MIPTV 2016 LINE-UP > 2 ANCIENT HISTORY > 3 END OF THE OTTOMANS (THE) AUTHORS As it unfolds the century-long history of the collapse of the Ottomnas, Mathilde DAMOISEL, Sylvie JEZEQUEL DIRECTOR the film offers an in-depth understanding of the impact the process Mathilde DAMOISEL had on the former Ottoman territories, up to the present time. COPRODUCERS SECONDE VAGUE PRODUCTIONS, ARTE For six centuries, the Ottomans had ruled over three continents and seven seas: in FRANCE Eastern Europe, from Wien to Crimea, all around the Black Sea and the Caucasus; FORMAT in Mesopotamia; in Arabia, from Cairo to Aden; in the Mediterranean, from Greece to 2 x 52 ', 2016 AVAILABLE RIGHTS Alexandria... Home to an unprecedented mosaic of peoples and faiths, it controlled the TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - Holy Places of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It was a great power and still, it would Internet totally collapse in less than a century. In 1923, Mustafa Kemal abolished the Sultanate VERSIONS English - German - French and proclaimed the modern Republic of Turkey. It was the final blow. TERRITORY(IES) Worldwide. On the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, a whole new world was created. That is the purpose of this two-part film: analysing these new lines of fracture in order to remind how the Ottoman past still matters. Without appropriate knowledge and understanding of this page of history, no one could pretend grasping fully the current political, religious and ethnic challenges of our present time - in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Turkey, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Israel, in Palestine, in Irak... This is truly a fascinating and rarely exposed process that the film unfolds, relying on rare film and photo archive, and on interviews with the most renowned international historians. LIST OF EPISODES 01 - THE NATIONS AGAINST THE EMPIRE 02 - A FRAGMENTED MIDDLE EAST GREAT GREEK MYTHS (THE) AUTHOR Tales of love, sex, power, betrayal, heinous crimes, unbearable François BUSNEL DIRECTOR separations, atrocious revenge, and metamorphoses - the poetic François BUSNEL force of the myths has crossed the centuries. COPRODUCERS ARTE FRANCE, ROSEBUD PRODUCTIONS "The Great Myths" documentary series sets out to recount these ancient stories using FORMAT animations created especially for the occasion, and illustrations chosen from the entire 20 x 26 ', 2015 history of art. This dynamic blend, a bridge between modernity and history, ancient AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - narrative and contemporary dramatic art, is a new way to discover or re-discover this part Internet of our universal heritage. VERSIONS English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) Worldwide. LIST OF EPISODES APHRODITE - DICTATED BY DESIRE APOLLO - SHADOW AND LIGHT ATHENA - ARMED WISDOM DEDALUS AND ICARUS - A SHATTERED DIONYSOS - AN OUTSIDER IN THE CITY DREAM ANCIENT HISTORY > 4 HERACLES, THE MAN WHO BECAME A GOD HADES - A RELUCTANT KING OEDIPUS, THE RIDDLE SOLVER HERMES - THE IMPENETRABLE MESSENGER PERSEUS - THE LOOK OF DEATH ORPHEUS - A HYMN OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE PSYCHE - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST PROMETHEUS - THE REBEL OF OLYMPUS THESEUS - THE RAVAGES OF OVERSIGHT TARTARUS - THE DAMNED OF THE EARTH ZEUS IN LOVE ZEUS AND THE CONQUEST OF POWER SKY HEROES DIRECTOR Each of the series' episodes recounts, in 26 minutes, the life and Bertrand DEVE COPRODUCER exploits of a hero who has gone down in aviation history. The first two YES SIR FILMS episodes focus on Charles Lindbergh and Manfred Von Richthofen, FORMAT known as the Red Baron. Later episodes include figures as diverse as 6 x 26 ', 2016 Henri Guillaumet, Blériot, Howard Hugues and Chuck Yeager. AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - Blending sequences of traditional animation and American comic-strip-influenced Internet graphics with carefully restored and coloured archive images, the series paints the active VERSIONS English - German - French portraits of heroes who have made a lasting mark on the history of aviation. TERRITORY(IES) Worldwide. PROVISIONAL DELIVERY: DECEMBER 2016 LIST OF EPISODES SKY HEROES - CHARLES LINDBERGH SKY HEROES - THE RED BARON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY > 5 BRAZIL: A GIANT ON THE MOVE AUTHOR Brazil is said to be a sleeping giant waking up to become one of the Pascal VASSELIN DIRECTOR world leaders. Our film will tell country's history through the eyes of Pascal VASSELIN 2 families over several generations. COPRODUCERS ALEGRIA, ARTE FRANCE In one of the families, the slaves of before became domestic workers, and the former FORMAT domestics are now employees, with fixed hours and living in their own homes, where they 1 x 55 ', 2015 raise their own children rather than those of their bosses. They have reached the middle AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - class. The other family descends from coffee barons and army generals. It is still a wealthy Internet family, but yesterday's fortune was lost. Its members have witnessed many historical VERSIONS events. These two families will embody the evolutions of Brazil since the twenties until English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) today. Our goal is to intersect the families saga and the nation's history with a broad range Worldwide (except South America). of photo and film archives, both public and private. We will complete this with a more global contextualization of the general History of the country. MARGHERITA S, THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED MUSSOLINI AUTHOR Mussolini's mistress and advisor, remains a nearly forgotten woman Pierre-henry SALFATI DIRECTOR in the Duce's entourage. 20 years of intense, loving, and reciprocal Pierre-henry SALFATI passion. For Mussolini, Margherita was his shadow, his phantom, and COPRODUCERS his speechwriter. She was the Duce's "other wife". She was jewish. FRANCE TELEVISIONS DISTRIBUTION, SECONDE VAGUE PRODUCTIONS Born in 1880 in a 15th-century palace on the edge of the old ghetto of Venice, Margherita FORMAT Sarfatti spent the rest of her youth in the Palazzo Bembo on the Grand Canal. Her father 1 x 52 ', 2015 AVAILABLE RIGHTS wanted her to have the best tutors. TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - Internet But that did not prevent her from becoming a militant socialist and, later, one of the most VERSIONS English - French listened to members of the party, and yet, an avant-garde feminist. Her salon, first in Milan TERRITORY(IES) then in Rome, attracted famous composers, writers, and artists from Italy and abroad. Worldwide. She loved to collect "precious people". In helping to create the Novecento Italiano, the artistic movement dedicated to Fascism, she gathered the leading figures of the day. In 1923, she had the first Novecento exhibition in Milan opened by her lover, Benito Mussolini. CONTEMPORARY HISTORY > 6 EGYPT'S MODERN PHARAOHS AUTHOR The collection plunges the spectator into the heart of contemporary Jihan EL TAHRI DIRECTOR Egyptian history, interweaving the major themes of the Army, the Jihan EL TAHRI Moslem Brotherhood, International Relations and the role of Civil COPRODUCERS Society. "The Egyptian revolution took me by surprise. As an Egyptian BIG SISTER, ARTE FRANCE FORMAT woman, I followed the events with pride. I wondered what was really 3 x 52 ', 1 x 97 ', 2015 going on in my country in 2011." Jihan El Tahri, filmmaker. AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - On 25th January, 1952, Cairo city centre was reduced to ashes. The crowd demanded Internet the departure of the British forces and "bread, freedom and social justice". 59 years later, VERSIONS to the day, the same anger has re-surfaced and the same slogans are being brandished. English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) But this time, the target is an elected Egyptian leader. For 6 decades, these modern- Worldwide (except Egypt, Algeria and South day pharaohs, who followed on from one another in power, have wanted to detach Egypt Africa). from its colonial past and to transform the country into a modern, secular State, and a leader on its continent. From Gamal Abdel Nasser to Anwar Sadat, to Hosni Mubarak, "The Pharaohs of Modern Egypt" follows the path of the successive regimes in power, and reveals their common goal to carefully lay the basis of a solid independence, but which, on the other hand, led to the revolution on Tahrir Square in 2011. AWARDS : 2015: World Premiere TIFF for Feature-Lengh version of NASSER LIST OF EPISODES 01 - NASSER 02 - SADAT 03 - MUBARAK CONTEMPORARY HISTORY > 7 SHOAH THE FORGOTTEN SOULS OF HISTORY AUTHORS Soviet archives house the only filmed memories of the Holocaust. Valérie POZNER, Alexandre SUMPF DIRECTOR Taken on the fly, these images represent reality. But what reality? Veronique LAGOARDE SEGOT COPRODUCERS Following the German invasion, the Soviets decided to put their know-how into practice MELISANDE FILMS, ARTE FRANCE and to film the enemy's fearsome extermination machine, for their own purposes. FORMAT The images of war from the period were inspired by a cinematographic tradition of 1 x 52 ', 2014 aestheticism, but were also dependent on political considerations. This strategy of "war- AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - by-image" creates a black hole: the identity of the victims. The Jews are forgotten. Internet Mentioning the Jews goes against the idea of a Great Patriotic War. Examining the images VERSIONS recorded during this dark period means looking anew at what was not filmed, but also English - Russian - French TERRITORY(IES) at the messages transmitted and the arrangements made with the truth. Do "images-as- Worldwide. truth" lie? Narrated by French actress Anna Mouglalis. AWARDS : 2015 : Best Director Award at the Jewish Film Festival (Toronto - Canada) > 8 CURRENT AFFAIRS > 9 DAESH DESERTERS SPEAK OUT AUTHORS Personal testimonies from Islamic State defectors and those who have Thomas DANDOIS, François-xavier TREGAN DIRECTORS helped them escape. This exceptional documentary reveals what François-xavier TREGAN, Thomas DANDOIS daily life is like inside Daesh and looks at the conditions surrounding COPRODUCERS the dangerous work of exfiltration.