uniFrance films at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival 4 Alfama Films 5 Bac Films 6 Celluloid Dreams 7 Coach 14 8 Coproduction Office 9 Doc and Film International 11 Elle Driver 12 Films Distribution 16 Les Films du Losange 18 Funny Balloons 19 Gaumont 22 Kinology 26 Le Pacte 27 Memento Films International 29 MK2 31 Other Angle Pictures 32 Pathé International 33 Pyramide International 35 Rezo 36 SND Groupe M6 38 StudioCanal 40 TF1 International 43 UMEDIA 44 Wide Management 46 Wild Bunch 48 French films and coproductions Unifrance’s staff in Berlin ALFAMA FILMS Line-up Paulo Branco, Producer, In production +33 6 72 97 31 90 Guillaume Mannevy, COSMOPOLIS Director: David Cronenberg Sales & Festivals, Cast: Robert Pattinson, Keira Knightley + 33 7 86 55 92 23 Producers: Paulo Branco & Martin Katz Frédérique Rouault, In post-production Distribution & Sales, + 33 6 31 90 83 32 RUNNING AWAY WITH YOU Director: Gaël Morel Cast: Stéphane Rideau, Béatrice Dalle Producer: Paulo Branco Booth Unifrance 33 DUBAI FLAMINGOS Director: Delphine Kreuter Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Sergi Lopez, Florence Thomassin Producer: Paulo Branco Completed MYSTERIES OF LISBON Director: Raul Ruiz Cast: Adriano Luz, Clotilde Hesme, Léa Seydoux Producer: Paulo Branco Mysteries of Lisbon 4 / UniFrance films / Berlin 2011 BAC FILMS Screenings Gilles Sousa, Head of Sales, BORDERLINE +33 6 77 24 85 26 Director: Alexandre Coffre Cast: François Damiens, Pascale Arbillot, Gilles Cohen Producer: Quad Productions Length : 90 min When on New Year’s Eve he discovers a suitcase filled with cocaine and a phone ringing non-stop with call from eager clients, David thinks he has found the solution to his life problems. And if we had a second word of advice for David, what would it be? Think twice… THE SANDMAN, AND THE LOST SAND OF DREAMS Directors: Jesper Moller & Sinem Sakagolu Animation Booth Unifrance 33 Producer: Scopas Medien AG Length: 83 min Up above, next to the moon, is a land called Somnia. This is the dreamland where all our dreams live on once we wake up. It’s also the home of the Sandman, who brings us the sweetest dreams night after night. But Somnia is in danger. The nightmares have banded together and their leader has managed to steal the Sandman’s dreamsand. Line-up In post-production SLEEPLESS NIGHT Director: Frédéric Jardin Cast: Tomer Sisley, Birol Ünel, Joeystarr Producer: Chic Films MINEURS 27 (WORKING TITLE) Director: Tristan Aurouet Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie-Ange Casta, Gilles Lellouche Producer: Manny Films Borderline Berlin 2011 / UniFrance films / 5 CELLULOID DREAMS Screenings Hengameh Panahi, President, THE STORYTELLING SHOW Director: Jean-Christophe Roger +33 6 11 96 57 20 Voices: Elie Semoun, Eric Metayer, Omar Sy Violaine Pichon, Producer: Les Armateurs International Sales, Animation Length: 77 min +33 6 77 27 98 97 Johan de Faria, Gifted with a vivid imagination, Laurent is so good at telling International Sales & Library, stories that his kids decide to sign him up for a TV contest +33 6 69 05 66 83 … of storytelling dads! But will he win? He will have to fight Eric, his lying, cheating, unscrupulous office colleague, for first position! Line-up In post-production: Booth Unifrance 33 CHICKEN WITH PLUMS Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Isabella Rossellini, Jamel Debbouze Producer: Celluloid Dreams CRAZY HORSE Director: Frederick Wiseman Producer: Idéale Audience LES BIEN-AIMÉS Director: Christophe Honoré Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Louis Garrel, Chiara Mastroianni Producer: Why Not Productions In production ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE Director: Santiago Amigorena Cast: Marie-Josée Croze Producer: Gloria Films In pre-production The Storytelling Show YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHY Director: Jean-Pierre Limosin Cast: Thierry Neuvic, Olivia Ruiz, Carole Franck Producer: Celluloid Dreams 6 / UniFrance films / Berlin 2011 COACH 14 Line-up Completed CARRÉ BLANC Pape Boye, Managing Director & Director: Jean-Baptiste Léonetti Sales, Cast: Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Jean-Pierre Andréani +33 619 961 707 Producers: Solair Films, Tarantula, CSJC CTC Network Jaume Domenech, Managing AMER Director & Sales, Directors: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani +34 652 934 092 Cast: Marie Bos, Charlotte Eugène-Guibbaud, Cassandra Forêt Producers: Anonymes Films, Tobina Film Caroline Nataf, Acquisitions Manager, +33 147 001 060 Booth Unifrance 33 Amer Berlin 2011 / UniFrance films / 7 COPRODUCTION OFFICE Line-up Philippe Bober, President, +33 1 56 02 60 00 Completed Olimpia Pont Chafer, Head of International Sales, LOURDES Director: Jessica Hausner +33 6 71 65 76 69 Cast: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini Céline Lin, Sales, +33 6 23 96 Producers: Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober, 24 01 Susanne Marian Hélène Mitjavile, Sales A TOWN CALLED PANIC Assistant, +33 6 60 16 95 07 Directors: Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar Claire Brunel, Marketing & Voices: Stéphane Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Bouli Lanners Producers: Philippe Kauffmann & Vincent Tavier presse, +49 152 04 924 930 Vanessa Euler, Production Assistant, +49 178 66 32 551 Vanja Kaludjercic, Acquisitions, +33 6 48 31 23 33 Anne-Claire Martin, Festivals, +49 30 32 777 879 Valentin Greulich, Producer, +49 177 24 60 916 Susanne Marian, Producer, +49 30 32 77 78 79 Booth Unifrance 33 Lourdes 8 / UniFrance films / Berlin 2011 DOC & FILM INTERNATIONAL Screenings Daniela Elstner, General Manager, +33 6 82 54 66 85 NOIR OCEAN Director: Marion Hänsel Gorka Gallier, International Sales Cast: Nicolas Robin, Adrien Jolivet, Romain David Manager, +33 6 30 99 72 06 Producer: Man’s Films Three young boys aboard a French naval vessel in 1974, unaware of the risks they run and the dramatic effects on our planet, take part in the nuclear tests in Mururoa, in the Pacific. A raw acerbic story about the relationships of the men on board, confronted with discipline, violence, occasionally friendship but most of all by a solitude and distress that cannot be shared and is much too heavy to bear when one is only 18. DRAW YOURSELF Director: Gilles Porte Documentary Booth Unifrance 33 Producers: 3B Productions, Gédeon, S’Imagine A windowglass tour of the world proposed to children too young yet to read or write; they simply take a place in the frame by drawing a picture of themselves... A right of passage that starts with the first self-portrait and ends with the written word... It ‘s the story of each and every one of us, of what we once were and of the difficulty of remaining Draw Yourself as we once were... INTO OUR OWN HANDS Director: Mariana Otero Documentary Producer: Archipel 33 When their lingerie factory goes bankrupt, the employees— mostly women—attempt to take it over by forming a cooperative. As their project takes shape, they come up against their boss and the reality of the marketplace. Their little enterprise becomes a theater where, in an impish tone, fundamental economic and social issues are played out amidst the bras and panties. Out of their adventure and struggles together comes a new- found freedom. Berlin 2011 / UniFrance films / 9 DOC & FILM INTERNATIONAL Line-up In production L’EXERCICE DE L’ETAT / THE MINISTER Director: Pierre Schoeller Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman Producers: Archipel 33, Les Films du Fleuve THE STARGAZER Director: Stan Neumann Cast: Denis Lavant, Max Baissette de Malglaive Producer: Les Films d’Ici Completed THE THREEWAY WEDDING Director: Jacques Doillon Cast: Pascal Greggory, Julie Depardieu, Louis Garrel Producer: Alfama Films EL SICARIO, ROOM 164 Director: Gianfranco Rosi Documentary Producer: Les Films d’Ici, Robo Films Noir Océan 10 / UniFrance films / Berlin 2011 ELLE DRIVER Screenings Adeline Fontan Tessaur, Managing Director, International THE ASSAULT Director: Julien Leclercq Sales & Acquisitions, Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Dérangère, Marie Guillard +33 6 99 47 98 10 Producer: Labyrinthe Films Eva Diederix, Managing Director, Length: 100 min International Sales & Acquisitions, Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack +33 6 10 45 29 37 an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Séverine Garusso, Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers on board. No one knows exactly what the terrorists' intentions are, International Sales, just that they are armed and extremely determined. +33 6 24 14 28 26 IN YOUR HANDS Director: Lola Doillon Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmaï EFM (South Entrance) Producer: Origami Films at the corner of Stresemannstr Length: 80 min Mad with grief, a young man kidnaps a brilliant female surgeon he holds responsible for his young wife's death. During her confinement, ambivalent and passionate feelings arise between the kidnapper and his victim... Line-up In post-production SIDEWAY Director: Jean-Luc Perreard Cast: Fred Testot, Leïla Bekhti Producer: Elia Films LOVE THE BOAT Director: Pascale Pouzadoux Cast: Charlotte de Turckheim, Antoine Duléry, Line Renaud Producer: Fidélité Films In Your Hands Berlin 2011 / UniFrance films / 11 FILMS DISTRIBUTION Sébastien Beffa, CEO & Sales, G ENERATION +33 613 40 02 75 A CAT IN PARIS Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Directors: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol CEO & Sales, Voices: Dominique Blanc, Bernadette Lafont, Bruno Salomone +33 6 15 39 13 07 Producer: Folimage Lenght: 70 min Francois Yon, CEO & Sales, + 33 6 03 49 65 00 By day, Dino the cat lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother, Tel:+ 49 30 498 779 415 Jeanne, is a police officer. By night, he works with Nico, a burglar with a big heart. One day, Dino brings Zoe a very valuable bracelet. PANORAMA TOMBOY Director: Céline Sciamma Cast: Zoé Heran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson EFM Booth 34 Producers: Hold Up Films & Productions Length: 80 min Laure is moving into a new neighborhood with her little sister. Because she is in need of new friends and does not know anybody, Laure decides to dress as a boy. She meets Lisa, they become close, but Lisa doesn't know her new best friend is not a boy.