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Algeria Divine Wind Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Merzak Allouache Prod. Countries: Algeria, France, Qatar, Lebanon Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 95 Genre: Fiction Company: Les Asphofilms, Baya Films Contact: Bahia Allouache 48th INTERNATIONAL FILM Email: [email protected] FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM Phone: +33 62 5301443 Logline: An inexperienced young jihadi grapples January 23 – February 3, 2019 with doubts while awaiting an attack on an oil refinery in the Algerian desert. His unbending partner for the attack – she is determined to die a martyr – makes every effort to keep him on FEATURE FILM CONTACT LIST board. This black-and-white drama full of contrasts tackles existential questions in an explosive situation. Sold territories: All available Log lines from IFFR catalogue. Argentina In order of country La secta del gatillo International premiere Programme section: Signatures Director(s): José Celestino Campusano Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 59 Genre: Fiction Company: Cinebruto Contact: Paulina Portela Email: [email protected] Phone: 54911 34002718 Logline: In this VR project by José Campusano (he had a retrospective at IFFR in 2018) you step straight into the shady world of corrupt police 1 officers in Buenos Aires. A very evil cop tries to circles. Argentine filmmaker José Celestino clear up the mess he’s made of his work and life Campusano interweaves their stories to provide now he knows he is incurably ill. an unsentimental picture of power, abuse and Sold territories: (homo)sexuality within richer and poorer circles in Argentina. Una banda de chicas Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ- International premiere yvRdPuXQ Programme section: Scopitone Sold territories: Director(s): Marilina Giménez Prod. Countries: Argentina Soy tóxico Prod. Year: 2018 European premiere Length: 83 Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Genre: Creative Documentary Beauty Contact: María Vera Director(s): Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Argentina Phone: +351910551325 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: A direct, unpolished portrait of the Length: 81 alternative music scene in Buenos Aires, seen Genre: Fiction from a strictly female perspective. Former Company: Del Toro Films musician Marilina Giménez introduces a Contact: Nestor Sanchez Sotelo colourful series of local acts by women who Email: [email protected] control their own look and sound – and are not Phone: +54 11 45031931 afraid to challenge the prevailing norms. Logline: Following the success of their feature Trailer: debut Jennifer’s Shadow (2004), Parés & De la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rji5dy5yjqI Vega worked for a US company on a post-mega- Sold territories: All available disaster wasteland zombie film that was never made: but the screenplay was turned into a (still Hombres de piel dura unfinished) comic – which they then adapted for World premiere this low-budget horror delight! Programme section: Signatures Sold territories: All available Director(s): José Celestino Campusano Prod. Countries: Argentina Rojo Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Limelight Length: 96 Director(s): Benjamín Naishtat Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Argentina, Brazil, France, Company: Compañia de Cine Netherlands, Germany Contact: Paulina Portela Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 109 Phone: 54911 34002718 Genre: Fiction Logline: After their affair ends, Ariel continues to Company: Luxbox Films explore his sexuality, while the priest Omar Contact: Hedi Zardi wrestles with his erotic urges in ecclesiastical Email: [email protected] 2 Phone: + 33 6 64 46 10 11 Murder Me, Monster Logline: Atmospheric crime drama set in a Programme section: Rotterdämmerung provincial town dissects in an almost darkly Director(s): Alejandro Fadel comical way the mindset of Argentinians in Prod. Countries: Argentina, France, Chile 1975, the year before Jorge Videla’s military Prod. Year: 2018 coup and the four subsequent juntas. Naishtat’s Length: 109 third feature film adds to his chronicle of recent Genre: Fiction Argentinian history, ruled by fear and Company: The Match Factory aggression. Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Trailer: Email: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0rBlJVh5ok [email protected] Sold territories: China -Time Vision , Greece- Phone: +49 30443190555 Spentzo, UK -New wave, Italy -Fil Rouge, USA - Logline: Who’s responsible for a woman's brutal 1844 Entretaiment, Spain - Contracorriente, decapitation in the Andes? Local policeman Cruz Benelux -September Films, France -Condor, is put on the case, turning into an Argentine Dale Brazil, Argentina Cooper in this Lynchian monster film. A beautifully shot nightmare in which the Introduzione all'oscuro lugubrious murder mystery becomes Programme section: Bright Future Main increasingly surrealistic. Programme Sold territories: Argentina, Chile, France, Director(s): Gastón Solnicki Ukraine, Paraguay, Hong Kong, Japan, North Prod. Countries: Argentina, Austria America, South East Asia Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 71 Joel Genre: Fiction European premiere Company: Rei Cine SRL Programme section: Big Screen Competition Contact: Eugenio Fernández Abril Director(s): Carlos Sorín Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Argentina Phone: +54 9 11 3797 4290 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Mourning the sudden death of Viennale Length: 100 festival director Hans Hurch, Argentinian Genre: Fiction filmmaker Solnicki (Papirosen, Kékszakállú) Company: Latido Films decided to make a film of his good and at times Contact: Juan Torres eccentric friend. The result is a loving, Email: [email protected] idiosyncratic tour of Hurch's cosmopolitan Phone: +34 91 5488877 Vienna and, naturally, an ode to culture. Logline: Joel Noguera wins our hearts playing a Trailer: nine-year-old adopted boy, but the inhabitants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLS0TNITEx8 of a small town in Patagonia are less taken with Sold territories: All available him. Subtle drama about adoption and living together. Veteran filmmaker Carlos Sorin (Historias minimas) makes unease, good 3 intentions and the complex balance between unhampered by social or moral standards. An these palpable in every scene. explicit, poetic road trip that deals with freedom, Trailer: the courage to be yourself and the unconditional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ar4Ju_VA nature of true, selfless friendship. NI Trailer: Sold territories: Latin American, Central https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7WW4sCvQx America- Pampa Films w Sold territories: Argentina, Norway, Sweden, La Flor (Parte 2) Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Programme section: The Spying Thing ,Switzerland, Portugal Director(s): Mariano Llinás Prod. Countries: Argentina La Flor (Parte 3) Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Signatures Length: 313 Director(s): Mariano Llinás Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Argentina Company: El Pampero Cine Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Laura Citarella Length: 290 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: +54.11.48154366 Company: El Pampero Cine Logline: Some time in the 1980s, in the Contact: Laura Citarella Argentine pampas, four female spies have to Email: [email protected] successfully complete ‘Operation Hercules’. In Phone: +54.11.48154366 the morning, a life-and-death confrontation Logline: It starts with a brilliant exercise in self- awaits them – but until then we crisscross the parodying metafiction and evolves into world, taking in tangents and prequels. A something completely different. Followed by a narrative masterpiece. remake of Jean Renoir’s Partie de campagne and Sold territories: the only story that starts in the middle and has an ending: the 19th-century diary of a woman Las hijas del fuego kidnapped for years by Indians. An addictive Programme section: Signatures viewing experience. Director(s): Albertina Carri Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 115 Genre: Fiction Company: M-Appeal Contact: Torsten Schulze Email: [email protected] Phone: 493061507505 Logline: Without fear, shame or regret, a group of young women traverse beautiful southern Argentina. They are linked by love and lust, 4 Armenia Australia About Him or How He Did Not Fear I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband the Bear Fangirl Story World premiere Programme section: Scopitone Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Jessica Leski Director(s): Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan Prod. Countries: Australia Prod. Countries: Armenia Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 96 Length: 112 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Seville International Company: Aysor-Plus Film Productions Contact: Anick Poirier Contact: Arsen Azatyan, Nariné Mkrtchyan Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected], Phone: +1 514 8784419 [email protected] Logline: Fan girls look out! Four fans of The Phone: +374 91 341765, 374 91 341765 Beatles, Backstreet Boys and One Direction talk Logline: On 12 January 2015, a Russian soldier candidly about how fandom changed their lives. forces his way into the home of an Armenian Fascinating music documentary about hysterical family in the city of Gyumri. He kills all seven teenagers growing up to be self-assured women. members of the family. After being arrested, the Director Jessica Lenski knows all about it: she soldier remains stubbornly silent. The became a massive fan of One Direction at the age reconstruction of this gruesome event and the of 31. aftermath can also be seen as a metaphor