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German Projects CONSTELLATION FACTORY ALIAS FILM & NITRO...... 30-31 SPRACHTRANSFER GMBH ELIANEANTOINETTE GHOSTS ...... 4-5 THE OBSERVER EFFECT...... 32-33 AUGENSCHEIN IDEALE AUDIENCE FILMPRODUKTION GMBH WHERE ARE YOU, MONSTER...... 6-7 JOAO GILBERTO ? ...... 34-35 DANIEL FILM LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE COUGAR THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE ...... 8-9 YASMINA’S FLING...... 36-37 GREENSTONEFILMS LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR ALCHIMISTS...... 10-11 SIBEL...... 38-39 MEDEA FILM FACTORY LES PRODUITS FRAIS FACTORY COWBOY ...... 12-13 WORLDS IN BETWEEN ...... 40-41 MOJO PICTURES NEON PRODUCTIONS TRANSMORPHOSIS...... 14-15 A FAIRY IN THE REAR- OVAL MEDIA BERLIN GmbH - VIEW MIRROR ...... 42-43 MELANGE SARL - REAL LIFE FILM ORIFLAMME FILMS INTERNATIONAL GmBH BROWN SUGAR...... 44-45 WAIT FOR ME...... 16-17 PLUS DE PROD PARS MEDIA TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY THE BOOK JEANNE...... 18-19 IN THE CEVENNES ...... 42-43 RHEA FILMS THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR. . . . 44-45 FRENCH Projects TALWEG PRODUCTION ATOPIC UNDER PARIS...... 44-45 DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR...... 24-25 BATHYSPHERE PRODUCTIONS Other Project 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE .26-27 MISTRUS MEDIA BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS A BOY WITH A DOG...... 44-45 LOLA PATER...... 28-29 GERMAN PROJECTS ALIAS FILM English title:...... GHOSTS & SPRACHTRANSFER GmbH Original title:...... GEISTER

Dagmar Jacobsen Three young Europeans, KÄTHE, PAUL and BELLA, and a profound and inseparable three- Goethestr. 85•10623 Berlin, Germany way relationship. Jules et Jim for the 21st century, in Berlin.

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90’ Phone +49 (0)30 8871 0774 Genre: ...... Drama Fax +49 (0)30 8871 0775 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile +49 (0)172 30 30 236 ...... Screenplay version n°5 www.alias-film.com Producer: ...... Dagmar Jacobsen Scriptwriter: ...... Judith Angerbauer Director:...... Judith Angerbauer Shooting Period:...... Autumn/Summer Shooting Locations:...... Berlin, Ladakh, India Budget:...... around 1 .5 M€ Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... none Partners attached:...... None GHOSTS is a project I have been following for quite a while. Since our first meeting, the Looking for: ...... Co-producers, Distributor, World Sales, Funding screenplay has undergone some exciting changes and developments. Jules et Jim for the 21st century — that came straight to my mind when confronted by the dramatic twists and turns of this love triangle. This time, however, it's two women and one man who are entangled in their loves and desires: three people who cannot free them- Synopsis selves from each other, and who must first reach high in the sky to finally, eventually, find their footing on solid ground again. Berlin — a loud, fast, and dirty city, and the place where three young people run into each other: PAUL, a talented musician from England who seems to be on the verge of his GHOSTS is also a "Berlin story", one that is difficult to imagine happening elsewhere. Berlin breakthrough; BELLA, a very beautiful young Frenchwoman who, though daring, outspoken is an engendering magnet for volatile, complex, searching young "citizens of the world". and direct, is still in search for her goal in life; and KÄTHE, a true-blue Berliner who works Berlin, a city that continually reinvents itself. as a social worker with street kids. These three fall in love with each other — completely, deeply, and intensely — and begin a shared life together as a threesome. In GHOSTS, three young Europeans from completely different worlds collide: PAUL, the musician from London; BELLA, the beautiful French woman who hasn't yet found her place A bittersweet love, the triangular relationship is in constant danger of falling apart: PAUL, in life; and KÄTHE, the native Berliner, the anchoring nucleus and point of reference for the a man as gifted as he is erratic, can be extremely destructive at times. Aside from music, other two — and as a result, she faces the danger of being crushed... he has one other obsession: he climbs and crosses the roofs high above the city. KÄTHE, who has a fear of heights and is very down-to-earth, is easily caught in the vortex of PAUL's Paul's music, which will give the movie its unique sound and rhythm, will also underscore "death wish" and verges on losing herself in her attempts to protect him. BELLA has to wit- the emotional turmoil of the protagonists. Music, however, will be a theme and leitmotif. ness how the two of them, whom she loves equally, begin to falter. She wants to save them, their love, and the three-way relationship — but is she able to?

When PAUL develops an emotional crisis that threatens to tear the three apart and destroy the relationship, all three decide to undertake a joint journey to much higher rooftops: to the "roof of the world", deep into the mountain landscape of the Himalayas. PAUL has gone there often — whenever he's found himself in the need of regaining his footing. This is the first time, however, that he allows KÄTHE and BELLA to accompany him. There on the roof of the world, in total isolation, without the grounding stability of the familiar, their love is put to the ultimate test.

6 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 7 augenschein English title:...... MONSTER Filmproduktion GmBH Original title ...... MONSTER

Maximilian Leo Monster tells about holding on to someone by letting go and about how our greatest fear Neusser Straße, 5-7, 50670, Cologne, Germany can always give us a clue about what we miss the most.

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90’ Phone +49 (0)221 16950500 Genre: ...... Love story & family road movie / Dramedy Fax +49 (0)221 16950509 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile +49 (0)163 2860097 ...... Screenplay version n°7 www.augenschein-filmproduktion.de Producer: ...... Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo Scriptwriter: ...... Kerstin Polte Director:...... Kerstin Polte Shooting Period:...... May - June 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Germany, Switzerland Budget:...... 2 .5 M€ Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 770,000 € Partners attached:...... CognitoFilms (Switzerland) When we read Kerstin Polte’s first synopsis of MONSTER we knew that this is the right story Looking for: ...... French Co-Producer, Distributors, World Sales for her great poetic style. With her final shorts she already had proven her skill in blen- ...... and other financing partners ding the awkwardness of strange daily life situations with the deep almost surreal depths of human emotions. We knew that the director’s handwriting and the emotional and yet accessible story were a very good package right from the start. Charlotte’s main conflict is Synopsis easy to understand, she does not have the time to wait anymore. She embarks on a journey thus leading her whole family, her husband, her daughter and her granddaughter into a Simply living towards the grave is not what Charlotte (58) wants. Her husband Paul (62) route towards life and love. During this trip each family member faces his own “monster” is a recently retired risk assessor who is trying to keep himself busy. He doesn`t notice his and by overcoming these fears, everyone finds the access to love. It is a wonderful story wife`s restlessness. The passion she is longing for is not to be expected from the quiet stoic though never has been an easy one to write. The script for MONSTER was developed wit- any time soon. To make things worse there is a growing suspicion that something is not hin The Munich Screenplay Workshop and was elected by the European Training program right with her. Lately, a lot of little details vanish from her memory. Their daughter Vera (36) of EKRAN. MONSTER also enabled us to already raise the interest of the German broad- is a hot-tempered driving instructor who is deeply entangled in her own unhappiness. To casters SR and WDR. Kerstin Polte is a Suisse-German filmmaker and according to the avoid getting hurt she is a keen practitioner of the pre-emptive strike in emotional matters. border crossing script, the project was set up as an international co-production from the It is hardly surprising that she is quite lonely. But she doesn’t believe in love anyway. Her start. The Rendez-Vous in Marseille would be the best place for finding a matching French daughter Jo (12) has been declared highly talented and Vera tries everything to transform partner with whom we can fulfill the project’s high potential to attract an international her into a normal girl. Jo has more important things on her mind though. With analytical audience skill and the unspoiled mind of an underage philosopher she tackles the big questions of life and death not at last because her cat Bootsmann has just died after falling from the balcony. The tightly scheduled eventlessness of Charlotte’s everyday life and the fact that the truly important things are always left unsaid in this family becomes more suffocating. Charlotte’s fear of disappearing before her life even started prompts her to rebel more and more. When Charlotte eventually leaves her old life behind at a filling station to go on a roadtrip with her granddaughter and the dead cat, Paul and Vera are left puzzled and somewhat shocked. Charlottes and Jo’s first impulse just to run away develops more and more into a self-determined new beginning. Far away from their old patterns they dive into the here and now, encountering their fear, their monsters, and they welcome the surprises that life and love has to offer. But Paul catches up to Charlotte. And on her way to struggle back to her daughter Vera falls deeply in love with someone she would have never expec- ted. Paul’s plan to bring Charlotte back to their old life quickly gives way to realize that life will never again be what it was. He has to reevaluate his plan and come to a new decision: to follow her into the chaos. He plunges into a strange world. He fights over his woman for the first time in his life. 8 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 9 DANIEL FILM English title:...... THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE Dan Ravasz, Rose-Marie Couture Original title ...... The Invisible Bridge Lipowskystr. 12a, 81373 Munich - Germany Love and Darkness at the Edge of World War II. Based on the NYT Best seller by Julie Email [email protected] Orringer Phone +49 (0)89 9544 0195 Mobile +49 (0)176 6592 2719 Length: ...... 129 min Genre: ...... Love Film – War Drama State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter ...... Screenplay version n° Version Nr . 2 Producer: ...... Dan Ravasz, Rose-Marie Couture Scriptwriter: ...... Mark Skeet and Matthew Faulk Director:...... Lajos Koltai Shooting Period:...... None Shooting Locations:...... Budapest - Paris Budget:...... Estimated Budget of 12 M€ Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... None Partners attached:...... UTA – Los Angeles Dan Ravasz (Daniel Film) comes from a family with a long tradition in the film business, his Looking for: ...... Co-Producer in France father being an Academy Award nominated producer of “THE REVOLT OF JOB / JÓB LÁZA- DÁSA” (Hungary). Dan started his career as a journalist und PR agent in Switzerland and Germany. THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE is his first feature film as a producer. Dan holds a Master in Media & Communication and Political Science from the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, Synopsis and is a member of the American Film Institute (AFI). Executive Producer of THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE is Branko Lustig (SCHINDLER’S LIST). Other current projects: VILLA AURORA and Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a BETRAYAL AT THE U.N. scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a passionate relationship with the letter's recipient - Claire Morgenstern, a Hungarian émigré with a shadowy past and a decade older than him. He becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his and his family’s history. Meanwhile, as his elder brother takes up medical studies in Italy and his younger brother leaves school for the stage, Europe’s unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into ter- rifying uncertainty as Europe erupts in a cataclysm of war. Two families bound by the same destiny are tossed by the winds of war from 1937 until 1945, from 1956 and beyond, when the surviving family members are able to flee Soviet-controlled Hungary for freedom and a new life in America.

THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer is a grand love story full of secrets and a tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war. A marriage tested by deceit and disaster, a family threatened with annihilation, bound by love and tradition. A haunting love story and an epic World War II saga like THE ENGLISH PATIENT, SOPHIE’S CHOICE and SUNSHINE

10 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 11 GREENSTONEFILMS English title:...... ALCHIMISTS Original title ...... Les Alchimistes

Carsten Böhnke A muslim intellectual gets accused of being a terrorist and flees with his love to escape the Habsburgerstarsse 92, 79100 Freiburg, Germany madness.

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 100 min . Phone +49 (0)761 5901888 Genre: ...... Melodram Mobile +49 (0)151 25294722 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.greenstonefilms.com ...... Screenplay version n°2 ...... Screenplay version n°7 Producer: ...... Carsten Böhnke Scriptwriter: ...... Carsten Böhnke, Eka Papiashvili Director:...... Eka Papiashvili Shooting Period:...... 2017 Shooting Locations:...... Paris, Marseille Producer’s Note Budget:...... 1 .2 M€ (estimated, depending on further ...... negotiations) The core of the story is classic, the narration is embedded in our contemporary world, it Secured financing: ...... 50,000 € incl . Referenzförderung FFA can happen anytime. We want to tell the mechanism of betrayal, false accusations and Partners attached:...... None the hunger for real love which will be resulting in tragedy in a highly emphatic and atmos- Looking for: ...... Coproducer pheric way. This film is intended to be a contribution to oppose the mainstream sentiment of our crazy times and will also be a film about love when there is only fear. Alchimists is both a romantical and politcal melodram with thriller elements and targeted at a broeader Synopsis audience. This is the first feature film of award winning director Eka Papiashvili. The film will be direc- 20 year old Muriel moves from Germany to Paris in order to apply for the acting class at the ted by Eka Papiashvilii and written + codirected by Carsten Böhnke. Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique. In Paris she meets Hamid, an intellectual and playwright in his early 30's and his editor Claire. Hamid who is not only poet but also leftist activist, stays illegal in France and fears of being deported. Claire supports Hamid with pay- ments for his stage plays and with a small apartment in the 10th arrondissement. Soon Muriel gets behind Hamids secret: Hamid is forced into a relation with Claire which he actually doesn't want. Claire adores Hamid in an almost fanatic way and threats to report him to the police, if he ever leaves her. Caught in this cage, Hamid is working on a new theater piece about terrorism which is important for his career and may also help him to seek asylum. Hamid is fascinated by Muriels acting skills and expression. Muriel starts working for Hamid, by acting the characters of his play. Soon Mu- riel and Hamid develop emotions for each other. Claire, who dislikes Muriels presence from the first moment on, starts to become jealous. When she realizes that Hamids thoughts are always with Muriel, she suffers a nervous breakdown and calls the police. The policemen arrive in the early morning at Hamids place while Muriel is still rehearsing. When Muriel realizes that Hamid is going to be arrested, her rehearsal role of a terrorist becomes reality: She takes the toy gun, which she uses for rehearsing, frees Hamid and handcuffs the policemen. Hamid knows that he has to flee now himself if he doesn't want to get arrested and deported. Muriel keeps on playing her role: While Hamid waits for her in a bar, Muriel robs a jewelry shop whose owner once tried to rape her. Equipped with this money they manage to flee to Claires house in Marseille, while the police and media is on the manhunt for Hamid, since Muriel has not been identified. After their first night together, Hamid plans to leave France without Muriel in order to protect her. The police shoots him while he tries to get on board a ferry. Muriel gets this news from Claire who directly came to Marseille after she started regretting her betrayal. It is the same morning when Muriel gets to know that she has been accepted as a student by the conservatoire. But knowing her love is dead she takes revenge on Claire… 12 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 13 MEDEA FILM FACTORY English title:...... FACTORY COWBOY Original title ...... FACTORY COWBOY

Irene Höfer, Andreas Schroth 24 hours in Andy Warhols Factory – 5 international directors tell the story of his 15 minute- Lützowplatz 9, 10785 Berlin, Germany famers

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90 min . [email protected] Genre: ...... Feature Phone + 493025295331 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Fax +49 30 25295332 ...... Screenplay version n°4 +49 1723917861 Mobile Producer: ...... MEDEA FILM/ Hollywood Action House www.medeafilm.de Scriptwriter: ...... Ulli Lommel, Tanner Barklow & Colin J . McCracken Director:...... Ulli Lommel & al Shooting Period:...... 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Germany, USA Budget:...... 1 .5 M€ Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 120,000 € Partners attached:...... None Ulli Lommel since I met him the first time has always been this special sort of personage for Looking for: ...... Coproducers me - evolved from a very special period in the 60s/ 70s post war Germany. The 60s brought him to Fassbinder at the end of the 70s he arrived at the Factory – consequently the years and decades after he developed his own style to be seen in the over 50 films he directed. Synopsis

I had the pleasure to produce SUNSET BOULEVARD in 2012 with him now I would like to 24 hours in Andy Warhols Factory – 5 international directors tell the story of his 15 minute- share his unique experience in FACTORY COWBOY together with five other directors yet to famers. be found. NEW YORK the seventies – Fassbinder’s famous actor Ulli Lommel arrives at Warhols Fac- tory, and gets immediately involved in his work and art manufacturing process, Warhol calls him cowboy furtherone. Cowboy decides to invite 5 colleagues to shoot the 15 mi- nute-famers.

14 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 15 MOJO PICTURES English title:...... TRANSMORPHOSIS Original title ...... TRANSMORPHOSIS

Jakob M. Erwa The tragicomical real story of the first transgender fashion model in the 1980ies, when Reinickendorfer Str. 70, 13347 Berlin, Germany nobody yet knew that she was a boy.

Email [email protected] Length: ...... ~ 110 min . Phone +49 (0)30 45301849 Genre: ...... Pop-Tragicomedy Mobile +49 (0)179 5469757 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.moo-pictures.com Producer: ...... Jakob M . Erwa, Sophie Stäglich Scriptwriter: ...... Jakob M . Erwa Director:...... Jakob M . Erwa Shooting Period:...... Summer 2017 Shooting Locations:...... Germany (NRW), France (Paris), Austria (Karinthia) Budget:...... ~ 5 M€ Secured financing: ...... Scriptfunding Producer’s Note Partners attached:...... Topshot Films, Paris Looking for: ...... Partners in production, financing, distribution KEY FACTS: ...... and sales . • A REAL STORY • A LIVING PROTAGONIST/WITNESS: VALESKA • ATTRACTIVE SETTING: FASHION & GLAMOUR • HYPER UP-TO-DATE TOPIC: CROSSDRESSING/TRANSGENDER Synopsis • HIGH CONCEPT PREMISE: NOBODY KNOWS HER/HIS SECRET • COMEDY TONE IN A DRAMATIC SETTING 1977. Little Victor’s greatest desire is to be a girl, but he keeps this as a secret from his pa- rents who who never really appreciated him. At the age of eighteen he cuts the cords with “Clothes make the man” meets “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” his parents and moves to his aunt who helps him with his transformation: Victor becomes We are interested in topics such as (sexual) identity, the longing for recognition and the Valeska. Shortly after the transformation Valeska is discovered by a photographer and need to belong. In TRANSMORPHOSIS we see an opportunity to think outside the box, pull signs a contract to work as a model in Paris – and it seems like life could not get any better. out all the stops creatively and create a film we’ve never seen before. The screen adapta- Finally Valeska receives admiration. However, even though everyone idolizes the successful tion focuses on the search for identity. It shows Valeska’s yearning and quest for recogni- ”superwoman“, there still is a small, subtle difference that makes life hard for Valeska… tion despite many disappointments and setbacks, and reveals how her longing for love and Valeska’s story is the true story of the first transsexual model of the international fashion recognition remains unanswered, even when she’s achieved her artistic and career goals. world, when nobody yet knew that she was actually born as a man. Gender/gender roles is one of the key issues of our time. TRANSMORPHOSIS is based on a true story and is about Valeska’s path to success in the The Amazon series TRANSPARENT recently received a Golden Globe Award. In the series fashion world and the ”small difference“ that makes it a lot more complicated but not less HIT & MISS Chloë Sevigny plays a transgender contract killer. THE DANISH GIRL opens in US funny, about the search for love and the realization that admiration, fame and popularity theaters in the fall of 2015. Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision contest and two transgender don’t necessarily mean that you are accepted as what you really are. The peculiar melan- models, Andreja Pejic and Carmen Carrera, are among the highest paid models working cholic cheerfulness makes us experience a unique story of success that proves that it is today. I want to use this momentum to dive into the financing process of this amazing and possible to question conventions and to overcome boundaries. unique film. I believe that, when told in a daring and challenging manner, this story, thanks The film is based on the autobiographic novel “Flowers for a chameleon” by Valeska Réon, to its extraordinary subject matter and lavish setting, will reach a great number of people published in the Männerschwarm Verlag

16 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 17 OVAL MEDIA BERLIN GmbH - English title:...... WAIT FOR ME MELANGE SARL - REAL LIFE Original title ...... WAIT FOR ME

FILM INTERNATIONAL GmBH « Wait for Me » is the story of a group of young men and women caught in their own quest Robert Cibis for pleasure as a path to freedom in Berlin today. Eupener Straße 165, 50933 Köln - Germany Length: ...... 18 min . for TV and internet, 5 min . in VR Email [email protected] ...... and an application for iOS & Android Phone +49 (0)221 30079353 Genre: ...... Poetic Thriller Fax +49 (0)30 280 461 89 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile +49 (0)176 83032860 ...... Screenplay version n°3 Producer: ...... Michel Reilhac, Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck www.oval.media Scriptwriter: ...... Michel Reilhac Director:...... Michel Reilhac Shooting Period:...... spring 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Berlin, Germany Producer’s Note Budget:...... 350,000 € Secured financing: ...... 100,000 € WAIT FOR ME is a fiction story world made up of 4 platforms that complement each other, Partners attached:...... CNC, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (LOI) like in a puzzle, as they tell the story from a different character POV. At the same time, each Looking for: ...... Distributors, platforms, funds, broadcasters, etc platform is a stand-alone that can be experienced without the others:

1. A 20 minutes 2D film for TV/ Web/Cinema gives the basic plot explained above. Synopsis 2. The fully functioning app. TIM’s perspective on the story through the SPECTATOR’S use of his own smart phone In Real Life. The night can be a magical mental space, which challenges us to truly experience a trans- The app WaitForMe is designed to be downloaded for free on the spectators’ smart phones gressive form of freedom and self-expression. But in the process of exploring the wilder from the App Store and Google Play. The characters in the series also use the same app to side of who we may be, we do not know what powers we may wake up in the process… communicate between each other, a bit like “What’s app”. We, the spectator, see the app from one of the characters point of view: TIM’s phone in the story world becomes replica- WAIT FOR ME is an interactive story world around a group of friends in Berlin choosing a life ted on our phone in real life. The viewer’s progression through the story world of “Wait for of fun, freedom, and wildness in the night. But then one day they find themselves sucked Me” is fueled by the episodes in the series as well as by all the information provided through into some kind of a trance state that they cannot control. They are profoundly shaken by his/her own interaction using his/her phone in real life, during or in between the episodes. the experience although they cannot remember any of it. The only trace they have of what they went through all together is a mysterious video shot from one of their phones. 3. A 10 minutes Virtual Reality film for an immersive full 360° spherical video headgear Is it a bad party drug? When it happens again in unexpected ways and without any drugs experience. This will complement the series by allowing the viewer to access the full sub- taken, they want to understand what is really happening to them… Progressively, reality jective story as lived and perceived by the character KÖL. This storyline will help us unders- is no longer the clear cut divide between day life and night magic that it used to be. More tand that Köl may be holding the key to the mysteries of the series. It will be a very subjec- strange things start happening… until a bad accident happens and makes the whole thing tive and super natural experience, crossing points with moments in the series. not fun at all any longer… 4. A live event In Real Life, which will be a full-scale party, an event imbedded in the story world to close it. This party will be hosted as being the one where the characters all try to gather in the cellar to see if they can trigger the trance again.

WAIT FOR ME is a co-production by MELANGE (Michel Reilhac), France and OVALmedia (Robert Cibis), Germany. It is planned to premiere at Re:Publica in Berlin May 2 to 4, 2016. The budget is estimated at 350.000 €, about 100.000 € are already in place.

18 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 19 PARS MEDIA English title:...... THE BOOK JEANNE Original title ...... JEANNE LE LIVRE (F); DAS BUCH JULIA (D)

Marieke Schroeder A man falls in love with a woman as he reads a book about her. Rambergstr. 5, 80799 München, Germany Length: ...... 110 min . Email [email protected] Genre: ...... Drama Phone +49 (0)89 396511 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Fax +49 (0)89 397302 ...... Screenplay version n°10 Mobile +49 (0)172 8328487 Producer: ...... Marieke Schroeder www.parsmedia.com Scriptwriter: ...... Joachim Bessing, Jan Schmidt-Garre Director:...... Jan Schmidt-Garre Shooting Period:...... Fall 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Geneva, Munich Budget:...... 2 7. M€ Secured financing: ...... 375,000 € Producer’s Note Partners attached:...... FFA, private investor Looking for: ...... Co-producers, TV partners, distributors A man reads a book about a woman. Through literature he discovers reality. He falls in love. This is the premise of the film, The Book Jeanne, a film about the esoteric channels between fiction and reality. A film about what happens when a reader and a literary figure meet in real life. Does the book become a demon that overshadows reality? And what happens when she finds out with what intimate and predicated insight he gained her trust? Does he Synopsis love her, or is he in love with a character in a book? Above all, The Book Jeanne is about the original theme of film since the invention of shot Antoine (played by Sebastian Koch) owns a publishing house in Geneva. His friend Pierre’s reverse shot: desire. A man observes a woman. We see his gaze, and then we see her. His last book was a surprise success with the public and with critics. Antoine wants to an- feelings are charged into the images and are then transmitted to the viewer. We now see nounce his friend’s next book soon. But Pierre has fallen in love with a young lady, whose through his eyes. enigmatic nature is driving him insane. He begins writing down his love story. Antoine is Antoine’s encounters with Jeanne are interspersed with the analogous experiences that appalled; personal experiences aren’t the stuff of literature to him. He begrudgingly reads Pierre describes in his book. The film switches levels; it links them at points by means of the first chapter. Reading, he begins to see Jeanne with new eyes, loving eyes. Pierre’s narrative voice; at other times they are allowed to switch without transition. Reality Beginning playfully, Antoine searches out the places that Pierre describes. He reviews the and imagination are only minimally differentiated. Antoine continuously looses orientation. facts, registering the consistencies and discrepancies. He follows Jeanne in a car, sudden- Does he even love this woman, or does he just love Pierre’s longing for her? ly finds himself while jogging at her doorstep and then enters her apartment. The game becomes an obsession. He impatiently waits for each new chapter Pierre sends him. He neglects his work and falls into a grey area between fiction and reality. One day – Pierre is now separated from her – the lines get blurred. Antoine and Jeanne meet, seemingly by coincidence. They see each other a second and third time. They fall in love with each other. They enjoy some happy moments, yet the demons of the past catch up with them. What Antoine has read about the Jeanne of the novel overpowers his meetings with the real her. Once he finally thinks he’s freed himself from the book, Jeanne finds the manuscript on his desk. Antoine cheated on her, with herself – as a character in a book. She leaves. A year later. Jeanne sits on the podium of the House of Literature and reads from her novel „The Book Jeanne“. A journalist asks whether the woman in the novel has something to do with the real Jeanne. Smiling, she answers, “truth can only ever be invented.“

20 — GERMAN PROJECTs GERMAN PROJECTs — 21 FRENCH PROJECTS ATOPIC English title:...... DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR Original title:...... DON JUAN REVIENT DE GUERRE

Christophe GOUGEON Length: ...... 80 min . 16 rue Bleue, 75009 Paris, France Genre: ...... Fiction Email [email protected] State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Phone +33 (0)1 43 15 90 90 ...... Screenplay version n°1 Mobile +33 (0)6 64 86 04 51 Producer: ...... Christophe GOUGEON Scriptwriter: ...... Jacques OSINSKI, Yann CHAPOTEL www.atopic.fr Director:...... Yann CHAPOTEL, Jacques OSINSKI Shooting Period:...... February / March 2016 Shooting Locations:...... France (Studio), Germany Budget:...... 609,105 € Secured financing: ...... 50,000 € Partners attached:...... L’AURORE BOREALE Producer’s Note Looking for: ...... German coproducer

Don Juan comes back from war is originally a theatre piece of German playwright von Horvath Oton which was directed by Jacques Osinski as part of a coproduction between the Maison de la Culture of Grenoble (MC2) and the National Dramatic Center of the Alps Synopsis (CNDA). As if it were the outcome of what the playwright wanted to perform himself, Jacques Osinski and Yann Chapotel, that have already worked together on staging opera, Don Juan is tired ... Coming out of the horror of war 14-18, man has lost its luster. He goes have decided to take this initiative on their own, mainly in studio. They will indeed reposi- his way in a Germany struggling with the crisis, in search of the bride he once abandoned. tion the decor (at present stored in a warehouse) and replay this contemporary drama by She is dead. He ignores. And every woman he meets is like a face of this lost ideal. A film by the same actors. Jacques Osinski and Yann Chapotel according to the theater staged the first play written in 1937 by Ödön von Horváth.

24 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 25 BATHYSPHERE PRODUCTIONS English title:...... 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE Original title:...... Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle

Nicolas Anthomé Japan, 1944. Hiroo Onoda, 22, is sent to a small Philippine island. His duty is to wage a 11, rue Manin, 75019 Paris, France guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. Email [email protected] The Empire will surrender a year later; Onoda, 10,000 days after. Phone +33 (0)1 40 21 37 02 Length: ...... 100 min . Fax +33 (0)1 40 18 02 71 Genre: ...... History / war / drama / adventure Mobile +33 (0)6 61 89 86 39 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.bathysphere.fr Producer: ...... Nicolas Anthomé – Bathysphere Productions Scriptwriter: ...... Arthur Harari – Vincent Poymiro Director:...... Arthur Harari Shooting Period:...... 2017 Shooting Locations:...... South East Asia Budget:...... 2 1. M € Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 284,000 € Partners attached:...... Les Films Pelleas | Région Aquitaine | I’ve been working with Arthur Harari for several years. I produced his last mid-length film IN ...... Région Basse-Normandie VAIN, awarded in many festivals. I believe that we share a common taste for adventures and Looking for: ...... German coproduction | International sales | experimentations...... International (Asia) coproductions 10,000 nights… is based on a true story. It is both an inner adventure and a survival tale. Its potential of signification and fascination is in my opinion prodigious. For his script, Arthur has worked with Vincent Poymiro, an inventive and rigorous screenwri- ter. Furthermore, Jean-Claude Carrière is following the writing process. Finally, Bernard Cen- Synopsis dron, author of «Onoda, 30 years alone at war», is also helping. Arthur now reached a version which takes into account the pitfalls of the historical facts, and Japan, 1944. Hiroo Onoda is sent to the strategic island of Lubang, in the Philippines to wage draws them towards their full dramatic potential. a guerrilla war. He has in mind his superior's last words: "Whatever the circumstances, never The conditions are now gathered for the fulfillment of our project. But many french funds give up either your mission or your life. It might take three years, or even five but whatever won’t help non-french speaking film. It is absolutely necessary for me to find coproducers in happens we will come back for you." Europe – Germany in particular – and Asia. But I think it is also the nature of the film itself, its universal relevance, that demands to cross the frontiers and to look widely abroad. On the island, the Japanese have already capitulated. Onoda soon finds himself with only three men: Akatsu, Shimada and Kozuka. They penetrate deep into the jungle to start work on the second part of the mission: harassing the enemy until the Japanese troops come back. The months turn into years. The territory becomes their kingdom. But one day, in a fight with Philippine soldiers, Shimada is shot dead. It leads Akatsu to surrender. Onoda and Kozuka then retreat even deeper into the jungle and isolation. When news of the world reaches them, they always reinterpret it to tell the story of a parallel reality in which the war is not ended. Years pass. The island becomes their world - for them, the whole world. But in 1972, 28 years after arriving on the island, Kozuka is shot. From now on, Onoda is alone, a phantom in the jungle. In February 1974, Norio Suzuki, an adventurous young student, lands on Lubang. Onoda quickly spots him. But Suzuki gains his trust. He tells him that the war has been over for 29 years, and that Japan has surrendered. Onoda still resists: he says he can only lay down his weapons on the direct order of his superior. Suzuki promises to find him. One month later his superior is there, a frail old man. He reads out the emperor's order to surrender, dating from 1945. Onoda then empties his magazine and lays down his rifle. After one last trip to Kozuka's grave, Onoda flies off in a helicopter. He watches the rice fields, mountains and jungle fade into the distance, and leaves his island behind forever.

26 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 27 BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS English title:...... LOLA PATER Original title:...... LOLA PATER

Bertrand GORE How to rebuild a relationship with a father your haven’t seen since you were 3 years old, 224 rue Saint Denis, 75002 Paris, France and who has changed gender since?

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90/100 min . Phone +33 (0)1 42 77 56 31 Genre: ...... Drama Mobile +33 (0)6 30 65 92 81 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.bluemonday.fr ...... Screenplay version n°10 Producer: ...... Bertrand GORE, Nathalie MESURET Scriptwriter: ...... Nadir MOKNECHE Director:...... Nadir MOKNECHE Shooting Period:...... 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Paris, Région PACA Budget:...... 2 7. M€ Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 1 8. M€ Partners attached:...... ARP Sélection | Versus | Régions Ile de France | PACA | “Lola Pater” will be Nadir Mokneche’s fifth feature film, the first to be shot in France where he ...... CNC/ACSE now lives. It deals with the question of how a father/son bound can be preserved in the situa- Looking for: ...... Coproduction, financing tion of a gender transition (of the father, in our case). As references, we can quote “Trans- merica” or the TV Series “Transparent”. These themes are more and more often delt with in the US public debate, and as a consequence in the US film industry (see the very mainstream “Danish girl”). Though it’s not a comedy, “Lola pater” is not a heavy drama. Our intention is to be simple, true Synopsis to life, far from clichés about transgender community, so that the audience can identify to the characters. Lola, the transgender father, will be played by iconic french actress Fanny Ardant, Zino, a 26-year-old Algerian immigrant’s son, buries his mother in Paris. An only child, he and Zino by the promissing Tewfik Jallab. 65 % of the financing is already in place. grew up with her after the sudden departure of his father, Farid, more than 20 years ago. Zino believes his father has abandonned him. He finds out that Farid didn’t go back to Algeria, but currently resides in the south of France, and that his parents never divorced. Why did his mother lie to him?

28 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 29 CONSTELLATION FACTORY English title:...... NITRO Original title:...... NITRO

François-Xavier FRANTZ During 2 nights and days 12 men and women get a possibility to change their way of life… 21 rue du Grand Prieuré, 75011 Paris – France Length: ...... 100 min . Email [email protected] Genre: ...... Tragicomedy Phone +33 (0)6 43 72 85 24 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile +33 (0)6 43 72 85 24 ...... Screenplay version n°7 whttp://constellationfactory.wix.com/ Producer: ...... François-Xavier FRANTZ constellationfactory (new website in process) Scriptwriter: ...... Sara D’AMARIO www.constellation-factory.org Director:...... Matthieu JORROT Shooting Period:...... Fall 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Metz Budget:...... 4 M€ Secured financing: ...... 600,000 € Producer’s Note Partners attached:...... None Looking for: ...... Coproducers / financing / int sales agent / distribution Nitro is based on stories we mostly perfectly know ; stories of our sons, neighbours and friends. Nitro takes care to stay at a very first level of our reality: simple love(s)… how love or/and sexual pulsion are actually able to deeply ravage our approach of life/habits. The Nitro(glycerin) actually is the ancestor of dynamite… love is probably the ancestor of nuclear power. We already have in board some actors as Laurent Lucas (Floride / Philippe Le Guay), Synopsis Louis Do de Lencquesaing (Francofonia / SOKUROV (Venice F.F. official competition 2015 & Alice Barnole (L'Apollonide / BONELLO – Cannes F.F. official Competition 2012, Sara D’Amario After midnight, a spectacular crash happens: a car, driven by an indistinct character, gets (« The Girl from the lake » / MOLAIOLI with Toni Servillo and « Caos Calmo » / GRIMALDI with stuck under a truck. Nani Moretti. We have the official interest from The Regional Fund of Piemont (Italy) and have … 2 nights and 2 days earlier : fever has invaded the city : everyone acts as to seek a love that applied to the CNC (Avances sur Recettes) in sept. 2015. For the original music we have got is not his own. the enthusiastic agreement of Teho Teardo (Il Divo / SORRENTINO (Toni Servillo) - Cannes A 15 years old girl is in bed with a 44 year old man. Convinced that he owns her mind and soul F.F. Official competition). Our cast is still open in order to make a good and fair coproduction. in addition to her body, the man doesn’t know that she is going to dump him... Two police- Our aim is to find a german coproducer to accomplish our wish to shoot in a european border men on patrol: the clever one doesn’t know his girlfriend, a brilliant architect, has a lover for town as Metz or some other in Germany or Italy. Until this moment, people whom has read many years. The traditional one is currently organizing his wedding and does not know that the script have all said ok. Our ambition is to make a film like Magnolia or Crash but in an his bride, gentle and loyal, returned - almost by chance - in a strange game of seduction led European atmosphere. by a dandy doctor. A woman is obsessed with the loss of a precious necklace, and is about to loose her mind. Used to the reassuring repetition of the life she has built, she doesn’t see that her husband had a crush on another woman. And, like her husband, she does not realize that their fifteen years old daughter, actually has a chaotic sexual life and is becoming pregnant without being able to know of who. Two ruthless men prepare violently three girls for pros- titution: they risk to be discovered because of the wife of one of them... At the end of these 47 hours, almost everyone is driving a car, in a sort of nocturnal carousel. Will one of these characters be the « indistinct face » and crash its car under the truck? Who is it? As the accident repeats itself, we discover who it is. As an epilogue, the « 48th hour » begins and everyone, including the victim, have to confront a radical question : to change or not to change…

30 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 31 ELIANEANTOINETTE English title:...... THE OBSERVER EFFECT Original title:...... THE OBSERVER EFFECT

Candice Zaccagnino The last four days in the life of quantum mathematician Paul Benson during which he has 20 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75010 Paris, become the target of a complex mesh of criminal, business and government organisations France Length: ...... 100 min . Email [email protected] Genre: ...... Thriller Phone + 33 (0)9 72 46 16 79 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter | Screenplay | Mobile +33 (0)6 80 57 33 38 ...... version : final | Partly financed| Casting partly secured Producer: ...... France : ElianeAntoinette & Le Bureau ...... Germany : Barry Films Scriptwriter: ...... Frédéric Planchon, Ewan Kilgour, Fiona Seres Director:...... Frédéric Planchon Shooting Period:...... Summer 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Frankfurt Producer’s Note Budget:...... 6 .5 M€ Secured financing: ...... 1 .3 M€ Frederic is one of the most talented directors in commercials worldwide. “The observer ef- Partners attached:...... Barry Films fect” is his 1st feature. In the last years, his work has switched to pure storytelling even in Looking for: ...... International sales, French and German theatrical short formats, as the recent AT&T campaign evidences. Le Bureau, ElianeAntoinette and Barry ...... distribution, TV presales . films are joining forces on this attractive English language project. Casting is currently being finalised (Emile Hirsh, Andrew Scott and Michael Nyqvist are already attached). Frederic has been location scouting in Frankfurt where the film be shot. This project has been granted the French/German mini treaty & the Essen Regional Fund. Synopsis "The Observer Effect" is an elevated thriller.

The story begins with Paul Benson, a young quantum mathematician, in his apartment when it mysteriously explodes.

Four days before Paul discovered a new way to encrypt communications. Non-linear and unexpected, the film reveals what happened to Paul in those four days. During which he becomes the target of a complex web of criminal, business and government organisations.

Paul’s story is told from the perspective of four different characters, each going back in time incrementally by one day. The first point of view is Branca’s, a Latvian student with a secret past whom Paul’s in love with. Second is his brother Sean’s perspective, with whom he seve- red all relations seven years ago. Third is Evelyn’s, a thirty-five year old woman from New York who was his first love. And last is Jonathan’s, his mentor at the University and supposedly closest friend. Each perspective tells a different version of the same story and as the film progresses we discover how Paul’s discovery has become the ultimate goal of everybody’s secret agenda.

Paul unwittingly descends into hell as the threat grows from those people he loves the most, through betrayals, disillusionment and the demons of his past. His relationship to love, bro- therhood, friendship and work will be shattered. He can only rely upon himself to solve the most important equation his life depends on…

The audience and the characters form different views of the unfolding story. At the end, none of the characters know the truth. Only the viewer can know what really happened. 32 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 33 IDEALE AUDIENCE English title:...... WHERE ARE YOU, JOAO GILBERTO ? Original title:...... Wo bist du, João Gilberto ?

Pierre-Olivier Bardet A Quest on the footprints of the inventor of Bossa Nova. 6 rue de l’Agent Bailly , 75009 PARIS. FRANCE Length: ...... 90 min . Email [email protected] Genre: ...... Documentary with reenactment Phone +33 (0)1 53 20 14 08 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Fax +33 (0)1 53 20 14 01 Producer: ...... Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Georges Gachot Mobile +33 (0)6 80 07 6777 Scriptwriter: ...... Georges Gachot and Paolo Polini www.ideale-audience.com Director:...... Georges Gachot Shooting Period:...... 2nd quarter 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Rio de Janeiro – Diamantina ( Brazil) Budget:...... 900,000 € Secured financing: ...... 400,000 € Partners attached:...... Gachot films – Filmcoopi- Doc&Films Producer’s Note Looking for: ...... German co-producer (250 k€)

Where are you, João Gilberto? is an investigative documentary on the great Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has lived like a recluse in Rio de Janeiro for several years now. Based on the research carried out by German writer Marc Fischer in a book for which we acquired the rights, our film follows in the writer’s footsteps, but goes beyond his “failed” Synopsis attempts to meet Gilberto. The intensity of the film project, is heightened by the dramatic circumstances of Marc’s death Where are you, João Gilberto? is adapted from Hobalala, a book written by German writer, – he committed suicide one week before his book was published – and by the power of the Marc Fischer. Fischer describes his obsessive search for the last musical legend of our time, elements of his investigation, which he left for his parents to give to us: photos, sound recor- the founding father of the Bossa Nova, the Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who hasn’t been dings, notes, etc. seen in public for decades. João Gilberto’s character emerges little by little through Marc Fischer's off-beat, intense per- sonality. Behind the musician, a whole other world comes to the fore, Brazil in the 1960s, an The book is well researched, interesting, witty, and full of amusing anecdotes. Unexpectedly, era in which everything seemed possible: the national football team won its second World Marc Fischer committed suicide one week before it was published. Cup; Niemeyer, the revolutionary architect, built the country’s new capital in the desert; and the Bossa Nova climbed to the top of the world’s hit parades. Our film sets out in Fischer’s footsteps, in search of João Gilberto, with the same passion. The conjunction of a personality as powerful as that of João Gilberto, the ingredients of an Marc Fischer left hundreds of photos, “selfies”, video clips, emails, blogs, Facebook pages, established narrative form in film – a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation, and all the humour sound recordings and diary notes, which his parents entrusted to us. that goes with that – seems promising. Filmcoopi and Doc & Films shared our conviction. After his three “Brazilian films”, Georges Gachot had earned himself a place of choice – and By taking up Marc Fischer’s quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he the trust – of Brazilian artists and their entourage: Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Chico left us, taking it even further than he could thanks to film and a knowledge of the terrain that Buarque etc. It is thanks to them that we feel we can succeed. What form will it take? We don't the German journalist didn’t always have, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, know and that's where the suspense of the film lies. the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova.

The research and its ups and downs forms the narrative arch, the history of the Bossa Nova is the content and meeting João Gilberto like Hitchcock’s MacGuffin. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?

34 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 35 LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE English title:...... YASMINA’S FLING COUGAR Original title:...... YASMINA FAIT DES BAILS

Annabelle BOUZOM Will Yasmina, 18, bounce back from her boyfriend blackmailing her with compromising 40 rue des Maronites, 75020 Paris, france photos ?

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90 min . Mobile +33 (0)7 83 93 54 33 Genre: ...... Drama State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.lesfilmsdelautrecougar.com ...... Screenplay version n°2 Producer: ...... Annabelle BOUZOM Scriptwriter: ...... Antoine DESROSIERES and Anne-Sophie NANKI Director:...... Antoine DESROSIERES Shooting Period:...... 2016 June Shooting Locations:...... France Budget:...... 946,850 € Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 201,850 € (Les films de l’autre cougar) Partners attached:...... None When I met Antoine Desrosières, I was seduced by his rebellious, funny and sharp mind. We Looking for: ...... 745,000 € did his film “Haramist” together, bought by Arte and released in cinemas last July. Widely acclaimed by critics, it revealed the amazing actresses Souad Arsane and Inas Chanti. “Yas- mina’s fling” talks about the emancipation of a young woman struggling with her desires and what she is supposed to do in order to be “a good girl” socially, religiously and culturally. By staying close to the anxieties and Yasmina’s unanswered questions, Antoine wants to create Synopsis empathy and take the viewers beyond the divisions between socio-cultural and religious milieu. Each young woman discovers her sexuality and wonders what she can do to remain Yasmina and Rim, two Muslim sisters of 17 and 18, live in a suburb family. Rim and her respectable. Struggling through the violence of words and gesture, Yasmina looks for cor- boyfriend Majid orchestrate a meeting between Yasmina and Salim (Majid’s best friend). rectness and justice. In nowadays social and sensitive context that prevails in France, we are Soon, both of couple isolate themselves… Yasmina discovers sensuality and the possibility of passionate about questioning each other’s feelings and opinions. This film does not aim to extramarital sexuality. Rim has to travel in snow class. As she collapses to be separated from make all communities agree: it plays with stereotypes in order to break them. This freedom of Majid, in solidarity Yasmina promises not to see Salim either. But Salim invites her to a party. tone is a real breath of fresh air in the cinematic landscape. She finally goes and joins Salim and Majid there. Salim asks Yasmina to « relieve » Majid from his sexual needs, pretending that Rim did the same with Salim in the past. Taking remorse the next day, Yasmina admits to Salim she will tell everything to Rim. Salim confesses that he lied with Majid’s complicity: Rim never had any fling with the two boys. Yasmina is revolted. She dumps Salim, determined to convince her sister to break as well. Then begins the blackmail that Yasmina will have to fight against. Salim threats to show the compromising photos he made of her in action, asks her to keep silence and to continue to satisfy him sexually. Yas- mina has to accept. Gradually she’s divided between the feeling of revolt and the pleasure she discovers with Salim. When Rim learns of Yasmina’s secret, the two sisters fall out with one another. Yasmina runs away from home and meets the young dealer, Baba. When Yasmina finally comes back after two days, Rim is so relieved that the two sisters reconciliate. When Rim realizes that the boys trapped Yasmina, Rim decides to flip the situation and blackmail the boys. After having discovered men through abuse and violence, Yasmina discovers love. She fully assumes her gesture, running to Baba under Rim’s cover.

36 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 37 LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR English title:...... SIBEL Original title:...... SIBEL

Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha Despite her handicap, Sibel (25), a young Turkish woman who lost the ability to speak and 102 quai Louis Blériot, 75016 Paris, France can only communicate by whistling, decides to seduce Ali, a deserter from the Army hiding Email [email protected] in a nearby forest. [email protected] Length: ...... 90 min . Phone +33 (0)1 44 61 77 94 Genre: ...... Drama Mobile +33 (0)6 32 43 91 85 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter +33 (0)6 14 55 14 05 ...... Screenplay version n°1 http://on.fb.me/1FZVZy1 Producer: ...... Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha Scriptwriter: ...... Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti Director:...... Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti Shooting Period:...... Autumn 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Village of Kuskoÿ, Black Sea (Turkey) Producer’s Note Budget:...... 1 .5 M€ Secured financing: ...... 50,000 € SIBEL is the third feature-film from Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti. The duo’s first Partners attached:...... Moulin d’Andé-CECI, feature, NOOR, shot in Pakistan, premiered in Cannes in 2012 in the ACID section, travelled to ...... Bourse de développement Cinémed (Montpellier) more than 80 festivals and won 15 prizes. NINGEN, their second feature, shot in Japan, pre- Looking for: ...... 7German coproducer, sales agent, distributors, TV, funds miered at the Toronto International Film Festival and travelled to many festivals worldwide. With SIBEL, Cagla and Guillaume go back to their original land, Turkey, to tell a story about the fury to live, to exist, to choose. Despite her handicap, Sibel has made the irrevocable yet paradoxical decision to choose who she is going to marry. The film shows the struggle of a young Turkish woman against her nature and against society. Sibel knows her limits, her Synopsis strength, and knows what to do to get what she wants. She comes from a rural and traditional surrounding, she wears a scarf on her head, she barely went to school, yet she’s truly a mo- Kusköy, a Turkish village in the Black Sea mountains. In this village, at the intersection of a se- dern woman, this modernity being present within her instinct rather than in her mind. Just ries of steep valleys, one finds a unique method of communication which has been developed like Rosetta in the Dardennes’ film, she fights, she refuses, she gets knocked down, yet, she over numerous generations: a rich and detailed language of whistles, which allows the villa- manages to get back up again and mostly, she gets to choose. She chooses Ali, the political gers to express themselves across distances of several kilometers. Among the villagers, we poet from Istanbul, from the city, who stumbled in her territory, in her web, in her trap. SIBEL find Sibel, a young woman of twenty-five. She is unmarried and still lives with her father, Avni, is an original love story driven by a determined female character. It is also an ode to life. We the conservative mayor of the village. Sibel lost the ability to speak when she was a child. Her truly believe in the potential of this film to reach both A-category festivals and the internatio- only way to communicate with her relatives is the whistle language. Sibel has always been nal market. The project is actually in development. We are looking for a German co-producer quite solitary. She works with ardor in the fields, harvesting tea, hazelnuts and corn. Treating in order to build a France-Turkey-Germany co-production structure. her like an idiot because of her handicap, her father has always tried to marry her with simple minded men from around. But Sibel is strong : a savage beauty, instinctively modern and independent, determined to choose by herself who will be her husband. One day, she meets Ali (35), a deserter from the Turkish army, hiding in a nearby forest. This day, she knows it : Ali shall be the one, whatever it takes…

38 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 39 LES PRODUITS FRAIS English title:...... WORLDS IN BETWEEN Original title:...... Les Mondes intermédiaires

Damien Lagogué « In all my experience, Miriam Goldschmidt is unlike anyone else. A totally original talent. 1 impasse de la baleine, 75011 Paris, FRANCE She sees life and expresses it brilliantly both as tragedy and as comedy. » Peter Brook

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90 min . Phone +33 (0)9 72 44 38 59 Genre: ...... Documentary Mobile +33 (0)6 18 92 52 02 State of development:...... In shooting www.lesproduitsfrais.com Producer: ...... Damien Lagogué (Les Produits Frais, Fance) ...... Pascal Träschlin (Cineworx, Switzerland) Scriptwriter: ...... None Director:...... Janos Tedeschi & Christof Schaëfer Shooting Period:...... Partly shot Shooting Locations:...... Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Basel (Switzerland) Budget:...... 375 219 € Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 125 319 € Partners attached:...... Région Lorraine (France), CNC (France), Le Fresnoy Janos Tedeschi and Christof Schaefer had warned me. “Mystical aura. Extraordinary”. There ...... Studio national des arts contemporains (France), Basel she was, Miriam. Holding my hands. Looking at me. Looking through me. Soon, I was adopted...... Film Fund (Switzerland) Art&Camera Price at History of And then I met Peter Brook. He made us a wonderful gift by letting us three watch and shoot ...... Art Festival (France) Selected at Lisbon Docs 2014 their rehearsals. Something he had never done before, except for his son. With Les Produits Looking for: ...... German coproducer, international sales, etc . Frais, I have already produced several narrative shorts and two mid-length documentary. I am now developing a feature length fiction called Sun and taking place in the indian com- munity of Paris. Worlds in between is my project for a creative documentary film. We are at a key moment of the production and in search for partners. To film some more. To edit. To translate. To bring a strong team around this ambitious project about two very ambitious and Synopsis talented artists, Miriam Goldschmidt and Peter Brook. What we have here in store is a won- derful testimony on contemporary European theater. Miriam Goldschmidt: actress, musician, director, magician of words and expression. After studying with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, she joined Peter Brook’s Theatre-Safari through Africa and became a member of his legendary Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale with which Brook revolutionized the world of theatre in the 1970s. Despite working with many icons of theatre including Peter Stein, Jean Genet, Luc Bondy, Peter Zadek and George Tabori and directing plays of her own to great success, Goldschmidt always returned to Brook, with whom she shares an almost 50-year-old liaison d'amour as well as an inspiring professional relationship. Worlds in between is an intimate cinematic portrait of Miriam Goldschmidt. The film follows Miriam and Peter from the first rehearsal to the opening night of their latest play, an adaptation of Samuel Beckett. The film juxtaposes past scenes of Miriam`s career with her everyday life: a life lived to the extreme, in which great artistic success collides with devas- tating strokes of fate, excess and phases of deep despair. Miriam’s first years in an Christian orphanage near Frankfurt where she was abused by cruel sisters, the early death of her first love, her own disrupted family and the recent suicide of her daughter Amba all left deep scars – and painful memories with which Miriam Goldschmidt battles to this very day. Besides following her work with Peter, Worlds in between accompanies Miriam to Berlin, Basel, Fran- kfurt, Paris and to Africa, where Miriam once more meets many of the defining figures in her life - and finds herself confronted with the recurring themes of death, love, art, pain, identity and addiction. Diary entries, conversations and places intermingle with archive material from Miriam`s illustrious career: The Conference of the Birds, Les Iks, Mahabharata, Der Dibbuk, Glückliche Tage and Warum Warum. A mirror not only of crowning moments of the history of 20th century theatre, but also of the highs and lows of this charismatic and unique artist`s time. 40 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 41 NEON PRODUCTIONS English title:...... A FAIRY IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR ...... (PREVISIONAL TITLE) Antonin DEDET Original title:...... UNE FÉE DANS LE RÉTRO 33 Boulevard Longchamp, 13001, Marseille, France Louis-Ferdinand Céline, his widow Lucette, and Jeff, an enthusiast of the novel “North”… Email [email protected] The desire to make a film of it... A whimsical plunge into History and literature. Phone +33 (0)6 07 75 25 18 Fax +33 (0)9 56 30 22 26 Length: ...... 100 min . Mobile +33 (0)6 07 75 25 18 Genre: ...... Drama State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.neoncinema.com ...... Screenplay version n°7 Producer: ...... Antonin DEDET Scriptwriter: ...... Jean-François STÉVENIN Director:...... Jean-François STÉVENIN Shooting Period:...... Winter 2016-2017 Producer’s Note Shooting Locations:...... FRANCE & GERMANY Budget:...... 3 M€ Olivier Joyard of Cahiers du Cinéma wrote of Jean-François Stévenin, “Stévenin is all but Secured financing: ...... 400,000 € a loveable magician. He is an exceptional observer, gifted with an eye and ear of extreme Partners attached:...... LE PACTE (French distributor) vivacity, able to tackle all styles, all forms of cinema with equal acuteness”. Édouard Wain- Looking for: ...... German coproducer trop (President of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight), whilst a journalist at Libération, wrote of J.F. Stévenin’s last film Mischka, “There are miracles in this collection of lost souls all ages … French cinema has barely accustomed us to such pleasures of contemplation”. Synopsis With three films to his name, A Fairy in the Rear-view Mirror signals the “grand return” of an exceptional filmmaker. After Passe-Montagne, winner of the FIPRESCI prize at Venice in Jeff, a film sound designer, lives in a barge moored on the banks of the Seine. Fascinated 1979, Double Messieurs in 1986, and Mischka, winner of the France Culture Prize at Cannes by the literature of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and in particular by the book North, he meets 2002, Stévenin has established himself as a cult director in France, with many naming him one day Lucette, the widow of his favourite writer. From this day on, he will never leave her. “The French Cassavetes”. His work is singular and exudes a strong personality. This old lady fills him with wonder. Over the course of their many adventures, she tells him A Fairy in the Rear-view Mirror, the filmmaker’s new project, is an artistically ambitious film, of her life with Céline, throughout eight decades and two world wars. Jeff is over the moon. partly autobiographical, and positions itself in the European market for auteur cinema. The While in Germany visiting Frau Moser, his second mother, and still engrossed in North and presence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the emblematic 20th Century author whose works Lucette’s stories, Jeff cannot resist the desire to visit the landmarks of Céline and Lucette’s sold in millions around the world, penetrates the film, a zany plunge into History and Lite- escape to Germany. In Jeff’s head, the beacon - North - lights up, the voice of Lucette is rature. Possessing a strong Franco-German and European potential, the film traverses the superimposed and we follow his slide into 1945 and into Germany in flames… The idea to Second World War and the exile of Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Germany. make a film of it enters his mind…

More than a third of the film will take place in Germany. We estimate the German finan- cing of the project to be between 30-40% of the budget of the film. The project seeks a bipartite contribution from a technical and artistic point of view as much as financial. The casting aims to be ambitious, enticing and Franco-German. We envisage Belgium as a third country of coproduction to complete the financing of the film. The French distributor of the film is Le Pacte.

Neon Productions has produced or coproduced 17 feature-length films. All of our films have been selected for the biggest international festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice etc.)

42 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 43 ORIFLAMME FILMS English title:...... BROWN SUGAR Original title:...... NEIGE FONDUE

Christophe Delsaux To keep his love, Leo engages in a terrible fight against drug addiction and its demons… 147 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris France Length: ...... 90 min . Email [email protected] Genre: ...... Drama Phone +33 (0)9 81 24 08 06 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile +33 (0)6 64 93 28 72 ...... Screenplay version n°5 Producer: ...... Christophe Delsaux Scriptwriter: ...... Julien d’Astier Director:...... Julien d’Astier Shooting Period:...... March 2017 Shooting Locations:...... Strasbourg, Bucarest, lake Konstanz Budget:...... 900,000 € Secured financing: ...... None Producer’s Note Partners attached:...... None Looking for: ...... German coproducer, distributor « Brown Sugar » is the first feature by talented young director Julien d’Astier. Based on a personal experience, Julien d’Astier recounts the struggle against drugs that his protagonist engages in order to save his lover. The film will be a coproduction France/Romania/Germany We are now looking for a German coproducer. Part of the shooting will take place in Germany (The entire ending of the story takes place on the shores of the Konstanz lake) and there is Synopsis room for hiring a German actress as the leading female part. The film will mainly be shot in English. Léo, 21, lives with his parents in the neighbourhood of Strasbourg. One evening, as he leaves school, he meets Zara, a young Romanian tourist who came to visit her father, a diplomat at the Romanian Consulate. Immediately, Leo falls in love with her. But what he ignores is that Zara is an heroin addict. After she flies back to Romania, he decides to try to contact her. At the Bucarest airport, she does not show up. Leo panics and sets out on his own to find her. He finally understands that she’s on heroin, but feels totally lost. Soon, he meets Dragos, former drug dealer of Zara. To keep Zara’s love, Leo engages in a terrible fight against drug addiction and its demons…

44 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 45 PLUS DE PROD English title:...... TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY ...... IN THE CEVENNES Jérémie Chevret Original title:...... Voyage avec un âne dans les Cévennes 14, rue Perrod, 69004 Lyon, France France, end of the 19th Century. R-L Stevenson, broken by illness and an impossible love Email [email protected] affair, goes all out to write a travel book, haunted by the massacres of protestants 200 Phone +33 (0)4 27 89 11 40 years earlier. He is helped by a donkey in his journey, but there’s a murderer at large, fol- Mobile +33 (0)6 60 98 22 85 lowing a similar route to his, who is killing again and again.

www.plusdeprod.fr Length: ...... 90 min . Genre: ...... Historical drama State of development:...... Latest screenplay version Producer: ...... Jérémie CHEVRET Scriptwriter: ...... Benoit RAZY, Hugh STODDART, Xavier MAUMEJEAN Director:...... Benoit RAZY Producer’s Note Shooting Period:...... Spring 2016 Shooting Locations:...... Languedoc-Roussillon ; Rhône-Alpes "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes", travel diary written by Robert Louis Stevenson in Budget:...... 1,769,319 € 1878, shine by its modernity. Despite the fact it was written there over a century, this story still Secured financing: ...... 762,000 € resonates eerily with clean themes in our current society. Indeed, Stevenson is found on the Partners attached:...... France 3 Cinéma ; Rhône-Alpes Cinéma roads long before the hour to write and find his way through a spiritual quest. His adventurous Looking for: ...... Distributors, international sellers, co-producers journey, due among others to his illness and dangerousness of the time roads will cause the path of the same name which is now the most popular every year after that of Compostela. This trip will allow him both to overcome life all mapped out as destined by his family, finding his own way, writing, but also to find the woman he loves. His trip is twofold. Both outward Synopsis and toward oneself, both discovery and introspection. The scenario was first assisted in the writing of the Rhône-Alpes region and development aid from the CNC and the project also France, end of the 19th century. The young Robert Louis Stevenson is an apprentice author arrived in plenary at 1 college advance on earnings in December 2014. He also convinced who hasn’t yet created "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Broken by illness and an impossible love Goudineau Daniel, director of the fiction of France 3 Cinéma, who gave us his agreement for affair, he decides to start a journey into the Cevennes on the Camisards trails, these French the co-production and dissemination of the project. Rhône-Alpes Cinéma will also co-produ- Protestants who have been persecuted 200 years earlier in this part of France. A subject cer of the project. We expect today the appointment of a distributor for us to go back and pay that fascinates his compatriots and which he wants to make a testimony book. His friends TV, Canal + and OCS. Film positioning on the market is one of our concerns and this is also advise him to buy a donkey to carry his things during his journey. But Louis discovers that what how the choice of the distributor will be decisive. We are now searching for a distributor and an international seller and a coproducer. Regarding the shooting locations, two areas are a vagabond murderer, following a parallel route, seems to pursue the work of death that involved: the Languedoc-Roussillon region and the Rhône-Alpes region. Today, the work has made him come in the region. Fascinated by this criminal and his crazy mind, Louis goes to already started scouting as well as part of the preparation which allows us to better anticipate meet him, risking his life to feed his future work. Against all odds, the animal will become the shoot we plan in spring 2016. his most valuable ally.

46 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 47 RHEA FILMS English title:...... THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR Original title:...... THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR

Yves LOMBARD From Paris to Palenque, Seven meets Indiana Jones 65 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, 75010, Paris, France Length: ...... 115 min . Email [email protected] Genre: ...... Thriller Phone +33 (0)9 66 91 41 72 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile +33 (0)6 82 79 47 90 ...... Screenplay version n° 4 Producer: ...... Yves Lombard, Eric Debègue Scriptwriter: ...... Yves Lombard Director:...... To be determined Shooting Period:...... 2 Shooting Locations:...... Paris (France), studio, Mexico or Guatemala Budget:...... 3 M€ Secured financing: ...... 1 M€ Producer’s Note Partners attached:...... Saga Film (Belgique) Looking for: ...... Co-producers and distributor in Germany, The House of the Jaguar will be shot in English, French, Spanish and Maya language. The ...... international sales agent main actors will be English or American (Andy), French (Helene), German (Philip Steiner), Mexican (Miguel Diaz). Produced for the domestic and international market, his feature film is in fact a spiritual trip which takes the form of a violent initiation, with multiple mea- nings. It takes us from Western Europe into the Mexican jungle, where the Mayan Indians live, being the last "cultural survivors" of the Spanish Conquest. One will discover that the main protagonists, Andy, Helene, Philip Steiner and his wife Ava, the Cyclop are caught in an Synopsis adventure with the "Pre-Columbian Art" existing in the "Old Europe" inside the drawing rooms. These gems are owned by art lovers, kept in good conscience - or perhaps in the absence of In Paris, under very strange circumstances, Andy, a brilliant young american businessman, conscience - of the "Western World". One will then follow these objects to Mexico City, meet meets a charming young french woman, Helene, who works with Philip Steiner, a world other strange characters; Miguel Diaz, Pedro Ochoa, Juana, the Thompsons and the Indians famous "Primitive Art" dealer. in Modern Mexico. Here is where man, with his Native Indian spirit kept intact from before the Spanish Conquest, desperately tries not to die in the drama of the big cities' poverty and Following Helene's tracks, Andy discovers the mysterious world of "Pre-Columbian Art" acculturation. One end up in the Mayan province of Yucatan, where Indians live only from the and its collectors. When Helene suddenly disappears, Andy becomes involved in a murder earth, water and natural resources from where they extract these coveted art objects. In this which resembles a ritual sacrifice. land one is often faced with diseases, fireguns of great landlords and political or drug related guerillas. All this in a sort of lost paradise where the Indians may keep on living or re-living. From this moment on, terrifying murders will pave Andy's way to finding Hélène. Who is busy searching all through Mexico for a mysterious statue.

This statue seems to be violently desired by several different individuals. Among them is the strange character Philip Steiner.

Each of these characters will take a trip deep into their own hearts at the same time as they enter the wild jungle, going into the heart of the mysterious Mayan Land. All just to find that very special statue and above all to be the first to get it…

48 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 49 TALWEG PRODUCTION English title:...... UNDER PARIS Original title:...... Sous Terre

Damien MC DONALD Thirty meters under the streets of Paris a quarry inspection team is victim of a collapse. It 6 impasse Mont Louis, 75011 PARIS, France gets lost and finds itself having to fight for survival.

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90 min . Phone +33 (0)1 43 67 87 32 Genre: ...... Survival Mobile +33 (0)6 13 59 57 55 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter www.talwegproduction.com ...... Screenplay version n°3 Producer: ...... Damien McDonald and Vincent Gazaigne Scriptwriter: ...... Corinne Garfin and Thomas Rio Director:...... Corinne Garfin Shooting Period:...... Late 2016-early 2017 Shooting Locations:...... Paris Budget:...... 1,450,000€ Producer’s Note Secured financing: ...... 10,000 € Partners attached:...... In progress UNDER PARIS is a realistic movie. It takes place under Paris in places forbidden to the public Looking for: ...... Co production with Germany, interested investors and therefor unknown and fantasized. UNDER PARIS is an unusual survival movie, with a uni- versal theme causing pure sensations and providing a physical experience to the spectator through the heroine. In the end Under Paris is altogether a drama and a survival movie: an overall unexplored genre in France. The stripped down concept will go hand in hand with a specific shooting method: natural sets only and a reduced team. All that is described in the Synopsis story really exists; it’s the result of the film director’s many location recces. Corinne Garfin is a mature director who already directed six short films awarded in many international festivals. Alice is 27 and she’s starting a new job: quarry-working at IGC, the public service in charge We know her well since we produced her last movie, and have faith in her talents. of the surveillance of hundreds of kilometers of Paris’ old tunnels – situated thirty meters underground, without any electricity or means of communications. That morning her team discovers an old dump of toxic liquids hidden in a dead-end. Just as they’re about to leave, the ground, weakened by these chemical products, collapses under them. ALICE is unhar- med but finds herself prisoner of a heap of rocks, in a genuine stone coffin! Fortunately her colleague GABY, alive as well, gets her out of there. They understand that they’ve fallen into a very old quarry that dates back to the Middle-Ages – immense, unknown, unmap- ped and with only horizon a mineral, instable and obscure universe. They decide to wait for help but soon realize that they’re the sole survivors… They need to leave in search for a hypothetical exit through a maze of onerous and wild galleries filled of cul-de-sac, with the rare traces left by old quarry-workers for only guidance. It doesn’t take long for GABY to discover ALICE’s heavy secret: she’s grieving her boyfriend, who died in an accident. Since then she’s lost the will to live fully and choses to spend her days in the darkness and lone- liness of tunnels… Their progression is difficult, the hoped exit leaved them languishing. ALICE, fatalist, loses heart fast. Fortunately GABY is there to maintain hope and make her aware that life is still possible, just like these roots that break through the rocks around them, originating from the trees planted ten meters above them, like the water that climbs up groundwater tables, or like the stalactites they bump into. Unfortunately just as they believe to have found an exit GABY suffers terribly from a fall into a well. Dying, GABY makes ALICE promise that she will manage to get out alone. Soon she finds herself in a great struggle to survive, confronted more and more to dangerous situations and increasingly obsessed by her painful past. To make her way out, she will need to overcome her grief and regain the desire to live.

50 — FRENCH PROJECTs FRENCH PROJECTs — 51 OTHER PROJECT MISTRUS MEDIA English title:...... A BOY WITH A DOG Original title:...... Puika ar suni

Gints Grube A coming of age story about a boy who kept a secret and saved fifty Jews from certain Blaumana Str. 11/13 -13, Riga LV 1011, Latvia death in Riga in 1942

Email [email protected] Length: ...... 90 min . Phone +371 29455252 Genre: ...... Drama Fax +371 67313314 State of development:...... Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter Mobile + 371 29455252 Producer: ...... Mistrus Media, Gints Grube www.mistrusmedia.lv Scriptwriter: ...... Davis Simanis, Matiss Gricmanis www.facebook.com/MistrusMedia Director:...... Davis Simanis Shooting Period:...... 2017 Shooting Locations:...... Riga Budget:...... 980,000 € Secured financing: ...... 600,000 € Producer’s Note Partners attached:...... National Film Center Latvia Looking for: ...... Co-producers, Distributors The film is currently in development phase. The first scrip version has been developed. Natio- nal Film center has supported films development. Film is of high importance in Eastern European region, especially Baltics because there are no productions about the Holocaust in Baltic sates. Film is based on historic events that took place during the Second World war in Riga. Director Davis Simanis has won many internatio- Synopsis nal prizes for his documentary projects. His last docu-fiction about two geniuses Isaiah Ber- lind ans Sergei Eisenstein of the 20th century “Escaping Riga” (2014) was screened in official Ten-year-old Zigis lives with his family in a house on the bank of a river in Riga, Latvia. The programme of IDFA and DOX CPH. His new historical I World War drama will be released Second World War has begun, but Zigis's childhood is as carefree as before; he goes to in January 2016 school and plays with his friends and his trusted companion, his dog Džeris. We have planned to launch shooting of “A boy with a dog” in 2017. Currently Mistrus Media is In 1941, Latvia is occupied by the German army. Repressions begin against the Jews. Zanis, looking for potential co-producers and distributors. Zigis's father, works at the Luftwaffe factory in Riga to which Jews are taken every day from the ghetto. An enthusiastic and fearless adventurer, he thinks of a way to save the Jews working at the factory but condemned to a certain death. In the yard of his house, he digs a bunker to hide them. Zigis becomes a witness to these events. Zanis's decision changes both his and his mother Johanna's life from completely. Their precarious wartime existence is further endangered: hiding Jews is punishable by death and even young Zigis would not be spared. By helping the Jews, Zanis has robbed the simple familial happiness that Zigis so wishes for. In time, Zigis understands his father's humanity and this experience changes him from a careless and dreamy boy to a mature adolescent who is fully aware of the cruelty of war. The film is a story of growing up against the background of the tragic events of the 20th century.

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