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Digital Video Library Catalogue LABIENNALE.ORG VENICEPRODUCTIONBRIDGE.ORG 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 PRESENT THE DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY CATALOGUE Thanks to Db Logic S.r.l. Festival Scope 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