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TWO OF US BLIND SPOT by Filippo Meneghetti by Pierre Trividic & Patrick-Mario Bernard

With: Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker With: Jean-Christophe Folly, Isabelle Carré, Golshifteh Farahani Nina and Madeleine, two retired women, are secretly deeply in love for decades. From everybody's point of view, including Dominick always had the power to turn invisible but he chose Madeleine's family, they are simply neighbors living on the to keep it secret and barely used it. One day, his ability to top floor of their building. They come and go between their control it gets out of his hands, throwing his life and loves into two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday turmoil… life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madelein's daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them.

Paprika Films - Artémis Productions - Tarantula Ex Nihilo - Les Films De Pierre - Benelux / 2019 France / 2019

ANGOULÊME - PALM SPRINGS - HONORABLE MENTION WHATEVER HAPPENED JURY PRIZE SAF TORONTO TO MY REVOLUTION by Ali Vatansever by Judith Davis With: Saadet Işil Akşoy, Erol Afşin, Onur Buldu, Ümmü Putgül With: Judith Davis, , Claire Dumas Istanbul, 2018. Urban transformation is sweeping away local Angèle, a young and restless activist, never stops crusading communities. Kamil and his wife Remziye are threatened to for social justice, losing sight of her friends, family and love lose their house. When Kamil suddenly disappears, Remziye in the process. have to face the consequences of his actions.

Agat Films - Apsara Films Terminal Film - 2Pilots Film - 4 Proof Film France / 88' / 2018 Turkey - - / 102' / 2018

TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS TRANSFRONTEIRA PERIFERIAS - SLAM RAIVA AUDIENCE AWARD by Partho Sen-Gupta by Sérgio Tréfaut SIX SOPHIA AWARDS INCLUDING BEST FILM With: Adam Bakri, Rachael Blake, Abbey Azziz With: Isabel Ruth, Leonor Siveira, Hugo Bentes

Ricky is a young Arab Australian whose peaceful suburban Portugal, 1950. In the desolate landscape of the South, life is turned on its head when his sister, Ameena, disappears battered by the wind, by misery and hunger, sudden violence without trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, she is erupts: a succession of cold-blooded murders occur over a soon suspected of having joined the ranks of ISIS in Syria. In single night. Why? What's the origin of these crimes? a "post-facts" world, Ricky no longer knows who to believe, his sense of what's right or the 24 hour media cycle of spin. Based on a Portuguese classical novel, Raiva is a dark tale of abuse and revolt.

Invisible Republic - Dolce Vita Films Faux - Refinaria Filmes - Les Films d'Ici Australia - France / 115' / 2018 Portugal - Brazil - France / 84' / 2018

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VENICE VENICE DAYS ALMAYER'S FOLLY TORONTO AS I OPEN MY EYES AUDIENCE AWARD & by BUSAN by Leyla Bouzid EUROPA CINEMA LABEL

With: , Aurora Marion With: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Ben Ali

Somewhere in South-East Asia, in a little lost village on a Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, wide and turbulent river, a European man clings to his pipe 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees dreams out of love for his daughter. A story of passion, loss her as a future doctor. But she doesn't think the same way. She and madness. sings in a political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of Adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad. her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well.

Liaison Cinématographique - Artémis Productions - Blue Monday Productions - Propaganda Productions - Paradise Films Helicotronc France - Belgium / 127' / 2011 France - Tunisia - Belgium - UAE / 102' / 2015

TORONTO KIDS BERLINALE - GOLDEN BEAR & PHANTOM BOY TOUCH ME NOT BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli by Adina Pintilie

Leo, an 11-year-old boy from New York, is a phantom boy: Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love. he can become invisible and fly through walls. He befriends TOUCH ME NOT looks at how we can find intimacy in the Alex, a police officer temporarily stuck in a wheelchair. Alex most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing was hurt by a mysterious gangster threatening the city ourselves. with a dangerous computer virus. Together they form an extraordinary duo, with Leo in the air and Alex on the ground. Manekino Film - Rohfilm Productions - Pink - Agitprop - Les Films de l'Etranger Folimage - Lunanime Romania - Germany - Czech Republic - Bulgaria - France / France - Belgium / 84' / 2015 / Animation 125' / 2018

CINEMANIA - AUDIENCE AWARD CANNES - UN CERTAIN REGARD VIOLETTE TORONTO THE MINISTER by Martin Provost by Pierre Schoeller

With: , , With: Olivier Gourmet, , Olivier Gourmet Zabou Breitman,

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken and unloved Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in post in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. war Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relationship A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction increasingly complex and hostile world. that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

TS Productions - France 3 Cinema - Climax Films Archipel 35 - Les Films du Fleuve - France 3 Cinema France - Belgium / 139' / 2013 France - Belgium / 112' / 2011

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MONTREAL - BEST ACTRESS & LA ROCHELLE - BEST MELODY JURY SPECIAL JUST LIKE A WOMAN ACTRESS AWARD by Bernard Bellefroid by Rachid Bouchareb

With: Rachael Blake, Lucie Debay With: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani,

Melody, 28 years old, decides to rent out her body in order Marylin and Salma travel across the . One to realize her dream. She accepts to carry the child of Emily, of them wants to make her dream come true and become a rich English woman. To make sure everything goes well, a professional belly dancer, while the other one tries to run Emily decides to welcome Melody into her home during the away from the police. The bonds of their friendship are about pregnancy. The bonds that emerge creates all sorts of doubts to couple their destinies, changing their lives forever. and questions. Taglhit LLC - Cohen Media Group - 3B Productions - Artémis Productions - Samsa Film - Arte France - The Bureau - Doha Film Institute - Minerva Liaison Cinématographique - .Mille et une. Films Production Group - Tassili Films Belgium - Luxembourg - France / 94' / 2014 France - USA / 85' / 2012

FIFAM - LOVEBIRDS MILES FROM ANYWHERE AUDIENCE by Christine Dory by Pierre Duculot AWARD

With: , Marie Vialle With: Christelle Cornil, François Vincentelli Boris and Sandra meet and right away love each other with Christina lives in the Charleroi region with her boyfriend Marco. passion. A passion that is strong enough to fight the worst When her grandmother dies she inherits a house in Corsica, enemy to their love: dependency. Boris' to drugs, Sandra's which nobody in her family seems to know of. Everyone tries to to Boris. Bound together, hanging to each other, recluse but convince her to sell the house, but she decides to leave on her alive, they will attempt, out of necessity, to live their love in a own to discover the place. close circuit.

Pierre Grise Productions Need Productions - Perspective Films France / 100' / 2008 Belgium - France / 82' / 2012

LOLA PATER LOCARNO - PIAZZA GRANDE CATCH THE WIND TORONTO by Nadir Moknèche by Gaël Morel

With: , Tewfik Jallab, With: , Lubna Azabal, Mouna Fettou When his mother dies, Zino decides to go looking for his Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned father. But 25 years ago, Farid became Lola... upside down by the company's downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.

Blue Monday Productions - Versus Production TS Productions France - Belgium / 95' / 2017 France / 103' / 2017

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BERLINALE GENERATION - DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT MISS IMPOSSIBLE SPECIAL MENTION THE END OF SILENCE by Emilie Deleuze TORONTO KIDS by Roland Edzard

With: Léna Magnien, Patricia Mazuy, Philippe Duquesne With: Franck Falise, Thierry Frémont,

Some would say Aurore lives a boring life. But when you are A violent quarrel bursts in a remote house in the Vosges a 13 year-old girl, and just like her have an uncompromising mountains. On the first day, Jean, the younger son of the way of looking at boys, school, family or friends, life takes on family, is thrown out of the house after a violent quarrel. He the appearance of a merry psychodrama. Especially with joins a group of hunters for a beat and learns how to kill. a new French teacher, the threat of being sent to boarding The following night, his mother's car is torched. He is held school, repeatedly falling in love and the crazy idea of going responsible. Jean disappears into the forest… on stage with a band...

Agat Films & Cie Les Films de l'Etranger - Dor Film - Swift Productions France / 90' / 2016 France / 80' / 2011

MONTREAL WORLD FF - LOCARNO YOU WILL BE MINE BEST FILM AWARD DIOSES TORONTO by Sophie Laloy by Josué Mendez SAN SEBASTIAN

With: , Judith Davis, Johan Libéreau With: Sergio Gjurnovic, Anahi De Cardenas

Marie leaves her family and moves to Lyon to study piano Before starting at university, Diego and his sister Andrea at the conservatory. For economic reasons, she shares her spend the summer at the family villa together with their apartment with Emma, a childhood friend. Marie submits to father, a wealthy business man and his new young girlfriend the rules and regulations imposed by her roommate which Elisa. Torn between extreme love for his sister and the difficult become even more oppressive as time goes by. Emma relationship with his father, spending days and nights with fascinates, dominates and devastates Marie, who struggles his friends, Diego struggles to find a place in this upper-class between her desire for Emma and the urge to escape. society where all characters behave as gods.

Chullachaki Producciones - TS Productions - Mil Colores Ice 3 - Studio 37 Media - Cachoeira Films France / 96' / 2008 Peru - Argentina - France - Germany / 91' / 2008

TORONTO VENICE - ORIZZONTI SOUTH IS NOTHING BERLINALE GENERATION HOME AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR by Fabio Mollo by Fien Troch

With: Miriam Karlkvist, Vinicio Marchioni With: Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti, Loic Batog Grazia is seventeen and lives in a small town in the South of 17-year-old Kevin, sentenced for violent behavior, is just let Italy. Her brother pietro disappeared years ago; she was told out of prison. To start anew, he moves in with his aunt and he was dead and her father never wanted to talk about it. begins an apprenticeship at her store. Quickly he adapts to One night, after a fight, Grazia enters into the sea and sees a his new home and gets along well with his cousin Sammy. human figure, in which she recognises her brother. That night Through Sammy and his friends, Kevin meets John. Upon she decides to search for him, breaking the rule of silence to discovering John's unbearable situation with his mother, which her father has always obeyed. Kevin feels the urge to help his new friend.

B24 Film - Madakai Prime Time - Versus Productions Italy - France / 90' / 2013 Belgium / 103' / 2016

5 eyes on the world

CANNES ACID ROTTERDAM WAJMA, AN AFGHAN SUNDANCE - ROOM 514 CANNES - ACID LOVE STORY SCREENWRITING AWARD by Sharon Bar-Ziv by Barmak Akram With: Asia Naifeld, Ohad Hall, Guy Kapulni

With: Wajma Bahar, Mustafa Habibi, Hadji Gul When a young, idealistic Israeli military investigator, Anna, confronts an elite officer with accusations of unnecessary A young man in Kabul seduces a girl. When she tells him violence against a Palestinian man in the Occupied she's pregnant, he questions having taken her virginity. Then Territories, her integrity and determination are put to the test. her father arrives, and a timeless, archaic violence erupts – Taking a stand against a perceived abuse of power in spite possibly leading to a crime, and even a sacrifice. of her colleagues' advice to back off because of the political complexities of the case, her quest for justice ends up having far-reaching consequences for everyone involved.

Kabuli Film - Ariroad Cinema Alpha Productions France - Afghanistan / 85' / 2013 Israel / 91' / 2012

VENICE DAYS VENICE DAYS VOLUBILIS KEEP SMILING CINEMED - BEST FEATURE FILM by Faouzi Bensaïdi by Rusudan Chkonia

With: Mouhcine Malzi, Nadia Kounda, Abdelhadi Talbi With: Ia Sukhitashvili, Gia Roinishvili, Olga Babluani

In the Moroccan city of Meknes, recently married Abdelkader "It's all about soul beauty, it's a beauty contest of Mothers, so and Malika struggle to make ends meet. They dream of leaving dear Georgian mothers please keep on smiling." the family house and finally start a life of their own together. Georgia, Tbilisi, 2010, Mother's beauty contest. The winner But one day at work, Abdelkader experiences a violent incident will get an apartment and 25000$. Ten mothers, with seven that will turn their destiny upside down. Volubilis is a tale of love of them belonging to the poorest population layer, will in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins. desperately try to win.

Barney Production - Mont Fleuri Production - Shadi Films Nikê Studio - Ex Nihilo Morocco - France / 106' / 2017 Georgia - France - Luxembourg / 91' / 2012

TALLINN BLACK THE SECRET OF PARIS LA BLANCHE NIGHTS THE ANT CHILDREN by Lidia Terki by Christine François With: Tassadit Mandi, Zahir Bouzerar, Karole Rocher With: , Robinson Stévenin, Yann Trégouët At the age of 70, Rekia decides to leave her village in Kabylie to go to Paris. Alone, she travels across the Mediterranean sea Cécile, a young woman in her thirties, goes to Africa with a to bring Nour, her husband, back home. With nothing more child she has adopted there seven years ago, to try and solve than a hotel address on a piece of paper but with the help of the mystery of his abandonment. new friends, she finally finds Nour in the suburbs. But her hero, the war veteran, the one that has been providing for his family from abroad for the past 40 years, has become a stranger. Agat Films & Cie Day For Night Productions France / 105' / 2011 France - Qatar / 83' / 2016

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DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT SWISS FILM AWARD THE EXTERMINATING ANIMAL HEART FOR BEST FILM ANGELS by Séverine Cornamusaz by Jean-Claude Brisseau With: Olivier Rabourdin, Camille Japy, Antonio Buil

With: Frederick Van Den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil And suddenly, he thinks only of her, his wife. This person whom he doesn't know how to love and who is now falling prey to a François, a French director, is conducting a rather unorthodox gnawing disease. This woman is his, this woman whom he casting. He tries to understand how women desire and knows so little about and whom he would like to be with him. especially how they get pleasure. But by getting too close to Right now. Just like before. their fire, he hasn't sensed the Angels coming.

A la Sorcière Rouge - TS Productions PS Productions - ADR Productions France / 100' / 2006 Switzerland - France / 90' / 2009

SUNDANCE TORINO - BEST & CHORUS BERLINALE PANORAMA HEATWAVE AUDIENCE AWARDS by François Delisle by Raphaël Jacoulot

With: Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette With: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Grégory Gadebois

A separated couple meet again after ten years when the body As temperatures soar in a summer heatwave, daily life in an of their missing son is found. During their forced reunion, they outwardly quiet French hamlet is disrupted by Josef Bousou, both handle the death of their child in their own way. the son of a family of scrap merchants. The villagers single Chorus is a love story that emerges from mourning and him out as a troublemaker, the source of all their problems. leads to two survivors clinging to each other as if to heal the One day, Josef is found lying dead in his family's yard... deepest cut of all.

Funfilm TS Productions - Versus Production Canada / 96' / 2014 France - Belgium / 102' / 2015

ROME LOCARNO THE ICE FOREST TOKYO GARE DU NORD by Claudio Noce by Claire Simon

With: Emir Kusturica, Ksenia Rappoport, Domenico Diele With: , , François Damiens

In the harsh snowy landscape of the Italian Alps, Pietro, a Paris, the Gare du Nord, anything can come along, even young technician arrives to repair an electric power plant of a trains. Like the thousands of lives that intersect at the village plagued by blackouts. There, he encounters a strange station, Ismaël, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet disappearance. there. The station is a world apart, frequented by everyone: the French, immigrants, emigrants, travellers, and ghosts. It's an intersection where each life passes quickly and vanishes.

Ascent Film - Rai Cinema Les Films d'Ici Italy / 100' / 2014 France / 119' / 2013

7 comedy history

THE FALSE SECRETS BERTHE MORISOT by by Caroline Champetier

With: , , Bulle Ogier With: Marine Delterme, Alice Butaud, Malik Zidi

Dorante, a penniless young man, takes on the position of Paris 1865. Berthe Morisot, a young painter, discovers at the steward at the house of Araminte, an attractive widow whom exhibit hall, Manet's Olympia. A sulphurous portrait of a he secretly loves. Dorante's former valet Dubois also works woman embracing her body and her sexuality. A meeting there and is planning a scheme to make Araminte fall in love with Edouard Manet quickly follows this artistic choc. A with Dorante. charmer, in love with women, Manet takes an interest to this young artist apprentice whose face inspires him... Idéale Audience - Arte France - Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe - Maha Productions K'ien Productions France / 87' / 2016 France / 95' / 2012

CAN'T SAY NO THE LAW by Iliana Lolic by Christian Faure

With: Stefano Accorsi, Laurent Stocker, With: Emmanuelle Devos, Lorant Deutsch

"Can't say no to that." Adèle is 30 years old and single but any Fall 1974, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing puts resemblance to a damsel in distress stops there. his Health Minister, Simone Veil, in charge of a daunting Heart-wise: prince charmings constantly line up at her door. task: to carry the abortion law. During three days, she will Health-wise: she suffers from a serious lack of sleep. defend her text before parliamentarians with exemplary Job-wise: will she know how to answer the call of foreign tenacity. Diane, a young journalist, makes it the subject of literature? her first investigation, and discovers over her explorations a Our advice: learn how to say "NO" fast! considerable changing of the women's social status.

ADR Productions Canal - TPS CinéCinéma K'ien Productions France / 90' / 2009 France / 90' / 2015

NO POLITICS AT DINNER THE STARGAZER by Valérie Minetto by Stan Neumann

With: Olivier Perrier, Michèle Moretti, Guilaine Londez With: Denis Lavant, Max Baissette de Malglaive

For the last three elections that left a mark on France, the 1610, Johannes Kepler is the Emperor Rudolph's astronomer. members of the Casini family went to vote before gathering He is a hero following his quest. During ten nights only, Kepler as usual for a good meal. During each of these family lunches, will have access to Galileo's telescope. Will he be able to prove they exchange news, discuss events that affected them, talk his theories while being disturbed by several astonishing about the elections and their points of view. This brings characters? out the old family differences, the unending parent-child conflicts and the no less unending brother-sister alliances. As they clash, political identities shift, disagreements are voiced, family bonds strained or reinforced. TS Productions - France Televisions Les Films d'Ici France / 64' / 2009 France / 90' / 2011

8 filmmakers’ collections

VANJA D'ALCANTARA

BEYOND THE STEPPES LOCARNO KOKORO With: Agnieszka Grochowska, Aleksandra Justa With: Isabelle Carré, Jun Kunimura, Need Productions - Lunanime - Akson Studio Need Productions - Blue Monday Productions - ACPAV - Belgium - Poland / 83' / 2010 Productions Avenida Belgium - Canada / 92' / 2016

MERZAK ALLOUACHE

VENICE DAYS DIRECTORS' HARRAGAS NORMAL! THE REPENTANT FORTNIGHT With: Nabil Asli, Samir El Hakim, With: Adila Bendimerad, Nadjib With: Nabil Asli, Adila Bendimerad, Seddik Benyagoub Oulebsir, Nouha Mathlouti, Nabil Asli Khaled Benaissa Librisfilms - Baya Films Baya Films JBA Productions - Baya Films France - Algeria / 103' / 2009 France - Algeria / 111' / 2011 France - Algeria / 87' / 2012

STÉPHANE BRIZÉ

LOCARNO CÉSAR A FEW HOURS MADEMOISELLE FOR BEST NOT HERE OF SPRING CHAMBON ADAPTATION TO BE LOVED

With: , Emmanuelle With: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine With: Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Seigner, Hélène Vincent Kiberlain, Aure Atika Georges Wilson TS Productions TS Productions TS Productions France / 92' / 2012 France / 101' / 2009 France / 93' / 2005

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JACQUES DOILLON

LOVE BATTLES BERLINALE PANORAMA YOU, ME AND US ROME

With: , James Thiérrée With: Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi, Doillon & Cie - Groupe 2 Marilyne Fontaine France / 98' / 2013 4 à 4 Productions France / 136' / 2012

MARION HÄNSEL

ROTTERDAM TORONTO TENDERNESS KARLOVY VARY UPSTREAM VENICE DAYS With: Olivier Gourmet, Marilyne Canto, Adrien Jolivet With: Sergi Lopez, Olivier Gourmet, John Lynch Man's Films Productions - A.S.A.P. Films Man's Films Productions - SNG Film - Kinorama Belgium - France / 80' / 2013 Belgium - The Netherlands - Croatia / 93' / 2016

BLACK OCEAN VENICE DAYS THERE WAS A LITTLE SHIP

With: Nicolas Robin, Adrien Jolivet, Romain David Man's Films Productions - RTBF Man's Films Productions - A.S.A.P. Films - Neue Pegasos Film Belgium / 65' / 2019 Belgium - France - Germany / 87' / 2010

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BRUNO DUMONT

LOCARNO CANNES - CANNES - COINCOIN AND HUMANITY JURY PRIZE THE LIFE CAMÉRA D'OR THE EXTRA-HUMANS With: Emmanuel Schotte, Séverine OF JESUS 2 SEASONS Caneele, Philippe Tuiller With: Alane Delhaye, Bernard Pruvost, 3B Productions - Arte France - CRRAV With: David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Philippe Jore, Lucy Caron France / 148' / 1998 Kader Chaatouf Taos Films - Arte France 3B Productions - CRRAV France / 208' & 4 x 52" / 2018 France / 96' / 1997

ROBERTO MINERVINI

THE PASSAGE RAINDANCE LOW TIDE ORIZZONTI - VENICE

With: Soledad ST. Hilaire, Mean Gene Kelton With: Daniel Blanchard, Melissa McKinney Pulpa - Poliana Productions Pulpa - Poliana Productions - Ondarossa Film USA - Belgium / 89' / 2011 USA - Belgium - Italy / 92' / 2012

CANNES - OUT OF COMPETITION CANNES - STOP TORONTO THE OTHER SIDE UN CERTAIN REGARD ROTTERDAM THE POUNDING HEART With: Mark Kelley, Lisa Allen, James Lee Miller Agat Films & Cie - Okta Film With: Sara Carlson, Colby Trichell France - Italy / 92' / 2015 Pulpa - Poliana Productions - Ondarossa Film USA - Belgium - Italy / 100' / 2013

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