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A sneak peak of the FIFF Cultural mediation 28

The FIFF in a nutshell 3 Planète Cinéma 29 The sections of the FIFF 4 #nomad FIFForum 31 #challenge Programme Round Tables 32 #roads #epic Official Selection 5 Masterclass 32 >> International Competition 6 Conference 32 ‒‒ Feature Films Encounters 32

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>> Opening and Closing Films 12 Juries and Awards 33 Exhibitions 38 Parallel Sections 13 Practical informations >> Genre Cinema 14 Biopics for Journalists 41 >> Decryption 16 for Festival goers 42 200 candles for Nova Friburgo

>> Diaspora 18 Beki Probst and Turkey List of Films 44 >> Hommage à… 19 Guest list 46 Cannes Classics

>> New Territory 20 Agenda 49 Mongolia

>> Sur la carte de 22 Ken Loach 32e 16 > 24.03 2018 Special Screenings 23 >> FIFFamily Olá Brasil 24

#fiff18 >> Films of the International Jury 25 www.fiff.ch >> Passeport suisse 26

>> Midnight Screenings 27

Festival International de Films de Fribourg CH-1701 Fribourg [email protected] 2 Esplanade de l’Ancienne-Gare 3 | CP 550 T +41 (0)26 347 42 09 www.fiff.ch The FIFF in «The Festival is characterised by a spirit of a nutshell unlimited openness towards the world.»

A sneak peakpeak of of the the FIFF FIFF The Fribourg International Film The FIFF is a talent incubator that For the 32nd Festival, as well as Festival (FIFF) is one of the most has screened films from film- the international short and fea- important festivals in Switzerland. makers who have gone on to be ture film competitions, the FIFF Programme Over the last 31 years, the Festival celebrated at prestigious festivals will open with one of the year’s has become a national benchmark such as Cannes, Berlin and, most most striking films, Makala, a poi- > Official Selection for diversity. Its programme offers recently, Venice. There, Filipino gnant documentary which follows everything from auteur films to Lav Diaz won the Golden Lion the Homeric journey of a young > Parallel Sections popular cinema and draws a big- in 2016 after being awarded at Congolese man. The film will have ger crowd every year. In 2017, the Fribourg 10 years earlier. its Swiss Premiere with director, > Special Screenings FIFF shows a stability of audience’s Emmanuel Gras, in attendance. attending with 42,000 entries. It Numerous renowned guests have The Cuban comedy Sergio & enjoys an excellent reputation visited the Festival these last few Sergei will close the 2018 edition, Cultural mediation within the international scene. years: the Dardenne brothers, transporting the audience back Eric Cantona, Charles Aznavour, to the Mir space station in 1991. Founded in 1980 by Magda Bossy Marthe Keller, Geraldine Chaplin In between these two highlights, FIFForum and Yvan Stern, with encourage- and Douglas Kennedy. There is no Genre Cinema will be dedicated ment from Freddy Buache, the red carpet or VIP area in Fribourg to biopics, Decryption will cele- Festival was initially unabashedly though. The FIFF wants to keep brate the 200th anniversary of Juries and Awards called the Third World Festival. things as immediate as possible the Brazilian town Nova Friburgo, In recognition of its growing size between the films, the filmmakers while New Territory will explore and to distance itself from what and the public. A warm, infor- Mongolian cinema. FIFF’s highly Exhibitions some filmmakers deemed rather mal atmosphere and a return to anticipated Carte Blanche sections problematic connotations, the the raw material (the films) have will return with Ken Loach (Sur event was renamed Fribourg Film attracted numerous high profile la carte de), Thierry Frémaux, Practical information Festival in 1990 with ‘International’ guests who appreciate being able General Delegate of the Festival being added in 1998. Martial to meet up and share an experi- de Cannes (Hommage à Cannes Knaebel, who was the event’s first ence in an uncomplicated setting. Classics) and Beki Probst, founder Films and Guests Artistic Director, was succeeded of the Berlinale European Film by Edouard Waintrop in 2008. The FIFF puts particular emphasis Market (Diaspora: Beki Probst on cultural outreach. Over the last and Turkey). The President of the Agenda Today with Thierry Jobin, Artistic 20 years, FIFF’s school programme Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, Director since 2012, François Planète Cinéma has become the will kick off the opening ceremony Nordmann, Chairman of the biggest in Switzerland, with over on the 16th March. Association, the original mission 11,000 students aged 4 to 25 in of the Festival remains at the 2017. The FIFForum, which offers heart of the endeavour, namely masterclasses, conferences and to discover, select and screen Think Tanks, is an important event high quality work from around the for Swiss film professionals, FIFF’s world that is not usually distrib- international guests and the fes- uted via the usual channels. The tival audiences. exceptional selection of cinematic gems helps the public encoun- ter cultural diversity and social realities, as well as giving them a chance to marvel at big unknown productions in Swiss cinemas. The Festival is characterised by a spirit of unlimited openness towards the world.

A sneak peak of the FIFF 3 The sections of the FIFF

A sneak peakpeak of of the the FIFF FIFF Parallel Special Programme Official

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> Parallel Sections International Genre Cinema FIFFamily Olá Brasil > Special Screenings Competition Biopics 1 selection of Brazilian animation Short Films 14 Feature Films and 1 Feature Film Cultural mediation Feature Films from 9 countries 12 Feature Films from 6 Swiss Premieres 12 countries FIFForum Films of the 10 Swiss Premieres Decryption International Jury Juries and Awards 1 European Premiere 2 Feature Films 200 candles for Nova Friburgo from 2 countries 1 International Premiere 4 Feature Films and Exhibitions 1 programme of Short Films from Brazil and Switzerland Short Films Passeport suisse 2 Swiss Premieres 2 Feature Films and Practical information 3 programmes 12 World Premieres 1 programme of Swiss 16 Short Films Short Films Films and Guests from 13 countries 9 Swiss Premieres Diaspora Midnight Screenings Agenda 1 European Premiere Beki Probst and Turkey 8 Feature Films from 2 International Premieres 4 Feature Films from Turkey 8 countries 4 World Premieres and 1 from Germany 8 Swiss Premieres

Hommage à… Opening Film Cannes Classics Makala Swiss Premiere 5 Feature Films from 4 countries

Closing Film New Territory Sergio & Sergei Mongolia Swiss Premiere 10 Feature Films 4 Swiss Premieres 1 International Premiere 1 European Premiere

Sur la carte de Ken Loach 5 Feature Films from 4 countries

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Official Selection 5 International Competition Feature Films

A sneak peak of the FIFF With 12 features Films, the FIFF’s After My Death Dark is the Night International Competitions will continue to highlight some of Kim Ui-seok* Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.* Programme the year’s best work, including South Korea, 2017 Philippines, 2017 productions from Africa, Latin > Official Selection America and Asia that will have 113’ | Fiction | 110’ | Fiction | their Swiss, European and even International Premiere Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections World Premieres with their direc- tors in attendance. > Special Screenings

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FIFForum A teenage girl disappears. With The most prolific young Filipino no clues or body to be found, filmmaker delves into the hell Juries and Awards it at first seems like a suicide. of life in the Philippines under Suspicion then falls on Yeong-hui, President Rodrigo Duterte and his one of her classmates and the merciless war on drugs. Gripped by Exhibitions last person to see her alive, and terror amid all these extrajudicial the charge is led by the victim’s executions – which have amassed mother. Developed at the Korean an estimated death toll of around Practical information Academy of Film Arts where the 7,000 – a mother and father of director studied, this feature film advancing age make ends meet by had its world première in October dealing drugs. Until the day their Films and Guests 2017 at the Busan International drug addict son goes missing… Film Festival.

Agenda Five Fingers for Black Level Marseilles Valentyn Vasyanovych Michael Matthews Ukraine, 2017 South Africa, 2017

90’ | Fiction | 119’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

Kostya is a photographer Twenty years after making his undergoing a midlife crisis: his escape, a South African man who girlfriend is leaving him and was once part of a group known his father has been left para- as the Five Fingers returns to the lysed following a stroke. This small village of Marseilles where wordless film is both an exam- he grew up. The corrupt, abusive ination of how to tell a story police have been replaced by a through animated images and gang, and his friends have been a funny and disturbing story left devastated by the violence. about modern loneliness. Black Shown in Toronto in September Level won the FIPRESCI prize at 2017, this film transcends the the Odessa International Film western genre to evoke the Festival in 2017. wounds of colonialism.

Official Selection 6 A sneak peak of the FIFF Foxtrot 1 Green Days by the River The Seen and Unseen

Samuel Maoz* Michael Mooleedhar* Kamila Andini* Programme Israel, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, 2017 Indonesia, Netherlands, Germany, France, 2017 Australia, Qatar, 2017 > Official Selection 102’ | Fiction | 113’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere European Premiere 86’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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FIFForum The director talks about a “philo- The director’s first feature, and Tantri, a young girl of 10, escapes sophical puzzle” when describing the first ever Trinidadian film to to a dream world as a way of Juries and Awards his portrait of two generations be selected for competition at dealing with the death of her of Israelis, between apathy and the FIFF, this historical drama is twin brother Tantra following trauma. A father and son, each based on the novel of the same an illness. This magical voyage Exhibitions living in isolation: the father lives name by local author Michael through the mind of a child whose in a threadbare apartment in Anthony. Set in Trinidad in 1952, imagination distorts reality was Tel Aviv and the son is a soldier the story depicts the tumultu- selected for Toronto 2017 and Practical information patrolling a check-point in the ous love life of a young man Berlin 2018. Indonesian director middle of nowhere. Foxtrot won whose heart is torn and who, Kamila Andini has developed a the Jury Grand Prix at the last going against his father’s wishes, non-verbal style of filmmaking Films and Guests Mostra di Venezia. agrees to work on a plantation that has earned her the Grand run by an Indian man. Prix at the Tokyo FILMeX festival.

Agenda Goodbye, Grandpa! Unicorn Packing Heavy Yukihiro Morigaki* Eduardo Nunes* Japan, 2017 Darío Mascambroni* Brazil, 2017 Argentina, 2017 104’ | Fiction | 123’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 68’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

Goodbye, Grandpa! is the direc- A young girl of 13 lives with her tor’s first feature film and is A year after being selected for mother on an isolated property. a tender yet stinging comedy Competition for his first ever They are awaiting the return of about funerals. Yoshiko learns film, January (Primero Enero), their father and husband. But her grandpa has died while she Darío Mascambroni is back in instead, another man appears, is in the throes of passion on a Fribourg with a new suspenseful transforming the relationship hot summer’s day. And her fam- work centred on childhood. The between the mother and daugh- ily, which has been in disarray screenplay won the Raymundo ter. Based on two short stories for some time, comes together Gleyzer Prize in 2014 and the by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst and for better or worse around the film tells the story of a boy of filmed in an unusual screen ratio body, but no one mourns and the 12 who wanders the streets with that reinforces the otherworldly widowed grandmother is senile. a gun in his rucksack: the man dimension, the film was selected who murdered his father has just for the 2018 Berlinale. been released from jail…

Official Selection 7 A sneak peak of the FIFF Walking With The Wind What Will People Say 1

Praveen Morchhale* Iram Haq Programme India, 2017 Norway, Germany, Sweden, India, 2017 > Official Selection 79’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 106’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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FIFForum Tsering, a 10-year-old boy, lives Born to Pakistani immigrants, somewhere in the Himalayas. 16-year-old Nisha is a Norwegian Juries and Awards Every day, he travels seven teenager. One day, her father, a kilometres to reach his school. stickler for tradition who fears The journey becomes herculean being judged by others, finds Exhibitions when, having inadvertently bro- her in her room with a boy. He ken one of his classmates’ chairs, decides to send her by force to he decides to bring it back to his Pakistan to be brought up by Practical information village. A portrait of a young boy’s an aunt and uncle. Filmed in coming of age, Walking With The Europe and in Rajasthan, this Wind is taking its director around autobiographical story had its Films and Guests the world. world première at the Toronto Film Festival.

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Official Selection 8 International Competition Short Films

A sneak peak of the FIFF Programme 1 | 92’

Programme Kâbus Greetings From Aleppo The Bony Lady

> Official Selection Alice Fargier* Thomas Vroege, Thiago Zanato*, Turkey, France, 2017 Floor van der Meulen, Issa Touma* Adriana Barbosa* > Parallel Sections Syria, Netherlands, 2017 Brazil, USA, 2018

> Special Screenings 8’ | Experimental | 17’ | Documentary | 20’ | Docufiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere World Premiere

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Erick Msumanje* Juan Sebastián Mesa Practical information Tanzania, 2018 Colombia, 2017

30’ | Documentary | 17’ | Fiction | Films and Guests World Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Official Selection 9 International Competition Short Films

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Programme Iku Manieva Retouch Man of Pa’aling

> Official Selection Isaac Ruiz Gastélum Kaveh Mazaheri* E del Mundo* Mexico, 2017 Iran, 2017 Philippines, USA, 2017 > Parallel Sections 8’ | Experimental | 20’ | Fiction | 15’ | Fiction | > Special Screenings Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere International Premiere

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Juries and Awards What Happens to White Noise Exhibitions a Displaced Ant Lucie La Chimia, Shirin Abu Shaqra* Ahmad Ghossein Practical information Lebanon, France, 2018 Lebanon, France, 2017

42’ | Docufiction | 17’ | Fiction | Films and Guests World Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Official Selection 10 International Competition Short Films

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Programme My Mum’s Bonkers Whatever French

> Official Selection Naomi van Niekerk* Bernardo Botkay* Josza Anjembe* South Africa, 2017 Brazil, 2017 Cameroon, France, 2016 > Parallel Sections 3’ | Animation | 25’ | Fiction | 22’ | Fiction | > Special Screenings Swiss Premiere World Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Juries and Awards Puppy Love A Handful of Stones The Emigrants Exhibitions Margarita Mina* Stefan Ivancic* Andrés Llugany* Philippines, 2017 Serbia, 2017 Argentina, 2017 Practical information 18’ | Fiction | 14’ | Fiction | 13’ | Animation | European Premiere Swiss Premiere International Premiere Films and Guests

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Official Selection 11 Opening and Closing Films

A sneak peak of the FIFF Opening Film Makala

Emmanuel Gras* Programme France, 2017

> Official Selection 96‘ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

> Special Screenings Cinema can still sometimes pro- voke unexpected sensations, even without the use of 3D or Cultural mediation other special effects. It’s rare, but the miracle has been pulled off by Makala, our opening film. FIFForum Filmmaker Emmanuel Gras has managed to transform the odys- sey of a young Congolese man, a Juries and Awards coal seller, into a sensory journey that has haunted us since its first screening at Cannes, where it won Exhibitions the 2017 Critics’ Week Grand Prize.

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Films and Guests Closing Film Sergio & Sergei

Ernesto Daranas Serrano Agenda Cuba, Spain, 2017

93‘ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

Based on a true story, the com- edy Sergio & Sergei is set in Cuba, New York and on the Mir space station! In 1991, the USSR is imploding and the concerned Cuban authorities intensify their censorship of amateur radio operators. But one of the more skilful operators makes con- tact with the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who is alone aboard Mir, forgotten by the Soviets who have much bigger problems on Earth.

Official Selection 12 A sneak peak of the FIFF Parallel Sections Programme

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> Parallel Sections Genre Cinema - 14 Biopics > Special Screenings Decryption - 16 Cultural mediation 200 candles for Nova Friburgo Diaspora - 18 FIFForum Beki Probst and Turkey

Juries and Awards Hommage à… - 19 Cannes Classics

Exhibitions New Territory - 20 Mongolia Practical information Sur la carte de - 22 Ken Loach Films and Guests

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*In presence of the filmmaker, the producer or an other member of the team ¹ Release of the movie in Swiss theaters

Parallel Sections 13 Genre Cinema Biopics

A sneak peak of the FIFF By evoking the fate of magnate ‘76 Filmworker William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles created the most revered Izu Ojukwu Tony Zierra Programme fiction feature of all time. The Nigeria, 2016 USA, 2017 film serves as irrefutable proof > Official Selection that the biopic, a cinematic genre 116’ | Fiction | 90’ | Documentary | that is at times disparaged, is Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections essential to cinema’s success. It is therefore with great pleasure that > Special Screenings the Fribourg International Film Festival is showing a selection of biopics in all its various forms, Cultural mediation from renowned masterpieces to gems from around the world.

FIFForum Jean-Philippe Bernard Breadcrumbs I, Tonya1 Juries and Awards Manane Rodríguez Craig Gillespie Spain, Uruguay, 2016 USA, 2017 Exhibitions 109’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 119’ | Fiction

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Citizen Kane Lawrence of Arabia

Orson Welles David Lean USA, 1941 UK, USA, 1962

119’ | Fiction 216’ | Fiction

Parallel Sections 14 Genre Cinema Biopics

A sneak peak of the FIFF Lumumba Queen Christina Victor Young Perez

Raoul Peck Rouben Mamoulian Jacques Ouaniche Programme France, Belgium, USA, 1933 France, Israel, Bulgaria, 2013 Germany, Haiti, 2000 > Official Selection 114’ | Fiction 99’ | Fiction 110’ | Fiction > Parallel Sections

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FIFForum Mansfield 66/67 A Taxi Driver Violeta Went to Heaven Juries and Awards Todd Hughes, P. David Ebersole Jang Hoon Andrés Wood USA, UK, 2017 South Korea, 2017 Chile, Argentina, Brazil, 2011 Exhibitions 85’ | Documentary 137’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 110’ | Fiction

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The Motorcycle Diaries Tom of Finland

Walter Salles Dome Karukoski Argentina, USA, Chile, Peru, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Brazil, UK, France, 2004 Germany, 2017

126’ | Fiction 116’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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Genre Cinema: Biopics

Sunday 18.03 17:00-18:00 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 15 Decryption 200 candles for Nova Friburgo

A sneak peak of the FIFF FIFF is always intrigued by the Programme: Nova Friburgo-Fribourg meeting of cultures, so it wasn’t going to miss the bicentenary Short Films from swiss students filmmakers and brazilian filmmakers Programme of Nova Friburgo, the Brazilian Switzerland, Brazil, 2018 | 110’ | Documentary | World Premiere town with a population of nearly > Official Selection 200,000 inhabitants founded by a colony of families hailing > Parallel Sections mainly from Fribourg. A docu- mentary recounting the story, > Special Screenings three gems of recent Brazilian cinema and a back-and-forth of short films – filmed in Brazil Cultural mediation by Swiss filmmakers and here by Brazilians – are the icing on the birthday cake for this anniversary FIFForum commemorating a time when the Swiss were migrants.

Juries and Awards Thierry Jobin

Exhibitions A rocha que temos Tudo Piano

Lou Rambert-Preiss* Colombe Rubini*, Practical information 10’ | 2017 Léonard Sinclair* 9’ | 2017

Films and Guests Nossa Senhora de Aparecida Queimadas Agenda Agnese Làposi* Alan Dupasquier* 11’ | 2017 7’ | 2017

Lírio-da-paz Love is sad

Louis Hans-Moëvi*, Lorraine Perriard* Maxime Beaud* 9’ | 2017 9’ | 2017

Bon esprit Narcisse

Benjamin Bucher* Korlei Rochat* 10’ | 2017 9’ | 2017

Parallel Sections 16 Decryption 200 candles for Nova Friburgo

A sneak peak of the FIFF Nova Friburgo Neon Bull

Bebeto Abrantes, Gabriel Mascaro Programme Jean-Jacques Fontaine Brazil, Uruguay, Switzerland, Brazil, 2018 Netherlands, 2015 > Official Selection 55’ | Documentary | 101’ | Fiction > Parallel Sections World Premiere

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Juries and Awards Araby Vazante

Exhibitions João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa Daniela Thomas Brazil, 2017 Brazil, Portugal, 2017

Practical information 96’ | Fiction | 114’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere Swiss Premiere

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Decryption: 200 candles for Nova Friburgo

Thursday 22.03 17:30-19:00 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 17 Diaspora Beki Probst and Turkey

A sneak peak of the FIFF She left Turkey to live in Yol Honey Switzerland, has run cinemas, was instrumental in developing Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney Semih Kaplanoglu Programme Locarno and, since 1988, has Turkey, Switzerland, France, 1982 Turkey, Germany, France, 2010 made the Berlinale European Film > Official Selection Market one of the biggest in the 112’ | Fiction 104’ | Fiction world. After holding the position > Parallel Sections of Director, she was appointed President in 2014. The world of > Special Screenings cinema bows down before Beki Probst. She is the grande dame of the industry and the FIFF is Cultural mediation honoured that she has agreed to present five films close to her heart that express so vividly the FIFForum troubles of her homeland. Journey to the Sun Winter Sleep Thierry Jobin Juries and Awards Yesim Ustaoglu Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey, Netherlands, Turkey, Germany, Germany, 1999 France, 2014 Exhibitions 110’ | Fiction 196’ | Fiction

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The Legend of the Ugly King

Hüseyin Tabak Germany, Austria, 2017

122’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere

Encounter

Diaspora: Beki Probst and Turkey

Thursday 22.03 17:30-19:00 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 18 Hommage à… Cannes Classics

A sneak peak of the FIFF Since 2004, the Festival de Cannes Vers l’inconnu ? Soleil O has been presenting restored copies of sometimes little-known Georges Nasser Med Hondo Programme masterpieces in the Cannes Lebanon, 1957 Mauritania, 1970 Classics section. In 2017, more > Official Selection than 20 films were screened. 81’ | Fiction 98’ | Fiction The programme, which is less > Parallel Sections well publicised than the other sections, is particularly dear to > Special Screenings Cannes general delegate Thierry Frémaux. We are honoured that he has agreed to choose five Cultural mediation titles that will make Fribourg the first festival in the world to pay homage to the section. FIFForum Thierry Jobin Lucia L’empire des sens Juries and Awards Humberto Solás Nagisa Ôshima Cuba, 1968 Japan, France, 1976 Exhibitions 160’ | Fiction 109’ | Fiction

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The Ballad of Narayama Shôhei Imamura Japan, 1983

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with Gérald Duchaussoy

Friday 23.03 18:00-19:00 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 19 New Territory Mongolia

A sneak peak of the FIFF After trekking through Nepal in State of Dogs Ten Soldiers of 2017, FIFF audiences are going to Genghis Khan take a ride through an entirely Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Programme different cinematic landscape: Peter Brosens Chagedeersurong, the steppes of Mongolia, home Mongolia, Belgium, Finland, Zolbayar Dorj > Official Selection to a lyrical style of filmmaking, Netherlands, Denmark, 1998 Mongolia, 2012 over which looms the figure of > Parallel Sections Genghis Khan. Mongolia is the 88’ | Documentary 91’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere least densely populated country > Special Screenings in the world – 3 million people inhabit a territory that is 38 times bigger than Switzerland! – and is Cultural mediation renowned for productions that transform modest budgets into westerns on a level of quality FIFForum and spectacle to rival Hollywood.

Thierry Jobin Juries and Awards L’Histoire du Chameau The Men with Blue Dots qui Pleure Exhibitions Byambasuren Davaa*, Dorjsuren Shadav Luigi Falorni Mongolia, 2012 Mongolia, Germany, 2003 Practical information 93’ | Documentary 102’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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Passion Remote Control

Byamba Sakhya* Byamba Sakhya* Mongolia, 2010 Mongolia, Germany, USA, 2013 83’ | Documentary | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction

Parallel Sections 20 New Territory Mongolia

A sneak peak of the FIFF Yellow Colt The Mother

Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig Erdenetsetseg Bazarragchaa Programme Mongolia, South Korea, 2013 Mongolia, 2016

> Official Selection 91’ | Fiction | 90’ | Fiction | European Premiere Swiss Premiere > Parallel Sections

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FIFForum One Life of Two Women Out of Paradise Juries and Awards Janchivdorj Sengedorj Batbayar Chogsom* Mongolia, 2015 Switzerland, Mongolia, 2017 Exhibitions 95’ | Fiction | 100’ | Fiction International Premiere Practical information

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New Territory: Mongolia

Wednesday 21.03 18:30-20:00 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 21 Sur la carte de Ken Loach

A sneak peak of the FIFF After the Dardenne brothers, La battaglia di Algeri Ladri di biciclette British filmmaker Ken Loach, another two-time winner of the Gillo Pontecorvo Vittorio De Sica Programme Palme d’or (The Wind That Shakes Algeria, Italy, 1966 Italy, 1948 the Barley in 2006 and I, Daniel > Official Selection Blake in 2016), has agreed to 121’ | Fiction 89’ | Fiction oversee our carte blanche sec- > Parallel Sections tion. The director, with around fifty films to his name, has never > Special Screenings sought accolades. His films are model examples of that most difficult of art forms, making Cultural mediation simple and truthful films that try to improve the world – mak- ing Loach the exception rather FIFForum than the rule. The five films he has chosen for you share this The Golden Dream The Loves of a Blonde prime objective. Juries and Awards Diego Quemada-Díez Milos Forman Thierry Jobin Mexico, Spain, 2013 Czechoslovakia, 1965

Exhibitions 110’ | Fiction 90’ | Fiction

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Jirí Menzel Czechoslovakia, 1966

93’ | Fiction

Masterclass

Ken Loach

Monday 19.03 20:30-22:00 > ARENA 7

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Parallel Sections 22 A sneak peak of the FIFF

Programme Special Screenings

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> Parallel Sections FIFFamily Olá Brasil - 24 > Special Screenings Films of the International Jury - 25 Cultural mediation Passeport suisse - 26 Midnight Screenings - 27 FIFForum

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Special Screenings 23 FIFFamily Olá Brasil

A sneak peak of the FIFF FIFF participates in celebrating Programme: Olá Brasil the bicentenary of the founding of Nova Friburgo by dedicating a Brazil’s Kids Film Festival - a selection Programme section to new Brazilian cinema. Brazil, 45’ | Animation | Swiss Premiere For the event we have asked the > Official Selection Brazil’s Kids Film Festival (BKFF) for a special selection of films > Parallel Sections for young children aged four and over. The six short – 45 minutes > Special Screenings long – silent films put forward, just as funny as they are surpris- ing, show the current diversity in Cultural mediation Brazil’s animated films.

Cécilia Bovet and FIFForum Delphine Niederberger

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Exhibitions Um Lugar Comum Super Plunf

Jonas de Faria Brandão Camila Kauling Rumpf, Practical information 10’ | 2009 Henrique Luiz Pereira Olive 8’ | 2014

Films and Guests Remoto Controle Caminho dos Gigantes Remoto Alois Di Leo Agenda Bruno Bask 12’ | 2016 2’ | 2011

Paleolito Brinquedo Novo

Gabriel Calegario, Ismael Lito Rogério Boechat 6’ | 2013 7’ | 2016

Makala

Emmanuel Gras France, 2017

96’ | Documentary Swiss Premiere

Special Screenings 24 Films of the International Jury

A sneak peak of the FIFF Beauty and the Dogs The People vs. Apprentice George Lucas Kaouther Ben Hania* Boo Junfeng* Programme Tunisia, France, Sweden, Alexandre O. Philippe* Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Norway, Switzerland, 2017 USA, UK, 2010 Germany, France, 2016 > Official Selection 100’ | Fiction 93’ | Fiction 96’ | Fiction > Parallel Sections

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with the International Jury

Saturday 24.03 16:00-17:00 > ARENA 7

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Special Screenings 25 Passeport suisse

A sneak peak of the FIFF The FIFF is continuing the Programme: Foreign Visa Prize initiatives launched at previous festivals to encourage and Switzerland, 2017 Programme promote awareness of Swiss 91’ | Fiction, Documentary, Experimental cinema. For the second time, > Official Selection a prize of 1,000 Swiss francs, sponsored by E-CHANGER and > Parallel Sections Fribourg Solidaire, will be awarded by a jury of guests > Special Screenings from the New Territory section. It will be awarded to the best of a programme of short films from Cultural mediation Switzerland’s film schools.

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Exhibitions Adieu à l’Afrique Foulek Occhio di Falco

Pierre-Alain Meier* Patrick Muroni* Mattia Beraldi* Practical information ECAL-École cantonale CISA, Conservatorio Switzerland, 2017 d’art de Lausanne Internazionale di Scienze Audiovisive Films and Guests 87’ | Documentary 18’ | 2017 11’ | 2017

Agenda Metus Being Haved

Severin Schönenberger* Robin Angst* HSLU, Hochschule Luzern - HSLU, Hochschule Luzern - Design & Kunst Design & Kunst

Sarah joue un 6’ | 2017 7’ | 2017 loup-garou1 Katharina Wyss*

Switzerland, Germany, 2017 Les Heures-Encre First Love

86’ | Fiction Wendy Pillonel* Jules Carrin* ZHdK, Zürcher Hochschule HEAD, Haute école d’art der Künste et de design, Genève

29’ | 2016 20’ | 2017

Presence of the actress Loane Balthasar

Special Screenings 26 Midnight Screenings

A sneak peak of the FIFF The Battleship Island The Ravenous Sweet Country

Ryoo Seung-wan Robin Aubert Warwick Thornton Programme South Korea, 2017 Canada, 2017 Australia, 2017

> Official Selection 132’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 100’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 112’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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FIFForum The Cannibal Club Revenge FILM SURPRISE

Juries and Awards Guto Parente Coralie Fargeat !!! Film strictly forbidden Brazil, 2018 France, 2017 to the under 18 !!!

Exhibitions 81’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 108’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere 90’ | Fiction | Swiss Premiere

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Planète Cinéma, the FIFF schools’ A sneak peak of the FIFF programme, aims to introduce Programme: Zaineb n’aime young audiences to the diversity Olá Brasil pas la neige of international cinema and imple- Programme ment the educational support Brazil’s Kids Film Festival - Kaouther Ben Hania a selection necessary for this induction into Tunisia, France, Qatar, > Official Selection the world of film. By encouraging Lebanon, UAE, 2016 conversations, discussions and > Parallel Sections meetings with industry profession- 45’ | Animation 94’ | Documentary | als, we aim to encourage young See the details Swiss Premiere > Special Screenings audiences’ curiosity and create the viewers of tomorrow.

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Juries and Awards 33 International Jury Feature Films

A sneak peak of the FIFF The total prize money for the Kaouther Ben Hania Ariunaa Tserenpil awards of FIFF 2017 stands at CHF 66,500. The winners will be Tunisia Mongolia Programme revealed at the closing ceremony, which will take place on Saturday, Tunisian director Few people devote > Official Selection April 8th at 18:00 at the Equilibre Kaouther Ben Hania their life to the art Theatre. made a name for herself very and culture of their home country > Parallel Sections early on with the short films to the same extent as Ariunaa she made during her studies at Tserenpil. She has worked as > Special Screenings the EDAC art and film school in Coordinator (1997-2000) and The International Jury Tunis. Her films have won awards Director (2000-2002) of the Arts in several festivals, including the & Culture programme for the Cultural mediation Feature Films gives the Festival International du Film de Mongolian foundation Open Femmes de Salé (2014), the Festival Society (Soros Foundation). In 2002 following Awards: International du Film Francophone she founded the Arts Council of FIFForum de Namur (2014) and the Journées Mongolia and along with her hus- Cinématographiques de Carthage band, Byamba Sakhya, created a (2016). At this year’s FIFF she will film production company in 2008. Juries and Awards present her latest feature film: Together, they have directed and Beauty and the Dogs, selected at produced two hugely success- the Festival de Cannes (2017) for ful features: Passion and Remote Exhibitions the Un Certain Regard category Control, both of which were and supported by the Vision Sud presented in the New Territory: Est prize. Mongolia section. Practical information Grand Prix of the Fribourg International Film Festival Alexandre O. Boo Junfeng Films and Guests The Grand Prix of the Fribourg Philippe International Film Festival Singapore consists of CHF 30,000 jointly Switzerland, France Agenda bestowed by the Canton of Winner of the FIFF Fribourg (CHF 20,000) and Alexandre O. Philippe Grand Prix in 2017 with the Municipality of Fribourg is originally from Geneva but his feature Apprentice (2016), Boo (CHF 10,000). This award is honed his filmmaking craft in the Junfeng will be back this year as a conferred upon the director US. His documentaries specialise member of the International Jury. (CHF 20,000) and the producer in pop culture. A friend of the The director caused quite a stir with (CHF 10,000) of the film selected Festival, he has already come to his first feature, Sandcastle (2010), by the International Jury. present three highly original doc- which was selected for the Festival umentaries: The Life and Times of de Cannes parallel section, the Paul the Psychic Octopus, Doc of Critics’ Week, and his second film, the Dead and 78/52. This year he Apprentice, was in the Un Certain is attending as a member of the Regard section in 2016. In Fribourg, International Jury for Features he made quite the impression on and will present his documentary the Équilibre audience… He couldn’t Special Jury Award straight out of a galaxy far, far be at the closing ceremony, so he away: The People vs. George Lucas. amused the audience with video This prize consisting of CHF 10,000 messages of thanks he had recorded is awarded by the Swiss Authors in his apartment in Singapore with Society (SAS) and Suissimage. It is his pet dog, tasting the cheese and bestowed on the director of the chocolate he had brought back in film chosen by the International his suitcase. Jury for the inventiveness of the screenplay and the direction, the rejuvenation of the cine- matographic language, or the thematic and formal audacity shown.

Juries and Awards 34 International Jury Short Films

A sneak peak of the FIFF The International Jury Ilaria Gomarasca Maria Raluca Hanea Short Films gives the Italy Programme Romania following award: After studying film, > Official Selection literature and arts in Raluca Maria Hanea Milan, Ilaria Gomarasca began her was born in Transylvania in 1982. > Parallel Sections career at the Louvre in Paris. In After studying literature in Cluj- 2009 she embarked on her career Napoca, she studied art history > Special Screenings in the film industry at WIDE and and film in Paris, where she has became Head of the Festivals lived for the last 10 years. She Department. Then in 2013 she combines her love of film writing Cultural mediation Best International Short Film joined Pyramid International as and poetry through her day-to-day Award Head of Festivals and Markets. work as a writer and as Deputy Co-founder of Cinema Espresso Artistic Director and Head of the FIFForum The Best International Short Film - the association for the pro- Film Department at the Festival Award, which is sponsored by motion of the italian culture in de Cinéma Européen des Arcs. Groupe E, recognises innova- France, she reactivates in 2018 Juries and Awards tive, independent film-making the Festival De Rome à Paris. by emerging young talent. The Short Film Jury will award the CHF Exhibitions 7,500 cash prize to the winning director. Delphine Jeanneret

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> Special Screenings Awarded by a Jury of members This award (CHF 5,000) is con- Conferred by COMUNDO and of the Swiss Film Journalist ferred jointly by two develop- amounting to CHF 5,000, this prize Association, this prize aims to ment-cooperation organisations, is awarded by the Youth Jury. Cultural mediation promote the cinema as an art Action de Carême (Catholic) It aims not only to give young and encourage new and emerg- and Pain pour le Prochain people a say in the Festival, but ing films. (Protestant), to the director also to highlight a film that takes FIFForum whose film best reflects the val- into account the problems faced Members of the Critics’ Choice ues upon which these two organ- by young people in today’s world. Award Jury isations base their support to the It is aimed to raise awareness in Juries and Awards struggle of poor populations in students and apprentices of the >> Eric Steiner African, Asian or Latin American irreplaceable means provided by (Switzerland – FR) countries. The Ecumenical Jury films – beyond mere diversion – Exhibitions is composed of representatives to discover the riches of other >> Madelein Hirziger of the two Church-run develop- cultures and to learn tolerance (Switzerland – ZH) ment agencies, and representa- and justice. Practical information tives of SIGNIS (World Catholic >> Cristina Trezzini Association for Communication Members of the Youth Jury (Switzerland – TI) (www.signis.net) and INTERFILM COMUNDO Films and Guests (International Interchurch Film Organisation, www.inter-film.org). >> Guillaume Baeriswyl (Switzerland) Agenda Members of the Ecumenical Jury >> Robin Jolissaint (Switzerland) >> Stefanie Arnold (Switzerland) >> Lia Ludwig (Switzerland) >> Manfred Koch (Germany) >> Gayané Naroyan (Switzerland) The Audience Award >> Maxime Pouyanne (France) >> André Perreira (Switzerland) This prize, consisting of CHF >> Luzia Sutter Rehmann 5,000, is supported by the FIFF (Switzerland) >> Asia Picasso (Switzerland) and the Banque Cantonale de Fribourg and awarded to the director of the film selected by the audience.

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Members of the FICC Jury >> Ely Luethi (Switzerland)

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Hugo Corpataux: Action! Exhibition 16.03 > 26.05 The BCU takes a look back over Programme the life of Hugo Corpataux. By Opening turns a travelling projectionist, Thursday 15.03 > Official Selection a cameraman, a distributor, a 18:00 cinema equipment salesman, > Parallel Sections a director, a producer and even Opening Hours owner of the Studio Cinema, this Monday-Friday 08:00 – 22:00 > Special Screenings jack-of-all-trades learned about Saturday 08:00 – 16:00 the world of cinema on the job. A lover of Fribourg and its inhab- Round table Cultural mediation itants, he worked on films that Wednesday 11.04 18:30 explore the many facets of the city’s identity. Admission FIFForum Free entrance © René Bersier Contact Juries and Awards Cantonal and University Library, “BCU” Rue Joseph-Piller 2 Exhibitions CH-1700 Fribourg +41 (0)26 305 13 33 www.fr.ch/bcuf Practical information

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Agenda Thomas Brasey Exhibition Nova vida | Brazil-Portugal 16.12.2017 > 15.04.2018

10th Photographic Investigation: Opening Hours theme Fribourg Tuesday-Friday 10:00 - 12:00 | 13:30 - 17:00 For the bicentenary of the Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 founding of the town of Nova Sunday 13:30 - 17:00 Friburgo in Brazil, Thomas Brasey is devoting the 10th Photographic Admission Investigation to the Swiss Regular admission CHF 12 migrants who went to Brazil in Reduced admission CHF 9 1819. The exhibition draws par- Free entrance: Children up to allels with current events. The 16 years accompanied by their emigration to South America and parents the immigration to the canton © Thomas Brasey of Fribourg by many Portuguese Contact people raise the same questions: Musée gruérien why leave and how do you live Rue de la Condémine 25 your life in a new country? CH-1630 Bulle +41 (0)26 916 10 10 www.musee-gruerien.ch

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Kein Wunder Exhibition 10.03 > 24.03 Mélanie Gobet presents a perfor- Programme mance, extended into an exhibi- Opening tion, that aims to dramatise the Friday 09.03 18:00 > Official Selection repetitive nature of everyday Performance: actions. A selection of films by Mélanie Gobet 20:00 > Parallel Sections artists chosen by the art space team will also be shown and will Opening Hours > Special Screenings explore the theme of the biopic Thursday-Sunday 15:00 – 19:00 from an experimental angle. The exhibition is an artistic proposi- Admission Cultural mediation tion that explores the theatrical Free entrance aspect of the biopic as a way of building an identity. Contact FIFForum WallRiss Mélanie Gobet, CONFETTII, 2017, Rue du Varis 10-12 Zürich, photo: © Wassili Widmer CH-1700 Fribourg Juries and Awards +41 (0)79 815 88 26 [email protected] www.wallriss.ch Exhibitions All the events at www.facebook.com/Wallriss Practical information

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Practical information 43 List of Films by country

Algeria France Mongolia A sneak peak of the FIFF > La battaglia di Algeri > Lumumba > L’Histoire du Chameau qui Pleure Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 | Fiction Raoul Peck, 2000 | Fiction Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni, > Makala 2003 | Documentary Programme Argentina Emmanuel Gras, 2017 | Documentary > The Men with Blue Dots > Revenge Dorjsuren Shadav, 2012 | Fiction > The Emigrants Coralie Fargeat, 2017 | Fiction > The Mother Andrés Llugany, 2017 | Animation > Official Selection > Victor Young Perez Erdenetsetseg Bazarragchaa, > The Motorcycle Diaries Jacques Ouaniche, 2013 | Fiction 2016 | Fiction Walter Salles, 2004 | Fiction > One Life of Two Women > Parallel Sections > Packing Heavy Janchivdorj Sengedorj, 2015 | Fiction Darío Mascambroni, 2017 | Fiction Germany > Passion > The Legend of the Ugly King > Special Screenings Byamba Sakhya, 2010 | Documentary Hüseyin Tabak, 2017 | Documentary Australia > Remote Control > Sweet Country Byamba Sakhya, 2013 | Fiction Warwick Thornton, 2017 | Fiction India > Ten Soldiers of Genghis Khan Cultural mediation > Walking With The Wind Zolbayar Dorj, Chagedeersurong, Brazil Praveen Morchhale, 2017 | Fiction 2012 | Fiction > What Will People Say > State of Dogs > Araby Iram Haq, 2017 | Fiction Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Peter Brosens, FIFForum Affonso Uchoa, João Dumans, 1998 | Documentary 2017 | Fiction > Yellow Colt > The Bony Lady Indonesia Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig, Mongolia, Thiago Zanato, Adriana Barbosa > The Seen and Unseen South Korea, 2013 | Fiction Juries and Awards 2018 | Docufiction Kamila Andini, 2017 | Fiction > The Cannibal Club Nigeria Guto Parente, 2018 | Fiction Iran > Neon Bull > ‘76 Exhibitions > Retouch Gabriel Mascaro, 2015 | Fiction Izu Ojukwu, 2016 | Fiction Kaveh Mazaheri, 2017 | Fiction > Programme: Olá Brasil | Animation > Unicorn Philippines Eduardo Nunes*, 2017 | Fiction Israel Practical information > Dark is the Night > Vazante > Foxtrot Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.*, 2017 | Fiction Daniela Thomas, 2017 | Fiction Samuel Maoz, 2017 | Fiction > Man of Pa’aling > Whatever E del Mundo, 2017 | Fiction Films and Guests Bernardo Botkay, 2017 | Fiction Italy > Puppy Love > Ladri di biciclette Margarita Mina, 2017 | Fiction Canada Vittorio De Sica, 1948 | Fiction Agenda > The Ravenous Russia Robin Aubert, 2017 | Fiction Japan > Salyut-7 > The Ballad of Narayama Klim Shipenko, 2017 | Fiction Cameroun Shôhei Imamura, 1983 | Fiction > French > L’empire des sens Serbia Josza Anjembe, 2016 | Fiction Nagisa Ôshima, 1976 | Fiction > A Handful of Stones > Goodbye, Grandpa! Stefan Ivanvic, 2017 | Fiction Czechoslovakia Yukihiro Morigaki*, 2017 | Fiction > The Loves of a Blonde South Africa Milos Forman, 1965 | Fiction Lebanon > Five Fingers for Marseilles > Trains étroitement surveillés > Vers l’inconnu? Michael Matthews*, 2017 | Fiction Jirí Menzel, 1966 | Fiction Georges Nasser, 1957 | Fiction > My Mum’s Bonkers > What Happens to a Displaced Ant Naomi van Niekerk, 2017 | Animation Chile Shirin Abu Shaqra, 2018 | Docufiction > White Noise > Violeta Went to Heaven Lucie La Chimia, Ahmad Ghossein, South Korea Andrés Wood, 2011 | Fiction 2017 | Fiction > After My Death Kim Ui-Seok*, 2017 | Fiction Colombia Mauritania > The Battleship Island > Swamp Ryoo Seung-wan, 2017 | Fiction > Soleil O Juan Sebastián Mesa, 2017 | Fiction > A Taxi Driver Med Hondo, 1970 | Fiction > Lucia Jang Hoon, 2017 | Fiction Humberto Solás, 1968 | Fiction Mexico Syria > The Golden Dream Finland > Greetings From Aleppo Diego Quemada-Díez, 2013 | Fiction > Euthanizer Thomas Vroege, Floor van der Meulen, > Iku Manieva Teemu Nikki, 2017 | Fiction Issa Touma*, 2017 | Documentary Isaac Ruiz Gastélum, 2017 | Experimental > Tom of Finland Dome Karukoski, 2017 | Fiction

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Switzerland United Kingdom > Adieu à l’Afrique > Lawrence of Arabia Pierre-Alain Meier, 2017 | Documentary David Lean, 1962 | Fiction > Programme : Foreign Visa Prize Programme 2017 | Fiction, Documentary, Uruguay Experimental > Breadcrumbs > Nova Friburgo > Official Selection Manane Rodríguez, 2016 | Fiction Jean-Jacques Fontaine, Bebeto Abrantes, 2018 | Documentary > Parallel Sections > Nova Friburgo-Fribourg : USA allers et retours > Citizen Kane > Special Screenings Short Films from swiss students Orson Welles, 1941 | Fiction filmmakers and brazilian > Filmworker filmmakers, 2018 | Documentary Tony Zierra, 2017 | Documentary > Out of Paradise > I, Tonya Cultural mediation Batbayar Chogsom, 2017 | Fiction Craig Gillespie, 2017 | Fiction > Sarah joue un loup-garou > Mansfield 66/67 Katharina Wyss, 2017 | Fiction Todd Hughes, P. David Ebersole, 2017 | Documentary FIFForum Tanzania > The People vs. George Lucas Alexandre O. Philippe, > Volta 2010 | Documentary Erick Msumanje, 2018 | Documentary > Queen Christina Juries and Awards Rouben Mamoulian, 1933 | Fiction Tunisia > Beauty and the Dogs Exhibitions Kaouther Ben Hania, 2017 | Fiction

Turkey > Honey Practical information Semih Kaplanoglu, 2010 | Fiction > Journey to the Sun Yesim Ustaoglu, 1999 | Fiction Films and Guests > Kâbus Alice Fargier, 2017 | Experimental > Yol Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören, 1982 | Fiction Agenda > Winter Sleep Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014 | Fiction

Trinidad and Tobago > Green Days by the River Michael Mooleedhar*, 2017 | Fiction

Ukraine > Black Level Valentyn Vasyanovych, 2017 | Fiction

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A sneak peak of the FIFF International Competition: Movie Dates Languages Feature Films

Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. (Philippines), Dark is the Night 21.03 > 25.03 EN Programme director

> Official Selection Dario Mascambroni (Argentina), director Packing Heavy 16.03 > 21.03 ES

Unicorn > Parallel Sections Eduardo Nunes (Brazil), director 16.03 > 26.03 EN Kamila Andini (Indonesia), director The Seen and Unseen 19.03 > 21.03 EN > Special Screenings Kim Ui-seok (South Korea), director After My Death 19.03 > 23.03 KO

Michael Mooleedhar (Trinidad and Cultural mediation Green Days by the River 16.03 > 25.03 EN Tobago), director

Praveen Morchhale (India), director Walking With the Wind 19.03 > 23.03 EN FIFForum Samuel Maoz (Israel), director Foxtrot 16.03 > 18.03 EN

Goodbye, Grandpa! Juries and Awards Yukihiro Morigaki (Japan), director 22.03 > 25.03 JP

International Competition: Movie Dates Languages Exhibitions Short Films Andrés Llugany (Argentina), director The Emigrants 21.03 > 25.03 ES

Practical information Alice Fargier (Turkey), director Kâbus 22.03 > 25.03 FR/EN

Bernardo Botkay (Brazil), director Whatever 16.03 > 25.03 PT

Films and Guests E del Mundo (Philippines), director Man of Pa'aling 16.03 > 19.03 EN

Erick Msumanje (Tanzania), director Volta 22.03 > 25.03 EN Agenda Issa Touma (Syria), director Greetings From Aleppo 22.03 > 25.03 EN

Josza Anjembe (Cameroun), director French 22.03 > 25.03 FR

Kaveh Mazaheri (Iran), director Retouch 22.03 > 25.03 FA

Margarita Mina (Philippines), director Puppy Love 21.03 > 25.03 EN

Naomi van Niekerk (South Africa), My Mum’s Bonkers 16.03 > 25.03 EN/FR director

Shirin Abu Shaqra (Lebanon), director What Happens to a Displaced Ant 22.03 > 25.03 EN

Stefan Ivancic (Serbia), director A Handful of Stones 22.03 > 25.03 EN

Thiago Zanato, Adriana Barbosa The Bony Lady 22.03 > 25.03 EN (Brazil), director

Opening Movie Dates Languages

Emmanuel Gras (France), director Makala 16.03 > 18.03 FR

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Decryption: Movie Dates Languages 200 candles for Nova Friburgo

Maxime Beaud, Louis Hans-Moëvi Lírio-da-paz 22.03 FR Programme (Switzerland), ECAL

> Official Selection Benjamin Bucher (Switzerland), ECAL Bon esprit 22.03 FR

Queimadas > Parallel Sections Alan Dupasquier (Switzerland), ECAL 22.03 FR Agnese Làposi (Switzerland), ECAL Nossa Senhora de Aparecida 22.03 FR > Special Screenings Lorraine Perriard (Switzerland), ECAL Love is sad 22.03 FR

Cultural mediation Lou Rambert-Preiss (Switzerland), ECAL A rocha que temos 22.03 FR Korlei Rochat (Switzerland), ECAL Narcisse 22.03 FR

FIFForum Colombe Rubini, Léonard Sinclair Tudo Piano 22.03 FR (Switzerland), ECAL

Ana Maria Bonjour de Paula Coutinho Juries and Awards N.N 11.03 > 23.03 PT/EN (Brazil)

Gabriel De Almeida Fonseca (Brazil) N.N 11.03 > 23.03 PT/EN Exhibitions Daniel Ednir Lopes Soares (Brazil) N.N 11.03 > 23.03 PT/EN

Jéssica Ramos Ferreira (Brazil) N.N 11.03 > 23.03 PT/EN Practical information

Films and Guests Diaspora : Beki Probst and Turkey Dates Languages Beki Probst (Germany, Turkey), president of the European Film Market 18.03 > 20.03 FR

Agenda Donat Keusch, producer of The Legend of the Ugly King 18.03 > 20.03 FR

Hommage à… Cannes Classics Dates Languages

Gérald Duchaussoy (France), in charge of Cannes Classics 22.03 > 25.03 FR

New Territory: Mongolia Movie Dates Languages

Batbayar Chogsom (Mongolia), director Out of Paradise 21.03 EN/DE/MN

Byamba Sakhya (Mongolia), director Remote Control 16.03 > 25.03 EN/MN

Byambasuren Davaa (Germany), director L'Histoire du Chameau qui Pleure 19.03 > 22.03 EN/MN

Sur la carte de Ken Loach Dates Languages

Ken Loach (UK), curator 19.03 > 20.03 FR

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A sneak peak of the FIFF Passeport suisse Movie Dates Languages

Jules Carrin (Switzerland), HEAD First Love 26.03 FR/EN

Programme FR/DE/ Katharina Wyss (Switzerland), director Sarah joue un loup-garou 20.03 EN > Official Selection Loane Balthasar (Switzerland), actress Sarah joue un loup-garou 20.03 FR

> Parallel Sections Mattia Beraldi (Switzerland), CISA Occhio di Falco 24.03 IT/EN

> Special Screenings Patrick Muroni (Switzerland), ECAL Foulek 21.03 FR/EN Pierre-Alain Meier (Switzerland), Adieu à l'Afrique 23.03 FR director Cultural mediation Robin Angst (Switzerland), HSLU Being Haved 25.03 DE/EN

Severin Schönenberger (Switzerland), Metus 22.03 DE/EN FIFForum HSLU

Wendy Pillonel (Switzerland), ZHdK Les Heures-Encre 23.03 DE/EN Juries and Awards

International Jury: Feature Films Dates Languages Exhibitions Alexandre Philipp (Switzerland, USA), director 16.03 > 24.03 FR/EN

Ariunaa Tserenpil (Mongolia), director 16.03 > 24.03 MN/EN Practical information Boo Junfeng (Singapore), director 16.03 > 24.03 EN

Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia), director 16.03 > 24.03 FR Films and Guests

International Jury: Short Films Dates Languages Agenda Delphine Jeanneret (Switzerland), programmer 16.03 > 19.03 FR/DE/EN

Ilaria Gomarasca (Italy), Festivals manager 16.03 > 19.03 IT/FR/EN

Maria Raluca Hanea (Romania), writer and programmer 16.03 > 19.03 RO/FR/EN

FIFForum Event Dates Languages

Raphaëlle Moine (France) Cinéma de genre : Films biographiques (Biopics) 18.03 > 19.03 FR

Philippe Trinchan (Switzerland), Head of the Office of Culture of the Canton Tables Rondes | Fribourg : Lieu de cinéma 20.03 FR of Fribourg

Mark Olexa (Switzerland), director Tables Rondes | Fribourg : Lieu de cinéma 20.03 FR

Luc Peter (Switzerland), producer Tables Rondes | Fribourg : Lieu de cinéma 20.03 FR

François-Christophe Marzal Tables Rondes | Fribourg : Lieu de cinéma 20.03 FR (Switzerland), director

Gabriella Spirli (Switzerland), Swiss Tables Rondes | Nouveau territoire : 21.03 FR Cooperation Office in Mongolia Mongolie

Tables Rondes | Décryptage : Lionel Baier (Switzerland) 22.03 FR 200 bougies pour Nova Friburgo

Tables Rondes | Décryptage : Rosana Barroso (Brazil) 22.03 FR 200 bougies pour Nova Friburgo

Tables Rondes | Décryptage : Monika Füger (Switzerland) 22.03 FR 200 bougies pour Nova Friburgo

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11:45 - 14:00 14:15 - 16:00 16:15 - 18:00 18:15 - 20:30 20:45 - 22:30

20:00 Cérémonie d’ouverture 16.03 Makala, 96’ (62) > ARENA 1 Vendredi Freitag | Friday

12:15 Vers l’inconnu?, 81’ (106) > ARENA 7 14:30 The Loves of a Blonde, 90’ (133) > ARENA 7 17:30 Dark is the Night, 110’ (36) > Rex 1 18:15 Courts métrages 2, 102’ (52) > ARENA 5 20:45 Remote Control, 90’ (119) 1 > Rex 3 12:30 Breadcrumbs, 109’ (71) > ARENA 6 15:00 Lucia, 160’ (107) > ARENA 6 17:45 Honey, 104’ (100) > ARENA 7 18:30 I, Tonya, 119’ (74) > ARENA 6 21:00 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (56) > ARENA 5 17.03 12:30 Journey to the Sun, 110’ (99) > Rex 1 15:00 Goodbye, Grandpa!, 104’ (39) > Rex 1 18:00 The Legend of the Ugly King, 122’ (102) > Rex 3 19:30 What Will People Say, 106’ (45) > ARENA 1 21:15 Neon Bull, 101’ (91) > ARENA 6 13:00 Courts métrages 1, 92’ (48) > ARENA 5 15:15 Makala, 96’ (62) 1 > ARENA 5 20:30 The Golden Dream, 110’ (131) > ARENA 7 22:00 Revenge, 108’ (154) > ARENA 1 Samedi 1 Samstag 13:00 State of Dogs, 88’ (114) > Rex 3 15:30 The Men with Blue Dots, 102’ (118) > Rex 3 20:30 Foxtrot, 113’ (38) > Rex 1 1 1 Saturday 13:30 Green Days by the River, 102’ (40) > ARENA 1 16:00 Unicorn, 123’ (43) > ARENA 1

12:00 La battaglia di Algeri, 121’ (130) > ARENA 6 14:15 Foxtrot, 113’ (38) 1, 2 > ARENA 1 16:15 The Motorcycle Diaries, 126’ (78) > ARENA 6 19:00 Lawrence of Arabia, 216’ (75) > ARENA 6 22:15 Euthanizer, 83’ (152) > ARENA 1 12:00 Filmworker, 90’ (73) > ARENA 7 14:45 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (56) 2 > ARENA 5 17:00 Conférence : Cinéma de genre 19:15 Queen Christina, 99’ (79) > ARENA 7 18.03 12:15 Black Level, 90’ (35) > ARENA 1 14:45 Programme : Olá Brasil, 45’ (140) 2 > ARENA 6 Films biographiques, 60’ (170) 2 > ARENA 7 20:00 Packing Heavy, 68’ (41) 1 > ARENA 1 Dimanche 12:15 Ladri di biciclette, 89’ (132) > ARENA 5 15:15 The Mother, 90’ (122) 2 > Rex 3 17:15 A Taxi Driver, 137’ (80) > ARENA 1 20:15 Ten Soldiers of Genghis Khan, 91’ (117) > Rex 3 Sonntag 12:30 After My Death, 113’ (34) > Rex 1 15:30 Walking With The Wind, 79’ (44) 2 > Rex 1 17:30 Courts métrages 2, 102’ (52) > ARENA 5 20:30 Courts métrages 1, 92’ (48) > ARENA 5 Sunday 13:00 Yellow Colt, 91’ (120) > Rex 3 17:30 Yol, 112’ (98) > Rex 3 20:30 Five Fingers for Marseilles, 119’ (37) > Rex 1 14:00 L’empire des sens, 109’ (109) 2 > ARENA 7 17:45 Vazante, 114’ (92) > Rex 1

12:15 Araby, 96’ (90) > Rex 3 15:00 Dark is the Night, 110’ (36) > ARENA 1 16:30 Black Level, 90’ (35) > Rex 1 18:15 Tom of Finland, 116’ (81) > ARENA 6 21:00 Goodbye, Grandpa!, 104’ (39) > ARENA 1 19.03 12:30 Winter Sleep, 196’ (101) > Rex 1 15:15 Yol, 112’ (98) > ARENA 7 18:00 Five Fingers for Marseilles, 119’ (37) > ARENA 1 18:15 ‘76, 116’ (70) > Rex 3 21:00 The Legend of the Ugly King, 122’ (102) > ARENA 6 12:45 Ladri di biciclette, 89’ (132) > Rex 2 18:00 The Golden Dream, 110’ (131) > ARENA 5 18:30 Rencontre : Diaspora 21:00 The Men with Blue Dots, 102’ (118) > Rex 3 Lundi 13:00 Packing Heavy, 68’ (41) 1 > ARENA 1 Beki Probst et la Turquie, 60’ (170) > ARENA 7 21:15 Green Days by the River, 102’ (40) 1 > Rex 1 Montag Monday 13:30 Violeta Went to Heaven, 110’ (83) > ARENA 5 18:45 What Will People Say, 106’ (45) > Rex 1 22:15 The Ravenous, 100’ (153) > ARENA 5 20:30 Masterclass : Ken Loach, 90’ (170) > ARENA 7

12:30 Green Days by the River, 102’ (40) 1 > Rex 1 14:30 Nova Friburgo, 55’ (89) > ARENA 5 18:00 Apprentice, 96’ > ARENA 6 18:30 Programme : Foreign Visa Prize, 91’ (148) 1, 4 > Rex 3 20:45 Five Fingers for Marseilles, 119’ (37) > Rex 1 20.03 12:45 Walking With The Wind, 79’ (44) 1 > ARENA 1 15:00 Unicorn, 123’ (43) 1 > ARENA 1 18:00 Foxtrot, 113’ (38) > Rex 1 19:30 Sarah joue un loup-garou, 86’ (147) 1 > ARENA 5 21:15 L’Histoire du Chameau qui Pleure, 93’ (115) 1 > Rex 3 12:45 The Mother, 90’ (122) > Rex 3 15:00 After My Death, 113’ (34) 1 > Rex 1 19:45 The Seen and Unseen, 86’ (42) > ARENA 1 22:00 Sweet Country, 112’ (156) > ARENA 1 Mardi 16:00 Table ronde : Fribourg – lieu de cinéma, 20:15 Mansfield 66/67, 85’ (77) > ARENA 7 Dienstag Tuesday 90’ (170) > ARENA 7 20:30 Soleil O, 98’ (108) > ARENA 6

12:00 Breadcrumbs, 109’ (71) > Rex 3 14:45 The Ballad of Narayama, 130’ (110) > ARENA 7 17:00 Le Regard de l’Autre, 75’ (171) > ARENA 5 18:30 Black Level, 90’ (35) > ARENA 1 20:45 After My Death, 113’ (34) 1 > ARENA 1 12:15 L’Histoire du Chameau qui Pleure, 93’ (115) 1 > ARENA 7 15:15 Five Fingers for Marseilles, 119’ (37) > ARENA 1 18:00 ‘76, 116’ (70) > Rex 3 18:30 Table ronde : Mongolie, 90’ (171) > ARENA 7 20:45 Passion, 83’ (116) 1 > Rex 3 21.03 12:15 Queen Christina, 99’ (79) > Rex 2 15:45 The Seen and Unseen, 86’ (42) > Rex 1 19:00 La battaglia di Algeri, 121’ (130) > ARENA 5 21:00 Out of Paradise, 100’ (123) 1 > ARENA 7 Mercredi 12:30 Foxtrot, 113’ (38) > ARENA 1 19:00 Packing Heavy, 68’ (41) > Rex 1 21:00 Walking With The Wind, 79’ (44) 1 > Rex 1 Mittwoch 12:30 Unicorn, 123’ (43) 1 > Rex 1 21:45 The Battleship Island, 132’ (150) > ARENA 5 Wednesday 12:45 Neon Bull, 101’ (91) > ARENA 6 13:00 Violeta Went to Heaven, 110’ (83) > ARENA 5

12:15 A Taxi Driver, 137’ (80) > ARENA 5 15:00 What Will People Say, 106’ (45) > ARENA 1 17:00 Winter Sleep, 196’ (101) > Rex 3 18:15 Courts métrages 2, 102’ (52) 1, 3 > ARENA 5 21:00 Beauty and the Dogs, 100’ (142) 1 > ARENA 6 22.03 12:30 Green Days by the River, 102’ (40) 1 > ARENA 1 15:00 Nova Friburgo, 55’ (89) > ARENA 7 17:30 Walking With The Wind, 79’ (44) 1 > ARENA 1 19:45 Black Level, 90’ (35) > ARENA 1 21:00 Passion, 83’ (116) 1 > Rex 3 12:30 The Seen and Unseen, 86’ (42) > Rex 1 15:00 Dark is the Night, 110’ (36) 1 > Rex 1 17:30 Table ronde : 20:15 Programme : 21:15 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (56) 1 > ARENA 5 Jeudi 12:30 Out of Paradise, 100’ (123) > Rex 3 15:30 Courts métrages 1, 92’ (48) 1 > ARENA 5 200 bougies pour Nova Friburgo, 90’ (171) 4 > ARENA 7 Nova Friburgo-Fribourg, 110’ (88) 1, 4 > ARENA 7 22:30 The Cannibal Club, 81’ (151) > ARENA 1 Donnerstag 1 1 Thursday 12:45 Trains étroitement surveillés, 93’ (134) > ARENA 7 15:30 Apprentice, 96’ > ARENA 6 17:45 Goodbye, Grandpa!, 104’ (39) > Rex 1 20:30 Unicorn, 123’ (43) > Rex 1 13:00 Citizen Kane, 119’ (72) > ARENA 6 18:00 The People vs. George Lucas, 93’ (143) 1 > ARENA 6

12:00 Lumumba, 114’ (76) > ARENA 7 14:45 Packing Heavy, 68’ (41) > ARENA 1 16:30 After My Death, 113’ (34) > ARENA 1 18:15 Courts métrages 1, 92’ (48) 1 > ARENA 5 20:45 Lucia, 160’ (107) > ARENA 7 12:15 Goodbye, Grandpa!, 104’ (39) 1 > ARENA 1 15:00 Soleil O, 98’ (108) > ARENA 7 17:30 Dark is the Night, 110’ (36) > Rex 1 18:30 Victor Young Perez, 110’ (82) > ARENA 6 21:00 The People vs. George Lucas, 93’ (143) 1 > ARENA 6 23.03 12:15 Filmworker, 90’ (73) > Rex 2 15:15 The Motorcycle Diaries, 126’ (78) > ARENA 6 18:00 Rencontre avec Gérald Duchaussoy, 60’ (171) > ARENA 7 19:15 Tom of Finland, 116’ (81) > ARENA 1 21:15 Courts métrages 2, 102’ (52) 1 > ARENA 5 Vendredi 12:30 The Loves of a Blonde, 90’ (133) > ARENA 5 15:15 The Seen and Unseen, 86’ (42) > Rex 1 18:00 State of Dogs, 88’ (114) > Rex 3 20:15 Adieu à l’Afrique, 87’ (146) 1 > Rex 1 22:00 FILM SURPRISE > ARENA 1 Freitag 12:30 One Life of Two Women, 95’ (121) > Rex 3 15:30 Courts métrages 3, 95’ (56) 1 > ARENA 5 20:30 Remote Control, 90’ (119) 1 > Rex 3 Friday 12:45 Araby, 96’ (90) > ARENA 6 12:45 What Will People Say, 106’ (45) > Rex 1

11:45 Vers l’inconnu?, 81’ (106) > ARENA 7 14:15 Beauty and the Dogs, 100’ (142) 2 > ARENA 7 17:30 Honey, 104’ (100) > Rex 3 19:15 L’empire des sens, 109’ (109) > ARENA 5 20:45 Mansfield 66/67, 85’ (77) > ARENA 7 12:00 I, Tonya, 119’ (74) > ARENA 5 suivi d’une Rencontre avec le Jury international 17:45 Journey to the Sun, 110’ (99) > Rex 1 20:15 Citizen Kane, 119’ (72) > ARENA 6 21:45 Salyut-7 (3D), 119’ (155) > ARENA 5 24.03 12:00 Ten Soldiers of Genghis Khan, 91’ (117) > Rex 3 à 16:00, 60’ (171) 2 18:00 Cérémonie de clôture 20:15 Yellow Colt, 91’ (120) > Rex 3 Samedi 12:15 Programme : 14:30 One Life of Two Women, 95’ (121) 2 > Rex 3 Sergio & Sergei, 93’ (63) > ARENA 1 20:30 Sergio & Sergei, 93’ (63) > Rex 1 Samstag Nova Friburgo-Fribourg, 110’ (88) 4 > ARENA 6 14:45 Lawrence of Arabia, 216’ (75) > ARENA 5 18:00 Lumumba, 114’ (76) > ARENA 7 Saturday 12:15 Vazante, 114’ (92) > Rex 1 15:00 The Ballad of Narayama, 130’ (110) 2 > ARENA 6 18:00 Trains étroitement surveillés, 93’ (134) > ARENA 6 15:00 Victor Young Perez, 110’ (82) 2 > Rex 1

13:30 Prix du meilleur court métrage international 16:00 Prix du public 2018 | Séance gratuite > Rex 1 25.03 + Grand Prix > Rex 1 Dimanche Sonntag Sunday Légende | Legende | Legend Compétition | Wettbewerb | Competition Séances spéciales | Sondervorführungen | Special Screenings Séances parallèles | Parallelsektionen | Parallel Sections FIFForum 1 en présence du/de la cinéaste 3 Présentation et Q&A interprétés en langue des signes française in Anwesenheit der Filmschaffenden | in presence of the filmmaker Präsentation und Q&A werden in die französische Gebärdensprache übersetzt

2 nursery option 4 Séance gratuite | Gratis-Vorführung | Free admission Organisation

A sneak peak of the FIFF Artistic Director Organisation translation Thierry Jobin and presentation Curators of the Impressum Andrea Kuratli, Fabian Saurer sections Secretary Programme Jasmine Balmer, Jury coordination Coordination Camille Spühler Lea Wattendorff, Artistic committee Nele Netzschwitz, Charlotte Barthlomé competition Hélène Wichser > Official Selection Programme Feature Films Marc Maeder, Sebastiano Accounting Jean-Philippe Bernard, Translations > Parallel Sections Conforti, Julia Schubiger Jasmine Balmer, Cécilia Bovet (CB), Datawords Caroline Dénervaud Sebastiano Conforti, Thierry Cultural mediation Jobin (TJ), Marc Maeder, Readers > Special Screenings Cécilia Bovet, IT Aimée Papageorgiou Gary Fliszar, Nele Delphine Niederberger (DN) 4 Next, Audio Media Netzschwitz, Hélène Wichser Assist sàrl Short Films Press Pamela Pianezza (PP), Graphic concept and Cultural mediation Aimée Papageorgiou, Technicians Aimée Papageorgiou (AP), realisation Valerio Bonadei, Eduardo Michael Pfenninger, Julia Schubiger (JS) Asphalte Design Mendez, Hélène Wichser Bernhard Zitz, Marie Geiser, Ismaïl Ozturk Genre Cinema Print FIFForum FIFForum Jean-Philippe Bernard (JPB) Imprimerie Saint-Paul Cécilia Bovet, Andrea Decor Kuratli, Fabian Saurer Reni Wünsch, Decryption Jean-Louis Verdu Thierry Jobin (TJ) Juries and Awards Communication Association Marielle Aeby, Marina De Subtitles Diaspora Filippi, Garance Mermet DDL, Manlio Lapi Beki Probst President Exhibitions Graphic design Photographers Hommage à… François Nordmann Asphalte Design Nicolas Brodard, Julien Thierry Frémaux Chavaillaz, Yoann Corthésy Vice president Publications New Territory Patrice Zurich Practical information Nele Netzschwitz, Opening sequence & Trailer Thierry Jobin (TJ) Hélène Wichser eikon (Vocational School Board of Applied Arts, Fribourg), Sur la carte de Lucie Bader, Madeleine Website Annia Oberson and Ken Loach Descloux, Paul-Albert Nobs, Bluesystem, Camille Marmy (directors), Dominique Willemin Films and Guests FIFFamily Marina De Filippi Meriton Emini and Noa Cécilia Bovet (CB) Founders Julien (motion assistants), Organisation Magda Bossy, Yvan Stern Véronique Marchesi- Laure Perret (music) Passeport suisse Agenda Thierry Jobin (TJ), Bossens, Nicolas Constantin, Cinema partners Cécilia Bovet (CB) Danièle Moulin ARENA CINEMAS, cinemotion Ticketing Midnight Screenings Jasmine Balmer, Marina De Thierry Jobin (TJ), Filippi, Camille Spühler Marc Maeder Hospitality School programme Olga Baumer-Chiguidina, Cécilia Bovet (CB) Séléna Bühler

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