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Contact List of Pre-2018 IFFR Films Argentina 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. In order of country Brazil 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
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