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EFM 2021 NEW TRAILER JUST Death of a COMPLETED Ladies’ Man SCREENING LINK AVAILABLE ON REQUEST a MATTHEW BISSONNETTE picture FEATURING SONGS BY LEONARD COHEN from the producers of BROOKLYN, ONCE and CHICAGO Samuel O’Shea, a university professor of poetry, exuberant womanizer and MEMORIES enthusiastic drinker has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, and BIRD ON THE WIRE his wife and children are at their wits’ end with him. More disturbingly, he has begun seeing things: Frankenstein sidles up to the bar and strangers sing THE LOST CANADIAN and dance to Leonard Cohen tunes. His much-missed father, who died when WHY DON’T YOU TRY Samuel was just a boy, pops up for chats. HALLELUJAH At first Samuel thinks it could be the drink, or perhaps he’s just crazy or over- DID I EVER LOVE YOU imaginative, but then learns he is gravely ill. Reflecting on the life he has lived, Samuel retreats to his family shack in remote Ireland, where he begins work on HEART WITH NO COMPANION that great novel he always meant to write, and generally take stock. Surprisingly, or not, he meets and falls in love with a woman, who is full the unexpected. All this leads Samuel to an utterly unforeseeable happy ending. PRODUCERS Corey Marr - Corey Marr Productions (Passenger Side) / Marie-Claude Poulin - MCP Productions (Brooklyn, Café de Flore) / Martina Niland - Cosmo Films (Once, Sing Street) / Don Carmody - Don Carmody Productions (Chicago, Good Will Hunting) / Alexander Kushaev - Monte Rosso Production Canada - Ireland / 2020 / English Gabriel Byrne Brian Gleeson Jessica Paré (Hereditary, Zerozerozero Amazon series, (Phantom Thread, (Mad Men, Seal Team, Standby) Maniac series, Miller’s Crossing, Mother!, Logan Lucky) The Usual Suspects) Karelle Tremblay Antoine Olivier Pilon Suzanne Clément (The Fireflies Are Gone, (Mommy) (Mommy, Versailles, Our Loved Ones) Laurence Anyways) Why are We / Are We Not Creative? a HERMANN VASKE picture Why are We IN RELEASE NEW Why are We TRAILER JUST COMPLETED NOT Creative? SCREENING LINK Creative? AVAILABLE ON REQUEST a HERMANN VASKE picture a HERMANN VASKE picture The movie is a sequel to Vaske’s “Why Are We Creative”. While the first As part of a personal quest, for over 30 years director Hermann Vaske film concentrates on the promoters and sponsors of creativity, the new filmed the world’s most intriguing artists and thinkers, including film unveils the true killers of creativity. It’s an exploration of the toxic over 50 luminaries, among them Academy Award® and Nobel Prize circumstances that act as beta blockers to ideas in all the various creative winners, from the fields of visual art, music, acting, philosophy, politics, disciplines. business and science, posing the question: “Why are you creative?” The movie will follow director Hermann Vaske and his sidekick Michael Vaske’s subjects include: David Bowie, Ai Weiwei, Björk, Wim Madsen on their mission to unmask and identify the idea killers. Together Wenders, Philippe Stark, Yoko Ono, John Hegarty, David Lynch, Yohji they analyze what screws up creativity in order to identify the villains, from Yamamoto, Damien Hirst, Angelina Jolie, Nobuyoshi Araki, Quentin self-censorship to anxiety, from distraction to bureaucracy. The assassins Tarantino, Bono, Nick Cave, Neo Rauch, Stephen Hawking, the of creativity are many and they are lurking everywhere. And oddly, our Dalai Lama, Peter Ustinov, Marina Abramovic, Diane Kruger, Julian reasons for not being creative are often very creative indeed… Schnabel, John Cleese, Jimmy Page, Vivienne Westwood, Takeshi Kitano and many others. As Vaske says: “In an age of uncertainty, where only creativity can help to solve the problems of the world, simply encouraging creativity is not The answers Vaske received are as varied and intriguing as his enough. Only when we know where the enemy stands will we be able to respondents. WHY ARE WE CREATIVE? is a vibrant celebration of what avoid the beta blockers of creativity.” makes us most human, most fulfilled. FEATURING: MARINA ABRAMOVIC, JEFF KOONS, SHIRIN NESHAT, PRODUCERS Hermann Vaske / Emotional Network Production, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, MICHAEL MADSEN, BJORK, DAVID BOWIE, Charles V. Bender PUSSY RIOTS, JOSHUA WONG, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI , WILLEM DAFOE, JIM JARMUSCH, KEN LOACH, TERRY GILLIAM, MARIANNA SIMNETT, Germany / 2018 / 82’ / 1:85 / 5.1 / English / Art Documentary DIANE KRUGER, JULIAN SCHNABEL, ALEXANDER PAYNE, SEAN PENN, TRINE DYRHOLM, JOHN CLEESE... Follow the project at whyareyoucreative.com Germany / 2020 / English / Art Documentary a MAJID MAJIDI picture SUN TRAILER PRESS BOOK WINNER BEST NEW TALENT CHILDREN WINNER BEST FILM HILAL a MAJID MAJIDI picture DOHA AJYAL FILM FESTIVAL SUN CHILDREN is the story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. BUSAN FILM FESTIVAL In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure OFFICIAL SELECTION underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located. LEEDS CAST Rouhollah Zamani, Javad Ezzati, Shamila Shirzad, Ali Nasirian, FILM FESTIVAL Tannaz Tabatabaie, Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Mousavi Fard, Shamila OPENING Shirzad, Abofazl Shirzad, Mani Ghafouri, Safar Mohammad, Ali Ghabeshi FILM PRODUCERS Majid Majidi, Amir Banan WRITERS Majid Majidi, Nima Javidi DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Houman Behmanesh SAO PAULO EDITOR Hassan Hassandoust MOSTRA OFFICIAL SELECTION Iran / 2020 / 99’ / Farsi “A heart-rending story with unexpected depth of emotion… it has guts and heart and a grubby, street-smart charisma. It’s one of the best films playing in this year’s Venice competition… the real treasure is the film” - THE GUARDIAN - “Quite the thrill ride, mixing a Dickensian, social-realist account of children in poverty in Tehran with a kinetic, far-fetched heist movie… a crowdpleaser… a thrilling portrait of youth” - INDIEWIRE - “Majid Majidi has made some of the most visually stunning and emotionally stirring films in world cinema about the plight of underprivileged, exploited and abused young people, and Sun Children is one of his very best” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - “I was reminded of The Florida Project… the kids compel and entertain” - VARIETY - a SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI picture IN COMPETITION Miss TRAILER PRESS BOOK IN COMPETITION Marx SAN a SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI picture SEBASTIAN PERLAS Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. OFFICIAL Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes SELECTION part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by their passionate but tragic love story. VIENNALE CAST Romola Garai (Suffragettes), Patrick Kennedy (Downton Abbey), FILM FESTIVAL John Gordon Sinclair, Felicity Montagu, Karina Fernandez, Oliver Chris and OPENING Philip Groening FILM PRODUCERS A Vivo film (Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa) with Rai Cinema, Tarantula Production (Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville) in coproduction with VOO and Be TV SAO PAULO MOSTRA MUSIC The movie includes prestigious American punk rock band OFFICIAL Downtown Boys (Rolling Stone, Spine, New Yorker) covers of Dancing SELECTION in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen and of L’Internationale plus their original songs: Waves of History, I’m Enough (I Want More) and A Wall Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo (Nico, 1988), have done an electronic adaptation of classical music pieces by Chopin and Liszt KOLKATA DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Crystel Fournier (Nico, 1988, Tomboy) FILM FESTIVAL COSTUME DESIGNER Massimo Cantini Parrini (Pinocchio, Dogman) OFFICIAL EDITOR Stefano Cravero (Nico, 1988, Dafne) SELECTION Italy - Belgium / 2020 / 107’ / English - German “Garai commands attention as a defiant woman who was punkishly far ahead of her time” - Screen International - “An audacious retelling ... absolutely affecting” - The Guardian - “An explosive performance from star Romola Garai” - Indiewire - “Nicchiarelli’s film feels like its own kind of manifesto” - The Telegraph - “Miss Marx stands out with its progressive dimension” - Telerama - Memory House a JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA picture Memory TRAILER House PRESS BOOK a JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA picture Modern day Brazil, but lost in time. Cristovam, a native Black man from the rural North, moves to a former Austrian colony in the South to work in a milk factory. Confronted with xenophobic conservative people, he feels isolated and estranged from the white world. He discovers an abandoned house, filled with objects and memorabilia reminding him of his origins. He settles in, reconnecting with his roots. As if this memory house were alive, more objects start to appear. Slowly, Cristovam begins a metamorphosis. WINNER ROGER EBERT For his feature debut, director João Paulo Miranda Maria uses AWARD spiritual and fantastical story-telling to encapsulate the social and CHICAGO IFF racial tensions of modern day Brazil. PRODUCERS Paula Cosenza, Denise Gomes (BeBossa Entertainment - Brazil) and Didar Domehri (Maneki Films - France) WINNER BEST Brazil - France / 2020 / 93’ / Portuguese - German CINEMATOGRAPHY STOKHOLM FF US RELEASE BY FILM MOVEMENT « A nuanced look at systemic racism in Brazil » - VARIETY - « Memory House melds past