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Prod. Year: 2015 filmography, together with Length: 78 Vikingo. In this story of Genre: - prostitution, thievery and Premiere: None revenge, friendship is a Programme section: José supreme value and love a Campusano modest redemption. 47th Company: Compañia de cine INTERNATIONAL Contact: Paulina Portela FILM FESTIVAL Email: El sacrificio de Nehuén ROTTERDAM [email protected] Puyelli January 24 – February Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 Director(s): José Celestino 4, 2018 Logline: Simón, the owner of Campusano a hardware store, humiliates FEATURE FILM Prod. Countries: Argentina and constantly controls his TITLES PRODUCED Prod. Year: 2016 four employees. Through this BEFORE 2017 Length: 87 universally recognisable Genre: Fiction situation, Campusano paints Premiere: None Log lines from IFFR catalogue. a portrait of microscopic Programme section: José power exerted in the realm of In order of country. Campusano labour without forgetting Company: Compañia de cine about other forms of abuse Contact: Paulina Portela directly related to history. Email:

[email protected] El perro Molina Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 Director(s): José Celestino Logline: Unjustly accused Campusano and imprisoned for murder, a Prod. Countries: Argentina Mapuche medicine man is Prod. Year: 2014 sent to a penitentiary in the Length: 87 tourist resort of Bariloche. Genre: - During his imprisonment, he Premiere: None establishes a bond of trust Programme section: José with another inmate who is Campusano close to being released. Using Company: Compañia de cine these two motifs, Campusano Contact: Paulina Portela sets in motion a tale about power, racism and class Campusano disenfranchised men and struggle. Company: Compañia de cine women; what shapes them is Contact: Paulina Portela a secret ancestral memory, as Fango Email: suggested in the interviews at Director(s): José Celestino [email protected] bikers' parties. Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 Campusano Logline: A microscopic tale Prod. Countries: Argentina Placer y martirio about the trafficking of Prod. Year: 2012 Director(s): José Celestino women, from the viewpoint Length: 107 Campusano of Campusano's universe. Genre: - Prod. Countries: Argentina Including Vikingo and his Premiere: None Prod. Year: 2015 bikers, who try to rescue Programme section: José Length: 101 Antonella, who has been Campusano Genre: - kidnapped and sold to a Company: Compañia de cine Premiere: None brothel in northern Contact: Paulina Portela Programme section: José Argentina. A rigorous Email: Campusano narration with several [email protected] Company: Compañia de cine subplots in which the Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 Contact: Paulina Portela narrative craft of this director Logline: Two friends decide Email: to form a 'tango-trash' band. gets to shine fully. [email protected] The woman of one of these Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 friends is kidnapped by the Legión – Tribus Logline: A woman, married leader of a female gang, urbanas motorizadas with a daughter, loses control bringing consequences in its Director(s): José Celestino over herself after going wild aftermath. This all happens Campusano because of her erotic passion in the precarious urban Prod. Countries: Argentina for a mysterious regions surrounding the Prod. Year: 2006 businessman. Campusano's European-like city of Buenos Length: 61 unexpected incursion into Aires; in these areas Genre: Fiction the world of the rich everything resembles the Premiere: None somehow entails a parody of universe of Western films. Programme section: José some TV representations of Campusano the lives of wealthy people, Fantasmas de la ruta Company: Compañia de cine although its main concern is Director(s): José Celestino Contact: Paulina Portela to associate eroticism and Campusano Email: vampirism. Prod. Countries: Argentina [email protected] Prod. Year: 2013 Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 Vikingo Length: 198 Logline: Biker groups' love of Director(s): José Celestino Genre: - motorcycles and travelling Campusano Premiere: None free on the roads is much Prod. Countries: Argentina Programme section: José more than just a hobby for Prod. Year: 2009 Length: 85 years his senior who could be ambiguous parable for our Genre: - his father, but with whom he times. Premiere: None begins a problematic love Programme section: José relationship. Homosexual

Campusano love within the codes of the Ethiopia Company: Compañia de cine 'primitive' peripheral urban Contact: Paulina Portela area of Buenos Aires is only Harvest 3000 Years Email: one layer in a fascinating Director(s): Haile Gerima [email protected] portrait of a culture with Prod. Countries: Ethiopia Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 different rules and values. Prod. Year: 1976 Logline: Vikingo, a man of Length: 150 his word, stands out and Genre: Fiction shines in the diverse biker Egypt Premiere: None community. He helps a Programme section: Pan- stranger, Aguirre, who also The Mummy African Cinema Today loves motorcycles: sufficient Director(s): Shadi Abdel (PACT) reason for Vikingo to offer Shalam Company: UCLA Film and his loyalty and hospitality. As Prod. Countries: Egypt Television Archive they live in a time of Prod. Year: 1969 Contact: Haile Gerima transitions, they will have to Length: 103 Email: [email protected] face life-and-death Genre: Fiction Phone: 202-213-0201 confrontations. Premiere: None Logline: A poor peasant Programme section: A family resists a violent feudal History of Shadows lord. This original 16mm Vil romance Company: Cineteca di version of Gerima's first Director(s): José Celestino Bologna Ethiopian featureis both in Campusano Contact: Carmen Accaputo substance as in form a Prod. Countries: Argentina Email: passionate revolutionary Prod. Year: 2008 cinetecaarchiviofilm1@comu narrative and an allegory Length: 105 ne.bologna.it about the class system and Genre: - Phone: +39 051 6018607 colonialism at a time of Premiere: None Logline: Based on the true collective resistance to Programme section: José story of a 19th-century oppression in Africa and the Campusano Upper-Egyptian clan that United States. Company: Compañia de cine robs a cache of mummies and Contact: Paulina Portela sells the artefacts on the Email: black market. The authorities Finland [email protected] Phone: + 54 9 11 3400 2718 start an investigation. A sense of obscure mystery Fuck Off! – Images Logline: Roberto is young, from Finland unemployed and has inhabits this masterpiece, nowhere to sleep. By chance that almost 50 years after its Director(s): Jörn Donner production has become an he meets Raúl, a man many Prod. Countries: Finland Prod. Year: 1971 duction.com leader he created for the sake Length: 104 Phone: +33 1 48048460 of trade. Soundtrack by Genre: Creative Logline: Raoul Peck (I Am Ennio Morricone. Documentary Not Your Negro) first made a Premiere: None documentary, then this Programme section: A political thriller about Patrice History of Shadows Lumumba, the first president Thomas Pesquet, Company: ? of the Congo following the l'étoffe d'un héros Contact: Mark Lwoff struggle for independence Director(s): Jürgen Hansen Email: [email protected] from Belgium. This beloved Prod. Countries: France Phone: +358 45 131 4652 prophet of Pan-Africanism Prod. Year: 2016 Logline: Sparkling faced powerful foes in Length: 72 documentary classic from Belgium and the United Genre: Creative 1971 in which Donner and States. Several months after Documentary his mates made Finnish but his stormy rise to power, he Premiere: None also Swedish streets unsafe was brutally murdered. Programme section: Curtain Call with their investigation into Contact: Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff how the country and the Queimada Email: pierre- people were doing. "If the Director(s): Gillo Pontecorvo [email protected] film is crazy, that’s the fault Prod. Countries: France, Italy Phone: +33664262258 of the Finnish people," is how Prod. Year: 1969 Logline: On 17 November Donner affectionately Length: 132 2016, French astronaut defended himself against all Genre: Fiction Thomas Pesquet was sent to the fuss he caused. Premiere: None the International Space Programme section: Pan- Station by the European France African Cinema Today Space Agency for six months (PACT) to conduct scientific Company: Park Circus experiments. This film Lumumba Limited reveals the intensity of the Director(s): Raoul Peck Contact: Graham Fulton preceding training period. A Prod. Countries: France Email: warning to all those who Prod. Year: 2000 [email protected] dream of making it in space Length: 115 Logline: Pontecorvo's sequel tourism. Genre: Fiction to Battle of Algiers stars Premiere: None Marlon Brando as an agent Programme section: Pan- sent to a Caribbean island to African Cinema Today foment a rebellion of the (PACT) enslaved to break the Company: JBA Production Portuguese economic Contact: Marianne Dumoulin monopoly. Ten years later he Email: returns to kill the same rebel mariannedumoulin@jbapro Email: masterpiece that would take

Germany [email protected] all India by storm. Logline: Staudte, never Geschichtsunterricht unwilling to stir stinking still Aviyal Director(s): Jean-Marie water, directed this FRG Director(s): Shameer Sultan Straub, Danièle Huillet classic in 1960 about a corpse Prod. Countries: India Prod. Countries: Germany that is found during Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Year: 1972 construction of a fairground, Length: 118 Length: 85 15 years after the war. Genre: Fiction Premiere: None Everyone knows who the Premiere: None Programme section: A young man was and why he Programme section: House History of Shadows had to die, but people prefer on Fire Company: BELVA Film to forget and leave the Company: Stone Bench Contact: Christophe Clavert remains unidentified. Contact: Karthik Subbaraj Email: Email: [email protected] karthiksubbaraj@stonebenc Phone: +33 14 8063957 India h.co.in Logline: Straub & Huillet, Logline: Perhaps more than after Bertolt Brecht. Opinions Arena any other younger Tamil on this masterpiece vary from Director(s): Vetri Maaran auteur, director/producer ‘political cinema at its most Prod. Countries: India Karthik Subbaraj still advanced and provocative’ to Prod. Year: 2011 honours his roots in shorts. ‘cold anti-cinema’, but the Length: 156 In Aviyal, he unleashed his film itself is like a history Genre: Fiction second omnibus project on teacher who tolerates no Premiere: None Tamil audiences – a roller- contradiction. A modern Programme section: House coaster of moods and ideas young man in Rome on Fire with thrills and laughs, interviews four Company: Five Star Films strange sex, a brawling film contemporaries of Caesar Pvt. Ltd. crew and family problems of about his career. Contact: Mathi Maran a sensual nature. Email:

Kirmes [email protected] Phone: +91 98 84664119 Cold Heart Director(s): Wolfgang Logline: The rivalry between Director(s): Karthik Subbaraj Staudte two cock-fighters – one a Prod. Countries: India Prod. Countries: Germany private citizen, the other a Prod. Year: 2014 Prod. Year: 1960 cop – turns into all-out gang Length: 171 Length: 102 war when the former's Genre: Fiction Premiere: None protégé is killed in a dubious Premiere: None Programme section: A hit-and-run. Vetrimaaran's Programme section: House History of Shadows multi-award-winning on Fire Company: Beta Cinema breakthrough work is a Company: Group Company Contact: Claudia Schwendele Contact: Karthik Subbaraj I Am God a factory owner devastating Email: Director(s): Bala the community's health with karthiksubbaraj@stonebenc Prod. Countries: India mercury waste. One day, h.co.in Prod. Year: 2009 firebrand Kodi and his Logline: The latest generation Length: 125 peaceful twin brother Anbu of Tamil auteurs found its Genre: Fiction are mistaken for one another. way into the film industry Premiere: None A wise, violent, action- through short film Programme section: House packed political thriller with competitions on TV. Cold on Fire Tamil superstar Dhanush in a Heart pays tribute to this Company: B Studios double role. weird world in the guise of a Contact: Lakshana grimly gutsy gangster film; a Email: [email protected] Pisasu dark comedy of manners Logline: Rudran was send Director(s): Mysskin whose jokes are so well-aimed away from home as a child by Prod. Countries: India they hurt. Woah! his superstitious father. Prod. Year: 2014 When Rudran, an aghori (an Length: 114 Evil Engulfs ascetic man of the Gods, Genre: Fiction Director(s): Nalan dwelling at times among the Premiere: None Kumarasamy dead) throws his lot in with a Programme section: House Prod. Countries: India bunch of human-trafficking on Fire Prod. Year: 2013 beggars, his life becomes hell. Company: B Studios Length: 135 Seeing is believing. You Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction haven't seen anything like Logline: Siddharth gave it his Premiere: None this before. all, but couldn't get an Programme section: House injured girl found on the on Fire Kodi streets to hospital in time to Company: 20crores Director(s): R.S. Durai prevent her death. As Contact: Nalan Kumarasamy Senthilkumar Siddharth roams the streets Email: Prod. Countries: India helping the needy, strange [email protected] Prod. Year: 2016 things start to happen. A Logline: Das, a professional Length: 145 socially conscious horror film kidnapper (cum world-class Genre: Fiction of the most nerve-wrecking, bullshitter) takes on a bunch Premiere: None edge-of-the-seat-scary kind, of young assistants. One of Programme section: House with a surprising ending. Das' main principles is: never on Fire kidnap someone involved in Contact: R.S. Durai Ruthless Man politics. So what do you do if Senthilkumar Director(s): Vetri Maaran you're tricked into doing just Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: India that? A wild and crazy mix of Logline: Kodi is a political Prod. Year: 2007 crime flick and sharp social animal since his father self- Length: 150 satire! immolated protesting against Genre: Fiction Premiere: None and country, social borders Vagabond Programme section: House and conventions crumble – in Director(s): Bala on Fire silence. Add in the power- Prod. Countries: India Company: Five Star Films boozing boss of a drinkers' Prod. Year: 2013 Pvt. Ltd. association, an orphanage in Length: 126 Contact: Vetri Maaran dire need and many other Genre: Fiction Email: absurd, crazy, real elements Premiere: None [email protected] and you have a splendid piece Programme section: House Phone: +91 99 41996666 of socially conscious comedy. on Fire Logline: Prabhu's already Trailer: Company: B Studios shaken but still safe-seeming https://www.youtube.com/ Contact: Lakshana middle-class existence finally watch?v=1-GPX9yIWio Email: [email protected] falls apart when he loses his Logline: Rasa, a young man precious bike. Suddenly, he from the country, finds a job Tamil M.A. finds himself in a bleak world on a tea plantation where, of betrayal and violence. A Director(s): Ram like all the workers, he is key work of modern Tamil Prod. Countries: India subjected to all kinds of cinema that plays like the Prod. Year: 2007 maltreatment. An unsparing, psycho-thriller version of Length: 164 scathing vision of life under Genre: Fiction Vittorio de Sica's neorealist British rule that can classic Bicycle Premiere: None profitably be read as a more Thieves (1948). Programme section: House general allegory on politics on Fire and abuse of power. Company: Catamaran Trailer: Productions https://www.youtube.com/ Speak with Your Contact: Amudhavan watch?v=fBnSHOFI6a4 Karuppiah Mouth Shut Email: Director(s): Balaji Mohan [email protected] Prod. Countries: India Wage War Logline: Prabhat is not happy Prod. Year: 2014 Director(s): Mysskin with his teaching job at a Length: 140 Prod. Countries: India private school. In fact, Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2011 Prabhat is not happy with the Premiere: None Length: 160 world. So he decides to give Programme section: House Genre: Fiction some of his pain and anguish on Fire Premiere: None back to society. A milestone Company: Radiance Media Programme section: House in modern Tamil cinema: a Contact: Chakravarthy on Fire study of alienation in the Ramachandra Company: AGS guise of a thriller. Email: [email protected] entertainment

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A mosca cieca Logline: Capturing the [email protected] Director(s): Romano fervour of 1960s Phone: +33954904863 Scavolini counterculture in Shinjuku, Logline: Stories of love that Prod. Countries: Italy Tokyo, Japan's queer classic can only be lived and shared Prod. Year: 1966 is a delightfully chaotic film in secret. Anyone identifying Length: 79 that follows hostess Eddie, as LGBTQI in Kenya risks a Premiere: None the transgender star of Bar heavy penalty – possibly even Programme section: Genet, who radiates a death sentence. This Regained confidence and sexuality. Kenyan collective shows the Company: Zomia Contact: This 4K digital restoration lack of understanding, pain Donatello Fumarola celebrates its influential and violence, but also the Email: [email protected] director, Matsumoto Toshio, tensions, lust and hilariously Logline: Outsider Romano who recently passed away. embarrassing moments. Scavolini debuted in 1966 Trailer: Stories shared by many, with what became Italy's https://www.youtube.com/ worldwide. most forbidden film. The watch?v=Q3XhYY9Ll0k Trailer: censorship is hard to https://www.youtube.com/ understand today, yet this watch?v=1lkYBoU3fCY deliciously subversive anti- film about a young man who finds a pistol and seeks a victim still retains its drive 50 years later. Finally, a restored version.

Tuko Macho Company: NPO Netherlands Director(s): Jim Chuchu Contact: Gina Kranendonk Prod. Countries: Kenya Email: Nighttown Prod. Year: 2016 [email protected] Director(s): Marcel Haug Length: 60 Phone: +31 10 4770080 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Genre: Fiction Logline: A frame narrative Prod. Year: 2010 Premiere: None about a curious bunch of Length: 52 Programme section: Pan- Rotterdammers and the Genre: Creative African Cinema Today 'fairy-tale' of their lives. This Documentary (PACT) is the story of two women Premiere: None Company: The Nest Arts and the people and things Programme section: Company Limited they encounter. Interviews Rotterdam Dag Contact: Njeri Gitungo with a high percentage of Company: Artistic Vice Email: nonsense, credibly acted Contact: Marcel Haug [email protected] scenes, coincidence, dry Email: Phone: 020-2634428 humour and erotic elements: [email protected] Logline: A high-tech this Rotterdam does not bore Phone: +31 6 29159694 underground gang takes the for a moment! Logline: Rotterdam’s dance law into its own hands in club and pop temple crime-ridden Nairobi. The Nighttown closed in 2006. Saxman gang tails criminals, collects This music documentary evidence, then kidnaps them. Director(s): Carel van Hees contains exclusive images of In captivity they are Prod. Countries: Netherlands legendary performances. interrogated and sentenced Prod. Year: 1995 Former directors, founders, Length: 45 by the world’s largest public bookers, stage managers and tribunal: social media. A Genre: Creative artists talk about the power confronting, interactive film Documentary of this venue. experience. Premiere: None

Trailer: Programme section: Rotterdam Dag https://www.youtube.com/ Rotterdam, een watch?v=A2s4b0hUCos ongemakkelijk Company: VPRO Contact: Carel van Hees sprookje Email: [email protected] Director(s): Gina Logline: For years, Piet le Kranendonk Blanc, replete with sax and Prod. Countries: Netherlands violin, was a well-known Prod. Year: 2001 sight in the streets and cafés Length: 65 of Rotterdam by night. But Genre: - before he roamed the streets, Premiere: None he played in various large and Programme section: small orchestras. A Rotterdam Dag documentary by Carel van Hees and Martijn 't Hart Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta Spain about the life of a special, Director(s): Ousmane truly Rotterdam musician. William Mbaye El desencanto Prod. Countries: Senegal Director(s): Jaime Chávarri Senegal Prod. Year: 2016 Prod. Countries: Spain Length: 94 Prod. Year: 1976 Black Girl Genre: Creative Length: 97 Documentary Director(s): Ousmane Genre: Creative Premiere: None Sembène Documentary Programme section: Pan- Prod. Countries: Senegal Premiere: None African Cinema Today Prod. Year: 1966 Programme section: A Length: 59 (PACT) History of Shadows Company: Autoproduction Genre: Fiction Company: EGEDA Contact: Laurence Attali Premiere: None Contact: Victoria Bernal Programme section: Pan- Email: autoprod@club- Email: internet.fr African Cinema Today [email protected] (PACT) Phone: +33681149978

Logline: The remarkable Company: Cineteca di Logline: It has been described story about the lifework of Bologna - Archivio Film as the best Spanish Contact: Carmen Accaputo Senegalese scientist Cheikh documentary ever. Portrait of Anta Diop who studied Email: the widow and children of philosophy, physics, cinetecaarchiviofilm1@comu the poet Leopoldo Panero, chemistry, history and ne.bologna.it celebrated by Falangists, linguistics. All this Phone: +39 051 6018607 whose merciless shadow, Logline: A young Senegalese knowledge came together in both erudite and cruel, still his thesis: Africa is the woman is 'chosen' as a hangs over the family birthplace of civilisation and governess by a rich French 10 years after his death and the Egyptian pharaohs were family in Dakar. When she towards the end of the black Africans. A claim with a moves to live with them in dictatorship in 1976. France, a dream seems to be high price to pay. coming true. This influential film by Sembene, the father of African cinema, clinically exposes the colonial process of dehumanization through an extremely layered narrative.

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USA Logline: Margaret Sullavan is master Haile Gerima. wonderful in her debut as a House Party lively and idealistic single The Sun Shines Bright Director(s): Reginald Hudlin mother, whose adventures Director(s): John Ford Prod. Countries: USA form a bridge between World Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 1990 War I and the Great Prod. Year: 1953 Length: 100 Depression. Told in moving, Length: 90 Genre: - melodramatic flashback, the Genre: Fiction Premiere: None film focuses on issues such as Premiere: None Programme section: prohibition, the rise of Programme section: A Maximum Overdrive Hollywood, but above all the History of Shadows Company: Park Circus changing relationships Company: Park Circus Limited between the sexes. Limited Contact: Jack Bell Contact: Jack Bell Email: [email protected] Sankofa Email: [email protected] Logline: A 1990s classic with Director(s): Haile Gerima Logline: John Ford often cited a lead role for rap duo Kid 'N Prod. Countries: USA, this 1953 drama as his Play. Kid wants to make an Ghana, Burkina Faso, favourite among his films. impression with his rhyming Germany The master weaves three skills and organises a big Prod. Year: 1993 Judge Priest stories together house party with Play. But it Length: 125 into a good-natured all doesn’t go as planned. An Genre: Fiction exploration of honour and infectious comedy with a Premiere: None small-town politics in the killer soundtrack and Programme section: Pan- American South circa fantastic style. And an African Cinema Today 1900. A gentle companion afterparty in the style of the (PACT) piece to Did You Wonder film. Company: UCLA Film and Who Fired the Gun?, also

Television Archive part of A History of Shadows. Only Yesterday Contact: Haile Gerima Email: [email protected] Director(s): John M. Stahl Phone: 202-213-0201 Prod. Countries: USA Logline: A black American Prod. Year: 1933 model is gripped by the spirit Length: 105 of the past during a photo Genre: Fiction shoot close to an old slave Premiere: None fort. She travels back in time Programme section: A where, enslaved, she History of Shadows undergoes the horrors of Company: Park Circus slavery. An iconic film for the Limited African diaspora and a key Contact: Jack Bell