E F P S C R E E N I N G S O F A C A D E M Y A W A R D® E N T R I E S F R O M E U R O P E 27 films submitted in the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM category

October 25 - November 08, 2015 Wilshire Screening Room, Beverly Hills © SeanPavonePhoto - Fotolia.com SeanPavonePhoto ©

European Film Promotion SCREENING ADDRESS Jo Mühlberger Wilshire Screening Room Project Director 8670 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills Hamburg, [email protected] Free parking available phone: +49 40 390 6252 cell: +49 170 800 4156 European Film Promotion invites you to the screenings of 27 films submitted in the Best MEDIAPLANpr Tatiana Detlofson Foreign Language Film category for the 88th Publicist Academy Awards®. Los Angeles tatsfi[email protected] cell: +1 310 260 2800

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Sunday, October 25 7:00 PM : HOME CARE by Slavek Horak (92 min) followed by Q&A with the director

Monday, October 26 6:30 PM Italy: DON’T BE BAD by Claudio Caligari (100 min) 8:30 PM : AFERIM! by Radu Jude (105 min)

Tuesday, October 27 6:30 PM Serbia: ENCLAVE by Goran Radovanovic (92 min) 8:30 PM : MOIRA by Levan Tutberidze (95 min)

Wednesday, October 28 6:30 PM Slovak Republic: KOZA by Ivan Ostrochovský (75 min) 8:30 PM Ireland: VIVA by Paddy Breathnach (100 min) followed by Q&A with the director

Thursday, October 29 6:30 PM Norway: THE WAVE by Roar Uthaug (105 min) followed by Q&A with the director 8:30 PM Bulgaria: THE JUDGMENT by Stephan Komandarev (107 min) followed by Q&A with the director

Friday, October 30 5:00 PM : LOREAK (FLOWERS) by Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga (99 min) 7:00 PM : ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME 2, THE DESOLATE ONE by Miguel Gomes (131 min)

Saturday, October 31 3:30 PM : XENiA by Panos H. Koutras (128 min) 6:30 PM Croatia: THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanić (123 min)

Sunday, November 1 3:30 PM : THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael (113 min) followed by Q&A with the producer 6:30 PM The : THE PARADISE SUITE by Joost van Ginkel (123 min)

Monday, November 2 6:30 PM Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: HONEY NIGHT by Ivo Trajkov (89 min) 8:30 PM Montenegro: YOU CARRY ME by Ivona Juka (162 min)followed by Q&A with the director and the producer

Tuesday, November 3 6:30 PM : MODRIS by Juris Kursietis (98 min) followed by Q&A with the director 8:30 PM : BOTA by Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci (106 min)

Thursday, November 5 6:30 PM : 1944 by Elmo Nüganen (100 min) followed by Q&A with the producer 8:30 PM Poland: 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski (81 min) with a guest

Friday, November 6 5:00 PM : BABY(A)LONE by Donato Rotunno (98 min) followed by Q&A with the director 7:00 PM Republic of : BABAI by Visar Morina (104 min) with a guest

Saturday, November 7 3:30 PM Switzerland: IRAQI ODYSSEY by Samir (162 min)followed by Q&A with the director 6:30 PM : THE FENCER by Klaus Härö (98 min) followed by Q&A

Sunday, November 8 3:30 PM Lithuania: THE SUMMER OF SANGAILĖ by Alantė Kavaitė (88 min) 6:30 PM Sweden: A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH RELECTING ON EXISTENCE by Roy Andersson (100 min)

BABY(A)LONE Luxembourg

Directed by Donato Rotunno

Friday, November 06 at 5:00 pm

Luxembourg Contact BABY(A)LONE Directed by Donato Rotunno Production Company (BABY(A)LONE) Iris Productions Luxembourg Nicolas Steil Synopsis P +352 27 39 70 12 20 X and Shirley are only 13 years old. But they know all about violence, drugs and [email protected] www.theirisgroup.eu pornography: they are experiencing these every day at school. Among those hopeless and too fast growing children, they will come together as a unique Co-producing company couple. Loneliness is indeed easier when somebody shares it. Sometimes you Iris Films Belgium even feel like being understood … Along the film, these two preteens will try to create themself a world of illusion and hope. A rush forward to find love they are in cooperation with and supported by desperately lacking…A violent and rough journey with some intense moments of genuine childish happiness like they have never experienced.

Director’s Statement Film Fund Luxembourg A perpetual Move – I have been working for several months with Tullio Forgiarini Françoise Lentz and Nicolas Steil to make this film. Tullio is the author of the original novel: “Amok” 5, Rue Large and also a teacher. Nicolas is the co-writer and producer of the film. This film wants 1917 Luxembourg, Luxembourg to be the voice of a young adolescence in need for love. P +352 2478 2179 The urgency of filming – The children we casted were totally inexperienced. They francoise.lentz@filmfund.etat.lu had no theatre background nor had acted in a film or television production. A child www.filmfund.lu is physically and psychologically constantly changing. Therefore, we had to shoot quickly. We started shortly after the finalisation of the casting and some workshops Festivals and Awards (Selection) with the young actors. I helped them to discover and construct their character. They Ŀ ./$1' '0$)5$)  0$)±(-)*+#*) had to work hard. Everything was new for them. Technically and psychologically Ŀ2-  ./-$+/-*+#± .-)*+#*) . 0$)±(Ł Abidjan (Ivory Coast) they had everything to learn. The scenes they had to play were sometimes violent Ŀ0-*+ ))$*)$'( ./$1'Ł//2 and tense. It was hard form them to cope with this. I needed them to interpret this Ŀ$'( ./$1'*Œ ) $œ violence as I did not want them to be just physically violent on screen. Ŀ-0.. '. )/ -)/$*)'$'( ./$1'Œ$)*(+ /$/$*)œ Technically – Keeping the children’s focus into the filming process was a challenge. Ŀ/*&#*($'( ./$1'Œ$)*(+ /$/*)œ I tried to keep them into the center of the image. I avoided any technical cut of film sequences to let them work freely. Along the shooting days, their coming of age awkwardness found its place into the film narration. Their lack of experiences became a real plus for the credibility of the story. The way they walk with hesitation, their childish way of talking, the fear they had of holding each other’s hands, all these details found a place into the film narration. I was almost afraid they would turn into real actors as I did not want them to lose their naivety. Director Co-prod. Donato Rotunno Country Belgium Screenplay Genre Drama Tullio Forgiarini, Donato Rotunno, Language Luxembourgish Nicolas Steil Year 2015 Main Cast Length 98 min Joshua Defays, Charlotte Elsen, Etienne Format 2048 x 858 Halsdorf www.baby-a-lone.lu www.vimeo.com/119741780 Programme of the Creative Europe Support Programme for Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors 2014 - 2020 www.ec.europa.eu/culture/creative-europe

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In cooperation with Albanian Center of Cinematography, Bulgarian National Film Center, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Czech Film Center, Estonian Film Institute, EYE International (The Netherlands), Film Center Serbia, Film Fund Luxembourg, Finnish Film Foundation, Georgian /$*)' $'( )/ -Ł- & $'( )/- Ł Œ+$)œŁ Œ*-/0"'œŁ -$.# $'( *- Ł )./$/0/* 0 $) $//£Œ /'4œŁ *.*1 Cinematography Center, Lithuanian Film Centre, Macedonian Film Agency, Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, National Film Centre of Latvia, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Romanian Film Promotion, Slovak Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Swiss Films, Wallonie Bruxelles Images (Belgium)

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