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18 12 10 38 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 16 14 40— 8 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 19 13 11 41 39 37 35 33 31 29 27 25 23 21 17 15 9 & Aleksandra Świerk Daria Woszek Marygoround Volkan Üce The SongBreaker Mark Towers The Gael Vera Sjunnesson Bathtub Giulio Rizzo 13-bis Amanda NellEu Tiger Stripes Lina Luzyte Fishermen & Nayeem Mahbub Miguel LopezBeraza Creatures & BlandineJet Stéfan LeLay Survival Arun DeoJoshi Hori Andy Herzog The Training Alina Grigore The Bears andtheBees Octav Chelaru Balaur Panagiotis Charamis Avanos Shirley Bruno Just Come// Beento Sameh Alaa from thewindow) Aya: (thegirlwhojumped projects 62 60 — 55 42 trainees — — 61 63 43 59 58 57 56 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44

partners &team events Monica Rattazzi Miguel Machalski Pierre Hodgson Marcel Beaulieu tutors Ben Vandendaele Ana MariaPirvan Glykeria Patramani Maaike Neve Hélène Mitjavile Jessica Loveland Selin Karli Andraž Jerič Thomas Guentch Anthea Devotta story editor Eamonn Cleary 10 — 11 projects Synopsis 12 — 13 HATEM is a 30-year-old limestone quarry worker living with his sister AYA (15) and their grandmother DAWLAT in a remote Egyptian village. HATEM provides for his little sister’s education and takes care of his paralysed grandmother. One day after work, HATEM starts to browse some online porn sites and discovers a video of his sister. Unknown to her, she was filmed by a voyeur during an intimate moment with a guy in the school back yard. The guy’s face is unrecognisable. HATEM locks his sister in the house allowing her out only under his or their grandmother’s supervision. That night he forces her take him to the guy with her in the video. He kidnaps him and throws his body in the river while his sister screams. Sameh Alaa is a writer- He takes his sister home and locks her in her director from Egypt. room. The next day he discovers his sister He holds a bachelor’s degree has escaped, jumping from the 4th floor. in German Literature from But witnesses say that she got up, ran away Cairo University. He is bleeding and disappeared. currently based between Cairo & Brussels. HATEM goes on a long journey relentlessly He later went on to do his searching for his sister AYA. Master’s Degree in EICAR Film School in Paris. Director’s notes Sameh is also an alumnus of Of course the Egyptian revolution happened the Berlinale Talent Campus Aya: mainly for economical reasons but I think it was in Durban, and European also a revolution against old Ideas. The younger short film pitch. His recent short film, generation needed to express themselves FIFTEEN, was screened in freely. Of those first three words chanted by the official selection of (the girl who the people during the demonstrations (Bread, nd the 42 Toronto International Freedom and Equality), Freedom was an Film Festival. The film went impossible dream. on to win awards worldwide. AYA is one of the these young people trying to AYA: (THE GIRL WHO JUMPED jumped from FROM THE WINDOW) is his express her feelings and emotions secretly but feature debut. when her brother finds out he tries to imprison her in their home to force her into normality, the window) into conforming with a traditional society. Sameh Alaa — Egypt While HATEM spends the whole night [email protected] searching, he discovers a lot about his sister M +32 465 62 41 39 and himself, things he’d never wanted to face. The story showcases fear. I want this fear to creep up on us, building slowly and stealthily in a hypnotising rhythm. I want to use the slow stealthy approach for greater intensity. Synopsis 14 — 15 A fierce, cynical lawyer lives alone in Haiti. Her niece, an idealistic documentary filmmaker comes back to live on the extended family land after living abroad most of her life. The niece rediscovers the preserved house in which she was born, passed down from generations and as the two women tensely occupy this house full of family history and secrets, eventually tongues loosen. The niece begins to see her aunt’s personal journey as the only one who truly remained in Haiti, all the others making their lives abroad. But the niece also begins to uncover a family feud brewing over and land and her aunt’s scathing plan to take over the land herself.

In a mix of fiction & documentary, the film is about one middle-class family in Haiti and the Shirley Bruno was born in unspoken lines often drawn between those who Brooklyn, NY. She received decide to stay behind and those who leave. a Masters from London Film School and a Masters II from Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains (France). Her films draw from her Haitian heritage, both preserving and radicalising her ancestral traditions and mythology. With a docufiction approach, she creates modern myths that expose the slippery spaces between the physical and metaphysical Just Come // world, between collective memory and history. She explores the intimate violence in the things left unsaid that mark us. Been to Her films have screened Shirley Bruno — Haiti festivals such as IKFF [email protected] Hamburg, Uppsala M +33 6 52 86 17 12 International Short Film Fest, Zinebi Bilbao and museums such as Palais de Tokyo, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Villa Médicis, La Galerie Municipale Vitry de Jean Collet, FRAC Dunkerque. Synopsis 16 — 17 Avanos tells the story of Tasos, a detainee on a short prison-release returning to his hometown near the borders between Greece and Turkey after 17 years absence, to attend his mother’s memorial service. There he finds out that his ex-girlfriend’s (Kiki) son could well be his own child. During his search for the truth, Tasos realizes that his Uncle Pater, the local smuggler and his ex-partner in crime, has gone crazy and has turned the village into living hell, dragging Kiki’s son Nikos in with him. As events start to escalate, Tasos discovers that Nikos might actually be Pater’s son. In a final attempt to attain salvation, he decides to stay and take on one“last” job to help Kiki escape from the village and save Nikos from a dark future. On the night of the “job” things go wrong and Tasos watches as Nikos is killed. Tasos has no choice. Panagiotis Charamis was Once again, Tasos pulls the trigger; on the born in Drama, Greece in man he went to prison for, his father figure and 1978. He completed his BA in uncle, Pater himself. Film Studies at the University of Kent in 2006. In 2009, he Director’s notes graduated with an MA in Filmmaking with Distinction Avanos tells the story of modern Greece in a from Kingston University. time of austerity and desperation for its people. Since he has been working Through the “magical” and rugged landscapes as a director and a Director of Eastern Thrace and the austere Greek faces, of Photography in a number I wish to highlight the wild beauty of these places of awarded short films and and the characters of the people of a country documentaries as well as in in constant search of inner salvation through a advertising. His first feature documentary Attention!, fundamental love story. Avanos tells the story which he co-directed with of Tasos a character struggling like so many Onur Bakir, premiered at the in my country today. Its narrative is familiar 35th Istanbul Film Festival, not only to Greeks but also to others from where it won the Best challenging backgrounds either on a personal Documentary Award. Avanos or a national level. Avanos depicts the harsh contrast between peace and chaos, love and Panagiotis Charamis — Greece hate, faith and blasphemy. In Avanos violence [email protected] T +30 25 21 03 02 05 is centre stage, constantly reminding the viewer M +30 69 86 56 05 69 of its ugliness yet also showing its redeeming qualities. It’s a rough cinematic experience Konstantinos Baliotis — Producer focussing on the poetics of the wild. 2D2R [email protected] T +30 210 417 1525 M +30 697 437 4310 Synopsis 18 — 19 Mrs. Ivanovici, 35-years old, lives in a small Romanian town, with strong traditional beliefs. She has a monotonous marriage with an older priest and teaches religious studies at a local high school. One day, Mrs. Ivanovici challenges Iuliu, one of her 16-year-old students, to the point of insulting him. When Iuliu confronts her, she is surprised by his audacity, but apologizes then gives him a lift home. This is the beginning of a sexual relationship between Mrs. Ivanovici and Iuliu. As Mrs. Ivanovici starts to raise barriers, Iuliu uses the weapon he knows best against her – religion. In order to continue their relationship, Iuliu blackmails Mrs. Ivanovici by confessing to her husband, the town priest, that he has an older girlfriend. While doing this, Octav Chelaru (1991) he calls Mrs. Ivanovici so she can listen to the started making films confessions live. Scared, Mrs. Ivanovici leaves when he was 14-years-old Iuliu, who then reveals to the priest that the using his relatives and older girlfriend is in fact, his wife. classmates as actors. While in college he directed music Director’s notes videos, commercials and experimental videos and I have always been interested in how set beliefs produced short films for seem to offer an explanation for everything. other directors. Among the When I read a story that took place in my short films he directed, small hometown about a high school student we mention Occupied committing suicide after a relationship with (2015), winner of the Best his religious studies teacher (also a priest’s Romanian Short at Timishort IFF; Private Party wife), I thought it was a tragedy but that was (2017), selected for Tirana all there was to it. Yet the story kept coming up IFF and Les Arcs FF; and in conversations with my parents who still live Black Clothes (2017), there. I found out that the whole community was financed by the Romanian supporting the teacher during her trial. Then it Film Centre, produced by hit me, everybody knew. The level of hypocrisy Radu Stancu (deFilm) and Balaur selected in competition for was through the roof. I decided to make a film Locarno IFF, Valladolid IFF Octav Chelaru — Romania inspired by this story, trying to understand what [email protected] and Grimstad IFF. Currently, M +40 749 344 173 lies beneath this seemingly in-control surface. Octav is in development with his debut feature, Balaur, Radu Stancu — Producer showcased at various deFilm (www.defilm.ro) co‑production markets and Livia Rădulescu – Delegate producer development programmes [email protected] like Transylvania Pitch Stop, T +40 755 991 199 Pustnik Screenwriters’ Residency, Midpoint, Sarajevo Cinelink and Less is More. Synopsis 20 — 21 The story depicts the struggle between fighting for or letting go of ones principles. In a fairytale landscape in the mountains, different mentalities and education lead to major conflicts. Here, violence is proof of devotion to family. We follow the relationship between Liviu, a boy from the mountains who dropped out of school early and Irina the cousin who, although poor, is an avid reader. Over the years Liviu tries to educate Irina as family tradition dictates, using physical violence. Unable to fight back, Irina leads a silent rebellion. Initially, Liviu is the aggressor and Irina the victim but as we move on the roles are reversed and the victim, Irina, becomes a subtle, much more dangerous aggressor. We observe social conflict from the viewpoints of those who are educated and those who are not, giving credit to both sides. To what I have a bachelor degree at extent will we fight for our principles when not UNATC – Bucharest, Acting/ fighting for them works to our advantage? Directing department. I worked with Romanian Director’s notes directors such as Cristi Torn between the two, I have always been Puiu for Aurora and Adrian Sitaru. Adrian introduced obsessed with the difference between the me to script writing and over two prejudices. On one hand we have the the years I’ve developed a uneducated, those who know only physical work mentorship relation with and the school of life who see the “educated him. I became passionate city-nerds” as unpractical dreamers. On the about cognitive mechanisms other hand, we have the educated who brand involved in film. I founded the uneducated as “stupid” and regard them the Inlight Center – a place where, along with students, as brainless sheep, accusing them of violence. we practice multiple methods It would appear that this conflict has recently for exploring the scenic The Bears become a global phenomenon. The Bears process. In 2014 I began and the Bees is about the scars an adult work researching script is left with as a result of wars of opinions development and directing waged during childhood between the violent with director Adrian Sitaru and the Bees for the film Illegitimate. uneducated and the allegedly non-aggressive, The film travelled receiving Alina Grigore — Romania better educated. Growing up in such a family, [email protected] awards among which the M +40 754 412 748 I concluded there was violence on both sides, C.I.C.A.E. award in Berlinale it just took different shapes and forms. It wasn’t Film Festival, section Forum Gabi Suciu — Producer always about physical damage, it could also and brought me Best Script [email protected] be about subtle psychological casualties. Award in Namur Film Festival M + 40 723 889 169 The Bears and the Bees gives credit to both and Angela Award for writing sides raising the question: how far does one go and acting at Subtitle Film Festival. I am a Berlinale to defend ones principles? Talents Alumni of 2018. Synopsis 22 — 23 The unsuccessful and pathologically serious actor Martin (48) lives in Berlin and is going through difficult times. Yet again, his girlfriend has failed to get pregnant and there is not enough money for another artificial insemination. His male ego is at an all-time low. He decides to return to his homeland to earn money as a geriatric nurse in a dreary suburb of Zurich. His neurotic father, a retired author of self-help books awaits him. He’s determined to coach Martin to success. The course, “Humour training” for the nursing home staff brings hope. Martin believes he has found the solution to his problems. Obsessive practise, over-powering women, and a clash with his father push him to giving up. He ends up in fits of hysterical laughter and in a psychiatric ward on the last day of the course. There, he finds Andy Herzog, born in respect at last. He writes a play through which Switzerland, is a filmmaker he discovers himself as a man and an artist, and and actor. He studied Acting finally gets back his sense of humour. A laconic at the University of Music and comedy-drama. Dramatic Arts (Mozarteum) in Salzburg, Austria. Since Director’s notes his studies, Andy has been working as an actor for The Training is the story of a vulnerable, over several renown theatres serious man in a midlife crisis. Martin has to in Germany and Austria, take control of his life, assert himself and stand as well as for film and TV up to his father and over powering women. productions. From 2005 Liberation from a psychological blockage to 2006, he participated in through humour interests me. I see humour as the film-directing program of INIS, Montreal, Canada. a means to coming to terms with melancholy, Together with the co-director freeing oneself from restrictive mindsets. Either Matthias Günter he produced, you see life as a tragic-comic affair or as a VERY starred in and directed his serious and difficult task. This playful starting first feature WINTERGAST point is what drives and fascinates me. (2015) which was distributed My father has been my inspiration for this story in Switzerland, Germany The Training and Austria. Among others, because humour has guided him all his life both the film was screened at Andy Herzog — Switzerland in his work as a cabaret artist and also when [email protected] the Locarno Festival. 2016, M +41 76 514 02 56 consulting managers as a humour coach. Using Andy works on the primetime humour to overcome his difficulties in dealing documentary-series WHAT IS Nadine Lüchinger — Producer with family relationships he has lead a happy TYPICAL SWISS? as co‑writer, Filmgerberei GmbH life. reporter and director for the [email protected] Swiss National Television. M +41 76 379 7074 He lives and works in Zurich. www.filmgerberei.ch Synopsis 24 — 25 This is a story of a house in a remote Nepalese village during the civil war between Maoist guerrillas and the Royal Army. During a "HORI" (also known as HOLI, a festival of colours) celebration, the family awaits the return of a family member, a migrated bread winner. A 6 year old boy, his mother and his grandfather welcome the man home in the evening. The joy of reuniting is dampened by a hearty knock on the door. The door opens and a Maoist guerrilla troop invades the house asking for shelter for the night. A bit later there is another knock at the door. The man opens to a Royal Army troop searching for the guerillas. The guerillas manage to hide. The Army searches the house, finds no one and leaves. With the heavy rain, the Army is forced to return As a journalist I have spent to the house for shelter. The house owner more than two decades in TV. manages to hide both troops on different floors A passionate film-goer since of the same house. my student days I've always All night long the family lives in terror of wanted to make a decent a possible encounter between the enemies film. Through my work in TV I became familiar with visual at war. medium and developed my passion for cinema with the Director’s notes desire to tell stories. As a journalist I encountered several horrifying I have a few documentaries events of war crime during the civil war in and three short films to Nepal. I had to report many distressing events my credit as director. for my media. Maoists guerrillas and Royal These films have been selected at different film Army were fighting but the real sufferers were festivals worldwide and the innocent village people. It's really hard to be obtained awards. My short objective when you come face to face with the film Kamaro (a Slave) real people who are affected. received several National and I wanted to tell the story of civil war and International awards. Other help people understand the real situation short films Diyalee and Hori Samayanter also did well and moments of panic that innocent people in several international film Arun Deo Joshi — Nepal experience during war. The only option was to [email protected] festivals. M +977 9851143311 make a film about it. This story is inspired from I have also worked on several several incidents I experienced. international cinema projects I am from western Nepal which was called the in Nepal as production far west region. The culture and language of manager. I serve as Chairman these parts have never been fully recognized in of Nepal Human Rights main stream Nepal. In my quest to promote the International Film Festival an annual event held in area, the culture and language I based the story Kathmandu Nepal. in the area with characters speaking their own language and the language of the region. Concern about war and neglected culture is the motive behind making this film. Synopsis 26 — 27 The sea, summer. Caroline, 35 years old, unenthusiastically embarks on a boat to go sailing with Guillaume her husband and Hugo their 10 year old son. She hates sailing but once again, docile, she gives in to the will of her charismatic and manipulative husband. At sea, in the middle of the night, the boat is seriously damaged and Guillaume badly injured. Caroline has to overcome her panic, evacuate her husband and child on a survival raft. Stefan Le Lay is a scriptwriter Her family's destiny is now in her hands. and director. He wrote and Drifting for days and nights on end, Caroline directed five short films for which he received 90 awards struggles to keep her injured husband and worldwide. From 2004 he scared and dehydrated child alive. Against all directed 40 fictions for odds, she affronts the situation with the bravery different TV channels (France she didn't know she had. As she gains her son's 3, Canal +, OCS) and wrote trust Caroline grows stronger and her attitude 30 scenarios for the Canal+ towards her husband changes. TV program Ça cartoon. She knows now that there is no turning back – His first feature film project whatever the price. Le Gardien (The lighthouse keeper) was selected for Director’s notes Le Groupe Ouest 2014 Annual Selection and LA SÉLECTION An in camera film, Survie takes place in the — Talents 2015. vast expanse of the ocean. The confined space of the sailing boat contrasts with the call of the sea and the invitation for escape. Trapped in her role of submission, incapable of following her own desires, Caroline breaks out of her apathy to face the painful and risky reality of abandoning the boat to evacuate on a raft. The sea is the ideal symbol of power, of the Survival danger women must face once they decide to leave their oppressor. The hostile environment is like an indicator, intensifying emotions and revealing the characters. The shipwreck Blandine Jet turned to film scriptwriting after 20 years (Survie) accelerates the decision making: there is an of writing and directing Stéfan Le Lay — France (writer-director) urgency to live, an urgency to be oneself. for theatre. Her first short [email protected] As the title of the film indicates it is a question film script Jeter l’ancre M +33 6 61 12 49 48 of survival. But for Caroline it is more than just un seul jour received saving her and her family's lives. As a woman an award for the Best Film Blandine Jet — France (scriptwriter) Project at the Côté Court [email protected] taking control of her own life is also a question of survival. Festival, was purchased M +33 6 70 12 52 48 by France 2, sponsored by the Brittany Region, the Vincent Le Hir — Producer Beaumarchais Grant and the Les films du Varech CNC’s funding contribution. [email protected] Her first feature film project M +33 6 81 56 97 33 Le Bruit des anges was selected for Le Groupe Ouest 2017 Annual Selection. Synopsis 28 — 29 As borders are drawn across the surface of the Earth, different stories start to grow around them.

An astronaut is in space when civil war divides his homeland into multiple new nations. Having lost everyone he loves, he decides to isolate himself in eternal orbit with the animals he is researching. Back home, the new countries fight over his nationality. Miguel López Beraza is a filmmaker from Madrid with Two young neighbours begin a secret romance a background in architecture from opposite rooftops. Separated by a giant and photography. His shorts have won numerous awards border wall and conflicting governments, including the Spanish academy they send carrier pigeons with messages to award Goya 2015, New communicate. The relationship continues even Horizons T-Mobile best short as they grow up to have their own families, and the Bavarian TV award but always under the constant threat of being and have played in festivals discovered. like Rotterdam IFF, Hamburg, Sarajevo, Seattle IFF. He received a scholarship for A zoologist is caught between two borders on a DocNomads, a filmmaking MA glacier while chasing a rare tiger. She is forced held in Lisbon, Brussels and to set up camp when neither of the guards on Budapest. In 2014 he got a each side will allow her back in. Though lifelong grant to study scriptwriting at enemies, the tensions between the guards start EICTV in Cuba. to soften as they both become involved in the zoologist’s mission.

A woman succeeds in returning from death after facing multiple challenges. She has an important message for the living, but no passport. This presents problems at border control, where staff will have to make a decision on this unusual case.

Director’s notes Nayeem Mahbub is a Creatures Stockholm-based Bangladeshi On every page of Miguel’s Spanish passport, filmmaker. As a former Miguel Lopze Beraza — Spain (writer-director) there is an illustration of a different migratory [email protected] DocNomads scholar, he filmed M +34 633 757 510 animal. Arrows emerge from a small globe in Lisbon, Budapest and showing this animal’s path around the Brussels. He has worked with Nayeem Mahbub — Bangladesh (writer-director) planet. It is a beautiful allegory of freedom of the BBC and in the Bangladeshi [email protected] movement. Meanwhile, Nayeem’s Bangladeshi animation industry. His debut M +46 76 248 5129 passport, recently ranked among the five worst animated short Murgi Keno passports on the planet by the annual Passport Mutant received wide festival play and awards. His recent Index report, has no animals. On one hand film A Blood Red Drop this is totally bizarre, on the other this is how in a Blue Sea and video the world is defined. We knew we had to make installation Akvarium were this film. made with support from the Swedish Arts Council. Synopsis 30 — 31 Four male friends go for a fishing weekend and discover a girl's body.Dainius, a kind but rather indecisive guy, wants to call police immediately but his Cop friend suggests they fish first and deal with the body afterwards – the girl’s dead anyway. Seeing his friends side with the Cop, and afraid of rejection, Dainius puts his convictions aside and teams up with the others. While his friends fish and drink reassured by the Cop’s authority, Dainius is uneasy but too weak to act. Until finally, two days later, they learn that the Cop has recently been sacked. Panicking, the men now have to deal with the body on their own. Dainius calls the police hoping they will arrest or at least punish him, hoping to find redemption this way. Lina Luzyte was born in But the police find neither Dainius nor his Vilnius, Lithuania. She’s a friends guilty. The girl most certainly drowned graduate in Film Directing and the men have done nothing wrong. of Lithuanian Academy of While the Cop triumps in his cynicism, Dainius Music and Theatre. In 2016 L. still feels at fault and dirty and doesn't know Luzyte shot her first feature film TOGETHER FOR EVER, how to find his redemption. which had its world premiere in Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Director’s notes In 2010 Lina shot IGRUSHKI, The official justice system allows us to turn which won the Main Award at a blind eye on many things: it’s O.K. to not the CineDoc Tbilisi festival. allow the migrants into our country because In 2009 she wrote and they belong elsewhere, it’s O.K. to walk past a directed IT WOULD BE SPLENDID, YET, a short film, starving beggar – he can go and find himself a job. which has been selected for In the same way, the four men in the over fifteen international FISHERMEN’s story, decide to not deal with the festivals and has won several body that they find, and do all they can to be awards. conscious free – not see, not hear, not know. Fishermen After all it wasn’t them who killed the girl. Only Dainius, the lead character, feels that Lina Luzyte — Lithuania their behaviour is wrong. He wakes from his [email protected] M +37 068 397 996 automatism and ceases to count on the official law of justice and starts on a journey to discover Kestutis Drazdauskas — Producer his own personal morality. ARTBOX [email protected] T +370 687 13078 Synopsis 32 — 33 11-year-old Zaffan is a confident and free- spirited girl, until she experiences horrifying physical changes. While her emotions and urges are constantly flipping from one extreme to the next, she realises that her body is morphing at an alarming and frightening rate. All this while trying to maintain normality in front of her two best friends at school. Her body however reaches a state where she is no longer able to hide it anymore and all hysteria breaks loose at school – teenage girls drop to the floors in fits, turning into an epidemic spread across the village. Rumours about Zaffan’s monstrous transformation have made even her own parents fear her. Labelled as a demon, Zaffan faces confinement and isolation... that is until Zaffan decides to reveal her true self to the world. Having graduated from the London Film School with an Director’s notes MA in Filmmaking, Amanda I remember being terrified when I went through moved back to Malaysia puberty. As a women, there have always been to work as a scriptwriter elements of shame when it comes to our and development executive for feature films and bodies and I think this begins with the physical scripted formats in regional transformations as we become adults. broadcast. We are not taught to embrace these changes. Her recent short film, Lagi We are told that once we are “women”, we must Senang Jaga Sekandang protect our modesty and behave differently. Lembu, premiered in These bodily changes are difficult for a child, competition in the 74th Venice the sudden appearance of patches of hair, Film Festival 2017. The film has continued to travel onto bones protruding, skin stretching. I think most many international film people would say it's almost like a horror film. festivals, including receiving This story is a parable using horror of the body the Special Jury Mention in and femininity to convey the core theme of the the International Short Film film which is that every single one of us, as Festival Clermont Ferrand human beings, are all trying to hide our inner 2018. Tiger Stripes She is now developing her monster, our true selves. We are taught to fear first feature film Tiger Amanda Nell Eu — Malaysia this, to be ashamed of it and to reject it. Zaffan’s [email protected] Stripes, which has taken M +60 162 232 288 inner monster – her inner strength and beauty – part in the South East Asian is coming out and she has to learn to face and Film Lab in Singapore (2017) Foo Fei Ling — Producer accept her true and wonderful self. and is currently part of [email protected] Less is More (2018). In her T +60 122 014 002 work, she likes to explore the female body and identity within the South East Asian context. Synopsis 34 — 35 It’s the hottest day of summer in Roman suburbia. A small, deserted number 13-bis bus drives through the empty streets. The commuters wish they were somewhere else, back at home. When the bus driver sees a boy trying to pickpocket an old man, fed up, he stops the bus and obliges the old man, the victim, to press charges against the boy. They wait for the police to come. Hysterical, frustrated, the bus driver is struggling to do something right, to help a boy who doesn’t want to be helped when no one else cares. Because that same very day, the bus driver’s life changed forever. He'd received the result of his fertility test: he is sterile. Taking care of the boy-thief is his way of dealing with it, to prove to himself that he can make a difference. Giulio Rizzo graduated in Being constantly defeated in his struggle 2015 in screenwriting from brings the bus driver to fall apart, until he takes the CSC – National Film extreme action: he commits a massacre. School in Rome. After that, he has been working as a Director’s notes stage writer, screenwriter, production assistant and 13-bis is a film about idleness: about how peer assistant director on short pressure, standards and the lack of empathy films and documentaries. can destroy a person’s life. Among others, he wrote I want to play with a very small, confined Insetti (20’), and Colla community, using the bus as a microcosm. (30’), both screened in many Avoiding artificial lighting will give the feature a film festivals around the dirty, claustrophobic look and a “summer heat world. In 2017 the feature haze” feel. At the same time, starting in such a screenplay Mona, which banal setting will make us feel that we too could he co-wrote with Marco get stuck in this kind of situation at any time. Morana and director Grazia The loss of sense of community and civic Tricarico, won the Claudia behaviour, the working class anger, are huge Sbarigia – Solinas Award for problems in western countries nowadays. This best depiction of the feminine 13-bis universe, and is now under story has strong political undertones although development at Revok Film. Giulio Rizzo — Italy presented in a transversal way, constantly [email protected] A teamwork enthusiast, T +010 582 940 alternating between caustic humour and Giulio currently works as a M +39 347 7607716 drama. Each situation has to, and will be, script assistant on a TV series morally ambiguous. while taking part in many 13-bis is a humble story with big ambitions, other projects with emerging and it will translate into a low budget, solid authors. 13-bis is his first content movie. feature as a director. Synopsis 36 — 37 A black comedy, Bathtub follows Acko, a Swedish expat in her early 40’s, who lives in a run-down building in a New York with her well-intentioned but disoriented boyfriend Sam. Eight months pregnant, Acko gets stuck in the bathroom and discovers a hole in the floor through which she can watch impotent adult performer Aaron, who works in the apartment below. To her own surprise, Acko re-awakens sexually and this helps her escape her fear of pregnancy, of being captured in an uncontrollable body. She begins to drift away from her claustrophobic existence with Sam and initiates a co-dependent affair with Aaron, who shows her his religious reality outside. Acko is to explore dark and obscure dimensions of intimacy. Vera Sjunnesson is a writer/ Director’s notes director and video artist Bathtub follows a woman in an overwhelming born in Sweden. In 2016 she period of her life as she loses control over graduated from New York her own body and rediscovers herself. I want University’s Graduate Film to explore ways of telling a story about an Program, were she took and MFA in film production. intimate, bodily experience from an inside She is also a recipients of perspective. Bathtub is inspired by my own a grant from Tisch School fear of pregnancy and the repeated nightmares of the Arts Department I had in its final stages – an irrevocable, Fellowship. Before coming existential condition that I don't know how I got to New York she trained at in to or out of. the Czech film school FAMU and completed a MFA at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She has worked with large dimensioned video installations, as an documentary photographer, editor, journalist and script supervisor on projects all Bathtub over the world. Her short film Vera Sjunnesson — Sweden Infantile was nominated [email protected] to the Best Swedish Short T +46 763 19 62 31 (SE) Award (Startsladden) at T +1 347-744-7076 (US) Gothenburg Film Festival. verasjunnesson.com

David Herdies — Producer Momento Film [email protected] T +46 73 508 24 18 www.momentofilm.se Synopsis 38 — 39 Among the wind battered hills of the Scottish Highlands, a teenage girl is left for dead on the side of a mountain but uses her last remaining strength to crawl to a nearby bothy. Lying unconscious and bleeding out, she is found by the bothy’s warden, a sullen, ageing man who fixes her wounds. Yet as he is waiting for her to recover, the members of a calm but threatening community gather in the valley outside and they have one request – return her. Heavily inspired by the spaghetti western genre, THE GAEL is a thriller which is simultaneously melancholic and gripping as it chronicles the story of one young girl’s escape from dogma, an unlikely old hermit who found her and how they both helped redeem each other.

Director’s notes Mark graduated in 2009 I want to create films with broad appeal – genre with a degree in English films which serve as entertainment but are Literature and Philosophy also of a high artistic standard, appealing to and has since worked in the audiences' taste for adventure as well as their film industry. At first this sense of intellect. was running and production assistant work where he The Gael will use this philosophy to tell a learnt the basics of well hunt-and-survive story about a teenager fleeing run sets. He now currently the cult that raised her and how that process is works in film distribution for as much about forgiving herself as it is about Curzon Artificial Eye in the escaping her captors – expunging the guilt UK. Since a very young age he is just as important for survival as literally has been making short films, staying alive. the last of which, THE ALPHA INVENTION – a sci-fi noir To tell this story, I believe a darkly operatic starring Billy Boyd – received tone and cinematic grammar inspired by critical praise from major UK spaghetti westerns are the perfect vessel. critics, including Tim Robey Their brooding, nihilistic and potentially violent and Mark Kermode as well nature echoes the semblance of a person’s as visiting multiple festivals mind as they attempt to shed a large part of across the world (including The Gael Raindance, Film4, Sci-fi Film their self-identity to escape their past. Festival). In 2016 Mark was Mark Towers — UK I am also hugely excited to portray a culture [email protected] chosen as SCREEN AWARDS’ M +44 7886 627356 not often seen through this lens: in place of the Rising Star for his early arid Spanish desert we will have the sweeping, contributions to UK cinema mountainous vistas of the Scottish Highlands; in both distribution and film- instead of a Morricone-style score we will making. have an equally grand Celtic soundtrack full of low whistles and fiddles; and all of these elements will coalesce to see the characters reach a truly cinematic finale of redemption with an immensely gratifying, but unexpected, crescendo. Synopsis 40 — 41 Tony guides fallers to the end. It’s his job. He has eternal life, is invisible and looks for self-destructive people to precipitate their fall. He is able to hear what his clients (chosen by Tony himself) think and to whisper them thoughts in order to speed up their fall. He claims (chooses a client), guides (accelerates the fall) and cashes (adds each client's death to his track record). Tony becomes strongly attached to one of his client's family. Although he is invisible to them, he develops certain routines with them and also strong feelings for the 18 year old daughter, Mercedes. Suddenly his colleague Carmen shows up. They observe the family and their environment. Mercedes is a faller, but Tony has to protect her from Carmen. Once all the fallers around the family are cashed by Carmen and Volkan Üce (1981) obtained Tony, Carmen claims Mercedes. Tony doesn’t his master’s degree in want to lose Mercedes. He realizes he loves Political and Social Sciences her and that he would prefer to be seen by at the University of Antwerp, Mercedes and to experience human affection. Belgium. He decided to But it is not easy for him to give up continue as a self-taught filmmaker before completing all his privileges and to leave the world he his PhD. knows best. Volkan recently completed his first full-length documentary Director’s notes DISPLACED (71’, 2017) with The Song Breaker is based on the book the support of the Flanders De Zangbreker by Carolina Trujillo. I was Audiovisual Fund and VRT. immediately struck by the idea of separating The film had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig mankind into fallers and climbers and by 2017 and was received with invisible beings without feelings who observe great enthusiasm by both The Song people and their feelings and who decide the international and the in an ice-cold professional and academic Belgian public. DISPLACED way about their destiny and about how to shows the identity crisis manipulate them. This results in cynical and of third-generation Turks Breaker growing up in Belgium and dark humorous scenes in which they get excited the Netherlands. Volkan Üce — Belgium watching human drama and let people die [email protected] Currently Volkan is working M +32 486 027 373 with professional satisfaction and joy. Adding on his second feature my own ideas to a part of the book resulted in documentary ALL-IN. a story in which I try to look at what makes us human and describe how difficult but rewarding it is to leave a world you are used to and to enter a world you’re attracted to. Tony is a weirdo in his parallel world. He even develops something that is very unusual in his parallel world: feelings. I consider this film as an ode to fallers and propaganda for human affection. Synopsis 42 — 43 Marygoround is a black comedy drama about Mary, just about to turn 50, an agnostic collector of Virgin Mary statues. Due to annoying symptoms related to menopause she is forced to see her gynaecologist. He gives her special menopausal patches which are supposed to bring immediate relief. That same night Mary’s liberated and vibrant niece – Helena crashes her house, as usual, to sleep on the sofa. Whether due to hormones or other reasons, this time Daria graduated from the Mary behaves differently and Helena notices Jagiellonian University, followed immediately. Mary’s senses and imagination by studies in theatre and film are suddenly alive. She starts exploring life and directing at the Krzysztof looking for new adventures. Helena’s supportive Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and and understanding auntie is gone. This leads Television University in Silesia to complications and forces the two women to in Katowice. She completed redefine their relationship. Mary undergoes film directing and screenwriting significant change which Helena must learn masterclasses at the Wajda School. The Dogcatcher to accept. When Mary breaks free from her life- is her latest short which has long illusions, she is finally ready to lose her already won major awards at virginity, in a literal and metaphorical sense, the Oscar-qualifying Rhode and become a new person. Island Film Festival 2016 and at Poland’s most prestigious Director’s notes domestic film event, Gdynia I grew up at the opera. My earliest memories Film Festival 2016. are those of running around behind the scenes, barely differentiating between reality and theatrical illusion. In Marygoround my intention is to create a non-realistic film. A story suspended between reality and my main character’s (Mary's) imagination. We are to perceive the world from the perspective Marygoround of a woman, who on reaching menopause endures the effects of her hormonal treatment. My story is not only a black comedy about misguided desire, it also carries a message Aleksandra is a writer (Maryjki) about femininity, about the process of and script consultant. She Daria Woszek — Poland (writer-director) ageing and morphing based on feelings and graduated from the prestigious [email protected] individual exploration. The story of Mary is scriptwriting programs M +48 501 122 058 in fact a parable. The main conflict between organized by TorinoFilmLab, Sources2, MIDPOINT, what Romans called “vita contemplative” Aleksandra Świerk — Poland (scriptwriter) The Script Factory, NISI MASA. [email protected] (contemplative life) and “vita active” (active life) She evaluates scripts for TFL M +48 694 231 336 is connected with female sexuality. My character and other training institutions. is challenged and seduced by the outside world. In 2017 she co-founded the She must experience dark and sensual things to Polish script development finally become a complete person, be herself. program, Script Atelier, where she works as a tutor. As a co-writer she is currently developing two features and an animation feature. story editor 44 —

trainees 45 STORY EDITOR TRAINEES 46 — 47

Eamonn Cleary — Ireland Anthea Devotta — India TW FILMS LTD [email protected] www.twfilms.ie M +974 33 550 534 [email protected] T +353 (0)87 799 2944

Eamonn is an award winning Producer from Dublin, Anthea Devotta grew up in India and the UK, and holds Ireland with over fifteen years experience in Film and a BA (Hons) in Film and Television Studies from Royal Television. Starting his career as a news cameraman, Holloway, University of London. Now based in Doha, he quickly found his way into live action drama working Qatar, she has been employed at the Doha Film Institute first as a DV operator and then as a location scout on since 2011. She currently works as a senior coordinator films such as King Arthur, PS I Love You for the institute’s Film Training and Development team, and Mad Mary. where she contributes to the production of filmmaking Since 2009 Eamonn has established himself as an Editor workshops and labs, and the creation of program and Producer, working on numerous award winning content to support short and feature-film development films, documentaries and commercials. He co-produced in the Middle East. She also manages the institute’s labs the shorts films Blight and Volkswagen Joe for for screenwriting, filmmaking, producing, and television TW Films and Produced the now multi award wining series. She is a key member of the team behind Qumra, film First Love. working closely with the Industry team to manage In 2017 Eamonn was a producer on Highway, an indy international mentors and project delegates. feature which shot in New Mexico, USA and starred Prior to moving to Qatar, Devotta worked at World Wide Lucy Fry, Eiza Gonzalez and Josh Hartnett. Pictures in London. Over the course of the past ten years, she has gained extensive knowledge of video production, and produced live-to-air programmes for the European Space Agency’s satellite launches from Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Her creative drive and love for film have seen her in a wide range of roles, including the planning and operations of annual film festivals and industry events. STORY EDITOR TRAINEES 48 — 49

Thomas Guentch — France Andraž Jerič — Slovenia Les Films de l'heure bleue Temporama Film Society www.filmsheurebleue.com www.temporama.si [email protected] [email protected] T +33 9 53 12 15 63 M +38 640 888 421 M +33 6 33 53 16 36

In 2008, Thomas Guentch founded the company Andraž Jerič first started working in the audiovisual field 5J Productions for which he produced several short as an editor and cameraman at a local TV station and films later screened in numerous festivals (Brest, then soon transitioned to freelance cinematography. Pantin, Angers, etc.). After shooting a number of short films he moved on to In 2016, joined by two producers, he launched production management and later producing. Les Films de l'heure bleue (Blue Hour Films), a flexible, In 2012 he cofounded the Temporama Film Society, energetic and audacious structure, keen to accompany a collective for younger like-minded filmmakers in authors with sophisticated and singular visions, valuing Slovenia who are looking for support and a platform to the relationship within an open-minded spirit and produce their own film projects. bringing special care to the quality of the relationship Since then Temporama has produced various short with authors. films, commercials and music videos and is currently Using affinity and authenticity to guide him he has finishing the production of their first feature film developed several short films projects, documentaries Consequences which is set to premiere in Fall 2018. and feature films with international co-producers in Andraž is also currently working on pre-production of France and abroad. two short films and a new feature project in early stages He produced his first feature film in 2017, Headbang of development. Lullaby by the Moroccan director Hicham Lasri. The film was selected at the Berlin International Film Festival. STORY EDITOR TRAINEES 50 — 51

Selin Karli — Turkey Jessica Loveland — UK CATCO FILM BFI Network [email protected] https://network.bfi.org.uk/ M +90 532 277 7352 [email protected] M +44 7871 219389

Born in Istanbul, Selin Karli received her BA in Jess has worked in script development across the Communications from Pepperdine University in Malibu, film and television industry for the past ten years and California and her MFA in Producing from the American has recently been recruited as one of six new regional Film Institute Conservatory (AFI). Talent Executives employed by the BFI and tasked with Since 2014, she has been the Project Manager for New finding and developing new and emerging filmmakers Turkish Films, which aims to promote Turkish Cinema in the North of England. Prior to this Jess worked as around some of world’s most important film festivals for Development Executive with Dublin-based Blinder the Film Producers' Association of Turkey (Se-Yap). Films developing projects across their feature film In May 2017, Selin founded CATCO FILM to develop and television slate. From 2013–2017 Jess was the dynamic and thought-provoking independent features Development and Production Executive at regional as well as TV Series. CATCO FILM intends to intrigue funding body Creative England where she exec produced the curiosity of global audiences with local stories and short films and developed first feature projects. In aims to challenge their thinking with fresh perspectives 2010 Jess established Script Monkey an online script on social themes. consultancy business for new writers and has worked as a freelance script reader and editor for many production companies, new writing theatres and broadcasters. Jess holds an MA in Film and Television Production from the University of Bristol and a post graduate diploma ins Script Development from the National Film and Television School in the UK. STORY EDITOR TRAINEES 52 — 53

Hélène Mitjavile — France Maaike Neve — Netherlands Melocoton Films BIND melocotonfilms.com www.bindfilm.com [email protected] [email protected] T +33 9 51 53 48 39 T +31 20 364 00 30 M +33 6 60 16 95 07 M +31 6 3035 01 92

Hélène Mitjavile is the co-founder of Melocoton Films, Maaike Neve (1991) graduated from the University a boutique production company focusing on arthouse of Amsterdam in Media & Culture where she wrote international coproductions as well as TV and new her thesis on Dutch Children's films. media content. During her internship at BIND in 2014 her passion for After studying theatre at Cours Florent, cultural films and stories grew. In 2015 she worked on different management at HEC Paris and film production at film sets as production manager. La Femis, she first gained experience at Metronomic Since March 2016 she is working at BIND where she's (animation studio) and at Natixis Coficiné (investment produced television movie Jungle (Rockie Award bank for cinema). nominee, winner of the Dutch academy award, etc.), She then worked for the established sales company the short film Gamechanger (SXSW nominee, winner The Coproduction Office (Cannes Palme d’Or 2017 for at LA shorts, winner at Interfilm Berlin, etc.) and The Square, by Ruben Östlund). VR film Superstar VR. In 2011, she founded Melocoton Films with TV producer BIND’s objective is to tell striking, unique stories that Théo Laboulandine. Melocoton has eight short fictions move and inspire, eye-openers that take root. BIND in its catalogue. The films have screened at festivals develops and produces sincere, provocative films about such as Toronto, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, real people and their quest for identity. Films that have Angers, Zagreb… Hélène is now developing shorts proven to be a powerful way to portray contemporary and features of all genres: fiction, documentary and topics in an intriguing or surprising manner. Our aim animation. is to create an effective connection between engaged filmmakers and their audience. STORY EDITOR TRAINEES 54 — 55

Glykeria Patramani — Greece Ana Maria Pirvan — Romania [email protected] Anchor Films T +30 2130046638 [email protected] M +30 6977625308 M +40 743 011 360

Glykeria Patramani is a writer and actress based Ana Maria is a Romanian film producer based in in Athens. She graduated from the Department of Bucharest. Her portofolio includes working with well History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University known directors and also with new talents. With a of Thessaloniki and holds a Diploma in Acting and special focus on debut, Ana Maria is currenty developing a Master's degree in Theatrical Studies from the a feature fim (r: Dan Radu Mihai), a documentary University Paris 8. supported by HBO Europe (r: Laurentiu Garofeanu), Having begun her career as a stage actress, she rapidly and a VR project (r: Ioana Mischie). became interested in screenwriting. As a writer she has Having done a course in Philosophy at Bucharest completed two feature documentaries and has been University, Ana Maria completed her studies with published in several literary magazines, in Greece and different film programs and workshops around Europe. internationally. In 2016 Ana Maria created Anchor Films with an office Over the last two years she has worked in collaboration in Bucharest and another in Beirut. with the Mediterranean Film Institute's script workshop Anchor is also working in partnership with new creative as an assistant trainer. production companies such as Storyscapes and Tangaj Production. STORY EDITOR TRAINEES 54 — 57

Ben Vandendaele — Belgium Radiotor IP Sales & Bekke Films www.radiatorsales.eu [email protected] T +32 477 632 746

Ben Vandendaele is a versatile producer, sales agent and distributor, based in Brussels where he studied film editing at the Rits. He is the founder of two companies: the production company Bekke Films that supports provocative cinema and authors with a purpose and Radiator IP Sales with which he has represents, distributes and sels a total of 80 short films to date. The films have been selected for multiple international film festivals, including Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, Sundance, SXSW, Locarno, Venice and many others. He was part of several international workshops, including Berlinale Talents, Zurich Masterclass and a member of the pre-selection committee for LIM. Since two years he’s partner and consultant for the European Short Pitch. tutors TUTORS 58 — 59

Marcel Beaulieu Pierre Hodgson

Marcel Beaulieu is a Canadian screenwriter, Pierre Hodgson was born in London in 1959. After of 35 years experience. He has written or co-written Oxford, he came to Paris where he was coordinator some eighty screenplays, almost all for the big on Olivier Assayas’ first film and 1st AD to Raul Ruiz screen. He won the Best Swiss Movie of the Year prize on TREASURE ISLAND, shot in Portugal. for Séverine Cornamusaz’ Coeur Animal, the Best The next years were split between a job as Screenplay Award at the Namur Film Festival for a TV producer in London and screenwriting for Francis Leclerc’s Looking for Alexander and Joao Canijo in Lisbon. Two of these films went to the Fespaco Best Screenplay Award in 2015 for Un Certain Regard. Belkacem Hadjadj’s Fadhma N’Soumer. He continues to combine making documentaries The movies he has worked on have won more than with screenwriting, including Philippe Grandrieux’ 200 national or international prizes, including one SOMBRE, Randa Chahal’s INFIDELES and three Golden Globe, for Gerard Corbiau’s Farinelli. features by Jerôme de Missolz. He has worked with He has also given screenwriting workshops around Thomas Bidegain, Patricia Mazuy, Jean-Gabriel Periot the world, from Yaoundé to Algiers, in Burkina Faso, and Marina de Van among others. Mali, Switzerland, the Republic of Congo, Beirut, He tutors at Le Groupe Ouest | European Film Lab Cairo and Marrakesh. He has been a consultant for since 2014. Le Groupe Ouest | European Film Lab in Brittany since 2007. TUTORS 60 — 61

Miguel Machalski Monica Rattazzi

Born in Buenos Aires of a Polish father and a British Monica Rattazzi was born in Morocco. She has mother, Miguel was based in Paris for many years studied literature, theatre and cinema at Paris and is currently living in Barcelona. University (FR), Reading University (UK) and Brooklyn With a multicultural, multilingual background, College (NYC). She has worked as an actress, since 1995 he has been working as a scriptwriter an assistant to theatre directors and on production and development and creative consultant on projects and script writing in Paris, Amsterdam, New-York, from all parts of the world. Brussels, Porto Novo, Bamako, San Cristobal He runs scriptwriting workshops and individual de Las Casas, Geneva, Epernay… consultancies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, After her acting career was interrupted by a stage the Middle East and Africa and specializes in what accident, she became a professional translator, a is sometimes labeled as World Cinema. playwright (received the Beaumarchais Award) and His track record as a script analyst also includes was accepted at the CEEA (Conservatoire européen major studio films and works from prominent d’écriture audiovisuelle). Since then, she has worked filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood and David as a scriptwriter, screen writer, has been awarded the Cronenberg. He has published three books on Prix Polar — SACD and has published her first novel. screenwriting and acts as an advisor on several All of her work, including her consultantcy work, programs supported by Creative Europe. is always piloted by the prerequisite which she considers to be at the core of any creative process: our ability to grasp what is essential and then convey it as clearly as possible! 62 — 63

workshop 1 Tiff event workshop 2 workshop 3 eventsFinistère Transilvania Transilvania Krakow region LIM starts out on its 2018 journey International In a chalet lost in the mountains, Projects enter the final stage, in a small village on Brittany’s 20 kilometers from the nearest working as a broader coalition rocky north coast, the home of village, LIM’s team and of combined groups and Le Groupe Ouest. For a whole Film Festival participants enter phase 2 of consultants. The purpose is to week, the team and participants their work: the deep digging. finalise a strong treatment or set up camp in what used to During an important European Combining feedback from a first draft if possible. This is be a farm in the heart of the film event, the core of all professionals and following a step which requires input from countryside, a few hundred 16 LIM projects, still in early the path of the first rewrites in line producers and first ADs, to meters from the ocean. Their development, are presented to between the first two workshops, help work to shooting constraints. purpose is clear: to find the core an audience, confronting the the goal is to establish a bone This is about raising the right of each project, both thematically authors with film professionals. structure for the script, while questions and finding the right and narratively. A search for the Among these are producers, integrating the creative trigger answers, finding doors and power driving each story as well distributors, sales agents, of budget limitations. Long walks windows, connecting the need as for the unconscious demand broadcasters. An essential tool in the forests of Transylvania, for limitations with the search that lies at its heart. for this public presentation is with combined consultants and for a powerful story. a very personal video recorded groups, help find the way… Plounéour-Brignogan-Plages, France by each filmmaker. The aim of Lusławice, Poland March 7 – 14, 2018 this encounter is to also create Băișorii Mountain Resort, Romania October 8 – 15, 2018 an international network of film June 3 – 10, 2018 professionals, all united around LIM’s objectives: the use of Organised with the support of limitations as a launching pad for a new momentum in independent cinema…

Cluj-Napoca, Romania May 30 – June 3, 2018 Associated LIM’s team 64 — 65 partners

StoryLab.pro Antoine Le Bos Poland Artistic Director [email protected] Danish Film Institute – New Danish Screen Charlotte Le Vallégant Denmark Head of studies [email protected] iFeatures / Creative England Massimilano Nardulli United Kingdom Talent Manager [email protected] TorinoFilmLab Italy Anna Ciennik Project Manager Centre national [email protected] du cinéma et de l’image animée, CNC Maina Le Gars France Communication [email protected] LKC | Lithuanian film center Dany de Seille Lithuania Press [email protected] NFI | Norwegian Film Institute Norway

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