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The FIFF in a nutshell 3 Planète Cinéma 31 Editorial 2019 4 Cultural mediation projects 33 #acid Messages 5 #passion The sections of the FIFF 7 FIFForum 34 #fresh #exciting Conference 35 Programme Round Tables 35 Official Selection 8 Encounters 35 >> International Competition 9 ‒‒ Feature Films Juries and Awards 36 ‒‒ Short Films Exhibitions 41 >> Opening and Closing Films 14

Parallel Sections 15 List of Films 44 >> Genre Cinema 16 Guest list 46 Romantic comedies

>> Decryption 17 Agenda 49 “Being a black woman is not my job”

>> Diaspora 19 Elisa Shua Dusapin and South Korea Practical informations >> New Territory 20 The Caribbean (Haiti, Puerto Rico, for Journalists 50 Dominican Republic) for Festival goers 51 >> Sur la carte de 21 33e Bong Joon-ho 15 > 23.03 Organisation 52 2019 Special Screenings 22 Partners and sponsors 53 #fiff19 >> FIFFamily: (Re)count on me! 23 fiff.ch >> Films of the International Jury 24

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Festival International de Films de Fribourg CH-1701 Fribourg [email protected] 2 Esplanade de l’Ancienne-Gare 3 | CP 550 T +41 (0)26 347 42 03 fiff.ch The FIFF in «The Festival remains faithful to its original a nutshell mission: an unlimited openness towards the world.»

The FIFF One of the most important fes- Supported by Thierry Jobin, its For its 2019 edition, the FIFF will tivals in Switzerland and, among artistic director since 2012, the once again offer cinematographic them, the one with the lowest FIFF pursues its activities with the wonders from all over the world Programme average age of spectators. An same passion and commitment. that are not distributed through event that brings people together The Festival’s growth can now be the usual channels. The interna- > Official Selection from all over the Canton and seen on several levels: an atten- tional competitions will show despite linguistic differences. dance that has never been so twelve feature films and fifteen > Parallel Sections Auteur films and popular suc- high and stable, a programme of short films from Rwanda, Bhutan, cesses programmed side by undeniable quality, international Syria, Afghanistan or Mexico, > Special Screenings side. Thousands of students guests and programming choices among many others. The paral- who learn about a whole new that are then presented at pres- lel sections will honor romantic cinematographic world. An audi- tigious festivals. In addition to comedy and its cultural variations Cultural mediation ence that leaves the Western these solid foundations, for this (Genre Cinema), Caribbean cin- film industry and sails far, far 33rd edition, Mathieu Fleury has ema as it is developing in Puerto away... to discover those who, been elected president of the Rico, Haiti and the Dominican FIFForum although distant or unknown, association. The team has also Republic (New Territory) and the reinvent cinema as we know it. been restructured and renewed, place of afro-descendant women These are the specific features of bringing a new perspective on in the film industry (Decryption). Juries and Awards the Fribourg International Film the Festival. For this is also the In addition to these strong lines, Festival (FIFF). richness of the FIFF: a confron- two sections are offered to tal- tation of different realities and ented artists from South Korea: Exhibitions Founded in 1980 by Madga Bossy a permanent exchange of points Diaspora to writer Elisa Shua and Yvan Stern, the FIFF aimed of view. Dusapin and Sur la carte de... to increase the visibility of film to director Bong Joon-ho. Both Films and Guests productions from the South and will show the FIFF audience the to contribute to cultural diver- films that played an import- sity in Switzerland. Although its ant part in the construction of Agenda organizers have changed over their identity and career. And the years, the Festival remains because Fribourg’s cinema is also faithful to its original mission: undergoing significant qualitative Practical information an unlimited openness towards development, an evening of the the world. Festival will be devoted to local filmmakers – established and beginners – and their refreshing audacity!

All this in a friendly, relaxed and festive atmosphere. It is precisely The FIFF in numbers Age Directors this simplicity that ensures the 18-24 happiness of the public and the 105 films (2019) (13%) 13% FIFF’s team, because between 52 a good film and its audience, Female 25-34 Directors nohing else needs to be involved. (22%) 22% (36.62%) 90 44 ooo entries (2018) Male Directors Finally, the FIFF warmly thanks all 35-44 the partners and sponsors who (10%) % Approx. 10 enable it, every year, to bring 11 000 registered its Festival to life and make its students (2019) 45-54 wildest dreams come true. (16%) 16% Countries of production 55-64 58 countries represented (19%) 19% 13% Switzer- 17% land Africa North 65+ America (20%) 20% % 8% 18Europe % 15 South % America 29Asia

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The FIFF So this is the FIFF! In 1980, when the FIFF began, it was one of the rare pioneers ded- Programme icated to non-Occidental films. Today, numerous festivals present films from “the South” and at long last, the latter are even being > Official Selection screened in Cannes and Venice. So why is the FIFF still relevant? Or, as we hear sometimes, “What is the FIFF exactly?” > Parallel Sections Well, the FIFF is still a rare festival in its own right that is celebrated > Special Screenings far and wide. A festival which shines a light on blind spots, reveals new talents, ferrets around out of industry catalogs and market, brings innovative perspective to film history. Above all, a festival that Cultural mediation shows the audience respect by screening the kind of films they would love to see, rather than jaded works of déjà-vu. So this year’s films will transport you from the Caribbean to South Korea, stopping to FIFForum look at the horror of clichés about skin colour or at cultural nuances that are capable of transcending a genre like romantic comedy.

Juries and Awards Can you keep a secret? Here it is: we are creating the kind of festival Thierry Jobin, where we would love to just be part of the audience. Artistic Director FIFF

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The FIFF A torrid FIFF in sight! A journey to discover Gems for the City 2018 has been the hottest year in other cultures This year FIFF – the main event in Programme Switzerland and 2019 promises For its 33rd edition, FIFF is taking the Fribourg cultural calendar – is to be torrid, at least in Fribourg. audiences on a new journey that presenting an extremely varied > Official Selection spotlights categories such as programme that is certain to The programming of the Fribourg romantic comedies, Caribbean delight film lovers. In addition > Parallel Sections International Film Festival is a films and South Korean cinema. to international competitions, convincing testimonial both to It is also giving carte blanche the festival will give particular > Special Screenings the incandescent creativity of to female actors of African or prominence to gems and new contemporary cinema and to West Indian origin, who have discoveries, surprising visitors the sacred fire that drives the selected socially or politically and encouraging reflection, while Cultural mediation festival organisers. So it is no engaged films that spurn clichés providing them with welcome accident that the Caribbean and and stereotypes. True to tradition, entertainment. FIFF gives com- romantic comedy are featured in the festival presents a varied, mitted filmmakers a platform FIFForum this year’s edition. multilingual menu that reveals through its Decryption, Diaspora many different cultures. and New Territory sections. These In spite of the disdain of some artists are often forced to pro- Juries and Awards critics, romantic comedy has FIFF also prides itself on incorpo- duce their feature films in difficult a number of redeeming quali- rating young people in all stages conditions from both a financial ties. As a distillation of love and of the festivities with a young and political point of view. Exhibitions humour, it is an excellent anti- filmmaker competition, Youth Jury dote to current anxieties. It is so and young people in attendance. Fribourg can look forward to popular partly because it evokes Planète Cinéma, the schools’ sec- hosting FIFF, which fits perfectly Films and Guests personal romantic experiences tion, is also Switzerland’s biggest into our town’s humanistic spirit! – be it torrid or tepid – in the programme entirely dedicated to hearts of the spectators, and budding film lovers. The festival Agenda because it has a universal appeal is extremely proud to offer this that brings together young and diverse selection to pupils in old, men and women, and people Fribourg and beyond. The Canton Practical information from all walks of life. is also delighted to welcome such cinematic opulence to its capital This year, the warmth of romantic every year. We wish you a pleas- comedy will glow in the dark ant festival. Congratulations, FIFF! cinemas of the FIFF.

Alain Berset, Jean-Pierre Siggen, Thierry Steiert, Federal Councillor, President of the Mayor of the City Head of the Federal Fribourg State Council, of Fribourg Department State Councillor, of Home Affairs Director of Public Education, Culture and Sports

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The FIFF The other side Eyes Wide Open of the story If Twitter is to be believed, the Programme The news that reaches us from world is an ugly, dangerous, and the Caribbean, and Haiti in par- hopeless place. But it is all we > Official Selection ticular, usually tells us of natural have got, and closing our eyes disasters and poverty. only creates the illusion of escap- > Parallel Sections ing from chaos. In fact, we must Yet these stories of suffering look at our planet Earth with our > Special Screenings and issues, which are primarily eyes wide open, to (re)discover documented by the impressions its beauty, meet its people, and of foreign observers, are only one understand the way they see it. Cultural mediation half of the story. While technology has made the This year the Fribourg world smaller, inequalities create FIFForum International Film Festival is ever deeper chasms between giving filmmakers from Haiti and communities. Culture and knowl- other Caribbean countries the edge remain the most effective Juries and Awards chance to communicate their own tools to fill the social gap, never visions of their home countries’ letting our fears obscure the clear society and culture. It is certain community of fate that links us Exhibitions to be a demanding, surprising to our peers. and touching experience for the public as – just like every year Is there any better way of forging Films and Guests – the Festival’s artistic direction such bonds than seeing others shows us that beyond our own laugh, love, weep... essentially, individual circumstances, we live? Films at the FIFF, as works Agenda all experience similar worries that intrigue or, rather, that and joys. We would like to thank produce a feeling of likeness, the Festival for its long-stand- show us that telling stories is Practical information ing commitment and its work the most beautiful way of writing to promote filmmakers from our history, with grace and fantasy partner regions. to boot. For the FIFF, geography is not a set of borders; rather, it creates a desire for community. Bon voyage!

Manuel Sager, Mathieu Fleury, Director-General, President of the FIFF Swiss Agency for association Development and Cooperation SDC

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> Parallel Sections International Genre Cinema FIFFamily: > Special Screenings Competition Romantic comedies (Re)count me! 9 Feature Films 1 selection of Short Cultural mediation Feature Films from 8 countries Animated Films 12 Feature Films from 2 Swiss Premieres 1 Swiss Premiere 11 countries FIFForum 1 European Premiere 9 Swiss Premieres Films of the Juries and Awards 2 European Premieres Decryption International Jury “Being a black woman 2 Feature Films from 2 countries Exhibitions Short Films is not my job” 3 programmes 14 Feature Films from 9 countries Films and Guests 15 Short Films from 13 countries Passeport Suisse 12 Swiss Premieres 1 Feature Film and 1 Animated Agenda Short Film (World Premiere) 1 European Premiere Diaspora 1 selection of Short Films 2 International Premieres Elisa Shua Dusapin Foreign Visa Prize Practical information and South Korea 1 selection of Short Films 6 Feature Films and Workshop A Journey to Opening Film 1 Short Film from South Korea Dakar (World Premiere) 1 Swiss Premiere How Long Will I Love U European Premiere Midnight Screenings New Territory 6 Feature Films from Closing Film The Caribbean (Haiti, Puerto 5 countries Rico, Dominican Republic) Meet Me in St. Gallen 1 selection of Short International Premiere 9 Feature Films Films from Fribourg 4 Swiss Premieres 6 Swiss Premieres 1 International Premiere

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The FIFF The International Competition: Feature Films, centerpiece of the Festival, offers the audience the chance to discover some of the finest annual film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Near and Middle East. Programme

> Official Selection Compañeros – The Day I Lost Dreamaway La noche de 12 años1 My Shadow > Parallel Sections Johanna Domke, Álvaro Brechner Soudade Kaadan Marouan Omara* > Special Screenings Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, Syria, France, Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, 2018 France, Germany, 2018 Qatar, 2018 86’ | Documentary | Cultural mediation 123’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Exhibitions Uruguay, 1973. The country is Winner of the Lion of the Future Revealing a rare visual power punc- plunged into dictatorship. Three Award at the last Mostra di Venezia, tuated by surrealist elements, this political dissidents are imprisoned Soudade Kaadan is returning for documentary by an Egyptian direc- Films and Guests in solitary confinement, forbid- the third time to the FIFF. Her first tor and a German visual artist fol- den to speak, see, eat, and sleep; fiction feature film dives into the lows several young adults working thrust into a nightmare that lasts underlying premises of the Syrian in Sharm El-Sheikh. The seaside Agenda twelve years. Inspired by the des- tragedy in 2012, through the quest resort has become a ghost town tiny of three contemporary figures of a single mother named Sana. in the wake of terrorist attacks. in Uruguay, including the former She has no more gas to cook and Torn between tradition and the Practical information President José “Pepe” Mujica, the to heat her home. For three days, Western way of life, they question film draws an allusion to all the far from Damascus and her eight- their identities and their futures dictatorships which Latin America year-old son, she searches for a in post-­Arab-Spring Egypt. has been subjected to. precious propane tank.

Enigma The Good Girls Jinpa

Ignacio Juricic Merillán* Alejandra Márquez Abella Pema Tseden Chile, 2018 Mexico, 2018 China, 2018

80’ | Fiction 94’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 86’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

Eight years ago, Nancy lost her 1982. Mexico is hit by the economic After having hit a sheep in the vast daughter, the victim of a homopho- crisis. Sofia is an upper-middle plains of Tibet, a truck driver picks bic attack. As the offender was never class woman who indulges herself up a hitchhiker. This travel compan- found, Nancy, 54, is approached by in a clique of social climbers. As ion carries a silver dagger and the a Chilean television programme that her husband’s business goes bust, driver realises that the young man deals with unsolved crimes. To help taking down with it her world of is on his way to take vengeance. her decide whether to accept or not, lofty pretences disconnected from This revelation binds their des- Nancy seeks to learn more about realities of the country, she tries to tinies together beyond the fork the daughter she hardly knew, and keep appearances up. Back at the in the road that separates them. puts together the pieces of the FIFF three years after Semana Santa, This quasi-western was produced puzzle from the accounts of those this female director observes with by Wong Kar-wai. near and dear to her. tender irony a thin facade that is beginning to show cracks. Official Selection 9 The FIFF The Looming Storm The Red Phallus Swing Kids

Dong Yue* Tashi Gyeltshen* Kang Hyeong-cheol* Programme China, 2017 Bhutan, Nepal, Germany, 2018 South Korea, 2018

> Official Selection 116’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 85’ | Fiction | 133’ | Fiction | European Premiere European Premiere > Parallel Sections

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1997. In southern China, where a full FIFForum social and industrial transformation The Red Phallus, the director’s first Inspired by the musical comedy is underway, Yu Guowei, head of feature film is intriguing because Rho Ki-soo, Swing Kids transforms security in an old factory, investi- of its title while winning audiences the horrors of the Korean war by Juries and Awards gates a series of murders involving over with its symbolic visual power. diving into the summer of 1950 in a young female victims. Faced with a A harsh critic of the patriarchy, the prison camp held by the American police force that is not making any film follows young Sangay as she army on the island of Geoje. To Exhibitions progress, Yu becomes obsessed fights through a muddled world of ease the tensions between pro- with the case. Like a Chinese cousin phalluses and masks. Chosen for the and anti-communist Korean and of the Korean film Memories of Open Doors selection at the Locarno Chinese detainees, a sergeant is Films and Guests Murder directed by Bong Joon-ho, Festival and winner of the FIPRESCI charged with selecting a number this social detective story is the Award at the Busan International of prisoners in order to produce a director’s first film. Film Festival, Gyeltshen’s film con- tap dancing show. Agenda firms the growing importance of Bhutanese cinema.

Practical information The Third Wife A Thousand Volcano Girls Like Me

Ash Mayfair Sahra Mani* Roman Bondarchuk* Vietnam, 2018 Afghanistan, France, 2018 Ukraine, Germany, Monaco, 2018

96’ | Fiction | 80’ | Documentary | 106’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

Through the story of May, married Khatera Golzad, a 23-year-old On a mission as an interpreter, at the age of 14 to a rich landowner, Afghani woman, was sexually Lukas gets lost somewhere in the Ash Mayfair’s first feature film abused by her own father for many south of Ukraine in strange cir- depicts the subjection of women years. To denounce his behaviour cumstances. He is taken in by an in 19th-century Vietnam. The film and finally obtain justice, she has eccentric native. Captivated by the elegantly follows the heroine’s path to confront her family as well as strangeness of this arid region and towards personal freedom. Winning the traditions of both her country its inhabitants, he attempts to grap- multiple awards since its selection and a legal system that almost ple with life while engaging in true for the Toronto International Film never stands up for women. This introspection. A tragicomedy that Festival, The Third Wife is as beau- documentary combines in an artis- touches on the absurd, Volcano tiful as a silk scarf used to wipe tic portrait the words courage and is the first fiction feature film by away bloody tears. feminism in a way that is seldom the Ukrainian documentary maker. seen.

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Programme And What Is the The Ashes 32-Rbit Summer Saying > Official Selection Payal Kapadia* Aryan Golsoorat* Victor Orozco Ramirez* > Parallel Sections India, 2018 Iran, 2019 Mexico, Germany, 2018

> Special Screenings 23’ | Documentary | 14’ | Fiction | 8’ | Animation | Swiss Premiere International Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Exhibitions Atarraya Kado

Esteban García Garzón* Aditya Ahmad* Films and Guests Colombia, 2019 Indonesia, 2018

15’ | Fiction | 15’ | Fiction | Agenda European Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Programme Ombliguo de agua The Gentle Sadness Franco of Things > Official Selection Laura Baumeister Mariana Martínez Gómez* Nicaragua, Mexico, 2019 Deniz Telek* Mexico, 2018 > Parallel Sections Turkey, 2018 23’ | Fiction | 13’ | Fiction | > Special Screenings Swiss Premiere 16’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Juries and Awards La Mazda Jaune Una Cabrita Exhibitions et Sa Sainteté Sin Cuernos Sandra Heremans* Sebastián Dietsch* Films and Guests Rwanda, 2018 Argentina, 2018

11’ | Documentary | 14’ | Fiction | Agenda Swiss Premiere International Premiere

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Official Selection 12 International Competition Short Films

The FIFF Programme 3 | 95’

Programme The Girl With Manivelle: The Last Les Pastèques Two Heads Days of the Man du Cheikh > Official Selection of Tomorrow > Parallel Sections Betzabé García* Fadi Baki (The fdz) Kaouther Ben Hania > Special Screenings Mexico, 2018 Lebanon, 2017 Tunisia, France, 2018

13’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 29’ | Docufiction |Swiss Premiere 23’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Cultural mediation

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Exhibitions The Imminent On the Border Immanent Films and Guests Carlo Francisco Manatad* Wei Shujun* Philippines, Singapore, China, 2018 Agenda Italy, 2018 15’ | Fiction | 15’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere Practical information

Official Selection 13 Opening and Closing Films Out of Competition

The FIFF Opening Film How Long Will I Love U

Su Lun Programme China, 2018

> Official Selection 101‘ | Fiction | European Premiere > Parallel Sections Shanghai. A woman and a man > Special Screenings live in the same apartment. Except she lives there in 2018 and he lives there in 1999. And Cultural mediation yet one morning, they wake up in the same bed. Time and space have merged! Can today’s slightly FIFForum arrogant and ambitious woman manage to live alongside yes- terday’s sweet but extremely Juries and Awards naive man? And could some- thing develop between them? The director reinvents the fantastic Exhibitions romantic comedy genre.

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Agenda Closing Film Meet Me in St. Gallen

Irene Emma Villamor Practical information Philippines, 2018

94’| Fiction | International Premiere

When they meet in a coffee shop, Celeste and Jesse realise that their first names are the same as those of the two main char- acters of an American romantic film (Celeste and Jesse Forever, Lee Toland Krieger, 2012). After spending an unforgettable night together, the two young people each go their separate ways. Years later, in the snowy streets of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the duo looks back on their relationship.

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> Parallel Sections Genre Cinema - 16 > Special Screenings Romantic comedies

Cultural mediation Decryption - 17 “Being a black woman is not my job” FIFForum Diaspora - 19 Elisa Shua Dusapin and South Korea Juries and Awards New Territory - 20 The Caribbean (Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) Exhibitions Sur la carte de - 21 Films and Guests Bong Joon-ho

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The classic genre interpreted by different cultures

The FIFF Romantic comedies

We all know how it goes: a chance meeting leads to love at first sight. Despite their shared passion, life Programme tears them apart before bringing them back together again. For better or for worse? Romantic come- dies have always been one of the most popular film genres among the general public. This year, FIFF > Official Selection is therefore delighted to present a selection of effervescent and innovative romantic comedies. These classic or brand-new gems superbly shun the clichés disseminated by mainstream production without > Parallel Sections ever failing to tug at our heartstrings.

> Special Screenings Aleksi Breakfast at Tiffany’s Bringing Up Baby

Cultural mediation Barbara Vekarić Blake Edwards Howard Hawks Croatia, Serbia, 2018 USA, 1961 USA, 1938

FIFForum 90’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 115’ | Fiction 102’ | Fiction

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Films and Guests Diane a les épaules A Dysfunctional Cat El Fútbol O Yo Agenda Fabien Gorgeart Susan Gordanshekan Marcos Carnevale France, 2017 Germany, 2018 Argentina, 2017 Practical information 87’ | Fiction 93’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 100’ | Fiction

My Love, My Bride Peace After Marriage A Place in the Conference Caribbean Lim Chan-sang Bandar Albuliwi, Genre Cinema: South Korea, 2014 Ghazi Albuliwi Juan Carlos Fanconi Romantic comedies USA, Israel, Jordan, 2013 Honduras, USA, 2017 111’ | Fiction How romantic comedies reflect 86’ | Fiction 114’ | Fiction | society’s views on relationships European Premiere between men and women

Delphine Chedaleux (University of Lausanne - UNIL) Expert in gender issues in cinema

18.03 Monday 19:00 – 20:00 > ARENA 7

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Focus on a societal, political or cultural issue

The FIFF “Being a black woman is not my job”

Programme Being a black woman is not my job is originally a book published > Official Selection on 3rd May 2018. In it, sixteen black or mixed-race French > Parallel Sections actressess denounce the penury and the clichés of the roles pro- > Special Screenings posed to them: the subordinate roles of prostitutes, immigrants or “mamas”. An essential fight to Cultural mediation make cinema more honest.

Magaajyia Silberfeld is one of the FIFForum sixteen. For the FIFF, she accepted to canvass her comrades to gen- erate an ideal list of films that Juries and Awards resonate with this combat. For this, we sincerely thank her.

Exhibitions ©Frédéric Stucin

Films and Guests Al’lèèssi… Une Belle Black Mic Mac actrice africaine

Agenda Amma Asante Thomas Gilou Rahmatou Keïta* UK, 2013 France, 1986 Niger, France, 2004 Practical information 100’ | Fiction 93’ | Fiction 70’ | Documentary Chosen by Chosen by Chosen by Magaajyia Silberfeld Rachel Khan & Assa Sylla Marie-Philomène Nga

Daughters of the Dust Get Out Mandingo

Julie Dash Jordan Peele Richard Fleischer UK, USA, 1991 USA, Japan, 2017 USA, 1975

112’ | Fiction 104’ | Fiction 127’ | Fiction

Chosen by Sabine Pakora Chosen by Shirley Souagnon Chosen by Mata Gabin

Parallel Sections Violent content 17 Decryption

The FIFF La Noire de… Romuald et Juliette Rue Cases-Nègres

Ousmane Sembène Coline Serreau Euzhan Palcy Programme Senegal, 1966 France, 1989 France, Martinique, 1983

> Official Selection 65’ | Fiction 108’ | Fiction 103’ | Fiction

> Parallel Sections Chosen by Chosen by Chosen by Eye Haïdara & Sabine Pakora Firmine Richard Marie-Philomène Nga > Special Screenings

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Exhibitions Haile Gerima Raoul Peck Idrissa Ouedraogo Burkina Faso, 1993 France, Rwanda, Switzerland, UK, France, USA, 2005 Burkina Faso, Germany, 1990 Films and Guests 125’ | Fiction 140’ | Fiction 81’ | Fiction

Agenda Chosen by Sabine Pakora Chosen by Sonia Rolland Chosen by Aïssa Maïga

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Yaaba Zulu Love Letters

Idrissa Ouedraogo Ramadan Suleman Burkina Faso, Switzerland, South Africa, France, France, 1989 Germany, 2004

Round table 91’ | Fiction 100’ | Fiction

Decryption: Chosen by Aïssa Maïga Chosen by France Zobda “Being a black woman is not my job”

The situation of afro-descendant women in the film industry

With the participation of several of the actresses

17.03 Sunday 16:10 – 17:40 > ARENA 7

Parallel Sections 18 Diaspora A celebrity recounts her/his culture of origin through cinema

The FIFF Elisa Shua Dusapin and South Korea

Two novels. Hiver à Sokcho in 2016 and Les Billes du Pachinko in Programme 2018. Two FIFF favourites, as big fan of South Korean cinema in all its diversity. Because there is something cinematographic in the > Official Selection writing of Elisa Shua Dusapin, an author who grew up between Paris, Seoul and Porrentruy, winner of the Robert Walser award and the > Parallel Sections Swiss prize of literature 2019. That’s all it took to offer her the carte blanche for Diaspora. And the films that she has chosen, which have > Special Screenings built part of her identity, perfectly represent this diversity of tones that we love so much. Elisa Shua Dusapin, © Romain Guélat Cultural mediation Memories of Murder The Host I’m a Cyborg, FIFForum But That’s OK

Bong Joon-ho* Bong Joon-ho* Park Chan-wook Juries and Awards South Korea, 2003 South Korea, 2006 South Korea, 2006

131’ | Fiction 120’ | Fiction 105’ | Fiction Exhibitions

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Lee Chang-dong Judy Suh Lee Il-ha South Korea, 2007 South Korea, USA, 2011 South Korea, Japan, 2017

135’ | Fiction 22’ | Documentary 98’ | Documentary | Swiss premiere

On the Beach at Night Alone Hong Sang-soo Encounter South Korea, Germany, 2017

Diaspora: 101’ | Fiction Elisa Shua Dusapin and South Korea

20.03 Wednesday 17:45-18:45 > ARENA 7

Parallel Sections 19 New Territory Discovery of a new or little-known cinematography

The FIFF The Caribbean (Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic)

After Nepal and Mongolia, it is now the Caribbean that has attracted FIFF’s attention over recent months. Programme A region where cinema is thriving. It is such a big region however, we decided to limit our selections to three countries: Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. So, one could say three countries, > Official Selection three yardsticks: although those countries are so close, they express themselves in film with access to very unequal resources. Minimal in Haiti. Greater in Puerto Rico. And very active in the Dominican > Parallel Sections Republic. A unique and surprising voyage.

> Special Screenings 7 :20 Once a Week Ayiti mon amour El Chata

Cultural mediation Matías Bize Guetty Felin* Gustavo Ramos Perales Dominican Republic, 2018 Haiti, 2016 Puerto Rico, 2017

FIFForum 76’ | Fiction | 88’ | Fiction | International Premiere Swiss Premiere 75’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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Agenda El hombre que cuida Meurtre à Pacot Miriam Lies

Alejandro Andújar Raoul Peck Oriol Estrada*, Natalia Cabral* Practical information Dominican Republic, Haiti, France, Norway, 2014 Dominican Republic, Spain, 2018 Puerto Rico, Brazil

85’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 130’ | Fiction 90’ | Fiction

Noelí en Los Países Silence of Woodpeckers the Wind Round table Laura Amelia Guzmán, José María Cabral Israel Cárdenas Álvaro Aponte Centeno Dominican Republic, New Territory: The Caribbean Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Dominican 2017 Italy, Spain, 2016 Republic, France, 2017 The expansion of the 107’ | Fiction | cinema of the Carribbean 55’ | Documentary 87’ | Fiction Swiss Premiere

With the participation of the directors Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada and Guetty Felin

16.03 Saturday 18:00 – 19:30 > ARENA 7

Parallel Sections Contains graphic sexual scenes 20 Sur la carte de A well-known celebrity reveals her/his favourite films

The FIFF Bong Joon-ho

What we have been dreaming about for years! Bong Joon-ho is the Programme reason we have come to love South Korean cinema. Memories of Murder! The Host! Mother! Snowpiercer! Okja! This born director > Official Selection doesn’t just make films: he lives and breathes film, and has probably done so since he was a child. “The films I love, but that I have never > Parallel Sections seen on the big screen”, he wrote to us. He is coming to Fribourg for his pleasure. He, who is of our favourite still-active directors, > Special Screenings has no idea of the honor he is doing us. He will read this. He will be embarrassed. Too bad for him. Bong Joon-ho

Cultural mediation Days of Being Wild Declaration of Fools Red Beard FIFForum Wong Kar-wai Lee Jang-ho Akira Kurosawa Hong Kong, 1990 South Korea, 1983 Japan, 1965 Juries and Awards 94’ | Fiction 97’ | Fiction 185’ | Fiction

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Practical information Scarecrow Seconds The Sugarland Express

Jerry Schatzberg John Frankenheimer Steven Spielberg USA, 1973 USA, 1966 USA, 1974

112’ | Fiction 106’ | Fiction 110’ | Fiction

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Kim Ki-young Conversation with South Korea, 1974

Bong Joon-ho 112’ | Fiction

22.03 Friday 19:00 – 20:00 > ARENA 7

Reservation is mandatory on fiff.ch/en/fifforum or at the points of sale of the Festival.

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Special Screenings 22 FIFFamily: (Re)count on me! The meeting of children aged 4 and up, along with their parents

The FIFF Counting on each other, whatever the situation, whatever happens: this is the motto of the five short films in this selection. Five stories, five different animation techniques: paper cut-outs, digital animation, cartoons, animated puppets and stop motion. A selection that invites us to discover animated film, its Programme diversity, its colours and its poetry.

> Official Selection Programme : (Re)count on me!

> Parallel Sections Selection of short films 40’ | Animation | Swiss Premiere > Special Screenings

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Films and Guests Ghirafa The Girl and the Fox Agenda Anastasia Sokolova Tyler J. Kupferer Russia, 2014 | 8’ USA, 2011 | 6’ Practical information Eskimal Black or white

Homero Ramírez Tena Mohammad-Ali Soleymanzadeh Mexico, 2011 | 9’ Iran, 2017 | 11’

Polychrome

Negareh Halimi, Amin Malekian Iran, 2017 | 2’

Special Screenings 23 Films of the International Jury Our judges’ successful films

The FIFF Members of the Jury The Seen and Unseen The Wedding Ring

>> Kamila Andini, Kamila Andini* Rahmatou Keïta* Programme Indonesia Indonesia, Netherlands, Niger, Burkina Faso, Australia, Qatar, 2017 France, 2016 > Official Selection >> Natalia Cabral, Dominican Republic 86’ | Fiction 96’ | Fiction > Parallel Sections >> Rahmatou Keïta, > Special Screenings Niger

>> Hani Abbas, Cultural mediation Syria, Palestine

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23.03 Saturday 16:00-17:00 > ARENA 7

Special Screenings 24 Passeport Suisse Films made by Swiss directors or shot in Switzerland

The FIFF Programme: cinéma fribourgeois Digitalkarma1 Le Renard et l’Oisille Programme Francesca Scalisi*, Mark Olexa* Fred et Sam Guillaume* > Official Selection Switzerland, 2019 Switzerland, 2019

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The FIFF A selection of short films from Switzerland’s top film schools, a jury composed of guests from the New Territory section and a prize sponsored by E-CHANGER and Fribourg-Solidaire; this programme reflects the goal of the FIFF to encourage and promote up-and-coming film production in Switzerland, while Programme stimulating exchanges between Swiss film students and professionals from around the world.

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> Special Screenings Switzerland, 2018 | 80’ | Animation, Documentary, Fiction

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Léon Yersin Alan Sahin Agenda HEAD – Genève, Haute ZHdK, Zürcher Hochschule école d’art et de design der Künste

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Lachfalten La Maturité

Patricia Wenger Antoine Flahaut HSLU, Hochschule Luzern ECAL – École cantonale – Design & Kunst d’art de Lausanne

6’ | 2018 17’ | 2018

Come un’eco Bashkimi United

Anna Spacio Lasse Linder CISA, Conservatorio HSLU, Hochschule Luzern Internazionale di – Design & Kunst Scienze Audiovisive 10’ | 2018 13’ | 2018

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The FIFF Run by director Alain Gomis, the 2018 workshop “Grand Voyage” dealt with the theme of modernity. Under this lens, 30 film students (15 from Senegal and 15 from the Masters programme ECAL/HEAD) went out to decipher five of Dakar’s neighbourhoods using their cameras. They had three weeks to explore Programme modernity, move beyond clichés, discover themselves through others, and, within all of this intensity, seek out a common intimacy: that of cinema. > Official Selection

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Practical information Paul Choquet, Omar-Latyr Ngom, Mamyto Moustapha Guèye, Nakamura, Nina Defontaine, Tianze Song, Olivia Frey, Justine de Gasquet, Noémie Elisa Gómez Alvarez, Yoro Mbaye Guibal, Ferhat Abbas

17’ | Docufiction | 2018 21’ | Documentary | 2018

Arena Timis

Alarba Bousso, Khadyja Lucas Del Fresno, Sarah Mahfou Aidara, Malou Briand, Rathgeb, Ketsia Stocker, Oumy Sarr Ndoye, Raphaël Abdou Gning, Mame Meyer, Mamadou Sané Batheli, Vanessa Ngoie

13’ | Fiction | 2018 20’ | Fiction | 2018

Oumar

Vuk Vukmanovic, Santiago Chacón, Mohamed Lemine, Ricardo Obiang, Stheori Wacherman

19’ | Documentary | 2018

Special Screenings 27 Midnight Screenings Not for the faint-hearted!

The FIFF Buybust The Factory Farming

Erik Matti Yury Bykov Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Programme Philippines, 2018 Russia, France, UK, 2018 Armenia, 2018 > Official Selection 127’ | Fiction | 107’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 109’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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* Walter replaces Door Lock, originally planned.

Special Screenings Violent content 28 Midnight Screenings

The FIFF If you still think that the people of Fribourg are too uptight to talk about female orgasm, dance in a restaurant, invent fantasies or transform migrants into great actors, then you need to see this 100% Fribourg screening. And if you already know just what the people of Fribourg are capable of, it still is Programme for you: you will discover what an amazing crucible of cinematographic talent Fribourg is!

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> Special Screenings Switzerland, 2018 | 98’ | Fiction, Documentary

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Stéphanie Dauth, David Nguyen Stephan Eigenmann Practical information 3’ | 2018 10’ | 2018

La Petite Mort Terrain de Nuit

Annie Gisler Henri Marbacher 60’ | 2018 20’ | 2018

Open Minded

David Nguyen 4’ | 2018

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Cultural mediation 30 Planète Cinéma The programme for the school screenings

The FIFF Planète Cinéma, the FIFF school programme, aims to introduce young audiences to the diversity of cinema, starting from the youngest age. Its focus is on the pedagogical support needed for this intro- duction to cinema and to the world. By encouraging meetings and discussions with industry profes- Programme sionals from all around the world, the Festival helps develop the curiosity and the critical perspective of tomorrow’s spectators. > Official Selection

> Parallel Sections School screenings Discussions and A pedagogical > Special Screenings meetings framework School screenings take place every morning during the week To extend the immersion in the In addition to the supervision Cultural mediation of the Festival in four localities international cinematographic and presentation of the films by of the Canton of Fribourg: Bulle, diversity, Planète Cinéma orga- mediators, the FIFF, in collabo- Payerne, Châtel-St-Denis and nizes meetings between classes ration with the Intercantonal FIFForum Fribourg. They are tailored to and directors or other film pro- Conference on Public Education the teachers’ needs and wishes fessionals. Discussions led by of French-speaking Switzerland (choice of film, day and place). As the FIFF mediation team are also and Ticino (CIIP) and e-media. ch, Juries and Awards the FIFF is committed to showing held after the screenings. provides teachers with educa- the films in their original version, tional matieral for each film. it also offers screenings adapted This way, teachers can prepare Exhibitions to non-reading students with a their visit before the Festival, and reading of the subtitles. This year, discuss the film and the issues it the FIFF welcomes approximately raised after the screening. Films and Guests 11,000 pupils and students of all ages (from 1H to universities) for In addition, Planète Cinéma orga- 80 screenings of films specially nizes every year a bilingual train- Agenda selected for them. ing course for teachers.

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Approx. 11,000 registered students (2019)

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Cultural mediation 31 Planète Cinéma The programme for the school screenings

The FIFF (Re)count on me! Chuskit Village Rockstars

Selection of short films Priya Ramasubban Rima Das Programme Russia, USA, Mexico, Iran India, 2018 India, 2017

> Official Selection 40’ | Animation | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 87’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Aged 4 and up Aged 6 and up Aged 8 and up > Parallel Sections

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Juries and Awards Likarion Wainaina Kamila Andini* Aida Begić Kenya, 2018 Indonesia, Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Australia, Qatar, 2017 Turkey, 2017 Exhibitions 74’ | Fiction 86’ | Fiction 97’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Aged 9 and up Aged 10 and up Aged 11 and up Films and Guests

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s How Long Will I Love U Miriam Lies

Blake Edwards Su Lun Oriol Estrada*, Natalia Cabral* USA, 1961 China, 2018 Dominican Republic, Spain, 2018

115’ | Fiction 101’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction | Aged 14 and up Aged 12 and up Aged 12 and up

Compañeros – A Thousand La noche de 12 años1 Girls Like Me Álvaro Brechner Sahra Mani* Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, Afghanistan, France, 2018 France, Germany, 2018 80’ | Documentary | 123’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere | Aged 14 and up Aged 16 and up

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The FIFF Since the diversity of the audience is of great value to the FIFF, it has created a space for relations between cinema and spectators. The goal is to promote access to cinematographic diversity through dialogue and exchange, to allow artistic discoveries and to make spectators reflect on both form and content. Programme

> Official Selection Seniors Deaf and hard of hearing Duo presentation > Parallel Sections Come to the FIFF or let Session with sign language Building on the success of the > Special Screenings the FIFF come to you! interpretation past few years, the FIFF is renew- ing the duo presentations, an The FIFF has been offering, since Since 2016, the FIFF offers a intergenerational and intercul- Cultural mediation several years, public screenings screening specially adapted to tural project that brings together at a preferential rate to elderly the deaf and hard of hearing pub- movie lovers of all ages and back- people living in institutions in the lic. This year, for the second time, grounds. According to the FIFF FIFForum Canton of Fribourg. Focusing this we will be collaborating with the tradition, each film screening is year on the theme of romantic Fribourg association C’est un introduced by a short presen- comedy, the FIFF invites them signe, which aims to bridge the tation. Through this project, the Juries and Awards to see a classic of this genre, gap, through culture, between young and the old prepare their providing them with a special the deaf and the hearing. speech together. welcome and support. Exhibitions For example, the presentation of Mentored by the Festival team, Following last year’s success, the film Miriam Lies (New Territory the two presenters have the the FIFF also reiterates its offer section) and discussion with its opportunity to exchange on their Films and Guests of projections within the nursing director (Q&A) will be interpreted vision of cinema and their life homes. Institutions interested in in French Sign Language (LSF). experiences. They also get to a screening of short films from discover the inside of the Festival Agenda the Festival can extend the cine- and, most of all, share their love matographic experience on their for cinema with the public! premises and enjoy a moment of Practical information talk afterwards.

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The FIFF FIFForum offers different kind of meetings between the public and the film industry professionals such as conferences, encouters and round tables. They will either propose an extended analysis of an issue, a focus on the competition or an intimate moment with an artist. Programme Encounters > Official Selection Diaspora : Elisa Shua > Parallel Sections Dusapin and South Korea

> Special Screenings 20.03 Monday 17:45 – 18:45 > ARENA 7

Cultural mediation Through her selection of South Korean films, Elisa Shua Dusapin will tell us all about South Korea, FIFForum her insipirations and her multiple identities, as well as the themas she holds dear. Juries and Awards

Conference Round Tables Conversation with Exhibitions Bong Joon-ho* Genre Cinema: New Territory: The Carribbean Romantic Comedies 22.03 Friday Films and Guests 16.03 Saturday 19:00 – 20:00 > ARENA 7 18.03 Monday 18:00 – 19:30 > ARENA 7 19:00 – 20:00 > ARENA 7 Bong Joon-ho will honor the 33rd Agenda In presence of the directors edition of the Festival by his pres- Expert in gender issues in cinema, Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada and ence! He will present a selection Delphine Chedaleux (University Guetty Felin, this round table will or the masterpieces that have Practical information of Lausanne – UNIL) will analyze propose a focus on the devel- left the deepest impression on how romantic comedies reflect opment of the cinema of the him and will talk of his career society’s views on relationships Carribbean. and aspirations. between men and women.

Decryption: “Being a black Encounter with the woman is not my job” International Jury

17.03 Sunday 23.03 Saturday 16:10 – 17:40 > ARENA 7 16:00 – 17:00 > ARENA 7

Several actresses and co-writers The members of the International of “Being a black woman is not my jury will answer questions of the job” will debate on the topic of public on the role as a juror, their the situation of afro-descendant discovery of Fribourg and their women in the film industry. films screened during the Festival.

Free entrance at any time to all events organised by FIFForum. Fribourg: a growing cinema scene FIFF’s breakfasts

This page should only be used 19.03 Tuesday 19.03 > 23.03 Monday – Friday as a reference. You can find the 16:00 – 17:30 > ARENA 7 10:00 – 10:45 latest information on the website fiff.ch/en/fifforum and at our The second meeting of the film Every day, the artistic director ticket offices. industry professionals from of the FIFF will welcome a guest Fribourg will pursue the projects of the Festival at eikon. These * Reservation mandatory on the outlined last year, confirm the public visits will be live broacast website fiff.ch/en/fifforum and at value of local cinema and bring on Radio FR. our ticket offices together all parties involved. eikon Rte Willhelm-Kaiser 13 CH-1700 Fribourg +41 (0)26 305 46 86 | eikon.ch FIFForum 35 The FIFF Juries and Awards Programme

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Juries and Awards 36 International Jury Feature Films

The FIFF The winners will be revealed Members of the Jury 2019 at the closing ceremony, which will take place on Saturday, 23th Programme March at 6 pm at ARENA 1. Kamila Andini Rahmatou Keïta

> Official Selection Indonesia Niger

> Parallel Sections The International Jury Winner of the FIFF Born in Niger, Feature Films gives the Critics’ Choice Award Rahmatou Keïta > Special Screenings in 2018 with her second feature has always been interested in following Awards: filmThe Seen and Unseen (2018), the richness of cultures, land- Kamila Andini is back this year scapes, languages and encoun- Cultural mediation as a member of the International ters offered by the African con- Jury. Born in Indonesia, she stud- tinent. After studying philosophy ied sociology and media arts in and linguistics in Paris, she began FIFForum Australia. Her concerns, such as her career in France as a jour- social culture, the environment nalist, columnist and television and gender equity, are reflected presenter. She has been directing Juries and Awards in her films. His first feature film documentaries since the 1990s, The Mirror Never Lies (2011), co-­ including Al’lèèssi.... An african Grand Prix of the Fribourg produced by WWF, has travelled actress (2004), presented at Exhibitions International Film Festival to more than 30 festivals, where Cannes Classiques in 2005. At it has won numerous awards. the FIFF, she will present her first The Grand Prix of the Fribourg fiction feature film, The Wedding Films and Guests International Film Festival Ring (2016), selected in Toronto consists of CHF 30,000 jointly and candidate for the Oscar 2019 bestowed by the Canton of Natalia Cabral for Best Foreign Language Film. Agenda Fribourg (CHF 20,000) and the Municipality of Fribourg Dominican (CHF 10,000). This award is Republic Practical information conferred upon the director Hani Abbas (CHF 20,000) and the producer Director and pro- (CHF 10,000) of the film selected ducer Natalia Cabral, from the Syria, Palestine by the International Jury. Dominican Republic, studied film at the International Film School Hani Abbas is a in San Antonio de los Baños, cartoonist, born Cuba. She has directed two docu- in a Palestinian refugee camp mentaries with her partner Oriol in Syria. He became famous in Estrada: Tú y yo (2014) and El sitio 2012 for posting on Facebook a de los sitios (2016), both selected drawing of a salesman smelling Special Jury Award at numerous festivals. His first the scent of a red flower that feature-length fiction filmMiriam symbolizes the Syrian revolution. This prize consisting of CHF Lies (2018) is screened this year This action led to threats by the 10,000 is awarded by ECAB/ at the FIFF in the New Territory Syrian authorities. In order to KGV (Fribourg’s buildings insur- section. continue to denounce the horrors ance). It is bestowed on the of war, always with a touch of director of the film chosen by humour and poetry, he took ref- the International Jury for the uge in Switzerland, in Geneva. His inventiveness of the screenplay drawings were quickly published and the direction, the rejuve- in La Liberté and L’Hebdo and, in nation of the cinematographic 2014, he received the Editorial language, or the thematic and Cartoon International Prize from formal audacity shown. Kofi Annan.

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The FIFF The International Jury Members of the Jury 2019 Short Films gives the Programme following award: Jela Hasler Alice Riva

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> Parallel Sections Jela Hasler stud- Alice Riva has been ied photography in a programmer at > Special Screenings Zurich and Istanbul, and video in Cinéma Spoutnik in Geneva Lucerne. Her graduation film Kein since 2015. She selects films that Best International Short Film Porno (2013), co-produced by SRF address various political and Cultural mediation Award (the Swiss National Television), social issues and participates was screened at several festivals in the distribution of innova- The Best International Short Film and won the “Best Short” award tive cinematographic works in FIFForum Award, which is sponsored by at Ozu Film Festival in Italy. Switzerland. In 2018, she worked Groupe E, recognises innova- at Locarno Pro (Industry Office) tive, independent film-making by Her short films The Meadow (2015) at the Locarno Festival. She Juries and Awards emerging young talent. The Short and Le sens de la marche (2018) graduated from the Cinema/ Film Jury will award the CHF 7,500 premiered at Locarno Festival Cinema of Reality Department cash prize to the winning director. and were then selected by other at HEAD-Geneva. She has also Exhibitions festivals, where they received worked on film shootings, includ- several awards. ing Cemetery of Splendour by Apichatpong Weerasethakul as Films and Guests For spring 2017, she was granted an assistant behind the scenes. an Artist Residency scholarship at Cité Internationale des Arts Agenda in Paris. She participated in the Zurich Film Festival Masterclass and the “New Screen Talents” Practical information at Geneva International Film Festival.

Philippe Pellaud (Kid Chocolat)

Switzerland (GE)

Electro musician and Swiss producer from Geneva, Kid Chocolat loves to play with cinematographic material, mostly with B series and horror films.

If Kid Chocolat loves movies, he also created the Poor Records label, he directed a tribute com- pilation to Stephan Eicher’s new wave debut, he signed the sound- rack of Pascal Greco’s movie Super 8 and published a comic book with the illustrator Luz, using the name The Scribblers.

In 2019, his new soundtrack and first short film Shadow, made with video artist Pascal Greco, was released. Asia Argento and her daughter Anna-Lou Castoldi played the main roles.

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> Special Screenings This prize, consisting of Awarded by a Jury of members This award (CHF 5,000) is con- CHF 5,000, is supported by the of the Swiss Film Journalist ferred jointly by two develop- FIFF and the Banque Cantonale Association, this prize aims to ment-cooperation organisations, Cultural mediation de Fribourg and awarded to the promote the cinema as an art Action de Carême (Catholic) director of the film selected by and encourage new and emerg- and Pain pour le Prochain the audience. ing films. (Protestant), to the director FIFForum whose film best reflects the val- Members of the Jury ues upon which these two organ- Critics’ Choice Award isations base their support to the Juries and Awards struggle of poor populations in >> Philippe Congiusti, African, Asian or Latin American (Switzerland - VD), jour- countries. The Ecumenical Jury Exhibitions nalist and producer is composed of representatives BRAZIL, Couleur 3, RTS of the two Church-run develop- ment agencies, and representa- Films and Guests >> Annina Hasler, (Switerland tives of SIGNIS (World Catholic - BE), chief culture jour- Association for Communication nalist of Keystone-SDA (www.signis.net) and INTERFILM Agenda (International Interchurch Film >> Geri Krebs, (Switzerland Organisation, www.inter-film.org). - ZH), freelance jour- Practical information nalist and film critic Members of the Ecumenical Jury

>> Tiziana Conti (Switzerland)

>> Jean-Jacques Cunnac (France)

>> Jean-Luc Gadreau (France)

>> Denise F. Spörri-Müller (Switzerland)

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> Official Selection CH Cinema Network Prize Passeport Suisse – > Parallel Sections The Youth Jury Award COMUNDO Foreign Visa Prize

> Special Screenings Conferred by COMUNDO and amounting to CHF 5,000, this prize Prize money of CHF 3,000 is This prize of CHF 1,000 is is awarded by the Youth Jury. awarded to the best short film sponsored by E-CHANGER and Cultural mediation It aims not only to give young entered in the International Fribourg-Solidaire. Every year, people a say in the Festival, but Competition. It will be awarded Switzerland’s top film schools are also to highlight a film that takes by a jury of CH Cinema Network invited to send in short films (15 FIFForum into account the problems faced students from Lausanne, Lugano minutes maximum) made by their by young people in today’s world. and Zurich universities, ECAL, students. These top films by the It is aimed to raise awareness in HEAD and ZHdK. Based on an future filmmakers of Switzerland Juries and Awards students and apprentices of the exchange between universities, are submitted to the judgment of irreplaceable means provided by universities of applied sciences the members of the New Territory films – beyond mere diversion – and filmmaking institutions, this section, which this year is com- Exhibitions to discover the riches of other national programme combines posed of Caribbean producers cultures and to learn tolerance theory and practice and univer- and directors. and justice. sity education. Films and Guests Members of the Youth Jury Members of the CH COMUNDO Cinema Network jury Agenda >> Anna Furter (Switzerland) >> Ludivine Barro, UNIL

Practical information >> Luam Kidane (Switzerland) >> Nathalie Berger, ZHdK

>> Filipe Mendes Pereira >> Olivia Frey, ECAL / HEAD (Switzerland) >> Elisa Gómez Alvarez, >> Camille Mottier (Switzerland) ECAL / HEAD

>> Livilla Norré (Switzerland) >> Paola Rezzonico, USI

>> Giorgio Ostinelli >> Mirjam Schilliger, UZH (Switzerland)

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> Special Screenings The film community in Mario Dondero’s photographs Cultural mediation Discoteca Analitica - 42

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The FIFF Meetings on film sets Exhibition 15.03 > 29.06.2019 The film community in Mario Programme Dondero’s photographs Opening Thursday 14.03 18:30 > Official Selection The exhibition produced by Cineteca di Bologna showcases Opening Hours > Parallel Sections 60 photos centred around the film Monday-Friday 08:00 – 22:00 sets of highly successful Italian Saturday 08:00 – 16:00 > Special Screenings and French feature films during the 60s and 70s. Street photog- Admission rapher and portraitist famous Free entrance Cultural mediation for his photographs of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Nouveau Roman Contact writers in front of the Éditions Cantonal and University FIFForum de Minuit headquarters, Mario Library, “BCU” Dondero was, between Rome Rue Joseph-Piller 2 Pier Paolo Pasolini with and Paris, a key witness among CH-1700 Fribourg Juries and Awards his mother, in the early 60s the intellectuals and artists of +41 (0)26 305 13 33 © Mario Dondero the time. fr.ch/bcuf

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Practical information Discoteca Analitica Exhibition 09.02 > 31.03.2019 Discoteca Analitica revisits the emergence of the multimedia Opening Hours experiences of the 1960s, begin- Wednesday-Friday 12:00 - 18:00 ning with the original spectre Saturday-Sunday 13:00 - 18:00 of disco. The exhibition offers an immersive experience that Admission prompts discussion of Californian Regular admission CHF 8 counter-culture, pop and psy- Reduced admission CHF 5 chedelic environments, and the (Also with Festival Pass) pioneers of radical architecture, revealing the origins of our digital Free entrance: Ask at the entrance culture of today. Contact Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg Petites-Rames 22 CH-1700 Fribourg Inside the Castalia Foundation +41 (0)26 323 23 51 | fri-art.ch

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The FIFF Courgette & Compagnie Exhibition 23.11.2018 > 31.03.2019 Come to the Swiss Puppet Programme Museum to discover the pup- Opening Hours pets, set design, and behind-the- Friday-Sunday 11:00 - 17:00 > Official Selection scenes action from the shooting of the 2016 animated film My Admission > Parallel Sections Life as a Courgette, directed by Regular admission CHF 5 Claude Barras! The director’s Reduced admission CHF 4 > Special Screenings world is also presented through Children CHF 3 characters and elements from other films he has worked on, Contact Cultural mediation such as the stop motion short Musée suisse de la Marionnette films produced by Hélium Films Fribourg in Lausanne. Derrière-les-Jardins 2 FIFForum CH-1700 Fribourg +41(0)26 322 85 13 marionnette.ch Juries and Awards © Agence du Lion d’Or, Perroy

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Exhibitions 43 List of Films by country

Afghanistan Egypt Lebanon The FIFF >>A Thousand Girls Like Me >>Dreamaway >>Manivelle: The Last Days of Sahra Mani, 2018 Johanna Domke, Marouan Omara, the Man of Tomorrow Documentary | + France 2018 | Documentary | + Germany Fadi Baki (The fdz), 2017 | Docufiction Programme Argentina France Martinique >>Una Cabrita Sin Cuernos >>Black Mic Mac >>Rue Cases-Nègres > Official Selection Sebastián Dietsch, 2018 | Fiction Thomas Gilou, 1986 | Fiction Euzhan Palcy, 1983 | Fiction | + France >>El Fútbol O Yo >>Diane a les épaules > Parallel Sections Marcos Carnevale, 2017 | Fiction Fabien Gorgeart, 2017 | Fiction Mexico >>Romuald et Juliette >>32-Rbit Bhutan Coline Serreau, 1989 | Fiction > Special Screenings Victor Orozco Ramirez, >>The Red Phallus 2018 | Animation | + Germany Tashi Gyeltshen, 2018 | Fiction | Germany >>Eskimal + Nepal, Germany >>A Dysfunctional Cat Homero Ramírez Tena, Cultural mediation Susan Gordanshekan, 2018 | Fiction 2011 | Animation Bosnia and Herzegovina >>Franco >>Never Leave Me Haiti Mariana Martínez Gómez, 2018 | Fiction Aida Begić, 2017 | Fiction >>Ayiti mon amour >>The Girl With Two Heads FIFForum + Turkey Guetty Felin, 2016 | Fiction Betzabé García, 2018 | Fiction >>Meurtre à Pacot >>The Good Girls Burkina Faso Raoul Peck, 2014 | Fiction | Alejandra Márquez Abella, 2018 | Fiction Juries and Awards >>Sankofa + France, Norway Haile Gerima, 1993 | Fiction Nicaragua >>Tilaï Honduras Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1990 | Fiction | >>A Place in the Caribbean >>Ombliguo de agua Exhibitions + Switzerland, UK, France, Germany Juan Carlos Fanconi, 2017 | Fiction | Laura Baumeister, 2019 | Fiction | >>Yaaba + USA + Mexico Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989 | Fiction | + Switzerland, France Hong Kong Niger Films and Guests >>Days of Being Wild >>Al’lèèssi… Une actrice africaine Chile Wong Kar-wai, 1990 | Fiction Rahmatou Keïta, 2004 | Documentary | >>Enigma + France Ignacio Juricic Merillán, 2018 | Fiction India >>The Wedding Ring Agenda Rahmatou Keïta, 2016 | Fiction | >>And What Is the Summer Saying + Burkina Faso, France China Payal Kapadia, 2018 | Documentary >>How Long Will I Love U >>Chuskit Philippines Practical information Su Lun, 2018 | Fiction Priya Ramasubban, 2018 | Fiction >>Jinpa >>Village Rockstars >>Buybust Pema Tseden, 2018 | Fiction Rima Das, 2017 | Fiction Erik Matti, 2018 | Fiction >>The Looming Storm >>The Imminent Immanent Dong Yue, 2017 | Fiction Indonesia Carlo Francisco Manatad, 2018 | Fiction | + Singapore, Italy >>On the Border >>Kado >>Meet Me in St. Gallen Wei Shujun, 2018 | Fiction Aditya Ahmad, 2018 | Fiction Irene Emma Villamor, 2018 | Fiction >>The Seen and Unseen Colombia Kamila Andini, 2017 | Fiction Puerto Rico >>Atarraya Esteban García Garzón, 2019 | Fiction Iran >>El Chata Gustavo Ramos Perales, 2017 | Fiction >>The Ashes >>Silence of the Wind Croatia Aryan Golsoorat, 2019 | Fiction Álvaro Aponte Centeno, 2017 | Fiction | >>Aleksi >>Black or white + Dominican Republic, France Barbara Vekarić, 2018 | Fiction | Mohammad-Ali Soleymanzadeh, + Serbia 2017 | Animation Russia >>Polychrome Dominican Republic Negareh Halimi, Amin Malekian, >>The Factory Yury Bykov, 2018 | Fiction | >>7:20 Once a Week 2017 | Animation + France, Armenia Matías Bize, 2018 | Fiction >>Ghirafa >>El hombre que cuida Japan Anastasia Sokolova, 2014 | Animation Alejandro Andújar, 2017 | Fiction | >>Red Beard + Puerto Rico, Brazil Akira Kurosawa, 1965 | Fiction Rwanda >>Miriam Lies Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada, Jordan >>La Mazda Jaune et Sa Sainteté Sandra Heremans, 2018 | Documentary 2018 | Fiction | + Spain >>Peace After Marriage >>Sometimes in April >>Noelí en Los Países Bandar Albuliwi, Ghazi Albuliwi, Raoul Peck, 2005 | Fiction | Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán, 2013 | Fiction | + USA, Israel 2016 | Documentary | + Italy, Spain + France, USA >>Woodpeckers Kenya José María Cabral, 2017 | Fiction Senegal >>Supa Modo >>La Noire de… Likarion Wainaina, 2018 | Fiction Ousmane Sembène, 1966 | Fiction

1 Swiss Premiere 3 World Premiere List of Film 2 European Premiere 4 International Premiere 44 List of Films by country

The FIFF South Africa Switzerland Tunisia >>Zulu Love Letters >>Arena >>Les Pastèques du Cheikh Ramadan Suleman, 2004 | Fiction | Alarba Bousso, Khadyja Mahfou Kaouther Ben Hania, 2018 | Fiction | + France, Germany Aidara, Malou Briand, Oumy + France Programme Sarr Ndoye, Raphaël Meyer, South Korea Mamadou Sané, 2018 | Fiction Turkey > Official Selection >>Counters >>Bashkimi United >>The Gentle Sadness of Things Lee Il-ha, 2017 | Documentary | + Japan Lasse Linder, 2018 | Docufiction Deniz Telek, 2018 | Fiction >>Declaration of Fools >>Bon Appétit > Parallel Sections Lee Jang-ho, Fiction Alan Sahin, 2018 | Fiction UK >>Clando Bi >>Door Lock >>Belle Paul Choquet, Moustapha Guèye, > Special Screenings Lee Kwon, 2018 | Fiction Amma Asante, 2013 | Fiction Tianze Song, Olivia Frey, Elisa Gómez >>ExamiNation >>Farming Alvarez, Yoro Mbaye, 2018 | Docufiction Judy Suh, 2011 | Documentary | + USA Adewale Akinnuoye- Agbaje, >>Come un’eco >>The Host 2018 | Fiction Cultural mediation Bong Joon-ho, 2006 | Fiction Anna Spacia, 2018 | Fiction >>I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK >>Digitalkarma Ukraine Park Chan-wook, 2006 | Fiction Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi, >>Volcano >>My Love, My Bride 2019 | Documentary Roman Bondarchuk, 2018 | Fiction | FIFForum Lim Chan-sang, 2014 | Fiction >>Domingo + Germany, Monaco >>Memories of Murder Stéphanie Dauth, David Bong Joon-ho, 2003 | Fiction Nguyen, 2018 | Fiction Uruguay >>On the Beach at Night Alone >>Fait Divers Juries and Awards >>Compañeros - La noche de 12 años Hong Sang-soo, 2017 | Fiction | Léon Yersin, 2018 | Fiction Álvaro Brechner, 2018 | Fiction | + Germany >>Lachfalten + Spain, Argentina, France, Germany >>Secret Sunshine Patricia Wenger, 2018 | Animation >>La Maturité Exhibitions Lee Chang-dong, 2007 | Fiction USA >>The Spy Gone North Antoine Flahaut, 2018 | Fiction Yoon Jong-bin, 2018 | Fiction >>Open Minded >>Breakfast at Tiffany’s >>Swing Kids David Nguyen, 2018 | Fiction Blake Edwards, 1961 | Fiction Films and Guests Kang Hyeong-cheol, 2018 | Fiction >>Oumar >>Bringing Up Baby >>Transgression Vuk Vukmanovic, Santiago Chacón, Howard Hawks, 1938 | Fiction Kim Ki-young, 1974 | Fiction Mohamed Lemine, Ricardo >>Daughters of the Dust >>The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion Obiang, Stheori Wacherman, Julie Dash, 1991 | Fiction | + UK Agenda Park Hoon-jung, 2018 | Fiction 2018 | Documentary >>Get Out >>La Petite Mort Jordan Peele, 2017 | Fiction | + Japan Annie Gisler, 2018 | Documentary >>The Girl and the Fox >>Pure Tyler J. Kupferer, 2011 | Animation Practical information Stephan Eigenmann, 2018 | Fiction >>Mandingo >>Le Renard et l’Oisille Richard Fleischer, 1975 | Fiction Fred Guillaume, Sam Guillaume, >>Scarecrow 2019 | Animation Jerry Schatzberg, 1973 | Fiction >>Terrain de Nuit >>Seconds Henri Marbacher, 2018 | Fiction John Frankenheimer, 1966 | Fiction >>Timis >>The Sugarland Express Lucas Del Fresno, Sarah Rathgeb, Steven Spielberg, 1974 | Fiction Ketsia Stocker, Abdou Gning, Mame Batheli, Vanessa Ngoie, 2018 | Fiction Vietnam >>Tony >>The Third Wife Omar-Latyr Ngom, Mamyto Ash Mayfair, 2018 | Fiction Nakamura, Nina Defontaine, Justine de Gasquet, Noémie Guibal, Ferhat Abbas, 2018 | Documentary

Syria >>The Day I Lost My Shadow Soudade Kaadan, 2018 | Fiction | + France, Lebanon, Qatar

1 Swiss Premiere 3 World Premiere List of Film 2 European Premiere 4 International Premiere 45 Guest list This list may be subject to change

The FIFF International Competition: Movie Dates Languages Feature Films

Dong Yue (China), director The Looming Storm 20.03 > 24.03 CN/EN Programme Tashi Gyeltshen (Bhutan), director The Red Phallus 20.03 > 24.03 EN > Official Selection Ignacio Juricic Merillán (Chile), director Enigma 17.03 > 24.03 EN

> Parallel Sections Kang Hyeong-cheol (South Korea), Swing Kids 16.03 > 20.03 KO director > Special Screenings Sahra Mani (Afghanistan), director A Thousand Girls Like Me 20.03 > 24.03 EN

Dreamaway Cultural mediation Marouan Omara (Egypt), director 20.03 > 24.03 EN Serhiy Stepansky (Ukraine), actor Volcano 20.03 > 24.03 EN/UK/RU

FIFForum International Competition: Movie Dates Languages Short Films

Juries and Awards Aditya Ahmad (Indonesia), director Kado 21.03 > 24.03 EN

Sebastián Dietsch (Argentina), director Una Cabrita Sin Cuernos 21.03 > 24.03 ES/EN Exhibitions Betzabé García (Mexico), director The Girl With Two Heads 21.03 > 24.03 ES

Esteban Garcia Garzón (Colombia), Atarraya 21.03 > 24.03 EN/ES Films and Guests director

Aryan Golsoorat (Iran), director The Ashes 21.03 > 24.03 EN/PE

Agenda Sandra Heremans (Rwanda), director La Mazda Jaune et La Sainteté 21.03 > 24.03 FR

Payal Kapadia (India), director And What Is the Summer Saying 21.03 > 24.03 EN Practical information Carlo Francesco Manatad (Philippines), The Imminent Immanent 21.03 > 24.03 EN director

Mariana Martínez Gómez (Mexico), Franco 18.03 > 24.03 EN/ES director

Victor Orozco Ramirez (Mexico), 32-Rbit 21.03 > 24.03 EN/ES director

Deniz Telek (Turkey), director The Gentle Sadness of Things 21.03 > 24.03 EN

Wei Shujun (China), director On the Border 21.03 > 24.03 CN/EN

Guest list 46 Guest list This list may be subject to change

The FIFF Decryption: Movie Dates Languages “Being a black woman is not my job”

Magaajyia Silberfeld (USA, Niger), The Wedding Ring 15.03 > 24.03 FR/EN Programme curator

> Official Selection Diaspora : Elisa Shua Dusapin and South Korea Dates Languages > Parallel Sections Elisa Shua Dusapin (France, South Korea), curator 19.03 > 22.03 FR > Special Screenings New Territory: The Caribbean Movie Dates Languages

Natalia Cabral (Dominican Republic), Cultural mediation Miriam Lies 16.03 > 24.03 ES/EN director

Oriol Estrada (Spain), director Miriam Lies 16.03 > 24.03 ES/EN FIFForum Guetty Felin (Haiti, USA), director Ayiti mon amour 15.03 > 18.03 FR/EN

Juries and Awards Sur la carte de Bong Joon-ho Dates Languages

Bong Joon-ho (South Korea), curator Memories of Murder, The Host 20.03 > 24.03 KO/EN Exhibitions

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The FIFF Passeport Suisse Movie Dates Languages

Fred Guillaume (Switzerland), director Le Renard et l'Oisille 19.03 FR

Programme Sam Guillaume (Switzerland), director Le Renard et l'Oisille 19.03 FR

> Official Selection Mark Olexa (Switzerland), director Digitalkarma 19.03 FR Francesca Scalisi (Switzerland), director Digitalkarma 19.03 FR > Parallel Sections ECAL students (Switzerland) Programmes 16.03 > 19.03 FR > Special Screenings

International Jury: Feature Films Dates Languages

Cultural mediation Hani Abbas (Syria, Palestine), cartoonist 15.03 > 24.03 FR/EN

Kamila Andini (Indonesia), director The Seen and Unseen 16.03 > 24.03 EN

FIFForum Natalia Cabral (Dominican Republic), Miriam Lies 16.03 > 24.03 ES/EN director The Wedding Ring, Juries and Awards Rahmatou Keïta (Niger), director 15.03 > 24.03 FR Al'lèèssi… Une actrice africaine

Exhibitions International Jury: Short Films Dates Languages

Jela Hasler (Switzerland - AG), director 15.03 > 17.03 DE/FR/EN

Films and Guests Philippe Pellaud (Kid Chocolat) (Switzerland - GE), director, composer, DJ 15.03 > 17.03 FR/EN

Alice Riva (Switzerland - IT), programmer 15.03 > 17.03 IT/FR/EN Agenda FIFForum Event Dates Languages

Practical information Delphine Chedaleux (Switzerland) Cinéma de genre : Comédies romantiques 18.03 FR

Martial Mingam (France) Fribourg - Lieu de cinéma 19.03 FR

Guest list 48 #programmeAgenda 2019

12:00 - 14:00 14:15 - 16:00 16:10 - 18:00 18:15 - 20:30 20:45 - 22:30

19:30 Cérémonie d’ouverture 15.03 How Long Will I Love U, 101’ (60) > ARENA 1 Vendredi Freitag | Friday

12:00 Dreamaway, 86’ (34) > ARENA 1 14:15 How Long Will I Love U, 101’ (60) > ARENA 1 16:30 Miriam Lies, 90’ (117) 1 > ARENA 7 18:15 Seconds, 106’ (130) > ARENA 6 20:45 Mandingo, 127’ (86) > ARENA 6 16.03 12:15 On the Beach at Night Alone, 101’ (106) > ARENA 7 15:00 Meurtre à Pacot, 130’ (116) > Rex 3 18:00 Jinpa, 86’ (37) > ARENA 1 18:15 Silence of the Wind, 87’ (119) > Rex 3 21:00 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (54) > ARENA 5 12:30 Peace After Marriage, 86’ (73) > ARENA 6 15:15 Black Mic Mac, 93’ (83) > ARENA 6 18:00 Table ronde : Nouveau territoire 18:30 Courts métrages 2, 77’ (50) > ARENA 5 21:00 The Good Girls, 94’ (36) > Rex 1 Samedi 12:30 Memories of Murder, 131’ (100) > Rex 1 15:30 Belle, 100’ (82) > ARENA 5 Caraïbes, 90’ (168) > ARENA 7 20:15 A Thousand Girls Like Me, 80’ (42) > ARENA 1 22:00 The Factory, 109’ (150) > ARENA 1 Samstag 1 1, 3 Saturday 12:45 Ayiti mon amour, 88’ (113) > Rex 3 15:30 The Third Wife, 96’ (41) > Rex 1 18:00 Compañeros - La noche de 12 años, 123’ (32) > Rex 1 20:15 Programme: Foreign Visa Prize, 80’ (144) > ARENA 7 13:00 Courts métrages 1, 75’ (46) > ARENA 5 20:30 Woodpeckers, 107’ (120) > Rex 3

12:00 The Looming Storm, 116’ (38) > ARENA 1 14:45 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (54) > ARENA 5 16:10 Table ronde : Décryptage 18:15 Daughters of the Dust, 112’ (84) > ARENA 6 20:45 Bringing Up Baby, 102’ (68) > ARENA 6 17.03 12:15 El Fútbol O Yo, 100’ (71) > ARENA 5 14:45 Scarecrow, 112’ (129) > Rex 1 « Noire n’est pas mon métier », 90’ (168) > ARENA 7 18:15 Enigma, 80’ (35) 1 > Rex 1 20:45 The Day I Lost My Shadow, 90’ (33) > Rex 1 12:15 The Red Phallus, 85’ (39) > Rex 1 15:00 Volcano, 106’ (43) > ARENA 1 17:30 Courts métrages 2, 77’ (50) > ARENA 5 18:30 Swing Kids, 133’ (40) 1 > ARENA 1 21:00 7:20 Once a Week, 76’ (112) > Rex 3 Dimanche 12:30 Noelí en Los Países, 55’ (118) > Rex 3 15:00 El Chata, 75’ (114) > Rex 3 18:00 Ayiti mon amour, 88’ (113) 1 > Rex 3 20:00 Get Out, 104’ (85) > ARENA 7 21:45 The Spy Gone North, 137’ (153) > ARENA 1 Sonntag Sunday 12:45 Romuald et Juliette, 108’ (88) > ARENA 6 15:05 La Noire de..., 65’ (87) > ARENA 7 20:30 Courts métrages 1, 75’ (46) > ARENA 5 15:30 Programme: Contes sur moi!, 40’ (136) > ARENA 6

12:15 The Wedding Ring, 96’ (139) 1 > ARENA 7 14:45 A Thousand Girls Like Me, 80’ (42) > Rex 1 17:00 Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 115’ (67) > ARENA 7 18:15 Sometimes in April, 140’ (91) > ARENA 5 20:45 El hombre que cuida, 85’ (115) > Rex 3 18.03 12:15 The Third Wife, 96’ (41) > Rex 1 15:00 Compañeros - La noche de 12 años, 18:00 The Day I Lost My Shadow, 90’ (33) > ARENA 1 18:15 Yaaba, 91’ (93) > Rex 3 21:00 Dreamaway, 86’ (34) > Rex 1 12:30 The Good Girls, 94’ (36) > ARENA 1 123’ (32) > ARENA 1 18:00 The Red Phallus, 85’ (39) > Rex 1 18:30 ExamiNation, 22’ (104) + Counters, 98’ (105) > ARENA 6 21:15 The Seen and Unseen, 86’ (138) 1 > ARENA 6 Lundi 12:30 Diane a les épaules, 87’ (69) > Rex 2 15:15 Aleksi, 90’ (66) > ARENA 5 19:00 Conférence : Cinéma de genre 21:30 Zulu Love Letter, 100’ (94) > ARENA 7 Montag Monday 12:45 Sankofa, 125’ (90) > ARENA 6 15:30 Rue Cases-Nègres, 103’ (89) > ARENA 6 Comédies romantiques, 60’ (168) > ARENA 7 22:00 FILM SURPRISE > ARENA 5 12:45 Al’lèèssi... Une actrice africaine, 70’ (81) 1 > Rex 3 20:30 Jinpa, 86’ (37) > ARENA 1

12:15 Tilaï, 81’ (92) > Rex 3 15:00 The Looming Storm, 116’ (38) > Rex 1 18:00 Secret Sunshine, 135’ (103) > ARENA 6 18:30 Transgression, 112’ (132) > ARENA 5 21:00 Declaration of Fools, 97’ (127) > ARENA 6 19.03 12:30 Enigma, 80’ (35) 1 > Rex 1 15:15 Volcano, 106’ (43) > ARENA 1 18:00 Swing Kids, 133’ (40) > Rex 1 18:30 Sometimes in April, 140’ (91) > Rex 3 21:15 I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK, 105’ (102) > ARENA 5 13:00 A Thousand Girls Like Me, 80’ (42) > ARENA 1 15:30 My Love, My Bride, 111’ (72) > ARENA 5 19:30 Le Renard et l’Oisille, 12’ (143) 1 21:15 The Good Girls, 94’ (36) > Rex 1 Mardi 16:00 Table ronde : Fribourg - Lieu de cinéma + Digitalkarma, 75’ (142) 1 > ARENA 1 21:30 El Chata, 75’ (114) > Rex 3 Dienstag Tuesday Deuxième rencontre des professionnel-le-s 20:00 Days of Being Wild, 94’ (126) > ARENA 7 22:00 Programme : Fribourg décapsule son cinéma !, fribourgeois-e-s du cinéma, 90’ (169) > ARENA 7 98’ (152) 1 > ARENA 1

12:00 Sankofa, 125’ (90) > Rex 2 14:45 The Day I Lost My Shadow, 90’ (33) > ARENA 1 17:00 The Red Phallus, 85’ (39) > ARENA 1 18:15 Zulu Love Letter, 100’ (94) > Rex 3 21:00 Woodpeckers, 107’ (120) > Rex 3 20.03 12:15 The Third Wife, 96’ (41) > ARENA 1 15:30 Enigma, 80’ (35) 1 > Rex 1 17:15 A Place in the Caribbean, 114’ (74) > ARENA 6 19:00 El Fútbol O Yo, 100’ (71) > ARENA 5 22:00 Farming, 107’ (151) > ARENA 5 12:15 Swing Kids, 133’ (40) > Rex 1 15:45 The Host, 120’ (101) > ARENA 7 17:45 Rencontre : Diaspora | Elisa Shua Dusapin 19:30 The Looming Storm, 116’ (38) 1 > ARENA 1 Mercredi 12:30 Yaaba, 91’ (93) > Rex 3 16:00 A Dysfunctional Cat, 93’ (70) > ARENA 5 et la Corée du Sud, 60’ (169) > ARENA 7 20:15 Romuald et Juliette, 108’ (88) > ARENA 6 Mittwoch 1 Wednesday 14:00 Secret Sunshine, 135’ (103) > ARENA 6 18:00 Dreamaway, 86’ (34) > Rex 1 20:30 Jinpa, 86’ (37) > Rex 1

12:15 The Red Phallus, 85’ (39) > ARENA 1 14:30 Volcano, 106’ (43) 1 > ARENA 1 17:30 The Day I Lost My Shadow, 90’ (33) > ARENA 1 18:15 Courts métrages 2, 77’ (50) 1 > ARENA 5 20:45 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (54) 1 > ARENA 5 21.03 12:15 A Thousand Girls Like Me, 80’ (42) > Rex 1 15:00 Diane a les épaules, 87’ (69) > ARENA 5 18:00 The Sugarland Express, 110’ (131) > ARENA 6 18:30 Programme: Workshop A Journey to Dakar, 20:45 Meurtre à Pacot, 130’ (116) > Rex 3 12:30 Courts métrages 1, 75’ (46) 1 > ARENA 5 15:00 Compañeros - La noche de 12 años, 123’ (32) > Rex 1 18:00 Daughters of the Dust, 112’ (84) > Rex 3 90’ (145) 1, 3 > ARENA 7 21:00 ExamiNation, 22’ (104) + Counters, 98’ (105) > ARENA 7 Jeudi 12:30 La Noire de..., 65’ (87) > Rex 3 15:15 On the Beach at Night Alone, 101’ (106) > ARENA 6 18:30 The Good Girls, 94’ (36) > Rex 1 21:00 Enigma, 80’ (35) 1 > Rex 1 Donnerstag 1 Thursday 12:45 The Seen and Unseen, 86’ (138) > ARENA 6 19:45 The Third Wife, 96’ (41) > ARENA 1 21:50 The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion, 20:30 Red Beard, 185’ (128) > ARENA 6 126’ (154) > ARENA 1

12:00 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (54) 1 > ARENA 5 14:15 Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 115’ (67) > ARENA 5 17:15 The Looming Storm, 116’ (38) 1 > ARENA 1 18:15 Al’lèèssi... Une actrice africaine, 70’ (81) 1 > Rex 3 20:45 Miriam Lies, 90’ (117) 1, 2 > Rex 3 22.03 12:00 Silence of the Wind, 87’ (119) > Rex 3 14:30 Swing Kids, 133’ (40) > ARENA 1 17:15 Compañeros - La noche de 12 años, 123’ (32) > Rex 1 19:00 Conversation avec Bong Joon-ho, 60’ (169) > ARENA 7 21:00 Declaration of Fools, 97’ (127) > ARENA 6 12:15 Jinpa, 86’ (37) > ARENA 1 14:30 Volcano, 106’ (43) 1 > Rex 1 17:30 Courts métrages 1, 75’ (46) 1 > ARENA 5 20:15 Peace After Marriage, 86’ (73) > ARENA 1 21:15 Mandingo, 127’ (86) > ARENA 7 Vendredi 12:15 Dreamaway, 86’ (34) 1 > Rex 1 16:00 Seconds, 106’ (130) > ARENA 7 18:00 The Host, 120’ (101) > ARENA 6 20:30 Courts métrages 2, 77’ (50) 1 > ARENA 5 22:15 Door Lock, 102’ (149) > ARENA 1 Freitag Friday 12:30 Tilaï, 81’ (92) > Rex 2 20:30 Memories of Murder, 131’ (100) > Rex 1

12:00 Aleksi, 90’ (66) > ARENA 5 14:15 I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK, 105’ (102) > ARENA 5 17:00 The Sugarland Express, 110’ (131) > ARENA 5 18:30 Cérémonie de clôture 21:45 Get Out, 104’ (85) > ARENA 7 12:15 Days of Being Wild, 94’ (126) > ARENA 7 14:20 The Wedding Ring, 96’ (139) > ARENA 7 17:30 Scarecrow, 112’ (129) > ARENA 6 Meet Me in St. Gallen, 94’ (61) > ARENA 1 21:50 Buybust, 127’ (148) > ARENA 5 23.03 12:15 Black Mic Mac, 93’ (83) > Rex 1 suivi d’une Rencontre avec le Jury international 17:30 A Dysfunctional Cat, 93’ (70) > Rex 1 19:30 Belle, 100’ (82) > ARENA 5 Samedi 12:30 Rue Cases-Nègres, 103’ (89) > ARENA 6 à 16:00, 60’ (169) 17:45 My Love, My Bride, 111’ (72) > Rex 3 20:00 Meet Me in St. Gallen, 94’ (61) > Rex 1 Samstag 12:30 Noelí en Los Países, 55’ (118) > Rex 3 14:45 A Place in the Caribbean, 114’ (74) > Rex 1 18:00 Red Beard, 185’ (128) > ARENA 7 20:30 Transgression, 112’ (132) > ARENA 6 Saturday 15:00 Bringing Up Baby, 102’ (68) > ARENA 6 20:30 7:20 Once a Week, 76’ (112) > Rex 3 15:00 El hombre que cuida, 85’ (115) > Rex 3

13:30 Projection des films gagnants : 16:00 Projection du film gagnant : Prix du public 2019 3 24.03 Prix du meilleur court métrage + Grand Prix > Rex 1 Séance gratuite. Réservation obligatoire > Rex 1 Dimanche Sonntag Sunday

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Exhibitions Donate tickets Points of sale FIFF-restaurant and bar Films and Guests You can purchase a ticket which Before the Festival The meeting point for the Festival we will then give to a person in a guests. Here you can encounter Agenda precarious situation. Information >> Via the film details directors, jury members and FIFF- at Festival ticket offices. on our website, from friends, enjoy lunch or dinner 27th February 2019 prepared by the Café Culturel de Practical information l’Ancienne Gare, have a drink at >> Festival center, the bar and hit the dancefloor! from 4th March 2019 Esplanade de l’Ancienne-Gare 3, 1700 Fribourg Opening hours Mon-Fri 12:00-18:00 15.03 > 23.03

During the Festival Bar 15.03 – 23.03 Restaurant 16.03 – 23.03 >> Via the film details on our website Monday-Thursday 09:00 - 01:00 Friday-Saturday* 09:00 - 03:00 >> Festival center Sunday 09:00 - 01:00 Esplanade de l’Ancienne-Gare 3, *Saturday 23.03 09:00 - 05:00 1700 Fribourg 9:30-19:30 Festival Center Esplanade de >> Manor l’Ancienne-Gare 3, Pass holders and people with 1700 Fribourg accreditations must reserve a >> ARENA CINEMAS ticket for each screening. These Avenue de la Gare 22 reservations can be done online, 1700 Fribourg at the check-in stations or at the 15.03 from 17:30 points of sale in the cinemas 16.03 > 23.03 11:00 and at the Festival Center at the Ancienne Gare. All seats remain- >> cinemotion Rex ing empty at the beginning of the Boulevard de Pérolles 5, screening are released for resale. 1700 Fribourg 16.03 > 23.03 from 11:00

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The FIFF Artistic Director Organisation translation Thierry Jobin and presentation Curators of the Impressum Anne-Catherine Gillis, sections Managing Director a.i. Martina Waldis Programme Madeleine Descloux Jury Coordination Artistic committee Coordination Secretary Lea Wattendorff, competition Hélène Wichser, > Official Selection Fabienne Niederberger, Charlotte Barthlomé Virginie Caloz Feature Films Martina Waldis Technicians Jean-Philippe Bernard, > Parallel Sections Translations Accounting, Human Michael Pfenninger, Sebastiano Conforti, Datawords, Lea Wattendorff Resources, IT Bernhard Zitz, Marie Geiser, Thierry Jobin, Marc Maeder, Samuel Grangier, Delphine Niederberger, > Special Screenings Issam Chouadhi, Lionel Readers Fabienne Niederberger Sophie Sallin Bize, Clément Borel, Joran Gary Fliszar, Hegi, Louis Jean, Ishika Programme Short Films Hélène Wichser, Ladduwahetty, Laura Marc Maeder, Sebastiano Jean-Philippe Bernard, Martina Waldis, Cultural mediation Lüscher, Nicolas Wilhem Conforti, Julia Schubiger Sebastiano Conforti, Helene Zenhäusern Julia Schubiger Cultural Mediation Graphic Design Graphic concept and Asphalte Design FIFForum Delphine Niederberger, Genre Cinema realisation Asphalte Design Sylvain Diserens Website Jean-Philippe Bernard Bluesystem Communication Decryption Print Imprimerie Saint-Paul Juries and Awards Helene Zenhäusern, IT Thierry Jobin, Jérémie Fonjallaz, Elise Jobin 4 Next, Audio Media Magaajyia Silberfeld Assist sarl Press Diaspora Exhibitions Charlotte Frossard, Photo and Video Elisa Shua Dusapin Valerio Bonadei, Nicolas Brodard, Julien New Territory Hélène Wichser Chavaillaz, Yoann Association Thierry Jobin Publications Corthésy (NoPaper) Films and Guests Sur la carte de Hélène Wichser, Décor President Bong Joon-ho Martina Waldis Reni Wünsch, Mathieu Fleury Jean-Louis Verdu FIFFamily Organisation Vice president Agenda Delphine Niederberger, Véronique Marchesi- Subtitles Patrice Zurich Cécilia Bovet (advisor) Bossens, Nicolas Constantin, DDL, Manlio Lapi Christian Schöpfer Board Passeport Suisse Opening sequence and Lucie Bader, Erwin Jutzet, Practical information Thierry Jobin, Hospitality Trailer Paul-Albert Nobs, Delphine Niederberger Olga Baumer-Chiguidina, eikon (Vocational School Dominique Willemin Séléna Bühler of Applied Arts, Fribourg), Midnight Screenings Founders Arthur Boegli, Sébastien Thierry Jobin, Marc Maeder Ticketing Magda Bossy, Yvan Stern Jérémie Fonjallaz, Fabienne Delabays and Theis School programme Niederberger, Virginie Caloz Scherrer (directors), Laure Perret (music) Delphine Niederberger, FIFForum Cécilia Bovet (advisor) Delphine Niederberger, Cinema partners Anne-Catherine Gillis, ARENA CINEMAS, cinemotion Martina Waldis

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The FIFF The FIFF warmly thanks all the partners and sponsors who enable it, every year, to bring its Festival to life and make its wildest dreams come true.

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