Angola

Air Conditioner World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Fradique Prod. Countries: Angola Prod. Year: 2020

Length: 72

Genre: Fiction 49th Company: Geração 80 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Contact: Jorge Cohen ROTTERDAM Email: [email protected] Logline: Air conditioners mysteriously start January 22 – falling from buildings in the Angolan capital. February 02, 2020 The search for a working unit forms the starting point for an pleasantly free film representing the city's heartbeat. A great jazzy soundtrack, a rap FEATURE FILM CONTACT LIST and the chaotic hum of the city guide us through January 31, 2020 its streets and buildings. Sold territories: All available

Argentina

Los que vuelven International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Laura Casabé Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: Reel Suspects Contact: Alejandro Israel Email: [email protected]

Logline: In this drama dealing with fear and oppression in South America, supernatural powers are unleashed when, in desperation, the wife of a white landowner invokes the spirits of the indigenous people. Her stillborn child is Patagonia. The calm, unchanging nature of the brought back to life, but at a terrible price. Is this impressive landscape contrasts with her restless the feared retribution? inner life, and the people from her past elicit old Sold territories: Argentina emotions and new insights, some of which are not so uplifting. Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi Trailer: International premiere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgAm8iev Programme section: Signatures Szw Director(s): Laura Citarella, Mercedes Halfon Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 El cazador Length: 90 World premiere Genre: Creative Documentary Programme section: Big Screen Competition Company: El Pampero Cine Director(s): Marco Berger Contact: Ingrid Pokropek Prod. Countries: Argentina Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2020 Logline: When a young journalist and poet Length: 101 inherits the oeuvre of Argentinian poet Juana Genre: Fiction Bignozzi, the question arises: What to do with it? Company: Wildstar Sales And how do you make a film about poetry? Contact: Murray Dibbs Charming, universally understandable film Email: [email protected] about creativity and filmmaking by the El Logline: 15-year old homosexual Ezéquiel’s Pampero Cine team (La mujer de los perros, La sexual awakening rapidly lands him in a moral Flor). dilemma. Compact, conspicuously subdued Trailer: drama by Argentinian director Marco Berger, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAUdhX who won the Berlin festival's Teddy Award for fcKk Ausente in 2011. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Co6JL4y Emilia M1g World premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): César Sodero Si yo fuera el invierno mismo Prod. Countries: Argentina World premiere Prod. Year: 2020 Programme section: Tiger Competition Length: 97 Director(s): Jazmín López Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Argentina Company: Tarea Fina Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Juan Pablo Miller Length: 92 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: After breaking up with her girlfriend, Contact: Jazmín López Emilia returns from the city to her village in Email: [email protected] Logline: Four friends meet at a remote estate to Logline: Two women meet at the same places at create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic various moments in their lives. Treading in the works by Jean-Luc Godard, Harun Farocki and footsteps of great philosophers and masters of Ana Mendieta. During the artistic process one of cinema, the exceptionally young director does them becomes entangled in her memories of an not shy away from evoking existential questions ex-lover she can't forget. from a provincial town on the pampas in his Trailer: ultra-low-budget debut. Universal and unique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7rt6Say0Is Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hcPV4C MSM La dosis Sold territories: All available World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Piedra sola Programme World premiere Director(s): Martín Kraut Programme section: Tiger Competition Prod. Countries: Argentina Director(s): Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: Argentina, Mexico, Qatar, Length: 93 United Kingdom Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Oration Films Length: 82 Contact: Timothy O’Brien Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: RamondaParis Logline: An Argentine hospital thriller that Contact: Pascale Ramonda doesn't speak ill of the dead. But what about the Email: [email protected] living? Experienced nurse Marcos loves his Phone: +33 1 43586029 patients, which leads him to sometimes take Logline: In the far north of Argentina, at a drastic measures to end their suffering. His breathtaking four thousand metre elevation, a secret is made more complicated by the arrival of lama herder lives close to nature. When a puma charismatic nurse Gabriel, who also has a dark threatens his herd, he goes in search of the secret. predator. A mystical meeting ensues. Visually Sold territories: All available impressive portrait, at the intersection of fiction and documentary, of a centuries-old culture. Ofrenda Sold territories: All available World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Juan Mónaco Cagni Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 65 Genre: Fiction Contact: Juan Mónaco Cagni Email: [email protected] young woman. Australia Austria True History of the Kelly Gang Programme section: Limelight With Love – Volume One 1987-1996 Director(s): Justin Kurzel World premiere Prod. Countries: Australia, United Kingdom Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 124 Director(s): Michael Pilz Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Austria Company: Memento Films International Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Length: 111 Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Logline: Mad Max meets Jesse James in this Company: Michael Pilz Film version of the life and crimes of the infamous Contact: Michael Pilz Email: [email protected] nineteenth-century bush ranger Ned Kelly. An energetic and punky coming-of-age story about Logline: Austrian maverick master Michael Pilz is an obsessive collector of images. For him this the dismal teenage years of a troubled rebel, in constant conflict with his British colonial almost invariably means encounters with people masters. A cruel, violent portrait of the and moments of resonating silence that offer spaces for meditation and self-realisation. You legendary Australian criminal. Trailer: are invited to enter his spiritual space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiYcuPbTjk Sold territories: All available

Babyteeth Little Joe Programme section: Limelight Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Shannon Murphy Director(s): Jessica Hausner Prod. Countries: Australia Prod. Countries: Austria, United Kingdom, Prod. Year: 2019 Germany Length: 120 Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Celluloid Dreams Length: 105 Contact: Hengameh Panahi Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Coproduction Office Logline: Loving, tragic portrait of a terminally ill Contact: Christina Demetriou Australian teenager who falls in love with a no- Email: [email protected] good drugs dealer. A subtle, comic debut about Logline: In this cold-blooded thriller, bio love, pain and letting go, with a stunning scientist Alice (Emily Beecham) dedicates her life performance from Eliza Scanlen in the lead role to the invention of a new plant that makes its as a teenage girl who can all too briefly become a owners happy. But the prototype, ‘Little Joe’, maybe works too well. The users turn into anaesthetised zombies incapable of feeling any other emotions. through valuable memories: her childhood, her Trailer: artistic vocation, her loved ones and her son, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt2WL9wIsfs with whom she is close. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0Aua2TjdI Sicherheit123 Sold territories: Belgium Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Julia Gutweniger, Florian Kofler On a le temps pour nous Prod. Countries: Austria, Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Scopitone Length: 72 Director(s): Katy Léna Ndiaye Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Belgium, Burkina Faso, Senegal Contact: Julia Gutweniger Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 67 Logline: Increasingly, the sublime beauty of the Genre: Creative Documentary Alps is tainted by construction works intended Company: Indigo Mood Films to protect inhabitants from natural disasters. Contact: Katy Léna Ndiaye The makers avoid any commentary, but the Email: [email protected] critical distance that accompanies their laconic Logline: The 1987 assassination of Marxist observations says it all. As if the forces of nature politician Thomas Sankara prematurely ended would ever obey the human desire for control. Burkina Faso's fledgling democracy. Rapper, Trailer: poet and activist Smockey keeps the spirit alive, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcpKilBIV2k rapping social commentary, political Sold territories: All available commitment and solidarity with the oppressed. Trailer: Belgium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBosUVn m1yA Il était un petit navire Sold territories: All available International premiere Adoration Programme section: Marion Hänsel, à la vie Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Marion Hänsel Director(s): Fabrice Du Welz Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Countries: Belgium, France Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 65 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Genre: Film Company: Doc & Film International Company: Memento Films International Contact: Daniela Elstner Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: "I open my eyes and I hear, I close my Logline: In this beautifully filmed road trip eyes and I see." During a hospital stay, life stands through the Ardennes, twelve-year-old Paul tries still, starting the filmmaker's poetic journey to take the young psychiatric patient Gloria to her grandpa in Bretagne. Along the way, love- Email: [email protected] struck Paul has to deal with Gloria's Logline: Woe betide the man who crosses the unpredictability, bad weather and hunger. With three working girls in Filles de joie. This clever strong performances by promising young actors example of Walloon social realism is by turns Thomas Gioria and Fantine Harduin. poignant and funny and, although it plays with Sold territories: Switzerland (Adok Films) Japan the narrative perspective, it always, always (King Records) unconditionally takes the side of these resilient women. The Magic Mountain Sold territories: France (KMBO) World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Ghost Tropic Programme Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Eitan Efrat, Daniel Mann Director(s): Bas Devos Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 68 Length: 85 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Messidor Company: Rediance Contact: Sirah Foighel Brutmann Contact: Meng Xie Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: In three chapters, each with a different Logline: 58-year-old cleaner Khadija experiences focus on quarries, caves and tunnels, Mann and a 'long night of the soul' when she falls asleep in Efrat investigate the insatiable human desire to the last metro after a long day at work and has to extract natural resources from the ground in walk halfway across Brussels to get home. Along relation to different modes of knowing, sensing the way she has a series of congenial encounters and seeing the world. A geological exploration with an eclectic range of night owls. and cultural history of our relation to the subsoil Trailer: of the Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYETRJkmPE Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFAmk8M 5u4Y Mother Sold territories: All available Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Kristof Bilsen Filles de joie Prod. Countries: Belgium Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Frédéric Fonteyne, Anne Paulicevich Length: 82 Prod. Countries: Belgium, France Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Deckert Distribution Length: 90 Contact: Liselot Verbrugge Genre: Film Email: [email protected] Company: Be For Films Logline: Observational documentary about a Contact: Paméla Leu Thai woman who works in a care home in Thailand for European patients with Logline: Three years after their festival hit King Alzheimer's. Her own children are cared for by of the Belgians, Peter Brosens and Jessica her mother and she only sees them sporadically. Woodworth are back with the sequel in which a She is racked by guilt, but finds solace and love new Europe is created by the patients of a remote in caring for her Western patients. sanatorium. A refreshingly absurdist take on Trailer: show politics with understated, top-class roles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrp- for Peter Van den Begin and Udo Kier. 9PIeTqs Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_sNkVZ X5h8 Muidhond Sold territories: Benelux (Lumiere) Baltic States International premiere (Aone) China (Huanxi) Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Patrice Toye Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Prod. Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Marion Hänsel Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Marion Hänsel, à la vie Length: 98 Director(s): Caroline D’hondt Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Belgium Company: Be For Films Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Paméla Leu Length: 63 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Intense adaptation of Inge Company: ADV Productions Schilperoord’s controversial novel about 23- Contact: Monique Marnette year-old Jonathan, fresh out of prison. With his Email: [email protected] mother, he tries to rebuild his life and control his Logline: Striking portrait of Belgian cineaste paedophilic tendencies. Unfortunately, the 10- Marion Hänsel (1949), to whom IFFR is devoting year-old girl next door is determined to become a retrospective. The relationship between friends with him. characters and their natural surroundings plays Trailer: an important role in her work, which is often https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nstW2eIlB0I based on novels. Hänsel composes precise Sold territories: Benelux (Imagine) images and evokes effective atmospheres through sound and expressive landscapes. The Barefoot Emperor

Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth Prod. Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Be For Films Contact: Paméla Leu Email: [email protected] lovers: Ana and Anna, living in identical

Bolivia apartments. Paranoia is the name of the game in this hallucinatory Kammerspiel with echoes of Chaco Brecht. World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Diego Mondaca Bacurau Prod. Countries: Bolivia, Argentina Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Length: 77 Dornelles Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Brazil, France Company: ColorMonster Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Georgina Baisch Length: 130 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: Drama set in 1934. Bolivian soldiers, led Company: SBS International by a German commander, wander the Contact: Kevin Chneiweiss inhospitable Chaco plain. The mismatched Email: [email protected] regiment has been searching for the Paraguayan Logline: When a remote village in the north-east enemies for ages, but they seem unfindable. of Brazil suddenly disappears from all maps in Their mission becomes more fruitless by the day, this furious genre mash-up, it turns out to particularly when thirst, hunger, dissent and presage an invasion by trigger-happy gringos. exhaustion gain the upper hand. Using elements from the Western, horror and sci-fi genres, Brazil’s pitiless reality is projected several years into the future. Winner Jury Prize Brazil in Cannes. Trailer: In Pieces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRXOw9a World premiere vhQ&feature=youtu.be Programme section: The Tyger Burns

Director(s): Ruy Guerra A Yellow Animal Prod. Countries: Brazil World premiere Prod. Year: 2020 Programme section: Big Screen Competition Length: 93 Director(s): Felipe Bragança Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique Company: Kinossaurus Filmes Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Janaina Diniz Guerra Length: 115 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: Ruy Guerra (88), legendary Cinema Company: Shellac Novo maverick and co-founder of Mozambique's Contact: Luís Urbano film culture, demonstrates that a certain Email: [email protected] Kafkaesque noir is timeless. One man, two Logline: Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to that her body is in Argentina. What now? An Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholy, explosive, disturbing fiction debut, which seems tragicomic fable mixes animation, live action, to reinvent itself several times on its way to a voice-overs, genres and continents to explore poignant conclusion. Brazil's colonial past. Sold territories: All available Death Inhabits at Night The Fever World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Programme Director(s): Maya Da-Rin Director(s): Eduardo Morotó Prod. Countries: Brazil, France, Germany Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 98 Length: 94 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Still Moving Company: Enquadramento Produções Contact: Pierre Menahem Contact: Leonardo Mecchi Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Middle-aged native widower Justino’s Logline: Based on Bukowski's writings, this life is disrupted when his daughter tells him she portrait of a penniless writer and the women in wants to go study in Brasilia. This hypnotic his life is drenched in alcohol and cigarette fiction feature by Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin smoke. Elegantly shot, somehow romantic and won the international film critics’ award in sad debut about the search for soulmates, Locarno, where lead actor Regis Myrupu also balancing on the edge of the abyss in dilapidated won Best Actor. hotel rooms and shabby bars. Sold territories: Brazil (Vitrine Filmes) UK (New Sold territories: Brazil (Vitrine Filmes) Wave Films) France (in nego) Canada Desterro World premiere Une femme, ma mère Programme section: Tiger Competition European premiere Director(s): Maria Clara Escobar Programme section: Regained Prod. Countries: Brazil, Portugal, Argentina Director(s): Claude Demers Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: Canada Length: 125 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 75 Company: Terratreme Filmes Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Pedro Peralta Company: Email: [email protected] Contact: Claude Demers Logline: The relationship between a young Email: [email protected] Brazilian couple seems to be heading for the Logline: Claude Demers created a portrait of his rocks. Some time after she disappears, he is told biological mother and his search for her entirely alternative community disgusted by the cultural from clips from documentary and fiction films mainstream, but too fun-loving to be depressed. from Canada's national archive. These perfectly A honey-sweet farce! fitting, fluidly edited images, the voice-over and Trailer: the music represent the inner worlds of the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLrP9_Z maker and his troubled mother. uFs Sold territories: Canada (K-Films Amérique)

Drag Kids Matthias et Maxime Programme section: Scopitone Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Megan Wennberg Director(s): Xavier Dolan Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 78 Length: 119 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Sideways Films Company: Seville International Contact: Kazz Basma Contact: Anick Poirier Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Can you be a drag queen at a young age? Logline: A pretend kiss makes unexpected Of course you can: Stephan (9), Nemis (9), Jason feelings surface in this energetic portrait of (11) and Bracken (11) provide living proof. Only friendships between people in their 20s and the when they dress campily with fabulous make-up dilemmas of thirty-somethings. While their can they be themselves. Highlight: their hard-partying friends suspect nothing, bourgeois performance at Montreal Pride. type Matthias, who buries his emotions, and Sold territories: All available except for Canada, Maxime, who wears hers on her sleeve, attract Israel and USA (Gravitas Ventures Inc) then repulse one another. Trailer: Les fleurs oubliées https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HkfB20o International premiere DDI Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): André Forcier Prod. Countries: Canada Antigone Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Voices Main Programme Length: 102 Director(s): Sophie Deraspe Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Canada Company: Filmoption International Inc. Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Isabelle Legault Length: 109 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: Brother Marie-Victorin is bored by Company: Wazabi Films heaven. So he returns to earth where he meets Contact: Anick Poirier apiarist Albert, who lives on a boat and says wise Email: [email protected] things. This unlikely duo become the core of an Logline: In this adaptation of the Greek tragedy, Antigone is a 16-year-old Algerian immigrant in shine as lighthouse keepers in this 19th-century Canada. She tackles the legal system and maritime nightmare by Robert Eggers (director ingrained prejudices when one of her brothers is of The Witch). They drink away the mind- jailed. Her indelible love of and loyalty to family numbing time, resulting in sexually charged go viral and make her a modern heroine. tension, violent outbursts and supernatural Sold territories: Canada – Maison 4:3 / USA – hallucinations. Cinema Libre Studios / Italy – Lucky Red / Trailer: France and Belgium – Ligne 7 / Israel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWyVGa Nachshon Films / Mexico – Cinemas Nueva Era 0l9M&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkz / South Korea – Green Narae Media dccpUZo&index=22&t=0s

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk Programme section: Synergetic Chile Director(s): Zacharias Kunuk Prod. Countries: Canada Ema Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Limelight Length: 113 Director(s): Pablo Larraín Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Chile Contact: Samuel Cohn-Cousineau Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 102 Logline: In 1961, Inuit hunters in the Arctic were Genre: Film visited by a Canadian civil servant who forced Company: The Match Factory GmbH them to give up their nomadic lives and move to Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou a settlement. The Inuit filmmakers' collective Email: Isuma shot this powerful film from the Inuit [email protected] perspective on the boundless snowfields, so they Logline: Platinum blonde Ema comes up with a could shape their own history. master plan to get her adopted child Polo back. Trailer: This audiovisual spectacle full of dance shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0ON1v_ the smouldering streets of Valparaiso in all their mTY glory and takes us into the (night)life of a group Sold territories: Canada of young adults. With an ambient-reggaeton soundtrack by Nicolas Jaar. The Lighthouse Sold territories: World except: Australia/New Programme section: Limelight Zeland, Austria, Baltics, BeNeLux, Brazil, CIS, Director(s): Robert Eggers Cile, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Prod. Countries: Canada, USA Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, Prod. Year: 2019 Switzerland, Turkey, UK/Eire, U Length: 109 Genre: Fiction Company: A24 Email: [email protected] Logline: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos DIQ Programme section: Voices Main Programme Sold territories: All available Director(s): José Luis Torres Leiva The Wild Goose Lake Prod. Countries: Chile, Germany, Argentina Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 89 Director(s): Diao Yi'nan Prod. Countries: China, France Genre: Fiction Company: Compañia de Cine Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Paulina Portela Length: 113 Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Logline: Two women who've been together a Company: Memento Films International Contact: Gaëlle Palluel long time are forced to face the inevitable when one of them becomes incurably ill. In a cabin in Email: [email protected] the woods, they use their love to stave off sorrow Logline: This stylised neo-noir dismembers a straightforward plot about a gang leader and a while death awaits it chance. Poetic realism brimming with exceptional moments. prostitute on the run into its almost abstract Sold territories: Alemania, Switzerland, separate components. The heart of modern-day Argentina, Chile, Switzerland China lies hidden in the chaos that ensues. Meanwhile, Diao Yi'nan serves up one bloody, neon-lit visual tour de force after another.

China Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xml1C07D72A Only You Alone World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Wisdom Tooth Director(s): Zhou Zhou International premiere Prod. Countries: China Programme section: Bright Future Competition Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Liang Ming Length: 90 Prod. Countries: China Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Yilisoo Films Length: 104 Contact: Ke MA Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Parallax Films Logline: Epilepsy has forced Chi Li to give up her Contact: Liuying Cao dance career. The disease means she barely Email: [email protected] counts in Chinese society. However, Chi Li (great Logline: Thriller/coming-of-age film in which role by co-scriptwriter Chi Yun) is not the type to Guxi and her half-brother’s harmonious lives are take things lying down. Zhou Zhou's second shaken up by an attractive woman who brings feature film is an homage to a marginalised, adventure and danger. Tension rises in a world strong young woman. that shifts from colourful and warm, to cold and Trailer: threatening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARVFkkSm Balloon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmZ7_o Programme section: Limelight CvOM Director(s): Pema Tseden Prod. Countries: China Prod. Year: 2019 Colombia Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Valley of Souls Company: Rediance Programme section: Voices Main Programme Contact: Meng Xie Director(s): Nicólas Rincón Gille Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Colombia, Belgium Logline: In this cheerfully melancholic story of Prod. Year: 2019 Tibet in the 1980s, China's one-child policy Length: 137 comes up against belief in reincarnation, and Genre: Fiction condoms can become balloons. Mother Drolkar Company: Best Friend Forever is at the heart of a family of shepherds as Contact: Martin Gondre modernisation slowly starts to encroach on Email: [email protected] Buddhist tradition in their everyday lives. Logline: In the Colombian interior in 2002, the Trailer: simple river fisherman José discovers that a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3_u7v2Tpw paramilitary gang has taken his two sons and Sold territories: Benelux, France, Japan, probably killed them. Filled with silently borne Switzerland sorrow, he sets out on a lonely odyssey, searching for humanity in a bizarre world. A

Damp Season drama like a river: great and gripping. World premiere Sold territories: Brazil Colombia Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme

Director(s): Gao Ming Czech Republic Prod. Countries: China Communism and the Net or the End Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 109 of Representative Democracy Genre: Fiction International premiere Company: Rediance Programme section: The Tyger Burns Contact: Jing Xu, Zhang Yaoting Director(s): Karel Vachek Email: [email protected], Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia Logline: A young Chinese working couple drift Prod. Year: 2019 apart, ending up in the arms of others. Length: 335 Atmospheric study of the unsayable dynamics of Genre: Creative Documentary human relationships, shot in a Southern city, Company: Background Films where in early summer the weather grows dank Contact: Mikuláš Novotný and humid, and life becomes complex and Email: [email protected] ambiguous. Logline: A comparison of two popular uprisings Trailer: – the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution – gives film essay giant Karel Vachek lots of food documentary digs up his musical past, resulting for thought on democracy, the relative nature of in a reunion of legendary Zambian rock band freedom and the perilous liberties offered by the WITCH: an acronym for We Intend To Cause World Wide Web. Nothing less than a Havoc. monumental work of modern cinema. Trailer: Sold territories: All available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLp1WbFnk3g Sold territories: Scandinavia, Iceland, Baltics Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace (Non Stop Entertainment) Germany, Swiss World premiere Germany, Austria (Mindjazz - in progress) Programme section: Regained Director(s): Adam Olha, Jan Daňhel Cook, F**k, Kill Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia Programme section: Voices Main Programme Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Mira Fornay Length: 117 Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Athanor - Film Production Company, Length: 116 Llc Genre: Fiction Contact: Adam Olha Company: Cercamon Email: [email protected] Contact: Sebastien Chesneau Logline: Over a period of three years, the Email: [email protected] directors followed the life of Jan Švankmajer, Logline: Layered, absurdist family drama about shedding light on his creative principles, as well the vicious circle of domestic violence in central as his collaboration with old friend and producer Europe. Anti-hero Jaroslav's complex Jaromír Kallista. The film is also haunted by the relationship with his wife Blanka and their memory of Eva Švankmajerová, his wife and families is told in various ways − with cooking, a creative partner, muse and inseparable other lot of blood and a falling jukebox as recurring half. elements. Sold territories: All available

We Intend to Cause Havoc Denmark Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Gio Arlotta A Perfectly Normal Family Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Italy World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Big Screen Competition Length: 88 Director(s): Malou Reymann Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Denmark Company: Clam Jam Productions Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Gio Arlotta Length: 93 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: In the 1970s, Jagari was the most Company: New Europe Film Sales famous rock star in Zambia. Now, he earns a Contact: Jan Naszewski living as an anonymous miner. This Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2020 Logline: Delicate Danish drama in which the Length: 95 father of two girls plants a bomb under their Genre: Fiction harmonious family life: he will spend the rest of Company: La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma his life as a woman. What will such a complex Contact: Xavier Rocher change do to their relationships? We experience Email: [email protected] the story through the eyes of the sensitive Logline: Eighteenth-century road movie shows in younger daughter, who fears losing her close unparalleled lyrical imagery the pompous bond with her father. Edmund Burke, father of conservatism, who Sold territories: France, Scandinavia decides to go in search of 'the sublime' in the overwhelming nature of the French Alps. The Orphanage Orating as he goes, his belongings carried by a Programme section: Voices Main Programme beautiful, exotic servant. The result is a superior Director(s): Shahrbanoo Sadat piece of comic cultural criticism. Prod. Countries: Denmark, Afghanistan Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 90 Gutterbee Genre: Fiction Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Company: Luxbox Director(s): Ulrich Thomsen Contact: Valentin Carré Prod. Countries: Denmark, USA Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: With humour and a dash of nostalgia, Length: 107 we follow fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up Genre: Fiction in an orphanage during Afghanistan's Soviet- Company: Pro Tempore Film Aps oriented period in the 1980s. The realism is Contact: Roxy Cohan breached at crucial, dramatic moments by big Email: [email protected] songs done in full Bollywood style, with Qodrat Logline: Bipolar, German sausage maker Edward imagining himself a film star in his own story. starts his own high-end sausage restaurant in Trailer: small town America. Everyone loves it except the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_hKYSXx sheriff. He wants a hotdog not a Frankfurter. A wIU bone-dry, layered comedy about Trump's racist Sold territories: Brazil (Supo Manga) Denmark America. (Scanbox) France (Rouge Distribution) India Sold territories: All available (In2Infotainment) Middle-East and Northern Africa (MAD) Sweden (Sveriges Förenades Studio) USA (1844 Entertainment)

The Trouble with Nature World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Illum Jacobi Prod. Countries: Denmark, France Waiting for a sign of a possible exit, they wander

France for days through a desolate urban landscape. Lured by the calls of black crows, they stumble You Will Die at Twenty into a mythological, ancient forest, where time Programme section: Voices Main Programme flows differently. Director(s): Amjad Abu Alala Trailer: Prod. Countries: France, Egypt, Norway, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2BEXCzr Germany, Sudan, Qatar r9Q Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: All available Length: 105 Genre: Fiction Liberté Company: Pyramide International Programme section: Signatures Contact: Alberto Alvarez Aguilera Director(s): Albert Serra Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: France, Spain, Portugal, Logline: This Sudanese fiction feature is a Germany marvellous fable of classic beauty about the Prod. Year: 2019 straitjacket of tradition, the call of freedom and Length: 132 the power of cinema. Young Muzamil has been Genre: Fiction told he will die when he turns twenty. Can he Company: Films Boutique break the spell? Dedicated to the victims of the Contact: Ruta Švedkauskaitė Sudanese Revolution. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Logline: In an 18th-century woodland, a group of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvqmVW banished French libertines indulge in a night of ZE7I De Sadean sexual excess. This much-discussed Sold territories: France (Pyramide Distribution) provocation from Catalan film auteur Serra is MENA, South Africa, Switzerland (Trigon) the sort of film that should come with a trigger China (Hualu) Serbia (Centar) Poland warning. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. (Afrykamera) UK (New Wave) Sold territories: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Common Birds Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, International premiere Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Programme section: Wait and See Spain, Switzerland, USA Director(s): Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson Prod. Countries: France, Greece Sibyl Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Limelight Length: 84 Director(s): Justine Triet Genre: Experimental Prod. Countries: France, Belgium Company: Les Films du Bilboquet Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Eugénie Michel Villette Length: 100 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: Fed up with paying off debts, two Company: mk2 Films friends decide to leave their city of Athens. Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Email: [email protected] documentary seem incredibly happy. They were Logline: Sibyl is a psychotherapist with a allowed to roam free, work at a farm and even go troubled past. She is intrigued by her patient on supervised holidays. The impact of this Margot, an up-and-coming actress, and secretly approach was far-reaching. Unique archival records their conversations. Margot’s stormy life material shows how for decades Saint-Alban story gives Sibyl plenty of inspiration for the attracted therapists, artists and political rebels. novel she is having trouble writing. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7H7Xihs KF0 Les misérables Sold territories: Switzerland (RTS) Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Ladj Ly Adults in the Room Prod. Countries: France Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Costa-Gavras Length: 102 Prod. Countries: France, Greece Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Wild Bunch Length: 124 Contact: Esther Devos Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Elle Driver Logline: The day after the 2018 World Cup Final, Contact: Adeline Fontan Tessaur won by France, tensions rise in Parisian banlieue Email: [email protected] Montfermeil. During cop Stéphane’s first day on Logline: Kammerspiel-style political thriller the beat, some gypsies demand their stolen lion showing how Greece's finance minister cub back and young Issa causes problems again. Varoufakis takes on Schäuble, Dijsselbloem, Impressive, explosive debut, partly inspired by Lagarde and other servants of the political the riots of 2005. machine. Be aware, ye good people who like their Trailer: art equivocal and measured: Costa-Gavras (86) is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9COll5m still a gutsy rabble-rouser unafraid to make Uio things look clear-cut, and to drive his point home incisively! Sold territories: Elle Driver is the official world Les heures heureuses sales agent and has to be added manually on Programme section: Regained Sales Contact Lists Director(s): Martine Deyres Prod. Countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland Proxima Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Limelight Length: 77 Director(s): Alice Winocour Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: France, Germany Company: Sweet Spot Docs Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Anna Berthollet Length: 107 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: The psychiatric patients in this Company: Pathé Email: [email protected] Contact: Félicie Roger Logline: As the only woman in an all-male crew, Email: [email protected] Sarah is a French astronaut training for a one- Logline: Director and dancer Damien Manivel year mission in space. She has to deal with the follows four women attempting to understand idea of being separated from her 8-year-old and bring the challenging Mother to life. This daughter to achieve her dream. An intimate choreography was created by renowned dancer space film about science facts rather than science and groundbreaking choreographer Isadora fiction, close to the heart and down to earth. Duncan to process the tragic deaths of her two Trailer: young children in 1913. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9V1Ed_V Trailer: Vz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnP5S- Rp9aM Sold territories: Ecuador, Colombia (Vaivem) Énorme Japan (Copiapoa) Switzerland (Sister International premiere distribution) Portugal (Leopardo filmes) France Programme section: Big Screen Competition (Shellac) Director(s): Sophie Letourneur Prod. Countries: France Le voyage du prince Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: The Tyger Burns Length: 98 Director(s): Jean-François Laguionie Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: France Company: Indie Sales Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Clément Chautant Length: 77 Email: [email protected] Genre: Animation Logline: Thanks to her over-controlling husband, Company: Urban Distribution International a famous and career-minded pianist Contact: Irene Cadavid unexpectedly becomes pregnant. The event Email: [email protected] changes the dynamics of their relationship. Logline: In 1999, animation master Laguionie What starts out as an unnerving film on toxic created one of his most beloved films, Le masculinity morphs into a raw, wacky comedy Château des singes: an allegory about distrust about womanhood, fusional couples and and division set in the monkey kingdom. This classical music. time he focuses on xenophobia – a timely Sold territories: Benelux subject, developed with empathy and a rare visual grandeur into a cautionary animated tale Les enfants d'Isadora for all ages. Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Damien Manivel Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 84 Genre: Fiction Company: Shellac Cemetery L'état sauvage Programme section: Wait and See International premiere Director(s): Carlos Casas Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Prod. Countries: France, United Kingdom, Director(s): David Perrault Poland, Uzbekistan Prod. Countries: France, Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Length: 118 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Phantom Company: Pyramide International Contact: Olivier Marboeuf Contact: Alberto Alvarez Aguilera Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: How great would the loss be to Logline: In this beautifully shot French western, humanity if the last elephant were to die? Deep a couple and their three daughters decide to in the jungle of Sri Lanka, this suggestive and return to Paris from snowbound Missouri during very patient film urges us to reflect the American Civil War. Guiding them on their philosophically about our bond with the largest fraught journey is tormented ex-mercenary land mammal on earth, notoriously blessed with Victor, who has caught the eye of rebellious a superior memory. daughter Esther. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YMjygdPJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6v_ZnlL- G4 t0 Sold territories: Spectre Production Sold territories: France (Pyramide Distribution) Canada (to be confirmed) Atlantique Programme section: Limelight Jeanne d'Arc Director(s): Mati Diop Programme section: Signatures Prod. Countries: France, Senegal, Belgium Director(s): Bruno Dumont Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: France Length: 104 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 138 Company: mk2 Films Genre: Fiction Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Company: Luxbox Email: [email protected] Contact: Valentin Carré Logline: In Dakar, two young lovers have a star- Email: [email protected] crossed relationship. Souleiman is a construction Logline: The story of 15th-century French worker who needs to leave the country for a national heroine Jeanne d'Arc has been filmed better future, while Ada is the bride-to-be of many times, but never this eccentrically and someone else. Fate may bring bring them experimentally. After dealing with her youth in together in this beautiful darkly romantic tale, Jeannette, this sequel – another difficult, where realism can definitely be magical. grinding musical – depicts her downfall when she was accused of heresy and witchcraft. Trailer: moving, picture-perfect feature film debut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwlC6lgl87 Y Sold territories: Canada, Czech Republic & Zombi Child Slovakia, Ex-Yougoslavia, France, Greece, Programme section: Voices Main Programme Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Director(s): bertrand bonello Switzerland, UK, USA Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Nothing to Be Afraid of Length: 103 Programme section: Wait and See Genre: Fiction Director(s): Silva Khnkanosian Company: Playtime Prod. Countries: France, Armenia Contact: Joris Boyer Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 69 Logline: Forget the clichés of the zombie genre. Genre: Creative Documentary Bonello goes back to the origins of the living Company: La Huit dead, rooted in Haitian folklore and colonialism. Contact: Stephane Jourdain The result: an ambitious, conceptual genre film Email: [email protected] featuring the intriguing parallel stories of a Logline: Without indulging in any contextual Haitian teenager at a French boarding school explanation, this film follows in the footsteps of today and a zombie slave on a sugar plantation five Armenian women, while they risk their lives in 1962. daily to detect landmines. In the deceptive Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wphg5 calmness of nature, their silent and slow QnDmbs&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd procedure can lead to a dramatic explosion at ccpUZo any given moment. Sold territories: All available Un film dramatique Deux Programme section: Signatures Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Eric Baudelaire Director(s): Filippo Meneghetti Prod. Countries: France Prod. Countries: France, Luxembourg, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 114 Length: 95 Genre: Experimental Genre: Film Company: Poulet-Malassis Company: Doc & Film International Contact: Eric Baudelaire Contact: Daniela Elstner Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: For four years, Eric Baudelaire followed Logline: This delicate drama is an actor's film 20 schoolchildren in a Paris suburb, letting them about two elderly ladies who have been together use the camera. How do they observe the world? half their lives without anyone knowing. Fate Reflecting on themes such as racism, strikes when they finally want to tell the world. immigration and identity, the children were co- Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier star in a directors of this collective film project and the subject of their own and each other's lives. her mentally unstable mother. The everyday Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHw7H dilemmas of this unconventional family are Ut37fE captured in minutes-long, painstakingly framed Terminal Sud tableaux, paying great attention to seemingly Programme section: Voices Main Programme insignificant details. Director(s): Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche Trailer: Prod. Countries: France, Qatar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiG_G9vlq Prod. Year: 2019 3M Length: 96 Sold territories: All available Genre: Fiction Company: REASON8 Films A Hidden Life Contact: Anna Krupnova Programme section: Signatures Email: [email protected] Director(s): Terrence Malick Logline: A loyal doctor with a drinking problem Prod. Countries: Germany, USA tries to keep doing his job in an unnamed North Prod. Year: 2019 African country. A difficult proposition where Length: 180 lawlessness, violence and fear have a chokehold Genre: Fiction on things. He should leave, says his girlfriend; Company: Fox Searchlight Pictures but the doctor stays, and that takes its toll. Contact: Ebru Saglik Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- Email: [email protected] XCUF-iAk6o Logline: With A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick Sold territories: French-speaking Europe returns to the historical dramas he is renowned (Potemkine Films) Middle East (Front Row Ent) for. He combines his characteristic lyrical audio- Spain (Film Buro) visual style and associative editing with a relatively more structured story of an Alpine farmer who refuses to submit to the Nazi Germany occupation of Austria.

Fellwechselzeit International premiere For the Time Being Programme section: Bright Future Competition International premiere Director(s): Sabrina Mertens Programme section: Bright Future Competition Prod. Countries: Germany Director(s): Salka Tiziana Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: Germany, Spain, Switzerland Length: 80 Prod. Year: 2020 Genre: Fiction Length: 71 Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Genre: Fiction Contact: Sigrid Gairing Company: Email: [email protected] Contact: Salka Tiziana Logline: Poignant psychological drama about Email: [email protected] Stephanie, a bright girl whose isolated life is Logline: Nine-year-old German twins arrive at characterised by her symbiotic relationship with their father's paternal home in rural Spain, where they are received by their grandma and This infectious documentary spends years aunt. As father is delayed, they are all stuck with following passionate advocates of the unique, each other. Atmospheric drama in which time unpredictable and distinctive analogue life. seems to curdle under the burning sun to a What could be better than blurry Polaroids, soundtrack of crickets. crackling gramophones and old-fashioned Trailer: telephones? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QxMU7 Trailer: q3uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlMlTHtZu4 Sold territories: All available

Sebastian springt über Geländer Greece World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Birds. Or How to Be One Director(s): Ceylan-Alejandro Ataman-Checa World premiere Prod. Countries: Germany Programme section: Voices Main Programme Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Babis Makridis Length: 70 Prod. Countries: Greece Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Length: 77 Berlin Genre: Experimental Contact: Petra Palmer Company: New Europe Film Sales Email: [email protected] Contact: Ewa Bojanowska Logline: This refined, painstaking debut follows Email: [email protected] Sebastian through three phases of his life, on the Logline: That sensation in your tummy on a road to self-discovery. This quiet boy learned to swing, that's a deeply rooted, evolutionary desire be independent at a very early age. As a young to fly like the birds. This cinematic essay is a man, he finally wonders what remains of his contemplation, a voyage of discovery searching childhood dreams. for freedom. And perhaps also an indictment of Sold territories: All available the obstacles on our way to freedom. Trailer: An Impossible Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI9gIYxjoQI World premiere

Programme section: Regained Director(s): Jens Meurer Prod. Countries: Germany, Austria Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 93 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Autlook Filmsales GmbH Email: [email protected] Logline: Is the promised land virtual? Everyone lives digitally these days. But there is a way back! René Viénet bought the rights to Tú Guāngqǐ’s

Guatemala Crush. Through creative subtitling, he transformed it into a burlesque comedy about Los fantasmas daft French Maoists and smart Anarcho- World premiere Syndicalists. Now,Viénet has re-worked his Programme section: Bright Future Competition avant-garde classic for the masses by turning it Director(s): Sebastián Lojo into a digitally rotoscoped animation! Prod. Countries: Guatemala, Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 75 The Cube Phantom Genre: Fiction International premiere Company: Patra Spanou Film Marketing and Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Consultancy Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Director(s): Alan Lau Logline: In dangerous Guatemala City, Prod. Countries: Hong Kong handsome Koki lures men to a hotel where they Prod. Year: 2019 are robbed. He accepts this life as a matter of Length: 73 course – until it suddenly disappears. Using the Genre: Experimental power of authentic locations and situations, the Company: Blue Island Production Company young director delivers a convincing and exciting Contact: Peter Yam character study, and one that makes us stop and Email: [email protected] think. Logline: A unique, virtually wordless dance Trailer: poem that explores the exultation and the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHuKHzndAI tragedy of the city in ten site-specific sequences. Sold territories: All available Filmmaker Alan Lau, choreographer Jordann de Santis, composer Anthony Cheng and a troupe Hong Kong of fearless dancers have created a thrilling pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's La dialectique peut-elle casser des indomitable people. briques? (animated version) Sold territories: All available World premiere A Witness Out of the Blue Programme section: The Tyger Burns European premiere Director(s): René Viénet Programme section: Voices Main Programme Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, France Director(s): Fung Chih-chiang Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Length: 90 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 104 Company: Editions René Viénet Genre: Fiction Contact: René Viénet Company: One Cool Pictures Ltd. Email: [email protected] Contact: Christy Choi Logline: In 1972/73, Sinologist & Situationist Email: [email protected] Logline: An incompetent detective, a mysterious Email: [email protected] criminal and a talking parrot that is the major Logline: We had a 10-year wait for this film by witness to a murder are just a few of the legendary Hong Kong director Yonfan, and it ingredients in this highly entertaining police was also his first animation. In the politically thriller. Fung Chih-chiang, previously restless Hong Kong of the 1960s, a love triangle screenwriter for Stephen Chow and Johnnie To, develops between student Ziming, 18-year-old again proves that no city is as perfect for genre Meiling and her mother. An ode to the city and cinema as Hong Kong. cinema in nostalgic tones. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormop5jYPRY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkx_fsFz Qy8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd If We Burn ccpUZo World premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Director(s): James Leong, Lynn Lee Wash Them Down Prod. Countries: Hong Kong International premiere Prod. Year: 2020 Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Length: 90 Hong Kong Genre: - Director(s): Leung Ming-kai, Kate Reilly Company: Lianain Films Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Contact: Lynn Lee Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 78 Logline: The Hong Kong protest movement Genre: Fiction through the eyes of Hong Kongers whose fates, Company: like their city's future, now hang in the balance. Contact: Kate Reilly James Leong and Lynn Lee seem always exactly Email: [email protected] in the right place and the right time: their Logline: Four stories together show how fiction cinematic eyes for indelible, strangely beautiful and fact, humour and drama, the personal and images of a city wracked by violence makes this political are complementary facets of the same essential viewing. fascinating realities that constitute Hong Kong.

Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly's structural gambit delights and gently provokes, as their No.7 Cherry Lane film plumbs the contradictions that underlie and Programme section: Signatures activate Hong Kong's predicament today. Director(s): Yonfan Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, China 6qnbqQc0CA Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: All available Length: 125 Genre: Fiction Company: Far Sun Film Company Limited Contact: Joyce Yang The Cloud in Her Room Hungary World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Eden Director(s): Zheng Lu Xinyuan World premiere Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, China Programme section: Big Screen Competition Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Ágnes Kocsis Length: 98 Prod. Countries: Hungary, Romania Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Rediance Length: 153 Contact: Yaoting ZHANG Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: HNFF World Sales Logline: Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan's Contact: Marta Benyei, Marta Benyei debut is a melancholy, palpably personal film Email: [email protected], about twenty-something Muzi returning home [email protected] for the New Year's celebration. Everything seems Logline: Éva lives cut off from the outside world the same, but different. An expressionist search in her sterile blue apartment. She's allergic to for love, (in)dependence and connection, filmed just about everything. Are her allergies caused by in atmospheric shades of black and white. a polluting multinational corporation, or is she

so sensitive and vulnerable she's making herself ill? A science fiction love story that explores the We Have Boots ambiguity of the modern world. World premiere Trailer: Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVElGL_6w0 Hong Kong

Director(s): Evans Chan Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Empty Horses Prod. Year: 2020 Programme section: Regained Length: 125 Director(s): Péter Lichter Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Hungary Contact: Williams Cole Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 67 Logline: The Umbrella Movement of 2014 paved Genre: Experimental the way for Hong Kong's current upheavals, Company: Mindwax Ltd. while unfolding in significantly different ways. Contact: Dóra Nedeczky This documentary focuses on the intellectual Email: [email protected] underpinnings of the actions of 2014: engaged Logline: In a metaphysical screening room, the intellectuals, students, activists, and artists spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers including Benny Lai, Ray Chan, and Agnes Wong Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy cross swords articulate a range of philosophies, motivations, about life, love and art, while images from and feelings about their movement. classics of twentieth-century cinema flicker past Sold territories: All available on the screen. A battle between a hero of Hollywood’s 'Golden Age' and an avant-garde Email: [email protected] film pioneer. Logline: Sona Mohapatra is termed insane, Trailer: dangerous and subversive. She is threatened and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ8djh3o9oU even receives death threats, yet the Indian singer Sold territories: All available continues to fight the patriarchy in general and the sexist music industry in particular. All while Iceland continuing to develop artistically. Trailer: The Vasulka Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx3- Programme section: Regained PEn1qfY Director(s): Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Iceland A Rifle and a Bag Prod. Year: 2019 World premiere Length: 85 Programme section: Bright Future Competition Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Isabella Rinaldi, Cristina Hanes, Company: Juno Films, Inc Arya Rothe Contact: Elizabeth Sheldon Prod. Countries: India, Romania, Italy, Qatar Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2020 Logline: Documentary about video art’s free- Length: 89 spirited, groundbreaking pioneers Steina and Genre: Creative Documentary Woody Vasulka. They seemed forgotten, but Company: NoCut Film Collective there is renewed attention for their work. The Contact: Cristina Hanes artists look back on their eventful lives whilst Email: [email protected] creating their archive. Logline: Intimate documentary about a family of Trailer: ex-rebels trying to safeguard their son and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dTAFAA unborn child's futures whilst living as third-rate 85g&feature=youtu.be citizens. Ex-Naxalite communists, they fought

the government for tribal rights. Fighters could surrender and betray their comrades in exchange

India for citizenship. Trailer: Shut Up Sona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvSisDXjL-s International premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Deepti Gupta Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Omgrown Music Contact: Sona Mohapatra Nasir Bitter Chestnut World premiere European premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Arun Karthick Director(s): Gurvinder Singh Prod. Countries: India, Netherlands, Singapore Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 78 Length: 100 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Stray Dogs Company: Contentflow Studios Contact: Nathan Fischer Contact: Avneesh Chhabra Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Candid portrait of a gentle man living a Logline: Kishan is at the crossroads of youth and degrading, second-class existence as a Muslim in adulthood. He wants more than the predictable an India characterised by rising Hindu life offered by his village in the Himalayas, but nationalism. His poetry and love for his wife has heard from friends that life in the city can be keep him going, while toxic intolerance bubbles hard. Against the background of global just below the surface of everyday life. Until the urbanisation, this intimate coming-of-age drama explosion, as sudden as it is inevitable. shows the strength of traditional village communities. Trailer: The Home & The World Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PW6Jrx1 Programme section: The Tyger Burns MvI Director(s): Aparna Sen Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 The Invitation Length: 146 International premiere Genre: Fiction Programme section: Bright Future Main Company: SVF Entertainment Pvt Ltd Programme Contact: Ahana Kanjilal Dutta Director(s): Saurav Rai Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: India Logline: One-time actress, now Indian's most Prod. Year: 2019 important female filmmaker, Aparṇā Sēn Length: 85 adapts Tagore's classic novel Gharē Bāirē, Genre: Fiction previously filmed by her mentor Satyajit Rāẏ. Company: She transforms the love-triangle story from an Contact: Sanjay Gulati emotional tale of emancipation into an Email: [email protected] unflinching look at the current political malaise. Logline: How do you get an invitation to a Trailer: wedding if the bridegroom's father dislikes you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXNOs8-1ZyI In a village in Darjeeling, a landowner's 10-year old helper nevertheless goes all out, perhaps even going too far. Endearing, realistic insight into caste relations in a lesser-known part of Trailer: India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8bAaZg Sold territories: All available 230

Jallikattu Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Impetigore Director(s): Lijo Jose Pellissery European premiere Prod. Countries: India Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Joko Anwar Length: 91 Prod. Countries: Indonesia Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Stray Dogs Length: 107 Contact: Nathan Fischer Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Base Entertainment Logline: An escaped water buffalo leaves a trail of Contact: Nadia Saraswati havoc through an Indian village, prompting the Email: [email protected] male villagers to set out on a wild hunt. Rising Logline: Indonesian horror film about levels of adrenaline and testosterone cause mysticism, wayang puppets, a hellish village tempers to fray, and the differences between history in Java and the young woman held man and beast become ever more blurred. responsible for it. When 25-year old Maya returns to the village of her birth, the inhabitants prove to want her dead, as they think this will lift Indonesia the curse. Trailer: The Science of Fictions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZVv9swa Aw Programme section: Voices Main Programme Sold territories: North America - Ivanhoe Director(s): Yosep Anggi Noen Pictures Indonesia, Malaysia, & Brunei Prod. Countries: Indonesia Darussalam - Base Entertainment The rest of the Prod. Year: 2019 world - CJ Entertainment Length: 106 Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Contact: Meng Xie Email: [email protected] Logline: Siman literally loses his tongue when in the 1960s - somewhere in Indonesia - he stumbles upon the moon landing being faked. In this mildly absurdist critique on re-writing history, fake news and the impact of technological progress, he becomes obsessed with his dream of being an astronaut. drug problem.

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Filmfarsi Women According to Men Programme section: Regained World premiere Director(s): Ehsan Khoshbakht Programme section: Regained Prod. Countries: Iran, United Kingdom Director(s): Saeed Nouri Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Iran Length: 84 Prod. Year: 2020 Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 90 Company: Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Ehsan Khoshbakht Company: DreamLab Films Email: [email protected] Contact: Nasrine Médard de Chardon Logline: Featuring clips from over 100 popular Email: [email protected] action thrillers and melodramas that survived Logline: Until the revolution broke out, popular the Iranian Revolution on illegal VHS copies, this film stars in Iranian cinema portrayed a range of essay highlights a flourishing film industry. contradictory, ideologically coloured views of Unearthed from history's dust, they reflect Iran's women. Clips from fiction films made between pre-revolutionary society between 1953 and 1932 and 1979 show how traditional values and 1979. the policy of modernisation under the Shahs Trailer: were reflected in the depiction of the lives of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMtM3U Iranian women. MTKU Sold territories: All available

Just 6.5 Iraq Programme section: Limelight Sandlines Director(s): Saeed Roustaee Prod. Countries: Iran European premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Signatures Length: 135 Director(s): Francis Alÿs Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Iraq Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Iranian Independents Contact: Mohammad Atebbai Length: 61 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: Samad works for the drug squad in Iran. Company: Galerie Jan Mot He and his colleagues start hunting feared drug Contact: Jan Mot Email: [email protected] baron Nasser Khakzad, but differences of opinion and Iranian bureaucracy interfere. Logline: Young children from a mountain village Nothing is easy in this layered, nail-biting, near Mosul re-enact a century of Iraqi history, superbly acted police film that maps out Iran's from the secret agreement of Sykes/Picot signed in 1916 to the realm of terror established by the Islamic State in 2016. The children revisit their Contact: Yervant Gianikian past to understand their present. Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Logline: Sublime sequel to the film Gianikian made last year after the death of his life- and Israel film-partner Ricci Lucchi. Diary and film excerpts provide insight into their lives and The Hidden Fountain – The World of oeuvre as well as the artistic mission and methods of two of the most important Miriam Chalfi filmmakers of the past 50 years. Programme section: The Tyger Burns Trailer: Director(s): Raquel Chalfi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAZIq3 Prod. Countries: Israel P_I8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd Prod. Year: 2019 ccpUZo&index=14&t=0s Length: 100 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Costanza Film Distribution Fortezza Contact: Raquel Chalfi International premiere Email: [email protected] Programme section: Wait and See Logline: Famous Israeli sculptor Miriam Chalfi Director(s): Ludovica Andò, Emiliano Aiello didn't like being filmed: not even by her equally Prod. Countries: Italy celebrated daughter, poet-cum-one-woman- Prod. Year: 2019 avant-garde-cinema-vanguard Raquel Chalfi. It Length: 72 took the latter more than a quarter century of Genre: Creative Documentary persuasion, seduction and insistence to get the Company: Associazione Compagnia former to reveal something of herself. Sanguegiusto Trailer: Contact: Emiliano Aiello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3GGY5as Email: [email protected] JE Logline: In every prison, the same dialectic can Sold territories: All available be found between resignation and hope of redemption. Inside, time does not fly. There is Italy only the opportunity to look inside oneself. Real inmates act out The Tartar Steppe, the classic, I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. existentialist novel by Dino Buzzati. Capitolo secondo Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- 520Y7gvxOY Programme section: Signatures Sold territories: All available Director(s): Yervant Gianikian Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Due scatole dimenticate Rosa pietra stella World premiere World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Cécilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli Director(s): Marcello Sannino Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 58 Length: 90 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: OfficinaVisioni Company: P.F.A. Films Contact: Paolo Pisanelli Contact: Pier Francesco Aiello Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Before becoming first a critic then a Logline: The 'rose, rock and star' of the title is the documentary maker, Cécilia Mangini was a beautiful Carmela, who scrapes together a living photographer. In 1965, together with her doing a range of odd jobs. But this isn't enough husband, filmmaker Lino Del Fra, Mangini went to give her eleven-year-old daughter a to war-torn Vietnam to make a film they never harmonious youth in the lively, multicultural finished. The pictures she took there trigger a part of Naples where they live. An attractive stream of conscious-like reflection on her life. Neorealist fiction debut from an experienced documentary maker. Sold territories: All available Il colpo del cane International premiere Non c'è nessuna Dark Side (2007-2019) Programme section: Voices Main Programme International premiere Director(s): Fulvio Risuleo Programme section: Bright Future Main Prod. Countries: Italy Programme Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Erik Negro Length: 93 Prod. Countries: Italy Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: True Colours Length: 215 Contact: Gaetano Maiorino Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Contact: Erik Negro Logline: Marti thinks she can make some easy Email: [email protected] money dog-sitting for a spoilt pug, but it doesn't Logline: After leaving school, a young Italian turn out like that when the pooch gets pinched. critic spent years filming his life, his friends, But then, the thief isn't having an easy time of it parties and trips (including to IFFR and the either. The coincidences stack up comically, but Berlinale). The result of this experiment is a kind there is also something deeply tragic about it all. of liminal phase in a historical, personal process of solidification, and acts as a unique mirror to our times and socially committed love of film. Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_W7bi7zLw

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Japan death. To mark this 50th anniversary, all surviving key members of the Tora-san family Shell and Joint came together to create a moving elegy for a lost Programme section: Bright Future Main world. Programme Trailer: Director(s): Hirabayashi Isamu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCy8R6FA2c Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 154 First Love Genre: Fiction Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Company: DASH CO., LTD. Director(s): Miike Takashi Contact: Katsumata Madoka Prod. Countries: Japan, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: Understated, intelligent comedy by Length: 108 award-winning director of short films Genre: Fiction Hirabayashi Isamu. Japanese capsule hotel users Company: HanWay Films philosophise about sex, death and love. The tight Contact: Tejinder Jouhal framing and absurdist humour make it seem as if Email: [email protected] the makers of Toren C (offbeat Dutch TV series) Logline: Genre master Miike Takashi returns to and Roy Andersson have had a completely his first love, characteristic of his 1990s career – idiosyncratic Japanese love child. Yakuza films. This contemporary take includes Trailer: the usual explosive elements: talented, yet ill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37vIyKN1 boxer Leo and call girl Monica become Q4o&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd embroiled in a failed drug deal between local ccpUZo gangsters and a Chinese triad. Sold territories: All available

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here Cenote International premiere International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Programme section: Bright Future Main Director(s): Yamada Yoji Programme Prod. Countries: Japan Director(s): Oda Kaori Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Japan, Mexico Length: 116 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 75 Company: Shochiku Co., Ltd. Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Hitomi Hosoda Company: Article Films Email: [email protected] Contact: Emi Ueyama Logline: In 1969, Yamada Yōji made the first Email: [email protected] film featuring irascible anti-hero Tora-san, Logline: Entrancing footage of cenotes, or holy played by comedian Atsumi Kiyoshi, who went springs, in Yucatan, Mexico. Long-lost memories echo in a hallucinatory game of light and dark. Japanese Led Zeppelin fan who can play Swimming in these, director Oda encounters everything, note for note. Particularly intriguing mysterious shapes. The past and present of the when he gathers other musical master imitators people living around the cenotes coalesce in this around him. Because are they following Led place where nothing is forgotten. Zeppelin or the Japanese perfectionist accompanying them? Sold territories: All available Children of the Sea Programme section: Voices Main Programme Reiwa Uprising Director(s): Watanabe Ayumu International premiere Prod. Countries: Japan Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Hara Kazuo Length: 112 Prod. Countries: Japan Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: STUDIO4℃ Length: 270 Contact: Ayumi Inoguchi Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Company: My Theater D.D. Logline: Strange things are happening with the Contact: Natsumi Hayashi ocean: whales appear in New York, a meteor Email: [email protected] crash attracts the sea life. Alienated teenager Logline: Hara Kazuo started shooting on 18 June Ruka also feels an ever-deeper connection to the 2019, upon learning that economics professor sea. This coming-of-age anime with an and trans woman Yasutomi Ayumi was standing imaginative twist pulses with colourful, for election for the left-wing party Reiwa experimental images. The most enchanting Shinsengumi. This activist epic on the need for animated film of the year. change had its world premiere just four months Sold territories: Australia + New Zealand / later. Cinema as an arena for political combat! Madman France / Eurozoom Germany / Trailer: polyband Italy / Dynit Latin America / Madness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ55qXb91Po Entertainment North America / GKIDS Russia + Sold territories: All available CIS / CDland Spain / Selecta Vision Thailand. Tenzo Mr. Jimmy Programme section: Voices Main Programme Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Tomita Katsuya Director(s): Peter Michael Dowd Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Countries: Japan, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 62 Length: 113 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Kuzoku Company: One Two Three Films Contact: Terutarô Osanaï Contact: Peter Michael Dowd Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Two Buddhist monks help a local Logline: Imitation as art in this film about a community in Japan. They are confronted by the socio-economic consequences of the past and avant-garde entertainment for the masses. With wonder how to go on living in the right way. A an urgent political message! A cinema is docudrama in which fiction unobtrusively transformed into a kind of time machine that interweaves with real events, resulting in a transports a group of youngsters to crucial, beautiful portrait of the monks and their useful violent moments in Japanese history. The most lives. flamboyant, inventive thing you'll see at IFFR Trailer: 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4J0lg65CHo Sold territories: All available

A Girl Missing Special Actors Programme section: Limelight European premiere Director(s): Fukada Koji Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Prod. Countries: Japan, France Director(s): Ueda Shinichiro Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Japan Length: 111 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 109 Company: mk2 Films Genre: Fiction Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Company: Shochiku Email: [email protected] Contact: Hitomi Hosoda Logline: In this calm, stylised revenge drama by Email: [email protected] Fukada Koji (Harmonium), nurse Ichiko feels the Logline: A money-grubbing cult involved in rice ground slipping away beneath her when her balls, a charming young damsel in distress and nephew is suspected of the kidnap of a good an improbable dork-hero who faints every time friend. Driven by madness and desire, it turns someone looks at him. How on earth can that out that Ichiko herself also has a dark side. end well? If only Rescueman were here! Sympathic absurdity from the maker of the unexpected cult hit One Cut of the Dead. Kazakhstan

A Dark, Dark Man Labyrinth of Cinema Programme section: Voices Main Programme International premiere Director(s): Adilkhan Yerzhanov Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Countries: Kazakhstan Director(s): Obayashi Nobuhiko Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Japan Length: 130 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 179 Company: Arizona Productions Genre: Fiction Contact: Olga Khlasheva Company: AMG Entertainment Email: [email protected] Contact: Nobuhito Hayashi Logline: Jet-black, absurdist-comedy-coated, Email: [email protected] anti-Hollywood action film about corruption in a Logline: Obayashi = total pop surrealism and Kazakh village. Detective Bekzat, charged with future, as an old Laotian finds out when a ghost killing a suspect, has a change of heart when a gives him the chance to travel back in time to his female journalist from the city forces him to truly youth. In this ingenious mix of lo-fi sci-fi and investigate the murder of a homeless boy. melancholy ghost story, undoing the tragic event that has pressed on him for decades has unexpected consequences. Kenya

Lusala Lebanon International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main We Are From There Programme World premiere Director(s): Mugambi Nthiga Programme section: Bright Future Main Prod. Countries: Kenya, Germany Programme Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Wissam Tanios Length: 61 Prod. Countries: Lebanon, France Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Rushlake Media Length: 82 Contact: Sélina Boye Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Company: The Bureau Sales Logline: Lusala is almost a grownup. Time to Contact: Cendrella Abi Gerges, Geraldine Bryant leave the nest, according to his wealthy adoptive Email: [email protected], family. He dives head-first into his new life as a [email protected] car mechanic with a tiny apartment in Nairobi Logline: Two young Syrian brothers take a leap but demons from his past block his path to of faith and decide to start their lives from adulthood. scratch in new cities. They leave everything Sold territories: All available behind except their passion for life, determination and hope for a better future. Laos Their closest cousin, Wissam, decides to film their odysseys for over five years, exploring the The Long Walk human ability to cope with the most radical change. Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Trailer: Director(s): Mattie Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHVpaAe7 Prod. Countries: Laos, Spain, Singapore xnU Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: All available Length: 116 Genre: Fiction Company: 108 Media Contact: Jordan Nutson Email: [email protected] Logline: If you change the past, you change the All This Victory fields and cemetery make way for ‘progress’? Programme section: Voices Main Programme Trailer: Director(s): Ahmad Ghossein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9X1Y6M Prod. Countries: Lebanon, France ULRM Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: All available Length: 94 Genre: Fiction Mexico Company: WTFilms Contact: Maxime Duchateau El diablo entre las piernas Email: [email protected] Programme section: The Tyger Burns Logline: Minimalistic – and all the more effective Director(s): Arturo Ripstein for it – impression of the war between Israel and Prod. Countries: Mexico, Spain Hezbollah in July 2006. In the ruins of Southern Prod. Year: 2019 Lebanon, five villagers hide from the fighting – Length: 145 and from the Israeli soldiers holed up on the Genre: Fiction floor above them. Incredibly claustrophobic Company: Latido Films award-winner in Venice. Contact: Marta Hernando Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJ6Lu6N Logline: Is it the stunning black-and-white ogM photography that makes us unable to take our eyes off this older married couple, intimate enemies incarnate, living in a harmony of hate? Lesotho Is it the convincing psychology that makes us fascinated by their sexual play? The fantastic This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection actors? Ripstein's masterly directing? Or is it just Programme section: Bright Future Main that we've never seen the like of it? Programme Trailer: Director(s): Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk6zvlqVr Prod. Countries: Lesotho, Italy hE Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: All available Length: 120

Genre: Fiction Company: Memento Films International Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Email: [email protected] Logline: Modern, poetic fairy tale about the resilience of the human spirit. In Lesotho, Mantoa (80) is preparing for death when an existential threat rocks her community, rekindling her lust for life – her village will have to make way for a reservoir. Why should homes, ColOZio modest, poignant feature debut. World premiere Trailer: Programme section: Rotterdämmerung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFhxMXP Director(s): Artemio Narro OSsc Prod. Countries: Mexico Prod. Year: 2020 Le miracle du Saint Inconnu Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Programme section: Bright Future Main Company: Programme Director(s): Alaa Eddine Aljem Contact: Artemio Narro Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Morocco, France Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: An acid trip informs Diego and Gael that Mexican presidential candidate Colosio will Length: 100 be assassinated in three days' time. It's up to the Genre: Fiction Company: The Match Factory GmbH dorky duo to save him so they can be heroes. Political reality inventively intertwined with Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou mythology in this idiosyncratic, colourful road Email: movie. [email protected] Trailer: Logline: Bone-dry Moroccan crime film about religion, superstition and tradition. After a long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVv9Qbor X9o prison sentence, a thief wants to pick up his loot, Sold territories: All available but the once-remote hiding place in the desert is now a holy shrine. There's only one thing he can do: infiltrate the religious community to get his

Morocco illegal property. Trailer: Adam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_xP- Programme section: Limelight 6BvSc Director(s): Maryam Touzani Prod. Countries: Morocco, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Films Boutique Contact: Ruta Švedkauskaitė Email: [email protected] Logline: Reluctantly giving in to the urging of her eight-year-old daughter, widow Abla agrees to temporarily take in young, pregnant, unmarried Samia. Inside the walls of Abla's small apartment and adjoining bakery, a relationship develops between three very different women in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16L9zRo1

Netherlands TZM Sold territories: Benelux (September Film) Kala azar World premiere Dreamlife Programme section: Tiger Competition World premiere Director(s): Janis Rafa Programme section: Wait and See Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Greece Director(s): Melvin Moti Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Length: 85 Prod. Year: 2020 Genre: Fiction Length: 85 Company: Heretic Outreach Genre: Experimental Contact: Ioanna Stais Company: KeyFilm Email: [email protected] Contact: Josie Taalman Logline: A young couple employed by a pet Email: [email protected] crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully Logline: Taking a 1960s scientific experiment as removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an its starting point, this trippy, hypnotic environment where the boundaries between exploration of human sleep allows visual artist human and animal are fading. Until they run Melvin Moti to expand his vocabulary in over a dog, and their relationship loses its way. surprising ways. While staying faithful to his long-time obsessions, he also immerses the viewer in his laboratory, and allows his Goud imagination to run wild. World premiere Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Rogier Hesp New Neapolis Prod. Countries: Netherlands World premiere Prod. Year: 2020 Programme section: RTM Length: 90 Director(s): Gyz La Rivière Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Netherlands Company: BALDR Film Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Frank Hoeve Length: 105 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Young Timo's life is dominated by Company: gymnastics. He is training intensively for the Contact: Jeroen S. Rozendaal World Championships, aiming ultimately for Email: [email protected] Olympic gold. But the powerful feelings he Logline: Rotterdam, Liverpool, Marseilles and develops for his physiotherapist Irene call Naples should form a 'gang of cities'. In a everything into question – including his complex rhythmically edited visual collage, filmmaker relationship with his demanding, disabled Gyz La Rivière sees similarities and connections father. beneath every paving stone. In a world where Trailer: cities are becoming more important than countries, these port cities could be in the history. German-born, Dutch by marriage: vanguard of a new, sexy Europe. actress, playwright, café owner, double agent. Trailer: Universally feared, not least for the dirty secrets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cbd2gxlb she kept about the high and mighty. Who was HY Leonie Brandt really? Is there really a 'really'? A Sold territories: All available documentary thriller. Trailer: Mister Soul – A Story About Donny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOtnZk76MI Hathaway Sold territories: Netherlands (Mokum World premiere Filmdistributie - theatrical rights only) Programme section: Scopitone Farewell Paradise Director(s): David Kleijwegt World premiere Prod. Countries: Netherlands Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Sonja Wyss Length: 88 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Zeppers Film & TV Length: 93 Contact: Frank van den Engel Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Company: Basalt Film Logline: Soul pioneer Donny Hathaway (1945- Contact: Simone van den Broek 1979) peaked during the heyday of the American Email: [email protected] civil rights movement. However, racial tensions Logline: The idyllic life in the Bahamas of a in the divided country increased in step with his family with four young daughters is cruelly schizophrenia. He felt hounded and committed disrupted when mother decides to return to suicide. David Kleijwegt's biographic film Switzerland. The director is one of the simultaneously portrays a generation of African daughters, who all returned with her. She Americans under enormous pressure. reconstructs events on the basis of candid, at Sold territories: All available times painful, conversations with her parents Leonie, actrice en spionne and sisters. World premiere Sold territories: The Netherlands (Periscoop Programme section: The Tyger Burns Film) Director(s): Annette Apon Drama Girl Prod. Countries: Netherlands World premiere Prod. Year: 2020 Programme section: Tiger Competition Length: 90 Director(s): Vincent Boy Kars Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Netherlands Company: SNG Film Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Digna Sinke Length: 90 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Leonie Brandt is one of the most Company: HALAL mysterious characters in 20th-century Dutch Contact: Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen Logline: In this poetic road movie, an artist tours Email: [email protected] Abkhazia with an autobiographical puppet play. Logline: Can drama help us understand Between sun-drenched palm beaches and bullet- ourselves and the world better? Assisted by riddled ruins from the war with Georgia, he experienced actors, including Pierre Bokma and collects stories, dreams and memories. In this Elsie de Brauw, director Vincent Boy Kars re- melting pot of peoples, he wonders: "What enacts scenes from the life of Leyla, a young makes a country? What is home?" woman who is subjected to a certain amount of Trailer: confusion in this intriguing experiment. What is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qJ-sFf53fI still real, and what is fiction? Sold territories: All available Paradise Drifters Porselein World premiere European premiere Programme section: Limelight Programme section: RTM Director(s): Mees Peijnenburg Director(s): Jenneke Boeijink Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Orange Studio Company: New Amsterdam Film Company Contact: Ines Papo Contact: Sander Verdonk Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Yousef has no family. Chloe's teen pimp Logline: Anna and Paul's perfect life is disrupted got her pregnant. Lorenzo wants to make a quick when their young son Thomas suddenly starts to buck smuggling drugs geld. The leads in this raw exhibit aggressive tendencies. In their frustrating road movie, intensely portrayed by the young search for the cause, they are both confronted cast, are desperate for help and love. A film that with their own defects, hidden below the veneer deals out hard blows whilst steering them of seeming happiness. Slowly but surely the towards the liberating finale. cracks in their existence get bigger. Trailer: Sold territories: All available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip3t4dQCpzA

Little Man, Time and the Troubadour Programme section: RTM Director(s): Ineke Smits Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 104 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Deckert Distribution Contact: Heino Deckert Email: [email protected] language in this freely designed impression with

Norway a documentary edge. Trailer: The Painter and the Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tpYsQEXoE European premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Tierra adentro Director(s): Benjamin Ree European premiere Prod. Countries: Norway, Sweden Programme section: Bright Future Main Prod. Year: 2019 Programme Length: 102 Director(s): Mauro Colombo Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Panama Company: Medieoperatørene Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Salma Abdalla Length: 70 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Painter Barbora Kysilkova befriends the Company: The Open Reel junky who stole two of her works. Driven by Contact: Marius Gabriel Stancu curiosity and thrill-seeking, Florence Nightingale Email: [email protected] syndrome and true compassion, she tries to get Logline: Colombo’s urgent documentary feature the monkey off his back. Ultimately, he frees her debut shows the filmmaker immersing himself in from her own demons. the Darién Gap, a dense and mysterious jungle Sold territories: All available that divides Panama and Colombia. At the dangerous border between these two countries, Panama guerrillas, immigrants, indigenous people, farmers, drug traffickers, police, and wild Panquiaco animals cross paths. Trailer: World premiere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tn- Programme section: Bright Future Competition g8m2P5k&feature=youtu.be Director(s): Ana Elena Tejera Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Panama Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 80 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Too Much Panama Contact: Lidia Damatto Email: [email protected] Logline: What does it mean to be descended from Panama's indigenous population? Driven by nostalgia, Cebaldo returns to his roots from Portugal, only to find that the world of his youth is no more. The stunning images speak their own intermezzo, grand master Diaz calmly heads for

Peru the unexpected denouement. Sold territories: Thailand (Documentary Club) En medio del laberinto European premiere Poland Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Corpus Christi Director(s): Salomón Pérez Prod. Countries: Peru Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Jan Komasa Length: 65 Prod. Countries: Poland, France Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 116 Company: Contact: Salomón Pérez Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: New Europe Film Sales Contact: Jan Naszewski Logline: Peruvian director Salomón Pérez provides a dreamy, fictional, nostalgic coating to Email: [email protected] Logline: Oscar-nominated drama about a 20- his memories of youth. Skateboarding teen Renzo does his best to impress the elusive Zoe in year-old delinquent sent on work experience, this coming-of-age film that provides unique who ends up not in a sawmill but in the village church, where he is mistaken for the new priest. insight into Trujillo's skateboarding scene. In this brand-new calling, he struggles with a village trauma, his own demons and the fear of being unmasked as a criminal.

Philippines Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYnzL5ifXsw The Halt Sold territories: Australia, Belarus, Benelux, Programme section: Signatures Central America, Colombia, Czech Repulic and Director(s): Lav Diaz Slovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Greece, Prod. Countries: Philippines Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Prod. Year: 2019 Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Length: 278 Romania, Russia & CIS, Singapore, Spain, Genre: Fiction Switzerland, Taiwan, UK & Ireland, USA and Company: Indie Sales Canada. Contact: Clément Chautant Email: [email protected] Logline: In this political fantasy of a future highly reminiscent of today, volcanic eruptions have thrown the Philippines into darkness, while a crazed leader threatens rebellious neighbourhoods with poison gas. Resistance is not an easy option. After a stirring rock Black Mercedes Sold territories: Portugal - Midas Filmes USA - Programme section: The Tyger Burns Grasshopper Film UK and Ireland - Second Run Director(s): Janusz Majewski Brazil - Zeta Filmes Mexico and Colombia - Prod. Countries: Poland Interior X II I Germany and Austria - GrandFilm Prod. Year: 2019 Japan – Cinematrix Greece – Video Length: 123 Suzanne Daveau Genre: Fiction Company: WFDiF International premiere Contact: Marika Cieslik Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Email: [email protected] Logline: Rafał Król serves as an investigator with Director(s): Luísa Homem Prod. Countries: Portugal the 'Blue Police'. The year is 1942, the place Warsaw, the crime murder. Things get murkier Prod. Year: 2019 still when the victim, Aneta Holzer, seems to Length: 115 Genre: Creative Documentary have been someone quite different from she was said to be... An elegantly directed, quizzically Company: Terratreme Filmes smart piece of historical crime fiction. Contact: Pedro Peralta Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Logline: Rich documentary portrait of a passionate geographer way ahead of her time.

Portugal Suzanne Daveau (1925, France) undertook field research in the most inhospitable environments: Vitalina Varela nothing could stop her. Using stunning photo Programme section: Signatures series and footage, she tells the story of her life, Director(s): Pedro Costa in which work and private life became one. Prod. Countries: Portugal Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 124 Mosquito Genre: Fiction World premiere Company: Sociedade Óptica Técnica, Optec Programme section: Big Screen Competition Contact: Vítor Carvalho Director(s): João Nuno Pinto Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Portugal, France, Brazil Logline: Vitalina travels from her native Cape Prod. Year: 2020 Verde in the footsteps of her recently deceased Length: 122 partner, ending up in the pitch-black vacuum of Genre: Fiction life for Portuguese immigrants. This Golden Company: Alfama Films Leopard winner at Locarno is stunningly stylised Contact: Jason Bressand by Pedro Costa, who isolates his characters in the Email: [email protected] darkness using a 4:3 ratio and bright spotlights. Logline: During World War I, heavy fighting also Trailer: took place in East Africa, far from the European https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjqzn_N front. In 1917 a solitary Portuguese soldier (17) WRI&feature=youtu.be travels hundreds of kilometres on foot through Mozambique, looking for his platoon. He almost Company: m-appeal succumbs to malaria and other deprivations. Contact: Magdalena Banasik Intoxicating war film without war about a soldier Email: [email protected] without an army. Logline: Jealousy drives married, yet sexually Trailer: neglected Lena to take a series of lovers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6eZ6AV Complex, explicitly shot psychological drama wBZk from a female perspective. Director Nigina Sayfullaeva studies the role of sex, power and vulnerability in relationships, revealing that Romania what remains undiscussed soon begins to fester. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EG2EEzIQaY The Whistlers Sold territories: All available Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Corneliu Porumboiu Tinnitus Prod. Countries: Romania, France, Germany, Programme section: Scopitone Sweden Director(s): Daniil Zinchenko Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Russia Length: 97 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 91 Company: mk2 Films Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Company: Cosmosfilm Email: [email protected] Contact: Ekaterina Khazina Logline: A Romanian policeman, a factory owner Email: [email protected] hiding drugs in mattresses, a femme fatale, a Logline: Electronic noise with a death wish was beautiful Spanish island and a centuries-old the Russian alternative music scene's answer to secret language. Romanian maestro Porumboiu Glasnost. Many of the musicians have since died, blends these together to create an elegant, drily whether due to drugs, suicide or unknown comical thriller in which good and evil conspire reasons. A look back at the time when romance side by side. and punk started a deadly relationship. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoaeivEUyA Russia Sold territories: All available

Fidelity Babai European premiere World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Nigina Sayfullaeva Director(s): Artem Aisagaliev Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Countries: Russia, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 82 Length: 65 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Badcut Inc Length: 134 Contact: Artem Aisagaliev Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Wild Bunch Logline: Russian brothers Mark and Gesha Contact: Esther Devos struggle with their strict father, while their tough Email: [email protected] youth illustrates how fear and sadness are Logline: In his visually overwhelming second unavoidable elements of aging. Using film, mega-talent Kantemir Balagov reveals the claustrophobic close-ups, Russian filmmaker war traumas of two women who fought in the Artem Aisagaliev provides a universal Red Army. In a Leningrad ravaged by the siege, impression of a human existence characterised young women Iya and Masha pick up the pieces by trauma. of their devastated lives in the autumn of 1945. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9E0UO 5DZ0 A Frenchman Sold territories: All available International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks Director(s): Andrei Smirnov World premiere Prod. Countries: Russia Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Andrey Khrzhanovsky Length: 128 Prod. Countries: Russia Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2020 Company: All Media Company Length: 89 Contact: Larisa Leonova Genre: Crossmedia Project Email: [email protected] Company: School - Studio “SHAR” Logline: In the late 1950s, Pierre Duran travels to Contact: Anna Ostalskaya Moscow as an exchange student. While falling in Email: [email protected] love and making friends in the underground Logline: A cheerfully grim look at the last scene, he never loses sight of his real aim: to find century's follies and foibles, anchored in Gogol's his long-lost father. A mellow look back at a still proto-surrealist 1836 novella The Nose. A late sizzling Soviet Union by Brežnev-era cinema milestone by a giant of Soviet/Russian epitome Andrej Smirnov. animation that with cheek and panache mixes Sold territories: All available styles and techniques, and knows how to play with visual puns and audio jests. A gem from the Heel-and-Toe future and the past. International premiere Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Maxim Tomash Beanpole Prod. Countries: Russia Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Kantemir Balagov Length: 77 Prod. Countries: Russia Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Stereotactic Contact: Pavel Karykhalin

Email: [email protected] Senegal Logline: Russian self-made rapper Anton makes upbeat, personal hip-hop, with increasing Nafi's Father success. Touring Eastern Europe as Antoha MC, Programme section: Bright Future Main he needs little more than his trumpet, hamster Programme and a good mood. This affectionate travel Director(s): Mamadou Dia documentary shows how millennials all over Prod. Countries: Senegal Eastern Europe party to his equally playful and Prod. Year: 2019 critical music. Length: 108 Trailer: Genre: Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH4LHx Company: Joyedidi Pxz8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd Contact: Maba Ba ccpUZo&index=19&t=3s Email: [email protected] Logline: Tokara wants to marry his cousin, the beautiful Nafi, bringing their fathers into conflict with one another: the children are pawns in a Saudi Arabia bitter dispute about tradition, progress and the true nature of Islam. Can their family ties help The Perfect Candidate them overcome these ideological differences? Programme section: Limelight Winner of two awards in Locarno, including best Director(s): Haifaa Al Mansour debut. Prod. Countries: Saudi Arabia, Germany Sold territories: Canal+ International (TV and Prod. Year: 2019 online): Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Length: 101 Burundi, Cameroun, Cap Vert, Comores, Congo, Genre: Fiction Cotê d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypte, Erythree,́ Company: The Match Factory GmbH Ethiopie, Gabon, Gambie, Ghana, Guinee,́ Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Guineé Bissau, Guineé Equatoriale, Kenya, Email: Lesotho, Liberia, Lybie, Madagascar, Malawi, [email protected] Mali, Maroc, Mauritanie, Maurice, Logline: A female doctor in Saudi Arabia stands Mozambique, Namibie, Niger, Nigeria, as a candidate for the municipal elections, the Ouganda, Republiqué Centrafricaine, first woman to ever do so. Even her modest Republiqué Democratiqué du Congo, political ambitions such as surfacing the dirt Republiqué Sud-Africaine, Rwanda, Sené gal,́ Sao road outside the local hospital seem too much. Tome, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Soudan, Sud- Multi-layered family drama as well as an Soudan, Swaziland, Tanzanie, Tchad, Togo, inspiring homage to women in this conservative, Tunisie, Zambie, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe. Haitï patriarchal society. (Drom).

mirror of history, a homage to filmmaker Dusan

Serbia Makavejev (1932-2019). Trailer: My Morning Laughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPdomZOzoY International premiere Sold territories: Ex-Yugoslavia (Nama Film) Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Singapore Director(s): Marko Djordjevic Prod. Countries: Serbia The Tree House Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Bright Future Main Length: 94 Programme Genre: Fiction Director(s): Truong Minh Quý Company: Altertise Prod. Countries: Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, Contact: Miloš Pušic France, China Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: His father drives him mad, his mother Length: 84 treats him like a child and he's never had a Genre: Creative Documentary girlfriend. High time for 28-year-old teacher Company: Levo Films Dejan to fly out of the nest. This happens in fits Contact: Xiao-Dong Guo and starts in this Serbian tragicomedy, in which Email: [email protected] everything seems to look deliberately Logline: What does a filmmaker’s journey to unpolished. Mars have to do with the Rục – an isolated Trailer: ethnic group living in the mountains and caves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnzT7Bg8oQ Sold territories: All available of Vietnam? This original mix of science fiction and anthropology investigates the meaning of The Makavejev Case or Trial in a the concept of ‘home’. Trailer: Movie Theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvoksAojn Programme section: Regained gg&feature=youtu.be Director(s): Goran Radovanović Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Serbia Prod. Year: 2019 A Love Unknown Length: 74 World premiere Genre: Creative Documentary Programme section: Bright Future Main Company: Nama Film Programme Contact: Goran Radovanović Director(s): John Clang Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Singapore, USA Logline: In June 1971, a public debate was held Prod. Year: 2020 in Novi Sad on WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Length: 82 a controversial film that caused a dilemma for Genre: Fiction the Yugoslavian authorities. How far did the Tito Company: Potocol regime's democratic freedoms really go? In the Contact: Jeremy Chua

Email: [email protected] South Korea Logline: In New York and Singapore, an estranged mother and daughter independently Moving On try to fight their depressions and answer International premiere existential questions. This drama that subtly Programme section: Bright Future Competition connects complex problems, harsh reality and Director(s): Yoon Dan-bi hallucinations, portrays four days in the two Prod. Countries: South Korea women's lives. Do invisible connections exist? Prod. Year: 2019 Trailer: Length: 105 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQdrfox7Rw Genre: Fiction Sold territories: All available Company: M-Line Distribution Contact: Jamie Seo Email: [email protected] South Africa Logline: Financial and relationship problems force three generations of a family to live Moffie together under one roof. Tender, subtly Programme section: Voices Main Programme structured portrait of five individuals Director(s): Oliver Hermanus discovering, exploring or critiquing the meaning Prod. Countries: South Africa of family and other relationships in their lives, Prod. Year: 2019 each from their own perspective. Length: 103

Genre: Fiction Company: Portobello Film Sales Bring Me Home Contact: Noah Reich European premiere Email: [email protected] Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Logline: Aged sixteen, Nicholas is conscripted Director(s): Kim Seungwoo into in the South African army. It is 1981, the Prod. Countries: South Korea apartheid era. Homophobia, xenophobia and Prod. Year: 2019 white supremacism are the norm. Nicholas tries Length: 108 to explore his homosexuality during humiliating Genre: Fiction boot camps, but there is precious little scope for Company: Finecut Co. Ltd individual expression in this suffocating Contact: YoungKyung Sohn environment. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Logline: Yoonsu is still missing after six years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghpn- when an anonymous caller assures his desperate UI_2M mother Jungyeon that her son is living in a Sold territories: USA, UK, South Africa remote fishing village. She comes face-to-face with the local fishermen's gruesome secrets. An enthralling thriller full of twists, as can only be made in Korea. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqygjcDFZ rap songs and continues to defend her even F4 when her extreme malevolence manifests itself. Sold territories: Hong Kong & Macau, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan Parasite (B&W Version) Beasts Clawing at Straws Programme section: Voices Main Programme World premiere Director(s): Bong Joon Ho Programme section: Tiger Competition Prod. Countries: South Korea Director(s): Kim Yonghoon Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: South Korea Length: 131 Prod. Year: 2020 Genre: Fiction Length: 109 Company: CJ Entertainment Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: M-Line Distribution Logline: Inspired by classic cinema, director Contact: Michelle Son Bong Joon Ho has made a black-and-white Email: [email protected] version of Parasite, which became a worldwide Logline: Debut director Kim Yonghoon hit after winning the Golden Palm in Cannes. assembles a great cast (Asura's Jung Woosung The eldest son of an unemployed family gets a and Secret Sunshine star Jeon Doyeon) for his well-paid tutoring job with a wealthy family. energetic film adaptation of Japanese hard- This brings opportunity. boiled crime novel Beasts Clawing at Straws. The result is an artfully constructed, black comedy/crime drama as well as a compelling The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin summary of human shortcomings. But where did International premiere that bag come from? Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Kim Dongryung, Park Kyoungtae Not in This World Prod. Countries: South Korea International premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Voices Main Programme Length: 115 Director(s): Park Jungbum Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: South Korea Company: CinemaDAL Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Evan Kang Length: 167 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: Sublime film about a former 'comfort Company: M-Line Distribution woman' who lives next to an American military Contact: Jamie Seo base in Korea. Faced with death, she re-writes Email: [email protected] her history as revenge against obscurity. A Logline: Tiger winner Park Jungbum shows docufiction that transforms her unbearable rebellious teen girl Jisu refusing to conform to existence into something increasingly spiritual, capitalist society's rules. Just like the mild- fantastical and touching. mannered Jeongcheol who is the only fan of her Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOOLcYQE drama speaks to his countrymen about the effect M40 that war has had on their daily lives. How did Sold territories: All available they experience the struggle, what relationships changed, what happened to their political views? Spain Who feels like a victor − or a loser? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCIu7Bgxjjg The Rise of the Synths

Programme section: Regained Director(s): Iván Castell El año del descubrimiento Prod. Countries: Spain, USA World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Tiger Competition Length: 82 Director(s): Luis López Carrasco Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Spain, Switzerland Company: Castell & Moreno Films SL Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Louise Rosent Length: 200 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Synthwave is pure nostalgia for an era Company: Lacima Producciones the musicians never experienced personally: the Contact: Luis Ferrón Ferri 1980s. They are inspired by the music, but Email: [email protected] definitely also by films from the era such as Top Logline: An almost forgotten piece of social Gun and Lethal Weapon. An extensive history is revived in a bar in Cartagena, Spain, introduction to the genre with director John through the stories of strikers who took part and Carpenter (The Fog, Halloween) as the narrator. discussions among young people about class Trailer: consciousness, the economic crisis and the role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwdGD3b of unions. Immersion in the present and a 9E48 confrontation with past conflicts. Sold territories: Spain ( Movistar+) Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov05YCCD Longa noite eu8 Programme section: Bright Future Main Sold territories: Spain and Switzerland Programme Director(s): Eloy Enciso El crack cero Prod. Countries: Spain International premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: The Tyger Burns Length: 90 Director(s): José Luis Garci Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Spain Company: Filmika Galaika Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Beli Martínez Length: 122 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: During his trip through Spain, several Company: Filmax International years after the Spanish Civil War, a man in this Contact: Ivan Diaz Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Spain Logline: Old-school film noir featuring private Prod. Year: 2019 detective Germán Areta, the hero of two Length: 72 previous films by Garci dealing with the last year Genre: Fiction of Spain’s 'transición' period (1982). First Company: Bretzel & Tequila fascism, then democracy – but this is irrelevant Contact: Nuria Giménez in this Dashiell Hammett-style universe. As long Email: [email protected] as money makes the world go round, there will Logline: The glamourous lives of Vivian and always be fraudsters ready to pounce. Léon Barrett immediately following World War Trailer: II were full of love, success and tragedy, at times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM08ILozj seeming too good to be true. Excerpts from the Q8 diary of a woman and beautiful footage shot in the post-war decades by a man together form an enchanting narrative. Fire Will Come Trailer: Programme section: Limelight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARu- Director(s): Oliver Laxe DELop0s Prod. Countries: Spain, France, Luxembourg Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Blanco en blanco Genre: Fiction Programme section: Voices Main Programme Company: Pyramide International Director(s): Théo Court Contact: Alberto Alvarez Aguilera Prod. Countries: Spain, Chile, Germany, France Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: Convicted arsonist Amador returns to Length: 100 his remote village in the mountainous Spanish Genre: Fiction region of Galicia. His mother is glad he’s back, Company: Stray Dogs but the other villagers don’t trust him. A raging Contact: Lison Hervé fire breaks out – but did he start it? Or are the Email: [email protected] property developers destroying this Logline: Mainly shot in the depths of winter in impoverished rural community? inhospitable Tierra del Fuego, Théo Court's Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95- second film is a hypnotic trip to the historic hell s7paAwgw&feature=youtu.be of Western expansionism. Around 1900, Sold territories: Australia, Belgium, Eastern photographer Pedro (an amazing Alfredo Castro Europe (HBO), France, Greece, Luxembourg, once again) travels to the southernmost part of MENA, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, South America, to photograph a wealthy Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA. landowner’s wedding. Trailer: My Mexican Bretzel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTi0t2KVX International premiere xs&feature=youtu.be Programme section: Bright Future Competition Sold territories: Spain (Elamedia) Korea Director(s): Nuria Giménez (Daesung Films) Mexico (7MO) Zumiriki Sweden Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Oskar Alegria Merry Christmas, Yiwu Prod. Countries: Spain World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Bright Future Main Length: 122 Programme Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Mladen Kovacevic Contact: Oskar Alegria Prod. Countries: Sweden, Serbia, France, Email: [email protected] Germany, Belgium, Qatar Logline: Like a modern-day hermit, a man Prod. Year: 2020 retreats to a tree hut for four months, hoping to Length: 94 recapture the lost spontaneity of his youth. At Genre: Creative Documentary once meditative and very playful, the filmmaker Company: Deckert Distribution gets the maximum from his minimalist setting. Contact: Liselot Verbrugge He allows poetry to invade his time capsule and Email: [email protected] the rhythm of nature to take over. Logline: The workers at over 600 factories in Trailer: Yiwu, China manufacture Christmas decorations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBAFFkHTTdI year round. The camera trails the workers at the Sold territories: All available factory and elsewhere – their conversations, love issues, a game of pool, shopping and eating, and Sri Lanka the calls home, far away from Yiwu's prosperity. A portrait of a surreal society. Children of the Sun European premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme About Endlessness Director(s): Prasanna Vithanage Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Countries: Sri Lanka, India Director(s): Roy Andersson Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Sweden, Germany, Norway Length: 103 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 76 Contact: Prasanna Vithanage Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Coproduction Office Logline: 1814, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The Contact: Christina Demetriou Tamil king has been deposed by Sinhalese Email: [email protected] Buddhists aided by the British army. Amid the Logline: Anyone who has ever been enchanted tumult, a man and woman from very different by the empathy, humour and masterly tableaux castes are condemned to marry each other. The vivants of Roy Andersson (Songs from the differences seem irreconcilable in this epic love Second Floor; You, the Living) will know what to story, but ultimately they realise that character is expect: a kaleidoscope of vulnerable, comical more important. characters and a melancholy ode to the finite, Sold territories: All available eternally human. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH3Zgfw6jVw Sold territories: All available The Longest Day World premiere Meanwhile on Earth Programme section: Voices Main Programme World premiere Director(s): Jonas Selberg Augustsén Programme section: Wait and See Prod. Countries: Sweden, Finland Director(s): Carl Olsson Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: Sweden, Denmark, Estonia Length: 119 Prod. Year: 2020 Genre: Fiction Length: 72 Company: Bob Film Sweden AB Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Andreas Emanuelsson Company: De Andra Film AB Email: [email protected] Contact: Caroline Drab Logline: Even when the sun shines day and night, Email: [email protected] people struggle with minor and major problems. Logline: One man's tragedy is another man's This varies from slight discomfort to existential treasure. Or in this case rather a ready-made crises in a small Finnish-speaking community in salad and nutritious smoothie. While the northern Sweden. The individual stories about a deceased await their final redemption, range of characters in this melancholy ensemble anonymous workers take charge of their bodily film all converge at the midsummer night's remains. With dignity, but often with an party. unintentional hint of absurdity as well. Sold territories: All available Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oItgDnViXhg The Heart Is a Drum Sold territories: Sweden, SVT for TV rights only

Programme section: Scopitone Switzerland Director(s): Jacob Frössén Prod. Countries: Sweden L'île aux oiseaux Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Bright Future Main Length: 74 Programme Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Maya Kosa, Sérgio da Costa Company: Epigram Prod. Countries: Switzerland Contact: Jacob Frössén Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 60 Logline: As one of the architects of the German Genre: Creative Documentary krautrock scene's iconic 'Motorik Beat', the Company: Close Up Films repetitive drumbeat that Neu! and Kraftwerk Contact: Flavia Zanon musician Klaus Dinger prefer to call 'the endless Email: [email protected] straight on'. This lends Swedish director Jacob Logline: After a period of isolation and illness, Frössén a nice metaphor with which to catalogue Antonin starts working for a bird rescue centre. this influential German musician's eventful life. There troubled souls receive just as much care and attention as the injured birds and Antonin is Taiwan given the opportunity to spread his wings. Minimalist, heart-warming quotidian poetry; Detention also suitable for non-ornithologists. European premiere Sold territories: Switzerland & Liechtenstein Programme section: Rotterdämmerung (ADOK FILMS) Mexico (LA OLA CINE) Director(s): John Hsu Prod. Countries: Taiwan Prod. Year: 2019 Syria Length: 103 Genre: Fiction The End Will Be Spectacular Company: MandarinVision Co. Ltd. European premiere Contact: Desmond Yang Programme section: Synergetic Email: [email protected] Director(s): Ersin Çelik Logline: In 1962's Chinese-occupied Taiwan, Prod. Countries: Syria, Iraq, Spain political literature is severely prohibited. This Prod. Year: 2019 psychological horror film based on a popular, Length: 112 eponymous computer game is about the Genre: Fiction disappearance of the members of an illegal book Contact: Diyar Hesso club from a secondary school. One spooky night, Email: [email protected] two teens go in search of the horrific truth. Logline: An uncompromising war film that tells Trailer: the story of Zilan, a young woman who returns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl33lvw to her family and friends to honour the memory GKI of her deceased brother. She becomes entangled Sold territories: Hong Kong & Macao, South East in the struggle of a group of young resistance Asia, Japan, South Korea fighters trying to lift the siege of the historic heart of the Turkish-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. Synapses Trailer: International premiere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwqiYys7ak Programme section: Big Screen Competition

Director(s): Chang Tso-chi Prod. Countries: Taiwan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 119 Genre: Fiction Company: Swallow Wings Films Contact: Yao Albert Email: [email protected] Logline: How human is someone with no memories? Can you manipulate thoughts of the past? Taiwanese director Chang Tso-chi investigates this in a melancholy, beautifully performed family epic centring on a man with Contact: Ruedee (Deedee) Pholthaweechai worsening dementia and his daughter, whom he Email: [email protected] seems to have forgotten after her years in prison. Logline: Sensitive drama with humorous Trailer: moments about catharsis and letting go. Jean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw2M1q returns to her native Thailand after years Yg29s abroad, to the home she shares with her mother and brother. When she decides to radically declutter the house, she is forced to first confront Thailand painful memories and unresolved emotions. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v8oNWqIy4Y Krabi, 2562

Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong Tunisia Prod. Countries: Thailand, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Tlamess Length: 93 Programme section: Bright Future Main Genre: Experimental Programme Company: Rediance Director(s): Ala Eddine Slim Contact: Zhang Yaoting Prod. Countries: Tunisia, France Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: Krabi is a paradise irrevocably falling Length: 120 victim to mass tourism. But before it’s too late, a Genre: Fiction mysterious visitor takes in the sights, local Company: Be For Films history and stories of the inhabitants. Contact: Paméla Leu Documentary, interview and fiction merge as Email: [email protected] seamlessly as prehistory, the recent past and Logline: This largely silent diptych brings present: the year 2562 in the Buddhist calendar. together two extremes of contemporary Tunisian Trailer: society. Young army deserter S and rich man’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tj0yhS_AsUb pregnant wife F are both fleeing oppressive Sold territories: UK Thailand situations. F finally ends up in the woods, where she meets a wild S. Intriguing juxtaposition of Happy Old Year raw realism and hypnotic allegory. European premiere Sold territories: France (Potemkine) Switzerland Programme section: Voices Main Programme (Sister Distribution) Middle-East (MENA) (Mad Director(s): Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit Solutions) Prod. Countries: Thailand Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 113 Genre: Fiction Company: GDH 559 Un fils match for the opportunism of the electorate. Programme section: Limelight Sold territories: All available Director(s): Mehdi M. Barsaoui Phases of Matter Prod. Countries: Tunisia, France, Lebanon, World premiere Qatar Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Length: 95 Genre: Fiction Director(s): Deniz Tortum Company: Jour2Fête Prod. Countries: Turkey Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Clémence Michalon Email: [email protected] Length: 71 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: It is 2011, just after Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution and things are changing, but Fares Company: Istos film and Meriem have lost hope. Intense family Contact: Anna Maria Aslanoglu Email: [email protected] drama in which their son who has been shot is in danger of dying because they are not permitted Logline: Roaming freely around the old hospital to donate their own organs. in Istanbul where he was born, the filmmaker Trailer: reveals its insular world of doctors, nurses, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKE2k- students and other workers. Between levity and severity, everyday and confrontational images, a loTMM sense of impermanence grows. Sober observation reaches poetic conclusions. Sold territories: All available Turkey

You Know Him USA World premiere A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Ercan Kesal Programme section: Limelight Prod. Countries: Turkey, Serbia Director(s): Marielle Heller Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: USA Length: 103 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 107 Genre: Fiction Company: Ay Yapim Genre: Film Contact: Yamaç Okur Company: Sony Pictures Releasing Int. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Doctor Kemal's day starts promisingly. Logline: Mister Rogers always manages to disarm even the most hardened cynics with his That evening, the leader of the party is to confirm his candidacy as mayor of a district of seemingly boundless friendliness. Director Istanbul. But as he makes the rounds of political Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) leaders and voters, it becomes clear that he is no achieves the same with her heart-warming film about forgiveness that never becomes too soppy. Actor Tom Hanks is phenomenal as the famous show of this. A hilarious and painfully honest American kid's TV star. report on this process, in which students and Trailer: teachers slowly but surely get to know – and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidrMjPgnKo appreciate – one another. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-- iqt4O1B-8 Bring Down The Walls Sold territories: All available World premiere Programme section: Signatures Family Romance, LLC Director(s): Phil Collins Programme section: The Tyger Burns Prod. Countries: USA, Germany Director(s): Werner Herzog Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Countries: USA Length: 88 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 89 Company: Shady Lane Productions Genre: Fiction Contact: Sinisa Mitrovic Company: Film Constellation Email: [email protected] Contact: Chloe Tai Logline: Two contrasting phenomena developed Email: [email protected] in early-1980s USA: freedom-loving house music Logline: There are many constants in Herzog's and the prison-industrial complex that resulted oeuvre. For example, the fact that the boundary in exponential growth of the prison population. between fake and faked has been pushed aside as Phil Collins links the two at his campaign centre irrelevant since time immemorial. Here, we are in New York. During the day it is a stage for dealing with a Japanese business that delivers political reform. At night, it's a club where actors as surrogates for the real thing − for everyone can be themselves. therapeutic purposes. Honest. But of course Herzog isn't satisfied merely with this objet trouvé. How to Overthrow the US Trailer: Government (Legally) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36LeFtKjSQ World premiere Sold territories: UK Programme section: Signatures

Director(s): Caveh Zahedi Boyz in the Wood Prod. Countries: USA Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Ninian Doff Length: 79 Prod. Countries: USA, United Kingdom Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Length: 87 Contact: Caveh Zahedi Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Endeavor Content Logline: Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member Contact: Brian Coffey of The Yes Men Jaques Servin give classes in Email: [email protected] bringing about political change and make a web Logline: The hunt is on for four clueless teens on the run from a duke with a shotgun during a trek female ambition and resilience, combines through the Scottish Highlands. Idiotic crinoline-skirted romance with a dash of humour decisions, wacky plot twists, paranoid local cops and gives the whole her own unique twist and lightning-fast editing complete the chaos. through her stunning use of colour alone. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8dSYND Lydia Lunch – The War Is Never Over Nzyg International premiere Programme section: Beth B: War Is Never Over Director(s): Beth B The Evening Hour Prod. Countries: USA International premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Big Screen Competition Length: 78 Director(s): Braden King Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: USA Company: B Productions Prod. Year: 2020 Contact: Josh Braun Length: 115 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Logline: New York’s No Wave icon Lydia Lunch Company: Film Constellation has been a musician and spoken-word artist Contact: Chloe Tai since the 1970s. The lead vocalist of bands such Email: [email protected] as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks has never stopped Logline: An empathetic portrait of economic being passionate, idiosyncratic and committed decline and spiritual redemption in a rural to the cause, and is still fighting for women's American mining town where the drug trade has right to say 'fuck you'. A portrait. become part of the social fabric. Drugs dealer Trailer: and carer for the elderly Cole Freeman is caught https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DoEMe in a dilemma: his job contributes to a sense of VVHk solidarity, while his sideline devastates the lives Sold territories: All available except for: U.S and of young people. Canada (Submarine Entertainment)

Little Women The Eyeslicer Season Two Episode 1-7 Programme section: Limelight International premiere Director(s): Greta Gerwig Programme section: Synergetic Prod. Countries: USA Director(s): various directors | The Eyeslicer Prod. Year: 2019 Season Two Length: 135 Prod. Countries: USA Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Sony Pictures Entertainment Length: 368 Logline: Director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has Genre: Experimental put together a world-class cast (Saoirse Ronan, Company: Eyeslicer Releasing LLC Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet) for her Contact: Dan Schoenbrun adaptation of Little Women,which stresses Email: [email protected] Logline: From retro pixelated-style digital Email: [email protected] animations to poignant coming-of-age stories, Logline: From retro pixelated-style digital comical films parodying contemporary animations to poignant coming-of-age stories, American visual culture or portraits van bizarre comical films parodying contemporary subcultures. This second season of mixtape-style American visual culture or portraits van bizarre cult series The Eyeslicer is crammed with weird subcultures. This second season of mixtape-style and wonderful shorts that together make up an cult series The Eyeslicer is crammed with weird addictive feast for the eye. and wonderful shorts that together make up an addictive feast for the eye.

Truth or Consequences World premiere Slow Machine Programme section: Bright Future Competition World premiere Director(s): Hannah Jayanti Programme section: Bright Future Main Prod. Countries: USA Programme Prod. Year: 2020 Director(s): Paul Felten, Joe DeNardo Length: 102 Prod. Countries: USA Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2020 Company: Length: 72 Contact: Sara Archambault Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Dialectic Logline: This speculative documentary is set in a Contact: Shrihari Sathe small desert town in the American state of New Email: [email protected] Mexico. Anchored in nonfiction footage, the film Logline: After her relationship with intelligence subtly takes place in a near-future when humans agent Gerard ends terribly, tired and are leaving Earth to colonize other planets. A disillusioned actress Stephanie hides in a house tender portrait of the desert town of Truth or where a band is working on a record, which Consequences and the inhabitants. proves to be less of an escape than she imagined. A playful, non-linear and dark indie "screwball thriller", set in New York and shot on beautiful The Eyeslicer Season Two Episode 8- 16mm. 13 Sold territories: All available International premiere

Programme section: Synergetic Uncut Gems Director(s): various directors | The Eyeslicer Programme section: Limelight Season Two Director(s): Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 286 Length: 134 Genre: Experimental Genre: Fiction Company: Eyeslicer Releasing LLC Company: A24 Contact: Dan Schoenbrun Email: [email protected] Logline: Jeweler Howard is really getting himself Logline: Oh, the 1980s! Women in tight aerobics into hot water – his problems stack up until he wear and Tel Sell ads for (Truly Fantastic!) just can't see a way out. It's like he's playing a ballpoints. A deliciously crazed, retro comedy cliff-edge game of Jenga against himself. For this shot in VHS with a pinch of Blair Witch and ... scintillating crime-thriller with a striking lead climate porn? Hilarious fun for everyone with a role for Adam Sandler, the brothers Safdie fruit fly's attention span and nostalgia for fast return to their beloved New York City. forwarding. Sold territories: North America (Oscilloscope Films) Some Kind of Heaven International premiere Sound of Metal Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme section: Limelight Programme Director(s): Darius Marder Director(s): Lance Oppenheim Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 130 Length: 81 Genre: Fiction Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Protagonist Pictures Company: 30WEST Contact: Charlotte Lopez Contact: Melissa Oppenheim Lano Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Emotion proves audible in this well- Logline: Endless rounds of golf and exercises conceived feature-film debut. The precarious every morning – the ideal for more than 130,000 equilibrium in drummer Ruben's life threatens residents of one of the biggest ‘retirement to be undone when he suddenly goes deaf. reservations’ in the United States: The Villages in Intimate footage and immersive sound design Florida. But what about those people who, in help the audience comprehend the struggle spite of all the fruit shakes, nevertheless end up between acceptance and the hope for a miracle facing sickness and death? cure.

VHYes International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Jack Henry Robbins Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 72 Genre: Fiction Company: Yellow Veil Pictures

Contact: Joe Yanick Email: [email protected] I Blame Society ccpUZo World premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Gillian Wallace Horvat Ukraine Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Atlantis Length: 84 Programme section: Limelight Genre: Fiction Director(s): Valentyn Vasyanovych Company: Nowhere Prod. Countries: Ukraine Contact: Caroline Oliveira Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 106 Logline: Gillian Horvat's feature film debut is a Genre: Fiction meta-commentary on the transgressions Company: Best Friend Forever required to get your first film off the ground. Contact: Martin Gondre Losing more than her friends and loved ones, her Email: [email protected] obsession with authenticity leads her to lose Logline: Traumatised Sergey joins volunteers sight of where creativity ends and madness who recover the bodies of fallen soldiers in begins. eastern Ukraine. This brings him into contact with archaeologist Katya, who is literally and metaphorically digging into her past. Atlantis Sammy-Gate presents a grim but urgent portrait of Ukraine World premiere today, and the horrific consequences of the war Programme section: Regained with Russia. Director(s): Noel Lawrence Trailer: Prod. Countries: USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc5hZBzA Prod. Year: 2020 fBs Length: 88 Sold territories: Dutch Speaking Benelux (Film Genre: Fiction Freak), Norway (Arthaus) Company: J.X. Williams Archive Contact: Noel Lawrence Email: [email protected] United Kingdom Logline: A psychedelic, deranged satirical trip into the heart of Nixon’s political darkness. Passages Working for Nixon, celebrity Sammy Davis Jr European premiere uncovers a right-wing conspiracy set up by Programme section: Regained billionaire Howard Hughes, aiming to get the Director(s): Lúcia Nagib, Samuel Paiva young black inner-city youth addicted to heroin. Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Why? Make war, not love. Prod. Year: 2019 Trailer: Length: 94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNEkj7I Genre: Creative Documentary US8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd Contact: Lúcia Nagib Email: [email protected] transpires that Maud's devotion is a fragile mask Logline: Fascinating journey through recent for her own traumas. Brazilian film history – about how cinema, with Sold territories: other art forms, has reflected Brazilian society. Filmmakers such as Marcelo Gomes and Kleber Rocks Mendonça Filho show, on the basis of examples, Programme section: Synergetic how crucial music, photography, theatre and Director(s): Sarah Gavron poetry are to their work. Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 AIDOL Genre: Fiction Programme section: Bright Future Main Company: Altitude Film Sales Programme Contact: Karina Gechtman Director(s): Lawrence Lek Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Logline: 15-year old Rocks from East London – Prod. Year: 2019 really good at make-up and laughing with her Length: 83 friends – suddenly has to get by on her own Genre: Fiction when her mother disappears, abandoning her Contact: Francesca B Wilson Mariani and her kid brother. A disturbing, warm, lively Email: [email protected] and enormously appealingly-acted drama by the Logline: Former superstar Diva hopes to rekindle director of Brick Lane and Suffragette. her career by engaging an ambitious artificial Sold territories: China, France, Korea, Middle intelligence in this sequel to Geomancer from East, Poland, UK (Airlines) 2017. Diva is our avatar in the futuristic gaming world of 2065 where mankind will battle the Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly machines in an epic eSports final. Glenn-Copeland Story Sold territories: All available Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Posy Dixon

Saint Maud Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Belgium, Netherlands, USA Director(s): Rose Glass Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Length: 63 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 83 Company: LUCA Genre: Fiction Contact: Liv Proctor Company: Protagonist Pictures Email: [email protected] Contact: Charlotte Lopez Logline: The story of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a Email: [email protected] composer of dreamy, electronic soul music so Logline: Young nurse Maud not only takes care far ahead of his time, that he only met with sold- of the bodily ills of her incurable patient, former out venues at the age of 74. Also the story of an dancer Amanda, but also sets out to save her inspirational transgender who came out when soul. In this slow-burn horror, it gradually homosexuality was still illegal. Trailer: and survival drama portrays the political and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urke1Jcjcl sexual liberation of a deeply religious woman, w filmed on 35mm. Sold territories: All available Sold territories:

Make Up Rebel Dread International premiere World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme section: Scopitone Programme Director(s): William E. Badgley Director(s): Claire Oakley Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2020 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 87 Length: 86 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Moviehouse Entertainment Company: Protagonist Pictures Contact: Mark Vennis Contact: Charlotte Lopez Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: When punk hit its peak, a smartly Logline: An almost deserted caravan park in dressed DJ with Jamaican roots often spun Cornwall is the backdrop to this psychological reggae between the explosive band sets. And so thriller about 19-year-old Ruth, who discovers began Don Letts' eventful career. A revealing powerful new emotions after moving into the documentary about the permanent fellow park with her boyfriend Tom. Jealousy, fear and traveller for The Clash and many other bands he lust arise in this mysterious, ominous setting, would go on to manage, film and accompany on fuelled by inexplicable events. stage. Sold territories: All available

Fanny Lye Deliver'd Uruguay International premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Así habló el cambista Director(s): Thomas Clay Programme section: Voices Main Programme Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Germany Director(s): Federico Veiroj Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Uruguay, Argentina Length: 110 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 97 Company: Coproduction Office Genre: Fiction Contact: Christina Demetriou Company: Film Factory Entertainment Email: [email protected] Contact: Vicente Canales Logline: England, 1657. Fanny Lye has always Email: [email protected] been taught to subject herself to the discipline of Logline: Film adaptation of Juan Enrique God and her husband's hands. Until two Gruber's 1979 novel The Moneychanger, about strangers suddenly turn up at their remote farm. opportunistic Humberto Brause (beautifully This genre mash-up of western, invasion thriller played by Daniel Hendler). Set in Montevideo in 1975, 1956, 1962 and 1966, when military FOR FURTHER INFORMATION dictatorships and/or corrupt regimes held sway CONTACT: in the big neighbouring countries of Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Nikolas Montaldi Trailer: Tommaso Priante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbQYmm hW_Y IFFR Pro Hub

Venezuela International Film Festival Rotterdam La Fortaleza Tel: +31.10.8909090 World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Fax: +31.10.8909091 Director(s): Jorge Thielen Armand [email protected] Prod. Countries: Venezuela, France, IFFR.com Netherlands, Colombia Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 108

Genre: Fiction Company: Reel Suspects Contact: Matteo Lovadina Email: [email protected] Logline: Stories from his father, who also plays the lead, inspired the filmmaker to make this intense drama. To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, a man retreats into the jungle and meets old friends. But their former happiness is transformed into evil intentions by the lure of gold. Sold territories: All avaialable