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DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY CATALOGUE 75. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica

La Biennale di Venezia La Biennale di Venezia Director General and its collaborators for Andrea Del Mercato Digital Video Library Catalogue Jacopo Fabris Artistic Director Erika Giorgianni of the Cinema Department Lara González Lobo Alberto Barbera Mariachiara Manci Chiara Marin Venice Production Bridge Sara Mazzucchi Pascal Diot Alessandro Mezzalira Savina Neirotti Nikolas Montaldi [email protected] www.labiennale.org www.veniceproductionbridge.org THE VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF FESTIVAL SCOPE

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Digital Video Library Catalogue brochure for 2018 has been edited using the information assembled by August 24th, 2018. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Eighty years ago, the Italian population, who had not a tradition Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn of anti- Semitism, was pushed by the fascist propaganda into as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn 1938 - DIVERSI accepting the persecution of a minority, which had been living ADAM UND EVELYN finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for in Italy for centuries. How was that possible? Even today, how the holiday on her own. She travels to Hungary, trailed by Adam. 1938 - DIVERSE much do we know about this historical moment? ADAM & EVELYN As the border with Austria falls, everything changes in Hungary. The film displays how the implementation of such laws entailed The frontiers are open, as the new possibilities for Adam and on the life of Italian Jews, and how Jewish and non-Jewish Evelyn to decide in which world – Eastern or Western – they want GIORGIO TREVES population experienced racism and persecution. Through the ANDREAS to build a happy life. The film is based on the novel by Ingo voices of some direct witnesses and eminent scholars analysis Schulze “Adam und Evelyn” which was translated into more than with the help of animation reconstructions, the film invites to GOLDSTEIN 10 languages. reread this dramatic historical period under a new light, capable to disclose the role of mass media in one of the most tragical YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES racial persecutions in the history of humankind. 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / All available except for France, RUNTIME Estonia and Russia. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Fiction / 95' SALES COMPANY 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES MAIN CAST Pluto Film PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy Anne Kanis, ADDRESS RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Florian Teichtmeister, Pluto Film Documentary / 62' Upside Distribution Lena Lauzemis, Bayreuther Str. 9 PRODUCER ADDRESS Milian Zerzawy, D-10789 Berlin Carolina Levi Upside Distribution Christin Alexandrow Germany (Tangram Film) 33 Quai de Dion Bouton PRODUCER IN VENICE 92800 Puteaux Heino Deckert Margot Haiböck France (ma.ja.de. Fiction), +49 03021918220 IN VENICE Helge Neubronner [email protected] Carolina Levi (Tangram Film) +39 3888788337 [email protected]

4 Venice Production Bridge 2018 5 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. The former star of a short-lived television sitcom, Fabien drinks too much to remember everything he does and not many surprises him anymore. When his path crosses Yoni’s, he is not ALL INCLUSIVE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES BÊTES BLONDES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES surprised to discover, in the wake of this young, tearful, military PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide BLONDE ANIMALS man, the head of yet another young man, beautiful like a dream, RUNTIME SALES COMPANY a memory, a reproach. CORINA Documentary / 10' Ouat Media SCHWINGRUBER ILIC´ PRODUCER ADDRESS ALEXIA WALTHER, Stella Händler Ouat Media YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES (freihändler 2844 Dundas Street West, MAXIME MATRAY 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Filmproduktion) M6P 1Y7 Toronto PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Canada RUNTIME SALES COMPANY IN VENICE Fiction / 101' Ecce Films Wouter Jansen MAIN CAST ADDRESS (Some Shorts) Thomas Scimeca, Ecce Films +31 622076717 Basile Meilleurat, 47 Rue Polonceau [email protected] Agathe Bonitzer 75018 Paris PRODUCER France Emmanuel Chaumet IN VENICE (Ecce Films) Louise Rinaldi +33 142583714 [email protected]

6 Venice Production Bridge 2018 7 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS BIENNALE COLLEGE SYNOPSIS Blu tells a nocturnal and underground journey inside In the small Romanian town of Deva, Kato, a teen girl living the TBM, the machinery used to dig tunnels and subways around in an orphanage, gets electrocuted while drying her hair. BLU the world. The film’s gaze is aimed at inaccessible and invisible DEVA This apparently banal event will completely turn things upside places and shows the indissoluble link between men down around her. The orphanage is invaded by electricians, BLUE and machines, between technology and manual labor, and a new volunteer, Bogi, is hired to help to restore the order. between security and ancestral fears, between programming PETRA SZO˝CS Kato will become infatuated by her to the point of reconsidering MASSIMO D’ANOLFI, and randomness. Blu is a tribute to all invisible workers. the way she views her world. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MARTINA PARENTI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Documentary / 20' Montmorency Film Fiction / 82' FP Films PRODUCER ADDRESS MAIN CAST ADDRESS Massimo D’Anolfi, Montmorency Film Csengelle Nagy, FP Films Martina Parenti Via Burigozzo, 8 Boglárka Komán, Zrinyi u. 14. (Montmorency Film) 20122 Milan Fatma Mohamed 2890 Tata Italy PRODUCER Hungary IN VENICE Péter Fülöp (FP Films) IN VENICE Martina Parenti Péter Fülöp +39 3358436922 +36 304439893 [email protected] [email protected]

8 Venice Production Bridge 2018 9 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Emma Peeters will soon be 35 and has yet to accomplish A gunshot breaks the silence of the night. Four men run from something. After years of hardship in Paris in trying to become an the crime scene. Umberto “Yes & No”, the infallible killer of the EMMA PEETERS actress, an idea strikes her fancy: bringing her days to an end in FINO ALLA FINE Caputo clan, just murdered the wrong man. Now he has to deal a week’s time, on her birthday. In the process Emma meets Alex with the boss. Unfortunately, the victim is the nephew of Tonino Bodart, a fanciful funeral home employee who will help her in her UNTIL THE END “The Infamous”, the most feared boss of the whole town. NICOLE PALO reckless endeavor. By dint of hard work to hide their respective However, this is not the biggest problem, as Umberto “Yes & No” feelings, it seems they may succeed in bringing about Emma’s is hiding a dreadful secret. final objective... GIOVANNI DOTA YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / All available except PROJECT TYPE / All available except RUNTIME online distribution RUNTIME for Canada and the Benelux Fiction / 15' SALES COMPANY Fiction / 87' SALES COMPANY MAIN CAST Prem1ere Film MAIN CAST True Colours Glorious Films Lino Musella, Nello Mascia, ADDRESS Monia Chokri, ADDRESS Vincenzo Nemolato, Prem1ere Film Fabrice Adde True Colours Glorious Films Riccardo Maria Manera Via Nazionale Terza Traversa 3 PRODUCER Largo Italo Gemini, 1 PRODUCER 70128 Palese (Bari) Gregory Zalcman 00161, Rome Elisabetta Bruscolini Italy (Take Five) Italy (CSC Production) IN VENICE IN VENICE Roberto de Feo Catia Rossi +39 3333134229 +39 3465125862 [email protected] [email protected]

10 Venice Production Bridge 2018 11 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS In a world where nature prevails, a man and a woman live their In the creative process of a great writer of our time, as is Annie lives as the last survivors of their species. Working as farmers, Ernaux, every word-image is chosen to spark an episode in the GAGARIN, they deal with the fatigue, the silence, and existence. Driven GLI ANNI reader that is worth reliving, in the same way the author herself by the desire to escape, the man finds refuge in his imagination. has absorbed it. A woman gives voice to The years text, a few MI MANCHERAI He explores abandoned villages, scavenges for junk and designs THE YEARS collected fragments on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. improbable flying machines. The woman watches him from afar Places from her past drawn from the family films, emerge like GAGARIN, but stays at his side with the care and the self-sacrifice reflections of a fragmented and ever-changing memory, I WILL MISS YOU that someone would offer to a madman. At least until something SARA FGAIER uncovered by a new light. Bodies and shadows, small objects falls from the sky, breaking into their lives. An unexpected guest and landscapes compose the verses in the story of a life, like that will force them to wonder about themselves, about reality a renewed promise, placed in the exchange between archive DOMENICO DE ORSI and desire, and the act itself of imagining. and words.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide PROJECT TYPE / All available except RUNTIME SALES COMPANY RUNTIME for France and Italy Fiction / 20' Purple Neon Lights Fiction / 20' SALES COMPANY MAIN CAST ADDRESS PRODUCER Films Grand Huit Nicola De Paola, Purple Neon Lights Marco Alessi ADDRESS Marina Savino Circonvallazione Casilina, 130 (Dugong Films) Films Grand Huit PRODUCER 00176 Rome 13 Rue des Trois Couronnes Domenico De Orsi Italy 75011 Paris (Purple Neon Lights) IN VENICE France Domenico De Orsi IN VENICE +39 3490514405 Marco Alessi [email protected] (Dugong Films) +39 3358447617 [email protected]

12 Venice Production Bridge 2018 13 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS On her ninetieth birthday, Marilyn Monroe receives a letter from Three brothers, accompanying their only sister, drive to a far a journalist who would like to interview her. The great Hollywood unknown village to bury their newly deceased father according GOODBYE MARILYN diva hasn’t given an interview for fifty years, not since her HAMCHENAN to his will. The hot air and the long road make the condition unexplained permanent retirement. Surprisingly, Marilyn decides unbearable, especially when the body is rotting. This is the time to make an exception. The journalist tries to decipher the mystery KE MIMORDAM for the older brother, so exhausted and angry, to expose his MARIA DI RAZZA behind the woman who, at the height of her success, gave up hidden annoyances towards the younger brother, who has been fame in the name of freedom, and became a legend. AS I LAY DYING taking care of the father by himself for years.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES MOSTAFA SAYARI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Israel RUNTIME SALES COMPANY RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Animation / 13' Zen Movie Fiction / 73' Persia Film Distribution MAIN CAST IN VENICE MAIN CAST ADDRESS Maria Pia Di Meo, Giulio Mastromauro Nader Fallah, Persia Film Distribution Gianni Canova, +39 3287957032 Elham Korda, 9, Mozafari St., Mirdamad Lucia Rocco (voices) [email protected] Majid Aghakarimi, 1545654478 – Tehran PRODUCER Vahid Rad Iran (Islamic Republic of) Antonietta De Lillo PRODUCER IN VENICE (marechiarofilm) Abbas Amoori Ali Haji Ghasemi (Farhang Film Tehran) +98 9123184641 ghasemipersiafilmdistribution.com

14 Venice Production Bridge 2018 15 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS VENEZIA CLASSICI SYNOPSIS This is an auteur film—like the ones I made in the past. Humberto Mauro is a documentary tribute to the filmmaker At the same time the film features the extraordinary young Humberto Mauro considered the pioneer of Brazilian and Latin HAPPY LAMENTO director Khavn de la Cruz from Manila and his work “The fleeting HUMBERTO American cinema, directed by his grandnephew, André di Mauro. Life of an Ember.” Taken together, the result is a music film The film shows the life of Humberto Mauro through his films of a special kind. At heart, the film concerns electric light, MAURO in a narrative composed of audio interviews of him in the 60’s. ALEXANDER KLUGE the circus, the song “Blue Moon”, and street wars among Humberto Mauro is a broad dynamic and human panel on children’s gangs in North Manila, a wilderness otherwise Mauro’s creativity and cinema, exposing the unusual technical inaccessible to western eyes. “Blue Moon”, the song once ANDRÉ DI MAURO solutions to making his films and the adversities inherent in identified with the voice of Elvis Presley, refers to a phase of the pioneering such a task at the beginning of the twentieth century moon that might never actually appear: just as things can often in a small Latin American city. go with love. But sometimes “never” comes to pass. The film is a production in cooperation with the young distributors and YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES “pearl divers” of Rapid Eye Movies, Cologne— who also brought 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES me together with Khavn de la Cruz. PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Brazil RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Documentary / 90' DiMauro Filmes YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST ADDRESS 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Humberto Mauro, DiMauro Filmes Worldwide distributor: PROJECT TYPE / Zequinha Mauro Rua Cupertino Durão, 132 RUNTIME Rapid Eye Movies PRODUCER apt 405 - Leblon Fiction / 93' SALES COMPANY André Di Mauro 22441-030 Rio de Janeiro Rapid Eye Movies MAIN CAST (DiMauro Filmes) Brazil Helge Schneider, ADDRESS IN VENICE Heiner Müller, Rapid Eye Movies Daniela Menegotto Galina Antoschewskaja, Antwerpener Str. 6-12 (Lança Filmes) Peter Berling 50672 Köln +55 51 981267000 PRODUCER Germany [email protected] Alexander Kluge IN VENICE (Kairos Film) Stephan Holl +49 015119156986 [email protected]

16 Venice Production Bridge 2018 17 Digital Video Library Catalogue GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS Elia, the last inhabitant of Providence, a town destroyed by an Jose (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala City - earthquake, refuses to move with rest of the community to “New a typical lower- class existence in one of the world’s most IL BENE MIO Providence”. They try to chase him away, but for him that place is JOSÉ dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. She never had still alive, and he begins to feel a new presence in town as well. a husband, and Jose is her youngest and favorite child. Her life MY OWN GOOD JOSE is her church and selling sandwiches at a bus stop. Jose spends YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES his days on cramped buses and fighting traffic as he runs food 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES to waiting drivers. Aloof and resigned to things as they are, he PIPPO MEZZAPESA PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide LI CHENG fills his free moments playing with his phone and random sex RUNTIME SALES COMPANY arranged on street corners and dating apps. When he meets Luis, Fiction / 94' True Colours Glorious Films a migrant from the rural Caribbean coast, they pursue MAIN CAST ADDRESS an unexpected relationship and Jose is thrust into passion Sergio Rubini, True Colours Glorious Films and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable. Sonya Mellah, Largo Italo Gemini, 1 Dino Abbrescia 00161 Rome PRODUCER Italy YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Cesare Fragnelli IN VENICE 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES (Altre Storie) Catia Rossi PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide +39 3465125862 RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY [email protected] Fiction / 85' YQstudio LLC MAIN CAST ADDRESS Enrique Salanic, YQstudio LLC Manolo Herrera, 2493 E Geddes PL, Ana Cecilia Mota 80122 Centennial PRODUCER United States George F. Roberson IN VENICE (YQstudio LLC) George F. Roberson +1 7208781698 [email protected]

18 Venice Production Bridge 2018 19 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Isfi can wear her comfortable pants among her guy friends but Yanni’s mum is running late to an audition as a Shakespearean has to wear hijab to be accepted at Nita s house. Two days to Nita Viola. After she learns that her son is left home alone, she will KADO s birthday, all Isfi wants is to prepare the best gift in Nita s room. LEOFOROS fight to balance her most important roles in life through a series of phone calls, in a single-long- take shot in the most A GIFT YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PATISION controversial area of central Athens: Patision Avenue. 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PATISION AVENUE PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES ADITYA AHMAD RUNTIME SALES COMPANY 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Fiction /15' Miles Films PROJECT TYPE / All available except MAIN CAST ADDRESS THANASIS RUNTIME for Greece and Cyprus Isfira Febiana, Miles Films Fiction / 12' SALES COMPANY Anita Aqshary JL RC.Veteran Raya NEOFOTISTOS MAIN CAST Radiator IP Sales PRODUCER No 555 Unit F & G Marina Symeou ADDRESS Bintaro Pesanggrahan Mira Lesmana PRODUCER Radiator IP Sales (Miles Films) Jakarta Selatan 12330 Handelskaai 17 Bus 11 Indonesia Ioanna Bolomyti (Argonauts Productions) 1000 Brussels IN VENICE Belgium Mira Lesmana IN VENICE +62 811936044 Ben Vandendaele [email protected] +32 477632746 [email protected]

20 Venice Production Bridge 2018 21 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS When at the end of the summer the last ferries with tourists leave Saeed is a young cinema passionate trying to teach other young and most of young Marc-Antoine’s friends have left for the people in Eastern Ghouta in Syria the rules of filming, but the L’ÉTÉ ET TOUT mainland to study or to work, he and his friend Mickael remain LISSA reality they face is much more harsh to respect any rule. behind on the deserted island. Mickael is full of plans to leave, His friend Milad is on the other side of the fence, in Damascus, LE RESTE but is Marc-Antoine able to escape his solidified routine? AMMETSAJJEL under the control of the regime finishing his studies in Fine Arts. STILL RECORDING At one point, Milad decides to leave the capital and joins Saeed YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES in besieged Douma where they set up a local radio station and SVEN BRESSER 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES a recording studio. They hold the camera to film everything until PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide one day the camera films them... RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY SAEED AL BATAL, Fiction / 18' IJswater Films YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST ADDRESS GHIATH AYOUB 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Marc Antoine Innocenti, IJswater Films Worldwide Mickael Danguis Fasolo Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4 PROJECT TYPE / RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PRODUCER 1079 LD Amsterdam Documentary / 116' Bidayyat fort Audiovisual Arts Steven Rubinstein Malamud The Netherlands (IJswater Films) IN VENICE PRODUCER ADDRESS Wouter Jansen Mohammad Ali Atassi Bidayyat fort Audiovisual Arts (Some Shorts) (Bidayyat fort Audiovisual Arts) Gouraud st., Gemayzeh +31 622076717 0000 Beirut [email protected] Lebanon IN VENICE Mohammad Ali Atassi +961 3766632 [email protected]

22 Venice Production Bridge 2018 23 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS VPB – DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY SYNOPSIS Manila, July 7, 2009. As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays Mediterranean Diet Example to the World is a poetic journey told throughout The Philippines despite terrorist attacks in the south, through the eyes and words of a wise old man who, after MANILA an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to MEDITERRANEAN wandering the world and seeing humanity brutalized by hunger impress his father. However, when the patriarch and his friends and misery, returned to Italy to his homeland, Cilento. IS FULL OF MEN embrace the new child as one of their own, the question must be DIET EXAMPLE Here, through his wisdom, we will get to know the land where asked: what determines who is more valuable of attention? the Mediterranean diet was born and which lifestyle was NAMED BOY TO THE WORLD proclaimed UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES on November 16th, 2010 in Nairobi. We will see an area full STEPHEN LEE 2017 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES of wealth, natural biodiversity, culture, and agro-food that holds PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide FRANCESCO the secret to longevity and was appreciated by the greatest RUNTIME SALES COMPANY GAGLIARDI nutritionist of the XX century, Ancel Keys, who moved here Fiction / 21' Flourshing Films “to prolong his life by twenty years”. The Mediterranean diet, MAIN CAST IN VENICE as defined by him, is much more than a diet. It is a model Jon Norman Schneider, Themba Bhehe of seasonality, authenticity, biodiversity, and it’s emerging Bembo Rocco, +1 2404236398 Reynald Rassiel [email protected] as a representative lifestyle of the link between man and land. PRODUCER Caleb Negassa YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES (OOH YOOH) 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Documentary / 30' FG Pictures MAIN CAST ADDRESS Franco Nero FG Pictures PRODUCER Via Quattro Novembre, 75 Stefania Capobianco 00043 Ciampino (FG Pictures SRL) Rome IN VENICE Stefania Capobianco +39 3280248668 [email protected]

24 Venice Production Bridge 2018 25 Digital Video Library Catalogue FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS FINAL CUT IN VENICE SYNOPSIS Arturo is the owner of an art gallery in Buenos Aires; charming, The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are sophisticated but rather unscrupulous. He represents Renzo, traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. MI OBRA MAESTRA a complex and extremely unruly painter undergoing a steep MOTHER, She is followed by sellers, beggars and passers-by, outraged decline. Their relationship is one of love and hate. One day Renzo voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd MY MASTERPIECE suffers an accident and loses his memory. Taking advantage I AM SUFFOCATING. of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains of this situation, Arturo comes up with an extreme and risky plan into the heart of the city, just to find itself dangling, skinned to return them to the top of the Art Scene. THIS IS MY LAST and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. While under the scorching GASTÓN DUPRAT FILM ABOUT YOU sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face. 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Mother is a symbolic ridden social- political voyage of a society PROJECT TYPE / All available except for LEMOHANG in a spiral between religion, identity and collective me. RUNTIME Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Fiction / 101' Brazil, Peru, Spain, JEREMIAH MOSESE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST Andorra and Portugal 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Luis Brandoni, SALES COMPANY Worldwide Guillermo Francella, Latido Films PROJECT TYPE / Raúl Arevalo ADDRESS RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Fiction / 54' Mokoari Artist Collective PRODUCER Latido Films Mariano Cohn Calle Veneras 9 MAIN CAST ADDRESS (Televisión Abierta) 28013 Madrid Thato Khobotle, Mokoari Artist Collective Spain Mercy Koetle, Schandauerst. 4 IN VENICE Napo Kalebe, 12045 Berlin Antonio Saura Molibeli Mokake Germany +34 915488877 PRODUCER IN VENICE [email protected] Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (Mokoari Artist Collective) +49 17645694018 [email protected]

26 Venice Production Bridge 2018 27 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS A blissful night is unexpectedly interrupted by a sound from He is charming, ironic, nostalgic. She is full of life, smart, downstairs. Different reactions are triggered as well as the passionate, she lives in the moment. When they meet, they fall in NA LI relentless indifference. RICORDI? love instantly. Later on, as they grew up next to each other, their personalities have evolved: while He is getting light hearted, DOWN THERE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES REMEMBER? She is the one starting to feel melancholic. Thus, as the love 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES story will be told from two different perspectives, his and hers, PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide reflecting the moods and their inner changes, we will be ZHENGFAN YANG RUNTIME SALES COMPANY VALERIO MIELI confronted to the fact that there might be as many love stories Fiction / 11' Burn The Film as there are points of view. MAIN CAST ADDRESS Angel Anqi Gu, Burn The Film Songhua Wang 14-2 Rui An St. YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PRODUCER 430000 Wuhan, Hubei 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Shengze Zhu China PROJECT TYPE / All available except (Burn The Film) IN VENICE RUNTIME for Italy and France Shengze Zhu Fiction / 106' SALES COMPANY +86 13128413678 MAIN CAST Le Pacte [email protected] Luca Marinelli, ADDRESS Linda Caridi Le Pacte PRODUCER 5 Rue Darcet Angelo Barbagallo 75017 Paris (Bibi Film) France IN VENICE Natalie Jeung +33 144695959 [email protected]

28 Venice Production Bridge 2018 29 Digital Video Library Catalogue SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Isabella still sings “Tic Tac”, the song that made her famous The 30-year-old Iskander is a food- photographer who, due to his in the early nineties, when she was only seventeen. Her place own indecision, experiences a crisis both in his work and in his SAREMO GIOVANI is the Big Star, which has also become her second home. SEX, STRAKH sexual relationship with his colleague and beloved Laura. Her young son Bruno is her guitarist. The two are inseparable, He wants to change his situation by completing a promising E BELLISSIMI they perform every night together and they share a ramshackle I GAMBURGERY project for a popular fast food chain. Because of a “Red level but happy life of unpaid bills and midnight strolls around the city. of terrorist threat” in the city, he ends up locked in the fast food WE’LL BE YOUNG Bruno, however, dreams of a different musical career. SEX, FEAR, with a random customer, Anat. The two have sex, then Iskander AND BEAUTIFUL AND HAMBURGERS backs out, but Anat finds a way to get satisfaction. She teaches YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES him not to be afraid of mistakes. Iskander gains self- confidence 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES and shows his courage in his job and in sex with Laura, LETIZIA PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italian TV ELDAR SHIBANOV who finally gives him her respect and love. RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Fiction / 92' Rai Com LAMARTIRE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST ADDRESS 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Barbora Bobulova, Rai Com Worldwide Alessandro Piavani, Via Umberto Novaro, 18 PROJECT TYPE / Massimiliano Gallo, 00195 Rome RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY Federica Sabatini Italy Fiction / 19' Artdepartment.kz PRODUCER IN VENICE MAIN CAST ADDRESS Elisabetta Bruscolini Cristina Cavaliere Chingiz Kapin, Artdepartment.kz (CSC Production) +39 3334481036 Aissulu Azimbayeva, Koktem1, 45-35 [email protected] Viktoriya Mukhamejanova 050040 Almaty PRODUCER Kazakhstan Yuliya Levitskaya IN VENICE (Artdepartment.kz) Eldar Shibanov +7 7772934739 [email protected]

30 Venice Production Bridge 2018 31 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Egor is a fearless state forest guard in the Siberian Taiga. Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent He is a good family man, respected by his fellow villagers. SONI crimes against women. However, their alliance suffers a major TCHELOVEK KOTORIJ He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. But one day setback when Soni is transferred out for alleged misconduct Egor finds out that he has cancer and only two months left to live. on duty. Soni’s professional life is further strained by certain UDIVIL VSEH No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save him. Finally, developments in her personal life when she is forced to deal left with no other options, he takes a desperate attempt to trick IVAN AYR with the sudden arrival of her estranged husband. THE MAN WHO death. Egor chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way SURPRISED of fighting the disease. His family and the local society now have YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES to accept his new self. 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES EVERYONE PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES RUNTIME SALES COMPANY 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Fiction / 97' Jabberwockee Talkies, NATASHA PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide MAIN CAST The Film Cafe RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, ADDRESS MERKULOVA, Fiction / 105' Pluto Film Distribution Saloni Batra Jabberwockee Talkies ALEKSEY CHUPOV MAIN CAST ADDRESS PRODUCER VPO Shergarh 146001 Evgeniy Tsyganov, Pluto Film Distribution Kimsi Singh Hoshiarpur Punjab Natalia Kudryashova Bayreuther Str. 9 India (Jabberwockee Talkies) PRODUCER D-10789 Berlin IN VENICE Katia Filippova Germany Kimsi Singh (Pan-Atlantic Studio) IN VENICE +91 8427138439 [email protected] Margot Haiböck +49 157 510 19 543 [email protected]

32 Venice Production Bridge 2018 33 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS Antonio is seventeen years old and has a dream: to be a Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend’s house footballer in a great team. He lives in a small village, where and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times UN GIORNO getting away is not always that easy. In addition, there is Miriam, VILLE NEUVE of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their a kind and gentle, but highly problematic mother, who Antonio stormy reunion. ALL’ IMPROVVISO loves more than any other person in the world. IF LIFE GIVES FÉLIX YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES YOU LEMONS 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES DUFOUR-LAPERRIÈRE PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Canada PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide RUNTIME and France RUNTIME SALES COMPANY Animation / 76' SALES COMPANY CIRO D’EMILIO Fiction /88' True Colours Glorious Films PRODUCER Urban Distribution International MAIN CAST ADDRESS Galilé Marion-Gauvin ADDRESS Anna Foglietta, True Colours Glorious Films (Unité Centrale) Urban Distribution International Giampiero De Concilio Largo Italo Gemini, 1 14 Rue du 18 Août PRODUCER 00161 Rome 93100 Montreuil-sous-Bois Maurizio Piazza Italy France (Lungta Film) IN VENICE IN VENICE Catia Rossi Delphyne Besse +39 3465125862 +33 672729193 [email protected] [email protected]

34 Venice Production Bridge 2018 35 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS BIENNALE COLLEGE SYNOPSIS Syria, 2012. During the coldest winter the country has witnessed, Maia, called “Zen”, a rowdy yet solitary 16-year-old tomboy, lives all Sana dreams of is cooking gas to prepare a meal for her son. in a small village on top of the rough and beautiful Italian YOM ADAATOU She takes a day off from her job to search for a gas cylinder and ZEN SUL GHIACCIO Apennines. She’s the only girl of the local ice hockey-team and suddenly finds herself stuck in the besieged area. It is then that she is constantly bullied by her teammates for her masculine ZOULI she discovers that people lose their shadows during the war. SOTTILE attitude. When Vanessa - the beautiful and bewildered girlfriend THE DAY I LOST ZEN IN THE ICE RIFT of the team captain - runs away from home and hides in Maia s YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES family lodge, Maia feels free to trust someone for the first time. MY SHADOW 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Led by the need to break away from the roles that the small PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide MARGHERITA FERRI community has forced them to play, Maia and Vanessa embark on RUNTIME PRODUCTION COMPANY a journey of self-discovery: an exploration of their gender identity Fiction / 94' KAF Production and sexuality, liquid and restless like the troubled time of youth. SOUDADE KAADAN MAIN CAST ADDRESS Sawsan Erchied, KAF Production Samer Ismael, Beirut Raouche YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Reham Alkassar Lebanon 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES PRODUCER IN VENICE PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy, San Marino and Vatican City Amira Kaadan Amira Kaadan RUNTIME (KAF Production) +961 76034782 Fiction / 94' SALES COMPANY [email protected] MAIN CAST Media Luna New Films Eleonora Conti, ADDRESS Susanna Acchiardi, Media Luna New Films Fabrizia Sacchi Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6th Floor PRODUCER 50672 Cologne Chiara Galloni, Germany Ivan Olgiati IN VENICE (Articolture) Floriano Buono +49 1738046153 [email protected]

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