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MEMENTO FILMS INTERNATIONAL Memento Films International 9, cité Paradis 75010 Paris tel + 33 1 53 34 90 20 fax + 33 1 42 47 11 24 [email protected] [email protected] www.memento-films.com BACK CATALOGUE 2014 2012 Cold In July | JIM MICKLE BAd sEEds | SAFy NEBBOU EnERGIZEd | HUBERT CANAVAL CIRClEs | SRDAN GOLUBOVIC LOCK CHARMER | NATALIA SMIRNOFF CoMPlIAnCE | CRAIG ZOBEL MR. KAPlAn | ALVARO BRECHNER FoR EllEn | SO yONG KIM REFuGIAdo | DIEGO LERMAN FoXFIRE | LAURENT CANTET WIntER slEEP | NURI Bilge CEylan LORE | CATE SHORTLAND tHE PIRoGuE | MOUSSA TOURÉ 2013 BACK In CRIME | GERMINAL ALVAREZ 2011 BLUE RuIn | JEREMy SAULNIER EllEs | MALGOSKA SZUMOWSKA CHAsInG tHE WInd | RUNE DENSTAD LANGLO tHE GIAnts | BOULI LANNERS ILO ILO | ANTHONy CHEN HEAdsHOT | PEN-EK RATANARUANG In BlooM | NANA EKVTIMISHVILI MAn WItHout A CEll PHonE | S AMEH ZOABI & SIMON GROSS tHE MonK | DOMINIK MOLL In tHE nAME oF | MALGOSKA SZUMOWSKA A SeparatIon | ASGHAR FARHADI sHoRt tERM 12 | DESTIN CRETTON sIstER | URSULA MEIER tHE PAST | ASGHAR FARHADI tHE WoMAn In tHE FIFtH | undER tHE RAInBoW | AGNèS JAOUI PAWEL Pawlikowski V/H/s/2 | VARIOUS WE ARE WHAt WE ARE | JIM MICKLE 2010 HoME | URSULA MEIER BlACK HEAVEn | GILLES MARCHAND tHE sKy, tHE EARtH And tHE RAIn | PuZZlE | NATALIA SMIRNOFF JOSÉ luis torres LEIVA sHAHAdA | BURHAN QURBANI tREElEss MountAIn | SO yONG KIM tHInK GLOBAl, ACt RuRAl | COLINE SERREAU WEndy And LUCy | KELLy Reichardt TOP FLOOR, lEFt WInG | ANGELO CIANCI tHE tREE | JULIE BERTUCCELLI 2007 BoARdInG gatE | OLIVIER assayAS 2009 CHoP sHoP | RAMIN BAHRANI EAstERn PlAys | KAMEN Kalev EAt, FoR tHIs Is My Body | tHE EXPLODInG GIRl | BRADLEy Rust GRAy Michelange QUAy IndEPEndEnCIA | RAyA martin undER tHE BoMBs | PHILIPPE ARACTINGI KAtAlIn VARGA | PETER Strickland WondERFul TOWn | ADITyA Assarat noRtH | RUNE Denstad Langlo onCE uPon A tIME PRolEtARIAn | 2006 Xiaolu GUO AuRoRE | Nils TAVERNIER tEHRoun | NADER T. HOMAyOUN tIMEs And WInds | REHA ERDEM usElEss | STIll lIFE | donG | JIA ZHANG-KE 2008 tHE VIolIn | FRANCISCO vargas tHE ClAss | LAURENT CANTET GoodByE solo | RAMIN BAHRANI 2005 GRoWn uPs | ANNA NOVION KIloMEtER ZERo | HINER saleem Cold In July | JIM MICKLE Cold in July U.S. DRAMATIC JIM MICKLE COMPETITION COLD IN JULY tells the story of Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He then meets Ben Russel, a rough ex-con and the father of the man Dane shot, who is hell-bent on avenging his son’s death. But small town corruption and paranoia turn these bitter ennemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt-stricken fathers begin a search for truth, aided by Dane’s tough minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston. Before it’s all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. By the director of WE ARE WHAt WE ARE, stAKE Land “Brilliantly paced, genuinely tense and unpredictable.” tIME OUT “A superior piece of Texas pulp fiction.” VARIETY “Absorbing and memorable.” tHE PlAylIST 2014 | USA | 93 MIN. | CAst MICHAEL C.HALL, SAM Shepard, DON JOHNSON | PRoduCEd By BSM STUDIO, BELLADONNA PRODUCTION IN association WITH BACKUP MEDIA AND PARADISE CITy WAtCH tRAIlER HERE Back to Index EnERGIZEd | HUBERT CANAVAL 2014 LEUVEN 2014 TORINO CINEMA DOCVILLE AMBIANTE Energized IN COMPETITION IN COMPETITION HUBERT CANAVAL Nuclear disasters, wars over oil and gas, climate change and ever- increasing energy consumption : We have reached an important crossroads. To keep on going like this is not an option. But how can we meet our energy needs without destroying our own existence ? Is there such a thing as clean energy and efficient technology ? And if so, why aren’t we using it ? By the producers of MoRE tHAn HonEy, WE FEEd tHE WoRld, lEt’s MAKE MonEy 2014 | AUSTRIA | 52–92 MIN. | PRoduCEd By By ALLEGRO FILM Back to Index WAtCH tRAIlER HERE loCK CHARMER | NATALIA SMIRNOFF Lock Charmer OFFICIAL SELECTION NATALIA SMIRNOFF Sebastián is a 33-year-old locksmith who has never really believed in long- term commitments. Not even with Mónica, his most steady relationship which has only lasted five months. When she reveals she is pregnant and that he is the likely father, Sebastián’s world takes an unexpected turn: he begins to have strange visions about his clients whenever he’s working on their doors. Some would call it a gift, but for Sebastián it feels more like a curse. Together with the help of Daisy, an unlikely assistant who very much wants to believe in his gift, he reluctantly sets out to use his talent for his own good. “A wisp of melancholy comedy with a dose of magical realism.” VARIETY “Lock Charmer wonderfully explores the magic of being honest. ” IndIEWIRE 2014 | ARGENTINA | 77 MIN. | CAst Esteban Lamothe, Erica RIVAS, yOSIRIA Huaripata, SERGIO BORIS, GERMAN DE Silva | PRoduCEd By TAREA FINA WAtCH tRAIlER HERE Back to Index MR. KAPlAn | ALVARO BRECHNER Mr. Kaplan ALVARO BRECHNER Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he’s become rather grumpy, fed up with his community and his family’s lack of interest in its own heritage. One beach bar may, however, provide him with an unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness and recover his family’s respect in the community: its owner, a quiet, elderly German, raises Mr.Kaplan suspicion of being a they will try to repeat the historic capture of Adolf runaway nazi. Eichmann: by unmasking and kidnapping the German Ignoring his family’s concerns about his health, Jacob and secretly taking him to Israel. secretly recruits Contreras, a more loyal than honest former police officer, to help him investigate. Together, By the director of BAd dAy TO Go FIsHInG 2014 | URUGUAy, SPAIN, GERMANy | 98 MIN. | CAst Hector NOGUERA, Nestor GUZZINI, ROLF Becker | PRoduCEd By BAOBAB FILMS, SALADO & RAZOR FILM PRODUKTION WAtCH tRAIlER HERE Back to Index REFuGIAdo | DIEGO LERMAN Refugiado DIEGO LERMAN 7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, “Diego Lerman’s well-acted, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide steadily absorbing realist to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend drama follows a mother 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything and her young soon fleeing Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure from domestic violence.” place to raise her son. VARIETY By the director of tHE InVIsIBlE EyE, tAn dE REPEntE “REFUGIADO is poignant, admirably executed and touchingly performed by its two leads.” tHE HOLLYWood REPoRtER “Film after film, Diego Lerman paints the most beautiful female portraits of everyday life. A brilliant and humanist filmmaker with great delicacy.” MEdIAPARt 2014 | ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, FRANCE, POLAND, GERMANy | 93 MIN. | CAst Julieta Diaz, SebastiáN MOLINARO | PRoduCEd By CAMPO CINE S.R.L. CO-PRODUCED BY STARON FILM, BURNING BLUE, BELLOTA FILMS, GALE CINE, RIO ROJO CONTENIDOS, 27 FILMS PRODUCTION WAtCH tRAIlER HERE Back to Index WIntER slEEP | NURI Bilge CEylan SYDNEY FILM Festival Winter Sleep AUDIENCE AWARD NURI Bilge CEylan Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities… By the director of onCE uPon A tIME In AnATOLIA, tHREE MonKEys, ClIMAtEs and uZAK “Ceylan is at the peak of his powers.” VARIETY “Timeless.” tHE nEW yoRK tIMEs “A stunning picture.” tHE GuARdIAn “Mesmerizing, superbly acted.” IndIEWIRE 2014 | TURKEy, FRANCE, GERMANy | 196 MIN. | CAst Haluk Bilginer, Melisa SöZEN, DEMET AKBAG | PRoduCEd By ZEyNO FILM, MEMENTO FILMS PRODUCTION, BREDOK FILM PRODUCTION CO-PRODUCED By ALEXANDRE MALLET-GUy WAtCH tRAIlER HERE Back to Index BACK In CRIME | GERMINAL ALVAREZ PUCHEON MOSCOW FILM FESTIVAL Back in Crime IN COMPETITION IN COMPETITION GERMINAL ALVAREZ Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer. As he tries to help his youngerself and meets the much younger Hélène, Kemp triggers a series of events with unforeseen consequences… “A film fully mastered, as much in its direction as in its screenplay’.” lE MondE “Anglade carries the film with such enthusiasm and talent.” 20 MINUTEs 2013 | FRANCE | 102 MIN. | CAst Jean-Hugues Anglade, Mélanie THIERRy | PRoduCEd By HAUT ET COURT WAtCH tRAIlER HERE Back to Index BluE RuIn | JEREMy SAULNIER Blue Ruin JEREMy SAULNIER Blue Ruin follows a mysterious beach bum whose quiet life is turned upside down by dreadful news regarding a past tragedy. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an amateur assassin, finding himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. “Intelligent and thrilling… Recalls the dark wit of the Coens.” TOTAl FIlM “A lean and suspenseful genre piece.” VARIETY “The most suspenseful American film of the year.” tHE PlAylIST "Sudden, terrifying, and excitingly singular" IndIEWIRE 2013 | USA | 92 MIN.