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45 Years Special Presentation TThe Match Factory Cast: , Tom Courtenay Thania Dimitrikapoulou +49 172 851 210 9 Genre: Drama [email protected] Director: Andrew Haigh Home Office tel: +49 304 431 905 55 Status: Completed Synopsis: Married for 45 years, without children, Kate and Geoff Mercer are poised to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a party, when Geoff receives a letter that shakes both of them. The letter, from Switzerland, lets him know that a body has been found: that of Katya, his girlfriend before Kate, who died falling into a fissure in a glacier when the couple were on a walking holiday in 1962. Geoff tells Kate that he was regarded as Katya’s next-of-kin, since they had been pretending to be married. Though Kate continues to prepare for the party, and the couple shares some romantic excitement about it, she becomes increasingly disturbed by Geoff’s preoccupation with Katya. Geoff begins smoking again; reminisces at length about his carefree time with his previous love; seeks out photographs of in the attic; and complains bitterly about the way his contemporaries and excolleagues have aged. Under Kate’s questioning, he states that he would have married Katya had she lived. While Geoff is at a work lunch, Kate searches the attic and finds slides of Katya, which reveal that she was pregnant at the time of her death. As the celebrations grow closer, they delve further into their past, leaving their future in question.

Being AP TIFF Docs THanWay Select Genre: Biography Mark Lane Director: Anthony Wonke [email protected] Status: Completed Home Office tel: +44 20 7290 0749 Synopsis: An intimate documentary portrait of legendary British horse-racing jockey A.P. McCoy, who risks life and limb in his determination to place his winning record out of reach of future challengers before he retires.

Blackbird TWestEnd Films Cast: Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Fabien Westerhoff +44 7984 523 163 Genre: Drama [email protected] Director: Benedict Andrews Home Office tel: +44 20 7494 8300 Status: Post-Production Synopsis: On a day where supervisor Ray is being pressured to make a round of redundancies, he is shocked to be visited by a young and beautiful woman, Una. Fifteen years earlier, when Una was barely a teenager, the two had a forbidden romance for which Ray was arrested and imprisoned. He has since built a new life for himself. She is a broken child-woman frozen in time. Like a wrecking ball from his past, Una’s unexpected arrival threatens to destroy his new identity. She opens the wounds of the past, wanting to destroy the man who hurt her while craving his recognition. Memories bleed into the present. Desire is mixed up with contempt, tenderness with abuse, shame with love.

Bolshoi Babylon TIFF Docs TAltitude Film Sales Cast: Anastasia Meskova, Ludmilla Semenyaka, Joy Vicki Brown +44 7887 476 362 Womacks, Sergei Filin, NikolaiTsiskaridze, Boris [email protected] Akimov Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Genre: Documentary Home Office tel: +44 20 7478 7612 Director: Nick Read Status: Completed Synopsis: The Bolshoi. Symbol of Russia, a national treasure – mystical and intriguing. Recently, however, the theatre has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: intrigue, personal attacks and management changes have created lurid headlines. Now, for the first time, the theatre directors are allowing a film crew access backstage. They see the coming months as a new chapter, and are ready to allow the 2013 -14 season to be recorded as a unique cinematic experience. From the two-time Academy Award- winning Producer of MAN ON WIRE and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN, BOLSHOI BABYLON will give a voice to artistes and company members who are not usually in the limelight in irreverent and candid terms. Combining epic themes with intimate portraits, historical dramas will be counterpointed with the untold personal stories of agony and ecstasy that lie behind every acclaimed performance. With unparalleled behind the scenes access, the film will pay tribute to the dancers’ extraordinary artistic and athletic talents, their abiding fear of injury and the ruthless ambition needed to survive in the world’s most famous ballet company.

TIFF 2015: UK Films for Sale 2 Brooklyn Special Presentation THanWay Films Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, , Chiara Gelardin Julie Walters, [email protected] Genre: Drama Market Office: Hyatt Regency 1557 Director: John Crowley Home Office tel: +44 20 7290 0750 Status: Completed Synopsis: All Eilis has to look forward to if she stays in 1950s Ireland are slick-haired rugby players, selling cigarettes one at a time at the local shop, and bad weather. So when a kindly priest, Father Flood, sponsors her to go to America, she packs her meagre belongings, says goodbye to her mother and her sister, Rose, and hello to... Brooklyn, which with its bright lights, brownstones and brash confidence is a shock for timid Eilis. Seasickness from the treacherous journey to Ellis Island transforms into homesickness as she gets to Mrs. Kehoe's daunting lodging house, full of gossiping single girls. Eilis gets a job at a glamorous department store and through a sweet young plumber called Tony she has all kinds of new experiences: the Yankees, Coney Island, proper spaghetti sauce…and love. A tragedy in the family forces her to return to Ireland, but she marries Tony in secret before she goes. Once home, everyone is struck by Eilis’ 'new world' sophistication. She finds comfort in the company of her old friends, and one new one: a young charmer called Jim, who encouraged by Eilis' mother, starts to woo her. Before long, Eilis must confront a terrible dilemma -- a heart-breaking choice between two men and two countries; between duty and true love.

Cemetery Of Splendour Masters TThe Match Factory Cast: Jenjira Pongpas Widner, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Thania Dimitrikapoulou +49 172 851 210 9 Rueangram [email protected] Genre: Drama Home Office tel: +49 304 431 905 55 Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Status: Completed Synopsis: Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory- filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including coloured light therapy, to ease the mens’ troubled dreams. Jen discovers Itt’s cryptic notebook of strange writings and blueprint sketches. There may be a connection between the soldiers’ enigmatic syndrome and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen’s tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.

Couple In A Hole City to City TVerve Pictures Cast: Kate Dickie, Paul Higgins, Jérôme Kircher, Corinne Colin Burch Masiero [email protected] Genre: Drama Home Office tel: +44 20 7436 8001 Director: Tom Geens Status: Completed Synopsis:

Dancer TWestEnd Films Cast: Sergei Polunin Fabien Westerhoff +44 7984 523 163 Genre: Documentary [email protected] Director: Steven Cantor Home Office tel: +44 20 7494 8300 Status: Post-Production Synopsis: Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal ballet’s youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of self-destruction by stardom - his talent more a burden than a gift. Here is an unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man who has made ballet go viral. Urban rebel, iconoclast, airborne angel, Sergei is transforming the shape of ballet as we know it. But virtuosity comes with a high price. How can you be free to be yourself when you are ballet’s ‘hottest property’?

TIFF 2015: UK Films for Sale 3 The Danish Girl Special Presentation TKathy Morgan International Cast: , Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Kathy Morgan +1 310 866 2672 , [email protected] Genre: Drama Home Office tel: +1 310 472 6300 Director: Tom Hooper Status: Completed Synopsis: Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars as Lili Elbe, the 1920s Danish artist who was one of the first recipients of sexual reassignment surgery, in this biopic directed by Oscar winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech).

Dark Horse TIFF Docs TProtagonist Pictures Genre: Documentary Jennifer Fattell Director: Louise Osmond [email protected] Status: Completed Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Home Office tel: +44 20 7734 9000 Synopsis: Dark Horse is an inspirational and occasionally heart-stopping story of a group of friends from a working men's club in Wales who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Against all the odds, their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, goes on to become a champion. Until one day disaster strikes….

Eye In The Sky Gala TEOne Films Int'l Cast: , Aaron Paul , , Barkhad Antonio Salas Abdi [email protected] Genre: Thriller Home Office tel: +44 203 691 8600 Director: Gavin Hood Status: Completed Synopsis:

The Hard Stop City to City TCinephil Cast: Kurtis Henville, Marcus Knox Heather Wyer +1 514 827 8087 Genre: Documentary [email protected] Director: George Amponsah Home Office tel: +972 3 566 4129 Status: Completed Synopsis: This timely documentary explores the life and death of Michael Duggan, whose killing at the hands of 's Metropolitan Police sparked the Tottenham riots of 2011.

High Rise Platform THanWay Films Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Chiara Gelardin Evans, Elisabeth Moss [email protected] Genre: Thriller Market Office: Hyatt Regency 1557 Director: Ben Wheatley Home Office tel: +44 20 7290 0750 Status: Completed Synopsis: 1975. Two miles west of London, Dr. Robert Laing moves into his new apartment seeking soulless anonymity, only to find that the building's residents have no intention of leaving him alone. Resigned to the complex social dynamics unfolding around him, Laing bites the bullet and becomes neighborly. As he struggles to establish his position, Laing's good manners and sanity disintegrate along with the building. The lights go out and the lifts fail but the party goes on. People are the problem. Booze is the currency. Sex is the panacea. Only much later, as he sits on his balcony roasting the architect's dog, does Dr. Robert Laing finally feel at home.

The Idol Special Presentation TSeville International Cast: Tawfeek Barhom Natalie Kampelmacher +1 647 618 6193 Genre: Drama [email protected] Director: HanyAbu Assad Home Office tel: +1 514 878 2282 Status: Completed Synopsis: From Academy Award ® nominee Hany Abu-Assad, comes this inspirational drama based on the incredible true story of Mohammad Assaf, winer of ARAB IDOL™ 2013.

TIFF 2015: UK Films for Sale 4 Kill Your Friends City to City TAltitude Film Sales Cast: Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Georgia King, Craig Vicki Brown +44 7887 476 362 Roberts, Tom Riley [email protected] Genre: Black comedy Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Director: Owen Harris Home Office tel: +44 20 7478 7612 Status: Completed Synopsis: When the road to success is littered with losers and even your closest colleagues are desperate for you to fail, what would you do to make it to the top? London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, The Verve rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the , as he searches for his next hit record. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox takes the concept of "killer tunes" to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

Kilo Two Bravo City to City TMetro International Entertainment Cast: Mark Stanley, David Elliot, Malachi Kirby Natalie Brenner Genre: Thriller [email protected] Director: Paul Katis Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Status: Completed Home Office tel: +44 20 7396 5301 Synopsis: A company of young British soldiers find themselves courageously fighting for each other’s lives in a terrifying minefield where the next step could be their last. This riveting suspense thriller tells the true story of the bravery and brotherhood that takes place on the Kajaki Dam.

The Lady In The Van Special Presentation TSony Pictures Releasing Int'l Cast: , Alex Jennings, Dominic Cooper, James Corden Home Office tel: +1 310 244 2073 Genre: Drama Director: Nicholas Hytner Status: Completed Synopsis: The legendary Maggie Smith stars in this adaptation of the based-on-fact play by acclaimed author Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George), about a high-born homeless woman fallen on hard times who found temporary shelter parking her van in Bennett’s driveway — for fifteen years.

Legend Gala TStudiocanal Cast: , Emily Browning Anna Marsh +33 6 21 85 74 93 Genre: Thriller [email protected] Director: Brian Helgeland Home Office tel: +33 1 71 35 35 35 Status: Post-Production Synopsis: Legend is the story of the rise and fall of notorious gangsters the Kray twins who dominated London crime in the swinging sixties.

The Lobster Special Presentation TProtagonist Pictures Cast: , Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, Lea Jennifer Fattell Seydoux, , Ariane Labad, Angeliki [email protected] Papoulia Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Genre: Comedy Home Office tel: +44 20 7734 9000 Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Status: Completed Synopsis: A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

TIFF 2015: UK Films for Sale 5 Special Presentation TIM Global Cast: Amber Heard, , , Michael Rothstein [email protected] Genre: Thriller Home Office tel: +1 310 777 3590 Director: Status: Completed Synopsis: LONDON FIELDS tells the tale of seductress Nicola Six, a strange, quixotic beauty who possesses the blessing and curse of seeing into her own future. She fearlessly begins a relationship with three different men: Samson Young (Billy Bob Thornton) a failed novelist seeking inspiration; Keith Talent (Jim Sturgess) a charming womanizer on the run from loan-sharks, and Guy Clinch (Theo James), a sophisticated and aristocratic businessman. While Nicola focuses on becoming the subject of each of their desires, she has a premonition that one of them is her murderer. Based on the acclaimed cult novel, LONDON FIELDS is a lavish and highly stylized story of passion and despair, an intoxicating tale of lust, obsession, and power that depicts what men want most... and what they will do to get it.

London Road City to City TProtagonist Pictures Cast: Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson, Tom Hardy Jennifer Fattell Genre: Musical [email protected] Director: Rufus Norris Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Status: Completed Home Office tel: +44 20 7734 9000 Synopsis: London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.

The Man Who Knew Infinity Gala TMister Smith Entertainment Ltd Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, , Stephen Fry, Rouzie Hassanova +44 7711 375 574 , Devika Bhise [email protected] Genre: Biography Home Office tel: +44 20 7494 1724 Director: Matt Brown Status: Post-Production Synopsis: THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is the true story of a unique genius who would become a legend in his field and revered by history.

Miss You Already Gala TSalt Cast: , , Dominic Cooper, James Norrie Paddy Considine, Jacqueline Bisset, Tyson Ritter [email protected] Genre: Drama Home Office tel: +44 20 7535 6714 Director: Catherine Hardwicke Status: Completed Synopsis: Milly and Jess have been best friends forever. They’ve shared everything since they were kids – secrets, clothes, laughs, substances, boyfriends… now they are trying to be grown-ups. Milly has a high-flying job and lives in a beautiful townhouse with husband Kit and their two kids. Jess is a town planner and she and her boyfriend Jago live on a bohemian houseboat on a London canal. Their friendship is as rock solid as ever. That is until Jess struggles to have a much longed-for baby and Milly finds out she has breast cancer. How do you share that?

Northern Soul City to City TThe Little Film Company Cast: Elliot Langridge, Josh Whitehouse, Lisa Stansfield, Elie Mechoulam +1 207 841 2238 SteveCoogan, Ricky Tomlinson [email protected] Genre: Comedy Home Office tel: +1 818 392 8783 Director: Elaine Constantine Status: Completed Synopsis: Burnside, Lancashire is a shithole. No longer satisfied with the prospect of a dead-end factory job in their small northern town, best friends, John and Matt, dream of going to America to find the soul record which will make them big DJs on the British northern soul scene. But the intensity of their rivalry changes their lives forever.

TIFF 2015: UK Films for Sale 6 The Ones Below City to City TProtagonist Pictures Cast: Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Jennifer Fattell StephenCampbell Moore, Laura Birn [email protected] Genre: Thriller Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Director: David Farr Home Office tel: +44 20 7734 9000 Status: Completed Synopsis: Kate is pregnant. Theresa is pregnant and moving in to the apartment below, with her partner. When the two women meet one spring morning, a special bond forms, developing into an intimate friendship as they move closer to the births of their babies. Until tragedy strikes. And changes everything. In the most violent and shocking way. With echoes of Hitchcock and Polanski, The Ones Below is a terrifying psychological thriller of love, betrayal and revenge, bringing one woman’s personal nightmares vividly to life, amidst the affluent loneliness of the modern city.

A Patch Of Fog Discovery T13 Films Cast: Stephen Graham, Conleth Hill, Lara Pulver Tannaz Anisi 1 310 869 2585 Genre: Thriller [email protected] Director: Michael Lennox Home Office tel: +1 310 358 3026 Status: Completed Synopsis: The tense neo-noir tale follows the story of a celebrated novelist and TV personality who finds his reputation on the line when he is caught shoplifting by a lonely security guard, intent on becoming his friend for life.

The Program Gala TStudiocanal Cast: Ben Foster Anna Marsh +33 6 21 85 74 93 Genre: Drama [email protected] Director: Stephen Frears Home Office tel: +33 1 71 35 35 35 Status: Completed Synopsis: Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) directs Ben Foster in this thriller about disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal and downfall.

The Tapes TIFF Docs TArts Alliance Ltd Genre: Documentary Silvia Angrisani Director: Kahlil Joseph [email protected] Status: Completed Home Office tel: +44 20 3657 9518 Synopsis: Award-winning filmmaker and music-video director Kahlil Joseph follows iconic Canadian band as they complete their chart-topping 2013 album Reflektor and embark on the North American leg of their new world tour.

Sherpa TIFF Docs TNBC Universal Cast: Phurba Tashi Sherpa, Russell Brice, Ed Douglas Chip Sullivan Genre: Documentary [email protected] Director: Jennifer Peedom Home Office tel: +1 818 777 6858 Status: Completed Synopsis: This stunningly shot and nail-bitingly suspenseful documentary follows Phurba Tashi Sherpa as he undertakes his world-record-setting 22nd ascent of Mount Everest.

The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And TJacqui Davies Limited Jacqui Davies +44 7711 416 621 The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers Wavelengths [email protected] Cast: Oliver Laxe Home Office tel: +44 7711 416 621 Genre: Documentary Director: Ben Rivers Status: Completed Synopsis: THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS is a labyrinthine and epic film that moves between documentary, fiction and fable. Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the Moroccan Sahara, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, a director abandons his film set descending into a hallucinatory, perilous adventure of cruelty, madness and malevolence. A Paul Bowles story combined with observational footage forms a multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself.

TIFF 2015: UK Films for Sale 7 Sunset Song Special Presentation TFortissimo Films Cast: Agyness Deyn, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Stuart Nicole Mackey +44 7966 443 475 Martin [email protected] Genre: Drama Home Office tel: +312 06 27 32 15 Director: Terence Davies Status: Completed Synopsis: Set in the early 20th century, SUNSET SONG begins with a suicide attempt; that of a poverty stricken woman in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills herself and poisons her twin babies. The story follows one of the woman’s daughters, Chris Guthrie, who must manage the farm after her mother’s death and after her father, who has had a stroke, becomes bedridden (though also eager for an incestuous relationship with her). But when love comes to Chris she must send her man off to the Great War and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever by the onset of Technology and War. How can we bear time, or subdue nature? We cannot. We can only endure...

Take Down TRadiant Films International Cast: Jeremy Sumpter, Phoebe Tonkin, Sebastien Koch, Ed Mimi Steinbauer +1 310 601 2726 Westwick [email protected] Genre: Action/Adventure Home Office tel: +1 310 278 4229 Director: Jim Gillespie Status: Completed Synopsis:

Urban Hymn City to City TMetro International Entertainment Cast: Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Steven Mackintosh Natalie Brenner Genre: Drama [email protected] Director: Michael Caton-Jones Market Office: UK Film Centre, Hyatt Regency Status: Completed Home Office tel: +44 20 7396 5301 Synopsis: A redemptive coming of age story following neglected and wayward teen, Jamie, whose incredible singing voice offers an escape until her loyalties are divided.

Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom TNetflix TIFF Docs Erik Barmack Genre: Documentary Director: Evgeny Afineevsky Home Office tel: +1 310 734 2900 Status: Completed Synopsis: Filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky offers a visceral, in-depth look at the bloody Ukrainian uprising in Kiev’s Maidan Square in the winter of 2013-14 that resulted in the removal of Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych.

Yallah! Underground TStray Dogs Genre: Documentary Nathan Fischer Director: Farid Eslam [email protected] Status: Completed Home Office tel: +33 6 59 94 12 84 Synopsis: Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine ... Young underground Arab artists in times of changes Shot before, during and after the Arab Spring

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Films have been included because they match several criteria, including: They are feature films and, where completed, are less than one year old (not seen at or before TIFF2014). They are represented in person by a contactable sales company at TIFF 2015.

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