Argentina turns up. In beautiful and appropriate black-and-white. El clan (LL) Territories Sold: All available

Director(s): Pablo Trapero except Argentina & Uruguay

Prod. Countries: Argentina,

Las lindas (The Pretty Ones) Spain Prod. Year: 2015 (GD) WP Length (min.): 108 Director(s): Melisa Liebenthal Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Argentina

Company: Film Factory Prod. Year: 2016 Length (min.): 77 Entertainment Contact: Oliete, Toni Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Contact: Campos Guevara, 45th INTERNATIONAL Phone: +34 93 3684608 Eugenia FILM FESTIVAL Logline: While Argentina was Email: ROTTERDAM making the transition from [email protected] January 27 – February 07, Logline: Melisa, filmmaker and 2016 dictatorship to democracy in the early 1980s, a former character in The Pretty Ones is DISTRIBUTOR LETTER member of the junta carried on young, intelligent and funny, with the feared but also critical and ironic. She

’disappearances’ - this time for interviews her friends, Log lines from IFFR catalogue. ransom. But paying didn’t reconstructs herself as a person In order of country. mean that the victims survived. using family photos and This true horror story with a videos, and reflects on the For index of programme sections political subtext was a big images and expectations and premiere status, turn to last society has of young women. page. domestic hit. Territories Sold: - Charming debut. Territories Sold: All available La luz incidente (Incident Light) (VO) EP Toponimia (Toponymy) (BF) Director(s): Ariel Rotter Director(s): Jonathan Perel Prod. Countries: Argentina, Prod. Countries: Argentina France, Uruguay Prod. Year: 2015 Prod. Year: 2015 Length (min.): 82 Length (min.): 95 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Contact: Perel, Jonathan Company: Urban Distribution Email: International [email protected] Contact: Corvez, Frédéric Phone: +54 11 43939328 Email: Logline: Perel focuses his disciplined artist’s eye on four [email protected] Phone: +33 1 48704655 villages in Tucumán (in the far Logline: A pretty young woman north-west of Argentina), is left to care for young twins which was founded in the after her husband's sudden 1970s by the military junta to death. Then a new admirer house the rebellious native 1 population. Just like the Logline: Does the truth have to helped prevent 9/11. villages, the film also has a come out no matter what the Territories Sold: All available steely structure - but life will cost, even if a whole life has out. been built around the lie? Altes Geld (EE) Territories Sold: All available Ibsen's play The Wild Duck Director(s): David Schalko was the model for this sizzling Prod. Countries: Austria Prod. Year: 2014 Australia family drama that embroiders Length (min.): 375 fourth on this abstract Tanna (LL) philosophical question in a Genre: Fiction Director(s): Martin Butler, surprisingly intimate way. Company: Superfilm Bentley Dean Territories Sold: Israel (Lev Filmproduktions GmbH Prod. Countries: Australia Films) Poland (Hagi) Baltics Contact: Lueftner, John Prod. Year: 2015 Email: (UAB Prioro Pramogos) Ex- Length (min.): 104 Yugoslavia (MCF) Germany [email protected] Genre: Fiction (Arsenal) United Kingdom Phone: +43 1 5221911 Company: Visit Films Logline: A wicked millionaire (Metrodome) Middle East Contact: Kampe, Ryan (Italia) Portugal (Outsider) looks for a liver transplant and Email: [email protected] ignites a war among his Scandinavia (41 Shadows) Phone: +1 718 3128210 Turkey (Fabula) and Airlines children, one of them will be Logline: On an island in the (Cinesky) the only heir if (s)he provides Pacific, two young lovers rebel what he wants. According to its against old customs, causing author, a "Dallas for the Austria tensions to rise high. insane" which at any rate Enthrallingly photographed A Good American (BS) provides psychotic fun and drama about the necessity of Director(s): Friedrich Moser Austrian decadence. A change and a desire to break Prod. Countries: Austria miniseries. the chain of violence. Based on Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: - a true event and performed Length (min.): 100 with brio by the local Genre: Creative Documentary Helmut Berger, Actor (CC) population. Company: Slingshot Films Director(s): Andreas Horvath Territories Sold: Benelux (ABC) Contact: Buono, Manuela Prod. Countries: Austria Finland (Cinema Mondo) Email: Prod. Year: 2015 Denmark (Ost for Paradis) [email protected] Length (min.): 90 Phone: +39 3 476273390 Genre: Creative Documentary The Daughter (BF) Logline: Bill Binney, a former Contact: Horvath, Andreas Director(s): Simon Stone American secret service staffer Email: Prod. Countries: Australia talks about the period [email protected] Prod. Year: 2015 preceding whistle-blower Phone: +43 699 12243848 Length (min.): 96 Snowden’s revelations. Or how Logline: Both the worst and the Genre: Fiction the NSA was more interested in best film of 2015, according to Company: Mongrel wasting millions on their cult director John Waters, and International friends in business than on most likely the most Contact: Mickie, Charlotte installing an electronic filter in controversial one of IFFR 2016: Email: a timely manner that - who actor/icon/muse Helmut [email protected] knows - might even have Berger in a sexually loaded Phone: +1 416 5169775 entanglement with

2 documentary filmmaker want to buy for nothing. Belgium Andreas Horvath. How Surprisingly, plenty of orgasmic will it get? respected businessmen are A Crackup at the Race Riots Territories Sold: All available willing to place themselves into (CC) their hands. A sharp satire on Director(s): Leo Gabin Lampedusa (SI) IP contemporary capitalism and Prod. Countries: Belgium Director(s): Peter Schreiner its agents, who are as sterile Prod. Year: 2015 Prod. Countries: Austria and interchangeable as the Length (min.): 60 Prod. Year: 2015 money they trust. Genre: Experimental Length (min.): 130 Territories Sold: All available Contact: Gabin, Leo Genre: Creative Documentary except Austria Email: [email protected] Company: sixpackfilm Phone: +32 4 86934026 Contact: Burger-Utzer, Brigitta Bangladesh Logline: Set in Florida and Email: inspired by Harmony Korine’s [email protected] Last Man in Dhaka Central homonymous book, Leo Phone: +43 1 5260990 (BF) Gabin’s film consists of a Logline: Two strangers cross Director(s): Naeem collage of YouTube videos, paths on the Sicilian island of Mohaiemen mostly self-made, which Lampedusa: a former refugee Prod. Countries: Bangladesh, depicts negative yet realistic from Africa and a woman who USA, Netherlands aspects of the lost American escaped to the island to cope Prod. Year: 2015 dream. Moreover, it interprets with a personal crisis. Length (min.): 82 contemporary social and Memories, dreams and the Genre: Creative Documentary political reality similarly to present intersect and blend in Company: Nilufar Inc. how Korine’s novel collects this contemplative and visually Contact: Mohaiemen, Naeem allegedly documentary arresting masterpiece by Email: [email protected] fragments of American culture. Austrian Peter Schreiner. Phone: +1 917 4994118 Territories Sold: All available Territories Sold: - Logline: Third part of the documentary series The Young D' Ardennen (LL) WINWIN (GS) WP Man Was relates the struggle of Director(s): Robin Pront Director(s): Daniel Hoesl Dutch journalist and human Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Countries: Austria rights activist Peter Custers, Prod. Year: 2015 Prod. Year: 2016 who was imprisoned in Dhaka Length (min.): 90 Length (min.): 84 in 1975. The film, which Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction premiered at the Venice Company: Attraction Company: A European Film Biennale, combines engaging Distribution Conspiracy interviews, archival material Contact: Courcy , Marie-Soleil Contact: Aschauer, Georg and audio recordings. Email: Email: Territories Sold: All available [email protected] production@europeanfilmcon Phone: +1 514 8461222 spiracy.com Logline: The characters in this Phone: +43 676 9628870 grim Flemish crime drama Logline: Four allegedly cherish few illusions: they will professional investors travel never win the jackpot. Even so, the globe in search of one of them, a former criminal established companies they from an underprivileged 3 neighbourhood in Antwerp, Email: Problemski Hotel (LL) IP tries to build up an honest [email protected] Director(s): Manu Riche existence - together with the ex- Phone: +33 1 44830227 Prod. Countries: Belgium, girlfriend of his unpredictable Logline: Lafosse, the Belgian Netherlands and violent older brother. maestro of mixed feelings, Prod. Year: 2016 Territories Sold: France, French collected a French all-star cast Length (min.): 110 speaking Monaco, Andorra, led by Vincent Lindon for his Genre: Fiction Switzerland & Africa, Estonia, most ambitious film so far. A Company: Cassette for Sweden, Poland, and Italy team of NGO workers arrives Timescapes in restless Chad, where they Contact: Oost, Emmy Keeper (LL) claim they are offering local Email: [email protected] Director(s): Guillaume Senez children shelter and education Phone: +32 9 2780590 Prod. Countries: Belgium, in a secure compound. Logline: Bipul has forgotten Netherlands Territories Sold: - who he is and where he’s from. Prod. Year: 2015 But thanks to his knowledge of Length (min.): 95 Préjudice (LV) IP languages and his qualities as Genre: Fiction Director(s): Antoine Cuypers an intermediary, he has grown Company: Be For Films Prod. Countries: Belgium, into a natural leader at the Contact: Leu, Paméla Luxembourg, Netherlands asylum seeker centre in Email: Prod. Year: 2015 Brussels where he resides. [email protected] Length (min.): 105 Irony prevails in this second Phone: +32 4 89802123 Genre: Fiction adaptation of a novel by Logline: Empathic and realistic Company: Les Films du Dimitri Verhulst (after The drama about a talented 15- Losange Misfortunates). year-old goalkeeper who hears Contact: Vial, Régine Territories Sold: - that his girlfriend is pregnant Email: and wants to keep the baby at [email protected] The Land of the Enlightened all costs. A refreshingly honest Phone: +33 1 44438728 (TG) EP impression of teenagers facing Logline: A provocative Director(s): Pieter-Jan De Pue a major challenge, with a loving psychological family drama, in Prod. Countries: Belgium, eye for the fragility and light- which on a beautiful summer Netherlands, Ireland, Germany footedness of adolescence. evening the carefully cherished Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: Benelux, harmony falls apart. Cédric, Length (min.): 85 France, Switzerland, Romania usually locked up in his own Genre: Creative Documentary and Lithuania world, reacts defiantly to the Company: Films Boutique glad tidings of his sister’s Contact: Greiner, Gabor Les chevaliers blancs (The pregnancy. Strong debut with Email: White Knights) (VO) an outstanding actors’ [email protected] Director(s): Joachim Lafosse ensemble headed by Nathalie Phone: +49 30 69537850 Prod. Countries: Belgium, Bayle as domineering mother. Logline: An Afghan child France Territories Sold: - knows that a landmine can also Prod. Year: 2015 be your friend. If you dig it out Length (min.): 112 carefully, you can get money Genre: Fiction for it. Fiction and Company: Indie Sales documentary, fantasy and Contact: Cavaliere, Cristina

4 myth: the war intertwines Phone: +55 81 999451502 Turkey (Calinos) Czech irreconcilable realities in Logline: A cow tries to Republic & Slovakia perverse ways. An at times convince herself she's really (AeroFilms) & Venzuela painfully intimate portrait of happy. But one evening, just (Tropico Cine) Afghanistan. before Christmas, she is Territories Sold: All available overwhelmed by a sense of Califórnia (VO) IP except Benelux and USA emptiness - a strange, new Director(s): Marina Person Prod. Countries: Brazil experience. The crisis makes Prod. Year: 2015 Brazil her decide to go travelling to find her true self. Grippingly Length (min.): 90 A cidade onde envelheço existential - but also irresistibly Genre: Fiction (Where I Grow Old) (TG) WP humorous. Company: Films Boutique Director(s): Marília Rocha Contact: Greiner, Gabor Territories Sold: All available Prod. Countries: Brazil, Email: Portugal Boi neon (LL) [email protected] Prod. Year: 2016 Director(s): Gabriel Mascaro Phone: +49 30 69537850 Length (min.): 99 Prod. Countries: Brazil, Logline: Estela grew up in the Genre: Fiction Uruguay, Netherlands 1980s in Brazil, against the Company: FiGa Films Prod. Year: 2015 background of major political Contact: Fiorin, Sandro Length (min.): 101 changes. In this coming-of-age Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction story, we see how she looks Phone: +1 323 2299816 Company: Memento Films forward with her girlfriends to Logline: Two young Portuguese International her journey to Uncle Carlos in women try to put down roots Contact: Cissokho, Sata California - the USA is the in Brazil. Teresa is newly Email: sata@memento- Promised Land. With a arrived; Francisca has been films.com soundtrack full of eighties hits, there a while. This sure-footed, Phone: +33 1 53349034 for instance from David Bowie, loving portrait of two Logline: On the road with a New Order and The Cure. counterparts, attracting and travelling rodeo troupe Territories Sold: All available repelling, is also an ode to Belo through Brazil, the camera except Brazil Horizonte: a city with no registers panoramic views. tourist attractions, but bags of Sublime images, which Esperando B. (Waiting for B.) (SC) atmosphere and lust for life. alternate with a less idyllic Territories Sold: All available reality: the hard work amidst Director(s): Paulo Cesar the cows. Jointly they form a Toledo, Abigail Spindel Animal politico (Political fabulous choreography, against Prod. Countries: Brazil Animal) (BF) IP the background of a rapidly Prod. Year: 2015 Director(s): Tião Length (min.): 71 changing society. Territories Prod. Countries: Brazil Sold: Brazil (Imovision) Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2016 Benelux (Cinemien) USA & Company: Videosfera Length (min.): 76 Canada (Kino Lorber) Spain Contact: Cesar Toledo, Paulo Genre: Fiction (La Aventura Audiovisual) Email: Company: Trincheira Filmes [email protected] Austria (Stadkino) Norway Contact: Lacca, Leonardo (Arthaus) Sweden (Folkets Bio) Phone: +55 11 29259335 Email: Portugal (Nitrato Filmes) Logline: What possesses a [email protected] group of poverty-stricken

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Beyoncé fans to camp out for Canada star thought dead, and the two months in front of the evening gets more interesting. stadium where their idol will Endorphine (VO) Territories Sold: All available be performing? The exuberant Director(s): André Turpin except for Canada (K-films collective - mostly young gays - Prod. Countries: Canada Amerique) primarily encounters solidarity Prod. Year: 2015 in their temporary camp, Length (min.): 84 of the North (CA) Director(s): Dominic Gagnon where racism and Genre: Fiction discrimination briefly make Company: Seville International Prod. Countries: Canada place for glamour and fun. Contact: Rondina, Ruby Prod. Year: 2016 Territories Sold: All available Email: Length (min.): 74 [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Vidéographe Bulgaria Phone: +1 514 8784419 Logline: A hypnotic mix of Contact: Gagnon, Dominic Jajda (Thirst) (BF) dream, nightmare and Email: [email protected] Director(s): Svetla Tsotsorkova mystery, in which the lives of Phone: +1 514 5212116 Prod. Countries: Bulgaria three women going by the Logline: The Canadian Prod. Year: 2015 name of Simone are linked Dominic Gagnon specialises in Length (min.): 90 together through time and montage films, for which he Genre: Fiction space. The starting point is a takes amateur footage from the Company: Alpha Violet terrible murder in a car park, Internet. This grim, 21st- Contact: Funato, Keiko after which a beautifully filmed century variation on the Email: [email protected] puzzle unfolds, continuously documentary classic Nanook of Phone: +33 1 47973984 turning in circles. the North is a hallucinogenic Logline: A hot summer in the Territories Sold: All available mixture of hunting and Bulgarian countryside gets except Canada (Entertainment industry, nature and society. even more sultry when a family One) Cultural disorientation that is acquires two extra inhabitants amplified by the soundtrack. on their property - a man and Montreal la blanche (Montreal, Territories Sold: All available his seductive young daughter, White City) (VO) WP who turns the heads of the Director(s): Bachir Bensaddek Oncle Bernard - L'anti-leçon teenage son in the family and Prod. Countries: Canada d'économie (Oncle Bernard – A his father. In this restrained Prod. Year: 2016 Counter-Lesson in Economics) drama, it’s not only thirst for Length (min.): 90 (BS) water that must be slaked. Genre: Fiction Director(s): Richard Brouillette Territories Sold: All available Company: Productions Kinesis Prod. Countries: Canada, Spain Contact: Tanguay, Stephane Prod. Year: 2015 Email: Length (min.): 79 stephane.tanguay@production Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Les films du passeur skinesis.com Phone: +1 514 2443516 Contact: Brouillette, Richard Logline: It’s Christmas Eve, but Email: the Algerian taxi driver living [email protected] in Canada is more caught up in Phone: +1 819 2682217 Ramadan. By chance he picks Logline: Posthumous portrait up a compatriot, a former pop of Charlie Hebdo satirist and 6 economic commentator We Make Couples (ML) WP outsider, he cautiously searches Bernard Maris. The footage Director(s): Mike Hoolboom for the soul of the community dates back to the spring of Prod. Countries: Canada and its underlying tensions. 2000. Long before the bank Prod. Year: 2016 Territories Sold: - crisis, Maris warned us of the Length (min.): 57 cultivated, conscious Genre: Experimental He Hated Pigeons (VO) IP deception. An indignant Contact: Hoolboom, Mike Director(s): Ingrid Veninger Prod. Countries: Chile, Canada opposition voice that has lost Email: [email protected] nothing of its immediacy. Phone: +1 416 2605702 Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: All available Logline: We Make Couples is a Length (min.): 80 except for France (Les Films du master documentary maker's Genre: Fiction Paradoxe) six-years-in-the-making Company: pUNK Films Inc. Contact: Veninger, Ingrid Marxist love story. Crammed The Waiting Room (BF) full of thoughts on cinema, Email: [email protected] Director(s): Igor Drljaca politics and the pleasures and Phone: +1 416 7379939 Prod. Countries: Canada Logline: Elias goes on a road costs of our collective stabs at Prod. Year: 2015 happiness, it’s a powerful film trip through dazzling Length (min.): 92 Patagonia - a journey he had challenging us to ask whether Genre: Fiction 'the couple' could also be a wanted to make with his Company: TimeLapse Pictures form of resistance. partner, who is dead. On the Contact: Dorter, Borga way, he relives their last Territories Sold: All available Email: moments and has chastening [email protected] encounters that lead him to a Chile Phone: +1 416 9187970 new starting point in life. Logline: Jasmin, a successful El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa Territories Sold: - actor, has to flee from Bosnia in (Winds Know That I'm Coming the 1990s and ends up in Back Home) (CA) WP China Canada. In a series of dryly Director(s): José Luis Torres Kang Rinpoche (Paths of the humorous moments, this Leiva Soul) (VO) drama sketches a middle-aged Prod. Countries: Chile Director(s): Zhang Yang man in the twilight zone Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Countries: China between a glorious, pre-war Length (min.): 102 Prod. Year: 2015 acting past and his present, Genre: Fiction Length (min.): 117 disappointing life as a building Company: Globo Rojo Films Genre: Creative Documentary worker. Contact: Vergara, Catalina Company: Asian Shadows Territories Sold: All available Email: Contact: Lehec, Anne-Sophie except for Canada (A71 [email protected] Email: Entertainment) Phone: +56 09 96530493 [email protected] Logline: Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles Phone: +33 61 3037833 on Chiloé, the second largest Logline: Nyima and his uncle Yang think it’s time for a island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly pilgrimage to Lhasa. On the 2000-kilometre-long road, they listens patiently to the stories

of young and old people. As an throw themselves to the ground every few metres,

7 meanwhile cheerfully braving Email: Japan trucks, earthquakes and the [email protected] Prod. Year: 2015 elements. One of the most Phone: +1 312 8600809 Length (min.): 120 gripping and thought- Logline: Like any futuristic Genre: Fiction provoking pilgrimages in the megacity, Hong Kong is Company: MK2 history of film. certainly a dream place but Contact: Schrameck, Juliette Territories Sold: Japan, USA & does it not steal our dreams Email: Canada and identities? Making a [email protected] spectacular trip through its Phone: +33 1 44673000 Lu bian ye can (Kaili Blues) locations, we encounter Logline: 1999, 2014 and 2025 (BF) different people who literally provide the historic and Director(s): Bi Gan become invisible trying not to futuristic backdrops for Jia Prod. Countries: China fall down from this 'top of the Zhangke’s ambitious take on Prod. Year: 2015 world'. A fascinating road the open wound of feelings that Length (min.): 110 movie and a profound hardly matter anymore and the Genre: Fiction anthropological essay. selling off of the Chinese Company: China Film Territories Sold: All available identity in the Delicious New International World. "Has anyone got a Contact: Lee, Jack Of Shadows (BF) WP plaster?" someone once asked Email: [email protected] Director(s): Yi Cui in Jia's The World. No, being Phone: +86 21 56475201 Prod. Countries: China, the answer. Logline: One of the past year's Canada Territories Sold: - most striking, dreamy and Prod. Year: 2016 poetic debuts is difficult to Length (min.): 80 Colombia describe in retrospect. Situated Genre: Creative Documentary in the subtropical south-west of Company: Ibidem Films El abrazo de la serpiente China, this apparently timeless Contact: Yi Cui (Embrace of the Serpent) (LL) story is about a countryside Email: [email protected] Director(s): Ciro Guerra doctor with a prison history Phone: +1 312 2911763 Prod. Countries: Colombia who sets off to look for a Logline: The changes in China Prod. Year: 2015 nephew who disappeared. affect everyone. Hypnotically, Length (min.): 122 Territories Sold: All available yet also modestly, Of Shadows Genre: Fiction except for France (Capricci shows the creative world of Company: Films Boutique Films) shadow theatre and players Contact: Greiner, Gabor whose way of life balances Email: Where Are You Going (GS) between a centuries-old rural [email protected] WP narrative tradition and the Phone: +49 30 69537850 Director(s): Yang Zhengfan modern urban idea of a Logline: Amazonia at the Prod. Countries: China, Hong cultural heritage that has to be beginning of the 20th century. Kong preserved. A time in which new territories Prod. Year: 2016 Territories Sold: All available are being mapped and local Length (min.): 130 populations are oppressed. An Genre: Experimental Shan he gu ren (Mountains unusual encounter takes place Company: Burn The Film May Depart) (GS) between two explorers and a Production House Director(s): Jia Zhangke shaman, who embark on a Contact: Yang Zhengfan Prod. Countries: China, France,

8 dangerous journey through the Company: Cercamon Mænd & høns (Men & jungle together. Filmed in Contact: Chesneau, Sebastien Chicken) (LL) breath-taking black-and-white. Email: Director(s): Anders Thomas Territories Sold: Australia, [email protected] Jensen Argentina, Benelux, Brazil, Phone: +971 566 063824 Prod. Countries: Denmark Canada, Central America, Logline: Three times Romeo Prod. Year: 2015 Colombia, Chile, Denmark, and Juliet against the Length (min.): 104 Estonia, France, Germany, background of the Balkan Genre: Fiction Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Wars that caused Yugoslavia to Company: LevelK Poland, Paraguay, Spain, fall apart. Love is impossible at Contact: Klint, Tine Switzerland, Uruguay, USA the beginning of the conflict, at Email: [email protected] the end and even 10 years after. Phone: +45 48 443072 Oscuro animal (TG) WP The tragedy evolves in form Logline: Two brothers go in Director(s): Felipe Guerrero from resistance through search of their father in this Prod. Countries: Colombia, incapacity to regret. Won the mysterious and hilarious, Argentina, Netherlands, jury prize in Cannes in the philosophical and absurdist Germany, Greece section Un Certain regard. horror comedy. By far the Prod. Year: 2016 Territories Sold: - weirdest Danish film in recent Length (min.): 107 years, performed by a top cast Genre: Fiction Denmark with infectious pleasure (Mads Company: Gema Films Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Facebookistan (BS) IP Contact: Juarez Allen, Gema Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and directed Director(s): Jakob Gottschau Email: [email protected] by the maker of Adam’s Prod. Countries: Denmark Phone: +54 11 49660110 Apples. Prod. Year: 2015 Logline: Following a storm and Territories Sold: North some intense, violent events, Length (min.): 59 America, Scandinavia, The Genre: Creative Documentary three women struggle for Baltics, Benelux, Germany, Company: DR International survival - also mentally - in the Austria, Switzerland, France, Sales primordial forests of Colombia. Hungary, Korea & Taiwan In serene images without Contact: Christiansen, Kim dialogue, debut director Email: [email protected] Noma My Perfect Storm Guerrero gives space to these Phone: +45 35 203040 Director(s): Pierre Deschamps persecuted women and their Logline: What is Facebook’s Prod. Countries: Denmark brave attempts to escape the true face like? What hides Prod. Year: 2015 violence of war. Territories behind Mark Zuckerberg’s Length (min.): 100 Sold: All available baby face? This documentary Genre: Creative Documentary tries - in vain - to put a face to Company: TrustNordisk Croatia the immensely popular Contact: Wendt, Susan company. Disillusioned users Email: Zvizdan (The High Sun) (LL) are spoken to. A shocking [email protected] Director(s): Dalibor Matanic portrait of a pretty totalitarian Phone: +45 36868788 Prod. Countries: Croatia, organisation. Logline: Apart from a tasty and Slovenia, Serbia Territories Sold: All available insightful glimpse into the Prod. Year: 2015 except Poland (Against kitchen of Noma, chosen four Length (min.): 123 Gravity) times as the world’s best Genre: Fiction

9 restaurant, above all an open- clearly doesn’t yet know the (Edko Films LTD) Germany. hearted portrait of the fashion world’s unwritten rules Austria and Switzerland (Koch passionate chef René Redzepi about love and sex. A tender Films GmbH) Norway and his stormy journey past coming-of-age story in which (Nordisk Film) Swedem great successes and deep the temptations and promises (Studio S Entertainment) and ravines. Where on earth is the of the fashion industry drive a Denmark (Nordisk Film) third Michelin star? beauty to insanity. Territories Sold: Canada, USA, Territories Sold: - Ecuador Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Alba (BF) WP Curacao, Dominican republic, Under sandet (Land of Mine) Director(s): Ana Cristina Isla del Maiz, Providencia (LL) Barragán Island, San Andres (Magnolia Director(s): Martin Zandvliet Prod. Countries: Denmark Prod. Countries: Ecuador, Pictures) France (jour2Fête) Mexico, Greece Benelux, Surinam, Aruba, Prod. Year: 2015 Prod. Year: 2016 Bonaire (September Film) Length (min.): 100 Genre: Fiction Length (min.): 98 Ireland (StudioCanal UK) Genre: Fiction Funen & Copenhagen (Reel Company: K5 International Contact: Gruber, Clara Company: Caleidoscopio Cine Pictures) Germany & Austria Contact: Parra, Isabella (NFP) Russia, Ukraine, Email: Email: Kazakhstan (NCN-Media), [email protected] Phone: +49 89 37505590 [email protected] Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia & m Montenegro, Bosnia - Logline: The horror of World Phone: +593 2 3230216 Herzegovina, Kosovo, War II throws a harrowing Logline: One of the best Macedonia (MCF Megacom) shadow in this intense drama moments of the new year, this Japan (LONGRIDE INC.) Korea about captured German soldiers who are forced to moving debut from Ecuador. (Atnine Film) Taiwan (Swallow Alba, phenomenally acted by Wings Films Co.) Australia & neutralize the remaining Macarena Arias, is a shy girl New Zealand (Umbrella landmines along the Danish aged eleven who goes to live Entertainment) Israel (Yes DBS coast. An interesting game with with her solitary father when Satellite Service) the viewer's sympathy, in which every scene is fraught her mother has to go to The Model (LV) WP with tension. hospital. As if the fuss at school Director(s): Mads Matthiesen Territories Sold: Australia and approaching puberty Prod. Countries: Denmark (Palace Films) BeNeLux weren't complicated enough. Prod. Year: 2016 (Paradiso Entertainment) Territories Sold: Ecuador, Length (min.): 105 France (BAC Fims Mexico, Greece, Cyprus and Genre: Fiction Distribution) Italy (Notorious Benelux Company: TrustNordisk Pictures) Middle East (Falcon Contact: Bagger, Jonas Films) Spain (A Email: Contracorriente Films) United [email protected] Kingdom (Metrodome Phone: +45 36868788 Distribution) USA (Sony Logline: Sixteen-year-old Pictures Classic) Japan (Kino Emma, just embarked on her Films Co. LTD) Korea (Sidus modelling career in Paris, Corporation) Hong Kong

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Ethiopia Production PLC France Contact: Conil, Max Lamb (LE) Email: [email protected] 21 nuits avec Pattie (21 Nights Director(s): Yared Zeleke Phone: +251 9 29002116 with Pattie) (VO) Prod. Countries: Ethiopia, Logline: What is the price of Director(s): Arnaud Larrieu, France, Germany, Norway, love, a taxi, an honest life, Jean-Marie Larrieu Qatar forgiveness for a criminal past? Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2015 A bit of everything in this film Prod. Year: 2015 Length (min.): 94 that also shows a bit of Length (min.): 110 Genre: Fiction everything in today’s Addis Genre: Fiction Company: Films Distribution Ababa. Price of Love is more Company: Pathé International Contact: Yon, Francois serious than a popular film Contact: Sauvage, Benoit Email: from Ethiopia but just as Email: [email protected] entertaining. [email protected] Phone: +33 1 53103399 Territories Sold: All available Phone: +33 1 71723305 Logline: A realistic children’s Logline: Caroline arrives in a film with mature undertones. Roaring Abyss (SC) village in the Pyrenees for her About a boy who grows up Director(s): Quino Piñero mother's funeral. without parents in the harsh Prod. Countries: Ethiopia, Unexpectedly, the corpse has mountains of northern Spain, United Kingdom gone missing. In the good Ethiopia, but also about the Prod. Year: 2015 company of Pattie, Caroline adults around him. And yes, Length (min.): 86 spirals into detective riddles it’s also about his sheep - his Genre: Creative Documentary and erotic awakening. A best friend, who is in danger of Company: Solysombra superbly acted, witty, magical being sacrificed. Recordings ’Midsummer Night’s sex Territories Sold: Iceland (Bio Contact: Piñero, Quino comedy’. Paradis) Tunisia (Cinema 7ème Email: Territories Sold: - art) USA (Kimstim) Thailand, [email protected] Singapore, Malaysia & Phone: +44 7 943814945 À peine j'ouvre les yeux (As I Indonesia (Suraya) Taiwan Logline: Ethiopia has over Open My Eyes) (LV) (Maison Motion) China eighty different cultures. With Director(s): Leyla Bouzid (Ddream) Mexico live recordings of music, this Prod. Countries: France, Tunisia, Belgium, United Arab (Mantarraya) Lebanon & Arab film is a voyage of discovery States of the Persian Gulf across mountains, deserts and Emirates (Moving Turtle) Turkey forests to find the last Prod. Year: 2015 Length (min.): 102 (Filmarti) Denmark (Ost For interpreters of traditional Paradise) Germany, Austria, Ethiopian music. A search for Genre: Fiction Company: Doc & Film Switzerland & France authenticity, which is increasingly being pushed International Price of Love (LE) aside by electronics and Contact: Horner, Hannah Director(s): Hermon Hailay popular culture. Email: Prod. Countries: Ethiopia Territories Sold: All available [email protected] Prod. Year: 2015 Phone: +33 1 42775687 Length (min.): 99 Logline: The socially critical Genre: Fiction lyrics of a Tunisian Company: HM Film underground band reinforce 11 the story of this strong debut, (Transmission) Korea (Challan) Algeria. The whole society situated a few months before Hong Kong (Sundream) passes his lens, from frustrated the Jasmine Revolution. cinephiles to diligent Teenager Farah, the singer of Bienvenue à Madagascar schoolgirls who dive into the the band, is the strong-willed (Welcome to Madagascar) (SI) auditorium for religion lessons. embodiment of that spirit of IP The spontaneous conversations rebellion. Territories Sold: Director(s): Franssou Prenant illustrate how humble people Prod. Countries: France France, Italy, Switzerland, move elegantly through a Germany, Austria, Middle East Prod. Year: 2016 complex society. & USA Length (min.): 102 Territories Sold: All available Genre: Creative Documentary Bang Gang (Une histoire Company: Vie des hauts Ce sentiment de l'été (This d'amour moderne) (LL) production Summer Feeling) (VO) IP Director(s): Eva Husson Contact: Hijes, Sophie de Director(s): Mikhaël Hers Prod. Countries: France Email: Prod. Countries: France, Prod. Year: 2015 [email protected] Germany Length (min.): 98 Phone: +33 6 07128899 Prod. Year: 2015 Genre: Fiction Logline: Diary filmed on Length (min.): 106 Company: Films Distribution super8 shows how flexible Genre: Fiction Contact: Yon, François memories are. Franssou Company: Pyramide Email: Prenant returns to Algiers, International [email protected] where she lived as the wife of Contact: Gomarasca, Ilaria Phone: +33 1 53103399 Madagascar's ambassador. Her Email: Logline: In the respectable musings become intertwined [email protected] suburbs of Biarritz, adolescents with those of twenty others. 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USA (Goldwyn) Austria & Length (min.): 82 Territories Sold: France Genre: Creative Documentary Germany (Alamode) United (Pyramide Distribution) Kingdom (Metrodome) Italy Company: The Kingdom Taiwan (Maison Motion) (Good Films) Poland (Best Contact: Gazin, Marie-Odile Quebec (Kfilms Amerique) Film) Argentina, Uruguay, Email: Paraguay, Brazil, Colombia & [email protected] m Venezuela (Pay Tv – Alebrije) Mexico (Cine Canibal) Phone: +33 6 51227720 Australia & New Zealand Logline: A filmmaker sits on a square in front of a cinema in

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Drakkar (ML) IP Central America, Denmark, Company: Wild Bunch Director(s): Maud Alpi France, Japan, Norway, Contact: Devos, Esther Prod. Countries: France Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2015 Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA. Phone: +33 1 43132151 Length (min.): 52 Logline: They seem like the Genre: Fiction Francofonia (CC) perfect Parisian couple. But Company: Mezzanine Films Director(s): Alexander Sokurov this is a film by Garrel and so Prod. Countries: France, Contact: Bompoint, Mathieu affairs, jealousy and quarrels Email: Germany, Netherlands are never far off. An extra lover [email protected] Prod. Year: 2015 here, a little secret there; bit by Phone: +33 1 58535710 Length (min.): 87 bit this lively, romantic Logline: Maud Alpi: "A girl and Genre: Fiction character study reveals the Company: Films Boutique a boy live with dogs and the finesses of mutual infidelity. internet as their only Contact: Greiner, Gabor And of course, Garrel’s heart is companions. In their isolation, Email: with the woman. [email protected] they try to love each other as Territories Sold: Argentina, freely as possible." Drakkar is a Phone: +49 30 69537850 Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Logline: Exciting blend of confident, understated and life- Canada, Central America, affirming tale of going off the feature film, historic Chile, Czech Republic, grid in rural France. reconstruction and detective Ecuador, Former essay about the Louvre in Territories Sold: All available World War II. While a plot is La montagne magique (The Évolution (BF) hatched to take the museum's Magic Mountain) (BS) IP Director(s): Lucile art treasures to safety, Sokurov Director(s): Andrei Schtakleff Hadžihalilovic philosophises and swerves Prod. Countries: France Prod. Countries: France, between the crashing waves of Prod. Year: 2015 Belgium, Spain power, history and museology. Length (min.): 68 Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: Argentina, Genre: Creative Documentary Length (min.): 81 Australia, Austria, Benelux, Company: The Kingdom Genre: Fiction Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Contact: Gautier, Marilou Company: Wild Bunch Republic and Slovakia, Ex- Email: Contact: Devos, Esther Yugoslavia, France, Germany, [email protected] Email: [email protected] Greece, Hungary, Japan, m Phone: +33 1 43132151 Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Phone: +33 6 51227720 Logline: An island where only Romania, Russia & CIS, Spain, Logline: A camera takes us mothers live with their little Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, deep underground where sons. Streets strewn with UK, USA Bolivian miners toil in volcanic debris. The continual primitive conditions. A time- sound of the nearby ocean: a L' ombre des femmes (In the machine film that takes us mysterious howling that resists Shadow of Women) (SI) through the pitch black to a grey life on the land, where Director(s): Philippe Garrel primeval altar and strange things happen and the Prod. Countries: France, simultaneously confronts us Switzerland young Nicolas discovers a with the tourist industry’s grotesque intrigue. Prod. Year: 2015 voyeurism. Territories Sold: Benelux, Length (min.): 73 Territories Sold: All available Genre: Fiction

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Le bois dont les rêves sont faits The actors share the good Nuytten/Film (RG) (The Woods Dreams Are Made times and the bad as a nomadic Director(s): Caroline Of) (GS) tribe where work and private Champetier Director(s): Claire Simon life always mingle. They don’t Prod. Countries: France Prod. Countries: France, mince words, these Prod. Year: 2015 Switzerland obstreperous actors with a Length (min.): 82 Prod. Year: 2015 sardonic sense of humour. Genre: Creative Documentary Length (min.): 144 Theatre always comes first. Company: Le Fresnoy Genre: Creative Documentary Territories Sold: All available Contact: Trebik, Natalia Company: Be For Films except France (Pyramide Email: [email protected] Contact: Leu, Paméla Distribution) Switzerland Phone: +33 3 20283864 Email: (Cineworx) Logline: What possessed the [email protected] cameraman who shot so many Phone: +32 4 89802123 Malgré la nuit (SI) IP French classics to give up? And Logline: Le Bois de Vincennes Director(s): Philippe why does he now prefer to Grandrieux is a safe harbour for many work on his parquet floor than Parisians. Migrants and Prod. Countries: France, look at the lens for this Canada natives, prostitutes and portrait? A look back at a very stalkers, rich and poor, old and Prod. Year: 2015 active career in which the young, downshifters and loners Length (min.): 150 actress Isabelle Adjani played Genre: Fiction come to this forest in search of an important role both themselves and find there an Company: Films Boutique professionally and privately. escape from the metropolis. A Contact: Simon, Jean- Territories Sold: All available delicate and profound portrait Christophe of a contemporary man and his Email: Souvenirs de la Géhenne [email protected] (Memories from Gehenna) desperate search for an 'unknown homeland'. Phone: +49 30 69537850 (ML) IP Territories Sold: All available Logline: The term is used too Director(s): Thomas Jenkoe except France, Switzerland often, but the stylish Malgré la Prod. Countries: France nuit really is a Lynchian film, Prod. Year: 2015 Les ogres (VO) IP about loss and jealousy. The Length (min.): 56 Director(s): Léa Fehner Frenchman Lenz returns to Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: France Paris in order to find his Company: Films de Force Prod. Year: 2015 beloved Madeleine, but he only Majeure Length (min.): 144 finds doomed relationships Contact: Nunes, Jerome Genre: Fiction and a macabre, pornographic Email: nunes@films-de-force- Company: Pyramide underworld from which he majeure.com International cannot escape. Phone: +33 4 84183033 Contact: Valentin, Agathe Territories Sold: All available Logline: Thomas Jenkoe’s film Email: except Canada (La maison de visits Grande-Synthe, the [email protected] prod) Dunkerque suburb recently Phone: +33 1 42960220 newsworthy as the northern

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14 who loaded up his rifle, got in artificial worlds reminiscent of Germany his car and went in search of films from a distant past. Full people with an immigrant of dream logic, spirits and Fado (BF) IP background to murder. perversions - but always Director(s): Jonas Rothlaender Territories Sold: All available humour. In this documentary Prod. Countries: Germany, with beautiful clips, he talks Portugal Suite Armoricaine (Armorican about his work and sources of Prod. Year: 2016 Suite) (BF) inspiration, including actress Length (min.): 100 Director(s): Pascale Breton Isabella Rossellini and director Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: France Fritz Lang. Company: StickUp Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: France, Filmproduktion Length (min.): 147 Belgium and French speaking Contact: Singer, Luis Genre: Fiction part of Switzerland Email: [email protected] Company: Zadig Films Phone: +49 30 54842136 Contact: Gerin, Mélanie The Other Side (VO) Logline: Love mixed with Email: Director(s): Roberto Minervini jealousy is a poisonous melanie.gerin@zadigproductio Prod. Countries: France, Italy combination. It already went ns.com Prod. Year: 2015 wrong once between Fabian Phone: +33 1 58308010 Length (min.): 92 and Doro but she decides to Logline: When Françoise Genre: Creative Documentary give him one more chance. In returns to her birthplace Company: Doc & Film Lisbon their relationship Bretagne to teach at the International blossoms again. However, he university, it evokes memories Contact: Horner, Hannah inevitably falls back into his old of her lively time as a student. Email: pattern of suspicion and For less nostalgic reasons, the [email protected] paranoia. With severe student Ion moves to the Phone: +33 1 42775687 consequences. campus: he is saying farewell to Logline: The seamy side of the Territories Sold: All available a troubled childhood. But American dream is exposed in teacher and student turn out to this intimate portrait of people Original Copy (RG) have more in common than who have been forgotten by Director(s): Florian Heinzen- expected. society in the deep south of the Ziob, Georg Heinzen Territories Sold: All available not-so-United States: drug Prod. Countries: Germany addicts Mark and Lisa and Prod. Year: 2015 The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin their fellows, plus the members Length (min.): 95 (RG) of an armed militia. Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Yves Montmayeur Territories Sold: France, Italy, Company: MAGNETFILM Prod. Countries: France Switzerland, USA, Canada, GmbH Prod. Year: 2015 Iceland & The Netherlands Contact: Knappke, Frauke Length (min.): 65 Email: Genre: Creative Documentary [email protected] Company: Taskovski Films Ltd. Phone: +49 30 41717617 Contact: Vignjevic, Jasmina Logline: Every morning the Email: projectionist at Alfred Talkies [email protected] blesses the cinema and its staff. Phone: +44 7 957105672 The old building in Mumbai Logline: Guy Maddin creates Central has been showing 15

Hindi films for 80 years, films Greece Contact: Yanick, Joe as colourful as the billboards Email: [email protected] that S. Rehman makes every Chevalier (VO) Phone: +1 718 3128210 week. Melancholy portrait of a Director(s): Athina Rachel Logline: Parties, sex, dancing, disappearing cinema culture. Tsangari drinking and sleeping it off on Territories Sold: All available Prod. Countries: Greece the beach: a typical young Prod. Year: 2015 people's holiday. In Suntan, the Wild (VO) EP Length (min.): 99 doctor on a tourist Greek Director(s): Nicolette Krebitz Genre: Fiction island falls for 19-year-old Prod. Countries: Germany Company: The Match Factory Anna. He tries to connect with Prod. Year: 2016 GmbH her and her friends. But how Length (min.): 100 Contact: Dimitrakopoulou, wild are you at the age of 40? A Genre: Fiction Thania both painful and comic Company: The Match Factory Email: coming-of-middle-age story. GmbH [email protected] Territories Sold: All available Contact: Dimitrakopoulou, Phone: +49 221 5397090 Thania Logline: Six men on a pleasure The Slow Business of Going Email: craft enter the fray. The game is (GS) [email protected] "who does it best". Notebooks Director(s): Athina Rachel Phone: +49 221 5397090 are taken out in order to keep Tsangari Logline: The life of a lonely city track of literally everything: Prod. Countries: Greece, USA girl goes off the rails when she how everyone sleeps, talks, Prod. Year: 2000 suddenly meets a wolf on her sports and plays. Men Length (min.): 101 way to the office. A powerful, together. A dryly humorous Genre: Fiction energetic drama about extreme and absurd new work by Company: Cinemanomad / self-liberation and ultimate Attenberg director Tsangari. Modular Pictures change of fortune. Excellent Territories Sold: Canada Contact: Hatzakou, Maria performances by both humans (Filmswelike) Turkey Email: [email protected] and animal. (Kurmaca) Australia & New Phone: +1 323 3095117 Territories Sold: All available Zealand (Vendetta Films) Logline: Petra Going is a except Germany (Heimatfilm) Former Yugoslavia (MCF migrant cyborg. Every day she Megacom) Portugal goes to a new city to collect (Alambique) United Kingdom other people's memories while & Ireland (Studiocanal) being deprived of memories Germany (Rapid Eye Movies) herself. Set in different Austria (Stadtkino) & USA locations across the globe, this (Strand Releasing) striking debut by Athina Rachel Tsangari is a multi- Suntan (VO) WP genre story about alienation, Director(s): Argyris understanding of home and the Papadimitropoulos relationship between men and Prod. Countries: Greece women. Territories Sold: - Prod. Year: 2016 Length (min.): 104 Genre: Fiction Company: Visit Films

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Iran not an Austen that has been Belgium, Netherlands, filmed countless times. A free Luxembourg Ma dar behesht (Paradise) (BF) adaptation of Lady Susan, a Director(s): Sina Ataeian Dena novella about a pretty widow Room (LL) Prod. Countries: Iran, who shakes up the lives of Director(s): Lenny Germany everyone around her in a Abrahamson Prod. Year: 2015 villainous way. Fresh acting, Prod. Countries: Ireland Prod. Year: 2015 Length (min.): 99 spirited writing. Genre: Fiction Territories Sold: Bulgaria, Length (min.): 118 Company: Bon Voyage Films Canada, China, CIS, Genre: Fiction Contact: Hamz, Amir Czech/Slovak Republics, Company: FilmNation Email: Germany/Austria, Entertainment Contact: Gensollen, Gregoire [email protected] Greece/Cyprus, Hong Phone: +49 171 1767670 Kong/Macao, Hungary, India, Email: Logline: Filming without Indonesia, Italy, Japan, [email protected] Phone: +1 917 4848900 permission, in his feature Malaysia/Brunei, Philippines, debut Ataeian Dena focuses on Poland, Romania, Singapore, Logline: Original psychological thriller (by the director of life as a working woman in South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Iran. In doing so, he shows how and Vietnam. 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Countries: Ireland, Logline: Incisive drama about Prod. Countries: Israel France, Netherlands raw grief and suffocating love, Prod. Year: 2014 Prod. Year: 2016 or the incapacity thereto. A Length (min.): 57 Length (min.): 94 divorced woman who has just Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction lost her son and a homeless boy Company: Kalbata Films Company: Protagonist Pictures with criminal inclinations Contact: Tagar, Ariel Contact: Jouhal, Tejinder develop an unusual Email: [email protected] Email: relationship. With an Phone: +972 5 46662944 festivals@protagonistpictures. impressive leading role by Logline: Ariel Tagar (Kalbata) com Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet and Uri Wertheim Phone: +44 20 77349000 Under, Hilary and Jackie). (Mixmonster), two musicians Logline: Cheerful, effervescent Territories Sold: Ireland, Jane Austen film - and this time from Tel Aviv, go to Jamaica to 18 record an album with forgotten Italy finely filmed mix of poetic reggae greats. Once there they fiction and essayist are as much impressed by the Arianna (GD) documentary, with a leading local sites and the beauty of the Director(s): Carlo Lavagna role for the Italian landscape - natural environment as by the Prod. Countries: Italy beautiful in decay. spirited musicians. A musical Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: France pilgrimage. Territories Sold: Length (min.): 84 (Shellac) Austria (Stadtkino) & All available Genre: Fiction Switzerland (Cinematheque Company: Rai Com Suisse) Tikkun (BF) Contact: Pazzano, Federica Director(s): Avishai Sivan Email: [email protected] I racconti dell'orso (The Bear Prod. Countries: Israel Phone: +39 3 351332189 Tales) (BF) IP Prod. Year: 2015 Logline: During a muggy Director(s): Samuele Sestieri, Length (min.): 120 summer, teenager Arianna Olmo Amato Genre: Fiction slowly discovers the truth Prod. Countries: Italy, Finland, Company: Bleiberg about her sexual identity that Norway Entertainment Inc. her parents have anxiously Prod. Year: 2015 Contact: Donnermeyer, Nick hidden from her. Intimate Length (min.): 67 Email: [email protected] coming-of-age drama that Genre: Fiction Phone: +1 320 2730003 developed from a Company: The Open Reel Logline: Haim-Aron is a documentary. Amateur actress Contact: Santoro, Cosimo dedicated ultraorthodox Quadri is fascinating as the Email: [email protected] student. When he has a heart seeker Arianna in this Phone: +39 3 404940351 attack, his father miraculously captivating, subtle debut. Logline: Through deserted revives him. But Haim-Aron is Territories Sold: All available Scandinavian landscapes, a no longer the same, physically robot monk follows a little red or spiritually. In impressive Bella e perduta (Lost and man. Only when they find a black-and-white, we follow him Beautiful) (BF) wounded teddy bear do they as he strays further and further Director(s): Pietro Marcello have a common goal. Two from his conservative Prod. 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Japan Cinema) UK (Eureka) Poland filmmakers and actors who try (Aurora/Vivarto) to find their way to success An (LL) with a mixture of idealism and Director(s): Naomi Kawase Danjiki geinin (Artist of opportunism. Artistic and Prod. Countries: Japan, France, Fasting) IP personal integrity do not Germany Director(s): Adachi Masao always go together. Prod. Year: 2015 Prod. Countries: Japan, South Territories Sold: All available Korea Length (min.): 113 except United Kingdom (Third Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2015 Window Films) Company: MK2 Length (min.): 105 Contact: Schrameck, Juliette Genre: Fiction Gonin Saga (GE) EP Email: Company: Stance Company Director(s): Ishii Takashi [email protected] Contact: Sakaguchi Kazunao Prod. Countries: Japan Phone: +33 1 44673000 Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2015 Logline: Sweet red-bean paste - Phone: +81 3 38390981 Length (min.): 130 an - out of a can or homemade, Logline: Adachi Masao's long- Genre: Fiction it makes all the difference. Not awaited return from hiatus is Company: Kadokawa only in your dorayaki an absurdist comedy with Corporation pancakes, but in your life. political bite. The multi-layered Contact: Okada Wataru That’s what a mirthless hypocrisies of contemporary Email: [email protected] dorayaki seller learns from an Japan are slowly unveiled when Phone: +81 3 68933603 elderly female cook. Director a wordless man stages an Logline: If the original Gonin Kawase also asks the viewer for unexplained hunger strike and was the Titanic of Yakuza attention to beauty. Because the people who surround him movies, Ishii Takashi’s twenty- after all, what use is cherry exploit his silence to further years-later sequel brings the blossom if you never look up? their own cause. tangle of reckless attacks, Territories Sold: Benelux Territories Sold: All available jealousies and resentments (Cineart) Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF bang up to date. A stylish, all- Gesu no ai (Lowlife Love) (BF) Megacom) South America star, ultra-hard-boiled vision of IP (California Filmes) Switzerland 'Yakuza DNA'. Director(s): Uchida Eiji (Filmcooperative Zurich) Territories Sold: - Prod. Countries: Japan Portugal (Leopardo) Tunisia Prod. Year: 2015 Happy Hour (EE) (Hakka Distribution) Lebanon Length (min.): 110 Director(s): Hamaguchi (Moving Turtle) Baltics & Genre: Fiction Ryusuke Scandinavia (Nonstop) Company: Third Window Prod. Countries: Japan Lithuania (Kino Pasaka) Films Prod. Year: 2015 Norway (Arthaus) Iceland Contact: Torel, Adam Length (min.): 317 (Cinema Mondo) Germany Email: Genre: Fiction (Neuevisionen) Austria [email protected] Company: NEOPA (Polyfilm) Australia (Curious) Phone: +81 80 40591716 Contact: Takata Satoshi USA (Kino Lorber) Hong Kong Logline: In this black comedy, Email: [email protected] (Edko Films) Malaysia (Astro) Eiji Uchida (Greatful Dead) Phone: +81 3 5414 5906 Turkey (Filmarti Film) points his camera at the nether Logline: Four thirty-something Hungary (Cirko) Israel (New regions of the film industry: the housewives in Kobe are closely motley collection of no-budget bonded by friendship and

21 trust, until one of them breaks Genre: Fiction the stories and the actors. Real those ties. A patient five-hour Company: Toei Company, Ltd. life. A real film. saga of daily life in the Contact: Daichi Yashiki Territories Sold: All available company of touching and Email: [email protected] delicate characters. The four Phone: +81 3 35357621 Maru (Ow) (GE) actresses won a collective Prize Logline: Take Masaharu’s Neo- Director(s): Suzuki Yohei for Best Actress at the Locarno Noir centres on a stupendous Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2014 Film Festival in 2015. performance by Ando Sakura. Territories Sold: All available She plays a seeming no-hoper Length (min.): 89 whose doomed romance with a Genre: Fiction Hiso hiso boshi (The failed boxer leads her to take Company: PIA Film Festival Whispering Star) (GE) up boxing herself - and gives Contact: Ohi Miki Director(s): Sono Sion Email: [email protected] her an overdue reason to live. Prod. Countries: Japan Seductively grungy. Phone: +81 3 57745296 Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: Hong Kong Logline: The most ’political’ Length (min.): 100 black-comedy noir from Japan (Sundream Motion Pictures) Genre: Fiction China (Time-in-portrait since Oshima’s Death By Company: Nikkatsu Hanging, Suzuki Yohei’s mind- Entertainment) South Korea Corporation (Mediacastle) Taiwan (Movie fuck of a movie runs rings Contact: Kawai, Emico Cloud) Germany (AV around the genre. What makes Email: one suburban family freeze, Visionen/Viz Media [email protected] Switzerland) physically and mentally? Is Phone: +81 3 56891014 there a sci-fi explanation? Or is Logline: A humanoid robot Koibitotachi (Three Stories of Japan’s deep-rooted inertia to travels in her rickety, rented Love) (VO) EP blame? spaceship from planet to Director(s): Hashiguchi Territories Sold: All available planet, delivering parcels. Ryosuke Sayonara (GS) IP Meditative, minimalist and Prod. Countries: Japan absurdist anti-sci-fi by all- Prod. Year: 2015 Director(s): Fukada Koji Prod. Countries: Japan rounder Sono Sion (Tokyo Length (min.): 140 Tribe). The stunning, Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2015 apocalyptic black-and-white Company: Shochiku Length (min.): 112 Genre: Fiction images were shot near Broadcasting Co., Ltd Fukushima's devastated Contact: Masaki Koga Company: ColorBird nuclear power station. Email: [email protected] Contact: Yasushi Miyamae Territories Sold: Korea (Jean & Phone: +81 3 55501623 Email: U [Atrium]) Germany & Logline: True to life stories, [email protected] Phone: +81 3 64512885 German-speaking (Rapid Eye made with much love for Movies HE GmbH) detail. Stories about ordinary Logline: Japan after the nuclear people who are sometimes a disaster. A lonely girl is waiting Hyakuen no koi (100 Yen Love) little less lucky in love than for the evacuation together (GE) they would want to be, or with her only friend, a female Director(s): Take Masaharu android that is almost dream of being. Made by a Prod. Countries: Japan patient and experienced indistinguishable from a Prod. Year: 2014 filmmaker, who himself chose human being. A touching, Length (min.): 113 subtle and visually brilliant

22 film on displacement, could no longer be improved or finds himself in a demonic rock alienation and the nature of changed, here's the raw proof band. On a humorous and emotions. Moreover, it features to the contrary. The rash young kitschy tour of the underworld, the most charming android filmmaker Yosuke throws he looks for a way to return to ever played by a real android! himself with such his old life. Contemporary and Territories Sold: France, abandonment into a Yakuza supernatural. Belgium, Switzerland movie and his own leading role Territories Sold: All available (Survivance) that a doctor has to be called. except Taiwan Territories Sold: All available Sharing (GE) Kazakhstan Director(s): Shinozaki Makoto Pieta in the Toilet (VO) Prod. Countries: Japan Director(s): Matsunaga Daishi Chuma v aule Karatas (Plague Prod. Year: 2014 Prod. Countries: Japan at the Karatas Village) (BF) WP Length (min.): 112 Prod. Year: 2015 Director(s): Adilkhan Genre: Fiction Length (min.): 120 Yerzhanov Company: Office Kitano Inc Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Kazakhstan Contact: Ichiyama Shozo Company: Shochiku Co. Ltd. Prod. Year: 2016 Email: ichiyama@office- Contact: Masaki Koga Length (min.): 80 kitano.co.jp Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: +81 3 55727099 Phone: +81 3 55501623 Contact: Khlasheva, Olga Logline: Shinozaki Makoto’s Logline: Have a tissue at hand: Email: mystery deals with the fall-out a very emotional film. A young [email protected] from the 2011 tsunami. A artist has given up on Phone: +77 77 8047057 psychology professor and one everything. He no longer Logline: Surrealistic parable of her students push their believes in his talent and when denounces political wrongs in obsessions with personal loss he turns out to be incurably ill, Kazakhstan. The new mayor and national trauma to the he doesn’t seem to care about arrives in an isolated village point where their sanity seems that either. And then comes the where the inhabitants are at risk. A noir vision tinged turn-around. Based on the last dying of the plague while those with fantasy-horror. diary by Osamu Tezuka, the in power pocket the money for Territories Sold: All available 'God of Manga'. flu vaccines. Brechtian with a except Japan Territories Sold: - mythical, horror-like undertone. The Dork, the Girl and the Wakaku shite shinu (Too Territories Sold: All available Douchebag (BF) IP Young to Die!) (VO) WP Director(s): Okuda Yosuke Director(s): Kankuro Kudo Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2015 Prod. Year: 2016 Length (min.): 141 Length (min.): 120 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Contact: Okuda Daisuke Company: Toho Co., Ltd. Email: Contact: Sae Nakazawa [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +81 80 52238214 Phone: +81 3 35913530 Logline: If you thought that the Logline: A secondary-school genre of Yakuza gangster films pupil dies unexpectedly and

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Lebanon delicate love story before Length (min.): 53 shooting her debut (Vete más Genre: Fiction Bil halal (Halal Love (and Sex) lejos, Alicia, Tiger Awards Company: Interior XIII (VO) EP Competition 2011). Miles from Contact: Gómez, Sandra Director(s): Assad Fouladkar anywhere, a young couple Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Lebanon, enjoy freedom and each other Phone: +52 55 47536795 Germany as if in paradise, unassailable Logline: "Minotaur takes place Prod. Year: 2015 and satisfied. Until the world in a home of books, of readers, Length (min.): 94 forces itself on them, just like of artists. It’s also a home of Genre: Fiction the apple once did. soft light, of eternal afternoons, Company: Films Distribution Territories Sold: All available of sleepiness, of dreams. The Contact: Yon, Francois except Mexico home is impermeable to the Email: world. Mexico is on fire, but [email protected] La calle de la amargura (Bleak the characters of Minotaur Phone: +33 1 53103399 Street) (SI) sleep soundly.” - Nicolás Director(s): Arturo Ripstein Logline: A couple in love or Pereda actually divorced, a husband Prod. Countries: Mexico, Spain Territories Sold: All available and children who ask too much Prod. Year: 2015 of one woman, and two girls Length (min.): 100 Pacífico (BF) WP who worry about where Genre: Fiction Director(s): Fernanda children come from. Four Company: Latido Films Romandía stories in this tragicomedy Contact: Torres, Juan Prod. Countries: Mexico about Muslim men and women Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2016 who all try to reconcile their Phone: +34 91 5488877 Length (min.): 72 love lives (and sex lives) with Logline: "Doesn’t experience Genre: Fiction the dogmas of Islam. count then", an old prostitute Company: Mantarraya Territories Sold: Greece protests when banished to a Producciones (Feelgood) Switzerland street corner. Another whore Contact: Romandía, Jaime (Frenetic Films) France catches her husband Email: [email protected] (Happiness Distribution) surreptitiously wearing her Phone: +52 55 52730230 clothes. In this black-and-white Logline: The building site of a Mexico film by maestro Ripstein, their house (designed by architect world meets that of two Ando Tadao) by the beach in El placer es mío (The Pleasure masked wrestlers. How poverty Mexico is the setting for this Is Mine) (BF) IP makes people do things loving, crystal-clear film Director(s): Elisa Miller unintentionally. focussing on the dreams and Prod. Countries: Mexico Territories Sold: USA & fears of a little girl, her Prod. Year: 2015 Canada (Leisure Time stepfather and a philosophical Length (min.): 94 Features) Spain (Wanda carpenter - whom she would Genre: Fiction Vision) and Mexico. very much like to become her Company: Capricci Films stepfather too. Territories Sold: Contact: Boivin, Pierre Minotauro (ML) All available except Mexico Director(s): Nicolás Pereda Email: (Mantarraya Producciones) [email protected] Prod. Countries: Mexico, Phone: +33 5 35545189 Canada Logline: Miller wrote this Prod. Year: 2015 24

Tenemos la carne (We Have on a story by Nobel Logline: An intimate and the Flesh) (BF) WP prizewinner Le Clézio. candid drama about the life of Director(s): Emiliano Rocha Territories Sold: All available prostitutes in Marrakesh. Once Minter except Mexico again Ayouch (Les cheveaux de Prod. Countries: Mexico, Dieu) uncovers a reality that France Mongolia some people find hard to Prod. Year: 2016 swallow. In Morocco the film Live from UB (SC) EP Length (min.): 79 was prohibited sight unseen; Director(s): Lauren Knapp Genre: Fiction both the director and the Prod. Countries: Mongolia Company: Reel Suspects courageous leading actress Prod. Year: 2015 Contact: Lovadina, Matteo Loubna Abidar received Length (min.): 82 Email: [email protected] threats. Genre: Creative Documentary Phone: +52 55 63944081 Territories Sold: Benelux Contact: Knapp, Lauren Logline: Face to face with (and (Imagine) France (Pyramide) Email: emerging from) a culture in Switzerland (Outside the Box) [email protected] which cruelty and lust are Germany (Arsenal) Italy m linked in a shocking way, this (Cinema SRL) Portugal Phone: +1 412 5893998 debut provides an intense, (Leopardo) Former Yugoslavia Logline: Western pop music, allegorical vision of an (2I Film) & Brazil (Imovision) from The Beatles to Nirvana, apocalyptic Mexico - one we do only seeped through piecemeal not, however, get to see. In a Netherlands to Ulan Bator, the capital of derelict building, a brother and Mongolia, over the last Bodkin Ras (BF) WP sister become fascinated by an decades. Today it has a vibrant Director(s): Kaweh Modiri older man. music scene, complete with Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Territories Sold: All available video clips, boy bands and all Belgium Yo (VO) other Western clichés. Prod. Year: 2016 Director(s): Matías Meyer Traditional throat singing still Length (min.): 79 Prod. Countries: Mexico lives on, however, especially Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2015 among grunge bands. Company: Revolver Length (min.): 80 Territories Sold: All available Amsterdam Genre: Fiction Contact: Kaaij, Raymond van Company: FiGa Films Morocco der Contact: Fiorin, Sandro Email: [email protected] Much Loved (LL) Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 20 8208987 Director(s): Nabil Ayouch Phone: +1 323 2299816 Logline: Life stories of the Prod. Countries: Morocco, Logline: Yo, a strong man with inhabitants of a Scottish town France a childlike spirit, lives with his were incorporated into the Prod. Year: 2015 mother in a chicken restaurant screenplay, after which they Length (min.): 108 by a Mexican highway. He played themselves. The arrival Genre: Fiction adores her, but not her guy. of a stranger, the young Company: Celluloid Dreams The film's charismatic star and Iranian-Dutchman Bodkin Ras Contact: Ramonda, Pascale subtle build-up draw the (played by Sohrab Bayat, the Email: viewer into a world of only real actor), worries them. [email protected] contradictory emotions. Based Who or what is he fleeing? And Phone: +33 1 49700370

25 how dangerous is he? length. countless reels of film, he Territories Sold: All available Territories Sold: All available discusses his motivations with Barbara den Uyl. For him, film De pedaalridder (The Cycle Full Contact (LL) is primarily an attempt to get King) (SH) WP Director(s): David Verbeek to know people. Director(s): Ari Deelder Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Territories Sold: All available Prod. Countries: Netherlands Croatia Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 2015 History's Future (TG) WP Length (min.): 50 Length (min.): 105 Director(s): Fiona Tan Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Netherlands Company: StudioRev Company: BAC Films Prod. Year: 2016 Contact: Rozendaal, Jeroen Contact: Hugot, Clementine Length (min.): 95 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: +31 6 43028581 Phone: +33 1 80491000 Company: Mongrel Logline: The life of racing Logline: Dutch director David International cyclist and city Don Quixote Verbeek shows the mental Contact: Mickie, Charlotte Willem Koopman can be unraveling of a drone pilot who Email: described as going from the accidentally bombs a school. [email protected] podium to the gutter. High The introverted soldier enters Phone: +1 416 5169775 time a film was made about his own tormented Logline: A man with no this intriguing man and his subconscious, respectively memory casts off his tragic life. With and by many portrayed as an island and a helplessness and takes off on big names from Rotterdam. boxing school, desperately an odyssey through a Territories Sold: All available looking for full contact through tumultuous Europe. Fiction, sex and violence. symbolism and raw reality De waarneming (The Territories Sold: - meet in an associative epic. The Perception) (SI) WP feature debut of Dutch visual Director(s): Frank Scheffer Herberg van het geheugen artist Fiona Tan invites us to Prod. Countries: Netherlands (Tavern of Memories) (RG) WP muse on our identity and place Prod. Year: 2016 Director(s): Barbara den Uyl in the world. Length (min.): 55 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Territories Sold: All available Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2016 except for Benelux, Germany & Company: Interakt Length (min.): 75 Austria Contact: Crucq, Bernet Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Company: Van der Hoop Ik wil gelukkig zijn (One Life Is Phone: +31 20 6237982 Filmproductions Not Enough) (LL) WP Logline: An intense portrait of Contact: Berg, Leen van den Director(s): Annette Apon the painter Robert Zandvliet Email: Prod. Countries: Netherlands that moves through his studio [email protected] Prod. Year: 2016 and his head. While the artist Phone: +31 20 6829982 Length (min.): 71 explains what interests him Logline: "That's life, it can’t be Genre: Creative Documentary about a painting, we see him at helped", says Kees Hin, one of Company: SNG Film work: mixing paints, stretching Holland’s most idiosyncratic Contact: Sinke, Digna canvas, trying out different filmmakers, who regards the Email: [email protected] brushes, but above all being world as a stage. Starting with Phone: +31 20 6867837 concentrated and busy at shoes from the war and Logline: A portrait of the

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Netherlands' greatest pre-war Company: KeyFilm Sobytie (The Event) (CA) actress: Fien de la Mar. Using Contact: Latoel, Chloe Director(s): Sergei Loznitsa extensive archive material, this Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Netherlands, documentary sketches the life Phone: +31 20 4231596 Belgium of a diva who could do Logline: A robust yet sensitive Prod. Year: 2015 anything but wasted her talent. adaptation of W. F. Hermans’s Length (min.): 74 The tragic story is narrated by famous novel Beyond Sleep Genre: Creative Documentary Johanna ter Steege without (Nooit meer slapen), about a Company: ATOMS & VOID BV false sentiment. Appealing for vain, struggling geology Contact: Choustova-Baker, laymen as well as for theatre student during a gruelling Maria history connoisseurs. expedition in Lapland. His Email: Territories Sold: All available struggles with nature, himself [email protected] and others' expectations are Phone: +31 6 11006099 Inside the Mind of Favela Funk visualized wonderfully by Logline: How does a crowd (SC) WP director Boudewijn Koole react to an historic event when Director(s): Elise Roodenburg, (Kauwboy), with a star role for certainties are shaken? Fleur Beemster Reinout Scholten van Asschat. Documentary maker Loznitsa Prod. Countries: Netherlands Territories Sold: All available collected TV and amateur Prod. Year: 2016 footage of street protests in Length (min.): 75 Out of Love (BF) WP 1991. An attempted coup by Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Paloma Aguilera reactionary communists Company: Doc & Film Valdebenito embroiled Muscovites at the International Prod. Countries: Netherlands time in chaos and euphoria, Contact: Gallier, Gorka Prod. Year: 2016 fear and debate. Territories Email: Length (min.): 101 Sold: Poland (Against Gravity) [email protected] Genre: Fiction Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic) Phone: +33 1 42775687 Company: Topkapi Films Benelux Logline: Favela funk is Contact: Heslenfeld, Arnold pornographic and explicit, Email: [email protected] Stop Acting Now (VO) WP both in terms of its lyrics and Phone: +31 20 3032494 Director(s): Mijke de Jong dance moves. Moreover, the Logline: The boundary Prod. Countries: Netherlands scene is dominated by men, between passionate love and Prod. Year: 2016 often gangsters. Songs extol the destructive obsession proves to Length (min.): 82 male perspective on sex and be very thin for Varya and Genre: Experimental reduce women to objects of Nikolai, a couple whose fiercely Company: Wunderbaum desire. But how do Brazilian blossoming relationship is Contact: Gilissen, Josine girls themselves feel about served up to us in raggedy Email: [email protected] that? ellipses. A playful debut in Phone: +31 10 4045262 Territories Sold: All available which the culprit and victim, Logline: Desperate attempts by challenger and oppressor, Wunderbaum’s actors to Beyond Sleep (LL) WP continually swap places. change the world radically. Not Director(s): Boudewijn Koole Territories Sold: - words but deeds! So they set off Prod. Countries: Netherlands into the suburbs, do some Prod. Year: 2016 urban gardening and start a Length (min.): 108 crying cafe as the conclusion of Genre: Fiction

27 their socially-committed documentary believe that Genre: Creative Documentary project. endless reproduction liberates Company: Kamias Overground Territories Sold: All available art from a turbid art market Contact: Villamor, Achinette and an undemocratic Email: The Sprawl (Propaganda exhibition circuit. A couple of [email protected] About Propaganda) (BF) WP pentitos wonder whether the Phone: +63 2 9904257 Director(s): Metahaven urge for physical objects is Logline: Thirteen hours is quite Prod. Countries: Netherlands, really just a nostalgic fetishism. something, and in this case United Kingdom Territories Sold: All available certainly not only for the Prod. Year: 2016 viewer. Filmmaker-poet- Length (min.): 70 Paraguay composer Khavn will Genre: Creative Documentary accompany the film on the Company: Metahaven La última tierra (Last Land) piano for its entire duration. A (TG) WP Contact: Kruk, Vinca very special show that will Director(s): Pablo Lamar Email: [email protected] easily make the Guinness Book Phone: +31648316543 Prod. Countries: Paraguay, of Records as the longest Netherlands, Chile, Qatar Logline: This documentary by musical film accompaniment the Dutch artists Metahaven Prod. Year: 2016 ever. Length (min.): 77 argues oppressively and Territories Sold: All available visualizes aesthetically that the Genre: Fiction Internet has become a Company: Sapukai Cine Poland disruptive geopolitical super Contact: Lamar, Pablo weapon. The Sprawl is potent Email: 11 Minutes (VO) propaganda about [email protected] Director(s): Jerzy Skolimowski propaganda, an unbroken Phone: +595 21 603990 Prod. Countries: Poland, digital scream and a paranoid Logline: In precise, unhurried Ireland, United Kingdom trip of ones and zeroes. compositions of image and Prod. Year: 2015 Territories Sold: - sound, Lamar’s feature debut Length (min.): 81 portrays a man and his dying Genre: Fiction Norway wife, living in a remote hut in Company: HanWay Films the hills of Paraguay. All the Contact: Lynch-Staunton, #artoffline IP stages of mourning are passed Jonathan Director(s): Manuel Correa through in a single day in this Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Norway wordless account of an Phone: +44 20 72900750 Prod. Year: 2015 emotional earthquake. Logline: A budding actress goes Length (min.): 61 Territories Sold: Paraguay, to an audition. A filmmaker Genre: Creative Documentary Chile, Benelux wants to seduce her. Her Company: Atelier Bolombolo jealous husband wants to save Contact: Correa, Manuel Philippines her. A motorbike courier races Email: through the city, a couple Simulacrum Tremendum (SI) [email protected] watches porn, a girl takes her Phone: +1 604 7043161 WP dog out... In eleven minutes, Director(s): Khavn Logline: What happens to art their lives cross in in the Internet age? The Prod. Countries: Philippines Skolimowski's exciting mosaic Prod. Year: 2016 philosophers, artists and drama about the chaos that exhibition makers in this Length (min.): 780

28 rules life. Portugal dominant mood in a mosaic of Territories Sold: All available events, anecdotes and true-to- Arabian Nights: Volume 1 life characters. Efterskalv/Intruz (The Here The Restless One (LL) After) (BF) Arabian Nights: Volume 2 Vol 3 Logline: While Director(s): Magnus von Horn The Desolate One Scheherazade wonders how Prod. Countries: Poland, Arabian Nights: Volume 3 much longer she’ll be able to Sweden, France The Enchanted One distract her cruel husband with Prod. Year: 2015 Director(s): Miguel Gomes stories, we discover how the Length (min.): 101 Prod. Countries: Portugal, love of birdsong came to Genre: Fiction France, Germany, Switzerland Portugal from Flanders after Company: New Europe Film Prod. Year: 2015 WWI. In spite of the crisis, Sales Vol 1 Length (min.): 125 men from all kinds of Contact: Naszewski, Jan Vol 2 Length (min.): 131 backgrounds find one another Email: Vol 3 Length (min.): 125 in their aviary passion. A [email protected] Genre: Fiction sensitive slice of life as Phone: +48 60 0173205 Company: The Match Factory conclusion to an idiosyncratic Logline: A young man returns GmbH trilogy. to his father’s home after Contact: Dimitrakopoulou, Territories Sold: Romania spending some time in jail. The Thania (Macondo) Iceland (Bio community has certainly not Email: Paradis) Mexico (Circo 2.12) forgiven him his crimes, [email protected] Hungary (Cirko) Spain however. This excellent debut Phone: +49 221 5397090 (Golem) China (DDDream was shot in a wonderfully cool International Media) USA & Vol 1 Logline: Magical realism, and collected way on classic Canada (Kino Lorber) Former documentary and political 35mm and has a surprising Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom) satire coalesce in this leading role for the Swedish Italy (Milano Film Network) contemporary Arabian Nights. pop star Ulrik Munther. UK & Eire (New Wave Films) Scheherazade tells stories Territories Sold: Norway (Mer Estonia (OÜ Must Käsi) about the dismal state of Films) Poland (Gutek Film) Bulgaria (Purple Rain) Portugal and its impoverished South Kora (Atnine) UK/IRE BeNeLux (September Film) citizens. The first part of a (Soda Pictures) Sweden Greece (Seven) Austria socially engaged and (TriArt) and France (Nour (Stadtkino) Lithuania (Vilnius imaginative trilogy by one of Films) International Film Festival Portugal’s great creative ‚Kino Pavasaris’) & Poland talents. (New Horizons) Vol 2 Logline: In which Montanha (BF) Scheherazade continues to tell Director(s): João Salaviza of the tormented Portuguese Prod. Countries: Portugal, people, who turn away from France the authorities and look for Prod. Year: 2015 new heroes. Just as in the Length (min.): 91 preceding volume, but with Genre: Fiction fewer eccentric side-tracks, Company: Pyramide Miguel Gomes captures the International

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Contact: Gomarasca, Ilaria Puerto Rico hands of justice, but when the Email: political situation changes, he [email protected] Las vacas con gafas (Cows decides to flee to neighbouring Phone: +33 1 42960220 Wearing Glasses) (BF) EP Slovenia with the help of his Logline: In serene chiaroscuro Director(s): Alex Santiago old compatriots. Montanha records the Pérez Territories Sold: All available obstinate grief of a 14-year old. Prod. Countries: Puerto Rico except for Germany (Ma.Ja.De) David tries to hide from the Prod. Year: 2014 Serbia (Pilon Media) approaching disaster that is the Length (min.): 93 death of his grandfather who Genre: Fiction My Good Hans (SI) looked after him. However Company: Cozy Light Pictures Director(s): Alexander hard he tries, the end of Contact: Santiago Pérez, Alex Mindadze Prod. Countries: Russia, childhood can no longer be Email: [email protected] held off. 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