FALL 2019 FALL 2019 in SELECTION the PAINTED BIRD - Václav Marhoul BABYTEETH - Shannon Murphy
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FALL 2019 FALL 2019 IN SELECTION THE PAINTED BIRD - Václav Marhoul BABYTEETH - Shannon Murphy UPCOMING DEATH OF A LADIES’ MAN - Matthew Bissonnette MISS MARX - Susanna Nicchiarelli UNTITLED BEN FOSTER PROJECT - Ben Foster INFINITY POOL - Brandon Cronenberg NAOSHIMA - Martin Provost WHY ARE WE NOT CREATIVE - Hermann Vaske IN RELEASE THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL - Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec DACHRA - Abdelhamid Bouchnak SCHOOL’S OUT - Sébastien Marnier JOAN THE MAID - Jacques Rivette IN COMPETITION SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The Painted Bird a VÁCLAV MARHOUL picture The TRAILER PRESS BOOK VENICE Painted COMPETITION Bird a VÁCLAV MARHOUL picture SPECIAL Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosinski´ novel, THE PAINTED BIRD follows the journey of The Boy, PRESENTATIONS entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and the Boy is on his own, wandering through the country-side, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious Adapted from the acclaimed novel peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and THE PAINTED BIRD by Jersy German. When the war ends, The Boy has been changed, forever. Kosinski ´ WRITER, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER Václav Marhoul (Tobruk) CINEMATOGRAPHER Vladimir Smutny´ Praise for the novel: PRODUCTION^ DESIGNER Jan Vlasák “Extraordinary... staggering… one EDITOR Ludek Hudec of the most powerful books I have SOUND DESIGNER Pavel Rejholec ever read.” PRODUCTION COMPANY Silver Screen ^ HARPER´S MAGAZINE CO-PRODUCERS Czech Televison, Eduard & Milada Kucera, Directory Films, PubRes, Radio and Televison Slovakia, Certicon Group, innogy, Richard Kaucky,´ Alexander Kushaev “Nothing stands higher... A ° CAST Introducting Petr Kotlár, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands, Udo Kier magnificent work of art and a celebration of the individual will. Czech Republic - Slovakia - Ukraine / 2019 / 2:49 / 169’ / 35mm / Cinemascope 1:2,35 / Dolby Atmos No one who reads it will forget it.” Czech, Russian, German, Slavic Esperanto / B&W LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTRIBUTION Bioscope (Czech Rep), Magicbox (Slovakia), 86 Prokat (Ukraine) ° Stellan Skarsgard Harvey Keitel Barry Pepper (Chernobyl, Dune, (The Irishman, (Kill The Messenger, Nymphomaniac, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Saving Private Ryan, True Grit, Thor, The Avengers) Pulp Fiction) The Green Mile) and introducing the amazing Julian Sands Udo Kier boy actor (The Girl with Dragon Tattoo, (Downsizing, Melancholia, Oceans 13, Dexter, Bacurau, American Animals) Petr Kotlár Room with a View) IN COMPETITION Babyteeth a SHANNON MURPHY picture UPCOMING UPCOMING TRAILER PRESS BOOK Babyteeth VENICE COMPETITION a SHANNON MURPHY picture ABOUT THE PLAY: From producer Alex White and executive producer Jan Chapman (Winner of 3 Academy Awards The revelations and & Palme d’Or for The Piano, Nominated Academy Award & Palme d’Or for Bright Star, Winner complexities of this powerful Camera d’Or for Love Serenade). Based on the play BABYTEETH by Rita Kalnejais. production linger long after it When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her has ended. parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things - THE AUSTRALIAN get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbour - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for …Babyteeth is the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Babyteeth accomplished and joyously explores how good it is not to be dead yet and how far we will go for love. compelling. CAST Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace - STAGE NOISE WRITER Rita Kalnejais PRODUCER Alex White - White Falk Films EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jan Chapman Moving, confronting, hopeful and above all, humane, Australia / 2019 / 117’ / 1:66:1 / 5.1 / English / Comedy – Drama Babyteeth will leave many in DISTRIBUTION Universal Pictures Australia - Eone (Australia & NZ) tears. - THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Essie Davis Ben Mendelsohn (Game of Thrones, Best Actress (The King, Ready Player One, Animal Kingdom, at Sitges for The Babadook) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) Toby Wallace Eliza Scanlen (Romper Stomper, (Sharp Objects, Acute Misfortune) Little Women d. Greta Gerwig) UPCOMING POST-PRODUCTION Death of a FEATURING SONGS BY Ladies’ Man LEONARD COHEN: a MATTHEW BISSONNETTE picture Bird On The Wire Why Don’t You Try from the producers of BROOKLYN, ONCE and CHICAGO Coming Back To You Samuel O’Shea, a university professor of poetry, exuberant womanizer and enthusiastic drinker has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, and his wife and children are at their wits’ end with him. More Did I Ever Love You disturbingly, he has begun seeing things: Frankenstein sidles up to the bar and strangers sing and dance to Don’t Go Home With - Leonard Cohen tunes. His much-missed father, who died when Samuel was just a boy, pops up for chats. Your Hard-On At first Samuel thinks it could be the drink, or perhaps he’s just crazy or over-imaginative, but then learns he has a brain tumour. Reflecting on the life he has lived, Samuel retreats to his family shack in remote Ireland, where he begins work on that great novel he always meant to write, and generally take stock. Surprisingly, or not, he meets and falls in love with a woman, who is full of unexpected ideas. All this leads Samuel to an utterly unforeseeable happy ending. CAST Gabriel Byrne, Brian Gleeson, Jessica Paré, Suzanne Clement, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Karelle Tremblay PRODUCERS Corey Marr - Corey Marr Productions (Passenger Side) / Marie-Claude Poulin - MCP Productions (Brooklyn, Café de Flore) / Martina Niland - Cosmo Films (Once, Sing Street) / Don Carmody - Don Carmody Productions (Chicago, Good Will Hunting) / Alexander Kushaev - Monte Rosso Production Canada - Ireland / 2020 / English / In Postproduction. Delivery 2020 DISTRIBUTION Mongrel Media (Canada) Gabriel Byrne Brian Gleeson Jessica Paré (Hereditary, Zerozerozero Amazon series, (Phantom Thread, (Mad Men, Seal Team, Standby) Maniac series, Miller’s Crossing, Mother!, Logan Lucky) The Usual Suspects) Karelle Tremblay Antoine Olivier Pilon Suzanne Clément (The Fireflies Are Gone, (Mommy) (Mommy, Versailles, Our Loved Ones) Laurence Anyways) UPCOMING SHOOTING FALL 2019 Miss Marx a SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI picture Set in 19th Century England, MISS MARX centers on the life on Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor. Romola Garai In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, and a powerful political activist, a feminist ahead of her time. In her private life, however, she was vulnerable in love and ultimately ruined by her long relationship with the notorious cad, Edward Aveling. CAST Romola Garai (Attonement,Vanity Fair, The Miniaturist) PRODUCERS Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa - VIVO Film (Le Quattro Volte, Nico, 1988, Daughter Of Mine) / Valérie Bournonville, Joseph Rouschop (Nico, 1988, Baden Baden) Italy -Benelux / 2020 / English / Shooting Fall 2019 SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI (COSMONAUT, DISCOVERY AT DAWN, NICO,1988) UPCOMING SHOOTING SPRING 2020 Untitled Ben Foster William Burroughs Project a BEN FOSTER picture The Untitled Ben Foster/Williams Burroughs Project explores an unusual love triangle between Burroughs (Foster), his unsung, brilliant, charismatic, common-law muse, Joan Vollmer (Stewart), and a young, straight-laced American ex-pat named Allerton (Glynn-Carney) who BEN FOSTER upends their lives to the extreme. Burroughs (Junkie, Queer, Naked Lunch) is regarded as the primary literary outlaw of the 1950s, 60s and 70s; his books have influenced generations of writers, musicians and artists, and have consistently been distinguished as the most stolen paperbacks in the world. The film is based on his legendary early works and letters. CAST Ben Foster (Harry Haft, Leave No Trace, Hell Or High Water), Kristen Stewart (Charlie’s Angels, Clouds Of Sils Maria, The Twilight Saga), Tom Glynn-Carney (Tolkien, Dunkirk, The King) WRITERS Ben Foster & Oren Moverman (Time Out Of Mind, Love & Mercy) PRODUCERS Wren Arthur (Puzzle, Paint it Black), Ken Kao (The Favourite, Mid 90s), Oren Moverman (Wildlife, Skin), Alexander Kushaev US / 2021 / English / Shooting Spring 2020 WILLIAM BURROUGHS UPCOMING SHOOTING SUMMER 2020 Infnity Pool a BRANDON CRONENBERG picture The original screenplay, written by Cronenberg, folows James Foster, an uninspired writer and his wife, Em, on their all-inclusive vacation on the picturesque island of Li Tolqa. Befriended by the glamorous Gabi and Alban, the couples enjoy a forbidden picnic in the off limits Li Tolqan countryside that takes a sinister turn: the accidental fatality of a farmer leads to a death sentence for James. James can escape the verdict of local justice, but the uncanny mechanism that will ensure his survival also reveals a perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors. PRODUCERS Film Forge - Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino (Sleeping Giant, Baldy), Rob Coteril (Hobo With a Shotgun) / Celluloid Dreams Production - Hengameh Panahi, Charlotte Mickie (Chicken With Plums, Funny Games US) / Hero Squared - Daniel Kresmery, Jonathan Halperyn (Ransom, Archive) Canada - France - Hungary