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SCRIPT & Teaser AVAILABLE BERLIN SYNDROME Cate Shortland By the director of Lore (Locarno 2012 – Audience Award) and Somersault (Cannes 2004 – Un Certain Regard) In Production
SCRIPT & Teaser AVAILABLE BERLIN SYNDROME A film by Cate Shortland By the director of Lore (Locarno 2012 – Audience Award) and Somersault (Cannes 2004 – Un Certain Regard) With Teresa Palmer (Lionsgate’s The Choice, Point Break, I Am Number Four, Warm Bodies) and Max Riemelt (Sense8, The Wave, Free Fall) By the scriptwriter of Snowtown Adapted from Melanie Joosten’s novel
While holidaying in Berlin, Australian photojournalist Clare meets Andi, a charismatic local man and there is an instant attraction between them. A night of passion ensues. But what initially appears to be the start of a romance suddenly takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes up the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment. An easy mistake to make, of course, except Andi has no intention of letting her go again. Ever.
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Produced by Aquarius Films (Wish You Were Here) Australia, Germany | Budget: 6 MILLION USD | Delivery Spring 2016 In Post-Production PROMO REEL AVAILABLE News From Planet Mars Dominik Moll By the director of Harry, He’s Here to Help ©DR ©DR
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PROMO REEL AVAILABLE News From Planet Mars A film by Dominik Moll By the director of Harry, He’s Here to Help With François Damiens (La Famille Bélier – César Nomination for Best Actor, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies), Vincent Macaigne (Eden, Tristesse Club, Nominated for the César for Best Upcoming Actor in La Fille du 14 juillet), Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown – Winner of the César for Best Foreign Language Film & Oscar Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 2013) and Léa Drucker (The Blue Room)
Philippe Mars is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. He’s trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling… But ©DR ©DR the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically… When his colleague (who also accidentally tried to chop off his ear in a fit of misplaced anger) moves into Philippe’s apartment, things start to go from bad to insane for our hero.
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By the Cinematographer of Joachim Lafosse’s Our Children, The White Knights By the Costume Designer of Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bones and A Prophet Produced by Diaphana Films (Harry, He’s Here to Help, Playing Dead, Persepolis) FRANCE | Budget: 5 million Euros | Delivery Spring 2016 In Production SCRIPT AVAILABLE SLACK BAY Bruno Dumont By the director of Li’l Quinquin (Cannes 2014 – Directors’ Fortnight), Camille Claudel 1915 (Berlin 2013 – Official Competition), Flanders (Cannes 2006 – Winner Grand Prize), Humanity (Cannes 1999 – Winner Grand Prize, best Actor and best Actress) and The Life of Jesus (Cannes 1997 – Winner Caméra d’Or) In Production
SCRIPT AVAILABLE SLACK BAY A film by Bruno Dumont By the director of Li’l Quinquin (Cannes 2014 – Directors’ Fortnight), Camille
©DR Claudel 1915 (Berlin 2013 – Official Competition), Flanders (Cannes 2006 – Winner Grand Prize), Humanity (Cannes 1999 – Winner Grand Prize, best Actor and best Actress) and The Life of Jesus (Cannes 1997 – Winner Caméra d’Or) With Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Three Colors: Blue), Fabrice Luchini (Best Actor Venice 2015 in Courted, Gemma Bovary, In The House, The Women on the 6th Floor) and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Munich, Human Capital, 5x2) Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disap- pearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named “The Eternal”, who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetu-
©DR ous Ma Loute, aged 18.
Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems’ mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family – all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding – stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bréforts. Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute and the young and mischievous Billie Van Peteghem, confusion and mystification will descend on both families, shaking their convictions, foundations and way of life.
Produced by 3B Productions (Camille Claudel 1915, The Attack, Hors Satan) France | Budget 6,9 Million Euros | Delivery Spring 2016 ©DR In Post-Production SCRIPT & TEASER AVAILABLE THE DARKNESS Daniel Castro Zimbrón In Post-Production
SCRIPT & TEASER AVAILABLE THE DARKNESS A film by Daniel Castro Zimbrón With Brontis Jodorowsky (La Danza de la Realidad)
The Earth has stopped spinning and days have stopped passing by. One toxic, dense fog covers the forest immersed in eternal twilight. Argel has spent his life, with his two siblings, locked inside the basement of an old cabin. They believe that a wild beast wanders in the forest’s depths. When his older brother mysteriously disappears, Argel undertakes a quest which will cause him to break the order and the rules with which he has grown up. Little by little he will discover the darkest secrets and mysteries that both his father and the forest hide.
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By the production designer of Babel and Amores Perros By the editor of POST TENEBRAS LUX AND HELI By the VFX Supervisor of Millenium Produced by Varios Lobos | Co-produced by Les films de l’étranger Mexico, France | Delivery Spring 2016 Venice Telluride In Competition Official Selection Marguerite Xavier Giannoli By the director of The Singer (Cannes 2006 – In Competition) and In the Beginning (Cannes 2009 – In Competition) Completed
Venice Telluride In Competition Official Selection Marguerite A film by Xavier Giannoli By the director of The Singer (Cannes 2006 – In Competition) and In the Beginning (Cannes 2009 – In Competition) With Catherine Frot (Haute Cuisine, The Page Turner), André Marcon (Me, Myself and Mum, On the Other Side of the Tracks), Michel Fau (Cyrano de Bergerac, Harry, He’s Here to Help, Swimming Pool) and Christa Théret (The Man who Laughs, Renoir)
1921, the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a great cause at the owner’s place. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. Marguerite sings. She sings wholeheartedly, but she sings terribly out of tune. In ways quite similar to the Castafiore, Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience, always coming in for a good laugh, acts as if she was the diva she believes she is. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream. Despite her husband’s reluctance, and with the help of a has-been divo, both funny and mean, she decides to train for her first recital in front of a crowd of complete strangers.
“Cover your ears and open your hearts! A pitch-perfect comedy of manners… a splendid satire.” VARIETY “Catherine Frot is, ahem, pitch-perfect as the industriously tone-deaf Baroness… Michel Fau is a foppish delight…” SCREEN “Catherine Frot in a heartbreaking and hilarious performance.” THE NEW YORK TIMES “MARGUERITE is a film with a wider emotional spectrum than anything else in Telluride. Catherine Frot is at once hilarious and heartbreaking.” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Produced by FIDÉLITÉ FILMS (Little Nicholas, ON MY WAY) CO-PRODUCED BY France 3 Cinéma, SIRENA FILM (THE BEST OFFER, A ROYAL AFFAIR) AND SCOPE PICTURES FRANCE, CZECH REPUBLIC, BELGIUM | 2015 I 127 min I French Biarritz Latin Warsaw Warsaw American FF Film Festival Film Festival Jury Prize Best Director Best Actress A MONSTER WITH A THOUSAND HEADS Rodrigo Plá By the director of La Zona (Venice 2007 – Lion of the Future) and La Demora (Berlin 2012 – Winner Ecumenical Jury) Completed
Biarritz Latin BFI LONDON American FF Film Festival Jury Prize Official Selection Tokyo Morelia Film Warsaw Warsaw Los Cabos international Festival In Competition Film Festival Film Festival film festival Official Selection Best Director Best Actress A MONSTER WITH A THOUSAND HEADS A film by Rodrigo Plá By the director of La Zona (Venice 2007 – Lion of the Future) and La Demora (Berlin 2012 – Winner Ecumenical Jury) With Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre (Güeros), Emilio Echevarría (Amores Perros, Y tu Mama Tambien)
In a desperate attempt to save her husband’s life by accessing the medical treatment that he needs to survive, Sonia embarks on a chase against her corrupt and negligent insurance company and its complicit representatives – leading her son and herself into a vertiginous spiral of violence. A wounded animal doesn’t cry, it bites.
“Rodrigo Pla is back with the most commercially viable film, a tense, sometimes bleakly comic drama of exasperation that once again dips into genre conventions to explore the ‘us against them’ social fault lines of contemporary Mexico...” SCREEN “A lean, mean thriller. At a nervily compact 74 minutes, ‘A Monster With a Thousand Heads’ often feels as if it’s unfolding in real time. Such is the considerable achievement of Uruguayan - Mexican helmer Rodrigo Pla’s agitated, on-the-move hostage thriller.” VARIETY “A lean and efficient mix of thriller, drama and socio-political commentary... Shot through with dark irony and containing several genre elements.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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By the art director of Desierto and Somos Lo Que Hay By the composers of Jaula de Oro and Maria Full of Grace By the editor of Cesar Chavez and The Headless Woman I Produced by Buenaventura Cine I Mexico I 2015 I 75 min I Spanish Platform Competition SPECIAL JURY AWARD Special Mention NEON BULL Gabriel Mascaro
“ Neon Bull is the great discovery of this year’s TIFF… A unique gem” INDIEWIRE “When I watched it I had the same feeling that I had the first time I saw a David Lynch film.”TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey “Mascaro and Mexican d.p. Diego Garcia (who lensed Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Cemetery of Splendor’) demonstrate a masterful eye for composition.” VARIETY “An unexpected delight, at times as carnal, sweaty and instinctive as its main characters but also playfully original and thought-provoking… A dreamlike mise en scene.” SCREEN Completed
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Rio international Rio international Rio international Rio international Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Warsaw Best Film Best Screenplay Best Best Supporting Grand Jury Prize Cinematography Actress NEON BULL A film by Gabriel Mascaro By the director of August Winds (Locarno 2014 – Special Mention) With Juliano Cazarré (360, Tropa de Elite), Alyne Santana (Neighboring Sounds), Carlos Pessoa
Iremar works at the Vaquejadas, a rodeo in the north east of Brazil where two men on horseback try to bring down a bull by grabbing its tail. It’s dusty and back-breaking work, but Iremar is a natural ‘Vaqueiro’, feeding, prepping and taking care of the bulls. Home is the truck used to transport the animals from show to show, which he shares with his co-workers; Galega, an exotic dancer, the truck driver and mother to the young & spirited Cacá, and Zé, his rotund compadre in the bullpen. Together they form a makeshift but close-knit family. But Brazil and the Northeast are changing and the region’s booming clothing industry has stirred new ambitions in Iremar. Swinging in his hammock in the back of the truck, his head is filled with dreams of pattern cutting, sequins and exquisite fabrics as he mentally assembles elaborate new fashion designs…
“ Neon Bull is the great discovery of this year’s TIFF… A unique gem” INDIEWIRE “When I watched it I had the same feeling that I had the first time I saw a David Lynch film.” TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey “Mascaro and Mexican d.p. Diego Garcia (who lensed Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Cemetery of Splendor’) demonstrate a masterful eye for composition.” VARIETY “An unexpected delight, at times as carnal, sweaty and instinctive as its main characters but also playfully original and thought-provoking… A dreamlike mise en scene.” SCREEN
By the cinematographer of Cemetery Of Splendour Produced by DESVIA | Co-produced by Malbicho Cine and Viking Film Brazil, URUGUAY, NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 101 min | PORTUGUESE Locarno In Competition Discovery
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Deauville American Film Festival Revelation Prize James White Josh Mond
“Knockout performances!” Variety “Devastating!” Robert Ebert.com “An arresting feature debut. Viscerally acted.” The Hollywood Reporter “A must-see!” The Huffington Post “One of the standouts in this year’s Sundance selection.” THE GUARDIAN “Bracingly authentic and unique.” LITTLE WHITE LIES “Incredibly powerful, emotionally crippling.” EXAMINER.COM “Christopher Abbott and Cynthia Nixon triumph in devastating ‘James White’” INDIEWIRE Completed
audience award Deauville Locarno American Film Festival Discovery In Competition Revelation Prize James White A film by Josh Mond By the Producers of Afterschool and Martha Marcy May Marlene With Christopher Abbott (Girls, A Most Violent Year), Golden Globe Nominee Cynthia Nixon (Sex & the City), Scott ‘KiD CuDi’ Mescudi (Entourage)
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother’s battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely
“Knockout performances by Cynthia Nixon and ‘Girls’ alumnus Christopher Abbott. ‘James White’ could be considered Mond’s ‘Amour’, albeit seen through the eyes of a child rather than a spouse.” VARIETY “No film at Sundance this year hit me with more force emotionally than Josh Mond’s ‘James White’. Devastating. Abbott is simply phenomenal here.” Robert Ebert.com “This extraordinarily intimate drama marks an arresting feature debut for writer-director Josh Mond. A viscerally acted drama whose rich visual and sonic textures intensify the plunge into the title character’s messy life.” The Hollywood Reporter “Standing high above the rest of the films at Sundance this year, Mond’s directorial debut is a must-see. Cynthia Nixon is stunning in the role of James’ mother, generous, unselfconscious and heartbreaking.” THE HUFFINGTON POST
“One of the standouts in this year’s Sundance selection.” THE GUARDIAN
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Produced by Borderline Films (Afterschool, Martha Marcy May Marlene) USA | 2015 | 86 min | English Special Presentations Louder Than Bombs Joachim Trier By the director of Oslo, August 31st (Cannes 2011 – Un Certain Regard) and Reprise Completed
Special Presentations Louder Than Bombs A film by Joachim Trier By the director of Oslo, August 31st (Cannes 2011 – Un Certain Regard) and Reprise With Isabelle Huppert, Academy Award Nominee Gabriel Byrne, Academy Award Nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Academy Award Nominee Amy Ryan, Academy Award Nominee David Strathairn and Devin Druid
Three years after her unexpected death, the preparation of an exhibition celebrating the famous war photographer Isabel Reed brings her husband and their two sons together for the first time in years. When an unsettling secret resurfaces, the three men are forced to look at each other and them- selves in a new light, redefining their innermost needs and desires.
“Trier’s English-language debut finds him in top form, completely at ease with the language and fluently using to great effect the same subtle approach and lively visual grammar perfected in his two earlier films.” SCREENDAILY “A group portrait of great subtlety. A maze, impressive in its virtuosity. Stunningly written, directed with steady, gorgeous and crystal-clear shots. In the vein of Oslo 31, Trier continues to scan a certain neurosis of the western bourgeoisie with a striking mix of pride and humility.” LES INROCKUPTIBLES “It took a Norwegian director to revive a certain idea of US independent cinema: subtle, sophisticated and at times funny, like Gus Van Sant at his best. Trier knows how to watch his actors with a rare mix of empathy and acuity.” TELERAMA
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Produced by Motlys (Oslo, August 31st, North, Turn me on Dammit) Co-produced by Animal Kingdom, BIG BEACH FILMS, Bona Fide, Memento Films Production and Nimbus Film Norway, France, USA | 2015 I 103 Min I English | Budget 11 MILLIONS USD THE PROPAGANDA Alvaro Longoria By the director of Sons of the Clouds GAME By the editor of Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of The United States Completed
THE PROPAGANDA GAME a documentary by Alvaro Longoria By the director of Sons of the Clouds
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards to world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
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By the editor of Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of The United States, Comandante, Alexandre By the cinematographer of 7 Days in La Havana, La Plaga By the composer of Mama, The Impossible, The Orphanage Produced by Morena Films (Cell 211, Even The Rain, Ma Ma) Spain | 2015 | 94 min I English