UK FILMS AT BERLINALE 2019 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 FEATURES (FICTION, DOCUMENTARIES) AND TV 3 SHORTS AND WORK SHOWING IN OTHER FORMATS 8 HOMAGE AND OTHER SPECIAL RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAMMES 12 INDEX OF FILMS 17 1ST Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol , Director: Marco Alessi Marco , Director: Four Quartets Four All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may Cover: Cover: not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. INTRODUCTION As ever, UK films are well-represented across the Berlinale as About Us it unveils its 2019 edition. This Catalogue includes details of The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for all the UK productions and official co-productions screening cultural relations and educational opportunities, working in official selection at the Festival. UK productions and co- in over 100 countries. Its Film team links UK films and productions are selected across all the Berlinale sections: filmmakers with international audiences and creatives, Competition; Panorama; Generation; Forum; Special and profiling innovation, diversity and excellence and finding Retrospective. opportunities for creative exchange between UK and international film networks. This Catalogue is divided into the following sections: Features (Fiction & Documentary) and TV; Shorts and Work It provides a preview screening service for selectors from Showing in Other Formats; Homage and Other Special major film festivals, including Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and Retrospective Programmes. Sundance; works with a worldwide network of international partners to develop imaginative film projects, and arranges Debut features and debut feature-length documentaries are for filmmakers and expert film industry specialists to indicated with a 1st symbol. represent the UK abroad. It maintains an extensive on-line UK Films Directory; represents the UK within European Film Promotion (EFP); and offers Travel Grants to help short filmmakers attend selected international film festivals. British Council representative at Berlinale 2019 Briony Hanson, Director, Film [email protected] Joanna Duncombe: FIlm Programme Manager, New Talent [email protected] Rowan Woods: Film Programme Manager, Festivals [email protected] Questions? Contact [email protected] Sign up for our newsletter at: www.britishcouncil.org/film Follow us @British_Film 2 FEATURES (FICTION, DOCUMENTARIES) AND TV , 3 A Dog Called Money Seamus Murphy Director: Bait The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Synopsis Synopsis Behind the picture postcard idyll of a Cornish fishing village alienation, 13-year-old William Kamkwamba is thrown out of the school he loves resentment and anger bubble away. The view may be beautiful, but you when his family can no longer afford the fees. Sneaking back into the can’t eat it. school library, he finds a way, using the bones of the bicycle belonging to his father Trywell, to build a windmill which then saves his village from Martin Ward, is a cove-fishermen without a boat, infuriated with his famine. brother for using the family vessel for day-tripping, and with a brooding resentment for tourists flocking to the village while locals are relegated to The emotional journey of a father and his exceptional son at its heart, an estate on the hill. Nearing the end of the summer season, an argument William’s tale captures the incredible determination of a boy whose over a parking space with the incomers who bought his old family home, inquisitive mind overcame every obstacle in his path. comes to represent all that is wrong with the world for Martin. Tensions rise and when a misguided prank and retaliation escalates to tragedy the Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Berlinale Special Gala - European brothers are forced to unite and face the future together. premiere Shifting light, captured on B&W 16mm film and processed by hand offers Details a grainy black and white polemic, the state of the nation seen through a Year: 2019 family lens. Rugged cliffs, stark seascapes, working hands, silent faces, Running Time: 113 mins the screech of a gull, the smoke from a barbeque, clashing classes, Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor tensions building, a casual theft, a threat issued, a punch thrown, Producer: Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan retribution, high tide, low water, laughter at dusk, regret in the morning, Co-Producer: Donald Sabourin beauty, anger, compassion, hope. Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Joe Oppenheimer, Natascha Wharton, William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum - World premiere Editor: Valerio Bonelli Screenwriter: Chiwetel Ejiofor (screenplay), William Kamkwamba (book), Bryan Mealer (book) Director of Photography: Dick Pope Details Production Designer: Tulé Peak Year: 2019 Sound: Rob Ireland Running Time: 89 mins Principal Cast: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lily Banda, Noma Director: Mark Jenkin Dumezweni, Edith Sikelo, Aissa Maiga, Joseph Marcell, Lemogang Tsipa Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite Executive Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite Editor: Mark Jenkin Production Company Sales Agent Screenwriter: Mark Jenkin A Potboiler Films production in Cornerstone Films Director of Photography: Mark Jenkin association with Participant Media, WeWork Production Designer: Mae Voogd BBC Films, BFI Film Fund with 1 Fore Street Sound: Dan Thompson support of Head Gear, Econet, London Music: Thea Gilmore, The Malarkey, Gwenno LipSync, Metrol Technology EC2Y 5EJ Principal Cast: Edward Rowe, Simon Shepherd, Mary Woodvine, Giles +44 (0)20 3457 7257 King, Chloe Endean, Georgia Ellery, Isaac Woodvine, Jowan Jacobs Potboiler Productions [email protected] 9 Greek Street www.cornerstonefilm.com London Production Company Sales Agent W1D 4DQ Early Day Films Limited The Festival Agency +44 (0)20 7734 7372 Stanley House 44 Rue de Cléry [email protected] Totterdown 75002 Paris www.potboiler.co.uk Bristol France BS4 3BA +33 9 54 90 48 63 [email protected] [email protected] www.earlydayfilms.com www.thefestivalagency.com Film Catalogue 4 Features (Fiction, Documentaries) and TV A Dog Called Money Hanna Synopsis Synopsis As imaginative as the creative process it documents, A DOG CALLED Hanna has been growing up in the forest, far away from civilisation. Her MONEY is a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and father has raised her and taught her everything she needs to know – recording of a PJ Harvey record. hunting, fighting, killing. Now, at 14, she wants and has to face the world to finally find out who she really is. Writer and musician Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy, hatched a collaboration. Seeking first-hand experience of the Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Berlinale Series - World premiere countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Details and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images. Year: 2019 Running Time: 95 mins Back home, the words become poems, songs, then an album, which is Director: Sarah Adina Smith recorded in an unprecedented art experiment in Somerset House, Producer: Hugh Warren London. In a specially constructed room behind one-way glass, the Executive Producer: David Farr, Tom Coan, JoAnn Alfano, Andrew public - all cameras surrendered - are invited to watch the 5 week Woodhead, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, process as a live sound-sculpture. Murphy exclusively documents the Scott Nemes; Co-Executive Producers: Sarah Adina Smith, Leslie experiment with the same forensic vision and private access as their Holleran travels. Editor: Morten Højbjerg Screenwriter: David Farr By capturing the immediacy of their encounters with the people and Director of Photography: Dana Gonzales places they visited, Murphy shows the humanity at the heart of the work, Production Designer: Kelly McGehee tracing the sources of the songs, their special metamorphosis into Music: Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury recorded music, and ultimately, cinema. Principal Cast: Esmé Creed-Miles, Joel Kinnaman, Mireille Enos Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama Dokumente - World premiere Production Company Sales Agent US, UK co-production Amazon Studios 1620 26th Street A NBC Universal International Suite #4000-N Details Studios (UK), Amazon (US), Santa Monica Year: 2019 Working Title Television (UK), CA 90404 Running Time: 90 mins Tomorrow Studios (US) production USA Director: Seamus Murphy +1 310 573 2305 Producer: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson, Seamus Murphy Working Title Television www.studios.amazon.com Co-Producer: Evan Horan 26 Aybrook Street Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford, Tim O'Shea, Jim London Reeve, Laura Macara, Celine Haddad, Kieron J. Walsh, Brian Message, W1U 4AN Sumit Bothra, Sebastian Gollek +44 (0)20 7307 3000 Editor: Sebastian Gollek www.workingtitlefilms.com Screenwriter: Seamus Murphy Director of Photography: Seamus Murphy NBCUniversal International Sound: Seamus Murphy; Sound Design: Brendan Rehill Studios Music: Polly Jean Harvey [email protected] Principal Cast: PJ Harvey www.nbcuniversal.com Production Company Sales Agent Ireland, UK coproduction Autlook Films Salma Abdalla A Pulse Films (UK), Blinder Films Spittelberggasse 3/14 (IE), JW Films (UK) production in 1070 Vienna association with Fís Austria Éireann/Screen Ireland (IE), +43 720 346934 Somerset House (UK), Artangel