Afghanistan Argentina Wolf and Sheep El futuro perfecto Premiere: None Premiere: None Section: Limelight Section: Bright Future Director(s): Shahrbanoo Sadat Director(s): Nele Wohlatz Prod. Countries: Afghanistan, Prod. Countries: Argentina Denmark, Sweden, France Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 2016 Length: 65 Length: 86 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: Murillo Cine Prod. Company: Adomeit Film, Contact: Cecilia Salim / Murillo Zentropa International Sweden, La Cine Fabrica Nocturna Productions Email: [email protected] 46th INTERNATIONAL FILM Contact: Virginie Devesa / Alpha Phone: +54 948 544611 FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM Violet Logline: Seventeen-year-old Email: [email protected] Xiaobin from China joins her January 25 – February 05, 2017 Phone: +33 1 47973984 parents in Argentina and tries to Logline: Old traditions, customs learn Spanish. With each new verb DISTRIBUTOR LIST and stories live on in a small conjugation, she takes a step Log lines from IFFR catalogue. shepherd community in the further: friends, work, falling for mountains of Afghanistan. The Vijay. A pleasant film about fitting In order of country. experiences of the village children – in in a new country that makes their friendships and enmities, daring stylistic choices. Xiaobin work and play – expose the plays herself in many different relations within the community. variations on her hypothetical An honest, loving portrait with a ‘perfect future’. hint of mysticism. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CrlWbw5gJys v=7mLk0OCTpKo Sold territories: All available except Sold territories: All available except Brazil (Zeta Filmes) and Mexico for Benelux, Germany, Austria, (Interior XIII) France, Switzerland

Kékszakállú four actresses in various ways. IFFR Los territorios Premiere: None is now showing part one, a kind of Premiere: World premiere Section: Bright Future B genre movie replete with evil Section: Bright Future Director(s): Gastón Solnicki mummy/romantic musical drama. Director(s): Iván Granovsky Prod. Countries: Argentina Three and a half hours of epic film Prod. Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Prod. Year: 2016 enjoyment. More to come in IFFR Palestine Length: 72 2018! Prod. Year: 2017 Genre: Fiction Sold territories: - Length: 101 Prod. Company: Frutacine, Filmy Genre: Fiction Otra madre Wiktora Prod. Company: Autocroma, Punta Contact: Iván Eibuszyc / Frutacine Premiere: World premiere Colorada de Cinema, Un puma, Section: Bright Future Email: [email protected] Hermanos Godoy Phone: +54 911 57274275 Director(s): Mariano Luque Contact: Marion Klotz / Logline: This highly praised first Prod. Countries: Argentina Autocroma Prod. Year: 2017 fiction film by Argentine talent Email: [email protected] Solnicki (Papirosen, IFFR 2012) is a Length: 77 Phone: +33 1 53349020 beautifully filmed portrait of Genre: Fiction Logline: Following the attack on several young daughters of rich Prod. Company: Produced by: Julia the offices of Charlie Hebdo Ivan, a industrialists, examining in an Rotondi, Mariano Luque and young film producer and self- Federico Eibuszyc equally intangible and compelling proclaimed ‘frivolous’ son of a way the physical and spiritual Contact: Julia Rotondi prominent Argentine journalist, aspects of a cultural recession. Email: [email protected] sets off on a journey to the sites of Tragicomic yet unsettling. Phone: +54 3543 430484 contemporary geopolitical conflict. Sold territories: All available Logline: Extremely precise It is no easy undertaking. observations of the many facets of Answering the question of where La Flor (Parte 1) motherhood. Along with her four- the front line ends and this would- Premiere: International premiere year-old daughter, divorced Mabel be war correspondent’s ego trip of Section: Signatures returns to her mother’s house, begins proves even more difficult. Director(s): Mariano Llinás where her younger sister and Sold territories: - Prod. Countries: Argentina grandmother also live. A tender Prod. Year: 2016 film by this Argentine talent Los decentes Length: 220 demonstrates love and attachment, Premiere: None Genre: Fiction but also impotence. Recognisable Section: Bright Future Prod. Company: El Pampero Cine and poignant for both mother and Director(s): Lukas Valenta Rinner Contact: Laura Citarella / El (adult) child. Prod. Countries: Argentina, South Pampero Cine Trailer: Korea, Austria Email: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Year: 2016 [email protected] v=FeHXRGtEO_g Length: 100 Phone: +54 9 1159090818 Sold territories: All available Genre: Fiction Logline: Almost 10 years in Prod. Company: Nabis Filmgroup production, some 12 hours of film. S.R.L In six stories, Llinas uses the same

Contact: Sandro Fiorin / FiGa combined with her reconnaissance Prod. Countries: Australia, USA Films of intimacy and concealed history. Prod. Year: 2016 Email: [email protected] Trailer: Length: 70 Phone: +1 323 2299816 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: A servant girl obtains a v=a8BRVxtBSsM Prod. Company: Flood Projects position in an exclusive gated Sold territories: Spain (Numax), Contact: Amiel Courtin-Wilson / community in the suburbs of Argentina (Primer Plano) Flood Projects Buenos Aires. When she notices a Email: [email protected] nudist swingers’ club behind the Hermia & Helena Phone: +61478 065 443 high walls of the garden, she begins Premiere: None Logline: Shot in three days in a spiritual and sexual voyage of Section: Voices January 2016, the film captures the discovery. Socio-political allegory Director(s): Matías Piñeiro legendary jazz pianist Cecil Taylor with exactly the right dose of dry, Prod. Countries: Argentina, USA and Japanese dancer- dark Austrian humour. Prod. Year: 2016 choreographer Tanaka Min in a Trailer: Length: 87 delicate interaction. An https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction impressionistic, extremely intimate v=AjC4Ixu-m0Y Prod. Company: Trapecio Cine, portrait of the unspoken dynamics Sold territories: All available except Ravenser Odd between two masters who have for Argentina, Austria and Korea Contact: Melanie Schapiro / been collaborating for over thirty Trapecio Cine years. La idea de un lago Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Premiere: None Phone: +54 91157562690 Section: Voices Logline: Contemporary, free Austria Director(s): Milagros Mumenthaler adaptation of A Midsummer Prod. Countries: Argentina, Night’s Dream in New York by Cinema Futures Switzerland, Qatar Argentinian talent and Premiere: None Prod. Year: 2016 Shakespeare fanatic Piñeiro is all Section: Nuts & Bolts Length: 82 charming chaos and snappy dialog. Director(s): Michael Palm Genre: Fiction After great initial loneliness, Prod. Countries: Austria Prod. Company: Ruda Cine, Alina Camila, the play’s Spanish Prod. Year: 2016 Film translator, becomes embroiled in Length: 126 Contact: Monica Perez / Ruda Cine affairs and cases of mistaken Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] identity. Prod. Company: Mischief Films Phone: +54 911 31952670 Sold territories: All available Contact: Brigitta Burger-Utzer / Logline: Milagros Mumenthaler sixpackfilm returns with a playful family drama Australia Email: [email protected] against the backdrop of the Phone: +43 1 5260990 southern Argentinian mountains. The Silent Eye Logline: In the digital era, what are Photographer Inès is pregnant and Premiere: International premiere the chances to survive for the ‘real’ only has a single, old photograph of Section: Signatures celluloid film? Martin Scorsese, her father who disappeared. Director(s): Amiel Courtin-Wilson Christopher Nolan, Tacita Dean: a Dreamy fantasy elements expertly

small, but influential group of Genre: Fiction seeks new happiness in this film archivists, filmmakers and artists Prod. Company: Amour Fou, which – according to the makers – has made it its personal battle to Minotaurus Film, Golden Girls is about rational and irrational save the medium. A fascinating, Filmproduktion & Filmservices, forces. A warm, humane work on both sobering and encouraging KeyFilm life on the margins, in an Italian exploration. Contact: Yuanyuan Rothbauer / circus, mangled by an economy no Sold territories: All available Picture Tree International one has any control over. Email: yuan@picturetree- Trailer: Safari international.com https://www.youtube.com/watch? Premiere: None Phone: +49 304 208 248 11 v=bF5z4XMULCo Section: Signatures Logline: Hermann Ullich died in a Sold territories: Austria, France, Director(s): Ulrich Seidl bunker in World War II. Or did he? Italy, Mexico Prod. Countries: Austria Why do all the dead relatives of the Prod. Year: 2016 industrialist appear on this winter's Ugly Length: 90 night in the huge family home? Premiere: World premiere Genre: Creative Documentary Agatha Christie would love this Section: Bright Future Prod. Company: Ulrich Seidl Film Austrian whodunit, in which Director(s): Juri Rechinsky Produktion GmbH skeletons from the nation’s past Prod. Countries: Austria, Ukraine Contact: Olimpia Pont Cháfer / also come out of the cupboard. Prod. Year: 2017 Coproduction Office Trailer: Length: 90 Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction Phone: +33 1 56026000 v=MF-Hx8sAXeI Prod. Company: Novotny & Logline: In an uneasy yet secure Sold territories: Austria Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH way, the Austrian stylist Seidl (Thimfilm), Luxembourg (Amour Contact: Alexander Glehr / shows white Westerners on Fou Luxembourg), Belgium, The Novotny & Novotny hunting vacations in Africa. They Netherlands (September Film), Filmproduktion GmbH pose proudly with the beautiful Korea Email: [email protected] animals they have shot from a safe Phone: + 43 664 150 1830 distance. While poor blacks drag Mister Universo Logline: Following an accident, the carcasses and butcher them, the Premiere: None Hanna from Austria, who is in a affluent whites explain the Section: IFFR Live relationship with Jura from Kiev, excitement of a good shot. Director(s): Tizza Covi, Rainer ends up in hospital in Ukraine with Sold territories: - Frimmel a fractured skull. In wonderful Prod. Countries: Austria, Italy tableaux, shot by Ulrich Seidl’s Night of a 1000 Hours Prod. Year: 2016 regular cameraman Wolfgang Premiere: None Length: 90 Thaler, this oppressive debut by Section: Limelight Genre: Fiction Rechinsky shows the pain of Director(s): Virgil Widrich Prod. Company: Vento Film existence on the periphery of Prod. Countries: Austria, Belgium, Contact: Paméla Leu / Be For Films Europe. Netherlands, Luxembourg Email: [email protected] Trailer: Prod. Year: 2016 Phone: +33 6 14343755 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 92 Logline: Young lion tamer Tairo v=U99MwS9JAYo

Sold territories: All available except Genre: Series Disney classic Jungle Book. To make for Austria (Thimfilm) Prod. Company: De Mensen his own version, the artist Contact: Emmanuelle Bouilhaguet painstakingly redrew the frames of Bangladesh / Lagardere Entertainment Rights the original by hand, one by one, to Email: create a familiar, yet entirely new Live from Dhaka emmanuelle.bouilhaguet@lagarder experience. e-studios.com Trailer: Premiere: European premiere Phone: +331 40 74 77 96 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: Bright Future Logline: A young girl wakes up one v=qbia3F7MSes Director(s): Abdullah Mohammad morning at the Beau Sejour hotel, Sold territories: All available Saad covered with blood. She can’t Prod. Countries: Bangladesh remember what happened the Exprmntl Prod. Year: 2016 night before and suddenly realises Premiere: None Length: 91 that people around her can’t see or Section: Regained Genre: Fiction hear her. A stylish and surreal Director(s): Brecht Debackere Prod. Company: Khelna Chobi ‘whodunit’ where the victim is the Prod. Countries: Belgium Contact: Ahmed Adnan Habib / investigator. Prod. Year: 2016 Khelna Chobi Length: 68 Email: [email protected] Trailer: Phone: +880 17 26321703 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: A disabled man loses his v=e0040giKJBA Prod. Company: Visualantics grip on life in Dhaka. Family, love, Sold territories: All available except Contact: Steven Dhoedt / money – nothing is working. So he for Germany (ARTE), France Visualantics Email: [email protected] tries to find a way to get out of the (ARTE) and English speaking Phone: +32 450 91 66 city. An impressive debut in raw territories Logline: The enigmatic Jacques black-and-white, full of anger, Die reine Notwendigkeit Ledoux was not only the initiator frustration, and finally desperation. and, for many years, heart and soul Trailer: Premiere: World premiere of the Brussels film archive – five https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: Signatures times he also organised a festival of v=77Be5p4PZoQ Director(s): David Claerbout avant-garde film in the casino of Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2017 the cosmopolitan resort Knokke. Length: 60 This festival’s celebrated reputation

Belgium Genre: Fiction spread worldwide, and continues Prod. Company: Claerbout studio to stir imaginations to this day.

Beau Séjour Contact: David Claerbout / Trailer: Premiere: None Claerbout studio https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: Voices Email: [email protected] v=xhwfAoPRvDI Director(s): Nathalie Basteyns, Phone: +32 475 21 29 23 Sold territories: All available Kaat Beels Logline: What if animals stopped Prod. Countries: Belgium behaving like humans? And music Generatie B Prod. Year: 2017 was banned from the soundtrack? Premiere: World premiere Length: 104 A non-narrative version of the Section: A Band Apart

Director(s): Pieter Van Hees and stages that which gives shape Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Belgium to their lives: the assignments and Prod. Company: Prime Time Prod. Year: 2017 classes, football, the oscillation of Contact: Emmanuel Pisarra / Doc Length: 90 their love lives, finding a place in & Film International Genre: Series life. Email: [email protected] Prod. Company: De Mensen Sold territories: All available Phone: +33 1 42778969 Contact: Jan Theys / De Mensen Logline: Where and with whom do Email: [email protected] HAMSTERs you feel at home? This is the theme Phone: +32 498 12 32 54 Premiere: World premiere the teenage friends and their Logline: When Belgium is in Section: A Band Apart families grapple with in Fien economic turmoil, youth is the first Director(s): Martine Doyen Troch’s latest drama. Who can you to be hit, forced to live in squatter Prod. Countries: Belgium truly trust when you have nowhere areas and literally beg for jobs. The Prod. Year: 2017 left to turn? The tension is always homeless Jonas devises surreal Length: 71 palpable, partly thanks to Johnny strategies in order to survive. This Genre: Experimental Jewel’s seamlessly fitting satirical comedy imagines a Prod. Company: Spinach soundtrack. dystopia which feels very close to Productions Trailer: home. Contact: Martine Doyen / Spinach https://www.youtube.com/watch? Trailer: Productions asbl v=iCBXCJmJJO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Benelux (Cinéart) v=2gjd7O6kSk0 Phone: +32 0 473292465 Sold territories: All available Logline: After the terrorist attack at Inside the Distance the Jewish Museum in 2014, people Premiere: World premiere Grands travaux in Brussels are plagued with a very Section: Bright Future Premiere: International premiere peculiar disease – they can’t help Director(s): Elias Grootaers Section: Nuts & Bolts dancing in the streets. Modern Prod. Countries: Belgium Director(s): Olivia Rochette, trauma is dealt in a raw, poetic way Prod. Year: 2017 Gerard-Jan Claes in this film, part-documentary on a Length: 101 Prod. Countries: Belgium neighbourhood, part-urban- Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2017 magical-spell. Prod. Company: Cassette for Length: 101 Trailer: timescapes Genre: Creative Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Emmy Oost / Cassette for Prod. Company: Savage Film v=M3WfJG4CcEI timescapes Contact: Bart Van Langendonck / Sold territories: All available Email: [email protected] Savage Film Phone: +32 478 211811 Email: [email protected] Home Logline: A famous director once Phone: +32 2 7114291 Premiere: None said that making a film about a real Logline: The directors spent a year Section: IFFR Live person is a crime, because you can at a Dutch-speaking vocational Director(s): Fien Troch never do justice to life. So what did school in Brussels, where young Prod. Countries: Belgium Elias Grootaers, who prefaces his students have come to learn a Prod. Year: 2016 keenly observed portrait of an trade. The film both documents Length: 103 Armenian boxing coach in Belgium

with this quote, do? Made a film Prod. Company: Daylight Films Wallonia has become independent. about a real person. Contact: Samuel Blanc / Jour2Fête What follows is a hilarious journey Sold territories: All available Email: by the king and his entourage [email protected] through the Balkans, reflecting all Le Ciel Flamand Phone: +33 677194858 possible (cultural) clichés. Premiere: None Logline: The strong bond between Trailer: Section: Limelight Zahira and her parents is tested https://www.youtube.com/watch? Director(s): Peter Monsaert when an arranged marriage with a v=gu59kQIVhaQ Prod. Countries: Belgium Pakistani man is set up as tradition Sold territories: - Prod. Year: 2016 decrees. She faces a heart-rending Length: 112 dilemma. Convincing portrait of Brazil Genre: Fiction the conundrums facing second Prod. Company: Lunanime bvba generation immigrants that Arábia Contact: Frédéric Corvez / Urban unfolds like a Greek tragedy in Premiere: World premiere Distribution International contemporary Brussels. Section: Hivos Tiger Competition Email: [email protected] Trailer: Director(s): Affonso Uchoa, João Phone: +33 14 8707318 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Dumans Logline: In the flat Flemish v=GktPm1iH53E Prod. Countries: Brazil landscape, along a long straight Sold territories: France, Benelux, Prod. Year: 2017 road, is the brothel Le Ciel Switzerland, Denmark, Canada, Length: 96 Flamand, run by Sylvie and her Czech Republic, China, Colombia, Genre: Fiction mother. Sylvie’s 6-year-old Slovakia, Australia/New Zealand Prod. Company: Katasia Filmes daughter is fascinated by what goes Contact: Vitor Graize on inside, but is forbidden to enter. King of the Belgians Email: [email protected] One day something terrible Premiere: None Phone: +55 27 992 938 085 happens. In this complex context, Section: Limelight Logline: In an old factory, a young Monsaert sketches a gripping and Director(s): Peter Brosens, Jessica man finds the diary of a worker layered portrait. Woodworth who died in an accident. In the Trailer: Prod. Countries: Belgium, same way that in certain Westerns https://www.youtube.com/watch? Netherlands, Bulgaria an anonymous drifter driven by a v=5GiOn6_6keI Prod. Year: 2016 primitive survival instinct can Sold territories: - Length: 94 become the hero, Araby focuses on Genre: Fiction the life of a marginalised worker in A Wedding (Noces) Prod. Company: Bo Films contemporary Brazil. Original, Premiere: None Contact: Paméla Leu / Be For Films socially committed and poignant. Section: IFFR Live Email: [email protected] Trailer: Director(s): Stephan Streker Phone: +33 6 14343755 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Countries: Belgium, France, Logline: Widely praised Belgian v=7cDtbbcrZHc Luxembourg, Pakistan mockumentary and road movie by Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2016 IFFR regulars Brosens and Length: 95 Woodworth. A Belgian king hears Genre: Fiction during a state visit to Turkey that

Beduino Logline: The sewing workshop n Sold territories: All available except Premiere: None São Paolo where young for Brazil (Vitrine Filmes) Section: Signatures homosexual clothing designer Elias Pela janela Director(s): Júlio Bressane works is in many ways a cross- Premiere: World premiere Prod. Countries: Brazil section of colourful, 21st-century Prod. Year: 2016 Brazil. This feature debut by Section: Bright Future Director(s): Caroline Leone Length: 76 Caetano beautifully sketches the Genre: Fiction nuances of the social relations Prod. Countries: Brazil, Argentina Prod. Company: TB Produções between gay and straight, black Prod. Year: 2017 Length: 87 Contact: Bruno Safadi / TB and white, rich and poor, Produções newcomer and establishment. Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: Dezenove Som e Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available except Phone: +55 21 988618880 for Brazil (M-Appeal, Vitrine Imagens, Rizoma Films Logline: A film as only the Brazilian Filmes) Contact: Sara Silveira / Dezenove Som e Imagens veteran and festival favourite Elon Doesn't Believe in Bressane can make them. This Email: [email protected] imaginative, associative role-play Death Phone: +55 11 991414602 ́ between a man and a woman is Premiere: European premiere Logline: Rosalia is a 65-year-old both sensual and intellectual, as Section: Bright Future woman from the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. She has spent well as mocking and loving. He has Director(s): Ricardo Alves Jr. no difficulty raising kitsch to art, Prod. Countries: Brazil decades of her life working on an forging absurdities into lyricism, Prod. Year: 2016 electrical reactor factory. One day, ́ erotic dreams into irresistible logic. Length: 75 Rosalia is fired, and her brother ́ Sold territories: All available except Genre: Fiction Jose, decides to take her with him on a road trip to Buenos Aires. This for Portugal (Nitrato Films) Prod. Company: Entrefilmes, Punta Colorada de Cinema, Sancho trip will subtly transform an Corpo elétrico Filmes essential part of Rosalia,́ and the Premiere: World premiere Contact: Thiago Macêdo Correia / way she perceives the world around Section: Bright Future EntreFilmes her. Director(s): Marcelo Caetano Email: [email protected] Trailer: Prod. Countries: Brazil Phone: +55 31 25119820 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Year: 2017 Logline: With compelling intensity, v=CkgPFtyGK0s Length: 95 this debut film follows protagonist Sold territories: All available Genre: Fiction Elon as he searches for his missing Prod. Company: Plateau wife in a huge Brazilian city. The Produções, Desbun Filmes, África viewers are inescapably pulled into Filmes the disquieting, claustrophobic Contact: Ivan de Melo / África world as Elon experiences it. Filmes Wherever he goes and whatever he Email: [email protected] asks, understanding for his Phone: +55 11 3569 5965 concerns is hard to find.

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Bulgaria Contact: Michael McMahon / which reminds of Philippe Primitive Entertainment Grandrieux films’ intensity. Light Thereafter Email: [email protected] Trailer: Premiere: World premiere Phone: +416 531 3087 x334 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: Hivos Tiger Competition Logline: For decades, animator Rob v=WLeqi1uIG38 Director(s): Konstantin Bojanov Niosi has concentrated on a single Sold territories: All available except Prod. Countries: Bulgaria, Belgium hobby: making a perfect replica of for the Netherlands (EYE) and Prod. Year: 2017 the time machine in George Pal's Spain (El Sur) Length: 102 film from 1960. Likewise, physicist Genre: Fiction Ronald Mallet has obsessively Mes nuits feront écho Prod. Company: Miramar Film searched his whole life for a Premiere: International premiere Contact: Juan Torres / Latido Films scientific model to grasp the fourth Section: Bright Future Email: [email protected] dimension. In this documentary, Director(s): Sophie Goyette Phone: +34 91 5488877 their quest even promises some Prod. Countries: Canada Logline: For sixteen-year-old Pavel, results. Prod. Year: 2016 painting is a matter of survival. Trailer: Length: 98 Looking for something to hold on https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction to, he goes to Provence to visit the v=4xJfPWCa_Uc Prod. Company: Production Zocha artist he sees as his “spiritual Sold territories: All available except Contact: Serge Abiaad / La father”. His unease is palpable in for Canada (Films We Like) and Distributrice de Films this reverse-chronological report USA (Abramorama) Email: [email protected] on his adventurous, character- Phone: +1 514 5779389 forming pilgrimage. Maudite Poutine Logline: Across Americas and Asia, Trailer: Premiere: None three characters from different https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: A Band Apart cultures and generations are at a v=QpI4llmAbwQ Director(s): Karl Lemieux turning point of their lives. The key Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Canada to their questioning may lie in their Prod. Year: 2016 dreams. This delicate film feeds our Canada Length: 91 sense or regret and existential Genre: Fiction longings with nocturnal poetry, How to Build a Time Prod. Company: Metafilms melancholia and humor. Contact: Nathan Fischer / Stray Trailer: Machine Dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch? Premiere: None Email: [email protected] v=4oSbJrnUgq0 Section: Nuts & Bolts Phone: +33 6 59941284 Sold territories: All available except Director(s): Jay Cheel Logline: Young musician Vincent is for Canada (La Distributrice de Prod. Countries: Canada targeted by the mob and flees to his Films) Prod. Year: 2016 small hometown. He unexpectedly Length: 84 reconnects there with his older Genre: Creative Documentary brother, a tortured soul who Prod. Company: Primitive embodies everything he wanted to

Pays set in Mexico, Colombia and Chile Premiere: None Canada, about young people whose Section: Bright Future lives are completely transformed by Family Life Director(s): Chloé Robichaud the death of a loved one. Dealing Premiere: European premiere Prod. Countries: Canada with sorrow involves emigration, Section: Voices Prod. Year: 2016 drama and rebellion. Full of energy Director(s): Alicia Scherson, Length: 98 and filmed in documentary style, Cristián Jiménez Genre: Fiction this is a poignant portrait of three Prod. Countries: Chile Prod. Company: La Boîte à Fanny young people seeking a new life. Prod. Year: 2017 Contact: Clementine Hugot / Indie Trailer: Length: 79 Sales https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] v=4ddY2YQPWUo Prod. Company: Peso Pluma Phone: + 33 6 68657444 Sold territories: All available except Contact: Ryan Kampe / Visit Films Logline: In a fictional island for Canada Email: [email protected] country, complex political Sanctuary Phone: +1 718 3128210 negotiations between the Logline: To impress a single government and a private company Premiere: World premiere mother, lonely house sitter Martín take place. Three women from both Section: Signatures acts as if the home and the family camps are torn between their Director(s): Ashley Sabin, David Redmon photos are his. He’s good at lying, principles, personal life and reality. but what if it’s true love? Great The political game envisioned as a Prod. Countries: Canada, USA, acting in Chilean cinema veteran’s smart, choreographic, gender- United Kingdom, Ireland family comedy that sheds new light bending satire. Prod. Year: 2017 on family relations and Nutella. Sold territories: - Length: 74 Genre: Creative Documentary Sold territories: - X500 Prod. Company: Carnivalesque Rey Premiere: None Films Premiere: World premiere Section: Bright Future Contact: Ashley Sabin Section: Hivos Tiger Competition Director(s): Juan Andrés Arango Email: [email protected] Director(s): Niles Atallah Prod. Countries: Canada, Phone: +20 34173136 Prod. Countries: Chile, France, Colombia, Mexico Logline: This film evokes a safety Netherlands, Germany, Qatar Prod. Year: 2016 haven for abandoned and abused Prod. Year: 2017 Length: 108 donkeys; the animals are in the lead Length: 90 Genre: Fiction role, humans are only extra’s. The Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: Peripheria, camera seeks to establish a direct Prod. Company: Mômerade, Septima Films, Machete contact with the animals in an Diluvio Producciones interplay of trust, curiosity, and Contact: Lucie Kalmar / Mômerade Contact: Ryan Kampe / Visit Films vulnerability. Empathy as a Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] prerogative, also for the viewer. Phone: +33 6 62892917 Phone: +1 718 3128210 Sold territories: All available Logline: In the nineteenth century, Logline: Three independent stories a French adventurer established a

kingdom in the inhospitable South the surviving children, government The Donor of Chile, managing to unite the officials and organised crime. Premiere: None feared Mapuche under him. The Trailer: Section: Voices response of the Chilean army was https://www.youtube.com/watch? Director(s): Zang Qiwu devastating. Impressively designed v=Fu0nvJo-c0o Prod. Countries: China adventure film and powerful Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2016 textural experiment, including Length: 105 Knife in the Clear Water sections of half decayed celluloid: Genre: Fiction years ago, director Atallah buried Premiere: European premiere Prod. Company: Shanghai Gangtai Section: Limelight certain footage, to dig it up and use Media it now. Director(s): Wang Xuebo Contact: Liu Jing / WhatsFilm Prod. Countries: China Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Year: 2016 Phone: +13 121 197251 v=hJXVRbB_DD8 Length: 93 Logline: An enormous social gap Genre: Fiction Sold territories: All available except looms between two men who are for France (Damned Distribution) Prod. Company: Beijing Ocean & the focus of this narrative, but what Time Culture Communication Co., unites them is that they both China Ltd., Zhejiang Jiashang Film and urgently need something. One Media Co., Ltd., Sichuan Branch needs money, the other needs a Ning Xia Ming Dao Culture Children Are Not Afraid of kidney. In a controlled and subtle Development Co., Ltd., Blackfin Death, Children Are Afraid way, The Donor dissects the way (Beijing) Culture & Media Co. morality starts to shift. of Ghosts Contact: Isabelle Glachant / Sold territories: All available Premiere: World premiere Chinese Shadows Section: Bright Future Email: The Summer Is Gone Director(s): Rong Guang Rong [email protected] Premiere: None Prod. Countries: China Phone: +33 6 73 47 46 59 Section: Bright Future Prod. Year: 2017 Logline: In the remote hills of Director(s): Zhang Dalei Length: 85 Ningxia, old Ma Zishan lives with Prod. Countries: China Genre: Creative Documentary his family, who are Islamic Hui Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Company: Zajia Lab Chinese. In line with custom, the Length: 108 Contact: Rong Guang Rong / Zajia family want to sacrifice its only bull Genre: Fiction Lab for the ceremony marking the Prod. Company: Beijing Mailis Email: [email protected] death of Ma's wife. But both Ma Pictures, Beijing YoShow Film & Phone: +86 18210579656 and the bull have other ideas in this TV Production Co. Ltd , Beijing Logline: Personal, impressive beautifully made melancholy fable. Transcend Picture Co. Ltd emotional documentary in which Sold territories: Belgium, Contact: Sun Ning / Deep Focus the director investigates a group Netherlands, Luxembourg Email: [email protected] suicide by children in a poor village (MOOOV), China Phone: +86 135 01014761 in the Guizhou mountains. His Logline: Shot in sumptuous black- journey confronts him with his own and-white, debut filmmaker Zhang fears and memories, but also with

presents a melancholy recreation of garden and find something they’d the end of an era without market rather immediately forget. Curaçao forces. A sleepy provincial town in Trailer: the 1990s, a few hundred https://www.youtube.com/watch? Double Play kilometres to the West of Peking. v=HOq2KlK2kZo Premiere: World premiere Twelve-year-old Xiaolei and his Sold territories: All available Section: Black Rebels friends start out on an endless Director(s): Ernest Dickerson Prod. Countries: Curaçao summer, during which the cares of Croatia his parents gradually become Prod. Year: 2017 Length: 130 apparent to him. A Brief Excursion Trailer: Genre: Fiction Premiere: World premiere https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Cortés Films, Section: Bright Future v=9u7uO5JZWN4 Fundashon Bon Intenshon Director(s): Igor Bezinović Sold territories: - Contact: Lisa Cortés / Cortés Films Prod. Countries: Croatia Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2017 Phone: +1 718 8125517

Costa Rica Length: 75 Logline: An electrifying sketch of Genre: Fiction society in Curaçao focused on the Atrás hay relámpagos Prod. Company: Studio Pangolin apparently innocent domino game Premiere: World premiere Contact: Igor Bezinović / Studio played by four men every Sunday. Section: Voices Pangolin Until it unexpectedly takes a Director(s): Julio Hernández Email: [email protected] dramatic turn. There are dangerous Cordón Phone: +385 98 9980644 secrets, women who make radical Prod. Countries: Costa Rica, Logline: A group of Croatian choices and a boy who sees Mexico friends trek through a barren everything. Based on the successful Prod. Year: 2017 landscape in searing heat, following novel ‘Double Play’ by Frank Length: 82 Roko – half schlemiel, half Martinus Arion. Genre: Fiction Messiah. Narrator Stola provides a Sold territories: - Prod. Company: De Raiz bone-dry commentary on this Productions, Melindrosa Films symbolic journey toward Czech Republic Contact: Adriana Alvarez Odio adulthood. Meanwhile, the Email: [email protected] question of what freedom means to Filthy Phone: +506 83785768 a generation who experienced Logline: Hernandez had already neither Communism nor the Premiere: World premiere made films in Guatemala and Balkan Wars bubbles to the surface Section: Bright Future Mexico and this time found Sold territories: All available Director(s): Tereza Nvotová inspiring locations, unusual Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, atmosphere and enthusiastic young Slovakia people in Costa Rica. In this Prod. Year: 2017 consciously unpolished film, the Length: 88 rebellious girls Sole and Ana open Genre: Fiction the trunk of a car in grandma’s Prod. Company: moloko film, B Film

Contact: Milos Lochman / moloko Arab Emirates, Norway, Qatar film Denmark Prod. Year: 2017 Email: [email protected] Length: 104 Phone: +420 603 477707 The Man Genre: Fiction Logline: Lena is seventeen years old Premiere: World premiere Prod. Company: Transit Films, and is on the threshold of entering Section: IFFR Live Nu'ta Films adult life, but her growing up is Director(s): Charlotte Sieling Contact: Hala Elkoussy brutally interrupted by a Prod. Countries: Denmark Email: [email protected] horrific event. A strong, Prod. Year: 2017 Phone: +31 20 6946522 unsentimental coming-of-age Length: 93 Logline: Struggling actress Aida drama with an excellent Genre: Fiction and bourgeois lady Samiha performance by the leading actress. Prod. Company: Nimbus Film suddenly find themselves on the Sold territories: All available Contact: Anita Simovic / SF streets of a tense Cairo. Smooth- Studios operating street urchin Yassin The Wolf from Royal Email: [email protected] lends the ladies a hand, and this Vineyard Street Phone: +46 86803500 leads to an unexpected trip through Logline: When the unknown son of Premiere: International premiere the city. A remarkable and world-famous artist Simon Section: Jan Němec exceptional debut that betrays suddenly turns up and moves in Director(s): Jan Němec Elkoussy's background as an artist. with him, things start getting tense. Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Trailer: Is this just a midlife crisis, Slovakia, France https://www.youtube.com/watch? professional jealously or justified Prod. Year: 2016 v=ppCWzpYV81E suspicion? What does the Length: 68 Sold territories: enigmatic Casper really want from Genre: Fiction him? Satire, thriller and fluently Prod. Company: MasterFilm s.r.o. Finland filmed drama set in the art world of Contact: Tomáš Michálek the always photogenic Email: [email protected] Lola Upside Down Copenhagen. Phone: +420 602 630466 Trailer: Premiere: None Logline: For the final film of his https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: Voices career, Němec adapted his recent Director(s): Ulrika Bengts v=U_Xj9kH947M book of quasi-autobiographical Sold territories: All available except Prod. Countries: Finland stories, based on his life, but not for Scandinavia Prod. Year: 2016 free of mystification and mischief, Length: 116 hallmarks of his entire oeuvre. Genre: Fiction

From Cannes to Harvard University Egypt Prod. Company: Långfilm and partially shot guerrilla-style, Productions the then 80-year-old director Cactus Flower Contact: Mats Långbacka demonstrated being a punk has Premiere: World premiere Email: [email protected] nothing to do with age. Section: Bright Future Phone: +350 10 4404800 Sold territories: - Director(s): Hala Elkoussy Logline: A small costal town Prod. Countries: Egypt, United welcomes 'those who want to die'

and shelters a quirky community, Au-delà des murs Email: [email protected] including cheerleaders and poets. Premiere: None Phone: +33 1 44830227 This Finnish equivalent of Twin Section: Voices Logline: Seven people, four cars, Peaks is a surreal collage, where Director(s): Hervé Hadmar one day to get from Malaga to Paris coming-of-age and patriarchy are Prod. Countries: France with a serious load of drugs. When subverted with acid colors and Prod. Year: 2015 a shoot-out with Spanish cops irony. Length: 140 turns ugly and a French tourist is Sold territories: - Genre: Series taken hostage, things get Prod. Company: Lincoln TV completely out of hand… A classy France Contact: Chloé Horgues / Newen exercise in genre existentialism Distribution where only space and speed matter. A Taste of Ink Email: [email protected] Pure cinema, the old school way! Trailer: Premiere: None Phone: +1 72605142 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Section: A Band Apart Logline: A young woman inherits a v=IsXinmcTuWc Director(s): Morgan Simon house from an unknown person. Sold territories: - Prod. Countries: France She discovers that its rooms are larger than expected and lead to Prod. Year: 2016 Le serpent aux mille Length: 80 other times and places. The Genre: Fiction ‘haunted house’ trope takes a twist coupures Prod. Company: Kazak in this stylish and cryptic journey Premiere: World premiere Productions into fear, nightmares and one Section: Criss-Cross Contact: Alexandre Moreau / woman’s mind. Director(s): Éric Valette Versatile Trailer: Prod. Countries: France Email: amoreau@versatile- https://youtu.be/M5dx1Se7vp0 Prod. Year: 2017 films.com Sold territories: USA, UK, Canada Length: 104 Phone: +33 6 58995319 (AMC's Shudder), Latin America, Genre: Fiction Logline: Vincent (24 and Parisian) Spain, Portugal (AMC Networks), Prod. Company: The French is an impressive figure on stage, Australia (SBS), New Zealand Connection, Capture the Flag Films where he screams out his (Rialto Channel) Contact: Charlotte Boucon / SND frustrations as the singer in a Films metalcore band. The flames of his Le convoi Email: [email protected] fury are fanned by a difficult love- Premiere: None Phone: +33 6 76185282 hate relationship with his father. Section: Criss-Cross Logline: Wine and drugs, solidarity Their smouldering conflict erupts Director(s): Frédéric and xenophobia, neighbours of when they fight for the same Schoendoerffer various origins, a choice of woman. Prod. Countries: France outsiders, and some very messy Trailer: Prod. Year: 2016 political circumstances are the stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 102 master Éric Valette’s return to the v=YalvBqQUi6I Genre: Fiction big screen is made of. A perfect mix Sold territories: All available except Prod. Company: Carcharodon, of socio-political circumspection France (Rezo) Orange and rule-savvy genre craftsmanship Contact: Clementine Hugot that shows how entertainment and

enlightenment can still go hand in in Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Staying Vertical hand. Assayas again casts Kristen Stewart Premiere: None Sold territories: - as a celebrity’s assistant. This time, Section: Limelight her job is an excuse to live in Paris Director(s): Alain Guiraudie Orpheline and engage in a supernatural Prod. Countries: France Premiere: None search for her deceased twin Prod. Year: 2016 Section: Limelight brother. Combined horror, drama Length: 100 Director(s): Arnaud des Pallières and thriller. Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: France Trailer: Prod. Company: Les Films du Prod. Year: 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Worso Length: 111 v=6LvslqFt7Tg Contact: Silvia Simonutti / Wild Genre: Fiction Sold territories: - Bunch Prod. Company: Les films Hatari Email: [email protected] Contact: Camille Neel / Le Pacte Raoul Ruiz, contre Phone: +33 1 71761123 Email: [email protected] l'ignorance fiction! Logline: Filmmaker Leo has to raise Phone: +33 1 44695954 Premiere: International premiere the child he had with a shepherdess Logline: If you look back through Section: Regained alone. At the same time, he someone’s life you’ll encounter Director(s): Alejandra Rojo struggles to find inspiration for his someone who is perhaps Prod. Countries: France next film. In this surreal rural intrinsically the same in every Prod. Year: 2016 comedy, Alain Guiraudie (Stranger phase of life, but is in some senses Length: 63 by the Lake) tackles his favorite also unrecognisable. That’s why the Genre: Creative Documentary subject: how desire pushes our lead, a school director, is here Prod. Company: TS Productions boundaries. portrayed by four different Contact: Gorka Gallier / Doc & Trailer: actresses using an exciting form of Film International https://www.youtube.com/watch? narrative that does entail some risk Email: [email protected] v=cTp-Tb1ec2E of disorientation. Phone: +33 1 42775687 Sold territories: - Sold territories: - Logline: Reminiscences by friends and colleagues who populated the Un rêve solaire Personal Shopper universe of Raúl Ruiz. This light- Premiere: None Premiere: None footed documentary offers three Section: Signatures Section: Limelight keys to unlock Ruiz’s enormous Director(s): Patrick Bokanowski Director(s): Olivier Assayas film oeuvre; poetry, science and his Prod. Countries: France Prod. Countries: France youth form the basis for his unique Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 2016 vision of the world. Screens in Length: 60 Length: 105 combination with two short films Genre: Experimental Genre: Fiction by Ruiz, who died in 2011. Prod. Company: Kira B.M. Films Prod. Company: CG Cinema Trailer: Contact: Patrick Bokanowski / Kira Contact: Fionnuala Jamison / MK2 https://vimeo.com/199806324 B.M. Films Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available except Email: [email protected] Phone: + 33 1 44 67 30 71 for France (CINE+) Phone: +33 1 43 73 00 66 Logline: After her much lauded role Logline: Without any apparent

coherence or story, this oneiric trip Raw lives are affected. Everything is essentially evokes the battle Premiere: None related to everyone. What can be between light and darkness. An Section: Limelight decided? Three storylines (with incredible phantasmagoria of Director(s): Julia Ducournau actors like Bouli Lanners, Tahar colours and movement opens up Prod. Countries: France, Belgium Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner) new worlds. If ever a filmmaker Prod. Year: 2016 become increasingly intertwined as could be compared to an alchemist, Length: 98 the clock ticks and a stopped heart it is this tireless inventor of new Genre: Fiction may save an unknown life. imaging techniques. Prod. Company: Petit Film, Rouge Trailer: Trailer: International, FraKas Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Silvia Simonutti / Wild v=OwOrtI6Hg9U v=5_bpGs6sIpQ Bunch Sold territories: - Sold territories: All available Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 1 71761123 HEIS (chroniques) Chez nous Logline: The way to the heart is Premiere: European premiere Premiere: World premiere through the stomach. This Section: Bright Future Section: Voices particularly true for young Director(s): Anaïs Volpé Director(s): Lucas Belvaux veterinary student Justine. After Prod. Countries: France, China, Prod. Countries: France, Belgium the vegetarian is forced to eat raw USA Prod. Year: 2017 rabbit during a student initiation, Prod. Year: 2016 Length: 114 she develops a worrying lust for Length: 92 Genre: Fiction meat. Already highly lauded, Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: Synecdoche, bloody, stomach-turning horror Prod. Company: Territoire(s) Film, Artémis Productions about physical lust in which Le Double des Clefs Contact: Camille Neel / Le Pacte humans act like animals. Contact: Anaïs Volpé Email: [email protected] Sold territories: - Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 1 44695954 Phone: +33 6 85950629 Logline: In Northern France, a Réparer les vivants Logline: A twenty-something young beloved and devoted nurse is Premiere: None woman goes back to her parents’ offered the candidacy for Section: Limelight home after some trials and mayorship by a far-right party. The Director(s): Katell Quillévéré tribulations, dreaming of a fresh political campaign will test her will Prod. Countries: France, Belgium start. This tale of a French Lena and personal life. A timely and Prod. Year: 2016 Dunham spreads its wings as a sharp study on how populist Length: 104 cross-media project, giving voice to ideology can quietly but surely Genre: Fiction the millennial generation through a contaminate 'good' people. Prod. Company: Les Films du film, a web series and an art Sold territories: France (Le Pacte), Bélier, Les Films Pelléas installation. Benelux (Cinéart), Greece (Weird Contact: Georgia Poivre / Films Trailer: Wave) Distribution https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] v=YoE18mhMccY Phone: +33 1 53 10 33 94 Sold territories: All available Logline: One person dies and many

Nocturama Connection King’s mythical status and his Premiere: None Contact: Charlotte Mickie / agony come together in this Section: A Band Apart Mongrel International memorable interpretation by Jean- Director(s): Bertrand Bonello Email: [email protected] Pierre Léaud. Phone: +1 416 5169775 Prod. Countries: France, Germany, Trailer: Logline: The title is as misleading Belgium https://www.youtube.com/watch? as the conceptual joke once played Prod. Year: 2016 v=y84SSXxtBEU by artist Ed Ruscha: he placed a Length: 130 Sold territories: Brazil (Zeta rock in the desert that could not be Genre: Fiction Filmes), Canada (Axia Films), distinguished from the real thing. Prod. Company: Rectangle China (Beijing Spark), Spain The quest for Ruscha's Rock, by Productions (Capricci Cine), Netherlands Oscar winner Bismuth, is primarily Contact: Silvia Simonutti / Wild (Contact Film), Poland (New an alibi to reconnoitre the Bunch Horizon), Switzerland Email: [email protected] landscape of today’s art world. A (Cinémathèque Suisse), UK (New Phone: +33 1 71761123 fake documentary about an Wave Films), USA (The Cinema Logline: A group of young people authentic artist. Guild) from every corner of French society Sold territories: All available, coordinates a series of bombings in except Germany (Rapid Eye Wùlu Paris. This timely premise is Movies) Premiere: None pushed here to its best and most Section: Bright Future thought-provoking treatment in a La mort de Louis XIV Director(s): Daouda Coulibaly radical action movie on millennial Premiere: None Prod. Countries: France, Senegal radicalism, a dreamy experiment in Section: Signatures Prod. Year: 2016 terror. Wednesday February 1, Director(s): Albert Serra Length: 95 15:30, special screening followed Prod. Countries: France, Portugal, Genre: Fiction by an interview with director Spain Prod. Company: La Chauve-Souris Bertrand Bonello. Prod. Year: 2016 Contact: Clementine Hugot / Indie Trailer: Length: 115 Sales https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] v=lX1AlL9VcIs Prod. Company: Capricci Phone: + 33 6 68657444 Sold territories: null Production, Rosa Filmes, Logline: Overwhelming crime film Andergraun Films from Mali, in which modest bus Where Is Rocky II? Contact: Xiomara Ahumada / driver Ladji works his way up to Premiere: None Capricci Films become the uncrowned king of Section: Bright Future Email: [email protected] drug smuggling –a dangerous but Director(s): Pierre Bismuth Phone: +33972576627 lucrative business. In the Prod. Countries: France, Germany, Logline: On 1 September 1715, hazardous desert of northern Mali, Belgium, Italy King Louis XVI of France dies of he has to contend with treacherous Prod. Year: 2016 gangrene in his palace at Versailles. partners, a demanding sister, Length: 93 In his darkened bedroom, corrupt soldiers and jihadist rebels. Genre: Creative Documentary confidants and doctors come and Sold territories: - Prod. Company: The Ink go during his last days. The Sun

Belle dormant Contact: Anna Marsh / Studio Als Paul über das Meer kam Premiere: None Canal Premiere: International premiere Section: Signatures Email: anna.marsh@canal- Section: Bright Future Director(s): Adolfo Arrieta plus.com Director(s): Jakob Preuss Prod. Countries: France, Spain Phone: +33 1 71350080 Prod. Countries: Germany Prod. Year: 2016 Logline: A French policewoman Prod. Year: 2017 Length: 82 investigates a gruesome murder in Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Sweden, near the Arctic Circle. She Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Company: Paraíso discovers the local Sami culture in a Prod. Company: Weydemann Bros. Production Diffusion disturbing setting: endless GmbH Contact: Xiomara Ahumada / daylight. The creators of the Contact: Jonas Weydemann / Capricci Films Swedish/Danish TV hit The Bridge Weydemann Bros. GmbH Email: [email protected] bring another twisted mystery, Email: Phone: +33972576627 intertwined with social relevance. [email protected] Logline: Ever since the 1970s, the Sold territories: - Phone: +49 221 630605290 Spaniard Arrieta has been building Logline: Jakob, the filmmaker, an oeuvre that is admired in Germany follows the Cameroon refugee Paul underground circles and by on his risky trip to and across colleague filmmakers. Now he is 66 Kinos Europe. Going through different past 70, he is at last able to work Premiere: None physical, political as well as mental with a fully-fledged budget and a Section: Nuts & Bolts borders, this journey dramatically bunch of well-known French film Director(s): Philipp Hartmann affects both of them. An absolutely stars. In the fairy tale beauty of Prod. Countries: Germany genuine, unbiased and Brittany, an anachronistic update Prod. Year: 2016 unpredictable adventure film about of the Sleeping Beauty unfolds. Length: 98 unusual connection in an agitated Trailer: Genre: Creative Documentary political context. https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Flumenfilm Sold territories: All available except v=I25qwaSuXiU Contact: Philipp Hartmann / for Germany (ZDF) Sold territories: All available except Flumenfilm for China (Bejing Spark) Email: [email protected] Cairo Jazzman Phone: +49 163 2544427 Premiere: World premiere Midnight Sun Logline: Philipp Hartmann made a Section: Scopitone Premiere: None film, toured the German cinema Director(s): Atef Ben Bouzid Section: Voices scene with it and made the latter Prod. Countries: Germany Director(s): Björn Stein, Måns into a film too. Taking in an eclectic Prod. Year: 2017 Mårlind mix of cinemas all run by Length: 82 Prod. Countries: France, Sweden cinephiles. Sharing love entails Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2016 sharing suffering: every Kino is Prod. Company: Icke Kreuzberg Length: 120 under threat. Productions, SLFilm Genre: Series Sold territories: All available Contact: Atef Ben Bouzid Prod. Company: Nice Drama, Email: [email protected] Atlantique Productions Phone: +4915786775835

Logline: Passionate Amr Salah is an Die Einsiedler various (art) manifestos of the Egyptian jazz composer and Premiere: None nineteenth and twentieth century, musician trying to organise the Section: Bright Future ranging from Communism to Cairo Jazz Festival; a risky Director(s): Ronny Trocker Dogme, in connection with undertaking, not only because of Prod. Countries: Germany thirteen different characters, his limited experience, but mainly Prod. Year: 2016 including a homeless man, a also due to the increasingly Length: 110 factory worker and a corporate intolerant social climate. This Genre: Fiction CEO, who are all played by the political music documentary Prod. Company: zischlermann incredible Cate Blanchett. A simultaneously paints an filmproduktion GmbH striking humorous audio-visual atmospheric portrait of the Contact: Sebastien Chesneau / experience. Egyptian capital. Cercamon Sold territories: All available Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch? Phone: +33 142467221 Selbstkritik eines v=OwxKYwLuKws Logline: Is there any future for the bürgerlichen Hundes Sold territories: All available lonely, hard life of farmers in South Premiere: World premiere Tyrol? Thirty-something Albert Section: Bright Future

Der traumhafte Weg faces a tricky decision in this Director(s): Julian Radlmaier Premiere: None drama, shot in beautifully sparse Prod. Countries: Germany Section: Signatures light, about the oppressive weight Prod. Year: 2017 Director(s): Angela Schanelec of the past. An old way of life is Length: 99 Prod. Countries: Germany ending, but is the new one much Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2016 better? Prod. Company: Faktura Film Length: 86 Sold territories: - Contact: Kirill Krasovskiy / Faktura Genre: Fiction Film Prod. Company: Filmgalerie 451 Manifesto Email: [email protected] Contact: Frieder Schlaich / Premiere: European premiere Phone: +49 30 55 51 40 01 Filmgalerie 451 Section: Bright Future Logline: Young filmmaker Julian, Email: Director(s): Julian Rosefeldt ironically played by Julian [email protected] Prod. Countries: Germany Radlmaier himself, falls for young Phone: +49 30 33982800 Prod. Year: 2016 expat Camille, and offers her the Logline: Spanning over thirty years, Length: 94 leading part in his wannabe the film tells the story of two Genre: Fiction communist fairy tale film. couples who go through an Prod. Company: Schiwago Film Surprisingly she follows him in his existential crisis while facing the GmbH search for inspiration, leftist ideals larger crisis of Europe. In a Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou and enlightenment. A quirky minimalist style, Angela Schanelec / The Match Factory GmbH political comedy on living and delivers a deep insight into the Email: filmmaking– with magical twists. state of contemporary man and thania.dimitrakopoulou@matchfa Trailer: society. A quiet, rigorous ctory.de https://www.youtube.com/watch? masterpiece. Phone: +49 30443190555 v=0yNp6ubjd_E Sold territories: All available Logline: An outstanding tribute to

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(Grandfilm) Greece Asia Film Park Email: [email protected] Alipato: The Very Brief Life Premiere: None Phone: +852 2302 3810 of an Ember Section: Bright Future Logline: High-speed action in a Premiere: None Director(s): Sofia Exarchou hospital in Hong Kong? Just leave Section: A Band Apart Prod. Countries: Greece that to action master Johnnie To. Director(s): Khavn Prod. Year: 2016 After a shootout, a crook ends up Prod. Countries: Germany, Length: 100 on the operating table. The doctor, Philippines Genre: Fiction the patient and the detective Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Company: Neda Film, Faliro chasing this wounded man find Length: 88 House themselves embroiled in a battle Genre: Fiction Contact: Nathan Fischer / Stray for life and death at close quarters. Prod. Company: Kamias Dogs Who is in control here? Overground, Rapid Eye Movies HE Email: [email protected] Trailer: GmbH Phone: +33 6 59941284 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Nathan Fischer / Stray Logline: Tense combination of v=fscJAGL-F0A Dogs coming-of-age drama and social Sold territories: Hong Kong, Email: [email protected] realism paints a portrait of out-of- Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Phone: +33 6 59941284 control Greek teenagers in the now Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, East Logline: Whirlwind mix of humour decaying former Olympic village in Timor, Cambodia, Myanmar, and grotesque violence by the Athens. Sofia Exarchou delivers on Former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Kosovo, productive Khavn, this time with the great expectations for her Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, young kids from the slums of feature debut in with this telling Bosnia, Herzegovina and Manila in the leading roles as sketch of a lost generation. Macedonia), Albania, Vietnam, robbing and murdering gang Trailer: Thailand, Philippines, UK, North members with nicknames like Pork https://www.youtube.com/watch? America, Latin America, Canada, Chop, Bull Dog, McAbnormal and v=1wHa_Tp9FPg Australia, New Zealand, India, Snowman. And a smoking toddler, Sold territories: All available Africa, Japan, South Korea Day-Old Chick, walking round with We the Workers a gun in his hand. Hong Kong Trailer: Premiere: World premiere Section: Voices https://www.youtube.com/watch? Three v=P10FaLpUO8Q Director(s): Wen Hai Premiere: None Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, China Section: Voices Prod. Year: 2017 Director(s): Johnnie To Length: 174 Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, China Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Company: Zeng Jinyan and Length: 88 Wen Hai Production Genre: Fiction Contact: Zeng Jinyan Prod. Company: Milkyway Image Email: [email protected]

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Premiere: International premiere celebrated as Japan’s contemporary Japanese Girls Never Die Section: Regained Beethoven, the life story of deaf Premiere: European premiere Director(s): Shiraishi Kazuya composer Mamoru Samuragochi Section: A Band Apart Prod. Countries: Japan takes a scandalous turn when his Director(s): Matsui Daigo Prod. Year: 2017 ghost writer reveals his existence. Prod. Countries: Japan Length: 84 In the dark apartment where Prod. Year: 2016 Genre: Fiction Mamoru hides, this documentary Length: 100 Prod. Company: Nikkatsu pursues the nature of truth and the Genre: Fiction Corporation responsibility that comes with Prod. Company: Nippon Television Contact: Furukawa Mami / fame. AX-ON Nikkatsu Corporation Trailer: Contact: Tetsu Negami Tetsu / The Email: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Klockworx co., ltd [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Phone: +813 5725 3444 v=e0bQTf43ZOM thriller masquerades as a family Logline: A young, unhappy woman Sold territories: - drama about gnawing guilt and disappears in Tokyo. A group of revenge. A family reluctantly takes street artists paint her face all over The Mole Song – Hong in a mysterious man (Asano the city. A gang of uniform-wearing Kong Capriccio Tadanobu) who caused an teenage girls attack men in the Premiere: European premiere inexplicable tragedy. Eight years streets. All this fuels a dazzling mix Section: Voices later, old wounds are painfully of delicate moments and chaotic Director(s): Miike Takashi reopened. outbursts which champions lively Prod. Countries: Japan Trailer: Japanese girls (and women) Prod. Year: 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch? strained by machismo. Length: 128 v=Lvc_4lTAzZA Trailer: Genre: Fiction Sold territories: - https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Pony Canyon Inc. v=Vt7OJdiDz2c Contact: Sakoda Shinji / Pony Out There Sold territories: All available Canyon Inc. Premiere: None Email: [email protected] Section: Bright Future Suffering of Ninko Phone: +81 3 55218016 Director(s): Ito Takehiro Premiere: European premiere Logline: Uproariously fun and Prod. Countries: Japan, Taiwan Section: Bright Future deliriously energetic, the latest by Prod. Year: 2016 Director(s): Niwatsukino Norihiro Japan’s cult master Miike Takashi Length: 142 Prod. Countries: Japan is a gross-out action-comedy in Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2016 which we find a toilet plunger used Prod. Company: Eyes Films Length: 70 as a weapon. Undercover agent Contact: Ito Takehiro / Eyes Film Genre: Fiction Reiji finds himself under the neon Email: [email protected] Prod. Company: lights of Hong Kong in his return to Phone: +81 050 55252683 Contact: Anne-Sophie Lehec / the big screen. Logline: Existing between Tokyo Asian Shadows Sold territories: - and Taipei, Ito Takehiro’s debut Email: [email protected] independent feature follows a Phone: +33 61 3037833 Harmonium young man whose multicultural Logline: A cult classic in the Premiere: None upbringing finds him drifting on making, the debut feature by Section: Limelight his roller blade in search of a sense Japanese newcomer Niwatsukino Director(s): Fukada Koji of belonging. The film's structure Norihiro mixes exquisite animation Prod. Countries: Japan, France echoes the movements of its and ghostly folklore in this Prod. Year: 2016 protagonist as it shifts between atmospheric, surreal comedy. A Length: 118 styles and takes us in unexpected devout Buddhist monk is haunted Genre: Fiction directions. by the sexual attraction he bestows Prod. Company: Comme des Trailer: onto everybody who catches sight Cinémas https://www.youtube.com/watch? of him. Contact: Fionnuala Jamison / MK2 v=n0dtgJAvxH0 Trailer: Email: [email protected] Sold territories: - https://www.youtube.com/watch? Phone: + 33 1 44 67 30 71 Logline: This home invasion

The Eye's Dream Prod. Company: Abbout Their documentary contrasts Premiere: None Productions contemporary impressions of the Section: Voices Contact: Rym Hachimi / The conservative eastern Malaysian Director(s): Sato Hisayasu Bureau Sales state with critical observations Prod. Countries: Japan, USA Email: [email protected] from a travel account from 1838. Phone: 33 1 40 33 33 80 Prod. Year: 2016 Trailer: Logline: Moving, ingenious and Length: 102 https://www.youtube.com/watch? musical narrative about life after Genre: Fiction v=carGjSP6uTY war. When his band is going to Prod. Company: Stance Company, Sold territories: All available perform in Europe, the blind Arrête Ton Cinéma Lebanese musician Rabih has to Contact: Sakaguchi Kazunao / Mexico sort out his passport. This leads to Stance Company a quest for his roots, all over a Email: [email protected] Extraño pero verdadero country where the civil war has left Phone: +81 3 3839 0981 Premiere: World premiere a trail of lies and losses. Who is Logline: Produced by the directors Section: Bright Future really blind here? of the documentary Leviathan, the Director(s): Michel Lipkes Sold territories: France, Benelux, Bataille-inspired film by veteran Prod. Countries: Mexico UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Sato Hisayasu finds body horror Prod. Year: 2017 Turkey and pink film dovetail to Length: 93 psychedelic effect. A one-eyed Genre: Fiction female photographer with an eye Malaysia Prod. Company: Axolote Cine obsession is asked to work on a Contact: Michel Lipkes / Axolote documentary on the ‘phantom Voyage to Terengganu Cine limb’ phenomenon. Premiere: European premiere Email: [email protected] Trailer: Section: Voices Phone: +52 1 5529225640 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Director(s): Amir Muhammad, Logline: A refuse truck driven by v=5fXtWwZMSz0 Badrul Hisham Ismail Mister Clean criss-crosses the Sold territories: All available except Prod. Countries: Malaysia streets of Mexico City. On board, for Japan (Stance Company) Prod. Year: 2016 Jonathan and Yesi, who are in love Length: 62 – and on the point of losing control Lebanon Genre: Creative Documentary of their lives? Sharp black-and- Prod. Company: Da Huang Pictures white drama by director Lipkes on Tramontane Contact: Foo Fei Ling / Da Huang the crime and violence blighting his Pictures country, with love as a leitmotif. Premiere: None Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Section: Limelight Phone: +60 1 22014002 Director(s): Vatche Boulghourjian Logline: Amir Muhammad, a Prod. Countries: Lebanon, France, representative of the Malaysian Qatar, United Arab Emirates New Wave, made a portrait of the Prod. Year: 2016 men of Terengganu with his Length: 105 colleague Badrul Hisham Ismail. Genre: Fiction

William, el nuevo maestro Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou allows himself to be filmed during / The Match Factory GmbH his first commercial assignment. del judo Email: An unexpectedly playful approach Premiere: International premiere thania.dimitrakopoulou@matchfa from this solitary filmmaker, in Section: Bright Future ctory.de which his driver has as much to say Director(s): Ricardo Silva, Omar Phone: +49 30443190555 as he does. Guzmán Logline: How it works exactly is Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Mexico hard to say. There’s a meteorite. Prod. Year: 2016 Véronica is overcome, horror film- Length: 96 Morocco style, by extreme lust. And she's Genre: Experimental not the only one. All this in Prod. Company: Specola , Cine Sweat Rain conservative Guanajuato, with its Canibal Premiere: European premiere social nightmares of violence and Contact: Francesca Delise / The Section: Voices homophobia: for director Escalante Open Reel Director(s): Hakim Belabbes (Heli, 2013), Mexico’s brutal reality Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Morocco is never far away. Phone: +39 3 404940351 Prod. Year: 2016 Sold territories: UK/Ireland (Arrow Logline: What do the oldest tree in Length: 126 Film), Malaysia, Singapore, the world, the devil and singer Genre: Fiction Philippines, Indonesia (Astro), William Clauson (La Bamba) have Prod. Company: Ali n' Productions Benelux (Cinéart), Taiwain in common? In this docu-fiction on Contact: Amine Benjelloun (Cineplex), CIS, Russia (Cinema transience, directors Ricardo Silva Email: [email protected] Prestige), Australia, New Zealand and Omar Guzmán manage to Phone: +212 6 61774909 (Madman), Former Yugoslavia make this a completely logical Logline: A both empathic and (MCF Megacom), France (Le Pacte) combination. poetic drama set in the Moroccan Trailer: countryside. Family, poverty, work Por la libertad https://www.youtube.com/watch? and pride are the most important Premiere: World premiere v=36IZkubViGo motivations of M’Barek, a poor Section: Regained Sold territories: All available farmer who fights to pay off his Director(s): Laurence Garret debts so that he can keep his land. Prod. Countries: Mexico, France La región salvaje Trailer: Prod. Year: 2017 Premiere: None https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 85 Section: Limelight v=-OqgeWr3IQg Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Amat Escalante Sold territories: All available Prod. Company: Atopic Prod. Countries: Mexico, Denmark, Contact: Christophe Gougeon / France, Germany, Norway, Atopic Switzerland Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2016 Phone: +33 1 44839785 Length: 100 Logline: In this portrait, Mexican Genre: Fiction light master Carlos Reygadas (Post Prod. Company: Mantarraya Tenebras Lux, 2012) seldom Producciones addresses the camera directly, but

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Nepal Netherlands Logline: "How many more ‘trials’ are there yet to come?!", wonders White Sun De wereld van Wubbe Mrs Breed desperately after again Premiere: None Premiere: World premiere being reminded that age brings Section: Limelight Section: Voices infirmity. From behind the camera, Director(s): Deepak Rauniyar Director(s): Jan Louter her daughter, Heleen van Royen, Prod. Countries: Nepal, USA, Prod. Countries: Netherlands can scarcely bear to watch her Qatar, Netherlands Prod. Year: 2017 mother, confused and in hellish Prod. Year: 2016 Length: 75 pain. How much can she do, as a Length: 87 Genre: Creative Documentary daughter and unpaid full-time Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: Miroir Film carer? Prod. Company: Louverture Films, Contact: Juul Kappelhof / Miroir Trailer: Aadi Production, The Film Kitchen Film https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Email: [email protected] v=46XZkrq96W0 / The Match Factory GmbH Phone: +31 10 4651778 Sold territories: All available Email: Logline: An unusually passionate thania.dimitrakopoulou@matchfa and innovative work by My Father's Choice ctory.de choreographer Ed Wubbe is Premiere: World premiere Phone: +49 30443190555 recorded with equal passion by Jan Section: Limelight Logline: Chandra, a Maoist who Louter. Wubbe was followed Director(s): Yuen Yan Ting fought against the regime in Nepal, during the creation of the show Prod. Countries: Netherlands receives a welcome that is anything Ting! that was made to mark the Prod. Year: 2017 but warm when he returns to his seventieth anniversary of the Length: 79 village. The ritual in which his Scapino Ballet. A captivating Genre: Creative Documentary recently deceased father has to be homage. Prod. Company: Witfilm carried down the mountain to be Trailer: Contact: Jantien Ekkes cremated at its base exposes the https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] deep scars left by the civil war. v=-BAy-rB0TDM Phone: +31 206885049 Sold territories: - Sold territories: - Logline: Her father fled Mao's Cultural Revolution, going to Hong Het doet zo zeer Kong. Not long after, he joined the Premiere: World premiere great Chinese exodus to the West Section: Limelight and started a restaurant in Director(s): Heleen van Royen Maastricht. But was his personal Prod. Countries: Netherlands story really so closely interwoven Prod. Year: 2017 with the history of China, Yan Ting Length: 86 Yuen wonders in this family Genre: Creative Documentary portrait. Prod. Company: TVBV Trailer: Contact: Remco van Puffelen https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected]

v=-BI22r8DAcU Prod. Company: Antithesis Films Trailer: Sold territories: All available Contact: Charlotte Mickie / https://www.youtube.com/watch? Mongrel International v=F4BS37QMZ0g Quality Time Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available except Premiere: World premiere Phone: +1 416 5169775 for the Netherlands Section: Hivos Tiger Competition Logline: Mount Fuji, the holy (IKONDocs/EO - television, Director(s): Daan Bakker Japanese volcano, is present in Cinema Delicatessen - theatrical) Prod. Countries: Netherlands every shot of this kaleidoscopic Prod. Year: 2017 compilation of photos. Balancing Niger Length: 85 between documentary and fiction, Genre: Fiction this experiment has life blown into The Wedding Ring Prod. Company: Pupkin Film it on the soundtrack by an English Premiere: None Contact: Aleksandra Abykova / m- woman’s reminiscences about her Section: Voices appeal dead Japanese lover, who once Director(s): Rahmatou Keïta Email: [email protected] climbed the volcano. Moving and Prod. Countries: Niger Phone: +49 178 5546 754 philosophical. Prod. Year: 2016 Logline: In a self-assured and Sold territories: - Length: 96 highly satirical debut, Daan Bakker Genre: Fiction portrays a series of plodding young Burma Storybook Prod. Company: Sonrhay Empire men and their relationships to their Premiere: World premiere Productions worried parents. Using a fresh Section: Limelight Contact: Myriam Keïta / Sonrhay visual style, the Dutch filmmaker Director(s): Petr Lom Empire Productions seamlessly combines dry, Monty Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Email: sonrhay.empire@club- Myanmar, Norway Pythonseque humour with razor internet.fr Prod. Year: 2017 sharp graphics and real human Phone: +33 660662936 Length: 81 emotionality. Logline: A young woman talks to Genre: Creative Documentary Trailer: girlfriends about sensuality and Prod. Company: ZIN https://www.youtube.com/watch? taboos in this beautifully styled Documentaire B.V. v=3dJHI77kDag love letter to ways of life in the Contact: Corinne van Egeraat / ZIN Sold territories: All available except Sahel. A refined film of elegant Documentaire B.V. for Benelux (September Film simplicity with a dash of mysticism Email: [email protected] Distribution) and an eye for the beautiful Phone: +31 06 24873171 clothing and customs of the Ascent Logline: Poet and activist from Songhay, who inhabit South-Niger. Premiere: None Myanmar Maung Aung Pwint has Trailer: Section: Signatures spent large swathes of his life in https://www.youtube.com/watch? Director(s): Fiona Tan prison. Now the country is free v=LiLorVZSsG0 Prod. Countries: Netherlands, after 50 years of military Sold territories: All available Japan dictatorship, he reminisces and Prod. Year: 2016 struggles with painful memories. A Length: 80 poetic, loving documentary about a Genre: Experimental country reinventing itself.

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Norway Palestine Prod. Company: Los Otros Films, ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc. Blackhearts A Magical Substance Flows Contact: John Torres / Los Otros Premiere: None into Me Films Section: Scopitone Premiere: None Email: [email protected] Director(s): Fredrik Horn Akselsen, Section: Picture Palestine Phone: +63 2 4331615 Christian Falch Director(s): Jumana Manna Logline: After recovering decaying Prod. Countries: Norway Prod. Countries: Palestine, United 35mm footage from an unfinished Prod. Year: 2016 Kingdom, Germany 1980s film by the Messiah of Length: 84 Prod. Year: 2015 Philippine Cinema, John Torres Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 68 shot new footage and interviews to Prod. Company: Gammaglimt AS Genre: Creative Documentary complete the portrait of a Contact: Jan Daae / DR Contact: Jumana Manna tormented young actress in a film International Sales Email: [email protected] that echoes not only its own Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 15259629550 troubled production but also the Phone: +45 3520 3928 Logline: An ode to music that fate of the nation. Logline: In Norway - black metal’s undoes the distinction between Sold territories: All available birthplace - the genre went from 'Arabs' and 'Jews', national borders being vilified to a tourist attraction and political differences. Jumana The Woman Who Left in a little over 25 years. This mildly Manna travels across Israel and Premiere: None ironic documentary follows three Palestine with 1930s recordings by Section: Signatures young metal acts as they make their German-Jewish ethnomusicologist Director(s): Lav Diaz pilgrimages to the north. However, Robert Lachmann, piecing together Prod. Countries: Philippines the situations in their home a multi-faceted musical history of Prod. Year: 2016 countries of Greece, Columbia and historical Palestine. Length: 226 Iran are what make their quest so Sold territories: All available except Genre: Fiction special. for USA (Grasshopper Films, for Prod. Company: Sine Olivia Trailer: educational release only) Pilipinas https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Louis Balsan / Films v=6vJAbOIbmQc Philippines Boutique Sold territories: Television – Email: [email protected] Denmark (DR), Sweden (SVT), Phone: +49 30 69537850 People Power Bombshell: Norway (VGTV), North America Logline: Locked up for thirty years (Soundview Media Partner, The Diary of Vietnam Rose because of a false accusation and DVD/VOD) Premiere: International premiere then you get to hear that relatives Section: Regained have disappeared. In addition, the Director(s): John Torres / Los unexpectedly freed Horacia has to Otros Films discover her country, the Prod. Countries: Philippines Philippines, all over again. She Prod. Year: 2016 takes pity on poor losers, from Length: 89 street hawkers to prostitutes, and

plans revenge. A calm sitting by the Films dystopia. master Diaz (nearly 4 hours long) Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available won the Golden Lion in Venice. Phone: +63 932 3121552 Sold territories: - Logline: Shot in the Marilog forest The Last Family of southern Philippines, Bagane Premiere: None Town in a Lake Fiola’s film follows a forest family, Section: Bright Future Premiere: European premiere featuring actual members of the Director(s): Jan P. Matuszyński Section: Voices indigenous Matigsalog community, Prod. Countries: Poland Director(s): Jet Leyco whose lifestyles face crisis due to Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Countries: Philippines lack of food and impositions of a Length: 123 Prod. Year: 2016 neighbouring tribe. The forest fills Genre: Fiction Length: 84 the screen with both its serene Prod. Company: Aurum Film Genre: Fiction beauty and formidable intensity. Contact: Jan Naszewski / New Prod. Company: TBA/Tuko Film Trailer: Europe Film Sales Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] Contact: Tito Velasco v=wpyEgRpoVDs Phone: +48 60 0173205 Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Logline: An unconventional Phone: +1 604 970 4375 portrait of an unconventional artist. The dystopian paintings of Logline: A schoolgirl is murdered Poland and her friend goes missing. As the Polish cult hero Zdzisław Beksiński quiet rural town of Matangtubig is are constantly in the background in A Heart of Love in a state of shock, secrets slowly this feature film, which focuses Premiere: World premiere emerge from within the forest. principally on the painter’s Section: Bright Future Playing with genre tropes, Jet dysfunctional family, his loving Director(s): Lukasz Ronduda Leyco’s third feature simmers with wife, Zofia, and their aggressive, Prod. Countries: Poland intensity as it questions systems of emotionally unstable son, Tomasz. Prod. Year: 2017 control over narratives and society. Trailer: Length: 78 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=bC6RJa32WvY Prod. Company: Serce v=VbEEesgSffA Sold territories: Sweden, Hungary, Contact: Kuba Kosma / Serce Sold territories: All available UK, France, Czech Republic, Email: [email protected] Lithuania, Austria, Greece Phone: +48 602 435 513 Wailings in the Forest Logline: A fictionalised portrait of Premiere: International premiere Polish artists Wojciech Bąkowski Section: Bright Future and Zuzanna Bartoszek. Their Director(s): Bagane Fiola unconventional relationship is a Prod. Countries: Philippines basis for their works, and vice Prod. Year: 2016 versa, but what's the price of this Length: 105 convergence? A stylish, visually Genre: Fiction clean-cut drama about real life as Prod. Company: Origane Films an artistic utopia – or rather, Contact: Bagane Fiola / Origane

Email: [email protected] reality.

Portugal Phone: +351 964559327 Sold territories: All available Logline: The old films seventy-year- Delírio em Las Vedras old Sena watches daily in a cinema O ornitólogo Premiere: World premiere in Sarajevo, where she lives and Premiere: None Section: Signatures works in the projection booth, Section: Voices Director(s): Edgar Pêra show parallels with her life in Director(s): João Pedro Rodrigues Prod. Countries: Portugal former Yugoslavia, from the Prod. Countries: Portugal, France, Prod. Year: 2017 German occupation through Tito’s Brazil Length: 83 Communist utopia to the siege of Prod. Year: 2016 Genre: Fiction Sarajevo in 1992 and the Length: 118 Prod. Company: Bando à Parte disintegration of her country. Genre: Fiction Contact: Carlos André / Bando à Trailer: Prod. Company: House on Fire Parte https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Louis Balsan / Films Email: [email protected] v=4DPu8blGgtc Boutique Phone: +351 253 094489 Sold territories: All available Email: [email protected] Logline: The carnival festivities in Phone: +49 30 69537850 Torres Vedras, just to the north of António Um Dois Três Logline: The story of the Lisbon, are the most frenzied in Premiere: World premiere Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua Portugal. The ideal spot for Section: Bright Future acquires a personal update that is filmmaker/artist Pera to make an Director(s): Leonardo simultaneously religious and anarchic 3-D parody in which Mouramateus blasphemous in Rodriguez's fifth hysterical television and radio Prod. Countries: Portugal, Brazil feature. In the beautiful nature of reporters battle among the Prod. Year: 2017 north-eastern Portugal, a lonely merrymakers for the viewer's Length: 95 ornithologist loses his way, but attention. With one of the last roles Genre: Fiction masochistic challenges do bring for Nuno Melo. Prod. Company: Filmes do Asfalto, him to a new spiritual realm. One Sold territories: All available If You Hold A Stone, Praia à Noite of the best films of the year. Contact: Gustavo Beck / If You Sold territories: - How I Fell in Love with Eva Hold A Stone Ras Email: [email protected] Porto Premiere: None Phone: +1 646 3859872 Premiere: None Section: Regained Logline: In romantic Lisbon, Section: Limelight Director(s): André Gil Mata twenty-something António goes in Director(s): Gabe Klinger Prod. Countries: Portugal, Bosnia search of loves lost and new, and – Prod. Countries: Portugal, France, and Herzegovina all in one mad dash – a goal in life. USA Prod. Year: 2016 In his charming debut film director Prod. Year: 2016 Length: 74 Mouramateus – inspired by Length: 76 Genre: Creative Documentary Dostoyevsky's novella White Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: C.R.I.M. Nights – creates a seamless Prod. Company: Bando à Parte, Contact: Susanne Malorny / intermingling of fantasy and Gladys Glover Films, Double Play C.R.I.M. Films

Contact: Jan Naszewski / New house, waiting until she can move Câini Europe Film Sales to America to be with her mom. Premiere: None Email: [email protected] That gets cancelled. As she suffers Section: Limelight Phone: +48 60 0173205 and struggles with puberty, her Director(s): Bogdan Mirică Logline: Memories are hard to pin natural father suddenly appears Prod. Countries: Romania, France, down in this hyper-romantic, after years in prison. Bulgaria, Qatar melancholy ode to love. Actor Trailer: Prod. Year: 2016 Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 104 and actress and model Lucie Lucas v=H1981nnXzNk Genre: Fiction philosophise and make love in Sold territories: All available Prod. Company: 42 km Film, EZ picturesque Porto. Featuring Films delightfully melancholy music. Romania Contact: Gilles Sousa / BAC Films Attentive film-lovers will notice the Email: [email protected] varied and meaningful use of film Sieranevada Phone: +33 6 77248526 formats. Premiere: None Logline: A man inherits a property Sold territories: Germany (MFA Section: Limelight from his grandfather and discovers Filmdistribution), Brazil (Fenix Director(s): Cristi Puiu the latter was a crime lord. The late Distribution), Belgium (Cinéart), Prod. Countries: Romania, France, grandfather’s accomplices are not Taiwan (Moviecloud), Japan Bosnia and Herzegovina ready to give up the property. A (Mermaid Film), Hungary Prod. Year: 2016 moody, tense mix of Western, (Mozinet), Austria (Polyfilm), Length: 176 thriller and Romanian New Wave. Switzerland (Filmcoopi) Genre: Fiction Sold territories: Prod. Company: Mandragora

Puerto Rico Contact: Adeline Fontan Tessaur / Serbia Elle Driver

Antes que cante el gallo Email: [email protected] All the Cities of the North Premiere: None Phone: + 33 1 56 43 48 70 Premiere: None Section: Bright Future Logline: The films of Cristi Puiu, a Section: Bright Future Director(s): Arí Maniel Cruz leading light of the Romanian New Director(s): Dane Komljen Prod. Countries: Puerto Rico Wave since 2001, mercilessly Prod. Countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Prod. Year: 2016 reflect the mood in his country. Herzegovina, Montenegro Length: 98 The same applies to this chaotic, Prod. Year: 2016 Genre: Fiction darkly comic family dinner, as Length: 100 Prod. Company: Deluz, Filmes conspiracy theories about the Genre: Fiction Zapatero outside world, capricious and Prod. Company: Dart Film Contact: Esteban Lima / Deluz derailing mutual conflicts and Contact: Ivana Ivisic / everything Email: [email protected] painful revelations abound. works LLC Phone: +1 787 3879314 Sold territories: null Email: [email protected] Logline: Coming-of-age drama in Phone: +385 91 1811002 which a Puerto Rican teen girl is Logline: Two men are living living at her strict grandmother’s together harmoniously in an

abandoned bungalow. They need v=Ma-a_97dA10 Contact: Michelle Son / M-Line to find a new balance after the Sold territories: All available Distribution arrival of a third party. Essayist Email: sales@mline- fiction and architectural quest for Pop Aye distribution.com the fragility of human Premiere: European premiere Phone: +82 2 796 2426 relationships, told through Section: Voices Logline: Three odd friends each – construction projects, landscapes Director(s): Kirsten Tan unsuccessfully – vie for the and archive footage. Highly Prod. Countries: Singapore attentions of bar owner Yeri, who anticipated first feature of Dane Prod. Year: 2017 also cares for her paralysed father. Komljen, a true film artist whose Length: 102 This charming, melancholy shorts have been regularly shown Genre: Fiction tragicomedy that features leading in Rotterdam. Prod. Company: E&W Films, roles for two former Tiger Award Sold territories: - Giraffe Pictures Pte Ltd winners was the surprise opening Contact: Sebastien Chesneau / film at the prestigious Busan Singapore Cercamon festival. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Phone: +33 142467221 I'm Coming Up https://www.youtube.com/watch? Logline: A disillusioned architect v=l-4grFmBmSg Premiere: International premiere rediscovers Pop Aye, the elephant Sold territories: - Section: Signatures from his childhood, in the streets of Director(s): Ting Min-Wei Bangkok. Together they set off on a Asura: City of Madness Prod. Countries: Singapore journey to the village where they Premiere: None Prod. Year: 2016 grew up. Occasionally funny, Section: Limelight Length: 89 occasionally moving road movie Director(s): Kim Sungsoo Genre: Experimental about two uprooted souls who Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Company: meet the most colourful figures on Prod. Year: 2016 Contact: Ting Min-Wei their journey home. Nominated for Length: 136 Email: [email protected] the VPRO Big Screen Award. Genre: Fiction Phone: +13479870277 Sold territories: All available Prod. Company: Sanai Pictures Logline: Is it a computer game or Contact: CJ Entertainment actually a documentary report? Email: [email protected] Endless reconnoitring of a gigantic South Korea Logline: Very hard Korean noir, in apartment complex in the night, which it becomes clear that it’s along balconies, corridors and A Quiet Dream better not to be too squeamish in stairs, from bottom to top, turns Premiere: None local politics. A corrupt, populist into a hallucinogenic trip. In the Section: Voices mayor stops at nothing in his face of desolate, visual monotony is Director(s): Zhang Lu greedy renovation plans, while his an eclectic and extremely layered Prod. Countries: South Korea accidental sidekick becomes soundtrack filled with concrete Prod. Year: 2016 increasingly stuck between the sounds. Alienation all the way. Length: 98 countless conflicting interests and Trailer: Genre: Fiction his extremely ill wife. https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Lu Film Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction Trailer: v=_HqVeFc6R7Q Prod. Company: Yong Film, Moho https://www.youtube.com/watch? Sold territories: - Film v=hTcaRz7swUk Contact: CJ Entertainment Sold territories: - Bamseom Pirates Seoul Email: [email protected] Inferno Logline: Master swindler Count Yourself and Yours Premiere: World premiere Fujiwara has taken an interest in Premiere: None Section: Bright Future the family fortune of Lady Hideko. Section: Signatures Director(s): Jung Yoonsuk To rob her, he conspires with her Director(s): Hong Sangsoo Prod. Countries: South Korea new maid Sook-hee. But a Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2017 blossoming affair between the two Prod. Year: 2016 Length: 120 women threatens his plans. An Length: 86 Genre: Creative Documentary opulently styled erotic thriller by Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: OPOT Pictures Park Chan-wook, set in 1930s Prod. Company: Jeonwonsa Film Contact: Seo Jamie / M-Line South Korea. Co. Distribution Trailer: Contact: Suh Young-joo / Finecut Email: jamie@mline- https://www.youtube.com/watch? Co, Ltd distribution.com v=fUfVOwD27C8 Email: [email protected] Phone: +82 10 2666 2678 Sold territories: Phone: +82 2 5698777 Logline: The Bamseom Pirates Logline: A playful narrative from Korea make music Train to Busan structure and psychological appropriate to our sick society: a Premiere: None acumen are the two certainties in hundred songs in ten minutes, that Section: Limelight every film by Korean master Hong kind of thing. This at times noisy, Director(s): Yeon Sangho – also in his 18th feature. Minjung but also sparkling, activist and Prod. Countries: South Korea breaks off her relationship with the often humorous documentary Prod. Year: 2016 painter Youngsoo because he reports on the resistance offered by Length: 118 believes nasty rumours about her. these punk musicians to Genre: Fiction When she then meets old friends, hypocritical, conservative money- Prod. Company: RedPeter Film Minjung acts as if she is someone grabbers and their often violent Contact: Contents Panda else. Or is it a double? hold on society. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Trailer: Logline: Zombies threaten the https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://youtu.be/ukcjDK5dOYc passengers on a Korean high-speed v=WhiYI7IEalY Sold territories: All available train in this highly skilled, Sold territories: All available except terrifying cross between France, Spain, Taiwan, Korea The Handmaiden Snowpiercer and 28 Days Later. The Premiere: None train travellers – including a Section: Limelight workaholic and his young daughter Director(s): Park Chanwook – try to keep the bloodthirsty Prod. Countries: South Korea zombies at bay, while receiving Prod. Year: 2016 some salutary lessons in empathy Length: 144 and courage.

Contact: Nathan Fischer / Stray Sold territories: USA

Spain Dogs (Grasshopper), Canada (Raven), Email: [email protected] France (UFO), Greece (Weird La reconquista Phone: +33 6 59941284 Wave), MENA (MC Distribution), Premiere: None Logline: A filmmaker discovers a Brazil (Bossa Nova), Baltics (Ou Section: Voices video featuring his younger half- Must Kasi) Director(s): Jonas Trueba sister on a sex site. He hasn’t seen Prod. Countries: Spain her for a while and decides to pay Donkeyote Prod. Year: 2016 her a visit. He quickly becomes Premiere: World premiere Length: 108 fascinated by her. With an Section: Voices Genre: Fiction unflinching gaze, this new drama Director(s): Chico Pereira Prod. Company: Los Ilusos Films by Aguilera (La influencia) dissects Prod. Countries: Spain, Germany, Contact: Manon Barat / Film the dark, disruptive aspects of United Kingdom Factory Entertainment watching and making films. Prod. Year: 2017 Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Length: 85 Phone: +34 93 3684608 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: With beautiful songs by Mimosas Prod. Company: Sutor Kolonko Rafael Berrio, Trueba's fourth film Premiere: None Filmproduktion, SDI Productions, focuses on the feisty Manuela and Section: Bright Future Opa Films the shy Olmo. Fifteen years ago Director(s): Oliver Laxe Contact: Sonja Henrici / SDI they promised to meet up again in Prod. Countries: Spain, France, Productions the future, long after the magic of Qatar, Morocco Email: [email protected] first love had waned. From this Prod. Year: 2016 Phone: +44 7765415486 romantic-nostalgic 'what if' Length: 96 Logline: Manolo wants to walk the storyline, he composed a Genre: Fiction Trail of Tears, the route used meticulously constructed and Prod. Company: Zeitun Films, LA during the forced removal of touching drama, free of clichés. PROD, Rouge International Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma. Trailer: Contact: Fiorella Moretti / Luxbox But the 73-year-old Andalusian has https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] chronic arthritis, speaks no English v=dyPiV1g_sGA Phone: +33 6 26 10 07 65 and more importantly: how will he Sold territories: - Logline: Mystical wisdom and get his trusty donkey into the US – poetic suggestion go hand-in-hand and cure its fear of water? An ode Demonios tus ojos in this quest filmed on beautiful to intransigence and friendship. Premiere: World premiere 35mm under Herzogesque Nominated for the VPRO Big Section: Hivos Tiger Competition conditions in Morocco’s Atlas Screen Award. Director(s): Pedro Aguilera Mountains: to fulfil the dying wish Trailer: Prod. Countries: Spain, Colombia of a sheik, three men must conquer https://youtu.be/tQ8j7WRE63A Prod. Year: 2017 impenetrable mountain passes and Sold territories: All available except Length: 94 other dangers. for Germany and France Genre: Fiction Trailer: (ZDF/ARTE) Prod. Company: Ciudad Lunar https://www.youtube.com/watch? Producciones, Carmelita Films v=DTOFQsPABaI

New Voices in an Old Genre: Fiction Swedish backdrop in which his life Prod. Company: Sapushpa and take shape – are hidden in Flower Expressions Ltd, Neon Productions shades of grey. He has grand Premiere: None Contact: Xavier Henry-Rashid / dreams about becoming famous, Section: Scopitone Film Republic and unfortunately reality keeps Director(s): Quino Piñero Email: [email protected] getting in the way and hitting him Prod. Countries: Spain, United Phone: +44 2032879112 in the face. A layered portrait, both Kingdom, Ethiopia Logline: Eight children, no raw and funny. Prod. Year: 2016 husband, no money: how can you Trailer: Length: 69 keep your head above water in a https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Creative Documentary situation like this – a woman alone v=DSGTdmcYu6M Prod. Company: Solysombra in rural Sri Lanka? Director Sold territories: All available Recordings Sanjeewa Pushpakumara isn’t Contact: Quino Piñero / afraid to candidly depict all the The Giant SolySombra Recordings suffering to which single mother Premiere: None Email: [email protected] Kusum is exposed. Burning Birds is Section: IFFR Live Phone: +44 794 3814945 a beautifully filmed, personal piece Director(s): Johannes Nyholm Logline: Westerners generally view of biting social criticism. Prod. Countries: Sweden, Denmark Ethiopia as the mythical land of Trailer: Prod. Year: 2016 Rastafarians. However, the https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 86 contemporary music scene is much v=WgJiSBPYF-Y Genre: Fiction richer as this muggy, night time Sold territories: Sri Lanka Prod. Company: Beofilm, exploration of the capital Addis Garagefilm International Abeba demonstrates. From reggae Contact: Clementine Hugot / Indie tot hip hop and from free jazz to Sweden Sales electronic sampling: diversity rules. Email: [email protected] Trailer: A Hustlers Diary Phone: + 33 6 68657444 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Premiere: World premiere Logline: He might be handicapped, v=KvqqDk_0yzU Section: Voices but Rikard Boberg has set his sights Sold territories: All available Director(s): Ivica Zubak on winning an important pétanque Prod. Countries: Sweden championship. He thinks he will Prod. Year: 2017 Sri Lanka then be reunited with his mother. Length: 96 Particularly with the help of the Genre: Fiction Burning Birds giant from his imaginative Prod. Company: Indian Summer Premiere: European premiere fantasies. A Western-like Film Section: Bright Future soundtrack accompanies the Contact: Eva Esseen Arndorff / Director(s): Sanjeewa modern fable of cowboy Rikard TriArt Film Pushpakumara and his remarkable quest. Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Sri Lanka, France, Trailer: Phone: +46 8 59796250 Qatar https://www.youtube.com/watch? Logline: The actions of the criminal Prod. Year: 2016 v=VRSoFc3Hakc Metin – just like the disconsolate Length: 84 Sold territories: All available

except for Scandanavia (Triart), Email: Logline: April works as a prostitute Japan (Broadmedia) and Taiwan esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms. in a run-down night club in Tbilisi. (Cineplex) com There she meets Dije, a Nigerian Phone: +41 44 3122060 refugee who came to Georgia by Sami Blood Logline: An exciting exploration of pure mistake. An odd, romantic Premiere: None the musical, social and cultural connection evolves between them. Section: Limelight innovation that is at present But can it ward off the alienation Director(s): Amanda Kernell spreading over the African they both feel? A beautiful, subtle Prod. Countries: Sweden, continent. Fonko introduces us to portrait of two souls in a ghostly Denmark, Norway the young generation that is city. Prod. Year: 2016 rediscovering its own musical and Trailer: Length: 110 activist heritage in countries like https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Fiction Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and v=f6dT-Gq-G0k Prod. Company: Nordisk Film South Africa and is producing a Sold territories: All available Production wide range of infectious new music Contact: Swedish Film Institute styles. Taiwan Email: [email protected] Trailer: Logline: Keenly observed drama https://www.youtube.com/watch? The Last Painting about the position of Sami – the v=VY7MNnkckuQ Premiere: World premiere Laps – in Sweden in the 1930s. In Sold territories: Germany (WDR), Section: Voices Sami Blood we see through the eyes Canada (Blue Ice Docs), Sweden Director(s): Chen Hung-i of a 14-year-old Sami girl (Folkets Bio), Schweitz (SRF), Prod. Countries: Taiwan (compellingly played by Lene Belgium (VRT) Prod. Year: 2017 Cecilia Sparrok) how prejudice and Length: 107 racial stereotypes can be gruesome Switzerland Genre: Fiction obstacles. Assured debut by half Prod. Company: Swallow Wings Sami, half Swedish Kernell. I Am Truly a Drop of Sun Films, Red Society Films Sold territories: - on Earth Contact: Albert Yao Email: [email protected] Fonko Premiere: International premiere Phone: +88 62 23610873 Premiere: None Section: Bright Future Logline: A student and political Section: Black Rebels Director(s): Elene Naveriani activist becomes the new Director(s): Lars Lovén, Lamin Prod. Countries: Switzerland housemate of a solitary painter. He Daniel Jadama, Göran Hugo Prod. Year: 2017 is brusque and disillusioned, she is Olsson Length: 61 filled with hope. Outside, Taiwan is Prod. Countries: Sweden, Germany Genre: Fiction heading towards new presidential Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Company: Alva Film, elections. Contemporary Asian Length: 87 Mishkin cinema at its best, in which it's all Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Britta Rindelaub / Alva about timing and rhythm. A Prod. Company: Story AB Film visually impressive, layered thriller Contact: Esther van Messel / First Email: [email protected] about politics, art and murder. Hand Films Phone: +41 78 771 58 64

Nominated for the VPRO Big Suwichakornpong Email: [email protected] Screen Award. Prod. Countries: Thailand, France, Phone: +33 1 58535712 Sold territories: - Qatar, Netherlands Logline: N. travels from Sub- Prod. Year: 2016 Saharan Africa through the desert The Road to Mandalay Length: 105 and then by boat to Europe, where Premiere: None Genre: Fiction he is stranded in a mysterious Section: Voices Prod. Company: Electric Eel Films wood and confronted by a silent Director(s): Midi Z Contact: Fiorella Moretti / Luxbox old man. Both contemporary and Prod. Countries: Taiwan, France, Email: [email protected] surreal, Ala Eddine Slim’s film Germany, Myanmar Phone: +31 6 26100765 explores the boundaries of man, Prod. Year: 2016 Logline: Powerful second feature by country, nature and cinema. Length: 108 Anocha Suwichakornpong, who Trailer: Genre: Fiction won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Flash Forward History, starts with the Thammasat v=p5gTkCWuxYE Entertainment, Seashore Image University massacre of 1976 in Sold territories: All available except Productions, House on Fire, Bangkok. In an effortless and for France Bombay Berlin Film Production, elegant manner, the filmmaker Myanmar Montage Films, Pop then takes the viewer through Turkey Pictures Co. Ltd. meandering storylines that Contact: Frédéric Corvez / Urban examine both Thailand and the Big Big World Distribution International medium of film itself. Premiere: None Email: [email protected] Trailer: Section: Signatures Phone: +33 14 8707318 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Director(s): Reha Erdem Logline: Powerful drama about the v=vnT7nGiiYlw Prod. Countries: Turkey tragic love between two illegal Sold territories: USA (Kimstim), Prod. Year: 2016 immigrants from Myanmar in UK (Day For Night) Length: 101 Bangkok. In a very troubling scene, Genre: Fiction Midi Z ingeniously shows how Tunisia Prod. Company: Atlantik Film Lianqing’s boundless ambition to Contact: Yuanyuan Rothbauer / acquire some status drives her to an The Last of Us Picture Tree International act of desperation, while Guo's Premiere: None Email: yuan@picturetree- confrontation with this harsh way Section: Bright Future international.com of life slowly drives him crazy. Director(s): Ala Eddine Slim Phone: +49 304 208 248 11 Sold territories: - Prod. Countries: Tunisia, Qatar, Logline: The two orphans Ali and Lebanon, United Arab Emirates Zuhal started their lives in the big Thailand Prod. Year: 2016 wide world with a crime. Now they Length: 95 are on the run, and end up deep in By the Time It Gets Dark Genre: Fiction a marshy forest. There, away from Premiere: None Prod. Company: Exit Production the inhabited world, they make Section: Bright Future Contact: Pierre Menahem / Still their own remote home. A lyrical, Director(s): Anocha Moving fairy-tale narrative by the Turkish

master Reha Erdem. Length: 93 life. A confrontation with herself is Trailer: Genre: Creative Documentary inevitable. https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Seagull and Birch Sold territories: All available except v=H9wQHe_EoWk Contact: Zack Taylor for UK, Benelux and China Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +01 917 8590408 Free Fire Ember Logline: If only you’d kept them! Premiere: None Premiere: None After vinyl, cassettes are also Section: Limelight Section: Voices making a comeback. Director(s): Ben Wheatley Director(s): Zeki Demirkubuz Contemporary hipsters, midlife Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Countries: Turkey daydreamers and octogenarian Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 2016 pioneers idiosyncratically declare Length: 90 Length: 115 their love for the handy format. Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction With musicians Henry Rollins and Prod. Company: Film4 Prod. Company: Mavi Film Thurston Moore, and a leading role Contact: Vanessa Saal / Protagonist Contact: Basak Emre for Dutch inventor Lou Ottens. Pictures Email: [email protected] Trailer: Email: Phone: +90 532 6556633 https://www.youtube.com/watch? [email protected] Logline: A Turkish woman has a v=xTMSgSBaPHw Phone: +44 207 7349000 very ill, small child at home and a Sold territories: All available. USA Logline: Retro gangsters in glitter husband who has disappeared sales handled by Walking Shadows. jackets and bell-bottoms try to stay without trace. Her boss decides to alive during an arms deal that gets pay for the life-saving heart Daphne out of hand in a deserted factory. operation for her child. And he Premiere: World premiere Ben Wheatley’s cool cast finds itself admits to having feelings for her. Section: Limelight in a classic shoot-out, with well- What happens when the long=lost Director(s): Peter Mackie Burns aimed bullets and one-liners. Who husband then suddenly reappears? Prod. Countries: United Kingdom will survive the battle in this bold Trailer: Prod. Year: 2017 action film? https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 90 Trailer: v=4tbOLcUJADI Genre: Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch? Sold territories: All available Prod. Company: The Bureau v=f6ipvkYYJ-A Contact: Rym Hachimi / The Sold territories: - United Kingdom Bureau Sales Email: [email protected] Lady Macbeth Cassette: A Documentary Phone: +33 1 40 33 33 80 Premiere: None Logline: Daphne is 31, too young to Section: Limelight Mixtape settle, too old to live aimlessly. Director(s): William Oldroyd Premiere: None Long nights, drink and a variety of Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Section: Scopitone lovers form a welcome distraction Prod. Year: 2016 Director(s): Zack Taylor from the question: what do I want? Length: 89 Prod. Countries: United Kingdom An unexpected event forces her Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2016 slowly but surely to confront her Prod. Company: Sixty Six Pictures

Contact: Vanessa Saal / Protagonist Sold territories: Netherlands (NPO Email: Pictures – TV) caroline@kaleidoscopehomeentert Email: ainment.com [email protected] Placebo: Alt.Russia Phone: +1 4163636060 Phone: +44 207 7349000 Premiere: None Logline: Whereas some pregnant Logline: Young Katherine is a Section: Scopitone women succumb to a craving for prisoner in her own home in Director(s): Charlie Targett-Adams chocolate, Ruth loves herself in Northumberland in 1865 and is Prod. Countries: United Kingdom bloody murder at the behest of her thoroughly humiliated by her Prod. Year: 2016 unborn child. British actress and sadistic husband and his Length: 67 screenwriter Alice Lowe (Sightseers, authoritarian father. Living in such Genre: Creative Documentary 2012) makes her directing debut a loveless world has to lead to Prod. Company: riverman music (and plays the lead role) with this excesses in this powerful costume management humorous, feminist horror film drama. When Katherine embarks Contact: Alex Weston that makes mincemeat of romantic on an all-consuming affair with a Email: [email protected] notions of pregnancy. servant, things really go wrong. Phone: +44 2073814000 Trailer: Trailer: Logline: 15 years after they first https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? played in Russia, British band v=xP_ixHo3iyU v=TW6YzLZAKEs Placebo tour there again. To keep Sold territories: - Sold territories: - things interesting they seek out like-minded alternative musicians, The Girl with All the Gifts National Treasure artists, designers and performance Premiere: None Premiere: None artists. A disturbing look behind Section: Voices Section: Voices the scenes of a heavily controlled Director(s): Colm McCarthy Director(s): Marc Munden society. Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Trailer: Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Length: 110 Length: 95 v=qBB0C42Q4MA Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Sold territories: All available Prod. Company: Poison Chef Prod. Company: Channel 4 Contact: Mike Runagall / Altitude Contact: All3Media Prevenge Film Sales Email: [email protected] Premiere: None Email: Logline: A much-loved, famous Section: IFFR Live [email protected] British comedian is accused of Director(s): Alice Lowe Phone: +44 207 612 0692 raping a teenage girl years before. Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Logline: Humanity is scourged by a The scandal engulfs him and his Prod. Year: 2016 mysterious disease that turns family as more victims testify. The Length: 88 people into cannibalistic hungries. creative minds behind the TV hits Genre: Fiction All hope is on some hybrid children This Is England and Utopia draw a Prod. Company: Western Edge in an army base. When it is complex portrait of a man, where Pictures attacked, a small group with the doubt lingers till the very end. Contact: Caroline Stern / girl Melanie as special weapon sets Kaleidoscope Film Distribution off for London. Refreshing

variation on the zombie thriller. Trailer: Genre: Creative Documentary Sold territories: Germany, Austria https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: Gadfly (Square One), Spain (A v=oD5mkn8Js04 Productions UK Contracorriente), Switzerland Sold territories: - Contact: Sean Blacknell / Gadfly (Impuls), UK (Warner Bros), CIS Productions UK (Exponenta), Hungary (Vertigo War of Words Email: [email protected] Media), Yugoslavia (Dexin Films), Premiere: International premiere Phone: +49 015771793617 Scandinavia, Iceland (Nonstop), Section: Scopitone Logline: Hidden or in the open, the USA (Saban), Canada (Elevation), Director(s): Craig Tuohy, Tom future’s taking shape in Japan (Klockworx), Hong Kong Worth laboratories and high-tech (Bravos), China (Virtual Cinema), Prod. Countries: United Kingdom workplaces. If artificial intelligence Indonesia (Cinemaxx), Malaysia Prod. Year: 2016 claims our jobs while we keep living (Suraya), Philippines (Pioneer), Length: 63 longer, why look forward to such a South Korea (Doki), Singapore Genre: Creative Documentary future? This documentary allows (Cathay), Thailand (IPA Asia Prod. Company: Ascension optimists and pessimists to warn Pacific), Vietnam (Blue Lantern), Productions, Gizmo Films us. Pan-Asian Pay TV (Fox), Middle Contact: Charlotte Arden / Gizmo Trailer: East (Gulf), Turkey (Yeni Films) Films https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] v=Yl9czc7-JN4 The Levelling Phone: +44 (0)7799 494 090 Sold territories: All available. North Premiere: None Logline: Warning: explicit American sales handles by First Section: Bright Future language! What started as an Run Features Director(s): Hope Dickson Leach internet phenomenon is now in the Prod. Countries: United Kingdom streets, bars and even on major American Honey Prod. Year: 2016 stages: the noble art of verbally Premiere: None Length: 83 destroying people. Rap without Section: Limelight Genre: Fiction brakes. The culture clash between Director(s): Andrea Arnold Prod. Company: Wellington Films the latest generation of American Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Limited and British battle rappers is its USA Contact: Charlotte Mickie / amusing highlight. Prod. Year: 2016 Mongrel International Sold territories: All available Length: 163 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: +1 416 5169775 The Future of Work and Prod. Company: Parts & Labor Logline: When her brother Death Films, Maven Pictures, Pulse Films commits suicide, Clover returns to Premiere: None Contact: Vanessa Saal / Protagonist the farm where she grew up. Why Section: Nuts & Bolts Pictures did he decide to end it all? Director Director(s): Sean Blacknell, Wayne Email: Hope Dickson Leach has a keen eye Walsh [email protected] for all the suppressed emotion and Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Phone: +44 207 7349000 unspoken tensions between the Germany, USA, Uganda Logline: Pounding music; the gentle trainee veterinarian and her Prod. Year: 2016 youngsters sing, smoke weed, have surly father. A remarkable debut. Length: 88 sex and fight. The ragged Star

(scintillating debut from Sasha Mansfield 66/67 Genre: Fiction Lane) falls for Jake (Shia LaBeouf) Premiere: World premiere Prod. Company: Archer Gray, and jumps in his van to travel with Section: Regained Annapurna Pictures, Modern him. A depressing look at the Director(s): Todd Hughes, P. David People American economy, but an Ebersole Contact: Lesly Gross Email: [email protected] optimistic take on the strength of Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Phone: +1 310 858 1001 young people. First American USA Logline: Dorothea Fields, eccentric production for the British Andrea Prod. Year: 2017 single mother, calls on two young Arnold (Fish Tank). Length: 96 women to help her raise her Trailer: Genre: Creative Documentary adolescent son in an era of cultural https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Company: The Ebersole changes and rebellion. A love letter v=AZxH8RGIbjk Hughes Company to those who bring us up and the Sold territories: - Contact: Nathan Fischer / Stray years that form us. Heart-warming, Dogs Loving funny and empathic, partly thanks Email: [email protected] to the star role by Annette Bening. Premiere: None Phone: +33 6 59941284 Closing film IFFR 2017. Section: Black Rebels Logline: A campy designed Trailer: Director(s): Jeff Nichols documentary about the last year in https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, the life of voluptuous actress Jayne v=iUHl35MfNHQ USA Mansfield, who shortly before her Sold territories: - Prod. Year: 2016 death developed an intense interest Length: 123 in satanic rituals. A whole raft of Atlanta Genre: Fiction academics, feminists and Premiere: None Prod. Company: Raindog Films, Big psychologists give their opinions, Section: Black Rebels Beach alongside homages from cultural Director(s): Donald Glover Contact: Noémie Devide / IMR icons such as John Waters, Kenneth Prod. Countries: USA Email: [email protected] Anger and Marilyn Manson. Prod. Year: 2016 Phone: +1 424 777 0240 Trailer: Length: 300 Logline: The true story of Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Series and Mildred Loving, who discover v=93ccJc7Or-o Prod. Company: FX Productions in 1958 that their love is anything Sold territories: All available but innocent: the state of Virginia Logline: Earn (Donald Glover) is forbids racial mixing and the black the inexperienced manager of his and pregnant Mildred is dragged USA cousin, rapper Paper Boi. The only out of her bed at night and thing they have in common is their imprisoned. This gripping film 20th Century Women fight for a better life, earning more shows how American racism so Premiere: European premiere money. This hilarious and recently was still enshrined in law. Section: Voices intelligent series offers an Trailer: Director(s): Mike Mills idiosyncratic, experimental https://www.youtube.com/watch? Prod. Countries: USA narrative style but also critical v=wstL_L-Wfq0 Prod. Year: 2016 glimpse of the spirit of our time. Sold territories: - Length: 118

Binge watching Season 1. Contact: Ross Lipman / https://www.youtube.com/watch? Sold territories: - corpusfluxus v=5DApSU61aJ0 Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Brazil (Fenix), Columbus Phone: +1 323 301 0047 Canada (PNP), Croatia (MRTN Premiere: International premiere Logline: Crossroads (1976), the Media), France (Potemkine), Section: Hivos Tiger Competition most controversial film by avant- Germany, Austria, Switzerland Director(s): kogonada garde icon Bruce Conner, consists (NFP), Italy (Wanted srl), Japan Prod. Countries: USA solely of images of atomic tests, set (Uplink), Portugal (Midas), Prod. Year: 2017 to music by Terry Riley. Former Scandinavia (Angel), Spain Length: 101 film historian and restorer Ross (Vertigo), Turkey (Fabula), UK Genre: Fiction Lipman takes a new look at the (Soda), USA (Janus, Amazon) Prod. Company: Superlative Films, material, and the human urge Depth of Field, Nonetheless towards self-destruction. He does Dawson City: Frozen Time Productions, Inc. this in the form of a 'live Premiere: None Contact: Joe Yanick / Visit Films documentary'. Section: Regained Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Director(s): Bill Morrison Phone: +1 718 3128210 Prod. Countries: USA Logline: Seldom has a crisis been David Lynch: The Art Life Prod. Year: 2016 presented as subtly and purely as in Premiere: None Length: 120 this American drama with an Asian Section: Regained Genre: Creative Documentary flavor. In the enchanting Director(s): Jon Nguyen, Olivia Prod. Company: Hypnotic Pictures, Modernist city of Columbus, Casey Neergaard-Holm, Rick Barnes Picture Palace Pictures – who is caring for her recovering Prod. Countries: USA Contact: Madelein Molyneaux addict mother – and Korean- Prod. Year: 2016 Email: [email protected] American Jin have both reached a Length: 90 Logline: Compelling documentary dead-end. A father in a coma brings Genre: Creative Documentary about Dawson City and the unique about change. Prod. Company: Duck Diver Films relationship between this little Sold territories: All available. Contact: Fabien Westerhoff / Film Canadian town with its cinema and Constellation the gold fever that briefly engulfed Conner's Crossroads and Email: [email protected] the sleepy fishing village. Both a The Exploding Digital Phone: +44 798 4523163 symphony and a time capsule, Logline: Cineaste, musician, artist, consisting of fragments from the Inevitable guru and coffee aficionado David perfectly preserved silent films Premiere: International premiere Lynch takes us back to the roots of found in a dump. A marvellous Section: Regained his creativity. A portrait of the record of the early 20th century. Director(s): Ross Lipman, Bruce artist as a young man, played by Trailer: Conner himself as a relaxed, candid, https://youtu.be/TPRFsEbEKNs Prod. Countries: USA middle-aged man – with the Sold territories: France (ARTE), Prod. Year: 2016 emphasis on painting and how he Italy (Cineteca di Bologna), USA, Length: 86 swapped a cosy nest for an odyssey Canada Genre: Creative Documentary through his dark side. Prod. Company: corpusfluxus Trailer:

Drifting Towards the Logline: An actor who played Sold territories: USA, Canada mainly supporting roles during the (Amazon), Australia Crescent 1960s and 1970s tells his life story. (Transmission), UK (Dogwoof), Premiere: World premiere Fascinating anecdotes, illustrated Germany (StudioCanal), France (Le Section: Bright Future by a host of film clips, about the Pacte), Hong Kong (Edko), Spain Director(s): Laura Stewart people he worked with, the (Avalon), Taiwan (BSide), CIS & Prod. Countries: USA relationships he had and Baltics (A One Films), Scandinavia Prod. Year: 2017 friendships that developed. An (Scanbox), Greece (Ama Films), Length: 85 unknown name too many, which Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Italy (Bim Genre: Creative Documentary makes the surprise in the last part Distribution), Poland (Gutek), Prod. Company: Laura Stewart of the film all the greater. Japan (King Records), Former Films Sold territories: - Yugoslavia (MCF Films) Contact: Laura Stewart Email: [email protected] Gimme Danger Hustlers Convention Phone: +920 495 3508 Premiere: None Premiere: None Logline: As the Mississippi flows Section: Voices Section: Black Rebels from the North to the South, so this Director(s): Jim Jarmusch Director(s): Mike Todd story flows through towns along Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Countries: USA the river, following a succession of Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 2015 different meetings. A fascinating, Length: 108 Length: 91 intimate documentary offering us Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Creative Documentary insights into the lives of the Prod. Company: Low Mind Films Prod. Company: Riverhorse inhabitants of small American Contact: Rachel Brown / Contact: Caroline Stern / settlements along the longest river Independent Film Company Kaleidoscope Film Distribution in North America. Email: rachel@independentfilm Email: Trailer: company.com caroline@kaleidoscopehomeentert https://www.youtube.com/watch? Phone: +44 2072578734 ainment.com v=J6Bknr7ytDw Logline: The contrast between the Phone: +1 4163636060 Sold territories: All available wild performances of the punks Logline: Ten years before Public avant-la-lettre The Stooges in the Enemy and Grandmaster Flash Escapes 1970s and the homely tone with launched the new musical trend, Premiere: None which indestructible lead singer the trailblazing record Hustlers Section: Regained Iggy Pop and his bandmates Convention appeared by Jalal Director(s): Michael Almereyda reminisce with director, friend and Nuriddin, regarded by many as the Prod. Countries: USA fanboy Jim Jarmusch. Self- 'Grandfather of Rap'. Interviews Prod. Year: 2016 deprecation and short animations are juxtaposed with fragments of Length: 90 keep the documentary light, yet the music in this investigation of the Genre: Creative Documentary music rocks on with untempered origins of hip-hop and the crucial Prod. Company: Survival Media raw power. role of this almost forgotten album. Contact: Michael Almereyda Trailer: Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? Phone: +1 646 2020223 v=QrsUEGXmfY0 v=mYW6xbeeKX0

Sold territories: USA (Kinoswiat), CIS (Cinema Prestige), Prod. Company: Burn Later (Gravitas/Starz), Canada (Gravitas) Israel (LEV), Turkey (Fabula), Productions, Killer Films, CYRK Middle East (excl. Israel & Turkey) Contact: Jessica Lacy / ICM Jackie (Gulf), South Africa (Ster), USA Partners Premiere: None (Fox), Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Email: [email protected] Section: Limelight Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Phone: +1 310 550 4440 Director(s): Pablo Larraín Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Logline: Isaac Lachmann is forty. Prod. Countries: USA Venezuela, Pay TV, Latin America His acting career is bogged down, Prod. Year: 2016 (Sun), Australia, New Zealand (E1) he is a major disappointment for Length: 91 his family and, to add insult to Genre: Fiction Katie Says Goodbye injury, his blind girlfriend leaves Prod. Company: Jackie Productions Premiere: None him. A striking first feature, full of Contact: Kimberly Fox / IMR Section: Bright Future creativity and humour with a Email: [email protected] Director(s): Wayne Roberts wonderful cast (comedian Brett Phone: +1 310 858 1001 Prod. Countries: USA Gelman, Michael Cera, Judy Greer, Logline: “I won’t let you write that Prod. Year: 2016 Nia Long). down”, Jackie says to her Length: 88 Sold territories: - interviewer, a slight smile playing Genre: Fiction across her face, after getting too Prod. Company: Relic Pictures Marjorie Prime personal. However, we see it all, in Contact: Sebastien Chesneau / Premiere: International premiere this first English-language film by Cercamon Section: Voices Chilean master Pablo Larraín, Email: [email protected] Director(s): Michael Almereyda about Jackie Kennedy in the days Phone: +33 142467221 Prod. Countries: USA after JFK’s assassination. The Logline: A waitress in a small town Prod. Year: 2017 widely lauded Natalie Portman in Arizona dreams of starting a new Length: 98 puts in an intense and intimate life in San Francisco. When she Genre: Crossmedia Project performance in the title role. falls in love with a handsome Prod. Company: Passage Pictures Trailer: mechanic, it looks like her dreams Contact: Nadine de Barros / https://www.youtube.com/watch? will become reality. But Fortitude International v=VkNXE43PktU unfortunately, the world is not as Email: Sold territories: France (BAC good as Katie. Heart-breaking [email protected] Films), Benelux (Searchers), debut with an excellent cast. Phone: +1 323 533 3630 Switzerland (Monopole Pathe), Sold territories: - Logline: What would we remember Canada (Fox), Airlines (Skeye), and what would we forget if we Germany (Tobis), Spain (Vertigo), Lemon could choose? In a near future, 86- Greece (Feel Good), UK (E1), Italy Premiere: International premiere year-old Marjorie has (Lucky Red), Portugal Section: Voices conversations with a hologram that (Cinemundo), Scandinavia Director(s): Janicza Bravo resembles her dead husband. He’s (Scanbox), Yugoslavia (Blitz), Prod. Countries: USA programmed to share Marjorie’s Hungary, CZ Republic (Mozinet), Prod. Year: 2017 past with her. A fascinating film Romania (P4M), Baltic States Length: 87 about identity and memory, love (Cinema Prestige), Poland Genre: Film and loss, played by great actors.

Nominated for the VPRO Big Amazon Studios people problem." Screen Award. Contact: Carl Clifton / K5 Trailer: Sold territories: - International https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] v=akTcHdqwycI Moonlight Phone: +44 203 2865575 Sold territories: All available Premiere: None Logline: Paterson (Adam Driver) Section: Black Rebels gets up at six a.m., drives his bus, Super Dark Times Director(s): Barry Jenkins comes home at to his wife Premiere: World premiere Prod. Countries: USA Golshifteh Farahani at six p.m., Section: Bright Future Prod. Year: 2016 walks the dog and has a beer at his Director(s): Kevin Phillips Length: 111 local bar. Every day. In the Prod. Countries: USA Genre: Fiction meantime, he writes poetry. Prod. Year: 2017 Prod. Company: A24 , Plan B Jarmusch is the loving observer of Length: 100 Entertainment this loving observer. A small oasis Genre: Fiction Contact: David Fenkel / A24 of a film. Prod. Company: Ways & Means, Email: [email protected] Trailer: Neighborhood Watch , Om Films, Phone: +1 646 568 6015 https://www.youtube.com/watch? Lila 9th Productions Logline: American indie sensation v=aEpbvTVq4P4 Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou shows the life of an Afro-American Sold territories: - / The Match Factory GmbH man as he grows from the poor son Email: of a single junkie mother to be a Rat Film thania.dimitrakopoulou@matchfa tough adult continually wracked Premiere: None ctory.de with doubt. This poetic narration Section: Bright Future Phone: +49 30443190555 about the exploration of identity, Director(s): Theo Anthony Logline: A terrible accident sexuality and bonding is pioneering Prod. Countries: USA transforms best friends from high in its tender portrayal of black Prod. Year: 2016 school Zach and Josh into enemies. manhood. It has already won many Length: 82 This ambitious thriller is set in the prizes. Genre: Creative Documentary American suburbs of the early Trailer: Prod. Company: MEMORY 1990s – the pre-Columbine era. A https://www.youtube.com/watch? Contact: Ania Trzebiatowska / refreshing debut, searching for the v=deK-AnvCspo Visit Films boundaries between adolescence Sold territories: - Email: [email protected] and adulthood, courage and fear, Phone: +1 323 3607277 good and evil. Paterson Logline: By following the rats, Theo Sold territories: North American Premiere: None Anthony reveals economic and sales handled by United Talent Section: Limelight racial segregation in the city of Agency (UTA) Director(s): Jim Jarmusch Baltimore. A survey of the history, Prod. Countries: USA social problems and inequalities of Tonsler Park Prod. Year: 2016 Baltimore in the form of a highly Premiere: World premiere Length: 118 visual, creative documentary. Section: Signatures Genre: Fiction "There's never been a rat problem Director(s): Kevin Jerome Everson Prod. Company: Animal Kingdom, in Baltimore – it's always been a Prod. Countries: USA

Prod. Year: 2017 post-war art than many people may Jean of the Joneses Length: 80 think. From the godfather of The Premiere: None Genre: Creative Documentary Velvet Underground and Section: Voices Prod. Company: Trilobite-ArtsDAC progenitor of minimal music to Director(s): Stella Meghie , Picture Palace Pictures drone-filming hero, and from Prod. Countries: USA, Canada Contact: Madeleine Molyneaux / radical filmmaker to activist video- Prod. Year: 2016 Picture Palace Pictures maker and conceptual performer: a Length: 82 Email: [email protected] portrait of an all-round, extremely Genre: Fiction Phone: +1 212 2523187 loveable avant-gardist. Prod. Company: Circle Blue Films Logline: Election Day, 8 November Trailer: Contact: Luke Rogers 2016. In Tonsler Park, https://www.youtube.com/watch? Email: [email protected] Charlottesville, the workers in the v=P9hBmGfq8pM Phone: +424 288 2000 polling station hand out voting Sold territories: All available Logline: The return of a relative slips and see rows of voters pass by. feared lost – and his death a few Democracy in action. While Two Trains Runnin' seconds later – forms the start of a everyone has to make an important Premiere: None difficult family reminiscence in this choice on this day, the Section: Scopitone intelligent, promising debut about documentary mainly records the Director(s): Sam Pollard the lives of five outspoken women hubbub in the room: the voice of Prod. Countries: USA from a dysfunctional Jamaican- the people. Prod. Year: 2016 American family. Trailer: Length: 82 Sold territories: - https://www.youtube.com/watch? Genre: Creative Documentary v=c0NAblNQBYA Prod. Company: Avalon Films, Scumbag Sold territories: All available Freedom Road Productions Premiere: World premiere Contact: John Beug Section: A Band Apart Tony Conrad: Completely Email: [email protected] Director(s): Mars Roberge in the Present Phone: +310-451-3404 Prod. Countries: USA, Canada Premiere: None Logline: 1964, some young, white Prod. Year: 2017 Section: Regained blues fans go in search of two Length: 114 Director(s): Tyler Hubby legends they only know from 78 Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: USA RPM records, Skip James and Son Prod. Company: World Prod. Year: 2016 House, and end up in the eye of a Domination Pictures, Inc., Length: 96 racial storm that led to civil rights Infinitfilm Genre: Creative Documentary and new inspiration for folk Contact: Mars Roberge Prod. Company: Sixty Cycle Hum, singers. A painfully contemporary Email: [email protected] LLC, Burning Bridges story. Phone: +347 323 7584 Contact: Paul Williams / Burning Trailer: Logline: A young hipster fights for Bridges https://www.youtube.com/watch? his sanity as he joins a Email: [email protected] v=DMXHwxkJkIM telemarketing company, full of Phone: +44 7595 902255 Sold territories: All available crazy workers, ex-convicts and Logline: Jack-of-all-trades Tony murderers. It’s anarchy on the Conrad had a bigger influence on

phone line and in this dark comedy on self-fulfilment under extreme FOR FURTHER INFORMATION conditions, showcasing a plethora CONTACT: of legendary faces from the US Nikolas Montaldi underground culture. Trailer: Jasper van Quekelberghe https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=1DA5eLTZ6kk IFFR PRO - Film Office //The Sold territories: All available Filmmakers Hub International Film Festival Vietnam Rotterdam Tel: +31.10.8909090

Kfc Fax: +31.10.8909091 Premiere: None Section: Bright Future [email protected] Director(s): Lê Bình Giang www.IFFR.com Prod. Countries: Vietnam

Prod. Year: 2016 Length: 69 Genre: Fiction Prod. Company: VBLOCK Media Contact: Lê Bình Giang / VBLOCK Media Email: [email protected] Phone: +84 903 681328 Logline: A necrophilic doctor, a man wearing headphones and a bunch of cannibals are just a few of the characters in this bizarre debut by director Lê Bình Giang about the cyclical effect of violence. Be warned, this Vietnamese 'body horror' does not have a late evening slot for nothing! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Mp1M-PXzpM0 Sold territories: All available