°efp LA screenings – Oscar ® entries from europe

Nov 7 – 20 2018 Screening Rooms: Dick Clark Screening Room 2900 Olympic Blvd. 25 submissions Santa Monica, CA 90404 to the foreign Laemmle Monica Film Center language film 1332 2nd Street Santa Monica, CA 90401 award category °efp – join us! the network

Albania Georgia The Netherlands Majlinda Tafa Tamara Tatishvili Marten Rabarts We are delighted to present the Albanian National Center Georgian National Film EYE International of Cinematography Center international.eyefilm.nl nationalfilmcenter.gov.al gnfc.ge thrilling diversity of European Norway ® Austria Germany Stine Oppegaard Oscar entries and the talent Martin Schweighofer Mariëtte Rissenbeek Norwegian Film Institute AFC – Austrian Films German Films nfi.no/english/ behind it. We wish you inspiring austrianfilms.com german-films.de norwegianfilms Belgium/Flanders Greece Poland Christian De Schutter Stavroula Geronimaki Olga Domżala screenings and good talks Flanders Image Greek Film Centre Polish Film Institute at our new venues – the Dick flandersimage.com gfc.gr pisf.pl Belgium/Wallonia-Brussels Hungary Portugal Eric Franssen Katalin Vajda Vítor Pinheiro Clark and the Laemmle Monica. Wallonie Bruxelles Images Hungarian National Instituto do Cinema e do wbimages.be Film Fund Audiovisual, I. P./ ICA filmunio.hu ica-ip.pt Sonja Heinen Bosnia and Herzegovina Elma Tataragić Iceland EFP Managing Director Association of filmmakers Laufey Gudjónsdóttir Cristian Hordilă of Bosnia and Herzegovina Icelandic Film Centre Romanian Film Promotion bhfilm.ba icelandicfilmcentre.is romfilmpromotion.ro Bulgaria Ireland Irina Kanousheva Teresa McGrane Miroljub Vučković Bulgarian National Film Irish Film Board Film Center Serbia Center irishfilmboard.ie fcs.rs www.efp- nfc.bg Slovak Republic Croatia Annabella Nucara Rastislav Steranka online.com Mario Kozina Istituto Luce Cinecittà Slovak Film Institute Croatian Audiovisual filmitalia.org sfu.sk Centre havc.hr Kosovo* Slovenia Arben Zharku Nerina T. Kocjančič Republic of Cyprus Kosova Cinematography Slovenian Film Centre Diomides Nikita Center film-center.si Ministry of Education qkk-rks.com and Culture Spain moec.gov.cy Latvia Rafael Cabrera Dita Rietuma Instituto de la Czech Republic National Film Centre Cinematografía Markéta Šantrochová Latvia y de las Artes EFP President with the support of Czech Film Center nfc.lv Audiovisuales/ ICAA filmcenter.cz icaa.es Martin Schweighofer Lithuania AFC – Austrian Films Denmark Dovilė Butnoriūtė Sweden Christian Juhl Lemche Lithuanian Film Centre International Department EFP Managing Director Danish Film Institute lkc.lt Swedish Film Institute dfi.dk sfi.se Sonja Heinen Luxembourg Estonia Françoise Lentz Switzerland RSVP Edith Sepp Film Fund Luxembourg Catherine Ann Berger EFPscreeningsLA Estonian Film Institute filmfund.lu Swiss Films filmi.ee swissfilms.ch @gmail.com Former Yugoslav Finland Republic of Macedonia United Kingdom Jaana Puskala Gorjan Tozija Briony Hanson Finnish Film Foundation Macedonian Film Agency British Council ses.fi filmagency.gov.mk britishcouncil.org/film

France *This designation is without Frédéric Béreyziat Sehad Čekić prejudice to positions UniFrance Film Centre of Montenegro on status, and is in line with unifrance.org event partner fccg.me UNSCR 1244/1999 and the lCJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence. ® 25 Oscar entries limited space RSVP required: from europe [email protected]

The Waldheim Waltz Omnipresent Winter Flies Memoir of War by Ruth Beckermann, by Ilian Djevelekov, 120 min by Olmo Omerzu, 85 min by Emmanuel Finkiel, 127 min Documentary, 93 min Bulgaria Czech Rep Austria The story centers around Emil, the Two imaginative boys – a teenage Paris, 1944. In this haunting ad­- The film analyses the uncovering of writer and owner of an advertising rebel and his nerdy sidekick – ap­tation of her autobiographical former UN Secretary General Kurt agency who gradually becomes embark on a journey of misadven­ novel, author Marguerite Duras Waldheim’s wartime past by the obsessed with spying on his family, ture through the Czech countryside shrewdly navigates the French World Jewish Congress. Created friends and employees via hidden in a stolen Audi. Their escapade Resistance and the Gestapo to from archival material THE WALD­- spy cameras. In the process he comes to an abrupt halt when they uncover the whereabouts of her HEIM WALTZ reveals a turning comes to realise that some secrets are taken into custody at a police imprisoned husband. point in Austrian political culture should be left uncovered. station and begin to explain what via the successful use of anti- really happened on the trip. Sat, Nov 10 Semitism and populist propaganda. Fri, Nov 9 8:00 pm —> Dick Clark 8:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Mon, Nov 12 Fri, Nov 16 Sun, Nov 11 Sun, Nov 18 8:00 pm —> Dick Clark* 8:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica 8:00 pm —> Dick Clark 1:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica Tue, Nov 20 Sat, Nov 17 6:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica 8:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica Namme The Eighth Commissioner Euthanizer by Zaza Khalvashi, 91 min Never Leave Me Georgia by Ivan Salaj, 139 min by Teemu Nikki, 87 min by Aida Begić, 97 min Croatia Finland Ali is the guardian of the local Bosnia and Herzegovina spring water, which is said to have An ambitious politician finds him­- This violent summer noir tells the healing properties. His three After his mother dies, 14 year-old self framed for a scandal. In order story of Veijo, a 50-year-old me-­ sons are skeptical, and his young Isa is sent to an orphanage for to keep him out of the public eye, cha­nic, whose second job is to put daughter, Namme, takes over Syrian refugees in the mythical city the government sends him to the sick pets to sleep. The themes re-­ the family tradition from her father. of Şanlıurfa, Turkey where he farthest inhabited island in Croatia volve around animal rights, suffer­- As a new hydro power station is makes uneasy friendships with two as its commissioner, to organise ing and death. But the real story is being built, the spring water starts other young boys, Ahmad and legal elections. Seven previous not about good or evil – it’s about to disappear and old traditions Motaz. Although very different in commissioners failed at the task. intolerance and the stupidity of take root – the water will not return temperament and not particularly As he seeks a way to fulfill his absolute men. unless a sacrifice is made. fond of each other, they have one mission he will find much more. thing in common: to leave the Sun, Nov 11 Sun, Nov 11 orphans’ home and start a new life. Tue, Nov 13 4:00 pm —> Dick Clark* 6:00 pm —> Dick Clark* 3:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Thu, Nov 15 Thu, Nov 15 Thu, Nov 8 Mon, Nov 19 7:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica* 5:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica 8:30 pm —> Dick Clark 8:45 pm —> Laemmle Monica Tue, Nov 20 4:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica

* with Q&A dangerous relationship of subju­ga-­ Polyxeni tion with Simone, a former violent Wonderful Losers: Iskra boxer who terrorizes the entire A Different World by Dora Masklavanou, 99 min neighborhood. In an effort to reaf­- by Gojko Berkuljan, 80 min Greece firm his dignity, Marcello will submit by Arūnas Matelis Montenegro to an unexpected act of vengeance. Documentary, 71 min In 1955, a prominent Greek couple Lithuania Petar is a retired detective and all from Istanbul adopt an orphaned Sat, Nov 10 he has left is his daughter Iskra, Greek girl, Katia, from their home­- 2:00 pm —> Dick Clark Wonderful Losers – they are called an ambitious young journalist, who town. They offer her a powerful Tue, Nov 20 water carriers, domestiques, gre­- mysteriously disappears while family name and ensure her devo-­ 8:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica garios, who sacrifice their careers researching a politically sensitive tion. Although separated from and forego personal victories story about the breakup of former her younger brother, 12-year-old so their team leaders can win. The Yugoslavia. Weaving together Polyxeni embarks on a new life various timelines and storylines in The Marriage untold world of the true warriors, with a bright future, unaware of the knights and monks of professional true mystery-crime fashion, the devious plan that others are weav­- by Blerta Zeqiri, 97 min sport. pur­suit to find Iskra takes Petar ing behind her back. Kosovo back to his past. Sat, Nov 10 Sun, Nov 11 Bekim and Anita are happily get­- 6:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Fri, Nov 9 2:00 pm —> Dick Clark ting married, despite the troubles Sat, Nov 17 4:00 pm —> Dick Clark Sun, Nov 18 of their families. However, the 1:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica Fri, Nov 16 3:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica situation becomes complicated 6:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica* when a man named Nol, Bekim’s secret ex-lover, returns. Soon Gutland Woman at War the unusual love triangle will be­- The Resistance Banker gin to unravel. by Govinda Van Maele, 117 min by Benedikt Erlingsson, 101 min Luxembourg by Joram Lürsen, 123 min Iceland Fri, Nov 9 The Netherlands 2:00 pm —> Dick Clark In this surrealist rural noir, a Halla declares a one-woman-war Sat, Nov 17 thief from a distant German city Set in occupied Netherlands during on the local aluminium industry. 5:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica* finds refuge in a small village World War II, the film is based She is prepared to risk everything in Luxembourg. As he is gradually on the extraordinary, true story of to protect the pristine Icelandic integrated into the community, banker Walraven van Hall who Highlands she loves… Until an financed the Dutch Resistance by To Be Continued it emerges that he’s not the only orphan unexpectedly enters her one with a past to hide. Something defrauding the German-controlled life. by Ivars Seleckis, sinister is lurking under the imma-­ Central Bank out of tens of millions Documentary, 101 min culate surface of this picturesque of guilders – right under Nazis’ Sat, Nov 10 Latvia little world – and it is slowly noses. 4:00 pm —> Dick Clark drawing him in. Sun, Nov 18 Ivars Seleckis, takes a look at Thu, Nov 8 5:45 pm —> Laemmle Monica five children and their families from Mon, Nov 12 6:00 pm —> Dick Clark* throughout Latvia. Shot over a 6:00 pm —> Dick Clark Mon, Nov 19 period of two years, the film ex­- Tue, Nov 20 4:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica Dogman plores how choices made by adults 1:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica are reflected in a child's thinking. by Matteo Garrone, 103 min Italy Tue, Nov 13 6:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Marcello, a small and gentle dog Sat, Nov 17 groomer, finds himself involved in a 3:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica*

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What Will People Say Pilgrimage Champions Eldorado by Iram Haq, 106 min by João Botelho, 109 min by Javier Fesser, 119 min by Markus Imhoof, Norway Portugal Spain Documentary, 92 min Switzerland Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a In this literary adaptation, Fernao Marco, a coach in Spain’s top double life. When out with her Mendes Pinto escapes the misery basket­ball league, is involved in Markus Imhoof tells a personal friends, she’s a normal Norwegian and confines of his life in Portugal a drunken foray that leads to a story which reflects a global phe-­ teenager. At home with her family, and sails to India. It is 1537, and traffic accident. He loses his job, no­menon, the struggle of refugees she is the perfect Pakistani daugh- ­ with diary in tow, he documents his his girlfriend and is sentenced fleeing from Africa to Europe. His ter. But when her father catches twenty years of trials and tribula-­ to the worst punishment for his questions on humanity and social her alone with her boyfriend in her tions in the exotic lands of the Far ego: coaching a group of intellec­- responsibility in today’s world lead room, Nisha’s two worlds brutally East, leaving future generations tually-disabled players who have him back to his love for the refugee collide. with an entertaining – if controver­ never touched a ball in their girl Giovanna during World War II. sial – account of his journeys. lives. Through them, he learns Tue, Nov 13 what really counts in life. Thu, Nov 8 8:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Mon, Nov 12 2:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Fri, Nov 16 2:00 pm —> Dick Clark Wed, Nov 7 Wed, Nov 14 4:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica* Sun, Nov 18 8:00 pm —> Dick Clark* 7:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica* 8:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica Mon, Nov 19 1:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica Cold War I Am Not a Witch I Do Not Care If We Go by Paweł Pawlikowski, 88 min Down in History as Border by Rungano Nyoni, 93 min Poland United Kingdom Barbarians by Ali Abbasi, 101 min Cold War is a love story between by Radu Jude, 139 min Sweden After a minor incident in her rural two people of different back­ Romania Zambian village, nine-year-old grounds and temperaments, who Customs officer Tina is known for Shula is exiled to a witch camp are fatally mismatched and yet A young female theatre director her extraordinary sense of smell – where she is told that if she tries to fatefully condemned to each other. wants to stage, in a public square, she can sniff out fear on anyone. escape, she will be transformed Set against the background of the an historical reenactment of a 1941 But when Vore walks past her, into a goat. As she navigates her Cold War in the 50’s in Poland, massacre committed by the Roma-­ her abilities are challenged for the new life, she must decide whether Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the nian army, an often ignored ethnic first time. Tina can sense Vore is to accept her fate or risk the con-­ film depicts an impossible love. cleansing of Ukrainian Jews. The hiding something she can’t identify. sequences of seeking freedom. film examines how barbarism is not Worse, she feels a strange attrac-­ Mon, Nov 12 only defined by its perpertrators tion to him. This fateful encounter Thu, Nov 8 4:00 pm —> Dick Clark* but by those insistent on pushing it calls into question her entire 4:00 pm —> Dick Clark* Mon, Nov 19 to the sidelines of history as well. exis­tence. Wed, Nov 14 6:30 pm —> Laemmle Monica* 5:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica* Wed, Nov 7 Fri, Nov 9 5:00 pm —> Dick Clark 6:00 pm —> Dick Clark Fri, Nov 16 Sat, Nov 17 1:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica* 10:00 pm —> Laemmle Monica

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Wednesday, Nov 7 Sunday, Nov 11 Wednesday, Nov 14 Sunday, Nov 18 5:00 pm Romania 2:00 pm Greece 5:00 pm UK 1:00 pm Bulgaria I Do Not Care If We Go Down Polyxeni I Am Not a Witch Omnipresent in History as Barbarians by Dora Masklavanou (99 min) by Rungano Nyoni (93 min)* by Ilian Djevelekov (120 min) by Radu Jude (139 min) 4:00 pm Finland 7:30 pm Switzerland 3:30 pm Greece 8:00 pm Spain Euthanizer Eldorado Polyxeni Champions by Teemu Nikki (87 min)* by Markus Imhoof (92 min)* by Dora Masklavanou (99 min) by Javier Fesser (119 min)* 6:00 pm Georgia 5:45 pm Iceland Namme Woman at War by Zaza Khalvashi (91 min)* Thursday, Nov 15 by Benedikt Erlingsson (101 min) Thursday, Nov 8 8:00 pm Austria 5:00 pm Georgia 8:00 pm Portugal 2:00 pm Switzerland The Waldheim Waltz Namme Pilgrimage Eldorado by Ruth Beckermann (93 min) by Zaza Khalvashi (91 min) by João Botelho (109 min) by Markus Imhoof (92 min)* 7:00 pm Finland 4:00 pm UK Euthanizer I Am Not a Witch Monday, Nov 12 by Teemu Nikki (87 min)* Monday, Nov 19 by Rungano Nyoni (93 min)* 2:00 pm Portugal 1:30 pm Spain 6:00 pm The Netherlands Pilgrimage Champions The Resistance Banker by João Botelho (109 min) Friday, Nov 16 by Javier Fesser (119 min) by Joram Lürsen (123 min)* 4:00 pm Poland 1:00 pm Romania 4:00 pm The Netherlands 8:30 pm Bosnia and Herzegovina Cold War I Do Not Care If We Go Down The Resistance Banker Never Leave Me by Paweł Pawlikowski (88 min)* in History as Barbarians by Joram Lürsen (123 min) by Aida Begić (97 min) 6:00 pm Luxembourg by Radu Jude (139 min)* 6:30 pm Poland Gutland 4:00 pm Norway Cold War by Govinda Van Maele (117 min) What Will People Say by Paweł Pawlikowski (88 min)* Friday, Nov 9 8:00 pm Czech Republic by Iram Haq (106 min)* 8:45 pm Croatia 2:00 pm Kosovo* Winter Flies 6:30 pm Montenegro The Eighth Commissioner The Marriage by Olmo Omerzu (85 min)* Iskra by Ivan Salaj (139 min) by Blerta Zeqiri (97 min) by Gojko Berkuljan (80 min)* 4:00 pm Montenegro 8:30 pm France Iskra Tuesday, Nov 13 Memoir of War Tuesday, Nov 20 by Gojko Berkuljan (80 min) 3:00 pm Croatia by Emmanuel Finkiel (127 min) 1:30 pm Luxembourg 6:00 pm Sweden The Eighth Commissioner Gutland Border by Ivan Salaj (139 min)* by Govinda Van Maele (117 min) by Ali Abbasi (101 min) 6:00 pm Latvia Saturday, Nov 17 4:00 pm Bosnia and Herzegovina 8:00 pm Bulgaria To Be Continued 1:00 pm Lithuania Never Leave Me Omnipresent by Ivars Seleckis (101 min)* Wonderful Losers: by Aida Begić (97 min) by Ilian Djevelekov (120 min)* 8:00 pm Norway A Different World 6:00 pm Czech Repulic What Will People Say by Arūnas Matelis (71 min) Winter Flies by Iram Haq (106 min)* 3:00 pm Latvia by Olmo Omerzu (85 min) Saturday, Nov 10 To Be Continued 8:00 pm Italy 2:00 pm Italy by Ivars Seleckis (101 min)* Dogman Dogman 5:30 pm Kosovo* by Matteo Garrone (103 min) by Matteo Garrone (103 min) The Marriage 4:00 pm Iceland by Blerta Zeqiri (97 min)* Woman at War 8:00 pm Austria by Benedikt Erlingsson (101 min) The Waldheim Waltz 6:00 pm Lithuania by Ruth Beckermann (93 min) Wonderful Losers: 10:00 pm Sweden A Different World Border by Arūnas Matelis (71 min)* by Ali Abbasi (101 min) 8:00 pm France Memoir of War by Emmanuel Finkiel (127 min)

* with Q&A validated parking In between screenings, we welcome you to enjoy light refreshments, sandwiches, wine, and soft drinks.

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 / 1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.