EFP SCREENINGS OF ACADEMY AWARD ® ENTRIES FROM EUROPE 22 films submitted in the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM category October 29 - November 10, 2014 © SeanPavonePhoto - Fotolia.com © SeanPavonePhoto Wilshire Screening Room, Beverly Hills European Film Promotion invites you to the screenings of 22 films European Film Promotion submitted in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Hamburg, Germany +49 40 390 6252 87th Academy Awards®. www.efp-online.com SCREENING ADDRESS Jo Mühlberger Wilshire Screening Room Project Director [email protected] 8670 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills +49 170 800 4156 Free parking available Tatiana Detlofson LA publicist [email protected] +1 310 260 2800 Contact during AFM EFP Umbrella Office Loews Hotel #863 +1 310 458 6700 ext. 863 Please RSVP for the individual screenings to [email protected] editors: Jo Mühlberger, Kristina Timmermann. design: Nanke Siemon SCREENING SCHEDULE Wednesday, October 29 6:30 PM Italy: HUMAN CAPITAL by Paolo Virzì (110 min) 8:30 PM Luxembourg: NEVER DIE YOUNG by Pol Cruchten (66 min) Thursday, October 30 6:30 PM Denmark: SORROW AND JOY by Nils Malmros (107 min) 8:30 PM Spain: LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED by David Trueba (108 min) Friday, October 31 5:00 PM FYRo Macedonia: TO THE HILT by Stole Popov (165 min) Saturday, November 1 3:30 PM Poland: IDA by Paweł Pawlikowski (80 min) 6:00 PM Serbia: SEE YOU IN MONTEVIDEO by Dragan Bjelogrlic (146 min) Sunday, November 2 3:30 PM Greece: LITTLE ENGLAND by Pantelis Voulgaris (132 min) 6:30 PM Croatia: COWBOYS by Tomislav Mršić (107 min) Monday, November 3 6:30 PM Czech Republic: FAIR PLAY by Andrea Sedláčková (100 min) 8:30 PM Iceland: LIFE IN A FISHBOWL by Baldvin Zophoníasson (130 min) Tuesday, November 4 6:30 PM Finland: CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo (96 min) followed by Q&A with the director and the producer 8:30 PM Bulgaria: BULGARIAN RHAPSODY by Ivan Nitchev (108 min) Thursday, November 6 6:30 PM Norway: 1001 GRAMS by Bent Hamer (93 min) followed by Q&A with the director 8:30 PM Estonia: TANGERINES by Zaza Urushadze (87 min) followed by Q&A with the director and the producer Friday, November 7 5:00 PM The Netherlands: ACCUSED by Paula van der Oest (97 min) followed by Q&A with the director Saturday, November 8 3:30 PM Germany: BELOVED SISTERS by Dominik Graf (170 min) followed by Q&A with actors 7:00 PM Lithuania: THE GAMBLER by Ignas Jonynas (109 min) followed by Q&A with the lead actress Sunday, November 9 3:30 PM Montenegro: THE KIDS FROM THE MARX AND ENGELS STREET by Nikola Vukčević (95 min) followed by Q&A with the director and the producer 6:30 PM Kosovo*: THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja (93 min) followed by Q&A with the producer Monday, November 10 7:00 PM Romania: THE JAPANESE DOG by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu (90 min) 9:00 PM Slovak Republic: A STEP INTO THE DARK by Miloslav Luther (120 min) followed by Q&A with the lead actor and the cinematographer * This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence. HUMAN CAPITAL Italy Directed by Paolo Virzì Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30 pm Italy Contact HUMAN CAPITAL Directed by Paolo Virzì US-Distributor (IL capitale umano) Film Movement New York +1 212 9417 744 Synopsis [email protected] Human Capital begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before www.filmmovement.com Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do International Sales Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their BAC FILMS comfortable middle-class life, in ways neither could have expected. Dino Ossola (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), Paris, France in dire financial straits, anticipates the birth of twins with his second wife (Valeria Golino). Meanwhile, +33 1 53 53 52 52 Dino’s teenage daughter’s relationship with hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi’s playboy son [email protected] complicates an already tricky social dance of status, money and ambition. www.bacfilms.com Director’s Statement This project began first and foremost as a real “love affair” with the wonderful novel by Stephen in cooperation with and supported by Amidon, Human Capital, set in an affluent Connecticut suburb in the last decade. Those characters, and that story, seemed emblematic of our times, even in Italy: a wealth that doesn’t come from work, but from the most ruthless of financial speculation; the dashed hopes of climbing the social ladder; the anxiety that money causes; a generation of young people forced to pay a higher price Istituto Luce Cinecittà for happiness, because of the fitful ambitions of their parents, or their own frustrations. The story Annabella Nucara of Drew Hagel—the restless real estate agent who takes advantage of his daughter’s presumed Rome, Italy relationship with the son of a wealthy broker to try and join the board of an aggressive investment +39 06 722861 fund—immediately struck a chord. It seemed written just for us, to express a state of affairs that [email protected] concerns us all. So we made it an Italian story, the story of Dino Ossola, a real estate agent, who’s www.filmitalia.org enrolled his daughter Serena in a prestigious prep school he can barely afford. We immersed that Festivals and Awards (Selection) mosaic of stories and characters in today’s North Italian Provence, a region straddling the border • Athens International Film Festival - Opening Nights 2014: Premiere of wealth and desperation. • Chicago International Film Festival 2014: Main Competition • Cinéalma - L’âme de la méditerranée 2014 We decided to structure the plot like a real thriller, with a dead body on our hands from the very • David di Donatello 2014: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress in a first scene: a cyclist hit on an icy winter’s night, on the eve of the Christmas holidays. Tracing the Leading Role (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Best Actress in a Supporting steps of the various characters, the entire film retells the story of what happened that night, piece Role (Valeria Golino), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Fabrizio Gifuni), by piece, showing how that accident could change each of their lives. Best Editing, Best Sound (Roberto Mozzarelli) Mainly, however, it tells the story of how money—the angst of multiplying it, the anxiety of losing • Filmfest München 2014: Spotlight it—determines the relationships, the fates, and the worth of the people it touches. • Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 2014: Gala Director Production • Globi d‘Oro 2014: Best Film Paolo Virzì Company Indiana Production Company, • Jerusalem International Film Festival 2014: Gala Italy Screenplay • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014: Horizons Co- prod. • Motovun Film Festival 2014: Main program Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Country France Piccolo, from the novel by Stephen Amidon • New Zealand International Film Festival 2014 Genre Crime/Thriller Main cast • Seattle International Film Festival 2014: Contemporary World Cinema Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Valeria Language Italian • Sydney Film Festival 2014 Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Lo Cascio Year 2014 • The Norwegian Int‘l Film Festival - Haugesund 2014: Main Programme Length 110 min • Tribeca Film Festival 2014: World Narrative Competition - Best Actress • Vancouver International Film Festival 2014: Cinema of Our Time www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=372 NEVER DIE YOUNG Luxembourg Directed by Pol Cruchten Wednesday, October 29 at 8:30 pm Luxembourg Contact NEVER DIE Directed by Pol Cruchten International Sales YOUNG Eastwest Filmdistribution (NEVER DIE YOUNG) Austria Sasha Wieser Synopsis +43 6642338411 Guido is born in Pétange/Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg on December 7th, 1959. At the age of 12, he [email protected] www.eastwest-distribution.com is sent to a boarding school in Arlon/Belgium for three long years. His return to Pétange marks the beginning of his downward spiral. He starts selling heroin to pay for his own consumption and is rapidly confronted with the justice department. The occurrence marking his life forever occurs when in cooperation with and supported by he‘s 20 years old. Trying to escape from a police department, where he was just brought to, Guido throws himself head first off an eight-meter high wall. He miraculously survives the fall, but remains paralyzed for the rest of his life. At the re-education center, despite the wheelchair he‘s stuck to day after day, his addiction remains as lively as ever. Film Fund Luxembourg Françoise Lentz Luxembourg, Luxembourg +352 2478 2179 [email protected] www.filmfund.lu Festivals and Awards (Selection) • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis 2014 – Best Documentary Director Production Pol Cruchten Company Red Lion, Luxembourg Screenplay Genre Docu-Fiction Pol Cruchten Language French Main cast Year 2014 Robinson Stévenin (male voice), Length 66 min Laurence Côte (female voice) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo0RgluOYoI SORROW AND JOY Denmark Directed by Nils Malmros Thursday, October 30 at 6:30 pm Denmark Contact SORROW AND JOY Directed by Nils Malmros International Sales (SORG OG GLÆDE) Trust Nordisk Hvidovre, Denmark Lena Juhl Seidelin Synopsis +45 3686 8703 In SORROW AND JOY filmmaker Johannes and his wife, Signe experience the biggest sorrow one [email protected] can ever imagine when Signe kills their 9-month-old daughter. In the midst of all the hopelessness www.trustnordisk.com Johannes has to fight the legal system to secure his wife the lightest possible sentence and at the same time try to reach out to her in order to continue life after death.