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Support to EU Film Festivals
ÁGA by Milko Lazarov (2018) Countries: Bulgaria, Germany, France Sales Agent: Beta Cinema
Synopsis: In the snowy Northern wilderness, Nanook and Sedna dream to reunite with their daughter Ága, who has left the slowly eroding traditional way of life a long time ago. In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth. Nanook and Sedna's traditional way of life starts changing – slowly, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable deaths and the ice has been melting earlier every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world – and to their daughter Ága, who has left the icy tundra a long time ago due to family feud. When Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook decides to fulfil her wish. He embarks on a long journey in order to find Ága.
Genre: Drama Topics: Society, Environment, Animals, Nature, Family
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Milko Lazarov in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Eurasian International Film Festival award for Best Director, Cairo International Film Festival award for Best Film, East & West International Festival award for Best Cinematography
BORG/MCENROE by Janus Metz (2017) Countries: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic Sales Agent: Svensk Filmindustri International
Synopsis: Borg/McEnroe tells the story of the epic rivalry between Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and his greatest adversary, the brash American John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf), which came to a head during the 1980 Wimbledon Championships.
Genre: Drama, Biography Topics: Sport, Society, Competition
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Jon Nohrstedt (producer) in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Guldbagge award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Visual Effects, Camerimage International Film Festival award for Best Directorial Debut
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CHAMPIONS (CAMPEONES) by Javier Fesser (2018) Countries: Spain Sales Agent: Latido Films
Synopsis: Marco is an assistant coach in Spain’s top basketball league. One day, after getting drunk, his frustration and bad attitude get him involved in a traffic accident that lands him in court. He loses his job and his girlfriend and is sentenced to the worst possible punishment for his ego: coaching a group of intellectually-disabled players that have never touched a ball before. Through their innocence, tenderness and plenty of good humour, they will teach Marco about the things that really matter. They are the true Champions of Life.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Topics: Sport, Society, Friendship, Handicap
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Goya Award for Best Film, Best New Actor and Best Original Song
CLERGY (KLER) by Wojciech Smarzowski (2018) Countries: Poland Sales Agent: Profil Film
Synopsis: A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.
Genre: Drama Topics: Religion, Corruption, Social Issues
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Wojciech Smarzowski in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Polish Film Festival award for Best Film and Best Production Design
COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA) by Pawel Pawlikowski (2018) Countries: Poland, United Kingdom, France Sales Agent: Protagonist Pictures, mk2 films
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Synopsis: Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris – the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.
Genre: Drama, Romance Topics: History, Music, Folklore
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Pawel Pawlikowski in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival award for Best Director, Goya Award for Best European Film, European Film Awards for Best Film, Best Editor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenwriter
DOGMAN by Matteo Garrone (2018) Countries: Italy, France Sales Agent: RAI Com
Synopsis: Dogman is the name of a pet grooming shop and also the tragic prediction of the main character’s metamorphosis from man to animal. Based on a true story that took place 30 years ago and of which nobody will ever know the truth, Dogman digs deep into the human dilemmas of the violence hidden inside each one of us.
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Topics: Society, Social Issues, Violence, Drugs
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Matteo Garrone in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor, David di Donatello award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Make-Up, Best Editing and Best Sound, European Film award for Best Actor
EVERYBODY KNOWS (TODOS LO SABEN) by Asghar Farhadi (2018) Countries: Spain, France, Italy Sales Agent: Memento Films International
Synopsis: Carolina, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, who returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Topics: Mystery, Society, Family Secrets
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Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema award for Best Actor, Fotogramas de Plata award for Best Actress
FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES) by Agnès Varda (2017) Countries: France Sales Agent: Cohen Media Group (US)
Synopsis: Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: their passion for images in general and more particulary questioning the places where they are showed, how they are shared, exposed. Agnès chose cinema. JR chose to create open-air photographic galleries. When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to work together, shoot a film in France, far from the cities. Random encounters or prepared projects, they will go towards the others and get them to follow them on their trip with JR's photographic truck. The film is also about their friendship that grows during the shooting, between surprises and malice, laughing of their differences.
Genre: Documentary Topics: Society, Art, Photography, Folklore
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival award: The Golden Eye, Toronto International Film Festival: People’s Choice award for Best Documentary, Indiewire Critics’ Poll award for Best Documentary
FOR A HAPPY LIFE (POUR VIVRE HEUREUX) by Dimitri Linder, Salima Sarah Glamine (2018) Countries: Belgium, Luxembourg Sales Agent: O’ Brother Distribution
Synopsis: Brussels, 2018. Amel and Mashir, 17 and 22 years old, live a secret love story that, under the weight of family traditions, brutally threatens to collapse. Without breaking the balance of those around them, the two lovers will try to save their relationship.
Genre: Drama, Romance Topics: Love, Migration, Family Issues, Society
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film award for Best Film, Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles award for Best Film
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GIRL by Lukas Dhont (2018) Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Synopsis: Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realizes her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline because she was born a boy.
Genre: Drama Topics: Transgender, Family, Youth, Dance
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Lukas Dhont in English
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival: Golden Camera, FIPRESCI Prize (Un Certain Regard) and Queer Palm, London Film Festival award for Best First Feature Film, San Sebastian International Film Festival award for Best Film and Best European Film, Magritte Awards for Best Script, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor
GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA by Teona Strugar Mitevska (2018) Countries: North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, France Sales Agent: Pyramide International
Synopsis: Every 19th January during Epiphany, a unique ceremony takes place all around Macedonia: the high priest throws a cross into the local waters while hundreds of men charge for it. The one who finds it is blessed for the whole next year and becomes kind of a local hero. Petrunija is single unemployed 31-year-old woman and a historian who lives with her parents. Returning home from a failed job interview in a sweatshop factory she witnesses the ceremony, decides to jump, swims and catches the cross. Immediately, the men attack her and wrestle the cross out of her hands since as a woman she has no right to participate. A commotion follows and at the moment of heightened confusion Petrunija runs away with the cross. Over the next few hours her jump into the icy water becomes an Internet sensation. Petrunija is taken to a police station, and this is where her ordeal begins: against the local men, against the world, against the system. From a room to a corridor, to a room again, she spends the night being transferred around the impersonal governmental spaces. She insists that she is the winner and refuses to return the cross. One by one, the policemen, the inspector, the priest unsuccessfully try to convince her to give up. Through these 24 hours we discover a society full of stereotypes, with collapsed social and justice system.
Genre: Drama Topics: Traditions, Women, Religion, Society
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Teona Strugar Mitevska in English
Main Awards: Berlin International Film Festival: Guild Film Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
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HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN’S CURSE (HAGAZUSSA: DER HEXENFLUCH) by Lukas Feigelfeld (2017) Countries: Germany, Austria Sales Agent: Sales Raven Banner Entertainment
Synopsis: Albrun lives with her mother in an isolated mountain hut. Life is hard enough, but when her mother falls gravely ill, Albrun is left traumatised and alone. 15 years later, Albrun has a child of her own, but with no husband in sight she is ostracised from her small community. As she forms a tentative friendship with a local woman, dark memories and psychotic delusions infiltrate Albrun’s thoughts and the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur. Although reminiscent of acclaimed period chiller The Witch in its heady fusion of mounting paranoia against a pagan backdrop, this hypnotic debut is quite a different beast.
Genre: Drama, Horror Topics: Women, Folklore, Madness
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: LUSCA Fantastic Film Fest for Best International Director
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (LAZZARO FELICE) by Alice Rohrwacher (2018) Countries: Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Synopsis: This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple- minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy Topics: Youth, Nature, Family, Friendship, Society, Poverty
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Alice Rohrwacher in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival award for Best Screenplay, Chicago International Film Festival award for Best Feature, Rotterdam International Film Festival: Youth Jury Award
HOLDING HANDS (LA TENEREZZA) by Gianni Amelio (2017) Countries: Italy
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Sales Agent: RAI Com
Synopsis: Cesare is an old and cynical troublemakers widower with two children. One day, in the building, comes the young and enigmatic Emma, married to a shady individual that so little resembles to her. Cesare soon understands that in that couple there is something wrong... The secrets that Cesare will find out about his neighbors, and about himself, are the glittering matter of this terrific tale, able to draw a character that gathers the most ferocious cynicism and deepest humanity.
Genre: Drama Topics: Family Issues, Society
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Gianni Amelio in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: David di Donatello award for Best Actor, Golden Globes: Italy award for Best Actor
I, DANIEL BLAKE by Ken Loach (2016) Countries: United Kingdom, France, Belgium Sales Agent: Wild Bunch
Synopsis: Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
Genre: Drama Topics: Family Issues, Social Issues, Law, Health, Poverty, Social Realism
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival: Palme d’Or, BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film of the Year, César award for Best Foreign Film
I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS (ÎMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA ÎN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI) by Radu Jude (2018) Countries: Romania, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria, Germany Sales Agent: Beta Cinema
Synopsis: A young artist is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. One of contemporary Europe's most distinctive creators has come out with an ingeniously conceived film. While it unfolds slowly and in detail, it hits the viewer with a singular emotional punch.
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Genre: Drama, Comedy Topics: Social Issues, History, Politics, Manifestation, Racism
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Crystal Globe for Best Film, Minsk International Film Festival award for Best Film
IN THE FADE (AUS DEM NICHTS) by Fatih Akin (2017) Countries: Germany, France Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Synopsis: Out of nowhere, Katja's life falls apart when her husband Nuri and little son Rocco are killed in a bomb attack. Her friends and family try to give her the support she needs, and Katja somehow manages to make it through the funeral. But the mind-numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the senseless killing complicate Katja‘s painful mourning, opening wounds and doubts. Danilo, a lawyer and Nuri's best friend, represents Katja in the eventual trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge, but there's simply no alternative for her: she wants justice.
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Topics: Family Issues, Terrorism, Justice, Racism
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Fatih Akin in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress, Golden Globes, USA: Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language, German Film award for Best Screenplay
JELLYFISH by James Gardner (2018) Countries: United Kingdom Sales Agent: Bankside Films
Synopsis: A powerful new British film featuring a stand-out performance from newcomer Liv Hill, who stars as 15-year-old Sarah Taylor, a girl caught between being bullied at school, hassled by her boss at a local arcade and looking after her younger brother, sister and manic-depressive mother (the excellent Sinead Matthews). Sarah’s drama teacher encourages her to use her fierce wit for a stand-up routine at her graduation show, but comedy and the harsh realities of her life soon clash and she struggles to balance her many demands.
Genre: Drama Topics: Family Issues, Youth, Bullying, Society
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Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of James Gardner in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Edinburgh International Film Festival award for Best Performance, Dinard British Film Festival award for Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Film and Best Actor
LITTLE TITO AND THE ALIENS (TITO E GLI ALIENI) by Paola Randi (2017) Countries: Italy Sales Agent: True Colours
Synopsis: Tito Biondi is a scientist. He never got over mourning the death of his wife, and he lives isolated from the world in a mobile home in the Nevada desert. He’s working on a secret project for the US government. His only contact with the world is Stella, a woman who works in the only diner in the area. But one day he is forced to accept his grandchildren, Anita, (14), and Little Tito (7). When they become orphaned, they are sent to live with him, expecting the legendary American Uncle, and instead finding a rather depressed professor, a desert, Stella... and the secrets of Area 51.
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi Topics: Family, Youth, Science, Aliens
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Paola Randi in English
Main Awards: Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists award for Best Original Story
LOVE AND BULLETS (AMMORE E MALAVITA) by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti (2017) Countries: Italy Sales Agent: RAI Com
Synopsis: A dramatic love story. Shoot outs, wild motorbike chases and speedboat escapes. Set in the beautiful Bay of Naples, the film is not only an action thriller but also a romantic comedy with music that ranges from Neapolitans songs to rap.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance Topics: Mafia, Family, Love, Music, Action
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Marco and Antonio Manetti in English, French, Spanish and Italian
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Main Awards: David di Donatello Awards for Best Film, Best Music, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design; Venice Film Festival award for Best Production Manager in an Italian Film, Golden Globes (Italy) award for Best Comedy
MONSTERS. (MONȘTRI.) by Marius Olteanu (2019) Countries: Romania Sales Agent: Alpha Violet
Synopsis: Dana and Arthur, wife and husband in their forties, have been together for almost 10 years. They are a couple that society, family, friends seem to love together, but despise separately. Because of their needs, their beliefs, their life options, their inner monsters. The day comes for them to decide if letting go is the biggest proof of love.
Genre: Drama, Romance Topics: Love, Relationship, Society
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Marius Olteanu in English
Main Awards: Berlin International Film Festival award: Reader Jury of the “Tagesspiegel”, Sofia International Film Festival award for Best Film, Transilvania International Film Festival award for Best Feature Film
ON BODY AND SOUL (A TESTRÖL ÉS A LÉLEKRÖL) by Ildiko Enyedi (2017) Countries: Hungary Sales Agent: Films Boutique
Synopsis: The plot, which tells an unusual love story set in the everyday world, is based around the duality of sleeping and waking, mind and matter. "What would happen if you met someone who dreamt the same as you or, to be more precise, had been meeting you in the same world every night for years? Would you be pleased? Or would you feel that you had been in some way robbed? And what if this specific individual didn’t exactly appeal to you? What if you actually hated that person?"
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Topics: Love, Dreams, Mind
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Réka Tenki (actress) in English Video interview of Ildiko Enyedi in English
Main Awards: Berlin International Film Festival award for Best Film, European Films Awards for Best European Actress, Sydney Film Festival award for Best Film
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OUR STRUGGLES (NOS BATTAILLES) by Guillaume Senez (2018) Countries: Belgium, France Sales Agent: Be for Films
Synopsis: Olivier does the best he can to fight injustice at work. But from one day to the next, when his wife Laura abandons the family home, he is left alone to juggle between the children’s needs, life’s daily challenges and his job. Faced with these new responsibilities, he struggles to find a balance. Because Laura’s not coming back.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Topics: Family issues, Children, Society
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Guillaume Senez in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Isabelle Truc (producer) in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Magritte Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Most Promising Actress, Best Editing, Torino Film Festival: Audience Award
POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD by Wim Wenders (2018) Countries: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France Sales Agent: Focus Features (US)
Synopsis: A historic non-fiction film intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The Pope's ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today's global questions from his deep concern for the poor, his involvement in environmental issues and social justice.
Genre: Documentary, Biography Topics: Religion, Society, Environment, Poverty
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film trailer in English
Main Awards: Traverse City Film Festival award for Best Film
SINK OR SWIM (LE GRAND BAIN) by Gilles Lellouche (2018) Countries: France, Belgium Sales Agent: StudioCanal
Synopsis: A group of 40-something guys, all on the verge of a mid-life crisis, decide to form their local pool’s first ever synchronized swimming team – for men. Braving the skepticism and ridicule of those around them, and trained by a fallen
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Genre: Comedy, Drama Topics: Sport, Society, Friendship
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: César Awards for Best Film, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress
SMUGGLING HENDRIX by Marios Piperides (2018) Countries: Cyprus, Germany Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Synopsis: Yiannis, a faded musician who is about to leave Cyprus for a better life abroad, sees his plans turned upside down when his dog runs away and crosses the Buffer Zone that separates the "Greek South" from the "Turkish North". Can he smuggle him back in?
Genre: Comedy, Drama Topics: Society, Animals, Friendship
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Marios Piperides in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Tribeca Film Festival award for Best International Narrative Feature, Hellenic Film Academy Awards for Best Screenplay
THE BELLY OF THE WHALE by Morgan Bushe (2018) Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, Croatia, Slovenia Sales Agent: Fastnet Films
Synopsis: Two down-and-outs bonded together in misfortune devise a plan to rob a small-town amusement arcade.
Genre: Crime, Drama Topics: Society, Teenager, Friendship
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
THE BOOKSHOP by Isable Coixet (2017) Countries: Spain, United Kingdom, Germany
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Sales Agent: Celsius Entertainment
Synopsis: England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.
Genre: Drama Topics: Society Issues, Literature, Woman
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Goya Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, Gaudí Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score
THE DEATH OF STALIN by Armando Iannucci (2017) Countries: United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Canada Sales Agent: Gaumont
Synopsis: As the Soviet dictator drew his very last breaths and then died, political infighting led to total chaos within the party. Adapted from French graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robins.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Topics: History, War, Politics
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: European Film Awards for Best European Comedy, British Indipendent Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Best Casting, Best Make Up & Hair Design, Best Production Design, BAFTA Scotland Awards for Best Director and Best Writer
THE GUILTY (DEN SKYLDIGE) by Gustav Möller (2018) Countries: Denmark Sales Agent: TrustNordisk
Synopsis: Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Topics: Kidnapping, Police, Justice
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Gustav Möller in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Sundance Film Festival: Audience Award, Seattle International Film Festival award for Best Director, Robert Festival award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Original Screenplay
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER by Yorgos Lanthimos (2017) Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Sales Agent: HanWay Films
Synopsis: Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and their two exemplary children, 12-year-old Bob (Sunny Suljian) and 14-year- old Kim (Raffey Cassidy). Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teen who Steven has covertly taken under his wing. As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family’s life in ever-more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long-forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller Topics: Family Issues, Violence, Sickness
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Yorgos Lanthimos in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival award for Best Screenplay
THE LITTLE COMRADE (SELTSIMEES LAPS) by Moonika Siimets (2018) Countries: Estonia Sales Agent: Eyewell
Synopsis: In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope that it will bring her mother back.
Genre: Drama Topics: Family, Young, Politics
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian
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Main Awards: Estonian Film and Television Awards for Best Fiction Film, Best Director, Best Composer
THE LOAD (TERET) by Ognjen Glavonić (2018) Countries: Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar Sales Agent: New Europe Film Sales
Synopsis: Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
Genre: Drama Topics: Road Movie, History, Society, War, Teenager
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Ognjen Glavonić in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Minsk International Film Festival award for Best Screenplay, Marrakech International Film Festival award for Best Director, Sarajevo Film Festival award for Best Actor, Sofia International Film Festival: Special Mention in Balkan Competition, Trieste Film Festival award for Best Film
THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT by Tarik Saleh (2017) Countries: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Morocco Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Synopsis: Weeks before the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Noredin, a police officer in Cairo’s corrupt system, investigates the murder of a club singer at the Nile Hilton. Upon realizing the involvement of Egypt’s power elite, Noredin changes sides to those who are defenseless against it. A political thriller based on a true story.
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Topics: Politics, Society, Murder, Mystery
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Tarik Saleh in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize, Beaune International Thriller Film Festival: Le Grand Prix, Valladolid International Film Festival award for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director
THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING (DRUGA STRANA SVEGA) by Mila Turajlic (2017) Countries: Serbia, France, Qatar
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Sales Agent: Dribbling Pictures
Synopsis: For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
Genre: Documentary, Biography Topics: Family, History, Politics
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Mila Turajlic in English
Main Awards: Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, RiverRun International Film Festival award for Best Documentary
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN) by Aki Kaurismäki (2017) Countries: Finland, Germany Sales Agent: The Match Factory
Synopsis: Khaled, syrian refugee stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, Wikström is a traveling salesman who wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and Wikström finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef and his dog.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Topics: Immigration, Society Issues, Politics
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Aki Kaurismäki in English, French, Spanish and Italian
Main Awards: Berlin International Film Festival award for Best Director (Silver Berlin Bear), San Sebastián International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Film of the Year, Dublin International Film Festival award for Best Actor, Munich Film Festival award for Best International Director
THE SON OF BIGFOOT (BIGFOOT JUNIOR) by Jeremy Degruson and Ben Stassen (2017) Countries: France, Belgium, United States Sales Agent: StudioCanal
Synopsis: Teenage outsider Adam sets out on an epic and daring quest to uncover the mystery behind his long-lost dad, only to find out that he is none other than the legendary Bigfoot! He has been hiding deep in the forest for years to protect himself and his family from HairCo., a giant corporation eager to run scientific experiments with his special DNA. As father and son
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Genre: Animation, Comedy Topics: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Ben Stassen in English, French, Spanish and Italian
WEIT: THE STORY OF A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD (WEIT. DIE GESCHICHTE VON EINEM WEG UM DIE WELT) (2017) by Patrick Allgaier and Gwendolin Weisser Countries: Germany Production Company: Weit
Synopsis: Two young Germans spend three and a half years traveling around the world just by hitchhiking, bus, train and ship. They travel almost 100,000 kilometers through Europe, Asia, North and Central America.
Genre: Documentary Topics: Adventure, Journey, Society, Culture
Links: Film profile in English Film trailer in English
WOMAN AT WAR (KON FER Í STRÍÐ) by Benedict Erlingsson (2018) Countries: Iceland, France, Ukraine Sales Agent: Beta Cinema
Synopsis: Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. As Halla's actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new aluminum smelter in the mountains. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Topics: Adventure, Environment, Society, Family, Women Issues
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film review and trailer in English, French, Spanish and Italian Interview of Benedikt Erlingsson in English, French, Spanish and Italian Video interview of Benedikt Erlingsson in English
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Main Awards: Cannes Film Festival: SACD Screenwriting Award, LUX Prize 2018, Hamburg Film Festival award for Best Feature, Portland International Film Festival: Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Seville European Film Festival: Audience Award
WONDERFUL LOSERS: A DIFFERENT WORLD (NUOSTABIEJI LUZERIAI. KITA PLANETA) by Aruna Matelis (2018) Countries: Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Latvia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain Sales Agent: Deckert Distribution
Synopsis: For most of us, the cyclists at the back of the race are simply the losers. They are called water carriers, domestics, gregarios, and the Sancho Panzas of professional cycling. Moreover, they rarely experience personal victories - these sportsmen sacrifice their careers to help their teammates. We follow the magnificent world of the cycle race from the point of view of the doctors' team situated in a claustrophobically small medical car surrounded by wounded cyclists. The life of the medical team in the race reminds one of the front line of war. Cyclists crash, they rise and they race again, and amongst this chaos, many magnificent things happen. This film-odyssey reveals the untold world of the wonderful losers, the true warriors, the knights and monks of professional cycling.
Genre: Documentary Topics: Sport, Competition, Cycling
Links: Film profile in English, French, Spanish and Italian Film trailer in English
Main Awards: Lithuanian Film Awards for Best Documentary, Best Score and Audience Award, Minsk International Film Festival: Grand-Prix and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Trieste Film Festival award for Best Documentary, Warsaw International Film Festival award for Best Documentary
List of Sales Agents
Alpha Violet [email protected] Keiko Funato (CEO, Sales & Acquisitions): [email protected] Virginie Devesa (CEO, Sales & Acquisitions): [email protected]
Bankside Films [email protected]
Be for Films Karlijn Copman (Festival Manager): [email protected]
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Beta Cinema Cosima Finkbeiner (Festival Coordination): [email protected] Phone: +49 89 673469 - 823
Celsius Entertainment [email protected] Phone: +44 20 7193 1801
Cohen Media Group (US) New York Headquarters: +1 646 380 7929 Los Angeles Office: +1 310 360 6403
Deckert Distribution [email protected] Phone: +49 (0)341 2156638
Dribbling Pictures Mila Turajlić: [email protected] Phone: +381 63 302 345, +337 6194 6692
Eyewell Michael Werner (CEO and Managing Director): [email protected] Phone: +4670 733 28 55
Fastnet Films [email protected] Phone: +353 1 639 4000
Films Boutique Berlin: +49 30 695 378 50, [email protected] Lyon: +33 4 28 29 23 79, [email protected]
Focus Features (US) ?????
Gaumont Email: https://www.gaumont.fr/fr/contact.html Fax: +33 1 46 43 20 33
HanWay Films [email protected] Phone: + 44 (0)20 7290 0750
Latido Films Marta Hernando Vidal (Festivals Manager): [email protected] Phone: +34 690 258 848
Memento Films International [email protected] Gaëlle Palluel (Festivals & Markets Manager): [email protected]
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mk2 films Gaëtan Trigot (International Sales & Festivals – Catalogue Films): [email protected] Anne-Laure Barbarit (Festivals & Talent Manager): [email protected] Pablo Carrizosa (Festivals & Film Collections Assistant): [email protected]
New Europe Film Sales [email protected] Ewa Bojanowska (Festivals and Marketing): [email protected] Phone: +48 609 804 296
O' Brother Distribution [email protected] Phone: +32 4 232 40 50 Thomas Verkaeren (General management): [email protected]
Profil Film [email protected] Phone: +48 22 8400123, +48 601 216434
Protagonist Pictures [email protected] Phone: +44 (0) 2077349000
Pyramide International Ilaria Gomarasca (Festivals & Markets): [email protected]
RAI Com [email protected] [email protected]
Sales Raven Banner Entertainment Hugues Barbier (Manager of Festivals and Acquisitions): [email protected]
StudioCanal Pascale Hornus Stanley (Films Festivals & Markets Manager): [email protected]
Svensk Filmindustri International [email protected] Phone: +46 (0)8 409 188 00
The Match Factory [email protected] Phone: +49 221 539 709-0
True Colours Gaetano Maiorino (Festivals & Acquisitions Manager): [email protected]
TrustNordisk
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Weit [email protected] Phone: +49 176 43211490
Wild Bunch [email protected] Esther Devos (Festivals Manager): [email protected] Phone: +33 (0)1 43 13 21 27
Zeta Cinema [email protected] Phone: +34 915 863 300
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