1-16 November 2017 FREE CATALOGUE Welcome LIFF 2017 is Presented by 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 Short Film Awards 91 Meet the Makers 113 Exhibitions 122 Index 123 5 Supporting Partners Leeds Palestinian Film Festival Centre for World Cinemas School of Modern Languages and Cultures BFI Screen Diversity Mark BFI Thriller Partner EFFE Label Award L TIVA ES F E L B A Leeds International Film Festival K R A M E R EFFE LABEL 2017-2018 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 Gonzo, 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), Sean Baker (The Florida Project), Clio Barnard (Dark River), Michael Haneke (Happy Ending), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and Andrey Zvyagintsev (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 Official Selection The Square: Opening Film Country Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark Year 2017 Running Time 2hr 22min Format DCP Language English, Swedish, Danish Director Ruben Östlund Screenwriter Ruben Östlund Producer Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober Leading Cast Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West Cinematographer Fredrik Wenzel Official Selection Film Editor Jacob Secher, Schulsinger UK Distributor Curzon Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund’s The ‘My father told me that when he was six years old, and he was brought up in the Square, a startling satire of the art world, was ‘50s, his parents put an address tag around his neck and sent him into the streets the most talked about film at Cannes this year of Stockholm to play. A six-year-old boy in central Stockholm, all by himself. But and went on to win the main prize of the jury it was so obvious that, at that time, you looked at other adults as someone that led by Pedro Almodóvar. On the verge of would help your children if they were in trouble. Today we tend to look at other opening a major new exhibition called The adults as potential threats to our children. And when I was dealing with this, they Square, museum curator Christian (Claes Bang) also started to build the first gated communities in Sweden. A gated community faces a series of troubles, including a backfiring is a very aggressive way of saying, “We are not taking responsibility for what’s PR campaign, an awkward fling with a on the outside; we look on that as a threat.” So in this context, me and a film journalist (Elisabeth Moss), and a performance producer friend of mine, Kalle Boman, we came up with the idea that we should centrepiece gone horribly wrong. When create a symbolic place where we are reminded of our common responsibility.’ Christian is mugged for his phone he goes over Ruben Östlund, director the edge and takes his museum with him. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Closing Film Premiere Status Northern Country UK, USA Year 2017 Running Time 1hr 55min Format DCP Language English Director Martin McDonagh Screenwriter Martin McDonagh Producer Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin Leading Cast Abbie Cornish, Peter Dinklage, Samara Weaving Cinematographer Ben Davis Film Editor Jon Gregory Original Music Carter Burwell UK Distributor Fox Winner of the People’s Choice Award at Toronto ‘[17 years ago while traveling across America] I saw something similar to what film festival, Three Billboards is the latest audience we reveal on the billboards. It was a very stark, angry, brutal message, and it hit from the master of dark film comedy Martin made me wonder what kind of person it was that would have the kind of rage McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths). and pain necessary to put something like that up out there. Once I decided After months without an arrest in her daughter’s it was a mother, the story almost wrote itself. […] Sam [Rockwell], Frances murder, Mildred (Frances McDormand) makes [McDormand] and Woody [Harrelson] are three of the most truthful actors a bold move, postering three signs leading into working in American movies today. This is a film that starts from quite a dark, her town with a controversial message directed tragic place, and