Argentina Turns Up
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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] Phone: +54 11 43939328 Contact: Corvez, Frédéric Email: Logline: Perel focuses his [email protected] disciplined artist’s eye on four 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