialways gavethem ofthetaskinvolved following thesestages,Iexplained tothemthattheessentialpart about thedailygesturesthatexistedattime.By the wardrobetestsandlearning embraced thisoption.[…]After castingthisgroupofwomen,Iwentwiththemto torefrainfromthisobviouschoice andtaketheoppositeroute.MyDOP necessary ButIthoughtitwas to filmagroupsuggestedthe need forawidescreenformat. held cameraclosetothecharacters. Thebeautyofthelandscapesandneed andthehand- too realistic.Thisalsoinfluencedmydecisiontousethe4:3format atasensorial level,tofocusonthedreamlikeaspectsratherthanbeing the story and desires.Iwantedtoavoidsimplychroniclingtheevents. I strovetoconvey ‘My maingoalwastosharetheintimacyofthesewomen, sense theirfears a song.’PatCollins,director tocreatetheexperienceoflisteningasingersing angle. Ifeltitwasimportant tofinish,withoutcuttingawayfromit,justonecamera song inthefilmfromstart tohaveaseannós films thathaveameditativequalityandIfeltitwasimportant best seannóssingerofhistimeandmaybeever. Iamdrawntomakingslow figuretofocuson.Ithinkhewasthe singing, JoeHeaneywouldbetheperfect drawn toJoeandtraditionalsingingsoIfeltifwasgoingmakeafilmabout Iwasalways album ofhissongsandIusedtosingthesongmyselfatparties. singing ‘RocksofBawn’ontheradioandIwasreallydrawntoit.boughtan towards thatworld.AroundthesametimeIrememberhearingJoeHeaney mind; Ihadn’t heardtraditionalmusicplayedlikethatanditre-orientatedme GalwayvenueAnTaibhdhearcBegley playinginlegendary anditblewmy festival. IrememberseeingtraditionalmusiciansSteveCooneyandSeamus inthearts ‘It goesbacktothatearly1990speriodandthelunchtimeconcerts UK Distributor Thunderbird Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language French Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 France Country Original Title Premiere Status Tadhg O’Sullivan Richard Kendrick LeniParker Fátharta, Michael O’Chonfhlaola,MacdaraÓ Jessie Fisk,AlanMaher Pat Collins,EoghanMacGiollaBhride Pat Collins Irish, English 1hr 44min Ireland, Canada Northern Pascale Ramonda Frederic Vercheval Minori Akimoto Alain Duplantier Costa-Marini Raphaëlle Agogué,PaulineBurlet,Théo Sylvie Pialat Jacques Fieschi,MarineFrancen Marine Francen 1hr 38min Le Semeur UK Official Selection 25 ubica Orechovska Zuzana Konecná Zuzana Mauréry, Martin Ziaran Vladimir Barak Michal Novinski UK , Czech Republic 1hr 42min Jan Hrebejk Petr Jarchovský Buza, Zuzana Mistrikova, Ľ Tibor UK sogni La Stoffa dei 1hr 38min Gianfranco Cabiddu Chiti, SalvatoreGianfranco Cabiddu, Ugo de Mola Isabella Cocuzza, Arturo Paglia Carpentieri,Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Renato Jacopo Cullin Carpineta Vincenzo Alessio Doglione Paco Cinema Official Selection Official Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company LevelK Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Original Title Ucitelka Country 2016 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Slovak Director Screenwriter Producer Premiere Status Premiere Original Title CountryItaly 2016 Year Running Time DCP Format Italian Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Sales Company Contact [email protected] ‘I’ve had the fortune I was a young man. I to work with Eduardo de Filipo when inTempest by Shakespeare five years and I translated The worked with him for The text remained in my heartthe Neapolitan dialect. many years, without for years ago, I went to visit as a tourist the island of Asinara, in me knowing. Ten It was prohibited to go there, untilSardinia, where they used to keep prisoners. there, I thought I was in the islandit became this natural park. When I arrived desertedof Shakespeare, because it had remained for 120 years - there were the same time. The island seemed theanimals, it seemed terrible and magical at because it used to be inhabited by Sardanians perfect place for The Tempest who were taken away so it could be turned into a prison. The words of Caliban seemed very they could have been the words of a Sardanian who appropriate: lost his land.’ Gianfranco Cabiddu, director mean is set during the communist era, we didn’t ‘Although the story of The Teacher to simply reconstruct the atmosphere of the past. The theme of the film is fear and the subsequent willingness of an individual to succumb to corruption - the fact that some people serve get advantages those who have power over them, and, hence, for themselves and their closest ones. Nevertheless, these advantages can turn a historical illustration. It tells against them in the long run. The film, therefore, isn’t of situations that happen regardless of the a story about general human behavior, time period. Nowadays, a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, our Our film country is fighting corruption, which permeates all the layers of society. on the contrary, is not only concerned with the educational system, where today, the more influential parents can often blackmail the teachers, but it acts as a model and its behavior in a critical are depicting a fragment of society situation. We situation. The film is a reflection of the bravery find within which we have to ourselves at current times as well as in the past.’ Jan Hrebejk, director The Teacher This audience favourite casts a wickedly humorous eye over the recent European past. 1983, the era of Communist control in It’s central Europe. In a Bratislava classroom stern new teacher Mrs Drazdechova asks what each of the students’ parents does for a living. As those wary adults soon realise, this teacher likes to call in favours from them in exchange for good grades for their kids. The parents convene – should they deal with her corruption? prize-winning entertainment from the This is wry, director of Divided we Fall. Oscar-nominated ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’… are such stuff as dreams ‘We is award-winning film Gianfranco Cabiddu’s the story of a small acting company stranded together with a group of Camorra crime- syndicate members on the jail-island of Asinara, north-west blend to Sardinia. In a magisterial the heterogeneous group of reality and fantasy, of castaways attempts to prove their innocence by performing, in with little preparation, recited in the folk Tempest, Shakespeare’s version by Italian dramatist Eduardo de Filippo. SchoolPresented at LIFF In collaboration with the ofof English and the Italian unit of the University Leeds, and with the Sardinia Film Commission. The Stuff of Dreams of Stuff The 26 Official Selection favourite straight fromVenice FilmFestival. Under theTree isanaudience and critics’ , and fullofsurprises –includingagory Relatable, poignantyetlaugh-out-loud funny between theirhousesisamajor pointofstrife. couple nextdoor. Alargeoverhangingtree between hisiron-willedmother andtheyounger But oncetherehefindsatense standoffbrewing with hisparentsintheirneatsuburban terrace. embarrassing byhiswife,heslinksofftolive husband Atliiscaughtdoingsomething neighbours aretheabsolutepits.Whenpathetic needs goodneighbours.Butthese Everybody Under theTree head-spinning treat. Thelma willfullycontrolyouremotions.Asexy, truly affectingromance, filmfestivalhit shiverswitha supernatural world. Marrying the powertomovethings,evenfractureher feeling; Thelma’s passionforherclassmatehas real romanticcrush.Butthisismorethanjusta forceofa suddenly feelingthatoverwhelming woman livingawayfromhomeforthefirsttime, love meetscoolthriller. Thelmaisayoung A spine-tinglingfilminwhichthethrilloffirst Thelma Official Selection which they may not be expecting.’ Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, director which they maynotbe expecting.’ Hafsteinn GunnarSigurðsson, director statement anduse themusictoprepareaudience emotionallyfortheending, more; Ididn’t wantitjusttoaccompany theimage.Iwanted to makeabigger lifeinapeacefulneighbourhood. Iwantedthescore tobesomething everyday it likeathriller, outtobequitechallenging, becauseIamshowing whichturned suddenly notrespected,it’s easy tolosecontrol.Mytakeonthisscriptwastreat cannot doinmyhouse”–that’s thethinking behindit.Whentheseboundariesare comes totheirhomes.It’s theirterritory. “Nobody isgoingtotellmewhatIcanor peopletosuchcrazybehaviour. sensitivewhenit drive ordinary Peoplearevery any self-controlortheirdignity. Ifinditfascinatinghowsituationslikethis can –likeyouandme,orourparents.Andyetthey justcompletelylose and ‘normal’ Thepeopleinvolved areusuallyrespectable quickly getblownoutofproportion. When youthinkaboutit,theyusuallyrevolvearoundsomeminor issuesthat ‘What drewmetothismaterialwasthethoughtofexploringneighbourly disputes. come outofScandinavia.’JoachimTrier, director is extraordinary, andIcouldwellimaginethatshewillbethenextbigthingto I haveeverbeensoworriedinmylifeduringashoot.[…]Herperformance up.Shewantedtodoherownstuntsandreallywentforit;Idon’tturned think -butthen Eili find ourlead–afterall,shehadtoactwithsnakesandunderwater to human beings.Andthenwetriedtofigureouthowtellit.Itwasdifficult morethananallegoricaltale,butstillabout story on agenre -supernatural had thevisualpotentialtoventureintonightmaresandmystery, whileleaning deep withinherismakinglosecontroloflife.We wantedsomethingthat girl,whorealisesthatsomething ofaNorwegian ofmaterialwiththestory sort Tangerine Dream. We wonderedwhetheritwouldbepossibletocombinethat and listeningto1970s1980ssynthesizermusic,likeJohnCarpenter both grewupinthe1980s,readingStephenKingandJapanesecartoons, ‘[My co-writer]EskilandIwantedtomakesomethingreallyfantastic.We UK Distributor Thunderbird Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Norwegian Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Icelandic Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Iceland Country Original Title Premiere Status Ola Flottum Olivier BuggeCoutte Jakob Ihre Rafaelsen Eili Harboe,KayaWilkins, Henrik Thomas Robsahm Joachim Trier, EskilVogt Joachim Trier 1hr 56min , France,Denmark,Sweden Northern New EuropeFilmsSales Daniel Bjarnaso Kristjan Lodmfjord Monika Lenczewska Björgvinsdóttir, SigurðurSigurjónsson Steinþór HróarSteinþórsson,Edda Grimar Jonsson,CarolineSchluter Huldar Breiðfjörð Hafsteinn GunnarSigurðsson 1hr 29min Undir trénu UK Official Selection 27 Northern 1hr 57min Haynes Todd John Sloss Pamela Koffler, , Michelle Oakes Fegley, Williams Affonso Gonçalves Carter Burwell Studio Canal Northern Austria Bulgaria, Germany, 1hr 59min Bulgarian, German, English Grisebach Valeska Grisebach Valeska Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski Wetrek, Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Syuleyman Alilov Letifov Bernhard Keller Bettina Boehler Films New Wave Official Selection Official Premiere Status Country USA 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Premiere Status Premiere Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor UK Distributor ‘I grew up with the genre, sitting in front of a TV set in 1970s West ‘I grew up with the western 1970s West genre, sitting in front of a TV set in I wanted to returnBerlin. I felt the urge way. to it: it captivated me in a profound mythology it portrays. melancholic heroes and male I to grapple with the lonely, modernity – despite all its conservative elements – inwas excited by the genre’s yet still individual responsibility, its attempt to capture social construction and interested in the intimacy of the duel,fraught with its own contradictions. I was Instead, I have startthe inversion of ‘love at first sight’. I never out with a story. research. I’m always happya topic that then guides my personal, associative when I’ve written a story acts as a framework from which I can embark on that discover then everyonethe adventure in league with the actors and involved. We made of and eventually the whole thing just jumps off together what the film’s the page. I find it very to enter into a continuous confrontation with exciting a fictional story and fantasy are sparring partners. where reality Things that are Grisebach, director perfectly planned unnerve me.’ Valeska ‘I had never worked with a deaf actress before, and we knew that it was We had to rely on this character to an incredibly essential part of the film. speak sign language – 1927 was a communicate without words. She doesn’t period where sign language was not being taught to deaf kids in the United all felt it States – and so she communicates in every We other way but language. was so important to try every possible means in order to find a deaf kid, bring a own unique knowledge and understanding to that character and have deaf kid’s that be a part of our production, but it was also a way for all of us to understand And we also cast a lot of deaf actors in the and get closer to the deaf community. black-and-white story who had as hearing characters – people from deaf theater much more experience in acting. And that was a great, rich part of the process Haynes, director too.’ Todd Wonderstruck A children’s story, but so much more. Set story, A children’s Haynes’ across 1977 and 1927, director Todd follow-up to Carol (LIFF 2015) is another lush and sensuous tale of dual yearnings in New set out from their young kids Two City. York small-town homes to seek an absent parent. Each heads for the Big Apple, and faces the same challenge of hearing-impairment. The earlier story is told via crisp, dialogue-free monochrome, the latter in vivid midcentury in a tearjerker and the stories dovetail colour, finale. Adapted from the best-selling novel by Brian Selznick. This wry, slow-burn Eastern ‘Western’ sees a slow-burn Eastern ‘Western’ This wry, crew of German workers roll into construction to begin work.a remote Bulgarian village They are under the command of chauvinistic who treats his Balkan clients foreman Vincent, primary as backward idiots. But Vincent’s headache is resolute, decent Meinhard, who wastes little time in befriending his new neighbours and embarrassing his blustering take Erdmann’s boss. Those who enjoyed Toni on European working life will love this. It’s crisp tale of everyday heroics, with a clear, recalling the best of flinty stare Meinhard’s or Cooper. Eastwood, Wayne Western (presented in association with the LUX Prize) LUX the with association in (presented Western 100: Together with Tampere Film Festival

My Way, Damn It! Premiere Status UK Original Title Minun tieni, perkele Form Documentary Country Finland Year 2016 Running Time 13min Language Finnish Director Kati Laukkanen Screenwriter Kati Laukkanen Producer Pasi Toivonen / Yleisradio Cinematographer Janne Langen Editor Mikko Uusitalo, Pauli Huhtaniemi Contact [email protected]

Man. Trousers. Woman. Skirt. Who is allowed to wear what? The answer hits Markus like a sledgehammer. Official Selection Penelope Premiere Status Yorkshire Form Narrative Country Estonia, Finland Year 2016 Running Time 4min Language No dialogue Director Heta Jäälinoja Animator Heta Jäälinoja Screenwriter Heta Jäälinoja Producer Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Cinematographer Heta Jäälinoja Editor Heta Jäälinoja Music Jukka Herva Contact [email protected]

The Doorbell rings. Someone is at the door. But everything’s a mess.

Radio Dolores Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country Finland, Czech Republic Year 2016 Running Time 18min Language Finnish Director Katariina Lillqvist Animator Michael Kubicek Screenwriter Katariina Lillqvist Producer Katariina Lillqvist / Elokuvaosuuskunta Camera Cagliostro Cinematographer Patricia Ortiz Martinez Editor Katariina Lillqvist Music Kusti Vuorinen Contact [email protected] Radio Dolores is a puppet documentary of the everyday lives of shoe factory workers in 1930s Tampere. It tells the story of stove room rebels, the illegal radio transmitters of cold attics, and shoemaker Arvo, who disappeared in the Spanish Civil War and left his son only an accordion and a ticket to the jail in Malaga. Satan’s Rabbits Premiere Status Yorkshire Original Title Saatanan Kanit Form Narrative Country Finland Year 2016 Running Time 17min Language Finnish Director Teemu Niukkanen Screenwriter Antti Toivonen, Teemu Niukkanen Producer Daniel Kuitunen, Tero Tamminen, Kaisla Viitala / Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta Cinematographer Matti Eerikäinen Editor Antti Reikko Contact [email protected]

Raimo’s cosy middle-class life in the suburbs of Helsinki is turned upside down when a Satan worshipping sex cult moves in next door.

Sex at the Ski Center Premiere Status Yorkshire Form Documentary Country Finland Year 2017 Running Time 3min Language No dialogue Director Heikki Ahola Screenwriter Heikki Ahola Producer Heikki Ahola Cinematographer Heikki Ahola Editor Heikki Ahola Music Kasperi Pitkänen Contact [email protected]

When it’s cold outside, it gets hot at the ski center.

Tarfala Premiere Status UK Form Documentary Country Finland, Germany Year 2016 Running Time 28min Language Finnish Director Johannes Östergård Screenwriter Johannes Östergård Producer Underlandet Films Cinematographer Johannes Östergård Editor Kenneth Klaile Music Viljam Nyback Contact [email protected]

At the north of the arctic circle, right next to Sweden’s highest mountain, an old man has chosen to spend his life looking after a refuge. In his quest to make peace with his past, will he find far from his loved ones?

28 Cinema Versa 29 Cinema Versa Cinema barrier to find solace, empathy and understanding. land and shared histories through archive footage, breaking through the language land and shared histories through archive footage, large as we traverse the globe through explorations of our relationship with the large as we traverse the globe through explorations female trailblazers such as Jane Goodall, Shirley Collins and Suzanne Ciani loom female trailblazers such as Jane Goodall, Shirley Collins modern music to remarkable happenings on the very fringes of society. Portrait of modern music to remarkable happenings on the very fringes of society. finely tuned into compelling and inspirational stories ranging from the vanguard of finely tuned into compelling and inspirational stories Hailing the underground, the radical and the provocative, this year’s programme is programme is this year’s Hailing the underground, the radical and the provocative, Cinema Versa offers a fresh, fierce and timely celebration of the documentary offers a fresh, fierce and timely celebration of the form. Cinema Versa Cinema Versa Jane: Opening Film Premiere Status Northern Country USA Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 30min Format DCP Language English Director Brett Morgan Screenwriter Brett Morgen Producer Bryan Burk, Tony Gerber, Brett Morgen Cinema Versa Leading Cast Jane Goodall Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, Hugo van Lawick Film Editor Joe Beshenkovsky, Brett Morgen, Will Zndaric Original Music

UK Distributor Dogwoof Academy Award–nominated director Brett ‘My version of this movie was the Garden of Eden. My premise was Gombe, at Morgen (Montage of Heck), one of the finest the very beginning when you first see it in the film, there’s this symmetry with the stylists working in , has crafted insects and the animals and there’s this harmony. This is so blatant, but then you this wonderfully poetic look at primatologist and see a snake and underneath the snake you hear [engine noise]. So you hear a animal rights activist Jane Goodall. A beautiful human intrusion and then you cut to the boat and my feeling was the moment and captivating work which utilises National Jane set foot on those shores the place was never going to be the same again, Geographic footage of Goodall when she for better or for worse. She said, “If I knew what I knew today I wouldn’t do was newly arrived in Gombe National Park in it”, but it was another time. It was a really strong piece of dialogue from Jane, Tanzania some fifty years ago, Goodall leads but it was a piece of dialogue informed by time and I felt that it took you out Morgen through her extraordinary life and work. of the moment, and what it really did was take you out of the romanticism of Propelled by an epic score courtesy of Philip the moment because that leads into Jane and Hugo’s falling in love. It also felt Glass, this is a breathtaking and comprehensive disingenuous because we’re trying to allow you to experience it as it’s unfolding.’ portrait of a truly inspiring subject. Brett Morgen, director

Ex Libris - The New York Public Library: Closing Film Premiere Status Northern Country USA Year 2017 Running Time 3hr 17min Format Blu-ray Language English Director Frederick Wiseman Producer Frederick Wiseman Cinematographer John Davey Film Editor Frederick Wiseman

Sales Company Zipporah Films Contact [email protected] Frederick Wiseman’s 42nd documentary brings ‘At the risk of sounding pretentious, I think I’ve learned a lot about how to make his incisive vision to one of the world’s greatest movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar institutions of learning, capturing the vast cultural problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an scope of ’s library system. The abstract sense, aren’t they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of NYPL is blessed with rich collections, passionate time ... Whether it’s a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. My staff, and deeply devoted, appreciative job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it’s just bibliophiles and beneficiaries across its 92 a chaotic arrangement of sequences. When I read, I think about how the writer is branches. Wiseman reveals a venerable place resolving problems that I recognize as similar to the problems I have in editing. It of welcome, cultural exchange, and intellectual really goes back to the way that I was taught to read when I was in college. When creativity, and films NYPL guest speakers I was in high school, the teaching of English was awful. But in college, I took a including Richard Dawkins, Elvis Costello, Patti freshman seminar where we used Brooks and Warren’s Understanding Poetry. Smith, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. An epic and And I find that over the years, I’ve gone back to that book and to their short story inspiring film about the idea of libraries as anthology as a constant source of learning.’ Frederick Wiseman, director 30 ‘rainbows from clouds’ not as ‘storage for books’. Cinema Versa 31 Cinema Versa Cinema UK 1hr 10min Egil Håskjold Larsen Grøttjord Tone Egil Håskjold Larsen Kossakovsky Egil Håskjold Larsen, Viktor Bugge Wesseltoft UK 5. október Slovakia Czech Republic, Martin Kollár Martin Kollár Ivan Ostrochovsky Ján Kollár Martin Kollár Marek Šulík Michal Novinski Punkchart films Sales Company Taskovski Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Country Norway 2017 Year Running Time Format Digital Language Arabic Director Producer Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Premiere Status Premiere Original Title Country 2016 Year 50min Running Time Digital Format Slovak Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] ‘Tackling the scenario of what-would-you-do in a saccharine-free venture, [the in a saccharine-free venture, the scenario of what-would-you-do ‘Tackling bike journey always his brother had an ‘Easy Rider-like’ director] embarks on with one´s fear and an attempt to come to peace dreamt about,’examining inner self’. replicate his photographic modus. Kollár´s thought-through frames the filmmaker - also working asWhile travelling through exotic locations, routine. The personal storycinematographer - never slips into a travelogue has whilst while facing one´s mortality, a universal layer of a contemplation on life modernat the same time tackling the notion of a man. In a directorial statement, he had embarked upon this dreamhe explained why his brother did not realise journey “His mortgage, until what may easily be his last months: tax declarations, and everyday him from thinking straight”. The theme of mortality routines kept peppered with digressions to lyricalis reflected in, at times, a pristine nature, transcendentalism.’ which gradually contributes to the undercurrent of imagery, Martin Kudlac, Screen Anarchy which ‘There are no interviews family, or voice-overs; the filmmaker follows the mother and sister as well as her uncles as they wait at the also includes Lean’s into a car driven by a Serbian, walk through then get Macedonian border, But Hungarian fields, get on a train in Austria, and then board a bus in Germany. these locations are not identified with narrative titles – the viewer can determine their geographical position only by means of road signs, railway station instructions or it is a beautifully fluid film, the language spoken in some of the scenes. Technically, is, about one eye level (that camera, frequently set on Lean’s with the ever-moving and Audun Sandvik’s metre off the ground), complemented by Bugge Wesseltoft subtle cello-and-piano music, which communicates both the gravity of the situation, and the innocence and spirit that the main protagonist maintains throughout the film. And when it ends, her smiling face and sometimes endearingly adult-like facial rather than the terrible conditions and expressions are what sticks with the viewer, circumstances that they had to go through.’ Vladan Petkovic, Cineuropa 69 Minutes of 86 Days A startling and unique account of migration Lean as we from the perspective of 3-year-old follow her journey from a refugee camp in Greece to Uppsala where her relatives are waiting. Lena understands the gravity of the situation she and her family find themselves in, but filled with childlike wonder she continues For every step she takes, she her journey. emanates a longed-for feeling of hope. For a step closer to her grandfather in Lean, it’s Sweden and for us, it provides a human face to the tragedy of the refugee situation. Eschewing the documentary convention of is a remarkable andtalking heads, 5 October 52-year- the director’s graceful depiction of old brother coming to terms with a critical life situation: he has a 50% chance of surviving necessary surgery but complicated which will occur on this date. This deeply personal story elegance is directed with transcendent onand a deep sensitivity as the man embarks bike journey through the an ‘Easy Rider-like’ diarylandscapes of Europe. Excerpts from his frame the purpose of his journey: to the desire hisboth examine fear and achieve peace with inner self. 5 October Cinema Versa Arcadia Premiere Status Northern Country UK Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 18min Format DCP Language English Director Paul Wright Screenwriter Paul Wright Producer John Archer, Mark Atkin, Adrian Cooper Cinema Versa Original Music Will Gregory, Adrian Utley

UK Distributor Hopscotch Films Crafted from over 100 years of footage in the ‘Scouring 100 years of footage from the BFI National Archive, BAFTA- National Archive, Arcadia winner Paul Wright constructs an exhilarating study of Britain’s shifting – and is an entirely new film about our changing contradictory – relationship to the land. Wright (For Those in Peril) crafts a dense relationship with the land. Director Paul Wright poetic essay of wonder, hope, horror and decay – drawing on inspiration from constructs a beautiful paean to the land, set to to Winstanley. Through an intoxicating array of material, a soundtrack by Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) and we follow an unnamed protagonist from the future as she travels through the Adrian Utley (Portishead). metaphorical ‘seasons’: Spring’s romantic agricultural idyll long gone; summer’s From the earliest days of movie-making to the innocence of a village fête side-by-side with dark earthy folk rituals and eruptions present day, the film features rare and unseen of Britain’s Pagan past; Autumn’s abandonment of the land, the emergence material of local celebrations and festivals, of urbanisation and the creation of new towns; and Winter’s political turmoil, agricultural practices through the seasons, extremism and division, as nature reacts with violent storms. Set to a grand, village life and lost crafts, and examines change expressive score from Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), in rural life and landscape. Wright’s captivating film essay was conceived before Brexit, but it’s impossible not to see the film through the prism of it.’ Tricia Tuttle Atelier de Conversation Premiere Status UK Country Austria, France, Liechtenstein Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 12min Format DCP Language French Director Bernhard Braunstein Producer Bernhard Braunstein Cinematographer Adrien Lecouturier Film Editor Roland Stöttinger Original Music Lucile Chaufour

Sales Company Sixpack Films Contact [email protected] Every week, a group of disparate individuals ‘When I arrived in France, I didn’t speak the language but was eager to learn. from all over the world gather at the Bibliothèque I found the public library and its conversation workshops, and I discovered this publique d’information in Paris to practice great place, with people coming from everywhere, with the same difficulties conversational French. The conversations are at speaking the language. I participated every week for a year, and I felt like initially polite and respectful until gradually, sharing this experience with others. That’s how the idea of the film came about. It tensions and antagonisms begin to emerge as was very important for me to film everyone the same way, with the same distance subtleties and nuances are lost in the struggle to to the camera, like portraits. We needed the camera at the centre of the circle. speak a foreign language. Yet Bernard Braunstein’s The animator always comes with a theme. Having participated, I knew some film is a wonderfully benevolent and humane of the themes and would sometimes discuss with them which ones would be account of how we move beyond the limitations interesting to explore. It is a very personal film, I participated in these workshops, of language to discover and foster a sense of and I know some of the people very well. But of course there is also something community and understanding in a foreign climate, political about it. It asks a very topical question: how do we live together? This as our ability to communicate is overshadowed by workshop is a mirror of all the conflicts happening in the world.’ Bernhard 32 our need for empathy and companionship. Braunstein, director Cinema Versa 33 Cinema Versa Cinema Yorkshire 1hr 47min German, English Andres Veiel Andres Veiel Thomas Kufus Rhea Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Thönges-Stringaris Jörg Jeshel Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer Damian Scholl Ulrich Reuter, Beta Cinema Yorkshire (performance)1hr 10min approx. + 1hr 34min (film) Plester Tim Rob Curry, Paul Williams Plester, Tim Rob Curry, Hannah Arterton, Collins, Stewart Shirley Lee Richard Mitchell Plester Tim Rob Curry, York Ossian Brown, Michael Burning Bridges Premiere Status Country Germany 2017 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere CountryUK 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format English Language Director Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor The Way of the Morris, my co-director Rob Curry of the Morris, and I worked on ‘As a result of The Way not both had an interest in folk topics, We Be Together. a short film, Here We’m a thing heard about but folk activities and festivities. We necessarily the music called Dwile Flonking which we ended up making a short about. It became film ties into this documentarymore of a film about field recording, which about Shirley the genre. […] The purist idea of whatCollins. A folk singer in the truest sense of would change You deliberately. folk music is, is that it changes but not necessarily interesting to see that for instance. It’s the words to keep it topical and political would argue that Lomax is disrupting thatmemic flow of a song through time. Some People used recording the music instead of letting it flow. organic change as he’s songs, remembering it to sit under a table in a pub and try to steal other people’s happen In this digital age we live in it can’t for their own performance the next day. things being too a danger with anymore, we’re constantly recording. There’s co-director Tim Plester, what artperfect is.’ and defined. That isn’t ‘Beuys is the story of an artist who died 30 years ago, but who is still very He asked very pertinentcontemporary. questions, very political questions. He wanted to open the museums. For him, art museums are not just there to display artworks, they invade the political field. And in a time like the one we are currently going through, where people withdraw into themselves, into the past, their fears, their nostalgia, and call into question the reality of the facts, Beuys He encouraged people to think of is an artist that invites us to think differently. Told politics as something we can do ourselves. And that what the film is about. Beuys has always fascinated through archive footage, and with a lot of . me, and keeps fascinating me. I studied over 400 hours of archive films, and stay that I’ve understood everything.I still can’t He is still full of secrets and director mysteries.’ Andres Veiel, Beuys Joseph Beuys was arguably the definitive Born in Kleve, German artist century. 20th the of he walked the earth like a shaman, dressed in a hat and a khaki fishing vest, proffering healing thoughts, aktionen (happenings) and wildly unpredictable installation pieces suggesting ways Andres to heal a wounded post-war Germany. documentary invigorating shows us all this Veiel’s and much more: his family life, his countercultural demonstrations, and even his confrontation with 400 students at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie. Presented to accompany a dedicated exhibition Beuys is ato the artist at Leeds Art Gallery, luminous portrait of a true revolutionary spirit. Widely regarded as the 20th century’s most century’s regarded as the 20th Widely important of English traditional song, Shirley singer of the folk musicCollins stood at the epicentre 1980revival during the 1960s and 1970s. But in she developed a disorder of the vocal chords which robbed her of her unique singing voice 2016and forced her into early retirement until when she returned with the astounding Lodestar. Incorporating intimate access to the recording audio,sessions along with tremendous archival this is a deeply lyrical response to the life-and-times liveof a totemic musical figure. This event features music from Shirley Collins’ collaborators Trembling Bells, with support from Joynes & Hladowski. The Ballad of Shirley Collins Shirley of Ballad The Cinema Versa Brimstone and Glory Premiere Status English Country USA, Mexico Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 7min Format DCP Language Spanish Director Viktor Jakovleski Producer Kellen Quinn, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Dan Janvey Cinema Versa Cinematographer Tobias von dem Borne Film Editor Affonso Gonçalves Original Music ,

Sales Company Pascale Ramonda Contact [email protected] The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, ‘It was in Berlin a couple of years ago. I went to an after party of a gallery Mexico is a site of festivities unlike any other in the opening, but I was not in the mood to socialise at all. And suddenly this guy world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron sits next to me and starts talking to me about Tultepec because he had a cousin saint of firework-makers, conflagrant revelry who is a firework-maker who goes to this place every year to work with the local engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off firework-makers there. I convinced him to show me the photos he took. He was their technical virtuosity and dozens of teams build a painter that went to Tultepec to get inspiration to create paintings out of what larger-than-life papier-mâché bulls to parade he saw, out of the photos that he took. And when I saw the people raving in into the town square, adorned with fireworks the middle of millions of sparks without any form of protection or even a shirt, that blow up in all directions. For the people I was mesmerized in so many ways. That was really the spark, the moment of of Tultepec, the National Pyrotechnic Festival inspiration for me, because I got so obsessed by the cinematic quality and by is explosive celebration, unrestrained delight the danger and mystery in regards to what these people were doing there, what and real peril. Plunging headlong into the fire, is this festival about, why is it so radical and archaic and ritualistic. What was Brimstone & Glory honours the spirit of Tultepec’s behind all of this? Something spiritual or just utter madness? All I knew was that I community and celebrates celebration itself. needed to find out.’ Viktor Jakovleski, director A Cambodian Spring Premiere Status UK Country UK, Cambodia Year 2016 Running Time 2hr Format Digital Language Khmer Director Christopher Kelly Screenwriter Christopher Kelly Producer Christopher Kelly Cinematographer Christopher Kelly Film Editor Christopher Kelly, , Pawel Stec Original Music James Holden

Sales Company Eye Steel Film Contact [email protected] How much would you sacrifice to fight for what ‘I had been to Cambodia in 2006 as a tourist and became fascinated by the you believe in? Chris Kelly’s A Cambodian country. I was blown away by the warmth of the people but also aware of the Spring is a visceral and unique portrait of three very dark and violent history that was shaping modern life there. I was drawn to people caught up in the chaotic and often the ambiguity, and while there were many brilliant films and books on the Khmer violent development that is shaping modern day Rouge and Cambodian history, I felt at that time there was not much looking at Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts daily life, and so I decided to try and raise some funding to make a documentary the growing wave of land rights protests that led about land grabbing and forced evictions. I went to Cambodia in 2009 to find to the ‘Cambodian spring’ and the tragic events suitable participants for the film before we were to bring out a cinematographer that followed. This film is about the complexities and spend about three months filming the entire documentary. However, once I and costs both political and personal, of was there it became apparent that there was a much better way to understand fighting for what you believe in. this story, and that was to be there every day with the film subjects, to be able to document things as they unfolded in real time. As I spent more and more time there, months turned into years and then it was 2015 before I finally felt like we 34 had filmed everything we needed to.’ Christopher Kelly, director Cinema Versa 35 Cinema Versa Cinema English UK, USA 1hr 22min George Clark George Clark Challenger Tom Yorkshire 1hr 28min German, English Stephan Plank Reto Caduff, ZiskaReto Caduff, Stephan Plank, Riemann Plank, PaulMilena Fessmann, Stephan Zischler , Roman Schauerte Maxine Goedicke Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Country 2016 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Original Music Premiere Status Premiere CountryGermany 2017 Year Running Time Blu-ray Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Cinematographer Film Editor Sales Company Distrifest Contact [email protected] ‘He really was a pioneer and his untimely death at 47 in 1987 only added to and his untimely death at 47 in 1987 ‘He really was a pioneer I am verythe legend. As a filmmaker in these kind of influential much interested never got the credit they deservedpeople who somehow outside the cognoscenti. I contacted his son Stephan Plank,So out of my personal interest in the man on a film about his dad. I wishedwho told me that he was already working we meet and talk about a possiblehim the best of luck with it but he suggested met in Berlin and quickly found a lot of common ground so collaboration. We me, the idea of co-directing the To there was a connection beyond the music. approach the artistsfilm made a lot of sense since Stephan could whom he met than a regular documentaryas a kid in the studio (his home) differently director. Meeting the artistsMy hunch proved correct over and over again. brought the level and enabled us to paint a verymemories and stories to a complete different unique picture of this extraordinary artist behind the mixing desk.’ Reto Caduff, co-director culture and the ‘This is a that explores themes of myth, identity, Shot on 35mm film, it plays with movement and light construction of history. in deserts across Southern California. The landscapes are layered with a dialogue between explorers, revealing the negotiations between an archaeologist from Cairo with members of a tribe who guard ancient tombs lost in the desert. The scenario for the film was adapted from the 1969 Egyptian film A Night of / Al-Mummia directed by Shadi Abdel Salam, creating a Counting the Years layered story that echoes from ancient Egypt to the diversity of desert ecology Working in and recent archaeological digs for lost Hollywood film sets. Challenger a new choral collaboration with the musician and composer Tom composition was created and recorded for the film, drawing on traditional and modern acoustic techniques to reflect the shifting sands of the desert landscapes.’ George Clark, director A Distant Echo Beautifully shot on 35mm film in locations ranging from the Mojave Desert to Leeds Library, A Distant Echo plays with movement and light in deserts across Southern California, exploring culture and the construction myth, identity, The landscapes are layered with of history. a dialogue between explorers, revealing the negotiations between an archaeologist from Cairo with members of a tribe who guard ancient tombs lost in the desert. A Distant Echo features an original choral soundtrack composed Challenger and performed by the by Tom Presented in Choir. Male Voice Colne Valley partnership with Pavilion (pavilion.org.uk) Conny Plank was the producer who shapedConny Plank was the sound like no Germany’s the development of ambient, influencing other, thenew wave, hip-hop, house and techno in Devoprocess. Brian Eno, , Neu!, and Ultravox all worked with him; he famously turned not down in 1984 saying he could agework with . When Conny died at the of 47, his son Stephan was only 13. Twenty-five Stephan searches for his father’s years later, artistic account legacy and creates a wondrous insightfilled with archive footage and emotional into the life of this seminal sonic trailblazer. Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise Potential The Plank: Conny Cinema Versa DRIB Premiere Status English Country Norway Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 28min Format DCP Language English, Norwegian Director Kristoffer Borgli Screenwriter Kristoffer Borgli Producer Riina Spørring Zachariassen, Magne Cinema Versa Lyngner Leading Cast Amir Asgharnejad, Brett Gelman, Annie Hamilton Cinematographer Håvard Byrkjeland Film Editor Patrick Larsgaard Original Music Felicita Sales Company NFI Contact [email protected] Amir is a performance artist and stand-up ‘Media manipulation, rage profiteering and trolling felt like a niche interest at the who creates real characters and time of writing, but definitely has forced itself in to the mainstream the last year stories that unfold online in media real time. alone, so I would say the story is extremely relevant in today’s world. Information When his staged fight videos from the streets wants to be free, that’s why we have NDA’s. We ended up changing so much of go viral and hit international news factual information, from brand names to ‘sensitive’ information about people headlines in 2014, a Los Angeles based and places that I can’t differentiate between the facts and the any longer. advertising agency thinks it’s all real and spots To some extent the film tracks how something culturally new and different gets an opportunity to exploit Amir’s newfound absorbed, branded and turned in to commerce; and how fast that happens now. controversial fame. They want to make it part It’s not exclusive to advertising, TV networks, film studios or publishing houses of an edgy marketing campaign for an energy all search for the next cool thing. Elaborate pranking/trolling, like that of Orson drink, but Amir has his own plans. Amir plays Welles or Andy Kaufman, can be seen as a sort of revenge for that.’ Kristoffer himself in this reenactment of what happened in Borgli, director this delightfully warped on the absurdities of advertising in the 21st century. El Mar la Mar Premiere Status Northern Country USA Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 34min Format Digital Language English, Spanish Director Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki Producer Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki Cinematographer Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki Film Editor Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki

Contact [email protected] The first collaboration between film and sound ‘I think that we have particular biorhythms that a lot of our aesthetic experience is artist Bonnetta and filmmaker/anthropologist based upon: the building of tension, and then the release. A lot of our experience Sniadecki is a captivating and highly topical film of the world, both as biological beings and as aesthetic beings, comes from these in which the Sonoran Desert, among the deadliest particular biorhythms. So the film is playing with this development of tension: routes taken by those crossing from Mexico to whether it be a crescendo of sound leading to a hard cut that creates a vacuum, the , is depicted a place of dramatic or a particular kind of texture, or a unresolved note that pokes at you for awhile beauty and merciless danger. Haunting 16mm before it finds its resolution… I’m also really influenced by music, and by “loud images of the unforgiving landscape and the quiet loud”, if we can quote the Pixies—by that kind of punchy dynamic range human traces within it are supplemented with that came about from the late 80s and early 90s approach. And I think that’s true an intricate soundtrack of interwoven sounds across all of art making—first the development of a particular kind of tension, and oral testimonies. El Mar la Mar allows this then having that be counterpointed by a binary contrast like silence.’ Joshua symbolically fraught terrain to take shape in Bonnetta, director vivid sensory detail, and in doing so, suggests 36 new possibilities for the political documentary. Cinema Versa 37 Cinema Versa Cinema UK 1hr 27min Arabic, English, Hawaiian Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine Andreas Schaap, Benny Theisen Niclas Reed Middleton Marlene Assmann, Helmar Jungmann Sary Hany Magnet Film English Regan Brashear Regan Brashear Patricia Berne, Fernanda Jamais Cascio, Castelo Jamie LeJeune, Duncan Kenworthy, Petschek Florencia Marchetti, Bruce Josh Peterson Regan Brashear, Chris Brierley Premiere Status Country Germany 2016 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language Director Screenwriter Producer Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere CountryUSA 2013 Year 1hr Running Time Blu-ray Format English Language Director Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Contact [email protected] just happened to be in San Francisco on a weekend, and stumbled upon ain San Francisco on a weekend, and stumbled ‘I just happened to be just wandered inconference that was open to the public. I genetic engineering a key note address. I was giving Gregor Wolbring and lo and behold there’s and how these new technologies, forcaptivated by what he was talking about, give us the ability to run faster andexample these bionic legs, would one day jump higher than what a ‘normal do. I left thinking I wanted to listen body’ could He was talking about being invited to this NSF to more of what he had to say. for improving performance,sponsored conference around technologies where to think collectively about how canthey were bringing together these researchers application might the militarywe make more productive workers and what have That really rang a bell. I had studiedfor this – the idea of cyborg warriors, etc… it sounded kind of eerie that wea bit of eugenics in my undergrad work and It grabbed me, so I kept in touch with were doing this in the plain light of day. director Regan Brashear, Gregor.’ ‘The interest in the subject came more from an interest in the region, more precisely through a friend I met in Stuttgart who was born and raised in Gaza. He gave me an insight into Gaza from a verybeyond what different perspective, you see and read in the news. Most of us are painfully familiar with the ‘Gaza all seen the same shaky news clips ofWe’ve topic’ when it flares up in the news. the conflict, of bombed-out houses, of helicopter gunships, and masked fighters, told me more about what life was like between wars, My friend over and over. and it was refreshing to hear something other than ‘occupation’ and ‘terrorism’ I for a change. I started doing some reading and research. […] Eventually, stumbled upon an article about surfers that’s in Gaza and I immediately thought: but I was intrigued by had never heard of them either, My friend from Gaza new. Surfing is a sport that stands for personal freedom, whilethe powerful imagery. backdrop, and being one of the most isolated and in the stark contrast of Gaza’s desolated countries in the world.’ Philip Gnadt, director Gaza Surf Club This dazzling and heartfelt documentary takes surfing us into the world of the Gaza Strip’s enthusiasts, and reveals a formidable resilience pulsing within a beleaguered population. Away from the rubble left by a decade of airstrikes, the outlet of surfing provides young Palestinians with a new concept of freedom as they navigate 26-mile coastline. In a state where the territory’s surfing equipment is contraband, one young man dreams of crafting his own boards, while a teen girl resists strict cultural principles to follow her sporting passion. Presented in partnership with the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival. From botox to bionic limbs, the human bodyFrom botox to bionic But how much than ever. is more upgradeable still be human? What doof it can we alter and we gain or lose in the process? This award- winning documentary the social explores impact of human augmentation. Haunting and humorous, poignant and political, Fixed rethinks disability and normalcy by exploring bodiestechnologies that promise to change our The screening will be and minds forever. followed by a discussion lead by Stuart Murray from the University of Leeds Centre of Medical Humanities. Fixed The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement Human of Science/Fiction The Fixed Cinema Versa If I Think of Germany at Night Premiere Status Yorkshire Original Title Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht Country Germany Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 45min Format Blu-ray Language German Director Romuald Karmakar Producer Andro Steinborn Cinema Versa Leading Cast Ata, Roman Flügel, Sonja Moonear Cinematographer Frank Griebe, Dirk Lütter Film Editor Anne Fabini, Robert Thomann

Sales Company Stray Dogs Contact [email protected] Germany is arguably one of the greatest ‘People who know the DJs will have a certain perspective, but the film is also for producers of techno in the world and Romauld people who aren’t into this scene at all, and I want this group to be drawn in Karmakar’s documentary capitalises upon this by the language of the film. If it’s compelling as a cinematographic narration, pulsating history in his portrait of the Berghain’s an interest in the subject can follow. If you’re filming music with one camera, DJs, musicians and techno activists, taking a you have to find what I call the ‘magic moment’ – the right combination of light, deep and searching look at the German club music, perspective and so on. It doesn’t always work, of course, because there scene and its gradual emergence from the are so many variables. But if you get it right, you can understand the work of underground. The brightest talents from the the artist, and how it is being conveyed to the audience. If you show music and scene - including , Sonja you’re cutting between cameras all the time – which is how most people do it, Moonear, Ata, Move D and Roman Flügel because they think this other way is boring – then you’re maybe depicting an – tap into their broad horizon of experience overall image of something, but not the essence of it. Ricardo became famous from which they speak about themselves, their because he plays 20-minute tracks, which allow people to fall into the music. subculture and the importance of German It’s a rejection of the three-minute pop song, and more like a transcendental electronic music scene. experience.’ Romuald Karmakar, director It’s Not Yet Dark Premiere Status Yorkshire Country Ireland Year 2016 Running Time 1hr 21min Format DCP Language English Director Frankie Fenton Producer Kathryn Kennedy, Lesley McKimm Leading Cast Simon Fitzmaurice, Cinematographer Kate McCullough Film Editor Dermot Diskin Original Music Stephen Rennicks

Sales Company Wildcard Distribution Contact [email protected] In 2008, promising young Irish director Simon ‘Kathryn Kennedy, who was producing Simon’s film My Name Is Emily along Fitzmaurice was tragically diagnosed with with producer Lesley McKimm of Newgrange pictures, approached me about motor neurone disease (ALS). At just 34 years crowdfunding advice for their film. It was during the meeting we realised that I old, he was given four years to live. Reeling had actually grown up with Simon’s wife Ruth back in our home town of Ardee, from the shock, Fitzmaurice realized his greatest Co. Louth. They had an idea for making a documentary companion piece to defiance of ALS would be to direct his first show the world what Simon was aiming to achieve. […] I was actually in the feature film. Seven years later, despite total process of making another film about climate change. But Simon’s story was physical incapacitation, Fitzmaurice completed happening in the moment. The fact that I knew Ruth personally helped with that the film, directing it only with the use of his motivation. Simon really impressed me. I think he impresses anyone who meets eyes. It’s Not Yet Dark is Simon’s story, an him. Here was a man who had everything taken away except his spirit to fight emotional journey of personal triumph over for his right to life and his unbridled love for the people around him. Most of us life-crushing adversity, a world where every struggle to create anything at all with perfectly functioning bodies but here was physical and psychological challenge is met Simon, living down the road, in Greystones Co. Wicklow, excelling at it, with just 38 with positivity and the desire to fulfill a dream. the use of his eyes. It’s an incredible feat.’ Frankie Fenton, director Cinema Versa 39 Cinema Versa Cinema Yorkshire , Canada, USA France, Italy, 1hr 20min Royko Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Mila Aung-Thwin, Bob Moore Bernard Bigot, Alessandro Bonito-Oliva, Mark Henderson Royko Van Mila Aung-Thwin, Gilda Pourjabar Anderson Trevor Eye Steel Film English Kaisa Kuun metsän 1hr 22min French, English, GermanFinnish, Saami, Katja Gauriloff Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava FärmEnrique Méndez, Heikki Peltola Timo Peltola Timo Premiere Status Country 2017 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language English Director Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Original Title CountryFinland 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Producer Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Oktober Contact [email protected] ‘I am very any surprised at how few people, even educated people, have concept of what Fusion is. I was very the film, and happy that I was able to make happy with the timing. It seems like a turning point for ITER in its lifespan. When I first started the film, the organization was in crisis, possibly on the verge of collapse, they had a management problem with their last two director generals, and they were looking for a replacement. They had been criticized internally article. Confidence and that had leaked to the press to become a New Yorker And I showed up there on one of the verywas very first days they were low. having the debate in their conference room. They let me film it, and it made it Bernard Bigot, and he started to shift the large into the movie. Then they hired Dr. all of that, me, in the right direction. To organization, analogous to a supertanker, precarious in the United States, and with funding being what it is, that is to say, and with the current high-profile debate over Climate Change, I think this is the right timing.’ Mila Aung-Thwin, co-director ‘The original idea was to mix reality with fantasy, archive footage with fiction archive to mix reality with fantasy, ‘The original idea was we succeeded so well. Everythingand animation. I’m happy is based on Robert’s But I also family. Forest and the footage they shot with my texts from Enchanted onto the screen. I found this wanted to bring one original legend of Kaisha’s was crazy animate the legend To amazing genuine recordings from the 50’s. Kaisa oral heritage. Unfortunately, because the stories have always been only know if there is I don’t our family. was the last person to tell these stories in so respectful way, anyone left who can tell these legends. I tried to do it in a perception of the legend. Ithe animation is, of course, my own vision and why it’s as possible – that’s wanted this animation to be as close to ‘handicraft’ hand drawn by one artist.’ director Katja Gauriloff, In the south of France, scientists from thirty- seven countries are building the most complex machine ever attempted: an International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aka an artificial sun. If they get it right, it will illuminate the way to produce clean, cheap, abundant energy for millions of years. If they fail, it will be one of the biggest scientific failures of all time. This visually arresting documentary brings the potentialities of into the realm of the real, providing an exploration of fusion research and chronicling the endeavours of these passionate scientists who are struggling to make it all work. Let There Be Light A beautiful, heart-warming documentary fairytale based in the land of the Skolt Sámi combining Europeanpeople in Arctic Finland, history and classic storytelling in spellbinding fashion. Filmmaker Katja Gauriloff, a Lapland focuses her story native and Sámi tribe member, upon the friendship between Kaisa, her great- grandmother and RobertSwiss writer Crottet, a who lived among the tribe in the late 1930s. The resultant film is truly enchanting – the judicious mélange of delightful archive material with sublime animation creates an evocative celebration of a mystical and impish world. Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest Enchanted Kaisa’s Cinema Versa A Life in Waves: Suzanne Ciani Premiere Status English Country USA Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 14min Format Digital Language English Director Brett Whitcomb Producer Thomason, Brett Whitcomb Leading Cast Suzanne Ciani, Peter Baumann, Dorit Cinema Versa Chrysler Cinematographer Brett Whitcomb Film Editor Bradford Thomason

Sales Company Gunpowder & Sky Contact [email protected] Whether you know it or not, you’re familiar with ‘Suzanne has always controlled her ‘brand’ if you will. It’s her market. She never the work of Suzanne Ciani. Her accolades range gave up the rights to herself or her art to someone else, there was never an from ‘pioneering electronic musician’ to being inbetween person to get to. We met her in Austin, , because she wanted the first solo female composer to soundtrack to feel us out and see what kind of people we were. We met up and had lunch a Hollywood film. Ciani was an incredibly and instantly hit it off. Just the way she presented herself, her voice, the way talented artist, crafting lush, sensual, classically- she talked was almost like, the perfect documentary subject because she’s so influenced electronic music but she was also a confident and so sweet and warm. Once we learned she owned all her music savvy business woman, and funded her creative and she had a wealth of archive footage stored in an air conditioned storage unit endeavours with the production of sounds for that was under her apartment we were like... There’s no question now what our advertisements and products – from the famous film will be. We got all her archive footage sent off to a company, who converted Coca-Cola ‘pop and pour’ to pinball games it and sent to us, and we just started working away with it.’ Brett Whitcomb, galore. Brett Whitcomb’s intimate, reflective director portrait takes us through Suzanne’s career all to the tune of Ciani’s own compositions. Mountain Premiere Status Northern Country Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 14min Format DCP Language English Director Jennifer Peedom Screenwriter Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom Producer Jennifer Peedom, Jo-Anne McGowan Leading Cast Willem Dafoe Cinematographer Renan Ozturk Film Editor Christian Gazal, Scott Gray Original Music Richard Tognetti

UK Distributor Dogwoof Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom follows ’I’m obviously fascinated by mountains, for whatever reason - I grew up in her extraordinary Sherpa with a giant-screen Canberra, so really nowhere near mountains - but I have long been fascinated celebration of the allure of the mountains. by the extremes, pushing our limits and understanding our limits. I’ve had a Spectacular images, shot in 21 countries by certain amount of that in my own life, having done quite a lot of mountaineering, legendary mountaineer and cinematographer but I’m fascinated by people who push it much further and risk their lives to do Renan Ozturk (Meru, Sherpa) and others, have these things. But to them it’s kind of normal!’ Jennifer Peedom, director been cut together thematically to an orchestral score drawing on Chopin, Grieg, Vivaldi and ‘Watching the film, I really got the sense that even if I don’t share that particular Beethoven, and featuring new works by Richard thing about mountains, I do have that thing in my own way, and we all have it Tognetti. Written by best-selling author Robert in way. We want to lose ourself in an action, lose ourself in a greater Macfarlane, the film explores the troubled and thing, that’s a basic human impulse, but you see it so vividly in what those people triumphant history of our timeless fascination are doing.’ Willem Dafoe, narrator with mountains. ‘A sublime rush of adrenaline 40 and orchestral beauty’ () Cinema Versa 41 Cinema Versa Cinema English Columbia, USA 1hr 26min English, Spanish, Portuguese Mark Grieco Tammer Torus Richard Rasmussen, Fernando Trujillo Helkin Rene Diaz Dan Swietlik Strickland Tyler Paradigm Agency English Normální film autistický Czech Republic 1hr 30min Miroslav Janek Miroslav Janek Jan Macola Miroslav Janek Janková Tonicka Premiere Status Country 2017 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language Director Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Original Title Country 2016 Year Running Time Digital Format Czech Language Director Screenwriter Producer Cinematographer Film Editor Sales Company Taskovski Contact [email protected] ‘Miroslav Janek’s latest documentary it means to aims not to assess and define what ‘Miroslav Janek’s of those who are, but to immerse us in the lives and views be on the autistic spectrum the way they view so that the film becomes as much about shifting the perspective letting the […] Janek goes with the flow, the neurotypical as the other way around. and Ahmed, in the case of Marjamka children express their feelings, showing how, difference rather than trytheir family has adapted to embrace their to change it. order and destruction. As AhmedA sense of opposing urges arises – to create “it destroys but also sometimes builds”.puts it when talking about a thing he wants This turbulence is part for these kids but, while the challenges and parcel of life shows the benefits of such rich underplayed, Janek also it presents to them aren’t particularly where some of the children interesting to see segments It’s neurodiversity. and their reaction to it, which againwatch themselves talking to one another it from their inviting us to understand offers a valuable insight into their world view, perspective rather than tryto pick it apart Eye for Film from ours.’ Amber Wilkinson, ‘It was a hard film to edit. It was a really hard film to film. It was a really hard been starting I’m just now to get my legs talking about it. It’s film to show. You have on the difficult to understand what this is going to mean to audiences. one hand a character who is just an innate character in front of the camera. a Super charismatic. And our other character is the complete opposite. He’s consummate scientist, who just wants to go out there and do good work. And be more different in their personalities and the way they approach they couldn’t the work. But their goals are the same. And that is: to stop the dolphin and stop the extinction of certain species. So, of course, Fernando is conflicted and Richard is too. But Richard says something very powerful. He says, “Look, this the best thing I’ve ever done for wildlife protection in my It’s changed the law. is the thing. And it was a sacrifice. A sacrifice with This life. Forget my TV show. a purpose.”’ Mark Grieco, director A River Below A startling documentary which captures the Amazon in all its complexity as it examines the actions of environmental activists using the media in an age where truth is a relative term. The film follows a reality TV star and a renowned marine biologist as they each attempt to save the Amazon pink river dolphin from being hunted to extinction albeit using very gorgeous, sweeping different methods. With aerial views we gain perspective from above, but as the film plunges deep into the murky, tangled rivers, we uncover a shocking scandal that has no simple solution. What does it mean to be ‘autistic’? Do autisticWhat does it mean to they are neurodiverse inchildren suffer because neurotypicals? Miroslava world structured for Janek, the acclaimed Czech documentarist has a bold vision and challenges us once and for all to stop perceiving autism as a medical diagnosis and try to understand it often as a fascinating way of thinking that’s Janek maddeningly difficult to decipher. embarks on a series of encounters with children andand young adults diagnosed with autism we find ourselves questioning and ultimately re-defining the boundaries between ‘normality’ and ‘otherness’. Normal Autistic Film Autistic Normal Cinema Versa A Story of Sahel Sounds Premiere Status Yorkshire Country Germany Year 2016 Running Time 1hr 23min Format Digital Language English, French, Tamashek Director Tobias Adam, Florian Kläger, Markus Milcke Producer Tobias Adam, Florian Kläger, Markus Cinema Versa Milcke Leading Cast Christopher Kirkley, Mdou Moctar, Mamman Sani

Sales Company Magnet Film Contact [email protected] The story of Sahel Sounds celebrates the ‘There’s a quote in the film by one of the musicians, who says that the internet is not wonderfully talented range of music currently really stable, especially in the rural areas, therefore bluetooth is an easier way to emanating from Niger, a region that is often exchange data. And because a lot of music is happening in the countryside and (mis)represented as merely a ‘red-zone area’. remote places and not in studios in cities, people record a lot with their phones. The film follows Christopher Kirkley’s Sahel So people are depending on that, and use these devices to record and then Sounds project which comprises a blog, record share afterward. We have been in the capital city of Niger, Niamey, where there label and platform which explores the arts are MP3 markets. They have computers and you can bring your SD card and get and music of the Sahel region in Niger. We compilations of hundreds of songs. But what is very interesting about this MP3 follow Chris on his journey, bearing witness network, especially if you compare it with how it works ‘in the west’, is that the to stunning musical performances on the way music that circulates through bluetooth and MP3s in West Africa is not really focused as the spaces between ethnography and on the artist. A lot of these MP3s are anonymous. Sometimes it’s just a spectator who geography disappears to forge rich and vibrant records a performance, without knowing who is playing. It just says ‘Track 1’. And cultural experiences. that Track 1 may be an amazing recording, and starts circulating and becomes very popular but no one really knows who it is by.’ Tobias Adam, co-director Tracking Edith Premiere Status English Country Austria, Germany, UK, Russia Year 2016 Running Time 1hr 31min Format DCP Language English Director Peter Stephan Jungk Screenwriter Peter Stephan Jungk Producer Lillian Birnbaum Leading Cast Misha Donat, Duncan Forbes, Barbara Honigmann Cinematographer Jerzy Palacz Film Editor Bettina Mazakarini Original Music Rupert Huber

Sales Company Peartree Entertainment Contact [email protected] Edith Tudor-Hart was one of the most innovative ‘There is actually a book I’ve written about my great aunt - meaning that she and iconic photographers working in Britain was the cousin of my mother - and this book took me ten years to write. When during the 1930s and 1940s. Her naturalistic it was finished I thought ‘Wow, this story should also be a film’. So I made a style unsparingly depicted social issues of the documentary, telling the story of her life by interviewing those people who used day: poverty, slum housing, child welfare. Tudor- to know her, as well as a number of historians. And because we don’t have a Hart was also a Communist sympathiser and single second of her in movement, we decided to use animation. I hate those spy for the and was instrumental scenes in documentaries when actors reenact certain moments of a person’s life. in recruiting Kim Philby before becoming one It always makes me cringe. So for about six or seven minutes in the film, you of the architects of the Cambridge Five, the see Edith in action, in a sort of , black and white animated film. And Soviet Union’s most successful spy ring in Great I think it works! You can really feel the life of this woman who was not only a Britain. Directed by Tudor-Hart’s great nephew, photographer, but also a soviet agent.’ Peter Stephan Jungk Peter Jungk, Tracking Edith is an astounding story about a remarkable woman: a spy with a 42 conscience and an ever unravelling life of secrets. Cinema Versa 43 Cinema Versa Cinema 1hr 45min German, English Willi Monika Michael Glawogger, Boa, Monika Attila Michael Glawogger, Willi Thomas Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn Fiona Shaw Birgit Minichmayr, Attila Boa Monika Willi Mitterer Wolfgang Autlook Films CountryAustria 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] ‘I never really stopped working on the material, because after Michael died there working on the material, because after ‘I never really stopped it was necessaryof memorial events, and again and again were a whole series it means to be forced to I now know what in some way. to work with the material do something. It was very to that the material he’d filmed was too good apparent do I quickly came to the conclusion that I would only be able to be locked away. bear any other director taking his have been able to it myself, because I wouldn’t as stubbornnessplace. An attitude which was interpreted on my part. There were immediately obvious it certainlya number of names floating around, and wasn’t also other options, such as archiving thethat I would make this film. There were There were a lot of ideas and way. material and making it accessible in that Glawogger and the productionoptions. I made my interest clear to Andrea and they decided to trust me, which I veryappreciate.’ Monica much company, director Willi, After the sudden death of acclaimedAfter the sudden death documentary filmmaker Michael Glawogger collaboratorin April 2014, his longstanding realises a film out of and editor Monika Willi the footage Glawogger shot over the course Italy, of 4 months and 19 days in the Balkans, dreamlike Africa. Willi’s North and West compendium of his roving observations of ahuman labour and culture across more than dozen countries creates a poignant, cathartic and enthralling non-fiction film, one which is both a quintessential expression of Glawogger’s cinematic drive and an elegy to his restless spirit. Untitled To the Streets!

Cycologic Form Documentary Country Sweden, Uganda Year 2016 Running Time 15min Language English Director Emilia Stålhammar Screenwriter Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson, Elsa Lövdin Producer Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson, Elsa Lövdin Cinematographer Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson, Elsa Lövdin Contact [email protected]

Amanda Ngabirano has a vision for her home city of Kampala and it involves women and bikes. As a student in The Netherlands, Amanda discovered cycling and now she’s on a mission to change

Cinema Versa the views of the Ugandan population, who can’t envision how bicycle lanes would improve the city’s chaotic and dangerous roads. Green Screen Gringo Premiere Status Yorkshire Form Documentary Country Netherlands Year 2016 Running Time 16min Language Portugese Director Douwe Dijkstra Producer Douwe Dijkstra Cinematographer Douwe Dijkstra Editor Douwe Dijkstra Contact [email protected]

Douwe Dijkstra returns to LIFF with his trademark witty mixture of film and vfx, this time taking the outsider’s perspective on contemporary Brazilian street life. Filmed at various locations, with the obvious and hilarious use of ‘green screens’, the film mixes up fun and serious matters and invites us to reflect on how sources of knowledge and understanding are not always what they seem. Homeland Original Title Heimat Form Documentary Country Belgium Year 2016 Running Time 14min Language Dutch Director Sam Peeters Screenwriter Sam Peeters Producer Sam Peeters Cinematographer Silvian Hettich Editor Niels De Vos Contact [email protected]

White residents in spacious Flemish suburbs voice their concerns over immigration and their own safety. Candid portraits are combined with street shots of their environment, taken using traveling cameras. These fears of the Belgian middle classes build to shape a narrative of an increasingly bold right-wing populism in areas where people are shielded from the mix of cultures and lifestyles found in dense city districts. Joe Blaustein and the Flood of Florence Premiere Status European Form Documentary Country USA Year 2016 Running Time 14min Language English Director Alan Griswold Producer Silvia Gallini, Alan Griswold, Kim Soleau Cinematographer Alan Griswold Editor Kate Ryan Contact [email protected]

Artist Joe Blaustein was in Florence in November 1966 when the river Arno flooded the city. Waking up to find a devastating scene, he was compelled to go outside and discreetly document the events with his Rolleiflex camera. Very few colour photos of the event exist and when his astonishing pictures are to be exhibited for the first time, Joe, now aged 93, recalls the tragic days with great emotion. May Fifteenth in Paris Premiere Status International Original Title Le Quinze Mai à Paris Form Documentary Country France Year 2016 Running Time 10min Language French Director Janek Ambros Screenwriter Janek Ambros Producer Janek Ambros, Barbara De Fina Contact [email protected]

A Parisian narrates the story of his city on May 15, 1848, during a revolutionary phase in French history which helped to put an end to the monarchy and led to the creation of the French Second Republic. The voice is juxtaposed with street scenes from the same date in 2016, metaphorically comparing the earlier protesters with populist protest at the election of Donald Trump. MU Premiere Status UK Form Documentary Country Canada Year 2017 Running Time 13min Language English Director Janice Zolf Screenwriter Janice Zolf Producer Janice Zolf

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A hip art documentary filmed in the streets and studios of Montreal, where huge colourful murals are transforming the look and feel of the city’s public housing areas. The careful planning of each piece, and the research carried out by artists within the community beforehand, is done with the hope that new public art will be embraced and appreciated when it appears. 44

Fanomenon 47 Fanomenon movie mayhem. the Fanathons – welcome a new addition this year with a whole day of Japanese the Fanathons – welcome a new addition this year South Korea, , UK, and USA. Our hugely popular marathon film events – South Korea, Thailand, UK, and USA. Our hugely popular new films from Austria, Belgium, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Slovakia, , Norway, new films from Austria, Belgium, France, Iceland, Ireland, the year. Fanorama is our selection of the latest trends in fantasy filmmaking with the year. exciting, hilarious, mind-bending, shocking, and wild experiences of exciting, hilarious, mind-bending, shocking, and wild friend during LIFF. We have scanned the planet to identify the most bizarre, We friend during LIFF. everything Japanese, sci-fi, thriller and beyond – then Fanomenon is your best If you’re a fan of fantasy cinema in any of its forms – action, , horror, If you’re a fan of fantasy cinema in any of its forms – action, anime, horror, 48 Fanomenon get anace scorebyJonny Greenwood. Best Screenplay atCannesfilmfestival,wealso Best Actor(amesmerising JoaquinPhoenix)and deftly disorientating, violentthrills.Winner of this isLynne Ramsay’s in latesthighwatermark Webarnstormer NeedtoTalk AboutKevin, Callarand US-set Ratcatcher andMovern emotions. FollowingBritindieneo-classics paedophile ring,hemeetshisown untapped involves himinrescuingayoung girlfroma a lidonhowhefeels.Afteranassignment with him.Joeisahiredgunstrugglingtokeep frayed, fascinatingcharacterandstaysright A pulse-quickeningthrillerthathonesinona You Were NeverReallyHere:ClosingFilm apart. torn forced todotheunthinkablebeforehisfamilyis increasingly strangeandsinister, andStevenis integrate intothefamilyhisactionsbecome and twoteenagechildren.Astheboytriesto wifeAnna(NicoleKidman) to hischarming Keoghan). OvertimeStevenintroducesMartin (Barry friendship withoddballteenagerMartin successful surgeonwhodevelopsapaternal tragedy byEuripides.Steven(Farrell)isa tale ofguiltandretributionbasedonaGreek Lobster starColinFarrellinthisdarklycomic reunites directorYorgos LanthimoswithThe The eagerlyawaitedpsychologicalthriller The KillingofaSacredDeer:OpeningFilm Fanorama captured thespirit ofthemoment.’Lynne Ramsey, director was ahotsummer inNewYork – boiling,itwaslikeafeverdream, andwejust punk rock,“let’s organicway. justmove,let’s thinkinginavery goforward!”, It Bond film. littleprep,so itwasquite We onlyhad28daysofshootingand very It’sflawed man,sothescarsonhis bodyarequiteimportant. atotalanti-James a thinking abouthowJoeshould look –brutal,scarred,human.Thefilmisabout made thisfilm.Hecameearly toprep,heworkedhisbodyalot. We wereboth him, because he’s popular, very butIdon’t thinkanyotheractorcouldhave picture onthecomputer, timetoworkwith itwashim,alwayshim.Ihadashort made thecharacter, writingthescriptIhadJoaquin’s Joe.AssoonasIstarted only ten pageslong.It’s beenarealexperiencemakingthefilm,Joaquinreally butitwas andpowerful, short ‘I lovedthenovel[byJonathanAmes],itwasvery init.’Yorgosabout bychancethatchildrenplayakeypart Lanthimos,director and behaviour. pointwasmainlyjustafamily, Thestarting anditalmostcame I wantedtoexploreessentiallywerethesubjectsofjustice,choice,humannature , andIbelievedthat,wehadasmuchfuncouldonset.What Nicole [Kidman]likestosaythatIkeptontellingherduringshootingitwasa Webut notinitsconstituentparts. neverdealtwithittoomuchseriousness. It’sabout everything. truethatthematerialisbrutalifyoutakeitasawhole, dilemmas, andtheconceptofsacrificeraisesasignificantnumberquestions ingrained inWestern culture. Inlife,therearepeoplewhocomeupagainsthuge I thoughtitwouldbeinterestingtohaveadialoguewithsomethingthatisso there weresomeparallelswiththetragedyIphigeniainAulisbyEuripides,and writingthescriptandthinkingaboutstory,‘When westarted wediscovered UK Distributor Curzon Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status Yorgos Mavropsaridis Thimios Bakatakis Keoghan Colin Farrell,NicoleKidman,Barry Lowe Ed Guiney, ,Andrew Yorgos Lanthimos,EfthymisFilippou Yorgos Lanthimos 2hr 1min Ireland, UK Northern Studio Canal Thomas Townend Alessandro Nivola ,EkaterinaSamsonov, Ramsay, JamesWilson Rosa Attab,PascalCaucheteux,Lynne Lynne Ramsey 1hr 25min UK, France,USA Northern Fanomenon 49 Fanorama Yorkshire 1hr 20min Dominic Brunt Joanne Mitchell, Paul Shrimpton Karl Hall, Joanne Mitchell Kurtis Lowe, Andrew Dunn Geoff Boyle David Mercer Thomas Ragsdale AMP Film English Austria, Switzerland, 1hr 35min Greg Zglinski Jörg Kalt, Greg Zglinski Katrin Renz Stefan Jäger, Philipp Hochmair, Birgit Minichmayr, Mona Petri Piotr Jaxa Karina Ressler Bartosz Chajdecki Be For Films Premiere Status Country UK 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Tiere Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time Blu-ray Format GermanLanguage Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] ‘When I read the , I had this feeling that I had touched upon a mystery I had this feeling that I had ‘When I read the screenplay, was my first thought, and the storyof life and death. That excited me. I have my shortto dreamlike situations in movies, even in always been drawn films basically returningthat I made before film school. So I am to my film roots with for events to come. For me, animalsAnimals. The titular animals are catalysts the unreal – they function a littleare creatures teetering between the real and and they represent a sort our of between bit outside of human reality, senses, and the outer world, the widerexistence, which we experience with our is just one other thing I wanted toworld waiting to be discovered. And that own logic, and the storyexplore, that wider world. The film has its structure is rely on my intuition – sometimes I hadbuilt up outside of common logic. I had to this.” And that may be the trickiest part like to like this because it’s “It’s to say, do.’ Greg Zglinski, director my interests lay with European and ‘Although I’ve always loved a good horror, how Before Dawn came about. My British independent cinema. And that’s husband Dominic [Brunt, director] and I were discussing what made a good zombie film. I decided that I would like to amalgamate my interests, so that there was a real character drama but set within the horror genre. […] For Attack of the Adult Babies, I wanted to find a different kind of from our previous film. the fantastically juxtaposed went to a different human extreme, and used We images of the adult baby mixed with the beauty of a grand stately home and the horror that goes on within it.[…] The horror genre is specifically built to support skills because a great place to hone one’s risk-taking and boundary pushing. It’s there are no boundaries, you can use your imagination to its full capacity and watch a lot of take things to their worst case scenario. And horror fans, generally, films and are therefore very fiercely loyal openminded in their viewing, and are Joanne Mitchell Brunt, screenwriter towards the genre and its history.’ Spook Train 1 & 2 (Lee Hardcastle, UK, Spook Train Attack of the Adult Babies + Spook Train 1&2 Babies + Spook Train Attack of the Adult When a sister and brother break into a stately home to steal a classified document they stumble into a bizarre ritual involving some of the most influential men. Pursued by thesecountry’s adult babies things get even weirder when the pair discover something horrific in the cellar. third feature film is a no-holds Dominic Brunt’s barred descent into depravity combined with a A satirical look at very British sense of humour. that white male elite over-privileged the wealthy, runs the country there is a very relevant message at the heart of this future cult classic. Screening with 2017, 10min, contact: [email protected]) While driving to Lausanne for a long AlpineWhile driving to Lausanne couple Nick and Viennese bourgeois getaway, after they hit a sheep.Anna have an accident thingsFollowing this (maybe even prior to this) start to turn strange, very strange. Maybe it’s all a dream or they are inside someone else’s instead dream, maybe they’ve reached Vienna of Lausanne, or perhaps Nick is having an espresso-dark ‘Director Greg Zglinski’s affair... humour and icy formal to precision may nod and , such experts as but Animals gleefully cultivates its very own kind of crazy in this unhinged adult .’ (Variety) Animals 50 Fanomenon looking good forourWelsh heroes. operationtothemixand it’ssurveillance not yellow raincoats. AddashadyAmerican wearingbright humans; inthis case, fishermen create doppelgangersofpreviously abducted attack fromabandofmalevolent alienswho crew ofdrunkenguestsfindthemselves under intergalactic invasion.Steveand hismotley community woulddealwithacatastrophic peoplelivinginarural explores howordinary cheesy LondonDJSteveDennis,Canaries Year’s hostedbylocal-boy-turned- Eveparty Cwmtwrch duringaspectacularlyawfulNew Set intheSouthWales villageofLower Canaries corrupt schoolsystem.’(Variety) insight intoThailand’s classinequalitiesand to beatthesystem.‘Offerssubtleyetstinging dad formoney, Lynn devisesaningenious plan the schoolhasexploitedherstrugglingsingle to payforsimilarhelp.Disillusionedbytheway there isagaggleofcashed-upstudentsoffering blabs toherrichkidboyfriendPatandsoon help herBFFGraceliftgrades,but Straight-A studentLynn tocheating resorts won multipleaudienceprizesatfilmfestivals. teenthrillerthathas entertaining is avery scandals, ThaiboxofficesmashBadGenius Inspired byaseriesofreal-lifeexamcheating Fanorama producer Dominique Dauwe.’PeterStray, director funding bodies, andourminusculebudgetwas raisedbyouramazingexecutive brainer. wascommunity based;wereceivedzerohelpfromany Oursupport the people ofLowerCwmtwrch,soshootingtherewasano and particularly beautiful ideasandimprovisations tothetable.TheWelsh aresosupportive, elements aregoingtocomeout regardless!Ourterrificactorsbroughtsome be funny, but I thinkifyouhavedrunkenWelsh peoplefightingaliens,comedic Thefilmwasalwaysintendedto then enjoythemeitherdiehorribly orsurvive! create funandcompellingcharacters.Lettheaudiencegetto knowthem,and it. IhavealwaysbeenfascinatedbyUFOsandaliens,also wantedto around landscape. SoIwasworkingfromanimage,andthentailoring astory ‘I hadadreamonenightofmanypeopleinyellowmacsagainst astarkvalley Nattawut Poonpiriya,director watch allmylife.IwantedtocombinethatwithperspectiveonThaiculture.’ This movieformeislikealovelettertotheHollywoodspymoviesthatIused and wecansharewitheverybody. So,thisisgoingtobethefirststep,maybe. thatwecantalkabout or ghoststories.Therearelotofissuesinourcountry are alotofdimensionsinThaisocietythatwecantalkaboutbesideslovestories, They gavemoredimensionstothecharactersanddepth.[…]Ithinkthere TheybroughtthecharacterstolifewaybetterthanIhadwanted. these parts. for answers. Itwasatrueincident. [...]Theseactorsandactresseswereborn inanearliertimezoneandsendbackthe were goingtoflyanothercountry told meaboutthenewsofsomestudentswhocheatedSAT exams;howthey ‘The mainideacamefromtheproduceratmyoffice.Heisonewhofirst Contact [email protected] Sales Company Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Thai Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Thailand Country Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 UK Country GDH 559 Chanon Santinatornkul Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying,Eisaya Techasupinan, Weerachai Yaikwawong Chenchonnee Soonthonsaratul,Suwimon Jira Maligool,Vanridee Pongsittisak, Piyaromna, NattawutPoonpiriya Tanida Hantaweewatana,Vasudhorn Nattawut Poonpiriya 2hr 10min Northern Devil Works Marengast Anthony Arkin Alex Nevill Pugh,HannahDaniel,AledPugh Robert Thompson, CraigRussell Steve Dunayer, AlexandraLondon- Peter Stray Peter Stray 1hr 24min Fanomenon 51 Fanorama Northern UK, USA 1hr 50min Simon Rumley Simon Rumley Bob Portal, Simon Rumley Eric Balfour Ethan Embry, Amanda Fuller, Milton Kam Sainty Tom Richard Chester AMP Films Yorkshire 1hr 20min Bill Watterson Steven Sears, Bill Watterson John Chuldenko Kumbhani,Nick Thune, Meera Rohit Adam Busch Jon Boal David Egan Mondo Boys Screen Media Premiere Status Country 2016 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere CountryUSA 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format English Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] ’Steven Sears, my co-writer, was working on a script called Operation Death was working on ’Steven Sears, my co-writer, He was miserable and hated everything about in reality TV. Maze while working title I told him the storyit. And because of the from my childhood when I had built fort out of pillows and blankets and sheets, a fully encompassing this AWESOME was so cool. Afterwards,world that covered my entire bedroom. It I split for my I’m gonna be for dinner and left a note for my mom: “Hey, house friend Richard’s see that note. 7:00.” But she didn’t I’ll be back at dinner. house for at Richard’s upstairs, opens the bedroom get a response, goes She called me name, didn’t it! She and freaks out. She was afraid that somehow I had got lost in door, started screaming and ripping the fort three days apart looking for me. Within a ton of the set he had a 60-65 page draft that had of telling Steven that story, origami, the giant keyboard that turnspieces in the final film: the mouth burping Watterson, director Bill into a giant piano, the hired film crew...’ evolution was very much a response to when I went back to Austin ‘Fashionista’s in 2014 for a few days after spending a time there in 2009 and 2010 and noticing how much it had changed. Like most interesting places in the Western more sky rise flats, become gentrified; there’s over the last 5 years, it’s World more traffic, more upmarket restaurants and less locals. And, like most places an erosion of some of the things that made which have been gentrified, there’s it exciting in the first place. The whole vintage shop phenomena was such a massive part of the Austin that I knew in 2009 and although there are still a lot definitely less – even the one we shot in had to relocate of these shops, there’s obsession with literally two weeks after we shot there…So the lead character’s clothes in the film and her transition from vintage mash-up to designer clothes is probably not something that could believably happen in many places; I’m not sure Fashionista could have been set anywhere else in that case…’ Simon director Rumley, Fashionista Obsessed by fashion, April runs a secondhand with her long clothes boutique in Austin, Texas term partner Eric. As their relationship starts to break down, April begins to use clothes as an emotional crutch until she meets Randall, an enigmatic stranger who seems to share her love of couture. Seduced by his charisma April finds herself mixed up in a shadowy world of domination and psychological abuse from which she may not be able to escape. LIFF regular Simon Rumley (Red, White and returns Last Word) Blue, Johnny Frank Garrett’s with a thought-provoking style psychological drama. When his girlfriend Annie goes away on aWhen his girlfriend Annie Dave is given onetrip, slacker twentysomething job - fix door handle. Instead he decides to build a labyrinth out of cardboard boxes in the living room. But this is no ordinary itsmaze; the labyrinth has taken on a life of own and now Dave is trapped inside. Armed friends with supplies, accompanied by Dave’s Annie enters the and a documentary film crew, boobytraps labyrinth on a rescue mission. With at every turn on the loose, and a minotaur notescaping from a cardboard box maze may be as simple as they first thought. Dave Made a Maze Made Dave 52 Fanomenon planned oncrossing untilnow. his ownboundaries, noneofwhichhehad consequences that compelsAdamtoquestion triggersanavalancheof one ofthetransports and anewproduct:narcotics. The failureof is threatenedbythenewly-secured border The peacefulco-existenceofthese twoworlds cigarettes acrosstheSlovak-Ukrainian border. also theprincipledbossofagang smuggling Krajňák istheheadofalargefamilyand cousin toTheSopranos’(ScreenDaily).Adam crimethrillerhailedasthe‘spiritual entertaining Slovakia’s totheAcademyAwards entry isan The Line Michael tosharewiththem. dark secret,asharedaddictionthattheywant is irresistiblydrawnto.Hisnewfamilyhavea a twilightworldthathedoesn’t understandbut flashbacks andfeelshimselfbeingsuckedinto punters, Michaelexperiencesblood-drenched witnessing theviolentdeathofone in ’s Quarter. Northern After her uncleIan,whorunsamassageparlour Job Centre,lonerMichaelisintroducedto Following achancemeetingwithLeeatthe Habit +Doorways Fanorama necessarily mean itisKusturica.’PeterBebjak, director withpeopledrinking, fightingandplayingan accordion,itdoesnot have astory the workstheymade, Kusturicaincluded,Iwant tomakemyfilmsway. Ifyou whose worksIlikeand movies trainedme,inasense.ButwhileIadmire Juraj Jakubisko,EloHavettaand DušanHanák;theyaretheSlovakiandirectors this event.[…]IlikeEmirKusturica’s olderfilms,althoughIalsolikemoviesby topreparethemselvesfor sealed,and theyweretrying was nothermetically their habits,localcharacteristics, andallofthisisatatimewhentheborder aesthetics. We aretalkingaboutthelifeofacommunity livingontheborder, authentic environment,whichconsequentlyinfluencesthevisuals andthefilm’s The Lineisbasedontheirstories,fates.We capturethosestoriesinan suspense. Becausethelocationitselfandpeoplelivingthere providethem. and ‘The Linehasthreeplanes:ethnographic,historical,andastrong story talealsosetinManchester’s [email protected]), acautionary Northern (VortreScreening withDoorways Williams, UK,2017,10min,contact:eddie. on character, atmosphereandmood.’SimeonHalligan,director an elusivefeelingcapturedsowellin[StephenMcGeagh’s] book whichfocuses with. Habitshouldleavetheaudiencethinking“Whathelljusthappened?”It’s disturbing lurkingbehindsomethingthatis,well,prettyseedyanduglytobegin the novel,filmhasalow-keyfeel,offeringfleetingglimpsesofsomethingreally bohemian coffeeshopexteriorliesalayerofgrotandsleaze,inthebestway. Like alleys andsidestreets,almostlikeNewYork inplaces.Beneaththetrendybarand Quarter, area oftheNorthern anareathatisarchitecturallyinterestingwithgreat District Garment backdrop. Muchofthefilmtakesplaceatnightwithinformer gritty, dark,realworldstuffthatusestheseedyunderbellyofManchestercityasits byAbel Ferrara,thisis inserts Ken Loachwhoshotahorrormoviewithgory ‘Habit isstarkandgrimy. Luridandugly, withflashesofgaudysurrealism.Like Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 UK Country Original Title Premiere Status Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Č Not ANumber Claude Foisy Chris Gill James Swift William Ash,RoxannePallett Elliot JamesLangridge,JessicaBarden, Nick Leese,RachelRichardson-Jones Simeon Halligan Simeon Halligan 1hr 30min UK Film Republic Slavomir Solovic Marek Kralovsky Ziaran Martin Fialová Géza Benkõ,StanislavBoklan,Zuzana Wanda AdamikHrycova Peter Balko Peter Bebjak Slovak, Ukrainian 1hr 48min Slovakia, Ukraine iara Fanomenon 53 Fanorama Yorkshire 1hr 51min Erlingur Thoroddsen Erlingur Thoroddsen Bui Baldvinsson, Baldvin Kári, Erlingur Thoroddsen Björn Stefánsson, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson Carey John Wakayama Erlingur Thoroddsen Tryggvason Einar Sv. Blue Fox Entertainment Northern South Korea 1hr 40min Jung Huh Jung Huh Kim Eui-Sung Hyuk-kwon Park Jin Heo, Jun Hyeok Lee, Kim Il-Yeon Arrow Films Premiere Status Original Title Rökkur Country Iceland 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Icelandic Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Jang-san-beom Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Korean Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer UK Distributor ‘[My previous film] Hide and Seek began with an existing urban legend and Hide and Seek began with an existing urban ‘[My previous film] I of the storyasked myself what aspects me and then focused on how to scared apply the story I learned to the film. But making the film, that sound production was very and I tried to find a subject matter to maximize it. much enjoyable attention to the The Mimic legend. What if you heard a what drew my That’s seemingly ordinary but you realized it in fact belonged to someone? It sound was the kind of storyI wanted to develop in The Mimic. So the approach that and Seek was a legend and I wanted itwas quite different in the two films. Hide scaryto develop into the next level by people adding elements to it, just like any it to be I had a different hope for The Mimic. I wanted urban legend, you know. be a scarymany different things to many different people; story for some, and be a sad story to generate many different responses from this for others. I wanted Jung Huh, director archetypal story.’ were the two films Weekend Persona and [Andrew Haigh’s] ‘[’s] kind of funny that were on my mind during the whole process of making Rift. That’s in retrospect because, even though they very of ‘Two loosely share a framework be furthercharacters interacting in one specific setting,’ those movies couldn’t has Persona is very formalistic and stylized, whereas Weekend apart stylistically. a relaxed, almost improvisational feel to it. But I was veryin seeing if interested but I could merge those two aspects—using my visuals in a very formalistic way, letting my actors be free to roam around within that formal space, if that makes any sense. […] The long monologues from Persona empowered me to try something and obviously the dreamy/mystery believe aspect. As for Hitchcock, I don’t similar, even though I probably was by I was necessarily thinking of him specifically, association. I’m a huge fan, and I think I had a lot more of De Palma on my mind when staging some of the scarier sequences. But I can totally see where some elements would feel Hitchcockian.’ Erlingur Thoroddsen, director Rift Months after their break up, Gunnar receives a strange late night phone call from his ex- Concerned for his wellbeing boyfriend, Einar. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin in a remote part of Iceland where Einar is staying. In this isolated wilderness the two men try to come to terms with their broken relationship, dredging up painful memories and ghosts of the past. Meanwhile, outside the cabin an unseen presence seems to be lurking, creating a sense of foreboding and unease. The stunningly bleak Icelandic landscapes are the perfect backdrop themes of , lost love and for Rift’s betrayal. Traumatised by the disappearance of her by the disappearance Traumatised moves to a new houseyoung son, Hee-yeon in the countryside with her husband, daughter While out walking in and elderly sick mother. the woods they discover a lost little girl near no sign of a mysterious walled-up room. With homeher parents, Hee-yeon takes the mute girl while she contacts the authorities. Her arrival triggers the start of seemingly supernatural events and the girl begins to mimic the voice Have they unwittingly daughter. of Hee-yeon’s that an evil spirit unleashed a Jangsan Tiger, closemimics human voices to lure their victims before killing them? The Mimic The 54 Fanomenon a humanboynamed Kuncomestoherrescue. longed toexplore. Whenshefallsintodanger, and entersthehumanworldshe hasalways ofacoming-of-ageritual into adolphinaspart beings, ayounggirlnamedChun, transforms the changingofseasons.One ofthese celestial beingsareinchargeof thetideand myths. Inahiddenworldwithin ourworld, crafted animatedadventureinspiredbyChinese & Begoniaisabreathtakingandbeautifully- hit onitsreleaseinChinalastyear, BigFish In developmentforoveradecadeandhuge &Begonia realise timetravelisnotthatsimple... remote brokeandcooldownagain,butthey machine. Nowtheycangobacktobeforethe new additiontotheirclubhouse:aworkingtime mysterious student,theydiscoveranincredible The nextday, afteranencounterwitha they’re forcedtofacethefullheatofsummer. the lastairconremoteisaccidentallybroken, clubhouse withtheairconblasting.When Club, summermeanshangingaroundinthe in Japan.To members ofthecollegeSciFi travel comedyfrom2005isacultfavourite This delightful,freewheelingandzanytime Summer TimeMachineBlues Fanorama /Fanathons:AnimationSunday and motifs.’Peter Debruge,Variety hind legs-whileweavinganepic talethat’s bylocalmyths uniquelyinformed walkontheir tentacled creatureferriesagirl acrossaseaofclouds,felineporters whales swimthroughtheskies,a alone-aprocessionofenormous imagery 3D presentation,BigFish&Begonia commandsaweonthestrengthofits hand-drawn project,thenthoroughly enhancedbyCGtouchesandanimmersive breathtaking fantasyadventure standsalone.Renderedtolooklikeatraditional Ghibli’s SpiritedAway), goes,thisboldand butasfartheChinese industry core, thefilmcouldbeacrossbetweenDisney’s andStudio TheLittleMermaid Begonia. Certainly, (atits precedentsexist inAmericanandJapanesecartoons & ofChinese animation,therehasneverbeenafilmlikeBigFish ‘In thehistory well.’ AdamCampbell,MidnightEye sci-fi farceaswellahumorousbureaucraticpolicedrama,thatistosay, rather just dirtier. […]Motohirohasdemonstratedherethathecannavigateateen says thetownhasn’t changedmuchandthesci-ficlubroomisexactlysame, out!). Therealisticideaofthenearfuturebeingunexcitingisalsoshown,asAkira 1950s seemtobebackinfashion(althoughformepersonallytheyneverwent nature oftimeisamusinglyshownintheclothes2030,wherestyles time, especiallywithregardstoAkira,thevisitorfromfuture.Thecyclical time travelfilmscause.Motohiroalsomanagestotouchondifferentaspectsof thehugeshovesthatprotagonistsinHollywood in timewouldhave,nevermind small plan.Thefilmmakersexplorethewealthofbigproblemssuchatinynudge ‘Summer Time MachineBlueshas asmallscaleandtheboyshavecharmingly Contact [email protected] Sales Company Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Japanese Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 2005 Japan Country Original Title UK Distributor Animatsu Original Music Film Editor Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Mandarin Format DCP Running Time Year 2016 Country Original Title Premiere Status Pony Canyon Takuya Taguchi Kazunari Kawagoe Eita, Yoshiaki Yoza, DaijiroKawaoka Chikahiro Ando Makoto Ueda Katsuyuki Motohiro 1hr 47min Samâ taimumashinburûsu Kiyoshi Yoshida Yiran Tu Guanlin Ji,GuangtaoJiang Jie Chen Xuan Liang Xuan Liang,ChunZhang 1hr 45min Da Yu HaiTang Northern Fanomenon 55 Anime Ltd Northern 1hr 47min Masaaki Yuasa , Science Saru Shin’ichi Shôta Shimoda, Kanon Tani, Shinohara Muramatsu Takatsugu Northern Canada Ireland, Luxembourg, 1hr 34min Nora Twomey Ellis Anita Doron, Deborah Leo, Tomm , Anthony Paul Young Moore, Andrew Rosen, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif Saara Chaudry, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna Studio Canal UK Distributor Premiere Status Country Japan 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Japanese Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Original Music Premiere Status Premiere Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format English Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Original Music UK Distributor Fanathons: Animation Sunday Animation Fanathons: ‘We always wanted to make something that’s very ‘inviting-looking.’ Something something that’s always wanted to make ‘We to work too hard to feel a part have of. Becausethat the audience doesn’t a little girl growing up in a time of about challenging; it’s the subject matter is we wanted to kind of sugar the pill in a way that hard enough. So conflict - that’s sense of the breadth of Kabul, andmade it feel beautiful, and that you had a the things I have in common with thethe beauty of the place. […] I had to find thingsWe found out all these characters that I’m tryingto show in the film. […] that Afghan children have forfrom the consultants, like the sense of responsibility these more than in an individualist kind of culture. All of their friends and family, things were very and to try new to me, and find a story in that, that I can relate to, or trying universal as I can, was a challenge.’ Nora Twomey, to make it as director ‘Before you realize it, you end up trying of those to match the expectations it feels like if you stray from the norm, or end up on a path around you. Recently, outsiders will pitch in with things like “the experts say everyone thinks is risky, no way you can do it,” “come back,” or “change your ways.” You this, so there’s try to take a step forward, legs and stopping you. The but they’re pulling at your trapped by this kind mermaid Lu shows up and opens the heart of this boy who’s “I can do it,” you probably can accomplish of curse. I believe that if you say, a scene ups and downs. In the movie, there’s to say there aren’t it. Which isn’t where he learns how to swim. People are strange creatures in that if they think, if they think, “I’m going to sink,” their body stiffens up and they sink. However, strange, but also understandable. “I’m going to float,” they relax and float up. It’s worry if you don’t too much and let yourself naturally deal with go further, To whatever obstacles, you’ll get to where you’re going before you know it.’ director Masaaki Yuasa, From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa comes a hallucinogenic yet family-friendly take on the classic fairy tale of the little mermaid who falls in love with mankind, and then comes ashore to join a dysfunctional middle school rock band and propel them to fame. New kid Kai is talented but adrift, spending his days sulking and isolated in a small fishing village When he after his family moves from Tokyo. demonstrates a proficiency at making music on invite him to join his classmates his synthesizer, their nascent garage band, but their practice sessions soon bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid. This moving animation is set in dusty Kabul,This moving animation in the stress ofwhere imagination thrives conflict. Parvana girl is a dutiful 11-year-old whose skills in reading, writing and trading Her family goods are tolerated by the Taliban. to help them amidst the relies on Parvana’s and her responsibility increases ongoing war, once her poor parents are targeted by the escape from the religious police. Parvana’s stress is through her exquisite storytelling, her thestories of an ancient quest are a balm for souls of her downtrodden . The Breadwinner The 56 Fanomenon Perfect Blue Perfect Batman: GothamKnight. worked onMindGame,, and Japinese animatorShoujirouNishimiwhohas bestselling comicbook.Theotherco-directoris of co-directorGuillaume‘Run’Renard’s thrilling effectinthisaction-packedadaptation Hip-hop, anime,andcosmichorrorcollideto organizationbentonworlddomination. agents, monstrousshape-shifters,andasinister his friendsareontherunfromgun-totingfederal the urbanjunglewherehelives.Soon,and thingslurkinginthealleywaysof otherworldly boy namedAngelinobeginsseeingstrange, After anastyscooteraccident,pizzadelivery Fanathons: AnimationSunday paranoia. thrown intoastate ofconfusion,madnessand with alltheevidence pointingtoher, Mimais updead involved inDouble Blindbeginturning her.worry Whenastalkerappearsandpeople ‘Mima’s Room’writtenbyafake Mimabeginto career changeandastrangewebsite called role. However, thebacklashfromfansoverher the showasarapevictim,Mima acceptsthe Double Blind.Whenoffereda lead rolein as anactressonacrimedramashowcalled of J-popbehindher, MimaKirigoebeginslife year.its 20thanniversary Leavingtheworld Satoshi Kon’s acclaimedanimeisscreeningin an idol, the film came to talk about that particular world.’Satoshi Kon,director an idol,thefilm cametotalkaboutthatparticular that. That’s what Iwantedtodescribe.Butbecause Ihadtostickwiththeidea of as amaturebeingresult of set ofvaluesgets shattered,butwhoisreborn show theprocessofayounggirl maturing,becomingconfusedbecauseherold worldwasnevermyintention.Isimplywantedto secrets abouttheentertainment see thekindofexamplethatis used inthefilm.Also,torevealbehind-the-scenes before makingthefilmandIvisited anumberoftheseidolevents,butIdidn’t ‘stalker’. […]Thefilmisnotbased onanycriticism.OfcourseIdidresearch ‘idol’,‘horror’,and accepted. Theywantedtokeep threeelementsofthestory: you acceptthatImakechangestoit,willdoit.’Theywereokay withthat,soI ‘If youwanttostickwiththisscreenplay, Idon’t wanttodirect thisfilm.Butif interestingatall.SoIsaid: never readthenovel,butIdidn’t findhisscriptvery ‘The screenplay[theproducers]hadwaswrittenbytheauthor ofthenovel.I a kind of great popcultureshaker.’ GuillaumeRenard,director this combinationisabitliketheproject’s DNA.Somewhere,Mutafukazis timeless; sci-fi ofthe50s,LuchaLibre,filmnoir, andgangculture.Theresultissurprisingly who moveswiththetimes.SoInaturallymixedallmyinfluencesinwork: its magnificentlightingandallthoseshadyguysinfedoras.ButI’malsoaguy cars.Thesamegoesforphones.Ialsolovefilmnoir,compared tomodern with vintage;inmyeyes,nothingismorebeautifulthanaclassiccar,everything when because graphically, quickly. itagesvery Moreover, Ihaveanaturalpenchantfor the Mutafukazcomics,Ialreadyknewthatdidn’t wanttoinvolvetechnology, events.[...]WhenIstarted aboutloserpalsfacedwithextraordinary case, astory youwanttotell;inthis must stayasclosepossibletothebackboneofstory the maincharacters,andthat’s ratheragoodthing.In1hr 30minlongfilm,you of tomakedecisions,refocusonthestory rereading ofthem.Itwasnecessary ‘The filmadaptstheentirenarrativearcofcomics;it’s actually aloose Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language French Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Country Premiere Status UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Japanese Format DCP Running Time Year 1997 Japan Country Original Title Pascale Ramonda The Toxic Avenger Ivy Buirette,Marie-LaureVanglabeke Redouanne Harjane Aurélien Cotentin,GuillaumeTranchant, Ankama, AnthonyRoux,Studio4°C Guillaume Renard Shoujirou Nishimi,GuillaumeRenard 1hr 30min France, Japan Northern Anime Ltd. Masahiro Ikumi Harutoshi Ogata Hisao Shirai Junko Iwao,RicaMatsumoto Hiroaki Inoue,MasaoMaruyama Sadayuki Murai Satoshi Kon 1hr 21min Pafekuto buru Fanomenon 57 UK JoJo no kimyô na bôken: Daiyamondo wa kudakenai - dai-isshô 1hr 59min Miike Takashi Itaru Era Shimatani Misako Saka, Yoshishige Kamiki, Nana Komatsu, Ryûnosuke Northern Mugen no jûnin UK, Japan 2hr 20min Miike Takashi Oishi Saka, Jeremy Shigeji Maeda, Misako Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Takuya Nobuyasu Kita Kenji Yamashita Kôji Endô Arrow Films Premiere Status Original Title Country Japan 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Japanese Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Mackenyu Sales Company TBS Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Director Screenwriter Producer Thomas Leading Cast Fukushi Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor ‘Takuya Kimura and Manji are like each other. Here I see something meant to Here are like each other. Kimura and Manji ‘Takuya be. They are born breathe the entirely different times and spaces, but they in Kimura When you meet Takuya and as a result I think they’re linked. same air, Kimura would strength, Takuya that and Manji, you feel their strength. Without and Manji could never have greatest superstar, never have become Japan’s one knows about. Because it was such lived as he does in a dark world that no Takuya Kimura.[…] Surely if we’re I filmed it sensing the real an unusual story, astonish the world. I believe that, and I serious we can make something that will want to believe that. Before we can entertain an audience, we have to entertain have to do what we want to do in the way we want to do it. ourselves. We in should result in a Japanese storySomething that we’ve totally lost ourselves make it, and be something with a value made in the way that only Japanese can Miike, never seen before.’ Takashi for audiences all over the world that they’ve director really have the chance to read manga series in the way ‘As an adult you don’t you can when you are a child. But while I was travelling around and working, I would always find the manga of JoJo wherever I went, and became quite familiar with it. […] I decided to shoot part of the film in Sitges [Spain] and partof it in Japan. At first it seemed almost impossible, because I needed to use a local crew, speak Japanese. Budget-wise it was also a really big project. The title who didn’t Bizarre Adventure, and as a filmmaker I also found myself of the film is Jojo’s Smaller productions are obviously and my crew on a bizarre adventure together. more fun. Big budget more challenging, but I have much more freedom, so it’s films can take a couple of months to shoot, so I have to really pace myself, to mind also why I don’t burn out from working too hard. But that’s ensure I don’t if not many people get to see my smaller films, because I had that freedom and Miike, director fun.’ Takashi Fanathons: Manga Movie Marathon Movie Manga Fanathons: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter Bizarre Adventure: JoJo’s Takashi Miike’s second manga adaptation this Miike’s Takashi year (alongside Blade of the Immortal) is a wild, colourful, chaotic explosion of action, fantasy unapologetically and drama that gets really, weird by its final act. Josuke (JoJo of the title) is a cool high school kid with amazing hair and the ability to summon his ‘Stand’ Shining Diamond, an ethereal entity that possesses unique powers. When another ‘Stand’ user begins to kill people in the town, JoJo, along with his nephew Jotaro and shy new kid Koichi, must track down the attacker and do battle. But this adversary is only the first of many in a truly bizarre adventure. Alongside Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (also Alongside Jojo’s Miike delivers Takashi screening in LIFF 2017) adaptation, this time another stunning manga bringing the epic fantasy Samurai story Blade of the Immortal 100th to the big screen in his feature film. Manji is a highly skilled warrior who is cursed with immortality a following legendary by the murder of his battle. Haunted Manji fights evil wherever he finds little sister, it in order to regain his soul. When he meets by Rin, a girl whose parents were slaughtered to a group of master swordsmen, he promises off on avenge their deaths and together they set a quest for revenge. Blade of the Immortal the of Blade 58 Fanomenon his head ifheistostay alive. food andmustembrace theinhumancravings in halfghoul, Kaneki isunabletostomachnormal unwittingly transplanted intohim.Nowa only aftersomeofhisassailant’s organsare aghoulattack college studentwhosurvives Kaneki (MasatakaKubota),ashy, orphaned flesh (andcoffee).Intothisworld stumbles onhuman like weapons,theycanonlysurvive regenerative powersandretractable tentacle- live amongus.Possessinggreatstrength, which superhumanbeingsknownasghouls manga, Tokyo Ghoulpresentsaworldin An adaptationofSuiIshida’s darkfantasy Tokyo Ghoul toilet plungerasaweapon.’(Variety) smackdownusingadripping arts off amartial Nipponese culthelmerTakashi Miikecanpull bring painonthealmightySuki-yaclan.‘Only unholy alliancewithadishonouredyakuzato Dragon Skulls,aChinesegangthat’s madean and he’s back.Thistimehe’s upagainstthe Ikuta) isthemostincompetentcopinJapan a yakuzaextravaganza.ReijiKikukawa(Toma ituptoeleven,resultingin Agent Reijiandturns pop madnessofTheMoleSong:Undercover tothe Mole Song:HongKongCapriccioreturns Takashi Miike’s mostdeliriousfilminyears,The The MoleSong:HongKongCapriccio Fanathons: MangaMovieMarathon beautiful, ashe stopsbeingafraidofhimself.’ KentarôHagiwara,director ghoul andgrows tounderstandwhatthatmeans, Itriedtomakethemlookmore I triedtomakethekagunemore terrifying.However, onceKanekibecomesa with Rize,Kanekiisscaredofthis unknowncreature–a‘ghoul’.Soatthatpoint, issue ofhowtoframethememotionally. Inthebeginning,duringhisencounter ofpeople’sthat couldbepart bodies.Thatwasachallenge.Therealso the weight orhowthey’dmove.Iworked hardtomakethemseemreal,likethings aren’t somethingthatexist,ofcourse,sowehad tothinkaboutthingsliketheir producers, andhowIwouldultimatelypresentthismaterialas afilm.Kagune thinkingabouthowIwouldpresentthisto intrigued. AndIstarted I wasvery interesting, through themanga,wholething,andIthoughtthatitwas very ‘I didnotknowthematerialbefore,butwhenIwasoffered project,Iread gloriously insanethismovieis.’AdiTantimedh, BleedingCool doesn’tNothingIwriteherecandojusticetohowgleefully,climax certainly hurt. nothing istakenseriously, andthehomagetoHongKongactionmoviesin showmanship. MoleSong:HongKongCapriccioisjustsillyfunallthewaywhere budget andproductionvalueshere,goingallinforcomicbooktheatrical is proudlywearinghislow-budgetV-Cinema rootsonhissleeve,butwithadecent and combinesitwithhisrootsinexperimentaltheatreformaximumfarce.Miike the-top. Miikedrawsonhisownexperiencedirectingyakuzamoviesfordecades ispushedludicrouslyover- tone ofslapstickgoofinessthroughoutaseverything direction you’vecometoexpectfromMiike’s productions,there’s particular avery fromtheextravagantcoloursandart piss-take oftheyakuzaandcopgenre.Apart fighting thegoodfight,engaginginheroicbloodshedandsacrifice,thisisanutter Insteadofsolemn,stoicgangstersandcops AffairsorTheDeparted. like Infernal ‘Mole Song:HongKongCapriccioisthetotaloppositeofundercovercopdramas Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Cinematographer Leading Cast Uehara Producer Screenwriter Director Language Japanese Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 2016 Japan Country Original Title Premiere Status UK Distributor Original Music Leading Cast Screenwriter Director Language Japanese Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Japan Country Original Title Premiere Status Pony Canyon Kôji Endô Nobuyasu Kita Tôma Ikuta,Eita,Tsubasa Honda Shigeji Maeda,MisakoSaka,Juichi Kankurô Kudô Takashi Miike 2hr 8min Mogura nouta:HongKongkyôsô-kyoku UK Anime Ltd. Don Davis Masataka Kubota,FumikaShimizu, Ichirô Kusuno Kentarô Hagiwara 1hr 59min Tôkyô gûru English Fanomenon 59 UK La Piel Fria Spain, France 1hr 30min Xavier Gens Jesús Olmo, Eron Sheean Mark Albela, Denise O’Dell David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Ray Daniel Aranyó El Bar 1hr 42min Álex de la Iglesia Álex de la Iglesia Jorge Guerricaechevarría, la Iglesia, MercedesCarolina Bang, Álex de Kiko MartínezGamero, Mikel Lejarza, CarmenBlanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Machi Ángel Amorós Domingo González Riera, Joan Valent Film Factory Premiere Status Original Title Country 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Stevenson Cinematographer Sales Company Kinology Contact [email protected] Original Title CountrySpain 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format Spanish Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Fanathons: Day of the Dead of Day Fanathons: ‘I knew the book [Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol], I had read it at the time I was making Frontier(s). I followed what was said of it on the internet, as I secretly dreamt of adapting it. But David Slade was supposed to do it. The project left for the US, so It was I had to give up. I had this project on La Pérouse at the time, called Vanikoro. taking place on an island with indigenous people, so there was an echo to Cold Skin but we decided to forget about it and go shoot The Divide. Then comes Cannes 2011. The producers of Cold Skin call me to tell me that David Slade is leaving the project for a TV show called , and they ask me to replace him. Of course, I read the script, that turns out to be exactly like the accept. I find it extraordinary, I rework on it a bit with Jesus what we need to do. We book, and I tell them that’s We Olmo, we search for solutions to make the film, and we enter this 5-year tunnel. needed to find the right location, the lighthouse… Everywent scouting year we for locations. It was never right, and it took a long time before we found the right formula between the budget, the cast and the setting.’ Xavier Gens, director ‘There are not many places left like the Palentino, the bar where the film takesplaces left like the Palentino, the bar where ‘There are not many your can have bars is that they’re democratic. You place. What I like about go for a drink at night. Everyonebreakfast, have a bite, can come, there’s men and women, find all types of people, rich and poor, no selection. You but it was inspired by a real barold and young. The bar in the film is a set the Palentino - a typical barin the neighbourhood of Malasana also called like when you have It’s a thriller. from Madrid. The original idea was to make a closed novels. It’s Christie’s a haunted house, a castle or a train, in Agatha the criminal is an abstract entity – it’s space and a crime happens. Except here find the culprit, you blame your can’t the idea of evil, of disease – and since you Alex de la Iglesia, director neighbour.’ Shortly after WW1, a young man arrives at a remote barren island far from civilisation in order to take up the post of weather observer finds no trace of the On shore he for one year. man he has come to replace and the only other island inhabitant is the deranged lighthouse keeper who rants about an unseen horror. Retreating to his wooden cabin he settles in for the night, only to be besieged by dozens of he nightmarish Lovecraftian creatures. Terrified, tries to defend himself and so begins a living nightmare. Fanomenon favourite Xavier Gens (Frontières, The Divide) brings this bestselling Spanish novel to the big screen. Cold Skin In a seedy downtown Madrid coffee bar aIn a seedy downtown nothing in commongroup of strangers with pinned down by ansuddenly find themselves Unable to leave, tensions mount unseen sniper. and paranoia reigns as the group turn each on hurling accusations and insults before other, no way of descending into violence. With contacting the outside world the survivors must onpull together and figure out what is going before they all become victims of the mysterious Alex de Iglesia returns to his beloved shooter. thrillerMadrid with a tense and claustrophobic thecombining the paranoia of The Mist with suspense of Phone Booth. The Bar The 60 Fanomenon answer to TheConjuring. refer todemonic possession,Veronica isSpain’s which sawthefirst everSpanishpolicereport them beforeitis toolate.Basedonatruestory and thatshemustsevertheconnection with her thatshehasbecomethetarget ofevilspirits her brothersandsisters.Aschool nunadvises malevolent presenceandfears forthesafetyof following thesessionshebegins tofeela and contacthimthroughanouija boardbut Grieving forherfather, shedecidestotry her motherworkslonghoursatalocalbar. is lefttolookafterheryoungersiblingswhile Following thedeathofherfather, Veronica Veronica believe. the truthaboutreligionandwhatitmeansto homage toH.P. Lovecraftwhichquestions and AaronMoorheadalsostarinthisstunning deadly secret.Writer/directors JustinBenson soon discoverthatthegroupishidingadark, tempted bytheseeminglyidylliclifestylebut they arewelcomedbythecommunityand things weren’t reallysobadthere.Onarrival suggests thattheyrevisitthecommunetoseeif Tired ofthismeaninglessexistence, Aaron working menialjobsandlivinghandtomouth. and Justinarestillstrugglingtofitintosociety, Years afterescaping fromacult,brothersAaron The Endless Fanathons: DayoftheDead fears.’ Paco Plaza,director vehicle fortalking aboutcomplexthings:how we are,ouremotionsand also talksabout thetransitionthroughpuberty. The horrorgenreisanexcellent fantastic filmsin thegenre,suchasRaw, myfavouritefilmfrom last year, which andanythingcanhappen.That’sarbitrary universal. We’ve hadafewyearsof greatest paniccomeswithnot being abletocontrolasituation,whererulesare get across,buthorroriseasy, becausewe’reallafraidofthesamethings.The to difficult within thelimitsofwhatatypical horrorfilmmightbe.Humourisvery with genreelements,whereasVerónica isamorecanonicalgenrefilmthatsits and thebeginningofasettled democracy. [REC]3wasaromanticcomedy pointasitmarkedtheend ofPost-Francoism times:itwasaturning into modern ofitsown, atransformation underwent woman, andIthinkthatyearthecountry fromgirlto time, inSpainbeforetheOlympics.Itdealswithtransformation ‘There isanodtoreality:anintentionlocatethefilminspecific spaceand Aaron Moorhead,co-director about twoyearslaterthatwedecidedtomakeaseriousversionforTheEndless.’ London andwedecidednottomakethestupidsketchcomedyanymore.Itwas abouttheUFOcultmembersofResolution.Wecomedy westarted werein Justin cameupwiththisreallywildideathatwasaseriousversionofsketch were stillthinkingaboutitmeantthatweweren’t donewiththecharacters--and about TheEndlessatall,becausethat’s NOTasequel.Thefact thatourminds and jokearoundwhataResolutionsequelwouldlooklike.We weren’t talking characters stuckwithus.Atfilmfestivals,we’dwonderwhathappenedtothem, withthose was somethingweknewhowtotapbackinto.Theideasstarted the Resolutionmythology. groundtoexplore,andresourcefully, Itwasfertile it ‘When wedecidedtomakeanotherDIYmovie,itwasalwaysgoingrevisit UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 USA Country Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Spanish Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 Spain Country Premiere Status Arrow Films Jimmy Lavalle Justin Benson,MichaelFelker Aaron Moorhead Temple TateCallie Hernandez, Ellington,Lew Lawson Jr., AaronMoorhead,LealNaim Justin Benson,ThomasR.Burke,David Justin Benson Justin Benson,AaronMoorhead 1hr 51min Film Factory Chucky Namanera Roca Martí Pablo Rosso González Sandra Escacena,ClaudiaPlacer, Bruna Enrique LópezLavigne Navarro, PacoPlaza Fernando Paco Plaza 1hr 45min Northern Fanomenon 61 Northern France, Canada, USA 1hr 13min Laurence Morais-Lagace Sebastien Landry, Edouard H. Bond, Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Laurence Morais-Lagace Sebastien Landry, Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Pierre-Alexandre Bouchard Diamond, Emelia Sam Earle, Victoria Hellman Simon-Pierre Gingras Olivier Guillemette UK 1hr 30min Kitamura Ryûhei Kitamura, Joey O’BryanRyûhei Kitamura, Ko Mori Ryûhei Pearson, RodKelly Connaire, Stephanie Hernandez Matthias Schubert Shôhei Kitajima Aldo Shllaku Eleven Arts Premiere Status Country 2017 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Sales Company Rockzeline Contact [email protected] Premiere Status Premiere CountryUSA 2017 Year Running Time DCP Format English Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Contact [email protected] Fanathons: Night of the Dead the of Night Fanathons: ‘Downrange is 90 minutes of pure survival‘Downrange is 90 minutes I collaborated with Joey movie. the bottom of my I’ve worked with many and, from O’Brian on the script. heart, human being! I can’t is the most talented writer and the nicest I can say he talk always go to see movies together, believe he wrote such a brutal script. We thing has One to make one together. about them, so I’m happy we finally got action, for the Versus: I’m known for my over-the-top never changed since my film all about the characters, the emotions and the blood and the guns, but for me it’s are you going to My main theme is “when something bad happens, what story. all about do?” Complaining, crying or panicking is not going to save you. It’s find a way out. In my twisted mind,what you’re going to do to fight back, to behind the violence you can find a veryRyûhei positive message.’ somehow, Kitamura, director ‘There was an on-going conversation about finding how each character would had to find the right We react to the situation, depending on his/her personality. so the actors followed horror, shot in the chronological characters’ reactions. We the whole journey of the characters in the movie, they got to know each other, wanted and all became really good friends in the end. […] We party together, to have fun, and experiment with the different and include things that mainly video games references, have inspired us as children and as adults. We with these codes. […] At first played from Jumanji to new video games. We was supposed to be a webseries, but we managed, as we were writing the script, to convince people that it could be a feature film. It was our first movie together so we wanted to be very to do exactly well prepared to be able analysing every spent months and months scene. what we had in mind. We During the shooting, it was more relaxed because we already knew precisely what we wanted to do.’ Sebastien Landry directors & Laurence Morais-Lagace, Game of Death Game of Death asks the question ‘whose life is more important - yours or a total stranger’s?’ In this gory mash-up of Jumanji, Natural Born Killers and Battle Royale, seven millennials are living it up at a house party when they discover a strange boardgame. Ignoring the rules they start to play only for the game to take a drop of their blood and then demand 24 deaths. When kill heads start exploding they realise that it’s or be killed and they hit the road to find more victims before their minds are blown, literally. When a group of car-sharing millennials break When a group of car-sharing road, it seems like adown on a remote dusty great opportunity for them to get to know each other while they change the tyre. Unfortunately afor them a sniper hidden in the trees has different idea and begins to pick off the group one by one. Pinned down and with no phone signal the remaining survivors must figure out a way to survive find help without and somehow next victim. becoming the enigmatic gunman’s The Midnight Meat Kitamura (Versus, Ryûhei returns to form with a tense and bloody Train) thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Downrange 62 Fanomenon youth culture. that paintsadisturbing pictureofcontemporary a savagelyfunny blood-drenchedmoralitytale the realmonsters. MonMonstersis extreme Shu-Wei toquestion whoare starts behaviour becomesincreasingly violentand decide tokidnapit.Ashisnew foundfriends’ discover astrangevampire-like creatureand they escapades andcrimes.During arobbery the groupandjoinsinwithsome oftheir who framedhim.Heisslowlyacceptedby alongside theschoolbullies community service class money, timidstudentShu-Wei isgiven After beingwrongfullyaccusedofstealinghis Mon Monsters horror forthe21stcentury. elevate TheMansiontoastandoutpost-modern Tony T. really Datisasthecomicperformances trained actorswasageniusmovebydirector with millionsoffollowersonYouTube insteadof them. CastingfamousyoungFrenchcomedians andfindoutwhohasitinfor have sexandtry must bandtogether, notgetdrunkorhigh more andoutlandishways,thesurvivors mysterious killer. Aseachvictimismurderedin beingpickedoffbya friends astheystart home beginstogowrongforagroupofyoung A NewYear’s inaremotestately Eveparty The Mansion Fanathons: NightoftheDead director tobeagood person–andhefails.’Giddens Ko, searches for opportunities that helowershisstandardsof morality. That’s mywayofthinkingbutLinalso a goodperson,lacksgutsand courage.It’s reallybecauseofpeerpressure him dothis.Iactuallydeletedthose scenes.SoLin,althoughhewantstobe then Ididn’t wantpeopletothinkthathisfamily backgroundiswhatmakes provided theguy’s familybackground toshowwhathischaracterwaslikebut decision thatthemaincharacter makes.Originally, inthescript,Iactually a morepersonalstory. […]Whatmakesapersonalityreallydependsoneach I foundcouldn’t excludemyselffromthehorror, sotheproject developedinto toworkonthescript, allshotbyiPhone.ButwhenIstarted form mockumentary a beginning, myoriginalthoughtwastomakeahorrorfilmin ‘At thevery genre issofullofcreativity.’ Tony T. Davis,director forced metowatchhorrorfilmswithhim,andthat’s agood thing,becausethis impression onmewhenIwasakid,especiallyaschicken!Mybestfriend in1979,sothesefilmsmadeabig theslashertrend.Iwasborn really started on ElmStreet,TheTexas ChainSawMassacreorTheLastHouseontheLeftthat Goonies isoneofmyfavouritefilms.IcouldaddFridaythe13th,ANightmare for jokestobejustifiedbythestory. Thishasbeenarealcollaboration.[…]The sure itwasnotjustaseriesofsketches.Iwantedfilmwithrealcharacters,and process, tobringmyownreferencesthescript,makeitmorefluidand comedy, somethingthatisquiterareinFrance.Igotreallyinvolvedthewriting coming fromYouTubea orthetelevision,inagenrefilmthatwouldalsobe three otherscreenwriters,theywantedtoputtogetheracastofyoungcomedians, ‘I wascontactedbyJurijPrette,oneofthescreenwritersandproducers.With the Contact [email protected] Sales Company Gaumont Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language French Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 France Country Original Title Premiere Status Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Taiwanese Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 TaiwanCountry Premiere Status Olivier Gourlay Maximiliaan Dierickx Ludovik Day Marc Jarousseau,NathalieOdzierejko, Sidonie Dumas Marc Jarousseau,JurijPrette Barilli,DominiqueGauriaud, Bernardo Tony T. Datis 1hr 36min Le Manoir UK Star RitzInternational Chris Hou Nyssa Li Patrick Chou Eugenie Liu,KentTsai, Yu-Kai Teng Angie Chai Giddens Ko Giddens Ko 1hr 53min UK Fanomenon 63 France, Italy 1hr 57min French, Italian, English Luc Besson Patrice Ledoux Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana Olivier Mauffroy Éric Serra 1hr 57min Italian French, English, Beineix Jean-Jacques Hamme Beineix, Jean Van Jean-Jacques Irène Silberman, Serge Silberman Fernandez, Andréi, Frédéric Wilhelmenia Richard Bohringer Yoyotte Monique Prim, Marie-Josèphe Vladimir Cosma French Cult Favourites Cult French Country 1990 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Sales Company Gaumont Contact [email protected] CountryFrance 1981 Year Running Time Blu-ray Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Filmbankmedia ‘I think [my sensibility] came from the surroundings, the times we were living came from the surroundings, the times ‘I think [my sensibility] Wave New see that in films. The times when I didn’t in. I was surprised many not so muchin the relationships between people, and was more interested our landscape, so filming thelooking at the cities. I thought the cities reflected in it. Our world was changing atlandscape was also filming the people living and means due to mass travel, commodities, that time. It started to move faster, very archaic compared with very, of communication, which were, by the way, what we have nowadays. Nevertheless, in Diva, the story dealt with that, which is artist, fans, artistic the production, endless reproduction, integrity regarding film which triggered a phrase in the a and technologies. In fact, there’s piracy, me to cut the line, which goes “Itlot of problems with the producers, who wanted is up to industry It was naive,to art, to adapt and not art to adapt to industry.” Beineix, director maybe, but I still stick to that.’ Jean-Jacques however good it was, live in this society, ‘Jacques, in The Big Blue, couldn’t because he was yearning for something more. As for Nikita, she is dreaming a way for me to show how difficult it is to be torn between of a normal life. It’s There is violence your own desires and the necessity to live together in a society. everywhere, only thing and you can fight it by showing it leads nowhere. The this film is the opposite of Rambo! The that can save Nikita is love. In a way, more people Rambo kills, the more honours he receives. The more people Nikita There get away with it. This is not the way. kills, the more she realises she won’t what I’m interested in. What is interesting is tenderness in the ending, and that’s she is that in the first five minutes of the film you think “This woman is guilty, the spectator just thinks “Leave deserves to be arrested”. But after half an hour, her alone!”’ Luc Besson, director (1990) Nikita Luc Besson’s stylish thriller stars Anne Parillaud Luc Besson’s in a magnetic performance as convicted felon Nikita. After being sentenced to death, Nikita finds herself inside a secret government program which takes people with no hope and remodels them into undercover assassins. After three years of intense training, Nikita becomes a talented killer and femme fatale, a secret she must hide from her new boyfriend. As her missions become more demanding, Nikita is torn between her allegiance to the agency and her desire to lead a normal life. Jean-Jacques Beineix’s slick French crime thriller slick French crime Jean-Jacques Beineix’s incredible motorcycleis best known for its young Parisian postmanchase scene. Jules, a and opera fan, secretly records the celebrated American soprano singer Cynthia Hawkins. Jules is seen making the Unfortunately, torecording by two bootleggers, who want steal the tape from him. Jules’ problems continue when the tape is confused with one implicating the chief of police in a crime ring. Now four mustdeadly crooks are looking for him and he use all his ingenuity to survive. Diva 64 Fanomenon entertaining. PureJoy.’entertaining. (Time Out London) sketched,andit’s marvellously alwaysdeliriously moves like a rocket, the despicable characters are streamlinedscriptcan invent.Theplot smart, subjected tothemosthumiliating indignitiesthis smile ashetangleswiththewrong folksandis Grint).Thensitbackand Buscemi andRupert Hennie, wholookslikethelove childofSteve and full-timecorporatedouchebag Roger(Aksel central character, thief art inthiscasepart-time up aneminentlyhissable satisfying idea:serve bestselling novel,stemsfromasimplebuthugely authorJoNesbø’sbased onNorwegian Tyldum’s‘Director Morten thriller, juggernaut Headhunters Swedish thrillersofalltime. thatmakesthefilmoneofbest performance co-star MichaelNyqvist,deliveredastandout Rapace embracedtheroleand,alongside hacker andeponymousgirlofthetitle.Noomi of LisbethSalander, theruthlessandsecretive for thebigscreendependedalotoncasting danger. AdaptingStiegLarsson’s seminalnovel thatputsthembothinmortal dark familyhistory uncover aseriesofunsolvedmurdersand yearspreviously,wealthy familyforty onlyto the disappearanceofayounggirlfrom beautiful younghackertohelphiminvestigate a employs A disgracedfinancialjournalist The GirlwiththeDragonTattoo Nordic NoirOriginals with it, and we went from there.’ Morten Tyldum,with it,andwe went fromthere.’Morten director We hadameetinginStockholm,Itoldthemmy visionofthemovie,theyagreed to makeamovieoutofitandyou’d bereallystupidifyoudon’t letmedirectit.” “I justreadthebook.Iknowyou’re developingit.It’s afantasticstory, I’dlove and aproductioncompanyhad alreadypickeditup.SoImadeacallandsaid, there wasagoodmovieinthere. SoIcalledthepublisheraskingforrights into anotherperson.Helivessuch afascinatinglifeandrightawayIthought character whohassurroundedhimselfinthisarmour. He’s of madehimself sort I thinkthere’s alittlebitofRogerBrowninallus.Theinsecurearrogant Brown. Ithoughtheissuchanintensecharacterandreallyloved hisjourney. ‘I readthebookandwasimmediatelyfascinatedbycharacter ofRoger ofthefilm.’Niels ArdenOplev, thathappensintheotherpart everything director script. Forit’sto anessentialaspect,arealfilmwithinfilm, whichgivescolour whichwascompletelyeclipsedinthefirst Salander andthelawyerNilsBjurman, betweenLisbeth and Zodiac.Ialsowantedtogivegreateremphasisthestory in thrillers,drawinginspirationfromfilmssuchasNikita,TheSilenceoftheLambs a ScandinavianatmospherewithEuropeanqualitycombinedUSexpertise foreground theinterestingsideofcharacters.[…]Myaimwastomakeafilmin I knewthefilmhadtobeexciting,withelementsofaction,butabovealltried dramaticingredientswerethere.Ofcourse, a thrillerbefore,butallthenecessary detectivenovel,butarealdramawithcharacters.I’dneverdirected ordinary another Swedishthriller?Luckily, Sørencamebacklatertoconvinceme.[…]It’s no even heardofit.Perhapsalittlearrogantly, Irefusedbysaying:whymakeyet was inthemiddle of making another film. Ihadn’t readthe novel, infactI’dnever askedmetoadaptaSwedishdetectivenovel,I ‘When producerSørenStærmose UK Distributor eOne Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 2009 Country Original Title UK Distributor eOne Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 2011 Country Original Title Hodejegerne Jacob Groth Anne Østerud Eric Kress Endre Michael Nyqvist,NoomiRapace,Lena Søren Stærmose ,RasmusHeisterberg Niels ArdenOplev Swedish, English 2hr 32min Sweden, Denmark,Germany, Norway Män somhatarkvinnor Trond Bjerknæs,JeppeKaas Vidar Flataukan John AndreasAndersen Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Aksel Hennie,SynnøveMacodyLund, Marianne Gray, AsleVatn Ulf Ryberg, LarsGudmestad TyldumMorten Danish,Russian,English Norwegian, 1hr 36min Norway, Sweden,Denmark,Germany Fanomenon 65 UK, USA 2hr 10min English, Russian, Spanish Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson , Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco Phil Meheux Rawlings Terry Éric Serra Filmbankmedia UK, Czech Republic, USA, Germany, Republic, USA, Germany, UK, Czech Bahamas, Italy 2hr 24min English, French Martin Campbell Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli, Michael , Eva Green, Phil Meheux Stuart Baird David Arnold Country 1995 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Country 2006 Year Running Time Blu-ray Format Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Filmbankmedia Bond at Victoria at Bond Casino Gate ‘Bond in Goldeneye is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he’s another be honest, he’s To is pretty much a set character. ‘Bond in Goldeneye version of Connery and Connerycan you was terrific. How many submarines about this story control rooms are evaporating? The point blow up? How many going human in than the other ones. That’s much more is that he’s stuck sortback to the basics of the book and that was of interesting for me. We We appear. no ‘Q ‘in the books, he doesn’t pretty closely to the book. There’s kept aspect of the story We for obvious reasons. had to change the Cold War sort the tone of the movie. He couldn’t of fit away from gadgets. It just doesn’t the future, in Maybe in suddenly have John Cleese storming a rocket car. in with been no discussion of that. Daniel some form, he’ll be reintroduced, but there’s ‘artistic have what we euphemistically call our Craig is very hands on. We’d argue and fight a few times, but it was always about the right discussions’. We’d thing.’ Martin Campbell, director Bond adventure, the 18th (or 19th, if you count this James ‘In an important way, the non-standard ‘Casino Royale’), marks the passing of an era. This is the first Bond film that is self-aware, that has lost its innocence and the simplicity of its understanding of the absurdity and sadness of its and has some world view, hero. One crucial and revealing scene takes place on a Caribbean beach, where 007 is enjoying an erotic interlude between scenes of death-defying mayhem. His companion is the lovely Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco), a Russian computer programmer who has joined his quest to save the world, etc. But instead of sexy small-talk, she asks Bond: “How can you act like this? How can you be so cold?” And Bond replies, not with a sophisticated wisecrack but what keeps me alive.” In the earlier Bond adventures, no woman would with, “It’s have asked such a question, and 007 certainly would not have provided such an Rogert Ebert (1995) answer.’ Goldeneye Goldeneye was Pierce Brosnan’s first Goldeneye was Pierce Brosnan’s most famous spy performance as the world’s and it remains a fan favourite to this day. Bond travels to Russia to locate the stolen access codes of ‘Goldeneye’, a deadly satellite weapons system that has been hijacked by a own fellow 00 Agent (played by Yorkshire’s Sean Bean), formerly thought to be dead. Famke Janssen ups the ante as Xenia Onatopp, a deadly assassin. In keeping with the casino theme (some of the scenes were shot at Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco), you are invited to enjoy this free screening on the giant film wall Gate Casino. at the Victoria Daniel Craig explodes onto the screen as a newDaniel Craig explodes meaner and charmingly thuggish Bond leaner, for the 21st century, as the franchise is rebooted takeswith more action and less quips. The film very first 00 mission where he us back to Bond’s is enlisted by M (a role Judi Dench was born to play) to infiltrate a poker game at an exclusive aMontenegro casino and prevent Le Chiffre, terrorists (a scene-stealing banker to the world’s millions ), from winning. With onlyof dollars at stake, Bond is gambling not but his own life. Enjoy this free with money, Victoria screening on the giant film wall at the Gate Casino. Casino Royale Casino 66 Fanomenon Witch’s Milk Strays Sons ofBitches Lau andLaudrup Gone Clanker Man FantasyFilmCompetition Dark OwlsInternationalShort something very strange aboutthispregnancy...something very romantic relationship andsubsequentpregnancy. Butthereisnoblissforthiscouple, asthereis When PeterrunsoverSusanna’s ofa catwithhiscarheneverimagines thatitwillbethestart Contact [email protected] Kohlstedt Music Martin Cinematographer OlafMarkmann Editor NiklasKammermeier Hofstetter Producer DominikWiedenmann Jehle,Martin JehleScreenwriterMartin DirectorMartin German Year Germany Premiere StatusUKFormNarrative Country 2017RunningTime 21minLanguage adults withnorulesorboundaries. A darkandunsettlingworldinwhichchildrenhavetakenoveraforgotten terracedstreet,devoidof Contact [email protected] Music Slomo Dunleavy Producer IanFenton,NickOakleyCinematographerChristopherSpurdensEditorAaronDunleavy UKYearForm NarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime3minLanguageNodialogueDirectorAaron snowy mountains.Onherheels—abountyhuntersenttoretrieveher. Wisconsin, 1896.Sally, aprostitute,decidestorunawayfromherdailylife.Before her—thecold Contact [email protected] Raphaël Tschudi Cinematographer DavidBaumannEditorOlivierBeguinMusicFrédéricPerrier BaurScreenwriterColinVettier,English DirectorArnaud BaurProducer Arnaud Baur, Arnaud OlivierBeguin, SwitzerlandYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime20minLanguage rescue hislittlebrother. When anepidemicbreakslooseinCopenhagen,soccer-loving refugeeLauescapesthequarantineto Contact [email protected] Danish DirectorCharlotteBrodthagenProducer Tornøe, Pernille MariaMøllerChristoffersen DenmarkYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime30minLanguage becomes theleastofhisproblems,asactionsbegintoaffectreality. When anarchitectmakesahugelyconsequentialerroronbuildingsite,hisattemptedcoverup Contact [email protected] Perreard Music:such: Director GuillaumeForestiScreenwriterCinematographerNicolaosZafiriouEditorCéline FranceYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry English 2017RunningTime21minLanguage fabric ofrealitythat’s tounravel. starting feelingthepinchofausteritycutbacks,it’swe alltakeforgranted.Butwithhisdepartment notjustthe Reality doesn’t happenbyitself.Terry Lothianworkstirelesslytomaintainthebackgrounddetailsthat Contact [email protected] Director BenSteinerScreenwriterSteiner, Producer EliSilverman DanDixon/FumeFilms UKYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry English 2017RunningTime10minLanguage

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Losurdo, Chris Stival When Darken the demon picks the wrong home to wreak diabolical mischief, he falls victim to the When Darken the demon picks the wrong home to wreak diabolical mischief, he falls victim family. dreadful Crumps – a warmongering, racist and over-armed 2017 Running Time 17min Premiere Status European Form Narrative Country South Africa Year Justin Cohen, Alan Language English Director Grant De Sousa Screenwriter Grant De Sousa Producer Mafia Editor Evi Katz Music The Hellcats, Woodstock Rubin Cinematographer Alard de Smidt Lawson, Tyrone Contact [email protected] for a girl he met online he becomes oblivious to her one When lonely Andy falls head-over-heels the girlfriend from hell. seemingly obvious flaw – that she is, quite literally, 2017 Running Time 12min Language Premiere Status NorthernForm Narrative Country France Year 13min Language 2016 Running Time Country Form Narrative Year Australia Premiere Status World J. Narula Cinematographer Tanuj Producer English Director Nicholas Brawn Screenwriter Nicholas Brawn with a bee. When he wakes up, he hears In a Dystopian future, a sick dying man is injected should. As his body transformsmysterious voices, and nothing behaves as it clear that he is it becomes an unwilling in a bizarre ritual. Spook & Gloom English Director Emma Spook, Gil Gloom Screenwriter Emma Spook, Gil Gloom Producer Films Music Karél Psota / Punish Yourself Contact [email protected] On the surfacesmall talk. But when his business is enigmatic Edmund is full of pleasantries and the fantasies, just be careful of the price. indulging your wildest 2016 Running Time 11min Language Country Form Narrative Norway Year Premiere Status Yorkshire a craving undead and hateful humans, discovers Karl, a simple ghoul roaming a world of hunger-less – no zombie is perfect!that leaves him utterly without hope. Just remember Language NoRunning Time 12min 2016 Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status Norway Year Editor Rune Spaans Dave Cooper John Erik KaadaScreenwriter Rune SpaansAnimator Dialogue Director Contact [email protected] and your greatest love turnWhat if your worst fear same thing? Lost in a dark forest, out to be the and dangerous parasites. stumbles upon a mysterious girl Eddy Table Director Carl Shanahan 2017 Running Time 9min Language English Form Narrative Country UK Year CarlCinematographer Carl Shanahan Editor Emma Richardson Producer Screenwriter Carl Shanahan Jordan Shanahan Music Todd Contact [email protected] Norwegian Editor Ivar Myhrvold Østberg Anja Gundersen Gøystdal Cinematographer Torstein Contact [email protected] Hamish McCarthy Declan McDermott Editor Matthew Bradley Music Contact [email protected] Spooked It’s Complicated It’s In the Land of Milk and Honey Hope Crave The Absence of Eddy Table of Eddy The Absence 68 Fanomenon Retrosex Real Artists The Factory The Escape Betelgeuse The App Sci-Fi Shorts forbidden andunknown world. of rebelliousteenagers setoutonthetrailofRetrosex usinganancientlaptopastheir guidetothis 2065 andphysicallovehasbeen outlawed.Convincedsexwasbetterintheolddays,agroup Contact [email protected] Music LaFemme Saurel ScreenwriterJean-Baptiste Cinematographer RaphaëlVandenbussche EditorFloraVolpelière FranceYearForm NarrativeCountry 2016 Running Time14minLanguageFrenchDirectorJean-Baptiste ‘creative’process,shemustmakeahardchoice aboutherpassionforfilm. the truthaboutmodern In thenearfuture,ayounganimatorisofferedwhatshouldbeherdream job.Butwhenshediscovers Contact [email protected] Cinematographer KimberlyCulottaEditorRussellAugustAnderson English DirectorCameoWood Screenwriter CameoWood Producer StrangerFilms Charming USAYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2017RunningTime12minLanguage environment, butinspireschange. soda factory. Onedaythereisabreachinthedailyroutines.Itcreatesturbulenceworking filmaboutaman,robotandcyborgworkingat isasteampunk,sci-fishort The Factory Contact [email protected] Tonje NessMeinhardtCinematographerTonje NessMeinhardtEditorStianAndreassenMusicRuneSimonsen DirectorMargaretaForsén-AndersenOrkanScreenwriterProducer Norwegian Year Norway FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusInternational 2017RunningTime8minLanguage heowns. over everything familymanisofferedthechancetoliveouthiswildestfantasy,An ordinary allhehastodoishand Contact [email protected] Cinematographer MichaelCoulterBSCEditorPaniAhmadi-MooreMusicAndrewKawczynski English DirectorPaulFranklinScreenwriterProducer JessicaMalik,Parker UKYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2017RunningTime15minLanguage step outsidetheendofoneworldcouldjustbebeginninganother. ButwhenagoraphobicSarahtriesto isabout toexplodeandcoulddestroylifeonEarth. 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Retrospectives 69 Retrospectives mec, experience our annual line-up of live performance events, and find out ě more about the history of film in Leeds. Jan N Best Film award. You can also discover the films of Czech enfant terrible filmmaker can also Best Film award. You the 30th year of the European Film Academy with three films that have received its the 30th year of the European Film Academy with three taken by Magnum photographers. The second anniversary we’re celebrating is film history: from them you can see six of their films and an exhibition of set photos their photographers have been on set with some of the most celebrated directors in their photographers have been on set with some of restrospectives. The first is the 70th anniversary Photos and many of of Magnum Rosi, and . This year we’re celebrating two anniversaries in our This year we’re celebrating two anniversaries in our Rosi, and Fred Zinnemann. supported including films by Costa-Gavras, Lucio Fulci, Francesco by the BFI), thrillers from the 1970s in States of Danger and Deceit (presented by HOME, States of Danger and Deceit (presented by HOME, thrillers from the 1970s in and . You can also explore some of the best European political can also explore some of the best European political You of Fear. and The Wages revived classics of the genre include The Silence of the Lambs, The Vanishing, include The Silence of the Lambs, The Vanishing, revived classics of the genre the thriller. In BFI Thriller on Tour (presented by the ICO), you can experience (presented by the ICO), BFI Thriller on Tour In the thriller. Retrospectives includes a major celebration of one of the most popular film genres, major celebration of one of the most popular film genres, Retrospectives includes a dedicated to bringing inspiring selections of films from the past to Leeds. This year, year, selections of films from the past to Leeds. This dedicated to bringing inspiring While LIFF presents a vast programme of new films every year, we’re also we’re programme of new films everyWhile LIFF presents a vast year, 70 Retrospectives everyone’s avoyeurandsuspect. set inaseedily noirish NewYork City, where of theLake)memorable 2003eroticthrilleris who fascinatesFrannie.JaneCampion’s (Top Ruffalo), adamagedandcautious interloper leads hertoencounterdetective Malloy(Mark watches. Agrislymurderinher neighbourhood a publicbathroom,shesimply stands and encounters acouplegettingdown toitin attitude extendstosexand,whenFrannie carefully, andtoholdemotionsatbay. This Ryan) haschosentocontrolwhatisinherlife Buttoned-down schoolteacherFrannie(Meg In theCut A headless,headytripindeed. toholditalltogether.respectable womantrying byMaríaOnettoasanoutwardly performance fragmented dialogue,andbyatrulymemorable state ofmind,suggestedthroughbrilliantuse gripping andmysteriousfilmis Vero’s to findout.Whatremainsovertherestofthis wheels. WhathasVero done?Shedoesn’t stop sudden bumpofsomethingunderhercar’s track, successfulcareerwomanVero feelsthe dirt Driving alonealonganalmost-deserted The HeadlessWoman BFI ThrilleronTour really does exist.’, director (2003) much aswedon’t discussthat,because it’s tooembarrassing and toosad,Ithinkit then itdoesn’t reallycount.They’re stillsearchingfortheirprince, inaway. Andas of grief.Women oftenpostponetheir lives,thinkingthatifthey’re notwithapartner amounts forus,andcreates enormous to seehowthatmodelfallsshort opportunity gaveusan finding andsatisfyingtheromantic modelswegrewupwith.Thestory with boththeirindependenceand alsothefactthattheirlivesarebuiltaround first”and[thebackers]didn’t. a relationship-basedstory Women todayaredealing was workingformeratherthan meworkingforit.SoIkeptsaying,“Iwantittobe moving towards,becauseIrealised that,forme,thegenrewasofnovalueunlessit relationships, andsowasourfilm.Ididn’t wanttobackofffromwhatwewere ways itwas,becauseSe7enisallabout really likeSe7en.Butinsomeimportant Se7en. ButIhadn’t readthebookthen,anditdidbecomeclearthatwasn’t ofmakethemistaketeasingmy originalbackerwiththethoughtof ‘I didsort director more challenging.’LucreciaMartel, had alargenumberofcharacters.With justonecentralcharacter, itwasalot wasaloteasiertopulloffwhenI that. Thiswayofworking,whichismyform, the floor. SoI’mnotspellingouttheaccidentthing,butIhaveelementsthatevoke maybethereissomebodywhodigging,orsomethingthatthrownon forms: sceneindifferent or background.Forexample,theaccidentispresentinevery present ineachscenedifferentpositions,perspectives,foreground work withanumberofelementsthataretiedtogether, andeachoneofthemis initsclassicalsense.I of accumulation,whichmakesplotnolongernecessary to do.Iregretnothavingusedscopebefore.Whatmeanbylayersisaform forwhatIsetout Iusedwasperfect way ofworkingwithit.Andalso,theformat layers. Ialwayshavealayeredstructure,andinthisfilmfoundthecleanest ‘What Ididachieveinthisfilmwastopolishupmytechniqueofworkingwith UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Spanish Format DCP Running Time Year 2008 Country Original Title UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format 35mm Running Time Year 2003 Country Independent CinemaOffice Ainstein Roberta Miguel Schverdfinger Bárbara Álvarez María Onetto,ClaudiaCantero Agustín Almodóvar, PedroAlmodóvar Lucrecia Martel Lucrecia Martel 1hr 27min Spain, ,France,Italy La mujersincabeza Independent CinemaOffice Hilmarsson Hilmar Örn Alexandre deFranceschi Meg Ryan, MarkRuffalo ,LaurieParker Jane Campion Jane Campion 1hr 59min UK, Australia,USA Retrospectives 71 Independent Cinema Office 1hr 58min Tally Ted , , Fujimoto Tak Craig McKay South Korea 2hr 9min Joon-ho Bong Bong Joon-ho, Park Eun-kyo Choi Jae-won, Seo Woo-sik Bin Kim Hye-ja, Won Hong Kyung-pyo Moon Sae-kyung Lee Byung-woo Independent Cinema Office BFI Thriller on Tour Thriller BFI UK Distributor Country USA 1991 Year Running Time Format DCP Language English Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music Madeo Original Title Country 2009 Year Running Time DCP Format Korean Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor ‘I had the general idea for the story‘I had the general idea The Host and I wrote a first even before actress, Kim Hye- That was also when I first met the main synopsis in early 2004. and actress waswe could finally work together as director ja. And the fact that this actress who really inspired me and an unbelievable experience for me. It’s got me to write the story the first place. She is not very in well known abroad, but like the ‘mother of the nation’, and Iin Korea she is an almost mythical actress, The first time I met Hye-ja it was a littlehad been a fan of hers since I was little. She was completely different from she was almost like a dreamer. surreal actually, So in reaction to this I wanted to show her in a role that is what I had seen on TV. and express her personality fromcompletely the opposite of her TV appearances lie beneath the looking at the hysteria and madness that a different point of view, surface of her great gentleness and warmth.’ Joon-ho Bong, director ‘Jodie [Foster] taught me that this is a story of a young woman trying to save the a horror movie, Maybe it’s a thriller. life of another young woman. Maybe it’s [Production designer] and but you have to honor that core story. planning so intensely together, Fujimoto and I worked [cinematographer] Tak what that picture was going to look like. I think we wanted to take as high a road moviegoers as we could, and we wanted to welcome as many as possible. We see it as a splatter movie, or a goryjust didn’t movie, or a crazy killer movie. It was a story of this young woman. I was very concerned about turning people so a scene that’s “Oh, no, there’s off, and of the idea that people would hear, go...” I really wanted to make sure this great storygross, you shouldn’t reached as many people as it was capable of. So we were trusting the imagination of viewers to set the path as much as possible.’ Jonathan Demme, director The Silence of the Lambs FBI newbie Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is assigned to interview notorious psychopath Hannibal Lector in high security jail, in the hope that he will reveal how to catch fellow murderer Buffalo Bill. Lector knows it all, but chooses to toy with Starling by exposing her deepest anxieties. changed what was six years since it Twenty acceptable in popular cinema, The Silence of the Lambs remains an intricate masterclass of escalating pace, terrific performances and unforgettable menace. The winner of all five major Oscars in 1992 and a must-see. When her beloved, child-like adult sonWhen her beloved, child-like an with murder, is arrested and charged mother sets out to proveoverprotective single The cops, at first treating innocence. her boy’s her with amusement, come to realise that they’re up against a wily force of detective work. Directed with great verve by Bong Joon- ho (Okja, Memories of Murder), this exudes style, and surprising twists and turns. humour, A very leftfield greatness fine example of the of Korean cinema, and with a performance for the ages from veteran actress Hye-ja Kim. Mother 72 Retrospectives classic. Cannes andBerlin filmfestivals,andatrue only filmeverto winthetopprizesatboth road togettheblaze.The of unsurfaced theexplosive along300miles help transport is offeredtoanyonedesperate enoughto put outwithnitroglycerineand dangermoney proposes alunaticsolution:the fireistobe desperation thenefariousU.S. oil company has brokenoutinaprosperousoilfield.In fire anenormous South Americancountry suspense andEuropeancool.Inanunnamed marriageofhigh-stakesaction- The perfect The Wages ofFear finestEuropeanthrillers. one ofthevery thisis with anendingthatchangeseverything, audaciousand complicit... Moving,formally the audienceiswrong-footed,andmade view ofSaskia’s friend,theperspectiveshifts, latent horror. Beginningwiththepointof sequence expandingandamplifyingthe woman onholidayinFrance,witheach the disappearanceofSaskia,ayoungDutch before,andsometimeafter,events shortly hit uponreleasein1988.Ithoneson The Vanishing wasahugeword-of-mouth Calm, collected,andmonstrouslyunnerving, The Vanishing BFI ThrilleronTour ‘unselectively and impartially anti-everything.’ Denis Lehane,TheCriterion Collection anti-everything.’ ‘unselectively andimpartially the filmis‘anti-American,’but only insofarasitis in a1991Film Comment article, missing theravaged forestfortheblightedtrees. AsdirectorKarelReiszpointed out in 1955,called it “apicturethatissurelyoneof themostevilevermade”),but this is time chargedthatTheWages ofFearwasvirulentlyanti-American(Time magazine, of foreigncultures,therape land,andtheridiculousfollyofman.Criticsat oncorporate imperialism,Americanexploitation is justassavageinhiscommentary crumbling beamstoputoutanoil fireragingontheothersideofmountain—he andricketybridgeswith potholes, desiccatedflora,rock-strewn passes,hairpinturns, drive twotrucksofnitroglycerin threehundredmilesacrossahellishlandscapeof men obsessively attentiveasClouzotistothenarrativespineof story—four a misplacedwhisperfromtheaudiencecouldcausescreen toexplode.As rackingthatonefears soviscerallynerve intocelluloid, aworkofart carved ‘Here isafilmthatstandsaloneasthepurestexerciseincinematic tensionever figure outhowitpullsoffitsdevilishtricks.’ScottFoundas,TheCriterionCollection to revealed, themovierepaysendlessrepeatviewings,forsheerfollyoftrying inevitably hauntedbythepast.Andevenonceitsfamouslyshockingendingstands Memento). ThepresenttenseinVanishing and isalwaysshiftinganduncertain, (shades ofanothermissing-womanmovietocome,ChristopherNolan’s 2000 series ofnonlinearfragmentsandshrewdlymisdirectsourattentionthroughout Sluizer’sa elegant,sleight-of-handfilmmaking,whichsplinters thenarrativeinto in1985).Butithasmostlytodowith Penitentiary” “RedDesert story his short collaborated withSluizeronthescreenadaptation(Sluizerhadpreviouslyfilmed Tim Krabbe,whowrotethenovella uponwhichthefilmisbasedandwho The Vanishing’s atributetotheDutchnovelist chillyprecision.Thatispartly The LadyVanishes fromDavidFincher’s GoneGirl,butonlyoccasionallywith if nothundredsoftimesintheseventy-sixyearsseparatingAlfredHitchcock’s ‘The basicsetupofamysteriouslydisappearedwomanhasbeenemployeddozens UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 1988 Country Original Title Spoorloos UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 1953 France Country Independent CinemaOffice Hennie Vrienten George Sluizer, LinFriedman Toni Kuhn Donnadieu Bernard-Pierre, Anne Lordon,GeorgeSluizer George Sluizer George Sluizer Dutch, French,English 1hr 47min Netherlands, France,West Germany Independent CinemaOffice Georges Auric Madeleine Gug,EtiennetteMuse Thirard Armand ,CharlesVanel Raymond Borderie Henri-Georges Clouzot,JéromeGeronimi Henri-Georges Clouzot English, French 2hr 11min Retrospectives 73 El Diputado 1hr 50min Eloy de la Iglesia Gonzalo Goicoechea José Sacristán, José Luis Alonso Antonio Cuevas Julio Peña States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s presented by HOME / supported by the BFI UK, France 2hr 20min Fred Zinnemann Kenneth Ross John Woolf , Michel Lonsdale Jean Tournier Ralph Kemplen European States of Danger and Deceit: 1970s presented Political Thrillers in the by HOME / supported by the BFI Original Title Country Spain 1978 Year Running Time Format 35mm Language Spanish Director Screenwriter Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor UK Distributor Country 1973 Year Running Time DCP Format English Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor States of Danger and Deceit and of Danger States ‘Fred Zinnemann’s The Day of the Jackal is one hell of an exciting movie. I The Day of the Jackal is ‘Fred Zinnemann’s just a suspense classic, but a not it really is: it’s prepared for how good wasn’t put together like a fine watch. example of filmmaking. It’s beautifully executed incredible array of material, and thenThe screenplay meticulously assembles an Zinnemann choreographs it so that the story – complicated as it is – unfolds in technical values (as is always almost documentary […] The movie’s starkness. The movie was filmed at greatthe case with a Zinnemann film) are impeccable. and it looks it. A production of thiscost all over Europe, mostly on location, and Zinnemann has masteredscope needs to appear absolutely convincing, every casting of a perfect detail including the de Gaulle look-alike. The Day of seems over in about fifteen minutes.the Jackal is two and a half hours long and sound so because they in a review, There are some words you hesitate to use is but in this case I can truthfully say that the movie much like advertising copy, spellbinding.’ Rogert Ebert (1973) ‘From the credits and all throughout the film, political freedom and sexual sexuality freedom appear related. Eloy de la Iglesia tackles the subjects of body, and political ideas with the same seriousness, establishing between the two a very of courageous, honest and risky association. […] This natural coexistence the erotic and the political is repeated throughout the entire film. In a sex scene The red color is in jail, a striking fade to red cuts off a meeting of the party. used as a double meaning symbol to unite these two concepts. The Deputy also discusses the exploitative relationship between rich and poor within the field of The protagonist, in spite of his political and social conscience, homosexuality. makes use of the body of boys of lower social status in exchange for money. Something that in theory to be goes against his own ideology does not seem The film subject to the same mercantile laws when it happens in clandestinity. de Reoyo strives to shed light on this mode of exploitation.’ Eva Vazquez The Deputy Like Seven Days in January, The Deputy is a Like Seven Days in January, film deeply rooted in the period of Spain’s It tells transition from dictatorship to democracy. the story of a closeted left-wing politician whose affair with an adolescent boy exposes him to a blackmail plot orchestrated by right-wing political rivals. Directed by the gay socialist filmmaker Eloy de la Iglesia, the film explores the political, social and cultural upheaval that and it does so in a accompanied La Transición taboo busting way that was itself made possible by the end of cinematic censorship following death. Franco’s A high-watermark1970s political cinema, of legendary film follows the Fred Zinneman’s paramilitaryattempts of a right-wing group to assassinate French President General Charles de Gaulle following the declaration of Algerian independence from France. Based on the DayFrederick Forsyth novel of the same name, of the Jackal is a tense, suspense filled classic that boasts a career defining performance from Edward Fox as the British assassin, code-named ‘the Jackal’, who is hired by the exiled leaders of the paramilitaryto finish the job they group started. The Day of the Jackal of the Day The 74 Retrospectives things don’t quitegoaccording to plan. promise theycan gethimoutofthecountry, but involved withanunderground network who dismayed bythestatebureaucracy, becomes travel outsideofEastGermany, thedoctor, down his requestto his superiorinitiallyturns escape (asignificanttabooat the time).When cinemathatdeals withthetopicof East German the westinthisuniqueexampleofawork working ataclinicintheGDRandfleeingto between plays amedicalresearchertorn Mueller-Stahl actorArmin The greatGerman The Flight vitriolic criticismoftheCatholicChurch. insular andsuperstitiousruralItalyhis movie asaresultofhisdepictiondeeply periodfollowingthereleaseof for ashort outsider. RumourhasitthatFulciwasblacklisted immediately fallsonanyoneconsideredan place inaruralItalianvillageandsuspicion series ofgruesomemurdersyoungboystake genre, LucioFulci.InDon’t Torture aDuckling fromoneoftheundisputedmasters political critiqueinthisluridandunsettling Blood drenchedhorrormeetsscathingsocio- Don’t Torture aDuckling States ofDangerandDeceit which seem to have been filmed in an actual hospital.’ East German Cinema Blog which seem tohavebeen filmedinan actualhospital.’ EastGerman his loveofrealistic environmentshere,especially inthescenespremmieward, muchadramaticfilm, wecanseesomeof documentaries. Although The Flightisvery known forhis cinemaverité style, makingthe filmsheworkedonseemalmost like Germany’s mostrespectedcinematographers. […]Asacinematographerhewas he madethismovie,directorRoland GräfwasendingacareerasoneofEast suggesting that,intheend, authoritieswilldotherightthing.[…]Attime other words,hisownego).Inboth films,theinitialrejectioniseventuallyrescinded, Schmith’s decisiontogothewest is basedonhisfrustrationatbeingrejected(in inKonradWolf’s ofchap.LikeManfredHerrfurth going, jovialsort Divided Heaven, asaneasy- Schmith abouttheattempteddefectionofacolleaguehisisportrayed to escapeareanevil,money-drivenbunch,whiletheStasiagent thatquestions audiences.Thepeople helpingSchmith of thisfilmmayseemabsurdtowestern perspective.Someaspects istoldfromastrictlyEastGerman ‘Of course,thestory tensions.’ BloodyGoodHorror outside ofCannibalHolocaust,andthemoviepositivelybuzzeswithsimmering and burgeoningtraumas.AddtothisRizOrtolani’s joltyscore,oneofhisbest heel townofMatera.Thearidcragsandstonyfieldsseemrifewithevilspirits Accendura outofapanoramicsnakinghighwayandtheblanchedItalianboot and misleadtheviewer. FulciandcinematographerSergioD’Offizicarve of smoothattentiontoclassicalfilmlanguageandjarringjumpscreateimpact and keepingtheatrocitiesparamountthroughout.Theeditingisadeftnegotiation istightanditmoves;weavingseveraldifferentthreadsintoitscenter The story and theflourishesofmayhem.[…]Onpuremechanics‘Duckling’isatriumph. players functionmostlyasplotmoversandtakeabackseattotheatmosphere sceneinthefilm.Theprinciple folk thatdepositthreatandcrazeintonearlyevery ‘Fulci’s ofspeciouscountry filmisamadhousenarrativepopulatedwithanarmy UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Italian Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 1972 Italy Country Original Title UK Distributor Leading Cast Screenwriter Director Language German Format DCP Running Time Year 1977 Country Original Title by HOME / supported bytheBFI by HOME/supported Political Thrillersinthe1970spresented States ofDangerandDeceit:European Riz Ortolani Micheli Ornella Sergio D’Offizi Florinda Bolkan,BarbaraBouchet Renato Jaboni Gianviti Lucio Fulci,Roberto Lucio Fulci 1hr 42min Non siseviziaunpaperino by HOME / supported bytheBFI by HOME/supported Political Thrillersinthe1970spresented States ofDangerandDeceit:European Erika Pelikowsky Mueller-Stahl,Armin JennyGröllmann, Christel Gräf Roland Graf 1hr 34min East Germany Die Flucht Retrospectives 75 Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Germany West 1hr 46min Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta Volker Eberhard Junkersdorf Benninger, Willi Mario Adorf Angela Winkler, Jost Vacano Peter Przygodda Henze Hans Werner States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s presented by HOME / supported by the BFI Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di un cittadino al di sopra Indagine su ogni sospetto 1h 52min Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro Senatore Marina Cicogna, Daniele Florinda Bolkan Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Kuveiller Ruggero Mastroianni European States of Danger and Deceit: 1970s presented Political Thrillers in the by HOME / supported by the BFI Original Title Country 1975 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language German Director Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Original Title CountryItaly 1970 Year Running Time Blu-ray Format Italian Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor States of Danger and Deceit and of Danger States ‘Investigation remains so powerful because what could seem to some a rather fanciful portrait not far off from civil repression and corruption was, in fact, of were the Italian the bloody years of political dissent that the actual situation of caricatural in large part1970s. The film appears psychotic and because the to pacify dissent nor mask itsItalian state was so itself, as it sought neither cannot rest merely on what force, though, […] Any account of the film’s power. power comes from how it looks andit is about, because so much of its staying works, from its ability to join determinedcondemnation to a tar–black humor work is often called expressionist, and an unsettled, disorienting style. Petri’s and though the term to characterize the fact that his is frequently used loosely aiming for realism, it has a more determinate meaning: constructing, films aren’t organizing, and distorting accordance with the psychological state the world in The Criterion Collection Evan Calder Williams, of a character or narrator.’ position - that the resurgence of a reactionary law- Trotta’s ‘Schlöndorff and Von and-order mentality in the face of homegrown terrorists was a greater threat to fledgling democracy than the terrorists themselves - struck a nerve,Germany’s and the film became the first commercial success of the . Drum The Tin Schlöndorff would go on to direct the Academy Award-winning followed Katharina Blum with four Trotta (1979) and many more features. Von radically feminist films [...]. By the early 1980s, she was acknowledged as the most important female director in Europe. Daniele Huillet, who, with her partner Jean-Marie Straub, made films that fall into the experimental end of the New German Cinema spectrum, criticized Katharina Blum when it was first released for employing a code of realism that, she claimed, would become incomprehensible mapping of tensions between has proven her wrong. In its in twenty years. Time The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is an the individual and a paranoid society, Taubin, The Criterion Collection utterly contemporary film.’ Amy The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum The Lost Honour of A profoundly powerful film and a key work of Schlöndorff the New German Cinema, Volker The Lost Honour and Margarethe von Trotta’s of Katharina Blum unfurls in a climate of fear titular and paranoia, as Angela Winkler’s character finds her life slowly torn apart following a romantic encounter with a man the authorities suspect of being a terrorist. Hounded by the police as well as an unscrupulous tabloid journalist, the innocent Katharina is pushed to the very limits in this biting critique of unchecked state power and media manipulation. A police inspector investigates a brutal murderA police inspector investigates in this provocative,(which he himself committed) tale from one of Italy’s surreal and Kafkaesque visually major political filmmakers. Elio Petri’s grittystriking film deftly walks the line between realism and absurdity as it paints a compelling portrait of of an unhinged man in a position The film authority testing the limits of his power. of thealso takes aim at the repressive methods Italian police and darkly skewers the creeping authoritarianism of Italian society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Above Citizen of a Investigation 76 Retrospectives research forthe film. Mauro, whodisappeared whilstundertaking MauroDe happened tohis friend,thejournalist footage ofhisownattempttofind outwhat fiction, RosiinterspersesMattei’s with story and An innovativefusionofdocumentary crime anddiedundermysterious circumstances. enemiesin theworldoforganised powerful an influentialItalianbusinessman whomade ofEnricoMattei, thriller’. Thefilmtellsthestory development ofRosi’s styleof‘investigative finest works,TheMatteiAffairwaskeytothe One ofItaliandirectorFrancescoRosi’s The MatteiAffair Maj SjöwallandPerWahlöö isamust-seegem. left-leaningSwedishcrimewriters by legendary adaptation ofthenovelTheAbominableMan act setaroundtherooftopsofStockholm,this civilians. Climaxingwithanexhilaratingfinal policeman knownforhisbrutaltreatmentof as heattemptstosolvethemurderofasenior Man ontheRooffollowsofficerMartin dramas withthisthrillingpoliceprocedural. of therecentwaveScandinaviancrime toexperiencetheroots Seize theopportunity The ManontheRoof States ofDangerandDeceit Mattei, in thisseldomseen, massivelyunderrated masterpiece.’ Alex Cox theCIA-linked mafioso.Buthisgreatestwork wasas Luciano (73), portraying andpoliticalfeatures,including theleadroleinRosi’snumerous westerns Lucky to playthebad guyin AFistfulofDollarsanditssequel.He wentontoappearin Volontè Communist,blacklisteduntilSergioLeonehiredhim was acard-carrying cement thatholdsthefilmtogether isGianMaria Volontè’s asMattei. performance of theAmericanoilindustry. Thedirection andeditingareremarkable,butthe in aplanecrashoneyearbefore Kennedy’s assassinationinTexas –theheart Its complexityandstylearereminiscent ofOliverStone’s JFK.Matteiwaskilled an industrialbaseforhiscountry, and wasprobablymurderedbyU.S.intelligence. created ofaman whofoughttheFascistsandAmericanoilcartel, and true-story quite theopposite:ariveting,disorienting,nonlineardrama,telling theremarkable- asabone, orasinterestingthebackpagesoffinancialsection. as dry Yet it’s ofthe founderoftheItalianpetroleumbusiness, TheMatteiAffairsounds ‘The story Times (1977) again andprobablycouldbedispensedwithinthenameofbrevity.’ NewYork some ofthefewwhoappearforamatterseconds,disappearnevertobeseen their environmentandrelationshipsswiftlydeftly. Thatistrueevenof characters themselves.Theyinhabitarealworld,andWiderberg sketchesthem, What investsthisfilmwithseriousnessandaclaimonourattentionarethe their helicopters,thefilmbecomesastudyinrationalityofresponse.[…] television newsmenandsquadsofspeciallytrainedequippedpolice ofimportunate roof thatdrewspectacle-thirstycrowdsandringmastersintheform when thekillerisrevealedandbeginsoneofthosefamiliarkillingspreesona seems, isanother’s estimableprotectorofsociety’s decentpeople.Andfinally, was. Apoliceman,ofcourse.Butwhatisapoliceman?Oneman’s brute,it and why?Buttodiscovertheanswer, toknowwhoNyman itisfirstnecessary ‘On onelevel,ManontheRoofstandsasasimplemystery. WhokilledNyman UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Swedish Format DCP Running Time Year 1976 Sweden Country Original Title UK Distributor Original Music Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 1972 Italy Country Original Title by HOME / supported bytheBFI by HOME/supported Political Thrillersinthe1970spresented States ofDangerandDeceit:European JasonLindh Björn Sylvia Ingemarsson Per Källberg,Odd-GeirSæther Thomas Hellberg Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt,SvenWollter, Per Berglund Bo Widerberg Bo Widerberg 1hr 50min Mannen påtaket by HOME / supported bytheBFI by HOME/supported Political Thrillersinthe1970spresented States ofDangerandDeceit:European Piero Piccioni Pasqualino DeSantis Gian MariaVolontè, LuigiSquarzina Tito DiStefano, Italian, English 1hr 56min Il casoMattei Retrospectives 77 État de siège France, Italy Franco Solinas, Costa-Gavras Léon Sanz Jacques Henri Barratier, Montand, Renato Salvatori Yves Glenn Pierre-William Françoise Bonnot Mikis Theodorakis States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s presented by HOME / supported by the BFI Siete días de enero Siete días de Spain, France 2hr 4min Bardem Juan Antonio Gregorio Morán Roberto Bodegas Manuel Angel Egea Leopoldo Villaseñor Guillermo S. Maldonado European States of Danger and Deceit: 1970s presented Political Thrillers in the by HOME / supported by the BFI Original Title Country 1972 Year Running Time 2hr Format DCP Language French Director Costa-Gavras Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Original Title Country 1979 Year Running Time 35mm Format Spanish Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor UK Distributor States of Danger and Deceit and of Danger States ‘ directed a tough, compact thriller that, just like good directed a tough, compact thriller that, ‘Juan Antonio Bardem environment get old but ages well, because its realistic wines, does not only of financial means and The simplicity induced by a lack denotes its authenticity. the documentary to create a tense atmosphere, where no aesthetic contribute Everythingimage is decorative and no shot is superfluous. has a function and The use of natural light is also worth noting, excluding fits in the machinery. crescendo from the scene in theany trace of rhetorical game. The film goes assault of the lawyers office, a scenestreet, culminating in the ‘main course’: the of silence, immortalizingwhere Bardem magistrally handles the use the image up. A chilling moment, with them,of the lawyers like victims with their hands José Manuel Cervinodefenseless in front of the gunman, and a in a state of grace.’ David G. Panadero film is not a but a how-was-it-done - to borrow a neat ‘Costa-Gavras’s phrase about his masterpiece Z, released three years before. And as with Z, the gripping events - the storyhow-was-it-done concerns of not only the particular, - but also how power is applied anda political assassination and its cover-up exerted, how the structures of control, some secret, some all too evident, are imposed and maintained. Both films are based on and closely follow the outlines of true stories - in the case of , the kidnapping in Montevideo, during the politically fraught summer of 1970, of American Daniel Anthony Mitrione [...]. Here again, Costa-Gavras and his scriptwriter work by overthrowing the traditional start lineaments of the thriller: we begin with the ending and work backward. “We the movie with the American being killed, we see his burial, we see the ceremony,” Costa-Gavras observedidea: he will in 2009. “The idea was not to play with that He’s Yes. be killed. It was to follow the storybe killed or he won’t a different way... The Critetion Collection dead. But who is he, and what is he doing?”’Mark Danner, State of Siege Having cemented his reputation as a producer of electrifying political thrillers, State of Siege once again saw Costa Gavras call on the time around Montand. This talents of Yves Montand plays a U.S. official kidnapped by a Hoping group of urban guerrillas in Uruguay. to use the kidnapping to bargain for the release of political prisoners, the group soon face brutal retaliation from the government. Gavras’ film powerfully critiques U.S. involvement in Latin American politics whilst also asking tough questions about the capacity of violent revolutionary action to effect change. Based on a series of tragic events thatBased on a series of Massacre of Atocha,became known as the oppositional cinemathis key work of Spanish dramatizes a crucial moment in the country’s In transition from dictatorship to democracy. January after Franco’s of 1977, just two years death, right-wing extremists stormed the offices of a group of progressive employment lawyers killing with links to the Spanish communist party, 5 people and leaving 4 more severely injured. The film itself was made just two years after thethe events it depicts - a thriller ripped from headlines of febrile political times. Seven Days in January Days Seven 78 Retrospectives tea, cakes andpastries willbeavailable. screening atHyde ParkPictureHouse–coffee, photos. Presented asaspecialbreakfast hispreciousalbum ofpiecedtogether return with anequallyeclecticsoulin anattemptto a change,shebeginsgame of catandmouse When shedecidestofocuson her ownlifefor through unnecessarilyelaborate schemes. Paris withadesiretohelpthose aroundher print. Améliebalancesherwaitressing jobin throughout, broughttolifeinaglorious35mm andcheekyhumour exudes agenuinewarmth Pierre Jeunet’s delightfulromanticcomedy andinventiveflourishes,Jean- Oozing charm Amélie U.S.politics. unsettling echoesofcontemporary andfar-rightthe government agitatorsthathas conspiracy, includingconnectionsbetween His workleadshimtouncoverashadowy charismatic left-wingpolitician(Yves Montand). the supposedlyaccidentaldeathofa Louis Trintignant) ashedoggedlyinvestigates corruption, thefilmfollowsamagistrate(Jean- biting satireofpoliticalandinstitutional Lambrakis intheearly1960s.Adarklycomic, the assassinationofGreekpoliticianGrigoris fictionalised accountoftheeventssurrounding of alltime,CostaGavras’Zisathinly One ofthemostinfluentialpoliticalthrillers Z States ofDangerandDeceit/EFA 30thAnniversary posters inthestreets.’ Jean-PierreJeunet,director and 40sphotos, weremovedallthecars,cleared thewallsofsigns,changed the Whatever details Ididn’t like,Ijust removed.To achieve alooksimilarto30s I treatedabigsetting,likerailway station,asifithadbeenerectedovernight. right settings.ThenIworkedas ifinthestudiobecauseIlovefilmingastudio. can belike.Ilovescoutingfor locations myselfandspentalotoftimespottingthe andIwantedto showtheFrenchwhatParis a specialviewofyourowncountry film I’dalwayswantedtomake. Whenyou’reabroad,farfromhome,youhave decided tosplitsowecouldtackle othersubjects.AndfinallyIcouldmakethe subjecttomyself.After TheCityofLostChildren,we so Ikeptthatparticular in tandem,youcan’t beemotionalandpersonal.Iknowtoowellwhathehates, long time. IsatonitbecausewasworkingwithMarcCaro.Workingfor avery darkfilms,Ifeltlikedoingtheopposite.Infact,I’dhadthisidea ‘After threevery death asa‘murder’,youcanfeelthemovie’s moraluniverseshift onitsaxis.’Ty Burr Fonda. Whenthemagistratefinally, almostaccidentallyreferstothepolitician’s ofHollywoodheroeslikeHenry behindhisthickglasses,isworthy blandly impartial oftheunnamedmagistrate, are eminentlyhissablevillains.Bestofall,thejourney in 1969,andit’s followedbyaskillful,suspensefulproceduraldrama. Thethugs the assassinationthere’s asanythingonscreen achasesceneasnerve-wracking was Costa-Gavras’easewithgenrefilmmakinginacurrent-eventscontext.After different fromitsimmediateforebear, GilloPontecorvo’s 1966BattleofAlgiers, date moviethatsentyououtintothestreets,fistsupraised.[…]WhatmadeZso intocommercialcinema.Itwasa couldbeturned events andpopulistfervor an unprecedentedfiveOscarnominations,andreframingthewaysinternational Greece, thefilmgalvanizedaudiencesworldwidewhenitwasreleased,amassing 1969. Athrillerbasedontumultuous,barely-disguisedeventsinearly1960s ‘If Costa-Gavras’Zwasn’tin thefirstpoliticaldocudrama,itdefinitelyfeltlike UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Costa-Gavras Language French Format DCP Running Time Year 1969 France Country UK Distributor eOne Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language French Format 35mm Running Time Year 2001 France Country Original Title by HOME / supported bytheBFI by HOME/supported Political Thrillersinthe1970spresented States ofDangerandDeceit:European Mikis Theodorakis Françoise Bonnot Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand Jacques Perrin,AhmedRachedi Jorge Semprún,Costa-Gavras 2hr 7min Yann Tiersen Schneid Hervé Audrey Tautou, MathieuKassovitz Jean-Marc Deschamps,ClaudieOssard Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2hr 2min Le fabuleuxdestind’AméliePoulain Retrospectives 79 2hr 1min Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Esther García Penélope Cruz, , Lola Dueñas Jose Luis Alcaine José Salcedo Alberto Iglesias Park Circus Das Leben der Anderen Das Leben der 2hr 17min von Donnersmarck Florian Henckel Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Berg Quirin Max Wiedemann, Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch Hagen Bogdanski Patricia Rommel EFA 30th Anniversary 30th EFA Country Spain 2006 Year Running Time Format 35mm Language Spanish Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Original Title CountryGermany 2006 Year Running Time 35mm Format GermanLanguage Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor Lionsgate ‘I became very fragile when I started doing the film, but it was not the type of It was a say I became softer. fragility that makes you more vulnerable. Let’s when do films to solve my problems. However, healthy process, although I don’t I started shooting, I never imagined that those characters I knew from when I was a boy would actually appear to me when going back to the places of my childhood. I hardly ever go back to La Mancha, but when I do, I feel like a little There, I am not an internationally acclaimed director but the eight or ten boy. kid I was when I left the place, a kid who was veryyear-old much disturbed by all the chaos there. When I wrote the script, I knew we would shoot in some places from my childhood, but I had hardly imagined that it would become such This film brings back memories of my mother and father an emotional journey. and exposes a fragility that I thought I had overcome. I am grateful for that.’ director Pedro Almodóvar, ‘My megalomaniac goal was to make a film that could stand next to the films was to make a film that could stand ‘My megalomaniac goal a budget holding its head high, even if it only had Wyler of Kubrick or William dollars. I had veryof just over two million ideas about whom I needed specific editor when I tried to recruit her, as collaborators. For example, I said to my you usually make, but there is“Patricia, we can pay you only half of what no other editor in all of Germany so either you agree to edit this film for me, It was true. There is no one a line. or I have to edit it myself.” And it wasn’t I loved his music Gabriel Yared. else. And it was the same with my composer, much that I knew I needed him for The Lives of Ripley so Mr. for The Talented of his music. […] I remembered AndyOthers. I needed the psychological beauty Robbins‘ character from The Shawshank Redemption, and just Dufresne, Tim finally wrote back in person and kept writing and writing. And when Gabriel I well that he found a way to make ourgot him to agree to meet, we got along so Donnersmarck, director collaboration possible.’ Florian Henckel von In one of Pedro Almodovar’s most admired In one of Pedro Almodovar’s films, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Dueñas) are sisters in a working-class neighborhood south of Madrid whose parents died a few years prior in a tragic fire. One day their dead mother Irene (Carmen Maura) returns as a ghost to resolve issues with Raimunda death who is busy dealing with her husband’s Mysteries unfold and calming her daughter. in this story filled with death, incest, adultery, The ensemble cast fear and humour. murder, of six female actors jointly won the Best Actress award at Cannes. Set in East Berlin in 1984, Gerd Weisler is an Gerd Weisler Set in East Berlin in 1984, and trains students on theofficer with the Stasi art and spying. He is ordered of interrogation to put a leading playwright under surveillance by the corrupt Minister of Culture, who secretly As Weisler partner. lusts after the playwright’s gets to know his targets, he uncharacteristically starts begins to to care about them. Slowly he intervene them where in their lives, protecting he can, but his actions put him under suspicion. for Best of the 2006 Academy Award Winner andForeign Language Film, its factual accuracy atmosphere is remarkable. of Lives The 80 Retrospectives and utterlydedicated tothecommonman. figure,strongof will as akindofrevolutionary Pasolini, agay, atheist,presents Christ Marxist, and simpleblackwhitecinematography, use ofnon-professionalactors, location shooting Drawing onneo-realisttechniques suchasthe quietly moving,biblicalmovie ever made. St Matthewisperhapsthemostfaithful,and ofChrist accordingtotheGospelof the story material, Pasolini’s stark,realisticretellingof Using dialoguedrawndirectlyfromitssource The GospelAccordingtoStMatthew relationship withhisparents. development, andthegrowingcomplexityofhis Apu’s emotional,spiritualandintellectual drama accumulatessteadily, aswewitness the emotionalweightofthisextraordinary beginning anewlifeintheholycityofBenares, Panchali leavesoff,withApuandhisfamily expand hishorizons.PickingupwherePather commitment tohisfamilyanddesire betweenhis the pastandfuture,torn protagonist standingatthethresholdbetween Ray’s peerlessAputrilogyfindsouryoung ofSatyajit Festival in1957,thesecondpart Winner oftheGoldenLionatVenice Film Aparajito &MastersofCinema as Epic-lyric.’ PierPaolo Pasolini,director (1965) idea ofdoingThe Gospel,whichwouldbea tale thatcanbedefinedmetrically of view. Thereissomethingepic inmyviewoftheworld.And Isuddenlyhadthe pointofviewbutrather fromanepicpoint things notfrom the lyrical-documentary religious. Butthesumtotalofmy psychologicalconstitutiontendstomakemesee hasafoundationthat isirrationalandmystical too, thatmuchofmyMarxism when Iwas18or19yearsold, andtheywereofareligiousnature.Irealized, is anoldlatentreligiousstreak in mypoetry. Iwrote Irememberlinesofpoetry career.clear tomeaswellmyentire literary Idiscoveredfirstofallthatthere begantobecome impulse, thisirrationalmovement orexperience,allmystory a feeling,animpulsethatisnotclearlydefinable.Mullingover thisfeeling, Gospel, andtheideaofmakingafilmitcametome.It’s evidentthatthisis Bible bychanceandbegantoreadthefirstpages,lines ofSt.Matthew’s ‘I recognizedthedesiretomakeTheGospelfromafeelingI had. Iopenedthe Collection and thenmoveon,nevertobeheardfromagain.’Terrence Rafferty, TheCriterion casually, characterswhodriftintothestory of colorful maketheirimpressions, greedy. Thestyleofthefilmislesspoetic,morenovelistic,almostDickensian:full old, isplayedbyanotheractor, PinakiSengupta,buthiseyesarestillbigand sights andsoundssmellstotakein:anewworld.Theboy, nowtenyears has morepriestlyworktodo,Sarbajayadifferentworries,andApunew cramped flatintheholycityof Varanasi (thenknownasBenares),whereHarihar all. InAparajito,thefamilyhasmovedfromdecrepit‘ancestralhome’toa popular coming-of-agesaga.True tohisword,hedidn’t makeasimilarfilmat onwithanadaptationofAparajito,thesecondnovelinBanerjee’sto carry beyond theendofPatherPanchali—thesuccesshisfirstfilmpersuadedhim in succession”—andalthoughhehadn’t originallymeanttocontinueApu’s story ‘Although Rayoftensaidthathedisliked“theideaofmakingtwosimilarfilms UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 1956 India Country UK Distributor BFI Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Italian Format DCP Running Time Year 1964 Country Janus Films Ravi Shankar Dulal Dutta Subrata Mitra Kanu Banerjee,KarunaBanerjee Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray Bengali, English 1hr 50min Luis EnríquezBacalov Nino Baragli Tonino DelliColli Susanna Pasolini Enrique Irazoqui,MargheritaCaruso, Pier PaoloPasolini Pier PaoloPasolini 2hr 17min Italy, France Retrospectives 81 Soviet Union 2hr 42min Boris Strugatsky Arkadi Strugatsky, Aleksandra Demidova Anatoli Alexander Kaidanovsky, Solonitsyn Alexander Knyazhinsky Feiginova Lyudmila Eduard Artemyev Park Circus 1hr 35min Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau André Paulvé Jean Marais, François Périer Nicolas Hayer Jacqueline Sadoul Georges Auric Country 1979 Year Running Time Format DCP Language Russian Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor CountryFrance 1950 Year Running Time 35mm Format French Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Original Music UK Distributor BFI ‘At one time I had recommended to my friend, the director Georgy Kalatozisvili, that he read the short novel Roadside Picnic, thinking that perhaps he might be Kalatozisvili know how, interested in making a cinematic adaption of it. Then, I don’t was not able to come to an agreement with the Strugatsky brothers, the authors of the novel, and so he abandoned the idea for that film. Every a while, that once in idea began to come to my mind again. Then increasingly it seemed to me that from that novel one could make a film with a unity of place, of time, and of action. These classic Aristotelian unities, it seemed to me, allow one to arrive at authentic cinema, which for me is not the so-called action cinema, exterior cinema, outwardly dynamic cinema. I believed that the subject which the screenplay would be based so to on permitted one to express in a very concentrated manner the philosophy, his condition. Although I must sayspeak, of the contemporary intellectual. Or rather, that the screenplay of Stalker has only two words in common with the Strugatskys’ director (1979) novel Roadside Picnic: Stalker and Zone.’ Andrei Tarkovsky, ‘When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming. Only the people it is a sleep in which I am dreaming. ‘When I make a film, making contact with others, I have difficulty matter. and places of the dream else comes If a person is asleep and someone as one does when half-asleep. this other person does not exist. He or she exists only if room, into the sleeper’s is not a real day of rest for me,introduced into the events of the dream. Sunday I tryquickly as possible. Realism in unreality is a constant to go back to sleep as is possible, or that is impossible; butpitfall. People can always tell me that this of fate? This is the mysteriousdo we understand anything about the workings Death dressed Why is Orphée’s mechanism that I have tried to make tangible. or that? Why does she travel in a Rolls, and why does Heurtebise in this way, but submit to human lawsappear and disappear at will in some circumstances, in others? This is the eternal thinkers, from Pascal to the least of why that obsesses poets.’ Jean Cocteau, director Magnum Photos & of & Masters Photos Magnum A towering landmark of science-fiction cinema, Stalker follows a hired- Andrei Tarkovsy’s guide as he leads two clients into a restricted area known only as the Zone, a mysterious post-apocalyptic wasteland and the site of a is said to contain The Zone long-ago disaster. a Room that has the ability to fulfill a person’s innermost desires, and the group venture and through the treacherous, ever-shifting seemingly sentient landscape of the Zone in an film is a cinematic Tarkovsky’s attempt to find it. immersive, an experience like no other, metaphysical journey that casts a spell over the hard to shake. viewer that’s Stalker Jean Cocteau’s haunting and visually stunning Jean Cocteau’s myth marriesreimagining of the Orpheus an equally mythologizedclassical legend with own personal story. version of the filmmaker’s Jean Marais plays a famous poet caught between two worlds when, seeking inspiration for his work, he follows a mysterious woman mirrored portal famous into through Cocteau’s the land of the dead. Dreamlike, poetic and asendlessly inventive, Orphée rightly stands celebrated work of most widely Cocteau’s cinema. Orphée 82 Retrospectives and itsfinalexplosive slow-motionclimax. counterculture movement, 1960sLosAngeles, seeingforitsdepiction ofthe movie, wellworth Valley. timecapsuleofa Anextraordinary landscapeofDeath bleached, otherworldly and meetsayounghippiechick inthesun whostealsaplane student revolutionary ofanarmed of realsocialunrestwithastory footage Zabriskie Pointmixesdocumentary on thebigscreeninallitswhackedoutglory. tobeseen hippies andsocialunrestdeserves tale ofcampusradicals,freelove,stoned ’s underappreciated Zabriskie Point each other. profoundly changedbytheirencounterswith the film’s endbothheandhispassengersare their corebeliefsandethicalvaluesby leadsthosehemeetstoquestion His journey something, thoughatfirsthewon’t saywhat. Tehran lookingfor someonetohelphimwith with amandrivingaroundthemarketsof A quietlymovingwork,Taste begins ofCherry complex philosophicalandmoralquestions. stories. Butthissimplicityoftenconcealed cinema thatdealtwithsimple,minimalist specialized inarestrained,meditative The lateIranianfilmmakerAbbasKiarostami Taste ofCherry Magnum Photos&MastersofCinema somehow beexpressed inthefilm.’ Michelangelo Antonioni, director (1969) young Americans wereshapedbywhathappened inChicago,andthatwill Not directly, youunderstand;thefilm isnotaboutChicago.But my ideasabout degree, Zabriskie Pointisinfluencedbywhat happenedinthestreetsofChicago. people -impressedmeasdeeply asanythingelseI’veseeninAmerica.To some convention. WhatIsawthere- thebehaviorofpolice,spirityoung before weweregoingtobegin shooting,IwenttoChicagofortheDemocratic and graduallydecidedtodoa filmabouttwoyoungAmericans.InAugust,just saw agoodmanythings.Then IwentbacktoRomeandlookedovermynotes wouldn’t wanttoputthatfeelingintowords... I wentacrosstheUnitedStatesand lifestyleinLondon,butitexpressedafeeling aboutthatstyle.AndyetI certain in theeffecttheyhaveonpeople.Blow-Up,forexample,was notonlyabouta approach; theyaremadefromadefinitepointofview. Andtheymaybepolitical ‘I would say my films are political, but not about politics.Theyare political in their itshouldreallybe.’AbbasKiarostami,director rather thantheart Butithasbecomejuststorytelling, complete sinceitcombinestheotherarts. andsupposedlyitshouldbethemost the cinema.Ifeelcinemaisseventhart, -canalsoenter -painting,sculpture,music,poetry ofart accept inotherforms according tohowtheythinkandwhatwant.Inmymind,theabstractionwe just sopeoplehavesomethingtofinish.Ileavethemblankcanfill cinema isstill‘correct’ortruetoitsoriginalvalue.Idon’t leavetheblankspaces the samenomatterwhohassolvedthem.Evenifit’s ‘filled out’ wrong,mykindof complete thefilmintheirmindssameway, likecrosswordpuzzlesthatalllook ‘People dohavedifferentideas,andmywishisthatallviewersshouldnot UK Distributor Curzon Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Persian Format 35mm Running Time Year 1997 Country UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 1970 USA Country Homayun Payvar Bagheri Homayoun Ershadi,Abdolrahman Abbas Kiarostami,AlainDepardieu Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami 1hr 35min France, Iran Park Circus Garcia Pink Floyd,Jerry Franco Arcalli Alfio Contini Michelangelo Antonioni,FredGardner Carlo Ponti Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni 1hr 53min Retrospectives 83 Digital files Rene Burri (On the U.S. Nuclear Highway) Thomas Hoepker (Scared Again: Jews in Berlin) Steve McCurry (Croatia in Crisis) / The Other Side) (El Otro Lado Alex Webb Patrick Zachmann (The People Next Door) Kiki Miyake Eric Marciano, Eric Schefter Magnum Photos Digital files English, French Sophie Bassaler Blake, MartinProducer Sally De La Fouchardière Harry Allouche Abbas, Eve Arnold, Elliott Bruce Davidson, David Hurn, Josef Erwitt, Jean Gaumy, Manos, PeterKoudelka, Constantine Pellegrin, Gueorgui Paolo Marlow, Dennis Stock, Peter Van Pinkhassov, Agtmael, Patrick Zachmann Doc & Film

Country USA 1993 Year Running Time 50min Format Language English Directors Producer Film Editor UK Distributor CountryFrance 2017 Year 52min Running Time Format Language Director Producer Music Featuring interviews with Sales Company Contact [email protected] In On the U.S. Nuclear Highway, Rene Burri juxtaposes the surreal setting of In On the U.S. Nuclear Highway, the Southwest of America, with its Native American history with and rituals, the incongruous stretch of nuclear test sites and bases that line the ‘radioactive’ Interstate 25. In Scared Again: Jews in Berlin, Thomas Hoepker explores anti- Germany from the viewpoint of German Jews and documents semitism in today’s the resurgence of - after reunification. In Croatia in Crisis, Steve McCurry captures the political turmoil in the countryand delivers a moving tale of In El Otro Lado, Alex Webb life together in a land torn apart by war. one family’s captures the vibrant personalities who populate the Mexico/U.S. border where a constant flurry depending of activity represents different things to different people, Patrick Zachmann explores on which side they are on. In The People Next Door, the small but infinitely diverse universe of Belleville, one of the few working class neighborhoods left in Paris, as it faces the pressures of gentrification, high unemployment, and the rise of right wing extremism. ‘Capa had met many filmmakers during the war – they had come with the filmmakers during the war – they had ‘Capa had met many himself with them the landings, and he had found American troops to document taste for gambling,met , with whom he shared a on the front line. He whisky and girls, and they started incredible friendship. Huston remained this have any other death, and wouldn’t faithful to Magnum even after Capa’s were special, they wereagency document his shootings. These photographers real . They were journalists, they arrived on a film set, they and when Magnum and experimented freely. opened doors that had never been opened, about artists meeting and bonding. One never had a strategy with cinema. It’s of the first stars Eve Arnold was Marlene Dietrich. It was in New photographed A few days later, a recording session, and she did it very during naturally. York Monroe, who recognised herat a premiere, Eve was introduced to Marilyn amazing what you’ve done with Marlene, but just immediately and said: “It’s director Sophie Bassaler, imagine what you are going to do with me.”’ Magnum Photos & Masters of Cinema of & Masters Photos Magnum Exploring a range of socio-political issues with echoes of the contemporary political climate, these five short documentaries are all directed by Magnum photographers. The subjects of these striking films include the political turmoil in mid-1990s Croatia, the pressures faced by a multicultural Parisian neighbourhood, rising anti-Semitism in post-reunification Berlin, and the surreal landscape of the American Southwest. (Produced by Kiki Miyake – a production of Little Magic Productions, Inc. in association with (Photo: Magnum Photos, Inc. and TV Tokyo) ©Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos) The Magnum Eye This fascinating documentary tells the story Magnum Photosof the encounter between Best known forand the world of cinema. their groundbreaking and visually striking photojournalism, of for over 70 years many photographer-members most famous Magnum’s have also cultivated a close relationship with a world seemingly distinct from the subject matter typically covered in their work. Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum takes an intimate look at some of the most iconic images, and ofthe stories behind them, produced as a result this meeting of worlds. 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N rattled heroes;ontheother, thepresentdangersareclearly, wrackingly nerve ‘On onehand,thefilmoftenseemstobeplayingoutinsideheadsofits ‘A Report on the Party andthe GuestsiswidelyconsideredN ontheParty ‘A Report one ofN middlegroundbetweenthosetwoextremes.Thefilm’sa slippery is finalpassage second feature,thendivefullyintotheirheadsinhisthird;here,he’s operatingin these victims’innerandouterlives.[…]Forget‘historicalcontext,’N between collapsestheshakyboundary captives—butitalsopermanently starved who soonburstintoagluttonoussing-anddance-alonginthepresenceoftheir degenerateoldmen, abuses—the boysaretakenprisonerbyagangofarmed, is a party andweall ought tobeits grateful guests.’ MaxNelson, FilmComment is aparty kind ofbenevolent hostfigure;thewidelyproclaimed fictionthatlifeunderthe state pressure, andpolitesse tokeepsubjectsinline; thepresentationofruleras a manipulation practiced byregimesinhisday:the appealtosocialmores,peer ě mec would set his characters’ subjectivity almost entirely aside for his mec wouldsethischaracters’subjectivityalmostentirelyasidefor ě mec’s mostdisturbing(andmorbidlyfunny)screedsonpowerand its Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Director Language Czech Format Running Time Year Czechoslovakia Country Original Title Director Language Czech Format Running Time Year Czechoslovakia Country Original Title Film Editor Old Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Contact [email protected] Sales Company Original Music Leading Cast Screenwriter Screenwriter ě mec has a sharp ear for the kind of psychological mec hasasharpearforthekind ofpsychological Czech NationalFilmArchive Karel Mareš Miloslav Hájek Jaromír Šofr Jan N DCP / 1h 3min&11min 1964 &1960 Démanty noci&Sousto Jan N 35mm /Digi-beta 1hr 11min& 1966 &1967 O slavnostiahostech&MutterundSohn Jaromír Šofr Ladislav Jánský,AntonínKumbera Jan Procházka,ErichSvabík Czech NationalFilmArchive Vlastimil Hála Ivan Vyskocil, JanKlusák,JiríN Arnošt Lustig,JanN Arnošt Ester Krumbachová,JanN ř ich Bosák ě ě mec mec ě ě mec’s mostpolitically mec ě mec ě mec seems mec seems ě mec Retrospectives 85

mec had ě mec said ě Music Ladislav Staidl mec mec mec instead filmed its transition into ě ě ě Cinematographer Jirí Sámal Editor Josef Jan N Michalek Tomas Jiri Madl, Karl Roden, Martin Pechlat Jiri Maxa Josef Krajbich Vlk z Královských Vinohrad / Oratorium Vinohrad Vlk z Královských pro Prahu Slovakia / France,Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia 2016 & 1968 26min 1hr 8min & DCP / Digi-beta Jan N mec Screenwriter Ester Krumbachová, Jan ě mec, Arnošt Lustig ě N Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor Sales Company Masterfilm Contact [email protected] Original Title Country Year Running Time Format Language Czech Director , Jean-Pierre Rassam mec Producer ě mec followed through with the majority of the scenes to themec followed through ě mec passed away], we still had one day of shooting and a couplemec passed away], we ě mec. When you cannot stick to the classical narrative practices and themec. When you cannot stick to the classical ě mec Screenwriter Jan ě N of retakes to go. N rough cut and left us the order of scenes. We kept it virtually intact. N the order of scenes. We rough cut and left us ‘[When Jan N right at the beginning that when he decides to shoot a film, he has to finish it. Andright at the beginning that when he decides that finishing the movie was the rightthat happened. I am personally convinced the stale waters of Czech cinema,decision, leading to a film that could refresh we’ve ever it is a testament to one of the most talented directors and moreover, the had. […] He had a clear story – a clear emotion he wanted to tell. However, story they would not let you shoot a normal was shot in locations where film, even that an obstacle, but itfor ten times the budget. Many directors would consider excited N knowledge of the craft, you are cleverer, and you find a new way to narrate a film and you find a new way to knowledge of the craft, you are cleverer, of experience and courage. N do this, you also need lots To more easily. both, and that is what impressed me.’ Tomáš Klein, assistant director both, and that is what impressed me.’ Tomáš mec’s school graduation film is based on a story school graduation book by Arnost from the same Lustig and could be mec’s mec ě mec’s mec’s ě ě the bloody occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet army in 1968. The unauthorised footage was television secretly transported viral, as it was widely broadcast by Western abroad and immediately went and defeated the propagandistic version of the same events fabricated by pro-invasion Communists. Contact [email protected] 1967 Running Time 11min Language Czech Director Jan N 26min Language Czech Director Jan N Intended to capture the hopeful atmosphere of the Prague Spring, N Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Netherlands Year Germany, Original Title Mutter und Sohn Form Narrative Country Czechoslovakia, West This absurdist tale about a doting mother of a brutal torturer was shot without the permission of won the Czechoslovak authorities on a special commission from the Amsterdam Film Festival and later main award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. 1968 Running Time Original Title Oratorium pro Prahu Form Documentary Country Czechoslovakia Year Language 1960 Running Time 11min Original Title Sousto Form Narrative Country Czechoslovakia Year N Czech Director Jan Dobrichovský Contact [email protected] Contact [email protected] N seen as a prequel to Diamonds of the Night as it follows a storyseen as a prequel to Diamonds of the Night as of starving prisoners plotting to steal a piece of bread from a parked train. mec: Enfant Terrible of the Czech New Wave New Czech the of Terrible Enfant mec: ě mec, master provocateur of themec, master provocateur ě Jan N Jan mec passed away in 2016 just a day ě before shooting wrapped) the film is a typically uncompromising, raucous and darkly comic own retelling of key events from the director’s Street will from Royal Vineyard life. The Wolf screen alongside Oratorio for Prague, N Czech New Wave, is his final film, The Wolf is his final film, The Czech New Wave, Street. A fitting epitaph from Royal Vineyard (N striking shortSoviet film documenting the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Oratorio for Prague Mother and Son Loaf of Bread Capping off LIFF 2017’s mini-retrospective of mini-retrospective Capping off LIFF 2017’s work by Jan N The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Royal from Prague for Oratorio & The Street Wolf The 86 Retrospectives true over forty yearson. true over forty ring this remarkable pieceoftelevisionhistory the complexities andpoliticalengagementof for arousingand passionateworkersmeeting, pivotal locallocationsincluding LeedsTown Hall workplace conditionsandgender revolt.Shotin magnificently skilfulandstirring accountof on Halloweennight1974and remainsa own union.LeedsUnited!was broadcast bytheir but werecontroversiallyundermined a gender-equal shilling-per-hour payincrease, the majorityofthemwomen,wentonstrikefor dispute inwhichover25,000clothingworkers, A remarkabledramatisationofthe1970 Leeds United!BBCPlayforToday Messiah. to screenCarnival Trust (registeredcharity517753)forpermission Foundation wishestothankHarewoodHouse after thescreening.TheGeraldineConnor and producerDavidLascellesforadiscussion from boththenandnow. Jointhedirector andbehind-the-scenesfootage interviews This specialscreeningwillalsofeature costumes. cast, loudmusic,spectacularcarnival you closertotheactionthaneverbefore-huge Leeds-based directorAshleyKarrell’s filmtakes Messiah atHarewoodHousewilleverforgetit. Geraldine Connor’s epicmasterpieceCarnival of No onewhoattendedtheperformances Carnival Messiah:TheFilm Leeds FilmCity:SpecialPresentations Rollinson, BFIScreenonline reference points asSergeiEisenstein,G.W. David PabstandGilloPontecorvo.’ to-camera -but also forambitiousstyle.Itsmakers mentionedsuchcinematic - exposingsweatshopconditions andcutwithworkervoice-overspieces veracity Battersby chosetoshootinblack-and-white, notsimplyfordocumentary - includingmany1970strikers - likethepassionatemeetingatLeedsTown Hall. thehandlingofcrowdscenesinvolvinghundredslocals shooting, particularly praised directorRoyBattersby and photographerPeterBartlett’s Leedslocation unusually longattwohoursand unusuallyexpensiveat£150,000.Critics a BBCPlayforToday (1970-84).Welland’s scriptwasscaleddown,but script wascommissionedbyGranadabut,whentheydidnot makeit,became and documentresearch,althoughnameswerechanged.His lengthy interviews ‘Writer ColinWelland, whosemother-in-law wasinvolvedinthestrike,conducted Ashley Karrell,Director to ensurethatheruniquespiritandphenomenalimpactarecherishedforever.’ shementoredandinspired.Ithasbeenaprivilege the workofmanyartists livesonnotonlythroughthefilm,butalso inclusivity throughthearts sceneandremainsrelevanttoday.arts Geraldine’s and visionofempowerment MessiahhastakenitsrightfulplaceasaculturallandmarkinYorkshire’sCarnival oftheAbolitionTransatlanticthe bicentenary SlaveTrade. Adecadeon, oftheTrust’sproduction, stagedatHarewoodHouseaspart celebrationsof oftheoriginal Thefilmmarksthetenthanniversary artists. international creative castofover150drawnfromthelocalLeedscommunityandcelebrated costumery,spectacle showssomeamazingcarnival magneticvoices,anda Messiah.Thisincrediblemusical of herepictheatricalproductionCarnival thatshowcasesallthefantasticaspects honour tocreatethefilm&documentary ‘Geraldine Connorwasaprofessionalmentorandpersonalfriend.Itan UK Distributor Leading Cast Producer Creator Director Language English Format DCP Running Time 2hr Year 2007 UK Country UK Distributor BFI Original Music Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format Digi-beta Running Time Year 1974 UK Country Geraldine ConnorFoundation Christella Latras,JojoKelly Smith, Briggs Davis,AnneFridal,Marvin SheldonBlackman,TomArmstrong, Ram JohnHolden,NigelWong, Simona Herdman, KarleneWray, ChrisTummings, Ella Andall,RonaldSamm,Dennis David Lascelles,AshleyKarrell Geraldine Connor Ashley Karrell John McCabe ,ElizabethSpriggs Kenith Trodd Roy Battersby 1hr 56min Retrospectives 87 Park Circus 1hr 31min Eliot Stannard Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney Gaetano di Ventimiglia Ivor Montagu UK Distributor Country UK 1927 Year Running Time Format Blu-ray Language Director Screenwriter Producer Leading Cast Cinematographer Film Editor ‘We are so used to thinking of Alfred Hitchcock as the Master of Suspense that are so used to thinking of Alfred Hitchcock ‘We it comes as a surprise to realize that he was nearly a decade into his career as a director before he definitively latched on to the genre that was to become his Too Much, released stock-in-trade. Not until the first version of The Man Who Knew in 1934, did he embark on the string of suspense thrillers that would make his international name and become, with only rare exceptions, his chosen territory for Of the seventeen features Hitchcock directed the best part of the next half century. them silent, only three can be Much, nine of before The Man Who Knew Too classified as suspense thrillers: The Lodger: A Story Blackmail, of the London Fog, and Number Seventeen, with its cheerful throwaway nonsense. […] Not surprising, then, that he looked back on The Lodger with affection, calling it “the first true Hitchcock movie.” Not only is it a suspense thriller but it foreshadows, in a good many of its plot details, themes and preoccupations that are now recognized as cinematic world.’ Philip Kemp, The Criterion Collection key elements of Hitchcock’s Irfan Shah presents an illustrated talk on the inventor Louis Le Prince, who shot the world’s Irfan on the inventor Louis Le Prince, who shot the world’s Shah presents an illustrated talk mysteriously on September 16th 1890. first films in Leeds in 1888 before disappearing history the life, achievements and and detective work to explore Irfan will mix biography, material never Presenting of the movie industry. tragedies of one of the great unsung heroes of a ‘new’ Le Prince film, Irfanbefore seen in public, including evidence will celebrate both storythe inventor and the role of Leeds in the of early cinema. Ben Waddington has previously led Invisible Cinema walks for LIFF, uncovering the city’s the city’s uncovering walks for LIFF, led Invisible Cinema has previously Ben Waddington some of the city’s exploration to include Ben extends his houses. For Interludes, lost picture in cinema, recall classic moments the city for sites that locations, scouring famous film shared by participants with memories all interspersed This 90-minute of previous walks. history edits local cinema narrated walk outlook of our environment with an imaginative in the picture. city and put themselves to get closer to their for those wanting and is ideal Ben is a Birminghamof the exploratory cultural historian and the director based guided tours festival Still Walking. Picture House will mark its 103rd birthdayThis year the Hyde Park with the help of Archive. Presenting another rare opportunity Film to see an our friends at the Yorkshire the past century film made in and about the city over amazing mix of archive people, – the and everydaythe places, major events on film over the decades. Graham lives captured wonderful Archive will be on hand to bring these Film clips to life, Relton from the Yorkshire what makes this city of ours so special. helping us truly understand Screening with live accompaniment by celebrated organist Darius Battiwalla, classic silent film The Lodger is Hitchcock’s widely acknowledged as the moment when the undisputed master of suspense firmly established the key thematic and formal obsessions that This he would pursue throughout his career. haunting thriller sees a landlady and her husband take in a new lodger (a compelling Ivor Novello), who initially appears to be the perfect guest but whose mysterious behaviour soon leads the couple to suspect he may be the who has recently known as the Avenger, killer, begun terrorising local blonde women. The Lodger with organ Battiwalla accompaniment by Darius A White Horse in Roundhay: Louis le Prince Talk A White Horse in Roundhay: Leeds on Film with the Yorkshire Film Archive Film Film with the Yorkshire Leeds on Leeds Film Interludes: Guided Walk Guided Interludes: Film Leeds Leeds Film City: Special Presentations / Live Performance / Live Presentations Special City: Film Leeds 88 Retrospectives (Cahiers duCinema) ariver,becomes awaterfall, anocean...’ ‘Ott’sand mesmerising Ondesmartenot. piano pieces withavant-garde tracksonthemysterious classical piano modern soundtrack alternates woman promisedtothegods. Christine Ott’s Matahi, ayoungpearldiver, andReri,ayoung impossible loveonBora-Boraisland, between the poeticandmovingTabu ofan isthestory Town Hall.F.W. Murnau’s lastsilentfilmclassic, for Tabu forthefirsttimeinUKatLeeds and Tindersticks, heruniquesoundtrack performs collaborations includeYann Tiersen, , Acclaimed FrenchmusicianChristineOtt,whose Tabu: oftheSouthSeas-ChristineOttCiné-concert AStory onpianofromJonathanBest. performance alcoholic husband.Accompaniedbyalive of aworking-classwomanandherabusive and bold,rhythmiceditingtotellitstragicstory Junghans’ filmmakesstrikinguseofclose-ups a mediumatthepeakofitspowers.Carl landmark workofsilentcinemathatshowcases It hassincegoneontoberecognisedasa attract muchattentionatthetimeofitsrelease. as asilentfilmandconsequencefailedto the first‘talkies’appeared,SuchisLifewasshot Despite beingproducedduringtheperiodwhen Such isLifewithpianoaccompanimentbyJonathanBest Live Performance naturalism thatwouldforever changethe languageofcinema.’ Joshua Brunsting an assumedtechnological advance,butalsohelped usherinatypeofcinematic a filmthatnot only brokegroundinanagewhere cinemajustcageditselfin by ofFlaherty’swith thecultural focusthatmadetheheart workbeat,Tabu became filmmakers could.Blendingboth Murnau’s beautiful,expressionisticfilmmaking J.Flaherty, director Robert onlythesetwolegendary the North andtellsastory into theSouthSeaswascreated bythepairofF.W. andNanookof Murnau journey mentioned intheparagraphabove,thisbriskandpowerful iconic artists that itwouldneed.Andthenthere isTabu. Fromnot onlyone,buttwoofthose camera andthestationary medium hadallbutshiftedinto both soundstorytelling, cinema aestheticsforquitesometimeafterthegrowthofsound incinema,the likeCharlie Chaplin,whostuckwithsilent behind. Saveforafewiconicartists capabilities tomakesoundpictures,butappearedleavesilent cinemacompletely hadnotonlygainedthe ‘By 1931,nearlytheentiretyoffilmindustry productions.’ JeannePommeau frommainstream with avant-gardeideasandaestheticstosetitapart not onlyforthecharacterizationofwaitress,butalsotoassociatefilm isessential waitress liberatedfromtheusualconfinementoffemalerepertoire, integrity ofPudovkin’s Mother. ofValeska Theperformance whoplaysa Gert, Baranovskaja asthemaincharacterisareferencetosacrificeandmoral already playedindecisivefilmsthatinfluenceditsgenesis.Thechoiceof Vera of thefilmitself,butalsoincastingwhichincludedpersonalitieswhohad two frameslong)influencedCarlJunghansandarenotonlypresentinthestyle cinema andthecinematicexpressionofSoviet(someshotsareonly social itself fromtheotherfilmsproducedduringthisperiodinPrague.German true tolife,refusingembellishmentorsentimentalism.Inthisway, itdistinguished ‘Following thewaveofsocialrealisminEuropeancinema,filmtriestobe Leading Cast Screenwriter Director Language Format DCP Running Time Year 1930 Czechoslovakia Country Original Title Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 1930 USA Country Original Music Contact [email protected] Sales Company Theodor Pišt Carl Junghans Carl Junghans Silent film 1hr 11min Takový jezivot Hugo Riesenfeld A.Brooks Arthur , J.Flaherty Robert Matahi, AnneChevalier David Flaherty, J.Flaherty Robert F.W. J.Flaherty Robert Murnau, F.W. Murnau Silent film 1hr 26min Zden Czech NationalFilmArchive ě k Liška ě k, Valeska Gert Retrospectives 89 ski ń Studio Filmowe Producer Se-Ma-For Country Poland 1980 Year Running Time 8min Director Zbigniew Rybczy Original Title Apel Country Poland 1970 Year Running Time 7min Czekała Director Ryszard Studiominiatur Producer Filmowych Original Title Szkoła Country Poland 1958 Year Running Time 7min Borowczyk Director Walerian Studiominiatur Producer Filmowych Original Title Schody Country Poland 1968 Year Running Time 8min Director Stefan Schabenbeck Studio Małych FormProducer Filmowych Se-Ma-For Original Title Droga Country Poland 1971 Year Running Time 4min Director Mirosław Kijowicz Studiominiatur Producer Filmowych Polish Film Institute Music for Polish Animation Classics Animation for Polish Music We’re delighted to present a very delighted concert special We’re music animation and live wonders of Polish featuring the Sea cult bands. 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Institute & Polish Cultural Contact Tango Roll Call The School Stairs The Road ski ń ż cig ś Original Title Le Lion et le Moucheron Country France 1932 Year Running Time 9min Director Władysław Starewicz Wladislaw Starewicz Producer Productions Original Title Wy Original Title Podró Country Poland 1970 Year Running Time 6min Director Daniel Szczechura Studio Małych FormProducer Filmowych Se-Ma-For Original Title Bankiet Country Poland 1976 Year Running Time 9min Director Zofia Oraczewska Studiominiatur Producer Filmowych Original Title Czarny kapturek Country Poland 1983 Year Running Time 5min Director Piotr Dumała Studio Małych FormProducer Filmowych Se-Ma-For Studiominiatur Producer Filmowych Country Poland 1989 Year Running Time 6min Director Marek Serafi The Race The Lion And The Fly The Journey Black Riding Hood Banquet Live PerformanceLive Hall: Town at Leeds Power Sea British

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Leeds Short Film Awards celebrate the latest and greatest shorts from around the world, and LIFF is a qualifying festival in this category for both the and the BAFTAs. The very first moving images were filmed in Leeds in 1888 by Louis Le Prince and LIFF’s prestigious international competition is named after the film pioneer. All our competitions are considered by official juries and they also include spotlights on animation, British and Yorkshire filmmaking, music videos, and screendance, plus we have a special selection of shorts judged by the LIFF audience. All the winning short films of LIFF 2017 can be seen in a special programme on 16th November. 91 92 Leeds Short Film Awards abigailaddison.com Festival andofAnimationAllianceUK. BoardofUnderwire Abigail sitsontheAdvisory which wonBestBritishFilmatLIAF2016. co-produced ChrisShepherd’s Johnno’s Dead works independentlywithfilmmakers,and received Wellcome Trust Shealso support. &scienceprojectthat a large-scaletouringart andDesign. the NationalCollegeofArt holds aB.DesinVisual Communicationsfrom to establishtheDublinSci-FiFilmFestivaland andfunders.Sarahalsohelped with partners engagement andkeyfestivalrelationships Fantastic Flix,audiencedevelopment,industry programming teamandspreadsacrossShorts, role atADIFFisintegratedcloselywiththe University ofEdinburgh. teaches courseson cinemaandarchivesatthe tothis,Lydiaaround theUKandEurope.Further Film Festivals,galleriesandunusual spaces widely at been commissionedandperformed expanded-cinema piecesandworkshops have collectiveScreen Bandita,whose of artists’ since 2010.Lydia is alsoafoundingmember Sarah Ahern FilmCompetition Louis LePrinceInternationalShort Juries Lydia Beilby Abigail Addison British &Yorkshire Competitions World AnimationCompetition Acts, and Silent Signal, Acts, andSilentSignal, ’s Random for including 15shorts innovative projects she hasproducedmany Over thepast10years agency AnimateProjects. Director ofanimation a Producer, andisa Abigail Addisonis Graphic Design.Sarah’s & TVProductionand that sheworkedinFilm since 2014.Before with theFestivalfull-time Festival andhasbeen Film International for theAudiDublin Manager &Programmer isProjects Sarah Ahern running Film Festival, running FilmFestival, longest continuously Film Festival,theworld’s for EdinburghInternational FilmProgrammer of Short Lydia hasheldtheposition curator andeducator. a movingimageartist, in 1984,Lydia Beilbyis inYork,Born England Short FilmConference. Short London Critics‘Circleandisontheboardof Film Critics),theEuropeanAcademy, the of BAFTA, Federationof FIPRESCI(International Sight andSoundScreen.Heisamember and isalsoaregularcontributortothelikesof he iscurrentlytheeditorofCineuropaShorts Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Cork FilmFestival,Ireland. programmerat was previouslythedocumentary festival programmingandcoordination and across England.Fionahasabackground in andfilmmakersfrom films fromyoungartists together tocommissionboldandexciting short ‘You couldsunbatheinthisStorm’. films,‘HuntingforHockney’and her twoshort She hasbeenawardedthemostsuccesswith exhibitions anduniversitiesaroundtheworld. given talksaboutherworkinfilmfestivals,art Goldsmiths University. Alicehasscreenedand Laurence Boyce Fiona Hegarty Alice Dunseath Shorts. As a journalist Asajournalist Shorts. action elementsofPÖFF Programme forthelive where hetheHeadof Film FestivalinEstonia works attheBlackNights Festival. Hecurrently Film Leeds International began hiscareeratthe inLeeds,Laurence Born organisations work organisations work network centres.These Acts andfivenational Channel 4Random CouncilEngland, Arts a jointinitiativebetween Random ActsPresentsis Random ActsPresents. Distribution Managerfor Fiona istheCinema and Communicationsfrom andaBAinmedia of Art from theRoyalCollege has anMAinAnimation Goldsmith University. She Digital Image-makingat in Animationand animator andlecturer London basedfilmmaker, Alice Dunseathisa this year. win theBAFTA Animationearlier forBritishShort World AnimationCompetition,andwentonto FilmFestivalinthe 30th LeedsInternational screenedatthe graduation filmALoveStory emphasis onaestheticsanddesign.Her paper andpaint.Thereisalwaysastrong centenary ofFinland’scentenary independence. year’s LIFF, Finland100,whichcelebratesthe filmsforthis programme ofFinnishshort films.Suvihascuratedaspecial Finnish short distributionandsalesfor handles international Tamperenewly formed FilmAgency, which Suvi Hanni Anushka KishaniNaanayakkara bring more short filmto theSouthEast. bring moreshort festivals. NowbasedinMargate,she hopesto atmusic screenings andcuratedcinemayurts hosted livescorefilm commissioned newshorts, Kate Williamson materials such as wool, materials suchaswool, experimentation, using narration and Her stylecollaborates Motion Animation. specialising inStop and Television School, from theNationalFilm Naanayakkara graduated Anushka Kishani Suvi also works for the Suvi alsoworksforthe festivals intheworld. film respected short the oldestandmost Film Festivalisoneof programmer. Tampere as festivalproducerand over 15years,nowadays Tampere FilmFestivalfor Suvi Hannihasworkedfor around the UK, has around theUK,has film festivalsandevents involved innumerous festival. Shehasbeen Nightsfilm The Shortest filmmaking, whichhosts to promotingBritishshort organisation dedicated SightedCinema,an Short Kate istheco-curatorof Leeds Short Film Awards 93 Juries Dave Simpson writes about music for the Guardian from a northern outpost. He has previously written for various titles including Melody i-D and Uncut. Maker, He is the author of The Fallen – Life In And Out Insane Most Of Britain’s Maia graduated fromMaia graduated Martha School Graham of Contemporary Dance Since then(NY) in 2007. she has specialized in dance film as a director/ editor choreographer, and performer and won international awards for her films. Additionally, David Simpson Maia Sørensen Group and The Last Champions – Leeds United That Football Changed Forever. And The Year He currently lectures in music journalism and popular culture at the University of Huddersfield. He grew up in Leeds, now lives in North father and plays drums in is a proud Yorkshire, Fond. she works as a dance film consultant andshe works as a dance film has facilitated and curated dance Maia curator. dance institutionfilm activities for the Danish Dansehallerne and ran the international online 60secondsdance. dance film competition Ben Lewis has spent the last decade of his life immersed in the Leeds music scene, playing in bands, DJing, putting on club nights and booking shows. Starting out working at The Cockpit and Live At Leeds, he is now head booker at Super Friendz, the team Anna Macdonald is aAnna Macdonald artistmoving image and the UK, whoscholar from workingspecialises in directly with the public. Her films have been shown at galleries and festivals internationally and her work was selected as a flagship Ben Lewis Anna Macdonald behind Belgrave and Headrow House, as well as promoting a diverse collection of shows around the city for artists like Run The Jewels, and Slowdive, King Krule, Kamasi Washington more. He is also responsible for Beacons Metro, Must Be The Place that have Island and This World brought the likes of Jungle, Floating Points, Nao and Little Dragon to Leeds in the last 12 months. project for AHRC funded research into sociallyproject for AHRC funded engaged art. articles She has published about time and film, in journals such as the the body, International Journal of Screendance. Annamacdonaldart.co.uk Gabrielle Jenks is the Director of Abandon Normal Devices, the UK’s only roaming festival of art, new cinema, and digital culture. She is a curator and cultural producer interested in critically engaged practice and switching audiences Yolanda M. Guadarrama M. Yolanda dancer sincehas been a 1985 and choreographed for dancemany pieces theatre. She has been making screendance herworks since 2007 and films have been part the of official selection of several festivals around the world. Gabrielle Jenks Leeds Competition Leeds International Screendance Competition Screendance International Leeds M. Guadarrama Yolanda onto new art forms, in site specific contexts. She has worked with a number of organisations (Foundation like the British Film Institute, FACT Liverpool for Art and Creative Industry) Tate, Biennial and has lead on a number of art tech collaborations with Google and the BBC. In 2008 she co-founded Motion, a screendanceIn 2008 she co-founded and since 2013 has ledfestival based in Berlin (InternationalMOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO Permanent Screening and Gallery)Videodance based in Mexico. http://yolandamguadarrama.weebly.com 94 Leeds Short Film Awards You’ve MadeYour Bed,NowLieInIt Small Town Milk Meninas Formicida And TheWholeSkyFitinaDeadCow’s Eye Animal Nitrate Louis lePrinceInternationalCompetition from fallingintothehandsofhisannoyingbrother. will dieinthreedays.WhenhetellsKnutofhisfate,theoldmaninitiates amissiontosavethefarm Knut Aksel isrenownedforhisabilitytopredictthefuture.Suddenlyhegets avisiontheelderlyfarmer Contact [email protected] Valia CinematographerPålUlvikRoksethEditorHenrikPedersen PhyllisZwart ScreenwriterTomas Director AlexanderZwart Running Time15minLanguageNorwegian SolliProducer Year Norway Premiere StatusUKOriginalTitleSomeinreiersåliggFormNarrative Country 2016 up severaltimesthroughoutthenightandcomplainshehasapaininhischest. stop.Thatnight,hecan’tand limbsthatpeoplediewhentheirhearts sleep.Hewakeshismother fromhisteacherthatbodiesaremadeupofahead,torso One dayatschool,youngFredericolearns Contact [email protected] Editor DiogoCostaAmaranteMusicF. R.David MetragensC.R.L.CinematographerDiogoCostaAmarante Producer DiogoCostaAmarante,MiguelDias,Curtas DirectorDiogoCostaAmaranteScreenwriter Time 19minLanguagePortuguese Year Portugal Premiere StatusUKOriginalTitleCidadepequenaFormNarrativeCountry 2016Running the kitchenoftheir14thfloorapartment. ofacowin Russianfamilyfindstheirdailyroutinesomewhatinterruptedafterthediscovery A perfect Premiere Status UK away withpesticides.However, outtobetherealfight. herinnerstruggleturns inaeucalyptusforestwhereshechasesants In asmallBraziliantown,teenagegirlworkseveryday Contact [email protected] Cinematographer ThiagoRibeiroPereiraEditorJérômeBréau DirectorJoãoPauloMirandaMariaScreenwriterProducer DamienMegherbi,JustinPechberty Portuguese France,BrazilYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime12minLanguage expectations, hehasn’t hertothebeyond;hehasotherplans.Thenagain,sodoesshe. cometoescort Eighty-five-year-old employer. Emetriahasanencounterwiththeghostofherformer toher Contrary Contact [email protected] Francisca AlegriaProducer CinematographerMatiasIllanesMusicJoseIgnacioBadiaBerner BirgitGernboeck , USAYear 2016RunningTime18minLanguageSpanishDirectorFranciscaAlegriaScreenwriter Premiere StatusUKOriginalTitleYTodo elCieloCupoenOjodelaVaca FormNarrativeCountry Muerta Contact [email protected] Daniil FomichevEditorDariaVlasova,AlexanderFedoseevMusicIvanBushuev Russian DirectorDariaVlasovaScreenwriterProducer Yanna Cinematographer Buryak Form Narrative Lithuania, Russia Country Year 2017 Running Time 15min Language

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Daydream Nation Daydream A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts and lo for from around the world. Unable to communicate with anyone, he searches high someone who can understand him. 2016 Running Time 12min Language Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country Iceland Year he will have A young Icelandic football player is on the cusp of living his childhood dream. Crucially, to leave the familiar comforts of his home town to achieve this goal, a departure which turns out to be somewhat more painful than he anticipated. 2017 Running Time 14min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Ireland Year 2017 Running Time 13min Language Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country Phillippines Year Armi Rae Cacanindin, Carlo Francisco Manatad Producer Filipino Director Carlo Francisco Manatad Screenwriter Siang Editor Lee Chatametikool Music Benjo Ferrer Iii Lim Teck Josabeth Alonso Cinematographer Ling Tiong, Contact [email protected] as a gas station attendant for a veryJodilerks has been quietly and diligently working long time. fashion. an outrageous and she has decided to sign off in, quite frankly, is her final shift Tonight Kári Úlfsson, Jasmin Tenucci Icelandic Director Brúsi Ólason Screenwriter Daniel Slottje, Brúsi Ólason Producer Cinematographer Erlendur Sveinsson Editor Brúsi Ólason Music Emmsjé Gauti Contact [email protected] TJ O’Grady Peyton Screenwriter Benjamin Cleary Rebecca Bourke Producer English Director Benjamin Cleary, Editor Nathan Nugent Music Nico Casal Cinematographer Burschi Wojnar Contact [email protected] Leonor surprises her father by returning home early from a school trip. Within the next twenty-four by returningLeonor surprises her father Within home early from a school trip. and wildly unsettling state of will have ascended into a hallucinated hours, their vision of reality extreme normality. 2017 Running Time 15min Language Original Title Glaspärlan Form Narrative Country Finland Year The stifling existence of suburban Norway a twelve year old boy to spend his afternoons forces specific, something that might actually lead to a plundering rubbish bins, in search of something reward for him and his family. 14min Language 2017 Running Time Greek Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status Greece Year Cinematographer Christos Massalas Christos MassalasProducer Screenwriter Director Christos Massalas Koukoulios Editor Christos Massalas Konstantinos Contact [email protected] This is the story an abandoned Greek summer resort. of Copa-Loca, Paulina is the girl at the heartof Copa-Loca. Everyone for her and she cares about everyone cares in every — possible way. Language 2017 Running Time 25min Narrative CountryPremiere Status UK Form Portugal Year Portuguese LLuís Urbano, Screenwriter Salomé Lamas, Isabel Pettermann Director Salomé Lamas Producer Moreira Rui Xavier Editor Salomé Lamas, Francisco Sandro Aguilar Cinematographer Contact [email protected] Claes Olsson, Kinoproduction Seitajoki Producer Screenwriter Tommi Seitajoki Swedish, Finnish Director Tommi Music Ludde Allén Seitajoki Oy Cinematographer Pietari Peltola Editor Tommi Contact [email protected] Louis le Prince International Competition International Prince le Louis Wave See Ya Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee The Glass Pearl Coup de Grace Copa Loca 96 Leeds Short Film Awards Harbour Good Luck,Orlo! Elegy Centaur Artichoke After Death IsNotTheEnd Louis lePrinceInternationalCompetition water forcesthem toreflectontheirsituation. Two ofadeadbodyinthe industrialpaintersareatworkintheRotterdamharbourwhen discovery Contact [email protected] MusicStavrosMarkonis Ernest Maarten Dutch DirectorStefanieKolkScreenwriter StefanieKolkProducer SabineVeenendaal, JeroenBekerEditor NetherlandsYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrative Country 2017RunningTime13minLanguage out tobemorecomplicatedthanhehadimagined... arises,Orlotakesthingsintohis ownhands,butthisturns again.Whenanopportunity to benormal After adramaticevent,Orlo,7,watcheshisparentsbecomeconsumed withgrief.Hewantshisfamily Contact [email protected] Simic CinematographerLedPredanKowarskiEditorAndrejNagode Producer ScreenwriterSaraKern 14min LanguageSlovenianDirectorSaraKern RokBicek,IraCecic,Ivana Slovenia,Croatia,AustriaYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime consequences. andbyadeepresentment,shedecidestowritesomethingthatwillhavedire the suffocatingmourning, ofsadness. Chockedby After thedeathoftwoherclassmates,Juliaisincapablefeelinganysort Contact [email protected] MusicXavierBorjaBucar Carles Iniesta,RaülMulasEditorOnaBartrolí 15min LanguageSpanishDirectorAlbaTejero ScreenwriterAlbaMolas,Tejero Cinematographer SpainYear OriginalTitleElegiaFormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime the ArgentinePampas. setin An outlawgauchoseeksrevengeonthehorsethatkilledhisbrotherinthisGreek-Creolewestern Contact [email protected] Lastra EditorSebastiánAgullóMusicGabrielChwojnik 13min LanguageSpanishDirectorNicolásSuárezScreenwriterCinematographerFederico ArgentinaYearPremiere StatusUKOriginalTitleCentauroFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime misunderstandings...and food. Sonic Youth’s thingsinlife:loneliness,anxiety, LeeRanaldo,thisisafilmabouttheimportant Two inadiner. men,bothwiththeirownsetsofproblems,meetinvoluntary Soundtrackedby Contact [email protected] Lee Ranaldo DirectorLorentzCeloScreenwriterProducer LorentzCeloMusic 8min LanguageNorwegian Year Norway FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusUKOriginalTitleArtisjokk 2016RunningTime find somecommonground? each other. Afterthefunerals,theydiscovernewandunknownfactsaboutdeadbutdoalso Bohdan’s fatherhasjustdied.Vera hasjustlostherhusband.Thisbecomesthereasonforthemtomeet Contact [email protected] Editor HannaJalali Director HannaJalaliScreenwriterProducer HannaJalaliCinematographerMoeinoddin Russian UkraineYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime20minLanguage

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Minji Kang The Faraway Nearby Faraway The Screenwriter Christina Lazaridi Producer ć Editor Vlaho Krile Cinematographer Marko Brdar Zoran Dzeverdanovic, Barbara Vekaric, Contact [email protected] Guusje van Deuren, Rianne French Director Shady El-Hamus Screenwriter Jeroen Scholten van Aschat Producer Dunn Peters N.S.C. Editor Patrick Schonewille Music Terence Poodt, Harmen Kreulen Cinematographer Ton Contact [email protected] first job An innocent young Chinese man is pounding the streets of Shibuya, in preparation for his nervousness about is not just it soon becomes apparent that the man’s interview in Japan. However, the pressure of his impending interview. 2017 Running Time 14min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country France Year helps his father Elias to transport illegal immigrants into the Netherlands. When Tarik Eleven-year-old but at a high gains the acknowledgment from his father he has yearned for, an accident occurs, Tarik price - the loss of his own innocence. 2017 Running Time 13min Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Japan Year Kei Chikaura Language English, Japanese Director Kei Chikaura Screenwriter Kei Chikaura Producer Cinematographer Miki Ogawa Contact [email protected] 2017 Running Time 15min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country France Year novel, a rookie gendarme witnesses Hugo’s In the modern-day Parisian neighborhood of Victor the When a young boy records them going too far, the abusive policing practices of two veterans. is caught in the middle. community threatens to explode and the rookie Three delegates from Sweden, NorwayThree delegates from Sweden, in Lapland to consider an art and Finland are gathered piece, in for a But the committee is the three borders meet geographically. which is to be placed where artistsurprise. Instead of a sculpture, the commissioned presents his idea for a ‘Nordic Dance’. 2017 Running Time Form Narrative CountryPremiere Status UK Original Title U Plavetnilo Croatia Year an idyllic Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on Thirteen-year-old scarred, Julija is desperate to reconnect with her Croatian island where Julija grew up. Emotionally awakening wounds and family history, mounting rejection re-ignites Julija’s best friend, Ana. But Ana’s left behind. the monster of violence she thought she’s No 15min Language 2017 Running Time Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status Iran Year Ali Abpak Ark Cinematographer Ark Screenwriter Bahram & Bahman Bahram & Bahman Dialogue Director Music Mehdi Naderi Editor Ali Moslemi Contact [email protected] of disguise: he will re-invent border and comes up with an ingenious method A man wants to cross the himself as a ram. Premiere Status Northern Finland Year Kommittén Form Narrative Country Original Title Sweden, Norway, Gunhild Language English, Swedish, Norwegian,2016 Running Time 14min Finnish Director Jenni Toivoniemi, Jarmo Marie Kjellso Cinematographer Kiuru, Gunhild Enger Producer Enger Screenwriter Jenni Toivoniemi, Music Edvard Grieg Annika Summerson Editor Contact [email protected] 19min Language Croatian Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovi Ayadi Cinematographer Christophe Barral, Toufik Producer Screenwriter Ladj Ly French Director Ladj Ly Editor Flora Volpelière Julien Verron Contact [email protected] Louis le Prince International Competition International Prince le Louis Signature Nightshade Les Misérables Into The Blue The Committee Animal 98 Leeds Short Film Awards Saint Hubert The PaintedCalf The Mouth The Ceiling The Brother Barbs Wasteland The FutureTense Louis lePrinceInternationalCompetition soul andtakesmeasures againsttheintruders. forester. and This confrontationgoesfrombadto worse astheforesterprotectsthis areawithheart During alarge-scalesearchinthe oldestnatureparkofEastBelgium,theauthoritiesclashwithalocal Contact [email protected] Vandekerckhove Belgian DirectorJulesComesScreenwriter JulesComesProducer JurgenBuedtsCinematographerGrimm BelgiumYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrative Country 2017 Running Time20minLanguage goods andwealthwiththeirdevotion.Naturally, thisresultsinrampantliesandblatantplundering. Those whoworshiptheGoldenCalfviewhislifethroughprism of materialismandseektoobtain Contact [email protected] Alcántara,OscarSantamaría Juan BenitoRiveroCinematographerCrisNodaEditorDavidPantaleón,Fernando Bombín,IsabelArencibia, Director DavidPantaleónScreenwriterProducer DavidPamntaleón,Marta SpainYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry Spanish 2017RunningTime9minLanguage he oscillatesbetweentheneedforsolaceandhisurgerevenge. hisdaughterhasbeenbrutallymurderedbyherhusband.Time amanlearns standsstillas life story: This musicalfeaturingGuineanpercussionmaster, MohamedBangoura,isloosely basedonhisown Contact [email protected] EditorCamiloRestrepoMusicMohamed‘DiableRouge’Bangoura Bertier Olive, Martin Time 19minLanguageFrenchDirectorCamiloRestrepoScreenwriterProducer Helen FranceYear OriginalTitleLaBoucheFormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2017Running on space. arrives andinsiststhatsomethinghastobedoneyetOlaviismorecontentwiththesuddenlimitations he findsthattheceilinghascomedownmakinghimunabletostandupstraight.Hisfriend Tuomas On thebrinkofdivorce,amiddleagedman,Olavi,retreatstohiscabinbylake.Afterfewdays, Contact [email protected] TapolaCinematographer Aarne EditorJussiRautaniemiMusicVille Tanttu 15min LanguageFinnishDirectorTeppo AiraksinenScreenwriterMelliMaikkulaProducer JohnLundsten FinlandYear OriginalTitleKattoFormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2017RunningTime poingant filmaboutlongingandmemory. lifeinNewOrleanstheabsenceoftheirmissingbrother.Three sistersgoabouttheireveryday A Contact [email protected] Cinematographer PaavoHanninenEditorLéaTriboulet MusicThomasRochard English DirectorLéaTriboulet ScreenwriterLéaTriboulet Producer LéaTriboulet KiraAkerman, France,USAYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime9minLanguage totheyoungstersoftoday,their story intheirownwords. Theprotagonistsofthisfilm,manythemilliterate,workingsincechildhood,relate Agrarian Reform. misery, Revolutionsowedthepromiseofan conditions. Aftergenerationsofstarving theCarnation At theendof19thcentury, acourageousstruggleforbetterwork peasantsstarted Portguese Contact [email protected] MateusMusic C.R.I.M. CinematographerHugoAzevedoEditorMarta MateusProducer JoanaFerreira,IsabelMachado/ Screenwriter Marta Mateus DirectorMarta Portuguese Year Portugal Premiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime25minLanguage

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Life And How To Live It Live To And How Life Norwegian Director Aleksander Johan Andreassen Screenwriter Aleksander Johan Andreassen Producer Aleksander Johan Andreassen Editor Aleksander Johan Andreassen Contact [email protected] 2017 Running Time 19min Language Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country Norway Year During this search her inner monologue turns outwards in Sigrid is in search of her missing cat, Liv. daily both movement and action. She collides and progresses to and from her encounters with her environment and societal norms. But will she ever find her cat? 2017 Running Time 24min Language Icelandic Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country Iceland Year Þóra Karítas Eva Sigurdardottir, Producer Director Thora Hilmarsdottir Screenwriter Snjólaug Lúðvíksdóttir Kristín Ólafsdóttir Cinematographer Thor Eliasson Editor Sigurður Eyþórsson Music Lisa Holmqvist Árnadóttir, Contact [email protected] car accident to find that she has received a life-saving Katrín wakes up in after a serious things. As Katrín struggles the religious cult she belongs to forbids such blood transfusion. However, become obsessed with the stranger she begins to family, to reconcile this conflict with her church and whose blood is now flowing through her veins. A sixteen year old girl has come to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. The people in The of her mother. has come to the hospital to identify the body A sixteen year old girl her the girl insists that most of the morgue without a guardian. However, let her into charge won’t really who she says she is? activities. Finally they agree, but is she family are in jail for criminal 2017 Running Time 20min Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Iran Year Kaveh Mazaheri Kaveh Mazaheri Producer Language Persian Director Kaveh Mazaheri Screenwriter Editor Pooyan Sholehvar Cinematographer Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah Contact [email protected] the weight falls on his Suddenly, husband does weightlifting. In the corner of the home, Maryam’s first Maryamthroat and puts him between life and death. At she changes tries to save him, but then her mind. 19min Language 2016 Running Time NorthernPremiere Status Narrative Country Form Iceland Year party wish to throw a slumber for her friends, but it fulfill his young daughter’s A single father wants to turns the invisible rules of modern than he imagined as he is faced with out to be more of a challenge society. Language 2017 Running Time 15min Premiere Status NorthernCountry Form Narrative Iran Year Mohammad Alireza Ghasemi / GlobeCSFCinematographer Producer Persian Director Alireza Ghasemi Hadadi Editor Bahram Emrani Contact [email protected] Eva Producer Magnúsdóttir Magnúsdóttir Screenwriter Nanna Kristín Nanna Kristín Icelandic Director Editor Eyrún Helga Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson Cinematographer Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir Sigurðardóttir, Music Gísli Galdur Sigurbjörg Jónsdóttir Guðmundsdóttir, Contact [email protected] Louis le Prince International Competition International Prince le Louis Strim Salvation Retouch Lunch Time Cubs 100 Leeds Short Film Awards Catherine Camouflage Batfish Soup Au revoirBalthazar Among theBlackWaves The AbsenceofEddyTable World AnimationAward full ofcolourand emotion,Catherinehasbeenahuge hitamongstfilmfestivalsthis year. ofayounggirlwho growsuptobeacrazy,film; abittersweet lifestory cat lady. Astriking animation Animator BrittRaessuccessfullycombines darkcomedywithrelatablecircumstanceshernewest Contact [email protected] No DialogueDirectorBrittRaesAnimator PieterVanScreenwriter DesselBrittRaesProducer KarimRhellam BelgiumYear Form NarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime 12minLanguage beautiful yetchargedfullofmeaningandsymbolism. the currentpoliticalmattersinTurkey asinfluencers,animatorImgeÖzbilgehascreatedsomething toblossom. UsingtheGeziParkprotestsinIstanbuland world whereaforbiddenfriendshipstarts takestheaudiencetoamysteriousandsurreal Inspired byOttomanminiatures,thisanimatedshort Contact [email protected] Dialogue DirectorImgeÖzbilgeAnimatorJonathanKarsilo BelgiumYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime 6minLanguageNo disbelief... peculiar pastimescompeteinanincreasinglytenseatmosphere.Thechildrencanonlylookon filmbyAmandaBonaiutoboilsoverwithweirdness,asfamilymembers’ and eccentricCalifornian A brokendoll.sinistercockatoo.Annoyinggrandparents.Soup!BatfishSoup.Thissupremelyabsurd Contact [email protected] Dialogue DirectorAmandaBonaiutoScreenwriterProducer InstituteoftheArts California Premiere StatusYorkshire USAYear FormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime5minLanguageNo see. Hejustwantshisshellback! butpossiblysaddestanimationyou’llever inthiswonderful, scarecrow embarksonapoignantjourney sound oftheseainsidemesmeriseshim,shellisstolenbyacrow. Settingouttoreclaimit,the aricketyscarecrowwakestofindbeautifulshell.Butasthe Despite beingbrokeninasnowstorm, Contact [email protected] Rosset, RafaelSommerhalder Sommerhalder Producer ClaudiaFrei,StellaHändler, freihändlerFilmproduktionGmbHEditorRosaAlbrecht,Marina No DialogueDirectorRafaelSommerhalderAnimatorHansueliTischhauser, Tobias PreisigScreenwriterRafael SwitzerlandYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime10minLanguage wife. skin ofonethesecreatures,preventingitfromtakingtothewater. Instead,itbecomesthehunter’s Selkies, thisblackandwhitefilmisladenwithtexture,addingtothehauntingfeel.Ahuntersteals intoshapeshiftingseals,or Based ontheancientCelticlegendinwhichsoulsofdrownedpeopleturns Contact [email protected] Anna BudanovaProducer Valentina Khiznyakova,IrinaVolodina Time 11minLanguageNoDialogueDirectorAnnaBudanovaAnimatorDamianMarhuletsScreenwriter RussiaYear voin Form NarrativeCountry Premiere StatusUKOriginalTitleSredichernih 2016Running a magnificentlydark,butsurprisinglycutetaleofparasiticallove. andillustratorDaveCooper.cartoonist Richindetailandutilisingthelatestdigitalanimationtools,it’s RuneSpaansandCanadian isacollaborationbetweenVFXartist meticulous anduniquelyoddshort We animation-andalong comesEddy loveitwhenwefindabrilliantNorwegian Table! This Contact [email protected] Dialogue DirectorRuneSpaansAnimatorJohnErikKaadaScreenwriterDaveCooperEditor Year Norway Premiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime12minLanguageNo

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World Animation Award Animation World It’s going to be a long day for one particular mushroom hunter as he searches for those elusive It’s in Chanterelles. But as the day wears on and the family meal is being prepared, will he succeed in style, perfectly drawn and beautifully coloured, Julian Grande’s his singular task? Traditional charmingly and pacing. rustic student film is an exercise in atmosphere Language No 2016 Running Time 9min Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country Estonia Year Dialogue Director Martinus Klemet Animator Horret Kuus Screenwriter Martinus Kalev Tamm Klemet Producer Contact [email protected] A mystical beauty surgery owner. clinic is built next to a sports club which threatens to ruin the club’s to the What is going on in this clinic? The solution seems to be inside a bottle of ‘Fat Burner’. Welcome world of kitsch and bad taste created by Estonian filmmaker Martinus Klemet. Premiere Status UK Original Title Pour une poignée de girolles Form Narrative Country Belgium Year 2016 Screenwriter Running Time 7min Language No Dialogue Director Julien Grande Animator Ulysse Vega 2017 Running Time 15min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Poland Year Piotr Kubiak, Łukasz Feiner Screenwriter Jaroslaw Konopka No Dialogue Director Jaroslaw Konopka Animator Cinematographer Jaroslaw Konopka / Anima-Pol Jadwiga Wendorff Producer Contact [email protected] Escape is a terrifying and apocalyptic Polish short,Set in an unspecified, annihilated world, The both woman and child are surrounded by a constant sense superbly animated and supremely haunting. A half-seen traumatic events threaten to overwhelmof insecurity and suffering, as afterimages of their where is escape to be found? danger, forbidding world. In this state of anguish and Atelier de production de La Cambre Julien Grande Producer Contact [email protected] Martina Mikušová’s MA film is packed full of aggression and passion, demonstrating the destructions full of aggression and passion, demonstrating MA film is packed Martina Mikušová’s jungle imageryof relationships. With and a booming soundtrack, Martina emphasises the primal in us all, threatening to come out at any moment. instincts that sit rooted 2016 Running Time 5min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Experimental Country Croatia Year Bonobostudio comes this elegant . Meaning ‘dowry’From the ever-reliable in woven pieces of material, like bed linen and Croatian, Dota refers to an old custom of preparing home when she gets married. Likewise the film weaves table cloths, for a woman to bring to her new delightful animated patchwork. the animated line and a haunting voice into a No 10min Language 2016 Running Time Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status Germany Year Iring Freytag, Viktor Paul Maresch, Stickel Animator Friederike Bernhardt Producer Viktor Dialogue Director Editor Robert Adrian Langenbach Stickel Cinematographer Stuprich Contact [email protected] The search for suitable wood hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. A child has to leave its work. The journey one we are all growing from a child to an elderly person is of becomes a life’s yet vital task. A animation by one mundane Stickel’s symbolised in Viktor embarking upon and is expressive story we can all relate. to which 8min Language 2016 Running Time Premiere Status NorthernCountry Form Narrative Slovakia Year No dialogue Director Martina MartinaAnimator Samuel Hvozdík Screenwriter Mikušová Mikušová Producer of performingErika Paulinská / The Academy arts Cinematographer Martina Martina Mikušová Editor Mikušová Contact [email protected] Suvar Vedran Screenwriter Petra Zlonoga Producer Croatian Director Petra Zlonoga Animator Zan Jakopac Suvar Editor Miro Manojlovic Cinematographer Vedran Contact [email protected] A Fistful of Girolles Fatcula The Escape Dota Chilli Child 102 Leeds Short Film Awards The Indigestion In ANutshell Impossible FiguresandOtherStoriesII I Want Plutoto BeaPlanetAgain The FullStory Foreign Body World AnimationAward Contact [email protected] useful increating thebestcontent! delve intotheanguish andfearsofthefamily. funny, Fast-pacedandvery itappearsfamilydinners are Remy. ofthe grandmother, Afamilydinnerisorganised fortheanniversary to creating anopportunity Fans of2015’s animationbyMathilde hitSundayLunchwillnotwanttomissthisequallyentertaining Contact [email protected] Time 6minLanguageBelgianDirector MathildeRemy Premiere StatusUKOriginalTitle L’indigestion BeligumYearForm NarrativeCountry 2016Running for theworse,butthingskeepevolving. an enjoyableapproachtohowquicklythingsarounduschange,sometimes forthebetterorsometimes from indifferencetoapocalypse,filmmakerFabioFriedli’s attempttocapturetheworld inanutshellis A fast-paced,stopmotionwhereyoublinkandyou’llmissit!Froma seedtowar, frommeattolove, Contact [email protected] Producer RamonSchoch,LukasPulverYK/AnimationStudioGmbH Language NoDialogueDirectorFabioFriedliAnimatorPabloNouvelle Screenwriter FabioFriedli SwitzerlandYear FormExperimentalCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 5min 2017RunningTime which thethirdinseriesbeginsproductionsoon. trip andfall,onlytowakeaworldofillusionsparadoxes.Abeautifulflowinganimationin basedonimpossiblefiguresandastatementtheroleofwomen.Hereweseewoman Award-winning seriesof ImpossibleFiguresandOtherStoriesIIisthesecondofathree-part Contact [email protected] Pajek Editor Marta Animoon PajekProducer PajekAnimatorMichelleGurevichScreenwriterMarta No DialogueDirectorMarta PolandYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime12minLanguage society’ssatire onmodern andself-improvement. obsessionwithperfection inequality inthenearfuture,directorsVladimirMavounia-KoukaandMarieAmachoukelicraftaclever partner.chance tochangehisfateandbewithperfect Inthisslyandhumorous parableofsocial possibledefect,hasthe On thenightofgrandannuallottery, withevery Marcus,aboyborn Contact [email protected] Director VladimirMavounia-Kouka,MarieAmachoukeliProducer AutourdeMinuit FranceYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry French 2016RunningTime11minLanguage ofchildhoodmemoriesandhowtheylingerwithinthefamilyhome. a deceptivelysubtlestory Through agloriousandanarchicmixtureofliveactionvarietyanimationtechniques,shetells Anyone familiarwithDaisyJacob’s toherlatestanimatedshort. singularstylewillbelookingforward Contact [email protected] Tagg, GeofMorganCinematographerMaxWilliams EditorVera Simmonds Director DaisyJacobs,ChristopherWilder AnimatorHuwBunfordScreenwriterDaisyJacobsProducer Elliott UKYear FormNarrativeCountry English Premiere StatusNorthern 2017RunningTime7minLanguage grows toacceptandlovethisnewbodypart. a youngwomanfindsthatnewandoddadditiontoherbodyhasmindofitsown,butultimately MagnuskahasdonewithherfilmForeignBody.Polish animatorMarta accident, Afteranunfortunate Taking issuesuchasbodyimageandusinghumour to makeastatementiswhat acontemporary National FilmSchoolinŁód MagnuskaProducer Polish ZakrockiScreenwriter Marta MagnuskaAnimatorPatryk Dialogue DirectorMarta PolandYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime7minLanguageNo ź Marta MagnuskaEditorEwaGolis CinematographerMarta

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World Animation Award Animation World No 2016 Running Time 2min Language Narrative Country Lithuania Year What if your window was your only view. Would you like the window to be clean so you could gaze Would What if your window was your only view. is a graduation animation Kastaars out or would you cover it? Do you have a choice? Jasmine Elsen’s film about seeing and being seen, and a whole lot of hair. 2016 Running Time 3min Language No Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country UK Year Dan Wong Dialogue Director Yan Contact [email protected] powerfulyet simple A Medicine, needs. daily story mother’s elderly her to tend to race daughter a sees a pattern that slowly chips away at the woman until one day the eat, sleep, repeat; it’s shower, Wong. Yan Dan racetrack breaks. A stunning graduation film from newcomer 2016 Running Time Premiere Status UK Original Title Kastaars Form Narrative Country Belgium Year 2017 Running Time Form Narrative Country France Year Premiere Status UK Original Title L’ogre delicate style and sinuous movement enhances it’s Simply a film to fall in love with, The Ogre’s restaurant visit goes badly wrong as the ogre’s to be part of society, Yearning beautiful grotesquery. that this film is and bodily functions on display, his true nature is revealed. Considering the gluttony its wonders. also so sweetly melancholic is just another of Jasmine Elsen, David Editor 6min Language No Dialogue Director Jasmine Elsen Animator Ehsan Yadollahi Štumpf Contact [email protected] A short but sweet animation to help bring a smile to your face. Ignas Meilunas’s film was created on a A short Meilunas’s to help bring a smile to your face. Ignas but sweet animation just 21 days, but the result is a charmingzero budget and shot in comedy which might make you look differently from now on. at day and night a little 2016 Running Time 5min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Germany Year Nocturne For has been selected for all of the prestigious animation festivals this year - including ours. this dark and uncanny animation? In a forest clearing how could we deprive Leeds of a showing of gather to performin the dead of night, nightmarish mystical creatures a mysterious ritualised game. A game that can only have one outcome. Language NoRunning Time 16min 2016 Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status Portugal Year Nuno Producer Screenwriter Filipe Abranches Eduardo Raon Filipe AbranchesAnimator Dialogue Director Editor Nuno Amorim Filipe Abranches Cinematographer AVPL Amorim / ANIMAIS Contact [email protected] how festival, this film proves Animanima the Jury Special Distinction of the Winning at last year’s powerful portrays animation can be. Director Filipe Abranches and moving an atmosphere of abject as mustard gas swirls around the grim, desolated pestiferous trenches of WWI, horror in the muddy, damned and the dead. fields, littered with the Premiere Status UK Form Ignas Meilunas Animator Marius Meilunas Producer Dialogue Director Ignas Meilunas Contact [email protected] Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton Screenwriter AnneNo Dialogue Director Anne Breymann Animator Anne Breymann Cinematographer Björn Ullrich, Anne Breymann Breymann Producer Contact [email protected] Animator Pierre Caillet Screenwriter Laurène10min Language No dialogue Director Laurène Braibant den Boom den Boom / Papy 3D Productions Editor Gabriel Jacquel, Sarah Van Richard Van Braibant Producer Contact [email protected] Rascals Race The Ogre Nocturne Mr Night Has a Day Off Mr Night Has It Would Piss Me Off To Die So Yoooooung... Die Off To Piss Me It Would 104 Leeds Short Film Awards Wicked Girl Volcano Island Sore EyesforInfinity Sog Running Lights The RealmofDeepestKnowing World AnimationAward International Film Festival, this short filmlingers withyoulongafterithasended. FilmFestival,thisshort International begin togiveway todarkerimages.Includedinthe officialselectionforbothAnnecy and Toronto overflowing imagination, butsoonherhappymemories ofholidaysinhergrandparents’ village Told throughan8yearoldgirl’s ramblingsandstories,thehand drawn animationsemphasiseher Contact [email protected] Turkish DirectorAyce Screenwriter Ayce Kartal Producer DamienMegherbi,JustinPechberty Kartal France,TurkeyPremiere StatusUKFormNarrative Country Year 2017 Running Time8minLanguage subtextinadramaaboutnaturalforces. uncomfortable ofHenriMatisse,whichareajoytowatchonthebigscreen. Theyalsocleverlypresentan artworks white tiger. DirectorAnnaKatalin Lovrity’s boldshapes andvividuseofcolourrecallthecut-out On amagicalvolcanicislandthat’s abouttoerupt,atigressisrelentlesslypursuedbylustful Contact [email protected] Katalin LovrityProducer JozsefFulopEditorJuditCzako Time 9minLanguageNodialogueDirectorAnnaKatalinLovrityAnimator BalintSzaboScreenwriterAnna YearPremiere StatusUKOriginalTitleVulkánsziget Hungary FormNarrativeCountry 2017Running But wherethere’s weirdness-there’s hope. glasses, shesoondiscoversthathercustomersaregettinguptosomeincreasinglydisturbingactivities. lostapairof ofoddcustomersvisithershop.Whentheopticianleavestoreturn a randomassortment Let’s getweird!InthissatisfyinglypeculiarFinnish film,anoptician’s daygetsprogressivelystrangeras Contact [email protected] Pyjama FilmsLtd. dialogue DirectorElliVuorinen AnimatorJaniLehtoScreenwriter ElliVuorinen Producer Terhi Väänänen/ FinlandYearPremiere StatusNoFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime12minLanguageNo societal intolerance. realisedworldof solutions arefound.Butdoesallthecommunityfeelsameway?Aperfectly dwelling creaturesinvestigatethedisturbance.Unsureofhowtoreactthisstrangeincursion,violent A screamingfishistrappedinatree.Asmorejoinitandthenoiseincreases,communityofcave- Contact [email protected] Schwenk CinematographerIvánRoblesMendoza No dialogueDirectorJonatanSchwenkScreenwriterProducer MerlinFlügel,Jonatan Year Germany FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2017RunningTime 10minLanguage really shinesthroughtogivethefilmasenseofmagic.Atrulybreath-takingadditionourprogramme. miracleof lifeanddeath.Usinglightinastrikingway,eternal Siaulys’s previousworkasavisualartist aboutthe Gediminas Siaulys’s filmasdirectorisanendearingyetthought-provokingfairytale firstshort Contact [email protected] Editor GediminasSiaulys GediminasSiaulysProducer MiglePelakauske ė, Fusedmarc,JurgaSeduikytScreenwriterAndriusKirvela, Sirvydyt Running Time11minLanguageNoDialogueDirectorGediminasSiaulysAnimatorMixtapeClub,Eglė Finland,India,LithuaniaYear OriginalTitleForm NarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2017 toshowingyouallthisone. ingenious andgraceful,we’rereallylookingforward hand-craftedsecondfilmconstantlysurprises.Both of stopmotionanddrawnanimation,herwarmly her followuphasbeenmuch-anticipated.Settoajauntilyoff-kiltersongandwithdelightfulblend Ever sinceSouthKoreananimatorSeungheeKim’s Mirrorinmindwasreleased2014, debutshort Contact [email protected] Seunghee KimProducer SeungheeKimEditor Time 3minLanguageEnglish,KoreanDirectorSeungheeKimAnimatorScreenwriter SouthKoreaYearPremiere StatusUKOriginalTitleSimSimFormExperimentalCountry 2017Running

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Carried Away Carried British Shorts British Competition English Director Patrick Myles Screenwriter Patrick Myles, Bernard MacLaverty Susie Gordon Producer Cinematographer Damien Elliott Editor Helen Sheridan Music Patrick Neil Doyle Contact [email protected] short story, Michael Smiley stars in an endearing based on a Bernard MacLaverty’s the father depicting what appears to be a pretty atypical British family holiday at the beach. However, uses the opportunity to reawaken the passion in his marriage by writing his wife a pornographic constant attention and interference. and children’s poem, despite his mother-in-law 2017 Running Time 6min Language No dialogue Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country UK Year for Music Matthew Wilcock Jo Calverley Director Ben Steer Animator Phil Brooks, Ben Steer Producer Sound Contact [email protected] entirely using projected animation onto real, polystyrene film sets, Mamoon is a fascinating and Told brilliantly conceived film. It follows the story of a mother and child, whose lives descend into darkness they Fleeing the calamity, are engulfed by shadows. when the moon, and then their entire city, discover a strange red light that may prove to be their salvation. Running Time 7min Language 2016 Premiere Status NorthernForm Narrative Country UK Year 2017 Running Time 6min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Documentary Country UK Year Harriet HortonEnglish Director Hilow Films Producer Cinematographer Joseph Gainsborough Editor Craig Coole Music Hannah Thurlow Contact [email protected] This heartfelt and personal documentary a trans man who lacked the support tells the story of Andrew, Here he life changing link to the LGBTQ community. he needed until AGE UK provided him with a has been able to flourish, all thanks to his new friend speaks about his experiences and how his life Harriet. In this cheeky comedy debut, two thieving boys take refuge at the local church in a small Irish town. debut, two thieving boys take refuge at the local In this cheeky comedy a self-appointed mission from leaves behind his briefcase, they embark on When the parish priest bit more boys discover that the grown up world is a the journeyGod. But on their epic to the big city, complicated than it seems. 2017 Running Time 5min Language English Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country UK Year Alex Cook Cinematographer Jack Producer Director Hannah McKibbin Screenwriter Hannah McKibbin Editor Amy Hounsell Music Caspar Leopard Wilkinson Contact [email protected] work. Whilst his family sleep soundly upstairs, Late one night, Henry returns home from a long day’s built around himself. free from the ‘perfect’he wanders around the house, longing to break world he’s and exasperated, HenryTired is drawn to his garden shed, where he finds his own particular form of release, far away from prying eyes. Language Running Time 20min 2017 Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status UK Year Amelia Baker Neil Edson, Producer Barbor-Might Tom Screenwriter Barbor-Might Tom English Director Editor Quin Williams Aadel Nodeh-Farahani Cinematographer Contact [email protected] and sets about into a lonely hotel room Alice checks shortIn this adaptation of a story, curating a flawless death she preparations to end her life. Whilst making macabre and meticulous draft and then re-draft the perfectobsessively attempts to . In the process she reveals a heart-breaking a conflicted present. past and Language 2016 Running Time 17min English Premiere Status NorthernCountry Form Narrative UK Year Morgan Portia Portia Alen-Buckley Producer A.Buckley, Screenwriter Michael Lindley, Director Michael Lindley Linden Editor Lewis Albrow Music Tom James D. Kelly Cinematographer James D. Kelly Michael Lindley, Watkins, Contact [email protected] A Pornographer Woos Mamoon Incomplete The Happy Genius God’s Own Children God’s All That You Love Will Be Carried Away Will Be Carried Love You All That 106 Leeds Short Film Awards The Crossing Clanker Man Cake Wednesday withGoddard Sticky Carried Away /LeftBehind Competition British Shorts profound anxieties. a chanceencounter withhisexrevealshe’s leftbehind,forcingTerry been permanently toconfronthis breakup. Thefilm mergestogetherandexploreshis past,hismindandrecurring nightmares,until A psychologicaldramaaboutTerry, andfailingtocopewitha manwhoisbattling infertility adelivery Contact [email protected] Editor JackKingMusicMilesHancock PatonCinematographerPaulAndrewRobinson Director JackKingScreenwriter Producer Garry UKYearPremiere StatusNoFormNarrative Country English 2016RunningTime15minLanguage austerity cutbacks,it’s notjustrealitythat’s tounravel. starting feelingthepinchof to maintainthebackgrounddetailswetakeforgranted.Butwithhis department withhistrustyclanking paddle, Terrywondered wheretheycomefrom?Armed Lothianworkstirelessly Have youeverheardmysteriousnoisesatnight,orfoundasinglelost gloveonarailingand Contact [email protected] Director BenSteinerScreenwriterSteiner, Producer EliSilverman DanDixon/FumeFilms UKYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry English 2017RunningTime 10minLanguage usalltolookafteroneanother.a postcardfromthefuturewarning nothing, astwowomeninafantasticalbarrenwastelanddiscussthebestwaytodie,butatitscoreis and Cake isableakbutbeautifullyshotlittlefilmstarringMaxinePeake,thatspeaksabouteverything Contact [email protected] Robbie Ryan EditorVanessa Wood Director AlanFrielScreenwriterAndreasHadjivassiliouProducer FarahAbushwesha Cinematographer Premiere StatusYorkshire UKYear FormNarrativeCountry English 2017RunningTime6minLanguage SXSW 2017,we’redelightedtopresentthisbrilliantanddeceptivelycomplexBritishcomedy. revelation. CommissionedbyChannel4’s RandomActsseriesandWinner at ofBestAnimatedShort ofromanceandspiritualenlightenment,towardsadistressingpsychedelic soon resultsinjourney andstrikinganimationbeginsbyponderingthebeautyofrain,but This beautifullydrawn,colourful Contact [email protected] Michal FirkowskiScreenwriterNicolasMenardProducer ClaireCookMusicDavidKamp ClaudioSalas,SeanWeston,Director NicolasMenardAnimatorAnneLouErambert, IrisAbols,NicolasMénard, UKYear FormNarrativeCountry English Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime4minLanguage lust, parcelsandchewinggum. ritual whichdrawsherintoavividfantasyworld,inthisdelightfulandfunnysuburbantaleofteenage her streetandconceivesaplantogainhisattention.Butasobsessiongrows,shebeginsbizarre Growing uponan80’s Sheffieldhousing estate,15yearoldKarenspotsanewpostmandeliveringto Contact [email protected] Yap EditorSarahPeczek English DirectorRichardTurley ScreenwriterRichardTurley Producer NatalieBlassCinematographerStefan UKYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime13minLanguage

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Left Behind Left British Shorts British Competition Yorkshire Short Film Competition Yorkshire A coming-of-age drama set beneath the grey skies of rural northern England examining the social and stigmatising dynamics of male adolescence. Harry and Jamie are inseparable friends, who spend all Harry becomes determined to win back his That is until Jamie starts dating Lucy. their time together. attention but as he recklessly perseveres he risks revealing his true feelings. friend’s 2017 Running Time 16min Language English Form Narrative Country UK Year Premiere Status World Rhys Jones Cinematographer Lasse Ulvedal Tolbøll Director Rhys Jones Screenwriter Rhys Jones Producer Editor Rhys Jones Music Matthew Needle Contact [email protected] 2017 Running Time 5min Language English Premiere Status UK Form Narrative Country UK Year Magali Screenwriter Magali Barbe Producer Director Magali Barbe Animator Joffrey Zeitouni, Philippe Moine Barbe Cinematographer Anthony Guiry Music Pierre Vedovato Contact [email protected] augmented reality game, depicts the benefits of An apparent, slickly produced trailer for a new also commentating on the increasing encroachment and creating and growing your own ‘’, whilst dependence of technology in our modern and asks the question, how far are people willing to society creation? go to live in a fantasy environment of their own After losing her husband, a woman begins a dark and dysfunctional, albeit humorous, relationship a woman begins a dark and dysfunctional, After losing her husband, What startswith a sentient potted plant. off as a nurturing presence throughout her grieving process, home, but also her future to not only encroach upon the entirety of her increasingly threatens relationships and existence. Language 2017 Running Time 20min English Country Form Narrative UK Year Premiere Status World Fuel Cinematographer Laurens Producer Director Melly Still Animator Screenwriter Melly Still, Ben Power Scott Editor Anna Meller Music Adrian Sutton Contact [email protected] feels so ignored by his following the death of his father, A contemporary fairytale in which a boy, filmed on the west coast of Scotland, of age story, family that he becomes invisible. This coming explores love and loss through the visceral imagery to terms of a young boy struggling to come with his grief and isolation. 24min Language 2016 Running Time NorthernPremiere Status Narrative CountryForm UK Year Maggie McDermott Editor Chris McKay, Nick Bennett Michael SharpeCinematographer English Director Contact [email protected] white, this impressive shortFilmed in stark black & monologue about the kinship is a captivating struggle to live with boxer’s elephant from a travelling menagerie. The between a boxer and an life leads him on a brutal journey is made all the more difficult as his fractured syndrome of Tourette’s from a fire untouched. walk can’t You destruction and retribution. Language 2017 Running Time 6min Premiere Status NorthernEnglishCountry Form Narrative UK Year Greet Kallikorm Cinematographer Matthew Day Johnny Kelly Producer Director Johnny Kelly Screenwriter Antfood Editor Charlie Fawcett Music Contact [email protected] Burn Bridge Strange Beasts Invisible Fern The Dog and the Elephant The Dog 108 Leeds Short Film Awards Toll Booth Thirsty Stan Mum Lambing Season The HiddenPeople Yorkshire FilmCompetition Short from thelocalodd-balls drivingby. Exploringthefoggy darkness,Terry makesa terrifyingdiscovery. disappearance. His suspicionsintensifythroughout thenightashefindsoutmoredisturbing details Terry workatanisolatedtoll boothontheYorkshire starts moorsfollowinghispredecessor’s Contact [email protected] StocksProducer ScottLyus,Animator ScreenwriterMartin Stocks Cinematographer NealParsons Martin UKYearForm NarrativeCountry Stocks 2017RunningTime11minLanguage EnglishDirectorMartin first... dweller isdesperateforadrinkofwater, lastbottle butfindsthatsomeoneelsehasgottothevery Collegegraduate OscarBarany.funny animationfromLeedsArt Inamessy, rundownshack,adesert It’s greattoseethevarietyoffilmsbeingmadearound Yorkshire, andthisyearwebringyou Contact [email protected] dialogue DirectorOscarBaranyAnimatorProducer LeedsCollegeofArt Premiere StatusWorld UKYear FormNarrative Country 2017RunningTime3minLanguageNo that connectsusall.Words. it’s askingquestions,to becuriousandcompassionatediscoverthecommonnature timetostart passbywithoutathought?Intimeofdivision,mistrust,confusionandanguish, otherwise Do youeverwonderwhatishiddenbehindaface,passionsliepersonwould Contact [email protected] Director BenG.BrownProducer BenG.BrownCinematographer Editor LiaHayes English Premiere StatusWorld UKYear Country FormDocumentary 2017RunningTime9minLanguage family bonds. aboutthestrengthof hands shebeginstorebuildtheirrelationship,inthissensitiveandtouchingshort ill,andnoonehadthoughttotellher.out, hermumhasbecomevery Taking mattersintoherown When Katevisitshermotherafterafewyearsaway, sherealisesthatfarfrombeingreadyforaday Contact [email protected] Cinematographer ColmWhelanEditorChrisWyattMusicPeterGregson Marie OConnorScreenwriterAnne-MarieProducer KateLarking,Anne-MarieO’Connor UKYearForm NarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime13minLanguageEnglishDirectorAnne- not bewhotheyseem. new developmentsinanhistoricmissingchildcasecometolight,hebeginssuspecthisparentsmay Yorkshiresecluded North butas totakethe reignsfromhisfatheronthefarm, Moors.Joeislearning Selected fordevelopmentwithCreativeEnglandandtheBFINET.WORK, LambingSeasonissetonthe Contact [email protected] Benjamin GillMusicSamuelJones Gill ScreenwriterJackBenjaminProducer LoranDunnCinematographerDaveyGilderEditorJack UKYearForm NarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime17minLanguageEnglishDirectorJackBenjamin fairies inhisgarden. with arecenttragedy, Yorkshire areserved of teenagerfindssolaceinfilmingtheseemingdiscovery tocometerms Growingupinafamilystilltrying of itsconstructionandsensitivitystorytelling. Already gettingnoticedatUKfestivals,directorRonanCorrigan’s debutfilmimpresseswiththequality Contact [email protected] Editor ReetaVarpama MusicEdHarris Director RonanCorriganScreenwriterCallumDziedzicProducer LaurenBellCinematographerBillyTymon Premiere StatusWorld UKYear FormNarrativeCountry English 2017RunningTime6minLanguage Leeds Short Film Awards 109

Editor Jules De Niverville Sandy Silva Cinematographer Geoffroy Beauchemin Marlene Millar Producer Choreographer Sandy Silva Contact [email protected] and Imprisonment is not a single or discrete event, but a dynamic process that unfolds over time affects families for generations. Separate Sentences is a dance film that draws upon the individual experiences and physical memories of a cast, some of whom are fathers or sons who have experienced incarceration. 2017 Running Time 11min Director Premiere Status UK Form Experimental Country Canada Year usul patterns designed to ignite emotional states of journey, Through a complex series of Turkish place of a group of dancers and singers travel together to find eventual refuge in an abandoned worship. 2016 Running Time 15min Premiere Status European Form Experimental Country USA Year Language Director Amie Dowling, Austin Forbord Cinematographer Heath Orchard Editor Austin Forbord Choreographer Amie Dowling Music Albert Mathias Contact [email protected] 2016 Running Time 10min Director Premiere Status European Form Narrative Country France Year Kerwin Marquet Cinematographer Antoine Parouty Music Julien Audebert Tiphaine Rolland, Julien Producer Audebert Contact [email protected] Venus, Opposition a fixed geometric sequence, Mars & Featuring a solo ballet dancer cycling around machinery the about film a is Phases, single a from shot Apparently mechanics. celestial and cinema of appearances and reality. circular track, it explores the place of the viewer, Playful choreography set to lively piano by Russian composer G. I. Gurdjieff, Cycles tells the story to lively piano by Russian composer G. I. Playful choreography set a of over and over. grief, reliving the memories of a failed relationship man stuck in a circle of 2016 Running Time 5min Director Premiere Status UK Form Experimental Country USA Year discloses its origin: ‘gimp’, a slur meant to mark a A challenging solo for two, the title of this work and walk. This is Marjorie, manner or style of a person’s weak or handicapped person and ‘gait’, the power. and he is performing Marjorie’s This is Pioneer, she wants you to witness her. Director Thomas 2016 Running Time 9min Country UK Form Narrative Premiere Status Finland Year Cinematographer Aino Halonen Raekallio Producer Valtteri Thomas Freundlich, Freundlich Screenwriter Kimmo Pohjonen Music Raekallio Choreographer Valtteri Editor Jukka Nykänen Thomas Freundlich Contact [email protected] As a lonely ice fisherman in the ice, multiple levels of time discovers his frozen prehistoric soul brother alienation, dependency and into a cinematic and kinetic exploration of and reality blend together is a shortfriendship. Cold Storage to the virtuosic dance film that pays homage performances and the classic silent screen. melancholy comedy of 4min Director Joe 2016 Running Time Experimental CountryPremiere Status UK Form Canada Year Cobden Contact [email protected] Mudra Editor Jacqueline Romano Cinematographer Tabatha Screenwriter Producer Pioneer Winter the performers soundFORMovement, Music ABI-L-ITY, Choreographer Pioneer Winter Contact [email protected] Leeds International Screendance Competition Screendance International Leeds Separate Sentences Pilgrimage Mars & Venus, Opposition Phases Mars & Venus, Gimp Gait Cycles Cold Storage 110 Leeds Short Film Awards Just Go Einstein-Rosen Cold Storage Through theSupermarketinFiveEasyPieces Some Body Leeds InternationalScreendanceCompetition Leeds Short FilmAudienceAwardLeeds Short when shehasher bagstolen. A youngmanwholostbothhislegs inachildhoodaccidentcomestotherescueofgirlheloves Contact [email protected] Director PavelGumennikov LatviaYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrative Country Latvian 2017RunningTime10minLanguage least notfornow. Summer of1982.Teo HisbrotherÓscardoesnotbelievehim-at claimshehasfoundawormhole. Contact [email protected] Cinematographer SusoBello(A.E.C.).EditorChoreographerMusic SergioMouredeOteyza Spanish DirectorOlgaOsorioScreenwriterProducer JuanGaliñanes,OlgaOsorio SpainYear FormNarrativeCountry Premiere StatusNorthern 2016RunningTime9minLanguage and kineticexplorationofalienation,dependencyfriendship. prehistoric soulbrotherintheice,multiplelevelsoftimeandrealityblendtogetherintoacinematic discovershisfrozen melancholy comedyoftheclassicsilentscreen.Asalonelyicefisherman and physicalperformances dancefilmthatpayshomagetothevirtuosic Cold Storageisashort Contact [email protected] Thomas FreundlichEditorJukkaNykänenChoreographerValtteri RaekallioMusicKimmoPohjonen Freundlich ScreenwriterThomasFreundlich,Valtteri RaekallioProducer AinoHalonenCinematographer FinlandYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2016RunningTime9minDirectorThomas will recognise. nuclear-family isanamusingscanofmodern relationsthatmostparents cinematic visuals,thisshort inonepiece.Employingadelightfulsoundtrackand A familytriestogetthroughthesupermarket Contact [email protected] Choreographer MariaSaivosalmi,AndriusKatinasMusicMarkkoNyberg Maria HutriProducer PetteriLehtinenCinematographerDanielLindholm/FSCEditorTimo Montonen FinlandYearPremiere StatusUKFormNarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime9minDirectorAnna- FilmSchool. from Northern An evocativevisualpoemfeaturingtwobodiesandonevoice,thisyear’s comes studentcurtain-raiser Contact [email protected] SawickiCinematographerPhilipSchröter Screenwriter Producer Eryk UKYearForm NarrativeCountry 2017RunningTime3minDirectorFrancescoPuppini,MatteoPalmas

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Leeds ShortLeeds Award Audience Film Benjamin Cleary, TJ O’Grady Peyton Screenwriter Benjamin Cleary Rebecca Bourke Producer English Director Benjamin Cleary, Editor Nathan Nugent Music Nico Casal Cinematographer Burschi Wojnar Contact [email protected] farmerAksel is renowned for his ability to predict the future. Suddenly he gets a vision the elderly Knut the farmwill die in three days. When he tells Knut of his fate, the old man initiates a mission to save from falling into the hands of his annoying brother. 2017 Running Time 14min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Ireland Year A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the world. 2016 Premiere Status UK Original Title Som ein reier så ligg ein Form Narrative Country Norway Year Solli Producer Running Time 15min Language Norwegian Director Alexander Zwart Screenwriter Tomas Language 2017 Running Time 11min Premiere Status European Form Narrative Country Iceland Year profits on what they young girls collect items for a charity raffle, but they’re really spending the Two C effervescentlove the most — Vitamin When an elderly lady clocks on to their scheme, a tablets. game of blackmail begins. Phyllis Zwart Cinematographer Pål Ulvik Rokseth Editor Henrik Pedersen Valia Contact [email protected] A fascinating portrait of one man’s passion for collecting stamps, which has even landed him in a passion for collecting stamps, which has A fascinating portrait of one man’s North Korean Jail. 2016 Running Time 13min Language Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country UK Year old Karen spots a new postman delivering to Sheffield housing estate, 15 year Growing up on an 80’s But as her obsession grows, she begins a bizarre her street and conceives a plan to gain his attention. in this delightful and funny suburban tale of teenage ritual which draws her into a vivid fantasy world, lust, parcels and chewing gum. Akari Eda 7min Director Akari Eda 2017 Running Time Country UK Form Experimental Premiere Status Japan Year Saki Toyoshima Akari Eda Choreographer Chiaki Ishii Editor Cinematographer Contact [email protected] turns bathhouse playfully the cleaning of a Japanese into a dance. In Sen Toe, Language 2017 Running Time 6min DocumentaryPremiere Status UK Form Country Netherlands Year Ogura Yuki Ogura Editor Ogura Cinematographer Yuki Yuki Ogura Producer English Director Yuki Contact [email protected] Stefan Natalie Blass Cinematographer Producer Screenwriter Richard Turley English Director Richard Turley Editor Sarah Peczek Yap Contact [email protected] Ari Birgir Ágústsson Guðný Rós Þórhallsdóttir Producer Icelandic Director Guðný Rós Þórhallsdóttir Screenwriter Cinematographer Birta Rán Björgvinsdóttir Editor Birta Rán Björgvinsdóttir Contact [email protected] You’ve Made Your Bed, Now Lie In It Made Your You’ve Wave Vitamin C Sticky Stamps Sen Toe 112 Leeds Short Film Awards (Directed byEtienne Fu-LeSaulnier) Stardust -NextIs Best (Directed byLaurieBerenhaus) Mountains -mac/glidden (Directed byAndrewRutter) Kon-Tiki -Ultrasound (Directed byNatalieJames) Fires -LifeisBetterBlonde (Directed byRomainLaurent) Star-Their Names Burning inCompetition Music Videos proudly presentsthevanguardofthisever-changing andever-influential artform. elseinbetween.Withofmusicvideocreationanincrediblyhealthystate,thisprogramme theart avant-garde andeverything tothetruly storytelling captivating, challengingandprovocativeshowcaseofvisualbrilliancerangingfromconsummateartful yearoftheprogrammepresentsa music video,traversingexperimentalinnovationandoutstandingvideo-makingcraft.Thisfourth ofcurrenttrendsinthecontemporary MusicVideoThe LeedsInternational Competitionisavibrantandever-surprising survey Competition Leeds InternationalMusicVideo (Directed byJola Kudela) Trains -PoppyAckroyd (Directed byOscarHudson) No Reason-Bonobo (Directed byAnnlinChao) Lead MeTo You -Tom Rosenthal (Directed byKatarzynaSawicka) Growing Young -Oly (Directed byJackBarraclough) Carlow Town -SeamusFogarty (Directed bySoda_Jerk) The Was -TheAvalanches (Directed byJoschaBongard) Nostalgic Love-Bergfilm Miller) Heir (DirectedbyIrwin Light AtTheEndoftheTunnel -Bel (Directed byAlanLeonard) McCullough-BPFallons Henry (Directed byJenShuaiLiao) Dust MyShouldersOff-JaneZhang Murray) Gelover,(Directed byCheryl Tom Who LetYou Know?-Tulipomania Palmer) (Directed byRobert Piece ofGold-Lewis&Leigh (Directed byHochR) -Floyd Shakim Mermaids Marchiori) (Directed byAlberto Home -Jesuton (Directed byAinhoaRodríguez) Fade -ChloéBird Meet the Makers 113 Meet the Makers the Meet while trying out the latest film equipment from Provision. Screen Yorkshire and Creative Skillset, and meet inspiring like-minded professionals and Creative Skillset, and Screen Yorkshire magic happen. Pick up some vital career advice from top organisations such as magic happen. Pick up some vital career advice from out what goes on behind the screen and get to know the people who make the out what goes on behind the screen and get to know record of independent productions, our Meet the Makers events are for you. Find record of independent productions, our Meet the Makers creator looking to play a part industries, or a filmmaker with a track in the creative Whether you’re a film fan wanting to hear from leading British talent, a young Whether you’re a film fan wanting to hear from leading 114 Meet the Makers background of the 1970sculturalclashes. anduncoversmurkydealings amida otherwise , heclasheswiththe policewhothink disappearance ofaschoolgirl. Suspectinga Yorkshire Postreporter, EddieDunford,intothe trilogy whichfocusesontheinvestigation by ofthefilmed are alsoscreeningthefirstpart Grisoni whoprovidedthefinal scripts. We who couldn’t resistthechallengeandTony delighted towelcomeproducerAndrewEaton series, theyseemedun-filmable. We are booksintheRedRiding the extraordinary When Yorkshire authorDavidPeacewrote Yorkshire Noir:RedRiding 1974 +Q&AwithAndrewEaton&Tony Grisoni new path,ignitinganintenserelationship. Romanian migrantworkerwhosetshimona expanse oftheYorkshire Dales,hemeetsa drinking. Feelingisolatedintheremotegreen his frustrationsthroughcasualsexandbinge- Johnny, ayoungYorkshire whonumbs farmer follows as ‘aromancethatsoars’,thestory challenges ofmakinghisfirstfeature.Noted films,anddiscussthe present oneofhisshort feature, God’s OwnCountry. Franciswillalso screening ofhisacclaimeddirectorialdebut alumni FrancisLeeinaQ&Atogetherwith We’re excitedtowelcome thetalentedLIFF God’s +Q&AwithdirectorFrancisLee OwnCountry Yorkshire FilmsinFocus which seems todominate andimprison them.’JulianJarrold, director a grainy, filmicqualitywhere wecouldplacethecharacters inanenvironment on Super16film whichseemedappropriatefor theperiodandsetting.Iwanted brutal nihilisticworld ofYorkshire in the70smakesapotentbrew. We shot1974 as heputsit.Thisfictionalisedtruth withitsrelentlesspaceanddepictionofthe fromfactsthatilluminatethetruth” stories areinspiredbyrealevents; “fictionstorn blown awaybytheirpower, driveandfrenetic visceralquality. Hischaractersand dimly awareofDavidPeace’s butwhenIreadthem, was Red Ridingquartet, where eventsunfoldinsuchadark andbrutalfashion.Likemostpeople,Iwasonly was fascinatedbythepeculiar atmosphereoftheplace;its‘psychogeography’, and conflict. Tony wasn’t afraidtoreflecttherealityof I Yorkshireinthe70sand and relationshipssowell.Healsofoundawitpoignancyamongst thedarkness all thedarkanddisquietingqualitiesofnovelhaddeveloped thecharacters ‘It wasthequalityofTony Grisoni’s scriptthatbroughtmetotheproject.Hecaught Francis Lee,director to thesecharacters,andIwasn’t reallythinkingaboutwhathadcomebefore.’ much playing withthenarrative,itfeltorganicthatthisnarrativebelongedvery of vulnerable enoughtobeinlove,lovedandarelationship.Interms was goingthroughtheprocessofhowdifficultitistofallinlove,beopenand I and brutal and stifling. I wanted to investigate it. At the sametime overwhelming it, becausetomeitfeltlikeanincrediblyfreeplace,butatthesametime and Irespondbygrowingupinthatlandscape.feltlikewantedtoexplore God’s OwnCountry. pointwasdefinitelythelandscape, Forme,thestarting orfilmwhenIwaswritingmaking I wasn’t thinkingofanyothertypestory butitwasn’t ofmyprocessinmakingthisfilm. were beautifulandheartfelt, part movedbyitandIthoughttheessentialperformances seen once,andIwasvery ‘It’s areallyinterestingcomparison[toBrokebackMountain]which I’veonly UK Distributor Picturehouse Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format DCP Running Time Year 2017 UK Country UK Distributor Original Music Film Editor Cinematographer Leading Cast Producer Screenwriter Director Language English Format Blu-ray Running Time Year 2009 UK Country Dustin O’Halloran,AdamWiltzie Chris Wyatt Joshua JamesRichards Josh O’Connor, AlecSecareanu Manon Ardisson Francis Lee Francis Lee 1hr 44min Studio Canal Adrian Johnston Andrew Hulme Rob Hardy Henshaw Andrew Garfield,DavidMorrissey, John Overland Wendy Brazington,AndrewEaton,Anita Tony Grisoni Julian Jarrold 1hr 42min Meet the Makers 115

Phil Todd Jonnie Wilkes, James Savage Jonnie Wilkes, Pet Grotesque Two full days of seminars, screenings, expert seminars, screenings, full days of and panels Two media of film and digital that explore the role discussion in participatory arts local, activities at a and activism global scale. national and and Digital Cinemas the Centre for World Hosted by of Leeds, this conferenceCultures at University a range of practitioners,programme brings together and creative activists from Leedsacademics, film makers Generously funded by the AHRC. and across the world. 15th November on Wednesday The public programme shortincludes the following films. Voicing Hidden Histories Hidden Voicing Cinematographer Coraci Ruiz and Felipe Bonfim Editor Julio Matos and Marcelo Félix Producer Víctor Negri [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Coraci Ruiz Music Contact Contact Contact A poetic documentary about the history Mãe Dango, a priestess of Candomblé de Angola, and life of and has in the city of Hortolândia, São Paulo. She is the bearer and diffuser of the banto legacy, Faith, become a symbol of the fight against racism, religious intolerance and the end of poverty. resistance, beauty and community affections are the strong values related to her figure. Wragg English Director Terry 2015 Running Time 7min Language Form Documentary Country UK Year Music Leeds Animation Workshop Producer Wragg Animator Jo Dunn Screenwriter Terry An that draws on the experiences of migrant domestic workers living and extremelyworking in private homes across the UK. Isolated in foreign households, these women from Many find themselves trapped in conditions of great poor backgrounds work for long hours and low pay. Workers. hardship. The film was commissioned by Pavilion, in collaboration with Justice for Domestic 2015 Running Time 39min Language English Director Fernando Form Documentary Country UK Year Fernando Fernando González Mitjáns Cinematographer González González Mitjáns and GrantMitjáns Producer Allen Editor Fernando González Mitjáns Music morningBefore the professors and students arrive for their classes at the School of Oriental and African are just finishing work. ‘Limpiadores’ chartsStudies (SOAS) in London, some people there the day-to- cleaners working on campus, and focuses on theirday invisible labour of the outsourced Latin American in-house as SOAS staff. ongoing campaign to demand being brought 2017 Running Time 23min Language English Director GilbertoForm Documentary Country Brazil Year Alexandre Sobrinho David Archibald, 30min Language English Director 2017 Running Time Form Documentary Country UK Year Johnny MartinCinematographer Martin David Archibald Producer Clark, Cara Connolly Clark, Cara Connolly, Barrington Editor David Archibald, MartinMusic Clark, Cara Connolly Contact [email protected] Through filmed field trips, interviews with the past in numerous forms, and encounters the pupils of Pirie history medieval Park Primary and heritage. For many, School in Govan, learn about and share Glasgow’s Strathclyde, they are also visiting the River Clyde for thethey are not only discovering the lost kingdom of first time. They Call Us Maids: The Domestic Workers’ Story They Call Us Maids: The Domestic Workers’ The Rainbow House Woman Limipiadores Govan Young ParticipatoryConference: Histories Hidden ArtsVoicing Filmmaking Activist & Random Acts on Square

All The Busy ings Form Experimental Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 4min Director Robyn Wilton

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This film explores the sensation of being overwhelmed by the powerful yet indelible interactions between artworks within a gallery space. Prepare to be hypnotised by an explosive orgy of colour and sound. Meet the Makers The Bag Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 3min Director Jake Jarvis

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A cyclical film that ends where it begins. Jake is Buster Keaton-esque. He stands alone, late at night in an empty warehouse, dressed in overalls, waiting for something

Creative Honesty Form Music Video Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 4min Director Jamzy & Harris

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Leeds-based singer-songwriters Jamzy and Harris explore the challenges they’ve faced as young creatives growing up in an Asian community the only way they know how: through words and music.

Fish Tank Girls Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 2min Director Thea Jones

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An exploration of how young girls fail to learn from the mistakes they make through a conversation between two fish. This quirky and amusing short film was created using a combination of face painting and green screen.

Galvanize Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 3min Director Akeim Toussaint Buck

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Multi-disciplinary artist Akiem Toussaint Buck combines spoken word, dance and portraiture to create a warm-hearted call for people to set aside their differences and celebrate the universal elements that unite all of us.

Goathland Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 4min Director Pippa Young

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Two figures wander the desolate Yorkshire Moors building colourful worlds around themselves. Absurdity ensues when their paths cross.

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Illuminated Form Experimental Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 3min Director Eleanor Edwards

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In this dynamic and stylish 3D animation, artist Eleanor Edwards explores the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder on the highs and lows.

Really Modern Times Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 3min Director Violet Adams

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A fresh, funny, feminist silent movie, bringing Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ into the 21st century.

The Ship Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 4min Director Natasha Price

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A cautionary tale of nationalism (and the relative merits of pasties).

Souls in Transit Form Documentary Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 2min Director Danielle Swindells

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This film explores the concrete river that is Wilmslow Road in Manchester. Through a rich combination of slow-motion photography and evocative sound design the filmmaker offers an insight into the five and a half mile stretch of road travelled by over 16 million passengers each year.

Staccatto Form Narrative Country UK Year 2016 Running Time 3min Director Bella Spencer

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Inspired by ’s , who suffered from both and depression, filmmaker and scientist Bella Spencer worked with Arcus Animation Studios to create a stunning film that imagines the neural events of a and the effects on the sufferer’s emotions, while exploring the paradoxical beauty of the biology behind the destructive condition.

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Chilli Premiere Status Northern Form Narrative Country Slovakia Year 2016 Running Time 7min Language No dialogue Director Martina Mikušová Animator Martina Mikušová, Martina Frajštáková Producer Erika Paulinská Cinematographer Martina Mikušová Editor Martina Mikušová Contact [email protected]

Martina Mikušová’s MA film is packed full of aggression and passion, demonstrating the destructions of relationships. With jungle imagery and a booming soundtrack, Martina emphasises the primal instincts that sit rooted in us all, threatening to come out at any moment. Meet the Makers Corner Premiere Status UK Original Title Kut Form Narrative Country Croatia, Estonia Year 2016 Running Time 2min Language No dialogue Director Lucija Mrzljak Animator Lucija Mrzljak Producer Estonian Academy of Arts Cinematographer Lucija Mrzljak Editor Jirina Pecova Music Horret Kuus Contact [email protected]

Life is not easy in a corner, at the interesection of two edges. Especially when the laws of gravity start playing tricks on you.

Farewell Premiere Status Northern Original Title Slovo Form Narrative Country Slovenia Year 2016 Running Time 6min Language No dialogue Director Leon Vidmar Animator Leon Vidmar, Jaka Kramberger Screenwriter Jerneja Kaja Balog Producer Kolja Saksida Cinematographer Miloš Srdi Editor Leon Vidmar, Teo Rižnar Music Tomaž Grom Contact [email protected]

Lovro sits in his bathtub. Looking sad, he stares at droplets dripping from the tap. Suddenly, his memory of the day he first went fishing with his grandpa comes to life in his imagination. Memory and reality merge into one.

Foreign Body Premiere Status Northern Original Title Ciało Obce Form Narrative Country Poland Year 2016 Running Time 7min Language No dialogue Director Marta Magnuska Animator Marta Magnuska Screenwriter Marta Magnuska Producer Marcin Malatyński Cinematographer Marta Magnuska Editor Ewa Golis Music Patryk Zakrocki Contact [email protected]

Taking a contemporary issue such as body image and using humour to make a statement is what Polish animator Marta Magnuska has done with her film Foreign Body. After an unfortunate accident, a young woman finds that a new and odd addition to her body has a mind of its own, but ultimately grows to accept and love this new body part. Ink Meets Blank Original Title Zdarzenie plastyczne Form Experimental Country Poland Year 2016 Running Time 5min Language No dialogue Director Tymon Albrzykowski Animator Tymon Albrzykowski Screenwriter Tymon Albrzykowski Producer Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak / FUMI Studio Cinematographer Editor Tymon Albrzykowski Music Sebastian Ladyzynski Contact [email protected]

Drawn directly on 35mm, this abstract film makes geometry meet music. The film is a black and white, rhythmic metamorphosis of abstract geometric forms.

Life in Patterns Premiere Status UK Original Title Život ve vzorcích Form Experimental Country Czech Republic Year 2017 Running Time 2min Language No dialogue Director Vojtěch Domlátil Animator Vojtěch Domlátil Screenwriter Vojtěch Domlátil Producer Vojtěch Domlátil Cinematographer Vojtěch Domlátil Editor VVojtěch Domlátil Music Vojtěch Domlátil Contact [email protected]

Life in twelve frames per second. A look at the various patterns that surround us and that we don’t pay attention to.

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Pussy Original Title Cipka Form Narrative Country Poland Year 2016 Running Time 8min Language No dialogue Director Renata Gąsiorowska Animator Renata Gąsiorowska Screenwriter Renata Gąsiorowska Producer Marcin Malatyński / Polish National Film School in Łódź Contact [email protected]

A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some solo pleasure time, but not everything goes according to plan.

Volcano Island Premiere Status UK Original Title Vulkánsziget Form Narrative Country Hungary Year 2017 Running Time 9min Language No dialogue Director Anna Katalin Lovrity Animator Luca Toth, Zoltan Koska, Anna Katalin Lovrity Screenwriter Anna Katalin Lovrity Producer Jozsef Fulop Editor Judit Czako Music Balint Szabo Contact [email protected]

On a magical volcanic island that’s about to erupt, a tigress is relentlessly pursued by a lustful white tiger. Director Anna Katalin Lovrity’s bold shapes and vivid use of colour recall the cut-out artworks of Henri Matisse, which are a joy to watch on the big screen. They also cleverly present an uncomfortable subtext in a drama about natural forces. Wild Boar Form Narrative Country Germany, Hungary, France Year 2016 Running Time 13min Language No dialogue Director Bella Szederkényi Animator Paul Vibert Vallet, Samuel Weikopf, Gregor Dashuber, Inês Ferreira Screenwriter Bella Szederkényi Producer Lissi Mushol, Christian Popp, Thomas Schmitt Editor David Hartmann Music Fabrizio Tentoni Contact [email protected]

A street kid’s wild behavior forces him to flee the city. In the forest, he meets a creature mightier than ever imagined.

119 120 Meet the Makers Worldbuilding inYorkshire: InConversationwith CharlesCecil True &RandomActsPanel:ThinkingOutsidetheBoxOffice North Screen Yorkshire OutintheFilm&TVIndustry &CreativeSkillsetPanel:Starting Louis lePrinceInauguralLecturewithJohnSmith Lord &LidltoRadiohead:InConversationwithOscarHudson YoungFilm HubNorth AudiencesDay Panels &Talks appeal inYorkshire. will discussthe development oftheseriesand buildinggameworldswithinternational having the‘longestrunninggraphic adventureprotagonist’.RevolutionCEOCharlesCecil world ofmystery. NowatBrokenSword 5,theGuinnessWorld Recordsliststheseriesas andNicoCollard,teamedtogetherracingintoa features charactersGeorgeStobbart the worldover. Launchedin1996withTheShadow oftheTemplars, the game series Produced byRevolution,based inYork, TheBrokenSword seriesiswellknowntogamers minded professionalsinfilm. panel therewillbeadrinksreceptionwhereyouable tonetworkwithotherlike- TVdramassuchasOkjadominatingtheCannesheadlines. Followingthe and long-form on Demand.Thepanelwillexplorethefutureoffilmdistribution withNetflixoriginalfilms filmdistributionandhowyou cantakeadvantageoftherise the changesinshort Video Acts willbejoinedbyleadingLeeds-basedproductioncompany True totalkabout North Including ascreeningofsomethelatestfilmsinRandom Actsprogramme,Random inYorkshireyou canaccessopportunities andbeyond. location assistantormakeuptrainee,comealongtohearfromourpanelandfindouthow access ‘Trainee infilmor Finder’togetthatfirstopportunity TV. Whetheryou’reabudding Creative Skillset,whowillbediscussingtheir‘OpenDoors’programmeandhowyoucan Testament ofYouth, by SwallowsandAmazonsGhostStories.‘SkillUp’issupported Dark RiverandRedRiding,aswellproductionslikeNationalTreasure, PeakyBlinders, ‘Yorkshire Content Fund’,thathasinvestedinfilmsscreeningatLIFFthisyear;Journeyman, Screen Yorkshire trainingprogramme‘SkillUp’andits will betalkingaboutitsindustry life. everyday and documentary, playfullyexploringthelanguageofcinemawhileremainingrootedin television since1972.JohnSmith’s theperceived boundariesbetweenfiction worksubverts John Smithwhohashadoverfiftyworksshowninindependentcinemas,galleriesandon Thespeakerforthisinauguraleventistherenownedfilm,videoandinstallationartist form. art aswellprovokingdiscussionanddebate aboutfilmasan filmartists, contemporary the firstannualLouisLePrinceLecture.TheLectureshowcasesworkofoutstanding withLIFFpresents FilmSchoolatLeedsBeckettUniversityinpartnership The Northern discussion abouthowhiscareerhasprogressed. Awards atCannesLions.ThesessionwillincludeaselectionofOscar’s workanda are immediatelyrecognisable,andin2017OscartookhomeGoldattheYoung Director Young Deez.Oscar’s ThugandDarwin uniquetechnicalstyleandin-cameravisualeffects Lidl, OscarhasdirectedawardwinningmusicvideosforthelikesofRadiohead,Bonobo, Director attheUKMusicVideo Awards filmLordand 2016.Afterhisbreakthrough short We’re pleasedtowelcomeLIFFalumniOscarHudsonwhowasawardedBestNew Festival. to youngaudiencesscreeningprojectsintheFHNregionsincludingLeedsYoung Film willpresentspeakersandworkshopsessionsrelated event organisedbyFilmHubNorth to developingthecinemasectoracrossregionsandbeyond.Thisspecialroadshow forpeopletoengagewithworldcinemainallitsdiversityand enhancing theopportunities the exhibitionsectorinYorkshire, EastandCumbriathatshareacommitmentto theNorth venues,festivalsandthoseworkingin isanetworkofcinemas,crossarts Film HubNorth Meet the Makers 121 BAFTA Presents BAFTA Workshops & Masterclasses & Workshops The BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer goes to.. director or producer for Outstanding Debut by a British writer, The BAFTA present a secret screening of a BAFTA- As part of the 70th anniversary celebrations, BAFTA winning debut film in partnership with Leeds International Film Festival. This is an unique opportunity to see an outstanding British debut on the big screen, accompanied by a Q&A @BAFTAGuru with a special guest. Keep an eye out on our social media @leedsfilmcity and before for clues about your secret cinema experience, but make sure to book in advance love a surprise? tickets sell out. Who doesn’t Changing the StoryChanging where young filmmakers creative micro-project is an experimental distribute a socially- edit, produce and to conceive, shoot, will work together across Leeds with internationallyWorking Indian activist-filmmaker acclaimed in a day. engaged film Wegrostek, filmmaker Daniela Africa-based community Bajrange, South Dakxin Chhara this is an opportunity Oxygen Films, production company Leeds-based and award-winning to learn a collective call for change. working in diverse contexts and make from filmmakers AHRC. In Funded by the be premiered on 15th November as partThe final film will of LIFF. of Leeds. collaboration with University media organisations and range equipment to some of the largest Providers of top of the In this free drop-in Yorkshire Studios. Provision are a partindependent film sets, of ITV equipment in Leeds hands-on experience with the best professional workshop, you will get very own Courtroom, Hall’s and learn situations in an how to light in challenging Town Town Hall. The event is informal, and you can ask all artificial underneath wood Leeds to (and get that all important you’ve been wanting to find the answers those tech questions next to a RED camera). new profile picture Rosie Summers. Gain Virtual Reality (VR) storyteller, Explore the future of filmmaking with cameras, and learnhands-on experience of working with 360° techniques to craft a visual story you can download at home, Rosie will teach you how to export in VR. Using software will be able to explore your creation in full VR. This your 360° film to headsets, where you your own technology (laptops / headsets) for the event is free, and we invite you to bring not You do workshop to learn next short how you can make your film a 360° creation. for this workshop. need any experience in VR/360° filmmaking Reality immersive media specialist Catherine Allen in this Virtual Join BAFTA-winning creation, Catherine will explore the future of (VR) Masterclass. As an introduction to VR landscape of filmmaking for independent and film, how VR production is changing the as well as casting a light on the challenges of VR, mainstream filmmakers, diversity in VR, and exhibition. In this free masterclass, you will from concept through to film distribution and have the opportunity about this exciting advancement in technology, to ask questions learn film. about the content creation of a 360° BAFTA Debuts Screening BAFTA Virtual Reality Masterclass with Catherine Allen Virtual Reality Filmmaking Workshop with Rosie Summers Virtual Reality Filmmaking Workshop Provision: Lighting & Camera Workshop Lighting & Camera Provision: Changing the Story:Changing Workshop Activist Filmmaking Exhibitions

Dogwoof Film Poster Exhibition Dogwoof is the leading documentary sales agent and UK theatrical distributor and is regarded as the foremost documentary specialist brand in the world. Founded in 2004, Dogwoof has so far released 18 Oscar-nominated documentaries, with three wins and an additional two BAFTA winners. These include , Restrepo, Blackfish and Cartel Land. LIFF 2017 is proud to include two new Dogwoof documentaries in its programme this year, Jane and Mountain and, in partnership with North Bar, to curate an exhibition of posters of some of their most recent iconic titles, many of which have screened at LIFF in the past.

Louis le Prince Exhibition The School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University presents a day of celebration and a two-week exhibition about Louis le Prince, internationally recognised for shooting the first-ever moving images in Leeds. The day of celebration on 2nd November includes the inaugural Louis le Prince Lecture with John Smith at Leeds Art Gallery, the unveiling of a historic plaque marking the site of le Prince’s workshop at on Woodhouse Lane, and the launch of a new exhibition at Leeds Central Library about Le Prince’s achievements.

Magnum Photos & Masters of Cinema Exhibition Showcasing a series of striking and rarely seen images by Magnum photographers documenting the production of six unforgettable works of world cinema (all screening at LIFF 2017), this exhibition will provide a fascinating insight into the work of some of the most celebrated filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Abbas Kiarostami. An additional perspective on the story is told in the documentary Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum, also screening in LIFF 2017. Presented as part of Magnum’s 70th Anniversary celebrations. (Photo: ©Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Magnum Photos)

An Unlikely Muse: Hyde Park Picture House Exhibition The Hyde Park Picture House is embarking on an exciting new chapter as the Grade II listed cinema is being renewed. This exhibition features work from artists who have been inspired by the cinema over the years. Presented at the Staircase Gallery at Leeds Town Hall, the exhibition can be viewed at the venue daily during LIFF 2017.

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Features DRIB 36 The Lives of Others 79 El Mar la Mar 36 The Lodger 87 5 October 31 The Endless 60 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum 75 69 Minutes of 86 days 31 Ex Libris - The New York Public 30 Loveless 19 Amélie 78 Library Lover for a Day 19 Animals 49 Fashionista 51 Lu Over the Wall 55 Aparajito 80 Félicité 15 Mademoiselle Paradis 20 Arcadia 32 Film Stars Don't Die in 15 The Magnum Eye 83 Atelier de Conversation 32 Liverpool The Man on the Roof 76 Attack of the Adult Babies 49 Fixed The Science/Fiction of 37 Human Enhancement The Mansion 62 Bad Genius 50 The Flight 74 76 The Ballad of Shirley Collins 33 The Florida Project 16 The Mimic 53 The Bar 59 Gabriel and the Mountain 16 The Mole Song: 58 Battle of the Sexes 11 Capriccio Game of Death 61 Beast 11 Mon Mon Mon Monsters 62 Gaza Surf Club 37 Beuys 33 Mother 71 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 64 The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales 12 Mountain 40 Glory 17 Big Fish & Begonia 54 Mutafukaz 56 Gods Own Country + Q&A 114 Blade of the Immortal 57 with director Francis Lee My Friend Dahmer 20 The Breadwinner 55 Goldeneye 65 Nikita 63 Brimstone and Glory 34 Good Time 17 Normal Autistic Film 41 British Sea Power at Leeds 89 The Gospel According to St 80 The Nothing Factory 21 Town Hall: Music for Polish Matthew Animation Classics Oh Lucy! 21 Habit 52 The Cakemaker 12 Orphée 81 Happy End 18 Call Me By Your Name 13 The Party and the Guests 84 Headhunters 64 A Cambodian Spring 34 Perfect Blue 56 The Headless Woman 70 Canaries 50 A Prayer Before Dawn 22 If I Think of Germany at Night 38 Carnival Messiah: The Film 86 The Rider 22 In the Cut 70 Casino Royale 65 Rift 53 Investigation of a Citizen 75 A River Below 41 Cinema Through the Eye of 83 Above Suspicion Magnum Sami Blood 23 It's Not Yet Dark 38 Claire's Camera 13 Scary Mother 23 Jane 30 Cold Skin 59 Seven Days in January 77 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: 57 Conny Plank: Potential of 35 Diamond Is Unbreakable - The Silence of the Lambs 71 Noise Chapter 1 Song of Granite 24 Dark River 14 Journeyman 18 The Sower 24 Dave Made a Maze 51 Kaisa's Enchanted Forest 39 The Square 10 The Day of the Jackal 73 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 48 Stalker 81 The Deputy 73 Leeds Film Interludes: Guided 87 State of Siege 77 Diamonds of the Night 84 Walk A Story of Sahel Sounds 42 A Distant Echo 35 Leeds on Film with the 87 Yorkshire Film Archive The Stuff of Dreams 25 Diva 63 Leeds United! 86 Such is Life with piano 88 Djam 14 accompaniment by Jonathan Let There Be Light 39 Don't Torture a Duckling 74 Best A Life in Waves: Suzanne Ciani 40 Downrange 61 Summer Time Machine Blues 54 The Line 52 123 Index

Tabu: Story of the South Seas - 88 Betelgeuse 68 Foreign Body 102, Christine Ott Ciné-concert Black Riding Hood 89 108 82 The Brother 98 The Full Story 102 The Teacher 25 Burn Bridge 107 Galvanize 116 Thelma 26 Burning Star 112 Gimp Gait 109 Three Billboards Outside 10 Cake 106 The Glass Pearl 95 Ebbing, Missouri Camouflage 100 Goathland 116 Tokyo Ghoul 58 Carlow Town 112 God's Own Children 105 Tracking Edith 42 Catherine 100 Gone 66 Under the Tree 26 The Ceiling 98 Good Luck, Orlo! 96 Untitled 43 Centaur 96 Govan Young 115 The Vanishing 72 Child 101 Green Screen Gringo 44 Veronica 60 Chilli 101, Growing Young 112 Volver 79 108 The Happy Genius 105 The Wages of Fear 72 Clanker Man 66, Harbour 96 Western 27 106 Henry McCullough 112 A White Horse in Roundhay: 87 Cold Storage 109, The Hidden People 108 Louis le Prince Talk 110 Home 112 The Wolf from Royal Vineyard 85 The Committee 97 Street Homeland 44 Copa Loca 95 Wonderstruck 27 Hope 67 Corner 118 Yorkshire Noir: Red Riding 114 I Want to Be a Planet 102 1974 + Q&A with Andrew Coup de Grace 95 Again Eaton & Tony Grisoni Crave 67 Illuminated 117 You Were Never Really Here 48 Creative Honesty 116 Impossible Figures and Other 102 Z 78 The Crossing 106 Stories II Zabriskie Point 82 Cubs 99 In A Nutshell 102 Cycles 109 In the Land of Milk and Honey 67 Shorts Cycologic 44 Incomplete 105 The Dog and Elephant 107 The Indigestion 102 The Absence of Eddy Table 67, Doorways 52 Ink Meets Blank 118 100 Dota 101 Into The Blue 97 After 96 Dust My Shoulders Off 112 Invisible 107 All That You Love Will Be 105 Carried Away Einstein-Rosen 110 It Would Piss Me Off To Die 103 So Yoooooung… All The Busy ings 116 Elegy 96 It's Complicated 67 Among the Black Waves 100 The Escape 68 The Escape 101 Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee 95 And The Whole Sky Fit in a 94 of the Month Dead Cow's Eye The Factory 68 Joe Blaustein and the Flood of 44 Animal 97 Fade 112 Florence The App 68 Farewell 118 The Journey 89 Artichoke 96 Fatcula 101 Just Go 110 Au revoir Balthazar 100 Fern 107 Kon-Tiki 112 The Bag 116 Fires 112 Lambing Season 108 Banquet 89 Fish Tank Girls 116 Lau and Laudrup 66 Barbs Wasteland 98 A Fistful of Girolles 101 Lead Me To You 112 Batfish Soup 100

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Les Misérables 97 Roll Call 89 Wednesday with Goddard 106 Life in Patterns 118 Running Lights 104 Who Let You Know? 112 Light At The End of the Tunnel 112 Saint Hubert 98 Wicked Girl 104 Limipiadores 115 Salvation 99 Wild Boar 119 The Lion And Fly 89 Satan's Rabbits 28 Witch's Milk 66 Loaf of Bread 85 The School 89 You've Made Your Bed, Now 94, Lunch Time 99 See Ya 95 Lie In It 111 Mamoon 105 Sen Toe 111 Mars & Venus, Opposition 109 Separate Sentences 109 Industry Events Phases Sex at the Ski Center 28 BAFTA Debuts Screening 121 May Fifteenth in Paris 44 The Ship 117 Changing the Story: Activist 121 Meninas Formicida 94 Signature 97 Filmmaking Workshop Mermaids 112 Small Town 94 Film Hub North Young 120 Milk 94 Sog 104 Audiences Day Mother and Son 85 Some Body 110 Lord & Lidl to Radiohead: 120 Mountains 112 Sons of Bitches 66 In Conversation with Oscar Hudson The Mouth 98 Sore Eyes for Infinity 104 Mr Night Has a Day Off 103 Louis le Prince Inaugural 120 Souls in Transit 117 Lecture with John Smith MU 44 Spook Train 1 & 2 49 Provision: Lighting & Camera 121 Mum 108 Spooked 67 Workshop My Way, Damn It! 28 Staccatto 117 Screen Yorkshire & Creative 120 Nightshade 97 Stairs 89 Skillset Panel: Starting Out in the Film and TV Industry No Reason 112 Stamps 111 Nocturne 103 True North & Random Acts 120 Stan 108 Panel: Thinking Outside the Nostalgic Love 112 Stardust 112 Box Office The Ogre 103 Sticky 106, Virtual Reality Filmmaking 121 The Oratorio for Prague 85 111 Workshop with Rosie The Painted Calf 98 Strange Beasts 107 Summers Penelope 28 Strays 66 Virtual Reality Masterclass 121 with Catherine Allen Piece of Gold 112 Strim 99 Voicing Hidden Histories 115 Pilgrimage 109 Tango 89 Conference: Participatory Arts A Pornographer Woos 105 Tarfala 28 & Activist Filmmaking Pussy 119 They Call Us Maids: The 115 Worldbuilding in Yorkshire: In 120 Conversation with Revolution's Race 103 Domestic Workers' Story Charles Cecil The Race 89 Thirsty 108 Radio Dolores 28 Through the Supermarket in 110 Five Easy Pieces Exhibitions The Rainbow House Woman 115 Dogwoof Film Poster 122 Toll Booth 108 Rascals 103 Exhibition Trains 112 Real Artists 68 Louis le Prince Exhibition 122 Vitamin C 111 Really Modern Times 117 Magnum Photos & Masters of 122 Volcano Island 104, Cinema Exhibition The Realm of Deepest Knowing 104 119 An Unlikely Muse: Hyde Park 122 Retouch 99 The Was 112 Picture House Exhibition Retrosex 68 Wave 95, The Road 89 111

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