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La Flor (Parte 1) Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Mariano Llinás Prod. Countries: Argentina 48th INTERNATIONAL FILM Prod. Year: 2016 FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM Length: 220 Genre: Fiction January 23 – February 3, 2019 Company: El Pampero Cine Contact: Laura Citarella Email: [email protected] CONTACT LIST FOR FILMS Phone: +54 1148154366 Logline: First part of a monumental PRODUCED BEFORE 2018 (including masterpiece that, as a whole, is an ode to retrospectives and special pleasure in cinematographic narrative, or programmes) rather a rediscovery of this. Part one comprises two episodes: a B-film with a cursed mummy and a musical-romantic Log lines from IFFR catalogue. drama combined with a mystery, both without any real ending.
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Abolição Programme section: Soul in the Eye Director(s): Zózimo Bulbul Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 1988 Length: 153 Genre: Fiction Company: African Film Email: [email protected] Logline: Bulbul’s historical analysis on 'race' and racism in Brazil in the context of the celebration of the centenary of the abolition of slavery in 1988. Based on accurate research, this epic documentary points to the importance of acknowledging the racism Email: [email protected] that still confronts the black Brazilian Phone: +420 778 522 709 population. Logline: The Iron Curtain closes in on a man
suffering from amnesia after a terrible Bulgaria accident when the West German intelligence service sends him back to Prague. Disguised There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather as a sad clown, he sets out to retrieve a Programme section: The Spying Thing microfilm in this spy tale by Zbyněk Director(s): Metodi Andonov Brynych, as psychologically complex as it is Prod. Countries: Bulgaria visually rewarding. Prod. Year: 1971 Length: 129 Genre: Fiction France Company: Bulgarian National Film Center Montage muet français Palais des Congrès Contact: Rosen Spasov Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Email: [email protected] Beauty Phone: +359 2 988 38 31 Director(s): Henri Langlois Logline: Bulgarian super-spy Emil Boyev – Prod. Countries: France clever, sexy, cool – starts working for Prod. Year: 1974 electronics company Zodiac, a cover for a Length: 161 western spy organisation in Berlin. Unlike Genre: Creative Documentary many Eastern Bloc spy films, there is not Company: Cinémathèque française much propaganda; rather an elegant and Contact: Emilie Cauquy melancholy undertone, reminiscent of the Email: [email protected] Nouvelle Vague – but the Bulgarian version. Logline: On 2 March 1974, co-founder of the
Cinémathèque Française Henri Langlois Czech Republic screened a partly impromptu edit of complete films and excerpts from the Skid nation’s silent production focused on the Programme section: The Spying Thing image of the capital city through the ages. Director(s): Zbyněk Brynych Not a film – more an essayist/educational Prod. Countries: Czech Republic performance ripped from the claws of time. Prod. Year: 1960 Length: 105 Genre: Fiction Company: Národní filmový archív Contact: Andrea Czesaná Là-bas – when psychodrama was all the rage in Programme section: The Spying Thing therapy. A revelation! Director(s): Chantal Akerman Prod. Countries: France, Belgium Prod. Year: 2006 Germany Length: 78 Spione Genre: Fiction Programme section: The Spying Thing Company: Doc & Film International Director(s): Fritz Lang Contact: Théo Lionel Prod. Countries: Germany Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 1928 Logline: Down There is a contemplative Length: 150 work open to several interpretations, made Genre: Fiction when Akerman couldn’t leave her room in Company: F.W.- Murnau Stiftung Tel Aviv due to terror attacks. The result – Contact: Patricia Heckert which in every respects seems a counterpart Email: [email protected] to Rear Window – consists of abstract Phone: +49 06119770845 surveillance sequences shot from the Logline: Even though Spione set the tone for window, each with its own story, its own all later espionage films, nevertheless this meaning. silent thriller shot by Fritz Lang after
Metropolis can still be regarded as Le psychodrame undervalued. A fluent, repeatedly surprising Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen story, excellent acting and in all respects a Beauty lust for the eye. Debut of forgotten Dutch Director(s): Roberto Rossellini actress Lien Heyting. Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 1956 Gefängnisbilder Length: 53 Programme section: The Spying Thing Genre: Fiction Director(s): Harun Farocki Company: Centro Sperimentale di Prod. Countries: Germany Cinematografia Prod. Year: 2001 Contact: Elena Testa Length: 80 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: The archives offer the most amazing Company: n.b.k. Video-Forum finds! Like Rossellini’s very first TV work, Email: [email protected] left unfinished by the ever unpredictable Phone: +49 30 280 70 20 master, and now moulded into a presentable Logline: Before the rest of the world was form. Le psychodrame has Rossellini where confronted with the omnipresence of he best liked to be: at the zeitgeist’s epicenter cameras, prisons were filled with Latvia surveillance equipment to spy on the inmates. Inspired by thinkers such as Apple in the River Deleuze and Foucault, Harun Farocki Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen analyses the power of the camera as spy and Beauty control weapon, with shots and scenes from Director(s): Aivars Freimanis (prison) films by Bresson and Genet. Prod. Countries: Latvia Prod. Year: 1974 Length: 76 Iceland Genre: Fiction Company: Riga Film Studio The Juniper Tree Contact: Agnese Logina Programme section: Regained Email: [email protected] Director(s): Nietzchka Keene Logline: When the termination of Rolands Prod. Countries: Iceland, USA Kalniņš’s Maritime Climates created a Prod. Year: 1990 production quota problem for Rīgas Length: 78 Kinostudijā, another on-hold documentary, Genre: Fiction by Aivars Freimanis, was taken from the Company: Arbelos Films shelf and turned into a bitterly tender yet Contact: Ei Toshinari lighthearted, bright-eyed teenage romance – Email: [email protected] now considered a canonical piece of Latvian Phone: +1 5627287501 national film heritage. Logline: Aged 20, Björk played her first enchanting role in this rediscovered, feminist version of one of Grimms’ fairy Netherlands tales, shot in the deeply mysterious Icelandic nature. Director Nietzchka Keene created a RTM Classic: 2KM2 − Het heden van de stad powerful allegory on witchcraft and Programme section: RTM misogyny, where the worlds of the living and Director(s): Carel van Hees, André van der the dead intertwine. Restored on 4K. Hout Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2008 Length: 78 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: De Aanpak Contact: André van der Hout Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 105924802 Logline: Cinematographic, observational portrait of the seasons on 2 square RTM Classic: Ik wil het niet zien, maar het kilometres of Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid, moet where all the contradictions and Programme section: RTM developments of a big city can be found. Director(s): Jan Wouter van Reijen Authentic neighbourhoods with their Prod. Countries: Netherlands characteristic old and new inhabitants and Prod. Year: 2002 spectacular new construction on abandoned Length: 81 harbour sites. Genre: Creative Documentary Trailer: Company: Interakt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE25D Contact: René Mendel c5_DYg Email: [email protected] Logline: Documentary on Rotterdam artist Co Westerik, who died in September 2018. RTM Classic: Fatcap Express In this film, Jan Wouter van Reijen explicitly None rejects the traditional form of the artist Programme section: RTM portrait. Instead he searches for a different, Director(s): Danny Stolker creative way of illuminating the motivations, Prod. Countries: Netherlands themes and emotions underlying Westerik’s Prod. Year: 2007 paintings. Length: 69
Genre: Fiction Company: Check Me Productions, Neon RTM Classic: Groeten uit Rotterdam Media Programme section: RTM Contact: Danny Stolker Director(s): Dick Rijneke, Mildred van Email: [email protected] Leeuwaarden Phone: +31 641219712 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Logline: Very first Dutch (low-budget) Prod. Year: 1980 feature about graffiti. Vincent (Jiggy Djé) Length: 180 and Geoffrey (Riske De Rat) are graffiti Genre: Creative Documentary artists with different personalities. Vincent Company: Rotterdam Films tries to protect Geoffrey from putting a piece Contact: Dick Rijneke in a dangerous place. But Geoffrey doesn’t Email: [email protected] let anyone tell him what to do. Phone: +31 104658392 Trailer: Logline: This controversial work in three https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2U3F parts provides a glimpse of the Rotterdam x-lzuQ art and music scene in the 1980s. The film, made for the VPRO, provoked fierce reactions and criticism. Unique documentary of an eventful era, including the punk group de Rondos, Cor Kraat, Jules Logline: As a protest against the Soviet Deelder, Bob den Uyl and Hans Citroen. invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, an ordinary Polish accountant set himself alight at a harvest festival. More than 20 years RTM Classic: Fighting Fish later, director Maciej Drygas constructed a Programme section: RTM film of impressive significance around the Director(s): Jamel Aattache images of this apparently pointless suicide. Prod. Countries: Netherlands
Prod. Year: 2004 Length: 83 Revisited Genre: Fiction Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Company: Riverpark Films, Three Kings Beauty Productions Director(s): Krzysztof Zanussi Contact: Herman Slagter Prod. Countries: Poland Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2009 Phone: +31 655107533 Length: 96 Logline: First Dutch martial arts film and Genre: Fiction stone-cold cult classic, shot in Rotterdam’s Company: Studio Filmowe TOR Chinatown. The combative A-Ken travels to Contact: Weronika Małaczek the West to avenge the death of his brother. Email: [email protected] But in the Chinese underworld, nothing is Logline: Film-in-Film2: Zanussi has hapless what it seems. Among the performers, a very Stefan, the protagonist of his previous film young Chantal Janzen, and a soundtrack by (Serce na dłoni, 2008), meet characters from Ilse de Lange. several earlier movies (Życie rodzinne, 1970; Barwy ochronne, 1976; Constans, 1980) for a debate on the meaning of life – with the Poland same actors playing their older selves. An unheralded masterpiece of philosophical Hear My Cry cinema. Programme section: The Spying Thing
Director(s): Maciej Drygas Prod. Countries: Poland Passenger Prod. Year: 1991 Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Length: 46 Beauty Genre: Fiction Director(s): Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz Company: Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Prod. Countries: Poland Audiowizualny Prod. Year: 1963 Contact: Maciek Kornacki Length: 62 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Company: Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Director(s): Edgar Pêra Audiowizualny Prod. Countries: Portugal Contact: Maciek Kornacki Prod. Year: 2011 Email: [email protected] Length: 91 Logline: After Andrzej Munk died in a car Genre: Fiction accident during the shooting of Pasażerka, Company: Cinemate Witold Lesiewicz completed the film using Contact: Ana Soares mainly production stills for the missing Email: [email protected] scenes. Could this axiom of concentration Phone: +351 918169162 camp cinema have been as epochal and Logline: A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns axiomatic if it didn’t feel so fragmentary – as with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. unfinished as the history it brings alive? Universal horror meets Demy-style musical comedy in this disquieting political allegory
based on two works by Branquinho da Portugal Fonseca, a writer especially dear to Pêra and the source of three feature masterpieces – Lisbon Revisited the latest being Magnetik Pathways. Programme section: Edgar Pêra Director(s): Edgar Pêra A janela (Maryalva mix) Prod. Countries: Portugal Programme section: Edgar Pêra Prod. Year: 2014 Director(s): Edgar Pêra Length: 66 Prod. Countries: Portugal Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2001 Company: Bando à Parte Length: 87 Contact: Ana Soares Genre: - Email: [email protected] Company: Akademya Luso-Galaktika, Phone: +351 918169162 Madragoa Filmes Logline: A stereoscopic fantasy about Contact: Ana Soares Lisbon, set to verses by Álvaro de Campos Email: [email protected] (one of Fernando Pessoa’s homonyms): Phone: +351 918169162 Nothing holds me. / I want fifty things at the Logline: Edgar Pêra’s break-through work: a same time. / I long with meat-craving deliciously weird burlesque with a strong anxiety / for I don’t know what – / definitely local flavour (for those who can taste it), in something indefinite. which aesthetics more common in avant-
garde films are used to tell the story of one The Baron neighbourhood Don Juan (played by six Programme section: Edgar Pêra actors) and his six lovers (played by one actress). Email: [email protected]
Logline: Farewell project by the legendary
Grigori Alexandrov, co-director of October. Virados do avesso This grandly dressed-up melodrama, in International premiere which the Soviets fulfil the role of Programme section: Edgar Pêra international peacemaker, is about the Director(s): Edgar Pêra espionage couple Starling and Lyre who Prod. Countries: Portugal worked against the Germans during and Prod. Year: 2014 after World War II. Yet the film suddenly Length: 96 disappeared from Russian cinemas after only Genre: - a couple of screenings. Company: Cinemate Contact: Ana Soares The Lighthouse Email: [email protected] Programme section: Regained Phone: +351 918169162 Director(s): Maria Saakyan Logline: What happens when a gay writer Prod. Countries: Russia, Armenia wakes up straight and everybody wonders Prod. Year: 2006 where his groove has gone? In some ways, Length: 78 this might be the biggest experiment Edgar Genre: Fiction Pêra ever undertook. To make a bawdy piece Company: Anniko Films of popular cinema, cast with TV-stars acting Contact: Victoria Lupik far-from-subtle. The result: a box office Email: [email protected] bonanza. Logline: This newly restored debut film
shows the war in the Caucasus – without war Russia footage. Its talented director passed away a year ago, leaving behind a visually stunning Starling and Lyre and deeply affecting film that interweaves Programme section: The Spying Thing personal and social history to evoke a Director(s): Grigoriy Aleksandrov turbulent period in the history of this Prod. Countries: Russia troubled region. Prod. Year: 1974 Length: 142 Genre: Fiction Company: Mosfilm Cinema Concern, DEFA- Studio für Spielfilme Contact: Maria Gorkun-Voevoda
USA explaining cinema to a mass audience – a milestone of meta-moviemaking. Rear Window Programme section: The Spying Thing Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock Drylongso Prod. Countries: USA Programme section: Regained Prod. Year: 1954 Director(s): Cauleen Smith Length: 112 Prod. Countries: USA Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 1998 Company: Park Circus Length: 82 Contact: Marthe Rolland Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Academy of Motion Picture Arts Logline: This Hitchcock classic about spying and Sciences on the neighbours (of course, one of them Contact: Mark Toscano can't be trusted) can be seen as a visionary Email: [email protected] metaphor for today’s espionage practices. Logline: Don’t get distracted by the drugs, The protagonist's girlfriend also gets violence or the serial killer. This energetic, involved: "Tell me everything you saw, and heartwarming low-budget film is mainly what you think it means." With James about the friendship between two young Stewart and Grace Kelly. African-American women who few people seem interested in. Cauleen Smith’s only feature film to date is screened here in a Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (The March restored version. of the Movies) Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Beauty Dishonored Director(s): Terry Ramsaye, Otto Nelson Programme section: The Spying Thing Prod. Countries: USA Director(s): Josef von Sternberg Prod. Year: 1927 Prod. Countries: USA Length: 96 Prod. Year: 1931 Genre: Creative Documentary Length: 91 Company: George Eastman House Genre: Fiction Name: Daniel Bish Company: Park Circus Email: [email protected] Contact: Marthe Rolland Logline: When Terry Ramsaye embarked on Email: [email protected] this endeavour, he intended to sum up film’s first two decades. But then, the art evolved Logline: Frisian double agent Mata Hari was so fast that he spent ten years catching up. the inspiration for Von Sternberg and his The result is one of the first attempts at star Marlene Dietrich in this atmospheric while before the female spy melts for the thriller where espionage is principally a classic Lubitsch dialogue by Melvyn higher form of flirting, with huge interests at Douglas: "A Russian! I’ve been fascinated by stake. During the First World War, a your Five-year Plan – for the past fifteen seductive widow is recruited by Austria as years!" Ninotchka: "Your type will soon be spy 'X27'. extinct."
One, Two, Three Programme section: The Spying Thing British Agent Director(s): Billy Wilder Programme section: The Spying Thing Prod. Countries: USA Director(s): Michael Curtiz Prod. Year: 1961 Prod. Countries: USA Length: 104 Prod. Year: 1934 Genre: Fiction Length: 80 Company: Park Circus Genre: Fiction Contact: Marthe Rolland Company: Park Circus Email: [email protected] Contact: Marthe Rolland Logline: This inimitable, hilarious espionage Email: [email protected] story by Billy Wilder (and scriptwriter I.A.L. Logline: While the Russian Revolution is in Diamond) was shot during the construction full swing, a British secret agent has to of the Berlin Wall. C.R. MacNamara (James prevent Bolsheviks signing a treaty with Cagney) has to sell Coca-Cola and keep an Germany. Against his better judgement, he eye on his boss's pretty daughter. But she has falls in love with a beautiful Russian woman. run off with an East German Communist. Major events, love and loyalty feature in this What a palaver... early classic by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca).
Ninotchka My Son John Programme section: The Spying Thing Programme section: The Spying Thing Director(s): Ernst Lubitsch Director(s): Leo McCarey Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 1939 Prod. Year: 1952 Length: 110 Length: 122 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Park Circus Company: Park Circus Contact: Marthe Rolland Contact: Marthe Rolland Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Logline: Garbo laughs! Even if it takes a Logline: Leo McCarey, one of the best-loved Genre: Experimental and most empathic filmmakers from the Company: Renfield Productions golden age of Hollywood, directed this Contact: Alex Kirschenbaum rabidly anti-Communist mother-and-son Email: [email protected] drama during the dark years of McCarthyism. A mother (Helen Hayes) Logline: During the late sixties and early discovers that her returning son has a head seventies, future horror movie maestro Joe filled with strange ideas. Dante and soon-to-be producer extraordinaire Jon Davison performed all- nighters on the campus circuit, remixing B- The Mackintosh Man movies, commercials, instructional films, None etc. This now makes up this The Movie Orgy Programme section: The Spying Thing – Ultimate Version. Director(s): John Huston
Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 1973 Dark Blood Length: 98 Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Genre: Fiction Beauty Company: Park Circus Director(s): George Sluizer Contact: Marthe Rolland Prod. Countries: USA, Netherlands Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2012 Logline: An almost forgotten, unloved John Length: 86 Huston Cold War espionage film – or anti- Genre: Fiction espionage film? – with Paul Newman as a Company: Stichting Ange British(!) secret agent who has to infiltrate a Contact: Anne Sluizer-Lordon scary Communist club. Yet the often Email: [email protected] inimitable plot and atmospheric confusion Logline: The production was closed down are among the unmistakable, retiring when River Phoenix died during the charms of this film. Also starring James shooting of Dark Blood; some two decades Mason and Dominique Sanda. later, Dutch master George Sluizer found a way to finish his film. Ellipses and sutures lend this fine piece of desert noir an The Movie Orgy − Ultimate Version unexpected intensity and a paranoid edge. Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen
Beauty Director(s): Joe Dante Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 1968 Length: 280 United Kingdom comes as close as possible to the project’s original intentions. Documentary cinema Captured finally has a companion piece to Pasażerka (1963). Programme section: The Spying Thing
Director(s): John Krish Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 1959 Length: 64 Genre: Fiction Company: Imperial War Museum Contact: Fiona Kelly Email: [email protected] Logline: In 1959, cult director John Krish made this impressive docudrama set in Korea for the British army, about interrogation techniques used on prisoners. He did it so convincingly and roughly the film was classified as 'confidential' for 45 years, and was not allowed to be screened. Trailer:
German Concentration Camp Factual Survey Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Beauty Director(s): Sidney Bernstein Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2014 Length: 75 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: BFI Contact: Christine Whitehouse Email: [email protected] Logline: An attempt by the Imperial War Museum to create a version of an unfinished Holocaust documentary (the stuff of legends due to the involvement of suspense-God Alfred Hitchcock as a “treatment advisor”)