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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
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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
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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 Time: 139 mins Music: Wayson Jones, Trevor Mathison, Peter Spencer Director: Nicolas Roeg Principal Cast: Ben Ellison, Akim Magaji, Matthew Producer: Michael Deeley, Barry Spikings Baidoo, John Wilson, Jimmy Somerville Executive Producer: Si Litvinoff Editor: Graeme Clifford Screenwriter: Paul Mayersberg (script), Walter Tevis (novel) Directory of Photography: Anthony B. Richmond Production Designer: Brian Eatwell Music: John Phillips, Stomu Yamashta Principal Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey Costume Designer: May Routh
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A British Film Institute (BFI) HanWay Films British Lion Film StudioCanal (FR) and Sankofa Film & Video 24 Hanway Street Corporation Juliette Hochart production London Peter Snell Head of International BFI W1T 1UH Pinewood Studios Library Sales 21 Stephen Street +44 (0)20 7290 0750 Pinewood Road 1, place du Spectacle London [email protected] Iver Heath 92863 Issy-Les-Moulineaux W1T 1LN www.hanwayfilms.com Buckinghamshire Cedex 9 +44 (0)20 7255 1444 SL0 0NH France [email protected] +44 (0)1753 651700 +33 1 71 35 00 37 www.bfi.org.uk petersnell@britishlionfilms. juliette.hochart@ com studiocanal.com www.britishlionfilms.com www.studiocanal.com
FEATURES 7 Moderation The Ones Below
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Synopsis Synopsis Set in Egypt, Greece, Italy and the USA, ‘Moderation’ Kate is pregnant. Theresa is pregnant and moving reflects on the way psychological, historical and in to the apartment below, with her partner. When material realities are connected through the prism the two women meet one spring morning, a special of the filmmaking progress itself. A director and a bond forms, developing into an intimate friendship screenwriter are in the early stages of developing as they move closer to the births of their babies. a commercial feature film, but soon their own Until tragedy strikes. And changes everything. In conflicting desires and the events occurring around the most violent and shocking way. With echoes of them, take them far beyond their initial intentions. Hitchcock and Polanski, a terrifying psychological Forced to radically reconfigure her project, the thriller of love, betrayal and revenge, brings one director becomes more and more drawn into woman’s personal nightmares vividly to life, amidst conversations with her actors, which centre on the the affluent loneliness of the modern city. way cinema intersects with their own lives. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded - World premiere Details Year: 2015 Details Running Time: 87 mins Year: 2015 Director: David Farr Running Time: 149 mins Producer: Nikki Parrott Director: Anja Kirschner Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Ben Hall, Christine Producer: Theo Prodromidis Langan, Dixie Linder, Nick Marston, Joe Oppenheimer, Editor: Smaro Papaevangelou, Anja Kirschner Phil Hunt, Compton Ross Screenwriter: Anja Kirschner with Maya Lubinsky, Editor: Chris Wyatt Anna De Filippi Screenwriter: David Farr Directory of Photography: Dimitris Kasimatis GSC, Directory of Photography: Ed Rutherford Mostafa El Kashef Production Designer: Francesca Balestra Di Mottola Production Designer: Kleio Boboti Sound: Nigel Albermaniche Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Max Schneider, Music: Adem Ilhan Giuseppe Di Lascio; Sound Design: Kostas Fylaktidis, Principal Cast: Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Vasilis Zlatanos, Stefanos Konstantinidis Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn Music: Dracula Lewis Principal Cast: Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi, Michele Production Company BBC Films Valley, Aida El Kashef, Giovanni Lombardo Radice Tigerlily Films Zone A, 7th Floor 23 Blandford Court BBC Broadcasting House Production Company Sales Agent St Peters Way Portland Place Greece, Italy, Egypt, UK Distribution and Sales London N1 4SA London W1A 1AA coproduction requests +44 (0)20 7923 1001 +44 (0)20 3614 4445 Commissioned by Polyeco c/o LUX helloi@tigerlilyproductions. www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms Contemporary Art Initiative Shacklewell Studios com Sales Agent www.tigerlilyproductions.com (GR), co-produced by Beirut 18 Shacklewell Lane Protagonist Pictures (EG) and Nomas Foundation London E8 2EZ Cuba Pictures 42 - 48 Great Portand Street (IT) and supported by the +44 (0)20 7503 3980 Emily Perry London Elephant Trust (UK) and the [email protected] Haymarket House W1W 7NB Greek Film Centre (GR) http://lux.org.uk 28-29 Haymarket +44 (0)20 7734 9000 London SW1Y 4SP info@protagonistpictures. Anja Kirschner +44 (0)20 7393 4487 com [email protected] [email protected] www.protagonistpictures.com www.anjakirschner.com www.cubapictures.co.uk 8 FEATURES A Quiet Passion Remainder
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Synopsis Synopsis The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from Based on the bestselling cult novel by Tom early days as a young schoolgirl to later years as McCarthy, the plot follows a young man who tries to a reclusive, unrecognized artist. Dickinson wrote reconstruct his past out of fragmented memories. a poem a day, but only a fraction of her output His obsessive efforts are funded by a large financial was published throughout her lifetime. She was settlement for an accident he cannot remember, extremely shy, but with a wry, lively sense of humour. but neither his friends nor he can anticipate the Her friendships were intense but it was within the extremes he will go to in realising his quest. family that she found her greatest happiness. Her Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama life is one of quiet dignity. The poetry magnificent. All the terror and beauty of the world distilled down Details to the quintessence of meaning and expression. Year: 2015 Quite simply one of the world’s greatest poets. Running Time: 97 mins Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Berlinale Special Director: Omer Fast Gala - World premiere Producer: Natasha Dack Ojumo, Malte Grunert Executive Producer: Eve Gabereau, Markus Details Hannebauer, Etan Ilfeld, Lizzie Francke, Phoebe Year: 2016 Greenberg, Penny Mancuso Running Time: 125 mins Editor: Andrew Bird Director: Terence Davies Screenwriter: Omer Fast (screenplay), Tom McCarthy Producer: Sol Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter (novel) Co-Producer: Peter de Maegd, Tom Hameeuw, Directory of Photography: Lukas Strebel Executive Producer: Andrea Gibson, Jason Van Eman, Production Designer: Adrian Smith Ross Marroso, Ben McConley, Ron Moring, Jason Principal Cast: Tom Sturridge, Ed Speleers, Cush Moring, Genevieve Lemal, Alain-Gilles Villevoye, Jumbo, Arsher Ali, Laurence Spellman, Shaun Stuart Pollock, Dominic Ianno Prendergast Editor: Pia Di Ciaula Produced in association with British Film Institute Screenwriter: Terence Davies (BFI), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderung Directory of Photography: Florian Hoffmeister BSC Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Soda Film + Art Production Designer: Merijn Seps Principal Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Production Company Sales Agent Carradine, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff, Jodhi May, UK, Germany coproduction The Match Factory (DE) Catherine Bailey, Joanna Bacon, Annette Badland, Balthasarstrasse 79-81 Eric Loren Tigerlily Films (UK), Amusement Park Film 50670 Cologne GmbH (DE) Germany +49 221 539 70 90 Production Company Sales Agent Tigerlily Films UK, Belgium coproduction Double Dutch International [email protected] 23 Blandford Court www.the-match-factory.com Hurricane Films (UK), (CA) 117 Millcliff Circle St Peters Way Potemkino (BE) Aurora London Onatario N1 4SA Hurricane Films L4G 7P1 +44 (0)20 7923 1001 13 Hope Street Canada Liverpool +1 519 942 3212 hello@tigerlilyproductions. L1 9BQ [email protected] com +44 (0)151 707 9700 www.doubledutchinternational. www.tigerlilyproductions. [email protected] com com www.hurricanefilms.net
FEATURES 9 War on Everyone
Synopsis A jet-black comedy about two corrupt cops in New Mexico who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he? Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama - World premiere
Details Year: 2016 Running Time: 98 mins Director: John Michael McDonagh Producer: Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross Co-Producer: Elizabeth Eves Executive Producer: Hilary Davis, Stephen Kelliher, Natascha Wharton, Ben Roberts, Fenella Ross, Elliot Ross Editor: Chris Gill Screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh Directory of Photography: Bobby Bukowski Production Designer: Wynn Thomas Music: Lorna Balfe Principal Cast: Michael Peña, Alexander Skarsgård, Theo James, Tessa Thompson, Caleb Landry Jones, Paul Reiser, Stephanie Sigman, David Wilmot
Production Company Sales Agent Reprisal Films Bankside Films [email protected] Ashley House, 5th Floor www.reprisalfilms.com 12 Great Portland Street Head Gear Films London Phil Hunt W1W 8QN Ashley House, 5th Floor +44 (0)20 7636 6085 12 Great Portland Street [email protected] London www.bankside-films.com W1W 8QN +44 (0)20 7734 3566 [email protected]
10 FEATURES UK Documentaries at Berlinale 2016
11 Hannibal in Rafah The Lovers and the Despot
Synopsis Synopsis ‘Hannibal in Rafah: A Reconstruction of One Bloody In the aftermath of the Korean War, ambitious Day in the 2014 Gaza War from User Generated young film director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Videos’ is a detailed reconstruction of the events Eun-hee enter into a glamorous romance. They on one day in Rafah, Gaza during the ‘Hannibal rise to the top of the South Korean film industry Directive’ – a controversial command designed and are drawn into the inner circle of dictatorial to deal with captures of soldiers by unleashing President Park. Their groundbreaking films become massive firepower despite the risk to civilians. instant sensations. But their movie-world idyll is “Because our investigation team was denied shattered after Shin has a scandalous affair with access to Gaza, Forensic Architecture developed another actress and confronts the President over a number of techniques aiming to reconstruct censorship, who retaliates by shutting down his the events from hundreds of images and videos studio. Unable to reconcile, Choi and Shin divorce. recorded by professional and citizen-journalists. Then their lives take a bizarre turn. Choi is lured to The images were thereafter located in a 3D model Hong-Kong by the promise of work, but is bundled of Rafah. This resulted to the Image Complex, a onto a boat and sedated. After a grueling sea device that allowed us to explore the spatial and voyage to North Korea she is welcomed ashore by temporal connections between the various sources whimsical dictator’s son and movie-obsessive, Kim and reconstruct the unfolding of events. Forensic Jong-il, who imprisons her in his summerhouse. Architecture... also located witness testimonies, Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama delivered after the war, within this 3D model, and Dokumente corroborated the reported events with other audiovisual material.” Details Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded Year: 2016 - Visionary Archives Running Time: 94 mins Director: Robert Cannan, Ross Adam Producer: Natasha Dack Ojumu, Robert Cannan, Details Ross Adam Year: 2016 Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Richard Holmes, Running Time: 70 mins Nick Fraser, Kate Townsend, Sheryl Crown, Maggie Director: Eyal Weizman Monteith, Victoria Steventon, Cristina Ljungberg, Producer: Forensic Architecture Sandra Whipham Screenwriter: Text written by Eyal Weizman Editor: Jim Hession Sound: Sound Designer: Alastair Sirkett Music: Nathan Halpern Principal Cast: Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hee
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Forensic Architecture c/o Forensic Architecture England, BBC Storyville, Submarine Deluxe Centre for Research Centre for Research Hellflowerproduction Submarine Deluxe Architecture Department of Architecture Department of Tigerlily Films 197 Grand Street 6W Visual Cultures Goldsmiths, Visual Cultures Goldsmiths, 23 Blandford Court New York University of London University of London St Peters Way NY 10013 Lewisham Way Lewisham Way London N1 4SA +1 212 625 1410 London London +44 (0)20 7923 1001 [email protected] SE14 6NW SE14 6NW [email protected] www.submarinedeluxe.com [email protected] [email protected] www.tigerlilyproductions.com www.forensic-architecture.org www.forensic-architecture.org DOCUMENTARIES 12 A Magical Substance Noma - My Perfect Storm Flows Into Me
Synopsis Synopsis Artist Jumana Manna sets out in search of With automatic access to genius, René Redzepi the musical diversity of historical Palestine. plays with wilderness and interprets a forgotten Drawing on her research into the German-Jewish edible world into a culinary language we all ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann (1892-1939) understand. In his search for belonging, Redzepi, a and his work in Palestine, the film follows Manna’s modern ugly duckling, bullied by his peers, found exchanges with musicians as she encounters them his home in no man’s land and transformed into in their homes and places of work and worship. a swan. ‘Noma My Perfect Storm’ is a creative journey into the unique mind of René Redzepi. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum - World premiere Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Culinary Cinema
Details Details Year: 2016 Year: 2015 Running Time: 68 mins Running Time: 95 mins Director: Jumana Manna Director: Pierre Deschamps Producer: Polly Staple Producer: Etta Thompson Deschamps Editor: Katrin Ebersohn Executive Producer: Anders Holck, Malte Udsen, Screenwriter: Jumana Manna Ricardo Celabbos, Directory of Photography: Daniel Kedem Malene Blenkov, Michel Schønnemann, Etta Thompson Sound: Sound Recording: Antoine Brochu; Sound Deschamps Mixing: Jochen Jezussek Editor: Mike Brook Music: Voice and music from: Aharon Amram, Liron Screenwriter: Pierre Deschamps Amram, Abdullah Wasif Cahen, Neta Elkayam, Amit Hai, Directory of Photography: Pierre Deschamps Mousa Al Khamaysi, Yaniv Ovadia, Said Murad, Wisam Sound: Sound Design: Brian Dyrby, Kristoffer Salting; Murad, Osama Abu ‘Ali, Hassan Abu ‘Ali, Hussein Abu Sound Mix: ‘Ali, Hani Shushari Thomas Jæger Principal Cast: Adel Manna, Aziza Manna Music: Frans Bak, Keld Haaning Ibsen Principal Cast: René Redzepi
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Palestinian Territories, c/o A Documentree Films TrustNordisk (DK) Germany, UK coproduction Jumana Manna production in coproduction Filmbyen 22 Co-commissioned by the [email protected] with Red Rental A/S, 2650 Hvidovre Sharjah Art Foundation and www.jumanamanna.com Good Rolling Films and in Denmark Chisenhale Gallery with collaboration with SWR +45 3686 8788 Malmö Konsthall and the Documentree Films [email protected] Biennale of Sydney +44 (0)784 8855469 www.trustnordisk.com Jumana Manna Contact@ [email protected] documentreefilms.com www.jumanamanna.com www.documentreefilms.com
13 DOCUMENTARIES The Seasons in Quincy: Four Uncle Howard Portraits of John Berger
Synopsis Synopsis “The four essay films which comprise ‘The Seasons in When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in Quincy’ each take different aspects of British writer 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two and thinker John Berger’s life in the Haute-Savoie, feature documentaries and was in post-production and combine ideas and motifs from Berger’s own on his narrative debut, ‘Bloodhounds of Broadway’. work with the atmosphere of his mountain home. Twenty-five years later, his nephew, Aaron, sets out Each film was created as an individual work of art on a quest to find the lost negative of ‘Burroughs: but they combine to make a feature film... showing The Movie’, his uncle’s critically-acclaimed portrait how film can move beyond text, and beyond fine art, of legendary author William S. Burroughs. When to offer a multifaceted and multi-layered portrait. Aaron uncovers Howard’s extensive archive in These are more than documentary films – they are Burroughs’ bunker, it not only revives the film for a exercises in thinking in film.” (Derek Jarman Lab) new generation, but also opens a vibrant window Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Berlinale Special - on New York City’s creative culture from the 1970s World premiereYear: 2015 and ‘80s, and inspires a wide-ranging exploration of his beloved uncle’s legacy. Details Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama Year: 2016 Dokumente Running Time: 90 mins Director: Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Bartek Details Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton Year: 2016 Producer: Derek Jarman Lab, Birkbeck, University of Running Time: 96 mins London, Lily Ford, Colin MacCabe, Director: Aaron Brookner Executive Producer: Tilda Swinton, Steven Connor, Producer: Paula Vaccaro Adam Bartos, Vijay Vaidyanathan Co-Producer: Sara Driver, Alex Garcia Editor: Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz, Assistant Executive Producer: Jim Jarmusch Editor: Walter Stabb Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo Screenwriter: Tilda Swinton, Christopher Roth, Ben Screenwriter: Aaron Brookner Lerner (contributing writer) Directory of Photography: Gregg de Domenico, Directory of Photography: Nick Ward, Jeanne Tremsal, André Döbert Bea Moyes, Lenny Flohr, Bartek Dziadosz Sound: Sound Editor: Vanesa Lorena Tate Sound: Walter Stabb, Lily Ford, Sally Mumby Croft Music: Jozef van Wissem Music: Simon Fisher Turner Principal Cast: With contributions from Madonna, Principal Cast: John Berger, Yves Berger, Melina Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith, Sara Driver; (Archive Berger, Vincent Berger, Sandra Berger, Jules Linglin, footage: Howard Brookner, William Burroughs, Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Ben Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol) Lerner, Askshi Singh, Xavier Swinton Byrne, Honor Swinton Byrne Production Company Sales Agent UK, USA coproduction ICM Partners (US) Production Company Sales Agent Pinball London Peter Trinh A Derek Jarman Lab Derek Jarman Lab The Workshop 10250 Constellation Blvd, production, with support Zoe Kandyla Harley Lane 9th Floor from University of Birkbeck, Univ of London Heathfield Los Angeles Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley Room B11 TN21 8AG CA 90067 Community Foundation and 36 Gordon Square +44 (0)8452 733893 USA Pannonia Foundation London WC1H 0PD [email protected] +1 310 550 4440 +44 (0) 20 3073 8358 www.pinballonline.co.uk [email protected] [email protected] www.icmtalent.com www.jarmanlab.org [email protected] www.seasonsinquincy.com DOCUMENTARIES 14 Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?
Synopsis Saar is a gay man from a religious family in Israel. After being kicked out of his conservative kibbutz, Saar flees to London where he enjoys a gay lifestyle denied to him in Israel. He lives the dream, but wakes up to a nightmare when he discovers that he has contracted HIV. When he breaks the news to his family, they struggle with fears and prejudices. With the support and warmth of Saar’s surrogate brothers - the London Gay Men’s Chorus - he begins a reconciliation process with his biological family in Israel. Saar finds himself torn between the two worlds and must make a decision: should he return to Israel and embrace his family once more, or stay in London and live in exile forever. With a glorious soundtrack this is a tender, honest and intimate film. Shot over several years, exploring the power of forgiveness and the power that home has, no matter how far we go. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama
London Gay Men’s Chorus image courtesy of Todor Krastev Chorus image courtesy Men’s of Todor Gay London Dokumente - World premiere
Details Year: 2016 Running Time: 84 mins Director: Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann, Alexander Bodin Saphir (co-director) Producer: Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann, Alexander Bodin Saphir Executive Producer: Ashley Luke
Production Company Sales Agent Israel, UK coproduction Autlook Filmsales (AT) Heymann Brothers Film (IL), Salma Abdalla Breaking Productions (UK) Spittelberggasse 3/14 A-1070 Vienna Heymann Brothers Films Austria Tel Aviv, Israel +43 720 346 934 Barak Heymann [email protected] +972 35602701 www.autlookfilms.com [email protected] www.heymannfilms.com Breaking Productions 11 Johns Mews London WC1N 2PA +44 (0)7854 925544 [email protected]
15 DOCUMENTARIES UK Short Films at Berlinale 2016
16 Abu Ammar is Coming Balcony
Synopsis Synopsis A photograph circulates, showing five men staring In a neighbourhood rife with racial tension, a local out of a window. Actually, four look out; the last girl falls for a recent arrival. man breaks protocol and looks at the camera. The Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation stage is a bombed out building. All five men wear 14Plus military fatigues. The colour must have been olive green. Details The photograph, snapped by a Magnum Year: 2015 freelancer, is a glowing artefact. Alongside it is Running Time: 17 mins a blurry newspaper photograph showing the Director: Toby Fell-Holden Dhaka funeral of two men at the national Baitul Producer: Tom Kimberley, Ali Mansuri Mokarram mosque: fighters for Palestine. The two Executive Producer: Vaughan Sivell, Franki Goodwin, photographs are evidence of the presence of Mike Rattenbury, Andrew Thomas, Film London Bangladeshi guerrillas in Lebanon in the 1970s, Editor: Matteo Bini joining and fighting for the PLO in its struggle first Screenwriter: Toby Fell-Holden for domination, then only survival. Directory of Photography: Brian Fawcett Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded Production Designer: Francesca Massariol Sound: Rob Szeliga; Sound Recordist: George McMillan Details Music: Terence Dunn Year: 2016 Principal Cast: Genevieve Dunne, Charlotte Beaumont, Running Time: 6 mins Umit Ulgen, Natalie Caswell, Mika Simmons, Simon Director: Naeem Mohaiemen Meacock Producer: Naeem Mohaiemen
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Bangladesh, Lebanon, USA, Independent Cinema Office Clipside Films Ltd c/o Clipside Films Ltd UK coproduction (ICO) Tom Kimberley Tom Kimberley Co-commissioned by LUX 3rd Floor, Kenilworth House [email protected] [email protected] and Independent Cinema 79-80 Margaret Street Office, with support of funds London from the UK Lottery, via Arts W1W 8TA Council (England). +44 (0)20 7636 7120 bookings@ Independent Cinema Office independentcinemaoffice.org.uk (ICO) www.independentcinemaoffice. 3rd Floor, Kenilworth House org.uk 79-80 Margaret Street London W1W 8TA +44 (0)20 7636 7120 info@independentcinemaoffice. org.uk www.independentcinemaoffice. org.uk
SHORT FILMS 17 Carousel In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain
Synopsis Synopsis A man gives fifteen years of advice to a teen with A narrative resistance group makes underground unexpected results. deposits of elaborate porcelain suggested to Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation belong to an entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim 14Plus - World premiere is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands. ‘In the Future, They Ate From Details the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section Year: 2016 between science-fiction, archaeology and Middle Running Time: 6 mins Eastern politics. Combining live action, computer Director: Kal Weber generated imagery and historical photographs the Producer: Ewen Bremner film explores the role of myth in history, fact and Editor: Geoff Hounsell national identity. Directory of Photography: Lukasz Gasiorowski Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded Screenwriter: Kal Weber Sound: Sound Mixer: Chris Gayne; Details Sound Editor: Tony Wall Year: 2015 Principal Cast: Ewen Bremner, Running Time: 29 mins Harmony Rose Bremner Director: Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind Producer: Ali Roche Executive Producer: Film London Editor: William Dybeck Sorensen, Daniel Martinez Screenwriter: Søren Lind Directory of Photography: Thomas Fryd Production Designer: Simon Godfrey Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Tom Sedgwick Music: Aida Nadeem Principal Cast: Pooneh Hajimohammadi, Anna Aldridge, Leyla Ertosun Visual Effects Supervisor: Henrik Bach Christensen
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Spike Film and Video (UK) Parlour Films Ltd. c/o Parlour Films Ltd. Palestinian Territories, Ali Roche Top Floor Top Floor Denmark, UK, Qatar Spike Island 2012 36 High Street 36 High Street coproduction 133 Cumberland Road London N8 7NX London N8 7NX A Spike Film and Video Bristol BS1 6UX +44 (0)20 7183 2953 +44 (0)20 7183 2953 production. Commissioned +44 (0)117 929 2266 [email protected] [email protected] through Film London’s [email protected] Artists Moving Image www.spikeisland.org.uk/ Network FLAMIN Productions spike-film-and-video/ scheme supported by Sales Agent Doha Film Institute, Arts Mec Film Council England, The Danish Irit Neidhardt Arts Council, Iambic Film, Emdener Str. 48d Knud Højgaards Fond and 10551 Berlin, Germany Contemporary Art Platform +49 30 667 66700 – Kuwait [email protected] [email protected] www.mecfilm.de 18 SHORT FILMS Jacked Lili
Synopsis Synopsis Russell and Waylen jack a car, the wrong car. Will Lili is three. Lili is too small for many things. This they do the right thing? however, will certainly not stop her from trying. Lili Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation likes being the boss, and she wants to do so much 14Plus more than she can. She wants to be big enough to decide EVERYTHING. Like when to go to bed, what Details to eat and what to wear. And when she does not Year: 2015 get her way, she gets cross. But mostly Lili likes to Running Time: 15 mins have fun and play with her dog Bow-wow. Director: Rene Pannevis ‘Lili’ is a selection of three animated films from the Producer: Jennifer Eriksson Lili series: ‘Lili Loves Food’; ‘Lili Brushes Her Teeth’; Executive Producer: Film London ‘Lili Has a Guest’ Editor: Richard Graham Screenwriter: Rene Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation KPlus Directory of Photography: Tim Sidell Production Designer: Stéphane Collonge Details Sound: Sound Re-recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Year: 2015 Editor: Alex Running Time: 11 mins Outhwaite Director: Siri Melchior Music: Tony Coote Producer: Marie Bro Principal Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Charley Palmer Editor: Stine Kjær Hansen Rothwell, Nick Asbury, Patsy Palmer, Tim Chipping, Screenwriter: Kim Fupz Aakeson Nikki Pocklington Sound: Niels Arild Music: Tanera Dawkins Principal Cast: Voice cast: Amanda Rømer Roos (original version), Holly Skinner (international version) Animation Director: Mark Nute
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company A Film London and Silk c/o Silk Screen Pictures Ltd Denmark, UK coproduction Screen Pictures production 1 The Tee Dansk Tegnefilm (DK), Silk Screen Pictures Ltd London Ladybird Films (UK) W3 7NW 1 The Tee Ladybird Films London silkscreenpictures@gmail. com Marie Bro W3 7NW Unit 52.11 Woolyard silkscreenpictures@gmail. 54 Bermondsey Street com London SE1 3UD +44 (0)7482 291569 [email protected] www.ladybirdfilms.net
SHORT FILMS 19 A Man Returned Refugee Blues
Synopsis Synopsis Reda’s dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee Set to the verses of W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem camp of Ain El-Helweh ended after being deported ‘Refugee Blues’, the film charts a day in ‘the jungle’, from Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction. the refugee camp outside Calais. More intimate The camp was being torn apart by internal strife. and unlike much of what has been seen in the mass Against all odds he decides to marry his childhood media, this documentary poem counterpoints the sweetheart. camp’s harsh reality of frequent clashes with the A love story, as bittersweet as the camp itself. French riot police with its inhabitants’ longing for a better future. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Berlinale Shorts Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation Details 14plus - World premiere Year: 2016 Running Time: 30 mins Details Director: Mahdi Fleifel Year: 2016 Producer: Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel; Running Time: 6 mins Assistant Producer: Maartje Alders Director: Stephan Bookas, Tristan Daws Editor: Michael Aaglund Producer: Stephan Bookas, Tristan Daws Screenwriter: Mahdi Fleifel Directory of Photography: Stephan Bookas Directory of Photography: Mahdi Fleifel Sound: Sound: Tristan Daws; Sound Design, Sound: Dario Swade; Re-recording Mixer: Ben Baird Sound Mix: Vladimir Rizun Principal Cast: Reda Al-Saleh Music: Composer: Christoph Zirngibl; Vocals: Sharyhan Digital Intermediate: Dirty Looks (Colourist - Gareth Osman; Music: Deryn Cullen, Giacomo Castellano Bishop, Digital Intermediate Producer - Maria Stroka) Principal Cast: ‘Refugee Blues’ read by Noah, a refugee
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company UK, Netherlands, Denmark 3.14 *Collectif (CA) Thousandth Mile coproduction Sarah El Ouazzani Stephan Bookas Nakba FilmWorks with 305 rue Bellechasse 4 Sunninghill Road support from Screen (Studio 205) London Institute Beirut, Danish Film Montréal SE13 7SS Workshop Québec +44 (0)7942 380199 H2S 1W9 [email protected] Nakba FilmWorks Canada Patrick Campbell +1 514 840-8486 450 Kingsland Road [email protected] London www.314collectif.com E8 4AE +44 (0)7852 840462 [email protected] www.nakbafilmworks.com
20 SHORT FILMS Simon’s Cat ‘Off to the Vet’ Take Your Partners
Synopsis Synopsis Simon’s Cat faces any feline’s most dreaded An eight year-old tomboy challenges gender scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all expectations when forced to make an Easter Bonnet happy about it... with the girls. Then, when confronted with a family Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation KPlus with two mums, she begins to question traditional - World premiere family dynamics. Bravely subverting convention, her vivid imagination and resourcefulness leads her on a Details journey of discovery around her neighbourhood that Year: 2015 will have radical and far reaching effects. Running Time: 12 mins Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Generation KPlus Director: Simon Tofield - World premiere Producer: Emma Burch Executive Producer: Mike Bell Details Screenwriter: Emma Burch, Simon Tofield Year: 2015 Sound: Russell Pay Running Time: 11 mins Music: Stuart Hancock for Mcasso Director: Siri Rodnes Principal Cast: Voice cast: Simon Tofield Producer: Stuart Condy, Sara Forbes Animation Supervisor: Isobel Stenhouse Editor: Dougie Flockhart Screenwriter: Siri Rodnes Directory of Photography: David Liddell Production Designer: Eve Murray Sound: Fabio Santucci Music: Geoff Hannan Principal Cast: Lily Graham, Mori Christian, George Anton, Reanne Farley, Julie Duncanson, Gabriella Schmidt, Anna Martine, Mark McKirby
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Simon Tofield c/o Simon’s Cat Ltd. Arpeggio Pictures Simon’s Cat Ltd. 4th Floor - Shepherd’s Stuart Condy 4th Floor - Shepherd’s Building Sara Forbes Building Charecroft Way +44 (0)7720 754 256 Charecroft Way London [email protected] London W14 0EE www.arpeggiopictures.com W14 0EE [email protected] [email protected] www.simonscat.com www.simonscat.com
SHORT FILMS 21 Index of Films
UK Features at Berlinale 2016 5 Alone in Berlin 5 Genius 6 In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina) 6 Invention 7 Looking for Langston 7 The Man Who Fell to Earth 8 Moderation 8 The Ones Below 9 A Quiet Passion 9 Remainder 10 War on Everyone
UK Documentaries at Berlinale 2016 12 Hannibal in Rafah 12 The Lovers and the Despot 13 A Magical Substance Flows Into Me 13 Noma - My Perfect Storm 14 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger 14 Uncle Howard 15 Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?
UK Short Films at Berlinale 2016 17 Abu Ammar is Coming 17 Balcony 18 Carousel 18 In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain 19 Jacked 19 Lili 20 A Man Returned 20 Refugee Blues 21 Simon’s Cat ‘Off to the Vet’ 21 Take Your Partners
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