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UK FEATURES CATALOGUE SECOND EDITION 2019

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INTRODUCTION 4 CURRENT FEATURES 8 COMING SOON IN 2019/2020 FORTHCOMING FEATURES 48 ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 67 BRITISH COUNCIL & FESTIVALS 68 BRITISH COUNCIL NEW TALENT & SHORTS 70 BRITISH COUNCIL GLOBAL PROJECTS 72 INDEX OF FILMS 76

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6 Greed, Director: 7 CURRENT FEATURES , Director: Nick Rowland Calm with Horses , Director:

8 The Aeronauts The Australian Dream

Synopsis Synopsis Set in 1862, the high-flying tale of pilot Amelia Wren, a A portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Australian wealthy young widow, and James Glaisher, an ambitious footballer Adam Goodes – a hero on and off the field, as both scientist as they mount a balloon expedition to fly higher a decorated sportsman and an indigenous-rights activist. than anyone in history. This is a journey to the very edge of Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - existence, where the air is thin and the chances of survival TIFF Docs - International premiere are slim. As their perilous ascent reveals their true selves, this unlikely pair discover things about each other – and Details themselves – that help them find their place in the world Year: 2019 they have left behind. Running Time: 106 mins Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Director: Daniel Gordon Gala Presentations Producer: John Battsek, Nick Batzias, Sarah Thomson, Virginia Whitwell Details Executive Producer: Julian Bird, Joel Kennedy, Paul Wiegard Year: 2019 Editor: Matt Wyllie Screenwriter: Stan Grant Running Time: 101 mins Director of Photography: Dylan River, Michael Timney Director: Tom Harper Music: Cornel Wilczek Producer: Tom Harper, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman Executive Producer: Richard Hewitt, Jack Thorne Editor: Mark Eckersley Screenwriter: Tom Harper, Jack Thorne Director of Photography: George Steel Production Designer: David Hindle, Christian Huband Music: Steven Price Principal Cast: , Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, , Anne Reid, , Vincent Perez, Tim McInnery, Phoebe Fox

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent UK, US co-production FilmNation Australia, UK co-production Lorton Entertainment An Amazon Studios, Mandeville 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Floor GoodThing Productions (AU), 1 Richmond Way Films production New York Passion Pictures (UK), Lorton NY 10011 USA W12 8LQ Mandeville Films Entertainment (UK) +1 917 484 8900 +44 (0)20 3778 0840 www.mandfilms.com Passion Pictures [email protected] [email protected] County House www.filmnation.com www.lortonentertainment.com 33-34 Rathbone Place London W1T 1JN +44 (0)20 7323 9933 [email protected] www.passion-pictures.com Lorton Entertainment 1 Richmond Way London W12 8LQ +44 (0)20 3778 0840 [email protected] www.lortonentertainment.com

CURRENT FEATURES 9 Bait Beats

Synopsis Synopsis Behind the picture postcard idyll of a Cornish fishing village A universal story of friendship, rebellion and the irresistible alienation, resentment and anger bubble away. The view power of gathered youth. Set to a soundtrack as eclectic and may be beautiful, but you can’t eat it. Martin Ward, is a cove- electrifying as the scene it gave birth to, BEATS is a story for fishermen without a boat, infuriated with his brother for our time. using the family vessel for day-tripping, and with a brooding Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam resentment for tourists flocking to the village while locals (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere are relegated to an estate on the hill. Nearing the end of the summer season, an argument over a parking space with Details the incomers who bought his old family home comes to Year: 2019 represent all that is wrong with the world for Martin. Tensions Running Time: 96 mins rise and when a misguided prank and retaliation escalates Director: Brian Welsh to tragedy the brothers are forced to unite and face the Producer: Camilla Bray future together. Shifting light, captured on B&W 16mm film Executive Producer: and processed by hand, offers a grainy black and white Editor: Robin Hill polemic; the state of the nation seen through a family lens. Screenwriter: Kieran Hurley, Brian Welsh Rugged cliffs, stark seascapes, working hands, silent faces, Director of Photography: Benjamin Kracun the screech of a gull, the smoke from a barbeque, clashing Production Designer: Víctor Molero classes, tensions building, a casual theft, a threat issued, Music: JD Twitch (Optimo) a punch thrown, retribution, high tide, low water, laughter Principal Cast: Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, , at dusk, regret in the morning, beauty, anger, compassion, Gemma McElhinney, Rachel Jackson hope. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum - World premiere

Details Year: 2019 Running Time: 89 mins Director: Mark Jenkin Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite Executive Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite Editor: Mark Jenkin Screenwriter: Mark Jenkin Director of Photography: Mark Jenkin Production Designer: Mae Voogd Sound: Dan Thompson Music: Thea Gilmore, The Malarkey, Gwenno Principal Cast: Edward Rowe, Simon Shepherd, Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Chloe Endean, Georgia Ellery, Isaac Woodvine, Jowan Jacobs Production Company Sales Agent Rosetta Productions Altitude Film Sales Camilla Bray 34 Foubert’s Place c/o Sixteen Films 2nd Floor London 187 Wardour Street W1F 7PX London +44 (0)20 7478 7612 W1F 8ZB [email protected] Production Company Sales Agent +44 (0)20 7734 0168 www.altitudefilment.com/sales Early Day Films Limited The Festival Agency [email protected] Wild Bunch Stanley House 44 Rue de Cléry 65 rue de Dunkerque Totterdown 75002 75009 Paris Bristol France BS4 3BA +33 9 54 90 48 63 +33 1 43 13 21 34 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.earlydayfilms.com www.thefestivalagency.com www.wildbunch.biz

10 CURRENT FEATURES Blackbird Blinded by the Light

Synopsis Synopsis A family spanning three generations come together over 1987. When music fanatic Javed discovers the illustrious back a to be with their terminally ill mother before she catalogue of his world is turned upside takes her own life. Her family willingly supports her decision down; already a creative soul his passion for music and to help her die with dignity, but her daughters begin to writing is set alight by the songs of the working-class poet, unravel a secret that could disrupt her wish to die peacefully whose lyrics feel all too familiar to the aspirational teenager. and on her own terms. Remake of the award-winning 2014 Yearning to escape his rundown hometown and the rules Danish filmSilent Heart. of his traditional Pakistani household, Javed finds himself Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - caught in between two worlds and must discover if he too Gala Presentations - World premiere is ‘Born to Run…’ Based on the memoir of lauded Guardian journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, this timely coming of age story Details proves that the right song has the capacity to transcend Year: 2019 race, religion and place, tap into our hearts and help us Running Time: 97 mins discover who we really are. Director: Roger Michell Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres - Producer: David Bernardi, Sherryl Clark, Robert Van Norden World premiere Co-Producer: Alice Dawson Executive Producer: Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Details Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger Year: 2019 Editor: Kristina Hetherington Running Time: 114 mins Screenwriter: Christian Torpe Director: Director of Photography: Mike Eley Producer: Gurinder Chadha, Jane Barclay, Jamal Daniel Production Designer: John Paul Kelly Editor: Justin Krish Music: Peter Gregson Screenwriter: Sarfraz Mansoor, Gurinder Chadha, Principal Cast: Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska, Sam Neill, Rainn Wilson, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Director of Photography: Ben Smithard , Anson Boon Production Designer: Nick Ellis Principal Cast: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Hayley Atwell, Sally Phillips, Rob Brydon, Nell Williams

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent US, UK co-production Millennium Media Inc A Bend It Films, Levantine Films, Cornerstone Films A Busted Shark (US), Eclectic Rashad Qasem Ingenious Media production with WeWork Pictures (US), Millennium Films 6423 Wilshire Blvd. support from BFI 1 Fore Street (US) production Los Angeles Bend It Films London CA 90048 USA 2nd Floor EC2Y 5EJ +1 310 388 6900 130 Shaftesbury Avenue +44 (0)20 3457 7257 [email protected] London [email protected] www.nuimage.net W1D 5EU www.cornerstonefilm.com

CURRENT FEATURES 11 1ST 1ST Bombay Rose A Bump Along the Way

Synopsis Synopsis Amidst the struggle of survival in a sprawling Indian When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mum accidentally metropolis, a red rose brings together three tales of gets pregnant from a one-night-stand, her prim teenage impossible loves. Love between two flower sellers. Love daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly between two women. Love of an entire city for its reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses. Bollywood stars. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival - Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Critics’ Week - Discovery - International premiere World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Details Contemporary World Cinema Year: 2019 Running Time: 95 mins Details Director: Shelly Love Year: 2019 Producer: Louise Gallagher Running Time: 93 mins Editor: Helen Sheridan Director: Gitanjali Rao Screenwriter: Tess McGowan Producer: Rohit Khattar, Anand Mahindra Director of Photography: Mark McCauley Co-Producer: Serge Lalou, Charlotte Uzu Production Designer: Patrick Creighton Executive Producer: Kirsty Bell, Tessa Inkelaar, Music: Die Hexen Phil McKenzie, Deborah Sathe Principal Cast: Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew, Editor: Gitanjali Rao Screenwriter: Gitanjali Rao Mary Moulds Production Designer: Rupali Gatti Sound: Sound Design: PM Satheesh Music: Cyli Khare, Yoav Rosenthal Principal Cast: Anurag Kashyap, Makrand Deshpande, Track Geetanjali Kulkarni

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company UK, India, France, Qatar co- C International Sales A Bump Films and Gallagher Films production Camille Cheneval production supported by Northern Cinestaan Film Company (UK, IN), Mappin House Ireland Screen Les Films d’Ici (FR) Winsley Street Gallagher Films London Cinestaan Film Company Louise Gallagher W1A 1AE Deborah Sathe, Director of [email protected] International Operations [email protected] www.gallagherfilms.co.uk [email protected] www.cintsales.com www.cinestaanfilmcompany.com

12 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST The Burnt Orange Heresy Calm with Horses

Synopsis Synopsis The art world and the underworld collide in this elegant and In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Arm has become the feared erotic neo-noir thriller. Set in present day Italy, irresistibly enforcer for the drug dealing Devers family, whilst also trying charismatic art critic James Figueras hooks up with to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. provocative and alluring American Berenice Hollis. He’s a Torn between these two families, Arm is asked to kill for the classic anti-hero in the making with a charm that masks his first time, and his attempt to do the right thing endangers ambition, whilst she’s an innocent touring Europe, enjoying everyone he holds dear. the freedom of being whoever she wishes. The new lovers Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - travel to the lavish and opulent Lake Como estate of powerful Discovery - World premiere art collector, Joseph Cassidy. Their host reveals he is the patron of Jerome Debney, the reclusive J.D. Salinger of the Details art world, and he has a simple request: for James to steal a Year: 2019 Debney masterpiece from the artist’s studio, whatever the Running Time: 101 mins cost. As the couple spends time with the legendary Debney, Director: Nick Rowland they start to realise that nothing about the artist nor their Producer: Daniel Emmerson mission is what it seems. But James is a man of deep, lurking Co-Producer: Rory Gilmartin, Kate Glover ambition and he will do anything, from arson and burglary to Executive Producer: Conor McCaughan, Michael Fassbender, murder, in order to further his career… Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Sam Lavender, Daniel Battsek, Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Out of Celine Haddad, Sarah Dillon Competition & Closing Night Gala - World premiere Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Screenwriter: Joseph Murtagh (screenplay), Colin Barrett Gala Presentations (novella) Director of Photography: Piers McGrail Production Designer: Damien Creagh Details Principal Cast: Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar Year: 2019 Running Time: 98 mins Director: Giuseppe Capotondi Producer: David Zander, William Horberg, David Lancaster Executive Producer: Sienna Aquilini, Aeysha Walsh, Stephanie Wilcox, Dante Ariola, August Zander, Jon Shiffman, Jonathan Loughran, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib, Fabrizio Donvito, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Alessandro Mascheroni, Peter Touche, Vaishali Mistry, Marie-Gabrielle Editor: Guido Notari Screenwriter: Scott B. Smith (script), Charles Willeford (novel) Director of Photography: David Ungaro Principal Cast: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent US, UK co-production HanWay Films (International sales) A DMC Film (UK) in co-production Altitude Film Sales MJZ (US), Wonderful Films (US), 8 Basing Street with Element Pictures (IE) with 34 Foubert’s Place Rumble Films (US), Indiana Film London W11 1ET support of Film4 (UK), Irish Film London Production (IT) +44 (0)20 7290 0750 Board (IE), WRAP Fund W1F 7PX [email protected] +44 (0)20 7478 7612 Indiana Film Production c/o DMC Film www.hanwayfilms.com [email protected] HanWay Films 120 London Road www.altitudefilment.com/sales [email protected] United Talent Agency (UTA), London www.hanwayfilms.com Creative Artists Agency (CAA) SE1 6LF (US sales) +44 (0)20 3865 8820 Michael Schwartz-Wright [email protected] +1 310 273 6700 [email protected] www.unitedtalent.com

CURRENT FEATURES 13 1ST 1ST The Capote Tapes Cat in the Wall

Synopsis Synopsis Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Cat in the Wall tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit invigorate this documentary on the author (and socialite) fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers. Life on a council estate behind ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘In Cold Blood’, while in London – gentrification plans bring astronomic situating Capote in the 20th-century American literary bill for homeowners and aggravate the community. In the canon. eye of the storm Irina, a Bulgarian single mother, tries to Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - breakthrough as an architect and refuses to live on benefits TIFF Docs - World premiere like most of her neighbours. She galvanizes the homeowners to appeal against bill with the Council but the English assure Details her that any attempt to fight the system is doomed. Irina’s Year: 2019 family and people living on benefits clash over the ownership Running Time: 91 mins of a cat. А different side of British society is revealed to her Director: Ebs Burnough and she realises she is trapped in the walls of her property Producer: Ebs Burnough, Lawrence Elman and metaphorically in her mind. She takes a drastic decision Executive Producer: Nick Fraser, Pierre Lagrange, Lex Lutzus to change her life. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - International Competition - World premiere

Details Year: 2019 Running Time: 92 mins Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Producer: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Co-Producer: Christophe Bruncher, Lambros Atteshlis Editor: Donka Ivanova Screenwriter: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Director of Photography: Dimitar Kostov Production Designer: Yuliya Kunova Music: Andy Cowton Principal Cast: Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov, Gilda Waugh, Chinwe Nwokolo, Kadisha Gee Camara, Jon-Jo Inkpen, John Harty

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Hatch House Media production Altitude Film Sales Bulgaria, UK, France Coccinelle Film via della Cisterna in association with Mville Films 34 Foubert’s Place co-production 00153 Rome Italy Hatch House Media London Activist 38 (BU), Glasshead (UK), +39 3 3881 58862 The Ministry W1F 7PX Ici et Là Productions (FR) [email protected] +44 (0)20 7478 7612 [email protected] 79-81 Borough Road Glasshead [email protected] www.coccinellefilm.com London Lambros Atteshlis www.altitudefilment.com/sales SE1 1DN 10 Orange Street [email protected] Endeavor Content Haymarket www.hatch-house.com (Co-representation, North London American sales) WC2H 7DQ Negeen Yazdi [email protected] [email protected] www.glasshead.co.uk

14 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Citizen K County Lines

Synopsis Synopsis Citizen K is a portrait of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – from A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen-year- communist to oligarch, political prisoner to exiled dissident – old son who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling and his 20-year battle with Putin. enterprise, a ‘County Line’, which exploits vulnerable children Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Out of and traffics them across Britain. Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - World Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - premiere Contemporary World Cinema Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 93 mins Year: 2019 Director: Henry Blake Running Time: 128 mins Producer: Victoria Bavister, David Broder Director: Alex Gibney Executive Producer: Christopher Granier-Deferre, Producer: John Battsek, George Chignell, Erin Edeiken, Simona Hughes, Zoe Bamber, Pia Getty Alex Gibney, P.J. van Sandwijk Editor: Paco Sweetman Executive Producer: John-Paul Bernbach, Michael Lesslie, Screenwriter: Henry Blake Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Andrew Ruhemann Director of Photography: Sverre Sordal Editor: Michael J. Palmer Production Designer: Phoebe Darling Screenwriter: Alex Gibney Music: James Pickering Director of Photography: Mark Garrett, Denis Sinyakov Principal Cast: Conrad Khan, Ashley Madekwe, Harris Music: Ivor Guest, Robert Logan Dickinson, Tabitha Milne Price, Marcus Rutherford

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company US, UK co-production Kew Media Group UK, Belgium co-production 151 Shaftesbury Avenue Jigsaw Productions (US), Two Birds Entertainment London Passion Pictures (UK), Storyteller (UK), Loupe Films (UK), Belga WC2H 8AL Productions (UK) Productions (BE) +44 (0)20 7851 6500 Passion Pictures [email protected] Two Birds Entertainment County House [email protected] c/o Victoria Bavister 33-34 Rathbone Place www.kewmedia.com [email protected] London W1T 1JN Loupe Films +44 (0)20 7323 9933 David Broder [email protected] [email protected] www.passion-pictures.com

CURRENT FEATURES 15 Coup 53 The Day Shall Come

Synopsis Synopsis Documentary telling the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/ An impoverished preacher in Miami is offered cash to save MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for Mossadegh. the FBI, who plan to turn him into a criminal by fuelling his Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2019 - World madcap revolutionary dreams. premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - International premiere Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 87 mins Year: 2019 Director: Chris Morris Director: Taghi Amirani Producer: Iain Canning, Anne Carey, Emile Sherman Producer: Taghi Amirani, Paul Zaentz Editor: Billy Sneddon Co-Producer: Amir Amirani, Ahmad Kiarostami Screenwriter: Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong Editor: Walter Murch Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind Screenwriter: Taghi Amirani, Walter Murch Production Designer: Lucio Seixas Director of Photography: Taghi Amirani, Simon Fanthorpe, Music: Jonathan Whitehead, Sebastian Rochford, Chris Morphet, Claudia Raschke, Vicente Franco, Chris Morris Ben Richards Principal Cast: Marchant Davis, Anna Kendrick, Pej Vahdat, Music: Robert Miller Danielle Brooks, Calah Lane, Kayvan Novak, James Adomian, Principal Cast: With contributions from: Taghi Amirani, Walter Danielle Brooks, Denis O’Hare Murch, Stephen Kinzer, Malcolm Byrne, Ervand Abrahamian, David Talbot

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Amirani Media UK, US co-production FilmNation Entertainment +44 (0)7870 643021 A See-Saw Films (UK), Archer 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Floor [email protected] Gray (US) production with New York www.amiranimedia.com support from BFI Film Fund (UK), NY 10011 USA Film4 (UK) production +1 917 484 8900 [email protected] See-Saw Films www.filmnation.com 3rd Floor 45 Folgate Street London E1 6GL +44 20 3301 6268 [email protected] www.see-saw-films.com

16 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Days of the Bagnold Summer Diego Maradona

Synopsis Synopsis Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Having never won a major tournament, ailing football giants Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with SSC Napoli had criminally underachieved. Their fanatical his father and his father’s new wife in Florida. But when they support was unequalled in both passion and size. None was cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly more feared. But how they ached for success... On 5th July face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war 1984, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples for a world-record of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their fee and for seven years all hell broke loose. The world’s most suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies celebrated football genius and the most dysfunctional city – and pursue their personal passions. Adapted from the in Europe were a perfect match for each other. Maradona graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold was blessed on the field but cursed off it; the charismatic Summer is a tender, funny coming-of-age story, featuring Argentine quickly led Naples to their first-ever title. It was original songs by the indie band Belle & Sebastian. the stuff of dreams. But there was a price… Diego could Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - World do as he pleased whilst performing miracles on the pitch, premiere but when the magic faded he became almost a prisoner of the city. The third film from the Academy Award and multi Details BAFTA-winning team behind Senna and Amy, this definitive Year: 2019 feature documentary was made with Maradona’s full Running Time: 86 mins support, constructed from over 500 hours of never-before- Director: Simon Bird seen footage from his personal archive. In a city where the Producer: Matthew James Wilkinson devil would have needed bodyguards, Maradona became Co-Producer: Isabelle Georgeaux bigger than God himself. This is the wild and unforgettable Executive Producer: James Appleton story of God-given talent, glory, despair and , of Screenwriter: Lisa Owens (screenplay), Joff Winterhart corruption and ultimately redemption. (graphic novel) Official Selection 2019 - Out of Music: Soundtrack Score: Belle and Sebastian Competition - World premiere Principal Cast: Monica Dolan, Earl Cave, Rob Brydon, Alice Lowe, Details Year: 2019 Running Time: 120 mins Director: Asif Kapadia Producer: James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin Executive Producer: George Pank, Julian Bird, Will Clarke Editor: Chris King Music: Antonio Pinto Archival Producer: Lina Caicedo, Fiammetta Luino

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Stigma Films production with Altitude Film Sales A Film4, Lorton Entertainment, On Altitude Film Sales support of Creative , BFI 34 Foubert’s Place the Corner Films production (World sales except US) Stigma Films London On the Corner Films 34 Foubert’s Place Matthew James Wilkinson W1F 7PX +44 (0)20 7148 2025 London [email protected] www. +44 (0)20 7612 0662 [email protected] W1F 7PX stigmafilms.co.uk [email protected] www.onthecorner.tv +44 (0)20 7612 0662 www.altitudefilment.com/sales [email protected] FIlm4 www.altitudefilment.com/sales +44 (0)20 7306 5190 [email protected] Cinetic Media (US sales) www.film4productions.com 555 W 25th Street, 4th Floor New York Lorton Entertainment NY 10001 USA +44 (0)20 3778 0840 +1 212 204 7979 [email protected] [email protected] www.lortonentertainment.com www.cineticmedia.com

CURRENT FEATURES 17 Dirt Music Dirty God

Synopsis Synopsis Georgie, sometime sailor, diver and nurse, used to have guts. Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid But somehow she has lost her way. Stranded in a remote attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been fishing town on the West Australian coast she’s living with reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. On a Jim, a man she doesn’t love, and his young sons whose dead self-destructive path with her relationships crumbling, Jade mother she can never replace. But a reckless moment leads must take drastic action to reclaim her life. to a life-changing encounter with Lu, an enigmatic loner, Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam one time musician and sometimes poacher, outcast from (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere the community. The two are powerfully drawn to each other Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World and embark on an inescapable, intense and sexually charged Cinema Dramatic Competition affair. Georgie will risk everything for this chance of love, but Lu is haunted by a tragic accident from his past. For him the Details prospect is too painful and he retreats into the wilderness to Year: 2019 the remotest islands leaving little clue as to his whereabouts. Running Time: 105 mins With the unlikely help of Jim who is determined to right the Director: Sacha Polak wrongs of his own past, Georgie embarks on a journey to bring Producer: Marleen Slot, Michael Elliott Lu back from his past and his grief, ultimately finding herself. Co-Producer: Dries Phlypo Based on Tim Winton’s acclaimed novel, a film about people Executive Producer: Isabel Davis, Clea De Koning, whose hopes and dreams are lost, and the redemptive power Frank Klein, Eva Yates of love. Editor: Sander Vos Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Screenwriter: Sacha Polak, Susie Farrell Special Presentations - World premiere Director of Photography: Ruben Impens Production Designer: Sanne Schat Details Music: Rutger Reinders Year: 2019 Principal Cast: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady- Running Time: 104 mins Girard, Rebecca Stone, Bluey Robinson, Dana Marienci Director: Gregor Jordan Producer: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford Editor: Pia Di Ciaula Screenwriter: Jack Thorne (script), Tim Winton (novel) Director of Photography: Sam Chiplin Production Designer: Michael Carlin Principal Cast: , Garrett Hedlund, David Wenham Production Company Sales Agent Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland Independent co-production 195 Wardour Street Production Company Sales Agent London UK, Australia co-production Cornerstone Films An Independent (UK), A Private W1F 8ZG WeWork View (BE), BFI Film Fund (UK), A Wildgaze Films (UK), Aquarius +44 (0)207 257 8734 Moor Place 1 Fore Street EMU Films (UK), Viking Film (NL) Films (AU) production. Developed [email protected] London production with the support of Film4 (UK), www.independentfilmcompany.com ScreenWest (AU) EC2Y 5EJ Independent +44 (0)20 3457 7257 195 Wardour Street Wildgaze Films [email protected] London 53 Greek Street www.cornerstonefilm.com W1F 8ZG London +44 (0)207 257 8734 W1D 3DR [email protected] +44 (0)20 7734 7065 www.independentfilmcompany.com [email protected] www.wildgazefilms.co.uk EMU Films +44 (0)20 7183 0925 [email protected] www.emufilms.com

18 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST A Dog Called Money Eternal Beauty

Synopsis Synopsis Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy has made a When Jane is dumped at the altar she has a breakdown film that investigates the creative process behind his project and spirals into a chaotic world, where love (both real and with PJ Harvey. While tracing the sources of songs and imagined) and family relationships collide with both touching detailing the journey of their birth, he brings to life the people and humorous consequences. and places at their very heart. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 -- World Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama Dokumente - premiere World premiere Details Details Year: 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 93 mins Running Time: 90 mins Director: Craig Roberts Director: Seamus Murphy Producer: Adrian Bate Producer: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson, Executive Producer: Pip Broughton, Mary Burke, Meroë Seamus Murphy Candy, Catrin Lewis Defis, Emma Duffy, Paul Higgins, Co-Producer: Evan Horan Adam Partridge Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford, Tim Editor: Stephen Haren O’Shea, Jim Reeve, Laura Macara, Celine Haddad, Kieron J. Screenwriter: Craig Roberts Walsh, Brian Message, Sumit Bothra, Sebastian Gollek Director of Photography: Kit Fraser Editor: Sebastian Gollek Production Designer: Tim Dickel Screenwriter: Seamus Murphy Music: Michael Price Director of Photography: Seamus Murphy Principal Cast: , , Alice Lowe, Sound: Seamus Murphy; Sound Design: Brendan Rehill , Music: Polly Jean Harvey Principal Cast: PJ Harvey

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Ireland, UK co-production Autlook Films A Cliff Edge Pictures, Endeavor Bankside Films A Pulse Films (UK), Blinder Films Salma Abdalla Content production supported Krisztina Laszlo (IE), JW Films (UK) production Spittelberggasse 3/14 by Ffilm Cymru Wales, Welsh Ashley House, 5th Floor in association with Fís Éireann/ 1070 Vienna Government, Wellcome Trust, BFI 12 Great Portland Street Screen Ireland (IE), Somerset Austria Cliff Edge Pictures London House (UK), Artangel (UK) with +43 720 346934 c/o Vox Pictures W1W 8QN support of ATC Management (UK), [email protected] 59 Mount Stuart Square +44 (0)20 7636 6085 Great Point Media (UK) www.autlookfilms.com Cardiff [email protected] www.bankside-films.com Pulse Films CF10 5LR 17 Hanbury Street +44 (002921 303 335 London [email protected] E1 6QR www.voxpictures.co.uk/cliff-edge- pictures +44 (0)20 7426 5700 [email protected] www.pulsefilms.com JW Films +44 (0)20 76121263

CURRENT FEATURES 19 Fanny Lye Deliver’d First Love (Hatsukoi)

Synopsis Synopsis On a remote 17th century farm, the arrival of two mysterious Taking place over one night in Tokyo, Leo, a down-on-his- strangers transforms the life of Puritan huswife Fanny Lye. luck young boxer meets his ‘first love’, Monica, a call girl and Part period thriller, part mythic ‘western’, Fanny Lye Deliver’d an addict but who is still an innocent. Monica unwittingly conjures a savage and elemental world of beauty and horror. gets caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, Leo’s Competition - World premiere nemesis and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors’ Details Fortnight - World premiere Year: 2019 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Running Time: 110 mins Midnight Madness Director: Thomas Clay Producer: Zorana Piggott, Rob Cannan, Philippe Bober, Details Michel Merkt, Joseph Lang (posth.) Year: 2019 Executive Producer: Thomas Clay, Lizzie Francke, Running Time: 108 mins Celine Haddad, Richard Holmes, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross Director: Takashi Miike Screenwriter: Thomas Clay Producer: Muneyuki Kii, Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka Director of Photography: Giorgos Arvanitis Editor: Akira Kamiya Principal Cast: Maxine Peake, Tanya Reynolds, , Screenwriter: Masaru Nakamura Freddie Fox Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita Sound: Jun Nakamura Music: Kôji Endô Principal Cast: Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Jun Murakami

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent UK, co-production Coproduction Office An Oriental Light and Magic (JP), HanWay Films A PullBack Camera (UK) 24, Rue Lamartine (UK), 8 Basing Street production in co-production with 75009 Paris Toei Company (JP) production London Essential Filmproduktion (DE) France Recorded Picture Company W11 1ET +33 1 56 02 60 00 +44 (0)20 7290 0750 Pull Back Camera Ltd 8 Basing Street [email protected] [email protected] Rural Enterprise Centre London www.coproductionoffice.eu www.hanwayfilms.com Stafford Drive W11 1ET Battlefield Enterprise Park +44 (0)20 7636 2251 Shrewsbury [email protected] SY1 3FE www.recordedpicture.com +44 (0)7919 532 788 [email protected]

20 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST For Sama The Gasoline Thieves (Huachicolero) Synopsis Synopsis A feature documentary telling the astonishing story of 26- Living with his mother and working as a farmhand in his year old female Syrian filmmaker, Waad al-Kateab, who filmed hometown, fourteen-year-old Lalo sees buying a smartphone her life in rebel-held Aleppo through five years of the Syrian for his high-school crush the only surefire way into her uprising. She fell in love, got married and had a daughter all heart. When his mother is forced to use his savings in order while filming the violence raging around her and in particular to pay for medical bills, Lalo decides to approach the local documenting the challenges the conflict imposed on women huachicoleros for help, who quickly enlist his aid in their and children. Along with a close group of friends, she stayed business of illegally siphoning gas in order to take advantage in the city to fight for her dream of a free Syria, a struggle that of the country’s shortage and re-sell on the black market. As ended in their defeat and exile. The film weaves together her Lalo naively becomes more involved with the huachicoleros’ intimate, emotive footage with her struggle to come to terms work, an uneasy air of violence begins to overtake the world with the trauma she has witnessed. It’s an outstanding story, around him, while investigators narrow their search for those by turns beautiful, shocking, surprising and uplifting. Waad is responsible. a symbol for our times, the epitome of a bold, brave woman Official Selection Film Festival 2019 - International prepared to risk her life for what she believes, in a year when Narrative Competition - World premiere women are finally becoming the heroes of their own stories. Winner: Best New Narrative Director Award - Tribeca Film Hers is an epic tale of the survival of love and courage amid the Festival 2019 cruelty of war. Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Documentary Feature Details Competition - World premiere Year: 2019 Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - International Spectrum Running Time: 93 mins Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Special Screening Director: Edgar Nito Producer: Victor Leycegui, Annick Mahnert, Joshua Sobel Details Executive Producer: Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh, Sonia Lowe Year: 2019 Editor: Sam Baixauli Running Time: 95 mins Screenwriter: Alfredo Mendoza, Edgar Nito Director: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts Director of Photography: Juan Pablo Ramírez Producer: Waad al-Kateab Music: Carlo Ayhllón Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro, George Waldrum, Principal Cast: Eduardo Banda, Pedro Joaquin, Siobhan Sinnerton, Ben de Pear, Raney Aronson-Rath Regina Reynoso, Fernando Becerril, Pascacio López, Editor: Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon Leonardo Alonso Director of Photography: Waad al-Kateab Music: Nainita Desai Senior Producer: Dan Edge

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent George Waldrum Autlook Filmsales Mexico, Spain, UK, AMP International ITN Productions Spittelberggasse 3/14 US co-production Timo Suomi 200 Grays Inn Rd 1070 Vienna AMP International (UK), Pirotecnia Studio 01zero-one London Austria Films (MX), Screen Division (FR) Hopkins Street WC1X 8XZ +43 7 203 46934 London AMP International +44 (0)7971 095 674 [email protected] W1F 0HS Timo Suomi [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com +44 (0)20 7535 6714 18 Finsbury Square www.itnproductions.co.uk [email protected] London www.amp-film.com EC2A 1AH +44 (0)20 7535 6714 [email protected] www.amp-film.com

CURRENT FEATURES 21 1ST Good Posture Greed

Synopsis Synopsis Set in current day Brooklyn, the story of Lilian, a lazy but A satricial story of a retail billionaire, set in the glamorous charming and beautiful young woman who, having broken and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, which is centered up with her boyfriend, has been placed into the care of family around the build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in friend and famed reclusive author, Julia Price. To impress an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos. her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her, Lilian Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia – albeit an Special Presentations - World premiere unauthorized one – with surprisingly amusing results. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Spotlight Details Narrative - World premiere Year: 2019 Running Time: 100 mins Details Director: Michael Winterbottom Year: 2019 Producer: Melissa Parmenter, Damian Jones Running Time: 91 mins Editor: Liam Hendrix Heath Director: Dolly Wells Screenwriter: Sean Gray, Michael Winterbottom Producer: Jamie Adams, Maggie Monteith Production Designer: Denis Schnegg Co-Producer: Ken Farrington Principal Cast: , Isla Fisher, David Mitchell, Editor: Adelina Bichis Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Screenwriter: Dolly Wells Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry, Director of Photography: Ryan Eddleston Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Production Designer: Charlotte Abbott Sound: Simon Gerschon Principal Cast: Emily Mortimer, Grace Van Patten, Condola Rashad, Nat Wolff

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Dignity Film Finance and Talland AMP International A Revolution Films (UK) Sony Pictures Entertainment Films production Timo Suomi production with support of Film4 10202 W. Washington Blvd. Talland Films Studio 01zero-one (UK), Sony Pictures International Culver City c/o Dignity Film Finance Hopkins Street Productions (US) CA 90232 USA Maggie Monteith London Revolution Films +1 310 244 4000 Adrianna Allenby W1F 0HS 9A Dallington Street www.sonypictures.com [email protected] +44 (0)20 7535 6714 London [email protected] [email protected] EC1V 0BQ www.dignityfilmfinance.com www.amp-film.com +44 (0)20 7566 0700 [email protected] www.revolution-films.com

22 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Here for Life Hope Gap

Synopsis Synopsis An uncommon story told on common ground by ten Grace and Edward have been married 33 years. When their Londoners. All have lives shaped by loss and love, trauma son Jamie comes home to visit them in the fading seaside and bravery, struggle and resistance. They grapple with a town where he grew up, Edward tells him that he plans to system stacked against them. They dance, steal, and eat leave Grace, the next day. Hope Gap tracks the unravelling of together; agree and disagree, celebrate their differences and three lives, through stages of shock, disbelief and anger, to a share their talents. The lines between one person’s story and resolution, of sorts. It’s tender, it’s funny and above all, true. another’s performance are blurred and the borders between There are no easy answers, no simple paths to redemption, reality and fiction are porous. Eventually coming together but in the end, it is a story of survival. A story of hope. on a makeshift stage, Here For Life marks the culmination Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - of a long collaboration between filmmaker Andrea Luka Special Presentations - World premiere Zimmerman and theatre-maker Adrian Jackson, a group of Londoners, and a dog. Details Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Filmmakers of Year: 2019 the Present Competition - World premiere Running Time: 100 mins Director: William Nicholson Details Producer: David M. Thompson Year: 2019 Co-Producer: Joanie Blaikie Running Time: 90 mins Executive Producer: Arno Hazebroek, Hugo Heppell, Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson Gavin Poolman, Nicolas D. Sampson Producer: The Artangel Trust Editor: Pia Di Ciaula Executive Producer: James Lingwood, Michael Morris, Screenwriter: William Nicholson Cressida Day Director of Photography: Anna Valdez-Hanks Editor: Grant Gee Production Designer: Simon Rogers Director of Photography: Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Principal Cast: , , Josh O’Connor Zimmerman Production Designer: Fred Meller Sound: Marie Tueje Music: Richard Honeyghan aka MILO Principal Cast: Jo Galbraith, Jake Goode, Richard Honeyghan, Kamby Kamara, Errol McGlashan, Patrick Onione, Ben Smithies, Floria Twyman, Jono Whitty, Sasha Winslow Production Note: Devised by the performers, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson with Therese Henningsen

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent The Artangel Trust An Origin Pictures (UK), Protagonist Pictures 31 Eyre St Hill Protagonist Pictures (UK) 42 - 48 Great Portland Street London production presented by London EC1R 5EW Sampsonic Media (CY) with the W1W 7NB +44 (0)20 7713 1400 support of Screen Yorkshire (UK) +44 (0)20 7734 9000 www.artangel.org.uk Origin Pictures [email protected] 4 Denmark Street www.protagonistpictures.com London WC2H 8LP +44 (0)20 3773 4960 [email protected] [email protected] www.originpictures.co.uk

CURRENT FEATURES 23 1ST Horrible Histories: The Movie How to Build A Girl - Rotten Romans Synopsis Synopsis Atti is a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. Johanna Morrigan is 16, smart, opinionated, brash, over- When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, weight – not exactly the high school prom queen. She is Atti is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, also a virgin whose hormones are rioting like a zoo on fire. wet Britain where the natives are revolting - quite literally. Although she loves her dysfunctional family, Johanna is Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, desperate to get out and make a name for herself. And so she a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior. does, as Dolly Wilde, a bad-ass music critic at a hip magazine. When Orla’s grandmother, Brenda, is then kidnapped by In person, she rubs shoulders (and sometimes more...) with an enemy tribe, Atti seizes on the opportunity to save his rock stars, while on paper, she tears them apart. As she own skin by using his Roman know-how to help Orla save slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines her. Meanwhile a furious Nero is determined to crush the between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. rebellion, led by Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. After narrowly Can she be an ‘enfant terrible’ and hold on to her family, her avoiding a very sticky end in a bog, Atti rejoins his Roman heroes and her heart? Johanna definitely figured out how to troops and discovers they are preparing for an historic build a girl, but has she figured out which girl to build? showdown with the Celts at the Battle of Watling Street. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Atti’s brains could save the day but they could also spell Special Presentations - World premiere disaster for Orla as the two new friends find themselves lined up on opposite sides of the battlefield. Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 102 mins Year: 2019 Director: Coky Giedroyc Running Time: 86 mins Producer: Alison Owen, Debra Hayward Director: Dominic Brigstocke Executive Producer: Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, Sue Bruce- Producer: Caroline Norris, Will Clarke Smith, Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Zygi Kamasa, Emma Co-Producer: Giles Pilbrow Berkofsky, Caitlin Moran Executive Producer: Richard Bradley, Andy Mayson, Giles Screenwriter: Caitlin Moran Pilbrow, Bradley Quirk, Mike Runagall, Iole Lucchese, Rose Principal Cast: Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Garnett, Geraldine Atlee, Cheryl Taylor, Melissa Hardinge, Sarah Solemani, Chris O’Dowd, Lucy Beckett, Simon Williams, Vaishali Mistry, Claudia Bluemhuber, Jesus Munoz Editor: Nigel William Screenwriter: Jessica Swale, Giles Pilbrow, Caroline Norris Director of Photography: John Sorapure Production Designer: Heathr Gibson Principal Cast: Sebastian Croft, Craig Roberts, Kim Cattrall, Nick Frost, Kate Nash, Derek Jacobi, Warwick Davis, Kate Nash, Rupert Graves, Emilia Jones Production Company Sales Agent A Monumental Pictures (UK) Protagonist Pictures production with support from 42 - 48 Great Portland Street Film4 (UK), Tango Entertainment London Production Company Sales Agent (US), BFI Locked Box Initiative W1W 7NB An Altitude Films, Citrus Films, Altitude Film Sales (UK) +44 (0)20 7734 9000 Stavingoh Films production with 34 Fouberts Place [email protected] support of BBC Films, Scholastic London Monumental Pictures www.protagonistpictures.com Entertainment, Ingenious Media, W1F 7PX Church Road Silver Reel +44 (0)20 7478 7612 London NW10 9PY Altitude Film Entertainment [email protected] 34 Fouberts Place www.altitudefilment.com Film4 London 124 Horseferry Road W1F 7PX London +44 (0)20 7478 7612 SW1P 2TX [email protected] +44 (0)20 7306 5190 www.altitudefilment.com www.film4productions.com

24 CURRENT FEATURES I Am (Not) a Monster Judy

Synopsis Synopsis “To act is to begin something new” said Hannah Arendt, Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Arendt, who passed Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of away in 1975, coined the concept of the ‘banality of evil’. This the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in documentary attempts to explore the thinking processes The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic and mechanisms of activism and risky thoughts, unravelling intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, some of the reasons why Trump, Le Pen and others have battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces captured people’s imaginations by reviving past ideologies. with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine Your guide in this adventurous journey is the alternative through. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as educator Nelly Ben Hayoun, who armed with puppets and she embarks on a courtship with Mickey Deans, her soon-to- dressed as Hannah Arendt, teases the greatest thinkers of be fifth husband. And yet Judy is fragile. After working for our age whilst challenging them to an impossible pursuit; the 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted; haunted by memories search of the origins of knowledge. Featuring contributions of a childhood lost to Hollywood; gripped by a desire to from political activist Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda be back home with her kids. Will she have the strength to Tolokonnikova, Hannah Arendt’s students: Arjun Appadurai go on? Featuring some of her best-known songs, including and Leon Botstein, nonsense-artist Novbumichi Tosa of the timeless classic ‘Over the Rainbow’, and celebrating the Maywa Denki, robot maker Hiroshi Ishiguro, Japanese Living voice, the capacity for love and the sheer pizzazz of “the National Treasures: Bunraku puppeteer – Kanjuro Kiritake II, world’s greatest entertainer”. Noh Theatre master – Hisa Uzawa, Lord Mayor of Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Magid Magid, cyborg artist Neil Harbisson and more. Special Presentations - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - World premiere Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 118 mins Year: 2019 Director: Rupert Goold Running Time: 98 mins Producer: David Livingstone Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun Executive Producer: Cameron McCracken, Rose Garnett, Producer: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Monika Baran, Chloe McClellan Andrea Scarso, Laurence Myers, Lee Dean, Aaron Levene, Executive Producer: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Christopher Hird Charles Diamond, Ellis Goodman, Hilary Williams Editor: David Potter Editor: Director of Photography: Fiona Braillon Screenwriter: Tom Edge Principal Cast: Noam Chomsky, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland Arjun Appadurai, Leon Botstein, Novbumichi Tosa, Hiroshi Production Designer: Kave Quinn Ishiguro, Kanjuro Kiritake II, Hisa Uzawa, Magid Magid, Neil Principal Cast: Renee Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Harbisson, Efrem Amare, Adrienn Almásy, Roger Berkowitz, Finn Wittrock, Metasebia Endalamaw, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Bre Assistant Producer: Marie Otsuka

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd. A Pathé, BBC Films and Ingenious Pathé International Platform 1 Media presentation of a Calamity 6 Ramillies Street 54 Holywell Lane Films Production. London London Calamity Films W1F 7TY EC2A 3PQ Unit 2, Waldo Works +44 (0)20 7462 4415 [email protected] Waldo Road [email protected] www.nellyben.com London www.pathe.co.uk NW10 6AW [email protected] www.calamityfilms.co.uk

CURRENT FEATURES 25 1ST Krabi, 2562 Last Breath

Synopsis Synopsis In the town of Krabi, a popular tourist destination in A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with only five southern Thailand, the pre-historic, the recent past and the minutes of oxygen supply, but with no chance of rescue for contemporary capitalist world awkwardly collide. The town’s more than 30 minutes. With access to amazing archive, this local folklore and histories are promoted as attractions to is the true story of one man’s impossible fight for survival. It foreigners, while the town’s traditional labour force is muted is Gravity meets Touching The Void – 100 metres underwater. and hidden from the tourists’ eyes. A nameless character, Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase - whose identity continually changes, takes us around town International premiere to explore various sites that capture Krabi in its current state. These sites uniquely illustrate how Krabi’s folklore is Details propagated and commodified to fill the need of tourism Year: 2019 industry. A docu-fiction work from Ben Rivers and Anocha Running Time: 86 mins Suwichakornpong developed from ideas explored in their Director: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa 2018 Thailand Biennale installation piece ‘The Ambassadors’. Producer: Al Morrow, Angus Lamont, Stewart Le Marechal, Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa, Dylan Williams - World premiere Executive Producer: Jonny Persey, Vesna Cudic, Leslie Finlay, Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Tony Nellany Wavelengths Editor: Sam Rogers Screenwriter: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa Details Director of Photography: Alex Parkinson Year: 2019 Production Designer: Moley Campbell Running Time: 94 mins Director: Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong Producer: Maenum Chagasik, Tulapop Saenjaroen Director of Photography: Ming Kai Leung Sound-Artist: Ernst Karel

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Ben Rivers, Anocha Rediance Met Film Production Met Film Sales Suwichakornpong Room 2701 Tower B, Al Morrow Vesna Cudic c/o Andy Starke Stay City Ealing Studios Anti-Worlds and Rook Films Chaoyang District Ealing Green London Ealing Green London [email protected] 100020 Beijing W5 5EP W5 5EP China +44 (0)20 8280 9127 +44 (0)20 8280 9117 [email protected] [email protected] www. [email protected] www.rediancefilms.com metfilmproduction.co.uk www.metfilmsales.com Floating Harbour Films MB Tempora Welshback Bristol BS1 4SP +44 (0)117 929 3679 [email protected] www.floatingharbour.co.uk

26 CURRENT FEATURES The Last Tree Little Joe

Synopsis Synopsis Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, means to be a young black man in London. Shola Amoo’s this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, second feature is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They drama, which explores universal themes of identity and christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so too does Alice’s belonging. suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World their nickname suggests. Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition - World premiere Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 100 mins Year: 2019 Director: Shola Amoo Running Time: 105 mins Producer: Lee Thomas, Myf Hopkins Director: Jessica Hausner Editor: Mdhamiri Á Nkemi Producer: Bruno Wagner, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner, Screenwriter: Shola Amoo Bertrand Faivre, Gerardine O’Flynn Director of Photography: Stil Williams Editor: Karina Ressler Production Designer: Antonia Lowe Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard Sound: Alex Ashcroft Director of Photography: Martin Gschlacht Music: Segun Akinola Sound: Sound Engineer: Malcolm Cromie; Sound Design: Erik Principal Cast: Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Mischijev, Matz Müller Tai Golding, Denise Black, Nicholas Pinnock Music: Katharina Wöppermann Principal Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, David Wilmot, Phénix Brossard, Sebastian Hülk, Lindsay Duncan

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Prodigal Film & TV production Great Point Media Austria, UK, Germany Coproduction Office with support of BFI, awarding 3rd Floor co-production 24, rue Lamartine National Lottery funds 14 Floral Street A Coop99 Filmproduktion (AT), Paris 75009 Prodigal Film & TV London The Bureau (UK), Essential France [email protected] WC2E 9DH Filmproduktion GmbH (DE) +33 15 60 26 000 www.prodigalfilms.co.uk +44 (0)20 3873 0020 production presented by [email protected] [email protected] Austrian Film Institute (AT), www.coproductionoffice.eu www.greatpointmedia.com FISA - Filmstandort Austria (AT), Filmfonds Wien (AT), Land Niederösterreich (AT), BBC Films (UK), BFI (UK), Bayerischer Rundfunk (DE), Arte (FR), Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg (DE), EURIMAGES (FR) The Bureau 2nd Floor 42 Glasshouse Street London W1B 5DW +44 (0)20 7439 8257 [email protected] www.thebureaufilms.com

CURRENT FEATURES 27 1ST The Lodge Lynn + Lucy

Synopsis Synopsis A psychologically chilling slow burn; a young woman and A study of violence and hysteria at a societal level played her reticent new stepchildren find themselves isolated in the out through the lives of two best friends, whose relationship family’s remote winter cabin, locked away to dredge up the is tested after a tragedy. Feature directorial debut from the mysteries of her dark past and the losses that seem to haunt director of the award-winning short filmRate Me. them all. Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2019 - New Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres - Directors Competition - World premiere World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019

Details Details Year: 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 100 mins Running Time: 110 mins Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala Director: Fyzal Boulifa Producer: Simon Oakes, Aliza James, Aaron Ryder Producer: Camilla Bray Editor: Michael Palm Executive Producer: Eva Yates, Kristen Irving, Norman Merry, Screenwriter: Sergio Casci, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala Rebecca O’Brien, Carole Baraton, Richard Wolfe Director of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa Production Designer: Sylvain Lemaitre Principal Cast: Roxanne Scrimshaw, Nichola Burley Principal Cast: , Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, , Richard Armitage

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent US, UK co-production FilmNation Entertainment A Rosetta Productions Ltd Charades Hammer Films (UK), FilmNation 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Floor production with support from Nicolas Rebeschini Entertainment (US) New York BBC Films, Creative England and 4 rue Manuel NY 10011 the BFI. Co-financed by BBC Films 75009 Paris Hammer Films USA and BFI in association with Lyp France 2nd Floor, 52 Haymarket +1 917 484 8900 Sync and Charades +33 6 61 22 23 12 London [email protected] [email protected] SW1Y 4RP Rosetta Productions Ltd www.filmnation.com [email protected] +44 (0)20 3002 9513 Camilla Bray [email protected] Endevor Content c/o Sixteen Films www.hammerfilms.com (co-representative for US sales) 2nd Floor [email protected] 187 Wardour Street www.wmeentertainment.com London W1F 8ZB +44 (0)20 7734 0168 +44 (0)7956 101462 [email protected]

28 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Make Up Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love Synopsis Synopsis Tensions rise on a remote holiday park when Ruth, who has A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his just moved in with her boyfriend, is haunted by an unsettling Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The film follows their discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession. relationship from the early days on the idyllic Greek island of Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - First Hydra in 1960 as part of a bohemian community of foreign Feature Competition - World premiere artists, writers, and musicians, a time of ‘free love’ and open marriage; observing how their love evolved when Leonard Details became a successful musician. Year: 2019 Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Running Time: 85 mins Documentary Premieres - World premiere Director: Claire Oakley Producer: Emily Morgan Details Co-Producer: Michael S. Constable Year: 2019 Executive Producer: Paul Ashton, Mary Burke, Zorana Piggot, Running Time: 97 mins Jim Reeve, Eva Yates Director: Editor: Sacha Szwarc Producer: Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin, Shani Hinton, Screenwriter: Claire Oakley Kyle Gibbon Director of Photography: Nick Cooke Executive Producer: Charles Finch, Patrick Holland, Production Designer: Sofia Stocco Jan Christian Mollestad, Lisa Savage, , Principal Cast: Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini, Rudi Dolezal Theo Barklem-Biggs, Lisa Palfrey Editor: Marc Hoeferlin Director of Photography: Barney Broomfield Music: Nick Laird-Clowes Archival Producer: Lisa Savage

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Creative England, BBC Films and Protagonist Pictures US, UK co-production Kew Media Group the BFI present, in association 42 - 48 Great Portland Street 151 Shaftesbury Avenue with Moffen Media Limited, a London London Quiddity Films and iFeatures W1W 7NB WC2H 8AL Production +44 (0)20 7734 9000 +44 (0)20 7851 6500 Quiddity Films [email protected] [email protected] www.quiddityfilms.com www.protagonistpictures.com www.kewmedia.com Claire Oakley www.claireoakley.com

CURRENT FEATURES 29 Midnight Traveler Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Synopsis Synopsis When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan A visionary, innovator and originator who defied Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee his home country with his wife categorisation and embodied the word cool: a foray into and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, the life and career of musical and cultural icon Miles Davis. Fazili shows first-hand the dangers facing refugees seeking Using words from Miles Davis’ autobiography, this film offers asylum and the love shared between a family on the run. an incisive insight into our understanding of the legendary Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World musician. Newly released archival material, alongside Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere interviews with pre-eminent historians and personal friends like Quincy Jones, illustrate a man of intensity and devotion to Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase his craft. Despite the indignities of America during the time of segregation, nothing was going to stop Davis from realising Details his dream: to create a new form of musical expression. Davis Year: 2019 worked like a physicist with his collaborators to push musical Running Time: 87 mins experimentation and widen the tones and lyricism of jazz – Director: Hassan Fazili the effects of which are felt to this day. Delving into his past Producer: Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim loves, personal relationships and addictions, a clearer portrait Co-Producer: Fatima Hussaini, Ahmad Imami of Davis the man emerges. Davis is fearless and engaging Editor: Emelie Mahdavian; Co-Editor: Kristina Motwani; throughout, and his intellectual fervor is only tempered by Consulting Editor: Nels Bangerter his insecurities. Director Stanley Nelson’s epic biopic collects Screenwriter: Emelie Mahdavian the strands of a creative life and weaves them together for us Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Daniel Timmons to understand one of the great modern American artists like Music: Gretchen Jude never before. Principal Cast: Featuring: Nargis Fazili, Zahra Fazili, Fatima Hussaini, Hassan Fazili Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Cameras: Fatima Hussaini, Hassan Fazili, Nargis Fazili, Premieres - World premiere Zahra Fazili Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Special Presentations

Details Year: 2019 Running Time: 113 mins Director: Stanley Nelson Producer: Nicole London, Stanley Nelson Executive Producer: Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin, Michael Kantor Editor: Lewis Erskine; Assistant Editor: Yusuf Kapadia Image: ©Firelight Films, Inc.

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company US, UK, Qatar, Canada Doc & Film International US, UK co-production co-production 13, Rue Portefoin Firelight Films, Inc. (US) An Old Chilly Pictures LLC 75003 Paris production with support of Eagle production France Rock Film Productions (UK) +33 1 42 77 56 87 Midnight Traveler Eagle Rock Film Productions [email protected] [email protected] c/o Eagle Rock Entertainment www.docandfilm.com www.midnighttravelerfilm.com Eagle House 22 Armoury Way London SW18 1EZ +44 (0)20 8870 5670 / +44 (0)20 8875 8791 (ext. 510) [email protected] www.eaglerockent.com

30 CURRENT FEATURES Military Wives Moffie

Synopsis Synopsis A band of misfit women form a choir on a military base. To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year Bonds of friendship begin to flourish between them, and is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is the music transforms their lives, helping each of them to embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like overcome their fears for loved ones in combat. Inspired by all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart BBC documentary series The Choir: Military Wives. must complete two years of compulsory military service Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism Special Presentations - World premiere and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. Details He must survive the brutality of the army – something that ear: 2019 becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked Running Time: 112 mins between him and a fellow recruit. Director: Peter Cattaneo Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Orizzonti - Producer: Ben Pugh, Rory Aitken, Piers Tempest World premiere Executive Producer: René Besson, Joshua Horsfield, Zygi Kamasa, Peter Touche Details Editor: Anne Sopel Year: 2019 Screenwriter: Rosanne Flynn, Rachel Tunnard Running Time: 103 mins Director of Photography: Hubert Taczanowski Director: Oliver Hermanus Production Designer: John Beard Producer: Eric Abraham, Jack Sidey Music: Lorne Balfe Co-Producer: Theresa Ryan-van Graan Principal Cast: , Sharon Horgan, Editor: Alain Dessauvage, George Hanmer Amy James-Kelly, India Ria Amarteifio Screenwriter: Oliver Hermanus (script), Jack Sidey (script), Andre-Carl van der Merwe (memoir) Director of Photography: Jamie D Ramsay Production Designer: Franz Lewis Music: Braam du Toit Principal Cast: Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak, Hilton Pelser

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A 42 production in association Embankment Films South Africa, UK co-production Portobello Film Sales with Tempo Productions Limited, Westbourne Studios – WE 020 Portobello Productions (UK), [email protected] financed by Ingenious Media 242 Acklam Road Penzance Films (ZA) www.portobellofilmsales.com London 42 Portobello Productions W10 5JJ 8 Flitcroft Street Jack Sidey +44 (0)20 7183 4739 London 12 Penzance Place [email protected] WC2H 8DL London www.embankmentfilms.com +44 (0)20 7292 0554 W11 4PA [email protected] [email protected] www.42mp.com www.portobelloproductions.com

CURRENT FEATURES 31 Monsoon Muscle

Synopsis Synopsis Kit, a young British Vietnamese man, returns to his birth A psychological thriller that’s dripping in sweat, tears, and country for the first time in over 30 years. He was just eight testosterone: the story of Simon, an unhappy, unambitious years old when he and his family escaped Saigon as ‘boat office worker whose life is gradually taken over by Terry, his refugees’ during the Vietnam-American war. No longer new, very hands-on personal trainer who reveals himself to familiar with and unable to speak his native be more committed – and more dangerous – than Simon language, Kit embarks on a personal journey from Saigon to could have imagined. Hanoi, in search of a place to scatter his parents’ ashes. Along Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - World the way he meets his estranged family and falls for Lewis, premiere an American whose father had fought in the war. During his travels, Kit finally starts to connect to the memories of his Details parents and his own roots. Year: 2019 Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Director: Gerard Johnson World premiere Producer: Matthew James Wilkinson, Ed Barratt, Richard Wylie, Eric Tavitian, Frédéric Fiore Details Editor: Ian Davies Year: 2019 Screenwriter: Gerard Johnson Running Time: 90 mins Director of Photography: Stuart Bentley Director: Hong Khaou Production Designer: Bobbie Cousins, Helen Watson Producer: Tracy O’Riordan Principal Cast: Cavan Clerkin, Craig Fairbrass Executive Producer: Emma Dutton, Lizzie Francke, Rose Garnett, Rebecca Joerin-Sharp Editor: Mark Towns Screenwriter: Hong Khaou Director of Photography: Benjamin Kracun Production Designer: Miren Marañón Principal Cast: Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Moonspun Films (UK), Protagonist Pictures A Stigma Films, Hook Pictures, WestEnd Films BloomerApp Media Production 42 - 48 Great Portland Street Logical Pictures production Shepherds Building Central (HK), BBC Films (UK), BFI (UK) London Stigma Films Charecroft Way production in association with W1W 7NB Matthew James Wilkinson London Sharp House (UK) +44 207 734 9000 [email protected] W14 0EE Moonspun Films T [email protected] +44 (0)20 7494 8300 racy O’Riordan www.protagonistpictures.com [email protected] +44 (0)20 7713 1400 www.westendfilms.com [email protected] www.moonspunfilms.com

32 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Nocturnal Official Secrets

Synopsis Synopsis Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds and nurtures a secret Based on the true story of Katharine Gun, a former Mandarin friendship with Pete, an older man who’s apparently translator at the British intelligence agency GCHQ, who obsessed with her. made headlines after she leaked a confidential NSA memo Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - World that proposed the USA and UK put pressure on six ‘swing’ premiere nations on the UN Security Council to vote in favour of the imminent 2003 Iraq invasion. newspaper in Details the UK broke the story and Gun was subsequently arrested Year: 2019 and charged under the Official Secrets Act, sparking a public Running Time: 86 mins outcry. Authorities dropped the case almost as soon as her Director: Nathalie Biancheri trial began in early 2004. Producer: Colin Day, Coco Marie Schneider Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres - Co-Producer: Chris Hees, David Tomlin World premiere Executive Producer: Samm Haillay, Alan McConnell, Assaf Mor Details Editor: Andonis Trattos Year: 2019 Screenwriter: Olivia Waring, Nathalie Biancheri Running Time: 112 mins Director of Photography: Michal Dymek Director: Gavin Hood Production Designer: Luke Moran-Morris Producer: Ged Doherty, Elizabeth Fowler, Melissa Shiyu Zuo Sound: SoundNode Co-Producer: Sarada McDermott Music: Aaron Cupples Executive Producer: Claudia Bluemhuber, Anne Sheehan, Principal Cast: Cosmo Jarvis, Lauren Coe, Sadie Frost Hugo Heppell Screenwriter: Gregory Bernstein (screenplay), Sara Bernstein (screenplay), Gavin Hood (screenplay) Director of Photography: Florian Hoffmeister Production Designer: Simon Rogers Principal Cast: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, , Matthew Goode, Conleth Hill, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Buring

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Rickshaw Entertainment Urban Distribution International US, UK co-production Sierra / Affinity Colin Day 14 Rue du 18 Août A Classified Films (UK), The Mark 9378 Wilshire Blvd. #210 Suite 210 [email protected] Montreuil 93100 Gordon Company (US), eOne Beverly Hills www.rickshawentertainment.com France Features (UK), Raindog Films (UK) CA 90212 +33 1 48 70 46 57 production with support from USA [email protected] Screen Yorkshire (UK) +1 424 253 1060 www.urbandistribution.fr [email protected] Classified Films www.sierra-affinity.com Prime Studios 94 - 96 Kirkstall Road Leeds LS3 1HD +44 (0)113 204 5921 eOne Features 45 Warren Street London W1T 6AG +44 (0)20 3691 8600 [email protected] www.features.eonefilms.com Raindog Films 18 Broadwick Street, 4th Floor London W1F 8HS [email protected]

CURRENT FEATURES 33 Ordinary Love Our Ladies

Synopsis Synopsis Joan and Tom have been married for many years. There is an In 1990s Scotland a choir of Catholic school girls travel ease to their relationship that only comes from spending a to for a music competition, but they’re more life time together and a depth of love which expresses itself interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning through tenderness and humour in equal part. When Joan any prizes. Set over the course of a single day, a fresh is unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of coming-of-age story filled with energy, wit and raw humour. her treatment shines a light on their relationship as they are Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special faced with the challenges that lie ahead and the prospect of Presentation - World premiere what might happen if something were to happen to her. A story about love, survival and the epic questions life throws Details at each and every one of us. Year: 2019 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Director: Michael Caton-Jones Gala Presentations - World premiere Producer: Michael Caton-Jones, Brian Coffey, Laura Viederman Editor: István Király, Tomi Szabo Details Executive Producer: Alan Warner, Jennifer Armitage Year: 2019 Screenwriter: Michael Caton-Jones (script), Alan Sharp Running Time: 91 mins (script), Rachel Hirons (script), Alan Warner (novel) Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Director of Photography: Denis Crossan Producer: Brian J. Falconer, David Holmes, Piers Tempest Production Designer: Tom Sayer Co-Producer: Tom Harberd, Elliot Ross, Fenella Ross Principal Cast: Abigail Lawrie, Marli Siu, Tallulah Greive, Executive Producer: René Besson, Mark Huffam, Phil Hunt, Eve Austin, Kate Dickie, David Hayman Compton Ross Film Title Note: fka Editor: Nick Emerson Screenwriter: Owen McCafferty Music: David Holmes Principal Cast: , Film Title Note: fka Normal People

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Canderblinks Films and Out of Bankside Films (World sales Sony Pictures International Sony Pictures Entertainment Orbit production with support excluding North America) Productions 10202 W. Washington Blvd. from Bankside Films, Head Gear Krisztina Laszlo Europe House Culver City Films, Tempo Films, Northern Ashley House, 5th Floor 25 Golden Square CA 90232 Ireland Screen, BFI 12 Great Portland Street London USA Out of Orbit London W1R 6LU +1 310 244 4000 Brian J. Falconer W1W 8QN +44 (0)20 7533 1111 www.sonypictures.com [email protected] +44 (0)20 7636 6085 www.sonypictures.co.uk www.outoforbit.tv [email protected] [email protected] www.bankside-films.com CAA (North America sales) 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles CA 90067 USA +1 424 288 2000 [email protected] www.caa.com

34 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Perfect 10 The Personal History of David Copperfield Synopsis Synopsis 15-year-old Leigh is a gymnast focused on her first A fresh and distinctive adaptation of Charles Dickens’s competition on the squad. Leigh’s life is turned upside down classic novel ‘David Copperfield’. A haunting semi- when her older half-brother Joe, who she didn’t know autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his existed, comes to stay with her and her father. But when stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph her confidence at gymnastics is knocked, Leigh finds herself over incredible adversities. Set in the 1840s, chronicling the caught up in an underground world of moped crime with her life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic brother. Starting to find excitement and the attention she has world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy been so desperately needing, Leigh stands at a crossroads childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and between her gymnastic dreams and an exciting new world... writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - World always full of life, colour and humanity. premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentations - World premiere Details Year: 2019 Details Director: Eva Riley Year: 2019 Producer: Bertrand Faivre, Valentina Brazzini, Jacob Thomas Running Time: 116 mins Executive Producer: Paul Ashton, Eva Yates, Mary Burke, Director: Armando Iannucci Jim Reeve, Zorana Piggott Producer: Kevin Loader, Armando Iannucci Editor: Abolfazl Talooni Executive Producer: Ben Browning, Glen Basner, Screenwriter: Eva Riley Alison Cohen, Milan Popelka Director of Photography: Steven Cameron Ferguson Editor: Mick Audsley, Peter Lambert Production Designer: Sarah Jenneson Screenwriter: Armando Iannucci (script), Simon Blackwell Music: Terence Dunn (script), Charles Dickens (novel) Principal Cast: Frankie Box, Alfie Deegan Director of Photography: Zac Nicholson Production Designer: Cristina Casali Music: Chris Willis Principal Cast: , , , Ben Whishaw, Gwendoline Christie, , Aneurin Barnard, Morfydd Clark, Anthony Welsh, Rosalind Eleazar, Paul Whitehouse, Daisy May Cooper, Benedict Wong, Rosalind Eleazar

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent An Eva Riley, Ngauruhoe Film, The The Bureau Sales UK, US co-production FilmNation Entertainment Bureau production of an iFeatures 3 passage Gustave Lepeu A FilmNation Entertainment (US), 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Floor project, supported by Creative 75011 Paris Film4 (UK) production New York England, BFI, BBC Films and France NY 10011 Film4 Creative Skillset +33 1 40 33 33 80 USA 124 Horseferry Road [email protected] +1 917 484 8900 Eva Riley [email protected] London www.lebureaufilms.com [email protected] www.evariley.com SW1P 2TX www.filmnation.com +44 (0)20 7306 5190 The Bureau Valentina Brazzini www.film4productions.com UTA Independent Film Group 2nd Floor (co-representative for US sales) 42 Glasshouse Street Michael Schwartz-Wright W1B 5DW +1 310 273 6700 +44 (0) 20 7439 8257 [email protected] [email protected] www.unitedtalent.com www.thebureaufilms.com

CURRENT FEATURES 35 1ST Pink Wall Radioactive

Synopsis Synopsis A modern day romance following the six year relationship of Based on Lauren Redniss’s award-winning graphic novel, Jenna and Leon. Intimately told through defining moments this innovative biopic of two time Nobel Prize-winning along their journey together, the film explores how both scientist Marie Curie tells the story of the scientific and friendship and resentments grow as the pressures of adult life romantic passions of Marie and her husband Pierre, and the confront them. reverberations their groundbreaking discoveries throughout Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Narrative Spotlight - World the 20th century. premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Gala Presentations - World premiere Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 85 mins Year: 2019 Director: Running Time: 103 mins Producer: Jamie Adams, Maggie Monteith, Richard Elis Director: Marjane Satrapi Co-Producer: Tom Cullen, Tatiana Maslany Producer: , , Paul Webster Executive Producer: Chris Reed Co-Producer: Ildiko Kemeny, Caroline Levy, David Minkowski Screenwriter: Tom Cullen Executive Producer: Shana Eddy-Grouf Director of Photography: Bobby Shore Editor: Nick Moore, Stéphane Roche Principal Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass, Sule Rimi, Screenwriter: Jack Thorne Sarah Ovens, Ruth Ollman, Kyle Lima, T.J. Richardson Director of Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle Music: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine Principal Cast: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Dignity Film Finance and AMP International A (UK), STUDIOCANAL Talland Films, Two Flowers and a Timo Suomi Shoebox Films (UK) production (World sales excluding US) King production with support of Studio 01zero-one with support from Studiocanal 1, Place du Spectacle Freebie Film Hopkins Street (UK, FR), Amazon Studios (US) 92130 Issy les Moulineaux Dignity Film Finance London Working Title France and Talland Films W1F 0HS 26 Aybrook Street +33 1 71 35 35 35 Maggie Monteith +44 (0)20 7535 6714 London [email protected] Adrianna Allenby maggie@ [email protected] W1U 4AN www.studiocanal.com dignity-group.co www.amp-film.com +44 (0) 20 7307 3000 [email protected] www.workingtitlefilms.com www.dignityfilmfinance.com Shoebox Films 48 Russell Square London WC1B 4JP +44 (0)20 7287 2953 [email protected] www.shoeboxfilms.co.uk

36 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Rare Beasts Rialto

Synopsis Synopsis Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a boy, Larch, in Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. a female revolution and professionally writing about a love Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, his life, Colm struggles with his relationship to his own son, who seeks traditional dynamics and a sense of worth in this whilst at work a recent takeover threatens his job. Unable to current female movement. share his vulnerability with his wife, Colm’s world is falling Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - World premiere apart around him. In the midst of this crisis, Colm solicits sex from a young man called Jay. This encounter and his growing Details infatuation has a deep effect on Colm. He finds a comfort in Year: 2019 Jay that no one else can provide. Running Time: 92 mins Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Orizzonti - Director: Billie Piper World premiere Producer: Vaughan Sivell Co-Producer: Tom Wood Details Executive Producer: Franki Goodwin, Mike Rattenbury, Will Year: 2019 Kane, Vaughan Sivell, Ben Pugh, Josh Varney, Paul Higgins, Running Time: 90 mins Jim Reeve, Robert Halmi, Jeff Clarke Director: Peter Mackie Burns Editor: Hazel Baillie Producer: Valentina Brazzini, Tristan Goligher, Alan Maher, Screenwriter: Billie Piper John Wallace Director of Photography: Patrick Meller Editor: Tim Fulford Production Designer: Sarah Kane Screenwriter: Mark O’Halloran Principal Cast: Billie Piper, Leo Bill, Toby Woolf, David Thewlis, Director of Photography: Adam Scarth Kerry Fox Production Designer: Sarah Finlay Music: Valentin Hadjadj Principal Cast: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Monica Dolan, Sophie Jo Wasson

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A Western Edge Pictures Ireland, UK co-production The Bureau Sales production in association with A The Bureau (UK), Marcie Films 3 passage Gustave Lepeu 42MP, Fields Park, GPM, WGM Limited (IE) production with 75011 Paris Western Edge Pictures support from BFI (UK) France +33 1 40 33 33 80 9 Wimpole Street The Bureau 2nd Floor [email protected] London 42 Glasshouse Street www.lebureaufilms.com W1G 9SR London [email protected] W1B 5DW www.westernedgepictures.com +44 (0)20 7439 8257 [email protected] www.thebureaufilms.com

CURRENT FEATURES 37 1ST Rocks Romantic Comedy

Synopsis Synopsis Rocks is a popular teenager with big dreams for the future, A documentary that goes beneath the surface of our brilliant friends and an adoring little brother Emmanuel. But favourite films, seeking to better understand the way we view her world is turned upside down when her mother suddenly love, relationships and romance. From It Happened One Night leaves. Determined to stick with her brother and avoid being to Runaway Bride, from clumsy meet cutes to rain-soaked taken into care against all odds, Rocks leaves her home declarations of love, these films reflect our experiences but and hides around London with the help of her loyal – or are often just as problematic as they are comforting. They’re maybe not so loyal – friends. As each day becomes tougher, hugely successful and deeply loved by many, but – being Rocks pushes away those who love her and her friendship frequently dismissed as guilty pleasures – they have often squad begins to fracture. When the authorities finally catch avoided critical analysis. Helped by a diverse chorus of critics, up with her, there is only one solution: her friends. Rocks actors and filmmakers, and with original songs by her band and her girls embark on a courageous, joyous and at times Summer Camp, director Elizabeth Sankey embarks on a precarious journey, bouncing between moments of wisdom journey of investigation and self-discovery. and crippling innocence. A film about the resilience and spirit Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) of girlhood. 2019 - Voices - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection SXSW 2019 Platform - World premiere Details Details Year: 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 79 mins Running Time: 93 mins Director: Elizabeth Sankey Director: Producer: Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura, Oskar Pimlott Producer: Faye Ward, Ameenah Ayub Allen Editor: Elizabeth Sankey Executive Producer: Emma Duffy, Sarah Gavron, Phil Hunt, Screenwriter: Elizabeth Sankey Julia Oh, Compton Ross, Natascha Wharton Sound: Jeremy Warmsley Editor: Maya Maffioli Music: Jeremy Warmsley Screenwriter: Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson Principal Cast: Jessica Barden, Charlie Lyne, Simran Hans, Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart Brodie Lancaster, Anne T Donahue, Cameron Cooke, Principal Cast: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, Shaneigha Greyson, Eleanor McDowall, Laura Snapes D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu, Sarah Niles

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company A Fable Pictures (UK), BFI (UK), Altitude Film Sales Romantic Comedy Movie Ltd Film4 (UK), The Wellcome Trust 34 Foubert’s Place Elizabeth Sankey (UK) production in association London +44 (0)7890636093 with Head Gear Films (UK), Kreo W1F 7PX [email protected] Films (AE), Metrol Technology +44 (0)20 7478 7612 (UK) [email protected] Fable Pictures www.altitudefilment.com/sales +44 (0)20 7533 1315 [email protected] [email protected]

38 CURRENT FEATURES 1ST Run

Synopsis Synopsis The Northern Scottish town of Fraserburgh; where boys Maud, a reclusive live-in nurse, becomes dangerously fixated become men through late-night drag racing as they dream with saving her newest patient’s soul. of escapism. Like many, Finnie, a 36-year old former street Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - racer, now works at the local fish factory with his teenage Midnight Madness - World premiere son, who is slowly following in his footsteps. One night, struggling to deal with his inner turmoil, and no longer able Details to ignore the fact that he’s going nowhere, he decides to go Year: 2019 for one final joyride and risks losing his family forever. Running Time: 83 mins Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - International Director: Rose Glass Narrative Competition - World premiere Producer: Oliver Kassman, Andrea Cornwell Executive Producer: Mary Burke, Sam Lavender, Details Daniel Battsek Year: 2019 Editor: Mark Towns Running Time: 78 mins Screenwriter: Rose Glass Director: Scott Graham Director of Photography: Ben Fordesman Producer: Margaret Matheson, Ciara Barry, Rosie Crerar Production Designer: Paulina Rzeszowska Screenwriter: Scott Graham Music: Adam Janota Bzowski Principal Cast: Mark Stanley, Marli Siu, Amy Manson, Principal Cast: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle Anders Hayward

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Bard Entertainments Ltd Film Constellation An Escape Plan production with Protagonist Pictures 57 Walnut Tree Walk 2nd Floor support from Film4, BFI 42 - 48 Great Portland Street London 11 - 13 Charlotte Street Film4 London SE11 6DN London 124 Horseferry Road W1W 7NB +44 (0)20 7043 9749 W1T 1RH London +44 (0)20 7734 9000 [email protected] [email protected] SW1P 2TX [email protected] www.bardentertainments.co.uk www.filmconstellation.com +44 (0)20 7306 5190 www.protagonistpictures.com Barry Crerar www.film4productions.com Film City Glasgow 401 Govan Road Glasgow G51 2QJ [email protected] www.barrycrerar.com

CURRENT FEATURES 39 Scheme Birds Sea Fever

Synopsis Synopsis As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage A bizarre creature hitches a ride on a departing trawler, in this troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish masterful genre film from Irish filmmaker Neasa Hardiman steel town. But in a place where “you either get knocked up that leverages the mysteries of the sea to amplify the or locked up,” innocent games can easily turn into serious potential horrors of the unknown. crime. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Discovery - World premiere Competition - World premiere Winner: Best Documentary Feature Award; Albert Maysles Details New Documentary Director Award, Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 89 mins Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Face of Director: Neasa Hardiman Europe Producer: Brendan McCarthy, John McDonnell Co-Producer: Börje Hansson Details Executive Producer: Patrick Fischer Year: 2019 Editor: Barry Moen, Julian Ulrichs Running Time: 90 mins Screenwriter: Neasa Hardiman Director: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin Director of Photography: Ruairí O’Brien Producer: Mario Adamson, Ruth Reid Production Designer: Ray Ball Editor: Hanna Lejonqvist SFK Music: Christoffer Franzén Screenwriter: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin Principal Cast: Connie Nielsen, Dougray Scott, Director of Photography: Ellinor Hallin Hermione Corfield, Olwen Fouéré

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent UK, Sweden co-production Syndicado Ireland, US, UK, Sweden, Belgium Epic Pictures Group Gid Films (UK), Sisyfos Film 121 Beaconsfield Avenue co-production 6725 Sunset Blvd., Suite 330 Production (SE) Toronto Fantastic Films (IE), Epic Pictures Hollywood Canada Group (US), Makar Productions CA 90028 +1 416 533 1743 (UK), Creativity Capital (UK), USA [email protected] Bright Moving Pictures (SE), +1 323 207 4170 www.syndicado.com Frakas Productions (BE) [email protected] www.epic-pictures.com Makar Productions 23 Parkhead Avenue Edinburgh EH11 4SF [email protected] www.makarproductions.com

40 CURRENT FEATURES Seahorse: The Dad Who Show Me The Picture: Gave Birth The Story of Jim Marshall Synopsis Synopsis One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfil an age-old desire: Legendary US photographer Jim Marshall’s diary of a life starting his own family. This is the story of the dad who gave in music captures both the volatile man behind the lens birth. and the seismic changes that defined the 1960s. A child of Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Documentary immigrants he battled inner demons and fought his way to Competition - World premiere become one of the most trusted mavericks, the man with five Leica M4s hanging round his neck. A passion for music Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Face of led him to capture some of the most iconic figures in music Europe history from the jazz greats to Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and The Rolling Stones. His abrasive but honest approach to Details his subjects combined with his incredible skill to build trust Year: 2019 expanded his portfolio beyond celebrities, documenting key Running Time: 94 mins moments in US history and a time of great turbulence. Director: Jeanie Finlay Producer: Andrea Cornwell Official Selection SXSW 2019 - 24 Beats Per Second - World Executive Producer: Patrick Vernon, Orlando von Einsiedel, premiere Charlie Phillips Editor: Alice Powell Details Director of Photography: Richard Jephcote, Mark Bushnell Year: 2019 Sound: Pip Norton Running Time: 92 mins Music: Tara Creme Director: Alfred George Bailey Commissioned by: BBC Storyville Producer: Tatiana Kennedy Executive Producer: Amelia Davis and Bonita Passarelli, Nicolas D Sampson, Arno Hazebroek, Christos Michaels, Richard Mansell Editor: Adam Biskupski Director of Photography: David Mackie Music: Ian Arber Image: © Jim Marshall Photography LLC

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A Grain Media Production in c/o Film Constellation Film Constellation association with Glimmer Films 2nd Floor 2nd Floor and 11 - 13 Charlotte Street 11 - 13 Charlotte Street Grain Media London London Unit 3 Ashby Space W1T 1RH W1T 1RH Ashby Mews +44 (0)20 3950 8625 [email protected] London [email protected] www.filmconstellation.com SE4 1TB www.filmconstellation.com +44 (0)20 8690 1010 [email protected] www.grainmedia.co.uk Glimmer Films 14 - 18 Broad Street Nottingham NG1 3AL [email protected] www.glimmerfilms.com

CURRENT FEATURES 41 Sid and Judy Sorry We Missed You

Synopsis Synopsis Based on the memoir written in 2017 by Sid Luft, the third Ricky, Abby and their two children live in Newcastle. They are of Judy Garland’s five husbands, about their years together, a strong family who care for each other. Ricky has skipped during which he was involved with her filmA Star is Born and from one labouring job to another while Abby, who loves her career as a concert performer. her work, cares for old people. Despite working longer and Official Selection Frameline International harder they realise they will never have independence or LGBTQ+ Film Festival - World premiere their own home. It’s now or never; the app revolution offers Ricky a golden opportunity. He and Abby make a bet. She Details sells her car so Ricky can buy a shiny new van and become Year: 2019 a freelance driver, with his own business at last. The modern Running Time: 95 mins world impinges on these four souls in the privacy of their Director: Stephen Kijak kitchen; the future beckons. Producer: John Battsek, Diane Becker Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition - Executive Producer: Joel Gotler, John Kimble, World premiere Bryan O’Connell, Philip Sandhaus, Eric Skinner Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Editor: Claire Didier Masters Screenwriter: Claire Didier, Stephen Kijak Music: Laura Karpman Details Principal Cast: Voice Cast: John Hamm, Year: 2019 Archive Producer: Adele Sparks Running Time: 100 mins Archive Researcher: Christine Melton Director: Producer: Rebecca O’Brien Editor: Jonathan Morris Screenwriter: Paul Laverty Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan Production Designer: Fergus Clegg Music: George Fenton Principal Cast: Debbie Honeywood, Kris Hitchen

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Passion Pictures UK, France, Belgium Wild Bunch County House co-production 65 Rue de Dunkerque 33-34 Rathbone Place Sixteen Films (UK), Why Not 75009 Paris London W1T 1JN Productions (FR), Wild Bunch France +44 (0)20 7323 9933 (FR), Les Films du Fleuve (BE), +33 1 43 13 21 15 [email protected] BBC Films (UK), BFI (UK) [email protected] www.passion-pictures.com www.wildbunch.eu Sixteen Films 2nd Floor 187 Wardour Street London W1F 8ZB +44 (0)20 7734 0168 www.sixteenfilms.co.uk

42 CURRENT FEATURES Tales from the Lodge

Synopsis Synopsis A young, quietly ambitious film student embarks on her first An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man. pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as she surrenders ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the to the relationship, which comes dangerously close to lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, destroying her dreams. entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night the gang Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere become aware of another horror story unfolding around them. And this one is real. Winner: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2019 Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Midnighters - World premiere

Details Details Year: 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 115 mins Running Time: 94 mins Director: Director: Abigail Blackmore Producer: Luke Schiller, Joanna Hogg Producer: Richard Wylie, Ed Barratt Executive Producer: Rose Garnett, Michael Wood, Executive Producer: Julian Bird, Rowan Athale Lizzie Francke, , Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Editor: Jeffrey Castelluccio Dave Bishop, Andrew Starke Screenwriter: Abigail Blackmore Editor: Helle le Fevre Director of Photography: David Mackie Screenwriter: Joanna Hogg Production Designer: Mike McLoughlin Director of Photography: David Raedeker Music: Warren Bennett Production Designer: Stéphane Collonge Principal Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura Sound: Sound Design: Jovan Ajder Fraser, Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas, Kelly Wenham Principal Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, , Tilda Swinton, Ariane Labed,

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A JWH Films (UK) production. Protagonist Pictures Hook Pictures XYZ Films Developed and produced with the 42 - 48 Great Portland Street Fleming Business Centre 3103-B, South La Cienega Blvd support of BBC (UK), BFI (UK), London Burdon Terrace Los Angeles Sikelia Productions (US) W1W 7NB Newcastle upon Tyne CA 90016 JWH Films +44 (0)20 7734 9000 NE2 3AE USA c/o Protagonist Pictures [email protected] +44 (0)7734 868 366 +1 310 956 1550 +44 (0)20 7734 9000 www.protagonistpictures.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.xyzfilms.com www.protagonistpictures.com www.hookpictures.com

CURRENT FEATURES 43 Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another Synopsis Synopsis With an elephant’s ivory tusk as the protagonist, artist- In 2013, progressive incoming and conservative filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland’s film meditates upon the outgoing Pope Benedict debate the best path forward for endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, the Catholic Church, in this surprisingly funny chamber piece. inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and Special Presentations institutions. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead Details - World premiere Year: 2019 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Running Time: 125 mins Wavelengths Director: Producer: Tracey Seaward Details Editor: Fernando Stutz Year: 2019 Screenwriter: Anthony McCarten Running Time: 67 mins Director of Photography: César Charlone Director: Jessica Sarah Rinland Production Designer: Mark Tildesley Producer: Beli Martínez, Jessica Sarah Rinland Music: Bryce Dessner Editor: Jessica Sarah Rinland Principal Cast: , , Director of Photography: Luis Arnías, Jessica Sarah Rinland Juan Minujín, Sidney Cole Archive Producer: James Joseph McDonald

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent UK, Argentina, Spain US, UK, Italy, Argentina co-production co-production 5808 Sunset Blvd Jessica Sarah Rinland Netflix Los Angeles and Filmika Galaik www.netflix.com CA 90028 [email protected] USA +1 213 267 2601 [email protected] www.netflix.com

44 CURRENT FEATURES Untouchable Us Among The Stones

Synopsis Synopsis The inside story of the meteoric rise and monstrous fall The Withnail generation had children... and Owen is one of movie titan , revealing how Weinstein of them. His memories of his wild childhood weave a acquired and deployed his formidable power over the course spell on him – or was it the acid he accidentally took as a of decades. Former staffers, college friends and reporters child? Weaving her spell too is his mother, the free-spirited acknowledge the visionary qualities and brilliance of the Marianne. She is supposed to be on her deathbed – but man, while reflecting upon his ruthless attempts to preserve she’s not going quietly. The family gather at their crumbling his power as scandal threatened to engulf him. In candid, farmhouse for her last birthday. Among the stones and the emotional, often harrowing testimony - with many accusers animals, they prepare for battle. Owen struggles to free speaking on camera for the first time - the documentary himself from Marianne’s web and win back his ex-partner exhumes both the method and the collateral damage of Caroline. Along the way he must reckon with uncles, babies, Weinstein’s alleged abuse. As the criminal case against him brothers, sisters, children and dads. Love, pain, laughter, wine continues, the film questions whether meaningful change – and mushrooms. Everyone in this family longs to be free. in the justice system – and in the film industry – is really Their quests play out like a game of hide and seek in the old possible. house – a curiously timeless space full of secrets rich and Director Ursula Macfarlane crafts a sinister cinematic strange. exposing the underbelly of the storied Hollywood Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - World fairy tale... creating a brilliant, haunting parable for our times premiere and a beacon call for future generations. (Sundance Brochure) Details Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Year: 2019 Premieres - World premiere Running Time: 94 mins Director: Dictynna Hood Details Producer: Thembisa Cochrane, Georgie Paget Year: 2019 Executive Producer: James Appleton Running Time: 98 mins Editor: Claire Pringle Director: Ursula MacFarlane Screenwriter: Dictynna Hood Producer: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Poppy Dixon Director of Photography: Annemarie Lean-Vercoe Co-Producer: Vanessa Tovell Production Designer: C.H Chapmankan Executive Producer: Charles Dorfman, David Gilbery, Simon Sound: Faadi Shehadeh Young, Tom McDonald, Hugo Grumbar, Tim Haslam Principal Cast: Laurence Fox, Anna Calder-Marshall, Sinead Editor: Andy R. Worboys Matthews, Raia Haidar, Greg Hicks, Oliver Cotton Director of Photography: Patrick Smith, Neil Harvey Music: Anne Nikitin

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company A Lightbox (UK) production Embankment Films A Likely Story production in commissioned by BBC Westbourne Studios - WE 020 association with Caspian Films Lightbox 242 Acklam Road Likely Story 10 Amwell Street London Georgina Paget London W10 5JJ 26D Mount View Road EC1R 1UQ +44 (0)20 7183 4739 London +44 (0)20 3750 0922 [email protected] N4 4HX [email protected] www.embankmentfilms.com [email protected] www.lightboxent.com

CURRENT FEATURES 45 1ST White Riot Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Synopsis Synopsis Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic when a group of artists united to take on the National Front, revisionist history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral armed only with a fanzine and a love of music. Developed role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand from Rubika Shah’s short filmWhite Riot: London (Sundance film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, 2017, Berlin 2017). Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, Documentary Competition - World premiere humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women. Details Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Year: 2019 TIFF Docs - World premiere Running Time: 90 mins Director: Rubika Shah Details Producer: Ed Gibbs Year: 2019 Screenwriter: Ed Gibbs, Rubika Shah Running Time: 840 mins Image: © Syd Shelton Director: Mark Cousins Producer: John Archer Executive Producer: Tilda Swinton, Clara Glynn Editor: Timo Langer Screenwriter: Mark Cousins Sound: Becky Thompson Music: Germaine Tailleferre, Suite Burlesque, Clinton-Narboni Duo

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Smoking Bear Productions Visit Films A Dogwoof Hopscotch Films Dogwoof Ed Gibbs Ryan Kampe production 19-23 Ironmonger Row [email protected] 173 Richardson Street Hopscotch Films London www.smokingbearproductions.com Brooklyn John Archer EC1V 3QN New York Film City Glasgow +44 (0)20 7253 6244 NY 11222 401 Govan Road [email protected] USA Glasgow www.dogwoof.com +1 718 312 8210 G51 2QJ [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)141 440 6740 www.visitfilms.com [email protected] www.hopscotchfilms.co.uk Dogwoof 19-23 Ironmonger Row London EC1V 3QN +44 (0)20 7253 6244 [email protected] www.dogwoof.com

46 CURRENT FEATURES Wounds XY Chelsea

Synopsis Synopsis Will is a bartender in New Orleans. He has a great job, After instigating the largest of leak of secrets in US history great friends, and a girlfriend, Carrie, who loves him. He - when she disclosed 750,000 documents to Wikileaks – ex- skates across life’s surface, ignoring complications and soldier and trans woman Chelsea Manning was supposed to concentrating on enjoying the moment. One night at the bar, spend most of the rest of her life behind bars in an all-male a violent brawl breaks out, which injures one of his regular military prison. But on January 17 2017, President Barack customers and causes some college kids to leave behind a Obama commuted her sentence, in an unprecedented and cell phone in their haste. Will begins receiving disturbing texts controversial move that divided the United States and the and calls from the stranger’s phone. While Will hopes to not world. XY Chelsea follows Chelsea Manning as she leaves get involved, Carrie gets lost down a rabbit hole investigating prison after seven years inside, and begins a new life, whilst this strange malevolence. They’ve discovered something at the same time having to deal with the far-reaching unspeakable, and it’s crawling slowly into the light. consequences of her past. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Midnight - Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Movies Plus - World premiere World premiere Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Special Presentations Fortnight - European premiere Details Details Year: 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 92 mins Running Time: 94 mins Director: Tim Travers Hawkins Director: Babak Anvari Producer: Julia Nottingham, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa, Producer: Lucan Toh, Christopher Kopp, Babak Anvari Isabel Davis Executive Producer: Megan Ellison, Jillian Longnecker, Executive Producer: Laura Poitras, Charlotte Cook, Vinnie Andrew Harvey, Brian Pitt Malhotra, Mary Burke, Michael Bloom, Lisa Leingang, Sharon Editor: Chris Barwell Chang, Christos Konstantakopoulos, Blaine Vess, Marisa Screenwriter: Crihstian Contreras Clifford, Ryan Harrington Director of Photography: Kit Fraser Editor: Enat Sidi, Andrea Scott Production Designer: Chad Keith Screenwriter: Mark Monroe, Tim Travers Hawkins, Enat Sidi, Principal Cast: , Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Andrea Scott Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke Sound: Sound Design: Joe Fletcher; Re-recording Mixer, Sound Editor: Karl Mainzer Music: Johnny Hostile, Jehnny Beth; Music Supervisor: Phil Canning

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent US, UK co-production Netflix A Pulse Films (UK) production in Submarine Entertainment AZA Films (US), Annapurna (US), 5808 Sunset Blvd association with Ford Foundation 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W Two & Two Pictures (UK) Los Angeles (US), Sundance Institute (US) with New York CA 90028 support from BFI (UK) NY 10013 Two & Two Pictures USA USA 20 Bunhill Row Pulse Films +1 213 267 2601 +1 212 625 1410 London 17 Hanbury Street [email protected] [email protected] EC1Y 8UE London www.netflix.com www.submarine.com [email protected] E1 6QR www.twoandtwo.com +44 (0)20 7426 5700 [email protected] www.pulsefilms.com

CURRENT FEATURES 47 48 FEATURES 2019/2020 FORTHCOMING COMING SOON

Misbehaviour, Director: Philippa Lowthorpe 1ST After Love Ammonite

Synopsis Synopsis A woman who, having converted to Islam after meeting her 1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young husband, suffers an identity crisis following his sudden death. woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense Learning details of his secret family in the French town of relationship, altering both of their lives forever. Calais, she travels to find them and herself. Details Details Year: 2020 Year: 2020 Director: Francis Lee Director: Aleem Khan Producer: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Fodhla Cronin Producer: Matthieu de Braconier, Gabrielle Dumon O’Reilly Co-Producer: Robert How Executive Producer: Natascha Wharton, Eva Yates Editor: Chris Wyatt Principal Cast: Joanna Scanlan, Nasser Memarzia, Natalie Screenwriter: Francis Lee Richard, Seema Morar, Talid Ariss Director of Photography: Stéphane Fontaine Principal Cast: Kate Winslet, , James McArdle, Alec Secareanu,

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A The Bureau production The Bureau Sales A See-Saw Films, BBC Films, BFI Cross City Films developed with BBC Film and 3 passage Gustave Lepeu production 3rd Floor BFI, supported by The Sundance 75011 Paris See-Saw Films 45 Folgate Street Institute Screenwriter’s and France 3rd Floor London Director’s Labs 2017 +33 1 40 33 33 80 45 Folgate Street E1 6GL The Bureau [email protected] London +44 (0)20 3301 6268 2nd Floor www.lebureaufilms.com E1 6GL 42 Glasshouse Street +44 (0)20 3301 6268 London [email protected] W1B 5DW www.see-saw-films.com +44 (0)20 7439 8257 [email protected] www.thebureaufilms.com

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 49 1ST Amulet Ayouni

Synopsis Synopsis A young man is brought to a dilapidated house in order to Across countries and over years, Noura and Machi search for care for a woman and her elderly, dying mother. Falling in answers – their loved ones have been forcibly disappeared in love with the younger woman, he begins to suspect she is Syria. With no information to anchor their limbo, hope is the enslaved to a demon, and resolves to fight the creature and only thing they can hold on to. rescue the woman he loves… but all is not what it seems. Details Details Year: 2019 Year: 2019 Running Time: 80 mins Director: Romola Garai Director: Yasmin Fedda Producer: Matthew James Wilkinson Producer: Hugh Hartford, Elhum Shakerifar Executive Producer: Damian Jones, Maggie Monteith, Editor: Tom Ernst, Greg Pittard James Norrie, Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh Screenwriter: Yasmin Fedda, Elhum Shakerifar, Hugh Hartford Screenwriter: Romola Garai Director of Photography: Yasmin Fedda, Hugh Hartford Principal Cast: Alec Secareanu, Carla Juri,

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Stigma Films AMP International Hakawati Shed, Workspace 2 Matthew James Wilkinson Timo Suomi 8 Lee Street [email protected] Studio 01zero-one London www.stigmafilms.co.uk Hopkins Street E8 4DY London [email protected] W1F 0HS www.hakawati.co.uk +44 (0)20 7535 6714 Banyak Films [email protected] Trinity Buoy Wharf www.amp-film.com London E14 0JY [email protected] www.banyak.co.uk

50 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES The Banishing Billie

Synopsis Synopsis A young reverend and his wife and daughter move into What if the most important story in your life was not your a manor with a horrifying secret. When a vengeful spirit own? Billie Holiday, one of the greatest voices of all time, was haunts the little girl and threatens to tear the family apart, always controversial; a proud black woman who preferred the reverend is forced to confront his beliefs. He must turn white audiences, an exploited artist and a violent drug addict, to black magic by seeking the help of a famous Occultist or a loyal friend and a vindictive lover, a blues singer who didn’t risk losing his daughter. Based on the true story of the most sing the blues, and when she sang the seminal protest song haunted house in England. ‘Strange Fruit’, an enemy of the state. Her enigmatic accounts of her own life were a mix of half-truths and free-form Details improvisations. Then, in 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl Year: 2019 Running Time: set out to write the definitive biography of BIllie. Over 8 years, Director: Christopher Smith she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of Producer: Jason Newmark, Laurie Cook, Sharon Harel-Cohen, interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated Maya Amsellem the iconic singer’s short, tumultuous life. Raw and brutally Editor: Richard Smither honest, incredible testimonies from Charles Mingus, Sarah Screenwriter: David Beton, Ray Bogdanovich, Dean Lines Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Count Basie, Holiday’s step-parents, Director of Photography: Sarah Cunningham school friends, jail-mates, lawyers, pushers, pimps and even Production Designer: Chris Richmond the FBI agents who arrested her - but Lipnack Kuehl’s book Principal Cast: , Sean Harris, was never finished and the tapes never heard. Until now. John Heffernan, John Lynch Anchored around these never-before-heard interviews, Billie plays out like a film noir. Melding archive, drama, animation and still images, Billie captures the complexity of a legend through the eyes of the woman whose obsession would lead to her own mysterious, untimely death.

Details Year: 2019 Director: James Erskine Producer: Victoria Gregory, Barry Clark-Ewers Executive Producer: Will Clarke, Andy Mayson, Mike Runagall

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent WestEnd Films WestEnd Films New Black Films Limited Altitude Film Sales Shepherds Building Central Shepherds Building Central Victoria Gregory 34 Foubert’s Place Charecroft Way Charecroft Way 5 Denmark Street London London London London W1F 7PX W14 0EE W14 0EE WC2H 8LP +44 (0)20 7478 7612 +44 (0)20 7494 8300 +44 (0)20 7494 8300 +44 (0)20 7836 8660 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.altitudefilment.com/sales www.westendfilms.com www.westendfilms.com www.newblackfilms.com Endeavor Content (Co-representation North American sales) Negeen Yazdi [email protected]

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 51 1ST Blue Story Chasing Chaplin

Synopsis Synopsis Feature adaptation of Rapman’s sensational hit YouTube From the multi-award-winning producers of Listen To Me series about two young friends who become rivals in a street Marlon and Notes On Blindness comes Chaplin, a unique war. and cinematic exploration of Hollywood’s most iconic figure. Using previously unheard recordings, the film will chart Details Chaplin’s life in his own words, and those of the people Year: 2019 closest to him, reflecting on his meteoric rise to fame and Director: Andrew ‘Rapman’ Onwubolu scandalous fall from grace. In the ultimate rags-to-riches Producer: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Damian Jones story, we follow Chaplin’s escape from an impoverished Executive Producer: Rose Garnett, Paul Grindey, Charles childhood in late-Victorian London to the bright lights of Moore, Andrew ‘Rapman’ Onwubolu, Eva Yates Hollywood at the dawn of the silver screen. But though Editor: Mdhamiri Á Nkemi Chaplin’s fictional alter ego the ‘Little Tramp’ brings him Screenwriter: Andrew ‘Rapman’ Onwubolu global fame and total artistic control, his turbulent creative Director of Photography: Simon Stolland anxieties, successive personal scandals and controversial Music: Jonathon Deering political voice lead not only to the demise of his beloved Principal Cast: Michael Ward, Max Fincham, Karla-Simone character, but his rejection from America and self-imposed Spence, Kadeem Ramsay, Khali Best, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, exile. BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Peter Middleton and Rapman James Spinney have gained unprecedented access to Chaplin’s personal and creative archive, including a treasure trove of previously unknown material. From unseen outtakes to newly discovered audio recordings, Middleton and Spinney will craft an innovative and deeply personal portrayal of a remarkable artist and entertainer who was, for much of the twentieth century, the most famous man in the world.

Details Year: 2019 Director: Peter Middleton, James Spinney Producer: Ben Limberg, John Battsek, Mike Brett Screenwriter: Peter Middleton, James Spinney With additional support from: BFI National Archive’s world-class collections and Chaplin’s World by Grevin

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A BBC Films, Joi Productions, An Archer’s Mark, Passion Pictures Altitude Film Sales Paramount Pictures production and Smaller Biggie production 34 Foubert’s Place BBC Films with support from BFI, Film4 and London +44 (0)20 3614 4445 Showtime W1F 7PX +44 (0)20 7612 0662 bbcfilms@.co.uk Archer’s Mark First Floor [email protected] www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms 120-124 Curtain Road www.altitudefilment.com/sales Joi Productions Ltd London Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor EC2A 3SQ [email protected] +44 (0)20 7426 5160 www.joiproductions.co.uk [email protected] Paramount Pictures www.archersmark.co.uk +44 (0)20 7534 5200 Passion Pictures [email protected] County House www.paramountpictures.co.uk 33-34 Rathbone Place London W1T 1JN +44 (0)20 7323 9933 [email protected] www.passion-pictures.com

52 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES A Christmas Carol Chuck Berry

Synopsis Synopsis A reinvention of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Chuck Berry was the absolute instigator of Rock and Roll. radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume Despite his iconic status, and reverence for his talent by the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality rock’s heroes including: ; Bruce Springsteen; and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new Keith Richards; Steve Van Zandt; Joe Perry; Alice Cooper; life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes Berry was a family man. He was a prolific craftsman of word to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance. The opening and chords, an undisputed and stunning combination of scenes of the film follow a Victorian family preparing a toy talent and charisma. Award-winning Director and Producer theatre for their annual performance of ‘A Christmas Carol’. Jon Brewer (‘BB King: The Life Of Riley, ‘Nat King Cole: Afraid As the family’s grandmother narrates the much-edited story Of The Dark), was personally selected by the Berry Estate to and her grandchildren change the scenery, we enter the produce and direct this exclusive insight to the man known imagination of one of the children in the audience and watch as the bedrock of Rock and Roll. as the cardboard stage, and the story with it, transforms into a darkly fantastical otherworld. Details Year: 2019 Details Running Time: 98 mins Year: 2019 Director: Jon Brewer Running Time: 90 mins Producer: Jon Brewer Director: Jacqui Morris, David Morris Executive Producer: Laura Royko Producer: Jacqui Morris Editor: Zyggy Executive Producer: Laurence Gornall Screenwriter: Laura Brewer Screenwriter: David Morris (adaptation), Charles Dickens Director of Photography: Stefan Colson (original story) Sound: Lewis Clark Director of Photography: Michael Wood Principal Cast: With contributions from: Steve Van Zandt, Production Designer: Darko Petrovic Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, Nils Lofgren, Music: Alex Baranowski Nile Rodgers, George Thorogood, Joe Bonamassa, plus Principal Cast: , , , many more , Martin Freeman, Dame Siân Phillips, Photo: ©Emperor Media Ltd Leslie Caron Choreographed by: Russell Maliphant

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Frith Street Films production Saboteur Media Chuck The Documentary Ltd Kew Media Group in association with Unannounced (A Goldcrest Company) Jon Brewer 151 Shaftesbury Avenue Film Company Ltd. Mark Lindsay [email protected] London 799 Washington Street WC2H 8AL Unannounced Film Company Ltd. New York +44 (0)20 7851 6500 56 Greek Street NY 10014 USA [email protected] London +1 (212) 897 3922 / [email protected] W1D 3DU +1 (917) 535 4833 www.kewmedia.com +44 (0)207 732 0694 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.unannounced.co.uk www.saboteurmedia.com

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 53 1ST Dream Horse The Father

Synopsis Synopsis Based on the true story of one woman’s extraordinary A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. ambition to breed and raise a champion racehorse in her As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he home village: Jan Vokes, a cleaner and barmaid, manages to begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the persuade her neighbours and friends to invest in her crazy fabric of his reality. scheme and together they name the foal ‘Dream Alliance’. With little experience but a lot of heart, the collective of Details villagers rear Dream, and against all odds he rises through Year: 2019 the ranks. Dream proves himself to be more than a match Director: for the multi-million pound racehorses he comes up against Producer: Philippe Carcassonne, Simon Friend, Jean-Louis - he’s a true people’s champion, taking on the establishment Livi, , Christophe Spadone at their own game. But more than this, Dream begins to alter Screenwriter: Florian Zeller the lives of everyone in this small community, not least Jan’s. Director of Photography: Ben Smithard He is everything to her: friend, confidant and an escape from Production Designer: Peter Francis her everyday life. A powerful story of triumph over adversity Principal Cast: , Imogen Poots, Anthony and a tale of how a woman strives to make her dream a Hopkins, Rufus Sewell, Olivia Williams, Mark Gatiss, reality, and unites her entire community. Evie Wray, Karen Sampford

Details Year: 2020 Director: Euros Lyn Producer: Katherine Butler, Tracy O’Riordan Executive Producer: Piers Vellacott, Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, Peter Touche, Stephen Dailey, Pauline Burt Screenwriter: Neil McKay Principal Cast: Toni Collette, Damian Lewis

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Film4, Ingenious Media, Ffilm Cornerstone Films Trademark Films (UK), Cine@ Embankment Films Cymru Wales present a RAW WeWork (FR), Embankment Films (UK), Westbourne Studios - WE 020 production Moor Place Film4 (UK), Simon Friend 242 Acklam Road Raw 1 Fore Street Entertainment (UK), Viewfinder London Third Floor London (UK) W10 5JJ 13-21 Curtain Road EC2Y 5EJ Trademark Films London +44 (0)20 3457 7257 14A Goodwin’s Court EC2A 3LT [email protected] London +44 (0) 20 7456 0800 www.cornerstonefilm.com WC2N 4LL www.raw.co.uk +44 (0)20 3322 8900 [email protected] www.trademarkfilms.co.uk

54 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 1ST He Dreams of Giants His House

Synopsis Synopsis Film director has been dreaming of a screen A young refugee couple make a harrowing escape from adaptation of ‘’ for over 30 years. When he war-torn Sudan, but then struggle to adjust to their new life attempted the first production in 2000, Gilliam already in a small English town that has an evil lurking beneath the had the reputation of being a bit of a Quixote himself: surface. a filmmaker whose stories of visionary dreamers raging against gigantic forces mirrored his own artistic battles with Details the Hollywood machine. The collapse of that now-famous, ill- Year: 2019 fated production only further cemented Gilliam’s reputation Director: Remi Weekes as an idealist chasing an impossible dream. He Dreams of Producer: Aidan Elliott, Martin Gentles, Ed Kind, Roy Lee Giants picks up Gilliam’s story 17 years later as he finally Executive Producer: Eva Yates gets the film into production and once again and struggles Editor: Julia Bloch to finish it. Facing him are a host of new obstacles: budget Screenwriter: Remi Weekes, Felicity Evans, Toby Vanables constraints, a history of compromise, and heightened Director of Photography: Jo Willems expectations, all compounded by self-doubt, the toll of Principal Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, Sope Dirisu, Matt Smith aging, and the nagging existential question: What is left for an artist when one completes the project that has defined the good part of a career? Combining immersive verité footage of Gilliam’s production with intimate interviews and archival footage from Gilliam’s entire career, He Dreams of Giants is a revealing portrait of a late-career artist and a meditation on the value of creativity in the face of mortality.

Details Year: 2019 Running Time: 85 mins Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe Producer: Lucy Darwin, Keith Fulton Co-Producer: Alex Dunnett Executive Producer: Hani Farsi, Ali Fikree, Omar Fikree, Ari Ioannides Editor: Bill Hilferty, Nyneve Laura Minnear; Supervising Editor: Janus Billeskov Jansen Director of Photography: Louis Pepe Sound: Keith Fulton Music: Jacasek Principal Cast: Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver

Production Company Production Company Quixote Productions Limited A New Regency Pictures (US), Lucy Darwin Starchild Pictures (UK), Vertigo 41 Wood Lane Entertainment (US) production London with support of BBC Films (UK) N6 5UD Starchild Pictures [email protected] 5 Elstree Gate Elstree Way Borehamwood Herts WD6 1JD +44 (0)20 3174 0895 [email protected] www.starchildpics.com

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 55 Ilkley Limbo

Synopsis Synopsis Set in the idyllic spa town of Ilkley during its annual literary An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted festival, this black comedy follows two hapless evangelicals asylum on a remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a tasked with killing the world’s most controversial secularist. young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his Details homeland. Year: 2019 Running Time: c. 122 mins Details Director: Harry Michell Year: 2019 Producer: Helen Simmons Running Time: 95 mins Editor: Xanna Ward Dixon Director: Ben Sharrock Screenwriter: Jamie Fraser, Harry Michell Producer: Irune Gurtubai, Angus Lamont, Ben Sharrock Director of Photography: Sverre Sørdal Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Ross McKenzie, Julia Oh, Production Designer: Debbie Burton David Segal Hamilton, Robbie Allen Principal Cast: Derek Jacobi, Anna Maxwell Martin, Harry Editor: Karel Dolak, Lucia Zucchetti Melling, Roger Allam, Tom Brooke, Vinette Robinson Screenwriter: Ben Sharrock Director of Photography: Nick Cooke Production Designer: Andy Drummond Principal Cast: Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kenneth Collard

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent An Aimimage Productions, Guinea Independent A Caravan Cinema production Protagonist Pictures Pig Productions film 195 Wardour Street with support of BFI, Film4 42 - 48 Great Portland Street Aimimage Productions London Caravan Cinema London 22 & 24 St Pancras Way W1F 8ZG Irune Gurtubai W1W 7NB London +44 (0)20 7257 8734 [email protected] +44 (0)20 7734 9000 NW1 0NT [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)20 7391 2650 www.independentfilmcompany.com www.protagonistpictures.com [email protected] www.aimimageproductions.com

56 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 1ST Looted Misbehaviour

Synopsis Synopsis In a post-industrial port town that has long since seen the In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, back of economic prosperity, car-jacker Rob gets in over hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss his head, thanks to his best friend Leo’s bad influence and is World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with arrested boosting a car that is laden with drugs. This destroys over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions Rob’s already fragile relationship with his dying dad, Oswald, demeaned women, the newly-formed Women’s Liberation whom he cares for at home. Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not Details only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: Year: 2019 the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada - Running Time: 85 mins the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter Director: Rene Pannevis of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy Producer: Jennifer Eriksson, Jessie Mangum driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty Executive Producer: Keith Morris, Melissa Simmonds, turned on its head. Patrick Fischer, Richard Kondal Editor: Christian Sandino-Taylor, Dave Silver Details Screenwriter: Rene Pannevis, Kefi Chadwick Year: 2019 Director of Photography: Aadel Nodeh-Farahani Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Production Designer: Luke Moran-Morris Producer: Suzanne Mackie, Sarah-Jane Wheale Music: Tony Coote, Philip Achile Executive Producer: , Rebecca Frayn, Cameron Principal Cast: Charley Palmer-Rothwell, Thomas Turgoose, McCracken, Jenny Borgars, Rose Garnett, Natascha Wharton, Tom Fisher, Morgane Polanski, Anders Hayward Andrea Scarso Editor: Una Ni Dhonghaile Screenwriter: Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe Director of Photography: Zac Nicholson Production Designer: Cristina Casali Principal Cast: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Suki Waterhouse, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans,

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A Looted Film Limited production. A Pathé, BBC Films, Ingenious Pathé International Commissioned by Microwave, a Media, BFI presentation of a Left 6 Ramillies Street Film London initiative. Supported Bank Pictures Production London by BBC Films and BFI Pathé UK W1F 7TY Looted Film Limited 6 Ramillies Street +44 (0)20 7462 4415 Jessie Mangum, Jennifer Eriksson London [email protected] International House W1F 7TY www.pathe.co.uk St. Katharine’s Way +44 (0)20 7323 5151 London www.pathe.co.uk E1W 1UN +44 (0)7552 606 417 7th Floor, The Place [email protected] 175 High Holborn [email protected] London WC1V 7AA +44 (0)20 7759 4600 [email protected] www.leftbankpictures.co.uk

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 57 Molly The Nest

Synopsis Synopsis rapples with the challenges of dealing with her father’s Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to chaotic mental state. But as they weave their way around take a twisted turn after moving into an English country , their ordinary but stressful day takes on a manor. hallucinatory and epic quality, for Leo is seamlessly flowing in and out of several parallel lives; a passionate marriage with Details his childhood sweetheart Dolores in Mexico; a struggling Year: 2019 career as a drummer in Manhattan with his more successful Director: Sean Durkin lover, Adam; and a life of solitude on a remote Greek island, Producer: Amy Jackson, Andrew Lowe, Derrin Schlesinger where a chance encounter with two young tourists unmasks Co-Producer: Kasia Malipan the uncomfortable truths of a family life left behind... The Executive Producer: Rose Garnett, Ed Guiney, Ben Browning, film weaves a rich, cinematic tapestry as Leo’s parallel lives – Glen Basner, Alison Cohen, Milan Popelka visible only to him - gradually unravel in moments of tragedy, Editor: Matthew Hannam happiness, regret and humour. It is only his daughter who Screenwriter: Sean Durkin gradually begins to understand his extraordinary secret. Director of Photography: Mátyás Erdély Production Designer: James Price Details Principal Cast: Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Anne Reid Year: 2019 Director: Sally Potter Producer: Christopher Sheppard Co-Producer: Lara Costa Calzado, Tim Cole, Alice Dawson Executive Producer: Joshua Blum, Rose Garnett, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross; Co-Executive Producer: John Giwa-Amu Screenwriter: Sally Potter Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan Production Designer: Carlos Conti Principal Cast: Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, , Chris Rock

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent US, Canada, Spain, UK HanWay Films UK, Canada co-production FilmNation Entertainment co-production 8 Basing Street Element Pictures (IE, UK), 150 W. 22nd Street An Adventure Pictures (UK), BBC London BBC Films (UK), FilmNation Suite 1025 New York Films (UK), BFI (UK), Chimney Pot W11 1ET Entertainment (US) NY 10011 +44 (0)20 7290 0750 USA (PL), Film i Väst (SE), HanWay Element Pictures [email protected] +1 917 484 8900 Films (UK), Ingenious Media (UK), +44 (0)20 7494 3155 www.hanwayfilms.com [email protected] Sverige Film (SE), Washington [email protected] www.filmnation.com Square Films (US) production in www.elementpictures.ie association with Head Gear Films (UK), Metrol Technology (UK), Adventure Pictures 6 Blackbird Yard Ravenscroft Street London E2 7RP +44 (0)20 7613 2233 [email protected] www.adventurepictures.co.uk

58 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Rebecca Always Synopsis Synopsis An intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural A young newlywed finds herself in living in the shadow of Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and her wealthy husband’s previous wife, Rebecca. Adaptation of a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel ‘Rebecca’. embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City. Details Year: 2019 Details Director: Year: 2019 Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nira Park Director: Eliza Hittman Co-Producer: Caroline Levy Producer: Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy Executive Producer: Nira Park Co-Producer: Tatiana Bears, Lara Costa Calzado Screenwriter: Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, Executive Producer: Lia Burman, Rose Garnett, Anna Waterhouse, Daphne du Maurier (novel) Tim Headington, Alex Orlovsky, Elika Portnoy, Director of Photography: Laurie Rose Editor: Scott Cummings Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood Screenwriter: Eliza Hittman Music: Clint Mansell Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart Principal Cast: , Armie Hammer, Ann Dowd, Production Designer: Meredith Lippincott Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Bill Paterson, Principal Cast: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, Sharon Van Etten

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company US, UK co-production Focus Features A Netflix (US), Working Title Films A BBC Films (UK), Mutressa 100 Universal City Plaza (UK) production Movies (US), PASTEL (US), Bldg 2160, Floor 7, Suite C Working Title Films Rooftop Films (US), Tango Universal City 26 Aybrook Street Entertainment (US) production in CA 91608 London association with Cinereach (US). USA W1U 4AN Developed by BBC Films (UK); co- [email protected] +44 (0)20 7307 3000 financed by Tango Entertainment www.focusfeatures.com www.workingtitlefilms.com (US), BBC Films (UK), Mutressa Movies (US) BBC Films BBC Broadcasting House 7th Floor, Zone A Portland Place London W1A 1AA +44 (0)203 614 4445 [email protected] www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 59 Rebel Dread The Show

Synopsis Synopsis The story of Don Letts, a first generation Black British cultural Fletcher Dennis, a man of many talents, passports and mover and shaker, filmmaker, musician and raconteur. The identities, arrives in Northampton – a strange and haunted film frames Don’s story with the Enoch Powell Rivers of Blood town in the heart of England as dangerous as he is. On a speech in 1968 and the “hostile environment” immigration mission to locate a stolen artefact for his menacing client, policy of 2018. That’s the backdrop and the context of Don’s Fletcher finds himself entangled in a twilight world populated life – trying to find a place in the world. So we cover his with vampires, sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, noir relationship with the nascent punk scene – how rastas and private eyes, and masked avengers. He quickly sinks into a punks found a common bond, both outside the mainstream, bizarre and delirious black hole, that is hidden just beneath and how he introduced dub reggae to the punks. How he the surface of this seemingly quiet town. Soon enough became part of the inner circle of the Clash, and how Johnny Fletcher discovers that dreams and reality have been blurred Rotten took him to Jamaica. He then became a top promo and there might no longer be a real world to go back to… director (London Calling, Chain Gang, Pass the Dutchie) Welcome to The Show. and then he formed a band, Big Audio Dynamite, with his old friend Mick Jones and made music that incorporated Details dance, reggae, rap, film samples and rock n roll. On leaving Year: 2019 BAD Letts became a feature director, won a Grammy for his Director: Mitch Jenkins documentary Westway To The World: The Story Of The Clash, Producer: Thomas Brown, Michael Elliott, Jim Mooney and is now a leading cultural commentator. Executive Producer: Siobhan Hewlett Editor: Colin Goudie Details Screenwriter: Year: 2019 Director of Photography: Simon Tindall Running Time: c. 95 mins Music: Andrew Broder, Adam Kidd Drucker, Alan Moore Director: William E. Badgley Principal Cast: Tom Burke, Siobhan Hewlett, Ellie Bamber, Producer: William E. Badgley, Mark Vennis, Phil Hunt Sheila Atim, Richard Dillane, Alan Moore Editor: Eric Pritchard Screenwriter: William E. Badgley Director of Photography: William E. Badgley, Alasadair Ogilvie Music: Ben von Wildenhaus Film Image: © Don Letts Private Collection

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Moviehouse Entertainment (UK), Moviehouse Entertainment A Lex Films, EMU Films Protagonist Pictures Head Gear Films (UK), Molasses Black Hangar Studios production with support of BFI, 42 - 48 Great Portland Street Manifesto (US) production Lasham Airfield Lipsync London Moviehouse Entertainment Alton Lex Films W1W 7NB Black Hangar Studios Hampshire Thomas Brown +44 (0)20 7734 9000 Lasham Airfield GU34 5SG 68A Rochester Place [email protected] Alton +44 (0)1256 385909 London www.protagonistpictures.com Hampshire [email protected] NW1 9JX GU34 5SG www.moviehouseent.com +44 (0)20 7482 2800 +44 (0)1256 385909 [email protected] wwwlex.film [email protected] EMU Films www.moviehouseent.com 111A Wardour Street Head Gear Films London Ashley House, 5th Floor W1F 0UJ 12 Great Portland Street +44 (0)20 7183 0925 London [email protected] W1W 8QN www. emufilms.com +44 (0)20 7363 6085 [email protected] www.headgearfilms.com

60 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 1ST Sicker The Souvenir: Part II

Synopsis Synopsis Sicker explores how women self-identify in a world that Second part in the story of a young film student in the presents us with constantly conflicting perceptions of what early 1980s who becomes romantically involved with a it is to be female. It examines the destructive nature of complicated and untrustworthy man. eating disorders and body dysmorphia within a narrative film framework. Stephanie, a woman in her mid-thirties, is Details trying to overcome chronic anorexia in order to re-establish Year: 2020 her relationship with her daughter, Pearl. Pearl now lives Director: Joanna Hogg with Stephanie’s mother, Susan, and her fiancee Annette. Producer: Ed Guiney, Joanna Hogg, Andrew Lowe, The burden of Stephanie’s illness puts pressure on their Emma Norton, Luke Schiller, relationship, with Pearl angry at her mother but also hopeful Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Rose Garnett, that Stephanie is getting better. Stephanie is also challenged Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff by a tension quietly simmering between herself and Susan, Screenwriter: Joanna Hogg while attempts to find solace in a relationship with her nurse, Director of Photography: David Raedeker Shaun, invite more turmoil. Production Designer: Stéphane Collonge Principal Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Ariane Labed, Richard Details Ayoade, Harris Dickinson, Tosin Cole, Jaygann Ayeh Year: 2019 VFX Artist: Charles-Jean Boucher Running Time: 93 mins Director: Lucy Brydon Producer: Dan Cleland, Jeannette Sutton Co-Producer: Matt Wilson Executive Producer: Ian Davies, Denery Fenouil, Charlie Moretti Editor: Erline O’Donovan-Clarke; VFX Editor: Sam Hodge Screenwriter: Lucy Brydon Director of Photography: Darran Bragg Production Designer: Sarah Jenneson Principal Cast: Sian Brooke, Amanda Burton, Fabienne Piolini-Castle, Nick Blood

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A Lions Den Films (UK), Boudica A JWH Films (UK), BBC Films Protagonist Pictures Films (UK), Bright Shadow Films (UK), Element Pictures (UK, 42 - 48 Great Portland Street (HK) production, commissioned IE), Protagonist Pictures (UK) London by Microwave, a Film London production developed and W1W 7NB initiative. Supported by BBC Films produced with the support of BFI +44 207 734 9000 and BFI Film Fund [email protected] Lions Den Films www.protagonistpictures.com Dan Cleland +44 (0)7713 129 313 [email protected] www.lionsdenfilms.com

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 61 1ST Sulphur and White Summerland

Synopsis Synopsis We all carry secrets. Layers, fragments of experience, small Kent, England 1940. When an evacuee boy arrives out of the marks that define us. David carries his. They burn at him. blue and is placed in the care of Alice, a cantankerous hermit, Eat away at his soul. City of London, trading floor, 2008. she resolves to be rid of him. Yet, as the young boy opens In a world of cut-throat deals, it takes a unique person to her heart, allowing her to unlock the secrets of her past, succeed. Single-minded to the point of ruthless, David is this Alice begins to realise that sometimes imagination really can person. But beyond the aura of success lies a secret. There set you free. are layers to David... once chipped away, what lies behind the facade? As David’s climbs the corporate ladder, the past Details threatens to rise up and engulf him. As he struggles, a woman Year: 2019 comes into his life. There have been many, but Vanessa is Director: Jessica Swale different – she matters. David’s desperate to hold on to her, Producer: Guy Heeley, Adrian Sturges while she believes in a future for them. But can David keep Editor: Tania Reddin the secret of his past at bay? Inspired by the life of city trader Screenwriter: Jessica Swale and mountaineer David Tait, an inspiring story of courage’s Director of Photography: Laurie Rose triumph over shame. Production Designer: Christina Moore Music: Volker Bertelmann Details Principal Cast: Gemma Arterton, Penelope Wilton, Year: 2019 Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay Running Time: 121 mins Director: Julian Jarrold Producer: Michael Elliott Executive Producer: Alan Govinden Editor: Chris Gill Screenwriter: Susie Farrell Director of Photography: Felix Wiedemann Production Designer: Nick Palmer Principal Cast: Mark Stanley, Emily Beecham, Anna Friel, Dougray Scott, Aftab Shivdasani

Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent An AMG International, EMU Films Altitude Film Sales Shoebox Films Embankment Films production 34 Foubert’s Place 48 Russell Square Westbourne Studios – WE 020 AMG International London London 242 Acklam Road [email protected] W1F 7PX WC1B 4JP London +44 (0)20 7478 7612 +44 (0)20 7287 2953 W10 5JJ Emu Films [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)20 7183 4739 111A Wardour Street www.altitudefilment.com/sales www.shoeboxfilms.co.uk [email protected] London www.embankmentfilms.com W1F 0UJ +44 (0)20 7183 0925 [email protected] www.emufilms.com

62 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 1ST 1ST The Toll Undergods

Synopsis Synopsis A darkly-comic thriller about a lone toll-booth operator with A collection of darkly humorous, tales about a past that is fast catching up with him. human weakness and doomed fortune; a series of men see their worlds torn apart through a visit from an other-worldly Details stranger. Year: 2019 Director: Ryan Andrew Hooper Details Producer: Mark Hopkins, Vaughan Sivell Year: 2019 Executive Producer: Mary Burke, Franki Goodwin, Paul Running Time: 95 mins Higgins, Will Kane, Gwawr Martha Lloyd, Adam Partridge, Director: Chino Moya Mike Rattenbury, Jim Reeve Screenwriter: Matt Redd Producer: Sophie Venner Director of Photography: Adrian Peckitt Co-Producer: Sebastian Schelenz, Katrin Kissa, Goran Djikic, Production Designer: Hannah Purdy Foggin Sean Wheelan Sound: Dom Corbisiero, Nick Davies Executive Producer: Mary Burke, Zorana Piggott, Kai Hsuing, Music: Gavin Fitzjohn Jake Scott, Luke Scott Principal Cast: Michael Smiley, Iwan Rheon, Paul Kaye, Julian Editor: Walter Fasano, Maya Maffioli Glover, Steve Oram, Gwyneth Keyworth, Dean Rehman, Screenwriter: Chino Moya Martyn Stallard Director of Photography: David Raedeker Production Designer: Marketa Korinkovà Sound: Martin Pavey, David Vranken Music: Wojciech Golczewski Principal Cast: Kate Dickie, Adrian Rawlins, Burn Gorman, Sam Louwyck, Jan Bijvoet, Géza Röhrig, Johann Myers, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Western Edge Pictures UK, Belgium, Estonia, Serbia, Stray Dogs 9 Wimpole Street Sweden co-production Nathan Fischer London A Z56Film (UK), Velvet Films (BE), 6, rue du 8 mai 1945 W1G 9SR Homeless Bob Production (EE), 75010 Paris [email protected] Media Plus (RS), Filmgate Films France www.westernedgepictures.com (SE) production with support +33 6 59 94 1284 from BFI (UK) [email protected] www.straydogsfilms.net Z56 Sophie Venner +44 (0) 44 7775 688 878 [email protected]

COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES 63 1ST 1ST The Visitor Wildfire

Synopsis Synopsis A father returns to his family home in rural England to The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish introduce his young girlfriend to his children. Her arrival to border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally this seemingly idyllic Norfolk setting uncovers some dark and returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. disturbing secrets, from which a battle of survival ensues. A Together they unearth their mother’s past, but uncovered psychological horror story exploring family relationships. secrets and resentments which have been buried deep, threaten to overwhelm them. Details Year: 2019 Details Director: Sebastian Godwin Year: 2019 Producer: Hugo Godwin Director: Cathy Brady Executive Producer: Andy Brunskill, Emma Dutton, Rebecca Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Charles Steel, David Collins Joerin-Sharp, Eoin O’Faolain, Declan Reddington, Ian Sharp Executive Producer: Lauren Dark, Emma Duffy, Lizzie Editor: St. John O’Rorke Francke, Celine Haddad, Robert A. Halmi, Jim Reeve Screenwriter: Sebastian Godwin Screenwriter: Cathy Brady Director of Photography: Sergi Vilanova Director of Photography: Crystel Fournier Production Designer: Zoe Payne Production Designer: John Leslie Principal Cast: Raffiella Chapman, Aisling Loftus, Principal Cast: Nika McGuigan, Nora-Jane Noone, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hattie Gotobed, Lukas Rolfe Martin McCann

Production Company Production Company Sales Agent An East Green Films production Ireland, UK co-production Great Point Media with support from Creative A Cowboy Films (UK), Samson 3rd Floor Skillset, Sharp House, SUMS Film Films (IE), Tempesta Films (UK) 14 Floral Street and Media Ltd production. production with development London Commissioned by Microwave, a and production support from BFI WC2E 9DH Film London initiative. Supported (UK), Screen Ireland (IE), Northern +44 (0)20 3873 0020 by BBC Films and BFI. Ireland Screen (UK), Wellcome [email protected] East Green Films Trust (UK), and with co-finance www.greatpointmedia.com 5-6 George Street production support from Film4 St Albans (UK), Sulcata Productions, Illium Hertfordshire and Lexis Media (UK) AL3 4ER Cowboy Films SUMS* Film and Media 48 Russell Square 52-52 Frith Street London London WC1B 4JP W1D 3JJ +44 (0)20 3434 4415 [email protected] [email protected] www.sumslondon.com www.cowboyfilms.co.uk

64 COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING FEATURES Molly, Director: Sally Potter 65 , Director: Fyzal Boulifa Fyzal , Director: + Lucy Lynn

66 ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL

The British Council’s Film programme links UK films and Alongside colleagues working in other artforms we work in filmmakers with new international audiences. Together five areas: with our global network overseas we work to profile the innovation, diversity, creativity and excellence of British Sharing UK Film With the World films around the world, and look for opportunities for British Council’s Film team works with UK partners and our creative exchange between UK filmmakers and international overseas colleagues to curate and tour exciting and diverse counterparts. British Council’s Film department is a part film activities, through both long-term programmes and of Arts Group, which works across 110 countries to build one-off events. trust and opportunity for the UK through the exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas worldwide. Fostering Collaboration We support UK film to raise its international ambition; enable creative filmmakers to collaborate, share knowledge and practice. Film for Social Change We extend safe spaces for culture, creative explorations and exchange; enabling dialogue, presenting marginalised voices and expressing cultural identities through film. Capacity Building Film is a collaborative art form with a value chain of different skills and professional roles, from screenwriting to editing, VFX to music, festival management to conservation. We support bespoke professional development opportunities across disciplines. Policy and Research We shape cultural policy, sharing research.

www.britishcouncil.org/film

67 BRITISH COUNCIL & FESTIVALS

European Film Promotion

The British Council represents the UK within European Film Promotion (EFP). Our EFP projects include Shooting Stars at the Berlinale; Producers on the Move in Cannes; emerging talent in Busan and women filmmakers in Sydney; Foreign Language Oscar screenings in New York; and enable UK sales companies to access EFP Film Sales Support.

UK Films Directory

Our UK Films Directory is an incredible tool for increasing exposure for new and existing film work to programmers and audiences around the world and includes information about short and feature films across fiction, documentary, animation and increasingly VR. The Souvenir, Director Joanna Hogg - Official Selection at both Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival in 2019 Find the directory online at film.britishcouncil.org/british-films-directory

Festival Selector Preview Screenings We also produce a range of UK film catalogues throughout the year showcasing selected UK features, documentaries The British Council provides a preview service for selectors and shorts. from the world’s major film festivals whose teams join us in London to view new British feature films to consider for their Find our recent documentary and shorts catalogues here upcoming festivals. bit.ly/ukfilmcatalogue

We currently welcome teams from festivals including Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin, Tribeca, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Venice, Toronto, San Sebastian and Zurich.

UK Film at International Festivals

As a partner in UK Film, an umbrella organisation which brings together the UK’s film commissions, national and regional agencies, producers and sales companies, we take an active role in hosting UK stands at key film markets (including Berlin, Cannes and Toronto).

68 , Directors: Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong - The film had its world premiere world premiere film had its - The Anocha Suwichakornpong Ben Rivers, 2562 , Directors: Krabi, 2019 Festival Locarno Film at in Official Selection

69 BRITISH COUNCIL NEW TALENT & SHORTS

Deux sœurs qui ne sont pas sœurs (Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters), Director: Beatrice Gibson

Travel Grant Fund: Festivals & Labs In 2019, British Council Film and BFI NETWORK are excited to announce the launch of a new Lab Travel Grant scheme for In partnership with BFI NETWORK, we operate a Travel new and emerging filmmakers to attend international training Grant Fund for short filmmakers whose work has been labs. The Lab Travel Grant is designed to support filmmakers selected to screen at key international festivals including looking to develop skill-sets and networks internationally. Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and Clermont- In 2019-2020, the scheme will run as a pilot programme, Ferrand. We recently expanded the fund to include immersive focussing on 8 training labs. The fund will offer bursaries storytelling and Virtual Reality projects. to contribute towards the cost of course fees, travel and accommodation.

Discover more about our travel grants at film.britishcouncil.org/on-going-projects/shorts

70 UK produced and co-produced shorts. Clockwise from top left: SaF05 (dir. Charlotte Prodger); God’s Nightmares (dir. Daniel Cockburn); Anna (dir. Dekel Berenson); Nimic (dir. ); It’s Nothing (dir. Anna Maguire); Cézanne (dir. Luke Fowler)

Short Support Scheme UK Shorts Portal

Once a filmmaker has received a Travel or Lab Grant they Our digital platform brings together the best new short become part of the Short Support Scheme. The scheme film work from partners across the UK and makes it provides a platform to promote new UK work to extensive available on a secure basis for buyers, distributors and programming contacts from key international short film festival programmers around the world. Discover more at festivals. Filmmakers also gain access to an annual calendar UKShortsportal.picturepipe.net of events where they can watch new work, hear from industry experts and meet with other filmmaking teams across the UK. Short Sighted

Animation The British Council partners with BAFTA on an annual conference designed to demystify exhibition, distribution In recent years we have supported the McLaren Award and promotion for short filmmakers, with editions in for Best British Animation at Edinburgh International Film London and across the UK. Festival. As part of Anim18, we staged a series of panels exploring the impact of British animation internationally, in partnership with EIFF, Cardiff Animation Festival, Encounters and Manchester Animation.

71 BRITISH COUNCIL FILM GLOBAL PROJECTS

Festivals and Seasons Games & Interactive

Our Festivals and Seasons team works with cultural institutes in the UK and overseas - and a range of corporate sponsors, foundations, trusts and patrons – to respond to international cultural opportunities. Through high-profile international festivals and seasons in different countries we introduce millions of people around the world to the best of UK culture and innovation, creating new opportunities for artists and organisations to work internationally.

Film is always an important part of seasons and recent activities include:

We have recently added games and interactive media into our portfolio, with new programmes exploring the cultural role of games and the intersection between games as commerce and art. #FiveFilms4Freedom

Each year we partner with BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ+ film festival, for an 11 day period, to stage the world’s biggest global, digital LGBTQ+ film programme. During the first four India, Indonesia, Korea annual programmes As part of UK / India, the launch of an online archive from 2015-18 our programme, and a tour of the BFI-remastered epic silent #FiveFilms4Freedom filmShiraz across India, with live performances of a new selection of five short score by Anoushka Shankar. During UK / KR in Korea we films received over 10 supported: a Michael Winterbottom retrospective at Jeonju million views from people Film Festival; premiered our Flare Films touring programme in 202 countries, many in which LGBTQ+ rights do not exist. at Seoul Pride Film Festival; and presented Silent Signal – animation made in collaboration with scientists – as part of Artience, an art and science festival and workshop. Our UK / ID season in Indonesia focused on collaborative residencies and exchange, with UK partners including AND Festival and curator George Clark.

72 Bangladesh, Morocco, Palestine and , with an expanded edition working with displaced Syrians across Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The resulting short docs uncovering unseen global ‘Stories’ have been screened at prestigious festivals including Sheffield DocFest and Locarno. BAFTA Breakthrough Brits

Cámara Chica

In partnership with UK film education organisation Into Film, we’ve staged filmmaking workshops in Cuba and Venezuela, training trainers in the skills needed to help young people to use film to tell their own stories and the programme is due to expand internationally during 2019/20. Stories During a long-term partnership with BAFTA under the A partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute sees initial banner Brits to Watch, we have presented selected a major programme of creative documentary workshops UK filmmakers to exclusive audiences of opinion formers helping filmmakers in challenging areas to give authentic during bespoke visits to the US with screenings and voices to their work. Workshops have been held in Libya, meetings taking place in New York and LA. Brits to Watch alumni include Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Carol Morley and William Oldroyd. Subsequently our programme has expanded to take BAFTA’s Breakthrough Brits – the next generation of British creative talent in film, television and games – to make new contacts in China and Hong Kong.

73 FILM TOURING PROGRAMMES

Through partnerships with UK film organisations, we offer a range of exciting film programmes for international screenings organised by British Council colleagues together with cultural partners.

Current programmes include:

BAFTA 2019: this year’s Short and Short Animation winners and nominees;

G-AAAH!: animation for young audiences, in partnership with Into Film, the UK charity that puts film at the heart of children and young people’s education;

Flare Films: shorts from the UK selected from BFI Flare, Envision Sound, Hitchcock’s Blackmail original score event in Ukraine London’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival;

Grierson Documentaries: UK documentaries, all nominated FILM + MUSIC for Grierson Awards; Working with our Music team, we aim to support performers, A History of British Animation: an animated portrait of composers and producers working in, or aspiring to work in, Britain. the artistic space where these two worlds converge.

Activities include: two Film, Archive and Music Labs (FAMLAB) – working with BFI Southbank, HOME Manchester and Sensoria, Sheffield, to bringing together UK and international musicians, filmmakers and producers and supporting them to work with archive film to tell new stories; Envision Sound, a skills development workshop for composers wanting to work with moving image, in partnership with Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Ukraine; and Heritage of Future Past, exploring Vietnam’s music and film cultural heritage. music.britishcouncil.org/projects/film-and-music

I’m OK, Director Elizabeth Hobbs

74 Rare Beasts, Director: Billie Piper 75 INDEX OF FILMS

The Aeronauts 9 How to Build A Girl 24 Show Me The Picture: After Love 49 I Am (Not) a Monster 25 The Story of Jim Marshall 41 Ammonite 49 Ilkley 56 The Show 60 Amulet 50 Judy 25 Sicker 61 The Australian Dream 9 Krabi, 2562 26 Sid and Judy 42 Ayouni 50 Last Breath 26 Sorry We Missed You 42 Bait 10 The Last Tree 27 The Souvenir 43 The Banishing 51 Limbo 56 The Souvenir: Part II 61 Beats 10 Little Joe 27 Sulphur and White 62 Billie 51 The Lodge 28 Summerland 62 Blackbird 11 Looted 57 Tales from the Lodge 43 Blinded by the Light 11 Lynn + Lucy 28 Those That, at a Distance, Blue Story 52 Make Up 29 Resemble Another 44 Bombay Rose 12 Marianne and Leonard: The Toll 63 A Bump Along the Way 12 Words of Love 29 The Two Popes 44 The Burnt Orange Heresy 13 Midnight Traveler 30 Undergods 63 Calm with Horses 13 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 30 Untouchable 45 The Capote Tapes 14 Military Wives 31 Us Among The Stones 45 Cat in the Wall 14 Misbehaviour 57 The Visitor 64 Chasing Chaplin 52 Moffie 31 White Riot 46 A Christmas Carol 53 Molly 58 Wildfire 64 Chuck Berry 53 Monsoon 32 Women Make Film: A New Road Citizen K 15 Muscle 32 Movie Through Cinema 46 County Lines 15 The Nest 58 Wounds 47 Coup 53 16 Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always 59 XY Chelsea 47 The Day Shall Come 16 Nocturnal 33 Days of the Bagnold Summer 17 Official Secrets 33 Diego Maradona 17 Ordinary Love 34 Dirt Music 18 Our Ladies 34 Dirty God 18 Perfect 10 35 A Dog Called Money 19 The Personal History of Dream Horse 54 David Copperfield 35 Eternal Beauty 19 Pink Wall 36 Fanny Lye Deliver’d 20 Radioactive 36 The Father 54 Rare Beasts 37 First Love (Hatsukoi) 20 Rebecca 59 For Sama 21 Rebel Dread 60 The Gasoline Thieves (Huachicolero) 21 Rialto 37 Good Posture 22 Rocks 38 Greed 22 Romantic Comedy 38 He Dreams of Giants 55 Run 39 Here for Life 23 Saint Maud 39 His House 55 Scheme Birds 40 Hope Gap 23 Sea Fever 40 Horrible Histories: The Movie Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth 41 - Rotten Romans 24

76 , Director: Francis Lee Francis , Director: Ammonite

77 britishcouncil.org/film @british_film Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema , Through Road Movie Film: A New Make Women Mark Cousins Director: