INTERNATIONAL PITCHES 18- 24 JANUARY 2021

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09.30 11.00 > 11.00 PITCHING > 13.00 ONE-TO-ONE 14.30 SESSIONS 16.00 MEETINGS > 16.00 OPEN TO OBSERVERS > 18.00 CLOSED SESSION

PITCHING SESSIONS AWARDS MODERATED BY GITTE HANSEN BEST INTERNATIONAL PROJECT & MARGJE DE KONING 5.000 € in post-production services from Saya. BEST FRENCH PROJECT International Pitches run for two days, 5.000 € in post-production services from Saya. shining a spotlight on 24 new projects during four thematic sessions. The projects presented THE LIGHTDOX AWARD are ambitious and eclectic, and above all have for a high-potential international project, high-potential. They cover a broad spectrum 2.000 € provided by the distributor LightDox. of storytellings and subjects. THE ECHO STUDIO AWARD for a project with high impact, 2.000 € granted As part of the 2021 Focus Visegrad, by the producer and distributor Echo Studio. the pitching session presents 2 Polish projects, 2 Hungarian projects, THE VISEGRAD AWARD 2 Czech projects and 2 Slovak projects. for the best project from one of Among the projects selected from more the four countries in our Territory Focus, than 160 applications received, 6 projects 1.500 € granted by the Visegrad Fund. have been scouted in partnering forums, markets and training initiatives: THE DOCSBARCELONA AWARD an invitation to pitch at the next co-production forum in the Catalan capital. THE WEMW AWARD an invitation to pitch at the next co-production forum in Trieste.

The public pitches will be followed by one-to-one meetings between projects holders and financing partners. 2 3 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL PITCHES PITCHES

THE PROJECTS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

SOCIETY HISTORY ARTS & POLITICS & CULTURE 4 BROTHERHOOD 28 MUSICA 52 BLIX 76 ALREADYMADE O MUERTE: DESTINED TO FREEDOM

8 THE CAMERA 32 MY JANITOR 56 CONQUERING 80 CASIMIR NEVER CRIES THE WARRIOR TIME OBERFELD AND THE PLAGIARISED SONG

12 CANDIDATES 36 SWINGING 60 HARLEY MISSION 84 DEEP THROAT, OF DEATH FIELDS UNKNOWN 1972: THE YEAR ZERO OF PORNOGRAPHY

16 COLORS OF 40 VELVET 64 MURKY 88 FRANCIS FORD WHITE ROCK GENERATION SKIES COPPOLA, IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS

20 KIX 44 WE HAVE 68 SAVOY 92 KLASH! THE STORY OF TO SURVIVE ART IN ACTION A STREET KID

24 MARCHING 48 WEAH: 72 SVETLANA 96 UNTITLED CHRISTO IN THE DARK THE KING’S ARC DE TRIOMPHE SPEECH FILM 4 5 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Antek, 22, grows up in a homophobe him that she feels like a man caught BROTHERHOOD HANKA right-wing society, believing in in a woman’s body. Antek’s world MACIAG Catholicism and celibacy. crumbles. He leaves Manuela and (WT) AUTHOR When he falls in love against the rules gives himself completely over to HANKA of his Brotherhood, his friends from the Brotherhood, chanting against ONE-OFF MACIAG the “Konfederacija”­ – Movement can’t Gay Pride and fighting for a white SWITZERLAND know about it. Antek loves being supremacist Poland. PRODUCTION POLAND in love – until one day Manuela tells 52 & 90 MIN ESTHER VAN MESSEL First Hand Films, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ LOGLINE firsthandfilms.com +41 793 351 572 TORN BETWEEN WORLDS OF HATRED firsthandfilms.com AND LOVE, ANTEK GROWS UP IN DELIVERY DATE A POLAND OF WHITE SUPREMACY. Late 2021 WHILE HE GIVES THE BROTHERHOOD KNIGHTHOOD EVERYTHING, HIS HEART IS LEARNING DIFFERENT VALUES. 6 7 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

The project is at the same time I paid for Hana’s work from my pocket, PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Born in 1990 in Białystok, studied Interdisciplinary in development, in production, although financing in Switzerland with DESCRIPTION HANKA MACIAG Studies (Asia, Culture, Ethnology, Polish studies and in preparation of editing. a Polish director is nearly impossible. DIRECTOR and Arts). Acting since 2009 in theatre, Urgent scenes needed to be captured, making videos, installations and costumes. The director has been filming nationalist demonstrations, a brief her protagonist in the alt-right scene vacation at the shore, and Hana for more than three years. had run out of money. We put She has throughout remained together a proposal and we finally transparent and not imposed received financial support from both her mindset on the protagonist, the national and the regional film BIOGRAPHY First Hand Films (FHF) is an award-winning FHF works with ambitious and accessible despite the fact that during funds here in Switzerland where we ESTHER VAN MESSEL international sales company, a theatrical projects worldwide, combining intelligence, this time she was participating are based (Federal Office of Culture PRODUCER distributor in Switzerland’s four language regions practical knowledge and experience. FIRST HAND FILMS in and witnessing protests, strikes, and Zurich Film Foundation). and a producer based in Zürich. Today, First Hand Films have been seen by hundreds of millions of people around and acts of civil disobedience. Run by Esther van Messel since 1998, the world, in cinemas, on TV and online. She is transparent about her beliefs While we are shooting, we see FHF finds partners, finance and deals with as a leftist and a feminist and big changes in the Polish society, the entire production process. FHF has not undercover. a strengthening of the alliance sold hundreds of licenses worldwide, between the state and the church turned over millions of Euros and its films have won many awards including Emmies, In the past years, Hana has earned and the awakening of a new Golden Roses and Oscar Nominations. the trust of Antek, the main generation. protagonist, his friends, and his family. She is who she is, never fakes We are still filming while working an opinion, and certainly not on the script for the festival / cinema “one of them”. At the same time, feature and a shorter TV version. she believes that only inclusion At the same time, all materials are can bridge the way between being logged and spotted for editing the sides in these extreme times. both in Poland and Switzerland. She has been around for family We have 15' of selected scenes gatherings, for christenings available. In Poland, we now work and Easter celebrations, with Silver Frame productions. she has spent time with Antek’s mother at the seaside, and with Antek’s father in painful discussions about Poland’s future. Hana has filmed the Brotherhood in their meetings and at outings, in the woods and on the streets of the cities. She documents carefully and warmly PROJECTED 240.000 € what she sees, she doesn’t judge BUDGET STILL when she films but she tells the story REQUIRED 180.000 € from her own point of view. CONFIRMED SALES AGENT First Hand Films We met briefly at a one-day seminar CONFIRMED in Warsaw where I was talking about BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL documentaries and their audiences, SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET and I noticed this young woman with PUBLIC FUNDING FEDERAL OFFICE CONFIRMED 25.000 € 10% her improvised pitch for a sincerity OF CULTURE and an audacity that are rare. I asked PUBLIC FUNDING ZURICH FILM FOUNDATION CONFIRMED 15.000 € 6% to speak to her more, and her PRIVATE INVESTMENT FIRST HAND FILMS CONFIRMED 10.000 € 4% producers, and was told that she was PRIVATE INVESTMENT HANA MACIAG CONFIRMED 16.500 € 7% alone, because nobody dares to work PUBLIC FUNDING FOC, ZFF PROJECTED 100.000 € 43% with such a project. We kept talking, PRE-SALES VARIOUS PROJECTED 73.500 € 30% texting, e-mailing, insta-following and WITH THE Federal Office of Culture SUPPORT OF and Zurich Film Foundation all that. We started to work on materials, ADVANCEMENT discussed more shootings, and tried STATE Production to find someone on Poland willing PREVIOUSLY to help and assist. PITCHED AT... 8 9 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTORS SYNOPSIS From the beginning of the film we land On April 6, 2019, millions of Sudanese THE CAMERA ELSADIG in an intimate space with those two marched through teargas and bullets ABDELGAYOUM friends who are trying to re-visit their and occupied the area around ABUZAR NEVER CRIES ADAM memories of the revolution through the military headquarter in the capital their wide collection of footage. Khartoum. The Albashir regime fell اريماكلا ءاكبلا ديجت ال AUTHORS While commenting on their different on April 11, 2019, but a sit-in ensued ELSADIG ONE-OFF filming approaches, Elsadig and Abazar for another two months to ensure ABDELGAYOUM begin to recall their first encounter the Sudanese people’s demands of SUDAN ABUZAR with a camera and how it affected the transition to civilian rule were met. 75 MIN ADAM ALYA A their choices in life. The self-isolation After two months, the sit-in was MUSA environment of Covid-19 contrasts brutally attacked, leaving hundreds the images of Khartoum during dead, tens missing and a nation LOGLINE PRODUCTION the revolution of the year before. traumatised while still seeking justice. ALYA A The calmness of self-isolation is a ripe DRIVEN BY THEIR PASSION, MUSA time for self reflection and brings the Through their footage and online TWO FILMMAKERS ENCOUNTER DEATH Black Balance TO DOCUMENT THE 2019 SUDANESE Artistic Production, two friends closer to their unresolved archives taken from social media Sudan questions and traumas of the past during the revolution, the film moves REVOLUTION. DURING THE LOCKDOWN blackbalance@ year. They decide to interview each between the pursuit of life and OF COVID-19, THEY EXPLORE gmail.com +249 912 687 519 other hoping that they might help one or death for the sake of revolution. THE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION another open up about their personal Shifting between fear, defeat and AND THEIR GROWING FRIENDSHIP. DELIVERY DATE March 2022 expectations and disappointments sometimes victory, between joy and as the story of the revolution unfolds. sorrow, dreams and disappointments, SCOUTED AT hard times and miraculous times. From January to April 2019, the It is not only a story about fears Sudanese protest was in full swing. and triumphs but about the struggle The people came out in large numbers of artists at the extreme edges and protested peacefully even as of politics. the violence against them escalated. 10 11 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

The film starts in April 2020, In the absence of local and international PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Elsadig Abdulgayoum is a Sudanese In 2012 Abuzar Adam graduated from during the first complete lock down media filming what was happening DESCRIPTION ELSADIG photographer and filmmaker. Born and grew up the telecommunication engineering college of Covid-19 in Khartoum, Sudan. at the beginning of the movement, ABDULGAYOUM in Omdurman, Sudan. He studied Multimedia at the University of Alnileen, Khartoum Sudan. A year prior, on April 2019, millions this revolution was captured solely ABUZAR ADAM from 2005 to 2008. After graduation, Elsadig His passion of classic photography is of Sudanese marched towards by the protesters themselves, DIRECTORS participated in a few filmmaking and encouraged by his father who used to collect the military HQ and camped who fearlessly attempted to shoot photography workshops in Khartoum and other old classic cameras to document their life in there until the fall of the dictatorship and stream every demonstration cities in the continent, which raised his rural Darfur where he was working on local on the 11th of April. via the social media. Even before awareness about film and new media. trades. Aubzar joined few workshops and filmed few videos for his fellow trainees. they physically meet, both Elsadig Between December 2018 until the end A key setup of The Camera Never and Abuzar have been documenting of March Abuzar joined a journalistic network Cries is to tell a unique story the events of Sudan revolution since Ayin (Witness). by setting up visual tension between the very first organized demonstration the character’s personal cinematic on the 25th of December 2018. BIOGRAPHY A Sudanese independent film production NY and Texas plus a wide range of regional reflections during Covid-19 lockdown ALYAA MUSA company based in Khartoum, Sudan. broadcast channels. Black Balance company PRODUCER Black Balance produces and co-produces originally established in March 2016 to produce today and the intense events of the The Sudanese revolution took unusual BLACK BALANCE ARTISTIC PRODUCTION documentary films, feature and short fiction three features films developed by the founding revolution a year before. The political turns, as does the story of these two and none fiction films, with focus members of the company in collaboration and social situation of Sudan today young filmmakers. Through the course on Sudan based stories and young directors. with European producers from Germany is continuously, yet casually, discussed of the film they transform and develop The company’s founders, producers and Switzerland. However, BB’s vision is while pointing the camera at the new perspectives towards and filmmakers; Alyaa Musa, Mia Bittar to support young talented Sudanese Directors contrasting sceneries between their relationship with the camera, and Mohamad Hanafi have a long to visualise their cinematic vision despite today and then. their political motives and each other. rich experience making films in Sudan lacking cinema culture, basic film education and internationally, individually and collectively and freedom of speech. since early 2000s. Their work has been screened in International festivals such as Rotterdam, London Africa, Aljazeera,

PROJECTED BUDGET 100.348 € STILL REQUIRED 87.555 € CONFIRMED SALES AGENT CONFIRMED BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET FOUNDATION MAWRED CONFIRMED 5.780 € 6% EXCEPTIONAL GRANTS PUBLIC FUNDING DOHA FILM INSTITUE CONFIRMED 6.600 € 7% DEVELOPMENT GRANT BRIDGES: CONFIRMED 413 € 1% A PAN AFRICAN ART MOVEMENT IN USA GRANT HOTDOC BLUE-ICE FUND PENDING 20.000 € 20% GRANT AFAC DOCUMENTARY PENDING 17.000 € 17% PROGRAM GRANT IDFA BERTHE PENDING 40.000 € 40% CO PRODUCTION PUBLIC FUNDING DOHA FILM INSTITUTE PENDING 10.555 € 10% DEVELOPMENT Mawred Exceptional Grant. 2020, WITH THE SUPPORT OF Doha Film Institute fall 2020 development grant, Bridges organization, USA ADVANCEMENT STATE Development PREVIOUSLY Close-up initiative development program, PITCHED AT... Pitching session 2019-2020 12 13 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Over 10 years ago, director Stasiek had to face the breakup of CANDIDATES MACIEJ Maciej Cuske decided to take his son his family, Adrian could not find his life CUSKE and his colleagues on a holiday trip. path for many years, Rafał struggled OF DEATH AUTHOR He wanted to distract 13-year-old with depression and addiction to boys from the world of television and alcohol and drugs. Maciek, the director KANDYDACI ŚMIERCI MACIEJ CUSKE computer games, so he offered them and father of Stasiek, had to find to make a movie together. The boys himself in the new reality after ONE-OFF PRODUCTION POLAND EWA liked the idea, they took the camera the breakup of his marriage. All these 54 & 72 MIN HOFFMANN and immediately started filming. tensions and problems were discreetly Fundacja That year, the first of ten amateur captured by the camera during Bydgoska Kronika horror films titled Candidates the filming of horror scenes. Filmowa, Poland of Death was created, and each fundacjabkf@ LOGLINE gmail.com subsequent summer the crew went However, now that each of the heroes +48 698 030 208 THE DECADE-LONG PROCESS OF to record the next parts of the project. has their own lives and commitments, MACIEJ the time has come to finally end their CREATING AN AMATEUR HORROR FILM CUSKE CANDIDATES OF DEATH BY A GROUP Over the years, not only each part joint adventure with Candidates maciej.cuske@ of Candidates of Death have become of Death. Will the team's last trip be OF FRIENDS BECOMES THE STARTING wp.pl +48 501 013 836 more and more surprising, but also an attempt to settle accounts with POINT FOR OBSERVATION bydgoskakronikafilmowa.pl the characters themselves have the past, recapitulate or stop the last OF THEIR GROWING UP, DELIVERY DATE changed tremendously. The boys carefree moments before the boys THEIR SUCCESSES AND FAILURES. Mid 2022 became men, experienced their first enter adulthood for good? successes, as well as first failures. VISEGRAD FOCUS 14 15 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

Rafał, Adrian and Stasiek were The second layer of the film will PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Director, screenwriter, producer. A graduate The director's latest film, The Whale from Lorino thirteen when they went on tell about the past. As if using a magic DESCRIPTION MACIEJ CUSKE of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of (2019) premiered at the International “film holidays” for the first time wand, the director will return DIRECTOR Directing, currently a lecturer at the Doc Pro Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, to create the amateur horror film to previous trips, thanks to the huge documentary course. His previous won the largest number of awards among Candidates of Death, Maciej was amount of material filmed during documentaries such as The Cure (2004), the presented films at this year’s Krakow Film thirty-five. The film was an idea the creation of the previous parts The Second Hand Bookstore (2004), Suburban Festival (Silver Horn for the best director, to take a break from worries of Candidates of Death. This way, train (2005) Far from the City (2011) have been best producer and award for editing). and everyday life, unleash the energy the viewer will be able to see with screened and awarded many times at international festivals (KFF, Ji.hlava IDFF, cumulated in young boys their own eyes the transformation New Horizons IFF, Doclisboa, GZDOC). and stimulate their imagination. of the characters in such an intense The boys grew up and changed over period. Using these fragments BIOGRAPHY A graduate of mathematics at the Economics The Bydgoszcz Film Chronicle Foundation, the years. Each of them went through he will juggle time and let the viewers EWA HOFFMANN and Finance Faculty of Nicolaus Copernicus founded in 2007 by Maciej Cuske and Marcin a certain path at that time, overcame immerse in the scene from years ago. MACIEJ CUSKE University in Toruń, coordinator of cultural Sauter, deals with the education and production many obstacles, but also felt the bitter Such a process can give the PRODUCERS events, production manager, producer. of documentary films. During several years, FUNDACJA BYDGOSKA Currently works on productions for Discovery the Foundation produced over 100 short films taste of failure. The creation impression that the characters are KRONIKA FILMOWA Channel Poland and administers the Bydgoszcz by young filmmakers, such as Pod żaglami of different parts of the horror a bit lost in time, it will add a kind Film Chronicle Foundation (BKF). by Stanisław Cuske, Black Sunday by Jarosław film allowed for a moment to forget of abstraction and figurativeness to Her previous productions includes It's Good Piskozub and Maciej Jasiński and Unexpected everyone on the set about the film. At the same time, it will allow Like That by Marcin Sauter and The End by Mateusz Buława. In addition to the etudes of their problems, help each other, the viewers to get to know and get of the Season by Stanisław Cuske. young filmmakers, BKF produced the film Rodnik sometimes confide with concerns. closer to the characters. by Marcin Sauter and the latest production Unfortunately, the lives of the young by the director I Grew Up When You Sleeped, people are changing and it is possible All of the horror films of Candidates which premiered at EnergaCamerimage 2018. that the next trip will be the last. of Death so far have been based It will be a film about this kind of on somewhat similar patterns. a journey – the one that allows Although each of them tells a separate you to be together, helps you feel story and uses a slightly different strength and gives joy, but also allows convention, after all, many elements you to go deep inside yourself. for each episode are the same. The horror film characters – although The documentary film Candidates each time they are called differently, of Death will consist of two layers. they are played by the same boys. PROJECTED In the first one we will accompany All this means that we are dealing with BUDGET 208.000 € the characters in an expedition during one process spread over many years, STILL 59.000 € which the last part of their horror film during which the characters truly REQUIRED is to be created. This contemporary mature before the eyes of the viewers. CONFIRMED layer will be very important, it will This effect will be strengthened SALES AGENT CONFIRMED facilitate building a certain film basis. by breaking the chronological order BROADCASTER On a basic level, it will tell the viewers of the documentary. FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL about the characters' trip, from their SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET departure from the city to their return The director does not really know PUBLIC FUNDING POLISH FILM INSTITUTE CONFIRMED 50.000€ 24% home. Between the beginning and how the last adventure will proceed. PUBLIC FUNDING SILESIAN FILM FUND CONFIRMED 14.000€ 7% the end we will follow the efforts of They might not reach their goal and PRIVATE FUNDING PRODUCER CONFIRMED 41.000€ 20% BYDGOSZCZ FILM a group of friends to make an amateur have not enough strength to complete CHRONICLE FOUNDATION horror film. The drama will be built the next part of the horror film – it is PRIVATE FUNDING MACIEJ CUSKE CONFIRMED 5.000€ 2% by moments of joy and doubt, also a possibility. For the director, PUBLIC FUNDING MUNICIPAL CENTRE CONFIRMED 5.000€ 2% moments when they encounter the whole process connected to OF CULTURE BROADCASTER POLISH PUBLIC PENDING 34.000€ 16% obstacles impossible to overcome the filming of the last part of TELEVISION and those when they will not give up, the horror film is important. A meeting BROADCASTERS, PROJECTED 59.000€ 28% despite the difficulties. The driving of several people who have changed PRE–SALES, CO–PRODUCTION force behind their actions will be a lot during this ten-year journey, Polish Film Institute, the desire to complete, perhaps but more importantly – have become WITH THE SUPPORT OF Silesian Film Fund, the last, part of their horror film. closer to each other. Municipal Centre of Culture in Bydgoszcz ADVANCEMENT STATE Production East Doc Platform, PREVIOUSLY market selection 2020, PITCHED AT... Krakow Film Festival, Doc Lab Poland 2019 16 17 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS The very first image we see while prostitutes all making their living on COLORS OF KHOROLDORJ approaching the chinese/mongolian this highway. Later it shows Maikhuu CHOIJOOVANCHIG­ border next to Tsagaan Khad reuniting with her family at home after WHITE ROCK AUTHORS (White Rock) is this infinite line of truck weeks of separation – ones she KHOROLDORJ overflowing with tons of coal. regularly endures in her struggle ONE-OFF CHOIJOOVANCHIG­ They sometime have to wait a week to give them a better life. FRANCE CHANTAL in their vehicle before passing MONGOLIA PERRIN this border. Colors of White Rock allows us to 80 MIN PRODUCTION understand, through the extraordinary TESSA LOUISE Maikhuu is among these thousands life of this woman, the current SALOMÉ of drivers supporting their families situation of this country and LOGLINE Petite Maison on Mongolia’s hazardous mining roads. its inhabitants: both the economic Production, She’s also one of the rare women dependence of the country, MAIKHUU IS ONE OF THE RARE WOMEN France tess@ braving this job, living out of her truck linked to foreign multinationals AMONG THOUSANDS OF COAL TRUCK petitemaison for days at a time as she waits that plunder its resources with production.com DRIVERS FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL +33 612 187 906 to deliver coal across the Chinese the complicity of politicians, ON MONGOLIA’S MINING ROADS. petitemaison production.com border. Capturing her resilience, and the environmental and human Colors of White Rock follows her disaster that they cause in defiance ­KHOROLDORJ as she befriends a lively community of of the laws of protection. CHOIJOOVANCHIG­ drivers, vendors, mecanics or even iCity Films, Mongolia icityfilmsmongolia@ gmail.com +976 990 993 29

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An aerial shot opens onto and even fights between drivers when PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Hogo is a Mongolian director and an alumnus the immensity of the Gobi Desert tensions start to mount. DESCRIPTION KHOROLDORJ of the Asian Film Academy and Berlinale and dominated by the legendary blue sky CHOIJOOVANCHIG Tokyo Talents. His feature Yellow Colt (2013), of Mongolia – so pure that it attracts The cross-border highway is dangerous DIRECTOR about Mongolia’s nomadic culture, screened astronomers from around the world. to navigate, as evidenced by the wrecks at festivals in Busan, Fribourg, and Bengaluru As we soar over the desert steppes, along the shoulder. Each year, there and won Mongolia’s national prizes for best the landscape drastically changes. are many fatal accidents. There is also screenplay and debut film. His short Dream Suddenly, for miles on end, we see the necessity of enduring the desert’s (2010) also won top prize at Mongolia’s 48HFP. nothing but mining pits – a scarred natural elements. landscape full of smog and coal dust… The vision is hellish. Side by side with these perils, is the BIOGRAPHY Petite Maison Production (PMP) was Our interests are multiple – ranging from studies lively diversity of the border town’s TESSA LOUISE created in 2006 by Chantal Perrin and of social issues (such as same-sex marriage Reprising an aerial shot, the camera social fabric. Known as “Tsagaan Khad,” SALOMÉ Tessa Louise-Salomé, both writers, directors in Illegal Love), to portraits of remarkable continues to make its way toward the which means “White Rock”, it began PRODUCER and producers. Driven by the desire to create characters (Taxi Driver, For the First and Last PETITE MAISON PRODUCTION Chinese border, when suddenly appears as a settlement of 100 inhabitants bridges between fiction, art and documentary, Time), to reflections on the processes of artistic what looks like a giant, metallic snake a few years ago. Since then, it has seen PMP explores their boundaries by supporting creation (Mr. X, The Wild One). Petite Maison filmmakers with a unique voice and Production has produced more than a hundred stretching across the desert. We realize its population explode, and the town contemporary artists (Sophie Calle, films spanning different genres: feature films, that this endless line is made up of now hosts around 15,000 people. Terence Koh, Cindy Sherman) on projects in documentaries, short films, music videos, thousands of rusted trucks transporting Seeing that there was money to a wide range of formats. The company is highly advertisements and art films, and has minerals. Around 14,000 trucks regularly be made at the border, small vendors, active on the international market, focusing on collaborated with a multitude of directors pass between Mongolia’s mines canteens, repair shops sprung up, co-productions and feature-length film projects. from diverse backgrounds. and the Chinese border. The queue along with gambling dens and brothels. stretches can reach up to 100 km. While there are tensions and rivalries that erupt in White Rock, there is also From here, the documentary a feeling of solidarity among this crystallizes around the live of its heroin: improvised community. a 30-year-old woman truck driver, Maikhuu. She is preparing to spend Tracing Maikhuu’s life over the course long days slowly advancing in of one year will allow us to discover the queue. Once the truck reaches the place in all of its dimensions: the other side of the border, she will incidents, adventures, vicissitudes, unload her coal before making her way extreme weather conditions and back to the mines. forces of violence to which our main PROJECTED 388.925 € character is exposed. BUDGET STILL “This road puts food on the table for REQUIRED 352.305 € many people” she says. Drivers here We will also accompany Maikhuu CONFIRMED earn around 3-4 times the average as she returns home to the ger (yurt) SALES AGENT monthly salary of the Mongolian worker. district of Ulaanbaatar, where a whole CONFIRMED population has taken refuge from BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL Maikhuu brings a spirit of humor and the destruction of rural territories SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET resilience to her work. “When you’re by mining companies. PRODUCER PETITE MAISON CONFIRMED 20.000 € 5% living rough, you can’t be too picky.” PRODUCTION Being a lone woman amongst many Our subjects will be encouraged to COPRODUCER ICITY FILMS CONFIRMED 15.000 € 4% men makes it all the more difficult express themselves freely, and a large GRANT COLORS OF ASIA CONFIRMED 1.620 € 0,5% especially at night when she locks part of the work will consist in seizing PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 50.000 € 13% herself carefully, or when she needs the spontaneous realities of the place PUBLIC FUNDING MEDIA PROJECTED 25.000 € 6% to do something as simple as go to in the manner of cinema-verité. There PUBLIC FUNDING ÎLE-DE-FRANCE PROJECTED 50.000 € 13% the bathroom. “When that happens, will be a number of archival images PRIVATE FUND FIPADOC PENDING 5.000 € 1% I have to take a long walk” she jokes. concerning political battles in Mongolia BROADCASTER ARTE PROJECTED 120.000 € 31% over land conservation, government BROADCASTER NHK PENDING 25.000 € 6% Then, there is the discomfort of living corruption, and the consequences FESTIVAL LOCARNO PROJECTED 22.000 € 6% in the cramped cabins, the lack of of the country’s mining boom, which, PUBLIC FUNDING TAX CREDIT PENDING 55.305 € 14% WITH THE Colors of Asia Pitch hygiene, and for some of the drivers, while bringing economic opportunity, SUPPORT OF (Tokyo Docs) battles with depression, isolation has also incurred environmental damage ADVANCEMENT and drug or alcohol addiction, and destroyed traditional livelihoods. STATE Development and also harassment by the authorities, PREVIOUSLY Colors of Asia Pitch PITCHED AT... 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DIRECTORS SYNOPSIS KIX is a “coming-of-age” story about 50-year-old father of four children. KIX DÁVID the formative years of a troubled street Sanyi and his friends confess MIKULÁN kid, Sanyi, who ends up as a public immediately. The state owned media THE STORY BÁLINT RÉVÉSZ enemy, facing involuntary apparatus sees a fantastic AUTHORS manslaughter charges at the age of 16. opportunity in the incident for further OF A STREET KID DÁVID It shows the adventures and struggles strengthening the prime minister’s MIKULÁN of the young boy as he hops, skips image, Viktor Orban, personally visits ONE-OFF BÁLINT RÉVÉSZ and jumps his way through the the site to assess the damages. HUNGARY minefield of grown-up society. FRANCE PRODUCERS VIKI RÉKA The film becomes a moral tale CROATIA KISS Having no room of his own, Sanyi of a boy whom we fall in love with 100 MIN ELF Pictures, instinctively spreads his living space knowing that he’s a murderer, while, Hungary into the outside world, using any thing due the heroization of childish pranks viki.reka@ elfpictures.hu or situation that comes to hand and scoundrels, the filmmakers’ role LOGLINE +36 703 175 374 to amuse himself. He’s an unruly, and ethical responsibility also gets elfpictures.hu adrenalin-dependent anarchist, who’s questioned. The juxtaposition of KIX IS A STORY ABOUT A TROUBLED VICTOR EDE not afraid to say exactly what he thinks. the film's two different realms, Sanyi's STREET BOY, SANYI, AS HE GROWS Cinéphage, Through 10 years of his life he moves internal journey and the external FROM EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN, France through all values of the opposing procedures (child protection agency, victor.ede@ FROM KID STUFF TO THE VERGE cinephage.fr spectrums. We see him as he goes criminal investigation, court case) OF ADULTHOOD. OVER A DECADE cinephage.fr/ from repressed to oppressor, from he's going through, will bring HE TURNS FROM A YOUNG MISCHIEF REA RAJČIĆ little brother to older brother, from cinematic, dramatic tension and raise INTO A PUBLIC ENEMY. Eclectica, careless scoundrel to responsible moral questions. How does the Croatia caretaker, from street kid to stay-at- camera affect this frustrated boy? [email protected] home nihilistic adolescent. Where lies the responsibility of the eclectica.com/ filmmakers as opposed to the boy’s DELIVERY DATE A few days after his 16th birthday own parents, teachers, the school June 2022 Sanyi and two of his friends are system and child welfare authorities? VISEGRAD searching for trash bins to light on fire. When is a young boy accountable of FOCUS A couple days later Sanyi is taken by his own actions if no one ever taught police from his home. Their him how to take responsibility? mischievous act had turned into a tragedy this time.The flames of a Our project discusses problems mattress they had found and lit had concerning not only today’s Hungary, spread to a dormitory, killing a but the entire Western, urban lifestyle. 22 23 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

KIX is a “coming-of-age” story about The flames of a mattress they had PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Dávid Mikulán is an intermedia artist Bálint Révész is a young director/producer the formative years of a troubled street found and lit had spread to a dormitory, DESCRIPTION DÁVID MIKULÁN who graduated from the Fine Art University, who focuses on the frontier between kid, Sanyi, who ends up as a public killing a 50-year-old father of BÁLINT RÉVÉSZ Budapest. He’s also attended courses at documentary and fiction. He graduated from enemy, facing involuntary four children. Sanyi and his friends DIRECTORS Hamburg University of Applied Sciences the University of Brighton in 2012. manslaughter charges at the age of 16. confess immediately. – Film and Media Technology and was a His first feature documentary, the Granny It shows the adventures and struggles The filmmakers’ previously implicit participant at the “Space of Uncertainty” Project, which was 7 years in the making, of the young boy as he hops, skips and invisible role also becomes project touring around Krakow, Budapest and received the MDR prize at Dok Leipzig, and jumps his way through the questionable at this point, due to Stuttgart. Amongst numerous group and solo Next Generation Award at Taiwan IDFF, exhibitions he collaborated with the Conceptual received a Doc Alliance nomination and was minefield of grown-up society. their own presence in the story: Soundproductions Budapest, Kolibri Theatre featured at Hot Docs and CPH:Dox amongst the heroization of childish pranks and the Hungarian State Opera. other major festivals. Through the years Sanyi’s earlier and scoundrels raises the question His multidisciplinary works reflect on how public Granny Project (2017) careless, instinctual activism turned into of the creator’s responsibilities. spaces have an effect on social structures. director, 89 min, Hungary, United Kingdom noticeable deviance, and his curiosity The creator’s discussions on this topic Psychogeography (2015) became supplemented by aggression. will be part of the story itself: director, 20 min, Hungary It becomes apparent that if on what basis may the paternal aged spontaneity and creativity are not creators intervene in the life of a BIOGRAPHY Viki Réka Kiss is a Hungarian producer from In 2018 she has joined ELF Pictures, paired with a moral value system, 16-year-old, already deeply invested VIKI RÉKA KISS Budapest. She “grew up” in the Nr. 1. Hungarian founded by Ágnes Horváth-Szabó and András PRODUCER production company, Laokoon Filmgroup, Pires Muhi in 2016. She is currently working it usually leads to destruction. in parental responsibilities? ELF PICTURES where she worked exclusively for years in both on documentaries by award winning directors Sanyi subconsciously expresses And most importantly, how can Sanyi documentaries and feature films – including with international co-production partners that something is not right with him, be prepared for the time he most likely the Academy Award winning Son of Saul. and broadcasters (from France, Germany, but his environment does not respond. will be imprisoned for? The outcome She started working as an independent Denmark, etc.). The potential horror of him being of the story will be laid out on two producer in 2016. Her main focus has been A Woman Captured (2017) creative documentaries. She joined Julianna taken out of school is only realised different layers: one is the actual court producer, 89 min, Hungary, Germany Ugrin on the exceptional project called once his school absences reach sentence that Sanyi will receive Son Of Saul (2015) A Woman Captured that premiered at IDFA an unacceptable level, but child – following a procedure intensely assistant producer, 107 min, Hungary and at Sundance, and was among the Men With Balls (2013) protection services are indifferent covered by the media and highly 5 nominees for Best European Documentary assistant producer, 68 min, Hungary to the case. Sanyi’s isolation deepens politicised by Hungary’s far right at the EFA 2018. She is a DOKIncubator, and darkens his character. government. This will bring cinematic, a Sarajevo Talents and an ExOriente Alumna dramatic tension and raise moral and an Emerging Producer. His baby sister, Timi, is born and questions. But the other layer is Sanyi often finds himself left to look that of the character’s development after her, because all the other and internal universe: will the PROJECTED 302.845 € members of his family are at work. protagonist be able to learn from BUDGET At the age of 13 he is practically his own story and own mistakes? STILL 184.700 € forced to take on responsibility Will he grow up mentally, learn REQUIRED CONFIRMED and mature a little more than to reflect on his own life and take SALES AGENT he is perhaps prepared for, responsibility for his own actions? CONFIRMED becoming a foster parent in front Sanyi has never been taught how BROADCASTER of our very own eyes. The atmosphere to deal with mental traumas, FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET is strangling at home and the and as a teenager he doesn’t listen SOURCES adolescent psyche’s response to to anyone in his environment. OWN INVESTMENT OWN INVESTMENT CONFIRMED 23.082 € 10% this is insensitivity, a way to remove An outsider, his criminal lawyer, PUBLIC FUNDING HUNGARIAN TV FUND CONFIRMED 26.389 € 11% PUBLIC FUNDING HUNGARIAN FILM CONFIRMED 24.253 € 10% himself from the tension. is the first person who triggers INDUSTRY TAX REBATE On the brim of society Sanyi has him to begin to process the event. PUBLIC FUNDING CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA CONFIRMED 25.000 € 11% no view on his future and no role Hopefully with this final training of self PUBLIC FUNDING CROATIAN AV. CENTRE CONFIRMED 18.701 € 8% models, his motivations are awareness he will be able to survive PUBLIC FUNDING CINÉPHAGE PROJECTED 140.000 € 46% short‑term. The initial street loitering the desolation of his prison time. GRANT SUNDANCE PROD FUND PROJECTED 24.700 € 8% became limited by the arrival of PRESALES/MG PRESALES/MG PROJECTED 20.000 € 7% the new family member. Hungarian TV Fund, WITH THE SUPPORT OF Creative Europe MEDIA, Croatian Audiovisual Centre A few days after his 16th birthday ADVANCEMENT Sanyi and two of his friends are STATE Development searching for trash bins to light on fire. CPH:Forum 2019 (Denmark) A couple days later Sanyi is taken East West Talent Lab at goEast 2019 (Wiesbaden) by police from his home. PREVIOUSLY DocuTalents from the East pitch 2019 (Sarajevo) – Best Pitch award PITCHED AT... Verzió DocLab workshop 2019 (Hungary) – Best Project award Their mischievous act had turned ExOriente Film Workshop 2020 into a tragedy this time. DOKLeipzig IDF Delegation's pitch 2020 (Germany) 24 25 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS In the drought-struck Latur district Mental health is a taboo in India and MARCHING SURJAN KINSHUK of Maharashtra (India) it hasn’t rained Dr. Potdar is referred to by villagers AUTHOR in three years. Chemical farming as a doctor for the “crazy”, IN THE DARK SURJAN KINSHUK introduced during the 1960's has but the women are determined. led to the elimination of the They take time off from their children, ONE-OFF PRODUCTION micronutrients from the soil and households and farms and they travel BELGIUM EVELIEN the disappearance of traditional ways immense distances every weekend DE GRAEF NETHERLANDS of agriculture. Furthermore, to learn about coming to terms Clin d'œil films, INDIA Belgium farmers get a very low price for with their own grief. FRANCE [email protected] their harvest due to a lack of control, 75 MIN +32 472 793 322 pushing farmers into a bottomless The classroom, which began strictly clindoeilfilms.be well of debt and destitution. as a “training session” to learn about SIMONE Around 12.000-14.000 farmers die depression, is evolving into a safe LOGLINE VAN DEN BROEK by suicide every year. space for questioning orthodox Basalt Film, traditions; for being vulnerable INDIAN FEMALE FARMERS, Netherlands [email protected] Amidst this slow genocide, a group and sharing emotions. WHO RECENTLY LOST THEIR +31 624 505 047 of 15 aggrieved female farmers who basaltfilm.nl HUSBANDS TO SUICIDE, MEET WITH lost their husband has taken a pledge Shy and soft-spoken Sanjeevani, A LOCAL PSYCHOLOGIST TO LEARN ARYA ROTHE with Dr. Potdar, a psychologist who has never raised her voice, COUNSELING AND HELP OTHERS NoCut Film and activist – what they went through is learning to speak up to anyone IN GRIEF. AN ACT OF SILENT REBELLION Collective, India alone, shouldn't happen to anyone going through depression. [email protected] AGAINST A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY. +91 915 813 16 96 else. Connected through a shared She is doing whatever it might take nocutfilmcollective.com pain of losing a loved one, they gather to move on and ensure that her kids ESTELLE together every weekend to learn about do not follow into the footsteps ROBIN YOU identifying the signs of depression of their deceased father. Les Films du in their communities. Balibari, France The film tracks Sanjeevani’s journey [email protected] +33 686 656 508 Two years ago Sanjeevani (28) felt with her fellow comprendes as balibari.com helpless and betrayed and wanted to they gather courage to stay resilient DELIVERY DATE follow the same path as her deceased and help other distressed women March 2022 husband. Today she is determined farmers in a deeply patriarchal society. to go out again and to let her grief Marching In The Dark zooms in on behind. Although her orthodox the inevitable emancipation of young family-in-law thinks she should spend Indian women in a rural area the rest of her life at home to take threatened by climate change. care of her household and children, through the meetings with Dr. Potdar, and the friendships she builds, she finds the courage to finish her education. 26 27 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

In the Maharashtra region in India, Yet somehow, taking up any action PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Kinshuk Surjan is a 31-year-old Indian filmmaker, In 2017 his graduation film De Flandrien won various causes have put farmers seemed too distant for me. How could DESCRIPTION KINSHUK SURJAN based in Brussels and Bhopal. His graduation the Flanders Audiovisual Fund’s Vaf Wildcard. in an increasingly desperate situation. I have protested? As a filmmaker, DIRECTOR filmPola won the Indian National Student Film His films were broadcasted on CT1, Against this background, Marching In what can I do? Award for Best Film and Best Script in 2013. WDR and VRT. Kinshuk is currently working The Dark shines a light on the hopeful Troubled with these questions, After working as a 2nd assistant director on on a PhD at the Brussels filmschool RITCS story of young Sanjeevani. I set myself on a journey across the filmIsland City, awarded at Venice Film festival, about the impact of documentaries, in which Maharashtra’s severely affected he went to pursue his master at DocNomads. his first featureMarching In The Dark Between 1995 and 2013, villages. I met women who never In this period, his short Divided Lines was is embedded. screened at the 2015 Ji.hlava Film Festival. 300.000 farmer suicides have had the time or money to mourn been reported by the NCRB their husband's death and who were, BIOGRAPHY Evelien De Graef is a Belgian producer working Samuel In The Clouds (Golden Hugo Chicago (National Crime Record Bureau). the very next morning, toiling again EVELIEN DE GRAEF for Clin d’œil films. The company focuses on Film Fest), A Family Affair (Best Dutch Doc After 2013, the government has in their own mortgaged farm PRODUCER creative documentaries and author-driven film IDFA), Overseas (Locarno 2019) and Transnistra CLIN D’ŒIL FILMS stopped publishing official data. as a laborer. Knowing that with a clear preference for films with a social (Big Screen Award IFFR). or political statement by creative and innovative Not in any developed country today, the responsibility of paying debts Evelien also works as an impact producer filmmakers. For Marching In The Dark she’ll work agriculture is left to survive and raising their children fell upon for several projects of Clin d’œil films together with company founder and lead and she was one of the producers selected on its own. Farmers have tried to them. Knowing that the banks producer Hanne Phlypo. Among our prior films for IDFAcademy 2020. express their basic demands through and landlords wouldn’t spare them. are: By The Name Of Tania (Generation 14+ countless protests and marches, Berlinale 2019), Waiting For August still ongoing today. My question whether a film can bring (Best International Documentary Hot Docs), change has since that voyage evolved For female farmers, everyday into “how” my films can transform. existence itself is a silent march. While the facts and figures are often They’re not recognized as farmers revealed, a sincere immersion into amidst a highly patriarchal society. these farmers’ daily life, their struggle, PROJECTED 435.621 € Not even as they carry out their sacrifices, their resilience and BUDGET STILL the hard labour of sowing, seeding dignity has been completely absent REQUIRED 180.750 € and ploughing - nor are they given in films. By revealing the tragedy, CONFIRMED any rights over property or land, even we have paradoxically made miserable SALES AGENT after the death of their husbands. caricatures out of them, stripping them CONFIRMED The added domestic responsibilities from humanity. Can’t I change this? BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL are only deemed “natural”. Yet, female SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET farmers hardly die by suicide, For me, for my grandfather, PUBLIC FUNDING FLANDERS CONFIRMED 40.000 € 9% although experiencing the same for all the farmers who have shared AUDIOVISUAL FUND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT pressures as men. their cup of tea and welcomed PUBLIC FUNDING FLANDERS CONFIRMED 124.000 € 28% me into their families, AUDIOVISUAL FUND My grandfather was a farmer himself. I want to make this film. PRODUCTION SUPPORT PUBLIC FUNDING FLANDERS PENDING 2.897 € 1% As a kid I often secretly heard his AUDIOVISUAL FUND phone calls to my mother, describing BURSARIES the deteriorating condition of our farm. PUBLIC FUNDING CENTRE DU CINÉMA PROJECTED 33.750 € 8% DE LA FÉDÉRATION No matter how much they tried to WALLONIE-BRUXELLES hide it, I could sense his condition PRODUCTION SUPPORT PUBLIC FUNDING CREATIVE EUROPE CONFIRMED 20.000 € 5% worsening year after year. I didn't have SLATE FUNDING the courage to see him losing all hope PUBLIC FUNDING DGCD PROJECTED 30.000 € 7% and stopped visiting. What could I PRODUCTION SUPPORT have done? PUBLIC FUNDING IDFA BERTHA FUND EUROPE PROJECTED 30.000 € 7% PUBLIC FUNDING BELGIAN TAX SHELTER AUTOMATIC 55.000 € 13% The reason I want to make this film BROADCASTER FRANCE TBC PROJECTED 27.000 € 6% and engage myself with the agrarian PUBLIC FUNDING PROCIREP PROJECTED 8.000 € 2% crisis, is guided by a curiosity to know PUBLIC FUNDING NETHERLANDS FILM FUND PROJECTED 50.000 € 11% at the cost of whose life my way of PUBLIC FUNDING DMZ DOCS FUND CONFIRMED 3.850 € 1% Flanders Audiovisual Fund, living goes. Guided by perhaps a sense Creative Europe, WITH THE of guilt and fear, as a slow genocide SUPPORT OF DMZ Docs Fund, unfolds, and by an impulse to know if Fund Pascal Decroos, Belgian Tax Shelter my education has given me a voice ADVANCEMENT and how far it can reach. For a decade STATE Development I have been well aware of the rising PREVIOUSLY number of farmer suicides. PITCHED AT... 28 29 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Gorki is an aging Cuban rocker Through Gorki’s saying goodbye MUSICA HANA and the frontman of the famous punk to his homeland, the film describes JAKRLOVÁ band Porno Para Ricardo. He has the real character of the anti-regime O MUERTE: AUTHOR fought against the communist regime activities, i.e. the poverty in which HANA in his homeland for many years. people fighting against the regime DESTINED JAKRLOVÁ We meet him when his resistance live, or the constant bullying and and protest are replaced by weariness surveillance that they are subjected to. PRODUCTION TO FREEDOM ALICE and disappointment. Many people have And it also opens other powerful already given up their fight against stories of people from the punk music MUSICA O MUERTE: TABERY ODSOUZENI KE SVOBODĚ Cinepoint s.r.o, the system; most of them have fled scene. The most urgent is the protest Czech Republic the country. Gorki never wanted of the members of Los Frikis group tabery.alice@ to admit this possibility of escaping who in 1990s consciously decided to ONE-OFF gmail.com +420 732 883 260 the reality. However, now he begins infect themselves with the HIV virus so CZECH REPUBLIC cinepoint.cz 80 MIN to flirt with this idea, imagining what that, as infectious individuals, they DELIVERY DATE his life could look like e.g. in the could be isolated in sanatoriums, 2023 United States where many Cuban which musicians considered a refugees and dissidents live. Still, is relatively free space then. LOGLINE VISEGRAD FOCUS this the right moment to leave Most of Los Frikis have already died, A STORY OF THE MOST FAMOUS everything behind? Does it mean that surviving Gerson and his wife Yoandra, CUBAN PUNK BAND PORNO PARA one betrays his own country and who has had her legs amputated RICARDO THAT CANNOT PERFORM himself? After many years of because of her illness and is BECAUSE OF ITS CRITICAL STANCE endeavour, Gorki is about to make wheel‑chair bound, live in a decaying TOWARDS THE POLITICAL REGIME. a decision of a lifetime. building of a former sanatorium that nature takes back gradually. Both punk rockers humbly wait what the following day will bring and they meet Gorki in the moment of his deciding if he should leave the country. 30 31 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

Musica o Muerte is a film punk essay His voluntary sacrifice, the courage PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Czech photographer and documentary In her photography book Musica o Muerte, on the topic of a revolt of an individual to fight against the regime, DESCRIPTION HANA JAKRLOVA filmmaker living in Prague and NYC, she focuses she wanted to capture life in Cuba stuck against the system and the power his melancholically apt comments DIRECTOR in her projects on topics as identity, intimacy and between the past and the presence of music in the fight for independence. and his complicated personality makes freedom. She published several photography and the struggle of people for freedom and It is a story about freedom and the Gorki a fascinating protagonist. books and her works were published captured the phenomenon of liberation through price that one is willing to pay for it. We get to know Gorki not only as in international medias and institutions as CNN, music and personal sacrifice. Based on The communist regime in Cuba gives a prohibited musician, Wired Magazine, National Geographic, Museum her multi-year intense experience from Cuba a clear choice to its people: either but also as a man who is relevant and of Fine Art Houston, Museum of Photography and the relationship she has built with Gorki, Belgium, Museum of Contemporary Art other Cuban artists and dissidents, she started to work and live in loyalty to the system topical with his balancing on the edge: Moscow, UMPRUM Praha, Václav Havel’s Library to prepare her feature documentary debut and nonconflicting conformity, He is defining the limit where he is or International Centre of Photography NYC. Musica o Muerte: Destined to Freedom. or to exist and create relatively freely, willing to go for freedom. However, In her documentary projects she explores often but at the cost of being repressed. his strong identity is constantly tested life in countries transitioning from totalitarianism Hundreds of thousands of Cubans in his public and personal life. to democracy (Russia, Serbia, Albania, Georgia, search for freedom and most of them With all this, the film will also show Burma and Cuba). find it in emigration – inner or real. the darker side of the fight against the system – weariness, loneliness BIOGRAPHY An independent film production company Selected filmography: New Life by Adam Olha The punk music, which is a synonym for and disunity of the main protagonist. ALICE TABERY founded in 1990. Alice Tabery took charge (awarded Audience prize at Jihlava IDFF 2012 PRODUCER of Cinepoint in 2011 and focuses on daring and premiered at Hot Docs 2013), Eva Nová criticism of the system, has given birth CINEPOINT to two phenomena of absolute protest: The tragic and heroic story of Porno projects with a strong director’s vision: creative by Marko Škop (awarded FIPRESCI Discovery documentaries and author films produced award at TIFF 2015) or Traces of a Landscape the movement Los Frikis whose Para Ricardo and Los Frikis in Cuba mostly as international co-productions. by Petr Záruba (premiered at Visions du Réel members have consciously infected in our film will be the starting point 2020 and awarded Student Jury Award themselves with the HIV virus in protest for a deeper and more general story; at Jihlava IDFF 2020). against the regime, and Porno Para for analysing a human fate and Ricardo band that has deliberately hopefully for our own self-reflection. refused the outer and inner censorship, and consequently it has brought upon itself persecutions and a complete ban of their activities. The legendary punk band that really exists but does not perform, was founded in 1998 and was first accepted by the regime. They gave concerts and appeared on TV and thanks to the daring lyrics, they soon became PROJECTED 200.000 € audience favourite. However, the BUDGET criticism in songs became stronger and STILL 175.000 € the frontman Gorki was later arrested. REQUIRED CONFIRMED Having returned from a two-year SALES AGENT prison, he intentionally abandoned CONFIRMED self-censorship. Having started to BROADCASTER criticize the establishment at full blast, FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL the band fell into disfavour. The regime, SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET PUBLIC FUNDING CZECH FILM FUND CONFIRMED 18.000 € 9% through one of its representatives DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT “promised” that the band will never PUBLIC FUNDING CZECH FILM FUND PROJECTED 68.000 € 34% again perform publicly in Cuba. PRODUCTION SUPPORT PRODUCER’S CINEPOINT CONFIRMED 7.000 € 3% OWN INVESTMENT The decisive moment that defined the (CASH AND IN-KIND) topic of the film was when the director BROADCASTER CZECH TELEVISION PROJECTED 30.000 € 15% Hana met Gorki for the first time. PUBLIC FUNDING COPRODUCER PROJECTED 45.000 € 23% MINORITY COPRODUCTION (SPAIN, OTHER) A complicated series of contacts and SUPPORT recommendations resulted into their TV PRE-SALES/ BROADCASTER(S) PROJECTED 32.000 € 16% conspirational meeting in La Havana. COPRODUCTION It was not because of Gorki’s status WITH THE Czech Film Fund SUPPORT OF Support for development of “a secret celebrity” but because ADVANCEMENT of his justified concerns about possible STATE Development trap of the secret police. PREVIOUSLY Gorki has the charisma of a rock star. PITCHED AT... 32 33 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Fatima Oussoufa is from the Comoro For Fatima has a double life. MY JANITOR JULIEN Islands. She’s lived in France for the past On the week-end, she joins other BLANC-GRAS 22 years, in a project in the suburbs democratic activists from the Comoro ÉRIC THE WARRIOR CHEBASSIER where she raises her four children, Islands to prepare the overthrow of alone. Everyday she heads to Paris the dictatorship in her native country. MA CONCIERGE AUTHOR FAIT LA RÉVOLUTION to work as a janitor. JULIEN This is a movie about a woman who, BLANC-GRAS ONE-OFF She works in my building. I’m a travel by shear strength of character and FRANCE PRODUCTION writer, but I’m stuck in Paris because with a certain ida of dignity, transcends 52 MIN ALFRED DE of the Covid. I’ve been friends her daily-life struggles to shape her MONTESQUIOU with Fatima for years, but thanks own destiny, improve the lives Dreamtime, to the pandemic I’ve learnt something of others, and change the course France more about her. of history. LOGLINE alfred@ montesquiou.com +33 145 392 939 HOW THE WOMAN TAKING CARE dreamtimefilms.fr Will the janitor manage to clear-up the mess? OF A PARIS BUILDING PREPARES DELIVERY DATE TO OVERTHROW A DICTATOR September 2021 IN THE COMORO ISLANDS AND ESTABLISH DEMOCRACY. 34 35 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

My Janitor the Warrior is filmed Then begins Fatima’s other life, PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Travel writer Julien Blanc-Gras has worked Éric Chebassier has been a DOP and close-up, with a hand-held semi-pro broader than her daily existence: DESCRIPTION JULIEN BLANC-GRAS and written from 80 countries. He’s published a filmmaker for 15 years. He has shot a dozen camera by co-director Julien Blanc- that of freedom and hope. We splice ÉRIC CHEBASSIER 8 novels, including a best-seller, and has been documentaries for French television, Gras in his everyday interactions with archive material of smart-phone DIRECTOR translated in 15 languages, including Chinese. and many magazine programs. Fatima Oussoufa, during the first and low-res videos filmed by democracy Now, thanks to the Covid, he’s confirming second Covid lockdowns in France activists protesting and assailing an age-old saying : some of the best stories (spring and autumn 2020). Comoro government officials during can be just around the corner... This unobtrusive filming method their visits to France with our own Or even on your doorstep! allows for a simple, cinéma-vérité material of Fatima speaking at approach which, we believe, is key to democracy rallies. We also film this type of documentary and will be the various groups meeting for BIOGRAPHY Alfred de Montesquiou created Dreamtime mainly on war, terrorism, travel and ecology at the core of the film. semi‑clandestine gathering at a local ALFRED in 2020 after having founded and run MatchProd (Infrarouge/France2). He is also the author Burger King restaurant, from which DE MONTESQUIOU since 2017 as a documentary subsidiary of of several travel documentary series for ARTE, In addition, we will be filming they are hushed away because PRODUCER the French magazine Paris Match. A long-time of which the latest (The Silk Road) currently airs DREAMTIME high quality, Sony FS7 and Alpha 7R, the crowd doesn’t respect anti-Covid war reporter for the Associated Press and then in English on Amazon Prime Video. at Paris Match, Alfred is a laureate of France’s for the larger scenes and for the social distancing measures. As a producer he has managed feature-length highest journalism prize, the Albert Londres. sit-down interviews, with co-director documentaries for ARTE, France 2 and M6 TV He has been directing his own documentaries Chanels in France. Éric Chebassier as, the idea being All along the movie, music takes since 2015 (an investigation on mountain gorilla to have high quality interviews filmed an important part in the story-telling, killings in the Congo for France 5), bi-camera, easy to edit and to use as from traditional Comoro tunes to IN images or as “voice over” in any revolutionary chants to more vocal section of the film, which otherwise hip-hop lyrics in French or Comorian. does not have a commentary voice. Our camera then follows Fatima and Our main scenes in France are in the a hand-full of her associates to the building where Julien lives and Fatima Comoros, where they link up with works, doing her daily routine as a local democracy activists. We don’t janitor, but also much more: as a social know the end of our story yet. or medical assistant for the old people and lonely people in the building, Will they participate in a free and as matron supervising the young kids fair presidential election, as planned playing in the common garden, and as for next March? Will they then join off-the-cuff shrink for many a-person government? Or, more likely, will they in the premises. be repressed by local police after sham elections and join the underground The camera then follows Fatima preparing democracy marches?… going home, and during her now daily Or, still more likely, will they pursue choirs in her flat in the suburbs. the long-lasting Comoro tradition We also follow her four children, of staging another Revolution? PROJECTED 198.000 € teens and young adults, pursuing BUDGET successful lives in academia STILL REQUIRED 170.000 € and sport, completely integrated CONFIRMED to French society. SALES AGENT CONFIRMED BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET OWN INVESTMENT DREAMTIME PENDING 28.000 € 14,4% BROADCASTER FRENCH BROADCASTER PROJECTED 72.000 € 36,3% PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 34.000 € 17,1% PUBLIC FUNDING PROCIREP/ANGOA PROJECTED 14.000 € 7% PRE-SALE INTERNATIONAL PRE-SALES PROJECTED 50.000 € 25,2% & COPRODUCTIONS & COPRODUCTIONS WITH THE SUPPORT OF ADVANCEMENT STATE Development PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... 36 37 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS On October 16, 2018, seven-hundred Having seen the war first hand, Vrej SWINGING SAREEN Armenian couples gathered in a dreams to return back to his village, HAIRABEDIAN stadium in Stepanakert, the capital city rebuild and follow the footsteps of the FIELDS AUTHOR of the de facto Republic of Artsakh, men, the heroes of his family. ՕՐՈՐՎՈՒՄ ԵՆ ԱՐՏԵՐԸ ՄԵՐ՝ SAREEN to experience the most memorable HAIRABEDIAN day of their lives: a mass wedding. Artur, 12, returns back from refuge The purpose of the wedding was into his war torn city of Stepanakert ONE-OFF PRODUCTION USA AZZA HOURANI to boost the birth rate of the region that was heavily shelled in the war. HAI Creative, after a destructive war between He struggles to adapt to the instability IRELAND USA the Armenians and the Azeris over in the region. His school is FRANCE azzahourani@ the independence of the land transformed to a hotel for the Russian 70 MIN gmail.com +1.202 341 59 54 at the collapse of the Soviet Union. peacekeepers recently deployed in +96 279 620 47 77 Thirteen years later Swinging Fields the city. Artur slowly sets back into his hai-creative.com profiles the lives of children conceived routine, attending martial arts classes. LOGLINE JULIE after this wedding, a generation From his kitchen window he gazes at PARATIAN of warriors with an undefined future, Shushi, the fortress city that was SWINGING FIELDS FOLLOWS Sister THE LIVES OF CHILDREN WHO Productions, learning to protect their unrecognized recently captured by the Azeris. The France homeland boiling with conflict and enemy is closer than ever before, WERE BORN AFTER A MASS WEDDING, sisterprod@ war. Behind these resilient hidden filling him and his siblings with rage INTO A MILITARIZED SOCIETY, gmail.com +33 675 020 578 mountains of the Southern Caucasus, and fear. IN THE INTERNATIONALLY sisterprod.com borders are redrawn, hometowns are UNRECOGNIZED WAR-TORN DAVID RANE shrunk, peacekeepers are deployed Nelly from Martuni lost her father REPUBLIC OF ARTSAKH. Soilsiú Films, and cemeteries are overfilled. Our film at the frontlines in 2017. She lives Ireland exposes the fragmented stories of this with the trauma of this loss and uses david@ militarized society, whose children feel art to find comfort. She is displaced soilsiu.com +353 868 118 112 the threat of war every single day. in Armenia, and is waiting to go back soilsiu.com home where she is steps away from DELIVERY DATE Vrej is a bright 11-year-old from the her hero father’s graveyard. February 2022 village of Martakert who dreams to travel the world and become the best These children have all heard the sirens SCOUTED AT dentist in his village. He was displaced of war and its traumas have been in Armenia after a bloody war erupted planted in their hearts. They are now in Artsakh in September 2020. building their own stance about Vrej’s father came back from their futures and their role to protect the war defeated, as Armenians this invisible land that they will always faced heavy losses of lives and lands. call home. 38 39 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

ARTISTIC APPROACH a crucial age, transitioning into PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Sareen Hairabedian is a documentary filmmaker Documentary at the G.I. Film Festival, it received Swinging Fields follows the details adolescence while losing their DESCRIPTION SAREEN HAIRABEDIAN based between Washington D.C. and Jordan. a nomination for Best Documentary Short at of the militarized lives of the children innocence as they carry the terrors DIRECTOR Her eagerness to tell socially conscious stories the 2018 International Documentary Association of Artsakh. The film is told through of war that they have witnessed. led to the foundation of Hai Creative, awards and was nominated for the NAMIC the perspective of the children They are the future protectors a production company that collaborates with Vision Awards. When she’s not making films, protagonists who become the heroes of Artsakh… artists and organizations to create human-driven Sareen connects to her dance background of their own stories. In a cinéma-vérité documentaries that bring stories of the unheard and explores the connection between style they take us through and underrepresented to screen. choreography and technology. HAI Creative DIRECTOR’S NOTE Sareen’s directorial debut We Are Not Done collaborates with international organisations the landscape, inside their homes, This film explores the mental Yet is an award-winning HBO documentary such as HBO, United Nations Women, their martial arts studios and schools, and emotional state of a nation that highlights U.S. veterans grappling with Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, to paint an authentic picture of life that breathes from its wounds. PTSD who use poetry to process their Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on this land that breathes the air of As a granddaughter of an Armenian traumatic pasts. The film won Best The Surgo Foundation and others. war and resilience, where the threat of genocide survivor, what I see the enemy is closer than ever before. BIOGRAPHY Azza Hourani is a Jordanian producer and (Cannes and Acid 2020), You Think The Earth happening in Artsakh today is an AZZA HOURANI Still and wide shots representing filmmaker. In 2010 she produced her first feature Is a Dead Thing by Florence Lazar (IDFA 2019), extension of the tragedy that my PRODUCER film with award winning director Everett Lewis. Into Battle by Ève Duchemin – Magritte for Best HAI CREATIVE the stoic land are juxtaposed with ancestors lived almost a hundred years She focuses on the regional and the Documentary 2016. handheld dynamic shots, depicting ago; a tragedy that defines every JULIE PARATIAN international market, producing with institutions David Rane (co-producer) is an Irish the energy and dissolving innocence CO-PRODUCER such as National Geographic, O2 Productions/ Armenian that I know. SISTER PRODUCTIONS BAFTA-winning producer. His company of our children protagonists. MBC and various non-profit organizations. Soilsiú Films focus on human rights and social DAVID RANE Azza plays a major part in producing In Artsakh, in the lush mountains issue documentaries. His films include CO-PRODUCER at HAI Creative. PROJECT STATUS of the Southern Caucasus, Armenians SOILSIÚ FILMS In Loco Parentis (Sundance 2017), The Stranger We started researching and feel forgotten and unimportant to Julie Paratian (co-producer) created (Locarno 2014), Fairytale Of Kathmandu developing the film in the winter the rest of the world. When a bloody Sister Productions with an international, (IDFA 2007). His last film, School Life, of 2018. During our visits to the feminist and engaged approach. was theatrically released by Magnolia Pictures war erupted in the region in the midst Sister produced around 30 films including in USA, and in Canada, UK, France and Australia. Republic of Artsakh, we conducted of a global pandemic, the world Should The Wind Drop by Nora Martirosyan on the ground research in the villages, watched but remained silent… gained access to families, PROJECTED BUDGET 489.000 € pre‑interviewed residents and Children and families fled their homes STILL REQUIRED 460,000 € developed strong connections with while their schools, churches and CONFIRMED SALES AGENT the protagonists of the film. theaters were being shelled. Teachers, CONFIRMED BROADCASTER Beginning on September 27th 2020, artists, engineers, doctors were FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL Artsakh fought a fierce 42 day war, on the frontlines fighting a war against SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET causing significant wreckage in drones while the world watched but FILM FUNDS SCREEN IRELAND CONFIRMED 10.000 € 2% the region, immediate displacement remained silent… DEVELOPMENT of families along with major losses FILM FUNDS SCREEN IRELAND PROJECTED 90.000 € 18% PRODUCTION of Armenian lives and lands. As an Armenian storyteller, I feel the FILM FUNDS CNC PROJECTED 40.000 € 8% Given that his crucial event will echo responsibility more than ever, to carry FILM FUNDS PROCIREP-ANGOA PROJECTED 15.000 € 3% in the lives of our protagonists, my weapon, my camera, and share FILM FUNDS ARAB FUND FOR CONFIRMED 4.000 € 1% our director travelled to Armenia to the human stories, the struggles, ARTS AND CULTURE DEVELOPMENT FUND document the instantaneous and the dreams of this resilient society FILM FUNDS DOHA FILM INSTITUTE PROJECTED 12.000 € 2% repercussion of the war on the lives that the world has chosen to ignore. DEVELOPMENT FUND of the protagonists and reflect that A society that has always lived under FILM FUNDS THE GUCCI TRIBECA PROJECTED 30.000 € 6% in the film’s treatment. In the coming the cloud of war, marching toward an DOCUMENTARY FUND months we aim to hire crew, undefined future. I have shared meals, BROADCASTER RTÉ PROJECTED 30.000 € 6% and start funding the film. gotten haircuts, cried and laughed BROADCASTER ARTE/FRANCE TV/CANAL+ PROJECTED 100.000 € 20% BROADCASTER HBO PROJECTED 50.000 € 10% We are aiming for two phases of with the people of Artsakh since TAX INCENTIVES SECTION 481 (IRELAND) PROJECTED 48.000 € 10% production; winter/spring 2021 I started developing this film in 2018. INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENT TBC PROJECTED 20.000 € 4% and spring/summer 2021. Now is the time to carry their stories SALES ADVANCE Post production will take place forward and liberate them, so that PRODUCERS INVESTMENT SOILSU TEORANTA CONFIRMED 5.000 € 1% in the fall/winter of 2021 and the next generation of this land will no PRODUCERS INVESTMENT SISTER PRODUCTIONS CONFIRMED 5.000 € 1% we aim to be ready for a release longer remain unnoticed or unheard of. PRODUCERS INVESTMENT HAI CREATIVE CONFIRMED 5.000 € 1% by early 2022. REGIONAL FUNDS SELECTIVE REGIONAL TBC 25.000 € 5% FUNDS - FRANCE The unstable situation in the region WITH THE SUPPORT OF creates a stronger need to tell these ADVANCEMENT STATE Production stories more urgently than ever PREVIOUSLY Fest Pitching Forum 2020 (Portugal), before. Our subjects are also at PITCHED AT... MediMed 2020 (Spain), Astra Lab 2020 (Romania) 40 41 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS The film will have followed the lives Liberty is 29, lives in Bratislava and VELVET IVANA of three members of the emerging she is in the middle of her transition. HUCIKOVA Czech and Slovak ballroom She is looking for a new stable GENERATION AUTHORS community for three to four years. and serious relationship, but she also IVANA The story will provide an insight into has a tough decision to make. ONE-OFF HUCIKOVA the lives, accomplishments and Should she stay in Slovakia, where SLOVAKIA IGOR everyday struggles of the LGBTQ+ she has her family, or should she 80 MIN SMITKA community from Eastern Europe, return to her life in the Netherlands in PRODUCTION which is uniquely brought together search of better work opportunities? MONIKA by ballroom. LOGLINE LOSTAKOVA Anton is 32 and he comes from Nutprodukcia, Luky is a teenager from Brno, where Ukraine. He’s been living and studying A PORTRAIT OF CONTEMPORARY Slovakia he teaches vogue in a local dance in Prague for 5 years. Ballroom YOUTH IN SEARCH FOR IDENTITY, monika@ nutprodukcia.sk studio. He is in the last year of high allowed him to make new friends VALUES AND PLACE IN MODERN +421 907 120 906 nutprodukcia.sk school, has a deep relationship to that became his family in the country SOCIETY THAT UNFOLDS AGAINST nature and tries to figure out what to where he had known no one, THE BACKDROP OF THE EMERGING DELIVERY DATE do with his life once he graduates. but which he now calls home. CZECH AND SLOVAK BALLROOM March 2023 His mum is his biggest fan. As an immigrant, he found the support CULTURE. VISEGRAD She chaperones him to all the local and acceptance he needed while FOCUS and international dance competitions his conservative family in Ukraine and knows how important it is to is unaware of his true identity have a supportive parent, who’s or personal life. accepting of questioning identity and sexual orientation. 42 43 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

Velvet Generation is a portrait same-sex adoption (CZ), not to mention PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Ivana spent a year at Prague’s FAMU and holds workshop and awarded the IDFA Forum Award of contemporary youth in search the situation in neighboring Poland DESCRIPTION IVANA HUCIKOVA an Master of Arts in documentary film from at the East Doc Platform 2017 in Prague. for acceptance, happiness and place and Hungary, are being exploited for DIRECTOR the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. in modern society with a backdrop political gain both in Central Europe In 2017, Ivana moved to New York to of emerging ballroom culture in Czech and beyond, an insight into the Her thesis short documentary film Mothers be one of the UnionDocs’ 2017 Collaborative and Daughters (2015), a family portrait Studio Fellows. Her latest collaboration, and Slovak Republic. At the same time “backstage” of this community is also of 4 generations of women, was distributed an award-winning short documentary film it opens important questions of what an insight into the state of human by KineDok and screened in more than Into My Life (2018), had its world premiere it means to be tolerant, respectful rights in present-day Europe, both 60 venues around Europe. Shortly after at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018 in New York, and accepting of otherness and Western and Eastern. graduating she helped to produce competed in the short films’ competitions encourages a dialogue about these the upcoming feature documentary film at Toronto’s Hot Docs 2018 and 20+ festivals very important topics. Actual situation connected Yours Sincerely, Social System (2019), around the world. which was selected for the Ex Oriente 2017 with Covid-19 requires modern, DIRECTOR ABOUT non-traditional means of distribution. THE PROJECT We would like to formulate a distribution BIOGRAPHY Monika focuses on developing and producing that connect Slovakia with other countries MONIKA LOSTAKOVA Through our documentary we would strategy that would combine the documentaries, distribution strategies and through co-productions and international PRODUCER preparing funding applications in nutprodukcia. releases, as attested by our regular attendance like to balance out the debate and standard outlets (cinema) with the more NUTPRODUKCIA modern means (VOD) both including In 2016, she has started to work as a at European markets and workshops give a voice to those who are most programme coordinator of IFF Febiofest (Victim/Cannes L’Atelier, Connecting Cottbus, directly affected by LGBTI issues. some specific elements to attract Bratislava. Since 2017 she has started to work Yours Sincerely, Social System/IDFA Academy). We want to provide an insight into a larger audience. The first distribution also at production company Super Film, where Nutprodukcia has recently produced the the real lives of LGBTI people steps are conservative. in addition to her position as an office manager, feature debut By a Sharp Knife (2019, IFF and show them in situations which, We are planning a launch at one she produces documentaries and TV series. Cottbus) and co-produced Spoor (2017, IFF Berlinale), documentary Circus Rwanda (2018, of the world’s leading documentary Nutprodukcia strive to build long-term although they may seem mundane IFF Karlovy Vary) or the short-animated film festivals. An international premiere partnerships with artists and work on creating or banal, are generally unfamiliar Overboard! (2019, Cinekid). to majority viewers. We thus hope will be one of the pillars of subsequent a stable hub for creative filmmaking in Central to contribute to the adequate distribution. Europe. The company prefers projects representation of LGBTI people on the big screen and to use their stories Outside festivals, our goal is to partly break down social prejudice to distribute and screen the film towards otherness. physically ­– and to eventise our screenings. At this stage it seems Today, many European countries still that we will have two options – lack legislation that would adequately among the wider public in order reflect the rights of minorities to spread awareness of the community – PROJECTED and people of a different sexual film screenings connected with a BUDGET 270.650 € orientation or gender identity. discussion about the important topics STILL 148.000 € In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, of tolerance and respect REQUIRED too, society has a long way to go for otherness. CONFIRMED SALES AGENT when it comes to accepting otherness CONFIRMED in the eyes of the law. Our film through The second option is connected BROADCASTER screenings with the topic of its long-term documentation of the FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL protagonists’ lives, will present an the subculture and also the strong SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET insight into the evolution of the social visual style of the documentary which PUBLIC FUNDING CREATIVE EUROPE CONFIRMED 18.000 € 6,65% is planning to be shot on 16 mm MEDIA SUB-PROGRAMME discourse regarding these issues, PRIVATE INVESTOR PRIVATE RESOURCES CONFIRMED 3.000 € 1,11% and show how the individual – as special events connected with PRIVATE PERSON characters take an active role live vogue performances. PRIVATE FUNDING OWN CONTRIBUTION CONFIRMED 3.650 € 1,35% NUTPRODUKCIA in shaping the civic sphere. The common strategy we would like PUBLIC FUNDING SLOVAK AUDIOVISUAL PROJECTED 18.000 € 6,65% to use also for digital distribution – FUND DEVELOPMENT to add something special for PRODUCER ABOUT PUBLIC FUNDING SLOVAK AUDIOVISUAL PROJECTED 80.000 € 29,56% the audience – connect screenings FUND PRODUCTION THE PROJECT with Q&As or some specific content PUBLIC/PRIVATE FUNDING FOREIGN CO-PRODUCERS PROJECTED 148.000 € 54,68% Although at first sight it might seem Loi of Czech co-producer, which will attract the audience to looking for another co-producers that the documentary is too focused watch this particular film (and the Creative Europe on a single region, this does not WITH THE most important to think about its topics) SUPPORT OF Media Sub-programme diminish its broader relevance. Support for Development (Slate Funding) in a large amount of online content. At a time when issues such as civil ADVANCEMENT Development partnerships for same sex couples STATE PREVIOUSLY (SK) or marriage equality and PITCHED AT... 44 45 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Greenland’s Qaanaaq is among Everything, including churches, WE HAVE TOMÁŠ the world’s first casualties in the battle school, bookstore and hotels are KRUPA against climate change as sea ice buried in the dirt. Community of local TO SURVIVE AUTHOR disappears. Jorgen Umaq, miners led by Rod have been engaged a local hunter, has had to change to help transform the desert town into MUSÍME PREŽIŤ TOMÁŠ KRUPA his long‑held hunting routes. a mostly renewable energy oasis. Some of his fellow hunters have rather Guo Kaiming was not ready to join ONE-OFF PRODUCTION SLOVAKIA TOMÁŠ decided to follow unexpected the climate refugees. Four generations 100 MIN KRUPA opportunities in agriculture. Many of his family lived by the lake in a Hailstone, people in Louisiana, the USA, thriving community on the edge Slovakia are engaged in the ongoing battle of the desert Tengger not far from krupa.tom@ gmail.com against water, but in the case Beijing in China. Residents who live LOGLINE info@ of the inhabited Isle de Jean Charles, on the edge of the deserts try to limit hailstone.sk +421 902 204 060 it has become clear that the water the spreading of the sand. MANKIND IS UNLIKELY TO STOP hailstone.sk CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT IT CAN ADAPT has won. It has lost far more than Along with local governments, they TO THE NEW, HARDER CONDITIONS. HORVÁTH 90 percent of its surface area. plant trees in effort to block the wind FOUR STORIES FROM ALL CARDINAL TIBOR Father Roch Naquin, a Catholic priest, and stabilize the soil. The process Radio and is trying to convince the divided of adaptation that protagonists DIRECTIONS. THE PROCESS Television members of the last 24 families to move go through, with the aim of saving OF ADAPTATION IS THE BASIS Slovakia RTVS, to higher ground and rebuilt their life’s dignity, is the basis OF THE FILM’S NARRATIVE. Slovakia the community before something of the film’s narrative. rtvs.sk terrible happens. In Coober Pedy, DELIVERY DATE South Australia, daytime temperatures 2024 reach 55 degrees Celsius. Rod Wells, a former opal miner, lives in “dugout”. VISEGRAD FOCUS 46 47 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

TOPIC SUMMARY the protagonists well and that he PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Tomas Krupa is the winner of the Slovak production company, Hailstone, focused The effects of heat, drought, knows their goals. As the name implies, DESCRIPTION TOMAS KRUPA national film award The Sun in a Net 2020 on producing independent creative desertification and flooding are the the purpose of the mosaic montage DIRECTOR granted by Slovak Film and Television Academy documentaries. Its latest release The Good main environments that we will continue is to present more motifs and elements, SFTA. Graduated in 2009 from the Academy Death is the result of an international to address in our project. These are which gradually form higher units of Arts in Slovakia – from the studio of the coproduction of France, Germany, Austria and the four dominant symptoms of global that are a colourful collage of human Czech well-known director Olga Sommerová. the Czech Republic including the collaboration climate change. But this is not a project stories and portraits set in a single In 2012 he directed and co-produced his with broadcasters ARTE, Czech Television, about the scientific nature of global framework. But the central topic feature debut Graduates: Freedom Is Not Radio and Television Slovakia. It has been For Free. The documentary was aired on the screened at film festival all around the world warming. Definitely we are going of this film is the topic of adaptability. Czech and Slovak national television channels and won several film awards including Best to avoid talking about ecology and We consider the title Workingman’s and was theatrically released in both countries Documentary at Slovak National Film Awards science. It is not our task to answer Death (2005, dir. M.Glawogger) as well. In 2013 he established his own The Sun in a Net 2020. the causes that led to disasters, but as a source of a visual inspiration. to capture the consequences and life BIOGRAPHY Hailstone is film production company based The core team creates producer Tomáš Krupa after it. It is a film about what global TOMAS KRUPA in Slovakia. Established in 2013. We mainly focus and executive producer Henrieta Cvangová. PROJECT STAGE PRODUCER on producing independent documentary films warming means for our way of life. HAILSTONE In our research, we cooperate with about the topics of society, current affairs, Harsh natural conditions, inhospitality Michal Miadok from the Emergency social issues and portraits. On our previous of the environment and uncertain Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) releases we have been successfully survival are antagonists with which in Brussels. He helps to coordinate collaborating with European TV broadcasters – one has to fight his new struggle. humanitarian aid in emergencies such ARTE G.E.I.E., Czech Television, Radio and Transformation, the ability to change as earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, Television Slovakia RTVS. Beside feature films we also produce shorts and commercials. and adapt to the tough conditions will floods, as well as migration crisis be the key principle for the continuation or epidemic. Regulations caused of civilization in the future. by Covid-19 global pandemic situation have been forcing us to slow down ARTISTIC APPROACH with the development, but we have Talking about the form and managed to keep all local connections structure – using an observational alive and meanwhile concentrate cinematic method we intent to build on financing, which already brought the story narrative on a timeline, the results. At the beginning of 2021 PROJECTED where each story from a different we intend to continue on working BUDGET 539.850 € location takes place in a different phase at the locations of our interests. STILL 318.000 € of the climate process or impact, i.e. REQUIRED each location represents a different CONFIRMED TARGET AUDIENCE SALES AGENT Taskovski Film course time – while one story is at After the Covid-19 pandemic the global the beginning of adaptation to climate CONFIRMED Radio and Television Slovakia consciousness is awakened. Our goal BROADCASTER RTVS change – Greenland – another story is to offer the audience a different FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL of our narration is already in the middle point of view on the climate change SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET of its development, a time when topic they could have experienced. OWN INVESTMENT HAILSTONE CONFIRMED 23.850 € 4% it is no longer the initial effects but Our target audience starts from OF PRODUCER their consequences – the USA, China, PUBLIC FUNDING SLOVAK CONFIRMED 18.000 € 3% the young finishing High School AUDIOVISUAL FUND where people are forced despite and Universities - students mentally DEVELOPMENT their will to leave their homes PUBLIC FUNDING SLOVAK PENDING 80.000 € 15% or physically engaged with the climate AUDIOVISUAL FUND and start somewhere else – whereas protests and activism following PRODUCTION the Australian community in caves Greta effect. The age group of 25-44 SUPPORT OF CREATIVE EUROPE CONFIRMED 25.000 € 5% EUROPEAN UNION MEDIA represents a look into the almost we consider as the most important BROADCASTER RTVS CONFIRMED 50.000 € 9% dystopian future, as well as the story as they are/will be in the first line to SLOVAK TELEVISION in Japan – what life will look like lower the carbon footprint and overall PRE-SALE TASKOVSKI FILM CONFIRMED 5.000 € 1% “after the disaster”. At the beginning impact on the environment and MG of the film, we draw the viewer into the different job positions they could PRIVATE INVESTOR MAX LARIN CONFIRMED 10.000 € 2% the story with the principle of “in media possibly work at. IN-KIND DAYLIGHTRENTAL CONFIRMED 10.000 € 2% res” – without explanation – into the CO-PRODUCER OHTER PROJECTED 318.000 € 59% BROADCASTER direct action as if torn from the context. WITH THE Slovak Audiovisual Fund In the next stages of story development SUPPORT OF Media Creative Europe we will unravel the network of ADVANCEMENT Development protagonists’ stories, until the viewer STATE gets the impression that he knows PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... East Doc Platform 2021 48 49 SOCIETY SOCIETY & POLITICS & POLITICS

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Born in a slum in the Liberian capital George realizes that the best option JUAN Monrovia, and raised by grandmother, to help his grandmother is not make WEAH: RODRIGUEZ- BRISO Weah’s first gift is a football and since her leaving the country but help THE KING’S then he does not deviate from to rebuilt it. AUTHOR his destiny. Arsene Wenger notices SPEECH JUAN this young man with an unusual sense During his playing career, he becomes RODRIGUEZ- of purpose and brings him to France: a UN and UNICEF Ambassador: BRISO ONE-OFF Weah does not speak a word of he uses football as a way to bring SPAIN PRODUCTION French but his football is understood happiness and promote education ZAMBIA JUAN by everyone. “I’m trying to make for children in Liberia. Following 70 MIN RODRIGUEZ- a lot of money to help my country” the conclusion of Liberia’s civil war BRISO he repeats. in 2003, he announces his intention Omnicorp Estudio, to run for the presidency. Once retired, LOGLINE Spain Because his country is destroyed, the striker reinvents himself as a juan.rodriguez-briso@ ruined by two consecutive civil wars capable politician. After taking Sirleaf THE JOURNEY OF GEORGE WEAH omnicorpestudio.com +34 637 934 486 and he commits to the country he to a second round in 2005, FROM A SLUM IN THE LIBERIAN omnicorpestudio.com loves as his life mission. When Liberia he is beaten but he remains active CAPITAL MONROVIA TO BECOME NGOSA returns to play World Cup qualification on the political scene and finally wins THE COUNTRY’S FIRST CHUNGU games, Weah has the chance to kiss the 2018 election and becomes DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Purple Tembo his grandmother who still does not the country’s first democratically Media, Zambia INDIGENOUS PRESIDENT IN 170 YEARS. want to leave – despite the insistence elected indigenous president ngosa@ purpletembo.com of his grandson – his modest house. in 170 years. +260 963 018 927 purpletembomedia.com

DELIVERY DATE December 2021

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE Will this presidency be symbolic? PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Juan Rodríguez-Briso studied at the School of in the New Horizon International Film Festival George Weah’s story is the archetype Will he be the first of other DESCRIPTION JUAN Cinema at UNT Tucuman (Argentina). He began in Iran and Best Editing in the Peloponessian of the classic “hero’s journey”: democratically elected indigenous RODRÍGUEZ-BRISO his career as a short film director and producer Film Festival (Greece). he is looking to help his country but, Liberian presidents? Will it be one more DIRECTOR with Encuentros, followed by Desayuno, In 2015 he wrote, directed and produced as is often the case in classic stories, step in the decolonization of the oldest La Duda and Mis Huevos. the documentary film Eighteam, screened the hero himself may not realize republic in Africa? Whatever the answers His script The Bastard was finalist in the Amazon in Cannes and awarded in 5 international that he is on that road until he is too to these questions, the significance Studios Script Contest 2010. film festivals. late to back down. And on that trip of Weah’s election goes beyond the In 2012 he wrote and produced the feature He is also the screenwriter and producer victory of a former sport star turned he encounters great problems that film 30 Días Antes, Spanish-Argentinian of the documentary series Club Cultura he must overcome to be successful: president of a country. And that is what co-production awarded as Best Feature Film about the 21 Spanish-speaking countries. the loss of his family, a civil war that we want to pose the audience during destroys his country... He can reject The King’s Speech. BIOGRAPHY Ngosa Chungu is a Zambian filmmaker and CEO She is also known for her social media the call to adventure, choosing to live JUAN of Purple Tembo Media. Her mission is to create documentation of Zambian life and events, the life of a millionaire in Europe, ARTISTIC APPROACH RODRÍGUEZ-BRISO proudly and positively African multimedia as well as for her work researching, writing, but ... he decides to return. PRODUCER content that is authentically local, yet globally directing and presenting Season 2 of Today George Weah’s Inaugural Speech OMNICORP ESTUDIO accessible to diverse audiences. with Zamtel, a show that showcased as president will be the guide of the NGOSA CHUNGU and documented Zambian history, In 2015 she co-produced the documentary film In The King’s Speech George Weah’s documentary, as in several paragraphs PRODUCER culture and natural beauty. PURPLE TEMBO MEDIA Eighteam, first Zambian film screened in Cannes. first presidential speech will be used of that speech, he evokes situations as a common thread to engage viewers and experiences of the past and how In 2016, she won Woman of the Year in in a story that takes place over several all of them led him to be in the position Filmmaking award for producing Eighteam years in Liberia, Cameroon, France where he is now. and Italy: that speech will act as a link between events and it will set the Using the cinéma-vérité shooting stage for relevant moments in his life. of one week of the life of Liberia’s Throughout his career, Weah has president and documentary shown that he is not just a football cinematographers, we will follow player: not only because he is the one Liberia’s president as he prepares and only African player awarded as for his day by day life, and the drama Ballon d’Or, but also not being the kind of his confrontation with the past. of person who wants to play football just to escape from the harsh reality The film will include interviews of his country. He dreams of helping from citizens: former child soldiers, his country: he knows that sport can rape survivors, teenagers growing be a powerful political tool and, up today, George Weah’s family, just as he played naturally, he feels that friends and cabinet, local, African he has been called to help the people and international journalists, social of Liberia. commentators and football pundits, what will add depth and breadth For this reason, during The King’s to the story. Speech we will analyze his achievements not only from a sporting Finally, footage will cover all point of view but also from a historical the highlights of George Weah’s life PROJECTED 495.375 € perspective: Liberia was founded in from his football career in Europe BUDGET 1847 by ex-slaves and free-born blacks to his political campaign for president, STILL REQUIRED 148.875 € from the United States who settled but also including the two civil wars on the coast of West Africa. The first CONFIRMED in Liberia, his speeches at UN SALES AGENT ten presidents of the country were and UNICEF and his meetings with CONFIRMED RAKUTEN TV African-American, born in the United Nelson Mandela. BROADCASTER States and, after them, always FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL American-Liberian presidents: born SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET in Liberia but with colonist ancestors. BROADCASTER RAKUTEN TV CONFIRMED 346.500 € 70% Until the arrival of George Weah, COPRODUCERS LATIN AMERICA / AFRICA PROJECTED 148.875 € 30% WITH THE inaugurated as the 25th president SUPPORT OF of Liberia, and the first democratically ADVANCEMENT Developement elected indigenous president since the STATE creation of the republic, 170 years ago! PREVIOUSLY Lau Haitzetara PITCHED AT... San Sebastian Film Festival 2020 (Spain) 52 53 HISTORY HISTORY

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS At first glance, Hans Blix seems After three months, Blix presented his BLIX GRETA like a common Swedish pensioner final report: his team of experts did STOCKLASSA – he spends his days in his Stockholm not confirm the existence of nuclear ONE-OFF AUTHOR apartment, takes long afternoon weapons in Iraq. However, the leaders CZECH REPUBLIC GRETA walks along the beach with his wife, of the United States, Great Britain, 80 MIN STOCKLASSA he plays with his grandkids, enjoys Spain and other allies decided to bird watching. Hans knows that ignore Blix’s report and to launch PRODUCTION RADOVAN his time in this world is nearing the invasion that was the starting LOGLINE SÍBRT the end. So, he begins to clean up point of a chain of conflicts that PINK, Czech – his possessions, his relationships resonate up to this day. And although SOMETIMES JUST TELLING Republic with the family. And, above all, Hans Blix did not agree with THE TRUTH IS NOT ENOUGH. radovan@ bypink.cz his past. the invasion, he did not make any +420 776 061 060 significant effort to prevent it, either. bypink.cz The photos on the walls of his dark As a proper civil servant and diplomat, DELIVERY DATE study reveal that not so long ago, he accepted the decision and February 2022 this seemingly ordinary old man stood withdrew from the public space. in the epicenter of geopolitical turning “My task was to present an objective VISEGRAD FOCUS points that impacted the politics report, and I did fulfil that mission” of today. he explains.

Seventeen years ago, Hans Blix was Did he fail when he couldn’t persuade given the most important task of the Western leaders? Does he bear his career. As the head of the United responsibility for the invasion that, Nations Monitoring, Verification and in turn, led to the breakdown of the Iraq Inspection Commission, he was sent army, that in turn helped the rise to Iraq in order to find out whether of the Islamic State and the ensuing the suspicions of the US concerning immigration crisis in Europe and the manufacturing of weapons of the rise of populists in the West? mass destruction were founded or Did his peaceful stand make sense not. If the suspicions turned out to be or would it have been better to be true, it would validate the intention of aggressive like the seasoned political the United States to invade Iraq, leaders? Is this quiet, inconspicuous overthrow Saddam’s regime and to man, who strove all his life install a new government. Every Blix’s for appeasement, co-responsible step was tracked by world media and for genocides, wars and millions the world nervously awaited his verdict. of lives wasted? 54 55 HISTORY HISTORY

In June, Blix will celebrate She interviewed Hans Blix not only PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Greta Stocklassa was born in 1993 into a she tries to describe the underside of current his 92nd birthday, traditionally in as a director, but also as a member DESCRIPTION GRETA STOCKLASSA Czech-Swedish family. Since 2013, she studies socio-political phenomenae; her films border his summer house on the Gräsö island of this young generation. He is leaving DIRECTOR documentary at the Film and TV School of on documentary and fiction. In 2019, she near Uppsala, surrounded by his family the world, while she enters it. Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. finished her full-length documentary debut members. For the party, a delegation Formally, the film will consist of three Her short student films were screened Kiruna - the beautiful new world that premiered of Hans’ former colleagues will arrive core elements: the interview in at festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. in the main section of the Swiss documentary as well. Happy celebrations are tinted the form of a “talking head”, In her work, she focuses on the shadowy festival Visions du Réel and it collected a with melancholy. Everyone including the materials from the archives and aspects of the prosperous Western society. number of awards, for example the main prize Using strong visual tools and film of the student jury at Finále Plzeň 2020. Hans knows that this birthday may the observations of situations language more often used in feature films, be his last. He is sharp and active, from Hans’s daily life. We will use yet, in the last couple of years, archival materials to illustrate Blix’s BIOGRAPHY PINK is a Prague-based production company, Award) and Touch Me Not feature film his health has deteriorated. testimony. Apart from the footage from RADOVAN SÍBRT founded in 2009 by Alžběta Karásková and (dir. A. Pintilie, winning the Golden Bear For several months now, he needs the archives, we would like to use PRODUCER Radovan Síbrt. Its focus lies in producing Grand Prix). PINK documentary and fiction films as well as a walking stick to go out. This year, press cuttings, communications and At present, PINK is developing/producing multimedia exhibits and commercial campaigns. he will skip the traditional dance Blix’s personal diaries. The situations several projects. Among them is a short film PINK also represents a number of photographers around the midsummer pole. from Blix’s personal life will be from Lun Sevnik - The Tourist, a new ambitious and directors from the Czech Republic and project from Adina Pintilie Death and the Maiden, recorded from an observational point abroad. PINK also successfully produces Jan Gebert's documentary Organism, or Hans knows very well that his time of view. We will focus on situations the Czech mutation of the MasterChef show. is running out. His pragmatic approach related to the theme of nearing the series Saint Barbara aboutone of the most to life is reflected in his preparations the end of one’s life. In 2018, PINK took part in the Berlinale mysterious criminal cases of Czech history, International Film Festival with projects where an adult woman posed as a small child, for death. “In Swedish, there is a word When the War Comes (dir. J. Gebert, first in the Czechia and then in Norway. for it, döstädning. It basically means The core of our film is an interview nominated for Glashütte Original–Documentary cleaning up before death. And that’s between the director and Hans exactly what I decided to do right now.” Blix at his home. In his own words, PROJECTED Hans begins to go through his stuff Blix talks about the greatest challenge BUDGET 349.476 € – rugs, paintings, statuettes, awards, of his trust in diplomacy - the months STILL 280.046 € diaries, archives. He already gave a few leading up to the US invasion of Iraq REQUIRED rugs to his sons, he will sell or throw in 2003. He formulated the story a CONFIRMED away the rest. He plans to donate his long time ago, yet we are ready to ask SALES AGENT CONFIRMED notes and writings to the Royal Library Blix questions that weren’t asked BROADCASTER in Stockholm. Over the years, before. Did he do everything in his FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL he collected a number of awards and might? Doesn’t his diplomatic, SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET prizes from statesmen and institutions. conciliatory approach make him guilty PUBLIC FUNDING CZECH TV PENDING 21.829 € 6% There are two full cabinets in his flat, (or at least partly guilty) of IN KIND PUBLIC FUNDING CZECH FILM FUND CONFIRMED 25.969 € 7% crammed with medals and badges. participating in one of the biggest DEVELOPMENT Orders from Japan and Hungary, coins political (and personal) errors of PUBLIC FUNDING CZECH FILM FUND PENDING 82.236 € 24% from Kuwait… he will sell these at modern history and partly responsible PRODUCTION PUBLIC FUNDING CO-PRODUCER PROJECTED 21.641 € 6% internet auctions and give the money for the millions of lives wasted? PUBLIC SOURCE STV to the grandkids. The only medals Could his correct, clerical approach PUBLIC FUNDING CO-PRODUCER PROJECTED 56.455 € 16% he plans to keep are the ones he mean that he betrayed his own PUBLIC SOURCE received from the King of Sweden. conscience, his moral autonomy? And ARTE PUBLIC FUNDING OTHER (FUNDS ETC) PROJECTED 34.626 € 10% “I never want to be anyone’s burden. how does he live with the fact that PRIVATE FUNDING CZECH TV PENDING 30.109 € 9% I do not want to leave the kids with despite his lifelong struggle for peace FINANCING SOURCE a bunch of rubbish; I’d like to lighten and disarmament, he will be forever PRIVATE FUNDING CO-PRODUCER PROJECTED 9.522 € 3% their load” he says. remembered in connection with FINANCING SOURCE PRIVATE FUNDING CO-PRODUCER PROJECTED 12.339 € 4% one of the most brutal and baseless IN KIND SOURCE Did Hans clean up on a more abstract conflicts of modern history? DISTRIBUTOR PROJECTED 3.763 € 1% level than that of things and worldly OR SALES AGENT possessions? Can he leave with his PRESALES TV PRESALE PROJECTED 7.527 € 2% PRODUCER’S OWN PINK IN KIND CONFIRMED 33.370 € 10% conscience clear? INVESTMENT PRODUCER’S OWN PINK FINANCING SOURCE CONFIRMED 10 091,10 3% In 2003, the director Greta INVESTMENT was 10-years-old. She represents WITH THE SUPPORT OF Czech Film Fund a different generation than Hans Blix. ADVANCEMENT She is the generation of 20-year-old STATE Development who bear the weight of the decisions PREVIOUSLY Ex Oriente Film 2020 of their parents and grandparents. PITCHED AT... 56 57 HISTORY HISTORY

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Ágnes Keleti will be 100-years-old She arrived at the next Olympics at CONQUERING KATA in January 2021. Our film will the age of 31 and won her first medals OLÁH showcase Ágnes 100 years, as an in Helsinki. Ágnes has conquered TIME AUTHOR exemplary woman who teaches us Newton’s laws, conquered time. KATA about the ability to endure, with a will She was successful long before AKI LEGYŐZTE OLÁH AZ IDŐT to live and have pride in one’s talent. gymnastics became one of the most Ágnes Keleti’s successful life is popular Olympic disciplines. In later PRODUCTION ONE-OFF CSUKÁS inseparable from the historical events generations there are many well-known HUNGARY BORBÁLA she has lived through, war, hiding, champions in gymnastics. Ágnes Keleti Makabor and loss of family members, remained mostly unknown until 2002. ISRAEL Studio, 80 & 52 MIN emigration, and statelessness. That is the year, when at the age of 81, Hungary Framed by enormous silent suffering, she was chosen as one of the makaborstudio@ gmail.com shemoved on towards this extremely “immortal gymnasts” and became a +36 709 424 270 successful life path. Ágnes Keleti member of the Hall of Fame. Two years LOGLINE makabor.com/ reached the peak of her career at later the “Athlete of the Nation” WARRIOR, FEMINIST, SUPER-HUMAN: SCHORY the Australian 1956 Olympic Games, in Hungary, and in 2017, she received ÁGNES KELETI, THE WORLD’S OLDEST NOEMI at the age of 35, in Melbourne. the highest possible prize in Israel, Belfilms, She became the most successful The Israel Prize. By telling the eventful LIVING OLYMPIC CHAMPION, Israel competitor in the games, as well as story of Ágnes Keleti for the first time THE MOST DECORATED FEMALE noemischory@ gmail.com the oldest Gymnast to win a gold medal. we wish to send a message: JEWISH OLYMPIAN OF ALL TIMES +97 254 435 32 21 Yet, she had to wait another 46 years Never give up! Agnes Keleti has AND HUNGARY’S MOST ACCOMPLISHED to be recognized and appreciated. conquered time more than once, LIVING ATHLETE. DELIVERY DATE December 2021 Ágnes was born under the name proving that we do not have to live of Ágnes Klein on January 9, 1921 as others dictate, and we must not VISEGRAD in Budapest. Despite the indescribable conform to others, but to our own FOCUS physical and mental suffering caused principles. The frame of our film by World War II and later during the is set against the preparation for anti-communist uprising in Budapest, the 100th birthday of Ágnes Keleti. nothing could tear Agnes away The observational footage of her from gymnastics. At the age of 27, personal everyday life complemented in 1948, she made it to the Olympics with interviews, black and white for the first time, but as a result of an handmade animation, dramatized unfortunate accident, she could only re-enactments and a rich mix of watch her companions competing archive footage. from the stands in London. 58 59 HISTORY HISTORY

The frame of our film is set against I’m a woman filmmaker. Even though PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Kata Oláh is a producer and director. Born into awarded as best editor for her TV documentary the preparation for the 100th birthday I’ve always worked in the Television DESCRIPTION KATA OLÁH a film making family she started her career Couture behind the iron curtain in 2019. of Ágnes Keleti. The observation of and Film world, mainly as a producer, DIRECTOR at the age of 14 as the host of a teenage show. Her latest short documentary received the best her prosaic daily life complemented I only started directing about 10 years She has since worked in the industry mainly as short documentary award at BIDF. by the recordings of various events, ago, after my children grew up. a story editor and a producer. Since her focus She has recently finished her personal full-length book presentation, greetings and Being a beginner and middle aged at on directing her films have received several documentary My digital nomad. She is working meetings with important and not so the same time is a challenge. national and international awards. Her first on Narrow path to happiness, a full-length important people. With young and old. So, I can relate very easily with feature length documentary, distributed documentary for more than three years, in Hungarian cinemas, The Bar Mitzvah boys a film that she has pitched at WEMW and Her extraordinary life story comes the incredible life story of Ágnes. has been nominated to compete in the Prix Hot Docs in 2019. She is the board member together from various interviews I have been working with different Europa 2018, Berlin. She was nominated several of Madoke and member of EWA. we plan to record in many locations. protagonists, establishing close times by The Hungarian Film Academy and was Family members, ex-students, sport relationships with them in order historians help us to understand not to understand their lives, their BIOGRAPHY Borbála Csukás has been working in different workshop. Makabor Studio is an independent only her personality but the historical motivations and to be able to capture BORBÁLA CSUKÁS rolls in film productions from early age. During production company, established by Kata Oláh PRODUCER the past three years she shared her work director-producer and Sándor Csukás, background of the story. the meaning of their lives and convey MAKABOR STUDIO capacity between the family-run production cinematographer-director in 2004, based their messages. My diligent work company Makabor Studio and other Hungarian in Budapest, Hungary. Since Borbála Csukás Most importantly we will hear was rewarded by the possibility of production and distribution companies. joined the team in 2018 as producer Ágnes story from her own telling. creating a film about Ágnes Keleti. She is the leading producer of a feature length their intention is to focus on international Ágnes is only weeks away from her I’m more than proud that I have documentary, Divas currently in post-production, coproduction and distribution. Being a family 100th birthday, as well as interviewing the chance to create this co-produced with HBO Europe, which she had production company, their unique passion and her now, we will use historical archive documentary and I can deliver the chance to pitch at several forums and enthusiasm creates strong trust and creative interviews, she will read from her story to the world. I’m privileged participated at Sarajevo Rough Cut Boutique intimacy with the protagonists of their films. her biography. Incorporating a mix that Ágnes lets me enter her closest of archive footage, black and white circle, I can spend valuable private handmade animation, and dramatized time with her, when she is sharing re-enactments, will help the viewer with me her extraordinary memories to fully experience this story. and thoughts. Her charismatic feminist Pristine archival footage from the life is so inspiring for me, her positive 1950's till now, will enrich the visuals energy is radiating, her way of thinking of the film. We will use photographs and her sense of humor is contagious. and film footage from several countries, She never gave up and that is including Germany, Israel, and the her message for everyone: Do what Hungarian film archive. We have full you have to do, follow what you feel access to her private archive as well. your own way is. It is not the success that matters! It is love you have to live and wish for. PROJECTED BUDGET 276.200 € STILL REQUIRED 170.000 € CONFIRMED SALES AGENT CONFIRMED BROADCASTER HIR TV, Hungary FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET PUBLIC FUNDING HUNGARIAN CONFIRMED 74.180 € 27% FILM INSTITUE PUBLIC FUNDING TAX REBATE CONFIRMED 32.020 € 12% PUBLIC FUNDING ISRAELI FILM FUND PENDING 45.000 € 16% CO PRODUCTION BROADCASTER HOT 8, IL PROJECTED 25.000 € 9% CO-PRODUCTION INTERNATIONAL PROJECTED 60.000 € 22% PRE SALES INTERNATIONAL PROJECTED 40.000 € 14% Hungarian Film Institute, WITH THE SUPPORT OF Hungarian Tax Rebate Co-Production Israel via Israeli Doc. Fund ADVANCEMENT STATE Production PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... 60 61 HISTORY HISTORY

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS A story of a group of young people For each of them, the story began in HARLEY ANDRZEJ who 50-year-old challenged a similar way. However, when we delve MIĘKUS the system in a communist Poland. deeper, each of our protagonists had MISSION AUTHOR They assembled legendary his own idea of freedom. We will take ANDRZEJ Harley‑Davidson motorcycles, our protagonists on a journey through UNKNOWN MIĘKUS abandoned by the Red Army their lives, discover their stories returning home from Berlin after and their individual extraordinary fate. NIEZNANA MISJA HARLEYA PRODUCTION OLGA the World War II. We will mix timeline, formats, ONE-OFF BIENIEK archival materials with contemporary Filmikon, The WLA model from 1942 was materials, documentary scenes POLAND Poland intended to serve soldiers for with re-enactments. Unique, never 90 MIN gosia@ filmicon.pl one year during the war. It was brought published archival materials from +48 794 389 337 to Poland by the Red Army and the private archives of our protagonists filmicon.pl for 20 years “hid” in rural barns, will be an extremely important LOGLINE DELIVERY DATE like a “sleeping spy agent”. element of the narrative. HOW ABANDONED BY THE RED 2021 It unknowingly became a Trojan Re‑enactments, just like in horse for the communist regime. The Imposter or Wormwood series ARMY ICONIC HARLEY-DAVIDSON SCOUTED AT MOTORCYCLES PAVED A WAY Behind the Iron Curtain even by Errol Morris, will aim to recreate possession of Harley was politically the climate and atmosphere TO FREEDOM FOR A GROUP incorrect and its owner was at least of the events we talk about. OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING VISEGRAD a suspect. Still, our protagonists FOCUS BEYOND THE IRON CURTAIN. – Wojtek, Krzysztof, Rafał and Fischer – brought this motorcycle back to life and managed to set out on a Harley journey in search of freedom. 62 63 HISTORY HISTORY

Everyone has heard of legendary According to American designers, PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Andrzej Miękus is a creative producer, director Andrzej has created the idea and is Harley-Davidson motorcycles, some the WLA model was supposed to serve DESCRIPTION ANDRZEJ MIĘKUS and scriptwriter of independent documentary a co-producer and associate director have even heard their characteristic in the military 12 months. Nobody DIRECTOR movies. His current documentary projects of the movie. deep sound. Established over 100 years expected their second life would last include: The Quest – a full-length documentary, ago, the brand quickly gained another 50 years and its consequences the story of an American scientist Howard recognition among users, the most would be disastrous for the System. Urnovitz and his path to find a “cure for cancer”. important of which was the army. Our protagonists will be 3 HD WLA Angels of Sinjar – a full-length documentary American troops used them already units, which changed the fate of quite done with Hanna Polak, Polish filmmaker, scheduled for premiere (HBO) in 2020. during the IWW. Poles also rode them a large group of people. It is from during the Polish-Bolshevik war in their point of view that we will narrate, BIOGRAPHY Filmikon was created in 2010 by Olga Bieniek Currently they’re working on feature 1920-22. Their later “civil” legend in a way humanizing these machines OLGA BIENIEK (producer and production manager) and film The Hunt and documentary was built, among others, by the film (one of the main formal procedures). PRODUCER Mirosław Piepka (producer and script-writer) Harley Mission Unknown. FILMIKON Harley Mission Unknown, in the The story will be told chronologically, to produce feature film and documentaries. ’70s the brand was also associated but we want to constantly mix formats. They produced features: The Closed Circuit with Hell’s Angels groups. by Ryszard Bugajski, The Butler by Filip Bajon Archival materials will be one of the and documentaries: Black Box by Krzysztof Kowalski and Kult Film which is Olga Bieniek’s For some, Harley-Davidson is a symbol most important elements. We collected first film as director. of freedom, for others a synonym of a unique archive that no one really vanity and wealth, for others it can be knew about - movies and photos from associated with street gangs. It seems our heroes’ private archives. that everything about them has already Archival material will be the backdrop been told and shown. or the main part of the story and will be mixed with quotes and However, we will tell a completely contemporary scenes. We will use unknown, sensational, sweet and sour effects to “bring some photos to life” story that - if it were not true - would and combine them with contemporary have to be invented. Harley’s unknown material, ensuring dynamics that match mission is a history lesson. The most the pace of the film. We will use important dates in Polish history articles from the Polish and between 1945 and 1989 provide international press from the ’60s to the background for a surprising ’80s, clips from the TVP Film Chronicle, pop‑cultural story of how 3 Harley materials documenting the events WLA units helped to overthrow in which our protagonists participated, communism behind the Iron Curtain. photo sessions, rallies, etc.

It all started in 1942 when the Many of the stories told by our heroes Harley-Davidson WLA models differ in detail and it is impossible today (the letter “A” for “Army”) were to determine with complete accuracy purchased by the Pentagon. which of them is fiction, legend The “Land & Lease Act” passed or really happened. Using the fiction, PROJECTED 220.000 € by the US Congress gave the President we play this game. We add our own BUDGET of the US the right to provide brick to the legend. All the events STILL 200.000 € assistance to allied countries – on a might not have happened exactly REQUIRED CONFIRMED loan or rent basis – weapons, military as we show them, but they certainly SALES AGENT equipment and materials necessary could. We will show how freedom CONFIRMED for the conduct of hostilities. is born in the minds and what BROADCASTER As a result, tens of thousands the consequences are. FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL of Harley-Davidson motorcycles SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET went to... the Red Army in the ’40s. It is not only a lesson in the history PUBLIC FUNDING POLISH FILM INSTITUTE CONFIRMED 20.000 € 9% The Russians conquered Berlin on of the fall of the communist system BROADCASTERS TBD PROJECTED 120.000 € 55% Harleys, but on their return home they but also an attempt to find an answer COPRODUCERS TBD PROJECTED 60.000 € 27% have abandoned most of the American to a very serious question – how is free? SALES AGENT TBD PROJECTED 20.000 € 9% WITH THE Polish Film Institute equipment on Polish soil. They did not SUPPORT OF Development Fund know that in this way they introduced ADVANCEMENT the Trojan horse into the system STATE Development that Stalin intended to implement PREVIOUSLY Docs to Start in the new Poland. PITCHED AT... Doc Lab Poland 2020 64 65 HISTORY HISTORY

DIRECTOR NOAM SYNOPSIS MURKY PINCHAS SKIES AUTHOR NOAM ONE-OFF PINCHAS & SERIES ISRAEL PRODUCER NOAM GERMANY PINCHAS 90 & 2 × 54 MIN Laughing Buddha Films, Israel noampinchas@ gmail.com LOGLINE +97 250 522 25 30 noam-pinchas.com THE MYSTERIOUS CRASH OF AN TINA LEEB ISRAELI BOEING 747 IN AMSTERDAM Saxonia SHEDS A LIGHT ON COVERT Entertainment, OPERATIONS, FINANCIAL CORRUPTION, Germany [email protected] AND POLITICAL WHITEWASHING. saxonia-entertainment. de/home.html

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PROJECT BIOGRAPHY He is an award-winning Israeli filmmaker. Noam recently released a short documentary DESCRIPTION NOAM PINCHAS He was educated at the North East College for BBC and is currently working on several DIRECTOR of Communications in Boston. He has been projects with international partners. PRODUCER writing, directing and producing documentaries LAUGHING BUDDHA FILMS Laughing Buddha Films, Noam Pinchas’ since 2006. The Good Son, which Noam production company produce compelling co-produced and co-edited premiered at IDFA and unique stories, driven by strong characters, and was the opening film at Docs-Barcelona. aimed for international audiences. The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev, Noam’s French-Dutch-Israeli co-production feature-length documentary premiered in the Hotdocs Film festival to critical acclaim.

TINA LEEB Tina Leeb produces international Saxonia Entertainment is one of Central PRODUCER co-productions for Saxonia Entertainment Germany's leading production companies SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH. Since 2016 she has been working for high-quality documentaries, reportages with fastforward as consultant and freelance and non-fictional formats with offices in Leipzig, producer. From 2011 to 2017, as managing Magdeburg and Berlin. producer of Celluloid Fabrik, she produced Since 1999 Saxonia Entertainment GmbH international award-winning documentaries successfully produces non-fictional formats for TV and cinema including 10 billion and documentaries for the German and – what’s on your plate?, Shalom Italia European TV market and as international and MUHI – generally temporary. co-productions for the small and big screens worldwide.

BIOGRAPHY Founded in 2003 by Andy Whittaker, Releases in the past 12 months have included OLI HARBOTTLE Dogwoof is a London-based, documentary film double-Oscar®-nominated Honeyland, ANNA GODAS company integrating production, sales and UK Oscar®-nominated The Cave, and BAFTA- EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS theatrical distribution. nominated Apollo 11 which is the UK’s highest DOGWOOF grossing doc of 2019. Dogwoof has so far released 26 Oscar®- nominated documentaries, with four wins and Dogwoof's TDog production investment an additional three BAFTA winners; notable titles fund has currently six features and two series include Oscar®-winning and BAFTA-winning currently in production; the fund is focused Free Solo (the UK’s highest grossing on feature docs, docu-series, and remake documentary of 2018), BAFTA-nominated Three rights, gearing up the company towards Identical Strangers, Oscar®-nominated RBG, vertical integration. BAFTA-winning The Act of Killing and Blackfish.

PROJECTED BUDGET 698.000 € STILL REQUIRED 239.978 € CONFIRMED SALES AGENT Dogwoof (UK) Channel 8 (Israel), CONFIRMED BROADCASTER Arte / ZDF (Germany), ZDF Info (Germany) FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET BROADCASTER CHANNEL 8 ISRAEL CONFIRMED 167.431 € 24% BROADCASTER ARTE / ZDF CONFIRMED 175.000 € 25% ZDF INFO EQUITY INVESTOR DOGWOOF CONFIRMED 115.591 € 17% ISRAELI FILM FUND NFCT PROJECTED 50.736 € 14% PRE SALES / 3RD EUROPEAN PROJECTED 189.242 € 27% COPRODUCTION / US DEAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF Dogwoof (UK) ADVANCEMENT STATE Early production PREVIOUSLY CoPro Tel Aviv 2020 PITCHED AT... IFP New York 2020 68 69 HISTORY HISTORY

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS On March 5th, 1975, eight-armed In one of the most dramatic moments, SAVOY ZOHAR Palestinians broke into the old “Savoy” she dragged out a severely wounded WAGNER in Tel Aviv, demanding the release of Dutch hostage, Karol Felman, handing ONE-OFF AUTHOR ten Palestinian prisoners in exchange him to the soldiers and then returned ISRAEL ZOHAR for nine hostages they had found to her captivity, as she'd promised 84 MIN WAGNER in the small hotel. the Palestinian commander. Later on, he offered her to live with him in Cairo PRODUCTION ZOHAR Kohava and her lover checked in after the event ends. LOGLINE WAGNER at the day-use hotel just before the Zohar Wagner squad's arrival. At the same time, During the event, an audio engineer WHILE CHEATING ON HER HUSBAND, Films, Israel her husband and daughter were enthusiast, Robert Wagner, risked PALESTINIAN GUERILLAS STORMED zoharwa@ gmail.com sleeping at home. his life lying by the hotel's fence with INTO THE SAVOY MOTEL AND TOOK +972 522 295 528 a Nagra III recording device and a long KOHAVA LEVI HOSTAGE. TO SAVE HER thedawnshellnotrise.com Being the only Arabic speaking hostage, boom microphone directed towards LIFE AND HONOR, SHE TRANSFORMED DELIVERY DATE Kohava (which in Hebrew means “star”) the inside of the hotel. Wagner's audio HERSELF THROUGH THE NIGHT May 2022 approached the Palestinian leader, tapes captured the entire event in INTO A HEROINE. HOWEVER BY DAWN SCOUTED AT Mohammad Masalha, offering him help which we hear Kohava, the Palestinian SHE WAS LEFT WITH ONLY SHAME. as a translator. As she later said, commander, the hostages, and the she perceived his kindness as he'd military negotiator. These are the only prevented one of the squad members recordings ever found, enabling us from raping her. “I was looking at him to learn about a young Palestinian with wonder. Through his half-open guerrilla's personality and dreams. mouth, a gold tooth flashes in front But the armed forces' infiltration into of me. I felt the surrender in each cell the hotel at dawn put an end to of my body.” The two formed a close Kohava's innocence. 3 soldiers, bond which led to saving a few 6 hostages, and 7 Palestinians people’s lives. were killed.

Unlike the other 7 hotel guests locked Kohava Levi passed away this year. in one of the hotel rooms as hostages, Rare archival materials that were Kohava joined the guerillas. never released before – Kohava's She initiated a negotiation with the diaries, police and court protocols, Israeli army representatives that were Robert Wagner's audio recordings, outside of the building. She provided news footage, as well as reenacted first aid to the wounded on both sides, scenes, will expose the role that she the Palestinians and the hostages. had played that night and will reveal why Kohava's name was tarnished. 70 71 HISTORY HISTORY

Savoy is a hybrid thriller that will be The film is about a woman who faced PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Ms. Zohar Wagner is an Israeli documentary eastern societies and powerful man. told from the point of view of Kohava, a horrible bloody situation and DESCRIPTION ZOHAR WAGNER filmmaker and journalist. As the founder of Ms. Wagner's films also promote better a 31-years-old married woman who fearlessly communicated with armed DIRECTOR Zohar Wagner films she directed and produced communication between Israelis and Arab PRODUCER was taken hostage in 1975 by armed enemies, exercising feminine empathy, ZOHAR WAGNER FILMS five feature films which aired on Israeli minorities in Israel. Palestinians while cheating compassion, and wisdom. television, presented in cinema theaters, As a Hebrew and Arabic speaker, Ms. Wagner and won prizes in film festivals worldwide. on her husband at the Savoy hotel. And yet, she was never awarded founded in 2015 in Jaffa, a film program for Her filmStretch Marks (2008) was a huge and only condemned. Time magazine Arab youngsters, Jaffa Cinema, teaching them hit and had 7 million views on YouTube. The film begins when Kohava leaves described her as: “A petite, black-haired documentary filmmaking and journalism, hoping her husband at home, at sunset, prostitute who picked up some In Ms. Wagner's works, she explores femininity, to enhance their awareness for social activism. dressed up, to meet her lover at Arabic in the streets.” body image, the balance of power between Jaffa Cinema has produced five. the day-use “Savoy” hotel in Tel Aviv. men and women, as well as the relations between weakened women in local middle The film will end at sunrise when The story will shade light Kohava comes out of the ruined hotel, over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, her clothes soaked in blood, after focusing on the ’70s era – the glorious being held as a hostage for a long years of the PLO movement. A year terrifying night. prior the event, Yasar Arafat got his first opportunity to speak in front of Throughout her life, Kohava the United Nations. The movement's provided two detailed testimonies agenda at that time was based regarding what happened within on a liberal idea of a democratic state the hotel. The first testimony was given in Palestine, in which Jews, Arabs, at the police station one hour after and Christians would live peacefully the incident had concluded. together as equals. Eight months later, she reluctantly delivered another testimony at the Looking back to those days, trial of the sole surviving Palestinian, Israel missed an opportunity to solve Musa Jumaa. the conflict because of being arrogant and feeling omnipotent. Her testimonies shed light on the exceptional qualities that enabled her to become the heroine of that night. However, they include blunt lies and contradictions regarding two issues. The first, what was a married woman PROJECTED 573.913 € and a mother doing at the Savoy with BUDGET another man? STILL REQUIRED 157.113 € CONFIRMED The second is related to the close SALES AGENT relationship that she developed with CONFIRMED Israel Public Television “kan 11”, Masalaha. At the course of her BROADCASTER RBB/ARTE interrogation, Kohava praised the FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL guerilla's human behavior and declared, SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET BROADCASTER ISRAEL PUBLIC CONFIRMED 250.000 € 44% “they came for peace.” But the cops TELEVISION accused her of collaborating with BROADCASTER RBB/ARTE CONFIRMED 45.000 € 8% the Palestinian guerillas. They also PUBLIC FUNDING THE NEW FUND CONFIRMED 50.000 € 9% named her a whore and disrespected FOR FILM AND TELEVISION her. Maybe this is the reason why later, PUBLIC FUNDING GESHER FUND CONFIRMED 18.000 € 3% she changed her narrative and told PRIVATE FUNDING DORIT KREMER HAKIM CONFIRMED 50.000 € 9% the authorities that the Palestinians FOUNDATION VAN LEER INSTITUTE CONFIRMED 3.800 € 1% “were animals that came to kill me.” The new fund for Film and Television, WITH THE SUPPORT OF Gesher Fund, The police interrogation and Van leer Institute her court testimony will be interlaced ADVANCEMENT Development in parallel with the night events STATE at the hotel. DocsBarcelona 2020, PREVIOUSLY CoPro Tel Aviv 2020, PITCHED AT... IFP Week 2020, Close Up 2020 72 73 HISTORY HISTORY

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Cold War, secret services and Driven from television, federal SVETLANA GABRIEL anti-communism, Svetlana exhumes and private archives, some of which TEJEDOR an obscure page in history from the are unpublished, and supported ONE-OFF AUTHOR hardly insignificant event – involuntary by the interwiews of historians, SWITZERLAND GABRIEL greetings of Stalin's daughter direct witnesses and biographers, 52 MIN TEJEDOR in Switzerland, performed under the documentary recounts the the pressure from the North American six weeks she spent in Switzerland PRODUCTION PALMYRE government in 1967. before obtaining the right to enter LOGLINE BADINIER United States are a veritable saga, Akka Films, Lead by Svetlana's voice and the one punctuated by surreal episodes, WHEN YOU WERE BORN STALINE’S Switzerland of a fictional friend, this film is inspired journalists’ pursuits and a ballet DAUGHTER, WHAT DOES IT TAKE contact@ akkafilms.ch by the passages from her two books. of lawyers and American officials. TO GAIN CONTROL ON YOUR OWN +41 223 451 170 The film starting with her flight from DESTINY? AN INTIMATE PORTRAY akkafilms.ch the USSR portrays a woman, crushed Together with Svletlana, the film OF A FREE WOMAN IN A FEVERISH DELIVERY DATE by her father's shadow, at the moment plunges us into a Cold War TIME, SVETLANA NARRATES December 2021 when she is leaving her motherland athmosphere. At the same time, HER ESCAPE TO THE WEST. as well as her own children. She is Switzerland was secretly participating heading west, where she has no real in the signing of a nuclear disarmament friend, no landmarks and no treaty between the United States resources. and the USSR. This documentary sets the context of the passage to the West of the girl formerly known as The Princess of the Kremlin. 74 75 HISTORY HISTORY

Because of her position in the Soviet which illustrate her disappointment PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Journalist and independent film director, Far East, released in festivals (Nyon, Montreal...) apparatus, Svetlana had a front row and the lack of interest in her person DESCRIPTION GABRIEL TEJEDOR Gabriel Tejedor works for RTS (Temps présent, and in Swiss cinemas in 2014. In 2017 he seat to observe the politics and life by the two blocks, once her transfer DIRECTOR Les Docs) as well as for independent directed Mayskaya Street which takes place in of the Soviet elite. And yet during has taken place. It is in this context that productions (Idip films, Akka films). He regularly Belarus. It's World premiere was held at Visions her whole life she tries to escape from we will end by mentioning the good visits the countries of the former Soviet bloc, du Réel in Nyon, where the film received a this condition and to live a simple and memories that she kept all her life questioning the disappearance of the special mention, and than it was followed by free life. By escaping the USSR in 1967, of these six weeks in Switzerland. communist utopia, the sentiments of the a screening at the IDFA. His third feature-length she realized her boldest move. citizens about their past and their relationship documentary: Kombinat (Idip films, 2020) is set with authority. Gabriel Tejedor co-directed, in the industrial and highly polluted city In order to escape her father and The narrative follows 2 long arches. filmed and edited The Trace (Earthling of Magnitogorsk in the heart of the Russian his legacy, she abandoned her own The first arch is macro: will Svetlana productions, 77 min.), a film set in the Russian Ural mountains. children and her homeland. manage to join the free world in such But even though her fate crossing a Cold War context? And how this will BIOGRAPHY Palmyre studied Arabic Literature Since 2005, AKKA has dedicated itself to the Iron Curtain, always in the front row, be perceived by the two blocks? PALMYRE BADINIER and International Relations at Sorbonne. art-house documentaries, fiction films and PRODUCER In 2007 she became associate producer of television programs. Based in Geneva, we is tragic, it offers us a new insight into This arch examines Svetlana's affair AKKA FILMS the geopolitics of the time. By having from the perspective of the Cold War. the Palestinian production company Dar Films. favour works of international and universal In 2008 she graduated with a Masters in Law scope, although strongly anchored and been a grain of sand in the machine It therefore covers her relations with and Management for the Audiovisual Industry incarnated in their regions of origin: powerful, of the two blocks, Svetlana showed the Indian, Soviet, US, Italian and Swiss and founded a company Les Films De Zayna. contemporary and singular films carried by the cold operating of it. We will use authorities, and thus gives an overview Since 2017 she is an associate producer an affirmed vision of their authors. these comings and goings between of the Cold War. Will Svetlana become for Urban Factory and head of development the twists and turns of her daily life the spark that triggers a real war at AKKA Films. and world geopolitics, between “small” between the two blocs? Far From you I grew (2020) by Marie Dumora story and great history. Thanks to Railway Men (2018) by Erige Sehiri the many texts she wrote on this crucial The second arch concerns Ghost Hunting (2017) by Raed Antoni period and the interviews she gave, her relationship with her children: it is possible for us to create a dialogue Iekaterina and Joseph who remained between Svetlana's emotions in the USSR. Even if she does not seem on a daily basis and world events. to have been an ideal mother, she tries to contact them from the very first She is the central character of moment of her exile, to explain them the film and its plot: the one we follow her gesture. and the one through whom we experience global events. To do this, During our research, we came the animations will be drawn to make across a small, one-minute colour it easier for the spectator to identify amateur silent film showing Svetlana PROJECTED 234.217 € with her character. The film focuses on visiting the Blancpain family. BUDGET the period when Svetlana changes François Dominique Blancpain, STILL REQUIRED 32.025 € her life. It begins with her asylum son of the Blancpain couple, was CONFIRMED request at the US embassy in New Delhi, present during the filming and today SALES AGENT proceeds through Rome and willingly recounts two afternoons spent CONFIRMED SSR, TV5 Monde Switzerland and ends when she sets in the company of the most famous BROADCASTER foot on the tarmac of JFK. However, refugee of that time. On 15th and 17th FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET it is clear that in order to understand of April 1967, the journalist and writer GOUVERNEMENT FUND OFC AIDE CONFIRMED 45.750 € 23% this period, to grasp the Emmanuel d'Astier (who had À LA RÉALISATION extraordinaryty in Svetlana's decision, met Svetlana in 1962 in Moscow) REGIONAL FUND CINÉFOROM CONFIRMED 54.900 € 27% SOUTIEN COMPLÉMENTAIRE one must first know who she is, met her in Fribourg, at the house 80% DE PACTE who her parents are, what her father of the industrialist Claude Blancpain. BROADCASTER SSR COPRODUCTION CONFIRMED 68.625 € 34% represents and what he has done. It was on this occasion that PACTE A section devoted to her childhood this amateur film was shot. It shows BROADCASTER SUCCÈS PASSAGE CONFIRMED 7.663 € 4% ANTENNE add the context of the time in Svetlana Allilouïeva, Emmanuel d'Astier BROADCASTER TV5 MONDE PENDING 2.379 € 1% the USSR. Similarly, to complete de la Vigerie, his wife Lioubov Krassina BROADCASTER FONDS DE PRODUCTION PENDING 22.875 € 11% the exercise, we will follow her arrival in and Bertrande Blancpain (wife of TÉLÉVISUELLE the United States and some key facts, the industrialist Claude Blancpain). COPRODUCTION PROJECTED 32.025 € 14% WITH THE SUPPORT OF OFC, SSR ADVANCEMENT STATE Development PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... 76 77 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Alreadymade revolves around Duchamp and Von Freytag: greater ALREADYMADE BARBARA the controversy over the true author opposites are hardly conceivable. VISSER of the most influential work of art The fact that Duchamp had a female ONE-OFF AUTHOR of the 20th century: Fountain (1917), alter ego (Rrose Sélavy) and NETHERLANDS BARBARA an industrially produced porcelain Von Freytag was repeatedly arrested 70 MIN VISSER urinal. A practical utensil which gained for openly wearing men’s clothes, artistic value because it was labeled is a cross-connection rendering PRODUCTION MONIQUE as an artwork, and signed with the identity of both to be more fluid: LOGLINE BUSMAN the name: R. Mutt. everyone is fictional, to some extent. Tomtit Film, And that certainly applies to the third A CHESS-PLAYING DANDY, Netherlands Who is the real creator of this character, Richard Mutt. He has A NYMPHOMANIAC BARONESS monique@ defamilie.net artwork? The common answer to always remained an empty vessel: AND AN UNKNOWN THIRD CLAIM +31 206 633 303 this question is being increasingly is he a mirror, the symbolic artist, AUTHORSHIP OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL defamilie.net/nl/ disputed, while the three eligible or are we all Mutt? ARTWORK OF THE 20TH CENTURY: DELIVERY DATE artists have long been deceased. FOUNTAIN. REVISITING THE WORK June 2022 This opens room for speculation. In the film Alreadymade, these three THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING. eccentric protagonists each demand In this alternative whodunnit this authorship of the Readymade¹ entitled speculative space is entered Fountain. We see how I, as the with verve: from a cinematic afterlife director and visual artist, give them we listen to the true connoisseurs: the means to do so, through artificial the three artists themselves. intelligence. Initially I have the reins firmly in hand, but gradually the Three dogs fight over a bone: protagonists turn on me, as they are the artists Marcel Duchamp, Elsa Von digitally brought to life. They rebel, Freytag-Loringhoven and a certain for the only thing they agree on is Richard Mutt (as the attached clear: defending their freedom. shipping label once mentioned). But who will eventually run off with it? From a cinematic afterlife we follow their story, in which Deep Fake technique enables them to reach us, the spectators on earth.

1. READYMADE IS THE ART-HISTORICAL TERM FOR AN INDUSTRIALLY PRODUCED OBJECT, WHICH THE ARTIST DID NOT MAKE BUT CHOSE, AND WHICH IS PRESENTED AS A WORK OF ART. IN THIS CASE, READYMADE IS USING AN EXISTING IMAGE, WHICH IS PLACED IN A NEW CONTEXT, WHICH CAN CHANGE ITS VALUE. 78 79 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

Alreadymade is a film in which The film is constructed out of multiple PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Barbara Visser (Haarlem, NL 1966) studied different truths are deconstructed image sources: from YouTube videos DESCRIPTION BARBARA VISSER photography and audiovisual arts in and reconstructed. The film draws to the Deep Fake material as DIRECTOR The Netherlands and the USA. She works a big curve around the question: described above, as well as as a visual artist, filmmaker and mentor. who is the true author of the most reconstructions of historical spaces Her work hovers between registration important artwork of the 20th century to archives. This way, the film follows and dramatization, authenticity and artificiality, called Fountain really? the idea of the Readymade, convention and exception. Her films exceed Our journey makes convincing as everyday objects presented cinematic formats, combining archive and arguments for three artists: by artists are called. found footage with constructed realities. Marcel Duchamp, Elsa von Freytag‑Loringhoven or the unknown BIOGRAPHY Tomtit Film is the new production company The documentaries cover a wide range of Richard Mutt. The arena is the art MONIQUE BUSMAN (from 2020) of Monique Busman. Busman subjects, such as the photographer Erwin Olaf PRODUCER produces within Tomtit Film and De Familie Film or about the artist Barnett Newman TOMTIT FILM world, then and now. For & TV: an award winning production company, (The End of Fear). example, 1917 is presented by making founded in 2004 by producer Monique Busman contact with the protagonists from and director Michiel van Erp. Our both a place Visser calls the cinematic Amsterdam based companies produce afterlife, an appropriate term documentaries, drama series and fiction for this contemporary narrative for theatrical release and television. in which historical facts are the basis. Bringing the characters to life with state-of the art digital image making is at once a nod to the past (Pinocchio, Frankenstein) but their true urgency is situated in the present, where moving images of politicians and other public figures are manipulated to make them do and say unexpected things. Our aim is to use these possibilities to their full extent, yet in a transparent way, by lifting the veil: it is the way in which the dead are brought to life on screen that’s magic, and not the make-believe itself.

PROJECTED BUDGET 617.245 € STILL REQUIRED 302.245 € CONFIRMED SALES AGENT CONFIRMED BROADCASTER VPRO, CoBO FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET BROADCASTER VPRO CONFIRMED 40.000 € 67% PUBLIC FUNDING COBO CONFIRMED 115.000 € 19% PUBLIC FUNDING NPO CONFIRMED 160,000 € 26% FUND PUBLIC FUNDING DUTCH FILMFUND PENDING 115.000 € 19% WITH THE SUPPORT OF ADVANCEMENT STATE Development PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... 80 81 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Casimir Oberfeld was a well-known The story could have stopped with CASIMIR AXEL Jewish composer in the 1930s whose this paradox: a Jewish man composed CLEVENOT song La margotton du bataillon the song used by Marshal Pétain. OBERFELD AND AUTHOR was plagiarised to become Maréchal, But it wasn’t to be. In 1959, at the age AXEL nous voilà. Deported to Auschwitz of 17, Grégoire Dunant discovered THE PLAGIARISED CLEVENOT in 1942, he died when, faced with that his biological father was not the arrival of the Red Army, the Nazis Paul Dunant, the man his mother PRODUCTION SONG LAURENT evacuated the camp. An outraged had married in 1945 when Polish priest made sure that he had he was 3-years-old, but a certain CASIMIR OBERFELD, DURET LE SPOLIÉ DE LA CHANSON Bachibouzouk, a decent grave with his Nazi camp ID Casimir Oberfeld. He search for France number engraved on the headstone. him for a long time and finally found laurent@ this grave. He organised the transfer ONE-OFF bachibouzouk.net +33 633 748 717 of Casimir Oberfeld’s ashes FRANCE bachibouzouk.net 52 MIN to the Sacem’s musicians’ section DELIVERY DATE in Montmartre cemetery. Spring 2022 LOGLINE CASIMIR OBERFELD IS A WELL KNOWN JEWISH COMPOSER OF THE ’30S WHOSE SONG LA MARGOTTON DU BATAILLON WAS PLAGIARIZED TO BECOME MARÉCHAL, NOUS VOILÀ. 82 83 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

This film will be a journey full of twists Jean-Pierre Guéno, author of the book PROJECT BIOGRAPHY For more than 40 years, author and director Films on painting, music, political or social and turns. A journey through time and La mélodie volée (the stolen melody) DESCRIPTION AXEL CLEVENOT of creative documentaries for the television history, scientific films. Europe punctuated by the discoveries which recounts the story DIRECTOR channels France 3, ARTE, France 5, Integrates the forms of graphic writing: of Casimir’s son, Grégoire. of Casimir Oberfeld. cable channel, international co-productions flame, compositing, animation in its realizations. A search for paternity, a search – and various French and international for testimonies, clues and documents. Oldrich Plestil, a Czech engineer, institutions and organizations. A path between meetings, judgments, who provides political and logistical Single films or series – Imax 3D pilot. court cases, libraries, museum, death support to facilitate the discovery Numerous international awards, including twice the Prix Europa. camp and questions! of Casimir’s tomb, and facilitates DNA study and exhumation. BIOGRAPHY Bachibouzouk is a production company He also produces films for institutions But Grégoire’s determination will meet LAURENT DURET established in 2015 by Laurent Duret. and museums such as the Musée du Quai Branly, with silences, doubts, dissimulations Guisy Pisano, professor at the École PRODUCER the French Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo, BACHIBOUZOUK Laurent Duret began his professional career the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, and spoliation. The silence of his Louis Lumière, specialist of History as a documentary director and production the Cité de la Civilisation des Vins in Bordeaux mother and his adoptive family is only of radio in the 1930s. manager. Since 2007 he has produced or and develops multi-platform projects such as the beginning of many deceptions: co-produced numerous documentaries 14, Breaking News (Golden Fipa for transmedia for some of most famous indie production A journalist has information but refuses Vincent Jourdan, film historian, projects 2014), Nestle, An Empire on my Plate, compagnies in France (Les Films d’Ici, to give it to him. The SACEM refuses specialist of the period Les Studios ON/OFF (74th Mostra), and some poetic app Cargo Films…) He produced 14, Dairies Of to recognize his filiation: it distributes de la Victorine. I Can’t Wait or The bug adventure of a little line, the Great War, (8 × 52' docudrama), The Age the rights of Casimir to other heirs who two interactive animated short films. of Iron (6 × 52' docudrama), a collection of suddenly appeared after the war... The film will be based on graphic economic documentaries Deciphering (7 × 75'), Fortunately, he receives some support design, form processing, documents and many others documentaries. and, gradually, discovers some and archive associations. Materials, information. In the SACEM archives, figures, silhouettes, documents, he finds some documents highlighting objects, archives are brought together the breadth of Casimir’s career to form a meaningful, evocative image. as a composer. He also discovers documents proving the plagiarism of Gregory’s quest leads him to imagine La Margoton du bataillon, the melody parts of his father’s life. of Marechal nous voilà the song The graphically processed image is PROJECTED celebrating Marshal Pétain during the an echo of these imagined, fantasized BUDGET 260.369 € French collaboration with Nazi Germany. parts of life. STILL 232.500 € REQUIRED CONFIRMED Those investigations will lead him The images that evoke the life of SALES AGENT to find his father’s grave, to have him Casimir are colored by the ambiances CONFIRMED exhumed and then, buried again to which they refer: the musical life of BROADCASTER at the SACEM musicians’ square of the 1930s and 1940s on the theme of FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL the Batignoles cemetery. A quest that lightness, the songwriters, the cinema SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET takes us to various places in France and its studios. And then the universe PRIVATE FUNDING BACHIBOUZOUK CONFIRMED 5.869 € 2% PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP-ANGOA CONFIRMED 5.000 € 2% and in Europe, helps us to reconstruct of war, deportation, camps and death. (DEV.) the story of this famous composer PUBLIC FUNDING RÉGION OCCITANIE CONFIRMED 7.000 € 3% for Fernandel or Mistinguette... As his research goes by, Grégoire (DEV.) crosses these universes and leads us PUBLIC FUNDING CNC (DEV.) CONFIRMED 10.000 € 4% Grégoire leads the story. His point through them to tell us this incredible, PRIVATE FUNDING 1RST FRENCH PROJECTED 120.000 € 46% BROADACSTER of view and his words outline the film. unique and terrible story. PRIVATE FUNDING 2ND FRENCH PROJECTED 12.500 € 5% We follow his approach to know and BROADCASTER understand events that would impact PUBLIC FUNDING CNC (PROD.) PENDING 40.000 € 15% and affect the future of this unknown PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP-ANGOA PROJECTED 10.000 € 4% (PROD.) father. We’ll meet some of the people PUBLIC FUNDING RÉGION OCCITANIE PROJECTED 20.000 € 8% who will help him or who will shed light (DEV.) on a part of the historical context PRE SALE DISTRIBUTOR (TBC) PROJECTED 15.000 € 6% in which Casimir Oberfeld lived: FOUNDATION SHOAH FOUNDATION PROJECTED 15.000 € 6% the years 1925 to 1945. CNC, WITH THE SUPPORT OF Région Occitanie, Procirep-Angoa Gregory’s wife: she helps him ADVANCEMENT in his research and demonstrates STATE Development the difficulties encountered. PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... 84 85 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS On June 12th, 1972, Deep Throat to the conservative Christians that DEEP THROAT, AGNÈS was screened at Times Square’s World were of course shocked; but also for a POIRIER Theater. Word of mouth for the film was whole section of the feminist 1972: THE YEAR AUTHOR over the moon, its success immediate. movement. This last group refused to AGNÈS For the first time on the silver screen, see pornography as the simple, ZERO OF POIRIER the general public discovered uncensored expression of pleasure, a porno-comedy that allowed for but rather the unacceptable and PRODUCTION PORNOGRAPHY KARINA feminine pleasure and featured dangerous submission of women explicit sex, including an exceptional to man’s desire. It’s the beginning DEEP THROAT, SI AHMED QUAND LE PORNO Hauteville fellatio. It marked the arrival of a new of a true “sex war” causing a violent SORT DU GHETTO Productions, era when pornography became schism amongst feminists. France mainstream, marking the end of the contact@hauteville- ONE-OFF productions.fr industry’s illegal, shadow existence, Our film looks back at the context that +33 143 132 331 and the blossoming of a dream: to made Deep Throat possible, following FRANCE Website 52 MIN make pornography into its own genre the after-effects of this cultural and DELIVERY DATE of cinema. social phenomenon. It is a historical Summer 2021 account based in archival materials, How was it ever possible to make and marked by eyewitness accounts of LOGLINE release Deep Throat? How did the film the times, and enriched by the PORNOGRAPHY, CINEMA come to enjoy such success around opinions of young, present-day AND FEMINISM ARE THE INGREDIENTS the world, becoming the most profitable pornactivists and other specialists OF THIS STRIKING DOCUMENTARY movie dollar-for-dollar of all times? of sexuality and its portrayal. ABOUT THE FIRST MAINSTREAM PORN FILM – A STORY THAT STILL Its winning combination of humor It’s a deeply thoughtful film about the RESONATES WITH TODAY’S NEWS. and sex, its elegy of pleasure, Deep Throat moment and the political certainly made it attractive. But this and cultural divide that surrounded it, porn film quickly raised problems: whose stakes remain to this day for the government trying to catch incredibly timely. the mafia financing the film; 86 87 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

The night of Deep Throat’s premiere who made her into the very first PROJECT BIOGRAPHY After completing journalism school and working More recently, she directed two episodes in New York is a deeply symbolic pornstar. That is, until she spoke out in DESCRIPTION AGNÈS POIRIER for public TV France 2, Agnès Poirier studied of the collection Moments in History moment: all that had been previously her book, The Ordeal, about the DIRECTOR filmmaking in New York and started writing (Arte, 2016): Bill Manbo, a Japanese-American hidden, considered obscene and physical and psychological abuse and directing documentary films. in an Internment Camp, and Richard dangerous, is made public, open to all, suffered at the hands of her husband and Michael – Love in the Time of AIDS. Among her main films, isWiz about the birth and celebrated. Everyone was talking Chuck, putting her success in a tragic of hip hop in the Bronx through the fall She just finished two films for France 2: about it; everyone could see it. light. Mistreated by the press and and renaissance of one of its pioneers. Nous paysans (co-directed with Fabien Beziat, Porn had come out of its ghetto. public, Gloria Steinem, feminist figure, (France 3, 1996) to be aired on prime time) about the head and founder of the War Against transformation of agriculture in France from Most of her work has focused on the 19th century and L’Installation, an intimate But Deep Throat didn’t appear Pornography movement, accompanied social issues, notably gender equality such portrait of farmers who are handing over out of nowhere. At the end of the ’60s, Linda throughout her denunciation. as Welcome to the Real Life of Women their farm to a young couple. frustration was growing within Because a true “sex war” was causing (Canal+, 2009) ; or Women, Keeping the World the constraints of western society. a profound split within the feminist Turning co-directed with Ryoko Tsunoda, Hemlines were going up in the streets, movement. It was a battle ultimately shot in 9 countries around the world, the sounds from the radio were electric, won by a new generation of women, (France 5, NHK, TV5 Canada, 2013). and the Hays Code was being tested at taking cameras, fate and pleasure BIOGRAPHY Hauteville Productions is an independent Among our recent documentaries: the movies. Established social models into their own hands, such as Candida KARINA SI AHMED documentary production company, born of “Dorian Gray, A Portrait of Oscar Wilde”, were being questioned, and this rupture Royalle and Annie Sprinkle, both of PRODUCER a desire to make sense of the world, favoring by Jérôme Lambert & Philippe Picard, HAUTEVILLE PRODUCTIONS was bound together with sex. whom were porn actresses in the ’70s an auteur’s approach. It was co-founded in 2017 52', ARTE, 2020 The situation could be summed up in and went to become directors by Karina Si Ahmed, executive and creative The Blob, A Genius Without a Brain producer of over 30 documentaries and news one image: Mrs. Robinson’s leg, defying and producers in the early ’80s. by Jacques Mitsch, 52', ARTE, 2020. “the Graduate” and his existential crisis. magazines. She was previously head of documentaries at Flach Film Production Some films even went further, pushing But this story is not limited Trees, a Global Superpower by Emmanuelle from 2011 to 2017, producing films of Nobécourt, 90', 52', 2 × 45', France 5, 2020. the limits of censorship – Andy Warhol’s to just America, or even the ’70s. international scope that were acquired by “Blow Job” or the documentary We will address the phenomenon’s networks and broadcasters across the world; John Ford, The Man Who Invented America Sexual Freedom in Denmark – but they international impact and contemporary and by the publisher Guillaume Allary by Jean-Christophe Klotz, 52', 2018, ARTE were not mainstream. effect through interviews with young (The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf), What Ever Happened to Rosemary Kennedy European, feminist porn actresses who was previously a director and producer by Patrick Jeudy, 52', France Télévisions, 2018. It was Deep Throat that broke the dam: and directors, and porn studies of documentaries suddenly it was fashionable to see historians and experts. The 70s porn a porn film! of Deep Throat has come to represent a golden age of inspiration and “It’s the first time that sex was creation, far from the present-day treated openly, honestly, with humor, mass-production. PROJECTED 368.450 € and no shame. It was in synch with BUDGET its times” explains Gerry Damiano, Just as ’70s archives with their color STILL REQUIRED 58.000 € the director of this burlesque UFO. saturation immediately take us back CONFIRMED A former lady’s hairdresser, Gerry to the era, the documentary will also SALES AGENT In discussion had dreamt of feature-length porn show the power of movies as a means CONFIRMED ARTE France films. He is one of the characters of this of societal change – clips from several BROADCASTER documentary who we will follow features will thus illustrate this dialogue FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET through the key stages: his love for between Deep Throat and Hollywood. movies, which at the end of the ’60s BROADCASTER ARTE FRANCE CONFIRMED 145.000 € 39% PUBLIC FUNDING CNC CONFIRMED 67.642 € 18% were pushing closer and closer to Through both its commercial PUBLIC FUNDING PROCIREP-ANGOA CONFIRMED 6.050 € 2% censorship’s limits; his relationship success and the intellectual debates (DEV) to the mafia, that controlled the sex that surrounded it, Deep Throat was PUBLIC FUNDING PROCIREP-ANGOA PROJECTED 9.680 € 3% business and financed the emerging a major cultural event, pushing society (PROD) porn industry; his disappointment when towards a discussion about DISTRIBUTOR PENDING 15.000 € 4% BROADCASTER PRE-SALES PROJECTED 23.000 € 6% the arrival of VHS put an end to his representations of the body and TO BE FOUND ambitious project of bringing together sexuality that remain relevant today. COPRODUCER TO BE FOUND PROJECTED 35.000 € 9% pornography and cinema. The documentary will explore this OWN INVESTMENT HAUTEVILLE CONFIRMED 67.078 € 18% tipping-point moment, in the light PRODUCTONS Alongside Damiano is this documentary’s of today. WITH THE CNC, SUPPORT OF Procirep-Angoa main character: Linda Lovelace. ADVANCEMENT The innocent “girl next door”, STATE Production she was idolized widely by the press, PREVIOUSLY rockstars, Hollywood, intellectuals… PITCHED AT... 88 89 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS Francis Ford Coppola. This name What is this fire burning in Coppola? FRANCIS FORD YANN alone is enough to bring out the best This is the question around which COQUART that American cinema has brought us. we already planned to build our film, COPPOLA, AUTHOR From the birth, from the 1970s, of when, last October – like a sea YANN the “New Hollywood” and of a whole snake – the official announcement IN THE HEART COQUART generation of filmmakers and major erupted that the director was going actors, to his immense personal back to his oldest and perhaps most PRODUCTION OF DARKNESS JULIETTE successes, the journey of Francis Ford impossible project: Megalopolis. Coppola merges with one of the FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, CAZANAVE AU CŒUR DES TÉNÈBRES Kepler22 pages the most important in the The name itself says it all, of a film Productions, history of cinema. But there is also to contain all others and to close France the singularity of a course placed from a monumental career. There is pride ONE-OFF contact@ FRANCE kepler22productions.com its beginnings under the sign of to this project that he describes +33 672 598 040 excess. The story of permanent back as more ambitious than Apocalypse I TALY kepler22productions.com 52 MIN and forth between the most Now – a desire to go all-in one last DELIVERY DATE flamboyant successes and the most time, the madness of a man who has July 2021 bitter failures, of successive never stopped making the world over, dangerous bets, of a man who must and the steadfast belief in movies LOGLINE risk everything every time, of an artist Promethean power. In short, IS FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA who burns himself at the zenith all Coppola is summarized in this INSATIABLE? AFTER 26 FILMS, of his independence to rise from last gest. The fire still burns, this will 5 OSCARS AND 2 PALMES D’OR the ashes in an industry he rejects. be our starting point. AT CANNES, AND THE DIRECTOR STILL ISN’T SATISFIED: HE HAS YET TO MAKE WHAT HE CALLS HIS BIG FILM, MEGALOPOLIS. 90 91 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

We will tell the story of a man who’s Freedom is possible, but it means PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Yann Coquart began his career by editing and Ernest Pignon-Ernest, On a human scale, quest for power has never stop losing power. To keep power, one must DESCRIPTION YANN COQUART fiction films and numerous documentaries for he presents intimate portraits of major growing. A sick child, bedridden for make do with the studios. Just like his DIRECTOR the cinema and television with Raymond 20th century personalities by following them over a year at a time when his friends character Michael Corleone, Coppola Depardon, Aline Issermann, Claire Devers, as closely as possible in their creative work. were out in the streets, he invented in is trapped within his own milieu. Judith Cahen ou Denis Dercourt. He then his bedroom an imaginary world over And so he makes compromises turned to directing and creating large historical which he could be the undisputed lord. so as to keep filming and to stay ahead frescoes such as the Histories of a Nation He would never leave it. As an adult, in his downward race against time. series and Mesopotamia, a forgotten civilization. With The Worlds of Philip K Dick actors became the puppets in his With Megalopolis, a trip into the future, theatre, his company American Zoetrope even his great enemy time should bend BIOGRAPHY Founded in 2013 by Juliette Cazanave and Among them, for exemple, Josephine Baker, was his empire, his family was his army, to his will (1982/2020). JULIETTE CAZANAVE César Diaz, Kepler22 is a production company the story of an awakening directed by and moviemaking the ideal world upon PRODUCER based in Paris and dedicated firstly to creative Ilana Navaro received the Rockie Award for KEPLER22 which he could spread his untameable Coppola has given many interviews documentaries, though encounters and Best Documentary at the BANFF World Media megalomania. And that became over the course of his career. enthusiasms can sometimes lead us to work Festival 2020 and has been sold in more than reinforced with each obstacle, as it was These include unreleased recordings on short or feature-length fiction films, twenty countries around the world, The Night and web-series. Pierre Jestaz joined our team Is Fading directed by Cyril Leuthy received by successes. Empowered by adversity, made by Serge Kaganski. Like Captain in 2016. Together we have produced or the special Regard neuf prize at the motor that drove him forward. Willard as he travels up the river coproduced close to twenty documentary the Visions du Réel festival in 2015 and in Apocalypse Now, FFC’s voice and fiction films in a dozen countries around the same year Jayro Bustamente’s Ixcanul We will follow two threads: the will carry our film, like an inner-voice, the world, which have gone on to win numerous received the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer unquenchable desire for power that as if he were describing his own journey awards in international festivals. New Perspectives at the Berlinale. brings us up to today and that plays out towards Megalopolis. These words will across both directing and producing, often feature as voice-over, though and Coppola’s personal life, the personal we will also show the images when aspects that can also be told so well the context fits. That will be the case through his work. Film after film, for instance for the Apocalypse Now his own personal pantheon unfolds: press conference at Cannes, to which stories of brothers, of fathers FFC arrived surrounded by his children, to overcome and power to obtain, of or when he’s at home cooking, or takes families both protective and alienating, us to visit his “Silver Fish”. of time ceaselessly fleeing and waiting in the shadows, of a dirty solitude To accompany us on this journey in the face of an ideal by definition we will also have Vittorio Storaro, PROJECTED 474.986 € inaccessible. Coppola’s director of photography BUDGET (Rom), Walter Murch, the editor STILL 95.000. € These are Coppola’s obsessions, that (London), Dean Tavoularis, the set REQUIRED CONFIRMED all his films are about and tell us about designer (Paris), David Thomson, SALES AGENT ARTE Sales his own life. To understand Coppola, the specialist, James Caan and CONFIRMED ARTE France, one just needs to watch his films. possibly Al Pacino. BROADCASTER Cine+ FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL Our portrait will follow three Coppola’s films are dark and magnificent SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET movements: The origins, education, tragedies. Through the storytelling, PRIVATE FUNDING KEPLER22 CONFIRMED 98.676 € 21% PRODUCTIONS marriage, children and films of the start the images we’ll film, the spectacular COPRODUCER TO BE CONFIRMED PENDING 9.000 € 2% for the first movement – like a slow clips, the archives, the music and PUBLIC FUNDING CNC CONFIRMED 67.000 € 14% escalation of power (1939/1969). the care that we pay to the editing, PUBLIC FUNDING TO BE CONFIRMED PROJECTED 15.000 € 3% Then the five Coppola films that we want to truly evoke this flamboyant, PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP ANGOA CONFIRMED 13.310 € 3% eclipsed all the others: the trilogy about reckless and formidable man, one of SALES AGENT ARTE FRANCE CONFIRMED 25.000 € 5% the greatness and decadence of a family the last great figures of international DISTRIBUTION with The Godfather, the descent moviemaking. BROADCASTER ARTE FRANCE CONFIRMED 155.000 € 33% into paranoia with The Conversation, PRE-SALE CINE+ CONFIRMED 12.000 € 3% a devouring epic with Apocalypse Now. This film will be the first one ever made BROADCASTER SKY ARTE PENDING 10.000 € 2% It was both an artistic and financial on Francis Ford Coppola. BROADCASTER RAI PROJECTED 20.000 € 4% apogee Coppola rivals Hollywood, PRE-SALES TO BE CONFIRMED PROJECTED 50.000 € 11% he is the game master (1969/1982). WITH THE CNC, SUPPORT OF Procirep-Angoa Then comes the third, uneven and ADVANCEMENT temperamental period, a permanent STATE Production quest to regain his power without PREVIOUSLY selling out to the studios. PITCHED AT... 92 93 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS As soon as I set up my studio on rue Far from galleries and museums, KLASH! FRANK Visconti in Paris in 2007, I had the often in the street and public space, PERRIN obsessive desire to tell the story in action and in interaction with ART IN ACTION AUTHOR of Christo’s founding artistic act in people, each episode describes FRANK that same street in 1962. From this first an unusual artistic act, often KLASH! PERRIN L’ART EN ACTES gesture and then with Burden and impertinent, and always exemplary. other artists such as Gianni Motti Each episode deciphers the stakes PRODUCTION SERIES FRANCOIS or David Hammons for example, and the historical and artistic context FRANCE COMBIN I conceived a project of a series of this heroic gesture, but also 50 × 3 MIN Urubu Films, of short films which stages founding the consequences for the artist France artistic acts which each in their own and for the history of art. The series francois@ urubufilms.net way, in different eras, have marked gradually builds up an encyclopaedia +33 678 947 698 both the history of art and History of decisive artistic acts, most of which LOGLINE urubufilms.net at the same time. are little known, and thus reveals IN 3 MINUTES, KLASH! ART IN ACTION GILLES an underground and secret history RETRACES THE HISTORY OF A UNIQUE COUDERT of the avant-gardes, seen from ARTISTIC ACT THAT CHALLENGES Et Après, the side of action, under the sign France of activism and radical irruption. RECEIVED IDEAS ABOUT ART. apres@ netcourrier.com +33 664 344 554 In 3 minutes, KLASH! Art in Action, apres-production.com retraces the history of a singular DELIVERY DATE artistic act that challenges January 2022 preconceived ideas about art. 94 95 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

The KLASH series collects the works “investigation”, thus constituting clues PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Frank Perrin, French artist based in Paris, Shows in 2003. He start the new serie Streets of international artists. The first pilot and evidence of the unique history of DESCRIPTION FRANK PERRIN has spent the last ten years exploring the notion in 2005. These three series are from sections 7, episode was made in 1962 in Paris with this work. This long sequence shot in DIRECTOR of Postcapitalism, compiling a compendium 9 and 2 of a global work intitled Postcapitalism. the act of Christo, rue Visconti. motion design visually connects facts, of our comtemporary obsessions. He lives and works in Paris. After founding The series then unfolds over the course temporalities, places, the small story From Joggers and Yachts to Fashion Shows, the art review Bloc Notes in the early 1990’s of the episodes, without chronology, and the big one, the “actors” and the Postcapitalism is a metaphysical flipbook he began taking photographs. He is also restoring artistic acts, performed all world in order to organise a space by of the fundamental ideas of our era, where the founding director of Crash magazine. each photography becomes a new landscape over the world, from Marcel Duchamp creating juxtaposed or superimposed Significant exhibitions have included those of the unsconscious and desires of today. with his bottle holder, the first shots. The effects of transitions, at the Daelim Musem, Seoul, Korea, ready-made, in 1914 until today with tearing, superimposition, erasure, Frank Perrin was formerly a philosophy teacher at Contemporary Art Museum Les Abattoirs the act of the artist Edouardo Kaç, displacement... contribute to support and an art critic. He starts the photographic à Toulouse, and recently new works at Centre series of the Joggers in 1998 and the Fashion Pompidou-Metz and Shirn Kunsthalle Francfort. author of the first work performed in the intensity of the words while adding space by the astronaut Thomas a surrealist aspect to a real story. BIOGRAPHIES François Combin has been working for many Gilles Coudert, co-producer of the series, Pesquet. Key words regularly punctuate the film FRANÇOIS COMBIN years with the Galerie Perrotin, the Espace is known for his commitment to the production and contribute both to the PRODUCER culturel Louis Vuitton and the channel dedicated and direction of films on contemporary art, URUBU FILMS Based on the gradual discovery understanding and the dynamism of to Art Museum TV. The company has produced architecture and environmental issues. of a key photo, witness to the act, each the story. They are superimposed and GILLES COUDERT portraits of 300 artists including Giuseppe He has been accompanying, documenting and PRODUCER Penone, Tracey Emin, Jean-Michel Othoniel. analysing contemporary creation for more than episode is constructed as an literally become one with the image APRÈS PRODUCTION investigative report through the voice in a striking typography and size. His latest documentary Veilhan Venezia retraces 30 years. From 1997 to 2007, he collaborated Xavier Veilhan’s musical experimentation with Pierre-André Boutang for the cultural of the narrator who unfolds the story of at the 57th Venice Biennale where he met magazine Métropolis (ARTE). APRÈS Production the act in its multiple dimensions, from The graphic process that applies to and collaborated with Alexandre Desplat, produces and directs numerous films about intention to result, from cause each episode thus resembles a large Thurston Moore, Nigel Godrich. artists who regularly intervene in the public to effect, from gesture to its collage that we discover in its entirety space in which he stages the process of the consequences, thus contextualised at the end of the programme. works and questions their issues in their context. in his or her time and in the history This collage is made up of the master of art. Documents or complementary photograph and all the complementary “evidence” of the act (photos, filmed archives, shown in a street art device archives, sound elements, press (graffiti, poster, torn paper, etc.) cuttings, etc.) are juxtaposed and on a “wall” in the “street” which superimposed on the main photo accentuates the factual treatment to support the narrator’s words. of the series reminiscent of the works of Banksy or Shepard Fairey. Like an Frank Perrin was inspired by investigative painting and its evidence, the work of the American performer this collage on a wall summarises and Chris Burden, with whom he made deploys the context and issues of such PROJECTED 325.000 € his monograph in 1995. While working an artistic act as a methodical account BUDGET STILL on his book he understood the narrative of investigation echoing Antonioni’s REQUIRED 275.000 € and nurturing power of the myth filmBlow Up. CONFIRMED of a single image. The only black and SALES AGENT white image chosen by Chris Burden The factual tone and the regular CONFIRMED from the performance “Shot” where he rhythm of the narrator’s voice, BROADCASTER FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL is shot in the arm has more power than modulated for each episode, are SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET the documentary video. decisive in carrying out each of these CONTRIBUTION URUBU FILMS CONFIRMED 25.000 € 8% A photo enlarges the act while a video investigations and thus guaranteeing OF THE PRODUCTION capture narrows it down. The entire the original character of this series. CONTRIBUTION APRÈS PRODUCTION CONFIRMED 25.000 € 8% OF THE CO-PRODUCTION monograph was constructed with This is why we proposed an BROADCASTER FRANCE PROJECTED 130.000 € 40% a single image per work and a text experienced actor, Charles Berling, PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 15.000 € 11% of 5 factual lines, like a telegram with to be the voice of this series who was PUBLIC FUNDING PROCIREP PROJECTED 15.000 € 5% the facts without any commentary immediately seduced by the project. ANGOA or judgement. EUROPEAN FUNDING MEDIA DÉVELOPPEMENT PROJECTED 15.000 € 5% PRE-SALES ABROAD PROJECTED 50.000 € 15% The cinematographic grammar PRIVATE INVESTOR PROJECTED 30.000 € 9% of the series consists of a progressive WITH THE SUPPORT OF discovery of a so-called “master” ADVANCEMENT photo of an artistic act, starting from STATE Development a micro detail that leads us to other PREVIOUSLY elements that complete this PITCHED AT... 96 97 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS More than a film about an art and passionately realized each one UNTITLED CHRISTO ANDREY M. installation, it is an archival journey of their projects. Weaving in exclusive PAOUNOV into the magical universe of Christo footage of Christo over the last few ARC DE TRIOMPHE AUTHOR and Jeanne-Claude and their years of his life and his return ANDREY M. revolutionary spirit. Part biopic, to Paris for the realization of FILM PAOUNOV part romance, the film is a love letter the Arc de Triomphe will build to Paris through the artists’ success on the narrative arc of a lifetime ONE-OFF PRODUCTION IZABELLA and failures, on the road to creation dedicated to freedom and creation. BULGARIA TZENKOVA of some of the most ambitious art FRANCE Kotva Films, projects the world has ever seen The true identity of every Christo 90 MIN Bulgaria culminating with their return to the and Jeanne-Claude project is izabella@ kotvafilms.com city where it all began for one final revealed in the process of its creation. +33 608 847 283 project, L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped The same is true for L’Arc de Triomphe, LOGLINE kotvafilms.com in Fall 2021. Wrapped, which lives on and evolves MARIA along with the social and political A LOVE LETTER TO PARIS, 60 YEARS BLICHARSKA The film will utilize an extensive film context and physical landscape. OF CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE’S Blick Productions, archive of unused footage of Christo Conceived at the very beginning SUCCESSES AND FAILURES France and Jeanne-Claude as they fearlessly of the duo’s career, and due to come mariab@ AROUND THE WORLD, CULMINATES blickproductions.fr tackle bureaucracy, nature and time to fruition when the artists are not IN THE ARTISTS’ RETURN TO THE CITY +33 699 308 517 around the world to construct various among us anymore, the project grows blickproductions.fr FOR ONE FINAL PROJECT, projects. Starting with the illegal into an almost metaphoric level L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE WRAPPED. DELIVERY DATE installation of The Iron Curtain, 1962, – a ray of perseverance and hope June 2022 on Rue Visconti in Paris and at the heart of a Paris – and a world – culminating with the completion longing to overcome a pandemic. of the L’Arc de Triomphe, In physical space and in art, the artists Wrapped once presumed an return to the core of their work impossible idea and now supported – a pure manifestation of freedom. and flouted by President Macron personally. Footage from The Pont Transcending the form of the classical Neuf Wrapped, The Valley Curtain, art documentary, the film aims The Running Fence, The Wrapped to sculpt three-dimensional Reichstag, The Umbrellas, characters with depth and purpose The Gates and The Floating Piers, to become a fascinating character will build on the persistent process study of two inseparable partners and dedication with which Christo in life and art chasing their and Jeanne-Claude methodically impossible dreams. 98 99 ARTS ARTS & CULTURE & CULTURE

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, response to the Berlin Wall coming PROJECT BIOGRAPHY Bulgarian-born Andrey M. Paounov by Chanel 4 (UK), ARTE (Germany), TV2 the artists renowned for their large up that year. Sharing an imagination DESCRIPTION ANDREY M. PAOUNOV is an acclaimed documentary film director. (Denmark), PBS and ITVS (USA), YLE (Finland) , scale ephemeral artistic works like unmoored from the constraints DIRECTOR His film,Georgi and the Butterflies (2004) NRK (Norway), SVT (Sweden). His most recent the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, of reality, Christo and Jeanne-Claude took the Silver Wolf at IDFA for best film. film,Walking on Water (2018), about the artist The Pont Neuf Wrapped In Paris, began thinking about wrapping He is a two-time Bulgarian Film Academy Award Christo and his project in Lake Iseo, Italy, The Gates in New York, The Surrounded a public building. In 1963 they dreamt Winner including The Mosquito Problem (2007) premiered in Locarno and TIFF and went Islands in Miami have been a disruptive up the idea of wrapping which premiered at Critic’s Week in Cannes on to be theatrically distributed in various fixture in the art world since the ’60s. and went on to receive many awards through EU countries and the United States. the world. His films have been co-produced It was broadcast on ARTE June 2020. Born on the same day of the same year, The Arc de Triomphe, a project under the sign of Gemini, they referred that even the authors deemed too BIOGRAPHIES Kotva Films was founded by Izabella Tzenkova With 14 years of experience in production, to themselves as a ménage à quatre. ambitious as to never intend its actual IZABELLA TZENKOVA in the United States in 2010 as a film in parallel and in the continuity of her Polish Like children whose sandbox is the execution. One year later they moved PRODUCER and commercial production company. company Donten and Lacroix Films, KOTVA FILMS world itself, they wrapped coasts and to New York where for the next In 2018 it added Kotva Films Bulgaria with Maria Blicharska creates Blick Productions buildings, installed gigantic curtains and 60 years they would dream up and MARIA BLICHARSKA the intention of bridging European and in 2015 in Paris, with the aim to develop PRODUCER American Talent. In 2018/2019, Izabella Tzenkova and produce high quality movies of European endless fences, flooded valleys with realized many more such projects. BLICK PRODUCTIONS umbrellas, and built massive structures In 2018, nine years after the death participated in the ACE producer’s workshop authors and promoting their talents with Kotva Films. The company produced internationally. In 2017, Damien McDonald joins from oil barrels. Their work evoked of his partner, Jeanne-Claude, perhaps Andrey M. Paounov’s documentary Walking the company. The two producers graduated the sheer sense of boundless transient feeling his own mortality, Christo on Water (2018), the Sundance Grand Jury from La Fémis in 2005, with their complementary beauty, and its magnitude mirrored returned to Paris, where it all started Prize winning film The Wolfpack (2015), experiences, wish to bring the films of the hurdles they faced. They fought for him 60 years prior, expressing the followed by Crystal Moselle’s narrative debut tomorrow into existence by accompanying court battles, argued their case before desire to realize the Arc de Triomphe Skate Kitchen (2018) and most recently them towards methods of writing and American and Japanese farmers, Wrapped. With little objection from Moments Like This Never Last (2020). distribution in constant evolution. These films have all attended world-class the mayors of Paris and New York, the French authorities, the project was festivals and been acquired for Worldwide and the German chancellor, whom they set to be installed September/October theatrical distribution. famously defeated in German 2020. In the beginning of May 2020 Parliament. In the end they realized while in confinement due to the 23 projects, and failed to get permission Covid-19 pandemic Christo and his team for another 47. In the process, they built made the decision to push the project a unique model for financing and to 2021. Four weeks later, Christo would staying independent through the sale die in his home in New York, never of original works of art. visiting the monumental show at the Centre Pompidou, Christo in Paris set Constrained by communism and the to open the day that all of France shut lack of access to art, Christo Javacheff down due to Covid-19, March 16, 2020. PROJECTED 550.000 € fled Bulgaria in 1957 to Prague. BUDGET From Prague, he jumped a freight Films have been an integral part STILL 500.000 € train to Vienna without a penny in of the documentation of Christo and REQUIRED CONFIRMED his pocket, and then, through Geneva, Jeanne-Claude’s work. Their charming SALES AGENT made it to the city of his dreams and humorous personalities have lent CONFIRMED – Paris. In October that year, he met themselves to a vibrant and inspiring BROADCASTER Jeanne-Claude, the daughter of collection of art films, started by FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL a French General. They fell in love, the Maysels brothers. The completion SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET she broke off her marriage to a of Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is BROADCASTER FRANCE PROJECTED 120.000 € 21% (ARTE, CANAL PLUS, OCS) reputable French aristocrat, fled from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s symbolic, PUBLIC FUND FRANCE CNC PROJECTED 50.000 € 9% her home, andjoined the penniless posthumous return to the origins of PUBLIC FUND MEDIA TV PROJECTED 93.000 € 17% Christo in his chambre de bonne. their art and to a city that has shaped SUPPORT So began one of the most fascinating, them as artists. PUBLIC FUND ÎLE-DE-FRANCE PROJECTED 70.000 € 12% romantic, and fruitful partnerships BROADCASTER BULGARIAN TV PROJECTED 25.000 € 4% in the history of art. (BNT, NOVA, BTV) PUBLIC FUND BULGARIA (NFC) PROJECTED 50.000 € 9% It was in Paris where Christo PUBLIC FUND MEDIA PROJECTED 25.000 € 4% started wrapping various objects DEVELOPMENT with fabric; which would become WITH THE his signature style. It was also in Paris SUPPORT OF ADVANCEMENT where he manifested his first public STATE Development art installation, Iron Curtain, PREVIOUSLY a wall of barrels on Rue Visconti in PITCHED AT...