UK FILM BERLIN 2016 britishcouncil.org/fi lm 1 ON RELEASE CONTENTS 3 Introduction 4 UK Features at Berlinale 2016 12 UK Documentaries at Berlinale 2016 16 UK Short Films at Berlinale 2016 22 Index of Films 1ST Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 2 INTRODUCTION The 66th Berlinale includes a large selection Each catalogue is compiled as a printable PDF of UK films in its 2016 edition. This Catalogue and is intended as a reference tool particularly includes details of all the UK productions and to assist festival programmers, film buyers official co-productions screening in the Festival. and sales agents, as well as other filmmakers, It is divided into Features, Documentaries students, statisticians and film historians. and Shorts screening across the Competition, You can view the entire British Films Special, Panorama, Forum and Generation Directory, as well as further directories sections. Debut features are indicated with a listing both filmmakers and festivals, at 1st symbol. britishcouncil.org/film The key UK organisations are represented in Find out more about the UK industry at Berlin under the single umbrella of UK FILM, a WEAREUKFILM.com grouping of UK’s national and regional agencies and sales companies. Together we provide clear information about our outstanding locations, services, films and talent, and we represent the UK Film industry enabling connections with both national and international partners. In partnership with UK FILM, this Catalogue is a resource complied by British Council’s Film team, which acts as a link between UK films and filmmakers and new international audiences. The British Council works with a range of programme selector teams from the world’s premier international film festivals, including the team from the Berlinale, to arrange preview screenings for programmers in London of the best new British films. We also collate an online database of UK films as they go into pre-production, as well as an exhaustive British Films Directory listing all UK shorts and features produced since 1998. We compile occasional Catalogues (like this one) detailing the UK films which have been selected to appear in premier international film festivals. 3 UK FEATURES AT BERLINALE 2016 4 Alone in Berlin Genius 1ST Synopsis Synopsis Berlin 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working A chronicle of renowned literary editor, Max class couple living in a shabby apartment block trying Perkins, as he oversaw seminal works by Thomas to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when their Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. only child is killed fighting at the front, their loss ‘Genius’ centres on Perkins’ relationship with Wolfe, drives them to an extraordinary act of resistance, a blazing talent with a larger-than-life personality, dropping postcards over the city attacking Hitler. and the transformative and irrepressible friendship If caught, it means certain execution. Soon their that changed the lives of these brilliant but very campaign comes to the attention of the Gestapo and different men forever. a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. But Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Competition - the game serves only to strengthen Otto and Anna’s World premiere sense of purpose and a renewed love for each other. Slowly their drab lives and marriage are transformed Details Year: 2016 as they unite in their quiet but profound rebellion... Running Time: 96 mins Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Competition - Director: Michael Grandage World premiere Producer: James Bierman, Michael Grandage, Details John Logan Year: 2016 Co-Producer: Tracey Seaward Running Time: 97 mins Executive Producer: Deepak Nayer, Nik Bower, James Director: Vincent Perez J Bagley, A Scott Berg, Tim Bevan, Steve Christian, Ivan Producer: Stefan Arndt, Christian Grass, Marco Dunleavy, Arielle Tepper Madover Pacchioni, James Schamus, Uwe Schott, Paul Trijbits Editor: Chris Dickens Co-Producer: Christian Grass, Paul Trijbits Screenwriter: John Logan (screenplay), A. Scott Berg Executive Producer: Michael Scheel, Lisa Wolofsky (nonfiction book) Editor: François Gédigier Directory of Photography: Ben Davis Screenwriter: Achim von Borries (screenplay), Bettine Production Designer: Mark Digby von Borries (writer), Vincent Perez (writer), Hans Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Ian Wilson Fallada (novel) Music: Adam Cork Directory of Photography: Christophe Beaucarne Principal Cast: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Production Designer: Jean-Vincent Puzos Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Vanessa Kirby Sound: Lee Herrick Music: Alexandre Desplat Production Company Sales Agent Principal Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, UK, USA coproduction FilmNation Entertainment (US) Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt Desert Wolf Productions (World sales excluding US) (US), Michael Grandage 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Production Company Sales Agent Company (UK) Floor, New York NY 10011 Germany, UK, France Cornerstone Films Ltd Michael Grandage Company USA coproduction X-Filme 12 Sunray Avenue Genius Film Productions +1 917 484 8900 Creative Pool (DE), FilmWave London Fourth Floor, Gielgud Theatre [email protected] (UK), Master Movies (FR) SE24 9PY Shaftesbury Theatre www.filmnation.com +44 (0)20 3457 7257 FilmWave London W1D 6AR Creative Artists Agency [email protected] Christian Grass +44 (0)20 3582 7210 (CAA) (US) (US sales) www.cornerstonefilm.com 4th Floor info@ 2000 Avenue of the Stars 27 Margaret Street michaelgrandagecompany.com Los Angeles CA 90067 London W1W 8RY www. USA michaelgrandagecompany. +44 (0)20 7580 7200 com +1 424 288 2000 [email protected] [email protected] www.filmwave.com www.caa.com FEATURES 5 In the Last Days of the City Invention (Akher ayam el madina) 1ST Synopsis Synopsis Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old Shot in Paris, São Paulo and Toronto, acclaimed filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures Canadian contemporary artist Mark Lewis’ essay the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. film captures the ever-changing textures of these With the help of his friends, who send him footage cities through moving images of glass, light, from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, shadows and reflections. Offering an homage he finds the strength to keep going through the to the city, symphony films of the 1920s, while difficulty and beauty of living In the last days of the also juxtaposing modernist architecture with the city. compositional structures of old master paintings. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum - World Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded premiere Details Details Year: 2015 Year: 2016 Running Time: 80 mins Running Time: 118 mins Director: Mark Lewis Director: Tamer El Said Producer: Eve Gabereau, Gerry Flahive, Anita Lee Producer: Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla, Hana Al Bayaty, Co-Producer: Emily Morgan Michel Balagué, Marcin Malaszczak, and Cat Villiers Executive Producer: Anita Lee Screenwriter: Tamer El Said, Rasha Salti Editor: Andrew Hulme Directory of Photography: Bassem Fayad Directory of Photography: Bobby Shore, Martin Testar Principle Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Maryam Saleh, Hayder Helo, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Egypt, UK, Germany, United Still Moving UK, Canada coproduction National Film Board of Arab Emirates coproduction Pierre Menahem Soda Film + Art (UK), Mark Canada (CA) Zero Production (Egypt), 6 rue Boissonade Lewis Studio (CA), National Chanelle Routhier Sunnyland Film (Egypt), 75014 Paris Film Board of Canada (CA) 3155 Côte de Liesse Road France Montreal H4N 2N4 Autonomous (UK), Soda Film + Art Mengamuk Films (Germany). +33 6 6208 8179 Quebec [email protected] c/o Soda Pictures Canada Autonomous www.stillmoving.fr 17 Blossom Street +1 514 496 0693 Cat Villiers London [email protected] 10 Orange Street E1 6PL www.nfb.ca London +44 (0)20 7377 1407 WC2H 7DQ [email protected] +44 (0)20 7494 3645 www.sodapictures.com [email protected] 6 FEATURES Looking for Langston The Man Who Fell to Earth Synopsis Synopsis A mythic recreation of the private world of the Crash-landing on Earth from his dying planet, an black artists and writers such as Langston Hughes alien humanoid travelling by the name of Thomas who formed the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Jerome Newton (David Bowie) uses his superior The film switches from archive footage to a stylized intelligence to build a vast business empire. As he version of the jazz and blues era of Harlem to takes on, and beats, every US corporation people explore white society’s barriers against black can only guess his true purpose – to save his world homosexuality and self-imposed ‘discretion’. from agonizing death by drought. Newton’s ageless Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama Teddy fall from grace, as he becomes prey to lust, alcohol, 30 business rivals, and the US Government, makes ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ not only a bitingly Details caustic indictment of the modern world but also Year: 1989 a poignant commentary on the loneliness of the Running Time: 40 mins outsider. A science-fiction cult classic. Director: Isaac Julien Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Berlinale Special Producer: Nadine Marsh-Edwards Editor: Robert Hargreaves Details Screenwriter: Isaac Julien Year: 1976 Directory of Photography: Nina Kellgren Running