31.08 – 02.09.2019 LABIENNALE.ORG VENICEPRODUCTIONBRIDGE.ORG FINAL CUT IN VENICE 76. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica

La Biennale di Venezia Final Cut in Venice La Biennale di Venezia Director General Alessandra Speciale and its collaborators for Andrea Del Mercato Final Cut in Venice With the kind support of Erika Giorgianni Artistic Director Thierry Lenouvel Lara González Lobo of the Cinema Department Annouchka De Andrade Laura Kirlum Alberto Barbera Thierry Jobin Eugenia Leonardi Mariachiara Manci Venice Production Bridge Chiara Marin Pascal Diot Alessandro Mezzalira Savina Neirotti Nikolas Montaldi Daniela Persi [email protected] www.labiennale.org veniceproductionbridge.org FINAL CUT IN VENICE 7TH EDITION

A workshop to support films in post-production from Africa, , Jordan, , Palestine and . The goal of the project is to enhance the role of the Venice International Film Festival as a bridge builder supporting the production of independent quality films coming from Africa and Arab countries; providing concrete help to film production and promoting the competitiveness of their audiovisual products on the international market. The work-in-progress copies of 6 films from different geographical and cultural areas (Algeria, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, , Iraq, Morocco) will be presented in the presence of directors and producers. Access is reserved exclusively to Gold and Trade accreditations. The one-to-one meetings session between the selected projects and the professionals attending the Venice Production Bridge will be organized on September 2nd.

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The Final Cut in Venice brochure for 2019 has been edited using the information assembled by July 18th, 2019. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. THE PRIZES SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY The workshop will conclude with the awarding of prizes, in kind or in cash, AUGUST 31, 2019 SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 for the financial support of the films in their post-production phase: PALAZZO DEL CINEMA PALAZZO DEL CINEMA HOTEL EXCELSIOR 3° FLOOR SALA PASINETTI SALA PASINETTI FOYER For the third year La Biennale di Venezia will give a prize of € 5,000 for the best film in post-production. La Biennale di Venezia Prize will be attributed 09:30 09:30 09:30–13:00 / 14:30–18:30 by a jury composed of three members named by the Festival Director, while Introduction and opening remarks KABATEN EL ZA’ATARI / One-to-one meetings with the the other prizes will be awarded by final and irrevocable decision of the by Alberto Barbera, Director of the CAPTAINS OF ZA’ATARI 6 selected projects to find funding, Festival Director, in conjunction with the project partners, the heads of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (EGYPT, JORDAN, QATAR) 95' distribution possibilities and institutions, and the service companies providing the prizes. DIRECTOR Ali Elarabi festival selection. 09:45 PRODUCTION Dina Emam and Aya Dowara • € 15,000 for the color correction of a feature-length film, offered by Laser Film EN ROUTE POUR LE MILLIARD / (Ambient Light Films / Lotus Picture Co) (Rome) for up to 50 hours of work (technician included); ON THE WAY TO THE BILLION GENRE Documentary • up to € 15,000 offered by Mactari Mixing Auditorium (Paris) for the sound mixing of (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, LOGLINE Two teenage best friends trapped a feature length film (up to 12 days of work, sound re-recording mixer not included); FRANCE, BELGIUM) 90' in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan have • € 15,000 to be chosen for either 10 days of mixing studio and sound deliveries (sound DIRECTOR Dieudo Hamadi an undying dream of becoming professional mixer not included), or 5 days of DCP grading, including conformation, rendering and PRODUCTION Hélène Ballis (Kiripifilms) soccer players. Having never left the camp master DCP (colourist not included), offered by Studio l’Equipe (Brussels); GENRE Documentary since they arrived, the two work against the • up to € 5,000 for color-grading; up to € 3,000 for the production of a DCP master, LOGLINE June 2000 there was a war odds to achieve their goal while making i-Tunes, Google or Netflix files; up to € 2,000 for French or English subtitles in Kisangani. Thousands of people died, sure to pave a way for the next generation (translation not included), offered by TitraFilm (Paris); thousands were injured. After the war, of youth in the camp. • up to € 7,000 for the production of the DCP master and Italian or English subtitles, 1 billion dollars were promised to the + offered by Sub-Ti Ltd. (London); victims. 18 years later they travel to Q&A • up to € 7,000 for the accessible contents of the film for audiences with sensory Kinshasa to claim this money. Gold and Trade accreditation only disabilities: subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired and audio description for + the blind and visually impaired, with audio subtitles, in Italian or English, offered Q&A 11:45 by Sub-Ti Access Srl (Turin). The SDH file and the audio described soundtrack for Gold and Trade accreditation only NARDJES, ALGER, MARS 2019 / DCP will be provided; NARDJES, ALGIERS, MARCH 2019 • € 5,000 for the purchase of two-year broadcasting rights by Rai Cinema; 12:00 (ALGERIA, BRAZIL, • $ 5,000 awarded to one of the Arab projects and an invitation to participate in the MICA FRANCE, GERMANY) 80' industry platform CineGouna offered by the El Gouna Film Festival; (MOROCCO, FRANCE) 60' DIRECTOR Karim Aïnouz • “Coup de cœur de la Cinémathèque Afrique” Prize, offered by Cinémathèque Afrique DIRECTOR Ismaël Ferroukhi PRODUCTION Richard Djoudi of the Institut Français (Paris). The prize consist of the acquisition of the non PRODUCTION Lamia Chraibi (La Prod) (Show Guest Entertainment) commercial and non exclusive broadcasting rights for 7 years with a value of GENRE Fiction GENRE Documentary € 4,000 – 6,000 depending on the genre, length and available territories of the film; LOGLINE Mica, 10, lives with his mother LOGLINE The film draws a portrait of • participation in the production costs of a DCP (€ 2,500), offered by the Festival and sick father in a slum on the outskirts Nardjes, a young Algerian woman, as she International du Film d’Amiens; of Meknes. His parents’ friend, a joins thousands of pacifists protesters in the • participation in the production costs of a DCP (€ 2,500), offered by the Festival th handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca, streets of Algiers on the 8 of March 2019, International de Films de Fribourg; takes him as his apprentice. Mica finds International Women’s Day, when President • Marketing, publicity and distribution in the Arab World for one Arab project, himself in a whole new world where a new Bouteflika has announced his candidacy for offered by MAD Solutions (except for projects already attached to MAD Solutions); th life awaits him. a 5 presidential term. Nardjes’s and • One of the selected films will have the possibility to benefit from the Eye on Films + protesters’ goal is to fight to overthrow a label, that will present the film to distributors and festivals affiliated to EoF and Q&A regime that has silenced them for decades. will contribute to the communication of the film for a value of € 2,500 during its Gold and Trade accreditation only + world premiere in an A-category festival. Q&A 14:45 Gold and Trade accreditation only MAKONGO (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, 14:45 ARGENTINA) 60' KULSHI MAKOO / DIRECTOR Elvis Sabin Ngaibino ANOTHER DAY IN PRODUCTION Daniele Incalcaterra (IRAQ, FRANCE, KUWAIT, GENRE Documentary , GERMANY) 110' LOGLINE In the south-east of the Central DIRECTOR Maysoon Pachachi African Republic, two young Pygmies, PRODUCTION Patrice Nezan Albert and André, fight for the literacy (Les Contes Modernes) of children in their community. To finance GENRE Fiction their project, they do not count on the LOGLINE Sara and her neighbors open help of the State, nor on the NGOs, but a door to their everyday life, in a on the sale of their caterpillar harvest: middle-class district of Baghdad where, the makongo. marked by the physical and moral + mutilations, saddened by the war, and Q&A in front of the extreme ambient violence, Gold and Trade accreditation only each tries to find the thread of their existence. + Q&A Gold and Trade accreditation only THE VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE WELCOMES THE 6 SELECTED TEAMS AND THEIR PROJECTS TO THE 7TH EDITION OF FINAL CUT IN VENICE.

Final Cut in Venice, the workshop for films in post-production from Africa of the films selected you will recognize names like Karim Aïnouz, winner and Arab countries has, in these past seven years of activity, proved to be of Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2019, Ismaël Ferroukhi, Lion of the Future an important point of reference for the launch of films in the industry. at Venice International Film Festival in 2004 with Le Grand Voyage and In addition it also represents a significant source of financing for work-in- the award-winning Congolese documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi. progress films. For this edition the formula of last year has been confirmed, The selection also includes the fiction debut of a documentary filmmaker, two days of screenings of six work-in-progress films, exclusively for Gold Maysoon Pachachi, and two documentaries by first-time filmmakers, and Trade pass-holders, followed by a day of one-to-one meetings in which the Egyptian Ali Elarabi and Elvis Sabin Ngaibino from the Central African the directors and producers of the selected films will be protagonists of the Republic, a country never before represented at the Venice Film Festival. networking platform of the Venice Production Bridge. We are happy to Every year we pay particular attention to the scouting of new talents. welcome among our awards two new supporters: Studio L’Equipe, the In particular, in the last three years we have been surprised by young technical partner from Belgium, a country so far not represented in the directors from areas where cinema has almost always been absent. workshop and the Cinémathèque Afrique of the Institut Français, a historic In 2017 it was the turn of Hajooj Kuka, director of AKasha, the first institution that since 1961 deals not only with conservation, but also narrative feature film from Sudan, winner of La Biennale di Venezia Prize with the worldwide distribution of African films. at Final Cut in Venice and then selected at the Venice Critics’ Week in 2018. The now consolidated support from Laser Film, Mactari Mixing Auditorium, In 2018 Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, director of the first feature film from TitraFilm, Sub-Ti Ltd, Sub-Ti Access Srl, Rai Cinema, El Gouna Film Festival, Lesotho with Mother, I’m Suffocating. This is My Last Film About you, Festival International du Film d’Amiens, Festival International de Films de who this year returns to Venice with his second film, This Is Not A Burial, Fribourg, MAD Solutions , Eye on Films has been confirmed. It’s A Resurrection, produced in the framework of Biennale College and again in 2018 from Sudan, Suhaib Gasmelbari with The Waiting Bench In June 72 work-in-progress films were submitted by directors from Africa, (later Talking About Trees) winner of the Best Documentary Award and the Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, a lower number than last year, a Audience Award in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival 2019. decrease probably due to the sharp cuts of some important funds destined to the production of Arab and African cinema, that has had its effects also We expect you for this year’s atelier experience and hope that you will enjoy on the prevalence of documentary projects in post-production. This data is the very first vision of new quality films in progress. It’s a rare opportunity reflected in our selection, in fact this year among 6 selected films we to discuss cinema in its becoming that will open up new horizons. present 4 documentaries. The films in post-production come from six Alessandra Speciale different geographical areas: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Central African Head of Project Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a good balance between more established and first-time directors. Among the filmmakers

Special thanks for the collaboration to the African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan, Doha Film Institute and Visions du Réel - Nyon. NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE FILM MAIN PRODUCTION COMPANY DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES Finish editing, sound editing, mix, grading Kiripifilms Kiripifilms GENRE / SPECS CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY MAIN CONTACT PERSON Documentary / Color Les films de l’Oeil Sauvage, Hélène Ballis CURRENT RUNTIME / Néon Rouge Production ADDRESS ESTIMATED RUNTIME CURRENT STATUS OF THE FILM 114 avenue Nguma 90' / 90' Post-production Kinshasa, DR LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES CREATIVE TEAM Congo Lingala / French, English Dieudo Hamadi, Director, Producer, E-MAIL BUDGET / FINANCING NEEDED Scriptwriter, DoP, Sound [email protected] € 300.323 / € 37.020 Hélène Ballis, Producer, Editor PHONE / CELL PHONE Catherine Catela, Editor +33 661026678

DIRECTOR’S CONTACTS Dieudo Hamadi E-MAIL [email protected] PHONE / CELL PHONE +243 827016864

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF LOGLINE DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY CONGO, FRANCE, BELGIUM In June 2000 there was a war in Kisangani. Thousands of people died, The choice to forget, or to pretend having Dieudo Hamadi was born in Kisangani thousands were injured. After the war, 1 billion dollars were promised to forgotten, forms part of a certain political (Democratic Republic of Congo) on February pragmatism which supposes, suggests, 22, 1984 and studied biomedicine before the victims. 18 years later they travel to Kinshasa to claim this money. that there is no other way to be able to moving into filmmaking. Since 2002, he has EN ROUTE POUR SYNOPSIS «move on». Probably, in a country, such as completed several documentary film th th the DRC, where people are living workshops and video editing courses. LE MILLIARD From 5 to 10 June 2000, the city of Kisangani, in the Democratic depending on «the rate of the day», it can Dieudo Hamadi has since directed two short Republic of Congo, was the scene of heavy weapons fighting between two make sense. But, in the end, burying the documentaries Ladies in Waiting / Dames en ON THE WAY TO Congolese rebel groups. One group was supported by Uganda, the other truth impede the society to move forward attente and Tolérance Zéro (2010) and four by Rwanda. Since then, the Association of Victims of the Six-Day War has Dieudo Hamadi, on bases of peace and concord. Through long documentaries : Atalaku (2013), THE BILLION been fighting for the recognition of this bloody conflict and demanding Director, Producer, Scriptwriter, this film, I want to raise an edifice to the Examen d’Etat (2014), Maman Colonelle DoP, Sound compensation for the damage suffered. Uganda has been found guilty of memory of the thousands of deads of this (2017) and Kinshasa Makambo (2018). In war. I want to film the survivors: how they 2015, Dieudo created Kiripifilms, its own “war crimes” by the International Court of Justice, but the amount of DIEUDO are fighting to survive and for a better production company. In 2019 Dieudo compensation to be paid out is still being discussed two decades after the tomorrow. I want the spectator to follow Hamadi has been attributed the McMillan- HAMADI war. Tired of the bureaucratic negotiations and unsuccessful pleas that their madness, their naivety, their Steewart Fellowship in Distinguished have been drawn out for years, the members of the Association have resilience, their sorrow, their contradiction, Filmmaking by the Film Study Center of finally decided to take their fate into their own hands: after a long journey their humanity. I want to show the violence Harvard University. on the Congo River, they will voice their claims in Kinshasa, the capital, of an unknown, ignored, forgotten reality. where the institutions are based and where most of the former Congolese MAIN FILMOGRAPHY OF DIRECTOR leaders in this war have found refuge. 2018 Kinshasa Makambo doc. feature 2017 Maman Colonelle doc. feature Hélène Ballis, 2014 Examen d’Etat doc. feature Producer, Editor 2013 Atalaku doc. feature 2010 Dames en attente fict. short 2010 Tolérance Zéro fict. short

8 Venice Production Bridge 2019 9 Final Cut in Venice NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE FILM MAIN PRODUCTION COMPANY DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES Finalize picture edit, sound and Ambient Light Films Lotus Picture Co composition, color correction CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY MAIN CONTACT PERSON GENRE / SPECS Lotus Picture Co Dina Emam Documentary / Color CURRENT STATUS OF THE FILM ADDRESS CURRENT RUNTIME / Picture Edit 16 Ahmed Heshmat St., ESTIMATED RUNTIME CREATIVE TEAM Zamalek, Cairo 95' / 100' Ali Elarabi, Director, Producer Egypt LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES Dina Emam, Producer E-MAIL / English Aya Dowara, Producer [email protected] BUDGET / FINANCING NEEDED Mahmoud Bashir, DoP PHONE / CELL PHONE € 1.012.105 / € 103.005 Menna Elshishini, Editor +1 6462500825 Fawzy Radwan, Mahmoud Dagher, +20 1228298222 Main Cast DIRECTOR’S CONTACTS Ali Elarabi E-MAIL [email protected] PHONE / CELL PHONE +20 1008834486

EGYPT, JORDAN, QATAR LOGLINE DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY Two teenage best friends trapped in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan I left the small village in Egypt that I grew Ali Elarabi is a documentary director and have an undying dream of becoming professional soccer players. Having up in when I was 18 and headed to Cairo in producer based in Cairo. He got his start search of a better future. For the first few as a producer and director at Dream TV never left the camp since they arrived, the two work against the odds to KABATEN months I was living on the street and (Egypt) where he worked on various achieve their goal while making sure to pave a way for the next generation taking on odd jobs to get by. I saw a documentaries such as The Lady of the EL ZA’ATARI of youth in the camp. camera crew filming in the street and Girls, Witness and Martyr, What’s Hidden approached them to learn about what they is Greater, Dreaming of a Constitution and CAPTAINS SYNOPSIS were doing. One person on the crew saw in 6th of April Youth Movement. In addition he OF ZA’ATARI Teenage best friends Mahmoud and Fawzi have been living in the Za’atari me great potential and she hired me soon trained reporters on how to shoot news Refugee Camp in Jordan for over five years. Though they both have no Ali Elarabi, afterward. Eventually, I was sent to lead pieces. He went on to produce sense of what the future holds for them, they don’t let this hold them Director, Producer film crews in war zones across the Middle documentaries for ZDF, Stern TV Germany, back, and focus their energy together on their first love: soccer. Both East. After visiting numerous refugee and National Geographic in the MENA camps, one thing was common among all region. In 2015 Elarabi set up Ambient ALI ELARABI believe firmly that soccer is their only path to freedom. Aspire Academy, a of them: people just want a chance. In the Light, a Cairo-based production company leading sports academy for young athletes, arrives at the camp to scout Za’atari Camp I had met Mahmoud and where he focuses on various topics the teens for a chance to train like professional athletes in Doha. Fawzi and saw in them undeniable drive relevant to the MENA region such as Mahmoud and a few other members of the team are chosen. Fawzi, on the and dedication. I believe a person needs refugee displacement and women and other hand, is left behind due to a technicality. Before Mahmoud leaves he two things to succeed in life: dedication to children’s rights. Elarabi holds a pleads with the Aspire coaches to reconsider their decision regarding your goals and someone who believes in bachelor’s degree in Integrated Marketing Fawzi. Mahmoud and the team board a plane for the first time ever and you. My goal with this film is to amplify the and Communications from Mansoura voices of not only two young friends, but a University. Captains of Za’atari is his first head to train and compete on a field similar to the fields they’ve seen only whole generation of dreamers who live in documentary feature film. on TV. While the team is in Doha, Fawzy fights to leave the camp and join Dina Emam, similar conditions, whether in a refugee his team to play their first official match outside of the camp. Producer camp in Jordan or a deprived village in MAIN FILMOGRAPHY Egypt. We all share their experience in OF DIRECTOR different ways and have dreams but not the 2014 Underage Marriages doc. short same tools and opportunities. 2014 The Great Kurdistan doc. short 2014 Refugees in Their Nation doc. short 2013 Unsafe Abortions doc. short 2013 Refugees in Djibouti doc. short 2012 Witness and Martyr doc. short 2012 Dreaming of a Constitution doc. short 2011 6th of April Youth Movement doc. short 2011 I Was a Child doc. short Aya Dowara, Producer

10 Venice Production Bridge 2019 11 Final Cut in Venice NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE FILM MAIN PRODUCTION COMPANY DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES VFX, sound design, color grading, Les Contes Modernes Les Contes Modernes sound mixing, mastering CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY MAIN CONTACT PERSON GENRE / SPECS Linked Productions, Oxymoron Film, Patrice Nezan Fiction / Color Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, ADDRESS CURRENT RUNTIME / Doc & Film International (World Sales) 33 Rue De Chony, La Cartoucherie ESTIMATED RUNTIME PARTNERS ATTACHED 26500 Bourg-Les-Valence, 110' / 110' Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinema France LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES CURRENT STATUS OF THE FILM E-MAIL Arabic / English Editing [email protected] BUDGET / FINANCING NEEDED FUNDS OR AWARDS RECEIVED PHONE / CELL PHONE € 1.347.200 / € 150.000 Doha dev, Dubai DEMO, AFAC Lebanon, +33 475600944 SANAD & ADMAF (Abu Dhabi) VSE, Europe +33 681834682 Creative, BFI, BFW, MDM, CNC, Eurimages CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR’S CONTACTS Maysoon Pachachi, Director and Scriptwriter Maysoon Pachachi Patrice Nezan, Producer E-MAIL Irada Zaydan Rahe Al-Jubori, Scriptwriter [email protected] Jonathan Bloom, DoP PHONE / CELL PHONE Alexandre Donot, Editor +33 475600944 Rayah Mahmoud Aasee, +33 681834682 Set Designer and Costume Designer François Waledisch, Sound Luc Serrano, Special Effects Darina Al Joundi , Bassim Mahmood, Amed Hashimi, Miriam Abbas, Zaydun Khalaf, Main Cast

IRAQ, FRANCE, KUWAIT, LOGLINE DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY Sara and her neighbors open a door to their everyday life, in a middle- Iraqis have lived through decades of Maysoon Pachachi is a London-based class district of Baghdad where, marked by the physical and moral dictatorship, war and sanctions and - since filmmaker of Iraqi origin. She was the invasion of 2003 - ongoing violence educated in Iraq, the USA and the UK. She mutilations, saddened by the war, and in front of the extreme ambient and chaos. This is the emotional context in studied Philosophy at University College KULSHI MAKOO violence, each tries to find the thread of their existence. which people get on with their daily lives in London (BA Hons) and then filmmaking at a situation where the unthinkable has the London Film School. She was for many ANOTHER DAY SYNOPSIS become the norm, where you have to ‘act years a documentary and drama film Baghdad. The last week of 2006. In a typically mixed neighbourhood, a life’. The powerful external circumstances editor in the UK, and has worked since IN BAGHDAD community of ordinary people are trying to live their everyday lives in affect everyone and create a sense that 1994 as an independent documentary film spite of extreme and unpredictable sectarian violence. All over the city, Maysoon Pachachi, you are living a story that is at the same director, largely making films in and about people of different religions are being forced out of their homes on a daily Director and Scriptwriter time individual/personal, and collective. the Middle East. Maysoon has also taught basis and neighborhoods are being divided by concrete walls. At night, This film is like a Persian miniature, film directing and editing in Britain and MAYSOON individual stories with their own Palestine (in , Gaza and at under curfew, the residents remain trapped inside their houses... At the PACHACHI trajectories are being lived simultaneously Birzeit University). In 2004, with her heart of these intersecting stories we find Sara, a single mother and - individual, but connected, and together, colleague, Iraqi filmmaker, Kasim Abid, novelist, who regains her will to write after witnessing the forced exile of describing a collective drama. In this film, she co-founded Independent Film & her Christian neighbour and best friend Sabiha. Just before the New Year, the light on a palm frond or the sound of a Television College, a free-of-charge as all wake to the news that Saddam Hussein has been executed, they are dove in the afternoon is in counterpoint to film-training centre in Baghdad, whose left in a state of heightened uncertainty. A car-bomb goes off... and then the traffic jams, checkpoints, and blood on students have now produced 17 short another. And yet, like a miracle, each sustains a fragile hope. the streets. People live between these two documentary films, shown at festivals and poles and I want to create small moments screenings internationally and within Iraq of lyricism. There is also quite a lot of at a traveling festival. Patrice Nezan, humour in the film – another kind of Producer resistance... Each character, however MAIN FILMOGRAPHY ‘minor’, or fleetingly they are seen, should OF DIRECTOR feel individual and particular in this story. 2009 Our Feeling Took the Pictures: This is part of the ethic of the film; that Open Shutters Iraq doc. feature none are portrayed merely as ‘victims’ of 2004 Return to the Land of Wonders war. doc. feature 2003 Bitter Water doc. feature 2001 Living with the Past: People and Monuments in Medieval Cairo doc. feature 1999 Iranian Journey doc. feature 1994 Iraqi Women voices from exile doc. feature

12 Venice Production Bridge 2019 13 Final Cut in Venice NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE FILM MAIN PRODUCTION COMPANY DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES Editing, sound editing & mixing, Daniele Incalcaterra Daniele Incalcaterra color correction, French or English CURRENT STATUS OF THE FILM MAIN CONTACT PERSON subtitles, DCP master. Editing Daniele Incalcaterra GENRE / SPECS CREATIVE TEAM ADDRESS Documentary / Color Elvis Sabin Ngaibino, Director Araoz 2050 , dep. 7°A CURRENT RUNTIME / Daniele Incalcaterra, Producer CABA, 1425 ESTIMATED RUNTIME Argentina 60' / 90' E-MAIL LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES [email protected] Akan, Sango, French / English PHONE / CELL PHONE BUDGET / FINANCING NEEDED +41 787712399 € 196.000 / € 84.000 DIRECTOR’S CONTACTS Elvis Sabin Ngaibino E-MAIL [email protected] PHONE / CELL PHONE +236 72154933 +236 70989752

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, LOGLINE DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY ARGENTINA In the south-east of the Central African Republic, two young Pygmies, In high school, André and Albert were the Elvis Sabin Ngaibino was born in 1985 in Albert and André, fight for the literacy of children in their community. To laughing stock of other students. Bangui (Central African Republic). finance their project, they do not count on the help of the State, nor on the “Baminga!” This is what they are called In 2008 he worked with the publishing NGOs, but on the sale of their caterpillar harvest: the makongo. most often, which means Pygmy, but is house Way Making in the elaboration of MAKONGO said to be an insult. The first time I heard the tale Wanto and the Monster Zomgoron. SYNOPSIS that, it shocked me and moved me deeply. He trained in novel writing at the Alliance Their plan to educate out-of-school Française of Bangui under the supervision André and Albert are two young Aka pygmies from Mongoumba of the children is probably a way for them to heal of the French writer Yves Pinguilly (2009). ELVIS SABIN Central African Republic. They are among the few in their community to their wounds and regain their dignity. The same year he was educated in literary study. The others have abandoned or never even set foot in school. Elvis Sabin Ngaibino, That’s why their project to set up a and romantic writing with the French NGAIBINO Despite their financial difficulties and stigmatization in high school, André Director traveling school quickly became the heart writer, Jacques Thomassaint. Between and Albert fight to study and level with other students. But they also have of my film, the way to not make a film 2009 and 2010 he attended the faculty of a dream: to bring other Aka children to school. Every afternoon, they walk wretched, but instead to film my characters Sciences of Bangui University, Chemistry- winding paths, a blackboard on theirs shoulders, to go and teach their in a fight that would make them all their Biology-Geology study. In 2010 he took a nobility. I followed André and Albert with script writing course at the Linga area of students in the forest, out-of-school children or teenagers of all ages. To great pleasure in their teaching tours. I Bangui. In 2012 he was nominated finance their business, they do not rely on NGOs or government aid, but always had compassion for the pygmy President and Founder of the Academy rather on the next harvest of makongo (caterpillars), the main source of children of the forest. The contrast Association of Central African Filmmakers. income of Pygmies. This year, if the harvest is good, André and Albert between their schools and ours is quite Between 2014 and 2016 he achieved would like to sell it directly to Bangui, the capital, to increase their profits. heartbreaking. And their desire to learn is a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees With this, they could continue their fight for school with the aim of beautiful and overwhelming. in Geology at the Bangui University. enrolling some of their students in a real school. In 2017 he attended the documentary Daniele Incalcaterra, filmmaking workshop of Ateliers Varan Producer (Alliance Française of Bangui).

MAIN FILMOGRAPHY OF DIRECTOR 2017 Docta Jefferson doc. short 2017 Phone call independent fiction series, 6x28 min 2016 Empowerment of women and prevention of gender based violence doc. short 2012 Wizou fict. short 2012 Du bétail à la viande doc. short

14 Venice Production Bridge 2019 15 Final Cut in Venice NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE FILM MAIN PRODUCTION COMPANY DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES Editing, sound editing, sound effects, La Prod La Prod post syncronisation, music, mixing, CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY MAIN CONTACT PERSON vfx, color grading, lab Elzévir Films Lamia Chraibi GENRE / SPECS CURRENT STATUS OF THE FILM ADDRESS Fiction / Color Editing Mustapha El Maani, 258 CURRENT RUNTIME / FUNDS OR AWARDS RECEIVED 20000 Casablanca ESTIMATED RUNTIME Centre Cinématographique Marocain, AFAC Morocco 60' / 110' CREATIVE TEAM E-MAIL LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES Ismaël Ferroukhi, Director and Writer [email protected] Arabic, French / English, French Fadette Drouard, Co-writer PHONE / CELL PHONE BUDGET / FINANCING NEEDED Lamia Chraibi, Main Producer +33 670281161 / € 777.664 / € 230.000 Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil, +212 661233993 Co-Producers Eva Sehet, DoP DIRECTOR’S CONTACTS Elif Uluengin, Editor Ismaël Ferroukhi Zakaria Inane, Azlarab Kaghat, E-MAIL Sabrina Ouazzani, Main Cast [email protected] PHONE / CELL PHONE +33 607663863

MOROCCO, FRANCE LOGLINE DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY Mica, 10, lives with his mother and sick father in a slum on the outskirts Mica, traces the journey of a poor child Ismaël Ferroukhi is a Franco-Moroccan film of Meknes. His parents’ friend, a handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca, who wants to improve his situation in director born in 1962 in Morocco. He a world where inequality is the common gained exposure with his 1992 short film takes him as his apprentice. Mica finds himself in a whole new world MICA law of society. Torn from his family L’Exposé, which won two prizes (Kodak and where a new life awaits him. environment in the countryside to work prix SACD prize for the best short film) at in a tennis club in Casablanca, Mica will Cannes Film Festival. Following, Ismaël SYNOPSIS be shocked as he is faced with a world he cowrote the Cédric Kahn film Trop de ISMAËL Mica, 10, lives with his mother and sick father in a slum in the suburbs knows nothing about. Forced to support Bonheur (1994). His directorial debut Le FERROUKHI of Meknes, which is destined for destruction. His parents’ friend, his family, he will have to deal with Grand Voyage, won the Lion of the Future a handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca, takes him as his apprentice. Ismaël Ferroukhi, repeated humiliation, contempt, and for a First Film at Venice Film Festival in Mica finds himself propelled into a whole new world where a new life Director oppression, without rebelling. But thanks 2004. His last film Free Men was screened awaits him. Mr. Slimani, a rich and cultured man and owner of the club, to two key encounters, he will gradually at Cannes Film Festival in 2011. realize that he can change his own dreams of making his son Omar a tennis champion. To this end, he hires destiny. Mica will be a film full of hope, MAIN FILMOGRAPHY Sophia, a former French champion, as a private trainer. But Omar has little a success story, because Morocco is a OF DIRECTOR talent and no passion for the sport. On the other hand, Sophia will country that is progressing despite its 2011 Free Men fict. feature eventually notice Mica and take him under her wing... difficulties; the society is in the midst 2004 Le Grand Voyage fict. feature of a major transformation. Despite the 1993 L’Exposé fict. short obstacles Mica faces, I want to show that it is possible to dream of a better life without necessarily having to flee the country. With Mica I want to make a Lamia Chraibi, universal film, aimed at an audience of Producer children and teenagers, as well as adults. It’s a family film, the story of an apprenticeship. It is also a subject full of hope, solidarity and humanity, which all seem to me essential in the world today. For all these reasons, this project is one that is particularly dear to me.

16 Venice Production Bridge 2019 17 Final Cut in Venice NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE FILM MAIN PRODUCTION COMPANY DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES Post-production, including: grading, Show Guest Entertainment Show Guest Entertainment sound mixing, conformation, subtitling CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES MAIN CONTACT PERSON and master DCP. Currently waiting for Inflamavel, MPM Film, Watchmen Richard Djoudi results from fundings institutions and TV Production, MPM Premium (World Sales) ADDRESS in Germany, France and Algeria. CURRENT STATUS OF THE FILM Hadj Yacoub, 5 GENRE / SPECS First edit, post-production 16049 Douera, Wilaya d’Alger Documentary / Color FUNDS OR AWARDS RECEIVED Algeria CURRENT RUNTIME / Total of 70.000 € E-MAIL ESTIMATED RUNTIME Private funds from co-producers: 43.500 € / [email protected] 80' / 90' Pre Sales in Brazil and Algeria: 16.000 € / PHONE / CELL PHONE LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES MG Sales Agent: 10.000 € +213 560990138 French, Arabic / English CREATIVE TEAM BUDGET / FINANCING NEEDED Karim Aïnouz, Director, Scriptwriter DIRECTOR’S CONTACTS € 249.493 / € 179.500 Richard Djoudi, Marie-Pierre Macia, Karim Aïnouz Christopher Zitterbart, Janaina Bernardes, E-MAIL Producers [email protected] Juan Sarmiento, DoP PHONE / CELL PHONE Ricardo Saraiva, Editor +49 17624114156 Ilyas Mohammed Guetal, Sound Nardjès Asli, Main Cast

ALGERIA, BRAZIL, LOGLINE DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY FRANCE, GERMANY The film draws a portrait of Nardjes, a young Algerian woman, as she joins This was my first trip to Algeria, my Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning film thousands of pacifists protesters in the streets of Algiers on the 8th of father’s country of origin, which I only director, screenwriter and visual artist. knew by name and photo. Algiers was His first feature, Madame Satã, premiered March 2019, International Women’s Day, when President Bouteflika has electrifying around an atmosphere of in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2002. He th NARDJES, announced his candidacy for a 5 presidential term. Nardjes’s and the struggle and hope. Suddenly filming also directed Love for Sale, 2006 (Venice protesters’ goal is to fight to overthrow a regime that has silenced them Nardjès, Algiers, March 2019 came over as Orizzonti), I Travel Because I Have To, ALGER, for decades. something extremely vital. This is an I Come Back Because I Love You, 2009 urgent film. The clamor of the streets and (Venice Orizzonti), and The Silver Cliff, MARS 2019 SYNOPSIS the lively excitement of the city occupied 2011 (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight). In 2014 “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, Karim Aïnouz, by a feverish youth convinced me that for Futuro Beach screened in the Berlinale NARDJES, fulfill it, or betray it.” – Frantz Fanon. Director, Scriptwriter, DoP those 24 hours there was nothing more Competition. The documentary Central important to be portrayed: Algiers was Airport THF premiered at the 68th Berlinale ALGIERS, Algerians are tired from an unpopular and sclerotic regime. They have screaming. As soon as we met Nardjes, we (Panorama) and won the Amnesty MARCH 2019 a deep-set desire for freedom and a fair society. March 8, 2019 is the were convinced we had a necessary film in International Prize. The Invisible Life of third Friday of a massive mobilization, in Algiers, against the candidacy of our hands. Shooting a day in her life was Eurídice Gusmão, his latest feature, won Abdelaziz Bouteflika for his 5th presidential term. It is also the starting the way we got closer to the meaning of the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2019 what was happening on the streets. It was Cannes Film Festival – the previous films KARIM point of this film: a day in the life of Nardjes, a young Algerian woman who not just about the resignation of a have won more than 40 awards worldwide. finds in the protests a space to claim what had been promised and stolen president, but a systematic silencing, a Aïnouz has co-directed the TV series Alice, AÏNOUZ from her and from her generation: her future. 65 years separate the shortening of horizons. I want the film to 2008, for HBO Latin America. His work as protests of 2019 from the struggles of independence of Algeria (1954–1962), be daring, it should be loud, colorful, fast a visual artist has been part of the in which her own family has suffered immensely. Those are wounds that and voracious, like the demonstrations Sharjah, São Paulo and Whitney Museum Richard Djoudi, were and continue to be. Like a rock roll Biennials. He is a screenwriting tutor at Nardjes carries with her today. This film is an intimate portrait of the soul Producer song played at the rhythm or rai. Blast. the Porto Iracema das Artes in Fortaleza, of the young, betrayed generation. It is also a female voice in a strong Algiers demonstrations resonate beyond Brazil. Since 2017 Aïnouz is member patriarchal society. We follow her while her whole country is marching Algeria. They speak of a generation that of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts toward their own, yet uncertain future. had its future stolen but still finds in hope and Sciences. a fertile place for imagining tomorrow. MAIN FILMOGRAPHY OF DIRECTOR 2019 The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao fict. feature 2018 Centrat Airport THF doc. feature 2015 Velázquez-wild realism doc. feature 2014 Futuro Beach fict. feature Marie-Pierre Macia, 2014 Cathedrals Of Culture doc. feature Producer 2011 The Silver Cliff fict. feature 2010 I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You fict. feature 2006 Love For Sale fict. feature 2002 Madame Satã fict. feature

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