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Credits and acknowledgments Foreword

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International Projects Dew by Denijal Hasanovic (Poland) Egg, Flour and Sugar by Thérèse Ahlbeck (Sweden) GameOver by Olena Fetisova (Ukraine) High Dive by Adam Csaszi (Hungary) I Want to Be Like You by Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria) The Inconvenience by Benito Zambrano (Spain) Little Paradise by Philipp Döring (Germany) My Romantic History by Keri Collins (United Kingdom) Pari by Siamak Etemadi (Greece) Pretenders by Vallo Toomla (Estonia) Something Useful by Pelin Esmer (Turkey) Tacit Wisdom by Saara Cantell (Finland) Trade by David Roddham (Ireland) Upstream by Marion Hänsel (Belgium)

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Dutch Projects 10 Songs for Charity by Karin Junger Forbidden Love by Nicole van Kilsdonk Hairdresser’s Salon Beatrix by Mischa Kamp Playboy Priest by Arne Toonen A Shining Flaw by Erwin Olaf To All Naked Men by Bassam Chekhes Tonio by Paula van der Oest

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Previous Departures from HFM Co-Pro Index

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The Holland Film Meeting 2014 takes place in cooperation with:

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With thanks to Robert Alberdingk Thijm Jean-Baptiste Babin Amra Baksic-Camo Julie Bergeron Maegene Fabias Mike Goodridge James Hickey Jovan Marjanovic Nathalie Mierop Gyda Velvin Myklebust Dorien van de Pas Franz Rodenkirchen Guillaume de Seille Tina Trapp Gülin Üstün

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HFM Advisory Board Ido Abram Esther Bannenberg Stienette Bosklopper Ger Bouma Ellis Driessen Satu Elo Marjan van der Haar Sonja Heinen Claudia Landsberger Frank Peijnenburg Marten Rabarts Dominique van Ratingen Netherlands Film Festival Director Willemien van Aalst Head of Holland Film Meeting Signe Zeilich-Jensen

Producer HFM & Coordinator Guest Department Susanne van Doorn Coordinator HFM CoProduction Platform Mercedes Martínez-Abarca Guest Department Daya de Jongh Nasztázia Potapenko Coordinator HFM Publicity Tito Rodriguez Moderators Ido Abram Ellis Driessen Marten Rabarts Jury Host Ninelotte Dijk

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Editing HFM Co-Pro Dossier Davinia Croes Nick Cunningham Design HFM Co-Pro Dossier Marinka Reuten Printing HFM Co-Pro Dossier Veenman+ Netherlands Film Festival Holland Film Meeting PO Box 1581 3500 BN Utrecht The Netherlands +31-30-2303800 hfm@filmfestival.nl hfmcopro@filmfestival.nl www.filmfestival.nl

Foreword Welcome to the 16th edition of the HFM Co-Production Platform It has been an eventful and productive film year. We are happy that so many of the projects presented at past editions of the Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform (formerly the Netherlands Production Platform) have been screened at numerous festivals or made their ways to cinemas in 2014: Atlantic., Supernova, Cornea, Come to my Voice, Life According to Nino, The Reaper, Korso, The Lamb, See no Evil. One of our former projects, Kurai, Kurai - Tales with the Wind by Marjoleine Boonstra, produced by Volya Films in co-production with Oy Art, will have its premiere during the upcoming Netherlands Film Festival.

The long-awaited Production Incentive was launched this spring in the Netherlands.

This gives extra support of 20 million euros per year to increase and stimulate Dutch (co)production. The Netherlands Film Commission is a new initiative that was launched simultaneously, aiming to make the Netherlands a more attractive location for both national and international film productions. It goes without saying that the Holland Film Meeting is very optimistic about this news and it is our hope that the new incentives will help national and international producers establish more fruitful contacts during their stay with us and make beautiful films together.

This dossier of the 16th edition of the Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform presents 21 projects in development from 15 countries, and you will find a description of each selected project, along with necessary logistical information. More background information and links to previous works of the participants can be found on the special Holland Film Meeting page of Festival Scope.

The pitching rehearsal for the participants is organized in co-operation with EYE Film Institute. This year the HFM also offers a preparatory market analysis of projects by experienced professionals. The 3-step format of the Platform remains unchanged, offering public project presentations, round table sessions and one-on-one meetings.

A selection of former projects are invited back for a Work-in-Progress Session and the HFM Co-Pro event will reach a dramatic climax during the prize-giving ceremony on Saturday evening.

HFM is deeply grateful for the support and generosity of our sponsors, partners, moderators, advisors and friends, and (last but not least) to all the gifted filmmakers who have contributed to this year’s edition.

We wish you all an inspiring and fruitful time in Utrecht.

Willemien van Aalst Festival Director Signe Zeilich-Jensen Head of Holland Film Meeting Mercedes MartĂ­nez-Abarca Coordinator HFM Co-Production Platform 2014 HFM Co-Pro 3

Dew (Rosa) Skorpion Arte (Poland)

A Colombian Law student arrives in Sarajevo to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal but finds herself playing a central role within the tragic story of a new friend.

Synopsis CATALINA (25) is Colombian and has always dreamed of becoming a writer. But lacking in self-confidence she never went for it, following instead her father’s advice to study Law. She has just finished her studies in Paris and has one wish: to bring her father from Colombia to live with her in France. The only problem is she has been denied an extension on her French residence permit. After consulting her professor Catalina arrives in Sarajevo to carry out research into the War Crimes Tribunal. She believes this study will help her get a job at her University in Paris and thus solve her visa problems.

She quickly learns that her plan has failed when she is denied access to the Sarajevo Mission’s archive. She meets NADA (38), a local who works in the Mission as an interpreter. Nada suggests that Catalina stays with her in Sarajevo. What Catalina doesn’t know is that the week she stays with Nada will change her life forever.

She learns about the death of Nada’s brother, whose father had forced to go to war, where the young boy was killed. Will Nada forgive her father for the death of her brother? Catalina also meets Nada’s boyfriend MARK (53) who works in the Mission as an investigator. As a child Mark and his parents were forced to leave Poland, their home country, forced because they were Jews. For Mark, these wounds are still deep.

As the story unfolds all these pieces find their way into one single picture and we come to realise that the film we are watching is actually Catalina’s first novel.

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Director’s Statement The first act promises to be a political thriller: a young woman arrives in a foreign city with the aim of learning more about the Law cases.

The narrative is synthetic, dynamic, epic, but the scenes are short.

However by the end of the first act we understand that there won’t be any cases to disentangle. Following a long but poignant scene involving the interview of a victim of war, the political aspect takes on a secondary role while the lead characters push the story in another direction - both intimate and still. The narration slows down, the scenes are longer and are constructed in a more analytical way.

Dew talks about people who have been hurt by the system, by war, their roots destroyed. People who, despite their best intentions, begin to hurt each other until finally they find their way to redemption and salvation. This is why Dew is, above all, a story about hope.

Director’s Profile Born in Bosnia, Denijal Hasanovic is a film director and screenwriter.

He left his home country because of the war, eventually travelling to Poland where he continued his studies in film. He completed an MA in Film Directing from the Polish National Film School in Lodz.

His graduation film The Letter had its premiere at the 52nd Berlinale.

Co-writer of Blodbond (Thicker than Water) which screened at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival and Milchwald at the 53rd Berlinale. He is a teacher at the Polish National Film School in Lodz and Head of the SCRIPT Screenwriting Programme at the Wajda Studio, Warsaw.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Skorpion Arte is a Polish film production company founded in 2008.

They entered into film production with the prize-winning My Name Is Ki (Venice Days 2011, Off Plus Camera, Toronto). In 2012 - 2013 Skorpion Arte produced Being like Deyna, awarded at the Great Jantar “Youth and Film” First Film Festival, Heritage by one of the most acclaimed directors in Poland, Andrzej Baranski (Karlovy Vary, Montreal) and Manhunt by Marcin Krzyształowicz, a psychological WWII thriller which won major awards in Poland: The Eagle Film Award 2013, The Silver Lions Gdynia Film Festival 2012, and Off Plus Camera “Making Way” First Prize 2012. Their latest production is All About My Parents, a family comedy.

Denijal Hasanovic

Current Status Shooting planned September - November 2014, Sarajevo. DOP Bogumil Godfrejow. Cast: Andrzej Chyra (Poland), Lana Baric (Croatia), Mirjana Karanovic (Serbia), Andrea Otalvaro (Colombia).

Film fund applications pending in Croatia and Serbia.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To meet co-producers, festivals, sales agents, filling the gap in the budget.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The film The Letter (2001).

Malgorzata Jurczak

Agata Deka

Director Denijal Hasanovic Director’s Assistant Agata Deka Producer Malgorzata Jurczak Screenwriter Denijal Hasanovic Based on an original screenplay Languages English/Spanish/Bosnian Genre Drama Format Digital Running time 110 minutes Target audience International audience

Total budget €1.017.898 Total budget in place €794.898 Partners attached Television Poland (TVP SA), Polish Film Institute.

Co-producers: Pro.Ba (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Media Focus (Croatia), Bas Celik (Serbia).

Distributor in Poland: Kino Swiat Present at HFM Co-Pro Malgorzata Jurczak, Agata Deka

Contact Malgorzata Jurczak Skorpion Arte Chelmska 19/21 Warsaw 00-724 Poland Tel: +48-501-204239 Email: mjwarszawa@gmail.com www.skorpionarte.pl 2014 HFM Co-Pro 5

Egg, Flour and Sugar eyefeed (Sweden) Tiny Lumberjack (Sweden)

Oncologist Helena with empathy issues realises she can’t get pregnant. Her husband leaves her, she is fired and she is in free fall.

But during this fall she finds herself.

Synopsis HELENA, a sharp cancer expert pressing forty, has her third miscarriage. But instead of mourning she carries on working, and is even more unpleasant to her colleagues. She unintentionally administers a life-threatening dose of morphine to one of her patients (EMILIA). After this her boss seizes the opportunity to get rid of her - “science isn’t missing you but maybe humanity is”. Helena hides from her husband the fact that she’s been fired and tries to find an equivalent job, which turns out to be impossible. Meanwhile, he files for divorce.

To learn more about human nature she takes a course at the university, only to realise that the students are half her age and the topic is extremely non-empirical. Without any income or husband Helena moves into a small apartment downtown and unwittingly becomes neighbour to ANDERS, journalist and son of Emilia.

When she thinks she is finally going to get a new job she is once again left disappointed, so she tries to get her old one back, but ends up deeply humiliated.

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background. Anders begs Helena to follow him to the hospital to talk to the cancer-experts. Reluctantly she does so - in disguise.

But such is her frustration over Emilia’s treatment that her mask slips, and she is soon ejected from the hospital.

Emilia is in need of a medicine that the hospital has chosen not to buy. Without hesitation Helena drives to another hospital to beg them to send this medicine to Emilia but again she is immediately thrown out. On the way back Helena’s car breaks down. But when she feels that all hope is lost she finally learns that the medicine is actually on its way…

Director’s Statement Helena has to go through a transition to become a better human being – both to herself and to others. And to reach this stage of complete transformation she has to be thrown into what she fears the most – the real world. When she cannot protect herself behind her doctor’s white collar she will be exposed and forced to deal with situations she is not used to. That is her journey.

My vision as director is that this journey will be one of recognition for the audience, where we perhaps may not approve of Helena’s behaviour but understand her, and therefore will be able to love her throughout the film.

Director’s Profile Reporter at Swedish National Radio 1998-2000, journalist at Swedish National Television 2000-2002. Education: Directing at Swedish National Film School 2005-2008. Graduation film: Student Academy Award Nominee 2010. Has written and directed several shorts 2005-2014.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Eyefeed (established 1991) focuses on working with talented female directors who develop their own feature film scripts. They also produce documentaries and shorts, based on strong stories and characters. Eyefeed has produced nine feature films, one TV series for SVT and a number of documentaries. They co-produce within Sweden and Europe. They are very active in the developing from idea, synopsis and treatment, being very present during the shooting and editing processes.

Thérèse Ahlbeck

Current Status This film will be co-produced with the Swedish company Tiny Lumberjack together with Marcus Olsson.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To find a co-producer from the Netherlands or Europe, get two TV channels on board and get to know more about the Dutch film industry.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The short film Lost in Stångby (2013).

Marcus Olsson

Håkan Bjerking

Director Thérèse Ahlbeck Producers Håkan Bjerking, Marcus Olsson Screenwriter Thérèse Ahlbeck Based on an original screenplay Language Swedish Genre Comedy/Drama Format 2:35 Cinemascope Running time 92 minutes Target audience Women and couples aged 30 plus Total budget €1.333.333 Total budget in place €888.889

Partners attached Swedish Filminstitute, Film i Skåne, own investment Present at HFM Co-Pro Håkan Bjerking, Thérèse Ahlbeck

Contact Håkan Bjerking eyefeed AB Karlsrovägen 40 236 37 Höllviken Sweden Tel: +46-705-593080 Email: bjerking@eyefeed.se www.eyefeed.se 2014 HFM Co-Pro 7

GameOver Interfilm Production Studio (Ukraine)

As Ukrainian civil strife escalates, a patriotic father confronts his son who exploits the situation by inventing a lucrative computer game based on the harsh reality.

Synopsis Swimming instructor MARKOVICH wins the Masters competition in Kiev and is invited to the championships in Berlin. His wife TINA and son VLAD, a video game developer, oppose the idea of “the old idiot” going abroad alone. But the sultry team nurse GALYA agrees to take care of Markovich in Berlin. There, they develop an odd, but passionate affair.

Meanwhile, mass demonstrations begin in Kiev with students demanding that Ukraine join the EU, followed by a brutal crackdown by police. Impressed by the revolutionary unrest, Vlad develops a game called ‘Save Ukraine’, in which players can move from virtual space to reality by playing a protester or a provocateur. Vlad’s kids, MISHA and DANA are as keen on ‘Save Ukraine’ as are the millions of users.

Markovich receives stunning news about hundreds of dead protestors in Kiev just before the competition in Berlin starts. He loses.

After returning from Germany Markovich, formerly a devout communist takes a patriotic pro-Ukrainian position. He seriously confronts the cynic Vlad, who capitalizes from the unrest and continues to profit from his game. Vlad’s wife wants to flee the country. Dana supports the protesters but is secretly dating ‘bad guy’ GLIB. Misha fears that he may be drafted into the army and miserable Tina falls into insanity.

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Markovich is fired from his job because the pool is going to be shut down. He goes to the first-aid room to say goodbye to Galya, and finds her making love with his son Vlad. Markovich suffers chest pains and heads home through the dark city.

Meanwhile, Dana is playing ‘Save Ukraine’. On the monitor she sees street-players attacking her grandfather. Markovich pushes one of them, who Dana recognizes as her boyfriend. Glib smashes his skull on the kerb and dies. The sign ‘GameOver’ flashes on Dana’s monitor.

Director’s Statement It is extremely important for me, a Ukrainian citizen of Russian descent who has been experiencing the civil unrest and terrible war between Ukraine and Russia, to make a film about how long one can live with his head buried in the sand, before the political events touches him.

As a way of exploring the theme and reach the widest audience I have incorporated the specially invented computer game ‘Save Ukraine’ into the story. The game symbolises the global world where ‘hard men’ assume the guise of game developers (puppet players) and subvert standard computer games like World Of Tanks, Call Of Duty, Sniper Team... But sometimes they do not realise that they can also lose, and in a deadly way…

I would like to underline that I now feel more Ukrainian than I ever felt before, and that I need to make this film in order to warn the 16+ audience before it is too late.

Director’s Profile Olena Fetisova is a Ukrainian director, scriptwriter and producer, EFA member and EAVE 2009 graduate. She studied cinema at the Moscow Film School VGIK. She wrote, directed and produced a number of documentaries which were highly acclaimed both at home and internationally. Her debut feature Paradjanov, UkrainianFrench-Georgian-Armenian co-production, premiered in Karlovy Vary competition in 2013. The film has travelled to dozens of international film festivals and won awards at Essonne, Odessa, Tallinn, Bucharest, Batumi and Khanty-Mansiysk. The film was nominated as the Ukrainian entry for the 2013 Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Interfilm Production Studio was founded in 2001. The company has produced many independent features and documentaries.

Interfilm is skilled at bringing together international co-productions, particularly with France, Estonia, Georgia, and Armenia. Our partners include ARTE France, Ukrainian State Film Agency, EAVE, French Institute in Ukraine, and Goethe Institute, among others.

Our films have a wide festival and cinemagoers audience and have been broadcasted both in Ukraine and internationally.

Volodymyr Kozyr has been working as producer/executive producer for Interfilm since 2004. He has a reputable portfolio of coproductions, including internationally recognized documentaries and features. The Ukrainian-Estonian feature co-production An Awesome Tale (2008) received the Ukrainian State Award for best Children’s Film and was selected for festivals in Bulgaria, Estonia, Russia, Ireland, China, Canada, and USA. His latest multinational co-production feature film Paradjanov (2013) received international recognition at 16 international film festivals, and has already been theatrically released in many countries.

Current Status Script development (first draft). Financing.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are aiming to attach Dutch and German co-producers as well as European partners in cross-media project development.

Olena Fetisova

Volodymyr Kozyr

Director Olena Fetisova Producer Volodymyr Kozyr Screenwriter Olena Fetisova Based on an original screenplay Language Ukrainian Genre Family/Drama Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Aged 16+ Total budget €753.400 Total budget in place €302.400 Sales company Amadeus Entertainment (UK) (letter of intent)

Partners attached Co-production partner: Ingrid Lill Høgtun, Barentsfilm (Norway) (letter of intent).

National partners: Open Ukraine Foundation & Development of Ukraine Foundation, Zoo Cinema (camera/light/grip equipment in-kind), Movchan PE (sound equipment and SFX inkind).

Present at HFM Co-Pro Olena Fetisova, Volodymyr Kozyr

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Paradjanov (2013).

Contact Volodymyr Kozyr Interfilm Production Studio Citadelna str. 6/8 Kyiv 01015 Ukraine Tel: +38-067-2097288 Email: kozyr@interfilm.biz www.interfilm.biz 2014 HFM Co-Pro 9

High Dive FocusFox (Hungary)

Is it possible to come to terms with past sins or does trying to eradicate them only create more?

Synopsis BERTA’s (18) teenage world turns upside down as she stumbles upon sinful family secrets that lead her to commit a brutal murder – her initiation into adulthood’s vicious cycle of lies and violence.

She is in high school, estranged from her tough, silent father MIHÁLY (50) and still reeling from the sudden suicide of her mother a year ago for which she blames herself. She seeks refuge in the ethereal, perfect world of high diving. Mihály is now remarried to Berta’s high diving instructor, the young, sexy LINDA (35).

One day, Berta realises that a mysterious teenage boy, DÁVID (18) is following her around, constantly watching her. Although terrified, she confronts him but fear soon turns into love, which is requited. An “enfant terrible”, Dávid cares deeply for his father who was paralyzed in a hit-and-run accident, but he also seems to follow a frightening and violent agenda.

When Mihály leaves on a business trip the icy relationship between Berta and Linda begins to thaw, and together with Dávid, they take a fateful trip to the family cabin deep in the woods. Dávid advances on Linda, but then starts beating her up. When Berta intervenes Dávid lashes out at her too. Linda hides in the woods, while Berta confronts Dávid – only to learn the boy acted in revenge. Linda drove the car that hit Dávid’s father: he came to the woods to kill her, but couldn’t do it.

Cornered Linda admits the truth about that night. Berta is shocked to learn that her father was cheating on Berta’s real mother with Linda, since they were together in the car. His illicit affair was the reason behind her mother’s suicide. Suddenly facing a world of lies and sin, Berta is driven to murder and in a haunting final scene, father and daughter turn on each other in a confrontation only one of them will walk away from.

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Director’s Statement Such a complex, non-linear and highly metaphorical story must have a realistic underpinning in its visual style to convey human drama that cuts to the bone. I want to focus attention on the characters with an understated, sparse visual style that does not give in to conventional beauty and visual metaphor. Instead, I let a slow progression of concrete images to create suspenseful, stark visual poetry. Moreover, instead of conventional pictures that are decorative, sharp and action-oriented in a bombastic way, I want the visual style of High Dive to be grainy-hazy, stripped to the bone and obscuring action to highlight characters closed up in their own viewpoints. Such a sparse, yet enigmatic style can convey the horror and thriller element in an unsensational way, as it inherently builds suspense, and does not use fast-edited extreme violence for shock value. On the contrary: scenes of brutality are almost real-time, carefully mapping even the smallest reactions.

Director’s Profile Adam’s first feature Land of Storms premiered at the Panorama section of Berlinale 2014. His first short films Seven Days and Weak Days won awards at the Hungarian Film Week, including Best Short Film and Critics Prize for Best Short Film, and the latter was screened by FIPA in 2008. His short film Celebration was screened at the Warsaw Film Festival and at the Brest Short Film Festival in 2010.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile In 2000 Andras Muhi established Inforg Studio and since then he has worked as a producer and CEO. Inforg’s first short films, Goldenbird and god@heaven.hu won prizes at the 31st Budapest Film Week. Since its launch the studio has produced and coproduced 24 feature films, 100 short films, 60 documentary films and 10 animations. Lots of these films are participants and often winners of prestigious international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Chicago among others). Bence Fliegauf’s Just the Wind won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale and Before Dawn by Balint Kenyeres won the prize for Best Short Film at the European Film Academy. Andras Muhi became the producer of Focusfox from 2014.

Current Status Screenplay 2nd draft.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Find co-producers, sales agent, television pre-sale agents.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Land of Storms (2014).

Adam Csaszi

Andras Muhi

Director Adam Csaszi Producer Andras Muhi Screenwriters Adam Csaszi, Ivan Szabo Based on an original screenplay Language Hungarian Genre Drama Format HD Running time 95 minutes Target audience Aged 16+ Total budget â‚Ź107.000 Total budget in place â‚Ź100.000 investment from FocusFox

Partners attached Hungarian National Film Fund Present at HFM Co-Pro Adam Czaszi Andras Muhi

Contact Andras Muhi FocusFox Huvosvolgyi ut 141 Budapest 1021 Hungary Tel: +36-309-493507 Email: andras.muhi@focusfox.hu www.focusfox.hu 2014 HFM Co-Pro 11

I Want to Be Like You Multfilm (Bulgaria)

When Pavel’s mother sends him to spend the summer in Bulgaria, he sets off for France instead, determined to become an apprentice to his idol, the legendary French artist, Arnaud.

Synopsis PAVEL (16) withdrawn and emotionally volatile, lives in London with his mother, an ex-rock singer. He draws obsessively, with a singular focus of becoming an artist in the mould of his idol, legendary French painter ARNAUD. When his mother’s new boyfriend invites her to join his band on tour, she decides to send Pavel back to Bulgaria. This presents Pavel with the perfect opportunity to set one of his secret plans in action. He visits his well-off aunt in Antwerp and then continues on to Amsterdam. His budding sexuality leads him into the Red Light district, and where he meets PIRI, a charismatic ex-con. The day after, they set off for France in Piri’s “repossessed” van. On the road, Piri picks up two young hitchhikers - JULIE and LOLA. Julie requests that they stop by her parents’ farm outside Lille. Her family is hostile toward the visiting foursome.

Pavel spends the night in Julie’s room and learns from her that a year earlier she had run away from home to be with another girl, an act for which her family never forgave her. Pavel becomes smitten with Julie but their paths are soon to separate. Pavel arrives in Paris, where he purchases some art supplies, shaves his head and hops on a train to Provence. He arrives unannounced at Arnaud’s secluded estate, where the artist’s wife takes a liking to him. Pavel stands in awe before his idol’s sculptures and paintings, like a pilgrim at the holiest of sites. He declares that he has arrived to become Arnaud’s apprentice. But when Arnaud returns and finds the stranger in his studio, he angrily demands that he leave at once.

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teaches Pavel a harsh life lesson. With his idol in ashes, Pavel takes to the road again, this time to follow his heart’s desire.

Director’s Statement This is a story of obsession, and near blind worship, of one’s artistic idols. In some ways, it’s a reflection on my own difficult relationship with art. Aged 16, I decided to “escape the world” and move to a remote village, where one of my artistic idols had lived in seclusion.

I wanted to tell the story of a similar character in his formative years, who, with enviable naiveté, decides to run away from home to become an apprentice of an older enigmatic artist.

The film is meant to be a freewheeling adventure, celebrating the liberation that comes from the “death” of one’s idols. Within the structure of a classic road movie it will reflect closely the protagonist’s emotional connection to the environment and characters he encounters. It will be a film of elliptical imagery, small gestures and inner-frame dynamics, conveying at once a sense of timelessness, as well as urgency.

Director / Screenwriter’s Profile Konstantin Bojanov is a producer, writer and director. His credits include the award winning: Lemon Is Lemon (2001), Invisible (2005) and Avé (Semaine de la Critique, 2011). His films have screened in over 100 festivals, winning numerous international awards. Bojanov is currently developing the feature documentary In Search for a Miracle, based on William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives. I Want to Be Like You will be his second feature.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz is one of the most prominent British playwrights and screenwriters working today. Her most recent screenplay, Ida, co-written with Pawel Pawlikowksi, was awarded at London, Warsaw, Gdynia and Toronto film festivals.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Multfilm is owned by producers Ilian Djevelekov, Matey Konstantinov and Georgi Dimitrov. In 2001 they founded their first company Miramar film, which quickly became one of the leading film and television producers in the country. In 2007 they produced the feature film Zift by first time director Javor Gardev. The film was a critical and commercial success. In 2011 the feature film Love.Net, directed by Ilian Djevelekov, became one of the biggest national box

Konstantin Bojanov

office hits. The company’s credits include the co-productions There Was Never a Better Brother (Russia/Bulgaria/Azerbaijan, 2011), as well as Karbala (Poland/Bulgaria, 2015). Mila Voinikova joined the company as a producer in 2009, after completing her graduate studies at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and working in domestic distribution at the Weinstein Company. Multfilm is committed to strong producer/director relationships and carrying out each project from development through production, postproduction, sales and domestic distribution.

Current Status We have secured 39% of the budget and we are in the process of applying for funding in France and the UK. The screenplay is at the final draft stage and we are currently casting.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are looking for co-producers, a world sales agent, TV and distribution presales, funds and post-production facilities. Coproducers could bring main and supporting actors, key creative crew and post-production services.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Avé (2011).

Mila Voinikova

Derk-Jan Warrink

Director Konstantin Bojanov Producers Mila Voinikova, Konstantin Bojanov, Janja Kralj, Mike Downey, Derk-Jan Warrink Screenwriters Konstantin Bojanov, Rebecca Lenkiewicz Based on an original screenplay Languages English/Bulgarian/French Genre Drama/Road movie/ Coming of Age Format Digital Running time 100 minutes Target audience Younger audience aged 20-35

Total budget €1.650.000 Total budget in place €650.000 Partners attached Bulgarian National Film Center – production grant.

Co-producers: Argentum Lux Films (Bulgaria), KinoElektron (France), Film & Music Entertainment (UK), Lemming Film (The Netherlands) Present at HFM Co-Pro Mila Voinikova, Konstantin Bojanov, Derk-Jan Warrink

Contact Mila Voinikova Multfilm 40 Evlogi Georgiev Blvd.

Sofia 1124 Bulgaria Tel: +359-2-9449514 Email: office@multfilm.bg www.multfilm.bg 2014 HFM Co-Pro 13

The Inconvenience El inconveniente

TALYCUAL (Spain), La Claqueta (Spain), Tito Clint Movies (Spain)

Successful Sarah has finally found the house of her dreams at a bargain price.

But there is one “small” inconvenience: the current owner, 80-year-old Lola, will live there until she dies.

Synopsis SARAH’s found the perfect house: spacious, full of light, with nice views and at a very, very low price. There’s only a small problem LOLA, the current owner, is going nowhere, at least not until the day she dies. This date will presumably be soon, since she has twice had heart surgery, smokes two packs of cigarettes a day and drinks like a teenager at a fraternity party.

Sarah is the perfect example of a successful working girl. Well established in her company, she is practical, straightforward and is always aware of any problems that might arise, even though this means she is perpetually worried. On the other hand, Lola is enthusiastic about anything new that comes her way. Consequently, their personalities clash. However, both women need each other.

Sarah needs to sneakily measure the house to have the furniture ready for when death comes to Lola. And Lola needs somebody to spend time with since all her longtime friends have passed away.

Little by little, Sarah begins to drop her barriers and lets Lola into her life, sharing with her not only her struggles within an unsatisfying marriage but also her deepest fear of all, that of her own death. At the same time, Lola’s way of life is modified by Sarah’s increasingly caring manners, and she is affected by the young woman’s hidden problems. A unique relationship, full of tenderness, emotion and laughter, will develop between two women so different but so similar in their own loneliness, and their cat and dog frostiness will transform into a very close mother-daughter friendship.

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But things never turn out as they are expected. Lola shows no signs of weakness and Sarah’s life suddenly begins to crumble when sudden news comes her way. From then on, the way Sarah and Lola are going to perceive life will change forever…

Director’s Statement A friend told me about a fantastic play she had seen in Madrid.

Overcome by curiosity, I ventured out to see this supposedly amazing piece of theatre. In essence, I realised that I had before me a truly extraordinary work. Each scene filled me with emotion, every action abounded with cinematographic images. I had rarely felt anything like this before. Until that night, I had never considered adapting a play. Ever since that evening, I felt with absolute clarity that this was an extraordinary story, an incredible tale full of humour and tenderness. Overflowing with emotion and feeling. Of love and life.

Director’s Profile In 1999 Benito Zambrano directed Solas, winning awards at the Angers European First Film Festival, Mexico Ariel Awards, Berlin International Film Festival, Brussels International Film Festival, Cartagena Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival and the Havana Film Festival. In 2005 he directed his second feature, Havana Blues, winning awards at the Havana Film Festival and Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, as well as Turia and ACE Awards. In 2011 he made The Sleeping Voice, selected in San Sebastian, Miami and Cartagena film festivals, again receiving nominations for the Spanish Academy Awards and Film Writers Association Awards, besides winning a Turia Award.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Bernabé Rico alternates his activity between theater and film.

He produced the feature film The Day out of Time (world premiere August 2014), the documentary Morarte, the Tale of an Encounter and the fiction short films There Is No Goodbye, Free Kick, Binges and Cowboys, as well as the short doc Premiere, the last four also directed by him. He is a member of AEPAA-APRIA (Andalusian Producers Association), part of FAPAE (Spanish Federation of Audiovisual Producers), and he belongs to the Short Film Industry Association (AIC). He is also a partner of the film digital platforms FeelDocs and FeelShorts, as well as UpToFest.

Benito Zambrano

Current Status Zambrano is working with Juan Carlos Rubio on finishing the screenplay. Geraldine Chaplin and Oona Chaplin - mother and daughter in real life - are already attached to the project (commitment letters available).

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Looking for international co-producers and presales.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film The Sleeping Voice (2011).

Bernabé Rico

Juan Carlos Rubio

Director Benito Zambrano Producers Bernabé Rico, Olmo Figueredo Screenwriters Juan Carlos Rubio, Benito Zambrano Based on the play 100 m2 by Juan Carlos Rubio Languages English/Spanish Genre Dramedy Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Women aged 30-60, intelligent audiences looking for touching and inspirational stories

Total budget €1.500.000 Total budget in place €375.000 Partners attached Andalusian Film Commission Present at HFM Co-Pro Bernabé Rico Benito Zambrano

Contact Bernabé Rico TALYCUAL Lagar 5, 3-B 41004 Sevilla Spain Tel: +34-954-224424 Email: talycual@talycual.com www.talycual.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 15

Little Paradise Weydemann Bros. (Germany)

An idyllic camping site in the heat of the summer. A dead body at the lake. And three families with a skeleton in the closet.

Synopsis An idyllic campsite in the middle of nowhere. It’s mid-summer and the campers, among them the amateur singer SYLVIE (35), the steakhouse chef DIETMAR (44) and the teacher and passionate angler HERMANN (51), are enjoying the idle routine with their families when a passing police van announces the gruesome news that a dead body has been found nearby in the woods, and the murderer is on the loose.

For the time being, everything seems to go on like before, but below the surface, suspicions and rumours begin to breed. Is the murderer still somewhere close? Is the murderer one of them?

In the sweltering heat, friendships and family divisions slowly give way to new alliances. Dark secrets gradually become unearthed, and hidden desires, envy and unsolved conflicts from the past create a fatal momentum of mutual suspicion.

At the same time, a tender love story between two teenagers, DANI (18) and SONJA (17) who want to break out of the confines of their families, begins to develop within this poisoned atmosphere.

However, when Sylvie’s son disappears and rumours begin to spread that the dead body was that of a child, everybody’s nerves are on the edge. The campers decide to take matters into their own hands. Spurred by Sylvie’s ex-husband, the shady policeman TOM (39), they quickly reunite. Yet their witch-hunt for a culprit ends in a moment of despair. The murderer is not found. Instead Hermann’s wife ELVIRA (49) confronts the mob with the memories of the death of her little son, one year ago, that nobody was able to prevent.

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tries to sweep under the carpet what has become visible over the last days. Only Dani and Sonja refuse to go back to normal and escape the campsite.

Director’s Statement It looks like a perfect idyll: a tiny campsite, surrounded by a quiet lake and a dark forest, with a name carrying a big promise: Little Paradise. However, when a mysterious dead body is found, the peaceful atmosphere melts away. There had been a battlefield here in ancient times, and it is a battlefield that the Little Paradise will soon turn into. At the campsite, this voyeuristic place “par excellence”, we see various families slowly tear away each other’s masks. Madness lurks everywhere and behind each caravan window an abyss is to be found.

Soon, it is every man for himself. Everyone hides a loneliness deep inside; but they all keep saying to themselves: ‘Hey, it’s vacation, I feel good!’

That’s the core of the film: how all these smiling families suppress their hidden fears and desires until they turn into a mob of animals.

Director’s Profile Philipp Döring was born in Freiburg, Germany. After high school he studied Germanics and graduated in 2004; during this time he worked in a local cinema and shot his first short films.

Between 2004-2009 he studied film directing at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. His graduation film At the Other End won the First Steps Award for Best German Film School Film of the Year as well as the German Cinematography Award.

In 2011, he founded his production company Blue Elephant. He continued to shoot short films (The Nail, 2012; Maybe Later, 2013; Meander, 2014) that were screened at festivals worldwide and received several awards.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Weydemann Bros. produces films for the national and international market. We have a vision of a narrative cinema that is both entertaining and political. For us film is always a critical look at the world and the times we live in. With our films we do not only hope to get people laughing and crying, but to inform them and inspire them to contemplate. Weydemann Bros. is based in Cologne and Berlin.

Weydemann Bros. is grant-holder of the AV Gründerzentrum Cologne 2011 and a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Sarajevo Talent Campus, Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy and Cannes Producers Network, as well as the MEDIA programmes EsoDoc, Documentary Campus Masterschool, ep2c and EAVE Producers Workshop.

Managing directors Jonas and Jakob D. Weydemann are members of the European Film Academy.

Current Status The project is at a financing stage. Shooting is scheduled for summer 2015.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To find sales and co-production partners.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The short film Kann ja noch kommen (Maybe Later) (2013).

Philipp Döring

Jakob D. Weydemann

Director Philipp Döring Producers Jonas Weydemann, Jakob D. Weydemann Screenwriter Martin Behnke Based on the play Turista by Marius von Mayenburg Language German Genre Dark, tragicomic ensemble drama Format Arri Alexa Running time 100 minutes Target audience Arthouse Total budget €1.505.000 Total budget in place €155.000

Partners attached Nord Media, Kuratorium junger Deutscher Film, FFA Present at HFM Co-Pro Jakob D. Weydemann, Philipp Döring

Contact Jakob D. Weydemann Weydemann Bros. GmbH Körnerstr. 45 50823 Cologne Germany Tel: +49-221-630605290 Email: info@weydemannbros.com www.weydemannbros.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 17

My Romantic History Magnified Pictures (UK)

Based on the award-winning stage play, My Romantic History is a painfully funny and brutally honest look at love from both the male and female perspective.

Synopsis My Romantic History is where Annie Hall meets 500 Days of Summer, a painfully funny and brutally honest look at love from both the male and female perspective.

TOM (30) sleeps with his new colleague AMY (31). They go back to hers because they are drunk, and because his flat smells of bins and the sheets are disgusting. Unfortunately flashbacks of his teenage heartbreak, Alison Hamilton, keep interrupting his thoughts, and he is not keen to rush back into a new relationship because “monomaniacal devotion gets you nowhere”.

Amy is single, and sick of work colleague Sasha’s passive aggressive comments about why she hasn’t got a boyfriend.

Somehow, since she broke up with Calvin Kennedy at the university, Amy’s love life has been a string of abject failures. To make matters worse, she’s just woken up with Tom, the new-boy gimp from the ninth floor.

A few days turn into a few weeks, but they both need to rid themselves of the ghost of relationships past in order to be able to negotiate a future, potentially with each other in it. Fortunately their ex-loves have made it into the present, and aren’t quite what they remembered…

Based on the award winning stage play by DC Jackson, and adapted and directed by BAFTA Cymru-nominated, Screen International Star of Tomorrow Keri Collins, My Romantic History is an insightful, quick-witted comedy which allows you to get into the head of ‘that’ boy or ‘that’ girl, and see what they really think about love.

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Director’s Statement With My Romantic History I intend to make a “funny film about love”; a term coined by Richard Curtis to describe films like Lost In Translation and 500 Days of Summer, which you would not describe as traditional, formulaic romantic comedies. Neither Amy nor Tom see the world as it really is; they view everything skewed through the prism of their own experience and history, creating their own, personal ‘reality’. Camera, lenses and framing will all reflect this, giving the impression of our characters being at the centre of their own universe. This will shift in the final act when Amy and Tom come together, using a longer lens to create a more intimate closeness between them, as this is the first time they have both lived in the present without their pasts getting in the way.

Director’s Profile Keri Collins is a BAFTA-nominated director and 2014 Screen International Star of Tomorrow. His debut feature comedy Convenience starred Vicky McClure (This is England), Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions), Anthony Head (Buffy) and Verne Troyer (Austin Powers).

Convenience premiered at Raindance Film Festival and was named

by The London Film Review as one of the Top 10 British comedies of 2013 alongside The World’s End and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.

Keri was mentored by Sir Kenneth Branagh after being selected for the BFI’s prestigious Guiding Lights scheme, and his BAFTA Cymru-nominated short film Funday was described by Tony Grisoni as “deliciously melancholic”.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Magnified Pictures was set up in 2008 by independent producer Jessica Levick to develop and produce award-winning features, short films and music videos. Jessica is a graduate of the UK’s prestigious National Film & Television School, and her credits include Associate Producer on Legacy (Idris Elba), and line producer on Warp/Film4’s Bifa-nominated short Dr Easy. Magnified Pictures’ first feature, the critically acclaimed documentary Personal Best directed by Sam Blair, was financed by the British Film Institute & Adidas, and released by Verve Pictures in cinemas across the UK in 2012. Magnified Pictures’ continued goal is to produce brave, cinematic feature films that combine artistic distinction with commercial viability, and which resonate with audiences worldwide.

Current Status Final draft script, developed with the Welsh Film Agency. 30% finance pending via public finance and UK Tax Credit. Casting director Sarah Crowe (In The Loop, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa).

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are seeking a potential international co-producer, as well as financiers/finance, and future international distribution and sales partners. We look forward to testing the international market for an independent British romcom.

Previous work available upon request to the producer

Keri Collins

Jessica Levick

Director Keri Collins Producer Jessica Levick Screenwriter Keri Collins Based on the play My Romantic History by DC Jackson Language English Genre Comedy Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Females aged 21+ Total budget â‚Ź1.260.000 Total budget in place â‚Ź380.000

Partners attached FFilm Cymru Wales (Welsh Screen Agency) Present at HFM Co-Pro Jessica Levick, Keri Collins

Contact Jessica Levick Magnified Pictures Ltd London United Kingdom Tel: +44-789-4033140 Email: jessica@magnifiedpictures.co.uk www.magnifiedpictures.co.uk 2014 HFM Co-Pro 19

Pari Heretic (Greece)

The search of an Iranian mother for her son, missing in Athens, will take her on a journey from the hidden depths of her own self to her ultimate freedom.

Synopsis When BABAK, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn’t show up to welcome his parents at Athens International airport, his mother PARI is forced to go on a quest that will take her much further than a mother’s search for a missing son.

Pari and her older husband FARROKH are ill-prepared to search for a fugitive in an intimidating and alien environment. They are devout Muslims, this is their first time abroad and they hardly speak any English. Soon they reach a dead-end when they discover that their son never even started his studies, was involved with radical anarchist groups (possibly even worse than that) and is most probably dead. And yet when Farrokh commands their return back to their family in Iran, Pari does the unthinkable; she escapes to continue the search alone.

Following the steps of her rebellious son, she uses everything and everyone, from a dedicated feminist activist to a corrupt police detective, to reach the darkest corners of the city, as well as the hidden depths of her own soul.

And when she has no choice but to accept the loss, she is left with her own awakened craving for freedom and the will to pursue it.

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Director’s Statement Pari is a story about freedom that comes, as freedom always does, at the highest of costs, a roller-coaster journey of self-discovery as, step by step, she loses all the safety nets won by her past compromises. Everything familiar is destroyed, either by the harshness of the circumstances or by her own free choice. Is this a senseless act of self-destruction or a necessary stage before rebirth?

Pari is a stranger in a strange land who is as much terrified by this new world as she is attracted to it. At its core, this is a story about a new life born out of the struggle to accept great loss and overcome desperation.

On a personal note, this is also a story about my new life in my new country, Greece, and my freedom to live the life and make the films that I want.

Pari is the name of my mother.

Director’s Profile After directing shorts, Siamak worked extensively between 20042011 as Assistant Director (1st & 2nd) and Production Manager on various feature films, TV series and documentaries. He also has occasionally worked as an actor, both in theatre and cinema.

His last short film Cavo d’Oro had its world premiere in Locarno Competition (2012) and was nominated for the Best Short Film in the Greek Film Academy Awards. The movie was theatrically distributed in Greece and continues its successful international festival career.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Heretic was founded in 2013 by producers Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas in order to create an independent platform for the development and production of author-driven feature films.

The co-founders of Heretic produced some of the most successful recent Greek art-house titles, including Wasted Youth (Rotterdam, Toronto, Guadalajara, BAFICI and more), Boy Eating the Bird’s Food (Karlovy Vary, Toronto Rotterdam and more) and The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Berlinale, Toronto, Thessaloniki). They have been trained at the Binger, EAVE and ACE and they have both been

Producers on the Move, representing Greece in 2013 and 2014.

Their projects have participated in international co-production markets like CineMart, Berlinale Co-production Market, New Cinema Network and Thessaloniki Crossroads, while they have been selected for major development programmes such as Torino Film Lab and the Berlinale Residency.

Current Status We are currently in development, at second draft stage.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To establish contacts with Dutch producers for potential coproduction, as well as financiers and distributors.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The short film Cavo d’Oro (2012).

Siamak Etemadi

Konstantinos Kontovrakis

Director Siamak Etemadi Producer Konstantinos Kontovrakis Screenwriter Siamak Etemadi Based on an original screenplay Languages Greek/Farsi/English Genre Drama Format HD Running time 100 minutes Target audience Woman aged 35-55 Total budget â‚Ź875.000

Partners attached Co-producer: Le Bureau (France) Present at HFM Co-Pro Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Siamak Etemadi

Contact Konstantinos Kontovrakis Heretic Promitheos 18 Chalandri 15235 Greece Tel: +30-210-6005260 Email: konstantinos@heretic.gr www.heretic.gr 2014 HFM Co-Pro 21

Pretenders Metafoorid

Amrion Production (Estonia)

Anna and Juhan seize the opportunity to pretend they are better than others, even as their game brings them to the brink of self-destruction.

Synopsis Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, ANNA and JUHAN retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends.

After witnessing an accident on the rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband - a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.

Director’s Statement Pretenders is a chamber drama about relationships which, as the story evolves, transforms into a thriller mystery. The film flirts with the psychoanalytical approach to human consciousness, whereby at the core of personality lie the unconscious and conflicting parts of the personality. When they lose balance between each other, the situation can lead to neuroses and primitive defense mechanisms.

I am looking for reflections, equivocal objects, transformations, mise-en-scène and deep focus, which would metaphorically, yet minimalistically, support the situation the characters are in as well as their evolution.

Director / Screenwriter’s Profile Vallo Toomla is a young promising talent in Estonian cinema. He has played roles both in front and behind the camera but is best known as a director. Vallo has directed several short films and an animated film.

Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis are a writing team who have extensive experience in writing for television dramas, including Revenge Office, a top of the rating crime/comedy series which was sold as a format to FremantleMedia. Livia and Andris have also already penned three feature film screenplays.

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Production Company / Producer’s Profile Amrion is a production company founded by Riina Sildos in 2003 to produce high quality feature films and documentaries for local and international cinema and TV markets. The main aim is to make international co-productions with young promising talents and already acclaimed directors. What all the projects have in common is the filmmakers’ personal vision, both with regard to subject matter as well as visual aspects. As the former head of the Estonian Film Foundation Riina Sildos has extensive knowledge and experience in international financing and marketing and is one of the most recognized personalities in the Baltic film industry. She established Baltic Films, the promotional body for marketing Baltic Films, and Baltic Event which is the largest co-production market in the region. She is a national representative of Estonia at EAVE and a member of ACE and European Film Academy.

Current Status Pre-production. We have selected the main cast (four actors) and made a test shoot with a few scenes from the script. Working on final draft of the script.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To find co-producers, sales agents.

Vallo Toomla

Riina Sildos

Andris Feldmanis & Livia Ulman

Director Vallo Toomla Producer Riina Sildos Screenwriters Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis Based on an original screenplay Language Estonian Genre Drama Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Adolescents and above Total budget â‚Ź850.000 Total budget in place â‚Ź570.200

Partners attached Estonian Film Institute, Estonian Cultural Endowment, MEDIA Present at HFM Co-Pro Riina Sildos, Vallo Toomla

Contact Riina Sildos Amrion Production Nurme 45 Tallinn 11616 Estonia Tel: +372-50-48985 Email: info@amrion.ee www.amrion.ee 2014 HFM Co-Pro 23

Something Useful İşe yarar bir şey

Sinefilm (Turkey)

Leyla, a lawyer, and Canan, a nursing student, meet on a long distance train. Yavuz, a paralyzed man, is waiting for a nurse to help him die.

When they get together, Leyla is now the poet, Yavuz is the admirer of Leyla, Canan is Yavuz’s executioner.

Synopsis LEYLA (42), a lawyer, takes the train from Ankara to Izmir for her high school reunion dinner. On the train she meets CANAN (21), a nursing student going to Izmir for a job interview. From the girl’s uptight behaviour and a phone conversation she overhears, Leyla senses that something is troubling Canan. They get into a deep conversation when Canan brings up a story experienced by an acquaintance of hers who was asked for help by his paralyzed friend to end his life. But he couldn’t kill him.

During the trip, Canan suddenly leaves the train at a station. But then she jumps back on in tears. Leyla understands that Canan is traveling to Izmir not to go to a job interview but to assist in the suicide of the paralyzed man she spoke of earlier. Leyla offers to accompany her for this difficult visit.

They visit the paralyzed YAVUZ (45) at his home where he is waiting for the nurse who will end his life. Yavuz is amazed when he sees Leyla: having expected a nurse, he finds himself face to face with Leyla, a poet he admires.

An intense discussion begins between the trio. For Yavuz, who expects to die without any farewells, this last afternoon has turned 24 HFM Co-Pro 2014

into a very pleasurable one. As the daylight fades, the mood is one of life rather than death and of poetry rather than reality. While Canan is preparing the injection, Leyla suggests coming back again the next day. Hesitant at first, Yavuz eventually takes her offer.

That evening, Leyla leaves Canan in a hotel room and sets off for the high school reunion dinner. After her first visit to Yavuz and before the second one tomorrow, the reunion dinner now becomes a ‘last supper’ for Leyla.

Director’s Statement Why does a poet (Leyla) decide to accompany a man (Yavuz) who wants to die and a young nurse (Canan) who has taken on the difficult task of killing him? To help them? Because she is fascinated by them? Because she is fascinated by death? Because she is curious? Or is it because she wants to do something useful?

Would Leyla have done something more useful by accompanying Canan and spending time with Yavuz? Why does the artist continually seek to do something useful, when art exists as a powerful and magical tool for understanding life? I’ll be searching for some answers in the continuous movement of the train, in the crowds of the city of Izmir, in Yavuz’s calm apartment and at Leyla’s reunion dinner which turns into the venue for the “last supper”.

Director’s Profile Pelin Esmer was born in Istanbul. After she majored in Sociology she worked as a first assistant director on various films. She founded Sinefilm where she has produced and directed her films The Play, 10 to 11 and Watchtower. Her films premiered at festivals such as Toronto, San Sebastian, Tribeca and Rotterdam and received many international awards. In 2007, she was invited to the Cinefoundation Festival de Cannes. The directors of the world’s leading film festivals selected her as one of the world’s most promising directors in the book Take 100: The Future of Film: 100 New Directors, published by Phaidon.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Focusing on independent film projects, Sinefilm was founded by director Pelin Esmer in 2005 where she produced her featurelength films together with producer colleagues Tolga Esmer and Nida Karabol Akdeniz. Among Sinefilm productions are the highly praised award-winning features The Play, 10 to 11 and Watchtower, all directed by Pelin Esmer.

10 to 11 and Watchtower are both produced as Turkish/German/ French co-productions where Sinefilm has been the delegate production company. 10 to 11 was a co-production with ARTE France whereas Watchtower was supported by the Turkish Cultural Ministry, CNC, Medienboard Berlin-Brandendurg and Eurimages. Both of the films have been released in Turkey, France, Germany and the US. Sinefilm (Tolga Esmer) also line-produced a four-episode ARTE France documentary on Istanbul.

Current Status Financing.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Meeting with potential co-producers, sales agents and potential financiers.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Watchtower (2012).

Pelin Esmer

Dilde Mahalli

Director Pelin Esmer Producer Pelin Esmer Associate Producer Dilde Mahalli Screenwriters Baris Bicakci, Pelin Esmer Based on an original screenplay Language Turkish Genre Drama Format HD Running time 90-100 minutes Target audience Arthouse Total budget €800.000

Total budget in place €240.000 Partners attached Turkish Ministry of Culture, Hubert Bals Fund (Script and Project Development) Present at HFM Co-Pro Pelin Esmer, Dilde Mahalli

Contact Pelin Esmer Sinefilm Rıza Pasa sk. 10/4 Istanbul 34710 Turkey Tel: +90-216-4501141 / +90-539-5966182 Email: info@sinefilm.com www.sinefilm.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 25

Tacit Wisdom Hiljainen Tieto

Periferia Productions (Finland) Götafilm (Sweden) Pomor Film (Norway)

A true story of passion and betrayal set against the growing hysteria of a lethal witch hunt.

Synopsis The story of ANNA (16) takes place on Åland Island in 1666, just as the most widespread and systematic witch hunts in Scandinavian history were beginning. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil, and seven of them were executed.

For Judge PSILANDER, who has mastered the newest witch theories of the time, the trials are meant to cleanse the island of superstition, and to let science and common sense prevail. The main character, the intelligent yet stubborn Anna, is afforded an intimate view of the events, having just started working as a maid in the judge’s house.

To Anna’s misfortune, she falls intensely in love with her friend RAKEL’s husband ELIAS, but his infatuation with her quickly fades. A hurt and jealous Anna decides to get her revenge and falsely reports Rakel to Judge Psilander.

It’s only when Rakel is arrested, and things get out of hand, that Anna realises the gravity of her behaviour. This is the beginning of her lonely battle, a desperate attempt to right her wrongdoing.

Director’s Statement Tacit Wisdom is a story about guilt and atonement, and the search for one’s identity. The historical era comes alive with all the colours, noises, dirt and smells of a 17th Century village. The camera moves close to people, catching the senses and emotions. As a contrast to all this, the Åland island landscape provides an amazing visual setting. On a rocky island surrounded by the sea with its autumn storms, a person, with her fears and hopes, is tiny and frail.

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Director’s Profile Saara Cantell is a director and screenwriter. She has written and directed numerous short films as well as five feature films – Unna & Nuuk (2006), the award-winning features Heartbeats (2010) and The Stars Above (2012) and recent box-office hits The Two and Only (2013) and Jill and Joy (2014), which became Finland’s most watched film after its first weekend. Cantell was voted Finland’s Best Film Director in 2010, and she was also awarded a State Film Arts Prize jointly with the cinematographer Marita Hällfors. Her film Heartbeats received 7 nominations at the Jussi Awards, plus a nomination for a best director.

Production Company Profile / Producer’s Profile Periferia Productions acts as a creator, producer and co-producer of feature films, documentaries and tv-series. Producers Markku Flink and Outi Rousu have a long experience of international coproductions. They have co-produced films and tv-series with the Nordic countries, UK, Germany, Ireland, France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Luxemburg and Japan. Their films have been screened in all five continents and have received numerous national and international awards. Markku Flink is member of ACE. He graduated as a documentary film director in Norway in 1993 and as an EAVE producer in 2004. In 1999, Flink founded a regional film fund and a film commission in Oulu. He acted as the Executive Director of a regional film foundation POEM 1999-2008.

He was a member of the board of the National Cinema Council and is an active member of the Central Organisation of the Finnish Film Producers.

Current Status Finances in place: 44 %. The next version of the script will be available in September 2014. Main cast and crew are mostly attached to the project. The first day of principal photography is planned to be in Autumn 2015.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are looking for a co-producer (post-production), pre-sales, distribution and financing.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film The Stars Above (2012).

Saara Cantell

Markku Flink

Leena Virtanen

Director Saara Cantell Producer Markku Flink Screenwriters Leena Virtanen, Saara Cantell Based on an original screenplay Languages Swedish/Finnish Genre Drama Format Digital Running time 110 minutes Target audience Audience interested in historical drama, but given the film’s young cast and focus on the supernatural, it has the possibility to cross over to a younger target group Total budget €3.145.000 Total budget in place €1.383.800

Partners attached Financiers: Finnish Film Foundation, the Government of Åland, Church Media Foundation, Svenska Kulturfondet (Swedish Cultural Foundation).

Broadcasting companies: YLE TV1 (Finland), Swedish YLE. Distributors: Nordisk Film (Nordic countries) Sales Company Trust Nordisk Present at HFM Co-Pro Markku Flink, Saara Cantell

Contact Markku Flink Perieria Productions Honkatie 8 06100 Porvoo Finland Tel: +358-40-5166504 Email: markku@periferiaproductions.fi www.periferiaproductions.fi 2014 HFM Co-Pro 27

Trade Roads Entertainment (Ireland)

Based on his own awardwinning play Trade, screenwriter Mark O ‘Halloran is writing a powerful film of passion and shame to be realised by new UK director David Roddham (Coward).

Synopsis COLM is 54, married with two children and comes from a lower middle class background. His entire working life has been spent in the north docks at a cargo company where he is now a middle manager. Outwardly staid and ineffectual, he also, occasionally, cruises for gay sex in public places around the north docks and the city centre. These episodes have been sporadic, compartmentalised and functional in nature; simple money/sex exchanges.

However, in the aftermath of the devastating death of his father, he has a brief but violent encounter with a young rent boy, JAY, that affects him deeply and brings with it sexual, moral and emotional awakenings that threaten to pull his life apart.

As Colm is reluctantly drawn into Jay’s chaotic life, his own sense of identity begins to fracture. He struggles to reconcile himself to the passionate feelings he experiences for the younger man and to his own duties as both father and husband. His already tense relationship with his son SHANE (a similar age to Jay) explodes into outright animosity, whilst his relationship with his wife descends into guilt-wracked silence and pain.

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honesty compels him to confess all to his son, thus precipitating the collapse of his home-life. The shock and shame of the emotions he feels then boils over into an act of shocking violence that will change everything for Colm and all those who know him.

Director’s Statement Trade is a sparse and intense contemporary drama that dares you to look at everything head on, and leaves you with a feeling that just might make you feel uncomfortable in your own skin. Fear of losing control is the central theme of the film. This theme is reflected in Colm’s central journey, as he slowly unpeels through the story. A key tonal reference for performance (and to an extent visually) for Trade to me is Steve McQueen’s Hunger. What is so striking about the film is its absolute starkness and rawness. It’s intimate, but still cinematic. It’s poetic, but unpretentious. It’s beautiful, even when regarding images of unsurpassed ugliness. Trade will be shot with an elegant, gliding camera. Using the full width of the widescreen frame to achieve painterly compositions, allowing the actors to move with the full depth and width of each frame.

Director / Screenwriter’s Profile David Roddham is an emerging British filmmaker, whose extensive career has spanned 15 years of on-set special effects, with experience in over 28 films. Recently, David co-wrote, produced and directed Coward, a short film based on a collection of true stories of Irish volunteer soldiers in WWI. Mark O’Halloran is an award-winning Irish born screenwriter, actor and playwright. He has written screenplays for critically acclaimed Irish films Adam and Paul (2004), Garage (2007) and the TV series Prosperity. His most recent play, Trade, won the New Play Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, 2011.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Roads Entertainment is an innovative film production company established by successful entrepreneur Danielle Ryan and acclaimed Irish producer Alan Maher. The company is focused on developing and producing ambitious feature films and documentaries, aimed at the international theatrical market while exploring new distribution models.

David Roddham

Supported by the Roads Luxury Group’s team of financial and legal experts, this is a full–service production company taking projects from conception to exploitation. This enables the company to grow in an enterprising and pragmatic fashion.

Roads Entertainment is talent-led and each project ranges across a variety of genres, each designed to reach the widest audience possible.

Roads has recently completed its first feature documentary, After the Dance, for the BBC’s flagship documentary strand Storyville, and supported by the Irish Film Board.

Currently in production is the major feature documentary Being Ap, financed by BBC Films, Universal Pictures, Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen and in partnership with Moneyglass Films.

Current Status Final stages of development. Screenplay completed. Planning to shoot first quarter 2015. Attaching cast to lead roles and securing production funding. Scouting locations, compiling storyboards and introducing project to appropriate distributors and sales agent.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform This will be the first opportunity to present Trade to a group of trusted industry peers at an international level and to engage in robust discussion in relation to the project. We hope to secure a co– production partner, primarily from the Netherlands and gain interest from European funding bodies.

Alan Maher

Mark O’ Halloran

Director David Roddham Producer Alan Maher Screenwriter Mark O’ Halloran Based on a stage play of the same name Trade by Mark O’Halloran Language English Genre Drama Format 35mm Film, Anamorphic Running time 90 minutes Target audience Upscale arthouse aged 25-49 Total budget €1.300.000 Total budget in place Irish Film Board – amount tbc

Partners attached Irish Film Board, Portico Capital Present at HFM Co-Pro Alan Maher, David Roddham

Previous work available on Festival Scope The short film Coward (2012).

Contact Alan Maher Roads Entertainment 19 - 22 Dame Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353-1-6755279 Email: alan.maher@roads.co www.roads.co/film 2014 HFM Co-Pro 29

Upstream En amont du fleuve

Man’s Films Productions (Belgium), SNG Film (The Netherlands)

Two half-brothers become acquainted while travelling upstream on their dead father’s boat, on a river in the Cambodian wilderness.

Synopsis On board a little tub of a boat, HOMER and JOÉ, both in their fifties, sail up a river in the Cambodian jungle. Until the recent death of their father, they did not know about each other’s existence. Yet, they are half-brothers. SEAN, an enigmatic Irish adventurer, joins them.

Upstream is a psychological adventure where these modest and solitary men will reveal some of their secrets, and their hopes perhaps, and where blood ties, whether they like it or not, will unite them.

Director’s Statement For this new project Upstream I wanted to try something new. I asked Hubert Minganelli (author of the book I adapted for Noir Ocean), to write a scenario for me. I gave him the premise: two men in their fifties sailing upstream on a boat in the middle of the jungle.

A third man also in his fifties joins them during the voyage.

I knew these three men. Three actors with whom I had worked, with whom I wanted to work again, that I wanted to bring together. To write a tailor-made scenario for Olivier Gourmet, Sergi Lopez and John Lynch.

The lack of words, the lack of verbal communication interests me, and can be found in a number of my films.

My characters, Homer and Joé, half-brothers find it difficult to talk about themselves. The first, traumatised by an absent father who ignored his existence, the second by the violence of this same man.

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Director’s Profile Marion Hänsel was born in 1949 in Marseille and grew up in Antwerp. She set up her own company Man’s Films in 1977 in order to make her first short film Equilibres. The Bed was her first feature film. She also produced all of the 11 films she directed, such as Dust, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Sounds of Sand, Noir Océan, and Tenderness, winning many international prizes.

Retrospectives of her work are regularly organised all over the world.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile The company was established in 1977 by Marion Hänsel. Man’s Films Productions produced all the films directed by Marion Hänsel.

It also produced or co-produced features and documentaries by other directors, e.g. No Man’s Land by Danis Tanovic, Los Caminos de la Memoria by José Luis Peñafuerte, Diego Star by Frédéric Pelletier and Atlantic. by Jan-Willem van Ewijk.

Current Status Financing stage. Cambodian recess arranged for October 2014.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Finding co-producers, distributors, television pre-sales.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film La Tendresse (2013).

Marion Hänsel

Digna Sinke

Monique Marnette

Director Marion Hänsel Producers Marion Hänsel, Digna Sinke Screenwriters Hubert Mingarelli, Marion Hänsel Based on an original screenplay Language French Genre Psychological adventure Format HD – 2:35 Running time 80 minutes Target audience Adults Total budget €1.995.650 Total budget in place €1.112.150

Partners attached Fédération WallonieBruxelles, RTBF (Belgian Television), Belgian Tax Shelter Present at HFM Co-Pro Marion Hänsel, Digna Sinke, Monique Marnette

Contact Marion Hänsel Man’s Films Productions Avenue Mostinck 65 Bruxelles 1150 Belgium Tel: +32-2-7717137 Email: mansfilmsprod@gmail.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 31

10 Songs for Charity De Productie (The Netherlands), Minds Meet (Belgium)

Five black women live illegally in the Netherlands, working as a cook, dancers or prostitutes. They endure many humiliations with humor and resilience until it becomes too much, and they revolt.

Synopsis When Nigerian CHARITY (24) leaves her country to go to Holland, she’s forced to take her teen sister HAPPY (16) with her. Charity is full of ambition and determined to become a rich woman. She is also fully aware that she will be earning her money as an illegal prostitute in the business of the ruthless MADAM DOLORES. Happy is young and naïve. She doesn’t realise what awaits her.

From the moment they arrive in Europe the sisters are watched continuously by the assiduous police officer DAVE who sees it as his mission to fight human trafficking. They come to live in a bleak, anonymous suburb where they share a flat with three other women: the Brazilian FELICIA (45) earning her living as a dominatrix at Madam Dolores, the Dominican ESPERANZA (32), working as a nightclub dancer and the Surinamese PATIENCE (40) who sells home-made meals. All are yearning for a legal, normal life and very reluctant to accept these two poor African whores in their midst, as if they were degrading them all.

While Charity is willing to sacrifice anything in order to achieve her goal, Happy on the other hand, resists more and more the brutal exploitation by Madam. Madam gets totally enraged and has Happy beaten up so badly that she loses an eye. Charity has to choose between her sister and her dream of wealth. And police officer Dave puts pressure on her to testify against Madam, offering nothing but a one-way ticket back home in return.

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Finally the women of the flat offer their solidarity and help as they all realise that they need each other to survive in this dark world.

In the end they revolt openly against their destiny, singing a furious but exhilarating song from the roof of the flat, joined by the whole neighbourhood.

Director’s Statement In the black neighbourhood where I live, I often meet them. Black women from Africa or Latin America who live in the Netherlands illegally, working as cleaners, caretakers or prostitutes. Exploited, humiliated and hounded. By pimps, customers and police alike.

Still, they appear anything but beaten down. Streetwise and shrewd.

Bold and brazen. Used to taking punches. I admire their vitality, their resilience and inventiveness. They inspire me. They are the source of this film.

I want to capture their energy and musicality in this film. That’s why I decided to tell their story in a modern musical. With music which belongs to them and encompasses their history: Soul, R&B, Latin and Afrobeat. The women reveal their inner lives in the songs.

In a raw urban musical that has to be harrowing and painful and dares to be ugly. A musical version of La Haine, but with colour and humour.

Director’s Profile Karin grew up in French-speaking Belgium and studied French literature and Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. She makes fiction and documentaries. Her work has a strong sense of urgency, a strong social commitment and inventiveness in style. Her documentary Birthplace Unknown won the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA. Her first fiction Great! won the Silver Bear for Best Short at the Berlinale 2004. Her first full length feature Bolletjes Blues (2006), an urban musical about a drug dealer in love, won a Golden Calf for Best Music and was nominated for Best Scenario, Best Main Actor and Production Design in the Netherlands.

Fotograaf Patricia Steur

Karin Junger

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Annemiek van Gorp and René Goossens have been working together in De Productie since September 1998.

De Productie produces arthouse drama and documentaries with a strong social involvement and an artistic challenge. We regularly participate in co-productions and we work with both budding talent and experienced directors. We try, where possible, to bring the two together. De Productie does not only intend to be a meeting place for local and national talent, but also a reliable partner in international co-productions. Our main focus is on films that stand out through their chosen form and the appeal of their courageous, sometimes controversial subject matter, and that successfully balance form, content and emotion.

We are looking for universal stories, told from the heart, that are as multifaceted and colourful as the filmmakers themselves.

Filmmakers who have the potential to appeal to a wide audience, far beyond the borders of the Dutch market.

Current Status Script 2nd draft, start of project development.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Finding co-producers, funds, pre-sales, sales agent.

Annemiek van Gorp

René Goossens

Director Karin Junger Producers Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens, Tomas Leijers Screenwriters Karin Junger, Brigit Hillenius Based on an original screenplay Languages English/Dutch/Spanish Genre Musical/Drama Format Digital Running time 90 minutes Target audience First: women aged 2665. Second: general arthouse-oriented public

Total budget €1.648.000 Total budget in place €38.000 Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund Present at HFM Co-Pro René Goossens, Karin Junger

Previous work available on Festival Scope The documentary Sexy Money (2014).

Contact René Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp De Productie Gashouderstraat 9 3061 EH Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31-651-513744 / + 31-614-535162 Email: info@deproductie.nl www.deproductie.nl 2014 HFM Co-Pro 33

Forbidden Love Oude Liefde

Waterland Film (The Netherlands)

When two divorced and remarried sixty-year-olds meet again at their son’s funeral, their love resurfaces, but it isn’t long before their autumnal puppy love spins their family out of control.

Synopsis FER and FRANSJE haven’t seen each other since their tragic divorce. After more than two decades they finally meet again at their son’s funeral, both supported by their new partners, the much younger, slightly hysterical NATHALIE and the wise but passionate Italian CESARE. Without really knowing why, Fer calls Fransje after the funeral, which to their surprise leads to a date. It’s an emotional meeting, full of exposed and subdued emotions. After the first date a second one follows. And then… a first kiss. They decide this should never happen again.

In the meantime, their two adult daughters are both struggling with love in their own dysfunctional but seemingly lighthearted way. HILDE changes jobs and men like most people change their underwear and recently acquired a new position at a pet crematory run by “a very handsome man in his 50s”. TESS is trying to re-enter the dating world and luckily finds herself assured of the unsolicited advice of JOHAN, her fresh ex-husband. She is determined to handle her divorce a million times better than her parents did, but doesn’t realise her ambivalent relationship with Johan is very confusing to their two young children. Both daughters are happy their parents at least talk to each other again, as they still vividly remember their dramatic divorce.

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A series of secret dates follow and the love between Fer and Fransje starts to resurface ever more seriously. After a while they decide to drift along and see where it leads them. It isn’t long before the inevitable happens and their autumnal puppy love is discovered by their granddaughter MYRTHE. Soon Nathalie, Cesare, Tess and Hilde are informed and react with a mixture of shock, grief and shame. When the cocktail of bereavement, relived tragic divorce and ever-so-unsuccessful quest for love starts to spiral out of control, the two lovers are put on the spot by their bewildered family…

Director’s Statement With Forbidden Love we intent to make a contemporary drama, provoking but not dreary, a realistic, humorous portrayal of how modern relationships work. At its core is a painful event, the death of a grown-up child. This leads the family relations between parent and child to be turned upside down. Especially in a time when traditional family relations are hard to find, this will be a story many can identify with. We are looking for the right balance between emotions we can relate to, playfulness, and wry humour.

Dialogue will play an important role in the film, but not at the cost of its visual aspect. This doesn’t mean we want extreme locations or spectacular camera work. What we want to do is to visualise a contemporary, recognizable world.

Director’s Profile Nicole van Kilsdonk graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 1991. She directed television films such as Zadelpijn and Ochtendzwemmers (nominated for the 2000 Dutch Film Critics Award). With the successful adolescent drama How to Survive Myself, Van Kilsdonk showed her talent in working with young actors. In 2004 she won a Golden Calf for her television drama Making Waves. In 2011 she received the Cinekid Award for her endearing youth film Taking Chances. The feature film In the Heart written by Peer Wittenbols, will be released in January 2015. In the summer of 2014, her feature film Ventoux by writer Bert Wagendorp will be shot in France.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Waterland Film produced the feature film Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole. At the Berlinale 2012, it won the Best First Feature Award and the Best Youth Film Award. The film was the Dutch entry for the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and won the EFA European Discovery Award and the EFA Young Audience Award. Recent coproductions include The Third Side of the River by Célina Murga, (selected for the 2014 Berlinale), Milagros Mumenthaler’s Back to Stay (Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress in Locarno 2011) and Bullhead by Michaël R. Roskam (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2012). The family film Life according to Nino by Simone van Dusseldorp will open Cinekid 2014. In January 2015 the feature film In the Heart by Nicole van Kilsdonk will be released in the Dutch theatres. Currently in development are co-productions Disappearance by Boudewijn Koole and Sleep by Jan-Willem van Ewijk.

Current Status Script in development.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Looking for co-production partners, financing partners and sales agent.

Nicole van Kilsdonk

Peer Wittenbols

Ineke Kanters

Jan van der Zanden

Director Nicole van Kilsdonk Producers Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden Guusje van Deuren Screenwriter Peer Wittenbols Based on an original screenplay Language Dutch Genre Tragicomedy Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Aged 30+, mainly female

Total budget €1.535.000 Total budget in place €57.500 Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund Present at HFM Co-Pro Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden, Peer Wittenbols, Guusje van Deuren

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Taking Chances (2011).

The film In the Heart is available upon request to the producer.

Contact Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden Waterland Film Moermanskade 111 1013 BC Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31-207-630663 Email: mail@waterlandfilm.nl www.waterlandfilm.nl 2014 HFM Co-Pro 35

Hairdresser’s Salon Beatrix Kapsalon Beatrix

BosBros (The Netherlands)

A story about three women from three generations, each at a turning point in their lives. Each wants to stay in control, but they all discover along the way how to let go.

Synopsis MARGOT (42) can’t accept the fact that her husband WILLEM wants a divorce. Her mother TRIX (69) doesn’t want to close her hairdressing salon and does her best to keep the business open.

ROMY (11), a bit chubby, hides from all the troubles in her life, her maturing body, her parent’s divorce, her faltering relationship with her father and from the school performance pressure laid upon her by her mother. But she can’t hide forever. If she wants to be happy, she must do something!

Grandmother Trix is very strict. Order and tidiness are important to her and she’s also cynical and sarcastic. She doesn’t mind having children around, but only if they behave well and do as they are told.

Since Romy was a baby she would stay over at grandmother’s place and play in the box in the corner of the salon, but now Trix would rather have her upstairs as “Romy is a big one these days”. She can be a bit harsh when dealing with her loved ones.

But thank God for EMINE, the youngest employee at the salon, who is a big support for Trix and is really sweet to Romy.

Trix is almost seventy years old and gradually things are going wrong. After Emine moves away Romy begins to notice the “errors” and also sees a change in her grandmother’s behaviour. Trix is becoming more relaxed, is sweeter, softer and a bit crazy. While Romy sees the positive side of her grandmother’s slowly developing dementia, her mother Margot sees nothing but decline.

After a while Trix can no longer hide the fact that she needs help.

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is placed in a nursing home. Romy is scared to show her school results to her mother so she decides to run away. Away from all of her problems. She takes Trix to the beach - the beach and the sea which her grandmother wants to see so badly…

Director’s Statement After Winky’s Horse and Where is Winky’s Horse, Tamara Bos has again come up with a wonderful idea for a film. It’s a small but touching and beautiful story that will appeal to audiences of all ages. The strength of the characters Tamara has created is that they are full of emotion, making them real and recognizable. And although they are vulnerable, there is always room for a laugh. It’s a film full of adventures and surprises that doesn’t avoid social issues such as growing old, being a hard-working single mother and a girl’s passage into womanhood. We would like to do some more research into dementia. We want to get as close to the characters as possible and include original and lifelike details.

Director / Screenwriter’s Profile Mischa Kamp studied communication before turning to filmmaking.

After directing several shorts, documentaries, series and TV films for Dutch television she directed her first feature film, the wonderful children’s movie Winky’s Horse (2005) and in 2007 the sequel Where is Winky’s Horse. Her latest film Boys (2014) is a great success at international film festivals.

Since 1994 Tamara Bos has worked as a full-time (script)writer. She is also mother of three children, a daughter and two sons. In April 1999, she received the LIRA Writers’ Award for the scripts for the children’s drama series Class Dismissed. The script of Winky’s Horse received a Golden Calf for Best Screenplay at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2005.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile BosBros has set the standard for high-quality film and television productions in the Netherlands since 1989. Burny Bos and his team have also presented Dutch youth films and youth television series abroad and have won many awards in the process. The BosBros productions are timeless and therefore great entertainment for each new generation of children and their parents. Working closely together with the best screenwriters and directors, but at the same time on the look-out for new talent, BosBros has a proven track record in producing classics such as The Flying Liftboy, Minoes, Winky’s Horse, Alfie, the Little Werewolf and Wiplala.

Current Status Script development.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We’re looking for financing and co-production partners.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Winky’s Horse (2005).

Mischa Kamp

Tamara Bos

Burny Bos

Jolande Junte

Director Mischa Kamp Producer Burny Bos Jolande Junte Screenwriter Tamara Bos Based on an original screenplay Language Dutch Genre Drama Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Family

Total budget €1.200.000 approximately Total budget in place €35.100 Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund development Present at HFM Co-Pro Burny Bos, Jolande Junte, Mischa Kamp

Contact Burny Bos BosBros Frederiksplein 43 1017 XL Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31-205-244030 Email: hanneke@bosbros.com www.bosbros.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 37

Playboy Priest Playboy Priester

Rinkel Film (The Netherlands)

The true story of a playboy priest who lives by the motto ‘You can sin as long as you’re really sorry afterwards’, spending alms on brothels and bars. But only God is untouchable.

Synopsis Inspired by the life of Joep Haffmans, the true story of the rise and fall of a playboy priest. After being educated in a seminary which teaches that you can sin as long as you’re really sorry, Haffmans moves easily between Sunday Mass, brothel and bar. How can he warn his flock against life’s temptations if he hasn’t experienced them himself? When he starts spending collection plate money on his partying with drugs and women, and selling church treasures, it’s clear to everybody but Haffmans that things have got out of control…

Director’s Statement We get on a roller coaster ride that we want to last forever, until we see the brick wall looming in the distance and we can’t get the lap bar to unlock. There’s a thin line between “carpe diem” and the kind of excess that will destroy one’s immortal soul, and a man of god should tread lightly. ‘Memento mori!’ we shout at the screen, but Haffmans will not listen.

This film will not present him as a one-dimensional priest, squandering church money on caviar and whiskey, and fucking everything that moves (though there will be some of that...), Playboy Priest is a character piece about someone who loves the taste of power, but cannot handle it. Not at all.

And we, the audience, will watch, enthralled and in horror, in morbid fascination.

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Director’s Profile Arne Toonen is a director, artist and owner of online gallery Prints & The Revolution. After a few years successfully directing commercials for different brands, Arne co-founded HazazaH Pictures in 2004, an independent film production company specializing in the creation and production of documentaries, short and feature films. Arne has a keen eye for characterization and infuses his work with a signature comic sense. His feature film Dik Trom (2010) was awarded a Golden Film and his 2012 feature Black Out earned a Golden Calf nomination.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Founded in 1997 by producer Reinier Selen, Rinkel Film is an independent film production company located in the artistic heart of Amsterdam. Our philosophy is to produce highquality, character-driven feature films and television drama, often inspired by true stories, and always in collaboration with (international) co-producers. After graduating from Art College with a major in documentary film directing, Selen decided he wanted to produce instead. This resulted in his first film, the critically acclaimed short The Bicycle (1998). Since then, Rinkel has produced a dozen feature films, such as Backslide, Nothing Personal, Süskind and Cool Kids Don’t Cry, that have solidified Rinkel’s reputation inside and outside of the Netherlands. In 2014 Rinkel Film is releasing four new feature films: Accused, Love Eternal, Secrets of War and Brand New-U. Current Status At script stage.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To present Playboy Priest to financiers and other decision makers, both in the Netherlands and internationally. We believe this project to have strong international appeal and aim for a crossborder distribution basis in which we would like to involve our international partners to-be as early as possible.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The feature film Black Out (2012).

Arne Toonen

Reinier Selen

Director Arne Toonen Producer Reinier Selen Screenwriters Jan Eilander, Michel Sluysmans Based on the book In Gods Naam

by Henk Langenberg & Maarten van Laarhoven Language Dutch Genre Drama/Black comedy Format Digital Running time 100 minutes Target audience Vocational to higher educated, aged 18-30, attracted by (tragicomic) dramas such as Blow and Amadeus.

Secondary target audience is 30-65 year olds interested in true-based stories and religious/social themes

Total budget €3.000.000 Total budget in place €489.750 Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Europe, Cinéart Co-producers HazazaH Pictures (The Netherlands), Tarantula sárl (Luxembourg), Ciné Cri de Coeur (Belgium) Present at HFM Co-Pro Reinier Selen, Arne Toonen

Contact Reinier Selen Rinkel Film Bremstraat 1-3 1031 EK Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31-206-163231 Email: info@rinkelfilm.com www.rinkelfilm.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 39

A Shining Flaw Een Schitterend Gebrek

Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (The Netherlands)

Disfigured by smallpox, Casanova’s first love flees to Amsterdam where she works as a veiled prostitute. When they meet again she realises she possesses a deeper understanding of love than Casanova ever will.

Synopsis In Amsterdam 1758, LUCIA, a renowned veiled courtesan known as Galathee, recognises a French diplomat as her greatest love, GIACOMO CASANOVA, who she knew sixteen years before. Without revealing her true identity, they again become acquainted. In a bid to seduce her, he explains how he has grown to distrust women because he was betrayed by his first love – Lucia. Lucia realises that it is the thought of her that is keeping him from truly loving anyone again.

The encounter evokes memories of her childhood, in Pasiano in 1742.

On the estate where her parents worked as servants, 14-year-old Lucia and 17-year-old Giacomo meet. It’s love at first sight. Leaving for Venice to become a diplomat, Giacomo promises to return and marry her next spring. She takes classes to prepare for life as a diplomat’s wife and in the spirit of the Enlightenment, focuses on intellect and reason. Tragically, a smallpox epidemic leaves her face deformed. When Giacomo returns for their wedding, she decides it would be better for his career to hide from him. Hoping he will forget about her, she begs her mother to tell Giacomo that she has betrayed him by taking off with another suitor.

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intellectual and erotic game. They become real lovers again. But in the end, when Lucia shows him her unveiled face, she realises that Giacomo will never be able to love her unconditionally and she leaves him again. With her unborn child she leaves for America, knowing that her troubled life has given her a deeper understanding of love than Casanova’s adventures ever can.

Director’s Statement Never once in my personal life, nor during my career as a photographer and short film director, have I been quite as captivated by both the subject matter and overwhelming visual approach of a book. Arthur Japin’s In Lucia’s Eyes encompasses everything I feel that a film should express and visualise: a passionate history of the life and love of a central character who is the exception to the rule.

A woman, one who is at the same time both adventurous and tragic, who manages to put her shortcomings to unique use and emerge triumphant in the game of love.

I do not want to make a typical historical costume drama. Rather, I want it to be instantly clear that we’re dealing with a fantasy world.

We will alternate between exterior locations and set models with a truly unique Dutch imprint. I intend to use extremely precise nonbaroque tropes and references to both the painting and architecture of the Dutch Golden Age painting.

Director’s Profile Mixing photo journalism with studio photography Erwin Olaf emerged on the international art scene in 1987, subsequently staging many prestigious exhibitions and awards. Film is also a very important medium for his art. His films have been screened at several leading museums and film festivals all around the world.

He won numerous international art and media prizes, such as Photographer of the Year in the International Colour Awards in 2006.

In 2008 he received a Lucie Award in the USA and in 2011 he won the prestigious Dutch State Prize of the Arts. He was also awarded Artist of the Year in the Netherlands in 2013.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Eyeworks Film &TV Drama is a film-and television drama producer with a portfolio consisting of many big titles including Academy Award-winning feature Antonia’s Line (1996), and many critically

acclaimed family films such as Crystal Bear winner Bluebird (2005), Scratches in the Table (1998), Mariken (2000), Polleke (2003) and The Letter for the King (2008). Stricken (2009) was a box-office hit with more than 1.2 million visitors and the historic epic 3D film Nova Zembla (2011), the New Kids films (2011, 2012, 2013) and The Happy Housewife (2010) also attracted large audiences. New Kids Turbo was a number one film in Germany. The Marathon (2012) won the national Press and Public Award and the thriller Daylight (2013) won a Rembrandt award. Jackie (2012) and The Dinner (2013) were selected for Toronto International Film Festival. In Autumn 2014 Wonderbroeders and Pak van mijn hart will be released. Since June 2014 Eyeworks has been part of Warner Bros.

Current Status We are developing the script with support of the Netherlands Film Fund. Broadcaster AVRO is on board.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are looking for international co-production partners.

Previous work available on Festival Scope Short films of Erwin Olaf.

Erwin Olaf

Arthur Japin

Judith Hees

Maarten Swart

Director Erwin Olaf Producers Judith Hees, Maarten Swart Screenwriter Arthur Japin Based on the novel In Lucia’s Eyes

by Arthur Japin Languages Dutch/Italian/and possibly English Genre Epic drama Format HD Running time 100 minutes Target audience Aged 20-50, especially female Total budget €3.250.000 Total budget in place €832.500

Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, AVRO, A-Film Benelux Present at HFM Co-Pro Judith Hees, Maarten Swart, Erwin Olaf

Contact Judith Hees, Maarten Swart Eyeworks Film & TV Drama Raamplein 1 1016 XK Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-206-661892 Email: judith.hees@eyeworks.tv, maarten.swart@eyeworks.tv www.eyeworks.tv 2014 HFM Co-Pro 41

To All Naked Men Ela jamie al rejal al urat

Bassam Chekhes Production (The Netherlands), Silkroad Production (France)

One night, Salman wakes up frightened. He must escape the investigation that was taking place in his dream, as he realises that he knows much more about the crime.

Synopsis The war in Syria is drawing to an end, the first reliable election due to be conducted against a backdrop of ruins. Nobody knows what political deals have been made in order to maintain unity, nor which laws will be applied.

One night the strong but secretive SALMAN wakes up frightened. He must escape the investigation that was taking place in his dream, as he realises that he knows a lot more about the crime that took place within it.

The hidden body is that of SALMA, his missing sister. Surprisingly, she now has a nine-year-old son, WAEL, who knows Salman well and welcomes him back to the family.

Salman is living alone. A few years ago, he succeeded in running away from Syria and settled on the outskirts of Beirut. He works as a seller, driving his rusty pickup and trading in anything that makes money. But these journeys never threaten his life as much as the ones in his sleep, as they begin to reveal the circumstances of his sister’s disappearance.

Director’s Statement I feel that we live in a time when our relationships and beliefs are being harshly judged, easily categorised and pushed toward extremism. So to protect our individuality we become less tolerant, more isolated, secretive and fearful.

Eleven years ago, the “are you with us or against us?” motto was created to drag governments into the war in Iraq. But today, this 42 HFM Co-Pro 2014

motto has made its way into our society’s institutions, and even into family life. But who do we refer to when we talk about “us”?

Today the war in Syria, as well as other conflicts in the region, is cultivating sectarian violence and ideological killing, but when both the killer and the victim come from the same family, how can we survive?

Director’s Profile Bassam Chekhes was born in Syria. He left his civil-engineering studies behind and moved to the Netherlands where he studied audio-visual art, graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

Being at art school enriched his passion for photography and filmmaking, but pushed him to learn about every technical aspect of the process. While studying he worked for numerous production companies, and collaborated on various projects with other artists and filmmakers.

He shot, directed and produced a dozen short films, the latest of which, Waiting for P.O. box, premiered at Cannes 2012 and became the first Syrian short to be selected for Cannes competition.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Behrooz Hashemian has a BA in Film Production from Hunter College City University, NY-USA. He produced Journey to the Sun (1999), directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, which received the Blue Angel Prize at the 1999 Berlinale, and Best Film, Best Director, Fipresci Prize and the Audience Award at the 1999 Istanbul Film Festival, among others. His other films are Summersalt in the Coffin (1997) by Dervis Zaimoglu and Manhattan by Numbers (1993) directed by Amir Naderi.

Current Status Development stage, third draft of script.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Our aim at the HFM Co-Production Platform is to continue presenting the project to international professionals and to explore new possibilities for collaborating with partners from different regions, we also would like to extend our network with a wider range of broadcasters, financiers, distributors, television and theatrical sales agents.

Previous work available on Festival Scope The short film Waiting for P.O. Box (2012).

Bassam Chekhes

Behrooz Hashemian

Director Bassam Chekhes Producer Behrooz Hashemian Screenwriter Bassam Chekhes Based on an original screenplay Language Arabic Genre Drama Format HD Running time 90 minutes Target audience Arthouse audience aged 25+ Total budget €900.000 Total budget in place €50.000

Partners attached AFAC (Arabic Fund For Culture And Art) (Lebanon), Ustaoğlu Production (Turkey) Present at HFM Co-Pro Bassam Chekhes, Behrooz Hashemian

Contact Bassam Chekhes Bassam Chekhes Production Staalstraat 4/III 1011 JL Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-655-506446 Email: sammyfilms@gmail.com 2014 HFM Co-Pro 43

Tonio NL Film and TV (The Netherlands)

Tonio deals with the loss of a 22-year-old son, the beloved and only child of his parents Adri and Miriam.

Synopsis On his way home after a night of partying, TONIO, 22-year-old son of famous writer ADRI and his wife MIRIAM, is hit by a car and taken to intensive care. The police pick up his parents, just in time to see him die in the hospital. Life has suddenly changed drastically for them.

They are in mourning, but must also avoid spiraling into an endless pool of misery.

Adri tries to find his footing by meticulously researching the events that took place in Tonio’s life the weeks before the accident, whereas Miriam tries to hold on to her friends and family, and most importantly to her relationship with Adri. On the other hand we also witness, in retrospect and through Adri and Miriam’s eyes, their love affair and the birth of Tonio who grows up to be a curious, open and talented child.

For Adri, the search for Tonio’s experiences and whereabouts becomes a total obsession: every detail is important, and may take him closer to the son he lost.

Screenwriter’s Statement Once you lose a child, the “why” becomes unimportant. Fate strikes a deal with Chance, and you’re left empty-handed. There is no reason, no motive, no logic, no cause and effect. Tonio dies and Adri and Miriam are left behind.

The film is told through multiple perspectives - Miriam’s, Adri’s and occasionally Tonio’s, who is busy trying to lead his student life.

There’s no classic drama, just raw emotions.

What we see is not always chronological. Moments, experiences, quotes enter into secretive connections. Some scenes, like the 44 HFM Co-Pro 2014

police bringing the news of the accident, are told several times from different perspectives. Memories cannot be deleted, but take on a different shape every time.

Despite the gut-wrenching content, Tonio is not a sombre novel, and will not be a gloomy film. It is as much a portrait of a young man growing up as it is a mosaic of moments, events and emotions that make for a moving and dynamic film. Memories shine in the light of this energy. Adri is searching for signs of vitality, and finds life.

Numerous are the occasions where Miriam and Adri enjoy Tonio’s life tremendously, in all phases of his existence. They find joy and pride, over and over again. Tonio is what binds them together – also after he’s passed away.

Director / Screenwriter’s Profile Director Paula van der Oest was Oscar-nominated for her film Zus en Zo and won Golden Calfs (Dutch Film Awards) for Black Butterflies and The Domino Effect. In 2012 she was guest of honour at the Netherlands Film Festival.

Hugo Heinen is a prolific writer of TV and feature drama. He has written multiple series for public TV, and the cinema, most recently Nova Zembla, the most successful Dutch film of 2011. He has written the script for the upcoming feature film Knielen op een bed violen/My Father’s Garden, one of the best-selling Dutch novels since WWII. Production Company / Producer’s Profile Alain de Levita started NL Film and TV in 2001, and now, after more than 20 feature films and even more TV series, NL Film and Television is one of Holland’s leading feature and TV drama producers. Projects range from successful children’s series (some in their eighth season) to big budget feature films like The Storm for Universal.

Sytze van der Laan is a longtime producer of international film and television. As independent producer and former managing director of Studio Hamburg, Germany, he produced feature films for Disney Studios, BBC Films, and TV movies and series for all German networks.

Current Status First draft of the script available. Benelux distributor attached.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform With Tonio being a universal story about life, love and the fear of loss of both, combined with an ambitious script both in terms of emotions and form, we think the film can be a veritable European cinematic experience that deserves ambitious co-producers. We are hoping for inspiring meetings with producers from any larger European territory, with a preference for France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Paula van der Oest

Hugo Heinen

Sytze van der Laan

Alain de Levita

Director Paula van der Oest Producers Sytze van der Laan, Alain de Levita Screenwriter Hugo Heinen Based on the novel Tonio by A.F.Th. van der Heijden Language Dutch Genre Drama Format Digital Running time 90 minutes Target audience Adults Total budget â‚Ź2.000.000

Total budget in place Netherlands Film Fund script development Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, A-Film Benelux Present at HFM Co-Pro Sytze van der Laan

Contact Sytze van der Laan NL Film and TV B.V. Johannes Vermeerstraat 55 1071 DM Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 31-20-5747626 Email: sytze@nlfilm.tv, aleid@nlfilm.tv www.nlfilm.tv 2014 HFM Co-Pro 45

IN THE HEART HFM CO-PRO 2012

THE LAMB HFM CO-PRO 2012

Previous Departures from HFM Co-Pro (as of August 2014) 2013

In post-production CROSS YOUR HEART (Petri Kotwica), Vertigo Production, Finland DO YOU LOVE ME (Lina Luzyte), Just a moment, Lithuania EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (Peter Greenaway), Submarine, The Netherlands Pre-production THE DREAM-GOD (Valeriya Gai Germanika), Proline Film, Russia A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies), Hurricane Films, UK WRECK IT! (project title: SCRAPPERS! A NORTHERN WESTERN) (Max Zähle), Tamtam Film, Germany Financing THE ABSENCE (Rainer Kirberg), jucca film Angerbauer Kirberg & Kotchi, Germany / Zeitun Films, Spain THE CLIFF SHORE (Mehmet Can Mertoglu), Kamara, Turkey EXOTIC PICTURES (Edwin), Lemming Film, The 46 HFM Co-Pro 2014

Netherlands / Babibutafilm, Indonesia HEARTSTONE (Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson), FRÆ films, Iceland MONK (Ties Schenk), Viking Film, The Netherlands MY NAME IS EMILY (Simon Fitzmaurice), Kennedy Films / Newgrange Pictures, Ireland PLAY ME, KUSTURICA (Uros Tomic), Film House Kiselo Dete, Serbia WITCH OF THE FENS (Thijs Schreuder), Fu Works, The Netherlands In development THE BURNING BRIDGES (Pablo González), La Mer a Boire Productions, France EQUATOR (Hans van Nuffel), Savage Film, Belgium THE FEAR OF GOD (Simon de Waal), Shooting Star Film Production, The Netherlands GOD’S LEGS (Pablo Malo), Imval Producciones, Spain

LA HOLANDESA (Marleen Jonkman), Smarthouse Films, The Netherlands PASSING CLOUDS (Tatiana Korol), Wostok / Scala Productions, UK PIGS IN THE WIND (Stergios Paschos), Marni Films, Greece On hold KAI (Oleg Sentsov), CryCinema, Ukraine

2012

Completed IN THE HEART (Nicole van Kilsdonk), Waterland Film, The Netherlands – Release TBA THE LAMB (project title: SOUTH FACING WALL) (Kutlug Ataman), The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, Turkey – Berlinale 2014, Panorama SEE NO EVIL (project title: KNUCKLES’ LAST TAPE) (Jos de Putter), Dieptescherpte, The Netherlands – Rotterdam 2014

TRESPASSING BERGMAN (project title: BERGMAN’S VIDEO) (Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas), Gädda Five, Sweden – Venice 2013, Venezia Classici In post-production DUST CLOTH (Ahu Öztürk), Ret Film, Turkey MOTHERLAND (Senem Tüzen), Yeni Sinemacilar / Tato Film / Zela Film, Turkey PARADISE TRIPS (Raf Reyntjens), Caviar Films, Belgium Shooting EUROPE’S BORDERLANDS (Jakob Preuss), Weydemann Bros., Germany Pre-production J.KESSELS (Erik de Bruyn), CTM LEV Pictures, The Netherlands Financing IN FROM THE COLD (project title: JOHANNA’S SON) (Martin Krejci), Rinkel Film, The Netherlands / Stink London, UK / Dawson Productions, Czech Republic

KORSO HFM CO-PRO 2011

MUDO (Daniel Martín Novel), Impronta Films, Spain PILGRIMAGE (Brendan Muldowney), SP Films, Ireland RUNT (Ieuan Morris), Fragrant Films, UK In development DEATH OF A SALARYMAN (Adrian Sitaru), Vernon Films, UK FATHER (Artur Urbánski), Apple Film Production, Poland INTO THE BLUE (Jaap van Heusden), IJswater Films, The Netherlands

2011

Completed 45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH (Project title: COOL WATER)(Ali Samadi Ahadi), brave new work film productions, Germany Montreal 2013 ALL CATS ARE GREY {Savina Dellicour), Tarantula Films, Belgium – Montreal 2014

ALL CATS ARE GREY HFM CO-PRO 2011

THE BLUE WAVE (Merve Kayan, Zeynep Dadak), Bulut Film, Turkey – Berlinale 2014, Generation 14plus CULTURE FILES (Various), Gebreuder Beetz Filmproduktion, Germany – Released in 2013 KORSO (Akseli Tuomivaara), Bufo, Finland – Edinburgh 2014 THE ONLY SON (Project title: THE JOURNEY) (Simonka de Jong), IDTV Docs, The Netherlands Film Festival – IDFA 2012 TENDERNESS (Marion Hansel), Man’s Film Productions, Belgium – Rotterdam 2013 YOZGAT BLUES (Mahmut Fazil Coskun), Hokus Fokus Film, Turkey – San Sebastian 2013 In post-production BLACK DIAMOND (Arthur Harari), Les Film Pelleas, France In pre-production HEINZ (Piet Kroon), BosBros, The Netherlands

THE RANGER (PJ Dillon), Fastnet Films, Ireland Financing THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING (project title: THOMAS AND THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING) (Ineke Houtman), Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, The Netherlands OUR HOUSE (Stefan Fjeldmark), Zentropa RamBUk, Denmark In development WHISPERING CLOUDS (Meikeminne Clinckspoor), Flinck Film, The Netherlands

2010

Completed THE AFTERMATH (Wladyslaw Pasikowski), Apple Film Production, Poland – Gdynia 2012 THE BAG OF FLOUR (Kadija Saidi Leclere), La Cie Cinématographique Européenne, Belgium – Tanger 2012

LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO (Simone van Dusseldorp) Family Affair Films/Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands – Cinekid 2014, Opening film LIFE? OR THEATRE? (Frans Weisz), Quintus Films, The Netherlands - IDFA 2011 LIKE THE WIND (Marco Simon Puccioni), Intel Film, Italy – Rome 2013 A LONG STORY (Project name: BLACK SEA) (Jorien van Nes), Circe Film, The Netherlands –Netherlands Film Festival 2013, Competition RAT KING (Petri Kotwica), Making Movies, Finland - Released in 2012 THE REAPER (project title: SAINT ANNE IN THE FIELD )( Zvonimir Juric), Kinorama, Croatia – Toronto 2014, Contemporary World Cinema RUN AND JUMP (Steph Green), Samson Films, Ireland – Tribeca 2013 THE SKY ABOVE US (Marinus Groothof), LEV Pictures, The Netherlands – Release TBA 2014 HFM Co-Pro 47

THE REAPER HFM CO-PRO 2010

WHAT RICHARD DID (Project title: BLACKROCK) (Lenny Abrahamson), Element Pictures, Ireland – Toronto 2012, Contemporary World Cinema In pre-production TOLDI (Project title: T PROJECT) (György Pálfi), Katapult Film, Hungary Financing THE GADFLY (Project title: SOMETHING DIFFERENT) (Jasmin Dizdar), Sterling Pictures, UK In development DEVOTION (Martin Gypkens), Cine Plus Filmproduktion, Germany INTO THE FLAME (Project title: IN THE POET’S HOUSE) (Sander Burger), NFI Productions, The Netherlands THE TRAIN STATION (Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human Film, UK

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LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO HFM CO-PRO 2010

2009

Completed À PERDRE LA RAISON (Project title: AIMER A PERDRE LA RAISON) (Joachim Lafosse), Versus Productions, Belgium - Cannes 2012, Un Certain Regard ATLANTIC. (Project title: LAND.) (JanWillem van Ewijk), Augustus Film, The Netherlands – Toronto 2014 COME TO MY VOICE (Hüseyin Karabey), A-Si Production, Turkey – Berlin 2014, Competition Generation 14plus CORNEA (Jochem de Vries), NFI Productions, The Netherlands and Riva Films, Germany – Released in 2014 HEAVEN ON EARTH (Pieter Kuijpers), Pupkin Film, The Netherlands –Released in 2013 THE INNER ZONE (Fosco Dubini), Dubini Filmproduktion, Germany – Switzerland - Released in 2012

LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY (Károly Ujj Mészáros), Filmteam, Hungary – To be released in 2014 MISTER JOHN (Christine Molloy/Joe Lawlor), Samson Films, Ireland – Edinburgh 2013 MY BROTHERS (Paul Fraser), Treasure Entertainment, Ireland Galway Film Fleadh 2010 MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (Sally El Hosaini), S Films, UK Sundance and Berlinale 2012 THE STATE OF SHOCK (Andrey Kosak), Vertigo/ Emotion Film, Slovenia – Slovenian 2011 THE UNSAVED (Project title: FLYING LESSONS) (Igor Cobileanski), Saga Film, Romania – Karlovy Vary 2013 In pre-production FROG ZAGREB TOKYO (Project title: FROG) (Elmir Jukic), Refresh Production, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Financing MY FATHER’S GARDEN (Ben Sombogaart), NL Film & Television, The Netherlands In development MR. LU’S BLUES (Maria von Heland), 27 Films Production, Germany NOMADES (Project title: THE BOY WHO DID NOT CRY) (Olivier Coussemacq), Local Films, France

2008

Completed BEYOND (Project title: THE PIGSTIES) (Pernilla August), Hepp Film AB, Sweden - Venice 2010, Critic’s Week BULLHEAD (Project title: THE FIELDS) (Michael R. Roskam), Savage Film, Belgium - Berlinale 2011, Panorama INVASION (Dito Tsintadze), Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Germany - Munich 2012

CORNEA HFM CO-PRO 2009

ISZTAMBUL (Project title: ISTANBUL) (Ferenc Török), Uj Budapest Filmstudió, Hungary - Dublin 2010 OUR GRAND DESPAIR (Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film, Turkey - Berlinale 2011, Competition PLAYOFF (Eran Riklis), Topia Communications, Israel Released in 2011 THE RUNWAY (Ian Power), Fastnet Films, Ireland - Galway Film Fleadh 2010 SHANGHAI BELLEVILLE (Show-Chun Lee), Clandestine Films, France – Released in 2011 SHOCKING BLUE (Mark de Cloe), Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands – Rotterdam 2010 THE SNOW QUEEN (Marko Räät), F-Seitse, Estonia - Released in 2010

ATLANTIC. HFM CO-PRO 2009

SOMEWHERE TONIGHT (Project title: 1-900) (Michael Di Jiacomo), Column Film, The Netherlands - Karlovy Vary 2011 SON OF BABYLON (Project title: UM-HUSSEIN) (Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human Film, United Kingdom Berlinale 2010, Panorama SONNY BOY (Maria Peters), Shooting Star Film Production, The Netherlands - Stony Brook New York 2011 URSUL (Project title: THE BEAR) (Dan Chisu), Libra Film, Romania Transilvania 2011 Financing SEEING CHRIS (Tom Cairns), Newgrange Pictures, Ireland

2007

Completed ADRIENN PÁL (Ágnes Kocsis), Print KMH, Hungary - Cannes 2010, Un Certain Regard

DUSK (Project title: WITHOUT LIMIT) (Hanro Smitsman), Corrino Film, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2010 THE FLOWERS OF KIRKUK (Project title: KIRKUK) (Fariborz Kamkari), Farout Out Films, Italy – Rome 2010 THE GREAT KILAPY (Zézé Gamboa), David & Golias, Portugal – Toronto 2012 THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Radu Jude), Hi Film Productions, Romania Berlinale 2009, Forum KURAI, KURAI - TALES WITH THE WIND (Marjoleine Boonstra), Volya Films, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2014 MILO (Berend Boorsma & Roel Boorsma), Fu Works, The Netherlands – Giffoni 2012 OB IHR WOLLT ODER NICHT (Project title: LAURA) (Ben Verbong), Elsani Film, Germany - Released in 2009

SHIRLEY - VISIONS OF REALITY (Gustav Deutsch), KGP Kranzelbinder Production, Austria – Berlinale 2013, Forum SUPERNOVA (Tamar van den Dop), Revolver, The Netherlands –Berlinale 2013, Generation Kplus TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER (Dorota Kedzierzawska), Kid Film Sp Zoo, Poland - Berlinale 2011, Generation Kplus TONY 10 (Mischa Kamp), Lemming Film, The Netherlands - Released in 2012 WAKE WOOD (David Keating), Fantastic Film, Ireland - Lund Fantastic Film Festival 2014

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MISTER JOHN HFM CO-PRO 2009

2006

Completed BON APPÉTIT (David Pinillos), Morena Films, Spain - Malaga 2010 CHRISTMAS STORY (Juha Wuolijoki), Diadik GmbH, Germany - Sarasota 2008 HERE AND THERE (Darko Lungulov), Media Plus, Serbia - Tribeca 2009 THE HOURGLASS (Project title: THE SANDS) (Szabolcs Tolnai), Art & Popcorn, Serbia – Serbian Film Festival 2007 INVOLUNTARY (Ruben Östlund), Platform Production, Sweden - Cannes 2008, Un Certain Regard LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES (Stefan Arsenijevic), Art & Popcorn, Serbia - Berlinale 2008, Panorama MISSION LONDON (Dimitar Mitovski), SIA Advertising, Bulgaria Released in 2010

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KURAI KURAI -TALES WITH THE WIND HFM CO-PRO 2007

NONO, THE ZIGZAG KID (Project title: THE ZIGZAG KID) (Vincent Bal), BosBros, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2012, Opening Film PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BELGRADE WITH SINGING AND CRYING (Project title: FROM BELGRADE WITH LOVE) (Bojan Vuletic), Art & Popcorn, Serbia - Released in 2011 SOME OTHER STORIES (Hanna Slak / Ivona Juka / Ines Tanovic / Marija Dzidzeva / Ana Maria Rossi), SEE Films, Serbia / Slovenia / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Macedonia - Pula 2010 THE STORM (Project title: 1953) (Ben Sombogaart), NL Film & Television, The Netherlands Released in 2009 SUMMER HEAT (Monique van der Ven), Zomerhitte BV/Mulholland Picures, The Netherlands Released in 2008

SWCHWRM (Project title: MY ADVENTURES

BY V.SWCHWRM) (Froukje Tan), Flinck Film, The Netherlands Stockholm 2012 TWO EYES STARING (Project title: DEAD GIRL) (Elbert van Strien), Accento Films, The Netherlands Released in 2009 ZERO (Pawel Borowski), OpusFilm, Poland – Busan 2009 Post-production MOSCOW NEVER SLEEPS (Project title: MOSCOW VELOCITY) (Johnny O’Reilly), Snapshot Films, Russia / Ireland

2005

Completed ALLEZ, EDDY! (Gert Embrechts), Manta Film, Belgium - Released in 2012 ATLANTIS (Digna Sinke), Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands - San Sebastian 2009

BLACK BUTTERFLIES (Project title: SMOKE & OCHRE) (Paula van der Oest), Riba Film, The Netherlands Tribeca 2011 IT’S HARD TO BE NICE (Srdjan Vuletic), Refresh Production, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo 2007 KINO LIKA (Dalibor Matanic), Kinorama, Croatia - Pula 2008 NADINE (Erik de Bruyn), Rocketta Film, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2007 PROJEKCIÓ (Project title: GIRLS) (Tamás Buvári), Inforg Studio, Hungary – Released in 2006 THE WAR IS OVER (Mitko Panov), Kamera 300, Switzerland – Rotterdam 2007 In development AMSTERDAM GOTHIC (Project title: EXHIBITION) (N.N.), Film Events, The Netherlands

SUPERNOVA HFM CO-PRO 2007

2004

Completed MADONNAS (Maria Speth), Pandora Film Produktion, Germany Berlinale 2007, Forum MAMAROSH (Moma Mrdakovic), Yalla Film Productions, France - Moscow 2013 NIGHT RUN (Dana Nechustan), Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2006 WINTER IN WARTIME (Martin Koolhoven), Isabella Films, The Netherlands Berlinale 2009 WOLFSBERGEN (Nanouk Leopold), Circe Films, The Netherlands - Berlinale 2007, Forum THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER (Stephan Komandarev), RFF International, Bulgaria - Sofia 2008

MAMAROSH HFM CO-PRO 2004

2003

Completed BLIND (Tamar van den Dop), Phanta Vision Film, The Netherlands Giffoni 2007 DENNIS P. (Pieter Kuijpers), Pupkin Film, The Netherlands - Released in 2007 DOTCOM (Luis Galvão Teles), Fado Filmes, Portugal - Coimbra 2007 DUSKA (Jos Stelling), Jos Stelling Films, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2007 EX-DRUMMER (Koen Mortier), CCCP, Belgium - Warsaw 2007 GUERNSEY (Nanouk Leopold), Circe Films, The Netherlands - Cannes 2005, Director’s Fortnight THE HOUDINI GIRL (Kfir Yefet), Tomori Films, UK – Released in 2013 HOUSE OF BOYS (Jean Claude Schlim), Delux Productions, Luxembourg Released in 2009

P.S. BEIRUT (Project title: BENJAMIN’S BRIEFCASE) (Michael Shamberg), Yalla Film Productions, France - turned into series THE RABBIT ON THE MOON (Jorge Ramirez Suarez), Beanca Films, Germany Berlinale 2005, Special REYKJAVIK-ROTTERDAM (Project title: SAS REYKJAVIK - ROTTERDAM) (Óskar Jónasson), Blueeyes Productions, Iceland – Rotterdam 2010 YOU BET YOUR LIFE (Antonin Svoboda), coop99 Filmproduktion, Austria Toronto 2005 WHEN NIGHT FALLS (Ineke Houtman), Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2004

2002

Completed CALIMUCHO (Eugenie Jansen), Circe Films, The Netherlands - Berlinale 2009, Forum

EEP! (Rita Horst), Lemming Film, The Netherlands - Berlinale 2010, Generation Kplus FLORIS (Johan Nijenhuis), NL Film & Television, The Netherlands Released in 2004 HIDDEN FLAWS (Paula van der Oest), Filmproducties de Luwte, The Netherlands – Netherlands Film Festival 2004 JAM (Lieven Debrauwer), K-Line, Belgium - Venice Days 2004 SPOON (Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen), Lemming Film, The Netherlands – Released in 2005 THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK (Project title: MOUNTAINS AT SEA) (Ineke Smits), Isabella Films, The Netherlands – Rotterdam 2010 SOUTH (Martin Koolhoven), Isabella Films, The Netherlands Vancouver 2004

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Index Titles

Production Companies

Producers

10 Songs for Charity 32 Dew 4 Egg, Flour and Sugar 6 Forbidden Love 34 GameOver 8 Hairdresser’s Salon Beatrix 36 High Dive 10 I Want to Be Like You 12 The Inconvenience 14 Little Paradise 16 My Romantic History 18 Pari 20 Playboy Priest 38 Pretenders 22 A Shining Flaw 40 Something Useful 24 Tacit Wisdom 26 To All Naked Men 42 Tonio 44 Trade 28 Upstream 30

Amrion Production (Estonia) 22 Bassam Chekhes Production (The Netherlands) 42 BosBros (The Netherlands) 36 De Productie (The Netherlands) 32 eyefeed (Sweden) 6 Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (The Netherlands) 40 FocusFox (Hungary) 10 Götafilm (Sweden) 26 Heretic (Greece) 20 Interfilm Production Studio (Ukraine) 8 La Claqueta (Spain) 14 Magnified Pictures (UK) 18 Man’s Films Productions (Belgium) 30 Minds Meet (Belgium) 32 Multfilm (Bulgaria) 12 NL Film and TV (The Netherlands) 44 Periferia Productions (Finland) 26 Pomor Film (Norway) 26 Rinkel Film (The Netherlands) 38 Roads Entertainment (Ireland) 28 Silkroad Production (France) 42 Sinefilm (Turkey) 24 Skorpion Arte (Poland) 4 SNG Film (The Netherlands) 30 TALYCUAL (Spain) 14 Tiny Lumberjack (Sweden) 6 Tito Clint Movies (Spain) 14 Waterland Film (The Netherlands) 34 Weydemann Bros. (Germany) 16

Håkan Bjerking 7 Konstantin Bojanov 13 Burny Bos 37 Guusje van Deuren 35 Mike Downey 13 Pelin Esmer 25 Olmo Figueredo 15 Markku Flink 27 René Goossens 33 Annemiek van Gorp 33 Marion Hänsel 31 Behrooz Hashemian 43 Judith Hees 41 Jolande Junte 37 Malgorzata Jurczak 5 Ineke Kanters 35 Konstantinos Kontovrakis 21 Volodymyr Kozyr 9 Janja Kralj 13 Sytze van der Laan 45 Tomas Leijers 33 Jessica Levick 19 Alain de Levita 45 Alan Maher 29 Andras Muhi 11 Marcus Olsson 7 Bernabé Rico 15 Reinier Selen 39 Riina Sildos 23 Digna Sinke 31 Maarten Swart 41 Mila Voinikova 13 Derk-Jan Warrink 13 Jakob D. Weydemann 17 Jonas Weydemann 17 Jan van der Zanden 35

Directors Thérèse Ahlbeck 7 Konstantin Bojanov 13 Saara Cantell 27 Bassam Chekhes 43 Keri Collins 19 Adam Csaszi 11 Philipp Döring 17 Pelin Esmer 25 Siamak Etemadi 21 Olena Fetisova 9 Marion Hänsel 31 Denijal Hasanovic 5 Karin Junger 33 Mischa Kamp 37 Nicole van Kilsdonk 35 Paula van der Oest 45 Erwin Olaf 41 David Roddham 29 Vallo Toomla 23 Arne Toonen 39 Benito Zambrano 15

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