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Yashwant Intl. 2015 The birth centenary of Shri Yashwantrao Chavan (1913 - 1984) was celebrated last year in a befitting manner by the Government of and the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, . It was an acknowledgement of his stellar contribution as first Chief Minister to the making of modern Maharashtra, as a State with progressive policies and a decentralized democratic set up of administration.

In November, 1962, he became the Defence Minister in the aftermath of the -China conflict. He worked hard to restore the morale of the armed forces and to enhance his strength through modern weapons, better equipment, organisational changes and a harmonious relationship with the armed forces. The efforts paid off in the India- Pakistan conflict in 1965. Subsequently, he held the high offices of Union Home Minister, Union Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of India. In 1979, he became the Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a freedom fighter, effective parliamentarian and an astute administrator. He was a connoisseur of fine arts, a great lover of books and an author of acknowledged literary merit. He was very fond of watching good films, plays and stage performances of folk-art. The 'Yashwant' International Film Festival is a tribute to the outstanding personay of Yashwantrao Chavan.

Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015

Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan Presents

Jointly with:

Supported by: Government of Maharashtra

Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015

Foreword

It is a matter of great satisfaction that the 5th Yashwant International Film Festival is being organized from 17th to 23rd January, 2015, at the Chavan Center by the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai, in collaboration with the Film Foundation, and financial support from the Government of Maharashtra.

In the course of seven days, about 75 films will be exhibited in various halls in the Chavan Center. These will include 40 films in the category of global cinema, 5 retrospective, 7 country focus, 5 Indian films, 5 Marathi films and 10 in the category of student competition.

As usual the endeavor will be to bring some of the best films for the discerning audience in Mumbai. The film which gets a top ranking in the Pune International Film Festival will be shown on the first day, after the inaugural function is over. As a fitting climax to the Festival the film on the life of late Shri Yashwantrao Chavan, will be shown on 23rd January, 2015.

I hope film lovers in Mumbai will give an enthusiastic response to the Film Festival which will present a varied fare from renowned directors, portraying a wide range of social and political perspectives.

My best wishes for the success of the 5th Yashwant International Film Festival.

Sharad Pawar President Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015

Message

Since the inception of the Yashwant International Film Festival (YIFF) four years ago, we have made sure to offer a unique experience to all those who are a part of this festival.

We are proud of the fact that YIFF as a festival is able to distinguish itself and stand out as a favorite amongst filmmakers and delegates alike.

The festival is a great opportunity for film enthusiasts and filmmakers to interact with each other and enrich one another with their thoughts, ideas and stories. The world always has its share of problems, but a world where people watch films and continue to love cinema is a world where there is always hope for the future.

At the Yashwant International Film Festival and Pune International Film Festival this year we remember two events that shook the world - 2014 saw the centenary of the First World War and it has also been 25 years since the fall of the Berlin wall.

These two events were vastly different in nature - one left a deadly trail of death and destruction in its wake and the other brought people together. However, both have something in common - they gave rise to an enormous amount of literature and art. It is through such creative endeavours that humans try to comprehend the world around them and build bridges with people. If human beings try to love each other instead of fighting each other, the world will be a much better place. Cinema is one such medium that makes it possible to encompass the entire humanity, to tell stories about humankind and to thus spread a message of universal peace, love and tolerance. Being a technology-driven medium, Cinema also shows how modern technology and innovation can bring people together in a kindred spirit. At YIFF, we are presenting exclusive four films regarding humanity and world peace. We would like to encourage all our participants to make connections with people all over the world through this magical medium we all love!

On behalf of team YIFF, I you to the 5th edition of the festival and do hope that you enjoy yourself as much as we have in presenting this festival to you.

Dr. Director 5th Yashwant International Film Festival Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015

Acknowledgments

CREDITS Golden Publicity CATALOGUE PRINTERS Shri Sharad Pawar PRESIDENT Ad-Mission Graphic House DELEGATE CARDS Shri Arun Gujarathi VICE PRESIDENT Dr. Prakash Joshi PHOTO EXHIBITION Smt. Supriya Sule CHAIRPERSON Staff of Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai Shri Hemant Takle LOGISTICS TREASURER ACKNOWLADGEMENTS Shri Sharad Kale GENERAL SECRETARY Ahmed Abd Rahaman, Embassy of Arab Republic of Dr. Jabbar Patel FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Reghu Devaraj, Embassy of France in India Shri Samar Nakhate CREATIVE DIRECTOR Igor Korablev Shri Santosh Unecha Zdenek Tyc ASSOCIATE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR PTOT Films Shri Shri Makrand Sathe Paulina Jaroszewicz, Shri Abhijeet Ranadive New Europe Film Sales SELECTION COMMITTEE Ihor Podolchak Ms. Aditi Akkalkotkar Rok Secen FESTIVAL COORDINATOR Montse , Eddie saeta Shri Mangesh Mardhekar Shri Prasad Khatu Patrizia Gambarotta, Shri Jaising Londhe Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Mumbai PROGRAMMER Fabrizio Ferrari, Shri Vishal Shinde Rome Independent FF ASSISTANT PROGRAMMER & PRINTUNIT INCHARGE TECC

Shri Shubhanand Jog Antipode COVER DESIGN Ray, EZ films Shri Mahesh Chavan Urban Distribution Shri Arun Shinde Shri Sanjay Bansode Embassy of Switzerland FESTIVAL ASSOCIATES Viktoria Rampal Dzurenko Shri Datta Balsaraf Shri Nilesh Raut Natalia Arshavskaya Shri Parag Patil PUBLICITY & Pablo Ceaser SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLICITY Saloni Zaveri-Ahluwalia, Smt. Smita Raikar Embassy of , New Shri Shailesh Chavan Helmut Groschup OFFICE ADMINISTRATION Ernst Gossner Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015

Index

OPENING FILM FRENCH GRAND CLASSICS Like the wind 11 The Big Day 59 CLOSING FILM Golden Marie 60 Yashwantrao Chavan - Bakhar eka vadalachi 13 The Grand Illusion 61 Children of Paradise 62 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 63 The Gods of Water 15 The Earrings of Madame de.. 64 Between black and red land 16 Pépé le Moko 65 Like Never Before 17 Pickpocket 66 Uncle Viktor 18 The Madman 67 Not my Day 19 68 The Last Leaf 20 Zero for conduct 69 Elementary Love 21 It’s Gonna Take A Miracle 22 COUNTRY FOCUS - EGYPT La terra e il vento 23 The Land 71 The owners 24 Thief and Dogs 72 Rocks in My Pockets 25 Station 73 Above us All 26 Fools Alley 74 Kebab & Horoscope 27 Rags & Tatters 75 Test 28 The Mummy 76 The Tree 29 How Do You See Me? 77 Falling Star 30 Shana - The wolf's music 31 VOLKSWAGEN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT Sister 32 COMPETITION Lovely Louise 33 Juliet's 34 Mythopolis 79 Consequences 35 Sleeping with the Fishes 79 Delirium 36 Harald 79 Brothers the Final Confession 37 The Skin Factory 79 Fisker 80 INDIAN CINEMA Mirvattes Closet 80 39 Crochet Noir 80 The Punishment 40 Magarwasi 80 41 The Awakening 81 Swapaanam 42 Two (2) 81 Wire Cutters 81 MARATHI CINEMA Ab Ovo 81 1000 Rupee Note 44 Group Photo 82 Obstacle 45 Hoop Diaries 82 Salute 46 I am Emmanuel 82 Delusion 47 Screw You 83 Given in Exchange 83 WAR AGAINST WAR Sunny 83 The Woods are still Green 49 Tightrope 84 Global Warning 50 Song we wrote 84 The Silent Mountain 51 Manorath 84 Lacrime delle Dolomiti di Sesto 52 Silenced 85 A Dream Animal 85 KALEIDOSCOPE Color Water 86 Avalon 54 The Kid in the Closet 86 55 Palme 56 57 Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015

Index

MTDC SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Gateway To The Incredible Konkan - Chiplun 88 The enigma of Lonar 88 Nighol 88 The Silver - Golden Beach 89 Radhanagari - Land of the Gaur 89 Kedareshwar Temple 90 Rapan 90 Serendipity 90 Amruteshwar 91 Adorable Little Hamlet- Wai 91 Festival of Happiness 92 Inspiration of Kolhapur 92 Odyssey - Unfolding Maharashtra 92 Sangeet Govind Gaurav 93 Sawantwadi Days 93

OPENING FILM LIKE THE WIND Yashwant Intl. COME IL VENTO Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Lodi, 1989: Armida Miserere is one of the first women to become a prison warden; Director: Marco Puccioni Umberto Mormile is an educator at the penitentiary in Milan. They share a house Italy-France / 2013 / Col. / 110' midway between the two cities. One spring day, Umberto is killed on his way to work, and Armida's life falls apart. Now that she has nothing to lose, she chooses Producer: to work on the front line at the most dangerous facilities. She never bows to Giampietro Preziosa, Marco Puccioni, Sauro pressure and applies the laws, while doing her best to remain human and keep Falchi, Anna Falchi, Patrice Nezan looking for love. Milan, 2001: Armida learns the truth: Umberto was killed for refusing to be bribed by the underworld. His name is dragged through the mud by Screenplay: police collaborators, and it's all too much for her. Heidrun Schleef, Marco Puccioni, Nicola Lusuardi

Cinematographer: Gherardo Gossi

Editor: Roberto Missiroli, Catherine Maximoff

Cast: Valeria Golino, Filippo Timi, Francesco Festivals / Awards: Scianna, Chiara Caselli, Marcello BIFEST - Bari IFF: Italian Competition - Best Actress, Best Cinematography (2014) Mazzarella, Salvio Simeoli Valenciennes IF of Action and Adventure Films: Best Actress (2014) Capri, Hollywood: Capri European Actress Award, Capri Humanitarian Award (2013) Rome Film Fest: L.A.R.A. Award Production company: (2013) Intelfilm

Marco Puccioni was born in Rome in 1963 Marco Puccioni went on to study architecture. After graduating in 1989 he took up studies in film at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. After several short experimental films and documentaries, he made his debut in 2002 with “Quello Che Cerchi”. “Riparo” his second feature film opened at the Berlin film festival in 2007 and toured the world afterward in over 100 festivals. The feature documentary “Il Colore delle Parole” was in competition Orizzonti at the Venice film festival in 2009. “Come il Vento”, his third feature had its premiere at the Rome film Festival in 2013.

Filmography: Shelter Me (2007), Body/Image (2004) (Short), What Are You Looking For (2002), Sell Your Body Now! (1999) (Short), The Blue Fiction (1992) (Short), Concertino (1990) (Short).

11 CLOSING FILM YASHWANTRAO CHAVAN - BAKHAR EKA VADALACHI Yashwant Intl. YASHWANTRAO CHAVAN - BAKHAR EKA VADALACHI Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: This biopic tracks the early life of political leader Yashwantrao Chavan and his Director: Jabbar Patel journey to prominence on the Indian political scenario. The life of Yashwantrao India / Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 165' Chavan was much discussed during his tenure as Maharashtra';s chief minister and later in the central government, and this film is a representation of the same. Producer: Government of Maharashtra

Screenplay: Arun Sadhu

Cinematographer: Sikandar Sayyad

Music: Anand Modak

Cast:Ashok Lokhande, Om Bhutkar, Lubna Salim, Nana Patekar

Dr. Jabbar Patel is a theatre and film director of India. His production of the play ';s play , in 1973 is considered a classic in Modern Indian Theatre. He is the maker of classics films in Marathi cinema, like, Samna Jait Re Jait, Umbartha, Simhasan. Some of his other films are, Mukta, Ek Hota Vidushak, and Musafir(). His most acclaimed film is Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar released in 1999. He won the 1995 Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for his Marathi film, Mukta.

Filmography: Samna (1974), Jait Re Jait (1977), (1979), Umbartha (1982), Ek Hota Vidushak (1992), Mukta (1994), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000) 13 WORLD CINEMA THE GODS OF WATER Yashwant Intl. LOS DIOSES DE AGUA Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Pablo Cesar Inspired by the French ethnologist Marcel Griaulese's investigation, Hermes, an Argentina-Angola-Ethiopia / Argentinean anthropologist prepares his first stage play. He is fascinated by the 2014 / Col. / 110' ancient knowledge of the Dogon and Tchokwe. Hermes dreams of recovering the information about the possible origin of mankind, created by amphibious beings Producer: from other places of the universe. He enlists the help of Oko, a young Angolan man Pablo Cesar who is in Buenos Aires to study what happened to African descendants in the post-colonial times, Ayelen, his play's actress who belongs to the Qôm, and Screenplay: Esteban, an Egyptologist who studies the knowledge of the African tribes. Hermes Pablo Cesar, Liliana Nadal travels to Angola going through the Kwanza River in search of the last wise men, Cinematographer: with the goal of obtaining an answer from them. Carlos Ferro

Editor: Liliana Nadal

Music: Gabriel Carbone, Fernando Sande Dallas

Cast: Juan Palomino, Charo Bogarin, Onesimo De Carvalho, Jovania Da Costa, Horacio Jose Festivals / Awards: Kilulo, Sidney Profeta IFFl Of India (World Premier) (2014) Production company: Cesar Productions.

Pablo Cesar is an Argentinian, born in Buenos Aires. He began at the age of 13 when his older brother José María, who was a maker of short films, gave him a Super 8mm camera and taught him the first filmmaking techniques. He obtained international awards and also participated as jury in the festivals of Amiens (France), Montreal (Canada, Youth Cinema Festival), Kelibia (Tunisia), Huy (Belgium), Hyderabad (India), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Villa Carlos Paz and Buenos Aires (Argentina). He's a professor at the Universidad del Cine of Buenos Aires since 1992, specialized in the subjects of Direction, Production and Author's Cinema Seminar.

Filmography: Orillas (2011), Hunabku (2007), Sangre (2003), Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes (1998), Unicorn, the Garden of the Fruits (1996), Grey Fire (1994) 15 BETWEEN THE BLACK AND THE RED LAND Yashwant Intl. SHEME DEN YOSHKAR MLANDE KOKLASHTE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Igor Korablev, There is only one young woman and two old women left in the whole nation. These Galina Krasnoborova old women are dreaming of something unattainable - of motherhood. One of the old Russia- / women never had any children, the second old woman lost her newborn baby many 2014 / Col. / 78' years ago. And the abortion through the ritualistic suicide of the young pregnant Producer: woman reveals the most morbid corners of the souls of the old women, who were Novum Antropologiae s.r.o. deprived of motherhood. Screenplay: Igor Korablev

Cinematographer: Fhilipp Martinov

Editor: Igor Korablev

Music: Dmitriy, Konyushevitch

Cast: Dmitriy Ogorodnikov, Dmitriy Ogorodnikov, Katerina Moiseyeva, Vera Nakoskina, Antonina Strelyaeva, Alyona Putina

Production company: The Creative Lab Novum Anthropologiae World Sales: NIKE-I Tyrsova 1832/7 Praha, 12000 Czech Republic

Igor Korablev was born in Saint- Petersburg (Russia). He graduated from St. Petersburg State University Of Cinema And Television. He is a producer, film director as well as a scriptwriter. Galina Krasnoborova studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany in the Faculty of documentary film. She then went on to study at the All Russian State University of Cinematography in Moscow, securing a first class degree. She has also studied at the Permer State University, in the department of Philology.

Filmography: Igor Korablev: After The War... Before The War... (2014) Galina Krasnoborova: After The War... Before The War... (2014), Insomania (2007) 16 LIKE NEVER BEFORE Yashwant Intl. JAKO NIKDY Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Zdenek Tyc Determined to outrun his dire diagnosis, a painter retires to the countryside in the Czech Republic / 2013 / company of two women: his young protégé and an ex-lover, now a nurse. Rivalry, Col. / 93' jealousy, and petty quarrels are overshadowed by the growing fear of the inevitability that lurks on the edges of the summer. Producer: Ondrej Trojan

Screenplay: Marketa Bidlasová, Zdenek Tyc

Cinematographer: Patrik Hoznauer

Editor: Vladimir Barak

Music: Leos Janacek, Zdenek Kral and Kazety band

Cast: Petra Spalkova, Jiri Schmitzer, Tatjana Medvecka, Marek Nemec, Jana Festivals / Awards: Pidrmanova, Zdenek Palusga Czech Lions Award: Best Actor, Best Actress Production company: Total HelpArt T.H.A.

Zdenek Tyc (Born 1956) is a Czech film and television director and screen-writer. In the years 1983-1990 he studied direction at FAMU. After his graduation, he worked with Czech Television. He made his debut with the 1990 film “Vojtech”, which won the main prize at the festival of Czech and Slovak films in .

Filmography: El Paso (2009), Malé oslavy (2008), The Brats (2002), Seize the Day (1995), Ziletky (1994), Vojtech, receny sirotek (1990)

17 UNCLE VIKTOR Yashwant Intl. UJO VIKTOR Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The film discusses the middle generation´s emptiness and their inability to Director: Viktoria Rampal Dzurenko communicate among their peers and family members. Six old friends gather after Czech Republic / 2014 / Col. / 72' 10 years. During the two days, old wounds are opened, old desires are renewed. All this followed by gluttony and alcohol. What changes in the protagonists´ lives? Producer: Nothing. Michaela Cajkova,Michal Kracmer Screenplay: Viktoria Rampal Dzurenko, Marek Grajciar Cinematographer: Jan Skriecka Editor: Ranjan Rampal Music: Tomas Reindl Cast: Allan Paule, Sef Cadayona, Evelyn Vargas, Richard Bradley Production Company: Studio FAMU World Sales Address: Katedra rezie (directing dept.), FAMU (film and tv school of academy of performing arts in ), Smetanovo nábřeží 2, 116 65 Prague, Czech Republic

Viktória Rampal Dzurenko is a film director and painter. She has made several short and long and documentary films with experimental videos and music videos in and India. She is now doing her Phd in Film Direction, concentrating on Indian Independent Cinema.

Filmography: Wheel of Life (2012) (Short), The Father (2009) (Short), Intermezzo (2008) (Short), A Bride's Dress (2008) (Short)

18 NOT MY DAY Yashwant Intl. NICHT MEIN TAG Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Till, a bank teller in his mid-30s, is living an uneventful and average life. His Director: Peter Thorwath marriage to Miriam is happy, but in danger of getting into a rut after all these years Germany / 2014 / Col. / 116' of harmony. Suddenly, Till is torn from his routine when a bank robber storms into his branch and takes Till and his car hostage. When the kidnapper takes his mask Producer: off, Till recognizes Nappo, a former con and unsuccessful loan applicant at Till's Christian Becker,Marcus Machura bank. As the police set up a roadblocks, Nappo decides to abandon Till in the trunk of the car and disappear with his loot. But things do not work out that way and Till Screenplay: and Nappo escape together. After the first shock, Till throws all caution to the Peter Thorwarth wind and dives into the adventure with his kidnapper. Cinematographer: Jan Fehse

Editor: Andreas Menn

Music: Cowboys On Dope

Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Axel Stein, Jasmin Gerat

Festivals / Awards: Production company: Berlin IFF (2014), Shanghai IFF (2014), Portland German FF (2014), InFF Corvallis (2014), Westside Filmproduktion GmbH. Rendezvous Istanbul FF (2014) World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Zur Börse 12, 10247 Berlin, Germany

Peter Thorwath was born in Dortmund in 1971. As a teenager, he started shooting short films on Super8 and video, and moved to Munich after his high-school graduation to work in film. After studying Graphic Design, he enrolled at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Active as a writer and director, his films include “Bang Boom Bang” (1998), “If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer” (2001), “Out of Bounds” (2007), and “Not my Day” (2014).born in 1962 in France. She lives and works in Paris. A writer, director and filmmaker, she is president of Envers Compagnie, a company devoted to the production of interdisciplinary works since 1991.

Filmography: Goldene Zeiten (2006), If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer (2002), Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999) 19 THE LAST LEAF Yashwant Intl. L'ULTIMA FOGLIA Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The story deals with the events in the lives of Zeno and Rossana, immersing the Director: Leonardo Frosina spectator in the sentimental apathy that marks today's relationships. He is a night Italy / 2012 / Col. / 87' watchman and she is a musician. When they move to Rome for work reasons, things are already bad between them, and the change only worsens their Producer: sentimental inertia. In fact they begin to live in two different temporal dimensions: Barbara Bruni, Manila Mazzarini, Silvia Rossana locks herself up in their home as if it were a cage, while Zeno spends his Ricciardi nights doing rounds across the city with his lively and easy-going colleague Tom. Screenplay: Zeno's friendship with Tom, and particularly with Ela, a young foreign barmaid, is a Leonardo Frosina comfort for him, but also creates significant inner turmoil. Cinematographer: Sandro Magliano

Editor: Massimiliano Cecchini

Cast: Ferracane, Giorgia Cardaci, Kristina Cepraga, Alfio Sorbello, Ninni Bruschetta

Production company: Festivals / Awards: Josei RIFF - Best Actress (2013) , Festival dei film invisibill, Florence: Best Cinematography (2013), International Festival of Independent Cinema, Krakow (2013)

Leonardo Frosina directed the short films “Venerdì” (1998) and “Non amo nessuno” (2002), before moving to Rome to attend the Nuova Università del Cinema e della Televisione (N.U.C.T.). Here he continued directing short films, including “L'essenza dell'assenza”, in competition in the Video-Art section of the Trani film festival, Cortomirante (2004) and “Uriele”, in competition at the Reggio Film Festival (2005). In 2008 he was selected for the International Film Workshop Academy (InFWA) in Berlin where he directed “The Song of the Whale”. In 2009, he held a film workshop at the Teatro Accademia F. Centonze of Castelvetrano. In 2010 he started experimenting with the Canon 550D making the teaser for “Non Legarti a Niente”, a feature he is planning to shoot after “The Last Leaf”.

Filmography: The Song of the Whale (2008) (Short) , Uriele (2005) (Short) , L'essenza dell'assenza (2004) (Short) 20 ELEMENTARY LOVE Yashwant Intl. AMORI ELEMENTARI Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The film depicts the first flaming signs of love in human life. The characters are all Director: Sergio Basso ten years old and attend the same hockey and figure skating club in a small village Italy / 2014 / Col. / 94' set among the Italian Alps. The theft of a medal will trigger an adventurous escape to Moscow, where our six main characters will learn the first skirmishes of love. Producer: Elisabetta Bruscolini

Screenplay: Sergio Basso

Cinematographer: Francesco Di Giacomo

Editor: Davide Vizzini

Music: Pivio De Scalzi, Aldo De Scalzi

Cast: Cristiana Capotondi, Camilla Filippi, Edoardo Pesce, Nicola Nocella, Andrey Chernishov, Olga Pogodina

Sergio Basso started as a theatre director, in the Teatraz Drama Company, later moving on to the film industry. He has directed several documentaries, one feature film as well as many children's cartoons. His films have been selected and won awards at many major international film festivals. He is also a member of the European Documentary Network. More recently he has devoted himself to developing cross-media platforms for the Italian newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera". "Elementary love" is his first feature film, released in 2014 in Italy, Russia, Switzerland and Canada.

Filmography: Made in Chinatown (2009) (Short), Dora (2007) (Short), February, 30th (2006) (Short)

21 IT'S GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE Yashwant Intl. CI VORREBBE UN MIRACOLO Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Between the depths of a story of miracles and the abysses, Gianluca and Elena go Director: Davide Minnella fishing for the truth about the evils infesting the Mediterranean Sea. Who is Italy / 2014 / Col. / 74' poisoning our fish and our waters? A half-serious inquiry on pollution and superstition. Will it always be funny? Producer: Cristiano Gerbino, Ines Vasiljevic

Screenplay: Coralla Ciccolini, Davide Minnella

Cinematographer: Alberto Marchiori

Editor: Nicola Moruzzi

Music: Valerio Vigliar

Cast: Elena Di Cioccio, Gianluca Sportelli Festivals / Awards: Roma IFF: Best Italian Feature Film (2014), Villerupt Italian FF (2014) Productuin company: Fake Factory

Davide Minnella is an Italian director, scriptwriter and television writer. His most recent short film, “As it should be”, starring Piera Degli Esposti and Diane Fleri, has won several awards both in Italy and abroad. It was presented for the first time at the 60th Berlin Festival and it received a 'Special Mention' for Screenplay at the 2011 Nastri D'Argento. His short films “The Door”, “Never where we should be”, starring Sergio Rubini and “Bar”, have earned him numerous awards and recognitions in Italy and abroad. He actively collaborates with the most important Italian TV productions and is the author of several TV programs. “It's Gonna take a Miracle” is his first long feature.

Filmography: Come si deve (2009) (Short), Mai dove dovremmo essere (2005) (Short) 22 LA TERRA E IL VENTO Yashwant Intl. LA TERRA E IL VENTO Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Leonardo decides to quit his school and devote himself to mountain-climbing. He Director: Sebastian Maulucci rejects his family and their rural life, unlike his brother who is forced into it by the Italy / 2013 / Col. / 86' will of his family. When Leonardo is ready to leave for Nepal on a new climbing mission, his step-brother Riccardo, who runs the family farm in Tuscany after his Producer: father's death, asks him for help to resolve an inheritance matter. Leonardo is Paola Populin forced to postpone his trip and to take a break in Tuscany where he will find love and friendship and will have to decide whether to stay or leave. Screenplay: Sebastian Maulucci, Severino Iuliano

Cinematographer: Paco Maddalena

Editor: Giuseppe Pietro Tornatore

Music: Francesco Ruggiero

Cast: Lorenzo Richelmy, Robin Mugnaini, Laura Gigante, Margherita Vicario, Chiara Martegiani, Christiane Filangieri

Production company: AR.PA Film

Sebastian Maulucci was born in 1981. He is a director and a screenwriter. He graduated in Philosophy, Arts and Humanities from La Sapienza University of Rome, and in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production from Roma Tre University. In 2002 and 2004 he attended Marco Bellocchio's directing courses in Bobbio (PC). He was Paolo Sorrentino's assistant director in the film “L'amico di famiglia” in 2006. He has a diploma in Film Direction from the Multimedia Act school, and has presented his graduation short film “Il Ritorno, l'addio”, during the 59th Venice Film Festival in the short films by young authors section.

Filmography: Il ritorno, l'addio (2008) (Short)

23 THE OWNERS Yashwant Intl. THE OWNERS Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: 25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their Kazakhstan / 2014 / Col. / 93' mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback. Producer: But the house appears to be on the wish list of the District Officer's alcoholic Serik Abishev, Olga Khlasheva, Adilkhan brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years. The police will do everything in Yerzhanov their power to make the brothers' lives in the village impossible. Screenplay: Through the alembic of the absurd THE OWNERS depicts routine injustice growing Adilkhan Yerzhanov to unexpected cruelty, against a background of general indifference. Cinematographer: Yerkinbek Ptyraliyev Editor: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Music: Andrei Dubodelov, Mikhail Sokolov, Alexander Sukharev Cast: Yerbolat Yerzhan, Aidyn Sakhaman, Aliya Zainalova, Bauyrzhan Kaptagai Festivals / Awards: Production company: Warsaw IFF : Free Spirit Award (2014), Cannes FF (2014), Toronto IFF (2014), Edinburgh FF KAZAKHFILM JSC (2014), Vancouver IFF (2014) World Sales: UDI - URBAN DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL 14, rue du 18 Août, 93100 – Montreuil

Adilkhan Yerzhanov was born in Djezkazgan city, Kazakhstan on August 7, 1982.He graduated from Kazakhstan's National Academy of Arts in 2009 after studying directing at the Damir Manabay workshop. In 1999, Yerzhanov won a competition held by Kazakhstan's national TV channel - JSC “Khabar” - for writing the Best Screenplay for the first Kazakh animated series “Kozy- Korpesh and Bayan-Sulu”. The show was broadcast nationwide in 2002. THE OWNERS is Yerzhanov's third feature film, following CONSTRUCTORS [2013] and RIELTOR [2011], both of which received attention from major international film festivals including Edinburgh, Busan, and Dubai.

Filmography: Constructors (2013), Rieltor (2011), Bakhytzhamal (2007) (Short) 24 ROCKS IN MY POCKETS Yashwant Intl. ROCKS IN MY POCKETS Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: “Rocks in My Pockets” is a story of mystery and redemption. The film is based on Director: Signe Baumane true events involving the women of the director's family, including herself, and her USA-Latvia / 2014 / Col. / 93' battles with madness. It raises questions of how much family genetics determine who we are and if it is possible to outsmart one's own DNA. The film is packed Producer: with visual metaphors, surreal images and the director's twisted sense of humor. Signe Baumane It is an animated tale full of art, women, strange daring stories, Latvian accents, Screenplay: history, nature, adventure and more. Signe Baumane

Editor: Wendy Cong Zhao

Music: Kristian Sensini Cast: Signe Baumane

Production company: Signe Baumane Studio

World Sales: Festivals / Awards: New Europe Film Sales [PL] Karlovy Vary IFF : FIPRESCI Prize, Award of Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention (2014) Słowicza 12/2 05-075 Warsaw

Signe Baumane was born in Latvia. She received a BA degree in Philosophy from the Moscow State University in 1989. Signe made 3 animated short films in Latvia before moving to New York in 1995. In New York she continued to work in the field of animation and made 12 more award winning animated shorts. Her films have been accepted at Sundance, Berlin, Annecy, Venice, Tribeca and hundreds of other film festivals around the world. “Rocks in My Pockets” is her first feature film project.

Filmography: Birth (2009) (Short), Teat Beat of Sex II (2008) (Short), The Very First Desire Now and Forever (2008) (Short), Veterinararsts (2008) (Short), Teat Beat of Sex I (2008) (Short), Dentist (2005) (Short), Five F*cking Fables (2003) (Short) 25 ABOVE US ALL Yashwant Intl. ABOVE US ALL Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Eugenie Jansen When Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave Netherlands-Belgium / 2014 / for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new Col. / 99' environment and the loss of her mother. Producer: René Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp

Screenplay: Kim Niekerk, Patrick Minks

Cinematographer: Adri Schrover

Editor: Nico Leunen

Music: Michel Schöpping

Cast: Shayleah Sands, Kalbe Sands, Maarten Baes, Pearl Davern, Greg Griffitsh Festivals / Awards: Berlin IFF , Vancouver IFF World Sales: New Europe Film Sales [PL] Słowicza 12/2 05-075 Warsaw

Eugenie Jansen graduated in 1991 from the NFTVA. She worked as an assistant director and made a name for herself as a documentary maker. “Tussenland” is her feature début.

Filmography: ABOVE US ALL (2014),CAREL VISSER (2013) ,LASTING IMAGES (documentary), ACHTERLAND (2011) (documentary),CALIMUCHO (2008),FORELAND (2005) (documentary), THE RULES OF FLYING (2003) (short), SLEEPING ROUGH (2002)

26 KEBAB & HOROSCOPE Yashwant Intl. KEBAB I HOROSKOP Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The workings of destiny are inscrutable. One day you read your horoscope in your Director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk favorite magazine "The Secret World of Animals" and the stars tell you to change Poland / 2014 / Col. / 72’ your life and quit your job. Rather than risk the ire of higher spheres, you hand in your notice and, quite by chance, you come across the author of said horoscope in Producer: the kebab shop where you no longer work. Sharing existential insecurities, you Agnieszka Kurzydlo find common ground and discover that marketing is a line of work that requires intuition rather than any specialist training. A carpet shop, which has never had a Screenplay: single customer cross its threshold, is an ideal place to start a business. The staff Grzegorz Jaroszuk there harbors huge potential for eccentricity, and their lukewarm position on floor Editor: coverings presents you, as self-styled professionals, with something of a Aleksandra Gowin challenge. Music: Wojciech Mazolewski

Cast: Bartlomiej Topa, Piotr Zurawski, Tomasz Schuchardt

Production company: MD4, Zentropa International Poland, Festivals / Awards: Warszawa Powisle Grupa Warszawa Raindance FF : Best Debut Feature (2014) World Sales: New Europe Film Sales [PL] Słowicza 12/2 05-075 Warsaw

Grzegorz Jaroszuk graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National Film School. During his studies he made six short films. His graduation film "Frozen Stories" (2011) has won many awards including the Pianifica Prize at the Locarno Film Festival and the Grand Prix at the AFI Film Festival. It was alsp nominated for the European Academy Film Award.

Filmography: Opowiesci z chlodni (2011) (Short), Story of a Missing Car (2008) (Short)

27 TEST Yashwant Intl. ISPYTANIE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: A mischievous father and his gentle, beautiful daughter live a quiet life in a vast Director: Alexander Kott plain until two young men fall for the girl. The love triangle leads to a wholly Russia /2014 / Col./ 95' unexpected turn of events, in an astounding story that incorporates unimaginable beauty with a strong social message. Producer: Igor Tolstunov

Screenplay: Alexander Kott

Cinematographer: Levan Kapanadze

Editor: Karolina Maciejewska

Music: Alexei Aigi

Cast: Elena An, Danila Rassomakhin, Karim Pakachakov, Narinman Bekbulatov-Areshev

Production company: Festivals / Awards: Igor Tolstunov Production Company Tokyo IFF : Best Artistic Contribution Award (2014) World Sales: ANT!PODE Sales & Distribution Russia, 127055, Moscow, Novolesnoy lane 5-38

Alexander Kott was born in Moscou in 1973.He worked as a photographer. He studied (1994-1997) at the Khotinenko workshop of the cinema institute ( VGIK ), in Moscou. He assisted lectures of Vladimir Khotinenko and Andrej Wajda. He is a director and writer, known for FORTRESS OF WAR (2010), SCARECROW (2000) and THE PHOTOGRAPHER (1998).

Filmography: Yolki 1914 (2014), Podsadnoy(2010), Fortress of War(2010), Probka (2009), Fish (2008) (Short), Geroy nashego vremeni (2006), Two Drivers(2002)

28 THE TREE Yashwant Intl. DREVO Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: A family finds itself in a dead-end situation. They are only safe behind the walls of Director: Sonja Prosenc their own house and yard. As time vanishes from their home, the shelter slowly Slovenia / 2014 / Col. / 90' turns into a prison. However, nothing can keep the children from dreaming and yearning to be free and a urge to make a decision seems inevitable. Producer: Sonja Prosenc, Sandra Rzen, Rok Secen Screenplay: Mitja Licen, Sonja Prosenc Cinematographer: Mitja Licen Editor: Milos Kalusek Music: Janez Dovc Cast: Allen Dizon, Katarina Stegnar, Jernej Kogovsek, Lukas Matija Rosas Ursic

Production Company: Festivals / Awards: Monoo Film by the Sea IFF : Youth Jury Award (2014), Slovene FF : Best Feature Film, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Music (2014), Mumbai FF (2014). World Sales: Zavod Mono o Kvedrova cesta 36 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

Sonja Prosenc was born in 1977 in Slovenia. She has a diploma in journalism and cultural studies. She began working in the field of visual production during her years at the university: film and graphic design. She attended the Berlinale and Sarajevo Talent Campuses, co- founded the Monoo production house and was selected to participate in the prestigious Torino Film Lab. After the short film “Morning” and a documentary “Man with a Raven” she made her first full feature film “The Tree” that premiered in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary IFF. . Filmography: Morning (2013) (Short), A Man with a Raven (2012) (Short).

29 FALLING STAR Yashwant Intl. STELLA CANDENTE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: A King overcomes his loneliness by indulging in playful adventures and carnal Director: Lluís Miñarro pleasures. A hallucinatory look into the brief reign of the Spanish King Amadeo I of Spain / 2014 / Col. / 105' Savoy in the early 1870s. Lacking the personality of a ruler and treated with contempt by his court, Amadeo withdraws into himself and becomes a prisoner in Producer: his own palace. To escape his loneliness, he seeks escape in playful adventures and Luis Miñarro carnal pleasures. Screenplay: Sergi Belbel, Luis Miñarro

Cinematographer: Jimmy Gimferrer

Editor: Núria Esquerra

Sound designer: Alejandro Castillo

Cast: Lorenzo Balducci, Àlex Batllori, Àlex Brendemühl, Gonzalo Cunill, Lola Dueñas, Festival/Awards: Francesc Garrido Tirana IFF : Best Director, Best Photography (2014), Rotterdam FF (2014), Sofia I FF (2014), Production Company: IFF of Uruguay (2014), Karlovy Vary IFF (2014), Munich IFF (2014), Vienna IFF (2014) Eddie Saeta

World Sales: NDM International Sales

Lluís Miñarro is a well known Indie-film producer who has collaborated with directors like Oliveira, Weerasethakul, Guerin, Serra, Sergio Caballero and Alonso among others. In 2009, Miñarro directed “Familystrip” his first documentary, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Since then he has switched his career as a producer to a director. “Stella Candente” is his first fiction film and highlights a personal style as unpredictable as his work as a producer.

Filmography: Blow Horn (2009)

30 SHANA - THE WOLF'S MUSIC Yashwant Intl. SHANA - THE WOLF'S MUSIC Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Nino Jacusso The coming-of-age story about a Canadian First Nations girl who triumphs over Switzerland-Canada / 2014 / obstacles in her young life. Her new teacher discovers her extraordinary gifts as a Col. / 95' violinist. When Shana goes on a spiritual journey, she befriends a wild wolf who guides her and she reconnects with her ancestors, including her mother. Finally, Producer: she is able to make peace with her mother's death and, absorbed by nature and the Franziska Reck spiritual world, Shana finds a unique way of musical expression, which will allow Screenplay: her to have a career as a violinist. Nino Jacusso Cinematographer: Severine Barde Editor: Loredana Cristelli Music: Roman Lerch Cast: Alana Aspinall, Delilah Dick, Sunshine O'Donovan, Marcel Shackely Production company: Reck Filmproduktion GmbH, Red Cedar Festivals / Awards: Films Edmonton AB, Dreamspeakers FF : Best Youth Cinema (2014), Vancouver, Reel 2 Real IFF : Youth, Special Jury Award (2014), Vittorio Veneto, Vittorio Veneto FF : Award Category World Sales: Beta film Monte Baldo (2014), Vittorio Veneto, Vittorio Veneto FF : Jury of Quality Award (2014), Gruenwalder Weg 28d Brussels, 8th International Children´s FF : Special Mention (2014), Pilsen, CZ, International 82041 Oberhaching / Munich Festival: Children and Youth Juniorfest, Special Mention (2014) Germany

Nino Jacusso was Born in 1955 in Acquaviva Collecroce, Italy. Joint Swiss and Italian citizenship. 1960 Emigrates to Switzerland.1974-78 Attends the HFF (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen), Munich. Since 1988 collaborates with Insert Film. 1994 Attends screenwriting seminar by Frank Daniel in Denmark. Since 1996 works in media education at schools and universities. Since 1996 active member of The Magic Lantern, Solothurn. 2004- 05 Heads film casestudies, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich.

Filmography: Escape to Paradise (2001), Bellinvitu - Die schöne Einladung (1992), Klassengeflüster (1982)

31 SISTER Yashwant Intl. "L'ENFANT D'EN HAUT" Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Ursula Meier Simon, 12, follows in the winter the little cable car that connects the industrial Switzerland-France/ valley where he lives with his sister Louise, to the opulent ski resort that 2012 / Col. / 97' overlooks.There, he steals skis and equipment of rich tourists he subsequently sells to children of his property to make small but regular profits.Louise, who has Producer: just lost his job, Simon takes advantage of traffic that are growing and becoming Ruth Waldburger more and more dependent on him Screenplay: Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier, Gilles Taurand

Cinematographer: Agnès Godard

Editor: Nelly Quettier

Music: John Parish

Cast: Gilles Taurand, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson

Festivals / Awards: Produstion company: Berlin IFF ; special Award (2012), Buster International Children's Film Festival (2012) Vega Film.

World Sales: Memento Films International 9, Cité Paradis FR – 75010 Paris

Ursula Meier was born in 1971 in Besançon, France. She was having Joint Swiss and French citizenship. From 1989-95 she Worked as actress, production assistant and trainee producer on various films. During 1990-94 she Studied cinema and television production at IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) Louvain-la-Neuve. In 1997 she received degree from IAD. Swiss Film Prize «Quartz 2009», Best Fiction Film and Best Screenplay for “Home”.In 2012 she received Silver Bear - Special Award for “Sister”, 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. 2013 “Best Fiction Film” for “Sister”.

Filmography: Home (2008), Table Manners (2001)

32 LOVELY LOUISE Yashwant Intl. LOVELY LOUISE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Bettina Oberli André is 55 and still lives with his 80-year-old mother Louise, an actress. He leads Switzerland-Spain-Germany / an unspectacular life as a taxi driver and cannot seem to muster the courage to 2013 / Col. / 91' speak to the woman working at the wurst stand at the model aircraft flying field. A stranger appears at their door one day: Bill, a charismatic man from America is Producer: Christian Davi, Christof Neracher, Thomas about to turn their placid life upside down. For the first time in his life, André has to Thümena rouse himself from his lethargy and face up to a few facts. It is never too late to begin living and loving. Screenplay: Bettina Oberli, Petra Biondina Volpe

Cinematographer: Stéphane Kuthy

Editor: Andrew Bird

Music: Adrian Weyermann

Cast: Stefan Kurt, Annemarie Duringer, Stanley Townsend, Nina Proll, Michael Neuenschwander, Matthias Breitenbach Festivals / Awards: Audi Festival of German Films (2014), Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo (2014), Production company: Hugofilm, Wüste Filmproduktion Washington, DC IFF (2014), Jameson Dublin IFF (2014), Solothurner Filmtage (2014), Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken (2014), Palm Springs IFF (2014), Starz Denver FF World Sales: (2013), Filmfest Hamburg (2013) Picture Tree International GmbH, Zur Börse 12, DE – 10247 Berlin

Bettina Oberli was born in 1972 in Interlaken, Bern, Switzerland. She is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. She gained her diploma as a filmmaker in 2000 at the Zurich University of the Arts. Her student thesis film “Supernova” was awarded best newcomer of the year. After her awarded debut “Im Nordwind” (2004), she wrote and directed “Late Bloomers” (Die Herbstzeitlosen) in 2006. The film became the most successful Swiss film in cinemas in thirty years and was sold worldwide. She directed the award winning “Tannöd - The Murder Farm” (Tannöd) (2009) in Germany with Julia Jentsch and Monica Bleibtreu playing the leading roles. In April 2013, it was at the Theater Basel with "Anna Karenina" her first stage production.

Filmography: Déposer les enfants (2012) (Short), The Murder Farm (2009), Late Bloomers (2006), Im Nordwind (2004), Ibiza (2002) (Short), Supernova (2000) (Short) 33 JULIETS Yashwant Intl. ZHU LI YE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Yu-Hsun Chen, Three stories told by three different directors: Chi-jan Hou, Ko-shang Shen In the 1970's Ju, who has never fallen in love, works in a printing store. One day a Taiwan / 2010 / Col. / 106' neat, good-looking boy comes to the store with banned articles in his hands, Ju's life no longer seems monotonous. Producer: Mei has just been through a breakup and is told a true story - In the 80's, a woman Khan Lee moved into a madhouse by faking insanity so that she could wait for her lover without being disturbed. Screenplay: In 2010, 40-year-old Juliet tries to commit suicide but a commercial-shooting crew Hou Chi-Jan, Kelly Yang Yuan-Lee gets in the way. Then Juliet meets someone who is more obstinate about love than Cinematographer: her. What will Juliet's final decision be - to live or to die? Mahua Feng Shin-Hua, Tao Chien, Chen Chein-Li

Editor: Ku Hsiao-Yun

Music: HAN Cheng-Yu, Jutoupi (pigheadskin), Chris HOU

Cast: Festivals / Awards: Vivian Hsu, Po-Chieh Wang, Chien-Na Li, Golden Horse Awards: Best New Performer Award (2010), Golden Horse FF : Opening Film River Huang, Kang Kang, He-Chun Liang (2010), Tokyo IFF : Opening Film (2010), Busan IFF : Wide Angle Competition (2010) Production Company: A Khan Entertainment Productions, Zeus International production, Cheer Film Production

Yu-Hsun Chen was born in 1962 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a director and writer, known for “Zone Pro Site” (2013), “Re dai yu” (1995) and “Ai qing lai le” (1998). Chi-jan Hou was born in 1973 in Taipei. His experimental short, “Stardust 15749001”, won the main prize at the Taipei International Film Festival in 2003. His second short, “My 747”, won the main prize of the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards in 2006. “One Day” is his first feature film. In 1999, Ko-shang Shen won the Golden Horse Award for his short film “Layover”. Shen's documentary Baseball Boys (2009) won the Best Documentary in Asia Pacific Film Festival and was also awarded in Taiwan International Documentary Festival. Shen's first feature film was “The Sound of Siren”.

Filmography: Yu-Hsun Chen: Zone Pro Site (2013), Chi-jan Hou: You yi tian (2010), Ko-shang Shen: Bus Odyssey (2011) 34 CONSEQUENCES Yashwant Intl. SILSILE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: On a hot summer night; Ece goes to Cenk's place. It feels like they have missed Director: Ozan Aciktan each other for so long. Suddenly a thief appears at the house – Kiliç a 14 year old Turkey / 2014 / Col. / 105' boy, somehow escapes from the apartment. A moment later another thief appears from the darkness. Ece defends herself and hits him. Tayfun collapses on the floor, Producer: full of blood. Cenk sends Ece away and calls his best friend Faruk. Faruk and his Tunay Vural, Necati Akpinar lawyer Merve arrive. Apparently Faruk and Ece are engaged to be married. Faruk and Cenk are partners in a big consortium. Kiliç chases Ece and forces her in the Screenplay: Cem Akas, Ozan Aciktan, Faruk Ozerten car as he doesn't have any news from his brother Tayfun. A chain of events reveals complex urban relations, deep wounds and the fragile lives of the characters; and Cinematographer: its consequences that will change Cenk, Faruk and Ece forever. Ahmet Sesigurgil Editor: Erkan Erdem

Music: Burak Güven

Cast: Tardu Flordun, Nehir Erdogan, Ilker Kaleli, Serkan Keskin, Esra Bezen Bilgin

Festivals / Awards: Production Company: Istanbul IFF : Best Cinematography (2014) Ptot Film World Sales: Ebulula Mardin Cad. Maya Meridyen Plaza No:16 K:3 D:13 34335 Akatlar - İstanbul

Ozan Aciktan was Born in Eskisehir in 1978. He received his undergraduate degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Communication, Radio TV and Cinema, in 2000. During his studies he started shooting short films that were later screened and awarded internationally. Between 2003-2005, Aciktan continued his studies in the department of direction of photography in the Lodz, Polish National Film School. In 2006 he received a grant to study in the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, in Ludwigsburg, Germany, focusing on scriptwriting and dramaturgy. The same year he attended the Berlinale Talent campus. He then became a TV commercial director. In 2007 the script that he wrote with Cem Akas, “Silsile”, won a script development grant at the Antalya Film Festival with the project name, “50 Reasons in your Eyes”.

Filmography: Sen Kimsin? (2012), Multi Release Movements (2010), Marlis. (2004) (Short) 35 DELIRIUM Yashwant Intl. DELIRIUM Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Ihor Podolchak A family asks a young psychiatrist to be their guest for a while to untangle the -Czech Republic / circumstances of their father's illness. He's developed a suicidal fixation for ropes 2013 / Col. / 96’ and knots among other things. While deeply involved in analyzing the patient's delirium, the doctor begins to lose track of what is taking place. The task of “how to help” is twisted into “who am I - doctor or patient? Chance guest, member of Producer: Ihor Dyurych, Tamara Podolchak, Ihor this suffering family, or a catholic priest who has dreamed this all up?” In order to Podolchak get a handle on it all, it's best to start from the beginning, but why do things keep shifting, changing? Screenplay: Dmytro Belyansky, Ihor Podolchak

Cinematographer: Mykola Yefymenko

Editor: Ihor Podolchak

Music: Oleksandr Shchetynsky

Festivals / Awards: Cast: Baghdad IFF : Long Fiction Competition (2013) Volodymyr Khimyak, Lesya Voynevych, Petro Rybka, Olha Horbach

Production Company: Podolchak Films, MF Films, Paulus von Lemberg

Ihor Podolchak was born in 1962 in , Ukraine. He graduated from the Lviv Academy of Fine Art in 1984 with a distinction. An artist and creator of numerous projects in the field of visual art, he has had over 25 international art exhibitions across the globe. His book 'Jacob Bohme', was awarded the World's Best Book (Bronze Medal) at the International Frankfurt Book Fair. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at the space station in 1993. The premiere of his feature film “Las Meninas” took place in the competition section at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2008). The film has participated at 26 International film festivals worldwide with ten of them in the competition section.

Filmography: Las Meninas (2008) 36 BROTHERS THE FINAL CONFESSION Yashwant Intl. BRATY. OSTANNYA SPOVID Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The film is a psychological drama developing on the highlands of the Carpathian Director: Victoria Trofimenko Mountains. Two helpless old men, brothers, desperately trying to keep up Ukraine / 2013 / Col. / 120' competition with each other in order to prolong their lives. Even though their bodies are decaying and both are sick the one still wants to outlive the other. But Producer: one day a woman enters their remote dwelling, who tries to restore the brothers' Asadchiy, Igor Savychenko, Victoria life-story. Trofimenko Screenplay: Victoria Trofimenko

Cinematographer: Yaroslav Pilunskiy

Editor: Tatyana Khodakovskaya

Music: Sviatoslav Luniov

Cast: Mykola Bereza, Viktor Demertash, Yuri Denysenkov, Roman Lutskiy

Festivals / Awards: Production Company: Beijing IFF – Panorama, Moscow IFF – Competition: best actress, Critics Guild Award, Pronto Film Shanghai IFF, 'Golden Apricot' FFF, Yerevan World Sales: ANT!PODE Sales & Distribution Russia, 127055, Moscow, Novolesnoy lane 5- 38

Victoria Trofimenko is a Director of the number of shorts that were shown at International Film Festivals in Greece, Island, Russia, UK, Ukraine. “Brothers. The Final Confession” is her first feature film.

Filmography: Nestor Makhno (2009), 9 lives of the terrorist Yakov Bljumkin (2008), In love with agent Petrov (2008), Back home (2005)

37 INDIAN CINEMA

MUNNARIYIPPU Yashwant Intl. MUNNARIYIPPU Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Anjali Arakkal, a freelance journalist makes her living being a ghost writer. She Director: meets jailed criminal C.K. Raghavan, during one of her assignments to write the / 2014 / Col. / 115' autobiography of a jail superintendent. Raghavan was jailed for a double homicide, which he claims he never committed. Still, he prefers to be in jail rather than living Producer: a social life. Anjali grows curious about Raghavan, and writes a feature based on him in a magazine. The news article receives national attention, and Anjali receives an offer from a leading publishing agency to write a book on the untold story of Screenplay: Raghavan. Unni R. Cinematographer: Venu

Editor:

Music: Bijubal

Cast: , Aparna Gopinath, , , Joy Mathew, Prathap Pothan, , Sreeraman, Sudheesh, Saiju Kurup

Production Company: Gold Coin Motion Picture Company

Venu is an Indian cinematographer and film director in Indian Cinema. Venu graduated in cinematography from the FTII, Pune. He has won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography thrice, in 1987 for “ and Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal”, in 1993 for “Miss Beatty's Children”, and in 1994 for “Ponthan Mada”. He is one of the founding members of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC). His debut directorial venture "Daya" won the State Film Award for the Best Debut Director in 1998.

Filmography: Daya (1998)

39 THE PUNISHMENT Yashwant Intl. KUTTRAM KADITHAL Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The movie explores an interesting spectrum of lifestyles and how one unexpected Director: Bramma G. incident influences people from diverse lifestyles. This is a story of 24 hours of a Tamil / 2014 / Col. / 120,' young female teacher who married against the wish of her family, tries to start a new life with the beloved engineer. The inter-religion wedding had a less support, Producer: though the issue turns to be something else. J. Sathish Kumar, Christy Siluvappan

Screenplay: Bramma G.

Cinematographer: S. Manikandan

Editor: C.S. Prem

Music: Shankar Rengarajan

Cast: Sai Rajkumar, Radhika Prasidhha, Kulothungan Udayakumar, Pavel Navageethan, Durga, Master Ajay

Production Company: Chris Pictures, JSK Film

Bramma.G is a theatre personality who has written and directed many plays in English and Tamil for more than 12 years, across . He has directed PSAs, short films and documentaries and hails from a social work and communication background.

40 NJAAN Yashwant Intl. NJAAN Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Njaan narrates the story of a man torn to shreds, as he tries to come to terms with Director: Ranjith the internal strife buried deep within himself. Devastated, he makes a silent exit Malayalam / 2014 / Col. / 160' from the world, leaving behind a trail of perplexity that has a young blogger, Chandrashekhar all enthused Producer: Ranjith

Screenplay: Ranjith

Cinematographer: Manoj Pillai

Editor: Sandeep Nandakumar

Music: Bijibal

Cast: Dulquer Salmaan, , Saiju Kurup, Renji Panicker, Anumol, Harish Perady

Production Company: Gold Coin Motion Pictures

Ranjith Balakrishnan (Born 4 September, 1964) is an Indian film director, screen writer, producer and actor known for his work in . In his career spanning over two decades, he has scripted several commercially successful films. In the year 2001, Ranjith made his directorial debut with “Ravanaprabhu”, a sequel to “Devaasuram”. His directorial ventures “Thirakkatha” and “Indian Rupee” won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 2008 and 2011 respectively.

Filmography: Raavanaprabhu (2001), Thirakkatha (2008), Kerala Café (2009), Indian Rupee (2011), Spirit (2012), Kadal Kadannoru Mathukkutty (2013)

41 SWAPAANAM Yashwant Intl. SWAPAANAM Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The rhythm of life, even for a master drummer, is at the same moment disrupted Director: Shaji N. Karun and harmonized by the love, passion, jealousy, hate and spite of those around. Malyalam / 2013 / Col. / 152' Unni, unequaled in the art of playing the Chenda, and Nalini, peerless in Mohiniyattam, are drawn to each other by an affection that transcends the Producer: devotion to their arts and the love for each other. The pulse of their passion cannot M. Rajan hold up against the tumults of Unni's life. A brother and a father figure, whose love Screenplay: sours to jealousy and hate, a wife who despises his drumming and a mother from Harikrishnan, Sajeev Pazhoor whom the truth about his birth is not forthcoming all hasten the tempo of a mental imbalance rooted in Unni's childhood to an inevitable dark end. Cinematographer: Saji Nair

Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad

Music: Sreevalsan J. Menon

Cast: Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, , Kadambari, , Vineeth

Production company: Horizon Enterteinment

Shaji N. Karun (Born on 1 January, 1952) is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film “” (1988) won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 . He was the premier Chairman of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, the first academy for film and TV in India and was also the Executive Chairman of the IFF of Kerala from 1998 to 2001. He is best known for his award winning films “Piravi” (1989), “” (1999) and “Kutty Srank” (2009).

Filmography: Kutty Srank: The Sailor of Hearts (2009), Octave (2002), Pilgrimage (1999), (1994), Piravi (1988), Lady of the Landing (1974) (Short)

42 MARATHI CINEMA 1000 RUPEE NOTE Yashwant Intl. EK HAZARACHI NOTE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Budhi is a widow from a village in the Vidarbha district who has lost her husband Director: Shrihari Sathe and son to farming-related debts. She has a set routine: she wakes up in the Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 100' morning, spends a few rupees on a daily breakfast of jaggery-laced tea and bread, earns her living as a maid, and spends time with Sudama, who lives in the shack Producer: next to hers. The munificence of a visiting politician breaks the pattern of forced Shrihari Sathe minimalism. Budhi now has more liquidity than before, not enough to lift her out of poverty, but enough to be able to change the broken glass in her spectacles and Screenplay: afford a new frame for her beloved son's portrait and clothes for Sudama's family. Shrikant Bojewar Budhi and Sudama set out to the local market for a shopping expedition, setting Cinematographer: into motion an unexpected series of events. Ming Kai Leung

Editor: Shrihari Sathe

Music: Shailendra Barve

Cast: Devendra Gaikwad, Usha Naik, Pooja Nayak, Sandeep Pathak, Ganesh Yadav, Festivals / Awards: Shrikant Yadav IFF of India: Special Jury Award, Centenary Award for Best Film (2014), Mill Valley FF (2014) Production Company: Infinitum Productions C-10 Dattaguru, Deonar village road, Deonar, Mumbai-88

Shrihari Sathe was a Born and raised in Mumbai, Shrihari Sathe received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he majored in Film and Video Studies (High Honors), and Global Media and Culture. He has received fellowships from the HFPA, PGA, IFP, Film Independent, Sundance Institute to name a few. In 2009 Sathe received the Entertainment Partners' Best Producer Award at the Columbia University Film Festival. He has an MFA-Film Degree from Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York. He is a visiting faculty member at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Sathe was selected to attend the 2011 Film Independent Producer's Lab with the feature project “Man With Van”. He has become a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow in 2013.

Filmography: Fragments (2005) (short) 44 OBSTACLE Yashwant Intl. KHWADA Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: For a hope of getting back his acquired land from Forest, after fighting a case for Director: Bhaurao Karhade 10 years Raghu karhe age 55, along with wife, 2 sons and grandson are on their Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 115' way for grazing their sheeps. They meet a relative Gulaba Handal age 45 who proposes his daughter for balu's starts dreaming for his marriage. Producer: Vithalrao Karhade, Bhaurao Karhade

Screenplay: Bhaurao Karhade

Cinematographer: Veerdhawal Patil

Editor: Rohan Patil

Music: Rohit Nagbhide

Cast: Bhausaheb Shinde, Shashank Shende, Surekha, Nagarkar, Chandrakant Dhumal, Hemant Kadam

Production Company: Chitraksha Films

World Sales Address: Flat no-6, Muktai Niwas , Sant Tukaram Nagar, Kranti Chowk, New Sangvi, Pune - 411027

Bhaurao Karhade has been making films since 2009. His short films have won several national and international awards. “Khwada” is his debut feature made in 2014.

45 SALUTE Yashwant Intl. SALAAM Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Raghu's father works with the Police department, while Sada's father works with Director: Kiran Yadnyopavit the . Raghu and Sada are best of friends but with an innocent feeble Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 120' sense of rivalry. There is a constant ego clash about the superiority of the army over the police and whose father is more brave. The Principal of their school Producer: appeals for a fund raising programme, to support eligible students who are Dr. Gaurav Somani, Somani, Anand deprived of education due to their financial situation. He also announces a special Somani medal for the highest fund collector. Raghu and Sada set out on this mission with Screenplay: rage. This journey takes them through various upswings and enriching Kiran Yadnyopavit experiences. As the tussle for the special medal heats up, the entire village is Cinematographer: shaken because of an unexpected incident. Abhijit D. Abde

Editor: Suchitra Sathe

Music: Rahul Ranade

Cast: , Aatisha Naik, Chabukswar, Sanjay Khapre, Savita Prabhune, Abhishek Festivals / Awards: Online Film & Television Association: Motion Picture Award (2011), New York Film Critics Production company: Circle Awards: Best Foreign Language Film (1939), National Board of Review, USA: Best Calyx Media & Entertainment Foreign Film (1938), Venice FF: Best Overall Artistic Contribution (1937)

Kiran Arun Yadnyopavit is a Chemistry graduate from Nowrosjee Wadia College and a post graduate in advertising from Symbiosis, Pune. He is well known as a writer, director and actor in . He has won several awards for his plays “Malabha”' “Mitradwaya”, “Manomilan”, “Aparadhi Sugandh” etc. and still remains active on stage. He started his film carreer as a writer. In 2005 he wrote his first commercial feature film. His second written film “Sukhant” was critically acclaimed and won a prestigious State award. “Taryanche Bait” was his debut film as a director. This film gave him wide recognition and also won numerous awards. “Salaam” is his second feature film as a writer - director. The film was critically acclaimed giving him mileage across all audiences.

Filmography: Resonant Notes (2012), Taryanche Bait (2011), 46 DELUSION Yashwant Intl. AABHAS Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: "Aabhas" in literal sense is "Semblance", what you see is just one form but in Director: Gajanan N. Kulkarni reality it's different. It is a one night suspense thriller revolves around a popular Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 117' writer (Ankush Chaudhari) who happened to be landed in kind of a prodigious village as he receives letters of weird incidences from an unknown but helpless girl Producer: of that village. The story unfolds as he goes through many astonishing events Deepali G. throughout night. People from the village believe that there is a witch in village and Screenplay: she would kill every "man" who is getting married. One night journey of a writer, Gajanan N. Kulkarni would help him revealing the truth? Watch it in "Aabhas". Cinematographer: Shekhar Anna Iyer

Editor: Santosh Jivangikar

Music: Shaikh Kasim

Cast: Ankush Choudhary, Deepali G, Milind Shinde, Suhas Palshikar, Gajanan Kulkarni, Aniket Deshmukh, Abhay Kulkarni

Production company: Shree siddh Imagination B/21, Aditya Garden Floraa, Back to RMD Sinhagad Campus, Warje, Pune : 411058

Gajanan Kulkarni started his film career as a writer, director and actor for his debut short film “The Soul”. It was selected in IFF at Chicago. This film was also honored at different FF. He has written and directed number of shorts and documentaries. Along With the films he is very active in the theater field for which he has been recognized by govt. of Maharashtra for Marathi play like “ADHANTAR”, “DIVYA” as a writer and director. He got inspired after directing his story “BHAS”(ILLUSION) to go ahead and Create full length Feature film “ABHAS' (DELUSION) which turned out to be his debut film for direction.

Filmography: Bhas (2010) (short), Cigarrate (2008) (short), Ice-Cream (2007) (short), The Soul (2007) (short) 47 WAR AGAINST WAR THE WOODS ARE STILL GREEN Yashwant Intl. DIE WÄLDER SIND NOCH GRÜN Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: A group of Austrian-Hungarian soldiers hold an artillery post in the mountains on Director: Marko Nabersnik the southern front to Italy during . The group is cut off from their own German / 2014 / Col. / 107' troops and under heavy artillery fire from the Italian side. When the post receives a fatal direct hit from a shell, killing the comrades, Private Jacob Lindner and the Producer: seriously injured Captain Jan Kopetzky are the only survivors of the post. Jakob Robert Hofferer has to suffer the madness of this hellish war in all its human atrocities. Without care, help from the command, food and water, to survive becomes an existential Screenplay: challenge. The young soldier tries desperately with humanity and dignity to save Robert Hofferer, Marko Nabersnik his and the injured Captain's life. Cinematographer: Milos Srdic

Editor: Jan Lovse

Music: Michael Wollny

Cast: Kristian Hodko, Michael Kristof, Clemens Aap Lindenberg Festivals / Awards: Cottbus FF of Young East European Cinema (2014), Shanghai IFF (2014), Cinedays Festival Production Company: of European Film (2014), Rendevous Istanbul IFF (2014) Miha Ferkov

After graduating from high school in Maribor, Marko Naberšnik took up studies at the Faculty of Economics. In 1996 he attended one semester at the New York Film Academy, where he shot his first short film “The Beginning”. With the help of this film he began his studies at the Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. In 2000 his short film “With Love” received the University Prešern's Award and his film “Pavle” was awarded the Vesna, the award for the best student film at the 5th Film Festival in Portorož. His film “Rooster's Breakfast” was the Sloveninan contribution for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscar in 2008. For “Shanghai Gypsy” he won the Award for the Best Screenplay at Montreal World Film Festival 2012.

Filmography: Shanghai Gypsy (2012), Rooster's Breakfast (2007), Pavle (2001) (Short), Z ljubeznijo (2000) (Short) 49 GLOBAL WARNING Yashwant Intl. GLOBAL WARNING Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Ernst Gossner Why are societies predisposed to war? And why are completely unrelated wars German, English / 2011 / fatally similar in their making? These questions are on Global Warning's agenda as Col. / 43' director Ernst Gossner inquires into his native Tirol's own last war - the war between Austria and Italy on top of Tirol's mountains a hundred years ago. What Producer: at first seems like just one more episode of WWI slowly reveals its relevance Robert Narholz, Ernst Gossner towards present events, and the grand tragedy of war in general. Screenplay: Robert Narholz, Ernst Gossner

Cinematographer: Richard Marcus

Editor: Robert Narholz

Music: Gregor Narholz

Cast: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George W. Bush, Kaiser Franz Josef I., Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip Festivals / Awards: IFF Innsbruck (IFFI) Production Company: Lena Film, Vent Productions

World Sales Address: Vent Productions Inc., Theresianumgasse 10, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Ernst Gossner (born 1st of July 1967 in Tirol, Austria) graduated from Business School in 1992. Within seven years Ernst acted in more than 50 plays in Austria, Germany and Italy. Simultaneously he wrote and directed his first short film and was accepted to the American Film Institute's Director's Programme. His thesis film BAR TIME won several awards and was released on the star-studded CELEBRATING AFI DVD and sold to networks all over the world. Ernst founded his company Vent Productions/Los Angeles in 2003 and his first feature film SOUTH OF PICO garnered several international awards in 2007. 2011 marked the release of Ernst's first documentary GLOBAL WARNING - a journey into war. Ernst currently lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles.

Filmography: South of Pico (2007), Otto+Anna (2003) (Short), Bartime (2002) (Short), Parzival (2002), The Point (2001) (Short), Bender (2000) (Short) 50 THE SILENT MOUNTAIN Yashwant Intl. DER STILLE BERG Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Ernst Gossner Dolomite Mountains, Austria 1915: At his sister's wedding, Andreas (19) German, Italian, English / discovers the opposite sex for the first time. Her name is Francesca, a 17-year-old 2014 / Col. / 100' Italian girl. But the young love has no time to blossom. The very next day Andreas is sent off to new front lines in the mountains. Italy has declared war against Producer: Austria. World War I turns the Dolomite Mountains into one of the most bizarre Heinz Stussak, Ernst Gossner battlefields in the history of mankind. The war in the Alps tears apart families and Screenplay: turns neighbors into enemies. But the tougher the war, the stronger their love binds Clemens, Aufderklamm Andreas and Francesca. Cinematographer: Daniela Knapp

Editor: Janine Dauterich, Florian Miosge, Evi Romen

Music: Gregor Narholz

Cast: William Moseley, Eugenia Costantini, Claudia Cardinale, Werner Daehn, Corrado Invernizzi, Fritz Karl Production company: Festivals / Awards: Production Company: Sigma Film, Vent Trento FF (oldest mountain FF in the world), Taormina FF, Dutch Mountain FF, International Productions, Bilgeri Film Productions Mountain FF Graz World Sales Address: Premiere Entertainment Group 17049 Ventura Blvd. Encino, CA 91316 – USA

Ernst Gossner (born 1st of July 1967 in Tirol, Austria) graduated from Business School in 1992. Within seven years Ernst acted in more than 50 plays in Austria, Germany and Italy. Simultaneously he wrote and directed his first short film and was accepted to the American Film Institute's Director's Programme. His thesis film BAR TIME won several awards and was released on the star-studded CELEBRATING AFI DVD and sold to networks all over the world. Ernst founded his company Vent Productions/Los Angeles in 2003 and his first feature film SOUTH OF PICO garnered several international awards in 2007. 2011 marked the release of Ernst's first documentary GLOBAL WARNING - a journey into war. Ernst currently lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles.

Filmography: South of Pico (2007), Otto+Anna (2003) (Short), Bartime (2002) (Short), Parzival (2002), The Point (2001) (Short), Bender (2000) (Short) 51 LACRIME DELLE DOLOMITI DI SESTO Yashwant Intl. TRÄNEN DER SEXTNER DOLOMITEN Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: In 1915, Franz, the young son of peasants, is conscripted and sent to the front of Director: Hubert Schönegger the . Since the looming war against Italy, the atmosphere in the country German / 2014 / Col. / 143' is like a powder keg ready to explode. Peter is a friend of Anna. For him it is clear, he loves Anna and wants to marry her. But Anna is not sure. She is the daughter of a Producer: doctor and is soon to become a nurse herself. Except that the eyes of Anna fall Hubert Schönegger right on Franz. The two competitors Peter and Franz now become bitter enemies. Screenplay: When war breaks out, however, Peter and Franz find themselves in the same unit in Peter Dollinger, Hubert Schönegger the role of defenders of their homeland. Faced by the Italian Alpini, an elite unit Cinematographer: specialized in mountain warfare, they are totally at the mercy of nature, which is Hubert Schonegger, Alexander Zeidler, Martin ruthless in both good and bad times. Schonegger Editor: Hubert Schönegger

Music: Hansjorg Mutschlechner

Cast: Thomas Prenn, Florian Sumerauer, Jasmin Barbara Mairhofer, Gedeon Burkhard, Christiane Filangieri, Ricardo Angelini, Anton Algrang, Oliver Pezzi, Martin Perdatscher

Production company: Geosfilm World Sales Address:Hubert Schönegger, Geosfilm, Firchatstr. 20, I-39038 Winnebach/Innichen, Italy

Hubert Schönegger is a filmmaker from South . “Tränen der Sextner Dolomiten” is his first feature film about World War in the Dolomites. The film has been produced in German and Italian and was released in the fall of 2014.

52 KALEIDOSCOPE AVALON Yashwant Intl. AVALON Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Axel Petersén Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the 2012 / Col. / 79' annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people around him, he Producer: Jesper Kurlandsky, Erika desperately seeks a way out. Wasserman

Screenplay: Axel Petersén

Cinematographer: Måns Månsson

Editor: Theis Schmidt

Music: Festivals / Awards: Julian Hruza Guldbagge Awards: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor (2013), Cast: Toronto IFF: FIPRESCI International Critics' Award (2011) , Peter Carlberg, Léonore Ekstrand, Charlotte Wandt

Axel Petersén (Born 1979), is a Swedish visual artist and filmmaker. His numerous short films and video installations have been shown widely in art and film contexts and his first feature film “Avalon” (2011) - which he both wrote and directed - premiered in 2011 at the Toronto FF where it became the first Swedish film to be awarded with the Critics Award for 'Best Debut'. Furthermore, Avalon received four nominations at The Official Swedish Film Awards where it went on to win two Guldbagge Awards and continued to be praised at the 2012 Båstad FF, where Axel was assigned The Bo Widerberg Scholarship for his work. Currently Axel is working on his next feature “Under the Pyramid”. 54 BEHIND BLUE SKIES Yashwant Intl. HIMLEN ÄR OSKYLDIGT BLÅ Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: It's 1975, and Martin is a teenager looking to break out of a stifling home Director: Hannes Holm environment ruled by his alcoholic father and long-suffering mother. When 2010 / Col. / 110' Martin's pal Micke suggests they get jobs together as waiters at a resort off the Swedish coast, Martin is all for it, but before long Micke finds better things to do Producer: and Martin is left on his own. Martin joins the resort, where the presence of pretty Patrick Ryborn fellow server Jenny is a major consolation. Soon though, Martin is chosen to become the protégé of Gösta, the resort's short-tempered manager. Gösta clearly Screenplay: likes Martin and makes him his right hand man, which gives Martin a crash course Hannes Holm in the seedy side of life when he discovers Gösta has a number of other business Cinematographer: interests, not all of which are legal or ethical. Göran Hallberg

Editor: Fredrik Morheden

Music: Mattias Bärjed

Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Peter Dalle, Josefin Ljungman, Amanda Ooms

Production Company: Fladen Film, Swedish Television, Nordisk Film, Filmpool Stockholm Mälardalen

Hannes Holm was born on November 26, 1962. He is a director and writer, known for “Adam & Eva” (1997), “Behind Blue Skies” (2010) and “The Reunion” (2002).

Filmography: En man som heter Ove (2015), The Anderssons Hit the Road (2013), The Anderssons in Greece (2012), Wonderful and Loved by All (2007), (2006), The Reunion (2002), Shit Happens (2000)

55 PALME Yashwant Intl. PALME Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: Kristina Lindström, On Friday evening, February 28, 1986 Olof Palme was shot dead in the street. The Maud Nycander day after, the news reached out to the people that the country's Prime Minister 2012 / Col. / 103' was dead, and the whole country found itself suddenly shocked. The film is a biographical portrait of the former Prime Minister Olof Palme, and covers his life Producer: from childhood to the role as a leading figure of Swedish politics. Fredrik Heinig, Mattias Nohrborg

Screenplay: Kristina Lindström, Maud Nycander

Cinematographer: Magnus Berg, Anders Bohman

Editor: Nils Pagh Andersen, Andreas Jonsson, Hanna Lejonqvist

Music:

Cast: Olof Palme, Catharina Palme, Lisbet Palme, Richard Guston, Olof Ruin

Festivals / Awards: Production company: Guldbagge Awards: Best Editing, Best Music (2013) B-Reel Feature Films, Danmarks Radio (DR), Det Danske Filminstitut, Manden med Cameraet, Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond, Pan Vision, St Paul Film, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), (SVT)

Kristina Lindström was born in 1957 in Sundbyberg, in Sweden. A writer, journalist and filmmaker, she was trained at the School of Journalism in Gothenburg from 1977 to 1979. She has worked at the Daily News and has been a producer at Swedish Radio's community editorial board from 1984 to 1994. Maud Nycander: She was born in 1960. She started her career as a still photographer and did several photo exhibitions and photo books. In the middle of the 90's she started to work in film and television. She collaborated with Kristina Lindström as a reporter on the series “Elbyl” and “Kobra”.

Filmography: Maud Nycander: Nunnan (2007) 56 THE LAST SENTENCE Yashwant Intl. DOM ÖVER DÖD MAN Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The film focuses on the life and career of Torgny Segerstedt, a Swedish newspaper Director: editor who was a prominent critic of Hitler and the Nazis during a period when the 2012 / B&W / 120' Swedish government and the monarch were intent on maintaining Sweden's neutrality to avoid tensions with Germany. The film also deals with Segerstedt's Producer: personal life including his relations with his wife, his mistress, and his mistress's Francy Suntinger husband. Screenplay: Klaus Rifbjerg, Jan Troell

Cinematographer: Mischa Gavrjusjov

Editor: Ulrika Rang, Jan Troell

Music: Gaute Storaas

Cast: Jesper Christensen, , Ulla Skoog, Björn Granath, Kenneth Milldoff, Lennart Hjulström

Festivals / Awards: Production company: Chicago IFF (2012), Guldbagge Awards (2013), Montréal World FF (2012) Filmlance International AB

Jan Troell was born on 23rd July, 1931. He is a famed Swedish film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography. His realistic films, with a lyrical style of photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him amongst the great modern Swedish film directors along with and Bo Widerberg. Troell has also made documentaries, including “Land of Dreams” (Sagolandet, 1988), which deals with modern society's alienation from nature and “A Frozen Dream” (En frusen dröm, 1997) in which he brings up explorer Salomon Andrée's polar expedition.

Filmography: Med mitt mått mätt - en ökenvandring (2010) (Short), (2008), Reflexion 2001 (2002) (Short), As White as in Snow (2001), Hamsun (1996), Il capitano (1991), The (1982) 57 FRENCH GRAND CLASSICS THE BIG DAY Yashwant Intl. JOUR DE FÊTE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily distracted French mailman who Director: frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as France / 1949 / B&W / 70' inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the Producer: United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of Michael Chauvin, Fred Oren, Andre Paule, mail while aboard his bicycle. Pierre Tati

Screenplay: Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, Rene Wheeler

Cinematographer: Jacques Mercanton, Jacques Sauvageat

Editor: Marcel Morreau, Sophie Tatischeff.

Music: Jean Yatove

Cast: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Festivals / Awards: Santa Relli, Maine Vallee, Robert Balpo Venice FF: Best Screenplay (1949) Production Company: Cady Films, Panoramic Films

Jacques Tati was born on 9 October 1907 in Le Pecq, Yvelines, France. He was a French filmmaker who also worked as a comic actor, writer, and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors, Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time. With only six feature-length films to his credit as director, he directed fewer films than any other director in the list.

Filmography: (1971), (1967), (1958), Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953), The School for Postmen (Short) (1947), Gai dimanche (Short) (1935)

59 GOLDEN MARIE Yashwant Intl. CASQUE D'OR Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: When Georges Manda and Marie meet at an outdoor tavern in the countryside near Director: Jacques Becker Paris, they are immediately drawn to each other. He is a reformed criminal now France / 1952 / B&W / 94' working as a carpenter; she is currently the moll of Roland, a member of Felix Leca's criminal gang. Manda and Roland stage a knife fight over her, resulting in Producer: Roland's death. Manda and Marie flee to the countryside, where they spend an all- Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim, Andre too-brief night of bliss. However, Leca himself has designs on Marie and contrives Paule to have Manda's old friend Raymond framed for the murder. Manda turns himself in to save Raymond from the guillotine, but later escapes to exact revenge against Screenplay: Jacques Becker, Jacques Companeez, Leca. Annette Wademant

Cinematographer: Robert Lefebvre

Editor: Marguerite Renoir

Music: Geoges Van Parys

Cast: Festivals / Awards: Simon Sigronet, Serge Reggiani, Claude Italian National Syndicate Of Film Journalists: Best Foreign Film (1956), BAFTA Film Dauphin, Raymond Bussierries, Odette Awards: Best Foreign Actress (1953) Barencey, Loleh Bellon.

Production Company: Robert et Raymond Hakim

Jacques Becker (1906 - 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during his peak period, which produced such cinematic masterpieces as “La Grande Illusion” and “The Rules of the Game”. He later went on to become a director in his own right and directed the brilliant period romance “Casque d'or”, the influential gangster film “Touchez pas au grisbi”, and the prison escape drama “Le Trou”. Long underrated, Becker is now regarded as one of the masters of French cinema.

Filmography: Le Trou (1960), Modigliani of Montparnasse (1958), Ali Baba And The Forty Theives (1954), Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954), Rue de l'Estrapade (1953), Edward and Caroline (1951), Rendezvous in July (1949) 60 THE GRAND ILLUSION Yashwant Intl. LA GRANDE ILLUSION Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: La Grande Illusion follows French prisoners of war in two German camps during Director: Jean Renoir World War I. The core group of officers includes the working-class Maréchal, the France / 1937 / B&W / 114' aristocrat De Boeldieu, the wealthy Jewish bourgeois Rosenthal and the comic music-hall actor Cartier. Their attempt to tunnel out of the first camp is foiled at Producer: the last moment by a transfer to the forbidding fortress of Wintersborn where they Albert Pinkovitch, Frank Rollmer once again meet the German officer glimpsed in the film's prologue, Captain von Screenplay: Rauffenstein. From there, thanks to the sacrifice of de Boeldieu, Maréchal and Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir Rosenthal finally escape. After being rescued by German widow Elsa, they eventually make it across the border to Switzerland. Cinematographer: Christian Matras

Editor: Marthe Huguet, Renée Lichtig, Marguerite Renoir

Music: Joseph Kosma

Cast: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette, Georges Péclet

Festivals / Awards: Production company: Online Film & Television Association: Motion Picture Award (2011), New York Film Critics Réalisation d'art cinématographique (RAC) Circle Awards: Best Foreign Language Film (1939), National Board of Review, USA: Best Foreign Film (1938), Venice FF: Best Overall Artistic Contribution (1937)

Jean Renoir (1894 -1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films “Grand Illusion” (1937) and “The Rules of the Game” (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Renoir, My Father” (1962). Jean Renoir was ranked by the BFI's Sight and Sound poll of critics as the fourth greatest director of all time.

Filmography: Le Caporal épinglé (1962), Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959), Elena et les hommes (1956), French Cancan (1955), Le Carrosse d'or (1952), The River (1951), Una Mujer en la Playa (1947) 61 CHILDREN OF PARADISE Yashwant Intl. LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Children of Paradise is set in the theatrical world of Paris during the July Monarchy Director: Marcel Carné (1830–48), centred on the area around the Funambules theatre, situated on the France / 1945 / B&W / 190' Boulevard du Temple. The film revolves around a beautiful and charismatic courtesan, Garance. Four men, the mime Baptiste Debureau, the actor Frédérick Producer: Lemaître, the thief Pierre François Lacenaire, and the aristocrat Édouard de Raymond Borderie, Adrien Remaugé Montray, are in love with Garance, and their intrigue drives the story forward. Garance is briefly intrigued/involved with them all, but leaves them when they Screenplay: Jacques Prévert attempt to force her to love them on their terms, rather than her own. Cinematographer: Roger Hubert

Editor: Henri Rust, Madeleine Bonin

Music: Maurice Thiriet

Cast: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares, Gaston Modot, Fabien Loris

Festivals / Awards: Production company: Online Film & Television Association: Best Motion Picture (2010), Venice FF: International Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma Critics Award (1946)

Marcel Carné was born on 18 August 1906 in Paris, France. The son of a cabinet maker, Carné entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder. At the age of 25 he directed his first movie “Jenny” (1936). Collaborating with writer Jacques Prévert, production designer Alexandre Trauner, musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and actor Jean Gabin he became the great director of the pre-war era of French cinema with his poetic realism style. During the occupation of France by Nazi-Germany he worked in the Vichy zone where he subverted the regime's attempts to control art by making “Children of Paradise” (1945), a clear anti- nazi parabola and an all time classic of French cinema.

Filmography: The Marvelous Visit (1974), Law Breakers (1971), Young Wolves (1968), Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965), Chicken Feed for Little Birds (1963), Wasteland (1960), Youthful Sinners (1958) 62 THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG Yashwant Intl. LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Sixteen year old Geneviève, who works in her widowed mother's umbrella shop Director: Jacques Demy called 'Les parapluies de Cherbourg', and twenty year old Guy, who works as a France / 1964 / Col. / 91' mechanic at a gas station, are madly in love and want to get married. They are reluctant to tell anyone not only of their want to get married, but of their Producer: relationship. Geneviève believes her mother will think she is too young and would Mag Bodard want her to marry someone with better prospects, especially considering her own Screenplay: tenuous financial situation. And Guy is more concerned about not abandoning his Jacques Demy ailing godmother, Aunt Élise, who raised him, and who he looks after along with a young woman named Madeleine. Cinematographer: Jean Rabier

Editor: Anne-Marie Cotret,Monique Teisseire

Music: Michel Legrand

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon

Production Company: Festivals / Awards: Parc Film, Madeleine Films, Beta Film Cannes FF: OCIC Award, Palme d'Or, Technical Grand Prize (1964), French Syndicate of Cinema Critics: Best Film (1965), Prix Louis Delluc: Winner (1963)

Jacques Demy was born on June 5, 1931 in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a director and writer, known for “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (1964), “The Young Girls of Rochefort” (1967) and “Lola” (1961). He was married to Agnès Varda. He died on October 27, 1990 in Paris, France.

Filmography: Three Seats for the 26th (1988), Parking (1985), Une chambre en ville (1982), Lady Oscar (1979), A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973), The Pied Piper (1972), Donkey Skin (1970)

63 THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE.. Yashwant Intl. MADAME DE... Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess, Director: Max Ophuls Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off France / 1953 / B&W / 105' debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the Producer: earrings, the general, the countess and her new lover, the Italian Baron, Donati. Ralph Baum

Screenplay: Louise De Velmorin, Marcel Achard, Max Ophuls, Annette Wadement

Cinematographer: Christian Matras

Editor: Borys Lewin

Music: Oscar Straus, Georges Van Parys

Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mirreille Perrey

Production Company: Franco London Films, Indusfilms, Rizzoli Films

Max Ophüls was born in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the 20's. In the early 1930's Ophüls began to work as an assistant director for Anatole Litvak. He directed his first movie “I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil” (1931) followed by “The Company's in Love” (1932). Around 1933 he emigrated to France and also worked in the Netherlands and Italy. In 1941 he emigrated again, this time to the USA where he worked for a period of 10 years before he went back to France in 1950. Beginning in 1954 he also worked in Germany again, mainly for German radio in Baden-Baden. Max Ophüls died in 1957 in Hamburg, Germany and is buried at the famous cemetery Père-Lachaise in Paris, France. . Filmography: Lola Montès (1955), Le Plaisir (1952), La Ronde (1950) , The Reckless Moment (1949), Caught (1949), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Exile (1947) 64 PÉPÉ LE MOKO Yashwant Intl. PÉPÉ LE MOKO Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Pépé le Moko, a criminal on the run from the police in metropolitan France, hides in Director: Julien Duvivier the Casbah quarter of Algiers, where he is out of reach of the local police. France / 1937 / B&W / 94' Inspector Slimane seeks a way to lure Pépé out of his refuge. He sees his chance when he learns that Pépé is in love with Gaby, the mistress of a rich businessman. Producer: Slimane uses Gaby to lure Pépé out of hiding. When Pépé is informed that Gaby is Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim about to leave Algiers for good, he leaves the Casbah to set out to find her. Screenplay: Henri Jeanson,Henri la Barthe

Cinematographer: Marc Fossard,Jules Kruger

Editor: Marguerite Beaugé

Music: Vincent Scotto

Cast: Jean Gabin,Gabriel Gabrio,Saturnin Fabre,Fernand Charpin,Lucas Gridoux

Production company: Festivals / Awards: Paris Film National Board of Review, USA: Best Foreign Film (1941), Kinema Junpo Awards: Best Foreign Language Film (1940)

Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), Lille, France), began his film career as an assistant director and an occasional script writer. Neither his first film, “Haceldama” (1919), nor the 20 other features he directed during the 1920s gained him much of a following, but with “Au bonheur des dames” (1929), Duvivier began a series of films that made his reputation. In 1938 Duvivier was invited to Hollywood to direct “The Great Waltz”. During World War II Duvivier returned to the United States, where he directed several famous films. Returning to Europe after the war, Duvivier directed a number of successful films such as the British “Anna Karenina” (1948), “Sous le ciel de Paris” (1950), “Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo” (1951), and “Diaboliquement Vôtre” (1967).

Filmography: Diaboliquement vôtre (1967), Chair de poule (1963), The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962), The Burning Court (1962), Boulevard (1960), The High Life (1960), Marie-Octobre (1959) 65 PICKPOCKET Yashwant Intl. PICKPOCKET Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby and is arrested almost immediately, Director: giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of the crime. After his release, he France / 1959 / B&W / 75' rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques and decides to return to pick pocketing (after taking lessons from an expert) because he realizes that it's the Producer: only way he can express himself. Agnès Delahaie Screenplay: Robert Bresson Cinematographer: Léonce-Henri Burel Editor: Raymond Lamy Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri

World Sales: Guildhall Pictures Harewood Drive 3 East Anglia Pe30 2bs Kings Lynn United Kingdom

Robert Bresson (1901 - 1999) was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic and aesthetic style. He contributed notably to the art of film and influenced the . He is often referred to as the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir. Initially also a photographer, Bresson made his first short film, “” (Public Affairs) in 1934. During World War II, he spent over a year in a prisoner-of-war camp - an experience which informs “Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut” (). In a career that spanned fifty years, Bresson made only 13 feature- length films. This reflects his meticulous approach to the filmmaking process and his non- commercial preoccupations.

Filmography: L'argent (1983), The Devil, Probably (1977), Lancelot of the Lake (1974), (1971), (1969), (1967), (1966) 66 THE MADMAN Yashwant Intl. PIERROT LE FOU Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, Director: Jean-Luc Godard his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeoisie behind. Yet this is no French / 1965 / Col. / 110' normal road trip. Producer: Georges de Beauregard

Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard, Lionel White

Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard

Editor: Françoise Collin

Music: Antoine Duhamel

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani Festivals / Awards: British Film Institute Awards (1965) Production company: Films Georges de Beauregard, Rome Paris Films, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris, France, on December 3, 1930, Jean-Luc Godard is one of the central filmmakers of the French New Wave movement of the 1960s. Like his contemporaries François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer, Godard reworked the conventions of Hollywood movies and brought new energy and irreverence to film. His romance-crime movie “Breathless” (1959) is one of the most influential movies of its era.

Filmography: Vivre Sa Vie Vivre Sa Vie (1962) , Breathless (1960), Alphaville Alphaville (1965)

67 THE 400 BLOWS Yashwant Intl. LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14 year-old returns at the Director: François Truffaut end of every day to a drab and unhappy home life. His parents have little money and France / 1959 / B&W / 99' he sleeps on a couch that's been pushed into the kitchen. He knows his mother is having an affair and his parents bicker constantly. He decides to skip school and Producer: begins a downward spiral of lies and later stealing. His parents are at their wits François Truffaut end and after he's stopped by the police, they decide the best thing to do would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He's sent to a juvenile detention facility Screenplay: where he doesn't do much better. He does manage to escape however. Marcel Moussy, François Truffaut Cinematographer: Henri Decaë

Editor: Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte

Music: Jean Constantin

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble Festivals / Awards: Online Film & Television Association: Best Motion Picture (2005), Sant Jordi Awards: Best Production Company: Les Films du Carrosse, Sédif Productions Foreign Director (1961), French Syndicate of Cinema Critics: Best Film (1960), New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Foreign Language Film (1959), Cannes Film Festival: Best Director, OCIC Award (1959)

François Truffaut started his own film club in 1948, François Truffaut met André Bazin, who would have a great effect on his professional and personal life. After deserting the army Truffaut joined Bazins newly formed film magazine 'Cahiers du cinéma'. After having been a critic, Truffaut decided to make films of his own. He started out with the short film “” in 1955 and followed that up with “” in 1957. His feature film debut “The 400 Blows” came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films.

Filmography: Confidentially Yours (1983), (1981), (1980), Love on the Run (1979), The Green Room (1978), The Man Who Loved Women (1977), Small Change (1976) 68 ZERO FOR CONDUCT Yashwant Intl. ZÉRO DE CONDUITE Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Four rebellious young boys at a repressive French boarding school plot and execute Director: Jean Vigo a revolt against their teachers and take over the school. France / 1933 / B&W / 41'

Producer: Jacques-Louis Nounez

Screenplay: Jean Vigo

Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman

Editor: Jean Vigo

Music: Jean Constantin

Cast: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Louis Lefebvre Festivals / Awards: Beverly Hills FF: Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award (2011) Production Company: Franfilmdis, Argui-Film

Jean Vigo was born on April 26, 1905, in Paris, France, to anarchist parents, Jean Vigo became a filmmaker, releasing the visually arresting short “À Propos de Nice” before creating the longer features “Zéro de Conduite” and “L'Atalante”. Though his work was censored by authorities, he would later be seen as having a unique, highly influential vision. Having struggled with illness, Vigo died at age 29, on October 5, 1934.

Filmography: L'Atalante (1934)

69 COUNTRY FOCUS EGYPT THE LAND Yashwant Intl. AL-ARD Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local Director: landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a Arabic / 1969 / Col. / 130' sense of solidarity among the disinherited. The plot concerns the unsuccessful attempts of the villages to retain. Screenplay: Hassan F

Cinematographer: Abdelhalim Nasr

Editor: Rashida Abdel,Salam

Music: Ali Ismail

Cast: Hamdy Ahmed, Yehia Chahine, Ezzat El Alaili

Youssef Chahine was born in Alexandria, Egypt 1926. He started studying in a friars' school, and then turned to English College. His debut film was Father Amine (1950): one year later, with Son of the Nile (1951) he was first invited to the Cannes FF. In 1970, he was awarded a Golden Tanit at the Carthage Festival. He won a Silver Bear FF in Berlin for Iskanderija...lih? (1979), the first installment in what proved to be an autobiographic trilogy, completed with adduta misrija (1982) and Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman (1989).

Filmography: September 11 (2002), Silence... We're Rolling (2001), The Other (1999), Destiny (1997), Iskanderija... lih? (1979)

71 THIEF AND DOGS Yashwant Intl. EL LESS WAL KILAB Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Director: El Sheikh After four years in prison, the young thief Said Mahran come out of jail & seek Arabic, English / 1962 / revenge against those who betrayed him,his beloved wife and his trusted B&W / 130' henchman, who conspired to turn him into the police,they are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him and his mentor Rauf Cinematographer: Ilwan. Kamal Karim

Screenplay: Sabry Ezzat, Kamal El Sheikh

Cinematographer: Kamal Karim

Editor: Said El Sheikh

Music: Andre Raider

Cast: Shadia, Kamal Al Shennawi, Shoukry Sarhan, Fakher Fakher, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Mansour, Adli Kaseb, Zayn El Ashmawi, Fatim Shaarawi, Salah Jaheen

Production Company: Gamal El Leithi Films

Kamal El Sheikh (2 February, 1919 - 2 January, 2004) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987. Some of his famous films inlcude, “The Peacock” (1982), “Whom should we Shoot” (1975), “Last Night” (1964), “The Small Devil” (1964), “The Thief and the Dogs”, “Because of My Love” (1960) and “Life or Death” (1955).

72 Yashwant Intl. BAB EL HADID Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: Kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in Director: Youssef Chahine the central Cairo train station, is obsessed by Hannouma, an attractive young Arabic / 1958 / B&W / 77' woman who sells cold drinks. While she treats Kinawi in a sympathetic way and jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a Producer: strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow Gabriel Talhami workers to combat their boss's exploitative and abusive treatment. Screenplay: Mohamed Abu Youssef, Abdel Hay Adib

Cinematographer: Alevise Orfanelli

Editor: Kamal Abul Ela

Music: Fouad El-Zahry

Cast: Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Hend Rostom, Hassen el Baroudi, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Naima Wasfy

Youssef Chahine was born in Alexandria, Egypt 1926. He started studying in a friars' school, and then turned to English College. His debut film was Father Amine (1950): one year later, with Son of the Nile (1951) he was first invited to the Cannes FF. In 1970, he was awarded a Golden Tanit at the Carthage Festival. He won a Silver Bear FF in Berlin for Iskanderija...lih? (1979), the first installment in what proved to be an autobiographic trilogy, completed with adduta misrija (1982) and Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman (1989).

Filmography: September 11 (2002), Silence... We're Rolling (2001), The Other (1999), Destiny (1997), Iskanderija... lih? (1979)

73 FOOLS' ALLEY Yashwant Intl. DARB AL-MAHABIL Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: In an archetypal Egyptian neighborhood, Taha works hard to put aside enough Director: Tawfik Saleh money to marry his beloved Khadija, but when the necessary funds suddenly Arabic / 1955 / B&W / 90' become available thanks to a winning lottery ticket, the neighborhood is turned upside-down, revealing the greed, materialism and opportunism of the alley's Screenplay: inhabitants. Tewfik Saleh,

Cinematographer: Abdel Aziz Fahmy

Editor: Said El Sheikh, Hassein Afifi

Music: George Kazazan

Cast: Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Tewfik El dekn, Shukry Sarhan

Production Company: Al Nagar Film

Festivals / Awards: Carthage FF (1972)

Tewfik Saleh was born in 1926 in Alexandria. After graduating from the Victoria College in Alexandria, he earned a BA in English Literature from Alexandria University. He eventually moved to Cairo to study directing. He went to France in 1950 on a scholarship to study the art of cinema. After coming back to Cairo, he wrote and directed “Fools' Alley” in 1955. In 1973, he moved to Iraq to teach cinema at Iraq's Radio and TV Institute and its Art Academy. He returned to Egypt in the mid 1980s to teach at the Higher Film Institute. He was deservedly awarded a first-class Sciences and Arts Decoration from President Abdel Nasser in 1967, the Tunisian Medal for Cultural Distinction in 1988 and the State Appreciation Prize in 1996.

Filmography: Long Days (1980), The Dupes (1973), Diary of a Country Prosecutor (1968), The Rebels (1968), Mister Fish (1967), Struggle of the Heroes (1962) 74 RAGS & TATTERS Yashwant Intl. FARSH WA GHATA Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: After escaping years of incarceration, a nameless man tries to find his way home Director: Ahmad Abdalla in a Cairo turned upside down by the protests of the Egyptian Revolution. As he Arabic / 2013 / Col. / 87’ revisits the family and country he has been separated from for so long, he finds that everything about life as he knew it has irrevocably changed. Producer: Mohamed Hefzy

Screenplay: Ahmad Abdalla

Cinematographer: Tarek Hefny

Editor: Hisham Saqr

Music: Mahmoud Hamdy

Cast: Asser Yassin, Amr Abed, Mohamed Festivals / Awards: Premiered: Toronto IFF (2013), London FF (2013), Abu Dhabi FF (2013), Montpellier Mamdouh, Yara Gubran, Atef Yousef Mediterranean Film: Grand Prix (2013) Production Company: Film-clinic

Ahmad Abdullah is an Egyptian film director, editor and screen writer born on December 19, 1978 in Cairo. He studied music in the 1990s and began working as a film editor in 1999. He moved to feature-length films in 2002 and began doubling as a visual effects supervisor and credits designer. He is best known for “Heliopolis” (2009), “Microphone” (2010) and “Rags & Tatters” (2013).

Filmography: Decor (2014), 18 Days (2011), Microphone (2010), Heliopolis (2009)

75 THE MUMMY: THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS Yashwant Intl. AL-MUMMIA Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: When government officials in Egypt discover mummies being sold on the open Director: Shadi Abdel Salam market in Cairo, an investigation is launched. A tribe living in the mountains has Arabic / 1969 / B&W / 102' passed down information for millennia about the hidden treasures in the Valley of Kings. The tribal chieftain dies and his two sons are taken to a secret tomb Producer: containing entire family dynasties of mummies and artifacts. One son who feels Roberto Rossellini the plunder is sacrilegious is murdered, leading his younger brother to pinpoint the location of the tomb to the authorities. The tribe must now find a different way of Screenplay: life after grave robbing for three thousand years. Shadi Abdel Salam Cinematographer: Abdel Aziz Fahmy

Editor: Kamal Abou-El-Ella

Music: Mario Nascimbene

Cast: Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Nadia Lutfi. Festivals / Awards: Dubai IFF (2013), Hong Kong IFF (2011), London FF (2009), New York FF (2009), Cannes FF Production Company: (2009), Egypt Film Week (1981) Egyptian General Cinema Organization

Shadi Abd El Salam was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1930. He graduated from the Victoria College, in Alexandria in 1948 and went on to study theatre arts in England for 2 years. In 1955 he graduated as an architect from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo and later worked as a set and costume designer for several Egyptian historical films. From 1963 to 1969 Mr. Salam taught at Egypt's Cinema Higher Institute in the Dept. of Decorations, Costume and Film Direction. It was not until 1968-69 that he directed the film, “The Mummy: The Night of Counting the Years”. He also directed a short film entitled “The Eloquent Villager”. In 1970, Salam was appointed the Director of the Ministry of Culture's Center for Experimental Films, a position which he held until his death in 1986 at the age of 56. . Filmography: El-Fallâh el-fasîh (1970) (Short) 76 HOW DO YOU SEE ME? Yashwant Intl. KAYF TARANI Film Festival 2015

Synopsis: The film is centered on a series of encounters between two neighbours, Layla and Director: Soad Shawky Yassin, who hail from opposite backgrounds, a reality that unearths contradictions Arabic / 2014 / Col. / 27' in Yassin's personality. Screenplay: Ahmed Abou Elfadl, Soad Shawky

Editor: Kamal Elmallakh

Cast: Ramez Amir, Amina Khalil

Production Company: Egyptian Film Center

Soad Shawky is a director born in 1974. Her films include "El Hawy khtaf el tabak" (The Magician's Stolen the Plate) (1995), the story of Naguib Mahfouz, "El rasm bel nar" (Drawing with Fire ) (1995), a documentary about the pottery artist Nabil Darwish, "Entezar" (Waiting) (1996), "Omahat lam yaledn abadan" (Childless Mothers) (1996), the story of Youssef Gohar, "Fih haga keda" (There's Something) (1998) and "Lela" (A Night) (2002). She has also directed 8 series live action segments in "Sesame Street" the program, from 1999-2000. . Filmography: The Magician’s Stolen the Plate (1995) (Short),Waiting (1996) (Short), Childless Mothers (1996) (Short), There’s Something (1998) (Short). A Night (2002) (Short). 77 VOLKSWAGEN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION ANIMATION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 MYTHOPOLIS MYTHOPOLIS

Institute: FAMU Czech Republic / 11'

SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES

Institute: NFTS UK / 9'

HARALD HARALD

Institute: FABW Germany / 6'

THE SKIN FACTORY THE SKIN FACTORY

Institute: GFS Australia / 3'

79 ANIMATION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 FISKER FISKER

Institute: RITZ Belgium / 4'

MIRVATTES CLOSET MIRVATTES CLOSET

Institute: IESAV Lebanon / 8'

CROCHET NOIR CROCHET NOIR

Institute: VCA Australia / 7'

MAGARWASI MAGARWASI

Institute: DSK Supifocom India / 6'

80 ANIMATION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 THE AWAKENING THE AWAKENING

Institute: VSMU / 7'

TWO (2) TWO (2)

Institute: UNATC Romania / 12'

WIRE CUTTERS WIRE CUTTERS

Institute: Chapman U USA/ 8'

AB OVO AB OVO

Institute: PWSFTviT Poland / 5'

81 LIVE ACTION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 GROUP PHOTO GROUP PHOTO

Institute: HFFM Germany / 19'

Synopsis: Clara, a teenager, suffers a day full of embarrassing episodes; first she forgets her piano lessons on her final day, add to that, her father being over protective by default, creates a lot of unintended moments. Clara though turns out to be a fighter and takes it all in her stride.

HOOP DIARIES HOOP DIARIES

Institute: WWI India / 28'

Synopsis: The story is about Riya, a 15 year-old basketball player put up in a boarding school. It revolves around an unpleasant incident involving her cousin trying to feel her up when she goes home for her birthday, which leaves her confused as she wants to explore it further. The story is about how Riya comes back from home and tries to resolve this issue in the boarding school atmosphere, and how she comes to terms with the feminine side of her.

I AM EMMANUEL I AM EMMANUEL

Institute: AFTRS Australia / 19'

Synopsis: Emmanuel is determined not to let the past define his future. After fleeing from war-torn Sudan with his family, he finds the chance to start a new life in Australia, which offers many opportunities, and equally, many challenges.

82 LIVE ACTION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 SCREW YOU SCREW YOU

Institute: NP Singapore / 3'

Synopsis: Clara, a teenager, suffers a day full of embarrassing episodes; first she forgets her piano lessons on her final day, add to that, her father being over protective by default, creates a lot of unintended moments. Clara though turns out to be a fighter and takes it all in her stride.

GIVEN IN EXCHANGE GIVEN IN EXCHANGE

Institute: VGIK Russia / 28'

Synopsis: Given in Exchange achieves to combine different images of various content and meaning to contrast the remorse of a young mother and reinforce the emotional impact on loneliness, rejection and a mothers love. We find simultaneously a call to find the lost son through prayers of various religions and spirituality.

SUNNY SUNNY

Institute: FABW Germany / 29'

Synopsis: Hajo is 19 and a brand-new dad. Now, instead of kicking it with his friends he takes care of his son. But Hajo is done changing diapers and playing mommy. He wants to work and make money. Hajo has a plan, but it involves putting his child at risk.

83 LIVE ACTION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 TIGHTROPE TIGHTROPE

Institute: LCA Singapore / 28’

Synopsis: A Chinese man who comes to Singapore for the first time rents an apartment with a fellow citizen, a hooker. After they become friends, he confides in her and tells her that he is actually a smuggler, and wants to make a quick buck before heading back home to start a new career. The hooker reveals that she is doing what she is, as she too has the same aspirations. They both picture themselves as tightrope walkers, surrounded by fear, but pushed by hope.

SONG WE WROTE SONG WE WROTE

Institute: FTII India / 23'

Synopsis: Jeet, a young musician and sound recordist is tired of the city and it's fast paced life. He sets out on a journey to re- discover his music and himself. Along the way he meets Kaya, an Italian traveling in India who can't hear or speak. She travels with a purpose unknown, keeping to herself. The two take a journey of a few days together, meeting strangers, making music, changing the course of their travels, and their lives.

MANORATH MANORATH

Institute: WWI India / 11'

Synopsis: Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's short story 'Postmaster', this film is about the relationship between a 10 year-old village girl and a documentary photographer, who is stranded in a remote village, waiting to document the touring talkies tradition.

84 LIVE ACTION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 SILENCED SILENCED

Institute: SRFTI India / 28'

Synopsis: This silent film unfolds a lyrical tragedy of a woman who is brutally raped and a mute dwarf who is also sexually endangered in the social frame of manliness. Their quest for love and vengeance begins in a forlorn island. In this battle for survival of human instincts and sanity, the film's silent, dark, and lyrical approach along with the characters puts forward the feeling of helplessness, a feeling which plagues us in this time. This film is not an account of crime and punishment but a more profound tale of human infirmity and the core of obscurity.

A DREAM ANIMAL A DREAM ANIMAL

Institute: FTII India / 21'

Synopsis: A wildlife sound recordist is on the trail of an undocumented animal, when she disappears in the forests of the Western Ghats. The recorder and microphone become her sole companions. The recorder functions as a verifier of the existence of all that it relays, visible or out of sight. She relies on them to locate herself and lead her way out of the forest. As the recorder starts giving trouble, her journey depends on discerning the glitches from the real sounds.

85 LIVE ACTION Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 COLOR WATER COLOR WATER

Institute: BFA China / 19'

Synopsis: When the newly out-of-love Shulan met Yangshu, a teacher, the two went through an excruciating love story. Years later, when the two independent souls re-encounter each other in the cafe owned by Yangshu, they recall the laughter and tears of the past, now that they are both in a peaceful state of mind. The present entangles with the past as the two, in a seemingly calm conversation, gradually reveal the real reason behind their break up. Innocence and regret of the past salvaged by the words of today, the past adds to the helplessness and insensibility of today.

THE KID IN THE CLOSET THE KID IN THE CLOSET

Institute: VCA Australia / 16'

Synopsis: Dodo is a 5 year-old 'hidden child' of the One Child Policy who is raised in the country by his grandparents. When he is taken to the city to live with his parents, he finds it hard to fit into the new environment and is initially not welcomed by his nasty sister Lily. Lily, witnessing the ordeal Dodo is going through while being hidden, begins to show sympathy for his situation. She can't change the fact that Dodo is an illegal second child, but she makes her own efforts to make his life brighter.

86 MTDC SHORT FILM COMPETITION NATURAL HERITAGE Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 GATEWAY TO THE INCREDIBLE KONKAN - CHIPLUN GATEWAY TO THE INCREDIBLE KONKAN - CHIPLUN

Director: Satish Kadam Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: Focusing on the unknown tourist spots of the Chiplun surroundings, the film talks about the beautiful gateway of the God gifted Konkan region. The film exposes the history and natural locales, along with the beauty of manmade heritage structures as well.

THE ENIGMA OF LONAR THE ENIGMA OF LONAR

Director: Avdhoot Navale Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: The Enigma of Lonar is a visual discovery tour of Lonar, its awe inspiring landscapes, its locales, as well as the sense of mystery and secretiveness that always seems to shroud it. Lonar has a silence about it, that is cosmic. Often, it gives an impression of being in ‘no man’s land’, this could also be because very few tourists or travelers visit it.

NIGHOL NIGHOL

Director: Dinkar Pandit Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 51'

Synopsis: Nighoj is a village in Ahmednagar District in Maharashtra. It is about 90 kilometres away from Pune and is famous for the naturally created potholes (tinajas) on the riverbed of the Kukadi River.

88 NATURAL HERITAGE Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 THE SILVER - GOLDEN BEACH THE SILVER - GOLDEN BEACH

Director: Kanchan Jadhav English / 2014 / Col. / 5'

Synopsis: Konkan is a region blessed by breathtaking scenic beauty and an affable companionship with the Arabian sea, with approximately 720 kms of coastlines. With its profound historic background and the lovely sandy beaches of Diveagar, the region is ever- welcoming.

RADHANAGARI - LAND OF THE GAUR RADHANAGARI - LAND OF THE GAUR

Director: Raman Kulkarni English / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: This short film depicts the rich biodiversity of the Radhanagari wildlife sanctuary. It especially represents the beauty of the flagship species present there, the Indian gaur. This sanctuary is a paradise and a treasure trove for nature lovers.

89 MANMADE HERITAGE Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 KEDARESHWAR TEMPLE KEDARESHWAR TEMPLE

Director: Narwane Rahul English / 2014 / Col. / 5'

Synopsis: Dharmpuri is 29 kms south of Ambaogai, Beed on the Pune - Nanded road. A short distance to the east of the village stands an old temple, with a shrine, an antechamber and a square hall, with three porches to the north, south and the east. The architectural style of the temple belongs to the eastern Chalukyan style from the 11th and 12th century AD.

RAPAN RAPAN

Director: Sandip Pandurang Mane Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: Rapan is the story of a manmade source of livelihood for thousands of fishermen in the Malwan region. Rapan is a fishing net which has been in existence since over a hundred years in this region. The Sindhudurg district is well known for its tourism, but this hidden gem needs to be explored further.

SERENDIPITY SERENDIPITY

Director: Sachin Patekar Silent / 2014 / Col. / 44'

Synopsis: Serendipity revolves around a hobbyist photographer and his quest to quench his inner self. One fine morning, his chance encounter with Karmarkar Shilpalaya opens a route of self enrichment for him.

90 MANMADE HERITAGE Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 AMRUTESHWAR AMRUTESHWAR

Director: Nitin Bhaskar English / 2014 / Col. / 6'

Synopsis: Amruteshwar is a temple of Lord Shiva, built in the Yadav-Shilahar era, around the eleventh century AD, approximately 74 kms from Sangamner. The temple is built in the ancient Bhumij style of architecture. The speciality of this elegant sculptural building are two sabhamandapas; the sanctum and santorum is situated in between these sabhamandaps. It is seen that the Shivalinga is always half submerged in water. Nandi was constructed in recent times at the rear door. This door is currently used as the main entrance.

ADORABLE LITTLE HAMLET- WAI EK- AAT PAAT GAON - WAI

Director: Laxmikant Alias Bhai Dole Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: A tale of an adorable little Hamlet, Wai. Wai, situated on the banks of the Krishna nurtures the reminiscences of culture and history. It is a confluence of exquisite temples, glorious mansions and magnificent scenic beauty. Here we can see the foot prints of the eras from the Mahabharat to the Peshwas. With the changing times, Wai has preserved its cultural inheritance through it's cultural activities and traditions. In the whirlwind of modernity it has not lost its essence. It has nurtured its uniqueness despite its close proximity to bustling towns. No wonder then, that it is the first choice of tourists, connoisseurs and scholars.

91 CULTURE OF MAHARASHTRA Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 FESTIVAL OF HAPPINESS FESTIVAL OF HAPPINESS

Director: Anup Deshpande Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 34'

Synopsis: The story revolves around a working man being away from his family and missing the most auspicious festival of the year loved by all, Diwali, and how his neighbors celebrate the festival with him.

INSPIRATION OF KOLHAPUR INSPIRATION OF KOLHAPUR

Director: Prasad Mahekarr English / 2014 / Col. / 6'

Synopsis: Inspiration of Kolhapur, shows a different identity of Kolhapur, through its art and cultural heritage. It shows the journey of the making process of artefacts that are unique to Kolhapur. Articles that have made their own identity across the globe, including Kolhapur's saaj and footwear.

ODYSSEY - UNFOLDING MAHARASHTRA ODYSSEY - UNFOLDING MAHARASHTRA Director: Mrinmayee Vaishampayan, Aditi Patwardhan English / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: Odyssey, the enriching journey of Raavi, dwells into her enthralling experiences with people and places, as she explores the vibrant and soulful land of Maharashtra all by herself.

92 CULTURE OF MAHARASHTRA Yashwant Intl. Film Festival 2015 SANGEET GOVIND GAURAV SANGEET GOVIND GAURAV

Director: Dhananjay Mehendale Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 51'

Synopsis: This documentary is based on the musical journey of senior harmonium and organ player, Late Govindrao Patwardhan. This film includes some rare photographs and videos of Sangeet Natak played by Govindrao along with interviews of artists for whom he played.

SAWANTWADI DAYS SAWANTWADI DAYS

Director: Sushil Mahajan Marathi / 2014 / Col. / 10'

Synopsis: A grandfather and his grandson live together. One day, the grandson faces a problem with his friends while playing, then, the grandfather tells him a story about Sawantwadi to make him happy. The story deals with love, understanding and attachment to one's motherland.

93 Yashwant Intl. NOTES Film Festival 2015 Yashwant Intl. NOTES Film Festival 2015 Yashwant Intl. NOTES Film Festival 2015 5th Yashwant International Film Festival 17th to 23 th January, 2015

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