IDFA Docs for Sale 2015 Catalogue by IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Docs for Sale Catalogue

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Docs for Sale

20th International Documentary Market Amsterdam

Films 2015 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin 10 Billion - What’s on Your Plate? 15 Minutes - The Dvor Massacre 16 Years Till Summer The 24 Hour Art Practice 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets 35 and Single 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary 8000 Miles from Hip Hop About Heaven According to Protocol The Adventurers of Modern Art Affliction Afghanistan Night Stories Against Your Will Agar-agar. Grass from the ocean. AGFA 1939 Aida Alice Cares Alisa in Warland All the Time in The World The Alphabet of Fear The Altruism Revolution Alumbrones The Amina Profile Amnesia Among the Believers Animal Machine Anthill Arab Movie Aracati Arlette. Courage Is a Muscle. Art of the Prank Astrid Lindgren At Home in the World Atlan Atlantis of Russian North Backlight: Branding Europe Backlight: Greece for Sale Backlight: The Bitcoin Gospel Backlight: The Smart State Backlight: TTIP Might is Right Backstreet Girls - Return to Muotathal Banking Nature Baptism of Fire BATTLE MOUNTAIN Graeme Obree’s Story The Battle with Satan Becoming Bulletproof Behemoth Berlusconi and the Mafia: The Italian Boss Best of Enemies Between Sisters Beyond My Grandfather Allende Beyond the Snowstorm Bikes vs Cars Bird Skin Björk. The Creative Universe of a Music Missionary Blood Sisters BOI, Song of a Wanderer

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Bonnie and the Thousand Men Borsalino City Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play A Boy’s Dream Brave New World Breaking the Ice in Sochi Brothers Business Club By Sidney Lumet Café Nagler Call Me Marianna Calling Ukraine Carolina’s World Cartel Land Casa Blanca Catching Haider Cecilia Censored Voices The Ceremony The Chaos Within Chapter 11 Chechen Checks and Balances Children of the Hippies China Sea: War of the Archipelagos The Chinese Mayor Chinese Verses Christ Lives in Siberia Cinema, mon amour Citizen Khodorkovsky Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah Clear Years The Closer We Get Coal India Collusion Coming of Age Concerto - A Beethoven Journey Cool Cats The Coolest Memory Team Ever The Country Where Trees Fly Coups de foudre A Courtship Crafting an Echo Credit for Murder Crocodile Gennadiy Crossing Rachmaninoff The Crossing Crosswords: Matta-Clark Friends Czech Swan Daddy’s Girl Dancing for You A Dangerous Idea The Dangerous World of Doctor Dolecek Daniel’s World Daughter of the Lake David & Me The Day the Sun Fell Death of a Female Artist Democracy Democrats Despot Housewives

69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129

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Digital Dissidents District Zero Diving Into the Unknown Dolls Don’t Know Don Juan Double Aliens Doug Seegers – Cinderella Man Dreamcatcher Dressed as a Girl Driving with Selvi Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls Dynamic Salt Ebola’s Children Elisabeth Vigée le Brun: A Touch of Grace Emery Tales The Empire of the Scents The End of the Day End of the World Eritrea Stars Every 28 Days Every Face Has A Name The Experiment Facebookistan Fair Chase Falciani’s Tax Bomb A Family Affair Farewell Tour A Farm of Passage Fast Eddy’s Old News The Fear of 13 Finders Keepers Finding Gaston Fireflies in the Abyss A Flickering Truth Flowers of Taipei - Taiwan New Cinema The Fog of Srebrenica Foodies For Kibera! For My Sisters Forengie Free Falling Free to Run The Free Voice of Egypt - Nawal El Saadawi Freedom or Death! The French Pill, a Revolution for Women Fresh Dressed From This Day Forward Fukushima: A Nuclear Story Furusato Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gangbé! Garage 2.0 Gayby Baby The Good Life - La Buena Vida Grace of God Grand Hotel, Memories of the Salons The Grand Masters of The Chauvet Cave Grassroots in Dry Lands The Great Alone

130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189

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Gringo Trails Grozny Blues Grumant. Island of Communism Guantanamo Child The Gymnast Who Learned to Walk The Gypsy Baron Hadwin’s Judgement The Hard Stop A Haunting History HAVEABABY He Hebei Taipei Hello Dakar! Hold Me Tight(s) Holy Cow Home Sweet Home Homme Less An Honest Liar Horizon Horizons The Horseshoe’s Happiness Hot Sugar’s Cold World Hotline Human I Am Dublin I Am Not Afraid of the Soldiers I Am the Blues I Like That Super Most the Best I Shot JFK, The Confession of the Grassy Knoll Gunman I Still Being (Kachkaniraqmi) Imaginary Feasts Impact In California In My Father’s House In Search of Putin’s Tiger In the Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation India’s Daughter Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words Inside a Box Inside Fur Inside the Chinese Closet Inside the Mind of Favela Funk The Intern Chef Into Darkness Iris Is There a Shaman in the Tribe? Jane & Payne The Jazz Loft according to W. Eugene Smith Jesus Town, USA Jheronimus Bosch - Touched by the Devil Jonas and the Backyard Circus Journey to the West Jungle Sisters Just Listen K2. Touching the Sky Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation Katsuobushi Khao Lak Kick Out Your Boss Killing Time Korla

190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250

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Lampedusa in Winter Land Grabbing The Land of Many Palaces The Landscape Within Larisa’s Crew Last Harvest A Leak in Paradise. Swiss Bank Whistleblower Leaving Africa Life in Flames Life is Sacred Life of a Butterfly Life Should Be Lived Like the Others Limited Partnership Listen, Darling Little Angels The Longest Run Look Love A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky Lyari Notes Madonna The Madonna Case Maiko, Dancing Child Mali Blues Mallory The Man and the Music Man Falling The Man Who Mends Women - The Wrath of Hippocrates The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano March of the White Elephants Marzia, My Friend Master and Tatyana Matachindé Me and Dad Men’s Choice MH17: A Nation’s Grief Milk Minding Our Own Miso Hungry: The Effortless Japanese Diet Model Boys Model Girls Moments of Campaign Monalisa Story Moriom Mother & Grunberg Mother’s Wish Mountain Spirits Mr. Hu and the Temple Muelheim Texas - Helge Schneider here and there The Muses of Bashevis Singer Mussa The Mute’s House My Cancer My Curious Documentary My Father the Banker My Hottest Year on Earth My Leftover Ladies NapolIslam Nasser Natural Disorder NaturePlay

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Nazareth Cinema Laday A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did Nelsons Nr. 5 The New Plastic Road New York Cuts Next Stop: Utopia Nice People Ninnoc Ninth Floor No Land’s Song No Man Is an Island The Noise of Trains North Not All Is Vigil November 84 Nuclear Nation II Ode to Joy The Odyssey of Sister Ann Old Age Old South The Oligarchs’ Wives - Russia, Rubles, and Love Olmo and the Seagull An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma On the Edge On the Rim of the Sky One Light, Many Candles Only the Dead Oratorio Without a Purpose Oriented Original Copy Orion: The Man Who Would Be King Our Man in Tehran Out of Fashion Paradise on Earth Parchim International Passeurs Patience, Patience You’ll Go To Paradise! Patient The Pawn Peace Officer Pelota II The Perfect Circle Pervert Park Piano Planetary Please Remember Me Plus Minus or Fly’s Trips to the East A Poem Is a Naked Person Portrait of Aida Possessed by Djinn Pulling Out All the Stops Quilapayún, Beyond the Song Reach for the SKY Rebellious City Rebels Remember This House Remember Your Name, Babylon Rendezvous at Erasmus Requiem for the American Dream Return of the Atom Riot

312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372

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Road to Recovery Rock in the Red Zone Roshmia Rough Stage Roundabout in My Head Running Waters Ruth Rwanda & Juliet Safari Tourism: Paying to Kill Salero Samurai and Idiots: The Olympus Affair Satudarah - One Blood Saving Uncle Jacob Say Something Scenes from a Divorce Scouts Sea Is My Country Sembene! Sempervirens Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT Seven Songs for a Long Life Shedding Light on Dracula Shipping Pollution The Show of Shows: 100 years of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals Siberian Floating Hospital Siblings Are Forever Sick SILA and the Gatekeepers of the Arctic The Silence of Mark Rothko A Sinner in Mecca The Siren of Faso Fani Sketches of Siberia Skin and Bones Snowden’s Great Escape So Far, So Near Soccer Millionaire from East Somos Cuba - We Are Cuba! Song of Lahore Songs from the North Sonita SOS Friendship South Africa - The Post-Apartheid Generation Spain: Facing Uncertainty Speed Sisters Spirit in Motion The Spirit of the Ancestors The Squatters of The Devil’s House Stella ciao Still Loved A Strange Love Affair with Ego A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars Strung Out The Successor Sugar Coated Sunflower Occupation Surire Switzerland’s Dark Past: In The Name of Order and Morality The Swedish Theory of Love Symmetry & Symmetry Unravelled

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A Syrian Love Story (T)error A Tale of Love, Madness and Death Talk to Me Tashi and the Monk Tashi Delek! The Tchaikovsky Files - Confessions of a Composer Tchindas Thank You for Playing Third Person This Is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees Thru You Princess Thy Father’s Chair The Touristic Revolution Traces in the Snow Train to Adulthood Transcend Trapped at Sea, Lost in Time Trapped by Law The Tsunami Generation Ukrainian Sheriffs Unbranded Under the Skin of Design Under the Sun UNDERFIRE: The Untold Story of Tony Vacarro Unfinished Plan: The Path of Alain Johannes Unlearning Unstoppables Varicella Victor’s Last Class Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light The Visit Vita activa, the Spirit of Hannah Arendt Voice – Sculpting Sound with Maja S K Ratkje Wacken 3D - The Movie Waiting for B. The Walkers Walls A Walnut Tree Wanted: A New Home for Serayah Wastecooking We Are Not Alone We’re Still Here: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited The Wedding Contract Wedding: A Film When the Earth Seems to Be Light Who Are You Mr Courbet ? Who Killed Eloá? Who’s There? Wild Women, Gentle Beasts Winter Buoy Women in Sink The Wrecking Crew Written by Mrs Bach A Year with the Swedish Royal Family A Year Without My Parents The Yes Men Are Revolting A Young Patriot Zimbelism Zombie

432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491

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Docs for Sale

Sales Companies

Deckert Distribution

3 Tigres Films Aakar

Ablaze Image

470

DEFC

165, 468

63, 84, 150, 353, 361, 371, 386, 397, 398, 455 45, 133, 200

dffb

465

AH Production

407

DFI

153

Allfilm

159

DK Productions

174

299

Doc Eye Film

AMA FILM Andana Films

365

37, 54, 76, 187, 190, 220, 241

Doc & Film International

ANTIPODE Sales & Distribution

191

Doc’n’World Foundation

Anywhere Films

454

Doctela

Arena Comunicación Audiovisual ARTE France

131 21, 70, 309, 414

19, 59, 62, 93, 127, 129, 142, 478 29 479

Doctribute Dogwoof

476 15, 82, 86, 137, 160, 176, 304, 338, 396, 416, 453

Asuntos y Cuestiones Varias

473

Dok Mobile

Atzmor Productions

443

DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

464

106, 107, 128, 143, 152, 153, 226, 284,

11, 64, 87, 89, 94, 98, 119, 155,

293, 306, 310, 354, 395, 405, 406, 451, 482

AU Films Autlook Filmsales

208, 248, 252, 263, 379, 410, 460, 463, 466, 469, 472

Avanti Media

150

BALDR Film

Basmati Film Basque Films Beliane

294 12, 44, 69, 92,

Dream Big Pictures

ECAL - Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne

391

Éclipse Film

447

405

EiE film

203

352

Elamedia

276

El dedo en el ojo

325

175, 235

BODA Media Group

Elf Films

221

Endorfina Studio

261

Boujabel Productions

375

Enter-tain

458

Boulder Creek International

442

Esperamos Films

Breakwater Studios

380

Eterna Filmes

Borsboom Filmproducties

Cargo Film & Releasing CAT&Docs

364

33, 124, 206, 207, 238,

Eternity Co.

280, 356, 448, 456, 474

Exitfilm

97, 256, 278, 350, 364, 412, 421, 432, 439, 444

95 376

Eyesfull

139

298

EyeSteelFilm

216

Chou Chen Ting

201

Eyeworks

136

Cinédoc films

403

FAOS TV ProductionS

145

CinemaDAL

334

Filament Pictures

270

CineMark

271

Filmdelights

CineNordic LLC

311

Filmhaus Wien

China Europe Docsalon

Cinephil

36, 77, 99, 140, 197, 229, 260,

Filmografik

300, 301, 302, 332, 440, 488

Film Republic

Cinetic Media Clin d’oeil films

223 61

Films 59 Films Transit International Inc

281 206 315 79 473 30, 66, 132, 146, 178, 193,

CNEX Limited

489

CNEX Studio Corporation

268

Film Tower

Colectivo MEJODA

283

First Hand Films

Conch Studios

340

Fluid Produzioni - Ubulibri

Conijn Film

156

Fortissimo Films

167, 392

Forward Entertainment

328, 362

Cronopio Film

323

230, 239, 296, 370, 426, 481 96 115, 258, 318, 429, 443 425

CTM Docs

431

FraKas Productions

388

Cusicanqui Films

323

Fuglene

366

Docs for Sale

Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

274, 438

Ginestra Film

134

Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

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Mexiko Media

318

Minerva Productions

114

24, 39, 78, 88,

Mirada Filmes

212, 369, 374, 441, 464

Mistrus Media

305

Good Company

205

Mockofiction

Gorky Film Studios

335

ModoViral Productions

Hikayet films Hulahop Film & Art Productions IFProductions IKON Illumina Films INA Intent Produccions Invercine Producciones Java Films JMT Films Distribution Jour2Fête Journeyman Pictures Journey Pictures Ltd Just a Moment

112

Monoduo Films

457 211

217

Mosaico Filmes Distribuciones

186

198

Movie Plus Productions Tel Aviv

424

215, 413, 471, 487 14, 321 58

MTU Otaku

157

MyPlanet

213

Nakuy S.A.C.

219

158

Nanushka Television

116

National Film Board of Canada

32, 53, 180, 259, 381, 415, 430

NEGATIV

290, 291 34, 188, 196, 320, 490 275

312, 385

NEW DOCS

179, 336, 346, 400, 409

172

NewRed TV

103

57, 71, 130, 138, 161, 189, 253, 287, 289, 436 55

Nic Penrake & Associates

373

Noempie Holding BV

210

No Permits Produktions

282

NPO Sales

JWProductions

180

Kino Lorber, Inc.

225, 411

444 28, 31, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 149,

182, 243, 286, 295, 303, 314, 319, 343, 384, 401

O2 Play

462

Kinotar

371

Olympic Films

Koocheh Film

387

Ostinato Cine

292

157

Ostrov Studio

417

Palenque Producciones

363

Paradiso Films Documentaries

166

Korela Film Korla LLC Krakow Film Foundation Kurt Mayer Film

250 26, 75, 83, 141, 148, 185, 261, 345, 355, 358, 435, 459 84

Paschyn Productions

423

Pauxa SC

445 351

La Claqueta Metalica

259

Peace Officer LLC

LADOC srl

308

Penny Wise Films

La Elefanta Producciones

147

Perdurabo Film

195

Lame Duck Productions

329

Perut + Osnovikoff

428

Lobo Ronco Media Contents

419

Petunia Productions

331

Looking Glass Pictures PTY

245

PF Pictures

370

LOOKS DISTRIBUTION

485

Pink Productions

LSDLIVE

236

PLAESION Film + Vision e.U.

169

Lumiere Productions

237

Plano 3 Filmes

240

Luminaria

434

Pohjola-filmi

MAGNETFILM Magnolia Pictures Mahatua Producciones Manjusha Films

104, 125, 181, 184, 341 60, 234, 484 418 36

Point du Jour International

192

Popcon Produções

467

Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc.

176

Pretty Pictures

MasterFilm, s.r.o.

121

PS Film

Médecins Sans Frontières

Quechua Films

415

281 383, 389

Point of View

Mass Appeal

Media 3.14

Ragusa Film

17, 337 227 41 123, 219, 360 35, 73

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Ravi Films

410

Reflexion Films

46, 285, 446

Relight Films Rise and Shine

42 100, 118, 151, 183, 204, 244, 349

Ventes - CBA/WIP Sales Vertov. Real cinema VFS Films

Rits Filmschool Brussel

233

Videosfera

Rocky&Estrella

368

Visible Film

ro*co films international

113, 382, 433

455 135, 452 467 122, 317, 322, 399 461

VPRO

149

Wajda Studio

244

74, 394, 420, 480

Wanted Films

450

Roya Film House RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera

404 109, 257

VLC, LLC

Romawood

Rufy’s

Wide House

108 117, 144, 162, 273, 277, 327, 491

Runaway Films

199

Windmill Film BV

Sakdoc

135

WNYC

237

sarabandefilm

173

YLE

168

Sasha Klein Productions

332

Zentropa Entertainment

333

Scottish Documentary Institute

393

Zuidenwind FilmProductions

422

Seftel Productions

279

SEVEN Film- und Postproduction

169

Seventh Art Productions

105

Miscellaneous

Sideways Film

461

Aziz, Ammar

Slingshot Films International Sales

SND Films

Barel, Yariv

170

470 78

264, 431

Blank, Harrod

Somewhere

101

Bravo, Djanira

378

Sonuma

348

Capranico, Andrea

254

Starline Entertainment

266

Colucci, Laura

280

Stefi &Lynx Productions

267

Dankbaar, Wim

218

Story AB

214

Dawkins, David

475

Strix Television

Feng, Violet Du

357

Studio Ostrov

417

Gapchenko, Ksenia

Stumpsfilm, LLC

372

Hai, Fen Lu

201

Surela Film

324

Huang, Patrick Mao

449

43, 120, 136, 194, 202, 232, 247, 262, 272, 290, 291, 486

HUNG, Mingchuan

SVT

TAG/TRAUM

412

Kaeppeli, Markus

Taipei Documentary Filmmakers’ Union

427

Kaplansky, Mor

Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation

307

Khanyutina, Maria

Talent United BV

408

Killikh, Evgenia

TAM Films Taskovski Films Tesseract Films Corporation

Landsmann, Silvina

359

126 400 78 255 25 212

10, 13, 38, 56, 67, 110, 209,

Lorentzen, Luke

316

242, 249, 251, 269, 333, 452, 477

Mariyati, Ketut

475

264

Thank You & Good Night

McNamara, Michael

124

Nuss, Jessi

246

Productions

339

Olmi, Boy

236

The 3rd Vision Films LTD

297

Parent, Stephan

326

Parent, Stephan

326

Pecotic, Peter

224

222, 347

Quadri, Jacopo

108

Thomas Carlé Filmproduktion

330

Rajola, Cristina

108

Upfront Films

128

Ramonda, Pascale

377

The Filmmaker Fund The Film Sales Company The Open Reel

Van Lieshout Filmproducties

154, 164, 177, 313, 342, 390, 402

Docs for Sale

Rebane, Priit

437

Reddy, Chandrasekhar

163

Röben, Felix

102

Rojas, Fermin Roodenburg, Elise

33 231

Roodenburg, Elise

231

Russell, Leon

359

Scharlatt, Emmy

225

Shattuck Sharon

177

Silverman, Jason

390

Sington, David

160

Stephenson, Hunter Su, Ming Yen

211 265

Tammi, Emma

154

Tsai, Tsung-lung

427

Udomlertlak, Namfon

171

Wang, Qihan

253

Weinstein, Justin

207

Yu, Kuang-Chong

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Yusuf, Inaya

288

Zaki, Iris

483

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407

Art / Music / Culture

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin Yves Montmayeur

France, 2015 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 52’/65’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French www.taskovskifilms.com

/?film=the-1000-eyes-of-dr-maddin

Guy Maddin, the Canadian David Lynch is doubtlessly one of the last remaining Magus of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. A lover of primitive cinema, he has cunningly summoned the light-and-shadow techniques and experimentations of the Golden Age of film to resuscitate a unique cinematographic language which plays with the spectator’s unconscious by means of visual trickery as disturbing as it is absurd.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films 19-21 Christopher Street

PRODUCTION Brainworks Thierry Tripod

EC2A 2B London

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: CINE+ – France,

England

CNC – France

tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

The story follows the mediumistic experiments of Guy Maddin - filmed during the “spirit’’ shootings presented in Europe and his cinephile wanderings in his quest for cursed and ghostly films. 10

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408

Nature / Environment | Politics / Society

10 Billion - What’s on Your Plate? 10 Milliarden - wie werden wir alle satt? Valentin Thurn Germany, 2015 color, video, 53’/102’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English

By 2050, the world population will grow to ten billion people. In the middle of the heated debate about food security, comes this broad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of global food Production and distribution from artificial meat, insects, industrial farming to trendy self-cultivation. Director, best-selling author and Food Fighter Valentin Thurn (box office hit Taste The Waste) seeks for solutions worldwide and gives place for innovation and visions for our future.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Alte Celluloid Fabrik Jürgen Kleinig

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Tina Leeb

1070 Wien Austria

CO-PRODUCTION: Prokino – Germany,

tel: +43720346934

Thurnfilm – Germany

www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

In the middle of the heated debate about food security, comes this broad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of global food Production and distribution. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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15 Minutes - The Dvor Massacre 15 Minutter - Massakren i Dvor Georg Larsen, Kasper Vedsmand

Denmark / Croatia, 2015 color, 35mm, 58’ Original Language: Croatian/ Danish/English/Serbian Subtitles: English

The Danish soldiers in Camp Dannevirke were assigned by the United Nations to monitor the ceasefire between the Serbs and the Croats. They were only allowed to use weapons in self-defense. In the summer of 1995, the Croatian Army ceasefire broke. Once there was no longer a ceasefire to monitor, the soldiers were ordered to stay inside their camp and not interfere in the war. It was therefore up to one Danish officer, to make the crucial decision: to give orders to shoot or follow the UN mandate and not intervene.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real Monica Hellström

Corporation

Anne Köhncke

Emil Holms Kanal 20

CO-PRODUCTION: Nukleus Film – Croatia

0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TV2 – Denmark

www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

Former company commander Kold travels back to Croatia, to the place where he 20 years earlier had to make the most difficult decision in his life.

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

16 Years Till Summer Lou McLoughlan

Scotland / Iceland, 2015 color, video, 82’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.taskovskifilms.com

/?film=16-years-till-summer

When Uisdean returns home to nurse his dying father, after spending 16 years in prison, he attempts to re-build a normal life in his home village. Set in the healing and beautiful landscape of the Scottish Highlands, the film inevitably explores themes of redemption but the director’s main focus is on the trusting relationships Uisdean builds with his father and girlfriend; both of whom are inspired by the ‘new start’ he promises to share with them. But is Uisdean able to change his destructive ways?

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films 19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London

PRODUCTION Lou McLou Films Lauren Fox CO-PRODUCTION: Zik Zak Filmworks – Iceland

England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

A man returns to his village in the Scottish Highlands after 16 years in prison, but as past traumas resurface, it becomes a daily battle for him to rebuild his life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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409

Art / Music / Culture

The 24 Hour Art Practice Patricia Chen

Singapore, 2015 color, HDcam, 51’ Original Language: English/Indonesian Subtitles: English

The 24 Hour Art Practice traces the journey of Dr. Oei (OHD), a whimsical Indonesian art collector who amassed one of the most significant collections of modern Indonesian art by adopting a round-the-clock open-door policy for sellers and visitors to his home. When he was accused of authenticating fake works in his collection, the Indonesian art world became incensed and knotted over issues of provenance, authentication and accountability

SALES / CONTACT: Robin Brinster Illumina Films

PRODUCTION Sekel Media Asia LLP Patricia Chen

Leidsestraat 106-lll 1017PG Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6248395 www.illuminafilms.nl robin@illuminafilms.nl

In over 30 years, Dr. Oei amassed the most significant collection of modern Indonesian art. When it was alleged that he had the art forged, the Indonesian art world exploded. 14

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410

Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets Marc Silver

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 98’ Original Language: English www.3andahalfminutes.com

In 3½ Minutes, two lives intersected and were forever altered. On Black Friday in 2012, two cars parked next to each other at a Florida gas station. A white middle-aged male and a black teenager exchanged angry words over the volume of the music in the boy’s car. A gun entered the exchange, and one of them was left dead. Excluding Aus, USA, Canada,

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION Motto Pictures Carolyn Hepburn

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row

The Filmmaker Fund

EC1V 3QN London

Minette Nelson

England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

In 2012 a white male and a black teenager exchanged angry words over the volume of music in the boy’s car. A gun entered, one of them was left dead. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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35 and Single 35 y soltera Paula Schargorodsky

Argentina / USA / Spain, 2015 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Italian/English/Spanish Subtitles: English www.facebook.com/35andsingle

I’m Paula. 35. Argentine. Over the past 10 years I’ve been compulsively shooting everyone and everything for no particular reason. All my love stories and breakups have been recorded and systematically stored. While I kept changing boyfriends every 2 years, I shot my friends with their boyfriends, husbands, their bellies and now surrounded by children. Yes, some of us just don’t follow the norm. Should I settle down or remain a free spirit? The movie was sold to Pivot and Univisión broadcasters for the following territories: USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Bermuda and Caribbean. Estimated release: last quarter 2015.

SALES / CONTACT: Paula Schargorodsky Dream Big Pictures Forest 1771, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires 1430 Buenos Aires

PRODUCTION Motto Pictures Julie Goldman CO-PRODUCTION: Talatala Filmmakers – Spain

Argentina

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Univision – USA,

tel: +0054 11 45524568

Pivot/Univision – USA

www.facebook.com/35andsingle paulaschargo@gmail.com

An Argentine filmmaker explores her humorous and intimate 10 year search for long lasting love in hopes of understanding why she is 35 and single.

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society

50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary Jim Brown

USA, 2014 color / black and white, video, 80’ Original Language: English

This new documentary by multiEmmy®-winner Jim Brown presents an astonishing look at the iconic folk trio’s career. It unearths rare and previously unseen 1960s footage, along with the trio’s best performances and most popular songs. This is PPM at the peak of their artistry, a time when this influential trio changed the music scene forever. Greenwich Village … the American Civil Rights and anti-Viet Nam War eras … five decades of passionate advocacy and music. Their legacy continues to inspire generations today. This is the definitive celebration and examination of their lasting impact.

SALES / CONTACT: Doug Zwick Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc. 8162 Manitoba Street, Suite 115 90293 Playa del Rey

PRODUCTION Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc. Jim Brown INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: PBS – USA

USA tel: +1 310 734 6655 www.poptwist.com dzwick@poptwist.com

The definitive look at Peter, Paul and Mary. Greenwich Village, the Sixties, American Civil Rights, Viet Nam. Their decades of passionate music continue to inspire future generations today. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Youth

8000 Miles from Hip Hop Kuang-Chong Yu

Finland, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English/Finnish/Chinese

Four Chinese wannabe gangster rappers imitate their heroes Cypress Hill while trying to break it in censored Chinese music market, not knowing the harsh reality awaiting to betray their dreams. It shows the same dilemma that the young people share regardless of where they come from. When is the time to realize that maybe your dream doesn’t come true after all?

SALES / CONTACT: Kuang-Chong Yu

PRODUCTION Janne Niskala

6F., No.292, Sec. 2, Fuxing S. Rd., Da’an Dist. 10663 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886 925 358 228 yukuangchong@gmail.com

Odyssey of crazy wannabe gangsta rappers in China.

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Human Interest / Social Issues

About Heaven Fragments du paradis Stéphane Goël

Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

If Switzerland is sometimes perceived as heaven on earth, the question that follows is: do its inhabitants believe in heaven? Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. So, what is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.

SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International

PRODUCTION Climage Stéphane Goël

13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

A group of Swiss senior citizens discusses their ideas about life after death in a series of remarkable, moving and funny conversations. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

According to Protocol Volgens protocol Anne-Marieke Graafmans

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 49’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English

According to Protocol shows the responsible but also emotional work of the dispatchers of the emergency services 112. They are expected to adjust their way of assistance to the new protocol that took effect recently. For the optimization of health care the dispatchers have to follow a tight schedule of questionnaires. The one dispatcher is coping better to this commercial change in work than the other. Director Anne-Marieke Graafmans shows us the dilemma employees in the care increasingly have to face: realize the best possible care for the clients versus the commercialization in health care.

SALES / CONTACT: Katja Draaijer BALDR Film Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77 1012 DC Amsterdam

PRODUCTION BALDR Film Katja Draaijer INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Human – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3032670 www.baldrfilm.nl katja@baldrfilm.nl

According to Protocol follows the responsible but also emotional work of two employees of the emergency services 112, who are expected to adapt to the commercialization of health care. 20

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The Adventurers of Modern Art Les aventuriers de l’art moderne Pauline Gaillard, Amélie Harrault, Valérie Loiseleux France, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English http://

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Adapted from Dan Franck’s literary trilogy ‘Bohemian Paris, Libertad!, Midnight’, the story plunges us into Parisian life in the beginning of the 20th century, a hotbed of artistic creation with the blossoming of Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Through original illustrations, animation and archives, the films trace the highs and lows, scandals and celebrations, tragedies and the triumphs that shaped the phenomenal period of Modern Art up until the end of World War II. The infamous protagonists include Picasso, Dali, Apollinaire, Man Ray, Kiki and more… artists, art dealers, poets and muses who left an indelible mark on our time.

SALES / CONTACT: Heidi Fleisher ARTE France 8 Rue Marceau 92785 Issy Les Moulineaux

PRODUCTION Silex Films Priscilla Bertin INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

France tel: +33 1 55 00 77 00 h-fleisher@artefrance.fr

The film is a part of a six episode series

Plunge into Parisian life at the turn of the 20th Century with Picasso, Dali, Apollinaire, Man Ray, Kiki and more... Episode 2: “Picasso and his Gang”. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Affliction Peter Casaer

Belgium, 2015 color, video, 70’/52’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: Dutch/English/French www.afflictionfilm.com

Shot in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the film provides a compelling view of the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the lives of individuals. From the remote village where the first victim was identified the film takes us through the three affected countries. The film explores the different aspects of the outbreak as village chiefs, patients, survivors, national and international aid workers talk about the fear and rejection, the stigma, the impact of quarantine, the mortality of health personnel, the failure of the international response, the lack of adequate medical treatment.

SALES / CONTACT: Joffrey Monnier Médecins Sans Frontières Rue de l’Arbre Bénit 46

PRODUCTION Médecins Sans Frontières Peter Casaer Joffrey Monnier

1050 Brussels Belgium tel: +3224747493 www.msf.org joffrey.monnier@brussels.msf.org

Excluding Belgium, Netherlands

The human side of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. A story of fear and frustration, of stigma and disbelief, of grief but also of immense joy and courage.

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Politics / Society | History | Human Interest / Social Issues

Afghanistan Night Stories Qasa hay shab Afghanistan Alka Sadat

Afghanistan, 2015 color, 16mm, 60’ Original Language: Afghan Subtitles: English

www.royafilmhouse.org/staff/alka-sadat

A group of Afghan Commodes fighting Taliban for a better Afghanistan. Nights of high tension in the battle against an invisible enemy. Four soldiers, who seal their fate to one another, ready for death at any time. Unexpected accounts of longing and of love from steal formed fighters, in the midst of an unforgivable war. And finally death awaiting the bravest of the group. An unprecedented journey in the private heart of the Afghan Army, never told before.

SALES / CONTACT: Alka Sadat Roya Film House

PRODUCTION Roya Film House Alka Sadat

First street of demazan house, nr. 75 Kabul Afghanistan tel: +93 798106275 www.royafilmhouse.org alkasadat@yahoo.com

A story of war, love, life and death, it is an unprecedented look at these elite fighters, and the hopes and dreams they have rarely spoken of until now. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Against Your Will Al Korchecha Assaf Banitt

Israel, 2015 color, video, 51’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English www.go2films.com

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Gilles and Esther Alexandre struggle with both the loss of their two sons to suicide committed during their military service and with the condemnation by their religious community, which regards suicide as a sin and source of shame expecting the grieving parents to swallow their pain. The Alexandres refuse to succumb and launch a public campaign to reshape Jewish Orthodoxy’s discourse on suicide. Now their youngest son Binyamin is about to enter the army and wants their permission to join the combat unit. Loyal to his kibbutz’s standards, he implores his parents to find another way to commemorate his siblings.

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

PRODUCTION Assaf Banitt INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 10 – Israel

37/8 Issar Natanzon St. 97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

After Amit committed suicide in the army, his religious kibbutz called it “a gun accident”. When their second son committed suicide, his parents refused to remain silent. 24

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Agar-agar. Grass from the ocean. Evgenia Killikh

Russia, 2014 color, video, 26’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/Russian

Agar-agar is a product obtained by extraction from red seaweed. It’s a natural vegetable gelatine counterpart used in the food processing industry, especially wide - in the confectionery industry. Algae catches in Morocco manually cut the plant from the ocean floor with a high risk for their lives spending sometimes 8 hours per day in the boat. They bring algae ashore and dry it in order to sell it later for a few dirhams to the state. For many in Morocco this is the only possible mean to earn their living.

SALES / CONTACT: Evgenia Killikh

PRODUCTION Evgenia Killikh

Zorge 14, 123 125252 Moscow Russia tel: +79167986291 e.killikh@mail.ru

The film is about red algae catcher’s work on the Atlantic Coast. For many in Morocco it’s the only mean to earn their living. For others - it’s natural gelatine.

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AGFA 1939

AGFA 1939. Podróz w czasy wojny Michal Wnuk Germany / Poland, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: German/English/Polish Subtitles: English

Young Polish filmmaker Michal Wnuk finds an Agfa box of 120 photographs and 2 reels of 16mm film. For the first time, he gets to see World War II through the eyes of his grandfather, who served in the Wehrmacht. Soon Michal discovers that the box didn’t belong to his grandfather but to his great-uncle Elek - an anti-German fighter and a decorated war hero. Michal uncovers the intriguing story behind the Agfa box, travelling across Poland and Germany in a journey that leads him back to the last summer days of 1939.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

PRODUCTION Balabusta Magdalena Kaminska

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Aida

Maysoon El-Massry

Egypt, 2015 color, HDcam, 20’

Following the daily journey of the 86 years old Aida, the oldest flower vendor in Alexandria while she is roaming the city streets. An ongoing Sisyphean journey for 50 years. Aida is a familiar face for the city residents yet they don’t know much about her. A face that holds within a long history of untold stories.

SALES / CONTACT: Mohamad El-Hadidi Rufy’s

PRODUCTION Rufy’s Mohamad El-Hadidi

25 Mina St. Off Kafr Abdou St., Roshdy 21529 Alexandria Egypt tel: +2 (03) 54 10 473 www.rufysstudio.tk/ mohamad.elhadidi@gmail.com

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock, whence the stone would fall back. They thought that there is no more dreadful punishment than hopeless labor. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Alice Cares Ik ben Alice Sander Burger

The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 53’/80’

Carebot Alice leaves the laboratory to visit Mrs. Remkes, Mrs. SchellekensBlanke and Mrs. van Wittmarschen, each in their own house. The three women are getting on in age and are therefore exceptionally suited for the services of Alice, who has been developed by SELEMCA. This is a research group which tries to discover, with the help of community nurses and family, how ‘sociobot’ Alice should talk and react to stem the effects of loneliness on older women. The outcome of the experiment is surprising for all involved.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

PRODUCTION KeyDocs Janneke Doolaard INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: KRO/NCRV – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

In order to meet future care demands for elderly who are lonely and suffering from dementia, carebot Alice has been developed. Can a robot build a human relationship? 28

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Alisa in Warland Alisa w krainie wojny Liubov Durakova, Alisa Kovalenko Poland, 2015 color, video, 72’ Original Language: English/ French/Russian/Ukranian Subtitles: English www.alisa.org.pl

Alisa in Warland describes young Ukrainian filmmmaker and her journey from Euromaidan to the war of the East of Ukraine. It’s a sensitive diary of young woman lost in the shaky world. Living picture of her tragic experiences, feelings, pains, when personal live meets history. Alisa is not just a director anymore, she becomes a participant of the events. She was taken captive by separatists. It’s also a film about love between Alisa and her French boyfriend, French journalist, Stephane. Will love conquer the war?

SALES / CONTACT: Miroslaw Dembinski Doc’n’World Foundation Plac Zwyciestwa

PRODUCTION Doc’n’World Foundation Miroslaw Dembinski

2d/2 Lodz

CO-PRODUCTION: TVP 2 – Poland,

Poland

Polish Television Belsat – Poland

tel: +48 42 676 75 41 www.wfdtd.pl

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Polish Television Belsat – Poland,

office@docworld.pl

TVP 2 – Poland

Poland - this territory is sold.

The film describes young Ukrainian filmmaker Alisa and her journey from Euromaidan to the war in the East. It’s a sensitive diary of modern woman in the shaky world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues

All the Time in The World Suzanne Crocker

Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English www.allthetimeintheworld.ca

Would you sometimes not dream of disconnecting from our hectic and technology laden lives in order to reconnect with each other, ourselves and our natural environment? A unique story of a family leaving the comforts of home to live for 9 months, with their three young children, in the remote wilderness of the Canadian Yukon Territory, spending the long cold winter living in a small cabin with no road access, no electricity, no running water, no internet and not a single watch or clock.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION Drift Productions Inc. Suzanne Crocker

21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

A unique story of a family leaving the comforts of home to live for 9 months in the remote wilderness of the Canadian Yukon Territory, 30

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The Alphabet of Fear Het alfabet van de angst John Albert Jansen The Netherlands, 2015 color / black and white, video, 55’

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Herta Müller (1953) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. Müller’s parents were German speaking Rumanians. Her adult life were darkly overshadowed by the repression of the Ceausescu regime and the continuous harassment of the Securitate. The fears and traumas resulting from those experiences largely continue to dominate her life. When Herta Müller is not working on a novel, she composes so-called ‘collage poems’. The bewilderment and fear that characterize her prose also pervade her poetry.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales

PRODUCTION John Albert Jansen

Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

A documentary about the Rumanian-German Nobel Prize Laureate Herta Müller: her collages, her traumas and her fears. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Science / Technology | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues

The Altruism Revolution La Révolution Altruiste Sylvie Gilman, Thierry Vincent de Lestrade France, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

For generations, we have believed that man is driven by ruthless self-interest. But over the past decade, this idea has been increasingly challenged. New research from fields as diverse as political science, psychology, sociology and experimental economics is forcing us to rethink human actions and motivation. There are strong biological reasons to believe why group cooperation may beat being selfish. But if altruism is intrinsic in man and we can all benefit from acting in a selfless manner then a society structured around altruism should be possible.

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films 38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: +33174713313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv

PRODUCTION Via Découvertes Production Jean-Pierre Devorsine INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

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Alumbrones Bruce Donnelly

USA / Brazil / Cuba, 2014 color, DCP, 57’/75’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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Alumbrones is an insiders-look at the lives of twelve contemporary Cuban artists, ranging in age and sociopolitical backgrounds, all living in Havana today. Through in-depth interviews, the film covers a diverse range of subjects, from supply shortages and constant blackouts, to family life, love, sex and music. Alumbrones, with its multidimensional appeal, combines a love of art with the enduring curiosity that people have about life in Cuba today. Not available in US

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION James Kubesch Fermin Rojas

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

Alumbrones explores the lives and work of 12 Cuban artists whose work captures a country at a time of significant transformation.

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The Amina Profile Sophie Deraspe

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French www.nfb.ca

During the Arab Spring, a love story between two women—a Canadian and a Syrian American—turns into an international socio-political thriller spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood on the Internet.

SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada

PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Nathalie Cloutier

3155 Cote de liesse Road

Esperamos Films

H4N 2N4 Montrealq

Isabelle Couture

Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca

The Amina Profile is part love story, part international thriller, and a gripping chronicle of an unprecedented media and sociological hoax.

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Amnesia Amnezja Jerzy Sladkowski

Poland, 2015 color, HDcam/DCP, 54’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

Peter finds out during a trip to Washington Holocaust Museum about the pogrom, that took place in his hometown (Kielce) in 1946. He decides to return to Poland to confront the silence of his family and town’s community. Speaking with eyewitnesses and trying to comprehend their motivations creates a conflict with his mother, who informs him that her own father was actively involved in this crime. Will Peter be able to uncover the truth about the role his grandfather played in the pogrom, putting to the test his relations with the loved ones?

SALES / CONTACT: Lucyna Kowalska Ragusa Film

PRODUCTION Ragusa Film Lucyna Kowalska

15 Bzowa ap. 3

Dariusz Kowalski

02-708 Warsaw

CO-PRODUCTION: TVPTelewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

Poland tel: +48228476724 www.ragusafilm.pl

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TVPTelewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

l.kowalska-romanica@ragusafilm.pl

Recently Peter has found out about the tragedy that took place in the city of Kielce, Poland, on 4 July 1946. His own grandfather was personally involved in this crime. Peter starts his private investigation. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative

Among the Believers Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Hemal Trivedi

USA / Pakistan / India, 2015 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Urdu/English Subtitles: English www.amongthebelieversfilm.com

An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque in Pakistan, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age. With Incredible access and chilling footage, Among the Believers charts the personal quest of a firebrand Pakistani cleric, to impose a strict version of Shariah law throughout the country, as a model for the world. Excluding USA

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Changeworx Jonathan Goodman Levitt

Levontin Street 18

Manjusha Films

6511207 Tel Aviv

Hemal Trivedi

Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

An eye opening exploration into the radical Islamic school Red Mosque in Pakistan, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad from a very young age. 36

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Animal Machine Bernard Bloch

France, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Portugese/ French/English Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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Since the 19th century, the fate of cows has been tied to new methods and progress in animal science. Genetics and new ways of rearing animals have accelerated bovine biological transformation and manipulation. These are no longer the same cash cows of yesteryear; men have adapted the bodies of cattle to stricter quantity and quality standards. From exploiting the cow’s physical body to manipulating its cells, a new 21st-century farm animal is under construction.

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films

PRODUCTION L’Oeil Sauvage Frédéric Féraud

25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France

CO-PRODUCTION: CNRS Images/Media – France INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France Télévisions – France

tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com

From exploiting the cow’s physical body to manipulating its cells, a new 21st-century farm animal is under construction.

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Anthill

Sipelgapesa Vladimir Loginov Estonia, 2015 color, video, 83’ Original Language: Estonian Subtitles: English www.anthilldoc.com/#news

Anthill is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Allfilm Elina Litvinova

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Anthill is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. 38

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Arab Movie

Seret aravit Eyal Sagui Bizawe, Sara Tsifroni France / Israel, 2015 color / black and white, video, 60’ Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic Subtitles: English

www.go2films.com/New-Releases/Arab-Movie

So many people still wax nostalgic about that old Friday night ritual when everyone would watch the Arabiclanguage Movie of the Week. But did anybody ever wonder why Israel’s official TV station, insisted on showing movies made by “the enemy”? The films let us peek out from our “villa in the jungle” and catch a glimpse at our neighbors across the border. But most of us didn’t really want to see those people, whose culture, anguish, and aspirations flickered on our screens.

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

PRODUCTION Osnat Trabelsi INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 8 – Israel

37/8 Issar Natanzon St. 97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

Israelis still wax nostalgic about that old Friday afternoon ritual, back in the times when television had just one channel and everyone would watch the Arab movie of the week. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Science / Technology

Aracati

Julia De Simone, Aline Portugal

Brazil, 2015 color, video, 62’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English

Jaguaribe Valley, Northeast Brazil. Departing from the seacoast, we follow the path of the Aracati wind, sweeping into the heartland. Along the course, we observe the relationship between man and landscape, spatial transformations and the limits separating nature from artifice.

SALES / CONTACT: Julia De Simone Mirada Filmes

PRODUCTION Mirada Filmes Julia De Simone

Rua Pinheiro Guimaraes, 150

Aline Portugal

22281080 Rio de Janeiro

CO-PRODUCTION: Alumbramento – Brazil

Brazil tel: +5521994635201 www.miradafilmes.com.br julia@miradafilmes.com.br

Blown by the aracati wind, the documentary brings up the transformations of landscapes and ways of life in the countryside of Brazil. 40

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Arlette. Courage Is a Muscle. Arlette. Mut ist ein Muskel. Florian Hoffmann Switzerland / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 84’/52’ Original Language: French/German Subtitles: French/English/German

The film centers around Arlette, a 15year old girl from the Central African Republic who suffered severe injuries during the last war. In Berlin a surgery frees her from her year-long pain. But then war breaks out again in her homeland. What was planned to be a short stay in Berlin turns into a journey without a foreseeable end. Arlette is forced to grow up and take her own decisions about her future. This film is a long-term observation – told resolutely from the perspective of a young girl from the Central African Republic. All available.

SALES / CONTACT: Peter Spoerri PS Film

PRODUCTION Deutsche Film- und

Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb)

Mutschellenstr. 105

Tim Oliver Schultz

8038 Zurich

PS Film

Switzerland

Peter Spoerri

tel: +41 44 481 31 70 www.psfilm.ch

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SRF – Switzerland,

psfilm@hotmail.com

3sat – Germany

A journey from Africa to Berlin turns into an unexpected journey from childhood to adulthood. The film centers around Arlette, a 15-year old girl from war-torn Central African Republic. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Art of the Prank Andrea Marini

USA, 2015 color / black and white, video, 80’ Original Language: English

www.artoftheprank-themovie.com

Art of the Prank is an emotional and humorous journey following the evolution of artist Joey Skaggs—a fierce proponent of independent thinking and the man who has turned the media hoax into an art form. With unprecedented access to the man and his archives, the 80-minute documentary interweaves a current unfolding hoax with a look behindthe-scenes at some of his classic performance pieces (all reported as fact by a wide range of prestigious journalists) plus commentary from coconspirators and others.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Marini Relight Films 1259 Lakeview Drive

PRODUCTION Judy Drosd Relight Films

Andrea Marini

32789 Winter Park USA tel: +1 917 2677518 andrea@relightfilms.com

A story of determination and will, Art of the Prank follows the escapades of audacious media prankster and social satirist Joey Skaggs from the 60s through his latest hoax. 42

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Astrid Lindgren Kristina Lindström

Sweden, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 178’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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Born in 1907, Astrid Lindgren grew up in a strongly religious environment in rural Sweden. Throughout her life she bore traces of a secret which she turned into stories about strong girls and lonely boys. She became an icon to a whole world. She influenced politics and the public debate. Taught us respect for the children and was an activist against war, racism and nuclear power. Kristina Lindström’s three-part documentary series tells the story of Astrid Lindgren’s life and time through hitherto unknown footage, letters and stills. It is also available as a 90-minute feature documentary.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION SVT Otto Fagerstedt

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Kristina Lindström

S-10510 Stockholm

Ingemar Persson

Sweden

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

Astrid Lindgren is one of the world’s ten most read authors, but who was she and where did her stories come from? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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At Home in the World Et hjem i verden Andreas Koefoed

Denmark, 2015 color, 35mm, 58’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

Magomed (10) is a thoughtful and quiet boy from Chechnya who is undergoing an existential transformation. Slowly Magomed gains confidence and starts making friends and after months of waiting he and his family gets a residence permit to stay in Denmark. The joy though soon comes to an end when it becomes clear that his father, as the only person in the family, can’t stay in Denmark and risks being sent back to Chechnya. Magomed now embarks on a mission to understand what happened to his father back in Chechnya and with the fact that he might lose his father.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION Sonntag Pictures Sara Stockmann

Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

A vivid insight into the life of refugee children in a Red Cross School. 44

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Atlan

Moein Karimoddini

Iran, 2014 color, HDcam, 62’ Original Language: Farsi Subtitles: English

Ali is a Turkman horse trainer. Horses are his life, Ilhan is the name of the horse that has won him so many prizes, Ali is planning to use Ilhan’s and his other horses awards money to pay for his wedding. But not everything goes favourably in a course. Ilhan gets in an unexpected condition and Ali needs to fight for Ilhan’s championship. On Turkman language, Atlan means: “Moumt a horse and depart”.

SALES / CONTACT: Leila Hosseini DEFC - Documentary and

Experimental Film Center

PRODUCTION DEFC - Documentary and

Experimental Film Center Moein Karimoddini

No.15,Ghandi sq,Shariati ave 15569 Tehran Iran tel: +98-21-88511326 www.defc.ir int@defc.ir

Ali is a Turkman horse trainer.Horses are his life. Ilhan is the name of the horse that has won him many prizes.

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Atlantis of Russian North Sofya Gorlenko

Russia, 2015 color, HDcam, 73’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English www.reflexionfilms.com

Russian North - the most original and the unique part of the cultural and historical heritage of Russia, which is on the verge of total extinction. The unique wooden architecture, peasant way of life, identity, community, religious. What will happen to these treasures tomorrow? Is there hope for a revival?

SALES / CONTACT: Konstantin Nafikov Reflexion Films Khokhlovsky 10-7 107078 Moscow Russia tel: +79169661531 knafikov@gmail.com

PRODUCTION Sirin Cinema Sofya Gorlenko

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Backlight: Branding Europe Tegenlicht: Branding Europe Sarah Sylbing

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 50’ http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl

The extent to which the IS caliphate seems to appeal to young Muslims, the strong Kremlin propaganda machine, and the unstoppable flow of migrants at the gates: Europe can feel the threat of it all breathing down its neck. There is an increasing urgency for Europe to restate its raison d’être. A clear and emotional story about what we are and what that is worth to us.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2

PRODUCTION Jeroen Beumer INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

There is an increasing urgency for Europe to restate its raison d’être. A clear and emotional story about what we are and what that is worth to us. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Backlight: Greece for Sale Tegenlicht: Greece for Sale Floris-Jan van Luyn

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 50’ http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl

Now that a Grexit seems to have been averted, and the strictest cutbacks ever have been announced, Greece is entering a new chapter. The welfare state is dismantled even further and all state property is weighed and sold. What dangers are lurking, and how will the Greek sellout change the country?

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2

PRODUCTION Marie Schutgens INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

All state property of Greece is weighed and sold. What dangers are lurking, and how will the Greek sellout change the country?

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Backlight: The Bitcoin Gospel Tegenlicht: Het bitcoin evangelie Hans Busstra The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 50’ http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl

What if we could create money ourselves, without the need for banks? Money that can’t be forged, that will appreciate rather than depreciate, and that can be used worldwide without transaction costs. It exists, and some people consider it to be the digital version of gold: bitcoin. Is this really a perfect bankless alternative for the failing finance sector, or are we dealing with one of the biggest pyramid schemes ever?

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2

PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi

1217 ZL Hilversum

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO Television –

The Netherlands

tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

Is bitcoin the blueprint for a bankless currency, or the biggest pyramid scheme ever? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Backlight: The Smart State Tegenlicht: De slimme staat Martijn Kieft

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 50’ www.tegenlicht.vpro.nl

What would the iPhone be worth without the internet, GPS and touchscreen technology? All these components didn’t originate from Apple, but from research institutes, universities and government-funded companies. Backlight explores where new technologies, from medicines to gizmos, come from, who finances their development and who profits from them.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales

PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi

Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

We think new technology is developed by hip companies like Google and Apple. But is this true?

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Backlight: TTIP Might is Right Tegenlicht: TTIP Recht van de Sterkste Roland Duong The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 50’ www.tegenlicht.vpro.nl

The proposed free trade agreement between the US and Europe (TTIP) causes concern about the European right to self-determination. The most controversial part of TTIP is ISDS: investor-state dispute settlement. ISDS will make it possible for companies to sue governments that damage their investments. But is this arbitrage system where a few investment lawyers decide over billions of taxpayers money a protection of our business interests, or a threat to our democracy?

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2

PRODUCTION Jolanda Segers INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

This documentary examines the concerns of the proposed free trade agreement between the US and Europe (TTIP) regarding the European right to self-determination. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Backstreet Girls - Return to Muotathal Backstreet Girls - Tilbake til Muotathal Stian Andersen, Morten Kjølberg Norway, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Norwegian/ English/Swedish/German Subtitles: English/Norwegian

Over the past 30 years, the legendary Norwegian Boogie Rock band Backstreet Girls, has kept the dream of World dominance and Rock God status alive, despite minimal - or no - commercial success. Come their anniversary year, the band embarks on a tour that eventually will take them to the remote Swiss alp village of Muotathal - a self claimed Backstreet Girls stronghold where the 3000 residents are die-hard fans and the village mayor is the president of the local Backstreet Girls fan club. Norway

SALES / CONTACT: Morten Kjølberg Strix Television

PRODUCTION Strix Television Morten Kjølberg

Frøyasgt. 15

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TV 2 – Norway

273 Oslo Norway tel: +47 90269242 www.strix.se Morten.kjolberg@gmail.com

A film about a unique comradery who’s common wish to lead different lives in the name of rock - has led them to an obscure sidetrack distanced from conventional society. 52

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Banking Nature

Nature, le nouvel eldorado de la finance Denis Delestrac, Sandrine Feydel France, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: French/English/Spanish Subtitles: English

We investigate the commercialization of the natural world. Protecting our planet has become big business with companies like Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase promoting new environmental markets. This involves species banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of land, full of endangered species, to enable them to sell ‘nature credits’. Companies whose actions destroy the environment are now obliged to buy these credits and new financial centres have sprung up, specializing in this trade.

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films

PRODUCTION Via Découvertes Production Jean-Pierre Devorsine

38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: +33174713313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv

We investigate the global stranglehold that financial institutions have on living resources and the commercialisation of the natural world.

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Baptism of Fire Un baptême du feu Jérôme Clément-Wilz

France, 2014 color, video, 52’/62’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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A new generation of freelance photographers flies low-cost to war zones on their own dime in the hope of selling images to printed media or websites. The carefree attitude of their youth is quickly lost when they are confronted with reality. Take Corentin Fohlen, a young photo-journalist who travels around covering the Arab Spring. When a colleague is killed in Syria, his thirst for adventure turns into a deeper reflection on the meaning of his work and life.

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films 25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com

PRODUCTION 2p2l Jerome Caza INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France Télévisions – France

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BATTLE MOUNTAIN Graeme Obree’s Story David Street

Scotland, 2015 color, video, 100’ Original Language: English www.gobattlemountain.com

Ex world record holder and world champion cyclist Graeme Obree sets out to re discover his mojo. Can a genius who revolutionized cycling 20 years ago with a bike he built himself, do what it takes to break another world record on another home made bike. It covers two years in the life of the man who inspired Sir Chris Hoy and millions of other cyclists. This emotional roller coaster of a film is an observational documentary, shot in high definition. It is a visual treat as It travels from Saltcoats in Ayrshire to the Nevada desert.

SALES / CONTACT: David Street Journey Pictures Ltd

PRODUCTION Journey Pictures Ltd David Street

60 Woodlinn Avenue G44 5TT Glasgow Scotland tel: +44 141 4230343 www.journeypictures.co.uk david@journeypictures.co.uk

Graeme Obree an ageing former world champion goes in search of selfrespect. Can he break another world record to prove he is still alive and still matters in today’s world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Battle with Satan Walka z szatanem Konrad Szolajski

Poland, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’/58’/50’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

At the end of the 20th century Pope John Paul II reintroduced the ritual of exorcism into the Roman Catholic Church. In Poland, exorcisms quickly gained popularity. We follow three girls who believe they are possessed and undergo the ritual regularly. This gives us an insight to the world of exorcists as well as their ‘patients’. Father Radon, a Catholic priest (and a psychotherapist) attempts to research the subject, discovering Pentecostal roosts of the ritual – ‘borrowed’ by the Catholic Church from American Protestants. Excluding Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Ukraine, The Netherlands

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION ZK Studio Malgorzata Prociak

19-21 Christopher Street

Konrad Szolajski

EC2A 2B London

CO-PRODUCTION: HBO Europe – Czech Republic

England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,

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DR – Denmark, TG4 – Ireland

150 Polish Catholic priests exorcise demons. Thousands undergo the ritual. Can they be helped or are the exorcists taking over psychiatrists’ jobs - playing the role of religious state vanguard?

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Becoming Bulletproof Michael Barnett

USA, 2014 color, video, 80’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

www.becomingbulletproofmovie.com

Becoming Bulletproof documents the making of an original Western film called, Bulletproof. Bulletproof features actors with and without disabilities who meet every year at Zeno Mountain Farm to write, produce, and star in original short films. Founded by two brothers and their wives, Zeno Mountain Farm’s philosophy is to create a truly inclusive community that builds genuine friendships that transcend stigma and stereotypes. Becoming Bulletproof chronicles the genesis of a riveting film and a personally and socially transformative experience, capturing the essence of artistic expression through vibrant human bonds and powerful insights.

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Theodore James

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv publicity@journeyman.tv

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Becoming Bulletproof documents the making of an original Western film called Bulletproof, featuring actors with and without disabilities who meet annually to write, produce, and star in original short films. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Behemoth Liang Zhao

China / France, 2015 color, video, 94’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English/French

In the sunlight, crisp grasslands are about to be buried by mines. Proceeding as a dream-voyage, the film wander from coal mines, to an iron smelter, to a steel factory, and then to Ordos, a ghost city. In the course of tracing this supply chain, we grow more attentive to industrial workers and to the catastrophic impact of accelerated development on people and the environment—in order to reflect on how humankind is conducting itself at this moment in history. A film with narration, no dialogue

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SALES / CONTACT: Michèle Gautard INA

PRODUCTION INA Sylvie Blum

4 avenue de l’Europe 94360 Bry sur Marne

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

France tel: + 33 1 49 83 29 92 www.ina.fr mgautard@ina.fr

Zhao Liang travels through the prairies of Inner Mongolia, from coal mines to ironworks, up to Ordos, a ghost city, attentive to workers and the ecological impact of accelerated development. 58

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Berlusconi and the Mafia: The Italian Boss Berlusconi et la Mafia - Scandales à l’italienne Olivier Toscer France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French/Italian Subtitles: English

This documentary shows how Silvio Berlusconi has succumbed to a mad desire, to lease an entire country to serve his own interests. At the heart of the comedy of power and through the back alleys of money laundering, we discover how the media mogul-turnedhead of government has never been reluctant to use the Mafia’s money and influence to maintain his power and consolidate his fortune.

SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International

PRODUCTION Cinétévé Estelle Mauriac

13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

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Best of Enemies Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville

USA, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: English

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, ‘What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?

SALES / CONTACT: Scott Veltri Magnolia Pictures 49 W 27th Street

PRODUCTION Tremolo Productions Robert Gordon Morgan Neville

10001 New York USA tel: +1 212 9246701 www.magpictures.com sveltri@magpictures.com

This fierce TV debate between political opponents in 1968 is a frightening harbinger of today’s unforgiving media landscape in the United States.

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Between Sisters Manu Gerosa

Italy / Belgium / Qatar, 2015 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English/French/Dutch

The two Italian sisters Ornella and Teresa have cared for each other through their whole lives. Teresa is now in her life’s twilight and having problems facing fate, whilst her memory is slowly fading out. Before it’s too late, Ornella decides to confront Teresa with a painful untold story that goes back to their childhood and might change their close bond forever. The film is a warm portray of an Italian family, seen through the eyes of Ornella’s son, Manu. With humour and tenderness it brings out what it means to build a life upon a secret.

SALES / CONTACT: Manuela Buono

PRODUCTION Oneworld Documakers

Slingshot Films International Sales Manu Gerosa Via Salita di Gretta 7/1

Clin d’oeil films

34136 Trieste

Hanne Phlypo

Italy tel: +393476273390

CO-PRODUCTION: Oneworld Documakers – Italy,

www.slingshotfilms.it

Doha Film Institute – Qatar

festivals@slingshotfilms.it

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Should a family secret be told before it’s too late? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Beyond My Grandfather Allende Allende mi abuelo Allende Marcia Tambutti Allende

Mexico / Chile, 2015 color / black and white, DCP, 98’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: French/English/Spanish www.errante.cl

35 years after the coup d’état that overthrew her grandfather, Salvador Allende, Marcia wishes to change the family custom of not speaking about him. She believes it’s time to recover the family memories snatched away during the coup and to unveil their intimate past buried under Allende´s political transcendence, family exile and pain. A family portrait that addresses the complexities of irreparable losses and the role of memory in three generations of a wounded family.

SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin

PRODUCTION Errante Producciones Paola Castillo

75003 Paris

CO-PRODUCTION: Mart films – Mexico,

France

Fragua Cinematografía – Mexico

tel: +33 1 42 77 98 33 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

Through an intimate journey, curious Marcia struggles to recover the ordinary and intimate side of her grandfather Allende, buried by decades of silence about own pains of her wounded family. 62

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Beyond the Snowstorm Levin Peter

Germany, 2015 color, HDcam/DCP, 92’ Original Language: Russian/ German/Ukranian Subtitles: English www.deckert-distribution.com

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Following long and intense conversations with his grandfather, who used to be stationed in the Ukraine as soldier of the Wehrmacht, director Levin Peter travels there, looking to trace what he has heard. What follows is an attempt to uncover, to envision and to endure biographical anomalies. At the end of this process, both will have an altered view of the fissures and flaws of a human life. A film about the search for those shadows that we call memories.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1

PRODUCTION Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg

Sarah Schmidt

04103 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com

Following intense conversations with his grandfather, who used to be stationed in the Ukraine as soldier of the Wehrmacht, director travels there, looking to trace what he has heard. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Bikes vs Cars Fredrik Gertten

Sweden, 2015 color, video, 88’/58’ Original Language: Portugese/ Spanish/English Subtitles: English www.bikes-vs-cars.com

Bikes vs Cars depicts a global crisis we must talk about: Climate, earth’s resources, cities where the surface is consumed by cars. The bike is a great tool for change, but the interests who gain from cars invest billions each year on lobby and ads to protect their business. Shot in the US, Canada, Brazil, Colombia and Europe, we meet people fight for better cities, cities with a human scale.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION WG Film AB Margarete Jangård

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Elin Kamlert

1070 Wien Austria

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland,

tel: +43720346934

SVT – Sweden,

www.autlookfilms.com

NRK – Norway,

andrea@autlookfilms.com

VPRO – The Netherlands, YesDocu – Israel

The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it?

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Bird Skin Pele de pássaro Clara Peltier

Brazil, 2015 color, video, 20’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English

A Brazilian dancer named Tuane transcends her life in the favelas with dazzling performances in glittering costumes. SALES / CONTACT: Clara Peltier Eterna Filmes

PRODUCTION Eterna Filmes Clara Peltier

Av Henrique Dumont 53, 302, Ipanema 22410060 Rio de Janeiro Brazil tel: +55 21 25128751 annaclarapeltier@gmail.com

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Björk. The Creative Universe of a Music Missionary Hannes Rossacher

Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English www.kobalt.de

Musician, actress, scientist, visionary, video artist, composer and educator – Björk is one of the most versatile and influential artists of our time, tearing down the limits of art genres and constantly redefining the process of creating music. For three decades now Björk knows how to use the power of images and her own art persona to inspire unforgettable emotions. Her music videos are unique collaborations with a wide range of artists and are reference milestones in the video art world. But Björk does not only want to be creative herself: she wants to pass on her knowledge.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION Kobalt Productions Anahita Nazemi

21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

Björk is one of the most versatile and influential artists of our time, tearing down the limits of art genres and constantly redefining the process of creating music. 66

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Blood Sisters Blodssystrar Malin Andersson

Sweden / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Ireland / France, 2015 color, video, 83’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.bloodsisters.se

Twins Julia and Johanna arrive in Sweden from Azerbaijan, carrying unspeakable emotional baggage. The siblings promise to always be there for one another, sharing grievous past and memories. But when Julia decides to get married their paths separated and their special bond seems to loosen.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Malin Andersson Film Malin Andersson

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London

CO-PRODUCTION: Final Cut for Real – Denmark

England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Blood Sisters is a feature documentary film about the unconditional love and sister symbiosis between the twins Julia and Johanna from Malmö, Sweden.

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BOI, Song of a Wanderer Anne Marie Borsboom

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Hebrew/Dutch/English Subtitles: English www.songofawanderer.com

For twelve years, Israeli Nitzan is being followed. Travelling the world with her camera, Nitzan discovers that she is neither a woman, nor a man but a “boi”. But apart from a liquid sexual identity this portrait in the first place is about someone who wants to stay out of the cathegorizing and fixed structures, and tries out how and where you can live in freedom, openness and peace. Broadcasted 1 nov 2015 NPO2 by BOS Excluding The Netherlands

SALES / CONTACT: Anne Marie Borsboom Borsboom Filmproducties Prinsengracht 413

PRODUCTION Borsboom Filmproducties Anne Marie Borsboom

1016 HM Amsterdam

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Buddhist Broadcasting

The Netherlands

Foundation – The Netherlands

tel: +31 20 6256748 www.borsboomfilmproducties.nl borsboom.a@kpnmail.nl

For 12 years, Israeli Nitzan is being followed. Travelling the world with her camera, Nitzan discovers that she is neither a woman, nor a man but a “boi”.

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Bonnie and the Thousand Men Bonnie og de Tusinde Mænd Mette Korsgaard Denmark, 2015 color, 35mm, 58’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English

Bonnie was 18 when she began working as a prostitute. After her first client she cried endlessly, but a few days later it became easier and she could use the money for a vacation to the Caribbean. Today, twenty years later, Bonnie still works as a prostitute. She is proud of her job, she works hard, and the men are waiting in line in their cars outside the brothel. But Bonnie is sick and her body is weak. She knows that her job is wearing her out. Still, she continues her self-destructive course – she can’t stop.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark

PRODUCTION Hansen & Pedersen Malene Flindt Pedersen CO-PRODUCTION: Krage FIlm – Denmark INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

tel: +45 3520 2299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

Bonnie and the Thousand Men is an extreme close up and an honest portrait of the ex-tremely hard and vulnerable life working as a prostitute for more than 2 decades. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Borsalino City Enrica Viola

France / Italy, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’/52’ Original Language: English/French/Italian Subtitles: French/Italian/English

Borsalino hat is an icon created by noir movies. In Hollywood golden years everyone wore a Borsalino. What few people know is that all these hats were made in Alessandria, Italy. During 120 years this was a one-family onecompany town. We will discover how a myth was accidentally born through the voices of those who made their living from the Borsalino hat as well as the ones who loved to wear it. These two worlds make one main dialogue in the film, with the Borsalino hat acting as the uniting force.

SALES / CONTACT: Heidi Fleisher ARTE France 8 Rue Marceau

PRODUCTION Apapaja Simone Bachini

92785 Issy Les Moulineaux

CO-PRODUCTION: Les Films d’Ici – France,

France

Apapaja – Italy,

tel: +33 1 55 00 77 00

Les Films d’Ici 2 – France

h-fleisher@artefrance.fr

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France, Rai Cinema – Italy, RSI – Switzerland

An insight into the story of the most popular hat in the world, from its factory settled in a small provincial town of northern Italy, to the glittering sunlights of Hollywood 70

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Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play Jerome Thelia

USA, 2015 color, video, 76’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.bouncethemovie.com

What is it about the shape of a ball that fascinates humans and animals? Bounce explores the origins of our captivation with the ball. The film crosses time, languages and continents to discover how it has staked its claim on our lives and fuelled our passion to compete. From games of marbles in the school playground, to the mesmerising tricks of a juggler and the raucous cheers of the World Cup, stunning cinematography and expert interviews capture the collective human experience of the ball. A farreaching and compelling exploration of the significance of the sphere.

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Anne Carkeet

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

What is it about the ball that fascinates humans and animals? Bounce crosses time, languages and continents to discover how the ball has staked its claim on our lives.

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A Boy’s Dream

De jongensdroom Cinta Forger, Walther Grotenhuis The Netherlands, 2015 color / black and white, video, 70’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English

Playful and elegant strandbeasts walk along Dutch beaches. Their master, Theo Jansen, wants to make new life that will outlive his own lifespan. Only plastic tubes, tiewraps and sails are allowed. Electronical devices banned. As an explorer he tries to understand the creation. His strandbeasts are part of a dream that is meant to conquer the world. Is this self appointed God pursuing an impossible fairytale? And is he able to convince the world to dream along with him?

SALES / CONTACT: Walther Grotenhuis Olympic Films D.L.Hudigstraat 38 1019 TR Amsterdam

PRODUCTION Olympic Films Walther Grotenhuis INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 206709486 info@ciwa.nl

Theo Jansen pursues an impossible dream. Making new life out of plastic tubes. His strandbeasts are meant to conquer the world. Is this self appointed God pursuing an impossible fairytale? 72

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Brave New World Nowy wspanialy swiat Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

A left-wing group has managed Cultural Centre in the most representative shopping street of Warsaw’s downtown (Warsaw is the capital of the Poland) – New World St. , and some populist right-wing groups complained that local authorities could offer such a prestigious address to a leftist group. The film is about this conflict, and wider - how to create a new left in Poland.

SALES / CONTACT: Lucyna Kowalska Ragusa Film

PRODUCTION Ragusa Film Lucyna Kowalska

15 Bzowa ap. 3

Dariusz Kowalski

02-708 Warsaw

CO-PRODUCTION: TVPTelewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

Poland tel: +48228476724 www.ragusafilm.pl

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TVPTelewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

l.kowalska-romanica@ragusafilm.pl

How to create a new left in Poland where some rightwing politics are still hunting the post-communists.

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Breaking the Ice in Sochi Sochi: Rompendo il ghiaccio dietro le cerimonie Facundo Ponce de León, Juan Ponce de León Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’/100’ Original Language: English/French/Italian Subtitles: English www.rsi.ch

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Millions of people watched the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies on TV, but only a few took a peek behind the scenes. This making-of follows Swiss choreographer Daniele Finzi Pasca, Julie Hamelin and Hugo Gargiulo directing the Finzi Pasca company and thousands of artists from 35 different countries to achieve the greatest technological feat in the history of olympic games ceremonies. A show of pure magic and breathtaking poetry.

SALES / CONTACT: Stella Bogliani RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Via Canevascini

PRODUCTION Finzi Pasca Antonio Vergamini

6903 Lugano

CO-PRODUCTION: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –

Switzerland

tel: +41 91 803 54 82

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –

stella.bogliani@rsi.ch

Switzerland

A peek behind the scenes of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies: a show of pure magic and poetry by Swiss choreographer Daniele Finzi Pasca and his company. 74

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Brothers Bracia Wojciech Staron

Poland, 2015 color, video, 68’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

After 80 years of exile two brothers come back to Poland from Kazakhstan. The aim is to set their place in the new world. They face obstacles of character differences. One of them is a painter and a dreamer, the other one – a pragmatic engineer. They want to rebuild their lives in spite of dramatic events that the fate sends down on them when their house burns down and when one brother has put the other brother in the center for elderly people. The race against time begins now. Will they be fast enough?

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow

PRODUCTION Staron Films Malgorzata Staron INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TVPTelewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

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Business Club Chloé Mahieu, Lila Pinell

France, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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Arthur is a young aristocrat and a businessman. His name and noble title have always helped him. He knows it and he loves it. With the crisis and changing times, he needs to adapt. “Change everything so that everything remains the same. “ This is the project that Arthur will attempt to carry out where ever it takes him, from China to breakdance schools…

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films 25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com

PRODUCTION the factory Productions Frank Eskenazi INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France Télévisions – France

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By Sidney Lumet Nancy Buirski

USA, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 110’ Original Language: English

www.cinephil.co.il/by-sidney-lumet

In a never-before-seen interview filmed a few years before his death, Sidney Lumet guides us through his life and work. Powerfully dramatic and wildly entertaining films such as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, and Network, are just part of the canon of one of the most socially conscious directors in the history of cinema. Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Nancy Buirski (Afternoon of a Faun, The Loving Story) presents an intimate portrait of Lumet. With his typical candor, humor and grace, he reveals what mattered to him as an artist and a human being.

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil Levontin Street 18 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 35 664129

PRODUCTION Augusta Films, LLC Nancy Buirski CO-PRODUCTION: THIRTEEN ProductionS LLC – USA INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WNET – USA

www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

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Café Nagler Mor Kaplansky

Germany / Israel, 2015 color / black and white, video, 55’ Original Language: German/Hebrew/English Subtitles: English

The director embarks on a journey following the story behind the famous, legendary Café Nagler – owned by her family during the 1920s in Berlin. Her grandmother follows the filming with great anticipation. However, the director discovers that the true story behind the café isn’t as glamorous as her grandmother had always believed. Apparently, Café Nagler was just another café, lost in Berlin’s history. Unable to break her grandmother’s heart, the director decides to recreate the myth of the café. She creates a fictional documentary, telling the story of the unforgettable Café Nagler. for TV sales - Germany, Canada and Italian speaking Switzerland, Sweden - are not available

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

37/8 Issar Natanzon St. 97787 Jerusalem Israel

PRODUCTION Liran Atzmor Yariv Barel

Mor Kaplansky CO-PRODUCTION: MDR / ARTE – Germany

tel: + 972-2-5831371

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: MDR / ARTE – Germany,

hedva@go2films.com

CBC – Canada, Société Radio Canada – Canada, RSI – Switzerland, Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR) – Sweden

Seeking the legendary Café Nagler owned by her family in Berlin in the 1920s, the director gets caught in the gap between the family myth and the historic facts. 78

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Call Me Marianna Mów mi Marianna Karolina Bielawska

Poland, 2015 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

Marianna is an attractive 40-yearold woman who has just sued her parents in order to obtain a sex change. Confronted with the idea of losing what she holds dearest to her - her family - she must face the chilling reminder of the sacrifices one takes to be themselves.

SALES / CONTACT: Xavier Henry-Rashid Film Republic 270 Mare Street E81HE London

PRODUCTION Kalejdoskop Film Studio Zbigniew Domagalski INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Telewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

England tel: +44 203 287 9112 www.filmrepublic.biz xavier@filmrepublic.biz

How much would you sacrifice to be yourself? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Calling Ukraine Jean Counet

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video/DCP, 12’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English/French/Dutch www.tamfilms.com

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Through a Skype call the daily life, dreams and fears of a family in Eastern-Ukraine is revealed while the bombs are falling in the background. A grandmother in Latvia phones with her sister and child who live in the war zone of Eastern-Ukraine, months without often having water and electricity. We see the traces of the war on the face of the grandmother who, like the viewer, is powerless.

SALES / CONTACT: Jean Counet TAM Films Meeuwenlaan 203-B 1021JD Amsterdam The Netherlands

Jos de Putter CO-PRODUCTION: TAM Films – The Netherlands

tel: +31618029870

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: De Correspondent –

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The Netherlands

jeanfilm@yahoo.com

PRODUCTION DeepFocus Web Docs

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Carolina’s World El mundo de Carolina Mariana Viñoles

Uruguay, 2015 color, video, 72’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.carolinasworld.com

In ordinary life, around the table, Mariana meets Carolina. Days and months go by, seasons change, while we witness a story of life and this caring relationship strengthens in time. SALES / CONTACT: Stefano Tononi Cronopio Film

PRODUCTION Cronopio Film Stefano Tononi

Soriano 1531 11200 Montevideo Uruguay tel: +598 2 410 47 04 www.cronopiofilm.com stefano@cronopiofilm.com

This film is about the meeting of two women and about the way they start to know each other. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Cartel Land Matthew Heineman

USA / Mexico, 2015 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English www.cartellandmovie.co.uk

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as “El Doctor,” leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona’s Altar Valley – a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley – Tim “Nailer” Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border. US & Canada, Mexico, Germany, NZ & Aus, Zylo

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION The Documentary Group Tom Yellin

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

With unprecedented access, Cartel Land is a harrowing look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels. 82

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Casa Blanca Aleksandra Maciuszek

Poland / Mexico, 2015 color, video, 62’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

Casa Blanca is a small fishing village on Cuba. Nelsa and her son Vladimir, who has Down syndrome, share a tiny room in an overcrowded multifamily building. Vladimir is the only caretaker for ailing Nelsa, and Nelsa is the only person to watch over Vladimir, who easily gets into trouble. Their relationship is filled with conflicts: she is trying to control her son, while he prefers to help fishermen at work, have fun and drink rum with them, rather than spend time with his mother. One day, she falls ill.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow

PRODUCTION Kijora Anna Gawlita CO-PRODUCTION: Nomadas Y Compania – Mexico

Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

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Investigative | Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society

Catching Haider Fang den Haider Nathalie Borgers

Austria / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 91’ Original Language: German/French Subtitles: English www.deckert-distribution.com

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Dead in a car crash in 2008, Joerg Haider, former leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, was the first to bring a far right populist party to power in Europe. Catching Haider is a subjective voyage in Haider’s political, geographical, familial, and emotional world, seeking to glimpse the real person behind Haider’s contradictory personas, his goals, and his strategies, and finally identifying the illusionary and deceptive methods of populist politics which have since spread all over Europe.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution

PRODUCTION ma.ja.de Filmproduktion Heino Deckert

Marienplatz 1

Kurt Mayer Film

04103 Leipzig

Kurt Mayer

Germany tel: +49 341 2156638

CO-PRODUCTION: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions –

www.deckert-distribution.com

Germany

info@deckert-distribution.com

How can it be that, despite the corruption scandals he has been associated with, Austrian right wing populist Joerg Haider is portrayed as a hero after his accidental death? 84

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Cecilia Pankaj Johar

India / Norway, 2015 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Bengali/English/Hindi Subtitles: English

Cecilia is the story of a woman from the tribal parts of India whose daughter is trafficked and found dead in New Delhi. In a country where thousands of tribal children get trafficked every year to cities, Cecilia decides to fight for justice for her daughter with the help of her employers Pankaj and Sunaina. As they battle corruption at all levels, they find themselves navigating a complex network of cops, traffickers, judges, lawyers, villagers and family members. When Cecilia’s husband is kidnapped and her two sons are forced to leave the village, Cecilia begins to lose all hope.

SALES / CONTACT: Pankaj Johar Penny Wise Films B-1/500, Janak Puri

PRODUCTION Penny Wise Films Pankaj Johar

110058 New Delhi

CO-PRODUCTION: Lightsource Film Productions –

India

Norway

tel: +911141587120 www.pennywisefilms.com pankaj.johar@pennywisefilms.com

When Cecilia’s 14 year old daughter is trafficked and found dead, she decides to fight for justice but soon finds herself caught in a web of corrupt cops and traffickers. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Censored Voices Mor Loushy

Israel / Germany, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: English/Hindi Subtitles: English www.censoredvoices.com

The 1967 war ended with Israel’s victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed as a righteous undertaking – a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzinks, led by author Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzninks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. Censored Voices reveals the original recordings for the first time. Excluding Australia, France, Germany, USA, Italy

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION kNow Productions Hilla Medalia

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row

Daniel Sivan

EC1V 3QN London

Neta Zwebner-Zaibert

England tel: +44 20 72536244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

One week after the 1967 war, a group of young kibbutzinks recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. Censored Voices reveals these original recordings for the first time.

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The Ceremony La cérémonie Lina Mannheimer

Sweden, 2014 color, video, 75’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

The most famous dominatrix in France creates sadomasochist “Ceremonies” in her chateau. Catherine Robbe-Grillet, age 84, defies the relations between power and submission, sensuality and physical pain. She surrounds herself with brilliant characters, depicting complex lives on the other side of social conventional boundaries. Catherine writes sadomasochistic novels under pseudonym Jeanne De Berg.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION French Quarter Film Mathilde Dedye

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

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Youth | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View

The Chaos Within Mul Tohu She-ba Lein Yanai Yakov

Israel, 2014 color, video, 87’ Original Language: Hebrew/Russian Subtitles: English www.go2films.com/ComingSoon/The-Chaos-Within

Director’s mother, Faiga, is a Holocaust survivor who at the age of 45 married Rabbi Ashlag, 40 years her senior. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah before passing away. Since then, Faiga’s goal is to save the world from selfannihilation. She wanted her son Yannai to become the Messiah and help her save the world by spreading Kabbalah. But he ran away from home at the age of 14 and became a heroin addict. The film follows his 10 years old journey through Kabala, heroin, dance and redemption, in search of home and love.

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

37/8 Issar Natanzon St.

PRODUCTION Zen Productions Sylvain Biegeleisen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YesDocu – Israel

97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos & redemption. Instead of becoming a Messiah as his mother wished, Yanai just wants to find home and love.

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Chapter 11

Sports Kids - Kapitel 11 Ania Winiarska South Africa / Sweden / Denmark, 2015 color, video, 28’ Original Language: English/Xhosa Subtitles: English

There are great expectations upon south african BMX rider Anita and the pressure grows with popularity in the local media. As she’s entering her teenage years, her priorities start to shift and cause frictions with her team. She struggles to see herself as a future champion and act like one.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14

PRODUCTION Story AB Malin Hüber

1070 Wien

CO-PRODUCTION: Sant & Usant – Norway,

Austria

Final Cut for Real – Denmark

tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

There are great expectations upon BMX-rider Anita and pressure grows with popularity in the media. As entering her teenage years, her priorities start shifting and cause frictions with her team. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Chechen Beata Bubenets

Russia, 2015 color, video, 76’ Original Language: Russian/Ukranian Subtitles: English

Story takes place during Ukraine crisis, namely its major events - Maidan protests, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass. Main character is Ruslan, a Chechen, fought earlier in the First and Second Chechen Wars. He came to Ukraine to continue his struggle against Russian authorities.

SALES / CONTACT: Ksenia Gapchenko

PRODUCTION Marina Razbezhkina

Driehoek 7-4 6711DH Ede The Netherlands tel: +31 6 27 59 62 62 gaptschenko@gmail.com

Ruslan, a Chechen, fought earlier in the First and Second Chechen Wars. He came to Ukraine to continue his struggle against Russian authorities. 90

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Checks and Balances Contre-pouvoirs Malek Bensmaïl

Algeria / France, 2015 color, HDcam, 97’ Original Language: Berber/Arabic/French Subtitles: French/English www.contre-pouvoirs-le-film.com

Accommodated since Algeria’s Bloody Decade of the 1990s in the “House of the Press”, the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. My camera is embedded in their newsroom as they follow the events of this new Algerian spring… President Bouteflika has set his sights on a 4th term.

SALES / CONTACT: Hachemi Zertal Hikayet films

PRODUCTION Hikayet films Malek Bensmaïl

Cité Mentouri 25000 Constantine

CO-PRODUCTION: Magnolias Films – France,

Algeria

INA – France

tel: +213555752933 hikayetfilms@gmail.com

Malek Bensmail set up his camera in the newsroom of the algerian famous daily paper El Watan.

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Politics / Society | History | Human Interest / Social Issues

Children of the Hippies Nille Westh

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English

A symbol of tolerence and openness towards alternative lifestyles, the Freetown of Christiania, Copenhagen also hold taboos and brutal stories, which the inhabitants have successfully hidden from the world. The ideas and dreams were beautiful at the time of inaguration in 1971. The young peolple who moved in and truly believed that they could create rewarding lives for themselves and their children built on freedom, imagination and community.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C

PRODUCTION DR Anders Thomsen CO-PRODUCTION: Nordvision Fund – Denmark

Denmark

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark,

tel: +45 35202299

SVT – Sweden,

www.dr.dk

NRK – Norway,

kimc@dr.dk

YLE – Finland, RUV – Iceland

The untold story of the Hippietown “Christiania” in Copenhagen. A playground for adults - not for children.

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China Sea: War of the Archipelagos Mer de Chine, la guerre des archipels Marc Petitjean France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

Sinking ships, sailors imprisoned, chases at sea, illegal landings, acts of vandalism, military confrontation; incidents of this type have multiplied in the China Sea, now one of the world’s most sensitive areas. In the face of China’s growing power, neighbouring countries Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines have been reinforcing defences to protect maritime borders and uphold sovereignty over the archipelagos they control. Yet more than territorial disputes which regularly raise tensions, it is China’s overall political ambitions that worry adjacent countries, as well as the United States.

SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International

PRODUCTION TS Productions Delphine Morel

13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

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Politics / Society | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues

The Chinese Mayor Da Tong Hao Zhou

China, 2015 color, video, 58’/86’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English www.zhaoqifilms.com

How power works in the Chinese Communist Party, focused through the mission of one local mayor who is determined to transform the coalmining centre of Datong into a tourism haven (showcasing clean energy). In order to revitalize the city, he must first destroy. With remarkable access, the film follows him out and about facing battles on the street, mostly from within the Communist party itself.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Zhaoqi Films Qi Zhao

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

The mayor of the Chinese city of Datong embarks on an immense demolition and building project to transform his city into a tourist attraction.

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Chinese Verses Xiaoyu Qin, Feiyue Wu

China, 2015 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

Poetry is the last secret of an era. We found six special workers through the Internet. There are the suicide worker from Apple Production; forklift operator; blaster; garment worker; minority worker and even more, the miner from 800 mils beneath… meanwhile, they are all the excellent poet. They are talking about the stories that covered behind “Chinese Miracle” and “Made in China” to not just national people also the worldwide.

SALES / CONTACT: Qingzeng Cai Eternity Co.

PRODUCTION Eternity Co. Qingzeng Cai

Room 101,Flat D,Block 7,128 Huayuan Road, Hongkou District 200083 Shanghai China tel: +086 138 17794359 producer@sino-et.com

A special group existing lively in the China—worker poet, they assemble in front of camera with the poems they have written hold in their hands. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Christ Lives in Siberia Kristus elab Siberis Jaak Kilmi, Arbo Tammiksaar

Finland / Estonia, 2015 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

Danial, Mariam and Zaur lived in St Petersburg with their mother Sveta and father Magomed. One day, the mother took her three children and moved to the Vissarionites community far in Siberia. This is the world’s largest sect, detached from civilization, gathered around their Teacher Vissarion, the reborn Jesus Christ. After a year the mother married a vissarionite bell ringer Dmitri, who became the children’s stepfather. Danial’s, Mariam’s and Zaur’s real father has struggled for years to get his children back. Film director Arbo Tammiksaar moved with his family to Siberia for about a year, to live in the Vissarionites village.

SALES / CONTACT: Margus Ounapuu Film Tower

PRODUCTION Film Tower Margus Öunapuu

Gonsiori 27

CO-PRODUCTION: Making Movies Oy – Finland

10147 Tallinn Estonia tel: +372 5651654 margus@filmtower.ee

In a remote taiga of Siberia there lives a religious leader who calls himself Christ Vissarion, a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture

Cinema, mon amour Alexandru Belc

Romania / Czech Republic, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 70’/52’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: English

Cinema, mon amour follows the story of Viktor Purice - manager, former projectionist and lifetime cinephile and his two loyal employees, Cornelia & Lorena, in their everyday battle to preserve Dacia Panoramic Cinema in Piatra Neamt - one of the last remaining cinemas in Romania today. Having lived through “the golden age” of cinema, Viktor dreams of bringing back the good old glory days, yet struggles to keep up with the new harsh reality. In a theater that lacks heating and is slowly falling apart, with no support from the State who owns the place, it’s almost a Don Quixote fight.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs

PRODUCTION Libra Film Tudor Giurgiu

18, rue Quincampoix

Pink Productions

75004 Paris

Viktória Hozzová

France

CO-PRODUCTION: Pink Productions – Czech Republic

tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: HBO Europe – Czech Republic

Every cinema has a story - a tale of loneliness, friendship, hope and unfulfilled dreams. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Politics / Society

Citizen Khodorkovsky Eric Bergkraut

Israel / Switzerland / Russia / Germany, 2015 color, video, 52’/87’ Original Language: Russian/English/French Subtitles: English

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is back to challenge Putin’s grip on power. Once Russia’s richest man and head of energy giant Yukos, he spent a decade in jail after challenging the Kremlin. His takedown sent a strong signal to Russia’s powerful tycoons not to meddle in politics. For the first time after his release, he talks about his time behind bars and his vision for a new Russia. He relaunched the Open Russia Movement to strengthen democracy in Russia - a move towards presidency?

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION p.s. 72 Productions Eric Bergkraut

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

After a decade in jail, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man and head of energy giant Yukos, is back to challenge Putin’s grip on power.

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Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah Adam Benzine

Canada / England / USA, 2015 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 40’/58’ Original Language: French/German/English Subtitles: English

This documentary reveals for the first time the trials and tribulations the French iconoclast faced. Notably, the film features an array of previously unseen outtake footage that was shot during the creation of Shoah, to illustrate Lanzmann’s journey from the bright-eyed journalist of 1973 to the world-weary auteur of 1985. In addition, the documentary reflects on several key points in Lanzmann’s life, including his teenage years fighting in the French resistance, his love affair with Simone de Beauvoir and his deep friendship with Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as his hopes and expectations for the future.

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Jet Black Iris Adam Benzine

Levontin Street 18

Kimberley Warner

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany,

tel: +972 35 664129

DR – Denmark

www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

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‘Lanzmann’ features previously unseen outtake footage that was shot during the creation of ‘Shoah,’ to illustrate Lanzmann’s journey from the bright-eyed journalist of 1973 to the world-weary auteur of 1985. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Clear Years Les années claires Frédéric Guillaume

Belgium, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

“I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family. To maintain love and happiness. I wasn’t told, and if someone had told me I wouldn’t have listened. I chose to live with my camera in my hand, filming the trajectory of feelings, from the golden age to the lost paradise, from being born to being reborn. “

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin

PRODUCTION Images d’à côté Frédéric Guillaume CO-PRODUCTION: Wrong Men – Belgium

Belgium tel: +49 39 47372980 www.kloosundco.de info@riseandshine-berlin.de

Shot during nine years, this movie tries to tell the pregnancy of a father, the quest of hapinness and the mystery of love. 100

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The Closer We Get Karen Guthrie

England / Scotland, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 88’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.thecloserweget.com

After her mother Ann suffers a devastating stroke, Karen moves back home for what will be a long goodbye. But Karen isn’t the only one who comes back to care for Ann in the crisis: Her prodigal father - the endearing yet unfathomable Ian, who’s been separated from Ann for years - also reappears. Reunited so unexpectedly, and armed with her camera, Karen seizes this last chance to find out the real story of her family and the truth behind a secret her father had tried - and failed - to keep from them all before it’s too late.

SALES / CONTACT: Ged Fitzsimmons Somewhere

PRODUCTION Somewhere Karen Guthrie

Goodings Pie & Mash Shop, 257 Well Nina Pope St, London E9 6RG London

CO-PRODUCTION: Somewhere – England

England tel: + 44 7403 397 965 karen@somewhere.org.uk

Before it’s too late, a family that never really talked - starts to. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Coal India

Ajay Koli, Felix Röben

Germany, 2015 color, video, 47’ Original Language: Hindi Subtitles: English

Coal India portrays people who work under pre-industrial conditions in the coalfields near Dhanbad, India. The film shows heaviest physical labour which becomes increasingly invisible in our technologized 21st century. The shift of media interest imposes the question of whether material work has become obsolete or rather urgent as an object of examination.

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PRODUCTION Hochschule OWL

Kesslerstrasse 90

Felix Röben

31134 Hildesheim Germany tel: +4917621523584 felixroben@yahoo.de

Coal India portrays people who work under preindustrial conditions in the coalfields near Dhanbad, India. The film shows heaviest physical labour which becomes increasingly invisible in our technologized 21st century. 102

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Collusion Brendan McCourt

Northern Ireland, 2015 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English www.newred.tv

The true and untold story of the fight for truth by families of hundreds of people murdered by paramilitaries who were controlled by the British security forces during four decades of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The film contains exclusive interviews and explosive new revelations and admissions by former British ministers and members of the security forces which has resulted in new legal action by families.

SALES / CONTACT: Brendan McCourt NewRed TV

PRODUCTION NewRed TV Brendan McCourt

98 University St

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTE – Ireland

BT7 1HE Belfast Northern Ireland tel: 02895083625 www.newred.tv brendan@newred.tv

The shocking truth of how British security forces used loyalist terrorists as a policy instrument in their deadly battle with the IRA. Hundreds of innocent civilians died.

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Coming of Age Teboho Edkins

South Africa / Germany, 2015 color, video, 63’ Original Language: Sesotho Subtitles: English/German www.steps.co.za

Coming of Age is a film that follows teenagers over two years as they grow up deep in the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Lefa, sees her world fall apart when her best friend Senate leaves the village, and must decide whether to stay or leave in search of a better education. Retabile takes care of the family’s livestock up in a remote cattle post, helped by his younger brother Mosaku, who watches as he goes through a rite of passage that marks his transition into manhood. The summer of youth is quickly over, doors into adulthood open and close.

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Gruber MAGNETFILM

PRODUCTION Deutsche Film- und

Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb)

Ilsensteinweg 35

Teboho Edkins

14129 Berlin

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: AfriDocs – South Africa

Germany tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

In the village of Ha Sekake, deep in the mountains of Lesotho, four teenagers face choices that will affect the rest of their lives.

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Concerto - A Beethoven Journey Phil Grabsky

England, 2015 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: English www.seventh-art.com/concerto-2

Leif Ove Andsnes is undoubtedly one of the best pianists of our age. This exquisite and revealing film goes behind-the-scenes of his ambitious plan to dedicate four years of his life to performing and recording Beethoven’s five piano concertos. By following this journey, the film also builds up a fresh and revealing biography of Beethoven – presenting a man much understood in a new light. Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra played to sell-out crowds around the world – and our film captured that journey and the staggering music that emerged.

SALES / CONTACT: Phil Grabsky Seventh Art Productions Seventh Art Productions BN1 1AE Brighton

PRODUCTION Seventh Art Productions Phil Grabsky INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BBC 4 – England

England tel: 01273777678 www.seventh-art.com pgrabsky@seventh-art.com

Filmed over the course of four years award-winning director Phil Grabsky follows leading concert pianist Leif Ove Andsnes’s attempt to understand and interpret Beethoven’s five piano concertos. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Cool Cats

Janus Koster-Rasmussen

Denmark, 2015 color, 35mm, 83’/60’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English

Cool Cats tells the story of two jazz giants who are forced to relocate to a musical small town. In the mid-1960s, tenor saxophone stars Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon leave behind America and its fierce political climate – as well as a long trail of heavy alcohol and heroin abuse. They settle down in Copenhagen, where they are greeted as musical saviors. But the attractions of the small, fairy tale-like Scandinavian capital soon turn out to be a threat to their music – and their lives. The film’s visual backbone consists of Ben Webster’s own 8MM footage which resurfaces here for the first time.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION DR Morten Thomsen Højsgaard

Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

Cool Cats tells the story of two jazz giants, Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon, who are forced to relocate to a musical small town. 106

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The Coolest Memory Team Ever Sveriges Coolaste Landslag Per-Eric Malm

Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English

The World Memory Championship is a mental decathlon - the participants warriors of the mind. The competitors are challenged to quickly memorize incredible amounts of information about playing cards, words, images and numbers. In The Coolest Memory Team Ever this strange world unfolds in a competitive drama between reigning masters and highly capable newcomers challening the hierarchy.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20

PRODUCTION Pistolero Media Per-Eric Malm INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

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The Country Where Trees Fly Il paese dove gli alberi volano Davide Barletti, Jacopo Quadri Italy, 2015 color, HDcam, 89’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English

www.ilpaesedoveglialberivolano.com

In a quiet Danish province preparations are underway for the 50th anniversary of the Odin Teatret, the company which changed the direction of theatre in the 20th century under the guidance of Eugenio Barba. From the most farreaching countries – Kenya, Bali, Brazil, India and Europe – teams of children, youths and artists come to Denmark bringing energy to this collective event with their acrobatics, music and voice, all under the impetuous gaze of the barefoot, white-haired director. The Odin Teatret is not just a theatre company; it is an extensive and timeless community, a visionary flow and uncompromising pace of life.

SALES / CONTACT: Anastasia Plazzotta Wanted Films

PRODUCTION Davide Barletti Jacopo Quadri

Via Mantova 7

Cristina Rajola

20135 Milano

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SKY Arte – Italy

Italy tel: +39 3346763643 www.wantedcinema.eu info@justwanted.it

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Coups de foudre Christophe Reyners

Belgium, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

Five women share their “love” story, a thunderbolt, a meeting with a wonderful man who later became a tormentor. They tell about the grip that is slowly but firmly induced, the violence leading to their fleeing to protect her children, their taking shelter, their attempt to rebuild and regain self-esteem.

SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Ventes - CBA/WIP Sales c/o WIP, PIL, Bât. T, 36 rue de Mulhouse

PRODUCTION Dérives Julie Frères INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTBF – Belgium

4020 Liège Belgium tel: +3243401040 www.ventes-cbawip-sales.be ventes-cbawip-sales@skynet.be

Their love story turned to nightmare

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A Courtship Amy Kohn

USA, 2015 color, video, 71’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

www.taskovskifilms.com/?film=a-courtship

Amy Kohn’s fascinating documentary offers a peek into the practice of Christian courtship, wherein a woman hands over the responsibility of finding a husband to her parents and the will of God.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Mad Twin Amy Kohn

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Kelly is saving herself for marriage and following Christian Courtship, an arranged marriage ritual where parents, in conjunction with God, search for their daughters’ husbands. 110

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Crafting an Echo Marco Williams

USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English

Crafting an Echo is a feature length documentary that examines the creative method of Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis commissioned dance—Echo in 20132014, for the Martha Graham Dance Company.

PRODUCTION Hiptruth Productions Danielle Beverly Marco Williams

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Politics / Society | Investigative

Credit for Murder Vladi Antonevicz

Israel / Russia, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 85’ Original Language: Russian/English Subtitles: English

www.facebook.com/Mankurt.the.movie

Russia. A shocking video of a double murder appeared on YouTube in August 2007. The police investigation reached a dead end. Two years later, director Vladi Antonevicz and his friend Dima “Shuravi” set off on a daring investigation of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia’s Neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find the killers.

SALES / CONTACT: Vladi Antonevicz Mockofiction HA Hagana 70 67721 Tel Aviv Israel tel: 972-3-5476335 antonevichi@gmail.com

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PRODUCTION Mockofiction Vladi Antonevicz INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 8 – Israel

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Youth

Crocodile Gennadiy Steve Hoover

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: Russian/English Subtitles: English www.gennadiyfilm.com

Gennadiy Mokhnenko has made a name for himself by forcibly abducting homeless drug-addicted kids from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine. As his country leans towards a European Union inclusion, hopes of continued post-Soviet revitalization seem possible. In the meantime, Gennadiy’s center has evolved into a more nebulous institution.

SALES / CONTACT: Annie Roney ro*co films international

PRODUCTION Animal Danny Yourd

80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 8 94965 Sausalito USA tel: +1 415 332 6471 www.rocofilms.com annie@rocofilms.com

Gennadiy spent years rescuing drug-addicted kids from Mariupol’s streets, using any means necessary. But Ukraine’s civil unrest could threaten everything that he has fought for. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Crossing Rachmaninoff Rebecca Tansley

New Zealand, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 79’ Original Language: Italian/English Subtitles: English www.crossingrachmaninoff.com

Crossing Rachmaninoff follows aspiring piano soloist Flavio Villani as he prepares Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 for his first orchestral performance. Flavio must challenge traditional musical thinking and battle personal demons for a chance to make music his life. Wrapped around a performance of the Concerto, Crossing Rachmaninoff is a personal odyssey, with all the elements of drama and catharsis that Rachmaninoff himself depicts so splendidly. It explores the fundamental desire to be accepted for who we are, the beauty of music and the courage of those who make it. Sometimes the hardest journey is one we choose. All territories are currently available.

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SALES / CONTACT: Rebecca Tansley Minerva Productions

PRODUCTION Minerva Productions Rebecca Tansley

PO Box 2974, Shortland Street 1140 Auckland New Zealand tel: +64 9 303 4163 www.minervaProductions.co.nz rebecca@minervaProductions.co.nz

An aspiring pianist preparing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 for the biggest night of his career must reconcile with his past and battle personal demons.

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

The Crossing George Kurian

England, 2015 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Arabic/Norwegian Subtitles: English

The Crossing takes us along on one of the most dangerous journeys of our time with a group of Syrians fleeing war and persecution, crossing a sea, two continents and five countries, searching for a home to rekindle the greatest thing they have lost – Hope. They make it to Europe, only to find out that the hardest part of their journey still lies ahead. Months of uncertainty and waiting, living in one centre after another, takes a toll on their spirits, as they confront what being a “refugee” means.

SALES / CONTACT: Nicole Biermaier First Hand Films

PRODUCTION Gründer Film Bente Olav

Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zurich Switzerland

CO-PRODUCTION: George Kurian – Turkey

tel: +41 44 312 20 60

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NRK – Norway,

www.firsthandfilms.com

SVT – Sweden,

info@firsthandfilms.com

IKON – The Netherlands, YLE – Finland, RUV – Iceland

The Crossing takes us along with a group of Syrians fleeing war, crossing a sea, two continents and five countries, searching for Hope.

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Crosswords: Matta-Clark Friends Palabras cruzadas: Los amigos de Matta Clark Matias Cardone Chile, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 65’ Original Language: English Subtitles: Spanish www.matta-clark.org

Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, was considered one of the United States’ most interesting and valuable independent artists. Son of the celebrated Chilean painter Roberto Matta, the artist was born in New York, where he developed most of his work, founding the movement known as “anarchitecture”. This documentary uses images from photographic and video archive, as well as recordings of the artist’s performances, while the voices of Matta-Clark scholars and collaborators narrate his adventures and anecdotes in the New York suburbs.

SALES / CONTACT: Matias Cardone Invercine Producciones

PRODUCTION Invercine Producciones Macarena Cardone

Copihue 2988 7510210 Santiago Chile tel: +56995391839 director@fourfilms.cl

Gordon Matta-Clark is an artists, founder of the movement “Anarchitecture”. He developed an extensive creative career. His friends tell us his adventures and stories in the suburbs of New York 116

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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues

Czech Swan Czeski labedz Aleksandra Terpinska Poland / Czech Republic, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Czech Subtitles: English

Czech Swan is a humorous and uplifting story about a group of elderly women from a small Czech village, whose age doesn’t stop them from pursuing their dreams and caprices with unbeatable enthusiasm. Hanna and her eleven friends are members of a locally famous dancing group Majorettes, with only two years left before they can celebrate its 15th anniversary. To overcome temporary crisis of popularity, they decide to incorporate Tchaikovsky’s classic Swan Lake into their Majorette dancing routine with the help of the director of Ostrava National Ballet and his debuting prima ballerina.

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House

PRODUCTION CoLab Pictures Danuta Gegotek

9 rue Bleue

Katarzyna Siniarska

75009 Paris

CO-PRODUCTION: Film Produkcja – Poland

France tel: 33153950464 www.widehouse.org

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Ceská Televize – Czech Republic

ac@widehouse.org

It’s never too late to dance Swan Lake. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth

Daddy’s Girl Isän tyttö Melisa Üneri

Finland, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Finnish/Turkish Subtitles: English www.riseandshine-berlin.de

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Daddy’s Girl is a tragicomic breaking-up story between a Turkish father, Cengiz, living in Finland, and his half-Finnish daughter, Melisa. Their symbiotic relationship begins to deteriorate when Melisa moves to Turkey to start a life of her own. Cengiz’s inability to deal with Melisa breaking free starts a chain of events where Melisa cuts her father off and Cengiz - after years of deliberately avoiding Turkey and his dominating mother - travels to Istanbul to meet Melisa, and is thus forced to face his mother and Melisa’s Turkish boyfriend. This is a story about rebellion, growing up and letting go.

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine

PRODUCTION Klaffi Productions Mika Ronkainen

Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland

Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de

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Daddy’s Girl is a tragicomic breaking-up story between a Turkish father, Cengiz, living in Finland, and his 26-yearold half-Finnish daughter, Melisa, a story about rebellion, growing up and letting go. 118

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Dancing for You Sports Kids - Dans for livet Erlend E. Mo Norway / Denmark / Sweden, 2015 color, video, 29’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English

Vilde (12) wants to be the first female ‘Halling’ folk dance champion. A traditional dance for men only. Her greatest challenge isn’t the competition – she’s convinced that her strength and passion for dance and life are helping her beloved grandfather to win his fight against cancer. A beautifully crafted portrait of two generations of sports champs and a affectionate/loving grandfathergrandchild bond.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Sant & Usant Anita Rehoff Larsen

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien

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Austria

Story AB – Sweden

tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

Vilde wants to be the first female ‘Halling’ champion, a traditional folk-dance for men only. She shares her passion for sports with her grandfather, which fundaments their loving grandfather-grandchild bond. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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A Dangerous Idea En farlig idé Peter Löfgren

Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Hebrew/ English/Arabic/Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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After yet another bloody war in Gaza, the voices against the violence are getting louder. The hundreds of organisations demanding peace and reconciliation, experience fast-growing support among Palestinians and Israelis. This new peace movement contains people from all quarters: refugees, officers, housewives – and settlers. In the film we meet several people who in different ways have had their lives affected by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Many of them have lost loved ones in the conflict, but still they choose a path of non-violence instead of seeking revenge.

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SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm Sweden tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

PRODUCTION Målahiå Television AB Peter Löfgren CO-PRODUCTION: SVT – Sweden INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

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The Dangerous World of Doctor Dolecek Nebezpecn svet Rajka Dolecka Krist na Bartosová

Czech Republic, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Serbian/Czech Subtitles: English

The young director meets Rajko Dolecek, a 90 year old dietitian and a former TV star, who used to promote healthy lifestyle, but who is also a convinced nationalist and a close friend of Ratko Mladic, who is held on trial in The Hague. In her feature-length film, Krist na Barto ová delves into the personal life of Doctor Dolecek, who is very charming, and the director has struggles between her affinity towards him and his unacceptable opinions. The Dangerous World of Doctor Dolecek is a film about manipulation, but also a search for mutual understanding, acceptance, and reconciliation.

SALES / CONTACT: Dagmar Sedlácková MasterFilm, s.r.o.

PRODUCTION MasterFilm Kristyna Hnevsova

Bubenská 1 170 00 Praha 7

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Czech Republic

MagicLab – Czech Republic

tel: +420733579107

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Czech Television – Czech Republic

www.masterfilm.cz dagmar@masterfilm.cz

What advice can a girl with Bosnian family receive from a Serbian nationalist and friend of Ratko Mladic? A dialogue about overcoming one’s own prejudices and ideologies that seeks reconciliation. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Daniel’s World Danieluv svet Veronika Lisková

Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Czech Subtitles: English

Daniel is a young man, a student and a writer. He is a pedophile. He keeps no secret about his sexual orientation, not even from the parents of his beloved boy, who allow him to visit. Daniel, nor any of his community of czech pedophiles, is no child offender, and considers chemical restrain option while speaking out loud about his condition. The film introduces the rises and falls of people living with pedophilia and forbidden love, in a constant struggle to come to terms with oneself and the society, while only a few cross the line of criminality.

SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Visible Film

PRODUCTION Vernes Zdenek Hol

Rue Dethy 164 1000 Brussels Belgium tel: +32471076647 www.visiblefilm.com thierry.detaille@gmail.com

The film introduces the rises and falls of people living with pedophilia and forbidden love, in a constant struggle to come to terms with oneself and the society.

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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Daughter of the Lake Hija de la laguna Ernesto Cabellos

Peru / Bolivia, 2015 color, video, 84’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.hijadelalaguna.pe

Nelida is an Andean woman able to communicate with nature’s spirits. She feels she is the daughter of the lakes that provide water to her village. But just beneath her lakes, Yanacocha, Latin America’s largest gold mine, has discovered a deposit valued at billions of dollars. They have the Peruvian government’s support to mine it, even though it means drying out the lakes. All available but USA.

SALES / CONTACT: Sergio García Locatelli Quechua Films

PRODUCTION Guarango Cine y Video Nuria Frigola Torrent

Calle Rodríguez San Pedro 2 oficina 401 28015 Madrid Spain tel: +34912920081 sergiogarcia@quechuafilms.com

At the height of the Peruvian gold rush, an Andean woman uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the lake she considers her mother.

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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues

David & Me Ray Klonsky, Marc Lamy

Canada, 2015 color, video, 76’ Original Language: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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Revised from it’s original version in 2014, David & Me is a gritty, gutwrenching doc about two unlikely friends – a convicted murderer and a young filmmaker. David McCallum has served 29 years of a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. Despite a mountain of evidence that should exonerate him, Ray Klonsky and a pro-bono team are stymied by a justice system that has proven reluctant to exonerate the wrongly convicted until the most remarkable thing happens. . . Sold in the following territories: Israel, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, Belgium

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION Aaron Hancox

Michael McNamara

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 www.cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

A small group of unlikely people set about to exonerate a man convicted of a murder he did not commit after 29 years in jail.

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The Day the Sun Fell Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel Aya Domenig Switzerland / Finland, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 78’/52’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English/German/French www.thedaythesunfell.com

While tracing the story of her grandfather, who worked as a young doctor at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital after the detonation of the atomic bomb, Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig meets a former doctor and a nurse who lived a similar experience. Throughout his life, her grandfather never spoke about what he has went through, but talking to her protagonists brings her closer to him. When the nuclear disaster occurs in Fukushima on March 11, 2011 history seems to repeat itself.

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Gruber MAGNETFILM

PRODUCTION ican films Mirjam von Arx

Ilsensteinweg 35

Tanja Meding

14129 Berlin Germany

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SRF – Switzerland,

tel: +49 163 8010753

YLE – Finland

www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

The filmmaker’s grandfather worked at the Red Cross after the Hiroshima bombing. Her quest to learn why he never talked about his experiences takes a turn after Fukushima. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Death of a Female Artist Mingchuan Hung

Taiwan, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: Taiwanese/Chinese Subtitles: Chinese/English

It came as a shock at the peak of her artist career, Hsu Su-Chen died of cancer. She went cross-disciplinarily in a short 14 years of her creative life. From early work such as “SelfPortrait” revealing multi layers of her own images to “Plant-Paradise” which collaborated with many people of different expertise lead her to the winning of Taishin Bank Arts Annual Award. Hsu always walks out of the box to touch all of us from deep inside herself to ordinary plants as well as neglected communities in foreign countries. Every step of her attempts raised applause.

SALES / CONTACT: Mingchuan HUNG

PRODUCTION Mingchuan HUNG

No. 20, Beiping East Road, 10049 Taipei Taiwan tel: 886+2-2396-5560 hmc_films@yahoo.com

Hsu Su-Chen died of cancer. This film tells an extraordinary story and unseen visions of a distinct artist who endlessly discovers real issues of human life.

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Democracy David Bernet

Germany / France, 2015 black and white, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: English/German/French Subtitles: English

Pre-Snowden times - Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, is in charge of manoeuvering a new European law for efficient data protection and privacy through the legislative process. The law will not only affect all the European citizens but the whole economy that relies more and more on data as a major resource for bigger profits. For two years, chief negotiator Jan Philip Albrecht and his team fight against the growing pressure of industry stakeholders, diverse lobbyists and adverse political groups. Their political standing is fragile - until Snowden enters the world stage and changes the game.

SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International

PRODUCTION Indi Film Arek Gielnik

13 rue Portefoin

Sonia Otto

75003 Paris France

CO-PRODUCTION: Seppia – France,

tel: +330142775687

Atmosfilm – Germany

www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

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Democrats Camilla Nielsson

Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’/60’ Original Language: Shona Subtitles: English

The two top politicians, MP Paul Mangwana (ZANU-PF) and MP Douglas Mwonzora (MDC) have been appointed to lead Zimbabwe through the process of writing a new constitution. Going behind the scenes of the constitutional process, Democrats offers a unique insight into the Zimbabwean government at a critical and historychanging juncture as the political elite struggles to find a new postcolonial identity - a struggle that may be the harbinger of a new epoch in the development of modern African states.

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SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION DR Morten Thomsen Højsgaard

Corporation

Upfront Films

Emil Holms Kanal 20

Henrik Veileborg

0999 København C

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe’s new constitution.

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Despot Housewives Joel Soler

France, 2015 color, video, 6x52’ & 1x90’ Original Language: French/Filipino Subtitles: English

For the first time ever the most infamous first ladies (Imelda Marcos, Philippines; Agathe Habyarimana, Rwanda; Nexhmije Hoxha, Albania; Jewel Taylor, Liberia; Lucia Pinochet, Chile) are gathered together in this documentary saga that steps into the lives of these controversial women.

SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International

PRODUCTION Day for Night Films Jan Vasak

13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Digital Dissidents Digitale Dissidenten Cyril Tuschi

Germany, 2015 color, video, 90’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.gebrueder-beetz.de

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Whistleblowers: patriots or traitors? Do the secrets they reveal ultimately liberate or damage their nation and its citizens? Digital Dissidents delves deep into the heart of what it means to be a whistleblower and the nature of their quest to disclose radical truths hidden from society. Offering a poignant insight into the personal experiences of the most famous whistleblowers of the 21st century, including Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, it asks what drives them to blow the whistle? What is so wrong with the surveillance climate at large in our current culture? Excluding Germany and German speaking territories, Norway and Australia

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SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

4-6 High Street

Christian Beetz

KT7 0RY Thames Ditton

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WDR – Germany

England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

Digital dissidents fight for transparency and privacy in an advancing technological world. This documentary gives a fresh insight into whistleblowing and those called to serve its complex, life-changing mission.

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District Zero

Jorge Fernández Mayoral, Pablo Iraburu, Pablo Tosco

Spain, 2015 color, video, 65’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/Italian/Spanish www.districtzero.org

What can a smartphone of a refugee reveal to us about his world? A smartphone contains clues to a refugee’s memories, his past, his identity and a list of contacts from the world he had to flee from. This film narrates the daily life of a tiny mobile phone shop in one of the largest refugee camps in the world.

SALES / CONTACT: Itziar García Zubiri Arena Comunicación Audiovisual

PRODUCTION Arena Comunicación Audiovisual

San Blas 2, bajo

Marga Gutiérrez

31014 Pamplona Spain

CO-PRODUCTION: OXFAM Intermón – Spain,

tel: +34 948 315336

Txalap.Art – Spain,

www.arenacomunicacion.com

European Commission – Belgium

itziar@arenacomunicacion.com

When people flee their countries, they keep the link to their homeland inside their smartphones. This film chronicles the life of a mobile shop in the refugee camp of Zaatari. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Diving Into the Unknown Takaisin pintaan Juan Reina

Finland / Norway, 2015 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English

For a group of Finnish cave divers, their worst nightmare becomes real during an accident where two of their friends drown deep inside a cave in Norway. They decide to undertake a secret operation to retrieve the bodies, after the official retrieval operation has been called off. Diving Into the Unknown is more than just a rare insight into a secret operation. The team has promised the victims families to bring their loved ones back home even if it means endangering the teams’ own lives. With multiple cameras, both on the surface and under water this extraordinary story unfolds….

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SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc 21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

PRODUCTION Monami Agency Juho Harjula CO-PRODUCTION: Fuglene – Norway

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Politics / Society

Dolls Don’t Know Aroosak ha nemidanand Nava Rezvani Iran, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Farsi Subtitles: English

A documentary film about children’s marriage in Iran

SALES / CONTACT: Leila Hosseini DEFC - Documentary and

Experimental Film Center No.15,Ghandi sq,Shariati ave 15569 Tehran Iran tel: +98-21-88511326 www.defc.ir int@defc.ir

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Don Juan Jerzy Sladkowski

Sweden / Finland, 2015 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

A four-sided love triangle, spiced with autism, neuroses and life crises in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The 22-year-old autistic young man Oleg is seeking approval and love. He is surrounded by many who wants to help him, but no-one succeeds. Suddenly help comes from an unexpected direction.

SALES / CONTACT: Maya Kessler Ginestra Film Källängsvägen 61 181 44 Lidingö Sweden

PRODUCTION Ginestra Film Antonio Russo Merenda CO-PRODUCTION: MADE – Finland

tel: +46 709 903569

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,

www.ginestrafilm.se

YLE – Finland,

info@ginestrafilm.se

ARTE G.E.I.E. – France, ERR – Estonia

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Double Aliens Ugis Olte

Latvia / Georgian Republic, 2015 color, HDcam, 56’ Original Language: Russian/Latvian Subtitles: English www.facebook.com/doublealiens/

Road maps are open, endless texts that may contain any number of stories, including the story of the traveler himself. A filmmaker from the North and a photographer from the South travel to a strange place. It is a land where people are worn out by their history, where time tends to freeze, and every encounter is in the curve of a mirror that makes you look into familiar eyes. With associative, poetic and breathtaking imagery, a filmmaker and a photographer convey the stories of people who appear to cross their paths arbitrarily.

SALES / CONTACT: Uldis Cekulis VFS Films

PRODUCTION VFS Films Uldis Cekulis

Lapu 17

Sakdoc

LV-1002 Riga

Anna Dziapshipa

Latvia

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: LTV – Latvia

tel: +371 67503588 www.vfs.lv uldis@vfs.lv

A breathtaking road movie about Samtskhe-Javakheti, an isolated region in the south of the republic of Georgia, where Georgians and Armenians live. A trip around the dead end. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Doug Seegers – Cinderella Man Efter Jills veranda: Doug Seegers Afshin Tamoury Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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In late 2013 the homeless country musician Doug Seegers is playing the streets of Nashville, just as usual. One day he is discovered by Swedish country star Jill Johnson and her TV crew. Johnson immediately recognizes Seegers uniqueness and offers him to record his song “Going Down to the River”. When the episode is aired on SVT the audience just goes crazy and Seegers’ song instantly hits the top spot of the Swedish iTunes-list. This film tells the unlikely story of Doug Seegers’ breakthrough and we get to follow him on his Sweden tour in the summer of 2014.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION SVT Henrik Burman

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Eyeworks

S-10510 Stockholm

Åsa Jacobsson

Sweden

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

In november 2013 the homeless country musician Doug Seegers played the streets of Nashville. Today he is one of Sweden’s most beloved artists. This film tells his unlikely story. 136

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Dreamcatcher Kim Longinotto

England, 2015 color, HDcam, 98’ Original Language: English www.dreamcatcherfilm.com

Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors; Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute who worked the streets of Chicago, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. With warmth and humour, Brenda gives hope to those who have none. Her story is their inspiration. Excluding USA

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION Rise Films Teddy Leifer

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

Brenda Myers-Powell, a former teenage prostitute who worked the streets of Chicago defies the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Dressed as a Girl Colin Rothbart

England, 2015 color, video, 100’ Original Language: English www.dressedasagirl.com

Jonny Woo landed in London in 2003 with his beard and high heels and found himself at the forefront of a new drag army. After a brief history of drag from key figures on the scene, Dressed as a Girl meets the stars who talk about their dragtastic times, and the personal demons that often hide beneath the mascara. We follow the highs and lows of their colourful lives, from boob jobs and breakdowns, to high heels and high drama. An inspirational, occasionally heartbreaking, but always entertaining, insight into alternative gay culture and a celebration of being true to yourself.

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Chris Amos

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

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A celebration of East London’s drag scene with touching personal stories at its’ heart. Individuals questioning their friendships, family and personal ambitions whilst dressing up to shock the world. 138

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Driving with Selvi Elisa Paloschi

Canada, 2015 color, video, 74’/54’ Original Language: Tamil/English Subtitles: English www.drivingwithselvi.com

Selvi, like so many girls living in India, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day, in deep despair, she chooses to escape, and goes on to become South India’s first female taxi driver. We see a remarkable change as Selvi finds her voice and transforms from abused child bride to empowered working woman. This is the ten-year journey of a charming, strong, and utterly courageous young woman who defies all expectations, moving beyond the pain she’s experienced to create a new life. Not available - India and Bangladesh territories Available versions: 74’ and 54’

SALES / CONTACT: Elisa Paloschi Eyesfull

PRODUCTION Eyesfull Elisa Paloschi

111 Marion St. M6R 1E6 Toronto Canada tel: +1 647-808-5093 production@eyesfull.com

On a ten-year journey, Selvi, a former child bride, escapes her violent marriage to become South India’s first female taxi driver.

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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon Douglas Tirola

USA, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 92’ Original Language: English

The story of the Rise and fall of National Lampoon. Amid the cultural shift of the 1970s, American comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine named National Lampoon stuck its middle finger up at the establishment. Energetic, revolutionary, and often hilarious, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead elevates nostalgia to a roof-raising experience. Excluding USA, Canada, Italy

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION 4th Row Films Susan Bedusa

Levontin Street 18 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

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The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls Dybuk. Rzecz o wedrówce dusz Krzysztof Kopczynski Poland / Ukraine / Sweden, 2015 color, video, 85’ Original Language:

Ukranian/Hebrew/English Subtitles: English

30 thousand Hasidim journey to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of their holy leader Rebbe Nachman. The film shows tensions which are formed amongst the pilgrims and the local inhabitants. In the poor post-communist town, which comes to life thanks to the Jewish guests, the demons of nationalism and religious intolerance also come to life.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a

PRODUCTION Eureka Media Krzysztof Kopczynski

31-143 Krakow

CO-PRODUCTION: Momento Film – Sweden,

Poland

National Cinemateque of

tel: +48122946945

Ukraine – Ukraine

www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

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Science / Technology

Dynamic Salt Du sel dans mon moteur Jérome-Cécil Auffret France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

Could we get all our energy needs from sea water and the salt it contains? Are we to witness a time when salt will power our engines and factories, and light up our cities? Could this be the final curtain not only for shale gas and oil, but also the burning of fossil fuels and the beginning of a gentler form of energy that is definitely renewable? This documentary explores the latest research on sea water and the way scientists allover the world are working on “Blue Energy”. This research could bring about a major change in our time.

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SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

PRODUCTION Altomedia Gabriel Turkieh

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Ebola’s Children Ebolas Børn Jacob Krogh

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 42’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

Ever since, orphanages in Sierra Leone have been faced with incredible challenges as social workers go searching for family members who may have survived the epidemic. The mission is to find a new home for the children When 10-year-old Kadiatu nursed her Ebola-infected mother she too became infected but recovered after weeks in hospital – only to discover that both of her parents had died. Now, she is hoping to reunite with her grandmother.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20

PRODUCTION DR TV Jacob Krogh INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

In this deeply touching documentary, we go back to Sierra Leone to follow the work at one of many orphanages trying to make a difference. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Elisabeth Vigée le Brun: A Touch of Grace Le fabuleux destin d’Elisabeth Vigée le Brun Arnaud Xainte France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

The freedom of Louise Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, official painter of Marie Antoinette, nonetheless an 18th century woman, echoes strongly with today’s women struggle, being the first French female painter to be recognized around the world.

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House

PRODUCTION Illégitime Défense Arnaud Xainte

9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris France tel: 33153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org

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Emery Tales

Susanne Bausinger, Stelios Efstathopoulos

Greece / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 66’ Original Language: Greek Subtitles: English

In the mountainous landscape of Naxos, a Cycladic island, the villagers make a living out of collecting… stones. Ever since the Ottoman rule, six communities have had the right to mine emery, which is hidden in mount Ammomaxi. In the old days, the black stone, used as an abrasive was very in demand. Nowadays, it is given to the government in return for health and pension insurance. The workers struggle with their barren fields in order to earn a living. The younger generations flee. Emery is their life. Will it have a future, though?

SALES / CONTACT: Stelios Efstathopoulos FAOS TV ProductionS Nikis 50A

PRODUCTION FAOS TV ProductionS Stelios Efstathopoulos

10558 Athens

CO-PRODUCTION: TEAMFAOS TV ProductionS

Greece

HELLAS O.E. – Greece

tel: 302118000158 faosathens@faostv.com

A tour of the villages in the mountains of Naxos island, meeting the people who try to survive in their barren place, harvesting stones International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Empire of the Scents Kim Nguyen

Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

This unique film embarks on a kaleidoscopic portrait of what is the sense of smell, exploring the rarest of saffrons, exotic perfumes, follows Italian truffle hunters as they explain the aphrodisiac powers of the praised mushroom. Astronaut Chris Hadfield describes the smell of space, food molecule expert François Chartier talks about the sound of flavors, and Guido, a metaphysical perfumer who has created the scent of a woman, explains how his perfume came to be. The film also talks about whale poop, also known as ambergris, the rare and expensive substance that gives perfumes their seductive animalistic odor.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION Lowik Media Lucie Tremblay

21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

It is through our sense of smell that we feel, lust and create and yet we know almost nothing about this most direct of our senses. 146

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Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues

The End of the Day El final del día Peter McPhee

Chile, 2015 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

During the December 21, 2012, the people of Quillagua expects the “end of the world” that Mayans supposedly predicted. Quillagua is an Oasis located in the Desert of Atacama; a village that has a polluted river due to mining companies. The land cannot be worked; young people are emigrating and only the elderly stay behind. For this indigenous community, with an ancestral and cultural relationship with the land, this reality presents itself as their true end of the world. During the day of the “apocalypse”, the people of Quillagua will reflect on the need to care mother Earth.

SALES / CONTACT: Peter McPhee La Elefanta Producciones

PRODUCTION La Elefanta Producciones Peter McPhee

Nueva Providencia 2211, of. 516, Providencia 7510122 Santiago Chile tel: +569 88055390 peter.mcpheec@gmail.com

During the day of the apocalypse, a polluted village lives its own end of the world.

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End of the World Koniec swiata Monika Pawluczuk

Poland, 2015 color, video, 40’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

Intimate, creative and visual documentary where couple of stories meet in one night. During that one night, people in a big city, troubled by loneliness, want to talk to someone. Some of them call 112, even if it is not really necessary, and others call the radio, where the speaker asks the question about the end of the world: what it means to each one of us. They talk about things that are tragic, painful, small, funny. Their need to be heard, to share their experience with someone else is evident and moving.

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SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

PRODUCTION Wajda Studio Katarzyna Slesicka

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Eritrea Stars John Appel

The Netherlands, 2015 color / black and white, video, 55’ Original Language: English

In 2012, the Eritrean soccer team defected during a tournament in Uganda. Two years later, the players turn up in the Dutch city of Gorinchem. They are given a place to stay, clothing and of course soccer training. Team members are filmed practicing, in Dutch class and at the apartment they share. While the soccer team dreams of success, the players have other things on their minds. Will the players make their dreams come true?

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales

PRODUCTION John Appel VPRO

Bart de Graaffweg 2

Nicoline Tania

1217 ZL Hilversum

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

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Every 28 Days Alle 28 Tage Ina Borrmann

Germany, 2015 color, DCP, 52’/89’ Original Language: German Subtitles: French/English www.deckert-distribution.com

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Ina and Marc have been a couple for years. Ina never saw herself as a mother but one day the desire to have children was there. What should you do if nature is not cooperating? Every 28 Days is a radically personal documentary about the filmmaker´s attempts to become pregnant in her late thirties.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution

PRODUCTION Shoot From The Hip Ina Borrmann

Marienplatz 1

Avanti Media

04103 Leipzig

Cordula Kablitz-Post

Germany tel: +49 341 2156638

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RBB – Germany,

www.deckert-distribution.com

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info@deckert-distribution.com

ARTE MDR – France

Every 28 Days is a radically personal documentary about the filmmaker´s attempts to become pregnant in her late thirties.

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Every Face Has A Name Magnus Gertten

Sweden, 2015 color / black and white, video, 76’/58’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English www.everyfacehasaname.com

On April 28, 1945, survivors of the Nazi terror disembark a ship in Malmö. 70 years later they experience the magical moment when they each recognize themselves in the archive footage shot on the day of their liberation. A 4k-animated archival tour de force meets today‘s memories of the survivors. Their anonymous faces turn into names, fates and stories. They remind us that behind every ship of refugees arriving in a harbor today, there is a name and a human being. A masterpiece by the director of “Harbour of Hope”.

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine

PRODUCTION Auto Images Magnus Gertten

Schlesische Strasse 29/30

Lennart Ström

10997 Berlin Germany

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,

tel: +49 30 47372980

IKON – The Netherlands

www.riseandshine-berlin.de

Excluding Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, The Netherlands, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Ireland, Australia

Elsie, Bernard, Nerit and other survivors from the German Camps tell their stories as they discover themselves in an archive reel shot on April 28, 1945, day of their liberation. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues

The Experiment Forsøget Louise Detlefsen, Louise Kjeldsen Denmark, 2014 color, 35mm, 55’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English

Cancer is a major cause of death and for doctor’s it is a constant challenge to “crack the code”. With exclusive access to a medical unit at a leading cancer hospital in Denmark the film follows a team of doctors over a 12 months period as they work on a new treatment to cure cancer called T-cell therapy. The treatment is still experimental, but doctors are tremendously optimistic of the effect. In the trials half of the patients experience that the tumors get smaller and 20% of patients are cancer free at the end of the treatment.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20

PRODUCTION Plus Pictures Mette Heide INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TV 2 – Denmark

0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

With exclusive access to a medical unit at a leading cancer hospital in Denmark the film follows a team of doctors as they work on a new treatment to cure cancer. 152

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Facebookistan Jakob Gottschau

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: English/Danish/German Subtitles: English

1. 4 bn people are on Facebook. We voluntarily share our otherwise private information with the social network, and we voluntarily give Facebook permission to use our information and make money on it, and yet very little is known about the secretive business itself. How is the world’s largest public space controlled and monitored? Why are pages and posts censored? And why does Facebook keep data, even after the user has deleted it? Facebook is the most visible symptom of an increasingly closed and centralised internet, but it’s also a social revolution with great democratic potential.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

PRODUCTION Jakob Gottschau DFI

Anne Marie Kürstein

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark,

Denmark

YLE – Finland

tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

‘Like’ it or not, here is a film that will make you think twice before leaving your next digital footprint on Facebook’s eternal memory.

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Fair Chase

Alex Cullen, Emma Tammi

USA, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English

Testing the notion that man was meant to hunt down his prey, nine distance runners attempt to chase down the fastest animal in the world. Inspired by the best-selling book “Born to Run”, this is a look at the extreme fitness

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company

PRODUCTION Alex Cullen Emma Tammi

165 Madison Ave, # 601 10016 New York USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

Inspired by the best-selling book “Born to Run”, this is a look at the extreme fitness

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Falciani’s Tax Bomb Falciani und der Bankenskandal Ben Lewis

Germany / Spain, 2015 color, video, 52’/82’ Original Language: Spanish/German/ French/Catalan/Greek/English Subtitles: English

An insightful documentary on the professed HSBC whistleblower Hervé Falciani and the global controversy over banking privacy and intranational tax regulations of the last decade. In 2008, the former employee of HSBC stole over 300,000 bank accounts and distributed them to tax authorities worldwide - the biggest leak of secret bank accounts ever. Falciani’s list hit the international financial sector like a bomb and changed the course of history.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Christian Beetz

1070 Wien

Bettina Walter

Austria

CO-PRODUCTION: Polar Star Films S.L. – Spain

tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

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A Family Affair Tom Fassaert

The Netherlands / Belgium / Denmark, 2015 color / black and white, video, 110’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English www.afamilyaffair.nl

On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him. She was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the 1950s, and a mother that put her two sons into a children’s home. Fassaert decides to accept her invitation. But when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession, his venture becomes much more complicated than he could ever have imagined. A Family Affair is licensed to Netflix for a period of 48 months. Territory: ‘The Universe’ (except for The Netherlands).

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SALES / CONTACT: Wout Conijn Conijn Film

PRODUCTION Conijn Film Wout Conijn

Blokmakerstraat 22 1013DH Amsterdam

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The Netherlands

Clin d’oeil films – Belgium,

tel: +31641235289

Danish Documentary

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Production – Denmark

wout@conijnfilm.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: KRO/NCRV – The Netherlands

Tom Fassaert explores the brittle history of his own family, which is characterised by conflict. His journey, leading past four generations, becomes complicated when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession.

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Farewell Tour Viimane Turnee Tatjana Mühlbayer

Estonia / Kyrgyzstan, 2015 color, HDcam, 89’ Original Language: Uzbek/Estonian/Russian Subtitles: English

A little boy is walking on a wire stretched in between two thin metal posts. His name is Saifulloh. He is just 6 years old and, no doubt, the youngest funambulist in the world. . . SALES / CONTACT: Artur Veeber Korela Film

PRODUCTION Kyrgyzfilm Studio Tatjana Mühlbayer

7 Silikaat, Saku vald, Harjumaa

MTU Otaku

75516 Roobuka

Artur Veeber

Estonia

CO-PRODUCTION: Kyrgyzfilm Studio – Kyrgyzstan

tel: +37255684239 aveeber@mail.ru

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A Farm of Passage La granja del pas Silvia Munt

Spain, 2015 color, video, 82’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

The instability created by the present economic recession affects us on a daily basis. But the stark figures actually say very little of the real suffering that people endure under such circumstances and they speak even less of the transformative changes that they are experiencing. After spending an entire year living together, the movie portrays a reality from which questions of the most essential sort arise. It shows us the deep contradictions of a society that’s reached the end of its rope, the need to rethink the future and the intense desire to be free.

SALES / CONTACT: Silvia Munt Intent Produccions

PRODUCTION Intent Produccions Ramon Madaula

Camí Del Mas Roig Al Mas Fuster

Silvia Munt

08197 Sant Cugat Del Vallès

CO-PRODUCTION: Televisió de Catalunya – Spain

Spain tel: +34 677 360 676 intentproduccions@gmail.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Televisió de Catalunya – Spain

People affected by the Spanish mortgage crisis drive us into the deep contradictions of our exhausted society, the need to rethink our future and the intense desire to be free. 158

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Fast Eddy’s Old News Fast Eddy vanad uudised Marko Raat

Estonia, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Estonian Subtitles: English

Ed Vaar (1929 Kuressaare, Estonia 2014 Toronto, Canada), a freelance cameraman who earned his nickname Fast Eddy by often arriving at the scene of accident before the police and CBC’s crime reporters. A lot of his material was used on the TV by CBC. The rest – hundreds of hours’ worth of tape that he didn’t manage to sell – is piled up in the rooms and the cellar at Eddy’s penthouse in central Toronto. Can you sell old news? What does Ed remember and what do his old film reels say about his interests?

SALES / CONTACT: Ivo Felt Allfilm

PRODUCTION Allfilm Ivo Felt

Saue 11 10612 Tallinn Estonia tel: +372 6729070 www.allfilm.ee ivo@allfilm.ee

Ed Vaar, a freelance cameraman who earned his nickname Fast Eddy by often arriving at the scene of accident before the police and CBC’s crime reporters.

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The Fear of 13 David Sington

England, 2015 color, HDcam, 95’ Original Language: English www.thefearof13.com

The Fear of 13 is a psychological thriller, where Nick, a death row inmate, petitions the court to be executed. As he goes on to tell his story, it gradually becomes clear that nothing is quite what it seems. His story has all the twists and turns of classic crime drama with a final shocking twist casts everything in a new light.

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION Christopher Riley David Sington

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

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Finders Keepers Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel

USA, 2015 color, video, 82’ Original Language: English www.journeyman.tv

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A man loses his leg in an accident. Another man accidentally buys it at a North Carolina auction. The story only gets stranger from there. It is rare to find a truly laugh-out-loud doc, but as this expertly crafted narrative delves into lives that are forever changed when a crazy small-town feud becomes a national media circus, the result is both hilarious and tragic. An astonishing, stranger-than-fiction tale of greed, ego and redemption. Excluding USA and Norway. Available for Free TV only.

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION J. Clay Tweel

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv publicity@journeyman.tv

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Finding Gaston Buscando a Gaston Patricia Perez

Peru, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: French/Spanish/ Italian/Swedish/Quechua Subtitles: English www.gastondoc.com

This documentary follows Chef Gaston Acurio to find out the stories, the inspirations and the dreams behind it. He took cuisine outside his kitchen in a mission to change his country. Because people passionate enough to believe they can make a difference, are actually the ones who do. World except Peru, Canada, USA, Japan and Norway

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House

PRODUCTION CHIWAKE FILMS Patricia Perez

9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris France tel: 33153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org

A magical journey into the heart and soul of the Peruvian food revolution following the dreams of Peruvian lead chef Gaston Acurio, in his mission to bring his culture to the world. 162

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Fireflies in the Abyss Chandrasekhar Reddy

Nepal / India, 2015 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: English/Nepalese/Hindi Subtitles: English/French www.firefliesintheabyss.com

The ‘rat-hole’ mines in the Jaintia Hills of NorthEast India, are hostile pits where men and boys risk their lives everyday to scratch coal out of hard rock. Each of them comes to the coalpit for different reasons. But once there, all of them are looking for a chance to breakout. Some escape, most don’t. Even with the odds stacked against him, Suraj, an 11-year old boy, grapples his way out of this abyss to eventually put himself in school. The film follows Suraj and other miners whose lives intertwine with his, to reveal lives under unusual and extraordinary circumstances.

SALES / CONTACT: Chandrasekhar Reddy

PRODUCTION Mayabazaar Productions

23 Shantivana 2nd Cross,

Chandrasekhar Reddy

Sahakarnagar PO 560092 Bangalore India tel: +919880628388 www.firefliesintheabyss.com chandra@mayabazaarProductions.com

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Even with the odds stacked against him, an 11-yearold boy fights his way out of a life in the ‘rat-hole’ coalmines, to put himself in school

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A Flickering Truth Pietra Brettkelly

New Zealand, 2015 color, video, 91’ Original Language: Dari Subtitles: English

Director Pietra Brettkelly (The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins) directs this harrowing, compelling film about the power of cinema to preserve our history and in so doing potentially change our futures.

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company

PRODUCTION PBK Ltd Pietra Brettkelly

165 Madison Ave, # 601 10016 New York USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

Director Pietra Brettkelly directs this harrowing, compelling film about the power of cinema to preserve our history and in so doing potentially change our futures. 164

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Flowers of Taipei - Taiwan New Cinema Guangyin de Gushi - Taiwan Xin Dianying Chin-Lin HSIEH Taiwan, 2014 color, HDcam, 109’ Original Language: English/Italian/ French/Chinese/Thai/Japanese Subtitles: Italian/English/Chinese

In 1982, a small group of Taiwanese filmmakers reinvented Asian cinema, among them, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang and their peers. Taiwan New Cinema not only inaugurated modern cinema in the Chinese world, it also secured itself a firm place on the world map of contemporary filmmaking. Flowers of Taipei sets out to assess the global influence of Taiwan New cinema. Travelling from Europe to Latin America to Asia, a remarkable list of filmmakers, critics and artists tell us what this cinema means to them, how it influenced their work, and what is left of that legacy today.

SALES / CONTACT: June WU Ablaze Image

PRODUCTION Rice Flower Films Angelika Ken-Yu WANG

7F-2, No.2, Sec. 2 Shin-Sheng S. Rd. 10650 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886-2-3322-1220 info@ablazeimage.com

In 1982 a small group of Taiwanese filmmakers reinvented Asian cinema. Travelling from Europe to Latin America to Asia, the film assesses the global influence of Taiwan New Cinema. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Fog of Srebrenica Izmaglica Srebrenice Samir Mehanovic

Scotland / Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Bosnian Subtitles: English www.thefogofsrebrenicafilm.com

Srebrenica genocide, the only holocaust in Europe since the Second World War: 8,372 Bosnian men and boys were killed within a week. This is the story of the long-term impact of the massacre through a series of interviews with men and women, survivors of Srebrenica, whose lives were altered for ever during those days. The film raises serious and profound questions about the nature of human existence, war, forgiveness. Bosnia and countries of the former Yugoslavia are not available anymore

SALES / CONTACT: Samir Mehanovic Paradiso Films Documentaries

PRODUCTION Paradiso Films Documentaries Samir Mehanovic

10a/3 Leslie Place, EH4 1NH Edinburgh Scotland tel: +447415870194 www.thefogofsrebrenicafilm.com smehanovic@yahoo.co.uk

The heartbreaking and shocking stories of survivors of the genocide, Srebrenica, Europe at the end of 20th century. 166

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Foodies Thomas Jackson

Sweden, 2014 black and white, video, 94’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English www.b-reel.com/projects/featurefilms/case/489/foodies

The interest in haute cuisine has grown exponentially. Now, we enter the world of the most influential people on the food scene - the foodie. A subculture of blogging food critics with a mission to eat at the best restaurants on earth. Through our close study, we get access to the world’s most exclusive restaurants and get to know a group of slightly bizarre but charming food maniacs.

SALES / CONTACT: Nelleke Driessen Fortissimo Films

PRODUCTION B-Reel Patrik Andersson

Van Diemenstraat 100

Fredrik Heinig

1013 CN Amsterdam

Mattias Nohrborg

The Netherlands tel: +31 206273215 www.fortissimofilms.com info@fortissimo.nl

A documentary on the fine dining subculture of Foodies.

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For Kibera! Kati Juurus

Finland, 2015 color, HDcam, 56’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English

A story of the life of a slum-dweller turned to radio personality, journalist and self-made cameraman: Boy Dallas of Kibera. The film combines the unique video diary of Dallas to carefully shot images by the crew. It looks for answers to the complicated question: Why is it so hard to beat poverty? We learn the tough rules of slum life with Dallas as our guide. He notes the large amount of aid projects in his slum, Kibera, and he starts learning about the complicated mechanisms of aid. His learning process also becomes a learning process for his listeners.

So much aid, but no change. 168

SALES / CONTACT: Maria Kivinen YLE Radiokatu 5 Box 97 00240 Helsinki Finland tel: +358405442404 maria.kivinen@yle.fi

PRODUCTION YLE Erkko Lyytinen

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For My Sisters Stephanus Domanig

Austria, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 94’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: German/English www.formysisters.net

African American singer and dancer Carole Alston came to Vienna 30 years ago. The research for a new stage Production brings her back to her homeland where she follows the traces of her music sisters Alberta Hunter, Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan. The search for the origins of blues and jazz brings Carole closer to her own roots. The history of slavery and segregated America becomes palpable through the music and the remarkable stories about the brave women who defied the hardship of their times.

SALES / CONTACT: Peter Janecek PLAESION Film + Vision e.U.

PRODUCTION PLAESION Film + Vision e.U. Peter Janecek

Schlosshofer Strasse 8/4/3

SEVEN Film- und Postproduction

2301 Gross-Enzersdorf

Alex Reindl

Austria

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/3sat – Germany

tel: +43 660 213 69 66 www.plaesion.com press@plaesion.com

For My Sisters is a cinematic journey back to the roots of Jazz and at the same time an encounter with today’s American society and the currently arising racism.

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Forengie Eline Flipse

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English www.windmillfilm.com

Development aid has turned into a lucrative industry, from which many Europeans are making a decent living, however it is making poor countries increasingly dependent in the first place. Because of the worldwide financial crisis, countries donate seriously less money to developing countries. Private individuals are more and more reluctant to contribute financially claiming they have no idea how the money is spent. Two small groups, with totally different backgrounds and motives, will be travelling separately across Ethiopia. Their adventures and encounters on the road help us to understand this truly complex issue.

SALES / CONTACT: Annemiek van der Hell Windmill Film BV Kloveniersburgwal 87 1011 KA Amsterdam

PRODUCTION Windmill Film BV Annemiek van der Hell INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: IKON – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: + 31 653148543 annemiek@windmillfilm.com

Forengie is a road movie about development aid brimming with good intentions, misunderstandings and dilemmas, but at times it is also hilariously funny. 170

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Free Falling Namfon Udomlertlak

Thailand, 2015 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Thai Subtitles: English

www.freefallingmovie.wordpress.com

Free Falling is a docu-fiction film that aims to explore the notion of reality and its ambiguities in both the real and the virtual world. It’s a story about self-discovery and traces the journey of a young woman who plays both the role of the film director and that of the youngest daughter in a Thai family. The daughter uses the making of the film to investigate the relationship between her and her family and understand the complexities involved, before telling her parents about her life’s decision. . .

SALES / CONTACT: Namfon Udomlertlak

PRODUCTION Maenum Chagasik

86/3 suksawad 35, rajaburana 10140 Bangkok Thailand tel: +66 952532673 www.namfonudomlertlak.com namfonudomlertlak@gmail.com

This docufiction explores the notion of reality and its ambiguity. It is a self discovery journey of a girl who plays both; director’s role and the youngest daughter in family. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Politics / Society

Free to Run Pierre Morath

France / Switzerland / Belgium, 2015 black and white, video, 95’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English

Free to Run tells the amazing story of the running movement over the past five decades, the struggle for the right to run - especially for women – against conservative Federations, the explosion of grass roots road races and marathons, until the boom of running as a vast business enterprise…

SALES / CONTACT: Samuel Blanc Jour2Fête

PRODUCTION YUZU Productions Fabrice Esteve

9 rue Ambroise Thomas 75009 Paris France tel: +33677194858 sales@jour2fete.com

Free to Run tells the amazing unknown story of the running movement over the past five decades.

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The Free Voice of Egypt - Nawal El Saadawi Die Löwin vom Nil - Nawal El Saadawi Konstanze Burkard Egypt / Germany, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English/Arabic Subtitles: English/French/German

The Free Voice of Egypt is the comingof-age story of world-famous writer and Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi. Together we leave the intimate setting of her “writer’s refuge” above the roofs of Cairo and are taken out to the village in which Nawal was born, where she too had to endure the terrible experience of genital mutilation. El Saadawi’s striking biography encompasses more than eight decades of contemporary Egyptian history outliving dramatic social and political ruptures. Original quotations from Nawal El Saadawi’s autobiographical works being woven in our documentary observations create a vivid dramaturgical interplay between past and present.

SALES / CONTACT: Konstanze Burkard sarabandefilm

PRODUCTION sarabandefilm Konstanze Burkard

An der Ronne 152

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: WDR/ARTE – Germany

50859 Köln Germany tel: +492223900722 www.sarabandefilm.de Konstanzeburkard@sarabandefilm.de

The Free Voice of Egypt is the coming-of-age story of a woman risking her life for her convictions more than once - world-famous Egyptian writer and feminist Nawal El Saadawi International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Freedom or Death! Volya abo Smert! Damian Kolodiy

Ukraine / USA, 2015 color, DCP, 72’ Original Language: Ukranian Subtitles: English

Ukrainian American filmmaker Damian Kolodiy’s voice narrates the film, which focuses on events in Kyiv, starting with the peaceful demonstrations in support of Ukraine signing a trade agreement with the European Union. The film examines how those peaceful demonstrations are transformed into a violent conflict between Ukrainian activists and the Ukrainian government headed by corrupt President Victor Yanukovych. Through on the ground footage, the viewer learns about the chain of events that provoked a revolutionary uprising within Ukraine that escalated into a hyrbid war between Russian and Ukraine that has had global and international ramifications.

SALES / CONTACT: Damian Kolodiy DK Productions

PRODUCTION DK Productions Damian Kolodiy

122 1st Ave #2s 10009 New York USA tel: 617-257-2893 OrangeDoc@gmail.com

Freedom or Death film examines how peaceful, pro European demonstrations in Kyiv, Ukraine are transformed into a hybrid war between Russian and Ukraine that has had global and international ramifications. 174

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology

The French Pill, a Revolution for Women L’autre pilule, un combat pour les femmes Ted Anspach, Charles Castella France, 2015 color, HDcam, 80’/52’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English

In 1982, the discovery of the abortion pill triggered intensely passionate debates. Immediately targeted by the pro-life movements, it became the focus of a virulent ban campaign, never on scientific grounds but on ideological ones. Today in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, or in the US, women’s rights activists are rallying to challenge highly organized oppositions. Why would a medical abortion be so controversial? It is a less invasive procedure which can be initiated earlier and at a lesser cost than surgery. It still comes down to the issue of the rights of women to have a final say on reproduction.

SALES / CONTACT: Anne Littardi Beliane 11 rue Adolphe Mille 75019 Paris

PRODUCTION Effervescence Simone Halberstadt Harari INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

France tel: +33977219135 anne.littardi@beliane.com

Available in 80’ and 52’ version

The fight of women to have control over their own bodies and a final say on reproduction is far from over. Why would a medical abortion be so controversial? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Youth | Art / Music / Culture

Fresh Dressed Sacha Jenkins

USA, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: English

www.dogwoofglobal.com/films/fresh-dressed

Fresh Dressed is the fascinating chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion, and the hustle that brought oversized pants and graffiti-drenched jackets from the New York discount markets to high fashion’s catwalks and shopping malls all around the world. Director Sacha Jenkins’ music-drenched history draws from a rich mix of archival materials and in-depth interviews with rappers, designers, and other industry insiders. The result is a passionate telling of how the reach for freedom of expression and a better life by a culture that refused to be squashed, would, through sheer originality and swagger, take over the mainstream. Excluding USA, Canada, Poland

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SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof 19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

PRODUCTION Marcus A. Clarke Mass Appeal

Peter Bittenbender

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From This Day Forward Sharon Shattuck

USA, 2015 color, video, 75’ Original Language: English

With her own wedding just around the corner, director Sharon Shattuck comes home to unearth her biggest personal mystery: how her transgender father Trisha and her straight-identified mother Marcia stayed together against all odds.

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company

PRODUCTION Martha Shane

Shattuck Sharon

165 Madison Ave, # 601 10016 New York USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Fukushima: A Nuclear Story Matteo Gagliardi

Italy, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English www.nuclearstory.com

Pio travels across the municipalities hit by the tsunami and enters the “exclusion zone” established but loosely enforced by the government. He had to wait until June 2013 when the plant’s operator Tepco allows the first pool of foreign journalists in. In his quest to chronicle and unfold Fukushima’s still on-going nuclear disaster, he collected over 300 hours of footage consisting of shocking images and interviews with local people, local authorities and officers. An in-depth exclusive interview on what really happened at Fukushima with ex-Prime Minister Naoto Kan eventually tells us how Japan was saved from a greater catastrophe.

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SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc 21 Place Epernay

PRODUCTION Teatro Primo Studio - Film Beyond

Christine Reinhold

J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

An exclusive journey of four years inside the Fukushima disaster and tsumani that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, following Italian reporter Pio d’Emilia.

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Furusato Thorsten Trimpop

Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: Japanese/English Subtitles: English

A small town in Fukushima’s exclusion zone searches for normalcy after the world’s biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. A teen rocker, a media-savvy activist, a conflicted TEPCO engineer, and a female horse breeder cope with the loss of their homes and the unseen danger of radiation. Furusato is an unsettling portrait of daily life amid an ongoing cataclysm, one with repercussions far beyond Japan’s shores. Culminating in a samurai horse race with a thousandyear tradition, the film offers a space to reflect on the larger issues of progress, its sacrifices, and the true cost of the way we live today.

SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS

PRODUCTION Büchner Filmproduktion Tobias Büchner

Dasselstraße 75-77 50674 Cologne Germany tel: +4922116819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de

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Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabo: La magia de lo real Justin Webster

Spain / England, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English www.gabothefilm.com

How did a boy from a backward town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of millions, from the poorest to the most powerful political leaders, and whose works changed our perception of reality? The answer is the incredible story of Gabriel García Márquez – ‘Gabo’ to all of Latin America – winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, author of the globally popular masterpiece ‘100 Years of Solitude’, and ‘the most popular and perhaps the best writer in Spanish since Cervantes’.

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films

PRODUCTION Horne Productions Kate Horne

38 Quai du Point du Jour

JWProductions

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

Justin Webster

France tel: +33174713313

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Canal Caracol – Colombia

kathryn@javafilms.tv

More than just a biography, this film is a powerful narrative following the interwoven threads of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s life and work to reveal the incredible power of human imagination. 180

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Gangbé! Arnaud Robert

Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language:

French/English/Yoruba/Fon Subtitles: French/English www.gangbe-film.ch

Arnaud Robert faithfully describes the adventures of a Benin musical combo – the irresistible Gangbé Brass Band. They depart to conquer the city of Lagos in Nigeria to perform with Femi Kuti, the son of the late and legendary Fela Kuti. In this exciting journey to the metropolis, the adventures of a continent are revealed; the new cultural poles of the South and the gaps that still separate these neighboring countries. It’s a journey in a contemporary and different Africa, one that no longer solely aspires to the European dream. In a poetic and funky fashion, it opens up new horizons.

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Gruber MAGNETFILM

PRODUCTION Intermezzo Films Aline Schmid

Ilsensteinweg 35 14129 Berlin

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Switzerland

tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

The Gangbé Brass Band is travelling to Lagos to perform with Femi Kuti while they encounter contemporary ideals of Pan-Africanism and find themselves immersed in a world of new ideas. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Garage 2.0 Catherine van Campen

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 85’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.zuidenwind.nl/De-Garage

Gert is the ambitious managing director of a car dealership in Vianen who is way ahead of his troops. With a boundless energy he encourages his employees to be the best. No department is spared in learning ‘The New Way of Working’ through countless training sessions. But will he manage to eventually turn employee 1. 0 into employee 2. 0? How does a family business survive in a time of economic crisis? The lives of the colourful characters in Garage 2. 0 are surprisingly tied to cars. Cars that provide success, profit, progress, employment and freedom. But also peril, stress, disappointment and grief.

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SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

PRODUCTION Zuidenwind FilmProductions Joost Seelen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands

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Gayby Baby Maya Newell

Australia, 2015 color, video, 85’/52’ Original Language: English www.thegaybyproject.com

Gayby Baby is a feature documentary following four kids - Gus, Ebony, Matt & Graham - whose parents all happen to be gay. As they each wrestle with personal change and oncoming adolescence, the outside world debates marriage equality, and whether kids with same-sex parent are ‘at risk’. Excluding Australia

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine

PRODUCTION Marla House Charlotte Mars

Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de

Gayby Baby is a living, moving portrait of samesex families that offers a refreshingly honest picture of the value systems that really count in modern life.

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The Good Life - La Buena Vida Das gute Leben - La Buena Vida Jens Schanze

Germany / Switzerland / Colombia, 2015 color, HDcam, 94’/52’ Original Language: German/Spanish/English Subtitles: German/French/English/Spanish www.thegoodlife-film.com

The village of Tamaquito lies in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced resettlement, Jairo Fuentes negotiates with the mine’s operators and communicating with their representatives isn’t easy. The villagers are promised the blessings of progress, but the Wayúu place no value on the so-called “better life”. Instead, they embark on a fight to save their life in the forest, which soon becomes a fight to survive.

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Gruber MAGNETFILM

PRODUCTION Mascha Film Jens Schanze

Ilsensteinweg 35

CO-PRODUCTION: soap factory – Switzerland

14129 Berlin Germany tel: +49 163 8010753

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/3sat – Germany

www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

The Wayúu village in Colombia has to resettle for the expanding El Cerrjón coal mine. Their charismatic leader fights for survival in a world of rising global energy consumption. 184

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Grace of God Boza laska Kristján Lo mfjör

Poland, 2015 color, video, 45’ Original Language: Icelandic Subtitles: English

A documentary reflecting on the complex relationships between humans and domesticated animals. Thirteen individuals share their stories of personal experiences with a particular animal, relaying everything from profound friendships to a range of unusual interactions. There are stories of farm animals as well as beloved family friends. Even touching on the symbolism associated with animals that appear to humans as visions from the afterlife. The film takes place in the countryside of rural Iceland.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow

PRODUCTION Sputnik Photos Marzena Michalek-Dabrowska CO-PRODUCTION: Lortour Production – Iceland

Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

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Grand Hotel, Memories of the Salons Grande Hotel, memórias dos salões Paulo Murilo Fonseca Brazil, 2014 color, video, 84’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English www.facebook.com/ghoteldoc

In the small town of Araxá, Brazil in 1944 was opened the Grand Hotel Barreiro by Governor Benedito Valadares and President Getúlio Vargas. The hotel was built to be one of the largest resorts in the world. The documentary shows customs and behavior of a time in a scenario full of contradictions. Casino, thermal baths and carnavals halls are some of the elements that made this very singular universe.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulo Murilo Fonseca Mosaico Filmes Distribuciones Rua Itamiami, 04120-100 São Paulo Brazil tel: +55 1127765851 paulomurilofonseca@gmail.com

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PRODUCTION Paulo Murilo Fonseca

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The Grand Masters of The Chauvet Cave Les génies de la grotte Chauvet Christian TRAN France, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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The paintings and drawings of the Chauvet cave – made thirty six thousand years ago and discovered twenty years ago in the south of France – are the oldest human artistic expression to date. Their strength and modernity changed radically all the ideas we had on prehistorical art. The creation of an important museum devoted to the reproduction of the works allows a close-up on the paintings, the drawings and the engravings. The film enables us to understand their incredible techniques and feel their intact emotional power.

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films

PRODUCTION Quark Productions Juliette Guigon

25 route de l’Echelette

Patrick Winocour

07170 Lussas

CO-PRODUCTION: ARTIS – France

France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

contact@andanafilms.com

A close-up on the oldest human artistic expression to date, inside the Chauvet Cave. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Politics / Society

Grassroots in Dry Lands Helene Klodawsky

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English wwww.nfb.ca/distribution

Community organizers from Palestine, Israel and Jordan take us into their countries’ war-scarred neighbourhoods to witness how ordinary people are creating alternatives to despair, showing us why empowering disenfranchised families is key to shaping cultures of peace.

SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada

PRODUCTION InformAction Films Inc. Nathalie Barton

3155 Cote de liesse Road

National Film Board of Canada

H4N 2N4 Montrealq

Kat Baulu

Canada

CO-PRODUCTION: InformAction Films Inc. – Canada

tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca

Small steps towards big change.

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Art / Music / Culture | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues

The Great Alone Greg Kohs

USA, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: English www.thegreatalone.com

The Great Alone is a feature length documentary shot in the arctic wilderness of Alaska that captures the inspiring comeback story of champion sled dog racer, Lance Mackey. From his sunniest days as a boy by his famous father’s side to cancer’s attempt to unseat him, The Great Alone pulls viewers along every mile of Lance’s emotional journey to become one of the greatest sled dog racers of all time. Excluding USA

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Hock Films Jonathan Hock

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

The Great Alone captures the inspiring comeback story of champion sled dog racer, Lance Mackey and his emotional journey to become one of the greatest sled dog racers of all time. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Gringo Trails Pegi Vail

USA, 2014 color, video, 52’/79’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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Are tourists destroying the planet—or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, Gringo Trails traces stories over the course of thirty years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment. For North America please refer to Icarus Films.

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films

PRODUCTION Zebra Films Pegi Vail

25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com

Gringo Trails traces stories over the course of thirty years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment.

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Grozny Blues Nicola Bellucci

Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 104’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

Grozny Blues follows the daily lives of a handful of people living in Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya. The film’s protagonists – human rights activists, a group of young musicians, the owner of a Blues club – are trying to survive in a divided society shaped by repression, archaic customs, Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history.

SALES / CONTACT: Natalia Arshavskaya ANTIPODE Sales & Distribution

PRODUCTION soap factory Frank Matter

Novolesnoy lane 5-38 127055 Moscow Russia tel: +79 1 61141176 www.antipode-sales.biz festivals@antipode-sales.biz

Grozny Blues follows the daily lives of a handful of people living in Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya.

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Grumant. Island of Communism Grumant: ostrov kommunizma Ivan S. Tverdovskiy Russia, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 54’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

The films tells about Russian operating mine on the Norwegian arctic archipelago called Spitsbergen. And it also tells about miners from Donetsk and Lugansk, who work there. SALES / CONTACT: Ivan S. Tverdovskiy Point of View Korolenko st. 6B -10 107014 Moscow Russia tel: +7 903 1275165 www.pointofview.org tverdv@yandex.ru

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Guantanamo Child Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English www.whitepinepictures.com

In 2002, Khadr was captured by Americans in Afghanistan, charged with war crimes and locked up in Guantanamo. In October 2010, Khadr, being the only juvenile ever tried for war crimes, pleaded guilty to five war crimes in return for a plea deal that gave him an eight-year sentence and chance to complete his sentence in Canada. After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at Guantanamo, Khadr is then suddenly released on bail on May 7th, 2015. Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr features unprecedented access and exclusive interviews with Khadr during his first few days of freedom.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION White Pine Pictures Inc. Peter Raymont

21 Place Epernay

Patrick Reed

J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)

Michelle Shephard

Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

Child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? The now 28-year-old Canadian has been a polarizing figure since he was 15.

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The Gymnast Who Learned to Walk Gymnasten som lärde sig gå Tom Alandh Sweden, 2014 color, video, 81’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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At 19 Marcus Lilliebjörn was a very promising gymnast, but one fateful day a practice jump went terribly wrong and he broke his neck. The fracture was serious and it left Marcus completely paralyzed, hooked up to a respirator. Doctors told him that his future prognosis didn’t look good. But suddenly a miracle happens and Marcus is able to move his legs and arms a tiny bit. With almost unbelievable effort and persistence he slowly begins to rebuild his atrophied muscles. This film is a heartwarming tribute to life and a portrait of a young person with exceptional stamina.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm

PRODUCTION SVT Tom Alandh INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

Sweden tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

“You will never walk and you will always breathe through a respirator”. That’s what the doctors told the gymnast Marcus Lilliebjörn after his severe accident. But Marcus begged to differ… 194

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The Gypsy Baron

Der Zigeunerbaron Anthony Jacobson, Michaela Ronzoni Austria / Moldovan Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Russian/ German/Romany/Romanian Subtitles: English www.der-zigeunerbaron.com

The Gypsy Baron is about settled Roma in Soroca, in the Republic of Moldova right at the Ukrainian border. Small palaces with golden domes and curious façades with marbled halls and luxury cars in the drive way. The whole settlement equals a gigantomaniac, surreal and colourful Potemkin village. The film accompanies Artur Cherrari, the real Baron of all Roma of the Republic of Moldova and thus the head of the Roma in Soroca, as well as Vale who might become Baron in future through the world of the Roma, illustrating their traditions, customs and everyday life.

SALES / CONTACT: Anthony Jacobson Perdurabo Film

PRODUCTION Perdurabo Film Anthony Jacobson

Friedlgasse 7/4

CO-PRODUCTION: Somiol Art – Moldovan Republic

1190 Vienna Austria tel: +436645009244 www.perdurabofilm.com pater@perdurabofilm.com

A documentary about wealthy and settled Romani people, living in their fairytale-like village Soroca, in the North of the Republic of Moldova.

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Investigative | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues

Hadwin’s Judgement Sasha Snow

Canada / England, 2015 color, HDcam, 91’ Original Language: English www.nfb.ca/distribution

From the producing teams behind the acclaimed Searching for Sugar Man and Stories We Tell comes the story of Grant Hadwin, a logger-turnedenvironmentalist who mysteriously disappeared after destroying North America’s most sacred tree, the Golden Spruce.

SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada

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David Allen

3155 Cote de liesse Road

National Film Board of Canada

H4N 2N4 Montrealq

David Christensen

Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512

CO-PRODUCTION: Passion Planet – Canada,

www.nfb.ca

True West Films – Canada

l.price@nfb.ca

Environmentalism. Obsession. Myth.

PRODUCTION Passion Planet

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The Hard Stop George Amponsah

England, 2015 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: English

The police killing of Mark Duggan in London, 2011, ignited the worst civil unrest in recent British history and made headlines around the globe. Filmed over the course of 24 months, while the judicial inquiry into Duggan’s killing plays out in the background, The Hard Stop gives us unprecedented access to Duggan’s neighborhood. The film follows his closest friends Marcus and Kurtis as they fight for justice while struggling against discrimination. George Amponsah’s timely documentary about North London and its black community brings a lyrical beauty to these forbidding streets.

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil Levontin Street 18

PRODUCTION Ga Films George Amponsah Dionne Walker

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

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A Haunting History Ilse & Femke van Velzen

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Dinka/English Subtitles: English www.ifProductions.nl

Anuol Deng (30) is a newly qualified lawyer who, after studying in Britain, returns to South Sudan soon after the country’s independence. But coming home is not easy; the readjustment of living and working there holds more challenges than he has foreseen. When a new bloody civil war breaks out he suddenly has to flee the same bullets that chased him as a little boy. History is repeating itself and his motherland’s violent past haunts him down. Will Anuol be able to overcome all the hardship and reconcile with his past?

SALES / CONTACT: Ilse & Femke van Velzen IFProductions

PRODUCTION IFProductions Ilse & Femke van Velzen

Binnen Oranjestraat 17 1013HZ Amsterdam

CO-PRODUCTION: IKON – The Netherlands,

The Netherlands

DR Danish Broadcasting

tel: +31 6 42296948

Corporation – Denmark

www.ifProductions.nl

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: IKON – The Netherlands,

ilse@ifProductions.nl

DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation – Denmark, TVO – Canada

Lawyer Anuol, who studied in England returns to his homeland South Sudan. When a bloody civil war breaks out all his old war trauma’s revive again.

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HAVEABABY Amanda Micheli

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English

Some think an in vitro fertilization contest sounds crazy, but for countless Americans desperate to start a family, this social media experiment may be their only hope. PRODUCTION Serin Marshall

Runaway Films Amanda Micheli

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Sam Kalantari

Iran, 2015 color, HDcam, 32’ Original Language: Farsi Subtitles: English

A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, windowdressers and others especially to display or fit clothing SALES / CONTACT: Leila Hosseini DEFC - Documentary and

Experimental Film Center No.15,Ghandi sq,Shariati ave 15569 Tehran Iran tel: +98-21-88511326 www.defc.ir int@defc.ir

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Hebei Taipei Li Nien Hsiu

Taiwan, 2015 color, HDcam, 91’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

Li, a former soldier born in Hebei China, had joined the army since youth to survive. The war brought him to Taiwan, never had a chance to return to his hometown for six decades, but has revisited it countless times in his dreams, with blood flowing scenes somehow. At the age of sixty, he decided to separate from his family and lived alone for 20 years, having no idea how his eventful life would come to an end…

SALES / CONTACT: Fen Lu Hai

PRODUCTION Chou Chen Ting

4F., No.252, Jiankang Rd., 105 TAIPEI Taiwan tel: +886921788677 hebeitaipei@gmail.com

Director’s father was a former soldier from Hebei, China. The War brought him to Taipei, Taiwan, where it became his home for the next six decades…

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Hello Dakar!

Hallå Dakar! Magdalena Rosen, Marcus Rosen Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English/ French/Swedish/Wolof Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com/programmesales/hello-dakar/

When a Swedish company opens a call centre in Senegal the hunt for local language wizards is on. After many tests 24 gifted young people are selected for the course in Swedish. They have just seven months to learn the language fluently and only the best of them will pass the tough final exam. The films main characters – Denise, Al Housseunou and Seynabou – all come from poor circumstances. Do they have what it takes to pass the crash course in Swedish? This film is a warm and humorous documentary about ambitious young people striving to improve their conditions.

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SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION Mästerkatt Magdalena Rosen

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

SVT

S-10510 Stockholm

Marcus Rosen

Sweden

CO-PRODUCTION: SVT – Sweden

tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

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Hold Me Tight(s) Il segreto delle calze Nicola Contini

China, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Italian/Chinese Subtitles: English

China seen through the eyes of Emilia and Angiolo, small business entrepreneurs from Tuscany who, after their company producing women’s stockings went bankrupt, emigrated from the small industrial district of Empoli in Italy, to Yiwu, in the People’s Republic of China. Thanks to their knowledge of craftsmanship, from a small Italian district, they catapulted themselves into the new Chinese reality at 65 years old becoming protagonists of the world’s most booming economy. After 10 years spent in China, they have another challenge to face: find the courage to come back home.

SALES / CONTACT: Alessandro Carroli EiE film Corso Casale, 34 10125 Torino Italy tel: +39 01119705817

PRODUCTION EiE film Alessandro Carroli CO-PRODUCTION: Da Neng Culture Media – China INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NDR/ARTE – Germany

www.eiefilm.com alessandro@eiefilm.com

Territories Excluding Italy, China, Germany, France

The rise and fall of Emilia and Angiolo who, by giving up everything, were able to reclaim their biggest ability: dreaming and have a fresh start together in China. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Holy Cow Imam Hasanov

Azerbaijan / Germany / Romania, 2015 color, video, 75’/52’ Original Language: Farsi/Azerbaijani Subtitles: German/English www.riseandshine-berlin.de

Tapdig has a dream of bringing a European cow into his picturesque village in Azerbaijan to improve the condition of his poor family. He decides to call it Madona. His passion unsettles the traditional community. The Old Men see a threat in having a foreign cow as they say its milk is full of chemicals. Even his wife Vafa does not want to take care of such a strange breed. But Tapdig is ready to risk it all and challenges the conservative mentality to rethink the attitude. How do human beings handle change while remaining true to their own traditions?

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin

PRODUCTION Kloos & Co. Medien Stefan Kloos INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany

Germany tel: +49 30 47372980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de

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One man’s dream of bringing a European cow in his picturesque village in Azerbaijan unsettles the conservative community that wants to keep their secular traditions intact. 204

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Home Sweet Home Katrine Philp

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 26’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English

Salimah grew up as a refugee in Malaysia. Now she is 10 years old and about to move to the unknown country Denmark where her father and big sister live. Salimah has to learn a new language, a new culture and how to be a Dane. We follow her from her goodbye in Malaysia through her first difficult time in the new country where she not only has to adapt and get to know her father but is also facing the challenges of becoming a teenager.

SALES / CONTACT: Katrine Sahlstrøm Good Company Knabrostræde 3, st. th. 1210 København K

PRODUCTION Good Company Katrine Sahlstrøm INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

Denmark tel: +45 61781090 www.goodcompanypictures.com kat@goodcompanypictures.com

Salimah is a refugee from Myanmar. Her father fled to Denmark when she was a baby. Now 10 years later she gets the chance to be reunited with him. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Homme Less Thomas Wirthensohn

USA / Austria, 2014 color, video, 83’/57’ Original Language: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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From all outside appearances, Mark seems to have the glamorous New York City life that many would envy. Handsome and always impeccably dressed, the charismatic former male model works as a fashion photographer, appears in movies and attends the best parties. When he leaves those events, however, he heads to the East Village— not to an overpriced loft, but to a hidden corner of a rooftop to sleep each night. Thomas Wirthensohn exposes the dark underbelly of the American Dream in an often-merciless city.

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SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION Thought Engine Media Karol Martesko-Fenster

611 Broadway, suite 630

Filmhaus Wien

10012 New York

Wolfgang Ramml

USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

New York fashion photographer Mark Reay appears to have it all, but what no one in the industry knows is that he has been secretly homeless for six years.

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An Honest Liar

Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein

USA, 2014 color / black and white, video, 92’/58’ Original Language: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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An Honest Liar is about the worldfamous magician, escape artist, and enemy of deception, James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. The film brings to life Randi’s intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasireligious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos. But when a shocking revelation in Randi’s personal life is discovered, it isn’t clear whether Randi is still the deceiver – or the deceived.

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION Tyler Measom

Justin Weinstein

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

The rights have been sold to: Sweden, Denmark, Australia, UK, Norway, Israel, Netherlands, Canada, USA.

The film tells the story of world-renowned magician and escape artist James “the Amazing” Randi who dedicates his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claim paranormal powers. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Horizon

Sjóndeildarhringur Bergur Bernburg, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Iceland / Denmark, 2015 color, video, 80’/60’ Original Language: English/Icelandic/Danish Subtitles: English

A gorgeous portrait about the influential painter Georg Gudni, whose innovative interpretations of forms and ideas paved the way for a renaissance in Icelandic landscape painting and earned him an international following, inspiring collectors such as Viggo Mortensen. Gudni explains his philosophies of life and art in archival interviews that are interwoven with looks at his paintings, inspiring Icelandic landscapes, and interviews with his family members, art historians and Gudni appreciators. “Horizon is a visually striking excursion into the spirit of a land” TIFF

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Sjondeildarhringur /

ResearchGruppen Aps

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Bergur Bernburg

1070 Wien

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Austria

Bill Rathje

tel: +43 720 346934

Magnus Arni Skulason

www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

A gorgeous portrait about influential painter Georg Gudni, whose innovative interpretations of forms and ideas paved the way for a renaissance in Icelandic landscape-painting and earned him an international following. 208

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Horizons Horizontes Eileen Hofer

Switzerland, 2015 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.horizontes-film.ch/en

A spiritual celebration of classical ballet, paying tribute to the discipline and dedication it takes to dance, while offering a glimpse at contemporary life in Cuba. Run-down rehearsal rooms along the infamous halls of the Grand Theatre of Havana, Amanda and Viengsay dedicate themselves wholeheartedly. Their every step and aspiration echo the great achievements of their predecessor, Alicia Alonso, the prima ballerina assoluta, still invincible even at the grand age of 90.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Intermezzo Films Aline Schmid

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Run-down rehearsal rooms along the infamous halls of the Grand Theatre of Havana, Amanda and Viengsay dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the demanding routine of classical ballet. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Horseshoe’s Happiness Het geluk van het hoefijzer Jeroen Stultiens The Netherlands / Spain, 2015 color, video, 63’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English

Tijs Groen is a former Dutch athletics champion who gave up his running career to live in a van and pursue an unknown musical adventure in southern Spain. He is drawn to the inspiring and creative beach town of La Herradura (‘horseshoe’) where he meets like-minded people, studies the guitar and arranges gigs from his nomadic home. The Horseshoe’s Happiness follows Tijs during his first year in Spain in which he is slowly confronted with the consequences of his choices. More and more he has to find answers to questions about where he comes from and where he’s heading to.

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SALES / CONTACT: Jeroen Stultiens Noempie Holding BV zuiderstraat 59 6006EP weert The Netherlands tel: +31641854577 www.orientation.nl jeroen@costamundo.es

PRODUCTION Costamundo Jeroen Stultiens

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Hot Sugar’s Cold World Adam Bhala Lough

USA, 2015 color, video, 85’ Original Language: English

www.hotsugarscoldworld.com

Hot Sugar composes powerful, spellbinding music, his highly individual electronica brooding with melancholy which has won the artist many plaudits and found him referred to as the modern day Mozart of the electronic music scene. A very public break up with his rapper girlfriend and doyen of social media, Kitty, results in a soul-searching trip to Paris. There, he compulsively samples the sounds of the city of love, looping, chopping and manipulating them into music that channels his angst. At once quirky, lyrical and fun, this is a fascinating portrait that captures the highly evolved creative process of an exciting artist. Excluding USA, Canada

SALES / CONTACT: Ben Bassauer Monoduo Films

PRODUCTION Adam Bhala Lough

Hunter Stephenson

Wildenbruchplatz 5 12045 Berlin Germany tel: +49-1781876787 www.monoduo.net ben@monoduo.net

A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.

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Hotline

Silvina Landsmann

Israel / France, 2015 color, video, 99’ Original Language: Hebrew/French/English Subtitles: English www.go2films.com/Coming-Soon/Hotline

Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a small Tel Aviv based NGO, works around the clock. The activists, all of them women, look after the rights of people without papers, giving them legal advice, dealing with government bureaucracy and promoting public campaigns for their cause. The camera catapults us right into the midst of action. The activists are often attacked, verbally and physically. The organization has to fight both the rising xenophobic public mood and the legislation, which treats any illegal border crossing as criminal offense.

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

PRODUCTION Pierre-Olivier Bardet Silvina Landsmann

37/8 Issar Natanzon St. 97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a Tel Aviv based NGO, fights an uphill battle against both the rising xenophobia and the legislation which treats illegal border crossing as criminal offense. 212

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Human

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’/190’/131’ Original Language: Afghan/English/Israeli/ Russian/Italian/French/Arabic/Spanish Subtitles: French/English www.human-themovie.org

Human is a collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, Human brings us face to face with the Other, making us reflect on our lives. From stories of everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, these poignant encounters share a rare sincerity and underline who we are – our darker side, but also what is most noble in us, and what is universal.

SALES / CONTACT: Charles Tchekhoff MyPlanet

PRODUCTION Humankind Production Florent Gilard

1 Carrefour de Longchamp 75016 Paris France tel: +33699456313 distribution@human-themovie.org

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Human is a collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.

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I Am Dublin

Jag är Dublin Ahmed Abdullahi, David Aronowitsch, Sharmarke Binyusuf, Anna Persson Sweden, 2015 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Swedish/English/Somali Subtitles: English www.story.se/films/im-dublin/

The film portrays Ahmed who is a Dublin-case. He gets a role in a fiction film playing a character in the same situation. Ahmed has been in Europe for six years, three years in hiding in Sweden. When he arrived by boat to the Italian island Lampedusa, he was forced to leave his fingerprints. The Dublin Regulation decides that he can only apply for asylum in Italy as his arrival country. The Dublin Regulation has created a large group of young people drifting around Europe. The Dublincases are deprived of their rights and deported from country to country in Europe.

SALES / CONTACT: David Aronowitsch Story AB Kocksgatan 31 116 24 Stockholm

PRODUCTION Story AB David Aronowitsch INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: UR – Sweden

Sweden tel: +46-8-15 62 80 www.story.se david@story.se

A documentary beginning in a fictional story. The film portrays Ahmed who is playing a character whose life mirrors his own. Ahmed is in a limbo, his fingerprints decide his future. 214

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I Am Not Afraid of the Soldiers Ik ben niet bang voor de soldaten Rinske Bosch The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English

Soldiers who throw tear gas at you with, keep an eye on you everyday and even burst into your home and take your brother . . . Yazan has experienced this. He lives in a Palestinian refugee camp, with a big wall around it and watch towers. Yazan wants change, but how? Though Israeli soldiers are not listening to the children at the Wall they are watching. Together with his friends Yazan makes a poster with his story. They want to hang it on the most dangerous place in the camp. Near the soldiers. They will succeed?

SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON

PRODUCTION IKON Anouk Donker

Oude Amersfoortseweg 79

Lisa de Smet

1213AC Hilversum

Moira Veenhof

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 647 4208 www.omroep.nl/ikon anouk.donker@ikon.nl

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I Am the Blues Daniel Cross

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

I Am the Blues takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Visiting the last original blues devils, many in their 80’s, still living in the deep south, working without management and touring the Chitlin’ Circuit. Let Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Henry Gray, Carol Fran, Lazy Lester, Bilbo Walker, RL Boyce, Jimmy ’Duck’ Holmes, Lil Buck Sinegal, LC Ulmer and their friends awaken the blues in all of us.

SALES / CONTACT: Damien Detcheberry EyeSteelFilm

PRODUCTION EyeSteelFilm Daniel Cross

7095 Marconi #201

Bob Moore

H2S 3K4 Montreal

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: CBC – Canada

Canada tel: 5149374893 www.eyesteelfilm.com damien@eyesteelfilm.com

From juke joints to church halls, up the mountain and down to the bayou, I Am the Blues travels the back roads with the last of the blues legends. 216

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I Like That Super Most the Best Lijepo mi je s tobom, znas Eva Kraljevic

Croatia, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 43’ Original Language: Croatian Subtitles: English www.hulahop.hr

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Eva and Mia are sisters. Mia is cheerful, open, has Down syndrome, doesn’t care much about the fashion and loves people. For ten years Eva has been filming the two of them, trying to comprehend their relationship. Her efforts result in a portrait of the two sisters, filled with happiness, fear and urge to overcome petty-bourgeoisie taste that sets the borders to sisterly love.

SALES / CONTACT: Matea Milic Hulahop Film & Art Productions Nova Ves 18

PRODUCTION Hulahop Film & Art Productions Dana Budisavljevic Miljenka Cogelja

10 000 Zagreb Croatia tel: +385 1 3907074 www.hulahop.hr distribution@hulahop.hr

A portrait of two sisters, the director Eva Kraljevic and her sister Mia, born with Down Syndrome.

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I Shot JFK, The Confession of the Grassy Knoll Gunman Wim Dankbaar, Robert Kiviat

USA / The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: English

This groundbreaking documentary special on James Files and his relationship to the JFK assassination, features rare, never-before-seen footage and interviews that have never aired on television from witnesses, participants, historians, and from Files himself. James Files received no compensation for these interviews and he remains the only person in history to have admitted to shooting President John F. Kennedy.

SALES / CONTACT: Wim Dankbaar

PRODUCTION Wim Dankbaar

Ruysdaelweg 14 2051 EM Overveen The Netherlands tel: +31 235268730 dank@xs4all.nl

Documentary about James Files, who tells about his role in the JFK assassination.

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I Still Being (Kachkaniraqmi) Sigo siendo (Kachkaniraqmi) Javier Corcuera Peru / Spain, 2013 color, video, 120’ Original Language: Spanish/Quechua Subtitles: English/French www.sigosiendo.pe

A film about characters, characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly a musical but rather a reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find itself and create its own identity: Peru.

SALES / CONTACT: Sergio García Locatelli Quechua Films

PRODUCTION La Zanfoña Producciones Gervasio Iglesias

Calle Rodríguez San Pedro 2

Nakuy S.A.C.

oficina 401

Rolando Toledo

28015 Madrid

CO-PRODUCTION: La Zanfoña Producciones – Spain

Spain tel: +34912920081 sergiogarcia@quechuafilms.com

A reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart in a country also immersed in the struggle to find itself and create its own identity: Peru. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Imaginary Feasts Festins imaginaires Anne Georget

France, 2014 color, video, 52’/70’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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In Nazi concentration camps, the Gulag and Japanese war camps, deportees wrote cooking recipes. Hundreds of those recipes were copied in small notebooks by starving human beings of all origins–women, men, young, old, French, Russians, Americans–who took huge risks to write and keep them. Telling about these objects of survival, the film explores a phenomenon of incredible Resistance. Until now, no study or publication had ever been made on them.

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films 25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France

Valérie Salvy CO-PRODUCTION: Néon Rouge Productions – France

tel: +33 4 75943467

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Planète – France,

www.andanafilms.com

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contact@andanafilms.com

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Impact

Höggid Agusta Einarsdottir Iceland / Denmark, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Danish/Icelandic Subtitles: English

www.facebook.com/Hoggid-aka-Impact

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Impact depicts the story of a tragic accident that took place one fateful night on Christmas Eve in 1986, when an Icelandic cargo ship unexpectedly sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, only five lived to tell of their 14 hour struggle to combat impossible conditions. Several nations took part in the heroic search and rescue mission, ultimately it was the Danish Coast Guard that saved the men. The much speculated cause of the accident was believed to be the ship’s shifting cargo, but conflicting reports suggest that a Russian submarine may be the cause.

SALES / CONTACT: Birna Paulina Einarsdottir Elf Films

PRODUCTION Elf Films Agusta Einarsdottir

Spitalastigur 6

Birna Paulina Einarsdottir

101 Reykjavik

Helena Einarsdottir

Iceland tel: +354 772 6699 birnapaulina@gmail.com

Iceland is not available.

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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In California Charles Redon

France, 2015 color, video, 78’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English www.theopenreel.com

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Charles Redon immerses himself in his wife’s environment, the ballet dancing, and starts documenting it. Slowly, he begins to understand that he can build a drama with his own life. SALES / CONTACT: Cosimo Santoro The Open Reel Via Giuseppe Gené N 4 10152 Torino Italy tel: +393404940351 www.theopenreel.com open@theopenreel.com

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PRODUCTION The Open Reel Charles Redon

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In My Father’s House Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg

USA, 2015 color, video, 93’ Original Language: English

www.inmyfathershousefilm.com

In My Father’s House explores identity and legacy in the African-American family, as Grammy award-winning rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith and his long-lost father reconnect and try to build a future in Chicago’s turbulent South Side. Che, whose work as a rapper/writer includes “Jesus Walks” and “Glory”, hasn’t seen his father, Brian, in over 20 years. But after buying his father’s childhood home, Che sets out to find him, and learns that he is a homeless alcoholic living only blocks away. Determined to rehabilitate him Che soon realizes Brian may not be ready to take on the responsibilities asked of him.

SALES / CONTACT: John Sloss Cinetic Media 555 West 25th Street, 4th Floor 10001 New York

PRODUCTION Break Thru Films Ricki Stern CO-PRODUCTION: Jameka Autry – USA

USA tel: +1 212-204-7979 www.cineticmedia.com john@slosslaw.com

In My Father’s House is a yearlong journey from homelessness and alcoholism to self-discovery and redemption as Grammy-award winning rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith reunites with his homeless father. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Nature / Environment | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues

In Search of Putin’s Tiger Xiaoqing He, Peter Pecotic

China / Australia, 2015 color, HDcam, 15’ Original Language: English/Russian/Chinese Subtitles: English

An escaped Tiger, the Russian President, 1 man’s 3000 mile quest into the heart of this little known border region between China and Russia. A journey full of colourful characters, set in a stunning, remote, and severe landscape. Propelled by a desire to find the tiger, we discover a much deeper story: one of hope, friendship, search for identity and a realisation that sometimes the journey itself becomes the destination.

SALES / CONTACT: Peter Pecotic Bondi Road 2026 Sydney Australia tel: +61416006080 peter@turningpointsolutions.com.au

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In the Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation Judith Montell, Emmy Scharlatt

USA / Israel / Palestine, 2014 color / black and white, video, 60’ Original Language: English/Hebrew/Arabic Subtitles: French/English/Spanish

A documentary about Palestinian women in the West Bank who partner with an Israeli human rights organization and use cameras to capture human rights violations by settlers and the military, as well as the nuances of their own lives. Through interviews and using the shocking footage they have filmed, the film introduces these non-violent activists, humanizes them and sheds light on the complicated situations that have become daily life for Palestinian citizens living in the occupied territories. It shatters the media stereotypes we have come to accept.

SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.

PRODUCTION Judith Montell

Emmy Scharlatt

333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York USA tel: +1 212 629 6880 www.kinosales.com elizabeth@kinolorber.com

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

India’s Daughter Leslee Udwin

Denmark / India / England, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English/Hindi Subtitles: English

India’s Daughter is the story of the short life, and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptionally inspiring young woman. The rape and death of the 23 year old medical student, sparked unprecedented protests throughout India and led to the first glimmers of a change of mindset. Interwoven into the storyline are the lives, values and mindsets of the rapists whom the filmmakers have had exclusive access to interview before they hang. The film examines the society and values which spawn such violent acts, and makes an optimistic and impassioned plea for change.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

PRODUCTION Assassin Films Limited Leslee Udwin

Emil Holms Kanal 20

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark,

0999 København C

SVT – Sweden,

Denmark

IKON – The Netherlands,

tel: +45 35202299

SFR – France,

www.dr.dk

RTS – Serbia

kimc@dr.dk

Excluding Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, USA, its territories and possessions including Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands a.o., Norway, Austria, Taiwan, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Flemish speaking Belgium, Israel, Finland

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Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words Jag är Ingrid Stig Björkman

Sweden, 2015 color / black and white, video, 114’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.prettypictures.fr

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Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children, Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words presents a personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most beloved and celebrated actresses of American cinema.

SALES / CONTACT: James Velaise Pretty Pictures

PRODUCTION Mantaray Film Stina Gardell

33, rue du Faubourg St Antoine 75011 Paris France tel: +33 1 43 14 10 00 www.prettypictures.fr jvelaise@prettypictures.fr

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Inside a Box

Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman

Italy, 2015 color, DCP, 80’ Original Language: English/ Italian/Arabic/French Subtitles: English

Two friends discover the world and themselves as they follow the lives of people in today’s major political conflicts. PRODUCTION Noreen Moustafa

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Inside Fur Ola Waagen

Norway, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 57’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English www.nfi.no

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Psychologist Frank Nervik exposes the grim truth about the Nordic fur industry. Posing as a new fur farmer, his hidden camera captures riveting footage of his training and day-to-day work, culminating in him being forced to experience the process all the way to the painful end. Excluding Norway, Sweden

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil Levontin Street 18 6511207 Tel Aviv

PRODUCTION Piraya Film AS Torstein Grude INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NRK – Norway

Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Inside the Chinese Closet Sophia Luvara

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Chinese/English Subtitles: English www.witfilm.nl

Andy and Cherry are looking for love and happiness in Shanghai. They are both homosexual but their families demand a (heterosexual) marriage and a baby from them. Because being single and childless would mean an unacceptable loss of face for their rural families, particularly in the remote countryside where they live. Will Andy and Cherry deny their happiness and sexual orientation to satisfy their parents’ wishes? The stories of Andy and Cherry mirror the legal and cultural progress that is happening in China against the backdrop of a nation coming to terms with new moral values.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION Witfilm Jantien Ekkes

21 Place Epernay

Boudewijn Koole

J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)

Iris Lammertsma

Canada

Sophia Luvara

tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

Inside the Chinese Closet is the intricate tale of Andy and Cherry looking for love and happiness in vibrant Shanghai. 230

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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk Fleur Beemster, Elise Roodenburg

The Netherlands, 2015 color, 35mm, 76’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English

www.facebook.com/favelafunkdocumentary

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk is a documentary about love and relationships in the world of the extremely popular ‘favela funk’: pornographic music from Rio de Janeiro’s deprived neighborhoods. The documentary shows the perspective of the favela youth and aims to find the relation between the favela funk lyrics and their personal, daily (love) lives, dominated by a lawless subculture of drug gangs, violence and sex. Inside the Mind of Favela Funk gives an insight in the current Brazilian underground music and its corresponding sexual values, but it also shows a search for faith, hope and love.

SALES / CONTACT: Elise Roodenburg Roemer Visscherstraat 32s

PRODUCTION Fleur Beemster

Elise Roodenburg

1054EZ Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 646325377 elise_roodenburg@hotmail.com

Set in Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk music with respect to their personal (love) lives. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Art / Music / Culture

The Intern Chef Niklas mat Mikael Hansson

Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 30’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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Swedish Michelin-starred chef Niklas Ekstedt sets out to work in the kitchens of some of the top chefs in the world, to learn their secrets and pick up inspiration. In only five days he is to compose and cook a meal that hopefully will make it all the way into the restaurants menu. In the first episode Niklas meets the British chef Paul Cunningham, who runs the Danish tavern Henne Kirkeby Kro. In the fourth episode Niklas works as an intern at restaurant Pujol in Mexico City, run by the head chef Enrique Olvera.

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PRODUCTION SVT Mikael Hansson

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Fredrik Norberg

S-10510 Stockholm

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

Sweden tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

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Into Darkness Rachida El Garani

Belgium, 2015 color, HDcam, 31’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/Dutch

Little Mohamed and his family live in a small village Taroudant, Morocco. 11 of the family members are blind. Living in extreme poverty and excluded from society they try to keep their hopes and dreams alive. Mo is smart and playful. He has one big dream and that is to keep his sight. Naïma is the first that pursues higher education. She wants to get her family out of poverty. The constant lack of money makes her dream very doubtful. Into Darkness gives us an insight of a deeply religious family that does not give up believing in a better future.

SALES / CONTACT: Lai Kin Chang Rits Filmschool Brussel

PRODUCTION Rits Filmschool Brussel Lai Kin Chang

Antoine Dansaertstraat 70 1000 Brussels Belgium tel: +32 (0)2 507 14 11 www.ritcs.be rachida.el.garani@student.ehb.be

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Art / Music / Culture

Iris

Albert Maysles

USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’ Original Language: English

Iris is the charming new documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel from legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter). It pairs the 87-year-old Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even at Iris’ advanced age, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire.

SALES / CONTACT: Scott Veltri Magnolia Pictures

PRODUCTION Maysles Films Inc. Laura Coxson

49 West 27th Street 10001 New York USA tel: +1 212 9246701 www.magpictures.com sveltri@magpictures.com

Iris is the charming new documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel from legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles. 234

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Human Interest / Social Issues

Is There a Shaman in the Tribe? Y a-t-il un chaman dans l’ethnie? Pierre Boccanfuso France, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: French

In one of the last remote areas of the Philippines, on Palawan island: Medsinu, an old shaman, dies. A foreign mining company is considering settling on Palawan land of which the earth abounds with nickel. An open cast mine means large scale deforestation and a large use of chemical products, river pollution, a global and definitive destruction of the forest‘s natural resources. Without a shaman and having lost their bearings, facing modern intrusion from an outside world, the Palawan people feel like orphans. Will they survive?

SALES / CONTACT: Anne Littardi Beliane

PRODUCTION Copsi Video Emmanuel Durand

11 rue Adolphe Mille 75019 Paris

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: France 5 – France

France tel: +33977219135 anne.littardi@beliane.com

Without a shaman and having lost their bearings, facing modern intrusion from an outside world, the Palawan people feel like orphans. Will they survive?

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Nature / Environment

Jane & Payne Boy Olmi

Argentina, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English

She dedicated 50 years of her life to the chimpanzee refuge that she herself created in Gombee, Tanzania, Africa. Today, she helps young people in 150 countries. He spent his life studying whales in the ocean. Discovering underwater chants. And the sounds that he recorded have been traveling to other galaxies aboard the Voyager since 1977. Roger built the camp to study the whales. Jane and Payne embody the energy of the jungle and the sea.

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PRODUCTION Boy Olmi

Azopardo 477 2 4To

LSDLIVE

1107 Buenos Aires

Dylan Williams

Argentina tel: 54 11 43316780 boyolmi@gmail.com

Jane & Payne is a documentary film about the meeting between Jane Goodall and Roger Payne. Two legends in conservation, that took place in Argentine Patagonia. 236

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History | Art / Music / Culture

The Jazz Loft according to W. Eugene Smith Sara Fishko

USA, 2015 color / black and white, video, 88’ Original Language: English www.jazzloftthemovie.com

In 1950s Manhattan, a dingy five-story wreck of a loft building becomes the home and the obsession of brilliant photographer W. Eugene Smith – who leaves his family and moves there to live the artist’s life. Smith, crashing after his stellar but frustrating career as a LIFE Magazine photojournalist, photographs and records the music and life in the loft for nearly a decade. During that time, Thelonious Monk rehearses there; Hall Overton becomes a “jazz-guru” to musicians both famous and obscure; and the music soars until things change in the mid-60s. Finally Smith, the musicians and other loft-residents move on.

SALES / CONTACT: Sara Fishko WNYC

PRODUCTION WNYC Sara Fishko

160 Varick Street

Lumiere Productions

10013 New York

Calvin Skaggs

USA tel: +1 646-829-4471 sfishko@wnyc.org

In a dingy loft building in 1950s Manhattan, musicians gathered all night, every night, to play jazz – all of it quietly captured in pictures and audiotape by one brilliant, obsessive photographer. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Experimental | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues

Jesus Town, USA Billie Mintz, Julian T Pinder

Canada / USA, 2014 color, video, 57’/78’ Original Language: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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In a remote corner of the United States, one God-fearing community has staged the longest-running outdoor Easter Passion Play. The comedic Jesus Town, USA captures the behind-thescenes preparations of the 300 quirky volunteers who stage this epic Biblical tale as the well as the crisis of faith of the person “chosen” to play Jesus. A Showtime Documentary. Sold in the following territories: USA, Canada, Australia, UK

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION Tyler Measom

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 www.cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

For 88 years a small town has performed the story of Christ in a ‘unique’ construction of Jerusalem built into an Oklahoma Buffalo reserve.

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Art / Music / Culture | History | Science / Technology

Jheronimus Bosch - Touched by the Devil Pieter van Huystee

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video/DCP, 83’ Original Language:

Dutch/English/Spanish/Italian Subtitles: English/Dutch www.pvhfilm.nl

2016 will mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch (1460 - 1516) one of the most celebrated painters of all times, known worldwide for his fantastic imagery of heaven and hell, at the same time filled with an extraordinary sense of humanity. For four years a team of Bosch experts traveled the world to examine all known Bosch paintings. With high-res macro, x-ray and infrared cameras they examine the wooden panels. For the first time we will be able to see behind the varnish, to penetrate into his paintings and to unveil the unseen creative process.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc 21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)

PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film Pieter van Huystee INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands

Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

This film is also available in a 58 minute version.

The journey of a research team, with a mobile lab, unveiling the mysteries in the work of Bosch so far unseen. Discovering the life and work of this visionary artist. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth

Jonas and the Backyard Circus Jonas e o circo sem lona Paula Gomes Brazil, 2015 color, video, 82’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English/Spanish

www.facebook.com/plano3filmes

Jonas has 13 and his dream is maintain the circus that he created in his backyard. He was born in a travelling circus. But his family left the circus and settled down in a violent neighborhood. Jonas never was adjusted to the new lifestyle, so he created his own circus. Now, Jonas is growing up and the adolescence imposes upon him with thousands of challenges. So, while Jonas’ circus goes crumbling he realizes his powerlessness, leading us to a journey where we’ll at least find a great question: What do we do with our dreams when we grow up?

SALES / CONTACT: Ernesto Molinero Plano 3 Filmes

PRODUCTION Plano 3 Filmes Haroldo Borges

Rua Território do Rio Branco, 316, apt. Ernesto Molinero 1203, Pituba 41830530 Salvador, Bahia Brazil tel: +557133595411 www.facebook.com/plano3filmes ernestomolinero@gmail.com

Jonas is 13 years old and his life´s dream is to maintain the circus created in his backyard. While he faces this challenge, he will live the adventure of growing up.

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

Journey to the West Voyage en Occident Jill Coulon

France, 2015 color, video, 56’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English www.andanafilms.com

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Journey to the West is an embedded documentary film into a bus of Chinese tourists visiting Europe for the very first time (6 countries in 10 days!). This road movie captures with humor and spirit the cultural differences between China and Europe in a play of mirrors and contrasts. It also destroys the stereotypes about the emerging Chinese middle class and reveals what they think about the “others” who are “us”, the Westerners.

SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Riguet Andana Films

PRODUCTION Futurikon Philippe Delarue

25 route de l’Echelette

Virginie Francois

07170 Lussas

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: PLANETE+ – France

France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com

Europe seen by Chinese tourists.

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Jungle Sisters Chloe Ruthven

England, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

www.taskovskifilms.com/?film=jungle-sisters

Catastrophe of the garment factory in Bangladesh brought to public awareness, horrific conditions that exist in the fabric industry in Asia. The biggest companies are forced to changed their policies and guarantee better working conditions for their employees. Through the eyes of 2 Indian workers and British social worker we see the real face of the industry, which very often resembles modern slavery.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Roast Beef Productions Chloe Ruthven

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Migrants from the rural areas of India make up a significant percentage of the labour force in India- many hopeful young women try their luck working for garment factories. 242

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Just Listen Strohalm Lian Priemus

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 50’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.nposales.com/?s=Just+Listen

Just Listen addresses the taboo of suicidal thoughts. This documentary follows a couple of volunteers working at 113Online, an anonymous online helpline for people with suicidal thoughts. The Netherlands is the only country in the world with an online chatroom operated by volunteers and professionals, where people with suicidal thoughts can anonymously chat. We see how the volunteers are trained, and how they chat with people wanting to end their life. Clearly, one doesn’t have to be a professional to help a person in despair. Just listening without judgement can be a life-saver.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Monique Busman INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Human – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

Just Listen addresses the taboo of talking about suicidal thoughts. Why is this so complicated, and what happens when you open up about it? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View

K2. Touching the Sky K2. Dotknac nieba Eliza Kubarska

Poland / England / Germany, 2015 color, video, 72’/52’ Original Language: Polish/English Subtitles: English www.riseandshine-berlin.de

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K2: Touching the Sky is an emotional film set against breathtaking vistas of Karakorum Mountains. It is a multilayered psychological portrait of people who are coping to understand the choices of their parents or their own passion. Filmmakers were allowed unique access to private letters, audio tapes and films of the protagonists, including Kurt Diemberger’s - a legend of alpinism, the only living person who climbed two 8 thousand meters peaks as first man ever (in 1957 and 1960). ALready sold: Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, UK

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine

PRODUCTION Braidmade Films Monika Braid

Schlesische Strasse 29/30

Wajda Studio

10997 Berlin

Katarzyna Slesicka

Germany tel: +49 30 47372980

CO-PRODUCTION: Inselfilm Produktion – Germany,

www.riseandshine-berlin.de

HBO POLAND – Poland, HBO Europe – Czech Republic, Vertical Vision – Sweden INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Servus TV – Austria

It is a multilayered psychological portrait of people who are coping to understand the choices of their parents or their own passion. 244

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Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation Jane Manning

Australia, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: English

www.lookingglasspictures.com.au

Ka-Ching! delves behind the flashing lights and spinning reels to find out what makes pokies (slot/fruit machines) so treacherous, leading one expert to call them the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’. We speak exclusively to the masterminds behind the machine, who reveal how carefully they program Pokies for addiction. It is no accident that these machines are now listed alongside cocaine and heroin in the ‘psychiatric Bible’, the DSM. What we find is a highly organised network of mathematicians, musicians and designers, working together on a single vision: to make sure you lose, and keep on losing.

SALES / CONTACT: Mitzi Goldman Looking Glass Pictures PTY PO Box 362

PRODUCTION Looking Glass Pictures PTY Mitzi Goldman

2021 Paddington

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Australian Broadcasting

Australia

Corporation – Australia

tel: +61 402 255 653 www.lookingglasspictures.com.au mitzi@lookingglasspictures.com.au

The Pokies. They’re rigged, they’re addictive, and they’re everywhere. For the first time, the masterminds behind the machines reveal how they’re programmed for addiction. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Art / Music / Culture | Nature / Environment

Katsuobushi Yu Nakajima

Japan, 2015 color, HDcam, 25’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English www.katsuo-bushi.jp

Washoku (Japanese cuisine), having been put on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, has ascended to new heights within the food Production industry. Supporting washoku have been chefs who have protected the traditional methods of preparing the food, and craftsmen whose efforts and demanding tastes have in turn supported the chefs. In recent years, Production methods have changed, affecting the people who make and use katsuo-bushi, a key ingredient in many Japanese dishes. However, in the world’s smallest katsuo-bushi works, craftsmen continue to make it according to the traditional methods.

SALES / CONTACT: Jessi Nuss

PRODUCTION Beethoven

2F 3-2-4 Hongoku-cho, Chuo-ku,

Mika Nishide

Nihonbashi 103-0021 Tokyo Japan tel: +81-03-3517-5550 jessi@jvtacademy.com

A look into the world of the Production of katsuo-bushi, a key ingredient in many Japanese dishes, and the people behind the process.

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Khao Lak Jens Lind

Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English/Swedish/Thai Subtitles: English

www.svtsales.com/programme-sales/khao-lak

SVT’s reporter Jens Lind escaped the tsunami in 2004 by a whisker. The days before the disaster he was in the Thai resort Khao Lak relaxing with his family, and also filming for a documentary. Khao Lak was the place in Thailand hit hardest by the enormous tsunami and Lind’s film turned out to be a unique document of a place that disappeared and then reappeared again. Since the catastrophe Jens Lind has returned several times to document Khao Lak’s transition, from a quiet place with small bungalow villages to a luxury resort with fancy hotels and lavish villas.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION Jens Lind Produktion Jens Lind

Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm Sweden tel: +46733651151

CO-PRODUCTION: SVT – Sweden INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

This film is a unique document about how the tsunami in 2004 affected and transformed the beach resort Khao Lak, the place in Thailand hit hardest by the disaster. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Politics / Society

Kick Out Your Boss Elisabeth Scharang

Austria, 2014 color, video, 48’/90’ Original Language: English/ Serbian/Portugese/German Subtitles: English www.kickoutyourboss.com

Restructuring of work has already begun. 197 million unemployed worldwide and burnout turning into the new national disease are sufficient arguments for finding alternative work and company structures. Looking at examples in Brazil, Serbia and Austria, we see how such systems can work in different ways: workers’ participation, profit-sharing and abolition of hierarchy.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

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PRODUCTION KGP Gabriele Kranzelbinder

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Killing Time

Killing Time - Entre deux fronts Lydie Wisshaupt-Claudel France / Belgium, 2015 black and white, video, 88’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.killingtime-film.com

Deep in the rocky Californian desert lies a small military town named Twentynine Palms. Neighbouring a large marine corps base, it welcomes troops coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan all year around. On leave or already back to training, these young man kill time by themselves, among brothers in arms or with their family, in a surrounding constantly reminding them of the warzone they just left behind. The banality of everyday life shows how difficult it will be for these men to reclaim a life that will seem forever foreign.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Cellulo Prod Aurélien Lévêque

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

A film about small military town named Twentynine Palms, neighbouring a large marine corps base, it welcomes troops coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan all year around. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Korla

John Turner

USA, 2015 color / black and white, video, 78’ Original Language: English www.korlathemovie.com

Korla is a documentary about a television pioneer, a spiritual seeker, and the godfather of exotica music, organist Korla Pandit. It is also an enterprising American story that mixes Hollywood in the 1950’s with racial reinvention, as it looks at the career of Mr. Pandit (aka John Roland Redd), who successfully passed as an Indian from New Delhi, when in fact he was the son of an African American minister from Columbia, Missouri.

SALES / CONTACT: John Turner Korla LLC 1645 9th Street 94710 Berkeley USA tel: 5105242550 folk1@mindspring.com

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PRODUCTION Korla LLC Eric Christensen

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Lampedusa in Winter Jakob Brossmann

Austria / Switzerland / Italy, 2015 color, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: Tigrigna/ English/Italian/Arabic Subtitles: English www.finali.at

The Italian “refugee island” of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winter’s tristesse. Tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland. As a fire destroys the worn down ferry, that connects the island to Italy, the mayor Giusi Nicolini and the local fishermen struggle for a new ship. The tiny community at the edge of Europe is engaged in a desperate struggle for solidarity with those who many consider the cause of the ongoing crisis: the African boat people.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Finali Film & Wortschatz Produktion

19-21 Christopher Street

Jakob Brossmann

EC2A 2B London

CO-PRODUCTION: Miramontefilm – Italy

England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

The tiny community at the edge of Europe engaged in a desperate fight for dignity and solidarity with those who many consider the cause of the ongoing crisis-African boat people. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

Land Grabbing Landraub Kurt Langbein

Austria, 2015 color, video, 56’/94’ Original Language: Khmer/ Tigrigna/Amharic/German/ Romanian/English/Temne Subtitles: English www.land-grabbing.com

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore. “ - Mark Twain´s quote become of urgency. The world’s farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuels or simply buy up land for profit. The film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and how the politics of the European Union is involved. Land Grabbing doesn´t only happen in Asia and Africa, but also in Europe´s breadbasket Romania. Land Grabbing takes a closer look into Europe and also challenges investors and their practices.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Langbein & Partner Media Kurt Langbein

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

The world’s farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuels or buy up land for profit. 252

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The Land of Many Palaces Adam Smith, Ting Song

China / England, 2015 color, video, 61’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English www.thelandofmanypalaces.com

In the next 20 years, the Chinese government aims to move a quarter of a billion farmers from the countryside to new cities: the largest migration of people in the history of the world. What does this progress look like? And what is being left behind? This extraordinary and often comic ob-doc follows the huge changes in the lives of rural people as they are transplanted to a ready-made metropolis and abandon their ancient way of living. Excluding China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Ting Song Qihan Wang

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

An extraordinary and often comic ob-doc following the huge changes in rural China as people are transplanted to a ready-made metropolis and abandon their ancient way of living. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Landscape Within Andrea Capranico

Philippines, 2015 color / black and white, video, 94’ Original Language: Filipino/English Subtitles: English

Eric Nui Cabales, body-painter, costume designer, photographer and conceptual artist struggles to find new directions after the death of his father. With a strong desire to move forward, and with the support of family and a group of friends and artists, Eric finds purpose at the roots of his affections: Kayama, where the river and the sea meet, the landscape of his memories and the inner source of his inspiration.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Capranico Unit49C North Tower PPT Fort Bonifacio Taguig Global City 1634 Taguig Metromanila Philippines tel: +63 916 6401921 andreacapranico@gmail.com

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Larisa’s Crew Larisina artel Elena Laskari

Russia, 2015 color, HDcam, 62’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

Our film focuses on a crew of seven female artists led by the entrepreneur Larisa Gamidova who replicate the same landscapes and still lives day in day out to satisfy the mass-market demand for interior decoration. Their routine work hasn’t however deprived the artists of creative ambition. They rejoice at success, complain about the audience’s bad taste, and cantankerously compare their creations with the works of Russian art classics.

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PRODUCTION NO ART-PROJECT Foundation

Chernyakhovskogo 2-43

Ekaterina Meliksetva

125319 Moscow Russia tel: +79037751322 kuzzzmanya@gmail.com

A crew of female artists mass produces oil paintings to satisfy the mass-market demand for interior decoration objects. Their routine work hasn’t however deprived the artists of creative ambition. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Last Harvest Jane Hui Wang

Canada, 2015 color, video, 78’/52’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

Last Harvest follows the remarkable journey of Mr. and Mrs. Xu, an elderly Chinese farming couple, on a forced relocation by the government’s mammoth South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Lyrical and intimate, the film brings us into the life of two compelling peasants facing major disruption late in life. It continues the story where other documentaries left off – after the people have been relocated and have to re-build their lives, and offers a direct experience of the collision between traditional culture and modernization, through which we see the imminent extinction of Old China as New China emerge.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix

PRODUCTION Redbean Productions Hui Wang Jane Hui Wang

75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com

Displaced by a powerful state, can this aging farm couple make new roots in their older years, or simply become cogs in a new machine? 256

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A Leak in Paradise. Swiss Bank Whistleblower David Leloup

Belgium, 2015 color, HDcam, 76’/52’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English/French www.ventes-cbawip-sales.be

The investigative character driven story of Rudolf Elmer, a Swiss whistleblower banker who defied secrecy when revealing to newborn WikiLeaks, the seedy secrets of a Cayman Islands bank. After being tailed, harassed and jailed, the banker plunges us into the world of offshore banking, worth 21K billion dollars, whose driving role in tax evasion and finance deregulation weakens our democracies and destroys the social contract. Excluding Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden

SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Ventes - CBA/WIP Sales

PRODUCTION Domino Production Sergio Ghizzardi

c/o WIP, PIL, Bât T, 36 rue de Mulhouse 4020 Liège Belgium tel: +3243401040 www.ventes-cbawip-sales.be ventes-cbawip-sales@skynet.be

Rudolf Elmer, the man who would destroy bank secrecy International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Leaving Africa Iiris Härmä

Sweden / Finland, 2015 color, video, 58’ Original Language: English/Finnish/Luganda Subtitles: English

Finnish Riitta and Ugandan Catherine have something in common; work, a shared home and a sense of humor. Riitta has been working in aid work in Uganda for more than 25 years, and soon it is time for her to retire and to return to Finland. Before that, Riitta and Catherine will invite religious leaders to a course in which they challenge the priests and the imams to a straightforward, taboo breaking discussion on women’s right to their bodies, sexuality and life.

SALES / CONTACT: Nicole Biermaier First Hand Films

PRODUCTION Guerilla Films Visa Koiso-Kanttila

Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zurich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com info@firsthandfilms.com

Before leaving Africa, Finnish Ritta and Ugandan Catherine need to complete a course for priests and imams, establishing a taboo breaking discussion on women’s rights in Uganda. 258

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Life in Flames

La vida en llamas David Beriain, Manuel H. Martin Spain / France, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

Andalucia, Spain. One of the world’s worst places to fight fire, where temperatures of up to 45º c meet with vast vegetation, creating 50 meter walls of flames that threaten the whole region. Life in Flames follows a team of elite firemen over the course of a summer. Gustavo, 41, leads the team. At the peak of his career, and driven by one obsession - to keep his men alive. Abarca, 61, could have left the team years ago but he refused, year after year. Meanwhile Curiño is about to work his first summer and live his ‘baptism of fire’. . . .

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films

PRODUCTION 93 Metros SL David Beriain

38 Quai du Point du Jour

La Claqueta Metalica

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

Olmo Figueredo González-

France

Quevedo

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kathryn@javafilms.tv

Veo TV / Discovery MAX – Spain

Life in Flames follows a team of elite firemen over the course of a summer in Andalucia, Spain. One of the world’s worst places to fight fire … International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Life is Sacred Andreas Møl Dalsgaard

Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 80’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.lifeissacred-film.com

Violence is a fact of everyday life in Colombia. Drug cartels have kept the country in armed conflict for decades. Presidential candidate Antanas Mockus fights to solve this conflict. As mayor of Bogotá, and dressed in a Superman costume and with an indomitable trust in the good of his fellow citizens, Mockus overcame both towering crime rates, unruly students and people’s bad traffic habits. But his idealism is both his strength and his weakness in a corrupt political system, where his opponent plays a dirty game, and where the people have lost faith in being able to make a difference. Excluding Denmark, Sweden, Norway

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SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real Signe Byrge Sørensen

Levontin Street 18

Anne Köhncke

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel

CO-PRODUCTION: Savage Productions – Ireland,

tel: +972 35 664129

Sant & Usant – Norway,

www.cinephil.co.il

Elk Film – Denmark

philippa@cinephil.co.il

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Life of a Butterfly Zycie motyla Piotr Bernas

Poland, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

An insight into mechanisms of human self-destruction. Marcin Rózalski (35), a veteran of martial arts, is a modern gladiator. His life is a continuous fight tinted with conscious and steady destruction of his body and health. Life of a Butterfly is a story about the price one pays for adamant and uncompromising ambition to stay at the top. It is a tale of fear, hatred, constant escape, and unconditional love.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a

PRODUCTION Piotr Bernas

Endorfina Studio Marta Golba

31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946945 www.kff.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

An MMA fighter at the peak of his career will do anything to stay in the game. A tale of fear, hatred, constant escape, and unconditional love. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Life Should Be Lived Greklandsresan Ulric Bellman, Eva Lofroth Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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Dimitrios ”Tackis” Sahpekidis is a true powerhouse, working with arranging activities and outings for the elderly in his small town community. One day he gets the impossible idea to organize a trip to his native country Greece for a large group of Swedish seniors. Many of the elderly are disabled or demented, but that doesn’t stop Dimitrios plans. ”Life should be lived, all the way to the end” – that is his cheerful motto. This feelgood film was a huge success when aired in Sweden, and social media virtually exploded with likes and shares.

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PRODUCTION SVT Ulric Bellman

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Eva Lofroth

S-10510 Stockholm

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

Sweden tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

A heartwarming film about 18 Swedish seniors who gets the unlikely chance to travel to Greece, on what is possibly the last longer journey they will make in life. 262

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Like the Others Wie die Anderen Constantin Wulff

Austria, 2015 color, video, 95’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English

Mental illness is still a taboo in our society, even more so when it concerns children. A rare insight into the daily life at a child and adolescent psychiatric centre – we meet dedicated therapists, parents and patients with very different problems, united in the fight to feel ‚like the others’.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Navigator Film Johannes Rosenberger

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

A rare insight into life at a child and adolescent psychiatric centre meeting therapists, parents and patients with very different problems, united in the fight to feel ‚like the others’. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Limited Partnership Thomas Miller

USA, 2015 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 55’/75’ Original Language: English

www.limitedpartnershipmovie.com

A 40-year love story between FilipinoAmerican Richard and Australian Tony, who, in 1975, became one of the first same-sex couples to be legally married. After applying for a green card for Tony, the couple received a denial letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service stating, “You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots. ” Outraged at the tone, tenor and politics of this letter and to prevent Tony’s impending deportation, the couple sued the U. S. government, filing the first federal lawsuit seeking equal treatment for a same-sex marriage in U. S. history.

SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films

PRODUCTION Treehouse Moving Images Kirk Marcolina

P.O. Box 15703

Tesseract Films Corporation

1001 NE Amsterdam

Thomas Miller

The Netherlands tel: +31204040707

CO-PRODUCTION: Tesseract Films Corporation – USA,

www.sndfilms.com

Treehouse Moving Images – Australia

info@sndfilms.com

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The historic 40-year struggle of Richard, a gay Filipino-American, and his Australian spouse, Tony, to remain together, in spite of U.S. laws that attempt to force them apart. 264

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Listen, Darling Ming Yen Su

Taiwan, 2014 color / black and white, HDcam, 12’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: Chinese/English

It’s Mom’s birthday today. The blind man Li Si-Yong with weak sighted Wu Wen-Ru and their child still in utero had a walk outside in the ruins of a city, trying to collect some fragmented memories.

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PRODUCTION Ming Yen Su

3F., No.31-2, Aly. 4, Ln. 319, Liancheng Rd., 235 New Taipei City Taiwan tel: +886919332485 antigusu@gmail.com

The blind man, Li Si-Yong, takes his wife and their baby still in utero out for a walk in the ruins of a city, trying to collect some fragmented memories. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Little Angels Marco Niemeijer

The Netherlands, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam/video, 76’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English

Just before her death, the filmmaker’s step-grandmother, Enny (97) from NY, takes him by surprise by showing him family videos illustrating her first marriage in Amsterdam. She had never talked about this life. The only witness to this distant past is the framed picture of Enny’s first two kids. Glenda and Myrna, both lost their lives in Auschwitz. Daughter Tascha (68) is still incapable of detaching herself from her mother. She is surrounded by her mother’s items, wearing her jewellery, refusing to cut off her hair to continue to look like her.

SALES / CONTACT: Piers Nightingale Starline Entertainment 213 Haverstock Hill

PRODUCTION Windmill Film BV Annemiek van der Hell

NW34QP London

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Joodse Omroep –

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The Netherlands

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Little Angels is a personal film, touching on some universal themes. A symbiosis between mother and child and how a traumatising experience can continue to dominate many generations ahead. 266

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The Longest Run Marianna Economou

Greece, 2015 color, HDcam/ DCP/video, 77’/55’ Original Language: Arabic/Kurdish/Greek Subtitles: English

Jasim and Alsaleh are underage refugees in a Greek prison. Coming from Syria and Iraq they were arrested and accused of smuggling illegal immigrants. With unique access in the juvenile prison and court room, the film follows the two friends closely while in custody, during the trial and after the verdict through a narrative of suspense which reveals how youngsters are forced to transport migrants across the border to Greece while the smugglers stay behind and continue their job uninterrupted. If Jasim and Alsaleh are found guilty, they will face extremely long prison sentences.

SALES / CONTACT: Spyros Mavrogenis Stefi &Lynx Productions 24, Amyklon street

PRODUCTION Stefi &Lynx Productions Spyros Mavrogenis

15231 Athens

CO-PRODUCTION: DOC3 Productions – Greece,

Greece

Marni Films – Greece

tel: +30 210 6386200 www.stefi.gr s.mavrogenis@stefi.gr

Two teenage refugees are wrongly accused of smuggling illegal immigrants. The film follows the two friends closely in a Greek juvenile prison before, during and after their trial. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Look Love Yun Ye

China, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 146’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English/Chinese

Two Chinese children, Linsheng and Xinyuan, grow up in completely different circumstances, but both are confronted with a similar situation. Linsheng lives with his impoverished father and two younger brothers in a village in Hunan, where he works the land. Xinyuan lives in Beijing where she attends an expensive boarding school. Although both parents just want the best for their children and love them dearly, the children feel lost and abandoned. Director Ye Yun observes the day-to-day lives of Linsheng and Xinyuan in a calm and loving manner. Look Love shows the consequences of failing family values and high expectations.

SALES / CONTACT: Christy Wu CNEX Studio Corporation

PRODUCTION Yeyun Studio Wen Chang

6F., No.223, Sec. 1, Tiding Blvd., Neihu CNEX Studio Corporation Dist., Taipei City 11494, Taiwan

Ruby Chen

11494 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886 2 2796 5820 www.cnex.com.tw distribution@cnex.com.tw

Look Love depicts the lives of a father and his sons living in the mountain area of China, and thousand miles away, a mother and her boarding schoolattending daughter in Beijing. 268

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A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky Tomoko Kana

Japan, 2014 color, HDcam, 69’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English

As a documentary director and a citizen who used power created at the nuclear plant, Kana Tomoko feels it her responsibility to report the leak situation in tsunami-battered Fukushima. After returning to Tokyo she finds out that she is pregnant. She is overjoyed yet terrified by what the effects of her exposure to radiation may have on the baby. She realizes that her body is the site that may expose the Fukushima disaster, and that she and her baby’s story is the story of Fukushima.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Horizon Features Co. Mari Mukai

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England tel: +48 69 3866348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

The reflexive documentary makes a detailed record, proving that “the personal is political.” International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Lyari Notes

Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Maheen Zia

India / Pakistan, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’/52’ Original Language: Hindi/Urdu Subtitles: English www.lyarinotes.com

Hamza Jafri travels in an armed vehicle. He is a musician famous for his hard hitting political lyrics since the 1990s. Since then religious fundamentalism has been on the rise with shops selling music torched, concerts bombed and musicians threatened with death. Seeing the shrinking space for music and artists Hamza decides to fight back by opening a music school. Captured over 3 years Lyari Notes is the narrative of four young girls who attend Hamza’s music school and learn what it takes to express oneself despite the cycles of violence.

SALES / CONTACT: Miriam Chandy Menacherry Filament Pictures

PRODUCTION Filament Pictures Miriam Chandy Menacherry

Mapleleaf 1020-21 E Wing Raheja

Maheen Zia

Vihar

CO-PRODUCTION: apnakam – Pakistan

400072 Mumbai India tel: +91 9892644163

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Al Jazeera International – Qatar,

www.filamentpictures.co.in

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miriamchandy@yahoo.com

Four young girls who live in Karachi’s most volatile district decide to attend weekly music classes in a school run by a Pakistani rockstar... A poignant narrative of music and resistance 270

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Madonna Nino Gogua

Georgian Republic, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Georgian Subtitles: English

57 years old Madonna is the only female public bus driver in Georgia. Once a famous Soviet proletarian tram driver, today she struggles against patriarchal society which perceives her occupation as a “man’s job”. She refuses to give up driving and demands to be accepted as a woman. Meanwhile, after waiting for Government’s attention for years in vain, Madonna begins to renovate her little apartment with her own hands. Inside the former Tram administrative building, she tries to build a peaceful home to share with her old mother.

SALES / CONTACT: Natia Guliashvili CineMark

PRODUCTION CineMark Natia Guliashvili

10 Kipshidze str., 20 app 0162 Tbilisi Georgian Republic tel: +995599555421 cinemarkgeorgia@gmail.com

A documentary portrait about the only female public bus driver in Georgia.

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The Madonna Case Madonnafallet Nadia Dyberg

Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 57’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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The police in Gothenburg, Sweden, pursues a criminal ring involved in trafficking and sex slavery. It is a complex investigation of a brutal gang, which shocks even the most hardened policemen. In the film we get to follow two Gothenburg police officers working on a case that the media soon terms ”Sweden’s biggest trafficking case”. The league they are chasing is based in Romania and deals with prostitution and sex slavery. The brutality of the criminal gang is appalling and the complexity of the case makes the investigation difficult and tedious.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm Sweden tel: +46733651151

PRODUCTION Kibera Productions Nadia Dyberg CO-PRODUCTION: SVT – Sweden INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

A shocking film about a brutal Romanian trafficking ring operating in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. 272

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Maiko, Dancing Child Åse Svenheim Drivenes

Norway, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’/70’ Original Language: Norwegian/ English/Japanese Subtitles: English

Maiko’s destiny was decided before she was born. Her name Maiko means dancing child. Her mother, the driving force behind her career, sold their house and car to send 14 year old Maiko to the most prestigious dancing schools in Europe. She knew she couldn’t return to Japan as a failure. Today Maiko is 32 on top of her career as a prima ballerina at the Norwegian National Ballet. Maiko is not a young dancer anymore and talented newcomers are longing for her position. Competition is getting tougher when Maiko decides to start a family. . .

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House

PRODUCTION Sant & Usant Anita Rehoff Larsen

9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris

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Life as a prima ballerina over 30 is tough enough for Maiko when she decides to start a family....

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Mali Blues Lutz Gregor

Germany / Spain, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: French/ Bambara/Tamasheq Subtitles: English www.gebrueder-beetz.de

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Mali Blues, a musical road-movie about the rich musical culture of this WestAfrican country, depicts the threat of Sharia and the fight of Malian artists for peace and freedom of speech. Together with Fatoumata Diawara, acclaimed Malian shooting star and actress in the Oscar nominated and with 7 Césars awarded film Timbuktu by Abderramahne Sissako, we embark on a journey from Bamako in the South West to Timbuktu in the North - Mali’s agitated heart. Other protagonists are ngoni-virtuoso Bassekou Kouyaté as well upcoming rapper Master Soumi. Music for change, music for life!

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Tschurtschenthaler Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

PRODUCTION Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Christian Beetz

Heinrich-Roller-Straße 15 10405 Berlin Germany tel: +49 (0)30 69566910 www.gebrueder-beetz.de l.koerner@gebrueder-beetz.de

Mali Blues tells the stories of four musicians who will never accept hatred, mistrust, violence or a radical Islam – neither in Mali nor in the rest of the world.

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Mallory

Helena Trestíková

Czech Republic, 2015 color / black and white, DCP/video, 101’ Original Language: Czech Subtitles: English

Mallory is determined to return to a normal life after many difficult mishaps. Life hasn’t been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She wants to turn her back on her dark past and help those she knows best – people on the fringes of society. In her latest long-term documentary, Helena Tre tíková demonstrates that even seemingly hopeless lives needn’t be cut short halfway. Excluding Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia

SALES / CONTACT: Daniel Vadocky NEGATIV

PRODUCTION NEGATIV Katerina Cerná

Neumannstr.28

Pavel Strnad

13189 Berlin

CO-PRODUCTION: Czech Television – Czech Republic

Czech Republic tel: +491773508133 daniel@negativ.cz

13 years on the way from down and out in a documentary by Helena Trestíková International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Man and the Music El hombre y la musica Laura Sipán

Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

The interior of an empty theater. The hall seats, the curtain, the lights. On the stage, occupying the center with solemnity, a piano. The atmosphere speaks of a roomful, where a piano plays intimate but surely a composition of García Abril. We feel the breath of the public we don’t see, it sounds then La Gitanilla, a Garcia Abril masterpiece. We hear the applause of a theater that vibrates excited. Who is behind this music that crossed borders and touches us irremediably? Who is this man, sensible and wise, who celebrates 80 years?

SALES / CONTACT: Roberto Butragueño Elamedia

PRODUCTION Elamedia Roberto Butragueño

C/ Eros, 7 28045 Madrid Spain tel: +34687104929 www.elamedia.es roberto@elamedia.es

Antón García Abril, the genius, the composer, the man.

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Man Falling Anne Regitze Wivel

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 120’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English

A brain injury after a fall forces Per Kirkeby - one of Denmark’s most famous artists - to stop painting. In an instant, Kirkeby loses his life’s foundation as well as his ability to work. Man Falling is the story about Per Kirkeby’ s universe - marked by deep melancholy as well as astounding beauty; a story about a personal struggle for life and work, a return to the universal language of painting that has been his way to get his visual and emotional impulses out.

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House 9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris

PRODUCTION Danish Documentary Sigrid Dyekjær INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

France tel: 33153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org

Falling apart in a blink of an eye, Awakening with passion. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Man Who Mends Women - The Wrath of Hippocrates L’homme qui répare les femmes - la colère d’Hippocrate Thierry Michel Belgium, 2015 color, video, 115’/52’ Original Language: French/English/Swahili Subtitles: English www.mukwege-themovie.com

Doctor Mukwege is known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. Threatened with death, he lives cloistered in his hospital under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix

PRODUCTION Les Films de la Passerelle Christine Pireaux RYVA Production

75004 Paris

Eric van Zuylen

France

CO-PRODUCTION: RYVA Production – Belgium

tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTBF – Belgium, RTS – Switzerland, Public Senat – France

Doctor Mukwege, known as the man who mends thousands of women for 20 years now lives under protection in his hospital in Bukavu, where he continues his fight. 278

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The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano Joshua Seftel

USA, 2015 color, video, 27’ Original Language: English www.seftel.com/toledano

Photographer Phil Toledano is obsessed with the idea of his own demise. He spends his days undergoing hours of prosthetic applications with the help of a special effects makeup artist, and photographing himself in every dark and scary depiction of his future, including obesity, desolation, stroke, isolation, suicide, and violent death. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter sit on the sidelines, worrying that this project will leave Phil unable to envision a positive future. Through a journey of unexpected turns and revelations, Phil’s obsession changes him and his family forever.

SALES / CONTACT: Jill Landaker Grunes Seftel Productions 20 Jay Street Suite M02

PRODUCTION Seftel Productions Jill Landaker Grunes Joshua Seftel

11201 Brooklyn USA tel: 7184227901 www.seftel.com jill@seftel.com

Phillip Toledano endures three years of DNA tests, psychics, and prosthetic makeup sessions on a comically dark quest to overcome his fear of the future.

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March of the White Elephants Craig Tanner

Brazil / South Africa / USA, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English/Portugese Subtitles: English

March of the White Elephants reveals the real legacy of the FIFA World Cup state of the art stadiums that were built to stage a four-week tournament will stand idle, soaking up funds needed for basic services and for health, housing and education. The filmmakers visit the sites of the last two World Cups, Brazil & South Africa, to get testimony from social activists who make it clear that FIFA is a modern day parasite abusing countries for the love of Football.

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION Neil Brandt Laura Colucci

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

March of the White Elephants explores how FIFA prowls the globe, pocketing billions while leaving behind host countries with a legacy of economic debt, social distress and empty stadiums. 280

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Marzia, My Friend Marzia, ystäväni Kirsi Mattila

Finland, 2015 black and white, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English www.filmdelights.com/sales/marziamyfriend

Marzia, My Friend is the story of an Afghan woman in her twenties, who – just like all young people – dreams of love, freedom and an interesting job. Marzia dreams of peace and independence. But because she lives in Afghanistan, her dreams are revolutionary. Ultimately Marzia’s story becomes a symbol of the wider struggle of Afghan women: it is about the right to make decisions about your own life. The film follows Marzia’s life from spring 2011 to the end of 2014, when international troops were supposed to leave Afghanistan.

SALES / CONTACT: Christa Auderlitzky Filmdelights

PRODUCTION Piia Nokelainen Pohjola-filmi

Lindengasse 25/10

Elina Pohjola

1070 Wien Austria tel: +43-1-9443035 www.filmdelights.com auderlitzky@filmdelights.com

Tells the story of 20 year old Marzia, who – just like all young people – dreams of love, freedom and an interesting job. In Afghanistan her dreams are revolutionary. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Master and Tatyana Meistras ir Tatjana Giedre Zickyte

Lithuania, 2014 color / black and white, video, 84’ Original Language: Lithuanian/Russian Subtitles: English www.facebook.com/meistras.ir.tatjana

Vitas Luckus was an extremely colourful bird standing out from drabness the Soviet era. He kept a live lion in his apartment. He was the first to go beyond Lithuanian surroundings and document the spontaneous reality of Soviet Republics. His photographs, just like his eccentric lifestyle, make an impression until nowadays. He lived in Vilnius with his beautiful wife Tatyana. They were the vibrant couple of the ‘60s. Just as vibrant was their home, always full of people, wine, nightlong conversations, guests from the farthermost places of the Soviet Union. He was engulfed by his passion for truth and photography.

SALES / CONTACT: Justinas Vancevicius Just a Moment Pylimo 9 - 13 LT01118 Vilnius Lithuania tel: +37061626966 www.justamoment.lt justinas@nepatoguskinas.lt

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Master and Tatyana is a story about Vitas Luckus - a rebellious genius of photography, his passionate love and another life destroyed by the Soviet system.

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PRODUCTION Just a Moment Dagne Vildziunaite INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

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Matachindé Víctor Palacios

Colombia, 2014 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.matachinde.wordpress.com

Eight hours ago from the city of Buenaventura (in Colombia) there is the small village of “Juntas de Yurumanguí”, an afro community has re-appropriated of the Easter Celebration with their African roots. Far from clergy’s control, the settlers have autonomy in their religious practices, and they have made of the Easter celebration a cultural resistance practice. During the celebration, the “matachines” wake up to life, and after an appropriation and ingrained process they become the spiritual representation of the community.

SALES / CONTACT: Víctor Palacios Colectivo MEJODA Cra 28d1 120a15 760001 Cali

PRODUCTION Colectivo MEJODA Víctor Palacios CO-PRODUCTION: Tikal Producciones – Colombia

Colombia tel: +57(2)6638831 mejodaudiovisual@yahoo.com

Available in all territories except Colombia

In a hidden small town of the Colombian Pacific coast, an afro community has re-appropriated of the Easter Celebration with their African roots. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Me and Dad Kathrine Ravn Kruse

Denmark, 2015 color, 35mm, 59’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English

Armed with a shaky camera and a loving gaze the now adult Kathrine steps back into her father’s alcoholic world. A world of chaos and a constant fear of loss, but also lots of little jokes and big dreams of a better life. And what appears to be a film about social deroute is suddenly transformed into a warm and humorous feel good story about second chances when the unthinkable happens: Palle quits drinking! Excluding Norway

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

Mille Haynes

Corporation

Mathilde Lippmann

Emil Holms Kanal 20

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

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PRODUCTION Made in Copenhagen

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Men’s Choice Muzhskoy Vybor Elena Demidova

Russia / Norway / Finland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 75’/63’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

This film tells us three stories about men extracting natural gas on the Yamal Peninsula. They are forced to leave their families for a long time to be able to support them. For all of them working in Gazprom is the only opportunity to earn real money because there is no high paid job in their hometowns so they are forced to leave their families for a long time to be able to support them. One day they have to decide whether earned money is worth all the problems with families. Each of them makes his own choice.

SALES / CONTACT: Konstantin Nafikov Reflexion Films

PRODUCTION Ethnogeographic Research Foundation

Khokhlovsky 10-7

Vlad Ketkovich

107078 Moscow Russia

CO-PRODUCTION: Relation04 Media – Norway,

tel: +79169661531

Illume Oy – Finland

knafikov@gmail.com

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MH17: A Nation’s Grief MH17: Het verdriet van Nederland Michiel van Erp The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 71’

In 2014, The Netherlands received the devastating news that a plane was shot down in Ukraine. There were no survivors: two hundred Dutch people were killed. Following the tragedy, the nation turned to mourning, sympathizing with all people who lost a loved one that day. Seen through the eyes of three very different families, this film gives an impressive insight into the way the tragedy has affected these people personally. Besides that, it also portrays the Ukrainian villagers who witnessed dead bodies falling down in their streets, backyards and through their roofs, on the day of the crash.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales

PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Michiel van Erp

Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VARA – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

This film gives an insight into how the MH17-tragedy has affected families of victims and reflects on the traumatic stories of Ukrainian villagers who saw bodies falling down from the sky. 286

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Milk

Noemi Weis

Canada, 2015 color, video, 90’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.milkhood.com

Through an intimate and artistic lens, Milk brings a universal perspective on the politics, commercialization and controversies surrounding birth and infant feeding over the canvas of stunningly beautiful visuals and poignant voices from around the globe. Inspiring, informative, provocative and sensitive, Milk celebrates bringing a new life into this world with a strong call to action and reflection. In a seamless narrative, Milk follows stories of mothers from different cultures on a world journey spanning 11 countries, as it reveals the universal issues and challenges facing motherhood and birth today.

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Filmblanc Carolyn Allain

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv publicity@journeyman.tv

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Minding Our Own Inaya Yusuf

USA, 2015 color, video, 40’ Original Language: English

www.mindingourownfilm.com

Minding Our Own is a compassionate portrayal of two families and their quest to understand the world of caregiving. While unearthing relationship dynamics, these unlikely heroes provide an intimate look into what it takes to truly care for another person and is a meditation on life’s surprises as well as its immeasurable rewards. Minding Our Own unveils the raw emotions that surfaces from the complexity of parenthood, adulthood and partnership, while redefining the meaning of love and friendship.

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SALES / CONTACT: Inaya Yusuf 231 Warren St 11201 Brooklyn USA tel: +1 646 648 3492 www.mindingourownfilm.com igyusuf@gmail.com

PRODUCTION Inaya Yusuf

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Miso Hungry: The Effortless Japanese Diet Tim Delmastro

Australia, 2015 color, video, 90’/58’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.misohungry.tv

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In a dieting experiment similar to Supersize Me, but towards improving health, award-winning actor and comedian Craig Anderson eats nothing but traditional, authentic Japanese cooking for 12 weeks. Through a series of entertaining and educational scenarios filled with culinary secrets and cultural chaos, Craig investigates how the traditional Japanese diet, along with their active lifestyles, results in the Japanese population being the healthiest and longest living people on the planet. Miso Hungry is a lighthearted documentary about one man’s journey to find a simple, painless path towards a healthier life.

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Tim Delmastro

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

Through a series of entertaining and educational scenarios filled with culinary secrets and cultural chaos, Craig Anderson investigates why the Japanese population are the healthiest on the planet. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Model Boys Modellpojkar Nathanael Goldman

Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

/programme-sales/model-boys/

In the series we follow the models to castings, photo shoots and fashion shows in New York, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Istanbul and Stockholm. They have all left their hometowns and the safe haven of family and friends, to pursue their dream of glamour and big money. But even if their respective carreers are starting to take off, life as an international male model is not a walk in the park. Endless castings, cheap hotels, extreme food discipline and loneliness are all part of the everyday life for the models, as they struggle to get a big breakthrough.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION SVT Patrick Bratt

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Nanushka Television

S-10510 Stockholm

Nathanael Goldman

Sweden

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

A documentary series depicting the lives of seven Swedish male models. Originally commissioned for the web. 290

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Model Girls Modellflickor Nathanael Goldman

Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 28’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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A behind-the-scenes look at an industry with extreme demands and an absolute obsession with bodies and looks. The Swedish supermodels lead extraordinary lives in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, London and Stockholm. But although the girls lifestyle may seem fancy and glamorous it is also tough and destructive to be constantly judged by your looks. Or as one of the models put it: If a girl has issues with self-esteem and self-image and comes into a job where it’s all about that, it can really fuck her up.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION SVT Patrick Bratt

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Nanushka Television

S-10510 Stockholm

Nathanael Goldman

Sweden

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

This documentary series, originally commissioned for the web, follows the lives of eight Swedish top models. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Moments of Campaign Instantes de campaña Tomás Astudillo

Ecuador, 2015 black and white, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish/Quechua Subtitles: English www.instantes.ec

Tomás Astudillo followed the Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa during the 42 days of campaigning that preceded his re-election as head of the country for the third consecutive time. The “mise en scène” with a political agenda is the real story of this film, which is also a meditation via direct cinema on a collective neurosis: the tenacious belief in the right man. Excluding Ecuador

SALES / CONTACT: Tomás Astudillo Ostinato Cine

PRODUCTION Ostinato Cine Tomás Astudillo

Stubel N27-98 EC170108 Quito Ecuador tel: +59326039600 www.ostinatocine.com astudillo.tomas@gmail.com

Beyond being a historical record of Rafael Correa’s 2013 presidential re-election campaign, Moments of Campaign is an examination on the implied duality of his public figure. 292

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Monalisa Story

Monalisa Story - En Film om Kamp, Kärlek och Heroin Jessica Nettelbladt Denmark / Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’/58’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English

After years of drug abuse, she meets Fredrik, another soul marked by his background. They decide to put their faith in love, to fight their addiction and to make their dreams come true. We closely follow the ups and downs in MonaLisa’s life over the course of eight years. The result is a poignant and unique tale of a different kind of reality in our midst. It is an ode to love, a mournful blues and an honest portrait that will draw you in and deeply touch your heart. Excluding Sweden, Norway

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

PRODUCTION Lejoni Production AB Jessica Nettelbladt

Emil Holms Kanal 20

CO-PRODUCTION: Magic Hour Films – Denmark,

0999 København C

True Fiction – Sweden

Denmark tel: +45 35202299

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,

www.dr.dk

DR – Denmark,

kimc@dr.dk

NRK – Norway

A film about love, struggles and heroin. Eight dramatic years in the life of a drug addict. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Moriom

Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi

Switzerland, 2015 color, video, 12’ Original Language: Bengali Subtitles: English www.dokmobile.ch/moriom.html

Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. “I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I’m a police officer. I’m a flower angel. I got a job at police station. I will punish them. I will put them in jail.” The history of a girl and the tragedy that changed her life.

SALES / CONTACT: Mark Olexa Dok Mobile Rue de la Sarine,4

PRODUCTION Dok Mobile Mark Olexa Francesca Scalisi

1700 Fribourg Switzerland tel: +41 79 718 48 91 www.dokmobile.ch mrkolexa@gmail.com

Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. When the tragedy happens, Moriom becomes a flower-angel to destroy all the bad things in the world. And to rescue herself. 294

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Mother & Grunberg Moeder & Grunberg Silvia Bromet

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English

At the age of 18 Arnon Grunberg leaves Amsterdam with the ambition to become an actor and to escape his dominant mother and his taciturn father. Now, 44 years old and a successful writer living in New York, he decides that it is time to return to his family home. The conversations are alternated with intimate scenes, where we catch a glimpse of the real world, which the writer had always carefully hidden from his public life.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2

PRODUCTION &Bromet Silvia Bromet

1217 ZL Hilversum

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Joodse Omroep –

The Netherlands

tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

The documentary gives an extraordinary insight into the special relationship between the Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg and his mother, which is scarred by the tragic story of his mother’s life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Mother’s Wish Joonas Berghäll

Finland / Portugal / Sweden / Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English www.oktober.fi

Like his award-winning Steam of Life, the equally episodic Mother’s Wish tells 10 stories of women around the world, connected by the theme of motherhood. The stories form an intense ensemble of motherhood and love: a first childbirth, the pride of being able to offer your children education and the bright moments of everyday life. But the stories also show tragic events, such as mother’s worry when her child falls sick or is being mistreated. Above all the stories speak of survival: These women have struggled through life against all odds. They give the viewer hope of a better tomorrow.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION Oktober Oy Joonas Berghäll

21 Place Epernay

Satu Majava

J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)

Timo Vierimaa

Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

Mother’s Wish tells 10 stories of women around the world, connected by the theme of motherhood. 296

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Mountain Spirits Singing Chen, Kuo-liang Chiang

Taiwan, 2014 color, HDcam, 67’ Original Language: Chinese/Taiwanese Subtitles: English/Chinese

WANG Wen-Chih shows a special artistic characteristic in contemporary art. The creative energy comes endlessly from where he was born. By that he uses the oriental material, bamboo to express the power and image of Asian culture. This is a documentary about the artist’s belief and philosophy in creating arts, and how the spectators discover the moving and surprising moments in his works.

SALES / CONTACT: The 3rd Vision Films LTD 3F, No.5, Ln. 75, Tien-yu St., 11156 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886 955 096 196 godmandog@gmail.com

This is a documentary about the WANG Wen-Chih’s belief and philosophy in creating arts, and how the spectators discover the moving and surprising moments in his works. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Mr. Hu and the Temple Meneer Hu en de tempel Yan Ting Yuen

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Mandarin/Dutch Subtitles: English

In China, Buddhist temples are more popular than ever, motivating the Chinese community in The Netherlands to undertake the plan to establish a branch of the Putuo Temple, a prestigious Buddhist mountain in China. From the challenge of finding half a million euros to fund a location and onwards, nothing seems impossible for project leader Mr Hu, an overseas Chinese gentlemen. With a solemn nod the abbot of Putuo gave his blessing. The dream plan seems to take off smoothly, but it is just the beginning of a journey to find out what it takes to be a real Buddhist.

SALES / CONTACT: Jia Zhao China Europe Docsalon

PRODUCTION China Europe Docsalon Arjen Oosterbaan

President Brandstraat 13

Jia Zhao

1091XD Amsterdam The Netherlands

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Boeddhistische Omroep –

tel: +31 6 54388758

The Netherlands

www.chinaeurope-docsalon.com jia@chinaeurope-docsalon.com

The Chinese community in Utrecht set out an a journey with one of China’s four most prestigious Buddhist Temples, Putuoshan, to establish a branch temple in The Netherlands. 298

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Art / Music / Culture

Muelheim Texas - Helge Schneider here and there Mülheim Texas - Helge Schneider hier und dort Andrea Roggon Germany, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English www.muelheim-texas.de

Helge Schneider is one of the most extraordinary German artists. Jazz musician, entertainer, film director, actor and clown. His exceptional talent is his improvisational skill. This is where he shows his bubbling creativity. “I make the everyday grey colorful,” is what he says about himself. In his world, the fantastic coexists with the everyday and it is difficult to define the boundaries between reality and fiction. Even in his communication with his audiences, this element of disguise is used, humorously conveying his attitude toward the world. But how does Helge Schneider react to a filmmaker who approaches him?

SALES / CONTACT: Ulla Lehmann AMA FILM Innerer Nordahnhof 1c 70191 Stuttgart

PRODUCTION AMA FILM Ulla Lehmann INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF – Germany

Germany tel: +49 173 64 61 594 www.amafilm.de mail@amafilm.de

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With this documentary we take the extraordinary artist Helge Schneider into spotlight. More than being a classical portrait, the film reflects Schneider’s attitude towards life choosing a special narration. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Muses of Bashevis Singer Shaul Betser, Asaf Galay

Israel, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 72’ Original Language: English/Yiddish/Hebrew Subtitles: English www.the-muses-of-bashevis-singer.com

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the famous Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize winner wrote with a ‘harem’ of dozens of translators behind him. Beyond simple translation, these women were a vital source of his creativity. The inspiration he drew from them came in many forms, often mixing romance with professional aspirations. Today nine remain to tell his story. Intimate interviews and exclusive archival footage combine to portray the story of an author who charmed his audiences, just like he charmed his translators. A film about both the very art of translation and one of the great figures of twentieth century literature. Excluding Israel

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SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Antenna Productions Shaul Betser

Levontin Street 18

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: yes.docu – Israel

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

A film about both the very art of translation and Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of the greatest figures of twentieth century literature.

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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues

Mussa Anat Goren

Israel, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English/ Arabic/Hebrew/Amharic Subtitles: English

Twelve-year-old Mussa won’t speak and no one knows why. He is an African refugee living in Tel Aviv, and for the past five years he’s been bussed from his troubled neighborhood to an upscale private school. Moussa’s Israeli classmates are his best friends, but he chooses to communicate with them only through gestures. Despite the bond he shares with his friends and teacher, Mussa is alone; his parents struggle to make ends meet and are seldom home, leaving Mussa with his voiceless thoughts and a real fear of being deported back to Ethiopia.

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Drucker and Goren Media Anat Goren

Levontin Street 18

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Keshet – Israel

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

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Aged twelve, African refugee Mussa lives in Tel Aviv and is bussed every day from his troubled neighborhood to an upscale private school.

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Politics / Society

The Mute’s House Beit ha’Ilemet Tamar Kay

Israel, 2015 color, HDcam, 31’ Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic Subtitles: English

A building in Israeli Hebron, which has been deserted by its Palestinian occupants, is called “The Mute’s House” by the Israeli soldiers stationed there and by the tour guides who pass by daily. The building’s only occupants are a deaf woman, Sahar, and her 8-year-old son, Yousef. The family’s unique story, in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, unfolds through the eyes of the young and charismatic Yousef, as he goes through his daily routine on both sides of the torn city.

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School

Levontin Street 18

Tamar Kay

6511207 Tel Aviv

Ariel Richter

Israel tel: +972 35 664129 www.cinephil.co.il philippa@cinephil.co.il

A deserted building in Israeli Hebron is called “The Mute’s House” by the Israeli soldiers stationed there and by the tour guides- its occupants are a deaf woman and her son.

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My Cancer Mijn kanker Meral Uslu

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English

My Cancer is a documentary about the breastcancer that invaded my life. In most films about cancer, the camera always stands between the filmmaker and the patient. In this film the camera is the patient: during my treatment I filmed especially my doctors and therapists. I myself am hardly in the picture, only my voice is. Confidence in my body is completely lost. Why do I have cancer? How much chance of survival do I have? But my doctors can’t give me the answers I long for. Do I have to live with cancer for the rest of my life?

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales

PRODUCTION CEM media Meral Uslu

Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

My Cancer is a documentary about the breastcancer that invaded my life.

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My Curious Documentary Adam Low

England, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: English www.dogwoofglobal.com

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This feature doc uses the successful stage adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time to frame a cinematic exploration of the autistic spectrum. The film will use the story of the play, in which Christopher Boone travels to London to find his mother and solve the mystery of who killed his neighbor’s pet dog, as a spine from which to jump off and explore the journeys of people who are the real life equivalents of the characters in the play. Excluding United Kingdom

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SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof 19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

PRODUCTION Lone Star Productions Martin Rosenbaum

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My Father the Banker Mans tevs bankieris Ieva Ozolina

Latvia, 2015 color, HDcam, 68’/52’ Original Language: Latvian/English/Russian www.mistrusmedia.lv

Self-made banker Boriss Osipovs achieves quick success immediately after the collapse of the USSR, but flees Latvia to avoid arrest for illegal operations. Fifteen years later, his family receives a photograph from Interpol of an elderly gentleman with the same name who resides in a Malaysian mental asylum. His daughter, documentary director Ieva Ozolina starts an investigation to find out the truth about the man in the photograph. Film is an emotional story about a man who loses himself in times of change. . . and the daughter who hopes to find him.

SALES / CONTACT: Gints Grube Mistrus Media

PRODUCTION Mistrus Media Gints Grube

Blaumana 11/13-13 LV1011 Riga Latvia tel: +371 29455252 www.mistrusmedia.lv gints.grube@mistrusmedia.lv

My Father the Banker is an emotional story about a man who loses himself in times of change in post soviet Latvia ... and the daughter who hopes to find him. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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My Hottest Year on Earth Jagten på det vilde vejr Halfdan Muurholm

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English

The search for wheather-affacted lives begins in the Philippines right after Hayan, the worst typhoon ever to hit the islands. Here he meets the amazing 12 year old boy, Ramses, who in the middle of the catastrophe speaks words of wisdom. The journey continues to the UK where the worst flooding in centuries has been experienced. In California he faces a never ending drought, the worst in 500 years, in Sweden he experiences a record breaking forest fire, and after that, in the German Spitzkoppe, a glacier melting at alarming speed.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20

PRODUCTION DR TV Anders Roholt INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

A weather man leaves his job to travel around the globe to meet some of the people, whose lives have been turned upside down due to extreme weather events. 306

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My Leftover Ladies Sheng Nu Jen De Tung-Yen Chou

Taiwan, 2015 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: Chinese/Japanese Subtitles: Japanese/English/Chinese

Meet four Taiwanese women, the actual “leftover ladies” fighting to stay breathing in a somewhat stifling society. Since 2012, their friend in common, Chou Tung-yen, has been “stalking” them, capturing on film moments of these women’s daily lives. Through the usually firm yet frequently hesitant steps of these leftover ladies, this documentary short prompts us to ask ourselves: Do we also feel the anxiety that comes along with being single? Are we aware of the isolation that is none but our own?

SALES / CONTACT: Ya-Ching Tung Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation – Taiwan

No.70, Aly. 75, Sec. 3, Kangning Rd., Neihu Dist., 114 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886-2-26338051 www.eng.pts.org.tw/ pub51052@mail.pts.org.tw

Four Taiwanese women, the actual “leftover ladies” fighting to stay breathing in a stifling society. This asks: Do we feel the anxiety that comes along with being single? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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NapolIslam Ernesto Pagano

Italy, 2015 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English

One fine day Naples wakes up and finds out that it has become Islamic. A camera goes through the city and enters into the lives of ten people who have converted to Islam. The result is Napolislam: a documentary with a comic twist that explains why the message of Allah is slowly conquering Europe.

SALES / CONTACT: Silvia Angrisani LADOC srl Bouleverd Richard Lenoir 00100 Paris France tel: +33676570990 www.ladoc.it silvia@ladoc.it

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PRODUCTION LADOC srl Lorenzo Cioffi CO-PRODUCTION: Isola Film – Italy

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Nasser Jihan El-Tahri

France / South Africa, 2015 color / black and white, video, 97’ Original Language: Russian/Arabic/English Subtitles: English

Filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri explores the history of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the revolutionary army officer whose reign as President of Egypt saw him build the infrastructure of the Post-colonial Egyptian State that has remained until today. He forged a system that harnessed military and religious powers, struck a delicate balance in foreign relations and muzzled a complacent civil society. But it is the struggle for power between the Army and the Muslim Brotherhood that has been at the heart of defining the country’s future. This dance between Egypt’s only two political forces continues to define the Egyptian politics landscape today.

SALES / CONTACT: Heidi Fleisher ARTE France 8 Rue Marceau 92785 Issy Les Moulineaux France tel: +33 1 55 00 77 00

PRODUCTION Big Sister Jihan El-Tahri CO-PRODUCTION: ARTE France – France INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

h-fleisher@artefrance.fr

Nasser is the first installment of a trilogy on “Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs,” which also includes films on Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak. (Available in a 3 x 58’ format)

Delve into the history of Nasser, legendary ruler of Egypt during the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War, whose complicated legacy is vital to understand the modern Middle East. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Natural Disorder Naturens uorden Christian Sønderby Jepsen

Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 60’/90’ Original Language: English/Danish Subtitles: English

Jacob Nossell (24) is intelligent, but hardly fits the picture of a dream child: he suffers from a paralysis of the brain, a congenital physical handicap. It affects not only his powers of speech, but also causes cramps and stiffness. When he speaks, his words cluster together, and when he walks it is with difficulty. With a normal intelligence in a weakened body Jacob is the embodiment of the problem ‘what is normality’: he is too much of an invalid to be fully accepted by society and too ordinary for him to be able to accept his own fate.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION Moving Documentary Aps Malene Flindt Pedersen

Corporation

Sidsel Lønvig Siersted

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C

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Denmark

Zuidenwind FilmProductions –

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www.dr.dk

docLander – The Netherlands

kimc@dr.dk

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Jacob has decided to try re-defining the concept of ‘normality’, as perceived by most people and will investigate and challenge the concept of normality in modern society. 310

DR – Denmark, RUV – Iceland, ERR – Estonia

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NaturePlay Daniel Stilling

USA / Denmark / Sweden / Norway, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 84’/52’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English natureplayfilm.com

NaturePlay is a stunning 4K, Cinematic portrait of Childhood defining education and play. Upon the start of their own child’s education, the Danish/ American filmmakers discover that in the USA rampant school testing has become a virus, turning the system into an infected beast. In their search for a cure, they go on an inspiring Nordic journey to uncover how children naturally learn and for a way to take childhood back. A secret defense is also unveiled to rescue these children. One that can drive social change. In a High Stakes education - What’s truly at stake? Our Children.

SALES / CONTACT: Aimie Stilling CineNordic LLC

PRODUCTION CineNordic LLC Aimie Stilling

10524 Moss Park Rd. 32832 Orlando USA tel: +1 (321)292-4341 keymedic@gmail.com

The high stakes testing beast prowls inside US schools, damaging kids with hyper testing. The Nordic North, opens the door to a playful escape-Outside.

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Nazareth Cinema Laday Ha’ishah Me’ha Cinematheque Nurit Jacobs Yinon Israel, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew Subtitles: English/Hebrew/Arabic www.jmtfilms.com

The story of Safa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, who established the first and only Arab cinematheque in Israel. She succeeds in taking charge of her own fate and freedom and establishes the cinematheque. A single woman in a man’s world, she travels to bring Arab box-office hits from Arab states, and seeks, against all the odds, to create an island of culture for the society to which she belongs. This is a cinematic profile of a courageous woman whose path to freedom is interwoven with the battle for her own cinematheque.

SALES / CONTACT: Michael Treves JMT Films Distribution 9 Haavoda St., Appt. 33.

PRODUCTION Aluma-Films Nurit Jacobs Yinon

6382110 Tel Aviv

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Israel

Television and RadioChannel

tel: +972- 3 - 525 4782

2 – Israel

www.jmtfilms.com Michael@JMTFilms.com

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Safa Dabour, a religious Muslim woman from Nazareth, is having her path to freedom interwoven with the battle for her own cinematheque, the first and only Arab cinematheque in Israel. 312

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A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did David Evans

England, 2014 color / black and white, video, 92’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

World famous human rights lawyer and genocide expert, Phillipe Sands retraces the steps of two high ranking Nazi officers who ordered the incineration of the entire Jewish population of a small village, which happened to be Sands’ hometown and as a result, murdered most of his family. He is accompanied on his journey by one son of each officer and together these three men confront stark truths which lead to revelations none of the three could have imagined. Excluding UK, North America, Worldwide SVOD

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company 165 Madison Ave, # 601 10016 New York

PRODUCTION Wildgaze Films Amanda Posey INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BBC – England

USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

Three men are forced to confront the stark truths of their families past. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Nelsons Nr. 5 Carmen Cobos

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 53’/72’

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There are a handful of symphonies that inspire both audiences and performers to vertiginous heights of appreciation. It just so happens that three of these are fifth symphonies, composed in turn by the musical titans Mahler, Beethoven and, of course, Shostakovich. In Nelsons No 5, Carmen Cobos’ second feature documentary, the worldrenowned Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons – a man who is gentle and modest, but deeply passionate about his craft – takes on the Shostakovich masterpiece together with one of the world’s most celebrated ensembles, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales

Carmen Cobos

Bart de Graaffweg 2

Kees Rijninks

1217 ZL Hilversum

CO-PRODUCTION: AVROTROS – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

In Nelsons No 5, the world-renowned Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons takes on the Shostakovich masterpiece together with one of the world’s most celebrated ensembles, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 314

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The New Plastic Road Myrto Papadopoulos, Angelos Tsaousis

Greece / Germany, 2015 color, video, 44’ Original Language: English/Tajik Subtitles: English www.thenewplasticroad.com

The New Plastic Road is a characterdriven documentary film that reveals the gradual economic and social change underway in the remote, destitute communities east of Tajikistan in the Pamir Mountains. Our story is about the growth and change in this remote region of Tajikistan where our main character Davlat lives and evolves in his daily life. The road that connects the two countries – China and Tajikistan, the road that connects two different societies and cultures is part of the ancient Silk Road.

SALES / CONTACT: Angelos Tsaousis Filmografik

PRODUCTION Filmografik Angelos Tsaousis

Enomenis Evropis 7, Panorama 55236 Thessaloniki

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany

Greece tel: +302310347601 www.filmografik.com filmografik@gmail.com

The New Plastic Road is a character-driven documentary film that reveals the gradual economic and social change underway in the remote, destitute communities east of Tajikistan in the Pamir Mountains. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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New York Cuts Luke Lorentzen

USA, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 77’ Original Language: Wolof/ Spanish/English/Russian Subtitles: English www.newyorkcutsfilm.com

New York Cuts observes conversations between hair stylists and clients throughout the cultural enclaves of New York City. The film includes six locations: a Russian hair salon, black barbershop, Dominican barbershop, premier men’s club, Senegalese hair braiding salon, and the high-end hair salon in the famous Plaza Hotel. The film is a series of observational portraits, which bring viewers to eavesdrop within this variety of cultural and socio-economic environments. The differences between these routines of everyday life are captured, as the film juxtaposes communities rarely seen by the same set of eyes.

SALES / CONTACT: Luke Lorentzen

PRODUCTION Stanford University

89 Butternut Hollow Rd

Luke Lorentzen

06830 Greenwich, CT USA tel: +1 2035611146 www.lukelorentzen.com luke.lorentzen@gmail.com

New York Cuts explores a variety of barbershops and hair salons throughout disparate cultural enclaves of New York City. 316

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Next Stop: Utopia Apostolos Karakasis

Greece, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: Greek Subtitles: English www.visiblefilm.com

When a building material factory in Thessaloniki, closed down three years ago, its 70 employees faced the risk of never finding work again. After a year of unsuccessful efforts to reopen the factory Makis, the main character, suggested they occupied the factory and run it themselves. On the ruins of Europe’s most wrecked economy, an egalitarian utopia was being born. But a year after the occupation, internal conflicts rise. . .

SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Visible Film

PRODUCTION Minimal Films Eleni Chandrinou

Rue Adolphe Lavallée 39

Marco Gastine

1080 Bruxelles Belgium tel: +32477617170 www.visiblefilm.com sales@visiblefilm.com

When a Greek factory goes bankrupt, the workers occupy it and attempt to run it on their own. Self-management proves no easy task; and they first need to change themselves. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Nice People

Filip & Fredrik presenterar Trevligt Folk Karin af Klintberg, Anders Helgeson Sweden, 2015 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Swedish/English/Somali Subtitles: English www.firsthandfilms.com

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What do you do when 3000 Somalis run over your small town in the backlands of Sweden, and McDonalds starts being called ‘Little Mogadiscu’? Local journalist and jack of many trades Patrik Andersson has an idea: let sport unite the people. And so guys who have never known temperatures below 20 degrees become the national team for Bandy ice hockey of Somalia. Count on having some fun: they do for sure!

SALES / CONTACT: Nicole Biermaier First Hand Films

PRODUCTION Thelma/Louise Karin af Klintberg

Neunbrunnenstrasse 50

Mexiko Media

8050 Zurich

Lars Beckung

Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com info@firsthandfilms.com

Guys who have never known temperatures below 20 degrees become the national bandy team of Somalia. In a Swedish town sport unites 3000 Somalis with the people of this backland. 318

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Ninnoc Niki Padidar

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 19’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.ninnoc-film.com

Why do you have to do what everyone else does and why does everyone have to look the same? Ninnoc struggles when she is in a group. She doesn’t just want to adapt to the others, but she’s also afraid of being excluded. Can you deviate in a group? Or will you then end up alone? In the documentary Ninnoc you crawl in Ninnoc’s head. And find her in an empty school. Can she escape from the group or does she always carry it with her? What part of herself does Ninnoc show and what does she keep hidden?

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

PRODUCTION Zuidenwind FilmProductions Joost Seelen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

A film about exclusion and inclusion, about being your own, group pressure and the consequences that appear to coincide in the head of the beautiful and self-willed protagonist Ninnoc. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Ninth Floor Mina Shum

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 81’ Original Language: English www.nfb.ca/distribution

It began quietly enough, with a student protest against racism. But when riot police stormed the occupied ninth-floor computer room of the Hall Building at Sir George Williams University, it was clear that the turbulent 1960s had arrived.

SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada 3155 Cote de liesse Road

PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Selwyn Jacob Shirley Vercruysse

H4N 2N4 Montrealq Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca

It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism.

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No Land’s Song Ayat Najafi

Iran / France / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: French/Farsi Subtitles: English www.facebook.com/nolandssong

Since the revolution, women in Iran are banned from singing solo in public. Young composer Sara Najafi wants to organize a concert to bring back to the Iranian public the beauty of the female voice. Met by stern negativity and opposition by Iranian officialdom, she goes ahead anyway and invites singers Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi from Paris to join her Iranian singers in Tehran for her public evening of song.

SALES / CONTACT: Robin Brinster Illumina Films

PRODUCTION Hanfgarn & Ufer Film/TV Production

Leidsestraat 106-lll

Gunter Hanfgarn

1017PG Amsterdam

CO-PRODUCTION: CHAZ Productions – France

The Netherlands tel: +31206248395 www.illuminafilms.nl

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robin@illuminafilms.nl

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“Rocking the casbah: the gig of a lifetime that put Iranian women back on stage,” the Guardian. Sara Nafaji finesses her way through Iranian officialdom to stage a female concert International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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No Man Is an Island Tim De Keersmaecker

Belgium, 2015 color, HDcam, 72’/52’ Original Language: Italian/Arabic Subtitles: French/English/Dutch www.facebook.com/NoManIsAnIslandDocumentary

Doctor Bartolo found Omar, a 21-yearold Tunisian migrant stranded on Lampedusa’s coast. Despite the ongoing burden of death at sea, he offers Omar a family, a home and a job as an interpreter in the local detention centre. Around the same time also Adam, a 16-year-old from Ghana, is taken in by a hotelkeeper’s family and works as a valet. Both boys have been lucky. Or haven’t they? Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? Through 2 unique adoption stories, we experience the search for freedom of both the Lampedusiani and its newcomers.

SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Visible Film Rue Adolphe Lavallée 39 1080 Bruxelles Belgium tel: +32477617170

PRODUCTION Cassette for Timescapes Emmy Oost CO-PRODUCTION: Magellan Films – Belgium INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VRT/CANVAS – Belgium

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Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? Through 2 unique adoption stories, we experience the search for freedom of both the Lampedusiani and its newcomers. 322

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The Noise of Trains El ruido de los trenes Cristian Saldía

Chile, 2015 color, video, 67’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.cusicanquifilms.cl

Until the late 70s, one of the most important railway premises in the country operated in a small town called San Rosendo. Today, only two trains pass during the day, one in the morning and another in the afternoon. The film narrates what happens in the town between the trains passing: the activities the inhabitants have, the spaces they use and the routes they go over. Small gestures that show the relation between the man and the landscape in a place that is disappearing.

SALES / CONTACT: Catalina Donoso Cusicanqui Films

PRODUCTION Cusicanqui Films Catalina Donoso

José Victorino Lastarria 394, dept.83 3 Tigres Films 8320142 Santiago de Chile

Cristian Saldía

Chile

CO-PRODUCTION: Cusicanqui Films – Chile

tel: +56985953216 www.cusicanquifilms.cl catalinadonoso.k@gmail.com

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North

Bakur Cayan Demirel, Ertugrul Mavioglu Turkey, 2015 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: Kurdish/Turkish Subtitles: English www.bakurfilm.com

Bakur is a feature documentary about one side of the undeclared war going on in Turkey for decades: the PKK guerrillas. What is their perception of state and justice? How do they manage to survive in the mountains? In search for answers Bakur introduces us to persons, who joined the resistance. It was the first time that a professional camera got ever access to the camps. Bakur’s forced removal from the Istanbul Film Festival’s program led to a censorship protest & cancellation of competitions.

SALES / CONTACT: Ayse Cetinbas Surela Film

PRODUCTION Surela Film Ayse Cetinbas

Sinanpasa Köprüsü Sokak No:8 Güven Apt. D:2 BESIKTAS 34353 Istanbul Turkey tel: 90 212 227 34 96 www.surelafilmcom ayse@surelafilm.com

Bakur is a feature documentary about one side of the undeclared war going on in Turkey for decades: the PKK guerrillas. 324

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Not All Is Vigil No todo es vigilia Hermes Paralluelo

Colombia / Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 94’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

Antonio and Felisa have been living together their whole life, in a little village of the province of Te-ruel. Now that their health is more fragile they are afraid of not being able to take care of each other. On the horizon the prospect of having to go into a retirement home appears as a threat. Not All Is Vigil portrays love in old age, tossingand-turning nights due to the fear of loneliness, death and separation from the beloved. It portrays the fear of leaving one’s life in someone else’s hands and losing independence.

SALES / CONTACT: Uriel Wisnia El dedo en el ojo

PRODUCTION El dedo en el ojo Uriel Wisnia

C/ París, 143. Local.

CO-PRODUCTION: Janus Films – Colombia

08036 Barcelona Spain tel: +34 934447678 produccion@eldedoenelojo.com

Antonio and Felisa are a couple of old people who have been together all their life. Their health is more fragile they are afraid of not being able watch their health. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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November 84 Novembre 84 Stephan Parent

Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 123’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

The film respond to a detailed investigation on the tragedy occured on the first of november 1984. It attemps to establish police blunders and the system of justice. It focuses on the child murders of Maurice Viens, 4 years old, Denis Roux-Bergevin, 5 years old, Wilton Lubin, 12 years old, Tammy Leaky, 12 years old, Pascal Poulin, 10 years old, Marie-Ève Larivière, 12 years old; with Sébastien Métivier, 8 years old and Cédrika Provencher, 10 years old, missing, whose bodies have never been found, all cases are unsolved and possibly related to the same killer.

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SALES / CONTACT: Stephan Parent St-Eustache J7P5N4 St-Eustache Canada tel: 5144359470 studio.virtuel@yahoo.ca

PRODUCTION Ugo Fredette

Stephan Parent

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Nuclear Nation II Funahashi Atsushi

Japan, 2015 color, video, 52’/90’/114’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English

Following the 2011 events and the first documentary Atsushi Funahashi directed, Nuclear Nation II analyses the evolution as of December 2014. It follows a new group of people exiled from Futaba, the region occupied by the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nothing has changed yet for the refugees, away from their home like lost souls and still hoping to be compensated. Through their agonies and frustrations, the film unravels the cost of capitalism and nuclear energy.

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House

PRODUCTION Big River Films Yoshiko Hashimoto

9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris France tel: 33153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org

Many people have forgotten what happened in Fukushima. Four years later, for 130 000 residents, temporary housing became a modernday refugee camp. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Ode to Joy Karen McLaughlin

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: English

Ode to Joy is a full-length performance special designed for PBS featuring Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9 “Choral,” with it’s famous Ode to Joy. John Lithgow Narrates. Mark Laycock conducts the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Westminster Choir. The concert took place in Alexander Hall, one of the most historic buildings at Princeton University. The occasion celebrated the 100th birthday of a remarkable, although private, American: William H. Scheide, scholar, musician, philanthropist, and champion of civil rights. Ode to Joy also tells the fascinating story of how this quiet American, born to extraordinary wealth, helped change America.

SALES / CONTACT: Michael Thornton Forward Entertainment

PRODUCTION PCK Media Eric Schultz

125 East 87th Street, 15B 10128 New York USA tel: +1 212 300 6677 forward-entertainment.com mthornton@ forwardentertainment.us

USA is not available.

A performance of Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9 in a concert celebrating the 100th birthday of an extraordinary American hero, William H. Scheide. The Vienna Chamber Orchestra is featured. 328

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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | History

The Odyssey of Sister Ann Donald Soldini

India / England / USA / France / Cuba / Israel, 2015 color / black and white, video, 54’ Original Language: English Subtitles: Spanish

www.sisterannplane.wix.com/sisterannplane

The life of a plane that can tell the story of human history in the last century. Flew the second world war and the berlin airlift, it crashed in Japan by a mysterious premonition, it developed nuclear weapons in Israel, it was hijack from Cuba into the USA, it has it own living association and two movies have been made of this plane that still makes his own history. More than 10 years of investigation to solve the mystery of Sister Ann.

SALES / CONTACT: Donald Soldini Lame Duck Productions

PRODUCTION Lame Duck Productions Donald Soldini

351 South Cypress Road St 310 Pompano Beach, Fl 33 351 Florida USA tel: 954 973 6660 www.sisterannplane.wix.com/ sisterannplane donald.soldini@yahoo.com

A 10 year investigation of a plane that tells the story of Human history, the love that has created, the leyend behind it, and the misterious life of this DC-3. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues

Old Age

Lisbeths letzte Reise Thomas Carlé Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English

In 2000 my wife and I moved to my parents’ village in the countryside. At the time my mother was 80, my father 85 and they needed help. My father, stricken by Alzheimer’s disease, had made a decision for himself. He chose the “short road” refusing any kind of medication. So he rapidly died during 2 or 3 weeks at home. That way was no option for my mother. She loved life too much and fought for every single day more. My documentary is a chronicle of their last ten years.

SALES / CONTACT: Thomas Carlé Thomas Carlé Filmproduktion

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Lönsstraße 1 61250 Usingen Germany tel: +496081446370 www.thomascarle.de tcfilm@t-online.de

In 2000 we moved to my parents’ village in the countryside. At the time my mother was 80, my father 85. My documentary follows their painful journey over 12 years. 330

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Old South Danielle Beverly

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: English

www.facebook.com/OldSouthFilm

Hope is 30 years old and fighting to save her historic African American neighborhood from encroachment by an elite white college fraternity, one known to fly a Confederate flag and hold an annual antebellum parade. In the aftermath of Ferguson, Baltimore, and now Charleston, everyone’s talking about race. But is it really so easy to speak openly and honestly? Or to change? Old South provides, through a quietly unfolding story, a window into the underlying dynamics of race relations that influence so many American communities. And ultimately inspires hope, reflection, and crucial steps forward.

Danielle Beverly / Petunia Productions - World Rights, all territories (excluding North American broadcast), all rights; America ReFramed/World Channel U.S. public television broadcast rights; Women Make Movies - North American Educational Distribution Rights

SALES / CONTACT: Danielle Beverly Petunia Productions 225 Eastern Parkway #4C 11238 Brooklyn

PRODUCTION Petunia Productions Danielle Beverly CO-PRODUCTION: Hiptruth Productions – USA

USA tel: 9174505237 www.petuniaProductions.net dannabev@yahoo.com

On one block in Athens GA, two communities steeped in history – one black, one white – struggle to keep their respective legacies relevant in a changing American South.

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The Oligarchs’ Wives Russia, Rubles, and Love Alexander Gentelev, Viktoria Kurakova Russia / Germany / Israel, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’/90’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

The dream of marrying rich can turn into a horrible nightmare, as some oligarchs’ wives have found out. Director Alexander Gentelev once again achieves amazing access to a hidden Russian world as he meets women before, during, and after their time as a trophy spouse. The film follows the stories of three individual women; Natalia, the ex-wife of billionaire Vladimir Potanin (the richest man in Russia), Alena, the former wife and wealthy co-owner of ‘Red Stars’, a major recording studio in Russia, and a country girl Maria, hoping for her own Cinderella story, and one day becoming the wife of a millionaire. Excluding Germany, France

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SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment Simone Baumann

Levontin Street 18

Sasha Klein Productions

6511207 Tel Aviv

Sasha Klein

Israel tel: +972 35 664129

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YesDocu – Israel,

www.cinephil.co.il

ZDF/ARTE – Germany

philippa@cinephil.co.il

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Olmo and the Seagull Olmo et la mouette Petra Costa, Lea Glob

Denmark / Brazil, 2015 color, video, 82’ Original Language: Spanish/French Subtitles: English www.olmoandtheseagull.com

Olmo and The Seagull is a mesmerising film about Olivia, the stage actress of Théâtre du Soleil and her partner Serge, during the course of her pregnancy. Finding out the limits of her own body she senses that the thin line between reality and the roles they play is swiftly disappearing. Overlying the past and present she is challenged with a new life philosophy, delivering her true self. Territories sold: Brazil, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Italy and United States

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PRODUCTION Busca Vida Tiago Pavan

19-21 Christopher Street

Zentropa Entertainment

EC2A 2B London

Chris Pedersen

England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Olmo and the Seagull is a journey through the labyrinth of an actress’s mind during the course of her pregnancy. . International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma jap-sik-ga-jog-ui dil-le-ma Yun Hwang

South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 106’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English www.cinemadal.com

When mass cull of livestock to put a stop to the foot-and-mouth disease is carried out in Korea, filmmaker Yun realizes that she has never seen a pig before, and decides to search for pigs. Yun finds a farm and names a piglet ‘Don-Soo’. As Yun develops a bond with the lovely pigs and acknowledges another side of the meat industry, she falls into a dilemma. Her awareness about eating meat begins to penetrate everyday level.

SALES / CONTACT: Hyejin Lee CinemaDAL 5F,1-150,Dongsung-dong, Jongno-gu 110809 Seoul South Korea tel: +82-2-337-2135 www.cinemadal.com sales@cinemadal.com

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On the Edge Anna Shishova

Russia, 2014 color, video, 49’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

On the edge of the village Ponazyrevo the local priest the Father Evgeniy organized “Rehab Center” to give the roof above the heads of people who have no way to go. How they live, about what they think and dream, what they feel, what helps them to survive? The movie On the Edge tries to give answers to all these questions.

SALES / CONTACT: Ellada Brotskaya Gorky Film Studios

PRODUCTION Gorky Film Studios Ellada Brotskaya

S. Ejzenshtejna str. 8 129226 Moscow Russia tel: +7 499 181 60 06 ellada@gorkyfilm.ru

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On the Rim of the Sky Ming Tian Hui Geng Hao Hongjie Xu China / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’/52’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

Gulu is an idyllic village perched on the edge of a cliff in China’s Sichuan province. For 26 years, substitute teacher Shen has presided over the village’s primary school – that is, until young, idealistic volunteer teacher Bao appears on the scene. Bao is full of utopian visions, Che Guevarainspired revolutionary ideas and Don Quixote fantasies. The teachers clash almost immediately over proposed improvements to the town and funds earmarked to build a new school. A story about intergenerational misunderstanding and disrespect and an epic take on the problems of outsider versus insider, youth versus experience and trust versus suspicion.

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PRODUCTION Hongjie Xu

Dasselstraße 75-77 50674 Cologne Germany tel: +4922116819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de

In a remote village in western China, long-time primary school teacher Shen and newcomer volunteer Bao come into conflict. It’s a clash of generations: youth versus experience, trust versus suspicion.

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One Light, Many Candles Jim Brown

USA, 2015 color, video, 59’ Original Language: English

www.onelightmanycandles.org

One Light, Many Candles explores and celebrates the global power of interfaith understanding. Created by Betty Stookey, and musician Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul and Mary), the program interweaves original songs by Noel with the wisdom of many spiritual traditions and cultures. The program shifts dynamically from the spoken word to the sung word and back again, with Betty reading and Noel singing. Produced and directed by the multiEmmy® Award winning Jim Brown (Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, etc. )

SALES / CONTACT: Doug Zwick Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc.

PRODUCTION Jim Brown Productions Jim Brown

8162 Manitoba Street, Suite 115 90293 Playa del Rey USA tel: +1 310 734 6655 www.poptwist.com dzwick@poptwist.com

Betty and Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary) explore the power of interfaith understanding, interweaving music and wisdom from many spiritual traditions/cultures. Produced by multi-Emmy® winner Jim Brown. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Only the Dead Bill Guttentag, Michael Ware

Australia, 2015 color, HDcam, 76’ Original Language: English

Theatrical feature documentary Only the Dead is the story of what happens when one ordinary man, an Australian journalist transplanted into the Middle East by the reverberations of 9/11, butts into history. It is a journey that courses through the deepest recesses of the Iraq war, revealing a darkness lurking in his own heart. A darkness that he never knew was there.

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof 19 - 23 Ironmonger Row

PRODUCTION OTD Productions Patrick McDonald Michael Ware

EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, transplanted into the Middle East by the reverberations of 9/11, butts into history. 338

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Oratorio Without a Purpose Oratorium zonder doel Manu Riche

Belgium, 2015 color, HDcam, 116’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: French/English

This ‘true story’ is told by supporters and opponents of the expansion of the port of Antwerp. A story of 50 years of misery, without an end. The actors of this many-voiced film tell, spit, shout, sing their stories against the background music by Walter Hus. A farmer ‘orates’ against the port manager, a senator gasps his last breath and vents his gall over the ‘big chiefs’ of Antwerp. Voices in context. No interviews, but long monologues competing against one another. The setting: the country that is slowly but certainly swallowed by a port full of containers.

SALES / CONTACT: Genevieve De Bauw Thank You & Good Night Productions

rue des Champs-Elysées 18 B, box 1

PRODUCTION Riche, Riche & Riche Manu Riche INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VRT - CANVAS – Belgium

1050 Brussels Belgium tel: +32497536876 genevieve@thankyouandgoodnight.be

A ‘true story’ told by supporters and opponents of the expansion of the port of Antwerp. 50 years of misery, without an end. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Oriented Jake Witzenfeld

England / Israel, 2015 color, 35mm, 80’ Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic/English Subtitles: English www.orientedfilm.com

Oriented follows the lives of three Palestinian friends exploring their national and sexual identity in Tel-Aviv during the Israel-Gaza conflict of 2014. Khader is a Tel Aviv “darling” from a prominent Muslim mafia family living with his Jewish boyfriend, David, a local LGBT nightlife impresario, and their Dalmatian, Otis, in Tel Aviv. Khader is conflicted by his desire for change in the face of a seemingly hopeless situation. Fadi is an ardent Palestinian nationalist confronted by guilt-ridden Jewish love and Naeem must confront his family with the truth about his sexuality. Meanwhile, a war is brewing. . .

SALES / CONTACT: Jake Witzenfeld Conch Studios

PRODUCTION Conch Studios Yoav Birenfeld

Eilat 47 6684511 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972(0)3-6096272 www.conchstudios.com jake@conchstudios.com

Oriented is a feature documentary exploring the lives of three gay Palestinian best friends confronting their national and sexual identity in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Original Copy

Georg Heinzen, Florian Heinzen-Ziob

Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 95’/52’ Original Language: English/Hindi Subtitles: German/English www.originalcopyfilm.com

Sheikh Rehman is Mumbai’s last painter of film posters. His studio is an old Hindi film cinema. Here, Rehman is both artist, comedian and philosopher. But modernity is taking over and the audiences that have come in for generations are dwindling. With the theatre facing potential demolition, marketing has turned to more plastic movie posters replacing the need for Rehman’s original work. It’s a hopeless struggle but Rehman won’t give up . . . Original Copy is a delightful ode to life and the cinema. As Rehman says, movies are like life: “The reel keeps rolling, and the movie goes on. “

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Gruber MAGNETFILM

PRODUCTION polyphem Filmproduktion Georg Heinzen

Ilsensteinweg 35 14129 Berlin Germany tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

Rehman is an artist, comedian and philosopher. Mumbai’s last painter of posters works in an old Hindi cinema that struggles to survive. A delightful ode to life and the cinema. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Orion: The Man Who Would Be King Jeanie Finlay

England, 2015 color / black and white, video, 88’ Original Language: English

Two years after the death of Elvis Presley, an independent record label began promoting a masked singer named Orion whose uncanny voice led many to believe ‘The King’ was still alive. The true story of that masked man is revealed in Jeanie Finlay’s wildly entertaining new film. Excluding United Kingdom, Israel (broadcast), North America

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company 165 Madison Ave, # 601

PRODUCTION Glimmer Films Jeanie Finlay

10016 New York

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BBC – England,

USA

DBS – Israel

tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

A fascinating investigation into the legend of the masked singer, Orion. 342

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Our Man in Tehran Onze man in Teheran Roel van Broekhoven

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 43’ www.vpro.nl

/programmas/onze-man-in-teheran.html

Curiosity brought Thomas Erdbrink (38) to Iran years ago, and now he’s married to an award-winning Iranian photographer and lives there as one of the last Western journalists in a country always at odds with the rest of the world. Our man in Teheran lives an exciting life, full of puzzles and obstacles. In Iran, where everything seems different than we thought, Thomas provides a unique insight into one of the last remaining isolated countries in the world.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

PRODUCTION VPRO Nicole Frints INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

Curiosity brought Thomas Erdbrink to Iran and now he is living there as one of the last Western journalists in a country at odds with the rest of the world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Out of Fashion Moest väljas Jaak Kilmi, Lennart Laberenz Estonia, 2015 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Estonian Subtitles: English

We live in an era of global consumption where the speed of consumption keeps increasing. It’s no secret that the fashion industry is at the forefront of this consumerist rally. The result is a perishing environment and imperceptibly large amounts of waste. In our film, trash is fashion. It is the black conscience hidden behind the fashion industry’s radiant smile

SALES / CONTACT: Katrin Kissa Homeless Bob Production

PRODUCTION Homeless Bob Production Katrin Kissa

Telliskivi 57-68 10142 Tallinn Estonia

tel: +372 56 677 855 kissa@too.ee

In our film, trash is fashion. It is the black conscience hidden behind the fashion industry’s radiant smile. 344

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Paradise on Earth Raj na ziemi Cecylia Malik

Poland, 2015 color, video, 46’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

The film is an intimate record of a two-year friendship between Cecylia Malik, the film director and an artist from Krakow, and a homeless couple. The relationship started when Artur and Iwona invited the director to their wedding after which they continued to exchange experiences. The couple in love reveals a different world to the author, the city’s image she has not known so far, while the director invites the protagonists to participate in one of her artistic projects.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation

PRODUCTION Akademia Multi Art Piotr Lenar

Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

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Parchim International Stefan Eberlein

Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: German/Chinese Subtitles: English

In the small town of Parchim in northern Germany, a Chinese investor has bought a deserted military airport. He wants to create an international hub for air cargo transport – a new centre for global trade. Sheer megalomania or enviable drive and enthusiasm? A tragicomedy that takes a bitter look at the absurd reality of capitalism. Territories not available: Germany

SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS

PRODUCTION Lemme Film Kathrin Lemme

Dasselstraße 75-77 50674 Cologne

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NDR - Norddeutscher Rundfunk –

Germany

tel: +4922116819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de

A Chinese investor buys the regional airport of Parchim in provincial north Germany to turn it into a hub for international cargo and passenger transport. Sheer megalomania or enviable drive and enthusiasm? 346

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Passeurs Pamela Varela

France, 2015 color, HDcam, 150’ Original Language: English/French/Bambara Subtitles: English/French www.theopenreel.com

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The history of AIDS is part of social history, emphasizing more particularly the capacity of invention of associations and new modes of political action. We met famous people, characters, unknown people, and associative and political stakeholders in the United States, in France and in Africa. They tell how the AIDS virus made an intrusion into their lives and how they still defend today, commitments that are ever more important. AIDS can be considered as a generator, an initiator, a producer of new activism. Non exclusive contract

SALES / CONTACT: Cosimo Santoro The Open Reel

PRODUCTION Ananda Productions Michel Dutheil

via Gene’ 4 Torino

Pamela Varela

10152 Italy France

CO-PRODUCTION: SIDA:Fonds pour la Mémoire –

tel: 3363684229

France

www.theopenreel.com cs@theopenreel.com

Recounting stories of several personal commitments, Passeurs outlines the key steps of an unprecedented mobilization, telling a story of AIDS which joins in with the wider field of social history. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Patience, Patience You’ll Go To Paradise! Patience, patience, t’iras au paradis Hadja Lahbib Belgium / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Arabic/French Subtitles: French/English/Dutch

Patience, Patience You’ll Go To Paradise! is the constant refrain heard by women who have never been given any choice. It’s a promise intended mainly to prevent them from complaining! One day in Morocco, Mina goes to a show for the first time in her life and discovers Tata Milouda. The encounter turns Mina’s life upside down. Inspired by this woman’s passion for freedom and autonomy, she is emboldened at last. She ventures outside her neighborhood and discovers the country where she’s lived for years.

SALES / CONTACT: Rita Boey Sonuma Boulevard Raymond Poincaré, 15

PRODUCTION Les Passeurs de Lumière Hadja Lahbib

4020 Liège

CO-PRODUCTION: Clair-obscur Productions –

Belgium

Belgium,

tel: +32 2 737 43 94

RTBF – Belgium,

www.sonuma.be

ARTE France – France

rib@rtbf.be

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Patience, Patience You’ll Go To Paradise! is what North African women are repeatedly told to encourage them to put up with their lives without complaining... until one day they lose patience... 348

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Patient

Paciente Jorge Caballero Colombia, 2015 color, video, 71’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.pacientedoc.com

In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, Patient is not only the one who have the disease but also the one responsible for the daily struggle to ensure that his/her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a Patient, a mother who despite living with the anguish of losing her daughter by an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which depend the life of her daughter

SALES / CONTACT: Diana Karklin Rise and Shine

PRODUCTION Gusano Films Jorge Caballero

Schlesische Strasse 29/30

Rosa Ramos

10997 Berlin

CO-PRODUCTION: Señal Colombia – Colombia

Germany tel: +49 39 47372980 www.kloosundco.de

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Señal Colombia – Colombia

info@riseandshine-berlin.de

Patient is not only the one who have the disease

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The Pawn

La prenda Jean-Cosmes Delaloye USA / Switzerland, 2015 color, video, 78’/52’ Original Language: Spanish/English Subtitles: English

Guatemalan teen Astrid was kidnapped and held for ransom. Her family paid and she was released, but the family still gets phone calls from her abductors, calling her a pawn and threatening to snatch her again. Desperate, she enters the U. S. illegally and faces deportation. In Guatemala, one person is kidnapped every day. Targets are frequently children who have family in the United States. Ninety-eight percent of the kidnappers are never punished. Swiss journalist and documentarian Jean Cosme Delaloye examines the problem of abductions for ransom by focusing on Astrid’s case, and two others.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris

PRODUCTION Tipi’mages Productions Francine Lusser INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RTS – Switzerland

France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com

One child is kidnapped every day in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. 350

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Peace Officer

Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson

USA, 2015 color, video, 109’ Original Language: English www. peaceofficerfilm.com

Peace Officer is a feature documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officerinvolved shootings in his community while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.

SALES / CONTACT: Scott Christopherson Peace Officer LLC 395 E. 100 N.

PRODUCTION Peace Officer LLC Scott Christopherson Brad Barber

84606 Provo USA tel: +011 608 628 8693 www.peaceofficerfilm.com scottchristopherson@gmail.com

A former sheriff will stop at nothing to confront the SWAT team he founded in the 1970s; the same SWAT team killed his son-in-law in 2008. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Pelota II

Olatz González Abrisketa, Jørgen Leth

Spain / Denmark, 2015 color, video, 71’ Original Language: Basque/English/Spanish Subtitles: English www.pelotaii.com

Thirty years after performing Pelota, the Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth is back to Basque Country to film a new documentary about the game of pelota; this time together with the anthropologist Olatz Gonzalez Abrisketa. Olatz insists on something he had forgotten: “The ball is a living being. Each one is different from the rest and it has to be heard properly to recognize them.” The fascination to meet the personality of each ball is what makes possible Pelota II.

SALES / CONTACT: William Medina Basque Films

PRODUCTION Basque Films Carlos Juárez

Av. Zumalakarregui 48 bajo 48006 Bilbao Spain

CO-PRODUCTION: Sunset Productions – Denmark INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ETB – Spain

tel: +34944050259 www.basquefilms.com william@basquefilms.com

About the Basque sport of hand pelota. It revolves the relationship between the player and the ball, in a country where modern ways have not put paid to existential passions. 352

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The Perfect Circle Il cerchio perfetto Claudia Tosi

Slovenia / Italy / The Netherlands / England, 2015 color, video, 75’/52’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English www.movimenta.it

Ivano and Meris are in a hospice for terminally ill persons, catching the last flashes of life. Meris runs in with her lovely husband and dreams to go back home to talk about silly thing, in the garden. Ivano kicks everyone out from his room under the patient look of his wife Carla. They are not going gently “into that good night”, but maybe no one ever goes away for good. “The perfect circle” tells two love stories and the urge to find a meaning to life when death is around the corner.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1

PRODUCTION Movimenta Claudia Tosi

04103 Leipzig

CO-PRODUCTION: Cobos Films – The Netherlands,

Germany

Petra Pan Film Production –

tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38

Slovenia,

www.deckert-distribution.com

Miafilm – England

info@deckert-distribution.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Lichtpunt – Belgium

The Perfect Circle tells two love stories and the urge to find a meaning to life when death is around the corner. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues

Pervert Park

Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors

Sweden / Denmark / Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/75’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

The crimes committed by the residents range from misdemeanors to horrible acts unbearable to know of. The characters in Pervert Park are all fighting their own very different battles and demons. In this film they tell us their stories as they have never told them before. Pervert Park is a film about the people no one wants as a neighbor. It follows everyday life of the sex offenders in the park as they struggle to reintegrate into society, and tries to understand the offenders and how to end the circle of sex crimes being committed and lives destroyed. Excluding Israel/HSCC, Ireland, Australia, French speaking Switzerland, The Netherlands

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

PRODUCTION De Andra Frida Barkfors

Emil Holms Kanal 20

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark,

0999 København C

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Denmark

NRK – Norway,

tel: +45 35202299

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www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

Pervert Park concerns the people no one wants as a neighbor. It follows the everyday life of the sex offenders as they struggle to reintegrate into society. 354

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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Piano

Vita Maria Drygas

Poland, 2015 color, video, 45’ Original Language: Ukranian Subtitles: English

A piano rescued by a student of the conservatoire – which was meant to reinforce a barricade in the Ukrainian Euromaidan – became a participant in and symbol of the revolution. The instrument drew together the fates of the film’s protagonists, each of whom faced a different choice, in an attempt to occupy with dignity their due place in this dramatic conflict. The instrument turned out to be more dangerous than Molotov cocktails. . . The authorities called the players “piano extremists”.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow

PRODUCTION Drygas Production Maciej Drygas CO-PRODUCTION: TVPTelewizja Polska S.A. – Poland

Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

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Experimental | Science / Technology | Nature / Environment

Planetary Guy Reid

England / USA, 2015 color, video, 85’/52’ Original Language: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com/ home/films/planetary/

Before Greenpeace, this seminal moment in human history changed everything. . . In 1968, the biggest TV audience in history tuned in to watch the crew of Apollo 8 make its most important discovery in space: our planet. That voyage would result in the iconic, “Earthrise” image, driving home the powerful and simple ideas concerning our vulnerability in the universe and the interconnectedness of life on our planet. It is these grainy television images that would galvanize many and jumpstart the burgeoning environmental movement. Planetary does not bombard the viewer with facts and calls to action, but rather takes them on a cinematic journey to experience our world like never before. The film does for the young and old what other climate change films do not: spark awe and reflection. Official Selections SXSW, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hot Docs and many others. Available in 4K. Excluding Korea, Israel, Canada, Sweden

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SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing 611 Broadway, suite 630

PRODUCTION Planetary Collective Christoph Ferstad Steve Watts Kennedy

10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

Planetary is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species.

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Please Remember Me Qing Zhao

China, 2015 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 78’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

www.lostandfoundfilmstudio.com

88-year-old Alzheimer’s patient Lou has forgotten everyone but her husband Feng, who has been her only caretaker for the past 10 years. At 87, Feng was diagnosed with a pancreas mass. The man who went through a life of hardship in good spirits finally bursts into tears. Before going to the hospital, he takes her out shopping and makes her pretty. Does it mean their time of separation is coming near? Can they still live a life with dignity and freedom? On the way home, they walk hand in hand as Lou says, “We are together no matter what.”

SALES / CONTACT: Violet Du Feng

PRODUCTION Lost & Found Film Studio

Li Gao Wang Fu, East Li Hua Rd.

Violet Du Feng

Suite 5-7C 101312 Beijing China tel: +861064508347 violetfengdocumentary@gmail.com

Please Remember Me tells a story of an elderly couple living in Shanghai elegantly struggles with failing physical health and memory loss.

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History | Author’s Point of View | Experimental

Plus Minus or Fly’s Trips to the East Plus Minus czyli podróze muchy na Wschód Bogdan Dziworski Poland, 2015 color, video, 40’ Original Language: Russian/Polish/English Subtitles: English

After 25 years of silence as an artist, Bogdan Dziworski makes a comeback with an extremely personal picture which is a journal of his journey to Georgia. Plus Minus or a Fly’s Trips to the East is a phantasmagorical story about the personality cult of Josef Stalin, a figure of special importance in the artist’s childhood. ‘A long time has passed since I decided to visit the leader’s homeland,’ comments the character off-screen.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation

PRODUCTION Paisa Films Maciej Slesicki

Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

A phantasmagorical story about the personality cult of Josef Stalin, a figure of special importance in the director’s childhood.

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A Poem Is a Naked Person Les Blank

USA, 2015 color, 16mm, 90’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.lesblank.com

A Poem Is A Naked Person presents the beloved singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell as filmed by documentarian Les Blank between 1972 & 1974. Blank’s camera lets us into the world of Russell and his friends and fellow artists in and around his recording studio in NE Oklahoma, capturing intimate, off-the-cuff moments and combining them with mesmerizing scenes of Russell and his band performing live.

SALES / CONTACT: Harrod Blank 10341 San Pablo Ave.

PRODUCTION Denny Cordell Leon Russell

94530 El Cerrito USA tel: 510-366-3713 www.lesblank.com excentrix@aol.com

Les Blank’s first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell’s Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (19721974). International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Portrait of Aida Retrato de Aida Antonio Gómez-Olea

Spain, 2014 color, video, 84’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/French

Portrait of Aida deals with the personal relationship that develops between the painter Guillermo Oyágüez Montero and the actress Aida Folch over the course of more than a year, as they meet, session by session, to do a portrait.

SALES / CONTACT: Sergio García Locatelli Quechua Films

PRODUCTION Mare Films Antonio Gómez-Olea

Calle Rodríguez San Pedro 2 oficina 401 28015 Madrid Spain tel: +34912920081 sergiogarcia@quechuafilms.com

Portrait of Aida deals with the personal relationship that develops between the painter Guillermo Oyágüez Montero and the actress Aida Folch to do a portrait.

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Possessed by Djinn Dalia Al Kury

Jordan / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’/75’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/French/German www.deckert-distribution.com

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The belief in demons, or “djinn”, is a little-known aspect of Islamic culture. In a subjective investigation of this controversial topic the film follows the true story of Aya, a four-year-old Jordanian girl killed by her father who believed her to be possessed. Investigating this case the director finds herself on a journey in an obscure world of traditions and ritual. Disturbing, yet intriguing encounters along the way, with both djinn exorcists and the possessed, reveal the contradictions of her society and ultimately force her to confront the fears and demons of her own.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1

PRODUCTION Lichtblick Filmproduktion Lino Rettinger CO-PRODUCTION: Kaynoona films – Jordan

04103 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France,

www.deckert-distribution.com

ZDF – Germany

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The belief in djinn is a littleknown aspect of Islamic culture. The film follows the true story of Aya killed by her father who believed her to be possessed.

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Art / Music / Culture

Pulling Out All the Stops Eric Schultz

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 57’ Original Language: English

Pulling Out All the Stops takes viewers through 10 days of musicianship and competition inspired by America’s “Gilded Age” at the inaugural Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The one-hour documentary follows remarkable organists between the ages 18 and 30 from around the world, as they compete in June 2013 for the largest cash prize ever awarded in an organ competition. They also vie for a professional management contract as they keep a centuries-old musical tradition alive for a new generation.

SALES / CONTACT: Michael Thornton Forward Entertainment

PRODUCTION PCK Media Eric Schultz

125 East 87th Street, #15B 10128 New York USA tel: +1 212 300 6677 www.forward-entertainment.com mthornton@ forwardentertainment.us

Pulling Out All the Stops takes viewers through 10 days of musicianship and competition inspired by America’s “Gilded Age” at the inaugural Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition. 362

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Quilapayún, Beyond the Song Quilapayún, más allá de la canción Jorge Leiva Chile, 2015 black and white, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

Quilapayun: Beyond the Song reviews the story of one of the most important Latin American musical groups, but places its perspective from within the lives of the musicians. A musical account along with unreleased archive material exposes this 50-year-long process, making this documentary a road-movie that moves back and forth between time. And it’s not only the musician’s process, but also an entire generation that continues to dream that a different world is possible, but that must live in this one, but in spite of their disappointments, they have renewed their convictions.

SALES / CONTACT: Paula Talloni Palenque Producciones

PRODUCTION Palenque Producciones Paula Talloni

Juan Moya 425, Ñuñoa 7760181 Santiago Chile tel: +56 2 4940294 www.palenque.cl paula@palenque.cl

In Chile during the ‘60s, Quilapayún played the soundtrack of the revolution. But the world changed and so did they. Fallen dreams were not enough to abandon the music. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Reach for the SKY Wooyoung Choi, Steven Dhoedt

Belgium / South Korea, 2015 color, video, 90’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English

www.reachfortheskydoc.com

Every year, on the 2nd Thursday of November, the entire country of SouthKorea is put to the test. That day, more than half a million senior high school students take part in the National University Exam, better known as Suneung. Reach for the Sky tells the story of several South-Korean high school students, their families and teachers, as they prepare for the annual National Exam. The exam will not only determine where the high school seniors will attend university but ultimately also their status in the Korean hierarchical society.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs

PRODUCTION Visualantics Steven Dhoedt

18, rue Quincampoix

BODA Media Group

75004 Paris

Sinae Ha

France

CO-PRODUCTION: BODA Media Group – South Korea

tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany, Canvas (VRT) – Belgium, YLE – Finland

Can one day shape the rest of your life?

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Politics / Society | History | Youth

Rebellious City Rebelse stad Willy Lindwer

The Netherlands, 2015 color / black and white, DCP/video/dvd, 120’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.rebelsestad.nl

Rebellious City shows how a small group of young people in the Amsterdam of the Sixties provoked authority with anarchist élan and happenings, drove the police and mayor to despair, gave young people their own voice and changed The Netherlands forever. Unintentionally, Provo became the mouthpiece of the desire for change. The documentary revives that period during which post-war youths were tired of being tied to the apron strings of the church, the authorities and their parents.

SALES / CONTACT: Frank van Reemst Doc Eye Film

PRODUCTION Doc Eye Film Frank van Reemst

van Hallstraat 52 1051 HH Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6865687 www.doceyefilm.nl info@doceyefilm.nl

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Rebels

Pøbler Kari Anne Moe Norway, 2015 color, video, 90’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English www.pobler.no

Jan Olav (24) has dyslexia and spent his years in school fighting with the teachers. Kelly (19) was bullied and Maylen (24) has ADHD. Jakob (25) loves alcohol more than schoolwork. They are selected to a training course that is set to get them back on track. Jan Olav is the main-character. His story shows us how hard it can be to change how you look upon yourself, and grab a life-changing opportunity. If everyone expects you to cause trouble, the result might be just that. Sold Rights: Cinema distribution - Benelux, Nordic countries TV - Norway, Sweden, Finland

SALES / CONTACT: Gudmundur Gunnarsson Fuglene

PRODUCTION Fuglene Gudmundur Gunnarsson

Thorvald Meyers gate 2a

Therese Naustdal

0555 Oslo Norway

CO-PRODUCTION: HazazaH Pictures –

tel: +47 90181847

The Netherlands

www.fuglene.no

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NRK – Norway,

gudmundur@fuglene.no

YLE – Finland, UR – Sweden

A group of school-dropouts are given a new chance to get back on track. Will they take it, or will their old life grab them back?

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Remember This House

ROUGH CUT PROJECT

Raoul Peck

France / USA, 2016 color, DCP, 90’ Original Language: English

North-American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) struggles to re-frame the story of race in America today through the lives of his friends: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Sold Rights: Public TV rights for France, Germany and the USA

PRODUCTION Velvet Film Rémi Grellety Raoul Peck

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment

Remember Your Name, Babylon Diurno Doliente Marie Brumagne, Bram Van Cauwenberghe Belgium, 2015 color, video, 77’ Original Language: Berber/Arabic Subtitles: French/English www.rocky-estrella.be

Between the corridors of greenhouses in a plastic-covered world grow small shantytowns, home to men and women who have crossed the sea looking for a better life. In the heart of this Eldorado that has run out of steam, they are trying to reassemble the debris of a world that seems to be lost forever. The days pass, waiting for news of documents and work that are slow to come. The rhythm of daily gestures hooks people back into the flow of time, strangling their anger.

SALES / CONTACT: Bram Van Cauwenberghe Rocky&Estrella

PRODUCTION Rocky&Estrella Marie Brumagne

Rue Gachard, 8, bte 2

Bram Van Cauwenberghe

1050 Brussels Belgium tel: +32 496 18 54 96 bramvancauwenberghe@gmail.com

In the heart of a breathless Eldorado, everyone tries to pick up the debris of a world that seems forever lost.

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Rendezvous at Erasmus Annet Betsalel

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 98’ Original Language: English/Dutch/German Subtitles: English www.go2films.com/New-Releases/ Rendezvous-at-Erasmus

Recently an amazing story was discovered in the archives of a Jewish community in Holland: Through a chance meeting, two German soldiersboth artists - saved hundreds of Dutch Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Gerhardt sadly fell in battle in 1944, but Werner Klemke returned to EastBerlin, in the former GDR and made a career as a world famous illustrator – with a little help of his Dutch resistance friends. Germany - for theatrical rights and TV rights is not available

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

PRODUCTION Mezzo Prod Juan Morales Calvo

37/8 Issar Natanzon St.

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: AT1 Amsterdam –

97787 Jerusalem

The Netherlands,

Israel

RBB – Germany

tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

Through artful forging, the famous German illustrator and animator, Werner Klemke helped to save hundreds of Jews during his army time in The Netherlands during WWII. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Requiem for the American Dream Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: English

20 years after Manufacturing Consent and 10 years after The Corpration, Noam Chomsky now dissects American democracy - relevant to societies worldwide as American economic and cultural trends take root globally. Requiem stands as the ultimate synthesis of Chomsky’s extraordinary insights and perceptions.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION Naked City Films Peter Hutchison

21 Place Epernay

PF Pictures

J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)

Kelly Nyks

Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

20 years after Manufacturing Consent and 10 years after The Corporation, Noam Chomsky now dissects American democracy. 370

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Return of the Atom Jussi Eerola, Mika Taanila

Finland / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 110’ Original Language: German/French/ Russian/Polish/English/Finnish Subtitles: German/French/English www.deckert-distribution.com

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Finland was the first country in the west to give permission to build a new nuclear power plant after the Chernobyl disaster. The OL3 plant in Eurajoki was supposed to be ready after five years in 2009, being a calling card for nuclear industry’s second coming globally. However, the project has faced serious problems in planning, construction and safety automation and is delayed over nine years at the moment. The film portrays the strange and stressful life in a small “nuclear town” during an era of nuclear renaissance.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution

PRODUCTION Blinker Filmproduktion Meike Martens

Marienplatz 1

Kinotar

04103 Leipzig

Lasse Saarinen

Germany tel: +49 341 2156638

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland,

www.deckert-distribution.com

WDR – Germany,

info@deckert-distribution.com

ZDF – Germany, ARTE France – France

The film portrays the strange and stressful life in a small “nuclear town” in Finland during an era of nuclear renaissance.

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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

Riot

Kevin McLaughlin

USA, 2015 color / black and white, video, 83’ Original Language: English www.riotthefilm.com

Riot is a documentary film that chronicles the city of Newark, New Jersey and the ways it was affected by the riots that took place there in the summer of 1967. While the rioting killed 26 people, countless others were affected in many ways. In the end, this is a story of how a city survives, and how its residents strive to move on after a tragedy. With recent events in Baltimore in the US, in Egypt, Ukraine, and elsewhere, this film’s message is more timely than ever.

SALES / CONTACT: Kevin McLaughlin Stumpsfilm, LLC

PRODUCTION Stumpsfilm, LLC Kevin McLaughlin

1253 Springfield Avenue, Suite 111 07974 New Providence USA tel: +1 908 3508124 McLaughlinKP@gmail.com

1967: The Summer of Love. But in Newark, New Jersey, there was only strife. See how one city spent 50 years trying to recover from its worst week ever. 372

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Road to Recovery Nic Penrake

England, 2015 color, HDcam, 30’ Original Language: English

www.nicpenrakeandassociates.com

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Many films have dealt with the criminal activities of sex traffickers and the profound devastation they inflict on trafficked people and their families, but very little is known about how the victims who finally extricate themselves from these enslaved existences manage to put their lives back together again.

SALES / CONTACT: Nic Penrake Nic Penrake & Associates

PRODUCTION Nic Penrake & Associates Nic Penrake

113 Swinderby Road, Wembley, Middlesex HA0 4SE London England tel: +447779102348 www.nicpenrakeandassociates.com nic@nicpenrakeandassociates.com

Road To Recovery takes an indepth look at what is being done to help victims make the transition back to some kind of civilized normality.

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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society

Rock in the Red Zone Laura Bialis

USA / Israel, 2014 color, video, 87’ Original Language: English/Hebrew Subtitles: English www.go2films.com/Middle-East/ Rock-in-the-Red-Zone

On the edge of Israel’s Negev Desert lies Sderot, a city of factory workers and rock musicians, the children of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. Despite being pummeled for years by homemade missiles, the people of Sderot persevere. In underground bomb shelters, they create unique rhythms that have transformed Israeli music, injecting Middle Eastern influences into traditional Western beats. Searching for a story about music, filmmaker Laura Bialis stumbles into a world she never imagined. Crossing the line between observer and participant, she presents a tale of music and romance on the frontlines of a never-ending war.

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

PRODUCTION Foundation for Documentary Projects

Laura Bialis

37/8 Issar Natanzon St. 97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

From comfort zone to red zone: Laura, the filmmaker crosses the line between observer and participant in a tale of music and romance on the frontlines of a neverending war. 374

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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues

Roshmia Salim Abu Jabal

United Arab Emirates / Qatar / Palestine / Syria / Lebanon, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: French/Italian/Korean/English www.facebook.com/RoshmiaTheFilm

Yousef and Amna (80s) live in a shack all alone since 1965 in a life of serenity; far away from the loudness of novelty. Life remains quiet in Roshmia until the local authorities endorse a new road project and orders to confiscate the land, demolish the shack and throw out its inhabitants. A friend tries to secure a compensation but the shack is Yousef’s home that he insists on keeping. Negotiations continue and tension grows among the three and, besides the physical displacement and despair they are nearly facing, Yousef and Amna are about to go on separate ways.

SALES / CONTACT: Salim Abu Jabal Boujabel Productions

PRODUCTION Boujabel Productions Salim Abu Jabal

9 Almontazah St, PO Box 102 102 Ramallah Palestine tel: +970595508001 / +972526888180 www.facebook.com/ RoshmiaTheFilm boujabel.pro@gmail.com

An elderly couple all alone in a final standoff with the local authorities to maintain their lifestyle in Roshmia; the last natural valley in Haifa. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture

Rough Stage Karmil pinnal Toomas Järvet

Estonia / Palestine, 2015 color, video, 74’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English

Maher, a former political prisoner, an electrical engineer by profession, but an artist at heart, is a man who starts a quest against the society in order to stage the first original contemporary dance performance in Palestinian history. To do so he must overcome several obsticles – time, money, insured dancer, his disapproving family and friends, and cultural norms. Set in today’s most contested location, Maher’s story is at once a parable about a society in conflict, and a modern take on - and inversion of - “The Jazz Singer,” where the real war is between dreams and tradition.

SALES / CONTACT: Eero Talvistu Exitfilm

PRODUCTION Kinotehnik Tõnis Liivamägi

Madala 1

Exitfilm

10313 Tallinn

Eero Talvistu

Estonia tel: +372 5093033 www.exitfilm.ee eero@exitfilm.ee

Modern take on the real war what is between dreams and tradition. 376

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Roundabout in My Head Fi rassi rond-point Hassen Ferhani

Algeria / France / Lebanon / Qatar, 2015 color, video, 140’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English

In the largest slaughterhouse in Algiers, men live and work in closed to the throbbing rhythms of their tasks and their dreams. Hope, bitterness, love, paradise and hell, the football stories as of the Chaabi and Rai melodies that set their lives and their world.

SALES / CONTACT: Pascale Ramonda

PRODUCTION Allers Retours Films

10 rue de la république

Narimane Mari

13005 Marseille

CO-PRODUCTION: Centrale Electrique – France

France tel: +33 6 51 60 29 09 pascale@pascaleramonda.com

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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Nature / Environment

Running Waters Das águas que passam Diego Zon

Brazil, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 23’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: Spanish/English

Running Waters is a short film version (23’) from the observational Waters (26’), the first episode of Dwellers. This documentary series focus on the relation between men and places. In a poetic and observational way, the viewer is led to experience the intense interaction of man with the world.

SALES / CONTACT: Djanira Bravo

PRODUCTION Djanira Bravo

Rua Dr. Jose Vieira Tatagiba, n89 29500000 Alegre Brazil tel: +55 28 99946-3994 vimeo.com/djanirabravo djanira@gmail.com

The vastness of man is a place suspended in time, bordered by sky, land, river and sea. 378

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Ruth

Sport Kids - Ruth Hanna Heilborn Sweden / Norway / Denmark, 2015 color, video, 25’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English

Swedish cheerleader Ruth has been selected for the competing team within the club “Twisters”. She loves cheerleading for its physical demands and great team spirit, but struggles with prejudices toward her sport. Ruth’s family is ambivalent towards her choice of sport, but fully support her on her way to the national championships.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Story AB Malin Hüber

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

Cheerleader Ruth has been selected for the competing team within the club “Twisters”. She loves cheerleading for its physical demands and team spirit, but struggles with prejudices toward her sport. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Rwanda & Juliet Ben Proudfoot

USA, 2015 color, video, 88’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.rwandaandjuliet.com

Rwanda & Juliet follows eccentric Dartmouth professor Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Romeo & Juliet with a cast of students from Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds, twenty years after the Genocide. The cast of young Rwandans have stories as emotionally rich as those of the characters they are portraying. Garrod believes the parallels between Shakespeare’s tragedy and the events of the Genocide will serve as the foundation for reconciliation, but his Western perception is met with scrutiny, and potential mutiny. The result is a moving myriad of hopes and heartbreak, as cultures collide, and opening night draws closer.

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SALES / CONTACT: Ben Proudfoot Breakwater Studios 4655 Kingswell Avenue

PRODUCTION Breakwater Studios Andrea Batista Ben Proudfoot

90027 Los Angeles USA tel: +1 323 5223870 www.breakwaterstudios.com ben@breakwaterstudios.com

An inspiring feature documentary about an American theater professor’s controversial Production of Romeo & Juliet in postgenocide Rwanda.

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Safari Tourism: Paying to Kill Chasse: main basse sur la savane Olivia Mokiejewski France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English

When King Juan Carlos paid an estimated $60,000 to kill an elephant in Botswana, it caused a major political scandal. The recent shooting of Cecil of the Lion provoked headlines all over the world. But despite the global outrage, hundreds of Westerns come to South Africa every year to kill wild animals. In this film, we investigate the safari tourism industry. For 15,000 euros, you can shoot a lion. A rhinoceros is 80,000 euros. Sometimes you can even choose the size and color of the animal …

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films 38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

PRODUCTION Magneto Presse Marc Berdugo INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Canal + – France

France tel: +33174713313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv

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Salero

Mike Plunkett

USA / Bolivia, 2015 color, video, 76’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.salerofilm.com

The planet’s largest salt flat, Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, is an otherworldly expanse of white. For generations, the only signs of life have been the “saleros” who harvest salt from its radiant surface. The secluded region is thrust into the future when Bolivia embarks on a plan to extract a precious mineral from the Salar and to build an infrastructure that will connect it to the modernized world. Salero is a poetic journey through the eyes of Moises, one of the last remaining salt gatherers, whose story explores how identity is formed by both tradition and progress.

SALES / CONTACT: Annie Roney ro*co films international

PRODUCTION Cinereach Andrew Goldman

80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 8 94965 Sausalito USA tel: +1 415 332 6471 www.rocofilms.com annie@rocofilms.com

When the future arrives to Bolivia’s vast, secluded salt flat, the region’s destiny is unearthed and a young salt gatherer becomes the last link between old world and new. 382

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Samurai and Idiots: The Olympus Affair Hyoe Yamamoto

Japan / France, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English www.pointdujour-international.com

The Olympus scandal remains one of the most polarizing and mystifying corporate scandals in the world. It also tells the story of the ultimate East-West cultural showdown where different sets of values collided. In Oct. 2011, Olympus Corporation, a multi-billion dollar Japanese optical company, suddenly dismissed its president and CEO, British-born Michael Woodford after 6 months into his tenure…for blowing the whistle on the 1. 7 billion dollar fraud that the company had been keeping secret for more than 20 years. But Woodford’s relentless appeal for truth eventually led to arrests of the top three executives of the company… Territories no longer available: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Norway, Canada (Engl.)

SALES / CONTACT: Doris Weitzel Point du Jour International 23 rue de Cronstadt 75015 Paris France tel: +33 (0) 1 75 44 80 88

PRODUCTION Point du Jour International Luc Martin-Gousset CO-PRODUCTION: Vesuvius – Japan INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE/ZDF – Germany,

www.pointdujour-international.com BBC – England, d.weitzel@pointdujour.fr

SVT – Sweden, Danmarks Radio – Denmark

In October 2011, Japanese company Olympus, dismissed its CEO, British-born Michael Woodford, for blowing the whistle on the 1.7 billion dollar fraud the company had kept secret for two decades. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues

Satudarah - One Blood Joost van der Valk

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 77’/55’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.nposales.com/satudarah-one-blood

International motorcycle gang Satudarah frequently makes the headlines in Holland, Spain, Germany and Indonesia because of alleged criminal activities. The club is also said to be at war with the Hell’s Angels. Like with all outlaw motor gangs, the secretive world of Satudarah is notoriously difficult to enter. EMMYand BAFTA-winning filmmakers Joost van der Valk and Mags Gavan were given unique access to the club. Their film shows not only the violence embedded within its culture but also the more fragile side of its members.

SALES / CONTACT: Kaisa Kriek NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1217 ZL Hilversum

PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Monique Busman INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6773760 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl

Award-winning filmmakers were given unique access to the international motorcycle gang Satudarah and capture not only the violence embedded within its culture but also the more fragile side of its members. 384

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Saving Uncle Jacob Lehatzil et Dod Yakov Sivan Shtivi

Israel, 2015 color, HDcam, 71’/52’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English www.cinemax-prod.co.il

Sivan – the Director - wants to quit smoking with his Uncle Jacob, a heavy smoker whose life’s in danger, and decides to recruit the entire addicted family. . . But the spontaneous plan to quit cigarettes, rapidly twists into an eventful and layered story. The painful memories of Sivan’s father’s suicide inevitably creep up on him, as he himself is about to become a father. And while they repeatedly attempt to quit, Jacob’s health continues to deteriorate. This tragic-comic film shares the story of a smoking, loving, self-destructive family, as they reach out to smokers everywhere - active or passive. . .

SALES / CONTACT: Michael Treves JMT Films Distribution 9 Haavoda St., Apt. 33.

PRODUCTION Cinemax Productions David Noy

6382110 Tel Aviv

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YesDocu – Israel,

Israel

Radio Canada – France

tel: +372 8136 8789 www.JMTFilms.com Michael@JMTFilms.com

Sivan recruits his addicted family and sets out on a mission to quit smoking, and save Uncle Jacob whose life is in danger...

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Say Something Åsa Ekman

Sweden / Norway, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’/74’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.saysomethingdoc.org

Isabell grew up witnessing her mother’s boyfriend beating her mother. Say Something is a coming of age documentary where the young person’s teenage years has been characterized by witnessing violence. We follow the relationship between daughter and mother as they struggle not only to communicate but also to understand and forgive. Will her mother listen, and will they be able to reconcile?

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1

PRODUCTION Film and Tell Oscar Hedin

04103 Leipzig

CO-PRODUCTION: Giljotin AS – Norway,

Germany

Åsa Ekman Film – Sweden

tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: UR – Sweden,

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Say Something is a coming of age documentary where the young person’s teenage years has been characterized by witnessing violence. 386

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Scenes from a Divorce

Sahnehaie Az Yek Talagh Shirin Barghnavard, Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah Iran, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Persian Subtitles: English

After eight years of marriage, Maryam and Bashoo decide to get a divorce. But to keep their families from finding out, they continue to live together. In a society as traditional and religious as Iran, living together as an unmarried couple is not only illegal but also seen by many as a sin. An intimate yearlong look at the private life of a modern Iranian couple, Scenes from a Divorce explores the reasons behind Maryam and Bashoo’s decision to end their marriage and continue living together.

SALES / CONTACT: Shirin Barghnavard Koocheh Film

PRODUCTION Koocheh Film Shirin Barghnavard

Unit 2, No 5, Hamid Dead End,

Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah

17th St, Sanaie St, Karimkhan Ave 1586677713 Tehran Iran tel: +98 21 88842326 shirintermeh@gmail.com

An intimate look at the private life of a couple, Scenes from a Divorce explores the reasons behind Maryam and Bashoo’s decision to end their marriage and continue living together. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Scouts

Eclaireurs Christophe Hermans Belgium, 2015 color, HDcam, 77’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

Damien, Camille, Thomas, François, Maureen and the others. . . About 15 teenagers between the age of 12 and 15. They all belong to a scouts group in Belgium. Like each year, they get ready to go to summer camp. Through their experiences, Scouts portrays the teenage years with their joys and sorrows, their dreams and first disenchantments.

SALES / CONTACT: Mathieu Pereira FraKas Productions Rue des Ixellois, 3

PRODUCTION FraKas Productions Jean-Yves Roubin Cassandre Warnauts

4000 Liège Belgium tel: +3242313863 www.frakas.be office@frakas.be

Scouts portrays teenagehood through a gender-mixed scouts camp.

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Sea Is My Country La mer est mon royaume Marc Picavez France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French/English

www.pointdujour-international.com

Andrei, Ramil, Wendel and their friends are sailors on the African Forest, a cargo ship ferrying precious goods between Africa and Europe. Cosmopolitan, resourceful young men from the Ukraine, the Philippines, from Ghana or Trinidad, enticed by the slogan “See the world for free” and the promise of a job! For 10 months, the film follows these new globalised sailors across the oceans while they gain experience and cope with the isolation. They communicate in “Globish”, a sort of scattered, heavily accented English and look towards Andrei, the “chief mate” from the Ukraine, a central figure on board… Excluding France, Germany

SALES / CONTACT: Doris Weitzel Point du Jour International 23 rue de Cronstadt 75015 Paris

PRODUCTION Les Films du Balibari Estelle Robin You INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

France tel: +33 (0) 1 75 44 80 88 www.pointdujour-international.com d.weitzel@pointdujour.fr

On board the merchant marine ship African Forest, the young seamen in search of good pay, face the reality and isolation of life on the oceans, far from home.

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Sembene! Jason Silverman

USA / Senegal, 2015 color / black and white, video, 82’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This true story celebrates how the “father of African cinema,” against enormous odds, fought a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give Africans a voice.

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company

PRODUCTION Samba Gadjigo

Jason Silverman

165 Madison Ave, # 601 10016 New York USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

A freedom fighter who used stories as weapons: meet Ousmane Sembene, the father of African cinema. 390

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Sempervirens Raphaël Dubach

Switzerland, 2015 color, video, 46’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

Since he fell off his bike, Mr. Jacot hasn’t been himself; in fact he isn’t really anybody. The brain damage he sustained in the fall means his existence is reduced to the bare minimum of consciousness. He is treated at the acute neurorehabilitation centre at the CHUV by a group of highly specialized therapists. He begins a long journey, structured by the regular rhythm of these therapies, where he has to learn how to use his body again and to re-establish his personality.

SALES / CONTACT: Jean Guillaume Sonnier ECAL - Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne

PRODUCTION ECAL - Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne

Lionel Baier

5 avenue du temple 1020 Renens Switzerland tel: +41 21 316 92 33 www.ecal.ch/fr/100/homepage jean_guillaume.sonnier@ecal.ch

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Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT Willemiek Kluijfhout

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English www.fortissimofilms.com

For 25 years, 3- Michelin-star chef Sergio Herman strives for perfection. At the height of his culinary career, Sergio decided that in order to further pursue his dreams; he must close his famous restaurant Oud Sluis. This documentary is an honest and intimate portrait that shows the struggles of a man in transition. It exposes how Sergio deals with the existential questions and doubts that many of us identify with in life. Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT is an intense story of perfectionism, ambition and sacrifice.

SALES / CONTACT: Nelleke Driessen Fortissimo Films

PRODUCTION Trueworks, Inc. Reinette van de Stadt

Van Diemenstraat 100 1013 CN Amsterdam

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: +31 206273215 www.fortissimofilms.com info@fortissimo.nl

At the height of his culinary career, Master chef Sergio Herman feels he needs to let go of his 3-star restaurant Oud Sluis in order to fulfill his dreams.

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Seven Songs for a Long Life Amy Hardie

Scotland, 2015 color, HDcam, 82’/60’ Original Language: English www.sevensongsfilm.com

How did it happen? A movie about six hospice patients which you just want to keep watching! Funny, touching and passionate in their enjoyment of life. And they sing. A great score by Mark Orton leads us through one of the key issues of our age: medicine has recently changed our relationship with fatal disease: we can now live for years, rather than months, after a terminal diagnosis. Sometimes. How do we cope with this uncertainty? The documentary cast are quirky, wry front-runners in a journey that we will all face. Excluding UK, Finland

SALES / CONTACT: Sonja Henrici Scottish Documentary Institute 78 West Port

PRODUCTION Scottish Documentary Institute Sonja Henrici

EH1 2LE Edinburgh

CO-PRODUCTION: Hard Working Movies – USA,

Scotland

Amy Hardie Productions –

tel: +44 131 651 5871

Scotland

www.scottishdocinstitute.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YLE – Finland,

sonja@scottishdocinstitute.com

BBC – Scotland

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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | History

Shedding Light on Dracula Un po’ di luce su Dracula Andrea Canetta

Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 45’ Original Language: Romanian/Italian Subtitles: English www.rsi.ch

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Who is the historical figure behind the legend of Dracula, the father of all vampires? This documentary takes its cue from an old manuscript preserved in the library of St. Gallen, narrating the life of Vlad III the Impaler (1431-1477), whose name Dracula, meaning son of the Dragon, derives from the Order founded by Emperor Sigismund in his fight against heretics and Ottoman Turks. The search will take the viewer to the cradle of the son of the Dragon itself: Transylvania.

SALES / CONTACT: Stella Bogliani RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Via Canevascini

PRODUCTION RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Luca Jäggli

6903 Lugano

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –

Switzerland

tel: +41 91 803 54 82 stella.bogliani@rsi.ch

A journey to Transylvania following the footsteps of Vald III the Impaler, the historical figure behind the legendary Count Dracula.

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Nature / Environment | Investigative | Politics / Society

Shipping Pollution Hotet på havet Folke Rydén

Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English

Every day and night, thousands of commercial vessels traffic the Baltic Sea, belching out harmful exhaust fumes and dumping sewage water into the fragile ecosystem. Gigantic floating cities with thousands of inhabitants. All of them eating and drinking – and producing huge amounts of sewage and toilet water. But instead of using port facilities the cruise ships dump their toilet water straight into the sea. Shipping has impaired the Baltic Sea environment and its 90 million citizens to an extent that most people are unaware of. Excluding Sweden, Finland, Norway

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Daae DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION FRP AB Folke Rydén

Corporation DR Byn

0999 Copenhagen Denmark tel: T +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk JADA@dr.dk

A shocking revelation of the environmental impact of harmful emissions and waste from increased shipping on the Baltic Sea.

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History | Art / Music / Culture

The Show of Shows: 100 years of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals Benedikt Erlingsson

Iceland / England, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: English

Roll Up, Roll Up for an unforgettable experience! This film tells the story of itinerant circus performers, cabaret acts and vaudeville and fairground attractions. In this film, rarities and never-before seen footage of fairgrounds, circus entertainment, freak shows, variety performances, music hall and seaside entertainment are chronicled from the 19th and 20th century. We will see early shows that wowed the world and home movies of some of the greatest circus families. Excluding Iceland, Former Yugoslavia

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION Crossover Labs Mark Atkin

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

Director Benedikt Erlingsson takes us back to the days when the most outlandish, skillful and breathtaking acts traveled the world.

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Siberian Floating Hospital Tatiana Soboleva

Russia, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’/93’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English www.deckert-distribution.com

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When the Siberian winter releases its grip every year in May, twenty doctors, mostly women, board a special ship - a floating hospital, leaving their families behind. The ship crisscrosses the Siberian North, bringing medical care to the remotest rural outposts. Locals wait for this ship, for them the doctors are heralds from the big world. And for the doctors it’s an adventure that alters them and that many of them have become addicted to.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1

PRODUCTION Ethnofund Vlad Ketkovich CO-PRODUCTION: Format TV – Russia

04103 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com

The floating hospital crisscrosses the Siberian North bringing medical care to the remotest rural outposts.

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment

Siblings Are Forever Søsken til evig tid Frode Fimland

Norway, 2014 color, DCP, 52’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English www.deckert-distribution.com

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The siblings Magnar and Oddny, both in their seventies, never left their childhood home. They run the family farm as it was run by several generations before them. Magnar and Oddny are far from wealthy but close to the nature surrounding them. The highlight of their existence is when they take their livestock on the annual pilgrimage to the mountains for summer grazing. But can this routine last forever? Advancing age and failing health are reasons for questioning whether there is to be summer grazing in the mountains this year. If so, will this be the last year of summer pastures?

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638

PRODUCTION FIMfilm Frode Fimland CO-PRODUCTION: Relation04 Media – Norway INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: TV2 – Norway

www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com

A poetic documentary about a brother-and-sister couple, Magnar and Oddny who live like many Norwegians did 50 years ago. Far from wealthy but close to the nature surrounding them. 398

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Sick

Bolesno Hrvoje Mabic Croatia, 2015 color, video, 95’ Original Language: Croatian Subtitles: English

At the age of 16 Ana was locked up in a psychiatric hospital by her parents who arranged the treatment for curing her homosexuality with the hospital director. After all she went through, she longs for a girl who won’t think of her as insane because of her PTSD condition. She finds all that in Martina, her new love whom she plans the wedding with. However, Martina’s huge patience wanes with time as she finds Ana more obsessed with her traumatic past than with the life they’re sharing together. Sick is a film about love, betrayal, revenge and forgiveness.

SALES / CONTACT: Thierry Detaille Visible Film

PRODUCTION Fade In Morana Komljenovic

Rue Dethy 164

Iva Tkalec

1000 Brussels Belgium

CO-PRODUCTION: Drugi Plan – Croatia,

tel: +32471076647

Zagreb Film – Croatia

www.visiblefilm.com thierry.detaille@visiblefilm.com

A young girl on the brink of suicide, whose parents and psychiatrists try curing her homosexuality over years of treatment, wants justice and revenge, but finds something bigger than that. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Science / Technology | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues

SILA and the Gatekeepers of the Arctic SILA und die Hüter der Arktis Corina Gamma USA / Greenland / Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 64’/52’ Original Language: English/ Greenlandic/Danish Subtitles: English www.gatekeepersofthearctic.com

The documentary explores the Greenlandic concept of SILA, a term that encompasses weather, balance and consciousness. In the world’s most northern inhabited town, a small Inuit settlement struggles with the drastic change in weather pattern, their centuries-old lifestyle is vanishing. Their stories are woven together with international researchers on Greenland’s Inland Ice Cap. Both sides of witnesses bring a human face to the politicized issue of climate change and illustrate the impact our overindustrialized world has on a small isolated Arctic community.

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SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS Dasselstraße 75-77 50674 Cologne Germany tel: +4922116819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de

PRODUCTION Corina Gamma

Markus Kaeppeli CO-PRODUCTION: tellfilm – Switzerland

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Art / Music / Culture

The Silence of Mark Rothko De stilte van Rothko Marjoleine Boonstra

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English www.nposales.com/the-silence-of-rothko/

What lies hidden behind the imposing coloured planes in Mark Rothko’s paintings? We wander through the life and work of Mark Rothko and visualize his sources of inspiration in an attempt to bring the artist closer to us. Including Christopher Rothko, Mark Rothko’s son, who reads quotes from his father’s writings; Annie CohenSolal, Rothko’s biographer; Franz Kaiser, curator of the Rothko exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague; and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, a conservation specialist on Rothko.

SALES / CONTACT: Kiyomi Molin NPO Sales

PRODUCTION Aperta Lies Janssen

Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum

CO-PRODUCTION: boonstra foto/film –

The Netherlands

tel: +31 35 6773561

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: AVROTROS – The Netherlands

www.nposales.com Kiyomi.Molin@npo.nl

This documentary wanders through the life and work of Mark Rothko and visualize his sources of inspiration in an attempt to bring the artist closer to us.

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View

A Sinner in Mecca Parvez Sharma

USA, 2015 color, video, 79’ Original Language: Hindi/ Urdu/Arabic/English Subtitles: English

Parvez Sharma’s (A Jihad for Love) new film is a daring and provocative journey to the very heart of Islam and tells a story about a life-long quest of finding faith and overcoming fear across two continents. Excluding France (broadcast), Germany (broadcast), USA, Canada

SALES / CONTACT: Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company 165 Madison Ave, # 601 10016 New York

PRODUCTION The Film Sales Company Parvez Sharma INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ZDF/ARTE – Germany

USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com

Parvez Sharma’s film is a daring and provocative journey to the very heart of Islam. 402

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The Siren of Faso Fani Michel K. Zongo

France / Burkina Faso / Germany, 2014 color, video, 89’ Original Language: French/Moré Subtitles: German/English

The film explores the disastrous consequences of global economic policies that are blind to local realities. The famous factory Faso Fani (BF) shut-down in 2001 threw hundreds out of work, plunged thousands into poverty and left an entire city reeling: Koudougou, where I was born. A decade after, I return to the city to meet the former workers. Stripped of their livelihood and pride they remain convinced that reviving the cotton industry can offer a viable future for the whole community. In this film I bring their dream to life: hearing once again the gentle thrum of the spinning machines.

SALES / CONTACT: Christian Lelong Cinédoc films

PRODUCTION Perfect Shot Films Michael Bogar

9 Rue du Travail

Cinédoc films

74 000 Annecy

Christian Lelong

France tel: +33 450452390

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Lyon Capitale TV – France,

www.cinedoc.fr

Télé Paese – France

info@cinedoc.fr

The director meets the ex-employees of the famous Faso Fani textiles factory in Burkina Faso to reveal the disastrous consequences of a global economic policy blind to local realities. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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History | Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment

Sketches of Siberia Ben van Lieshout

The Netherlands, 2015 black and white, video, 74’ Original Language: English

In 1913, polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen took part in an expedition, to open up a regular trade connection between Norway and the interior of Siberia. His fascinating diary, Through Siberia, The Land of the Future, is an important inspiration for Sketches of Siberia, in which elements from Siberia’s past, and present are visualised. Within themes such as colonialism, exploitation of mineral resources, the destiny of native people and the influx of convicts and exiles, we search for the human dimension balancing precariously amid the influences from outside. Nansen’s observations and considerations at the time, are mirrored in a present day context.

SALES / CONTACT: Ben van Lieshout Van Lieshout Filmproducties

PRODUCTION Van Lieshout Filmproducties Ben van Lieshout

Kerkstraat 8 3431 CR Nieuwegein The Netherlands tel: +31306013040 www.bvlfilm.com bvlfilm@gmail.com

Road/boat trip on the mighty Yenisei river and into the taiga, to the heart of gold. What became of Fridtjof Nansen’s land of the future? 404

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Skin and Bones Svindlerne Michael Dinesen

Denmark, 2015 color, video/HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English www.staalfilm.dk/SKINANDBONES.html

Three friends going on a trip that will change their lives forever. All three of them suffer from Progressive Muscular Dystrophy, and thus with a pinch of characteristic black humor refer to themselves as the “Skin and Bones” guys. They live their lives strapped to wheelchairs on which various devices and equipment are attached which enable them some mobility and constantly blow essential air into their fragile bodies. We follow the guys coming of ages, peaking when they are helped going on a sex trip to Berlin that will ultimately change their lives forever.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION Staalfilm Michael Dinesen

Corporation

Basmati Film

Emil Holms Kanal 20

Ellen Riis

0999 København C

CO-PRODUCTION: Staalfilm – Denmark

Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

Excluding Norway, Sweden

We follow the guys coming of ages, peaking when they are helped going on a sex trip to Berlin that will ultimately change their lives forever. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Snowden’s Great Escape Snowdens store flugt John Goetz, Poul-Erik Heilbuth Norway / Germany / France / Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English

What is stunning is how Snowden was able to take advantage of elementary mistakes made by the U. S. government and escape Hong Kong and evade the manhunt. The film also tells for the first time how Putin was close to deporting Snowden from Moscow after he landed at Sheretmetyevo. Told in a minute-byminute reconstruction in conversations with the actual participants and mixed with news reports about the Snowden escape and the NSA revelations, Snowden’s Great Escape is a documentary thriller. Territories sold: Taiwan, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Canada - English speaking, The Netherlands (broadcast), Flanders, Finland

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SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

PRODUCTION DR TV Sidsel Marie Jacobsen

Emil Holms Kanal 20

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden,

0999 København C

ARD – Germany,

Denmark

NRK – Norway,

tel: +45 35202299

WDR – Germany,

www.dr.dk

RTS – Serbia

kimc@dr.dk

Snowden’s Great Escape tells the true story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in the days after he gave journalists his cache of documents about the NSA.

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So Far, So Near Tak daleko, tak blízko Jaroslav Vojtek

Slovakia, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: Slovak Subtitles: English www.takdalekotakblizko.sk

This is an unusual film about the environment in families with autistic children, which reveals the day-today challenge of life with them. It is not, however, built on dialogue and testimony, but on specific, naturally occurring situations in which it contemplates the issues of familial and romantic love for people with autism. The documentary was made over the course of seven years in cooperation with a nonprofit organization called the Andreas Autism Centre, which provides expert and comprehensive support to people with autism, as well as to their families.

SALES / CONTACT: Barbara Harumová Hessová AH Production Irkutská 14/D 85110 Bratslava Slovakia

PRODUCTION AH Production Barbara Harumová Hessová CO-PRODUCTION: Andreas – Slovakia

tel: +421 908786843

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Slovak Television and Radio –

www.ah.sk

Slovakia

hessova@ah.sk

The film offers a look into the lives of people with autism while challenging generally held opinions in society about this developmental disorder. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Soccer Millionaire from East Voetbalmiljonair uit Oost Carin Goeijers

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: Russian/ Dutch/French/Arabic Subtitles: English

Two time golden shoe-winner Dutch Morroccan soccer star Mbark Boussoufa faces dilemma’s at his club in Moscow, when the super rich owner gets money troubles. What will he future be? It becomes a lonely struggle, even more, because he misses his family in The Netherlands and Morocco, who like him to marry now. Directed by Carin Goeijers (“God is my DJ”)

SALES / CONTACT: Paul Ruven Talent United BV Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 290 BG 1012RT Amsterdam

PRODUCTION Talent United BV Paul Ruven INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: BNN – The Netherlands

The Netherlands tel: + 31 651245041 www.talentunited.nl paul@talentunited.nl

Soccer star Mbark Boussoufa faces dilemma’s, when his club in Russia is in money trouble, while he misses his family in The Netherlands and Morocco, who like him to marry. 408

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Somos Cuba - We Are Cuba! Somos Cuba - Wir sind Kuba! Annett Ilijew Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 91’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

A far cry from the familiar picturesque images of Cuba, amateur cameraman Andres recorded everyday life in a working class neighborhood of Havana for a period of 7 years. Filmmaker Annett Ilijew smuggled piles of tapes in and out of Cuba and edited his footage into an intimate document that shows the reality of ordinary Cubans on the eve of change. Excluding Germany

SALES / CONTACT: Elina Kewitz NEW DOCS

PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment Simone Baumann

Dasselstraße 75-77

Friederike Freier

50674 Cologne Germany

CO-PRODUCTION: Saxonia Entertainment –

tel: +4922116819743

Germany

www.newdocs.de

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Westdeutscher Rundfunk –

elina.kewitz@newdocs.de

Germany

An intimate insight into the lives of 3 families in a poor neighborhood of Havana. A tribute to the ingenuity of Havana’s underdogs on the eve of change in Cuba. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Art / Music / Culture

Song of Lahore

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Andy Schocken

Pakistan / USA, 2015 color, video, 82’ Original Language: English/Punjabi/Urdu Subtitles: English www.songoflahore.com

The town of Lahore was a center of musical culture - until music was considered sinful under Sharia law in 1977. Musicians were partly vilified and music was banned into private homes. After restrictions eased, an amazing recording of “Take Five” goes viral and several Pakistani musicians are invited by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis to perform at Lincoln Center. Andy Schocken and Academy awarded Sharmeen Obaid tell a different kind of story about Pakistan – a story about its people, not its politics and how music has the ability to bring people together across cultural divides.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION SOC Films Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Ravi Films

1070 Wien

Andy Schocken

Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

A different kind of story about Pakistan – a story about its people, not its politics and how music has the ability to bring people together across cultural divides. 410

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Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo

USA / South Korea / Portugal, 2015 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English

Filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo offers a compelling and empathetic look at North Korea and its people, a group consistently viewed through a distorted lens. Yoo seamlessly interweaves archival footage, popular cinema and music, capturing both the mundane and emotionally intimate to paint a more detailed, and therefore complex, picture of the North Korean people. Yoo’s sincerity and deep affection for her subjects creates a powerful exploration of a troubled nation that also profoundly questions our own mythology about nationalism.

SALES / CONTACT: Elizabeth Sheldon Kino Lorber, Inc.

PRODUCTION Soon-Mi Yoo

333 West 39th St. Suite 503 10018 New York USA tel: +1 212 629 6880 kinosales.com elizabeth@kinolorber.com

Available world-wide broadcast expect Portugal and Brazil.

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Youth | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues

Sonita

Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

Iran / Germany / Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 91’/52’ Original Language: Farsi/English/Afghan Subtitles: English

Sonita is an 18-year-old female, an undocumented Afghan illegal immigrant living in the poor suburbs of Tehran. She is a feisty, spirited, young woman who fights to live the way she wants, as an artist, singer, and musician in spite of all her obstacles she confronts in Iran and her conservative patriarchal family. In harsh contrast to her goal is the plan of her family – strongly advanced by her mother – to make her a bride and sell her to a new family. The price right now is about US$ 9. 000.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs

PRODUCTION Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami TAG/TRAUM

18, rue Quincampoix

Gerd Haag

75004 Paris France

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DR – Denmark,

www.catndocs.com/index.html

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cat@catndocs.com

NHK – Japan, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse – Switzerland

Sonita wants to become the first female Afghan rapper in order to tell her story: Her family wants to sell her to an unknown husband: The bid is $9,000. 412

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SOS Friendship SOS Vriendschap Els van Driel

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English

They are not a burden to us. They are people with heart and a soul and all of them have talent. “ So says the twelve year old Letizia on the boat people arriving almost daily at her island of Sicily. That includes young people between, who are alone. Letizia takes care of them, along with her parents. The boys regard Letizia as a sister and tell her their special stories. Who, for example, Mohammed Mali - which like so much pink stuff? Letizia calls us to befriend them. Just because they are great fun!

SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON

PRODUCTION IKON Anouk Donker

Oude Amersfoortseweg 79

Lisa de Smet

1213AC Hilversum

Moira Veenhof

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 647 4208 www.omroep.nl/ikon anouk.donker@ikon.nl

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South Africa - The Post-Apartheid Generation Afrique du Sud - Génération post-apartheid Stéphanie Lamorré France, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English www.pltv.fr

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What has become of Nelson Mandela’s dream of a democratic and multiracial South Africa? This documentary examines South Africa’s new issues, via the portrait of five young South Africans representing the “born free generation” in a country faced with intense issues of economic inequality, severe social tension and community withdrawal.

SALES / CONTACT: Heidi Fleisher ARTE France

PRODUCTION Prémieres Lignes Télévision Luc Hermann

8 Rue Marceau 92785 Issy les Moulineaux

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France

France tel: +33(0)1 55 00 72 59 h-fleisher@artefrance.fr

An investigative documentary on the social and political crisis in South Africa, following the paths of five young people belonging to the post-Apartheid generation. 414

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Spain: Facing Uncertainty Espagne face à l’incertitude Sergio Ghizzardi, Jaume Grau

Spain / France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French/ Spanish/English/Catalan Subtitles: English

Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy after Franco, amazed the world. Today, Spain amazes for the wrong reasons. Billions wasted in public works. Astronomical unemployment rates. A princess accused of tax fraud and over 600 public officials implicated in corruption cases. Meanwhile, the massive Catalan pro-independence movement is questioning the very essence of the state. As people realise the extent to which the old networks and affiliations continue to pull the threads, they are rejecting the current system. New parties like Podemos are challenging the establishment. Combining carefully selected archive, interviews and analysis, we examine the political forces shaping Spain

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films

PRODUCTION Idéale Audience International Francoise Gazio

38 Quai du Point du Jour

Media 3.14

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

Joan Ubeda

France tel: +33174713313

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – France,

www.javafilms.fr

TV3 – Spain

kathryn@javafilms.tv

Spain is on the brink of profound change. New parties like Podemos are challenging the establishment, while the massive Catalan pro-independence movement is questioning the very essenceInternational of the Documentary state. Film Festival Amsterdam 2015 415

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Speed Sisters Amber Fares

USA / Palestine / Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: English www.speedsisters.tv

The Speed Sisters are the first allwoman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, Speed Sisters takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof 19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

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Spirit in Motion Sofia Geweiler

Russia, 2015 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Portugese/Russian/ English/German/Chinese Subtitles: English/Spanish www.facebook.com/spiritinmotionfilm

Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the World are fighting for the chance to come to Games and win a medal of the highest standard, but before this each of them must defeat the most serious opponent - his own disability. Before the Paralympic games started, the International Paralympic Committee (Germany, Bonn) became interested in the film, watched the material and made the decision to assign the film the status of the first official film of the Paralympic Games. The first time that’s happened in the more than 50-year history of the Paralympic movement.

SALES / CONTACT: Olga Mitko Studio Ostrov

PRODUCTION Production Center “VGIK-Debut”

Brusov pereulok, dom 2/14, str. 8

Vladimir Malishev

125009 Moscow

Ostrov Studio

Russia

Sergei Miroshnichenko

tel: +7 495 9830335

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Rossia Channel – Russia

www.ostrovstudio.com spiritinmotion@ostrovstudio.com

The official documentary of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games by request of International Paralymic Committee (Germany, Bonn). International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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The Spirit of the Ancestors Te Kuhane o te tupuna Leonardo Pakarati Chile, 2015 color, video, 65’ Original Language: French/ English/Rapa Nui/Spanish Subtitles: English www.mahatua.cl

Before dying, grandmother Noe wants to tell Mika girl the story of the Moai Hoa Haka Nana’ia…foreigners took him away from the island more than 100 years ago and never came back. She tells her in the island things have Mana, a supernatural power from their ancestors that today has weakened. A way to recover the Mana, so to bring back well being to the island, is to bring the spirit of the Moai Hoa Haka Nana’ia back.

SALES / CONTACT: Paula Rossetti Mahatua Producciones rongo rongo s/n

PRODUCTION Mahatua Producciones Paula Rossetti

2770000 Easter Island

CO-PRODUCTION: Sobras International Pictures –

Chile

tel: +56 9 99688910 www.mahatua.cl paula.rossetti@gmail.com

This is the story of a grandfather and a girl who travel from the remotest island in the world, in search of the sacred power of their ancestors, the Mana.

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The Squatters of The Devil’s House Los habitantes de La Casa del Diablo Iván Reina Ortiz Colombia, 2015 color, video, 86’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

www.loboronco.com/cine/casadeldiablo

The Squatters of The Devil’s House is the polyphonic portrait of ‘Fercho’, ‘Devil’ and ‘Hippie’, the accidental owners of a no-man’s land, perhaps, the only place in the world they can call their own. The ruins shelter their shattered days, allowing them to overcome time and become a little family. With vestiges as the core of their lives, they will find what it takes to rise again.

SALES / CONTACT: Juan Felipe Ríos Rodríguez Lobo Ronco Media Contents Cra 3 # 17 - 37 Ap 1201

PRODUCTION Lobo Ronco Media Contents Iván Reina Ortiz Juan Felipe Ríos Rodríguez

110321011 Bogota Colombia tel: +57 320 2702219 www.loboronco.com loboroncomedia@gmail.com

The squatters of a derelict house spend their shattered days together, finding among the remains what it takes to rise again.

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Stella ciao Vito Robbiani

Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: German/Spanish/ French/English/Italian Subtitles: English/Italian/German/French www.mediatree.com/video/stella/

Fifty-year-old, Sardinian-born Silvio – a lover of jazz music and karaoke shows – manages the “Stella d’Oro” boarding house. Built on the Swiss side of Lake Maggiore more than a hundred years ago, the place has been accommodating less and less tourists, and a few asylum seekers. But its days are numbered: it is threatened by a property restoration project for a new private housing estate. Its few remaining days depict the passing of life in a place of encounter for the stories and dreams of people coming from different locations and cultures.

SALES / CONTACT: Stella Bogliani RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Via Canevascini

PRODUCTION ROUGH CAT sagl Nicola Bernasconi CO-PRODUCTION: RSI – Switzerland

6903 Lugano Switzerland tel: +41 91 803 54 82

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RSI – Switzerland

stella.bogliani@rsi.ch

Stella Ciao is the portrait of the last year and a half of existence of a peculiar place, a unique slice of life as it was seized right before its destruction.

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Still Loved Debbie Howard

England, 2015 color, video, 77’/52’ Original Language: English www.stilllovedfilm.com

When their dreams are shattered by the loss of a tiny life, families find a way to transform their heartbreak into hope. Some films simply demand to be made, no matter how challenging or unpopular their subject matter. 7,000 babies are stillborn every single day. Yet talking about it remains a taboo. Still Loved is a story of love, loss and courage. We witness the struggle, determination and surprising humour as families find challenging and inspiring ways to rebuild their lives after the loss of a tiny life.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18, rue Quincampoix

PRODUCTION Debbie Howard CO-PRODUCTION: Studio of the North – England

75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com/index.html cat@catndocs.com

Is it better to have loved and lost? A story of loss, love and new life as families rebuild their lives after the loss of a baby International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View

A Strange Love Affair with Ego Ester Gould

The Netherlands, 2015 color, video, 95’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.zuidenwind.nl

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Ever since she was a child, filmmaker Ester Gould has been amazed by the sheer self-confidence of her sister Rowan, whose boundless creativity and natural beauty tended to make everyone jealous. But can such a welldeveloped sense of your own worth go too far? Self-assurance is greatly valued – until it spills over into an unhealthy overestimation of the self. In this incisive, personal visual essay, Gould explores our society’s increasing obsession with the self. She follows a number of seemingly successful people as they reflect on the level of selfconfidence they display and how this relates to their actual “self”.

SALES / CONTACT: Joost Seelen Zuidenwind FilmProductions Postbus 4673

PRODUCTION Zuidenwind FilmProductions Joost Seelen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: VPRO – The Netherlands

4803 ER Breda The Netherlands tel: +31 76 5140871 www.zuidenwind.nl info@zuidenwind.nl

Admiration for her sister Rowan’s self-confidence prompts filmmaker Ester Gould to explore our narcissistic society, with disconcerting results.

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A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars Christina Paschyn

Qatar, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam/video, 44’/43’ Original Language: Turkish/Russian/English Subtitles: English www.astruggleforhome.com

For centuries, Crimea was home to the Crimean Tatars, the MuslimTurkic indigenous population. Then the Russian Empire conquered the peninsula. Since then the Tatars have struggled to reclaim it from Russian domination. They’ve suffered ethnic and religious persecution, including a Soviet genocide that saw their entire population deported from Crimea. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they thought they would be finally free and safe in their homeland. But in 2014 their dreams were dashed when Vladimir Putin invaded and re-annexed the peninsula. This film tells the rich and tragic history of the Crimean Tatar people from ancient times to today.

SALES / CONTACT: Christina Paschyn Paschyn Productions PO BOX 34102

PRODUCTION Paschyn Productions Christina Paschyn CO-PRODUCTION: Mediadante – Qatar

0000 Doha Qatar tel: +97466403530 www.christinapaschyn.com

christina.paschyn@northwestern.edu

For 200 years, the Crimean Tatars struggled to free the Crimea from Russian domination. In 2014 they thought they were finally free and safe in their homeland. They were wrong. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues

Strung Out Bat zona Nirit Aharoni

Israel, 2015 black and white, HDcam, 110’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English

This film tells the story of a group of young women living on the street, casualties of heroin and prostitution. Robbed of their childhood, they now find themselves trapped in a spiral of addiction that too often leads to death. These stories offer answers to questions about the director’s own past, as a child who was taken from her drug-addled mother, a prostitute, but more than that, just a girl.

SALES / CONTACT: David Mandil Movie Plus Productions Tel Aviv 163 Dizingoff st.

PRODUCTION Movie Plus Productions Tel Aviv David Mandil INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YES – Israel

6346140 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +97235164373 leelu@movieplus.info

The film captures the world of young homeless women that their lives led them to drug and prostitution in the harshest place in Israel, the old bus station in Tel-Aviv.

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The Successor Il successore Mattia Epifani

Italy, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Bosnian/Italian Subtitles: English

The engineer Vito Alfieri Fontana is the previous owner of Tecnovar, an Apulian company specialized in landmines Production and sale. A deep existential crisis brought the engineer to question himself, his own job and his family. Especially the relationship he had with his father, a charismatic as oppressive presence is his life. One question seems to be haunting him: how many were the victims caused by his work in Tecnovar? The answer is the beginning of an existential trip from Italy to a war-torn Bosnia Erzegovina, where teams of sappers and mine specialists are still working in land remediation.

SALES / CONTACT: Davide Barletti Fluid Produzioni - Ubulibri

PRODUCTION Apulia Film Commission Giovanni Antelmi

Prov.le Arnesano Novoli, km 3

Fluid Produzioni - Ubulibri

70310 Arnesano, Lecce

Davide Barletti

Italy tel: +39.3473667224 www.fluidproduzioni.com davidebarletti@gmail.com

An ex-producer of anti-personnel landmines undertakes a journey in Bosnia Herzegovina where he is able to reckon with himself and face the ghosts of his past. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues

Sugar Coated Michèle Hozer

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English

100 years ago the average sugar intake for a human was 13 grams a day. Today this is almost 150 grams. 80% of our foods that we eat and drink daily contain sugar. Sugar is a global industry with billions of dollars at stake while global obesity and diabetes are spinning out of control causing future healthcare costs levels beyond imagination. Meet Robert Lustig tirelessly exposing the lies of the sugar industry and Christin Kearns, who discovered 60 years of secret sugar industry documents. The tactics smell of Big Tobacco, including misleading consumers, influencing politicians and ‘paying off’ distinguished scientists.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION The Cutting Factory Nathalie Bibeau

21 Place Epernay

Janice Dawe

J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)

Michèle Hozer

Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

Sugar: the world starts slowly to realize that we have a problem. But how did we get here? 426

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Sunflower Occupation Sunflower Occupation Documentary Project

Taiwan, 2014 color, video, 120’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: Chinese/English

In 2014, when protesting against the Cross-strait Service Trade Agreement that was hastily approved, a group of protestors stormed into the Taiwanese parliament and occupied for 24 days. Why and how did it happen? What changes did the young generation go through? After they stormed through the side door of the Legislative Yuan, it was like the door to a bottomless black hole was thrown open. The most eternal and fundamental question is: What is democracy? What is the government? What is violence? What is the future? What is the happiness we seek? Who are “we”?

SALES / CONTACT: Taipei Documentary Filmmakers’ Union

PRODUCTION Chao-Ti Ho

Tsung-lung Tsai

2F., No.16, Ln.10, Xingcheng St. 103 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886-2-2557-1191 www.docunion.blogspot.tw sunflower318doc@gmail.com

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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View

Surire

Ivan Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut

Chile / Germany, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: Spanish/Aymara Subtitles: German/English/Spanish www.perutosnovikoff.com

The Surire salt flat is located in the Chilean high plateau at 4,300 meters over the sea level, on the border with Bolivia. In its surroundings live a handful of elders, the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the area. As background, the machinery of a mine site roams the landscape, intermingled with flamingos, vicunas and llamas. Surire is a film that from observation and cinematic language portrays this unique space in which coexist natural beauty, human absurdity, and cultural decline.

SALES / CONTACT: Ivan Osnovikoff Perut + Osnovikoff

PRODUCTION Tanja Georgieva

Los Abetos Sur 1117 A8-61, Vitacura 7630326 Santiago Chile tel: +56 2 29208546 perutosnovikoff.com ivan@perutosnovikoff.com

An environmentally protected salt flat exploited as a mine while the last native inhabitants watch from their run-down towns how the wealth is extracted from their ancestral lands. 428

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The Swedish Theory of Love Erik Gandini

Sweden, 2015 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English

Sweden is typically portrayed as having a perfectly organized society, a raw model and symbol of the highest achievements of human progress. The Swedish Theory of Love digs into the true nature of Swedish life style, explores the existential black holes of a society that has created the most autonomous people in the world.

SALES / CONTACT: Nicole Biermaier First Hand Films

PRODUCTION Fasad Erik Gandini

Neunbrunnenstrasse 50

Juan Pablo Libossart

8050 Zurich Switzerland

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www.firsthandfilms.com

Indie Film – Norway,

info@firsthandfilms.com

SVT – Sweden, Film Väst – Sweden, Zentropa Productions – Denmark

The Swedish Theory of Love digs into the true nature of Swedish life style, explores the existential black holes of a society that has created the most autonomous people in the world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Switzerland’s Dark Past: In The Name of Order and Morality Au nom de l’ordre et de la morale Bruno Joucla, Romain Rosso France, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 63’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial, sent to live with foster families or forced into children’s homes, or even sterilized. Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity. This documentary uses witness testimony, personal archives and original documentation to tell the story of the ordeal suffered by these children, and deciphers a political and social system that drove respectable citizens to exclude others for the sake of their own moral values.

SALES / CONTACT: Kathryn Bonnici Java Films

PRODUCTION WHAT’S UP Films Matthieu Belghiti

38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: +33174713313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv

This documentary about Switzerland deciphers a political and social system that drove respectable citizens to exclude others for the sake of their own moral values. 430

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Symmetry & Symmetry Unravelled Ruben van Leer, Juliette Stevens

Switzerland / The Netherlands / Bolivia, 2015 color, HDcam, 25’/23’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English www.symmetrymovie.com

Symmetry (28’) is a dance & opera film, in which CERN researcher Lukas is thrown off balance, while working on the theory of everything and the smallest particle. Through Claron’s singing he rediscovers love, in an endless landscape. She takes him back to the moment before the big bang, at a time of love with no end… Symmetry Unravelled (23’) shows the making-of of Symmetry. It’s filmed deep under the ground inside CERN and its detectors and far above sea level on the endless Bolivian mineral landscape Uyuni. Collaborating artists and renowned physicists unravel the relationship between art and science.

SALES / CONTACT: Sydney Neter SND Films

PRODUCTION Moving Portraits Juliette Stevens

P.O. Box 15703

CTM Docs

1001 NE Amsterdam

Sander Verdonk

The Netherlands tel: +31204040707

CO-PRODUCTION: CTM LEV Pictures –

www.sndfilms.com

The Netherlands

info@sndfilms.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: NTR – The Netherlands

A dance-opera film, centered around the hadron collider of CERN, in this case combined with the 23 min. making of. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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A Syrian Love Story Sean McAllister

England, 2015 color, video, 76’ Original Language: English/French/Arabic Subtitles: English www.asyrianlovestory.com

Comrades and lovers Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. When McAllister first meets their family in 2009, Raghda is back in prison leaving Amer to look after their 4 boys alone; but as the ‘Arab Spring’ sweeps the region, the family’s fate shifts irrevocably. Filmed over 5 years, the film charts their incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs

PRODUCTION 10Ft Films Sean McAllister

18, rue Quincampoix

Elhum Shakerifar

75004 Paris France

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tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48

DR – Denmark,

www.catndocs.com/index.html

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cat@catndocs.com

Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story tells one family’s incredible journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

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(T)error USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: English www.terrordocumentary.org

(T)error is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of Saeed “Shariff” Torres, a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government’s counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, (T)error illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks, ‘who is watching the watchers’?

SALES / CONTACT: Annie Roney ro*co films international 80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 8 94965 Sausalito

PRODUCTION Charlotte Street Films Christopher St. John CO-PRODUCTION: ITVS – USA

USA tel: +1 415 332 6471 www.rocofilms.com annie@rocofilms.com

(T)error is the story of Saeed Torres, a Black Panther turned FBI counterterrorism informant. It is the first film to document, on camera, a covert terrorism sting as it unfolds. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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A Tale of Love, Madness and Death Un cuento de amor, locura y muerte Mijael Bustos Gutiérrez Chile / Germany, 2015 color, video, 22’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/French/German www.luminaria.cl

/cuentodeamorlocuraymuerte/

My oldest uncle is a schizophrenic and also a chronic smoker. My grandmother’s lungs started to fail due to the cigarette smoke and she had to go to live with one of her daughters. Since then, my grandfather has had to take care of my uncle all by himself, being a silent witness of the imminent death of his beloved wife.

SALES / CONTACT: Iván Nakouzi Luminaria

PRODUCTION DobleRetina Films Mijael Bustos Gutiérrez

Ricardo Lyon 2994

Paulina Moya

7770157 Santiago

CO-PRODUCTION: Verdolaga – Germany

Chile tel: +56228950095 www.luminaria.cl ivan@luminaria.cl

My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of both, must decide between his wife and his son. 434

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Talk to Me Mów do mnie Marta Prus

Poland, 2015 color, video, 42’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

Talk To Me is an intimate journal presenting several months of friendship between the director and 21-year-old Krzysztof, a resident of the Monar rehabilitation centre in Warsaw who is addicted to marihuana. What happens when trust and sympathy of the protagonist towards the director turn into love? Can the director remain just an observer, without any responsibility, if she constantly accompanies him? Marta Prus becomes a close friend who tries to help Krzysztof.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a

PRODUCTION Telemark Maciej Kubicki

31-143 Krakow

CO-PRODUCTION: Polish National Film School

Poland

Lodz – Poland

tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

An intimate journal presenting several months of friendship between the director and 21-year-old Krzysztof, a resident of the Monar rehabilitation centre in Warsaw who is addicted to marihuana. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Tashi and the Monk Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton

India, 2014 color, video, 53’ Original Language: Hindi Subtitles: English www.tashiandthemonk.com

Obsang is a former Buddhist monk who spent years as a spiritual teacher in America, before returning to the Himalayan foothills of his infancy. There, he has set up Jhamtse Gatsal, a home for abandoned children. Tashi, a little girl with a traumatic past, is its newest admittee. She will be his toughest challenge yet. Tashi and the Monk is the story of a chaotic community with no higher purpose than giving its young members the joys of childhood. Excluding USA, Denmark, Australia, Netherlands

SALES / CONTACT: Grace Fletcher Journeyman Pictures

PRODUCTION Andrew Hinton

4-6 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 208 786 6054 www.journeyman.tv/ publicity@journeyman.tv

Obsang is a former monk who returned to the Himalayas to set up a home for abandoned children. Tashi is its newest admittee, and the toughest challenge yet. 436

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Tashi Delek! Peeter Rebane

Estonia, 2015 color, video, 52’/55’ Original Language: Tibetan Subtitles: English www.tashi-movie.com

Tashi faces the most important decision in his life: whether to devote his life to serving as a monk, or to leave the monastery and return to everyday life. We follow Tashi on his long journey home through the Himalayas to visit his father, witnessing the present day life and customs of Mustang - one of the best preserved traditional Tibetan communities in the world. On a wider scale, it is a story about a small nation struggling to keep its identity since opening of borders 22 years ago. It is a universal story about the conflict between spiritualism and materialism.

SALES / CONTACT: Priit Rebane

PRODUCTION The Factory

Estonia pst.9

Priit Rebane

10143 Tallinn Estonia tel: +3726155100 priit@bdg.ee

A young monk’s journey through Tibet in search of his path

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The Tchaikovsky Files - Confessions of a Composer Die Akte Tschaikowsky - Bekenntnisse eines Komponisten Ralf Pleger Germany, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English

www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/produktionen/ tchaikovsky-confessions-of-a-compose

Tchaikovsky is regarded as Russia’s most famous composer. He is celebrated as a national hero. And Tchaikovsky was gay - then as now a taboo in Russia. With a radical cinematic artifice Tchaikovsky’s adventures are translated into the here and now. The composer’s struggle with his homosexuality, the serious consequences of his crisis, the fusion of life and work and the mysterious circumstances of his death are retold within modern scenarios. Tchaikovsky’s fate and his artistic legacy is confronted with the present. The contemporary relevance of his case and the avantgarde quality of his music is taken into account.

SALES / CONTACT: Georg Tschurtschenthaler Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

PRODUCTION Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

Heinrich-Roller-Straße 15

Georg Tschurtschenthaler

10405 Berlin Germany

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: ARTE France – Germany,

tel: +49 (0)30 69566910

ZDF – Germany

www.gebrueder-beetz.de g.tschurtschenthaler@gebruederbeetz.de

The film radically transfers Peter Tchaikovsky into the present time and draws an emotional psychological portrait. Being a gay artist in a homophobic environment comes up for current discussion. 438

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Tchindas

Pablo García de Lara, Marc Serena

Spain, 2015 color, video, 94’/54’ Original Language: Creole Subtitles: English

Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes will capture the town’s imagination. Tchinda is openly transgender and deeply respected. Her choices, direction and vision centralize a collection of people that few beyond the island know to exist. A lush, perceptive documentary that at times feels akin to a fairy tale, Tchindas reveals a hidden landscape tucked far away from the world we know, where trans inclusion and teamwork make up the fundamental structure of a truly magical community and culture.

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs

PRODUCTION Doble Banda Yolanda Olmos

18, rue Quincampoix

Marc Serena

75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com

A tiny island works together to make something beautiful out of nothing: a Carnival. We’ll discover the struggles needed to achieve it through a person that coined a word: Tchinda International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Thank You for Playing David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: English

www.thankyouforplayingfilm.com

When one-year-old Joel is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his father Ryan begins working on an unusual and poetic video game to honour Joel’s life. Following Ryan’s family through the creation of the artful game and the day-to-day realities of Joel’s treatment, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s remarkable new film is a moving testimony to the empathetic power of art, examining how we process grief through technology in the twentyfirst century and the implications of documenting profound human experiences in a new artistic medium: the video game.

SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Kinematic Films LLC David Osit

Levontin Street 18

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 www.cinephil.co.il info@cinephil.co.il

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Ryan Green’s four-year-old son Joel has terminal cancer. Ryan is building a poetic, autobiographical video game to document raising a dying child, and to honor Joel while he is alive. 440

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Third Person Guf Shlishi Sharon Luzon

Israel, 2015 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew Subtitles: English

www.go2films.com/New-Releases/Third-Person

Suzan was born with both male and female sex organs. When she was five months old, her parents decided she would be a female. It wasn’t until she was 35 that she first learned these facts. Ofer was born intersexual, too, but his parents decided against surgery and accepted him the way he was born. However, most people are not as tolerant and understanding of those who don’t comply with social norms and standard definitions. Suzan and Ofer are on a mission to change it.

SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and Marketing

37/8 Issar Natanzon St.

PRODUCTION Gum Films Aurit Zamir INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: YesDocu – Israel

97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: + 972-2-5831371 hedva@go2films.com

Suzan isn’t either-or. Suzan isn’t both. Not quite male, not quite female. At 35 years old Suzan discovers this for the first time.

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This Is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees Mani Y. Benchelah

England / Lebanon / Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 56’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/French

This Is Exile is an extraordinary intimate portrait of child refugees forced to flee from the violence of Syria’s civil war to neighbouring Lebanon. The documentary tells the stories of the children’s lives in their own words and captures the moving truth of how they deal with loss, hardship and the poignancy of dashed hopes. Their testimony in this film is a beautifully crafted microcosm of the human cost of the ongoing civil war in Syria that has forced over 4 million people to flee; half of whom are children. There is still no end to the war in sight.

SALES / CONTACT: Pamela Martinez Boulder Creek International

PRODUCTION MAKE Productions Charly Feldman

45 Great Guildford Street SE1 0ES London England tel: +44 (0) 207 642 0810 pamela@ bouldercreekinternational.com

Filmed over one year, This is Exile is an extraordinary intimate portrait of child refugees forced to flee from the violence of Syria’s civil war to neighbouring Lebanon. 442

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Thru You Princess Ido Haar

Israel, 2015 color, video, 56’ Original Language: English

www.firsthandfilms.com/#film-1000401

In the age of New Media, people all around the world are posting an endless stream of video clips online. Every day, thousands of web surfers cram their video notes into virtual bottles, toss them into the boundless ocean of the Internet. All they want is for someone to pick up their bottle and find the treasure hidden inside it. Kutiman is surfing and looking for new talents for his new album. Last time he released a Thru You album on Youtube it got more than two million clicks in a two weeks. Now he found the princess…

SALES / CONTACT: Nicole Biermaier First Hand Films

PRODUCTION Reconsider Stephen Apkon

Neunbrunnenstrasse 50

Atzmor Productions

8050 Zurich

Liran Atzmor

Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com info@firsthandfilms.com

In the ocean of the Internet Kuttiman finds the princess and her video treasures. Kuttiman’s last Thru You Youtube album got more than two million clicks a week. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Thy Father’s Chair Alex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi

USA / Italy, 2015 color, video, 73’ Original Language: English

Abraham and Shraga are Orthodox Jewish twins who live a secluded existence in their inherited Brooklyn home. Since the death of their parents, they have stopped throwing away anything, hosting stray cats and accumulating all sorts of stuff. Now, their upstairs tenant threatens to stop paying them rent unless the twins proceed to a radical cleaning. Abraham and Shraga have no choice but to open their doors to a professional company. A traumatic invasion of privacy ensues, forcing them to confront their memories in order to try to find a new beginning…

SALES / CONTACT: Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs

PRODUCTION GraffitiDoc Enrica Capra

18, rue Quincampoix

No Permits Produktions

75004 Paris

Antonio Tibaldi

France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com

Under the threat of losing their home, two Orthodox twin brothers must accept the intervention of stranger people, who will push them to dig into their memories.

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The Touristic Revolution Pablo Alcántara, Rafael Alcántara

Spain, 2014 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Spanish/English/Catalan Subtitles: English www.larevolucioturistica.com

The Touristic Revolution speaks about the importance of tourism in the world as an emerging industry, analyzing the economic and social revolution that has caused in Spain, Balearic Islands, and in a very special way in Ibiza and Formentera. In the case of Ibiza and Formentera the arrival of tourism has caused a radical transformation, moving from a subsistence economy to a modern and affluent society, dedicated to tourism and services. It is an entertaining documentary film for all ages, full of familiar faces. Through interviews and pictures, it brings the audience the complex reality of the islands.

SALES / CONTACT: Pablo Alcantara Pauxa SC

PRODUCTION Pauxa SC Pablo Alcantara

c/ sa Pobla nº1 - Residencial Bossamar 49-3

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: IB3 TV (Balearic Islands TV) –

07817 Sant Jordi de ses Salines - Ibiza Spain Spain tel: +34 971393473 www.pauxa.com hector@pauxa.com

The Touristic Revolution speaks about the importance of tourism in the world as an emerging industry, analyzing the economic and social revolution that has caused in Ibiza and Formentera. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Traces in the Snow Vladimir Kozlov

Russia, 2014 color / black and white, video, 64’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

Traces in the Snow is a feature length documentary on Siberia’s punk scene in the 1980’s. Directed by Russian author and film director Vladimir Kozlov, this first-of-its-kind documentary uses rare footage of Siberian punk legends including Yanka Dyagileva and Yegor Letov, along with contemporary interviews, to recount the story of Siberia’s improbable punk scene.

SALES / CONTACT: Konstantin Nafikov Reflexion Films

PRODUCTION Platzkart Productions Vladimir Kozlov

Khokhlovsky 10-7 107078 Moscow Russia tel: +79169661531 knafikov@gmail.com

Traces in the Snow is a feature length documentary on Siberia’s punk scene in the 1980’s.

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Train to Adulthood Klara Trencsenyi

Hungary, 2015 color, HDcam, 79’ Original Language: Hungarian Subtitles: English

www.facebook.com/TrainToAdulthood

Our story starts on the small gauge railway built in 1948 by the communist leaders of Hungary. The Train is entirely operated by children. Today over 500 teenagers work here for free - in exchange for an unforgettable community experience. We follow 3 young railway workers for whom the Children’s Train is a refuge, a place where comradeship and order are opposed to the chaos of the outside society. The Train is a metaphor to talk about current day Hungary, offering an insight into the intellectual and emotional development of a generation that will soon become responsible for our fate.

SALES / CONTACT: Julianna Ugrin Éclipse Film Jókai u. 1. 1066 Budapest Hungary tel: +36202128636

PRODUCTION Éclipse Film Julianna Ugrin CO-PRODUCTION: HBO Europe – Hungary INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: HBO Europe – Hungary

www.facebook.com/eclipsefilmHU julianna.ugrin@eclipsefilm.hu

HBO-Europe’s countries are not available.

Train to Adulthood tells the story of three children who work passionately at the Children’s Train – a space isolated from chaos and intolerance ruling in the rest of Hungary today. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Transcend

Michael Del Monte, Tad Munnings

Kenya / USA, 2014 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Swahili/English Subtitles: English www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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Marathon running allowed Wesley Korir to escape the grinding poverty of Kenya. But the marathon winner risks it all when he returns home to help his fellow Kenyans by running for a seat in government as an independent against a well-financed, corrupt bigparty candidate. With appearances and commentary from some of the world’s greatest runners and commentators (including Malcolm Gladwell and Haile Gebrselassie). Excluding Israel, Brazil, New Zealand, Poland, Taiwan, Canada, USA

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing

PRODUCTION Scott Montgomery

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

Hoping to help his country escape poverty, Boston Marathon winner Wesley Korir risks his running career to run for office in his native Kenya.

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Trapped at Sea, Lost in Time Chen-Ti Kuo

Taiwan, 2015 color, HDcam, 112’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

A long distance tuna fishing boat is about to depart from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Veteran Taiwanese crew leads a group of young sailors from China and Southeastern Asia, ready to set sail for the Pacific Ocean to embark on a threeyear fishing trip. To go to the sea is to build a better home, but they are adrift farther and farther. They are trapped at sea, caught between the dream to go home and the reality of being castaway.

SALES / CONTACT: Patrick Mao Huang

PRODUCTION Patrick Mao Huang

7F., No. 358, Zhonghe Rd. 23574 New Taipei City Taiwan tel: +886-2-2926-2839 www.ffe.com.tw info@ffe.com.tw

A tuna fishing boat is departing for a three-year fishing trip. The crews are trapped at sea, caught between the dream of going home and the reality of being castaway. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Trapped by Law Sami Mustafa

Kosovo / Germany, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English/ German/Romany Subtitles: English nakhinomovie.wordpress.com

An odyssey, coming of age and family separation story of two young rap artist brothers deported to Kosovo, a country they never been to. Kefaet was born in Kosovo and taken by his parents to Germany at the age of four. He was married and has two children. Selami was born in Essen and has never been to Kosovo at all. Separated from their family and friends they try to cope with their situation and do everything in their power to return to Germany. But administration and asylum laws are standing in their way.

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PRODUCTION Romawood Charlotte Bohl

Plemetina BB

Sami Mustafa

10 000 Pristina Kosovo

CO-PRODUCTION: HUPE Film – Germany,

tel: +386 49 58 22 66

Crossing Brigdes Production –

www.romawood.org

Kosovo

contact@romawood.org

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The Tsunami Generation Folke Rydén

Sweden, 2014 color, 35mm, 52’ Original Language: Indonesian/English Subtitles: English

In the Aceh Province, the 2004 Tsunami left 170,000 people dead and some 500,000 homeless. In 2005, the internationally awarded documentary The Tsunami Generation profiled children and teens like Ebul and Desi struggling to get life back to normal. The Tsunami Generation - Ten Years Later follows the same main characters, telling their story since the catastrophy.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting

PRODUCTION FRP AB Folke Rydén

Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

The Tsunami Generation - Ten Years Later revisits the main characters of the 2006 documentary The Tsunami Generation, telling their story since the catastrophy. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Ukrainian Sheriffs Roman Bondarchuk

Ukraine / Latvia / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Ukranian Subtitles: English

In the country with the biggest police force in Europe, Ukraine, there is a lack of policemen in rural communities therefore villagers of Stara Zburievka village have found a solution. They chose two local men – the smartest and the strongest – to take care of the public order. Villagers give them power, a car, and shiny tokens and name them “sheriffs”. Sometimes wild and violent, the other times awkward and funny, sheriffs’ actions, according to the village community, are always fair. However, the recent political events taking place in Ukraine have changed the situation in Stara Zburievka village, too.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION SOUTH Darya Averchenko

19-21 Christopher Street

VFS Films

EC2A 2B London

Uldis Cekulis

England tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

Ukrainian Sheriffs is a kind and funny story about average Ukrainians who take action and build their own,idealistic, country model combining wildness and kindness, immorality and humanity. 452

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Unbranded Phillip Baribaeu

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 105’ Original Language: English www.unbrandedthefilm.com

Four friends embark on a sublime, life-chaning adventure. They are to travel on wild mustangs across the American West, from the Mexican to Canadian border through the majestic Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. On an unprecedented 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost continuous stretch of public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada Excluding Germany, USA, Canada

SALES / CONTACT: Ana Vicente Dogwoof

PRODUCTION Fin & Fur Films Dennis Aig

19 - 23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 207 253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com

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Under the Skin of Design Audrey Aquilina

England, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 60’ Original Language: English www.anywherefilms.com

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A film about ornament, fashion, conflict and maths - featuring world renowned theorist Charles Jencks and former Princeton Dean of Architecture Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Foreign Office Architects) - which tells the story of award winning architecture where design is an agent of change. Warmly human moments and startlingly frank interviews reveal not only vision and creativity but also pressure and politics under the skin of a unique iconic building. It takes a fresh look at how people and organisations affect the built environment, addressing economic, social and organisational dynamics, aesthetics and buildability - illustrating the power of place in everyday lives.

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SALES / CONTACT: Audrey Aquilina Anywhere Films

PRODUCTION Anywhere Films Audrey Aquilina

16 Alum Way PO16 8RJ Fareham England tel: +44 07970 717 126 audrey@anywherefilms.com

Ornament, fashion, conflict and maths: award winning architecture where design is an agent of change. With world experts Charles Jencks and Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Foreign Office Architects).

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Under the Sun Vitaly Mansky

Russia / Latvia / Germany / Czech Republic / North Korea, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’/106’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: Russian/German/English/Czech www.deckert-distribution.com

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This is a film about the ideal life in an ideal country. About how new ideal people are joining this perfect world. We can see how much effort the North Korean people have to undertake to make this ideal world work. Every North Korean is ready to give his life for this world. We see the process of the creation of these ideals, we see a girl in an ideal school, the daughter of ideal parents, working at ideal factories, living in an ideal apartment in the center of the capital of North Korea.

SALES / CONTACT: Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution

PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment Simone Baumann

Marienplatz 1

Vertov. Real cinema

04103 Leipzig

Natalia Manskaya

Germany tel: +49 341 2156638

CO-PRODUCTION: Korea Film Export and Import

www.deckert-distribution.com

Corporation – North Korea

info@deckert-distribution.com

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: MDR – Germany

A film about the ideal life in an ideal country. We can see how much effort the North Korean people have to undertake to make this ideal world work.

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | History

UNDERFIRE: The Untold Story of Tony Vacarro Max Lewkowicz

USA, 2015 color / black and white, video, 85’/60’ Original Language: English

www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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An HBO Documentary Film. UNDERFIRE: The Untold Story of Tony Vacarro is the remarkable story of WWII infantryman and photographer Tony Vaccaro, who created one of the most comprehensive, haunting and intimate photographic records of the war using a smuggled $47 camera while developing the negatives in his helmet at night. The film discusses the timeless ethical issues surrounding war photography and how images shape public perceptions of conflict. It features contributions from Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times photographer Tyler Hicks, Anne Tucker, curator of the Fine Art Museum of Houston, James Estrin, of the Times, and John Morris, former photo editor of Life Magazine and Robert Capa. Executively Produced by Tim Van Patten, who has directed episodes of Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, The Wire and Boardwalk Empire. Directed by Max Lewkowicz. Excluding USA

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PRODUCTION dog green Productions Valerie Thomas

611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

Tony Vaccaro, a WWII infantryman, smuggled his $47.00 portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.

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Unfinished Plan: The Path of Alain Johannes Rodolfo Gárate

Chile, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 95’ Original Language: English Subtitles: French/Spanish www.modoviral.cl

Alain Johannes is a musician born in Chile and a part of the most influential generation of rock in the United States of the last 30 years. This brilliant story was tragically overshadowed. Natasha -his wife and musical partner- died. The existential void her loss left in him pushed him towards a sound journey that takes him back to his country of origin after 50 years. This is a story of resilience, where Alain has had to overcome the pain to be able to keep on playing, singing and living. Excluding Chile.

SALES / CONTACT: Rodolfo Gárate ModoViral Productions

PRODUCTION ModoViral Productions Rodolfo Gárate

La Cañada 6231, depto 101-C, La Reina 7850370 Santiago Chile tel: +56992253561 www.modoviral.cl rodolfo@modoviral.cl

The musician Alain Johannes travels to his homeland seeking refuge from pain. His wife, Natasha has died. Great rockers have this brilliant musical history, but overshadowed by tragedy. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Unlearning

Lucio Basadonne, Anna Pollio

Italy, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’/73’/104’ Original Language: Italian/English Subtitles: English www.unlearning.it

As normal families, we both worked 8 hours a day, our little girl was at school until 4 PM and when it came dinner time when we can finally get together, we sadly figured out that we were simply too tired. . . Then, one day, we told ourselves … what if? What would happen if we would “unlearn” our way of living? How would we consider our previous life style, after our return? Would be truly eager to go back to it again?

SALES / CONTACT: Lucio Basadonne Enter-tain

PRODUCTION Enter-tain Lucio Basadonne

Salita di Montebello 13 16126 Genova Italy tel: +393296770970 www.unlearning.it family@unlearning.it

A six months family trip, without money.. Searching for a four legged chicken... 458

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Unstoppables Niepowstrzymani Bartosz M. Kowalski

Poland, 2015 color, video, 73’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English

Unstoppables is a story of a passion, determination and the power of friendship. Its main characters are Krzysztof, Sebastian and Marcin - three different personalities, three different players of Seahawks Gdynia, brought together by the passion they share. There are many things that divide them but playing on one team blurs all divisions and makes them understand one another. They work and spend their free time at training sessions, making painstaking preparations for the upcoming games. The documentary offers a glimpse into their private lives, training routines and stunning matches.

SALES / CONTACT: Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Basztowa 15/8a

PRODUCTION HBO Europe Izabela Lopuch INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: HBO POLAND – Poland

31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48122946945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl

Unstoppables is a story of a passion, determination and the power of friendship.

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Varicella

Sport Kids - Varicella Victor Kossakovsky Norway / Denmark / Sweden / Russia, 2015 color, video, 25’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English

Two talented sisters Nastia (13) and Polina (7) study in the most prestigious Academy of Russian ballet after being selected from 5500 kids. Acclaimed director Victor Kossakovyks portraits the tender and trustful relationship of the sisters, who share one big dream: to become a soloist ballet dancer. They are fully devoted to their 6 hours daily training at the Academy.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Sant & Usant Tone Grøttjord-Glenne

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Anita Rehoff Larsen

1070 Wien Austria

CO-PRODUCTION: Story AB – Sweden,

tel: +43720346934

Final Cut for Real – Denmark

www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

Two sisters study in the prestigious Academy of Russian Ballet. Victor Kossakovsky portraits their tender relationship as they are training for the same dream: to become a soloist ballet dancer. 460

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Victor’s Last Class Brendan Brandt

USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 83’ Original Language: English

www.facebook.com/victorslastclass

Victor was living with severe chronic pain and “in remission” bone marrow cancer. He could not deny the pain that he was in or the dim prospects of relief, so he decided he was going to end his life. . . and be open and honest about it with everyone. Brendan convinced Victor to allow him to make a film exploring his decision. The two became very close. During this time, Brendan stops being just the filmmaker asking why, and becomes a close friend trying to change Victor’s mind.

SALES / CONTACT: Kazz Basma Sideways Film

PRODUCTION Below the Arch Productions Arielle Amsalem

7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road

VLC, LLC

N16 0AE London

Brendan Brandt

England tel: +44 (0) 788 147 3603 www.sidewaysfilm.com kazz@sidewaysfilm.com

A brazen acting teacher suffering from chronic pain announces he is going to end his life, and spends the next five months hashing the decision out with the young filmmaker. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light Vilanova Artigas: o Arquiteto e a Luz Laura Artigas, Pedro Gorski Brazil, 2015 color, video, 93’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English www.vilanovaartigas.com

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The documentary Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light rebuilds the life of the brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas. His relatives, friends, students and six of his major works tell the history of this iconic latinamerican modernist. Excluding Brazil

SALES / CONTACT: Margot Brandão O2 Play Rua Baumann, 930

PRODUCTION Olé Produções Gal Buitoni Luiz Ferraz

05319-080 São Paulo Brazil tel: +5511 3839-9400 www.o2filmes.com margot@o2filmes.com

The life and work of Vilanova Artigas, one of the most important modernist latinamerican architects. 462

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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues

The Visit Michael Madsen

Denmark / Norway / Finland / Ireland / Austria, 2015 color, video, 83’ Original Language: English

This film documents an event that has never taken place – man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space. With unprecedented access to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, the military, and experts from leading space agencies, the film explores a first contact scenario, beginning with the simplest of questions: Why are you here? How do you think? What do you see in humans that we don’t see in ourselves? A journey beyond a terrestrial perspective, revealing the fears, hopes, and rituals of a species forced not only to confront alien life forms, but also its own self image.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14

PRODUCTION Magic Hour Films Lise Lense-Møller

1070 Wien

CO-PRODUCTION: Indie Film – Norway,

Austria

Mouka Filmi – Finland,

tel: +43 720 346934

Venom Film – Ireland,

www.autlookfilms.com

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

print@autlookfilms.com

Filmproduktion – Austria INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark

With unprecedented access to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and scientists from leading space agencies, The Visit sets out to explore man’s first ever encounter with alien intelligent life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Politics / Society

Vita activa, the Spirit of Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt: Ha-biografia Ha-rukhanit Ada Ushpiz Canada / Israel, 2015 color / black and white, video, 124’/68’/52’ Original Language: Hebrew/German/English Subtitles: French/Hebrew/English www.go2films.com

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Hannah Arendt caused a great uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of “banality of evil” when referring to the Nazi evil. Her private life was no less controversial thanks to her love affair with a renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. She was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century who both lived through and wrote about the open wounds of modern times. Arendt’s insights about the refugee condition, nature of evil and totalitarian leanings of any ideology sound today more relevant than ever. Territories sold: USA and Israel (all) Canada (TV and theatrical) Germany, Switzerland - French speaking, Sweden (TV)

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SALES / CONTACT: Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Distribution and

PRODUCTION Intuitive Pictures Inc. Ina Fichman

Marketing

AU Films

37/8 Issar Natanzon St.

Ada Ushpiz

97787 Jerusalem Israel

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Channel 8 – Israel,

tel: + 972-2-5831371

SRC – Canada,

hedva@go2films.com

WDR/ARTE – Germany, SVT – Sweden, RTS – Switzerland

Hannah Arendt’s life story intertwined with her thoughts on the nature of evil, refugee condition, ideologies and totalitarianism. Her brilliant insights and humanism sound today more urgent than ever.

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Voice – Sculpting Sound with Maja S K Ratkje IJ. Biermann

Norway / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: English/Norwegian Subtitles: English/German

The film follows the Norwegian musician/ composer/ sound artist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje through the seasons all over Europe, presenting the variety and universalism of her work. Performances, sound recordings, and intimate personal scenes are composed into a complex portrait of an uncompromising artist challenged between conflicting poles of family and vocation. On several levels, a film about an individual’s voice whose vigor and enthusiasm are increasingly passed on to the viewer.

SALES / CONTACT: Laure Tinette dffb

PRODUCTION Myrland Films IJ. Biermann

Potsdamer Str. 2

dffb

10785 Berlin

Andreas Louis

Germany tel: +49 30 25759152

CO-PRODUCTION: Myrland Films – Norway,

www.dffb.de

Genesis Films – Norway

l.tinette@dffb.de

A film about an uncompromising artist challenged between conflicting poles of family and vocation. A film about finding your individual voice and intuition and being true to yourself. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Art / Music / Culture

Wacken 3D - The Movie Norbert Heitker

Germany, 2014 color, video, 95’ Original Language: German/ English/Chinese/Spanish Subtitles: English

Wacken is the ultimate documentary about the biggest Metal festival in the world. Filmed with six camera units and 18 stereoscopic 3D cameras, the movie takes you on stage and behind the curtain with Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Motorhead, Rammstein and many more. Award winning director Norbert Heitker captures the unique atmosphere and documents four days of music, mud and madness through the eyes of four fans from Asia, Germany and USA.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION JumpSeat 3D plus Germany Tomas Erhart

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com print@autlookfilms.com

Wacken 3D takes you on stage and behind the curtain of the biggest Metal festival in the world. With Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Motorhead, Rammstein and many more. 466

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Waiting for B.

Esperando B. Abigail Spindel, Paulo Cesar Toledo Brazil, 2015 color, HDcam/video, 72’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English

Waiting for B. takes the viewer on a month long journey with young Beyoncé super-fans who, lacking the money to buy their way to the front, camped out for two months in order to be closer to the front of the standing room. This is a story about victims of hype, a community of hope, and the contradictions of humility and vanity at the heart of diva worship.

SALES / CONTACT: Daniela Parisi Popcon Produções

PRODUCTION Popcon Produções Daniela Parisi

Rua Joao Lourenço, 606

Videosfera

04508-030 Sao Paulo

Paulo Cesar Toledo

Brazil tel: +55 11 51863400 www.popcon.tv daniela@popcon.tv

A group of Beyoncé’s fans camped-out for two months in line for a concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This film is an intimate portrait of the these fans. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View

The Walkers Xing Zhe Singing CHEN

Taiwan, 2014 color, HDcam, 148’ Original Language: Mandarin Subtitles: English/Chinese

Filmed for over 10 years, this epic documentary presents the story of renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Extracting the essential details of Lin’s daily life, the film explores the origins of her dance, contemplates the poetic and ritualistic movements she creates, and delineates her lifetime pursuit of aesthetic concerns.

SALES / CONTACT: June WU Ablaze Image 7F-2, No.2, Sec. 2 Shin-Sheng S. Rd. 10650 Taipei Taiwan tel: +886-2-3322-1220 info@ablazeimage.com

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PRODUCTION The 3rd Vision Films LTD Singing CHEN Leh-Chyun Lin

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Walls

Muros Pablo Iraburu, Migueltxo Molina Spain, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: French/English/ Ndebele/Afrikaans/Spanish/Arabic Subtitles: Spanish/English www.wallsthemovie.com

The world is increasingly more divided by walls. There are human beings on either side of them. Brilliant editing connects people living and working on different sides of decisive walls between Mexico/US, Spain/Morocco, Israel/Palastine and South Africa/ Zimbabwe. A true cinematic experiment not entering the geopolitical discussion. But exploring walls as a global issue.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Arena Comunicación Audiovisual

Spittelberggasse 3/14

Itziar García Zubiri

1070 Wien

Marga Gutiérrez

Austria

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: Veo TV / Discovery MAX – Spain

tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

A true cinematic experiment exploring walls as a global issue. Shot in Mexico/U.S., Spain/Morocco, Israel/ Palastine and South Africa/ Zimbabwe.

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society

A Walnut Tree Ammar Aziz

Pakistan, 2015 color, video, 81’ Original Language: Pashtu Subtitles: English

An old man reminisces about a distant homeland. He wants to return. Internally displaced as a result of the ongoing war between the Pakistan army and the Taliban and forced to live in a camp, the family is caught between memories of what life was, an insecure present and a bleak future.

SALES / CONTACT: Ammar Aziz

PRODUCTION Ammar Aziz

74 Ferozepur road

Aakar

54000 Lahore

Rahul Roy

Pakistan tel: +923239222808 ammar_aziz@hotmail.com

An internally displaced old man reminisces about a distant homeland which doesn’t exist anymore. 470

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Wanted: A New Home for Serayah Gezocht: Een thuis voor Serayah Xander de Boer

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English

It was really no longer with Serayah home. Her father’s upbringing could not cope and there was a lot of hassle, especially since the death of her mother. Serayah had left home and now she is in a foster home. But it can not continue to live. The judge who must decide about her situation, interferes with a lot of things and that is difficult for Serayah because they prefer to go her own way. What now? How do they find a new home where they will rest and feel safe? Maybe her aunt and uncle to help her . . .

SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON

PRODUCTION IKON Anouk Donker

Oude Amersfoortseweg 79

Lisa de Smet

1213AC Hilversum

Moira Veenhof

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 647 42 08 www.omroep.nl/ikon anouk.donker@ikon.nl

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Nature / Environment

Wastecooking Georg Misch

Austria, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: French/ English/German/Dutch Subtitles: English www.wastecooking.com

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization a third of all food produced worldwide is thrown away. In Europe, this is equivalent to 89 tons of groceries per year. How can we stop this waste? Author and cook David Gross goes on a road trip through Europe, cooking exclusively what others throw away. He meets unconventional top chefs, food activists, scientists and gourmets and calls our everyday consumer lifestyle into question.

SALES / CONTACT: Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales

PRODUCTION Mischief Films Ralph Wieser

Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43720346934 www.autlookfilms.com andrea@autlookfilms.com

Author and cook David Gross goes on a road trip through Europe, cooking exclusively what others throw away, meeting unconventional top chefs, food activists, scientists and gourmets. 472

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Politics / Society

We Are Not Alone No estamos solos Pere Joan Ventura

Spain, 2015 color, video, 78’ Original Language: Catalan/Spanish/Basque Subtitles: English www.facebook.com/proyectonoestamossolos

We Are Not Alone is a documentary film shot on the streets of Spain, scene of the various citizen revolts that have taken place in the country over the last six years. The film travels from Madrid and Barcelona to Valencia, Gijón and Seville, showing the collective strength of social movements that organize themselves spontaneously to denounce the downfall of democracy. The film follows a series of movements made up of countless individuals that one day became activists in order to demand a radical change in policy making.

SALES / CONTACT: Pasqual Otal Films 59

PRODUCTION Films 59 Pere Portabella

Rambla de Catalunya 72 ppal1

Asuntos y Cuestiones Varias

08009 Barcelona

El Gran Wyoming

Spain tel: +34932155612

CO-PRODUCTION: Asuntos y Cuestiones Varias –

produccio@films59.com

Spain

The film portrays the strength and imagination of social movements in a period of spontaneous rebellion and civil society participation that will undoubtedly affect the future of Spain’s political life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | History

We’re Still Here: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited Antonino D’Ambrosio

USA, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English

Based on Antonino D’Ambrosio’s book A Heart and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, We’re Still Here revisits the making of the 1964 Johnny Cash album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, a protest folk record advocating for Native American rights that was met with a severe backlash and placed him in the middle of fervent social upheavals gripping the US. The film includes performances and interviews from musicians Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Rosanne Cash, and comes at a time when America is once again gripped by racial tension.

SALES / CONTACT: David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing 611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York

PRODUCTION La Lutta NMC Antonino D’Ambrosio CO-PRODUCTION: Sony Music Masterworks – USA

USA tel: +1 2129958139 www.cargoreleasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com

We’re Still Here revisits the making of the 1964 Johnny Cash most obscure and controversial album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, which advocated for Native American rights. 474

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The Wedding Contract David Dawkins

USA, 2014 color, 16mm/video, 92’ Original Language: Indonesian/English Subtitles: English www.theweddingcontract.net

When a Balinese girl is denied permission to marry outside of her clan, there is a traditional solution for the suitor: 1. Draw up a Wedding Contract. 2. Kidnap the Bride. The couple then flees for protection to the suitor’s village, and three days of tense negotiations begin. Hostilities often escalate between the two opposing clans, but the negotiations become raucous and bizarre in The Wedding Contract when the suitor turns out to be a Westerner. This intense personal narrative navigates deep into Balinese culture in a clash between village and village, East and West.

SALES / CONTACT: David Dawkins 2575 Palisade Ave.

PRODUCTION David Dawkins Ketut Mariyati

10463 New York USA tel: 1 646 3549158 www.theweddingcontract.net dwd.dawkins@gmail.com

In Bali, when the kidnapping of a bride spins out of control, The Wedding Contract digs deep into Hindu tradition and Balinese village culture to find a solution. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Experimental

Wedding: A Film Yar Mobarak Baad Mohammadreza Farzad

Egypt / Iran, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Farsi Subtitles: English

On the verge of divorce, upon making a documentary film about Wedding in Iran, filmmaker decides to re-watch his wedding footage with the possible mission of tracing back the break up into the happy ceremony. Now he is editing the current film with his ex-wife who is a documentary filmmaker as well. Wedding: A Film is a poetical essay film about how images mediate our fantasies of happy marriage.

SALES / CONTACT: Mohammadreza Farzad Doctribute

PRODUCTION Doctribute Mohammadreza Farzad

#2, No.50, Kourosh Alley, N Sohrevardi st 15597 Tehran Iran tel: +989366435650 farzadoc@gmail.com

A Documentary Filmmaker. An Ex-wife Film Editor. Their Wedding film.

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Politics / Society | Youth

When the Earth Seems to Be Light Rotsa dedamitsa msubukia Tamuna Karumidze, Salome Machaidze, David Meskhi Georgian Republic / Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Georgian Subtitles: English

Young Georgian skaters, artists and musicians feel trapped between the powers of the church and the political world. They create their own open spaces beneath viaducts and at other “non-places” that lend themselves to romantic notions of a free existence. Questions are posed to them about God, love and freedom, but these boys would much rather just be skating – for many of them it has grown into an obsession. They may be unfazed by painful falls, but narrow-mindedness really gets to them.

SALES / CONTACT: Aleksandra Derewienko Taskovski Films

PRODUCTION Goslab Jörg Langkau

19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2B London England

CO-PRODUCTION: Zazarfilm – Georgian Republic

tel: +48 693 866 348 www.taskovskifilms.com info@taskovskifilms.com

A story of kids, skaters, artists, musicians, in a post soviet country, being lost in a controversial reality, searching for non existing spots of freedom and romantic state of mind. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Who Are You Mr Courbet ? Mais qui êtes vous M. Courbet ? Isabelle Brunarius France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English

Gustave Courbet is one of the most important French painters of the XIXth century. This enfant terrible is full of contradictions and can be as endearing as annoying. Filmed in Paris, his Ornans native city and Switzerland – where he spent his last days in exile, this piece aims to better understand the paintings of this precursor of modern art by getting to know the human being itself. Archives and interviews with psychoanalysts and doctors will shed a new light, on the painter’s work. Gustave Courbet never ceases to amaze us!

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SALES / CONTACT: Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +330142775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com

PRODUCTION Seppia Cédric Bonin

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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative

Who Killed Eloá? Quem matou Eloá? Lívia Perez

Brazil, 2015 color, video, 24’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English/Spanish

In 2009, 22-year-old Lindemberg Alves broke into his former girlfriend apartment, 15-year-old Eloá Pimentel, holding her hostage for five days. The crime was widely transmitted by television channes. Who killed Eloá? is a critical analysis of the spectacularization of violence and of the television media approach in cases of violence against women. It reveals one of the reasons why Brazil is seventh in a ranking of countries where more women are killed.

SALES / CONTACT: André Menezes Doctela

PRODUCTION Doctela Giovanni Francischelli

2556, Costa Aguiar - Ipiranga 04204002 São Paulo Brazil tel: +55 11 23371358 gfrancischelli@doctela.com.br

A critical analysis of the spectacularization of violence and of the television media approach in cases of violence against women.

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Who’s There? Chi c’è di là? Andrea Canetta

Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 49’ Original Language: French/Italian Subtitles: English www.rsi.ch

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Ghost stories are as old as mankind, as attested by the ancient cult of the dead. All inexplicable phenomena that hint at the possibility of an existence after death are both thrilling and frightening. Experiences of this kind often create embarrassment in those who try to recount them. Yet this documentary has gathered a rich collection of testimonies of encounters with incorporeal entities. The accounts are juxtaposed with and often clarified by an exclusive interview with French journalist and medium Patricia Darré, who despite her own initial skepticism, has been called upon to deal first-hand with such supernatural occurrences.

SALES / CONTACT: Stella Bogliani RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Via Canevascini

PRODUCTION RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Luca Jäggli

6903 Lugano

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –

Switzerland

tel: +41 91 803 54 82 stella.bogliani@rsi.ch

A collection of testimonies of encounters with incorporeal entities intertwined with an exclusive interview with French journalist and medium Patricia Darré. 480

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Wild Women, Gentle Beasts Anka Schmid

Switzerland, 2015 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: not applicable Subtitles: English www.reckfilm.ch

Namayca, Carmen, Nadezhda, Aliya, and Anosa are five women from four countries, all are charismatic animal tamers. They are circus artists, train tigers, lions, and bears and perform with them. Between toiling and smiling, they disclose their passion for their “wild” animals and extraordinary profession, which is not without risk in dangerous shows full of total dedication, absolute presence, and physical perfection. Their ultra-close relationship with their animals is sensual and endearing Always in conflict between feminine gentleness and commanding toughness, the women struggle for their existence both as women and as tamers – a profession that may soon be outlawed.

SALES / CONTACT: Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc

PRODUCTION RECK Filmproduction Franziska Reck

21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com

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Winter Buoy Vinterboj Frida Kempff

Sweden / Denmark / France / Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: English

Winter Buoy is a poetic and intimate story about the guardian angels behind addicts who want to start a new life. In icy mid-winter Toronto, a group of pregnant women desperately strive to regain control of their lives. They have insurmountable forces against them: homelessness, drug addiction, violent relationships. But following these particular individuals are the attentive eyes of their guardian angels, the social workers of a unique public health initiative.

SALES / CONTACT: Kim Christiansen DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 København C Denmark tel: +45 35202299 www.dr.dk kimc@dr.dk

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PRODUCTION Momento Film David Herdies CO-PRODUCTION: Adomeit Film Aps – Denmark

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Women in Sink Iris Zaki

England / Israel, 2015 color, HDcam, 36’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English ww.facebook.com/Women.in.Sink

In a little hair salon in Haifa, Israel, owned by a Christian Arab, the director installs a mini film set over the washing basin. As she washes their hair, she converses candidly with the salon’s clients, who are Arab and Jewish, on topics ranging from politics to love. What emerges from these conversations is an honest and nuanced portrayal of contemporary Israel.

SALES / CONTACT: Iris Zaki

PRODUCTION Iris Zaki

6 Louisa Close E9 7BZ London England tel: +447507605505 irismtv@gmail.com

In an Arab hair-salon in Israel, Iris installs a camera over the washing-sink, where she converses with the clients Arab and Jewish women - on politics, life and love.

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The Wrecking Crew Denny Tedesco

USA, 2014 color / black and white, 35mm/HDcam, 101’ Original Language: English

What the Funk Brothers did for Motown…The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six years in a row in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, the Grammy for “Record of the Year” went to Wrecking Crew recordings. The Wrecking Crew tells the story of the unsung musicians that provided the backbeat, the bottom and the swinging melody that drove many of the number one hits of the 1960’s.

SALES / CONTACT: Scott Veltri Magnolia Pictures 49 West 27th Street 10001 New York USA tel: +1 2129246701 www.magpictures.com sveltri@magpictures.com

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PRODUCTION Susanna Hoffs

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Written by Mrs Bach Alex McCall

England, 2015 color, 35mm, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.writtenbymrsbach.com

Masterpieces, previously thought penned by Johann S. Bach, have long since been re-attributed to other composers. That is until Prof. Martin Jarvis dares to suggest that evidence exists advocating the great maestro`s 2nd wife, Anna Magdalena, as a serious contender for recognition. The reaction of the Bach Orthodoxy is swift and fierce. The film asks why such a misogynistic attitude still persists in the 21st century and sets out ‘The case for Anna Magdalena Bach’ and investigates the impact on the value of Bach autographes in the wake of Jarvis’ research. Written by Mrs Bach is a science-based investigative documentary.

SALES / CONTACT: Bettina Oebel LOOKS DISTRIBUTION

CO-PRODUCTION: Looks Film & TV – Germany, glasGOw films – England

Escherstrasse 22 30159 Hannover Germany tel: +49 (0) 511 12361675 www.looksfilm.tv oebel@looksfilm.tv

This film follows the 20 year odyssey of a determined musician and historian who challenges and confronts the myths surrounding Johann S. Bach. Music history may never be the same.... International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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A Year with the Swedish Royal Family Året med kungafamiljen 2014 Sara Bull Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.svtsales.com

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In the film we meet the royalties on official trips to countries such as Tanzania and The Netherlands, as well as on holiday at their beautiful summer residence in southern Sweden. Last year also saw a new member of the royal family, Princess Leonore, and the engagement between Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist. The film also contains unique footage of the whole Swedish royal family on vacation at their summer paradise Solliden, located on the island of Öland.

SALES / CONTACT: Paulette Rosas Hott SVT

PRODUCTION SVT Sara Bull

Oxenstiernsgatan 26

Marie Nyreröd

S-10510 Stockholm

INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: SVT – Sweden

Sweden tel: +46733651151 www.svtsales.com paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se

A unique film where we get to follow the Swedish royal family during the eventful year of 2014.

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A Year Without My Parents Een jaar zonder mijn ouders Els van Driel

The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 20’ Original Language: Arabic/English/Dutch Subtitles: English

“Hello mummy and daddy, I miss you a lot. Tomorrow I’m twelve. I’ll tell you where I sleep and what school I go to. I’ll show you everything with my selfie stick.” When Tareq flees Syria because of the war he has to leave with his parents, sister and brother behind. On to Europe, an uncertain future. When he will see his parents again? It is a dangerous journey and once he arrives in the Netherlands, the waiting begins. If he had known that it would take a year, would he have gone? Did he really have a choice?

SALES / CONTACT: Anouk Donker IKON

PRODUCTION IKON Anouk Donker

Oude Amersfoortseweg 79

Lisa de Smet

1213AC Hilversum

Moira Veenhof

The Netherlands tel: +31 35 647 42 08 www.omroep.nl/ikon anouk.donker@ikon.nl

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The Yes Men Are Revolting The Yes Men, Laura Nix

USA / France / The Netherlands / Denmark, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 91’ Original Language: English www.theyesmenarerevolting.com

Iconoclastic revolutionaries Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum lie their way into business events and government functions to expose the dangers of letting greed run our world. They are now well into their 40s, and their midlife crises are threatening to drive them out of activism forever – even as they prepare to take on the biggest challenge they’ve ever faced, climate change. The Yes Men Are Revolting is as much a character study as it is an entertaining depiction of their latest interventions. Revealing the real people behind the ruses, at its heart lies a hopeful message about fighting for change. Excluding Germany, Finland, Denmark, France, Italy, USA, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Benelux, Israel, Canada

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SALES / CONTACT: Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil

PRODUCTION Human Race LLC Andy Bichlbaum

Levontin Street 18

Mike Bonanno

6511207 Tel Aviv Israel

CO-PRODUCTION: Chili Film – Denmark,

tel: +972 35 664129

Motto Pictures – USA,

www.cinephil.co.il

Pieter van Huystee Film –

philippa@cinephil.co.il

The Netherlands, Senorita Films – France INVOLVED TV CHANNELS: DR – Denmark, ZDF – Germany, YLE – Finland, ARTE France – France

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A Young Patriot Du Haibin

China / France / USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 106’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: French/English

A Young Patriot is a documentary about a post-90s young man Xiao Zhao. The film follows the protagonist Xiao Zhao’s life experience, from a 19-yearold boy waving flag and shouting slogan “Long live China! Go China!” on the street of Pingyao ancient town in Shanxi province, to a college student in Chengdu of Sichuan province, and as a volunteer teaching in Liangshan Yi autonomous region. It records his emotional and ideological change during the four years starting from his senior high school to sophomore year, and meanwhile witnesses and presents the restlessness and disturbance the Chinese society is currently undergoing.

SALES / CONTACT: Amie Liu CNEX Limited

PRODUCTION CNEX Limited Ruby Chen

2 F., Building 1. Jing Yuan, No.3

CO-PRODUCTION: Guangqu East Rd, Chaoyang District, 24 Images – France, 100022 Beijing

ITVS – USA

China tel: +86 10 6407 3571 www.cnex.org.cn amie@cnex.org.cn

A Young Patriot explores passionate patriotism in China’s youths born after 1990. It follows Xiao Zhao , a 19-year-old boy, flag-waving, slogan-shouting “patriotic exhibitionist” from his teenage years into adulthood. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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Zimbelism

Jean-Francois Gratton, Matt Zimbel

Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 90’/52’ Original Language: English www.nfb.ca/distribution

Zimbelism is a feature documentary about the work of humanist photographer George S. Zimbel. At 86, Zimbel is one of the last working elders of street photography. A wonderful storyteller, his tales from the darkroom recall shoots with JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Harry Truman, the real Mad Men of Madison Avenue and a David-andGoliath rights battle with his beloved New York Times. It’s a photographic voyage across the back half of the 20th century—an honest and touching view of the human experience.

SALES / CONTACT: Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada

PRODUCTION Studio Shoot Jean-Francois Gratton

3155 Cote de liesse Road H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca

Remarkable tales from the darkroom, on Marilyn Monroe, JFK and others, from one of the last working elders of street photography— humanist photographer George S. Zimbel. 490

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Zombie Billy Pols

The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.zombiedoc.com

Tim Zom, born and raised in the South of Rotterdam, fights himself out of a dark past and stands at the point of becoming an international professional skateboarder. His career takes him from the cold Dutch reality into the American Dream, with big companies like Nike & Monster Energy supporting him. Zombie is a film about a unique and surprising character that through talent and personality, against all odds and hardships, grew out to become a hero. Excluding Benelux

SALES / CONTACT: Anaïs Clanet Wide House 9 rue Bleue

PRODUCTION HazazaH Pictures Jeroen van de Idsert Maarten Kuit

75009 Paris France tel: 33153950464 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org

Tim Zom breaks free from a dark, criminal life by falling in love, embracing the streets and redefining himself as one of Europe’s most distinguished Skateboarders. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015

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