presents contacts in Toronto Unifrance films Florence Charmasson John Kochman Adeline Monzier [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.athoms.fr Conception: Unifrance films in Toronto: Hyatt Regency Hotel / Mezzanine Level ®/™ Toronto International Film Festival Inc., used under license. THE MAIN GOALS OF UNIFRANCE FILMS MISSION ARE : Director: Marcel Ophuls is happy to present - Organizing the biggest French cinema market in (conventions in 12 countries) and film buyers Cast: Elliott Erwitt, Hamilton Fish, Paris every year: "Rendez-vous with French Cinema"; for Web and VOD. Director: Catherine Breillat Jeanne Moreau, Madeleine Morgenstern-Truffaut, John Simpson, 33 French films at tiff attending the most important international markets Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen - Producing French film festivals in theaters Running time: 104 mns Frederick Wiseman, Paul Hamann (Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Los Angeles, Hong-Kong) Founded in 1949, Unifrance films is a non-profit from different countries (United States, Germany, Int. Sales Agent: REZO Running time: 106 mns and supporting international distributors for theatrical Int. Sales Agent: Wide House Italy, UK, Russia, Japan, China…) and online Masters TIFF Docs association, based in Paris, with agents in New releases of French films and major film festivals (MyFrenchFilmFestival.com). York, Mumbai, Beijing and Tokyo, promoting French showcasing new and recent French cinema cinema worldwide. This association gathers more (Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Venice, Locarno, San - Organizing master classes with French directors Abuse of Weakness Ain’t Misbehavin’ than 900 French industry professionals (producers, Sebastian, Pusan…). in film schools and international universities abroad. One morning, Maud, a film director, wakes up in a body half alive / half paraly- Eighteen years after his last film, Marcel Ophuls comes back as one of the last ci- talents, sales agents…) who promote and support zed. Vilko, an arrogant and magnetic swindler, fills with his presence the TV screen nema master, and, more especially, the most caustic and the funniest. The direc- - Increasing awareness of French cinema among - Promoting and subtitling French short films Maud is watching that night: she has found her new actor. They meet the day after tor of The Sorrow and the Pity shares his memories with us, stories incredibly rich their films with respect to the audiences, industry international press (organizing some regional press for film festivals, markets and festivals online. and he will never leave her again. Vilko will take advantage of her fragile state and and fascinating, making of Ain’t Misbehavin’ a cheerful and bittersweet trip in Ci- and international media. junkets with French talents), international exhibitors embezzle her of huge amounts of money. nema history. A filmmaker without memory doesn't exist, here is Marcel Ophuls's “memorabilia store”. Director: Sylvain Chomet Director: Patrice Leconte Cast: Guillaume Gouix, Cast: Rebecca Hall, Richard Director: Ben Rivers & Ben Russell Director: Thierry Ragobert Bernadette Lafont, Hélène Vincent, Madden, Alan Rickman Cast: Robert AA Lowe Running time: 83 mns Anne Le Ny Running Time: 95 mns Running time: 98 mns Canadian Dist.: Seville/eOne Running time: 106 mns Int. Sales Agent: Wild Bunch Int. Sales Agent: Rouge International Int. Sales Agent: Le Pacte Int. Sales Agent: Pathé International Special Presentations Wavelengths TIFF Kids Special Presentations A Promise A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Amazonia Attila Marcel Germany, 1912. A graduate of humble origins takes up a clerical post in a steel fac- A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness follows a single character through three disparate Amazonia is a 3D odyssey into the world’s biggest rainforest: the Amazon Forest. Mysteriously orphaned since age 2 and not having spoken a word since then, Paul tory. Impressed by his work, the elderly owner takes him on as his private secretary. moments in his life: as one member of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds him- leads a reclusive existence in Paris with his two aunts. The sisters have their sights His health declining, the owner is confined to his home, where the young man mo- island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland, and as the singer and guitarist self alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle. Unprepared, the litt- set on Paul becoming a pianist of international stature. That is until he meets Ma- ves to continue his work. There he meets the owner’s wife, a much younger woman, of a black metal band in Norway. Taken as a whole, these three moments signal a le monkey feels helpless with this sudden freedom. Facing a new world in which dame Proust, the eccentric neighbour from the 4th floor, who tells him she knows beautiful and reserved. A romantic intrigue develops in this stifling bourgeois home, radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present. dense and luxuriant vegetation covers everything, Saï soon understands that fin- the whereabouts of his parents. Paul's meeting with Madame Proust sets the young all looks and silences, without a single word or gesture of love. ding fellow capuchin monkeys and being adopted by them may be his only hope man on a journey of self-discovery that ultimately changes his life forever. for survival. 2 3 Director: Claire Denis Director: Guillaume Canet Cast: Vincent Lindon, Cast: Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Marion Cotillard, Zoé Saldana, Director: Robin Campillo Michel Subor Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, Cast: Olivier Rabourdin, Running time: 100 mns James Caan Kirill Emelyanov, Danil Vorobyev, Canadian Dist.: Mongrel Media Running time: 127 mns Edea Darcque Director: Pan Nalin U.S. Dist.: IFC Films U.S. Dist.: Roadside Attractions Running time: 128 mns Running time: 114 mns Int. Sales Agent: Wild Bunch Int. Sales Agent: Wild Bunch Int. Sales Agent: Films Distribution Int. Sales Agent: Cité Films Masters Gala Presentations Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Docs Bastards Blood Ties Eastern Boys Faith Connections Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister San- New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia... The eldest Filmmaker Pan Nalin (Samsara, Valley of Flowers) travels to Kumbh Mela, one of dra is desperate - her husband has committed suicide, the family business has several years in prison. Waiting for him reluctantly is his younger brother, Frank, a ones appear no older than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their the world's most extraordinary religious events. Every 12 years, about 100 million gone under, her daughter is spiralling downwards. Sandra holds powerful business- cop with a bright future. Frank, hoping that his brother has changed, is willing to age. They spend all their time hanging around the Gare du Nord train station in Pa- Hindus gather on the banks of the Ganges to bathe in its sacred waters. There, he man Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte give him a chance, but Chris’ past quickly catches up to him. For Frank, this des- ris. They might be prostitutes. Daniel, a discreet man in his early fifties, has his eye encounters remarkable men of mind and meditation, facing an inextricable dilem- has installed his mistress and her son. But he hasn’t planned for Sandra’s secrets, cent proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and he banishes him from his on one of them - Marek. Gathering his courage, he speaks to him. The young man ma: to embrace the world or to renounce it. which muddy the waters… life. But it’s already too late; the brothers’ destiny will be bounded, forever. agrees to come and visit Daniel the following day at his place... Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mona Walravens Director: Marion Vernoux Directors: Anne Weil Running time: 179 mns Cast: Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, & Philippe Kotlarski Director: Rani Massalha U.S. Dist.: IFC Films Patrick Chesnais Cast: Soko, Jérémie Lippman, Cast: Saleh Bakri, Roschdy Zem, Canadian Dist.: Mongrel Running time: 94 mns Martin Nissen, Arnaud Duléry Laure de Clermont, Ahmad Bayatra Media/Métropole Canadian Dist.: Mongrel/Métropole Running time: 100 mns Running time: 85 mns Int. Sales Agent: Wild Bunch Int. Sales Agent: Le Pacte Int. Sales Agent: Pyramide International Int. Sales Agent: Pyramide International Special Presentations Gala Presentations Contemporary World Cinema Discovery Blue Is the Warmest Color Bright Days Ahead Friends From France Giraffada La Vie d’Adèle Chapitre 1 & 2 Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her, with time to take care of her 1979. Carole and Jerome are 20 and go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He children, of her husband, and of herself, above all. But she soon comes to realize the Iron Curtain. They’re cousins but pretend they’re engaged. In the day, simple lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two At 15, Adele doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. She will gradually tourists, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening, they slip away from giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to dis- take control of her life again, and live a second youth: taking a new lover, living new the group and secretly meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies.