GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Tous Écrans Programme Revealed!

Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS Geneva International Film Festival GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Tous écrans programme revealed! www.tous-ecrans.com

The 21st Festival Tous Ecrans returns from 6 to 14 November with an ambitious and entertaining programme including: Swiss premieres of major films by Peter Greenaway, Takeshi Kitano, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Larrieu brothers, Arturo Ripstein, Dibakar Banerjee, Johnnie To, Jay Roach, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Sarah Gavron; a new section, Rien que pour vos yeux, dedicated to unknown gems unearthed by the Festival’s team; a tribute to Anton Corbijn; the year’s best newTV series and digital virtual reality projects designed to let festivalgoers share in demonstrations against police brutality Nin ew York, or witness first-hand daily life in a Syrian refugee camp. This year’s programme will take you deep into the heart of the audiovisual cosmos with the addition of the Digital Garden – a dome for 360-degree screenings set up in the courtyard of the Pitoëff building – and our already-famous ‘Nuits Blanches’ events with the complicity of artists such as Serge Bozon, Asia Argento and Kid Chocolat, and DJ Cam. The Festival is also expecting a host of guests, including Claire Denis, Ingrid Caven, Anna Karina, Carl Barât, Stuart Staples, the Larrieu brothers, Michael Nouri and Anton Corbijn. Altogether, over 180 celebrities from television, cinema and the digital world have confirmed their attendance. The full programme is available online and the online ticket office opens today.

CINEMA

Opening Night Friday 6 November at Cinerama Empire The Assassin / Nie yin niang by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Swiss Premiere (Best Director Award – Cannes 2015)

Closing Night Saturday 14 November at Cinerama Empire Office / Hua Li Shang Ban Zou by Johnnie To - Swiss Premiere (3D screening)

International Feature Film Competition With ten World, International or Swiss Premieres, this year’s programme features a particularly rich selection that defies the codes of fiction and documentary by flirting with docudrama and mockumentary: Kosovar Visar Morina’s Babai takes a blunt look back on the tyranny his native country has suffered; Ivan Ostrochovský’s melancholy road-tripKoza is based on the life of Czech boxer Peter Baláž; The Other Side by Roberto Minervini shows JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER America’s poorest while French filmmakerE milie Brisavoine discreetly makes intimate 2015 FOR THE 21ST revelations in Pauline s’arrache (Oh la la Pauline) – screened in the presence of the FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS filmmaker. Other filmmakers have also confirmed their attendance for this competition. These include Lukas Valenta Rinner for the apocalyptic and iconoclasticParabellum ; #FTE_2015 Damien Odoul for La Peur (The Fear); Switzerland’s own Kim Seob Boninsegni for Occupy The Pool and Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ortega-Beck for the beautifully touching God TOUS-ECRANS.COM Bless The Child. Nathan Nicholovitch will take us to Cambodia with De l’ombre il y a (Where There is Shade), while Alex Ross Perry will present his unsettlingQueen of Earth, starring the mesmerising Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men and Top of The Lake). Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS Out-of-competition GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.tous-ecrans.com Highlight Screenings Back for the second time, Highlight screenings has established itself as a major out-of-competition section and featuresa dozen Swiss Premieres including the highly-anticipated Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen (Ryuzo to Shichinin no Kobun tachi) by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano who tells the trials and tribulations of an ex-gang of retired yakuzas; Sarah Gavron’s equally awaited Suffragette starring a mysterious Meryl Streep; Jay Roach’sTrumbo featuring Diane Lane, Helen Mirren and John Goodman; Calcutta Detective (Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!) by India’s ‘new wave’ filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee; a tribute by British maestro Peter Greenaway to his Slav alter ego in Eisenstein in Guanajuato; a beautiful black- and-white film set in Mexico with Arturo Ripstein’sLa Calle de la Amargura and the Larrieu brothers’ latest opus featuring Isabelle Carré and Karin Viard,Vingt et une nuits avec Pattie, in the presence of the filmmakers.

Retrospective:C inéastes, de notre temps The Festival presents the third and final part of theC inéastes, de notre temps (‘Filmmakers, of our times’) Retrospective, which consists of a series of portraits of cult filmmakers coproduced by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe. Discover over 35 major filmmakers, including Jacques Rivette, Martin Scorsese, Claude Autant-Lara, Manoel de Oliveira and many others. The Festival will also paytribute to André S. Labarthe, in the presence of the filmmaker and producer. In addition, a Round table discussion mediated by HEAD - Geneva Cinema and Fine Arts teacher Cyril Neyrat on the topic of ‘What is a Filmmaker?’ will take place on Tuesday 10 November with the participation of Claire Denis, Françoise Etchegaray, Adolfo Arrietta and André S. Labarthe.

Rien que pour vos yeux The Festival’s new sectionRien que pour vos yeux ( For your eyes only) offers five feature films including twoE uropean Premieres for De l’autre côté de la mer (Across The Sea) by Swiss filmmaker Pierre Maillard andThe Sandwich Nazi by Canadian Lewis Bennett; twoS wiss Premieres for Philippe Fernandez’s Cosmodrama in the presence of main actor Jackie Berroyer and Armel Hostiou’s Une histoire américaine (Stubborn), in the presence of the French filmmaker and actress Kate Moran. And finally, aWorld Premiere with Paule Muret’s For This is My Body, in the presence of the filmmaker and The Libertines and The Jackals’ frontman Carl Barât, who portrays a rock icon in Muret’s film.

JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER Tribute to Anton Corbijn 2015 FOR THE 21ST Guest of honour of this 21st Festival,A nton Corbijn will receive the Film & Beyond FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS Award during a ceremony – in association with our watchmaking partner 88 RUE DU #FTE_2015 RHÔNE. On this occasion, the Festival will present theFrench- Swiss Premiere of his latest feature film,Life , as well as some of the Dutch photographer and filmmaker’s most representativemusic videos, created for artists such as U2 and Depeche TOUS-ECRANS.COM Mode. Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS TELEVISION GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.tous-ecrans.com International TV Series Competition Iceland, Denmark, Israel, Germany, Italy, Norway, France and Switzerland are every bit as good as their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in terms of TV series, as evidenced by the general trend in this year’s competition. The Festival is especially proud to present the Premiere of RTS’ new series Anomalia by Pilar Anguita-Mackay, the first episode of which will be screenedin the presence of the main actor, Natacha Régnier, and the production team. Members of the jury will also have to consider the Swiss Premieres of The Refugees (Refugiados); Old Money (Altes Geld); Deutschland 83; Acquitted (Frikjent); False Flag (Kfulim); Occupied; Trapped (Ófærð) and Show Me a Hero, the latest series by cult filmmaker David Simon.

Out-of-competition

Serial Day & Night From Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 November For one day and one night, the Festival has organised a huge TV and web series marathon including Bipedes and Anomalia, in partnership with RTS and SSR SRG. The programme features TV and web series from international competitions as well as four other out-of-competition TV series: 1992 by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi and Stefano Sardo (Italy); Catastrophe by Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan – Swiss Premiere (United Kingdom); The Party (De Fractie) by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi and Stefano Sardo – Swiss Premiere (Italy); Trepalium by Antarès Bassis and Sophie Hiet – Swiss Premiere (France). Furthermore, during this event, festivalgoers will also discover theE uropean Premiere of the latest series on Canal+, Versailles by David Wolstencroft and Simon Mirren, as well as thecomplete series of ARTE’s Au service de la France, created by the OSS 117 scriptwriter Jean- François Halin, who will be present. Finally, actor Michael Nouri (Damages, NCIS, CSI, and close to a hundred films and series) will give the public an insight into what goes on behind the scenes of the greatest American series during aC onversation with Michael Nouri.

DIGITAL

International Web Series Competition This year, the Festival presentsfifteen international web series from: Japan (Yukata Cowboy by Atsuhi Ogata), South Korea (We Broke up by Eugene Shin), Lebanon (Zyara by Denise Jabbour and Muriel Aboulrouss), Syria and Turkey (Umm Abdo Al-Halabiya by Adnan Haddad), the United States (Gary Saves The Graveyard JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER by Todd Bieber), Canada (Whatever Linda by Hannah Cheesman and Julian De Zott, 2015 FOR THE 21ST and World Away by Elias Campbell and Maxim Gertler-Jaffe), France (La Nuit du FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS vivant by Geneviève Anhoury; La Parade by Mehdi Ahoudig and Samuel Bollendorff; #FTE_2015 Hell Train by Mathieu Rochet and Nicolas Venancio, Swiss Premiere), Belgium (Euh by Benjamin Dessy, Brieuc de Goussencourt and Gregory Beghin), Spain (Números by Fátima de los Santos and Jesús Perujo) and Germany (Polyglot by Amelia TOUS-ECRANS.COM Umuhire). The selection also includes Swiss web series, such as theWorld Premiere of Charles Nouveau’s Bipèdes, and Hellvetia by Antoine Tinguely, Laurent Fauchère and Matthias Urban. Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS International Transmedia Competition GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Along with documentaries, TV and web series, video and interactive games, mobile www.tous-ecrans.com apps and animated GIFs, all digital media are included in this eclectic and cross- disciplinary programme. This competition features close to ten entertaining and innovative international works, such as the International Premiere of Brice Roy’s Californium (France); Pry by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman (United States); Refugee Republic by Dirk-Jan Visser, Jan Rothuizen and Martijn van Tol (The Netherlands); the Swiss Premiere of Russel T. Davies’ Cucumber, Banana, Tofu (United Kingdom); Plug & Play by Michael Frei (Suisse) and Les Mondes de Philip K. Dick by Ariel Kyrou and Yann Coquart (France).

Out of competition Virtual Territories / 360° Films Festival Tous Ecrans continues to chart new territories in audiovisual creation, this year with twenty or so immersive and interactive projects including Karim Ben Khelifa’s highly-anticipated THE ENEMY (prototype) (France / Canada), Gabo Arora and Chris Milk’s Clouds Over Sidra (United States), Okio Report & Smart’s Jisr al-Shougour dévastée (Jisr al-Shougour, a Devastated Syrian City) (France), Chris Milk and Spike Jonze’s Millions March (United States), Sylvain Chagué and Caecilia Charbonniers’ REAL VIRTUALITY (Switzerland), and a work-in-progress version of Viens! by Michel Reilhac and Carl Guyenette (France).

Digital Garden Nestled in the courtyard of the Maison communale de Plainpalais, theD igital Garden will be the focal point of this year’s Festival, which has commissioned mySquare (François Moncarey and Ramona Altschul) and their ARK dome for this unique project. Under this geodesic dome, twenty-two ‘fulldome’ films, selected by digital artist François Moncarey will be screened in 360 degrees. All festivalgoers are welcomed to visit these virtual worlds that defy the laws of gravity. With a 200-person capacity, the Digital Garden will in turn become a bar, an interstellar yoga venue, and an animation studio (workshops for children and adults). Furthermore, the Digital Garden will also welcome some of Workflow’s Round table discussions and Conferences.

Workflow From Monday 9 to Friday 13 November For three years, Workflow has attracted audiovisual professionals and an informed audience to listen and share inD ebates, Master-classes and Conferences about the future of the audiovisual industry. This year, the programme will begin with a highly-awaited Conference: How will we fund public broadcasting services? General Director of European Broadcasting Union Ingrid Deltenre, JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER Radio Télévision Suisse Director Gilles Marchand, former President of France 2015 FOR THE 21ST Télévisions Rémy Pflimlin, and Director and founder ofM edi@LaB Geneva FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS Patrick-Yves Badillo will debate the issue on Monday 9 November and answer any questions the public might have. The programme will also address other relevant #FTE_2015 issues, such as the digital marketing of the TV series Game of Thrones, the future of independent cinemas, interactive video clips and immersive journalism, TOUS-ECRANS.COM which explores new paths – in virtual reality – for future reporters. The programme is open to everyone. Workflow’s full line-up and list of guests is available now on tous-ecrans.com Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS EVENTS GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.tous-ecrans.com Nuits blanches Five multidisciplinary filmmakers, musicians and artists inaugurate the Tanzraum for five frantic all-nighters! Friday 6 November • ‘Opening Night’ Dj set by filmmaker Serge Bozon (Garage / Doo-wop / DIY punk / surf / glam rock from 1950 to 1970) after the screening of Serge Bozon’sMods Saturday 7 November • ‘Miami Vice’ Dj set by producer DJ Cam (Abstract hip hop / Soul / Funk) who revisits the soundtrack of Michael Mann’s cult series after the screening of the original pilot of the seriesMiami Vice Thursday 12 November • ‘Super 8 remix’ Dj set by Pascal Greco & Kid Chocolat (Electro) after the screening of three short films by visual artist Pascal Greco: Super 8 / Nowhere / Stun Friday 13 November • Dj set by Asia Argento & Kid Chocolat after the screening of Asia Argento’s filmScarlet Diva (Electro to Rock) Saturday 14 November • ‘Closing Night’ Screening of Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem by Leiji Matsumoto followed by a Dj set that will be revealed soon

Journée des enfants (Family day) Sunday 8 November between 13:00 and 18:30, four year-olds and above Making a film with an iPad; immersing oneself in a tale that comes to life on the screen and attending theFrench- Swiss Premiere of Belle et Sébastien in the company of La Lanterne Magique. In short, a feature film andfour workshops, one-and-a-half to two-hour long, during which the young ones will domesticate images and bring their dreams to life.

Minima Cinema From 13 October to 14 November From 13 October until the end of the Festival,miniature mobile cinemas will give a preview of Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans’ programme. Thanks to a light device – the result of a partnership between CineGlobe and HEAD – Geneva – Minima Cinema will travel through some of the most iconic cities in Switzerland,from Zurich to Locarno, via Zermatt, Neuchâtel, Bern, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Lausanne. Minima Cinema will also go to those who cannot come to the Festival. A beautiful tribute to the origins of cinema, made possible thanks to digital technology. JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2015 FOR THE 21ST 48-Hour Film Project FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS Sunday 8, Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November #FTE_2015 Every year, the Festival teams up with the 48-Hour project to awaken the filmmaker, scriptwriter or actor within us all. The reward? A chance to take part in the American final and the guarantee of your film being screened at the Festival. TOUS-ECRANS.COM Registrations online: 48hourfilm.com with the support of CineGlobe Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS JURY MEMBERS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Jury for the International Feature Film Competition www.tous-ecrans.com • Ingrid Caven (DE) PRESIDENT OF THE FEATURE FILM JURY Actress and singer (R.-W. Fassbinder, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Werner Schroeter, André Téchiné) • Stuart A. Staples (UK) Writer, singer, producer and founding member of British band Tindersticks, Staples has composed seven film scores for Claire Denis. • Kate Moran (FR-US) Actress (Yann Gonzalez, Christophe Honoré, Bertrand Bonello, Armel Hostiou) • Tiziana Sudani (CH) Producer (Marco Bellocchio, Alice Rohrwacher, Leonardo di Costanzo, etc.) The fifth member of the feature film jury will be announced soon. Jury for the International Short Film Competition • Dominique Frot (FR) PRESIDENT OF THE SHORT FILM JURY Actress (Elle s’appelait Sarah, Les Mains libres, Soda, Le Roi, l’écureil et la couleuvre) • David Pope (UK) Scriptwriter and filmmaker (Miles From Nowhere), consultant and mediator at Rotterdam Lab for the professional programme CineMart, and director at Advance Films. • Emmanuelle Antille (CH) Filmmaker (Avanti, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Miou-Miou), artist, video maker and photographer (Swiss representative at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003) Jury for the International TV Series Competition • Michael Nouri (US) PRESIDENT OF THE TV SERIES JURY Actor Michael Nouri has shared the screen with Julie Andrews, Sean Connery, Glenn Close, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and starred in such cult films as Flashdance. • Stefania Carini (IT) Journalist and television critic (Il Corriere della Sera), scriptwriter for Mainstream (RAI 4), a show dedicated to TV series and author of Il Testo Espanso (2009) and I misteri de Les Revenants (2015) • Johannes Lackner (DE) Former editor and scriptwriter for Columbia Tristar and Bavaria Film, freelance scriptwriter since 1999 (Ein Fall für Zwei, Der letzte Zeuge, ZDF / Family Undercover, Sat1 / Der letzte Bulle). • Thalia Rebinsky (CH) Creator of La Famille Katz, co-scriptwriter with Alain Robillard of Les Bleus (France 2) and Nina (France Télévision), she is also a lecturer at FEMIS, in the TV series creation department • Gabriella Wright (UK) Actress (One Dollar Curry by Vijay Singh, 2004 / Mary by Abel Ferrara, 2005 / Le dernier gang by Ariel Zeitoun, 2007 / Le Transporteur: Héritage by Camille Delamarre, 2015) Jury for the International Transmedia Competition • Yoni Bloch (ISR) PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSMEDIA JURY Musician, founder and director of Interlude, a tech company that designs and creates interactive video clips (creator of Treehouse) • Arnaud Colinart (FR) Producer in charge of new media at AGAT Films & Cie / EX NIHILO (creator of La Zone, France 24-RFI Web Documentary Award, and Typerider, Indie Game Days’ Best Director Award). • Emilie Joly (CH) Interactive designer, MA graduate in Media Design at HEAD – Geneva and founder of studio apelab, JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER where she is in charge of creating the first interactive 360-degree animation film for virtual headsets ST 2015 FOR THE 21 • Micho Marquis-Rose (CAN) FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS Director of the digital department at Attraction Images, a major TV production company in Quebec. He #FTE_2015 has worked on over fifty projects, including the series Secret Agent and Lily Tells. • Pedro Zaz (PRT) Co-founder of the group of artists United VJs, director of the Fulldome UK festival and co-producer of TOUS-ECRANS.COM Blendy Dome VJ, a VJ-ing software for digital planetariums. In line with our school programme, a youth jury will take part in the voting process for the transmedia competition. A jury of students from thestudents.ch community will be formed to select the bestweb series. Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015

FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS Practical information GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.tous-ecrans.com TICKET OFFICE

Tickets and passes are on sale on tous-ecrans.com from 12 October The Festival’s main ticket office is open every day, from 6 to 14 October

Main ticket office Maison communale de Plainpalais (Théâtre Pitoëff) Rue de Carouge 52 1205 Geneva Opening time: 30 min. before the day’s first event Closing time: 15 min. after the day’s last event

Cinerama Empire ticket office Cinerama Empire Rue de Carouge 72-74 1205 Geneva Opening time: 30 min. before the screening Tickets for screenings at Cinerama only

Media Pass Office (Bureau des accréditations) From 6 to 14 November: 12:00-20:00 No passes will be created on site. Please apply for your pass online.

Press centre Every day: 11:00-18:00 Pascal Villa Vieille /+41 76 801 27 53

Full programme and information online at tous-ecrans.com

JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2015 FOR THE 21ST FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS #FTE_2015