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feature films 2014 9 Amour Fou 10 Clownwise 11 Darling Trap 12 Die Erfindung der Liebe 13 Fieber 14 Le goût des myrtilles 15 Les âmes de papier 16 Love eternal 17 Merry Christmess 18 Never Die Young 19 Post Partum 20 Puppy Love 21 Standby 22 Succès Fox 23 Tante Hilda 24 The Golden Horse 25 The last diamond 26 The strange colour of your body’s tears 27 Wiplala 28 6 feature films 2015 29 108 Demon-Kings 30 Baby(a)lone 31 Black Harvest 32 Brabançonne 33 Colonia Dignidad 34 Disappeared in winter 35 Dreams have a language 36 Eng nei Zäit 37 Extraordinary Tales 38 Faustino 39 Foreign affairs 40 La volante 41 Le chant des hommes 42 Le tout nouveau testament 43 L’enquête 44 Mammal 45 Mammejong 46 Melody 47 Mullewapp 48 Ooops! Noah is gone... 49
index Préjudice 50 Secrets of War 51 Song of the Sea 52 Soundhunters 53 Sunset Song 54 The Robbers 55 Thorium, the far side of nuclear power 56 Tout, tout de suite 57 Voices from Chernobyl (La supplication) 58
feature films 2016 59 Egon Schiele 60 Ethel & Ernest 61 Funan, le peuple nouveau 62 Les survivants 63 Richard the Stork 64 The dark side of the moon 65 The night of a thousand hours 66 Tout de suite maintenant 67
upcoming 69 7
production companies 77
index feature films 9 2014 10 PRODUCTION AMOUR FOU AMOUR FOU Luxembourg – Bady Jessica Hausner Minck & Alexander Dumreicher- Ivanceanu, Coop99 Filmproduktion (A), Essential Filmproduktion (D) “Amour Fou” deals with the ambivalence and absurdity inherent SCRIPT in the very concept of two people committing suicide because of Jessica Hausner their love for one another. This act aims on the yearning to escape GENRE the inevitability of death through love, to avoid dying alone and Drama LANGUAGE to oppose the power of mortality over humankind by dictating the German terms of one´s death. However, the fundamental absurdity lies RUN TIME in the fact that the joint act cannot be experienced jointly in any 96 min CAST complete sense, since love is fickle and everybody - in the end – Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, must die alone. Stephan Grossmann, Peter Jordan, Marie-Paule von Roesgen, Marc Bischoff, Nickel Bösenberg, Josiane Peiffer INTERNATIONAL SALES Coproduction Office Olimpia Pont Cháfer T +49 30 32 77 78 79 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION CLOWNWISE 11 Tarantula Luxembourg – Donato Viktor Taus Rotunno, Fog’n’Desire Films (CZ), Sokol Kollàr (SK), Kinosto Oy (FI)
Oskar, Max and Viktor, once a superstar clown trio split up over a SCRIPT Petr Jarchorvsky, Viktor Taus heartbreaking fight. Now they’re paying the price of thirty years GENRE of separate grueling lives on and off the stage. Their irresistible Drama sense of humor is challenged by the proximity of the physical end LANGUAGE Czech, French and other joys of old age. RUN TIME 120 min CAST Didier Flamand, Julie Ferrier, Kati Outinen, Jiri Labus, Oldrich Kaiser, Eva Jenickova INTERNATIONAL SALES Latido Films Miren Zamora T +34 655 887 927 [email protected]
feature films 2014 12 PRODUCTION DARLING TRAP Iris Productions - Nicolas Steil, Catherine Castel Iris Films (B), La Mouche du Coche (F)
Family Court Judge Clémence lives with Gabriel, who she is very SCRIPT Catherine Castel, Marc Syrigas, much in love with. However, she is jealous and suspects him of Jacques Fieschi cheating on her. One day, she decides to put his faithfulness to GENRE the test during a trip on an island. Comedy LANGUAGE French RUN TIME 90 min CAST Audrey Fleurot, Zabou Breitman, Olivier Marchal INTERNATIONAL SALES The Bureau Sales T +33 1 40 33 33 87 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION DIE ERFINDUNG DER LIEBE 13 Red Lion – Lola Randl Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben, Coin Film (D), WDR (D), Bayerischer Rundfunk (D) “Die Erfindung der Liebe” is the story of an eccentric ménage- SCRIPT à-trois. Emily and Daniel heroically save the life of a terminally Lola Randl ill millionaire, not realizing that the woman was actually trying GENRE to commit suicide. Emily, who is young, ambitious, creative but Drama LANGUAGE penniless, comes up with the idea for her boyfriend to seduce the German millionaire to get their hands on her inheritance. Unfortunately RUN TIME love cannot be controlled, so when Daniel and the millionaire 92 min CAST really do fall in love, Emily loses a lot more than she had bargained Mario Adorf, Maria Kwiatkowsky, for… A bizarre story of love sold. Sunnyi Melles, Luc Feit, Andre Jung, Samuel Finzi INTERNATIONAL SALES Coin Films T +49 221 32 20 53 [email protected]
feature films 2014 14 PRODUCTION FIEBER AMOUR FOU Luxembourg – Elfi Mikesch Bady Minck & Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, AMOUR FOU Vienna (A), Franziska, a renowned photographer, is on a journey to come to SCRIPT terms with her past. Along the way she’s haunted by memories of Elfi Mikesch her youth and of her father’s strange behavior when he returned GENRE from his time in the french Légion Étrangère in North Africa. He Drama LANGUAGE was haunted by images of what he saw during the colonial wars, German, French, Serbian and was not able to deal with it when he returned home. Franziska RUN TIME is now ready to cope with her childhood memories, which she kept 80 min CAST a secret for too long. Eva Mattes, Martin Wuttke, Nicole Max, Carolina Cardoso, Sascha Ley, Luc Feit, André Jung, Nilton Martins INTERNATIONAL SALES East West Filmdistribution Sasha Wieser T +43 1 524 93 10 34 M +43 664 233 84 11 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION LE GOÛT DES MYRTILLES 15 Red Lion – Thomas de Thier Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben, Novak Productions (B)
Jeanne and Michel, divorced old couple, are used to reunite each SCRIPT Thomas de Thier other every year to visit the grave of their son. GENRE The journey lead them this time into a ballad on the forest, a Drama daydream quest, with maybe no end. LANGUAGE French RUN TIME 90 min CAST Michel Piccoli, Natasha Parry INTERNATIONAL SALES Novak Prod T +32 2 736 27 62 [email protected]
feature films 2014 16 PRODUCTION LES ÂMES DE PAPIER Samsa Film – Claude Waringo, Vincent Lannoo Artémis Productions (B), Liaison Cinématographique (F), Nord-Ouest Films (F), RTBF (B), Belgacom (B) Paul is a novelist having put his career aside to write funeral SCRIPT orations since the death of his wife. During his spare time, he François Uzan tries to help his old neighbour Victor to get rid of the memories of GENRE his brother, who died in the camps. Emma, also a widow, would Comedy LANGUAGE like to help her son pronounce once again the name of his father French after a year of silence. Paul and Emma meet at a funeral and their RUN TIME collaboration will quickly turn into romance. 100 min CAST Stéphane Guillon, Julie Gayet, Jonathan Zaccaï, Pierre Richard INTERNATIONAL SALES Films Distribution [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION LOVE ETERNAL 17 Red Lion – Brendan Muldowney Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben, Fastnet Films (IE), Rinkel Film (NL), T.O. Entertainment (JP) Based on the Japanese novel Loving the Dead from acclaimed SCRIPT author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper), the film Brendan Muldowney centres on a damaged young man who after shutting himself away GENRE for ten years is forced to venture out into a world that he no longer Drama LANGUAGE understands. English RUN TIME 90 min CAST Robert de Hoog, Pollyanna McIntosh, Amanda Ryan INTERNATIONAL SALES Reel Suspects Matteo Lovadina T + 33 1 58 51 42 95 [email protected]
feature films 2014 18 PRODUCTION MERRY CHRISTMESS Iris Productions – Nicolas Steil, Olivier Doran Iris Films (B), Thelma Films (F)
SCRIPT The holidays turn into a nightmare when John’s new wife, Sarah, Monica Rolfner, Olivier Doran, Patrick Lefèbvre hosts a Christmas Eve party at her country house for the whole GENRE family, kids and ex-husbands included, and announces she is Comedy pregnant. But John is not fertile. LANGUAGE French RUN TIME 100 min CAST Emilie Dequenne, Géraldine Pailhas,Sami Bouajila INTERNATIONAL SALES TF1 International T + 33 1 41 41 21 68 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION NEVER DIE YOUNG 19 Red Lion – Pol Cruchten Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben
SCRIPT Guido is only 15 years old when he starts selling heroin to pay for Pol Cruchten GENRE his own consumption and is rapidly confronted with the justice Drama, Documentary department. LANGUAGE The occurrence marking his life forever occurs when he’s 20 years French RUN TIME old. Trying to escape from a police department, where he was just 66 min brought to, Guido throws himself head first off an eight-meter high CAST wall. He miraculously survives the fall, but remains paralyzed for Robinson Stévenin, Laurence Cote INTERNATIONAL SALES the rest of his life. EastWest Filmdistribution At the re-education center, despite the wheelchair he’s stuck to Sasha Wieser day after day, his addiction remains as lively as ever. T +43 664 233 84 11 [email protected]
feature films 2014 20 PRODUCTION POST PARTUM Paul Thiltges Distributions & Delphine Noels Juliette Films – David Grumbach & Paul Thiltges, Frakas Productions (B), Balthazar Productions (F) Luce and Ulysse love each other. They live a full and happy life SCRIPT managing their own little veterinary clinic on the Atlantic coast. David Lambert, Delphine Noels Luce is awaiting a happy event. The future looks good. At least GENRE at first sight. But when baby Rose arrives, nothing goes as Drama LANGUAGE planned. Luce is out of her depth before the constant crying of her French baby. Why does the baby cry so? Is she trying to warn her about RUN TIME something? Could it be that the little family is in danger? 95 min CAST Mélanie Doutey, Jalil Lespert, Françoise Fabian INTERNATIONAL SALES Frakas Productions T +32 4 231 38 63 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION PUPPY LOVE 21 Paul Thiltges Distributions & Delphine Lehericey Juliette Films – David Grumbach & Paul Thiltges, Entre Chien et Loup (B), Liaison Cinématographique (F), Box Productions (CH) At 14, Diane is an enigmatic teenager. She is busy bringing up her little brother, Marc, and has an intense relationship with her SCRIPT father, Christian. The appearance of Julia, a young charismatic, Martin Coiffier, Delphine Lehericey and emancipated English girl, in her neighbourhood turns Diane´s GENRE Romance everyday life upside down. Diane wants to break the bounds of LANGUAGE childhood at any price. Closer to Julia, she turns her back on French morality, paying no attention to the consequences or limits of her RUN TIME 85 min desires. CAST Solène Rigot, Audrey Bastien, Vincent Perez INTERNATIONAL SALES Latido Films T +34 915 488 878 [email protected]
feature films 2014 22 PRODUCTION STANDBY Paul Thiltges Distributions & Rob Burke, Ronan Burke Juliette Films – David Grumbach & Paul Thiltges, Black Sheep Productions (IE) Alan (28) works at the Tourist Information Desk in Dublin Airport. SCRIPT Alice is an American on standby in the airport. Eight years ago, Pierce Ryan Alan and Alice had a romance which ended badly. Now every hotel GENRE room in Dublin is booked out. Despite initial frostiness Alan offers Romance LANGUAGE Alice a room in his house to stay the night. They will spend the English evening getting to know each other again. Both will tell lies about RUN TIME how well the last eight years have gone, however gradually, they 90 min CAST will come to realise that perhaps they are more compatible than Jessica Paré, Brian Gleeson they ever were before. “Standby” is about what happens when INTERNATIONAL SALES your twenties don’t go how you planned. Black Sheep Productions T +353 87 926 8819 Its about falling in love, with a girl and a city again. [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION SUCCÈS FOX 23 Deal Productions – Désirée Nosbusch Alexandra Hoesdorff & Désirée Nosbusch, CNA
A journey through the life and career of Fernand Fox, as well as a SCRIPT Désirée Nosbusch, Marc Limpach ride through the Luxembourg theatre, TV and film world from the GENRE fifties to now. A portrait of the actor, as Luxembourg knows him, Documentary - Biography and an intimate look at the other side of Fernand, the person. As LANGUAGE Luxembourgish, French subtitles he played in over 120 theatre productions and films, the story of RUN TIME his career is also the story of the development of Luxembourg’s 80 min theatre and early film scene. CAST Fernand Fox and friends INTERNATIONAL SALES Paul Thiltges Distributions T +352 25 03 93 [email protected]
feature films 2014 24 PRODUCTION TANTE HILDA Melusine Productions – Stéphan Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Benoît Chieux Roelants, Folimage (F), Rhône- Alpes Cinéma (F), France3, SND (F)
Aunt Hilda, a nature lover, preserves thousands of plants, many SCRIPT Jacques-Rémy Girerd, of them endangered species, from all over the world in her Iouri Tcherenkov, Benoît Chieux vegetation museum. Meanwhile, industrialists have developed GENRE a new cereal, Attilem, producing fabulous yields, and farmable Adventure LANGUAGE with so little water, and no fertilizer, that it seems a miraculous French solution to the world’s food problems and a replacement for RUN TIME decreasing oil reserves. But disaster looms on the horizon... 89 min VOICES Sabine Azéma (Hilda), Josiane Balasko (Dolorès), Gilles Détroit (Le Président), François Morel (Ike), Bruno Lochet (Turner) INTERNATIONAL SALES SND Tristan Martin T +33 1 41 92 59 52 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION THE GOLDEN HORSE 25 Paul Thiltges Distributions – Reinis Kalnaellis Paul Thiltges, Rija Films (LV), Copenhagen Bombay (DK), Vilanimos Filmu Studija (LT) Seven years of captivity is ended and grief turns to joy when a SCRIPT virtuous young man rescues the princess to win her hand and the Cécile Somers, Signe Baumane throne. GENRE The kingdom is grief stricken for seven years, as their princess Adventure LANGUAGE sleeps atop an ice mountain, held captive by an old witch who English takes power by collecting their endless tears. A virtuous young RUN TIME villager persists in trying until, with the help of a Golden Horse, he 75 min INTERNATIONAL SALES saves the princess and wins the throne. Paul Thiltges Distributions T +352 25 03 93 [email protected]
feature films 2014 26 PRODUCTION THE LAST DIAMOND Bidibul Productions – Eric Barbier Lilian Eche & Christel Henon, Vertigo Productions (F), Scope Pictures (B), CN3 Productions (F) Simon, a thief on probation, agrees to rise on the biggest blow of SCRIPT his life: the theft of the “Florentin”, mythical diamond put on sale Eric Barbier, Trân-Minh Nam, by auction by his owners. To succeed he will have to approach Marie Eynard Julia, an expert diamond dealer for whom the sales constitutes GENRE Thriller a considerable personal and family stake. Beyond a particularly LANGUAGE dared theft, Simon will pull Julia towards a fate which she French wouldn’t have been able to imagine. RUN TIME 108 min CAST Yvan Attal,Bérénice Bejo, Jean-François Stevenin, Antoine Basler, Jacques Spiesser, Annie Cordy INTERNATIONAL SALES Other Angle Pictures T +33 9 54 88 02 41 [email protected]
feature films 2014 PRODUCTION THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR 27 Red Lion – Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben, BODY’S TEARS Tobina Film (F), Anonymes Films (B), Epidemic (B) Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
SCRIPT Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange GENRE circumstances of her disappearance. Drama LANGUAGE Did she leave him? Is she dead? French As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare RUN TIME and violence... 90 min CAST Klaus Tange, Sam Louwyck, Joe Koener, Sylvia Camarda, Anna Katina INTERNATIONAL SALES Bac Films T +33 1 53 53 52 52 [email protected]
feature films 2014 28 PRODUCTION WIPLALA Samsa Film – Jani Thiltges, Tim Oliehoek Bos Bros (NL), Ciné Cri du Coeur (B)
SCRIPT Seven-year-old Johannes Blom gets blown away when he Tamara Bos based on the novel by discovers a little man in the kitchen cupboard, hidden behind the Annie M.G. Schmidt peanut butter jar. He’s even more astonished when he realizes GENRE that this little man, “Wiplala”, has magical powers. When Wiplala Family comedy LANGUAGE accidentally transforms the Blom family to little people, the Dutch, Luxembourgish adventure begins. Will they ever go back to normal-sized people? RUN TIME 93 min CAST Geza Weisz, Sasha Mylanus, Kee Ketelaar, Peter Paul Muller INTERNATIONAL SALES In the Air Family Entertainment [email protected] T +31 (0)23 700 97 89
feature films 2014 feature films 29 2015 30 PRODUCTION 108 DEMON-KINGS Bidibul Productions – Pascal Morelli Lilian Eche & Christel Henon, Same Player (F), Scope Pictures (B), Fundamental (Chine) The Kings Demons terrorize all the country. To overcome these SCRIPT monsters, it would be necessary to have the courage of 100 Pascal Morelli, Jean Pecheux tigers, the force of 1000 buffaloes, the trick of as many snakes… based on “Au Bord de l’eau” and a great deal of luck. Young prince Duan has only his romantic (Shui hu-zhuan) GENRE illusions and plumpness. Zhang-the-perfect has only its stick of Comedy monk and a whole incomprehensible heap of proverbs. The small LANGUAGE beggar Pei Pei has only her glibness and her great appetite. French RUN TIME But especially, Prince Duan, the old monk and the small beggar did 100 min not know that it was impossible to overcome the Kings Demons. INTERNATIONAL SALES Then they did it! Europa Corp T +33 1 55 99 50 55
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION BABY(A)LONE 31 Iris Productions – Nicolas Steil, Donato Rotunno Iris Films (B)
SCRIPT No matter how many times X moves or changes his school, it does Tullio Forgiarini, Donato Rotunno, Nicolas Steil. Based on the novel not work. He’s always in conflict with the educational system. “Amok” by Tullio Forgiarini. This time again he is called in a disciplinary committee for acts of GENRE violence. Drama LANGUAGE Luxembourgish X barely avoids the reform school by accepting to integrate the RUN TIME mosaic class, a special class for youngsters underperforming at 96 min CAST school. X is impressed by the patience and the devotion of the Joshua Defays, Charlotte Elsen, supervising educators and teachers, especially Nathalie, a young Etienne Halsdorf educator for whom he develops some ambiguous feelings. CONTACT [email protected] www.theirisgroup.eu When Shirley enters his life, everything is shaken and the The Festival Agency - dangerous spiral begins. Fascinated by the wild vitality of the Leslie Vuchot [email protected] young girl, X is ready to do everything to please and to protect her T +33 954 904 863 even in accepting her excess of violence, drug and alcohol.
feature films 2015 32 PRODUCTION BLACK HARVEST ANTEVITA FILMS – Raoul Nadalet Jean-Louis Schuller, Sean Clark
SCRIPT Jean-Louis Schuller, Sean Clark In the heart of North Dakota’s formidable terrain, an oil boom GENRE Documentary - Investigation brings both promise and foreboding. For some, the boom will be LANGUAGE their saving grace, for others a devastating misfortune. In a rapidly English, French subtitles industrializing landscape, newcomers and long-time residents RUN TIME 87 min find themselves in a struggling environment where stakes are high INTERNATIONAL SALES and the future is far from certain. ANTEVITA FILMS Marie-Anne Theriez T +352 661 846 721 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION BRABANÇONNE 33 Samsa Film – Jani Thiltges, Vincent Bal Eyeworks (B), Entre Chien et Loup (B)
Belgium. Two brass bands. A Walloon (En Avant) and a Flemish SCRIPT Vincent Bal, Pierre de Clercq (Sint-Cecilia). A title game: Best Orchestra of the European GENRE Community. The winner will have the privilege of representing Musical Europe through a world tour… LANGUAGE French, Dutch RUN TIME 100 min CAST Arthur Dupont, Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Erika Sainte INTERNATIONAL SALES Be For Films T +32 4 898 02 123 [email protected]
feature films 2015 34 PRODUCTION COLONIA DIGNIDAD Iris Productions - Nicolas Steil, Florian Gallenberger Majestic Filmproduktion (D)
SCRIPT The Chilean coup of 1973. The masses are out on the streets, Florian Gallenberger, Torsten Wenzel protesting against General Pinochet. Amongst them are DANIEL, a GENRE German student, and his girlfriend, Lena, a Lufthansa stewardess, Thriller who just arrived in Santiago the day before. The young couple LANGUAGE English is arrested and taken to the national stadium like thousands RUN TIME of protesters. There the nightmare unfolds. People are shot on 110 min the spot, others are abducted. Lena witnesses Daniel being CAST Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, thrown into a van and disappearing. Lena starts to investigate Michael Nyqvist, Vicky Krieps, what happened to Daniel. She finds out that he was most likely Martin Wuttke, Richenda Carey, deported to a secret interrogation camp located underground Jeanne Werner, Steve Karier, August Zirner beneath the infamous Colonia Dignidad; a German sect following INTERNATIONAL SALES the leadership of notorious Paul Schäfer. The vast compound Beta Films inhabited by the sect is sealed off from the outside world like a T +49 89 673469 - 80 [email protected] fortress. Desperate to rescue her boyfriend, Lena sees only one chance, to join the mysterious cult and become a member of Colonia Dignidad.
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION DISAPPEARED IN WINTER 35 Iris Productions – Nicolas Steil, Christophe Lamotte Iris Films (B), Hugo Productions (F)
SCRIPT Fifty-year-old Daniel Vernant, an ex-cop turned debt collector, Pierre Chosson, Christophe Lamotte fulfils his “dirty work” without emotion or tact. GENRE Drama One winter’s day, on a roadside restaurant car park, eighteen- LANGUAGE French year-old Laura asks him to give her a lift. He accepts. As they are RUN TIME driving along, she offers her “services” for cash. A furious Daniel 100 min throws her out of the car. CAST Kad Merad, Geraldine Pailhas, Pierre Perrier, Lola Creton, Under the shock of this encounter, Daniel meets his ex-wife Jérôme Varanfrain, Christine, who has asked to see him. Having split up when their Marie-Paule von Roesgen daughter died, a strong tie still binds them. The next day, Daniel goes to see Mrs Savielli to collect her instalment. The old woman is worried. Her granddaughter, with whom she lived, has been missing for two days. Daniel recognises Laura from a photograph. Terribly troubled, he offers to help the old woman.
feature films 2015 36 PRODUCTION DREAMS HAVE A LANGUAGE Tarantula Luxembourg - Donato Rotunno, Sylvie Blocher Elise André
SCRIPT The Dreams Have a Language project in Mudam is the starting Donato Rotunno, Sylvie Blocher GENRE point for a film, directed by Donato Rotunno and Sylvie Blocher. Science-fiction Some meetings, some conversations, some of the stories LANGUAGE recounted, some particularly meaningful moments of people rising French RUN TIME up in the air, whether beautiful, intense or fragile, that occurred 60 min during the project and exhibition will be used as raw materials CAST for a joint work of film writing that will result in the shooting of Shaun Ross, Michel Tereba, Luc Spada several sequences played by actors. Combining a documentary INTERNATIONAL SALES and fictional writing approach, the film will offer an assemblage of Tarantula Distribution words, gestures, moments that open up imagination, expectation T +352 26 49 611 [email protected] and suspense.
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION ENG NEI ZÄIT 37 Samsa Film - Claude Waringo, Christophe Wagner Artemis Productions (B)
SCRIPT 1945. Jules comes home from fighting in the French backlands. Viviane Thill, Christophe Wagner GENRE He works to reconstruct his life in a country ravaged by four years Drama of war. When his fiancée is found murdered along with a German LANGUAGE farmer’s family at her work place, Jules, employed as constable, Luxembourgish RUN TIME takes part in the police inquest. His quest for truth quickly comes 100 min up against the authorities’ efforts to bury the shady parts of the CAST occupation years. Luc Schiltz, Eugénie Anselin, Jules Werner, Fabienne Hollwege, Christian Kmiotek, André Jung, Elsa Rauchs, Jean-Paul Maes, Luc Feit INTERNATIONAL SALES Samsa Film T +352 45 19 60-1 [email protected]
feature films 2015 38 PRODUCTION EXTRAORDINARY TALES Melusine Productions – Stéphan Raul Garcia Roelants, Melon Digital S.L. (ES), R&R Communications (USA), The Big Farm (B) An anthology of five animated tales based on classic Edgar SCRIPT A. Poe stories presented in a feature film format. Through his Raul Garcia, Stéphan Roelants encounters with the Raven, Poe is given one last chance to divert GENRE his destiny in a series of macabre adventures. Using sophisticated Fantasy LANGUAGE 3D rendering and lighting techniques, each segment will visually English express the graphic universe of illustration masters, thus visually RUN TIME matching the expressionist genius of Poe’s writing. 70 min VOICES Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo Del Toro, Roger Corman INTERNATIONAL SALES Gilles Sousa, Head of Sales T +33 1 53 53 52 34 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION FAUSTINO 39 Juliette Films – Paul Thiltges Andy Bausch
SCRIPT Andy Bausch Fausti is best known for his popular music, entertaining the GENRE Biography Päischt-Croisière and playing at carnival balls. A lesser-known LANGUAGE fact is that Luxembourg’s most popular entertainer is a versatile Luxembourgish and accomplished musician. His music range includes jazz, RUN TIME 90 min tango, swing and, of course, popular music. All of which he’s been performing for more than 63 years.
Faustino One-man-show is a cheerful, close and loving look at more than six decades of show business in Luxembourg, by director Andy Bausch.
feature films 2015 40 PRODUCTION FOREIGN AFFAIRS LES FILMS FAUVES - Gilles Chanial Pasha Rafiy
SCRIPT Pasha Rafiy Presidents, Foreign Ministers and diplomats negociate the world GENRE Documentary, Investigation order every day. They seem restless, flying all over the planet, LANGUAGE every step being covered by all kinds of media. From summit to Luxembourguish, English, summit, meeting to meeting. Among friends and enemies. German, French RUN TIME “Foreign Affairs” ist a cinematic “Fly on the Wall” portrait of the 90 min luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn. The documentary INTERNATIONAL SALES has a sober view on a complex job alternating between hope and LES FILMS FAUVES 115A rue Emile Mark disbelief, rush and quiet. L-4620 Differdange Through the access of the Minister we get the closest view on [email protected] world politics and establish a contemporary political environment. We see a man on the run showing daily rituals of diplomacy, backroom negociations and the behaviour among world leaders. Luxembourg plays an alternating role in the landscape of power. From an almost unknown country in some parts of the world, to a member of the U.N. Security Council and the presidency of the European Union. This alternation between the big and the small is a recurring aspect of this film.
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION LA VOLANTE 41 Tarantula Luxembourg - Christophe Ali, Nicolas Bonilauri Donato Rotunno, Tom Dercourt (Cinema DeFacto), Patrick Quinet (Artemis) Marie-France, a headstrong 52 year old civil servant with a long SCRIPT service record, has just been hired as a temp secretary in the Christophe Ali and Nicolas administrative department headed by Thomas, an arrogant and Bonilauri, Jacques Sotty, Philippe much younger manager. Blasband GENRE The scene is set for a clash. But against all odds, she takes on the Thriller, Drama role of a mother figure, and gradually makes herself indispensable LANGUAGE to Thomas and his young son, whom he raises alone since his French RUN TIME divorce. Yet the secretary’s arrival is no coincidence. Seven years 90 min before, Marie-France lost her son in a road accident. From that day CAST on, she’s sworn revenge. Nathalie Baye, Malik Zidi, Johan Leysen, Sabrina Seyvecou, Jean- Stan Du Pac, Pierre-Alain Chapuis, Hervé Sogne, Claudine Pelletier, Aissatou Diop, Gilles Soeder, Valérie Bodson... INTERNATIONAL SALES Bac Films T +33 1 53 53 52 52 [email protected] feature films 2015 42 PRODUCTION LE CHANT DES HOMMES Tarantula Luxembourg – Donato Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jimenez Rotunno,Tarantula Belgique (B), JBA Productions (F)
A handful of migrants without papers decide to start a hunger SCRIPT Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jimenez strike. Day by day, overcoming the violence that they inflict upon GENRE themselves, they discover the greatness of their true cause. From Drama this realisation they learn to affirm their common humanity. LANGUAGE French, Arabic RUN TIME 90 min CAST Maryam Zarée, Assaâd Bouab, Sam Louwyck, Ahmet Rifat, Zeïnabou Diori, Claude Frisoni INTERNATIONAL SALES Tarantula Luxembourg T +352 26 49 61-1 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT 43 Juliette Films – David Grumbach, Jaco Van Dormael Terra Incognita Films (B), Après le déluge (F)
Set in Jaco Van Dormael’s native Belgium, The Brand New SCRIPT Jaco van Dormael, Thomas Gunzig Testament is a surreal comedy in which God is a real life character GENRE who lives in Brussels. On earth though, God is a coward, with Dramatic comedy pathetical morals and being odious with his family. His daughter, LANGUAGE French Ea, is bored at home and can’t stand being locked up in a small RUN TIME apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt 110 against her dad, hacks his computer and leaks to the entire world CAST Benoît Poelvoorde, Pili Groyne, their fatale date of death, causing everyone to suddenly have to Catherine Deneuve, Yolande think about what to do with the days, months, years they have left Moreau, François Damiens, to live… Laura Verlinden, Serge Larivière, Didier De Neck, Romain Gelin, Marco Lorenzini INTERNATIONAL SALES Le Pacte T +33 1 44 69 59 59 [email protected]
feature films 2015 44 PRODUCTION L’ENQUÊTE Samsa Film – Claude Waringo, Vincent Garenq Nord-Ouest Films (F), Artémis Productions (B), France 3 Cinéma (F), Belgacom (B) 2001. The journalist Denis Robert sets the world of finance ablaze SCRIPT when he exposes Clearstream Banking’s opaque operations. In Vincent Garenq, Stéphane Cabel, his search for the truth and his attempt to reveal the ‘affair of based on “La Boîte Noire” by Denis all affairs’, he ends up crossing paths with Judge Renaud Van Robert (Ed. Les Arènes) and the comic book “L’Affaire des Affaires” Ruymbeke, well-known for his commitment to the fight against by Denis Robert, Yann Lindingre corruption, and in charge of the investigation for the Taiwan and Laurent Astier (Ed. Dargaud) Frigate Affair. Their parallel enquiries will lead them to the heart of GENRE Thriller a dark political financial machine called the Clearstream system, LANGUAGE severely shaking up the French governing class. French RUN TIME 100 min CAST Gilles Lellouche, Charles Berling INTERNATIONAL SALES Films Distribution T +33 1 53 10 33 99 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION MAMMAL 45 Calach Films – Jesus Gonzalez Rebecca Daly Les Films Fauves – Gilles Chanial, Fastnet (IRL) Rinkel Films (NL) Margaret, a forty-year-old single woman living in Dublin, learns SCRIPT that her 18-year-old son, who she left as a baby, has been found Rebecca Daly, Glenn Montgomery dead. GENRE Enduring this unsettling grief privately, Margaret escapes daily to Drama LANGUAGE the local swimming pool. English One day at the pool she runs into Joe, a homeless youth… RUN TIME 100 min CAST Rachel Griffiths, Barry Keoghan, Michael McElhatton, Gintare Parulite, Larisa Faber, Janine Horsburgh, Sam Steen INTERNATIONAL SALES Picture Tree International T +49 (0) 30 4208 248 - 14 [email protected]
feature films 2015 46 PRODUCTION MAMMEJONG Lucil Film - Bernard Michaux, Jacques Molitor Wrong Men (B), Mollywood (B)
SCRIPT In the wild nowhere of northern Luxembourg. Man-child ‘Flepp’ Jacques Molitor, Eric Lamhène GENRE (20) and his reclusive mother Sophie (45) live a strange symbiosis. Drama Everything changes with the arrival of mysterious runaway Leena LANGUAGE (19). Flëpp understands that if he wants to win Leena’s heart, he Luxembourgish, English RUN TIME will have to sever the umbilical cord that is suffocating him. But is 85 min he ready to be saved? CAST Max Thommes, Myriam Muller, Maja Juric, Jules Werner, Christiane Rausch INTERNATIONAL SALES Samsa Distributions T +352 45 19 60 1 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION MELODY 47 Samsa Film - Claude Waringo, Bernard Bellefroid Artémis Productions (B), Liaison Cinématographique (F), .mille et une.films (F) Melody, 28 years old, decides to rent out her body in order to SCRIPT get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair- Bernard Bellefroid, Carine Zimmerlin, dressing salon. to do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, Anne-Louis Trividic a rich English woman of 48 who can no longer have children. To GENRE Drama make sure everything goes well and keep an eye on her future LANGUAGE child, Emily decides to welcome melody into her home. Although French, English they first appear to come from completely different worlds, they RUN TIME 94 min end up adopting each other. Evidently, the bonds that emerge CAST during this double maternity create all sorts of doubts. Lucie Debay, Rachael Blake, Don Gallagher INTERNATIONAL SALES DOC & FILMS Gorka Gallier T +33 1 42 77 56 87 [email protected]
feature films 2015 48 PRODUCTION MULLEWAPP Melusine Productions – Stéphan Tony Loeser, Theresa Strozyk Roelants, Motionworks (D)
SCRIPT The tale of the three friends Johnny Mauser, Franz von Hahn and Jesper Möller GENRE Waldemar the Pig is inextricably bound with the name of the Comedy, Adventure, Educational books author, Helme Heine. The movie will build on his thrilling and LANGUAGE charming, widely-effective narrative manner, and will create a English, Luxembourgish, German, Danish cinematic spectacle for the whole family, naturally keeping in the RUN TIME Mullewapp tradition. 72 min INTERNATIONAL SALES StudioCanal [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION OOOPS! NOAH IS GONE... 49 Fabrique d’Images – Toby Genkel, Sean McCormack Jean-Marie Musique & Christine Parisse, Ulysses Filmproduktion (D), Skyline (B), Tidal Films (IE) It’s the end of the world. A huge flood is coming, large enough to SCRIPT wipe out every creature on the planet. The clumsy land-based Ralph Christians, Marteinn Nestrians Dave and his son Finny (10) have made it on to Noah’s Thorisson, Mark B. Hodkinson, Ark with the help of the grymp Hazel and her daughter Leah. But Richard Conroy, Toby Genkel GENRE when the ark floats away, Finny and Leah accidentally fall off. For Adventure the two kids, it’s the start of an adventure where Finny makes LANGUAGE new friends, eludes crafty enemies, and learns something very English RUN TIME important about himself that will save the life of his father and of 85 min his new mob. INTERNATIONAL SALES Global Screen Telepool Julia Weber It’s the classical, beloved, timeless story of Noah’s Ark. This time, T +49 89 244 1295 590 though, it’s not about the winners, but the losers, who are often [email protected] a lot more fun than those on the right side of the evolutionary fence. This is the story of Nestrians, Grymps and Griffins – animals nobody ever heard of yet. In this “what if?” animated film for youngsters, premium animation technology brings these endearing, brightly colored fantasy creatures to life with a love of detail and originality. feature films 2015 50 PRODUCTION PRÉJUDICE Samsa Film - Bernard Michaux, Antoine Cuypers Wrong Men (B), CTM Pictures (NL)
SCRIPT During a family meal, Cedric, 32, learns that his sister is expecting Antoine Cuypers, Antoine Wauters GENRE a baby. While the news is met with sincere excitement by the Drama whole family, for Cedric - who still lives with his parents – it LANGUAGE resonates strangely, mixed with a certain resentment. Between French RUN TIME denial and paranoia, revolt and false pretenses, how far is a family 100 min willing to go to keep its equilibrium? CAST Nathalie Baye, Arno, Thomas Blanchard, Ariane Labed INTERNATIONAL SALES Les films du losange T +33 1 44 43 87 26
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION SECRETS OF WAR 51 Tarantula Luxembourg – Donato Dennis Bots Rotunno, Bijker Film & Rinkel Film (NL), Living Stone (B)
Limburg, 1943. Twelve year olds Tuur and Lambert are childhood SCRIPT Karen Van Holst-Pellekaan friends living in an idyllic village during wartime. Then Maartje, a GENRE new girl who reportedly comes from the west, enters the lives of Adventure the boys. She has a big secret and decides only to share that with LANGUAGE Dutch Tuur. A choice that drives the boys apart and eventually brings RUN TIME Maartje in great danger... 100 min CAST Maas Bronkhuyzen, Joes Brauers, Pippa Allen, Nils Verkooijen, Loek Peters, Eva Duijvesteijn, Stefan de Walle, Luc Feit INTERNATIONAL SALES Sola Media GmbH Solveig Langeland T +49 711 220 364 5 [email protected] Imke Wulfmeyer [email protected]
feature films 2015 52 PRODUCTION SONG OF THE SEA Melusine Productions – Stéphan Tomm Moore Roelants, Cartoon Saloon (IE), The Big Farm (B), Norlum (DK), SuperProd (F) Song of the Sea tells the story of Ben and his little sister Maïna - SCRIPT the last Seal-child - who embark on a fantastic journey across a Will Collins, Tomm Moore fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return GENRE to their home by the sea. The film takes inspiration from the Adventure LANGUAGE mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea English but become humans on land. RUN TIME 85 min VOICES Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flannagan, Lisa Hannigan INTERNATIONAL SALES WestEnd Films T +44 207 494 8300 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION SOUNDHUNTERS 53 a_BAHN – Marion Guth, Camera Talk Beryl Koltz Productions (F)
SCRIPT SOUNDHUNTERS is a creative musical documentary that reveals Beryl Koltz GENRE the lives of musicians who have all decided to use sounds of the Documentary / Transmedia world as their primary source of sound. SOUNDHUNTERS traces the LANGUAGE adventure of KIZ, two new coming musicians, into the world of English RUN TIME Soundhunters. From Paris to Malmö, from London to Baltimore, the 52 min film follows their encounters with exceptional musicians from very CONTACT different backgrounds and genres. Integrating the sounds from a_BAHN - Nicolas Blies [email protected] their journey into exciting musical scenes, KIZ playfully show us how the world can be turned into a limitless music instrument.
feature films 2015 54 PRODUCTION SUNSET SONG Iris Productions, Terence Davies Hurricane Films (UK), SellOut Pictures (UK)
Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie, a farmer’s daughter SCRIPT Terence Davies in north-eastern Scotland struggles for love amid hardship and GENRE family misfortune. After her mother, a poverty-stricken woman Drama broken by repeated childbirths, poisons herself and her baby twins LANGUAGE English the resilient young Chris must manage the farm in her absence. RUN TIME When her father has a stroke and becomes bedridden, though 100 min also eager for an incestuous relationship, she is left on the land CAST Agyness Deyn, Ewan Tavendale, by her closest ally and friend, her brother. Finally she finds love, Peter Mullan,Gilbert Johnston, only to wave her new husband off to the Great War. She remains on Julian Nest the farm, connected to a land about to be changed forever by the INTERNATIONAL SALES Fortissimo onset of technology and war. Nicole Mackey T +44 79 66 44 34 75 [email protected]
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION THE ROBBERS 55 Red Lion - Pol Cruchten, Frank Hoffmann Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben, Coin Film (D) - Novak Prod (F)
When Karl Escher came out of jail, there was nobody to meet him. SCRIPT Erick Malabry, Frank Hoffmann, Yet, to protect his father, he took responsibility for the affair which Pol Cruchten should have ruined the family bank’s reputation. Ever since, his GENRE brother Franz is well on his way to take the lead, covered by the Crime LANGUAGE silence of his sister Amalia. French But Karl have made new friends in jail. Under the leadership of RUN TIME “the Old Man” and his gang, he will act in a prompt and effective 90 min CAST manner. Not to regain the power in the bank, but the heart of his Eric Caravaca, Isild Le Besco, family. Much as he wanted to, he drags them along in his fall. Robinson Stévenin,Tchéky Karyo, Maximilian Schell, Wolfram Koch, Luc Schiltz, Marc Baum, Serge Wolf, Mickey Hardt INTERNATIONAL SALES Red Lion T +352 26 36 16 07 [email protected]
feature films 2015 56 PRODUCTION THORIUM, THE FAR SIDE OF Juliette Films - Paul Thiltges, Citizen Films (F), Inner Vision (F) NUCLEAR POWER Myriam Tonelotto SCRIPT Myriam Tonelotto GENRE Documentary Ever heard of the Thorium molten salt reactor? LANGUAGE That’s hardly surprising,as for 70 years, it has been inexplicably English RUN TIME kept under wraps by the nuclear industry, 90 min despite the fact it could revolutionise energy production. CAST It offers the promise of nuclear energy without waste and without Gilbert Johnston INTERNATIONAL SALES danger. The “green atom”: fact or fiction? Paul Thiltges Distributions Research that was dropped without explanation in 1945, has now [email protected] become a topic of lively discussion...
feature films 2015 PRODUCTION TOUT, TOUT DE SUITE 57 Bidibul Productions – Lilian Eche Richard Berry & Christel Henon, Legende (F), La Petite Reine (F), Nexus Factory (B)
On February 17th, 2006, at 6 am, the members of “Gang des SCRIPT Richard Berry et Morgan Sportès, Barbares” are all arrested at their homes.The successive Adapté du roman éponyme de interrogations will allow the investigators to go back to the Morgan Sportès, Publié aux beginnings of the kidnapping of Ilan. During 24 days, the young éditions Fayard GENRE storekeeper of the Boulevard Voltaire, was held captive and Drama finally found burned lively to Sainte Geneviève des Bois. Telling LANGUAGE the last days of Ilan Halimi, “Tout, tout de suite”, treats one of the French RUN TIME significants events of our contemporary society. 100 min CAST Marc Ruchmann, Steve Achiepo, Richard Berry, Idit Cebula INTERNATIONAL SALES Bidibul Productions S.A. T +352 27 62 03 61 [email protected]
feature films 2015 58 PRODUCTION VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL Red Lion – Pol Cruchten & Jeanne Geiben (LA SUPPLICATION) Pol Cruchten SCRIPT Pol Cruchten, Svetlana Alexievitch GENRE Drama This film does not deal with Chernobyl, but rather with the LANGUAGE world of Chernobyl, about which we know very little. Eyewitness French CAST reports have survived: scientists, teachers, journalists, couples, Dinara Droukarova, Ivan Shvedoff children… They tell of their old daily lives, then of the catastrophe. INTERNATIONAL SALES Their voices form a long, terrible but necessary supplication which Red Lion T +352 26 361 607 traverses borders and stimulates us to question our status quo. [email protected]
feature films 2015 feature films 59 2016 60 PRODUCTION EGON SCHIELE AMOUR FOU Luxembourg – Bady Dieter Berner Minck & Alexander Dumreicher- Ivanceanu, Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion (A) Austria 1906. After the death of their father, 16-year-old Egon SCRIPT takes his 12-year-old sister Gerti to the seaside town of Trieste Hilde Berger to paint her in the southern light. Twelve years later, a few days GENRE before the end of the First World War, he falls ill with the Spanish Drama, Biography LANGUAGE flu – a disease that kills thousands of people in Vienna. His sister German is at his side once again. While she desperately tries to save the RUN TIME life of her beloved brother, memories of all the other women who 100 min CAST have influenced him and his art come flooding back. Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, Valerie Pachner, Marie Jung, Elisabeth Umlauft, André Jung, Luc Feit, Nina Proll, Cornelius Obonya, Josiane Peiffer, Germain Wagner, Ulli Maier INTERNATIONAL SALES AMOUR FOU Luxembourg T +352 81 16 81 [email protected]
feature films 2016 PRODUCTION ETHEL & ERNEST 61 Melusine Productions – Stéphan Roger Mainwood Roelants, Lupus Films – Camilla Deakin (UK)
The build up to World War 2, the war itself, and the austerity of SCRIPT Roger Mainwood the years that follow are the things that largely dominate the GENRE story of Ethel & Ernest. Seeing great historical events through Biography, Comedy, Drama the eyes of an ordinary family can lend them more poignancy. But LANGUAGE English such external events are not at the heart of the film. It is the basic RUN TIME love story of Raymond’s parents that audiences will most identify 85 min with. Raymond Briggs takes no prisoners when it comes to honest CAST Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn emotion, and the animated version of Ethel and Ernest will be no INTERNATIONAL SALES exception. This is a film of small moments, deceptively simple, and Universal one that will touch everyone who sees it.
feature films 2016 62 PRODUCTION FUNAN, LE PEUPLE NOUVEAU Juliette Films - David Grumbach, Denis Do Les Films d’ici (F), Lunanime (B)
SCRIPT Funan is the story of a young woman who will learn to fight and Denis Do, Magali Pouzol GENRE exist in the heart of the terrible Khmer Rouge era. She will have to History keep faith, even though her son has been taken from her during LANGUAGE the awful way out of Phnom Penh. French RUN TIME 90 min INTERNATIONAL SALES BAC Films [email protected] T +33 1 53 53 52 52
feature films 2016 PRODUCTION LES SURVIVANTS 63 Iris Productions, Iris Films (B) Luc Jabon
SCRIPT Luc Jabon After 18 years in prison, Nicolas Roulet, a former revolutionary GENRE Drama activist is released from prison. He thinks he has broken up with LANGUAGE the past. He starts searching for a job, and wants a family. He does French not know he is being observed by state security. RUN TIME 100 min CAST Fabrizio Rongione Erika Sainte Christian Crahay Joël Delsaut Brice Montagne Sophie Maréchal
feature films 2016 64 PRODUCTION RICHARD THE STORK Melusine Productions – Stéphan Toby Genkel, Reza Memari Roelants, Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur (D), Ulysses Films (D), Walking The Dog (B), Den Siste Skilling (NO) Orphaned at birth and raised by storks, the sparrow Richard believes he is one of them. Bu when the time comes to migrate, SCRIPT his stork family must reveal his true identity and leave him behind Memari Reza in the forest, since he would not survive the journey to Africa. GENRE Adventure Determined to prove he is a stork after all, Richard ventures south LANGUAGE on his own, joined by an eccentric owl with an imaginary friend English, Luxembourgish, and a narcissistic, disco-singing parakeet... Norwegian, French, German RUN TIME 85 min INTERNATIONAL SALES Global Screen T +49 89 244 129 550 0 [email protected]
feature films 2016 PRODUCTION THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 65 Iris Productions,Port-au-Prince Stephan Rick Film & Kultur Produktion Gmbh (D)
SCRIPT Hotshot solicitor Urs Blank is going through a midlife crisis. In Catharina Junk, Stephan Rick GENRE search of new experiences he meets Lucy, a young hippie woman. Psycho-thriller After a magic mushroom trip, he slowly starts losing control over LANGUAGE his business-driven life. Because no one can help him, he escapes German RUN TIME to the forest. As the solution of his problems is getting closer, his 100 min earlier life begins to trace him... CAST Moritz Bleibtreu, Nora von Waldstätten, Jürgen Prochnow, Luc Feit, Nickel Bösenberg, Marco Lorenzini, Germain Wagner
feature films 2016 66 PRODUCTION THE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HOURS AMOUR FOU Luxembourg – Bady Virgil Widrich Minck, Alexander Dumreicher- Ivanceanu - AMOUR FOU Vienna (A), Key Films (NL) One family, one night, one murder and a forbidden night of SCRIPT passion erupt when the Ullich family gathers - and dead ones Virgil Widrich (writer), Jean-Claude appear from the past! - as cousins fight for control of the family Carrière (script advisor) business, while ‘deceased’ ancestors reveal how the Ullich really GENRE Drama loved and made their fortune. LANGUAGE German RUN TIME 100 min CAST Laurence Rupp, Amira Casar, Johann Adam Oest, Elisabeth Rath, Luc Feit, Josiane Peiffer, Linde Prelog, Barbara Petritsch, Claire Johnston, Udo Samel, Lukas Miko, Brigitte Urhausen INTERNATIONAL SALES AMOUR FOU Luxembourg T +352 81 16 81 [email protected]
feature films 2016 PRODUCTION TOUT DE SUITE MAINTENANT 67 Samsa Film - Jani Thiltges, SBS Pascal Bonitzer Productions – Saïd Ben Saïd (F)
SCRIPT Nora Sator, a young thirty-year-old has just been hired at AB Pascal Bonitzer, Agnès de Sacy GENRE Finance, an M&A (mergers and acquisitions) company. She Comedy finds out that her boss, Arnaud Barsac and her father, Serge, a LANGUAGE researcher who has gone into early retirement, know each other French RUN TIME from long ago and that a puzzling hostility arose between them or +/- 100 min may still exist. CAST Family stories will become inextricably intertwined with stories of Agathe Bonitzer, Vincent Lacoste, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, love and professional twists and turns… Jean-Pierre Bacri, Pascal Greggory INTERNATIONAL SALES SBS Distribution T +33 1 45 63 66 60 [email protected]
feature films 2016 68 upcoming 69 DRÔLES DE PETITES BÊTES ES WAR EINMAL IN DEUTSCHLAND Antoon Krings, Arnaud Bouron Sam Garbarski – – PRODUCTION PRODUCTION Bidibul Productions – Samsa Film - Jani Thiltges, Lilian Eche & Christel Henon, In Good Company (D) – Jani Thiltges Onyx Films (F) Entre Chien et Loup (B) – Sébastien Delloye SCRIPT SCRIPT Arnaud Delalande, Antoon Krings Michel Bergmann and Christel Gonnard Based on the novel “Die Teilacher” by Michel From the best-seller by Antoon Krings Bergmann Published by Gallimard Jeunesse / Giboulées GENRE GENRE Comedy Comedy LANGUAGE LANGUAGE German French RUN TIME RUN TIME +/- 100 min 85 min CAST PLOT Moritz Bleibtreu, Alba Rohrwacher When Apollo, a big-hearted street entertainer PLOT cricket, comes to the Funny Little Bugs village, 1946. Frankfurt. he soon disrupts the quiet daily life in the A deportation camp. 70 kingdom. Manipulated by Huguette, the Queen’s David Berman and his six friends, all Holocaust cousin who wants to seize the throne, Apollo is survivors, have only one goal: to go to America accused of the Queen vanishing. The Queen has as soon as possible. actually been captured by the “pests”, enemies For this, they need money. Lot of money. of the kingdom and partners of Huguette. INTERNATIONAL SALES Apollo then teams with Mireille the bee and his The Match Factory new friends to rescue the Queen and stop the T +49 221 539 709-0 treacherous cousin…. F +49 221 539 709-10 Our funny little bugs will need to display [email protected] unsuspected imagination and courage in their incredible adventure. INTERNATIONAL SALES Wild Bunch International
upcoming GENERATION QUOI ? EUROPE LA BELLE DORMEUSE Ulrike Ottinger – – PRODUCTION PRODUCTION a_BAHN, AMOUR FOU Luxembourg – YAMI2 (F), UPIAN (F) Bady Minck & Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, SCRIPT AMOUR FOU Vienna (A), Stéphane Hueber-Blies, Marion Guth, Nicolas Kurt Mayer Film – Kurt Mayer (A) Blies SCRIPT GENRE Ulrike Ottinger (writer), Elfriede Jelinek Investigation (dialogues) LANGUAGE GENRE French Drama RUN TIME LANGUAGE CAST German PLOT RUN TIME GENERATION QUOI ? EUROPE is a transmedia 110 min experience portraying the european youth CAST through an interactive investigation and Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Vicky Krieps, documentary audiovisual content for TV, Luc Feit, André Jung, Nina Hagen, Marie-Paule web, smartphone and press. The experience von Roesgen gathers many european countries (Germany, PLOT Belgien, Great Britain, France, ...) and European Countess Báthory, notorious both amongst the 71 Broadcasting Union, EBU (alliance of public living and the undead, steps out of Vienna’s service media entities including 72 members labyrinthine subterranean canals and back into active in 56 countries such as RTBF, TF1, Canal+, the Upper World to track down a dangerous book ZDF, RAI, BBC, …). that resurfaces through the ages, moving CONTACT humans to tears and transforming vampires into a_BAHN - Nicolas Blies ordinary mortals. Together with her lady’s maid, [email protected] the “Beautiful Sleeper”, la “Comtesse Sanglante” begins searching for the book. They follow hidden clues, forging a bloody path through eerily beautiful Vienna and its surroundings. The two ladies are followed by the Countess’ pale nephew, Rudi Bubi von Strudl zu Buchtelau, a vegetarian vampire terrified by the sight of blood and flesh, and his opportunistic, Freudianism to Behaviourism-converted psychotherapist. INTERNATIONAL SALES AMOUR FOU Luxembourg T +352 81 16 81 [email protected]
upcoming MOS STELLARIUM NOCES Karolina Markiewicz, Pascal Piron Stephan Strecker – – PRODUCTION PRODUCTION Tarantula Luxembourg– Elise André Tarantula Luxembourg – SCRIPT Donato Rotunno Karolina Markiewicz, Pascal Piron Daylight – Michaël Goldberg (B) GENRE GENRE Documentary Drama LANGUAGE LANGUAGE French, Luxembourgish, German French RUN TIME RUN TIME 60 min 90 min PLOT CAST Five young refugees talk about their escapes Camélia Jordana, Babak Karimi, Alice de and trips, as well as the new problems they Lencquesaing, Olivier Gourmet encounter in Luxembourg. PLOT Mos Stellarium is a poetic feature documentary After “Michael Blanco” and “The World Belongs about Osman, Laura, Anna, Yunus and Ermin. to Us”, “Noces” is the third feature film written In all intimacy, they tell their stories as young and directed by Stephan Streker, produced by refugees. Attached to the travelled landscapes Michaël Goldberg and Boris Van Gils, and co- and all the encounters, the memories look back produced by Donato Rotunno. In the main roles: 72 at these strange routes and turn to the future. It Camélia Jordana, Babak Karimi (“A separation”), is, in a way, the human existence in a universal Alice de Lencquesaing and Olivier Gourmet. sense. Shooting: this summer. Like mysterious maps of constellations, their INTERNATIONAL SALES voyages began in Afghanistan, Syria, Kosovo Tarantula Distribution or Montenegro. They headed for Europe, T +352 26 49 611 Luxembourg in particular, and their destinies [email protected] turn them into young adults by accident, but full of dignity nonetheless. INTERNATIONAL SALES Tarantula Distribution T +352 26 49 611 [email protected]
upcoming ON THE MOVE PETER PAN Anne Schiltz Diarmuid Lawrence – – PRODUCTION PRODUCTION Samsa Film – Anne Schroeder Juliette Films – David Grumach SCRIPT Headline Pictures (UK) Paul Kieffer SCRIPT GENRE Adrian Hodges Documentary GENRE LANGUAGE Adventure English, German, Luxemburgish LANGUAGE RUN TIME English +/- 52 min RUN TIME PLOT 100 min On the Move relates the dizzying journey of PLOT Michel Majerus, one of the most talented artist Peter Pan is firmly established as one of the of his generation. Bringing together historical greatest of family stories, known and enjoyed documents and interviewing those who have worldwide through countless stage productions, lived and worked with Michel Majerus, who musicals and the Walt Disney animated film. bought and collected his works and artists those Peter Pan himself has become one of the who perpetuate the memory of this exceptional iconic characters of childhood literature, while man. his nemesis, the utterly villainous but oddly INTERNATIONAL SALES poignant Captain Hook, is scarcely less famous. 73 Samsa Distributions While in some ways a simple adventure about the legendary boy who refused to grow up, the story is also a subtle reflection on themes of childhood, aging and mortality. In its beautiful examination of the richness of the childish imagination it is comic, thrilling and packed with insight, and yet at the same time there is a wistful air about it which adds a moving dimension to the surface gaiety. Like all great children’s stories, it never flinches from the sadness of life as well as its joy. This touching undertone to the story explains its appeal. INTERNATIONAL SALES Endemol Worldwide Distribution T +44 8703331700 [email protected]
upcoming SOUVENIR THE POISONERS Bavo Defurne Jon Amiel – – PRODUCTION PRODUCTION Deal Productions, Iris Productions, Indeed Films (B) The Producers Films (UK), Parallel Films (IE) SCRIPT SCRIPT Jacques Boon, Bavo Defurne, Yves Verbraeken Paul Billing GENRE GENRE Drame Romance Drama LANGUAGE LANGUAGE French English RUN TIME RUN TIME 101 min 100 min CAST CAST Isabelle Huppert, Kévin Azaïs, Johan Leysen Abbie Cornish, Max Riemelt, David Kross PLOT PLOT A failed Eurovision singer, forgotten by all and The story of women, left alone in the Yorkshire fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with moors by their husbands who have gone off a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to to war, yet surrounded by German POWs. The attempt her comeback. women see these men, not as enemies, but as companions and when relationships are forged, 74 they are not easily forgotten. From this situation arises the need to be rid of their husbands and the dangerous power when they realise they can be…but at what price?
upcoming THE TOY GUN Marco Serafini – PRODUCTION Calach Films – Jesus Gonzalez, Pan-Européenne (F) SCRIPT Marco Serafini, Vince Villani GENRE Dark Comedy LANGUAGE English RUN TIME 100 min CAST Luc Spada, Hana Sofia Lopes, Thomas Kretschmann, Pascal Elbé, Anthony La Paglia, Federico Castelluccio, André Jung PLOT A story where Fargo meets the Big Lebowski, The Toy Gun is a fun and gritty dark comedy about a character who looks to show the world the despair his ex-wife has left him in through a 75 poorly thought out and irrational gesture, only to find himself worthy to move on thanks to the advice of his reformed ex-con neighbour and his newfound, albeit stolen, cash injection. All this while a police investigation engulfs everyone he crosses paths with, while buried in his sullen oblivion. INTERNATIONAL SALES Pan-Européenne Camille Gentet T +33 1 53 10 42 30 [email protected]
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upcoming production 77 companies a_BAHN CALACH FILMS IRIS PRODUCTIONS Marion Guth c/o FILMLAND Nicolas Steil 42, rue d’Hollerich 25-27, Zone Industrielle c/o FILMLAND L-1740 LUXEMBOURG L-8287 KEHLEN 25 - 27, Zone Industrielle T +352 661 163 820 T +352 691 43 55 23 L-8287 KEHLEN [email protected] [email protected] T +352 27 39 70 12 20 www.a-bahn.com – F +352 27 39 70 12 70 – DEAL PRODUCTIONS [email protected] AMOUR FOU Luxembourg Alexandra Hoesdorff www.irisproductions.lu Bady Minck Désirée Nosbusch – 49-51, rue de Warken c/o FILMLAND JULIETTE FILMS L-9088 ETTELBRUCK 25 - 27, Zone Industrielle David Grumbach T +352 81 16 81 L-8287 KEHLEN c/o FILMLAND F +352 81 16 82 T +352 26 09 46 55 25, Zone Industrielle [email protected] [email protected] L-8287 KEHLEN www.amourfoufilm.com www.dealproductions.com T +352 25 03 93 – – F +352 25 03 94 ANTEVITA FILMS DOGHOUSE FILMS [email protected] Raoul Nadalet Pierre Urbain www.juliettefilms.lu 4, bei Berck 15, Zone Industrielle – L- 8359 GOEBLANGE L-8287 KEHLEN LES FILMS FAUVES T +352 26 30 57 56 T +352 27 10 80 35 35 Gilles Chanial 78 F +352 26 30 83 30 [email protected] Jean-Louis Schuller [email protected] www.doghousefilms.eu Govinda Van Maele www.antevita.lu – 1535° - Bureau 123 – FABRIQUE D’IMAGES 115A, rue Emile Mark BIDIBUL PRODUCTIONS Jean-Marie Musique L-4620 Differdange Lilian Eche Christine Parisse T +352 621 715 903 Christel Henon 22, rue de Mamer [email protected] 67, rue Michel Welter L-8280 KEHLEN www.lesfilmsfauves.com L-2730 LUXEMBOURG T +352 26 10 80 35 22 T +352 27 62 03 61 F +352 26 10 80 35 35 – F +352 27 62 03 62 [email protected] [email protected] www.fabrique-d-images.com www.bidibul.eu
production companies LYNX PRODUCTIONS RED LION Romain Schroeder Jeanne Geiben 3A, bd Prince Henri Pol Cruchten L-1724 LUXEMBOURG 16, rue Alzingen M +352 691 140 380 L-3397 ROESER F +352 35 05 02 T +352 26 36 16 07 [email protected] F +352 26 36 01 49 – [email protected] MELUSINE PRODUCTIONS – Stéphan Roelants SAMSA FILM 8 - 10, rue de l’Etang Jani Thiltges L-5326 CONTERN Claude Waringo T +352 40 13 20-1 Bernard Michaux F +352 40 13 20 308 238C, rue de Luxembourg [email protected] L-8005 BERTRANGE www.studio352.lu T +352 45 19 60-1 – F +352 44 24 29 NOWHERE LAND PRODUCTIONS [email protected] Willy Perelsztejn www.samsa.lu 4, rue Jean-Pierre Brasseur – L-1258 LUXEMBOURG TARANTULA LUXEMBOURG T +352 44 85 38 Donato Rotunno F +352 44 86 62 Elise André 79 [email protected] c/o FILMLAND – 25 - 27, Zone Industrielle PAUL THILTGES DISTRIBUTIONS L-8287 KEHLEN Paul Thiltges T +352 26 49 61-1 c/o FILMLAND F +352 26 49 61 20 27, Zone Industrielle [email protected] L-8287 KEHLEN www.tarantula.lu T +352 25 03 93 – F +352 25 03 94 ZEILT PRODUCTIONS [email protected] Laurent Witz www.ptd.lu 19, rue d’Ehlerange L-3918 Monderconge T +352 26 17 56 90 [email protected] www.zeilt.com
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