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General information Partners and sponsors Credits and acknowledgements Foreword Who’s who Programme Programme — Panel Discussion Programme — Think Tank Talents en Route Digital Film Library NFF International Screenings Guest Desk Practical information Locations

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HFM Co-Pro Platform Content Introduction

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Project selection Bags and Trev Get Dates for the Debs (Ireland) Comrade Stalin Saved My Life (France) Illyricvm (Croatia) Imaculat (Romania) Love (Bulgaria) Molly (UK) Point Nemo (Spain) The Religion of Night Walks (Serbia) Sunburned (Germany) Tangier Stories (France) The Twins (Poland) The Whale Hunter (Russia)

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BoostNL Content Introduction

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Project selection Bootlegger (Canada) The Bridge (Egypt) Dreamscape (The Netherlands) In the Arms of Morpheus (The Netherlands) Jade (The Netherlands)

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Jessica (Sweden) Loveling (Brazil) Quicksand (The Netherlands) The Reports on Sarah and Saleem (Palestine) Tehran, City of Love (UK) Totem (The Netherlands)

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Works-in-Progress / BoostNL Content Introduction

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Project selection Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out (Belgium) In Blue (The Netherlands) Mormaço (Brazil) Quality Time (The Netherlands)

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Company profiles Content Consultancy Distributors / VOD Festivals / Markets Funding / Financing / Institutes Insurance / Legal facilities Press Production Promotion Sales Technical facilities Training / Education

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Indexes Index project pages

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Index company profiles By activity By company By country By person

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HFM Partners and Sponsors Main sponsors

Partners

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Film Producers Netherlands

Special Thanks The Holland Film Meeting would like to thank not only the main partners and sponsors, but also all the people that makes the organisation of this event possible. Therefore we specially thank the team and colleagues, advisors, collaborators, friends and institutions for their work and support. Without you the HFM wouldn’t be possible.

Thank you very much!

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Credits and acknowledgements 2016 HFM Advisory Board Ido Abram Esther Bannenberg Stienette Bosklopper Ellis Driessen Satu Elo Mike Goodridge Marjan van der Haar Behrooz Hashemian Matthijs Wouter Knol Frank Peijnenburg Marten Rabarts

Netherlands Film Festival Director Willemien van Aalst Head of Holland Film Meeting Vanja Kaludjercic Producer Holland Film Meeting Rianne Poodt Coordinator HFM Co-Production Platform Nasztazia Potapenko Advisor HFM Mercedes Martínez-Abarca Technician HFM Mike B Guest Department Maaike Allard (Coord.)

Rozemarijn de Kwaasteniet Digital Film Library/ Production Larissa Maring Liaison HFM/BoostNL Snežana Marić

BoostNL/ Work-in-Progress Bianca Lucas Panel Discussion / Consultant Uzma Hasan HFM Project Development Consultant Laurence Reymond Coordinator HFM Publicity Tito Rodriguez Editor / Copywriter Nick Cunningham

Prep-Day Ido Abram Ellis Driessen

Moderators Ido Abram (Project Coaching and Presentation) Marten Rabarts (Work-in-Progress Session)

BoostNL Programme Vanja Kaludjercic (Head of Holland Film Meeting) Bero Beyer (Director International Film Festival Rotterdam) Marit van den Elshout (Head of CineMart)

Bianca Taal (Programmer/Head of Talent Development) Inke van Loocke (CineMart/Rotterdam Lab Coord.)

Tobias Pausinger (Consultant CineMart) Iwana Chronis (Head of Hubert Bals Fund) Frankfurt Book Fair prep-meeting Signe Zeilich-Jensen (Coord.)

Birgit Heidsiek Corinna Dästner

Talents en Route Programme Derk-Jan Warrink (Keplerfilm) Esther Schmidt Marlou Rutten

Be Dramatic!

The New Wave of European Series Léo Soesanto (Programmer) Marie Barraco (CEO — Série Series) Laetitia Duguet (CEO –Série Series) Marie Cordier (Head of Projects — Série Series)

Design HFM Guide 2016 NJI3 (Tessa Bachrach Krištofić, Dina Milovčić and Franka Tretinjak)

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Foreword Dear friends, A warm welcome to the 29th edition of the Holland Film Meeting (HFM).

When we reflect on what we have achieved over the past 18 years since the HFM Co- Production Platform was established, we are proud of more than 150 films that were completed and which premiered worldwide, our 3000+ guests, more than 4500 one-on-one meetings and the countless panels and conferences which probed the trends, articulated the concerns and addressed the needs of our industry.

With our dedicated approach to the projects and tailor-made consultancy we truly believe that HFM has made a real difference in placing the spotlight on the Dutch film industry and talents, and has served as a launch platform for many brilliant international projects.

This year, twelve ambitious and highly creative projects have been selected for the Co- Production Platform. The selection comprises a balance of productions by renowned filmmakers, highly anticipated second films and feature debuts by award-winning short film directors.

New to HFM this year is the BoostNL programme, a collaborative project between the Holland Film Meeting (Netherlands Film Festival) and CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam), supported by the Netherlands Film Fund.

What’s more, the Holland Film Meeting continues its close association with the Cannes Producers Network (CPN) which enables a HFM Co-Production Platform producer to benefit from full CPN accreditation in 2017.

It has been a great year for former Co- Production Platform projects. Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s Älbum recently won the Grand Prize in Sarajevo after premiering in Cannes Critics’ Week. The Dutch film My Father’s Garden by Ben Sombogaart was released in Dutch cinemas earlier this year, while Heartstone

by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson became the first Icelandic film to compete in Venice. Furthermore, Pretenders by Vallo Toomla will compete in the New Directors section of this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, the first Estonian production ever to do so.

Expectations for 2017 are equally optimistic. Carla Simón has recently completed shooting of her debut feature Summer 1993, as has Belgian filmmaker Meikeminne Clinckspoor whose project Cloudboy (original project title: Whispering Clouds) is about to commence editing. And of course, the premiere of The Light Thereafter (original project title: I Want to be Like You) by Konstantin Bojanov is keenly anticipated.

Lessons drawn from past HFMs give us the solid base to lay new milestones and achieve greater goals in terms of development, reshaping and improvement.

Most importantly, the Holland Film Meeting will continue to provide a safety net for the creative filmmaking community during these turbulent and uncertain times.

On behalf of the Holland Film Meeting team we hope you find inspiration, pleasure, and success over the coming days in Utrecht.

Welcome to HFM! Willemien van Aalst Festival Director Vanja Kaludjercic Head Holland Film Meeting

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Who’s who Holland Film Meeting Team

Vanja Kaludjercic Head of Holland Film Meeting

Rianne Poodt Producer Holland Film Meeting

Nasztázia Potapenko Coordinator HFM Co-Production platform

Mercedes Martínez-Abarca Advisor HFM

Maaike Allard Coordinator Guest Department

Rozemarijn de Kwaasteniet Guest Department

Larissa Maring Digital Film Library / Production

Panel Discussion / Consultant Uzma Hasan (Coord.)

Tito Rodriguez Coordinator HFM Publicity

Nick Cunningham Online Editor and HFM Publications

Mike B Technician HFM

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BoostNL Team

Marit van den Elshout Head of CineMart

Bianca Taal Programmer/Head of Talent Development

Iwana Chronis Head of Hubert Bals Fund

Tobias Pausinger CineMart Consultant Frankfurt Book Fair Prep-Meeting

Inke van Loocke Coordinator Cinemart & Rotterdam Lab Talents en Route Programme

Derk-Jan Warrink Tutor/Mentor

Snežana Marić Liaison HFM/BoostNL

Bianca Lucas BoostNL/Work-inProgress

Signe Zeilich-Jensen Coordinator

Marten Rabarts Moderator HFM WiP Session

Ellis Driessen Consultant HFM Market Analysis

Moderators / Advisors

Ido Abram Moderator HFM Co-Pro & BoostNL

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Programme From September 22–25 2016 Utrecht will once again be the key networking station for the financing of quality independent film. The 29th edition of the Holland Film Meeting will, as in previous years, look to stimulate high levels of co-production activity between many of Europe’s leading representatives from the Dutch, European and global finance, production, sales and distribution industries.

This four-day-event, comprising the well-established HFM Co-Production Platform and the Work-in-Progress session, is host to the inaugural BoostNL programme, organized in collaboration with CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam). In total 27 projects at different stages of development will be up for assessment by many of Europe’s leading financiers, sales agents, distributors and co-production partners, as well as festival programmers and press. In addition, the HFM will offer a number of seminars, panels, conferences and debates, a programme of International Screenings and the Digital Film Library. Hereby a selection of this HFM edition’s main events.

Thursday, September 22 2016 9:30 – 10:00h Coffee & Opening Karel V / Foyer Oude Graanzolder 10:00 – 17:00h Project Preparation Day Karel V / Anna van Oostenrijk & Hertogenzaal Prior to the presentation of the projects, participating directors and producers will attend a preparation programme consisting of a Pitching Coaching session and individual Market Analysis session.

14:00 – 17:00h Storytelling in the digital age — New media forms of the book Karel V / Graaf Willem IV Different media industries — book, film, games — are converging and influencing each other as never before, with this century also witnessing the emergence of transmedia storytelling. Is the potential of this new production/narrative model being used in adaptions?

How do the licensing managers succeed to build bridges between the different media and business models? Are the national film funds and other funding bodies following and supporting this trend? With

Flanders and the Netherlands as Guests of Honour at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair, the HFM will host a closed prep-meeting that will be followed by a second event in the context of the Frankfurt Book Fair Industry Day: A Book is a Film is a Game (October 20, 2016).

Closed session 15:30 – 17:00h BoostNL Intro Session Karel V / Hertogenzaal Closed session 17:00 – 18:15h HFM Welcome Drinks Karel V / Unico van Wassenaer 18:30 – 22:00h HFM & NFF Opening Night Professionals Stadsschouwburg / Zindering Hosted by the Netherlands Film Fund & FPN All participants gather to attend the official opening of the professionals programme of both the Netherlands Film Festival and the Holland Film Meeting. During this event, the HFM will introduce the four participating emerging talents who will be taking part in this year’s

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programme: producers Erik Glijnis and Juul op den Kamp, and directors Mees Peijnenburg and Ena Sendijarević.

Read more about our Young Talents on page 15.

By invitation only

From 22:00h HFM Late Night Drinks Grand Cafe Lebowski

Friday, September 23 2016 9:00 – 9:30h Coffee Karel V / Maria van Hongarije 9:30 – 12:30h HFM Project Presentations Karel V / Maria van Hongarije During the Holland Film meeting a total of 23 projects in development are presented to international film professionals during a two-step format: a public pitch followed by one-on-one meetings (HFM Co-Pro Platform) and experts sessions (BoostNL).

Moderator: Ido Abram (Deputy Director at EYE Film Institute) 12.30 – 13.30h Lunch Karel V / Restaurant De Refter Hosted by Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten & Haghefilm Digitaal By invitation only 13:30 - 18:00h BoostNL Experts Sessions Karel V / Hertogenzaal

13:30 – 18:00h HFM Individual Meetings Karel V / Unico van Wassenaer The representatives of the selected projects in development get the opportunity to have short meetings of 25-minute duration with different film professionals and potential partners in order to discuss potential collaborations.

13:30 – 17:00h Work-in-Progress Feedback Session Karel V — Graaf Willem IV / Graaf Jan van Nassau The projects will be presented and discussed in a closed session during which filmmakers and producers will receive feedback and advice from both national and international experts.

Closed session 17:00 – 18:30h Afternoon Drinks Springhaver Film Theater Hosted by Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) From 21:00h HFM Late Night Drinks Grand Cafe Lebowski

Saturday, September 24 2016 9:00h Coffee 9:15 – 10:45h HFM Work-in-Progress Session Springhaver Film Theater Excellent commercial and non-commercial distribution strategies have become more essential than ever, and they should be defined (and refined) long before the première of the film on the international market. In this session, producers and filmmakers are given the opportunity to present their film to a select group of festival programmers, sales

agents, financiers and distributors. This will include the screening of a 12-minute excerpt from each work.

A professional jury will give out prizes to the two most promising Work-in-Progress projects.

Moderator: Marten Rabarts (Head of EYE International) 9:00 – 18:00h HFM Individual Meetings Karel V / Unico van Wassenaer

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11:00 – 12:30h Commercialising the Arthouse model: How can the numbers work for Indie / European films Panel discussion Karel V / Leicester The decline of indie and foreign language cinema in recent years has been much analyzed and discussed, but has led to little structural change in the packaging, financing and distribution of these films in mainland Europe. A group of experts will discuss equity financing for indie films, “day-and-date” release strategy as an option to monetize arthouse releases, and the opportunities created by online platforms moving into content creation. *As a round-up of the panel discussion there will be a brief presentation by Netherlands Film Commission For more information go to page 13.

11:00 – 17:00h Work-in-Progress Feedback Session Karel V — Graaf Willem IV Closed session

12:30 – 14:00h Lunch In De Ruimte — IDR (Oudegracht 230) Hosted by City of Utrecht & Film Commission Utrecht By invitation only 14:00 – 17:45h BoostNL Experts Sessions Karel V / Hertogenzaal 17:45 – 18:45h BoostNL Closing Session Karel V / Hertogenzaal 19:30 – 1:00h HFM Drinks, Dinner & Awards & Party Museum Speelklok Hosted by EYE & Netherlands Film Fund & Netherlands Film Commission By invitation only

Sunday, September 25 2016 9:30 – 17:00h Be Dramatic! The New Wave of European Series Stadsschouwburg / Blauwe Zaal Drama series are going through a new ‘Golden Age’ in terms of creativity, popularity and sales. The Netherlands Film Festival and partners will therefore offer an extensive overview of the current status of European Drama today, and bring to Utrecht the key industry movers responsible for successful shows from the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany. Série Series, together with festival programmer Léo Soesanto and HFM/NFF, will present a number of case studies of unreleased series, guiding us through the development process in detail.

The event also includes an expert panel and talk.

This programme is organized in collaboration with the Dutch Cultural Media Fund and the Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Netherlands.

10:00 – 13:00h HFM Individual Meetings Karel V / Brasserie

10:30 – 12:30h Think Tank: The Future of Co-Production Markets Karel V / Anna van Oostenrijk Co-production as a financing, production and placement model for international arthouse film has been the industry mainstay for the past 20 years. In the meantime, that industry has undergone massive and irreversible change in the face of the digital revolution, and at every turn, at every level and across all sectors, it continues to reshape itself. What is the future of co-production markets? How should they be (re)designed to best meet the needs of the industry? In order to address these issues, CineLink launched the initiative Think Tank in collaboration with CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam), the Holland Film Meeting (Netherlands Film Festival) and Marché du Film/Next Pavilion (Cannes).

The first meeting took place during the Industry Days at Sarajevo Film Festival in the presence of more than 30 experienced market participants. At Holland Film Meeting, the Think Tank is back to address this vital subject, and will continue the search for new perspectives, possibilities and solutions. The final Think Tank sessions will take place during IFFR and Cannes (2017).

For more information go to page 14.

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Commercialising the Arthouse model: How the numbers can work for Indie / European films Panel discussion Saturday, September 24 11:00 – 12:30h Karel V / Leicester The decline of indie and foreign language cinema in recent years has been much analysed and discussed but has led to little structural change in the packaging, financing and distribution of these films within mainland Europe. Recently, two much respected and high profile casualties of this decline, Fortissimo Films and Metrodome Distribution, both found that building businesses on solid, award-winning arthouse fare was no longer viable in the current market.

For those inside the industry, these announcements came as a shock but of little surprise. The landscape for indie film, and in particular foreign language cinema, has changed vastly within the past decade.

The numbers demonstrate a significant cultural shift, in 2015 there were no significant foreign language breakthrough hits in the UK. The biggest box office success in the UK was Argentinian portmanteau film Wild Tales, which took a reasonably healthy €866,045 at the box office, but that pales in comparison with 2001’s Amélie (€5,3 million in the UK) or 2000’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (€11,5 million in the UK). Those arthouse hits, in the words of Geoffrey McNab “were accepted by British audiences as mainstream films, and their language hardly seemed to be an issue”.

There is a similar trend in mainland Europe where 2015 saw only one non-English language film hit the top 20 across the entire European Union — the German comedy sequel Fack ju Gohte 2.

The reasons are numerous and clear: audiences are no longer seeking out the latest arthouse titles, the decline of strong curation in cinemas, the bottom falling out of the DVD and ancillary markets, the abundance of choice with new products and platforms, piracy cannibalising value from VOD… the list goes on.

This panel takes as its starting point the market that we are in now, and aims to discuss how producers can reimagine the way they finance and bring their films to market. Some of the issues discussed will be: Equity financing for indie films — how commercial money can be made to work and break the reliance on multiple soft financing partners.

Reimagining release — the “day-and-date” release is not a new concept but one that has been viewed with suspicion within the arthouse/indie community.

What can we learn from notable success stories such as Oscar-nominated drama 45 Years — the highestgrossing and widest playing film to have utilised this strategy, making around €2.3 million whilst being available at home and in theatres at the same time.

New platforms — in the rapidly increasing world of online content aggregators, how can indie film take advantage of the myriad new ways to reach audiences? How are these platforms investing in content and IP ownership themselves?.

By Uzma Hasan, Little House Productions

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Think Tank: The Future of Co-Production Markets Sunday, September 25 10.00 – 12.00h Karel V / Anna van Oostenrijk What is the future of co-production markets? How should they be designed to best meet the needs of the industry? These issues will are currently being addressed during a series of events held at major markets throughout the year — the first of which took place during the last edition of the industry days at Sarajevo Film Festival. This Think Tank is an initiative of CineLink together with CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam), the Holland Film Meeting (Netherlands Film Festival) and Marché du Film/ Next Pavilion (Cannes), where ongoing sessions will be taking place. Final results will be presented to the industry and public in 2017.

Co-production as a financing, production and placement model for the international arthouse film market has been the mainstay of the industry for the past 20 years. In the meantime, technology has altered the way we access information and entertainment, which in turn has caused a significant shift in audience viewing habits. Since the 80’s and the first co-production market — Rotterdam’s CineMart — we have seen a massive digital evolution. At all levels, the industry has changed irreversibly, and it is still in the process of reshaping itself. The search is on for new narrative forms and new financial and distribution

models, and at the same time the role of the audience in the production process is being redefined.

Can we stick to the model that has for so many years been a staple for for the majority of the players on the international scene — including authors, independent producers, financiers, sales agents and festivals — or should it be changed from within to try to make it more relevant within today’s more volatile climate?

The essential format of the co-production market has remained pretty much the same for all these years.

Different markets use slightly different presentation models and their sidebar programmes try to accommodate different industry needs, but one-on-one meetings in half-hour slots are the norm everywhere.

Participating in the first Think Tank event at CineLink Industry Days in August at Sarajevo Film Festival were 30 specially invited experienced market participants — producers, sales agents and festival representatives — who were divided into three groups to discuss the format of co-production markets, their relevance to the industry and their results, after introductions by two keynote speakers at each table.

During the Holland Film Meeting, the Think Tank will return to the subject, continuing the search for new possibilities, perspectives and solutions.

By Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink

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Talents en Route The Holland Film Meeting proudly introduces four new young Dutch film talents — producers Erik Glijnis and Juul op den Kamp, and directors Mees Peijnenburg and Ena Sendijarević. Under the supervision of Derk-Jan Warrink (Keplerfilm), this group of young professionals will undertake a tailor-made programme in which they will meet a wide range of European film professionals. As in previous editions, the Dutch Film Academy third grade production students will attend the project pitching sessions and will air their impressions and views in a group talk with a panel of experts.

We invite you to read more about each of our 2016 Talents en Route in the following pages.

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Erik Glijnis Producer

Nocturne by Viktor van der Valk (2017)

Erik is currently working on his first feature film Nocturne with director Viktor van der Valk as well as the documentary Lessons of Europe with director Guido Hendrikx. This summer Erik started out as producer at the Amsterdam-based production company Lemming Film. Erik loves to work on projects that are unique in terms of their storytelling and cinematography. Films he has produced so far have been classified as experimental and groundbreaking, but have also reached wide audiences.

Erik Glijnis

Selected filmography • Nocturne by Viktor van der Valk — Produced by Erik Glijnis, 90’, currently in post-production (to be completed May 2017) • Lessons of Europe by Guido Hendrikx — Produced

by Zeppers Film in cooperation with VPRO (Erik Glijnis attached as producer), 60’.

Documentary currently in post-production (to be completed November 2016) • Onder ons by Guido Hendrikx — Produced by Erik Glijnis, Zinzy Nimako, Jonne Roos, 22’ (short documentary), 2015. Awards: Best International Short Film (Monterrey), Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), Kaohsiung Award Best Short Film (Taiwan), Go Short! Vevam Award for Best Dutch Film (Go Short! / The Netherlands), Grand Jury Prize Short Film (First Filmfestival, China) • Onno de Onwetende by Viktor van der Valk — Produced by Erik Glijnis, Hanne Sinninghe, 27’ (short fiction), 2014. Awards: Orona Saria Award for Most Cutting Edge Film (San Sebastián, Spain), Abraham Tuschinski Award — Best Dutch Film (NFF 2014)

Contact Soendastraat 22-hs — 1094 BH Amsterdam / Tel: +31 6 43895163 / Email: Erik@lemmingfilm.com

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Juul op den Kamp Producer/Filmmaker

Where Memories Live by Juul op den Kamp (2016)

After graduating as producer from the Film Academy in Amsterdam in 2014, Juul op den Kamp focussed on innovative and close collaboration with directors.

Her three graduation films were screened at film festivals across the world and one in particular — If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy — won several prizes at international festivals such as Message 2 Man and Slamdance. Juul won the annual producers’ award directly after graduation and received a Fulbright grant to obtain her master’s degree in Independent Documentary at The New School in New York. There she directed and shot her selffinanced neutral documentary about immigration nostalgia and besides this worked as a freelance producer and researcher for several productions.

In the Philippines she developed a collaborative intermedial anthropology series on the pharmaceutical industry that resulted in two film works and one documentary that is yet to be made. In the Netherlands she now works as a freelance producer and director, currently making content for NRC and conducting research for her new documentary. Juul op den Kamp’s goal is to tell international stories, somewhere between contemporary urgent journalism and fantasy.

Juul op den Kamp

Selected filmography • Where Memories Live — Directed and produced

by Juul op den Kamp, 18’, 2016 • If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy by Mea de Jong — Produced by: Juul op den Kamp & Chris Stenger for the Netherlands Film Academy, 25’, 2014.

Awards and festivals: Official selection at IDFA (The Netherlands), Punto de Vista (Spain) and winner of the NCP-Audience Award and the VERS Audience and Jury Prizes, as well as Best Documentary at Huesca Film Festival (Spain), Filmschool Award at DOK.fest (Munich, Germany) and Best Documentary Short at the Slamdance Film Festival (Utah, US).

Contact Bilderdijkkade 26A-1 — 1053 VC Amsterdam / Tel: +31 6 53206542 / Email: juulopdenkamp@gmail.com / www.juulopdenkamp.com

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Mees Peijnenburg Filmmaker

We Will Never Be Royals by Mees Peijnenburg (2015)

Mees is a native of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In 2013 he graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy. His films are critically acclaimed worldwide and have been awarded several prizes.

He has been nominated twice for a Crystal Bear at Berlinale for his short films A Hole in My Heart and Even Cowboys Get To Cry. His films have been screened extensively at international film festivals such as Berlinale, SXSW, BFI London, Palm Springs, IFFR, Clermont-Ferrand, Raindance and over 50 more. The short film A Hole in My Heart was the Dutch submission at the Oscars 2016 in the category Best Live Action Short. With this film he also received the Dutch Directors Guild Award. His most recent film We Will Never Be Royals won 2 Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival 2015. He experiments creatively with different narrative forms and his distinct visual aesthetic is a constant in his work.

Selected filmography • A Hole in my Heart (Un creux dans mon coeur) — Produced by Maeve Human, 9’, 2015. Awards and festivals: Young Director Silver Award (Cannes), Competition of the 65th International Film Festival Berlin, Dutch submission for the Oscars • Even Cowboys Get to Cry (Cowboys janken ook) — Produced by NFTA, 25’, 2013. Awards and festivals: European Student Films (Angers European First Film Festival), selected for Berlinale (Generation 14plus) and South by Southwest in Austin (SXSW) • We Will Never Be Royals (Geen Koningen in ons Bloed) — Produced by Pupkin, 44’, 2015. Awards: Golden Calves for the Best TV-drama and Best Actor in a TV-drama (Jonas Smulders) at the Netherlands Film Festival 2015.

Mees Peijnenburg

Contact Email: mrpeijnenburg@hotmail.com

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Ena Sendijarević Filmmaker

Space Girls (TV-series, episode) by Ena Sendijarević (2016)

Ena Sendijarević is an Amsterdam-based Bosnian/ Dutch filmmaker. She studied Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the Freie Universität Berlin before graduating from the Netherlands Film Academy as a writer/director in 2014. She wrote and directed several award-winning short films, including Travellers into the Night (2013) and Fernweh (2014) which have been shown at numerous international film festivals. Her latest short Import (2016) premiered in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section of the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and has been submitted as Dutch Live Action Short Film for the Academy Awards 2017. Ena is currently working on her debut feature film.

Selectef filmography • Travellers into the Night — Produced by Mosi Movies, 10’, 2013 • Fernweh — Produced by Dutch Film Academy in cooperation with VPRO, 17’, 2014 • Import — Produced by Pupkin, 17’, 2016 • Space Girls (TV-series, directed one episode) — Produced by Pupkin in cooperation with VPRO, 25’, 2016

Ena Sendijarević

Contact Zeedijk 50 E — 1012 BA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 41592894 / Email: ena.sen@gmail.com

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Digital Film Library The Holland Film Meeting Digital Film Library is back in 2016 with a wide selection of leading films produced in the Netherlands over the past 12 months.

HFM badge-holders will have the chance to access a variety of English subtitled films and TV productions from the Netherlands, which will be available for screening during the Holland Film Meeting online and on the spot at the Grand Hotel Karel V. Most NFF competition titles will be viewable in the library.

Furthermore, film professionals will be able to access other NFF highlights, such as recent student and short films and new Dutch television productions, via the screening platform.

OPENING HOURS: Karel V / Graaf van Egmond 22 Sept Thursday 23 Sept Friday 24 Sept Saturday 25 Sept Sunday

10:00 – 19:00 10:00 – 20:00 10:00 – 20:00 10:00 – 13:00

NFF International Screenings NFF International Screenings comprises around 30 brand new Dutch feature and short films including international co-productions. These English-subtitled films are screened in the festival venues during the Netherlands Film Festival and include, amongst other, this year’s opening film The Hero by Menno Meyjes, the documentary Strike a Pose by Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan (WP Berlinale), IFFR 2016 opening feature Beyond Sleep by Boudewijn Koole, Alex Pitstra’s Bezness as Usual, David Verbeek’s Full Contact and History’s Future by Fiona Tan.

For a complete overview of the selection see: www.filmfestival.nl/profs_en/holland-film-meeting/ international-screenings/

All festival locations, including cinemas can be found on page 22.

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Guest Desk The HFM Guest Desk is located in the Grand Hotel Karel V. Here HFM guests can collect their badges, receive information on all HFM events, the Co-Pro Platform and the BoostNL programme, as well as information on all matters concerning the Netherlands Film Festival. Guests can also make use of office facilities and receive answers to all their business queries.

OPENING HOURS: 22 Sept Thursday 23 Sept Friday 24 Sept Saturday 25 Sept Sunday

09:00 – 20:00 09:00 – 20:00 09:00 – 20:00 09:00 – 14:00

Practical information Credit cards All major credit cards and Maestro cards are widely accepted in Utrecht. Cash dispensers are available at most branches of Dutch Banks, as well as all GWKoffices at railway stations.

Taxi Taxi stands can be found at Utrecht Central Station, Vredenburg and the Neude Square. Or dial a taxi using the following number: +31 30 2300400 (Utrechtse Taxi Centrale).

Emergency services In case of an emergency that requires the immediate attention of Ambulance, Fire or Police Departments, dial: 112.

Train schedule Utrecht - Schiphol Airport A train ride from Utrecht Central Station to Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) takes 30 minutes. Trains leave every 15 minutes between 05:58 and 20:43, and every 30 minutes between 21:13 and 23:43.

Post office Printerette Digishop Opening hours Voorstraat 39 Monday – Friday / 08:00 – 18:00 Saturday / 09:00 – 17:00 3512 AJ Utrecht Ako Shop Utrecht Central Station Godebaldkwartier 79 Monday – Wednesday & Friday / 08:00 – 18:00 Thursday / 08:00 – 21:00 Saturday / 09:00 – 17:00

During the night there are trains to Schiphol at 23:55, 00:28, 00:58, 02:07, 03:07, 04:07. Please note that night trains don’t ride directly to the airport in September. We would advise to check the times online while planning your trip.

For further information on the train schedule, please see: www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home Information on all public transport can be found on: www.9292.nl/en.

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Holland Film Meeting Locations NFF Festival Centre Old Post Office — Box Office, Info & NFF Guest Desk Neude 11, 3512 AE Utrecht +31 (0) 15 219 5499

NFF Venues & Cinemas TivoliVredenburg Vredenburgkade 11 Pathé Rembrandt Oudegracht 73 WolffCity Voorstraat 89 Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt Hoogt 4

Hotels Grand Hotel Karel V — HFM Guest Desk Geertebolwerk 1 +31 (0)30 2337555 Court Hotel Korte Nieuwstraat 14 +31 (0)30 233 0033 EYE Hotel Utrecht Wijde Begijnestraat 1–3 + 31 30 303 6 303 NH City Centre Janskerkhof 10 +31 (0)30 2313169 Mother Goose Hotel Ganzenmarkt 26 +31 (0)30 303 6300

HFM & NFF Opening Night Professionals Stadsschouwburg Utrecht Lucasbolwerk 24 3512 EJ Utrecht +31(0)30-2324125 Also Be Dramatic!

(Sunday 25 Aug.) Lunch (Saturday 24 Aug.) In De Ruimte (IDR) Oudegracht 230 aan de werf 3511 NT Utrecht +31(0)6-11778119 Work-in-Progress Session Sprinhaver Film Theater Springweg 50 3511 VS Utrecht +31(0)30-2313789

Louis Hartlopeercomplex Tolsteegbrug 1 Beatrix Theater Jaarbeursplein 6a CineMec Utrecht Berlijnplein 100

HFM Late Night Drinks (Thursday 22 and Friday 23 Aug.) Grand Cafe Lebowski Domplein 17 3512 JD Utrecht +31 (0)30-2315217 HFM Drinks, Dinner & Awards & Party Museum Speelklok Steenweg 6 3511 JP Utrecht +31(0)30 231 27 89

Project selection 2016

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Bags and Trev Get Dates for the Debs

by Rob and Ronan Burke (Ireland) Comrade Stalin Saved My Life

by Kamila Kubiak & Olivier Patté (France) Illyricvm by Simon Bogojević Narath (Croatia) Imaculat by Kenneth Mercken (Romania) Love by Maya Vitkova (Bulgaria) Molly by Sally Potter (UK) Point Nemo by José Skaf (Spain) The Religion of Night Walks

by Nikola Ležaić (Serbia) Sunburned by Carolina Hellsgård (Germany) Tangier Stories by Fyzal Boulifa (France) The Twins by Eva Neymann (Poland) The Whale Hunter by Philipp Yuryev (Russia)

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Previously at the HFM Co-Production Platform Project status update

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HFM Co-Production Platform 2016 The HFM Co-Production Platform offers a unique networking space for Dutch and international film industry professionals to meet and assess the possibilities for future (or further) collaboration.

The main goal of the platform is to stimulate coproductions between the Netherlands and other European countries by promoting Dutch producers as excellent potential partners, and to invite new and attractive film projects to Utrecht for pitching.

The selected projects are presented to a 150+ group of international experts, including financiers, distributors, sales agents and producers.

From Spain to Russia, Ireland to Bulgaria, the exciting, dynamic and panoramic selection spans the continent, gathering in Utrecht where the projects will undergo a two-stage process of pitch session followed

by one-on-one meetings. All projects will be in the running (together with the BoostNL participant projects in development) for the HFM Co-Pro Platform awards: • The Cam-a-lot & Filmmore Cinema Emerging Talent Prize for the Best Project Valued at €10,000 in camera and post-production facilities.

• The WarnierPosta Prize Valued at €5,000 in audio post-production facilities in one of the WarnierPosta studios.

The winners will be announced during the closing evening of HFM to be held at Museum Speelklok on Saturday, September 24 in the evening.

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Bags and Trev Get Dates for the Debs Black Sheep Productions (Ireland) Comedy about two hapless best friends, Bags and Trev, whose effort to get dates for their school Debs test the bounds of friendship.

Synopsis After five years of humiliation, best buddies BAGS and TREV intend to leave school with some semblance of cool: pass the Leaving Cert, reinvent themselves in college and return home with dates for the school Debs. But then disaster: the school decides to bring the Debs night forward in an effort to minimize the amount of damage done to the town each year. After another humiliating confrontation with the school bully, SEXTON, a frustrated Bags announces to the school that not only will he and Trev get dates in time, they will also put on the best post-Debs party Sligo has ever seen.

A series of girl-related mishaps follow before the honest Trev falls for ABBY. The insecure Bags, with no options left, poses as a college student and convinces the lonely foreign student KATIE to “crash” the Debs.

As Bags spends more time college with Kate, he loses interest in the Debs, while Trev learns that Abby dated school bully Sexton, sullying his perfect idea of her.

As Debs night approaches Abby learns of Trev’s part in Bags’ lies and breaks it off, while the now “mature” Bags informs Trev that the Debs/beach plans are over.

With their tight friendship in tatters, Trev and Bags fight during their leaving cert exams.

Seeing the errors of his ways, Bags attempts to come clean, but Katie, downcast having failed the year exams, wants a reluctant Bags to take her to the Debs.

Trev turns up alone and publicly outs Bags secret.

A devastated Katie flees. To right things, Bags goes about ensuring the college passes Katie, and then sets about a last minute post Debs beach party for

Trev. He invites Abby and ensures that she and Trev reunite. Bags and Trev make up but the friendship has forever changed.

Director’s Statement Bags and Trev Get Dates for the Debs is a teen comedy exploring male friendship at the awkward age of impending adulthood. It embodies so much of our own experiences growing up in a boys’ secondary school. We want to make an Irish film that dramatizes “the Debs” which is a rite of Irish passage akin to “The Prom” in the US. The pressure for these two characters to find a date and escape school with their dignity and reputations relatively intact will put their friendship to the test and force them to confront their changing relationship. Our intention is to imbue this film with a passion and energy equal to that of our protagonists’ desire to achieve their goal and to deliver the humour as visually as possible. In our hands Bags & Trev will be a pacy, energetic, colourful movie that feels like a hormonally infused jaunt through the final days of days of adolescence.

Director’s Profile Originally from Dublin, Ronan and Rob Burke grew up in the US, Australia and Sweden. In 2008, they made their directorial television debut with Aisling’s Diary for RTÉ. Since then they have consistently worked in television drama, most recently directing numerous episodes of TV3’s gritty drama Red Rock for Company Pictures and Element Pictures and six episodes of the BAFTA winning Roy for Jam Media and CBBC. In

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2014 they released their feature film debut Standby, a romantic comedy starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré, funded by the Irish Film Board and the Luxembourg Film Fund and sold internationally by Magnolia Pictures.

starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré and sold internationally by Magnolia Pictures. The company is currently in production on the feature documentary Rochester: City of Film and in pre-production on the feature documentary All the Numbers.

Production Company Black Sheep Productions is the production company of producer John Wallace and directors Rob and Ronan Burke. Recent productions include the short film Ernestine and Kit (2016) that premiered at SXSW and was the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners). Other productions included the feature documentary Showrunners (2014) directed by Des Doyle, featuring JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon and Damon Lindelof, sold internationally by Submarine, and Standby (2014), directed by Ronan and Rob Burke,

Current Status Screenplay completed. Planning to shoot summer 2017. Attaching cast to lead roles and securing production funding.

Rob Burke

Ronan Burke

Directors Rob and Ronan Burke // Producer John Wallace // Screenwriter Gavin Burke // Based on An original screenplay // Language English // Genre Comedy // Format HD // Running time 90 min. // Target audience Teenagers 15+ //

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform To meet potential co producers and sales agents.

Previous work available on Cinando Standby by Rob and Ronan Burke, 2014. 90 min.

John Wallace Total budget €1,260,000 // Total budget in place €410,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Irish Film Board, RTE, Element Pictures Distribution

Attending HFM John Wallace

Contact John Wallace (Black Sheep Productions) / Suite 23, Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylors Lane — D8 Dublin (Ireland) / Tel: +353 87 926 8819 / Email: john@blacksheepproductions.ie / www.blacksheepproduction.ie

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Comrade Stalin Saved my Life Camarade Staline m’a sauvé la vie BLICK Productions (France) Belle Epoque Films (Germany) Donten & Lacroix Films (Poland) Henio is a Polish child of Jewish origin who is deported to Siberia at the beginning of WWII. What seems a certain death sentence turns out to be his salvation.

Synopsis “The memory of those times won’t disappear, we want to see them once again but this time it would be in a cinema”, Aleksander Rozenberg 1944, Jizax, Uzbekistan.

Context: Current events echo HENIO’s story.

Thousands of men, women and children wishing to cross the borders of Europe have finally piqued the interest of the world. This crisis of refugees in Central Europe, whom Poland decided to lock its borders to, invokes the difficult times of WWII. Therefore, it seems important to talk about this issue today.

Henio’s fate illustrates the stories of salvation of thousands of Polish Jews.

This is a story of people whose lives were saved by the irony of fate.

Director’s Statement The story of Henio, a Jewish-Polish child during WWII, is unique. Yet, it is one he shared with over 350,000 Polish people, including 120,000 children who were deported with their families to the remote corners of the Soviet Union, and whose lives were spared by history. This animated film aims to become the testimony of these children, encapsulated in Henio’s memories. The film will depict reality, at once cruel and oneiric. This story called for new form, an ancient technique given to the style of the day, stop-motion animation.

Life will be shown through characters and sets and depicted image by image thanks to paper cut support which will give shape to the extraordinary destiny of

Henio. His emotions will be supported by an original music and realistic ambient sounds. Henio is about to embark on a coming-of-age journey that will make an adult of him.

Directors’ / Screenwriter’s Profile Kamila Kubiak is a member of La Maison des Artistes of Paris. She started off in the advertisement industry, winning a number of internationals prizes for her professional artistic projects.

Olivier Patté began his career as a video art director before starting his freelance career. For six years he developed numerous graphic projects for top clients, in the capacity of director, art director and producer. Now he works on his own animated and video concepts.

Philippe Lopes-Curval is a famous French scriptwriter who has worked with Gerard Jugnot for years. In 2004 he wrote the famous and successful feature The Chorus.

Producer’s Profile Maria Blicharska started work in the film industry as line producer and production manager for independent European companies. Since then, she has contributed to over 30 international projects — feature, documentary and animation — and has been awarded across festivals worldwide. Working between 2006–2008 for Margaret Menegoz at the famous French production house Les Films du Losange, she collaborated on films by Agnes Wajda (PL/FR) and Arash Riahi (Iran/AU/FR).

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As line producer she has also worked for American directors Jessica Sanders, Andrzej Krakowski and Renny Harlin, and American producers Leslie Wilson and Academy Awarded June Beallor, as well as the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation in LA. Her most recent films are the Poland-France coproductions Kantor (2017), Crache coeur (2015) and Agnieszka (2012).

Kamila Kubiak

Olivier Patté

Directors Kamila Kubiak, Olivier Patté // Producers Maria Blicharska (BLICK Productions), Nicole Ringhut (Belle Epoque Films) // Screenwriter Philippe Lopes-Curval // Based on An original screenplay // Languages French, Polish, English // Genre Animation, Historical // Format HD // Running time 80 min. // Target audience 10+ //

Current Status Development, looking for finance, searching for and trying different animation methods, writing the first draft of the script.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Looking for: production partners — international sales agent — co-producer/distributor/finances in the Netherlands — Europeans distributors.

Maria Blicharska

Nicole Ringhut

Total budget €3,000,000 // Total budget in place €127,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached CNC, FFA, Eurodoc, PISF, Nipkow, Wajda Film School

Attending HFM Maria Blicharska (BLICK Productions), Nicole Ringhut (Belle Epoque Films)

Contact Maria Blicharska (Blick Productions ) / 26 rue de Trois Bornes — 75011 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 99 30 85 17 / Email: mariab@blickproductions.fr / www.blickproductions.fr

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Illyricvm

Kinorama (Croatia) In 36 BC, Volsus, a young Illyrian, joins a Roman unit and sets off on a perilous journey into the one of the darkest regions of the Empire.

Synopsis The year is 36 BC. VOLSUS, a young Liburnian shepherd, takes up service with a unit of Roman legionaries passing through his village in exchange for a goat for his poor family. Led by its Centurion, this Roman legionary unit is tasked to secure the handover of tributes to a Roman tax collector by the occupied, yet not completely subjugated Dalmatian, Iapodic, and Daesitiate tribes. Many of these Illyrian tribes feud with each other, and the unit witnesses some of their strife on their way to the outpost, as Volsus learns to fit among the soldiers.

When the tired legionaries, some of them suffering from contagious fever, arrive at the outpost with a lookout tower, they find its crew in low spirits.

Fearing the spread of the fever, most of them desert their positions. Over time, Volsus befriends a young legionary named CURTIUS, the only rookie in the otherwise veteran unit, and gains the Centurion’s respect due to his agility and skill. Volsus cunningly suggests to the worried Centurion to take an expedition to a nearby village of the Barbarians and take a Medicine Woman hostage to treat the sick legionaries. Even though the Medicine Woman proves to be hostile to everyone except Volsus, she accepts the task of healing the soldiers.

On the handover day, the Illyrian mission brings the collected tribute. However, when the Publican makes greedy and arrogant last-minute demands for additional levies in gold, the Illyrians attack the Romans, and Volsus fights with the legionaries. Even though the legionaries are outnumbered, they win

the battle due to their discipline and skill, but at a steep price. The surviving legionaries decide not to wait for a new Illyrian attack and leave the outpost, while Volsus decides to go his separate way with the Medicine Woman.

Director’s Statement My passionate curiosity for history, archaeology, genetics, and ethnology drives me to question the concept of identity — my own or that of the community I belong to. The idea of this film has sprung from curiosity: how different are we, after all, from people who walked the same grounds two thousand years ago? How much of “their” culture and their relation toward the individual or the community have we inherited, if any? Is there any relation between “their” ethics/morality and ours?

My intention is to bring our “distant relatives” back to life: their fears, hopes, antagonisms, and love.

The intention of the film is to take the viewers on a journey through time, make them voyeurs and witnesses of times long gone. Illyricvm wants to intrigue. Spark an emotion. How? With a bit of cinematic defamiliarisation seasoned with some tangy brutality and poetry.

Director’s Profile Simon Bogojević Narath graduated in 1992 from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. As a director, art director or CGI artist/ animator, he has been working for the past twenty years on numerous projects.

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He directs, animates and produces animated/ experimental films for which he has received many Croatian and international recognitions and awards.

His film Morana was awarded at Annecy International Animated Film Festival and his film Leviathan was awarded Best Animated Film and Special Mention of the Young Jury at Clermont-Ferrand. After directing several shorts, he is now developing his first feature film Illyricvm.

Production Company Kinorama, founded in Zagreb in 2003, is a Croatian production company specialized in the production of feature films. Kinorama has produced 20 featurelength films, some of which are co-productions, more than 20 shorts and 2 TV-series. Some of its films were box-office hits in cinemas, and all of them were screened at numerous festivals around the world.

In 2015, our film Zvizdan/The High Sun directed by Dalibor Matanić was included in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015, winning the Jury Prize. Our latest film Ne gledaj mi u Pijat/Quit Staring at My Plate by Hana Jušić is to premiere at Venice Days 2016.

Simon Bogojević Narath

Kinorama’s artistic team is composed of established authors and debutants alike. We believe that particular attitude, together with great persistence in development, is what has made us one of the most productive production companies in Croatia in the last two years.

Current Status Project is fully developed, now in the process of looking for partners and financing.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Primary goal is to find co-production partners, preferably from bigger and stronger markets then our own domestic market. It would be great to attach a sales agent at this early phase.

Previous work available on Cinando Morana by Simon Bogojević Narath, 2008, 12 min.

Leviathan by Simon Bogojević Narath, 2006, 15 min.

Ira Cecić

Director Simon Bogojević Narath // Producers Ankica Jurić Tilić, Ira Cecić // Screenwriters Simon Bogojević Narath, Saša Podgorelec // Based on An original screenplay // Language Croatian // Genre Historical period drama // Format HD // Running time 100 min. // Target audience Male 25–45 //

Total budget €1,400,000 // Total budget in place €487,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Croatian Audiovisual Center

Attending HFM Ira Cecić, Simon Bogojević Narath

Contact Ankica Jurić Tilić, Ira Cecić (Kinorama) / Šulekova 29 — 10000 Zagreb (Croatia) / Tel: +385 1 231 67 87 / Email: ankica@kinorama.hr, ira@kinorama.hr / www.kinorama.hr

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Imaculat

Axel Film Echipamente (Romania) When a 19-year-old beautiful girl from a good family is committed to rehab, she becomes a precious prey to the male junkies inside. Among them she learns that addiction comes in many forms.

Synopsis Raised in an educated middle-class family, SAURA (18) has led a sheltered life until she met VLAD, who introduced her to love and heroin. When Vlad goes to prison for his past crimes, Saura commits herself to a rehab clinic, determined to get clean and wait for him to finish his 4-year sentence so they can start a new life together. While in rehab, Saura’s different background and naive loyalty to her boyfriend make her special in the eyes of the male junkies, protecting her from their sexual pressures. For them, she is a girl with a holy mission, a symbol of purity in the dark underworld of the clinic. She is desired, yet respected by everyone.

One day Vlad sends his best friend COSTEA to rehab to keep an eye on Saura. His presence, however, awakens Saura’s own desires as well as doubts about her relationship with Vlad. When she finds out that the attraction is mutual, she gives herself to Costea.

Their happiness is short-lived. The other men feel betrayed by Saura for choosing Costea after having rejected all of them, so they turn against her. Lonely and excluded, Saura soon realizes that Costea’s love does not make up for losing the others’ affections.

Hostility escalates to the point where Saura is raped one night by several patients. She accepts it in the hope of redeeming herself and regaining her special position among them. Her behaviour, however, only feeds the men’s aggression and moreover makes her lose the only one still by her side — Costea.

Eventually Saura gets discharged. Although she seems to have everything outside the clinic, she feels

like just another face in the crowd. She shoots up again. Back in rehab among the new patients, Saura can once again feel special, immaculate.

Director’s Statement In this story I want to explore how far one would go in search for an identity and how group dynamics influence this process. The institution functions as an idealistic place where one escapes the banality of daily life, and where the search for heroin is replaced by the equally addictive hunt for attention. Saura begins as a character who — out of insecurity — internalizes the perception of others, which makes her an easy prey to the junkies inside. All characters live under the illusion that they have their own strong identity, independent of the group. Only Saura sees through the illusion and understands how to make the illusion work for her own purpose. First desired by the others, then despised by them, Saura learns how to manipulate the group and construct an identity for herself, even if this identity is a fabrication in the mind of others.

Director’s Profile In 2011 Kenneth graduated from the Brussels film academy RITS with his short The Letter. It won him the VAF Wildcard and was screened at many international festivals among which Montreal and Hong Kong. Kenneth’s second short film, Feel Sad for the Bunny premiered at the International Short Film Festival of Leuven where it received the Special mention of the Jury; the international premiere was

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at Guanajuato International Film Festival. Kenneth’s first feature project Coureur has received production support from both VAF and the Wallimage fund and will be shot in the spring of 2017.

Screenwriter’s profile Monica Stan is a Romanian screenwriter with a background in psychology. Her filmography includes the shorts Down the Rabbit Hole, (Edinburgh International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival), Little Red (Berlin Today Award Competition, Berlinale 2011), Feel Sad for the Bunny (Special Mention at International Short Film Festival Leuven, 2015; Guanajuato International Film Festival 2016) and the feature Marussia (Berlinale 2013, Generation). She attended several development programmes (Torino Film Lab, 2011; Binger Film Lab, 2012; Venice Biennale College, 2014) and also participated in the Reykjavik Talent Laboratory 2009, the Sarajevo Talent Campus 2010, and in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011.

Production Company Axel Film Echipamente is a film production and equipment rental company founded in 2004. In 2007 Axel Film produced two very successful short films, A Good Day for a Swim by Bogdan Mustata, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2008 and The Box Lesson

Kenneth Mercken

by Alexandru Mavrodineanu, selected in New York Film Festival.

Recently, Marcian Lazar took over the company in order to develop daring independent projects like In Between by Bogdan Mustata and Imaculat directed by Kenneth Mercken and written by Monica Stan selected in Biennale College Cinema in Venice 2013/2014.

One of the last Marcian Lazar’s productions is Toto and his sisters a documentary applauded in the festivals and distributed in French cinemas. He produced in 2011 Loverboy, the second film of Catalin Mitulescu selected in Cannes 2011. In 2013 he finished Wolf by Bogdan Mustata (director/writer) which premiered in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival.

Current Status Imaculat is at its 3rd draft and financially secured on the Romanian side.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are looking for co-producers, sales agents and eventually distributors in the Nordic countries.

Previous work available on Cinando Feel Sad For The Bunny by Kenneth Mercken, 2015, 18 min.

Marcian Lazar

Director Kenneth Mercken // Producer Marcian Lazar // Screenwriter Monica Stan // Based on An original screenplay // Language Romanian // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 100 min. // Target audience 16–25 young active //

Total budget €850,000 // Total budget in place €371,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached CNC Romania

Attending HFM Kenneth Mercken, Marcian Lazar Contact Marcian Lazar (Axel Film Echipamente) / B-dul Regina Maria 70 — 040125 Bucharest (Romania) / Tel: +40 72 404 1627 / Email: sindbad03@gmail.com

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Love Lyubov

Viktoria Films (Bulgaria) A woman unaware of the elephant in her home... A professor, scattering the ashes of his wife in Heaven… And two boys, terrified by the end of the world.

Synopsis Lyubima: RAYA doesn’t notice the elephant that takes her living room, when she’s back home. While it eats from her plate over breakfast... While it bathes with her and flushes hot water from its trunk... While helping her collect clothings and photographes of “some” man... While giving the package to a courier...

While taking the majority of her bedroom when she’s asleep, but in her dream... In her dream Raya calls the elephant to help her load the sadness from the split up with her once beloved man on its back and take it away.

Beloved/Elysium: The OLD PROFESSOR lost his wife.

Carrying the ash urn with her remains, he takes on a car trip. While picking up hitchhikers on his way, it becomes clear that he spent his life trying to prove the Garden of Eden was on the Durankulak lake in Bulgaria. There were unsean creatures, plants, exotic birds, even lions there. Everyone thinks he’s crazy.

He arrives at the lake by sunset, scatters the ashes of his wife, lies down in the grass and closes his eyes...

And he hears steps. A lion passes. Then his young, beautiful, nude wife, gets near to an apple tree.

The End of the World: TWO BROTHERS are spending the New Year’s Eve at home. Their parents wouldn’t let them play in the snow, they can watch TV. When the speaker predicts more natural disasters in the new year, the younger brother starts crying.

The older tells him to remember the flood and how their parents saved them and he calms down.

But when their parents announce their divorce, the younger gets a puppy as a solace, while the

older one starts crying — it’s snowing, it’ll cover everything and they’ll die. The younger helps — they have a dog now, it’ll save them…

Director’s Statement I know a story works when/if I start crying. The three stories of Lyubov make me cry… And desperately want to make this beautiful film come true.

Lyubov will be shot realistically, no matter the unusual turns in Beloved/Elysium and The End of the World. It will work both as a feature and as three separate short films. Despite of my 155-minute long debut feature film Viktoria (that I wouldn’t cut a minute from if I could), Lyubov will be shorter, a 90-minute one. It will be very silent in terms of dialogues and very rich in terms of sounds and music. I’d love the nature to come in… I’m tired of noisy humans. I imagine Lyubov standing out, strong and beautiful as a snowy mountaintop, this is how I see it. I love every bit of these three stories and hope to make exactly the film I imagined.

Director’s Profile Maya Vitkova is a writer-director and producer born in Sofia. She graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts with MA in film directing.

Maya has worked as an assistant director and executive producer for national and international productions, such as the BBC’s Eastern Delight by Michael Palin and National Geographic’s The Ancient X-Files. In 2008 she executive produced Kamen Kalev’s Eastern Plays, which premiered at the

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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. In 2009 Maya founded Viktoria Films, producing two shorts written by Radu Jude, and her debut film Viktoria, which was the first Bulgarian feature at Sundance, Rotterdam and many other festivals.

Production Company In 2008 Maya Vitkova executive produced Eastern Plays by Kamen Kalev. The film premiered at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight. Eastern Plays was nominated for the LUX award, selected for the European Film Awards and was Bulgaria’s candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2011.

In 2009 Maya founded Viktoria Films, producing and directing two shorts written by the 2015 Berlinale Silver Bear winner Radu Jude, and her feature film Viktoria. The film was selected for the Script & Pitch Workshops, the Balkan Fund,

the Berlinale Talent Project Market, the NIPKOW Programme, the EKRAN Programme and the Phare Workshop. Viktoria was supported by the MEDIA, Vienna Film Fund and the Bulgarian National Film Center. It was the first Bulgarian feature film in competition at Sundance, Rotterdam and many others in 2014/2015. Viktoria was selected for more than 70 festivals, received 10 awards and was distributed in the US. Current Status Script and project development stage.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Meeting co-producers, a sales agent and financiers.

Previous work available on Cinando Viktoria by Maya Vitkova, 2014, 155 min.

Maya Vitkova Director Maya Vitkova // Producer Maya Vitkova // Screenwriter Maya Vitkova // Based on An original screenplay // Language Bulgarian // Genre Drama (Magical Realism) // Format Digital (transfer to 35mm) // Running time 90 min. // Target audience Age 18–49 //

Total budget €1,200,000 // Total budget in place €25,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Bulgarian National Film Center

Attending HFM Maya Vitkova

Contact Maya Vitkova (Viktoria Films) / 2, Ivan Asen II Str., Tzarevetz Building — 1124 Sofia (Bulgaria) / Tel: +359 2 481 36 12 / Email: mayvitkovitz@yahoo.com / www.viktoriafilms.jimdo.com

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Molly

Adventure Pictures (UK) 24 hours in the five lives of Leo. Synopsis The story follows 24 hours in the life of LEO, a man in his fifties, who lives alone in Brooklyn, supported by a visiting care worker.

Leo’s erratic behaviour, far-away expression and apparently incoherent speech patterns seem to suggest that he is “losing it”. Seen from Leo’s perspective, however, things look very different.

He is slipping in and out of parallel worlds in which he is living the “roads not taken”, the selves he might have become had he made different choices at crossroads moments earlier in his life. In these parallel worlds he is variously a writer living on a Greek island, a bereaved father living with his first great love in rural Mexico, a philosophy professor at Oxford University and a gay tap-dancer in Manhattan.

Leo’s 24-hour odyssey begins when his loving daughter MOLLY arrives at his apartment to take him to the dentist. A series of mishaps and tragi-comic catastrophes ensues during the day, whilst, in parallel, the puzzle of his other interlocking lives gradually reveals itself.

Molly eventually realizes that her father’s apparent illness may be masking an entirely different reality. At the end of their epic day together, when she is, at last, able to grasp what he is seeing, her recognition of his experience enables him to “come home”, both to her and to the life he has chosen.

Director’s Statement Molly is a story that people can relate to from various perspectives: that of an adult facing the fragility of his or her ageing parents; or someone close to a loved one suffering from disability; or as anyone wondering

how their lives might have turned out if they had taken a different road.

The experience of the film needs to be seamless and credible. Are Leo’s experiences of his “other selves” illusory or real? As Molly attempts to see what he is seeing (and we see it all), the question becomes not rhetorical but actual.

As an antidote to the commonly held view of mentally altered states Molly proposes a radically different view of disability. Verbal incoherence can be seen as poetic speech, absence can be seen as a form of mind travel, and the “right” way of doing things just a set of conventions.

I want the film to be an intimate and moving experience: emotionally gripping, with an undertow of existential uncertainty. I want it to be visually stunning: as beautiful and varied as the places and spaces described. I want it to have a feeling of scale, honouring the epic, complex experience that each and every one of us privately knows about as we tread the mysterious trajectories of our lives.

Director’s Profile Sally Potter made her first 8mm film at the age of fourteen and has since written and directed eight feature films, as well as many short films (including Thriller and Play) and a television series, and has directed opera and other live work. Potter’s films have won over forty international awards and received both BAFTA and Academy Award nominations. She has had full career retrospectives of her film and video work at the BFI Southbank, London, MoMA, New York, and the Cinematheque, Madrid. She was awarded an OBE in 2012. Her book

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“Naked Cinema: Working with Actors” was published in 2014.

Producer’s Profile Christopher Sheppard founded Adventure Pictures when he first joined forces with writer/director Sally Potter in 1990. The Oscar-nominated Orlando (1992), starring Tilda Swinton, marked his debut as a feature film producer and was one of the first ever multicountry European co-productions. This was followed by the BAFTA-nominated The Tango Lesson (1996), The Man Who Cried (2000), Yes (2004), Rage (2009), the first feature film to premiere simultaneously in

Sally Potter

cinemas and on mobile phones, which was nominated for a Webby Award, and Ginger & Rosa (2012). Their latest film, The Party, is currently in post-production.

See www.sallypotter.com/films Current Status Script ready, with casting and financing ongoing. Aim to be in production by Spring 2017.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Find co-production and financing partners suitable for the project.

Kurban Kassam

Director Sally Potter // Producers Christopher Sheppard, Kurban Kassam // Screenwriter Sally Potter // Based on An original screenplay // Language English // Genre Drama // Format 35mm // Running time 100 min. // Target audience 25–50, male and female //

Total budget €7.765.023 // Total budget in place €1.194.491 // Sales TBD // Partners attached BBC Films, British Film Institute

Attending HFM Kurban Kassam

Contact Christopher Sheppard (Adventure Pictures) / 6 Blackbird Yard — E2 7RP London (UK) / Tel: +44 20 7613 2233 / Email: cs@adventurepictures.co.uk / www.adventurepictures.co.uk

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Point Nemo Punto Nemo

Aquí y Allí Films (Spain) A couple in crisis travel to France through a north of Spain full of secrets, stalked by three dark and mysterious women and the threat of her illness closing in on them.

Synopsis EVA (a marine biologist) and ALEJANDRO (a salesman for a canned seafood company) are a middle-aged couple living in Galicia in the mid 1980’s. Their marriage is exhausted by time and marked by the fact that Eva is seriously ill. Moreover, a lack of communication between the couple prevents them from talking about the disease.

With the excuse of accompanying her husband on a business trip, the couple embark on a journey full of secrets across the north of the Iberian Peninsula. The trip is however ridden with yet another secret, as Eva is unaware that Alejandro has hidden a large amount of money in the trunk of the car.

What’s more, Eva and Alejandro are not alone on the road. Traveling in a strange vehicle, three even stranger women follow them closely. Three sinister individuals with an unknown agenda leaving death and destruction in their wake.

Along the way, Alejandro and Eva will have to reexamine their relationship and start to accept the closeness of death, a death that stalks them not only in the form of disease, but also personified in those three obscure women threatening their lives.

Director’s Statement How do we break out of routine life? How much do we know about our partner? And above all, is it possible to accept the loss of a loved one? These are some of the questions that underpin Point Nemo.

A road movie. A drama/thriller with a touch of science fiction presented in the form of magic realism.

Spielberg’s Duel meets Lynch’s The Straight Story.

Point Nemo is a trip to the heart of a couple trying to overcome their communication problems and accept the closeness of death. Death, not only present in the illness that Eva suffers, but also in the form of three strange women. Three sinister figures. Angels of death who, instead of riding horses like the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, follow in a gloomy car.

The contrast between reality and magic is a fundamental part of Point Nemo. The film presents a story with a double meaning. A “chase film” that can be read as both a thriller and an imposing metaphor for death and it’s everlasting presence.

Director’s Profile José Skaf started his career directing commercials and short films. In 2009 he joined the Creative Department at Turner Spain as director of commercials and short pieces for TCM, TNT, Cartoon Network and CNN. In May 2014 Variety included Skaf as one of the top talents to watch out for in their annual appraisal of “Spanish talent on the rise” during the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2015 he directed his first feature film Vulcania, produced by Zentropa Spain, Zentropa Sweden and France’s Ran Entertainment. The film premiered at the Sitges Film Festival 2015 in Official Competition.

Production Company Aquí y Allí Films is mainly engaged in the development and production of feature films, with a special eye on new talents. Pedro Hernández Santos was a qualified engineer until his film director

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friend Antonio Mendez Esparza asked him for help to produce his avant-garde debut Here And There.

Esparza‘s film subsequently won the Grand Prix of the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in 2012 and was commercially released in the US, Canada, Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain and acquired

by HBO Latino, Cine+ (FR) and ARTE. Pedro has since produced Carlos Vermut‘s Goya- winning Magical Girl (with distribution handled by international sales agent Films Distribution and sold in several territories such as France, Japan or Latin America), Joaquin Oristrell‘s Talk (winner of the Biznaga de Plata Young Jury Prize

José Skaf

at the Malaga Film Festival), and Miguel del Arco‘s feature debut The Furies (currently in post-production).

Current Status Development.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Looking for co-producers and an international sales agent.

Previous work available on Cinando Vulcania by José Skaf, 2015. 95 min.

Pedro Hernández Santos

Director José Skaf // Producer Pedro Hernández Santos // Screenwriter José Skaf // Based on An original screenplay // Language Spanish, French // Genre Drama/thriller // Format HD — 2.35 // Running time 100 min. // Target audience Male/female 25+ //

Total budget €1,400,000 // Total budget in place €350,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached No partners yet on board. Looking for a Dutch or other European co-producer with whom to apply to MEDIA and Eurimages

Attending HFM Pedro Hernández Santos, José Skaf

Contact Pedro Hernández Santos (Aquí y Allí Films) / Calle San Rogelio, 6 — 28039 Madrid (Spain) / Tel: +34 649 411 141 / Email: pedro.hernandez @aquiyallifilms.com / www.aquiyallifilms.com

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The Religion of Night Walks Religija Noćnih Šetnji

Film House Baš Čelik, Qče (Serbia) Jovan is a Yugoslav engineer working on the construction of the first wind farm in Iran in 1983. His wife Sanja and son Luka are visiting him after a long separation.

Synopsis JOVAN (36) is a Yugoslav engineer working for VINDTECH, a Danish company making the first wind farm in the Iranian desert in 1983. When they discover that all the blades have a flaw, they have to bypass UN sanctions and import the blades again through Dubai harbor.

Jovan’s wife SANJA (34) and son LUKA (11) are visiting him after a long separation. Although glad that his family came, Jovan obsessively focuses on kickstarting the stalled project. Sanja is not happy with Jovan neglecting them and, over time, their quarrels get more serious. Luka finds shelter from family fights by hanging out with other kids, and gets interested in DOT (12), daughter of Jovan’s boss JENS (40). They’re obsessed with visiting the forbidden beach nearby.

Jovan meets RON (45), a Swiss-American businessman and Red Crescent representative, who’s able to help them import the blades. Jens doesn’t trust Ron and prefers to stay put. Jovan’s irritated that nothing is progressing.

Sanja erupts when SARA (37), Jens’ wife, tells her that Jens had let Jovan go home until the arrival of the new blades, but instead, Jovan decided to bring his family to the desert. Sanja and Jovan get into a fight. He lies to her, saying that Jens had assigned him to follow the shipment, and goes away, forges Jens’ signature on Ron’s contract, and seals the deal with Ron. As Jovan gets on a cargo ship heading to Dubai, Luka sneaks out to meet Dot and his friends to go to the forbidden beach, and Sanja is rethinking her marriage

and questions the idea of having another child with Jovan after he returns to Yugoslavia, as they agreed.

A swirling vortex of drama catapults them from love and happiness towards the threat of death. But before they can be reunited as a family, all three will have to reunite with themselves first.

Director’s Statement My dad actually worked in Iran in 1983. Back then I was a one-year-old baby, so I don’t remember how my mom got through that period, but I always felt strange about it — I was at the same time proud of him and I hated that he was away. He was there on a mission to finish the job and come back home, but I started thinking what would happen if it was a different guy over there, quite different to my dad, a guy who gets absorbed by his job, who has no connection to the world while working. Basically, a guy like me. How can you be a dreamer 24/7, get completely sucked into the spiral of your own work, and still have a family to back you up? It’s not a question for just for a movie, it’s a question for a lifetime, really.

Director’s Profile Born in 1981, Nikola Ležaić is a writer/director/ producer based in Belgrade (Serbia). He graduated in film directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His directorial debut Tilva Roš premiered in Sarajevo and Locarno and was screened in Rotterdam, Warsaw, Miami, San Francisco and over 40 other festivals, winning more that twenty awards around the

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world. It was nominated for the Best Debut at the 2011 EFA Awards. In 2014 Nikola produced The Disobedient, a feature that premiered in Sundance. He has directed over a hundred music and commercial videos and is interested in off-topic stories that don’t fit anywhere.

premiere at 2013 Sundance Film Festival, World Dramatic Competition and won the Special Jury Prize.

The film had its European premiere at Berlinale Forum where it received the Prize of Ecumenical Jury.

Jelena Mitrović is Head Producer.

Production Company Film House Baš Čelik was established in 1998. Until now we have produced and co-produced fourteen feature films and several documentaries and short films. Our productions include the feature film The Trap directed by Srdan Golubović, that premiered in Berlinale Forum 2007, winning 22 international awards and short listed for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. The feature film Clip, directed by Maja Miloš, won the Tiger Award at 2012 IFFR. The short animated film Rabbitland, directed by Nikola Majdak and Ana Nedeljković, won the Crystal Bear at 2013 Berlinale (Generation 14+). Our last feature film Circles, directed by Srdan Golubović had its world

Current Status The project is in development stage and we just received production support in Serbia. We are currently looking for co-production partners and locations for shooting.

Nikola Ležaić

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We strongly feel that the Platform is the right place to be to find potential partners, co-producers and a sales agent that will join us in bringing this beautiful story on screen.

Previous work available on Cinando Tilva Roš by Nikola Ležaić, 2010, 99 min.

Jelena Mitrović

Director Nikola Ležaić // Producer Jelena Mitrović // Screenwriter Nikola Ležaić // Based on An original screenplay // Languages Serbian, English, Danish, Farsi, Arabic, Kazakh, Yiddish // Genre Family drama // Format 35mm anamorphic // Running time 130 min. // Target audience 16+ //

Total budget €2,048,306 // Total budget in place €450,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Film Center Serbia, Propeler Film (Croatia)

Attending HFM Jelena Mitrović, Nikola Ležaić

Contact Jelena Mitrović (Film House Baš Čelik) / Gospodar Jevremova 35 — 11000 Belgrade (Serbia) / Tel: +381 641145237 / jelena@bascelik.net / www.bascelik.net

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Sunburned

NiKo Film, Flickfilm (Germany) Twelve-year-old Claire is vacationing with her family in Morocco. Neglected by her mother and sister, she meets Senegalese immigrant Amram on the beach. As part of a childish game she makes him a promise she cannot break.

Synopsis CLAIRE (12) an overweight and shy girl, vacationing with her older sister ZOE (15) and mother SOPHIE (40) in Morocco. They stay at 70‘s resort hotel Le Mirage situated outside Tangier. Sophie spends her day by the pool and shows a minimum of interest in her daughters.

In the beginning Claire clings to her older sister Zoe, who mercifully lets her tag along with different activities. But when Zoe meets MIKAEL, a boy her own age, Claire is left alone.

By the beach Claire befriends AMRAM, a young Senegalese beach vendor. As part of a childish game, she promises to help Amram reach Europe. A promise which becomes difficult to break as their relationship deepens.

At the resort Claire also befriends CHANTAL and SANDRA (both age 15); two blond, tanned girls with heavy make-up. They introduce Claire to the “fainting game”. It is a game where one person hugs the other until she or he faints and “dreams”. Claire introduces the game to Amram who uses it as a method to contact his father. Amram’s father says that he is in danger and must leave Morocco immediately.

When her family is planning a day trip to Spain, Claire hides Amram in the confined space at the stem of the boat. While crossing the Gibraltar strait, a violent storm fills the boat with water. Claire is terrified, not sure of whether Amram will survive in the narrow and water drenched space.

Eventually they arrive in Spain and go to a restaurant in order to dry out. Claire runs back to the boat. The confined space is empty. She roams the

streets, desperately looking for Amram. She discovers him in a crowd of immigrants. She waves goodbye.

Amram smiles before disappearing.

Director’s Statement I remember my own vacations as a teenager with the family; the strange mix of apprehension and boredom that set in as the summer holidays began. There were two constants, the burning sun and the unnaturally blue ocean, which combined with a longing for something to break the monotony of the vacation resort. And the eternal power struggle between my sister and me, and how we alternated between being friends and siblings in conflict.

I remember how the holidays allowed us to take on new personas, and how our teenage selves evolved as we encountered new people. It was an intoxicating feeling, closely related to the promise of leaving our childhood behind.

Our road to adulthood often took place against the backdrop of poverty and political unrest in the countries we visited. But like most tourists we indulged in the food, people and culture, instead of reflecting upon the circumstances. Sunburned is about all this; tourism, immigration and ultimately the dream of Europe, centring around the story of two young people and their shared longing for a better existence.

Director’s Profile Carolina Hellsgård is an award-winning writerdirector, born in Sweden and based in Berlin.

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She studied experimental media design at the Berlin University of Arts and film directing and screenwriting at Cal Arts in Los Angeles.

Her critically acclaimed debut feature film Wanja premiered at Berlinale 2015 and was nominated for Berlinale Best First Feature Award. It won Best Screenplay (Valletta FF) and Best Feature Film Debut at the Biberacher Filmfestspiele. It was theatrically released in Germany in the summer of 2016.

Production Company Nicole Gerhards studied Theatre and French in Paris as well as Film Production at the dffb (Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie) in Berlin. In 2006, Nicole Gerhards founded NiKo Film with which she has produced films such as the Kosovar Oscar-Entry Babai by Visar Morina, winner of three New Talent Awards at last year’s Filmfest München and Best Director at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, The Stranger in Me and Kill Me. Before Mom and the Other Loonies in the Family by Ibolya Fekete and Clash by Mohamed Diab, both premiering in Germany at this year’s Filmfest München, she co-

Carolina Hellsgård

produced films like Matías Bize‘s The Memory of Water (Venice Days 2015), Stina Werenfels’ Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of our Parents (Berlinale 2015 — Panorama) and The Prize by Paula Markovitch, which won two Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2011, amongst other accolades. In 2012 Nicole Gerhards was chosen to represent Germany as Producer on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival and took part in the Producers Lab Toronto and the prestigious Inside Pictures Programme. Nicole Gerhards is a member of EAVE, ACE, the European and the German Film Academy.

Current Status Financing.

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

Previous work available on Cinando Wanja by Caroline Hellsgard, 2015, 87 min.

Nicole Gerhards

Director Carolina Hellsgård // Producers Nicole Gerhards, Johanna Aust // Screenwriter Carolina Hellsgård // Based on An original screenplay // Languages German, English // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 90 min. // Target audience Women (70%) and men (30%) aged 20–60, Arthouse with crossover to family and children aged 10–15 //

Total budget €1,700,000 // Total budget in place €285,795 // Sales TBD // Partners attached German TV WDR, Medienboard Berlin-Bradenburg — Development

Attending HFM Carolina Hellsgård, Nicole Gerhards

Contact Nicole Gerhards, Johanna Aust (NiKo Film, Flickfilm) / Prinzessinnenstraße 16 — 10969 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 27 58 28 36 / Email: info@nikofilm.de / www.nikofilm.de / www.flickfilm.eu

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Tangier Stories

In Vivo Films (France) Europeans collide with locals in a Tangier as brutally real as it is mythically glamorous; a theatre of absurd, forbidden and violent meetings.

Synopsis In a city better known for its faded colonial glamour than its poverty, more for its bohemian literary mythology and past debaucheries than for its increasingly complex position as gateway between Europe, Africa and the Muslim world, westerners in search of a low-cost paradise and locals struggling to get ahead in a world where survival is not always straight forward collide.

Taking cues from the work of Fassbinder, Seidl and Solondz, Tangier Stories is a tryptich of dark, sometimes comic episodes, each taking a protagonist foolishly, yet movingly, into the redemptive and sometimes reciprocal dreams of the exotic other — until it is too late.

Our three protagonists are GARY (45) a family man and animal-lover who arrives in Tangier after an anti-climactic coming out in suburban England; JAMILA (11) an overlooked schoolgirl who believes French men are much kinder and sensitive than Moroccan ones and SIMO (35), whose rehabilitation after a long prison sentence is threatened by an overwhelming need for revenge.

Linking these stories is KENNETH (69) — an eccentric British art dealer, self-proclaimed aesthete, nihilist and neo-colonialist — who lives in the most beautiful house atop the kasbah, tucked away within an oriental garden and serviced by dwarfs.

Tangier Stories reveals itself to be a study of violence — the violence of post-colonialism and globalisation.

It will show a decadent world in which everything has a value and life often proves to be rather cheap.

Ultimately, power proves to be the ultimate problem with those existing on either side of the divide liable to be corrupted. This is extremely important, since the viewer must not be allowed black-and-white thinking and the myth of the “noble savage”. The oppressed person who retains his sense of dignity is, to me, particularly odious. Meanwhile, I do not deny the fact that fragile human hopes are frequently absurd, funny and moving. In this film these things find their way into a patchwork where violence threatens to erupt at any moment.

Director’s Statement Using the West’s outrageous obsession with leisure and tourism as a deceptively glamorous starting point,

Production Company Set up in 2015 in France, In Vivo Films aims to support directors and writers from various backgrounds and

Director’s Profile Born in 1985, Fyzal Boulifa is a writer-director based between Tangier, Paris and London. He directed several short films including Whore, selected at over 20 international film festivals and The Curse, winner of the Illy Prize at Cannes Director’s Fortnight 2012 and nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Short Film Category, also selected for Sundance. Last year his most recent short Rate Me once again won the Illy Prize at Director’s Fortnight and received Honorable Mentions at Toronto International Film Festival and Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal.

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countries. In Vivo Films produces projects with a strong cultural identity, tackling local subjects that have the potential to reach an international audience.

In Vivo Films is currently developing several feature films and short films in international co-production.

Current Status In development/financing.

Fyzal Boulifa

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform Looking for distributors, sales agents, TV pre-sales, co-producers.

Previous work available on Cinando Rate Me by Fyzal Boulifa, 2015, 17 min.

The Curse by Fyzal Boulifa, 2012, 16 min.

Louise Bellicaud

Director Fyzal Boulifa // Producers Louise Bellicaud, Claire Charles-Gervais // Screenwriter Fyzal Boulifa // Based on An original screenplay // Languages French, English, Arabic // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 100 min // Target audience Adult, 25+ //

Total budget €1,300,000 // Total budget in place €76,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached CNC (rewriting support), Région Aquitaine (development support)

Attending HFM Louise Bellicaud, Fyzal Boulifa

Contact Louise Bellicaud (In Vivo Films) / 23 rue Basse de saint Eloi — 17 000 La Rochelle (France) / Tel: +33 663033734 / Email: louise@invivofilms.com / www.invivofilms.com

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The Twins Bliznetzi

Apple Film Production (Poland) The resemblance to his older twin becomes a damnation for the young man, driving him from murder to love, from happiness to death. Until the end, his own shadow pretends to be the ghost of his dead brother, following him as his inflexible fate.

Synopsis The YOUNGER of the TWIN brothers begins to tell the story: “My brother was born a couple of minutes before me, and when I was born — I had his face, his body, and afterwards his desires, plans and dreams. It was we instead of I”. Still, no brother ever had privileges over the other and it seemed it did not give reason for jealousy or envy. Until the day the younger brother meets the fiancé of the OLDER one. Now the similarity seems to become fatal. The miraculous resemblances makes the murder to seem to be as logical as within easy reach.

The younger brother kills the older one. Finally he can take over the place of his brother. His beloved wife gets pregnant. She admits, that she always considered the younger brother to be just a copy of the older. Never the younger could have replaced the older! The damnation of his dead brother’s ghost gains on him. The desperation makes him to use the resemblances as the wellestablished joker in challenging the fate. He murders again. It turns out, that the joker is the fate itself — he obviously mistakes his own fingerprint on the murder weapon for the fingerprint of his twin. The letter written by him to his wife a few days before the death penalty tells her the whole story in order to be set free from the curse to be inseparable from his brother, to become himself. In the name of love for her he prays, that the child she is bearing will resemble her. She finishes reading the letter and a little hand wipes the tears of her cheek. She kisses the little hand, cuddles a little dark head, and then another creature, exactly the same, hugs her and reaches for kisses.

Director’s Statement The Twins attracts me because it offers plenty of opportunity to achieve a peculiar merging of form and content, resulting in a film which will take possession of the imagination of an adult audience, like only the magic of a fairy tale can capture a child. The essence of the film is a mysterious and unfathomable element, tempting the players into a terrible game in which the winner is destined to be only the element itself.

How temptingly glimmers the promise of happiness.

It should be gentle, serene. Within easy reach.

And the rules are inflexible — once lured into the fata morgana, the invisible Mistress of the Game enters in full force of her terrible power. When the game seems over, it leaves behind a chilling numbness and a piercing recollection of gentle happiness, of a dream that seemed to someone to be the meaning of all life.

Director’s Profile Eva Neymann was born in 1974 in Zaporozhje (Ukraine).

She lives between Ukraine and Germany. Neymann studied Law at Philipps Universität in Marburg and graduated as film director at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (2007) with the documentary film Puti Gospodni (God’s Ways) which was awarded the German talent prize First Steps in 2007.

She has made three feature films, three documentaries and four shorts. All of them participated and were awarded at numerous international film festivals.

Her feature debut At the River was based on a script written in cooperation with Friedrich Gorenstein,

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novelist and screenwriter, author among others of Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky. The project was supported by the Hubert Bals Fund. At the River had its international premiere at IFFR in 2007 and was selected for the main competition in Moscow and London Film Festivals, among others.

Her second feature, House with the Turret (2012), received numerous awards, including Karlovy Vary East of the West Award, Tallinn Back Nights Grand Prix, Istanbul Audience Award, and was screened in Shanghai, London, and many other festivals.

Her last film, Song of Songs (2015) was premiered in Karlovy Vary’s Official Competition, screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Festival, and won the Best Film Award and Best Ukrainian Film Award at Odessa Film Festival.

Production Company Apple Film Production was established twenty-five years ago, as one of a very first independent film production companies in Poland. So far they have produced more than 20 features, the same amount of full length documentaries and few successful drama-series — co-producing with independent producers from many countries and getting near to 200 international and national awards. Apple Film Production has participated in two co-productions

Eva Neymann

Izabela Wójcik

Director Eva Neymann // Producer Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kamińska, Izabela Wójcik, Aleksander Tkachenko, Nicole Gerhards // Screenwriter Eva Neymann // Language Ukrainian // Genre Drama // Format 35 mm colour film // Running time 90 minutes //

with Dutch company Topkapi Films: Aftermath by Wladyslaw Pasikowski and Nude Area by Urszula Antoniak. Other AFP’s recent productions are Under Electric Clouds by Alexey German Jr. (Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlinale 2015) and German Jr.’s new film Dovlatov which is now in production. In high-end drama, Apple Film has recently co-produced together with its UK partners, the series The Passing Bells for BBC and TVP — script by award-winning writer/producer Tony Jordan— and Spies in Warsaw, starring David Tennant and based on Alan Furst’s acclaimed novel of the same title.

Current Status The author is invited to ScripTeast and will get the support of international advisors before writing the final draft. Shooting is planned for September 2017 in Odessa (Ukraine), scouting in Odessa is taking place now.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are looking for partners interested in Eva Neymann’s talent, artistic vision and this particular project: first of all co-producers, funds, broadcasters and sales agents.

Previous work available on Cinando Song of Songs by Eva Neymann, 2015, 76 min.

Dariusz Jabłoński Target audience Primary audience 18–49, female audience, couples, well educated // Total budget €1,200,000 // Total budget in place €360,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached TET-Production (Ukraine), NiKo Film (Germany)

Attending HFM Eva Neymann, Izabela Wójcik, Dariusz Jabłoński Contact Izabela Wójcik (Apple Film Production) / Marii Kazimiery 23E — 01-670 Warsaw (Poland) / Tel: +48 501299277 / Email: izabela@applefilm.pl / www.applefilm.pl

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The Whale Hunter К ИТО БО Й

Rock Films (Russia) A whale hunter from Chukotka falls in love with a sex chat model and embarks on a daring journey to cross the strait separating Russia and America to find his love.

Synopsis 15-year old LESHKA OTTOI lives in an isolated village in Chukotka, just 180 km away from Alaska. Like most men in his village he is a whale hunter, the only means of survival and source of nutrition in the harsh climate.

All the young girls in the village are taken away for summer education to a faraway town. This means that the boys have to face an entire summer without romance, dates, trips to the disco or journeys into the tundra by motorcycle. A summer of tedium.

But recently, the internet has reached their village.

Boys gather to watch an erotic webcam chat site on which they see beautiful girls that live thousands of kilometers away and speak unfamiliar languages. For most of the boys it’s just a bit of fun, but Leshka falls in love with a beautiful and silent girl from America.

He is changed by his feeling — he experiences all the effects of first love, from inspiration and joy to wild jealousy which draws him into a brutal fight with his best friend, resulting in his flight from his native village.

Leshka decides to track down his beloved. All he knows is that the video-chat company is based in Detroit. Early in the morning, Leshka steals a motorboat, a pair of binoculars and a whaling harpoon and sets out.

Ahead lies is a crazy journey that doesn’t quite go as planned.

Director’s Statement As a director, I have set myself the goal of telling a simple but fascinating story about a boy growing up in an amazing place on our planet that is little known to

wider audiences. The magic land, scenic tundra above the churning sea and the majestic whales — these are more than mere exotic backdrops to the story, they are fully-fledged characters that play a role in proceedings.

The love of the protagonist for the far-removed silhouette of a beautiful girl leads him to embark upon the strangest thing he has ever set out to do: a dangerous journey through the water of the Bering Strait to an unknown world — America.

Leshka is naïve and too young to understand that the virtual girl is merely an image concocted by his own imagination. The outcome of his trip is his coming of age and his path towards manhood.

Director’s Profile Philipp Yuryev graduated from the Russian State University of Cinematography in 2013. His first short film The Morning with Different Eyes (2008) won several prizes at international film festivals including São Paulo IFF, Abu Dhabi IFF and Montreal, InterFilm (Berlin). The Modified Landscape (2009) was presented at the CineGlobe IFF (Geneva) and received a Special Mention and Special Jury Prize for the Best Cinematography at St. Anna Student FF (Moscow).

The Song Of The Mechanical Fish (2012) was competed at Sundance and Clermont-Ferrand and received the Special Jury Prize at Rio de Janeiro IFF and Message To Man IFF (St. Petersburg).

Production Company Rock Films was founded by Alexey Uchitel in 1991.

The company’s feature films have been awarded at

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numerous international film festivals, selected as official Russian entries for Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and widely released both domestically and internationally.

Over the past two decades Rock Films has produced more than 30 films, both feature and documentary, which have received more than 60 prestigious awards at international film festivals including The Edge (Golden Globe nomination), The Fool (Locarno IFF prize for Best Actor), The Major (Cannes Critic’s Week), Bite the Dust (Cannes’, Official Selection) and others.

Philipp Yuryev

Current Status Second draft.

Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform We are looking for co-production partners, international sales companies and festival representatives.

Previous work available on Cinando The Song Of The Mechanical Fish by Philipp Yuryev, 2012, 30 min.

Anna Shalashina

Director Philipp Yuryev // Producers Alexey Uchitel, Anna Shalashina // Screenwriters Philipp Yuryev // Based on An original screenplay // Language Russian, English // Genre Drama // Format HD, 4K // Running time 90 min. // Target audience 18–35 //

Total budget €1,167,480 // Total budget in place 30% // Sales TBD // Partners attached Orka (Poland)

Attending HFM Anna Shalashina, Philipp Yuryev

Contact Alexey Uchitel, Anna Shalashina (Rock Films) / Krukov kanal, 12 — 19068 Saint Petersburg (Russia) / Tel: +78127142056 / Email: info@rockfilms.ru / www.rockfilms.ru

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© Patrik Tamm / Pretenders — HFM Co-Pro 2014

© Pief Weyman / Tonio — HFM Co-Pro 2014

Previously at the HFM Co-Production Platform Project update as of August 2016 2015 In production APPLE OF MY EYE (Yaron Shani), Black Sheep Film Productions, Israel // SUMMER 1993 (Carla Simón), Inicia Films, Spain // In pre-production BABY JANE (Katja Gauriloff), Oktober, Finland // THE HUNT (Emre Akay), JaguarProjects, Turkey // Financing POWER (Matyas Prikler), Mphilms, Slovakia // SONS OF SUNDAY (Rami Kodeih), Senorita Films, France/Lebanon // SUBSTRATA (Finola Geraghty), Savage Productions, Ireland // TODAY WE LIVE (Sylvestre Sbille), Panache Productions, Belgium // In development FRANCO (Jan en Raf Roosens), Rococo, Belgium // I BET YOU WOULD! (Jenifer Malmqvist), Chinema Film Sweden, Sweden // LE VOYEUR (Berend & Roel Boorsma), Smarthouse Films, The Netherlands // MNK BOY (Mete Gümürhan), Kaliber Film, The Netherlands // OTAR’S DEATH (Ioseb Bliadze), Color of May, Imanov & Blondiau Filmproduktion, Georgia/Germany // PLAYING GOD (Karin Jurschick), Bildersturm Filmproduktion, Germany // SHARDS OF US (LAGE ZWALUWE), Erik de Bruyn, Submarine, The Netherlands // THE MAN DISAPPEARED (Jonathan

Sagall), Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, Germany // THE OTHER MAN (Stephan Komandarev), Bulgaria // TURN (Bea de Visser), AnotherFilm, The Netherlands // UNKNOWN FAMILY (Ron Termaat), Rinkel Film, The Netherlands // WALTZING MATILDE (Bobby Boermans), BosBros., The Netherlands // 2014 Completed PRETENDERS (Vallo Toomla), Amrion Production, Estonia — San Sebastian 2016 // UPSTREAM (Marion Hänsel), Man’s Films Productions, Belgium — Release in 2016 (fall) // THE LIGHT THEREAFTER (Konstantin Bojanov), Multfilm, Bulgaria // In post-production DEVIL’S BRIDE (Saara Cantell), Periferia Productions, Finland // DEW (Denijal Hasanovic), Skorpion arte, Poland // TONIO (Paula van der Oest), NL Film and TV, The Netherlands // SOMETHING USEFUL (Pelin Esmer), Sinefilm, Turkey // In pre-production GOOD GAME WELL PLAYED (Olena Fetisova), Interfilm Production Studio, Ukraine // FORBIDDEN LOVE (Nicole van Kilsdonk), Waterland Film, The Netherlands // MY ROMANTIC HISTORY (Keri Collins), Magnified Pictures, UK //

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Upstream — HFM Co-Pro 2014

©Kris Dewitte / Monk — HFM Co-Pro 2013

Financing 10 SONGS FOR CHARITY (Karin Junger), De Productie, The Netherlands // HIGH DIVE (Adam Csaszi), Focusfox, Hungary // LITTLE PARADISE (Philipp Döring), Weydemann Bros., Germany // PARI (Siamak Etemadi), Heretic, Greece // THE INCONVENIENCE (Benito Zambrano), Talycual / La Claqueta / Tito Clint Movies, Spain // TO ALL NAKED MEN (Bassam Chekhes), Column Film, The Netherlands // In development A SHINING FLAW (Erwin Olaf), Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, The Netherlands // FREEFALL (Thérèse Ahlbeck), Tiny Lumberjack, Sweden // HAIRDRESSER’S SALON BEATRIX (Mischa Kamp), BosBros, The Netherlands // PLAYBOY PRIEST (Arne Toonen), Rinkel Film, The Netherlands // TRADE (written by Mark O’Halloran), Roads Entertainment, Ireland //

// WRECK IT! (Max Zähle), Tamtam Film, Germany — Release 2016 // MONK (Ties Schenk), Viking Film, The Netherlands // In pre-production LA HOLANDESA (Marleen Jonkman), Smarthouse Films, The Netherlands // Financing GOD’S LEGS (written by Fran Araújo), Imval Producciones, Spain // In development EXOTIC PICTURES (Edwin), Babibutafilm, Indonesia // PASSING CLOUDS (Tatiana Korol), Wostok / Scala // Productions, UK // PIGS IN THE WIND (Stergios Paschos), Marni Films, Greece // THE BURNING BRIDGES (Pablo González), La Mer a Boire Productions, France // THE FEAR OF GOD (Simon de Waal), In production Star Film Production, The Netherlands // WITCH OF THE FENS (Thijs Schreuder), Fu Works, The Netherlands // On hold KAI (Oleg Sentsov), CryCinema, Ukraine //

2013 Completed ABSOLUTION (Petri Kotwica), Vertigo Production, Finland — Released in 2015 // ALBUM (Mehmet Can Mertoglu), Kamara, Turkey — Cannes 2016 Critic’s Week // A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies), Hurricane Films, UK — Berlinale 2016 // BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP (Heinrich Dahms), Buzzmedia Network, The Netherlands / South Africa — Released in 2015 // EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (Peter Greenaway), Submarine, The Netherlands — Berlinale 2015, Competition // HEARTSTONE (Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson), FRÆ films, Iceland, — Venice 2016 // MY NAME IS EMILY (Simon Fitzmaurice), Kennedy Films / Newgrange Pictures, Ireland — Galway Film Fleadh 2015, Opening Film // TOGETHER FOR EVER (Lina Luzyte), Just a moment, Lithuania — Release TBA

2012 Completed Dust Cloth (Ahu Öztürk), Ret Film, Turkey — Berlinale 2016, Forum // THE Father (Artur Urbánski), Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Poland — “Młodzi i Film” Festival // In the Heart (Nicole van Kilsdonk), Waterland Film, The Netherlands — Film Festival Oostende 2014 // J.Kessels (Erik de Bruyn), CTM LEV Pictures, The Netherlands — NFF 2015, Opening Film // Motherland (Senem Tüzen), Yeni Sinemacilar / Tato Film / Zela Film, Turkey — Venice 2015, Critic’s Week // Paradise Trips (Raf Reyntjens), Caviar Films, Belgium — NFF 2015 //

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© Roxana Reiss / Heartstone — HFM Co-Pro 2013

See no evil (Jos de Putter), Dieptescherpte, The Netherlands — Rotterdam 2014 // The lamb (Kutlug Ataman), The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, Turkey — Berlinale 2014, Panorama // Trespassing Bergman (Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas), Gädda Five, Sweden — Venice 2013, Venezia Classici // In post-production …And the Pursuit of Happiness (When Paul Came Over The Sea (Jakob Preuss), Weydemann Bros., Germany — Release expected in 2016 (Summer) // In Blue (Jaap van Heusden), IJswater Films, The Netherlands // Pilgrimage (Brendan Muldowney), SP Films, Ireland Financing in from the cold (Martin Krejci), Rinkel Film, The Netherlands / Stink London, UK / Dawson Productions, Czech Republic // In development Death of a Salaryman (Adrian Sitaru), Vernon Films, UK // 2011 Completed 45 Minutes to Ramallah (Ali Samadi Ahadi), brave new work film productions, Germany — Montreal 2013 // All cats are grey (Savina Dellicour), Tarantula Films, Belgium — Montreal 2014 // Black Diamond (Arthur Harari), Les Film Pelleas, France — Release TBA // Culture Files (Various), Gebreuder Beetz Filmproduktion, Germany — Released in 2013 // Korso (Akseli Tuomivaara), Bufo, Finland — Edinburgh 2014 // Tenderness (Marion Hänsel), Man’s Film Productions, Belgium — Rotterdam 2013 // The Blue wave (Merve Kayan, Zeynep Dadak), Bulut Film, Turkey — Berlinale 2014, Generation 14plus // The only son

Älbum — HFM Co-Pro 2013

(Simonka de Jong), IDTV Docs, The Netherlands — IDFA 2012 // Yozgat Blues (Mahmut Fazil Coskun), Hokus Fokus Film, Turkey — San Sebastian 2013 // In Production Cloudboy (Meikeminne Clinckspoor), Bulletproof Cupid, Belgium // Financing Heinz the movie (Piet Kroon), BosBros, The Netherlands // the book of everything (Ineke Houtman), Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, The Netherlands // The Ranger (PJ Dillon), Fastnet Films, Ireland In development Young Boys (Linnea Roxeheim), Stellanova Film, Sweden // 2010 Completed A LONG Story (Jorien van Nes), Circe Film, The Netherlands — NFF 2013, Competition // 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 // Rat King (Petri Kotwica), Making Movies, Finland — Released in 2012 // Run and Jump (Steph Green), Samson Films, Ireland — Tribeca 2013 // The Aftermath (Wladyslaw Pasikowski), Apple Film Production, Poland — Gdynia 2012 // The Bag of Flour (Kadija Saidi Leclere), La Cie Cinématographique Européenne, Belgium — Tanger 2012 // THE REAPER (Zvonimir Juric), Kinorama, Croatia — Toronto 2014, Contemporary World Cinema // The Sky above Us (Marinus Groothof), LEV Pictures, The Netherlands — Rotterdam 2015 (IFFR Live) // WHAT

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Wreck It! — HFM Co-Pro 2013

© Johan Voets / A Quiet Passion — HFM Co-Pro 2013

RICHARD DID (Lenny Abrahamson), Element Pictures, Ireland — Toronto 2012, Contemporary World Cinema // In production The Train Station (Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human Film, UK // In development INTO THE FLAME (Sander Burger), NFI Productions, The Netherlands // The Lying Dutchman (Ulrike Grote), Fortune Cookie Filmproduction, Germany

Festival 2011 // The unsaved (Igor Cobileanski), Saga Film, Romania — Karlovy Vary 2013 // In pre-production the FROG (Elmir Jukic), Refresh Production, Bosnia and Herzegovina // In development Mr. Lu’s Blues (Maria von Heland), 27 Films Production, Germany //

2009 Completed à perdre la raison (Joachim Lafosse), Versus Productions, Belgium — Cannes 2012, Un Certain Regard // ATLANTIC. (Jan-Willem 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 / Riva Films, Germany — NFF 2014, Competition // Heaven on Earth (Pieter Kuijpers), Pupkin Film, The Netherlands — Released in 2013 // Liza, the Fox-Fairy (Károly Ujj Mészáros), Filmteam, Hungary — Fantasporto 2015 // Mister John (Christine Molloy/ Joe Lawlor), Samson Films, Ireland — Edinburgh 2013 // My Brother the Devil (Sally El Hosaini), S Films, UK — Sundance and Berlinale 2012 // My Brothers (Paul Fraser), Treasure Entertainment, Ireland — Galway Film Fleadh 2010 // In My Father’s Garden (Ben Sombogaart), NL Film & Television, The Netherlands — NFF 2016 // The Inner Zone (Fosco Dubini), Dubini Filmproduktion, Germany — Switzerland — Released in 2012 // The Trakl Affair (Michael Ginthör), Blofeld Film, Austria // The State of Shock (Andrey Kosak), Vertigo/Emotion Film, Slovenia — Slovenian Film

2008 Completed Beyond (Pernilla August), Hepp Film AB, Sweden — Venice 2010, Critic’s Week // Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam), Savage Film, Belgium — Berlinale 2011, Panorama // Invasion (Dito Tsintadze), Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Germany — Munich 2012 // Isztambul (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 // SHANGHAI BELLEVILLE (Show-Chun Lee), Clandestine Films, France — Released in 2011 // Shocking Blue (Mark de Cloe), Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands — Rotterdam 2010 // Somewhere Tonight (Michael Di Jiacomo), Column Film, The Netherlands — Karlovy Vary 2011 // Son of Babylon (Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human Film, United Kingdom — Berlinale 2010, Panorama // Sonny Boy (Maria Peters), In production Star Film Production, The Netherlands — Stony Brook New York 2011 // The Runway (Ian Power), Fastnet Films, Ireland — Galway Film Fleadh 2010 // The Snow Queen (Marko Räät), F-Seitse, Estonia — Released in 2010 // Ursul / THE BEAR (Dan Chisu), Libra Film, Romania — Transilvania 2011 //

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Toz Bezi (Dust Cloth) — HFM Co-Pro 2012

Financing SEEING CHRIS (Tom Cairns), Newgrange Pictures, Ireland // 2007 Completed Adrienn Pál (Ágnes Kocsis), Print KMH, Hungary — Cannes 2010, Un Certain Regard // Dusk (Hanro Smitsman), Corrino Film, The Netherlands — NFF 2010 // The Flowers of 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 — NFF 2014 // Milo (Berend Boorsma & Roel Boorsma), Fu Works, The Netherlands — Giffoni 2012 // Ob ihr wollt oder nicht (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 2009 // 2006 Completed Bon Appétit (David Pinillos), Morena Films, Spain — Malaga 2010 // Christmas Story (Juha Wuolijoki),

Motherland — HFM Co-Pro 2012

Diadik GmbH, Germany — Sarasota 2008 // Here and There (Darko Lungulov), Media Plus, Serbia — Tribeca 2009 // 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 // MOSCOW NEVER SLEEPS (Johnny O’Reilly), Snapshot Films, Russia / Ireland — Release TBA // NONO, The ZigZag Kid (Vincent Bal), BosBros, The Netherlands — NFF 2012, Opening Film // Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying (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 // Summer Heat (Monique van der Ven), Zomerhitte BV/Mulholland Picures, The Netherlands — Released in 2008 // Swchwrm (Froukje Tan), Flinck Film, The Netherlands — Stockholm 2012 // The Hourglass (Szabolcs Tolnai), Art & Popcorn, Serbia — Serbian Film Festival 2007 // The Storm (Ben Sombogaart), NL Film & Television, The Netherlands — Released in 2009 // Two Eyes Staring (Elbert van Strien), Accento Films, The Netherlands — Released in 2009 // Zero (Pawel Borowski), OpusFilm, Poland — Busan 2009 // 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 (Paula van der Oest), Riba Film,

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© Kris Dewitte / J. Kessels — HFM Co-Pro 2012

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 — NFF 2007 // PROJEKCIÓ (Tamás Buvári), Inforg Studio, Hungary — Released in 2006 // The War Is Over (Mitko Panov), Kamera 300, Switzerland — Rotterdam 2007 Financing AMSTERDAM GOTHIC (Chris W. Mitchell), House of Netherhorror, The Netherlands // 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 — NFF 2006 // The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (Stephan Komandarev), RFF International, Bulgaria — Karlovy Vary 2008 // Winter in Wartime (Martin Koolhoven), Isabella Films, The Netherlands — Berlinale 2009 // Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold), Circe Films, The Netherlands — Berlinale 2007, Forum // 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

© Elmer van der Marel / In my Father’s Garden — HFM Co-Pro 2009 Stelling), Jos Stelling Films, The Netherlands — NFF 2007 // Ex-Drummer (Koen Mortier), CCCP, Belgium — Warsaw 2007 // Guernsey (Nanouk Leopold), Circe Films, The Netherlands — Cannes 2005, Director’s Fortnight // House of Boys (Jean Claude Schlim), Delux Productions, Luxembourg — Released in 2009 // P.S. Beirut (Michael Shamberg), Yalla Film Productions, France — TV series // Reykjavik-Rotterdam (Óskar Jónasson), Blueeyes Productions, Iceland — Rotterdam 2010 // THE HOUDINI GIRL (Kfir Yefet), Tomori Films, UK — Released in 2013 // The Rabbit on the Moon (Jorge Ramirez Suarez), Beanca Films, Germany — Berlinale 2005, Special // When Night Falls (Ineke Houtman), Waterland Film & TV, The Netherlands — NFF 2004 // You Bet Your Life (Antonin Svoboda), coop99 Filmproduktion, Austria — Toronto 2005 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 — NFF 2004 // Jam (Lieven Debrauwer), K-Line, Belgium — Venice Days 2004 // South (Martin Koolhoven), Isabella Films, The Netherlands — Vancouver 2004 // Spoon (Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen), Lemming Film, The Netherlands — Released in 2005 // The Aviatrix of Kazbek (Ineke Smits), Isabella Films, The Netherlands — Rotterdam 2010, Closing Film //

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Bootlegger by Caroline Monnet (Canada) The Bridge by Hala Lotfy (Egypt) Dreamscape by Anna van der Heide (The Netherlands) In the Arms of Morpheus by Marc Schmidt (The Netherlands) Jade by Sacha Polak (The Netherlands) Jessica by Ninja Thyberg (Sweden) Loveling by Gustavo Pizzi (Brazil) Quicksand by Margot Schaap (The Netherlands) The Reports on Sarah and Saleem

by Muayad Alayan (Palestine) Tehran, City of Love by Ali Jaberansari (UK) Totem by Sander Burger (The Netherlands)

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BoostNL 2016 BoostNL is a new collaborative project between the Holland Film Meeting (Netherlands Film Festival) and CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam), supported by the Netherlands Film Fund.

BoostNL is designed as a more streamlined, longer-running expert programme providing producers and directors with ongoing consultancy and support at all stages, from advanced script development, financial packaging and post-production to festivals, marketing and distribution.

BoostNL seeks to increase overall production capacity, international exposure and market positioning of a selection of Dutch projects at different stages of production.

BoostNL enables a pro-active approach, expert guidance and thorough follow-up in the development of international projects supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund or presented within the framework of CineMart.

BoostNL offers its selected projects ongoing expertise and support in terms of business planning and creative decision-making, as well as a series of one-on-one sessions with key international stakeholders on festival, sales and marketing strategies. Participants will be encouraged to incorporate inspired feedback into their projects.

BoostNL participants will have the opportunity to present their projects to 150+ leading industry delegates attending HFM, following a pitch-coaching session offered by, among others, Ido Abram, Deputy Director of EYE Film Institute.

BoostNL kicks off with a selection of six international and five Dutch projects in development during the current edition of HFM and will continue through to IFFR’s CineMart 2017 (29 January - 1 February).

Welcome to BoostNL 2016!

Holland Film Meeting & International Film Festival Rotterdam BoostNL selected projects will also be considered for both the HFM Co-Production Platform awards (see page 25) and the Work-in-Progress awards (see page 85).

We invite you to read about the projects in this chapter and about the Works-in-Progress from page 83.

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Bootlegger

Microclimat Films (Canada) On the eve of a referendum on prohibition, members of an indigenous community in northern Quebec each have a stake in the outcome, and the future of bootlegger Laura is uncertain.

Synopsis On a First Nation reserve in northern Quebec, the sale and distribution of alcohol is illegal. However, prohibition laws inadvertently facilitate the existence of a profitable bootlegging organization that has long divided the population of the small community.

LAURA, a successful bootlegger, lives with the moral pangs associated with her risky and controversial job.

On the eve of a referendum on whether or not to continue with prohibition, Laura finds herself at the heart of the debate. Serving as the backbone to the community, taboos around alcohol and politics are tackled with wit on the local radio station. The often comedic soliloquies and dialogues help the community cope with violence, poverty and alcohol abuse. MANI, Laura’s childhood crush is back on the reserve to reform what he deems to be crooked politics, and his quest leads him straight to his old flame.

While a curfew is in place, imposed by police officer OSCAR to hunt down rabid dogs encroaching on the reserve and threatening the safety of every person and pet, Laura plans her exit from the bootlegging business once and for all. Realizing that she must change her life irrevocably, Laura must stand up, pick a side and denounce the father figure that never allowed her to make her own decisions and face the consequences of her past actions. The indigenous community, young and old, led by members of the band council, all gather at the community centre to celebrate, discuss and eventually make a decision that will either unite them in sovereignty or continue to divide them.

Director’s Statement In Aboriginal families abuse, alcohol and drug consumption are very much realities. We believe that it is possible to address this issue in a context that allows indigenous people to speak with their own voices. Doing justice to the characters of the reserve, it demystifies any preconceived ideas related to indigenous peoples. It is in this light that our film fits.

Bootlegger therefore speaks of acceptance and social differences. The angle is from the inside, with poetry, respect and authenticity, while directly addressing the taboos. Humour also plays an important role in the film. Aboriginal peoples have a particular and sharp sense of humour. A community with difficult social realities is shown, but this is an organized community that not only holds itself together, but that finds lightness in each other and in life. Healthy communication and understanding is often difficult between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in Canada. This tension between communities is equally applicable to many other countries that have an indigenous presence.

Director’s Profile Caroline Monnet is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist of Algonquin ancestry from Outaouais, Quebec. Using film, video, painting, photography and installation, her work seeks to communicate complex ideas around Indigenous identity and bi-cultural living through the examination of cultural histories.

Monnet’s short films have screened at numerous festivals including Toronto International Film Festival

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(Tshiuetin, Ikwé, Warchild), Hamburg International Film Festival (Roberta) and Sundance (Mobilize). Monnet lives in Montreal and is a founding member of the Aboriginal digital arts collective ITWÉ.

Production Company Founded in 2010 by producer Catherine Chagnon, Microclimat Films is a Montreal-based company that develops, produces and distributes films by auteur directors. The company’s primary mission is to adopt a hands-on approach when collaborating with artists in order to create engaging and accessible films.

The company is currently working on the postproduction of Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard’s documentary Victory Street, produced in association with Cinétéléfilms (Tunisia) and Day for Night (France).

Further, MICROCLIMAT FILMS is co-developing Kaveh Nabatian’s multidisciplinary project, The Seven Last Words, a seven-part film to be presented during performances of Joseph Haydn Opus 51 by the Callino Quartet. MICROCLIMAT FILMS

Caroline Monnet

is also developing Halmoni, a cross-cultural story and the debut feature of the Canadian-Korean-Belgian director Kimura Byol — Nathalie Lemoine and I Am Chain Reaction, an immersive animation/ dance piece by Dana Gingras and James Paterson, commissioned by the Society for Arts and Technology.

Current Status Development/Second Draft. Proposed period of shooting October/November 2017.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Open up the conversation and sharing ideas.

Feedback on the script and pre-production phase.

Guidance on casting, directing actors, marketing, and distribution and a financing plan. Sales and coproduction partners.

Previous work available on Cinando Mobilize by Caroline Monnet, 2015, 4 min.

Roberta by Caroline Monnet, 2014, 9 min.

Catherine Chagnon

Director Caroline Monnet // Producers Catherine Chagnon, Pierre Even (Executive Producer) // Screenwriters Caroline Monnet, Daniel Watchorn // Based on An original screenplay // Languages French, Anishinaabemowin (Algonquin), English // Genre Drama with comic undertones // Format 2K // Running time 85 min. // Target audience Adult 13–55 years //

Total budget €1,369,000 // Total budget in place €427,596 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Le Fonds Harold Greenberg, SODEC, Téléfilm Canada

Attending HFM Catherine Chagnon, Caroline Monnet

Contact Catherine Chagnon (Microclimat Films) / 7539A, rue Drolet — H2R 2C6 Montreal, Quebec (Canada) / Tel: + 1 514 998-4157 / Email : catherine@microclimatfilms.com / www.microclimatfilms.com

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The Bridge ‫يربوكل‬

DayDream Art Production, Hassala Production (Egypt) She lost her son for the most absurd reason: a hole in a bridge. She’s the only one who believes that he can be rescued.

Synopsis A MOTHER wakes up at 3 am to the crying of her feverish BABY GIRL. The baby needs to see a doctor so the mother has no choice but to take her and her 8 year old SON. Moments later, the three of them are in a taxi heading to the hospital. The taxi stops on a wide bridge and the driver tells the mother to cross the bridge on foot, as the hospital is on the other side where he doesn’t want to go.

The mother stands on the dark bridge, her baby is shivering with fever and her son stands next to her.

They walk nearly half way when, at a certain moment, the baby starts crying and the mother adjusts her hold. As she turns back, she finds her son is gone.

She screams loudly, looks in every direction for him, calls him but there is no response. It is very dark, she looks down and finds a hole in the bridge, with only blackness beyond.

Hours pass by in this bureaucratic dilemma. The mother is under interrogation, the Police questions as to “why were you not holding onto the kid?” No action is taken. The divers and rescuers are not allowed to go into the Nile at night, because the current is very strong, and they must wait until daylight.

In the midst of all this, the mother is lost, trying to control her panic and fear for her son, and persuade the police to take an action.

There is a feeling that whatever good intentions there are and efforts made, they will be swallowed up by the Egyptian bureaucracy.

As night turns into day, the father and mother are still on the bridge searching. The mother endured

and survived the night, and in a strange way this has given her strength to face the day…

Director’s Statement This film is based on a true story that happened in Cairo 2010. The story has haunted me ever since I first read about it. It resonated for me because it contains elements of things that have happened to me…losing a loved one, and getting through that, despite tough and uncompromising circumstances.

I want to capture the plight of this woman, facing a huge ordeal, balanced only by her resilience and tenacity in the face of great odds. It’s also a story about the absurdity of living in Egypt. How an untimely death is treated as an everyday event and the pathos and absurdity of a death collides with the petty officialdom of the Egyptian bureaucracy.

This film is the second part of a trilogy about living in Egypt. I owe it to my characters to tell their stories; it’s my duty and my only way of surviving the current trauma.

Director’s Profile Hala Lotfy studied filmmaking at the Cairo Film Institute — her graduation project Feeling Cold has received many awards. In 2011 she was chosen by Charlotte Rampling to receive the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award, given to new cinematic voice in independent film.

Her feature length debut Coming Forth by Day made its European premiere in Berlinale Forum 2013, and it subsequently won many awards including the

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FIPRESCI and Best Director prizes from Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film joined the “Greatest 100 Arab Films” list made by Dubai IFF less than one year after its production.

Production Company / Producer’s Profile Mohamed Samir started working as a film editor in 1998 before making the leap into production nearly a decade later. In 2007, he founded his own production company DayDream Art Production to support the Egyptian independent film movement (production).

He quickly became one of the most active young producers in Egypt, having participated at various international film markets and workshops such as Dubai Film Connection, Berlinale Talent Campus, Agora Co-production Market in Thessaloniki Film Fest.

In 2014, the CNC chose him as a promising producer

Hala Lotfy

to participate in the Producer’s Network in Cannes Film Festival.

He produced several short films for young and upcoming Egyptian filmmakers such as Zafir directed

by Omar El Zohairy in 2011. In 2013 he produced his first full-length narrative feature, Factory Girl by the highly acclaimed Egyptian director, Mohamed Khan.

Current Status In development stage and we expect to have a final script by November.

Aims at the BoostNL programme To find a potential European co-producer/distributor.

Previous work available on Cinando Coming Forth by Day by Hala Lotfy, 2012, 90 min.

Mohamed Samir

Director Hala Lotfy // Producer Mohamed Samir // Screenwriters Hala Lotfy & Abdullah Al Ghaly // Based on An original screenplay // Language Arabic // Genre Drama // Format HD 4K // Running time 90 min. //

Total budget €500,000 // Total budget in place €140,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached AFAC Development Fund, SANAD Development Fund, Dubai Film Connection Award, Hubert Bals Fund

Attending HFM Mohamed Samir, Hala Lotfy

Contact Mohamed Samir (DayDream Art Production) / 7 Juhayna street — 12311 Dokki, Giza (Egypt) / Tel: +20 1068 88 7885 / Email: daydream.artproduction@gmail.com / www.ddartproduction.com

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Dreamscape Droomonderduik

Pupkin (The Netherlands) Following a Nazi round-up, Alfred (9) hides in the zoo. Alone among the animals, the cheerful and spirited boy withers away. When a resistance fighter also takes refuge there, Alfred learns how to survive.

Synopsis 1942. World War II is raging throughout Europe.

During an unforeseen Nazi round-up in Amsterdam, the Jewish boy ALFRED (9) and his mother are forced to find refuge in Artis Zoo. After his mother leaves to check on his siblings and doesn’t return, a kind zookeeper tells him to stay in the cellar of the monkey house.

Alone in the cellar Alfred transforms from a happy child into a fearful nocturnal creature. He talks to the monkeys just to hear the sound of his own voice and gradually changes into an animal himself. When he is startled by people fleeing into the zoo, he impulsively opens the door and offers resistance fighter JACOB a hiding place. Jacob has to recover from his injuries.

Alfred joins Jacob on an expedition into the zoo to find medicine, but Alfred is so clumsy that they almost get caught.

While Jacob teaches Alfred to make himself invisible and to become his eyes and ears, they lose themselves in the nighttime zoo. There is a similarity between the lessons in creeping and stealing, and the characteristics Alfred observed with the animals. He shows Jacob this when they are out exploring the zoo.

Despite it never being Jacob’s intention, they become friends. When Jacob has the opportunity to escape to England and he has to leave the boy, Alfred eventually realises how much he has learned from his friend, he knows he is strong enough to survive on his own.

When Alfred says a tearful goodbye to Jacob, the soldier suddenly gives up his place in the car for Alfred.

Alfred begins his journey. Because of what he has experienced together with Jacob he is no longer afraid.

Director’s Statement The Second World War has shaped our history to a great extent. I think that we have the task of giving our children — who are luckily growing up in peace — an insight into the dual nature of war situations. Every day, they hear about such situations in the news for children. These are the facts of the day. Art — film, in this case — can bring depth and stimulate awareness.

With Dreamscape, we want to make a film about two young people who, against the background of the consoling natural world of Artis Zoo, together find the strength to keep going in an unclear and terrifying wartime situation. This film will not be a history lesson; it will be an “experiential film”. An intuitive, subjective film about the strength to survive, about friendship, and about the beautiful things in life that, after all, are always there alongside the greatest sorrow.

Director’s/Screenwriter’s Profiles Anna van der Heide (1978) worked on numerous high profile films as assistant director before directing her first feature Fidgety Bram (2012), which won several national and international prizes, amongst them the Cinekid Film Award for Best Dutch Film. This year Anna released her second feature film for children: Mr. Frog.

Tijs van Marle made Au Cigogne! (2004), Matzes (2004), Doctor Cheezy (2011), Bon Voyage (2011) and Scrap Wood War (2014), for which he won the ECFA

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Award for Best European Film. Tijs has written several children’s films, such as Mister Twister (2012) and Dummy the Mummy (2014). Recently, his Accused was shortlisted for the Academy’s Best Foreign Language Film Award.

Production Company/Producer Profile Pupkin is one of the leading production companies in the Netherlands, producing three series and one feature film annually. We are proud of our exciting track record of discovering new talents and our sustainable collaboration with writers and directors.

Iris Otten (1977) graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2001, with Alfred Maassen’s Last Day, which was selected for Cannes’ Cinéfondation and received The Golden Calf for Best Short Film. After working as a line producer for several production companies Iris started working at Pupkin in 2006, where she became an equal partner of the company in 2009. She produced highly acclaimed feature films and television drama, such as The Deflowering of Eva van End, The Peter Pan Man, We Will Never be Royals,

Anna van der Heide

Tijs van Marle

Director Anna van der Heide // Producer Iris Otten // Screenwriter Tijs van Marle // Based on The book Droomonderduik by Maarten Frankenhuis // Language Dutch // Genre Family // Format Video // Running time 85 min. // Target audience Family //

and Scrap Wood War. Boys and Penguins and Pastry were nominated for an Emmy Award. Her latest project Spooky premieres at this edition of NFF. Current Status The Netherlands Film Fund supported treatment development. We will apply for script development this October. At the same time we will start the financing plan. MEDIA gave “single project development” support last year.

Aims at the BoostNL programme We want to introduce our film Dreamscape to the international market. In doing so we are hoping for interesting responses and we aim to get in touch with possible co-producers and sales agents.

Previous work available on Cinando Brammetje Baas (Fidgety Bram) by Anna van der Heide, 2012, 78 min.

Iris Otten

Nathalie van der Burg

Total budget €2,500,000 // Total budget in place €66,000 // Sales TBC // Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, MEDIA single project development

Attending the HFM Iris Otten, Nathalie van der Burg, Tijs van Marle

Contact Iris Otten (Pupkin) / Weersperzijde 4 — 1091 EA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 489 5088 / Email: iris@pupkin.com / www.pupkin.com

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In the Arms of Morpheus In de armen van Morpheus

KeyDocs (The Netherlands) A tribute to the uncontrollable, irrational and insane parts of our existence, in the form of a cinematic immersion in the waves of sleep.

Synopsis It’s impossible not to surrender to sleep. The controllable world we’re all familiar with will sooner or later irrevocably pass into the intangible and fleeting domain of sleep. The director, the soldier, the homeless man, the check-out girl — we have no idea where they spend the night. When we’re asleep, we’re subjected to a fundamentally different way of experiencing things which can’t be logically explained. In the Arms of Morpheus is a personal exploration of the sleep domain. An attempt to get a hold of the realm of the incomprehensible and let go of it again, as an ode to the importance of the fantastic aspects of our existence.

Reflecting how we surrender to sleep, In the arms of Morpheus will slowly change from a recognizable and explainable story to a surrealistic experience — something to be undergone rather than understood, analogous to the inevitability of sleep. The central story line consists of the experiences of DIONNE, a young woman falling asleep against her will, any time, any place. Her narcolepsy prevents her from living a normal productive life: not only is sleep irresistible, her bizarre and anxious dreams inextricably mingle with daytime reality.

The more forced Dionne’s attempts are to get a grip on sleep, the more elusive the story becomes and other sleepers are introduced as well: a nocturnal eater, two sisters sleepwalking simultaneously. As the film progresses the line between sleeping and waking will blur.

In the Arms of Morpheus aims to be a cinematographic experience, a film you have to

undergo, analogous to the inevitability of sleep, only to re-enter an awakening world with a feeling of being purified at the end of the film.

Director’s Statement My own nightmares inescapably confronted me with the possibility of not being in control of one’s own experiences, at all. Admittedly, this was at night when I was asleep but the effects lingered on well into the day.

The boundary between being asleep and being awake is less sharp than I thought. In the Arms of Morpheus is a personal exploration of the sleep domain.

Director’s Profile Director Marc Schmidt (1970) is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning director of documentaries. His films are characterised by his connecting a very personal and intimate approach with philosophical reflections. Matthew’s Laws (2012) — about the mind-set of his long-time autistic friend and his failed attempts to cope with the outside world — won the Grand Prix Visions du Réel (Nyon) and won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Documentary in the Netherlands. His latest film The Chimpanzee Complex (2014), which depicts the impossibility to escape our human perspective by observing caretakers and chimpanzees in a rescue centre, premiered at CPH:DOX. Production Company KeyDocs (2009) is a leading (international) acclaimed documentary production company from

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Amsterdam. An experienced team of producers, led by Janneke Doolaard, is responsible for strong, creative and cinematic productions. Recent films are Erbarme Dich, a doc feature by Ramon Gieling (2015), awarded with a Crystal Film Award for box office success; Alice Cares, a doc feature by Sander Burger (Eureka Award 2015) and Storming Paradise

by Floor van der Meulen (2014, Nomination Best Program TV Beelden). The most recent international co-production is the box-office hit Becoming Zlatan, by the Swedish filmmakers Magnus and Fredrik Gertten, about the Swedish football legend, which premiered at IDFA 2015 and had its release in February 2016.

Producer Janneke Doolaard was selected in 2016 for the International Filmfestival in Cannes

Marc Schmidt

Janneke Doolaard

Director Marc Schmidt // Producers Janneke Doolaard, Hanneke Niens, Hans de Wolf // Screenwriter Marc Schmidt // Based on An original screenplay // Language Dutch // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 80 min. // Target audience Women/men 20–65+ //

as Producer on the Move, representing the Netherlands.

Current Status In production.

Aims at the BoostNL programme BoostNL offers offers a great opportunity to profile internationally and built our network. KeyDocs, being a small but present and ambitious player on the market, aims to bring international subjects to an universal stage. We are looking for co-production partners and projects.

Previous work available on Cinando Matthew’s Laws by Marc Schmidt, 2012, 72 min.

Harmen Jalvingh Total budget €595,662 // Total budget in place €532,599 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Dutch Cultural Media Fund, Netherlands Filmfund, CoBO Fund, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, KRO-NCRV, VAF. Co-producers: Associate Directors (Belgium), KRO-NCRV (The Netherlands)

Attending HFM Janneke Doolaard, Harmen Jalvingh, Marc Schmidt

Contact Janneke Doolaard (KeyDocs) / Van Diemenstraat 332 — 1013 CR Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4222607 / Email: info@keydocs.nl / www.keydocs.nl

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Jade Viking Film (The Netherlands) Emu Films (United Kingdom) A Private View (Belgium) Savage Productions (Ireland) Alienated from her young daughter after an acid attack that leaves her facially disfigured, Londoner Jade finds solace in a hedonistic party lifestyle and anonymous internet sex.

Synopsis Jade is a film about a young mother from London who must pick up the pieces after an acid attack leaves her with severe facial burns. Prior to the attack, with limited education and opportunities, JADE’s main currency was her looks. Her face has been reconstructed, but her beauty is gone. Jade must set about rebuilding herself — and this is a gargantuan task.

Cast adrift from her young daughter, Jade finds solace in the hidden world of online liaisons where she uncovers the passion and connection she’s craved in an often humorous and celebratory way.

However, the actions of a stranger threaten to turn her life upside down once more, and those around her are ill-equipped to halt her descent. As family life and friendships start to crumble, her lowest ebb proves the inspiration that Jade needs. Jade takes drastic action, finally finding her path back to her daughter and herself.

Jade is a powerful film about motherhood, courage and self-acceptance.

Director’s Statement Jade came up after numerous long talks between co-writer Susanne Farrell and myself about present day life. People, relationships and behaviour. Youth and danger. The loss of beauty. Motherhood, identity, friendship and first and foremost, love. I’ve considered Jade a heroine right from the start. She is someone who has an emboldened attitude to life. She has no option but to accept what is in front of her in the mirror but

she regards her situation with humour and an armour of aggression. Jade’s character provides the film with life force and this adds velocity to the narrative.

I want to make a film that is set in the present day and age, where visual appearance is paramount and image is more important than ever. Youth culture plays an important role. Jade was part of a circle of friends that changed after she left to recover from the acid attack. How do friendships change if the beauty that used to be so important in the friendship disappears? Shami, Jade’s best friend, tries to carry on as before and be a real friend. But the things they used to do and the old fearless Jade are gone.

Jade will be a film about a young mother who lost herself in a terrible accident, but who eventually in the search of her identity learns to accept herself. I picture a colourful film, a slightly romanticised version of reality. The film will also be consoling. Jade triumphs. The way Jade and Shami communicate adds plenty of humour to the film. The film will not feel terribly heavy, despite the heaviness of the subject matter.

Jade is an incredibly strong woman. What sticks in my mind is that all the women I’ve met during research who got burned were forced to find a way to come to terms with their new appearance.

Whichever path they chose and however they did or did not manage, it was their path. What is universal about it, is that for each and every one of us it is challenging to be confronted with feelings of external beauty versus internal dignity. A challenge for every woman in the world.

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Director’s Profile Sacha Polak (1982) is an award-winning director and writer. She graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 2006. With her first feature film Hemel (2011) she received great critical acclaim from the international press. The film was also part of the selection of many international film festivals, including the Berlinale Forum where it won the FIPRESCI award. In 2013 she directed the personal documentary New Boobs. Her second feature film Zurich (2014) was selected for Berlinale Forum where it won the CICAE Art Cinema Award for Best Film.

Production Company Viking Film is the Amsterdam based film production company founded in 2011 by Marleen Slot. Viking Film recently finished the feature films Oscuro Animal (Felipe Guerrero, IFFR Tiger Competition 2016), Siv Sleeps Astray (Catti Edfeldt, Lena Hanno Clyne opening film Berlinale Generation K+), Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro, selection Venice Orizzonti and TIFF Competition 2015), Zurich (Sacha Polak, Berlinale Forum winner CICAE Art Cinema Award 2015) and Summer of Sangaile (Alanté Kavaïté, Sundance Competition and Berlinale Panorama

Sacha Polak

2015). Furthermore Viking Film worked on the feature documentary New Boobs (Sacha Polak) and the coproduction Leones (Jazmin López, Venice Film Festival 2012). Marleen worked as a producer at Lemming Film for many years. She is part of EAVE and ACE and chairman of the Dutch Producers association. In 2013 she was selected Producer on the Move during the Cannes Film Festival.

Current Status We just received production support from the Netherlands Film Fund and are setting up the international financing. Besides that we are working on the final draft of the script.

Aims at the BoostNL programme We are looking forward to take part in BoostNL with Jade. We feel it’s the right time and it will help us to push the film and to bring it under attention of financiers and sales and distribution partners. We are not looking for co-producers since we have all our coproducing partners on board.

Previous work available on Cinando Zurich by Sacha Polak, 2015, 89 min.

Marleen Slot

Director Sacha Polak // Producer Marleen Slot // Screenwriters Sacha Polak, Susanne Farrell // Based on An original screenplay // Language English // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 100 min. //

Target audience Arthouse audience // Total budget €2,370,077 // Total budget in place €657,675 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, BFI

Attending HFM Sacha Polak, Marleen Slot

Contact Marleen Slot (Viking Film) / Lindengracht 17 — 1015 KB Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6254788 / Email: marleen@vikingfilm.nl / www.vikingfilm.nl

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Jessica

Plattform Produktion (Sweden) Jessica is an intimate, brutal and humorous observation of the porn industry and all the bodily preparations this profession requires. A story about objectification versus empowerment, sisterhood versus competition, gray areas and group dynamics.

Synopsis The alarm goes off. 06:30 AM. JESSICA shuffles out to the kitchen to put on some coffee and feed her meowing Persian cat. She starts doing her regular workday morning routine; a full-body shave, antirash cream to avoid razor bumps, body lotion, teeth flossed well. She pulls out a small bottle with a special nozzle, fills it with warm water and squirts it up her rectum and voids into the toilet. She repeats the same procedure three times to ensure that she is cleaned out. Next step is to apply lubricant and insert the butt plug. She washes her hands thoroughly.

Then she is off to work.

Jessica is a film that follows the everyday life of Jessica, a Swedish girl who tries to make it as a porn-star in LA. The ambitious 19-year-old lives in Los Angeles and works in the adult film industry.

She shares a house with five other girls with the same profession. She is still in the “amateur teen” category, but her goal is to climb the hierarchy and become a contracted girl — a real porn star.

Director’s Statement My intentions are to reflect an objective image of this industry, and to depict the people in it as human beings, multi-faceted and complex. I want to give the audience a multi-faceted picture, where there are no simple answers. The main character’s journey is a series of trials and tribulations. She gets hurt but also conquers her low self-esteem, as the one does not exclude the other.

The script is based on extensive research and indepth interviews made on location in US, both with actors and some of the biggest players in the porn industry today.

Director’s Profile Ninja Thyberg (1984), director and screenwriter, was born in Alseda, Sweden. She graduated as a film director in 2015 from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Recurring themes in Thyberg’s films are the body, sexuality and power. The films are often humorous studies of group dynamics, in which individual or collective identities are surveyed and questioned. She first received international attention when her short film Pleasure (2013) was awarded the Canal+ Award at Semaine de la Critique. In Pleasure, the action takes place behind the scenes of a porn shoot. In 2014, it was nominated for Best Foreign Short Film at Sundance. The short Hot Chicks (2014) won the 1 km Film Award at Stockholm Film Festival, and the short film Catwalk (2015) received the Student Visionary Award at Tribeca Film Festival. Her latest short, Stallion (an erotic coming of age story about 16-year-old Adena who is chasing her good-looking high school teacher) was selected as opening film of the 2015 Stockholm Film Festival.

Production Company Plattform Produktion is one of Sweden’s most innovative and highly awarded production houses, founded in 2002 by producer Erik Hemmendorff and

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director Ruben Östlund. Hemmendorff is an ACE producer and has produced a number of short and feature films, including Force Majeure (Jury Prize 2014, Un Certain Regard; winner of six Guldbagge Awards; shortlisted for an Academy Award; Nominated for Golden Globe); Play (2011 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs); Greetings from the Woods (2009 Locarno); Twin Brothers; 53 Scenes From A Childhood (2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam); The Extraordinary Ordinary life of José González (2011 Hot Docs); Involuntary (2008, Cannes Un Certain Regard) and Incident by a Bank (Winner Golden Bear 2010 Berlinale). Plattform Produktion also co-produces selected international feature films, among them Concrete Night (2013) by Pirjo Honkasalo, in co-production with Bufo Films; Bypass (2013) by

Ninja Thyberg

Duane Hopkins in co-production with Third Films and Dau (2010) by Ilya Khrzhanovsky.

Current Status First draft. Casting. Financing.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Jessica is an English/Swedish-language. We are looking for international co-producing partners, funds and distributors.

Previous work available on Cinando Catwalk by Ninja Thyberg, 2015, 10 min.

Hot Chicks by Ninja Thyberg, 2014, 15 min.

Pleasure by Ninja Thyberg, 2013, 15 min.

Erik Hemmendorff

Director Ninja Thyberg // Producer Erik Hemmendorff // Screenwriters Ninja Thyberg, Peter Modestij // Based on An original screenplay // Language English // Genre Drama // Format ARRIRAW // Running time 90 min. // Target audience Adult, 25+ //

Total budget €2,400,000 // Total budget in place €100,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Swedish Filminstitute, Film Väst

Attending HFM Erik Hemmendorff, Ninja Thyberg

Contact Erik Hemmendorff (Plattform Produktion) / Vallgatan 9d — 41116 Göteborg (Sweden) / Tel: +46 701711923 / Email: mail@plattformproduktion.se / www.plattformproduktion.se

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Loveling Benzinho

Bubbles Project (Brazil) Tv Zero, Mutante Cine, Pandora Films Irene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.

Synopsis IRENE, 38 years old, is married to KLAUS, 45. They live in Petrópolis, a small city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, and have four children: FERNANDO (16), RODRIGO (10) and twins of 4. The couple has been struggling for years to finish building their new house.

Irene works as an independent seller while finishing her studies to get her diploma. Klaus runs a small copy shop where he also sells books. Fernando, their eldest son, plays handball. After being the star of the season, the boy is invited to join a professional team in Germany and will leave his parents house much sooner than expected. Among the everyday issues of their family life, Irene will have to deal with the early separation from Fernando and adapt to a new life without him.

Director’s Statement I want to make a film about colossal and almost inexplicable family love. A film that talks about the difficulties of family life, about the caring of parents towards their children, and about the great expectations of happiness that are fulfilled every day. I want to make a film that is personal, but not biographical. A film that is set in the present day with issues of our contemporary world. A film that is able to recreate emotions based on my memories, on my creativity and on what I imagine for my future.

Benzinho is a sort of “coming of age” film, but from the mother’s view, not from her son’s. I want to make the film that I saw in my parents’ eyes when I left home.

Director’s Profile Gustavo Pizzi graduated in Film from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Rio. His debut as a director was with Riscado (Craft) in 2011. In 2012 Gustavo directed the documentary TV Series Oncotô.

Gustavo co-wrote the script for Rhinocero’s Skin together with Felippe Barbosa. He also worked on the creation and development of the script for the TV series Bruna Surfistinha that will be broadcasted in Brazil by Fox. Alongside Benzinho he is developing the film/mini series Gilda, which he scripted and directed.

Production Company Bubbles Project is an independent production company based in Rio de Janeiro, created in 2012

by Tatiana Leite. Bubbles has been co-producing films and collaborating with other production companies in and outside Brazil, and discovering new talents. At Bubbles we believe in partnerships and we are driven by our love for cinema!

In 2015, Bubbles Project completed the films Aspirantes (Hopefuls) by Ives Rosenfeld and Órfãos do Eldorado (Orphans of Eldorado) by Guilherme Coelho. Benzinho (Loveling) by Gustavo Pizzi — feature film — is now in pre- production. The company is currently developing the projects Outros Tempos (Other Times) by Christiane Jatahy, The Inheritance (A Herança) by Joao Candido Zacharias, La Familia Submergida by Maria Alche and Nona by Camila Jose Donosio.

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Current Status The project is pre-production stage. Shooting will commence in November 2016.

Previous work available on Cinando Craft (Riscado) by Gustavo Pizzi, 2010, 85 min.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Find funds/partners to complete the 20% financing gap, plus world sales.

Gustavo Pizzi

Tatiana Leite

Director Gustavo Pizzi // Producers Tatiana Leite, Rodrigo Letier, Agustina Chiarino, Fernando Epstein, Christoph Friedel // Screenwriters Gustavo Pizzi, Karine Teles // Based on An original screenplay // Language Portuguese // Genre Drama // Format Digital // Running time 100 min. // Target audience 18+ //

Total budget €1,155,758 // Total budget in place €930,221 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Rede Telecine, FSA — Fundo Setorial Audiovisual, Ancine, ICAU

Attending HFM Tatiana Leite

Contact Tatiana Leite (Bubbles Project) / Rua Professor Alfredo Gomes, 22 — 22251-080 Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) / Tel: +55 21 993074619 / Email: Tatiana@bubblesproject.com / www.bubblesproject.com

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Quicksand Drijfzand

PRPL (The Netherlands) Quicksand tells the story of the suffocating relationship between Suze (who suffers from OCD) and her dominant mother Helena and its repercussions for three generations of women, including Suze’s six-year-old daughter.

Synopsis SUZE lives a warm-hearted quiet life on the island with her husband LUCAS and daughter JUUL (6).

When her extravagant mother HELENA suddenly comes to visit after a six-year radio silence, she informs Suze, business-like, about the brain tumour in her head, right before leaving the island again.

Suze’s determination to live a quiet life on the island starts to crumble as she feels she has to go back to the city to visit her mother. Both Suze and Helena quickly fall back into old habits as Suze starts traveling back and forth. An actress all her life, Helena knows exactly how to manipulate her daughter, while feeling anxious about her progressing disease. Suze seems powerless to this emotional force and slowly relapses into compulsive behaviour.

And though it’s not noticeable in the city, on the island it’s starting to show. Lucas is trying to be understanding of her situation until one day, even dinner is determined by food colour when Suze serves them pineapple with potatoes, corn and yellow pepper.

Going back to the city to see Helena, Suze begins working on a theatre play and pours herself into it. It seems to order the chaotic thoughts in her head at first, as randomly chosen words like cup, brush, beachball, birdnest and prawn cracker are dispersed into the audience. But as Helena’s health deteriorates, Suze’s disorder too gets worse and worse. She is now compulsively straightening lines, ordering colours, ranking sizes and symmetrising

people’s touch on her body, and the play begins to represent her desperation until the pressure becomes no longer sustainable: her big balloon of thoughts bursts open, causing numerous ping pong balls to fall and bounce across the floor. And now, Suze’s severe compulsions are so overpowering that she jeopardizes her marriage and the safety of her young daughter Juul. This forces her to make an emotional but definite choice between her daughter and her mother.

Director’s Statement The relationship between mother and child is the most fundamental of all. It’s the first attachment you experience as a human being. Therefore the loyalty of a child to its mother is often lifelong, even if that mother is not capable of taking care of her child. For me this mechanism is tragic and very interesting at the same time.

Suze fails in expressing her emotions towards her mother and tries to exorcise the pent-up tension with compulsive behaviour, which gives her the illusion of control. The vibrant but chaotic city works like a pressure cooker for her neurosis. She is overwhelmed by a constant stream of stimuli and information in an overwhelming world of possibilities and choices.

Slowly the restless camera style and erratic use of edit are slipping in her peaceful and orderly family life on the island, expelling the calm, objective wide shots of meadows, dikes and dunes. How to find balance in the modern western world that seems to be boundless?

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Director’s Profile After graduating from the Netherlands Film Academy with award-winning short Gaandeweg, writer/director Margot Schaap has written/directed several short films to further develop her signature. Her no-budget, master degree graduation feature film 12 Months in 1 Day premiered at IFFR and won Best Newcomer and the FIPRESCI award at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2015. Quicksand will be her first feature film.

world premiere at Locarno Film Festival the same year and has been screened at more than 50 festivals.

In 2015 The Paradise Suite (NL-SE-BG) and The Ardennes (BE-NL) both had their world premières in the Discovery programme of Toronto IFF. The Paradise Suite was the Dutch entry for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film.

Production Company Founded by Ellen Havenith in 2011, PRPL is a strongly involved and passionate production company making daring and distinguishing films which have high artistic quality as well as an audience appeal. PRPL focuses on feature films that can be co-produced internationally and are able to connect with a transnational audience.

PRPL’s first four feature films were released in 2014 and 2015. The critically acclaimed hybrid Frailer

by Mijke de Jong was selected for TIFF 2014 and A Blast (GR-DE-NL) by Syllas Tzoumerkas had its

Aims at the BoostNL programme We are looking for one or two European or Canadian co-producers, international financing, distributors and a sales agent. Although the film will be shot in the Netherlands entirely, we want to work with several foreign heads of departments and post-production crew. We are also looking for a foreign actor for one of the four main roles.

Margot Schaap

Current Status Script Development.

Previous work available on Cinando 12 Months in 1 Day by Margot Schaap, 2015, 74 min.

Ellen Havenith

Director Margot Schaap // Producer Ellen Havenith // Screenwriter Margot Schaap // Based on An original screenplay // Languages Dutch, English Genre Psychological Drama // Format 4K // Running time 100 min. // Target audience Women, aged 26–50, of higher education, frequent movie-goers, cinephiles, foreign movie and high-end TV lovers, internet users, multiplatform exploitation (laptops, tablets, etc.), mostly urban //

Total budget €1,000,000 // Total budget in place €41,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund — New Screen NL

Attending HFM Ellen Havenith, Margot Schaap Contact Ellen Havenith (PRPL) / Krelis Louwenstraat 1D03 — 1055 KA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 737 01 89 / Email: info@prpl.nl / www.prpl.nl

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The Reports on Sarah and Saleem PalCine Productions (Palestine) The affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman takes a dangerous political turn leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.

Synopsis SARAH and SALEEM find in each other the solace and refuge they need from their troubled relationships.

They have sexual encounters in the back of Saleem’s delivery truck away from the eyes of their Palestinian and Israeli communities in Jerusalem and behind the backs of Saleem’s wife and Sarah’s husband.

When Saleem innocently invites Sarah for a drink at a bar in the Palestinian Territories, their relationship begins to take on a political dimension. Following a jealous argument with a politically connected man that was hitting on Sarah, Saleem is arrested by the Palestinian authorities with the fabricated accusation of running a drug and prostitution ring bringing Israeli prostitutes to work in the West Bank. The only way out is for him to find a better connected man to vow for him.

Luckily, a Palestinian official agrees to help and attests that the intelligence report implicating Saleem is inaccurate. But in order to guarantee Saleem’s release, the official is forced to provide an unquestionable justification for Saleem’s presence with an Israeli woman in the heart of the Palestinian Territories. So he claims that Saleem took Sarah to the bar upon his request as part of a mission to try to recruit her as a spy for the Palestinians. The official makes Saleem write fake counter-reports detailing his encounters with Sarah and what he presumably did to try to recruit her.

All is well, Saleem gets his freedom back and Sarah and Saleem carry on with their lives until the counter-reports tragically land in the hands of the Israeli authorities following an Israeli incursion into

the Palestinian territories. Saleem is arrested again and this time his only hope is if Sarah can tell their true story despite the troubles with her husband, with Saleem’s wife and with the Israeli authorities.

Director’s Statement At the heart of the film lies the truth about our capacity as human beings to connect with one another despite our differences and despite our environments that are often designed to enforce our divisions. Jerusalem provides a perfect setting to explore these themes and will be incorporated in the film as a character itself showing how it reacts to the social drama affecting the lives of the characters and to the unfortunate circumstances that put them at the center of the existential fears of Israelis and Palestinians. The film will leave the audience with a sense of hope that despite everything humans can connect and stand with each other, not by ignoring the realities that set them apart in the first place, but by identifying their common pains and quests and breaking from the divisive expectations to do what’s right.

Director’s Profile Muayad Alayan is a film director, cinematographer and producer based in Palestine. His directorial debut, also produced by him, premiered at the Berlinale Panorama 2015 (Love, Theft and Other Entanglements).

It was nominated for the First Feature Award and has since been distributed in over 20 territories. His first short film premiered at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 2009 and went on to screen at over

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60 festivals. It was distributed on DVD and TV. His codirected and produced documentary, Sacred Stones, won the Al-Jazeera Channel Award in 2012.

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem is his second feature.

Screenwriter’s Profile Rami Alayan is a Palestinian screenwriter and film producer. His first feature production, Love Theft and Other Entanglements, premiered at Berlinale Panorama 2015 and was sold to over 20 territories.

His two short film productions screened in over 60 festivals worldwide as well as being distributed to DVD and TV. Rami participated in numerous production and screenwriting workshops including Rotterdam Producers Lab, EAVE, Dov Simmons, the Mediterranean Film Institute’s Film 2 Script, several John Truby and Guillermo Arriaga screenwriting workshops. He holds degrees in engineering and business from MIT and a professional certificate in screenwriting from UCLA Extension.

Production Company PalCine Productions is a production company based in Bethlehem (Palestine). It was co-founded by Muayad Alayan and Rami Alayan. PalCine has its roots in grassroots filmmaking. It started out as a collective of

Muayad Alayan

Palestinian filmmakers and artists coming together to produce their own audio-visual collaborations and productions. It soon expanded to offer their experience and skills to help other local and international groups, non-profit organizations, communities and institutions in producing their audio-visual projects set in Palestine.

It is the producer of the narrative feature film Love, Theft and Other Entanglements (Berlinale Panorama 2015) and the award winning shorts Lesh Sabreen (Official Selections Clermont-Ferrand, Dubai Film Festival 2009) and Private Sun (Official Selections Palm Springs Shortfest, Montreal World Film Festival 2012).

Current Status Currently pursuing production financing and seeking additional co-production partners as well as researching cast and crew.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Seeking co-production partners and world sales as well as exploring financing possibilities through investments, film funds and cultural grants.

Previous work available on Cinando Love, Theft and Other Entanglements by Muayad Alayan, 2015, 93 min.

Rami Alayan

Director Muayad Alayan // Producers Muayad Alayan & Rami Alayan // Screenwriters Rami Alayan // Based on An original screenplay // Languages Arabic, Hebrew, English // Genre Drama/Psychological Thriller // Format Arri Alexa // Running time 120 min. // Target audience International Mature Audiences //

Total budget €800,000 // Total budget in place €170,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Hubert Bals Development Grant, MAD Solutions (Investors), MAD Distribution (Arab World Distribution). Co Producers: Key Film (Netherlands) and Still Moving (France)

Attending HFM Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan Contact Muayad Alayan and Rami Alayan (PalCine Productions) / Bethlehem (Palestine) / Tel: +972 52 8089352 / +1 415 217 9090 / Email: muayad@palcine.net, rami@palcine.net / www.palcine.net

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Tehran, City of Love Here & There Productions (UK) Viking Films (Netherlands) Mandra Films (France) A religious singer, an office secretary and a personal trainer search for love in Tehran, a city where life is lived in two different, often contradictory, worlds — the “public” and the “private”.

Synopsis Tehran, City of Love features three intertwined stories of lonely characters in search of love and connection.

HESSAM is a 42-year-old personal trainer working at a gym mostly populated by elderly businessmen.

He’s the son of a martyr of the Iran-Iraq war and lives with his religious mother who is still hoping for him to get married. When he accepts to train 26-yearold ARSHIA, the nephew of one of his clients, for the upcoming bodybuilding championships, he starts to develop a fondness for him, which brings a secret excitement into Hessam’s monotonous life.

MINA is a 30-year-old secretary of a famous psychologist in Tehran. She lives with her mom whose only wish is for Mina to get married. Lacking confidence in her physical appearance and attractiveness, Mina has developed her own secret twisted system to take revenge on all the attractive men who always ignore her. At work, she marks down the phone numbers of attractive male patients and calls them as SARA, her imaginary beautiful persona with a distinctly sexy voice. She seduces the men into meeting her at a coffee shop where she watches them search for Sara, without their ever imagining that the sexy voice could possible belong to Mina.

HOSSEIN is a 30-year-old Maddah (a religious singer performing religious mourning songs at funerals and religious events) from the countryside.

Following the advice of his friend, and in order to increase the chances of finding the love of his life, Hossein decides to try his luck at becoming a wedding singer. On the first night of his performance

at a public venue, he meets NILOUFAR, the wedding photographer and the only woman allowed to enter the men’s section of the wedding. For Hossein, meeting Niloufar is love at first sight.

Director’s Statement The three characters in this film feel lonely. Like me, they come from a generation brought up in the tumultuous years of the Islamic revolution and the ensuing eight-year war with Iraq. We follow them as they go through encounters, which ignite the hope and possibility of breaking free, not only from the restrictions imposed on them by the outside world but also from the barriers that have become internalized within their psyche as a result of living in a society which does not grant its citizens many of the individual rights and freedoms that are taken for granted in the West. Like all good things, this hope may not last, but it’s an experience that reminds them, and I hope reminds us as viewers, of the joys and wonders of love as a life-affirming, spontaneous force that is worth waiting and hoping for, even in a city like Tehran where the odds are against it.

Director’s Profile Ali Jaberansari’s short film Aman (2011) was awarded the Cine+ prize at the Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, France and the MEO Best Student Film prize at Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival. The film was screened at various festivals including Starz Denver Film Festival, Etiuda & Anima Festival in Krakow and Singapore International Film Festival. His feature film

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debut Falling Leaves (2013) premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival and won the Federico Fellini Award for Best International Newcomer at Tiburon International Film Festival. It is due for theatrical release in Iran in 2016. Recently, Ali’s current project Tehran, City of Love was selected for Hubert Bals Script and Development Fund. Another project in development, The Ladder, participated at Sofia Meetings 2015, winning the Best Pitch Award.

Producer’s Profile Babak Jalali was born in Iran and is based primarily in London. He produced Short Skin (2015), developed at Venice Biennale College of Cinema and which premiered at 2014 Venice Film Festival, and further selected for 2015 Berlinale Generation. He coproduced White Shadow (2013), winner of the Luigi de Laurentiis — Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Film at Venice 2013, and selected for 2014 Sundance Competition.

Ali Jaberansari

As writer/director, Jalali’s short film Heydar, an Afghan in Tehran, was screened at 60 film festivals worldwide and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film (2006). He was selected for Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2006–2007 where he developed his first Film Festival in 2009. His second feature Radio Dreams won the IFFR Tiger Award in 2016. He is currently preparing Land, his third feature.

Current Status The film is in the latter stages of script development.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Meet professionals regarding further development of the script as well as gain assistance with funds and meeting sales agents.

Previous work available on Cinando Falling Leaves (Barg Rizan) by Ali Jaberansari, 2013, 85 min.

Babak Jalali

Director Ali Jaberansari // Producer Babak Jalali // Screenwriter Ali Jaberansari // Based on An original screenplay // Language Farsi // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 90 min. // Target audience World cinema audiences //

Total budget €280,000 // Total budget in place €60,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Viking Films (Netherlands), Mandra Films (France)

Attending HFM Ali Jaberansari, Babak Jalali

Contact Babak Jalali (Here & There Productions) / 15–17 Church Road — HA7 4AR Stanmore (UK) / Tel: +44 7733 552259 / Email: hereandthereproductions@gmail.com

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Totem

Volya Films (The Netherlands) Pallas Film (Germany) Eleven-year-old Ama, daughter of African failed asylum seekers, journeys through wintry Rotterdam at night after her mother and little brother were detained, looking for her father.

She is all-alone without any help. Then her totem animal reveals itself.

Synopsis

AMA (10), the daughter of two illegal immigrants from Senegal, lives in Rotterdam with her parents and brother. Ama’s father works in the classy, high-rise office buildings of Rotterdam. She is very proud of him.

One evening, her father just left for his night shift, Ama witnesses the police arresting her mother and brother. Ama is terrified, but has promised her father to avoid the police at all times, she decides to hide until her father returns. That night, Ama’s totem animal appears: an enormous PORCUPINE. When Ama wakes up, she learns that her father was here just an hour ago. Knowing that he would never go to the police, Ama vows to find him. And so Ama’s journey begins.

Together Ama and her porcupine wander the streets of Rotterdam at night, not knowing that Ama’s father has turned himself in to the police. They meet a cast of colourful characters: the fiery Iranian cleaner Arazou, the Bosnian former-refugee Haris and the mysterious African griot Cesar, who teaches her about totem animals and her African heritage.

Ama and TOTEM, as she names him, make the long journey to her father’s office. When Ama discovers that he is not a businessman, but a cleaner, she feels disillusioned and betrayed.

In a terrifying encounter with a man who tries to abduct Ama and Totem saves her with his razorsharp quills, they flee from the city centre to a tiny island in the Maas River, a foggy, tranquil oasis in the middle of the busy city.

In a rowboat Ama hides out with Totem. The police arrive and Ama sees her father with them. Betrayed again she flees out onto the rough water in the dark.

Only the next morning the police intercept her rowboat.

Ama jumps into the sea and the waves pull her under.

Ama wakes up in a hospital surrounded by her family. Her father embraces her and tells her she has followed his rules a little too strictly. He understands now that every rule has its exception and hopes that the Dutch government thinks the same. But most importantly, they are all together again.

Director’s Statement In Europe in recent years, the debate surrounding asylum seekers is becoming tougher. Under the reign of successive populists, the belief that fortune seekers and opportunists are invading Europe has spread.

Angela Merkel’s courageous “Wir schaffen das” has turned to near silence only a year and a number of incidents later. The crisis divides Europe and unites it at the same time. Only a few years ago, fortress Europe was unthinkable, now it is almost a fact. The danger of the current preconceptions regarding asylum seekers is a lack of attention for the human aspect: the hardships that people have to endure during their flight and after, the horrific circumstances that forced people to flee and the consequences for the hundreds of thousands of children that had to flee with them. Ama is not a political refugee. Her parents did not escape from a war, but simply wanted a better future for their children. But can we blame Ama?

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Director’s Profile Born in 1975, Sander Burger studied at the Netherlands Film Academy. After graduation, he made several short films, documentaries and television series. In 2005, he shot Panman — Rhythm of the Palms. His debut feature was Oliver etc (2007) and his second Hunting & Sons (2010) was nominated for two Golden Calfs. In 2014 he made Alice Cares, his first feature-length documentary, which was selected in more than 70 festivals including Rotterdam, Cinema du Réel, CPH:DOX and the Netherlands Film Festival. The film was released in the Netherlands, Germany and Russia. He also made the TV-films GERAAKT (2014) and Mijn Zoon de Jihadist, written and directed together with Hassan Bahara.

Producer’s Profile Volya Films is a Rotterdam based company producing author fiction films and creative documentaries, mainly as international co-productions. Our films tells unexpected stories, sometimes from parts of the

Sander Burger

Denis Vaslin

Director Sander Burger // Producer Denis Vaslin, Thanassis Karathanos // Screenwriter Bastiaan Tichler // Based on An original screenplay // Language Dutch // Genre Family movie // Format HD // Running time 90 min. // Target audience Families //

world not covered by the media with an original style and approach. Recent films are Waiting for Giraffes

by Marco de Stefanis (2016), The Free Market by Marleine van der Werf (NFF 2016 Debut Competition), Problemski Hotel by Manu Riche and based on the book by Dimitri Verhulst (IFFR 2016), and Big Father, Small Father & Other Stories by Di Phan Dang (world premiere Berlinale Official Competition 2015).

Current Status Development (treatment available).

Aims at the BoostNL programme We would like to meet possible co-producers from Scandinavia, sales agent, distributors. Input on financing, distribution and marketing strategies. We are also interested to meeting script editors and casting agents.

Previous work available on Cinando My Son the Jihadist by Sander Burger, 2015, 40 min.

Fleur Knopperts Total budget €2.000,000 // Total budget in place €33,500 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, MDM

Attending HFM Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts

Contact Denis Vaslin (Volya Films) / Schiekade 189, unit 508 — 3013 BR Rotterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 10 415 5621 / Email: info@volyafilms.com / www.volyafilms.com

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Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out

by Bert Scholiers (Belgium) In Blue by Jaap van Heusden (The Netherlands) Mormaço by Marina Meliande (Brazil) Quality Time by Daan Bakker (The Netherlands)

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Work-in-Progress Session Since 2013, the Holland Film Meeting has organized the Work-in-Progress (WiP) Session with the aim of uniting the makers of soon-to-be-completed films with a select group of leading film industry professionals, whether new financiers, co-producers, sales or distribution executives.

Fomer Works-in-Progress performed very well this year. Toz bezi (Dust Cloth) by Ahu Özturk and A Quiet Passion by Terence Davies both world premiered in Berlin (Forum and Specials section respectively).

Meanwhile Wreck It! (original project title: Scrappers!

A Northern Western) by Max Zähle made it to the big screen in the Netherlands in May. The Works-in-Progress are given an even more prominent role within this year’s edition. As part of the BoostNL programme in collaboration with CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam), the projects will be presented and discussed in a closed session during which the filmmakers and producers will receive feedback and advice from both national and international experts. For the projects that are almost finished, producers are offered the opportunity to present them to a group of potential sales agents, tv-acquisition execs, festival programmers and distributors. This will include the screening of a 12-minute excerpt from each work.

The selected Works-in-Progress will be considered for two awards: • The Filmmore HFM Work-in-Progress Prize Valued at €5.000 in facility services.

• The Haghefilm International Post-Production Prize Valued at €5.000 in facility services.

The winners will be announced during the closing evening of HFM to be held at Museum Speelklok on Saturday, September 24 in the evening.

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Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out Charlie en Hannah

Minds Meet (Belgium) Synopsis A Friday evening. City lights grow dim. Two girls, age twenty-four and twenty-five. A wine party with friends. A sexy film buff. A magic candy taken in the bathroom. A pair of breasts, eager for a talk.

About anything. A pub where they often reside.

An encounter with Vincent who has very ordinary toes.

The Spirochaetaceae Bazinianicus. Which is a harmful bacterium. Chez Madame Daady at the literary brothel. And a flying pineapple. A cold intermezzo at the North Pole. A vendor of black holes. An ominous villa. A sadistic dwarf and amorous Satan. A kiss in the kitchen. Followed by an awkward scene in that kitchen. Lots of drinking. And a few stolen kisses.

And a happy end. Or not?

Charlie & Hannah’s Grand Night Out is the first feature film by Bert Scholiers. It runs on the heartbeat of “oldskool jazz” and flirts with some references to classic cinema. An absurd comedy about love and relationships, like a drunken Friday night out.

Director’s Profile Bert Scholiers studied Theater, Film and Literature at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He started his career as a screenwriter for film projects like Smoorverliefd (2013) and Sprakeloos (to be completed in 2017) by Belgian filmmaker an actress Hilde Van Mieghem. Recently he turned to directing his own films as he is currently working on his first feature film as a director, Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out.

Bert Scholiers

Tomas Leyers

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Director Bert Scholiers // Producer Tomas Leyers // Screenwriter Bert Scholiers // Production Marc Goyens // Director of photography Hans Bruch Jr. // Editors Nico Leunen, Thomas Pooters //

Cast Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens // Language Dutch // Genre Arthouse comedy // Format Arri 2K (HD) // Running time 75 min. // Target audience Smart and sexy cinema lovers //

Aims at the BoostNL / WiP programme We are looking for interested international sales agents, distributors and potential partners who can contribute to launch this oddball of a film.

Attending HFM Tomas Leyers, Bert Scholiers

Contact Tomas Leyers (Minds Meet) / Havenlaan 108-110 Avenue du Port — 1000 Brussels (Belgium) / Email: tomas@mindsmeet.be / www.mindsmeet.eu

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In Blue

IJswater Films (The Netherlands) Caviar (Belgium) NTR (The Netherlands — Broadcaster) Synopsis When a forty-something Dutch flight attendant named LIN has to help deliver a baby in mid-air, it leaves her off kilter. In the emotional aftermath she meets NICU (15), who’s living on and under the streets of Bucharest, and gets involved in a confusing mother/ lover relationship with him.

Director’s Profile Jaap van Heusden (1979) graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2005 with A Complicated Story, Simply Told, which was shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards and selected for the Cannes Film Festival and AFI. Since then, he (co)wrote and directed several short and medium-length drama films and feature-length telefilms. In Blue is his next theatrical film, after his successful first feature Win/ Win (selected by 40 film festivals, a.o. Prix Europe Best Screenplay, “Best Actor” Brooklyn Filmfest, “Special Mention” Mannheim-Heidelberg); and telefilm The New World (selected by 45 film & TV festivals on all continents, amongst others; International Emmy Award Best Actress, Signis Award Washington Film Fest and the Heinrich Prize at Braunschweig FF.

Jaap van Heusden

Marc Bary

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Director Jaap van Heusden // Producers Marc Bary (IJswater Films), Frank van den Passel (Caviar), Ivy Vanhaecke (Caviar).

Distribution Benelux: Paradiso Filmed Entertainment // Screenwriters Jaap van Heusden & Jan Willem den Bok // Line producer Mendy Post // Director of photography Melle van Essen //

Editor Jasper Quispel NCE // Cast Maria Kraakman, Bogdan Inancu // Language English, Dutch, Romanian // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 98 min. // Target audience Women 35–65

Aims at the WiP programme Finding an international sales agent.

Attending HFM Marc Bary, Jaap van Heusden, Steven Rubinstein Malamud

Contact Marc Bary (Ijswater Films) /Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110/4 — 1079 LD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 204421760 / Email: films@ijswater.nl / www.ijswater.nl

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Mormaço Sultry

Duas Mariola Filmes and Enquadramento Produções (Brazil) Synopsis Rio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history.

The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. ANA, a 32 year-old public defender, receives the news that the building where she lives is to become a luxury hotel and she must find somewhere else to live.

Meanwhile, she’s been noticing purple fungus-like spots on her body. Strange things begin to happen in the city as well as in Ana’s body. The temperature rises, creating a humid and suffocating atmosphere.

The sultriness accumulates before giving way to heavy rain.

Director’s Profile Marina Meliande studied at the University Federal Fluminense and at Le Fresnoy, in France. She codirected with Felipe Brangaça the feature trilogy Heart on Fire including The Scape of the Monkey Gorilla, selected for Locarno 2009; The Joy, World Premiere at Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2010; Neverquiet (Film of Wonders), selected at Rotterdam Film Festival 2011.

As an editor she worked on 40 films including Swirl and Found Memories. She is currently working on her first solo film, Mormaço, which has been supported by Cinefondation’s Residence and Hubert Bals Fund.

Marina Meliande

Leonardo Mecchi

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Director Marina Meliande // Producer Leonardo Mecchi // Screenwriters Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande // Director of photography Glauco Firpo // Editors Rodrigo Lima and Marina Meliande //

Cast Marina Provenzzano, Pedro Gracindo, Diego de Abreu and Analu Prestes // Language Portuguese // Genre Drama // Format 2K // Running time 100 min. // Target audience Young and adult audience

Aims at the BoostNL / WiP programme Editing consulting.

Attending HFM Leonardo Mecchi, Marina Meliande

Contact Leonardo Mecchi (Duas Mariola Filmes and Enquadramento Produções) / Rua Humaitá 12/404 — 22261-001 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) / Tel: +55 11 999900515 / Email: leonardo.mecchi@yahoo.com / www.duasmariola.com.br

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Quality Time

Pupkin (The Netherlands) Synopsis KOEN decides to go against his mother’s advice and nearly overdoses on ham and milk. Amateur photographer STEFAAN takes an awkward trip down memory lane. KJELL travels back in time in an attempt to raise his self-esteem. KEITH’s paranoia gets in the way when he tries to impress his new in-laws. KAREL is abducted by aliens and comes back as a mutant; his father helps him find a job.

Quality Time consists of several short stories about struggling men and their concerned parents.

A curious combination of film styles is used to emphasize the absurdity of human existence.

Director’s Profile Daan Bakker (1979) graduated at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy with Jacco’s Film, which won international awards and was selected for many film festivals, such as Berlinale. In 2010, Daan wrote and directed the short film Budowski, which was an international success as well. The short film was selected for Aspen Shortfest, Palm Springs Short Film Festival and many others. Between 2011 and 2014 Daan worked as story-editor and script advisor on several projects. In 2013 the feature film A Christmoose Story followed, for which he worked on the screenplay. The film was selected for Generation Kplus at the Berlinale.

Daan Bakker

Iris Otten

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Director // Daan Bakker // Producer Iris Otten // Screenwriter Daan Bakker // Line producer Maarten van der Ven // Director of photography Robbie van Brussel NSC // Editor Sander Vos NCE // Cast Noel Keulen, Fred Goessens, Janneke Lantink, Giulio D’Anna, Bert Bunschoten, Ria Marks, Steef Cuijpers, Sem Schoonheim, Wendell Jaspers, Raymonde de Kuyper, Judith van den Berg, Finn Poncin, Rubia Stringsi, Nikee Kiers, Rienus Krul, Debbie Korper, Marijn Brussaard

Language Dutch, Norwegian // Genre Tragic comedy // Format 16:9 // Running time TBD // Target audience Men and women aged 20-80 years and part of an art-loving audience.

Aims at the BoostNL / WiP programme Feedback on edited version. Determine the project’s international potential.

Attending HFM Iris Otten

Contact Iris Otten (Pupkin) / Weesperzijde 4 — 1091 EA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31-20 4895088 / Email: iris@pupkin.com / www.pupkin.com

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© Johan Voets / A Quiet Passion — HFM Work-in-Progress 2015

Toz Bezi (Dust Cloth) — HFM Work-in-Progress 2014

Previously at the HFM Work-in-Progress Session Project update as of August 2016 2015 A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies), Hurricane Films, UK — Berlinale 2016 // DEW (Denijal Hasanovic), Skorpion arte, Poland — In post-prodution // UPSTREAM (Marion Hänsel), Man’s Films Productions, Belgium — Release expected in 2016 (fall) // WATERBOYS (Robert Jan Westdijk), VENFILM (The Netherlands) — Release expected in 2016 (winter) // WRECK IT! (Max Zähle), Tamtam Film, Germany — Release 2016 // 2014 Black Diamond (Arthur Harari), Les Film Pelleas, France — To be released 2016 // ABSOLUTION (Petri Kotwica), Vertigo Production, Finland — Warsaw FF 2015 // Dust Cloth (Ahu Öztürk), Ret Film, Turkey — Berlinale 2016, Forum // EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (Peter Greenaway), Submarine, The Netherlands — Berlinale 2015, Competition // Paradise Trips (Raf Reyntjens), Caviar Films, Belgium — NFF 2015 //

2013 All cats are grey (Savina Dellicour), Tarantula Films, Belgium — Montreal 2014 // ATLANTIC. (Jan-Willem van Ewijk), Augustus Film, The Netherlands — Toronto 2014 // …And the Pursuit of Happiness (When Paul Came Over The Sea (Jakob Preuss), Weydemann Bros., Germany — Release expected in 2016 (Summer) // Korso (Akseli Tuomivaara), Bufo, Finland — Edinburgh 2014 // Culture Files (Various), Gebreuder Beetz Filmproduktion, Germany — TV-series released in 2013 //

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Consultancy advancefilms

David Pope, CEO

David Pope has worked as script consultant on single projects and slates in the US, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Asia including work with Academy Award and BAFTA nominated producers and screenwriters and national film funds. In 2015/2016 four feature films and one TV drama to which David contributed script development services were green lit into production.

David is the director of advancefilms. Currently in development as screenwriter and director with feature film “The Belonging”. Directing credits include the awardwinning feature film “Miles From Nowhere”.

Further, David Pope is the annual consultant/moderator for the Rotterdam Lab at CineMart and contributes to several talent and project development labs internationally.

Previous script development and/or training design and delivery clients include: BFI, UK Film Council, BBC, BAFTA, National Theatre, British Council, Creative Europe, Cannes Cinefondation, Warp Films, Allfilm, Stowe Story Labs, Wajda School, Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Polish Film Institute, Media Business School, UK Film Centre Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner Cannes Film Festival, Expression en Corto, FIKE, Film London, Lionhead Studios, Xingu Films, Irish Film Board, FAS Screen Training Ireland, Filmbase, MEDIA, Open Cinema, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, New Horizons Studio, NPA, NYFA and Estonian Film Institute.

Contact 40 South Way — BN7 1LY Lewes (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 7967 836447 / Email: david@advancefilms.com / www.advancefilms.com

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Angeli Macfarlane

Angeli Macfarlane, Development Consultant for Film, TV and Theatre

Angeli is the founder of Script Cube, her training and development consultancy in film and TV. Angeli supports global and boutique brands, including Film4, BBC, Pathé, MOFILM, Altered Image, Element Pictures, National Geographic Films, 42 Management, Optimism and Sony Pictures TV. Her current development slate comprises 10th Century Nordic saga by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, writer of “Ida”, two feature documentaries produced by Pulse Films, two-part drama for BBC Scotland and several features for the BFI, Creative England and Screen Australia. Angeli is Associate Producer on “Lust for Life” about David Bowie and Iggy Pop. She recently script edited “Hammer ‘Til I Die” by Brit actor Eddie Marsan and Ben Elton’s upcoming comedy “Three Seasons”.

In recent years Angeli developed “Death of a President”, winner of Emmy, BANFF and an RTS award, BAFTA nominated “I am Slave”, More4 feature “Little Matador” and “Outlaw Prophet” for Sony TV, John McDonagh’s “The Guard”, Tinge Krishnan’s feature “Junkhearts” and “Borrowed Time”, released in 2013.

Angeli teaches screenwriting at the National Film & Television School and is Acting Development Producer at Film London.

Contact Email: mail@angelimacfarlane.co.uk

BaseWorx for Film

Claudia Landsberger, International Film Consultant

BaseWorx main activities are script and project development, international marketing and communication, festival and market strategy, festival programming and international co-productions. Serving filmmakers, producers, festivals, film funds, talent and sales agents with consult and practical support. BaseWorx For Film has an extensive network of international contacts, good relations with professionals and organizations in the industry and a thorough knowledge of specific national and local cultures with insight in handling the differences in perception and appreciations of a project or product.

Contact H. Gorterstraat 20 — 1077 WH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7799079 / Email: mail@baseworx.eu / www.baseworx.eu

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Henneman Agency

Jacobine van der Vloed, Talent Agent Directors and Screenwriters

Henneman Agency is one of the leading agencies in the Netherlands, representing over one hundred prominent talents in all areas of the entertainment industry and playing a key strategic role between client and producers on a national and international level. In addition, Henneman initiates various new film and TV projects either by buying (novel) rights or creating new works. These projects offer unique creative and business opportunities for the talents and will become the key focus in the immediate future.

In 2015, Henneman Agency — together with partners Team Players (Denmark) and Spielkind (Germany) — founded the European Talent Network. ETN is an international agency platform for European talent that provides exposure for those with the quality and ability to work in the international film and entertainment industry. Therewith creating a central meeting point for talent aiming at European and worldwide productions.

Furthermore ETN’s network covers talent throughout the extended range of countries within Europe and thus services worldwide casting directors and producers in search of European talent.

Contact Amsteldijk 39 — 1074 HV Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6943399 / Email: info@hennemanagency.nl / www.hennemanagency.nl

Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Film Director

After studying History of Art and Cinema in Paris, Lucile Hadzihalilovic created LES CINEMAS DE LA ZONE with Gaspar Noé. Together they’ve produced Noe’s films “Carne” and “I Stand Alone”, and her first film: “La bouche de Jean-Pierre (Mimi)” selected in Cannes at Un certain regard (1996). She has written and directed “Innocence” (2004) Best New Director at San Sebastian film festival, and “Evolution”(2015) Special Jury Prize and Best Cinematography at San Sebastian film festival.

As a writer, she has collaborated to several films (among them “Enter the Void” directed by Gaspar Noé) and has been a script consultant at La Femis, Berlinale Talent Campus and Sarajevo Talent Campus.

Contact Email: lucilehadzi@hotmail.fr

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Nelleke Driessen

Nelleke Driessen, Film Industry Advisor/ Consultant

Amsterdam-based Nelleke Driessen has over two decades of experience in the film industry. She’s was Managing Director of Fortissimo Films, a company dedicated to the development and international sales and marketing of quality arthouse films

by Wong Kar-wai, Iwai Shunji, Alex van Warmerdam, Hal Hartley and Debra Granik, amongst others and on documentaries such as “Super Size Me”, “Capturing the Friedmans”, “Food Inc” and “Marley”.

She started her career in the film industry in 1986 with Film International, the distribution arm of the Rotterdam Film Festival, and later for other distribution companies such as Hungry Eye Pictures and Cinemien/Homescreen. She also worked for the International Film Festival Rotterdam for several years. In 2004 she joined Fortissimo Films, first as Co-managing Director and since 2006 as Managing Director.

Nelleke was board member of Europa International, a European association for sales agents, founded in 2011.

Contact Westerdok 764 — Amsterdam (Netherlands) Tel: +31 6 1100 2501 / Email: driessen.nelleke@gmail.com

solace23

Françoise von Roy, Script Consultant

Solace 23 offers individual consultancy, tutoring, lecturing and workshops in script development and story editing.

Françoise von Roy is a freelance script consultant, who has worked in film and TV development for over 15 years, including several years as Head of Development of an animation and documentary production company. Since 2013 Françoise has been working exclusively as a script consultant for international film projects.

Together with Franz Rodenkirchen she holds the bimonthly script development workshop Script Circle for writers and filmmakers and the intensive workshop “6 Days of Practice” for producers and others involved in script development.

Contact Lychener Straße 23 — 10437 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 179 2007212, +49 172 3276099 / Email: solace@solace23.com, francoise@geistzeitfilm.com / www.solace23.com, www.francoisevonroy.com

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Tobias Pausinger

Tobias Pausinger, Industry Advisor and Consultant

Tobias Pausinger was trained in international film production and financing in Ludwigsburg, Los Angeles and Rome and is a MBA graduate of the TU Munich.

2003 till 2009, he was responsible for the acquisition of various multi-award-winning films for international sales at Bavaria Film International and The Match Factory.

With The Match Factory, he also co-produced Yesim Ustaoglu’s San Sebastian Golden Shell winning feature film “Pandora’s Box”. Tobias continuously advises various film festivals and industry initiatives on content and strategic matters, such as e.g. the CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam), Istanbul’s Meetings on the Bridge and Sarajevo’s CineLink, among others, and serves as a constant member in selection committees of various markets and training schemes. He also works as script and development consultant and advises film professionals and visual artists on development, financing and distribution. Further, Tobias lectures at various training initiatives throughout Europe. In 2011, together Jacobine van der Vloed, he co-founded the Art:Film initiative, a platform held during International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart, to enhance and nurture highly artistic cinema and visual arts.

Tobias is also a voting member of the European Film Academy Contact Weinmeisterstr. 7 — D- 10178 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 176 704 365 92 / Email: pausinger@gmail.com

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Distributors / VOD ABC/Cinemien Cinemien is an independent film distributor. The company has released films in cinemas and movie theatres for 40 years. Besides it distributes it’s own catalogue on DVD under their own label Homescreen.

Babette Wijntjes, Managing Director

Recent Titles NFF 2016: And Never the Twain Shall Meet — Marion Bloem / Out of Love — Paloma Aguilera //Valdebenito / Strike a Pose — Ester Gould Contact Amsteldijk 10 — 1074 HP Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5776010 / Email: info@cinemien.nl / www.cinemien.nl

Cinéart Cinéart is an independent film distributor exploiting theatrical, DVD, TV and VOD rights in Belgium and the Netherlands. The company’s ambition is to select films based on quality and to make the most of them. Cinéart works hard to allow every film to shine on the big screen whether they are small, big, huge, European, Asian, American, African, cross-over, arthouse or mainstream.

Janneke de Jong, Publicity & Marketing

Contact Herengracht 328 III — 1016 CE Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5308848 / Email: info@cineart.nl / www.cineart.nl

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Contact Film

Nick Muijs, Acquisitions

Contact Film was founded in 1991 as an independent distribution company. It’s is a Non-Profit Foundation (Stichting) Contact Film’s main goal is presenting films (all rights: theatrical, TV, VOD, DVD/video) that make a contribution to the Art of Cinematography. The collection contains films from all over the world. Among many others the works of Ceylan, Dumont, Apichatpong, Godard, Gatlif, Sokurov, Konchalovsky, Makhmalbaf, Mungiu, Zviagintsev, Ki Duk, Majewski, Fassbinder.

Contact Film releases in average 10 up till 15 films a year.

Recent titles Francofonia — Aleksandr Sokurov / Embrace of the Serpent — Ciro Guerra / The Wailing — Hong Jin Na / Zvizdan — Dalibor Matanić / Desde allá — Lorenzo / The Net — Kim Ki Duk / United States of Love — Tomasz Wasilewski / Aloys — Tobias Nölle / Waldstille — Martijn Maria Smits / Caini — Bogdan Mirica / In the Crosswind — Martti Heide / A Quiet passion — Terrence Davies Contact Spijkerstraat 49 — Arnhem (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 26 4434949 / Email: info@contactfilm.nl / www.contactfilm.nl

Curzon Cinemas Curzon is the UK’s leading independent distributor, exhibitor and VOD platform.

Recent Titles Son of Saul — László Nemes / Love and Friendship — Whit Stillman / Wild Tales — Damián Szifrón Claire Beswick, Head of Programming

Contact 22 Stukeley Street — WC2B 5LR London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 330 5001331 / Email: info@curzoncinemas.com / www.curzoncinemas.com

Featurette Featurette advises distributors on their acquisitions and co-productions. At the HFM Featurette will be looking for projects to co-produce out of the Netherlands and to distribute in the Benelux as well as projects to distribute in France.

Aranka Matits, Head of Acquisitions

Recent Titles Apprentice — Junfeng Boo / Frantz — François Ozon/ Little Men — Ira Sachs / Sieranevada — Cristi Puiu Contact An der Ronne 266 — 50859 Koeln (Germany) / Tel: +1 646 4694292 / Email: aranka@featurette.net / featurette.net

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Fidalgo Film Distribution Fidalgo Film Distribution is a Norwegian-based distribution company, founded in 1990. It aims to acquire and distribute high-quality films. It looks for films from up-and coming directors, as well as artistically challenging films from the more established ones. Fidalgo Film Distribution buys and sells film rights within Scandinavia.

Frank L. Stavik, CEO

Recent Titles The Second Mother — Anna Muylaert / The Commune — Thomas Vinterberg / Mon roi — Maïwenn / Suburra — Stefano Sollima / La loi de marché — Stéphane Brizé Contact Dueknipen 4 — N-4616 Kristiansand (Norway) / Tel: +47 380 24004 / Email: fidalgo@broadpark.no / www.filmweb.no/fidalgo

Imagine Film Distribution

Vi Nguyen, Managing Director

IMAGINE Filmdistributie Nederland (Est. 2012) is an Amsterdam-based film distributor with a focus on quality arthouse and independent movies. Their catalogue includes award-winning titles like “Monsieur Lazhar”, “Mud”, “The Dark Horse”, “Taxi Teheran” and “Rams”. Recent acquisitions include “Maggie’s Plan” (Rebecca Miller), “Men & Chicken” (Anders Thomas Jensen), “La pazza gioia” (Paolo Virzi), “Neruda” (Pablo Larraín) and “Paterson” (Jim Jarmusch).

Recent Titles Maggie’s Plan — Rebecca Miller / La pazza gioia — Paolo Virzi / HighRise — Ben Wheatley / The Here After — Magnus von Horn Contact Theophile de Bockstraat 37 — 1058 TX Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3690454 / Email: info@imaginefilm.nl / www.imaginefilm.nl

Lumière Lumière is an all-rights distributor that also (co-)produces films and series, owns cinemas in Bruges and Antwerp and has offices in Ghent and Amsterdam.

Esther Bannenberg, Acquisitions

Recent title The Millennium Trilogy / The Iron Lady — Phyllida Lloyd / Boyhood — Richard Linklater / Turist (Force Majeure) — Ruben Östlund / Shaun the Sheep — Mark Burton & Richard Starzak / The Red Turtle — Michael Dudok de Wit Contact KNSM-laan 171 — Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 30311280 / Email: office@lumiere.be / www.lumiere.be

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MUBI

Bobby Allen, Vice President / Content

MUBI is a curated SVOD service available globally, specializing in award-winning independent and Studio content. Every day, MUBI’s expert curators hand-pick a new title and each film is available to watch for 30 days — that is 365 extraordinary films a year curated by MUBI. The company is actively acquiring content worldwide and works with top international sales agents and distributors including Sony, Paramount, Miramax, Studio Canal, Pathé, eOne & Wild Bunch. The platform’s aim is to acquire films for all-rights in the UK and US, as well as global online exclusives for special releases and distinctive films (and libraries) to exhibit online in order to ultimately become the global leading destination for great cinema.

Available in over 200 countries around the globe and on multiple devices, a subscription to MUBI is a passport to the world of cinema.

Contact 546 Bryant Street — CA 94107 San Francisco (USA) / 1 Newburgh St — W1F 7RB London (United Kingdom) / Email: hello@mubi.com / www.mubi.com

Paradiso Filmed Entertainment Paradiso Filmed Entertainment is an independent company with emphasis on arthouse and cross-over films.

Dirk de Lille, Co-Managing Director

Recent Titles Youth — Paulo Sorrentino / Café Society — Woody Allen / Florence Foster Jenkins — Stephen Frears / Brimstone — Martin Koolhoven / Waterboys — Robert Jan Westdijk // NFF 2016: Alberta — Eddy Terstall / Vincent and the End of the World — Christophe van Rompaey Contact Rokin 95-I — 1012 KM Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6159222 / Email: info@paradisofilms.nl / www.paradisofilms.nl

Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih

Matthias Keuthen, Buyer

Since 1990 Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih is focused on European arthouse films. Most of the selected films are based on literature, but if the film is of high quality and can be linked to the arthouse audience, even stories without a literature background can be released. Because of a long experience from running arthouse cinemas in Bonn and Cologne, Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih is very close to the quality oriented audience of people between the age of 40 to 70.

Contact Alexander-König-Straße 2 — 53115 Bonn (Germany) / Tel: +49 228 212594 / Email: info@schwarzweiss-filmverleih.de / www.schwarzweiss-filmverleih.de

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September Film Distribution Wild Bunch Benelux Distribution was founded in October 2008. This Amsterdambased film distribution company, that started as a joint venture with Wild Bunch France, is now an independent company that changed its name to September Film in September 2014 and started a production department: September Film Production.

Jan van Aert, Sales Director

Recent Titles A Man Called Ove — Hannes Holm / Kollektivet — Thomas Vinterberg // NFF 2016: Riphagen — Pieter Kuijpers / Beyond Sleep — Boudewijn Koole / In My Father’s Garden — Ben Sombogaart/ Public Works — Joram Lürsen / Full Contact — David Verbeek / The Paradise Suite — Joost van Ginkel Contact Willemsstraat 24b — 1015 JD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5357550 / Email: info@septemberfilm.nl / www.septemberfilm.nl

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Festivals / Markets Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin)

Kathi Bildhauer, Co-Production Market

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a 3-day networking platform for industry professionals (ca. 600 producers, financiers, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents) working in international co-productions. It is the “home for producers” at the Berlinale and offers successful meeting coordination and a programme including case studies, speedmatchings and funding overviews, amongst other. It allows to discover the most promising pre-selected projects (feature film projects, drama series, novels) and great companies from all over the world.

Contact Potsdamer Straße 5 — 10785 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 259200 / Email: panorama@berlinale.de / www.berlinale.de / www.efm-berlinale.de

Cinekid

Nienke Poelsma, Head Cinekid for Professionals

Cinekid is one of the largest international children’s film, television and new media festivals, held in October in Amsterdam. The festival includes activities in approximately 30 other locations in the Netherlands. It also includes Cinekid for Professionals, a section for the international children’s media industry; a coproduction market (film, TV and cross-media projects in development), a digital video library and an extensive conference programme.

Contact Asterweg 20 G2 — 1031 HN Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5317890 / Email: info@cinekid.nl / www.cinekid.nl

Directors’ Fortnight Cannes The Directors’ Fortnight concern is to bring new talents to the fore, surprise audiences with new and unknown facets of known talents; to vary the pleasures, in a word, to show what’s most exciting in world cinema and what rises to the top among the new trends.

Laurence Reymond, Programmer

Contact 14 Rue Alexandre Parodi — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 44899999 / Email: lreymond@quinzaine-realisateurs.com / www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com

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Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival

Christina Essenberger, Managing Director

Unique in Germany, the Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival provides a perfect platform for the presentation of the latest film developments and trends as they relate to women working in all areas of film production. The festival is open to all genres and styles. It takes place once a year on five days and presents around 120 films.

To highlight the work of women film directors the festival runs different competitions on alternating basis: the International Feature Film Award is given to women directors who can look back on a longer period of creativity; while the International Debut Feature Film Competition for younger talented filmmakers and the National Competition for Women Directors, aiming at the next generation of camera women at German film colleges, are held in Cologne.

Contact c/o Kulturbüro Dortmund, Küpferstrasse 3 — 44122 Dortmund (Germany) Tel: +49 231 5025162 / Email: info@frauenfilmfestival.eu / www.frauenfilmfestival.eu

Dubai International Film Festival Dubai International Film Festival, established in 2004, celebrates Arab Cinema and showcases films from all around the world. DIFF hosts two competitive film programmes: the Arab and African Asian Muhr Awards. In 2007 it established the Dubai Film Connection (DFC), a film co-production market for showcasing film projects from directors of Arab nationality.

Jane Williams, Head of Industry Office

Contact PO Box 53777 — Dubai (United Arab Emirates) / Tel: +971 50 2257146 / Email: info@filmfest.ae / www.dubaifilmfest.com

FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) consists of 6 days of screenings of all kinds of genres of international TV creations, with discoveries of new talents, meet and greets with film makers, debates and conferences.

François Sauvagnargues, General Manager

Contact 14, rue Alexandre Parodi — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 44899999 / Email: info@fipa.tv / www.fipa.tv

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Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry’s biggest trade fair — with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and approximately 10,000 accredited journalists in attendance. It also gathers key players from other media, including the film and games industries.

Jenny Kuehne, Manager Rights & Licensing

Contact Braubachstrasse 16 — 60311 Frankfurt (Germany) / Tel: +49 69 21020 / Email: servicecenter@book-fair.com / www.book-fair.com

Signe Zeilich-Jensen, Frankfurt Book Fair Prep-meeting

Göteborg International Film Festival

Cia Edström, Head of Industry

Göteborg International Film Festival is the leading film festival in Scandinavia and — with an audience of 200.000 visitors a year — one of the largest festivals in the world. The prestigious Dragon Awards, including the Nordic Film Award, The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award (TIBIDA), and the Telia Distribution Award are granted during the festival. In addition, the Nordic Film Market presents the latest and upcoming Scandinavian films to international buyers, sales agents and festival programmers.

Contact Olof Palmes Plats 1 — 41304 Göteborg (Sweden) Tel: +46 31 3393000 / Email: info@giff.se / www.giff.se

Freddy Olsson, Programmer

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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, Head of Industry Office, FORUM

IDFA is an annual leading documentary event In November, bringing the documentary community together in the centre of Amsterdam. It offers filmmakers a platform to launch their documentaries in various festival programmes and has two markets: the Forum for co-financing/production and Docs for Sale, a sales market. Young talent is placed at the for front at IDFAcademy. IDFA is well-attended by both a large audience (270.000 sold tickets) and over 3000 international documentary professionals. IDFA created the IDFA Bertha Fund for the support of film in developing countries. Stimulating international collaborations and creating visibility for films and their makers are key for IDFA. Contact Federiksplein 52 — 1017XN Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6273329 / Email: info@idfa.nl / www.idfa.nl

Bero Beyer, General & Artistic Director

Bianca Taal, Programmer/Head of Talent Development

Iwana Chronis, Head of Hubert Bals Fund

Inke van Loocke, Coordinator CineMart & Rotterdam Lab

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)

Marit van den Elshout, Head of Industry & CineMart

As one of the largest public film events in the world, IFFR actively supports independent filmmaking from around the globe and is a recognised platform in Europe for launching new films and talent. The 46th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam will take place from January 25 to February 5, 2017. The IFFR Pro days including CineMart and the Rotterdam Lab will be from 28 January — 4 February 2017.

Contact Postbus 21696 — 3001 AR Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 10 8909090 / Email: tiger@iffr.com / www.iffr.com

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La Biennale di Venezia

Paolo Bertolin, Correspondent Programmer

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest and longest running film festival in the world. The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The main award of Venice Film Festival is the Golden Lion. In 2016, the Venice International Film Festival celebrated its 73rd edition from August 31st to September 10th.

Contact Ca’ Guistinian, San Marco 1364/a —30124 Venice (Italy) / Tel: +39 41 5218878 / Email: program@labienale.org / www.labiennale.org

Meetings on the Bridge (Istanbul Film Festival)

Gülin Üstün, Head of Meetings on the Bridge

Meetings on the Bridge (MoB), the industry section of the Istanbul Film Festival, primarily showcases film projects and films in post-production from Turkey and the neighbouring countries at Film Development and Work in Progress workshops with the purpose of initiating negotiations for co-productions. Aiming at offering further incentives, in 2011, the MoB in collaboration with the Medienboard BerlinBrandbenburg and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein funds established a TurkishGerman Co-Production Development Fund. In 2015, Meetings on the Bridge started a training programme with international experts on script, production, distribution, marketing, and pitching for the writers, directors, and producers of the selected projects. Each year nearly €30.000 cash awards along with in kind awards are given at the workshops.

Meetings on the Bridge continues to offer new prospects to filmmakers in any stage of their films, and acts as a go-to destination of the Turkish film industry for international professionals.

Contact Sadi Konuralp Street No: 5 Sishane — 34433 Istanbul (Turkey) / Tel: +90 212 3340700 / Email: onthebridge@iksv.org / www.iksv.org

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Sarajevo Film Festival (CineLink)

Jovan Marjanović, Head of Industry

Rada Sesic, Head of the Documentary Competition

Over the 15 years since its launch, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section has become a major hub for Southeast European film professionals, and has played a crucial role in the expansion of cinematic co-production in the region. It has also become a key destination for professionals from across Europe who are in search of talent and co-production possibilities, or who simply wish to obtain in-depth knowledge about this dynamic region’s business development.

The Festival’s industry offering attracts almost 1,000 professionals to its annual event in late August and includes activities for people from all spheres of the business through its interlinked CineLink Industry Days sections. The CineLink Co-Production Market offers a selection of quality projects in development, while those soon-to-be completed fiction films are screened within CineLink Work-inProgress. DOCU Rough Cut Boutique offers domentary film screenings and tailormade expert coaching formakers that have reached the phase of post-production.

Extracts of finished films going into distribution are presented at the Avant Premier Trailers section, while young talents pitch their short film projects at Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch. In addition, and as a new initiative, CineLink launched this year its Drama section and the True Stories Market. At CineLink professionals find everything in one place; everything connected.

Contact Zelenih beretki 12/1 —71000 Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) / Tel: +387 33 209411 / Email: info@sff.ba / www.sff.ba

Sundance Institute

John Nein, Senior Programmer

Sundance Institute, founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, is a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for artists in film, theatre and new media to create and thrive. The Institute’s signature Labs, granting, and mentorship programmes dedicated to developing new work, take place throughout the year in the U.S. and internationally.

The Sundance Film Festival and other public programmes connect audiences to artists in igniting new ideas, discovering original voices and building a community dedicated to independent storytelling. Sundance Institute has supported such projects as “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, “Fruitvale Station”, “Sin Nombre”, “The Invisible 3 War”, “The Square”, “Dirty Wars”, “Spring Awakening”, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and “Fun Home”.

Contact 5900 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 800 — CA 90036 Los Angeles (USA) Tel: +1 310 360 1981 / Email: Institute@sundance.org / www.sundance.org

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Toronto International Film Festival / Prodigy 360

Hayet Benkara, Industry and Talent Development Programmer

French born and Toronto-based Hayet Benkara has years of international experience working extensively with the most prestigious festivals in the world such as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where she managed the Sales Office (unofficial market) for many years. She worked for Cannes (Producers Network), Berlinale (Co-production market), Rotterdam/IFFR (CineMart), the Dubai International Film Festival, the Guanajuato Film Festival (Mexico), T-Mobile New Horizon (Poland), the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the Doha Film Institute and most recently the Locarno Film Festival. She is has been an invited expert at the Binger Lab (Amsterdam) and is regularly invited as a Juror or as a moderator.

In 2007, she launched a Toronto-based company created specifically to nurture the careers of aspiring filmmakers internationally – a role she continues to fulfill in her ongoing association with dozens of directors and producers in Toronto and abroad.

In 2013, she launched and managed the first edition of TIFF Studio, a new year round professional training programme for mid-career producers and filmmakers, which is now regarded as one of the best training programme in Canada. She also produced the TIFF Talent Lab 2016.

Throughout her career Hayet has consistently placed a high value on the quality of the relationships she has fostered, and has developed an extensive network of contacts among artists and professionals working in every aspect of the industry in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Year round she advises filmmakers and producers on Development, Production, Co-production, Distribution, Marketing, and Festival strategies.

Contact 246 Lisgar Street — Toronto (Canada) Tel: +1 416 897 7349 / Email: hb@hayetbenkara.com, hbenkara@tiff.net

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filmcommission@utrecht.nl

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Funding / Financing / Institutes Casa Kafka Pictures Casa Kafka Pictures is an intermediate company active in tax shelter. The company works closely together with the Belgian production houses and co-finances both Belgian films as international co-productions.

Isabelle Molhant, CEO

Contact Lous Schmidtlaan 2 — 1040 Etterbeek Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 7304404 / Email: info@casakafka.be / www.casakafka.be

City of Utrecht / Film Commission Utrecht

Marlou Heijnen, Marketing Manager

Gertrud van Dam, Senior Advisor International Affairs

The City of Utrecht provides film and television producers and location scouts the benefit of a single contact point: Film Commission Utrecht. Marlou Heijnen (Marketing Manager) and Gertrud van Dam (Advisor International Affairs) are the two people in the commission. They are your dedicated ambassadors and service point for film in the city of Utrecht. Film Commission Utrecht is the liaison between producers, location scouts, the Permit Department and the city of Utrecht itself and its film locations. Film Commission Utrecht ensures a high profile to make the city of Utrecht an appealing option as film location. The city offers loads of added value thanks to its wide range of locations and atmospheres, physical space, unparalleled range of suppliers, its proximity to Amsterdam and excellent and quick rail and road connections. Film Commission Utrecht has close contacts in the Permits Department and can assure a swift turnaround time. If needed, Film Commission Utrecht will cooperate with other local and national film commissions. Film Commission Utrecht is member of EUFCN (European Film Commissions Network).

Contact Postbus 16200 — 3500 CE Utrecht (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 030 286 1485 / Email: info@utrecht.nl / www.utrecht.nl

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CoBO CoBO is a financing company that supports Dutch public broadcasters in the making of feature films and documentaries.

Contact Postvak M.54, Postbus 26444 — 1202 JJ Hilversum (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 35 6775348 / Email: cobo@cobofonds.nl / www.cobofonds.nl Jeanine Hage, Managing Director

Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture

Andrea Posthuma, Programme Manager

The MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe financially supports the European film and audiovisual industries in the development, distribution and promotion of their work.

It helps to launch projects with a European dimension and nurtures new technologies, it enables European films and audiovisual works to find markets beyond national and European borders; and it funds training and development schemes. The Creative Europe Desk NL helps to promote and administer the Creative Europe Programme in the Netherlands. The Desk provides advice and support with applications. The Creative Europe Desk NL is hosted by Dutch Culture, Centre for International Cooperation.

Dutch Culture supports the implementation of Dutch international cultural policy and contributes to the foreign agenda and cultural image of the Netherlands.

Contact Postbus 15648 — 1001 NC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6164225 / Email: media@creativeeuropedesk.nl / www.mediadesknederland.eu / www.dutchculture.nl

Eurimages

Anne-Iris Cadoux, Project Manager

Eurimages is the cultural support fund of the Council of Europe. Established in 1989, it currently numbers 37 of the 47 member states of the Strasbourg-based organisation. Eurimages promotes the European audiovisual industry by providing financial support to feature films, animations and documentaries produced in Europe. In doing so, it encourages co-operation between professionals established in different European countries.

Contact Agora Building, Allée des Droits de l’Homme — 67075 Strasbourg (France) / Tel: +33 39 0216018 / Email: eurimages@coe.int / www.coe.int/Eurimages

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Sandra den Hamer, Director

Ido Abram, Deputy Director

Edith van der Heijde, Distribution Experimental and Short Film Poule

EYE Film Institute EYE is the institute for film in the Netherlands. It houses an extensive, internationally recognised collection. EYE has world-renowned expertise in restoration, research, educational programmes and international promotion and marketing. It explores new methods and media. Every year, EYE organises events including retrospectives, festivals, educational programmes and open air screenings. EYE aims to stimulate film culture through programming as well as by acquiring films.

For EYE International see Promotion (page 175) Contact Postbus 37767 — 1030 BJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5891400 / Email: info@eyefilm.nl / www.eyefilm.nl

Film Bridge Capital

David Grover, Partner

Film Bridge Capital supports producers in securing finance, packaging their project and finding co-producers. We have a strong interest in international projects with a link to the Netherlands. In cooperation with international film financing banks, Film Bridge Capital can provide access to banks to cashflow your film and TV productions, including the Netherlands 30% Cash Rebate. Our market knowledge and financing relationships ensure the most competitive rates with a minimum of restrictions.

Contact Oosteinde 11 — 1017WT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Email: info@filmbridgecapital.com / www.filmbridgecapital.com

Paul Miller, Partner

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Film Producers Netherlands (FPN)

Marjan van der Haar, Managing Director

Film Producers Netherlands is the Dutch producers’ association. FPN aims to stimulate and support a dynamic and creative film industry. The association represents the majority of Dutch film producers, promoting their common interests by lobbying in Government and the film industry on their behalf at the national and international level. The Netherlands has a lot to offer to international film professionals and production companies looking for co-production partnerships, facilities and locations.

Contact Korte Zoutkeetsgracht 2 — 1013 MC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6270061 / Email: info@filmproducenten.nl / www.speelfilmproducenten.nl / www.filmproducenten.nl

German Federal Film Board (FFA) The German Federal Film Board (FFA) is an institution incorporated under Public Law which supports the structure of the German film industry and the quality of German films. FFA’s duties include the support of the production and distribution of German films and the improvement of the structure of the German film industry.

The FFA has an annual budget of around €76 million at its disposal.

Nicola Jones, Coordinator International Relations

Contact Große Präsidentenstr. 9 — 10178 Berlin (Germany) Tel: +49 30 30275770 / Email: presse@ffa.de / www.ffa.de

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Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Teresa Hoefert de Turégano, Advisor

The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is a key institution for film and media professionals in Germany. Based in the capital region, the fund is open to outstanding national projects and it also has a strong focus on international coproductions, ranging from high quality arthouse to blockbusters. The film funding department’s annual budget is approximately €25 million. Berlin-Brandenburg is the most exciting and thriving film location in Germany. It is a film friendly region and has an illustrious tradition of filmmaking. More than 300 films are shot there every year. The region houses the largest studio capacity in Europe, including the world renowned Babelsberg studios, which operate as a one-stop shop and are equipped to handle all aspects of physical production.

Contact August-Bebel-Str. 26/53 — 14482 Potsdam (Germany) / Tel: +49 331 743870 / Email: info@medienboard.de / www.medienboard.de

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) awards funding to promising film and media projects realised in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Funding schemes are available for all phases, starting from idea development through to production and distribution.

Manfred Schmidt, CEO

Contact Hainstraße 17–19 — 04109 Leipzig (Germany) / Tel: +49 341 2698721 / Email: info@mdm-online.de / www.mdm-online.de

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Doreen Boonekamp, CEO

Ellis Driessen, Policy Advisor International Affairs

Bas van der Ree, Film Commissioner

Dany Delvoie, Project supervisor International Affairs, Distribution and Festivals

Peggy Driessen-Bussink, Analist/Production Manager International Co-productions

Frank Peijnenburg, Head of Screen NL

José van Doorn, Project Manager Film Production Incentive

Anita Voorham, Consultant Feature Films

Netherlands Film Fund The Netherlands Film Fund is the national agency responsible for supporting film production in the Netherlands. It focuses on the quality and diversity of feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental films. The Fund’s operations cover participation in development, production and distribution and in activities such as festivals, co-production markets and training. Besides selective funding schemes it also runs the Netherlands Film Production Incentive scheme wich offers a 30% cash rebate on production spend in the Netherlands. The Fund is also responsible for the Netherlands Film Commission, the official liaison between the Dutch creative industries and international producers.

Recent Titles Siv Sleeps Astray — Catti Edfeldt, Lena Hanno Clyne / Brimstone — Martin Koolhoven / Out of Love — Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito / Laila M. — Mijke de Jong Contact Pijnackerstraat 5 — 1072 JS Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 20 5707676 / Email: info@filmfonds.nl / www.filmfonds.nl

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Insurance / Legal facilities No Risk On Set

Ronald Hoogenbos, CEO

No Risk On Set is specialised in film insurances. They are aware of the fact that each production is unique, and that each production carries different risks. Therefore the types of insurance needed and the level of premium will vary from film to film.

Whether you require a short policy for any length of time, or need annual coverage they are able to provide insurances specifically designed to meet your needs. No Risk On Set offers a wide range of insurances, including production costs, no show cast and accidents and liability. Years of experience in the insurance industry have enabled them the possibility to offer special premiums and discounts on many of their policies.

Moreover, they are not a “9 to 5 office”, but are available seven days per week.

Contact Haarlemmerweg 317k — 1051 LG Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31-20-4221270 / Email: info@norisk.eu / www.noriskonset.com

Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten An all-around Law firm for the creative industry, specialising in matters of intellectual property and financing of the same. Roland Wigman’s focus is 100% on film.

Contact De Lairessestraat 158 — 1075 HM Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 20 6758821 / Email: info@vwsadvocaten.nl / www.vwsadvocaten.nl Roland Wigman, Partner

Jetse Sprey, Partner

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Cineuropa.org is supported by the Creative Europe/Media Programme of the European Union, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Federation Wallonie Bruxelles, Swiss Film, the French Cinema Centre - CNC, ICAA, German Films, Luxembourg Film Fund.

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Press Cineuropa.org

Vitor Pinto, Editor

Cineuropa is a website magazine in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian) dedicated to Europe’s film industry. It includes news, reviews, industry reports, written and video interviews and a database of production, distribution and sales companies updated on a daily basis.

Cineuropa’s Brussels-based desk coordinates the work flow of a team of journalists, correspondents and translators spread out all over Europe.

Cineuropa is co-financed by the Creative Europe / MEDIA programme.

Contact Rue de la Natation 22 — 1050 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 5371972 / Email: cineuropa@cineuropa.org / www.cineuropa.org

Filmecho / Filmwoche Leading weekly film trade magazine in Germany that covers all aspects of the worldwide film industry such as production, distribution, cinema and festivals as well as financing and marketing.

Birgit Heidsiek, Correspondent

Contact Marktplatz 13 — 65183 Wiesbaden (Germany) / Tel: +49 611 372878 / Email: info@filmecho.de / www.filmecho.de

Screen International Leading international film trade publication in print and online at ScreenDaily.com Contact Zetland House, 5–25 Scrutton Street — EC2A 4HJ London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 20 77285626 / Email: screeninternational@hotmail.com / www.screendaily.com Geoffrey Macnab, Correspondent

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Production A Private View

Dries Phlypo, Producer

A Private View is an independent Belgium-based film company co-owned by writer/ producer Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and producer Dries Phlypo. The company, founded in 1994, is best known for its Cannes Critics Week-winner “Moscow, Belgium” (2008) directed by Christophe van Rompaey and its Montreal Film Festival-winner “Oxygen” (2010) directed by Hans van Nuffel. Both films, spoken in Flemish, were huge local hits in Belgium. Currently A Private View just produced their first television series (10 episodes) “Amigo’s” written by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and Pierre De Clercq and directed by Kadir Balci and Hendrik Moonen.

The feature film “Vincent and the End of the World” by Christophe Van Rompaey, a co-production with France, has just been released and postproduction on Sahim Omar Kalifa’s first feature project “Zagros” has started. “Zagros” has won the price for ‘Best Filmpitch’ at the Arras Days of the Arras International Film Festival and obtained ‘La bourse CNC d’aide au développement de projet’.

Recent Titles Vincent — Christophe Van Rompaey / Amigo’s — Jean — Kadir Balci / Trouw met Mij! — Kadir Balci / Brasserie Romantiek — Joël Vanhoebrouck / Adem — Hans Van Nuffel / Aanrijding in Moscou — Christophe Van Rompaey Contact Adolf Baeyensstraat 134n — 9040 Sint-Amandsberg (Belgium) Tel: +32-9-2401000 / Email: info@aprivateview.be / www.aprivateview.be

Adventure Pictures

Kurban Kassam, Producer

Christopher Sheppard founded Adventure Pictures when he first joined forces with writer/director Sally Potter in 1990. The Oscar-nominated “Orlando” (1992), starring Tilda Swinton, marked his debut as a feature film producer and was one of the first ever multi-country European co-productions. This was followed by the BAFTA-nominated “The Tango Lesson” (1996), “The Man Who Cried” (2000), “Yes” (2004), “Rage” (2009), the first feature film to premiere simultaneously in cinemas and on mobile phones, which was nominated for a Webby Award. “Ginger & Rosa” (2012) is their most recent film.

Recent Titles Ginger & Rosa — Sally Potter HFM Co-Pro 2016 Molly — Sally Potter Contact 6 Blackbird Yard — E2 7RP London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 207 6132233 / Email: Mike@adventurepictures.co.uk / www.adventurepictures.co.uk

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Apple Film Production

Dariusz Jablonski, President

Izabela Wójcik, Producer

Apple Film Production was established twenty five years ago by Dariusz Jablonski, director and producer, as one of the very first independent film production companies in Poland. So far the company has produced and co-produced more than 20 features, the same number of full length documentaries and a few successful TV-series, winning nearly 200 international and national awards. Our productions include “Under Electric Clouds” by Alexey German Jr. (Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlinale 2015), “Nude Area” by Urszula Antoniak (Tallinn IFF 2012), “The Land of Oblivion” by Michale Boganim (Venice, Toronto, Thesalonniki 2012). High-end drama credits include two co-productions with BBC and Polish Television:” The Passing Bells”, a series written by awardwinning writer/producer Tony Jordan and “Spies in Warsaw” based on Alan Furst’s acclaimed novel of the same title, starring David Tennant.

Recent Titles Under Electric Clouds — Aleksey German Jr. / Nude Area — Urszula Antoniak / Karski and the Lords of Humanity — Slawomir Grunberg HFM Co-Pro 2016 The Twins — Eva Neymann Contact Ul. Zelazna 59, 1st floor — 01-156 Warsaw (Poland) Tel: +48 22 8518440 / Email: applefilm@applefilm.pl / www.applefilm.pl

Eva Neymann, Film Director

Aquí y Allí Films

Pedro Hernandez Santos, Producer

Aquí y Allí Films is mainly engaged on the development and production of feature films, with a special eye on new talents. Pedro Hernández Santos was a qualified engineer until his film director friend Antonio Mendez Esparza asked him for help to produce his avant-garde debut “Here And There”. Esparza‘s film subsequently won the Grand Prix of the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in 2012 and was commercially released in the US, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain and acquired by HBO Latino, Cine+ (FR) and ARTE. Pedro has since produced Carlos Vermut‘s Goya- winning “Magical Girl” (with distribution handled by international sales agent Films Distribution and sold in several territories such as France, Japan or Latin America), Joaquin Oristrell‘s “Talk” (winner of the Biznaga de Plata Young Jury Prize at the Malaga Film Festival), and Miguel del Arco‘s feature debut “The Furies” (currently in postproduction).

Recent Titles Hablar — Joaquín Oristrell / Magical Girl — Carlos Vermuth / Here and There — Mendez Esparza // HFM Co-Pro 2016 Punto Nemo — Jose Skaf

José Skaf, Director

Contact Calle San Rogelio, 6 — 28039 Madrid (Spain) / Tel: +34 910 099963 / Email: info@aquiyallifilms.com / www.aquiyallifilms.com

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Arsam Productions Founded by Ilann Girard in 2002, Arsam is an integrated group of corporations based in Paris. Arsam offers business affairs consultancy and finance packaging services to the film and television production community and has developed production activities through Arsam International.

Ilann Girard, CEO/Producer

Contact 28, Rue de Turin — 75008 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 42815654 / Email: info@arsam.biz / www.arsam.biz

Axel Film Echipamente

Marcian Lazar, Producer

Kenneth Mercken, Film Director

Axel Film Echipamente is a film production and equipment rental company founded in 2004. In 2007 Axel Film produced two very successful short films, “A Good Day for a Swim” by Bogdan Mustata, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2008 and “The Box Lessons” by Alexandru Mavrodineanu, selected in New York Film Festival. Recently, Marcian Lazar took over the company in order to develop daring independent projects like “In Between” by Bogdan Mustata and “Imaculat” directed

by Kenneth Mercken and written by Monica Stan selected in Biennale College Cinema in Venice 2013/2014.

One of the last Marcian Lazar’s productions is “Toto and His Sisters” a documentary applauded in festivals and distributed in French cinemas. He produced in 2011 “Loverboy”, the second film of Catalin Mitulescu selected in Cannes 2011. In 2013 he finished “Wolf” by director/writer Bogdan Mustata, which premiered in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival.

Recent Titles Toto and His Sisters — Alexander Nanau HFM Co-Pro 2016 Imaculat — Kenneth Mercken Contact B-dul Regina Maria 70 — 040125 Bucharest (Romania) / Tel: +40 72 4041627 / Email: sindbad03@gmail.com

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Backup Media Group

Jean-Baptiste Babin, CEO

Established 2002, Backup Media has been dedicated to the financing, production and distribution of over 450 ambitious international film and TV productions.

The group “regroups” an investment arm which models, fundraises and operates investments at all stages of a film’s life, a packaging arm which offers film professionals its expertise on a taylor-made basis and Moviechainer.com, a web app enabling industry professionals to track rights and revenues on complex revenue-sharing models.

Recent titles Brimstone — Martin Koolhoven / Message from the King — Fabrice du Welz / A Wedding (Noces) — Stephan Streker Contact 23 rue des Jeuneurs — 75002 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 4770 0234 / Email: backup@backupmediagroup.com / www.backupmediagroup.com

BALDR Film

Frank Hoeve, Producer/Owner

BALDR Film (2012) is the Amsterdam-based production company of producers Frank Hoeve and Katja Draaijer. It focuses on developing and producing high-quality features and documentaries of a select number of filmmakers with a distinctive personal signature for an international market. The most recent title is “Those Who Feel the Fire Burning”, which was nominated for IDFA’s Best Feature Length film. Currently in production: feature “Brothers” (Bram Schouw) and feature documentaries “Lieland” (Stephane Kaas) and “Between Two Worlds” (Janus Metz).

BALDR Film is member of ACE. Recent Titles Horizon — Giancarlo Sanchez / Those Who Feel the Fire Burning — Morgan Knibbe // NFF 2016: Roze Wolk — Anna— Marieke Graafmans / Samuel In the Clouds — Pieter van Eecke / Kort! — Grand Tour — Floor Houwink ten Cate / One Night Stand XI — In vrijheid — Floor van der Meulen / One Night Stand XI — Horizon — Giancarlo Sánchez Contact Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77 — 1012 DC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3032670 / Email: info@baldrfilm.nl /www.baldrfilm.nl

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Belle Epoque Films

Nicole Ringhut, CEO/Producer

In 2011 Nicole Ringhut launched her company Belle Epoque Films based in Cologne and Stuttgart (Germany). She co-produced “The Nun” directed by renowned French Director Guillaume Nicloux. Starring Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Martina Gedeck the film was mainly shot in Germany and had its premiere at Berlinale’s competition in 2013. Another French-German co-production, “Patchwork Family” by Pascal Rabaté, premiered at Karlovy Vary’s competition in 2014. Gordian Maugg’s “Fritz Lang”, a black and white crime story about the making of “M” that reveals the dark sides of the creator of masterpieces like “Nibelungen” and “Metropolis”, is currently in cinemas.

Besides the focus on features, Belle Epoque Films also engages in documentary projects such as the German-Austrian co-production “Gaze into the Abyss” by Barbara Eder or the animation “Comrade Stalin Saved my Life”, which is currently in development.

Recent Titles Fritz Lang — Gordian Maugg / Patchwork Family — Pascal Rabaté / Gaze into the Abyss — Barbara Eder HFM Co-Pro 2016 Comrade Stalin Saved my Life — Kamila Kubiak, Olivier Patté Contact Sülzgürtel 18 — D-50937 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 168 53 009 / Email: info@belle-epoque-films.com / www.belle-epoque-films.com

Beofilm Beofilm (founded in 2002) is committed to create artistic, innovative film and entertainment experiences. We attract and retain the best people by making our company a challenging and creative place to work and we are incredibly excited about what we do.

Peter Hyldahl, CEO / Executive Producer

Recent Titles Quit Straring at My Place — Hana Jušic / The Giant — Johannes Nyholm / Flow — Fenar Ahmad Contact Wildersgade 32 — 1408 CPH-K Copenhagen (Denmark) / Email: hyldahl@beofilm.dk / www.beofilm.dk

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BIND

Joram Willink, Producer

BIND’s objective is to tell striking, unique stories that move and inspire, that open eyes. Creative producer Joram Willink develops and produces genuine, provocative films about real people and the quest for their identity. Films that have proven to be a powerful way to portray contemporary topics in an intriguing or surprising manner. Their aim is to create an effective connection between engaged filmmakers and their audience.

BIND productions are screened worldwide at film festivals and the company’s trophy case is filled with fantastic, honorable awards, including an International Emmy® Award, an International Emmy nomination, the Prix Jeunesse, two TIFF Kids Award for Best Short Film, two European Best Event Awards, the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Prize, Tiger Award nomination, Best feature Award at Worldfest Houston and several Golden Calves amongst: the Golden Calf for Best Film.

BIND also represents the way they want to make films: by connecting driven and talented filmmakers to one another and by taking the time to develop a close relationship with them. They offer our teams the optimal creative space they need so that every good idea can evolve to become a full-length feature film, television series, short film or documentary.

Recent Titles Son Of Mine — Remy van Heugten / A Good Life — Aaron Rookus / Undertow — Rutger Veenstra / Dos Santos — Kees-Jan Mulder, Maarten van Voornveld // NFF 2016: GILLES — Jordi Wijnalda / Gamechanger — Christian van Duuren / King’s Day — Steven Wouterlood Contact Stadhouderskade 152 — 1074 BC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3640030 / Email: info@bindfilm.nl / www.bindfilm.nl

Black Sheep Productions

John Wallace, Producer

Black Sheep Productions is the production company of producer John Wallace and directors Rob and Ronan Burke. Recent productions include the short film “Ernestine and Kit” (2016) which premiered at SXSW and was the directorial debut of Simon Bird (“The Inbetweeners”). Other productions included the feature documentary “Showrunners”(2014) directed by Des Doyle, featuring JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon and Damon Lindelof, sold internationally by Submarine and “Standby” (2014) directed by Ronan and Rob Burke, starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré and sold internationally by Magnolia Pictures. The company is currently in production on the feature documentary “Rochester: City of Film” and in preproduction on the feature documentary “All the Numbers”.

Recent Titles Standby — Ronan Burke, Rob Burke / Showrunners — Des Doyle HFM Co-Pro 2016 Bags and Trev gets date for debs — Ronan Burke, Rob Burke Contact Suite 23, GEC, Taylors Lane — D8 Dublin (Ireland) / Tel: +353 87 9268819 / Email: info@blacksheepproductions.ie / www.blacksheepproductions.ie

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BLICK Productions

Maria Blicharska, Producer

BLICK Productions is a French film production company created in 2016 by Maria Blicharska with the aim to produce and co-produce films of high value for the international audience and provide film production services in different countries in the world.

BLICK productions provide quality shooting services for international projects around the world, such as: location scouting, international casting, local crew hiring, set design and set constructions, equipment rental & rebate negociation, logistics (transport, accommodation facilities), among others.

HFM Co-Pro 2016 Comrade Stalin Saved my Life — Kamila Kubiak, Olivier Patté Contact 26 rue des Trois Bornes — 75011 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 99308517 / Email: info@blickproductions.fr / www.blickproductions.fr

BosBros

Burny Bos, CEO

BosBros has set the standard for high-quality film and television productions in the Netherlands since 1989. Burny Bos and his team have also introduced Dutch youth films and youth television series abroad and won many awards.

The BosBros productions are timeless and therefore for each new generation of children and their parents a great way of entertainment. 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 to produce classics such as “The Flying Liftboy”, “Miss Minoes”, “Winky’s Horse”, “Alfie”, “The Little Werewolf” and “Wiplala”.

BosBros’ challenge for the future is, besides producing many new feature films, to conquer the European market with animation projects.

BosBros has an open attitude towards international co-productions. The Netherlands Film Fund as well as EYE International also promote these collaborations.

Recent Titles Queen of Amsterdam — Tim Oliehoek / The Amazing Wiplala — Tim Oliehoek // NFF 2016: Mr. Frog — Anna van der Heide / Home Base — Feike Santbergen / Soccer Girls — Alieke van Saarloos, Sia Hermanides Contact Arie Biemondstraat 111 — 1054 PD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5244030 / Email: receptie@bosbros.com / www.bosbros.com

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Bubbles Project Bubbles Project is an independent production company based in Rio de Janeiro, created in 2012 by Tatiana Leite. Bubbles has been co-producing films and collaborating with other production companies in and outside Brazil, and discovering new talents. At Bubbles we believe in partnerships and we are driven by our love for cinema!

Tatiana Leite, Producer

Recent Titles Aspirantes — Ives Rosenfeld BoostNL 2016 Loveling — Gustavo Pizzi Contact Rua Professor Alfredo Gomes, 22 — Botafogo, 22251-080 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) / Tel: +55 21 35189436 / Email: info@bubblesproject.com / www.bubblesproject.com

Chinese Shadows Hong Kong based production and sales companies, Chinese Shadows and Asian Shadows represent the new generations of Asian directors by introducing their work to the world.

The company produces and sells Asian films with an international reach with the mission of following directors through their journey and exposing their films.

Isabelle Glachant, Founder and CEO

Recent Titles Red Amnesia — Wang Xiaoshuai / (Sex) Appeal — Wang Wei Ming Contact Unit 2005, 248 Queen’s Road East — 999077 Wanchai (Hong Kong) / Tel: 852 8197 1297 / Email: contact@chineseshadows.com / www.chineseshadows.com

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Ciné Cri de Coeur

Jacqueline de Goeij, Producer

Jacqueline de Goeij worked as an independent producer for 12 years in the Netherlands before moving to Belgium. In the Netherlands she produced both TV-series and feature films. The series and films were widely appreciated by both public and press, which resulted in an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Feature in 2003 for “Zus & Zo”.

She ran successfully the Antwerp production house Ciné Cri de Coeur and released in 2012 the Belgian feature film “Allez Eddy!” by Gert Embrechts. The film received great critical acclaim and won several international awards. Amongst others Ciné Cri de Coeur co-produced “Chez Nous” (2013), “Wiplala” (2014) and “Michiel De Ruyter” (2015).

In cooperation with Zilvermeer Productions Jacqueline co-produced “Knielen Op een Bed Violen”, directed by Ben Sombogaart (NL Film) and “Trollie”, a 10 episode youth series directed by Gert Embrechts.

Currently Ciné Cri de Coeur develops an international TV-series for VRT, an adaptation of the award-winning novel “Woesten”, a comedy road movie written and to be directed by Gert Embrechts.

Recent Titles Knielen op een bed violen — Ben Sombogaart / Michiel De Ruyter — Roel Reiné / Wiplala — Tim Oliehoek Contact Reuzenstraat 16 — 2140 Borgerhout (Belgium) / Tel: +32 3 6331410 / Email: info@cridecoeur.be / www.cridecoeur.be

Circe Films Circe Films is an Amsterdam-based company (co-)producing feature films for the national and international market. Since 1996 managing director Stienette Bosklopper has been establishing enduring relationships with unique and innovative filmmakers like Nanouk Leopold, Radu Jude, Seyfi Teoman, Tsai Mingliang, Sacha Polak, Dominga Sotomayor and Martijn Maria Smits.

Stienette Bosklopper, Producer/Managing Director

Recent Titles NFF 2016: Waldstille — Martijn Maria Smits / 12 1/2 — Martijn Maria Smits / Cabo — Ivan Barbosa Contact Da Costakade 176 HS — 1053 XE Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6253591 / Email: info@circe.nl / www.circe.nl

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Coin Film Coin Film has been developing and producing feature films and high-end documentaries for cinema and television since 1993. All of its films are characterised by the filmmakers individualist approach and artistic profile. Coin Film principally works with talented young filmmakers and is based in Cologne (Germany).

Christine Kiauk, Producer

Recent Titles Cobain — Nanouk Leopold / Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty? (AT) — Lola Randl / Supernova — Tamara den Dorp / It’s All so Quiet — Nanouk Leopold / Nena — Saskia Diesing Contact Rolandstraße 63 — 50939 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 322053 / Email: info@coin-film.de / www.coin-film.de

COLOR OF MAY

Eva Blondiau, Producer

Elmar Imanov and Eva Blondiau graduated their film studies at the Internationale Filmschule Köln (IFS) with their common thesis film “The Swing of the Coffin Maker”. In 2013 they founded their own production company with the name COLOR OF MAY. The company produces documentaries and feature films that are implemented internationally and in co-production. COLOR OF MAY is interested in stories with a particular view: stories of people who make familiar with the strange and show the familiar in a new light.

The company is currently working on three fiction feature films: “Angst”, funded

by Film- and Medienstiftung NRW, BKM and Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film; and “Otar’s Death”, funded by Film- and Medienstiftung NRW and FFA. Eva Blondiau is currently taking part in EAVE’s producers workshop with the project “Restless”, development funded by Film- and Medienstiftung NRW and FFA. Contact Neuenhöfer Allee 19a — 50937 Cologne (Germany) Tel: +49 178 3195751 / Email: blondiau@colorofmay.com / www.colorofmay.com

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CTM Pictures CTM Films was founded in 2004 and is since part of CTM Entertainment. We produce films that are based on unique collaborations with a diverse group of people and organisations with a specific message. By combining new stories, personalities and platforms CTM Films develops films for an audience we can reach. Our productions aim to be authentic, recognisable and not to be missed.

Marijn Wigman, Producer

Recent Titles Prejudice — Antoine Cuypers / Tonic Immobility — Nathalie Teirlinck / The Sky Above Us — Marinus Groothof // NFF 2016: The Glorious Works of G.F. Zwaen — Max Porcelijn / J.Kessels — Erik de Bruyn / Arash — Michaël Sewandono / Into Thin Air — Daniel Bruce Contact Emmastraat 21 — 1211 NE Hilversum (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 35 6474040 / Email: info@ctm.nl / www.ctmpictures.nl

Damned Films Damned was founded by Yohann Cornu in Paris in 2011. The company is focused on releasing independent features (theatrical, festivals, video/VOD, TV). In parallel of distribution, Damned is now developing productions as well. Recently produced films include Terence Nance’s “Univitellin” (Rotterdam — Official selection) and Adrian Sitaru’s “Illegitimate” (Berlinale — CICAE Award Forum).

Yohann Cornu, Producer/Distributor

Recent Titles Creative Control — Benjamin Dickinson / Illegitimate — Adrian Sitaru / Neon Bull — Gabriel Mascaro / Casa Grande — Fellipe Barbosa Contact 24 rue Louis Blanc — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 68822003 / Email: yohann@damnedfilms.fr / www.damnedfilms.fr

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DayDream Art Production

Mohamed Samir, Producer

Mohamed Samir worked as a film editor since 1998 before making the leap to production nearly a decade later. In 2007, he founded his own production company DayDream Art Production to support the Egyptian independent film movement.

He quickly became one of the most active young producers in Egypt, having participated at various international film markets and workshops such as: Dubai film Connection, Berlinale Talent Campus, Agora co-production market in Thessaloniki Film Festival In 2014, the CNC chose him as a promising producer to participate in the Producer’s Network in Cannes Film Festival.

He produced several short films by young and upcoming Egyptian filmmakers such as “Zafir” directed by Omar El Zohairy in 2011. In 2013, he produced his first full-length narrative feature, “Factory Girl,” by the highly acclaimed Egyptian director, Mohamed Khan.

Recent Titles Factory Girl — Mohamed Khan BoostNL 2016 The Bridge — Hala Lotfy

Hala Lotfy, Film Director

Contact 7 Juhayna street, Dokki — 12311 Giza (Egypt) / Tel: +20 100 5135636 / Email: daydream.artproduction@gmail.com / www.ddartproduction.com

De Productie

René Goossens, Producer

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. They regularly participate in co-productions and work with both budding talent and experienced directors. They 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. They are particularly interested in creative and quirky films that stand by the form chosen and that have an appealing, sometimes bold or controversial subject, in which form, content and emotions are in balance with each other. Their films are often a mix of fiction, documentary and art. De Productie is especially looking for universal stories, straight from the heart, as varied and colorful as the creators of these stories are.

Makers of films that are interesting not only for the Dutch market, but also abroad, and that have the potential to grow and reach out for a larger audience.

Recent Titles Cat and Mouse — Maartje Seyferth, Victor Nieuwenhuis (NFF 2016) / To the Center of the Earth — Daniel Rosenfeld / Summer — Colette Bothof / Above Us All — Eugenie Jansen Contact Regulierstraat 10 — 2021 HE Haarlem (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 10 4763388 / Email: info@deproductie.nl / www.deproductie.nl

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Dutch Mountain Film Dutch Mountain Film is a cooperation between Dutch producers René Huybrechtse and Wilant Boekelman. Together Huybrechtse and Boekelman produced more than 40 features and won numerous awards, including a Tiger Award, the Grand Prix Generation in Berlin, the Joris Ivens Award, a Silver Bear, a Golden Leopard, numerous Golden Calves and almost an Oscar.

Wilant Boekelman, Producer

Recent Titles The Partnership — Michiel van Jaarsveld (NFF 2016) / T.I.M. — Rolf van Eijk / Undercover — Boris Paval Conen Contact De Kempenaerstraat 11A — 1051 CJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6881843 / Email: info@dutchmountainfilm.nl / www.dutchmountainfilm.nl

Earlybirds Films

Jurgen Willocx, Creative Producer

Earlybirds Films is a Belgium-based production company founded in 2015 by Jurgen Willocx and Domien Huyghe, that focuses on audiovisual work where compelling characters, authentic narrative structures and cinematographic storytelling play a central role.

Earlybirds Film’s mission is to engage and inspire people worldwide through the medium of the moving image. Therefore they create, develop and produce character driven feature and short films, documentaries and television drama series with a distinctive artistic vision from the director. Earlybirds Films aims at a global audience for a unique and fresh perspective on the ideas, people and events that shape the world.

Contact Engelbert van Arenbergstraat 43.001 —9094 Sint-Amandsberg (Belgium) / Tel: +32 0 478 66 44 96 / Email: info@earlybirds-films.be / www.earlybirds-films.be

Endorphine Production Endorphine Production develops and produces upmarket films for cinema & TV for the national and international audiences. Their films have been marketed worldwide and won numerous Best Film Awards at prolific film festivals. The company was established in 2004 by Berlin Film Academy graduates Marc Malze and Fabian Massah.

Fabian Massah, CEO

Recent Titles Auf Einmal — Asli Özge / Atlantic. — Jan-Willem van Ewijk Contact Husemannstr. 7 — 10435 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 2325 730 40 / Email: mail@endorphineproduction.com / www.endorphineproduction.com

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Enquadramento Produções

Leonardo Mecchi, Producer

Enquadramento Produções is a Brazilian company, based in São Paulo, specially engaged in the development and production of film projects with unique looks, personal aesthetic and innovative proposals, mainly first or second feature films from promising filmmakers, with works selected by some of the major national and international film festivals such as Viennale, FID Marseille, BAFICI, Gramado and Tiradentes.

BoostNL 2016 / Work-in-Progress Mormaço — Marina Meliande Contact Rua Ana Catharina Randi, 155 — 04637-130 Sao Paolo (Brazil) / Tel: +55 11 999900515 / Email: leonardo.mecchi@yahoo.com

Marina Meliande, Film Director

Entre Chien et Loup

Diana Elbaum, Producer

Entre Chien et Loup’s production policy focuses on high quality content. In both feature and documentary film, our production philosophy remains firmly committed to this principle, and it is thanks to this particular emphasis that we have succeeded, since our creation in 1989, in imposing ourselves on the European audiovisual market.

Maintaining and developing an ongoing access to distribution networks in the audiovisual sector involves a permanent and formidable challenge, particularly in a social environment where predigested image consumption has become standard.

However Entre Chien et Loup remains faithful to its basic intention: making films that combine a committed style of direction, of authorship and of topic, a strong sense of cinematography, and the appropriate production that allows for their fullest ambition to be expressed.

Recent titles Elle — Paul Verhoeven / The Jews — Yvan Attal / Tout de suite maintenant Pascal Bonitzer / Le secret des banquises — Marie Madinier / Beyond the Mountains and Hills — Eran Kolirin / King of the Belgians — Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth / Everybody Happy — Nic Balthazar / Ennemi public (TV Serie) / Gribouille (TV Serie) — Denis Dugas / Un moment d’egarement — Jean-François Richet / La tierra roja — Diego Martinez-Vignatti / Nos femmes — Richard Berry Contact 40-42 rue de la Luzerne — 1030 Brussels (Belgium) Tel: +32 2 736 48 13 / Email: info@entrechienetloup.be / www.entrechienetloup.be

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Family Affair Films Family Affair Films is an Amsterdam-based production company founded by Floor Onrust. They produce urgent and contemporary television drama, short and feature films of high artistic quality with a strong author driven vision. Family Affair Films develops projects with new talent, video artists whilst continuing their relation with established filmmakers.

Floor Onrust, Producer

Recent Titles Op de Dijk — Mirjam de With // NFF 2016: History’s Future — Fiona Tan / Night of the Flourish — Anna van Keimpema Contact Entrepotdok 77a — 1018 AD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7071713 / Email: info@familyaffairfilms.nl / www.familyaffairfilms.nl

Film House Baš Čelik

Nikola Ležaić, Film Director

Film House Baš Čelik was established in 1998. Until now they have produced and co-produced fourteen feature films and several documentaries and short films.

Their productions include the feature “The Trap” directed by Srdan Golubović, that premiered in Berlinale Forum 2007, winning 22 international awards and short listed for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. The feature film “Clip”, directed by Maja Miloš, won the Tiger Award at 2012 IFFR. The short animated film “Rabbitland”, directed

by Nikola Majdak and Ana Nedeljković, won the Crystal Bear at 2013 Berlinale (Generation 14+). Film House Baš Čelik last feature film “Circles”, directed by Srdan Golubović had its world premiere at 2013 Sundance Film Festival, World Dramatic Competition and won the Special Jury Prize. The film had its European premiere at Berlinale Forum where it received the Prize of Ecumenical Jury. Jelena Mitrović is Head Producer.

Recent Titles Circles — Srdan Golubovic HFM Co-Pro 2016 Religion of the Night Walks — Nikola Ležaić

Jelena Mitrović, Producer

Contact Gospodar Jevremova 35 — 11000 Belgrade (Serbia) / Tel: +381 11 3034441 / Email: jelena@bascelik.net / www.bascelik.net

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Fu Works Fu Works Productions was founded in 1995 by San Fu Maltha and has now become one of the leading film production companies in the Netherlands. Fu Works is independent, international and produces feature films, documentaries and television series.

San Fu Maltha, Owner/Producer

Recent Titles A Real Vermeer — Rudolf van den Berg / Alberta — Eddy Terstall, Erik Wünsch / Eisenstein in Guanajuato — Peter Greenaway / Meet Me In Venice — Eddy Terstall Contact Arie Biemondstraat 111 — 1054 PD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5307110 / Email: info@fuworks.nl / www.fuworks.nl

Gloria Films

Laurent Lavolé, Producer

Gloria Films is a Paris-based independent production company set up by the producer Laurent Lavolé in 1994. He produces fiction films and documentaries

by French and international directors. The films have regularly been international co-productions and have won awards and been distributed in the leading overseas territories and festivals.

In 2016, Gloria Films is producing two feature length documentaries, including “The Prince of Nothingwood” by Sonia Kronlund, shot in Afghanistan. And also the last feature from Argentinian director Adrian Israel Caetano, as well as many other projects in pre-production or development.

In 2015, Gloria Films released three feature films : “Lamb” by first time Ethiopian director Yared Zeleke, selected at Cannes Film Festival “Un Certain Regard”; “Looking for her” by Ounie Lecomte; and Sandra Kogut’s “Campo Grande”, which premiered in Toronto.

Recent titles Belinda — Marie Dumora / Prince of Nothingwood — Sonia Kronlund / Other Brother — Adrian Caetano / Looking for her — Ounie lecomte / Campo Grande — Sandra Kogut / Lamb — Yared Zeleke Contact 65 rue Montmartre — Paris (France) / Tel: +33 142 21 42 11 / Email: mel@gloriafilms.fr / www.gloriafilms.fr

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Halal HALAL is committed to growing and enhancing its internationally driven focus by attracting and cultivating top talent to create the highest quality feature films, documentaries, commercials as well as photography.

Gijs Kerbosch, Director

Recent Titles Prince — Sam de Jong / Necktie Youth — Sibs Shongwe-La Mer // NFF 2016: Jonas and the Sea — Marlies van der Wel / Sabaku — Marlies van der Wel/ Spoetnik — Noël Loozen / Hell — Emma Westenberg Contact 1ste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 — 1072 BD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6391402 / Email: contact@halal.amsterdam / www.halal.amsterdam

Here and There Productions

Babak Jalali, Producer

Here & There Productions is a production company based in London (UK). The company produced Ali Jaberansari’s award-winning short and debut feature film.

“Aman” (2011) was awarded the Cine+ Prize at Angers Premiers Plans Film Festival and the MEO Prize at Lisbon & Estoril International Film Festival. The company’s following production of Ali’s feature film debut “Falling Leaves” (2013) premiered in Montreal World Film Festival and was awarded the Federico Fellini Award at Tiburon International Film Festival. Here & There’s upcoming productions are “The Ladder” which is currently in development and was awarded the best pitch at Sofia Meetings in 2015, and “Tehran: City of Love”, which was granted the Hubert Bals Fund Script & Development support and is participating in the BoostNL programme run by the Holland Film Meeting and CineMart.

Recent Titles Short Skin — Duccio Chiarini BoostNL 2016 Tehran, City of Love — Ali Jaberansari

Ali Jaberansari, Film Director

Contact 15–17 Church Road — HA7 4AR Stanmore (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44-20-74833447 / Email: hereandthereproductions@gmail.com / www.hereandthereproductions.co.uk

Hob AB

Nima Yousefi, Producer

More than 30 features produced. Heads of the company are Peter Krupenin and Nima Yousefi. Hob AB focuses on projects with kids, young adults and families as their primary audience. The philosophy of the company is diversity and core values, targeted for a broad audience. Hob AB has a clear focus with an expansion together with partners not only in Sweden but, largely, internationally, in mind.

Hob AB has chosen a segment for its production with great potential in a number of platforms, both live action and animation.

Contact Box 27083 — 10251 Stockholm (Sweden) / Tel: +46 70 4811653 / www.hobab.se

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House of Netherhorror

Jan Doense, Producer

House of Netherhorror was founded by Dutch producers Jan Doense and Herman Slagter with the aim of producing and co-producing elevated Dutch language and international horror films. Chris W. Mitchell’s “The Pool”, released in 2014, was the first of a slate of four original Dutch horror films developed with the support of the Netherlands Film Fund. David Keating’s “Cherry Tree”, co-produced with Fantastic Films of Ireland, premiered at Montreal’s FantAsia Film Festival in July 2015.

Currently House of Netherhorror is in the process of financing two new low-budget Dutch horror films, Mark Weistra’s “In the Dark” and Frank van Geloven’s “New Blood”.

Recent Titles Cherry Tree — David Keating / The Pool — Chris W. Mitchell Contact Rotterdam Office, Delftsestraat 25 — 3013 AD Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 10 4126506 / Email: info@houseofnetherhorror.nl / www.houseofnetherhorror.nl

IGC Films

Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Producer

The focus of IGC Films is on international co-productions, with an emphasis on European features, aiming to entertain on a smart level. Therefore, storytelling is in the foreground as well as an understanding of who the audiences of the respective films are and how to reach them.

Together, the founders have received numerous awards with their respective productions, among them the European Film Award, the German Film Award, Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Film, nominations for the Palme D’Or and more. They have worked with directors like the Brothers Dardenne, Sam Gabarski and with actors like Jean Dujardin, Isabelle Huppert and Gael García Bernal, to name a few.

IGC has an extensive international network within the film industry that guarantees additional resources and access to not only financing but also talents.

Contact Pohlstrasse 44 — 10785 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 20459778 / Email: info@ingoodcompany.de / www.ingoodcompany.de

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Marc Bary, CEO/Producer

Jaap van Heusden, Film Director

Steven Rubinstein Malamud, Junior producer

IJswater Films Founded 20 years ago by producer Marc Bary, IJswater Films focuses on emerging and established talent, executive producer is Steven Rubinstein Malamud. The company (co-)produces high quality fiction projects for both adult and young audiences. Feature titles a.o.: “The Polish Bride” (Golden Globe Nomination, Cannes Critics Choice), “Skin” (Emmy Award Nomination, Winner Golden Calf Best Actor), “Win/Win” (Prix Genève Europe Script Award), “22nd of May” (Toronto Filmfest), “The New World” (Emmy Award Best Actress), “Supernova” (Berlinale Generation), “Paradise Trips” (Palm Springs Filmfest 2016), “As if I’m Crazy” (release 2016, selection NFF) and “In Blue” (HFM work-in-progress 2016). In development: “Imprisoned” (Sources II), animated feature “Little Sophie and Lanky Flop” (Cinekid/ Berlinale Script Lab), “Las Vegas” (Torino Lab).

Shorts & TV drama a.o.:”Contact” (Berlinale Golden Bear Best Short), “Anvers” (FIPA Award, Golden Calf Best TV drama), “Papa’s Tango” (Berlinale K-plus), “Ki” (Debut Competition NFF, Buster 2016), children’s series “Sammy Paramaribo” (NFF Education Programme). Documentaries: “Bridging the Gap” (IDFA), “Navy Mids” (teledoc), “You Have a Problem” (2nd Audience Award GoShort Nijmegen 2016), developing “Reasoning with Restrictions” (IDFA Summer School 2016).

Recent Titles Paradise Trips — Raf Reyntjens / Supernova — Tamar van den Dop // NFF 2016: Cavello — Sven Bresser / KI — Meikeminne Clinckspoor / As If I’m Crazy — Frank Lammers / Sammy Paramaribo — Barbara Bredero HFM WiP 2016 In Blue — Jaap van Heusden Contact Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110/4 — 1079 LD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4421760 / Email: films@ijswater.nl / www.ijswater.nl

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in between film

Sarah Nagel, Financial & Production Consultant

Having worked together on over 20 international co-productions, Isabell Wiegand and Sarah Nagel founded IN BETWEEN FILM in 2010. Based in Berlin and Paris, they propose their expertise in customized financing strategies and administration of international co-productions. IN BETWEEN FILM offers a unique service for European producers by taking care of all financial, administrative and legal aspects of their international co-production on each level.

Recent Titles Aferim! — Radu Jude / Arabian Nights (trilogy) — Miguel Gomes / Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade / A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson Contact Schöneweider Str. 4 — 12055 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 163 7337020 / Email: contact@inbetweenfilm.eu / www.inbetweenfilm.eu

Isabell Wiegand, Producer

In Vivo Film Set up in 2015 in France, In Vivo Films aims to support directors and writers from various backgrounds and countries. In Vivo Films produces projects with a strong cultural identity, tackling local subjects that have the potential to reach an international audience. In Vivo Films is currently developing several feature films and short films in international co-production.

Louise Bellicaud, Producer

HFM Co-Pro 2016 Tangier Stories — Fyzal Boulifa Contact 23 rue Basse de Saint Eloi — 17 000 La Rochelle (France) / Tel: +33 6 63033734 / Email: contact@invivofilms.com / www.invivofilms.com

Fyzal Boulifa, Film Director

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Kaap Holland Film

Judith Hees, Creative Producer

Maarten Swart, Director Film & TV Drama/Producer

Kaap Holland Film is a Dutch feature film and TV-drama production company, managed by producer Maarten Swart, that consists of an experienced team of passionate professionals that strive to bring high quality projects to a wide audience. Kaap Holland Film has a solid and varied track record for both crossover films with an international appeal and projects that were amongst the highest grossing films in the Netherlands in recent years. The company has a long standing tradition of working both with established filmmakers as well as discovering and launching emerging talents. Since 2014, Kaap Holland Film is part of Warner Bros.

Kaap Holland Film has produced the international success comedies “New Kids Turbo”, “New Kids Nitro” and “Bros Before Hos” all by Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil and “Bon Bini Holland” by Jelle de Jonge. Feature films like “The Marathon”

by Diederick Koopal, “Jackie” by Antoinette Beumer (Toronto selection) and “The Dinner” by Menno Meyjes (Toronto) have acclaimed international recognition.

Recent Titles NFF 2016: Bon Bini Holland — Jelle de Jonge / Family Weekend — Pieter van Rijn / Yes I do! — Kees van Nieuwkerk Contact Raamplein 1 — 1016 XK Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3463737 / Email: info@kaaphollandfilm.nl / www.kaaphollandfilm.nl

Kaliber Film

Aydin Dehzad, Producer

Founded in 2007, Kaliber Film is a creative and internationally oriented independent production company based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. Kaliber Film develops and produces author driven original narrative productions, making no distinction between fiction and documentary form or style. Kaliber Film (co-)produced several award-winning films such as: “I’m Never Afraid!” by Willem Baptist, “The Cage” by Adrian Sitaru,”’Men on the Bridge” and “Lifelong” by Asli Özge. Most recently they produced “Young Wrestlers” the directorial debut of Mete Gümürhan, which-world premiered at the 66th Berlinale and won a Special Mention of the International Generation Kplus Jury. Since 2011 they are a member of the EAVE network.

Recent Titles Young Wrestlers — Mete Gümürhan (NFF 2016) / Lifelong — Asli Özge Contact Sumatrakade 611 — 1019 PS Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31-6-43061201 / Email: info@kaliberfilm.nl / www.kaliberfilm.nl

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Keplerfilm

Derk-Jan Warrink, Producer

Koji Nelissen, Producer

Before founding Keplerfilm in April 2016, longtime friends Derk-Jan Warrink and Koji Nelissen worked at several Dutch production companies. For more than eight years, they were lucky enough to be surrounded by many inspiring talents with whom they succeeded to shape and generate amazing films and TV series.

They’ve worked on award-winning projects, both in their native the Netherlands as internationally, such as “The Lobster” (Yorgos Lanthimos), “Bullhead” (Michaël R. Roskam), “Blind” (Eskil Vogt) and “Paradise Now” (Hany Abu-Assad).

Warrink and Nelissen’s greatest asset is to not only recognize exceptionally talented writers and directors, but also to create an opportunity for them to grow into their full potential. They shape their combined experience, passion and love for film, into their new production company Keplerfilm.

With a strong focus on developing and nurturing talent, Keplerfilm’s business is telling stories; whether funny or sad, always deeply human and with a heart, and aiming to intellectually entertain the audience.

Recent Titles The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos / Bullhead — Michaël R. Roskam / Blind — Eskil Vogt Contact Geuzenstraat 82 — 1056KH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 52437509 / Email: info@keplerfilm.com / www.keplerfilm.com

Keren Cogan Films

Keren Cogan Galjé, Producer

Keren Cogan Films is an Amsterdam-based, young production company committed to creating artistic, high quality feature length and short films.

The company is looking for filmmakers with a distinct and authentic signature, sharing the love and excitement for daring and extraordinary storytelling. Keren Cogan Films brings creative talent together and makes “it” work. Their mission is helping and challenging filmmakers to realize their full potential.

Keren Cogan Films is, in partnership with Phanta Film, working on the development and financing of various beautiful film projects. The first feature film that resulted out of this partnership is “Between 10 and 12” by director Peter Hoogendoorn. The film was officialy selected for the prestigious programme of Venice Days.

Recent Titles Between 10 and 12 — Peter Hoogendoorn Contact Gijsbrecht van Aemstelstraat 16–18 — 1091 TC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6260255 / Email: info@kerencoganfilms.com / www.kerencoganfilms.com

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KeyDocs

Harmen Jalvingh, Producer

KeyDocs (2009) is a leading (international) production company for documentary based in Amsterdam. An experienced team of producers, led by Janneke Doolaard, is responsible for strong, creative and cinematic productions. Recent films are “Erbarme Dich” a feature by Ramon Gieling, 2015, awarded with a Chrystal Film Award for box office success — “Alice Cares”, a feature by Sander Burger, 2015, Eureka Award 2015 and “Storming Paradise” by Floor van der Meulen, 2014, Nomination Best Program TV Beelden. The most recent international co-production is the box-office hit “Becoming Zlatan”, by Swedish filmmakers Magnus and Fredrik Gertten, about Zlatan Ibrahimovic, premiered at IDFA 2015 and had its release in February 2016.

Recent Titles What the Cat Sees — Kim Brand (NFF 2016) / Becoming Zlatan — Magnus Gerten, Frederik Gerten / Erbarme Dich — Ramon Gieling / Alice Cares — Sander Burger / Storming Paradise — Floor van der Meulen BoostNL 2016 In the Arms of Morpheus — Marc Schmidt

Marc Schmidt, Film Director

Contact Van Diemenstraat 332 — 1013 CR Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 20 4222607 / Email: info@keydocs.nl / www.keydocs.nl

KeyFilm

Hans de Wolf, Producer/Managing Director

Founders and producers Hanneke Niens (former co-founder and producer of IDTV Film) and Hans de Wolf (former producer of Egmond Film) have an extensive network in Europe and Australasia of co-producers, funds and financiers, and (co-) produced over 40 features. They produce telemovies, shorts, series and dance films as well. Vital to their approach is the close collaboration with writers and directors to develop intelligent, character-driven audience favourites and arthouse films.The producers won national- and international awards, including an Oscar nomination for “Twin Sisters”, an Emmy and three times the Prix Europa. They scored box office hits with “Twin Sisters”, “Nynke”, “Bride Flight” and “Soof” and launched national and international careers. Their films were screened in competition in Berlin, Locarno, Toronto and San Sebastian.

Recent Titles The Idol — Hany Abu-Assad / Ventoux — Nicole van Kilsdonk / Nena — Saskia Diesing // NFF 2016: Beyond Sleep — Boudewijn Koole / Camp Holland — Boris Paval Conen / Voices of Finance — Clara van Gool

Hanneke Niens, Producer/Managing Director

Contact Van Diemenstraat 332 — 1013 CR Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4231596 / Email: info@keyfilm.nl / www.keyfilm.nl

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KinoElektron

Janja Kralj, Producer

KinoElektron is a production company based in Paris, founded by Janja Kralj.

The company is committed to international cinema. It is working with renowned directors and emerging talents, defending a strong collaboration between the producers and the directors. KinoElektron believes in a free vision of cinema, without borders or categorization. The company (co-)produced features like “OffWhite Lies” by Maya Kenig and “Marussia” by Eva Pervolovici, both selected at the Berlinale and also “These Are the Rules” by Croatian director Ognjen Svilicic screened at the Venice Film Festival and awarded for Best Actor. KinoElektron coproduced the last film by Sharunas Bartas, “Peace to Us in Our Dreams” selected at Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight. It is also developing “Saudade” by Antonio Méndez (Atelier de la Cinéfondation), “Gold Mine” by Ben Russell and the next projects by Teboho Edkins and Bani Khoshnoudi among other.

Recent Titles Strange Birds — Élise Girard / Peace to Us in Our Dreams — Sharunas Bartas / These Are the Rules — Ognjen Svilicic Contact 56 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 48 24 51 34 / Email: info@kinoelektron.com / www.kinoelektron.com

Kinomind Films

Gabija Budreckyete, Co-Founder & Head of Distribution

Kinomind Films is a live, evolving, and ever transforming film development, production, and distribution company. With an open mind, we examine new behaviours and demeanours and adapt emerging methods into our strategy.

Kinomind Films develops animated and live action films, digital content, and collaborates with other producers.

In the digitised world with changing viewing habits, Kinomind Films is studying emerging distribution methods and are keen on contributing to the development of the evolving digital market. Kinomind Films is developing a platform to bridge together the Baltic film industry.

Contact Ausros vartu g. 17–8A — 01304 Vilnius (Lithuania) Tel: +370 622 19180 / Email: hello@kinomindfilms.com / www.kinomindfilms.com

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Kinorama

Ira Cecić, Producer

Simon Bogojević Narath, Film Director

Kinorama, founded in Zagreb in 2003, is a Croatian production company specialized in the production of feature films. Kinorama has produced 20 feature-length films, some of which are co-productions, more than 20 shorts and 2 TV-series. Some of its films were box-office hits in cinemas, and all of them were screened at numerous festivals around the world. In 2015, “ Zvizdan/The High Sun” directed by Dalibor Matanić was included in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015, winning the Jury Prize. Their latest film “Ne gledaj mi u Pijat/Quit Staring at My Plate” by Hana Jušić was recently premiered at Venice Days 2016.

Kinorama’s artistic team is composed of established authors and debutants alike. The company states that particular attitude, together with great persistence in development, is what has made them one of the most productive production companies in Croatia in the last two years.

Recent Titles Quit Staring at My Plate — Hana Jušić / The High Sun — Dalibor Matanić / All the Best — Snježana Tribuson HFM Co-Pro 2016 Illyricvm — Simon Bogojević Narath Contact Šulekova 29 — 10000 Zagreb (Croatia) Tel: +385 1 231 6787 / Email: info@kinorama.hr / www.kinorama.hr

Kwassa Films Kwassa Films is a young company based in Brussels specialized in fiction and documentaries. Its main aim is to promote innovative, creative and accessible projects to a wide audience. Therefore, Kwassa Films would like to contribute to the emergence of young Belgian talents in the international scenes. Kwassa Films also develops international co-production (Holland, France, Italy, Algeria, Israël, among other countries).

Annabella Nezri, Producer

Recent Titles Face B - Leila Albayaty / Timgad - Fabrice Benchaouche Contact 286, Chaussée d’Alsemberg — 1190 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 491 954032 / Email: kwassa@kwassa.be / www.kwassafilms.com

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Le Bureau LE BUREAU & THE BUREAU are two Paris and London-based production companies that have gathered a strong track record in spotting and nurturing talents since 2000. Both companies keep on growing, as producers or co-producers, as their relationships with home grown and previously celebrated talents evolve.

Gabrielle Dumon, Producer

Recent Titles Daphne — Peter Mackie Burns / Tramontane — Vatche Boulghourjian / Sky — Fabienne Berthaud Contact 29 rue Etienne Dolet — 75020 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 40333380 / Email: info@lebureaufilms.com / www.lebureaufilms.com

Lemming Film Lemming Film is a film and television production company established in 1995 and based in Amsterdam, with a proven track record in delivering quality commercial films and television productions. Lemming Film is specialised in fiction for children, teenagers, families and international arthouse productions.

Fleur Winters, Producer

Recent Titles The Day My Father Became a Bush — Nicole van Kilsdonk / Owls & Mice — Simone van Dusseldorp / The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos / Blood, Sweat & Tears — Diederick Koopal / Boy7 —Lourens Blok / The Intruder — Shariff Korver / In Your Name — Marco van Geffen // NFF 2016: Rintje — Steven de Beul / Full Contact — David Verbeek / Nobody’s Boy — Margien Rogaar / Humidity — Nikola Ljuca Contact Valschermkade 36f — 1059 CD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31-20-6610424 / Email: info@lemmingfilm.com / www.lemmingfilm.com

Erik Glijnis, Producer

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Les Contes Modernes

Patrice Nezan, Producer

Les Contes Modernes (The Modern Tales) is aimed at taking part in intellectual debates within the contemporary societies by any means necessary (fiction, animation, creative documentary and transmedia).

Les Contes Modernes federates authors and artists of various horizons (film directors, visual artists, choreographers, graphic novelists, philosophers, gamedesigners) who question the world surrounding us in all its complexity and who put the esthetic search at the heart of their creations. The company’s artistic process in favor of body movement more than dialogues is an attempt to draw a universal language, to step across the borders.

Les Contes Modernes supports projects which develop a humanist, empathic and creative approach on the world of today and of tomorrow.

Recent Titles Hotel Machine — Emanuel Licha / South to North — Antoine Boutet Contact La Cartoucherie, rue de chony — 26500 Bourg-lès-valence (France) / Tel: +33 9 50008190 / Email: contact@lescontesmodernes.fr / www.lescontesmodernes.fr

Little House Productions

Uzma Hasan, Producer

Little House Productions is an independent film production company based in London and co-founded by Uzma Hasan. Uzma’s first feature “The Infidel” was released internationally receiving critical and commercial acclaim; it has since been remade as a musical and by Viacom India as “Dharam Sankat Mein”. Nirpal Bhogal’s “Firstborn” — her latest feature — premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The company’s current slate includes projects with a diverse range of collaborators including Guillermo del Toro’s protégé Guillem Morales, David Baddiel, Peter Bradshaw, Maven Pictures and the British Film Institute.

In addition to her slate, Uzma consults for film funds including Eurimages, the Doha Film Institute and Harvardwood as well as sitting on the selection committee for the British Independent Film Awards. Prior to producing independently, Uzma has worked for companies including Focus Features, The Salt Company and Tribeca Film Festival on the development, production and exploitation of feature films.

Recent Titles Firstborn — Nirpal Bhogal / Dharam Sankat Mein — Fuwad Khan Contact Top Floor Flat, 45 Fermoy Road — W9 3NH London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 7956 686167 / Email: info@littlehouse-productions.com / www.littlehouse-productions.com

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Man’s Films Productions

Marion Hänsel, Manager/Producer/ Film Director

Man’s Films Productions was established in 1977 by Marion Hänsel. The company produced all the films directed by Marion Hänsel such as “Dust”, “Si le vent soulève les sables”, “Noir Océan” and “La tendresse”. They also produced or co-produced features and documentaries by other directors, among others, “No Man’s Land” by Danis Tanovic, “Los caminos de la memoria” by José Luis Peñafuerte, “Diego Star”

by Frédérick Pelletier and “Atlantic.” by Jan-Willem van Ewijk.

Recent Titles Upstream — Marion Hänsel / The Hidden Part — Monique & Caroline D’hondt / La collection qui n’existait pas — Joachim Olender Contact Ave. Mostinck 65 — B-1150 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 7717137 / Email: mansfilmsprod@gmail.com / www.marionhansel.com

Monique Marnette, Producer

Maneki Films / Full House

Lucie de Rohan Chabot, Head of Development

Maneki films is a French production company created by Didar Domehri. Since 2009, Maneki films has produced and co-produced French and international feature films such as : “Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)” by Eva Husson (Toronto Film Festival - Platform 2015),”Paulina” by Santiago Mitre (Grand Prix - Critic’s Week 2015), “Dégradé” by Arab & Tarzan Nasser (Critic’s Week 2015), “Return to Ithaca” by Laurent Cantet (Venice Days Award 2014, Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals 2014), “Elefante Blanco” by Pablo Trapero and “7 Days in Havana” (both at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard 2012), and “11 Flowers” by Wang Xiaoshuia (Toronto Film Festival - 2011). Santiago Mitre’s new feature “La Cordillera” is shooting this fall in Argentina and Chile.

Recent titles Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) — Eva Husson / Paulina — Santiago Mitre / Return to Itaca — Laurent Cantet Contact 42 rue René Boulanger — 75010 Paris (France) Tel: +33 43 55 07 94 / Email: lucie@fullhouse-films.com / www.manekifilms.com

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MICROCLIMAT FILMS

Catherine Chagnon, Producer

Caroline Monnet, Film Director

Founded in 2010 by producer Catherine Chagnon, MICROCLIMAT FILMS is a Montreal-based company that develops, produces and distributes films by auteur directors. The company’s primary mission is to adopt a hands-on approach when collaborating with artists in order to create engaging and accessible films. The company is currently working on the postproduction of Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard’s documentary “Victory Street”, produced in association with Cinétéléfilms (Tunisia) and Day for Night (France). Further, MICROCLIMAT FILMS is co-developing Kaveh Nabatian’s multidisciplinary project, “The Seven Last Words”, a seven-part film to be presented during performances of Joseph Haydn Opus 51 by the Callino Quartet. MICROCLIMAT FILMS is also developing “Halmoni”, a cross-cultural story and the debut feature of the Canadian-Korean-Belgian director Kimura Byol — “Nathalie Lemoine” and “I Am Chain Reaction”, an immersive animation / dance piece by Dana Gingras and James Paterson, commissioned by the Society for Arts and Technology.

BoostNL 2016 Bootlegger — Caroline Monnet Contact 7539A, rue Drolet — H2R 2C6 Montréal, Québec, (Canada) / Tel: +1 514 9984157 / Email: info@microclimatfilms.com / www.microclimatfilms.com

Millstreet Films

Suzan de Swaan, Jr Producer

Millstreet Films is an Amsterdam-based production company founded in 2010 by Rachel van Bommel. The company’s mission is to produce commercially driven and creatively-spirited independent feature films and TV-series and to build long-term relationships with its writers and directors.

The film catalogue includes box office smash hits “Loft” (2010), “Vipers Nest” (2011), “Soof” (2013) and more recently “Rendez-Vous” (2015), based on bestselling novel by Esther Verhoef. “The Hero” and “Soof 2” are currently in production and will be released at the end of this year.

In 2014 Millstreet Films produced its first drama series “The Neighbors”, which got very high audience ratings. The second season of “The Neighbors” will have its VOD platform premiere in November 2016 and will subsequently air on national TV. Recent Titles The Hero — Menno Meyjes (NFF 2016) / Rendez Vous — Bobby Boermans, Mark de Cloe

Rachel van Bommel, Producer

Contact Keizersgracht 209-1 — 1016 DT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7725499 / Email: info@millstreetfilms.nl / www.millstreetfilms.nl

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Minds Meet

Tomas Leyers, Producer

Bert Scholiers, Film Director

Minds Meet is a Brussels-based, independent production company run by Tomas Leyers (producer) and Marc Goyens (line-producer). They specialize in the production and co-production of no-nonsense European feature fiction films and documentaries. The people at/affiliated with the company stand on years of experience in development, artistic story-writing and overall imaginative production.

With this team - fit for the project - Minds Meet seeks out emerging and established talent and bring them together to craft unique films with singular voices. The company’s films have been selected for international festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Toronto and many others. The directors that Minds Meet works with have travelled the world to present their films. But as the company states, “by being well aware of the Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy no result – good or bad - can ever prize the ego nor blame the person. Thus Minds Meet is to blame for every mistake we make. And we are proud of all of them”.

Recent Titles Violet — Bas Devos / Lucifer — Gust Van den Berghe / I’m the same I’m an other — Caroline Strubbe BoostNL 2016/ Work-in-Progress Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out — Bert Scholiers Contact Havenlaan 108-110 Avenue du Port — 1000 Brussel (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 266 66 66 / Email: info@mindsmeet.be / www.mindsmeet.be

MÔMERADE

Lucie Kalmar, Producer

MÔMERADE is a Paris-based film company founded by Lucie Kalmar, producer and consultant, in 2005. They care for cinematic works, long and short, meant for festivals and theatres, galleries or the world wide web. Their aim is to dedicate themselves to the films they love and help them to be financed, shot, edited, heard, sold, shown and seen. MÔMERADE is currently producing “Rey” by Niles Atallah (Chile/France/Holland/Germany/Qatar), co-produced by Circe Films. The project got the development support of the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) and is part of HBF Plus.

The company also makes trailers and promoreels for sales agents and distributors.

Contact 8 rue d’Enghien — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 62892917 / Email: lucie@momerade.fr / www.momerade.fr

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Mulholland Pictures Mulholland Pictures (co-)produced several international feature films such as “Enigma” starring Kate Winslet, “Left Luggage” starring Isabella Rossellini and “The Discovery of Heaven” starring Stephen Fry. They just finished UK film “Love is Thicker than Water” starring Johnny Flynn, Lydia Wilson and Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman.

Ate de Jong, General Manager

Recent Titles Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey. — Ate de Jong / Love is Thicker than Water — Ate de Jong, Emily Harris (NFF 2016) Contact Keizersgracht 649 — 1017 DT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31-20-6274339 / Email: dejong@mulhollandpictures.com / www. mulhollandpictures.com

N279 Entertainment

Els Vandevorst, Producer

N279 Entertainment is a Dutch production company founded by producer Els Vandevorst (formerly owner of Isabella Films) and director Martin Koolhoven.

The company focuses on feature films with artistic value and accessibility for an international audience. These may be arthouse- oriented movies as well as movies with a broad commercial potential and appeal. The company’s activities comprise the development, financing and production of films for cinema. Films produced by N279 are “It’s all so Quiet” by Nanouk Leopold, “Nono, the Zigzag Kid” by Vincent Bal, “A Fold in my Blanket” by Zaza Rusadze, “The Surprise” by Mike van Diem, “Francofonia” by Alexander Sokurov and the co-production “Kid”, by Fien Troch.

Recent Titles Brimstone — Martin Koolhoven / The Surprise — Mike van Diem / Francofonia — Alexander Sokurov Contact Singel 272 — 1016 AC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4231125 / Email: info@n279entertaiment.com / www.n279entertainment.com

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Need Productions

Géraldine Sprimont, Producer

Need Productions has produced more than forty films: documentaries, short films, features, animation (recently “April and the Extraordinary World”— Cristal for Feature Film in Annecy 2015). The company was founded by Denis Delcampe in 1999 with a strong identity and a no compromise editorial policy. Since 2014, AnneLaure Guégan and Géraldine Sprimont are developing and producing new projects with the same concern of requirement and carried by the encounter with the public.

Recent Titles Le coeur régulier — Vanja d’Alcantara / Avril et le monde truqué — Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci / Un début — Raphaël Santarelli Contact 9A Rue des Chartreux —1000 Brussel (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 5344057 / Email: info@needproductions.com / www.needproductions.com

NiKo Film

Nicole Gerhards, Producer

Caroline Hellsgård, Film Director

NiKo Film was founded in Berlin in 2006. They focus on international arthouse feature projects for cinema and television. Exceptional films are their passion: stories that take you away to a different world and make you happy, if only for a moment; films bearing a distinctive signature and a unique identity. The company’s films are personal and socially relevant; they represent particular attitudes while never forcing the issue. They consider themselves accomplices of their writers and directors and help them realise their vision. NiKo Film has produced films such as “The Stranger in Me, Kill Me” by Emily Atef and “Babai” by Visar Morina. Amongst their co-productions: “The Prize” by Paula Markovitch, “Dora and the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents” by Stina Werenfels, “La memoria del agua” by Matías Bize and “Clash” by Mohamed Diab.

Recent Titles Babai — Visar Morina / Clash — Mohamed Diab / The Memory of Water — Matías Bize / Mum and Other Loonies in the Family — Ibolya Fekete / Three Windows and a Hanging — Isa Qosja / Dora and the Sexual Neurosis of Our Parents — WStina Werenfels HFM Co-Pro 2016 Sunburned — Caroline Hellsgard Contact Prinzessinnenstrasse 16 — 10969 Berlin (Germany) Tel: +49 30 27582836 / Email: info@nikofilm.de / www.nikofilm.de

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Nukleus film

Siniša Juričić, Producer/CEO

In the past 14 years, Nukleus became a regional production company whose films crossed borders and were shown at important festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Sundance. In 2012 together with director Miha Knifić we established Nukleus film Slovenia as our new outpost. In 2013 we also established Jaako Dobra Produkcija (JDP), as a company specialized for co-productions and production service. The intent was to have a co-production/production service house to fully use cash rebate in Croatia for international projects. We get continuous support from Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) and Slovenian Film Centre (FCS). We regularly take part in co-production forums and successfully arrange co-productions. Nukleus is a member/participant of the European Film Academy, ACE, EAVE, as well as a regular attendant of the co-production and pitching forums. We attended training programmes such as EAVE, Producers on the Move, ACE Producers Network, Producers Lab Toronto and Torino FilmLab. Recent titles Interruption — Yorgos Zois / Houston, We Have a Problem! — Ziga Virc / The Day My Father Became a Bush — Nicole van Kilsdonk / NFF 2016: Full Contact — David Verbeek / Adios Amigos — Albert Jan van Rees / A Real Vermeer — Rudolf van den Berg Contact Dalmatinska 8 — Zagreb (Croatia) / Tel: +385 1 4846 556, +385 91 502 1871 / Email: info@nukleus-film.hr / www.nukleus-film.hr

OAK Motion Pictures

Trent, Producer

OAK Motion Pictures is an independent film production company developing and producing high quality films for an international audience. To achieve this goal, OAK Motion Pictures works with a few directors and writers, typically over a long period of time. OAK consists of two producers: Charlotte Scott-Wilson and Trent. Together they aim to gather international talents in order to produce accessible quality films with audacity. Their previous films premiered in New York, Berlin and Cannes.

Previous feature “Villegas” (2012) premiered at Official Selection Cannes 2012 and was supported by HBF Plus. In 2014 South African film “The Wound” by John Trengove was selected by HBF Plus.

Recent Titles The Wound — John Trengove / Satan Said Dance — Kasia Roslaniec / The Most Beautiful Thing in the World — Danyael Sugawara // NFF 2016: Hold On — Charlotte Scott-Wilson / Kort! — Groei — Sil van der Woerd Contact Jacob van Lennepkade 334P — 1053 NJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7173504 / Email: contact@oakmotionpictures.com / www.oakmotionpictures.com

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PalCine Productions

Muayad Alayan, Film Director

PalCine Productions is a production company based in Bethlehem (Palestine). It was co-founded by Muayad Alayan and Rami Alayan. PalCine has its origins in grassroots filmmaking. It started out as a collective of Palestinian filmmakers and artists coming together to produce their own audio-visual collaborations and productions. It soon expanded to offer their experience and skills to help other local and international groups, non-profit organizations, communities and institutions in producing their audio-visual projects set in Palestine. PalCine produced the narrative feature film “Love, Theft and Other Entanglements” (Berlinale Panorama 2015) and the award-winning shorts “Lesh Sabreen” (Official Selections ClermontFerrand, Dubai Film Festival 2009) and “Private Sun”(Official Selections Palm Springs Shortfest, Montreal World Film Festival 2012).

Recent Titles Love, Theft and Other Entanglements — Muayad Alayan BoostNL 2016 The Reports on Sarah and Saleem — Muayad Alayan

Rami Alayan, Producer

Contact Al-Marj Street, Beit Sahour — Bethlehem (Palestine) / Tel: +972 52 8089352 / Email: muayad@palcine.net / www.palcine.ne

Pandora Film Produktion Pandora Film Produktion’s goal is to work continuously with directors and screenwriters, who seek to develop a unique and unmistakeable cinematic language.

Raimond Goebel, Producer

Recent Titles Paula — Christian Schwochow / Marija — Michael Koch / Sky — Fabienne Berthaud // Contact Balthasarstraße 79-81 — 50670 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 973320 / Email: info@pandorafilm.com / www.pandorafilm.com

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Plattform Produktion

Erik Hemmendorf, Producer

Plattform Produktion is one of Sweden’s most innovative and awarded production houses, founded in 2002 by producer Erik Hemmendorff and director Ruben Östlund. Hemmendorff is an ACE producer and has produced a number of short and feature films, including “Force Majeure” (Jury Prize 2014 Un Certain Regard; winner of six Guldbagge Awards; shortlisted for an Academy Award; Nominated for Golden Globe); “Play” (2011 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs); “Greetings from the Woods” (2009 Locarno); “Twin Brothers; 53 Scenes From A Childhood” (2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam); “The Extraordinary Ordinary life of José González” (2011 Hot Docs); “Involuntary” (2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard) and “Incident by a Bank” (winner Golden Bear 2010 Berlinale). Plattform Produktion also co-produces selected international feature films, among them “Concrete Night” (2013) by Pirjo Honkasalo, in co-production with Bufo Films, “Bypass” (2013) by Duane Hopkins in co-production with Third Films and “Dau” (2010) by Ilya Khrzhanovsky.

BoostNL 2016 Jessica — Ninja Thyberg

Ninja Thyberg, Director

Contact Vallgatan 9 d — 41116 Göteborg (Sweden) / Tel: +46 31 7116660 / Email: mail@plattformproduktion.se / www.plattformproduktion.se

pngpictures

Tathiani Sacilotto, Producer

PERSONA NON GRATA PICTURES has produced features and documentaries by the most diverse directors, in co-production with several countries — Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany and Mozambique. The international aspect of their films, reflect in a wide circulation at festivals around the world, as well as in movie theatres and television channels. Their films reflect the culture, thinking and imagination of the countries of origin, through the vision of the creators.

Contact Av Zumkeller 933 cj23A — 02420-001 São Paulo (Brazil) Tel: +55 21 3518 7593 / Email: info@pngpictures.com / www.pngpictures.com

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PRPL PRPL produces films with strong writer/director signatures; fresh, authentic contents and form and aimed at an international audience. The world is full of things that resemble each other, so it’s time to stimulate, inspire and challenge.

Ellen Havenith, Producer

Recent Titles NFF 2016: The Paradise Suite — Joost van Ginkel / Hoe het zo kwam dat de ramenlapper hoogtevrees kreeg — Eva M. C. Zanen / Cas — Joris van den Berg BoostNL 2016 Quicksand — Margot Schaap Contact Krelis Louwenstraat 1D03 —1055 KA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 20 7370189 / Email: info@prpl.nl / www.prpl.nl

Margot Schaap, Film Director

Iris Otten, Producer

Pieter Kuijpers, Film Director/Producer

Nathalie van der Burg, Junior Producer

Anna van der Heide, Film Director

Pupkin Pupkin Film is one of the leading production companies in the Netherlands.

They have a strong, exciting track record of discovering and developing new talents.

Pupkin produced the festival favorite “Boys” (“Jongens”), the award-winning “Peter Pan Man” (“Aanmodderfakker”) and “We Will Never Be Royals” (“Geen koningen in ons bloed”) and the Cannes selected short “Import”.

Recent Titles NFF 2016: Riphagen — Pieter Kuijpers / Spooky — Willem Bosc / Michiel ten Horn, Margien Rogaar / Import — Ena Sendijarevíc BoostNL 2016 Dreamscape — Anna van der Heide BoostNL 2016/WiP Quality Time — Daan Bakker Contact Weesperzijde 4 —1091 EA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4895088 / Email: info@pupkin.com / www.pupkin.com

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Revolver Amsterdam Revolver Amsterdam is a hybrid production company that focuses on feature films and documentaries for an international market, digital media and branded content.

Raymond van der Kaaij, Producer

Recent Titles Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman / Supernova — Tamar van den Dop / They Have Escaped — Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa // NFF 2016: Bodkin Ras — Kaweh Modiri / Knalpot -Professional Grin — Daniel Bruce / Zeven dingen die ik heb geleerd over tijdreizen — Jonathan Herzberg Contact Oosteinde 11 — 1017 WT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8208987 / Email: welcome@revolver.nl / www.revolver.nl

Rinkel Film

Ibo Karatay, Development Executive

Rinkel Film is an independent production company based in the heart of Amsterdam with a proven track record in producing feature films for the domestic and international market. The company focuses on (inter)national co-productions and produces high quality, mainstream genre-driven features, book adaptations, as well as challenging arthouse films with high festival potential. Furthermore, Rinkel Film produces TV drama and one-offs for public and private broadcasting organisations.

Recent Titles NFF 2016: A Real Vermeer — Rudolf van den Berg / Mammal — Rebecca Daly Contact Bremstraat 1–3 — 1031 EK Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6163231 / Email: info@rinkelfilm.com www.rinkelfilm.com

Rock Film

Anna Shalashina, Head of International Department

Rock Films was founded by Alexey Uchitel in 1991. The company’s feature films have been awarded at numerous international film festivals, selected as official Russian entries for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, widely released domestically and internationally.

In the last two decades Rock Films has produced more than 30 films, both feature and documentary, which have received more than 60 prestigious awards at international film festivals including “The Edge (Golden Globe nomination), “The Fool” (Locarno prize for Best Actor), “The Major” (Cannes Critic’s Week), “Bite The Dust” (Cannes, Official Selection) and other.

Recent Titles The Fool — Yury Bykov HFM Co-Pro 2016 The Whale Hunter — Philipp Yuryev Contact Kriukov kanal,12 — 190068 St.Petersburg (Russia) Tel: +7 812 714 2056 / Email: info@rockfilms.ru / www.rockfilm.ru

Philipp Yuryev, Film Director

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Rohfilm Productions Rohfilm is an independent production company with offices in Berlin and Leipzig.

Founded in 2005 by Karsten Stöter and Benny Drechsel, Rohfilm Productions develops and finances feature films and documentaries for the international crossover arthouse sector. The focus is on mining stories with strong cinematic conviction as well as finding and fostering filmmakers with distinctive talent.

Benny Drechsel, Producer

Recent Titles History’s Future — Fiona Tan (NFF 2016) / Touch Me Not — Adina Pintilie / Deadweight — Axel Koenzen / I Promise You Anarchy — Julio Hernández Cordón / The Young Karl Marx — Raoul Peck / Three Peaks — Jan Zabeil Contact Idastraße 39 — 04315 Leipzig (Germany) / Tel: +49 341 39378460 / Email: contact@rohfilm.de / www.rohfilm.de

Roka Film (Durak Film) The recently founded production company Durak Film (previously known as Roka Film) collects youth energy to create, make and produce fresh stories.

Filiz Durak, Screenwriter

Contact Cihangir Caddesi, Cevhersaray Apt. No:31/2 Cihangir — 34433 Beyoğlu, Istanbul (Turkey) / Tel: +90 0212 243 36 41 / Email: filizustundurak@gmail.com / www.rokafilm.net

Rotterdam Films

Dirk Rijneke, CEO

Independent production company founded by Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden that (co-)produced more than 45 documentaries and fiction films.

Core-business is supporting directors; emerging talent as well experienced filmmakers, whose approach don’t result in a middle-of-the-road film, but original and interesting auteur cinema for an international audience. They have worked with directors like Béla Tarr, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Carlos Reichenbach and Mrinal Sen. The international co-production “Hier” (“Yesterday”) by award-winning director Balint Kenyeres, starring Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”) will be released in 2017. In development is “Memory House”, first feature

by Brazilian director João Paulo Miranda Maria, whose short won the Special Jury Prize of the Official Competition in Cannes 2016. Ricky Rijneke’s second feature “The Hunter’s Son” was selected for Script&Pitch of the Torino Lab and Toronto Talent Lab. Her first feature “Silent Ones” won 11 awards out of 15 nominations at many major festivals.

Recent Titles Silent Ones — Ricky Rijneke Contact Provenierssingel 33 — 3033 EG Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 10 4658565 / Email: info@rotterdamfilms.nl / www.rotterdamfilms.nl

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Samsa Film Samsa Film is, by both its size and number of films, Luxembourg’s biggest production company. Through its sister companies Liaison Cinematographique (Paris) and Artemis Productions (Bruxelles), Samsa Film is well established in the European market.

Jani Thiltges, Producer

Recent Titles Prejudice — Antoine Cuypers / Brabançonne — Vincent Bal / Wiplala — Tim Oliehoek Contact 238C, route de Luxembourg — L-8077 Bertrange (Luxembourg) / Tel: +352 45 19601 / Email: samsa@samsa.lu / www.samsa.lu

SCOPE Invest

Marilyne Maia, Production Manager

Stijn de Block, Tax Shelter Expert

Scope Pictures is Belgium’s most prolific and successful financing and production company. They are highly experienced in structuring financing, in co-production and in the line production of Films and TV series, both at a local and at an international level. The company offers a hands-on approach on each project providing an impressive range of services and experience. Their financing is 45% of the total Belgian expenditure and they assist foreign producers in arranging finance and combining different types of public and private funding available in Belgium. They have a solid track record in obtaining European and national funds: around 30 films selected by Wallimage and more than 15 films by Eurimages since 2008. Scope Pictures is actively looking for creative international projects of any kind that appeal to a large audience and require a minimum budget of €2 million. The project must be recognised by the relevant Belgian authorities as a “European work”.

Recent Titles High Rise — Ben Wheatley / Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas / Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello / Ma loute — Bruno Dumont / Suite française — Saul Dibb / Oops! Noah is Gone... — Toby Genkel Contact Defacqzstraat 50 — 1050 Brussel (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 3407200 / Email: info@scopeinvest.be / www.scopeinvest.be

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Senorita Films Senorita Films is owned and run by Rita Dagher since 2012. Rita Dagher is an independent producer. The French-based company is dedicated to the production of original, unique and innovative feature-length films that strike an international chord whilst engaging with contemporary global issues as well as placing importance upon an independent vision.

Rita Dagher, Producer

Recent titles Soy Negro — Rafi Pitts / The Yes Men Are Revolting — Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno / Miss Julie — Liv Ullmann Contact 16 rue André Campra — 93210 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 58692940 / Email: rita@senorita-films.com

Sluizer Film Productions

Anouk Sluizer, Producer

Sluizer Film Productions is a Dutch production company at the base founded in 2014 to manage the film catalogue and exploitation of the film archive of director/ producer George Sluizer. In 2016 the activity status of the company was updated to producing documentaries, short and long features. Sluizer Film Production is continuing the vision of the former company and it’s director-producer George Sluizer known for his unique signature. The company will produce short and long feature films with great artistic value for a Dutch and international audience. As a starting point the focus lies on discerning scenario’s, working with young and established director’s with an authentic and original vision on Cinema and as to cite George Sluizer ’going to the edge and search for one’s limits’. Sluizer Film Productions believes in the power of collaboration of international talent and will focus on working also transnational and find cooperation’s with producers in Europe, US, Latin America, Africa or Asia.

Contact Stadionweg 212 — 1077 TE Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 020 7786188 / Email: anouksluizer@gmail.com / www.georgesluizer.com

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Smarthouse Films

Daniëlle Guirguis, Owner/Producer

Smarthouse Films focuses on commercial arthouse, linking music, arts and graphic design into the world of film, to serve a global audience. Smarthouse produces feature films, shorts, documentaries and commercials, always with an international focus.

The shorts “Onderstroom” (“Undertow”, 2012, Official Competition NFF) and “Nog Tien Minuten” (“Ten Minutes Left”, 2014, winner Cannes Short Film Festival) were both released in cinemas. Six shorts produced as part of the programme “This Is Where Reconstruction Starts”, premiered at this year’s edition of IFFR. The short film “Route du Soleil” premieres at this edition of NFF and the documentary “The Last Sea Gypsy” is currently in post-production. The feature film “La Holandesa” will start principal photography in Chile later this year.

Founder Danielle Guirguis has been involved in films like Paul Verhoeven’s “Zwartboek” (“Blackbook”), Reinout Oerlemans “Komt een Vrouw bij de Dokter” (“The Happy Housewife”) and Antoinette Beumers “De Gelukkige Huisvrouw’”(“The Happy Housewife”) and Maria Peters’ “De Groeten van Mike!” (“Mike Says Goodbye!”).

Recent Titles NFF 2016: Honey and Old Cheese — Yassine El Idrissi / Route du Soleil — Karsten de Vreugd / Where Is Kurdistan? — Aboozar Amini Contact Nieuwe Achtergracht 17 — 1018 XV Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 20 2337957 / Email: info@smarthousefilms.nl / www.smarthousefilms.nl

SNG Film

Digna Sinke, CEO/Producer

Studio Nieuwe Gronden –nowadays SNG Film- was founded in 1979 out of the legendary film collective Amsterdams Stadjournaal (ASJ) by Rene Scholtens. SNG focused on producing feature films with a personal and idiosyncratic element, but not to the exclusion of any commercial potential. Digna Sinke — producer and director — took over in 2001. The aim remains the same: to produce interesting films with cinematographic quality.

Recent Titles En amont du fleuve — Marion Hänsel / One Life Is Not Enough — Annette Apon (NFF 2016) Contact Van Hallstraat 52 — 1051 HH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 20 6867837 / Email: info@sngfilm.nl / www.sngfilm.nl

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Still Moving A Paris based co-production and international sales company founded by Pierre Menahem and Juliette Lepoutre.

Recent Titles Pendular — Julia Murat / Scarred Hearts — Radu Jude / The Fever — Maya Da-Rin / The Immersed Family — Maria Alché Pierre Menahem, Co-founder/Producer

Contact 6 rue Boissonade — 75014 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 66 2088179 / Email: info@stillmoving.fr / www.stillmoving.fr

Submarine Film

Bruno Felix, Co-founder

Jeroen Beker, Producer

Submarine Film is an Amsterdam-based film production company, founded in 2015 by established producers Bruno Felix and Femke Wolting (Submarine) and Sabine Veenendaal and Jeroen Beker (Caviar Films, Flinck Film, IDTV Films, Motel Films).

Together they produced numerous films, including “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” (Peter Greenaway, 2014), “Last Hijack” (Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting, 2015, Prix Europa, Emmy Award), “Love is All” (Joram Lürsen, 2007, Golden Calf Best Film), “Black Book” (Paul Verhoeven, 2006), “Black Booty” (Lodewijk Crijns, 2012), “Meet the Fockens” (Paul Schröder, Gabrielle Provaas, 2011), “The Misfortunates” (Felix van Groeningen, 2009), “Stellet Licht” (Carlos Reygadas, 2007), “Minoes” (Vincent Bal, 2001), “A’dam & Eva” (Norbert ter Hall, 2011), “Winky’s Horse” (Mischa Kamp, 2005) and “Finn” (Frans Weisz, 2013).

Submarine Film reaches out to national and international audiences with innovative films that tell remarkable stories that reflect on both the universal and the deeply personal and catch the spirit of our times.

Recent Titles Eisenstein in Guanajuato — Peter Greenaway / Meet Me in Venice — Eddy Terstall // NFF 2016: Remember to Check Out — Hiba Vink / Teenage Diary: Alma Mathijsen — Samantha Williams / Puberdagboek: Willem Bosch — Samantha Williams / Nona and the Singing Meatball — Ruud Bakker Contact Arie Biemondstraat 111 — 1054 PD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8204940 / Email: info@submarine.nl / www.submarine.nl

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The Film Kitchen

Ineke Kanters, Producer

The Film Kitchen specializes in producing and co-producing feature films for the international market. It also produces short films and series for television for the national market. The production company cooperates closely with strong and experienced filmmakers as well as with young remarkable talents, nationally and internationally. Interesting content is the aim and it is combined with innovative cinematographic quality. The Film Kitchen develops and produces art house films as well as feature films for a main stream audience.

Recent Titles Life according to Nino — Simone van Dusseldorp / In the Heart — Nicole van Kilsdonk Contact Goudsbloemstraat 132A-hs — 1015 JT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 2 335 625 / Email: info@thefilmkitchen.nl / www.thefilmkitchen.nl/nl/

Jan van der Zanden, Producer

Laurette Schillings, Producer

Ger Bouma, Talent Scout

Marijn Bloemen, Dramaturg

Topkapi Films Topkapi Films is an Amsterdam-based company run by producers Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings. The company, well experienced in producing and co-producing feature films and television drama for the Dutch and international market, strives to build long-term relationships with writers and directors.

Topkapi Films has recently worked on the feature films “Public Works” and “Out of Love”, and the co-productions “The Commune” (Denmark), “All of a Sudden” (Germany),” Land and Shade” (Colombia) and “Belgica” (Belgium).

Recent Titles Layla M. — Mijke de Jong / Something Useful — Pelin Esmer // NFF 2016: Kidnap — Diederik Ebbinge / Out of Love — Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito / Public Works — Joram Lürsen / Stop Acting Now — Mijke de Jong Contact Kloveniersburgwal 131-III — 1011 KD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3032494 / Email: info@topkapifilms.nl / www.topkapifilms.nl

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Tuffi Films

Elli Toivoniemi, Producer

Tuffi Films is an award-winning film production company based in Helsinki (Finland). The company is formed of three producers and three writer/directors.

The films of the company have enjoyed international success at the Academy Awards, and at festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, Locarno, Visions du Réel and Clermont-Ferrand. Tuffi Films develops feature films with a wide range of genres from contemporary drama to comedy, as well as versatile creative documentaries and cross media series for television. The company produces quality films and series on contemporary topics with a human touch, made to stand the test of time.

Content with an international appeal that dares to make that crazy jump.

Recent Titles Korso — Akseli Tuomivaara Contact Vanha Talvitie 2 A 12 — 00580 Helsinki (Finland) Tel: +358 41 7076531 / Email: tuffi@tuffifilms.com / www.tuffifilms.com

Twenty Twenty Vision Twenty Twenty Vision is a film production company based in Berlin (Germany).

The principal Thanassis Karathanos and shareholder Uta Ganschow formed the company in December 1998 as a vehicle for the production of feature film projects aimed at the national and international markets.

Thanassis Karathanos, Producer

Recent Titles Blessed Benefit — Mahmoud Al Massad / Elle — Paul Verhoeven / Ma Loute — Bruno Dumont / Mariupolis — Mantas Kvedaravicius / Soy Nero — Rafi Pitts / An — Naomi Kawase / Wednesday 04:45 — Alexis Alexiou / The Farewell Party — Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit / September — Penny Panayotopoulou / The Hunter — Rafi Pitts / Plato’s Academy — Filippos Tsitos / Ajami — Yaron Shani & Scandar Copti Contact Schwedter Str. 13 — 10119 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 61281750 / Email: office@twentytwentyvision.eu / www.twentytwentyvision.eu

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VENFILM

Maarten van der Ven, CEO

In 2013 Maarten van der Ven established VENFILM, a company that wants to work with passionate visual authors, who are eager to tell stories that intend to make a difference for the audience they where created for. The company has produced several awarded shorts in the last three years.

In December 2016 VENFILM will release its first feature film “Waterboys” by Robert Jan Westdijk, presented at the Work-in-Progress at the HFM 2015. The film is a feelgood drama about a father and a son travelling from Amsterdam to Edinburgh, having to find out some things about themselves and each other. An important role is set aside for the legendary band “The Waterboys”.

Next to that VENFILM is developping new projects and co-producing Agnes Kocsis new film “Eden”.

Recent Titles NFF 2016: Copyrette — Marc de Leeuw / Inconvenient Comfort — Adam Fillenz Contact Vasco da Gamastraat 55-3 — 1057 VJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 41878497 / Email: venfilm@gmail.com / www.venfilm.nl

Viking Film Viking Film wants to make high-quality films for both Dutch and international audiences with a special focus on arthouse, children’s films and animation films.

Viking Film wants to be cross-border and intends to enter into cooperation with producers and makers from Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Marleen Slot, Producer

Recent Titles Neon Bull — Gabriel Mascaro / Oscuro Animal — Felipe Guererro / Zurich — Sacha Polak / Sangaile — Alante Kavaite // NFF 2016: Pregnant — Masch Halberstad / Messias — Rob Lücker / Planet Beauty — Emma Westenberg / Siv Sleeps Astray — Catti Edfeldt BoostNL 2016 Jade — Sacha Polak Contact Lindengracht 17 — 1015 KB Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6254788 / Email: info@vikingfilm.nl / www.vikingfilm.nl

Sacha Polak, Film Director

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Viktoria Films

Maya Vitkova, Film Director/Producer

In 2008 Maya Vitkova executive produced “Eastern Plays” by Kamen Kalev. The film premiered at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight.

In 2009 Maya founded Viktoria Films, directing and producing two shorts written by the 2015 Silver Bear-winner Radu Jude, and her debut feature “Viktoria”. It was the first Bulgarian feature film ever selected in competition at festivals such as Sundance, Rotterdam, AFI Fest, Camerimage and many others. “Viktoria” was shown at more than 70 festivals, received 10 awards and is the second Bulgarian feature distributed in the US. Recent Titles Viktoria — Maya Vitkova HFM Co-Pro 2016 Love — Maya Vitkova Contact 2, Tzar Ivan Asen II Str., Tzarevetz Building, fl.2 — 1124 Sofia (Bulgaria) / Tel: +359 2 4813712 / Email: mayvitkovitz@yahoo.com / www.viktoriafilms.jimdo.com

Denis Vaslin, Producer

Fleur Knopperts, Producer

Sander Burger, Film Director

Volya Films Volya Films, established in 2004, is a Rotterdam-based company producing author fiction films and creative documentaries, mainly as international co-productions.

Volya Films is a member of the EAVE, Eurodoc, Binger and EDN networks. Denis Vaslin is a member of the European Film Academy and the Documentary Producers Netherlands. In 2011 he created Mandra Films in France.

Recent Titles Problemski Hotel — Manu Riche / Big Father, Small Father & Other Stories — Di Phan Dang / Kurai Kurai — Tales on the Wind — Marjoleine Boonstra / Men Who Save the World — Liew Seng Tat // NFF 2016: The Free Market — Marleine van der Werf BoostNL 2016 Totem — Sander Burger Contact Schiekade 189 Unit 508 — 3013 BR Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 10 4155621 / Email: info@volyafilms.com / www.volyafilms.com

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Windmill Film

Annemiek van der Hell, Producer

Windmill Film develops and creates distinctive documentaries and films for cinema, television and online. The company’s goal is to produce films that work, and do what they were intended to do. Things of superb quality are as difficult as they are rare. There is no single recipe by which they can be created.

Windmill Film believes in dedication, experience, craftsmanship, creativity, the drive to excel, pushing the limits, striving for the best possible quality and the persuasive power of the power of the audiovisual medium.

Windmill Film has a strong focus on international, documentary and fiction, coproductions.

Windmill Film is member of EDN, NBF and DPN. Recent Titles NFF2016: Point Taken — Dancin’ the Camera — Pieter-Rim de Kroon / Little Angels — Marco Niemeijer Contact Amstel 266 — 1017 AM Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8224183 / Email: contact@windmillfilm.com /www.windmillfilm.com

Zilvermeer Productions

Ruud van der Heyde, Producer/Co-producer

Zilvermeer Productions is part of the Galaxy Studios Group. Zilvermeer acts as a Pan European co-producer and continues to develop its position as a quality Benelux production company with a slate of international co-productions. Current co-productions include: “Knielen Op Een Bed Violen” by Ben Sombogaart (Dutch feature, NL Film & TV), “Trollie” by Gert Embrechts (Dutch TVseries, Johan Nijenhuis & Co), “Bankier Van Het Verzet” by Joram Lürsen (Dutch feature, NL Film & TV, in pre-production), “You Really Got Me” by Julien Temple (UK feature, Recorded Picture Company, in financing stage) and “Domino” by Hans Petter Moland (NorwegianDanish feature, Redsquair Ventures, in financing stage).

Recent titles Trollie (TV-series) — Gert Embrechts / Knielen op een bed violen — Ben Sombogaart Contact Kievitstraat 42 — Mol (Belgium) / Tel: +32 14 31 43 43 / www.zilvermeerproductions.com

Film Producers Netherlands is the association of film producers, our aim is to stimulate and support a dynamic and creative film industry. We represent the majority of Dutch film producers, promoting their common interests and collaborating with (international) parties in the film industry.

Film Producers Netherlands | contacta Marjan van der Haar (Managing Director), tel +31 6 31 79 00 17, info@filmproducenten.nl, www.filmproducenten.nl Film Producers Netherlands | board member Marleen Slot (Viking Film, Chairman), Ate de Jong (Mulholland Pictures), Sander Verdonk (New Amsterdam Film Company), Maarten Swart (Kaap Holland Film), Joost de Vries Film Producers Netherlands | members BALDR Film Frank Hoeve Katja Draaijer info@baldrfilm.nl www.baldrfilm.nl BosBros Burny Bos info@bosbros.com www.bosbros.com Cadenza Films Jeroen Koolbergen Pierre Spengler Rudolf van den Berg info@cadenzafilms.com www.cadenzafilms.com Circe Films Stienette Bosklopper Lisette Kelder info@circe.nl www.circe.nl Cool Beans Richard Claus rc@coolbeanspix.com CTM Films Denis Wigman Marijn Wigman pictures@ctm.nl www.ctmpictures.com De Productie Annemiek van Gorp RenĂŠ Goossens info@deproductie.nl www.deproductie.nl Family Affair Films Floor Onrust Noortje Wilschut info@familyaffairfilms.nl www.familyaffairfilms.nl FATT Productions Hans de Weers Elwin Looije info@fatt.nl www.fatt.nl

Graniet Film Marc van Warmerdam info@granietfilm.nl www.granietfilm.nl House of Netherhorror Jan Doense Herman Slagter jan@houseofnetherhorror.nl herman@houseofnetherhorror.nl www.houseofnetherhorror.nl IJswater Films Marc Bary Steven Rubinstein Malamud films@ijswater.nl www.ijswater.nl Incredible Film Danielle Raaphorst danielle@incrediblefilm.nl www.incrediblefilm.com Johan Nijenhuis & Co Johan Nijenhuis Ingmar Menning info@nijenhuisenco.nl www.nijenhuisenco.nl Jos Stelling Films Jos Stelling judith@stellingfilms.nl www.stellingfilms.nl

Lemming Film Leontine Petit Eva Eisenloeffel Fleur Winters Erik Glijnis info@lemmingfilm.com www.lemmingfilm.com Millstreet Films Rachel van Bommel Suzan de Swaan info@millstreetfilms.nl www.millstreetfilms.nl Mountain Road Entertainment Group Sjef Scholte sjef@mountainroad.nl www.mountainroad.nl Mulholland Pictures Ate de Jong dejong@mulhollandpictures.com www.mulhollandpictures.com New Amsterdam Film Company Sander Verdonk Julius Ponten Philip Harthoorn Thomas den Drijver info@newams.com www.newams.com

Sigma Pictures Productions Matthijs van Heijningen Guurtje Buddenberg info@sigmapictures.com www.sigmapictures.com Sluizer Films Anne Lordon Anouk Sluizer sluizerfilms@neuf.fr www.georgesluizer.com SNG Film Digna Sinke info@sngfilm.nl www.sngfilm.nl Submarine/Submarine Film Femke Wolting Bruno Felix Sabine Veenendaal Jeroen Beker info@submarine.nl www.submarine.nl The Film Kitchen Jan van der Zanden Ineke Kanters jan@thefilmkitchen.nl ineke@thefilmkitchen.nl www.thefilmkitchen.nl

Kaap Holland Film Maarten Swart info@kaaphollandfilm.nl www.kaaphollandfilm.nl

OAK Motion Pictures Charlotte Scott-Wilson Trent contact@oakmotionpictures.com www.oakmotionpictures.com

Topkapi Films Frans van Gestel Arnold Heslenfeld Laurette Schillings info@topkapifilms.nl www.topkapifilms.nl

Keren Cogan Films Keren Cogan GaljĂŠ info@kerencoganfilms.com www.kerencoganfilms.com

PVPictures Paul Voorthuysen mail@pvpictures.nl www.pvpictures.nl

Viking Film Marleen Slot info@vikingfilm.nl www.vikingfilm.nl

KeyFilm Hanneke Niens Hans de Wolf info@keyfilm.nl www.keyfilm.nl

Rotterdam Films Mildred van Leeuwaarden Dirk Rijneke info@rotterdamfilms.nl www.rotterdamfilms.nl

Volya Films Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts info@volyafilms.com www.volyafilms.com 24 FPS Features Anton Scholten anton@24fpsfeatures.nl

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Promotion Alphapanda

Mathias Noschis, Film Marketing Strategist

Alphapanda is a film marketing agency specialised in digital. Alphapanda develops marketing strategies and implements promotional campaigns, viral marketing activities, crowdfunding campaigns, buzz monitoring projects and outreach campaigns for independent and Hollywood films. The agency’s client list includes distributors and VOD aggregators such as 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Under the Milky Way, EuroVoD, Missing Films and many European production companies.

Alphapanda also manages social media for the European Film Awards.

Recent Titles Porn to be Free — Carmine Amoroso / Something Better to Come — Hanna Polak / Zud — Marta Minorowicz / Orecchie — Alessandro Aronadio / Fado — Jonas Rothlaender/ The Revenant — Alejandro G. Iñárritu / Suicide Squad — David Ayer / Independence Day: Resurgence — Roland Emmerich Contact 10 Bookbinders Ct, 61 Cudworth Str — E1 5QU London (United Kingdom) Tel: +44 7513 042717 / Email: info@alphapanda.com / www.alphapanda.com

everything works everything works is a company based in Zagreb, Croatia. They provide services of designing festival strategy, promotion, sales and distribution of films with focus on the international film festival circuit.

Ivana Ivišić, CEO

Recent titles Song of Songs — Eva Neymann / Belladonna — Dubravka Turić / The Trampoline — Katarina Zrinka Matijević Contact Prisavlje 6 — 10000 Zagreb (Croatia) / Tel: +385 91 1811 002 / Email: ii@everythingworks.hr / www.everythingworks.hr

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Marten Rabarts, Head of EYE International

Nathalie Mierop, Project Coordinator

Lisa Linde Nieveld, Project Coordinator

EYE International EYE International is the department within EYE Film Institute Netherlands dedicated to the international marketing and promotion of Dutch films.

For EYE Film Institute see Funding/Financing/Institutes (page 118).

Contact IJpromenade 1 — 1031 KT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7582375 / Email: international@eyefilm.nl / www.international.eyefilm.nl

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Documentary Drama Youth

NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands T. +31356773561 info@nposales.com

Along the banks of the Yangtze > VPRO Television & De Haaien Fotograaf: Ruben Terlou

Our catalogue is available to screen online at www.nposales.com

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Sales Alma Cinema Alma Cinema is a creative hub where dynamic producers and directors are offered worldwide sales representation, tailor-made executive production and packaging facilities, from financing to international marketing and distribution.

Victoria Fory, Sales & Festivals

Recent titles As You Are - Miles Joris-Peyrafitte / In Between - Maysaloun Hamoud / Panwstreet (Le ultime cose) - Irene Dionisio Contact 77 rue de la fontaine au roi — Paris (France) / Tel: + 33 1 55280316 / Email: victoria@almacinema.com / www.almacinema.com

Celluloid Dreams CELLULOID DREAMS has been at the forefront of international sales, production, and financing of quality independent films for more than 30 years. Its ‘Directors Label’ stands for the discovery and subsequent promotion of a large number of the most important, awarded and respected film directors of our time, the ‘future classics’.

Johanna Nahon, Acquisitions

Recent titles Taxi Tehran – Jafar Panahi / Dheepan — Jacques Audiard / The Eagle Huntress — Otto Bell / Daguerrotype – Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Saint George (São Jorge) — Marco Martins Contact 2 rue Turgot — 75009 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 6002 0183 / Email: acquisition@celluloid-dreams.com / www.celluloid-dreams.com

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Dutch Features Global Entertainment

Laura Talsma, Festivals & Sales Representative

Dutch Features Global Entertainment is a specialized world-sales and licensing company based in the Netherlands, focused on marketing and selling high quality features, family films, thrillers and acclaimed television drama series. Their unrivaled slate includes a unique selection of box office hit films and series realized by some of Europe’s most innovative producers. Dutch Features has established successful working relationships with leading international Media companies such as Studio Hamburg, Netflix, ZDF Enterprises, Pupkin Films, Sony Entertainment, NL Film and television, ZDF television, Constantin Television, Red Bull Media House, Endemol Entertainment, Global Series Network, Betafilm, Topkapi Films, Kochmedia and Bavaria Media. Content Media Corp, MHZ Channel USA and Kaap Holland Film.

Recent titles Tonio — Paula van der Oest / Riphagen — Pieter Kuijpers / Knielen op een bed violen (In My Father’s Garden) — Ben Sombogaart / Publieke werken (A Noble Intention) — Joram Lürsen / De nieuwe wildernis (The New Wilderness) — Mark Verkerk / Spangas (Best Friends, TV-series) / Van God Los (The Godless, TV-series) / If I Were Someone (TV-series) / Smeris (Force, TV-series) / Suspect (TV-series) / Riphagen (TV-series) Contact Hogeweg 56D — 2042 GJ Zandvoort (The Netherlands) Tel: +31 23 888 0168 / Email: sales@dutchfeatures.com / www.dutchfeatures.com

EastWest Filmdistribution

Sasha Wieser, CEO

EastWest Filmdistribution is an independent feature and documentary film sales company, specialised in promotion and sales of high quality European cinematic art.

The company was founded in November 2004 by Sasha Wieser and Steve Walsh who each have over thirty years of experience across all aspects of international film production and distribution. The team operates on an international basis with a strong network of experienced film professionals and is engaged to finding the right markets for each movie. EastWest has a passion for world cinema and a firm belief that the films represented by the team deserve and will find a worldwide audience.

Recent Titles London Payback — Ben Pickering Contact Schottenfeldgasse14 — 1070 Vienna (Austria) Tel: +43 1 524931034 / Email: office@eastwest-distribution.com / www.eastwest-distribution.com

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Films Transit

Jan Röfekamp, Director

Jan Rofekamp operates Films Transit International founded in 1982. Films Transit is one of the longest running and most renowned international sales agencies of quality documentaries. Other activities: executive producer credits in, among others, the films “End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones”, “Imaginary Witness”, “Sugar Coated” and the IDFA Special Jury Award winner Hanna Polak’s “Something Better to Come”. Jan Rofekamp sits on the board of IDFA, EDN and the Greek Film Centre. Over the years he has been consulting and conducting workshops at many important documentary events and festivals, such as IDFA, Hot Docs, Nordisk Panorama, Visions du Réel, East Silver, Thessaloniki Doc Festival and Sunny Side of the Doc, to name a few. He is also Head of Studies at the Documentary Campus Masterschool based in Berlin.

Contact 21 Place Epernay — J6Z4K9 Ville Lorraine, Quebec (Canada) Tel: +1 514 8443358 / Email: office@filmstransit.com / www.filmstransit.com

Gaumont

Christina Douguet, Executive at the Development & Projects Bureau

Gaumont has been one of the main European production companies since 1895.

These past years, it has sped up its activity producing, financing and releasing features both French and English language, from high concept to genre, directors driven, from acclaimed thrillers to powerful stories or comedies.

Gaumont co-produced, distributed in France and internationally the crowd pleaser box office record “Untouchable”.

Gaumont has built up France’s second-ranking film library holding over 1100 titles, which includes the works of prestigious directors such as Luc Besson, Matthieu Kassovitz, Francis Veber, Jean-Jacques Beineix or awarded Federico Fellini, Maurice Pialat or Jean-Luc Godard.

Gaumont joined forces with Pathé to create Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé, managing and expanding Europe’s bigger theatre network.

Also, Gaumont Television, a division of Gaumont, produces and distributes a high-quality programming for the US and international markets.

With offices in Paris, London, and Los Angeles, key series include “Narcos”, “Hannibal”, “Hemlock Grove”, and the upcoming “Viva La Madness”, “Crosshair”, “Spy City”, along with the animated catalogue consisting of “F is for Family” and “Calimero” among many others.

Recent Titles Up for Love — Laurent Tirard / The Boy and the Beast — Mamoru Hosoda / Pattaya — Franck Gastambide Contact 30 Ave. Charles de Gaulle — 92200 Neuilly-sur-seine (France) Tel: +33 1 46 43 20 00 / Email: cdouguet@gaumont.fr / www.gaumont.net / www.gaumont.fr

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Indie Sales

Dario Vecchiato, Sales Agent

In May 2013, veteran sales agent Nicolas Eschbach and producer Eric Névé joined forces to launch INDIE SALES, a new Paris-based international sales and co production company. Their complementary professional backgrounds provide a solid, unique and highly attractive addition to the existing feature film international distribution business.

The company’s line-up consists of 10 films per year, from the widest range possible and with strong commercial potential.

Indie Sales’ aim is to build long-term relationships with well-established directors and producers as well as with a new generation of talent.

Contact 32 rue Washington — 75008 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 014 4830227 / Email: info@indiesales.eu / www.indiesales.eu

KINOLOGY

Gaelle Mareschi, Sales & Acquisitions

Created in 2008 by Grégoire Melin, Paris-based KINOLOGY partners with major producers to handle international sales for ambitious, innovative and prestigious feature films.

KINOLOGY has built up an impressive filmography that includes Jean-Francois Richet’s French hit “Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One” (TIFF 2008), Rodrigo Cortés’ “Buried” starring Ryan Reynolds (Sundance 2010), Juan Solanas’ $50 million-budget “Upside Down”, starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis”, starring Robert Pattinson (Cannes Competition 2012), Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers”, starring James Franco and Selena Gomez, Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Eden” (TIFF 2014), Ana Lily Amirpour’s “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” (Sundance 2014) and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s “Mustang” (Cannes Director’s Fortnight 2015, shortlisted at the 2016 Academy Awards).

KINOLOGY focuses on very few films each year so as to create a unique strategy for each individual title. The slate includes both English and French language films, and budgets ranging from $2 million to $50 million.

Recent Titles Planetarium - Rebecca Zlotowski / Overdrive - Antonio Negret Contact 30 Rue Moret — 75011 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 63032897 / www.kinology.eu

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Latido Films

Javier de la Fuente, Sales Coordination

Latido Films is an international sales agency created to respond to the distribution demand of foreign cinema with special focus on Spain and Latin America. Their philosophy is based on constant and meticulous promotion of their films, being present in the main international markets and festivals. Oscar-winner “El secreto de sus ojos” by Juan José Campanella, Sundance Film Festival winner “Violeta se fue a los cielos” by Andrés Wood and Rome Film Festival winner “Chinese TakeAway” by Sebastian Borensztein are samples of Latido’s quality films.

Recent Titles May God Save Us — Rodrigo Sorogoyen / The Distinguished Citizen — Gaston Duprat, Mariano Cohn / The Constitution — Rajko Grlic / At Your Doorstep — Eduard Cortés Contact Calle Veneras 9, 3º — 28013 Madrid (Spain) / Tel: +34 91 5488877 / Email: latido@latidofilms.com / www.latidofilms.com

Media Luna New Films

Arnaud Menindes, Acquisition

Media Luna New films is an independent world sales company, which represents directors and producers with a handwriting signature on their work. Media Luna offers a broad spectrum of feature length films and documentaries as well as television movies. Ida Martins, the founder of Media Luna-brand name (1991), has been distributing independent films worldwide for over 20 years. Media Luna focuses on international arthouse productions by emerging talents, whose realizations differentiate themselves through their original approach and unique style.

With this line-up, Media Luna intends to reflect the many differences and encounters among the world cultures to highlight the world’s fascinating diversity.

Recent Titles Moos — Job Gosschalk / Little Wing — Selma Vilhunen / King Dave — Daniel Grou / Like Foam — Roberto Perez Toledo / The Family Jumble — Max Nardari / The Moderns — Mauro Sarser and Marcela Matta / The Arrival of Conrado Sierra — René Pereyra Contact Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6th Floor — 50672 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 51091891 / Email: info@medialuna.biz / www.medialuna.biz

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Memento Films International

Nicholas Kaiser, Sales & Acquisitions Executive

Sata Cissokho, Festivals

Memento Films International is a select sales company that tracks and represents high-profile, director driven independent films. The agency commits to only 8 projects a year and offer tailor–made synergies and business expertise through production, financing and International Sales. Memento Films recently worked with renowned and award-winning filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi, Jim Mickle, Cate Shortland, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Gabriel Mascaro, Xavier Giannoli, Bruno Dumont, Malgorzata Szumowska, or Aditya Assarat. Memento’s dynamic team is devoted to promoting the projects with a maximum level of commitment, rather than merely selling. Whether it is high-end arthouse fare with a medium-sized budget or cuttingedge low-budget projects from emerging talents, Memento Films values originality, whether in more traditional narrative forms or from the cinematographic vision of the director.

Recent Titles The Midwife — Martin Provost / Mr. Stein Goes Online — Stéphanie Robelin / All of a Sudden — Asli Özge / Cop Car — Jon Watts / Body — Malgorzata Szumowska / Girl Asleep — Rosemary Myers / James White — Josh Mond / Louder Than Bombs — Joachim Trier Contact 9 Cité Paradis — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 53349020 / Email: sales@memento-films.com / www.memento-films.com

New Europe Film Sales

Ewa Bojanowska, Festival coordinator

Boutique sales company based in Warsaw, working with international content.

Founded in 2010 by Jan Naszewski, EAVE expert and former industry manager for T-Mobile New Horizons IFF. The company’s feature film catalogue includes the Icelandic “Rams” (Prix Un Certain Regard in Cannes in 2015, sold to over 40 countries), “The Here After” (Directors’ Fortnight 2015) as well as 9 Berlinale titles including the 2016 Silver Bear winner “United States of Love” and Generation winners “Violet” and “Mother I Love You”. In 2016 the company represented the Israeli black comedy “One Week and a Day” (Cannes Semaine de la Critique).

Recent Titles The Last Family — Jan P. Matuszynski / Quit Staring at My Plate — Hana Jušić / Zoology — Ivan I. Tverdovskiy / One Week and a Day — Asaph Polonsky / United States of Love — Tomasz Wasilewski / Aloys — Tobias Nölle / The Here After — Magnus von Horn / Rams — Grímur Hákonarson / Bridgend — Jeppe Rønde / Rocks in My Pockets — Signe Baumane / Violet — Bas Devos Contact Czerniakowska 73/79 — 00-718 Warsaw (Poland) /Tel: +48 600 173205 / Email: jan@neweuropefilmsales.com / www.neweuropefilmsales.com

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NPO Sales

Kaisa Kriek, Sales Manager

NPO Sales is the international sales department of the Dutch Public Broadcasting Organisation (NPO) and represents all Dutch public broadcasters and a number of independent producers. NPO Sales sells all media rights of documentaries, dramaseries and youth programmes. Major clients are broadcasters in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. NPO Sales’ full catalogue is available to screen online in their website.

Contact Postbus 26444 — 1202 JJ Hilversum (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 35 6773561 / Email: info@nposales.com / www.nposales.com

Picture Tree International

Rickard Olsson, Acquisition Consultant

Picture Tree International is a world sales and production company with headquarters in Berlin. The core business of the company is worldwide licensing of film rights and the co-production of international feature films in an integrated business model.

Picture Tree International was founded in December 2012 and currently represents up to twelve theatrical feature films per year, ranging from mainstream to arthouse cross-over productions.

Contact Husemannstrasse 7 — 10435 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 420824814 / Email: pti@picturetree-international.com / www.picturetree-international.com

Premium Films Created in 1998 Premium Films is a film sales company based in France and initially specialized in short film distribution. We represent many internationally acclaimed Academy Award and Palme d’Or winning shorts films. Over the last years we expanded the activity to include acting as a sales agent for feature films, unique, daring and engaging productions from all over the world.

Leslie Saussereau, Sales Agent

Recent titles Jesus — Fernando Guzzoni / 6.9 On the Richter Scale — Nae Caranfil / My First Highway — Kevin Meul / Thank You For Bombing — Barbara Eder / Necktie Youth — Sibs Shongwe-La Mer / The Greatest House in the World — Ana V. Bojórquez Contact 6, Rue Desargues — 75011 Paris, (France) Tel: +33 1 42 77 06 39 / Email: contact@premium-films.com / www.premium-films.com

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Stray Dogs Launched in 2015, Stray Dogs is dedicated to bringing edgy, international, director driven films with cult potential to worldwide audiences. Stray Dogs aims to provide the distributors and programmers friends with fresh, interesting, special content, which will appeal to younger audiences and gain value over time.

Nathan Fischer, CEO/Founder

Recent Titles Maudite Poultine — Karl Lemieux / Park — Sophia Exarchou / Psycho Raman — Anurag Kashyap Contact 10 Bis Rue Bisson — 75020 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 71574853 / Email: info@stray-dogs.com / www.stray-dogs.biz

The Match Factory

Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Acquisitions

World Sales company The Match Factory is dedicated to bringing the finest in arthouse cinema to the international market. Since its creation in 2006, The Match Factory has developed into one of the leading world sales companies for arthouse films and has built strong relationships with acclaimed directors and producers, while simultaneously discovering promising new filmmakers with a powerful original style.

Recent titles Albüm — Mehmet Can Mertoğlu / Belgica — Felix van Groeningen / Beyond the Mountains and Hills — Eran Kolirin / Death in Sarajevo — Danis Tanovic / A Dragon Arrives! — Mani Haghighi / Fukushima, Mon Amour — Doris Dörrie / Happy Time Will Come Soon — Alessandro Comodin / Junction 48 — Udi Aloni / Letters From War — Ivo M. Ferrei / Olive Tree — Iciar Bollain / Paula — Christian Schwochow / Peter Handke — Corinna Belz / Soy Nero — Rafi Pitts / Sweet Dreams — Marco Bellocchio / The Untamed — Amat Escalante / Through the Wall — Rama Burshtein / Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade / White Sun — Deepak Rauniyar / Wild — Nicolette Krebitz Contact Balthasarstraße 79–81 — Koeln (Germany) / Tel: +49 0221 5397090 / Email: info@matchfactory.de / www.the-match-factory.com

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WIDE / WIDE HOUSE

Elise Cochin, Sales Agent

Founded by Loïc Magneron, WIDE is a leading independent sales company currently representing more than 20 new feature films a year and a library of more than 500 fiction titles and 300 documentaries represented by the branch WIDE HOUSE. In 2011, Eye On Films (EOF) was created, which is a label focused on promoting first feature films and highlights emerging authors through its unique global network of film professionals. The agency’s catalogue contains a variety of movies from internationally acclaimed directors and a selection of genre/horror and edgy dramas from around the world. In 2015, WIDE launched its Distribution department, with the release of “Bonte Divine” by Vinko Brešan, which was a box-office success in Croatia and internationally distributed in more than 32 countries. In less than a year, already 3 films released in France. Earlier this year (March), WIDE Distribution released in France Youtube star Ina Mihalache’s first feature “Solange et les Vivants”.

Recent Titles The Nature of Things — Laura Viezzoli / The Graduation — Claire Simon / We’ll Be Alright — Alexander Kuznetsov / The Last Resort — Thanos Anastopoulos & Davide del Degan / Les Sauteurs — Abou Bakar Sidibé, Moritz Siebert & Estephan Wagner / Shadow World — Johan Grimonprez Contact 9 rue Bleue — 75002 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 70005646 / Email: ec@widehouse.org / www.widehouse.org

Wild Bunch

Marie-Pierre Vallé, Head of Acquisitions

Wild Bunch is a leading independent European film distribution and financing company that manages a library of more than 1,500 titles. A major player in international sales, the company is developing a pan-European distribution network and is currently active in France in theatrical distribution (Wild Bunch Distribution) and in video and TV distribution (Wild Side Video). Wild Bunch is also committed to direct distribution in Italy (bIM Distributzione), in Germany (Wild Bunch Germany/ Central Film) and in Spain (Vertigo). Wild Bunch has also positioned itself on the market of direct electronic distribution via its French VOD/SVOD platform, FilmoTV. Recent Titles I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach / Kiki, Love to Love — Paco León Contact 65 rue de Dunkerque — 75009 Paris (France) / Tel: +33-1-43132130 / Email: obarbier@wildbunch.eu / www.wildbunch.biz

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Technical facilities Cam-a-lot

Philippe Vié, Owner

Cam-a-lot is a high-end Digital Cinema rental company located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has been active since 1997.

Cam-a-lot strives to offer their clients the best service and the latest and most up-to-date equipment. They have many years of experience facilitating local and international productions.

Their rental catalogue consists of all the latest digital cinema cameras, including the widest selection of new, vintage and anamorphic lenses available in the Netherlands.

Contact Duivendrechtsekade 65 — 1096 AH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6940004 / Email: info@camalot.nl / www.camalot.nl

Filmmore Filmmore is a one-stop shop when it comes to image post-production. Filmmore focuses mainly on feature films and drama series and chooses not to do any commercials. In its 10-year existence they rapidly grew to become the biggest company in the Benelux (also situated in Brussels). Filmmore stands for creativity, quality and service.

Remco Mastwijk, Managing Director

Contact Entrepotdok 66 — 1018 AD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5309696 / Email: info@filmmore.eu / www.filmmore.nl

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Haghefilm Digitaal

Wibo de Groot, Managing Director

Haghefilm Digitaal is a motion picture film laboratory that combines advanced digital audio-visual technique with more than a hundred years of experience in the film industry. Besides traditional filmlab services like negative processing and printing, Haghefilm Digitaal specializes in the analogue restoration and preservation of films, the digitization of film material, digital image processing, colour correction, the production of digital deliverables and audio-visual content versioning for digital cinema and broadcast.

Contact Willem Fenengastraat 39 — 1096 BM Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5685411 / Email: info@haghefilm-digitaal.nl / www.haghefilm-digitaal.nl

Erik Vrolijk, Managing Director

WarnierPosta Warnier Posta and Cinenumerique are award-winning audio post-production facilities in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Antwerp (Belgium). They are specialised in European feature films, TV drama, gaming and film documentaries.

Warnier Posta provides full audio services from picture lock to the final release of your project.

Peter Warnier, Sound Designer

Recent Titles The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos / Belgica — Felix van Groeningen // NFF 2016: Vox Populi — Eddy Terstall / Strike a Pose — Ester Gould / Contact Archangelkade 15a — 1013 BE Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6389192 / Email: info@warnierposta.nl / www.warnierstudio.nl / www.warnierposta.nl

Christan Muiser, Studio Manager

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Training / Education EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen)

Satu Elo, Workshop Manager

European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) is a professional training, project development and networking organisation for audiovisual producers. Working with a worldwide network of partners, EAVE is involved in programmes for producers in Europe, Russia, Latin America, Africa, the Arab world and Asia. Founded in 1988, their objectives are to provide professional training opportunities and to bring producers from different regions of the world together with the aim of facilitating co-production relationships.

Contact 238c, Rue de Luxembourg — 8077 Bertrange (Luxembourg) / Tel: +352 44 52101 / Email: eave@eave.org / www.eave.org

Anita Smit, Head of Production Department

Annemiek van Gorp, Lecturer

Monique Robeerst, Coordinator Production Department

Netherlands Film Academy The Netherlands Film Academy trains students to become prominent national and international creators of media productions for various platforms. The starting point is telling stories in the cinematographic tradition in which creativity, urgency and innovation are the recurring themes. The Film Academy gives students the knowledge and skills they need to master their chosen profession. They make an essential contribution to film culture through ongoing research into the relationship between image and sound and promote a critical and reflective attitude in filmmakers. The programme and its graduates define the face of Dutch film and media culture and make distinctive international contributions to cinematographic innovations. The Film Academy trains visionary professionals to use their creativity and expertise to provide added value on projects that they design in various contexts with other professionals. Through research and reflection, the Film Academy also acts as a think tank and information resource for the sector.

Contact Markenplein 1 — 1011 MV Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5277333 / Email: filmacademie@ahk.nl / www.filmacademie.nl

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Index project pages HFM Co-Pro Platform // BoostNL // Works-in-Progress Titles 26 Bags and Trev Get Dates for the Debs 60 Bootlegger 62 The Bridge 86 Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out 28 Comrade Stalin Saved my Life 64 Dreamscape 30 Illyricvm 32 Imaculat 88 In Blue 66 In the Arms of Morpheus 68 Jade 70 Jessica 34 Love 72 Loveling 36 Molly 90 Mormaço 38 Point Nemo 92 Quality Time 74 Quicksand 40 The Religion of Night Walks 76 The Reports on Sarah and Saleem 42 Sunburned 44 Tangier Stories 78 Tehran, City of Love 80 Totem 46 The Twins 48 The Whale Hunter

Directors 77 Muayad Alayan 92 Daan Bakker 31 Simon Bogojević Narath 45 Fyzal Boulifa 81 Sander Burger 27 Rob Burke 27 Ronan Burke 65 Anna van der Heide 43 Carolina Hellsgård 88 Jaap van Heusden 79 Ali Jaberansari 29 Kamila Kubiak 41 Nikola Ležaić 63 Hala Lotfy 90 Marina Meliande 33 Kenneth Mercken 61 Caroline Monnet 47 Eva Neymann 29 Olivier Patté 73 Gustavo Pizzi 69 Sacha Polak 37 Sally Potter 75 Margot Schaap 67 Marc Schmidt 86 Bert Scholiers 39 José Skaf 71 Ninja Thyberg 35 Maya Vitkova 49 Philipp Yuryev

77 77 43 88 45 29 31 61 73 67 73 61 73 43, 47 75 71 39 47 79 31 47 81 37

Producers Rami Alayan Muayad Alayan Johanna Aust Marc Bary Louise Bellicaud Maria Blicharska Ira Cecić Catherine Chagnon Agustina Chiarino Janneke Doolaard Fernando Epstein Pierre Even Christoph Friedel Nicole Gerhards Ellen Havenith Erik Hemmendorff Pedro Hernández Santos Dariusz Jabłoński Babak Jalali Ankica Jurić Tilić Violetta Kamińska Thanassis Karathanos Kurban Kassam

33 73 73 86 90 41 67, 77 65, 92 89 29 63 49 37 69 47 49 89 81 93 35 27 47 67, 77

Marcian Lazar Tatiana Leite Rodrigo Letier Tomas Leyers Leonardo Mecchi Jelena Mitrović Hanneke Niens Iris Otten Frank van den Passel Nicole Ringhut Mohamed Samir Anna Shalashina Christopher Sheppard Marleen Slot Aleksander Tkachenko Alexey Uchitel Ivy Vanhaecke Denis Vaslin Maarten van der Ven Maya Vitkova John Wallace Izabela Wójcik Hans de Wolf

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Index project pages HFM Co-Pro Platform // BoostNL // Works-in-Progress 68 36 46 38 32 28 26 28 72 88 62 28 90 68 90 40 42 62 78 88 44

Production Companies A Private View (Belgium) Adventure Pictures (UK) Apple Film Production (Poland) Aquí y Allí Films (Spain) Axel Film Echipamente (Romania) Belle Epoque Films (Germany) Black Sheep Productions (Ireland) BLICK Productions (France) Bubbles Project (Brazil) Caviar (Belgium) DayDream Art Production (Egypt) Donten & Lacroix Films (Poland) Duas Mariola Filmes (Brazil) Emu Films (UK) Enquadramento Produções (Brazil) Film House Baš Čelik (Serbia) Flickfilm (Germany) Hassala Production (Egypt) Here & There Productions (UK) IJswater Films (The Netherlands) In Vivo Films (France)

66 77 30 78 60 86 72 42 88 76 80 72 70 74 64, 92 48 68 72 68, 78 34 80

KeyDocs (The Netherlands) KeyFilm (The Netherlands) Kinorama (Croatia) Mandra Films (France) MICROCLIMAT FILMS (Canada) Minds Meet (Belgium) Mutante Cine (Brazil) NiKo Film (Germany) NTR (The Netherlands) PalCine Productions (Palestine) Pallas Film (Germany) Pandora Films Plattform Produktion (Sweden) PRPL (The Netherlands) Pupkin (The Netherlands) Rock Films (Russia) Savage Productions (Ireland) Tv Zero (Brazil) Viking Film (The Netherlands) Viktoria Films (Bulgaria) Volya Films (The Netherlands)

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Index Company Profiles By activity 97 97 98 98 99 99 100 100 101

Consultancy advancefilms Angeli Macfarlane BaseWorx for Film Henneman Agency Lucile Hadzihalilovic Nelleke Driessen solace23 Tobias Pausinger

102 102 102 103 103 103 104

Distributors / VOD ABC/Cinemien Cinéart Contact Film Curzon Cinemas Featurette Fidalgo Film Distribution Imagine Film Distribution Lumière MUBI Paradiso Filmed Entertainment Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih September Film Distribution

104 104 105 105 105 106

108 Festivals / Markets 108 Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin) 108 Cinekid 108 Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 109 Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival 109 Dubai International Film Festival 109 FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) 110 Frankfurt Book Fair 110 Göteborg International Film Festival 111 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 111 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 112 La Biennale di Venezia 112 Meetings on the Bridge (Istanbul Film Festival) 113 Sarajevo Film Festival (CineLink) 113 Sundance Institute 114 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

116 Funding / Financing / Institutes 116 Casa Kafka Pictures 116 City of Utrecht / Film Commission Utrecht 117 CoBO 117 Creative Europe Desk NL / DutchCulture 117 Eurimages 118 EYE Film Institute 118 Film Bridge Capital 119 Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) 119 German Federal Film Board (FFA) 120 Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg 120 Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung 121 Netherlands Film Fund 122 Insurance / Legal Facilities 122 No Risk On Set 122 Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten 124 Press 124 Cineuropa.org 124 Filmecho / Filmwoche 124 Screen International

126 126 126 127 127 128 128 129 129 130 130 131 131 132 132 133 133 134 134 135 135 136 136 137 137 138 138 138 139 139 140 140 141 141 142 142

Production A Private View Adventure Pictures Apple Film Production Aquí y Allí Films Arsam Productions Axel Film Echipamente Backup Media Group BALDR Film Belle Epoque Films Beofilm BIND Black Sheep Productions BLICK Productions BosBros Bubbles Project Chinese Shadows Ciné Cri de Coeur Circe Films Coin Film COLOR OF MAY CTM Pictures Damned Films DayDream Art Production De Productie Dutch Mountain Film Earlybirds Films Endorphine Production Enquadramento Produções Entre Chien et Loup Family Affair Films Film House Baš Čelik Fu Works Gloria Films Halal Here and There Productions

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Index Company Profiles By activity 142 Hob AB 143 House of Netherhorror 143 IGC Films 144 IJswater Films 145 in between film 145 In Vivo Film 146 Kaap Holland Film 146 Kaliber Film 147 Keplerfilm 147 Keren Cogan Films 148 KeyDocs 148 KeyFilm 149 KinoElektron 149 Kinomind Films 150 Kinorama 150 Kwassa Films 151 Le Bureau 151 Lemming Film 152 Les Contes Modernes 152 Little House Productions 153 Man’s Films Productions 153 Maneki Films / Full House 154 MICROCLIMAT FILMS 154 Millstreet Films 155 Minds Meet 155 MÔMERADE 156 Mulholland Pictures 156 N279 Entertainment 157 Need Productions 157 NiKo Film 158 Nukleus Film 158 OAK Motion Pictures 159 PalCine Productions 159 Pandora Film Produktion 160 Plattform Produktion 160 pngpictures 161 PRPL

161 162 162 162 163 163 163 164 164 165 165 166 166 167 167 168 168 169 169 170 170 171 171 172 172

Pupkin Revolver Amsterdam Rinkel Film Rock Film Rohfilm Productions Roka Film (Durak Film) Rotterdam Films Samsa Film SCOPE Invest Senorita Films Sluizer Film Productions Smarthouse Films SNG Film Still Moving Submarine Film The Film Kitchen Topkapi Films Tuffi Films Twenty Twenty Vision VENFILM Viking Film Viktoria Films Volya Films Windmill Film Zilvermeer Productions

174 174 174 175

Promotion Alphapanda everything works EYE International

177 177 177 178

Sales Alma Cinema Celluloid Dreams Dutch Features Global Entertainment EastWest Filmdistribution Films Transit Gaumont Indie Sales KINOLOGY Latido Films Media Luna New Films Memento Films International New Europe Film Sales NPO Sales Picture Tree International Premium Films Stray Dogs The Match Factory WIDE / WIDE HOUSE Wild Bunch

178 179 179 180 180 181 181 182 182 183 183 183 184 184 185 185

186 186 186 187 187

Technical facilities Cam-a-lot Filmmore Haghefilm Digitaal WarnierPosta

189 Training / Education 189 EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen) 189 Netherlands Film Academy

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Index Company Profiles By company A Private View ABC/Cinemien advancefilms Adventure Pictures Alma Cinema Alphapanda Angeli Macfarlane Apple Film Production 127 Aquí y Allí Films 128 Arsam Productions 128 Axel Film Echipamente 126 102 97 126 177 174 98 127

129 129 98 130 130 108

131 131 132 132 133

Backup Media Group BALDR Film BaseWorx for Film Belle Epoque Films Beofilm Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin) BIND Black Sheep Productions BLICK Productions BosBros Bubbles Project

Cam-a-lot Casa Kafka Pictures Celluloid Dreams Chinese Shadows Ciné Cri de Coeur Cinéart Cinekid Cineuropa.org Circe Films City of Utrecht / Film Commission Utrecht 117 CoBO 135 Coin Film

186 116 177 133 134 102 108 124 134 116

135 COLOR OF MAY 103 Contact Film 117 Creative Europe Desk NL / DutchCulture 136 CTM Pictures 103 Curzon Cinemas 136 Damned Films 137 DayDream Art Production 137 De Productie 108 Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 109 Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival 109 Dubai International Film Festival 178 Dutch Features Global Entertainment 138 Dutch Mountain Film 138 Earlybirds Films 178 EastWest Filmdistribution 189 EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen) 138 Endorphine Production 139 Enquadramento Produções 139 Entre Chien et Loup 117 Eurimages 174 everything works 118 EYE Film Institute 175 EYE International

140 Family Affair Films 103 Featurette 104 Fidalgo Film Distribution 118 Film Bridge Capital 140 Film House Baš Čelik 119 Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) 124 Filmecho / Filmwoche 186 Filmmore 179 Films Transit 109 FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) 110 Frankfurt Book Fair 141 Fu Works 179 Gaumont 119 German Federal Film Board (FFA) 141 Gloria Films 110 Göteborg International Film Festival

111 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 111 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 146 146 147 147 148 148 149 180 149 150 150

Kaap Holland Film Kaliber Film Keplerfilm Keren Cogan Films KeyDocs KeyFilm KinoElektron KINOLOGY Kinomind Films Kinorama Kwassa Films

187 142 99 142

112 La Biennale di Venezia 181 Latido Films 151 Le Bureau 151 Lemming Film 152 Les Contes Modernes 152 Little House Productions 99 Lucile Hadzihalilovic 104 Lumière

143 IGC Films 144 IJswater Films 104 Imagine Film Distribution 145 in between film 145 In Vivo Film 180 Indie Sales

153 Maneki Films / Full House 153 Man’s Films Productions 181 Media Luna New Films 120 Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg 112 Meetings on the Bridge / Istanbul Film Festival

Haghefilm Digitaal Halal Henneman Agency Here and There Productions 142 Hob AB 143 House of Netherhorror

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Index Company Profiles By company 182 Memento Films International 154 MICROCLIMAT FILMS 154 Millstreet Films 155 Minds Meet 120 Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung 155 MÔMERADE 105 MUBI 156 Mulholland Pictures 156 157 100 189 121 182 157 122 183 158

N279 Entertainment Need Productions Nelleke Driessen Netherlands Film Academy Netherlands Film Fund New Europe Film Sales NiKo Film No Risk On Set NPO Sales Nukleus Film

158 OAK Motion Pictures 159 PalCine Productions 159 Pandora Film Produktion 105 Paradiso Filmed Entertainment 183 Picture Tree International 160 Plattform Produktion 160 pngpictures 183 Premium Films 161 PRPL 161 Pupkin 162 Revolver Amsterdam 162 Rinkel Film 162 Rock Film

163 Rohfilm Productions 163 Roka Film (Durak Film) 163 Rotterdam Films 164 Samsa Film 113 Sarajevo Film Festival (CineLink) 105 Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih 164 SCOPE Invest 124 Screen International 165 Senorita Films 106 September Film Distribution 165 Sluizer Film Productions 166 Smarthouse Films 166 SNG Film 100 solace23 167 Still Moving 184 Stray Dogs 167 Submarine Film 113 Sundance Institute The Film Kitchen The Match Factory Tobias Pausinger Topkapi Films Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 169 Tuffi Films 169 Twenty Twenty Vision

168 184 101 168 114

170 VENFILM 122 Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten 170 Viking Film 171 Viktoria Films 171 Volya Films

187 185 185 172 172

WarnierPosta WIDE / WIDE HOUSE Wild Bunch Windmill Film Zilvermeer Productions

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Index Company Profiles By country Austria 178 EastWest Filmdistribution

126 116 134 124 138 139 150 153 155 157 164

Belgium A Private View Casa Kafka Pictures Ciné Cri de Coeur Cineuropa.org Earlybirds Films Entre Chien et Loup Kwassa Films Man’s Films Productions Minds Meet Need Productions SCOPE Invest

Bosnia and Herzegovina 113 Sarajevo Film Festival / CineLink Brazil 133 Bubbles Project 139 Enquadramento Produções 160 pngpictures Bulgaria 171 Viktoria Films Canada 179 Films Transit 154 MICROCLIMAT FILMS 114 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Croatia 174 everything works 150 Kinorama 158 Nukleus Film

Denmark 130 Beofilm

153 Maneki Films / Full House

Hong Kong 133 Chinese Shadows

Egypt 137 DayDream Art Production

Germany 130 Belle Epoque Films 108 Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin) 135 Coin Film 135 COLOR OF MAY 109 Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival 138 Endorphine Production 103 Featurette 124 Filmecho / Filmwoche 110 Frankfurt Book Fair 119 German Federal Film Board (FFA) 143 IGC Films 145 in between film 181 Media Luna New Films 120 Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg 120 Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung 157 NiKo Film 159 Pandora Film Produktion 183 Picture Tree International 163 Rohfilm Productions 105 Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih 100 solace23 184 The Match Factory 101 Tobias Pausinger 169 Twenty Twenty Vision

Ireland 131 Black Sheep Productions

Finland 169 Tuffi Films

177 128 129 132 177 136 108 117 109

179 141 145 180 149 180 151 152 99 182 155 183 165 167 184 185 185

France Alma Cinema Arsam Productions Backup Media Group BLICK Productions Celluloid Dreams Damned Films Directors’ Fortnight Cannes Eurimages FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) Gaumont Gloria Films In Vivo Film Indie Sales KinoElektron KINOLOGY Le Bureau Les Contes Modernes Lucile Hadzihalilovic Memento Films International MÔMERADE Premium Films Senorita Films Still Moving Stray Dogs WIDE / WIDE HOUSE Wild Bunch

Italy 112 La Biennale di Venezia Lithuania 149 Kinomind Films Luxembourg 189 EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen) 164 Samsa Film

102 129 98 131 132 186 102 108 134 116 117 103 117 136 137 178 138 118

The Netherlands ABC/Cinemien BALDR Film BaseWorx for Film BIND BosBros Cam-a-lot Cinéart Cinekid Circe Films City of Utrecht / Film Commission Utrecht CoBO Contact Film Creative Europe Desk NL / DutchCulture CTM Pictures De Productie Dutch Features Global Entertainment Dutch Mountain Film EYE Film Institute

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Index Company Profiles By country 175 140 118 119 186 141 187 142 99 143 144 104 111

111

146 146 147 147 148 148 151 104 154 156 156 100 189 121 122 183 158 105

EYE International Family Affair Films Film Bridge Capital Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) Filmmore Fu Works Haghefilm Digitaal Halal Henneman Agency House of Netherhorror IJswater Films Imagine Film Distribution International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) Kaap Holland Film Kaliber Film Keplerfilm Keren Cogan Films KeyDocs KeyFilm Lemming Film Lumière Millstreet Films Mulholland Pictures N279 Entertainment Nelleke Driessen Netherlands Film Academy Netherlands Film Fund No Risk On Set NPO Sales OAK Motion Pictures Paradiso Filmed Entertainment

161 161 162 162 163 106 165 166 166 167 168 168 170 122 170 171 187 172 172

PRPL Pupkin Revolver Amsterdam Rinkel Film Rotterdam Films September Film Distribution Sluizer Film Productions Smarthouse Films SNG Film Submarine Film The Film Kitchen Topkapi Films VENFILM Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten Viking Film Volya Films WarnierPosta Windmill Film Zilvermeer Productions

Norway 104 Fidalgo Film Distribution Palestine 159 PalCine Productions Poland 127 Apple Film Production 182 New Europe Film Sales Romania 128 Axel Film Echipamente Russia 162 Rock Film

Serbia 140 Film House Baš Čelik Spain 127 Aquí y Allí Films 181 Latido Films Sweden 110 Göteborg International Film Festival 142 Hob AB 160 Plattform Produktion Turkey 112 Meetings on the Bridge / Istanbul Film Festival 163 Roka Film (Durak Film) United Arab Emirates 109 Dubai International Film Festival United Kingdom advancefilms Adventure Pictures Alphapanda Angeli Macfarlane Curzon Cinemas Here and There Productions 152 Little House Productions 124 Screen International

97 126 174 98 103 142

USA 105 MUBI 113 Sundance Institute

198 HFM Guide 2016 — Index

Index Company Profiles By person 118 106 159 159 105 121 129 184 104 144 143 167 145 114 112 103 111 108 132 164 168 135 138 150 182 154 121 132 134 145 168 149 161 171

Abram, Ido Aert, Jan van Alayan, Muayad Alayan, Rami Allen, Bobby Arnhem, André van Babin, Jean-Baptiste Bánkuti, Zsuzsi Bannenberg, Esther Bary, Marc Behesht Nedjad, Roshanak Beker, Jeroen Bellicaud, Louise Benkara, Hayet Bertolin, Paolo Beswick, Claire Beyer, Bero Bildhauer, Kathi Blicharska, Maria Block, Stijn de Bloemen, Marijn Blondiau, Eva Boekelman, Wilant Bogojević Narath, Simon Bojanowska, Ewa Bommel, Rachel van Boonekamp, Doreen Bos, Burny Bosklopper, Stienette Boulifa, Fyzal Bouma, Ger Budreckyete, Gabija Burg, Nathalie van der Burger, Sander

117 Cadoux, Anne-Iris 150 Cecić, Ira 154 Chagnon, Catherine

111 182 185 147 136

Chronis, Iwana Cissokho, Sata Cochin, Elise Cogan Galjé, Keren Cornu, Yohann

165 116 146 121 143 121 179 163 121 100 121

Dagher, Rita Dam, Gertrud van Dehzad, Aydin Delvoie, Dany Doense, Jan Doorn, José van Douguet, Christina Drechsel, Benny Driessen, Ellis Driessen, Nelleke Driessen-Bussink, Peggy 151 Dumon, Gabrielle 163 Durak, Filiz

110 139 189 111

118 Grover, David 166 Guirguis, Daniëlle 119 99 117 118 153 152 161 146 161 124 118 116 172 157 160 127

Haar, Marjan van der Hadzihalilovic, Lucile Hage, Jeanine Hamer, Sandra den Hänsel, Marion Hasan, Uzma Havenith, Ellen Hees, Judith Heide, Anna van der Heidsiek, Birgit Heijde, Edith van der Heijnen, Marlou Hell, Annemiek van der Hellsgård, Carolina Hemmendorf, Erik Hernández Santos, Pedro Heusden, Jaap van Heyde, Ruud van der Hoefert de Turégano, Teresa Hoeve, Frank Hoogenbos, Ronald Hyldahl, Peter

Edström, Cia Elbaum, Diana Elo, Satu Elshout, Marit van den 109 Essenberger, Christina

144 172 120

167 184 177 181

Felix, Bruno Fischer, Nathan Fory, Victoria Fuente, Javier de la

174 Ivišić, Ivana

157 128 133 151 159 134 137 189 187

Gerhards, Nicole Girard, Ilann Glachant, Isabelle Glijnis, Erik Goebel, Raimond Goeij, Jacqueline de Goossens, René Gorp, Annemiek van Groot, Wibo de

129 122 130

142 127 142 148 119 156 102 158

Jaberansari, Ali Jablonski, Dariusz Jalali, Babak Jalvingh, Harmen Jones, Nicola Jong, Ate de Jong, Janneke de Juričić, Siniša

162 Kaaij, Raymond van der 182 Kaiser, Nicholas

155 168 162 169 126 142 105 135 171 149 183 110 161

Kalmar, Lucie Kanters, Ineke Karatay, Ibo Karathanos, Thanassis Kassam, Kurban Kerbosch, Gijs Keuthen, Matthias Kiauk, Christine Knopperts, Fleur Kralj, Janja Kriek, Kaisa Kuehne, Jenny Kuijpers, Pieter

98 141 128 133 155 140 105 111 137

Landsberger, Claudia Lavolé, Laurent Lazar, Marcian Leite, Tatiana Leyers, Tomas Ležaić, Nikola Lille, Dirk de Loocke, Inke van Lotfy, Hala

98 124 164 141 180 113 153 138 186 103 139 139 167 181 128 175 118 140

Macfarlane, Angeli Macnab, Geoffrey Maia, Marilyne Maltha, San Fu Mareschi, Gaelle Marjanović, Jovan Marnette, Monique Massah, Fabian Mastwijk, Remco Matits, Aranka Mecchi, Leonardo Meliande, Marina Menahem, Pierre Menindes, Arnaud Mercken, Kenneth Mierop, Nathalie Miller, Paul Mitrović, Jelena

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Index Company Profiles By person 116 154 103 187

Molhant, Isabelle Monnet, Caroline Muijs, Nick Muiser, Christan

145 177 113 147 127 152 150 104 148 111

Nagel, Sarah Nahon, Johanna Nein, John Nelissen, Koji Neymann, Eva Nezan, Patrice Nezri, Annabella Nguyen, Vi Niens, Hanneke Nieuwenhuyzen, Adriek van 175 Nieveld, Lisa Linde 174 Noschis, Mathias

110 183 140 161

Olsson, Freddy Olsson, Rickard Onrust, Floor Otten, Iris

101 121 126 124 108 170 97 117

Pausinger, Tobias Peijnenburg, Frank Phlypo, Dries Pinto, Vitor Poelsma, Nienke Polak, Sacha Pope, David Posthuma, Andrea

175 121 108 163 130 189 179 153

Rabarts, Marten Ree, Bas van der Reymond, Laurence Rijneke, Dirk Ringhut, Nicole Robeerst, Monique Röfekamp, Jan Rohan Chabot, Lucie de 100 Roy, Françoise von

144 Rubinstein Malamud, Steven 160 137 183 109 161 168 120 148 155 113 162 166 127 170 165 189 122 157 104 154 146

Sacilotto, Tathiani Samir, Mohamed Saussereau, Leslie Sauvagnargues, François Schaap, Margot Schillings, Laurette Schmidt, Manfred Schmidt, Marc Scholiers, Bert Sesic, Rada Shalashina, Anna Sinke, Digna Skaf, José Slot, Marleen Sluizer, Anouk Smit, Anita Sprey, Jetse Sprimont, Géraldine Stavik, Frank L. Swaan, Suzan de Swart, Maarten

111 178 164 160 169 158

Taal, Bianca Talsma, Laura Thiltges, Jani Thyberg, Ninja Toivoniemi, Elli Trent

112 Üstün, Gülin 185 156 171 180 170 186 171

Vallé, Marie-Pierre Vandevorst, Els Vaslin, Denis Vecchiato, Dario Ven, Maarten van der Vié, Philippe Vitkova, Maya

99 Vloed, Jacobine van der 121 Voorham, Anita 187 Vrolijk, Erik 131 187 147 145 178 136 122 102 109 131 138 151 127 148

Wallace, John Warnier, Peter Warrink, Derk-Jan Wiegand, Isabell Wieser, Sasha Wigman, Marijn Wigman, Roland Wijntjes, Babette Williams, Jane Willink, Joram Willocx, Jurgen Winters, Fleur Wójcik, Izabela Wolf, Hans de

142 Yousefi, Nima 162 Yuryev, Philipp 168 Zanden, Jan van der 110 Zeilich-Jensen, Signe

200  HFM Guide 2016

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