23rd European Film Awards

23rd European Film Awards EFA Selection 2010

23rd European Film Awards CONTENTS: Preface ...........................................................................

Regulations 2010 ...........................................................

Films ...............................................................................

Index of films ..................................................................

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Managing Directors: Marion Döring, Jürgen Biesinger Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 99369

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IMPRINT EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V., Pascal Edelmann (editor) * graphic design: Andres Castoldi * Unless otherwise indicated, all pictures appear courtesy of the respective production/distribution companies

PREFACE

Every year the European Film Academy presents the EFA Selection, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards. Following the big success of the selection catalogue we introduced for the first time last year, we proudly present this year’s selection, again with detailed information on the different films and filmmakers, and I hope you will enjoy leafing through it and will find it a useful tool to cast your votes for the European Film Awards 2010.

Within the EFA Selection 2010 you will find veterans of European cinema and EFA regulars as well as newcomers and debut films - altogether there are 46 films from 32 countries once again vividly illustrating the great diversity in European cinema.

On the following pages you will find a summary of the regulations for the European Film Awards. As most of you will know, in the 20 countries with the most EFA Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list, a Selection Committee consisting of EFA Board Members and invited experts Gunnar Bergdahl (Sweden), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Derek Malcolm (UK), and Nikolaj Nikitin (Germany) has included further films.

The films in the selection will now be made available to the EFA Members on DVD and/or by Video on Demand (VOD) and we would like to use this opportunity to thank all the producers, distributors and world sales companies for making their films available to the EFA Members and thus giving all films in the EFA Selection an equal chance.

We would also very much like to thank our partner EGEDA for their support. EGEDA is the collecting society that represents and defends the interests of audiovisual producers in Spain. They have been offering the films selected for the Goya Awards by VOD to the members of the Spanish Film Academy and are now providing this service for EFA. Thanks to the continued support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, we have been able to constantly improve the presentation of the EFA Selection and when you receive the DVDs of this year’s films, for the first time, you will find them in designed sleeves marked “EFA Selection 2010”!

In the coming weeks, the 2,300 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the different award categories. The nominations will then be announced on 6 November at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.

The 23rd European Film Awards with the presentation of the winners will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, on 4 December.

Yves Marmion Chairman EFA Board

We wish you a lot of memorable film experiences!

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Regulations for the European Film Awards 2010 Eligibility Feature films participating in the European Film Awards 2010 must be European* feature-length fiction films intended for normal theatrical release which must have had their first official screening (be it at a festival or at a regular cinema) after 1 July 2009.

The EFA Board has the right in exceptional cases to refrain from this rule.

Submission deadline is 15 June 2010 Selection procedure The selection of app 40 films proposed to the EFA members to be considered for a nomination is made as follows: - in the 20 (twenty) European countries with the highest number of EFA members (as of 15 March 2010), these members vote directly for one film from among the national feature films released in their country or screened at festivals after 1 July 2009. The film having received the highest number of votes in each of these countries will automatically be included in the selection of films, provided it corresponds to the regulations of the European Film Awards; - the selection of the app 20 remaining films is made by a committee composed of members of the EFA Board and a group of experts appointed by the Board. These remaining films are selected from proposals submitted before 15 June by European film institutions, festivals, trade magazines, media partners, members of the European Film Academy and producers of European films.

As a result, the committee recommends to the EFA members - around 40 (forty) films, half of them elected directly by EFA members, the others selected from all proposals received as explained above.

The selection of films will be announced in the beginning of September 2010.

To give all candidates an equal chance, the films selected are made available to the EFA Members on DVD and/or by VOD. The list of the films recommended by the committee is not exclusive.

Producers of European films which are not among the recommended films may – upon payment of a fee – make their films available to the EFA Members by VOD.

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REGULATIONS

Nomination procedure Based on the list of films recommended by the committee and/or the films made available by producers, the EFA Members vote for the nominations in the following categories: • • • • • • • •

EUROPEAN FILM EUROPEAN DIRECTOR EUROPEAN ACTRESS EUROPEAN ACTOR EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER EUROPEAN EDITOR EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER

The committee has the right to add one nomination in each of the above categories.

Based on a simple majority of votes received and the nominations added by the committee, the European Film Academy announces the following: • • • • • • • •

EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN

FILM: 6 nominations DIRECTOR: 5 nominations ACTRESS: 5 nominations ACTOR: 5 nominations SCREENWRITER: 4 nominations CINEMATOGRAPHER: 4 nominations EDITOR: 3 nominations PRODUCTION DESIGNER: 3 nominations

Election of the winners Based on the nominations, the members of the European Film Academy vote for the winners which are announced at the European Film Awards Ceremony taking place in Tallinn / Estonia on 4 December 2010.

* The criteria whereby a film qualifies as European are based upon the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production, Appendix II, issued by the Council of Europe. A short film qualifies as European when the director was born in Europe or is of a European nationality. European, in the sense of the European Film Academy, shall include Israeli and Palestinian.

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3 SEZÓNY V PEKLE 3 SEASONS IN HELL

Czech Republic 110 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Tomas Masin PRODUCED BY: Monika Kristl DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Karl Oskarsson EDITOR: Petr Turyna PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Martin Kurel MAIN CAST: Krystof Hadek (Ivan Heinz), Karolina Gruszka (Jana), Martina Huba (Ivan’s father), Jan Kraus (Viktor Lukas)

Pictures: Lucie Jansch

Prague 1947 - a time of sensuality, extravagance, wit and great expectations.

Ivan Heinz, a good-looking dandy with a provocative sense of humour has just turned 19. Running away from home he devotes himself to the celebration of freedom, revolutionary politics and artistic aspiration. He lives for the moment, discards the past, writes poetry and blindly immerses himself in his own world of idealistic politics, surrealism and personal discovery.

And life is good, when savoured through a haze of hedonism and in the company of a fascinating, stylish woman who awakes his powerful sexuality. Ivan throws himself whole-heartedly into a destructive romance with independent, bisexual Jana. The two lovers live an eventful life together, full of inspiring erotic games, arguments, and explosive laughter, against a backdrop of 1940s dance music and dramatic political change. The new Communist regime begins, however, to reveal its repressive side.

Production: Dawson Productions Pstrossova 21 110 00 Prague CZECH REPUBLIC tel. +420 224 999 911 fax +420 224 999 923 Monika@dawson.cz

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World Sales: The Yellow Affair St. Paulsgatan 22B 11848 Stockholm SWEDEN tel. +46 73 8248 996 Grace@yellowaffalr.com

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Infatuated pleasure seekers, blind to the looming danger, Ivan and Jana are like light-footed dancers balancing on a razor blade. Thumbing their noses at work, they support themselves through petty theft. Weaving fantastic visions of their future, they plan their escape to Paris. But confrontation with the very regime that Ivan espouses comes harshly and unexpectedly. It is Ivan’s tenacity and single-mindedness that allow him to survive the traumatic events that he has stumbled into. His redemption is as profound as it is unexpected.

Director’s Statement: The film takes place in post-war Prague 1947-49, with an episode in Vienna, divided at that time into the SovietAmerican-French military zones. Imagine a period tale of desire, of strong and passionate love between 19 year-old poet Ivan Heinz and older, experienced, radiant Jana [who is also bisexual] that rushes towards its own destruction.

This all winds through sometimes humorous, sometimes dangerous peripeties. Imagine a film that is rhythmically accented by swing and the dance music of the period.

Imagine a film where an important visual level is played by the atmosphere of post-war, Kafkaesque and inspiring Prague and where a refreshing role is played by the rich surreal imagination of the leading characters. Imagine stirring action in which there is no lack of dramatic and surprising twists. Imagine a film about a fatal love of two strictly independent artists, which develops from playful moments and exciting sexual games just to culminate in a dramatic and hard clash with state power.

Imagine a relationship from which the lovers emerge separated, yet richer of the strong and fateful experience.

Imagine a film where love literally meets with death. I wish that the audience will leave the cinema with the feeling that it is worthwhile to live in “madness”, keep up ones personal fight against the pressure of those “above” and that it’s necessary to defend one’s freedom and independence. Yet that humour and free imagination can be a strong weapon against any kind of oppression.

Tomas Masin Tomas Masin was born in 1966 in Prague, Czech Republic.

In 1980-1984 he studied at the High School of Applied Arts (SUPS) in Prague. In 1988-1994 he went on acquiring knowledge at the Prague Academy of Applied Arts (AVU) in M. Sejn’s conceptual studio and new media atelier led

by Prof. Bielicky.

Tomas’ work consists of a debut feature film, short experimental films, video art, commercials and music videos.

3 SEASONS IN HELL Festival Participation/Awards: Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 Czech Lion Awards 2010: 11 nominations, 3 awards

Tomas Masin Filmography: 1991 SIGNS, short, script 1995 HOTEL, short 1996 SEPTEJ (Whisper), script 2009 3 SEASONS IN HELL

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ANOTHER YEAR

UK 129 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Mike Leigh PRODUCED BY: Georgina Lowe DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Dick Pope EDITOR: Jon Gregory PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Simon Beresford MAIN CAST: Jim Broadbent (Tom), Lesley Manville (Mary), Ruth Sheen (Gerri), Peter Wight (Ken), Oliver Maltman (Joe)

Pictures: Simon Mein, Š Thin Man Films Ltd.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes.

Production: Thin Man Films Ltd 9 Greek Street London, W1D 4DQ UK tel. +44 207 734 7372 fax +44 207 287 5228

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World Sales: FOCUS Features International Oxford House 76 Oxford Street London, W1D IBS UK tel. +44 207 307 1330 fax +44 207 307 1348

Press: FOCUS Features International Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street London, W1D IBS, UK tel. +44 207 307 1330 fax +44 207 307 1348 Anna.bohlin@focusfeatures.com Jenny.hennessy@focusfeatures.com

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ANOTHER YEAR Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, competition Sarajevo FF 2010 Norwegian IFF Haugesund 2010 Toronto IFF 2010, special presentation

Mike Leigh Filmography: 1971 BLEAK MOMENTS 1988 HIGH HOPES 1991 LIFE IS SWEET 1993 NAKED 1996 SECRETS & LIES 1997 CAREER GIRLS 1999 TOPSY-TURVY 2001 ALL OR NOTHING 2004 VERA DRAKE 2008 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

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BAL HONEY

Turkey/Germany 103 min.

WRITTEN BY: Semih Kaplanoğlu & Orcun Koksal DIRECTED BY: Semih Kaplanoğlu PRODUCED BY: Semih Kaplanoğlu & Johannes Rexin DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Barış Özbiçer EDITOR: Ayhan Ergürsel, Semih Kaplanoğlu &, S. Hande Guneri PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Naz Erayda MAIN CAST: Bora Altaş (Yusuf), Erdal Beşikçioğlu (Yakup), Tülin Özen (Zehra)

Yusuf (6) has started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father, Yakup (35), works far in the depths of a frightening forest. He is a honey-gatherer who hangs his hand-made beehives in the upper branches of tall trees in the forest. The forest is a place of mystery for Yusuf, who often accompanies his father.

One morning Yusuf describes the dream he had seen that night to his father. This dream is to be an ever-lasting secret between the father and the son.

On that same day, as Yusuf struggles to read before his entire classmates the text the teacher has given him, he begins suddenly to stutter and is ridiculed by his classmates.

Yakup goes to a distant forest, looking for the Caucasian bees which seem to be mysteriously disappearing. His father gone, Yusuf slips into silence. Yusuf’s mother, Zehra (28), who works in the tea fields, is saddened to see her son in this state. No matter how much she tries, she cannot get her son to speak.

Days pass and Zehra and Yusuf become anxious when Yakup doesn’t return. They fail to find Yakup at the festival being held on Sis (mist) Mountain.

Yusuf goes deep into the forest to search for his father. Will the dream he has seen come true?

Production: Kaplan Film Production Süreyya Agaoglu Sok. Hatay Apü 41/7 34365, Tesvikiye Istanbul TURKEY tel. +90 212 2912995 fax +90 212 2912995 info@kaplanfilm.com

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World Sales: The Match Factory Balthasarstrasse 79 - 81 50670 Cologne GERMANY tel. +49 221 539 709-0 fax +49 221 539 709-10 philipp.hoffmann@matchfactory.de

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Director’s Statement: BAL is the third film in my “Yusuf Trilogy.” The idea of the “Yusuf Trilogy” took form while I was revising a script which I had written long ago and which was more or less the story of university-aged Yusuf in SÜT (Milk). While I was elaborating on the character of Yusuf, I started to think about this young man’s future as an adult (YUMURTA/Egg) and his past as a young boy (BAL/Honey). Those ideas helped shape the trilogy. I started with Egg, maybe because I wanted to peel down the character slowly and reach his core. The trilogy could be considered an extensive flashback. However, they are not period films.

All take place in the present day amidst various places, relations and economic standards in Turkey. I have been asked if all three Yusuf characters are indeed the same man. I choose not to answer so as not to disclose the secrets of the character, the direct and indirect relationship between the films, the mysteries to the films.

I drew on my own past experiences while shaping the character of Yusuf. So we can say that Yusuf has parts from me. I referred to my own youth and childhood while writing the three scripts and I believe I was able to handle the issues about Yusuf’s life, troubles and quests realistically. My own childhood served as a point of reference for the script of Honey as well. My troubles at school while trying to learn how to read and write, my questions which grown-ups left unanswered, the intense cruelty and richness of nature... In a way, a child forms his personality while discovering the world with curiosity. An occasional misunderstanding leading to naïve mistakes, dreams, joys and sorrows allows him to reach the truth. I hope Honey allows us to reach the truth of Yusuf.

Semih Kaplanoğlu Semih Kaplanoğlu is one of the most acclaimed writerdirector- producers of contemporary filmmaking in Turkey. He received a BS in Cinema- Television from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül Universiy, Izmir in 1984. Kaplanoğlu made his debut in 2001 with AWAY FROM HOME for which he was awarded Best Director in Singapore IFF. His recent feature HONEY, the third part of the Yusuf Trilogy, winner of the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlinale IFF, traces the origins of a soul. Semih Kaplanoğlu, born in 1963, has also written many articles based on plastic arts and cinema which have been translated into foreign languages and published various magazines and journals between 1987 and 2003.

HONEY Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010 Golden Bear SARAJEVO FF 2010 Yerevan IFF Golden Apricot 2010 Medfilm Festival 2010

Semih Kaplanoglu Filmography: 2000 AWAY FROM HOME 2005 ANGEL’S FALL 2007 YUMURTA 2008 SÜT 2010 BAL

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CARLOS

France/Germany 318 min.

WRITTEN BY: Olivier Assayas & Dan Franck DIRECTED BY: Olivier Assayas PRODUCED BY: Daniel Leconte, Jens Meurer & Judy Tossell DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Yorick le Saux & Denis Lenoir EDITOR: Luc Barnier PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Francois-Renaud Labarthe MAIN CAST: Edgar Ramirez (Carlos), Alexander Scheer (Johannes Weinrich), Nora von Waldstätten (Magdalena Kopp), Christoph Bach (Hans-Joachim Klein), Ahmad Kaabour (Wadie Haddad), Julia Hummer (Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann), Fadi Abi Samra (Michel Moukharbal)

Pictures: Jean-Claude Moireau/Film en Stock/Egoli Tossell Film/Canal +

His real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but we all know him as Carlos. The Jackal.

For 20 years he was the most wanted fugitive in the world - the inventor of international terrorism as we know it today. Under the protection of various Arab regimes and the Stasi secret police, Carlos founded a highly effective and sophisticated world-wide network of terror, and committed at least 80 successful terrorist attacks. In his heyday, Carlos lived a life of luxury, was the world’s most feared killer and collaborated with the Red Brigades, ETA, the German Red Army, various sections of the PLO, Saddam Hussein and Colonel Ghaddafi - all at the same time.

This is the revealing and true story of the rise - and fall - of a notorious revolutionary who lost his faith and his energy and ended up as nothing more than a ruthless mercenary. The Cold War came to an end in 1989 and Carlos was no longer of use to his former masters. When French special agents caught up with him in Sudan in 1992, they found a debauched fat man, drunk by the hotel poolside, surrounded by expensive prostitutes.

Production: Egoli Tossell Film AG Torstr. 164 10115 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 30 24 65 65 0 fax: +49 30 24 65 65 24 contact@egolitossell.com

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Film en Stock 79, rue due Temple 75003 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 44 54 25 89 fax +33 1 42 74 18 21 dleconte@docenstock.com

World Sales: Studio Canal Paris 1, place du Spectacle 92863 Issy-les Moulineaux FRANCE tel. +33 171 35 35 35

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CARLOS Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, out of competition Filmfest Munich, Nouveau Cinéma Français New York FF 2010

Director’s Statement: The film tells the story of Carlos, the story of modern terrorism from the perspective of an insider. Right from the start, one of the central questions was the combination of truth and fiction. What does it mean to show real events with cinematographic means and emotions? And to maintain artistic freedom at the same time? The events in Carlos ‘career’ represent the current level of knowledge about him as accurately as possible and our research has been very extensive and was examined with minuteness.

However, the facts had to take up a subordinate role to the purpose of the dramaturgy, which demands its own constraints and simplifications on such a complex story line, that spans over more than 20 years. To be honest, I would have liked to call the film ‘Carlos, a novel’, because although it is inspired by actual events, its narrative, its rhythm and its inquiring approach as well as the lesser puplic aspects of Carlos’ character have developed out of fiction and the mystery that surrounds him. Carlos is a modern myth, visible and yet invisible, comprehensible and yet absurd, known and yet unknown.

Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas was born in 1955 in Paris as the son of celebrated screenwriter Jacques Remy. He came to fame with his first short film COPYRIGHT in 1979, his first feature DISORDER in 1986, but also as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma and as a screenwriter for André Techiné.

Since the early 1990s, Assayas has been one of the leading directors of the Nouveau Cinéma Français at home in many genres - from lavish period film to his celebrated homage to Asian star Maggie Cheung, IRMA VEP.

Olivier Assayas Filmography: 1986 DISORDER 1996 IRMA VEP 1998 ALICE ET MARTIN 2000 LES DESTINEES SENTIMENTALES 2002 DEMONLOVER 2004 CLEAN 2006 PARIS, JE T’AIME, episode Quartier des Enfants Rouges 2007 BOARDING GATE 2008 SUMMER HOURS

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CELDA 211 CELL 211

Spain/France 114 min.

WRITTEN BY: Jorge Guerricaechevarría & Daniel Monzón DIRECTED BY: Daniel Monzón PRODUCED BY: Emma Lustres, Borja Pena, Juan Gordon & Álvaro Augustín DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Carles Gusi EDITOR: Mapa Pastor PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Alicia Tellería MAIN CAST: Luis Tosar (Malamadre), Alberto Ammann (Juan Oliver), Antonio Resines (Utrilla), Carlos Bardem (Apache), Marta Etura (Elena)

A novice prison official has the bad luck to start his new job on the same day the prisoners organize a riot. Caught up in a fast-changing and dangerous situation, he is forced to exploit to the maximum the only resource left to him: his cunning.

He finds that far from being the shy, gentle and decent man he has long thought himself to be, he is a born survivor teetering on the edge of an abyss.

Production: VACA FILMS Calle Real 11, 3º izq.

15003 A Coruña SPAIN tel. +34 881 917 566 fax +34 881 894 671 info@vacafilms.com

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World Sales: FILMS DISTRIBUTION 34, Rue du Louvre 75001 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 53 10 33 99 fax +33 1 53 10 33 98 info@filmsdistribution.com

Press: VASAVER Passeig de Sant Joan 93, Ppal 2ª 08009 Barcelona.

SPAIN tel. +34 93 45 83 966

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Director’s Statement: When CELDA 211 fell into my hands, I read it in one go and knew immediately that I wanted to make a movie about it. The novel’s starting point was forceful and convincing, set in a powerful, recognizable and human universe; and the story was built on a suffocating tension and included some remarkable twists and turns. As a film, it represented a major narrative challenge and left me with little choice to do anything other than strip away all artifice and place the camera directly at the service of the characters. It was thus necessary to find a failsafe cast. Now that the film’s finished, it’s hard for me to imagine more reliable, suitable actors than the ones we went with.

Daniel Monzón Daniel Monzón made his feature film debut with EL CORAZÓN DEL GUERRERO, starring Fernando Ramallo, Joel Joan and Neus Asensi, for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film was a great international success, winning a lengthy list of awards around the world including Best European Fantasy Film at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, where it also won the 2001 Méliès d’Argent. At the 2001 Montreal Fantastic Film Festival it took the prize for best international film, and at the 2001 Fantasporto it won the award for best special effects. It also received the Grand Jury Prize at the Beijing Film Festival, and the Spanish AEFCFT’s award for best Spanish fantasy film. At the 2001 Goya awards, the film was nominated for Best New Director and Best Production Direction.

EL ROBO MÁS GRANDE JAMÁS CONTADO was the second film directed and written by Daniel Monzón; produced by Andres Vicente Gomez, the movie’s cast was led by Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, and Manuel Manquiña. It was an explosive mix of dramatic “Mission Impossible”- style action and crazy satire.

THE KOVAK BOX, co-written with Jorge Guerricaechevarría, is his third feature film. It won the Audience Award at the International Festival of Fantastic Film at Lund in Sweden. It starred Timothy Hutton, Lucia Jimenez, and David Kelly. A great success in Spain, it sold practically world-wide.

CELL 211 Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009 Toronto IFF 2009 International Fantastic FF of Catalunya 2009 Les Arcs European FF 2009: Audience Award Spanish Cinema Now – Lincoln Center (New York) 2009 Tokyo Spanish FF 2009 Chicago European FF 2010 Brussels Int’l Fantastic FF 2010: Best Thriller Buenos Aires Int’l Independent FF 2010 Sahara IFF 2010 8 GOYA Awards: Best Film, Director, Addapted Script, Male Leading Role, Female Supporting Role, New Actor, Editing and Sound.

10 Galician Audiovisual Academy Awards (Mestre Mateo): Best Film, Director, Script, Male Leading Role, Male Supporting Role, Production Design, Makeup & Hair, Costume Design, Sound and Editing.

2 José María Forqué Awards (EGEDA) for Best Film and Actor 3 Spanish Association of Actors Awards for Best Cinema Male Starring Actor, Male Supporting Actor and New Actor

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LE CONCERT THE CONCERT

France 122 min.

WRITTEN BY: Radu Mihaileanu, in collaboration with Alan-Michel Blanc & Matthew Robbins DIRECTED BY: Radu Mihaileanu PRODUCED BY: Alain Attal DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Laurent Dailland EDITOR: Ludovic Troch PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Cristian Niculescu MAIN CAST: Alexeï Guskov (Andreï Filipov),Dmitry Nazarov (Sacha Grossman), Mélanie Laurent (Anne-Marie Jacquet), François Berleand (Olivier Morne Duplessis), Miou Miou (Guylène de La Rivière), Valeri Barinov (Ivan Gavrilov), Anna Kamenkova Pavlova (Irina Filipovna), Lionel Abelanski (Jean-Paul Carrère), Alexander Komissarov (Victor Vikitch), Ramzy (owner of the ‘Trou Normand’)

Andreï Filipov was a prodigy – the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner. During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players, – ‘Zionists and enemies of the people’ – including his best friend Sacha Grossman. Andreï sank into booze and depression.

The director of the Bolshoi, an old apparatchik, has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon”, but he’s mocking him, humiliating him sadistically.

For him, Andreï’s a has-been, and he’s doing him a big favour by keeping him on as a cleaner. Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a last-minute replacement for the indisposed San Francisco Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: he’ll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, removal men, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects…

Production: Les Productions du Trésor 12 rue Barbette 75003 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 43 38 48 84 contact@productionsdutresor.com

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World Sales: Wild Bunch 99 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris FRANCE tel. + 33 1 53 01 50 30 fax + 33 1 53 01 50 49 edevos@wildbunch.eu

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THE CONCERT Festival Participation/Awards: Beauvais FFF 2009 Rome FF 2009 Seattle IFF 2010 Durban FF 2010 César Awards 2010: Best Music Written for a Film, Best Sound

They’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi.

They’ll defy destiny and take their revenge!

Will they make it?

Director’s Statement: My collaborator Alain-Michel Blanc and I went to Russia for two weeks first in order to meet the people who would be the inspiration for our characters. For me we are talking about the relationship between the individual and the community, which takes us back to today’s crisis. We observe today that we have reached the ultimate degree of individualism and that human beings are out of step with the world: they’d like to keep the individual’s fundamental rights while going back to a society that’s a bit more united.

I discovered that Tchaikovsky’s concerto couldn’t be harmonious if the violin and the orchestra did not complement each other: if the violin doesn’t sound good, the orchestra drifts away and vice-versa. The two are interlinked. Today’s crisis shows this in a violent way; the link between the individual and the collective must be very strong and in order to find harmony – or happiness – we must try to play in unison as much as we can.

Radu Mihaileanu Filmography: 1980 LES QUATRE SAISONS 1993 TRAHIR 1998 TRAIN DE VIE (Train of Life) 2005 VA, VIE ET DEVIENS (Live and Become) 2009 LE CONCERT

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DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX OF GODS AND MEN

France 120 min.

WRITTEN BY: Etienne Comar & Xavier Beauvois DIRECTED BY: Xavier Beauvois DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Caroline Champetier EDITOR: Marie-Julie Maille PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michel Barthelemy MAIN CAST: Lambert Wilson (Christian), Michael Lonsdale (Luc), Olivier Rabourdin (Christophe), Philippe Laudenbach (Célestin), Jacques Herlin (Amédée), Loïc Pichon (Jean-Pierre), Xavier Maly (Michel), Jean-Marie Frin (Paul)

Pictures: Marie-Julie Maille / Why Not Productions

A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.

When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse.

Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may.

This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.

Production: Why Not Productions 3 rue Paillet 75005 Paris FRANCE tel. + 33 1 48 24 24 50 fax + 33 1 48 24 24 51. whynot@wanadoo.fr

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World Sales: Wild Bunch 99 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris FRANCE tel. + 33 1 53 10 42 50 fax + 33 1 53 10 42 69

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OF GODS AND MEN Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010 : Grand Prix du Jury

Xavier Beauvois Filmography: 1992 NORD (North) 1995 N’OUBLIE PAS QUE TU VAS MOURIR (Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die) 2002 SELON MATTHIEU (According to Matthieu) 2005 LE PETIT LIEUTENANT (The Young Lieutenant) 2010 DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (Of Gods and Men)

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EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE

Romania 94 min.

WRITTEN BY: Catalin Mitulescu & Florin Serban DIRECTED BY: Florin Serban PRODUCED BY: Catalin Mitulescu DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marius Panduru EDITOR: Sorin Baican & Catalin Cristutiu PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Ana Ioneci MAIN CAST: George Pistereanu (Silviu), papn Chilibar (Ursu), Ada Condeescu (Ana), Clara Voda (mother), Mihai Constantin (head of the penitenciary), Marian Bratu (brother)

Silviu has only five days left before his release from the juvenile detention centre. But five days becomes an eternity when his mother returns from a long absence to take his younger brother away. A brother whom he raised like a son. Moreover, he has fallen in love with a beautiful social worker. With time running out and his emotions boiling over, Silviu closes his eyes... Freedom, the wind, the road, his first kiss. Anything can happen to him now...

Production/Press: Strada Film 41 Dr. Staicovici Str 050556 Bucharest ROMANIA tel. +40 722 163 279 fax +40 21 411 80 99 contact@stradafilm.ro

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Director’s Statement: IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE is a movie that raises a strong question about responsibility, our responsibility towards the ones around us and mostly towards our children.

I don’t see this film as a prison movie that presents strange and exotic places that we usually don’t have access to. This particular documentary approach is one that I am not at all interested in. My goal is to portray two characters in two very different positions and still with very similar attitudes, two characters that communicate at a very intimate level. I wanted to deconstruct their reality on page in order to reconstruct it in front of the camera.

The main character is Silviu, a charismatic adolescent at the beginning of his life. He is “the juvenile delinquent”, one of those kids we don’t want to know of, one of those we want to stay away from, one of the outcasts. I want the viewer to meet and see a wild, tough, street-wise kid at the beginning of the film. As the story progresses, the spectator will get to know him, will draw closer to him, and will eventually understand him and his position. The viewer will understand that beyond the mask he put on, Silviu is a sensitive and fundamentally insecure adolescent. By the end of the film, as Silviu pulls off his mask and expects rewards, the viewer has already bonded with this kid and sees the long denied love he is looking for as important as Silviu sees it. But this love is exactly the thing that is aggressively denied to Silviu. Now the viewer will understand Silviu’s reaction at a very intimate level, and even if he may not agree with it as a rational outcome, everybody will be emotionally involved with my character. Everybody’s heart will shrink as he takes the hostages, will hope he would succeed against all odds and break free. Our hearts hope for Silviu’s redemption to the very last second and they will break together with Ana’s at the end.

I want to make a clear distinction between the world beyond the bars and the world inside the prison. And I want to clearly go against the common place of the gray prison with gray walls and gray kids. What is going to be gray is the outside world, Ana’s world, which will bear the gray of our safety and our confusion. Inside, I will have a vibrant atmosphere, not a color saturated one, but one that expresses energy above everything else. The prison will express this energy mostly because of Silviu, because of his persona, his own unbounded energy and his useless and irrational hopes. I want to keep the prison alive. No matter what things are happening there, I want it alive and vibrating.

IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Silver Bear (Jury Grand Prix), Alfred Bauer Award Beaune Int’l Thriller FF 2010: Best Sang Neuf Film Zlín FF 2010: The Europe Award Art Film fest: Blue Angel Award (Best Actor) Transilvania IFF: Best Romanian Film

Florin Serban Filmography: 1999 preTEXT, short 2001 MECANO, short 2002 HALF OF THE CITY MAKES LOVE WITH THE OTHER HALF, short 2009 ANGEL 2009 IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE

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FILM SOCIALISME FILM SOCIALISME

Switzerland 102 min.

WRITTEN BY: Jean-Luc Godard DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard PRODUCED BY: Ruth Waldburger DIRECTOR’S CREW: Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno, Paul Grivas, François Musy, Renaud Musy, Gabriel Hafner, Louma Sanbar, Yousri Nasrallah, Anne-Marie Mieville MAIN CAST: Catherine Tanvier (la mère), Christian Sinniger (le père), Jean-Marc Stehlé (Otto Goldberg), Patti Smith (herself), Robert Maloubier (himself)

A symphony in three movements THINGS SUCH AS A Mediterranean cruise. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday...

OUR EUROPE At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

OUR HUMANITIES Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

Production: VEGA FILM AG Helenastrasse 3 8034 Zürich SWITZERLAND tel. +41 44 384 80 90 fax +41 44 384 B0 99 info@vegafilm.com

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FILM SOCIALISME Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, Un certain regard Melbourne 2010 Era New Horizon IFF 2010 Toronto 2010 New York FF 2010

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DIE FREMDE WHEN WE LEAVE

Germany 119 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Feo Aladag PRODUCED BY: Feo Aladag & Züli Aladag DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Judith Kaufmann EDITOR: Andrea Mertens PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Silke Buhr MAIN CAST: Sibel Kekilli (Umay), Settar Tanriögen (Kader), Derya Alabora (Halime), Nizam Schiller (Cem), Tamer Yigit (Mehmet), Florian Lukas (Stipe), Alwara Höfels (Atife), Almila Bagriacik (Rana), Serhad Can (Acar), Nursel Köse (Gül)

What would you sacrifice for your family’s love? Your values? Your freedom?

Your independence? German-born Umay flees her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her young son Cem with her. She is hoping to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival creates intense conflict. Her family is trapped in their conventions, torn between their love for her and the values of their community.

Ultimately they decide to return Cem to his father in Turkey. To keep her son, Umay is forced to move again. She finds the inner strength to build a new life for her and Cem, but her need for her family’s love drives her to a series of ill-fated attempts at reconciliation. What Umay doesn’t realize is just how deep the wounds have gone and how dangerous her struggle for self-determination has become ...

Production/Press: Independent Artists Filmproduktion Joseph-Haydn-Str. 1 10557 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 30 280447-06/-7 fax +49 30 28879835 office@independent-artists-filmproduktion.de

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Director’s Statement: We live in a multicultural society, which can no longer simply promote consensus but must find new ways to get around arising divergence. That will only suceed with ongoing dialogue and by allowing ourselves to be guided by our similarities rather than by our differences. My belief is that harmonious co-existence is possible if we, in the name of empathy, grow beyond the shadows of our principles and convictions. This theme is universal, as it affects all of us, whether it is people who love one another or people who share a society, a country or a planet and therefore are a community.

What could possibly be stronger than our love for our children? Tradition? Culture? Religion? What happens if we are stuck in a system of rules, set by others, that would not let us follow our hearts and stand by our children?

WHEN WE LEAVE is a call for self-determination as much as it is a cry to never let anything be stronger than our loyalty and empathy for those we love. For that’s all we have: our hands that reach out for one another.

Feo Aladag Born in 1972 in Vienna, Feo Aladag studied acting in Vienna and London and also completed studies in communication sciences and psychology at the University of Vienna, graduating in 2000 with a Dr. phil. From 1991 to 1993 Feo Aladag worked as a freelance editor for daily newspapers in Austria, writing mainly about film and TV. Till 2000 she took part in numerous video clips and commercials, already more and more behind the camera. Since 1998 Feo Aladag has written several scripts for television, including the Tatort episodes MUTTERLIEBE (2003) and ERFROREN (2005), some of them together with director and husband Züli Aladag. Following her experiences in directorial master classes at the European Film Academy with directors like Michael Radford and Mike Figgis, she started studying directing at the dffb (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie) in 2004. Feo Aladag still stayed very close to her acting career as well. Some examples of her work as an actress include series such as Tatort or TV-movies in Germany and the UK, but especially feature films like LUCY (2005) directed by Henner Winkler or MEINE SCHÖNE BESCHERUNG (2007) directed by Vanessa Jopp.

In 2005 Feo Aladag and Züli Aladag jointly founded the film production company Independent Artists Filmproduktion, based in Berlin. WHEN WE LEAVE is Independent Artists Filmproduktion’s first cinema feature film.

WHEN WE LEAVE is Feo Aladag’s cinema debut as producer, scriptwriter and director.

WHEN WE LEAVE Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Europa Cinema Label Award Tribeca FF 2010: Best Film, Best Actress German Camera Prize 2010 German/Turkish FF Nuremberg 2010: Best Actress Créteil Womens FF 2010: Audience Award Recklinghausen FF 2010: Best Film IFF Istanbul 2010 CPH:PIX 2010 Seattle IFF 2010 Shanghai IFF 2010 Moscow IFF 2010 New Faces Award 2010: Best Debut Film The Bernhard Wicki Film Prize 2010, German Cinema Award for Peace PRIX LUX 2010, Film Prize of the European Parliament: pre-selection German Film Award (Lola) 2010: Best Feature Film in Bronze, Best Leading Actress

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THE GHOST WRITER

France/Germany/UK

WRITTEN BY: Robert Harris & Roman Polanski DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski PRODUCED BY: Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Pawel Edelman EDITOR: Hervé de Luze PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Albrecht Konrad MAIN CAST: Ewan McGregor (The Ghost), Pierce Brosnan (Adam Lang), Kim Cattrall (Amelia Bly), Olivia Williams (Ruth Lang), Tom Wilkinson (Paul Emmett)

Pictures: Guy Ferrandis © RP Films

When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British prime minister Adam Lang, he quickty finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue.

Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration’s harsh tactics. And as the ghostwriter digs into the politician’s past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.

Production: R.P. Films SAS 102 av. des Champs Elysées 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 568 92 400 fax +33 1 472 09 371 rp.features@rpproductions.fr

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Press: Jean-Pierre Vincent 12 rue Poul Boudry 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 422 52 380 fax +33 1 428 95 434 jpvpresse@gmail.com

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Roman Polanski Born in Paris in 1933, Roman Polanski was raised and educated in Poland where he attended Art School in Krakow and the National Film School in Lodz. Having made his stage acting debut at the age of fourteen, he continued to perform on the popular radio show “The Merry Gang”.

In his late teens, he appeared in Andrej Wajda’s film GENERATION and in several other Wajda films before leaving Poland. In 1958, still at the film school, Polanski directed his first short film TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE, and made three other shorts: WHEN ANGELS FALL (1958), THE FAT AND THE LEAN (1958) and MAMALS (1962). Polanski’s feature film debut was KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962). Winner of the Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival, KNIFE IN THE WATER was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film and was featured on the cover of TIME-magazine. He made his English-language debut with REPULSION (1964), starring Catherine Deneuve, and then made CUL-DE-SAC (1965) which won Polanski the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. His next film THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (1967) or PARDON ME BUT YOUR TEETH ARE IN MY NECK, also presented Polanski in a starring role. He marked his American directorial debut with ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968). In 1972, Polanski returned to Europe to direct his adaptation of Shakespeare’s MACBETH, and in 1973, he directed Marcello Mastroianni in WHAT? 1994 marked Polanski’s return to Hollywood with CHINATOWN nominated for eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Though proven a master of such quintessentially American genres as the detective yarn and the supernatural thriller, Polanski returned to Europe to film THE TENANT in 1976.

Once again, he played the leading role (having previously played small parts in WHAT? and CHINATOWN). Polanski next filmed TESS (1979) which won 6 Academy nominations and Oscars for Cinematography, Art Direction and Costume Design. In 1986, he filmed the adventure spoof PIRATES and in 1988 the thriller FRANTIC, with Harrison Ford. The film marked the first starring role of Emmanuelle Seigner, who also played in Polanski’s films BITTER MOON (1992) and THE NINTH GATE (1999) with Johnny Depp. Roman Polanski married Emmanuelle Seigner in 1989. He filmed DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (1994) starring Sigoumey Weaver and Ben Kingsley, THE PIANIST (2003) which won three Academy Awards, including Best Director, OLIVER TWIST (2005) with Ben Kingsley, and now THE GHOST WRITER.

THE GHOST WRITER Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Silver Bear San Sebastian IFF: FIPRESCI Award Globo d’Oro

Roman Polanski Filmography: 1962 LE COUTEAU DANS L’EAU 1964 LES PLUS BELLE ESCROQUERIES DU MONDE 1965 REPULSION 1966 CUL DE SAC 1967 LE BAL DES VAMPIRES 1968 ROSEMARY’S BABY 1971 MACBETH 1972 QUOI? 1974 CHINATOWN 1976 LE LOCATAIRE 1979 TESS 1986 PIRATES 1988 FRANTIC 1992 LUNES DE FIEL 1994 LA JEUNE FILLE ET LA MORT 1999 LA NEUVIEME PORTE 2002 LE PIANISTE 2005 OLIVER TWIST

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GIULIAS VERSCHWINDEN JULIA’S DISAPPEARANCE

Switzerland 87 min.

WRITTEN BY: Martin Suter DIRECTED BY: Christoph Schaub PRODUCED BY: Marcel Hoehn DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Filip Zumbrunn EDITOR: Marina Wernli PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Susanne Jauch MAIN CAST: Corinna Harfouch (Giulia), Bruno Ganz (John), Stefan Kurt (Stefan), André Jung (Lorenz), Sunnyi Melles (Alessia)

A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths.

Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. Julia’s guests wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, the signs of age concealed by make-up, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdoms of Julia’s closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. Jessica and Fatima, both 14, are also out shopping - but in their very own manner. They are out looking for a birthday present and „find” gold sneakers for the 18-year-old they both have a crush on.

The store detective, however, observes and arrests them. Cornelia and Max, Jessica’s divorced parents, are crushed when informed that they are to pick up their child from the police station. Whose fault is it that their daughter apparently belongs to a lost generation? In the meantime, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen’s home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honour.

ProductionPress: T&C FILM AG Seestrasse 41a 8002 Zürich SWITZERLAND tel. +41 44 208 99 55 fax +41 44 208 99 54 tcemail@tcfilm.ch

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JULIA’S DISAPPEARANCE Festival Participation/Awards: FF Locarno 2009: Audience Award Moscow IFF 2010 Alba IFF 2010 Love FF de Möns 2010: Best Screenplay Max Ophüls FF Saarbrücken 2010

Director’s Statement I’ve always been personally interested in how we age, in our mortality, and in the different phases of life. In 1988, I directed my first feature length movie Dreissig Jahre (Thirty Years). It’s the story of three friends who turn thirty and attempt to escape from the onset of the serious part of life - in different manners. It’s a movie about the bitter-sweet farewell to youth. So it cannot be by pure coincidence that, 20 years later, T&C Film offered me this screenplay that has to do with a 50th birthday. I wrote the screenplay to Dreissig Jahre together with Martin Witz and it was based on very personal experiences. The present screenplay was written by Martin Suter, an author whose books and columns I always enjoy reading tremendously.

Christoph Schaub Christoph Schaub, born in Zurich in 1958, is an autodidact who has been realizing movies and documentaries for theatre and television since 1984. Since 1988 he has focused on his work as a director and less so on his activities as a screenwriter and producer. In the field of documentaries, he has specialized on films on architectural themes. He has been invited to show his films at festivals throughout the world and has won national and international awards.

Christoph Schaub Filmography: 1987 WENDEL 1989 DREISSIG JAHRE 1992 AM ENDE DER NACHT 1995 IL GIRASOLE UNA CASA VICINO A VERONA, documentary short 1996 LIEU, FUNCZIUN E FURMA L’ARCHITECTURA DA P. ZUMTHOR E GION CAMINADA, documentary 1999 DIE REISEND ES SANTIAGO CALATRAVA, documentary DAS VRIN-PROJEKT, documentary 2004 STERNENBERG 2006 JEUNE HOMME 2008 BIRD’S NEST - Herzog & De Meuron in China, documentary 2008 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 GIULIAS VERSCHWINDEN

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HONEYMOONS

Serbia/Albania 95 min.

WRITTEN BY: Goran Paskaljevic & Genc Permeti DIRECTED BY: Goran Paskaljevic PRODUCED BY: Goran Paskaljevic & Genc Permeti DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Milan Spasic EDITOR: Petar Putnikovic PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Zeljko Antovic & Durim Neziri MAIN CAST: Nebojsa Milovanovic (Marko), Jelena Trkulja (Vera), Jozef Shiroka (Nik), Mirela Naska (Maylinda), Lazar Ristovski (Vera’s father)

In hope of a better life, two young couples leave their respective countries. Melinda and Nik leave Albania by boat for Italy, in order to be able to live out their love away from social pressure. Vera and Marko leave Serbia by train for Austria, travelling through Hungary. Marko, a talented cellist, has the opportunity to enter the renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. But upon their arrival at the border, even though their visas are in order, their problems begin. Despite the fact that they have nothing to do with a serious incident that took place the night before in Kosovo, because of an unfortunate sequence of coincidences, they are arrested. Their hopes of realizing their dreams in Europe - a synonym for the Promised Land - go up in smoke. As is often the case with young people from the Balkans, they are paying for the mistakes of previous generations...

Production/World Sales: NOVA FILM Jevremova 46a 11000 Belgrade SERBIA tel. +381 63 303 306 paskaljevic@gmail.com

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Director’s statement: During Enver Hodxa’s cruel, forty-year dictatorship, no one from Serbia was allowed to visit neighbouring Albania. Today, after the conflicts in Kosovo, there is still only a very small number of Serbs who decide to visit Albania.

Prejudice and bad politics have contributed to a latent intolerance between the two nations.

During my first stay in Albania in December of 2006, I met many intellectuals who thought like I did, who were beyond any kind of fiery nationalism. I discovered that Albanians and Serbs, although they speak two completely different languages, have much in common, notably the deep desire to become an integral part of Europe. During long conversations, the idea was born that we try, through our combined efforts, to make a movie, which I would direct with a mixed crew.

I imagined the film as a triptych. The Albanian and the Serbian stories are about two young couples who wish to go to Western Europe in the hope that they will have more chances there than in their home countries. Finally, the third part intertwines the destinies of these two couples.

Their stories unwind in parallel and they never meet, as would usually be the case in standard films. However, I am convinced that at the end of the film viewers will have the impression that these young people are in the same imaginary space while they wait on the threshold of Europe; the Albanians in a port in southern Italy, and the Serbs on the Hungarian border in the back room of a small railway station. Ne vertheless, after the first bitter disappointment on the border of that so green “better” world, dawns a new morning for both.

Goran Paskaljevic Goran Paskaljevic studied at the well-known Prague school of cinema (FAMU). He has made 30 documentaries and 15 feature films, shown and acclaimed at the most prestigious international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian...). The rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992. In 1998 he went back to make Powder Keg (aka Cabaret Balkan) which won international critics’ prizes (FIPRESCI) at the Venice Film Festival and the European Film Awards.

In 2001, Variety International Film Guide marked him as one of the world’s top five directors of the year. The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) presented a full retrospective of his work in January 2008. It was BFI Southbank’s (London) turn to organize in July of this year a full retrospective of his 15 feature films, along with the publication of a monograph (in English) about his work.

HONEYMOONS Festival Participation/Awards: Venice FF (Venice Days) Toronto FF Valladolid FF: Grand Prix (Golden Spike) for Best Film FIPRESCI Award for Best Film Thessaloniki FF: Audience Award Cleveland FF: Grand Prix for Best Film Pusan Sao Paolo Rotterdam Hong Kong Göteborg Human Rights Watch FF New York & London Karlovy Vary Jerusalem

Goran Paskaljevic

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I0, DON GIOVANNI I, DON GIOVANNI

Austria/Italy/Spain 120 min.

WRITTEN BY: Carlos Saura, Raffaelo Uboldi & Alessandro Vallini DIRECTED BY: Carlos Saura PRODUCED BY: Andrea Occhipinti, Andres Vicente Gomez & Igor Uboldi DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Vittorio Storaro EDITOR: Julia Juaniz PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Marina Roberti & Birgitt Hutter MAIN CAST: Lorenzo Balducci (Lorenzo da Ponte), Lino Guanciale (Mozart), Emilia Verginelli (Anneta), Ketevan Kemoklídze (Adriana Ferrarse / Donna Elvira)

Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte is leading a very cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna. Supported by his friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the king’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival’s ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist. But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.

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I, DON GIOVANNI

Carlos Saura

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Как я провел этим летом (KAK YA PROVEL ETIM LETOM)

Russia 124 min.

HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Alexei Popogrebsky PRODUCED BY: Roman Borisevich & Alexandr Kushaev DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Pavel Kostomarov EDITOR: Ivan Lebedev PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Gennady Popov MAIN CAST: Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei Gulybin), Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel Danilov)

A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere.

Production: KOKTEBEL Film Company Mantulinskaya str. 7 123100 Moscow RUSSIA tel. +7 926 562 64 77 dima@koktebelfilm.ru

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HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER

Director’s Statement: I think I was 14, a city kid, by chance reading diaries of Pinegin, a companion to Sedov’s 1912 tragic effort to reach the North Pole. That was a hastily-planned expedition, and when their vessel got ice-bound some thousand miles both from the goal and the nearest dwelling, the leader calmly stated: “So we will spend the winter here.”

(In fact it became two winters for the crew, and eternity for Sedov. This was before radio, emergency air lifts or GPS became consumer goods). At that time “a winter” felt like half of my life. It still often does.

Ever since I was fascinated with this ability to come to terms with notions of time and space drastically different from our common scale of hours and minutes or blocks and metro stops. This film, essentially, is a story of two personal (and incompatible) time-and-space scales. All of us being city dwellers, we tell the story from the point of view of the younger character whose life experience is much closer to ours. However, in making this film our effort was to become subjects to the nature of the extreme North, to let go of rigid pre-planned concepts and be open and attentive to what it could offer us. And it had a lot to offer. I still can’t believe how it felt at times.

Alexei Popogrebsky Alexei Popogrebsky was born on 7 August 1972 in Moscow into a family of the screenwriter Pyotr Popogrebsky.

Alexei graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in psychology. In 1994 Alexei teamed up with his friend, Boris Khlebnikov, a film theory student at VGIK. After a few short films, they finalized their debut feature, Koktebel (2003), produced by Roman Borisevich. The film screened at many festivals, including Berlinale Forum, and received a number of awards. Alexei and Boris then went on to work independently, collaborating with producer Roman Borisevich under the Koktebel Film Company marquee.

Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Silver Bear for Best Actor, Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement (Camera) Go East – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2010: Award of the Federal Foreign Office, FIPRESCI PRIZE Polar Lights Arctic FF Murmansk: Grand Prix Sydney IFF 2010: Honourable Mention Art FF in Teplice: BLUE ANGEL AWARD for Best Feature Film Cinedécouvertes, Belgium 2010: Discovery Award “Cinedécouverte” New York IFF Karlovy Vary IFF San Francisco IFF Transilvania IFF Sarajevo IFF

Alexei Popogrebsky Filmography 2003 KOKTEBEL (Koktebel) (with Boris Khlebnikov) 2007 PROSTYE VESHCHI (Simple Things) 2010 KAK YA PROVEL ETIM LETOM (How I ended this Summer)

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KAWASAKIHO RŮŽE KAWASAKI’S ROSE

Czech Republic 95 min.

WRITTEN BY: Petr Jarchovský DIRECTED BY: Jan Hřebejk PRODUCED BY: Rudolf Biermann & Tomas Hoffman DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin Sacha EDITOR: Vladimir Barak PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Milan Bycek MAIN CAST: Martin Huba (Pavel), Lenka Vlasakova (Lucie), Ladislav Chudik (Kafka), Antonin Kratochvil (Borek), Daniela Kolarova (Jana)

The year is 2009. Pavel Josek, an eminent scientist and former dissident, is due to receive a state honour for bravery. During the filming of a television documentary about his life it comes to light that at the beginning of the 1970s – under pressure from the secret police – he played a part in the discrediting of a former friend, who was ultimately forced to emigrate. The film recounts events that took place over thirty years earlier without using a single flashback. The family drama sheds light on the practices employed by the secret police to discredit its opponents. An emotional story of guilt and atonement, the pitfalls of memory and the need for forgiveness.

Production: In Film Praha sr.o.

Machova 21 Praha 2, 120 00 CZECH REPUBLIC tel. +42 0222515357 fax +42 0222510613 infilm@infilm.cz

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Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (b. 1967) and Petr Jarchovský went to high school together, then studied screenwriting (1987-91) at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU).

During his studies at FAMU, Hřebejk directed and produced his first two short films based on scripts written by fellow student Petr Zelenka. His professional directorial debut came with the short live film for Czech Television, DON’T DO ANYTHING UNLESS YOU HAVE A GOOD REASON (1991).

Hřebejk and Jarchovský wrote the script for LET’S SING A SONG, a generation gap comedy set in a communist youth organization summer camp.

The original musical BIG BEAT (Šakalí léta), a retro-comedy set in the late 1950s about the advent of rock-and-roll to Czechoslovakia, premiered in 1993. Petr Jarchovský wrote the script based on Petr Šabach’s short stories, while musician Ivan Hlas wrote the music and lyrics.

Hřebejk made his feature film debut as a director with well-known cinematographer Jan Malíř. The movie won several prestigious awards, including the 1993 Czech Lion Awards for Best Director, Actor, Music, and Film.

Hřebejk and Jarchovský joined creative forces with producer-director Ondřej Trojan’s Total HelpArt T.H.A. production company at the end of the 1990s. There, the director-writer duo have made their most successful features to date: the Czech mega box-office smash COZY DENS (Pelíšky) (1999), followed in 2000 by DIVIDED WE FALL (Musíme si pomáhat). The latter film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and garnered five Czech Lions and a string of awards at international festivals as well as world-wide distribution. In 2004 Hřebejk topped box-office charts for many weeks with the tragicomedy UP AND DOWN (Horem pádem) which earned him five Czech Lions, including Best Film, Director, and Screenplay.

His next film, BEAUTY IN TROUBLE (Kráska v nesnázích) (2006) again took Czech Lions, this time for Anna Geislerová, Jiří Schmitzer, and Jana Brejchová.

Hřebejk and Jarchovský are trying to follow in the footsteps of a director they greatly respect, Woody Allen they want to make a film every year: TEDDY BEAR (Medvídek) in 2007, in 2008 I´M ALL GOOD (U mě dobrý) and SHAMELESS (Nestyda), and now KAWASAKI´S ROSE, which had its premiere in December 2009.

KAWASAKI’S ROSE Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Ecumenical Jury Prize of Panorama Section, CICAE Prize Finale Festival of Czech Films 2010: Best Feature Film, Audience Award Taormina FF 2010 Edinburgh IFF 2010 Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 Jerusalem IFF 2010 Film and Art Festival Two Riversides 2010: Best Feature Film Espoo Cine 2010 Pusan IFF 2010 Mumbai F 2010 Sao Paulo IFF 2010 Vancouver IFF 2010 Mill Valley FF 2010 Ghent IFF 2010 Cinemania FF 2010 Denver IFF Aspen FF 2010 Milwaukee IFF 2010 Philadelphia IFF 2010 Sarasota IFF 2010 Bergen IFF 2010

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KENJAC DONKEY

Croatia 94 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Antonio Nuić PRODUCED BY: Boris T. Matić DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Mirko Pivčević EDITOR: Marin Juranić PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Nedjeljko Mikac Cak MAIN CAST: Nebojša Glogovac (Boro), Nataša Janjić (Jasna)

It is 1995. The summer when the war operation “Storm” will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka, goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn’t speak at all to his father Paško, whom he blames for his mother’s death.

In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the year-long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father, and in all this a considerable role will be played by a donkey.

Production/World Sales/Press: Propeler Film Varšavska 3 10000 Zagreb CROATIA tel. +385 1 4829 477 fax +385 1 4827 717 info@propelerfilm.com

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Director’s Statement: DONKEY is a film of fatherhood. What I am most interested in the father-son relation is the fact that very often we imitate our fathers, and we learn very little from them.

We repeat their mistakes instead of learning from them.

The plot is situated in Drinovci, a village in Herzegovina.

My father was born there. We used to spend there a few days every summer. My father’s driving style would provoke mother’s panic reactions, which would quickly escalate to a fight due to my mother’s temperament. The fight would bring out some fundamental things such as the marriage, having children with such a man, and she would curse Drinovci every kilometer. The fight, which would begin when we set out for the holidays, would usually end only on our return about twenty kilometers before Sarajevo.

The film takes place in the summer of 1995, when the war operation ‘Storm’ practically ended the war in Croatia. The timing was chosen for two reasons. The first one is to show the solution of huge family conflicts juxtaposed with historical events. The other is a respect for a certain authenticity: the story of the skilful trade with donkeys is true. I was told that story by a man named Boro and it happened in the summer of 1995. This story of trafficking donkeys was inspirational and motivational for writing the script.

Antonio Nuić Antonio Nuić was born in Sarajevo in 1977. He graduated in film and TV directing from the Academy of dramatic arts in Zagreb. He is a member of Croatian Film Directors Society. DONKEY is his second long feature film.directs TV shows, music and promotional videos.

Festival Participation/Awards: Pula FF, in competition: 3 Golden Arena Awards for Best Screenplay, Photography, Music and the Croatian Film Critics Society Award Oktavijan Sarajevo FF, in competition IFF Rotterdam, Bright Future Vukovar FF, in competition Palm Springs IFF, in competition Göteborg IFF, in competition Bergamo Film Meeting, in competition: Bronze Rosa Camuna Sofia IFF, in competition Singapore IFF, Cinema Today goEast FF Seattle IFF, Contemporary World Cinema IFF Innsbruck, Balkan Focus Espoo Ciné IFF, in competition Haifa IFF, East of the West Raindance FF

Antonio Nuić Filmography: 1998 NA MJESTU DOGAĐAJA (On the Spot), short 2004 SEX, PIĆE I KRVOPROLIĆE (Sex, Booze and Short Fuse) 2006 SVE DŽABA (All for Free) 2009 DONKEY

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LEBANON

Israel 94 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Samuel Maoz PRODUCED BY: Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Uri Sabag, Einat Bickel, Benjamina Mirnik & Illan Girard DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Giora Bejach EDITOR: Arik Iahav-Leibovich PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Ariel Roshko MAIN CAST: Yoav Donat (Shmulik), Itay Tiran (Assi), Oshri Cohen (Hertzel), Michael Moshonov (Yigal), Zohar Strauss (Jamil), Raymonde Amsalem (Lebanese Mother)

The First Lebanon War, June 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. The mission gets out of control and turns into a death trap. Night falls and the wounded troops remain trapped in the center of a town in ruins, unable to communicate with the central command and surrounded by Syrian commandos closing in on all sides.

The film’s heroes are the tank crew: Shmulik the gunner, Assi the commander, Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver, four 20-year-old boys, operating a killing machine. They are not courageous war heroes, eager for battle or self-sacrifice. All they have is a terrible fear of death.

They find themselves losing their way amid the chaos of war. Shmulik, the gunner, is the last link in the chain of death. He is the one who sees the target through the crosshairs, pulls the trigger and kills. He has to make horrendous split second decisions under massive pressure. But he’s not cut out for it and his failure to function exposes his comrades to death that lurks everywhere.

Production: Metro Communications 34 Allenby Tel Aviv, 63325 ISRAEL tel. +972-3-5177101/2 fax +972-3-5103311 Metro@metrocom.co.il

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LEBANON Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: Golden Lion, Nazareno Taddei Award (Vatican), SIGNIS Award - Honorable Mention Thessaloniki IFF 2009: Human Values Award Cameraimage Lodz 2009: Golden Frog Toronto IFF 2009 New York FF 2009 Pusan IFF 2009 GĂśteborg IFF 2010 IFF Rotterdam 2010 Moscow FF 2010 Karlovy Vary FF 2010 San Francisco IFF 2010 Transilvania IFF Cluj Israeli Film Academy Awards 2009: Best Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound, Supporting Actor

Lebanon is based on a true story about survival in the face of a palpable threat of death, a situation in which the conflict between basic instincts and human conscience claims its victims.

Director’s Statement: On 6 June 1982, at 6:15, I experienced the horrors of war first-hand, for the first time in my life. I reacted in an instinctive act of self-defense. I was 20 years old. 25 years after that miserable morning that opened the Lebanon War, I wrote the script for the film Lebanon. Whenever I had tried before, I could not continue. Better to live in denial than not to live at all. When a person feels he has nothing to lose, he takes chances. In early 2007, I hit rock bottom and decided to go all the way. I felt a weird sense of euphoria. This was not a measured, organized writing process, but rather a kind of trance. I wanted to convey the devastating experience of war in the hearts and souls of the four heroes.

Samuel Maoz Filmography: 1998 THE KING LIVES, TV 2001 TOTAL ECLIPSE, TV doc.

2003 THE DEVIL FROM MOSCOW, video art combined with stage play 2005 THE INSUFFERABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, TV doc.

2009 LEBANON

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LOURDES

Austria/France/ Germany 99 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jessica Hausner PRODUCED BY: Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober & Susanne Marian DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin Gschlacht EDITOR: Karina Ressler PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Katharina Wöppermann MAIN CAST: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Löwensohn, Bruno Todeschini, Gerhard Liebmann

Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees.

She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome 40-year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this new-found chance for happiness, while her cure provokes envy and admiration.

Production: coop 99 filmproduction Wasagasse 12/1 1090 Vienna AUSTRIA tel. +43 1 31 95 825 fax +43 1 31 95 825 - 20 welcome@coop99.at nina@coop99.at

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Jessica Hausner Jessica Hausner was born the 6th of October 1972 in Vienna, Austria. She studied directing at the Film Academy of Vienna, where in 1996 she made the short film FLORA, which won the Léopard de Demain at the Locarno Festival. INTER-VIEW, her graduation film, won the Prix du Jury of the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. Two years later, LOVELY RITA, her first feature film, was presented in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival before being distributed in twenty territories. Her second feature film HOTEL was again selected in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2004, and won the Grand Prix for the Best Austrian Feature at the Diagonale 2005.

LOURDES is her third film. The premiere took place at the Venice Film Festival 2009 in International Competition and won the famous FIPRESCI Prize.

LOURDES Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: FIPRESCI Prize, SIGNIS Prize, La Navicella, Brian Award Viennale 2009: Vienna Film Award for Best Feature Film Warsaw IFF: Grand Prix Seville European FF: Golden Girardillo Thomas Pluch Award 2010 Max-Ophüls FF Saarbrücken: Supporting Award of the DEFA Foundation

Portrait: Stefan Olah

Director’s Statement: Lourdes is a (cruel) fairy-tale, a day-dream or a nightmare. Ill people of the entire world go to Lourdes hoping to get their health back, hoping for a miracle, because Lourdes is a place where the existence of miracles is still asserted, a place synonymous of hope, comfort and recovery for the desperate and the dying. But the ways of God are unfathomable, and the hope that on the verge of death, everything may turn out alright is one that seems absurd when life is drawing to an end. Lourdes is the stage on which this human comedy plays out.

Jessica Hausner Filmography 1996 FLORA, short 1999 INTER-VIEW 2001 LOVELY RITA 2004 HOTEL 2006 TOAST 2009 LOURDES

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MAMMA GÓGÓ

Iceland 88 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson PRODUCED BY: Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir & Fridrik Thor Fridriksson DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ari Kristinsson EDITOR: Anders Refn, Sigvaldi J. Karason & Tomas Potocny PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Arni Pall Johannsson MAIN CAST: Kristbjörg Kjeld (Mamma Gógó, young and older), Hilmir Snaer Gudnason (the director), Gunnar Eyjolfsson (husband/ father, young and older), Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir (the wife), Olafia Hrönn Jonsdottir (sister 19), Inga María Valdimarsdottir (sister 2)

Will the feature film CHILDREN OF NATURE save the Icelandic film industry? Its director seems to think so. And possibly his loving mother Gógó. But just about nobody else does. Undaunted but broke, he sets his sights high: if he gets an Oscar nod, Icelanders will rush to the theatres and he’ll be in the black again. His creditors are more realistic and want their money back. As if his financial woes and lack of recognition as auteur weren’t enough, the aged but proud, energetic and quick-witted Gógó begins acting strangely. Little things at first, like getting lost, forgetting to turn off the stove or bursting into anger. But when she forgets to turn off the water and floods the neighbour’s apartment, Gógó must face the truth: Alzheimer’s. A word like a stage curtain that falls before the play is over. Her son’s problems suddenly pale when he realizes that he is losing the person closest to his heart. As Gógó retreats from the present, she finds herself returning more and more to a cheerier past, to a time when she was young and beautiful and happily in love.

Production: Spellbound Productions Skildinganes 11 101 Reykjavík ICELAND tel. +354 588 0550 duo@simnet.is

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Director’s Statement: The film is based on two very personal aspects of my life: my mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and my own previous struggles with my financial problems. While writing the script I studied the financial collapse in Iceland using my own experiences and had the idea of intertwining them with the process of my dealing with mothers’ illness. I’m often asked whether it is difficult emotionally to use elements from my own life in a film. But I have used my life as an inspiration before, namely in Movie Days which was based on my childhood in Reykjavik back in the 60s.

You have the feeling that at least you know your life well and there is some truth in it that shines through in a film and that the audience can recognize.

My father died when I was a young boy. But my mother is still alive (even though she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 12 years ago) and we have always had a very close relationship; she has been an important and positive part of my life and has shaped the way I am today. And then suddenly, with this disease, her characteristics began to change and I started seeing an alien person before me.

I have seen films dealing with Alzheimer’s that are very bleak. I wanted to do this film differently and try to see the humour in my own situation; hence, a comedy about filmmaking and Alzheimer’s. In essence, the film can be described as an elegy to my mother.

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Fridrik Thór is an award-winning film director and one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished directors and producers with a track record of over 30 feature films and several shorts and documentaries. As a director, Fridrik Thór gained international recognition and critical acclaim with his second feature CHILDREN OF NATURE (1991) which was nominated for an Oscar® as Best Foreign Language Film. Fridrik Thór’s films are both deeply personal and have a strong rooting in Icelandic culture, often depicting characters at the crossroads of tradition and modernity. His films have struck a chord with local audiences in Iceland as well as international film-goers from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds.

MAMMA GÓGÓ (2010) marks Fridrik Thór’s return to fiction after the autism documentary A MOTHER’S COURAGE (2009) narrated by Kate Winslet.

MAMMA GÓGÓ Festival Participation/Awards: Toronto IFF 2010

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

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MINE VAGANTI LOOSE CANNONS

Italy 116 min.

WRITTEN BY: Ivan Cotroneo & Ferzan Ozpetek DIRECTED BY: Ferzan Ozpetek PRODUCED BY: Domenico Procacci DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Maurizio Calvesi EDITOR: Patrizio Marone PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Andrea Crisanti MAIN CAST: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini

Stills: Romolo Eucalipto

Tommaso is the youngest child in the large, eccentric Cantone family who own a pasta factory in Puglia: his mother Stefania is loving but suffocated by bourgeois conventions; his father Vincenzo has unrealistically high expectations of his children; his aunt Luciana is an eccentric; his sister Elena a frustrated housewife; his brother Antonio works with their father at the pasta factory; and then there is his rebellious grandmother, trapped in the memory of an impossible love.

Tommaso, an aspiring writer, has come home from Rome for an important family dinner at which his father will hand over the management of the pasta factory to him and his brother. Determined to assert his own personal choices, Tommaso plans to announce at the dinner that he is gay. But that evening, just as he begins to say “silence please”, he is upstaged by his brother who, to Tommaso’s surprise, and everyone else’s shock,

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reveals his own secret! Vincenzo orders Antonio out of the house, kicking him out of the family and the factory.

He then collapses from a heart attack and the family is overwrought.

Tommaso reluctantly steps in to run the factory but his heart isn’t it. He misses his friends and his life in Rome, but how can he come out now and risk damaging his father’s health further? A surprise visit from his friends forces the family secrets to the surface with other surprise revelations in this warm, generous and moving comedy.

Director’s Statement: My view of the family is a traditional one and especially in this film I felt very strongly about the presence and power of the relationship between a father, mother and children.

At the same time, I also wanted to consider the families of friends and all of those strong relationships that go beyond family ties. I chose Lecce because the first time I visited this city, eight years ago, I fell in love with it. In any case, I wanted to set this film in Southern Italy with its peculiarities, classical architecture and traditions. There is a marvelous atmosphere in Lecce which comes from the beauty of its architecture, the surrounding landscape and the excellent food; a mixture of things that made me want to set one of my films there. The result was stupendous, and we received an extraordinary welcome. I have to say that following this Lecce experience I feel stronger; so many new people have entered my life, many new friends from the Salento area who I hope will continue to be a part of my life for a long time.

Ferzan Ozpetek: Born in Istanbul in 1959, Ferzan Ozpetek moved to Italy in 1976 to study Film History at university in Rome and subsequently qualified as a film director at the Accademia d’arte drammatica “Silvio d’Amico”. After collaborating with the Living Theater, in 1982 he began his career as an assistant director which spanned fifteen years and led him to work with directors such as Troisi, Ponzi, Tognazzi, Bava, Nuti, Citti, Veronesi and Marco Risi.

LOOSE CANNONS

Ferzan Ozpetek Filmography: 1996 HAMAM (The Turkish bath) 1999 HAREM SUARE 2001 LE FATE IGNORANTI (The Ignorant Fairies) 2003 LA FINSETRA DI FRONTE (Facing Window) 2005 CUORE SACRO (Sacred Heart)

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MY QUEEN KARO

Belgium/the Netherlands 101 min.

WRITTEN BY: Dorothée van den Berghe in collaboration with Peter van Kraaij DIRECTED BY: Dorothée van den Berghe PRODUCED BY: Frank Van Passel, Bert Hamelinck & Frans Van Gestel DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jan Vancaillie EDITOR: Marie-Hélène Dozo PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Gert Stas MAIN CAST: Anna Franziska Jager (Karo), Deborah Francois (Dalia), Matthias Schoenaerts (Raven), Maria Kraakman (Alice), Nico Sturm (Barré)

Ten-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies.

As an only child, she leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. The mandate says that everything is to be shared in the squat, but soon not everyone is able to honour these ideals. Karo is torn between the love for her mother and loyalty towards her father and his ideals. She slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.

Production/Press: Caviar Films Havenlaan 75 1000 Brussel BELGIUM tel. +32 2 423 20 00 fax +32 2 423 20 01 info@caviarcontent.com

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Dorothée van den Berghe Dorothée van den Berghe was born in Ghent, but spent most of her childhood in Amsterdam. At the age of eighteen, Dorothée returned to Brussels to study sculpture and film at the Sint-Lucas highschool.

After making several shortfilms with a successful festival turnout (such as BXL MINUIT, 1998) and a couple of television films, Dorothée completed her first feature MEISJE (Girl). Depicting an intimate portrait of a young girl, the film was released in 2002 and won the ‘Prix de la Jeunesse’ and the ‘Prix de CICAE/ARTE’ at the Locarno International Film Festival.

While focusing on her second feature, Dorothée continued working as a director on other shorts (KROESKOP in 2006, ZOE in 2007) and as well on several commercials.

Dorothée van den Berghe Filmography: 2001 MEISJE

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NA PUTU ON THE PATH

Bosnia & Herzegovina/ Austria/Germany/Croatia 100 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jasmila Žbanić PRODUCED BY: Damir Ibrahimović, Bruno Wagner, Barbara Albert, Karl Baumgartner, Raimond Goebel, Leon Lučev DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Christine A. Maier EDITOR: Niki Mossböck PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Lada Maglajlic & Amir Vuk MAIN CAST: Zrinka Cvitešić (Luna), Leon Lučev (Amar), Ermin Bravo (Bahrija), Mirjana Karanović (Nada)

Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar’s dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness ...

Production: Dekblokada Kranjceviceva 43 71000 Sarajevo BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA tel: +387 33 66 8559 fax: +387 33 66 8559

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Jasmila Žbanić ON THE PATH is Jasmila Žbanić’s second feature film. Her feature debut GRBAVICA won the 2006 Berlinale Golden Bear (as well as the Ecumenical Award and the Peace Prize), the AFI (American Film Institute) Fest Grand Jury Prize and the Grand Prix Odyssey of the European Council for Human Rights. The moving story of war survivor and single mother Esma and her harrowing secret about her teenage daughter found its way into the hearts of audiences everywhere.

Jasmila’s early films and video works have been displayed in dozens of art exhibitions world-wide. Highlights include her short BIRTHDAY, a look at the different paths taken by two young girls - one Croatian, one Bosnian; documentary RED RUBBER BOOTS, which follows Bosnian mothers searching for their children; and documentary IMAGES FROM THE CORNER, a personal account of a young woman seriously wounded during the war. Born in Sarajevo in 1974, Jasmila is a graduate of her native city’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, department for theatre and film directing. Before filmmaking, she also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based “Bread and Puppet” Theater and as a clown in a Lee Delong workshop. Since 1997, Jasmila has produced through Deblokada, the artist’s association which she founded.

ON THE PATH Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010, competition Istanbul IFF 2010 CPH:PIX 2010 Crossing Europe Linz 2010 Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 Yerevan Golden Apricot FF 2010: FIPRESCI Jury Award Pula FF 2010: Golden Arena for Best Director, Best Actress Herceg Novi FF 2010: Golden Mimosa for Best Actress The Bernhard Wicki Film Prize 2010, German Cinema Award for Peace

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LA NOSTRA VITA OUR LIFE

Italy 98 min.

WRITTEN BY: Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli & Daniele Luchetti DIRECTED BY: Daniele Luchetti PRODUCED BY: Ricardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini & Marco Chimenz DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Claudio Collepiccolo EDITOR: Mirco Garrone PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Giancarlo Basili MAIN CAST: Elio Germano (Claudio), Raoul Bova (Piero), Isabella Ragonese (Elena), Luca Zingaretti (Ari), Stefania Montorsi (Loredana), Giorgio Colangeli (Porcari), Alina Madalina Berzunteanu (Gabriela), Marius Ignat (Andrei), Awa Ly (Celeste), Emiliano Campagnola (Vittorio)

Pictures: Emanuela Scarpa Š Cattleya srl 2010

Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against the injustice that fell upon him. Love and support from his friends and family as well as the laughter of his children will help him to triumph against the odds.

Production: Cattleya S.r.l.

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OUR LIFE Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, competition

Director’s Statement: How was LA NOSTRA VITA born? I’d like to say: Whilst I was writing or filming, but that wouldn’t be true. This film almost certainly came about whilst I was making a documentary, for my own enjoyment, on how council accommodation was allocated to people in Ostia, people who had regular wages coming in, but which were too low to pay for normal housing. They weren’t poor, but they belonged to that population of Italians who only have one wage coming in which, at one time, would have been enough to live on correctly, but is nowadays insufficient. They have limited access to information – the television obviously being an exception to the rule – and they have no interest in culture. These families could well have been called “families in difficulty”. And yet, looking at them fairly, without bigotry, they have the same fears and doubts as anyone else. They talked about themselves and their lives with surprising irony and clarity, very rarely claiming they were victims. They might have been disillusioned but they were bursting with life.

Elio Germano & Daniele Luchetti Filmography: 1988 IT’S HAPPENING TOMORROW 1990 THE WEEK OF THE SPHINX 1991 IL PORTABORSE 1993 ARRIVA LA BUFERA 1994 THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD (collective film) 1995 LA SCUOLA 1998 LITTLE TEACHERS 2000 12 POMERIGGI (documentaryperformance) 2003 GINGER AND CINNAMON 2007 MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD 2010 LA NOSTRA VITA

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NOTHING PERSONAL

the Netherlands/Ireland 85 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Urszula Antoniak PRODUCED BY: Reinier Selen & Edwin van Meurs DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Bouquet EDITOR: Nathalie Alonso Casale PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Jane English MAIN CAST: Lotte Verbeek (Anne), Stephen Rea (Martin)

A young female rebel and an old sage challenge each other in a story about personal freedom and attachment. She is a young Dutch woman, who after throwing away all her possessions becomes a vagabond by choice and finds the solitude she was looking for in an austere landscape of Irish Connemara. He is an old man who lives a solitary life in a secluded house in Ireland. She is radical and uncompromising. He is wise and ironic. What connects them is solitude they both see as freedom.

He proposes her to work for him in exchange for food. She agrees but on one condition: there will be no personal contact between them, just work. Soon the two of them become curious about each other and want both: to keep their ‘nothing personal’ deal and to break it. He knows that breaking the deal and becoming personal may result in her leaving the house. For her, showing any interest in him will equal compromising her radical freedom, which she defines as staying alone and refusing contact with people.

Their simple life follows the cycle of days and nights, work and rest but slowly brings the two of them closer to each other. Who will be the first one to break the deal and admit the personal interest?

Production: Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV Kievitstraat 5 1221 KW Hilversum THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31 20 616 32 31 info@rinkelfilm.com

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World Sales: Thorsten Ritter Bavaria Film International Bavariafilmplatz 8 82031 Geiselgasteig GERMANY tel. +49 172 858 70 14 fax +49 896 499 37 20 thorsten.ritter@bavaria-film.de

Press: Reinier Selen Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV Kievitstraat 5 1221 KW Hilversum THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31 20 616 32 31 info@rinkelfilm.com

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NOTHING PERSONAL Festival Participation/Awards: Netherlands FF 2009: Golden Calf for Best Feature, Director, Photography, Sound Design Locarno IFF 2009: Leopard for Best First Feature, Actress, Youth Jury First Prize, FIPRESCI Award, Special Mention Eucumenical Jury, Art & Essai CICAE Prize Seville European FF 2009: Silver Giraldillo Official Section, ASECAN Award, prize of the Andalusian Film Critics IFF Marrakech 2009: Best Female Performance Northern FF 2009: Audience Award

Urszula Antoniak Urszula Antoniak has graduated from both Polish and Dutch Film Academies. Her film BIJLMER ODYSSEY was one of the few TV Dutch productions that sold in many territories in and outside Europe. Her comedy about integration in Holland DUTCH FOR NON ADVANCED has drawn attention of both audience and critics. NOTHING PERSONAL is Urszula’s feature film debut and international co-production featuring Stephen Rea and shot in Ireland, Holland and Spain. Like her other pictures NOTHING PERSONAL combines poetic images with light irony.

Portrait: Elselien van der Wal

Director’s Statement: When our contemporary world is busy with issues of unification and integration, the two characters presented in Nothing Personal choose a solitude which they see as personal freedom and comfort. But if longing for solitude is truly human, so is the need for human contact? How does an intimacy between two people develop? What are the consecutive stages of the coming together of two people? Nothing Personal is a cinematic experience asking and answering these questions.

Urszula Antoniak Filmography 1993 VAARWEL (Farewell) 2004 BIJLMER ODYSSEY 2006 NEDERLANDS VOOR BEGINNERS (Dutch for non Advanced) 2009 NOTHING PERSONAL

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NOWHERE BOY

UK 98 min.

WRITTEN BY: Matt Greenhalgh DIRECTED BY: Sam Taylor-Wood PRODUCED BY: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Seamus McGarvey EDITOR: Lisa Gunning PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Alice Normington MAIN CAST: Aaron Johnson (John Lennon), David Threlfall (Uncle George), Kristin Scott Thomas (Mimi Smith), Anne-Marie Duff (Julia Lennon)

Imagine John Lennon’s childhood... Liverpool 1955: a smart and troubled fifteen yearold is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John. Mimi, the buttoned-up aunt who raised him, and Julia, the prodigal mother.

Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the new and exciting world of rock n’ roll where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney. Just as John begins his new life, tragedy strikes. But a resilient young man finds his voice - and an icon explodes into the world.

Production: ECOSSE FILMS Brigade House, 8 Pasons Green London, SW6 4TN UK tel. +44 207 371 0290 douglas@ecossefilms.com

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World Sales: Han Way Films 24 Hanway Street London, WIT 1UH UK tel. +44 2072900750 sd@hanwayfilms.com

Press: Charles McDonald tel. +44 207 736 3445 charles@charlesmcdonald.co.uk

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Director’s Statement: This film is the never before told story of the early life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists. It is a very individual true story, punctuated by great joy and great tragedy, but at its heart it’s also the story of a boy’s triumph over huge challenges to become someone whose legacy resonates throughout history. It is a true Coming of Age film that audiences will be able to identify with everywhere.

Nowhere Boy is about how two very different women separately and together created the genius of John Lennon. Mimi (John’s aunt) and Julia (his mother) were women that tore at the very heart of him, both attempting to do the right thing with devastating consequences. Julia taught John to play the banjo and guitar and introduced him to Elvis, rock and roll and the excitement of danger.

Mimi encouraged his artistic talent and kept him away from danger by brining him up in a carefully managed environment that was safe but cold.

It was their separate influences that provided the passion and the torment, the boundaries and the freedom, the chaos and the principles, which together inspired the man and the music, the myths and the motivations that we now take for granted as the enigma of Lennon.

Sam Taylor-Wood In 2008, Taylor-Wood directed the short film Love You More, written by Patrick Marber and produced by Anthony Minghella. The film includes two songs by Buzzcocks and features a cameo appearance by the band’s lead singer Pete Shelley. In February 2009, Sam Taylor-Wood, collaborating with Sky Arts, chose to interpret “Vesti la glubba” from Pagliacci. She commented: “I’m really happy to be involved in such a great project. I think by capturing one of opera’s most moving moments in a film short, we have put a modern spin on the aria.”

In August 2008, Taylor-Wood was chosen to direct Nowhere Boy, a biopic about the childhood of The Beatles singer John Lennon. The 53rd annual London Rim Festival screened the film as its closing presentation on 29 October 2009. The film was released in the UK on Boxing Day 2009.

NOWHERE BOY Festival Participation/Awards: London FF 2009

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ONDINE

Ireland 111 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Neil Jordan PRODUCED BY: James Flynn & Neil Jordan DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Christopher Doyle EDITOR: Tony Lawson PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Anna Rackard MAIN CAST: Colin Farrell (Syracuse), Alicja Bachleda (Ondine), Dervela Kirwin (Maura), Alison Barry (Annie), Stephen Rea (Priest)

ONDINE is the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler’s nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse’s eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing, yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.

Ondine and Syracuse fall passionately in love, but just as we think the fairytale might go on forever, the real world intercedes. Then, after a terrible car crash and the return of a dark and violent figure from Ondine’s past, hope eventually prevails and a new beginning is presented to Syracuse, Ondine, and Annie.

Production: Octagon Films Ardmore Studios Herbert Road, Bray Co Wicklow IRELAND tel. +353 (0)1 276 9468

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World Sales: FilmNation Entertainment 150 W22nd Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10011 USA tel. +1 917 484 8900

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ONDINE Festival Participation/Awards: Toronto IFF Tribeca FF Karlovy Vary FF Newport Beach FF Brussels Int’l Fantastic FF Seattle FF Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Production Design, Best Sound

Neil Jordan Born in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordan began his career as a writer. His first book of stories, “Night In Tunisia” (1976) won the Guardian Fiction prize. Since then he has published five novels, “The Past” (1979), “The Dream Of A Beast” (1983), “Sunrise With Seamonster” (1994), “Shade” (2005). His most recent novel, “Mistaken” will be published in 2011.

In 1982 Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film, Angel. Since then he has written, directed and produced more than fifteen films, including Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, Interview With The Vampire, the End Of The Affair, The Butcher Boy, Breakfast On Pluto, The Good Thief and most recently, Ondine. His films have been honoured with numerous awards worldwide, including an Oscar, Baftas, Golden Globes, a Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival and a Silver Bear from Berlin. He has been awarded five honorary doctorates and in 1996 he was appointed Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Neil Jordan

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PAHA PERHE BAD FAMILY

Finland 95 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Aleksi Salmenperä PRODUCED BY: Aki Kaurismäki DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Tuomo Hutri EDITOR: Samu Heikkilä PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Markku Pätilä MAIN CAST: Ville Virtanen (Mikael), Pihla Viitala (Tilda), Lauri Tilkanen (Daniel), Vera Kiiskinen (Laura), Niki Seppälä (Milo)

Tragicomedy about an overly concerned father, who messes up his relationship with his children and new wife. Followed by an ugly divorce the father has been bringing up the son by himself while the mother has had the custody of the daughter. Sixteen years later the mother passes away and the brother and sister meet again. The brother has a crush on his sister and rebels against the father, who copes poorly with the situation.

The father ends up alone with his dementic father.

Production: Sputnik Oy Museokatu 13A 00100 Helsinki FINLAND tel. +358 9 687 7100 sputnik@sputnik.fi

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World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH Balthasarstraße 79-81 50670 Cologne GERMANY tel. +49 221 539 70 945 fax +49 221 539 70 910 info@matchfactory.de

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Director’s Statement: I am being asked why people in my films do not talk to each other, meet one another, and consequently, gain a bigger heart. I guess that is how it should be in films.

As I know next to nothing about making films the only responsible way for me is to make films about life. As I see it.

Aleksi Salmenperä Aleksi Salmenperä (born 1973) is one of the most acclaimed and distinctive Finnish filmmakers. In addition to having been awarded for feature films such as A MAN’S JOB (2007) and PRODUCING ADULTS (2004) Salmenperä’s esteemed career also includes the direction of remarkable Finnish television series e.g. PIONEER (2006) for YLE (Finland’s national public service broadcasting company) and FREEFALL (2002) with the improvisational theatre group Stella Polaris.

Starting from the short film FERRY GO ROUND (2001), done as a school practical work and selected into the Cannes Film Festival, Salmenperä’s films have received many film industry awards as well as high praises in Finland and abroad. Aleksi Salmenperä was selected as Finnish Film Director in 2007. His films A MAN’S JOB and PRODUCING ADULTS were selected as official Oscar nominees for Finland. Before studies in the Film Department of the University of Art and Design Salmenperä studied for four years in the Finnish University of Technology in the department of Architecture.

BAD FAMILY Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010

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PÁL ADRIENN ADRIENN PÁL

Hungary 136 min.

WRITTEN BY: Ágnes Kocsis & Andrea Roberti DIRECTED BY: Ágnes Kocsis PRODUCED BY: Ferenc Pusztai DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ádám Fillenz EDITOR: Tamás Kollányi PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Adrien Asztalos & Alexandra Maringer MAIN CAST: Éva Gábor (Piroska), István Znamenák (Kálmán), Ákos Horváth (Endre), Lia Pokorny (Márta), Izabella Hegyi (Zizi)

Piroska is an overweight, alienated nurse who can’t resist cream-filled pastries. She works in the terminal ward of a hospital; her life is surrounded by death. One day she sets off to find her long-lost childhood friend. While tracing her recollections, she embarks on a paradox-filled voyage within her own memory and the memory of those she encounters.

Production: KMH Film Késmárk u. 24 1158 Budapest HUNGARY tel. +36 1 414 0885 fax +36 1 414 0887 info@kmh.hu

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World Sales: Elle Driver 66, Rue de Miromesnil 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 56 43 48 70 fax +33 1 45 61 46 08 eva@elledriver.eu

Magyar Filmunió Csaba Papp Városligeti fasor 38. II./50 1068 Budapest HUNGARY tel. +361 351 77 60/61 fax + 361 352 67 34 csaba.papp@filmunio.hu

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ADRIENN PÁL

Director’s Statement: The film is an unusual, pedestrian/public transportation road movie, also offering a sort of cross-section of society as Piroska encounters entirely different lives and fates. From another perspective, it is an inner road movie, a story of development, showing the process through which Piroska comes to recognize herself, and simultaneously the manifold nature of reality and the subjectivity and relativity of memory.

Piroska’s personality projects onto the film’s visual world.

She is present in all shots, and gradually we find ourselves more and more inside her world: we start seeing with her eyes. Piroska’s inner world is shown through the abstraction of the film’s entire visuality – the combined effect of the set design, costumes and locations – creating a coherent color and compositional world, complemented by an artificially created auditory world. Ágnes Kocsis Ágnes Kocsis was born in Budapest in 1971. She majored at Eötvös Lóránd University in Polish Language and Literature, Aesthetics, and Film Theory, then received a degree in Film Direction from the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest. Her three short films have been screened at numerous festivals; A vírus (The Virus) shared third prize at the 59th Cannes Film Festival in the “Cinéfondation” section. Her first feature film Friss levegő (Fresh Air) was screened at the same edition of the Cannes Film Festival in “Semaine de la Critique”, and was among the four films nominated for the Discovery Award of the European Film Academy in 2006. Fresh Air has played at more than 80 international film festivals to date, winning 14 prizes. Pál Adrienn (Adrienn Pál), her second feature film, won the FIPRESCI award at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, in the section “Un Certain Regard”.

Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes FF 2010, Un Certain Regard: FIPRESCI Award La Rochelle FF 2010 Sarajevo FF Vukovar FF 2010 Riga IFF “Arsenals” 2010 Kaunas IFF 2010 Warsaw IFF 2010 London FF 2010 Ghent FF 2010 Bozar Festival Brussels 2010 IFF “2-in-1” Moscow Granada IFF 2010 Göteborg IFF 2010

Ágnes Kocsis Filmography: 2000 SZORTÍROZOTT LEVELEK (Assorted Letters), short 2001 UGYANÚGY VOLNA, MINT SANDOKAN (It would be like Sandokan…), documentary 2003 18 KÉP EGY KONZERVGYÁRI LÁNY ÉLETÉBŐL (18 Pictures from the Life of a Conserve Factory Girl), short 2005 A VÍRUS (The Virus), short 2006 FRISS LEVEGŐ (Fresh Air) 2010 PÁL ADRIENN (Adrienn Pál)

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LA PRIMA COSA BELLA THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING

Italy 116 min.

WRITTEN BY: Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni & Paolo Virzi DIRECTED BY: Paolo Virzi PRODUCED BY: Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Nicola Pecorino EDITOR: Simone Manetti PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Tonino Zera MAIN CAST: Valerio Mastandrea (Bruno Michelucci 2009), Micaela Ramazzotti (Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci 1970- 1980), Stefania Sandrelli (Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci 2009), Claudia Pandolfi (Valeria Michelucci 2009), Marco Messeri (Nesi)

Summer, 1971. The youthful, stunning Anna Nigiotti is dubbed Miss Mamma of Livorno’s most famous bath house. Unaware of rousing the unwelcome attention of the male population; the suspicions of her husband Mario; the hidden embarrassment of her son Bruno.

Today. Ever the heartthrob - despite her terminal illness - Anna blows the doctors away with her irresistible, contagious verve.

Bruno, instead, has burned all bridges with his hometown, his family, his past. A passionless teacher in a trade school, he leads an obstinately disengaged life. But his sister Valeria persuades him to come home to see his mother for the last time. So Bruno makes his reluctant return to Livorno, to visit that vibrant, beautiful ball of energy, who seems to defy all the medical odds. That meeting, after years of hostility, forces

Production: Indiana Production Company S.r.l.

Via Argelati 33 20143 Milano ITALY tel. +39 02 8889111 fax +39 02 80581992 m.mignani@indianaproduction.com

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World Sales: INTRAMOVIES Via E. Manfredi 15 00197 Rome ITALY tel. +39 06 8077252 fax +39 06 807 61 56 mail@intramovies.com

Press: Indiana Production Company S.r.l.

Via Chiana 48 00198 Roma ITALY tel. +39 06 45555980 j.veselinovic@indianaproduction. com

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THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING Festival Participation/Awards: Open Roads FF 2010 Shanghai FF 2010 David di Donatello 2010: Best Actor, Actress, Screenplay

Bruno to come to terms with the tumultuous past he had tried to forget at all costs. Those days and nights, years ago, spent wandering in search of a place to stay, with his still naïve, fragile sister. Thrown out of the house by their jealous father. Yet pressed on by their mother’s buoyant, dogged optimism.

A family drama set against the narrow-mindedness of a provincial Italy that craves new desires, embodied in the indolent, fickle men who’d like to take advantage of Anna’s sensual charm and candor, but ultimately lack the courage and the strength; and especially in the malicious maneuvering of aunt Leda to usurp her talked-about sister’s husband and children.

After the eleventh-hour discovery of an unknown brother, a surprise wedding and separation, our trio’s adventures lead to an unexpected reconciliation. A final life lesson, from an unconventional, unique mother. About keeping the faith in the little joys that life holds in store.

Nasti D’argento 2010: Best Director, Actress, Screenplay, Costume Design

Paolo Virzi

Director’s Statement: Maybe because we’re all going through rough times, in which our society is seething with resentment and distrust, and maybe also because my last film, Tutta la vita davanti, brought me face to face with today’s disturbing issues and many troubling figures - this time around I wanted to take shelter in the warmth of this story, about characters we all grow to love: the circle of life and its painful but joyful mysteries, in a family like many others.

For once, maybe, no social commentary. Only the vibrant pieces of my heart.

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PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY

Estonia 114 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Veiko Õunpuu PRODUCED BY: Katrin Kissa DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Mart Taniel EDITOR: Thomas Lagerman PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Markku Pätilä & Jaagup Roomet MAIN CAST: Taavi Eelmaa (Tony), Ravshana Kurkova (Nadežda), Sten Ljunggren (Herr Meister), Tiina Tauraite (Tony’s wife), Denis Lavant (Count Dionysos Korzybski)

Eastern Europe, the new century. Wolf-like laws and a wolf-like appetite. There are still a few who look for the withered tree of knowledge of good and evil, planning to build quality office furniture out of it.

Production/Press: Homeless Bob Production Kentmanni 20a-26 Tallinn 10116 ESTONIA tel. +372 56 677 855 fax +372 642 40 11 kissa@too.ee

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World Sales: LevelK / Tine Klint Frederiksberg Alle 52 1820 Frederiksberg DENMARK tel. +45 2010 8580 tine.klint@levelk.dk

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Director’s Statement: I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about what this film means. It definitely has a socio-critical aspect and it makes some sort of a judgment. But I wouldn’t want that judgment to fall into being one certain definition... The film should be a mystery in and of itself: You enter the mystery and even while you are inside the space of the film, you don’t grasp it completely. A film has to open doors, not close them.

Is it happening inside the character, in a vision, or in real life? The goal was to avoid fixating the coordinate axis of the depicted universe in any definite way.

In my definition, this film is most of all about the problem of being - without giving any one answer to it. And salvation is tied to our being because it is one of the possible solutions to that problem. I’m not sure if there’s salvation only or even in death. There is very little one can be completely sure about. Overall, I’m not sure about a lot of things. If I knew the answers, I wouldn’t be making films but would be standing in a central plaza of our capital, holding a cross in my hand and wearing a potato sack for a coat.

Veiko Õunpuu Veiko Õunpuu attended the Estonian Business School 1992 to 1995, studied Literary Theory and Semiotics at the University of Tallinn (1999), and Painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts (2003). He worked in advertising and film production and founded the production company Sugar Films in 2000. He wrote and directed TÜHIRAND (2005) which was awarded Best Estonian Film 2006 at the Black Nights Film Festival, SÜGISBALL (2007) which was a festival success across Europe, winning the Orizzonti Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, and PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE. He is also a regular writer for the column “In the Air” in the cultural magazine Areen in the weekly newspaper Eesti Ekspress.

THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY Festival Participation/Awards: Sundance FF, official selection Rotterdam IFF, official selection Götteborg IFF Hong Kong IFF Sydney FF, Freak Me Out Programme Karlovy Vary IFF, East of the West: Special Jury Award ERA New Horizons IFF, international competition

Veiko Õunpuu Filmography: 2005 TÜHIRAND (Empty) 2007 SÜGISBALL (Autumn Ball) 2009 PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE (The Temptation of St. Tony)

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DER RÄUBER THE ROBBER

Austria/Germany 96 min.

WRITTEN BY: Benjamin Heisenberg & Martin Prinz DIRECTED BY: Benjamin Heisenberg PRODUCED BY: Michael Kitzberger, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer & Peter Heilrath DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Reinhold Vorschneider EDITOR: Andrea Wagner & Benjamin Heisenberg PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Renate Schmaderer MAIN CAST: Andreas Lust (Johann Rettenberger), Franziska Weisz (Erika), Markus Schleinzer (parole officer)

Based on the true story of “Pump-gun Ronnie” which Martin Prinz used as source material for his eponymous novel, THE ROBBER tells the story of Johann Rettenberger (Andreas Lust), a restless misfit who is driven by an inexplicable desire to stay in motion. Motivated by the pure beauty of the criminal campaigns he executes, he is both cool and calculated whilst also fast and resourceful in the frenzied intensity of his criminal exploits. Rettenberger’s emotional indifference to rehabilitation is shattered the moment Erika (Franziska Weisz) steps back into his life during a chance meeting at the job centre. She offers him refuge and a place to stay, however the dark secrets he hides from her and his probation officer soon overwhelm him. Misguided

Production: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Hildebrandgasse 26 1180 Wien AUSTRIA tel. +43-1-4030162 fax +43-1-4030162-15 office@geyrhalterfilm.com

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Peter Heilrath Filmproduktion e.K. Ismaninger Str. 88 81675 München GERMANY tel. +49-89-95959696 fax +49-89-95959863 mail@heilrathfilm.com

World Sales: Films Distribution SAS 34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 53 10 33 99 fax +33 1 53 10 33 98 info@filmsdistribution.com

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THE ROBBER Festival Participation/Awards: Bayerischer Filmpreis 2010 Berlin IFF 2010, Competition Buenos Aires 2010 CPH:PIX 2010 Indie Lisboa 2010 Jeonju 2010 Paris 2010: Bloggers Award Sydney IFF 2010 Edinburgh IFF 2010 Shanghai 2010 Pesaro 2010 Brussels FF 2010 Melbourne IFF 2010 2B Riversides 2010 Palic 2010: Director’s Award Sanfic 2010 Nara 2010 Athens 2010 Haifa 2010 New York 2010

in his dual search for love and freedom, the authorities finally begin to close in on the robber. Moved by an overpowering inner energy he attempts to flee the largest deployment of police forces in Austria’s modern history, but will his wit and athleticism give him the opportunity for one last escape? THE ROBBER is a thriller about reckless bank robberies, heart-pounding marathons, ill-fated love and dramatic escapes.

Director’s Statement: I see Rettenberger as a kind of natural phenomenon driven by an inner energy pushing him to take running and robbing banks to an extreme. On the other hand he needs love, life and intimacy – which represents a dramatic contradiction.

Benjamin Heisenberg Born in Tübingen on 9 June 1974, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently feature film directing at the Munich College of Television and Film from 1998 to 2005. In 1998 he founded the film magazine ‘Revolver’ together with Christoph Hochhäusler and Sebastian Kutzli. His award-winning feature film debut SCHLÄFER, “a complex thriller about love, career and betrayal” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), was premiered at the Cannes film festival section ‘Un Certain Regard’ in 2005.

His follow-up DER RÄUBER premiered in competition at the Berlin IFF 2010.

Benjamin Heisenberg Filmography: 2000 DER BOMBENKÖNIG (short) 2001 AM SEE (short) 2004 DIE GELEGENHEIT (short) 2005 SCHLÄFER 2009 DER RÄUBER

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REWERS THE REVERSE

Poland 101 min.

WRITTEN BY: Andrzej Bart DIRECTED BY: Borys Lankosz PRODUCED BY: Jerzy Kapuscinski & Wojciech Kabarowski DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marcin Koszatka EDITOR: Wojciech Anuszczyk PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Magdalena Dipont & Robert Czesak MAIN CAST: Agata Buzek (Sabina), Krystyna Janda (mother), Anna Polony (grandma), Marcin Dorocinski (Bronisław), Adam Woronowicz (Mr Józef)

The plot takes places on two temporal plains: the early 1950s and the present. The main character is Sabina, an unassuming woman who just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and at all costs tries to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The entire matter is supervised by grandma, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed. The old tenement house where the women live is a stage for successive admirers. However, Sabina is not interested in any of them. One day, from out of nowhere, arrives the mysterious Bronislaw. His appearance launches a series of unexpected events which reveal the darker side of women’s nature...

Production/Press: Film Studio KADR Pulawska 61 02-595 Warszawa POLAND tel. +48 22 845 49 23 fax +48 22 845 05 51 media@kadr.com.pl

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Director’s Statement: It is difficult to classify The Reverse in a particular genre. This is a conscious choice and the movie delivers the patchwork nature of the script. So at the beginning we find ourselves in the field of a Stalinist period drama movie, only to next go through a bourgeois comedy and finally land in a noir film which in the third act switches to a comedy noir. This diversity is the project’s strength.

Contemporary framework and the story’s finale integrate the changing genres, creating a coherent whole. The Reverse is a mind provoking story which has a chance (if only for a while) to smooth out the inclination for a “monumental” interpretation of history, so apparent in our culture. This makes it possible to see it through the eyes of the common woman (which is not without consequence, since still the number of movies made about women is small). The Reverse also provides something what refined audiences love the most: a true movie feast.

Borys Lankosz Born in 1973 in Cracow; scriptwriter and director of documentary and fiction films. He graduated from the Polish Film School in Łódź, the Directing Department. His diploma film EVOLUTION (2001) has received numerous festival awards, which includes The Golden Gate Award in the category of documentaries at San Francisco 45th International Film Festival in 2002; Silver Dragon to the director of the best documentary in the international competition of the Cracow Film Festival, Bronze HobbyHorse [Lajkonik] and “Pi Gallery” award at the national competition of the same festival in Cracow, 2002; Bronze Turon and Student Jury Award at the Cadca Festival of Ethnographic Films “ETNOFILM” in Slovakia, 2002; award for best documentary at the Dubrovnik International Film Festival, 2003. He is a director of a documentary series entitled FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE (2006), which was made in Iran, China and Zimbabwe and such films as KURC (2005) and POLES POLES (2002) with the participation of Wistewa Szymborska, Stanistew Lem and Krzysztof Penderecki. His short fiction ALIEN VI (2008) won the 5th Warsaw Jewish Motives Film Festival in 2008 (Silver Feliks) and takes part in numerous international film festivals all over the world. His documentary film RADEGAST (2008) won the Silver Feliks on the 6th Warsaw Jewish Motives Film Festival, 2009. THE REVERSE (2009) is his full-length feature debut.

The Reverse Festival Participation/Awards: Polish FF Gdynia 2009: Grand Prize “Golden Lion” for Best Film, Awards for main female role, cinematography, music, male supporting role, make-up, People’s Choice Award, Journalists’ Award, Studio and Local Movie Theater Network Award, Polish Federation of Film Societies - Don Quixote statuette, Organizers of Festivals and Polish Film Reviews Abroad Award Warsaw IFF 2009: FIPRESCI Award camerimage 2009: Bronze Frog 8 Polish Film Awards (Orły), incl.

Best Film Moscow IFF, Perspectives: Silver George for Best Film, 1st prize of the Film Clubs’ Federation

Borys Lankosz

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Cчастье моё MY JOY

(SCHASTYE MOYE)

Germany/Ukraine/ the Netherlands 127 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Sergei Loznitsa PRODUCED BY: Heino Deckert & Oleg Kokhan DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Oleg Mutu (RSC) EDITOR: Danielius Kokanauskis PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Kirill Shuvalov MAIN CAST: Viktor Nemets (Georgy), Vlad Ivanov (major from Moscow), Maria Varsami (gypsy woman), Olga Shuvalova (girl prostitute), Alexey Vertkov (young lieutenant), Yuriy Sviridenko (one-armed man)

Russia, present day, summer: Truck driver Georgy picks up his latest load and heads off for the motorway, stopping off first at home, where he avoids contact with his wife. His journey is interrupted by two traffic police at a checkpoint; and when he evades their seemingly-unnecessary attentions and returns to his cab, he finds an old man sitting in the front seat. The man asks for a lift, and, in return, tells Georgy the sobering story of his return from the German front in 1946.

After the old man disappears, Georgy drives into a traffic jam on the main road. A teenage prostitute appears and offers to show him a short-cut – along with her services – and they end up at a village market. There, hurt by Georgy’s attempt to show her some kindness, she abandons him.

Production: ma.ja.de.

Pohlstr. 44 10785 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 30 84 30 61 66 fax +49 30 84 30 61 67 berlin@majade.de

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SOTA Cinema Group 72 V. Vasylkivska 13 floor, office 21 Kyiv, 03150 UKRAINE tel. +38 (044) 538 0947 fax: +38 (044) 538 0948 cinema@sota.net.ua

World Sales: Fortissimo Films Van Diemenstraat 100 1013 CN Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31 20 627 3215 fax +31 20 626 1155 anouk@fortissimo.nl

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MY JOY Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010

Leaving the market, Georgy continues his journey alone and ends up lost in a field. By now, night has fallen and his truck has broken down. Three tramps appear out of the darkness, planning a robbery. They invite Georgy for a meal by the fire and offer him a drink. Georgy refuses alcohol and asks for directions back to the motorway, but the meal ends violently and abruptly‌ Sergei Loznitsa Award-winning documentarian Sergei Loznitsa was born on 5 September 1964 in Baranovichi, Belarus (former USSR). He grew up in Kiev, Ukraine, where he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering and mathematics. He worked for several years at the Institute of Cybernetics as a scientist involved in the development of expert systems and artificial intelligence.

In 1991, Sergei entered the Russian State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow graduating in 1997, and eventually started producing his films at the prestigious Documentary Films Studio in St Petersburg. In 2001 he moved to Germany with his family.

Sergei has made three full-length documentaries and eight shorter titles, winning awards at festivals in Oberhausen, Leipzig, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Madrid, St Petersburg, Karlovy Vary, Vila de Conde, and Krakow.

In 2010, he completed his first dramatic feature, MY JOY, which has been selected for Competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.

Sergei Loznitsa Filmography: 1996 TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BUILD A HOUSE 1998 LIFE, AUTUMN, doc.

2000 THE TRAIN STOP, doc.

2001 SETTLEMENT, doc.

2002 PORTRAIT, doc.

2003 LANDSCAPE, doc.

2004 FACTORY, doc.

2005 BLOCKADE, doc.

2006 ARTEL, doc.

2008 REVUE, doc.

2008 NORTHERN LIGHT, doc.

2010 MY JOY

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SEBBE

Sweden 80 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Babak Najafi PRODUCED BY: Mimmi Spång & Rebecka Lafrenz DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Simon Pramsten EDITOR: Andreas Nilsson PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Gilles Balabaud MAIN CAST: Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs (Sebbe), Eva Melander (Eva), Kenny Wåhlbrink (Kenny), Margret Andersson (the teacher), Åsa Bodin Karlsson (Kenny’s mother)

Duct tape, electrical cables, explosives, detonator.

Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened.

Sebbe is fifteen and lives with his mother in an apartment that is much too small. He does his best. He never hits back. Sebbe loves his mother because he can’t do otherwise.

Sebbe escapes to the junk yard, and in his hands, dead things come to life. He has the power to create. Here he is free, but alone. His detachment increases at the same pace that his world shrinks, until finally, one day he is completely isolated, without anyone except his mother. When she fails him, all else fails.

Production: Garagefilm International AB Kornhamnstorg 6, 3 tr 111 27 Stockholm SWEDEN tel. +46 8 54513360 fax +46 8 309934 info@garagefilm.se

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World Sales/Press: The Yellow Affair Miira Paasilinna Ingenjörsvägen 40 117 59 Stockholm SWEDEN tel. +46 76 1993166 fax +35 8977403060 miira@yellowaffair.com

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SEBBE Festival Participation/Awards: Göteborg IFF: The Swedish Church’s Award Berlin IFF: Best First Feature Award FF Zlin: Golden Slipper for Best Youth Film, Ecumenical Jury Award for Best Youth Feature Art FF: Special Mention: young actor Festroia FF: Special Award: First Works Award Seoul IFF: Audience Award Durban IFF: Best Actor

Babak Najafi

Director’s Statement: Very simply, film should be like a good song - an emotional journey with an unknown destination.

Filmography: 1999 APRIKOSGATAN 13A, short documentary 2001 PABLOS FÖDELSEDAG, short 2001 GÖSTA OCH LENNART, short documentary 2001 SKOLAN, short documentary 2004 ELIXIR, short 2008 JAG FÖRSTÅR INTE, short documentary 2010 SEBBE

Babak Najafi Babak Najafi finished his education at the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre (Dramatiska Institutet) in Stockholm 2002. Since then he has directed several short documentaries and short fiction films. SEBBE is his first feature.

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EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Spain/Argentina 129 min.

WRITTEN BY: Eduardo Sacheri & Juan José Campanella DIRECTED BY: Juan José Campanella PRODUCED BY: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Félix Monti EDITOR: Juan José Campanella PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Marcello Pont MAIN CAST: Ricardo Darín (Benjamín Espósito), Soledad Villamil (Irene Menéndez Hastings), Pablo Rago (Ricardo Morales), Javier Godino (Isidoro Gómez), Guillermo Francella (Sandoval)

For 25 years, a murder case has remained indelibly etched on Benjamin Esposito’s mind. Now retired, he decides to go back over that story and take another look at a past full of love, death and friendship. But those memories, once released and replayed a thousand times over, will change his view of that past. And rewrite his future.

Director’s Statement: Memory fascinates me. The way decisions we made twenty or thirty years ago can affect us today. This could also apply to a nation’s memories. As we now recover our memory of the 1970s as a country, we know that the horror began to take shape before the military dictatorship. The story takes place in that Argentina as the very air thickened, creeping up on and enveloping even the key players.

Production/Press: TORNASOL FILMS COMPANY C/Veneras, 9-7° 28013 Madrid SPAIN tel. +34 911023024 fax +34 915428710 tornasol@tornasolfilms.com

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THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Festival Participation/Awards: Toronto IFF 2009 San Sebastian IFF 2009 Rio de Janeiro IFF 2009 Los Angeles AFI Festival 2009 Mar del Plata IFF 2009 Tokyo Latin Beat FF 2009 Istanbul History FF 2009 Havana FF 2009: Special Jury Prize, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Music, Audience Award Beaune Int’l Thriller FF 2010: Grand Prix

My aim was to tell this story as a mixture: of small beings wandering through a sea of people, among huge structures, lost in the crowd - and their eyes. The story of that man walking by a hundred meters away at the train station, with five hundred bodies between us and him. What could we learn about him if suddenly, with no cuts, we could see a close up of his eyes? What secrets would they have to tell?

Secrets about a story like this one perhaps: a story about a murder, true, but above all a story about love. A story about love in its purest form. A love that ended when it was only in the bud, with no time even to fade and die.

How could a love like that be lived? What effect would it have on the people involved? What acts of madness could a pair of eyes commit when love is taken away from them?

These are questions the film seeks to ask and which, only in the lives of the characters, perhaps attempts to find answers to.

Juan José Campanella Juan José Campanella was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has worked in the United States on TV series including LAW & ORDER, HOUSE AID and 30 ROCK. In addition to directing, he has written the screenplays for his three best-known films: EL MISMO AMOR, LA MISMA LLUVIA, EL HIJO DE LA NOMA, and LUNA DE AVELLANEDA. In 2001, his film EL HIJO DE LA NOVIA (Son of The Bride) was nominated for the US Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to his nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, he has won other awards, including several Emmys for Best Director.

Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts Awards (Premios Ariel): Best Latin-American Film Prize 13 Awards of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts of Argentinia (Premios Sur) incl. Best Film, Director, Actress, Actor, Screenplay (Adaptation), Editing, Art Direction, Music, Cinematography.

GOYA 2010: Best Latin-American Film Prize Academy Award (Oscar) 2010: Best Foreign Language Film

Juan José Campanella Filmography: 1991 THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH 1997 LOVE WALKED IN 1999 EL MISMO AMOR, LA MISMA LLUVIA (Same Love, Same Rain) 2001 EL HIJO DE LA NOVIA (Son of the Bride) 2004 LUNA DE AVELLANEDA (Avellaneda’s Moon) 2009 EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS

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SLOVENKA SLOVENIAN GIRL

Slovenia 90 min.

WRITTEN BY: Ognjen Sviličić, Matevž Luzar & Damjan Kozole DIRECTED BY: Damjan Kozole PRODUCED BY: Danijel Hočevar DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Aleš Belak EDITOR: Andrija Zafranović & Jurij Moškon PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Maja Moravec MAIN CAST: Nina Ivanišin (Aleksandra), Peter Musevski (Edo), Primož Pirnat (Zdravko)

After spending her adolescence in small-town Slovenia, at twenty-three English student Alexandra is grateful for the anonymity of Ljubljana and knows just what to do with it. Styling herself into a call girl, she sells her soul in exchange for a luxury penthouse from where she watches the world pass by. But her isolated existence is thrown into chaos when one of her clients dies of a heart attack on her watch. All of a sudden, Alexandra is required to feel things – fear, guilt, loneliness – while the police are on the lookout for Slovenka, her working-girl alias.

Production: Vertigo / Emotionfilm Kersnikova 4 1000 Ljubljana SLOVENIA tel. +386 1 439 7080 or 434 9357 fax +386 1 430 3530 info@emotionfilm.si info@vertigo.si

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Director’s Statement: In Slovenia, classified ad newspapers come out twice a week. At least ten pages of personal ads appear, in very small print. About a thousand of these ads are placed by girls offering sex for money. Half say they are students, although many lie about their age or status. There are indeed many students among them – young women who do not look like prostitutes. None of their friends, colleagues and families could ever suspect that they have anything to do with prostitution. The story of one of these girls intrigued me the most – her greed, her frank indifference, and the unbearable lightness of her practised sex-for-money philosophy. It’s almost as if it has nothing to do with her or her body. She shifts to automatic pilot while doing her clients.

Slovenian Girl is a portrait of a desperate young woman torn by conflicting feelings about herself and the world around her. She loses her sense of reality and appreciation of her own body, all because she wants to assure herself a better life.

Damjan Kozole Damjan Kozole was born in 1964, Brežice, Slovenia (then Yugoslavia). At the age of 22 he made his debut with the low-budget film The Fatal Telephone, one of the first independent films in former Yugoslavia.

His feature film Spare Parts (2003) won a nomination for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003. The film won several international awards and was among candidates, selected by European Film Academy, for the best European film of that year. British film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote for the Guardian that Spare Parts was “one of the most powerful and provocative films of the year”. It has been released theatrically in around 15 countries, incl. UK and USA. In 2004, Kozole participated in the international omnibus Visions of Europe (2004) together with 24 other European directors (among others with Fatih Akin, Sharunas Bartas, Peter Greenaway, Aki Kaurismäki and Bela Tarr) In 2005, a retrospective of his feature films was hosted by the American Film Institute. Films were shown in Washington (AFI Silver Springs), Chicago, New York, Boston, Cleveland, Vancouver and in Ottawa. His feature film Labour Equals Freedom (2005) premiered at Locarno IFF and was awarded the Golden Palm and Best director award at Valencia IFF in 2006. His eighth feature film Forever (2008) premiered at Rotterdam IFF 2008, while his latest feature film, international co-production Slovenian Girl was completed in April 2009.

SLOVENIAN GIRL Festival Participation/Awards: Sarajevo IFF 2009 Toronto IFF 2009 Pusan IFF 2009 Warsaw IFF 2009 Cairo IFF 2009 Thessaloniki IFF 2009 Les Arcs EFF 2009: Best Actress Mostra de Valencia 2009: Best Actress Palm Springs IFF 2010 Santa Barbara IFF 2010 Rotterdam IFF 2010 Gothenburg IFF 2010 Sofia IFF 2010 Cleveland IFF 2010 Fribourg IFF 2010 CPH:PIX 2010 Transilvanian FF Cluj 2010 Napoli FF 2010 Munich IFF 2010 Jerusalem IFF 2010 Durban IFF 2010

Damjan Kozole Filmography: 1987 THE FATAL TELEPHONE 1988 Remington 1997 STEREOTYPE 2000 PORN FILM 2003 SPARE PARTS 2004 VISIONS OF EUROPE, Slovenian episode, short 2005 LABOUR EQUALS FREEDOM 2008 FOREVER 2009 SLOVENIAN GIRL

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SOUL KITCHEN

Germany 99 min.

WRITTEN BY: Fatih Akin & Adam Bousdoukos DIRECTED BY: Fatih Akin PRODUCED BY: Fatih Akin & Klaus Maeck DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Rainer Klausmann (BVK) EDITOR: Andrew Bird PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Tamo Kunz MAIN CAST: Adam Bousdoukos (Zinos Kazantsakis), Moritz Bleibtreu (Illias Kazantsakis) Birol Ünel (Shayn Weiss), Anna Bederke (Lucia Faust), Pheline Roggan (Nadine Krüger), Dorka Gryllus (Anna Mondstein)

Stills: corazón international / Gordon Timpen

Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn‘t mend Zinos’s broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.

Production: corazón international GmbH & Co KG Ditmar-Koel-Str. 26 20459 Hamburg GERMANY tel. +49 40 311 82 38 0 fax +49 40 311 82 38 21 amt@corazon-int.de

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Fatih Akin He was born in 1973 to Turkish immigrants. After a short stint in a teenage gang in the North Altona borough of Hamburg, he began playing the “resident Turk” in several television films. After two short films, he became the shooting star of German film with his debut SHORT SHARP SHOCK in 1998. Two years later, he made the road movie IN JULY, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Christiane Paul, as well as the documentary film WIR HABEN VERGESSEN ZURUECKZUKEHREN, in which he explores his immigrant family’s story. In 2002, he made SOLINO, a chronicle of an Italian immigrant family in Duisburg.

His international breakthrough came with HEAD-ON, for which he received the Berlinale Golden Bear, as well as Best Director at the German Film Awards and the European Film Awards. In 2005, he presented his documentary CROSSING THE BRIDGE - THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL, about the multifaceted Turkish music scene today. In 2007 he made his fifth feature film THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, which also won several awards including Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and the European Film Awards.

Alongside SOUL KITCHEN, Fatih recently shot an episode for the upcoming omnibus feature NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU and is currently working on the documentary film POLLUTING PARADISE (working title) about the struggle of the Turkish mountain village Camburnu against a proposed garbage dump in the midst of their idyllic teagrowing region.

SOUL KITCHEN Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: Special Jury Award, Arca Cinema Giovani Toronto IFF 2009, special presentation Hamburg FF 2009: Art Cinema Award-winning Norddeutscher Filmpreis 2009: Best Screenplay

Portrait. Achim Kroepsch

Director’s Statement: The idea for SOUL KITCHEN has been there for a while now. I always had to think about my old friend Adam Bousdoukos and his Taverna in the Ottensen quarter of Hamburg. This was more than just a restaurant for us: it was a playground for adventure, a collecting tank, a place to celebrate, a home. I wanted to capture that feeling and way of life that I so deeply connect with the Taverna, and I wouldn’t have been able to do it had I been much older.

I can’t party forever or go out on the town five nights a week anymore. At some point, you start to get headaches, you find the music too loud, you can’t handle all the smoke. We’re getting older, and that’s okay, because at some point this lifestyle simply disappears. Yet, making a film about it is still valuable because in the end it’s about an existential issue. It’s about drinking, eating, partying, dancing and about home. I wanted to make a film about home, not one that is defined by any nationality, not Germany or Turkey, home not as a location but as a state of being and an attitude.

Fatih Akin

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SUBMARINO

Denmark 110 min.

WRITTEN BY: Tobias Lindholm & Thomas Vinterberg DIRECTED BY: Thomas Vinterberg PRODUCED BY: Morten Kaufmann DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Charlotte Bruus Christensen EDITOR: Valdis Oskarsdottir & Andri Stein Gudmundsson PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Torben Stig Nielsen MAIN CAST: Jakob Cedergren (Nick), Peter Plaugborg (Nick’s brother), Patricia Schimann (Sofie), Morten Rose (Ivan), Gustav Fischer Kjærulff (Martin)

Not yet out of elementary school, Nick and his younger brother have already been hardened by poverty, abuse and alcohol. But these two tough boys still find joy in their newborn baby brother. They gladly make up for the shortcomings of their neglectful alcoholic mother and give the infant the loving care which all children deserve. Although shortlived, this glimmer of hope will haunt them well into adulthood... Moody and anguished, 30-something Nick lives alone in a gloomy tenement shelter. He turns to lifting weights and strong beer to hold back painful memories and loneliness. He finds some comfort with faded beauty Sofie and mentally unstable Ivan, his ex-girlfriend’s brother. Nick has still not come to terms with Ana breaking up with him two years ago, an event which made him erupt into random violence and put him in prison. Nick’s inability to reach out and reconnect with his estranged brother only makes him angrier...

Nick’s brother could lose custody of his six-year-old son Martin any day now. Being a responsible father is even tougher for a heroin addict. Although he has convinced himself that he turned to dealing drugs for his son’s benefit, the risky endeavor results in a painful separation from little Martin... Nick and his brother have spent their lives trying to love, trying to forget, trying to understand. The brothers will soon get their chance to reconnect and to finally realize that they’re not to blame for everything.

Production: Nimbus Film Hauchsvej 17 1825 Frederiksberg C DENMARK tel. +45 3634 0910 green@nimbusfilm.dk

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Director’s Statement: SUBMARINO is based on a novel by young Danish writer Jonas T. Bengtsson. I was attracted to the direct language of the book. There’s a stark truth in the writing which reminded me of the early years of my filmmaking. I sensed instantly that the subject matter was significant and universal. In a way, the characters are all people trying to keep their heads above water. The film is about people not being able to make it to the surface. The title actually refers to a torture method in which someone’s head is kept under water. Although I don’t highlight this in the film, I still decided to keep the title for the hint of this drowning reference.

Thomas Vinterberg SUBMARINO is Thomas Vinterberg’s sixth feature film.

Vinterberg’s FESTEN (The Celebration) premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize.

FESTEN went on to win numerous other prizes worldwide, as well as critical and public acclaim, making it one of the most prominent films of the decade.

Thomas followed up FESTEN with two English-language films: 2003’s IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE starring Sean Penn, Claire Danes and Joaquin Phoenix, and 2005’s DEAR WENDY, starring Bill Pullman, Chris Owen and Jamie Bell.

Both films were presented at Sundance. Vinterberg returned to Danish-language cinema with the 2007 comedy WHEN A MAN COMES HOME. Born in 1969 in Copenhagen, Vinterberg made his first short film at the age of 16. Three years later, he was admitted to the National Film School of Denmark as their youngest student ever. He graduated in 1993, garnering a Student Academy Award nomination for his graduation film, LAST ROUND. His short film THE BOY WHO WALKED BACKWARDS was a hit around the world, winning many audience awards at film festivals. He made his debut feature THE BIGGEST HEROES in 1996. In addition to his feature films, he has also directed music videos for Metallica and Blur.

Vinterberg received an Achievement in World Cinema Award at the European Film Awards in 2008 for his role as a founding member of the 1995 Dogme movement.

Vinterberg has recently succesfully completed a production of his play DAS BEGRÄBNIS (THE FUNERAL) at Vienna’s Burgtheater. It is his first time directing for the stage.

SUBMARINO Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF, competition Krakow Off Plus Camera FF Transilvania IFF Festroia FF Cinema Jove IFF Karlovy Vary IFF Two Riversides FF

Thomas Vinterberg Filmography: 1996 THE BIGGEST HEROES 1998 FESTEN (The Celebration) 2003 IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE 2005 DEAR WENDY 2007 WHEN A MAN COMES HOME 2010 SUBMARINO

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TAMARA DREWE

UK 111 min.

WRITTEN BY: Moira Buffini DIRECTED BY: Stephen Frears PRODUCED BY: Alison Owen, Tracey Seaward & Paul Trijbits DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ben Davis EDITOR: Mick Audsley PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Alan Macdonald MAIN CAST: Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe), Roger Allam (Nicholas Hardiment), Bill Camp (Glen McCreavy), Dominic Cooper (Ben Sergeant), Luke Evans (Andy Cobb), Tamsin Greig (Beth Hardiment)

Based on Posy Simmonds’ much-loved graphic novel, which in turn was inspired by Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd”, this is a joyful but occasionally dark comedy about a young newspaper journalist torn between two lovers. Tamara Drewe’s childhood home is being sold and her return to the rural Dorset village where she grew up causes something of a stir. Having left as an awkward teenager she returns as a smouldering femme fatale, kicking up a storm of envy, lust and gossip wherever she goes. Tamara is the ultimate modern girl but her story of love and confusion is timeless.

Production: Ruby Films 26 Lloyd Baker Street London, WC1X 9AW UK tel. +44 20 7833 9990 fax +44 20 7837 5862 sophie@rubyfilms.co.uk

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TAMARA DREWE Festival Participation/Awards: 2010 Cannes Film Festival

Stephen Frears Filmography: 1971 GUMSHOE 1979 BLODDY KIDS 1984 THE HIT 1985 MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE 1987 PRICK UP YOUR EARS 1987 SAMMIE AND ROSIE GET LAID 1988 DANGEROUS LIAISONS 1990 THE GRIFTERS 1992 HERO 1993 THE SNAPPER 1996 MARY REILLY THE VAN 1998 HI LO COUNTRY 2000 HIGH FIDELITY LIAM 2002 DIRTY PRETTY THINGS 2005 MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS 2006 THE QUEEN 2009 CHERI

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TESSERA MAVRA KOUSTOUMIA 4 BLACK SUITS

Greece 90 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Renos Haralambidis PRODUCED BY: Aggelo Veneti, Iraklis Mavroidis, Takis Nikolakopoulos & Aris Dayios DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Kostis Gkikas EDITOR: Yannis Sakaridis PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Dimitris Ziakas MAIN CAST: Renos Haralambidis (Makis), Yannis Zouganelis (Kyriakos), Takis Spiridakis (Kosmas), Alkis Panagiotidis (Babis)

Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good.

On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek who lived his life abroad: he wants them to take his body from Athens to a village in Boeotia for burial...on foot.

Deciding to grant his bizarre request, they embark on an odyssey, which soon becomes an unexpected voyage of discovery.

Production/Press: Boo Productions 26 Ierou Lohou St. 15124 Athens GREECE tel. +30 210 6100730 fax +30 210 6106790 info@booproductions.gr

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4 BLACK SUITS

Director’s Statement: We live in a culture that detests death and, thus, detests the dead themselves. Everything is expedited so that the departed disappear as quickly as possible; only the dead guy in this film doesn’t want to go before fulfilling one last homecoming journey to where his heart leads him – even though it is no longer beating.

The film is a road movie on a coffin. An odyssey of a dead Ulysses that his fellow-pallbearers don’t have it in them to abandon until he reaches his Ithaca, although they never knew him alive and cannot possibly imagine what he might consider his Ithaca – which deep down is each one’s own private Ithaca.

The scorching blacktop of the national highway turns into a calm homecoming sea in this casket road movie, where four pallbearers and a mysterious dead guy each return, albeit belatedly, to where each really – as opposed to imaginatively– belongs.

In a self-awareness journey towards maturity – howsoever they each perceive maturity, or the journey, for that matter – they shall come to a personal catharsis through revealing all secrets, shedding all tears and living all fears.

Four different solitary men, who in reality are more afraid of life than death itself, shall be taught by a dead guy that, even as we carry death on our shoulders, life still takes us where it will.

Renos Haralambidis Filmography: 1997 NO BUDGET STORY 2000 CHEAP CIGARETTES 2005 THE HEART OF THE BEAST 2010 4 BLACK SUITS

Renos Haralambidis Born in Athens in 1970. Self-taught actor, director and script writer. He has starred in film, television and theatre. 4 Black Suits is his fourth film as a director, in which he also developed the soundtrack.

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TOURNEE ON TOUR

France 111 min.

WRITTEN BY: Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco & Marcelo Novais-Teles DIRECTED BY: Mathieu Amalric PRODUCED BY: Yael Fogiel DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Christophe Beaucarne EDITOR: Annette Dutertre PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Stéphane Taillasson MAIN CAST: Mathieu Amalric (Joaquim Zand), Alexander Craven (Roky Roulette), Miranda Colclasure (Mimi Le Meaux), Suzanne Ramsey (Kitten on the Keys), Julie Ann Muz (Julie Atlas Muz)

Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets - to start a new life in America. He comes back with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom Joachim has fed fantasies of a tour of France, of Paris!

But their dream of this tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform: a quick return journey to the capital violently reopens old wounds...

Production: Les Films du Poisson 54, rue René Boulanger 75010 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 42 02 54 80 fax +33 1 42 02 54 72 contact@filmsdupoisson.com

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Press: Le Pacte 5, rue Darcet 75017 Paris FRANCE tel +33 1 44 69 59 52 fax +33 1 44 69 59 42 Jl.ballard@le-pacte.com

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ON TOUR Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, competition: Best Director Award Pusan IFF 2010

Mathieu Amalric Filmography: 1985 MARRE DE CAFE, short 1990 SANS RIRES, short 1992 LES YEUX AU PLAFOND, short 1993 8 BIS, short 1997 MANGE TA SOUPE 2000 LE STADE DE WIMBLEDON (Wimbledon Stage) 2002 LA CHOSE PUBLIQUE (Public Affairs) 2003 14€58, short 2007 DEUX CAGES SANS OISEAUX, short A L’INSTAR DU PERE NOEL ET DE LA PIZZA, short 2010 TOURNEE (On Tour)

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L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ THE MAN WHO WILL COME

Italy 117 min.

WRITTEN BY: Giorgio Diritti, Giovanni Galavotti & Tania Pedroni DIRECTED BY: Giorgio Diritti PRODUCED BY: Simone Bachini & Giorgio Diritti DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Roberto Cimatti EDITOR: Giorgio Diritti, Paolo Marzoni PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Giancarlo Basili MAIN CAST: Maya Sansa (Lena), Alba Rohrwacher (Beniamina), Claudio Casadio (Armando), Greta Zuccheri Montonari (Martina), Stefano Bicocchi (Mr Bugamelli)

Winter, 1943. Martina is eight years old and lives on the slopes of Monte Sole, not far from Bologna. She is the only child of a peasant family who, like many, is struggling to get by.

Years ago she lost her newborn brother and hasn’t spoken since. In December her mother becomes pregnant again.

Months go by and the child grows in its mother’s womb. Martina anxiously awaits her brother’s arrival as the war gets closer and closer and life becomes more and more difficult.

On the night of 28 September 1944, the baby is finally born. Almost simultaneously the SS unleash an unprecedented reprisal in the area, which will go down in history as “The Marzabotto Massacre”.

Production: Arancia Film via Castiglione, 4 40124 Bologna ITALY tel. +39 051 656 96 57 fax +39 051 588 37 23 info@aranciafilm.com

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Director’s Statement: Some years ago I began researching the events best known as “The Marzabotto Massacre”, a particularly ferocious war crime in which about 770 people were killed, mostly elderly, women, and children.

Some sixty years later, these tragic events seem hazy. They are veiled by time but also by opposing interpretations and manipulations for political convenience. Bibliographic sources were combined with eyewitness accounts that placed forgotten faces, stories, individuals, and families before our eyes.

THE MAN WHO WILL COME is a film about war as seen from below, from the perspective of the simple folk who unwittingly find themselves caught up in great historical events. Its story unfolds during the nine months of expecting the birth of a child in a peasant family. On the very day that the baby is born, the zone is subjected to an unprecedented reprisal at the hands of the SS. Within this inhuman tragedy, it is the infant’s 8-year-old sister Martina who becomes a ray of hope.

These images remind us of the value of a simple handshake, a look, a prayer, a meal, love, as opposed to the cruelty of the SS and the emptiness of death. They give a voice to the innocent people whose lives were stolen, to the martyrs of conflicts that continue to this day, in order that their sacrifice might create an urgent need for peace.

Giorgio Diritti Giorgio Diritti, who has worked as director, screenwriter and editor, was born in Bologna on 21 December 1959. His formative experiences in filmmaking include working with various Italian filmmakers, in particular Pupi Avati, with whom he collaborated on several films. He organized several castings for films in Emilia Romagna, including Fellini’s LA VOCE DELLA LUNA (The Voice of the Moon, 1990). He worked with Ipotesi Cinema, an institute founded and directed by Ermanno Olmi which organizes training for young filmmakers. He also made documentaries, short films and television series as writer and director.

His first short film CAPPELLO DA MARINAIO (1990) was shown in competition at numerous international film festivals and his debut feature IL VENTO FA IL SUO GIRO (2005) went to over 60 national and international film festivals, winning 36 awards. It received 5 nominations at the David di Donatello 2008 (including Best Film, New Director, Producer and Screenplay) and 4 nominations at the Nastri D’argento 2008.

The film also came to national attention, showing at the Cinema Mexico in Milan for over a year and a half. L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ is his second feature film.

THE MAN WHO WILL COME Festival Participation/Awards: International Rome FF, Official Selection: The Silver Marc’Aurelio Grand Jury Award, The Golden Marc’Aurelio Audience Award for Best Film - Bnl, Meglio Gioventù Award for Best Film in Competition The Times BFI London FF, Cinema Europa Ciak d’Oro 2010 - Roma: Best Director, Producer, Direct Sound Shanghai IFF 2010 Filmfest München 2010 Brussels FF 2010: Audience Award, Prime TV Award Skip City Int’l D-Cinema Festival 2010: Grand Prize David di Donatello Awards 2010: Best Film, Producer, Direct Sound Nastri d’Argento 2010 - Prize of the Italian Film Journalists’ Association: Best Producer, Production Design, Direct Sound Globi d’Oro 2009-2010 - Roma: Foreign Press Prize

Giorgio Diritti Filmography: 2009 L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ (The Man Who Will Come) 2008 PIAZZÀTI (Minààs Fitàas) (Kids for Hire), doc.

2005 IL VENTO FA IL SUO GIRO (The Wind Blows Round) 2002 CON I MIEI OCCHI (With My Own Eyes), doc.

1999 IL DENARO (Money), doc. (co-directed with Paolo Cottignola, Ermanno Olmi and Alberto Rondalli)

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UPPERDOG

Norway 95 min.

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Sara Johnsen PRODUCED BY: Christian Fredrik Martin & Asle Vatn DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: John Andreas Andersen EDITOR: Zaklina Stojcevska PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Jack van Domburg MAIN CAST: Hermann Sabado (Alex), Agnieszka Grochowska (Maria), Mads Sjøgård Pettersen (Per), Bang Chau (Yanne)

Stills: Henriette Berg-Thomassen

As young children, the half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway, he to material wealth on Oslo’s west side, she to an average family on the east side of town. With his well-meaning, but indulgent adoptive parents, Axel grows up to become a spoiled brat who hides the insecurity of his troubled past behind an Indifferent façade. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but because they were separated upon arrival, she has no idea where or who he might be now.

However, all this is about to change as Yanne’s Polish friend Maria starts working as a maid for Alex’s parents, and discovers a photograph of him as a young boy.

Maria has seen the same picture on the wall of Yanne’s flat, and with an outsider’s unrestrained enthusiasm, she takes on the task of reuniting them. Yanne isn’t immediately convinced that contacting her brother after all these years is such a good idea; she’s already got her hands full with Per, a tormented ex-marine with a full load of demons in his baggage after serving in Afghanistan. For her part, Maria becomes much more intimately involved with the son in the house than would seem proper for a maid, and soon finds herself entangled in a turbulent affair with her friend’s little brother. Before she has time to realize the consequences, she has sparked a chain of events that involves many more feelings than just her own.

Production/Press: FRILAND PRODUKSJON AS Torggata 33 0183 Oslo NORWAY tel. +47 21 17 47 00 fax +47 21 17 47 01 friland@friland.biz

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Director’s Statement: UPPERDOG is a story from contemporary Oslo. Four young, charming, hot-blooded, self-centred and passionate people are forced to reconsider their view of themselves and the world around them. They lose balance, lose themselves in the confusion between truth and lies.

The story has a serious note: a soldier has done wrong In Afghanistan, an adopted boy misses his sister. I wish to portray the serious as important and beautiful, and the humoristic as liberating and human.

UPPERDOG is about seeing other people, and not just yourself. About coming to terms with your own past. About the brother-sister relationship and worry for the ones you love. But above all, UPPERDOG is about the liberation which may be found in the love between people.

Sara Johnsen Sara Johnsen was born in Oslo in 1970. She studied literary science and gained a master’s degree in Media and Communication. In 1997 she became one of the first students to be enrolled in the Norwegian Film School, where she graduated in the year 2001. She gained acclaim early on, as her two student films won a number of Norwegian and international awards, and soon emerged as one of the most talented filmmakers in Norway. After graduation, Sara worked as a director in the Drama Department of Swedish Television, before contributing a segment to the feature film MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN CHINA and making several short films for Friland AS before her debut as a feature film director with KISSED BY WINTER in February 2005. The film received massive critical acclaim, and won several Norwegian and international awards. Most importantly, it won the American Film Institute’s Grand Jury Prize in 2005, but the Amanda Award for Best Debut and the New Vision Awards at the Rome Independent Film Festival are also well worth mentioning. Sara made her debut as a literary author in autumn 2004 with the novel “He Knows Something She Should Try”, published by Gyldendal. Her second novel, “White Man”, was released in January 2008, and has received brilliant reviews.

UPPERDOG Festival Participation/Awards: The Norwegian IFF Haugesund 2009, opening film Warsaw IFF 2009, in competition Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2009, in competition Tallinn Black Nights FF 2009: Nordic Light Göteborg IFF 2010, Nordic Competition Cinequest FF 2010 Nordic FF Rouen 2010, in competition: Grand Prix du jury Titanic IFF 2010, in competition Minneapolis - St. Paul IFF 2010 Seattle IFF 2010

Sara Johnsen

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DE VLIEGENIERSTER VAN KAZBEK THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK

the Netherlands/ Georgia 104 min.

WRITTEN BY: Arthur Japin DIRECTED BY: Ineke Smits PRODUCED BY: Els Vandevorst DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Piotr Kukla EDITOR: Katarina Türler PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Diana van de Vossenberg MAIN CAST: Madelief Blanken (Marie), Zura Zhghenti (Goga), Kakha Kintsurasvili (Irakli), Annamaria Marinca (The Aviatrix), Rick Paul van Mulligen (Paul), Peter Lohmeyer (Bresser)

Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination. On the flat island of Texel, she dreams about mountains and even collects pictures of them. She feels oppressed by the strict religious island community and its narrow-minded way of life. Secretly, she dances in the evening on the cracks of two loose boards in her room. She would rather like to do something with her life instead of marrying Paul, the beachcomber’s son. But being the only girl in a big and poor family during war time, she doesn’t seem to have much of a choice. The relationships and positions are tightened even more by the reality of war.

Marie tries to outlive this reality by dreaming.

From the moment a regiment of Georgians are stationed on the island, Marie’s life changes and flourishes. With their film, music, and especially with their inventive, unusual survival strategies and entirely different lifestyle, this isolated group of outsiders and in particular the young soldier Goga opens the way to Marie. Through them, she becomes the person who realizes all her dreams without fear.

Production/Press: Isabella Films Singel 272 1016 AC Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31(0)20-4229199 fax +31(0)20-4231125 info@isabellafilms.com

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Director’s Statement: The blossoming of Marie through the confrontation with another culture during a period of crisis, makes The Aviatrix of Kazbek into a heart-warming plea for fantasy as a weapon against terror.

The encounter of two completely different cultures in The Aviatrix of Kazbek is a recognisable and contemporary subject; initial distrust towards the unknown, but eventual recognition and even appreciation of something new. This meeting between cultures leads to conflict and reconciliation, to misunderstandings and friendship; to tragic but sometimes also comic situations.

The pressure that the horrors of war put on common people, is unfortunately also a contemporary subject.

Whether it is applied to the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, the (civil) wars in Georgia, or the Second World War, relations and positions within a society are sharpened. Who is good, who is bad, but also who are the silent conformists?

Such a community under the pressure of war is the backdrop of our story, and our heroine is actually just trying to escape that reality by dreaming.

Ineke Smits Ineke Smits studied Fine Arts at the Rotterdam Art Academy, then specialised in directing at the National Film and Television School in England, supported by The British Council. She completed her directing degree in 1993. In 2002 she received a Nipkow Fellowship to work in Berlin, and in 2004 she developed the first draft of The House of my Fathers at the Binger Institute in Amsterdam. Both her features, MAGONIA and THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK, were presented at the Cinemart.

Next to directing and writing fiction- and documentary films, she is a script advisor for individual projects and organisations such as Hubert Bals Fund, European Pitch Point, Dutch Film Fund and Dutch Cultural Broadcast Foundation. Since 2009 she runs a film production company with Els Vandevorst named Kazbek. She has been living and working partly in Georgia for 19 years.

THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK Festival Participation/Awards: Transilvania IFF Moscow IFF: Kommersant Newspaper Award IFF Rotterdam

Ineke Smits Filmography: 1989 MONAS PLEN 1992 ROSE, VIOLET AND LILY 1994 SIRKO 1996 A WHORE’S SERMON 1996 THE CLOUD FACTORY 1999 NOSTALGIA 2001 MAGONIA 2003 PUTIN’S MAMA 2005 BLACK GOLD UNDER NOTECKA FOREST 2008 TRANSIT DUBAI 2009 THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK

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ZAD KADAR VOICE OVER

Bulgaria 107 min.

WRITTEN BY: Hristo Totev & Svetoslav Ovcharov DIRECTED BY: Svetoslav Ovcharov PRODUCED BY: Galina Toneva & Kiril Kirilov DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Rali Ralchev EDITOR: Svetoslav Ovcharov & Nina Altaparmakova PRODUCTION DESIGNER: George Todorov - Jozi, Boryana Semerdjieva & Rositsa Bakeva MAIN CAST: Ivan Barnev (the cameraman), Kasiel Noah Asher (Diana), Krasimir Dokov (Angelov), Gergana Pletnyova (Angelov’s assistant)

The end of the 70s of the XX century. A director of photography and his wife are separated by the Iron Curtain – she fled with their sick son to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that the kid can only be cured of his sickness in Germany. He can’t do without working his favourite job. The DOP is shooting a movie with the best film director in Bulgaria, member of the Communist party elite… Yet, the DOP lives a life torn between his work and responsibility to his family.

The State Security Services suspect the DOP in espionage - his wife lives in West Berlin and he is close to high-ranking Communists. The phone calls with his wife are being taped. His letters are being read. His close relations to the people in power make him even more a target of suspicion. Time by time the Secret Services freeze the relationship between husband and wife. Their love transforms into alienation and hatred.

Production/World Sales/Press: Gala Film Ltd. 1B, Strumitza Str. 1000 Sofia BULGARIA tel. +3592 981 42 09 fax +3592 981 29 71 galafilm@gala-film.com

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VOICE OVER Festival Participation/Awards: Sofia IFF 2010, opening film Pusan IFF 2010, world cinema

When the people having protected the DOP fall from power he loses everything that he’s ever loved – his family, his work and his meaning of life: Being a cinematographer. He is a wreck.

Thirty years later the DOP’s answer to his fate is a film - he shoots the story of his own life. The story of a man who lost his son...

The Secret Services agent who reported on him years ago, today is the director of his movie...

(Based on a true story) Director’s Statement: Conformism was a way of surviving. The interference of Secret Services in our life was regarded as something normal. The main character of Voice Over had accepted those rules. They’re slowly devastating his human face and are killing his love. Chasing a better and better professional realization he makes a lot of compromises.

Voice Over is a portrait of the intellectuals generation from the Late Communism, part of which I am. Voice Over is a story about the personal choice we make every day.

Svetoslav Ovcharov Filmography: 2000 BULGARIA, THAT’S ME! 2002 A LEAF IN THE WIND 2004 STEAM TRAIN, TV documentary 2005 REHEARSAL, documentary 2005 THE OUR UNIFICATION HOUR, documentary 2007 FLY BY ROSSINANT (script) 2008 A FAREWELL TO HEMINGWAY 2010 VOICE OVER

Svetoslav Ovcharov Born in 1957 in Bulgaria.

Scriptwriter and director of 23 documentary and 6 feature films, author of 3 books and several theatre plays.

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Index of films – Original Titles 3 SEZÓNY V PEKLE ..........................................................

ANOTHER YEAR ..............................................................

BAL .................................................................................

CARLOS ..........................................................................

CELDA 211 .....................................................................

LE CONCERT ...................................................................

DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX ..........................................

EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER ...............................

FILM SOCIALISME ...........................................................

DIE FREMDE ...................................................................

THE GHOST WRITER .......................................................

GIULIAS VERSCHWINDEN ...............................................

HONEYMOONS ...............................................................

I0, DON GIOVANNI ......................................................... Как я провел этим летом (KAK YA PROVEL ETIM LETOM) ...

KAWASAKIHO RŮŽE .......................................................

KENJAC ...........................................................................

LEBANON .......................................................................

LOURDES .......................................................................

MAMMA GÓGÓ ...............................................................

MINE VAGANTI ................................................................

MY QUEEN KARO ............................................................

NA PUTU .........................................................................

LA NOSTRA VITA .............................................................

NOTHING PERSONAL ......................................................

NOWHERE BOY ...............................................................

ONDINE ..........................................................................

PAHA PERHE ...................................................................

PÁL ADRIENN ..................................................................

LA PRIMA COSA BELLA ...................................................

PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE .................................................

DER RÄUBER ..................................................................

REWERS .........................................................................

Cчастье моё (SCHASTYE MOYE) .........................................

SEBBE ............................................................................

EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS ..............................................

SLOVENKA ......................................................................

SOUL KITCHEN ................................................................

SUBMARINO ...................................................................

TAMARA DREWE .............................................................

TESSERA MAVRA KOUSTOUMIA ......................................

TOURNEE .......................................................................

L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ ......................................................

UPPERDOG .....................................................................

DE VLIEGENIERSTER VAN KAZBEK .................................

ZAD KADAR ....................................................................

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Index of films – English Titles 3 SEASONS IN HELL .......................................................

4 BLACK SUITS ...............................................................

ADRIENN PÁL .................................................................

ANOTHER YEAR .............................................................

THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK ..............................................

BAD FAMILY ...................................................................

CARLOS .........................................................................

CELL 211 .......................................................................

THE CONCERT ................................................................

DONKEY .........................................................................

FILM SOCIALISME ...........................................................

THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING .........................................

THE GHOST WRITER .......................................................

HONEY ...........................................................................

HONEYMOONS ...............................................................

HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER .........................................

I, DON GIOVANNI ...........................................................

IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE .................................

JULIA’S DISAPPEARANCE ................................................

KAWASAKI’S ROSE .........................................................

LEBANON .......................................................................

LOOSE CANNONS ...........................................................

LOURDES .......................................................................

MAMMA GÓGÓ ...............................................................

THE MAN WHO WILL COME ............................................

MY JOY ...........................................................................

MY QUEEN KARO ............................................................

NOTHING PERSONAL .....................................................

NOWHERE BOY ..............................................................

OF GODS AND MEN .......................................................

ONDINE ..........................................................................

ON THE PATH ..................................................................

ON TOUR ........................................................................

OUR LIFE ........................................................................

THE REVERSE .................................................................

THE ROBBER ..................................................................

SEBBE ............................................................................

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES ............................................

SLOVENIAN GIRL ............................................................

SOUL KITCHEN ...............................................................

SUBMARINO ...................................................................

TAMARA DREWE .............................................................

THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY .......................................

UPPERDOG .....................................................................

VOICE OVER ...................................................................

WHEN WE LEAVE ............................................................

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