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Nanouk Leopold back in Berlin with Cobain Dutch filmmakers target IFFR Rosto honoured at Clermont Ferrand My Giraffe in Berlin Generation Barbara Visser on Barnett Newman Issue #30 January 2018 Sundance, IFFR, Berlin and Clermont Ferrand issue Index COLOPHON 4-5 Sundance exposure Minority 30-31 Native bed fellows Topkapi Films co-pros Time Share and Holiday in is co-producer on The Bed and Land in See NL is published four times per Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Berlinale selection year by EYE International and Competition The Netherlands Film Fund and is distributed to international film 32-33 Kafka in Brazil Maria Ramos doc professionals. 6-7 Tailor made IFFR topper Bero Beyer The Trial about the impeachment of discusses new features of this year’s fest Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is Editors in chief: Marten Rabarts, selected for Berlin Panorama. (EYE), Jonathan Mees 8-9 Cross border affair The second (Netherlands Film Fund) Executive editor: Nick Cunningham feature of Palestinian Muayad Alayan is 34-35 Then we take Berlin Dutch Contributor: Geoffrey Macnab selected for IFFR Tiger competition filmmaking talents at Berlinale 2018 Concept & Design: Lava.nl, Amsterdam Layout: def., 10-11 Camera Obscura Director David 36-37 Rebel with a cause Jonas Amsterdam Printing: mediaLiaison Printed on FSC paper Verbeek on his An Impos sibly Small Smulders is The Netherlands’ Shooting © All rights reserved: Object, selected for IFFR Star at this year’s Berlinale The Netherlands Film Fund and EYE International 2018 12-13 Nihilism rules ok René Eller’s 38-39 EYE Exhibition Danish artist debut feature We, selected for IFFR, is Jesper Just CONTACT Sandra den Hamer about youthful hedonism and cynicism CEO EYE 40-41 Short and to the point Zara E [email protected] 14-15 Bad connection Possession in Dwinger and Shady El Hamus selected Tiger Competition is a polemic about the for Clermont Ferrand Marten Rabarts tyranny of modern mobile communications Head of EYE International E [email protected] 42-43 Gospel of Rosto Clermont 16-17 Visseral reaction Barbara Visser Ferrand celebrates Dutch artist/film- EYE International tells the story of the infamous mutilation maker/musician Rosto who is world- PO BOX 74782 and ‘restoration’ of Barnett Newman’s premiering his Reruns 1070 BT Amsterdam The Netherlands ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III’ T +31 20 758 2375 44-45 When Harry met Johan W www.eyefilm.nl 18-19 The parent trap Saskia Diesing’s Pompidou doc programmer Harry Bos on second feature Craving is selected for the Johan van der Keuken retrospective Doreen Boonekamp IFFR Limelight CEO Netherlands Film Fund E [email protected] 46-47 Short Cuts News from the 20-21 Final testimony Morgan Knibbe Dutch film industry Jonathan Mees presents his short doc The Atomic Communications Soldiers at IFFR. Plus other Dutch shorts 48 Ceres Dutch minority co-pro in Berlin Netherlands Film Fund E [email protected] Generation Kplus 22-23 Analogue memories Digna Sinke’s Netherlands Film Fund Keeping and Saving, about the desire Pijnackerstraat 5 to hold on to possessions, selected for 1072 JS Amsterdam IFFR Limelight The Netherlands T +31 20 570 7676 W www.filmfonds.nl 24-25 Teen spirit Nanouk Leopold’s Cobain is selected for Generation 14plus 26-27 A tall tale Berlinale has stuck its neck out with a Generation Kplus nod for box-office smash My Giraffe 28-29 Due South Denis Vaslin talks to See NL about Argentinian feature The Omission, selected for Berlin Panorama Cover: Cobian Nanouk Leopold See page 24 We René Eller See page 12 2 3 World Cinema Dramatic Competition Sundance exposure Time Share & Holiday Holiday Director: Isabella Eklöf Script: Johanne Algren, has a sinister plan to take their loved Fund involvement translated Isabella Eklöf ones away. The film is co-produced into approximately €100,000 of Production: Dharma by Circe Films, whose Cobain (see minority co-production support and Film (DK) page 24) is selected for Berlin €60,000 from the Production Co-Production: OAK Motion Pictures (NL), Generation 14Plus. The film will Incentive. All of the editing (editor: Common Ground have its European premiere at IFFR. Natalie Alonso Casale) and the Pictures (SE) entire sound and image post- Circe’s Lisette Kelder was determined production were completed in Sebastián Hofmann to co-produce the latest Hofmann The Netherlands. In addition, visual Isabella Eklöf film after the impression his Halley effects (such as flamingos) were Two Dutch minority co-pro duct- (2012) left on her – and the Dutch applied in post- after the Dutch producer Trent knew very ions, Time Share by Mexican industry as a whole. “That was a establishing plates were created in little about the director and producer filmmaker Sebastián Hofmann film we loved very much,” she Mexico. “We were very much of Holiday (Isabella Eklöf and David and the Danish feature Holiday underlines. “And why we were very involved, more than we are used to B. Sørensen) before he met them at (Isabella Eklöf) are selected for eager to be involved in Time Share, as a minority producer,” stresses CineMart 2015. But he was intrigued the prestigious World Cinema but it was difficult as there is no Kelder. by the feature debutante’s notes Dramatic Competition of the formal relationship for funding about a “female Godfather, trapped 2018 Sundance Film Festival. between Mexico and The Nether- “Sebastián is very original and within a criminal environment” and Nick Cunningham reports. lands. But we were really excited Time Share is just as bizarre and quickly watched three of Eklöf’s when we found out that the Film funny and beautiful as Halley. short films to prepare for the In Time Share the sinister meets the Fund was prepared to support it, The actors are brilliant and the film meeting. magical as two patriarchs find based on their expectation that it looks disturbingly stylish, almost themselves in a holiday nightmare would be selected for an A-festival. grotesque. We really hope that “All of them were very interesting, after becoming convinced that an It was great to know that everybody we can follow him onto his next visually and stylistically, and American timeshare conglomerate was such a big fan of Sebastián.” project as well.” Isabella had worked with a lot of non-actors, which I found very interesting. She is not afraid to make drastic choices – I especially liked that. I knew it would be a risk as it is not often that the Fund gives minority support to a first feature, but I thought if we could make a equip ment was Dutch and, in post- and Danish production entities. nice package and a great director’s production, all the sound design Talking in early January, Trent was statement then it might be and sound editing was overseen by yet to see the final version. While he possible.” Dutch professionals. The Danish felt the first cut was too long, coming team were amenable to suggestions in at over two hours, the second What made the project relatively at script level as well. “This was a and third versions indicated that easy to co-produce was the flexibility director who was very open to the Danes were making all the of the Danish team. They were working with six or seven different correct choices, as evidenced by the Time Share prepared to switch nationalities of opinions, but then she was able to Sundance selection. “It really is a Director: Sebastián Hofmann key characters to facilitate Dutch take her own decisions, which was film that can work at the cinema as Script: Sebastian Hofmann & Julio co-pro terms. Dutch technicians very special,” stresses Trent, adding it is slow and intense, and I am Chavezmontes Production: Piano (MX) Co-Production: Circe Films (NL) oversaw the sound on set, the focus that there was a mutual and really looking forward to seeing the pulling and make-up. All the camera palpable “click’ between the Dutch finished result.” 4 5 IFFR preview Ideas & innovations Tailor made In the same spirit, the festival is plenty of well-established and hosting a screening of Paul Thomas illustrious guests, among them Paul Anderson’s awards contender Schrader, who will be introducing Phantom Thread, in which Daniel his Bergmaneque new feature First Day-Lewis stars in what he says will Reformed, in which Ethan Hawke be his final role, as a British fashion plays a priest struggling with his couturier. The screening is faith. Schrader will also be giving accompanied by the Rotterdam a masterclass. Meanwhile, the Bero Beyer Philharmonic. “These things are celebrated British actress Charlotte crazy, especially if they’re for a new Rampling (star of The Night Porter, IFFR director Bero Beyer film, but they always have a real Stardust Memories and Oscar- indulges in a little pillow talk cinematic power,” Beyer reflects on nominated for 45 Years), will talk with Geoffrey Macnab. showing a movie with live music. about her role in Andrea Palloro’s Anderson is expected to attend the Hannah. British satirist Armando The great Thai director, Apichat pong screening and Beyer hopes he Iannucci is also Rotterdam bound, Weerasethakul, a Palme D’Or will stick around at the festival to to accompany his film The Death Of winner and regular visitor to IFFR, sample its esoteric pleasures. Stalin, which closes the festival. has said on several occasions that he doesn’t really mind if audience Meanwhile, IFFR titles are going to IFFR boasts the oldest and most members fall asleep during his be shown further afield than ever respected co-pro market, CineMart, films. This is almost bound to happen before.