Best Friend Forever
BERLINALE 2020 MGB #07
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SAT. 22, 3:15 PM @ CINEMAXX 19 (MARKET) SAT. 22, 1:30 PM @ DELPHI FILMPALAST (WORLD PREMIERE) SAT. 22, 10:00 PM @ ZOO PALAST 2 (WORLD PREMIERE) SUN. 23, 10:00 AM @ CINEMAXX 11 (MARKET) SUN. 23, 11:00 AM @ CINEMAXX 6 SAT. 22, 4:00 PM @ CINEMAXX 6 (PRESS PRIORITY) TUE. 25, 10.00 AM @ CUBIX 7 MON. 24, 7:30 PM @ CINEMAXX 4 WED. 26, 8.30 PM @ CUBIX 5 SAT. 29, 1.00 PM @ ARSENAL 1 SUN. 1, 8.00 PM @ CUBIX 5 SUN. 1, 10.30 AM @ CUBIX 5
LOS THE TWENTIETH CONDUCTOS CENTURY by Camilo Restrepo by Matthew Rankin
FRI. 21, 8:45 PM @ CINEMAXX 5 + 10 (PRESS PRIORITY) SAT. 22, 4:30 PM @ DELPHI FILMPALAST (EUROPEAN PREMIERE) SAT. 22, 12:30 PM @ CINEMAXX 7 (WORLD PREMIERE) SUN. 23, 5:15 PM @ CINEMAXX 13 (MARKET) SUN. 23, 2:15 PM @ CINEMAXX 15 (MARKET) SUN. 23, 7:00 PM @ CUBIX 9 SUN. 23, 9:00 PM @ CUBIX 6 SUN. 23 , 7.30 PM @ CINEMAXX 6 (PRESS PRIORITY) MON. 24, 8:30 PM @ HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE THU. 27, 10.00 AM @ CINEMAXX 12 (MARKET) TUE. 25, 6.30 PM @ XENON KINO THU. 27, 7.00 PM @ CINEMAXX 3 SUN. 1, 2.15 PM @ INTERNATIONAL SUN. 1, 7.30 PM @ COLOSSEUM
MARKET PREMIERE VALLEY OF SOULS BERLINALE by Nicolas Rincon Gilles SCREENINGS SUN. 23, 12:40 PM @ CINEMAXX 13 (MARKET) SCHEDULE — EW NE N W CINEMATOGRAPHER Fifteen young dancers of different origins and horizons are
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FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR Norte Distribution (March 4, 2020)
LANGUAGES French, English
Based on Gisèle WORLD PREMIERE. Vienne’s dance piece ‘Crowd’ FRANCE. 82 MIN.
« A dazzling piece, transfixing and strangely resonant. » on ‘Crowd’
A dance documentary IF IT directed by Patric Chiha WERE LOVE Brothers of the Night – Berlinale Panorama 2016 (SI C'ETAIT DE L’AMOUR)
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Freely inspired by WORLD PREMIERE. a true story FRANCE, COLOMBIA, BRAZIL. 70 MIN. SHOT ON KODAK 16MM FILM.
Written & directed by LOS Camilo Restrepo Awarded two times Silver Pardino at Locarno Film CONDUCTOS Festival 2015 & 2016 with short films, La Bouche, Short Film – Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2017 — EW NE N W SCREENWRITERS Romania, 1981.
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PRODUCERS Linking both stories - secret and public - personal and Ada Solomon for MicroFILM collective - brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after (Toni Erdmann,Child’s Pose, the fall of communism. Radu Jude’s Films) In coproduction with Romanian Public Television, Hi Film Productions
ROMANIAN DISTRIBUTOR HiFilm (February 21, 2020)
LANGUAGE Romanian Based on the play ‘Tipografic WORLD PREMIERE. Majuscul’ by Gianina ROMANIA. Cărbunariu 128 MIN. Inspired by true events
Directed by UPPERCASE Radu Jude Aferim! – Silver Bear Berlinale 2015, Scarred Hearts – Special PRINT Jury Prize Locarno 2016, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in (TIPOGRAFIC History as Barbarians – Crystal MAJUSCUL) Globe Karlovy Vary 2018
CAST Toronto, 1899. Dan Beirne Aspiring young politician Mackenzie King dreams of (FX’s Fargo TV Series) becoming the Prime Minister of Canada. In his quest for Mikhaïl Ahooja power, he must face his imperious Mother, a war-mongering Sarianne Cormier Governor-General and the utopian idealism of a Québécois Catherine St-Laurent mystic.
COSTUME DESIGNER Meanwhile, King hesitates in love between a British soldier Patricia McNeil and a French-Canadian nurse and furtively indulges a (My Salinger Year) fetishistic obsession for women’s footwear…
PRODUCERS When his vainglorious run for leadership culminates in Voyelles Films an epic battle between good and evil, King will learn that (All You Can Eat Buddha) disappointment may be the only way to survive the 20th century. US DISTRIBUTOR Oscilloscope Laboratories
LANGUAGES English with some French EUROPEAN PREMIERE. CANADA. Based upon the 90 MIN. perfervid youth of Canada’s most SHOT ON enigmatic politician, W. L. Mackenzie King KODAK 16MM FILM.
“Feel like both a throwback to an “It’s the most exciting kind of aesthetic “Possibly the craziest and most MGM weepie and a colorized acid pastiche, one that swirls together so unique biopic ever made.” Canadian Best First feature WINNER WINNER trip through historic hell (...). many different flavors that it feels like So enjoyable.” something wholly new.”
THE FILM STAGE SLASH FILM Written, directed & THE edited by Matthew Rankin TWENTIETH The Tesla World Light Short Film – Cannes Critic’ Week 2017. TIFF & Sundance CENTURY Alumnus CAST Colombia, on the banks of Magdalena Medio, 2002. Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo José returns to his home deep in the jungle after a long DOP fishing night to discover that paramilitary forces killed his Juan Sarmiento G. two sons, Dionisio and Rafael, and threw their bodies into (Central Airport THF) the river.
PRODUCERS José begins a lonely journey to retrieve and provide a Medio de Contención Producciones proper burial for his boys preventing their tormented souls from being stuck in this world. Aboard his canoe, José COPRODUCERS discovers the magic of a country torn in pieces. Neon Rouge / NRW SPRL STO Lat Films Tact Production (The Mercy of the Jungle)
COLOMBIAN DISTRIBUTOR Cine Colombia (March 19, 2020) MARKET PREMIERE. LANGUAGE Spanish COLOMBIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, FRANCE. 137 MIN.
“An immersive, riveting, exceptional debut, (…) a film of astonishing power. The way the swampy air feels thick with faith, phantasm “Arresting and accomplished, (...) and fear recalls fellow Colombian Ciro striking widescreen cinematography.” Guerra’s masterful Embrace of the Serpent.”
Directed by VALLEY Nicolas Rincón Gille Cold Kisses – Cinéma du Réel 2016, Wounded Night – Special OF SOULS Mention Cinéma du Réel 2015 & (TANTAS ALMAS) Best Film at FICCI 2016 — EW NE CAST Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter. N W
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CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR MK2 Mile End UPCOMING. LANGUAGES French with some CANADA. Anishinaabemowin
Best Screenplay at Cannes Cinéfondation 2017
Written & directed by BOOTLEGGER Caroline Monnet Mobilize Short film - Sundance 2015, 6 Short Films in TIFF
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DOP Jeanne Lapoirie (Benedetta, BPM (Beats per Minute)) UPCOMING. EDITOR Albertine Lastera (The Midwife, André Techiné’s Film, Blue is the FRANCE. Warmest Color)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR Paname Distribution
LANGUAGE French with some Berber
Written & directed by HONEY Kamir Aïnouz Sundance CIGAR Screenwriters Lab (CIGARE AU MIEL) — EW NE N W CAST Summer in Corsica.
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Coproduced by Lotta Films - Delphine Leoni (A Violent Life)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR KMBO UPCOMING. LANGUAGE French FRANCE.
Written & directed by CORSICAN Pascal Tagnati
Acting coach on Thierry de SUMMER Peretti’s film, The Fan short (LES COMÈTES) film CAST Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human Andriy Rymaruk habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. Liudmyla Bileka A Wall is being build-up on the border. Vasyl Antoniak Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his PRODUCERS new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission Iya Myslytska dedicated to exhuming war corpses.Together, they try to Valentyn Vasyanovych return to some sort of normal life in which they are also Vladimir Yatsenko allowed to fall in love again. (Homeward)
UKRAINIAN DISTRIBUTOR Arthouse Traffic
LANGUAGE Ukrainian ON RELEASE. The new film by the UKRAINE. artistic team behind 2014 hit The Tribe 108 MIN.
“A remarkable piece of filmmaking “A strong piece of from an exciting emerging Eastern poetically pure Cinema.” European voice. Atlantis is stunning to watch.”
Directed by ATLANTIS Valentyn Vasyanovych DOP & Editor on The Tribe – Cannes Critics’ Week 2014 Winner, Business as Usual — Odessa IFF Special Jury Mention CAST Belgium, today. Valentin Novopolskij Oleg is a young Latvian butcher. He arrives in Brussels Dawid Ogrodnik in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. (European Shooting Star 2019) His experience turns short after being betrayed by Anna Prochniak a colleague. (The Innocent) VACANT POSITION IN BELGIUM. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls PRODUCERS under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal. Tasse Film (Dogs Don’t Wear Pants) Iota Productions (Our Struggles, Keeper) In Script (Miracle) Arizona Productions (The Gentle Indifference of the World, Aga, My Happy Family)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR Arizona Distribution (October 30, 2019) ON RELEASE. LANGUAGES LATVIA, BELGIUM, English with some Russian, Polish, Latvian, French & Flemish LITHUANIA, FRANCE. 108 MIN.
“A sharp, scorching, surprisingly “A timely and impressive sec- “Thanks to welcome flecks of raucous social thriller (...), “Oleg” ond feature. The screenplay is comic relief, Oleg is consist- SLAVE. would be politically essential a particular strong point.” ently watchable as well as il- even if it weren’t so cinematically luminating about an emerging exciting.” social problem.”
Directed by OLEG Juris Kursietis Modris – New Directors Award Special Mention in San Sebastian 2014 CAST Pierreville, Quebec. End of summer. Emilie Bierre (Genesis) Irlande Côté Mylia, a timid 12-year-old, must leave her little sister and Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie native countryside to enter high school. Lost in this new hostile environment, she meets Jacinthe, who introduces WINNER PRODUCER her to teenage rituals and absurdities, and Jimmy, a fierce Colonelle Films young native from the neighbouring reserve with whom she secretly befriends. CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR Funfilm Distribution Together, they will trace the contours of a new life. The age (February 1, 2019) of the first times…
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR Waynapitch (November 6, 2019)
LANGUAGE French Best Film, Best ON RELEASE. Actress & Best First Feature At The CANADA. Canadian Screen Awards 102 MIN.
“A Colony showcases an emotional sensitivity and cultural specificity that gives it a strong individual identity, (...), handled with a quiet dignity by “Award-Winning both writer/director De Celles and her crowd-pleaser.” accomplished young star Emilie Bierre.” “Berlin hidden gem.”
Directed by A COLONY Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
The Cut – Best International Short Film Sundance 2014