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General information Partners and sponsors Credits and acknowledgements Foreword Who’s who Programme Programme - Panel Discussion Programme - Think Tank Programme - Stories & Beyond Talents on 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 Citizen B (Finland) The Gendarme (Romania) The Grave Digger (Finland) If the Light Takes Us (Denmark) Labour Day (Serbia) Life after Zoro (Belgium) Las niñas (Spain) Rum Doxy Diver (UK) Snow and the Bear (Turkey) The Whole-Timers (France/Nepal) Wild Summer (Iceland) Previously at the HFM Co-Pro Platform

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BoostNL Content Introduction

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Project selection Baby (Brazil) Beyond the Blue Bridge (The Netherlands) The Hague Hilton (The Netherlands) Life on Mars (working title) (The Netherlands) Nasir (India)

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The Stranger (China) La vaca que cantó una canción sobre el futuro (Chile)

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HFM Work-in-Progress Content Introduction

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Project selection La cama (Argentina) - Also in BoostNL The Champion (Italy) Light as Feathers (The Netherlands) Magnetic Pathways (Portugal) Nocturne (The Netherlands) — Also in BoostNL Der Unschuldige (Switzerland) — Also in BoostNL Previously at the HFM Work-in-Progress Session

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Company profiles Consultancy Distributors / VOD Festivals / Markets Funding / Financing / Institutes Insurance / Legal facilities Other Film Professionals Press Production Promotion Sales Technical facilities Training / Education TV-acquisitions

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Indexes Index project pages

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Index company profiles Index by activity Index by company Index by person Index by country

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HFM Partners and Sponsors The Holland Film Meeting 2017 takes place in cooperation with: Main sponsors

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

Thank you very much!

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Credits and acknowledgements 2017 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

Director Netherlands Film Festival Hein Barnhoorn Head of Holland Film Meeting Vanja Kaludjercic Producer Industry/ Holland Film Meeting Rianne Poodt Coordinator HFM Co-Pro Platform/ BoostNL Emmy Sidiras Technician HFM Mike B Guest Department Valentina Schreuder (Coord.)

Lisanne Heiligers Frederique Nijman Editor / Copywriter Nick Cunningham Digital Film Library/ Production Eline van Lint

Prep-Day Ido Abram Stories & Beyond Ellis Driessen

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

BoostNL Programme Vanja Kaludjercic (Head of Industry/HFM) Bero Beyer (Director International Film Festival Rotterdam — IFFR) Marit van den Elshout (Head of IFFR PRO) Inke Van Loocke (CineMart/Rotterdam Lab Coord.)

Bianca Taal (Programmer/Head of Talent Development) Emmy Sidiras (HFM/BoostNL Coord.)

Talents en Route programme Derk-Jan Warrink (Keplerfilm)

Design HFM Guide 2017 NJI3 (Tessa Bachrach Krištofić, Dina Milovčić and Franka Tretinjak)

Be Dramatic!

The New Wave of European Series Léo Soesanto (Programmer)

Printing HFM Guide 2017 Veenman+

Netherlands Film Festival Holland Film Meeting PO Box 1581 3500 BN Utrecht The Netherlands +31 30 2303800 hfmcopro@filmfestival.nl www.filmfestival.nl

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Foreword Dear Friends, It is a great honour to celebrate Holland Film Meeting’s 30th birthday with you, our friends and colleagues in the film sector. We are proud and delighted that over the past decades we have helped launch countless projects on the path towards success, whether in terms of awards at the leading ‘A’ festivals or at the local and international boxoffice. Films such as Marion Hänsel’s Upstream and Tenderness, Paula van der Oest’s Tonio, Michael R. Rosskam’s Bullhead, Eisenstein in Guanajuato by Peter Greenaway, Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion and Marleen Jonkman’s recent TIFF selection Maud and Messi barely scratch the surface as we seek to indicate HFM’s effectiveness over this period.

Last year saw a series of discussions about the core role of the co-production markets within the film development and production process. Consequently We are more convinced than ever that our most important role is a nurturing one. A co-production market is quite often the first point of contact for producers whose new projects are generally at a very fragile stage, and it is essential that we give them the space, the support and the encouragement they need to develop them into sophisticated, complex and entertaining filmworks, especially in these uncertain financial times.

HFM has evolved over the years as we updated and reshaped its format, introducing vital new initiatives such as BoostNL and Talents en Route. But our major focus has always been on the nurturing, development and co-production of brilliant new cinema. Our 30th edition is therefore built on firm foundations, and we are delighted to announce that eleven new ambitious, challenging and highly creative projects have been selected for the 2017 Holland Film Meeting Co-Pro Platform. This year’s line-up includes projects from Finland, UK, Denmark, Iceland, France, Serbia, Romania, Belgium, Turkey and Spain.

The eleven Platform titles join the seven Dutch and international projects in development, and three Works-in-Progress, already selected for the BoostNL programme, organised in collaboration with IFFR’s CineMart. In addition to this we also added three works-in-progress to our line-up.

We are proud of all the great projects that have stopped at our Platform over the years, as well as the filmmakers who brought them to realisation. And we are equally grateful to our partners and all the members of the HFM team, past and present, who have helped us reach this significant milestone.

Happy birthday HFM! Hein Barnhoorn, Director Netherlands Film Festival Vanja Kaludjercic, Head of Industry/Holland Film Meeting

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Who’s who Holland Film Meeting Team

Vanja Kaludjercic Head of Industry/ Holland Film Meeting

Rianne Poodt Producer Industry/ Holland Film Meeting

Emmy Sidiras Coordinator HFM Co-Pro Platform/ BoostNL

Valentina Schreuder Coordinator Guest Department

Lisanne Heiligers Guest Department

Frederique Nijman Assistant Guest Department

Eline van Lint Digital Film Library / Production

Maaike Allard Meeting Coordinator

Uzma Hasan Coordinator Panel Discussion/Consultant

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

Fay Breeman Coordinator Hubert Bals Fund

Talents en Route Programme

Bianca Lucas BoostNL / Work-in-Progress

Derk-Jan Warrink Tutor/Mentor

Moderators / Advisors

Ido Abram Moderator HFM Co-Pro & BoostNL

Marten Rabarts Moderator HFM WiP Session

Ellis Driessen Coordinator Stories & Beyond

Inke Van Loocke Coordinator CineMart / Rotterdam Lab

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Programme From September 24–27 2017, Utrecht will once again be the key networking station for the financing of quality independent film. The 30th 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 three-day-event, comprising the well-established HFM Co-Pro Platform and the Work-in-Progress session, is host to the second edition of the BoostNL programme, organised in collaboration with CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam). In total 24 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 we present you a selection of this HFM edition’s main events.

Sunday, September 24 9:30 – 10:00h Coffee Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (SSBU) — Zindering 10:00 – 19:00h Digital Film Library Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (SSBU) — Basement Area 10:00 – 12:30h Be Dramatic!

Stadsschouwburg (SSBU) — Blauwe Zaal For the third year, the Netherlands Film Festival is organising the Be Dramatic professional meeting, devoted entirely to the current state of play within contemporary European drama.

The focus this year is on the co-production of international drama series involving a Dutch creative team. Together with Holland Film Meeting and NFF, festival programmer Léo Soesanto will introduce a number of relevant case studies, presented by their respective Dutch creative teams. After the presentation of the case studies the discussion will widen up to include all the creative teams and the professionals in the audience.

10:00 – 13:00h / 14:00 – 17:00h HFM Projects Preparation Day Stadsschouwburg (SSBU) — Hekman Foyer Prior to their presentation of projects, participating filmmakers and producers will attend a preparation programme consisting of a Pitching Coaching session.

Moderator: Ido Abram (Deputy Director at EYE Film Institute) 13:00 – 14:00h Lunch Stadsschouwburg (SSBU) — Zindering By invitation only 14:00 – 17:00h Stories & Beyond Stadsschouwburg (SSBU) — Zindering The (closed) event Stories & Beyond offers a platform to six Dutch and six German screenwriters to get professional feedback on their project.

In one-on-one meetings the writers (in some cases accompanied by their directors) will meet with key industry figures from respectively the German and Dutch film industry. These professionals will contribute with their specific expertise and discipline.

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with regards to relevancy, strength, weaknesses and international aspects of the story. The focus is on gaining professional feedback in an open and safe environment and whether or not certain stories would work in Germany, the Netherlands and beyond.

Closed session

18:30 – 22:00h HFM Opening Drinks and Buffet Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (SSBU) — Zindering Hosted by the Netherlands Film Fund & FPN All participants gather to attend the official opening of 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 programme: producers Loes Komen and Randy Vermeulen, and directors Shady El Hamus and Thessa Meijer. Read more about our Young Talents on page 17.

By invitation only

Monday, September 25 9:00 – 9:30h Coffee SSBU — Blauwe Zaal Foyer 9:30 – 12:30h HFM Project Presentations SSBU — Blauwe Zaal During the Holland Film meeting a total of 18 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 tutoring sessions (BoostNL).

Moderator: Ido Abram (Deputy Director at EYE Film Institute) 10:00 – 19:00h Digital Film Library SSBU — Basement Area 12.30 – 13.30h Networking Lunch SSBU — Zindering Hosted by Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten By invitation only 13:30 – 17:00h HFM Co-Pro Individual Meetings SSBU — Hekman Foyer The representatives of the selected projects in development get the opportunity to have short meetings of 25-minute duration with different film professionals and financiers in order to discuss potential collaborations.

13:30 – 17:00h Work-in-Progress Feedback Session SSBU — Private Dining / Foundersroom 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 14:00 – 17:00h BoostNL Expert Sessions SSBU — Zindering Closed Session 14:30 – 17:00h ACE Producers Think Tank Boothstraat — Bovenkamer The challenge of co-producing with European partners in a commercial context, in combination with required spending obligations from various European territories on co-productions.

Closed Session 17:00 – 18:30h Afternoon Drinks SSBU — Zindering Hosted by NBF 18:30 – 22:00h HFM Food & Drinks Venue Hosted by Redline & Filmdoc Post-Production By invitation only

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Tuesday, September 26 9:00 - 9:30h Coffee SSBU — Blauwe Zaal Foyer 9:30 – 11:45h HFM Work-in-Progress Presentations SSBU — Blauwe Zaal Excellent commercial and non-commercial distribution strategies have become more essential than ever, and they should be defined (and refined) long before the premiere 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 hand out a prize to the most promising Work-in-Progress project.

Moderator: Marten Rabarts (Head of EYE International) 9:30 – 13:30h / 14:30 – 17:00h BoostNL Experts Sessions SSBU — Zindering 9:30 – 13:30h HFM Co-Pro Individual Meetings SSBU — Hekman Foyer 10:00 – 19:00h Digital Film Library SSBU — Basement Area 11:00 – 17:00h Work-in-Progress Feedback Session SSBU — Private Dining / Foundersroom Closed Session

12:00 – 13:30h The Changing Nature and Role of Sales Companies Panel discussion SSBU — Blauwe Zaal See page 13 for more information.

13:30 – 14:30h Networking Lunch SSBU — Zindering Hosted by City of Utrecht & Film Commission Utrecht By invitation only 14:30 – 17:00h HFM Co-Pro Individual Meetings SSBU — Hekman Foyer 14:30 – 16:30h BoostNL Experts Sessions SSBU — Zindering 16:30 – 17:00h BoostNL Closing Session SSBU — Zindering 17:00 – 18:30h Co-Production Drinks with the Dutch Vinnies Bar — Opposite SSBU Hosted by FPN 21:00 – 02:00h HFM Closing Party & Awards Ceremony Museum Speelklok Hosted by EYE, Netherlands Film Fund & Netherlands Film Commission By invitation only

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The Changing Nature and Role of Sales Companies Panel discussion Tuesday, 26 September 12:00 – 13:30h Blauwe Zaal, Stadsschouwburg Much has been made of new disruptors entering the film exploitation ecosystem — but although Netflix and Amazon Studios are critical components, they are just one aspect of a rapidly evolving landscape. Sales agents are under increased pressure to innovate in order to remain relevant. Many are looking to convert rapid change into opportunity as audience demographics, tastes and content consumption habits continue to evolve.

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the upset caused

by Netflix original Okja provided a stark example of the way in which all rights streaming deals are pushing up against the strict media chronology in France. Thierry Fremaux bowed to pressure and imposed a blanket ruling that insists on theatrical release in France for any potential Cannes title. Which begs the question: is a film distributed without a theatrical release in mind really a film at all?

In 2016, 25% of the VoD films available in Europe1 were European films — a healthy number that is set to increase. So with viewing habits changing in Europe, are sales agents now competing with the comforts of our own homes? With forty sales companies working out of France alone — how long can a rigid theatrical system survive?

Issues to be discussed: Diversifying revenue streams Current trends point towards consumer rather than content being king. As FilmNation moves into both TV and VR — do different mediums offer an opportunity for sales agents to reach out to a wider customer base?

1 European Audiovisual Observatory report, June 2017.

Getting involved earlier Companies such as Independent and Bankside have long used development money to lure the best talent and projects — acting as defacto EPs. Building the package from early stages of development naturally leads to a more active role in producing. Are sales agents moving from being a supplier of films to supplying their own films?

Relationships with producers Crafting a more robust and market ready package means having to encroach on the producer’s territory — at a minimum, a script must have a director and some cast attached these days and the trend is towards indies containing not one but several recognisable stars. What tensions are emerging from these market demands?

VoD Using the growth of VoD to score advantages rather than just waiting for a global sale means growing the pool of talent, creating new stars, having to create a bespoke deal for each territory and prevent the need for unstitching if a big platform comes in.

Theatrical model Is its survival crucial to the sales agents business? The Amazon model uses the best local theatrical distributors to maximise the market.

If pan-European buyers work more closely to release the film within a short timeframe, digital platform windows can also be more easily exploited.

This panel takes as its starting point the current state of the international sales market in Europe and aims to discuss how sales agents and producers can reimagine their businesses to stay relevant.

By Uzma Hasan, Little House Productions Speakers include: Tanja Meissner (Memento Films International), Vanessa Saal (Protagonist), Jason Ishikawa (Cinetic); Moderated by Uzma Hasan

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ACE Producers Think Tank Discussion How can a “European brand” of cinema be cultivated to survive and thrive in current markets: Practical and Ideological considerations Monday 25 September 14:30 – 17:00h Boothstraat — Bovenkamer Earlier this year, the European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) released a whitepaper1 highlighting the need to better promote European films and increase exports outside the continent. The paper, which includes a 10-point action plan, addresses many of the concerns that the filmmaking community has with regards to the future of European cinema.

Arguably, recent industry reactions to the demands of a rapidly changing market have been to double down on entrenched positions. How far does the European filmmaking community have to go in order to proactively fashion its place in the global market?

Does the auteur system create an inevitable gap between creative output and audience desires?

This series of think tank sessions aims to address the idea of a functioning European cinema exploring both practical issues and the aesthetic considerations.

They will take place at the Netherlands Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam after which findings will be collated and presented to ACE and international industry professionals.

1 https://www.screendaily.com/news/industrylaunches-ten-point-plan-to-boost-european-movieexports/5120290.article

Part One Practicalities Issues to be discussed at Holland Film Meeting: Co-Production How can we better negotiate the challenge of co-producing with European partners — spending regulations, legals, copyright laws, recoupment. If two producers are raising different types of funding - public funds and commercial funds — how can we negotiate the inevitable conflict of interest?

Financing Are the required spending obligations from various European territories stifling creativity and commercial advantage on co-productions? Are there enough types of funding available to Europeans to cover the spectrum of filmmaking? Will more aggressive funds — gap, mezzanine — create a push towards more market savvy projects?

Legislation and Policy Challenges often occur with multiple partners trying to implement legislation on regional, national and international levels. Is there a need for pan-European legislation and standards to avoid the complexities of a ’Europudding’? What would this streamlined organisation look like and is there a will and desire to create one?

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Stories & Beyond Sunday 24 September 14:00 – 17:00h SSBU — Zindering The (closed) event Stories & Beyond offers a platform to six Dutch and six German screenwriters to get professional feedback on their project. In one-on-one meetings the writers (in some cases accompanied by their directors) will meet with key industry figures from respectively the German and Dutch film industry.

These professionals will contribute with their specific expertise and discipline with regards to relevancy, strength, weaknesses and international aspects of the story. The focus is on gaining professional feedback in an open and safe environment and whether or not certain stories would work in Germany, the Netherlands and beyond.

Guest of Stories & Beyond Dutch Writers Kaweh Modiri Philip Delmaar Bas Blokker together with director Guido Van Driel, Willem Bosch with director Rogier Hesp Theodoor Holman Roel Boorsma and Berend Boorsma.

(The four last mentioned have book adaptation projects) German Experts Mychael Berg of Herr-Berg-Film Matthias Keuthen of Schwarz-Weiss Filmverleih Ben Verbong, German-based Dutch director and screenwriter Milada Kolberg of MK Film Consulting Simon Ofenloch, Commissioning Editor of ZDF/ARTE. Roman Klink, TV buyer/scout, script consultant

German Writers Elisa Mishto Franziska Müller Susanne Finken Heiko Zupke Torsten Gauger Thomas Franke Dutch Experts Babette Wijntjes — Distributor (ABC-Cinemien) Stienette Bosklopper — Producer and scriptwriter Maarten van der Duin — Director and scriptwriter, for film and TV in the Netherlands, Germany and Russia Esther Wouda — Script coach/editor/writer and producer Mylene Verdurmen — Drama Editor in Chief at the public broadcast company AVROTROS Sytze van der Laan This meeting is part of a series of activities organised between German and Dutch film industry professionals against the background of the co-production treaty between the two countries. This third edition of Stories & Beyond is once again organised with the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Supporting partners are the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin.

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Notes

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Talents en Route The Holland Film Meeting proudly introduces four new young Dutch film talents: producers Loes Komen and Randy Vermeulen, and filmmakers Shady El Hamus and Thessa Meijer. Under the supervision of Derk-Jan Warrink (Keplerfilm), this group of ‘debutants’ 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 one of our 2017 Talents en Route in the following pages.

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Shady El Hamus Filmmaker

About Sons by Shady El Hamus (2012)

Filmmaker Shady El Hamus graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy with two films in 2012: he directed About Sons and wrote the screenplay for Magnesium (directed by Sam de Jong). Magnesium won the KNF Jury Prize and the Tuschinski Award, and El Hamus received the NFF Dioraphte Award. All prizes were awarded at the Netherlands Film Festival.

In 2015, he gained a Master’s degree at the National Film and Television School (Beaconsfield, UK). In 2017 his One Night Stand film Malik, and his short films Nightshade and Being There will premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival.

Selected filmography •• 2017: Nightshade produced by The Rogues •• 2017: Malik produced by Pupkin •• 2017: Being There produced by Bastide Film •• 2015: Fairuz produced by the National Film and Television School •• 2013: Sky High produced by Fonk Film •• 2012: About Sons produced by the Netherlands Film Academy (Dioraphte Award at 2012 NFF) •• 2012: Magnesium produced by the Netherlands Film Academy (Dioraphte Award at 2012 NFF)

Shady El Hamus

Contact Email: shadyelhamus@gmail.com

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Loes Komen Producer

When Grey is a Colour by Marit Weerheijm (2016)

Shortly after graduating from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam, Loes Komen started as a junior producer at N279 Entertainment — the production company founded by producer Els Vandevorst and director Martin Koolhoven. Komen’s graduation films were selected at multiple film festivals. One in particular, When Grey is a Colour (directed by Marit Weerheijm), booked international success. The film won two main jury prizes at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Kids, the 2017 CILECT Prize and the 2016 Topkapi Films Fiction Prize. The film is currently nominated for a Student Oscar. Komen was nominated for the annual graduate producers award of the FPN. She is currently developing Weerheijm’s new film, together with Eva Verweij — with whom she started the production company Room for Film. Besides developing and financing short films, she is working on several feature films and international (co-)productions at N279 Entertainment.

Loes Komen — © Miriam Guttmann

Selected filmography •• Walls (short fiction, in development) by Marit Weerheijm. Produced by Loes Komen, Eva Verweij & Els Vandevorst (N279 Entertainment) •• Cheek to Cheek (documentary, in production) by Bo van der Meer & Malou Wagenmaker. Produced by Loes Komen & Eva Verweij (Room for Film) •• 2016: When Grey is a Colour by Marit Weerheijm.

Produced by Loes Komen & Eva Verweij (Netherlands Film Academy) Festivals (official selection): 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Kids, Camerimage Film Festival, 2016 Netherlands Film Festival, 2016 Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, 2016 Poitiers Film Festival, 2017 Tel Aviv International Film Festival, 2017 Off Courts Film Festival, 2017 Sehsüchte International Film Festival. Awards: 2017 Nominee Student Oscar (winners to be announced mid-September), 2017 Winner CILECT prize, Jury Award 2017 TIFF Kids, Kids Jury Award 2017 TIFF Kids, 2016 AVROTROS Scenario Award, 2016 Topkapi Fiction Prize.

•• 2016: Bring me South by Froukje van Wengerden.

Produced by Loes Komen & Eva Verweij (Netherlands Film Academy). Festivals (official selection): Sehsüchte international Film Festival, International Short Film Week Regensburg, Noordelijk Film Festival.

•• 2016: The End of the Vos Lineage by Coen Eigenraam. Produced by Loes Komen & Eva Verweij. Festivals (in selection): 2017 Netherlands Film Festival, Go Short International Film Festival (special screening).

Contact: Tel: +31 6 29362360 / E-mail: loeskomen@hotmail.com

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Thessa Meijer Filmmaker

Erkhii Mergen, Or Why the Marmot Doesn’t Have a Thumb by Thessa Meijer (2015) Filmmaker Thessa Meijer graduated in 2015 with her short film Erkhii Mergen, or Why the Marmot Doesn’t Have a Thumb which was awarded the NFF Dioraphte Award and a Wildcard of the Netherlands Film Fund.

Previously, Meijer won the Rabobank Cultural Young Talent Prize and the HKU Mediale Fiction Prize. In 2017 her One Night Stand film De dag dat mijn huis viel will premiere at NFF.

Thessa Meijer

Selected filmography •• 2017: Filmfund Wildcard Project (short, in development). Produced by HALAL •• 2017: De geit en de kool (short, in development).

Producer TBD •• 2017: De dag dat mijn huis viel. Produced by VENFILM •• 2017: Mind Dear (music video). Produced by Thessa Meijer. Nomination 3FM Award Best Video •• 2015: Erkhii Mergen, Or Why the Marmot Doesn’t Have a Thumb (short). Produced by VENFILM/HKU. Awards: Nomiantion International Competition, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma; nomination Dioraphte Award, Go Short International Short Film Festival; nomination VERS Awards; winner Wildcard Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Festival; winner Dioraphte Award, Netherlands Film Festival •• 2015: Fool’s Gold (music video) Produced by Sue The Night •• 2014: The Whale (music video). Produced by Sue The Night •• 2013: Op wie de regen valt (short). Produced by HKU. Nomination VERS Awards, honorable mention •• 2012: Hier wordt gerealiseerd (documentary/ installation). Produced by Hollandse Luchten •• 2012: Mother Mary (music video) Produced by Sue The Night •• 2011: Hem/Haar (experimental music video).

Produced by HKU. Nomination 3FM Award Best Video

Contact: Tel: +31 6 44694241 / Email: meijerthessa@gmail.com

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Randy Vermeulen Producer

This is My Summer by Marinka de Jongh (2016)

Randy Vermeulen studied Theatre, Film and Television at Utrecht University and founded the production house Vossenfilms, where he produced among others the documentaries De lengte van liefde (winner Debut Competition — 2016 Netherlands Film Festival), Deze zomer is van mij and Niet op meisjes. Vermeulen also works at the Dutch broadcaster VPRO as a commissioning editor at the departments VPRO Dorst and VPRO Podcast.

Besides this, he also works as a viewer for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and as a board member for the Initiative for Narrative Journalism.

This summer he worked at the American podcast company Radiotopia.

Randy Vermeulen

Selected filmography •• 2017: Alles in de wind by Yaron Cohen (documentary, in pre-production) •• 2017: Untitled Documentary by Daan Bol (in preproduction) •• 2016: Niet mijn oorlog by Kim Faber (audiodocumentary). Award: NTR Radio Prize •• 2016: Deze zomer is van mij by Marinka de Jongh (documentary) •• 2016: De lengte van liefde by Anna Peeters (documentary). Award: Film Prize of the City of Utrecht.

•• 2015: Until the Quiet Comes by Yaron Cohen (documentary) •• 2014: Ik laat je gaan by Kim Faber (documentary). Selection IDFA. •• 2014: Het laatste uur in de zon by Suzanne Jansen (documentary). Selection IDFA. •• 2014: Moederskind by Lotte van Gaalen (documentary) •• 2013: Hoe ik mei en juli voel by Anna Peeters (documentary). Award: Wildcard from the Netherlands Film Fund.

•• 2012: Niet op meisjes by Daan Bol (documentary).

Awards: Wildcard from the Netherlands Film Fund. Jury — and Audience Award VERS Awards.

Selected for sixty international film festivals and won twelve prizes.

Contact Tel: +31 6 44042556 / Email: Randy@vossenfilms.nl / www.vossenfilms.nl

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Digital Film Library The Holland Film Meeting Digital Film Library is back in 2017 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 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. 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 SSBU — Basement Area Sunday 24 September 10:00-19:00 Monday 25 September 10:00-19:00 Tuesday 26 September 10:00-19:00

NFF International Screenings NFF International Screenings comprises 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 Tulipani by Mike van Diem, In Blue (2016 HFM WiP) by Jaap van Heusden, Monk (2013 HFM) by Ties Schenk, and Quality Time (2016 HFM WiP) by Daan Bakker.

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 24.

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Guest Desk The HFM Guest Desk is located in the Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. 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 Thursday, September 21: 09:00 – 17:30 Friday, September 22: 09:00 – 17:30 Saturday, September 23: 09:00 – 17:30 Sunday, September 24: 09:00 – 20:00 Monday, September 25: 09:00 – 17:30 Tuesday, September 26: 09:00 – 17:30 Wednesday, September 27: 08:30 – 20:00 Thursday, September 27: 09:00 – 20:00

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).

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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 05:56 and 20:41, and every 30 minutes between 21:11 and 23:41.

Post office The nearest post offices are located at: Printerette Digishop Opening hours Voorstraat 39 Monday – Friday / 08:00 – 18:00 3512 AJ Utrecht Saturday / 09:00 – 17:00

During the night there are trains to Schiphol at 23:53, 00:23, 01:01, 02:17, 03:17, 04:17, 05:12, 05:17. Please note that night trains take max. 65 minutes.

For further information on the most up to date train schedule, please see: www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home.

Ako Shop Information on all public transport can be found on: Opening hours www.9292.nl/en.

Utrecht Central Station Godebaldkwartier 79 Monday – Wednesday & Friday / 08:00 – 18:00 Thursday / 08:00 – 21:00 Saturday / 09:00 – 17:00

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Holland Film Meeting Locations NFF Festival Centre Festival heart — Info & NFF Guest Desk Neude 5, 3512 AE Utrecht +31 30 2303807 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht — HFM Guest Desk Lucasbolwerk 24, 3512 EJ Utrecht +31 30 2303807 NFF Venues & Cinemas Pathé Rembrandt Oudegracht 73 Filmtheater ’t Hoogt Hoogt 4 Louis Hartlooper Complex Tolsteegbrug 1 CineMec Utrecht Berlijnplein 100 Kinepolis Jaarbeursboulevard 300

Hotels Apollo Hotel Vredenburg 14 +31 30 2331232

HFM Food & Drinks Venue Varkenmarkt 16, 3511 BZ Utrecht +31 30 2681326

Court Hotel Korte Nieuwstraat 14 +31 30 2330033

Co-Production Drinks with the Dutch Vinnies Bar Lucasbolwerk 1, 3512 EG Utrecht +31 30 2317571

EYE hotel Wijde Begijnestraat 1-3 +31 30 3036303 Maliehotel Maliestraat 2 +31 30 2316424 Mother Goose Hotel Ganzenmarkt 26 +31 30 3036300 Park Plaza Utrecht Westplein 50 +31 30 2925200

HFM Closing Party & Awards Museum Speelklok Steenweg 6, 3511 JP Utrecht +31 30 2312789

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Citizen B by Hamy Ramezan (Finland) The Gendarme by Dan Chisu (Romania) The Grave Digger by Khadar Ahmed (Finland) If the Light Takes Us by Anna Maria Helgadottir (Denmark) Labour Day by Mladen Djordjevic (Serbia) Las niĂąas by Pilar Palomero (Spain) Life after Zoro by Raf Reyntjens (Belgium) Rum Doxy Diver by Lindy Heymann (UK) Snow and the Bear by Selcen Ergun (Turkey) The Whole-Timers by Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung (France/Nepal) Wild Summer by Marteinn Thorsson (Iceland)

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HFM Co-Pro Platform 2017 The HFM Co-Pro 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 co-productions 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.

This year, eleven ambitious, challenging and highly creative projects have been selected for the Platform. The exciting, dynamic and panoramic selection spans the continent and gathers in Utrecht.

Selected projects will undergo a two-stage process that includes a pitch session followed by a series

of one-on-one meetings with leading financiers, sales agents and potential co-producers. All projects will be in the running (together with the BoostNL participant projects in development) for the HFM CoPro 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 Tuesday, September 26th.

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Citizen B

Aamu Film Company Ltd. (Finland) A coming of age story about a self-destructive boy, who finds his inner strength in the macabre world of adults.

Synopsis Suren Mehdipour (9) and his young parents Soheila (27) and Bahman (33) are refugees in Finland. They dream of an ordinary life, but their daily reality at a reception centre is far from it. Children deal with their experience of violence by re-enacting bloody games, causing their mental welfare to decline rapidly. One day, plain-clothes police arrive to fetch Suren and his sister Donya (6) in the middle of the school day.

They are led to an inhospitable detention centre, imprisoned for deportation.

While in custody Suren sees his friend Salam Jaba (38) avoiding deportation by slitting his wrists. A desperate Salam is trying to buy time so that the authorities would consider his case again. Suren begins to understand the finality of the deportation, when he finds his mother and father’s secret stash — those now familiar razor blades, waiting for the moment they are being deported. Suren prevents his parents’ violent intentions and the Mehdipours succumb to their faith. They can no longer be a united family. They must make sacrifices. Soheila and Bahman are certain to be deported — but maybe they can still rescue the children.

This film is a coming of age story about a selfdestructive boy, who finds his inner strength in the macabre world of adults. He turns self-destruction into self-respect, with which he can break the chain of mental violence.

Director’s Statement I was born in Iran in 1979. The Iran-Iraq war erupted when I was a child. When my school was destroyed, it

was time to make an urgent choice: my parents chose to flee, beginning a lifetime of exile. All in all, we were on the move for three years and we ended up in Finland in 1989.

All my films have, in one way or another, been inspired by the people and events I encountered during that period. It is very natural for me to write my first feature explicitly about this subject. The subject of exile and what one experiences as a refugee is universal and has not changed its nature since the 80s. My personal experiences in former Yugoslavia are today’s reality in reception and detention centres around contemporary Finland.

I hope this film will lead the audience to think about what kind of a world we have created, what kind of legacy we are leaving to the next generation — and with what kind of consequences.

Director’s Profile Hamy Ramezan is a Finnish-Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter. Having fled persecution in Iran, and survived Yugoslav refugee camps as a young boy, Ramezan and his family arrived in Finland in 1989.

He graduated from the film school at UCA, Franham in 2007 and has since completed several short films.

Citizen B is his debut feature.

Ramezan’s short films Listen (2015), Keys of Heaven (2014) and Over the Fence (2009) have won over thirty festival prizes including Best Short Film in Tribeca and Hong Kong. Listen premiered in La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and was nominated for the European Film Awards.

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Production Company Aamu Film Company Ltd. was founded in 2001 and since 2013 it has been owned by Jussi Rantamäki.

The company has produced both fiction and documentary films in various lengths. Their previous feature film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won the 2017 Prix un Certain Regard in Cannes.

Over the years, they have noticed that the art of cinema is serious fun. If the company does not like something, they do not do it. But when they do, they give it all. That is what the company is good at.

The aim is to build longstanding relationships with filmmakers and screenwriters who have a unique approach to filmmaking. The company usually starts from short films and proceeds to international feature films in order to make their style, content and

Hamy Ramezan

ensemble reach their peak. They know that content always shapes the form. They know that every filmmaking process has to be custom-made for the content in question.

Current Status In development. We will secure domestic financing by the end of 2017 and shoot the film late 2018.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform Finding a co-producer and a sales agent. We are also looking to find contacts for Middle East casting, networking and raising general interest.

Previous work available on Cinando Listen by Hamy Ramezan, 2015, 13 mins.

Jussi Rantamäki

Director Hamy Ramezan // Producer Jussi Rantamäki // Screenwriters Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni // Based on Original screenplay // Languages Farsi, Arabic, Finnish, English // Genre Drama // Format S16 // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Arthouse audience 40+ //

Total budget €1.400.000 // Total budget in place €90.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Finnish Film Foundation

Attending HFM Hamy Ramezan, Jussi Rantamäki

Contact: Jussi Rantamäki (Aamu Film Company) / Hiihtomäentie 34 — 00800 Helsinki (Finland) / Tel: +358 40 7355977 / Email: rantamaki@aamufilmcompany.fi / www.aamufilmcompany.fi

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The Gendarme Jandarmul

Domestic Film (Romania) The destiny of the man who led the gendarmes into action after an LGBT film screening in Bucharest got interrupted violently by radicals, revealed through an investigation of a young journalist known for her daring reporting.

Synopsis In 2013, the Romanian Directors’ New Cinema in Bucharest screened a controversial film about two lesbians who are a couple. Minutes into the film, a few members of the audience stood up, vehemently opposing the gay community. The press accused the Gendarmerie that it contented itself with surrounding the institution and, for over an hour, did not intervene to end the conflict. The subject of the script is inspired by this event and focuses on the destiny of the man who led the gendarme team (Nicu Holban) in the action at the museum, through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her unusually daring reporting. The film is an illustration of the notion of fabricated truth and of the absurd situations in which people end up when they forget the initial goal of their continuous and often frantic quest in life.

Director’s Statement The story of the film was born out of the intention to delve into concepts such as ‘truth’, ‘objectivity’ and even ‘quest’. What are the starting points of our dayto-day quests? What are our ending points and how much truth is there in our perpetual desire to find meanings/motivations for our actions and the acts of those around us?

The subject will be treated realistically, as the purpose is for the audience to witness each character’s quest as objectively as possible. The suspense of the audience coincides with the suspense

of the characters, who cannot foresee the end of their own journey. Nicu Holban does not know whether his family’s apparent breakup is permanent or something can still be done to re-establish the initial balance. Similarly, though Liliana Calomfir embarks on a report whose success with the audience seems guaranteed, the journalist reaches a point where she no longer sees the point of her efforts.

Director’s Profile Dan Chisu is a Romanian filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer, novelist, actor and founder of DaKINO International Film Festival, one of the oldest film festivals in Romania. He directed his first feature in 2008, WEBsITEsTORY, followed by The Bear (2011) and Chasing Rainbows (2013) — nominated for Best Film at Cleveland International Film Festival.

He continued his career with Déjà vu (2014, Cairo International Film Festival, Mons Film Festival), and Bucharest Non-Stop (2016, Cairo International Film Festival). He recently finished his latest feature film, The Anniversary.

Production Company Founded in 2014, Domestic Film is a Bucharest-based sister company of 4 Proof Film, formed by a team with extensive experience in film production (Adrian Sitaru, Anamaria Antoci, Adrian Silișteanu). Characterised by a truly independent spirit and individual approach, Domestic Film aims to produce author driven films that explore innovative forms of cinematic expression,

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that are globally relevant and have strong potential for critical and public success. Although a young company, its team of well-established professionals and strong affiliations turned Domestic Film quickly into a prolific production house. Domestic’s portfolio comprises Adrian Sitaru’s first film in the English language, the short fiction Counterpart (premiered at 2015 ClermontFerrand), and his feature Illegitimate (premiered at the 2016 Forum at Berlinale — C.I.C.A.E. Award), and the short fiction Meda by Emanuel Pârvu (premiered at 2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam).

Dan Chișu

Current Status The script is at its third draft and we have started the casting process. One of the priorities at this stage is to establish an international co-production scheme.

Aims at HFM Co-Pro Platform Finding international partners: co-producers, sales agent, funds.

Previous work available on Cinando Bucharest Non-Stop by Dan Chisu, 2015, 86 mins.

Adrian Sitaru

Director Dan Chișu // Producers Anamaria Antoci, Adrian Sitaru // Screenwriter Dan Chișu // Based on Original screenplay // Language Romanian // Genre Drama // Format Digital // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Focus is on urban, educated, 25–45 group. LGBT communities, human rights and diversity supporting groups are of particular interest in the audience we target, but the subject will not limit our approach to a niche market. //

Total budget €735.000 // Total budget in place €383.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Romanian Film Centre

Attending HFM Dan Chisu, Adrian Sitaru

Contact Anamaria Antoci (Domestic Film) / 12–14 Constantin Budisteanu — 010775 Bucharest (Romania) / Tel: +40 74 0155602 / Email: anamaria@4prooffilm.ro

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The Grave Digger Xabaal qode

Bufo (Finland) Guled, a struggling grave digger finds himself facing a seemingly hopeless situation; his beloved wife, who suffers from a chronic kidney disease, desperately needs a transplant.

Otherwise, she will die.

Synopsis The Grave Digger is a love story set in the slums of Djibouti City. It follows the story of a Djiboutian grave digger named Guled and his wife Nasra who suffers from a chronic kidney disease.

One day, Nasra gets a kidney donor but the kidney is for sale and costs about 5000 US Dollars. That is a lot of money for a grave digger who earns 10 US Dollars or less per day.

If Nasra does not get this kidney, she will not survive. So, to save his wife’s life, Guled has only two weeks time to get the money in Djibouti.

The story follows what happens during these two weeks and what kind of choices they make.

Director’s Statement A few years ago, a sudden death hit my family in Finland and I was asked to make the funeral arrangements which took me a week to get the job done. On the memorial day, my older brother asked me ”Do you know how easy it was to bury someone in Somalia? There were always a bunch of grave diggers in front of the hospital who were ready to do the job within a few hours”.

After that short conversation, I was haunted by this particular character, this grave digger whose story needed to be told. The Grave Digger is a family story about finding strength, sustaining love and force in the most difficult times. It is about loving under impossible conditions, pushing beyond your limits, risking your own life in order to do what you believe in when nobody else does.

Director’s Profile Khadar Ahmed was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1981 and emigrated to Finland as a refugee at the age of fifteen. He has written the short film Citizens (2008), which was screened and awarded at numerous film festivals including Locarno Film Festival. Furthermore Ahmed has written and directed the short films We Don’t Celebrate Christmas (2014) and The Night Thief (2017). In 2017 his feature film Unexpected Journey also premiered which was written by Ahmed himself.

In 2015, Khadar was selected to Cannes’ Cinéfondation Residence with his feature directorial debut The Grave Digger. The script was also awarded in the African Film Commission’s Screenwriting competition.

Production Company Founded in 2007 and led by producers Mark Lwoff and Misha Jaari, Bufo has produced a number of films of which many have received international recognition. Bufo’s productions all share the elements of clear artistic vision, innovation and high quality.

Bufo has produced such films as Academy Award Winner Jörn Donner’s film Armi Alive! (2015) and Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night (Finland’s official entry for the Academy Awards and Golden Globes in 2014).

Bufo’s first TV-series Northern Mishaps premiered in 2015. Furthermore, Bufo has been involved in a number of international co-productions. The latest coproduction The Other Side of Hope by Aki Kaurismäki won the Silver Bear at the 67th Berlinale.

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Current Status Financing.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform We are looking forward to meet potential co-producers and sales agents.

Khadar Ahmed

Previous work available on Cinando We Don’t Celebrate Christmas by Khadar Ahmed, 2014, 10 mins. & The Night Thief by Khadar Ahmed, 2017, 15 mins.

Mark Lwoff

Director Khadar Ahmed // Producers Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff // Screenwriter Khadar Ahmed // Based on Original screenplay // Language Somali // Genre Drama // Format Digital // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience +35 //

Total budget €1.000.000 // Total budget in place €100.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Finnish Film Foundation, B-Plan Distribution

Attending HFM Khadar Ahmed, Mark Lwoff

Contact Misha Jaari & Mark Lwoff (Bufo) / Työpajankatu 2A R1D – 00580 Helsinki (Finland) / Tel: +358 45 1314652 / Email: info@bufo.fi / www.bufo.fi

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If the Light Takes Us Masterplan Pictures (Denmark) A young woman’s struggle to break free from the unsound relationship with her lonely father, and her life on an isolated island in the North.

Synopsis Vilja, a young 20-year-old woman, is living in an incestuous, marriage-like relationship with her alcoholic father since Vilja’s mother committed suicide on this small no-future island. On the tenth anniversary of her mother’s death, the story surrounding her suicide does not quite match up, and Vilja begins to suspect that she was killed by Pappa.

When a young man, Niels, comes sailing to the island on his small boat, Vilja starts to see her life through his eyes. She realises that it is time for her to break free and leave, and that maybe she can use Niels to get away from Pappa. But this is not as easy as she thought. Pappa has an emotional grasp on Vilja, and she keeps getting sucked back into his sphere, relapsing one night as well into her relationship with a bad seed from the village, Christian.

Comparing Christian and Niels it is clear what she has to do. She decides to trust Niels and confides the whole story of her relationship with Pappa to him.

Niels is furious and dead set on taking Vilja off the island as soon as possible. As they are planning to leave, however, Christian visits the house with some friends and gets in a fight with Niels, who ends up getting killed. Vilja now knows that her only way out is to get rid of Pappa and to avenge her mother and Niels.

To get rid of Niels’ body at sea, she enlists her father to sail out with her on Niels’ boat, and convinces him to jump into the ocean to make sure Niels’ body is sinking.

When Pappa tries to get back onto the boat, she cuts his hand off with a knife, then thrusts it into his eye socket and leaves him to drown, while she sails away.

Director’s Statement If the Light Takes Us is about how power can be abused within a small community and a rotten family structure where abuse has become a fact of life. It explores the destructive nature of this power and the dangers inherent when you isolate yourself from the gaze of others.

The victim in this story is Vilja. She succumbs to her father’s sexual abuse gladly, almost masochistically but is slowly realising how warped her perception of life is. She is a conflicted yet sympathetic young woman trying to break free from her controlling father and the environment she grew up in.

I want myself and the audience to get into Vilja’s head and feel her struggle, sympathise with her, even though she is an ambiguous character. And I want us to be wiser and more understanding of human nature at the end of the film. Not just Vilja’s nature, but Pappa’s, Niels’ and Christian’s as well.

Director’s Profile Born in 1971 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Anna María Helgadóttir is a visual artist and filmmaker. She is one of the initiators and members of the notorious art group ‘Ingen frygt’ with whom she has received a Danish Music Award for the music video ‘Vi ta’r fuglen på dig’. Helgadóttir has directed several art films, music videos and short films. Her most recent short film is the acclaimed In the Dark Room which premiered at the 2017 Madrid International Film Festival. Helgadóttir is currently developing her debut feature If the Light Takes Us.

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Production Company Masterplan Pictures aims to produce high quality films with a strong artistic vision. Per Damgaard Hansen is co-founder and managing director of the Copenhagenbased production company.

He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2007 and from the Producers Programme at The National Film School of Denmark in 2013. That same year he co-founded the production company Masterplan Pictures. Hansen has produced several internationally acclaimed short films amongst others Seven Boats which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Hansen premiered his first feature film Winter Brothers in main competition at the 2017 Locarno Festival. The film won Best Actor Award together with three Independent Jury Awards. The

Anna María Helgadóttir

Locarno Festival was followed with a North-American premiere at 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

Hansen is currently in post-production with his second feature film and in development with three feature films amongst them If the Light Takes Us by Anna María Helgadóttir. Since 2016 Hansen has also been Member of the Board at the Danish Film Academy.

Current Status Early development.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform Looking for co-producers, sales agents, financing Previous work available on Cinando In the Dark Room by Anna María Helgadóttir, 2016, 29 mins.

Per Damgaard Hansen

Director Anna María Helgadóttir // Producer Per Damgaard Hansen // Screenwriter Kim Leine // Based on Original screenplay // Languages Danish, Norwegian // Genre Drama // Format Digital // Running time 94 mins. // Target audience Female independent film lovers 25+ //

Total budget €1.480.250 // Total budget in place €6.182 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Danish Film Institute

Attending HFM Anna María Helgadóttir, Per Damgaard Hansen

Contact Per Damgaard Hansen (Masterplan Pictures) / Dr. Tvaergade 58, Kld. — 1302 K Copenhagen (Denmark) / Tel: +45 40 562903 / Email: per@masterplanpictures.com / www.masterplanpictures.com

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Labour Day Ilijin povratak

SENSE Production, Corona Film (Serbia) After losing their jobs in a recently closed factory, ordinary middle-aged workers, now desperate and helpless, break their inner boundaries and social taboos and eventually take revenge on their oppressors.

Synopsis A small, withering town in Serbia. The factory, which once employed the entire town and the surrounding villages, is closed and the town is taken over by corrupt petty politicians, drug dealers and bullies.

Svetlana (38) and a group of run down former factory workers have led a desperate fight of protest against the ruthless changeover. With less and less strength and will to protest, their exhaustion and frustration grows. Their daily routine is interrupted when the recently released prisoner Mija enters their circle.

Following his instructions, they start invoking the dead and soon slide into performing Satanistic rituals.

They perform them rather clumsily, but thanks to them the desperate people find comfort and support in each other.

At the same time, 50-year-old Elijah, a former factory worker who has been missing for months, is making his way, slowly, through the snowy mountain.

Although he appears disoriented, everything about his appearance radiates mystery. He slowly descends into the town and it seems like he might be the embodiment of Satan, the long-awaited saviour, who our protagonists have been invoking during their rituals.

Once the arrogance of the local politicians and their thugs becomes unbearable and the pressure on Svetlana and the other workers too hard — the mysterious Elijah appears. Led by him, the former factory workers start to take revenge on their exploiters and move in on the onslaught to freedom and the realisation of their dreams.

Director’s Statement During the process of transition, handled by the corrupted authorities and shady businessmen, many workers lost their jobs. We still witness usually unsuccessful, outsiders’ attempts of ex-workers to reach justice at courts and take the factories i.e. their jobs back.

I noticed that what usually follows that process is a certain passive behavior of the citizens, a withdrawal, apathy and absence of a significant resistance against the cruelty of the order and the injustice. Desperate individuals are more often ready to point their frustration and anger to their close ones than to the cause of the problem and this delivers more and more cases that fill the shocking cover pages of tabloids.

Therefore, the main question of this film is the one exploring the potential for the rebellion, practicing a clear resistance to the system that pushed most of the population to the margin.

Director’s Profile Mladen Djordjevic was born in 1978 in Belgrade. He graduated in Film & TV Directing at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade with the feature documentary film Made in Serbia.

His debut feature fiction film The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) screened at over fifty international film festivals, winning fourteen awards.

Mitch Davis, a programmer of the Festival Fantasia in Montreal, compared Djordjevic with authors such

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as Gaspar Noe, Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, writing that The Life and Death of a Porno Gang did for Serbia what Clockwork Orange did for Great Britain.

Stojanovic is an EAVE graduate, Producers on the Move and Berlinale Talents alumni and a member of the European Film Academy.

Production Company SENSE Production is a Belgrade-based company gathering auteurs with an exciting approach to drama and visual. The company produced Barbarians by Ivan Ikic (2014, Special Mention, Karlovy Vary IFF, producer Milan Stojanovic), The Way of the East (2017), a debut documentary film by Katarina Mutic and Only Girls Cry (2017) to, and a short by Vladimir Milovanovic.

Corona Film is a boutique production company of director Mladen Djordjevic, with a debut title Sunset in a Vienna Hallway directed by Djordjevic, currently in post-production.

Stojanovic worked as PM/LP in domestic and international productions, including Mothers (2010) by Milcho Manchevski, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2010) by Mladen Djordjevic and Destricted (2006) by Marina Abramovic.

Current Status The project is in full development, financing. It was supported by Film Center Serbia and we are at 34% of financing secured. Production is scheduled for November 2018.

Mladen Djordjevic

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform We are looking for an actor to play the character of the mysterious Elijah (who has no lines), but also some key artistic personnel. Of course, we are looking for international partners and financiers who would help us close the remaining part of the budget by summer 2018.

Previous work available on Cinando The Life and Death of a Porno Gang by Mladen Djordjevic, 2010, 108 mins.

Milan Stojanovic

Director Mladen Djordjevic // Producer Milan Stojanovic // Screenwriter Mladen Djordjevic // Based on Original screenplay // Language Serbian // Genre Drama/Psychological Thriller // Format HD // Running time 100 mins. // Target audience Arthouse cinemagoers, genre fans //

Total budget €900.000 // Total budget in place €310.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Film Center Serbia (production support), Cinnamon (in kind investment/equipment)

Attending HFM Mladen Djordjevic, Milan Stojanovic

Contact Milan Stojanovic (SENSE Production, Corona Film) / Kosovska 8 — 11000 Belgrade (Serbia) / Tel. +381 66 9399869 / Email: milan@senseproduction.rs / www.senseproduction.rs

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Las niñas

Inicia Films (Spain), BTeam Pictures (Spain) Las niñas is the portrait of a generation of women growing up in a society that resists to adapt.

Synopsis It is the year 1992 and a new school year starts at a girls-only Catholic school in Zaragoza (Spain). It is the first day of class and Celia is already at the school nursery: she says that her tummy hurts.

Something has changed in her since last year Mother Superior accused her of stealing a classmate’s skates.

Although the new school year has just started, and the good intentions with it, Celia cannot forget. And her classmates do not make it easy either. To them, that incident made Celia the class’ thief.

For this reason, when Ana — a girl who is one year older — arrives from Barcelona, they become friends immediately. Ana, alongside María Beatriz and Cristina (her two other friends), go with Celia to all the classes, the masses, Father Luis’ confessions, during the arguments with their classmates... And with them, we discover that the kind of education they receive, inside and outside of school, confuses and suffocates them, stopping them from developing their own personalities.

During the school year, we see how Celia grows, becomes more independent and rebels, but we also witness the way her school experiences shape her personality, until the girl at the beginning of the story is no longer a little girl.

Director’s Statement Las niñas is a film in which I want to portray the world of contradictions in which I lived and grew up: to show how the education that a large part of my generation received, was. An education that prepared us for a world that was no longer as we were told. A type of education that was especially contradictory for girls.

Las niñas is the story of a girl who grows and changes, whose personality is being shaped by the experiences she lives inside and outside the school. A film in which I want to show how a child lives being educated.

To show all those experiences that, for both good and bad, mark us forever, making us who we are, and I want to do it with humor, with tenderness, showing that world of greatness and misery in which many Spanish children grew up.

Director’s Profile Born in Zaragoza (Spain), Pilar Palomero graduated in Hispanic Literature and in Cinematography and works as screenwriter and film teacher. Her short films have been screened at festivals such as Warsaw International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Festival de Cine de Huesca, and Busan International Short Film Festival among others. In 2013 Palomero began a MFA in filmmaking at Film Factory (Sarajevo) under the leadership of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Currently she is developing her debut film Las niñas as writer-director in collaboration with Inicia Films and BTeam Pictures.

She has been recently selected as one of the Berlinale Talents 2017.

Production Company Inicia Films was created by Valérie Delpierre in 2006.

She aims to develop projects especially focusing on international co-productions and the development of new talents. Some of her productions are the documentary Thy Father’s Chair by Alex Lora, premiered at 2016 IDFA and bought by international channels after a successful tour of festivals; La

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intérprete, documentary by Antonio P. Molero premiered at the Festival du Films Du Monde de Montreal; B, de Barcenas, a feature film by David Ilundaín, which had an important media impact and received numerous awards in Spain, as well as three nominations at the 2016 Goya Awards. More recently, she has produced Summer 1993, a feature film directed by Carla Simón Pipó, premiered at the 2017 Berlinale where it won the prize for best Opera Prima, and Los desheredados, a short film by Laura Ferrés, which premiered at the 2017 La Semaine de la Critique. At the moment she is in development of the feature film Las niñas by Pilar Palomero.

Pilar Palomero

Current Status The project is in its last steps of development and entering into pre-production/financial status.

Shooting is planned for summer 2018.

Aims at HFM Co-Pro Platform We would like to find a partner as co-producer (around 20–25%) and a have first feedback from sales agents.

Previous work available on Cinando La noche de todas las cosas by Pilar Palomero, 2016, 18 mins.

Valérie Delpierre

Director Pilar Palomero // Producers Valérie Delpierre, Alex Lafuente // Screenwriter Pilar Palomero // Based on Original screenplay // Language Spanish // Genre Coming-of-age // Format Digital 4K // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Adult audience (+30) / Female (60%) — Male (40%) //

Total budget €1.319.000 // Total budget in place €123.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Televisión Autonómica de Aragón, Zaragoza Cultural — Ayuntamiento

Attending HFM Pilar Palomero, Valérie Delpierre

Contact Valérie Delpierre (Inicia Films) / Paseo Sant Joan, 146, ent 1 — 08037 Barcelona (Spain) / Tel: +34 93 0080618 / Email: info@iniciafilms.com / www.iniciafilms.com

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Life after Zoro Leven na Zoro

Bulletproof Cupid (Belgium) A civilised girl and a solitary man are drawn to each other after an accident that has a devastating impact on their lives and, in their quest for redemption, start a precious but forbidden friendship.

Synopsis A suburban neighbourhood finds itself in shock when Poni (12), a talented starlet, is attacked by Zoro, the dog of Janus (26), a reclusive poacher who dwells the neighbouring forest. As she is permanently disfigured, the incident marks the end of her career.

She recovers soon enough but her parents are unable to deal with the consequences of the accident. Poni begins to believe it is all her fault but in fact it is Janus who is being punished for what happened. The neighbourhood turns against him and Zoro, who is his only companion, is put down. The death of Zoro haunts Poni in her nightmares. During her trauma therapy, she admits to bullying Zoro a long time before he attacked her. As remorse sets in, Poni reaches out to Janus, who is devastated by the loss of his only friend.

It marks the beginning of a fragile friendship, which offers Janus a way out of his isolation and inspires Poni to write her own music. When the marriage of her parents starts to fall apart, Poni runs away from home with Janus to scatter Zoro’s ashes in the untouched nature. When the police find them asleep in a hunting shack, Janus is wrongly accused of abuse and he is slammed with a restraining order. Unexpectedly, Poni scores a YouTube hit with her song for Janus that she uploaded on her old profile. After Janus tried to force a reunion to no avail, Poni visits him again. However, in the meantime he has discovered she was the one bullying Zoro all along. While she tries to make amends, he is out to seek revenge in a way that could ruin their friendship forever.

Director’s Statement We like to call ourselves civilised but seem to have lost touch with what matters in life. Did we forget what it means to be free? Growing up in the Flanders’ woods, I witnessed the last bits of our pristine nature being parceled. Today there are few places left where wilderness reigns, inhabited only by loners who still have a strong connection with nature. This contemporary tale, told from the point of view of a 12-year-old, is set on the frontier between upper-class suburbia and pristine nature.

The story reflects on the transit between the purity of childhood and the responsibility of adult life. The main characters are a civilised child, who leads the life of a professional adult, and a savage man who cannot deal with adult responsibilities. Those two misfits find each other through an accident that has a devastating impact on their lives. In a world where nothing is what it seems, true freedom is precious but hard to find.

Director’s Profile After graduating from the Brussels Film Academy RITCS, Raf Reyntjens made two short films and traveled the world. The sci-fi fantasy A Message From Outer Space (2008) was a festival favorite and even got a US remake. The epic war short Tunnelrat (2008) was the first film to explore underground warfare during World War I. In 2014 it was part of MoMA’s exhibition ‘The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy’. Both shorts starred a young Matthias Schoenaerts.

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His debut feature Paradise Trips, a Belgian-Dutch co-production developed at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam, was released in the summer of 2015.

Today it is still touring big screens in countries tuning in to the story of a grumpy holiday coach driver bringing a motley crew of party-goers to a festival in Croatia.

Besides film he also shoot commercials and music videos. Awards include two times Golden Welp for best Belgian commercial (2010, 2011) and two times best director at the Creative Belgium awards (2011, 2015). As a music video director he is known for his collaboration with pop star Stromae. ‘Peace or Violence’ won at the LA Music Video Festival and was nominated at Camerimage. ‘Papaoutai’ also won several awards and was nominated at the UK Music Video Awards and Victoires de la Musique. The video about a boy trying to engage with his absent father became an instant classic, racking up over 400 million YouTube views.

Production Company After a career of more than ten years, Xavier Rombaut joined Bulletproof Cupid as producer and partner in 2017. Bulletproof Cupid is an independent production company based in Antwerp (Flanders Region) with a focus on films for a broad and young audience and a

Raf Reyntjens

strong interest in international co-productions. He is currently involved in several projects such as Life after Zoro (Raf Reyntjes) and Bloody Marie (Guido Van Driel).

Before, he produced independently Nathalie Teirlinck’s acclaimed short film Venus vs. Me (Berlinale, EFA nominee) and worked for more than seven years for the eminent Brussels-based production outfit Savage Film. For the latter, he was actively involved in international feature and documentary projects such as The Co(te)lette Film (Mike Figgis), Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam — César and ©Oscar nominee), The Ardennes (Robin Pront — TIFF), The Land of the Enlightened (Pieter-Jan De Pue — Sundance) and Racer and the Jailbird (Michael R. Roskam — Cannes). In 2016, he produced for Savage Film Nathalie Teirlinck’s first feature Past Imperfect.

Current Status The project is currently in early development.

Shooting is scheduled for 2019.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform Finding co-producers, distributors and a sales agent.

Previous work available on Cinando Paradise Trips by Raf Reyntjens, 2015, 90 mins.

Xavier Rombaut

Director Raf Reyntjens // Producer Xavier Rombaut // Screenwriter Raf Reyntjens // Based on Original screenplay // Language Dutch // Genre Drama // Format 4K // Running time 100 mins. // Target audience Crossover audience, +16, M/F //

Total budget €1.945.000 // Total budget in place €52.500 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

Attending HFM Raf Reyntjens, Xavier Rombaut

Contact Xavier Rombaut (Bulletproof Cupid) / Schaliënstraat 14/11 — 2000 Antwerp (Belgium) / Tel: +32 473 598531 / Email: info@bulletproofcupid.be / www.bulletproofcupid.be

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Rum Doxy Diver Hurricane Films (UK), Gibson & MacLeod (UK) Having spent her life surviving by plucking treasure from the pockets of others, Grace Hammer has finally landed the security she craved — BUT — Grace’s world is about to implode …

Synopsis Rum Doxy: A fine wench.

Doxy Diver: A dexterous pickpocket.

— 1881 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Having spent most of her years plucking treasure from the pockets of others, Grace Hammer has finally landed the security she has always craved for herself and her three children. But, as Grace is soon to discover, she is sitting in a trap...

Horatio Blunt is on parole, after fifteen years behind bars plotting his revenge against the girl that stole a priceless ruby necklace, his eye, and his freedom.

Also on Grace’s tail is the goblinesque hag Emmiline Spragg, who can virtually smell the necklace, and believes there is a pretty penny to be had in the sale of Grace’s ‘pretty little smidgeons’, too.

Grace’s only means of escape is to retrieve and sell that long buried ill-begotten necklace, with a helping hand from Jack Tallis, a diamond in the rough who is more than familiar with toeing the line of the law.

Rum Doxy Diver is a story about trust and redemption, an adventurous romp about the past coming back to bite you on the rump.

Director’s Statement Grace Hammer is a heroine we have not seen on screen before — a turn of the 19th Century woman who is feisty and independent, quick witted and seductive. Grace draws us into a world that is visceral, edgy and exciting.

The film will be a roller coaster ride through a world inhabited by larger than life villains and vagabonds.

The film will have the rock ‘n roll attitude of Robert Downey’s Sherlock Holmes and the tongue in cheek spirit of Pirates of the Caribbean.

We want to be playful with production design and styling — inventing a heightened world that plays to the streetwise sensibility of the characters and the colourful world they inhabit. This will allow us to celebrate the best of Victorian fusing that with gothic and punk that in its way creates an iconic style of its own.

Director’s Profile Lindy Heymann is an award winning director who received a BIFA for Best Directorial Debut for her feature film Showboy (2002). Described by the NY Times as “a clever hide-and-seek game of reality v/s fiction,” Showboy also won Best Film at the 2002 Milan International Film Festival and was released theatrically in various countries.

Heymann’s second feature film, Kicks (2009), a dark coming of age story, premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won two Trailblazer awards. Heymann and its writer Leigh Campbell were also both nominated for Best British Newcomer awards at the 2009 London Film Festival.

Production Company Liverpool-based Hurricane Films is owned and run by producers Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter.

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The pair were BAFTA-nominated for producing Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City which was named in Time Magazine’s top ten films of 2009.

Of Time and the City together with Sunset Song and A Quiet Passion completes the trilogy of Hurricane’s Terence Davies films.

In May 2017, Hurricane Films’ Thai Boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn premiered at Cannes Film Festival, receiving critical praise. Projects in development include Triple Word Score with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce and The Last Bus, directed by Gillies MacKinnon.

Current Status Casting and location scouting are in the early stages, and we are in talks with sales agents and

Lindy Heymann

Roy Boulter

Director Lindy Heymann // Producers Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos // Screenwriter Leigh Campbell // Based on Novel by Sara Stockbridge // Language English // Genre Historical Thriller / Rom Com Caper // Format Digital // Running time 120 mins. // Target audience Wide — 18–25 primary, family secondary //

others. A tentative production date would be third quarter 2018.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform Having successfully co-produced with Luxembourg, Belgium and France, we are keen to find a coproduction partner for Rum Doxy Diver. We enjoy cross-border collaboration not just for financial reasons but artistic reasons too. There has never been a more important time for UK production companies to co-produce with European partners.

Previous work available on Cinando Kicks by Lindy Heymann, 2009, 82 mins.

Leigh Campbell Total budget €5.692.000 // Total budget in place €2.000.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached TBD

Attending HFM Roy Boulter, Leigh Campbell

Contact Roy Boulter (Hurricane Films) / 13, Hope Street — L1 9BQ Liverpool (UK) / Tel: +44 151 7079700 / Email: roy@hurricanefilms.net / www.hurricanefilms.net

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Snow and the Bear Kar ve ayı

Albino Zebra (Turkey) A newly appointed nurse in a small town where winter surprisingly does not come to an end... Rumours of bears rising early from winter sleep... A man goes missing one night.

Synopsis A small, snow-covered, northeastern border town of Turkey… Winter has always been tough here, but this year it does not come to an end — almost in a kind of surreal way. The rumour has it that bears have risen early from their winter-sleep and killed some animals around. Soon they will come to the town. Asli (24) has been recently appointed here as a nurse, but there is an issue with the appointment. She has not even unpacked her boxes, she keeps her clothes in her luggage. She believes that she will be leaving soon.

A man from the town, Hasan, goes missing the night that Asli has an argument with him. While different rumours about Hasan’s sudden disappearance spread, Asli starts to share a secret with a young man, Samet, who has become the main suspect. Trying to get closer to Asli, Samet figures out that she accidentally caused Hasan’s death. He starts to see himself more and more in the position of protecting her, being her guardian. However, the only thing Asli wants is to get away from this place where the border between good and evil is rapidly evaporating. Samet gets infuriated

by Asli’s refusal of him and his native town. While they are having a violent quarrel, a gunshot is heard outside. They go out to see what has happened: under the now visible sun, amidst the angry crowd, a bear lies dead on the snow — killed by the villagers.

Hasan’s corpse has been discovered in the forest.

Although in a way everybody has a contribution to what happened to him — and the main person responsible is Asli — it is easier for the villagers to believe the prediction that bears would hurt someone

has come true as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The bear becomes the bearer of all sins.

Director’s Statement Snow and the Bear is the story of a young woman’s encounter with the unknown. It is the story of a town where nature rules and of the men who turn everything into an issue of masculinity. Setting this story in the landscape of an isolating overwhelming winter, I am interested in the limits one would push when looking for a way out of entrapment.

In my homeland, on a very daily basis, I feel increasingly entrapped and oppressed in many areas. However, when I confront this struggle, I also realise that I am stronger than I thought. In this film, I want to explore all these feelings of confinement, struggle, fear, and hope in a small isolated town where they become more tangible. In this microcosm, intertwined relationships and power struggles become less obscure.

I imagine Snow and the Bear as a thriller-inflected counter-fairy-tale, in which nobody lives happily ever after.

Director’s Profile Selcen Ergun studied industrial design and visual culture at METU and film at Istanbul Bilgi University.

She began her career as an assistant director, worked in many productions including two feature films of Reha Erdem: My Only Sunshine and Kosmos. Her short films Confrontation and A Sunny Day have been screened and have been awarded prizes at many national and international film festivals. Ergun continues to work as

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a music video and commercial video director, and is developing her first feature film Snow and the Bear.

Producers’ Profile Yeşim Aslan (Producer) Studied public relations and advertising. She worked as a reporter and producer at Show TV, and as communications coordinator at Underwater Research Society for EU projects. She produced and directed short films that were screened at many national and international festivals and won awards. Between 2005–2009, she worked as communications director for Greenpeace Mediterranean and International. During these years, she produced several documentary film projects.

Between 2009–2013, she worked as a producer at 212 Productions. Since 2013, she has been working as a scriptwriter as well as continuing to work as a producer at Albino Zebra.

Zeki Peynirci (Associate Producer) Following his studies in psychology and film at Bogazici University, Peynirci worked at !f Istanbul International

Selcen Ergun

Independent Film Festival between 2011–2013 as programmer assistant. He worked as a production coordinator in Yesim Ustaoglu’s Araf and Clair obscur.

He recently co-produced The Escape by Kenan Kavut, which is in post-production.

Current Status Script development and financing. Snow and the Bear received a development grant from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and won the Meetings on the Bridge Development Award from Istanbul Film Festival. Cinematographer attached.

Aims at HFM Co-Pro Platform Looking for: potential partners for co-production and financing, international distributors, sales agents, TV pre-sales.

Previous work available on Cinando A Sunny Day by Selcen Ergun, 2011, 7 mins. & Moodreel Snow and the Bear.

Zeki Peynirci

Director Selcen Ergun // Producers Yeşim Aslan, Selcen Ergun, Zeki Peynirci (Associate Producer) // Screenwriters Selcen Ergun, Yeşim Aslan // Based on Original screenplay // Language Turkish // Genre Thriller / Drama // Format Digital 4K // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Wide international audience, adults and young adults //

Total budget € 650.000 // Total budget in place € 115.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Turkish Ministry of Culture (Development Support), Meetings on the Bridge Development Award (Istanbul Film Festival), Hundez Lighting, Dijitalist Camera Equipment

Attending HFM Selcen Ergun, Zeki Peynirci

Contact Selcen Ergun (Albino Zebra) / Baskurt Sok. Dilek Apt. 68/11 — 34433 Istanbul (Turkey) / Tel: +90 533 2662766 / Email: selcenergun@yahoo.com

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The Whole-Timers Les Films du Tambour (France/Nepal) The Whole-Timers is a unique coming of age story depicting the journey of a young boy discovering the beauty and the power of the camera in the middle of the horrors of a civil war.

Synopsis Kuprey, a 13-year-old Maoist guerrilla, exchanges his AK-47 for a video camera to become a documentarian in his platoon.

The Whole-Timers is an account of the final three years of the civil war in Nepal seen through the eyes of Kuprey and his group of young guerrillas as the country overthrows the Monarch and becomes a Republic. A missing father that he has vowed to find, a home that he cannot visit and a war that he cannot understand — Kuprey tries to make sense of the chaos through the images he captures with his camera.

We see a country ravaged by war as the turmoil transforms him from a naïve schoolboy to a hardcore guerilla aka Comrade Gurans who can go to any line or length to serve the principles of his political party.

But, try as he may, can he sacrifice his personal agendas that stop him from serving for the common good of the people and their aspirations?

Director’s Statement When it had withered and died in the rest of the world, communism flourished in Nepal for a full decade (1996–2006). To record their advent in the most remote parts of the country, the Maoists had designated documentarians in every platoon to report and film their various agendas.

As young directors who have found our calling while ‘toying’ with the camera, we find it fascinating to explore the idea of the first person perspective of a documentarian witnessing war first hand. Thus, our

film, a coming of age story about the adventures of young Kuprey in the midst of the Revolution, will be shot by three consecutive documentarians, Kuprey himself being the third one.

Hyperrealistic yet poetic and surreal at times, we want to openly blur the rigid conventions between documentary and fiction in order to heighten the realness of the war that surrounded them.

Directors’ Profiles Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet’s first short film The Contagious Apparitions of Dambarey Dendrite (2013) was selected at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the Tampere Film Festival, and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur among others. Dadyaa is their second short film. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival before being screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Award for Best Cinematography.

Currently, the duo is working on their first feature film: The Whole-Timers produced by Les Films du Tambour. The project was selected at 2017 Open Doors Locarno, at the Atelier of the 2016 Cinéfondation of the Cannes Film Festival and was developed within the Jerusalem Film Lab. Production Company Les Films du Tambour is a French production company based in Paris, founded in 2014 by Marie Legrand and Rani Massalha. It aims at producing innovative independent feature films from first time or established directors, from all around the world.

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The company produced Dégradé, the first feature film of twin directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser (Gaza).

The film had its world premiere in competition at Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique and was released in French theatres on April 27th 2016 (French distribution: Le Pacte).

The company recently produced Dadyaa, a Nepalese short film from directors Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung. It was selected in competition at Venice, Toronto and Sundance where it won a prize for Best Cinematography.

Les Films du Tambour’s last feature film Charleston

by Romanian director Andrei Cretulescu just had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

Bibhusan Basnet

Pooja Gurung

Directors Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung // Producers Marie Legrand and Rani Massalha // Screenwriters Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung // Based on Original screenplay // Language Nepali // Genre War/Drama/Coming of Age // Format HD // Running time 120 mins. // Target audience International audience //

Current Status We are currently in financing.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform We are looking for international and Dutch coproducers as well as other financing partners and funds to complete the film’s budget.

Previous work available on Cinando Dadyaa — The Woodpeckers of Rotha by Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung, 2016, 16 mins.

Marie Legrand

Rani Massalha

Total budget €750.000 // Total budget in place €120.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached TBD

Attending HFM Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha

Contact Marie Legrand (Les Films du Tambour) / 102 quai Louis Blériot — 75016 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 32439185 / Email: contact@filmsdutambour.com

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Wild Summer Villisumar

Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company / Stór og smá (Iceland) A successful Icelandic artist (76) recounts the summer of 1955 to a large lava rock he is traveling with; the summer he might have killed his father.

Synopsis A successful and wealthy artist, Old Dagbjartur Jr. (76), travels with his only companion, a heavy lava rock from Reykjavik to a European city. During his journey, he recounts the hot summer of 1955, which he (then 16) spent with his struggling artist father, Dagbjartur Sr. (50), in that same town. Father and son try to establish a meaningful relationship but art, the past and two women (Marianne (36) and Solange (18)), change the course of events, leading to an unexpected and dramatic climax. As Old Dagbjartur Jr. reaches his destination in Europe, we come to realise the meaning of the rock and the importance of forgiveness.

Director’s Profile Marteinn Thorsson is an Icelandic/Canadian writer/filmmaker/producer who has had films in main competition in Karlovy Vary (XL, 2013) and at Sundance (One Point O, 2004). He has also been on Variety’s ‘10 Directors to Watch’ list (2004). He is currently in the financing stage for his “elevated horror” movie Recurrence and in development are the TV series Yosoy, and the features: Wild Summer, Angel Dust, Protos and The Flowering Rafflesia.

Director’s Statement The story has a deep, personal resonance with me since I had a similar relationship with my alcoholic father; the relationship where the son is constantly trying to get his father’s attention, acknowledgement and validation of being.

Those first years of our lives, leading up to adulthood are the years that shape us as mature human beings. This is the awakening of our potential humanness. This is when we are most vulnerable to trauma.

Most people suffer some kind of suffering in their lifetime and in Wild Summer I want to explore how this influences our behaviour. I want to look at how we communicate those experiences and whether art has a role in that discourse.

I also want to explore the importance of forgiveness and whether forgiving oneself is a

Production Company Marteinn Thorsson formed Tenderlee MPC in 2008 with the aim to develop and produce works for Thorsson to direct. In 2011, writer/producer Gudmundur Óskarsson joined the company as coowner and since then they have expanded their slate to include collaborations with other directors and companies in Europe. In 2013 they produced their first feature XL, which was directed by Thorsson and went on to win Best Actor at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and has since been invited to festivals worldwide and been sold to countries such as the US, Canada and Iceland.

The company currently has five projects in development, supported by various funding agencies and/or organisations (Icelandic Film Centre, Creative Europe, EAVE, Trans Atlantic Partners, various festivals): Recurrence (Supernatural “elevated” Horror/

necessary foundation so we can fully engage with all the beauty life has to offer.

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Thriller), Protos (Science Fiction), Angel Dust (Drama), Yosoy (TV Series), and Wild Summer (Feature Film).

Current Status Lead actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson is confirmed. 2nd draft of script is being written.

will laugh and you will cry. It will make you believe in life and art. And there is nostalgia. No cell phones.

Plenty of good food.

Previous work available on Cinando XL by Marteinn Thorsson, 2013, 88 mins.

Aims at the HFM Co-Pro Platform To find a majority partner and introduce the project to as many people as possible. It is a great project. You

Marteinn Thorsson Directors Marteinn Thorsson // Producers Marteinn Thorsson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Gudmundur Óskarsson // Screenwriters Gudmundur Óskarsson and Marteinn Thorsson // Based on Original screenplay

by Gudmundur Óskarsson // Languages TBD (French, Dutch, Danish or Swedish as main language with English and Icelandic) // Genre Drama // Format Digital // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience 14–114 //

Total budget €1.800.000 // Total budget in place €20.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached TBD

Attending HFM Marteinn Thorsson

Contact Marteinn Thorsson (Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company) / Laufskogar 11 — 810 Hveragerdi (Iceland) / Tel: +354 822 8958 / Email: m@tenderlee.com / www.tenderlee.com

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Apple Of My Eye — HFM Co-Pro 2015

Summer 1993 — HFM Co-Pro 2015

Previously at the HFM Co-Pro Platform Project update as of August 2017 2016 Financing SUNBURNED (Carolina Hellsgard), NiKo Film/Flickfilm, Germany // TANGIER STORIES (Fyzal Boulifa), In Vivo Films, France // In development BAGS AND TREV GET DATES FOR THE DEBS (Rob & Ronan Burke), Black Sheep Productions, Ireland // COMRADE STALIN SAVED MY LIFE (Kamila Kubiak & Oliver Patte), Blick Productions, France // ILLYRICVM (Simon Bogojevic Narath), Kinorama, Croatia // IMACULAT (Kenneth Mercken), Axel Film Echipamente, Romania // LOVE (Maya Vitkova), Viktoria Films, Bulgaria // MOLLY (Sally Potter), Adventure Pictures, UK // POINT NEMO (Jose Skaf), Aqui y Alli Films, Spain // THE RELIGION OF NIGHT WALKS (Nikola Lezaic), Film House Bas Celic, Serbia // THE TWINS (Eva Neymann), Apple Film Production, Poland // THE WHALE HUNTER (Philipp Yuryev), Rock Films, Russia // 2015 Completed SUMMER 1993 (Carla Simón), Inicia Films, Spain — Berlinale 2017 // PLAYING GOD (Karin Jurschick), Bildersturm Filmproduktion, Germany — Hot Docs 2017 In post-production APPLE OF MY EYE (Yaron Shani), Black Sheep Film Productions, Israel //

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 // SHARDS OF US (LAGE ZWALUWE), Erik de Bruyn, Submarine, The Netherlands // THE MAN DISAPPEARED (Jonathan Sagall), 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 //

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The Light Thereafter — HFM Co-Pro 2014

Pretenders — © Patrik Tamm — HFM Co-Pro 2014

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 // 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 — Istanbul Film Festival 2017 // 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 // PARI (Siamak Etemadi), Heretic, Greece // Financing 10 SONGS FOR CHARITY (Karin Junger), De Productie, The Netherlands // HIGH DIVE (Adam Csaszi), Focusfox, Hungary // LITTLE PARADISE (Philipp Döring), Weydemann Bros., Germany // 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 //

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 // WRECK IT! (Max Zähle), Tamtam Film, Germany — Release 2016 // MONK (Ties Schenk), Viking Film, The Netherlands // In post-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 // 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 // 2012 Completed Dust Cloth (Ahu Öztürk), Ret Film, Turkey — Berlinale 2016, Forum // THE Father

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Something Useful — HFM Co-Pro 2014

(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 // 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 // …And the Pursuit of Happiness (When Paul Came Over The Sea (Jakob Preuss), Weydemann Bros., Germany — Released in 2017 // In Blue (Jaap van Heusden), IJswater Films, The Netherlands — Released in 2017 // Pilgrimage (Brendan Muldowney), SP Films, Ireland — Released in 2017 // In production Death of a Salaryman (Adrian Sitaru), Vernon Films, UK // Financing in from the cold (Martin Krejci), Rinkel Film, The Netherlands / Stink London, UK / Dawson Productions, Czech Republic // 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 //

Album — HFM Co-Pro 2013

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 (Simonka de Jong), IDTV Docs, The Netherlands — IDFA 2012 // Yozgat Blues (Mahmut Fazil Coskun), Hokus Fokus Film, Turkey — San Sebastian 2013 // Cloudboy (Meikeminne Clinckspoor), Bulletproof Cupid, Belgium — Released 2017 // Heinz the movie (Piet Kroon), BosBros, The Netherlands Financing 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 //

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Heartstone — © Roxana Reiss — HFM Co-Pro 2013

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 RICHARD DID (Lenny Abrahamson), Element Pictures, Ireland — Toronto 2012, Contemporary World Cinema // The Journey (Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human Film, UK — TIFF 2017 // In development INTO THE FLAME (Sander Burger), NFI Productions, The Netherlands // The Lying Dutchman (Ulrike Grote), Fortune Cookie Filmproduction, 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

La Holandesa — HFM Co-Pro 2013

& 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 Festival 2011 // The unsaved (Igor Cobileanski), Saga Film, Romania — Karlovy Vary 2013 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 //

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Monk — © Kris Dewitte — HFM Co-Pro 2013

Ursul / THE BEAR (Dan Chisu), Libra Film, Romania — Transilvania 2011 // Financing PLAYOFF (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), Diadik GmbH, Germany — Sarasota

Motherland — HFM Co-Pro 2012

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

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The Blue Wave — HFM Co-Pro 2011

The Journey — HFM Co-Pro 2010

(Paula van der Oest), Riba Film, The Netherlands — Tribeca 2011 // It’s Hard to Be Nice (Srdjan Vuletic), Refresh Production, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Sarajevo 2007 // Kino Lika (Dalibor Matanic), Kinorama, Croatia — Pula 2008 // Nadine (Erik de Bruyn), Rocketta Film, The Netherlands — 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 //

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 //

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 Stelling), Jos Stelling Films,

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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Introduction Project selection Baby by Marcelo Caetano (Brazil) Beyond the Blue Bridge by Isabel Lamberti (The Netherlands) The Hague Hilton by Boris Paval Conen (The Netherlands) Life on Mars (working title) by Michiel van Erp (The Netherlands) Nasir by Arun Karthick (India) The Stranger by Zhengfan Yang (China) La vaca que cantรณ una canciรณn sobre el future

by Francisca Alegria (Chile)

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BoostNL 2017 BoostNL is a 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, longerrunning 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.

The programme 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 project to 150+ leading industry delegates attending HFM, following a pitch-coaching session offered by, among others, Ido Abram, Deputy Director of EYE Film Institute.

The programme will kick off this year with a selection of four international and three Dutch projects in development during the current edition of HFM and will continue through to IFFR’s CineMart 2018 (January 28 – 31).

Welcome to BoostNL 2017!

Holland Film Meeting & International Film Festival Rotterdam BoostNL selected projects will also be considered for both the HFM Co-Production Platform awards (see page 27) and the Work-in-Progress awards (see page 77).

We invite you to read about the projects in this chapter and about the Works-in-Progress from page 77.

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Baby

África Filmes (Brazil) A teenager is kicked out by his father who cannot stand his feminine mannerisms. Having no place to live, he starts seducing different men jumping from house to house.

Synopsis Wellington is 16-years-old and lives in the poor outskirts of São Paulo. His father is a military police officer, the mother a saleswoman. He is a delicate and feminine boy. His girlish mannerisms and velvety voice lead to constant fights with his father until the day he has to leave his house with only a backpack.

Having nowhere to stay, Wellington wanders through the streets, galleries and parks. He meets Rafael, a young middle-class boy who also fled from home and now works as a hustler. Rafael introduces Wellington to prostitution and they start to help each other. Rafael baptises Wellington to Baby. The boys are at the height of their beauty and youth. Hanging out together they are able to turn their fragile teenage situation in a constant pursuit of pleasure.

Wellington has a group of frequent clients that present to him a new world: fancy restaurants, sophisticated music, the cultural life of the metropolis. But he prefers the freedom of his nomad life over the comfortable bourgeois apartments of his sugar daddies.

Far from his authoritarian parents, Wellington is getting more feminine. He gets long pink dreads and earrings, starts wearing genderless clothes and now introduces himself as Baby. He tries to work in the traditional job market, but he is too queer and his insubordination leads him to conflicts with his superiors — especially the ones who want to standardise him.

When he is about to turn 18, he learns his father was shot in action and is lying unconscious. He feels

a strange sense of guilt, but not sadness. When Armando dies, Wellington finds his mother in a huge depression. She needs her son back home. It is time for a difficult choice: to reconnect with his family or continue with his hedonistic lifestyle.

Director’s Statement Baby follows the education of a gay teenager on the streets, without any tutor and far from any bourgeois morality. Family and school reject Wellington and he has to learn how to live on his own. The desire for freedom is what defines his trajectory.

Brazilian society has become increasing intolerant. Religious leaders, far-right politicians and conservative educators have banned actions that promoted gender and sexuality discussions in schools. Wellington is like thousands of kids who have to give up everything to live their sexuality away from domestic violence.

In search for individuality, Wellington rejects any kind of lasting or permanent bond. He loves living in a transitory way. He does not want to have a great job or a lot of money. Nor to find a companion with whom he can share the burden of the world. Wellington wants to feel the movement of life at its maximum intensity.

Director’s Profile Marcelo Caetano was born in 1982. He directed the shorts Bailão (2009) By Your Side (2011) and Verona (2013). The last two, presented at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, IndieLisboa and Montreal. He worked as co-writer and assistant

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director in Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son (2016); assistant director in Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull (2015) and Hilton Lacerda’s Tattoo (2013). He was casting director for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius (2016). Body Electric (2017), his first feature, was developed in the Script Station of Berlinale Talents, won three prizes at Ventana Sur — Primer Corte, and had its world premiere at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Production Company África Filmes is a content production hub for cinema and television. The company was founded by Anna Muylaert and has produced six feature films for cinema: Durval discos (2001), É proibido fumar (2008), Chamada a cobrar (2013), Second Mother (2015) and Don’t Call Me Son (2016). Ivan Melo has worked in festivals and arthouse distribution for twenty years.

He was the executive producer and programmer of São Paulo International Film Festival, director of

Marcelo Caetano

Paulinia Film Festival and CEO of Paulinia Film Fund.

Recently he joined África Filmes as a partner and coproduced the features: Body Electric (2016) by Marcelo Caetano and Alvorada Palace (in post-production), directed by Anna Muylaert, Cesar Charlone (El baño del papa) and Lo Politi. Melo is also the producer of the new film of Juliano R. Salgado (Salt of the Earth).

Current Status In development.

Aims at the BoostNL Programme Meeting producers and companies interested in developing new projects with Latin America since the very beginning as well as meeting institutions and funds that would be interested in investing in the issues of homophobia and human rights.

Previous work available on Cinando Body Electric by Marcelo Caetano, 2016, 97 mins.

Ivan Melo

Director Marcelo Caetano // Producer Ivan Melo // Screenwriters Marcelo Caetano, Gabriel Domingues // Based on Original screenplay // Language Portuguese // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Young, queer, arthoust cinema //

Total budget €650,000 // Total budget in place €10,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Hubert Bals Fund, Vitrine Filmes

Attending HFM Marcelo Caetano, Ivan Melo

Contact Ivan Melo (África Filmes) / Alameda Lorena, 983 Apt. 201 — 01424-001 São Paulo (Brazil) / Tel: +55 11 998487573 / Email: ivan.africafilmes@gmail.com, meloic@uol.com.br / www.africafilmes.com.br

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Beyond the Blue Bridge El azul bajo sus pies

IJswater Films (The Netherlands), Tourmalet Films (Spain) While the uncertainty rises over the continuity of the illegal Madrilenian district La Cañada Real, the film follows the daily life of members of a gypsy family, each member struggling in their own way with their life being in transition.

Synopsis In La Cañada Real, an illegal gypsy slum near Madrid, police are supervising as bulldozers demolish a selfbuild house in broad daylight. The pressure of the official institutions to change the area into a luxury golf resort has taken its toll on the inhabitants of the area, amongst them, the family Gabarre Mendoza.

While Augustina (36) turned from a full of laughter mother into a woman tormented by migraines, father David (37), a hard working scavenger, tries to find a solution. Not easy, for an illiterate man in a bureaucratic world.

The children of the family focus on their own personal worries. Isabel (17) attends a hairdressing course in the city of Madrid. When she falls for a boy, she spends more and more time in the city. But by simultaneously trying to live in two worlds, she slowly loses herself.

Jesus (16) is cocky and strong, David (15) is sensitive and intelligent. When David wins a camera, he starts shooting stunts with their mutual friends and by doing so, escapes his brother’s dominance.

Leaving Jesus eager to restore the status quo.

When Angelines’ (12) best friend’s family moves to a flat in the outskirts of Madrid, Angelines finds herself lonely. At home she starts a friendship with her sister-in-law Maria but in this new friendship she has to grow up fast.

The outsider Maria (15) is radically trying to feel at home in the gypsy community. She thinks she will only be accepted into her new family by birthing a

child. After being late, it is a big temptation not to keep up the façade when her period suddenly comes.

Alejandro (8) has a pony, Pépé, which he believes has magical powers. When he watches his family slowly disintegrate, he secretly prepares a magic show with Pépé to bring them all back together.

Director’s Statement Beyond the Blue Bridge is a hybrid film, set in an existing gypsy community. The family Gabarre Mendoza are ‘real’ members of this existing community under threat. The hybrid approach of working with non-actors and a documentary aesthetic combined with small fictionalised storylines places the film within the neo-realistic tradition.

The common theme in my work is the direct and indirect influence of a certain surrounding on the individual. Beyond the Blue Bridge deals with the feeling of displacement and the constant search for belonging as a result of the threat of the destruction of a home.

In Beyond the Blue Bridge, each character has to learn, sometimes in a harsh way, who she or he is and how she or he relates to the world around them.

Director’s Profile Isabel Lamberti was born in Germany, but grew up in Spain and later on in the Netherlands. She studied Film at the University of Amsterdam and at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, before attending the Netherlands Film Academy. In her films Lamberti finds a place in the grey area between documentary and fiction.

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I Will Fly Higher (Volando voy), Lamberti’s graduation film, has screened at film festivals all over the world and won the Torino Award at the International Film Students Meeting of the 2015 San Sebastian International Film Festival. At the moment her short film Amor is premiering at the 2017 Netherlands Film Festival selected both for the debut — and short film Golden Calf competition. The short documentary Father is being developed with Dutch public broadcaster KRONCRV. Beyond the Blue Bridge, Lamberti’s debut feature, was presented last year as a guest project at the Torino Film Lab pitching event.

Production Company IJswater Films is producing high quality films, such as The Polish Bride (Cannes Critics Choice), Headrush (Miramax Script Award), Skin (Emmy Award Nomination), WIN/WIN (Prix Genève Europe Script Award), 22nd of May (TIFF selection), The New World (Emmy Award Best Actress), Supernova (Berlinale Generation 14plus), Paradise Trips (Winner Best Flemish Film/Youth Prize), As If I’m Crazy (Jury Award Best Film Noida IFF 2017). September 14, 2017 In Blue by Jaap van Heusden will be released

by Paradiso Filmed Ent. (Winner 2016 HFM Work-inProgress award, Opening Film at the 2017 Film by

Isabel Lamberti

the Sea Festival, 2017 NFF Forum selection). IJswater produced fifty shorts, like Contact (Winner Berlinale Golden Bear) and TV drama, like Anvers (Winner FIPA D’or), Entre nosotros (Winner FIPA D’argent) and for the youth; Papa’s Tango (Berlinale K-plus), Anouar & the Moon (Winner TIFF Kids Jury Award), Sammy Paramaribo (Chicago Children’s FF) and documentaries like Bridging the Gap (IDFA selection).

Current Status Development and research. We will shoot a teaser trailer this autumn and will start financing at the end of the year. Hoping to shoot in the spring/ summer of 2018.

Aims at the BoostNL programme To meet potential co-producers, sales, financiers or other partners. And to take their views and advice with us in the final development stages before we start financing/pre-production. Meet partners for potential mutual interest in the social subject and future exploitation of the film.

Previous work available on Cinando Amor by Isabel Lamberti, 2017, 22 mins. & Volando voy

by Isabel Lamberti, 2015, 23 mins.

Steven Rubinstein Malamud

Director Isabel Lamberti // Producers Steven Rubinstein Malamud, Marc Bary // Screenwriters Lenina Ungari, Isabel Lamberti // Based on Original screenplay // Language Spanish // Genre Docudrama // Format HD Digital // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Arthouse and interested in social issues audience //

Total budget € 400.000 // Total budget in place €19.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund, Dutch Cultural Media Fund

Attending HFM Isabel Lamberti, Steven Rubinstein Malamud Contact Steven Rubinstein Malamud (IJswater Films) / Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110/4 — 1079 LD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 14911222 / Email: steven@ijswater.nl / www.ijswater.nl

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The Hague Hilton Family Affair Films (The Netherlands) Poul, guard in the ICTY Detention Unit in The Hague, values his neutrality. This is being compromised when he gets caught up in a ruthless power game between the detainees.

Synopsis The Hague Hilton is a battlefield. Not with guns and mortars, but with sandwiches, dirty laundry and clay sculptures. It is an arena where the men will have to secure their place over and over again. The prisoners have no place where they are safe; not in their room, not with their compatriots. They are always on guard and can not let their vigilance down. Although the Yugoslav civil war has stopped, the struggle within the prison walls continues. The men are no longer fighting cities, villages and enclaves but for their position at the breakfast table.

Poul Olsen (50, Danish) is head of the UN Detention Centre in The Hague, guarding men accused of war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia. Olson runs his department in his own social, loose way, because he highly believes in the UN idealistic goal that every suspect, regardless of his crimes, is entitled to a proper and just treatment. Boško Vukić (52, Serbian), considers himself as the leader of the prisoners in the department and sees Poul as a kind of friend.

A new prisoner arrives at Poul’s department: Tomislav Begović (51, Bosnian). He was Vukić’s arch enemy during the war. Poul believes that he can maintain the peace in the department. But difficulties arise when Jasna Zlatarović a beautiful and charismatic Bosnian woman (44) visits both Begović and Vukić and tries to set them up against each other.

The conflict between Begović and Vukić runs high.

Poul no longer controls the department and he is forced to act strictly, also against Vukić. Vukić is very disappointed that Poul is not choosing Vukić’s side in

the conflict. Additionally, Poul is charmed by Jasna and Vukić doesn’t like that. Slowly Vukic’s hostility is shifting from Begović to Poul.

Can Poul keep neutrality in this battlefield? Or will he lose all the values he stands for?

Director’s Statement In this world there are processes that we cannot influence as an individual. Wars and crises are the expressions of processes that develop over time.

Although we like to point the responsibility to some individuals, those same individuals are often the victim of larger mechanisms.

This does not mean that I believe the individual is not guilty of his actions. On the contrary. Every human being must be accounted for his actions.

The insight into why people do what they do, is however a better response to all the misery around us than to admit to the comforting black and white thinking.

The time that the Western world is the superior referee in all conflicts, is over. How often did the UN in an initial peace mission eventually become part of the conflict? Western countries have long lost their credibility due to the scandals and incidents. We only try to hold on to this — in an almost colonialist way of thinking.

Director’s Profile Boris Paval Conen debuted with the controversial feature Temmink, The Ultimate Fight (1998). The TV series 9 Days Of The Vulture (2001) won the national

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award for best TV drama. The TV series The Secrets Of Barslet (2012), written by Anjet Daanje, was nominated for three national awards. The TV film Exit (2013), based on a true story on the eviction of asylum seekers, won the national award for best TV drama and was nominated for the Prix Europa Best TV drama of 2013. Television film Kamp Holland (2016) is nominated for the Rose d’Or 2017. The Hague Hilton will be Conen’s third feature film.

Production Company Family Affair Films is an Amsterdam based film production company specialising in urgent and contemporary fiction of high artistic quality with strong author driven visions.

Family Affair Films produced features Code Blue

by Urszula Antoniak (2011 Cannes’ Quinzaine des Realisateurs), Life According to Nino by Simone van Dusseldorp (Best Film 2014 Cinekid), History’s Future

Boris Paval Conen

by Fiona Tan (Tiger Award nomination 2016 IFFR) and Urszula Antoniak’s Beyond Words (world premiere Toronto, competition 2017 San Sebastian). In 2018 a very promising production will be released: Rosanne Pel’s feature debut Light As Feathers.

Guido Van Driel’s second feature Bloody Marie will go into pre-production this autumn. The company is also developing Antoniak’s fifth feature Stranger.

Current Status Project development. Script is available.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Meeting potential co-producers, broadcasters, sales agents and distributors.

Previous work available on Cinando Exit by Boris Paval Conen, 2013, 90 mins.

Floor Onrust

Director Boris Paval Conen // Producer Floor Onrust // Screenwriter Anjet Daanje // Based on Original screenplay // Languages English, Bosnian, Serbian, Dutch, Danish // Genre Drama // Format HD // Running time 100 mins. // Target audience Primary: 40–75 //

Total budget €2.000.000 // Total budget in place €60.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Netherlands Film Fund

Attending HFM Boris Paval Conen, Floor Onrust

Contact Floor Onrust (Family Affair Films) / Entrepotdok 77A — 1018 AD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7071713 / Email: info@familyaffairfilms.nl / www.familyaffairfilms.nl

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Life on Mars (working title) De Familie Film & TV (The Netherlands) Milou’s husband confesses that he wants to go to Mars as a scientist. When she realises the Mars mission concerns a one-way-ticket, it blows her mind. It forces her to take a stand: she finds an inner strength, which she lost a long time ago.

Synopsis Ignoring the fact her husband Peter (49) wanted to be alone with her to discuss something important, Milou, successful midwife with her own company (48), is preparing a surprise party for his fiftieth birthday in their holiday home in the south of France.

Upon arrival, Peter is totally overwhelmed at first, then recovers and takes the floor; a story about human missions to Mars follows, about serving the world by researching the possibilities to live on Mars, the contribution he can make as a scientist. He is going to apply for the selection rounds.

At first Milou feels relieved because for a long time she suspected he had an affair. But when the consequences of Peter’s choice — the Mars mission is a one-way-ticket — really dawns on her, it blows her mind.

No one knows how to react. This must be a very bad joke.

Milou goes through a night full of confusion, wild despair and turmoil. What does their 26 years marriage mean to him? What about his responsibilities, would he really leave his son?!

The hot summer night forces not only their son and their friends to take a stand, but Peter’s confession will turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Milou, for she ends up rediscovering an inner strength, which she has lost a long time ago. That strength will put her on her very own journey.

Director’s Statement Life on Mars (wt) is a typical actors’ movie. The power and conviction of the actors’ performances is

leading. At the same time we want the visual to take precedence over the linguistic. A lot of talking naturally comes with the genre, but where possible we would like cinematic elements to replace dialogue. Natural elements can be key to this. I think nature and its powerful forces could play a prominent part in the film.

It might make our characters and their worries seem more futile. I see the night in which the film takes place as a magical cross between a fairytale and a nightmare.

Not unlike life itself. And we have to use these elements during the scriptwriting stage. In Life on Mars (wt) I want to try and elevate reality a little. With — slightly — magical, shimmering elements and wonderful situations which the characters put themselves in. At the same time I want to stop the characters and their dreams from becoming unrealistic and implausible.

Director’s Profile Award winning director Michiel van Erp (Prix Europe, BAFTA nomination) has teamed up again with price winning screenwriter Marnie Blok (Montblanc Script Award 2011 Hamburg Filmfest, 2012 Stony Brook Festival Best Film, Audience Award International Women’s festival Dortmund). Their very successful drama series Ramses won international awards like the Prix Europe for Best Drama Series, an Emmy Award for best actor and was nominated for BANFF. Besides this, Van Erp has a solid reputation in the Netherlands of 25 years making documentaries such as I Am a Woman Now, Erwin Olaf on Beauty and Fall and Fear.

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Production Company De Familie Film & TV is an award winning production company in the Netherlands, founded in 2005 by producer Monique Busman and filmmaker Michiel van Erp. The Amsterdam based company produces documentaries, drama series and fiction for theatrical release and television. The documentaries cover a wide range of subjects such as the international motorcycle gang Satudarah, elderly transgenders, a portrait of the famous Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf and the First Vice-President of the European Commission; Frans Timmermans.

Current Status We are in an early development: re-writing treatment to apply at Dutch Film Fund for script development

Michiel van Erp

autumn 2017. The script is aimed to be finalised by the end of spring 2018, and I am looking now for possible co-producing partners in Belgium and France. My goal is to have all financing in place winter 2018/2019, to start pre-production spring 2019 and start post-production summer of 2019. Release will hopefully be at an A-Festival, spring 2020.

Aims at the BoostNL programme Mainly to meet French and Flemish co-producers, and also to get in touch with sales agents.

Previous work available on Cinando Ramses by Michiel van Erp, 2014, 4x50 mins.

Monique Busman

Director Michiel van Erp // Producers Monique Busman, Michiel van Erp // Screenwriter Marnie Blok // Based on Original screenplay // Languages Dutch, French, English // Genre Dramedy // Format HD // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Independent movie selectives, primary urban educated females between 45–65 //

Total budget €2.580.000 // Total budget in place €115.000 // Sales TBD // Attached partners AVROTROS The Netherlands, Netherlands Film Fund, Phanta Film

Attending HFM Michiel van Erp, Monique Busman

Contact Monique Busman (De Familie Film & TV) / Schollenbrugstraat 4 — 1091EX Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6633303 / Email: monique@defamilie.net / www.defamilie.net

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Nasir

Stray Factory (India) Nasir’s story comprehends not just the peaceful anonymity of the lives of small people but also, more sorrowfully, the vengeful and arrogant anonymity of the mob in recent Indian history.

Synopsis Salesman Nasir lives a contended life with his mother, wife Fatima and nephew Iqbal in a closely populated ghetto. Employed in an apparel shop at the heart of a busy city, the middle aged Nasir is a hard worker. He speaks humorously and makes others laugh. He is also endowed with a half-baked philosophical attitude, so he likes poetry. On Sundays he composes poems along the lines of Hindi film songs of the sixties and launches them in front of his co-workers. When he recites his poems, he starts with his right hand placed over his chest and with wave-like motions nearly brushing the noses of the listeners. He smokes ten Beedis a day and drinks four cups of tea. He goes for his midday prayers occasionally.

Nasir’s chronicle emerges through the detailed observation of his vicinity over the span of one particular day. As his day unfolds we find him to be a nimble romantic, marshalling a love of love, song, children, friendship, and even God to rise into something resembling a life well lived. But the increasing communal bigotry has other plans.

Director’s Statement In 1998, bomb blasts at various places in my city have led to violent communal riots between the local Hindu and Muslim communities. Almost two decades later, in September 2016, communal riots initiated by the right wing returned to my city. With each passing day the ruling right wing continues to publicly lynch and terminate the lives of the minorities.

Salesmen represent the drudgery, anonymity and powerlessness of modern life, but perhaps also all the inchoate yearnings that lie beneath the prosaic business of selling mass-produced goods and obeying orders. Behind the forced obedience of every salesman one hears whispers. I intend to closely observe Nasir’s soul-crushing structures with striking atmospheric detail that would allow for both distance and intimacy with the small pleasurable details of business in the heart of a city. What might overwhelm a life that has after so many tribulations worked out a resilient peace?

Director’s Profile Arun Karthick (1992) is an independent filmmaker based in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Self-taught, he began producing and directing short films at the age of seventeen. He finished his debut feature The Strange Case of Shiva with a gap financing award at the 2014 Film Bazaar. The film premiered in the Bright Future section of the 2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is currently working on his second feature Nasir which has received the Hubert Bals Fund’s support for script development.

Production Company Mathivanan Rajendran is the founder of Stray Factory, a performing arts and new media entertainment company. Since 2010, he has produced over twenty theatrical productions across the globe at various performing arts festivals including South Africa,

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Los Angeles, Sydney and Kuala Lumpur. He was the producer of Black Sheep, one of South India’s first web series. He also launched Stray Stories, a short documentary series which is focused on bringing to the fore positive stories from marginalised and sidelined communities in Tamil Nadu. He was recently appointed as festival director for Short+Sweet Film Festival, South India in collaboration with the Stella Adler Academy, Los Angeles.

Aims at the BoostNL Programme Our primary objective is to find co-producers and partners. We are also looking for potential collaborators, crew and post-production services from the Netherlands.

Previous work available on Cinando The Strange Case of Shiva by Arun Karthick, 2015, 75 mins.

Current Status Pre-production (first draft of screenplay completed)

Arun Karthick

Mathivanan Rajendran

Director Arun Karthick // Producers Mathivanan Rajendran, Vignesh Balaji // Screenwriter Arun Karthick // Based on Short story

by Dilip Kumar // Language Tamil // Genre Drama // Format S16 (Digital) // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Cinema lovers! //

Vignesh Balaji Total budget €135.000 // Total budget in place €55.000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Hubert Bals Fund

Attending HFM Arun Karthick, Mathivanan Rajendran, Vignesh Balaji

Contact Mathivanan Rajendran (Stray Factory) / 17, Bhimsena Garden Street — 600004 Chennai (India) / Tel: +91 97 90911711 / Email: mathi@strayfactory.com / www.strayfactory.com

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The Stranger

Burn The Film (China) Thirteen portraits of the people who feel like strangers not only in hotel rooms but also in their home country.

Synopsis In China, the hotel industry is the outcome of the economic reform which was initiated by premier Deng Xiaoping in 1978. It witnesses the economic boom, social modernisation, and political reform in the Chinese society during the past forty years. In a broader sense, a hotel room is the 21st-century style closet that provides secluded refuge for people who are away from home, a miniature of the rootless urban life that implies coming and going, and a metaphor for human beings’ existential relationship to this world.

The Stranger takes the hotel room as the tip of the iceberg to reflect critical social issues through the lens of personal experience, telling the stories of different Chinese people who are socially marginalised and psychologically exiled in their home country.

The film consists of thirteen individual stories that take place in thirteen hotel rooms, each that will be shot in one single long take. Set in Beijing, this film portrays the states of Chinese people who come to the capital city from different parts of the country for a variety of reasons: two lamas who were born and raised in Tibet come to Beijing for the first time of their lives to see the flag-raising ceremony at the Tiananmen Square; a group of farmers whose farmland were illegally occupied by the local government gather in a gloomy basement in Beijing to search for justice; four students stay overnight in a hotel near the U.S. Embassy and rehearse for tomorrow’s visa application interview which is the last step to their ‘American Dream’; in a newly-built chain hotel, a maid imagines the story of the previous

guests in her mind by tracing the stuff they left; in a historical state-owned hotel which will be demolished in the following day, an old couple are recollecting their memories…

Director’s Statement The Stranger is the last part of ‘The Outsider Trilogy’, following my previous two films Distant and Where Are You Going. I was born and raised in China: I made my feature debut Distant in my hometown Zhuhai because I found myself “an expatriate in the region of my birth”; this feeling was intensified after I moved to Hong Kong and had lived there for five years, and Where Are You Going is the outcome of this experience.

Since 2015, I started living between China and the U.S.. Every time when I travel back to China, strangely, I have a stronger feeling of being separated, alienated, and isolated in my home country than I am in a foreign country. Like many others of my generation, I do not feel at home here, there, or elsewhere. I decided to examine my homeland as a stranger and to share my experience as an outsider not from the ‘outside’ but from the ‘inside’.

Director’s Profile Zhengfan Yang was born in 1985 in China. After graduating from Law school, he co-founded Burn The Film in 2010, together with Shengze Zhu. His debut feature Distant (2013) premiered at Festival del Film Locarno and screened internationally at Vancouver IFF, Warsaw FF, Nantes 3 Continents, among others.

His second feature Where Are You Going (2016)

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premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and received the Jury Award at China Independent Film Festival. Yang has also served as the producer and cinematographer of two documentaries directed

by Zhu: Out of Focus (2014, Cinéma du Réel) and Another Year (2016, Visions du Réel).

Production Company Co-founded by Shengze Zhu and Zhengfan Yang, who have been working as collaborative duo since 2010, Burn The Film is devoted to producing innovative audiovisual works, including creative documentaries and author fiction films. It has produced four feature-length films and won a number of awards: Distant (2013, Festival del film Locarno), Out of Focus (2014, Cinéma du Réel), Where Are You Going (2016, International Film Festival Rotterdam; China Independent Film Festival — Jury Award), and Another

Zhengfan Yang

Year (2016, Visions du Réel — Best Film Award; RIDM Montreal International Documentary Film Festival — Grand Prize).

Current Status In development/script writing; International financing; First draft expected by October 2017; Final script expected by December 2017; Production expected in September 2018.

Aims at BoostNL Script feedback; Financial plan; Finding co-production partners; Consultancies regarding distribution/ marketing strategies.

Previous work available on Cinando Distant (Yuan Fang) by Zhengfan Yang, 2013, 88 mins.

Shengze Zhu

Director Zhengfan Yang // Producer Shengze Zhu // Screenwriter Zhengfan Yang // Based on Original screenplay // Language Chinese regional language (various dialects) // Genre Fiction // Format 4K // Running time 100 mins. // Target audience International arthouse audience //

Total budget €410,000 // Total budget in place €110,000 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Hubert Bals Fund (Netherlands)

Attending HFM Zhengfan Yang, Shengze Zhu

Contact Shengze Zhu (Burn The Film) / Wuchang/Nanhu, Wuhan — 430000 (China) / Tel: +1 312 8600809 / Email: youngzhengfan@hotmail.com, zhushengze@gmail.com / www.burnthefilm.org

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La vaca que cantó una canción sobre el futuro The Cow That Sang a Song About the Future

Jirafa (Chile), Bananeira Films (Brazil), Cinéma Defacto (France) Agonising animals sing operatic songs about our future, while a wounded family is forced to confront their oppressive patriarch, whose company is causing severe damage in the south of Chile.

Synopsis In the middle of a field in the South of Chile, the sounds of nature slowly become a symphony. The voice of an agonising cow enters to complete the musical piece, as she sings to her daughter about the torture she has been through. Cecilia (45), the only witness of this event, sees the cow dying next to several others.

Cecilia wakes up in the city, vaguely remembering the event as a dream. She works in a family office, which is part of the Hartmann Group, owners of one of the biggest Dairy Businesses in Chile. Her most pressing concern is her only son, Tomas (19), who she feels is distancing himself from her. When the mysterious death of hundreds of cows of the family’s dairy factory hits national news, Cecilia is in shock.

On that day she is summoned by her father, to help him handle the situation in the south of Chile. Cecilia convinces Tomas, her brother Antonio (47) and his daughter Alma (6) to join her for a weekend at the family house. Once there, the family is completed

by Enrique (80), the patriarch and Bernardo (52), the oldest sibling and most likely successor of the family business.

In the midst of this family reunion, Magdalena (33), the matriarch, comes back from the dead to clarify the circumstances around her suicide. She appears to Cecilia and tells her about Enrique’s constant physical abuse, which lead to her depression. Cecilia does not believe her mother, and searches for the truth in her siblings. While Cecilia realises she has been wrong all along, the house is ‘attacked’ by a group of bikers, that hang a cow’s head on the gates.

In the afterlife (here on Earth), Cecilia meets once again with her mother. They reconcile and then go their separate ways; Magdalena has one final encounter with Enrique, and Cecilia walks for an indefinite amount of time, arriving at the Atacama Desert. As she walks, a mirage of water is seen, spreading on the sands behind her.

Director’s Statement In 2015, in the south of my country, 337 whales where found dead. That is the biggest single whale stranding event known to science and the cause was never confirmed by any government or environmental entity.

But the fact is that, whichever the cause was (a red tide most evidently, which is impossible to track back to a specific corporation) it all comes down to us. We have violated nature, all of us. We have pushed it aside for our cities to expand, instead of co-existing with it. We have industrialised food, breaking the natural chains of evolution and demoralising the existence of animals. We are reaching the point of no return and the signals are loud and clear, we are just not open to them. It is as if we needed nature to speak to us directly, with a voice and words and intonation. Speak with those lyrical metaphors that allow poetry to filter through the veil of the mundane, to show us the divine within the earthly... This is what has inspired me to give a voice to nature and express it musically.

In a way, being a woman in this world ruled by men, makes me dream with giving a voice to the repressed.

I want to be an active agent in this regard, because our voices are the vehicle toward change and

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equilibrium. In La vaca que cantó una canción sobre el futuro the protagonist Cecilia, is a woman who needs to learn how to open herself to her feminine side, and embrace that which has been repressed by the masculine. In this thematic level, the character of Magdalena (Cecilia’s dead mother) is the matriarch of a family, who comes back to claim her place.

The feminine paradigm is approaching, and I am envisioning a world that is preparing for that.

Director’s Profile Francisca Alegría is a scriptwriter and film director, with studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MFA on script and directing at Columbia University, NYC. Her thesis short Y todo el cielo cupo en el ojo de la vaca won the best international short at 2017 Sundance. Throughout 2017 she has developed a script for her first feature film La vaca que cantó una canción sobre el futuro in Sundance Lab, and is also preparing a TV series.

Production Company Jirafa was founded in 2001 by experienced producer Bruno Bettati who established his own production house in Chile. In 2014 Augusto Matte became the new GM for the company. Jirafa specialises in fiction feature films, being able to bring forth to its premiere

Francisca Alegría

both low-budget independent films as well as complex international co-productions. All of Jirafa’s films have premiered at important film festivals and have sold national distribution rights. Bettati has produced over 16 feature films which premiered internationally, such as El cielo la tierra y la Lluvia (2008 IFFR), Ilusiones ópticas (2009 San Sebastián), Huacho (2009 Cannes), Manuel de Ribera (2010 IFFR), Bonsái (2011 Cannes), Miguel San Miguel (2012 La Habana), Il futuro (2013 Sundance) El verano de los peces voladores (2013 Cannes) and The Pearl Button (2015 Berlinale).

Current Status Second script draft in Spanish and English ready. Fund submissions to FFA Chile, VSE and WCF for 43% of budget already submitted. Results by November 2017.

Aims at BoostNL programme Finding European private equity applicable to the feature film. Finding European TV sales applicable to the feature film. Find and agree with a sales agent prior to the shoot.

Previous work available on Cinando Y todo el cielo cupo en el ojo de la vaca by Francisca Alegría, 2017, 18 mins.

Bruno Bettati

Director Francisca Alegría // Producers Bruno Bettati, Augusto Matte // Screenwriters Francisca Alegría, Manuela Infante // Based on Original screenplay // Genre Drama/ Fantastic // Format HD // Running time 120 mins. // Target audience 18–99, all ages. //

Total budget € 912.664 // Total budget in place € 168.812 // Sales TBD // Partners attached Asterion Pictures

Attending HFM Francisca Alegría, Bruno Bettati Contact Bruno Bettati (Jirafa) / Pérez Rosales 787 of. A — 5110652 Valdivia (Chile) / Tel: +56 63 2213556 / Email: bruno@jirafa.cl / www.jirafa.cl

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Introduction La cama by Monica Lairana (Argentina) — Also in BoostNL The Champion by Giordano Bianchi and Martina Marafatto (Italy) Light as Feathers by Rosanne Pel (The Netherlands) Magnetic Pathways by Edgar Pêra (Portugal) Nocturne by Viktor van der Valk (The Netherlands) — Also in BoostNL Der Unschuldige by Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland) — Also in BoostNL Previously at the HFM Work-in-Progress Session Project/Film status update

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Work-in-Progress Session Since 2013, the Holland Film Meeting has organised 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.

Former Works-in-Progress performed very well this year. Quality Time by Daan Bakker premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and In Blue by Jaap van Heusden will screen at this year’s Netherlands Film Festival.

The Works-in-Progress are given an even more prominent role within this year’s edition. 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 executives, festival programmers and distributors. This will include the screening of a 12-minute excerpt from each work. Three of the selected WiPs will also participate in the BoostNL programme organised in collaboration with CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam).

The selected Works-in-Progress (including the BoostNL projects) will be considered for the following award: • The Filmmore HFM Work-in-Progress 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 Tuesday, September 26.

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La cama The Bed

Adriana Yurcovich, Paulo Pécora and Gema Juarez Allen (Argentina), Sutor Kolonko (Germany), 3 Moinhos Produções (Brazil), Topkapi Films (The Netherlands) Synopsis Jorge (60) and Mabel (59) wake up one morning trying to repair the irreparable.

Director’s Profile Mónica Lairana was born in Argentina. She is an actress and filmmaker. She directed and produced Rosa (2010, short, Official Competition 63° Cannes Film Festival), Maria (2013, short, 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Best Latin American Short Film at the 2013 Vancouver Film festival, Best Latin American Film 2013 Zinebi) and Emilia (2014, short, found footage). This last film was commissioned by the National Museum of Cinema from Argentina, as a tribute to ‘Sucesos Argentinos’, a classic Argentinean newsreel. The film was screened at 2014 Bafici and at 2014 Viennale. She is currently finishing La cama, her feature film debut.

Mónica Lairana

Adriana Yurcovich

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Director Mónica Lairana // Producers Adriana Yurcovich, Paulo Pécora, Mónica Lairana and Gema Juarez Allen // Screenwriter Mónica Lairana // Director of Photography Flavio Dragoset

Editor Eduardo Serrano // Cast Sandra Sandrini, Alejo Mango // Language Spanish // Genre Drama // Format 4K Alexa Mini // Running time 95 mins. // Target audience Adult audience/Women 35–65

Aims at the BoostNL / WiP Programme Feedback on edited version. Exchange tips and opinions about the best strategy for distribution and international sales of our film.

Attending HFM Mónica Lairana, Adriana Yurcovich

Contact Mónica Lairana / Aranguren 561, 1A — CP 1405 Buenos Aires (Argentina) / Tel: +54 911 53332959 / Email: monilaira@hotmail.com

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The Champion

Border Studio S.C. (Italy) Synopsis Giuseppe “Peppe” Ottaviani is not your everyday centenarian. He holds the 60, 100 and 200 meter world record, as well as the high, long and triple jump, disc throwing and Pentathlon record. With his 50-year younger son Paolo as his sidekick, Peppe is a star of the Italian and the World Masters Athletics Championships, “Sport is good!” is his motto.

Peppe is an inspiration to thousands. Audiences love him for his performances and his speeches.

Paolo could never establish a relationship with his father because of the differences in age and temper.

Now, given the age of Peppe, he feels the urge to change this situation.

This year Peppe became a centenarian. His son wants to celebrate the event and make the best of it.

Despite what one may expect, Peppe must face not only time and age, but also those people that would rather keep someone his age safe and sound at home.

Paolo and Peppe never lose heart, and reply breaking record after record. The dynamic duo seems unstoppable. But at the end of the summer, Giuseppe suffered a mild heart attack. Time reminded him his rules, Peppe and Paolo will now have to face it.

Directors’ Profiles Giordano Bianchi after various experiences, found a means of expression in visual communication.

He believes documentary is an efficient means of analysis both of the individual and of the masses.

Along the years, he directed short films and documentaries. He is a teacher in ‘Direction of Photography’ at the University of Udine.

Martina Marafatto began her studies in cinematography at the Centro Sperimentale Televisivo in Rome. She believes that working as an editor requires not only technical skills, but also being able to ‘listen’. “Working on film material requires being, in a way, a psychologist.” She teaches editing at the University of Udine.

Giordano Bianchi

Martina Marafatto

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Directors Giordano Bianchi and Martina Marafatto // Producer Paola Sponda // Screenwriters Giordano Bianchi and Martina Marafatto // Director of Photography Giordano Bianchi //

Editor Martina Marafatto // Cast Giuseppe “Peppe” Ottaviani, Paolo Ottaviani // Languages Italian, English // Genre Documentary // Format Full HD // Running time 75 mins. // Target audience International audience //

Aims at the WiP programme Post-production partners, broadcasters, distributors Attending HFM Giordano Bianchi, Martina Marafatto

Paola Sponda Contact Paola Sponda (Border Studio S.C.) / Via dei Cordaroli, 25 — 34135 Trieste (Italy) / Tel: +39 347 8563979 / Email: info@borderstudio.it / www.borderstudio.it

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Light as Feathers

Family Affair Films (The Netherlands) Synopsis 15-year-old Eryk lives with his mother, grandmother and great grandmother in a geese pickers village in Poland. His father has been out of the picture for as long as Eryk can remember. With his manipulative and dominant mother, he has an intimate relationship.

Eryk has feelings for his 13-year-old neighbor Klaudia.

We follow Eryk for several years, trying to win Klaudia’s heart. But he does not know the difference between love and abuse.

Director’s Profile Rosanne Pel received her Master’s degree at the Netherlands Film Academy in 2015. Before that she studied at the Utrecht School of Arts where she received her Bachelor’s for directing and scenario fiction in 2011. During her studies she made various short films. Her short film Out of Sight (2010) was selected for International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the NPS New arrivals audience award.

Light as Feathers is her debut feature as scriptwriter and director.

Rosanne Pel

Floor Onrust

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Director Rosanne Pel // Producer Floor Onrust // Screenwriter Rosanne Pel // Production Robert Wozniak // Director of Photography Aafke Beernink // Editor Xander Nijsten // Cast Eryk Walny, Ewa Makula, Klaudia Przybylska // Language Polish //

Genre Drama // Format 16mm // Running time 85 mins. // Target audience Primary: 25–45; Secondary: 15–25

Aims at the WiP programme Feedback on festival and release strategy.

Attending HFM Rosanne Pel, Floor Onrust

Contact Floor Onrust (Family Affair Films) / Entrepotdok 77A — 1018 AD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7071713 / Email: info@familyaffairfilms.nl / www.familyaffairfilms.nl

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Magnetic Pathways Caminhos magnéticos

Bando à Parte (Portugal), Persona Non Grata (Brazil) Synopsis “Money isn’t everything!”

Raymond, around sixty years old, Parisian, author of photographic comics and French animation films, came to Portugal with the Carnation Revolution on 25th of April of 1974, where he fell in love and stayed for forty years. His business declined and Raymond lives in economic dependence of his wife, Gertrudes.

Magnetic Pathways unfolds on the wedding day of his 21-year-old daughter, Catarina, with Damião, a much older rich man. Raymond tortures himself for keeping quiet and to have consented to this wedding, thinking that it would be preferable to have financial security in face of the uncertainty of the today’s troubled world. But Raymond realises that night that money is not everything and regrets it, martyring and taking desperate measures to end the marriage.

Lisbon is in a state of civil war and in the process of the instalment of a new militarised authoritarian regime. During a night and day of humiliations, Raymond will go through an inner revolution and a kaleidoscopic travel in a city on the verge of collapse.

It is as well the collapse of his convictions.

Director’s Profile The first phase of Edgar Pêra’s work started in 1985, shooting his kino-diaries, and reached its acme in 1991 with The City of Cassiano (Grand Prix Architecture Film Festival of Bordeaux). His first (cine-cosmopolitan and controversial) feature was Manual of Evasion LX94 (Lisbon 1994), with Terence Mckenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker. His feature The Window (Don Juan Mix) premiered at the 2001 International Film Festival Locarno. In 2004 Pêra had his first international retrospective at the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam. In 2006 Pêra has won the Pasolini Award (with Jodorowsky and Arrabal) in Paris. His last features are The Baron (2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam), Cinesapiens — 3X3D (with Godard and Greenaway, 2013 Cannes), Lisbon Revisited (2014 Locarno), The Amazed Spectator (2015 IFFR) and Delirium in Las Vedras (2016 IFFR).

Edgar Pêra

Rodrigo Areias

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Director Edgar Pêra // Producer Rodrigo Areias // Screenwriter Edgar Pêra // Director of Photography Jorge Quintela // Editor Edgar Pêra // Cast Dominique Pinon, Ney Matogrosso, Paulo Pires, Teresa Ovídio, Alba Baptista, Marina Albuquerque, Íris Cayatte, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Prendas, a.o. //

Languages Portuguese, French // Genre Fiction // Format 4K // Running time 90 mins. // Target audience Arthouse cinemas

Aims at the WiP programme Finding an international sales agent.

Attending HFM Edgar Pêra, Rodrigo Areias

Contact Rodrigo Areias (Bando à Parte) / Rua Padre Augusto Borges de Sá — 4810-236 Guimaraes (Portugal) / Tel: +35 19 18612754 / Email: areias@bandoaparte.com / www.bandoaparte.com

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Nocturne

Maniak Film (The Netherlands), A Private View (Belgium) Synopsis Two producers, an investor, a deadline, one night, a woman, a gun and a hopelessly romantic boy. While wandering through the night, director Alex searches for the essence of his film. He seems to have lost his inspiration, on top of that he finds his girlfriend walking out on him. Why? What happened? Where did it all go wrong? The more he wanders, Alex gets convinced that the essence of his film concerns a struggle between love and ambition. But slowly we get to learn that he is finding difficulties balancing the disappointing reality (the world in front of his eyes) and his imagination (the world behind his eyes). Meanwhile, the dividing line between fiction and reality becomes increasingly turbid. Is Alex entangled in his own film? A lyrical Film Noir about two producers, an investor, a deadline, one night, a woman, a gun and a hopelessly romantic boy.

Director’s Profile Writer/director Viktor van der Valk studied Audiovisual Media at the School of Arts in Utrecht.

He continued studying at the Netherlands Film Academy. His graduation film Onno the Oblivious (2014) premiered at San Sebastian Film Festival and won the prestigious Orona Saria award. The film also won several other awards including the Tuschinski Award at the Netherlands Film Festival. In 2015 the film was selected as the Dutch submission for the Student Academy Award. Nocturne is Van der Valk’s debut feature.

Viktor van der Valk

Erik Glijnis

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Director Viktor van der Valk // Producers Erik Glijnis, Dries Phlypo // Screenwriters Jeroen Scholten van Aschat, Viktor van der Valk // Director of Photography Emo Weemhoff // Editor Lot Rossmark // Cast Vincent van der Valk, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Simone van Bennekom, Bien de Moor, Tom Dewispelaere, Bart Slegers, Lien Wildemeersch, Ellen Parren. //

Language Dutch // Genre Drama // Format DCP following DCI // Running time 95 mins. // Target audience 25–45 //

Aims at the BoostNL / WiP programme International sales Attending HFM Viktor van der Valk, Erik Glijnis

Contact Erik Glijnis (Maniak Film) / Soendastraat 22H — 1094 BH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 43895163 / Email: erik@lemmingfilm.com

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Der Unschuldige The Innocent

8horses (Switzerland), augenschein (Germany) Synopsis Something changes when Ruth sees a man she strangely seems to recognise. Without talking to him, she returns home. Long ago, she loved him. He has spent twenty years in prison for a murder he claims he did not commit. Ruth has not seen him since his conviction.

Ruth has two teenage daughters, a husband and a house in the suburbs. She and her family are members of a charismatic Christian community. She assists in a complicated surgery whereby the head of a rhesus monkey is being transplanted onto the body of another monkey.

The man haunts Ruth’s life like a phantom from the past. He seems to circle around her in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to re-emerge into her life. She is torn between the wish to keep up her domestic existence and the destructive attraction of her past lover.

The door to the underground has sprung open and Ruth starts to investigate. The forest bears secrets, her daughters are two-faced and the beheaded monkey is in misery. Ruth takes a plunge into a dark ocean undercutting the thin foundation of her beliefs.

She leaves her home, her family and her faith behind.

Director’s Profile Simon Jaquemet (1978) grew up on a farm near Basel in Switzerland. After a short career as a professional snowboarder, he studied film directing at the Zürich University of the Arts. His first feature Chrieg premiered at the 2014 San Sebastian International Film Festival and was invited to festivals all over the world. Chrieg won the prestigious Max Ophüls Preis and several more awards, including the Swiss Film Award for best cinematography as well as the Jury Prize and the Prize for Best Actor at the Marrakech Film Festival.

Simon Jaquemet

Aurelius Eisenreich

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Director Simon Jaquemet // Producers Aurelius Eisenreich and Tolga Dilsiz // Screenwriter Simon Jaquemet // Director of Photography Gabriel Sandru // Editor Christof Schertenleib // Cast Judith Hofmann, Thomas Schüppach, Christian Kaiser // Languages Swiss German, German // Genre Drama/ Psychological Thriller //

Format Digital — 1 : 2.39 scope // Running time 100–120 mins. // Target audience Arthouse film lovers seeking novel and surprising films (Primary: 45–60yo, 80% Female, high education, high income, urban. Secondary: 18– 30yo, 50% M/F, urban, high education, special interest in culture / cinema)

Aims at the BoostNL / WiP Programme First exposure to a professional audience (especially world sales and festival representatives) as well as consultancy on festival and promotion strategy.

Attending HFM Simon Jaquemet, Aurelius Eisenreich

Contact Aurelius Eisenreich (8horses) / Giesshübelstrasse 61i — 8045 Zürich (Switzerland) / Tel: +41 44 5005081 / Email: eisenreich@8horses.ch / www.8horses.ch

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In Blue — HFM Work-in-progress 2016

Quality Time — HFM Work-in-Progress 2016

Previously at the HFM Work-in-Progress Session Project update as of August 2017 2016 CHARLIE AND HANNAH’S GRAND NIGHT OUT (Bert Scholiers), Minds Meet, Belgium — In postproduction // IN BLUE (Jaap van Heusden), IJswater Films, The Netherlands — Release 2017 // MORMACO (Marina Meliande), Duas Mariola Filmes, Brazil — In post-production // QUALITY TIME (Daan Bakker), Pupkin, The Netherlands — 2017 IFFR // 2015 A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies), Hurricane Films, UK — Berlinale 2016 // DEW (Denijal Hasanovic), Skorpion arte, Poland // UPSTREAM (Marion Hänsel), Man’s Films Productions, Belgium // WATERBOYS (Robert Jan Westdijk), VENFILM (The Netherlands) // 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 BaseWorx For Film

Claudia Landsberger, International Film Consultant

BaseWorx For Film’s activities are focused on script and project development, rough-cut consulting, international marketing, sales and festival strategy, and festival programming. Serving filmmakers, producers, sales agents, film funds and festivals. BaseWorx For Film has an extensive network of international contacts, good relations with professionals and organisations in the industry and a thorough knowledge of specific national cultures with insight in handling the differences in perception and appreciations of a project or production.

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

Inside Out / BIND Esther van Driesum runs her own consultancy company with a focus on project and talent development in both documentary and fiction film. She also supervises Cinekid’s Script LAB, provides PrepTalk workshops and is project developer at Dutch production house BIND. Formerly Esther worked for ten years as Head of Programmes of Binger Filmlab.

Esther van Driesum, Owner

Recent Titles Mantra — The Song of Scorpions — Anup Singh / Kriterion, sinds ’45 — Hedda van Gennep Contact Borneolaan 396 — 1019 KN Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4199190 / Email: esthervdriesum@gmail.com

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Melia Films

Lucas Rosant, Producer/Consultant

Melia Films is a French production and consulting company. It aims to develop, finance, produce and co-produce original and challenging films, both fictions and documentaries. It co-produced among others The Dream of Sharazade, by François Verster (2015).

In addition, Melia Films collaborates and consults for several film markets, cultural events and institutions.

Contact 89b rue de la Solidarite — 93100 Montreuil (France) / Tel: +31 6 09182667 / Email: lucas@meliafilms.com / www.meliafilms.com

solace23

Franz Rodenkirchen, Owner

solace23 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 fifteen years, including several years as Head of Development of an animation and documentary production company. Since 2013 Von Roy has been working exclusively as a script consultant for international film projects.

Together with Franz Rodenkirchen she holds the bi-monthly 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 / Email: solace@solace23.com / www.solace23.com

Françoise von Roy, Script Consultant

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Distributors / VoD ABC/Cinemien Cinemien is an independent film distributor. It releases films in cinemas and movie theatres for forty years.

Recent Titles NFF 2017: Layla M. — Mijke de Jong Babette Wijntjes, Managing Director

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

Recent titles NFF 2017: Happy End — Michael Haneke / Monk — Ties Schenk Contact Herengracht 328 III — 1016 CE Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5308848 / Email: info@cineart.nl / www.cineart.nl

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

Contact An der Ronne 266 — 50859 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +1 646 4694292 / Email: aranka@featurette.net / www.featurette.net

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Imagine Film Distribution Imagine Film Fistribution, The Netherlands (Est. 2012) is an independent, Amsterdam-based film distributor.

Recent Titles Neruda — Pablo Larraín) / Paterson — Jim Jarmusch / A Gentle Creature — Sergei Loznitsa / Thelma — Joachim Trier / Lean on Pete — Andrew Haigh Vi Nguyen, Managing Director

Contact Theophile de Bockstraat 37 — 1058 TX Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3690454 / Email: info@imaginefilm.nl / www.imaginefilm.nl

MUBI

Chiara Maranon, Director of Programming

MUBI is a curated SVoD service available globally, specialising 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 thirty 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, Pathe, eOne and 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 Street — W1F 7RB London (United Kingdom) / Email: hello@mubi.com / www.mubi.com

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 orientated audience of people between the age of forty to seventy.

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 NFF 2017: Bram Fischer — Jean van de Velde / Broers — Bram Schouw / Quality Time — Daan Bakker / Tonio — Paula van der Oest / Tulipani — Mike van Diem / Disappearance — Boudewijn Koole 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 La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Film Festival)

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 the Venice Film Festival is the Golden Lion. In 2017, the Venice International Film Festival celebrated its 74th edition from August 30th to September 9th.

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

Cinekid

Nienke Poelsma, Head Cinekid for Professionals

Cinekid is one of the largest international children’s media festivals, held in October in Amsterdam and approximately 35 other locations throughout the Netherlands.

The parallel organised industry event Cinekid for Professionals brings together the international children’s media industry. It includes a co-production market (film and television projects in development), a digital video library for buyers and an extensive conference programme.

Contact Kattenburgerstraat 5, Gebouw 003 G (Poortgebouw) — 1018 JA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5317890 / Email: info@cinekid.nl / www.cinekid.nl

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

Francois 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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Bero Beyer, General & Artistic Director

Marit van den Elshout, Head of IFFR PRO

Inke Van Loocke, Coordinator CineMart & Rotterdam Lab

Fay Breeman, Coordinator Hubert Bals Fund

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)

Julian Ross, Programmer

International Film Festival Rotterdam focuses on independent and remarkable cinema. Priding itself on being a supportive platform where both audiences and industry are invited to look ahead. IFFR actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through its IFFR PRO activities; co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund, in-market training for emerging producers at Rotterdam Lab and other fruitful and innovative Industry-related activities. The 47th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam will take place from 24 January until 4 February 2018. IFFR PRO will take place from 27 January until 2 February 2018.

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

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Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs’ 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 is 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

Sarajevo Film Festival/CineLink In 2014 SFF has launched a new fund (SCF Fund) focused on incentivising coproduction between Southeast Europe-based producers and the rest of the world.

CineLink is the festival’s co-production market.

Armin Hadzic, CineLink Coordinator

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

La Semaine de la Critique

Remi Bonhomme, Management/ Programming

Léo Soesanto, Short Films Selection Coordinator

The parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, La Semaine de la Critique focuses on discovering new talents. Ever since it was created by the French Union of Film Critics in 1962, the objective of La Semaine has been to showcase first and second feature films by directors from all over the world. Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Eustache, Otar Iosseliani, Ken Loach, Wong Kar-Wai, Jacques Audiard, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Bertrand Bonello and Jeff Nichols were first introduced to the public here.

Contact 17 rue des Jeûneurs — 75002 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 45081454 / Email: contact@semainedelacritique.com / www.semainedelacritique.com

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Sundance Institute

John Nein, Senior Programmer

Sundance Institute, founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, is a non-profit organisation 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 Boulevard, Suite 800 — CA 90036 Los Angeles (USA) / Tel: +1 310 3601981 / Email: institute@sundance.org / www.sundance.org

filmcommission@utrecht.nl

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Film Commission

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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 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

The City of Utrecht provides film and television producers and location scouts the benefit of a single contact point: Film Commission 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. Utrecht 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 30 2861485 / Email: info@utrecht.nl / www.utrecht.nl

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

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Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture

Andrea Posthuma, Advisor

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 Herengracht 474 — 1017 CA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6164225 / Email: media@creativeeuropedesk.nl / www.creativeeuropedesk.nl

Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris

Harry Bos, Intendant Film Commissioner

One of the priorities of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris is to promote and represent Dutch culture in France. This includes the promotion of the Dutch arts amongst the French institutions, theatres, festivals and other cultural sites, through introductions, presentations and financial support to the Dutch artists. Concrete examples of the initiatives of the Embassy are the organisation of debates, film screenings, exhibitions of contemporary art and photography and the incubator for the creative sector, the Atelier Néerlandais.

Contact 7–9 rue Eblé — 75007 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 140 623300

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 cooperation 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.

Contact Postbus 37767 — 1030 BJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5891400 / Email: info@eyefilm.nl / www.eyefilm.nl

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

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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

Dorien van de Pas, Head of New Screen NL

Anita Voorham, Consultant Feature Films.

Netherlands Film Fund

Signe Zeilich-Jensen, Film Commissioner

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.

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, Owner

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

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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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Other Film Professionals Gamila Ylstra, Independent Film and Media Professional

Gamila Ylstra

Independent film and media professional; board member of Cinecrowd (chair), Cinema Delicatessen and Mediafund (in liquidation). Project leader for the EYE Filmmuseum on Professional Practice AV, (Beroepsprofiel AV) — a research into the changing professional practice in the audiovisual sectors and demands made on film professionals. This project is an initiative of the Netherlands Film Academy, supported by the Ministry of OCW. Contact The Netherlands / Email: gamila@binger.nl

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Press Cineuropa.org Cineuropa is a website in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian) whose mission is to promote Europe’s film and audiovisual industry. Cineuropa is co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Vitor Pinto, Editor CHECK

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

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Production 8horses 8horses was founded in 2013 by a collective of eleven filmmakers, writers, artists and cinematographers who have known each other for more than ten years and worked together regularly.

HFM WiP / BoostNL 2017 Der Unschuldige — Simon Jaquemet Aurelius Eisenreich, Producer

Simon Jaquemet, Filmmaker

Contact Giesshübelstrasse 61i — 8045 Zürich (Switzerland) / Tel: +41 44 5005081 / Email: info@8horses.ch / www.8horses.ch

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Aamu Film Company Ltd.

Jussi Rantamäki, Producer

Hamy Ramezan, Filmmaker

Aamu Film Company Ltd. was founded in 2001 and since 2013 it has been owned

by Jussi Rantamäki. It has produced both fiction and documentary films in various lengths. Their previous feature film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won the Prix un Certain Regard at 2017 Cannes.

Over the years, they have noticed that the art of cinema is serious fun. If they do not like something, they do not do it. But when they do, they give it all. That is what the company is good at. They aim to build long relationships with directors and screenwriters who have a unique approach to filmmaking. Aamu usually starts from short films and proceed to international feature films in order to make their style, content and ensemble to reach their peak. They know that content always shapes the form. They know that every film making process has to be custommade for the content in question.

Recent Titles The Happest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki — Juho Kuosmanen / Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara — Hannaleena Hauru HFM Co-Pro 2017 Citizen B — Hamy Ramezan Contact Hiihtomäentie 34 — 00800 Helsinki (Finland) / Tel: +358 40 7355977 / Email: rantamaki@aamufilmcompany.fi / www.aamufilmcompany.fi

Adriana Yurcovich, Independent Producer

Adriana Yurcovich, Producer

Adriana Yurcovich works as an independent producer. She has been working as Mónica Lairana´s producer since 2010. In 2012 she produced Lairana’s short film María and in 2010 she produced her short Rosa. Rosa was selected for competition at the 63th Cannes Film Festival. Now she is producing Lairana’s first feature La cama.

Yurcovich is also a filmmaker who produces her own films. In 2009, she codirected and produced the feature documentary The Peddler. The film was invited to seventy international film festivals such as HotDocs and IDFA and it received 17 international awards. In 2014 she produced and directed the feature documentary Brasses on Isla Verde HFM WiP / BoostNL 2017 La cama — Monica Lairana Contact Email: adrianayurcovich@yahoo.com.ar

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África Filmes

Ivan Melo, Producer

África Filmes is a content production hub for cinema and television. The company was founded by Anna Muylaert and has produced six feature-length films for cinema: Durval Discos (2001), É proibido fumar (2008), Chamada a cobrar (2013), Second Mother (2015) and Don’t Call Me Son (2016). Ivan Melo has worked in festivals and arthouse distribution for twenty years. He was the executive producer and programmer of São Paulo International Film Festival, director of Paulinia Film Festival and CEO of Paulinia film Fund.

Recent Titles Body Electric — Marcelo Caetano BoostNL 2017 Baby — Marcelo Caetano Contact Alameda Lorena, 983 Apt. 201 — 01424-001 São Paulo (Brazil) / Tel: +55 11 998487573 / Email: ivan.africafilmes@gmail.com / www.africafilmes.com.br

Marcelo Caetano, Filmmaker

Albino Zebra

Selcen Ergun, Filmmaker/Producer

Albino Zebra is a creative and internationally oriented independent production company based in Istanbul. As being primarily engaged in short and feature films, Albino Zebra is also experienced in the production of music videos and commercial visual projects. Aiming to produce young, innovative, daring short and feature length fictions, the company has produced several short films, which have been screened and awarded prizes at many national and international festivals.

The company is developing two feature films, Tower and Snow and the Bear, which received development support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and won the Meetings on the Bridge Development Award from Istanbul Film Festival.

HFM Co-Pro 2017 Snow and the Bear — Selcen Ergun Contact Baskurt Sok. Dilek Apt. 68/11 — 34433 Istanbul (Turkey) / Tel: +90 533 2662766 / Email: selcenergun@yahoo.com

Zeki Peynirci, Associate Producer

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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

Recent Titles Final Portrait — Stanly Tucci Contact 28 rue de Turin — 75008 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 42815654 / Email: info@arsam.biz / www.arsam.biz

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.

The most recent titles are Those Who Feel the Fire Burning by Morgan Knibbe (IDFA nominated) and Brothers by Bram Schouw . Currently in production: Between Two Worlds (Janus Metz), Gold (Rogier Hesp) and Ubiquity (Bregtje van der Haak).

BALDR Film is member of ACE. Recent Titles NFF 2017: Brothers — Bram Schouw / Chimère — Kaweh Modiri / RocknRollers — Daan Bol / Etgar Keter: Based on a True Story — Stephane Kaas Contact Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77 — 1012 DC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3032670 / Email: info@baldrfilm.nl / www.baldrfilm.nl

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Bando a Parte Bando a Parte is a cinema production company, based in Guimarães (Portugal), that produces fiction features and shorts, as well as documentaries. Also part of the company is BAP Animation Studio, in Oporto, dedicated exclusively to the production of animation films.

Rodrigo Areias, Producer

Recent Titles Delirium in Las Vedras — Edgar Pêra / How to Become Nothing — Pedro Maia / Drop by Drop — Alexandra Ramires & Laura Goncalves / The Sounds from the Drawers — Vitor Hugo Rocha HFM WiP 2017 Magnetic Pathways — Edgar Pêra Contact Rua Padre Augusto Borges de Sá - 4810-236 Guimaraes (Portugal) / Tel: +35 19 18612754 / Email: bando@bandoaparte.com / www.bandoaparte.com

Edgar Pêra, Filmmaker

Belga Productions Belga Productions is the oldest audiovisual company in Belgium. Their focus is on the production and distribution (Benelux) of feature films and TV series.

Christophe Toulemonde, Head of Productions

Recent titles Kursk — Thomas Vinterberg / Based on a True Story — Roman Polanski / The Humming Bird Project — Kim Nguyen / Over Water — Norman Bates / Le tout nouveau testament — Jaco Van Dormael / La La Land — Damien Chazelle / Valerian — Luc Besson / Demain tout commence — Hugo Gélin Contact 35 avenue du Japon — 1420 Braine l’Alleud (Belgium) / Tel: +32 23 356575 / Email: belgaproductions@belgafilms.be / www.belgaproductions.be

Beofilm

Maria Møller Christoffersen, Producer

Beofilm is a Danish combined production and post-production facility house. The focus is on feature films, international co-productions and talent development.

Beofilm strives to work with the best people, who share the same passion for making creative, entertaining and innovative films. The core values are reliability, honesty, openness, professionalism and great willingness to take risks. The company’s first feature film, Teddy Bear by Mads Matthiesen was awarded at 2012 Sundance.

Recent Titles The Giant — Johannes Nyholm / Quit Staring at My Plate — Hana Jusic Contact Wildersgade 32 — DK-1408 Copenhagen (Denmark) / Tel: +45 29 721704 / Email: hyldahl@beofilm.dk / www.beofilm.dk

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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 features End of Sentence (2018) starring John Hawkes and Logan Lerman. 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.

Recent Titles Photo City — John Murphy & Traolach O’Murchu / Ernestine and Kit — Simon Bird Contact Suite 23, GEC, Taylors Lane — D8 Dublin (Ireland) / Tel: +353 87 9268819 / Email: info@blacksheepproductions.ie / www.blacksheepproductions.ie

Border Studio

Giordano Bianchi, Filmmaker

Border Studio is an independent film studio, located in Friuli Venezia Giulia. It was awarded in a start-up to social innovation.

It was born in 2014 as the natural combination of the professional abilities of the three founding members. Giordano Bianchi (author/director/DoP) gathered a decennial experience in the audio-visual and documentary sector, always accompanied by his colleague Martina Marafatto (author/director/editor). Paola Sponda, with a long experience in the private cultural sector as administrator and producer, joined them on a second instance.

Border Studio produces and co-produces mainly documentary films supported by national and European funds. It has participated in productions purchased by international broadcasters.

They also cooperate with film festivals, international cultural events, training agencies and schools.

HFM WiP 2017 The Champion — Giordano Bianchi & Martina Marafatto

Martina Marafatto, Filmmaker

Contact Via dei Cordaroli, 25 — 34135 Trieste (Italy) / Tel: +39 347 8563979 / Email: info@borderstudio.it / www.borderstudio.it

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Jolande Junte, General Manager

Eefje Smulders, Producer

Hanneke Bosman, Head of Financing

BosBros 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 NFF 2017: Adios Amigos — Albert Jan van Rees / Mr. Frog — Anna van der Heide / I Can Fly — Ruwan Heggelman Contact Arie Biemondstraat 111 — 1054 PD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5244030 / Email: info@bosbros.com / www.bosbros.com

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Bufo

Mark Lwoff, Producer

Founded in 2007 and led by producers Mark Lwoff and Misha Jaari, Bufo has produced a number of films of which many have received international recognition.

Bufo has produced such films as Academy Award Winner Jörn Donner’s film Armi Alive! (2015) and Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night (Finland’s official entry for the Academy Awards and Golden Globes in 2014). The latest co-production The Other Side of Hope by Aki Kaurismäki won the Silver Bear at the 67th Berlinale.

Recent Titles The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki / Deadweight — Axel Koenzen HFM Co-Pro 2017 The Grave Digger — Khadar Ahmed Contact Työpajankatu 2A R1D — 00580 Helsinki (Finland) / Tel: +358 45 1314652 / Email: info@bufo.fi / www.bufo.fi

Khadar Ahmed, Filmmaker

Bulletproof Cupid

Xavier Rombaut, Producer

Raf Reyntjens, Filmmaker

Bulletproof Cupid is an independent Belgium-based (Flanders Region, Antwerp) production company with a focus on feature, documentary and animation films for a broad and young audience, and with a strong interest in international coproductions. The company was founded in 2008 by producer Katleen Goossens (EAVE 2012) and service producer Wim Goossens as a result of them being freelancers in numerous film projects for more than a decade. Xavier Rombaut (EAVE 2013) joined in 2017 as third partner and producer. The company started as a service provider but soon moved on towards producing its own projects. One of the first produced shorts was Swimsuit46, that won the Jury prize in the official selection in Cannes. They recently produced the feature film Cloudboy (international premiere at TIFF, official selection) and are currently in development of the feature films Binti (Frederike Migom), Bayard (Ben Tesseur & Steven De Beul) and Life after Zoro (Raf Reyntjens). International co-productions include the features Storm, Redbad and Bloody Mary.

As a service provider Bulletproof Cupid was involved in almost every international film shot over the last ten years in Flanders, Belgium, from The Fifth Estate to Guardians of the Galaxy and, most recently, Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

HFM Co-Pro 2017 Life after Zoro — Raf Reyntjens Contact Schaliënstraat 14/11 — 2000 Antwerp (Belgium) / Tel: +32 473 598531 / Email: info@bulletproofcupid.be / www.bulletproofcupid.be

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Burn The Film

Shengze Zhu, Producer

Co-founded by Shengze Zhu and Zhengfan Yang, who have been working as collaborative duo since 2010, Burn The Film is devoted to producing innovative audio-visual works, including documentary and fiction. It has produced four featurelength films and a number of shorts: Distant (2013 Festival del film Locarno), Out of Focus (2014 Cinéma du Réel), Where Are You Going (2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam), and Another Year (2016 Visions du Réel — Best Film).

Recent Titles Another Year — Shengze Zhu / Where Are You Going — Zhengfan Yang BoostNL 2017 The Stranger — Zhengfan Yang Contact Wuchang/Nanhu, Wuhan — 430000 (China) / Tel: +1 312 8600809 / Email: zhushengze@gmail.com / www.burnthefilm.org

Zhengfan Yang, Filmmaker

Circe Films

Stienette Bosklopper, Producer/Managing Director

Circe Films is an Amsterdam-based company producing feature films and TV series for the national and international market. Since its establishment in 1996, Circe Films has (co-)produced over twenty feature films by outstanding filmmakers from across the globe like Nanouk Leopold, Sacha Polak, Martijn Maria Smits, Dominga Sotomayor, Radu Jude and Sebastian Hofmann. Since 2015 Lisette Kelder works as the company’s second producer next to Stienette Bosklopper.

Recent Titles Fühlen Sie Sich manchmal Ausgebrannt und Leer — Lola Randl / Rey — Niles Atallah / Waldstille — Martijn Maria Smits (NFF 2017) Contact Da Costakade 176 HS — 1053 XE Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6253591 / Email: info@circe.nl / www.circe.nl

Lisette Kelder, Producer

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CTM Pictures

Marijn Wigman, Producer

CTM Films is the film production company of CTM Entertainment. Its objective is clear: to develop, finance and produce feature films with originality, authenticity and a compelling story.

They work with storytellers who are ambitious, have passion for film and are known for their positive mindset. The company’s aim is to develop projects with people from various disciplines. So next to the known screenwriters and directors they also involve novelists, theatre makers, musicians and the like. Combine different creative minds and the stories will amaze you.

Originally set up by recognised international producer Denis Wigman. Today, the day to day management is run by Marijn Wigman, combining more than thirty years of experience with the young, energetic view on film and media of the next generation.

Recent Titles Strike a Pose — Ester Gould & Reijer Zwaan / Kill Switch — Tim Smit (NFF 2017) Contact Emmastraat 21 — 1211 NE Hilversum (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 35 6474040 / Email: info@ctm.nl / www.ctmpictures.nl

Dolce Vita Films From India to Lebanon, from Chile to Hungary, Dolce Vita Films, founded in 2007

by Marc Irmer, covers a large spectrum of French and international feature films and documentaries, all released in France and selected in numerous prestigious international film festivals.

Marc Irmer, Producer

Contact 13 boulevard Rochechouart — 75009 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 48787021 / Email: info@dolcevita-films.com / www.dolcevita-films.com

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Domestic Film

Adrian Sitaru, Producer

Founded in 2014, Domestic Film is a Bucharest-based sister company of 4 Proof Film, formed by a team with extensive experience in film production (Adrian Sitaru, Anamaria Antoci, Adrian Silișteanu). Characterised by a truly independent spirit and individual approach, Domestic Film aims to produce author driven films that explore innovative forms of cinematic expression, that are globally relevant and have strong potential for critical and public success. Although a young company, its team of well-established professionals and strong affiliations turned Domestic Film quickly into a prolific production house. Domestic’s portfolio comprises Adrian Sitaru’s first film in the English language, the short fiction Counterpart (premiered at 2015 Clermont-Ferrand), and his feature Illegitimate (premiered at the 2016 Forum at Berlinale — C.I.C.A.E. Award), and the short fiction Meda by Emanuel Pârvu (premiered at 2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam).

HFM Co-Pro 2017 The Gendarme — Dan Chisu

Dan Chisu, Filmmaker

Contact 12–14 Constantin Budisteanu — 010775 Bucharest (Romania) / Tel: +40 74 0155602 / Email: anamaria@4prooffilm.ro

Dutch Mountain Film Dutch Mountain Film is a cooperation between Dutch producers René Huybrechtse and Wilant Boekelman. Together Huybrechtse and Boekelman produced more than forty 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 Cache — Thomas Korthals Altes / Trial — Laura Hermanides / Meyer’s Law — Michiel van Jaarsveld Contact De Kempenaerstraat 11A — 1051 CJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6881843 / Email: info@dutchmountainfilm.nl / www.dutchmountainfilm.nl

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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 Films’ 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. They are aiming at a global audience for a unique and fresh perspective on the ideas, people and events that shape our world.

Contact Molenaarsstraat 111/3 — 9000 Ghent (Belgium) / Tel: +32 478 664496 / Email: info@earlybirds-films.be / www.earlybirds-films.be

Anastassia Oudovitchenko, Producer

Falcon Grove Productions BV

David Grover, Partner

Falcon Grove is a Den Bosch (The Netherlands)-based film and television company, founded by David Grover in 2015 to produce English language content with a Dutch link. Falcon Grove intends to take full advantage of the high caliber of film talent in the Netherlands, and through putting together mixed Dutch/international crews, help promote Dutch filmmaking on a global stage.

Prior to founding Falcon Grove, Grover was a media banker based in London, New York and Amsterdam, most recently as Head of Media Finance at ING Bank. While at ING, he was responsible for over €135 million of film slate financing.

Contact Kanaalstraat 30 — 5211PJ Den Bosch (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 23193400 / Email: info@filmbridgecapital.com / www.falcongrove.com

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De Familie Film & TV

Monique Busman, Producer

De Familie Film & TV is an award winning production company in the Netherlands, founded in 2005 by producer Monique Busman and director Michiel van Erp. Their Amsterdam based company produces documentaries, drama series and fiction for theatrical release and television. The documentaries cover a wide range of subjects such as the international motorcycle gang Satudarah, elderly transgenders, or a portrait of the famous Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf. Their first feature film The Empty City will be released March 2018.

Recent Titles NFF 2017: The European — Dirk Jan Roeleven / Me Alone in the Classroom — Karin Junger / My Fucking Problem — Anne van Campenhout / The Colour White — Sunny Bergman BoostNL 2017 Life on Mars (working title) — Michiel van Erp Contact Schollenbrugstraat 4 — 1091EX Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6633303 / Email: info@defamilie.net / www.defamilie.net

Michiel van Erp, Filmmaker

Floor Onrust, Producer

Boris Paval Conen, Filmmaker

Rosanne Pel, Filmmaker

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 develop projects with new talent, video artists whilst continuing their relation with established filmmakers.

Recent Titles Beyond Words — Urszula Antoniak / History’s Future — Fiona Tan // NFF 2017: Waiting Room — Simone van Dusseldorp / Snow — Lisette Olsthoorn HFM WiP 2017 Light as Feathers — Rosanne Pel BoostNL 2017 The Hague Hilton — Boris Paval Conen Contact Entrepotdok 77a — 1018 AD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7071713 / Email: info@familyaffairfilms.nl / www.familyaffairfilms.nl

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Les Films d’Antoine

Antoine Simkine, Producer

Antoine Simkine is involved in film production since many years and founded his own company in 2004. Les Films d’Antoine has a goal of producing films with a strong personal point of view and an original artistic value for the international market.

His films have been presented and awarded in Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, AFI Fest, Karlovy Vary, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Montreal etc. and have been distributed in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Denmark and Japan. Les Films d’Antoine is based in Paris and is a member of ACE, EAVE, Inside Pictures, EPC, EFA and SPI. Recent Titles Mr Gay Syria — Ayse Toprak Contact 85 rue Vauvenargues — 75018 Paris (France) / Tel: + 33 1 42286253 / Email: infos@lesfilmsdantoine.com / www.lesfilmsdantoine.com

Les Films Fauves

Caroline Piras, Producer

Founded in 2014 by producer Gilles Chanial and directors Jean-Louis Schuller and Govinda Van Maele, Les Films Fauves is a Luxembourg-based independent production company focusing on the development and production of fiction and documentary films for international theatrical distribution. Its interests lie in director-driven arthouse and genre films of both short and feature length, either by Luxembourgish directors or in co-production with European partners.

Recent Titles Gutland — Govinda Van Maele / Fauves — Robin Erard / Mammal — Rebecca Daly / Foreign Affairs — Pasha Rafiy Contact 91 rue des Pommiers — L2343 Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) / Tel: +33 6 44248531 / Email: gilles@lesfilmsfauves.com / www.lesfilmsfauves.com

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The Film Kitchen

Jan van der Zanden, Managing Director

The Film Kitchen specialises 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 arthouse films as well as feature films for a main stream audience.

The company was founded in 2016 by Ineke Kanters and Jan van der Zanden as producers. Before that time Van der Zanden was the CEO of Waterland Film, which was established in 1994. From January 2016 onwards The Film Kitchen is the owner of all projects in development and the finished film projects by Waterland Film.

Recent Titles Love Revisited — Dunja Vujovic // NFF 2017: Handle with Care — Arild Andresen / Disappearance — Boudewijn Koole / Avondland — Nico van den Brink

Ineke Kanters, Executive Producer/ Development Executive

Contact Goudsbloemstraat 132A-hs — 1015 JT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 2335625 / Email: info@thefilmkitchen.nl / www.thefilmkitchen.nl/nl/

Les Films du Tambour Marie Legrand and Rani Massalha created Les Films du Tambour in 2014. A French production company aiming at producing innovative, independent, feature films from first time or established filmmakers from all around the world.

Marie Legrand, Producer

Recent Titles Charleston — Andrei Cretulescu / Dadyaa — Bibhusan Basnet & Pooja Gurung / Degrade — Arab & Tarzan Naser HFM Co-Pro 2017 The Whole-Timers — Bibhusan Basnet & Pooja Gurung Contact 102 quai Louis Blériot — 75016 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 32439185 / Email: contact@filmsdutambour.com

Rani Massalha, Producer

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Frakas Productions

Jean-Yves Roubin, Producer

Founded in 2007, Frakas Productions is a Belgian production company based in Liège, producing mainly feature films and that is very active in international coproductions — producing five to six features per year. Frakas Productions and its young directors cast a critical and sharp glance at our society through powerful and ambitious subjects. It has produced films such as David Lambert’s Beyond the Walls and All Yours and Delphine Noels’s Post Partum. International co-productions include films such as Delphine Gleize’s La permission de minuit (2011), Virginie Despentes’ Bye Bye Blondie (2012), Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living (2016), Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype (2016).

Frakas is currently producing Inexorable, Fabrice Du Welz’s latest film and coproducing Muse, the new film by Jaume Balaguero (REC), and Ms. Hyde by Serge Bozon, starring Isabelle Huppert.

Jean-Yves Roubin, its founder and manager, is also the co-president of UPFF — the Belgian Producers’ Guild (French speaking part).

Contact Quai Churchill 11b — 4020 Liège (Belgium) / Tel: +32 4 2313863 / Email: infos@frakas.be / www.frakas.be

Fu Works Productions 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 Echo’s van een oorlog — In-Soo Radstake // NFF 2017: Alberta — Eddy Terstall & Erik Wünsch / A Real Vermeer — Rudolf van der Berg Contact Arie Biemondstraat 111 — 1054 PD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 5307110 / Email: info@fuworks.nl / www.fuworks.nl

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 NFF 2017: Limburgia — Noël Loozen / Genderbende — Sophie Dros / Botanica — Noël Loozen / Cargo — Gilles Coulier / A Quiet Place — Sjoerd Oostrik / Horacio & Johan — Johan Kramer / New Kids Turbo — Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil Contact 1ste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 — 1072 BD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6391402 / Email: contact@halal.amsterdam / www.halal.amsterdam

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Horsefly Productions Horsefly Productions is the production label of Athens based independent film producer Yorgos Tsourgiannis. Since its inception in 2004, it has produced and coproduced a number of award winning short and feature films. Valueing its network of collaborators in Greece and abroad and promoting strong authorial vision, Horsefly is committed in bringing unique Greek films closer to international audiences.

Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Producer

Contact 107 Asklipiou St. & Tsimiski — 11472 Athens (Greece) / Tel: + 30 21 06729179 / Email: yorgos@horsefly.gr / www.horsefly.gr

Hurricane Films

Roy Boulter, Producer

Liverpool-based Hurricane Films are Roy Boulter (former drummer with ‘The Farm’ and award winning TV scriptwriter) and Solon Papadopoulos (award winning documentary film maker). Films include: BAFTA-nominated Of Time and the City, Sunset Song (Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn), A Quiet Passion (Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine) — all directed by Terence Davies. A Prayer Before Dawn (Joe Cole Vithaya Pansringarm) directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire — official selection of 2017 Cannes. Triple Word Score (Bill Nighy, Sam Riley) written by Frank Cottrell Boyce — starring shooting November.

Recent Titles Sunset Song — Terence Davies / A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies / A Prayer Before Dawn — Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire HFM Co-Pro 2017 Rum Doxy Diver — Lindy Heymann Contact 17 Hope Street — L68PE Liverpool (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 151 7079700 / Email: roy@hurricanefilms.co.uk / www.hurricanefilms.net

Leigh Campbell, Screenwriter

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Isabel Lamberti, Filmmaker

Marc Bary, CEO/Producer

Steven Rubinstein Malamud, Producer

IJswater Films IJswater Films is producing high quality films, such as The Polish Bride (Cannes Critics Choice), Headrush (Miramax Script Award), Skin (Emmy Award Nomination), WIN/WIN (Prix Genève Europe Script Award), 22nd of May (TIFF selection), The New World (Emmy Award Best Actress), Supernova (Berlinale Generation 14plus), Paradise Trips (Winner Best Flemish Film/Youth Prize), and As If I’m Crazy (Jury Award Best Film Noida IFF 2017). September 14, 2017 In Blue by Jaap van Heusden will be released by Paradiso Filmed Ent. (Winner 2016 HFM Work-in-Progress award, Opening Film at the 2017 Film by the Sea Festival, 2017 NFF Forum selection).

IJswater produced fifty shorts, like Contact (Winner Berlinale Golden Bear) and TV dramas, like Anvers (Winner FIPA D’or), Entre nosotros (Winner FIPA D’argent) and for the youth; Papa’s Tango (Berlinale K-plus), Anouar & the Moon (Winner TIFF Kids Jury Award), Sammy Paramaribo (Chicago Children’s FF) and documentaries like Bridging the Gap (IDFA selection).

Recent Titles NFF 2017: In Blue — Jaap van Heusden / Amor — Isabel Lamberti BoostNL 2017 Beyond the Blue Bridge — Isabel Lamberti 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 twenty international co-productions, Isabell Wiegand and Sarah Nagel founded in between film in 2010. Based in Berlin and Paris, they propose their expertise in customised 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 The Square — Ruben Östlund / Fanny Lye Deliver’d — Thomas Clay Contact Schöneweider Strasse 4 — 12055 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 163 7337020 / Email: contact@inbetweenfilm.eu /www.inbetweenfilm.eu

Isabell Wiegand, Producer

Inicia Films

Valérie Delpierre, Producer

Pilar Palomero, Filmmaker

Inicia Films was created by Valérie Delpierre in 2006. She aims to develop projects especially focusing on international co-productions and the development of new talents. Some of her productions are the documentary Thy Father’s Chair by Alex Lora, which premiered at 2016 IDFA and was bought by international channels after a successful tour of festivals, La intérprete, documentary by Antonio P. Molero, premiered at the Des Films festival Du Monde de Montreal, B, de Barcenas, a feature film by David Ilundaín, which had an important media impact and numerous awards in Spain, as well as three nominations at the 2016 Goya Awards . More recently, she has produced Summer 1993, a feature film directed by Carla Simón Pipó, which premiered at 2017 Berlinale where it won the prize for best Opera Prima, and Los desheredados, a short film by Laura Ferrés, premiered at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in May 2017. At the moment she is working on two short films and she is in development of the feature film Las niñas by Pilar Palomero, the new project of David Ilundaín Uno para todos and the documentary La flota de Indias by Antonio P. Molero.

Recent Titles Summer 1993 — Carla Simon Pipó / The Disinherited — Laura Ferrés HFM Co-Pro 2017 Las niñas — Pilar Palomero Contact Paseo Sant Joan 146 entresuelo 1 — 8037 Barcelona (Spain) / Tel: +34 93 0080618 / Email: info@iniciafilms.com / www.iniciafilms.com

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In Vivo Film

Louise Bellicaud, Producer

Set up in 2015 and based in Paris and La Rochelle, In Vivo Films aims to support directors and writers from various backgrounds and countries, for short and feature films.

In Vivo Films develops projects with a strong cultural identity based on local topics with the potential to reach an international audience.

In Vivo Films produced its first feature film in 2017, Thirst Street by Nathan Silver, a French-USA co-production with Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard, Esther Garrel, Lola Bessis, Jacques Nolot, and Francoise Lebrun. Thirst Street premiered in Official Competition at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, and was selected to 2017 Venice Days, and 2017 Sitges amongst others.

In Vivo Films is currently developing several feature films in international coproduction and in preparation of Abou Leila by Amin Sidi Boumediene, a FrenchAlgerian co-production (2016 Cinefondation l’Atelier, 2015 Locarno-Open Doors, 2017 Torino Film Lab-Feature lab) that will be shot at the end of the year in the Algerian desert.

Recent Titles Thirst Street — Nathan Silver Contact 23 rue Basse de Saint Eloi — 17 000 La Rochelle (France) / Tel: +33 6 63033734 / Email: contact@invivofilms.com / www.invivofilms.com

Jirafa

Bruno Bettati, Producer

Jirafa was founded in January 2001 by producer Bruno Bettati, an experienced A.D. and UPM for feature films, who then established his own production house in the city of Valdivia. In 2014 Augusto Matte became the new GM for the company. Jirafa specialises in fiction feature films, being able to bring forth to its premiere both lowbudget independent films as well as complex 3-or more international co-productions.

All of Jirafa’s films have premiered at important international film festivals and have sold national distribution rights, building up a quality catalogue of Chilean cinema.

Since 2011 all of Jirafa features have been exported to other territories.

Recent Titles Much Ado About Nothing — Alejandro Fernández Almendras / The Blind Christ — Christopher Murray / And the Whole Sky Fit in the Cow’s Eye — Francisca Alegría / Los perros — Marcela Said BoostNL 2017 La vaca que cantó una canción sobre el futuro — Francisca Alegría

Francisca Alegría, Filmmaker

Contact Pérez Rosales 787 of. A — 5110652 Valdivia (Chile ) / Tel: +56 63 2213556 / Email: bruno@jirafa.cl / www.jirafa.cl

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Kaap Holland Film

Judith Hees, Creative 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 and 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 received international recognition.

A Shining Flaw and The Book of Everything (both earlier HFM projects) are in the phase of financing.

Recent Titles Le fidele (co-prod) — Michael R. Roskam / Dunkirk (co-prod) — Christopher Nolan // NFF 2017: Hart Beat — Hans Somers / Seventh Heaven — Job Gosschalk / Ron Goossens , Low Budget Stuntman — Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil / The Big L Hotel — Ineke Houtman Contact Raamplein 1 — 1016 XK Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6661892 / 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.

Contact Ernest Staesstraat 47 — 1061 CC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 43061201 / Email: info@kaliberfilm.nl / www.kaliberfilm.nl

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Keplerfilm

Derk-Jan Warrink, Director/Producer

Koji Nelissen, Director

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 have 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 recognise exceptionally talented writers and directors, but also to create an opportunity for them to grow into their full potential. They will 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 NFF 2017: Catastrophe — Jamille van Wijngaarden Contact Rombout Hogerbeetstraat 109-25 — 1052VW Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 52437509 / Email: info@keplerfilm.com / www.keplerfilm.com

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 have (co-)produced over forty features. They produce TV-films, 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 have 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 Night of a 1000 Hours — Virgil Widrich /Beyond Sleep — Boudewijn Koole // NFF 2017: Soof 2 — Esmé Lammers / Soof een nieuw begin — Anne de Clerq, Pieter van Rijn & Frank Krom / Tamu — Bobbie Koek

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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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.

Erik Glijnis, Producer

Recent Titles NFF 2017: My Giraffe — Barbara Bredero / The Day My Father Became A Bush — Nicole van Kilsdonk / Owls & Mice — Simone van Dusseldorp / Zenith — Maurice Trouwborst & Tomas Kaan Contact Valschermkade 36f — 1059 CD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6610424 / Email: info@lemmingfilm.com / www.lemmingfilm.com

Sara Juricic, Assistant Producer

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Little House Productions

Uzma Hasan, Producer

Little House Productions is an independent film and VR production company founded by Uzma Hasan, Morgan Johnson, Hamza Kuraishi and Shivesh Jha. Hasan is the driving force behind the company which focuses on bringing subversive stories to global audiences. Her latest feature, Nirpal Bhogal’s Firstborn premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival ahead of a worldwide sale to Netflix. Her first feature The Infidel was released internationally receiving critical and commercial acclaim, spawning a musical and Bollywood remake, Dharam sankat mein, that was released by Viacom. She was executive producer of multi award winning documentary Flying Paper. Her current slate includes projects with Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw, comedian David Baddiel and novelist Nikesh Shukla as well as co-productions with dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and the British Film Institute.

In addition to Little House Productions, Hasan consults for international film funds including Eurimages, the Council of Europe’s film fund, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Doha Film Institute and Harvardwood, the official network of Harvard alumni in the entertainment and media industries. She sits on selection committees for the British Independent Film Awards, Film London and Mira Nair’s Maisha Filmmaking Labs.

Prior to producing independently, Uzma was head of development at Slingshot Productions, with creative and commercial responsibilities across its entire slate. She has worked across four continents, for independents and studios, with companies including Focus Features, The Salt Company and Tribeca Film Festival on the development, production and exploitation of feature films.

In 2010, Uzma was nominated by HRH Prince’s Trust for a Mosaic Arts & Culture Award; in 2012, she was nominated for the Asian Woman of Achievement Award and became a Women of the Future Ambassador; and in 2013 she was awarded the British Muslim Award for Services to Creativity.

She graduated from University of Wales, Cardiff with first class honours in English Literature and went on to read Film and Literature at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where she was a Kennedy Scholar.

Recent Titles Firstborn — Nirpal Bhogal Contact Top Floor Flat, 45 Fermoy Road — W9 3NH London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 7 956686167 / Email: info@littlehouse-productions.com / www.littlehouse-productions.com

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Little Shark Entertainment

Meike Savarin, Producer

In 1997 director Sönke Wortmann launched Little Shark Entertainment to support young talents and has since produced feature films, series, and documentaries for both cinema and TV such as Lammbock, Das Wunder von Bern, Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen, and Frau Müller muss weg.

They are currently developing several feature films and are open for new talents and international co-productions.

Recent Titles Lommbock — Christian Zübert / Sommerfest — Sönke Wortmann Contact Maria-Hilf-Strasse 15, Haus C — 50677 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 3361122 / Email: littleshark@littleshark.de / www.littleshark.de

Mañana Ltd

Piotr Kobus, Producer

Mañana’s mission is to develop outstanding feature fiction and documentary films for cinema in co-production with foreign partners. Mañana is a trilingual company as all its employees speak fluently at least Polish, English and Spanish. Lasting directed by Jacek Borcuch, its first completed international feature co-production (Poland-Spain), had its world premiere in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it has won the Cinematography Award. United States of Love (Poland-Sweden) by Tomasz Wasilewski was presented at 2014 Rotterdam-Berlinale Express, supported by the Creative Europe programme and developed at 2014 EAVE Producers Workshop won a Silver Bear for best screenplay at the 2016 Berlinale. Satan Said Dance (Poland — The Netherlands) by Kasia Roslaniec was written on Nipkow scholarship in Berlin and was supported by the MEDIA programme had its world premiere in competition of 2016 FIFIB, the US premiere at 2017 SXSW and won awards at OFF CAMERA in Kraków and Cinema Jove in Valencia.

Recent Titles Satan Said Dance — Kasia Roslaniec (NFF 2017) Contact Chelmska 19/21 — 00-724 Warsaw (Poland) / Email: manana@manana.pl

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Maniak Film

Erik Glijnis, Producer

Maniak Film is a non-commercial Amsterdam based film production house. The company is established in 2015 by Erik Glijnis together with Benthe van Wallenburg and Hanne Sinninghe.

Maniak Film loves to work on projects that are unique in storytelling and cinematography; films they have produced so far have been classified as experimental and groundbreaking but also reached a wide audience.

HFM WiP / BoostNL 2017 Nocturne — Viktor van der Valk Contact Soendastraat 22H — 1094 BH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 43895163 / Email: erik@lemmingfilm.com

Viktor van der Valk, Filmmaker

Man’s Films Productions

Marion Hänsel, Manager/Producer/ Filmmaker

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 Simone sans peu — Dominique Guerrier / Chaplin in Bali — Raphaël Millet / Zagros — Sahim Omar Khalifa Contact Avenue Mostinck 65 — 1150 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 7717137 / Email: mansfilmsprod@gmail.com / www.marionhansel.com

Monique Marnette, Producer

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Masterplan Pictures

Per Damgaard Hansen, Producer

In 2013 Masterplan Pictures was founded by producers Julie Waltersdorph Hansen and Per Damgaard Hansen.

Masterplan Pictures is built on a new generation of filmmakers. Working with a set of young talented directors Masterplan Pictures aims to produce high quality films with a strong artistic vision.

International co-production is a corner stone in the company and they believe in sharing knowledge, ideas and creative talent across borders.

Recent Titles Winter Brothers — Hlynur Palmason / A Family Business — Carina Randløv / In the Dark Room — Anna Maria Helgadottir HFM Co-Pro 2017 If the Light Takes Us — Anna Maria Helgadottir Contact Dronningens Tværgade 58, kld. — 1302 Copenhagen (Denmark) / Tel: +45 40 562903 / Email: per@masterplanpictures.com / www.masterplanpictures.com

Anna María Helgadóttir, Filmmaker

Millstreet Films

Rachel van Bommel, Producer

Millstreet Films produces commercially driven and creatively-spirited independent feature films and TV series, focusing mainly on female audiences. The company was founded in 2009 by Rachel van Bommel.

They build long term relationships with their writers and directors. The company’s strength lies in the creations of strong brands/ film properties. Their film catalogue includes box office smash hits Loft, Vipers Nest and Soof 1 and 2.

In 2014 Millstreet Films produced its first drama series The Neighbors, which got very high audience ratings. The second season of The Neighbors had its premiere in November 2016, while season three is currently in post-production. After the success of both films, the first season of Soof the TV series will be ready this november.

Recent Titles NFF 2017: The Hero — Menno Meyes / Soof 2 — Esmé Lammers / Soof een nieuw begin — Anne de Clerq, Pieter van Rijn & Frank Krom

Suzan de Swaan, Junior 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

Minds Meet is a Brussels-based, independent production company run by Tomas Leyers (producer) and Marc Goyens (line-producer). They specialise 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 we are 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.

Contact Havenlaan 108-110 Avenue du Port — 1000 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 2666666 / Email: info@mindsmeet.be / www.mindsmeet.be

Mômerade 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 (not necessarily in this order).

Lucie Kalmar, Producer

Contact 8 rue d’Enghien — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 9 51068904 / Email: lucie@momerade.fr / www.momerade.fr

Mónica Lairana, Independent Filmmaker/Producer

Mónica Lairana, Filmmaker/Producer

Mónica Lairana is an independent director and producer dedicated to short films and author feature films. She has directed and produced the short film Rosa (Official Competition 63rd Cannes Film Festival), Maria (International Film Festival Rotterdam/Vancouver Film festival) and Emilia (Bafici,Vienna Film Festival).

Currently she is finishing the post-production of La cama, her debut feature film which is a co-production between the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil and Argentina.

BoostNL / WiP 2017 La cama — Mónica Lairana Contact Aranguren 561, 1A — 1405 Buenos Aires (Argentina) / Tel: +54 911 53332959 / Email: monilaira@hotmail.com

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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. Recent Titles Love is Thicker than Water — Ate de Jong, Emily Harris Ate de Jong, General Manager

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 (former owner of Isabella Films) and filmmaker Martin Koolhoven.

The company focuses on feature films with artistic value and accessibility for an international audience. These may be arthouse-oriented films as well as films 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. Currently in production is Domino, directed by Brian de Palma.

Recent Titles Brimstone — Martin Koolhoven (NFF 2017) Contact Singel 272 — 1016 AC Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4229199 / Email: info@n279entertaiment.com / www.n279entertainment.com

Negativ s.r.o.

Pavel Strnad, Producer

Established in 1995 by Pavel Strnad and Petr Oukropec, Negativ is one of the leading film production companies in the Czech Republic focusing on arthouse films. The company’s greatest successes to date include Year of the Devil, a winner of the 2002 Karlovy Vary IFF in, Something Like Happiness, the Best Film of the 2005 San Sebastian IFF and two winners of the European Film Award: René for the Best Documentary in 2008 and Alois Nebel for the Best Animation Feature in 2012.

Contact Ostrovni 30 — 11000 Prague (Czech Republic) / Tel: + 420 224 933755 / Email: office@negativ.cz / www.negativ.cz

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New Amsterdam Film Company

Sander Verdonk, Producer

New Amsterdam is an independent film company that operates like a studio. It develops, produces, and releases high-end visual narratives. On the one hand it works for advertising agencies and brands, on the other it creates original content.

With more audiovisual works being produced every day, there is an increasing demand for filmmakers who know how to transform engaging narratives into strong cinematic experiences. While being firmly rooted in contemporary culture, New Amsterdam Film Company fulfills that demand by combining an international network, production knowhow, craftsmanship and marketing knowledge with a significant pinch of panache. New Amsterdam Film Company’s mission is to make audiences worldwide laugh, cry, love or hate. Its motto: “In film we trust”.

Recent Titles NFF 2017 : Blessed Benefit — Mahmoud Al Massad / Boxer — Ruben van Leer / Mozes and the Firstborn — Crawl — Jeroen Dankers / Kill Switch — Tim Smit Contact Admiraal de Ruyterweg 545 — 1055 MK Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8202308 / Email: info@newams.com / www.newams.com

NiKo Film

Nicole Gerhards, Producer

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 them away to a different world and make them 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 such films as Lumber Kings, The Stranger in Me and Kill Me by Emily Atef. Amongst their co-productions: The Prize

by Paula Markovitch, Every Day is a Holiday by Dima El-Horr and Double Take by Johan Grimonprez.

Contact Prinzessinnenstrasse 16 — 10969 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 27582836 / Email: info@nikofilm.de / www.nikofilm.de

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OAK Motion Pictures

Trent, Producer

OAK Motion Pictures is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. OAK develops and (co-) produces feature films and television drama for the national and international market.

They feel strongly about transparency, integrity, sustainability and confidence.

The company believes it takes time to grow and develop layer by layer, in order to end up with a solid company and films to match.

Their mission is to stimulate, inspire and challenge their directors and writers.

They only select a number of projects to work on in order to produce daring and accessible quality films for an international audience.

OAK is both a voting member of the European Film Academy, the EAVE network and the ACE network and alumni from the Binger Filmlab, Torino Filmlab and the Andrzej Wajda Studio.

Recent Titles Fucking Spring is in the Air — Danyael Sugawara // NFF 2017: The Wound — John Trengove / Satan Said Dance — Kasia Roslaniec / Sjaaks vrouw is dood, dus hij moet iets zeggen — Eva M.C.Zanen / Noisia — Mantra — 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

One Two Films GmbH One Two Films was founded in October 2010 by Jamila Wenske, Sol Bondy and Christoph Lange in Berlin. Their focus is on feature films for the international market and competitive television. The films are divided into director- and producer driven projects.

Jamila Wenske, Producer

Recent Titles Under the Tree — Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson / Freiheit — Jan Speckenbach / The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki — Juho Kuosmanen Contact Mehringdamm 61 — 10961 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 53156863 / Email: info@onetwofilms.com / www.onetwofilms.com

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Panache Productions

André Logie, Producer

Panache Productions is a production company established in 2009 by André Logie, a former lawyer who studied at the Media Business School. The company has produced and internationally co-produced many films, among them Cartoonists-Foot Soldiers of Democracy by Stéphanie Valloatto (2014 Cannes — out of competition — nominated in Cesar 2015), Retour à Ithaque by Laurent Cantet (Venice, Toronto Festival and 2014 San Sebastian), and The Concert by Radu Mihaileanu.

Recent Titles K.O. — Fabrice Gobert / Brutti e cattivi — Cosimo Gomez / Un profil pour deux — Stéphane Robelin / Grand froid — Gérard Pautonnier / Un sac de billes — Christian Duguay / History of Love — Radu Mihaileanu Contact Rue de la Bâchée 2 — 1380 Lasne (Belgium) / Tel: + 32 2 2304444 / Email: info@panacheproductions.be / www.panacheproductions.be

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.

Contact Balthasarstrasse 79-81 — 50670 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: + 49 221 973320 / Email: info@pandorafilm.com / www.pandorafilm.com Raimond Goebel, Producer

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Pinball Films

Ashley Horner, Producer/Filmmaker

Pinball Films Ltd was founded in 1999 in Newcastle, UK and works with maverick outsider filmmakers attempting to push the form of fiction and documentary cinema forward by taking risks and crossing boundaries. Pinball are currently in production on Matt Hulse’s documentary The Hippies: Punk Rocked My Cradle for Creative England and Creative Scotland. Co-conspirators include Martin Radich (Crack Willow 2008, Norfolk 2014) on his fourth feature Raikes Parade and co-produced his second film The Conundrum, Sean Conway on Young Gods and Ashley Horner’s Nordic supernatural horror Bear (Les Arcs, Haugesund and IFF Toronto 2015). Pinball produced Horner’s Brilliantlove (aka The Orgasm Diaries) which screened at Tribeca in 2010, was released internationally by IFC in the US and Soda Pictures in the UK. To date the film has grossed over double its production budget in the US alone.

Described by festival programmer Roya Rastegar as “a gorgeous and dangerous marinade of passion, art, and ambition that languorously intoxicates the senses”. Its explicit content divided the critics and audiences alike, but everyone HAD to SEE IT! Producer/Director Ashley Horner is a member of ACE, EAVE and European Film Academy.

Contact 5 Charlotte Square — NE1 4XF Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 191 2303105 / Email: info@pinballfilms.com / www.pinballfilms.com

A Private View

Dries Phlypo, Producer

A Private View is an independent Belgium-based film company co-owned by producer Dries Phlypo and writer/producer Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem. 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), Amigos, written by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and Pierre De Clercq and directed by Kadir Balci and Hendrik Moonen. The feature film Vincent by Christophe Van Rompaey, a co-production with France, had its world premiere on Piazza Grande at Locarno Film Festival and Sahim Omar Kalifa’s first feature project Zagros is ready to be released. 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. Next to that, A Private View has developed and produced the animation series Rusty (Rintje, 26 x 5 min) with Lemming Film, which was broadcast in Belgium in 2016 and is currently developing the animated series Mr. Paper.

Recent Titles NFF 2017: My Giraffe (Dikkertje Dap) — Barbara Brodero / Monk — Ties Schenk / The Day My Father Became a Bush — Nicole van Kilsdonk HFM WiP / BoostNL 2017 Nocturne — Viktor van der Valk (co-production) Contact Adolf Baeyensstraat 134n — 9040 Sint-Amandsberg (Belgium) / Tel: +32 9 2401000 / Email: info@aprivateview.be /www.aprivateview.be

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De Productie

René Goossens, Producer

Annemiek van Gorp, Producer

Annemiek van Gorp and René Goossens have been working together at 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 T’Padashtun (Unwanted) — Edon Rizvanolli / Chronique de mon village — Karim Traïdia Contact Regulierstraat 10 — 2021 HE Haarlem (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 10 4763388 / Email: info@deproductie.nl / www.deproductie.nl

PRPL

Ellen Havenith, Producer

PRPL is a strongly involved and passionate producer making daring and distinguishing films, which have high artistic quality as well as an audience reach.

PRPL focuses on feature films that can be co-produced internationally and are able to connect with a transnational audience.

PRPL’s first five feature films all premiered at the film festivals of Toronto, Locarno or Tribeca.

Upcoming projects include new features of directors Joost van Ginkel (NL), Syllas Tzoumerkas (GR) and Margot Schaap (NL).

Contact Nieuwpoortkade 2A — 1055 RX Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: + 31 6 52054690 / Email: info@prpl.nl / www.prpl.nl

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Iris Otten, Producer

Layla Meijman, Producer

Rolf van Eijk, Filmmaker

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’s Quality Time and Boys (Jongens), the awardwinning Peter Pan Man (Aanmodderfakker) and We Will Never Be Royals (Geen koningen in ons bloed) and the Cannes selected short Import.

They are currently in post-production with the film My Foolish Heart by Rolf van Eijk.

Recent Titles NFF 2017: Quality Time — Daan Bakker / Riphagen — Pieter Kuijpers / Malik — Shady El Hamus / The Funeral of the Shy — Joost Van Hezik / Godforsaken V — Michiel Ten Horn, Giancarlo Sanchez & Urszula Antoniak, Aaron Rookus, Tomas Kaan, Arne Toonen & Eddy Terstall / Icarus — Merlijn Passier Contact Weesperzijde 4 — 1091 EA Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 4895088 / Email: info@pupkin.com / www.pupkin.com

Quiddity Films Established in 2011 by Emily Morgan, Quiddity Films is a UK based production company, driven to produce original and striking feature films with partners from across the world. Recent work includes I Am Not a Witch that premiered at 2017 Cannes.

Emily Morgan

Recent Titles I Am Not a Witch — Rungano Nyoni Contact London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 79 85199566 / Emai: emily@quiddityfilms.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.

Recent Titles Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman / I Dream in Another Language — Ernesto Contreras / Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl — Felipe Braganca Raymond van der Kaaij, Producer

Contact Lijnbaansgracht 316 — 1017 WZ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8208987 / Email: welcome@revolver.nl / www.revolver.nl

Rinkel Film

Reinier Selen, Producer

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 A Real Vermeer — Rudolf van den Berg (NFF 2017) Contact Bremstraat 1-3 — 1031 EK Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6163231 / Email: info@rinkelfilm.com / www.rinkelfilm.com

Ibo Karatay, Development Executive

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Rotterdam Films

Dirk Rijneke, CEO/Producer

Rotterdam Films is an 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 do not 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 Yesterday by award-winning director Balint Kenyeres, starring Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) is released in 2017. In pre-production is Ricky Rijneke’s second feature The Hunter’s Son which was selected for Script&Pitch in the Torino Lab and Toronto Talent Lab and The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Jerusalem 2017. Her first feature Silent Ones won eleven awards out of fifteen nominations at many major festivals.

Contact Provenierssingel 33 — 3033 EG Rotterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 10 4658565 / Email: info@rotterdamfilms.nl / www.rotterdamfilms.nl

Savage Film

Bart Van Langendonck, Producer

Savage Film is best known for Michaël R. Roskam’s first feature film Bullhead (Oscar nominated as best foreign language film in 2012), which launched both Roskam’s and actor Matthias Schoenaerts’ careers, for the offical Belgian Oscar entry The Ardennes (2017 Academy Awards), and for the Sundance-winning hybrid documentary/fiction The Land of the Enlightened (2016). All three films have been shortlisted for the EFA’s. In summer 2017 Michaël R. Roskam’s second European feature, Le fidèle, was launched at the 2017 Venice and Toronto film festivals.

Recent Titles Le fidèle — Michaël R. Roskam / Le passé devant nous — Nathalie Teirlinck / The Ardennes — Robin Pront Contact Opzichterstraat 70/7 — 1080 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: + 32 2 7114291 / Email: info@savagefilm.be / www.savagefilm.be

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SENSE Production

Milan Stojanovic, Producer

SENSE Production is a Belgrade-based company gathering auteurs with an exciting approach to drama and visual. The company produced Barbarians by Ivan Ikic (2014 /Special Mention, Karlovy Vary IFF, producer Milan Stojanovic), The Way of the East (2017), a debut documentary film by Katarina Mutic and Only Girls Cry (2017), a short by Vladimir Milovanovic.

Stojanovic is an EAVE graduate, Producers on the Move and Berlinale Talents alumni and a member of the European Film Academy.

HFM Co-Pro 2017 Labour Day — Mladen Djordjevic Contact 5 Decanska Street — 11000 Belgrade (Serbia) / Tel: + 38 16 69399869 / Email: milan@senseproduction.rs / www.senseproduction.rs

Mladen Djordjevic, Filmmaker

Serendipity Films

Ellen De Waele, Producer

Serendipity Films is an independent production company, created by producer Ellen De Waele in 2006. Serendipity concentrates specifically on (co-)producing international feature films and documentaries in a wide variety of genres.

Serendipity prides itself in supporting fresh and innovative, young as well as established talent. Recently, Serendipity Films co-produced Strike a Pose, a documentary by Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan, which premiered in 2016 at the Berlinale Film Festival and is traveling the world since (Tribeca, HotDocs, etc).

Earlier productions include the feature film 82 Days in April by Bart Van den Bempt and Death of a Shadow, a short film by Tom Van Avermaet, starring internationally acclaimed actor Matthias Schoenaerts, which won the European Film Award for Best Short and was nominated for an Academy Award®. Serendipity Films is a member of The European Film Academy, Flanders Doc, EAVE and the EDN Network.

Recent Titles Dance of Life — Eva Küpper / Strike a Pose — Ester Gould & Reijer Zwaan Contact Huigeveldstraat 37 — 9550 Sint-Antelinks (Belgium) / Tel: + 32 499 463695 / Email: info@serendipityfilms.be / www.serendipityfilms.be

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Sibs Shongwe-LaMer, Independent Producer/Filmmaker A boutique South African film production company founded by writer/director Sibs Shongwe-La Mer (Necktie Youth; 2015 Panorama Berlinale, 2015 Tribeca).

Recent Titles Necktie Youth — Sibs Shongwe-La Mer Sibs Shongwe-LaMer, Filmmaker/Producer

Contact South Africa / Email: Info@thewhitmanindependent.com

Smarthouse Films

Daniëlle Guirguis, Owner/Producer

Smarthouse Films is commercial arthouse and vice versa. They produce feature films, documentaries and commercials. The six short films produced as part of the programme ‘This is Where Reconstruction Starts’, co-produced with IFFR, premiered at the festival in 2016 and have been selected for a.o. the main competition of Clermont-Ferrand. Smarthouse’s first documentary The Last Sea Gypsy is in post-production and this September Smarthouse’s first feature film La Holandesa has premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.

Contact Nieuwe Achtergracht 17 — 1018 XV Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 2337957 / Email: info@smarthousefilms.nl / www.smarthousefilms.nl

Still Moving A Paris based co-production and international sales company founded by Pierre Menahem and Juliette Lepoutre.

Recent Titles Pendular — Julia Murat Pierre Menahem, Co-founder/Producer

Contact 6 rue Boissonade — 75014 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 6 62088179 / Email: info@stillmoving.fr / www.stillmoving.fr

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Mathivanan Rajendran, Producer

Vignesh Balaji, Producer

Arun Karthick, Filmmaker

Stray Factory Mathivanan Rajendran is the founder of Stray Factory, a performing arts and new media entertainment company. Since 2010, he has produced over twenty theatrical productions across the globe at various performing arts festivals including South Africa, Los Angeles, Sydney and Kuala Lumpur. He was the producer of Black Sheep, one of South India’s first web series. He also launched Stray Stories, a short documentary series which is focused on bringing to the fore positive stories from marginalised and sidelined communities in Tamil Nadu. He was recently appointed as festival director for Short+Sweet Film Festival, South India in collaboration with the Stella Adler Academy, Los Angeles.

BoostNL 2017 Nasir — Arun Karthick Contact 17 Bhimsena Garden Street — 600004 Chennai (India) / Tel: +91 97 90911711 / Email: mathi@strayfactory.com / www.strayfactory.com

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Submarine Film

Bruno Felix, Founder

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 Boot (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 NFF 2017: De jacht op de match — Hans Pool / Wolves of Mangotown — Valerie Chang / That Hair! — Bibi Fadlalla / Kiem Holijanda — Sarah Veltmeyer / Harbour — Stefanie Kolk / Sing Song — Mischa Kamp / Find This Dumb Little Bitch and Throw Her into a River — Ben Brand / Contact Arie Biemondstraat 111 — 1054 PD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8204940 / Email: info@submarine.nl / www.submarine.nl

Takfilm Studio

Kuba Kosma, Producer

The main goal of Takfilm is to develop and produce Polish films with the potential to cross borders and intrigue European audiences. Takfilm is open for minority co-productions, which could engage Polish talents (e.g. prominent DoPs) or have potential for local financing bodies. The company’s first production was Strange Heaven directed by Dariusz Gajewski, (shortlisted for European Film Awards and won Best Feature Film at Off Camera). A recent production is A Heart of Love by Lukasz Ronduda (premiered at IFFR).

Recent Titles Strange Heaven — Dariusz Gajewski / A Heart of Love — Lukasz Ronduda / Tourists — Mateusz Romaszkan & Marta Wojtowicz Wcislo Contact Al. Jerozolimskie 121/123/39 — 02-017 Warsaw (Poland) / Tel: + 48 60 2435513 / Email: kuba@takfilm.eu / www.takfilm.eu

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Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company

Marteinn Thorsson, Filmmaker/Producer

Marteinn Thorsson formed Tenderlee MPC in 2008 with the aim to develop and produce works for Thorsson to direct. In 2011, writer/producer Gudmundur Oskarsson joined the company as co-owner and since then they have expanded their slate to include collaborations with other directors and companies in Europe.

In 2013 it produced its first feature, XL, which was directed by Thorsson and went on to win Best Actor at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and has since been invited to festivals worldwide and been sold to countries such as the US, Canada and Iceland.

Tenderlee MPC is a company in good standing with the Icelandic Film Centre and The Nordic Film and TV Fund.

They currently have five projects in development, supported by various funding agencies and/or organisations: Recurrence by Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir; Angel Dust; Yosoy (TV Series) and Wild Summer HFM Co-Pro 2017 Wild Summer — Marteinn Thorsson Contact Laufskogar 11 — 810 Hveragerdi (Iceland) / Tel: + 354 822 8958 / Email: m@tenderlee.com / www.tenderlee.com

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Laurette Schillings, Producer

Linda van der Herberg, International Co-Productions

Frans van Gestel, Producer

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.

Since 1996 Topkapi (co-)produced more than a hundred feature films (arthouse and commercial) and drama projects.

Recent Titles The Longing — Joram Lürsen / Out of Love — Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito / A Noble Intention — Joram Lürsen / Auf Einmal — Asli Özge / King of the Belgians — Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth / Belgica — Felix van Groeningen / Kollektivet —Thomas Winterberg // NFF 2017: Layla M. — Mijke de Jong / The Big Picture — Teddy Cherim / Happy Hannah — Anne Barnhoorn / Shouted from the Rooftops — Beri Shalmashi Contact Kloveniersburgwal 131-III — 1011 KD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 3032494 / Email: info@topkapifilms.nl / www.topkapifilms.nl

Tuffi Films Tuffi Films’ productions have enjoyed international success at the Academy Awards, and at major film festivals. The company develops feature films with a variety of genres from contemporary drama to comedy, creative documentaries and crossmedia-series.

Venla Hellstedt, Producer

Recent Titles Stupid Young Heart — Selma Vilhunen / Hobbyhorse Revolution — Selma Vilhunen / Once I Was a Dragonfly — Elli Toivoniemi / #ThisIsMe — Aino Suni & Jenni Tuli / The Committee — Jenni Toivoniemi & Gunhild Enger / The Move — Maija / Momentum — Anna Antsalo / If I Ruled — Aino Suni & Jenni Kangasniemi / Song — Selma Vilhunen Contact Vanha Talvitie 2 A 12 — 00580 Helsinki (Finland) / Tel: + 358 46 9349782 / Email: tuffi@tuffifilms.com / www.tuffifilms.com

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Twenty Twenty Vision Twenty Twenty Vision is a film production company based in Berlin (Germany).

Recent Titles Elle — Paul Verhoeven / Ma loute — Bruno Dumont / Mariupolis — Mantas Kvedaravicius / Soy nero — Rafi Pitts / Blessed Benefit — Mahmoud Al Massad (NFF 2017) Thanassis Karathanos, Producer

Contact Schwedter Strasse 13 — 10119 Berlin (Germany) / Tel: +49 30 61281750 / Email: office@twentytwentyvision.eu / www.twentytwentyvision.eu

Umedia

Beata Saboova, Co-Production Executive

Umedia is a vertically integrated, international film group with 160 staff based in London, Brussels, Paris, Vancouver and Los Angeles. The company is one of Europe’s leading production groups, combining the activities of development, production, financing, visual effects and finishing. Since its inception in 2004, Umedia has invested more than $500 million via its tax shelter, equity and development funds, and has been involved in 350 films including Grace of Monaco, John Wick, Yves Saint Laurent and multi-Academy Award-winning The Artist.

Recent Titles I Kill Giants — Anders Walter / Submergence — Wim Wenders / What Happened to Monday — Tom Wirkola / Mandy — Panos Cosmatos Contact 235 avenue Louise 235 — 1050 Brussels (Belgium) / Tel: +32 2 5440000 / Email: info@umedia.eu / www.umedia.eu

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.

After producing awarded shorts and documentaries, last year VENFILM released its first feature film Waterboys by Robert Jan Westdijk. The feelgood drama about a father and a son traveling from Amsterdam to Scotland, was an arthouse hit in The Netherlands, was nominated at 2017 Edinburgh Film Festival and sold to over thirty countries. The film can be seen in the Golden Calf competition at NFF 2017, as well as Thessa Meijers’ midlength debut The Day My House Fell.

Recent Titles Copyrette — Marc de Leeuw / Inconvenient Comfort — Ádám Fillenz // NFF 2017: Waterboys — Robert Jan Westdijk / The Day My House Fell — Thessa Meijer Contact Vasco da Gamastraat 55-3 — 1057 VJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 6 41878497 / Email: venfilm@gmail.com / www.venfilm.nl

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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 Oscuro animal — Felipe Guerrero // NFF 2017: Monk — Ties Schenk / Heads Together — Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins & Marieke Blaauw Contact Lindengracht 17 — 1015 KB Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6254788 / Email: info@vikingfilm.nl / www.vikingfilm.nl

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.

Denis Vaslin, Producer

Recent Titles I Know You Are There — Thom M. Vanderbeken / Centaur — Aktan Arym Kubat / The Grown Ups — Maite Alberdi //NFF 2017: Waiting for Giraffes — Marco de Stefanis / Michael — Francisca Toetenel / A Perfect Game — Robbert So Kiem Hwat Contact Graaf Florisstraat 110A — 3021CM Rotterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: + 31 6 12507056 / Email: info@volyafilms.com /www.volyafilms.com

Fleur Knopperts, Producer

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Windmill Film

Annemiek van der Hell, Producer

Windmill’s creative goal is to tell stories. It does not matter if those stories come in the shape of a documentary, a short, an animation, or a full-length feature.

Nevertheless if they can show it on a cinema screen, TV screen or online, they like it even more! But, the absolute prerequisite for them to tell the story is that it always has to be a good story.

Windmill Film has a strong focus on international, feature and documentary coproductions Annemiek van der Hell is an EAVE alumni 2012. Windmill Film is member of EDN, NBF and DPN. Recent Titles Stupid Young Heart — Selma Vilhunen / Playing God — Karin Jurschick Contact Amstel 266 — 1017 AM Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 8224183 / Email: contact@windmillfilm.com / www.windmillfilm.com

Wallie Polle, Distributor

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), Maarten Swart (Kaap Holland Film, interim Chairman), Digna Sinke (SNG Film), Ate de Jong (Mulholland Pictures), Sander Verdonk (New Amsterdam Film Company), Laurette Schillings (Topkapi Films) Film Producers Netherlands | members An Original Picture Joost de Vries joost@devries.media BALDR Film Frank Hoeve Katja Draaijer info@baldrfilm.nl www.baldrfilm.nl BosBros Burny Bos Jolande Junte Eefje Smulders info@bosbros.com www.bosbros.com Circe Films Stienette Bosklopper Lisette Kelder info@circe.nl www.circe.nl Cool Beans Richard Claus rc@coolbeanspix.com CTM Films Sander Verdonk Marijn Wigman pictures@ctm.nl www.ctmpictures.com De Familie Film & TV Monique Busman Michiel van Erp info@defamilie.net www.defamilie.net De Productie Annemiek van Gorp René 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 Roddia Rumahloine 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 Kaap Holland Film Maarten Swart info@kaaphollandfilm.nl www.kaaphollandfilm.nl Kaliber Film Mete Gümürhan Aydin Dehzad Bas Broertjes info@kaliberfilm.nl www.kaliberfilm.nl Keren Cogan Films Keren Cogan Galjé info@kerencoganfilms.com www.kerencoganfilms.com

KeyFilm Hanneke Niens Hans de Wolf Marten van Warmerdam info@keyfilm.nl www.keyfilm.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 OAK Motion Pictures Trent contact@oakmotionpictures.com www.oakmotionpictures.com PVPictures Paul Voorthuysen mail@pvpictures.nl www.pvpictures.nl Rotterdam Films Mildred van Leeuwaarden Dirk Rijneke info@rotterdamfilms.nl www.rotterdamfilms.nl

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 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 Topkapi Films Frans van Gestel Arnold Heslenfeld Laurette Schillings info@topkapifilms.nl www.topkapifilms.nl Viking Film Marleen Slot info@vikingfilm.nl www.vikingfilm.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 Gli asteroidi — Germano Maccioni / The Trial — Askold Kurov / A Heart of Love — Lukasz Ronduda / My Wunderbares West-Berlin — Jochen Hick Contact 10 Bookbinders Ct, 61 Cudworth Street — E1 5QU London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 7 513042717 / Email: info@alphapanda.com / www.alphapanda.com

everything works everything works (LLC) is a company based in Zagreb (Croatia) providing services of designing the festival strategy for feature and short films and handing their promotion and circulation in the international film festival circuit.

Ivana Ivisic, Sales Agent

Recent Titles All the Cities of the North — Dane Komljen / The Trampoline — Katarina Zrinka Matijevic / 90 Seconds in North Korea — Ranko Paukovic Contact Prisavlje 6 — 10000 Zagreb (Croatia) / Tel: + 385 91 1811002 / Email: ew@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.

Contact IJpromenade 1 — 1031 KT Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 7582375 / Email: international@eyefilm.nl / www.international.eyefilm.nl

THERE IS A NEW KID IN TOWN The REDLINE / FILMDOC (New name soon to be released!) partnership is a full service film postproduccon company based in Amsterdam. By joining forces and starrng a brand new post house we have created a large one-stop shop.

Established by true filmmakers, we have over 25 years of experience.

Blending our creaave energy with high-end picture and sound postproduccon results in a unique new post-HUB in Amsterdam.

We work on feature films, television drama, series and (internaaonal) documentaries. We cater for the ennre postproduccon process, from on-set data handling, sound design, grading, to VFX and finishing for internaaonal cinema/television deliveries.

Our showpiece is the largest grading/dubbing stage in the Netherlands; a 25 feet cinemascope stage, equipped with a state-of-the-art BARCO DP4K-P DCI projector and 7.1 digital Dynaudio Air monitoring. Other faciliies include ediing, TV grading and sound design suites, a large Foley-stage, etc.

Our biggest asset however, is our pool of creaave talents who REALLY LOVE FILM! Supported by professional and experienced in-house producers, we can push your project to another level.

DISTELWEG 80 L 1031 HH AMSTERDAM (+31) (0) 20 694 0 250

planning@redline.nl www.redline.nl www.filmdoc.nl

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Sales Cinetic

Jason Ishikawa, International Sales

Cinetic Media is a New York-based film and media company that, since its founding in 2001, has provided an exclusive group of entertainment clients with advisory services in every aspect of development and operations related to motion pictures.

The firm specialises in film finance, sales, distribution, talent management, and corporate consulting, occupying a unique position in the film industry as representatives of marquee talent at the intersection of financing and distribution.

Recent Titles Barry — Vikram Gandhi / Before the Flood — Fisher Stevens / City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman / Last Flag Flying — Richard Linklater / Maggie’s Plan — Rebecca Miller / Super Size Me 2 — Morgan Spurlock / Wonderstruck — Todd Haynes Contact 555W 25th Street, 4th Floor — 10001 New York (USA) / Tel: +1 212 2047979 / Email: office@cineticmedia.com / www.cineticmedia.com

Doc & Film International

Hannah Horner, Head of Sales & Festivals

Doc & Film International has been created in 1996 by several independent producers in order to ensure best sales strategies for their own productions. In 2008, Daniela Elstner joined the company as shareholder and president. Since then, the company has widened up to a large range of films, including feature lengths documentaries and feature films, representing directors such as Jacques Doillon, Pierre Schoeller, Bruno Dumont, Frederick Wiseman, Gianfranco Rosi, Alexander Sokurov etc. Doc & Film International has built a strong relationship with producers and directors and has created a solid network of arthouse distributors all over the world. The company pays special attention to the work with festivals, considering them as strong partners for the best exposure of the diversity of the films they are representing.The catalogue of Doc & Film International represents around 800 TVdocumentaries and a hundred feature length documentaries and feature films and the company represents around fifteen new feature films and documentaries per year and around 25 new audiovisual productions.

Recent Titles Lola Pater — Nadir Moknèche / Catch the Wind — Gaël More / Ex libris — The New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman / Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda — Stephen Nomura Schible / Volubilis — Faouzi Bensaidi Contact 13 rue Portefoin — 75003 Paris (France) / Tel: +44 7 513042717 / Email: sales@docandfilm.com / www.docandfilm.com

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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 Lars and the Baron — John Thornblad / #Screamers — Dean Matthew Ronalds / On the Trail of My Father — Marco Segato Contact Lerchengasse 24/25 — 1080 Vienna (Austria) / Tel: + 43 18 908376 / Email: office@eastwest-distribution.com / www.eastwest-distribution.com

Gaumont

Christina Douguet, Executive Development & Projects

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 hit 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, produce and distribute a highquality programming for the US and international markets.

With offices in Paris, London, and Los Angeles, key series include Narcos, Hannibal, Hemlock Grove, and 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 avenue Charles de Gaulle — 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine (France) / Tel: + 33 1 46432000 / Email: cdouguet@gaumont.fr / www.gaumont.net

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Heretic Outreach Heretic Outreach is an international sales company that supports and encourages outstanding films and filmmakers to reach out to the world. Holding close ties to the filmmaking community of South Eastern Europe, the company represents films from the region and beyond, becoming a key partner for solid strategies in festivals, sales and alternative distribution models.

Ioanna Stais, Head of Sales & Acquisitions

Recent Titles More — Onur Saylak / Meteors — Gurcan Keltek / Son of Sofia — Elina Psykou / L.P. — Christos Petrou Contact Promitheos 18 — 15234 Athens (Greece) / Tel: +30 210 6005260 / Email: info@heretic.gr / www.heretic.gr

Kinology

Gregoire Graesslin, Festivals Manager

A Paris-based world sales and (co-)production entity representing some of the most ambitious and innovative European feature films starring international talents such as Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang, Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, Michel Gondry’s The We and the I, and Rodrigo Cortés’s Buried. In 2016-2017, Kinology fully produced the US$25M heist action lingo Overdrive, and is currently producing Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Contact 30 rue Moret — 75011 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 9 51474344 / Email: festivals@kinology.eu / www.kinology.eu

The Match Factory

Zsuzsi Bankuti, Acquisitions

World sales company The Match Factory is dedicated to bringing the finest in arthouse cinema to the international market. Since its founding in 2006, their passion has been to work with films of signature and vision from around the globe.

The Match Factory has built strong relationships with acclaimed directors and producers, while working simultaneously to discover promising new filmmakers with a powerful original style.

Recent Titles Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade / The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki / In the Fade — Fatih Akin / Jupiter’s Moon — Kornél Mundruczó / Sicilian Ghost Story — Fabio Grassadonia, & Antonio Piazza / Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz / The Song of Scorpions — Anup Singh / Zama — Lucrecia Martel / Wild Mouse — Josef Hader / A Man of Integrity — Mohammad Rasoulof Contact Domstrasse 60 — 50668 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 5397090 / Email: info@matchfactory.de / www.the-match-factory.de

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Media Luna New Films

Manola Novelli, Acquisitions Manager

Media Luna New Films represents directors and producers with a handwriting signature on their work. They focus on international productions by talents, who demand to emerge through their original approach and their unique style. Media Luna offers a broad spectrum of feature length films and television movies, touching all genres. With their line-up, they intend to shed light on various pieces of the Earth and of human life, showing fascinating diversities or unexpected similarities. The company’s strategy is based on building long lasting relationships with producers and directors, in providing individual marketing strategies to each film for an effective and sensible placement in the international market. Therefore, you will find in Media Luna’s catalogue films from a large number of countries and without boundaries.

Contact Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6th Floor — 50672 Cologne (Germany) / Tel: +49 221 51091891 / Email: info@medialuna.biz / www.medialuna.biz

Memento Films International

Tanja Meissner, Head of International Sales & Acquisitions

Memento Films International is a select sales company that tracks and represents high-profile, director driven independent films. They commit to only eight projects a year and offer tailor-made synergies and business expertise through production, financing and international sales. They have 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, and 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 cutting-edge low-budget projects from emerging talents, they value originality, whether in more traditional narrative forms or from the cinematographic vision of the director.

Contact 9 Cité Paradis — 75010 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 53349020 / Email: sales@memento-films.com / www.memento-films.com

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New Europe Film Sales New Europe Film Sales is a boutique world sales agency based in Poland working with award-winning features and shorts from Europe and beyond. Their catalogue includes 2015 Un Certain Regard winner Rams by Grímur Hákonarson and 2016 Berlinale Silver Bear winner United States of Love by Tomasz Wasilewski.

Marcin Luczaj, Aquisitions

Recent Titles Rams — Grímur Hákonarson / Summer 1993 — Carla Simon Pipó / Under the Tree — Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson / Disappearance — Ali Asgari / Pity — Babis Makridis / The County — The County — Grímur Hákonarson Contact Czerniakowska 73/79 — 00-718 Warsaw (Poland) / Tel: +48 600 173205 / Email: jan@neweuropefilmsales.com / www.neweuropefilmsales.com

Nine Film

Nelleke Driessen, Film Industry Advisor/ Consultant

Nine Film is an independent sales company dedicated to bringing feature films and documentaries to the international market. Their slate comprises careful selection of arthouse and crossover films from all over the world created by fresh talent and renowned filmmakers.

They have a passion for theatrical exhibition and are equally enthusiastic about today’s evolving distribution channels.

The company is committed to long-lasting and mutually beneficial business relationships with our partners — producers, distributors and festivals alike — and believe in transparency and integrity during all stages of the distribution process.

Nine Film is a small and dynamic team — with each of them coming from a slightly different background. Between them they share a wide-range of experience, indepth knowledge of the industry and an extensive, international network. They are supported by a back office comprising of fully-fledged accounting, marketing and publicity departments.

Contact Westerdok 764 — Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Email: driessen.nelleke@gmail.com

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Protagonist Pictures

Vanessa Saal, Managing Director, Sales & Distribution

Commercially minded and creatively spirited, Protagonist Pictures is an international sales and finance company committed to strong relationships with filmmakers, financiers and distributors. Launched in London in 2008 by shareholders including Film4, Vertigo Films and Ingenious Media, the company quickly created a strong brand as a home for bold stories and exciting new directing voices. It has now expanded from its UK origins to handle titles from around the world, with a wider range of directors, producers and budgets.

Recent Titles The Florida Project — Sean Baker / The Rider — Chloé Zhao / Lady Macbeth — William Oldr / Dark River — Clio Barn / Beast — Michael Pearce Contact 42-48 Great Portland Street — W1W 7NB London (United Kingdom) / Tel: +44 207 7349000 / Email: info@protagonistpictures.com / www.protagonistpictures.com

Stray Dogs Launched in 2015, Stray Dogs is a sales agency dedicated to bringing edgy, international, director driven films with cult potential to worldwide audiences.

The company’s aim is to provide their distributors and programmer friends with fresh, interesting, special content, which will appeal to younger audiences and gain value over time.

Inge de Leeuw, Acquisitions

Recent Titles The Brawler — Anurag Kashyap / Gutland — Govinda Van Maele / Good Luck — Ben Russell / All You Can Eat Buddha — Ian Lagarde / Thirst Street — Nathan Silver / Pin Cushion — Deborah Haywood / The Asteroids — Germano Maccioni Contact 15 rue Chevert — 75007 Paris (France) / Tel: +33 1 82284215 / Email: sales@stray-dogs.com / www.stray-dogs.biz

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. 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

Remco Mastwijk, Managing Director

Filmmore is the leading post-production and visual effects facility in the Benelux, providing services exclusively for feature film, documentary and TV drama for the local market and international co-productions. They inject every aspect of the postproduction process with the highest standard of creative and technical skills. Their main objective is to add value to their customer’s projects.

Filmmore has been proudly serving the film industry since 2006 and currently has offices in Amsterdam, Brussels and Flanders.

Recent Titles Brimstone — Martin Koolhoven / Handle with Care — Arild Andresen / Zama — Lucrecia Martel / Home — Fien Troch / How to Meet a Mermaid — Coco Schrijber / Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman // NFF 2017: Monk — Ties Schenk / Disappearance — Boudewijn Koole Contact Entrepotdok 66 — 1018 AD Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel:+31 20 5309696 / Email: info@filmmore.eu / www.filmmore.nl

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Jaim Sahuleka, Owner/Sound Designer

Joel Sahuleka, Owner/Colourist

Bart van den Broek, Owner/Managing Director of Non-Fiction

Redline/Filmdoc The Redline/Filmdoc (New name soon to be released) partnership is a full service film post-production company based in Amsterdam. By joining forces and starting a brand new post house we have created a large one-stop shop. Blending our creative energy with high-end picture and sound post-production results in a unique new post-Hub in Amsterdam.

Recent Titles Het leven is VURRUKKULLUK — Frans Weisz / Tokyo Trial — Pieter Verhoeff / Winnie — Pascale Lamche / Elvis Walks Home — Fatmir Koçi / Why Slavery — Roger Ross Williams / Love is Potatoes — Aliona van der Horst / Echt Herman Koch — Pieter Verhoeff / The Red Soul — Jessica Gorter / Stranger in Paradise — Guido Hendrikx / Tonio — Paula van der Oest / Little Angels — Marco Niemeyer / Kleine IJstijd — Paula van der Oest Contact Distelweg 80L — 1031 HH Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 6940250 / Email: planning@redline.nl / www.redline.nl, www.filmdoc.nl

WarnierPosta WarnierPosta 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.

WarnierPosta provides full audio services from picture lock to the final release of your project.

Peter Warnier, Sound Designer

Recent Titles A Gentle Creature — Sergei Loznitsa 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

Simon Perry, President

Jacobine van der Vloed, Director/Head of Studies

Maegene Fabias, Head of Events

Alice Cubadda, Head of Administration & Finance

ACE Producers

Al Williams, Producers Liaison/Head of Communications

ACE Producers is an exclusive network of experienced independent film producers from Europe and beyond. Its fundamental aim is to encourage and enable international co-production.

Producers with proven experience in their own countries are welcomed into the network after completing the ACE programme of advanced training, which consists of three workshops during one year. The training asserts the position and unique responsibilities of the producer throughout the whole process of a project’s development, production, marketing and delivery to audiences.

Contact W. G. Plein 508 — 1054 SJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 2410777 / Email: info@ace-producers.com / www.ace-producers.com

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

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Anita Smit, Head of Production Department

Monique Robeerst, Coordinator Production Department

Iris Hogendijk, Lecturer

Netherlands Film Academy The Film Academy is a leading international media programme, unique in the Netherlands. 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.

Contact Markenplein 1 — 1011 MV Amsterdam (The Netherlands) / Tel: +31 20 277333 / filmacademie@ahk.nl / www.filmacademie.nl

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TV-Acquisitions ZDF/ARTE The fiction department of ZDF/ARTE is a section of Germany’s public broadcasting corporation ZDF. This section is in charge of supplying a 25% share of the programme-stock of culture-oriented German-French TV channel ARTE. Within this structure the ZDF/ARTE fiction department acquires and co-produces a variety of films for the weekly fiction slots on ARTE. Simon Ofenloch, Commissioning Editor

Recent Titles Pokot — Agnieszka Holland / Pyromanen — Erik Skjoldbjærg / La memoria del agua — Matías Bize / Eisenstein in Guanajuato — Peter Greenaway / Zurich — Sacha Polak / Mr. Kaplan — Álvaro Brechner / Dancing Arabs — Eran Riklis Contact P.O. Box 4040 – 55100 Mainz (Germany) / Tel: +49 613 17012461 / Email: Ofenloch.S@zdf.de / www.zdf.de

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Index HFM Co-Pro Platform // BoostNL // Works-in-Progress Titles 60 Baby 62 Beyond the Blue Bridge 78 cama, La 80 Champion, The 28 Citizen B 30 Gendarme, The 32 Grave Digger, The 64 Hague Hilton, The 34 If the Light Takes Us 36 Labour Day 40 Life after Zoro 66 Life on Mars (working title) 82 Light as Feathers 84 Magnetic Pathways 68 Nasir 38 niñas, Las 86 Nocturne 42 Rum Doxy Diver 44 Snow and the Bear 70 Stranger, The 88 Unschuldige, Der 72 vaca que cantó una canción sobre el futuro, La 46 Whole-Timers, The 48 Wild Summer

32 72 46 80 60 30 64 36 44 66 46 34 42 88 68 78 62 80 38 82 84 28 40 48 86 70

Directors Ahmed, Khadar Alegria, Francisca Basnet, Bibhusan Bianchi, Giordano Caetano, Marcelo Chisu, Dan Conen, Boris Paval Djordjevic, Mladen Ergun, Selcen van Erp, Michiel Gurung, Pooja Helgadottir, Anna Maria Heymann, Lindy Jaquemet, Simon Karthick, Arun Lairana, Monica Lamberti, Isabel Marafatto, Martina Palomero, Pilar Pel, Rosanne Pêra, Edgar Ramezan, Hamy Reyntjens, Raf Thorsson, Marteinn van der Valk, Viktor Yang, Zhengfan

84 72 42 66 34 38 88 86 46 32 46 60 64,82 44 68 28 40 62 30 80 36 78 70

Producers Areias, Rodrigo Bettati, Bruno Boulter, Roy Busman, Monique Damgaard Hansen, Per Delpierre, Valérie Eisenreich, Aurelius Glijnis, Erik Legrand, Marie Lwoff, Mark Massalha, Rani Melo, Ivan Onrust, Floor Peynirci, Zeki Rajendran, Mathivanan Rantamäki, Jussi Rombaut, Xavier Rubinstein Malamud, Steven Sitaru, Adrian Sponda, Paola Stojanovic, Milan Yurcovich, Adriana Zhu, Shengze

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Index HFM Co-Pro Platform // BoostNL // Works-in-Progress

78 88 86 28 78 60 44 88 72 84 80 38 32 40 70 72 36 66

Production Companies 3 Moinhos Produções (Brazil) 8horses (Switzerland) A Private View (Belgium) Aamu Film Company Ltd. (Finland) Adriana Yurcovich (Argentina) África Filmes (Brazil) Albino Zebra (Turkey) augenschein (Germany) Bananeira Films (Brazil) Bando à Parte (Portugal) Border Studio Soc. Coop. (Italy) BTeam Pictures (Spain) Bufo (Finland) Bulletproof Cupid (Belgium) Burn The Film (China) Cinéma Defacto (France) Corona Film (Serbia) De Familie Film & TV (The Netherlands)

30 64, 82 42 42 62 38 72 46 86 34 84 36 48 68 78 48 78 62

Domestic Film (Romania) Family Affair Films (The Netherlands) Gibson & MacLeod (UK) Hurricane Films (UK) IJswater Films (The Netherlands) Inicia Films (Spain) Jirafa (Chile) Les Films du Tambour (France) Maniak Film (The Netherlands) Masterplan Pictures (Denmark) Persona Non Grata (Brazil) SENSE Production (Serbia) Stór og smá (Iceland) Stray Factory (India) Sutor Kolonko (Germany) Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company (Iceland) Topkapi Films (The Netherlands) Tourmalet Films (Spain)

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Index Company Profiles By activity

93 93 94 94

Consultancy BaseWorx for Film Inside Out / BIND Melia Films solace 23

Distributors / VOD ABC/Cinemien Cinéart Featurette Imagine Film Distribution 96 MUBI 96 Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih 97 September Film Distribution

95 95 95 96

Festivals / Markets 99 La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Film Festival) 99 Cinekid 99 FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) 100 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 101 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes 101 Sarajevo Film Festival/CineLink 101 La Semaine de la Critique 101 Sundance Institute

104 104 104 105 105 105 106 106 107

108 108

110

111 111

Production 113 8horses 114 Aamu Film Company Ltd. 114 Adriana Yurcovich, Independent Producer 115 África Filmes 115 Albino Zebra 116 Arsam Productions 116 BALDR Film 117 Bando a Parte 117 Belga Productions 117 Beofilm 118 Black Sheep Productions 118 Border Studio 119 BosBros 120 Bufo Insurance / Legal 120 Bulletproof Cupid facilities 121 Burn The Film No Risk On Set 121 Circe Films Versteeg Wigman 122 CTM Pictures Sprey Advocaten 122 Dolce Vita Films 123 Domestic Film Other Film 123 Dutch Mountain Film Professionals 124 Earlybirds Films Gamila Ylstra, 124 Falcon Grove Independent Productions BV 125 De Familie Film & TV Press 125 Family Affair Films Cineuropa.org Filmecho / Filmwoche 126 Les Films d’Antoine 126 Les Films Fauves 127 The Film Kitchen 127 Les Films du Tambour 128 Frakas Productions 128 Fu Works 128 HALAL Funding / Financing / Institutes Casa Kafka Pictures CoBO City of Utrecht / Film Commission Utrecht Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris Eurimages EYE Film Institute Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) Netherlands Film Fund

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Index Company Profiles By activity 129 Horsefly Productions 129 Hurricane Films 130 IJswater Films 131 in between film 131 Inicia Films 132 In Vivo Film 132 Jirafa 133 Kaap Holland Film 133 Kaliber Film 134 Keplerfilm 134 KeyFilm 135 Lemming Film 136 Little House Productions 137 Little Shark Entertainment 137 Mañana Ltd 138 Maniak Film 138 Man’s Films Productions 139 Masterplan Pictures 139 Millstreet Films 140 Minds Meet 140 Mômerade 140 Mónica Lairana, Independent Filmmaker/ Producer 141 Mulholland Pictures 141 N279 Entertainment 141 Negativ s.r.o.

142 New Amsterdam Film Company 142 NiKo Film 143 OAK Motion Pictures

143 One Two Films GmbH 144 Panache Productions 144 Pandora Film Produktion 145 Pinball Films 145 A Private View 146 De Productie 146 PRPL 147 Pupkin 147 Quiddity Films 148 Revolver Amsterdam 148 Rinkel Film 149 Rotterdam Films 149 Savage Film 150 SENSE Production 150 Serendipity Films 151 Sibs ShongweLaMer, Independent Producer/Filmmaker 151 Smarthouse Films 151 Still Moving 152 Stray Factory 153 Submarine 153 Takfilm Studio 154 Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company 155 Topkapi Films 155 Tuffi Films 156 Twenty Twenty Vision 156 Umedia 156 VENFILM 157 Viking Film 157 Volya Films 158 Windmill Film

Promotion 160 Alphapanda 160 everything works 161 EYE International Sales 163 Cinetic 163 Doc & Film International 164 EastWest Filmdistribution 164 Gaumont 165 Heretic Outreach 165 Kinology 165 The Match Factory 166 Media Luna New Films 166 Memento Films International 167 New Europe Film Sales 167 Nine Film 168 Protagonist Pictures 168 Stray Dogs 168 Wild Bunch

169 169 170 170

Technical facilities Cam-a-lot Filmmore Redline WarnierPosta

Training / Education 172 ACE Producers 172 EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen) 173 Netherlands Film Academy TV-acquisitions 174 ZDF/ARTE

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Index Company Profiles By company 113 8horses 114 Aamu Film Company Ltd. 95 ABC/Cinemien 172 ACE Producers 114 Adriana Yurcovich, Independent Producer 115 África Filmes 115 Albino Zebra 160 Alphapanda 116 Arsam Productions 116 BALDR Film 117 Bando a Parte 93 BaseWorx for Film 117 Belga Productions 117 Beofilm 99 La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Film Festival) 118 Black Sheep Productions 118 Border Studio 119 BosBros

120 120 121 169 104 95 99 163 111 121 104 104 105 122 163 122 123 123 124 164

Bufo Bulletproof Cupid Burn The Film Cam-a-lot Casa Kafka Pictures Cinéart Cinekid Cinetic Cineuropa.org Circe Films City of Utrecht / Film Commission Utrecht CoBO Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture CTM Pictures Doc & Film International Dolce Vita Films Domestic Film Dutch Mountain Film Earlybirds Films EastWest Filmdistribution

172 EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen) 105 Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris 105 Eurimages 160 everything works 106 EYE Film Institute 161 EYE International 124 Falcon Grove Productions BV 125 De Familie Film & TV 125 Family Affair Films 95 Featurette 106 Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) 111 Filmecho / Filmwoche 169 Filmmore 126 Les Films d’Antoine 126 Les Films Fauves 127 The Film Kitchen 127 Les Films du Tambour 99 FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels)

128 Frakas Productions 128 Fu Works 110 Gamila Ylstra, Independent 164 Gaumont 128 HALAL 165 Heretic Outreach 129 Horsefly Productions 129 Hurricane Films 130 IJswater Films 96 Imagine Film Distribution 131 in between film 131 Inicia Films 132 In Vivo Film 93 Inside Out / BIND 100 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 132 Jirafa 133 Kaap Holland Film 133 Kaliber Film 134 Keplerfilm 134 KeyFilm

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Index Company Profiles By company 165 Kinology 135 Lemming Film 136 Little House Productions 137 Little Shark Entertainment 137 Mañana Ltd 138 Maniak Film 138 Man’s Films Productions 139 Masterplan Pictures 165 The Match Factory 166 Media Luna New Films 94 Melia Films 166 Memento Films International 139 Millstreet Films 140 Minds Meet 140 Mômerade 140 Mónica Lairana, Independent Filmmaker/ Producer

96 141 141 141 173 107 142 167 142 167 108 143 143 144 144 145 145 146

MUBI Mulholland Pictures N279 Entertainment Negativ s.r.o.

Netherlands Film Academy Netherlands Film Fund New Amsterdam Film Company New Europe Film Sales NiKo Film Nine Film No Risk On Set OAK Motion Pictures One Two Films GmbH Panache Productions Pandora Film Produktion Pinball Films A Private View De Productie

168 146 147 147 101 170 148 148 149 101 101 149 96 150 97 150 151

Protagonist Pictures PRPL Pupkin Quiddity Films Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes Redline Revolver Amsterdam Rinkel Film Rotterdam Films Sarajevo Film Festival/CineLink La Semaine de la Critique Savage Film Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih SENSE Production September Film Distribution Serendipity Films Sibs ShongweLaMer, Independent Producer/Filmmaker

151 94 151 168 152 153 102 153 154 155 155 156 156 156 108 157 157 170 168 158 174

Smarthouse Films solace 23 Still Moving Stray Dogs Stray Factory Submarine Sundance Institute Takfilm Studio Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company Topkapi Films Tuffi Films Twenty Twenty Vision Umedia VENFILM Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten Viking Film Volya Films Warnier Posta Wild Bunch Windmill Film ZDF/ARTE

HFM Guide 2017 — Index 181

Index Company Profiles By country Argentina 114 Adriana Yurcovich, Independent Producer 140 Monica Lairana, Independent Filmmaker/ Producer Austria 164 EastWest Filmdistribution

117 120 104 124 128 138 140 144 145 149 150 156

Belgium Belga Productions Bulletproof Cupid Casa Kafka Pictures Earlybirds Films Frakas Productions sprl Man’s Films Productions Minds Meet Panache Productions A Private View Savage Film Serendipity Films Umedia

Bosnia and Herzegovina 101 Sarajevo Film Festival/CineLink Brazil 115 África Filmes Czech Republic 141 Negativ s.r.o.

Chile 132 Jirafa China 121 Burn The Film Croatia 160 everything works Denmark 117 Beofilm 139 Masterplan Pictures Finland 117 Aamu Film Company Ltd. 120 Bufo 155 Tuffi Films

France 116 Arsam Productions 163 Doc & Film International 122 Dolce Vita Films 105 Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris 105 Eurimages 126 Les Films d’Antoine 127 Les Films du Tambour 99 FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) 164 Gaumont 132 In Vivo Film 165 Kinology 94 Melia Films 166 Memento Films International 140 Mômerade 101 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 101 La Semaine de la Critique 151 Still Moving 168 Wild Bunch

95 111 131 137 165 166 142 143 144 96 94 156 174

Germany Featurette Filmecho / Filmwoche in between film Little Shark Entertainment GmbH The Match Factory Media Luna New Films NiKo Film One Two Films GmbH Pandora Film Produktion Schwarz Weiss Filmverleih solace23 Twenty Twenty Vision ZDF/ARTE

Greece 165 Heretic Outreach 129 Horsefly Productions Iceland 154 Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company Ireland 118 Black Sheep Productions Italy 99 La Biennale di Venezia 118 Border Studio Luxembourg 172 EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs de l’Audiovisuel Européen) 126 Les Films Fauves

182 HFM Guide 2017 — Index

Index Company Profiles By country

95 172 116 93 119 169 95 99 121 104 104 105

122 123 106 161 124 125 125 169 106 128 110

128 130 96

93

The Netherlands ABC/Cinemien ACE Producers BALDR Film BaseWorx for Film BosBros Cam-a-lot Cinéart Nederland Cinekid Circe Films City of Utrecht Film Commission CoBO Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture CTM Pictures Dutch Mountain Film EYE Film Institute EYE International Falcon Grove Productions BV De Familie Film & TV Family Affair Films Filmmore Filmproducenten Nederland (FPN) Fu Works Gamila Ylstra, Independent Film and Media Professional HALAL IJswater Films Imagine Filmdistributie Nederland Inside Out / BIND

100 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 133 Kaap Holland Film B.V. 133 Kaliber Film 134 Keplerfilm 134 KeyFilm 135 Lemming Film 139 Millstreet Films 141 Mulholland Pictures 141 N279 Entertainment 107 Netherlands Film Fund 173 Netherlands Film Academy 167 Nine Film 108 No-Risk-On-Set 143 OAK Motion Pictures 146 De Productie 146 PRPL 147 Pupkin 170 Redline 148 Revolver Amsterdam 148 Rinkel Film 149 Rotterdam Films 97 September Film Distribution 151 Smarthouse Films 153 Submarine Film 127 The Film Kitchen 155 Topkapi Films 156 VENFILM 108 Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten 157 Viking Film 157 Volya Films 170 WarnierPosta 158 Windmill Film

Poland 137 Mañana Ltd 167 New Europe Film Sales 153 Takfilm Studio

Switzerland 113 8horses

Portugal 117 Bando A Parte

United Kingdom 160 Alphapanda 129 Hurricane Films 136 Little House Productions 145 Pinball Films 168 Protagonist Pictures 147 Quiddity Films

Romania 123 Domestic Film Serbia 150 SENSE Production South-Africa 151 Sibs Shongwe LaMer, Independent Filmmaker Spain 131 Inicia Films

Turkey 115 Albino Zebra

USA 163 Cinetic 102 Sundance Institute

HFM Guide 2017 — Index 183

Index Company Profiles By person 106 97 120 132 117 152 165 130 132 99 132 100 118 123 139 101 107 105 121 119 129 100 170 125 105 115 129 123

Abram, Ido 125 Aert, Jan van 172 Ahmed, Khadar 139 Alegria, Francisca Areias, Rodrigo 115 Balaji, Vignesh 134 Bankuti, Zsuzsi 132 Bary, Marc 107 Bellicaud, Louise 150 Bertolin, Paolo 164 Bettati, Bruno 107 Beyer, Bero 167 Bianchi, Giordano 107 Boekelman, Wilant Bommel, Rachel van 93 Bonhomme, Remi 147 Boonekamp, Doreen 113 Bos, Harry 172 Bosklopper, 100 Stienette Bosman, Hanneke 115 Boulter, Roy 125 Breeman, Fay 172 Broek, Bart van den 153 Busman, Monique 142 Cadoux, Anne-Iris 155 Caetano, Marcelo 116 Campbell, Leigh 135, 138 Chisu, Dan 144

Conen, Boris Paval Cubadda, Alice Damgaard Hansen, Per Melo, Ivan Dehzad, Aydin Delpierre, Valérie Delvoie, Dany Djordjevic, Mladen Douguet, Christina Driessen, Ellis Driessen, Nelleke Driessen-Bussink, Peggy Driesum, Esther van Eijk, Rolf van Eisenreich, Aurelius Elo, Satu Elshout, Marit van den Ergun, Selcen Erp, Michiel van Fabias, Maegene Felix, Bruno Gerhards, Nicole Gestel, Frans van Girard, Ilann Glijnis, Erik Goebel, Raimond

146 146 165 124 151 106 101 104 106 138 136 146 133 111 106 104 139 158 155 155 116 173 108 145 163 122

Goossens, René Gorp, Annemiek van Graesslin, Gregoire Grover, David Guirguis, Daniëlle Haar, Marjan van der Hadžic, Armin Hage, Jeanine Hamer, Sandra den Hänsel, Marion Hasan, Uzma Havenith, Ellen Hees, Judith Heidsiek, Birgit Heijde, Edith van der Heijnen, Marlou Helgadottir, Anna Maria Hell, Annemiek van der Hellstedt, Venla Herberg, Linda van der Hoeve, Frank Hogendijk, Iris Hoogenbos, Ronald Horner, Ashley Horner, Hannah Irmer, Marc

163 160 113 141 95 119 135 148 140 127 148 156 152 121 128 96 157 137 153 140 130 93 149 168 127 140 144 100 167

Ishikawa, Jason Ivisic, Ivana Jaquemet, Simon Jong, Ate de Jong, Janneke de Junte, Jolande Juricic, Sara Kaaij, Raymond van der Kalmar, Lucie Kanters, Ineke Karatay, Ibo Karathanos, Thanassis Karthick, Arun Kelder, Lisette Kerbosch, Gijs Keuthen, Matthias Knopperts, Fleur Kobus, Piotr Kosma, Kuba Lairana, Monica Lamberti, Isabel Landsberger, Claudia Langendonck, Bart Van Leeuw, Inge de Legrand, Marie Leyers, Tomas Logie, André Loocke, Inke Van Luczaj, Marcin

184 HFM Guide 2017 — Index

Index Company Profiles By person 120 128 118 96 138 127 169 95 147 166 151 161 104 117 147 170 131 102 134 96 135 161 160 166 174 125 147 124

Lwoff, Mark Maltha, San Fu Marafatto, Martina Maranon, Chiara Marnette, Monique Massalha, Rani Mastwijk, Remco Matits, Aranka Meijman, Layla Meissner, Tanja Menahem, Pierre Mierop, Nathalie Molhant, Isabelle Møller Christoffersen, Maria Morgan, Emily Muiser, Christan Nagel, Sarah Nein, John Nelissen, Koji Nguyen, Vi Niens, Hanneke Nieveld, Lisa Linde Noschis, Mathias Novelli, Manola Ofenloch, Simon Onrust, Floor Otten, Iris Oudovitchenko, Anastassia

131 107 107 125 117 172 115 145 126 99 158 105 161 152 114 114 107 101 120 149 173 94 120 94 100 128 94 130

Palomero, Pilar Pas, Dorien van de Peijnenburg, Frank Pel, Rosanne Pêra, Edgar Perry, Simon Peynirci, Zeki Phlypo, Dries Piras, Caroline Poelsma, Nienke Polle, Wallie Posthuma, Andrea Rabarts, Marten Rajendran, Mathivanan Ramezan, Hamy Rantamäki, Jussi Ree, Bas van der Reymond, Laurence Reyntjens, Raf Rijneke, Dirk Robeerst, Monique Rodenkirchen, Franz Rombaut, Xavier Rosant, Lucas Ross, Julian Roubin, Jean-Yves Roy, Françoise von Rubinstein Malamud, Steven

168 Saal, Vanessa 156 Saboova, Beata 99 Sauvagnargues, Francois 136 Savarin, Meike 170 Sahuleka, Jaim 170 Sahuleka, Joel 155 Schillings, Laurette 148 Selen, Reinier 151 Shongwe-LaMer, Sibs 126 Simkine, Antoine 123 Sitaru, Adrian 157 Slot, Marleen 173 Smit, Anita 119 Smulders, Eefje 101 Soesanto, Leo 165 Stais, Ioanna 150 Stojanovic, Milan 141 Strnad, Pavel 139 Swaan, Suzan de 154 Thorsson, Marteinn 117 Toulemonde, Christophe 143 Trent 129 Tsourgiannis, Yorgos 138 Valk, Viktor van der 168 Vallé, Marie-Pierre 141 Vandevorst, Els 157 Vaslin, Denis

156 142 169 172 107 150 118 170 134 143 131 164 122 108 95 172 124 135 121 110 114 127 107 121

Ven, Maarten van der Verdonk, Sander Vie, Philippe Vloed, Jacobine van der Voorham, Anita Waele, Ellen De Wallace, John Warnier, Peter Warrink, Derk-Jan Wenske, Jamila Wiegand, Isabell Wieser, Sasha Wigman, Marijn Wigman, Roland Wijntjes, Babette Williams, Al Willocx, Jurgen Wolf, Hans de Yang, Zhengfan Ylstra, Gamila Yurcovich, Adriana Zanden, Jan van der Zeilich-Jensen, Signe Zhu, Shengze

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