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]
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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,
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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 for a Trailer: political and ethical quest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHwUQ1fCxxA Trailer: Sold territories: Australia - Madman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzBqeZuO5Dw Sold territories: All available
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cut off from their battalion. Thirst, hunger,
Austria malaria and enemy rebels make their journey through the Congolese jungle an agony. But the Garten men learn to appreciate each other, finally World premiere finding the mental peace to come to terms with Programme section: Signatures traumatic memories of the Rwandan genocide Director(s): Peter Schreiner and Congolese civil war. Prod. Countries: Austria Sold territories: All Rights:France -Urban Prod. Year: 2019 Distribution, China & Hong Kong -Hualu, Pay Length: 136 TV & VOD Czech Rep., Slovak Rep., Hungary, Genre: Fiction Poland, Romania, Ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria - HBO Company: echtzeitfilm - Peter Schreiner Europe Filmproduktion Contact: Peter Schreiner A Punk Daydream Email: [email protected] World premiere Phone: +43 1 548018822 Programme section: Scopitone Logline: Stunning black-and-white images glide Director(s): Jimmy Hendrickx effortlessly past musings, quarrels and dreams in Prod. Countries: Belgium, Indonesia this hypnotic film about four mentally scarred Prod. Year: 2019 characters examining their pasts and futures. Length: 65 Are they actors on a film set or are we watching Genre: Creative Documentary real people? It all becomes clear only after the Company: Harald House final credits have rolled. Contact: Kristian van der Heyden Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWJJgiYJNEc Phone: +32485127750 Sold territories: All available Logline: Punk is not dead in Indonesia. There is more at stake than ever. The young street punks Belgium in this film are shunned by society and risk incarceration for their appearance. With the La miséricorde de la jungle Dayak people as their example, they fight for Programme section: Bright Future Main their homeland and against corruption and Programme hypocrisy. Director(s): Joel Karekezi Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Belgium, France Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 91 Genre: Fiction Company: Urban Distribution
Contact: Delphyne Besse Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 6 72729193 Logline: War hero Xavier and recruit Faustin are
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Lettre à Théo Faites sortir les figurants Programme section: Regained None Director(s): Élodie Lélu Programme section: Regained Prod. Countries: Belgium Director(s): Sanaz Azari Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Belgium Length: 63 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 61 Company: Iota Production Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Lise Lamouche Company: Iota Production Email: [email protected] Contact: Javier Packer-Comyn Phone: +32 2 344 65 31 Email: [email protected] Logline: Even if you have no affinity with the Phone: +32 2 7374491 work of Theo Angelopoulos, who died in 2012, Logline: An extra is someone with no lines, this fictional documentary will not leave you whose presence adds life to film scenes, but plays unmoved. Lélu paints a portrait of the master no further significant role in the story. In this filmmaker by contemporizing his recurring observational documentary, they come to the themes, such as migration and exile, from his foreground just this once. They transcend their final, uncompleted film to today’s Greece. limited film role, usually a stereotype, and are Trailer: briefly given a voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzscztCfB Trailer: mk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoWj3jeIh Sold territories: All available 3o Sold territories: All available Continuer Programme section: Limelight Coureur Director(s): Joachim Lafosse International premiere Prod. Countries: Belgium, France Programme section: Limelight Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Kenneth Mercken Length: 84 Prod. Countries: Belgium Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Le Pacte Length: 90 Contact: Maxime Perret-Cortassa Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Intra Movies Logline: In the middle of Kyrgyzstan, a mother Contact: Marco Fusco, Geremia Biagiotti and her estranged son try to make up and get to Email: , [email protected], know each other better through a horse trip. A Phone: , +39 333 33050054, + 32 2 4131780 modern-day, intimate, breathtaking Western in Logline: Critical, semi-autobiographical feature which the showdown is mainly emotional, and film about professional cycling’s dark without (mostly) any guns. underbelly. Flemish up-and-coming talent tries Trailer: to reach the pinnacle of his sport. It seems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQL6OOiK1pc impossible without EPO and growth hormones. Sold territories:
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The focus on doping creates a intoxicating film Email: [email protected] with cycling as the ultimate drug. Logline: After his brilliant film from 2001 about Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvuN- the latter days of Nietzsche in Turin, plagued by Zu0iWo insanity, the Brazilian cinema marginal master Sold territories: Benelux-Paradiso Filmed Bressane returns with philosophy as subject for Entertainment this travel essay. In the pure air of the Swiss Sils Maria, where he spent many summers, The Best of Dorien B. Nietzsche found rest for his swirling thoughts. World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Anke Blondé My Friend Fela Prod. Countries: Belgium World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Soul in the Eye Length: 106 Director(s): Joel Zito Araújo Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Brazil Company: Be For Films Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Karlijn Copman Length: 94 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Phone: +32496947608 Company: Casa de Criação Cinema e Artes Logline: What to do if your parents' marriage is Contact: Igor Kupstas in crisis, your husband is behaving suspiciously Email: [email protected] and you discover a lump in your breast? Dorien Phone: +55 11 3839 9400 experiences many misfortunes, one after Logline: This documentary provides a new another, but courageously carries on. Fabulously perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. paced, warm, comedic drama. The complexity of Fela’s life is unravelled Sold territories: Benelux- A Private view through the eyes and conversations of his official biographer and close friend, the African-Cuban Brazil Carlos Moore, representing Fela as one of most influential pan-Africanists of his generation. Nietzsche Sils Maria Rochedo de Sold territories: All available Surlej World premiere Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Rosa Dias, Júlio Bressane, Rodrigo Lima Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 58 Genre: Experimental Company: TB Produções Contact: Rodrigo Lima
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Temporada her life of adventure, old friends and easy-going Programme section: Soul in the Eye lovers on the road for a new, bourgeois life. Director(s): André Novais Oliveira Trailer: Prod. Countries: Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiQaPfDCanc Sold territories: Brazil TV: CINEBRASiLTV Prod. Year: 2018 Cinema and other platforms: Olhar Distribuição Length: 113 Genre: Fiction A noite amarela Company: Figa Films World premiere Contact: Sandro Fiorin Programme section: Bright Future Main Email: [email protected] Programme Phone: +1-323-229-9816 Director(s): Ramon Porto Mota Logline: Juliana moved from her hometown to a Prod. Countries: Brazil bigger city to work for a public health Prod. Year: 2019 programme to eradicate dengue fever. On her Length: 102 new job, searching homes for hidden Genre: Fiction mosquitoes, she meets people, makes friends Contact: Mariah Benaglia and has experiences that change her life. An Email: [email protected] unpretentious, touching story about an inner Phone: 55 83 988147127 journey and a personal revolution. Logline: The horror in this spiritual slasher is not Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d- in the special effects: the monster lurking in 9RibvO-w Ramon Porto Mota's impressive debut is the Sold territories: All available future. A pulsating darkness that threatens a Fabiana group of Brazilian teens holidaying together, perhaps for the last time, as they wave goodbye International premiere to their youth. Programme section: Bright Future Main Sold territories: Brazil- Vitrine Filmes Programme Director(s): Brunna Laboissière The Night Shifter Prod. Countries: Brazil Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Dennison Ramalho Length: 89 Prod. Countries: Brazil Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2018 Company: ZAG Length: 110 Contact: Eduardo Garretto Cerqueira Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Stray Dogs Phone: +55 31 3441914 Contact: Lison Hervé Logline: Documentary road movie in which Email: [email protected] Fabiana, a transgender Brazilian truck driver Phone: +33 (0)1 82 28 42 15 nearing retirement, has to come to terms with a Logline: Stênio doesn’t just work with the dead less peripatetic life in the future. After one last at São Paolo’s mortuary, he also talks to them. journey, this self-assured trucker must exchange When a gang member who was stabbed to death
9 reveals his wife’s secret, Stênio loses control of Email: [email protected] his supernatural gift. A haunting, unpredictable Phone: +55 11 20625892 horror film about revenge, urban crime and Logline: In long, reflective and telling family trouble. conversations with friends, lovers and unknown Trailer: outsiders, focusing on the creative process, a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQYdTuky-Y clever and narrative game with time and Sold territories: Japan, Taiwan, China, Brazil, characters unfolds. One day (or is it longer?) in North America, Germany, Austria, United the life of filmmaker Joao à la Rohmer, with a Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand dash of Hong Sang-soo. Trailer: Ilha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAskmoNXtxA International premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Soul in the Eye Director(s): Ary Rosa, Glenda Nicácio Humberto Mauro Prod. Countries: Brazil Programme section: Regained Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): André Di Mauro Length: 94 Prod. Countries: Brazil Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Laboratório Audiovisual Length: 90 Contact: André Araujo Virgens Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Company: DiMauro Filmes Phone: 55 71 987656668 Contact: Daniela Menegotto Logline: An island that is impossible to leave if Email: [email protected] you are born there. A man is kidnapped by Phone: +55 51 32373737 island-born Emerson, a young guy who Logline: This documentary about Brazilian film passionately wants to make a film. Gradually pioneer Humberto Mauro (1897-1983) includes things go off-limits in this frame narrative, beautiful shots from his many films. He evolving from a playful game with cinema to an comments on them in voiceover excerpts from allegoric tale of Brazil’s untold stories. old interviews. In his work, nature plays an Sold territories: All available important role but he also portrays the rapid urbanisation of his native country, in both Your Bones and Your Eyes fiction and non-fiction. International premiere Trailer: Programme section: Bright Future Main https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46dGhQv2q0 Programme Sold territories: Brasil - Canal Brasil Director(s): Caetano Gotardo Prod. Countries: Brazil Enquanto estamos aqui Prod. Year: 2019 World premiere Length: 118 Programme section: Bright Future Main Genre: Fiction Programme Company: Lira Cinematografica Director(s): Clarissa Campolina, Luiz Pretti Contact: Lara Lima Prod. Countries: Brazil
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Prod. Year: 2019
Length: 75 Cambodia Genre: Fiction Company: Anavilhana Filmes Last Night I Saw You Smiling Contact: Luana Melgaço World premiere Email: [email protected] Programme section: Bright Future Main Phone: +55 31 21274986 Programme Logline: Two lives cross paths in New York City: Director(s): Kavich Neang the Lebanese Lamis is a newcomer, while the Prod. Countries: Cambodia, France Brazilian woman Wilson has been living there Prod. Year: 2019 illegally for 10 years. Using images of New York, Length: 75 Brazil and Berlin, globalisation and migration is Genre: Creative Documentary reduced from the macro-political scale to its Company: Anti Archive, Apsara Films human essence: desire, intimacy, hope and fear. Contact: Daniel Mattes Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82T3I07E9M Phone: +85577335861 Sold territories: All available Logline: Filmmaker Kavich Neang grew up in the White Building, a famous apartment complex in No coração do mundo Phnom Penh. Now demolition forces the World premiere inhabitants, including his parents, to leave. It Programme section: Tiger Competition was also evacuated under the Khmer Rouge, Director(s): Gabriel Martins, Maurílio Martins someone remarks. These are days filled with Prod. Countries: Brazil worries, emotions and memories. A sad love Prod. Year: 2019 song expresses their feelings. Length: 120 Trailer: Genre: Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c772_JhB6nA Company: Filmes de Plástico Sold territories: Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Contact: Thiago Macêdo Correia Lao PDR, Vietnam - Anti-Archive (Cambodia) Email: [email protected] Phone: +55 31 996441029 Canada Logline: Fascinating characters inhabit the poor district of Contagem where Gabriel Martins and Tondal's Vision Maurelio Martins also grew up. No coração do European premiere mundo is their declaration of love for this district Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen and its inhabitants: a surprisingly filmed mosaic Beauty story about people who continue to work for a Director(s): Stephen Broomer better life – against their better judgement. Prod. Countries: Canada Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPGCD5_ziE Length: 64 Sold territories: Brazil Genre: Experimental Contact: Stephen Broomer Email: [email protected]
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Logline: A reworking, by all analog and digital Prod. Countries: Canada means available to the modern filmmaker, of Prod. Year: 2018 Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Giuseppe Length: 92 De Liguoro’s L’inferno (1911), a Doré-inspired Genre: Creative Documentary visualisation of the first canticle of Company: Camera Oscura Films Dante’s Divina Commedia. A grand audiovisual Contact: Benjamin Hogue spectacle apart, with a pleasantly ironic flavour. Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Phone: +1 514 523 8530 Logline: Israeli editor Ziva Postec (1940) edited The Seven Last Words Shoah, the nine-hour-plus documentary on the World premiere Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann, who died last Programme section: Bright Future Main year. Postec spent six years giving shape to the Programme film out of 350 hours of footage. This Director(s): Kaveh Nabatian, Ariane Lorrain, documentary tells her life story, focusing on the Sophie Goyette, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie period when she was editing Shoah. Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Caroline Monnet Trailer: Prod. Countries: Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtV_8DNN8A Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: Canada Length: 74 Genre: Fiction Harpoon Company: Microclimat Films World premiere Contact: Catherine Chagnon Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Email: [email protected] Director(s): Rob Grant Phone: +1 514 9984157 Prod. Countries: Canada Logline: In a mixture of styles (fiction, Prod. Year: 2019 documentary, experimental), seven Canadian Length: 82 filmmakers allow themselves to be inspired by Genre: Fiction the composition The Seven Last Words of Our Company: Yellow Veil Pictures Saviour on the Cross by Joseph Haydn. They Contact: Joe Yanick portray themes such as forgiveness, Email: [email protected] abandonment and triumph in a variety of ways: Phone: +1 718 3128210 from religious rituals to intimate scenes. The Logline: A love triangle gets out of hand when Callino String Quartet plays Haydn. Richard, armed with a harpoon, Sasha and Jonah Trailer: are marooned at sea due to engine failure. A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwDdthC0XVM struggle for survival quickly unfolds, sparing no Sold territories: Canada - Maison 4:3 one’s secrets – or blood. Tense thriller based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, which also leaves space Ziva Postec. La monteuse derrière le for laughs. film Shoah Sold territories: All available International premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Catherine Hébert
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Going South Genèse Programme section: Regained Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Dominic Gagnon Director(s): Philippe Lesage Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 104 Length: 130 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Contact: Dominic Gagnon Company: BeforFilm Email: [email protected] Contact: Karlijn Copman Phone: 001 4 187843616 Email: [email protected] Logline: Portrait of post-truth America using Logline: Everything starts with love, but what if YouTube videos. The 'filmmaker with no you fall for your best friend, like Guillaume? His camera' assembles a portmanteau narrative wayward sister Charlotte knows what she wants, switching from sex tourism to bulimia, weapons, but love has surprises in store for her, too. outlandish conspiracy theories and personal Heartrending, beautiful story about growing up, revelations. A visual lucky dip in which with a dreamy neo-eighties soundtrack for everything is of equal value and everything is nostalgic musings about your own first love. equally true. No one breaks out of his or her own Sold territories: Canada- Funfilm ,France-Shellac bubble. ,Spain-Surtsey Films,Czech & Slovak Republic- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LL- Artcam fhSVKU Sold territories: All available Carmine Street Guitars Programme section: Scopitone The Hummingbird Project Director(s): Ron Mann Programme section: Limelight Prod. Countries: Canada Director(s): Kim Nguyen Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Canada, Belgium Length: 80 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 111 Company: The Match Factory Genre: Fiction Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Company: HanWay Films Email: Contact: Mark Lane [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 30443190555 Logline: Super sharp thriller with Jesse Eisenberg Logline: Old wood is more resonant, says luthier and Alexander Skårsgard as two Wall Street Rick Kelly. Which is why he uses wood from old geeks with a bizarre, yet lucrative plan. All they buildings in New York for his instruments, have to do is run a fibre-optic cable from Kansas popular with famous and less famous musicians to New Jersey whilst outsmarting their canny alike. A portrait of a music shop that exudes the boss (Salma Hayek). atmosphere of the old Greenwich Village, as the Sold territories: neighbourhood inevitably changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwNyExr
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SHM Email: [email protected], Sold territories: Canada, Former Yugoslavia, [email protected], Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia/ New [email protected] Zealand, Germany, USA Phone: +56 9 82482992, +55 21 8101-0344, +33622181418 Chile Logline: Chilean documentary maker Karin Cuyul searches for the origin of her name. Her Gloria Bell parents named her after Karin Eitel, who in the 1980s was tortured on public television by Programme section: Limelight Pinochet’s secret police. During her travels, Director(s): Sebastián Lelio Cuyul is given a very personal reminder of a Prod. Countries: Chile, USA painful page in Chile’s history. Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: All available Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Company: FilmNation Entertainment Contact: Glen Basner Them Email: [email protected] World premiere Logline: Shot-for-shot remake of Lelio’s own Programme section: Tiger Competition Gloria (2013). Now the sparkling Julianne Director(s): Camila José Donoso Moore plays the divorced Gloria Bell, who likes Prod. Countries: Chile, Brazil, France, South to be on the dance floor. Until she starts an Korea uneasy romance with a man she met at the bar Prod. Year: 2019 (John Turturro) and the meticulous balance in Length: 86 her life is disturbed. Genre: Fiction Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7z- Company: Mimbre Producciones, Transparaíso VqowSUw Films, Bubbles Project, Altamar Films Sold territories: Contact: Camila José Donoso Email: [email protected] Historia de mi nombre Phone: +56977012430 World premiere Logline: The Chilean coastal town where Nona Programme section: Bright Future Main (66) lives is beset by forest fires. Many lose their Programme homes, yet Nona’s remains proudly unscathed. Director(s): Karin Cuyul This hybrid story about an eccentric, anarchic Prod. Countries: Chile, Brazil grandmother also and especially portrays a Prod. Year: 2019 generation scarred for life by recent Chilean Length: 78 history. Genre: Creative Documentary Sold territories: All Available Company: Pequén Producciones, Cinestación, 3 MOINHOS Contact: Dominga Sotomayor, Ana Alice de Morais, Joséphine Schroeder
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Tarde para morir joven Walking in Darkness Programme section: Bright Future Main World premiere Programme Programme section: Bright Future Main Director(s): Dominga Sotomayor Programme Prod. Countries: Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Director(s): Tang Tang Netherlands, Qatar Prod. Countries: China Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 110 Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Stray Dogs Company: Contact: Lison Hervé Contact: Mengying Wang Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 (0)1 82 28 42 15 Phone: 8613166083861 Logline: Through the eyes of teenagers Sofia, Logline: A drunk in the back seat of a taxi, Lucas and Clara, we see life in a Chilean looking for his young runaway son. This is the commune in the summer of 1990, as the start of Walking in Darkness, a stylish frame residents prepare to celebrate the new year. The story with flashbacks to an unruly wedding and experiences of the three teenagers reflect the missing lovers, and with fragmentary editing growing pains of Chile’s new democracy, after that deliberately sets out to confuse. Right up to almost two decades of military dictatorship. the oppressive, liberating conclusion. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTm_BqCtT68 China Sold territories: Shadow Ash Is Purest White None None Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Zhang Yimou Director(s): Jia Zhangke Prod. Countries: China Prod. Countries: China, France Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 116 Length: 141 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Perfect Village Entertainment HK Company: MK2 Limited, Le Vision Pictures, Shanghai Tencent Contact: Léo Teste Pictures Culture Media Company Limited Email: [email protected] Contact: Alex Walton Logline: In Jia Zhangke’s new film, dancer Qiao Email: [email protected] and mob boss Bin’s violent relationship plays out Logline: Spectacular battle story with against a background chronicling contemporary contrasting visuals drawing on China's centuries- China from 2001 to 2017; from mining ghost old tradition of ink-wash painting, set against towns to entire villages sacrificed for new dams. next-level fighting sequences to dazzling effect. Sold territories: Shadow, Zhang Yimou's reimagining of the
15 classic Three Kingdoms Jingzhou epic, tells the search for a past lover, which seamlessly merges story of a powerful king and a 'shadow', the with the summer they spent together 20 years mysterious body double of his general. ago. Sold territories: Sold territories:
Winter After Winter Colombia World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Pájaros de verano Programme Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Xing Jian Director(s): Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra Prod. Countries: China Prod. Countries: Colombia, Denmark, Mexico Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 110 Length: 125 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Company: Films Boutique Contact: Jing Xu Contact: Louis Balsan Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 785804597 Phone: +49 30 69537850 Logline: Historical film about the harsh existence Logline: A fascinating mix of native drama and of a family in north-eastern China during the hard-boiled crime film about the age-old Japanese occupation. Father Lao Si is eager to traditions of the Colombian Waayu people and secure the bloodline, but that results in all kinds the destructive effects of the drugs trade. Once of unforeseen complications. Xing Jian situated their lives were simple and clear, but in the late the action in his home region and filmed 1960s drugs introduced money – and violence. everything in long takes with fluid camerawork. Sold territories: Sold territories: Pirotecnia Long Day's Journey Into Night World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme section: Regained Programme Director(s): Federico Atehortúa Arteaga Director(s): Bi Gan Prod. Countries: Colombia Prod. Countries: China, France Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 85 Length: 140 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Invasion Cine Company: Wild Bunch Contact: Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +573112377723 Logline: Young Chinese director Bi Gan’s second Logline: In this filmic essay, Federico Atehortúa film lives up to the standard set by his debut, Arteaga alternates between Colombia’s history Kaili Blues. He uses every cinematic technique in and his youth. Both have been recorded in the book for his dream-like tale of Luo Hongwu's
16 footage that doesn’t always tell the truth. Falsos Logline: Cornered by xenophobia, two young positivos, murdered youths disguised as men become embroiled in a devilish dilemma. In guerrillas by the army to simulate military response to intimidation, Zakaria decides it's success, are a central element. time to act, violently if need be. In Copenhagen, Trailer: a member of the intelligence community tries to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHVSbegU75Y professionally combat the threat. Sold territories: All available Sold territories:
Denmark Out of Tune World premiere Queen of Hearts Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Frederikke Aspöck European premiere Prod. Countries: Denmark Programme section: Big Screen Competition Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): May el-Toukhy Length: 93 Prod. Countries: Denmark Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: SF Studios Production ApS Length: 127 Contact: Anita Simovic Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: TrustNordisk Phone: +46 70 6482611 Contact: Susan Wendt Logline: Once a crook, always a crook. When Email: [email protected] multimillionaire Markus Føns is suspected of Phone: +45 36 868769 large-scale investment fraud and put on remand, Logline: Anne seems to have it all: a sweet he quickly tries to take things in hand. In the husband, two adorable daughters and a isolation wing for sex offenders, the experienced satisfying job. But she risks it all by seducing her manipulator takes on the conductor of the stepson. A complex role for Danish star Trine prison choir. Dyrholm to sink her teeth into. Sold territories: SF Studios -Scandivania Sold territories:
Sons of Denmark The Gentle Pain World premiere World premiere Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Programme section: Tiger Competition Beauty Director(s): Ulaa Salim Director(s): Carsten Brandt Prod. Countries: Denmark Prod. Countries: Denmark Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 120 Length: 280 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: New Europe Film Sales Company: Posthus Teatret Contact: Jan Naszewski Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: A filmmaker’s soul-searching becomes Phone: +44 79 50400636 intertwined with his attempts at finding ways to
17 tell the story of Danish non-fiction novelist Contact: Léo Teste Thorkild Hansen (best known internationally for Email: [email protected] his revelatory book about the later years of Knut Logline: Psychological drama in which, shortly Hamsun). His journey will be epic, and more before participating in an international complicated than expected. A monument of competition, a bodybuilder comes face-to-face modernist cinema, some quarter century in the with the six-year-old son she hasn’t seen for years creation – now finally revealed. – and in fact didn’t want. During the 72 hours Sold territories: All available leading up to the competition, it becomes increasingly difficult for her to maintain her France sport focus. Sold territories: Le livre d'image Doubles vies Programme section: Signatures Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard Director(s): Olivier Assayas Prod. Countries: France, Switzerland Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 85 Length: 106 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Wild Bunch Company: Playtime Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak Contact: Frédérique Rouault Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Film legend Jean-Luc Godard uses film Phone: +33 7 86 55 92 23 clips in his own inimitable manner to create a Logline: In the Parisian publishing milieu, an discourse, narrated in whispered voice-over, on editor and his author friend deal with midlife war, violence, chaos, imperialism and revolution. crises, wives and an industry threatened by The second half of this stimulating film essay social networks, and their own egos. Olivier shows how the Middle East is depicted in the Assayas (Personal Shopper, IFFR 2017) delivers West principally as an exotic place. Godard his personal brand of screwball comedy, with opposes this with his own vision. sharp dialogues dissecting our modern age. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVH4G5m_VU Sold territories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EcQxYO1odE Sold territories: Pearl Sophia Antipolis Programme section: Limelight Programme section: Bright Future Main Director(s): Elsa Amiel Programme Prod. Countries: France, Switzerland, Monaco Director(s): Virgil Vernier Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: France Length: 80 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Fiction Length: 98 Company: MK2 Genre: Fiction
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Company: MK2 Prod. Countries: France Contact: Juliette Schrameck Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 240 Phone: +33686430752 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Sophia, a young woman, disappears in Contact: JCR Films Sophia Antipolis, a technology park on the Email: [email protected] French Riviera. This mystery is unveiled and Logline: Photographer and filmmaker Antoine simultaneously gets thicker through the musings d’Agata explores the world of prostitution across and wanderings of fascist vigilantes and girls the globe from his singular viewpoint through 25 looking for a boob job. A poetical, political monologues and encounters with sex workers. A journey in a mirror-world which reflects ours feverish and intense 4-hour walk on the dark and is the threshold to a weirder place. side, which above all deals with beauty and Sold territories: survival. Trailer: Niblock's Sound Spectrums − Within https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2gGiYfFWU Invisible Rivers Sold territories: World premiere C'est ça l'amour Programme section: Scopitone Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Thomas Maury Director(s): Claire Burger Prod. Countries: France Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 110 Length: 98 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Company: Dharamsala Contact: Thomas Maury Contact: Louise Devillers Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 677953935 Logline: Mario has no idea what to do with his Logline: Since the sixties, minimal music pioneer two teenage daughters, and so enrols in the Phill Niblock has created a unique oeuvre of theatre project where his ex-wife works, in the images and sound. Informed by his search for hope that his old family life will return by itself. beauty in the everyday, whether a roaring engine Real Love is a disarming film about love and or a sunset. He continues to inspire younger letting go, enduring and rediscovery. generations with his optimism and drone Sold territories: Canada - Maison 4:3, Benelux - compositions. Cinéart, Greece -One From the Heart , China - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKFwjL5QLAY Jushi Sold territories: All available Mens White Noise World premiere International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme section: Signatures Programme Director(s): Antoine d'Agata Director(s): Isabelle Prim
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Prod. Countries: France Ma nudité ne sert à rien Prod. Year: 2019 World premiere Length: 97 Programme section: Voices Main Programme Genre: Fiction Director(s): Marina de Van Company: Ecce Films Prod. Countries: France Contact: Louise Rinaldi Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 85 Phone: +33142583714 Genre: Fiction Logline: This is the story of an almost forgotten Company: Just Sayin' Films murder and an almost forgotten love in Mens in Contact: Jean-Luc Ormières the South of France in 1895. The film makes a Email: [email protected] bow to the awe-inspiring greatness of history Phone: +33 01 75431677 and the stories that disappear into it – along with Logline: In today's Paris, the guilt and penance and pain. novelist/actress/screenwriter/director Marina Trailer: de Van (In My Skin, 2002) struggles with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwXDJjKrOY relationships, her own image and nudity in this Sold territories: era of dating apps and online partnering. A raw and emotional self-portrait in which the artist Nos vies formidables bares her body and soul without any fear of International premiere limits. Programme section: Voices Main Programme Sold territories: All available Director(s): Fabienne Godet Prod. Countries: France Le Grand Bal Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Scopitone Length: 117 Director(s): Laetitia Carton Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: France Company: Le Bureau Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Rym Hachimi Length: 89 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Phone: 33 1 40 33 33 80 Company: Pyramide Films Logline: Drink and drug addicts in a rehab clinic Contact: Ilaria Gomarasca in the French countryside conquer their deep Email: [email protected] shame to discover just how much destruction Phone: +33 1 42960220 they have caused. Now they care for each other, Logline: Le Grand Bal de l'Europe, the annual revealing their darkest sides with remarkable folk dance festival in France, is a living testament honesty. Excellent and realistic ensemble to the stimulating, unifying power of dance. In performance. this observational documentary, Laetitia Carton Trailer: gives us insight into the close-knit festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FTZ9Zivvwc community, while musing poetically on her own Sold territories: France - Memento Films, China- love for this exceptional dance event. DDDream Trailer:
20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCrsqLJCWkw downward spiral of ecstatically writhing bodies Sold territories: in a deserted school with barricaded doors, abundant drink and drugs and increasingly La lucarne des rêves animalistic urges. A sea of burning fear and None desire. Until dawn breaks. Based on a true story. Programme section: Say No More Trailer: Director(s): Cendrine Robelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTgNtpX4nM0 Prod. Countries: France Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 58 Knife + Heart Genre: Creative Documentary Programme section: Voices Main Programme Company: Strange Mirror Director(s): Yann Gonzalez Contact: Cendrine Robelin Prod. Countries: France, Mexico Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: 0625153804 Length: 102 Logline: Through a series of engaging Genre: Fiction encounters, this documentary evokes the history Company: Kinology of 'musique concrète', which is based on sounds Contact: Emmanuel Pisarra from the real world instead of traditional Email: [email protected] instruments. This playful postwar genre also Phone: +33 1 42778969 demands quite a different way of listening. With Logline: Stylised serial murders, homages to the Bernard Parmegiani, Lionel Marchetti, Beatriz French gay-porn circuit circa 1979 and a black Ferreyra and Michel Chion. crow with mysterious powers: welcome to the Trailer: world of Knife + Heart. Against this background, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpwu5OaWrM porn producer Anne (Vanessa Paradis) sets out U to find the masked man killing her actors one by Sold territories: France, ADAV / Adav Europe one, while mourning her failed relationship. Distribution, for non-commercial use, cultural Trailer: and educational use. With no exclusivity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8i0SoS5bU Sold territories: Greece,Cyprus-Seven Group SA, Climax Scandinavia-Njutafilms AB, Baltics - OÜ Must Programme section: Limelight Käsi 2 , Ex-Yugoslavia-2i Film doo, Belgium ( Director(s): Gaspar Noé Theater)-Cinema Le Palace ASBL, Taiwan- Prod. Countries: France Moviecloud LTD., Japan-Kinoshita Manage Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 96 Un amour impossible Genre: Fiction Programme section: Limelight Company: Wild Bunch Director(s): Catherine Corsini Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak Prod. Countries: France Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Noé serves up a 90-minute danse Length: 134 macabre. A physical, destructive, extravagant Genre: Fiction
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Contact: Maxime Perret-Cortassa Georgia Email: [email protected] Logline: Catherine Corsini’s story about single Parade mother Rachel (great role for Virginie Efira), who European premiere has an on-off relationship with her daughter’s Programme section: Bright Future Main arrogant father, reveals that love isn’t always the Programme answer. Every time her intuition lets her down. Director(s): Nino Zhvania Finely observed drama without moral Prod. Countries: Georgia judgement, and a tense finale. Prod. Year: 2018 Trailer: Length: 87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdZtY7iKMk Genre: Fiction Sold territories: Company: New Georgian Film Contact: Nikoloz Abramashvili Une jeunesse dorée Email: [email protected] International premiere Phone: +995555000002 Programme section: Voices Main Programme Logline: A failed painter, a burned-out actor and Director(s): Eva Ionesco an ex-con plan a road trip in Georgia. Nino Prod. Countries: France, Belgium Zhvania’s trip down memory lane is a tender Prod. Year: 2018 portrait of Georgian men of a certain age Length: 111 fleetingly reliving the highlights of their youth – Genre: Fiction a paradise now lost forever. Company: Macassar Productions, Scope Trailer: Pictures, Diligence Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kcvZJVpeeQ Contact: Karlijn Copman Sold territories: All available Email: [email protected] Phone: +32496947608 The Harvest Logline: In 1979, a young Parisian couple World premiere become entangled in a twisted relationship with Programme section: Say No More two older bourgeois (one of whom is Isabelle Director(s): Misho Antadze Huppert) in the world of hip night-clubbers. A Prod. Countries: Georgia moving coming-of-age story in the guise of a Prod. Year: 2019 glittering post-punk fairy tale. Once again Length: 70 autobiographical, and in essence a sequel to Genre: Creative Documentary Ionesco’s first feature My Little Princess (2011), Company: CineMark, Pantheon Pictures also with Huppert. Contact: Natia Guliashvili Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOBhMuDFyU4 Phone: +31687598762 Sold territories: France - KMBO Benelux - Scope Logline: Initially conceived as a project to Pictures explore the cryptocurrency gold rush in the rural region of Kakheti in Georgia, this strictly observational essay proved to be equally as much
22 an exploration of the relationship between Company: ma.ja.de., Arthouse Traffic, JBA nature, technology, and the changing landscape. Production, Graniet Film, Wild at Art, Digital Trailer: Cube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZKIHYtBDQ Contact: Ilaria Gomarasca Sold territories: All available Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 1 42960220 Germany Logline: Welcome to the hellish reality of eastern Ukraine. Re-staged real events present grotesque Dreissig vignettes of a place where war is peace, World premiere propaganda becomes truth and hate is elevated Programme section: Bright Future Main to love. Absurd comedy becomes absurd Programme tragedy. Best Director in Cannes (Un Certain Director(s): Simona Kostova Regard). Prod. Countries: Germany Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RFhDZ-fFw Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: Length: 120 Genre: Fiction High Life Company: German Film- and Television Programme section: Signatures Academy Director(s): Claire Denis Contact: Josephine Aleyt Prod. Countries: Germany, France, USA, United Email: [email protected] Kingdom, Poland Phone: +49 30 257 59 152 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Twenty-four hours in the lives of a Length: 110 colourful group of friends in Berlin, filmed in Genre: Fiction their natural habitat of minimalist apartments, Company: Wild Bunch with the constant lure of the nightlife. Searching Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak for meaning in life between everyday trials and Email: [email protected] life’s big questions. Are you reaching your sell-by Phone: date when you hit 30? Logline: A spaceship is sent to explore a black Trailer: hole. Its crew consists of dangerous prisoners, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1MRMsfkZ8 including Monte (Robert Pattinson) who is Sold territories: All available caring for a child born on board. Their medical Donbass officer (Juliette Binoche) may have sinister Programme section: Limelight intents. A sci-fi film like nothing else, where Director(s): Sergei Loznitsa Claire Denis explores bodies and souls in her Prod. Countries: Germany, Ukraine, France, very personal way. Netherlands, Romania Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxpt0ZOiaJo Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: Length: 121 Genre: Fiction
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Happy Lamento prepared to go along in a new Adam and Eve Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen story. Beauty Sold territories: Germany, Austria, China, Director(s): Alexander Kluge France, Portugal, South East Asia, USA Prod. Countries: Germany End of Season Prod. Year: 2018 World premiere Length: 90 Genre: Experimental Programme section: Bright Future Main Company: Rapid Eye Movies Programme Director(s): Elmar Imanov Contact: Stephan Holl Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Germany, Azerbaijan, Georgia Prod. Year: 2019 Phone: +49 151 19156986 Logline: On the art of bomb-making: Kluge Length: 92 mixes some of his weirder TV-skits (featuring Genre: Fiction Company: Pluto Film Fassbinder-regular Peter Berling and theatre genius Heiner Müller, among others) with some Contact: Daniela Chlapíková of the more outrageous scenes from IFFR-darling Email: [email protected] Khavn’s 2016 Ang Napakaigsing Buhay Ng Phone: +42 1 905199428 Alipato; as a detonator, he uses shots of Merkel Logline: Three members of an Azerbaijani family long for freedom. 18-year-old Machmud wants and Trump, etc., at the 2017 G20 summit. BOOM! his own home; mother Fidan wants her life back Sold territories: after years of service to the family; father Samir just wants to be left alone. However, freedom can In My Room also hide incomprehension and alienation. An None astute family drama. Programme section: Say No More Sold territories: Director(s): Ulrich Köhler Aren't You Happy? Prod. Countries: Germany Prod. Year: 2018 International premiere Length: 120 Programme section: Bright Future Main Genre: Fiction Programme Director(s): Susanne Heinrich Company: The Match Factory Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Prod. Countries: Germany Email: Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 80 [email protected] Phone: +49 30443190555 Genre: Fiction Company: Coproduction Office Logline: A man wakes up one day in a world devoid of all human presence. How to handle Contact: Sophie Cabon such an unlimited sense of freedom ? It delivers Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 7 81 73 59 97 him from headaches at work and difficult family relationships. But is our Robinson Crusoe Logline: The melancholy girl roams like a tourist through her own life; 14 chapters show her
24 attempts to bond with the people around her. Logline: In Maharashtra province, tensions The result: an equally fairy-tale and absurd between Marathi and Bihari communities are world – from aerobics with babies to rides on a running high during the run-up to the annual unicorn, nothing is too crazy in this post-modern feast honouring the god Ganesha. Former comedy. policeman Bhonsle looks on with resigned Sold territories: despair. When the young woman next door falls victim to the conflict, he feels compelled to make Hungary one last stand. Sold territories: Sunset That Cloud Never Left Programme section: The Spying Thing World premiere Director(s): László Nemes Programme section: Bright Future Main Prod. Countries: Hungary, France Programme Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Yashaswini Raghunandan Length: 144 Prod. Countries: India Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Playtime Length: 65 Contact: Frédérique ROUAULT Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: People's Archive of Rural India Logline: Following on from the impressive, Contact: Yashaswini Raghunandan multi-award-winning Son of Saul, Nemes made [email protected] this irresistibly beautiful pre-WWI paranoid Email: [email protected] thriller, shot on 35mm film. Mysterious young Logline: Indian villagers give 35mm film reels a Irisz Leiter arrives in Budapest to apply for work second life as rattling and whistling toys – made at the imperial hat store that once belonged to by hand. In this way, an originally visual her parents. She is rejected but has no intention medium acquires new life as a playful source of of leaving. sound. In this poetic, hybrid art film, Sold territories: monotonous actions in the creation process are augmented with fantasy-filled fables and an India approaching solar eclipse. Sold territories: All available Bhonsle Programme section: Voices Main Programme Widow of Silence Director(s): Devashish Makhija European premiere Prod. Countries: India Programme section: Voices Main Programme Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Praveen Morchhale Length: 133 Prod. Countries: India Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Golden Ratio Films, Promodome Length: 85 Motion Pictures, Indie Muviz Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Barefoot Pictures
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Email: [email protected] Indonesia Phone: 626.353.0232 Logline: Aasia is a 'half-widow': her husband, Memories of My Body like many men in this Indian region of Kashmir Programme section: Voices Main Programme plagued by corruption and violence, was arrested Director(s): Garin Nugroho and never returned. She works hard for her Prod. Countries: Indonesia family and in the meantime tries in vain to Prod. Year: 2018 obtain a death certificate for him. A colourful Length: 106 and poetic film about a painful situation with a Genre: Fiction bizarre twist. Company: Chinese Shadows Trailer: Contact: Li Lya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chdHLiAk6qI Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Phone: +8613602721891 Logline: A sensitive Javanese boy explores his The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred sexual identity through a dance company where Mountain male and female merge in a sensual way. In the wider world around him he sees only violence International premiere and intolerance. A poetic-realistic coming-of-age Programme section: Bright Future Main story, based on the life of dancer Rianto. Programme Trailer: Director(s): Ridham Janve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENbonmHibTw Prod. Countries: India Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 97 Genre: Fiction Company: National Film Development Ireland Corporation India Contact: Deepti Chawla Rosie Email: [email protected] Programme section: Voices Main Programme Phone: +91 98194 30644 Director(s): Paddy Breathnach Logline: An old shepherd in the Himalayas goes Prod. Countries: Ireland looking for a crashed plane in the hope of finding Prod. Year: 2018 gold. The place of the accident is, however, a Length: 86 holy mountain and his impure intentions do not Genre: Fiction go unpunished. His herd falls prey to predators, Company: Protagonist Pictures and he is beset by delusions, doubts and fear. Contact: Mounia Wissinger Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC56Hm3Cfsg Sold territories: All available Logline: When their landlord sells their home, Rosie and John Paul's world slowly shrinks back to their only possession, the car. While he works in the kitchen, she drives the children back and
26 forth to school, meanwhile searching desperately Company: Indie Sales for a place to sleep. Heartbreaking social-realistic Contact: Martin Gondre drama, written by Roddy Doyle, with impressive Email: [email protected] acting performances. Phone: +33 6 72232718 Sold territories: Ireland-Element, Taiwan-Sky Logline: At the Israeli border when Salem Digi, Scandinavia-SF Studios, China-DDDream, mentions that he works on a popular TV series, Airlines-Skeye, Israel - Forum Film, France- the checkpoint official demands a more pro- KMBO, Middle East - Front Row Jewish twist to the romance in the soap. However this turns out to be easier said than done. A While You Live, Shine surprisingly light and comical way of capturing Programme section: Scopitone the Arab-Israeli conflict, which nevertheless Director(s): Paul Duane tackles a painful truth. Prod. Countries: Ireland, Greece, USA Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn8ipat39-c Length: 80 Sold territories: USA-Cohen Media Group, Italy- Genre: Music Academy Two, France-Haut et Court, Spain- Company: Screenworks Surtsey, Switzerland-Trigon, Greece-Seven, Contact: Paul Duane Germany -TBA Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 1 6766657 God of the Piano Logline: This enchanting documentary immerses World premiere itself in the transcendental Greek folk music of Programme section: Big Screen Competition Epirus. An American collector of 78 RPM LPs Director(s): Itay Tal travels to those sun-drenched climes, where Prod. Countries: Israel centuries-old music stands the test of time. He Prod. Year: 2019 discovers an authenticity he hasn’t been able to Length: 80 find his own country’s music for years. Genre: Fiction Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S- Company: Film Republic b_ZyyyfcA Contact: Viktorija Cook Sold territories: Greece-Anemone Email: [email protected] Phone: +37064795414 Israel Logline: Concert pianist Anat goes to extremes to ensure her son follows in the footsteps of her Tel Aviv on Fire demanding father, a famous composer. A Programme section: Limelight suspenseful, chilling tale of a mother whose Director(s): Sameh Zoabi obsessive behaviour and mile-high expectations Prod. Countries: Israel, France, Luxembourg, threaten to crush her close ones, and herself too. Belgium Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m- ynLcJeUVw Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: Australia & New Zealand: Length: 97 Limelight Distribution Genre: Fiction
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Italy Following a dramatic incident, they are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world – Bangla whether they’ll be better off there or not remains World premiere to be seen. Programme section: Big Screen Competition Trailer: Director(s): Phaim Bhuiyan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQ2CwQrLmg Prod. Countries: Italy Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 87 What You Gonna Do When the Genre: Fiction World's on Fire? Company: Fandango Sales Programme section: Voices Main Programme Contact: Raffaela di Giulio Director(s): Roberto Minervini Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Italy, USA, France Phone: +39 347 5248172 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Based on the life of the filmmaker Length: 123 himself, this romantic comedy tells the story of a Genre: Creative Documentary second-generation immigrant in Rome. When he Company: The Match Factory falls in love, his butterflies clash with parental Contact: Sergi Steegmann expectations. A playful debut that tackles Email: [email protected] complex themes such as integration, Logline: In this award-winning documentary multiculturalism, religion and identity without shot in stunning black-and-white, Italian losing its light-hearted tone. filmmaker Minervini closely follows several Sold territories: All available black residents of New Orleans. He shows the pain, uncertainty and anger that grips their Lazzaro felice community when, in the summer of 2017, a None number of shocking murders of black men test Programme section: Limelight the community to breaking point. Director(s): Alice Rohrwacher Sold territories: France, Italy, Austria, Poland Prod. Countries: Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany L'amica geniale (De geniale vriendin) Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Voices Main Programme Length: 130 Director(s): Saverio Costanzo Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Italy, Belgium Company: The Match Factory Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Length: 469 Email: Genre: Series [email protected] Company: RAI Phone: +49 30443190555 Logline: This eight-part series is a film version of Logline: Award-winning Italian director Alice the first part of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Rohrwacher’s modern fable concerns the Novels. The turbulent youth of shy Elena and innocent Lazzaro and the other villagers who live wild Lila in a working-class district of Naples
28 reveals the history of post-war Italy: a time when Genre: Creative Documentary women were able to escape their backgrounds, Contact: Yervant Gianikian perhaps for the first time ever, through Email: [email protected] education. Phone: +39 2 29408500 Trailer: Logline: After the death of Angela Ricci Lucchi in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gF7r5P February 2018, Yervant Gianikian created a w0o moving portrait from her diaries, drawings, Sold territories: footage from their work and many travels together. This personal account is a pledge to Tutto l'oro che c'è continue their lives' work of 'cinematic World premiere excavations'. Programme section: Signatures Trailer: Director(s): Andrea Caccia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAyqL5Y Prod. Countries: Italy, Switzerland, France QYs Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: Italy - In between Art Film Length: 100 Genre: Creative Documentary Jamaica Company: Dugong Films, Rough Cat, Picofilms Contact: Marco Alessi, Giulia Achilli, Pascale Black Mother Ramonda Programme section: Bright Future Main Email: [email protected], Programme [email protected], Director(s): Khalik Allah [email protected] Prod. Countries: Jamaica, USA Phone: +393358447617, +39 328 9413867, +33 Prod. Year: 2018 1 43586029 Length: 77 Logline: A park warden makes his rounds; a Genre: Creative Documentary man swims, naked; a boy gets lost. This non- Company: Cinereach narrative cross between documentary and fiction Contact: Leah Giblin patiently studies the order of things in a park in Email: [email protected] Northern Italy. Here, humans and animals relate Logline: Life’s key elements come together in the to one another calmly. Beautiful camerawork colourful Jamaica portrayed by Khalik Allah. In and fine observation result in an exceptional this polyphonic film symphony, every inhabitant nature film. views their island paradise differently, be they Sold territories: prostitutes, graybeards, rappers, Rastafarians or pregnant women. I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti Trailer: Programme section: Signatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_biYkK_b Director(s): Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci dZc Lucchi Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 125
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Japan night with no destination in sight for her effortlessly cool debut feature that explores the Domains limbo state of becoming an adult. World premiere Trailer: Programme section: Bright Future Main https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xbeFWezRI Programme Sold territories: All available Director(s): Kusano Natsuka Prod. Countries: Japan Asako I & II Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Limelight Length: 150 Director(s): Hamaguchi Ryūsuke Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Japan, France Company: Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Araki Takurou Length: 119 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: 81-90-35300867 Company: Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Logline: Aki and Nodoka are childhood friends Bitters End, Comme des Cinémas who are drifting apart as adults. The familiar Contact: Léo Teste plot is told in an unexpected way: through actors Email: [email protected] line-readings. The suffocation of role patterns in Logline: Two years after the love of her life friendship and family are conveyed through disappeared without a trace, Asako falls in love repeated lines that are occasionally dislodged to with another man who looks identical to him, show that life can take unexpected turns. although his personality couldn’t be more Trailer: different. Calm everyday life and raging passions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0AXSfYJ8a4 mix seamlessly in this study of love in all its Sold territories: All available complex contrariness. Sold territories: The Garden Apartment International premiere Killing Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Programme Director(s): Tsukamoto Shinya Director(s): Ishihara Umi Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 80 Length: 77 Genre: Fiction Genre: Experimental Contact: Emico Kawai Company: Email: [email protected] Contact: Ishihara Umi Phone: +81 3 5689 1014 Email: [email protected] Logline: Shot in uncomfortable proximity and Phone: 07721933713 with a muted colour scheme, Tsukamoto Logline: Artist and photographer Ishihara Umi, Shinya’s darkly violent take on the samurai also know as UMMMI, soaks the frame with (chambara) genre asks us to consider the weight
30 of each kill. A skilled young samurai is recruited Genre: Fiction for a mission by a ronin, played by Tsukamoto Company: Films Boutique himself, but hesitates in the face of murder. Contact: Louis Balsan Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpB2GQmMJ Phone: +49 30 69537850 4 Logline: In the parched Kazakh countryside, Sold territories: China - Shanghai Jushi Films, Aslan and his brothers are continually set to United Kingdom- Third Window Films work by their strict father. There’s only some relaxation when they slip away secretly to a local Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie) river. In this tranquil drama, the river's flowing World premiere water shows how innovation can affect even the Programme section: Voices Main Programme most timeless of places. Director(s): Koki Tanaka Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Creative Documentary Lebanon Company: Fei Chang Production Contact: Luo Yudan Capharnaüm Email: [email protected] Programme section: Limelight Phone: +86 10 58263440 Director(s): Nadine Labaki Logline: Japanese artist Koki Tanaka asks his Prod. Countries: Lebanon young subjects to discuss identity politics and Prod. Year: 2018 the increasing presence of hate speech in Length: 123 contemporary society, particularly Japan. The Genre: Fiction quiet activism of this artist documentary is Company: Wild Bunch Tanaka’s call for people to reflect and listen to Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak one another. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Logline: Twelve-year-old Zain is growing up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DTtOrYG without any hopes for the future in a crowded, Z_U dilapidated apartment in Beirut. After running Sold territories: away from home following a crisis, he finds shelter with an ‘illegal’ Ethiopian who takes him Kazakhstan on to look after her baby. An energetic, poignant portrait of the expanding ‘precariat’ in this The River Lebanese metropolis. Programme section: Voices Main Programme Trailer: Director(s): Emir Baigazin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHptksRct Prod. Countries: Kazakhstan, Poland, Norway Wk Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: Length: 113
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Mexico overcome them in turns. Where they are really better off is left unsaid. Luciérnagas Sold territories: All available International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Nuestro tiempo Director(s): Bani Khoshnoudi None Prod. Countries: Mexico Programme section: Signatures Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Carlos Reygadas Length: 85 Prod. Countries: Mexico, France, Germany, Genre: Fiction Denmark, Sweden Company: Zensky Cine Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Lidia Damatto Moreira Length: 173 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: +55 11 97293 0629 Company: The Match Factory Logline: Although the torture in Iran lies far Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou behind him, gay immigrant Ramin still hasn’t Email: found peace in his refuge on the Mexican coast. [email protected] Perhaps he doesn’t even want to. Heart-rending Phone: +49 30443190555 drama about a rudderless refugee trapped by his Logline: Visually overwhelming scenes from an commitment issues. open marriage, with director Carlos Reygadas Trailer: and his wife playing the lead. Poet-rancher Juan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goXjCT3H_SQ wrestles with jealousy and his status as an alpha Sold territories: USA,UK-TLA, France- male who always has everything under control when his wife Esther starts having an affair with Chèche lavi horse trainer Phil. World premiere Sold territories: Mexico, France, Benelux, China, Programme section: Bright Future Main Commonwealth of Independent States, former Programme Yugoslavia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Director(s): Sam Ellison Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Prod. Countries: Mexico, Haiti, USA Kingdom & Ireland Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 76
Genre: Creative Documentary Montenegro Company: Contact: Sam Ellison, Nora Mendis You Have the Night Email: [email protected], Programme section: Bright Future Main [email protected] Programme Phone: +16175105009, +13475538647 Director(s): Ivan Salatić Logline: An honest, subtle portrait of two Prod. Countries: Montenegro, Serbia, Qatar Haitian refugees who tell their stories on the US Prod. Year: 2018 border. One toils to earn money, the other just to Length: 82
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Company: Meander Film Netherlands Contact: Pascale Ramonda Email: [email protected] Nocturne Phone: +33 1 43586029 World premiere Logline: Devastation dominates everything in Programme section: Bright Future Main this Montenegrin feature debut about a Programme bankrupt shipyard and the locals, who see their Director(s): Viktor van der Valk lives ebbing away, literally and metaphorically. Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Belgium Many silences, dramatic twists and characters Prod. Year: 2019 that are mercilessly isolated in their grey Length: 80 surroundings: the disconsolate mood is of a post- Genre: Fiction apocalyptic order. Company: A Private View, Maniak Film Trailer: Contact: Wouter Jansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvpV0ZL Email: [email protected] t-M Phone: 0641518779 Sold territories: Logline: A young filmmaker’s highly unusual odyssey as he struggles to get to grips with his work. While his inspiration, his lover and his Morocco financial backer all threaten to leave him, he wanders a nocturnal labyrinth. Can art Sofia transcend reality? A tempestuous, poetic and Programme section: Limelight experimental debut. Director(s): Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Morocco, France, Qatar Prod. Year: 2018 Diorama No.4: Die Fernweh Oper Length: 80 (try-out) Genre: Fiction Programme section: Voices Main Programme Company: Curiosa Films Director(s): Daniel Ernst Contact: Paméla Leu Prod. Countries: Netherlands Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +33 1 53103398 Length: 20 Logline: Sofia, a Moroccan girl, is 20, unmarried Genre: Experimental and almost a mother – and didn’t even know she Company: The Shoebox Diorama was pregnant. The unexpected birth causes Contact: Daniel Ernst major problems in a country where sex outside Email: [email protected] marriage is a criminal offence. Powerful feature Logline: Many sailors navigate using her: the star debut that throws a composed yet sharp light on Asteria, a 15-metre-tall opera diva, born from an unreasonable social system. protostellar matter and clouds of gas. She sings Sold territories: about the astronomical distance between her and her lost lover. Blinded by grief, she doesn’t see how she is slowly changing into a black hole.
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Can you find her in this virtual-reality diorama? performance by Vicky Night) must rebuild her Sold territories: life following an acid attack, although she hardly dares look in the mirror. Sacha Polak’s powerful Miel-Emile portrait of a complex woman retains the World premiere intensity of her previous features, Hemel and Programme section: Signatures Zurich. Director(s): Peter van Houten Sold territories: Benelux, United Kingdom, Prod. Countries: Netherlands Ireland, France, China Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 150 Bloody Marie Genre: Film World premiere Company: Anna-Zharkov-Film Programme section: Limelight Contact: Peter van Houten Director(s): Guido van Driel, Lennert Hillege Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Netherlands Phone: +31 76 5227890 Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: In 2015, IFFR screened filmmaker Peter Length: 83 van Houten’s The Life of Jean-Marie. The slow- Genre: Fiction cinema portrait of a talkative pastor in the Company: Wide Management French Pyrenees proved an audience favourite at Contact: Matthias Angoulvant the time. In Miel-Emile, Van Houten presents his Email: [email protected] younger brother, the thoughtful Emile. Phone: +33153950464 Surrounded by beautiful nature, he wrestles with Logline: Guido van Driel’s second feature film his past. after The Resurrection of a Bastard Trailer: underlines his fascination with people heading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_M_xVl4 for disaster who manage to change course at the 0Ck last minute. This story is about Marie, a tortured Sold territories: All available young woman who drinks like a fish. Trailer: Dirty God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaONX2W World premiere i45M Programme section: Limelight Sold territories: Netherlands-September Films Director(s): Sacha Polak Prod. Countries: Netherlands, United Kingdom, De terugkeer Belgium, Ireland World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: RTM Length: 105 Director(s): André van der Hout Genre: Film Prod. Countries: Netherlands Company: Independent Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Sarah Lebutsch Length: 270 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: Company: De Aanpak Logline: Young London mother Jade (a superb Contact: André van der Hout
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Email: [email protected] Company: Riverpark Films Logline: Seven-part drama series set in the Contact: Herman Slagter petrochemical port of Rotterdam. Using found Email: [email protected] footage, true events are enacted by real people Phone: +31 6 55107533 instead of actors; a strange tale of accidents, Logline: Rotterdam artist Jos Looise followed his opponents, scabs and a whole village that old art academy friend Bob van Leeuwen for disappeared. years. Bob was once a rebel fighting convention, Sold territories: but heavy drug abuse left deep scars. He visits his fellow artist Aat Veldhoen, an exhibition of work Take Me Somewhere Nice by Keith Haring, exhibits his work at the gallery World premiere and takes part in the TV programme De Reünie Programme section: Tiger Competition (The Reunion). Director(s): Ena Sendijarević Sold territories: All available Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina The Beast in the Jungle Prod. Year: 2019 World premiere Length: 91 Programme section: Limelight Genre: Fiction Director(s): Clara van Gool Company: Heretic Outreach Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg Contact: Christina Liapi Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 85 Phone: +30 2106890294 Genre: Fiction Logline: Alma travels to Bosnia to bid farewell to Company: Picturetree International a father she hardly knows. This starts a journey Contact: Yuanyuan Rothbauer with an unknown destination in which the Email: [email protected] outwardly indifferent teen discovers herself and Phone: +49 151 506 173 88 her country of origin. A dryly funny road movie Logline: John and May meet in different places, that captures the freshness and alienation of in various eras. He has a premonition that ‘the adolescence. beast in the jungle’ will strike. But which beast? Trailer: Van Gool’s adaptation of Henry James’s 1903 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccD2vK47 novella is a costume drama cum dance film. A RK8 poetic, melancholy contemplation on time, Sold territories: All available memory and mortality. Trailer: De aanbidding van de witte vrouw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8m90oA World premiere mCok Programme section: RTM Sold territories: Director(s): Jos Looise Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 72 Genre: Creative Documentary
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God Only Knows Camino, een feature-length selfie World premiere World premiere Programme section: Signatures Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Mijke de Jong Director(s): Martin de Vries Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 88 Length: 85 Genre: Fiction Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Topkapi Films Company: DOXY Films Email: [email protected] Contact: Janneke Doolaard Logline: When Thomas has a nervous Email: [email protected] breakdown right before Easter, his older sister Phone: +31 20 4227387 Doris rushes to his aid. Younger sister Hannah Logline: Aching feet and moments of despair – doesn’t think this is what he needs. Sharp, heart- but also minor miracles and growing strength. warming, painful, funny moments unfold in the Doggedly stepping along the pilgrims’ way to subsequent days, filling in the background to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, and details of their difficult, but close, family Martin de Vries films himself with his iPhone, in bonds. the hope of putting his life back on a firm Sold territories: footing. A self-portrait in two million steps. Sold territories: All available Inner Landscape World premiere Peru Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Frank Scheffer Todos somos marineros Prod. Countries: Netherlands, China European premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Voices Main Programme Length: 90 Director(s): Miguel Ángel Moulet Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Peru, Dominican Republic Company: Selfmade Films, Pieter van Huystee Prod. Year: 2018 Film & TV, Muyi Film Length: 104 Contact: Selfmade Films Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: El Navegante Films Logline: Painstaking documentary about the Contact: Hernán Pérez Menéndez creation of the chamber opera Si Fan ('yearnings Email: [email protected] of love'), composed in 2015 for the Nieuw Phone: +54 9 11 5504-3020 Ensemble by Guo Wenjing, one of China’s most Logline: With their ship stranded and the owner famous contemporary composers. Second part bankrupt, life for three Russian fishermen is on of Frank Scheffer’s tetralogy on the hold. What to do now? Stay in Peru? Or bet disappearance of musical traditions in an era of everything on getting back to Russia? Intelligent, modernisation and globalisation. atmospheric debut showing three men surviving Sold territories: in an unfamiliar no man’s land.
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Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpfeIYbgl Phone: +33 6 72232718 7g Logline: Ryszard Kapuscinski was the sole Sold territories: All available foreign reporter in Angola when a civil war erupted that developed into a new front in the Philippines Cold War. This animated adaptation of his book on that struggle does justice to his writing style, Dog Days combining stark realism and literary subjectivity. Its news value is supported by International premiere documentary footage. Programme section: Bright Future Main Trailer: Programme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaOCqoAKj24 Director(s): Timmy Harn Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Philippines Prod. Year: 2018 Monument Length: 124 International premiere Genre: Fiction Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Company: Digital Dreams Inc. Director(s): Jagoda Szelc Contact: Danzen Santos Katanyag Prod. Countries: Poland Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +639178378910 Length: 108 Logline: Crystal meth and blood magic mix in Genre: Fiction this intoxicating underground basketball drama. Company: The Polish National Film, Television Michael Jordan Ulili is a Filipino basketball and Theatre School in Lodz prospect destined for greatness, but his social Contact: Marcin Malatynski class, racist teammates and bad knee try to block Email: [email protected] him from reaching the heights of his blood-fated Phone: +48 501639646 capabilities. When hoop dream becomes fever Logline: A traineeship at a remote hotel led by a dream, will he hit the winner? demanding manager. The students work and Sold territories: All available grim Monument becomes ever more mysterious. Why do they keep asking each other for coins? Poland And what are those teeth doing in the meat? A challenging, hard-to-define psychological Another Day of Life thriller. Programme section: Limelight Trailer: Director(s): Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS83Oe- Prod. Countries: Poland, Spain 9S5Y Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: All available Length: 86 Genre: Animation Company: Platige Image, Kanaki Films Contact: Martin Gondre
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Portugal Logline: Using photographs from an old, forgotten metal box, Aya Koretzky reconstructs Diamantino the trip around the world her father undertook Programme section: Rabbit Hole in 1970. This creates a loving, charming portrait Director(s): Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt that provides a new perspective on the taciturn Prod. Countries: Portugal, France, Brazil elderly man we see gardening. Prod. Year: 2018 Trailer: Length: 92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2I_3Lrful8 Genre: Fiction Sold territories: All available Company: Charades Contact: Nicolas Rebeschini O homem-pykante – Diálogos com Email: [email protected] Pimenta Phone: +33661222312 Logline: Giant puppies, fake nuns, and cloned Programme section: Edgar Pêra celebrities all feature prominently in Gabriel Director(s): Edgar Pêra Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s wildly inventive Prod. Countries: Portugal satire of post-Brexit Europe. Diamantino, a Prod. Year: 2018 football superstar, tries to find himself following Length: 75 a devastating loss at the World Cup, only to Genre: - become embroiled in an absurd conspiracy that Company: Bando à Parte implicates all of Portugal. Contact: Rodrigo Areias Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVMhNJcBX0 Phone: +351 253 094960 Sold territories: Koch Media - Germany, Logline: Alberto Pimenta is Pêra’s kind of Switzerland, Austria Modern Films - UK I polymath: experimental poet, inspired translator wonder - Italy Kino Lorber - USA MK2 Mile End - (Thomas Bernhard), fearless performance artist Canada CCC - Japan Lemon Tree - China (who made happenings happen in Portugal), merry porn proselytiser, provocateur with a A volta ao mundo quando tinhas 30 cause, and, as the only logical sum total of all anos this, a political dissenter at loggerheads with any International premiere 'status kwo'. A documentary paean. Programme section: Bright Future Main Sold territories: Programme Director(s): Aya Koretzky Alva Prod. Countries: Portugal World premiere Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Bright Future Main Length: 110 Programme Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Ico Costa Company: C.R.I.M. Prod. Countries: Portugal, France, Argentina Contact: Sofia de Sousa Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 98
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Genre: Fiction Beauty Company: Terratreme Filmes, La Belle Affaire Director(s): Edgar Pêra Productions, Un puma Prod. Countries: Portugal Contact: Gustavo Scofano Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 70 Phone: +351 21 241 57 54 Company: Bando à Parte Logline: Driven by uncontrollable fury, a Contact: Rodrigo Areias taciturn Portuguese farmer commits a crime Email: [email protected] then flees into the inhospitable hills. With its Phone: +351 253 094960 intense, sober, elliptical narrative style, this Logline: In 2016, Edgar Pêra graced IFFR with feature debut by award-winning short filmmaker The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation Ico Costa is mysterious and relentless, but at the into cinema’s disquieting essence, with same time empathetic and human. everything from boobs to donkey hand puppets. Trailer: KINORAMA − Beyond the Walls of Cinema now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgOhnNPe8Q speculates about film’s hereafter – and the Sold territories: All available Rotterdam audience can take part, as Pêra presents a work-in-progress. You can influence Caminhos magnétykos cinema's future! International premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Edgar Pêra Director(s): Edgar Pêra Lovecraftland – Cine-Koncerto 3D Prod. Countries: Portugal, Brazil International premiere Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Edgar Pêra Length: 87 Director(s): Edgar Pêra Genre: - Prod. Countries: Portugal Company: Bando à Parte Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Rodrigo Areias Length: 55 Email: [email protected] Company: Bando à Parte Phone: +351 253 094960 Contact: Rodrigo Areias Logline: Father was never too happy with his Email: [email protected] daughter’s choice of husband: a gumba with Phone: +351 253 094960 government connections who gets calls from Logline: Spectacular live act with 3D film, some dude called Donald. Now it's the wedding inspired by the writer H.P Lovecraft, with day – and he cracks, hollering his disgust at the performances by Paulo Furtado, Iris Cayatte and Tagus. A grimly funny, audio-visually dazzling Dominique Pignon. 'Cinekoncerts' are a key science fiction romp about kontemporary element of Edgar Pêra’s praxis – the key, actually, fascism. for it is here that many of his most important Sold territories: impulses meet. His passion for music, his impatience with anything looking too artistically KINORAMA − Cinema Fora de Órbita set, plus his love for all things performance. World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen
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Mabata bata get in the way. Will Romanian audiences even Programme section: Voices Main Programme want to see her outdoor play? Director(s): Sol de Carvalho Trailer: Prod. Countries: Portugal, Mozambique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww7rew3L14I Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 74 Genre: Fiction Russia Company: Promarte, Bando à Parte Contact: Rodrigo Areias Core of the World Email: [email protected] Programme section: Bright Future Main Phone: +351 253 094960 Programme Logline: This magic-realist adaptation of Mia Director(s): Natalya Meshchaninova Couto’s short story about the Mozambican civil Prod. Countries: Russia, Lithuania war elegantly merges times and realities. While Prod. Year: 2018 the old spirit of Azarias looks on, the film slowly Length: 124 works towards the point at which young Azarias Genre: Fiction ceased to exist. Company: Indie Sales Trailer: Contact: Martin Gondre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSBJj28imRU Email: [email protected] Sold territories: All available Phone: +33 6 72232718 Logline: Young veterinarian Egor finds escape Romania from his troubled past on the remote Russian farm where he cares for animals. One day, "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in animal-rights activists turn up and Egor's micro- world is in danger of crumbling. A tender, History as Barbarians" naturalistic portrait of a man torn between Programme section: Voices Main Programme compassion and rage – and between humans Director(s): Radu Jude and animals. Prod. Countries: Romania Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQCc47- Length: 140 cUGA Genre: Fiction Sold territories: Company: Beta Cinema Contact: Tassilo Hallbauer Sheena667 Email: [email protected] World premiere Phone: +49 89 673469875 Programme section: Tiger Competition Logline: Why this mass murder though? It’s Director(s): Grigory Dobrygin questions like this that theatre director Mariana Prod. Countries: Russia has to fend off whilst working on a Prod. Year: 2019 reconstruction of the events that led to the Length: 96 Romanian extermination of Jews in Odessa in Genre: Fiction 1941. Contemporary hero-worship and racism
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Company: Mind the Gap Leto Contact: Grigory Dobrygin Programme section: Limelight Email: [email protected] Director(s): Kirill Serebrennikov Phone: +79652684541 Prod. Countries: Russia, France Logline: With his wife Olya, Vadim wants to buy Prod. Year: 2018 a German tow truck. But this beautiful plan Length: 126 comes to nothing when he falls for a faraway girl Genre: Fiction he meets online. And so Vadim embarks on an Company: Hype Film, KinoVista impossible attempt to start afresh a new place Contact: Nicolas Rebeschini with the love of his life: Sheena667. A subtle, Email: [email protected] poignant tragicomedy on oddities and delusions Phone: +33661222312 of life. Logline: Punky biopic about the Leningrad Sold territories: All available underground music scene in the 1980s, based on the early years of pop icon Viktor Tsoï and his The Man Who Surprised Everyone legendary band Kino. With Bowie, Blondie and Programme section: Bright Future Main T. Rex in the cassette recorder they charge Programme themselves up for their performances, but the Director(s): Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov censor is listening in. Full of surrealistic Prod. Countries: Russia, Estonia, France interludes and rebellious energy. Prod. Year: 2018 Trailer: Length: 105 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLpsG00Au08 Genre: Fiction Sold territories: Company: Pan Atlantic Studio Contact: Margot Haiboeck Serbia Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 30 2191 8220 The Load Logline: Contemporary version of a Siberian folk tale in which a man cheats Death by pretending Programme section: Bright Future Main to be a woman. A terminally ill Siberian forest Programme ć ranger decides to live out his life as a woman. He Director(s): Ognjen Glavoni is shunned by his small village community. How Prod. Countries: Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar vulnerable is our position in society? Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrPxit6r Length: 98 uM Genre: Fiction Sold territories: Russia /CIS, Baltics, France, Company: New Europe Film Sales Contact: Ewa Bojanowska Email: [email protected] Phone: 048698903038 Logline: During the NATO bombardments of 1999, truck driver Vlada has to take a mysterious load to Belgrade. Subtle storytelling with an
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Wildlife Park in KwaZulu Natal; a first encounter Prod. Year: 2018 with the wilderness where their ancestors lived Length: 91 for centuries. This impressive primaeval area, Genre: Fiction where they find a new connection with nature Company: Bomnae Films and each other, is now seriously threatened by Contact: Jamie Seo mining and poaching. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Phone: +82 10 2666 2678 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoXUnZ6c Logline: During a long, ice-cold and alcohol- OQk fuelled night, set against frozen waterfalls and Sold territories: All available neon-lit snow landscapes, the disillusioned fifty- somethings Eun-ju and Heung-ju – both South Korea separately and together – have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning The Spy Gone North encounters. Jang Woojin captures their languishing love in very precise shots. Programme section: The Spying Thing Sold territories: Director(s): Yoon Jongbin Prod. Countries: South Korea Maggie Prod. Year: 2018 International premiere Length: 137 Programme section: Bright Future Main Genre: Fiction Programme Company: Moonlight Film, Sanai Pictures Director(s): Yi Okseop Contact: Kate Kim Prod. Countries: South Korea Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Gripping, stylish narrative based on the Length: 88 true story of South Korea’s most successful Genre: Fiction espionage operation, focused around the Company: 2X9HD undercover agent 'Black Venus', who was Contact: Jin Park charged with finding out North Korea’s nuclear Email: [email protected] secrets. No easy task of course – if only because Phone: +82 32 3229225 of the unreliable political machinations by both Logline: Who are the intimate couple in a sides. mysterious X-ray? A nurse accuses herself and Trailer: her boyfriend, after which the South Korean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnA8tv6S Maggie becomes an episodic tale of confidence ao and faith. A refreshing, confounding, Sold territories: idiosyncratic debut, including a talking catfish Winter's Night and sinkholes that can swallow up three vans. Trailer: Programme section: Bright Future Main https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBbwh9d- Programme CHA Director(s): Jang Woojin Sold territories: Prod. Countries: South Korea
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Spain her father's shady arrest. The enchanting forest is both a playground for children and a political Entre dos aguas memorial. Programme section: Voices Main Programme Trailer: Director(s): Isaki Lacuesta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8NYAzxF Prod. Countries: Spain pDw Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: All available Length: 136 Genre: Fiction Love Me Not Company: La Termita Films S.L., Mallerich Films World premiere Paco Poch, S.L. Programme section: Signatures Contact: Ivan Diaz Director(s): Lluís Miñarro Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Spain, Mexico Phone: + 34 932 630 824 Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: Isaki Lacuesta has made a sequel to his Length: 82 La leyenda del tiempo(2006). The Roma Genre: Fiction adolescents back then are now themselves Company: Reel Suspects fathers who want the best for their family, but Contact: Matteo Lovadina hesitate about what that actually is. An intimate Email: [email protected] and natural portrait of struggling men that feels Phone: +33 9 72 57 66 27 like a documentary. Logline: Oscar Wilde’s dramatic interpretation Trailer: of the Biblical story of John the Baptist, filmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLzuaJ6kB8 against the background of a contemporary war. Sold territories: Salomé, daughter of the corrupt commander and his adulterous wife, is obsessed by this prophet Carelia: Internacional con and prisoner of war. A stimulating mix of monumento mythology and modernity, dream and reality, World premiere humour and cynicism. Programme section: Voices Main Programme Trailer: Director(s): Andrés Duque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIs1ytBcy Prod. Countries: Spain 1A Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: Length: 90 Genre: Creative Documentary Els dies que vindran Company: World premiere Contact: Andrés Duque Programme section: Tiger Competition Email: [email protected] Director(s): Carlos Marqués-Marcet Phone: +34 931 054 364 Prod. Countries: Spain Logline: Karelia, once Finland, now Russia, has a Prod. Year: 2019 painful history. This poetic essay shows how a Length: 95 traditional family keeps old rituals alive, while Genre: Fiction
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Contact: Vicente Canales Sweden Email: [email protected] Phone: +34 93 3684608 Koko-di Koko-da Logline: Fly-on-the-wall story of the pregnancy of International premiere a couple who, over nine months, must learn to Programme section: Tiger Competition be three when they haven’t yet learned how to be Director(s): Johannes Nyholm two. Using the real pregnancy of the actress and Prod. Countries: Sweden, Denmark actor in the lead roles, the film explores the Prod. Year: 2019 difficulties of sharing such a deeply Length: 85 transformative experience with another person. Genre: Fiction Trailer: Company: Stray Dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXowI39R Contact: Nathan Fischer L1g Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Logline: A clearing in the forest forms the arena in which two unhappy lovers are at the mercy of the whims of a sadistic trio. Their trials are Sri Lanka repeated time and again, like a nightmare from which they cannot awake. How can they escape House of My Fathers their cruel, crazy fate? Second feature by director Programme section: Bright Future Main of The Giant. Programme Trailer: Director(s): Suba Sivakumaran Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Sri Lanka Prod. Year: 2018 X&Y Length: 95 International premiere Genre: Fiction Programme section: Big Screen Competition Company: Chinese Shadows Director(s): Anna Odell Contact: Li Lya Prod. Countries: Sweden, Denmark Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +8613602721891 Length: 112 Logline: The conflict between two villages Genre: Fiction symbolises the civil war in Sri Lanka, which Company: New Europe Film Sales ended in 2009. A man and a woman from each Contact: Ewa Bojanowska camp are sacrificed to lift a fertility curse. The Email: [email protected] fears and traumas of the war lurk in the woods. A Phone: 048698903038 highly relevant magic realist fairy tale with an Logline: Anna Odell and fellow protagonist acerbic undertone. Mikael Persbrandt blur the boundary between Sold territories: fact and fiction in this idiosyncratic, social studio experiment with various identities and situations. With other actors and their alter egos, they adhere to Odell’s film plan, which ends, no
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Persbrandt. Switzerland Sold territories: Scandinavia-Triart Closer to God Transnistra Programme section: Scopitone World premiere Director(s): Annette Berger, Grete Jentzen Programme section: Big Screen Competition Prod. Countries: Switzerland Director(s): Anna Eborn Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Sweden Length: 84 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Music Length: 93 Company: Dokwerkstatt GmbH Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Annette Berger Company: Momento Film Email: [email protected] Contact: David Herdies Logline: One is an Islamic mystic on a life-long Email: [email protected] pilgrimage, stopping to pray at every shrine he Phone: +46 73 508 24 18 passes. The other man in this fascinating Swiss Logline: Intimate look at young people’s lives in documentary is the custodian of a centuries-old the tiny, unrecognised state of Transnistria, musical tradition, for whom the concept of God which split from Moldova in 1992. Teens with lies closer to self-knowledge and harmony with doubts about love, the economy and their future your surroundings. inhabit this dreamy documentary portrait that Sold territories: All available revolves around Tanya, who plays the field with six boys. Walden Sold territories: Sweden (theatrical), Denmark Programme section: Say No More (theatrical), Belgium (theatrical) Director(s): Daniel Zimmermann Prod. Countries: Switzerland Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 106 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Beauvoir Films Contact: Aline Schmid Email: [email protected] Phone: +41 78 7923122 Logline: In contemplative, wordless images rotating through 360 degrees, Zimmermann illustrates the bizarre journey of a stack of planks. From a felled pine tree in Austria to the heart of the Brazilian rain forest. Walden captures the absurdity of the economic principles defining our globalised world in 13 tour de force shots. Trailer:
46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpN3XYFL Email: [email protected] lGg Phone: +33 (0)1 82 28 42 15 Sold territories: Pascale Ramonda, international Logline: At the start of the war in Syria, young festival strategies Grasshopper films, North pharmacist Sana tries to buy some bottled gas, American non-theatrical but her search quickly gets out of hand. Sana’s panic-stricken journey is told with striking Der Unschuldige hyper-realism and an excursion into magic Programme section: Bright Future Main realism. Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Programme Award for Best Debut in Venice. Director(s): Simon Jaquemet Trailer: Prod. Countries: Switzerland, Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi8qlOefaj Prod. Year: 2018 M Length: 114 Sold territories: Genre: Fiction Company: Kinology Taiwan Contact: Emmanuel Pisarra Email: [email protected] Your Face Phone: +33 1 42778969 Programme section: Signatures Logline: Laboratory worker Ruth, an evangelical Director(s): Tsai Ming-liang Christian, derails when an ex who served twenty Prod. Countries: Taiwan years in jail suddenly reappears in her highly Prod. Year: 2018 regulated life. And this is just the start of a series Length: 77 of incredible, disruptive events. A clever piece of Genre: Creative Documentary creepy filmmaking from Swiss talent Simon Company: Homegreen Films Co. Jaquemet. Contact: Claude Wang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3LhSC Email: [email protected] OdMs Phone: 886920516410 Sold territories: Logline: Less is more definitely applies to this lovingly crafted experimental documentary Syria featuring 12 people from Taipei, and Tsai Ming- liang’s preferred actor and muse Lee Kang- The Day I Lost My Shadow sheng. 13 long close-ups that feel like intimate Programme section: Bright Future Main meetings. Meditative moments and candid Programme revelations from the world behind a fleeting Director(s): Soudade Kaadan smile. Prod. Countries: Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB_6z45F Length: 95 mbc Genre: Fiction Sold territories: All available Company: Acrobates Films, KAF Productions Contact: Lison Hervé
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Cities of Last Things things occur. Reality and magic, poetry and an European premiere exceptional friendship in this story with a grim, Programme section: Voices Main Programme moving undertone. Director(s): Ho Wi Ding Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Taiwan, China, USA, France BNK48: Girls Don't Cry Prod. Year: 2018 European premiere Length: 107 Genre: Fiction Programme section: Voices Main Programme Company: Wild Bunch Director(s): Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit Prod. Countries: Thailand Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 108 Logline: In Cities of Last Things, Malaysian film director Ho Wi Ding, whose feature debut, Pinoy Genre: Creative Documentary Sunday (2009), was also screened at IFFR, tells in Company: BNK48 Office, Salmon House Contact: Ruedee (Deedee) Pholthaweechai three non-chronological parts spanning three decades how a man came to his desperate act. Email: [email protected] The dystopian colours splash from the screen, Phone: +662 662 3404 ext. 126 the editing is brutal, the tone deceptively light. Logline: BNK48, the most popular girl band in Trailer: Thailand, is all about cuteness. Through revealing interviews with some of the 50 band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvoa8J0Xi o members, this documentary sketches the very Sold territories: different real lives of Thai superstars: reaching the top means competitiveness, stress and armies of social media followers.
Thailand Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ct_v3tcq Manta Ray w Programme section: Bright Future Main Sold territories: All available Programme Director(s): Phuttiphong Aroonpheng Turkey Prod. Countries: Thailand, France, China Prod. Year: 2018 Dead Horse Nebula Length: 110 Genre: Fiction Programme section: Bright Future Main Company: Jour2Fete Programme ş Contact: Samuel Blanc Director(s): Tarık Akta Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Turkey Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +33 677194858 Logline: Many Rohingya who flee Myanmar Length: 73 suffer untimely deaths along Thailand’s coast. A Genre: Fiction Thai fisherman cares for a wounded man he Company: Hay Film Productions ş Ş ğ finds in a coastal woodland where secretive Contact: Güne ekero lu
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Phone: 00905326058045 USA Logline: Not much story, but plenty of unmistakable gut feeling in this depiction of the Pet Names life of a young man in a Turkish village. A European premiere shocking childhood memory and an evening fire Programme section: Voices Main Programme prompt an increasingly spiritual line connecting Director(s): Carol Brandt humanity and nature. Best Emerging Director in Prod. Countries: USA Locarno. Prod. Year: 2018 Trailer: Length: 75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dv7GXV Genre: Fiction A2t4 Company: Good Credit Productions Sold territories: All available Contact: Carol Brandt Email: [email protected] Heroes Phone: 16083455679 World premiere Logline: Modern psychological drama about Programme section: Bright Future Main twenty-something Leigh, whose life consists of Programme caring for her very ill mother. When her mother Director(s): Köken Ergun forces her to go camping for a weekend away, Prod. Countries: Turkey, Australia Leigh takes her ex-boyfriend along. But the Prod. Year: 2019 initially cheerful familiarity between them soon Length: 88 changes when a broken heart turns out not to Genre: Creative Documentary have healed. Company: Trailer: Contact: Köken Ergun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWy9p2xS Email: [email protected] g1M Phone: +90 216 380 8329 Sold territories: Amazon Prime - Contract until Logline: Video artist Köken Ergun spent two February 2021 years among the droves of tourists, both Turkish and Australian, that gather in Gallipoli to The Wind commemorate the soldiers who died there Programme section: Rotterdämmerung during one of the First World War’s biggest Director(s): Emma Tammi battles. ‘Heroes’ to some, ‘martyrs’ to others. Prod. Countries: USA Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2iYKUpD Length: 86 dY Genre: Fiction Sold territories: All available Company: Magnolia Pictures Contact: Lorna Lee Torres Email: [email protected] Logline: The early 19th century: life is harsh on the Frontier of the New West. While her husband is out working, Lizzie stays home alone
49 in their house, on the deserted prairie. Is the Email: [email protected] loneliness making her slowly paranoid, or is a Logline: Rubin was a hyperactive spider in the devilish spirit floating around? A unique mix of web of the New York art scene in the late 1960s Western and horror. until she embraced Judaism; a rising star who Trailer: disappeared as quickly as she appeared. Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8y3RDs8 oeuvre remained limited to one film, which Hs nevertheless earned her a permanent place in the Sold territories: Rocket Releasing – CIS canon of the avant-garde. Polonium Oy/ Night Visions Distribution – Sold territories: Scandinavia Falcon Films – Middle East Mongrel – Canada Signature – UK Swift Lost Holiday Productions – France International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Minor History Programme World premiere Director(s): Michael Kerry Matthews, Thomas Programme section: Frameworks Matthews Director(s): Asad Raza Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 75 Length: 70 Genre: Fiction Genre: Art Film Company: Visit Films Contact: Asad Raza Contact: Tarek Shoukri Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Minor History is a portrait of the artist’s Logline: Margaret Rockland combats a 90-year-old uncle Wahid. A natural raconteur, depressing Christmas reunion with a booze and Wahid was born in British India in the 1920s snorting bonanza lasting days. En route, she and later fled to Pakistan, joined the army, then becomes involved in a bizarre kidnapping affair. came to the USA in the 1980s: a biography What follows is a road movie through the vacant comprising a catalog of radical shifts. suburbs of Washington DC and a past that won’t Sold territories: let Margaret out of its clutches. Sold territories: All available Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground At Eternity's Gate European premiere Programme section: Limelight Programme section: Regained Director(s): Julian Schnabel Director(s): Chuck Smith Prod. Countries: USA, United Kingdom Prod. Countries: USA, France, Israel Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 110 Length: 78 Genre: Fiction Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Rocket Science Company: Juno Films Contact: Claire Taylor Contact: Elizabeth Sheldon Email: [email protected]
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Phone: +447525071516 Phone: 423 366 6150 Logline: Willem Dafoe is a stunning Vincent van Logline: Since time immemorial, Nashville has Gogh in this film about the famous artist's last exerted an intense pull on songwriters – people years. Few understood him while he was alive, who have written hits for artists like P!nk, but he is now an artist for eternity. Julian Rihanna, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, whilst Schnabel (Basquiat, The Diving Bell and the remaining anonymous. This film focuses on Butterfly) films intensely and searchingly, just as them; they talk about their craft and its magic. Van Gogh viewed the world. And about Nashville, of course. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4qyjHY No Data Plan Ack World premiere Sold territories: All available Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Present.Perfect. Director(s): Miko Revereza World premiere Prod. Countries: USA Programme section: Tiger Competition Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Zhu Shengze Length: 70 Prod. Countries: USA, Hong Kong Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Miko Revereza Length: 124 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Living in the United States illegally for Company: Burn The Film, Tender Madness over 20 years, Miko Revereza takes the Amtrak Pictures train from Los Angeles to New York in this Contact: Zhu Shengze critical moment of hostility against migrants in Email: [email protected] the country he has come to know as home. The Phone: +8613971100974 journey seems daring, perhaps reckless, yet Logline: Millions of Chinese people do live urgent and necessary. streaming. Those whose poverty, physical Sold territories: All available shortcomings or gender prevent them from taking part in the real world find human contact It All Begins with a Song: The Story of here. A collective portrait based on 800 hours of the Nashville Songwriter video material shows fragments of lives that are International premiere interwoven with virtual showrooms. Programme section: Scopitone Trailer: Director(s): Chusy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVgbiE Prod. Countries: USA Ds_0 Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: All available Length: 80 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Plan A Films
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Prod. Countries: USA Nightmare Cinema Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Length: 112 Director(s): Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Mick Genre: Fiction Garris, Kitamura Ryuhei, David Slade Company: Sierra Affinity Prod. Countries: USA Contact: Jonathan Kier Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 119 Phone: +1 424 253 1060 Genre: Fiction Logline: Unconventional, visually spectacular Company: Cinelou Films drama about superstar Celeste (Raffey Cassidy Contact: Stephanie Caleb ánd Natalie Portman), whose fame is due to a Email: [email protected] violent incident in high school and her elder Logline: Five-part horror story by five sister’s talent. An incisive analysis of the violence grandmasters of the nightmare: slash, splatter and fame that turns people into cynical and gore of the very highest quality. Five narcissists. strangers meet in a deserted cinema, where The Trailer: Projectionist (Mickey Rourke) decides what you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwbQyRfd7DI watch. In the show that follows, they are Sold territories: confronted by their deepest fears and secrets. Sold territories: The Mountain Programme section: Voices Main Programme The Proposal Director(s): Rick Alverson Programme section: Bright Future Main Prod. Countries: USA Programme Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Jill Magid Length: 108 Prod. Countries: USA Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: The Match Factory Length: 83 Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Genre: Creative Documentary Email: Company: Cinetic Media [email protected] Contact: Shane Riley Phone: +49 30443190555 Email: [email protected] Logline: Grimly sober, tragically loveless journey Phone: +1 2122047979 through American psychiatric institutions in the Logline: It’s an unusual wedding gift: the 1950s, seen through the eyes of an orphaned boy archives of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. who travels as a photographer with an Federica Zanco asked her fiancé for them in unscrupulous brain surgeon. Every sign of life 1995, and has kept them since then from the Andy dares show is ruthlessly suppressed. An rest of the world. Artist Jill Magid tries to regain
52 this piece of heritage through flattering letters individualistic adventures in other cities and on and a strange proposal. social media. A satirical, highly contemporary Sold territories: Select Territory Rights Available semi-documentary about self-obsessed millennials, based on the filmmaker’s own life. Bathtubs Over Broadway Trailer: European premiere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvP41phiLNg Programme section: Regained Sold territories: All available Director(s): Dava Whisenant Prod. Countries: USA Hail Satan? Prod. Year: 2018 International premiere Length: 87 Programme section: Big Screen Competition Genre: Creative Documentary Director(s): Penny Lane Company: Focus Features Prod. Countries: USA Contact: Lisa Bunell Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 95 Logline: Did you know that the composers Genre: Creative Documentary behind Cats, Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret Company: Magnolia Pictures once earned their keep with assignments for Contact: Lorna-Lee Torres McDonald's, Ford and Xerox? Ghostwriter Steve Email: [email protected] Young wants to put the forgotten genre of Logline: 'In God We Trust' is written on every company musicals back on the map. What dollar bill. But are the United States not secular? started as a jokey item on the Late Show with The Satanic Temple, founded in 2012 in David Letterman developed into an obsessive Massachusetts, gives us a clear and contrary quest. message, campaigns and causes quite a stir. This Sold territories: documentary takes a look at the world of some surprisingly charming Satanists. Out of Sight, Out of Mind Sold territories: World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main A Self-Induced Hallucination Programme International premiere Director(s): Brian Follmer Programme section: Rabbit Hole Prod. Countries: USA, Mexico Director(s): Dan Schoenbrun Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: USA Length: 131 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Fiction Length: 74 Company: Bullish Productions Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Adam Leotta Company: The Eyeslicer Email: [email protected] Contact: Dan Schoenbrun Phone: 01-818-324-6183 Email: [email protected] Logline: When O’Brien starts acting weird, his Logline: Comprised entirely of found YouTube group of close friends in Los Angeles starts to fall footage, Dan Schoenbrun’s experimental non- apart. Being together makes way for fiction essay is a headlong, often hilarious dive
53 into the online myth of Slender Man and the fractal narrative structure of the internet as a United Kingdom whole. It is at once an audacious critique of, and a sincere paean to the galvanising force of Make Me Up storytelling. Programme section: Rabbit Hole Sold territories: Director(s): Rachel Maclean Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Mr. Soul! Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Scopitone Length: 85 Director(s): Melissa Haizlip, Samuel Pollard Genre: Experimental Prod. Countries: USA Company: Hopscotch Films Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: John Archer Length: 115 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Phone: +447710344508 Company: Shoes In The Bed Productions Logline: Siri wakes to find herself trapped in a Contact: Melissa Haizlip candy-coloured prison, where dolled-up inmates Email: [email protected] compete for survival. As the women go head-to- Logline: Fifty years ago, Afro-Americans were head in a series of demeaning tasks, Siri, with the first able to enjoy an exclusively black talk show help of fellow inmate Alexa, starts subverting the on TV. Producer and moderator Ellis Haizlip was rules and soon reveals the sinister truth that an intellectual and manifestly gay. He didn’t underpins their world. hesitate to bring the Black Panthers into his Trailer: studio, alongside live music from the likes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT7yynEV8Gw Stevie Wonder, Al Green and Patti LaBelle. Sold territories: Alla available except for UK - Trailer: Hopscotch Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfwpOs_Q8Jw Sold territories: Tehran: City of Love International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Ali Jaberansari Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Iran Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Company: Reel Suspects Contact: Matteo Lovadini Email: [email protected] Phone: + 33 6 14 45 62 78 Logline: A former bodybuilder looks up when he gets the chance to train a young athlete; an overweight receptionist uses her sexy voice to
54 seduce men on the telephone and a downcast Contact: Richard Squires, Madeleine Molyneaux religious singer decides to become a wedding Email: [email protected], entertainer. Three stories about love and [email protected] loneliness in Tehran, in a film full of drily comic Phone: +447941292719, +1 212 2523187 moments. Logline: For years, actor/comedian Paul Lynde Trailer: voiced many of Hanna-Barbera’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0ggpbWeOA hysterically laughing, campy cartoon villains. Sold territories: All available But where does the character end and the actor start? Refreshing look at animation, focusing on Ray & Liz voices and laughs instead of the drawing style. Programme section: Limelight Trailer: Director(s): Richard Billingham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skD6TS2hYWE Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Sold territories: All available Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 108 They Shall Not Grow Old Genre: Fiction Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Company: Lux Box Films Beauty Contact: Valentin Carre Director(s): Peter Jackson Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, New Zealand Phone: +33 9 72 57 66 27 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Drenched in tints of grey, this award- Length: 109 winning feature debut by British photographer Genre: Creative Documentary Richard Billingham deals with his childhood in Company: WingNut Films Limited, House the depressing tenements in the suburbs of Productions, Imperial War Museum Birmingham during the Thatcher era. Father Contact: Warner Bros. Pictures Raymond is a chronic alcoholic who drinks Email: [email protected] home-brewed concoctions, while mother Liz Logline: What at first looks like a by-the-book chain-smokes while doing puzzles and sewing documentary on WWI from the fighting men’s the names of heavy metal bands onto denim. perspective, turns out to be the biggest and most Merciless study of a disintegrating family. dazzling experimental film of 2018. Using Sold territories: Benelux - De Filmfreak original materials as something akin to a cyanotype, Jackson digitally created a completely Doozy new experience in colour, 3D and with a mind- International premiere blowing soundscape! Programme section: Bright Future Main Sold territories: Programme Director(s): Richard Squires Beats Prod. Countries: United Kingdom World premiere Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Limelight Length: 70 Director(s): Brian Welsh Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Company: LMFYFF Productions Prod. Year: 2019
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Length: 96 Romantic Comedy Genre: Fiction World premiere Company: Wild Bunch Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Contact: Raphaëlle Vanjak Director(s): Elizabeth Sankey Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Logline: Summer 1994, with rave culture on the Prod. Year: 2019 rise, teens Johnno and Spanner have a final night Length: 79 out together in a Scottish town before they each Genre: Creative Documentary go their own way in life. A raw, black-and-white Company: Montgomery Avenue portrait of a United Kingdom in transition, set to Contact: Jeremy Warmsley pounding techno beats. Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Phone: +447967568142 Logline: The romantic comedy colours how we Out of Blue think about love and relationships. But why is Programme section: Rotterdämmerung this genre so conservative? Sankey uses many Director(s): Carol Morley film clips to analyse the unrealistic picture the Prod. Countries: United Kingdom genre sketches of male-female relationships with Prod. Year: 2018 white, heterosexual, middle-class characters. Yet Length: 110 the romcom continues to move us: Why is this Genre: Fiction so? Company: Trailer: Contact: Sarah Lebutsch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1rjn2vBs Email: [email protected] vk Logline: A whodunnit with nods to the golden Sold territories: All available age of film noir. Investigating the violent death of prominent astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell A Private War turns the world of experienced police woman Programme section: Limelight detective Hoolihan upside down. The hunt she Director(s): Matthew Heineman sinks her teeth into increasingly seems to lead to Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, USA a search for herself. Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: UK, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Length: 110 Latin America, USA, Middle East Genre: Fiction Company: Bloom Media
Contact: Alex Walton Email: [email protected] Logline: The gripping story of war reporter Marie Colvin, whose idealism and commitment to show the world the gruesome reality of war eventually led to serious psychiatric traumas. An excellent role by Rosamund Pike, who portrays the influential reporter with all her fervour and
56 humanity. Rightly nominated for a Golden Logline: What’s wrong with Belmonte that Globe. makes him repel people with his divergent Sold territories: behaviour, even risking losing his young daughter? He wants both a free artist's life and Ceremony normal family life, but on the other hand he Programme section: Signatures doesn't. The director of A Useful Life and The Director(s): Phil Collins Apostate takes warm, ironic pleasure in wrong- Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, footing the viewer. Ukraine Trailer: Prod. Year: 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_oKJUJqq Length: 67 bg Genre: Creative Documentary Sold territories: Uruguay, Mexico , Argentina- Company: HOME Artist Film Theatre Contact: Sarah Perks Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 783 3449357 Logline: A dismantled statue of the philosopher Friedrich Engels travels from Ukraine to Manchester, the historic 'home' of this co- founder of communism. What's left in 2018 of his body of thought? British artist Phil Collins investigates this question in a layered, socially- committed crossover between documentary and road movie. Trailer: Sold territories:
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Belmonte Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Federico Veiroj Prod. Countries: Uruguay, Mexico, Spain Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 75 Genre: Fiction Company: Cinekdoque Contact: Lucia Meik Email: [email protected] Phone: +54 911 5494 6149
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