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A sneak peak of the FIFF Did you know? 36

The FIFF in a nutshell 3 Cultural mediation 38 Interview with Thierry Jobin 4 Planète Cinéma 39 #spirit The sections of the FIFF 7 #revelation FIFForum 40 #altitude #emotion Programme Masterclasses 41 Official Selection 8 Encounters 41 >> International Competition 9 Round tables 42 ‒‒ Feature FIlms Think Tank 42 ‒‒ Short FIlms

>> Opening and Closing Films 15 Juries and Awards 43 Exhibitions 48 Parallel Sections 16 Practical information >> Genre Cinema 17 Ghost stories for Journalists 51 >> Decryption 20 for Festival goers 52 A cinematic cabinet of curiosities

>> Diaspora 23 Myret Zaki and Egypt List of Films 54 >> Hommage à… 24 Guest list 56 Freddy Buache

>> New Territory 25 Agenda 58 Nepal

>> Sur la carte de 29 Douglas Kennedy

Special Screenings 30 >> FIFFamily around the world 31

>> Films of the International Jury 32

>> Passeport suisse 33

>> Midnight Screenings 35

Festival International de Films de Fribourg CH-1701 Fribourg [email protected] 2 Esplanade de l’Ancienne-Gare 3 | CP 550 T +41 (0)26 347 42 09 www.fiff.ch The FIFF in «The FIFF wants to keep things as immediate a nutshell as possible between the films, the filmmakers and the public.»

A sneak peakpeak of of the the FIFF FIFF The Fribourg International Film The FIFF is a talent incubator that For the 31st Festival, as well as Festival (FIFF) is one of the most has screened films from film- the international short and fea- important festivals in Switzerland. makers who have gone on to be ture film competitions, the FIFF Programme Over the last 30 years, the Festival celebrated at prestigious festivals invites you to explore the role has become a national bench- such as Cannes, Berlin and, most of ghosts in films around the > Official Selection mark for diversity. Its programme recently, Venice. There, Filipino world, a carte blanche for the offers everything from auteur films Lav Diaz won the Golden Lion writer Douglas Kennedy, films > Parallel Sections to popular cinema and draws a in 2016 after being awarded at from Nepal, a selection of films bigger crowd every year. In 2016, Fribourg 10 years earlier. from Egypt chosen by Myret Zaki > Special Screenings the FIFF achieved 43,000 entries. for Diaspora, a Decryption sec- It enjoys an excellent reputation Numerous renowned guests have tion entitled A Cinematic Cabinet within the international scene. visited the Festival these last few of Curiosities, and a homage to Did you know? years: the Dardenne brothers, Eric Freddy Buache, the iconic founder Founded in 1980 by Magda Bossy Cantona, Charles Aznavour, Marthe of the Cinémathèque Suisse. and Yvan Stern, with encourage- Keller and Geraldine Chaplin. Welcome to the FIFF! Cultural mediation ment from Freddy Buache, the The FIFF wants to keep things as Festival was initially unabashedly immediate as possible between called the Third World Festival. the films, the filmmakers and the FIFForum In recognition of its growing size public. A warm, informal atmo- and to distance itself from what sphere and a return to the raw some filmmakers deemed rather material (the films) have attracted Juries and Awards problematic connotations, the numerous high profile guests who event was renamed Fribourg Film appreciate being able to meet up Festival in 1990 with ‘International’ and share an experience in an Exhibitions being added in 1998. Martial uncomplicated setting. Knaebel, who was the event’s first Artistic Director, was succeeded The FIFF puts particular emphasis Practical information by Edouard Waintrop in 2008. on cultural outreach. Over the last 20 years, FIFF’s school programme Today with Thierry Jobin, Planète Cinéma has become the Films and Guests Artistic Director since 2012, biggest in Switzerland, with over François Nordmann, Chairman 11,000 students aged 4 to 25 in of the Association, and 2016. The FIFForum, which offers Agenda Giovanna Garghentini Python, masterclasses, conferences and Administrative Director, the origi- Think Tanks, is an important event nal mission of the Festival remains for Swiss film professionals, FIFF’s at the heart of the endeavour, international guests and the fes- namely to discover, select and tival audiences. screen high quality work from around the world that is not usually distributed via the usual channels. The exceptional selec- tion of cinematic gems helps the public encounter cultural diversity and social realities, as well as giving them a chance to marvel at big unknown productions in Swiss cinemas. The Festival is characterised by a spirit of unlim- ited openness towards the world.

A sneak peak of the FIFF 3 Interview with Thierry Jobin, Artistic Director of the FIFF

A sneak peakpeak of of the the FIFF FIFF Comment est née cette relation film with their phone. It’s almost As well as Decryption, there are become easier to make a film two sections that are particu- than to write. The camera-pen larly resonant: those curated by Programme that Alexandre Astruc spoke of in Douglas Kennedy and Freddy the late 1940s now really exists. Buache, who are each presenting > Official Selection us with film classics from their After the themes of women and home continents of America and > Parallel Sections humour, this year the FIFF is tack- Europe. What will these films ling cinematic curiosities. Where bring to the FIFF’s world view? > Special Screenings did your desire to step behind the camera come from? As I mentioned before, for some sections I let myself be led by Did you know? There’s never a conscious plan what worldwide production has when I come up with a section. to offer. Then there are cartes In fact, I had originally planned blanches like Hommage à…, Cultural mediation How did the Fribourg-Nepal con- on something else, as is often Sur la carte de... and Diaspora nection for the New Territory the way. In the end though, it’s which have become FIFF’s calling selection originate? global production that dictates cards. These cartes blanches FIFForum what I should do. I went to Cannes help put the history of cinema The New Territory section is in May with an idea in mind, but into context, particularly the sec- always sparked off by several after speaking to over 90 interna- tions prepared by Buache and Juries and Awards things. It takes years to see tional vendors and going through Kennedy. It has always seemed a new film industry emerge. their entire catalogues, I realised a little pointless to me to only Suddenly you see a single film, there were a lot of films talking show films from Asia, Africa and Exhibitions then two, then three entering about cinema in all its forms. So, Latin America if there isn’t also big festivals. It’s not every day from the very act of creating, with something strong to contrast that a film industry like Nepal’s for example the last film from them with what is being done in Practical information manages to get a film into Berlin the late Abbas Kiarostami and a the West. Freddy went back to his and then two into Venice. That is documentary made by his assis- roots as a cinephile to propose what happened with Highway by tant, who was the only person five absolute masterpieces. He Films and Guests Deepak Rauniyar and The Black allowed to film the artist at work, suggested them over the phone Hen by Min Bahadur Bham, which to the enjoyment of film, with for with complete spontaneity. He was in competition here in 2015. example Gentleman Rissient, the had perhaps prepared his choices Agenda He had already caused quite wonderful short from Pauline in advance, but he really knew a buzz when he came to pres- Jeanbourquin on La Séance de what he wanted. He focused on ent one of his short films at the 15h at the Cinémathèque Suisse Europe with a historical slant. FIFF. Meanwhile, Locarno has or the story of a young cinephile, It starts off with L’Atalante and been interested in Nepal since in which I of course saw myself, M and ends with John Huston’s its Open Doors programme last Moi, Thomas, 12 ans, Cinéfou last film The Dead, which I’m August. These were all triggers for by Mamad Haghighat. Then in delighted to be able to screen at me to meet with some Nepalese between there’s archiving and the FIFF because it would also fit producers and filmmakers. The the absolute turning point that very well into the section Genre film industry in Nepal grew from is the disappearance of celluloid. Cinema: Ghost stories. The 2017 when a lot of filmmakers work- This year’s programme really FIFF is full of these interconnec- ing there today were involved in underlines the extent to which tions between sections. the production of foreign films, digital is taking over. Even cinema such as documentaries for the archives that still have cellu- BBC, the Discovery Channel and loid films do not bring them out National Geographic, and films willingly, and if they do, only on about Mount Everest. By helping expensive conditions. the production teams, a bit like Sherpas, they got the chance to familiarise themselves with the equipment. Little by little, they developed their own films. I should add that these emerg- ing film industries are due to how accessible filmmaking is these days. Anyone can make a

A sneak peak of the FIFF 4 “I’ve always felt that struggle and hard- ship help strengthen art.“

A sneak peakpeak of of the the FIFF FIFF And what about Douglas Kennedy This isn’t the first time that FIFF What kind of specimens have you and the US? has combined economy and cul- caught in your ghost catcher? ture (the Decryption section on And what can we take from these Programme Douglas Kennedy’s carte blanche the economic crisis in 2014). This journeys through various cultures has something very interesting year, you have invited one of around the world? > Official Selection to say about American cinema. the most important economic I was expecting him to suggest analysts in Switzerland, Myret The Genre Cinema section is > Parallel Sections American films, but I wasn’t Zaki, for Diaspora. always a way to communicate expecting him to only concen- lots of things from different cul- > Special Screenings trate on the 50s and 60s. When we Yes, this isn’t the first time we’ve tures. It’s a way of comparing first got in touch, Donald Trump tried to combine economy and different approaches under one hadn’t yet won the election. And culture. Culture is very important theme. What does a ghost look Did you know? obviously, the films that Douglas for a society and the buoyancy like in Japan or Mexico? How is chose, whether it was Sweet of its economy. A society without the afterlife interpreted in film Smell of Success, The Big Heat or a strong culture, where little is around the world? Is death a Cultural mediation Seconds by John Frankenheimer, on offer for the community, is a taboo everywhere? I soon found take on a whole other meaning closed society. Culture invigo- myself in fascinating discussions. in today’s climate. With Douglas rates the economy in the sense But there’s no need to be afraid, FIFForum Kennedy, I think we’re going to that thinkers, professionals and there aren’t just horror films talk about American cinema intellectuals are more inclined in this section! There are also today and its capacity, or lack to settle with their families in romantic comedies. For example, Juries and Awards thereof, to meet the challenges a city where there is a strong in the great classics, we couldn’t currently facing American soci- cultural movement, where there forget The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by ety. It’s something that US cin- is something meaningful that Joseph L. Mankiewicz. There are Exhibitions ema has been doing better than they can be proud of. From a poetic films like The Innocents. any other film industry so far. If cinematic point of view, there is But of course we had to include we look at the time during the no conflict between the economy some pure horror as well! The Practical information Vietnam War there was an almost and cinema. The economy is often FIFF has explored laughter, the instant reaction from American the main subject of films. If you excitement of erotica, and the filmmakers who were very quick look at a film like The Bicycle strength of the fight for women’s Films and Guests to offer films about it. If you look Thief, Charlie Chaplin films, every rights last year, so it was time at France and the Algerian War, it bank job film and even Citizen to scare people – the fourth big took a long time before any films Kane, the greatest film of all emotion that films can provoke. Agenda were made on the subject, not time, the matters of economy In the Midnight Screenings, we to mention Switzerland, where is always there. It is the crux have the Japanese film Sadako v there has still never been a film of many narratives and many Kayako, which brings together the about the Jewish gold left by the great films. I know Myret Zaki ghosts from two of the biggest Nazis in our banks for example. from when we were both jour- ghost story franchises in cinema I’ve always felt that struggle and nalists at Le Temps. I’ve always history: the Ring and Ju-on Films. hardship help strengthen art. admired not just her skills as an So as usual we are being led by I’m sure that after the Obama economics journalist, but also her global production. Now, the ques- era, during which the American engagement. I still remember the tion is why are filmmakers around cinema has been considerably briefing we had atLe Temps when the world suddenly making so weaker, there will be a wave of the Arab Spring erupted; Myret many ghost films? I think it raises very strong films coming out of went straight to Cairo where she much deeper questions about the US over the next decade in had grown up. I’ve also often our relationship to spirituality reaction to the Trump era. seen Myret talk about feminism. and the dead. You realise how Being a woman in economics is in Asia, Africa and Latin America obviously an interesting subject. there is no taboo – there is no She also completely understood denial about ghosts and death. the Diaspora section; the ques- Here, it’s hard to say you’ve seen tion I asked her for making her a ghost without sounding like a selection was “which films do you loon, but when I was travelling watch when you’re homesick?” in Kathmandu for the Nepalese She chose popular cinema, films films, I realised how much people she probably shows or will show live with death. her children, films from the 1940s to the 1990s that show Egypt There’s a new approach to the dancing, singing and laughing, International Competition: Short but with the issue of the economy Films with a new selection com- always in the background. mission. What is the result?

A sneak peak of the FIFF 5 A sneak peakpeak of of the the FIFF FIFF If you made a world map with the origins of the films on the pro- gramme this year, you would see Programme that there’s a heavy concentra- tion in the Middle East and Asia. > Official Selection Especially in war zones there’s a lot of turmoil and a need to tell > Parallel Sections stories, seeing as there’s films from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in > Special Screenings this year’s competition. In those sorts of situations, short films are the best way to immediately Did you know? document what is happening. I’m satisfied that anyone who ventures into the short film com- Cultural mediation petition, which is particularly strong this year, will be seeing everything the FIFF has to offer. FIFForum There are genre films, auteur films, and impressive co-pro- ductions with the West, including Juries and Awards a film produced by Julie Gayet. Anything goes in this section. You never see the same film twice. Exhibitions It shows the creative freedom that exists in this region that stretches from the Middle East to Practical information South East Asia. A region bursting with creativity, where people use film in the same way you’d use a Films and Guests pen. There’s a force, an energy I bring back with me every time I go there. A desire to tell stories, Agenda an inspiration, a breath of fresh air that lets us know that already in the short film section, there are directors who will show their films here for the first time and are certain to come back to show us their next piece of work. That’s what happened with Bradley Liew (Singing in the Graveyards), Soudade Kaadan (Obscure) and Dechen Roder (Honeygiver Among the Dogs), all three of whom originally made their debuts in Fribourg with short films and now return to this year’s Festival for the feature-length International Competition.

A sneak peak of the FIFF 6 The sections of the FIFF

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> Parallel Sections International Genre Cinema FIFFamily around > Special Screenings Competition Ghost Stories the wolrd 18 Feature Films and 1 Short 1 selection of little Did you know? Feature Films Film from 18 countries ghost sorties from 6 countries 12 Feature Films from 1 Feature Film 12 countries Cultural mediation Decryption 11 Swiss Premieres Films of the A cinematic cabiet 1 International Premiere FIFForum of curiosities International Jury 2 Feature Films from 2 countries 12 Feature Films et 3 Short Juries and Awards Short Films Films from 7 countries 3 programmes Passeport suisse Exhibitions 19 Short Films from Diaspora 1 Feature Film 15 countries 2 Shorts Films programmes Myret Zaki and Egypt Practical information 9 Swiss Premieres from Switzerland 5 Feature Films 5 European Premieres Films and Guests 3 International Premieres Midnight Screenings 2 World Premieres Hommage à… 9 Feature Films from Agenda Freddy Buache 5 countries 5 Feature Films from Opening FIlm 5 countries The Eagle Huntress Swiss Premiere New Territory Nepal Closing FIlm 16 Feature Films and 5 Short Films from Nepal The Birth of a Nation Swiss Premiere 5 western productions about Nepal

Sur la carte de Douglas Kennedy 5 Americans Feature Films from the 50’s and 60’s

A sneak peak of the FIFF A sneak peak of the FIFF Official Selection Programme International Competition - 9 > Official Selection Feature Films > Parallel Sections Short Films > Special Screenings

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Official Selection 8 International Competition Feature FIlms

A sneak peak of the FIFF This year, in the International Apprentice Dearest Sister Competition: Feature Films, 12 films from 12 countries will compete Boo Junfeng* Mattie Do* Programme for the Grand Prix worth 30,000 Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Laos, France, Estonia, 2016 Swiss Francs. FIFF is very happy Germany, France, 2016 > Official Selection to welcome back three directors 101’ | Fiction | who made their debuts in the 96’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections International Competition: Short Films. Bradley Liew (Singing in the > Special Screenings Graveyards, Malaysia, Philippines), Dechen Roder (Honeygiver Among the Dogs, Bhutan) and Soudade Did you know? Kaadan (Obscure, Syria, Lebanon) are returning to present their first feature films. Alongside them will Cultural mediation be several debut films displaying raw talents to watch that include the Mexican Diego Roos (The Night Aiman, 28, lives modestly with A villager goes to the Laotian capi- FIFForum Guard), Amit Madheshiya & Shirley his sister and works as a prison tal, Vientiane. She has to look after Abraham (The Cinema Travellers, guard. His not entirely selfless her rich cousin who lost her sight India) and Darío Mascambroni zeal attracts the attention of the and can now communicate with Juries and Awards (January, Argentina). The festival executioner, who is soon to retire. the dead. This cursed cousin’s wanted to continue the 30th edi- He takes Aiman under his wing husband, an Estonian expat, also tion’s focus on female directors to teach him the rules of a good seems to be hiding dark secrets. Exhibitions and this year there are no less than hanging... The third feature from This first film directed by a female five female directors in competi- Junfeng Boo was honoured by the Laotian was selected by many tion. The first film to be directed Un Certain Regard section at the genre cinema festivals. A genre Practical information by a woman in Laos, Dearest Sister 2016 Festival de Cannes. cinema that the film is reinventing. by Mattie Do, fulfils the remit of the Genre Cinema: Ghost Stories Films and Guests section, as does Kati Kati (Mbithi The Cinema Travellers Honeygiver Among Masya, Kenya, Germany) and The the Dogs Truth Beneath by the South Korean Amit Madheshiya* Agenda Lee Kyoung-mi, who explores & Shirley Abraham* Dechen Roder absence and grief. The flagship India, 2016 Bhutan, 2016 nation of the 2017 festival, Nepal, is also competing with White Sun 96’ | Documentary | 132’ | Fiction | by Deepak Rauniyar, which won an Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere award at the Mostra di Venezia. The Student by Kirill Serebrennikov and Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice, which were also honoured at festivals, including Cannes in 2016, complete the line-up.

For more than 70 years, a trav- nun disappears from a small vil- elling cinema has crossed India lage. An undercover policeman to bring the magic of moving starts to investigate a mysteri- images to an always enraptured ous, attractive young woman who audience. A homage to cinema stands accused of witchcraft. But and celluloid and to the men in the mountains of Bhutan, noth- who protect them from vari- ing is as it seems. After having ous technological advances, presented his short film 3 Year 3 The Cinema Travellers received Month Retreat in 2015, the young a special mention at the last director Dechen Roder returns to Festival de Cannes. Fribourg with a poetic and sur- prising thriller.

Official Selection 9 A sneak peak of the FIFF January Kati Kati Singing in Graveyards

Darío Mascambroni * Mbithi Masya* Bradley Liew* Programme Argentina, 2016 Kenya, Germany, 2016 Malaysia, Philippines 2016

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Cultural mediation A father spends his last holidays Kaleche, a young amnesiac, wakes Old Pepe plays in the cabaret in the family’s soon to be sold up in the middle of the desert. clubs of Manilla imitating Filipino country house. He is accompa- She heads to Kati Kati, a mys- rock legend Joey Smith. One day, FIFForum nied by his son, a playful little terious place where a group of he gets the chance to play as an boy. Played by a father and his people live, apparently governed opening act for a concert of his own son, this first film was lauded by a certain Thoma. Kati Kati is idol. All he has to do is write a Juries and Awards as the Best Argentinian Film at the result of a production work- love song. With this first fea- the Buenos Aires International shop between One Fine Day Films ture film, supported by the Swiss Festival of Independent Cinema (Germany) and Ginger Ink (Kenya), fund visions sud est, Bradley Exhibitions (BAFICI) in 2016, before being which has already produced two Liew returns to the FIFF with a selected for the 2017 Berlinale. long features including Soul Boy, most unique and confounding shown in the Planète Cinéma character. Practical information section in 2016.

Films and Guests The Night Guard Obscure The Truth Beneath

Diego Ros* Soudade Kaadan* Lee Kyoung-mi* Agenda Mexico, 2016 Lebanon, Syria, 2016 South Korea, 2016

76’ | Fiction | 75’ | Documentary | 103’ | Fiction | International Premiere Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

Salvador works nights as a secu- Ahmad is a Syrian child who An adolescent disappears at the rity guard on a building site in the wants to forget that he’s Syrian. same time as her father runs hills of Mexico City. When he is Traumatised and wanting to for the National Assembly. Her questioned by the police about a escape reality, he seeks refuge mother seems to be the only one case, he tells a white lie that soon in silence and sleep. Filmmaker who cares, her husband and his escalates into dramatic conse- Soudade Kaadan has made a team preferring to worry about quences. The Night Guard, Diego documentary that manages to getting votes. The Truth Beneath Ros’ first film, was acclaimed at show, through the experiences gained its director the distinction the 2016 Festival Internacional of a young boy, how the col- of Best South Korean Filmmaker de Cine de Morelia, where it won lective Syrian memory is being 2016 from the Korean Association the prize for Best Mexican Film erased. The film won the Final of Film Critics. The lead actress, and Best Actor. Cut post-production assistance Son Ye-jin, also won a prize. programme in Venice in 2016.

Official Selection 10 A sneak peak of the FIFF The Student White Sun 1

Kirill Serebrennikov Deepak Rauniyar* Programme Russia, 2016 Nepal, USA, Qatar, Netherlands, 2016 > Official Selection 118’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 98’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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Cultural mediation In contemporary Russia, a young When his father dies, Chandra student becomes convinced must go back to the mountaintop FIFForum the world is in the grip of evil village he left a decade earlier. forces. He decides to defy the Along with the past, tradition, morals and beliefs of the adults and political tensions, he has to Juries and Awards around him. Featured in the Un contend with a boy claiming to Certain Regard section of the be his son, as well as his brother, 2016 Festival de Cannes, it won who fought on the opposing side Exhibitions the François Chalais Prize and in the civil war. White Sun won the later, the Sochi Open Russian Film Interfilm Award in the Orizzonti Festival’s Best Director Award. section at the 2016 Mostra di Practical information Venezia.

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Programme 1 – A State of the World | 96’

What is happening in Eastern The Silent Mob Rain Project Programme Europe? What is happening on the other side of the Mediterranean? Harvan Agustriansyah* Oleg Chorny* > Official Selection And what about in Asia? We are Indonesia, 2016 Ukraine, 2016 exposed to an endless news cycle > Parallel Sections every day, but don’t necessar- 15’ | Fiction | 24’ | Documentary | ily have the time or inclination Swiss Premiere International Premiere > Special Screenings to take it all in. Faced with this incessant barrage, it is vital to slow down sometimes and take a Did you know? calm, reflective look at the world. Because you can also take a side- ways look at the news, rather Cultural mediation than tackling it head on. Or resist by keeping track of beauty when it crops up unexpectedly... FIFForum Pamela Pianezza

Juries and Awards Captain Adel Cargo

Ameer Albassri Karim Rahbani* Exhibitions Iraq, 2016 Lebanon, 2017

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Mare Nostrum Salon Elvis

Anas Khalaf* & Rana Kazkaz* Anthony Khawand* Syria, 2016 Lebanon, 2016

13’ | Fiction | 11’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere International Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Programme 2 – I love you... nor do I | 98’

I love you… nor do I. Truly, madly, The Wheel Fine Programme deeply... not at all? What’s the best way of living together? Menna Ekram* Marta Hernaiz Pidal* > Official Selection Or of splitting up? Is Man, as Egypt, 2015 Mexico, Bosnia and Aristotle thought, a social ani- Herzegovina, 2016 > Parallel Sections mal, or should we see him as 14’ | Fiction | a profoundly lonely being, as European Premiere 15’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Special Screenings Pascal would have it? If philos- ophy is not always clear on the subject, film, on the other hand, Did you know? delights in exploring complex human interactions. Attraction, repulsion, domination, seduc- Cultural mediation tion… Human contact elicits emotions as intense as they are contradictory. FIFForum Pamela Pianezza

Juries and Awards Salam The Robe

Raed Rafei* We Ra* Exhibitions Lebanon, 2017 Myanmar, 2016

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Based on Photo Blood Golden Love

Elika Mehranpour Valeria Sochyvets* Pavlo Ostrikov* Iran, 2015 Ukraine, 2016 Ukraine, 2016

7’ | Animation | 13’ | Fiction | 12’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere International Premiere Swiss Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Programme 3 – Stubborn mule | 91’

“A daring man prefers risk to life, Green I Hope You Are Well Programme or even glory”, wrote Georges Bernanos in Scandale de la Vérité Alonso Ruizpalacios Lucía Díaz Álvarez* > Official Selection (The Scandal of Truth). Of course, Mexico, 2016 Mexico, 2016 some risks are easier to take than > Parallel Sections others, but it is this succession 22’ | Fiction | 15’ | Fiction | of day to day choices – whether Swiss Premiere European Premiere > Special Screenings or not to go out of your comfort zone, face the unknown – which tells us the most about our per- Did you know? sonality and our ambitions. So the most stubborn are often the most daring. At their risk and Cultural mediation peril...

Pamela Pianezza FIFForum The Happy Days Year of the Bird

Juries and Awards Agostina Guala Shenang Gyamjo Tamang* Argentina, 2016 Nepal, 2016

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RM10 Samedi cinéma

Emir Ezwan Mamadou Dia* Malaysia, 2016 Senegal, USA, 2016

13’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 11’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Opening Film The Eagle Huntress 1

Otto Bell Programme USA, UK, Mongolia, 2015

> Official Selection 87‘ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

> Special Screenings Training eagles is a man’s job. Nevertheless, Aisholpan has helped her father train them Did you know? since she was a child. When she turns 13, she decides, with her father’s help, to adopt an eagle Cultural mediation to turn it into a hunter. Will she manage to break with tradition? This documentary, the first film FIFForum from Otto Bell, has won over both audiences and juries at a number of festivals, including Sundance Juries and Awards and Toronto.

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Nate Parker Films and Guests USA, 2016

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30 years before the American Civil War an educated slave attempts to free his people... Nate Parker, who both stars and directs, has stunned the US film industry by bringing this true story to the screen for only $8.5 million. An independent feature film that especially resonates in the Divided States of Donald Trump and a perfect way to close this year’s FIFF, as the Festival never shies away from difficult subjects.

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> Parallel Sections Genre Cinema - 17 Ghost stories > Special Screenings Decryption - 20 Did you know? A cinematic cabinet of curiosities Diaspora - 23 Cultural mediation Myret Zaki and Egypt

FIFForum Hommage à… - 24 Freddy Buache

Juries and Awards New Territory - 25 Nepal Exhibitions Sur la carte de - 29 Douglas Kennedy Practical information

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A sneak peak of the FIFF The spirits are really here! Bumbai Bird

At the beginning, that magical Apparitions, illusions, shadows, Kamal Musale* Programme moment when first memories supernatural visions – the ghost India, Switzerland, 2017 are etched onto the big screen of is always a formidable presence > Official Selection the mind, it provides the purest in fiction, and especially on film. 90’ | Fiction | World Premiere and simplest source of terror: a That is why the FIFF is delighted > Parallel Sections vague figure under a white sheet to be dedicating its Genre Cinema that moves, making “boo” sounds selection to ghosts this year, > Special Screenings in the darkest corners of sleep- as well as including one or two less nights. The ghost, who we films from the International often frame as a kindly Casper, Competition. Eighteen features Did you know? the Harvey Comics character, and a short for a journey through is an early companion for our time, between classicism and childish joy and fears. It helps modernity, formed in the direc- Cultural mediation us grasp the concept of life and tors’ limitless imaginations – death. It hints at the existence grand masters, noble artisans A Chinese Ghost Story of other realms and disturbing, and promising mavericks from FIFForum but fascinating, new horizons... the four corners of the earth. A Siu-tung Ching unique opportunity to spend a Hong Kong, 1987 week with ghosts, conventional Juries and Awards or extraordinary, benevolent or 98’ | Fiction malevolent, but always deftly swerving away from cliché. Exhibitions Fleeting spirits or memories manipulating destinies, evoking Practical information cultures and traditions. Dream? Reality? Most likely magic. The magic of cinema. Films and Guests Jean-Philippe Bernard The Chosen: Agenda Forbidden Cave Kim Hui South Korea, 2015

105’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF The Demons The Ghost Missing you and Mrs. Muir Programme Philippe Lesage Joseph L. Mankiewicz Mo Hong-jin Canada, 2015 USA, 1947 South Korea, 2016 > Official Selection 118’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 104’ | Fiction 108’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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Cultural mediation A Dragon Arrives! The Haunting The Orphanage FIFForum Mani Haghighi Robert Wise Juan Antonio Bayona Iran, 2016 UK, USA, 1963 Spain, 2007 Juries and Awards 108’ | Fiction 112’ | Fiction 105’ | Fiction

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Agenda Empire of Passion The Innocents Panihida

Nagisa Ôshima Jack Clayton Ana-Felicia Scutelnico Japan, France, 1978 USA, UK, 1961 Germany, Moldova, 2012

105’ | Fiction 100’ | Fiction 61’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Beyond the Rashômon The Similars Coconut Trees Programme Elsa Dahmani Akira Kurosawa Isaac Ezban France, 2015 Japan, 1950 Mexico, 2015 > Official Selection 21’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 88’ | Fiction 89’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections Screened before Panihida

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Chris W. Mitchell Erik Matti Babak Anvari Juries and Awards Netherlands, 2014 Philippines, 2016 Iran, Jordan, Qatar, UK, 2016

76’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction | European Premiere 84’ | Fiction Exhibitions

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Agenda The Wailing

Na Hong-jin South Korea, USA, 2016

156’ | Fiction

Round table Think Tank

Ghosts, death, spiritualism Cinema, a ghost machine? and denial

Sunday 02.04 Friday 07.04 17:15-18:45 > ARENA 7 14:00-17:30 > ARENA 7

Free admission Free admission, reservation recommended. Possibility to enter at any time.

Parallel Sections 19 Decryption A cinematic cabinet of curiosities

76 Minutes and 15 A sneak peak of the FIFF Cinema, a matter of life or death Seconds with Decryption, the FIFF’s seismo- When preparing this 31st FIFF, Abbas Kiarostami Programme graphic section, has worked on we noticed that an unusually a simple principle since 2012: high number of major films Seifollah Samadian > Official Selection bringing together recent, high were devoted to... cinema itself. Iran, 2016 quality films which, by reflecting More precisely – much like The > Parallel Sections one another, reveal the world’s Cinema Travellers, which we have 76’ | Documentary | state of turmoil. And because included in the International Swiss Premiere > Special Screenings they often come from artists, Competition – to the end of an these preoccupations foreshadow era with the disappearance of much more real and unexpected celluloid. We have therefore tried Did you know? events. Examples include “Images to define the world of cinema, of Islam in the West”, which we which is so young but already presented in 2012 and the theme in decline. From production to Cultural mediation “Can you laugh about anything?” distribution, from cinephilia to which we put together without current filmmaking, this section is knowing that a few weeks before a snapshot that perhaps already FIFForum the 2015 Festival, Charlie Hebdo belongs in the history books. would be under attack. “The cinema I grew up with Take Me Home Juries and Awards and that I’m making, it’s gone. […] What kind of experience is Abbas Kiarostami it going to be?” asked Martin Iran, 2016 Exhibitions Scorsese last January. The pro- liferation of images and media 16’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere has diminished the art’s impact, Practical information but without improving the Screened before 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds understanding of the language with Abbas Kiarostami of images. “It should matter to Films and Guests your life”, concluded Scorsese. This matter of life or death is implied in each of the wonderful Agenda films in this section.

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78/52

Alexandre O. Philippe* USA, 2017

91’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere

Parallel Sections 20 Decryption A cinematic cabinet of curiosities

A sneak peak of the FIFF Apocalypse Child A Flickering Truth La Séance de 15h

Mario Cornejo Pietra Brettkelly Pauline Jeanbourquin* Programme Philippines, 2015 New Zealand, 2015 Switzerland, 2017

> Official Selection 95’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Documentary | 21’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere World Premiere > Parallel Sections Screened before Gentleman Rissient

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Juries and Awards Jake Paltrow & Noah Baumbach Guy Seligmann & Pascal Claire Simon USA, 2015 Mérigeau & Benoît Jacquot France, 2016 France, 2016 Exhibitions 110’ | Documentary | 121’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere 77’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere Practical information

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The Dying of the Light Moi, Thomas, Hearts of Darkness: 12 ans, cinéfou A Filmmaker’s Peter Flynn Mamad Haghighat* Apocalypse USA, 2015 France, 2017 Eleanor Coppola & George 95’ | Documentary | 19’ | Docufiction | Hickenlooper & Fax Bahr Swiss Premiere World Premiere USA, 1991 Screened before Gentleman Rissient 96’ | Documentary

Parallel Sections 21 Decryption A cinematic cabinet of curiosities

A sneak peak of the FIFF Mifune: Seduced and Voyage à travers le The Last Samurai Abandoned cinéma français Programme Steven Okazaki James Toback Bernard Tavernier Japan, 2015 USA, 2013 France, 2016 > Official Selection 80’ | Documentary | 98’ | Documentary | 193’ | Documentary > Parallel Sections Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Encounter

Skype with James Toback

Thursday 06.04 18:30–19:30 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 22 Diaspora Myret Zaki and Egypt

A sneak peak of the FIFF When Egypt was still singing, laughing and dancing

To celebrate last year’s-end Some would have chosen names El-Baydha Wal Hagar Programme festive season, the magazine like Youssef Chahine to reflect Bilan sent out its seasonal Egypt, but the five titles that Ali Abdel-Khalek > Official Selection greetings on social media in the Myret Zaki has opted for bring Egypt, 1990 form of a musical. That’s right, together the stars of popular > Parallel Sections Switzerland’s leading French- cinema. Five years after the Arab 98’ | Fiction language economics magazine Spring turned to an endless win- > Special Screenings indulged in some light-hearted ter in Egypt, these five films seem fun. The intention was of course ever more vital, portraying as self-derision, with the editor- they do a time when the country Did you know? in-chief, Myret Zaki, acting as sang, laughed and danced in spite mistress of ceremonies. of everything.

Cultural mediation We had already chosen Myret Zaki, an engaged, intelligent woman, before this sketch. Thierry Jobin FIFForum With Diaspora, the special carte blanche that offers a promi- nent exile the chance to show Al-irhab wal kabab Juries and Awards films that remind them of their Habib al omr homeland, Zaki is following in the Sherif Arafa footsteps of cartoonist Patrick Henry Barakat Egypt, 1992 Exhibitions Chappatte (Lebanon), hockey Egypt, 1947 player Slava Bykov (Russia), 105’ | Fiction and filmmakers Atom Egoyan 120’ | Fiction Practical information (Armenia), Tony Gatlif (Romani) and Mira Nair (India). We didn’t approach her for her talents as Films and Guests an MC. Or because she is one of the most important economic analysts in Switzerland. And yet, Agenda Myret Zaki has combined these two aspects for you: the economic realities of Egypt from the 1940s to the 1990s, and the Egyptians’ secret weapons of humour, song El Mansy and dance. Dahab Sherif Arafa Anwar Wagdi Egypt, 1993 Egypt, 1953 105’ | Fiction 120’ | Fiction

Some films chosen by Myet Zake are Due to the rarity of these films, the difficult to find. We will keep searching prints we are obliged to screen might for copies until the last minute and will be of average technical quality. We keep you updated. apologise for the inconvenience.

Parallel Sections 23 Hommage à… Freddy Buache

A sneak peak of the FIFF Memories of a father

Happy. We are SO happy he He changed the lives of all of us Programme accepted our invitation. We’ve who live and breathe cinema. Il Deserto Rosso had him in mind since the This is clear even without reading > Official Selection Hommage à section was created the interminable files the Swiss Michelangelo Antonioni in 2012. But, doubtless a little government held cataloguing his, Italy, France 1964 > Parallel Sections intimidated, we took detours shall we say, left-wing activities. to far off places, honouring the Long before the first FIFF, Freddy 117’ | Fiction > Special Screenings immensity of Iranian cinema Buache was already promoting (2014) and the courage of the cultural diversity, introducing Syrians (2015). A convoluted audiences to filmmakers from far Did you know? way of getting back to our roots and wide, and reminding us of the and our founding father: Freddy basics of a mode of expression Buache, the lion of Swiss cinema that few have championed so Cultural mediation from 1951 to 1995. greatly. So it was time to cham- pion him. What were we afraid of? That he FIFForum would roar, as we’ve so often seen Thierry Jobin him do at press conferences or in articles for papers like La Tribune Juries and Awards de Lausanne or Le Matin, or that M Cries & Whispers he would hang up the phone on us? Of course, that couldn’t be Fritz Lang Ingmar Bergman Exhibitions further from the truth. 92-year- Germany, 1931 Sweden 1972 old Freddy Buache welcomed our proposition, choosing five of 117’ | Fiction 91’ | Fiction Practical information his favourite masterpieces with the kind of childlike enthusiasm that must be as old as the love Films and Guests of cinema itself. From the very first projection. The magic. The enchantment. The revelation. A Agenda life changed forever.

L’Atalante The Dead

Jean Vigo John Huston France, 1934 UK, Ireland, USA, 1987

89’ | Fiction 83’ | Fiction

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Freddy Buache

Tuesday 04.04 18:30-20:00 > ARENA 7

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A sneak peak of the FIFF «This is Nepal!»

When I was asked to create New With Ram, we wanted to contrast Programme Territory, I thought this section these Hollywood, Korean and would be the one that would Japanese images with the images > Official Selection most broaden my horizons, and currently being made by an entire Sindoor the horizons of you, the voting generation through both short > Parallel Sections public. From Bangladesh in and long features, in popular and Prakash Thapa 2012 to films by female African art-house cinema and in major Nepal, 1980 > Special Screenings directors in 2016, via films from festivals; films such as White Sun Madagascar (2014) and by Native by Deepak Rauniyar, which we 131’ | Fiction Americans (2015), I haven’t been selected for the International Did you know? disappointed. And yet, preparing Competition after it screened at the Nepal section really justified the Mostra di Venezia. More than my original intention to find a just a selection, this is Nepal! Cultural mediation nascent film scene and show how a people can use this art form to Thierry Jobin refute clichés. FIFForum During my time in Kathmandu Kumari in November, the producer Ram Juries and Awards Krishna Pokharel, my invaluable Prem Bahadur Basnet guide and friend who has done Nepal, 1977 Basudev us the honour of curating this Exhibitions section, would repeatedly say 107’ | Fiction Neer Shah “This is Nepal!”, in light-hearted Nepal, 1985 response to my constant state Practical information of surprise. The real Nepal, he 139’ | Fiction meant. Not the Nepal dreamed up by the West. The real Nepal: Films and Guests its beliefs, its traditions, its his- torical and political upheavals. Not to mention its inhabitants, Agenda who always meet their misfortune with good humour.

Mukundo

Tsering Rhitar Sherpa Nepal, 2000

108’ | Fiction

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Numafung Soongava Suntali

Nabin Subba Subarna Thapa* Bhaskar Dhungana Programme Nepal, 2001 France, Nepal, 2012 Nepal, 2014

> Official Selection 108’ | Fiction 85’ | Fiction 110’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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Cultural mediation Kagbeni Loot The Black Hen FIFForum Bhusan Dahal Nischal Basnet Min Bahadur Bham Nepal, 2008 Nepal, 2012 Nepal, Switzerland, Juries and Awards Germany, France, 2015 114’ | Fiction 121’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction Exhibitions

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Agenda Highway Who Will Be a Gurkha Serdhak

Deepak Rauniyar Kesang Tseten Rajan Kathet Nepal, USA, 2012 Nepal, 2012 Nepal, 2015

80’ | Fiction 75’ | Documentary 73’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Programme: Aawajhin Laaz Nepali Short Films | 85’ Saroj Shrestha Sushan Prajapati Programme Nepal, 2015 Nepal, 2015 These short films by upcoming > Official Selection Nepalese directors unfold stories 7’ | Fiction 20’ | Fiction of ordinary people of various > Parallel Sections ethnicities who are faced with contemporary issues in Nepal. > Special Screenings These films depict the diver- sity and values of the society as well as the country’s unique Did you know? geography. They also reflect the significant growth and positive future of Nepali Cinema. Cultural mediation Kafal Pakyo Dadyaa FIFForum Niranjan Raj Bhetwal Pooja Gurung & Nepal, 2014 Bibhusan Basnet Juries and Awards France, Nepal, 2016 17’ | Fiction 16’ | Fiction Exhibitions

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Agenda Chhora

Subarna Thapa* France, Nepal, 2013

25’ | Fiction

Parallel Sections 27 New Territory An outsider’s view of Nepal

A sneak peak of the FIFF Himalayan Gold Rush Everest (3D) L’Ascension

Eric Valli Baltasar Kormákur Ludovic Bernard * Programme France, 2011 USA, UK, Iceland, 2015 France, 2016

> Official Selection 52’ | Documentary 121’ | Fiction 103’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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Cultural mediation The Himalayas Everest: FIFForum The Summit of the Gods Lee Seok-hoon Hideyuki Hirayama Juries and Awards South Korea, 2015 Japan, 2016

124’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 123’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Exhibitions

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Round table Exhibition New Territory: Nepal Nepal – A red casket

Wednesday 05.04 30.03 > 28.04 18:30–20:00 > ARENA 7 Art Buvette Free admission Rue Pierre-Aeby 31 CH-1700 Fribourg +41 (0)26 321 28 66 [email protected] www.art-buvette.com

Parallel Sections 28 Sur la carte de Douglas Kennedy

A sneak peak of the FIFF The Divided States of America

“I would like to concentrate He could almost have written Paths of Glory Programme on mid-century America – the editorial policy – piercing and its darker aspects”. When and popular, without being Stanley Kubrick > Official Selection he accepted our invitation in calculating or narrow-minded. USA, 1957 August, American writer Douglas Wonderfully adapted numer- > Parallel Sections Kennedy probably didn’t expect ous times (Welcome to Woop 88’ | Fiction that the US was going to enter Woop, Stephen Elliott, 1997; > Special Screenings another dark chapter in its his- The Big Picture, Eric Lartigau, tory by electing Donald Trump. 2010; Woman in the Fifth, Pawel He wouldn’t have been able to Pawlikowski, 2011), he has also Did you know? imagine how accurately his carte used cinema as fodder for his blanche would reflect life in the novels, such as Losing It (2002), US today. his ferocious depiction of Cultural mediation Hollywood. A builder of bridges After the Dardenne brothers in between the big and small screen, 2014 and Geraldine Chaplin in for the FIFF team he is one of the FIFForum 2016, the Sur la Carte de… section most generous and spontaneous The Searchers has never been so closely aligned people we have ever invited to with current affairs. Anyone who Fribourg. John Ford Juries and Awards follows Douglas Kennedy on USA, 1956 social media can observe his Thierry Jobin eclectic cinematic tastes and 119’ | Fiction Exhibitions strong political commitment on a daily basis. Kennedy, one of the most widely read and translated Practical information writers, from his first novel The Dead Heart to his recent All the Big Questions... With No Attempts Films and Guests at Any Answers, was destined to one day come to the FIFF.

Agenda The Apartment Seconds

Billy Wilder John Frankenheimer USA, 1960 USA, 1966

125’ | Fiction 106’ | Fiction

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Douglas Kennedy The Big Heat Sweet Smell of Success

Monday 03.04 Fritz Lang Alexander Mackendrick 18:30-20:00 > ARENA 7 USA, 1953 USA, 1957

Free admission 90’ | Fiction 96’ | Fiction

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Special Screenings 30 FIFFamily around the world

A sneak peak of the FIFF After India (2013), Latin America Little ghost stories (2014), South Africa (2015) and the Far East (2016), we are invit- Short Films selection | 56’ Programme ing you, the families who visit the FIFF once a year looking for > Official Selection wonderful films made outside the Hollywood bubble, on a jour- > Parallel Sections ney around the globe. Mongolia, Colombia, the UK, Lithuania, > Special Screenings Japan, France, Iran: a world tour, as promised.

Did you know? That’s right, for the 31st Festival, we have a veritable feast for you, with seven films instead Cultural mediation of the usual one or two... Sure, six of them are short films, mini ghost stories – animated films FIFForum in a programme for children that echoes the Genre Cinema section. Because, after all, only A Journey to Spiritisme Juries and Awards children really believe in ghosts. the Moon Symphony abracadabrant Isn’t that right? Sandra Reyes Sotomayor Georges Méliès Exhibitions Thierry Jobin Colombia, 2014 France, 1900

Practical information La maison The Shadow which en petits cubes turned into light Films and Guests Kunio Kato Nazanin Sobhan Sarbandi Japan, 2008 Iran, 2016

Agenda La Clownesse fantôme Spoku Stunda

Georges Méliès Nils Skapāns France, 1902 Latvia, 2014

Dip Dap et le petit fantôme Steve Roberts UK, 2011

La Jeune Fille et Son Aigle The Eagle Huntress

Otto Bell USA, UK, Mongolia, 2015

87’ | Documentary Swiss Premiere

Special Screenings 31 Films of the International Jury

A sneak peak of the FIFF Mountain L’Ascension

Yaelle Kayam * Ludovic Bernard * Programme Israel, Denmark, 2015 France, 2016

> Official Selection 83’ | Fiction 103’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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Cultural mediation The Road to Race Track Soongava FIFForum Jang Sun-woo Subarna Thapa* South Korea, 1991 France, Nepal, 2012 Juries and Awards 138’ | Fiction 85’ | Fiction

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with the International Jury

Saturday 08.04 16:00-18:00 > ARENA 7

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A sneak peak of the FIFF A visa to the beyond Programme: Foreign Visa Prize

Three magnificent feature-length 73’ Programme films,Double Sentence, 78/52 and Bumbai Bird, a programme of > Official Selection short films made in Mumbai by ECAL and HEAD students, as well > Parallel Sections as a top-drawer selection from national film schools for a new > Special Screenings and rather original prize. Swiss cinema was barely represented at FIFF before this section was Did you know? created in 2012, but this year we have another great crop.

Cultural mediation There were of course pitfalls.

Usually, we present a foreign film FIFForum filmed in Switzerland that relates to the Genre Cinema section. This year, however, it has proven Juries and Awards impossible to find a great ghost film made locally by a foreign Comme des Loups Millimeterle auteur. Is Switzerland too idyllic Exhibitions for wandering spirits? Aude Sublet* Pascal Reinmann* ECAL, Switzerland, 2016 ZHdK, Switzerland, 2016 Thierry Jobin Practical information 20’ | Fiction 15’ | Fiction

Films and Guests Double Sentence 1 Wo der Euphrat in Agenda Léa Pool* die Sava mündet The Devil‘s Bridge of Uri Switzerland, 2017 Andreas Muggli* Jochen Ehmann* HSLU, Switzerland, 2016 HSLU, Switzerland, 2016 103’ | Documentary 15’ | Documentary 7’ | Animation

Genesis

Lucien Monot* HEAD, Switzerland, 2016

16’ | Documentary

Special Screenings 33 Passeport suisse

A sneak peak of the FIFF Within their three-week-long Programme: Workshop A Journey to Mumbai ECAL/Head Masterclass pro- gramme, 16 students went face 48’ Programme to face with the intensity of Mumbai and a whole other way > Official Selection of filmmaking. Supervised by star director Anurag Kashyap, they > Parallel Sections were thrown into the universe of Bollywood, got accustomned to > Special Screenings the technique of “guerilla shoot- ing”, braved the restrictions of filming permissions or dared to Did you know? try out various choreographies.

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Exhibitions Sayaka Mizuno & Sophie Dloussky Robin Mognetti Switzerland, India, 2017 Switzerland, India, 2017 Practical information 5’ | Documentary | 14’ | Docufiction | World Premiere World Premiere Films and Guests

Agenda Lucky Fly kills Light Chhaya

Chiara Ghio Joanne Schmutz & Hansaem Kim Switzerland, India, 2017 Switzerland, India, 2017

9’ | Fiction | World Premiere 11’ | Fiction | World Premiere

L’Espace d’un regard

Mateo Ybarra Switzerland, India, 2017

11’ | Documentary | World Premiere

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A sneak peak of the FIFF The Age of Shadows Headshot Sadako v Kayako

Kim Jee-woon Timo Tjahjanto & Kôji Shiraishi Programme South Korea, 2016 Kimo Stamboel Japan, 2016 Indonesia, 2016 > Official Selection 140’ | Fiction | 98’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 117’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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Goldstone The Maidroid

Ivan Sen No Zin-soo Australia, 2016 South Korea, 2015

110’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 76’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere White Lily

Hideo Nakata Japan, 2016

80’ | Fiction | European Premiere

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International Competition: Feature FIlms Opening FIlm

Dearest Sister The Eagle Huntress Mattie Do, Laos, Estonia, France, 2016 Otto Bell, USA, UK, Mongolia, 2015

Mattie Do is the first ever female Aishoplan is the first ever female Laotian director. eagle hunter in Mongolia. This docu- mentary features a number of celebrity names, including a voice-over by Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and the Australian singer Sia, who wrote the song that plays over the closing credits. Singing in Graveyards Bradley Liew*, Malaysia, Philippines, 2016

Joey “Pepe Smith” plays himself in this comedy-drama. In 1966, he opened for Le FIFF in figures the Beatles at their only concert in Manilla, with his band the D’Downbeats. 140 films The Fab Four described the concert as the worst experience of their lives. 10 directors who have already International Competition: Short FIlms presented a film at the FIFF 23 debut features

7 Year of the Bird debut shorts Shenang Gyamjo Tamang*, Nepal, 2016

5 features and Before stepping behind the camera, 7 shorts by female Shenang Gyamjo Tamang had a diverse directors in competition career that included time as a Buddhist monk and then as a body-builder. 45 countries

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Cargo Karim Rahbani*, Lebanon, 2017

The short film Cargo, by Karim Rahbani, was produced by Julie Gayet and her The Birth of a Nation production company: Rouge International. Nate Parker, USA, 2016 Karim Rahbani is part of a renowned Nate Parker isn’t just the director of artistic Lebanese family, along with The Birth of a Nation, he also stars in Assi and Mansour (the Rahbani brothers) the film as Nat Turner, a real person and Ziad Rahbani. Karim came to the who led a slave revolt in 1831 in the FIFF in 2015 to present his short film state of Virginia. With Thy Spirit. Did you know?

Decryption: New Territory: Nepal A cinematic cabinet of curiosities This is the first time a film festival has devoted an entire section to Nepal. It produces around 100 films a year. Most of the directors learnt their trade by help- ing out on foreign productions of films or documentaries being shot in the 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami Himalayas. Seifollah Samadian, India, 2016

Seifollah Samadian was Abbas Kiarostami’s assistant. He is the only person who could New Territory: An outsider’s view of Nepal film the director so intimately. Abbas Kiarostami died 15 days after his 76th birthday and the documentary lasts precisely 76 minutes and 15 seconds.

Genre Cinema: Ghost stories L’Ascension Ludovic Bernard, France, 2016

L’Ascension is the directorial début of Ludovic Bernard, a member of the 78/52 international jury. For over 20 years, The Orphanage Alexandre O. Philippe*, USA, 2017 he worked as the right-hand man to two Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, 2007 of the most charismatic figures in French Alexandre O. Philippe, originally from cinema, namely Luc Besson and Geraldine Chaplin (Sur la carte de Geneva and a loyal friend of the Festival, Mathieu Kassovitz on films such as Geraldine Chaplin, 2016) plays the role is a Pop Culture expert. He has already La Haine, Lucy, Taken 2 and Taken 3, to of a medium named Aurora. presented two of his documentaries at name but a few. FIFF, The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus (2012) and Doc of the Dead (2014).

His documentary 78/52 looks at the famous shower scene in Psycho by Sur la carte de Douglas Kennedy Alfred Hitchcock, which lasts 52 Douglas Kennedy’s most recent novel, All seconds and contains 78 different shots. Bumbai Bird the Big Questions... With No Attempts at Kamal Musale*, India, Switzerland, 2017 Any Answers, begins in Kandersteg. He sought refuge there following difficulties Famous Swiss jazz pianist Malcolm in his love life. Cross-country skiing in the Braff composed the score for Bumbai Alps of Berne brought him “complete Bird. On Thursday 6 April, the artist will happiness”. provide a live piano accompaniment for the film’sworld première.

Planète Cinéma

Planète Cinéma is the biggest Swiss This year, 4 films from schools programme on offer at a festival. the FIFF programme will It attracts more than 10,000 students from the area and surrounding cantons. appear in Swiss cinemas:

Double Sentence on 5 April

The Eagle Huntress on 12 April

The Birth of a Nation on 26 April

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Cultural mediation 38 Planète Cinéma The programme for schools

A sneak peak of the FIFF Planète Cinéma, the FIFF pro- Chanda, The World of Us gramme for schools, is showing une mère indienne films for all ages from all over the Yoon Ga-eun Programme world, none of which have come Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari South Korea, 2016 through the usual distribution India, 2015 > Official Selection channels. This selection aims to 95’ | Fiction be a gateway to discovering the 96’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections diversity of international cinema.

> Special Screenings To open this window onto the world of film, Planète Cinéma is focussing on educational sup- Did you know? port via a cultural intermediary which ensures the conditions necessary to promote discussion Cultural mediation and encourage young people’s curiosity. Educational material and in-house training is aimed FIFForum at teachers, films are presented La Jeune Fille and contextualised by a team et Son Aigle of mediators, and meetings Juries and Awards with industry professionals are Celestial Camel The Eagle Huntress 1 organised. Yuri Feting Otto Bell Exhibitions Cécilia Bovet Russia, 2015 France, 2016

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Rauf Petites histoires de fantômes Soner Caner & Barış Kaya Turkey, 2016 Sélection de courts métrages

94’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 56’ | Voir le détail

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Programme Douglas Kennedy FIFF Breakfasts > Official Selection Monday 03.04 Monday-Wednesday 03.04-05.04 > Parallel Sections 18:30-20:00 > ARENA 7 10:00-10:45

> Special Screenings Free admission Public visits of guests from the FIFF 2017 at eikon, Vocational The Masterclass follows after the School of Applied Arts. Did you know? screening of Seconds eikon EMF Rte Wilhelm-Kaiser 13 Cultural mediation CH-1700 Fribourg Freddy Buache +41 (0)26 305 46 86 www.eikon.ch FIFForum Tuesday 04.04 18:30-20:00 > ARENA 7 Free admission

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Programme Ghosts, death, Cinema, a ghost machine? Participant-e-s sous reserve : > Official Selection spiritualism and denial The figure of the ghost is a part of Mireille Berton > Parallel Sections Sunday 02.04 cinema and its history. Directing 17:15-18:45 > ARENA 7 or depicting a ghost explores Switzerland > Special Screenings the way humans relate to death. Free admission Moreover, cinema relies on the Doctor of Arts Section illusion produced by appearing d’Histoire et esthétique Did you know? Several guests will discuss the and disappearing images and du cinéma place of death in our society: projections of shade and light. grief, fear, obsession, denial, Cultural mediation rituals. This creates a perfect way of evoking and portraying ghostly Guests: figures that are usually invisible. FIFForum Alix Noble Burnand (storyteller So, what’s the best way to repre- Mattie Do and thanatologist), Bernard sent death and build a narrative Crettaz (sociologist and than- around these absent forms? What USA, Laos Juries and Awards atologist) & Fabienne Mathier do ghosts symbolise? Why are (director) there certain cultural taboos Director of around depicting them? Dearest Sister Exhibitions A specialist (Mireille Berton, New Territory: Nepal Doctor in Letters and expert in Practical information the historic approach of bonds Mbithi Masya Wednesday 05.04 between cinema and sciences 18:30-20:00 > ARENA 7 of the psyche) and several Kenya Films and Guests professional of the cinema, – Free admission Mattie Do (director of Dearest Director of Sister, 2016), Annick Mahnert Kati Kati Agenda An overview of the Nepali cin- (producer of Dearest Sister and ema with three directors and a 78/52), Mbithi Masya (director of producer: Ram Krishna Pokharel Kati Kati, 2016), Kamale Musale (producer), Deepak Rauniyar (director of Mumbai Bird, 2017), Kamal Musale (director), Subarna Thapa (direc- whose movies, presented at the tor) & Shenang Gyamjo Tamang FIFF, approach the ghostly fig- Switerland, India (director) ures and will try to answer these questions. Director of This page should only be used as Bumbai Bird a reference. Between its publica- Friday 07.04 tion and the start of the Festival, 14:00-17:30 > ARENA 7 other events may be added. The latest information may be found Annick Manhert on the website www.fiff.ch/en/ Languages fifforum and at our ticket offices. Français, Deutsch, English Switzerland

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Juries and Awards 43 Subarna Thapa International Jury Nepal Feature Films Some people can stir our sympathy in an instant. Like the actor and director Subarna Thapa. Born in Kathmandu, A sneak peak of the FIFF The total prize money for the Yaelle Kayam he has lived in France since 1990 and awards of FIFF 2017 stands at divides his time between France and CHF 66,500. The winners will be Israel Nepal. A drama graduate from the Programme revealed at the closing ceremony, renowned Cours Florent in Paris, which will take place on Saturday, Winner of the FIFF he completed his training at the > Official Selection April 8th at 18:00 at the Equilibre Grand Prix in 2016 Comédie-Française in Paris and the Theatre. for Mountain, the Israeli director Japan Foundation in Tokyo. He started > Parallel Sections and screenwriter Yaelle Kayam out as an actor before making his couldn’t attend the festival in own films in his home country: two > Special Screenings Fribourg last time. She is making shorts (Funérailles, 2008; Fils, 2013) The International Jury up for her unfortunate absence and a feature (Soongava, 2012), which this year. Before Mountain, her was critically acclaimed at a number Did you know? Feature Films gives the promising debut feature film which of festivals and dares, with gentle was also selected at Venice, Tokyo, courage, to address the difficulties following Awards: Sarasota, Istanbul, Gothenburg of being a lesbian in Nepal. Cultural mediation and San Francisco, where she won the Special Jury Award, Ludovic Bernard Yaelle Kayam came to interna- FIFForum tional attention with the short France Diploma (2009), which won her third place at the Cinéfondation His first feature, Juries and Awards du Festival de Cannes. L’Ascension, one of the first two fictional productions Kang Soo-yeon to be filmed at the Everest base Exhibitions Grand Prix of the Fribourg camp, has been seen by one mil- International Film Festival South Korea lion people in France since the year began. As well as Ahmed Practical information The Grand Prix of the Fribourg From 2015 onwards, Sylla’s performance, the film’s International Film Festival Kang Soo-yeon success can be attributed to the consists of CHF 30,000 jointly has been Director of the Busan sincerity of this moving comedy. Films and Guests bestowed by the canton of International Film Festival (BIFF), And of course its director, Ludovic Fribourg (CHF 20,000) and the the South Korean festival which, Bernard, isn’t just anybody. Since Municipality of Fribourg (CHF since its creation in 1996, has 1992, he has been assistant direc- Agenda 10,000). This award is conferred become one of the most important tor on around 40 series episodes upon the director (CHF 20,000) festivals – if not the most import- and films. He has served as right- and the producer (CHF 10,000) ant festival – in Asia. Her endless hand man to such luminaries as of the film selected by the dedication has helped this key Mathieu Kassovitz on La Haine International Jury. event to overcome difficult times. (1995) and Assassin(s) (1997), Emilie This has further endeared Kang Deleuze (Peau Neuve, 1999), Tran Soo-yeon to the Korean public, Anh Hung (The Vertical Ray of the who already considered her one Sun, 2000), Richard Berry (Moi of their greatest actresses. She has César, 10 ans ½, 1m39, 2003; La been acting since she was a child Boîte Noire, 2005), James Huth and has starred in around 40 films, (Brice de Nice, 2005), Diane Kurys Special Jury Award under the direction of Im Kwon- (L’Anniversaire, 2005), Guillaume taek, in particular: The Surrogate Canet (Ne le Dis à Personne, 2006; This prize consisting of CHF Woman (1987) won her the Best Les Petits Mouchoirs, 2010), Jean- 10,000 is awarded by the Swiss Actress award at the Mostra di François Richet (Mesrine, 2008), Authors Society (SAS) and Venezia. Luc Besson (The Lady, 2011; The Suissimage. It is bestowed on Family, 2013; Lucy, 2014), Olivier the director of the film chosen Megaton (Taken 2, 2012; Taken by the International Jury for the 3, 2014) and Barry Sonnenfeld inventiveness of the screenplay (Nine Lives, 2016). He has worked and the direction, the rejuve- with every French star, as well as nation of the cinematographic Scarlett Johansson, Liam Neeson, language, or the thematic and Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner, formal audacity shown. and the Nepalese say they have rarely seen such a respectful and empathetic person.

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A sneak peak of the FIFF The International Jury Bianca Balbuena Georges Schwizgebel Short Films gives the Philippines Programme Switzerland following award: Barely 30 years old, > Official Selection she already has 30 Six years after his films to her name, first as an assis- unforgettable appearance at FIFF > Parallel Sections tant director since 2008 and then, 2012 where he inaugurated the Sur most notably, as a producer. This la carte de… section by presenting > Special Screenings energetic, dynamic personality has dozens of animated shorts from gained renown across South Asia around the world, the Swiss king since 2011, particularly in her home of animation/animated paint- Did you know? Best International Short Film country of the Philippines, by pro- ing/poetry in motion is back in Award ducing over 20 films, including A Fribourg. His beautiful, meticulous Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery work has continued for the past Cultural mediation The Best International Short Film which won the great filmmaker six years with, most notably, Le Award, which is sponsored by Lav Diaz the Alfred Bauer Award Roi des Aulnes (2015). Groupe E, recognises innova- at the 2016 Berlinale. She is also FIFForum tive, independent film-making the producer and co-screenwriter by emerging young talent. The of Singing in Graveyards, the film Short Film Jury will award the CHF that Bradley Liew has brought to Juries and Awards 7,500 cash prize to the winning the International Competition: director. Feature Films for FIFF 2017.

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Jan Gassmann Practical information Switzerland

Films and Guests Since starting out in the Videogang collec- tive and studying at the Munich Agenda Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF), Zurich-based Jan Gassmann is steadily building a reputation as one of the great new Swiss film- makers. He won numerous awards for Chrigu in 2007, was invited to the Berlinale for Off Beat in 2011, won the Grand Prix at Visions du Réel (Nyon) for Karma Shadub, co-directed with Ramon Giger in 2013, and has just been awarded the Swiss Film Award for Europe, She Loves, a documentary that premièred at the 2016 Berlinale and has picked up awards in Mexico, Munich and Zurich.

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> Parallel Sections Critics’ Choice Awards The Ecumenical Jury Award The Youth Jury Award COMUNDO

> Special Screenings Awarded by a Jury of members This award (CHF 5,000) is con- Conferred by COMUNDO and of the Swiss Film Journalist ferred jointly by two develop- amounting to CHF 5,000, this prize Association, this prize aims to ment-cooperation organisations, is awarded by the Youth Jury. Did you know? promote the cinema as an art Action de Carême (Catholic) It aims not only to give young and encourage new and emerg- and Pain pour le Prochain people a say in the Festival, but ing films. (Protestant), to the director also to highlight a film that takes Cultural mediation whose film best reflects the val- into account the problems faced Members of the Critics’ Choice ues upon which these two organ- by young people in today’s world. Award Jury isations base their support to the It is aimed to raise awareness in FIFForum struggle of poor populations in students and apprentices of the >> Catharina Steiner African, Asian or Latin American irreplaceable means provided by (Germany – 20 Minuten) countries. The Ecumenical Jury is films – beyond mere diversion – Juries and Awards composed of representatives of to discover the riches of other >> Thomas Gerber the two development agencies cultures and to learn tolerance (Switzerland – GRRIF) of the Churches, and represen- and justice. Exhibitions tatives of SIGNIS (World Catholic >> Michael Sennhauser Association for Communication Members of the Youth Jury (Switzerland – DRS) (www.signis.net) and INTERFILM COMUNDO Practical information (International Interchurch Film Organisation, www.inter-film.org). >> Vincent Annen (Switzerland)

Films and Guests Members of the Ecumenical Jury >> Lucie Caille (Switzerland)

>> Dorothea Lanz (Switzerland) >> Benoit Dietrich (Switzerland) Agenda >> Monica Lienin (Switzerland) >> Elena Marisa Pilloud (Switzerland) The Audience Award >> Françoise Lods (France) >> Carmen Steg (Switzerland) This prize, consisting of CHF 5,000, is supported by the FIFF >> Jeremy Zahno (Switzerland) and the Banque Cantonale de Fribourg and awarded to the director of the film selected by the audience.

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> Official Selection The Don Quijote Award of the CH Cinema Network Prize Passeport suisse – > Parallel Sections International Federation of the Foreign Visa Prize Film Societies IFFS > Special Screenings Founded in 1947 during the Prize money of CHF 3,000 is This prize of CHF 1,000 is Cannes Festival, the FICC/IFFS awarded to the best short film sponsored by E-changer and Did you know? has grouped together the feder- entered in the International Fribourg Solidaire. Every year, ations of non-profit movie clubs Competition. It will be awarded by Switzerland’s top film schools are and theatres on the five conti- a new jury of CH Cinema Network invited to send in short films (20 Cultural mediation nents. One of the major aims students from Lausanne, Lugano minutes maximum) made by their of the IFFS is to discover and and Zurich universities, ECAL, students. These top films by the diffuse major films. To this end, HEAD and ZHDK. Based on an future filmmakers of Switzerland FIFForum the IFFS has created Discovery, exchange between universities, are submitted to the sagacity of an international network of cine- higher education establishments the members of the New Territory matographic distribution, which and filmmaking institutions, this section, which this year is com- Juries and Awards aims to allow the public to have national programme combines posed of Nepali producers and access to films that are not usu- hands-on instruction and uni- directors. ally part of regular programmes versity teaching. Exhibitions in movie theatres. The pilot proj- ect, launched in the Spring of Members of the CH 1998, established a catalogue of Cinema Network jury Practical information the Discovery network made up of films having received prizes from >> Fiorenza Conforti the IFFS Juries. A selection of such (Switzerland) Films and Guests films is shown once a year at the International Film-Club Festival >> Charlotte Klinke at Reggio di Calabria in Italy. (Switzerland) Agenda Members of the FICC Jury >> Lucca Kohn (Switzerland)

>> Vanessa Elges (Germany) >> Robin Mognetti (France)

>> Joaquim Roqué Paret (Spain) >> Mateo Ybarra (Switzerland)

>> Lucas Vischer (Switzerland)

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> Special Screenings UNVEILING THE VEIL - Different realities - 49 Népal - Le cercueil rouge - 50 Did you know? JEAN COCTEAU - JEAN MAUBOULÈS - 50

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Has Been – Exhibition Peter Schuyff 11.02 – 04.06 Programme When the ghosts of abstraction Brunch FIFF start haunting the compositions Sunday 02.04 > Official Selection of Dutch painter Peter Schuyff, at Fri Art from 10:30 a whole world of possibilities is > Parallel Sections opened up to the audience. Admission Regular admission CHF 8 > Special Screenings An abstract and extravagant Reduced admission CHF 5 neo-surrealism, from optical Free entrance: Ask at the entrance canvasses to geometric com- Did you know? positions, alongside biomorphic Opening Hours designs that float over old can- Monday-Friday 12:00 – 19:00 vasses found in flea markets. Thursday 12:00 – 22:00 Cultural mediation Saturday-Sunday 13:00 – 18:00 Peter Schuyff, Untitled, 1990, 50 x 63 cm Contact FIFForum Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg Petites-Rames 22 CH-1701 Fribourg Juries and Awards +41 (0)26 323 23 51 [email protected] | www.fri-art.ch

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Films and Guests UNVEILING THE VEIL Exhibition Different realities 05.04 – 27.05 Agenda The bilingual exhibition (German- Opening French) at the BCU (Cantonal and Wednesday 05.04 18:30 University Library) gives several different perspectives on the top- Admission ical issue of identities. In seven Free entrance sections, it tells the long history of the veil from ancient times Opening Hours to the present day. The veil, a Monday-Friday 08:00 – 22:00 general term which also incor- Saturday 08:00 – 16:00 porates the headscarf, is almost exclusively associated with Islam Guided visit with today. And yet Christianity was Elisabeth Reichen the first religion to make wearing Wed 19.04 | 25.04 | 08.05 | 18:30 2012 © Elisabeth Reichen the veil compulsory. Contact Cantonal and University Library “BCU” Rue Joseph-Piller 2 CH-1700 Fribourg +41 (0)26 305 13 33 www.fr.ch/bcuf

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Nepal – A red casket Exhibition 30.03 – 28.04 “Nepal – A red casket. Night falls Programme on the “ghat”. All day fires have Opening been burning bodies and then Thursday 30.03 18:30 > Official Selection dying out one by one. The fami- lies have gone into the encroach- Admission > Parallel Sections ing darkness, leaving behind their Free entrance dead and their sorrow.” > Special Screenings Opening Hours The exhibition is Michael Buchs’ Tuesday 16:00 – 20:00 personal journey to Nepal. A great Wednesday 11:00 – 20:00 Did you know? admirer of the region and its Thursday-Friday 11:00 – 22:00 customs, he offers a series of images to ponder. Contact Cultural mediation Art Buvette Kala Bhairab, Durbar Square, Rue Pierre-Aeby 31 Katmandu CH-1700 Fribourg FIFForum +41 (0)26 321 28 66 [email protected] www.art-buvette.com Juries and Awards

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Films and Guests JEAN COCTEAU – Exhibition JEAN MAUBOULÈS 17.03 – 09.07 Agenda Jean Cocteau and sculptor Jean Opening Mauboulès can be linked through Thursday 16.03 17:00 – 19:00 several significant similarities, seen through lines and curves Admission of very different shapes. Cocteau Regular admission CHF 8 was known for tracing the outline Reduced admission CHF 5 of a face, drawing only the essen- tial. Mauboulès casts iron and Opening Hours models glass to produce abstract Friday-Sunday 10:00 – 18:00 and three-dimensional portraits Monday-Thursday on demand that recall certain figures of his illustrious compatriot. Contact APCd Fondation Photo : Francesco Ragusa © 2016, Rte de l’Ancienne Papeterie 170 Pro Litteris, Zurich CH-1723 Marly +41 (0)26 552 14 60 [email protected] www.apcd-fondation.com

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Journalists and media represen- Rules and regulations tatives can apply online for an accreditation for the 31st Festival Professionals >> Video library Programme edition until March 30, 2017. (upon reservation) Film professionals can apply for > Official Selection Press accreditations are reserved an accreditation. The accredita- A room with video monitors and for journalists and media repre- tion of the Fribourg International harddisks or links containing all > Parallel Sections sentatives. Anyone applying for Film Festival is personal and Festival films is available for the accreditation must be profession- non-transferable and gives the professionals and journalists. The > Special Screenings ally active (freelance, affiliate to right to the following: screening hour must imperatively a media, blog). be reserved through the office. >> Free entry to all the public Did you know? When the accreditation docu- screenings (excepting open- >> Opening Hours of ments have been processed and ing and closing ceremony) the Press Centre one week before the Festival Cultural mediation starts at the latest, you will Accredited professionals must The press service is open as receive a confirmation mail. The withdraw their accreditation card followed: Friday, March 11th to Festival reserves the right not to at the guest office. Saturday 19th: 09.30-19.00 FIFForum grant the accreditation. >> List of accredited >> Pictures and press kit Please pick up your accredita- people present Juries and Awards tion from the press office at the The presskits as well as the pic- Ancienne Gare Fribourg, start- A list of the accredited people tures, film stills, films samples or ing March 31, 2017, 9.30 am. present may be obtained from soundtracks can be provided on Exhibitions Accreditation for media is free the professionals’ reception desk. demand by the press office or on of charge. However, all accred- itations requested during the www.fiff.ch Practical information Festival will cost CHF 50. >> Coordination of interviews The accreditation gives the right Films and Guests to the services listed in our rules The press office is in charge to and regulations. organise the interviews with the guests representing a movie. Agenda >> Le FIFF on the social networks

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Eat and Drink Daycare for children The FIFF’s restaurant and bar For the first time the FIFF collab- in the Festival Centre, Ancienne orates with the daycare of the Programme Gare, Fribourg University of Fribourg. The ideal occasion for parents to visit the > Official Selection The festival visitor’s meeting Festival while their 1 to 6 year point, with café, bar and restau- old children enjoy themselves > Parallel Sections rant. The chefs of Hotel Cailler in a playful and diverting setting. in Charmey serve regional and > Special Screenings international delicacies. This is the place to meet filmmakers, jury members, FIFF’s friends, and Did you know? to rock it up on the dance floor!

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Argentina Germany Kenya A sneak peak of the FIFF > January 1 > M Kati Kati 1 Darío Mascambroni, 2016 | Fiction Fritz Lang, 1931 | Fiction Mbithi Masya, 2016 + Germany | Fiction > The Happy Days 1 Programme Agostina Guala, 2016 | Fiction Hong Kong Laos > A Chinese Ghost Story > Dearest Sister 1 Australia > Official Selection Siu-tung Ching, 1987 | Fiction Mattie Do, 2016 + France, Estonia | Fiction > Hounds of Love 1 Ben Young, 2016 | Fiction India Latvia > Parallel Sections > Goldstone 1 > Chanda, une mère indienne 1 > Ghost Hour Ivan Sen, 2016 | Fiction Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, 2015 | Fiction Nils Skapāns, 2014 | Animation > Special Screenings > The Cinema Travellers 1 Austria Amit Madheshiya, Shirley Abraham Lebanon > Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies 1 2016 | Documentary > Cargo 3 Dominik Hartl, 2016 | Fiction > Bumbai Bird 3 Karim Rahbani, 2017 + Did you know? Kamal Musale, 2017 + Cyprus, France | Fiction Switzerland | Fiction Bhutan > Salon Elvis 4 > Honeygiver Among the Dogs 1 Anthony Khawand, 2016 | Documentary Cultural mediation Dechen Roder, 2016 | Fiction Indonesia > Salam 3 > Headshot 1 Raed Rafei, 2017 | Docufiction Bosnia and Herzegovina Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel, 2016 | Fiction > Fine 1 Malaysia FIFForum > The Silent Mob 1 Marta Hernaiz Pidal, 2016 > RM10 1 Harvan Agustriansyah, 2016 | Fiction + Mexico | Fiction Emir Ezwan, 2016 | Fiction > Singing in Graveyards Iran Juries and Awards Canada Bradley Liew, 2016 + Philippines | Fiction > A Dragon Arrives! > The Demons 1 Mani Haghighi, 2016 | Fiction Philippe Lesage, 2015 | Fiction Mexico > The Shadow That Turned into Light 1 > The Similars 1 Exhibitions Nazanin Sobhan Sarbandi, 2016 Isaac Ezban, 2015 | Fiction Colombia Animation > Green 1 > A Journey to the Moon Symphony > Based on Photo 1 Alonso Ruizpalacios, 2016 | Fiction Sandra Reyes Sotomayor, 2014 Elika Mehranpour, 2015 | Animation Practical information > The Night Guard 4 Animation > Take Me Home 1 Diego Ros, 2016 | Fiction Abbas Kiarostami, 2016 | Fiction > I Hope You Are Well 2 > 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Egypt Lucía Díaz Álvarez, 2016 | Fiction Kiarostami 1 Films and Guests > El Mansy Seifollah Samadian, 2016 | Documentary Sherif Arafa, 1993 | Fiction > Under the Shadow Moldova > Dahab Babak Anvari, 2016 + Jordan, > Panihida 1 Anwar Wagdi, 1953 | Fiction Agenda Qatar, UK | Fiction Ana-Felicia Scutelnico, 2012 > El-Baydha Wal Hagar + Germany | Fiction Ali Abdel-Khalek, 1990 | Fiction > Al-irhab wal kabab Iraq Sherif Arafa, 1992 | Fiction > Captain Adel 2 Mongolia > The Wheel 2 Ameer Albassri, 2016 | Fiction > The Eagle Huntress 1 Menna Ekram, 2015 | Fiction Otto Bell, 2015 + USA, UK | Documentary > Habib al omr Israel Myanmar Henry Barakat, 1947 | Fiction > Mountain > The Robe 2 Yaelle Kayam, 2015 | Fiction We Ra, 2016 | Fiction France > Gentleman Rissient 1 Italy Nepal Guy Seligmann, Pascal Mérigeau > Il Deserto Rosso > Kafal Pakyo Benoît Jacquot, 2016 | Documentary Michelangelo Antonioni, Niranjan Raj Bhetwal, 2014 | Fiction > The Graduation 1 1964 + France | Fiction > Laaz Claire Simon, 2016 | Documentary Sushan Prajapati, 2015 | Fiction > L’Ascension 1 > Aawajhin 1 Ludovic Bernard, 2016 | Fiction Japon Saroj Shrestha, 2015 | Fiction > Himalayan Gold Rush > Mifune: The Last Samurai 1 > Kumari Eric Valli, 2011 | Documentary Steven Okazaki, 2015 | Documentary Prem Bahadur Basnet, 1977 | Fiction > L’Atalante > White Lily 2 > Basudev Jean Vigo, 1934 | Fiction Hideo Nakata, 2016 | Fiction Nir Shah, 1985 | Fiction > Voyage à travers le cinéma français > Everest: The Summit of the Gods 2 > Mukundo Bertrand Tavernier, 2016 | Documentary Hideyuki Hirayama, 2016 | Fiction Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, 2000 | Fiction > Beyond the Coconut Trees 1 > Sadako v Kayako 1 > Numafung Elsa Dahmani, 2015 | Fiction Kôji Shiraishi, 2016 | Fiction Nabin Subba, 2001 | Fiction > Moi, Thomas, 12 ans, cinéfou 3 > La Maison en petits cubes > Kagbeni Mamad Haghighat, 2017 | Docufiction Kunio Katô, 2008 | Animation Bhusan Dahal, 2008 | Fiction > Spiritisme abracadabrant > Rashômon > Loot 1 Georges Méliès, 1900 | Animation Akira Kurosawa, 1950 | Fiction Nischal Basnet, 2012 | Fiction > La Clownesse fantôme > Empire of Passion > Who Will Be a Gurkha Georges Méliès, 1902 | Fiction Nagisa Ôshima, 1978 + France | Fiction Kesang Tseten, 2012 | Documentary > Sindoor Prakash Thapa, 1980 | Fiction

1 Swiss Premiere 3 World Premiere List of Film 2 European Premiere 4 International Premiere 54 List of Films by country

> Suntali Spain USA A sneak peak of the FIFF Bhaskar Dhungana, 2014 | Fiction 1 > Serdhak 1 > The Orphanage > De Palma Rajan Kathet, 2015 | Fiction Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007 | Fiction Jake Paltrow, Noah Baumbach, > Year of the Bird 2 2015 | Documentary Programme 1 Shenang Gyamjo Tamang, 2016 | Fiction Sweden > Seduced and Abandoned James Toback, 2013 | Documentary > Chhora > Cries & Whispers > The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1 > Official Selection Subarna Thapa, 2013 + France| Fiction Ingmar Bergman, 1972 | Fiction > Dadyaa Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947 | Fiction > Sweet Smell of Success1 > Parallel Sections Pooja Gurung, Bibhusan Basnet Switzerland 2016 + France| Fiction Alexander Mackendrick, 1957 | Fiction > Double Sentence > Soongava 1 > The Birth of a Nation Léa Pool, 2017 | Documentary > Special Screenings Subarna Thapa, 2012 + France | Fiction Nate Parker, 2016 | Fiction > Comme des Loups > The Black Hen > 78/52 Aude Sublet, 2016 | Fiction Min Bahadur Bham, 2015 + Switzerland, Alexandre O. Philippe, 2017 | Documentary > Genesis Germany, France | Fiction > The Apartment Lucien Monot, 2016 | Documentary Did you know? > Highway Billy Wilder, 1960 | Fiction > The Devil‘s Bridge of Uri 1 Deepak Rauniyar, 2012 + USA | Fiction > The Big Heat Jochen Ehmann, 2016 | Animation > White Sun 1 Fritz Lang, 1953 | Fiction > Millimeterle Deepak Rauniyar, 2016 + USA, > Paths of Glory Cultural mediation Pascal Reinmann, 2016 | Fiction Qatar, Netherlands | Fiction Stanley Kubrick, 1957 | Fiction > Wo der Euphrat in die Sava mündet > Seconds 1 Andreas Muggli, 2016 | Documentary John Frankenheimer, 1966 | Fiction Netherlands > La Séance de 15h 3 > Hearts of Darkness: 1 FIFForum > The Pool Pauline Jeanbourquin A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 1 Chris W. Mitchell, 2014 | Fiction 2017 | Documentary George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola, > Balloon 3 Fax Bahr, 1991 | Documentary Juries and Awards New Zealand Robin Mognetti, Sayaka Mizuno, > The Dying of the Light > A Flickering Truth 1 2017 + India | Docufiction Peter Flynn, 2015 | Documentary 3 Pietra Brettkelly, 2015 | Documentary > L’Espace d’un regard > The Searchers Mateo Ybarra, 2017 + India | Documentary John Ford, 1956 | Fiction > Chhaya 3 Exhibitions Philippines > The Haunting Joanne Schmutz, Hansaem Kim, Robert Wise, 1963 + UK | Fiction 1 > Seclusion 2017 + India | Fiction > Everest (3D) Erik Matti, 2016 | Fiction > Lucky Fly kills Light 3 Baltasar Kormákur, 2015 + 1 Practical information > Apocalypse Child Chiara Ghio, 2017 + India | Fiction UK, Iceland | Fiction Mario Cornejo, 2015 | Fiction > The Plinth 3 Sophie Dloussky, 2017 + India | Russia Films and Guests Documentary > Celestial Camel 1 Yuri Feting, 2015 | Fiction Syria 1 > The Student > Mare Nostrum 1 Agenda Kirill Serebrennikov, 2016 | Fiction Anas Khalaf, Rana Kazkaz, 2016 | Fiction > Obscure 1 Senegal Soudade Kaadan, 2017 + Lebanon | > Samedi cinéma 1 Documentary Mamadou Dia, 2016 + USA | Fiction Turkey Singapore > Rauf > Apprentice 1 Barış Kaya, Soner Caner, 2016 | Fiction Apprentice, 2016 + Hong Kong, Qatar, Germany, France | Fiction UK > Dip Dap et le petit fantôme South Korea Steve Roberts, 2011 | Animation > The Truth Beneath 1 > The Dead Lee Kyoung-mi, 2016 | Fiction John Huston, 1987 + Ireland, USA | Fiction > The World of Us > The Innocents Yoon Ga-eun, 2016 | Fiction Jack Clayton, 1961 + USA | Fiction > The Himalayas 1 Lee Seok-hoon, 2015 | Fiction Ukraine > The Road to Race Track > Golden Love Jang Sun-Woo, 1991 | Fiction Pavlo Ostrikov, 2016 | Fiction 1 > Missing You > Rain Project 4 Mo Hong-jin, 2016 | Fiction Oleg Chorny, 2016 | Documentary > Train to Busan > Blood 4 Yeon Sang-ho, 2016 | Fiction Valeria Sochyvets, 2016 | Fiction > The Maidroid 1 No Zin-soo, 2015 | Fiction > The Age of Shadows 1 Kim Jee-woon, 2016 | Fiction > The Chosen: Forbidden Cave 1 Kim Hui, 2015 | Fiction > The Wailing Na Hong-jin, 2016 | Fiction

1 Swiss Premiere 3 World Premiere List of Film 2 European Premiere 4 International Premiere 55 Guest list

International Competition: A sneak peak of the FIFF Movie Dates Languages Feature FIlms Apprentice Boo Jungfeng (Singapore), director 01.04 > 05.04 EN Programme (Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Germany, France) Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya The Cinema Travellers (India) 31.03 > 04.04 EN > Official Selection (India), directors

Mattie Do (Laos, USA), director Dearest Sister (Laos, France, Estonia) 05.04 > 09.04 EN > Parallel Sections Soudade Kaadan (Syria), director Obscure (Lebanon, Syria) 02.04 > 06.04 FR > Special Screenings Lee Kyoung-mi (South Korea), director The Truth Beneath (South Korea) 03.04 > 07.04 EN/KO

Did you know? Bradley Liew (Malaysia), director Singing in Gaveyards (Malaysia, Philippines) 31.03 > 09.04 EN/PH Darío Mascambroni (Argentina), director January (Argentina) 01.04 > 09.04 EN/ES

Cultural mediation Mbithi Masya (Kenya), director Kati Kati (Kenya, Germany) 04.04 > 09.04 EN/SW

Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal), director White Sun (Nepal, USA, Qatar, Netherlands) 05.04 > 09.04 EN FIFForum Diego Ros (Mexico), director The Night Guard (Mexico) 01.04 > 05.04 ES

Juries and Awards International Competition: Movie Dates Languages Short FIlms Exhibitions Menna Ekram (Kuwait), director The Wheel (Egypt) 06.04 > 09.04 EN/AR Harvan Agustriansyah (Indonesia), The Silent Mob (Indonesia) 06.04 > 09.04 IN director Practical information We Ra (Myanmar), director The Robe (Myanmar) 06.04 > 09.04 EN

Pavlo Ostrikov (Ukraine), director Golden Love (Ukraine) 06.04 > 09.04 EN/RU Films and Guests Oleg Chorny (Ukraine), director Rain Project (Ukraine) 06.04 > 09.04 EN/RU/UK

Agenda Karim Rhabani (Lebanon), director Cargo (Lebanon) 05.04 > 09.04 FR/EN Anthony Khawand (Lebanon), director Salon Elvis (Lebanon) 31.03 > 09.04 FR/EN

Mamadou Dia (Senegal), director Samedi Cinéma (Senegal, USA) 06.04 > 09.04 EN

Marta Hernaiz (Mexico), director Fine (Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 06.04 > 09.04 EN/ES

Valeria Sochyvets (Ukraine), director Blood (Ukraine) 06.04 > 09.04 RU/UK

Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf (Syria), Mare Nostrum (Syria) 06.04 > 09.04 EN/AR director

Lucía Díaz (Mexico), director I Hope You Are Well (Mexico) 06.04 > 09.04 EN/ES

Raed El Rafei (Lebanon), director Salam (Lebanon) 06.04 > 09.04 FR/EN

Shenang Gyamjo Tamang (Nepal), Year of the Bird (Nepal) 05.04 > 09.04 EN director

Pamela Pianezza, curator 31.03 > 09.04 FR/EN

Opening Movie Dates Languages

Aisholpan Nurgaiv (Mongolia), The Eagle Hunstress (Mongolia, USA, UK) 31.03 > 02.04 protagonist Marco Solari 31.03 FR/EN/IT President of Locarno Festival

Guest list 56 Guest list

Genre Cinema: A sneak peak of the FIFF Movie Dates Languages Ghost stories Kamal Musale (Switzerland, India), Bumbai Bird (India) 06.04 > 09.04 FR/DE Programme director

> Official Selection Decryption: Movie Dates Languages A cinematic cabinet of curiosities > Parallel Sections Pauline Jeanbourquin (Switzerland), La Séance de 15h (Switzerland) 01.04 > 02.04 FR director > Special Screenings Alexandre Philippe (Switzerland, USA), 78/52 (USA) 01.04 > 07.04 FR/EN director Did you know? Annick Mahnert (Switzerland), producer 78/52 (USA), Dearest Sister (Laos, France, Estonia) 04.04 > 08.04 FR/EN/DE Pierre Rissient (France) Gentleman Rissient (France) 03.04 > 06.04 FR/EN Cultural mediation Diaspora: Myret Zaki and Egypt Dates Languages

FIFForum Myret Zaki, editor in chief of the magazine Bilan 06.04 > 07.04 FR/EN/AR

Hommage à… Freddy Buache Dates Languages Juries and Awards Freddy Buache (Switzerland), founder of the National Film Archive 03.04 > 05.04 FR

Exhibitions New Territory: Nepal Movie Dates Languages Ram Krishna Pokhare (Nepal), Soongava (Nepal) 04.04 > 09.04 EN curator, director Practical information Shenang Gyamjo Tamang (Nepal), Year of the Bird (Nepal) 05.04 > 09.04 EN director

Films and Guests Subarna Thapa (Nepal), director, actor Soongava, Chhora (France, Nepal) 31.03 > 09.04 FR/EN/NE

Agenda Sur la carte de Douglas Kennedy Dates Languages Douglas Kennedy (USA), writer 31.03 > 03.04 EN/FR

Passeport suisse Movie Dates Languages

Lea Pool (Switerland, Canada), director Double Sentence (Switzerland) 31.03 > 02.04 FR/EN

International Jury Feature Films Dates Languages

Yaelle Kayam (Israel), director 31.03 > 09.04 EN

Kang Soo-yeon (South Korea), directrice of the Busan International Film Festival 31.03 > 09.04 EN/KO

Subarna Thapa (Nepal), director, actor 31.03 > 09.04 FR/EN/NE

Ludovic Bernard (France), director 31.03 > 09.04 FR/EN

International Jury Short Films Dates Languages

Bianca Balbuena (Philippines), producer 31.03 > 03.04 EN

Jan Gassmann (Switzerland), director 31.03 > 03.04 FR/DE/EN

Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland), director 31.03 > 03.04 FR/DE/EN

Guest list 57 Agenda

12:00 - 14:00 14:15 - 16:00 16:15 - 18:00 18:15 - 20:30 20:45 - 22:30

19:30 Cérémonie d’ouverture 22:00 Train to Busan 4DX, 118’ (189) > ARENA 10 31.03 The Eagle Huntress, 87’ (60) > ARENA 1 Vendredi Freitag | Friday

12:00 Obscure, 75’ (39) > ARENA 1 14:15 The Student, 118’ (41) > ARENA 1 16:45 Kati Kati, 75’ (37) > ARENA 1 18:15 Gentleman Rissient, 77’ (101) 1 > ARENA 6 20:45 Voyage à travers le cinéma français, 193’ (107) > ARENA 6 12:00 The Cinema Travellers, 96’ (33) 1 > Rex 1 15:00 Courts métrages 1, 96’ (46) > ARENA 5 17:30 Courts métrages 2, 98’ (50) > ARENA 5 + La Séance de 15h, 21’ + Moi, Thomas, 12 ans, cinéfou, 19’ (102) 20:45 January, 65’ (36) 1 > Rex 1 01.04 12:15 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 104’ (76) > ARENA 5 15:00 Dearest Sister, 101’ (34) > Rex 1 17:45 The Truth Beneath, 103’ (42) > Rex 1 18:45 The Searchers, 119’ (163) > ARENA 3 21:00 Empire of Passion, 105’ (75) > ARENA 7 12:30 Kumari, 107’ (134) > Rex 3 15:15 The Graduation, 121’ (103) > ARENA 6 18:00 A Dragon Arrives!, 108’ (74) > ARENA 7 19:00 Double Sentence, 103’ (178) 1 > ARENA 1 21:15 Mukundo, 108’ (137) > Rex 3 Samedi Samstag 12:45 A Flickering Truth, 96’ (100) > ARENA 6 15:15 Sindoor, 131’ (135) > Rex 3 18:00 Basudev, 139’ (136) > Rex 3 20:15 Courts métrages 3, 91’ (54) > ARENA 5 21:30 Sweet Smell of Success, 96’ (165) > ARENA 3 Saturday 13:00 Habib al omr, 120’ (114) > ARENA 3 15:45 The Apartment, 125’ (160) > ARENA 3 22:00 FILM SURPRISE > ARENA 1 14:00 The Demons, 118’ (73) > ARENA 7 22:00 Train to Busan 4DX, 118’ (189) > ARENA 10 22:30 White Lily, 80’ (190) > ARENA 5

12:00 Singing in Graveyards, 143’ (40) 1, 2 > ARENA 1 14:30 Petites histoires de fantômes, 50’ (170) 2 > ARENA 7 17:15 Table ronde: Fantômes, mort, 18:15 The Innocents, 100’ (78) > ARENA 6 20:45 Paths of Glory, 88’ (162) > ARENA 3 12:00 The Big Heat, 90’ (161) 2 > ARENA 7 15:00 Courts métrages 3, 91’ (54) 2 > ARENA 5 spiritisme et déni, 90’ (206) > ARENA 7 18:30 Highway, 80’ (140) > Rex 3 20:45 Soongava, 85’ (141) 1 > Rex 3 02.04 12:15 A Chinese Ghost Story, 98’ (71) 2 > ARENA 5 15:00 Mifune: The Last Samurai, 80’ (105) 2 > ARENA 6 17:30 L’Ascension, 103’ (154) > ARENA 1 20:00 Dearest Sister, 101’ (34) > ARENA 1 21:00 Courts métrages 1, 96’ (46) > ARENA 5 Dimanche 12:30 Numafung, 108’ (138) 2 > ARENA 3 15:15 The Eagle Huntress, 87’ (60) 1, 2 > ARENA 1 17:45 Dahab, 120’ (115) > ARENA 3 20:15 Hearts of Darkness: 22:30 Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies, 78’ (183) > ARENA 1 Sonntag 12:30 De Palma, 110’ (98) 2 > ARENA 6 15:15 The Haunting, 112’ (77) 2 > ARENA 3 18:00 Courts métrages 2, 98’ (50) > ARENA 5 A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, 96’ (104) > ARENA 7 Sunday 13:00 Honeygiver Among the Dogs, 132’ (35) 2 > Rex 1 15:30 Kagbeni, 114’ (139) 2 > Rex 3 18:00 White Sun, 98’ (43) > Rex 1 20:30 The Chosen: Forbidden Cave, 105’ (72) > ARENA 6 16:00 The Night Guard, 76’ (38) 1, 2 > Rex 1 20:30 Apprentice, 96’ (32) 1 > Rex 1

12:15 Missing You, 108’ (79) > ARENA 5 14:45 Kati Kati, 75’ (37) > Rex 1 16:30 Seconds, 106’ (164) > ARENA 7 18:15 El-Baydha Wal Hagar, 98’ (116) > ARENA 3 20:45 The Dead, 83’ (128) > ARENA 3 12:30 The Student, 118’ (41) > ARENA 1 15:00 Panihida, 61’ (81) 17:30 The Pool, 76’ (83) > ARENA 5 18:30 The Dying of the Light, 95’ (99) > ARENA 6 21:00 The Apartment, 125’ (160) > ARENA 7 03.04 12:30 January, 65’ (36) 1 > Rex 1 + Beyond the Coconut Trees, 21’ (82) > ARENA 5 17:45 The Night Guard, 76’ (38) 1 > Rex 1 18:30 Masterclass: Douglas Kennedy, 90’ (206) > ARENA 7 21:15 Apocalypse Child, 95’ (97) > ARENA 6 Lundi 12:45 Hearts of Darkness: 15:15 The Searchers, 119’ (163) > ARENA 6 18:00 Apprentice, 96’ (32) 1 > ARENA 1 19:30 The Orphanage, 105’ (80) > ARENA 5 22:00 Hounds of Love, 108’ (186) > ARENA 5 Montag A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, 96’ (104) > ARENA 6 15:45 Obscure, 75’ (39) 1 > ARENA 1 18:00 Serdhak, 73’ (146) > Rex 3 20:15 Suntali, 110’ (144) > Rex 3 Monday 12:45 Loot, 121’ (142) > Rex 3 16:00 Who Will Be a Gurkha, 75’ (143) > Rex 3 20:30 Honeygiver Among the Dogs, 132’ (35) > ARENA 1 13:15 Paths of Glory, 88’ (162) > ARENA 7 20:30 The Cinema Travellers, 96’ (33) 1 > Rex 1

12:15 Singing in Graveyards, 143’ (40) 1 > ARENA 1 14:30 The Dead, 83’ (128) > ARENA 3 17:00 Gentleman Rissient, 77’ (101) > ARENA 6 18:30 Masterclass: Freddy Buache, 90’ (206) > ARENA 7 20:45 Al-irhab wal kabab, 105’ (117) > ARENA 3 04.04 12:30 Cries & Whispers, 91’ (127) > ARENA 6 14:45 The Big Heat, 90’ (161) > ARENA 6 + La Séance de 15h, 21’ + Moi, Thomas, 12 ans, cinéfou, 19’ (102) 19:00 Programme: Nepali Short Films, 85’ (147) > Rex 3 20:45 The Road to Race Track, 138’ (173) 1 > ARENA 7 12:30 Apprentice, 96’ (32) 1 > Rex 1 15:00 The Similars, 89’ (86) > ARENA 5 17:15 The Student, 118’ (41) > ARENA 1 19:45 The Night Guard, 76’ (38) 1 > ARENA 1 21:00 White Sun, 98’ (43) > Rex 1 Mardi 12:45 Rashômon, 88’ (84) > ARENA 5 15:15 Obscure, 75’ (39) 1 > ARENA 1 17:45 El Mansy, 105’ (118) > ARENA 3 20:15 Seclusion, 90’ (85) > ARENA 5 21:15 Himalayan Gold Rush, 52’ (150) > Rex 3 Dienstag Tuesday 13:00 The Black Hen, 90’ (145) > Rex 3 15:15 The Truth Beneath, 103’ (42) > Rex 1 18:00 Under the Shadow, 84’ (87) > ARENA 5 21:30 The Age of Shadows, 140’ (182) > ARENA 1 14:00 Il Deserto Rosso, 117’ (126) > ARENA 7 15:30 Everest: The Summit of the Gods, 123’ (153) > Rex 3 18:00 Honeygiver Among the Dogs, 132’ (35) > Rex 1

12:15 A Chinese Ghost Story, 98’ (71) > ARENA 5 14:45 The Chosen: Forbidden Cave, 105’ (72) > ARENA 5 17:30 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 104’ (76) > ARENA 5 18:15 Mountain, 83’ (172) 1 > Rex 3 20:45 Cries & Whispers, 91’ (127) > ARENA 3 12:15 Basudev, 139’ (136) > Rex 3 15:00 Il Deserto Rosso, 117’ (126) > ARENA 3 17:45 M, 117’ (124) > ARENA 3 18:30 Table ronde: Népal, 90’ (206) > ARENA 7 21:00 Programme: Foreign Visa Prize, 73’ (179) > ARENA 7 05.04 12:45 Everest 3D, 121’ (152) > ARENA 1 15:00 The Wailing, 156’ (88) > ARENA 7 18:00 The Truth Beneath, 103’ (42) > ARENA 1 20:00 78/52, 91’ (96) 1 > ARENA 5 22:00 Goldstone, 110’ (184) > ARENA 1 Mercredi 13:00 Dearest Sister, 101’ (34) 1 > Rex 1 15:15 Honeygiver Among the Dogs, 132’ (35) > ARENA 1 18:00 Kati Kati, 75’ (37) 1 > Rex 1 20:15 Obscure, 75’ (39) 1 > ARENA 1 22:30 The Maidroid, 76’ (187) > ARENA 5 Mittwoch 15:15 Sindoor, 131’ (135) > Rex 3 20:15 Singing in Graveyards, 143’ (40) 1 > Rex 1 Wednesday 15:30 Apocalypse Child, 95’ (97) > ARENA 6 20:30 Kumari, 107’ (134) > Rex 3 15:30 January, 65’ (36) 1 > Rex 1

12:15 The Truth Beneath, 103’ (42) > Rex 1 14:30 Singing in Graveyards, 143’ (40) 1 > Rex 1 16:45 Seduced and Abandoned, 98’ (106) > ARENA 7 18:15 Kagbeni, 114’ (139) > Rex 3 20:45 Dahab, 120’ (115) > ARENA 3 12:45 Apprentice, 96’ (32) > ARENA 1 14:45 The Student, 118’ (41) > ARENA 1 17:15 The Cinema Travellers, 96’ (33) > ARENA 1 18:30 Courts métrages 2, 98’ (50) 1 > ARENA 5 21:00 The Himalayas, 124’ (151) > ARENA 6 06.04 12:45 The Demons, 118’ (73) > ARENA 5 15:00 Numafung, 108’ (138) > ARENA 3 17:30 Dearest Sister, 101’ (34) 1 > Rex 1 18:30 Skype with James Toback, 60’ (207) > ARENA 7 21:00 Bumbai Bird feat Malcom Braff, 85’ (70) 1 > Rex 1 Jeudi 12:45 Mukundo, 108’ (137) > Rex 3 15:30 The Pool, 76’ (83) > ARENA 6 18:00 Habib al omr, 120’ (114) > ARENA 3 19:45 White Sun, 98’ (43) 1 > ARENA 1 21:15 Courts métrages 3, 91’ (54) 1 > ARENA 5 Donnerstag 13:00 The Dying of the Light, 95’ (99) > ARENA 6 15:45 Courts métrages 1, 96’ (46) 1 > ARENA 5 18:00 De Palma, 110’ (98) > ARENA 6 20:30 Empire of Passion, 105’ (75) > ARENA 7 21:15 Highway, 80’ (140) > Rex 3 Thursday 14:00 A Dragon Arrives!, 108’ (74) > ARENA 7 22:00 Train to Busan, 118’ (189) > ARENA 1

12:00 Suntali, 110’ (144) > Rex 3 14:30 The Night Guard, 76’ (38) > ARENA 1 16:45 A Flickering Truth, 96’ (100) > ARENA 1 18:30 The Wailing, 156’ (88) > ARENA 7 21:15 The Graduation, 121’ (103) > ARENA 6 12:15 January, 65’ (36) 1 > ARENA 1 15:00 The Innocents, 100’ (78) > ARENA 5 17:45 Kati Kati, 75’ (37) 1 > Rex 1 18:45 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami, 21:30 Courts métrages 2, 98’ (50) 1 > ARENA 5 07.04 12:30 Courts métrages 3, 91’ (54) 1 > ARENA 5 15:15 The Cinema Travellers, 96’ (33) > Rex 1 18:00 Programme: Nepali Short Films, 85’ (147) > Rex 3 76’, (94) + Take Me Home, 16’ (95) > ARENA 6 21:45 Seclusion, 90’ (85) > ARENA 7 1 1 Vendredi 12:30 White Sun, 98’ (43) > Rex 1 16:00 The Orphanage, 105’ (80) > ARENA 6 19:00 Courts métrages 1, 96’ (46) > ARENA 5 22:00 Headshot, 117’ (185) > ARENA 1 Freitag 12:45 Serdhak, 73’ (146) > Rex 3 19:15 Everest 3D, 121’ (152) > ARENA 1 22:00 Train to Busan 4DX, 118’ (189) > ARENA 10 1 Friday 13:00 The Himalayas, 124’ (151) > ARENA 6 20:00 Mountain, 83’ (172) > Rex 3 14:00 Think Tank: Cinéma, 20:30 El-Baydha Wal Hagar, 98’ (116) > ARENA 3 la machine à fantômes ?, 210’ (208) > ARENA 7 20:30 L’Ascension, 103’ (154) > Rex 1

12:30 The Similars, 89’ (86) 2 > ARENA 1 14:45 Panihida, 61’ (81) 2 16:45 Mifune: The Last Samurai, 80’ (105) > Rex 1 18:15 Seduced and Abandoned, 98’ (106) > ARENA 7 21:00 Everest: The Summit of the Gods, 123’ (153) > ARENA 5 12:45 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami, + Beyond the Coconut Trees, 21’ (82) 2 > ARENA 1 17:00 M, 117’ (124) > ARENA 3 18:45 Under the Shadow, 84’ (87) > ARENA 5 21:15 The Black Hen, 90’ (145) > ARENA 7 08.04 76’ (94) + Take Me Home, 16’ (95) 2 > ARENA 6 15:00 Programme: 17:30 Rashômon, 88’ (84) > ARENA 1 19:00 The Birth of a Nation, 120’ (61) > Rex 1 22:00 Train to Busan 4DX, 118’ (189) > ARENA 10 2 1, 2 1 Samedi 12:45 78/52, 91’ (96) > Rex 1 Workshop A Journey to Mumbai, 48’ (180) > Rex 1 17:45 Soongava, 85’ (141) > Rex 3 20:00 Bumbai Bird, 85’ (70) > ARENA 1 22:15 Sadako v Kayako, 98’ (188) > ARENA 1 2 2 Samstag 13:00 The Haunting, 112’ (77) > ARENA 5 15:15 Seconds, 106’ (164) > ARENA 6 18:00 Sweet Smell of Success, 96’ (165) > ARENA 6 20:00 Loot, 121’ (142) > Rex 3 2 2 Saturday 13:30 The Road to Race Track, 138’ (173) > ARENA 7 15:30 Who Will Be a Gurkha, 75’ (143) > Rex 3 18:00 Cérémonie de clôture 20:15 El Mansy, 105’ (118) > ARENA 3 13:30 Himalayan Gold Rush, 52’ (150) 2 > Rex 3 16:00 Missing You, 108’ (79) 2 > ARENA 5 The Birth of a Nation, 120’ (61) > Théâtre Equilibre 20:30 Voyage à travers le cinéma français, 193’ (107) > ARENA 6 14:00 Al-irhab wal kabab, 105’ (117) 2 > ARENA 3 16:00 Rencontre avec le Jury international, 60’ (207) 2 > ARENA 7

13:30 Prix du meilleur court métrage international 16:00 Prix du public 2017 | Séance gratuite > Rex 1 09.04 + Grand Prix > Rex 1 Légende | Legende | Legend Dimanche Sonntag Compétition | Wettbewerb | Competition Séances spéciales | Sondervorführungen | Special Screenings Sunday Séances parallèles | Parallelsektionen | Parallel Sections FIFForum

1 en présence du/de la cinéaste 2 nursery option in Anwesenheit des Filmschaffenden | in presence of the filmmaker Agenda

A sneak peak of the FIFF 17:00 Exhibition : Opening Jean Cocteau – Jean Mauboulès > APCd 16.03 18:30 Exhibition : Opening Nepal – A red casket > Art-Buvette Programme Je | Do | Thu 19:30 Preview Showing Bumbai Bird, Kamal Musale > CineMovie 1, Bern

> Official Selection 23.03 20:30 Fri-Son fait son cinéma > Fri-Son > Parallel Sections Je | Do | Thu

> Special Screenings 31.03 19:30 Opening Ceremony: The Eagle Huntress, Otto Bell > ARENA 1 23:00 Opening Party > Nouveau Monde Did you know? Ve | Fr | Fri

Cultural mediation 01.04 10:00-12:00 Dedication: Douglas Kennedy > Fnac (Fribourg Centre) Sa | Sat 23:00 FIFF After Party > Nouveau Monde FIFForum

Juries and Awards 02.04 10:30-14:00 Brunch FIFF | Exhibition: Has Been – Peter Schuyff > Fri Art Di | So | Sun 17:00-18:45 Round table: Ghosts, death, spiritualism and denial > ARENA 7

Exhibitions

03.04 18:30-20:00 Masterclass: Douglas Kennedy > ARENA 7 Practical information Lu | Mo | Mon

04.04 18:30-20:00 Masterclass: Freddy Buache > ARENA 7 Films and Guests Ma | Di | Tue

Agenda 18:30 Exhibition: Unveiling The Veil – Different realities > BCU 05.04 18:30 Round table: New Territory: Nepal > ARENA 7 Me | Mi | Wed 23:00 FIFF After Party > Mouton Noir

18:30-19:30 Skype with James Toback > ARENA 7 06.04 21:00 Bumbai Bird feat Malcolm Braff > Rex 1 Je | Do | Thu 23:00 FIFF After Party > Fri-Son

07.04 14:00-17:30 Think Tank: Cinema, a ghost machine? > ARENA 7 Ve | Fr | Fri

16:00-17:00 Encounters with the International Jury > ARENA 7 08.04 18:00 Closing Ceremony: The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker > Théâtre Equilibre Sa | Sat 23:00 Closing Party > Nouveau Monde

Agenda 59 Organisation Titre “ Citation“

A sneak peak of the FIFF Artistic Director Organisation translation and Thierry Jobin presentation Curators of the Impressum António Magalhães de sections Managing Director Almeida, Fabian Saurer Programme Giovanna Garghentini Python Coordination FIFForum Artistic committee Julia Schubiger, Secretary Cécilia Bovet, António competition Désirée Amstalden > Official Selection Jasmine Balmer, Julia Magalhães de Almeida, feature films Schubiger, Camille Spühler Myriam Wahli Jean-Philippe Bernard, Translations > Parallel Sections Cécilia Bovet, Sebastiano Datawords Programme Jury coordination Conforti, Charles Grandjean, Sebastiano Conforti, Charles Jeanne Rohner, Thierry Jobin, Marc Maeder, Readers > Special Screenings Grandjean, Marc Maeder Catalina Moisescu Aimée Papageorgiou Gary Fliszar, Jacqueline Schilling Cultural mediation Accounting Short films Cécilia Bovet, Andrea Kuratli Patrick Boschung, Caroline Pamela Pianezza (PP), Graphic concept and realisation Did you know? Press Dénervaud, Jasmine Balmer Charles Grandjean (CG), Aimée Papageorgiou (AP) Asphalte Design Aimée Papageorgiou, Technicians Valerio Bonadei, Eduardo Michael Pfenninger, Genre Cinema Print Cultural mediation Mendez, Anne Pampin Bernhard Zitz, Marie Jean-Philippe Bernard (JPB) Imprimerie Saint-Paul Geiser, Ismaïl Ozturk Communication Decryption Marielle Aeby, Marina De IT Thierry Jobin (TJ) FIFForum Filippi, Vanessa Leitao 4 Next, Audio Media Association Assist sàrl Diaspora Publications Myret Zaki Julia Schubiger, Graphic design President Juries and Awards Désirée Amstalden Asphalte Design Hommage à… François Nordmann Freddy Buache Ticketing and organisation Website Vice president Véronique Marchesi- Bluesystem, New Territory Patrice Zurich Exhibitions Bossens, Danièle Moulin, Marina De Filippi Pauline Quarroz, Ram Krishna Pokharel (RKP), Board Leyla Batkitar Photographers Thierry Jobin (TJ) Lucie Bader, Madeleine Julien Chavaillaz, Nicolas Descloux, Paul-Albert Nobs, Sur la carte de… Practical information Hospitality Brodard, Yoann Corthésy Dominique Willemin Olga Baumer-Chiguidina, Douglas Kennedy Géraldine Jacot Opening sequence & Trailer Founders FIFFamily eikon (Vocational School Magda Bossy, Yvan Stern Cécilia Bovet (CB) Films and Guests of Applied Arts, Fribourg), Timon Van Wynsberghe Passeport suisse and Tim Perone (directors), Thierry Jobin (TJ), Laure Perret (music) Cécilia Bovet (CB) Agenda Décor Midnight Screenings Reni Wünsch, Thierry Jobin (TJ), Jean-Louis Verdu Marc Maeder (MM) Subtitles School programme DDL, Manlio Lapi Cécilia Bovet (CB) Cinema partners ARENA CINEMAS, cinemotion

Organisation 60 Partners and sponsors

A sneak peak of the FIFF Institutional partners Design

Programme

> Official Selection Trailer > Parallel Sections

> Special Screenings

Did you know? Main media partners Other sponsors

Cultural mediation

FIFForum Sponsors

Juries and Awards

Exhibitions

Media partners Other partners Practical information

Films and Guests

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