Yashwantrao Chavan MESSAGE Shri Yashwantrao Chavan, born on 12th March 1913 in a small village called Devrashtra in the then Satara district, hailed from a rural family with modest means. His father was a bailiff who succumbed to the epidemic of plague when Yashwantrao was only four years old. He was brought up by his mother under difficult circumstances. He grew up in a family where social and political reforms were a subject of daily debate and discourse. He spent about 15 months in jail but the period of incarceration turned out to be a blessing in disguise. There were many eminent scholars who were also in the same jail and they conducted virtual classes and turned the jail into a university. It was in the jail that he first absorbed knowledge of political ideologies and classical literature.
When India's independence was on the horizon, he won the election to the Legislative Assembly in 1946 and began his political career as Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Minister, Shri Morarji Desai. Soon he got involved in the vortex of movement for the Samyukta Maharashtra. Eventually, he became the Chief Minister of bilingual State of Bombay in 1956. He made a name for himself with his capacity for work, candid dialogue with opposition and administrative acumen. The State of Maharashtra was formed on 1st May 1960 and Yashwantrao became the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
In November 1962, he became the Defence Minister in the aftermath of the India-China conflict. He worked hard to restore the morale of the armed forces and to enhance his strength through modern weapons, better equipment, organizational changes and a harmonious relationship with the armed forces. The efforts paid off in the India-Pakistan conflict in 1965. Subsequently, he held the high offices of Union Home Minister, Union Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of India. In 1979, he became the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
He was a freedom fighter, effective parliamentarian and an astute administrator. He was a connoisseur of fine arts, a great lover of books and an author of acknowledged literary merit. He was very fond of watching good films, plays and stage performances of folk-art. The 'Yashwant' International Film Festival is a tribute to the many-sided personality of Shri Yashwantrao Chavan. Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan Presents
Jointly organized by: Supported by: Government of Maharashtra President Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai
Shri Sharad Pawar Foreword
The Seventh Yashwant International Film Festival will be held from 20th to 26th January 2017 at the Chavan Centre. It is being organized by the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai in collaboration with the Pune Film Foundation and University of Mumbai and with financial support from the Government of Maharashtra.
In course of the week, 82 films will be exhibited in three different halls of the Chavan Centre, viz. Auditorium, Rangaswar and Cultural Hall. There will be 53 films in the global category, 7 films from Latin America and 16 animation films. The country focus will be on Vietnam. There will be three Marathi films and three films from other Indian languages. I feel confident that the discerning film viewers will throng the Chavan Centre and enjoy the bonanza of these films.
At the inaugural function on 20th January 2017 at 5 P.M. the Guest of honour will be versatile actor Shri Pankaj Kapoor. He will be felicitated for his notable contribution to the Indian cinema. Shri Pankaj Kapoor, who is an engineer, is rightly famous as an actor. He has won national awards for his roles in films 'Raakh', 'Ek Doctor ki Mout', and 'Maqbool'. In honour of Smita Patil, a much loved heroine of several outstanding films in Hindi and Marathi, there will be a special lecture by Shri Ashutosh Gowarikar, a Director reputed for his innovative and evocative films.
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Dr. Jabbar Patel Director - 7th YIFF MESSAGE We are pleased to present the 7th Yashwant International Film Festival. This year Mumbai University has joined hands with Yashwantrao Chavan Pratisthan and Pune Film Foundation to make this festival more popular among the young film buffs.
This year, we are presenting the Distinguished Award for Outstanding Contribution in meaningful Indian cinema to Mr. Pankaj Kapur, a veteran Actor, writer and director.
Smita Patil Memorial Lecture, a highlight of the festival since last year, would be given this year by renowned film maker Mr. Ashutosh Gowarikar.
You are aware that YIFF focuses more on academic events. This year the master class is delivered by the ace composer from Chile Mr. Jorge Arriagada on music and sound in Cinema. We assure all the cinema lovers a treat of best of the world cinema. FILM DISTRIBUTORS Alma Cinema Apurv Sathe Beijing Film Academy (Bfa- China) Chapman University (USA) Cinema Republic Columbia University (Usa) Dreamlabs East West Entertainment Echo Art Films Elle Driver Esma(France) Figa Films Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Fabw-Germany) Filmová A Televizní Fakulta (Famu-Czech Republic) Films Distribution Film and Television Institute of India İfp İstanbul Film Prodüksiyon Ilgar Safat Koninklijke Academie Voor Schone Kunsten(Kask-Belgium) La Femis (France) Embassy Of Vietnam Liu Yulin London Film School (Lfs - United Kingdom) Luca School Of Arts (Belgium) Manejo Festivales Mangesh Joshi M-Appeal Media Luna Memento Films Milano Civica Scuola Di Cinema (Mcsc - Italy ) Mk2 Films Mosquito Films Distribution National Film And Television School (Nfts -Uk ) Neno Belchev New Europe Film Sales Niv Art Movies Northen Film School(Nfs/Lbu-Uk) Państwowa WyżSza Szkoła Filmowa, TelewizyjnaITeatralna (Pwsftvit-Poland) Pascale Ramonda Premium Films Royal Institute For Theatre, Cinema And Sound (Ritcs - Belgium) Sevielle International Entertainment One Sheridan College (Canada) South African School Of Motion Picture Medium And Live Performance (Afda-South Africa) St. Petersburg State Institute Of Film And Television (Spsift -Russia) St. Xavier's College (Autonomous - India) Theatre And Film Georgia State Universit (Tafu - Georgia) Tvco/ Tico Film Universität Für Musik Und Darstellende Kunst Wien (Umdk - Austria) University Of North Carolina School Of The Art (Uncsa - Usa) Urban Distribution Vikram Shankpale Visit Films Vysoka Skola Muzickych Umeni(Vsmu Slovakia) Whistling Woods International (Wwi - India) Wide Management Wild Bunch CREDITS
Shri Sharad Pawar Shri Arun Gujarathi Smt. Supriya Sule PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT CHAIRPERSON
Shri Hemant Takle Shri Sharad Kale Dr.Jabbar Patel TREASURER GENERAL SECRETARY FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Shri Samar Nakhate Shri Santosh Unecha Shri Satish Alekar CREATIVE DIRECTOR Associate Festival Director Shri Makrand Sathe Shri Abhijeet Ranadive FILM SELECTION COMMITTEE
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OPENING FILM My Revolution 52 STUDENTS SHORT FILMS: Daughter 13 X500 53 LIVE ACTION Jacqueline Argentine 54 The Stepmother 91 CLOSING FILM One of Us 55 Tenants 91 Thank You For Bombing 15 Destiny 56 Kanche 91 Ma' Rosa 57 Exodus 92 WORLD CINEMA Inner City 58 Angelus Novus 92 Flemish Heaven 17 The Shepherd 59 Andhere Mein 92 Someone To Talk To 18 Malaria 60 Strange Bird 93 The Student 19 Duet 61 Homeless 93 Zoology 20 Valderama 62 Kalpvriksha 93 A Decent Woman 21 Parting 63 Pitter Patter Goes My Heart 94 The Innocents 22 Glory 64 The Patriot 94 In Between 23 Graduation 65 PhoolPhakhru 94 Don't Tell Orhan Pamuk That His The Neon Demon 66 Everything will be OK 95 Novel Snow Is In The Film I Made On the Milky Road 68 About kars 24 STUDENTS SHORT FILMS: The First Born 25 COUNTRY FOCUS: VIETNAM ANIMATION Where I Grow Old 26 The Children of the Village 69 Happy End 97 Yo 27 The Prophet 70 Some Thing 97 El Amparo 28 Yellow Flowers on Green Grass 71 Missing Key 97 Cinema Novo 29 On the peaceful peak 72 Wellington Jr 98 United States of Love 30 Yen’s Life 73 Mila Fog 98 The Last Family 31 The Seaside 98 Home Care 32 LATIN AMEICA The Three Ring Circus 99 Hortensia 33 Good people 75 Black Sheep 99 Sieranevada 34 Land and Shade 76 Tumling Street 99 I, Olga Hepnarova 35 Donkeys 77 Hum 100 Dirty, Yellow, Darkness 36 Otilia Rauda 78 The Case of Nips and Porkington 100 Wastelands 37 Babylon Sisters 79 Don’t Forget About Mori 100 The Interrogation 38 Ashes and Diamonds 80 Another Everest 101 Five to Nine 39 Close Up 81 When It Rains Outside 101 News From Planet Mars 40 D 729 101 All of a Sudden 41 INDIAN CINEMA Promenade 102 My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father Search For Self 83 on the Shore of the Black Sea 42 Daughter Of The Earth 84 Voir Du Pays 43 Pinky Beauty Parlour 85 Louise by the Shore 44 Personal Shopper 45 MARATHI CINEMA Harmonium 46 Lathe Joshi 87 Nelly 47 Revolve 88 Alba 48 Ek te chaar band 89 The Moderns 49 Cloudy Sunday 50 Alma de Sant Pere 51
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Dokhtar Director: Reza Mirkarimi 2016 - 103’- Persian - Colour - Iran Producer: Reza Mirkarimi Cast: Farhad Aslani, Merila Zarei, Mahour Alvand Screenplay: Alessandra Acciai, Daniele Ciprì, Massimo Gaudioso, Miriam Rizzo Cinematographer: Hamid Khozui Abyaneh Editor: Meysam Mouini Sound Designer: Bahman Ardalan, Amir Hosein Ghasemi Music Composer: Mohammad Reza Aligholi Costume Designer: Mansoureh Yazdanjou Production Designer: Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi World Sales Address: DreamLab Films World Sales Phone: +33(0) 4 93 38 75 61 World Sales Email: [email protected] The strict and traditional MrAzizi leads an uneventful family life in an oil town of southern Festival/Awards: Iran. Then one day, exasperated by her father's authoritarianism, Setareh announces she is off to Tehran to say farewell to one of her best friends who is leaving Iran for good. Batumi International ArtHouse Film Festival 2016 Unfortunately, the engagement celebrations of Setareh's younger sister are taking place Fajr Film Festival 2016 simultaneously. Despite her father's objections Setareh takes the plane for Tehran. This Moscow International Film Festival 2016 act of disobedience sets in motion a series of perturbations that upset the calm tranquility Valladolid International Film Festival 2016 of the paterfamilias. International Film Festival of India, Goa 2016
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Reza Mirkarimi Born on January 27, 1967 in Tehran, Mirkarimi graduated Today2014 from the Fine Arts University in Graphic Arts. His cinema activities began A Cube of Sugar 2011 in 1987 with a series of shorts followed by two TV series for young people. His 1999 first feature, The Child and the Soldier, won several As Simple as That 2008 national and international awards, including the Golden Butterfly at the So Close, So Far 2005 1999 Isfahan International Children and Teenagers Film Festival, Iran and Here, a Shining Light 2002 the Montgolfiered'Argent at the 2000 Festival of 3 Continents, Nantes, as well as the Golden Shoe at the 2001 Children and Teenagers Film Festival Under the Moonlight 2001 in Zelin, Croatia. 13 CLOSING FILM Thank You For Bombing Closing Film
Thank You For Bombing Director: Barbara Eder 2015 - 100’ - English, German, Dari - Colour - Switzerland, Germany, Austria Producer: Tommy Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn Cast: Manon Kahle, Raphael von Bargen, Erwin Steinhauer Screenplay: Barbara Eder, Tommy Pridnig Cinematographer: Christian Haake Editor: Monika Willi, Claudia Linzer Sound Designer: Atanas Tcholakov Music Composer: Wolfgang Mitterer Costume Designer: Christine Ludwig Production Designer: Production Company: World Sales: Premium Films World Sales Phone: +33 1 42 77 06 31 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: Three reporters. Three episodes. The images of war and terror that Ewald delivered over http://www.thankyouforbombing.com/ years to Austrians via their TV screens are now long forgotten. But he alone can still smell the stench of dead bodies on his clothes. Having unexpectedly received a commission to Festivals: fly to Afghanistan, his past catches up with him at the airport. Meanwhile, US journalist Zurich Film Festival (2015) Lana reports from Kabul on the impending war. She wants to be a renowned reporter one Viennale Film Festival (2016) day and sees this commission as a chance to showcase her talents. However, her colleagues refuse to take the beautiful young woman seriously, until she shows them what she’s made of. And finally, spectacular sound and images of death and destruction are expected from news correspondent Cal. Waiting for the first bomb to drop turns into a battle with himself and leads him to question the mechanisms of modern-day reporting. THANK YOU FOR BOMBING portrays three journalists enter a war that has not yet begun, but started in their heads long ago.
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Barbara Eder is an Austrian writer and an actress. Her directorial debut Gaze Into the Abyss (Blick in den Abgrund) (2013) was a film based on her personal experience during student exchange Inside America (2010) programme in the USA, Inside America (2010). Her documentary Gaze into the Abyss (2013) won the ROMY for Best Cinema Documentary. Her second film, Thank You for Bombing (2015) received rave reviews from viewers, critics and, publications around the world.
15 WORLD CINEMA Flemish Heaven World Cinema
Mamiroo Director: Peter Monsaert 2016 - 112’ - Flemish - Colour - Belgium Producer: Annemie Degryse, Jan De Clercq, Alexander Vandeputte Cast: Sara Vertongen, Wim Willaert, Esra Vandenbussche, Ingrid De Vos Screenplay: Peter Monsaert Cinematographer: David Williamson Editor: Alain Dessauvage Sound Designer: Matthias Hillegeer Music Composer: Frederik Van de Moortel, Bert Dockx Production Designer: Philippe Bertin Production Company: Lunanime World Sales Address: UDI – Urban Distribution International World Sales Phone: +33 1 48 70 46 55 World Sales Email: [email protected] The women who work at Le Ciel Flamand give hugs to people who need help. That's how Website of the Film: lecielflamand.be Sylvie describes her family's brothel business to her six-year-old daughter, Eline. Festival : Le Ciel Flamand zooms in on the lives of three generations of women. Veteran sex workers, TIFF (2016) - Discovery Sylvie and her mother Monique are not ashamed of what they do. Sex is their profession. They run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. They read online reviews of San Sebastian IFF (2016) - New Directors their brothel as a hotel owner might do on Trip Advisor and they discuss how the latest BFI London (2016) - Thrill Section technologies might improve their security. Eline, Sylvie’s six-year-old daughter, is Kolkata IFF (2016) - Cinema International Section fascinated by the mysterious workplace of her mother and grandmother, but she is never IFFI Goa (2016) - Cinema of the World Section allowed inside. A dramatic event turns their lives upside down and family ties are put under pressure.
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Peter Monsaert (born: Ghent, 1975) studied Language and Literature at Offline (2012) Ghent University, holds a Master of Audiovisual Arts from the Ghent De onvrijwilligepoeet (2001) Royal Academy (KASK). With the medium-length film De Onvrijwillige Hugo (2000) Poeet (2001) he explored the crossover area between film and performance, a line of action that would characterise his professional Las Bragas (2000) career. His rich and multifaceted artistic background constituted a solid Tim, Een Engeltje Voor de Heer (1999) basis for his first feature film, Offline (2012), selected and awarded prizes at various international festivals. Le Ciel Flamand is his second feature film. 17 Someone To Talk To World Cinema
⼀句顶⼀万句 Director: Yulin Liu 2016 - 108’ - Mandarin - Colour - China Producer: Yang Guoping, Wang Bing, David Lin, Cai Xiao Cast: Mao Hai, Liu Bei, Fan Wei, Li Qian Screenplay: Zhenyun Liu Cinematographer: Di WU Editor: Zhong Yijuan Sound Designer: Ying Zhao Music Composer: Peng-Peng Gong Costume Designer: Ke Zhang Production Designer: Zhang Jietao Production Company: Old Western Village Pictures, Fun Show Culture Communication, Beijing Wevining Technology, Beijing Tugu Culture Communicatio World Sales Address: Old Western Village Pictures World Sales Phone: 86 13581702967 A portrait of modern people who have forgotten how to converse, Someone to Talk to is World Sales Email: [email protected] based on the book of the same title by Liu Zhenyun. Cobbler Aiguo is in conflict with his Website of the Film: wife, while his older sister, street food vender Aixiang, considers marriage later in life. Festival/Awards: Both desperately want to communicate with someone, though their own situations are at Busan International Film Festival (2016) opposite poles. Aiguo then breaks up with his wife and Aixiang marries divorcée Jiefang. Stockholm Film Festival (2016) Aiguo runs into his childhood friend Chuhong while searching for his wife and falls into conversation with her. It turns out that she is also divorced as a result of communication Cairo International Film Festival (2016) failure and it seems Aixiang and Jiefang can’t get along either. Why does their communication fail like that? How come Aiguo can converse so comfortably with Chuhong? Director Liu Yulin highlights the idea of lost art of communication in modern world..
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Born in Beijing, China in 1987, Yulin Liu received her BA degree in Someone to Talk To (2016) Television and Journalism at the Communication University of China in Door God (2013) Beijing. She studied filmmaking at the New York University Tisch School Back to 1942 (2012) of the Arts. In 2014, her short film Door God won the Student Academy Awards in Narrative Category as well as 10 other international awards Mask (2011) including. It was also selected for screening in more than 50 film festivals around the world.
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Uchenik Director: Kirill Serebrennikov 2016 - 119’ - Russian - Colour - Russia Producer: Ilya Stewart, Diana Safarova, Yury Kozyrev Cast: Petr Skvortsov, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Aleksandra Revenko, Victoria Isakova, Julia Aug, Svetlana Screenplay: Kirill Serebrennikov Cinematographer: Vladislav Opelyants Editor: Yury Karikh Sound Designer: Boris Voyt Music Composer: Ilya Demutsky Costume Designer: Tatiana Dolmatovskaya Production Designer: Ekaterina Scheglova Production Company: A Wide presentation of a Hype Film production World Sales Address: Wide Management World Sales Phone: +33 7 70 07 64 04 World Sales Email: [email protected] Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and Website of the Film: entire high school turned upside down by his questions. Festival/Awards: -Should girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis? Un Certain Regard/ Cannes (2016) - Does sex education have a place in school? 47th International Film Festival of India (2016) - Should the theory of evolution be taught as part of 'natural' sciences? The adults are European Film Awards (2016) soon overwhelmed by the certitudes of the youngster who swears only by Scripture. No one but Elena, his biology teacher, will alone challenge him on his own ground.
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Born in 1969 in Russia, Rostov-on-Don, Kiril is a Russian theater, The Student (2016) television and film director. He is the Artistic Director of the Gogol Center Betrayal (2012) since 2012. In 2008, he formed an experimental actor-director class at Yuriev Den (2008) the Moscow Art Theatre School. From 2011 to 2014, Kirill was the Artistic Director of the Platform project at the Winzavod Centre for Playing The Victim (2006) Contemporary Art. He is a director and writer, known for Betrayal (2012), The Student (2016) and Playing the Victim (2006).
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Zoologiya Director: Ivan I. Tverdovsky 2016 - 87’ - Russian - Colour - France, Germany, Russia Producer: Natalia Mokritskaya, Mila Rozanova, Uliana Savelieva Cast: Natalia Pavlenkova, Dmitry Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko Screenplay: Ivan I. Tverdovsky Cinematographer: Alexander Mikeladze Editor: Ivan I. Tverdovsky, Vincent Assman Sound Designer: Frederic Thery Music Composer: Costume Designer: Anna Chistova Production Designer: Vasiliy Raspopov Production Company: Ew People Film Company, Arizona Productions, Moviebrats Pictures World Sales Address: NEW EUROPE FILM SALES World Sales Phone: +48 600 173 205 World Sales Email: [email protected] Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she Website of the Film: neweuropefilmsales.com struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with Festival/Awards: gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2016) for her until one day… she grows a tail. Toronto International Film Festival (2016) San Sebastian Film Festival (2016) Busan International Film Festival (2016)
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Ivan I. Tverdovsky was born in 1988 and graduated from the Russian As If Waiting for a Bus, documentary (2009) Institute for Cinematography in 2011. His early documentary works won Pianism, documentary (2012) him multiple awards in Russia and at international film festivals Space Dog, documentary (2013) worldwide. His fiction debut Corrections Class (2014), inspired by the novel by psychologist Ekaterina Murashova, won over 35 prizes Corrections Class, drama (2014) worldwide, including East of the West Award (Crystal Globe) at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Zoology is Ivan’s second feature project.
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Los Decentes Director: Lukas Valenta Rinner 2016 - 100’ - Spanish - Colour - Austria, South Korea, Argentina Producer: Lukas Valenta Rinner, Ana Godoy Cast: Iride Mockert, Andrea Strenitz, Mariano Sayavedra and Martin Shanly Screenplay: Lukas Valenta Rinner, Ana Godoy, Martin Shanly, Ariel Gurevich Cinematographer: Roman Kasseroller Editor: Ana Godoy Sound Designer: Nahuel Palenque Music Composer: Jimin Kim, Jongho You Costume Designer: Pilar Gonzalez Production Designer: Lucia Carnicero Production Company: Nabis Filmgroup, Jeonju Cinema Project World Sales Address: FiGa Films World Sales Phone: 323 229 9816 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.nabisfilm.com Decency, decorum, politesse, virtuous social mores—all are rigidly upheld in the gated Festival: community in Buenos Aires where Belén (Iride Mockert) finds herself gainfully employed Sarajevo Film Festival 2016 as the live-in housekeeper for an affluent woman and her college-aged son on their huge Toronto International Film Festival (2016) estate. One day while cleaning, she catches a glimpse of the adjoining property over her Montreal Int Festival of New Cinema employer’s electric fence: an upper-class nudist colony. Belén is startled but intrigued, Warsaw IFF and starts to spend more and more of her free time sneaking next door to go native with São Paulo IFF the neighbours, delighting in naked pursuits both mundane and carnal. Stockholm Film Festival (2016) Kolkata International Film Festival (2016)
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Lukas Valenta Rinner (1985, Austria) studied Film at the Universidad del A Decent Woman (Die Liebhaberin) (2016) Cine in Buenos Aires. His debut was a film short Carta A Fukuyama(2010). Parabellum (2015) In 2012, he set up Argentine-Austrian production company Nabis Carta a Fukuyama (2010) Filmgroup. His first feature Parabellum (2015) received prizes in Jeonju IFF (Special Jury Award) and Diagonale (Best Newcomer). As part of the Jeonju Cinema Project 2016, A Decent Woman (2016) premiered at the Sarajevo IFF and was awarded Special Jury Award at the Torino FF and Best Argentinian director and Best New-Coming Actress in Mar del Plata IFF. 21 The Innocents World Cinema
Agnus Dei Director: Anne Fontaine 2016 - 115’ - French, Polish, Russian - Colour - France, Poland Producer: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer Cast: Lou de Laâge , Agata Buzek , Agata Kulesza , Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Katarzyna Dabrowska, Pascal Elso, Anna Prochniak Screenplay: Sabrina B. Karine , Alice Vial Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier Editor: Annette Dutertre Sound Designer: Olivier Mauvezin , Francis Wargnier , Jean-Pierre Laforce Music Composer: Grégoire Hetzel Costume Designer: Katarzyna Lewinska Production Designer: Joanna Macha Production Company: Mandarin Cinema, Aeroplan Film, Mars Film World Sales: Film Distribution Mathilde Beaulieu, a young nurse, is working with a branch of the French Red Cross in World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 10 33 99 Poland in the winter of 1945, after WWII has ended. They are there to find French World Sales Email: [email protected] survivors of the German camps to treat them and bring them home. Website of the Film: One day, a Polish nun arrives at the French hospital and begs Mathilde for help. Although Festivals: the young nurse is reluctant, the nun won't take no for an answer. She takes Mathilde to Cannes Film Festival (2016) the convent, where six nuns and a novice are pregnant, having been raped repeatedly by Berlin Film Festival (2016) Russian soldiers. The nuns have no idea what to do and need Mathilde not only to help Sundance Film Festival (2016) with the births, but to help decide what to do with the babies. The convent is caught in a tragic double bind: accepting the responsibilities of motherhood or abandoning the children of sin.
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French writer-director Anne Fontaine became a critical and box office Gemma Bovery (2014) favourite in the '90s and 2000s on the strength of her complicated, often Adore (2013) intense dramas about love and sexuality, which included Dry Cleaning My Worst Nightmare (2011) (1997), Coco Before Chanel (2009) and Adore (2013). A former dancer and actress,Fontaine established herself on the art house circuit with Coco Before Chanel (2009) these films which have garnered awards at festivals and appreciation by The Girl From Monaco (2008) audience alike.Fontaine's uncompromising body of work and the critical Oh La La! (2006) acclaim it generated underscored her status as a major figure in world film. In His Hands (2005) Nathalie… (2003) 22 In Between World Cinema
Bar Bahar Director: Maysaloun Hamoud 2016 - 102’ - Arabic, Hebrew - Colour - Israel, France Producer: Shlomi Elkabetz , Sandrine Brauer Cast: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura, Mahmoud Shalaby, Henry Andrawes Screenplay: Maysaloun Hamoud Cinematographer: ItaY Gross Editor: Lev Goldser, Nili Feller Sound Designer: Tully Chen, Itzik Cohen Music Composer: MG Saad Production Designer: Hagar Brutman Production Company: Deux Beaux Garcons films World Sales: Alma Cinema World Sales Phone: + 33 1 55 28 03 16 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: In Between is a first-of-its kind portrait of young women, Palestinian citizens of Israel, Festivals: living and loving in Tel-Aviv. It captures their unbearable daily duality, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that San Sebastian International Film Festival (2016) seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and choose. A women’s story Toronto International Film Festival (2016) told by a woman for women, it revolves around three characters that form a single Haifa International Film Festival (2016) subjectivity, with a variety of faces and expressions. Leila, 28, is a criminal lawyer from a Zagreb IFF Nazarene bourgeois secular Muslim family. She works during the day and at night she parties. Salma, 29, is a DJ/musician. She is a Lesbian from a “liberal” Christian family in a small Northern-Galilean village. Into the apartment moves Nour, 23, a religious Muslim girl from the Southern-Galilean town of Umm al-Fahm who is engaged to Wissam. Caught between the rock of sexism and the hard place of racism, they live neither here nor there,
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Born in Budapest, Maysaloun Hamoud returned to her family’s native Bar Bahr (2016) village of Dir Hana in Israel when she was 2 years old. She studied Middle Sense of Morning (Short)(2010) Eastern History at the University of Jerusalem followed by Film at the Minshar Film School in Tel Aviv. In Between is her first feature film.
23 Don't Tell Orhan Pamuk That His Novel Snow Is In The Film I Made About kars World Cinema ORHAN PAMUK'A SÖYLEMEYİN KARS'TA ÇEKTİĞİM FİLMDE KAR ROMANI DA VAR Director: Riza Sonmez 2016 - 78’ - Turkish - Colour - Turkey Producer: Riza Sonmez , Hasan Huseyin Sünbül , Emre Oksay Cast: Yuksel Ermutlu, Israfil Parlak, from Vila Atasever, Idil Vural, Atılay Uluışık, Numan Cakir, Haydar Koçoğlu Screenplay: Riza Sonmez Cinematographer: Zekeriya Kurtuluş Editor: Cem Hamamcı Sound Designer: Umut Şenyol Music Composer: Hasan Yükselir Olacak Executive Producer: Gürkan Kılınç Production Designer: Fırat Çete Production Company: Istanbul Film Production World Sales: Istanbul Film Production World Sales Phone: +90 212 293 99 06 Blind singer Yuksel has respectable customers. Though all the best musicians would have World Sales Email: [email protected] to go another city for a folk dance competition. He has to find new musicians. Barber Festivals: Kazım takes pictures of people. Who resembles to the caracters of the novel Kar by Orhan Pamuk and prints them as postcards but people of Kars were not very happy with Festival on Wheels (2016) the novel. Who tells their city. Kazım was having hard time to try to convince them. Then 53. International Antalya Golden within the story 3 fairies and a goose cather boy’s roads intersectes Orange Film Festival RIZA SÖNMEZ was born in 1968 in Elazığ. He studied Business Management at Dokuz Eylül University and acting at Müjdat Gezen Actors Studio (1991-1995). He directed two short films and received a Master’s degree from Marmara University, Department of Cinema &TV. As a well-known actor, he took part in more than 20 feature films.
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Riza Sönmez (born 1968) is a Turkish actor, writer and director, widely Don't Tell Orhan Pamuk That His Novel Snow Is In The Film known as an actor. DON’T TELL ORHAN PAMUK THAT HIS NOVEL I Made About kars (2016) “SNOW” IS IN THE FILM I MADE ABOUT KARS is his directorial debut.
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El primero de la familia Director: Carlos Leiva 2016 - 80’ - Spanish - Colour - Chile Producer: Felipe Azua, Rebeca Gutierrez Campos, Dominga Sotomayor Cast: Camilo Carmona, Catalina Dinamarca, Paula Zuniga, Claudio Riveros, Sylvia Hernandez Screenplay: Carlos Leiva Cinematographer: Felipe Bello Editor: Macarena Yurjevic Sound Designer: Carlo Sanchez Music Composer: Cristobal Briceno Costume Designer: Production Designer: Ignacio Ruiz Production Company: Avispa Cine, Pinda Producciones, Cinestacion World Sales Address: FiGa Films In a Santiago suburb, Tomas spends the last weekend with family before travelling to World Sales Phone: 323 229 9816 Europe to continue his studies. A problem with the plumbing causes severe flooding in World Sales Email: [email protected] their house, and the bad smell moves through the house uncovering the real essence of Website of the Film: the family’s relationships. In this context, Tomas sees an opportunity to materialize the hidden desire he feels for his sister, Catalina. Festival/Awards: 40ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema - Filme (2016)
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Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1986. Director, screenwriter, editor and Hambre (2014) producer, Carlos Leiva studied direction at Universidad Catolica de Chile. El 10 (2011) He directed the short films El Hijo (2008), Ambiente Familiar (2010), El 10 Ambiente Familiar (2010) (2011) and Hambre (2014). El primero de la familia is his first feature film.
25 Where I Grow Old World Cinema
A cidade onde envelheço Director: Marilia Rocha 2016 - 99’ - Portuguese - Colour - Brazil, Portugal Producer: João Matos, Luana Melgaço Cast: Elizabete Francisca Santos, Francisca Manuel, Paulo Nazareth Screenplay: Marília Rocha, João Dumans, Thais Fujinaga Cinematographer: Ivo Lopes Araujo Editor: Francisco Moreira Sound Designer: Tiago de Matos Production Designer: Thais de Campos Production Company: Terratreme Filmes, Anavilhana Filmes (BR) World Sales Address: FiGa Films World Sales Phone: 323 229 9816 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festival: Rotterdam IFF Francisca, a young Portuguese woman living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old 66th Berlinale Film Festival (2016) acquaintance she had lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the San Sebastian International Film Festival (2016) place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film Chicago - New Directors Competition'16 follows each woman’s adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows Minneapolis St Paul IFF between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an Odessa International Film Festival'16 unknown country and a relentless longing for home. Brasilia Film Festival'16 Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine'16 DocLisboa'16
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Marilia Rocha (born 1978) is a Brazilian filmmaker whose work has Caminhos (2012) focused in the potentialities of documentary film. Her works have been Falta Que Me Faz (2009) included in the festivals and special screenings of MoMA – Museum of Modern Art (USA), It’s All True (Brazil), Rotterdam IFF (Netherlands), Descaminhos (2007) Bafici (Argentina), Doclisboa (Portugal), among others. Since 2003 she is Aboio (2005) a member of Teia with notable Brazilian directors. Together they Duralex Sedlex (2005) founded a centre for audiovisual production and research where they work collaboratively, combining the individual production with projects that involve the whole team and invited professionals. 26 Yo World Cinema
Yo Director: Matias Meyer 2015 - 80’ - Spanish - Colour - Mexico Producer: Julio Barcenas, Matias Meyer, Israel Cardenas, Laura Amelia Guzman Cast: Raul Silva, Elizabeth Mendoza, Ignacio Rojas Nieto Screenplay: Matias Meyer, Alexandre Auger Cinematographer: Gerardo Barroso Alcala Editor: Leon Felipe Gonzalez Sound Designer: Alejandro de Icaza Music Composer: Galo Duran, Chac Moola Costume Designer: Production Designer: Noemi Gonzalez Production Company: Luc, La Pelicula, Axolote Cine, Eficine World Sales Address: FiGa Films World Sales Phone: 323 229 9816 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.figafilms.com YO is a teenager in the body of an adult, a simple being of spirit. He is a young man, with Festival/Awards: limited mental skills. He lives and works at his mother's restaurant; YO loves his mom and 13th Morelia International Film Festival (2016) he is loved by everyone, especially Elena, her friend of 11 years. YO detests Pady, the man Fribourg International Film Festival (2016) who sleeps with his mother. But YO has a secret he can't tell anyone. Sometimes, he sees Belfort International Film Festival (2015) shadows on people and he knows that means they are going to die. YO is adapted by Meyer and Alexandre Auger from Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies by celebrated French author J.M.G. Le Clézio.
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Graduate in Film Direction in Mexico City, Matias Meyer has a ten year The Last Christeros (2011) experience as screenwriter, director and producer. He is a co-founder of The Cramp (2009) Axolote Cine. His films Wadley, The Cramp and The Last Christeros have Wadley (2008) been showcased in film festivals like Toronto, Rotterdam and Locarno among many others. The Last Christeros established him as one of the Moros y cristianos (2007) most gifted young Mexican filmmakers, with a combination of minimalist Verde (2006) cinema and historical depiction. YO is his third feature film. El pasajero (2004)
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El Amparo Director: Rober Calzadilla 2016 - 99’ - Spanish - Colour - Venezuela, Colombia Producer: Ruben Sierra Salles Cast: Samantha Castillo, Rossana Hernandez, Vicente Pena, Vicente Quintero, Giovanny Garcia, Tatiana Mabo Screenplay: Karin Valecillos Cinematographer: Michell Rivas Editor: Gustavo Rondon Cordova con la asesoria y colaboracion de Mariana Rodriguez Sound Designer: Francisco Toro Music Composer: Andres Level Costume Designer: Marisela Marin Production Designer: Matias Tikas Production Company: Tumbarrancho Films World Sales Address: FiGa Films World Sales Phone: 323 229 9816 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.figafilms.com On the border of Venezuela with Colombia, during the late 80's, two men survive an Festival: armed assault in the channels of the Arauca River, in which fourteen of their companions San Sebastian International Film Festival (2016) were murdered in the act. The Army accuses them of being guerrilla fighters. Via Washington AFI Latin American FF intimidation. Army wants to seize them from the cell where they are being watched over Biarritz Amerique Latine FF by the local police officer and by the village population, who are desperate to prevent Bogota IFF them from being taken away. They say they are simple fishermen, but pressure to yield to 47th International Film Festival of India (2016) the official version is overwhelming.
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Rober Calzadilla is an actor, screenwriter and director. He trained at the Línea paterna (2006) short film Juana Sujo School of Performing Arts and, in film, at the Central El anzuelo y la atarraya (2009) short film University of Venezuela School of the Arts. In 2013 he wrote, directed El País de Abril (2013) medium length film and edited the medium length film El Pais de Abril, an experimental piece in black and white co-produced with Portugal. The project giving rise to El Amparo, participated in the Films in Progress section of the San Sebastian Festival in 2015.
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Cinema Novo Director: Eryk Rocha 2016 - 90’ - Portuguese - B&W, Colour - Brazil Producer: Diogo Dahl Cast: Nelson Pereira Dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Carlos Diegues, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro De Andrade Screenplay: Eryk Rocha, Juan Posada Editor: Renato Vallone Sound Designer: Edson Secco Music Composer: Ava Rocha Production Company: Coqueirao Pictures World Sales Address: Figa Films World Sales Phone:323-229-9816 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.figafilms.com Festival: Cannes International Film Festival (2016) Munchen FF A poetic essay which explores one of the most important cinematographic movements in Lima FF Latin-America through the thoughts of its main auteurs, and fragments of their work. The Santiago IFF film immerses itself into the creative adventure of a generation of filmmakers that AFI Washington Latin America FF invented a way to make cinema in Brazil – with a political attitude, combining art and Biarritz Amerique Latine FF revolution – and hoped for a type of cinema that took the streets along with the Brazilian Films from the South, Norway people. It looks at the work of prominent Brzailian auteurs such as: Nelson Pereira do Houston Cinema Arts Festival Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Caca Kolkata International Film Festival (2016) Diegue, Walter Lima Jr, Paulo Cesar Saraceni, among others. Split Film Festival - MFNF (2016)
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Born in Brazil in 1978, Eryk Rocha grew up living throughout Latin Jards (2013) America with his parents and filmmakers Paula Gaitán and Glauber Passerby (2011) Rocha, one of the founders of the Cinema Novo movement. He went to Pachamama (2009) EICTV Film School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, where he shot his first feature ROCHA QUE VOA in 2002. The film was selected in Venice, Clandestine Break (2006) Locarno, Rotterdam and Havana Film Festivals, amongst others. This Stones In The Sky (2002) award winning filmmaker has made 6 films with multiple awards for each film in his bag.
29 United States of Love World Cinema
Zjednoczone Stany Milosci Director: Tomasz Wasilewski 2016 - 104’ - Polish - Colour - Poland, Sweden Producer: Agnieszka Drewno, Piotr Kobus Cast: Julia Kijowska, Magdalena Cielecka, Dorota Kolak Screenplay: Tomasz Wasilewski Cinematographer: Oleg Mutu, R.S.C. Editor: Beata Walentowska Sound Designer: Christian Holm Costume Designer: Monika Kaleta Production Designer: Katarzyna Sobanska, Marcel Slawinski Production Company: MANANA World Sales Address: New Europe Film Sales World Sales Phone: +48 600 173 205 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festival: Berlinale Internatinal Film Festival (2016) Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different 47th International Film Festival of India (2016) ages decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfil their desires. BFI London (2016) Agata is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbour Marzena - a lonely former local beauty queen, whose husband works in Germany. Marzena’s sister Iza is a headmistress in love with the father of one of her students.
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Polish scriptwriter and director, Tomasz graduated from Academy of Film Floating Skyscrapers (2013) and Television and The National Film School in Lodz. He worked as In the Bedroom (2012) assistant director on different films and cooperated with the international co-productions. His full - length feature debut In a Bedroom Show jednego czlowieka (One-Man Show)(2008) (W sypialni) had world premiere in Karlovy Vary International Film Nawisc (Horrence)(2001) Festival in 2012, and was one of the most often presented Polish films at the international film festivals. His second feature film Floating Skyscrapers had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival and won multiple awards including East of the West debut competition at Karlovy Vary IFF in 2013. 30 The Last Family World Cinema
Ostatnia Rodzina Director: Jan P. Matuszynski 2016 - 124’ - Polish - Colour - Poland Producer: Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Hickinbotham Cast: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna, Andrzej Chyra Screenplay: Robert Bolesto Cinematographer: Kacper Fertacz Editor: Przemysław Chruscielewski Sound Designer: Jaroslaw Bajdowski, Kacper Habisiak, Marcin Kasinski (Dreamsound) Costume Designer: Emilia Czartoryska Production Designer: Jagna Janicka Production Company: Aurum Film World Sales Address: New Europe Film Sales World Sales Phone: +48 600 173 205 World Sales Email: [email protected] Beksiski is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his Website of the Film: fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiski is a family man who wants only Festival/Awards: the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. Vancouver International Film Festival (2016) Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz International Film Festival of India (2016) proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival (2016) when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiski never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiski saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals... Based on the bizarre true story of the cult Polish painter Zdzisaw Beksiski.
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Jan P. Matuszyński was born in 1984. He graduated in Film Directing from Deep Love (2013) Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television University of Silesia Offline (2012) in Katowice and completed the Documentary Course in Wajda School. Niebo (2011) His documentaries such as 15 Years of Silence, After Party and Heaven have been screened and won prizes at numerous festivals in Poland and Aftreparty (2009) abroad. Matuszyński is most recognized for his documentary Deep Love. Wiem kto to zrobil (2008) The Last Family is his feature film debut. Car Wash (2007) Razem (2006) 31 Home Care World Cinema
Domaci pece Director: Slavek Horak 2015 - 92’ - Slovak, Czech - Colour - Czech Republic, Slovakia Producer: Slavek Horak Cast: Alena Mihulova, Boleslav Polivka, Tatiana Vilhemova, Zuzana Kronerova, Sara Venclovska Screenplay: Slavek Horak Cinematographer: Jan Stastny Editor: Vladimir Barak Sound Designer: Peter Surovy, Juraj Balaz Music Composer: Costume Designer: Natalie Steklova Production Designer: Production Company: Tvorba Films, Ceska Televize, Fog ‘N’ Desire Films, Svoboda & Williams, Sokol Kollar World Sales Address: M-Appeal World Sales Phone: +49 30 61 507 505 Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, World Sales Email: [email protected] and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Website of the Film: www.home-care-film.com Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama Festival/Awards: and gentle humour intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Busan International Film Festival
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Slavek Horak was born in 1975, in Zlin, Czech Republic. He is a graduate of Two Little Wings (2004 ) Zlin Film School and also studied directing at Prague Film School FAMU. He Deja Vu (2005) shot two short films for international project Straight8 that were selected in Home care (2015) top six and shown at Cannes Film Festival. He also worked as an assistant director with Jan Sverak on his Academy Award winning film Kolja (1996). In 2012 he started his own production company TVORBA films. Home care is his feature debut.
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Hortensia Director: Diego Lublinsky and Alvaro Urtizberea 2015 - 90’ - Spanish - Colour - Argentina Producer: Alvaro Urtizberea Cast: Camila Romagnolo, Agustin Scalise, David "Toto" Szechtman, Gozalo Urtizberea, Paula Carruega, Martin Policastro Screenplay: Alicia Gimenez Guspi Cinematographer: Guido Lublinsky Editor: David Bisbano Sound Designer: Music Composer: Panchi Quesada Costume Designer: Marcela Tazzioli Production Designer: Production Company: Vista Sur Films World Sales Address: M-Appeal World Sales Phone: +49 30 61 507 505 It’s December, Hortensia’s (22) father is electrocuted when he opens the refrigerator World Sales Email: [email protected] door. On the last day of the year she is fired from work. That same night, she discovers that Website of the Film: www.vistasurfilms.com.ar her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Alone and anxious, she finds a letter Festival/Awards: she wrote when she was fourteen. It reads: “Goals for Happiness: to marry a boy who is Mar del Plata Film Festival (2015) blond like my father and to design the most beautiful shoe in the world.” Her life suddenly regains meaning and she immediately makes decisions to fulfil her objectives. Unable to Raindance Film Festival (2016) find solutions, things will only get worse while she fails to listen to her true self. Sydney Latin American Film Festival
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Diego is a filmmaker from ENERC University (INCAA), screenwriter and Diego Lublinsky: University Professor. Three Minutes, his first future film, was released in Comunidad organizada (2009) Argentina in 2008. He has directed several TV serials and Telefilms in Tres minutos (2007) Argentina and in Spain. Alvaro Urtizberea: Alvaro is a producer working in TV and Cinema of Argentina for long time. His filmography includes more than 20 films as a producer. He Hortensia (2016) worked as a producer on Three Minutes, directed by Diego. Hortensia is his directorial debut.
33 Sieranevada World Cinema
Sieranevada Director: Cristi Puiu 2016 - 173’ - Romanian - Colour - France, Romania Producer: Anca Puiu Cast: Mimi Branescu, Judith State, Bogdan Dumitrache Screenplay: Cristi Puiu Cinematographer: Barbu Balasoiu Editor: Alexander Akoka Sound Designer: Jean-Paul Bernard Music Composer: Costume Designer: Maria Pitea, Doina Raducut Production Designer: Cristina Barbu Production Company: Mandragora Productions World Sales Address: Elle Driver World Sales Phone: +33 1 56 43 48 70 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: Three days after the terrorist attack on the offices of Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and forty days after the death of his father, Lary, a doctor in his forties is about to spend the Festival/Awards: Saturday at a family gathering to commemorate the deceased. All the guests are waiting Festival de Cannes (2016) for the priest’s arrival. In the meantime, they argue about the 9/11 events. Larry tries to Toronto International Film Festival (2016) calm down the debate but opinions are so divided that not even the priest’s flying visit 47th International Film Festival of india (2016) succeeds in reconciling the two camps. Just when things seem to be settling down, the arrival of an uninvited guest throws the commemoration into turmoil, which gradually Vancouver International Film Festival (2016) deteriorates into an operatic settling of scores.
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Cristi Puiu was born in Bucharest in 1967. A student at the Painting The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014) Department of the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva, he shot Aurora (2010) several short films and documentaries in the 1990s. Year 2001 marked The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005) his debut with feature Stuff & Dough. In 2005 he made, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, which won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes. His third film, Aurora - the second instalment of the Six Stories from the 'Outskirts of Bucharest' series - premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard section.
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Jo, Olga Hepnarova Director: Petr Kazda, Tomas Weinreb 2016 - 105’ - Czech - B&W - Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France Producer: Vojtech Fric, Petr Kazda, Tomas Weinreb, Marcin Kurek, Marian Urban Cast: Michalina Olszaski, Marta Mazurek, Andrew Little, Lukas Bech Screenplay: Petr Kazda, Tomas Weinreb Cinematographer: Adam Sikora Editor: Alina Janerka Sound Designer: Richard Muller Music Composer: Alice Glass Costume Designer: Aneta Grnakova Production Designer: Alexandr Kozak Production Company: Arizona Productions, Black Balance, FRAME100R, ALEF Film & Media Group World Sales Address: Pascale Ramonda World Sales Phone: +33 6 62 01 32 41 World Sales Email: [email protected] Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and Website of the Film: social conventions. With her tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one Festival/Awards: job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has Berlinale International Film Festival (2016) female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes. Sofia International Film Festival (2016) - Crossing Europe (2016) Meticulously composed and shot in elegiac black-and-white this film tells the story of the short life of an exceptionally lonely young woman who turns into a mass murderer when, Seville European Film Festival (2016) on 10 July 1973 – as she has just turned 22 – she drives a rented truck into a group of Best Directors at Sofia IFF people, killing eight. In a letter acknowledging her deed she writes that she sought to take Best Film at Vilnius IFF revenge on the world and on those she felt hated her. In spite of clear indications that she was mentally ill she was executed – making her the last woman to be publicly executed in Czechoslovakia.
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Tomas Weinreb was born in Stod nearby Pilsen (Czech republic). He Many men and many women (2009) clooaborates with Petr Kazda on many projects. Both of them graduated I and Me (2009) from the Independent Film College in Pisek as well as from the Film Eclipse (2006) School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), from the department of documentary filmmaking and of scriptwriting respectively. Antero (2003) They have collaborated on several short fiction and documentary student films (e.g. Antero, 2003, Eclipse, 2006, Many men and many women, I and Me, both 2009) that were screened at a number of international festivals. 35 Dirty, Yellow, Darkness World Cinema
Premaya Nam Director: Kalpana Ariyawansa, Vindana Ariyawansa 2014 - 95’ - Sinhalese - Sri Lanka Producer: Kalpana Ariyawansa, Prem Dissanayake, Athula Mahawalage, Sujeewa Wijesinghe Cast: Shyam Fernando, Samanalee Fonseka, Suranga Ranawaka, Buddhadasa Vithanarachchi, Prema Pathiraja, Dr. Sathis Wijemanne Screenplay: Kalpana Ariyawansa, Vindana Ariyawansa Cinematographer: Jaan Shenberger Editor: Kalpana Ariyawansa, Jaan Shenberger Sound Designer: Tapas Nayak, Andrew Scott Duncan Music Composer: Rohana Weerasinghe Costume Designer: Vindana Ariyawansa Production Designer: Kalpana Ariyawansa Production Company: East West Entertainment World Sales: East West Entertainment World Sales Phone: +94777615551 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: http://www.premayanam.com/Premiere Status: Festivals: Vishwa has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but conceals his severe obsessive- Beijing International Film Festival (2015) compulsive disorder from the world on a daily basis. His greatest fear is that his urine is Shanghai International Film Festival (2015) contaminating everything around him. When his wife, Samadi, leaves him and moves International Film Festival of India (2015) back in with her parents, Vishwa loses his job and descends into prescription drug abuse. Kerala International Film Festival (2015) As his illness and addiction escalate out of control, he admits himself into a mental Cayman International Film Festival (2016) hospital, determined to take control, or forever lose the woman he loves.
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Kalpana & Vindana Ariyawansa are brothers, born in Colombo, Sri Premaya Nam (2014) Lanka. After graduating with a BFA in visual communication from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Kalpana worked as a concept and storyboard artist. Vindana was in the midst of Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky, when he decided to give it up and pursue independent filmmaking studies.
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Tierra Yerma Director: Miriam Heard 2016 - 94’ - Spanish - Colour - Chile, France, UK Producer: Gregorio González, Miriam Heard, Anna Holburn, Laurent Baujard, Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin Cast: Julio Milostich, Erto Pantoja, Heidrun Breier Screenplay: Miriam Heard Cinematographer: André Szankowski Editor: Luca Alverdi Sound Designer: Roberto Espinoza Music Composer: Jorge Arriagada Costume Designer: Amparo Aguirre Production Designer: Erika Cáceres Production Company: Forastero, Echo Art Films, Altiplano Films, Paprika Films World Sales: Brian Sweet, APL Film World Sales Email: [email protected] After working in Iraq as mercenaries two Chilean brothers, Jorge and Pelao, struggle with Website of the Film: www.paprikafilms.fr the horrors of post-traumatic stress disorder. They return to Arica, northern Chile, where Festivals: Jorge is now a night guard at the port and Pelao is in a wheelchair. After Pelao kills himself Eurasia International Film Festival (2016) Jorge embarks on a journey with his brother’s ex-wife, Hanna, to take his ashes to their International Film Festival Of India, Goa (2016) ancestral village on the Altiplano. The journey they take together, told in interwoven 'flash HANIFF, Vietnam (2016) forward' narrative, reveals what the brothers went through in Iraq. Up on the Altiplano a trivial incident turns into a fight as Jorge and Hanna’s guilt and repressed desire for each Arica Nativa, Chile (2016) other overflows. Wastelands is an intimate and powerful drama about the hidden face of war, about sibling rivalry and love, guilt and forgiveness.
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Miriam Heard was born in 1978 in the UK to an English father and a Wastelands (2016) German mother. She was brought up in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She studied Welcome Home Emma-Rose (short film) (2013) English Literature at Oxford University before training as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London) and the Conservatoire Missing (short film) (2011) Nationale d’Arts Dramatiques in Paris. Her work as an actress includes Amira (short film) (2011) films with Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento. She studied filmmaking at NYU-SCPS in New York and now works as a director, writer, actress and literary translator in Paris and Santiago. She is known for Diary of a Residence in Chile (2013), Tierra Yerma (2016) and Welcome Home Emma-Rose (2013). 37 The Interrogation World Cinema
Ha'Chakira Director: Erez Pery 2016 - 84’ - German, Polish - Colour - Israel Producer: Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg, Mathias Schwerbrock Cast: Romanus Fuhrmann, Maciej Marczewski Screenplay: Erez Pery, Sari Turgeman Cinematographer: Boubkar Benzabat Editor: Lev Goltser Sound Designer: Itzik Cohen Costume Designer: Chen Gilad Production Company: Daroma Productions, Film Base Berlin World Sales: Wide Management World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 95 24 44 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Cambridge Film Festival (2016) In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz Minsk Film Festival Listapad (2016) concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession International Film Festival of Kerala (2016) out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and evil that took place in the camp. By introducing the use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss carried out the most efficient mass killing process ever known, which claimed the lives of approximately 1.1 million people. The film is based on the memoirs Höss wrote before his execution.
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Erez Pery is the Head of the department of Audio and Visual Arts at Sapir The Interrogation (2016) College, Israel. He is the Artistic Co-Director of the Cinema South International Film Festival in Sderot. Pery is also a filmmaker and his short film For an Imperfect Cinema, about the history of radical struggles in Israel, was screened worldwide. The Interrogation is Pery’s first feature film.
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Five to Nine Director: Tay Bee Pin, Vincent Du, Daisuke Miyazaki, 2015 - 90’ - Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Thai - Colour - Singapore, Thailand, Japan, China Rasiguet Sookkarn Producer: Tay Bee Pin, Suzanna Seah, Daisuke Miyazaki Cast: Go Jibiki, Aki Miyata, Masatoshi Nagase, She Jia Qian, Olivia Chong, Pramote Sangsorn, Sajee Apiwong Screenplay: Daisuke Miyazaki, Shunya Suzuki, Rasiguet Sookkarn Cinematographer: Teck Siang Lim, Shigenori Miki, Ao Leong Weng Fong Editor: Tay Kah Beng, Rochelle Lim, Chaitawat Thrisansri Sound Designer: Young-Chang Hwang, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr Music Composer: Yasuhiro Morinaga Costume Designer: Fuminori Usui Production Company: Wormwood Films, Deep End Pictures World Sales: Mosquito Films Distribution 5 to 9 comprises four short films that transpire across 5pm to 9am on the evening of the World Sales Phone: +66 83 710 1238 historic Brazil-Germany match at World Cup 2014, spanning intimate vignettes of World Sales Email: unrequited love and final meetings. In China, a young migrant worker has saved enough [email protected] money to finally spend a night with a middle-aged prostitute, but she plans to leave the Festival: city the same night instead. In Singapore, a local teacher and his paramour from China are Singapore International Film Festival (2015) out for a rendezvous, submitting the fate of their future to the result of the football match. Osaka Asian Film Festival (2016) The Japanese counterpart centres on a porno-projectionist collecting debts from the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (2015) punks for the poor. The film concludes in Thailand with the filming of the last scene of a sci- Hong Kong Independent Film Festival (2016) fi movie. Behind the camera, the director is suspicious of his leading actor and the actress who is also his wife.
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This anthology film has been directed by 4 directors from different nations with each portraying nuances of their cultural settings. Tay Bee Pin, Daisuke Miyazaki, Vincent Du, Rasiguet Sookkarn
39 News From Planet Mars World Cinema
Des nouvelles de la planete Mars Director: Dominik Moll 2016 - 101’ - French - Colour - France, Belgium Producer: Michel Saint-Jean Cast: Francois Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet, Tom Rivoire Screenplay: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand Cinematographer: Jean-François Hensgens Editor: Margot Meynier Sound Designer: Music Composer: Adrian Johnston Costume Designer: Virginie Montel Production Designer: Emmanuelle Duplay Production Company: Diaphana Films, Artemeis Productions, France 3 Cinema World Sales Address: Memento Films International World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 34 90 33
Philippe Mars is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: He’s trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling… But the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favour lately. With his son Festival/Awards: turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016) selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe Raindance Film Festival (2016) that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically… When his more than over the top colleague Jerome accidentally chops off his ear and then moves into Philippe’s apartment, things start to go from bad to insane for our hero.
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Born in Brühl, Germany (1962), Dominik Moll studied film at the City Tunnel (2013) College of New York and the French National Film School. His first Le Moine (2011) feature, Intimite, was released in 1994, followed by With a Friend Like Lemming (2005) Harry (2000), which won several César awards in France and played in competition section at Cannes. Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000) Intimite (1994)
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Auf Einmal Director: Aslı Ozge 2016 - 112’ - German - Colour - Germany, Netherlands, France Producer: Fabian Massah, Aslı Ozge Cast: Sebastian Hülk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Luise Heyer, Natalia Belitski Screenplay: Aslı Ozge Cinematographer: Emre Erkmen Editor: Muriel Breton, Aslı Ozge Sound Designer: Jan Schermer Music Composer: Costume Designer: Birgit Kilian Production Designer: Tim Pannen Production Company: Topkapi Films, Amsterdam,Haut et Court, Paris World Sales Address: Memento Films International World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 34 90 33 World Sales Email: [email protected] Karsten is in trouble. At the end of a party, there was one person left in his apartment. They Website of the Film: talked, they kissed, and then she stopped breathing. He ran for help, he pounded on the doors of a nearby clinic, he did everything but call the emergency line… until it was too Festival/Awards: late… Karsten seems like a nice guy, but in his face there’s a hint of menace that he can’t 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016) quite get rid of. Over the course of the movie we’ll get to know him better—but will the Istanbul International Film Festival (2016) mysteries of that night ever be solved? Compelling, puzzling and provocative, this is a film Haifa 33rd International Film Festival (2016) that will not let you go—not even for a second—until the very end. London Film Festival (2016)
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Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Ash Ozge has lived in Berlin since 2000. After Hayatboyu (2013) graduating from the Film and Television Academy at Marmara University, Men on the Bridge (2009) she directed short films & documentary films such as Hesperos’un Hesperos’ Apprentices (2005) Çomezleri (2005). Her cinema debut Men On The Bridge celebrated its international premiere at Locarno in 2009 and went on to win numerous Little bit of April(2003) awards. Her second feature Hayatboyu(Lifelong) screened in the Kurzfilm (2000) Berlinale Panorama in 2013. Auf Einmal is her first German-language feature film.
41 My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea World Cinema
Director: Neno Belchev 2016 - 112’ - Bulgarian - Colour - Bulgaria Producer: Videoholica and Neno Belchev Cast: Pavel Shanov, Neno Belchev, Petar Atanasov, Tsonka Belcheva, Pavlina Mladenova, Radul, Belcho Belchev, Irena Dimitrova, Polina Miltcheva, Petar Kostadinov Screenplay: Bezmer Bagryanov and Neno Belchev Cinematographer: Neno Belchev Editor: Neno Belchev Sound Designer: Martin Evstatiev Music Composer: Martin Evstatiev Production Company: Videoholica World Sales Phone: +359898687630 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.nenobel.net
As a story structure, the film reminds a postmodern novel: fragmented, plot less and on first view: chaotic. Individual pieces can be rearranged and each one has its own life. In terms of genre, the film stands on the border between pseudo-documentary, dark comedy, post-punk (as an attitude) and video-art. The movie uses the expressive means of a documentary film, however, it is not a documentary, and it even contains some phantasmagorical and sci-fi elements and criminal moments, which it skilfully combines with grotesque animation and poetic visual language. The try of a man, who feels immigrant to his own homeland to make a documentary about his father.
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Neno Belchev was born in 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria. Lives and works in My Heart Is An Octopus Or My Father On The Shore Of Varna. He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art Black Sea (2016) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Town In Sunset (2015) Neno has participated in a wide range of solo and group, national and Sickle And Hammer (2014) international exhibitions. He has made one full-length movie, four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and Dream (2013) video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from Spectral Promenade (2012-2013) international video and film festivals, as well as residency-grants in the A Meditation On Shiva, Yama And Lenin (2012) United States, Russia, China, Japan, France and Portugal. 42 Dresden Hand (2010) Voir Du Pays World Cinema
The Stopover Director: Delphine & Muriel Coulin 2016 - 102’ - French, English, Greek - Colour - France, Greece Producer: Denis Freyd Cast: Soko, Ariane Labed, ,Ginger Roman, Karim Leklou Screenplay: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin Cinematographer: Jean-Louis Vialard Editor: Sound Designer: Antoine Mercier Music Composer: Costume Designer: Isabelle Pannetier Production Designer: Production Company: Archipel 35, ARTE France Cinema, Blonde Audiovisual Productions World Sales Address: Film Distribution World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 10 33 99 A luxury resort in Cyprus becomes an unlikely ‘stopover’ for a French military unit coming World Sales Email: [email protected] down from a tour in Afghanistan. The regiment includes only three female soldiers, but they are almost seamlessly integrated into the unit. However, cracks quickly start to Website of the Film: emerge. Sun, alcohol and deep-rooted misogyny make a toxic cocktail. The male soldiers Festival/Awards: rage with sexual aggression at the attention their female counterparts get from the Cannes Film Festival (2016) Cypriot locals. And the barely-suppressed tensions finally erupt when the unit is forced to 47th International Film Festival of India (2016) undergo group therapy claimed to treat PTSD, but also employed to stealthily de- programme the disgruntled troops. Directors Coulin sisters indicate with precise, arresting design and through carefully calibrated performances, the bitter misogynistic violence bubbling just beneath the surface in this impressive interrogation of gender politics in the military.
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Directing duo, sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, were born and grew- Voir du Pays (2016) up in Lorient. Muriel attended l’École Nationale Supérieure de Cinéma 17 Filles (2011) Louis-Lumiere outside Paris where she trained as a cinematographer. Delphine is a published writer of novels and had a successful career co- Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux (1997) producing television documentaries for ARTE. They received Michel d’Ornano prize for Best Screenplay for their debut film, 17 Filles, at the Deauville Film Festival (2011). The sisters shared the top prize for Best Screenplay in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2016, for Stopeover (Voir du Pays). 43 Louise by the Shore World Cinema
Louise En Hiver Director: Jean-François Laguionie 2016 - 75’ - French, English - Colour - France, Canada Producer: Jean-Pierre Lemouland, Galile Marion-Gauvin Cast: Dominique Frot, Diane Dassigny, Tom Anthony, Jean- François Laguionie Screenplay: Jean-François Laguionie Cinematographer: Editor: Kara Blake Sound Designer: Music Composer: Pierre Kellner, Pascal Le Pennec Costume Designer: Production Designer: Production Company: World Sales Address: Film Distribution World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 10 33 99 World Sales Email: [email protected] On the last day of summer, Louise realises that the last train has departed without her. The Website of the Film: elderly woman finds herself alone in a small seaside resort town, abandoned by everyone. The weather quickly turns for the worse followed by the seasonal tides. Festival/Awards: Fragile and coquettish, not nearly as well-prepared as a would-be Robinson Crusoe, San Sebastian International Film Festival (2016) Louise isn’t likely to make it through the winter. Yet, Louise takes her abandonment as a Haifa 33rd International Film Festival (2016) challenge with her only companion in misfortune - Pepper, an old dog!
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Jean-François Laguionie made his animated feature directorial debut The Painting (2011) with Gwen, le livre de sable (Gwen, the Book of Sand, 1988), after having Black Mor's Island (2004) helmed a number of short films. This was followed by Le chateau des A Monkey's Tale (1999) singes (A Monkey's Tale, 1999), L’ile de Black Mor (Black Mor's Island, 2004) and Le tableau (The Painting, 2011), nominated for a Best Gwen, the Book of Sand (1985) Animated Film César in France. Louise en hiver (Louise by the Shore) is his latest work.
44 Personal Shopper World Cinema
Personal Shopper Director: Olivier Assayas 2016 - 105’ - English, French - Colour - France Producer: Charles Gillibert Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Nora Von Waldstätten Screenplay: Olivier Assayas Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux Editor: Marion Monnier Sound Designer: Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Moreau, Olivier Goinard Costume Designer: Jurgen Doering Production Designer: François-Renaud Labarthe Production Company: CG Cinema, Scope Pictures, Sirena Film, Vortex Sutra, Detail Films World Sales Address: Mk2 World Sales Phone: + 33 1 44 67 30 68 Maureen is a young American woman in Paris making her living as a personal shopper for a World Sales Email: [email protected] celebrity. Also, Maureen may have the psychic ability to communicate with spirits, just like Website of the Film: http://www.mk2films.com her twin brother, Lewis, who recently passed away. She soon starts receiving ambiguous Festival/Awards: messages coming from an unknown source. Cannes Film Festival (Best Director Award) (2016) Toronto International Film Festival (2016)
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Born in Paris in 1955. A son of director Jacques Remy, he gained initial Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) film experience by working at his side. He graduated from the School of Something in the Air (2012) Fine Arts in Paris, and in 1979 he made a debut with a short film Carlos (2010) Copyright. His feature debut (Disorder, 1986) brought him the Critics Summer Hours (2008) Award in Venice. In 1992, he made well-received Paris Awakens, yet the Eldorado (documentary)(2008) breakthrough productions were Cold Water (1994) and Irma Vep (1996). Boarding Gate (2007) He has been nominated several times for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes To Each His Own Cinema (short)(2007) Film Festival and he received the Best Director Prize in 2016 for Personal Paris, I Love You (short)(2006) Shopper. Clean (2004) 45 Harmonium World Cinema
Fuchi Ni Tatsu Director: Koji Fukada 2016 - 118’ - Japanese - Colour - Japan, France Producer: Masa Sawada, Hiroshi Niimura Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Kanji Furutachi, Taiga , Momone Shinokawa, Kana Mahiro Screenplay: Koji Fukada Cinematographer: Kenichi Negishi Editor: Koji Fukada Sound Designer: Junji Yoshikata Music Composer: Hiroyuki Onogawa Costume Designer: Keiko Murashima Production Designer: Kensuke Suzuki Production Company: Comme des Cinemas, Nagoya Broadcasting, MAM Films World Sales: MK2 FILMS World Sales Phone: +33 1 44 67 30 30 Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. World Sales Email: [email protected] This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Website of the Film: http://www.mk2films.com Toshio’s family life. Festival/Awards: Cannes Films Festival (2016) Toronto International Film Festival (2016)
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Koji Fukada was born in 1980. He studied cinema at the Film School of Harmonium (2016) Tokyo. In 2002, he directed an auto-produced film, The Chair, and was Sayonara (2015) then hired by the prestigious Toei to direct an animated film, La Au Revoir L’été / Hotori No Sakuko (2013) Grenadière. After Human Comedy in Tokyo (2008), he directed Hospitalité which was awarded at the Tokyo IFF. In 2013, Au revoir l’été Hospitalité (2010) was selected in festivals from Tokyo to Rotterdam and received Human Comedy In Tokyo (2008) Montgolfière d’Or at the Festival des 3 Continents. Koji initiated a wide La Grenadière (short Animated Film)(2006) reflection on the financing of the young independent Japanese cinema. La Chaise (2004) 46 Nelly World Cinema
Nelly Director: Anne Émond 2016 - 101’ - French - Colour - Canada Producer: Nicole Robert Cast: Mylène Mackay, Mylia Corbeil-Gavreau, Mickaël Gouin, Francis Leplay, Sylvie Drapeau, Catherine Brunet Screenplay: Anne Émond Cinematographer: Josée Deshaies Editor: Mathieu Bouchard-Malo Sound Designer: Claude La Haye, Sylvain Brassard Music Composer: Dear Criminals Costume Designer: Patricia McNeil Production Designer: David Pelletier Production Company: Go Films World Sales: Seville International World Sales Phone: +1 514 878 2282 World Sales Email: [email protected] NELLY is a portrait of a fragmented woman, lost between irreconcilable identities: writer, Website of the Film: http://nelly-lefilm.com/ lover, call girl, and star. Several women in one, navigating between great exaltation and great disenchantment - a film mirror of a violent life and a radical work. Festivals: A film inspired by the life and work of novelist Nelly Arcan. A literary star in France and Toronto International Film Festival (2016) Quebec, her novels drew inspiration from her own experience as a professional escort 47th International Film Festival of India (2016) before ultimately committing suicide at the age of thirty-six.
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In 2011, Anne Émond directed her first feature film, Nuit #1 which won Our Loved Ones (2015) several prizes and awards, including best first Canadian feature film at Nuit #1 (2011) the 2012 Génie. Les Êtres chers, her second feature, premiered at the Plus rien ne vouloir (2011) Locarno Film Festival in August 2015. Nelly is her third film. Sophie Lavoie (2010)
47 Alba World Cinema
Alba Director: Ana Cristina Barragán 2016 - 96 - Spanish - Colour - Ecuador, Mexico, Greece Producer: Isabella Parra ,Ramiro Ruiz, Konstantina Stavrianou Cast: Macarena Arias, Pablo Aguirre, Amaia Merino Screenplay: Ana Cristina Barragán Cinematographer: Simon Brauer Editor: Yibran Asuad, Juan Daniel Molero, Ana Cristina Barragán, José María Avilés Sound Designer: Alex Icaza Music Composer: Pomeranec Musica y Sonido. Adrian Rodriguez, Gustavo Pomeranec, Hamaca Films Music, Andres Sanchez. Julian Brody &Sanchez Dub. Costume Designer: Ana Poveda Production Designer: Oscar Tello Production Company: Caleidoscopio Cine, Leyenda Films, Graal Films World Sales: Isabella Parra World Sales Phone: 593998357113 Alba is eleven years. One afternoon, her mother is admitted in the hospital and she must World Sales Email: [email protected], [email protected] move to live with Igor, a father whom she barely knows. Igor's attempts to get close to Website of the Film: http://alba-pelicula.com/ Alba, school girls, her first kiss, are stimuli that mark her entry into adolescence and acceptance of her family. Festivals: International Film Festival Rotterdam Toulouse Cinelatino Film Festival International Women's Film Festival Cologne Tübingen Cinelatino Film Festival
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Ana Cristina Barragán (Ecuador 1987) is a screenwriter and director. Her Despierta/Awake (2008) first feature film has won eight awards at various festivals, including a Domingo violeta/Violet Sunday (2010) Fipresci at the festival of Toulouse and a Jury Mention at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Ana Cristina has directed three short films, Anima/Spirit (2013) Awake, Anima and Domingo Violeta. The last mentioned, was premiered Alba (2016) in the official selection of Locarno and was in the Malba Buenos Aires. She is currently developing her second feature film, Octopus Skin, who won the 2016 Hubert Bals Fund and is part of Three Ports Cinema.
48 The Moderns World Cinema
Los Modernos Director: Mauro Sarser, Marcela Matta 2016 - 134’ - Spanish - B&W - Uruguay Producer: Leticia Barreiro Cast: Noelia Campo, Mauro Sarser, Federico Guerra, Stefania Tortorella Screenplay: Cinematographer: Germán Luongo Editor: Mauro Sarser, Marcela Matta Sound Designer: Gabriel Guerrero, Maximiliano Martinez Music Composer: Carlos Gardel, Francisco Fattoruso Costume Designer: Valeria Piriz Production Company: Acto de violencia World Sales: Media Luna World Sales Phone: +49 221 51091891 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Mar del Plata International Film Festival Huelva Iberoamericano Film Festival Clara, divorced with two children, wants to secure her relationship with Fausto, an immature, pretentious and grumpy intellectual. Paula, a spoiled young woman, wants to have a baby with Martin, who works in advertising but also has artistic aspirations. These two couples are facing the disjunctive of choosing between fatherhood, professional achievement and sexual freedom. The Moderns treats these issues from a critical perspective, questioning how the values of contemporary world are governed.
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Mauro and Marcela, both studied in the School of Cinema of Uruguay Mauro Sarser and have worked in independent productions together in the past 12 Los modernos (2016) years. Matta works as a producer and director in Tevé Ciudad, a public TV Millones (Documentary)(2011) Channel of Montevideo, since 2002. Sarser is an actor, an editor and a musician. In 2011 they wrote the script, produced and edited the film “3 Million” directed by Jaime Roos and Yamandú Roos. Los Modernos is the Marcela Matta first feature film they wrote and directed. Los modernos (2016)
49 Cloudy Sunday World Cinema
Ouzeri Tsitsanis Director: Manousos Manousakis 2016 - 116’ - Greek , English - Colour - Greece Producer: Manousos Manousakis Cast: Christina Hilla Fameli, Haris Fragoulis, Andreas Konstantinou, Vasiliki Troufakou Screenplay: Ada Gourbali, Vasilis Spiliopoulos Cinematographer: Kostas Gikas Editor: Labis Charalambidis Sound Designer: Manolis Manoussakis Music Composer: Themis Karamouratidis Costume Designer: Anna Mahairianaki Production Designer: Antonis Halkias Production Company: Telekinisi Productions in co- production with Otetv World Sales: Media Luna World Sales Phone: +49 221 51091891 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: http://ouzeritsitsanis.com/ This film unfolds the forbidden love story between a Jewish girl and a Christian boy during Festivals: the German occupation in Thessaloniki in 1942. The racist laws have been implemented Hellenic Film Academy Awards (2016) and the only place to escape the hatred and inhumanity, is a small club, where Vasilis Shanghai Internatinal Film Festival Tsitsanis fills the hearts and minds of people with the beautiful rebetika folk music. Thessaloniki International Film Festival Despite the resistance, the persistent hunt for the Jews gradually spreads and suddenly UK Jewish International Film Festival simple choices become life-changing decisions. Based on the book “Ouzeri Tsitsanis” by Australia Jewish International Film Festival George Skarbadonis. Edinburgh Greek Film Festival
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Manoussos Manoussakis is a multi talented director who has directed 5 Red Dragon (1998) features, 11 plays, 10 TV films, and 20 TV series. He received Best I skiahtra (1985) Cinematography award at Chicago Festival, European Parliament award Arhontes (1977) at Giffoni Festival, and script, music, editing awards at Thessaloniki Film Festival for his work. Vartholomaios (1974)
50 Alma de Sant Pere World Cinema
Alma de Sant Pere Director: Jarmo Lampela 2016 - 96’ - Spanish - Colour - Finland Producer: Jarmo Lampela Cast: Carla de Otero, Raul Llopart, Arántzazu Ruíz, Juha Kukkonen, Laura Birn Screenplay: Jarmo Lampela Cinematographer: Aarne Tapola Editor: Oskar Franzen Sound Designer: Patrick Boullenger Music Composer: Pekka Lehti Costume Designer: Maria Combalia Production Designer: Juha Fiilin Production Company: Vegetarian Films World Sales: Media Luna World Sales Phone: +49 221 5109189 World Sales Email: [email protected] Alma is a young ambitious woman working in her own small company in Barcelona. She is Festivals: happy in life but constantly dreams of a bigger project that she could work on together with her friends. A project that would bring in their first million. The opportunity finally 47th International Film Festival of India, 2016 arises and they buy an old building with a plan to renovate it into luxury apartments. But how to get rid of old tenants without hurting their feelings and without losing your own morals? Furthermore, how to survive from a free fall when you lose all you have? “Alma de Sant Pere” is a film about dreams, friendships and human values.
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JarmoLampela has worked as a freelance director, screenwriter and Kilimanjaro (2013) producer since 1991. He has directed 12 feature length fiction, several Nuoren Wertherinjäljillä (2013) documents and TV series and worked also for many theater productions. Keikka (2013) 2007-2014 he worked in ELO film school Helsinki as the professor of directing and as head of the film school for last six years. Jarmo started as Mitenmeistätuliystäviä (2013) the head of drama in YLE national Finnish television in May 2015. Miestenvälisiäkeskusteluja (2012) Eila (2003)
51 My Revolution World Cinema
Ma révolution Director : Ramzi Ben Sliman 2016 - 80’ - French, Arabic - Colour - France Producer: Jerome Dopffer, Sebastien Haguenauer Cast: Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi, Lucien Le Guern Screenplay: Ramzi Ben Sliman, Thomas Cailley, Nathalie Saugeon Editor: Damien Maestraggi Sound Designer: Dimitri Haulet, Loïc Prian, Damien Boitel, Benjamin Viau Music Composer: Julien Lourau Costume Designer: Elfie Carlier Production Designer: Gaelle Usandivaras Production Company: Les Productions Balthazar, 10:15! Productions, France 2 Cinema World Sales: Visit Films With the Arab Spring blossoming in the heart of Paris, people take to the streets to show World Sales Phone: +1.718.362.4865 their support. Everyone except 14-year old Marwann, that is. Despite his Tunisian roots, World Sales Email: [email protected] Marwann is too preoccupied with adolescence -- getting his parents off his back, Festivals: becoming popular at school, and impressing his crush, Sygrid. When Marwann stumbles into a street rally one night and has his picture taken by a journalist, he lands on the cover Berlin International Film Festival (2016) of the biggest newspaper in France and accidentally becomes the face of the Arab Spring. Marwann is instantly branded as a revolutionary hero and the “cool kid” at his school. To win over Sygritte, Marwann embraces his newfound identity, only to find himself on a journey of self-discovery, first love, and maybe even an actual connection with his roots..
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Ramzi Ben Sliman was born in Paris between the second oil crisis and Ma révolution (2016) François Mitterrand’s entry into power. He studied econometrics at ENS Mon homme (Short)(2007) Paris. Before directing My Revolution, he made his living by teaching mathematics at the university level. He adapted and directed Alberts Camus’ Foreigner at Studio Theater 14 in Paris and has also directed two short films. His passion for the cinema started with his father, a traveling projectionist, and the screening room was his school. My Revolution is his first feature film.
52 X500 World Cinema X Quinientos Director: Juan Andrés Arango 2016 - 108’ - French, Tagalog, Mazahua, Spanish, English - Colour - Canada, Colombia, Mexico Producer: Yanick Letourneau, Jorge Botero, Edher Campos, Luis Salinas Cast: Jembie Almazan, Jonathan Diaz Angulo, Bernardo Garnica Cruz Screenplay: Juan Andrés Arango Cinematographer: Nicolás Canniccioni Editor: Felipe Guerrero Sound Designer: René Portillo, Isabel Torres, Daniel Garcia Production Company: Peripheria, Septima Films, Machete World Sales: Visit Films World Sales Phone: +1.718.312.8210 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival (2016) Coming to Montreal from Manila to live with her grandmother, Maria struggles to adapt to San Sebastian Film Festival (2016) the new environment. Alex, a young Afro-Colombian boy, is deported from the USA to Alice in the City (2016) Colombia only to find that his former district is now run by criminals. David leaves his town Los Cabos Film Festival (2016) when his father dies, to seek a better future in Mexico City. X500 follows the lives of these three teens in different American cities as they make their way along the same path of pain, migration and transformation.
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Juan Andres Arango was born in Bogota, Colombia. After graduating La Playa DC (2012) from high school, he studied Cinematography and Television in the X500 (2016) National University of Colombia where he directed and scripted his first movie Eloisa y las Nieves as his thesis dissertation. In 2012 he did La Playa, a movie that was selected for funding and co- production by some important film incubation programmes in the world. La Playa was screened at San Sebastian IFF. X500 is his second feature made in 2016.
53 Jacqueline Argentine World Cinema
Jacqueline Argentine Director: Bernardo Britto 2016 - 87’ - English, Spanish, Arabic - Colour - USA Producer: Brett Potter, Benjamin Cohen Cast: Wyatt Cenac, Camille Rutherford, James Benson, Martin Anderson, Sarah Willis, Enrique Dura, Kristin Dura, Marcos Funes Peralta, Fernando Donadio, Amr El-Bayoumi Screenplay: Bernardo Britto Cinematographer: Eric Yue Editor: Bernardo Britto Music Composer: Brian McOmber Costume Designer: Alexa Haas Production Designer: Alexa Haas World Sales: Visit Films World Sales Phone: +1.718.362.4865 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: A filmmaker receives a series of panicked emails and phone calls from a young French Sundance Film Festival (2016) woman – Jacqueline Dumont. She implores him to travel to Argentina to document her Rotterdam Film Festival (2016) self-imposed political exile after she supposedly leaks highly confidential government secrets detailing a planned assassination. Jacqueline expects severe fallout and wants the filmmaker recording everything in case anything happens to her. As soon as the filmmaker and his two interns arrive at Jacqueline’s Argentine remote holistic center safe haven, however, they begin to think she might be more interested in singing Britney Spears songs and hanging out with her new friend than helping the filmmakers unearth a huge government conspiracy. Nevertheless, they soldier on, desperately hoping they will somehow end up with some semblance of a worthwhile film and maybe – just maybe – they’ll find a kernel of truth in Jacqueline’s paranoid ramblings.
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Bernardo Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro and graduated from NYU. He Glove (Short)(2016) co-directed the feature film. Nothing Yet and received the NBR Yearbook (Short)(2014) Animation Grant in 2011. He was selected as a 2012 Marcie Bloom Places Where We Lived (Short)(2013) fellow. He has directed award winning animated shorts, including The Places Where We Lived ( Grand Jury Prize for Animation; AFI Fest 2013) and Yearbook (Jury Prize for Best Short; Sundance 2014).
54 One of Us World Cinema
Einer von uns Director: Stephan Richter 2015 - 86’ - German - Colour - Austria Producer: Arash T. Riahi & Karin C. Berger Cast: Christopher Schärf, Jack Hofer, Simon Morzé Screenplay: Stephan Richter Cinematographer: Enzo Brandner Editor: Andreas Wodraschke, Julia Drack Sound Designer: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson Music Composer: Maja Osojnik & Matija Schellander Costume Designer: Monika Buttinger Production Designer: Julia Oberndorfinger & Christine Dosch Production Company: Golden Girls Film production World Sales: Wide Management World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 95 24 44 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: http://www.oneofus-movie.com/ Festivals: A huge supermarket is the only meeting point for 14-year old Julian and his newly met San Sebastian International Film Festival (2015) friends. Fresh emotions of brotherhood, affection and thrill encourage their wish to break Zurich Film Festival (2015) out of suburban boredom. One night, Julian and his pal Marko break into the supermarket Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2015) full of promising products. A moment of childish freedom ends abruptly in a moment of harsh grown-up reality. A story inspired by true events.
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Stephan Richter was born in Dresden and studied Media Art at the Artist in Residence (TV Series) (2014) University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has been working as a media Better Dead Than Read(Short) (2011) artist, script writer and director in Vienna. After several music videos and Out of Bounds (Short) (2007) experimental shorts, Stephan received the "Starter Award for Film Art" and started to work on his first feature One of Us. In 2013 One Of Us was part of the EKRAN training programme in Warsaw (Wajda Film School) and was also nominated for the “Project Pitch Award” at the “Kino der Kunst Festival” in Munich.
55 Destiny World Cinema
Xi He Director: Zhang Wei 2016 - 97’ - Mandarin, Chinese -Colour - China Producer: Zhang Wei Cast: Liang Jingke, Feng Jun, Zhao Ju, Huang Jingyi Screenplay: Chen Jianzhong Cinematographer: Yang Wei Editor: Manuel De Sousa, Wu Yixiang Sound Designer: Zhen Hongmin, Gu Changning Music Composer: Liu Tao World Sales Address: Min Zhang World Sales Phone: (86) 15969685657 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Far East Film Festival (2016) International Film Festival of India (2016)
Autism is a condition not well understood by many in China. DESTINY tells the story of 9- year-old Xi He who although has been diagnosed as autistic, attends a “normal” school at the continuous insistence of his mother. Despite the growing fear of his classmates and their parents over his condition and his occasional outbursts, and the insistence of the parents that the school administrators expel Xi He and send him to a special education institute, still his mother refuses and for the 4th time he is allowed to remain and study with his classmates… until things go too far. Eventually we learn why she insists that Xi He should be brought up as a normal child as much as possible and we witness the power of a mother’s love in full force in this thought-provoking and touching film.
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Born in Hunan province in 1965, Zhang Wei is an entrepreneur vast Factory Boss (2014) experience in the business world. His passion in art and cinema led him Shadow Puppet Show Of One Person (2011) to invest in the production of the film Zheng Chenggong Heros in 2000. Beijing Dream (2010) Zhang studied directing at the Beijing Film Academy as well as cinema at the Institute of Research of Chinese Arts. He directed his first feature film, Shadow, in 2011, then in 2013 Factory Boss. His work seeks to depict a natural and bare view of ordinary people against rapidly changing Chinese society.
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Ma' Rosa Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza 2016 - 110’ - Filipino - Colour - Philippines Producer: Loreto Larry Castillo Cast: Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Andi Eigenmann, Felix Roco, Jomari Angeles, Inna Tuason Screenplay: Troy Espiritu Cinematographer: Odyssey FLORES Editor: Diego Marx Dobles Sound Designer: Albert Michael IDIOMA Music Composer: Teresa Barrozo Costume Designer: Production Designer: Dante Mendoza Production Company: Center Stage Productions (CSP) Co. World Sales Address: Film Distribution World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 10 33 99 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.filmsdistribution.com Rosa is married to Nestor with whom she has four children. Rosa's family runs a sari-sari Festival/Awards: store in a neighbourhood in Manila. The income from the small convenience store business alone isn't enough to meet the family's daily needs, so illegal drugs particularly Cannes Film Festival,2016 "ice" or crystal meth are also sold at Rosa's store. One day police officers arrest Rosa and 47th International film Festival of India (2016) Nestor for selling drugs and ask them for "bail money" or a bribe for the couple's release. Toronto International Film Festival (2016) Rosa's children, left on their own to deal with the struggles of daily life, find a way to free Filipino contender for the Oscars (2017) their detained parents.
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Brillante Mendoza is a prolific Filipino film director. He took Advertising Serbis (2008) Arts at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Santo Foster Child (2007) Tomas. Mendoza won Best Director at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival for Tirador (2007) his film Kinatay. His 2012 film Captive was shown in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. His 2012 film Thy Womb Kaledo (2006) competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Manoro (2006) Festival. His film Taklub was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Masahista (2005) the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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İçəri Şəhər Director: Ilgar Safat 2016 - 115’ - Azerbaijani - Colour - Azerbaijan Producer: Mushfig Hatamov Cast: Tahmina Rafaella, Firdovsi Atakishiyev, Mehriban Zeki, Elmira Shabanova, Anar Khalilov Screenplay: Tahmina Rafaella, Ilgar Safat Cinematographer: Luca Coassin (A.I.C.) Editor: Ilgar Safat Sound Designers: Ivan Gusakov, Mehman Nadirov Costume Designer: Olga Shabanova Production Designer: Butunay Hagverdiyev Production Company: Azerbaijanfilm Studio World Sales : Rafa Film, World Sales Phone: +13236651400 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (2016) 5th Lake Van International Film Festival (2016) "At some point," Rafael tells Arzu, "people walk together ... and then their ways part ... 38th Cairo International Film Festival (2016) each destined to follow the labyrinth of their own inner city ..." 47th International Film Festival of India(2016) Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love ...
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Ilgar Safat (b, 1972, Baku) is a film and theatre director, poet and rock- Thousand (2001) singer. I Remember the Birds (2002) Ilgar Safat graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and The Roots of the Sky (2003) Literature of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical University in 1995 and the Free. Kissing. Boris (2004) Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow in 2002. Sonnet 129 (2005) Most of his titles, including “The Grandson of the Mountains”, “The The Holy Virgin of Sofra (2005) Roots of the Sky”, won several international awards. On Green Pastures (2006) His 2010 feature debut ‘The Precinct’ was selected to represent Peri Gala (2007) Azerbaijan at the 83th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Precinct (2010) 58 Film category. Baku, I Love You(2015) The Shepherd World Cinema
El Pastor Director: Jonathan Cenzual Burley 2016 - 105’ - Spanish - Colour - Spain Producer: Jonathan Cenzual Burley Cast: Maribel Iglesias, Miguel Martín, Alfonso Mendiguchía Screenplay: Jonathan Cenzual Burley Cinematographer: Jonathan Cenzual Burley Editor: Jonathan Cenzual Burley Sound Designer: Roberto Herrador Music Composer: Tim Walters Production Company: Matchbox Productions Ltd, Jonathan Cenzual Burley. World Sale: Wide Management World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 95 24 44 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: http://jcenzual.wixsite.com/ Festivals: Raindance Film Festival (2016) Montreal World Film Festival (2016) Anselmo, a middle age shepherd, lives a modest but happy life in a remote house in the middle of the Spanish plains. When he refuses a juicy offer from a construction company Brussels International Film Festival (2016) planning to build a new residential complex on his property, little does he know that his life is about to be turned upside down. The owners of the neighbouring lands have all agreed to sell and his refusal jeopardizes the whole deal. Blinded by greed, they are determined to do whatever it takes to make him change his mind…
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After working in different music videos and video installations for live El año y la viña (2013) concerts, Jonathan Cenzual Burley shot his first feature: El Alma de Las El Alma de Las Moscas (2011) Moscas which premiered at the prestigious Karlovy Vary IFF in 2011 and won the Jury Special Mention in Warsaw. In 2012 he directed El Año y La Viña which premiered at Mill Valley IFF and in 2014 he was invited to attend the Berlin Film Festival as part of the Berlinale Talent Campus. Currently he’s working on his first photography book and preparing his first English language feature.
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Malaria Director: Parviz Shahbazi 2016 - 90’ - Persian - Colour - Iran Producer: Masoud Radaei Cast: Saghar Ghanaat, Saed Soheili, Azarakhsh Farahani, Azadeh Namdari Screenplay: Parviz Shahbazi Cinematographer: Hooman Behmanesh Editor: Parviz Shahbazi Sound Designer: Mohammad Kashfi Music Composer: Azarakhsh Farahani, Siavash Asadi Costume Designer: Keyvan Moghadam Production Designer: Keyvan Moghadam Production Company: Masoud Radaei World Sales: Dreamlab Films World Sales Phone: +33(0)4 93 38 75 61 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: http://www.dreamlabfilms.com/malaria/ Festivals: A young girl informs her father she’s been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom 73rd Venice International Film Festival (2016) money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, 21st BUSAN International Film Festival (2016) however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in 32nd WARSAW Film Festival (2016) the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full 52nd Chicago International Film Festival (2016) of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path… 6th Australian Iranian Film Festival (2016) 20th Tertio Millennio Film Festival (2016) Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (2016)
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Born in 1962 in Tehran, Shahbazi is a filmmaking graduate of the Tehran Malaria (2016) Cinema College. During the early 80s he began writing short stories and Trapped (Darband) (2013) directing short films. He edited several films and directed 12 shorts before making his first feature film, MOSAFERE JANOUB, in 1997. Karat 14 (Ayar 14) (2009) Malaria is his latest feature. His debut feature, as well as his second film, Deep Breath (Nafas-e Amigh) (2003) NAJVA (2000) has been screened at countless festivals bringing him international recognition and several awards along the way. In 2002 his Whispers (Najva) (2000) third film, NAFAS-E AMIGH / Deep Breath, was selected for the Directors’ The Traveler from South (Mosafer-e jonoub) (1997) Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival receiving great critical acclaim. 60 Duet World Cinema
Duet Director: Navid Danesh 2016 - 103’ - Persian - Colour - Iran Producer: Ehsan Rasoulof Cast: Ali Mosaffa, Hedieh Tehrani, Negar Javaherian, Morteza Farshbaf, Kaveh Kateb, Pantea Panahiha, Alireza Aghakhani Screenplay: Navid DANESH Cinematographer: Hossein Jafarian Editor: Hayedeh SAFIYARI Sound Designer: Amir Hossein GHASEMI Music Composer: Peyman Yazdanian Costume Designer: Sara SAMIEI Production Designer: Keyvan MOGHADAM World Sales: DreamLab Films World Sales Phone:+33(0)493387561 World Sales Email: [email protected] Minoo drives her husband Hamed to see his ex-girlfriend Sepideh as he wants to apologize Website of the Film: www.dreamlabfilms.com to her for their unpleasant breakup some years ago. Festivals: The reunion, however, revives old memories that set in motion a sequence of events that 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, (2016) affect Sepideh’s life. 21st International Film Festival of Kerala, (2016)
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Navid Danesh fell in love with cinema at university. After graduating with Duet (2016) a degree in English translation in 2006 he began filmmaking at the workshops of well-known directors Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi, directing five shorts. His SHORT film, DUET, was selected for the 'Cinefondation Selection' of the 2013 Cannes IFF and was made into his first feature film in 2016.
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Valderama Director: Abbas Amini 2016 - 91’ - Persian - Colour - Iran Producer: Majid Barzegar Cast: Hamed Alipour, Nafiseh Zare, Gity Ghasemi, Assadolah Monjazi Screenplay: Abbas Amini, Hossein Farrokhzadeh Cinematographer: Ashkan Ashkani Editor: Majid Barzegar & Hamidreza Barzegar Music Composer: Mehran Ghaedipour Costume Designer: Leila Naghdi Pari Production Designer: Leila Naghdi Pari Production Company: Barzegar Production World Sales: DreamLab Films World Sales Phone: +33(0) 4 93 38 75 61 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.dreamlabfilms.com Festivals: 66th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlinale (2016) 15-year-old “Valderama », so called by the townsfolk for his long curly hair, is trying to 3rd Köln Iranian Film Festival (2016) obtain the ID card he’s never been able to have. 5th Persian Film Festival (2016) After successfully defending himself from unwanted aggression and fearing the 2nd Bogota International Film Festival (2016) consequences he escapes to Tehran. In the vastness of the big-city he fights to obtain not 18th Mumbai Film Festival (2016) only love and shelter, but also the personal recognition an ID card brings. 6th Prague Iranian Film Festival (2016)
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Abbas Amini was born in 1983 in Abadan, Iran and started making short Season of Return (Short Film) (2014) films at the age of 13. In 2001 he moved to Tehran and was involved in shield Children (Short Film) (2001) several feature films as a director's assistant. He then began making documentary films and became especially orientated towards social and The Breathless (2012) child welfare issues. He has since directed a number of shorts and Impossible Mission (2009) documentaries on social issues and the terrible consequences of the Iran/Iraq war. Night Story (2008) His keen interest in child welfare led him to work as a volunteer for the Taste of the Sun (2005) 'Association for the Protection of Child Labourers' over the past10 years. “Valderama" is Amini's first feature fiction film as a director. Abdolma (2002) 62 Parting World Cinema
Raftan Director: Navid Mahmoudi 2016 - 78’ - Persian, Dari - Colour - Iran, Afghanistan Producer: Jamshid Mahmoudi Cast: Reza Ahmadi, Fereshteh Hosseini, Behrang Alavi, Nazanin Bayati, Shams Langaroudi Screenplay: Navid Mahmoudi Cinematographer: koohyar kalari Editor: Jamshid Mahmoudi Sound Recorder: Mohammadreza Habibi Sound Mixer: Hossein Ghoorchian Music Composer: Sahand Mahdizadeh Costume Designer: Amir Hossein Babaeian Production Designer: Amir Hossein Babaeian Production Company: Aseman Parvaz Film World Sales: DreamLab Films World Sales Phone: +33(0) 4 93 38 75 61 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: www.dreamlabfilms.com Festivals: 21st Busan International Film Festival (2016) Two young Afghans, Fereshteh and Nabi, are in love, but Fereshteh has to follow her 57th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2016) 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (2016) parents and leave Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran. 3rd Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival (2016) Nabi decides to illegally cross the border, find Fereshteh and take her through Turkey towards Europe and a better life.
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Born in 1980 in Parwan (Afghanistan), his family moved to Iran when he Raftan/Parting (2016) was 6 years old. From a very young age he was interested in films and AN AFGHAN CHILD PRIVACY (Short Film) (2015) cinema and developed a passion for the art. He started as an assistant Ye loghmeh noun (Short Film) (2006) director and went on to direct his own shorts and produce other works. He was a producer on over 10 TV movies. He produced A Few Cubic Zero (Short Film) (2002) Meters of Love by Jamshid Mahmoudi (2014) selected as Afghanistan’s Noghteh sar-e Khat (Short Film) (2000) official entry for the Academy Awards. Parting is his directing feature debut.
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Slava Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov 2016 I 101’ I Bulgarian I Colour I Bulgaria, Greece Producer: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov Cast: Stefan Denolyubov , Margita Gosheva Screenplay: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Decho Taralezhkov Cinematographer: Krum Rodriguez Editor: Petar Valchanov Sound Designer: Ivan Andreev Music Composer: Hristo Namliev Costume Designer: Kristina Tomova Production Company: Abraxas film World Sales: Wide Management World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 95 24 44 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker finds millions of Leva (Bulgarian Currency) on the train Locarno (2016) tracks. He decides to turn the entire amount over to the police, and the state rewards him with a new wristwatch, but soon the new watch stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, Hamptons (2016) head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov's old watch. And Ghent International Film Festival (2016) here starts his desperate struggle to get his old watch back, as well as his dignity. Gijón International Film Festival (2016)
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Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva have directed the documentary Petar Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva Parable of Life (2009), Recently, they wrote and directed the short film Glory (2016) Jump which received awards such as the European Film Awards 2013 at The Lesson (2014) Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2013, Best Picture at Busan ISFF 2013, Grand Prix at Brussels ISFF 2013. The Lesson, their first feature film together, is a Jump (Short) (2013) worldwide festival hit which premiered in Toronto IFF and won the Best Force Landing (TV Feature) (2010) Director Award and the main prize in the New Directors sidebar at San Parable of Life (Documentary) (2009) Sebastián.
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Bacalaureat Director: Cristian Mungiu 2016 - 128’ - Romanian - Colour - Romania, France, Belgium Producer: Cristian Mungiu Cast: Vlad Ivanov, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Adrian Titieni, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici Screenplay: Cristian Mungiu Cinematographer: Tudor Vladimir Panduru Editor: Mircea Olteanu Sound Designer: Mircea Olteanu Music Composer: Costume Designer: Brandusa Ioan Production Designer: Simona Pădurețu Production Company: Mobra Films World Sales:Wild Bunch World Sales Phone: +33 1 4313 2151 World Sales Email: [email protected] Romeo stands in the kitchen in front of the window and listens to the trains passing in the Website of the Film: bacalaureat2016.com distance. He has to talk to Eliza and doesn’t yet know what he will tell her. Being a father Festival: and growing older have lately become overwhelming for him. Cannes Film Festival (2016) Romeo Aldea (49), a physician living in a small town, has raised his daughter Eliza with the Chicago International Film Festival (2016) idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to European Film Awards (2016) succeeding – Eliza has got a scholarship to study psychology in UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student as she is. Hamburg Film Festival (2016) On the day prior to her first written exam, an incident jeopardizes Eliza’s departure. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them include using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter.
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Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian writer-director. Before studying film, he Beyond the Hills (2012) worked as a teacher and journalist. His debut film, Occident / West, was Tales from the Golden Age (2009) premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes in 2002. In 2007, his 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) feature, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, was awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes. He returned to Cannes as a writer-director in 2012 with Beyond Occident (2002) the Hills – double awarded for Best Screenplay and Best actresses. He was in the jury of the Cannes film festival in 2013. Bacalaureat / Graduation is his fifth film.
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The Neon Demon Director: Nicolas Winding Refn 2016 - 117’ - English - Colour - USA, France, Denmark Producer: Lene Børglum Cast: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman. Screenplay: Nicolas Winding Refn, Mary Laws i Polly Stenham Cinematographer: Natasha Braier Editor: Matthew Newman Sound Designer: Eddie Simonsen, Anne Jensen Music Composer: Cliff Martinez Costume Designer: Erin Benach Production Designer: Elliott Hostetter Production Company: World Sales: Wild Bunch World Sales Phone: +33 1 4313 2151 World Sales Email: [email protected] Website of the Film: http://theneondemon.com/ Festivals: Cannes Film Festival (2016) Jesse is a young model who has just moved to Los Angeles, fresh-faced beauty which Boston Online Film Critics Association (2016) captivates everyone. The head of her agency feels that she has the "certain something" California on Location Awards (2015) needed to become a top star. Jesse soon faces the wrath of ruthless rivals who envy her; Alliance of Women Film Journalists (2017) she must also contend with a seedy motel manager and a creepy photographer. As she Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2016) begins to conquer the fashion world, her personality changes in ways that could help her Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2016) against her cutthroat rivals. Acclaimed Drive director Nicolas Widing Refn teams up with Film Club's The Lost Weekend (2016) Elle Fanning and created a highly anticipated film about the seductive but frightening Indiewire Critics' Poll (2016) modeling industrty; the film generated sparks at Cannes.
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Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He Dealer/Pusher (1996) established his status as a maker of cult films with his debut. The 1996 Bleeder (1999) film Dealer was the first part of his Pusher series, through which he Fear X (2003) showed that he had a great sense of film genres, pop culture clichés, and archetypes. All of this can also be seen in Valhalla Rising, which is rooted Krew na rękach/Pusher II (2004) in the world of Nordic mythology, and in Drive, which stars Ryan Gosling. jestem aniołem śmierci/Pusher III (2005) Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon are yet two more dark worlds Bronson (2008) that Refn has created straight out of his very modern imagination. Valhalla Rising (2009 66 On the Milky Road World Cinema
Na Mlijecnom Putu Director: Emir Kusturica 2016 - 125’ - Serbian - Colour - Serbia Producer: Paula Vaccaro, Alex Garcia, Lucas Akoskin, Emir Kusturica Cast: Emir Kusturica, Monica Bellucci Screenplay: Emir Kusturica Cinematographer: Goran Volarević and Martin Šec Editor: Svetolik Mića Zajc Sound Designer: Milos Drndarevic Music Composer: Stribor Kusturica Costume Designer: Nebojsa Lipanovic Production Designer: Goran Joksimovic Production Company: AG Studios, Pinball London, Rasta International, BN Films World Sales: Wild Bunch World Sales Phone: +33 1 4313 2151 Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets World Sales Email: [email protected] to bring his precious merchandise to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his Website of the Film: mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him. until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of FestivalS : passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and Venice Film Festival (2016) dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop then.
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Born in 1954 in Sarajevo, Emir Kusturica is a Serbian director, musician Words with Gods (2014) and producer. Author of nine films, several television and short films, he Underground (1995) also plays guitar in a rock band. Among his many prizes, he has received Arizona Dream (1993) two Golden Palms in Cannes for When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995), and the Silver Bear (Special Jury Prize) Time of the Gypsies (1988) in Berlin for Arizona Dream (1993). When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
67 COUNTRY FOCUS: VIETNAM The Children of the Village County f ocus
Nhung Du’a con cua lang Director: Nguyen Duc Viet 2014 - 89’ - Vietnamese - Colour - Vietnam Cast: Trung Anh, Thúy Hang Cinematographer: Hoàng Dzung Production Designer: Minh Dao
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises In a small riverside hamlet in central Vietnam, 20 years after a wartime massacre decimated its population and destroyed the bridge connecting it to the opposite river bank, former guerrilla leader Mr. Thap cannot forget the pain of war. As head of the village—and a survivor of that massacre—he constantly reminds his fellow villagers of the importance of revenge. But for the next generation of villagers, including Thap’s own daughter, and the son of the former village leader, whom he holds responsible for the massacre, thing are less clear cut. Through their trials and tribulations, the stubborn village elder finally discovers that community preservation may be the result of building bridges and repairing old wounds, not revenge. her until one day… she grows a tail.
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Nguyen Duc Viet is a renowned Cinematographer in Vietnam. His career Nhung Du’a con cua lang spans over more than a decade during which he has worked on many award winning films and, commercial hits in Vietnam.
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Nha tien tri Director: Vuong Duc 2015 - 120’ - Vietnamese - Colour - Vietnam Producer: Tuan Anh Nguyen Cast: Bùi Bài Bình, Tran Chí Trung, Huyen Sâm, Đào Duy Anh Cinematographer: Quoc Tuan Vu Sound Designer: Bac Hai Banh Music Composer: Quan Dohong Production Designer: Quoc Trung Pham
A biopic of former President Ho Chi Minh, based on a screenplay by veteran author Hoang Nhuan Cam, the film tells about the life of the former president from 1947 to 1954 during the war against the French. The film recounts his experiences in the Viet Bac Resistance War Base, as the country's first president who led the Vietnamese people in their struggle for independence from the French colonialists.
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Vuong Duc was born in 1957. He is the Director of Vietnam Feature Film The Golden Torch (1994) Company. His filmography Reeds – The Golden Torch at the International The sawers Film Festival in Pyongyang 1994, B Prize of Vietnam Cinema Association, Fallen things (2003) The sawers – The A Prize of Vietnam Cinema Association, Golden Lotus Award at 12th Vietnam National Film Festival; Fallen things – Silver Kite Nha tien tri (2015) Award in 2003.
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Toi thay hoa vang tren co xanh Director: Victor Vu 2015 - 103’ - Vietnamese - Colour - Vietnam Producer: Trịnh Thị Thanh Tâm, Nguyễn Cao Tùng Cast: Thinh Vinh, Khang Trong, My Thanh, My Anh , Cong Huan, Duc Sang, Jayvee Mai The Hiep Screenplay: Việt Linh, Victor Vũ, Đoàn Nhật Nam Cinematographer: K'Linh Nguyen Editor: Thang Vu Music Composer: Christopher Wong Costume Designer: Ghia Fam Production Designer: Ghia Fam Production Company: Galaxy Media & Entertainment, Saigon Concert, Phương Nam Film World Sales: Fortissimo Films World Sales Phone: +31 20 627 32 15 World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) A coming of age story set in the Vietnamese countryside during the late 1980s, as told through the eyes of Thieu, a 12 year old boy. Thieu and his younger brother Tuong share and do everything together. Their days unfold like a whimsical and comical journey filled with innocence, wonder, confusion and curious adventures. Tuong idolises his older brother’s confidence and constantly strives for his approval. But in fact, Thieu’s “over- confidence” is to compensate for his overwhelming insecurities. Thieu is constantly jealous of his younger brother when it comes to grades, talent and affection from the girl next door, Moon. This leads to an act of violence which leaves Tuong paralysed and bedridden. In coming to terms with his own conscience, Thieu attempts to redeem himself and discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.
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Born (born November 25, 1975) and raised in Southern California, Vu First Morning (2003) earned his BA in film production from Loyola Marymount University. He Spirits – Oan Hon (2004) has directed Passport to Love, Battle of the Brides, Blood letter, Spirits – Passport to Love (2009) Oan Hon, First Morning, Inferno – Giao Lo Dinh Menh, Scandal Inferno – Giao Lo Dinh Menh (2010) (2012).and Vengeful Heart (2014) (Quả Tim Máu). His social drama Battle of the Brides (2011) Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass is based on Nguyen Nhat Anh's best- Blood letter (2012) selling novel. Scandal (2012) Battle of the Brides 2 (2013) Vengeful Heart (2014) 71 On the peaceful peak County f ocus
Tren dinh binh yen Director: Nguyen Huu Muoi 2015 - 95’ - Vietnamese - Colour - Vietnam Cast: Nguyen Thanh Binh, Minh Thao Screenplay: Doan Minh Tuan Cinematographer: Pham Thanh Ha Music Composer: Dang Huu Phuc Festivals: World Premieres Film Festival Philippines (2016)
Film tells story of a traditional ceramic village in Ninh Thuan province. The artist, the lads and girls of Cham minority who have experienced many ups and downs, realise that they cannot live forever in poverty. Yet, along with the changes to develop, they must respect and conserve the cultural quintessence of Cham minority.
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Eminent Artist Nguyen Huu Muoi was born in 1957. He is a lecturer at the Hanoi Drama and Cinema Institute. His principal works include: The heirloom box, Scent of burning grass - which won Silver Lotus at the 17th Vietnam Nam Film Festival, Golden Kite from Vietnam Cinema Association in 2011
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Cuoc doi cua Yen Director: Dinh Tuan Vu 2015 - 107’ - Vietnamese - Colour - Vietnam Producer: Duc Vuong Cast: Thuy Hang Do, Lam Tung Hoang, Kim Anh Nguyen, Minh Huong Le, Lamou Vissay Cinematographer: Quoc Tuan Vu Editor: Ngoc Nga Nguyen Sound Designer: Bac Hai Banh Music Composer: Cat Trong Ly Le Production Designer: Dan Nam Nguyen Production Company: Vietnam Feature Film Studio Festivals: World Premieres Film Festival (2016)
According to the marriage arrangement of parent, Yen had to get married when she was only 10 years old. Since then, her life is attached to the ups and downs of her husband’s family.
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Tuan Vu Dinh was born on December 27, 1989 in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is a Cuoc doi cua Yen (2015) director and actor, known for Yen's Life (2016) and Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai (2013).
73 LATIN AMEICA Good People Latin Amer ica
Gente de bien Director: Franco Lolli 2015 - 87’ - Spanish - Colour - Colombia, France Producer: Gregoire Debailly Cast: Brayan Santamaria, Carlos Fernando Perez, Alejandra Borrero Screenplay: Franco Lolli, Catherine Paillé Cinematographer: Oscar Duran Editor: Nicolas Desmaison, Julie Duclaux Sound Designer: Matthieu Perrot Music Composer: Costume Designer: Production Designer: Production Company: Geko Films, Evidencia Films World Sales: Versatile Films World Sales Phone: +33 1 76 21 61 68 World Sales Email: [email protected] YO is a teenager in the body of an adult, a simple being of spirit. He is a young man, with Website of the Film: limited mental skills. He lives and works at his mother's restaurant; YO loves his mom and he is loved by everyone, especially Elena, her friend of 11 years. YO detests Pady, the man Festivals: who sleeps with his mother. But YO has a secret he can't tell anyone. Sometimes, he sees Cannes Film Festival (2014) shadows on people and he knows that means they are going to die. San Sebastián International Film Festival (2014) YO is adapted by Meyer and Alexandre Auger from Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies by Chicago International Film Festival (2014) celebrated French author J.M.G. Le Clézio.
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Franco Lolli is Colombian. He studied film directing at the Femis in Paris. Gente De Bien (2013) His graduate film, COMO TODO EL MUNDO, won several prizes in 2012 Rodri (2012) international festivals, among them the Grand Prize at Clermont- Memoire Et Images, Une Experience Cambodgienne Ferrand. He recently presented his first feature at Cannes' Critics' Week, (2008) GENTE DE BIEN, which he wrote at the Cinéfondation Residence of the Cannes Film Festival. Como Todo El Mundo (2007)
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La Tierra Y La Sombra Director: César Augusto Acevedo 2015 - 97’ - Spanish - Colour - Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil Producer: Cast: José Felipe Cárdenas, Haimer Leal, Edison Raigosa, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto Screenplay: César Augusto Acevedo Cinematographer: Mateo Guzmán Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger Sound Designer: Felipe Rayo Music Composer: Costume Designer: Maria Camila Botero Production Designer: Marcela Gómez Production Company: Ciné-Sud Promotion, Topkapi Films World Sales: Pyramide Distribution World Sales Phone: +01 42 96 01 01 World Sales Email: [email protected] Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He Website of the Film: rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Festivals: Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 Cannes Film Festival (2015) years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family. San Sebastián International Film Festival (2015) AFI Fest (2015) Munich Film Festival (2015)
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Writer and director born in Cali, awarded in Cannes for his film, La Tierra Los pasos del agua (Short) (2016) y la Sombra (Land and Shade). Graduated with honors from the School of Land and Shade (2015) Social Communication of the Universidad del Valle with the script for his Opera prima, La Tierra y la Sombra, which took him around 10 years to finish it. Also known by the two shorts he developed, Los Pasos del Agua (Steps of the Water) and La Campana (The Bell). He was co-writer and assistant to Óscar Ruiz Navia en la película Los Hongos. He has been part of the production of another movies like El Vuelco del Cangrejo and La Sirga. 76 Donkeys Latin Amer ica
Burros Director: Odin Salazar Flores 2011 - 93’ - Spanish - Colour - Mexico Producer: Tiburon Producciones, FOPROCINE, Burros Films Cast: Abimael Orozco Lemus, Leticia Gutiérrez, Alfredo Herrera, Adriana Paz, Azalia Ortiz Screenplay: Odin Salazar Flores Cinematographer: Alejandro Cantú Editor: Pedro Jiménez Sound Designer: Pablo Tamez Music Composer: Pascual Reyes Costume Designer: Alejandra Berriel Production Company: Burros Films, Cinema Maquina, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), Zensky Cine World Sales: Films Burros, SA DE CV World Sales Phone: 52 5556690537 Southern Mexico, in the 1940s: Ten-year-old Lautaro lives happily with his family in a World Sales Email: [email protected] village in the “Tierra Caliente”, the “hot land”. Until one day, his father is killed, and his Website of the Film: www.imcine.gob.mx mother fears the murderers might be after her son too. So she sends Lautaro to his aunt Festivals: Emma. There, in the city, 60 km away from his village, he is supposed to spend the next few years. While Emma looks after the boy touchingly, her husband is not happy about the Montréal World Film Festival (2011) new family member and lets his nephew feel it now and again. Lautaro is very homesick Busan International Film Festival (2016) and often feels like the donkeys whose ears are clipped before driving them away so they can never return. This is not to be his destiny, and so the boy sets out secretly on his way home.
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He was born in Mexico City in 1969. He attended Engineering School for Donkeys (2011) five years before he began studying film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC) at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where he majored as a film director in 2000. Since 2001 he worked as 1AD in several films, documentaries and TV series. In the year 2007, he won an award from IMCINE for his script BURROS. In 2008, he won production support from FOPROCINE.
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Otilia Rauda Director: Dana Rotberg 2001 - 110’ - Spanish - Colour - Mexico Producer: Alfredo Ripstein hijo, Daniel Birman Ripstein Cast: Gabriela Canudas, Álvaro Guerrero, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Carlos Torrestorija, Julieta Egurrola, Alberto Estrella Screenplay: Dana Rotberg Cinematographer: Guillermo Granillo Editor: Sigfrido Barjau Costume Designer: Mónica Neumaier Production Designer: Salvador Parra Production Company: Alameda Films, Altavista Films, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (FOPROCINE), Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Universidad de Veracruz, Wanda Films, Wanda Visión S.A. Festivals:
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by Amiens International Film Festival (2001) an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and Guadalajara International Film Festival (2002) disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up friendless, save the Huelva Latin American Film Festival (2001) family's hired hand Melquíades. Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty, this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as her husband is out hunting for him.
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Dana Rotberg has lived and worked as a director, writer and producer in White Lies (2013) Mexico, France and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dana’s first film was the Otilia Rauda (2001) documentary ELVIRA LUZ CRUZ: PEMA MAXIMA (1985) which was awarded Best Documentary by the Mexican Film Academy and the Ángel de fuego (1992) Bochica de Oro Award. Dana has thrice been given the prestigious Intimacy (1991) honour of opening the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes International Elvira Luz Cruz, pena máxima (Documentary) (1985) Film Festival. In 2000 Dana directed and co-wrote the Mexican feature film OTILIA RAUDA which won the NHK Filmmaker’s Award at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. 78 Babylon Sisters Special screening
Babylon Sisters Director: Gigi Roccati 2016 - 85’ - Italian, Hindi - Colour I Italy, Croatia Producer: Gino Pennacchi, Sarah Pennacchi Cast: Amber Dutta, Nav Ghotra, Rahul Dutta, Yasemin Sandino, Lucia Mascino, Nives Ivanković, Renato Carpentieri Screenplay: Gigi Roccati, Giulia Steigerwalt, Andrea Iannetta Cinematographer: Michele Paradisi Editor: Annalisa Forgione, Giuseppe Leonetti Sound Designer: Francesco Morosini Music Composer: Peppe Voltarelli Costume Designer: Duska Nešić Drazić Production Designer: Anton Spazzapan Production Company: TICO Film World Sales: TVCO, Via Buccari 16, 00195 Rome, Italy The story of Babylon Sisters is inspired by the book Sorority Girls of the Indian writer Laila World Sales Phone: +39 333 3305054 Wadia and is set on the outskirts of Trieste (the abandoned building on Via San Marco 52) World Sales Email: [email protected] inhabited by four families under threat of eviction. Kamla has recently moved there with Website of the Film: http://www.tvco.eu/#!/babylon- her parents. Amidst all the immigrants, Professor Leone is the only Italian dweller, grumpy sisters , http://www.ticofilm.com/site/babylon-sisters and a bit racist. When they get the letter of eviction, determined not to leave their homes, men react angrily to the threats of the landlord, while women unite to save the fate of Festivals: their families. Meanwhile, the small Kamla and Professor Leone become good friends. Rome Film Festival Kamla's mother Shanti soon reveals the gift of knowing how to dance like a Bollywood star. With the help of an Italian friend and other immigrant families around, the dance school project 'Babylon Sisters' is born.
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Gigi Roccati is a director and screenwriter. His documentary The Road To Road to Kabul (2012) Kabul was awarded best war documentary of Italian Television in 2013, Chloe Travels Time (2004) by Rai and the Ministry of Defence. In 2016 he signed his debut feature film Babylon Sisters, an Italian-Croatian co production. His screenplays, documentaries and short films have earned him international awards and development institutional funds like Media Europe, Mibac, Imaie and Tfl. He has created Brembot Robotic Division, a cross-media animation project. He is an Alumni of Tfl, Lfs, Eictv and Berlinale Talent Campus. 79 Ashes and Diamonds Special screening
Popiółidiament Director: Andrzej Wajda 1958 - 103’ - Polish - B&W - Poland Producer: Roman Mann Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński Cinematographer: Jerzy Wójcik Editor: Halina Nawrocka Sound Designer: Bohdan Bienkowski Music Composer: Filip Nowak Costume Designer: Katarzyna Chodorowicz Production Designer: Roman Mann Production Company: Zespól Filmowy "Kadr” Festivals: Venice Film Festival
Based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. It completed Wajda's war films trilogy, following A Generation (1954) and Kanal (1956). The title comes from a 19th- century poem by Cyprian Norwid and references the manner in which diamonds are formed from heat and pressure acting upon coal. During the German occupation noble, bourgeois and worker's partisan groups lived in peace with another. On the first day of freedom they start to fight each other. In these fights is weaved a most tender love story. Ashes and Diamonds is considered by film critics to be one of the great masterpieces of Polish cinema and arguably the finest Polish realist film. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have cited the film as one of their favourites.
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A cinema legend in himself, Andrzej Wajda was born in Suwalki, Poland. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) In the career that spans over 5 decades, he has made more than 60 films. The Promised Land (1974) He has been at the receiving end of many awards, including Palm d'Or for Man of Marble (1977) his film. Wajda has received honorary Academy Award in 2000 and honorary Golden Bear at Berlin in 2006. His films are an artist's Man of Iron (1981) expression about politics, society and, Polish solidarity. Wajda is a living Katyń (2007) legend who is amongst the greatest filmmakers the world has seen, Walesa. Man of Hope (2012)
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Close Up Director: Abbas Kiarostami 1990 - 98’ - Persian - Colour - Iran Producer: Ali Reza Zarrin Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mahrdad Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami Cinematographer: Ali Reza Zarrin Editor: Abbas Kiarostami Production Company: Kanoon Festivals: Istanbul International Film Festival (1992) Montréal Festival of New Cinema (1990)
Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
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Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from Emtehan Nahaee (2016) university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic Certified Copy (2010) designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section. Since then he Taste of Cherry (1997) has made many movies. He is also a major figure in the arts world, and Safar (1996) has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short films and The White Balloon (1995) poetry. He is an iconic figure for what he has done, and he has achieved it all by believing in the arts and the creativity of his mind. Through the Olive Trees (1994) Life, and Nothing More... (1992) 81 INDIAN CINEMA Search For Self Indian Cinema
Ishti Director: Dr.G.Prabha 2015 - 108’ - Sanskrit - Colour - India Producer: P.S. Chanthu Cast: Nedumudi Venu, Athira Pattel, Anoop Krishna,N Jijoy, Lakshmi Gopakumar, Mohin, I Preejea Madhusoodan, Niveditha Namboothiri, Baby Meenakshi Screenplay: G.Prabha Cinematographer: Eldho Issac Editor: B. Lenin Sound Designer: T Krishnanunni Music Composer: Kaithapram Costume Designer: Indrans Jayan Production Designer: P. S. Chandu Production Company: Creative Creations Festivals: 47th International Film Festival of India, (2016) Ishti is the first Sanskrit language feature film with social message in it. It is set in the mid- twentieth century Kerala, when young Namboothiri Brahmins successfully challenged the orthodox, patriarchal traditions of their community which allowed the patriarch, the eldest male member of the family, sole control of family property and denied normal education to its members particularly women. Stubborn prejudices behind a veneer of wisdom. Inequities bordering on extreme cruelty. Silent sobs of womanhood in the corridors of traditional mansions. Burning discontent, and some signs of change. Amidst all these, patriarchs who preserve the fire for their own cremation. Ishti recreates the ultra conservative ambience in an evolutionary stage of a community. The film handles themes of feminism, social injustice and, conservative constraints leading to revolution.
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Dr. G.Prabha, a Professor/Writer/Film maker, from Pachicodu, Ishti (2015) Neyyattinkara, Thiruvananthapuram, started the career as a Journalist and then associated with colleges in Kerala and Tamil Nadu as Professor. He headed the Department of Oriental Languages and was Professor of Sanskrit at Loyola College Chennai. He is the Director and the Script writer of the well acclaimed documentary films Akkitham and Agnaye. Ishti – the first Sanskrit film with a social theme scripted and directed by him is his debut feature film.
83 Daughter Of The Earth Indian Cinema
Onaatah: Of The Earth Director: Pradip Kurbah 2015 - 107’ - Khasi - Colour - India Producer: Jova Kurbah, Arpana Kurbah Cast: Merlvin Mukhim, Sweety Pala,Richard Kharpuri, Enshon Lamare, Mary Nonghuloo, Tashneem Lyngdoh, Ampolous Rajee, Destina Mawrie, Benjamin War,Wansuklyn Kynta, Renauldus Kharbuli,Margarita Sohtun, Regina Lamo, Banatimon Bahduh Screenplay: Pradip Kurbah, Lionel Fernandes, Paulami Duttagupta Cinematographer: Pradip Daimary Editor: Lionel Fernandes Sound Designer: Hengul Medhi Music Composer: Anurag Saikia Costume Designer: Arps Production Designer: Nathanial Majaw Production Company: Kurbah Films, 3me Entertainment, Maiti Pictures World Sales: Lokaa Entertainment What do you do when life reaches a dead end? Giving up is an option, but certainly not the World Sales Phone: 8575091011 only or the best option. Onaatah a rape victim, wounded from inside and by the Festivals: stereotypes of society realizes the same too. She refuses to be a loser but doesn’t know 47th International Film Festival of India, (2016) how to pick up the pieces of a broken life. When the events of one fateful night leave her International Film Festival of Kerala (2016) scarred and the courts and society keep dragging her hurt for years; she is almost broken.As suggested by her father earlier, Onaatah ponders on taking a break and going to 63th National Film Awards (2016) her uncle’s remote village. Her decision to come to her uncle’s village takes her to another 9th International Film Festival Guwahati (2016) world,she is absorbed in their day-to- day lives. Adding to the flavour of the film is the rich Cinema of North East Manipur terrain of Khasi hills. The freshness of it all would be a treat for the viewers. Onaatah’s perspective about life changes when she gets introduced to the people of the village. The rusti simplicity of the villagers makes Onaatah look at life differently.
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Pradip Kurbah has more than 150 music videos in different languages. He Onaatah: Of the Earth (2016) has done direction, including pioneering film making in Meghalaya, and RI: Homeland of Uncertainty (2013) winning the coveted National Film Award in 2014 & amp; 2016. He produced films in various dialects of Meghalaya, Directed Five Khasi feature films namely, HEP, KA MON BAJWAT, MESHUA & amp; MELODY, RI, ONAATAH
84 Pinky Beauty Parlour Indian Cinema
Pinky Beauty Parlour Director: Akshay Singh 2016 - 127’ - Hindi - Colour - India Producer: Akshay Singh, Bahnishikha Das Cast: Sulagna Panigrahi, Khushboo Gupta, Akshay Singh, Jogi, Vishwanath Chatterjee, Abhay Joshi. Screenplay: Akshay Singh Cinematographer: Gagandeep Singh Editor: Sandeep Singh Bajeli Sound Designer: Rakshit Thantry Music Composer: Saarthak Chintu Kalla, Arbind Lyton. Production Designer: Abdul Rehman Khan, Mayur Tripathi Production Company: Akshikha Entertainment Website of the Film: https://www.facebook.com/pinkybeautyparlourthefilm/ Festivals: Mumbai Film Festival (2016) The Film depicts the predominant social stigma which has taken deep roots in the form of International Film Festival Of India (2016) an obsession with fair skin, especially with regards to women in India.Pinky Beauty Parlour is an engaging and poignant tale of the repercussions this obsession for fairer skin has on a human mind, families and society in general. The Film takes us on a touching journey of two sisters’ lives, Pinky and Bulbul, who run a Beauty parlor in one of the by- lanes of Varanasi, the holiest of cities in India. As the story progresses we enter a unique colorful world of the beauty parlor, and are drawn into an engaging, quirky an entertaining story of inter-mingled loyalties, insecurities and complexes. At the same time the film ‘Pinky Beauty Parlour’ has a timely message for the audience to take home and chew on.
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‘Pinky Beauty Parlour’ is Akshay Singh’s debut Film as Producer and Pinky Beauty Parlour (2016) Director.. He is the founder of the production company Akshikha Entertainment which has produced Pinky Beauty Parlour.. He is also an actor featuring in number of television commercials,Television shows and few Feature film.. In the past he has co-written the screenplay and dialogues for a hindi feature film ‘Baat Bann Gayi’ starring, Ali Fazal & Gulshan Grover.
85 MAR ATHI CINEMA Lathe Joshi Indian Cinema
Lathe Joshi Director: Mangesh Joshi 2016 - 103’ - Marathi - Colour - India Producer: Sonali Joshi, Mangesh Joshi Cast: Chittaranjan Giri, Ashwini Giri, Om Bhutkar, Seva Chouhan Screenplay: Mangesh Joshi Cinematographer: Saryajeet Shobha Shreeram Editor: Makarand Dambhare Sound Designer: Piyush Shah Music Composer: Sarang Kulkarni Costume Designer: Seema Arolkar Production Designer: Prashant Bidkar Production Company: Pravah Nirmitee World Sales: Mangesh Joshi World Sales Email: [email protected] Festivals: Mr. Joshi fondly known as 'Lathe Joshi' for his skill at working the Lathe machine is left Cine Probe Film Festival Mexico (2016) jobless. While his family and the world at large, manage to survive or thrive, he struggles to retain his fading identity. Technology rules the changing time; the inevitable human Mumbai international Film Festival (2016) price is 'Lathe Joshi’. Joburg Film Festival (2016) Dharamshala Film Festival (2016)
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Mangesh Joshi entered into filmmaking after completing his engineering HE… (2011) studies. He started with documentary films and short films, many of Sweekar (Short) (2008) which were recognized at Indian film festivals. He went on to work with Clockwise (Short) (2008) national award winning directors. His first work as feature film screenwriter was selected for Writer’s Lab section of NFDC and mentored by Oscar and BAFTA winning writers and directors. NFDC also produced his debut film ‘HE’, which was selected for Film Bazaar. The film was shown in numerous film festivals.
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Ghuma Director: Mahesh Ravsaheb Kale 2016 - 95’ - Marathi - Colour - India Producer: Ravsaheb Maruti Kale Cast: Sharad jadhav, Poonam Patil, Adesh Aware, Pramod Kasabe Screenplay: Mahesh Ravsaheb Kale Cinematographer: Yogesh Koli Editor: Apurv Sathe Sound Designer: Rashi Butte Music Composer: Hrishikesh, Saurabh, Jasraj. Costume Designer: Yashoda Aher Production Designer: Yogesh Ingale, Vinaya.H. Production Company: Dream Seller Films World Sales: Vikram Shankpale World Sales Phone: +91 9730555826/ +91 8600821384 Namdeo Kothule is a common farmer living with his wife Sanji, childrens Vikas and Guni. World Sales Email: [email protected] For earning & expenditure they do forming. Nama & Haribhau are brothers but because of farm's ownership there is clashes between them. Vikas has left his education in between & now working as a mechanic in garage. Hence Nama wants guni to be get educated. The local Marathi medium school is not in proper condition to enroll Guni in that school. Rich people's children goes into english school, Hence Nama also wants Guni to enroll him in english medium even though he has economical problems & he do that. So the journey of Nama's struggle to enroll his son in english medium is shown in this film.
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Mahesh Ravsaheb Kale was born in Ahmednagar city in a poor farmer's Ghuma (2016) family on 24 July, 1992 and, he like to work with his father. during this Rupaya (Short) (2013) time he has writing stories and dramas. He completed the master degree Vat Amavasya (Short) (2014) in Mass Communication at Ahemdnagar. He started screenplay writing during he is college days. He has made several short films called "Vat Khwada (Assistant Director) Amavashya", "Rupaya". After he has assisted for National award winning film "Khwada" with Mr. Bhaurao Karhade.
88 Ek te chaar band Indian Cinema
Ek te chaar band Director: Apurv Sathe 2016 - 115’ - Marathi - Colour - India Producer: Apurv Sathe Cast: Padmanabh Bind, Gauri Konge , Shashank Shende , Rasika Agashe , Sayaji Shinde , Satish Alekar, Milind Phatak, Poorvi Bhave Screenplay: Apurv Sathe, Nikhil Khaire Cinematographer: Deepak Menon Editor: Apurv Sathe, Pratik Parkhi Sound Designer: Akshay Patil Music Composer: Chaitanya Adkar, Akshay Kulkarni Costume Designer: Akshata Bhole Production Designer: Sagar Gaikwad Production Company: Bahaar Mediaworks World Sales: Apurv Sathe World Sales Phone: Milind Vaidya is a young lawyer from Pune, living his life happily. His work, his personal life, 020 24337104/ +91 9763581641 is all normal. But as he approaches “marriageable” age, his aspirations, expectations, and World Sales Email: [email protected] ‘supposed normalcy’ takes a twist even he never imagined of. As we progress further, we keep on exploring his personal conundrums – about his marriage, his house, the city he lives in and, the lives around him that make or break him. As it so happens with all of us, we fail to recognize what we have, till we lose it. So does Milind really find what he is looking for? ‘Ek Te Chaar Band’, as the name suggests, represents a cultural nuance from modern urban India which is divided into its glory days and, the novel makeover it is undergoing. As the city tries to find its balance, life seems peaceful and content, but as we go deeper, the fractures are visibly shattering.At this point, it becomes the saga of a city stuck between its two cultures – and the confusing paradigm that takes over it.
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Hailing from the vibrant city of Pune, Apurv Sathe has always been a keen Probably Possible (Short) observer and, participant of various cultural activities. He is a ‘Gold Medalist’ alumnus of ‘Lalit Kala Kendra, SPPU’ in theatre studies. Thereafter, he pursued a ‘Diploma in Film-Making with Editing Specialization’ at ‘Whistling Woods International, Mumbai’. His work in theatre and films has been well appreciated, having received the ‘United Nations Award’ for the best short film among many others. ‘Ek Te Chaar Band’ is his maiden feature wherein he pays tribute to his beloved hometown – Pune and, the cultural ethos of it.
89 STUDENTS SHORT FILMS LIVE ACTION The Stepmother
Beijing Film Academy Li Min, 34-year-old, was six to seven months pregnant who works with men 25’ 11 - China in a coal preparation plant. Gao rain’s father worked outside most of the year. In this house without men, Gao Rain and her step-mother Li Min attacked each other by overt and covert means often. Li Min liked to eat sauerkraut especially after pregnancy, and specifically put a bit vat with sauerkraut in the room, Gao Rain hated this and the contradictions with her step-mother were sharpening. Gao Rain wanted to evicted Li Min from her home, Li Min preferred to send Gao Rain to study at boarding school. When Li Min did antenatal care, she found someone tailed after her, and felt her unborn baby in her belly was in danger. However, Gao Rain was sent to the boarding school finally. While Li Min successful in achieving her aim, she found Gao Rain’s secret she’d been keeping.
Tenants Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna I Teatralna 29’ 10 - Poland - Państwowa Wyższa
Justyna, a young woman who’s the main protagonist in the film, buys a flat at a bailiff auction regardless the risk it may bring. When she wants to move in it turns out that the keys she was given do not fit the locks. A dream about a place of her own turns into a nightmare.
Kanche Whistling Woods International 13’ 50 - India
A naughty kid, Om who is willing to see ghosts gets caught in school and punished by his new science teacher, Sushant. So he decides to scare him by playing prank of ghost story.
91 Exodus Theatre and Film Georgia State University 14’ 28 - Georgia
In the city of Tchiatura. People are tired of everyday struggling for survival, keep their inertial meaningless existence.. Lily (60 years old) works as a Cableway conductor and guides workers from the city to the factory every day. Tatiana (64 years old) is unemployed and mainly is busy doing housework. Despite poor living conditions, their micro world had been idyllic, before Lily got a chance to leave. On farewell day tension rises between the sisters.
Angelus Novus London Film School 23’ 42 I UK
Ali and his younger brother flee Afghanistan at a young age to build a new life in Turkey with their family and many other refugees. The boys earn a living shining shoes, but when one day their spot has been taken, their already fragile existence hangs by a thread. Realistic drama illustrates the harsh life and daily obstacles of Middle-Eastern refugees as seen through children’s eyes.
Andhere Mein Film and Television Institute of India 15’ - India
Andhere Mein is an adaptation of a story by the same name by the well- known Hindi writer, Nirmal Verma. The story is about an event of deep personal significance in the lives of four characters,a young boy, his parents and a family friend. The child, now grown up, recollects the events leading to a violent altercation between his parents during a particular summer break in the town of Amravati.
92 Strange Bird LUCA School of Arts 14’ 22 - Belgium
The film is a portrait of a man with bipolar disorder painted through the eyes of his 11 year old daughter. The picture turns into a bittersweet adventure with two unconventional heroes on a path of innocence and crude behavior.
Homeless of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance 13’ 57 - South Africa - South African School
After being forcefully removed from their shack home, a young man and his kid brother journey to find their long lost mothers home with the hope of a better life.
Kalpvriksha Film and Television Institute of India 14’ 56 - India
A girl takes the journey to find a mythical ancient tree called kalpvriksha. A tree which grants your wishes. Her efforts to let go things and find peace.
93 Pitter Patter Goes My Heart Baden Württemberg & Columbia University 22’ 01 - USA - Filmakademie Wien, Filmakademie
The hopelessly romantic Lisa takes desperate measures to win her former lover back. But the fact that he already has a new girl at his side and that Lisa needs to bring her alcoholic father to an antivaricose-campaign photo shooting without letting him know, is not particularly helping. The tragedy takes its course.
The Patriot National Film and Television School 15’ 23 - UK
Hannah loves her Dad and always wants to be seen next to him. But during the preparations for an anti-immigration protest at her house she is pushed out, being seen as too young to get involved.Hannah cycles into the countryside to let off some steam and meets a teenage Romany boy whose family are working in the fields. Hannah does her best to insult and push him away but the boy won’t leave her alone, leading to consequences which turn her world upside down.
Phoolpakhru Whistling Woods International 15’ - India
Siblings who got eventually separated while growing and meet to sell their house after few years. And while their meeting we come to know about their differences and how their life has changed.
94 Everything Will Be OK Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien 28’ 54 - Austria
A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can‘t help feeling that something isn‘t right. So begins a fateful journey.
95 STUDENTS SHORT FILMS ANIMATION Happy End Filmová a Televizní Fakulta 5’ 26 - Czech Republic
A black comedy about death with a happy ending. A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse.
Something Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 6’ 33 - Germany
Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange and useless SOME THING
Missing Key ESMA 6’ 10 I France
A young pianist has to slay his stage fright in order to free his inspiration.
97 Wellington Jr Supérieure des Métiers de l’Image et du Son 12’ 17 - France - Ecole Nationale
A naughty kid, Om who is willing to see ghosts gets caught in school and punished by his new science teacher, Sushant. So he decides to scare him by playing prank of ghost story.
Mila Fog Vysoká Škola Muzických Umení 10’ 59 - Slovakia
Her body is a cell, where she find myself involuntarily and with inner pain she have to feel the pain of a fight for a place in this world. Only till the moment, when she stop thinking about my existence as a one-piece unit, that is leading to one point. She began to see small details, which she could not see her whole life
The Seaside Northern Film School 7’ 45 - UK
In a simple line animation, share the joy of an old man drinking tea at the beach. Identify with him as he experiences the joy of other people and recalls his memories of his life at the beach.
98 The Three Ring Circus Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten 9’ 19 - Belgium
You are invited to a journey through the ‘Three-Ring Circus’: a girl’s subconscious reflection of the absurdity of the world based on Albert Camus’ philosophy. We are taken to a place where reality mixes with dreamlike imagery and obscure creatures play their final acts in this distorted yet fantastic circus. The imagery of the movie is a visualized parody of proverbs. Wise words, taken too literally, become silly things. In the end, isn’t life a Three-Ring Circus indeed?
Black Sheep South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance 6’ 55 - South Africa In a dream, Vincent is awarded the coveted ear tag by a magical chicken and is taken to a paradise land on a truck. However, he wakes to his reality as the families’ "black sheep". He secretly steals the tag meant for his brother but. seeing through the family’s false praise, he finally realizes that doesn’t need their approval. In an act of redemption, he gets his family onto the truck instead, not realizing that his epiphany has saved him from the Slaughter House.
TumlingHum Street St Xaviers College 5’ 01 I India
Set in a small hamlet around Sikkim, a girl finds a way to cope up with society’s flaws to make ends meet.
99 Hum Chapman University 8’ 34 - USA
A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls. With the help of a small friend, he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration.
The Case of Nips and Porkington Sheridan College 2’ 31 - Canada
The Casebook of Nips & Porkington is an animated short about two bobbies who must solve the case of the missing egg.
Don’t Forget About Mori St. Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television 8’ 28 - Russia
A pilot episode about a death named Mori.
100 Another Everest University of North Carolina School of the 4’ 26 - USA
Now in his old age, a former mountain climber must overcome an obstacle almost as daunting as Mount Everest.
When It Rains Outside Theatre and Film Georgia State University 7’ 33 - Georgia
Film is about a lonely man and woman whose meeting depends on the weather broadcast. When it rains outside woman comes to a man’s place and they play chess. However rain has another proposition for them; ones it stops raining and sunny weather continues longer than before. Is the couple able to overcome this situation? Who will make the first step?
D 729 Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound 4’ 56 - Belgium
A lonely astronaut is sexually attracted to his toothbrush. A story about the impossible combination of someones deepest desires and the world around him.
101 Promenade Milano Civica Scuola di Cinema 4’ - Italy
A boy and a girl on a boardwalk are in the middle of a discussion about their relationship. He is trying to explain to her why their relation could not work, but just in a crucial moment the situation takes an unexpected turn.
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