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MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 4 OUR STORY 3

OUR MISSION 4

2017 IN REVIEW 6

COMPETITIONS 8

OUT-OF-COMPETITION 14

AWARDS&JURIES 15

GUESTS OF HONOUR 17

INDUSTRY DAYS 18

SPECIAL EVENTS 21

SUPPORTERS 22

TEAM&CONTACT 24

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 2 OUR STORY TODAY MIFF Listapad brings the best from all over the world to Minsk. The Festival is held annually in November, includes four sections: feature films, documentary films, children and youth film, national competition. The Awards are decided upon by an International Jury. MIFF Listapad accredited by FIAPF (since 2011) as the festival of an original format. The First edition of MIFF “Listapad” The main competitions are focused on new was held in Minsk in 1994. Until 2002, films, created in the countries of the former the Festival was known as socialistic block: CIS countries, Central and International of CIS and Eastern Europe, Baltics, Georgia, China, Baltic Countries. Vietnam, Cuba. Since 1996, the Main prize Golden Moreover, special screenings, retrospectives, “Listapad” have been awarded master-classes, and other related events are presented annually within the framework of according to audience’s choice. the Festival. Since 2010, professional jury has Industry days, held during MIFF Listapad, been making decisions on the awards. is a meeting place for movie professionals. Photo by Anna Pasiuk MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 3 OUR MISSION

As the biggest and high-status presents the variety of widely cinema event in Belarus, appreciated feature films MIFF Listapad preserves the and documentaries to cinematographic space for Belarussian audience; artists and to give a full impression of the cinematography of the forms high cultural status of former socialistic countries, cinema and involve young including Central and South-East talents into the industry. Asia, Baltics, Eastern and Central Europe;

Photo by Ekaterina Artimenya MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 4 MOTTO-2017: TRUTH, LOVE AND BEAUTY "Truth, Love and Beauty is a trinity inseparably linked to the nature of cinema. As the distinguished director Jean-Luc Godard said "Cinema exists to give the opportunity to see." To see the truth, as the image itself is always truthful. To see the beauty of the world that may be hiding in the rough reality and revealing itself in artful mise-en-scènes, the palette of sounds and great acting. And, of course, to see the love that drives any plot, a feeling that can transform the human universe and is integral for great art."

Igor Sukmanov, the program director of the MIFF Listapad

Photo by Ekaterina Artimenya MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 5 2017 IN REVIEW 79 Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS HERE IS A SNAPSHOT OF THE YEAR - BY THE NUMBERS.

748 SUBMISSIONS 54 COUNTRIES

202 SCREENINGS 25 PUBLIC EVENTS INCLUDING INDUSTRY DAYS BEL:CINEMA

164 FILMS 8 DAYS OF FESTIVAL

155 ACCREDITED GUESTS 7 CINEMAS

2017 LISTAPAD FILM WEBSITE

THE 24TH MIFF LISTAPAD 15,000 FESTIVAL AUDIENCE 180K VIEWS MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 6 GLOBAL REACH 164 FILMS FROM 54 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

Australia Austria Azerbaijan Albania Belarus Bulgaria Hungary Lebanon Philippines Greece Japan Georgia Denmark Macedonia Israel Netherlands India Palestine Poland Portugal Spain Russia Romania Canada Serbia Qatar China USA Lithuania Thailand Switzerland Colombia Tunisia Sweden Cuba Turkey

THE 24TH MIFF LISTAPAD Kyrgyzstan United Arab Emirates

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 7 MAIN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

No less than 12 films produced in the Former USSR countries and former communist Block countries participate in the Main Feature Films Competition. Only full-length films produced during the last year and a half specially mentioned at international festivals and highly acclaimed by filmmakers and

COMPETITIONS viewers may participate in the Main Competition Programme.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 8 FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION "YOUTH ON THE MARCH"

No less than 8 most outstanding debut films (1st - 2nd full-length film in the director’s filmography) from all over the world participate in the Feature Films Competition “Youth on the March”. Only full-length films produced during the last year and a half specially mentioned at international festivals and highly

COMPETITIONS acclaimed by filmmakers and viewers may participate.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 9 MAIN DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION

15- 25 films produced in the Former USSR countries and the former communist Block countries participate in the Main Documentary Films Competition. Full-length films, medium and short films for the last year and a half specially mentioned at international festivals and highly acclaimed by filmmakers and

COMPETITIONS viewers may participate.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 10 NATIONAL FILM SCHOOLS COMPETITION

Representatives of no less than 6 film schools from all over the world (each one of them presents 3-4 most outstanding student works including diploma works) participate in 1st - 2nd Documentary Films Competition – National Film Schools Competition. Full-length films, medium and short films for the last year and a half specially mentioned at international festivals and highly acclaimed

COMPETITIONS by filmmakers and viewers may participate.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 11 CHILDREN AND YOUTH FILM COMPETITION “LISTAPADZIK”

Full-length feature films and films for children and youth for the last two years specially mentioned at international festivals and highly acclaimed by filmmakers and viewers may participate in the Children and

COMPETITIONS Youth Films Competition “Listapadzik”.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 12 NATIONAL COMPETITION

Fiction, documentary and animated feature-length and short films created by Belarusian authors in Belarus and abroad during the previous year can

COMPETITIONS participate in the National Competition.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 13 SPECIAL SCREENINGS

MORE THAN 10 INIMITABLE OUT OF COMPETITION SECTIONS EVERY YEAR

lions, bears, golden palms master class human comedies fantastic parallels colour of night lithuanian cinema. classics and contemporaries russian premieres the best (un)childish stories documentary comedies animationDoc Russia. XXI century masculine-feminine musicDoc another gaze

OUT-OF-COMPETITION belarusian panorama

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 14 AWARDS OF THE 24TH MIFF "LISTAPAD" AWARDS OF THE MAIN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION Grand-Prix «Golden Listapad» NOVEMBER (Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland), director Rainer Sarnet Award for Best Director ŠARŪNAS BARTAS, FROST (Lithuania, France, Poland, Ukraine) Yury Marukhin Memorial Award for Best Cinematography MART TANIEL, NOVEMBER (Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland), director Rainer Sarnet Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role IRINA GORBACHEVA, ARRHYTHMIA (Russia, Finland, Germany), director Boris Khlebnikov Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role MEINHARD NEUMANN, WESTERN (Germany, Bulgary, Austria), director Valeska Grisebach

AWARDS OF THE FEATURE FILM COMPETITION "YOUTH ON THE MARCH" Victor Turov Award for Best Film THREE QUARTERS (Bulgaria), director Ilian Metev

AWARDS OF THE FIPRESCI JURY OF THE 24TH MIFF "LISTAPAD" “New Voices – FIPRESCI Award” for Best Debut CITY OF THE SUN (Georgia, USA, Qatar, the Netherlands), director Rati Oneli

AWARDS OF THE MAIN DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION OF THE 24TH MIFF "LISTAPAD" Grand-Prix for Best Documentary Film WONDERFUL LOSERS: A DIFFERENT WORLD (Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, , UK, Ireland, Spain), director Arūnas Matelis

AWARDS FOR BEST 1ST–2ND DOCUMENTARY FILM – NATIONAL FILM SCHOOLS COMPETITION Award for Best Documentary CLOSE TIES (Poland), director Zofia Kowalewska

AWARDS OF THE NATIONAL COMPETITION OF THE 24TH MIFF "LISTAPAD" Best Belarusian Feature Film Award NEXT DAY (Belarus), director Yulia Shatun Best Belarusian Documentary Film Award AROUND BELARUS BY BICYCLES WITH MOTORS (Belarus), director Boris Nikolaychik Best Belarusian Animated Film Award AND THE MOON STANDS STILL (Belarus, Germany, USA), director Yulia Ruditskaya

AWARDS AND PRIZES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH FILM COMPETITION “LISTAPADZIK” Grand Prix Golden Listapadzik For Best Film «FANNY’S JOURNEY» (France), director Lola Doillon

AUDIENCE AWARDS OF THE 24TH MIFF "LISTAPAD" Audience Award for the Best Feature Film CANDELARIA (Columbia, Germany, Norway, Argentina, Cuba), director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film WONDERFUL LOSERS: A DIFFERENT WORLD (Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Latvia, UK, Ireland, Spain), director Arūnas Matelis Audience Award for the Best Children and Youth Film THE LEGEND OF TIMM THALER OR THE BOY WHO SOLD HIS LAUGHTER (Germany), director Andreas Dresen MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 15 HEADS OF JURIES

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Bence Erez Andrei Ludmila Dimitar Kai S. Yuri Kabaivanov Pieck Fliegauf Pery Zagdansky Saenkova Goroulev (Hungary) (Israel) (USA) (Belarus) (Bulgaria) (Germany) (Belarus) 2016

Zaza Denis Nana Alain Janusz Emilia Natalia Urushadze Cote Dzhanelidze Fleischer Wroblewski Haviarova Drozd

(Georgia) (Canada) (Georgia) (France) (Poland) (Czech Republic) (Russia) 2015

Vadim Cristina Artchil Heidi Sergey Christian Igor Abdrashitov Velasco Khetagouri Gronauer Trimbach Dyekjaer Avdeev

(Russia) (Mexico) (Georgia) (Italy) (Ukraine) (Denmark) (Belarus) 2014

Valery Sean Ludmila Sergey Olga Vera Harutyun Todorovsky Baker Saenkova Bukovsky Shakina Kavalerova Khachatryan (Russia) (USA) (Belarus) (Ukraine) (Russia) (Belarus) (Armenia)

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 16 GUESTS OF HONOUR

Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV, , the Head of the Main Competition jury at Minsk International film festival Sean BAKER, film director, head of jury of the Listapad-2012, awardee of the Bronze Audience Award “Youth on the March” feature film competition at MIFF “Listapad-2003” (Russia): “Listapad-2014” (USA): “Listapad” is a great festival. Right from the “I am totally impressed not only by very first days of screenings it became the program of the festival, but also clear that it would be difficult to choose the by the hospitality best film. <...> “ Listapad” is needed to give of every single a kind of creative injection to the young. To person I inspire, to show their work is appreciated, met here.” to show that it’s worth the cost. Such festivals provoke creative will and that is what stands high.”

Claire DENIS, film director, special guest at Minsk IFF “Listapad-2013” (France): Kira MURATOVA, film director (Ukraine): “Belarusians and French people have many things in common. “I like Minsk and the atmosphere of the In terms of culture. Yes, we speak different languages, but festival; it is a calm atmosphere of something damn, we are so close! You are not foreigners for me.” clean and noble in its clarity, non-clumsiness of ads and anything that is irrelevant.”

Bence FLIEGAUF, film director, the Head of the Main Competition jury at Minsk International film festival Listapad-2017, awardee of the Grand Prix Golden Listapad-2016 For Best Film “LILY LANE” (Hungary): “Listapad opens unknown cinema. I liked the selection of films. The program included high-quality films which not shown on the screens of other festivals.”

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 17 INDUSTRY DAYS TODAY The Bel:Cinema industry is open since 2015 Script workshops Projects pitching in frame of MIFF “Listapad” with the aim of Presentations creating the playground for communication Local initiatives among film professionals and bigger goal to VR Day include local scriptwriters, directors and B2B Doc workshops producers in the European and international context of film production with an emphasis on co-products.

Over the past two years, we have achieved notable results by organizing a “Scripts Matchmaking” of feature films and Pitching of documentary projects.

We sincerely believe that Industry Event will contribute to the development of the national and will open and promote new names.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 18 SCRIPT WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS GIVES PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE PARTICIPANTS ON THE TECHNIQUE OF CREATING SUCCESSFUL STORIES AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN FRAME OF INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT WORKSHOPS.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 19 VR DAY THIS IS THE PROGRAM INCLUDES 16 SPHERICAL MOVIES PRODUCED BY AUTHORS FROM GERMANY, SPAIN, FRANCE, BELARUS, INDIA, POLAND, GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. WORKSHOPS ABOUT SPATIAL AUDIO, IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING, ART IN VIRTUAL REALITY.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 20 SPECIAL EVENTS

• SEMINARS AND ROUNDTABLES ON MODERN CINEMA; • PRESS CONFERENCES; • MEET UPS WITH THE AUTHORS OF THE FESTIVAL FILMS; • EXHIBITIONS OF FILM POSTERS, PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS OF FILM DESIGNERS, PHOTO EXHIBITIONS; • CONCERTS OF FILM MUSIC; • EXHIBITIONS OF CHILDREN’S DRAWINGS, BOOKS, TOYS (WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SECTION “LISTAPADZIK”)

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 21 SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS PARTNERSHIP WITH MINSK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GIVES WIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR REACHING CUSTOMERS, CINEMA PROFESSIONALS AND CULTURAL ELITE OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE FOLLOWING: • Cobranding of 6 festival’s screening platforms; • Advertising possibilities of the Festival; • Holding special branded partner’s events at the Festival; • Holding one or more festival’s programmes under the partner’s brand; • Foundation of a special partner’s prize for the films; • Elite Hospitatlity; • Participating in festival’s media-activities.

MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 22 PARTNERS 2 TEAM PRODUCTIONS (ISRAEL) FILMS DISTRIBUTION (FRANCE) METAFILMS (Canada) Urban Distribution Int. (France) 4L (ARGENTINA) FILMS BOUTIQUE (GERMANY) MILLIMETER FILM PRODUCTION UTV Motion Pictures (India) A COMPANY (RUSSIA) FLASH FILM PRODUCTION (FRANCE) (Georgia) UTOPIA PICTURES (Russia) A ONE FILMS (RUSSIA) FORTISSIMO FILMS (THE NETHERLANDS) Mk2 (France) VERSATILE (France) AD VITAM (FRANCE) GARMATA FILM PRODUCTION (Ukraine) National Film Studio Belarusfilm VOLTAGE PICTURES (USA) ALPHA VIOLET (FRANCE) Georgian National Film Center NOMADIC INDEPENDENCE PICTURES Wide House (France) AMRION OÜ (ESTONIA) (Georgia) (USA) Wide Management (France) ANIMA POL FILM STUDIO (POLAND) Global Screen GMBH (Germany) OTHER ANGLE PICTURES (France) Wild Bunch (France) ANTIPODE SALES & DISTRIBUTION (RUSSIA) Hanway Films (Great Britain) Oy Art Studio (Kyrgyzstan) WILDSIDE (Italy) ASA FILM PRODUCTION A/S (DENMARK) INTERCINEMA (Russia) P&I Films (Russia) КИНОКОМПАНИЯ «НОВЫЕ ЛЮДИ» BAC FILMS (FRANCE) JOUR2FETE (France) PARADOX (Norway) (Россия) BAOBAB FILMS (SPAIN) HELSINKI - FILM OY (Finland) PASCALE RAMONDA (France) «Наше кино» (Россия) BARABAN FILMS (RUSSIA) HOMLESS BOB PRODUCTION (Estonia) PAPA FILMS DOO (Serbia) ПРОвзгляд (Россия) BETA FILM (GERMANY) IRIS FILMS (Belgium) PATHE (France) СТВ (Россия) BIBERCHE PRODUCTIONS (SERBIA) Kadr Studio (Poland) PREMIUM FILM (Russia) Телевизионное агентство «Русский BOLD FILMS (USA) KAZAKHFILM JSC (Kazakhstan) PRIMA LINEA PRODUCTIONS (France) репортаж» (Россия) CAT&DOCS (FRANCE) KINOELEKTRON (France) PROTAGONIS (UK) CELLULOID DREAMS (FRANCE) KINOLOGY (France) Pyramide Films (France) CG CINEMA (FRANCE) Koktebel Film Company (Russia) RECTANGLE PRODUCTIONS (France) CINEMA DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN KUUKULGUR FILM (Estonia) REZO (France) FEDERATION Le Pacte (France) ROCK FILMS (Russia) CINEMA PRESTIGE (RUSSIA) Les Films Du Fleuve (Belgium) SBS PRODUCTIONS (France) CINEMA REPUBLIC. INTERNATIONAL Les Films Du Lendemain (France) SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL (Canada) SALES&PRODUCTION (SPAIN) Les Films Du Losange (France) SIERRA / AFFINITY (USA) CINEMAGINAIRE (CANADA) Les Films Velvet (France) SND Groupe M6 (France) COPRODUCTION OFFICE (GERMANY) Level K (Denmark) SUNRISE FILMS (France) ELLE DRIVER (FRANCE) LYLA FILMS (Canada) TEMPESTA SRL (Italy) ENDORFILM S.R.O. (CZECH REPUBLIC) M-APPEAL (Germany) The Match Factory (Germany) FA FILMA (LATVIA) MANDARIN CINEMA (France) TRUSTNORDISK (Denmark) FARABI CINEMA FOUNDATION (IRAN) MaXima Film (Croatia) UDI (URBAN DISTRIBUTION INT) FIDELITE FILMS (FRANCE) Memento Films International (France) (France) MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 23 TEAM&CONTACT Visual and Performing Arts Centre «ART Corporation» 220088, Belarus, Minsk, Internatsionalnaya Street, 21 tel. +375 17 2339874, +37517 233989 www.listapad.com, www.artcorporation.by

Gennady Davydko Irina Demyanova Alla Chernetskaya Chairman of the Festival Documentary films program director Chief accountant Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus. [email protected] Actor, director and broadcaster and chairman Tatiana Shalesnaya of BTRC Ekaterina Sychyova Accountant Assistant of documentary film program Anzhela Krashevskaya director Evgenia Isachenko Director of the MIFF «Listapad» [email protected] Legal adviser [email protected] Evgenia Fedorovich Nikolai Lavreniuk Director assistant National competition coordinator Darya Shakulia [email protected] [email protected] Press Centre coordinator, PR manager [email protected] Igor Sukmanov Lizaveta Bobrikova Deputy director, feature film program director, Industry Days coordinator Tatiana Zaydal program director of the Children and Youth Films [email protected] Content manager, volunteer coordinator Competition «Listapadzik» [email protected] [email protected] Alexandra Pushkina [email protected] Head of marketing department Julia Samoilovskikh [email protected] Assistant of feature film program director [email protected] Evgenia Bolbas Guest coordinator [email protected] MIFF LISTAPAD 2017 24