Digital Video Library Catalogue LABIENNALE.ORG VENICEPRODUCTIONBRIDGE.ORG DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY CATALOGUE 75. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica La Biennale di Venezia La Biennale di Venezia Director General and its collaborators for Andrea Del Mercato Digital Video Library Catalogue Jacopo Fabris Artistic Director Erika Giorgianni of the Cinema Department Lara González Lobo Alberto Barbera Mariachiara Manci Chiara Marin Venice Production Bridge Sara Mazzucchi Pascal Diot Alessandro Mezzalira Savina Neirotti Nikolas Montaldi [email protected] www.labiennale.org www.veniceproductionbridge.org THE VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF FESTIVAL SCOPE PRESENT THE DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY CATALOGUE Thanks to Db Logic S.r.l. Festival Scope Digital Video Library Catalogue brochure for 2018 has been edited using the information assembled by August 30th, 2018. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS Eighty years ago, the Italian population, who had not a tradition We sink in our choosing to go along with the herd, wicked of anti- Semitism, was pushed by the fascist propaganda into and enjoyable in its own right. What nadir must we reach before 1938 - DIVERSI accepting the persecution of a minority, which had been living A LETTER the young people are shocked about what their parents in Italy for centuries. How was that possible? Even today, how and grandparents did and stop imitating them, an emulation 1938 - DIVERSE much do we know about this historical moment? TO A FRIEND for the worst. Let us allow ourselves a minute of optimism The film displays how the implementation of such laws entailed and assume that the question will be asked before it is too late. on the life of Italian Jews, and how Jewish and non-Jewish IN GAZA Amira Hass – «How did you destroy villages? One daughter will ask» GIORGIO TREVES population experienced racism and persecution. Through the voices of some direct witnesses and eminent scholars analysis YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES with the help of animation reconstructions, the film invites to AMOS GITAI 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES reread this dramatic historical period under a new light, capable PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Israel to disclose the role of mass media in one of the most tragical RUNTIME SALES COMPANY racial persecutions in the history of humankind. Fiction / 34' Cinephil MAIN CAST ADDRESS Makram Khoury, Cinephil YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES Clara Khoury, 18 Levontin Street 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Hilla Vidor, 65112 Tel Aviv PROJECT TYPE / All available except for Italy Amos Gitai Israel RUNTIME SALES COMPANY PRODUCER IN VENICE Documentary / 62' Upside Distribution Amos Gitai Philippa Kowarsky PRODUCER ADDRESS +972544961114 Carolina Levi Upside Distribution [email protected] (Tangram Film) 33 Quai de Dion Bouton 92800 Puteaux France IN VENICE Carolina Levi (Tangram Film) +39 3888788337 [email protected] 4 Venice Production Bridge 2018 5 Digital Video Library Catalogue FUORI CONCORSO SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS In Jerusalem, the tramway connects several neighborhoods, Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn from East to West, recording their variety and their differences. as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn A TRAMWAY This comedy looks with humor at moments of the daily life ADAM UND EVELYN finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for of a few passengers, a series of brief situations that occur the holiday on her own. She travels to Hungary, trailed by Adam. IN JERUSALEM on the way to Jerusalem’s «red» tram line, unfolding a whole ADAM & EVELYN As the border with Austria falls, everything changes in Hungary. mosaic of human beings. The frontiers are open, as the new possibilities for Adam and Evelyn to decide in which world – Eastern or Western – they want AMOS GITAI YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES ANDREAS to build a happy life. The film is based on the novel by Ingo 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES GOLDSTEIN Schulze “Adam und Evelyn” which was translated into more than PROJECT TYPE / All available except for France, 10 languages. RUNTIME Israel and Switzerland Fiction / 94' SALES COMPANY YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES MAIN CAST Orange Studio 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Yael Abecassis, ADDRESS All available except for France, Keren Mor, Orange Studio PROJECT TYPE / Estonia and Russia. Yuval Scharf 21, rue Jasmin RUNTIME Fiction / 95' SALES COMPANY PRODUCER 75016 Paris Pluto Film Laurent Truchot France MAIN CAST (Agav Films) IN VENICE Anne Kanis, ADDRESS Laurent Truchot Florian Teichtmeister, Pluto Film +33 643418481 Lena Lauzemis, Bayreuther Str. 9 [email protected] Milian Zerzawy, D-10789 Berlin Christin Alexandrow Germany PRODUCER IN VENICE Heino Deckert Margot Haiböck (ma.ja.de. Fiction), +49 03021918220 Helge Neubronner [email protected] 6 Venice Production Bridge 2018 7 Digital Video Library Catalogue FINAL CUT IN VENICE SYNOPSIS GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI SYNOPSIS Imider, Southeastern Morocco. A rapacious silver mine has Between April and June, large shoals of bluefin tuna come siphoned aquifer water for decades, drying out the almond in from the ocean to reach the clear and warm waters of the AMUSSU groves belonging to a small Amazigh community. Fearing their AS IF WE WERE TUNA Mediterranean Sea. And skilled Italian tonnaroti, the tuna fragile oasis might disappear and their livelihoods destroyed, fishermen, lay in wait, casting big and complex nets into MOVEMENT the villagers peacefully rebelled in 2011 and shut down a major the sea - tuna traps tied to floats and ready to lead the fish water pipeline heading towards the mine. Seven years later, they through a maze of chambers. Among the various chambers continue to occupy it in a protest camp which has now practically FRANCESCO ZIZOLA created by the nets, the most important for the purpose of fishing NADIR turned into a small solar-powered village. However, backed by and catching tuna is the death chamber, so called because conniving intelligence services and aggressively protected by the it hosts the killing or la mattanza. La mattanza is not only BOUHMOUCH police, Africa’s biggest silver mine is no easy adversary. Dozens the closing act in tuna fishing, but is also a sacred ritual have been arrested for taking part in what the villagers have which has inspired poets and philosophers through the ages. called “Amussu xf Ubrid n ’96” (Movement on Road ’96). Nonetheless, the resilient villagers continue to resist with YEAR OF PRODUCTION PRODUCTION COMPANY the little means they have — songs, dry bread, weekly protests, 2018 10b Photography a flimsy camera, a film festival and endless ingenuity... PROJECT TYPE / ADDRESS RUNTIME 10b Photography Documentary / 18' Via San Lorenzo Da Brindisi, 10b YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES PRODUCER 00185 Rome 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Francesco Zizola Italy Worldwide PROJECT TYPE (10b Photography) IN VENICE Documentary PRODUCTION COMPANY Francesco Zizola CURRENT RUNTIME / Movement on Road ‘96, [email protected] ESTIMATED RUNTIME Local Film Committee of Imider 100' / 90' ADDRESS PRODUCER 151 rue Oussama Ibn Zaid, Sophia Menni Maarif (Local Film Committee 20330 Casablanca of Imider) Morocco IN VENICE Sophia Menni +212 679777702 [email protected] 8 Venice Production Bridge 2018 9 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS SETTIMANA DELLA CRITICA SYNOPSIS Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. The former star of a short-lived television sitcom, Fabien drinks too much to remember everything he does and not many surprises him anymore. When his path crosses Yoni’s, he is not ALL INCLUSIVE YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES BÊTES BLONDES 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES surprised to discover, in the wake of this young, tearful, military PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide BLONDE ANIMALS man, the head of yet another young man, beautiful like a dream, RUNTIME SALES COMPANY a memory, a reproach. CORINA Documentary / 10' Ouat Media SCHWINGRUBER ILIC´ PRODUCER ADDRESS ALEXIA WALTHER, Stella Händler Ouat Media YEAR OF PRODUCTION TERRITORIES (freihändler 2844 Dundas Street West, MAXIME MATRAY 2018 AND RIGHTS AVAILIBILITIES Filmproduktion) M6P 1Y7 Toronto PROJECT TYPE / Worldwide Canada RUNTIME SALES COMPANY IN VENICE Fiction / 101' Ecce Films Wouter Jansen MAIN CAST ADDRESS (Some Shorts) Thomas Scimeca, Ecce Films +31 622076717 Basile Meilleurat, 47 rue Polonceau [email protected] Agathe Bonitzer 75018 Paris PRODUCER France Emmanuel Chaumet IN VENICE (Ecce Films) Louise Rinaldi +33 142583714 [email protected] 10 Venice Production Bridge 2018 11 Digital Video Library Catalogue ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS ORIZZONTI SYNOPSIS Blu tells a nocturnal and underground journey inside Joana grew up in Paris surrounded by rock and literature. the TBM, the machinery used to dig tunnels and subways around But in 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, Joana moves back BLU the world. The film’s gaze is aimed at inaccessible and invisible DESLEMBRO to the country she barely remembers, overnight and against her places and shows the indissoluble link between men will. In Rio, she recovers pieces of memories from a fragmented BLUE and machines, between technology and manual labor, UNREMEMBER childhood and a missing father. Not everything is real, not between security and ancestral fears, between programming everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana is able MASSIMO D’ANOLFI, and randomness. Blu