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November 18/24
2016
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1711 Videos - Trespassing Bergman 1Minute Nature 21 x New York 2330 A captive Story 3 Seconds Divorce 5 October 8-Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars The Age of Consequences Ahmad’s Hair Aim For The Roses Alain Daniélou Into the Labyrinth Alexei and the Spring Alfredo All Governments Lie All The Rage (Saved by Sarno) Almost There Amateurs in Space l’Amatore Amazona Ambulance Among Houses and the Cosmos Ants on a Shrimp Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis The Apology Areum Art Bastard An Art That Nature Makes Ash Mountains Ashes Athos Author: The JT LeRoy Story Automation and the Future of Jobs Avec l’amour The Azacuan’s Flight Bach & Barge Backlight: Cyber Jihad Backlight: Invasion of the Drones Backlight: Justice for All Backlight: Offline is the New Luxury Backlight: The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy Backlight: The Chinese World Order Balkan Roots A Bastard Child The Beast Is Still Alive Becoming Who I Was
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Becoming Zlatan The Beekeeper and his Son Behind The Veil of the Mosques Ben-Gurion, Epilogue Berlin For Beginners - A Roma Home Movie Best and Most Beautiful Things Between the Lines Bill Frisell, A Portrait Bitter Grapes Black Code Blackhearts - Sell Your Soul To Rock N’Roll Bluefin Bolingo. The Forest of Love Borgo Vecchio Factory Born in Syria The Borneo Case Bosch, the Garden of Dreams Brasilia Live After Design Braving the Waves Breathing Underwater Bugs Burden Burning Out Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons Caddies Café Waldluft Cahier Africain Cameraperson The Challenge Champions of Amsterdam La Chana Chasing Asylum Chasing Bonnie & Clyde. When Texas Gets Smart-on-Crime Che! Chenelva & Sheneeva Cheshire, Ohio: An American Coal Story in 3 Acts Chicago Boys Child Soldier’s New Job Chillida. The Depth of Air China’s van Gogh The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg Cholesterol, the Great Bluff La Cicciolina. Godmother of Scandal Circle of Poison Citizen Jane: Battle for the City The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII
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Close Ties Cloud Nine Coco Cabasa COEUROPE Cold Case Torrentius The Color of the Chameleon Come Back Free Communion Conduct! Every Move Counts The Confession Contemporary Color Craigslist Allstars Crash and Burn Cucli Cuts Daan’s Inheritance Dalí’s Last Masterpiece A Dangerous Idea Daniel Daniele Gatti - Overture to a Conductor Dark Side David Lagercrantz – The Year in the Spider’s Web Death by Thousand Cuts Delicate Balance Democracy Road Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider The Destruction of Memory Dil Leyla Dimona Twist Disarm Dixie Land Doing Good Don’t Blink - Robert Frank Down the deep, dark web Dr. Feelgood Dream Empire Dreaming of Denmark Drokpa, The Last Tibetan Nomads Dugma: The Button
136 El Charro de Toluquilla 137 Ella Brennan: Commanding the Tabe 138 Europe, She Loves 139 The European 140 Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray 141 Everything’s under Control 142 The Experiments
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Faces of Harassment The Fall Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves The Fantastic Journey - A Portrait of Daniel Harding Far Western The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad Forever Pure Forget Me Not Fragments of love Francofonia Free The Free Market Free Speech Fear Free Free To Rock Full Throttle III - End Times Future Baby
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159 Gabrielle, The LookingGlass And Beyond 160 Game of Fire 161 Gaza Surf Club 162 Generation 68 163 A Genuine Forger 164 A German Life 165 Ghostland - the view of the Ju/’Hoansi 166 The Giant Is Falling 167 The Gift 168 The Girl down Loch Änzi 169 The Girl Who Saved My Life 170 Girls Don’t Fly 171 The Glass Wall 172 God Knows Where I Am 173 Gogita’s New Life 174 The Good Postman 175 Great Grandad’s Tall Tales 176 The Greatest Party on Earth 177 A Greek Winter 178 Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee 179 The Grown-Ups 180 Guerrero
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Haiku on a Plum Tree Half-Life in Fukushima The Hanging Happily Ever After Happy Purim (Purim in Jerusalem) A Haunting History
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187 Having a Cigarette with Álvaro Siza 188 Heart of Glass 189 A Heart That Never Dies 190 A Heartbeat Away 191 Hello I am David! A Journey with David Helfgott 192 Hello Syria 193 Henry Miller 194 Herr von Bohlen Private 195 Higher Education: The New Global Economic War 196 Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy 197 A Hole in the Head 198 Homo Sapiens 199 Hospital 200 Hotel Splendid 201 Hotel Sunrise 202 House Call 203 House of a Dream 204 Houston, We Have a Problem! 205 How to Meet a Mermaid
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206 I Am The Ambassador 207 I Am The People 208 I Didn’t Cross the Border the Border Crossed Me 209 I Never Left 210 I’m not Afraid 211 I’m not from Here 212 Icarus – The Dream of Flying 213 Icon 214 If You Listen Carefully 215 Imprisoned Lullaby 216 In Exile 217 In Loco Parentis 218 In Procedure 219 In Pursuit of Peace 220 In Spring my Dreams Come True 221 In the Studio 222 The Inca Prince 223 Indwe 224 InnSæi – the Sea Within 225 An Insignificant Man 226 The Internal Ear 227 Intimate Battles 228 Into the North 229 Invisible Mothers 230 Istanbul Echoes 231 It Was All Just a Good Dream 232 It’s Getting Dark
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233 Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower 234 Jihad, counter-offensive 235 Joe’s Violin 236 John Berger or The Art of Looking 237 The Joy of Sound 238 Just a Normal Person 239 Just Kids: Jesser and the Sugarcane 240 Just Kids: Spotlight on Merna
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241 The Karamazoffs (A walk on the SoHo years) 242 Kate Plays Christine 243 Kedi 244 Ken Dewey - This Is A Test 245 The Key to Dalí 246 Killing Ed 247 The King of Twirl 248 Koneline: Our Land Beautiful 249 Koudelka, Shooting Holy Land
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The Land of the Enlightened Last Day of Freedom The Last Laugh Let Women Choose Let’s Play War Lethal Fake Medicine Letters from Baghdad Liberation Day Life Begins at 100 Life to Come Life, Animated Like Dew in the Sun Living with Giants The Lost City Love... LoveTrue Machine of Human Dreams Machines Maize in Times of War The Man Who Wanted to Change the World Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Martha & Niki The Master Plan Mattress Men Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
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275 Mauro Mingardi. A Western Movie Without Horses 276 Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise 277 A Memory in Three Acts 278 The Mermaid Kingdom 279 Mies goes to Hollywood 280 Miller & Fried - The Birth of Football’s Nation 281 Miss Kiet’s Children 282 Mission Beirut 283 Mixed Match 284 The Modern Jungle 285 Molenbeek, A Radical Generation 286 Monsieur Mayonnaise 287 Monster in the Mind 288 Morgenrot 289 The Most Beautiful Woman 290 The Most Important Boy in the World 291 Mrs.B, A North Korean Woman 292 The Mute’s House 293 My Brothers and Sisters in the North 294 My Escape 295 My Father from Sirius 296 My Friend, Yaniv 297 My Matthäus 298 My Name is Hungry Buffalo
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The Nailhouse - One Says No! Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale Naomi’s Secret A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone No Dress Code Required No Rio e No Mar! Nordic Noir: The Rise of Scandi Drama Normal Autistic Film November December Nowhere Boy Nowhere to Hide Ocean Wings Off the Rails The Offended Oleg’s Choice Olympic Pride - American Prejudice On Call On the Bridge of Death and Life One Big Home One Ticket Please One Way Ticket To ISIS Operation Popcorn Operation Wedding
322 The Opposition 323 The Orchid Seller 324 OSTKREUZ - Agency of Photographers 325 The Other Half Of The Sky - Stories of Chinese Businesswomen 326 Out of Darkness 327 Out of Fashion
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Paa Joe & The Lion Paolo Ventura. Vanishing Man Paradise Behind the Fence Paris is voguing Passage - A Boatmovie El patio Pavlensky - Man and Might The Pearl of Africa The Pearl per song Perm-36. Reflexion Peshmerga Peter Lindbergh - The Eye PIONEERS: Daniel C. Dennett / Do Lobsters Have Free Will? PIONEERS: Freeman Dyson / Space Dreamer PIONEERS: Julian Barbour / Bottom’s Dream Pipelines, Power and Democracy The Pit A Place Called Lloyd A Place To Rest Planeta Petrila Plastic China Porno e Liberta Priorat Prison Sisters Progress vs Regress The Promise
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355 A Queer Country 356 A Quiet Place
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357 Rabbi Wolff - A Gentleman before God 358 Radio Kobani 359 Raving Iran 360 Raw in Ramallah 361 Re: A Pier 362 Rebels On Pointe 363 Reflections 364 Rem 365 Reporters Against Power
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Restoring the Sky Resurrecting Hassan The Return Richard Linklater: dream is destiny Right Side of Cello The Road Movie The Road to Madness The Road to Reconciliation Robinù The Rock Rock’n’roll hijab - Women beyond the veil 377 Rocknrollers 378 Rodnye (Close Relations) 379 The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America
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Sacred Sacred Water Same People as Always Samuel in the Clouds Santa’s Slave: A Colonial Hangover Santoalla SCORE: A Film Music Documentary Scott & Julia A Seafish From Africa - Il Mio Amico Banda Sealers - One Last Hunt Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger The Secret Revolution The Secret Universe of Paul Laffoley See You In Chechnyà Seed: The Untold Story The Settlers Sex, Sermons and Politics Shade of the Orange Tree Shadow World Shalom Italia Shanghai Deco Sharp Families A Shattered Dynasty: the Empain Barons Shingal, Where Are You? Shipwrecked America Shooting Ourselves Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock Siberian Love Sicily Jass - The World’s First Man in Jazz SILA and the Gatekeepers of the Arctic Silent Land, the fight for fair food
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Silent Wilderness Singing with Angry Bird Site of Sites Skulls, of My People Sluizer Speaks Snow Monkey Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows: The Voices of Women in Metal Sochi a Year After The Olympic Winter Games. Solitary Some Had Crocodiles The Sonjai Family Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story Sour Grapes Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four The Spy Hunter Spy Nation Stendhal’s Vertigo Stranger in Paradise Strike a Pose Sugar Sisters Surviving International Boulevard: Domestic Child Sex Trafficking Take me away Team Gaza Tempestad Thank you, Doctor! Thea There Will Be Water Things Arab Men Say This is the Way I Like it II Those from the Shore Those Who Jump The Thunder Feast To Be a Miss To Stay Alive - A Method Tomorrow x 3 The Toxic Circle Transit Havana Transumanza Tour Trembling Mountain Trespassing Bergman Turn Over the Stones TUTTI A CASA - Power to the People? The Twilight of the Goddesses Two schools Two Trains Runnin’ Type Hunters
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Unbinding our Feet Unchained Uncle Howard Under the Gun Under the Sun Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro 463 Until Cancer Do Us Part 464 #Uploading_Holocaust 465 Uzu
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466 Venus 467 Verhoeven versus Verhoeven 468 Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach 469 Violently Happy 470 Voices of Violence
501 The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev 502 The World makes Music 503 The World of Kim & Bob 504 Wrestling Alligators 505 Wrong Elements
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506 You Have No Idea How Much I Love You
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507 Zaatari Djinn 508 Zaineb Hates the Snow 509 Zona Franca
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471 The Wait 472 Waiting for Giraffes 473 Walking in the Opposite Direction (a documentary about Adrian Borland and the Sound) 474 Walking Spark 475 Wall of Death, and All That 476 Wall Writers 477 War and Games 478 War and Peace of Mind 479 The War Show 480 We Are Egyptian Armenians 481 We’ll Be Alright 482 Weaving 483 Week 23 484 The Weight of Dreams 485 Weiner 486 Welcome to Refugeestan 487 What He Did 488 What I Could Be if I Were 489 Whatever the Weather 490 When I Hear the Birds Sing 491 When Siberia will be Chinese 492 Where You’re Meant to Be 493 White Rage 494 Who We Were 495 Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? 496 Whose Country? 497 WIM 498 Win by Fall 499 The Wind Knows That I´m Coming Back Home 500 Woman and the Glacier
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
1711 Videos - Trespassing Bergman Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas
Sweden, 2013 color, video, 45’ Original Language: Danish/ English/Swedish/French/ Japanese/Chinese/German Subtitles: English
Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was an avid film buff. In addition to having a private cinema in his home on the small island Fårö, where he saw movies daily, he also had his own personal VHS library. The collection, carefully put in alphabethical order, with personal notes on favourites, remains exactly as Bergman left it when he passed away on July 30th, 2007. The series features the filmmakers and actors who are represented in the Bergman collection but also a younger generation of directors who are working with the same themes and issues as Bergman.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Gädda Five AB
First Hand Films
Fatima Varhos
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich
CO-PRODUCTION Pretty Pictures – France,
Switzerland
Gotlands Filmfond – Sweden,
tel: +41 44 312 20 60
SVT – Sweden
www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
A light and entertaining look at the big stories and their makers: having exclusive access to Bergman’s private archive with more than 1500 films, an eclectic collection of films was found. 6
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Art / Music / Culture | Youth | Nature / Environment
1Minute Nature 1Minuutje natuur Katinka Baehr, Stefanie Visjager The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 1’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.1minuutje.nl
1Minute of Nature is a series of short animated documentaries for children. The central theme is how children see and experience nature. The stories come from interviews, that feel like fiction. This play on the boundaries between fact and fiction is also reflected in the imagery; in the films, objects photographed from daily life form a 3D background for a world in which 2D animated characters live. 1Minute of Nature is produced by a team of independent and Prix Europa winning radio producers in cooperation with a team of animators.
SALES / CONTACT Stefanie Visjager Radiomakers Desmet Van Diemenstraat 410 studio 0.19 1013 CR Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Radiomakers Desmet Stefanie Visjager INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NTR – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 61 4194 791 www.radiomakersdesmet.nl stef@radiomakersdesmet.nl
1-minute animated documentaries for children. Real life stories with a fairy tale feeling. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Experimental | Author’s Point of View
21 x New York 21 x Nowy Jork Piotr Stasik
Poland, 2016 color, video/16mm, 70’/52’ Original Language: English/Chinese Subtitles: English
21 x New York is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, passions, hopes and dreams - sometimes lost and sometimes still waiting to be fulfilled. What comes out of it is an emotional tale of solitude that haunts us in 21st century western world.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion
PRODUCTION Lava Films Agnieszka Wasiak
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
An intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives
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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
2330 A captive Story 2330 Una historia cautiva David Marradés Spain, 2015 color, video, 71’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/French https://
2330unahistoriacautiva.com
Detention centres for undocumented immigrants who have committed no crime are probably the darkest and most troubling side of the immigration enforcement system. Throughout the stories of Mourtada, Samuel and Peggy we will discover the human cost of these policies which will be deeply analised by experts and significant people from very different perspectives.
SALES / CONTACT Sergio García Locatelli Quechua Films
PRODUCTION David Marradés
Calle Rodríguez San Pedro 2 oficina 401 28015 Madrid Spain tel: +34 91 2920 081 sergiogarcia@quechuafilms.com
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Human Interest / Social Issues
3 Seconds Divorce Shazia Javed
Canada, 2016 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Urdu Subtitles: English www.3secondsdivorce.com
It took 3 seconds for Lubna’s husband to divorce her. All he had to do was say the word ‘talaq’ (divorce) three times and the divorce was final. The next minute, he made her leave the house with their infant son in her sole care. Today, Lubna works with a grassroots organisation advocating for a ban on triple divorce amidst opposition from the conservative religious leaders. 3 Seconds Divorce follows Lubna’s journey in activism even as she struggles with personal challenges if being a singlemother.
SALES / CONTACT Shazia Javed
PRODUCTION Babita Ashiwal
LifeSketchMedia Inc.
LifeSketchMedia Inc.
6941 Guardian Court
Shazia Javed
L5N 7E3 MISSISSAUGA, ON
CO-PRODUCTION Film Flavors – India
Canada tel: + 1-647-979-2082 lifesketchmedia@gmail.com
What happens when men have the unquestionable right to divorce their wives by simply saying the word ‘talaq’ (divorce) three times? 10
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
5 October Martin Kollar
Slovakia / Czech Republic, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’/60’ Subtitles: English
A quiet story about a man waiting for an important surgery. After he learns he’s facing the possibility of only having a few months to live, he embarks on a vagrant journey with only a “deadline”, 5 October. From the notes in his diary and his daily search for a place to spend the night, we discover what he is running away from: fear, discomfort, testing weather conditions, and his deteriorating health. Reality, however, keeps reminding him of what lies ahead, a surgery with possibly fatal consequences. Slovak Republic and Czech Republic not available
SALES / CONTACT Katarina Tomkova Kaleidoscope Spitalska 20
PRODUCTION Punkchart films Ivan Ostrochovsky
81108 Bratislava
CO-PRODUCTION HBO Europe – Czech Republic,
Slovakia
Endorfilm – Czech Republic,
tel: +42 19 0828 1407
71km – Slovakia
www.kaleidoscope.sk
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS HBO Europe – Czech Republic
katarina@kaleidoscope.sk
A quiet story about a man waiting for an important surgery. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture | Science / Technology | History
8-Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars Bruno Grampa
Italy / USA, 2016 color, video, 100’ Original Language: English www.commodorewars.com
When Jack Tramiel invented Commodore in the 1970’s, he envisioned computing for the masses and not just the upper classes. Spearheading the personal technology revolution and combatting giants like Apple and IBM, Commodore became a household name by changing the way in which we interact, create and play with computers. From the advent of the groundbreaking Atari and Tetris games to the evolution of contemporary technological design, 8 Bit Generation dives into the home computer explosion and explores Commodore’s key role in shaping the future in which we now live.
SALES / CONTACT Elizabeth Sheldon
PRODUCTION Junk Food
Bond/360
Kyle Greenberg
1841 Broadway, Suite 911 10023-7656 New York USA tel: +1 9142751597 kyleg@bondinfluence.com
8-Bit Generation is a nerd labor of love--a first-hand account of the early and pivotal years of personal computing from the people who were in the trenches.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
The Age of Consequences Jared P. Scott
Syria / Spain / Egypt / USA, 2016 color, video, 80’/58’ Original Language: English theageofconsequences.com
The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth, The Age of Consequences investigates the impacts of climate change, resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of national security and global stability. Whether a long-term vulnerability or sudden shock, the film unpacks how water and food shortages, extreme weather, drought, and sea-level rise function as accelerants of instability and catalysts for conflict. Left unchecked, these threats and risks will continue to grow in scale and frequency, with grave implications for peace and security in the 21st century. All territories are available save US + Puerto Rico.
SALES / CONTACT Tom Koch
PRODUCTION PF Pictures
PBS International
Kelly Nyks
One Guest Street
Sophie Robinson
02135 Boston
Jared P. Scott
USA tel: +1-617-208-0735 www.pbsinternational.org jtkoch@pbs.org
The investigation of climate change impacts on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.
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Politics / Society | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Ahmad’s Hair Het Haar van Ahmad Susan Koenen
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 23’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.hollandsehelden.nl
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Syrian refugee Ahmad (12) just arrived in The Netherlands. While he is busy integrating in Dutch society and trying to make Dutch friends, it turns out he’s also on a personal, heart-warming mission.
SALES / CONTACT Albert Klein Haneveld Hollandse Helden Overleek 29 1141 PE Monnickendan
PRODUCTION Hollandse Helden Albert Klein Haneveld INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: + 31 6 22 80 81 05 www.hollandsehelden.nl albert@hollandsehelden.nl
Syrian refugee Ahmad (12) is on a personal, heart-warming mission. 14
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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Aim For The Roses John Bolton
Canada, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 103’ Original Language: English www.aimfortheroses.com
In 1976 daredevil Ken Carter hyped a feat so extreme it became the stuff of legend: with a rocket-powered car and a ramp, he planned to jump a one-mile span over a river in Canada and land on a bed of roses in the US. Fast forward to 2008. Musician Mark Haney decided the epic stunt deserved a concept album. The Georgia Straight called it “utterly amazing and completely fucking ridiculous. ” Employing a symphony of archival footage, automotive carnage, dramatic re-enactments, original interviews and musical numbers, John Bolton captures the insanity and humanity of these two very different men.
SALES / CONTACT Ben Bassauer Monoduo Films Wildenbruchplatz 5 12045 Berlin Germany tel: +49 17 8187 6787
PRODUCTION Opus 59 Films Inc. John Bolton CO-PRODUCTION Super Channel – Canada INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Super Channel – Canada
www.monoduo.net ben@monoduo.net
A “musical docudrama” by John Bolton, inspired by the utterly amazing and completely ridiculous album by Mark Haney, inspired by the daredevil stunt to end all daredevil stunts by Ken Carter. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
Alain Daniélou Into the Labyrinth Alain Daniélou Il labirinto di una vita Riccardo Biadene Switzerland / Italy, 2016 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: English/ Italian/French/German Subtitles: English
The extraordinary life of the man who brought India to the West. A musical journey starting from Brittany, passing through India (Shantiniketan, Varanasi, Pondicherry…) and Europe, following the story of the French-born indologist and musicologist A. Daniélou. In Banaras Daniélou and his life partner, the Swiss photographer Raymond Burnier made for 15 years their home in Rewa palace, on the banks of the Ganga. Here Daniélou became a Sanskrit scholar, converted to Hinduism, studied Indian classical music and wrote books about Hindu philosophy. Music, Dance, Religion and Philosophy are explored through the autobiography of Daniélou himself “The way to the Labyrinth”.
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SALES / CONTACT Reiner Moritz Poorhouse International
PRODUCTION FIND IndoEurope Foundation for New Dialogue
58 Broadwick Street
Jacques Cloarec
W1F 7AL London
CO-PRODUCTION KAMA Productions – Italy
England tel: +44 (0)20 74368663 www.poorhouseintl.co.uk/ info@poorhouseintl.co.uk
The extraordinary life of the man who brought India to the West. A musical journey starting from Brittany, passing through India and Europe, following the story of the musicologist A.Daniélou.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology | Nature / Environment
Alexei and the Spring Arekusei to izumi Seiichi Motohashi
Japan, 2002 color, video, 104’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English http://
movies.polepoletimes.jp/alexei
The Republic of Belarus, with its lush virgin forest and fertile soil, is known as “White Russia. ” The worst nuclear accident in human history, Chernobyl, spewed radioactive contamination across these lands. An evacuation advisory was issued to southeastern Belarus, and most of the six hundred residents of Budishche left their village, but fifty-five elderly people and one youth, Alexei, remained. The forests surrounding the village, the farmlands, and their crops were all contaminated. Miraculously, the spring at the heart of the village still brings forth pure, uncontaminated water. The villagers believe one-hundred-year-old water flows from its source. Japan not available
SALES / CONTACT Takahiro Otsuki Polepoletimes Co.
PRODUCTION Montage inc. Tokio Komatsubara
4-4-1-7F Higashinakano, Nakano
Polepoletimes Co.
164-0003 Tokyo
Takahiro Otsuki
Japan tel: +81-3-3227-1405 www.polepoletimes.jp arayashiki@polepoletimes.jp
The worst nuclear accident in human history, Chernobyl, spewed radioactive contamination across Belarus. Most of the residents of Budishche left, but fiftyfive elderly people and one youth, Alexei, remained. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Youth | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Alfredo
Marye Hoebe, Maaike Linden
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 16’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.hollandsehelden.nl/Alfredo
13 year old Alfredo Lorenzo has a dream: he wants to be the best magician in the world. This isn’t a random wish as his whole family works in the entertainment industry. He was raised performing magic and comes from a long line of artists. For this reason his whole family is helping him to realise his dream. How does Alfredo deal with the pressure, the intense training and life in the limelights?
SALES / CONTACT Albert Klein Haneveld Hollandse Helden Overleek 29 1141 PE Monnickendan
PRODUCTION Hollandse Helden Albert Klein Haneveld INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: + 31 6 22 80 81 05 www.hollandsehelden.nl albert@hollandsehelden.nl
13 year old Alfredo Lorenzo has a dream: he wants to be the best magician in the world. 18
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | History
All Governments Lie Alfred Peabody
Canada / USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 92’/60’ Original Language: English www.whitepinepictures.com
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All Governments Lie tells the story of a new wave of independent, investigative and adversarial journalists following in Stone’s footsteps and inspires in turn the next generation of independent journalists, to carry on I. F. Stone’s legacy of digging for truth and unmasking govern-ment and corporate lies. Giant media conglomerates that own the mainstream news sources are increasingly reluctant to investigate or criticize government policies – particularly on defense, security and intelligence issues. With government deception rampant, and intrusion of state surveillance into private life never more a serious issue, independent voices like Glenn Greenwald,Jeremy Scahill, and Amy Goodman are crucially important.
SALES / CONTACT Jan Röfekamp
PRODUCTION Andrew Munger, Steve Ord,
Films Transit International Inc
Peter Raymont
21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
Inspired by “I. F. Stone’s Weekly” from the 60’s, All Governments Lie tells the story of a new wave of independent, investigative and adversarial journalists following in Stone’s footsteps. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Science / Technology | Politics / Society
All The Rage (Saved by Sarno) David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley
USA, 2016 color / black and white, video, 92’ Original Language: English alltherage.tv
Co-Director Michael Galinsky’s father read Dr. John Sarno’s book “Healing Back Pain” in the 1980’s and was miraculously cured. Twenty years later, when Michael was immobilized, he saw Dr. Sarno and began a 12-year odyssey to make a film about his work. While Dr. Sarno was dismissed by peers, his work changed millions of lives, including luminaries like Howard Stern and Larry David. Sarno predicted the medical system would ignore the true cause of chronic pain - repressed emotions – and lead to an epidemic. The cost of chronic pain now tops all healthcare costs at nearly a Trillion dollars annually.
SALES / CONTACT Michael Galinsky
PRODUCTION David Beilinson
Rumur Inc.
Rumur Inc.
410 Morgan Creek Road
David Beilinson
27517 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
CO-PRODUCTION ARGONAUTS S.A. – Greece
USA tel: +1 919 942 2976 rumur.com michael@rumur.com
For the past 40 years Dr. John Sarno has argued that the back pain epidemic was caused by emotions rather than structural issues. Slowly science is proving him correct.
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Almost There Jacqueline Zünd
Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 81’/52’ Original Language: Japanese/English Subtitles: English
ALMOST THERE tells the story of three men who embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives. Bob swaps his safe home for a campervan and tries to find the though guy inside himself in the barren Californian desert. Drag queen and stand-up comedian Steve is fed up of England and makes amends with his past between Benidorm’s concrete towers. And Yamada rediscovers his smile by reading stories to children in Tokyo. ALMOST THERE is a film about time, dignity and the transience of life.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Intermezzo Films
First Hand Films
Aline Schmid
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Hugofilm Productions
8050 Zürich
Thomas Thümena
Switzerland tel: +41 443 122 060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
ALMOST THERE tells the story of three men in search for meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology
Amateurs in Space Max Kestner
Denmark, 2016 color, video, 89’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English
Over a period of 6 years, award winning director Max Kestner follows two best friends and top engineers building a ”DIY” rocket to travel into space. Against all odds, they build the cheapest rocket for the costs of a small car, attracting a group of space-flight enthusiasts from around the world who support them with great excitement. It’s the story of one of the greatest dreams of mankind and how to make it come true. It’s a film about reaching for the stars.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
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PRODUCTION Danish Documentary Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær
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l’Amatore The Amateur Maria Mauti
Italy, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam/16mm, 94’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
The film l’Amatore (the Amateur) is a journey within the intimate folds of a well-known architect, Piero Portaluppi, who worked during the twenty years of Fascism, through the discovery of his work in the present and through his film journals; unreleased 16 mm archives shot and edited by the architect. A charming and powerful man, Portaluppi lived through this magnificent and tragic era with indifference and irony, without restraints and by creating beauty. In the meanwhile, history relentlessly marched on in step with the events of the times.
SALES / CONTACT Raffaella Milazzo
PRODUCTION MP1 srl
via Matteo Bandello 6
Piero Maranghi
20123 Milano Italy tel: +39 33 9207 9799 raffaella.milazzo@gmail.com
The film l’Amatore (the Amateur) is a journey within the intimate folds of a well-known architect, Piero Portaluppi, who worked during the twenty years of Fascism. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Amazona Clare Weiskopf
Colombia, 2016 color, video, 81’/52’ Original Language: Spanish/English Subtitles: Spanish/English www.amazona.co
This is the story of Val and Clare: mother and daughter. After her eldest child died tragically, Val left her family behind and escaped into the jungle. Clare was only 11 when her mother left. A son who became an addict, 3 breakups and a fractured family remained behind. Now Clare is pregnant and decides to confront her mother. Together they go on an intimate journey exploring the boundaries between responsibility and freedom, the power of love and the meaning of family.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Casatarantula
Cinephil
Nicolas Van Hemelryck
18 Levontin Street
Clare Weiskopf
6511207 Tel Aviv
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
philippa@cinephil.com
After a tragedy, an Englishwoman left her kids and escaped into the Colombian jungle. Thirty years later her daughter confronts her and struggle to define motherhood on her own terms. 24
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Ambulance Mohamed Jabaly
Norway / Palestine, 2016 color, video, 56’/78’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
Mohamed, 24, aspires to make films in Gaza City, despite the lack of water, electricity, and closed borders that are part of every ‘normal’ day under the 7-year Israeli blockade of Gaza. While many young people dream of leaving Gaza, Mohamed wants to help. When he hears the news of a new Israeli offensive on Gaza in July 2014 he decides he cannot merely ‘wait for death’ but must do something and joins an ambulance crew to document the war.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION JAB Film
First Hand Films
John Arvid Berger
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60
CO-PRODUCTION Idioms Films – Palestine DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
An honest, straight and raw first-person account of the last war in Gaza in 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Among Houses and the Cosmos Kostana Banovic
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 70’ http://
kostanabanovic.com/amonghouses
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Among Houses and the Cosmos is a sensuous meditation on people, their living spaces and beliefs. Research and poetry at the same time, it is a story about the human necessity to impose meaningful patterns on life and being and about the desire to be lost again. It contains scenes with people engaged in some ritual action: writing something on a piece of paper; pointing out that one card; throwing beans on a table; reading the lines drawn in the sand. Kostana Banovic made a film about the video footage she brought with her from her many travels in Europe, Africa and Latin America. The footage itself, the material residue of the filmmaker’s impulses to take the camera and push the button, is allowed to speak.
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SALES / CONTACT Kostana Banovic Paraskeva Productions
PRODUCTION Paraskeva Productions Kostana Banovic
Albert Neuhuijsstraat 13-2 3583 SR Utrecht The Netherlands tel: +31 62 5184 681 www.kostanabanovic.com k.banovic@planet.nl
The film is a sensuous meditation on people, their living spaces and beliefs. About the human necessity to impose meaningful patterns on life and being.
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Ants on a Shrimp Maurice Dekkers
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: English/Japanese Subtitles: English
Tokyo - January 2015: The world’s number one restaurant, the Copenhagen based NOMA and its renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to the Mandarin Ori-ental Tokyo for 5 sold-out weeks of spectacular lunches and dinners with specially created menus. Benelux, North-America, Japan, Former Yugoslavia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, France, Australia, New-Zealand not available.
SALES / CONTACT Jindra Span Fortissimo Films
PRODUCTION Blazhoffski Productions B.V. Nelsje Musch-Elzinga
Van Diemenstraat 100 1013 CN Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 206273215 www.fortissimo.nl info@fortissimo.nl
NOMA Tokyo: the creation of a dream International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis Anuktatop: la métamorphose Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini France / Frans Guyana, 2016 color, HDcam, 110’ Original Language: French Subtitles: Japanese/French/English vimeo.com/channels/anuktatop
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Down on the banks of the Maroni River, little Derreck dreams of heroic warriors. He’s a member of the Wayana tribe [“native people” more than tribe?] in French Guyana. In this film, Derreck is not our only portal into another world. His sister Sylvana ( actually sylvana is derreck’s aunt) also dreams – of an impossible love, who belongs to a different tribe. Their grandmother Malilou takes us back to her youth in the 1950s. It seems that everyone wanders off now and again into a parallel, at times almost ghostly world. Whereas the youngest members of the tribe can still lose themselves in boundless flights of fantasy, the older generation contemplates more existential questions. How do dreams of the future relate to identity? What makes you a real Wayana? This magical realist glimpse of the life of this native tribe in the Amazon balances on the edge of fiction, showing how change is inevitable even in this remote village. (In Wayana, Anuktatop means metamorphosis. )
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SALES / CONTACT David Crochet Chercheurs d’Autres
PRODUCTION Chercheurs d’Autres David Crochet
105, boulevard Pierre et Marie Curie 31200 Topulouse France tel: +31 66 7883 949 http://
chercheursdautres.com
david.crochet@chercheursdautres.com
Little Derreck, a native American of the Wayana tribe on the river Maroni, is lost beetween dream and reality...
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The Apology Tiffany Hsiung
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 105’ Original Language: English
The Apology follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Some 70 years after their imprisonment in so-called “comfort stations,” the three “grandmothers” face their twilight years in fading health. After decades of living in silence and shame about their past, they know that time is running out to give a firsthand account of the truth and ensure that this horrific chapter of history is not forgotten.
SALES / CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Anita Lee
3155 Cote de liesse Road H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
The personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Areum
Parkkangareumui Gajangmudohoi Areum Parkkang South Korea, 2016 color, video, 94’ Original Language: English/Korean Subtitles: English/Korean
Areum wants to date with someone. However, today another blind date failed. Her friends give her advice. You don’t love yourself! You should dress up and take care of yourself! Is it the true reason why I am not loved? Because I’m not pretty?
SALES / CONTACT Moonkyung Kim Artist Group 3355
PRODUCTION Areum Film Moonkyung Kim
#B02, 96-18, Jeungga-ro 10-gil, Seodaemun-gu 03662 Seoul South Korea tel: +82 10 4258 6786 3355film@naver.com
Is it the true reason why I am not loved? Because I’m not pretty? 30
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Art Bastard Victor Kanefsky
USA, 2015 color, video, 60’ Original Language: English http://
artbastard.com
Money may rule the contemporary art market, but over the course of his prolific career Robert Cenedella has challenged the system with his funny and fantastical paintings of life in New York City. Art Bastard is both an alternate history of modern art and a provocative portrait of a self-styled rebel who believes that “you can bastardize everything else in your life, but if you compromise your art, why be an artist?”
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Concannon Productions, Inc. Chris Concannon
611 Broadway / Suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
Provocative rebel artist Robert Cenedella blends satire with fantasy to create paintings that critique the art world and depict life in New York.
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An Art That Nature Makes Molly Bernstein
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 75’/54’ Original Language: English www.anartthatnaturemakes.com
Finding unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed a body of work that has garnered international acclaim, graced the pages of National Geographic and over 20 published books, and has attracted admirers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Errol Morris and Stephen Jay Gould. An Art That Nature Makes details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world – from a mastodon tooth to a hydrocephalic skull – offering insight into her unique way of recontextualizing objects both ordinary and strange into sometimes disturbing but always breathtaking imagery. “Illuminating. . . certainly haunting, but too beautiful to be morbid. “ - NEW YORK TIMES
SALES / CONTACT Elizabeth Sheldon Bond/360
PRODUCTION Particle Fever Philip Dolin
1841 Broadway Suite 911 10023 New York USA tel: +1 212 354 2650 bond360press.com elizabeth@bondinfluence.com
All rights available world-wide.
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Ash Mountains Tuhamäed Ivar Murd
Estonia, 2016 color / black and white, video, 71’ Original Language: Russian/Estonian Subtitles: English
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population of the Ash Mountains has dropped by more than half, with no signs of growth or relief in sight. A place once known as the El Dorado of the proletariat has become synonymous with death and decay. However, legends remain: dwarves atop semi-coke mountains, exiles digging for forgiveness in pits, Mercedes-Cowboys roaming the night, and a magical bird, who must burn up to rise again.
SALES / CONTACT Margus Öunapuu
PRODUCTION Film Tower
Film Tower
Margus Öunapuu
Gonsiori 27 10147 Tallinn Estonia tel: +37 25 6516 54 margus@filmtower.ee
A fairy tale about the Ash Mountains.
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Ashes
CENERE Camilla Tomsich France / Italy, 2016 color, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English/French/Italian www.camillatomsich.com
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Ashes is a portrait of the contemporary Italy through the eyes of the hinterland of Sardinia. This region, characterized by a deep sentiment of independence from the Government and injured by a past of banditry and blood feuds, has a rough and harsh carnival with pre-historical roots. From the graffiti of the pre-nuragic caves until today, the ancestral rite of life and death perpetuates: the collapse of the industrial system and the workers’ resistance share with the ancestral pastoral system the conscience of death. Everything is ashes, everything is pollen and bud, everything is the waiting for the new spring in the eternal sacrifice of our human being.
SALES / CONTACT Ivan Bormann Ops! Film
PRODUCTION Ops! Film
Via Caccia 3 34124 Trieste Italy tel: + 39 392 350 067 7 v_adamski@yahoo.it
In the hinterland of Sardinia there’s a rough and harsh carnival with prehistorical roots. Between work and work’s faith, there’s still a community that celebrate trough the sacrifice, the life. 34
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Athos
Peter Bardehle, Andreas Martin
Germany / Austria, 2016 color, video, 52’/95’ Original Language: Greek Subtitles: English/German
For the first time, a filmmaker was given access to all forms of monastic life on the holy mountain. Peter Bardehle and Andreas Martin undertake a spiritual journey in poetic, big pictures for cinema with only monks telling about their life without any commentary and 2 hours aiming at prime time TV audiences driven by narration and strong characters.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Vidicom
First Hand Films
Peter Bardehle
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich
CO-PRODUCTION Langbein & Partner Media & Co
Switzerland
KG – Austria
tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Mount Athos on a peninsula off the cost of Greece is one of Europe’s last remaining secrets: a monks’ republic visas are granted only to pilgrims and workers.
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Author: The JT LeRoy Story Jeff Feuerzeig
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 110’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com
/author-the-jt-leroy-story
New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked wunderkind JT LeRoy, who captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert. Not available in US, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Scandinavia
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION Jim Czarnecki
Dogwoof
Danny Gabai
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Brett Ratner
EC1V 3QN London
Molly Thompson
England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
The most explosive literary scandal of our time. Look down the infinitely fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert breathed not only words, but life, into her avatar for a decade. 36
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Automation and the Future of Jobs Den Automatiserade Framtiden Magnus Sjöström Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
/programme-sales/automation/
What happens to jobs in a world increasingly handled by computers and machines? Will we be able to create new jobs at the same rate as the old ones disappear? If not, what is to become of the people that have been replaced by the machines and the algorithms? Interviews with distinguished economists and futurists are interspersed with visits to workplaces around the world, that provide clues as to what the future might look like. The film takes us to Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Newburgh N. Y. among other places.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales
PRODUCTION Swedish Educational
Broadcasting Company (UR)
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Magnus Sjöström
S-10510 Stockholm Sweden
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Swedish Educational
tel: +46 73 3651 151
Broadcasting Company (UR) –
svtsales.com
Sweden
http://
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
A documentary exploring how digitalization, robotics and automation could reshape the future of jobs. Will most of us be replaced by robots and computers? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Avec l’amour Ilija Cvetkovski
Macedonia, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 67’/52’ Original Language: Macedonian Subtitles: English
A film about the retiring professor Dionis, his passion for vintage cars and his dream of opening a museum in the little, uneventful town where he lives. While Dionis is fantasizing among his decaying cars, finding in them the joy of existence, his wife makes earning for the family and for each new car of Dionis by making wedding cakes. At the boundary of magical realism full of sarcasm, Dionis succeeds to fulfill his dream of opening his modest museum, that will remain to live within him, but what is gone is the communication with his pupils and his youth.
SALES / CONTACT Atanas Georgiev Trice Films Mihail Chakov 7a, 1/28 1000 Skopje
PRODUCTION Trice Films Atanas Georgiev DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Macedonia tel: +389 71 692990 fx3x.com atageorg@gmail.com
115 rotten vingage cars, a young wife, students that adore him – Dionis, a biology teacher with love for life. (or just another reason to keep on buying useless vehicles) 38 A love Story.
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Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View
The Azacuan’s Flight El vuelo del azacuán Rafael González
Guatemala, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
Every year, thousands of migratory birds travel over the North American plains to escape from the cold winter. During their migration they pass a point in the mountains of Huehuetenango, department of Guatemala. This region is inhabited by the Maya population Q’anjob’al, a mythical culture full of ancestral stories and beliefs and that practices the chibal, the art of hunting birds that are used for food when there are shortages of wheat and maize crops. Birds and human beings demonstrate the greatness of the search for prolonging life. A drama that shows the darkest and shiniest facets of humanity
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16 111711198 Bogotá
PRODUCTION Ek Balam Producciones María del Pilar Godoy CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
Birds and human beings demonstrate the greatness of the search for prolonging life. A drama that shows the darkest and shiniest facets of humanity, against the fragility and nobility of nature International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Bach & Barge Bach & Beton Haukje Heuff
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Documentary about the intimate world of the Dutch classical pianist Ivo Janssen, on an Amsterdam canal. The musician plays to be heard, but he has his own special way. He decides to build a concert venue below decks of his barge. But the venture has its setbacks. Gradually it becomes clear that he suffers from Dupuytren’s disease, causing his hands to slowly contract. He passionately and tenaciously continues to play his music and build his concert hall.
SALES / CONTACT Haukje Heuff
PRODUCTION Haukje Heuff
Haukje Heuff
Haukje Heuff
Therese Schwartzestraat 13-B 1073JH Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 62 4784 437 www.haukjeheuff.nl info@haukjeheuff.nl
Documentary about the Dutch classical pianist Ivo Janssen who’s fighting for an independent life as a musician. Therefor he decides to build his own concert hall on a barge. 40
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Backlight: Cyber Jihad Tegenlicht: Cyberjihad Hans Busstra
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 48’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English
Over the past fifteen years, jihadism has gained a lot of territory online without any hindrance. After 9/11, Al-Qaeda started posting amateurish videos online. By now, ISIS has a professional media department called Al-Hayat. Both the quantity and the quality of jihadist propaganda has increased. Beheadings are now shot in slow motion with multiple cameras. Over the last couple of years, the movies have progressed from a random sequence of atrocities into Hollywood-style action movies that attempt to lure young people from all over the world into the romance of jihad.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Jihadists are fighting a war on social media. The propaganda they spread is getting ever more professional. Which virtual weapons will ISIS deploy to radicalise young people in the West? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Investigative | Science / Technology | Experimental
Backlight: Invasion of the Drones Tegenlicht: Invasie van de Drones Daan Veldhuizen The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 48’ Subtitles: English
Drones are not only getting smarter, they are also getting cheaper every day. So what happens when the airspace has suddenly become accessible to anyone: soldiers, terrorists, hobbyists and delivery services? How will we deal with the fact that we don’t know who is in control of a drone or what the intentions of the flying robot are? How is this technological innovation going to change our relationships with one another and the world around us?
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Drones are getting smarter and cheaper every day. So what happens when the airspace has suddenly become accessible to anyone: soldiers, terrorists, hobbyists and delivery services? 42
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Backlight: Justice for All Tegenlicht: Recht voor Allen Shuchen Tan
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 48’ Subtitles: English
Access to justice: for four billion out of the just over seven billion people on earth this is too expensive, too complicated, blocked by corruption, or simply not available. Lawyers working for the Dutch government devote themselves to the digital innovation of the legal industry. Surprisingly enough, Kenya is a trendsetter in this respect. Under the inspiring guidance of Supreme Court Judge Willy Mutunga, and with the aid of text messaging, smartphones and Twitter, a countrywide network of apps and legal volunteers is built. Injustice is combatted with cell phones instead of law degrees.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Access to justice is not available for everybody. Lawyers working for the Dutch government devote themselves to the digital innovation of the legal industry. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Backlight: Offline is the New Luxury Tegenlicht: Offline als Luxe Bregtje van der Haak
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 48’ Original Language: Armenian/Dutch/English Subtitles: English
To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is becoming a luxury. Where can you be offline? For those who, from time to time, wish to escape smartphone and Wi-Fi signals, VPRO introduces the international White Spots App.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
You can be online all the time and everywhere. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really alone. Being offline is becoming a luxury.
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Backlight: The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy Tegenlicht: Doorbraak van Duurzaam Martijn Kieft The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 48’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English
You won’t read about it in the papers, but a silent worldwide revolution is taking place: renewable energy is becoming cheaper than energy from fossil fuels. More and more, opting for wind and solar energy is no longer an ethical choice but an economic one. Countries like Brazil, Australia, Chili and parts of the United States are switching to renewable energy for economic reasons. A surprising newcomer is Morocco, for example. By 2020 the government expects to meet more than 40 percent of the demand for electricity with solar energy. The Netherlands is nowhere near ready yet.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Renewable energy is becoming cheaper than energy from fossil fuels. It means that progressively the choice for wind and solar energy is no longer an ethical one but an economic one. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Backlight: The Chinese World Order Tegenlicht: De Chinese Wereldorde Jos de Putter The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 48’ Original Language: Dutch/English/Chinese Subtitles: English
For some time now, the establishment of the World Bank and IMF has had a Chinese counterpart: AIIB, which China intends to use to finance a huge infrastructure project to connect Asia and Europa, a New Silk Route. This new international financial institution forces Europe to take a side. The UK decided, against the urgent advice from the United States, to become a member, and also The Netherlands has joined the Chinese initiative. According to China watcher Martin Jacques, this is the beginning of a new Chinese world order.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION VPRO Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
VPRO Backlight investigated what the Chinese modernity of the 21st century looks like.
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Art / Music / Culture
Balkan Roots
Anthony Fletcher, Chris Rabbitt
Australia, 2016 color, video, 83’ Original Language: Serbian/Spanish/English Subtitles: English http://
balkanroots.com
Six musicians from across Europe. A Barcelona melting pot. Music from Roma, Klezmer & Balkan traditions. . . but with a Barcelona twist? Local masters and a new generation of Balkan musicians. Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra. Touring the Balkans, playing with the locals, exploring their Balkan Roots.
SALES / CONTACT Chris Rabbitt Relife Creative
PRODUCTION Relife Creative Chris Rabbitt
28 Ashford Pde 2291 Merewether Heights Australia tel: +61 418 615975 relifecreative.com chris@relifecreative.com
A music documentary featuring the Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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A Bastard Child Horungen Knutte Wester
Sweden / Norway, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 57’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English www.horungen.com
In 1909, in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born and given the name of Hervor. Her mother is unmarried, due to which she is called a ”whore” and driven away from her home. Hervor grows up at shelters and orphanages, unwanted, rejected by society. As an adult she spends her life struggling for social justice. In old age she tells us her unique story. Director Knutte Wester brings his grandmother’s memories to life through hand-painted animated images and has us witness someone being rejected in order to unite others.
SALES / CONTACT Therese Högberg Bautafilm AB Rådhusesplanaden 18c 90328 Umeå Sweden tel: +4670 744 44 72
PRODUCTION Bautafilm AB Therese Högberg CO-PRODUCTION Pomor Film AS – Norway INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
www.bautafilm.se therese@bautafilm.se
Sweden - TV not available
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The Beast Is Still Alive Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva
Bulgaria, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 90’ Original Language: Greek/ Spanish/English/Bulgarian Subtitles: English www.activist38.com
While the left idea conceived by Karl Marx gains popularity around the world, a country from the former Socialist block is torn apart by Communist apparatchiks and informers. 25 years after the fall of Communism a young Bulgarian opens her Grandad’s Secret Service file to unravel the past and find answers to why the Socialist idea had failed so badly in reality. When reading the file entitled “Beast” she realizes that the Red Beast has never left Bulgaria. In a semi-mystic dialogue with her Granddad, visualized with animated sequences she restores the collective memory of generations far apart.
A semi-mystic dialogue between young woman and her dead granddad about the left idea, its consequences in nowadays Bulgaria as well as its recent rise globally.
SALES / CONTACT Mina Mileva Activist38
PRODUCTION Activist38 Mina Mileva
149B Rakovski street
Vesela Kazakova
1000 Sofia
CO-PRODUCTION Nova Film – Bulgaria
Bulgaria tel: +359 884727631 www.activist38.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Bulgarian National Television –
mina@activist38.com,
Bulgaria
SALES / CONTACT Mladen Vusurovic Tricontinental Peka Pavlovica 1 81250 Cetinje Montenegro tel: +382 69 324 690 mladen@beldocs.rs
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Becoming Who I Was Jin Jeon, Chang-Yong Moon
South Korea, 2016 color, HDcam, 100’/52’ Original Language: Hindi/Ladakh Subtitles: Korean/English www.facebook.com/becomingwhoiwasfilm
A seemingly ordinary boy discovers he is the highest ranking Tibetan monk reincarnated from a past, giving him the noble title of Rinpoche. However, Padma Angdu is displaced in his reincarnation and separated from his original monastery and disciples. In contrast to the privileged life that such a noble child could have, Padma Angdu’s ordination in his second life brings about an unexpected turn of events. With one aging godfather on the backdrop of the biting Himalayan mountains the Rinpoche eventually sets on a dangerous journey to find his place in the world.
SALES / CONTACT Jin Jeon
PRODUCTION Prosum Inc
Prosum Inc
Jin Jeon
2F Gookhwa building, Sungsan dong, Chang-Yong Moon Mapo gu 40-13 03967 Seoul South Korea tel: +82 10 5676 1916 jin@prosum.co.kr
Cast out of his monastery and displaced in his reincarnation, a Ladakhi boy of noble birth must go in search of his past life in Tibet, with his aging godfather.
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Becoming Zlatan Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten
Sweden / The Netherlands / Italy, 2015 color, video, 105’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English
An exclusive biopic on one of the most charismatic and provocative soccer players or a coming-of-age film that captures the first years of a young, highly talented and troubled player as he becomes an international superstar.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION WG Film AB
Autlook Filmsales
Fredrik Gertten
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Margarete Jangård
1070 Vienna Austria
CO-PRODUCTION Indyca – Italy,
tel: +43 720 346934
KeyDocs – The Netherlands
www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
The decisive years of Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, told through rare archive footage in which a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges.
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Human Interest / Social Issues
The Beekeeper and his Son Diedie Weng
Switzerland / Canada, 2016 color, video, 81’/53’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English/German
www.thebeekeeperandhisson-film.com
After drifting as a migrant worker in the city for a year, Maofu returns to his family bee farm in rural Northern China. Maofu brings along big ideas for marketing and honey sales. However, his old father Lao Yu emphasizes a heart felt connection with the bees which comes from generations of traditional beekeeping. Witnessing the environmental degradation Lao Yu is struggling with his mixed emotions of whether his son should even stay in this traditional area of work and trade. The animals on the farm echo the emotional intensities, sometimes providing an unexpected comic relief. Switzerland, South Korea, Canada not available
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SALES / CONTACT Susanne Guggenberger Mira Film
PRODUCTION Mira Film Hercli Bundi
Weststrasse 182
Susanne Guggenberger
1190 Zurich
Vadim Jendreyko
Switzerland
Diedie Weng
tel: +41 43 960 3684
CO-PRODUCTION Lowik Media – Canada
www.mirafilm.ch guggenberger@mirafilm.ch
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen – Switzerland
An intimate view into a rural beekeeping family in an emerging industrial China, the film explores the love and tension between two generations seeking common ground.
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Behind The Veil of the Mosques Moskeerne Bag Sløret Martin Kjær Jensen, Irene Thyrri Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English/Arabic Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
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For three months they live as a married couple, Fatma and Mahammed, seeking advice about life as a newly arrived Muslim in the West. During these months they visit eight of the country’s largest mosques. Most are publicly known as moderate, but using a hidden camera the documentary reveals a very different reality.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Dokumentarkompagniet
DR
Lars Høj
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
Two young Muslims go undercover in muslin immigrant communities
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Ben-Gurion, Epilogue Ben Gurion, Epilogue Yariv Mozer
Canada / Israel / France, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 70’/58’ Original Language: English/Hebrew Subtitles: English www.go2films.com
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In the great depths of the archive, six hours of interview footage was discovered of one of the modern history’s greatest leaders- David Ben-Gurion. It is 1968 and he is 82 years old, five years before his death. He lives in his secluded home in the desert, removed from all political discourse, which allows him a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise. Ben-Gurion’s introspective soul searching is the focus of this film, and his clear voice provides a surprising vision for today’s crucial decisions and the future of Israel.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films
PRODUCTION Quark Productions Juliette Guigon
Isser Natanzon, 37/8 97787 Jerusalem
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Hot - Israeli Cable Television,
Israel
Channel 8 – Israel,
tel: +972 2 5831371
ARTE France – France,
www.go2films.com
NDR – Germany,
hedva@go2films.com
Société Radio Canada – Canada
Based on archive material, the film reveals the final years of Israel’s founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded from leadership, he allowed himself a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise. 54
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Berlin For Beginners - A Roma Home Movie And Ek Ghes Philip Scheffner, Colorado Velcu Germany, 2016 color, video, 52’/93’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: English
In the end, they’re putting together a video clip in which a young man promises his beloved a future in Berlin if her love is only strong enough to follow him. The song was written by Colorado Velcu, charismatic multi-talent, single parent to seven children; heart, motor and chronicler of an extended family from Fata Luncii in Romania. The film continues an extraordinary collaboration based on the trust and friendship between the co-directors Philip Scheffner and Colorado Velcu.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
PRODUCTION pong Film Alex Gerbaulet Merle Kröger
8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 443 122 060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Humor, chutzpah and solidarity against poverty and exclusion: members of the Velcu family from Fata Luncii, Romania, move to Berlin and perform themselves into a possible future. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Best and Most Beautiful Things Garrett Zevgetis
USA, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: English
www.bestandmostbeautifulthings.com
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Off a dirt road in rural Maine, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Searching for connection, Michelle explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative fringe community. Will she take the leap to experience the wide world for herself? Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery celebrates outcasts everywhere. North America not available
SALES / CONTACT Annie Edwards
PRODUCTION Ariakatna Garfinkel
Journeyman Pictures 4 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
In this joyous coming-of-age story, a precocious 20-yearold woman searches for love and freedom in a surprising sex-positive community.
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Between the Lines Marcel Beltrán
Cuba, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: Portugese/English www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
Regina and Mauricio set out on a trip to meaningful places from their 30 years of marriage, places they had never imagined they would return to. Halfway through the trip, they split up when Regina goes to celebrate her mother’s birthday. Everardo, Regina’s father, never accepted a husband for his daughter who didn’t measure up to his expectations. During the family celebration, a phone call from Mauricio surprises everyone.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16
PRODUCTION María Carla Rio CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
111711198 Bogotá Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
Regina and Mauricio, a married couple that has been together for over 30 years, take a trip to places that were important for their relationship.
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Art / Music / Culture
Bill Frisell, A Portrait Emma Franz
Australia, 2016 color, HDcam, 110’ Original Language: English web: http://
emmafranz.com
A unique and masterful musician, prolific composer and bandleader, Grammy Award winner and Guitarist of the Year for ten consecutive years. His bands play in a semicircle - so that no one is more important than the other Frisell is humble and shies from media attention. Frisell’s unique approach combines jazz, country, folk, rock, blues, groove, pop, avant-garde, and more, always maintaining artistic integrity. Frisell is a strong believer in the power of music to connect people and has a particular ability for finding the links between musical genres at opposite ends of stylistic and cultural spectrums.
SALES / CONTACT Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc
PRODUCTION Emma Franz Films Emma Franz
21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
Bill Frisell is widely credited as being one of the most influential guitarists of the last few decades.
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Politics / Society | Investigative
Bitter Grapes Tom Heinemann
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English www.drsales.dk
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The message was clear when the film crew confronted one of the biggest exporters of South African wines. An industry that offers cheap and very popular wine to the European and Scandinavian market that recently have been floating with wines from South Africa. But the workers in the flourishing province, Western Cape are muted and are not part of the progress. Unions are denied access to their members who are working up to 12 hours hard labour per day for less than €4, often also partly paid their salary in cheap liquor (a payment method used heavily during the Apartheid).
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Heinemann Media A/S
DR
Tom Heinemann
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark
Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
Investigating into the booming South African wine industry
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Black Code Nicholas de Pencier
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English/ Arabic/Portugese/Tibetan Subtitles: English www.mercuryfilms.ca
Black Code is a gripping account of how governments control and manipulate the internet in order to censor and monitor their citizens. With stories from exiled Tibetan monks circumventing China’s surveillance apparatus, Syrian citizens tortured for Facebook posts, Brazilian activists using social media to distribute alternative news, and Pakistani online violence against women, we see firsthand the high-stakes consequences that our unprecedented level of digital communication can produce. As this battle for control of cyberspace is waged, our ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy will be challenged to the very core. Canada - Theatrical and 1st Window Broadcast Rights not available
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SALES / CONTACT Nicholas de Pencier Mercury Films
PRODUCTION Mercury Films Nicholas de Pencier
58 Palmerston Gardens M6G1V9 Toronto, Ontario
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Super Channel – Canada
Canada tel: +1 416 516 2661 mercuryfilms.ca chrisann@mercuryfilms.ca
The story of how governments manipulate the internet to censor and monitor their citizens and how they fight back, challenging our ideas of privacy, citizenship and democracy to the core.
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Art / Music / Culture
Blackhearts - Sell Your Soul To Rock N’Roll Christian Falch, Fredrik Horn Akselsen
Norway / Sweden / Iceland, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’/83’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk/
Sina from Iran, Héctor from Colombia, and Kaiadas from Greece all jump at the opportunity to play at a metal festival in the cradle of the music that has formed their lives - Norway. Three very different personal stories unfold as we meet them in their countries and follow them on their journey to pursue their radical passion for the black metal music and lifestyle - risking their life, getting thrown in jail and selling their soul to Satan. How far would you go for the music you love?
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen DR
PRODUCTION Gammaglimt AS Christian Falch
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Torstein Parelius
2300 København C Denmark
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VGTV – Norway,
tel: +45 35 2022 99
DR – Denmark
www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
Blackhearts into the lives of three diehard black metal fans from vastly different cultures. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment
Bluefin John Hopkins
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: English
Bluefin is a tale of epic stakes set in North Lake, Prince Edward Island, known as the “tuna capital of the world. ” Local fishermen swear the spectacular Atlantic bluefin tuna are so plentiful here they literally eat out of people’s hands. But many scientists contend the species is on the brink of collapse. Can both claims be true?
SALES / CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Annette Clarke
3155 Cote de liesse Road H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
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Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Bolingo. The Forest of Love Bolingo. El Bosque Del Amor Alejandro G. Salgado Spain, 2016 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English http://
conlamaleta.com/portfolio/
bolingo-el-bosque-del-amor/
Bolingo. The Forest of Love tells the journey made by several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “European dream”. This journey will get into a trip to motherhood in Bolingo or some other awaiting camp settled next to the border. Bolingo means love in lingala, the language of some Congolese who created a camp where migrant women could live with their children until they could cross the border. Bolingo. The Forrest of Love shows the way in which these mothers and their children confront their survival during an unlimited time in a hostile land.
SALES / CONTACT Anaïs Clanet
PRODUCTION La Maleta
Wide House
Irene Hens Aumente
9 rue Bleue
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Canal Sur Television – Spain
75009 Paris France tel: +331 53 95 04 64 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org
It is a journey in space and time through motherhood carried by some women who come to sacrifice everything to reach the European dream.
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Art / Music / Culture | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Borgo Vecchio Factory Claudio Esposito
Italy, 2016 color, 35mm, 26’/35’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English/Spanish http://
borgovecchiofactory.tumblr.com
A feature mid-length documentary that delves deep into the revolution of a crowdfunded painting workshop for kids which has changed the face of Borgo Vecchio, where most of the families are in check of criminal organisations and poverty. The film and the project are promoted by non-for-profit groups: through a crowdfunding campaign, they set up a six-month cycle of creative painting workshops for children of the neighbourhood which has now become an open-air museum with pieces of most acclaimed european street-artists.
SALES / CONTACT Claudio Esposito The Piranesi Experience
PRODUCTION The Piranesi Experience Salvatore Di Dio
via Bari 73
Claudio Esposito
70010 Capurso
Fabio Paolucci
Italy
Domenico Schillaci
tel: +39 33 4348 8002 www.piranesiexperience.com c.esposito@piranesiexperience.com
The world sales contact is Claudio Esposito. All territories are available. Pilot film (Borgo Vecchio Factory) released. Development and funds research for the Season One (5 episodes).
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Politics / Society
Born in Syria Nacido en Siria Hernán Zin
Denmark / Spain, 2016 color, video, 78’ Original Language: Kurdish/English/ German/Arabic/French Subtitles: English
Since civil war started in Syria in 2011, an estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes, half of them children. With a soundtrack composed by Gabriel Yared, this feature length film (also available in 55 mins) follows seven young children for a year. We witness everything through their eyes, from their escape from Syria, through refugee camps in the Middle East, to their arrival into the promised land of Europe. And then we continue following them for their first six months in Europe, recording their integration. Filmed in 12 countries, this is a unique testimony to the refugee experience.
SALES / CONTACT Kathryn Bonnici Java Films
PRODUCTION La Claqueta PC, SL Olmo Figueredo González-
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Quevedo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Final Cut for Real
France
Monica Hellström
tel: +33 17 4713 313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv
Spain, Portugal and Sweden not available
Since war started in Syria, around 9 million Syrians have fled their homes, half of them children. Filmed in 12 countries,this is a unique testimony to the refugee experience. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Nature / Environment Pitched at the Forum 2014
The Borneo Case Erik Pauser, Dylan Williams Sweden / Germany / Wales, 2016 color, video, 78’ Original Language: English/ German/Malaysian Subtitles: English http://
borneocase.com
The Borneo Case tells the story of an unlikely group of activists who investigate how profits from the illegal logging that has decimated the Malaysian Borneo Rainforest, have been money laundered into property portfolios all around the world. The group, made up of an exiled tribesman, a historian, an investigative journalist and a flamboyant DJ overcome death threats and intimidation in their efforts to unravel on what has been dubbed “the Greatest Environmental Crime in History” Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway not available
SALES / CONTACT Dylan Williams
PRODUCTION AMP Film
AMP Film
Erik Pauser
Grindsgatan 31
Dylan Williams
11857 Stockholm
CO-PRODUCTION Britdoc Bertha Fund – England
Sweden tel: + 46 70 4860128 www.ampfilm.se
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden,
dylan@ampfilm.se
ZDF/ARTE – Germany, IKON – The Netherlands
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Art / Music / Culture
Bosch, the Garden of Dreams El Bosco, el Jardín de los Sueños José Luis López-Linares Spain / France, 2016 color, video, 84’ Original Language: Spanish/ English/French/Chinese Subtitles: English www.latidofilms.com
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A mystery within a mystery, the painting “The Garden of Delights” is Hieronymus Bosch most famed and intriguing. In 2017 the world will be celebrating his V centenary. Through unique images granted by an exclusive access to the Prado Museum, – like being witness to the process of X-raying the painting, and its restoration-, the film explores and seeks to unveil all the unanswered questions about the painter himself, the painting, and explain the inspiration that it has had in writers painters, musicians from all over the world. WorldWide less Theatrical in USA, México, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Panamá, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina,UK, Spain, Poland, Hungría, Czech Republic, Ucrania, Italy, Finland, Lituania, Letonia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany not available.
SALES / CONTACT Francesca Perin
PRODUCTION López-Li Films
Latido Films
José Luis López-Linares
Calle Veneras 9
CO-PRODUCTION Mondex et Cie – France
28013 Madrid Spain tel: +34 91 5488 877
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTVE – Spain
www.latidofilms.com francesca@latidofilms.com
At the end of the book the writer solves the mystery. In this particular case the author wants you remian in the mystery.
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Brasilia Live After Design Bart Simpson
Canada / England, 2016 color, HDcam, 78’/52’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
The utopian city of Brasilia is in transition more than half a century later. What is it like to live in someone else’s idea? Canada and UK not available
SALES / CONTACT Lucie Tremblay Lowik Media
PRODUCTION Aconite Productions Aimara Reques
2475 rue Champagne
Lowik Media
H2k 2G9 Montreal
Lucie Tremblay
Canada tel: +1 514 281-1819
CO-PRODUCTION Lowik Media – Canada,
lowikmedia.com
Aconite Productions – England
ltremblay@lowikmedia.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS CBC Documentary Channel – Canada
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Braving the Waves Dar Barabar Amvaj Mina Keshavarz
France / Iran / Norway / Lebanon, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’/54’ Original Language: Persian Subtitles: English www.gammaglimt.no/will-win-war/
Roghieh, a woman from rural Iran, has built up her own bazaar, where several hundred women come every day to sell food and handicrafts to make a living. It all goes well until the village mayor decides to tear down the bazaar and build a shopping mall instead. But Roghieh won’t give up without a fight. “Braving the Waves” is a subtle documentary that uses the story of the bazaar to give a fascinating insight into the daily lives of some women on the Iranian countryside. Israel not available
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 617748 http://
PRODUCTION Mindoc Film Production Mina Keshavarz CO-PRODUCTION Gammaglimt AS – Norway DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
catndocs.com
info@catndocs.com
Roghieh in Southern Iran is trying to secure jobs for women through a Bazaar she established. But a local politician threatens her. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Breathing Underwater Hee-young Ko
South Korea, 2016 color, video, 52’/90’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: English
In Jeju Province, located off the southern coast of Korea, are the women of the sea who hold breath of life. Typhoons and the barren volcanic soil of the islands left the people enduring years of poor harvest and famine. For survival, women looked to the frigid sea. Haenyeos, women of the sea, still exist and they have been diving without air tanks for more than 1,000 years. They go into the waters of 10-to-20 meter depth to harvest seaweed and shellfish to make a living.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Soom Be Production
First Hand Films
Gary Byung-seok Kam
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Women of the sea have to hold their breath to survive or breath under water, which can turn into a desire and temptation that can not be contained.
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Bugs
Andreas Johnsen Denmark, 2016 color, video, 76’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.bugsfeed.com
Ben, Josh and Roberto, three charismatic young chefs from René Redzepi’s experimental Nordic Food Lab, investigate the eats and tastes of insects around the world - said to be the future of food. Josh becomes a leading expert in implementing insects into the western cuisine, he is alarmed when he first visits factories that went into mass production of crickets and grubs.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Danish Documentary Production
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær
1070 Vienna
CO-PRODUCTION Rosforth film – Denmark
Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark,
welcome@autlookfilms.com
SVT – Sweden, RUV – Iceland, VPRO – The Netherlands, VRT - Canvas – Belgium
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Art / Music / Culture
Burden
Richard Dewey, Tim Marrinan
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/burden
For more than 45 years, Chris Burden’s work has consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art. His pioneering and often dangerous performance works of the 1970s earned Burden a place in the art history books while still in his early 20s. He had himself shot (Shoot, 1971), locked up (Five Day Locker Piece, 1971), electrocuted, (Doorway to Heaven, 1973), cut (Through the Night Softly, 1973), crucified (Trans-fixed, 1974), and advertised on television (4 TV Ads, 1973–77). Not available in North America
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Submarine Dan Braun
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Josh Braun
EC1V 3QN London
David Koh
England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who pushed the limits of creative expression and risked his life in the name of art. 72
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Burning Out Jérôme le Maire
Belgium / France / Switzerland, 2016 color, DCP, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English www.burning-out-film.com
Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION AT-Doc
CAT&Docs
Arnauld de Battice
18 Rue Quincampoix Ste 133
Isabelle Truc
75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION Zadig Productions – France,
tel: +33 14461 7748
Louise Productions – Switzerland
www.catndocs.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium,
cat@catndocs.com
ARTE France – France, SSR/TSR – Switzerland
Burning Out follows a group of doctors and their team crushed by a profitability injunction of our contemporary world. Could they resist ?
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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons Varza, cartofi i ali demoni Serban Georgescu Romania / Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: German/English http://
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In the Romanian village of Lunguletu, 1000 farmers on their tractors sit on 100. 000 tons of cabbage in the local market, waiting for customers. At the end of the day they either sell for nothing or destroy their crops. Intrigued of getting 1 ton of cabbage for just EUR 20 townie Serban decides to spend one year in the village and to find out if there is any way out of this deadlock. The Mayor and some villagers have ideas and possible solutions. But can they overcome their fear of a collective farm? A satire of current realities in agriculture Europe.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution
PRODUCTION ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions Heino Deckert
Gottschedstr. 18
Elefant Films
04109 Leipzig
Alexandre Iordachescu
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION Kolectiv Film – Romania
tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS MDR Germany – Germany, ARTE France – France, RTV Romania – Romania
One village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out? 74
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Author’s Point of View
Caddies Pablo Accuosto
Uruguay, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/Portugese www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
Liya and her younger brothers, Cocoa and Chino, work as caddies at the luxurious golf club “Cantegril” in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and they live with their children in the illegal settlement called “Kennedy”, located next to the club. Accustomed to being always in the background, they now face the possibility of winning a labor lawsuit that would allow them gain control over their own destinies and those of their families.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16 111711198 Bogotá
PRODUCTION Raindogs Cine Germán Tejeira CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
Liya and her younger brothers, work as caddies at the luxurious golf club “Cantegril” in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and they live with their children in the illegal settlement called “Kennedy” International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Café Waldluft Matthias Koßmehl
Germany, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’/79’ Original Language: English/German/Arabic Subtitles: German/English http://
deckert-distribution.com
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Café Waldluft, once a tourist hot spot in the picturesque mountains of Bavaria, is now a run-down hotel with a few remaining elderly guests. But there is something very unique about the place: it offers shelter to refugees from all across the globe. What doesn’t it really take for a place to become home?
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION Matthias Kossmehl Filmproduktion Matthias Koßmehl CO-PRODUCTION Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany
04109 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 341 2156638
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany
www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
Café Waldluft, once a tourist hot spot nestling in the picturesque mountains of Bavaria, offers shelter to refugees from all across the globe.
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Cahier Africain Heidi Specogna
Switzerland / Germany, 2016 color, DCP, 119’ Original Language: Arabic/ English/German/French Subtitles: English/German/French www.rushlake-media.com
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It all started with a small school exercise book full of courageous testimonies by victims of war crimes. As a result of rape, Amzine gave birth to a child. Looking at her now 12-year-old daughter Fane is a daily reminder of the suffering she entrusted to this book. Arlette has agonised for years due to a gunshot to the knee that did not want to heal. After a successful surgery in Berlin, she holds on to hope for a painfree existence. While they try to master their difficult daily lives with confidence the next war breaks out in the Central African Republic.
SALES / CONTACT Philipp Hoffmann
PRODUCTION PS Film
Rushlakes Media
Peter Spoerri
Karolingerring 31
Filmpunkt
50676 Cologne
Stefan Tolz
Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF/3sat – Germany
tel: +49 221 58832180 www.rushlake-media.com philipp@rushlake-media.com
The documentary follows the lives of two young Central African woman. It was prompted by a small exercise book, full of courageous testimonies by victims of war crimes. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
USA, 2016 black and white, video, 102’ Original Language: Arabic/Dari/ Bosnian/English/Haussa Subtitles: English www.camerapersonfilm.com
Kirsten Johnson is one of the most notable cinematographers working in documentary cinema today, having shot Citizenfour, The Oath or Fahrenheit 9/11 among many others. As a visually radical memoir, Cameraperson draws on the remarkable footage that Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 Rue Quincampoix
PRODUCTION Big Mouth Productions Kirsten Johnson Marilyn Ness
75004 Paris France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. 78
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The Challenge Yuri Ancarani
France / Italy, 2016 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/French/Italian
Falconry has a history that stretches back over 40 centuries. In the West it was a prevailing passion of the medieval aristocracy, but its prestige continues undiminished in contemporary Arab culture. Three years of observing this form of hunting in the field have made it possible to capture the spirit of a tradition that today allows its practitioners to keep a close rapport with the desert, despite their predominantly urban lifestyle. Our guide to how they cross that threshold is a falconer taking his birds to compete in a tournament in Qatar. In the glaring light of an empty landscape, following flight lines and lures, the film recounts a strange kind of “desert weekend”, in which technological and anthropological microcosms hang in the air, like the falcon, drifting on the irreversible currents of images.
SALES / CONTACT Manuela Buono
PRODUCTION Ring Film
Slingshot Films International Sales Tommaso Bertani Via Paduina 8
Atopic
34125 Trieste
Christophe Gougeon
Italy tel: +39 34 7627 3390 www.slingshotfilms.it manuela@slingshotfilms.it
Among SUVs, Lamborghinis, private jets and Mad Max-like dune bashing contests, takes place the preparation of a baroque falconry competition. An anthropology of a contemporary desert. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Champions of Amsterdam Kampioenen van Amsterdam Xander de Boer, Denise Janzée
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.hollandsehelden.nl/
Kampioenen-van-Amsterdam
Every year Amsterdam hosts an exciting street football tournament with a big final on Dam Square in the centre of town. In this long youth documentary, we follow five twelve year old boys who participate in this tournament. They come from different areas of the city and all have different socio-cultural backgrounds. Each boy has to meet his own challenges in life. They have one thing in common: the love for the ball! Who will win the prestigious tournament?
SALES / CONTACT Albert Klein Haneveld Hollandse Helden
PRODUCTION Hollandse Helden Albert Klein Haneveld
Overleek 29 1141 PE Monnickendan The Netherlands tel: + 31 6 22 80 81 05 www.hollandsehelden.nl albert@hollandsehelden.nl
Champions of Amsterdam is about the lives of five 12 -year-old boys and their love for street footbal.
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La Chana Lucija Stojevic
Spain / Iceland / USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 83’/55’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.lachanafilm.com
In the 1960s and 1970s, Gypsy dancer, Antonia Santiago Amador, known as La Chana, was one of the biggest stars in the flamenco world, surprising audiences worldwide with her innovative style and use of rhythm. Then, at the peak of her career, she suddenly disappeared from the scene. The film brings us under the skin and into the mind of La Chana as she returns to the stage to give a final seated performance after a 30 year break. Along the way, she reveals the secret behind her disappearance. Spain and Iceland not available
SALES / CONTACT Lucija Stojevic
PRODUCTION Noon Films S.L.
Noon Films S.L.
Lucija Stojevic
C/Blesa 31, 4-3
CO-PRODUCTION Bless Bless Productions – Iceland
08004 Barcelona Spain tel: +34 62 7362 755
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTVE – Spain,
www.noon-films.com
TV3 – Spain
lucija@noon-films.com
The film delves into the spirit of La Chana, a Gypsy flamenco dancer, as she uncovers the secrets of her past while returning to the stage despite her aging body.
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Chasing Asylum Eva Orner
Australia, 2016 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/chasing-asylum
Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how The Lucky Country became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights. The film features never before seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo. Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions hidden from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Eva Orner
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
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Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies through the personal accounts of people seeking asylum and whistleblowers who tried to work within the system. 82
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Chasing Bonnie & Clyde. When Texas Gets Smart-on-Crime Olivier Lambert, Thomas Salva France, 2015 color, video, 87’/52’ Original Language: English
‘‘Don’t build prisons, they cost too much!’’ In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders. Several teenagers’ journeys to get a second chance are paralleled to the authentic and mythical outlawed path of Bonnie & Clyde, who were not given the chance to survive in the 30s. Prison, violence, denial are no longer required to deal with modern-day “Bonnie and Clyde”.
SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet Andana Films
PRODUCTION Lumento Olivier Lambert
25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Che!
Elsbeth Fraanje
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 15’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Che! is a quirky youth documentary about twelve year old Che who has a vivid imagination and loves eerie and creepy stuff. His parents are divorced, but he doesn’t really mind. It’s actually quite convenient to get a double allowance. While Che is looking forward to Halloween, he finds out it can be rather a nuisance if you live far from old friends and have to arrange a meeting with your dad.
SALES / CONTACT Nienke Korthof Tangerine Tree
PRODUCTION Tangerine Tree Willem Baptist
Schieweg 202C2
Nienke Korthof
3038BM Rotterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 614547260 www.tangerinetree.nl nienke@tangerinetree.nl
Che! is a quirky youth-documentary about twelve year old Che who has a vivid imagination and loves creepy stuff and how he deals with the fact that his parents are divorced. 84
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Chenelva & Sheneeva Léon Bellaart
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 14’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
www.hollandsehelden.nl/Chenelva-Sheneeva
Chenelva and Sheneeva are conjoined twins who live in Amsterdam and are joined at the back of their heads. Despite their disability they hold a surprisingly positive view on life. There is, however, one thing that they struggle with: their mother won’t allow them to dress differently. This can be a real problem for two 15-yearold teenagers who are seeking their own identity. Will they succeed in persuading their mother to change her mind? Can the outside world overlook their disability and simply see them as two girls?
SALES / CONTACT Albert Klein Haneveld Hollandse Helden Overleek 29 1141 PE Monnickendan
PRODUCTION Hollandse Helden Albert Klein Haneveld INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: + 31 6 22 80 81 05 www.hollandsehelden.nl albert@hollandsehelden.nl
In puberty, everyone discovers his own self. But what if you are Siamese twins? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Cheshire, Ohio: An American Coal Story in 3 Acts Eve Morgenstern
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: English www.cheshireohio.com
Filmed over a decade, Cheshire, Ohio follows a community devastated by coal, starting with a polluting coal fired power plant’s buyout and bulldozing of an entire village after exposing residents to years of harmful emissions. The film returns several years later to the now almost ghost town as we follow the case of 77 plaintiffs who have filed a lawsuit against American Electric Power for cancer and other diseases they developed from working unprotected at the plant’s coal ash landfill site.
SALES / CONTACT Eve Morgenstern Evenfall 7 Odell Street 12508 Beacon
PRODUCTION Evenfall Eve Morgenstern CO-PRODUCTION Rainlake Productions – USA
USA tel: +1 6462855937 www.cheshireohio.com evemorgenstern@gmail.com
Once a bustling community and now a virtual ghost town, Cheshire, Ohio tells the story of the destruction of one American town at the hands of a polluting coal-fired power plant. 86
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Politics / Society | History
Chicago Boys
Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano
Chile, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
www.looksfilm.tv/en/chicago-boys
‘Chicago Boys’ refers to a group of economists in Chile who, aided by Pinochet’s dictatorship, implemented the most extreme neo-liberalist system worldwide. Recently, this economic system has come in for increasing criticism from their countrymen - much to their surprise. Previously unseen images and new testimonies reveal how these men became Milton Friedman’s students in Chicago in the 1950’s and what they were willing to do to pursue their radical ideas - transforming the Chilean people and making Chile the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.
SALES / CONTACT Bettina Oebel Looks Distribution
PRODUCTION La Ventana Cine Herta Mladinic
Escherstrasse. 22
Rafael Valdeavellano
30159 Hannover
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TVN Chile – Chile
Germany tel: +49 511 12361675 www.looksfilm.tv oebel@looksfilm.tv
With neo-liberalist economics being the focus of much debate worldwide, this eye-opening investigation reveals how - and with what effects - Chile has become a role model of this system. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Child Soldier’s New Job Børnesoldatens nye job Mads Ellesøe
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 68’/60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
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It is a well-known fact that private military companies are becoming significant players in conflicts around the world, supplying not merely the goods but also the services of war. Large parts of both the logistics and the actual warfare have been outsourced to private companies who want to maximize profit. They hire cheap labour from the poorest parts of the world. The gravest example is the employment of former child soldiers.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Plus Pictures
DR
Mette Heide
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark,
Denmark
WDR – Germany,
tel: +45 35 2022 99
SVT – Sweden,
www.dr.dk/
YLE – Finland,
kimc@dr.dk
VPRO – The Netherlands
How is it possible that companies can hire former child soldiers despite the codes of conduct that have been formulated for the private military industry?
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Art / Music / Culture
Chillida. The Depth of Air Juan Barrero
Spain, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 74’/52’ Original Language: French/Spanish Subtitles: English www.marmokafilms.com
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At the age of 19, Eduardo Chillida (1942-2002), one of the most eminent 20th century sculptors, was a gifted athlete set to become a football legend. However, a severe injury during a match saw him move away from professional sport. Chillida would die a few decades later as one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century. His sculptures have been collected by major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Tate Britain in London; the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
SALES / CONTACT Valentín Romero 3boxmedia Hirschbergstr. 16 50939 Köln Germany
PRODUCTION Marmoka Films Alexander Garcia de Vicuña CO-PRODUCTION Explora Films – Spain
tel: +49 (0) 221 16924890
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TVE – Spain,
www.3boxmedia.com
EiTB (BASQUE TV) – Spain,
valentin@3boxmedia.com
AVROTROS – The Netherlands
Spain not available. The Netherlands not available
Chillida. The Depth of Air is not a conventional biography, but the poetic and fast-paced reminiscence of an unparalleled artist: Eduardo Chillida, one of the most prominent 20th century sculptors. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture Pitched at the Forum 2014
China’s van Gogh Zhongguo Fangao Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu
China / The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: English/Chinese Subtitles: English
China’s van Goghs tells the stories of peasant turned painters who are carving out different paths for themselves after years of hand copying Western masterpieces, which are sold to high street retailers around the world. While van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime, these production line painters have sold van Goghs in the thousands. But van Gogh represents more than just the livelihoods for these workers; his art, life and legend motivates them to fulfil their own dreams: to go from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
PRODUCTION Century Image Media Kiki Tianqi Yu CO-PRODUCTION Trueworks, Inc. – The Netherlands INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NTR – The Netherlands DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works of art. 90
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Art / Music / Culture
The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg Michael Schindhelm
Switzerland, 2016 color, video/DCP, 93’/52’ Original Language: English/ German/Mandarin www.ulisiggmovie.com
The Swiss entrepreneur and world famous arts collector Uli Sigg went to China in 1979, when he negotiated the first joint venture between China and western business. He also established the world’s most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art. “However famous I become, he (Sigg) is the creator. “ says Ai Wei Wei in the films opening scene. The majority of this collection (estimated worth tens of millions) will be transferred to Hong Kong’s M+ museum, due to open in 2019.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION T&C Film AG Marcel Hoehn
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Autlook Filmsales
1070 Wien
Marcel Hoehn
Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
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Investigative | Politics / Society | Science / Technology
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff Anne Georget
France, 2016 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English http://
andanafilms.com/
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The link between coronary accidents and cholesterol in the blood is a mainstream medical dogma that has been going on for the last 50 years. It has led to the development of a billion dollars “low-fat” food industry ; and statins, the drug that lowers the cholesterol rate, is one of the most prescribed medicines in the world, with 30 millions users in the USA. Yet, although cholesterol rates have decreased in developed countries, the number of coronary accidents remains almost stable. And more and more researchers contest the mainstream explanation. How did the dogma settle, and where do we stand today?
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SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet Andana Films
PRODUCTION Quark Productions Juliette Guigon
25 route de l’Echelette
Patrick Winocour
07170 Lussas France
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE G.E.I.E. – France,
tel: +33 4 75943467
RTS – Switzerland,
www.andanafilms.com
SRF – Switzerland
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La Cicciolina. Godmother of Scandal La Cicciolina. Göttliche Skandalnudel Alessandro Melazzini France / Germany, 2016 color, video, 54’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: German/English www.alpenway.com
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The life of Ilona Staller, commonly known as Cicciolina, is unique with regard to her art. Emigrating from communist Hungary, she found a fertile environment for a life dedicated to scandal in Italy. When she started posing as a scantily dressed nymph in naughty photographs her career picked up speed and steadily propelled her into the realms of radio, TV, erotic films and pornography. As the first porn star in the history of democracy, Cicciolina managed to be elected Member of Parliament and her turbulent marriage with Jeff Koons finally secured her iconic status in contemporary pop culture. Germany & France not available
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin
PRODUCTION Alpenway Media Production Alessandro Melazzini INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany
Germany tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
Based on carefully researched archive material the film captures the phenomenon Cicciolina in its multiple facets and places it in the wider context of Italy’s political situation at the time. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Science / Technology | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
Circle of Poison Evan Mascagni, Shannon Post
USA, 2015 color, video, 71’ Original Language: Spanish/English Subtitles: English www.circleofpoisonfilm.com
When the US government bans a pesticide - deeming it too harmful for the American people - you would imagine that to be the end of it. What you would not expect is it to then be exported freely aboard for profit. In recent years countless harmful pesticides have been spread around the world’s less-developed nations, causing immeasurable damage to populations and ecosystems: many are then imported back into the United States on infected foodstuffs, creating a Circle of Poison. VOD in North America not available
SALES / CONTACT Annie Edwards Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION Player Piano Productions Evan Mascagni
4 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
A shocking investigation into the hypocrisy of US pesticide laws
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Matt Tyrnauer
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/citizen-jane
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION Robert Hammond
Dogwoof
Altimeter Films
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Corey Reeser
EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogowoof.com
Not available North America and Scandinavia
A documentary feature on Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses and their epic battles for the right to the city in the 20th century.
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Human Interest / Social Issues
The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII De claim, zoektocht naar roofkunst uit WOII Ditteke Mensink The Netherlands, 2016 color / black and white, video, 91’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The Dutch Restitutions Committee investigates the claims of Dutch Holocaust survivors on art treasures stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Museums and private individuals still regularly discover artworks of dubious origin, and trace the rightful owners. To come to a solution for the claim, the Restitutions Committee advises these claimants and museums, and the latter are not always eager to relinquish their artworks. The film follows two claimants, one of whom is Lion Tokkie. Now in his sixties, he is searching for information that will support his claim on Isaac Israels’s painting Children on the Beach, which is currently hanging in a museum in Arnhem. But Israels painted several similar scenes, so if all you have are your father’s childhood memories, how can you prove that it is precisely the same painting that hung above your grandfather’s sideboard? As a child Mrs. Hamburger fled to the United States, where she still lives. She is hoping to recover two 17 thcentury portraits currently exhibited in Roosendaal City Hall. The stories are related with great energy, using plenty of archive wartime footage, and leading to an exciting and most unexpected climax. 96
SALES / CONTACT Pieter van Huystee Public Film Sales & Distribution Donker Curtiusstraat 125 1051MC Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film Pieter van Huystee INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NTR – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4210 606 www.pvhfilm.nl pieter@pvhfilm.nl
Can the restitution of a painting stolen in WWII relieve the trauma of Auschwitz? A story about a triangular relationship between the Restitutions Committee, museums and the claimants.
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Close Ties Wiezi Zofia Kowalewska
Poland, 2016 color, video, 18’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzislaw could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together again, although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, Zdzislaw would still be chasing skirts around Kraków. Despite the past resentment, everyday problems with paying bills, an occupied bathroom and rearranging furniture, they have a hard to define bond.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion Basztowa 15/8a
PRODUCTION Munk Studio - Polish
Filmmakers Association Ewa Jastrzebska
31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
45 years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. They could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that he left her for his lover eight years ago.
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Cloud Nine
Roze Wolk Anne-Marieke Graafmans The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.rozewolkdefilm.nl
After her daughter was born, documentary maker Anne-Marieke Graafmans ended up in a postnatal depression. She lost herself and fought against not loving her baby. The outside world didn’t know about this struggle, only those close to her. The taboo surrounding postnatal depression stopped her from talking about it. To create more attention and understanding for this subject, she decided to make a film about it. Cloud Nine is a documentary about being in a postnatal depression told from the perspective of four families. An intimate and candid film about what it’s like to have to deal with this. The Netherlands not available
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SALES / CONTACT Katja Draaijer
PRODUCTION BALDR Film
BALDR Film
Katja Draaijer
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77
Frank Hoeve
1012 DC Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3032 670 www.baldrfilm.nl katja@baldrfilm.nl
Everyone says you’re floating on a pink cloud just after your baby is born. But what if this cloud isn’t pink but pitchblack?
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Coco Cabasa Klara Til
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dutch/ French/Arabic/English Subtitles: English
Coco Cabasa is a portrait that tells the story of the fierce feminist Kaouthar Darmoni. We will seek for her roots in Tunisia to learn what the core is of her motivation. After being suppressed during her childhood in Sousse she fled to Europe to be a free woman. This, and the disillusion she had about the ‘emancipated’ Europe, are the reasons she began her mission: to heal femininity all over the world by using her taboo-breaking Goddess Belly Dance method.
SALES / CONTACT Klara Til
PRODUCTION Klara Til
Groenhoven 850 1103 NB Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 6 19281879 kjtil94@gmail.com
After being supressed during her childhood, the fierce feminist Kaouthar Darmoni fled to Europe. Her disillusion about the ‘emancipated’ Europe is the reason she began her mission to heal femininity. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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COEUROPE Giovanni Troilo
Italy, 2016 color, HDcam, 61’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Charleroi “La Ville Noire”, a small town close to Bruxelles, can be taken as a symbol of the whole Europe. With the collapse of manufacturing industry, the rising unemployment, the increasing immigration, the outbreak of microcriminality and the lack of a shared identity, today’s social unease reflects on the lives of the citizens and the physical environment they live in. The roads, once blooming and neat, appear today desolated and abandoned, as factories keep closing down. Paradoxically a new idea of Europe can be born again right here, where Europe is facing its end.
SALES / CONTACT Francesco Tocci GA&A Productions Srl.
PRODUCTION RAI Annamaria Catricalà
Via Cicerone 64
Magnolia
00193 Rome
Raffaella Gresele
Italy
CO-PRODUCTION Storyhouse – Belgium
tel: +39 06 3613 480 www.gaea.it francesco.tocci@gaea.it
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RAI 3 – Italy
The city of Charleroi, Belgium, embodies the decline of Europe and today’s social malaise of its citizens. Paradoxically, a new idea of Europe could be born again right here. 100
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Cold Case Torrentius Maarten de Kroon
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 69’/54’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English www.torrentius.com
A single masterpiece, a reckless genius, torture and ‘tolerance’ in 17 th century Holland. Cold Case Torrentius investigates the curious life of Johannes Torrentius and his enigmatic Still life with a Bridle. How it was made is a mystery. New research in the Rijksmuseum is needed. The still life, calling for temperance, was made in 1614. Torrentius, freethinker, libertine and producer of erotic works, was put to jail, tortured and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for blasphemy and heresy. After being saved by the Dutch prince and the king of England, he and all his works vanished into thin air.
SALES / CONTACT Maarten de Kroon Get Organized
PRODUCTION Get Organized Maarten de Kroon
Elandstraat 40 2513GT Den Haag The Netherlands tel: + 31702202771 www.maartendekroon.nl post@maartendekroon.nl
An incredible story about intolerance, a 17th century Dutch painter and freethinker, tortured and put to jail for blasphemy, saved by the king of England. Only one mysterious painting survives. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Author’s Point of View
The Color of the Chameleon El color del camaleón Andres Lübbert
Belgium / Chile / Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: Dutch/ Spanish/English/German Subtitles: English
During the Pinochet-dictatorship, Jorge becomes an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who force him to work for them in an extreme violent way. He is able to escape from Chile and becomes a war cameraman based in Belgium. Today, his son Andre´s takes him back to the places of his unfinished past.
SALES / CONTACT Frederik Nicolai Off World
Frederik Nicolai
1081 Brussels
CO-PRODUCTION Blume Producciones – Chile
tel: +32 485 404 207 www.offworld.be
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VRT-CANVAS – Belgium,
frederik@offworld.be
RTBF – Belgium
SALES / CONTACT Flor Rubina Blume Producciones
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Eric Goossens
Deschampheleerstraat 24-26 Belgium
Father/son story. The father was an instrument of the Chilean secret services, but he manages to escape and become a war cameraman. Today his son makes a psychological portrait.
PRODUCTION Off World
Guillermo Tell 5740 La reina 7870046 Santiago Chile tel: +56 99 8752 842 flor@blume.cl
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Come Back Free Tule tagasi vabana Ksenia Okhapkina
Estonia, 2016 color, HDcam, 51’ Original Language: Chechen Subtitles: English
A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens’ parting words to one another are, “May you come back free!”
SALES / CONTACT Riho Västrik Vesilind OU
PRODUCTION Vesilind OU Riho Västrik
Vilmsi 53G 10147 Tallinn Estonia tel: +37 25 0780 67 www.vesilind.ee riho.vastrik@vesilind.ee
A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Communion Komunia Anna Zamecka
Poland, 2016 color, video, 72’/56’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family that simply doesn’t work - like a defective TV set. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Otter Films
CAT&Docs
Anna Wydra
18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o. – Poland INVOLVED TV CHANNELS HBO Europe – Hungary
tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
A teenage girl prepares her autistic brother for the holy sacrament of church confirmation, while juggling taking care of her father and the house that is falling apart
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Conduct! Every Move Counts DIRIGENTEN! Jede Bewegung zählt Götz Schauder Germany, 2016 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English www.dirigenten-film.de
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Every two years in autumn, 24 young directors travel the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany to compete against one another in the world’s leading Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition. The five young promising conductors Alondra de La Parra, James Lowe, Aziz Shokhakimov, Andreas Hotz and Shizuo Kuwahara can look forward to the city’s best orchestral musicians and a top-notch jury. The film documents the crucial days in the lives of these young conductors on the verge of becoming world class and offers unique insights into the emotional world of five star conductors who live for their profession. Germany not available
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales
PRODUCTION S.U.M.O. Film Hubertus Siegert
Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
Told against the backdrop of a career-defining competition Conduct! Every Move Counts documents the crucial days in the lives of five young conductors on the verge of becoming world class. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Confession Ashish Ghadiali
England, 2016 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/the-confession
From supporting the Bosnian Mujahideen to being imprisoned in Bagram and Guantanamo, from the rebel training camps in Syria to the prison cells of Belmarsh in Britain, Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict. This is his firsthand account, a chronicle of the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the disastrous reaction of the West.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION James Rogan
Dogwoof 19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
This is his first-hand account, a chronicle of the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the disastrous reaction of the West.
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Art / Music / Culture | Experimental
Contemporary Color Bill Ross, Turner Ross
USA, 2016 color, video, 96’ Original Language: English
In 2015, legendary musician David Byrne treated audiences to a performance spectacle unlike any other - bringing ten of the best color guard teams from across North America to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to perform their synchronized dance routines (often involving flags, flips, tossed rifles and swords) to music composed for their performances by musicians like St. Vincent, Nelly Furtado, Ad-Rock+Money Mark, Nico Muhly + Ira Glass and Byrne himself, commissioned by BAM and Luminato Festival
SALES / CONTACT Jason Ishikawa
PRODUCTION Todo Mundo
Cinetic Media
David Byrne
555 W. 25th Street, 4th Floor
The Department of Motion
10001 New York
Pictures
USA
Michael Gottwald
tel: +1 212 204 7979 www.cineticmedia.com jason@cineticmedia.com
Contemporary Color is no mere concert documentary. A tightly choreographed event is cracked open to make space for the performers’ hopes, dreams, homes and personal histories. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Craigslist Allstars Samira Elagoz
Finland / The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 65’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
For the past years Samira Elagoz has been collecting intimate encounters with strangers, committing these to film that strikes a delicate balance between fiction and reality. Through Craigslist, an internationally active internet network, Elagoz arranges oneon-one meetings with a wide variety of men in three different cities and explores how the camera influences intimacy between two strangers: The documentarian and the subject. The set up is simple - she brings a camera, and films how they get to know each other. Every encounter is real and unscripted. Coming from performance she weaves her own presence in and out, and becomes part of the narrative. Instead of making a film she enters one. And shares something oddly real with them.
SALES / CONTACT Samira Elagoz
PRODUCTION Samira Elagoz
Prinseneiland 321
CO-PRODUCTION AHK – The Netherlands
1013LP Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 68 4365 068 samira-elagoz.squarespace.com samira.elagozz@gmail.com
Through Craigslist, an international internet network, Elagoz arranges one-on-one meetings with a variety of men and explores how the camera influences intimacy between two strangers: The documentarian and the 108subject.
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Crash and Burn Seán Ó Cualáin
Ireland, 2016 color, video, 81’ Original Language: English
For a fleeting moment in the early 80s Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali all rolled into one. In a little over four years Byrne went from driving a Mini Cooper in stockcar racing to the big-time in Formula One. Eddie Jordan will tell you: ‘Forget Schuey and Senna. Tommy Byrne was the best of them all. His rise was meteoric and his fall spectacular.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Dot Television
Autlook Filmsales
David Burke
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
It’s the story of the rise and fall of Tommy Byrne, who for one brief moment in the 80’s was the world’s best racing driver.
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Cucli
Xavier Marrades
Spain, 2016 color, video, 16’ Original Language: Catalan Subtitles: English http://
cucli-film.com
Ramon lives with his parents, although he is away most of the week working as a truck driver. These are long and lonely trips until he meets a very special companion that changes everything. Cucli tells a story about love and companionship after death and its transformative effect. How through memories, the supernatural can find its way into our mundane lives.
SALES / CONTACT Xavier Marrades
PRODUCTION Xavier Marrades
Menta, 5 25200 Cervera Spain tel: +34 67 1366 157 xavimarrades@gmail.com
Cucli tells a story about love and companionship after death and its transformative effect. How through memories, the supernatural can find its way into our mundane lives. 110
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Politics / Society
Cuts
Potongan Chairun Nissa Indonesia, 2016 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Indonesian Subtitles: English
Indonesian law stipulates that all films must go through censorship before any public screening in Indonesia. The director and producer of Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly, 2008, submitted their film to the Censorship Board. After a long-winded and corrupt bureaucratic process, the Censorship Board’s final verdict for the film was “Rejected with (Notes for) Revisions”. The filmmakers requested a hearing with the Censorship Board committee, which was eventually unsuccessful in producing a clearer understanding of the Censorship Board’s reasons for rejection.
SALES / CONTACT Meiske Taurisia Nitihardja
PRODUCTION Edwin
Babibutafilm
Meiske Taurisia
Cirendeu Residence Blok D/1 Jl. Gunung Indah V Ciputat Timur 15419 Tangerang Selatan Indonesia tel: +62 812 9405664 babibutafilm@gmail.com
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Art / Music / Culture
Daan’s Inheritance De Erfenis Joris Postema
The Netherlands, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 85’/55’ Original Language: Dutch www.keydocs.nl
Daan is used to standing before a camera. At first his father’s camera, world-renowned photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. Now it’s his best friend’s camera, Joris Postema. Together with him Daan tries to get control of his life by confronting his father posthumously. Daan believes his father - who he takes after more than he’d like – is mostly to blame for his mental problems. By means of photos, film footage and meetings with family members and friends, Daan tries to fathom what his father has passed on to him and he makes a surprising discovery.
SALES / CONTACT Janneke Doolaard KeyDocs
PRODUCTION KeyDocs Janneke Doolaard
Van Diemenstraat 332 1013CR Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4222 607 www.keydocs.nl info@keydocs.nl
Together with filmmaker Joris Postema Daan tries to get control of his life by confronting his father, world-renowned photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken, posthumously. 112
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Dalí’s Last Masterpiece Dalí, la darrera gran obra David Pujol Spain, 2016 color / black and white, video, 55’ Original Language: Catalan Subtitles: English
For the first time, the Dalí TheatreMuseum in Figueres opens its doors for an all-access tour with the master himself. The museum is a place where he poured his entire universe into and that synthesizes his life dedicated to art. Dalí’s voice guides us through his unfinished last creation, bringing his work, thoughts and personality to life. Co-produced by the Dalí foundation, Dalí’s Last Masterpiece makes us a privileged audience to the magic of art.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14
PRODUCTION DocDocFilms Ivan Carrero Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
A Dangerous Idea Stephanie Welch
USA, 2016 color, video, 100’/52’ Original Language: English
The idea that the poor are genetically different from the rich or that men are naturally more intelligent than women may seem laughable but it’s an argument regularly used as a social weapon to stall the advancement of equality and maintain the status quo. Since the discovery of DNA, the idea that genes are somehow responsible for everything has permeated society. Claims about discoveries of genes for intelligence, poverty and crime offer pseudoscientific explanations for rising rates of inequality and discrimination. But as this film shows, the science underpinning these beliefs has been thoroughly debunked. North America not available
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SALES / CONTACT Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION Andrew Kimbrell
Java Films
Jed Riffe
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Stephanie Welch
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: +33 17 4713 313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv
This film looks back at a century of social Darwinism and investigates the gross abuses perpetrated in the name of dangerous biological nonsense.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Youth
Daniel
Anastazja Dabrowska
Poland, 2016 color, video, 24’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
The main character is a young boy who spends holiday on camp organized for people with Down syndrome. Camera follows the conversations of Daniel and his friends. Boys, as boys – they talk about girls. Absolutely seriously. They ask themselves about: “What being close gives you?” or “What is the right way to express love?” Searching for answers is not just an issue for teenagers, but a problem that everyone has.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion
PRODUCTION Krzysztof Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and TelevisionUniversity
Basztowa 15/8a
of Silesia
31-143 Krakow
Jerzy Lukaszewic
Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
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Art / Music / Culture
Daniele Gatti - Overture to a Conductor Daniele Gatti - Ouverture voor een dirigent Carmen Cobos The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 79’/51’
In Daniele Gatti - Overture to a Conductor the filmmaker Carmen Cobos presents an insightful picture of Gatti’s youth and his musical development. She portrays him during the opening of the new season at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. At rehearsals we see how he enthusiastically works with the 100 headed ensemble of talented but opinionated egos permanently under pressure to perform at top level. The filmmaker gets close to the artist – in front of his orchestra, and at home in Milan, lounging on the sofa and talking about his life.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION Cobos Films BV Kees Rijninks
Bart de Graaffweg 2
AVROTROS
1202 JJ Hilversum
José Schraauwers
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
In Daniele Gatti – Overture to a Conductor the filmmaker Carmen Cobos presents an insightful picture of Gatti’s youth and his musical development. 116
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History | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Dark Side Natalie Assouline
Israel, 2016 color / black and white, video, 52’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English
Moshe’s children have heard stories about their father all their lives. About his family being murdered during the Holocaust. About how Moshe’s friends and neighbors turned his family in to the Nazis. About how he hid in the woods with the partisans and survived. Using animation created by Animator Yoni Goodman, the film recreates Moshe’s memories as he walks through the streets of this village, recreating his children’s imaginations of their once childlike view of their father, and tells the untold story of the dark side of revenge.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Pie Films
First Hand Films
Talia Kleinhendler
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Moshe is a survivor. His family was murdered. Something though makes Moshe different from other survivors. He did what many only dared to dream of, he got revenge. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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David Lagercrantz – The Year in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz - året med Millennium 4 Hannah Cederberg, Johan Scheele Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
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In 2015 one of the world’s biggest book releases takes place. The book is the fourth about Lisbeth Salander, continuing the enormously successful Millenium Trilogy. It is released simultaneously in 27 countries and 48 languages. Author of ”The Girl in the Spider’s Web” is David Lagercrantz. He recently had great success with his biography on Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but this time the critics call him an immoral tomb raider and a simple ghost writer. The film follows Lagercrantz around the globe. It is an extremely exhausting journey, leaving him more and more fragile with each press interview and book signing event.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm Sweden tel: +46 73 3651 151
PRODUCTION Tahmoury AB Afshin Tahmoury CO-PRODUCTION SVT – Sweden INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
When the fourth book about super hacker Lisbeth Salander was released it was an enormous international event. This is the story of the book’s genesis and it’s author, David Lagercrantz. 118
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Death by Thousand Cuts Jake Kheel, Juan Mejía Botero
Haiti / Dominican Republic / Colombia / USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English http://
deathbyathousandcutsfilm.com
In Death by a Thousand Cuts, Eligio Eloy Vargas, alias Melaneo, a Dominican Park Ranger in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park was found brutally murdered by machete. At the time, he was believed to have been on patrol investigating an illegal charcoal production site often run by Haitians coming across the border into protected Dominican forests. This murder becomes the metaphor for the larger story of increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation: the alleged murder weapon itself being the same tool used to chop down Dominican trees by the thousands.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Jake Kheel
Cinephil
Ben Selkow
Levontin Street 18 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
In Death by a Thousand Cuts, Eligio Eloy Vargas, alias Melaneo, a Dominican Park Ranger in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park was found brutally murdered by machete. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Delicate Balance Frágil equilibrio Guillermo García López Spain, 2016 color, HDcam, 81’ Original Language: French/ Japanese/Spanish/Bambara Subtitles: English/Spanish
Former President José Mujica guides us through three stories in three continents: Japanese executives in Tokyo whose lives are centered on work, African immigrants in the border between Morocco and Spain willing to risk their lives to get into the ‘first world’ and Spanish families whose lives were shattered after eviction following the economical meltdown.
SALES / CONTACT Pablo Godoy-Estel
PRODUCTION Sintagma Films
Barbieri 1561
Guillermo García López
50000 Salto Uruguay tel: +598 47377171 pablogodoyestel@gmail.com
What if this fight is for life? Former President Mujica shares his views on issues affecting us all,
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Democracy Road Turid Rogne
Norway / Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English/Burmese Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/democracy-road/
With their existence as an independent news channel and Myanmar’s future as a democracy at stake, senior reporter Than Win Htut and his colleagues hit the road with their groundbreaking show Our nation, our land. Their goal is to investigate the living conditions of ordinary people off the beaten path in Myanmar, but the machinery of the old dictatorship is still running. At the same time editor-in-chief Aye Chan Naing has to negotiate with DVB’s former enemies in the infamous Ministry of Information. The road to democracy has only just begun…
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Aldeles AS
DR
Elisabeth Kleppe
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden,
Denmark
NRK – Norway
tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
After more than 20 years in exile in Norway, the Burmese journalists of DVB are returning to their homeland to establish their independent news station there
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider Hermann Vaske
USA, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: English www.hermannvaske.com
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Easy Rider legend Dennis Hopper’s unflappable veneer belied a man constantly teetering towards his next larger than life incarnation. Influential artist, filmmaker, musician and eccentric, Hopper’s crammed life offers a riveting narrative. Director Hermann Vaske knew him well and delivers an often hilarious expose of the man behind the mask. We discover a delicate and fascinating, yet troubled soul. The Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Lichtenstein and Alto Adige not available non-exclusive non-theatrical.
SALES / CONTACT Annie Edwards Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION Hermann Vaske
4 High Street
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
NTR – The Netherlands
England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
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The Destruction of Memory Tim Slade
Australia, 2016 color, video, 57’/84’ Original Language: German/ Bosnian/English Subtitles: English http://
destructionofmemoryfilm.com
The purposeful demolishment of buildings, books and art as part of war has wrought catastrophic results on every continent. Leading up to the destruction of historical cities such as Aleppo and Homs in Syria, this deep investigation spans over a period of more than 100 years. We take a close look at the devastation of cultural, religious and historical heritage as a means to erase collective memory and identity and gain new insight into how such crimes against humanity have been combatted in international politics.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Vast Productions Pty Tim Slade
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
A deep investigation into how the devastation of cultural, religious and historical heritage as an act of war has been combatted in international politics. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Dil Leyla Asli Özarslan
Germany, 2016 color, DCP, 72’ Original Language: Kurdish/Turkish/German Subtitles: English www.essence-film.com
/leyla.html#leyla_home
At 26, Leyla is elected the youngest mayor in Turkey, in her hometown of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city near the Iraqi-Syrian border—a city she was forced to flee over 20 years ago, after her father was killed by the Turkish military when she was a little girl. Her goal is to heal and beautify the civil-war-torn city, which is enjoying a break in the violence.
SALES / CONTACT Igor Dovgal
PRODUCTION Essence Film
But on the eve of Turkey’s parliamentary
Essence Film
elections, everything changes, and old
Wernerstrasse 53
memories become more real than ever.
71636 Ludwigsburg
CO-PRODUCTION Filmakademie Baden-
Germany
Württemberg – Germany
tel: +49 163 2916091
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SWR – Germany
Sabrina Proske
www.essence-film.com/#contact dovgal@essence-film.com
She is the youngest and first female mayor of Cizre. A town located in the southeast of Turkey, where Kurds form the significant part of the inhabitants.
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Dimona Twist Michal Aviad
Israel, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 71’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English www.go2films.com
/New-Releases/Dimona-Twist
Seven women arrive in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a new desert town. They now open up and share their life stories that have never before been told from their perspectives. What happened to them after they left North Africa and Poland and found themselves building a new town in the middle of the desert? They talk about the pain of leaving their homes behind, about poverty and the difficulties of adjusting in their new homeland, and about their determined attempts to create rich and meaningful lives.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films 37/8 Issar Natanzon Street 97787 Jerusalem
PRODUCTION Lama Films Amir Harel INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Yes docu DBS – Israel
Israel tel: +972-2-5831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
Story of seven immigrant women building a new town and new lives in the middle of the desert. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Disarm
Desarme Hernán Fernández Argentina, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/Portugese www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
The death of a child at the hands of a serial killer brought the Marcenac family into the fight for gun control. Ten years after their son’s death, they go up against arms manufacturers, government policies, and laws allowing the possession of firearms in Argentina, as a way to change their country or build a less violent society.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16
PRODUCTION Mónica Niemira CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
111711198 Bogotá Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
The Marcenac family’s son was murdered by a serial shooter ten years ago.
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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
Dixie Land Roman Bondarchuk
Germany / Latvia / Ukraine, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Ukranian/Russian Subtitles: English http://
dixielandfilm.com
Through steady practice under the wildest of conditions, Roman, Polina, Leva produce magical music with ancient instruments. Not least thanks to their wit and good humour, they persevere together – helped along by their beloved teacher Semyon Nikolayevich Ryvkin. These children of the post-Soviet provinces use American tunes to achieve their dream: become someone in the world, and make something of their lives no matter how dire the circumstances.
SALES / CONTACT Uldis Cekulis VFS Films
PRODUCTION SOUTH Darya Averchenko
Lapu 17
Saxonia Entertainment
LV-1002 Riga
Simone Baumann
Latvia
CO-PRODUCTION Alegría Productions – France
tel: +371 67503588 www.vfs.lv uldis@vfs.lv
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS MDR Germany – Germany
Small Kids, Big Dreams. A story about children’s orchestra from Ukranian province
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Doing Good Mannen Fra Snasa Margreth Olin
Norway, 2016 color, video/DCP, 58’/97’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English
A childhood ruined by bullying. A mishap during surgery. Unexpected, terminal illness. Self loathing inherited through generations. Living with constant anxiety. Then, suddenly, a compassionate gesture from a total stranger changes your whole life. What actually happens? Can we as a society learn something from one man ´s genuine compassion? Can this film teach us anything about our ability to conquer illness? When Margreth was in the final stage of editing this film, her husband suddenly suffered a massive stroke. How do we recreate ourselves?
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Speranza Film
First Hand Films
Margreth Olin
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
The importance of hope: Margreth Olin has filmed 22 people meeting the healer Joralf Gjerstad.
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Art / Music / Culture Pitched at the Forum 2012
Don’t Blink - Robert Frank Laura Israel
USA, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam/DCP, 82’/52’ Original Language: English
www.dontblinkrobertfrank.com
Robert Frank is gloriously notorious. He is the groundbreaking photographer of The Americans; the iconoclastic director of Pull My Daisy and Cocksucker Blues; a difficult (almost impossible) interview subject; a rejecter of wealth and celebrity; a man whose “sympathies were with people who struggled,” who has a “mistrust of people who made the rules. ” He was also a father to a daughter, Andrea, and a son, Pablo, who both died young. His work is emotional and impulsive. Fans will be giddy with the unprecedented access to Frank— those uninitiated should be prepared for a wild and wonderful ride. Not available in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia and USA
SALES / CONTACT Johan de Faria Upside Distribution
PRODUCTION Assemblage Films LLC Laura Israel
33 quai de Dion Bouton
Melinda Shopsin
92800 Puteaux France
CO-PRODUCTION VEGA – Switzerland,
tel: +33 1 58 47 80 23
Charlotte Street Films – Germany
www.upsidetelevision.com johan.defaria@upsidetelevision.
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France,
com
SRF – Switzerland
Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, The Stones, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Down the deep, dark web Duki Dror, Yuval Orr, Tzachi Schiff
France / Israel, 2016 color, HDcam, 56’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English www.downthedeepdarkweb.com
/home.html
Down The Deep, Dark Web reverses everything you thought you knew about the Internet and the dangers of the digital world. Our guide is Yuval Orr, a young journalist born in 1984 and well-aware of the gradual encroachment of Big Brother, but like many of his generation, too busy updating his Facebook status to pay it much attention. Assigned with writing an article about the Darknet, he dives headfirst down the rabbit hole.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Alexandre Brachet
Cinephil
Cinephil Dror
Levontin Street 18
Liat Kamay-Eshed
6511207 Tel Aviv
Margaux Missika
Israel
Yuval Orr
tel: +972 3 566 4129 cinephil.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS France Télévisions 4 – France,
info@cinephil.com
IBA - Channel 1 – Israel
http://
Down The Deep, Dark Web reverses everything you thought you knew about the Internet and the dangers of the digital world. 130
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Dr. Feelgood Eve Marson
USA, 2016 color, video, 84’/52’ Original Language: English www.drfeelgoodfilm.com
In 2004 Dr. William Hurwitz was convicted of over 50 counts of narcotics distribution and handed a 25-year prison sentence. Dr. Feelgood traces Dr. Hurwitz’s trial and eventual appeal, detailing the events that lead to his arrest. Testimonies from the witnesses in Dr. Hurwitz’s case contradict one another - some revere him, while others condemn him. Taken together, their accounts reveal a profile of a compassionate yet flawed doctor. The film, in telling his story, underscores the tension between every patient’s right to pain relief and the lawful need for drug control.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Bungalow Productions
CAT&Docs
Sara Goldblatt
18 Rue Quincampoix
Eve Marson
75004 Paris France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
The story of Dr. William Hurwitz, a preeminent pain specialist sentenced to 25 years in prison for drug trafficking - provides a window into the ethical complexities of opioid prescriptions. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society Pitched at the Forum 2013
Dream Empire David Borenstein
Denmark, 2016 color, video, 73’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
Borenstein’s new film, Dream Empire, from which the NYT Op-Doc is excerpted, examines not only the rent-a-foreigner industry but also the political and cultural climate in China that allows these “international” spectacles to seem like valid demonstrations of prosperity and progress.
SALES / CONTACT Robbie Slavin Gunpowder & Sky 25 W. 31st Street, Third Floor
PRODUCTION House of Real Jesper Jack Christian von der Recke
10001 New York USA tel: +1 2124636403 robbie@filmbuff.com
Suky’s selling the illusion of a never-ending boom to Chinese home-buyers. But like the people he’s helping to dupe, he too makes painful sacrifices to buy into the “Chinese Dream”. 132
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Youth | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Dreaming of Denmark Drømmen om Danmark Michael Graversen
Denmark, 2015 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Danish/ Italian/English/Pashtu Subtitles: English
Wasiullah came to Denmark aged 15, arriving alone from Afghanistan. Extremely traumatised, he finds safety and friends. As he turns 18 his application for asylum is rejected and he has to leave his new life. A tough insight into what happens to one of the many unaccompanied minors who disappear from asylum centres into the shady side of Europe.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna
PRODUCTION Klassefilm Lise Saxtrup INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark
Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
A tough and intimate insight into what happens to one of the many unaccompanied minors who disappear from asylum centres into the shady side of Europe. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Drokpa, The Last Tibetan Nomads Yan Chun Su
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: Tibetan Subtitles: English www.drokpafilm.com
The grasslands of the Tibetan plateau are the source of Asia’s major rivers and half of humanity depends on this water for survival. Tibetan nomads, known as Dropka, have roamed on this land for thousands of years. But in recent decades, these once lush grasslands have been rapidly turning into desert. With rare access to an extended nomadic family living at the center of this drastic and historical change, the women of the Drokpa reveal the unprecedented environmental and sociopolitical forces that are pushing the Tibetan nomads to the edge of their existence
SALES / CONTACT Robin Brinster
PRODUCTION Waterdrop Films
Illumina Films
Yan Chun Su
Plantage Middenlaan 27 1018DB Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: + 31206248395 www.illuminafilms.nl robin@illuminafilms.nl
Set high on the plateau of eastern Tibet, Drokpa portrays the lives and struggles of one tribe of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change. 134
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Dugma: The Button Paul Salahadin Refsdal
Norway, 2016 color, video, 58’/52’ Original Language: Arabic/English Subtitles: English
When al Qaida in Syria are up against a seemingly impenetrable enemy position, they send in the Martyrdom Seekers - volunteers who drive a truck or an armored personnel carrier loaded with tons of explosives towards the enemy and detonate the load. These operations are simply known among the Jihadis by the Arabic word for button - Dugma. In the film Dugma we follow four Martyrdom Seekers in their daily lives waiting for their turn to go on the final mission. Norway, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Sweden not available
SALES / CONTACT Mark Stucke Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION Medieoperatørene Ingvil Giske
4-6 High Street Thames Ditton KT7 0RY Surrey England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
Daily life of martyrdom seekers in al Qaida, Syria.
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El Charro de Toluquilla The Charro of Toluquilla José Villalobos Romero
Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.taskovskifilms.com
/?film=the-charro-of-toluquilla
A documentary film about a mariachi singer called Jaime Garcia Dominguez, who became fascinated by the reckless, ladies’ man life- style of the classic Mexican movie characters, but with one difference: he’s got HIV. The film relates the inner maturing process that Jaime undergoes as he chooses between maintaining this lifestyle or becoming a family man.
SALES / CONTACT Tijana Djukic
PRODUCTION Claudia Mendez Castañeda
Taskovski Films 19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2BS London England tel: +33 4 93 47 59 65 www.taskovskifilms.com sales@taskovskifilms.com
El Charro de Toluquilla is an HIV-positive cowboy who brags about beating the disease shielded by a fantasy macho lifestyle.
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Ella Brennan: Commanding the Tabe Leslie Iwerks
USA, 2016 color, video, 93’ Original Language: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com
/home/films/ellabrennan
Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Leslie Iwerks, tells the story of Ella Brennan, a leading force in the contemporary restaurant business who changed the way we eat and overcame challenges of being a woman in a male dominated field. With the success of New Orleans iconic establishment Commander’s Palace, restaurateurs and chefs from all walks of life credit the important role Ella has played in building and enhancing American cooking and hospitality. With interviews with current and former chefs including Emeril Lagasse, Danny Meyer, Tim and Nina Zagat, Daniel Boulud, Jeremiah Tower. Before the food business became show business, one woman led the way.
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Michael E. Tang
611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
Ella Brennan’s remarkable story shows how she became a leading force in the contemporary restaurant business despite the challenges of being a woman in a male dominated field. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Europe, She Loves Jan Gassmann
Germany / Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 100’ Original Language: Estonian/ Spanish/English/Greek Subtitles: English
Europe, She Loves centers around 4 couples in Europe. The film digs deep into their relationships, jobs, love and sexual life, how they struggle and indulge their pleasures, while their prospects for guaranteed education and jobs are crumbling, hand in hand with the vision of Europe.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION 2:1 Film
Autlook Filmsales
Lisa Blatter
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com welcome@autlookfilms.com
Europe on the verge of social and economic change. A close up into the shaken vision of 4 couples, daily struggles, fights, kids, sex and passion.
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History | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The European Dirk Jan Roeleven
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English/Dutch Subtitles: English www.defamilie.net
/en/in-productie/de-europeaan/
November 2014 Frans Timmermans, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands, was appointed by President Jean Claude Juncker to become his First Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of better regulation and fundamental rights. But very soon he also had to deal with the refugee crisis, the Turkey-deal and the dreaded Brexit. Rarely a camera got so close to the heart of Europe. The result is a personal, at times funny and moving film, in a politically extremely hectic time. A breathtaking story of apparently sticky material.
SALES / CONTACT Monique Busman De Familie Film & TV schollenbrugstraat 4 huis 1091 ex amsterdam
PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Monique Busman INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 66 33303 www.defamilie.net monique@defamilie.net
A portrait of First Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans. Having total access director Roeleven gives a transparent picture of the European machinery at the highest level. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray Kristi Zea
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English
www.everybodyknowselizabethmurray.com
Everybody Knows. . . Elizabeth Murray is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray. This film explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career and reconsiders her place in the contemporary art history. Murray’s personal journals, voiced in the film by Meryl Streep, give viewers a privileged window into Murray’s internal struggles and incredible ambition. Verite´ footage of Murray in her studio and home videos help round out this profile of her life and exclusive interviews with art world luminaries including, Chuck Close, Vija Celmins, Adam Weinberg among many others, provide the historical backdrop for the New York art scene.
SALES / CONTACT Caroline Goodman-Thomases RubyRed Productions
PRODUCTION Gypsy Camp Studios Jen Fineran
495 Mountainview Ave
RubyRed Productions
10989 Valley Cottage
Caroline Goodman-Thomases
USA
CO-PRODUCTION Human Arts Association, – USA
tel: +1 8456610796 everybodyknowselizabethmurray@ gmail.com
A determined single mom, with nothing but guts and vision, breaks through notorious art world barriers to become one of the preeminent painters of our time. 140
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Everything’s under Control Alles unter Kontrolle Werner Boote
Austria, 2015 color, video, 93’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English www.allesunterkontrolle.at
Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convinient digital world! Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media posting? Don´t we care about our privacy anymore? In his unique charming and curious way filmmaker Werner Boote travels around the world (USA, UK, China, HongKong, Austria, Cuba) to explore the “brave new world” of total control.
SALES / CONTACT Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International
PRODUCTION Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
13 rue Portefoin
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
75003 Paris
Markus Glaser
France tel: +33 01 4277 5687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
Everything´s Under Control is an evocative film about the self-evidence of surveillance.
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Science / Technology | Investigative
The Experiments Dokument inifrån: Experimenten Bosse Lindquist Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 175’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
/programme-sales/the-experiments/
This documentary series investigates the Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a groundbreaking method to create new organs. His method, using plastic tracheas soaked with stemcells, has been used on patients in USA, Russia, Sweden and Great Britain. The track record of his plastic organs is not very good though. Almost all patients are dead. The series provides an in-depth story of what actually took place. Is Macchiarini a genius, or a fraud? The impact of this series was enormous, with repercussions in Sweden as well as internationally. After the broadcast Macchiarini was eventually fired from Karolinska Institutet.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm
PRODUCTION SVT Bosse Lindquist INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 73 3651 151 http://
svtsales.com
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
Investigating the Italian star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs, this documentary series hit like a bomb when aired in Sweden. 142
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Faces of Harassment Precisamos Falar do Assédio Paula Sacchetta Brazil, 2016 color, video, 80’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English https://
precisamosfalardoassedio.com
/en/index.html
Every woman has been a victim of sexual harassment, regardless of her cultural, social or economic background. To support such statement, on Women’s Week a studio-van was parked at different locations across both rich and poor neighbourhoods of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The studio-van was made available to any woman who felt like sharing her story. Once inside, they were left to themselves and were free to give their testimonies to the camera without the influence of an interviewer. A total of 140 women, with ages ranging from 15 to 84, shared their stories: from strangers catcalling in streets, buses and subways, to rapes committed by relatives, in their own homes, when they were still children. The film, which is part of a transmedia project, is comprised of a significant number of testimonies, and reflects upon an important part of the filming process: how did these women feel when they were telling their stories? We see moments of release, intimacy and sometimes the opportunity to speak about the incidents for the first time.
SALES / CONTACT Gustavo Rosa de Moura Mira Filmes Rua Itápolis, 1651 - Pacaembu
PRODUCTION Mira Filmes Carmem Maia Gustavo Rosa de Moura
01245-000 São Paulo Brazil tel: +55 11 3031 0687 www.mirafilmes.net gustavo@mirafilmes.net
On Women’s Week, a studio-van was parked at different locations of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to collect testimonies from women who had been victims of sexual harassment. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Fall Daniel Gordon
England, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English/Afrikaans Subtitles: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/the-fall
World-record-breaking American track and field prodigy Mary Decker and controversial South African teen runner Zola Budd were polar opposites, Mary was the wholesome star of American distance running and Zola was the barefoot teen hounded by anti-apartheid protestors. Their rivalry and meet in the 3000 metres run was hyped by the media as the event to watch at the 1984 Olympics. 32 years after that fateful meeting on the track, the real story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd is finally told. In their own words.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Karen Emsley
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
The remarkable story of a South African barefoot runner; an American track and field prodigy and a journey behind the events of one of the most memorable moments in sporting history. 144
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Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves Laetitia Schoofs
The Netherlands / Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’/90’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
Sexual psychologist Hongli Zhen, an expert on recent social developments in China, gives sex workshops that encourage women – including our main characters – to see their sexuality differently, and use techniques that make them happy. There is widowed Xiao (50) trying to create a new life for herself, and the 32-year-old writer Wen Wen. She is what is officially known as a ‘leftover’, a term used in China since 2007 for single, childless women over 25. They are considered a social problem because, even though many are highly educated and attractive, today’s Chinese males fear their strength and intellect.
SALES / CONTACT Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc 21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec)
PRODUCTION Muyi Film Jia Zhao CO-PRODUCTION Kobalt Productions – Germany
Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
An intimate portrait of women of different generations in Beijing today who discover their sexuality in a rapidly-changing society, dogged by tradition.
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The Fantastic Journey - A Portrait of Daniel Harding Den fantastiska resan Bengt Wennehorst-Norrman Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Swedish/English Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
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A music documentary about the British conductor Daniel Harding and his work together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Filmed on location in Monte Carlo and during the orchestra’s successful and highly acclaimed tour in Italy in April 2015. Music by Hector Berlioz and Johannes Brahms.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm
PRODUCTION SVT Sales Bengt Wennehorst-Norrman INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 73 3651 151 http://
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paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
A music documentary about the British conductor Daniel Harding and his work together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. 146
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Far Western James Payne
USA / Japan, 2016 color / black and white, DCP, 82’ Original Language: English/Japanese Subtitles: English www.farwesternmovie.com
Amid the ashes of post-WWII Japan, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the airwaves. Although intended for the U. S. occupying forces, a vast ‘ghost audience’ of young Japanese quickly warmed to the foreign, yet soothing, sounds. Since falling in love with the music in the 1950’s, Charlie Nagatani has lived to play and spread out country music in Japan. From his hometown in southern Japan, Charlie operates a family-run honky tonk named Good Time Charlie’s and is the promoter of the largest country music festival in Japan, Country Gold. Masuo Sasabe’s band The Blueside of Lonesome is one of Japan’s most renowned bluegrass bands. Sasabe was in the first wave of Japanese musicians to travel to America seeking the source of bluegrass music in the early 1970’s. Through these modern-day portraits, Far Western illuminates this lost chapter of music as the musicians journey from Japan to the heart of American music culture. Over seventy years later this American music tradition has been transformed into something distinctly Japanese.
SALES / CONTACT Matthew Leach Fieldguide Media
PRODUCTION Fieldguide Media Matthew Leach
1213 S. Indian Ave 74127 Tulsa USA tel: +1 9185270718 leachmo1@gmail.com, SALES / CONTACT James Payne Fieldguide Media 1213 S. Indian Avenue 74127 Tulsa USA tel: +1 405 473 8890 james@fieldguidemedia.com
Seventy years after the U.S. occupation of Japan, a devoted group of Japanese musicians pursue their passion for American country and bluegrass music in honkytonks from Tokyo to Nashville.
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The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad Au nom du Pere, du Fils et du Djihad Stéphane Malterre France, 2016 color, video, 120’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
“A Moving Family Saga in the heart of Jihad” This story retraces the steps of the Ayachi family on their path to Jihad. A European family of Muslim confession, they live double lives because of their tragic involvement in the fight for the Middle East, a conflict that is now spilling over into the West. Talented director Stephane Malterre directs this current affairs documentary as cinema, combining a suspenseful narrative, powerful characters and exclusive footage shot in Syria, France and Belgium.
SALES / CONTACT Lydia Kali Edith Paris
Denis Boutelier
24 rue Anatole France
Frédéric Texeraud
92300 Levallois-Perret
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS France 2 – France
France tel: +33 7 86 40 67 70 www.edithparis.com lydia.kali@edithparis.com
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Forever Pure Maya Zinshtein
Ireland / Israel / England / Norway, 2016 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: Hebrew/ Russian/Chechen Subtitles: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/foreverpure
Beitar Jerusalem F. C. is the most popular and controversial football team in Israel, the only club in the Premier League never to sign an Arab player. Mid-way through the 2012-13 season, a secretive transfer deal by the owner, Russian-Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, brought two Muslim players from Chechnya. The deal inspired the most racist campaign in Israeli sport that sent the club spiralling out of control. One season in a life of this famed club is a story of Israeli society, personal identity, politics, money and a window into how racism is destroying a team and society from within.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Duckin’ & Divin’ Productions Geoff Arbourne
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Piraya Film AS
EC1V 3QN London
Torstein Grude
England
CO-PRODUCTION Roads Entertainment – Ireland
tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
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Forget Me Not Vergeet me niet Jan Jaap Kuiper
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 55’/82’ Original Language: English/Arabic/Dutch Subtitles: English www.thankeve.nl
/forgetmenot/index.php
At first glance, “De Verrekijker” looks like a normal Dutch primary school. However, the boys and girls are children of rejected asylum seekers. School principal Toon and the teachers do all they can to give them the best possible education. Yet each morning they worry that one of their pupils may have been forced to leave the country. After a series of deportations it becomes increasingly difficult to provide the children with a safe haven. The situation escalates when a group of Syrian boys fleeing war arrive at the school.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION CTM Docs Rosan Boersma
Bart de Graaffweg 2
ThankEve Productions
1202 JJ Hilversum
Katja Sokolova
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
In the documentary Forget Me Not we are introduced to a special primary school. The pupils of this school are children of rejected asylum seekers. 150
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Fragments of love Fragmentos de amor Estelle Fromentin
France / Argentina, 2016 color, video, 40’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: French/English
Argentina. A musician who raises goats, an experimental filmmaker, a ceramist, and a businessman tell us about a love story, sharing their philosophy of love. Carried by images of their worlds marked by the diversity of the Argentine territory, we embark with them on an introspective journey, a poetic wandering.
SALES / CONTACT Estelle Fromentin
PRODUCTION Estelle Fromentin
13 rue Edouard Manet 75013 Paris France tel: +33 6 74 55 16 96 estelle.fromentin@gmail.com
Four distinct voices lead us on a poetic wandering into their personal stories and thoughts on love, an introspective journey. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Francofonia Alexander Sokurov
France / Germany / The Netherlands, 2015 color, 16mm, 87’ Original Language: French/Russian/German Subtitles: English
Francofonia is the story of two remarkable men, Louvre director Jacques Jaujard and Nazi Occupation officer Count Wolff-Metternich enemies then collaborators - whose alliance would be the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. Francofonia explores the relationship between art and power, the Louvre museum as a living example of civilization, and what art tells us about ourselves even in the midst of one of the bloodiest conflicts the world has ever seen. Not available in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Benelux, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ex Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia + CIS, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA and Puerto Rico.
SALES / CONTACT Giorgia Huelsse Films Boutique Kopenicker Strasse 184 10997 Berlin
PRODUCTION Idéale Audience International Pierre-Olivier Bardet CO-PRODUCTION Zero One Film – Germany
Germany tel: +49 30 6953 7850 www.filmsboutique.com contact@filmsboutique.com
Francofonia is the story of two remarkable men, Louvre director Jacques Jaujard and Nazi Occupation officer Count Wolff-Metternich. 152
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Free
Slobodni Tomislav Zaja Croatia, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’/73’ Original Language: Croatian Subtitles: English www.havc.hr
/eng/croatian-film/croatian-film-catalogue/free-by-tomislav-zaja
Free follows the path to freedom of a group of people with intellectual disabilities that are locked away in Croatian institutions. After decades spent in institutions, a new beginning awaits them: Ivan has always wanted to be a police officer, Enes buys a video camera and starts to document his everyday life, Tina and Kruno want to get married, Mirko and Tomo dream of becoming football coaches at their favourite local club, Silvia starts singing in the church choir, Andjelko is trying to find a girl and a job.
SALES / CONTACT Friedrich Deetz Autentic
PRODUCTION Gral Film Tomislav Zaja
Ludwigstr. 11 50667 Cologne Germany tel: +49 221 2035 - 2729 www.autentic-distribution.com sales@autentic.com
Free is following a group of people with intellectual disabilities that are locked away in Croatian institutions and their path to freedom. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Free Market De vrije markt Marleine van der Werf
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
The Free Market tells the story of Rotterdam’s open-air market, the largest in Europe, which is under threat. Right next to it, Europe’s largest covered market is being constructed, the now world-famous Markthal. Surrounded by a rapidly transforming décor and increasingly tense relationships, we experience these changes on the Rotterdam market through the eyes of the merchants whose families have worked there for generations and some see themselves forced to leave. The rapid changes of the Rotterdam market symbolize the inevitable need to adapt in order to survive. But does change and modernization necessarily lead us to a better future?
SALES / CONTACT Fleur Knopperts Volya Films
PRODUCTION Volya Films Fleur Knopperts
Graaf Florisstraat 110 A
Denis Vaslin
3021 CM Rotterdam The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands,
tel: +31 10 4155 621
RTV Rijnmond – The Netherlands
volyafilms.com fleur@volyafilms.com
Through the eyes of three merchants on the Rotterdam market, we discover what it means when the world around us changes drastically. What choices do we make to survive? 154
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Free Speech Fear Free Tarquin Ramsay
England, 2016 color, video, 89’ Original Language: English www.freespeechfearfree.com
Free Speech Fear Free get’s to the core of what free speech really is, and the impact it has on our day to day lives. It compares the UK with Belarus and shows what life is really like without Free Speech. It tells chilling stories of a dictatorship that destroys people’s standard of living. Can we be fully human without free speech? Is it the oxygen of our society? In this compelling documentary, Tarquin Ramsay asks just one question: What is Free Speech?
SALES / CONTACT Paul Thiltges Paul Thiltges Distributions Filmland - 27, zone industrielle 8287 Kehlen
PRODUCTION Fear Free films Tarquin Ramsay CO-PRODUCTION ZEITFILM Media – Germany
Luxembourg tel: +35 22 5039 3 www.ptd.lu info@ptd.lu
Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is Free Speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Free To Rock Jim Brown
USA, 2016 color / black and white, video, 60’ Original Language: English/Russian Subtitles: English www.freetorockmovie.com
Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland; directed by 4-time Emmy-winner Jim Brown. The story of how rock & roll became the symbol of freedom and a key tool of rebellion to millions of young fans and underground musicians under the Soviet regime. It’s a social history of KGB crackdowns as Western rock icons inspired a generation of Russian rockers. Original interviews and archives from Presidents Carter and Gorbachev, Scorpions, Beach Boys, Stas Namin, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and many more. Produced in collaboration with the Grammy Museum, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Stas Namin Centre in Moscow.
SALES / CONTACT Doug Zwick Pop Twist Entertainment
PRODUCTION PSB Records Nick Binkley
8162 Manitoba Street, Suite 115
Jim Brown Productions
90293 Playa del Rey
Jim Brown
USA
CO-PRODUCTION PSB Records – USA
tel: +1 310 734 6655 www.poptwist.com dzwick@poptwist.com
How rock rocked the Kremlin and helped end the Cold War. December 25th 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Full Throttle III - End Times Plankgas III - Eindtijd Renger van den Heuvel The Netherlands / Austria, 2016 color, 16mm, 43’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English/French www.fullthrottle3.com
Full Throttle III - End Times is a movie based on the life & works of Geerten Meijsing, filmed on Super 16mm. Dutch cult author Geerten Meijsing travels through Calabria (Magna Graecia) once more, in the footsteps of George Gissing and Norman Douglas. During the movie the writer’s passion for Ancient Times gets mingled with an on-the-road adventure. The Italian actress Loredana Cannata plays the role of the writer’s muse. Final destination is the barren island Sicily where he lives on the peninsula Ortigia, Siracusa. In his apartment near the Ionian Sea he is finishing his great novel End Times.
SALES / CONTACT Renger van den Heuvel Tochka Zrenia
PRODUCTION Tochka Zrenia Renger van den Heuvel
Diamantstraat 17a-3 1074GA Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +316 51061951 tzrenia@gmail.com
Movie based on the life & works of Geerten Meijsing. He travels through Calabria once more. The writer’s passion for Ancient Times gets mingled with an on-the-road adventure. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Future Baby Maria Arlamovsky
Austria, 2016 color, video, 56’/91’ Original Language: English/German/Spanish Subtitles: English
A film about the future of human reproduction as it is happening right before our eyes. This investigation takes us around the world to patients and researchers, to egg donors and surrogate mothers, to laboratories and clinics. The hopes and wishes of future parents mesh with research on how to optimize the human genome in the face of an ever accelerating rate of progress. How far do we want to go? “Clear-eyed and provocative” Hollywood Reporter
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
1070 Vienna
Markus Glaser
Austria
Wolfgang Widerhofer
tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
This film about the future of human reproduction takes us around the world to patients and researchers, to egg donors and surrogate mothers, to laboratories and clinics. 158
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Gabrielle, The Looking-Glass And Beyond Gabrielle ou le saut de l’ange Bernadette Saint Remi
France / Belgium, 2016 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Bruno, thirty-five years old, married with two children becomes Gabrielle after ten years of suffering, doubt, but determination. Gabrielle is 50 years old today. She has no regrets except the great pain of not seeing her children. Ten long years to change sex … but how many more to gain the acceptance of others, of herself, of her relatives ?
SALES / CONTACT Rita Boey
PRODUCTION Triangle 7
Sonuma
Philippe Sellier
15, Bld Raymond Poincaré 4020 Liège Belgium
CO-PRODUCTION ARTE France – France
tel: +32 2 737 43 94
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium,
www.sonuma.be
ARTE France – France
rib@rtbf.be
Bruno,35 years old, married with 2 children becomes Gabrielle after ten years of suffering, doubt, but determination. Ten long years... but many more to gain the acceptance of others ? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Game of Fire Juego de fuego Hugo Kope
Guatemala, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/Portugese www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
Two young Mayan men save money to buy a “fireworks devil” and travel to the town of Sololá to participate in the “Tabal,” a Christian pagan festival where the devil is burned. On their way, they discover that the energy of fire has a different meaning for each person.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16
PRODUCTION Edgar Sajcabun Mux CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
111711198 Bogotá Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
Two young save money to buy a “fireworks devil” and travel to the town of Sololá to participate in the “Tabal,” a Christian pagan festival where the devil is burned.
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Gaza Surf Club Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine
Germany, 2016 color, video/HDcam, 87’ Original Language: English/Arabic Subtitles: English www.gazasurfclub-film.com
Gaza - a strip of land with a population of 1. 7 million on 26 miles of coastline, wedged between Israel and Egypt and isolated from the outside world. The young generation is growing up with little perspective - occupied and jobless. But against this background there is a movement. Our protagonists are part of the surf community of Gaza. Few surfboards have been brought in over the past decades, despite strict sanctions. It is those boards that give them an opportunity to experience a slice of freedom - between the coastal reminder of a depressing reality and the Israeli-controlled marine border. Germany, USA and Canada not available
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber
PRODUCTION Little Bridge Pictures
Magnetfilm
Andreas Schaap
Oranienburger Str. 50
Benny Theisen
10117 Berlin
Mickey Yamine
Germany
Stephanie Yamine
tel: +49 30 2205 65615
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS WDR – Germany
www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
In “the world’s largest openair prison” a new generation is drawn to the beaches. They find their own personal freedom in the waves - they are the surfers of Gaza.
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Generation 68 Nenad Puhovski
Croatia, 2016 color / black and white, video, 85’ Original Language: Croatian Subtitles: English http://
factum.com.hr
/en/films_and_authors/new_films/generation_68
Generation 68 is an homage to the generation with which the author shares his youthful enthusiasm and the idea of a revolution that will change the world, being both realistic and demanding the impossible. At the same time, he questions the true impact of these changes on a social and a, probably more important, personal level. Having ideas is easy; making them credible to the generations that follow is somewhat more difficult. Discarding the ideals of 1968 as unattainable, the new generations are coming up with ideals of their own, ones that are perhaps even more unrealistic.
SALES / CONTACT Martina Kolaric Factum
PRODUCTION Factum Nenad Puhovski
Nova Ves 18 10 000 Zagreb Croatia tel: +385 91 2828 015 http://
factum.com.hr/en
martina@zagrebdox.net
An homage to the generation with which the author shares the idea of a revolution that will change the world. 162
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A Genuine Forger Un Vrai Faussaire Jean-Luc Leon
France, 2015 color, video, 88’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
He’s the master-forger, famous for duping the art world for 30 years and flooding the market with thousands of fake Picassos, Matisses and Chagalls which sold for millions, were authenticated by art experts and remain on the walls of many galleries and museums. But he never copied anything. Instead Guy Ribes painted pictures that could have been made by the great artists themselves. In this remarkable film, Ribes tell everything. It’s a story of phony widows, false heirs and unscrupulous traders and last but not least, how he was able to fool everyone for so long.
SALES / CONTACT Kathryn Bonnici Java Films
PRODUCTION Album Productions Sylvie Faguer
38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France tel: +33 17 4713 313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv
France, DOM-TOM, Monaco and Andorra not available
Following 30 years in clandestinity, Guy Ribes, the most prolific french art forger emerged from the shadows at the time of his arrest: we reveal the secrets of his art. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | History
A German Life
Christian Krönes, Olaf Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer
Austria, 2016 black and white, HDcam/video, 113’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English www.a-german-life.com
Brunhilde Pomsel was closer to Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels than anyone alive today. She was his personal secretary and stenographer. Having lived through and been a part of the major historical shifts and ruptures of the 20th century, she is worried; people tell her that the threat of fascism has long been eliminated, but Brunhilde Pomsel makes it perfectly clear that they are deluded. Austria and Italy not available
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil Levontin Street 18 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
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PRODUCTION Blackbox Film &
Medienproduktion INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ORF – Austria
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Ghostland - the view of the Ju/’Hoansi Simon Stadler
Namibia / Denmark / Germany / Italy / Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 84’/55’ Subtitles: English www.ghostland-the movie.com
Remember the culture clash in The Gods Must Be Crazy? This time it’s real. One of the most ancient cultures on earth is undergoing major changes. The Ju/Hoansi Bushmen in Namibia aren’t allowed to hunt anymore and need to converge with our so-called “civilized” lifestyle. For the first time, they travel through the Kalahari and right into the heart of Europe. What starts as a look at their fascinating culture becomes an even more fascinating look on Western lifestyle. A warm and humorous reflexion of our habits through the eyes of people who are about to give up their traditions.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Cameleon Film
Autlook Filmsales
Simon Stadler
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 720 346934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
Remember the culture clash in The Gods Must Be Crazy? This time it´s real. A warm and humorous reflexion of our habits through the eyes of the Ju/Hoansi Bushmen.
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The Giant Is Falling Rehad Desai
South Africa / Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 58’/77’ Original Language: English/Xhosa Subtitles: English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/the-giant-is-falling/
The film takes us through the big political events of recent years that signify the dying days of the ANC in South Africa. Locating the moment when things fell apart as the Marikana Massacre, the film charts the various ways people have collectively responded to the ANC’s failure to deliver on its promises. From the end of the ANC’s special relationship with the trade unions, to the #FeesMustFall student movement, to the more recentcrushing electoral losses at the polls for the party of liberation, the film picks at the festering sore of inequality that is making the current status quo untenable.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution
PRODUCTION Uhuru Productions Rehad Desai
Gottschedstr. 18
Anita Khanna
04109 Leipzig Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Al Jazeera – Qatar,
tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38
ZDF – Germany,
www.deckert-distribution.com
ARTE – France,
info@deckert-distribution.com
IKONdocs / EO – The Netherlands, NRK – Norway
Bookmarked by the 2016 Local Elections, the film asks why South Africa, a middleincome country, rich in mineral wealth has failed to address inequality in twentytwo years of democracy. 166
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The Gift
Dar Przemyslaw Kaminski Poland, 2016 color, video, 56’ Original Language: Ukranian/Polish Subtitles: English
Yuriy can hypnotise people and put them into a deep sleep as well as help heavy smokers to cough out tar. But when he stops performing the profession of a miracle worker, he removes his theatrical makeup and takes on the role of a loving son who tries to live his life with an old father, at the same time mourning the death of his mother. Who is Yuriy when he enters the stage among the enchanted audience and who does he become when he returns to his native Ukraine, the very centre of the Orthodox world?
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk
PRODUCTION Anna Kepinska-Andryszczak
KFF Sales & Promotion
Maciej Kubicki
Basztowa 15/8a
Katarzyna Wilk
31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
Yuriy can hypnotise people. But when he stops performing, he takes on the role of a loving son who tries to live his life with an old father. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Girl down Loch Änzi Das Mädchen vom Änziloch Alice Schmid
Switzerland, 2016 color, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: German Subtitles: French/Italian/English www.aliceschmid.ch
The pivotal summer for 12-year-old Laura, who lives in a beautiful remote area in the Swiss mountains. With just her taciturn family and animals around her, she becomes obsessed with the legends about a deep chasm in the area where no one dares to go. When a boy from town arrives to work on the farm she finally has a friend to share her fears and fantasies with. After he has left she takes the courage to explore the mysterious place all by herself. A portrait of an undervalued girl in an isolated world, filmed in a close unsentimental way.
SALES / CONTACT Alice Schmid Ciné A.S. Am Wasser 55
PRODUCTION Ciné A.S. Alice Schmid
8049 Zürich
CO-PRODUCTION SRF Schweizer Radio und
Switzerland
Fernsehen – Switzerland
tel: +41 44 202 49 69 www.aliceschmid.ch
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SRF Schweizer Radio und
cineas@cybermail.ch
Fernsehen – Switzerland
Sleeping under the stars, butchering rabbits, secretly exploring the mysterious Loch Änzi in Switzerland. The closest companion of Laura (12) is her diary. Until a boy from the city arrives. 168
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The Girl Who Saved My Life Flickan som räddade mitt liv Hogir Hirori
Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’/107’ Original Language: Arabic/Swedish Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/girl-saved-life/
In August 2014, documentary filmmaker Hogir Hirori leaves his pregnant wife in Sweden to go back to his homeland, Iraqi Kurdistan, to document the stories of the refugees of war. More than 1. 4 million people are fleeing from the terror of the Islamic State. He is offered to come along on a helicopter transport to the Shingal Mountains where hundreds of thousands of people are stuck without access to food or water surrounded by the IS.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen DR
PRODUCTION Lolav Media Hogir Hirori
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99
CO-PRODUCTION Lolav Media – Sweden INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
There is war in my home country again International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Politics / Society
Girls Don’t Fly Monika Grassl
Germany / Austria, 2016 color, video, 90’/52’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English/German https://
www.facebook.com/GIRLS-DONT-FLY
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“When you dream, dream big“, sings physically handicapped Lydia. Helped by British pilot Jonathan Porter who runs an NGO financed flying school in Ghana, she and ten other girls from poor families enter a flying training with Western military drill. Soon it becomes evident that the aim to help becomes a self purpose for the boss of the action. In the end, the girls might not have learned to fly a plane, but they found their place in life. Germany & Austria not available
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales
PRODUCTION Indi Film Benjamin Cölle
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Arek Gielnik
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Mischief Films – Austria
Germany tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARD/BR – Germany
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
An airstrip, a hangar and a classroom somewhere in rural Ghana: This is the place where 18-year-old Lydia and 20-year-old Esther hope to achieve their dream: learning how to fly. 170
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The Glass Wall De Wand Marc Schmidt
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 25’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English http://
ceruttifilm.nl
/documentaire.php?filmid=9
Lydia (15) has been suffering from a rare blood disease and her condition hasn’t improved. The doctors will now make the ultimate attempt to cure her through a bone marrow transplant. Lydia will have to push through this frightening period in her life all alone, cut off from family and friends, behind a glass wall. To alleviate her solitude, she makes a video log for the outside world. ‘It is five to eleven at night and the wall has just been closed. I’ve hugged my dad one last time and now I’m locked into my two by four meter room’.
SALES / CONTACT Willemijn Cerutti Cerutti Film Wikkelaan 10 2116TB Bentveld
PRODUCTION Cerutti Film Willemijn Cerutti INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 65 0208 648 www.ceruttifilm.nl willemijn@ceruttifilm.nl
Lydia is very ill and has received a bone marrow transplant. In order to aid her recovery she has to remain behind a glass wall, cut off from family and friends. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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God Knows Where I Am Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 99’ Original Language: English http://
godknowswhereiam.com
The body of a homeless woman is found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Beside the body, lies a diary that documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity, but told with poignance, beauty, humor, and spirituality. For nearly four months, Linda Bishop survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record. As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil Levontin Street 18 6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 35 664129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
PRODUCTION Wider Film Projects Jedd Wider Todd Wider
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Gogita’s New Life Gogitas akhali tckovreba Levan Koguashvili Georgian Republic / Croatia, 2016 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Georgian Subtitles: English
Gogita spent 14 years in prison for robbery. After he got out, he decided to meet a woman and get married. He travels to Kutaisi to meet Maka - a girl he met on the internet. Gogita’s mother is against this relationship, because Maka is overweight, not young and not exactly pretty. Gogita’s mother wants a slim, good-looking girl. Gogita opposes her. He lives in a village in a decaying house, he’s poor and was in jail. Slim and pretty woman won’t marry him. For a man like him Maka is good enough: kind-hearted and cooks delicious meals.
SALES / CONTACT Olena Yershova Yildiz Tato Film
PRODUCTION Kino Iberica Levan Koguashvili
622 sokak Davaz apt #8 Daire 3, Arapsuyu, Konyaalti 07070 Antalya
CO-PRODUCTION Tato Film – Turkey
Turkey
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS MDR Germany – Germany,
tel: +90 53 7300 8702
Georgia Public Broadcaster –
o.yershova@gmail.com
Georgian Republic
Georgia, Germany - TV rights, not available
Following a lengthy term in prison, all Gogita wants is to get married. His mother lobbies for a pretty, slim girl in this tragicomic quest for love and happiness.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Good Postman Tonislav Hristov
Finland / Bulgaria, 2016 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: Bulgarian Subtitles: English
A small Bulgarian village just by the Turkish border has found itself in the middle of a European crisis, as at nights asylum seekers sneak passing the border. The forgotten village has become the most important secret loophole of Europe. Ivan, the local postman, has a vision. He decides to run for mayor and turn the dying village alive by welcoming refugees. His opponents want to close their eyes, close down the border and reintroduce communism. As the campaign goes on, Ivan soon learns that while good intentions are not enough, even the smallest deeds matter.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Making Movies Oy
CAT&Docs
Kaarle Aho
18 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION Soul Food – Bulgaria INVOLVED TV CHANNELS YLE – Finland
tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
While running for a mayor of a Bulgarian village troubled by the refugee crisis, the local postman learns that while good intentions are not enough, even the smallest deeds matter. 174
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Great Grandad’s Tall Tales Min Oldefars Historier Tone Mygind Rostbøl
Denmark, 2016 color, video, 10’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
Five-year-old Theodor pays a visit to his Great Grandad who lives on a mountain in Norway. Great Grandad recounts amazing tales about his childhood friend ‘Fatso’ to his - often impatient great grandchild. Theodor listens, goes off exploring and invents imaginative games, inspired by Great Grandad’s tales.
SALES / CONTACT Liselot Verbrugge Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien
PRODUCTION Toolbox Film Maria Stevnbak Andersen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR Ramasjang – Denmark
Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com sales@autlookfilms.com
Great Grandad’s Tall Tales is an eight-part miniseries for young children. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Greatest Party on Earth Hassan Amini
England, 2016 color, HDcam, 58’/76’ Original Language: French/English/Arabic Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
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Money was no object; an international airport and eighty kilometres of motorway were built to reach the desert venue at the ancient ruins of Persepolis. Over the course of a year, French interior design firm, Maison Jansen, erected a lavish tent city, using 37km of silk, in a specially created oasis, replete with woodland, flowers and a fountain. Even the world’s top restaurant, Maxim’s, closed its doors for two weeks to cater the event, hiring waiters from the famed Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St. Moritz to save the exclusive guestlist.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Lawrence Elman
DR
Amber Television Limited
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Lawrence Elman
2300 København C
CO-PRODUCTION BBC – England
Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS BBC – England,
kimc@dr.dk
SVT – Sweden, DR – Denmark, VPRO – The Netherlands, TVO – Canada
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed “King of Kings”, celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history. 176
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A Greek Winter Griekse winter Ingeborg Jansen
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 67’/52’ Original Language: Greek Subtitles: Dutch/English
Tasos and his sister Evdokia run a business selling heating oil to their fellow citizens in Thessaloniki. With the crisis ever deepening, more and more Greeks are unable to buy oil. Therefore Tasos en Evokia face a sharp dilemma: should they really refuse heating oil to people who don’t have the money, leaving them in the cold? As their customers struggle to make ends meet, Tasos and Evodkia struggle to keep their business going. How warm or cold can relationships between people be when a deep crisis forces everyone to fend for themselves?
SALES / CONTACT Stefan Kloos Rise and Shine World Sales
PRODUCTION Een van de Jongens Renko Douze
Schlesische Str. 29/30
Hasse van Nunen
10997 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS IKONdocs / EO – The Netherlands
Germany tel: +49 30 4737 298 10 www.riseandshine-berlin.com stefan.kloos@riseandshine-berlin.de
The deliveries of Tasos and Evdokia’s heating oil business in Thessaloniki, show a society in crisis, fighting to stay warm. In a climatic sense as well as in human relationships. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Nanette Burstein
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 97’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/gringo
Documentary about the bizarre and scandalous life of tech millionaire John McAfee - famed inventor of anti-virus software - who goes off the grid to live in Belize, building a compound and harem, becoming a drug lord and developing an armed security force to guard himself against the police until he is a suspect in his neighbor’s murder and must make a great escape. Not available in North America
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Chi-Young Park
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogowoof.com
Revealing portrait of successful internet entrepreneur, yoga instructor, murder suspect and prospective presidential candidate John McAfee 178
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The Grown-Ups Los niños Maite Alberdi
Chile / The Netherlands / France, 2016 color, video, 82’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
A group of friends with Down Syndrome have attended the same school for over 40 years, and they don’t want to continue complying with school obligations. Most of their parents are dead, and none of them thought their kids would outlive them. They always believed that when their parents died, they would be able to do those things they weren´t allowed to do before, like living on their own, having sex, getting married and having a real job. But things are not changing for them, and they have to deal with the frustration of living as if they were still ten-years-olds.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Micromundo Producciones
CAT&Docs
Maite Alberdi
18 Rue Quincampoix
Volya Films
75004 Paris
Denis Vaslin
France
CO-PRODUCTION Mandra Films – France
tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TVN Chile – Chile DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
A group of friends with Down syndrome have attended the same school for over 40 years, they’re aging and they have not been allowed to live adulthood on their own.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Politics / Society
Guerrero Sebastián Moreno
Chile, 2016 color, video, 67’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
In March of 1985 Manuel Guerrero Ceballos, José Manuel Parada y Santiago Nattino were murdered. The triple homicide was one of the highest impact political crimes committed during the military dictatorship. That day the life of Manuel Guerrero (son), our main character, changes forever. He becomes an icon of the fight against the dictatorship and a public figure. Manuel was 14 years old and was very angry. Since that day Manuel Guerrero jr. , has dedicated his time to search for and explain the events that resulted in his father’s death.
SALES / CONTACT Claudia Barril Peliculas del pez Los Concilios 3627 7511143 Santiago
PRODUCTION Peliculas del pez Claudia Barril DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Chile tel: +56 99 1630 052 claudia@peliculasdelpez.com
Manuel, whose father was brutally assassinated in one of the political crimes of greatest impact during the Chilean dictatorship, began a journey back to the past. 180
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Haiku on a Plum Tree Mujah Maraini-Melehi
Italy, 2016 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 74’ Original Language: Japanese/English/Italian Subtitles: English www.haikusonaplumtree.com
Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini’s government. They were sent to a prison camp in Nagoya with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today: Toni’s daughter Mujah explores her family’s experience and legacy by bringing their memories to life as she makes her own journey to Japan.
SALES / CONTACT Maurizio Antonini
PRODUCTION Interlinea Film
Interlinea Film
Maurizio Antonini
via vittorio veneto 146 00187 Roma Italy tel: +39 06 4208 5767 www.interlineafilm.com diletta@interlineafilm.com
Tokyo 1943 anthropologist Fosco Maraini and Topazia Alliata refused the allegiance to Mussolini’s government. They were sent to a prison camp in Nagoya with their daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Half-Life in Fukushima Demi-vie à Fukushima Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi
Switzerland / France, 2016 color, 16mm, 61’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: English
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese farmer ekes out a solitary existence within the radiation red zone. As Naoto wanders through the empty streets of his hometown, he confronts the remnants of a lost society. Shooting on lustrous film stock, directors Mark Olexa and Francesca Scalisi reveal the surreal scope and devastation of the nuclear tragedy, and the stubborn signs of life among the ruins: a touching encounter with an ostrich; a round of golf at an abandoned driving range; and a breathtaking eruption of music and emotion on the stage of a karaoke bar.
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SALES / CONTACT Aleksandar Govedarica Syndicado Beaconsfield Ave 121 M6J 3J5 Toronto Canada tel: +42 19 4963 5890 www.syndicado.com aleksandar@syndicado.com
PRODUCTION Mark Olexa
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Hanging Geoffrey Feinberg
USA / Russia / Germany, 2016 color / black and white, video, 15’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English www.weatheredfeatures.com
19 year old Kirill is fearless. A leading figure in Moscow’s ‘roofing’ subculture, he lives a carefree existence, breaking into buildings and hanging out on rooftops with his friends. His brazen stunts on top of the buildings have earned him the nickname ‘Russian Spiderman. ’ Having dropped out of Russia’s top engineering university, he see’s in the freedom of roofing a way to find himself. However, dropping out has unintended consequences and he is soon confronted with the one thing he does fear.
SALES / CONTACT Geoffrey Feinberg Weathered Features
PRODUCTION Weathered Features Geoffrey Feinberg
109 Dikeman Street, Apt 2 Front
ZAK Film Productions
11231 Brooklyn
Jelena Goldbach
USA tel: +1 6467174865 www.weatheredfeatures.com geoffreyfeinberg@gmail.com
An intimate portrait of the young Russian daredevil Kirill Oreshkin’s controversial pursuits.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Happily Ever After Ayman El Amir, Nada Riyadh
Egypt, 2016 color, video, 71’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
The filmmaker falls in love amid the turmoil of recent political events in Egypt. When her boyfriend decides to leave the country because of the deteriorating social and political conditions, she does everything she can to convince him to stay. The escalating tension puts her own commitment to remain in the country to the test. The complicated love story poses the question: is there still hope in Egypt?
SALES / CONTACT Ayman El Amir Felucca Films
PRODUCTION Felucca Films Ayman El Amir
28 Gadda Street
Nada Riyadh
(5th floor - Apartment 11) -
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Mohandesin 12411 Cairo Egypt tel: +20 122 443 7372 aymmad11@yahoo.com
A complicated love story amidst the turmoil of political events from 2011 till 2013 poses the question: is there still hope in Egypt? 184
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Happy Purim (Purim in Jerusalem) A-Fraylichen Purim Ori Gruder
Israel, 2015 color, DCP, 60’ Original Language: Hebrew/Yiddish Subtitles: English www.go2films.com
/New-Releases/Happy-Purim
Purim is the happiest day in the Jewish calendar. The film goes to the heart of the spirit of the festival: the injunction to have fun and revel is carried to full measure (and includes some good drinking tips). Ultra-Orthodox Jews are famously as strict about observing the rules of their faith as they are defiant to modernity, yet for this film they let the cameras explore their celebration with enthusiasm.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films Isser Natanzon, 37/8
PRODUCTION Ori Gruder INVOLVED TV CHANNELS IBA - Channel 1 – Israel
97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: +972 25831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
Purim, the happiest Jewish holiday. The celebrations are intense and high energy and balanced by other more serious aspects of Purim giving cash to those in need.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society Pitched at the Forum 2013
A Haunting History Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen The Netherlands / South-Sudan, 2016 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Dinka/English Subtitles: English http://
ahauntinghistory.com
After studying in England, the ambitious lawyer Anuol, returns to his homeland South Sudan. Haunted by his own violent past and committed to fighting against human rights violations, he believes that the law will be his only true guide to bring sustainable peace to the country. When a new civil war breaks out, Anuol is confronted with his countrymen that would rather forget their past in order to lay it to rest. His own belief, however, is that those responsible must be held accountable for their actions in order to reconcile with history and move forward into a peaceful future.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION IFProductions Femke van Velzen
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Ilse van Velzen
1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION IKON – The Netherlands,
tel: +31 35 6772 960
DR Danish Broadcasting
www.nposales.com
Corporation – Denmark
margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Haunted by his violent past, the ambitious lawyer Anuol returns to his homeland, South Sudan, committed to serve his country and hold accountable those who are responsible. 186
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Having a Cigarette with Álvaro Siza Auf eine Zigarette mit Álvaro Siza Iain Dilthey Germany, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: German/English
Talking about architecture with Álvaro Siza Vieira, recipient of the Prizker Prize and one of this century’s finest architects, as well as socialist and passionate smoker. The film spotlights his early work and allows the viewer to gain insight in Siza’s way of working and thinking.
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber
PRODUCTION solo:film
Magnetfilm
Susann Schimk
Ilsensteinweg 35 14129 Berlin Germany tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
World–renowned architect, socialist and passionate smoker Álvaro Siza Vieira gives insight in his way of working and thinking, with special focus on his early work. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
Heart of Glass Jérôme Gerlache
France, 2016 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: English
Heart of Glass is a journey. A road trip through several countries on two continents in pursuit of a story. The story of a young glass blower with a singular talent: Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert. The film follows him in his daily life--working in the studio and on the road and reveals how passion can undo a tragic fate. France not available
SALES / CONTACT Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International
PRODUCTION Marty Marc Brunet
13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris France tel: +33 01 4277 5687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
The story of a young glass blower with a singular talent: Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert. 188
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
A Heart That Never Dies Erling Borgen, Tom Heinemann
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English/Spanish/Polish Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/heart-never-dies/
Can the prize be too high? Who - with a sound mind - would criticize Europe’s last dictator? Who would dare to openly expose the drug cartels in Latin America or the ultra neo-Nazi’s in the Balkans. Some do and others will. Six courageous stories from six outstanding persons living in troubled areas around the world.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION DR
DR
Erling Borgen
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark,
Denmark
NRK – Norway,
tel: +45 35 2022 99
SVT – Sweden
www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
Journalists, lawyers, political activists, human rights organizers and others are daily fighting governments that suppresses the peaceful excercise of freedom of expression or violate other basic human rights. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology
A Heartbeat Away Tal Barda
Israel, 2016 color, video, 55’ Original Language: Swahili/English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
The story of an Israeli paediatric cardiologist sent to Africa to perform lifesaving operations in Tanzania, where every day five children die from heart conditions. When 6 year-old Julius arrives to the clinic in critical condition, Dr. Tamir is forced to choose whether to operate on the child, who has very little chances of surviving or not. Dr. Akiva Tamir and his team take the viewers on an emotional roller-coaster as they deal with the most serious question of who to treat and who will be left to die.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
PRODUCTION Set Productions Dan Setton INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Channel 10 – Israel
France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
A paediatric cardiologist travels to Africa and is forced to choose only a few children for a life saving heart surgery, while an unexpected case sets things out of control. 190
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Hello I am David! A Journey with David Helfgott Hello I am David! Eine Reise mit David Helfgott Cosima Lange Germany, 2015 color, video, 98’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: German/English www.helloiamdavid.de
David Helfgott reached world fame when the Oscar®-winning film Shine shed light on his astonishing life. Cosima Lange has now made a moving documentary about this extraordinary pianist, a child prodigy who, following a nervous breakdown, spent 11 years in mental institutions. Hello I am David! allows us to experience David Helfgott’s infectious passion and impulsiveness – and above all his music. A moving celebration of music and life! Germany, Austria, Switzerland (Theatrical) not available. Global SVOD Rights not availabe
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber Magnetfilm
PRODUCTION BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion Eva Kemme
Ilsensteinweg 35
Tobias Siebert
14129 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Beleza Film – Germany
Germany tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
Hello I am David! is a journey into the world of the outstanding pianist David Helfgott whose life inspired the Oscar®-winning film Shine. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Hello Syria
Hallo Syrien Line Hoeck, Mai Rasmussen Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 28’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/hello-syria/
She helped a man, who had not been in touch with his family for weeks, charge his phone. When his phone was powered up, he found 3,700 unanswered calls and messages from his worried family and he just broke down. Inspired by this and to get more perspective on the refugees through their own stories, DR sent a crew to the border between Serbia and Croatia and Passau, Germany and set up a phone booth from which Syrian refugees could call their families for free.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Dorte Palle Jørgensen
DR Emil Holms Kanal 20
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark
2300 København C Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
When law student Natasha Al-Hariri in the beginning of September, went to help the many refugees who came pouring in across the Danish border, she had an overwhelming experience. 192
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Henry Miller Christiane von Boehm
Germany, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
Henry Miller had five wives and considered himself bound to both the continent of Europe and to the US. On December 26, 2016, he would have been 125 years old. This portrait is a close-up of the life of the extraordinary Henry Miller, who, rebellious and narcissistic, entered the realm of the appetites, yet also maintained a vision of a freer society for all humans.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Interscience Film Christiane von Boehm
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 443 122 060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Henry Miller is the most infamous representative of modern American literature. He’s fascinating not only due to his work but also to his eventful life and view of the world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Herr von Bohlen Private Herr von Bohlen Privat André Schäfer Germany, 2015 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English www.herrvonbohlen.de
The last offspring of a powerful German family: Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach – the last Krupp. Unwilling to fulfill the expectations of both his family and their company, this homosexual industrialist’s son waived his inheritance of around 3,5 billion D-Mark. With an annual settlement of two million D-Mark Arndt withdrew into another world. He remained a lonely man his whole life. His lifestyle became legendary in the 1960s and 70s, degenerated into a ridiculed outsider. Neither a documentary nor a feature film and set in the late 70s, following Arndt to important places of his life.
SALES / CONTACT Sydney Neter
PRODUCTION Florianfilm
SND Films
Jonas Niewianda
P.O. Box 15703
Marianne Schäfer
1001 NE Amsterdam The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION Cine Plus Filmproduktion –
tel: +31 20 4040 707
Germany
www.sndfilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF/ARTE – Germany
info@sndfilms.com
Germany not available
The story of the last offspring of a powerful German family, whose cannons killed countless people in two world wars: Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach – the last Krupp.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Investigative
Higher Education: The New Global Economic War Jean Robert Viallet
France, 2016 color, video, 84’/53’ Original Language: French/Chinese/ Swedish/German/English Subtitles: English
With the birth of the knowledge society, higher education is booming. There were 13 million university students in 1960. In 2015, their ranks had swollen to nearly 200 million. Universities are operating in the world’s most competitive knowledge economy. They are waging a ferocious battle to attract the brightest minds from around the globe. Who really benefits from this heightened competition? Just how much debt should students take on? What is the real price for our societies? Is higher education set to be a big market?
SALES / CONTACT Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION CFRT
Java Films
Emmanuelle Dugne
38 Quai du Point du Jour 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
France tel: +33 17 4713 313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv
Universities operate in the world’s most competitive knowledge economy with 200 million students worldwide today. Who really benefits from this heightened competition? What is the real price for our societies? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne Mahamat Saleh Haroun France / Chad, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims of the Hissein Habré Regime, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in their flesh and in their souls. Through their courage and determination, the victims accomplish an unprecedented feat in the history of Africa: that of bringing a Head of State to trial.
SALES / CONTACT Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin
PRODUCTION Pili Films Florence Stern
75003 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION ARTE France – France,
France
Goï Goï Productions – Chad
tel: +33 01 4277 5687
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
France not available
Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived the Hissein Habré Regime and who still bear the scars of the horror in their flesh and in their souls. 196
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A Hole in the Head Diera v hlave Robert Kirchhoff
Germany / Croatia / Slovakia / France / Poland / Czech Republic / Serbia, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: German/ Croatian/Serbian/Czech/French/ Romany/Polish/Slovak Subtitles: English www.aholeintheheadfilm.com
Little is known about the tragedy of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. They were murdered by the thousands; in concentration camps, by the edges of mass graves and roadsides, by rifle butts, hammers or gas. Silence surrounds them. For years they existed and still exist on the edge of society. They survived, yet they each have their memory and scars as proof. In a world where fascism is once again prevalent, they are one of the last living witnesses to the Holocaust. They exist with a hole in their head, an imprint from the past.
SALES / CONTACT Barbara Janisova Feglova Hitchhiker Cinema Za tehelnou 3
PRODUCTION Hitchhiker Cinema Barbara Janisova Feglova
821 04 Bratislava
CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television – Czech Republic,
Slovakia
Radio and Television Slovakia
tel: +421 2 4444 2904
(RTVS) – Slovakia,
hitchhikercinema.sk
ATELIER.DOC – Slovakia
info@hitchhikercinema.sk
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Radio and Television Slovakia
http://
(RTVS) – Slovakia, Czech Television – Czech Republic
The Holocaust as a scar on the body and soul of the European Roma and Sinti. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment
Homo Sapiens Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Austria, 2016 color, video, 94’ www.homosapiens-film.at
A film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence, the end of the industrial age and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we’re gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it long ago. Homo Sapiens is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario. It intends to sharpen our eyes for the here and now, and our consciousness of the present.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
1070 Wien
Markus Glaser
Austria
Michael Kitzberger
tel: +43 72 0346 934
Wolfgang Widerhofer
www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. 198
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Hospital
aaspatal Kesang Tseten Lama Nepal, 2016 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Nepalese Subtitles: English
This is an intimate portrait of a staterun hospital in Kalikot, one of Nepal’s remotest and poorest districts. It’s the kind of posting that medical personnel usually avoid or from which they quickly make their escape. In addition to showing the doctors and nurses caring for the sick, the film offers a revealing glimpse into how ordinary Nepalis cope with their lot, without drama, and often with humanity and humour, while laying bare some grimmer fissures of Nepali society.
SALES / CONTACT Kesang Tseten Lama Shunyata Film Production
PRODUCTION Shunyata Film Production Kesang Tseten Lama
153/36 kholagalmarg 011 kathmandu Nepal tel: +977 14650388 www.shunyatafilm.com shunyatafilm@gmail.com
A revealing glimpse of a state-run hospital in remote Nepal and how ordinary Nepalis cope, without drama, often with humanity and humour, while laying bare grimmer fissures of society. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Hotel Splendid Mauro Bucci
Italy, 2016 color, DCP, 90’ Original Language: Italian/ English/Wolof/French Subtitles: English
www.hotelsplendidfilm.com
Hotel Splendid is an unprecedented glimpse into the daily experiences and operation of an Italian hotel inhabited by refugees. The documentary was completed following 12 months’ of fieldwork into the camp. The film recounts the asylum seekers’ dramatic voyage to reach Europe, marked by acts of violence and abuse, and their paths from their arrival at the reception center until the interview with the commission that will decide on their asylum applications. Through migrants’ personal accounts and experiences in Italy, the film depicts a multifaceted social reality, where tragic pasts coexist with moments of daily joy at the hotel Splendid.
SALES / CONTACT Mauro Bucci
PRODUCTION Mauro Bucci
Via Ticino n. 6 47042 Cesenatico Italy tel: + 39 3898031690 http://
it.linkedin.com/pub/mauro-
bucci/2a/2a8/732 bosforo@gmail.com
The story of an African community that lives in a tourist hotel turned into an emergency camp for refugees. 200
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Hotel Sunrise Hotel Usvit Maria Rumanova
Slovakia, 2016 color, HDcam, 46’/52’ Original Language: Slovak/Hungarian Subtitles: English
On the wings of of broken rail transshipment lethargy at the Ukrainian-Slovak border, we follow the story of four characters who are trying to cross the vicious circle of periphery life stagnation, armed only with their own desire for happiness. But desire does not guarantee success, nor the justness of their decisions.
SALES / CONTACT Katarina Tomkova Kaleidoscope Spitalska 20
PRODUCTION Punkchart films Ivan Ostrochovsky
81108 Bratislava
CO-PRODUCTION FTF VSMU – Slovakia,
Slovakia
RTVS – The Netherlands,
tel: +42 19 0828 1407
Kaleidoscope – Slovakia
www.kaleidoscope.sk
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTSLO – Slovakia
katarina@kaleidoscope.sk
Three year time lapse exploration of life and attempts to live at the Eastern periphery. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues
House Call
Bikur bayit David Ofek, Neta Shoshani Israel, 2016 color, HDcam, 61’ Original Language: Hebrew/Russian Subtitles: English
Terminal patients living in Israel can choose to die at home, and have a team made up of a nurse, a doctor and a social worker doing everything possible to support and advise them and loved ones in the final phase of life. This is the story of Vika, a single young mother with cancer. We follow her team on their home visits during Vika’s final days.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films
PRODUCTION Mytv Aviram Buchris
37/8 Issar Natanzon Street
Lee Yardeny Buchris
97787 Jerusalem
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Yes docu DBS – Israel
Israel tel: +972 2 5831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
A team consisting of a nurse, a doctor and a social worker support a terminally ill young mother at home with her loved ones in the final phase of life.
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Art / Music / Culture
House of a Dream Ühe Unistuse Maja Ruti Murusalu
Estonia, 2016 color, video, 54’ Original Language: Estonian Subtitles: English
Tallinn Ballet School has been the beginning of a journey for many dancers since it was opened in 1946. This film presents a collective portrait of dancers as told through the story of different generations. The paths of students who have just been admitted to the school cross with those preparing for their final exams. They are observed by an array of former Ballet stars, previous students who now shape the destiny of a new generation. Whose dream will survive and whose will fade?
SALES / CONTACT Erik Norkroos Umberto Productions
PRODUCTION Umberto Productions Erik Norkroos
Mustamae Str 4 10621 Tallinn Estonia tel: +372 50 67585 erik.norkroos@gmail.com
A collective portrait of dancers of Tallinn Ballet School, told through the story of different generations. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Experimental | History | Politics / Society
Houston, We Have a Problem! Houston, imamo problem! Ziga Virc
Slovenia / Croatia / Germany, 2016 color / black and white, video, 88’ Original Language: Slovenian/ Croatian/English/Serbian Subtitles: English www.houstonfilm.net
Cold War-era international intrigue, declassified top-secret documents, and a clandestine deal between John F. Kennedy and Yugoslavia’s president Josip Tito are just the tip of the iceberg in this absorbing directorial debut from filmmaker iga Virc. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Houston, We Have a Problem! explores the myth behind the origins of America’s race to be the first country to send a man to the moon, and a supposed multi-billiondollar deal involving America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s space program in the early 1960s.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Studio Virc
CAT&Docs
Bostjan Virc
18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION Nukleus Film – Croatia,
France
Sutor Kolonko – Germany
tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS HBO Enterprises – Hungary,
cat@catndocs.com
WDR – Germany, RTVSLO – Slovenia
Cold War-era international intrigue, declassified topsecret documents, and a clandestine deal between John F. Kennedy and Josip Tito are just the tip of the iceberg in this absorbing directorial debut. 204
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How to Meet a Mermaid Coco Schrijber
The Netherlands / Denmark / Belgium, 2016 color / black and white, video, 90’ Original Language: Arabic/ Dutch/English/Spanish Subtitles: Dutch/English www.zeppers.nl
/nl/filmnl/how-meet-mermaid
In How To Meet a Mermaid the sea connects the lives of Rebecca, Lex and Miguel in, on and under the surface of the water. The sea is both beauty and danger, friend and foe. Through the mood of the ocean, the audience becomes part of the doubts, sadness and courage of the protagonists who seek help in the ocean. Director Coco Schrijber also turns to the ocean for answers about her missing brother Lex, but however understanding, vigorous or tranquil the sea is, eventually it is just water and indifferent to our questions.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Zeppers Film & TV
CAT&Docs
Frank van den Engel
18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION House of Real – Denmark,
France
Off World – Belgium
tel: +33 14 4617 748
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
http://
catndocs.com
info@catndocs.com
Through the mood of the ocean, the audience becomes part of the doubts, sadness and courage of the protagonists who seek help in the ocean.
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History | Politics / Society
I Am The Ambassador Jeg er Ambassadøren Niels Krogsgård, Nelle Renberg Andersen Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 28’ Original Language: Danish/English Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/i-am-the-ambassador/
This is the first series to document the life of an US Ambassador, an honest portrait of Rufus Gifford. An inside perspective into his life as an ambassador including his private life, successes as well as challenges and failures. Being a homosexual himself, Rufus also fights for LGBT-rights. This is the first series to document the life of a US Ambassador, an honest portrait of Rufus Gifford. An inside perspective into his life as an ambassador including his private life, successes as well as challenges and failures. Married to a man Rufus also fights for LGBT-rights.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Lasse Charley Pedersen
DR
DR
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Erik Struve Hansen
2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark
Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
What exactly does an ambassador do? And how does an ambassador manage to become the most well known of his kind throughout the history of the country?
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I Am The People Je suis le peuple Anna ROUSSILLON
France, 2015 color, video, 111’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English http://
andanafilms.com
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Anne Roussillon’s I Am The People is the charming, funny and fascinating portrait of a family, far from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television news and local papers. From the toppling of President Mubarak to the election of Mohamed Morsi, the film charts their progression from amused distant observers of the events in Cairo through their increasing engagement and politicisation.
SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet
PRODUCTION Hautlesmains Productions
Andana Films
Karim Aitouna
25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas
CO-PRODUCTION Narratio Films – France
France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com
The charming, funny and fascinating portrait of a family, in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television news and local papers. Shot over three years. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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I Didn’t Cross the Border - the Border Crossed Me Toma Chagelishvili
Czech Republic / Georgian Republic / Germany, 2016 color, video, 75’/52’ Original Language: Georgian Subtitles: English
When Russia started building barbed wire fences on the border to Georgia after the Ossetian war, they cut right through some villages. Families and communities got divided. Every other hour border patrols pass by and put in captivity anyone who come close to the fence. Malchaz and Gocha are childhood friends. They always have been there for each other. Suddenly they find themselves on opposite sides. A story of friendship in times of political pressure.
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Strasse 29/30
PRODUCTION T-studio Toma Chagelishvili
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Kloos & Co. Medien – Germany,
Germany
T-studio – Georgian Republic
tel: +49 30 4737 2980
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Rustavi 2 – Georgian Republic
www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
When Russia started building wire fences on the border to Georgia after the Ossetian war, they cut right through some villages. Malchaz and Gotcha suddenly find themselves on opposite sides. 208
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I Never Left
Shazia Khan, Shazia Khan
India, 2016 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Urdu/Hindi Subtitles: English
In the conflict-ridden region of Kashmir, turmoil manifests itself in different forms. Deaths, disappearances and rapes have been carved in to the collective consciousness of the people. It has been almost two decades when the filmmaker left the valley; the armed rebellion came, peaked and waned. Today, she decides to trace back the way to her homeland and discover how it has metamorphosed in to a land of insanity. These are the tales of loss. These are the faces disfigured by the politically tragic history of Kashmir. These are people who remind us that conflict is far from over.
SALES / CONTACT Shazia Khan
PRODUCTION Saffron Films
Saffron Films
Shazia Khan
125 B SOHRI FARM JAMIA NAGAR OKHLA NEW DELHI
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
110025 New Delhi India tel: +91 97 1818 4149 nil saffronfilmsindia@gmail.com
Tahira’s marriage was a love match, then her husband disappeared. Filmmaker Shazia Khan returns to her homeland to record this story and make sense of her own.
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Science / Technology | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
I’m not Afraid Fadi Hindash
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 90’/52’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
71 year-old psychiatrist Frederik Polak is in the final stages of preparing for the assisted suicide of his patient Mrs. L. After 15 years of trying to treat her mental illness, he’s come to the conclusion that helping her die is the only way to save her. I’m not Afraid follows the painfully intimate process of assisted suicide and the emotional toll it takes on both doctor and patient.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION The Sound of Applause
CAT&Docs
Fadi Hindash
18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133
Marek Jancovic
75004 Paris France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
I’m not Afraid follows a free-minded psychiatrist as he assists one of his patients with her suicide. It is a moving story about loneliness, compassion and freewill. 210
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I’m not from Here Yo no soy de aquí Maite Alberdi, Giedre Zickyte Chile / Lithuania / Denmark, 2016 color, video, 26’ Original Language: Spanish/Basque Subtitles: French/English
www.facebook.com/imnotfromherefilm
Josebe, an 80 years old basque woman, lives in a nursing home in Chile. Obsessed with knowing where do the rest of the elder people she lives with come from, she shares memories of her youth in the Basque Country. As an eighty-eight year-old with a fading short-term memory and equally elderly company, time dissolves away from her hometown.
SALES / CONTACT Patricio Gajardo Micromundo Producciones
PRODUCTION Micromundo Producciones Maite Alberdi
Huelen 285, apt. 10
Moonmakers
7500658 Santiago
Giedre Zickyte
Chile tel: +56 95 1204 862 pato.r.gajardo@gmail.com
A Basque woman among Chileans, Josebe struggles to share her memories with disinterested, somnolent men. As an eighty-eight year-old with a fading memory, time dissolves. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Icarus – The Dream of Flying Ikarus – Der Traum vom Fliegen Alain Godet Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English
www.newdocs.de/icarus-the-dream-of-flying/
Today, modern wingsuits make it possible for man to come closer to fulfilling his age-old dream of flying. This high-risk sport is both controversial and fascinating. We look at the desire to fly from a historical perspective and show flight pictures that have never before been seen in this way, including the world’s longest ever wingsuit jump. Not available in Switzerland
SALES / CONTACT Elina Kewitz New Docs Dasselstraße 75-77
PRODUCTION SRF Marius Born
50674 Cologne
CO-PRODUCTION alain godet doc films –
Germany
Switzerland
tel: + 4922116819743
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SRF – Switzerland
www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
Today, modern wingsuits make it possible for man to come close to fulfilling his age-old dream of flying. This high-risk sport is both controversial and fascinating. What drives these extreme sportsmen? 212
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Ikona Wojciech Kasperski Poland, 2016 color, HDcam, 51’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
“Where is the human soul? Is it in the heart? In the brain? Or maybe elsewhere?”, wonders an old doctor who has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside. The place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be shown thanks to its residents, some of whom spent several decades at the hospital. This discreet and, at the same time, insightful observation of the patients’ daily lives transforms into meditation on the human nature, which is not entirely penetrable.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow
PRODUCTION Delta Films Magdalena Zielska INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TVP – Poland
Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
An old doctor has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside, the place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be shown thanks to its residents. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Art / Music / Culture
If You Listen Carefully Si Escuchas Atentamente Nicolás Guzmán Chile, 2016 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Four friends live their adolescence between the highways and pastures at the margins of the city. Towards the end of their primary education, a question emerges: What will they do in the future? For them life bears no mystery. In a city that traps them between the mountains and train tracks, at a school where they learn nothing. The days go by, ignoring the projects they may have. They only wait for classes to end so they can hang out with friends, and face together their arrival to an unwanted destination.
SALES / CONTACT Claudia Mazuela Mimbre Producciones
PRODUCTION Céfiro Claudia Mazuela
Argomedo 60
Mimbre Producciones
8330398 Santiago
Claudia Mazuela
Chile tel: +56 98 2097 854 claudia@mimbreproducciones.cl
Chile not available
In the context of Chilean education, four teenagers are forced to decide their future at an early age. 214
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Imprisoned Lullaby Rossella Schillaci
Italy / France, 2015 color, video, 60’/82’ Original Language: Italian/Romany Subtitles: English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/imprisoned-lullaby/
In Italy, infants are allowed to be with their imprisoned mothers on a daily basis until they turn 3. Jasmina lives in a Turin prison along with the two youngest of her three kids. Now little Lolita’s 3rd birthday is approaching, and Jasmina has to make a decision: to raise a child in prison, or to set it free for an indeterminate length of time, without her motherly care? A stunningly intimate film about motherhood, responsibility, and choice behind bars.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION Indyca Simone Catania CO-PRODUCTION De Films En Aguille – France
04109 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
2 years old Lolita lives with her mother, Jasmina, in prison, until their separation at Lolita’s 3rd birthday. A stunningly intimate film about motherhood, responsibility, choice. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society
In Exile
Pyi Pye Maung Naing, Tin Win Naing Thailand / Germany / Myanmar, 2016 color, video, 72’ Original Language: Burmese Subtitles: English www.inexiledocumentary.com
After filming political footage, Myanmar filmmaker Tin Win Naing must flee his country. Unsure whether he will ever be able to see his family again, he crosses the border illegally, entering Thailand. Upon his arrival, he is astonished to see how many of his fellow countrymen have escaped the disastrous economic situation in Myanmar, only to find themselves trapped on the other side of the border, working under conditions of modern slavery. Their numbers range from 2 to 3 million.
SALES / CONTACT Aleksandar Govedarica Syndicado 121 Beaconsfield Ave M6J 3J5 Toronto Canada tel: +42 19 4963 5890
PRODUCTION Perennial Lens Yasmin C. Rams CO-PRODUCTION Tin Win Naing – Myanmar DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
aleksandar@syndicado.com
In Exile documents the plight of migrants who have fled the civil war in Myanmar for refuge in Thailand, and now toil as plantation workers in conditions tantamount to slave labour. 216
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Youth | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
In Loco Parentis Neasa Ní Chianáin
Ireland / Spain, 2016 color, video, 99’ Original Language: English
Following a year in the lives of two inspirational teachers in the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland. Housed in an 18thCentury estate, school life embraces tradition and modernity. For John, rock music is just another subject alongside Maths, Scripture and Latin, taught in a collaborative and often hilarious fashion. For Amanda the key to connecting with children is the book and she uses all means to snare the young minds. For nearly half a century these two have shaped thousands of minds but now the unthinkable looms: what would retirement mean? What will keep them young if they leave? In Loco Parentis will also be available as a 4 x 52 minutes series
SALES / CONTACT David Rane
PRODUCTION Soilsiú Films
Soilsiú Films
David Rane
The Yard House, Ballinlough Castle, Clonmellon C15 YV18 Navan
CO-PRODUCTION Grismedio – Spain
Ireland
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTE – Ireland,
tel: +353 86 8118112
RTVE – Spain
david@soilsiu.com
It’s a mad world of Latin and rock music, Shakespeare and gymkhana – a private school with a leftist headmaster – it’s the school we all wished we’d attended.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
In Procedure Jiska Rickels
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
A Syrian father flees to The Netherlands, to save his young daughter who is seriously ill. The long wait during the asylum procedure delays the daughters’ hope for recovery and this makes him desperately doubt his decision to flee Syria.
SALES / CONTACT Willemijn Cerutti
PRODUCTION Cerutti Film
Cerutti Film
Willemijn Cerutti
Wikkelaan 10
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
2116TB Bentveld The Netherlands tel: +31 65 0208 648 www.ceruttifilm.nl willemijn@ceruttifilm.nl
A Syrian father flees to The Netherlands, to save his young daughter who is seriously ill.
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Human Interest / Social Issues
In Pursuit of Peace Garry Beitel
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 51’ Original Language: Arabic/ French/English/Dinka Subtitles: English
In Pursuit of Peace makes the case for unarmed civilian peacemaking and mediation as a response to violent international conflict. We follow four Canadian peacemakers as they take us inside the drama of their work in some of the world’s hottest conflict zones: land disputes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the civil war in South Sudan, IDP camps with displaced minorities in Kurdistan in Northern Iraq.
SALES / CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION reFrame Films Barry Lazar
3155 Cote de liesse Road H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
In Pursuit of Peace makes the case for unarmed civilian peacemaking and mediation as a response to violent international conflict. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues
In Spring my Dreams Come True Zhashyl zhazda kyjaldarym orundalat Amanbek Azhymat Kyrgyzstan / The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 40’ Original Language: Khirghiz Subtitles: English
Syiagul doesn’t take children from orphanages. Only the parents who know about her did leave their sick kids to her. She always stays with abandoned kids with autism. Thirteen children under her care can’t eat and walk independently and live with the help of her care. She spends on those children her own money. However, Syiagul’s disease is becoming stronger, so she had to give adult kids to their parents. Nowadays, Syiagul is trying to get some territory to build a house for kids but she faces difficulties because of the corrupted government bureaucracy.
SALES / CONTACT Amanbek Azhymat Tazar cinemacompany Dinara Asanova 1 720030 Bishkek
PRODUCTION Tazar cinemacompany Amanbek Azhymat DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Kyrgyzstan tel: +996 703210869 beshchunak@gmail.com
Syiagul cares for children with autism abandoned by their parents, while she has three adult kids of her own. She is also fighting with cancer for years. 220
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Experimental | Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture
In the Studio En el taller Ana Salas
Colombia, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English -
Based on my close relationship with my father, the Colombian abstract painter Carlos Salas, I suggested to him the idea of making a film on the process of creating an enormous circular painting. The artist seems to struggle or enter into dialog with his painting, until he finds his way and completes it. His work is influenced by everyday events in his life and by the context of his neighborhood, Bogota, and Colombia, brought into his studio through the stories of people in his life.
SALES / CONTACT Hector Ulloque Franco
PRODUCTION Medio de Contencion
Medio de Contencion Producciones Producciones Calle 131B No. 57B-18
Ana Salas
1 Bogota
Hector Ulloque Franco
Colombia tel: +33 62 6176 740 www.mediodecontencion.com hector@mediodecontencion.com
I suggested to my father, the Colombian abstract painter Carlos Salas, the idea of making a film on the process of creating an enormous circular painting. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture
The Inca Prince El Príncipe Inca Ana María Hurtado
Bolivia / Chile, 2016 color, video, 82’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.elprincipeinca.com
A white man is looking for his Indian identity. Guided by old family tales transmitted by his mysterious late grandfather, Chilean artist Felipe Cusicanqui heads off on a journey to Bolivia to rescue ancient family legends linked to the Inca nobility. While in pilgrimage through the Andes range -exploring the landscape, recovering stories from locals, looking at the way they live, farm, herd, weave, and look at the stars- Felipe experiences an adventure out of ordinary time, which finally leads him to connect with the true and hidden story of his grandfather and also guides him towards unexplored creative paths.
SALES / CONTACT Ana María Hurtado Antipoder Producciones Suecia 695 d 601 Providencia
PRODUCTION Antipoder Producciones Viviana Erpel Ana María Hurtado
7510311510311 Santiago Chile tel: +56 9 98732888 www.antipoder.com anamaria@antipoder.com
The Inca Prince follows a Chilean artist and his pilgrimage troughout the Andean highlands, looking for the remains of a fantastic family tale his grandfather told him. 222
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Indwe
Nomakhomazi Dewavrin
South Africa, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 48’ Original Language: Xhosa Subtitles: English
In the 50’s a group of women from Port Elizabeth, launched the first of many defiant campaigns that culminated in the 1956 march to Pretoria. Thousands of women from Port Elizabeth filled up the trains to join their sisters in Pretoria. The film will follow Indwe as she puts together the first commemoration event that will celebrate the lives of these unknown women. Indwe will spend most of her days leading up to the event, researching, collecting oral history and then writing music about the contribution made by these heroines of the 1950’s from the rural Eastern Cape South Africa.
SALES / CONTACT Nomakhomazi Dewavrin One Blood Sound
PRODUCTION One Blood Sound Nomakhomazi Dewavrin
40 Edward Street richmond hill 6001 Port Elizabeth South Africa tel: +27 41 5851 476 www.oneblood.co.za noma@oneblood.co.za
A musical commemoration to the women of the Eastern Cape who marched agains Minister Verwoed. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
InnSæi – the Sea Within Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir, Kristin Olafsdottir
England / Iceland, 2016 color / black and white, video, 75’/58’ Original Language: English www.innsaei.is
InnSæi - The Sea Within offers radical insights on how to re-think how we think and sense the world today. Two cultural entrepreneurs go on a global journey that help even the most skeptical to uncover the hidden world of InnSæi - the Sea within. They meet world-renowned thinkers, scientists, artists, academics and spiritual leaders who share knowledge and wisdom to unlock the nature of InnSæi: a world of huge potential with a new vision, feelings, empathy and imagination. A world that today’s culture of stress and distraction is blocking our access to.
SALES / CONTACT Kathryn Bonnici Java Films
PRODUCTION Klikk Productions Heather Millard
38 Quai du Point du Jour
Spier Films
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Heather Millard
France
CO-PRODUCTION Met Film Production – England
tel: +33 17 4713 313 www.javafilms.fr kathryn@javafilms.tv
USA, Canada, Sweden and Germany not available
A journey of soul searching, science, nature and creativity. Innsaei takes us on a global journey to uncover the art of connecting within in today’s world of distraction and stress. 224
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Politics / Society
An Insignificant Man Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla
India, 2016 color, video, 96’ Original Language: English/Hindi Subtitles: English www.insignificantman.com
At the heart of An Insignificant Man is the most polarising man in India today – Arvind Kejriwal. The film follows Kejriwal and his Common Man’s Party – an insurgent new political party, as they wield basic public issues like water, electricity, and graft against the country’s oldest and most powerful two political establishments. It gives an insider’s view into Kejriwal’s brand of politics, which has split popular opinion into two prominent factions. One labels it selfish and anarchic, while the other insists on seeing it as a major shift in the Indian political paradigm.
SALES / CONTACT Vinay Shukla
PRODUCTION Memesys Culture Lab Anand Gandhi
30, Aram Nagar 2, Yari Road, Versova, Stories & Other Stories Andheri West
Khushboo Ranka
400061 Mumbai
CO-PRODUCTION One Eyed Turtle – India
India tel: +91 98 3311 5883 vinay@memesyslab.com
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
An Insignificant Man follows Arvind Kejriwal and his insurgent Common Man’s party as they look to shake up Indian politics while struggling to keep their own idealism alive. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture
The Internal Ear
Ucho wewnetrzne Magdalena Gubala, Szymon Uliasz Poland, 2016 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Polish/English Subtitles: English
The film poses questions related to the nature of improvisation. The protagonist of the film is Mikolaj Trzaska - saxophonist, bass clarinet player, harmonica player and composer. Trzaska is undoubtedly one of the greatest personas of the Polish jazz music scene. His artistic work is a universal theme since it is characterised by a specific to artistic disposition anxiety and ambivalence: relentless search for a self-aware language and losing yourself as the necessary means of immersing yourself in the music element.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion
PRODUCTION Magic Production Magdalena Nowacka
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
The film The Internal Ear poses questions related to the nature of improvisation. The protagonist of the film is Mikolaj Trzaska saxophonist, bass clarinet player, harmonica player and composer. 226
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Intimate Battles Batallas Intimas Lucía Gajá, Lucía Gajá
Mexico / Spain, 2016 color, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: English/ Hindi/Finnish/Spanish Subtitles: English/Spanish http://
sic.conaculta.gob.mx
/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=6468
Intimate Battles is the story of five women from different countries (Finland, India, México, Spain and the USA) who have survived or are trying to survive domestic violence. Their fight to face it not only with their partners but also many times against society and their government.
SALES / CONTACT Sofia Marquéz
PRODUCTION Rodrigo Herranz Fanjul
Mexican Film Institute
Mexican Film Institute
Insurgentes Sur 674 Col. Del Valle CP Lariza Melo Preciado 03100, Benito Juárez, Distrito Federal CO-PRODUCTION 03100 Mexico City Caguama Producciones Mexico
(CASADELOU, SA de CV – Mexico
tel: +52 5554485344 www.imcine.gob.mx festivals@imcine.gob.mx
Intimate Battles is the story of five women from different countries who have survived or are trying to survive domestic violence. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Into the North Na Sever Natasha Dudinski
Israel / Czech Republic, 2015 color, DCP, 89’ Original Language: Hebrew/ English/Danish/Czech Subtitles: Czech/English/Hebrew www.go2films.com
/Family-Social-issues/Into-the-North
A group of Czech Jewish teenagers sets out on a journey to the North. Without their parents to look after them, they must rely on each other. That’s how their great adventure starts. They spend four years in Denmark, an oasis in the midst of raging WWII. More than seventy years later, they are ready to tell their story, a coming-of-age refugee story with a happy end, courtesy of thousands of openhearted Danes.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films
PRODUCTION Mimesis Film Jan Macola
Isser Natanzon, 37/8 97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: +972 2 5831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
A coming-of-age story of young Czech Jewish refugees who were saved by Danish farmers during the WWII.
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Invisible Mothers Lorenzo Benítez
Germany / Spain, 2016 color, HDcam, 67’/48’ Original Language: Arabic/Spanish/French Subtitles: English www.madresinvisibles.com/en/
Hafida is a single mother in Tangier. She run away from home when got pregnant. Some years later she has become a sexual health educator and go back to her city, El Jadida, with her son. The family men reject them. Sex outside marriage is a crime in Morocco. The article 490 of the Morocco Penal Code states that sexual relationships outside of matrimony are forbidden. The law stigmatizes single mothers as whores and their children as bastards. They are the carriers of the deepest taboos of the Moroccan society. Switzerland (German speaking) not available
SALES / CONTACT Valentín Romero
PRODUCTION 3boxmedia
3boxmedia
Lorenzo Benítez
Hirschbergstr. 16
Valentín Romero
50939 Köln
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SRF – Switzerland
Germany tel: +49 (0) 221 16924890 www.3boxmedia.com valentin@3boxmedia.com
Having sex outside the matrimony is illegal in Morocco. This is a documentary about brave women who get involuntary pregnant and decide to have a baby alone despite facing discrimination. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Istanbul Echoes Giulia Frati
Canada / France, 2016 color, HDcam, 103’/52’ Original Language: Turkish Subtitles: English
Istanbul’s street vendors adapt to fast paced urban changes when their neighborhoods are destroyed and residents are evicted over the course of 5 years. As old buildings and traditions disappear, a strong awareness develops in the younger generations and a new voice emerges through a socially engaged hip hop group. Canada and France are not available
SALES / CONTACT Lucie Tremblay
PRODUCTION Ian Oliveri
Lowik Media
Lowik Media
2475 rue Champagne
Lucie Tremblay
H2k 2G9 Montreal
CO-PRODUCTION Fondavina – France
Canada tel: +1 514 281-1819
Another view of Istanbul’s realities. 230
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INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TV5 Quebec – Canada,
ltremblay@lowikmedia.com
Al Jazeera English – England
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It Was All Just a Good Dream Sve je bio dobar san Branko Istvancic
Croatia, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 80’ Original Language: Croatian/French Subtitles: Croatian/French/English
Shocking, intimate and moving documentary examines the events from the time of the war in Croatia and the arrival of the young French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier in Croatia. We follow his fighting in the hearth of the tragic battle of Vukovar and the agony and torture that he suffered at Ovcara. His story is presented through the eyes of his mother Lyliane Fournier. We see her searching for any piece of information which could help to find the mortal remains of her son.
SALES / CONTACT Irena Skoric Artizana Film
PRODUCTION Artizana Film Irena Skoric
ARTIZANA, Ulica grada Vukovara 222 10000 Zagreb Croatia tel: +38 59 8942 0845 www.artizana.hr artizana.zagreb@gmail.com
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It’s Getting Dark Olga Kravets
France, 2016 color, video, 48’ Original Language: Russian/Chechen Subtitles: English/Russian/French http://
itsgettingdark.ru/
The setting is a Russian living room. The children are playing a game, their father is cooking and the baby is lying fast asleep. The only one missing is their mother. She has just been arrested and is charged with state treason; she is facing up to 20 years in prison. The camera captures this scene and others like it in four living rooms where fractured families go about their daily lives. It’s the very ordinariness of the images that makes the absence of one parent so tangible.
SALES / CONTACT Olga Kravets
PRODUCTION Les Films du Sillage
22 rue Charles Garnier
Sylvie Brenet
93400 St Ouen France tel: +33 75 1376 216 www.olgakravets.com olga.kravets@gmail.com
The story of five families of political prisoners across Russia through time
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Politics / Society
Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower Jean Ziegler - l’optimisme de la volonté Nicolas Wadimoff Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 93’ Original Language: English/ German/French/Spanish Subtitles: English
“A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child. “ Jean Ziegler, Vice President of the Advisory Committee of the UN Right Council. An in-depth documentary on the charismatic and controversial sociologist, professor and best-selling author Jean Ziegler and his endless belief in socialism. With intimate access we witness Ziegler’s battle against poverty and for economical independence of developing countries. Ziegler’s books have been translated into many languages and distributed worldwide.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Dreampixies
Autlook Filmsales
Emmanuel Gétaz
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTS – Switzerland,
Austria
ARTE G.E.I.E. – France,
tel: +43 720 346934
SRG/SSR – The Netherlands
www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
An in-depth documentary on the charismatic and controversial sociologist, professor and best-selling author Jean Ziegler and his endless belief in socialism.
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Politics / Society
Jihad, counter-offensive Laetitia Moreau
France, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
The impressively effective speeches used by Jihadist recruiters rush into social breaches: family crisis, integration policy failures, collective project deficiency. How can we put an end to this cycle? How can we help parents understand what is going through their children’s minds? The people involved in this conflict focus on departure prevention, youth care services for those coming back and the emergence of a religious counter-speech. Whether they are Imams, social workers, parents or former young radicals, they all find an alternative to the security answers provided by the government and explore tangible solutions to fight against this threat.
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SALES / CONTACT Anne Littardi
PRODUCTION Eléphant Doc
Beliane
Gael Leiblang
11 rue Adolphe Mille 75019 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION Chrysalide – The Netherlands INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
tel: +33 97 7219 135 anne.littardi@beliane.com
The alternatives to security answers in the fight against Jihadism.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Joe’s Violin Kahane Cooperman
USA, 2016 color, DCP, 24’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
In this award-winning documentary short, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old school girl from America’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own. Joe’s Violin poignantly illuminates how the power of music can bring light in the darkest of times and how a small act can have a great impact.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films 37/8 Issar Natanzon Street
PRODUCTION Lucky Two Productions, Inc. Kahane Cooperman Raphaela Neihausen
97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: +972-2-5831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old school girl from America’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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John Berger or The Art of Looking Cordelia Dvorak
Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 55’ Original Language: English/French/German Subtitles: German/English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/john-berger/
Art, politics and motorcycles: on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or The Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art-critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding for over five decades. How paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger. The seeing is his life subject, the „looking eye“ his intellectual burning glass.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions Daniel Saltzwedel
04109 Leipzig
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF/ARTE – France,
Germany
BBC – England,
tel: +49 341 2156638
SRF – Switzerland,
www.deckert-distribution.com
SVT – Sweden
info@deckert-distribution.com
John Berger or The Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and artcritic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding for over five decades. 236
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Author’s Point of View | Experimental | Art / Music / Culture
The Joy of Sound La felicidad del sonido Ana Endara
Panama, 2016 black and white, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: Portugese/English www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
What does the sea actually sound like? What we hear is vibration in the air, vibration that we can’t see. The sound is invisible but it drives us, it makes us cry, it makes us laugh, remember, dance; it shakes our organs; it moves us. In the hands of unusual characters, the joy of sound proposes a trip of the senses, a reflection on nature, on life in community, on loneliness, on silence.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16 111711198 Bogotá
PRODUCTION Mansa Productora Isabela Gálvez CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
In the hands of unusual characters, the joy of sound proposes a trip of the senses, a reflection on nature, on life in community, on loneliness, on silence. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Just a Normal Person En vanlig fucking människa Malin Björkman-Widell Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
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22 years ago the identical twins Isabelle and Denise were born. But already as a kid Isabelle knew she was a boy, born in a girls body. ”I am going to be a dad when I grow up”, says 6-year-old Isabelle in a video clip. A few years later Isabelle changes name to Sam. From then on Sam has been forced to explain who he really is, over and over again. The film follows Sam from childhood to high school graduation. Today Sam is a young man, trying to find his way in life.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm
PRODUCTION SVT Malin Björkman-Widell INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 73 3651 151 http://
svtsales.com
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
Some people are born in the wrong body. Sam is one of them. This touching film is about everyone’s right to be who they really are. This is Sam’s story. 238
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Just Kids: Jesser and the Sugarcane Mensjesrechten: Jesser en het Suikerriet Godelieve Eijsink The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 20’
Jesser lives in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, in the middle of where sugarcanes are produced. Jesser’s father is sick and suffers from severe kidney failure, like many other men in the village who cut sugarcanes. Unfortunately, there is no other work. He, as the eldest son, will probably have to do the same work as his father in the future. Jesser wants to change his faith and is trying his utmost best to plan another future for himself.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION EO/IKONdocs Kiyomi Molin
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Jesser’s father is sick from cutting sugarcanes. He will probably have to do the same work as his father in the future. He wants to change his faith. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Youth | Art / Music / Culture
Just Kids: Spotlight on Merna Mensjesrechten: Merna in de Spotlight Mirjam Marks The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 20’
The 11 year-old Iraqi/Christian Merna, stole the show at the blind auditions of The Voice Kids Arab. Millions of people witnessed Merna singing a song representing her people who suffer from war violence in the Middle East. The song told the story of the many refugee children whom she is one of. Spotlight on Merna is a feel-good film, in spite of the situation. The story reveals a painful contradiction: her uncertain life as an anonym refugee in Libanon and her life in de spotlight thanks to her achievement as a finalist of The Voice Kids Arab.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION EO/IKONdocs Kiyomi Molin
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Merna (11) stole the show at the auditions of The Voice Kids Arab. She sang a song which tells the story of the many refugee children whom she is one of.
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Art / Music / Culture | History
The Karamazoffs (A walk on the SoHo years) Els Karamazoff Juan Gamero
Spain, 2016 color / black and white, video, 58’ Original Language: Catalan/Spanish/English Subtitles: English www.karamazoff.paraddocs.es
In the 1960s, the abandoned factories of New York’s SoHo were occupied by artists from around the world, transforming this neighbourhood in the heartland of art experimentation. With exceptional archival footage (featuring Charlotte Moorman, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, Mekas, Davidovich, SoHo cable TV, George Maciunas and Laurie Anderson), a group of artist, The Karamazoffs, and pioneers from that era, like Jonas Mekas and Jaime Davidovich, recall that colourful atmosphere through the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
SALES / CONTACT Valentín Romero 3boxmedia Hirschbergstr. 16
PRODUCTION Paradocs Juan Gamero
50939 Cologne
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TV3 Televisió de Catalunya –
Germany
Spain
tel: +49 221 16924890 www.3boxmedia.com valentin@3boxmedia.com
In the 1960s and 70’s the abandoned factories of New York’s SoHo were occupied by artist who transformed the neighbourhood. Artists recall that colourful atmosphere armed with unique vintage footage. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Kate Plays Christine Robert Greene
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 112’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/kate-plays-christine
Filmmaker Robert Greene cleverly forgoes your standard talking-headand-sound-bite approach to nonfiction storytelling, instead choosing to employ Kate Lyn Sheil as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue. Committed to doing justice to Christine’s life, Kate not only candidly pulls back the curtain on her acting process, but she also reveals the biases and presumptions even supposed experts can provide in their diagnosis. Kate Plays Christine boldly challenges its subjects and audience alike to accept that answers from the past are never easy. Not available in North America, Scandinavia and Baltics.
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SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION 4th Row Films
Dogwoof
Susan Bedusa
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Douglas Tirola
EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
This film follows actor Kate Lyn Sheil preparing to play the role of Christine Chubbuck, a Florida television host who committed suicide on air in 1974.
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Nature / Environment | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Kedi
Ceyda Torun
Germany / USA / Turkey, 2016 color, HDcam, 79’ Original Language: Turkish Subtitles: English www.kedifilm.com
Kedi is not a film about house cats or the strays you occasionally see in your back yard. Kedi is a film about the hundreds of thousands of cats who have been roaming the city of Istanbul for thousands of years, wandering in and out of people’s lives, impacting them in ways only an animal who lives between the worlds of the wild and the tamed can. Cats and their kittens bring joy and purpose to those they choose, giving people an opportunity to reflect on life and their place in it. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to ourselves.
SALES / CONTACT Charlie Wuppermann Termite Films 548 Westminster Ave 90291 Venice
PRODUCTION Termite Films Charlie Wuppermann CO-PRODUCTION Termite Films – USA
USA tel: +13 10 6634 750 email@wuppercharlie.com
US and Canada not available
Told through the eyes of street cats, Kedi explores the relationship between animals and humans in Istanbul, one of the world’s most rapidly developing cities. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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History | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Ken Dewey - This Is A Test Sally Williams
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English thekendeweyfilm.com
This is the untold story of a visionary artist who elegantly raged against the machine. Whether at the 1965 Selma civil rights marches, the courtrooms of Scotland, or the attempted deportation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ken Dewey’s quest to express the highest of human ideals through art, helped shape a generation. It was a quest cut short by tragedy.
SALES / CONTACT Sally Williams
PRODUCTION Salient Films LLC
Salient Films LLC
Sally Williams
Am Landpflegeheim 1 22549 Hamburg Germany tel: +49 15 7566 22903 saljwilliams@gmail.com
We often find ourselves standing on the shoulders of giants but we don’t know their names. Meet Ken Dewey. Artist. Rebel. Visionary.
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The Key to Dalí
David Fernández, David Fernandez Garcia
Spain, 2016 black and white, video, 78’/55’ Original Language: French/Catalan/Spanish Subtitles: English
The Key to Dalí unfolds the exceptional story of spanish scientist Tomeo L’Amo, who bought an unknown painting in 1989. He strongly believes that it´s an original DALI painting. A 25 years long journey begins, where he investigates, invests enormous amounts and follows experts around the world until he meets the one in Paris that changes his life.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Mallorca Video Paula Martone
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Míriam Morales
1070 Wien Austria
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS IB3 TV (Balearic Islands TV) –
tel: +43 72 0346 934
Spain
www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
The exceptional story of spanish scientist Tomeo L`Amo, who bought an unknown painting in 1989, he strongly believes is an original and the probably last DALI painting. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Killing Ed Mark S. Hall
USA, 2016 color, video, 94’ Original Language: English http://
killinged.com
Award-winning director Mark S. Hall returns with Killing Ed, a feature film exposing a shocking truth: the largest network of taxpayer-funded charter schools in the U. S. hid a worst-casescenario - that they operated with questionable academic, labor, and visa standards by members of the “Gülen Movement”, a rapidly expanding, global Islamic group whose leader, Fethullah Gülen, lives in self-imposed exile after accusations of leading a violent coup against the Turkish government. A firsthand look inside the Gülen Movement, Killing Ed crafts never-before-seen interviews with hidden-camera footage to reveal the corruption of those attempting to privatize US public schools.
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SALES / CONTACT Elizabeth Sheldon
PRODUCTION Mark S. Hall
Bond/360 1841 Broadway, Suite 911 10023-7656 New York USA tel: +1 609 933 1806 elizabeth@bondinfluence.com
Killing Ed is an expose offering the first critical look into the questionable operations of Gülen Movement, a US-based Islamic group with schools worldwide accused of the recent Turkish coup.
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The King of Twirl
De Majorette Koning van het Noorden Xander de Boer The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 16’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.hollandsehelden.nl
/De-Majorette-Koning-van-het-Noorden
The King of Twirl is a ‘dancedocumentary’ about the eleven year old Janero. Janero is the only boy of his age in Northern Netherlands who competes in this sport. It’s a little weird to be an outsiders. But Janero doesn’t mind being the only boy in this sport. He want’s to prove – for once and for all – that Twirl is not only a sport for girls.
SALES / CONTACT Albert Klein Haneveld Hollandse Helden
PRODUCTION Hollandse Helden Albert Klein Haneveld
Overleek 29 1141 PE Monnickendan
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: + 31 6 22 80 81 05 www.hollandsehelden.nl albert@hollandsehelden.nl
The eleven year old Janero wants to prove himself and be the best in twirl, a sport that’s traditionally just for girls.
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Politics / Society | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful Nettie Wild
Canada, 2015 color, video, 96’ Original Language: English
www.canadawildproductions.com/koneline/
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it. Set in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, Koneline captures beauty and complexity as one of Canada’s vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change. Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. An art film with politics, drama, and humour, Koneline: Our Land Beautiful explores different ways of seeing—and being it does not lecture, but surprises with cinematic action and visual poetry, a bold experimental film from some of Canada’s leading documentary artists.
SALES / CONTACT Betsy Carson Canada Wild Productions 1818 Grant Street
PRODUCTION Canada Wild Productions Betsy Carson
V5L 2Y8 Vancouver, BC
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Super Channel – Canada,
Canada
Knowledge Network – Canada,
tel: +1 604 2519770
Canal D – Canada
canadawildproductions.com carson@smartt.com
Not available in Canada
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful is a cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and the dreamers who move across it. Some hunt. Some mine the land. They all love it. 248
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Koudelka, Shooting Holy Land Gilad Baram
Israel / Czech Republic / Germany / Norway, 2015 color / black and white, video, 72’ Original Language: English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
The film follows Koudelka and his journey photographing the Holy Land from one enigmatic and visually spectacular location to the next. In each location - soon to become a new “Koudelka photo” - a new scene unfolds, gradually introducing us to Koudelka’s method of working and his perception of the world he is documenting as well as the people he encounters. Austere images of landscape divided by concrete walls and barbed wire reveal the horrifying absurdity of the infamous conflict. Israel and Czech Republic not available.
SALES / CONTACT Anaïs Clanet Wide House 9 rue Bleue
PRODUCTION Nowhere Films Gilad Baram
75009 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION Produckze Radim Prochazka –
France
Czech Republic
tel: +331 53 95 04 64 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org
The film follows Koudelka in his journey photographing Israel and Palestine from one enigmatic and visually spectacular location to the next. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View Pitched at the Forum 2011
The Land of the Enlightened Pieter-Jan De Pue
Belgium / Germany / France / Ireland / Afghanistan / The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 87’ Original Language: Persian/English Subtitles: English
In the wild Afghan mountains, a gang of Kuchi kids dig out anti-personal mines to collect the explosives, recycle weapons and keep tight control on the caravans smuggling opium. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat. . . Not available for: Australia, Mexico, Poland, USA, Benelux territory
SALES / CONTACT Giorgia Huelsse
PRODUCTION Savage Film
Films Boutique
Bart Van Langendonck
Köpenicker Straße 184 10977 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Fastnet Films – Ireland,
Germany
Submarine – The Netherlands
tel: +49 30 6953 7850 www.filmsboutique.com contact@filmsboutique.com
The war in Afghanistan seen through the eyes of the Afghan children.
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Last Day of Freedom Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 32’ Original Language: English www.lastdayoffreedom.net
When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother, a Veteran returning from war, as he faces criminal charges, racism, and ultimately the death penalty. This film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice.
SALES / CONTACT Sydney Neter SND Films
PRODUCTION Living Condition LLC Dee Hibbert-Jones
P.O. Box 15703
Nomi Talisman
1001 NE Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KQED – USA
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4040 707 www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
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The Last Laugh Ferne Pearlstein
USA, 2016 color, DCP, 85’ Original Language: English http://
gb.imdb.com
/title/tt2102508/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
The last Laugh is a feature documentary that proceeds from the premise that the Holocaust would seem to be an absolutely off-limits topic for comedy. But is it? History shows that even the victims of the Nazi concentration camps themselves used humor as a means of survival and resistance. Still, any use of comedy in connection with this horror risks diminishing the suffering of millions. So where is the line? If we make the Holocaust off limits, what are the implications for other controversial subjects--AIDS, racism, 9/11--in a society that prizes freedom of speech?
SALES / CONTACT Annie Edwards
PRODUCTION Robert Edwards
Journeyman Pictures
Tangerine Entertainment
4 High Street
Amy Hobby
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
North America not available
A film about taboos in humor, seen through the lens of the Holocaust, raising the question of what is off-limits in a society that prizes free speech. 252
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Let Women Choose Las Mujeres Deciden Xiana Yago
Spain / Germany / Ecuador, 2016 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
María,a Spanish physician, works in a Maternity Hospital in the Ecuadorian rainforest. She investigates about adolescent and unintended pregnancies. At the hospital, María meets Yanina, a mother of two, who has to work hard in order to maintain her family, as she is married to a not very present husband. Yanina gets pregnant unintentionally, and she decides to have an abortion. However, since abortion is illegal in Ecuador, Yanina won’t be able to purchase any abortion pills at the pharmacy, so she decides to use some traditional herbs for abortion.
SALES / CONTACT Sergio García Locatelli
PRODUCTION Perrine Delangle
Quechua Films
Xiana Yago Tortajada
Calle Rodríguez San Pedro 2 oficina 401 28015 Madrid Spain tel: +34 91 2920 081 sergiogarcia@quechuafilms.com
María works in a Maternity Hospital where meets Yanina, a mother of two who has to work hard to maintain her family with a not very present husband. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Let’s Play War Täna mängime sõda Meelis Muhu
Estonia, 2016 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Russian/Estonian Subtitles: English
While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club Frontline. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers’ life-style of the era.
SALES / CONTACT Meelis Muhu Oy In-Ruum
PRODUCTION Oy In-Ruum Meelis Muhu
Gonsiori 27-3516 10147 Tallinn Estonia tel: +372 507 8163 www.inruum.ee film@inruum.ee
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Lethal Fake Medicine Medicin der dræber Morten Krøgholt
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Fake drugs kill more than half a million people every year. Falsifying medicine has become a huge internationally organized and very profitable criminal business. And thereby fake drugs are also a growing threat to the health of the general public. There are no easy ways to fight this menace, as it affects so many layers of society and bureaucracy.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Bullitt Film
DR
Vibeke Vogel
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark,
Denmark
SVT – Sweden,
tel: +45 35 2022 99
VRT – Belgium,
www.dr.dk/
ERR – Estonia,
kimc@dr.dk
LTV – Latvia
Killing Pills will investigate what happens when the world society realize face a menace far more powerful than can be defeated.
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Letters from Baghdad Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum
USA / England / France, 2016 black and white, 35mm/16mm, 95’/58’ Original Language: Arabic/English Subtitles: English http://
lettersfrombaghdad.com
Letters From Baghdad is the story of a true original—Gertrude Bell— sometimes called the “female” Lawrence of Arabia. Voiced and executive produced by Academy award winning actor Tilda Swinton, the film tells the story of this British spy, explorer and political powerhouse who helped draw the borders of Iraq. Using never-seen-before archival footage of the region, the film chronicles Bell’s extraordinary journey into the Arabian Desert and the inner sanctum of British male colonial power. It is a unique look at both a complex woman and the tangled history of Iraq that is eerily current.
SALES / CONTACT Cynthia Kane Between The Rivers Productions 131 Varick Street, Suite 912
PRODUCTION Between The Rivers Productions Zeva Oelbaum
10013-1410 New York,NY
CO-PRODUCTION YUZU Productions – France,
USA
Missing In Action Film – England
tel: +1 917 679 8297
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
lettersfrombaghdad.com cynkane@icloud.com
Broadcast - France, not available
Voiced by Tilda Swinton, Letters From Baghdad, tells the extraordinary story of Gertrude Bell, the “female Lawrence of Arabia,” who shaped the modern Middle East in ways that reverberate today. 256
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Liberation Day Ugis Olte, Morten Traavik
Norway / Latvia, 2016 color, video, 100’ Original Language: English/Korean Subtitles: English www.liberationday.film
Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first foreign rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock’n’roll.
SALES / CONTACT Luke Brawley
PRODUCTION VFS Films
Dogwoof
Uldis Cekulis
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Traavik.Info
EC1V 3QN London
Morten Traavik
England tel: +44 20 7253 6244
CO-PRODUCTION Norsk Fjernsyn – Norway,
www.dogwoof.com
Mute Records – The Netherlands,
luke@dogwoof.com
Staragara – Slovenia
All art is propaganda…and all propaganda is art.
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Life Begins at 100 Livet börjar vid 100 Åsa Blanck
Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
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When she turned 100 Dagny Carlsson had been to more funerals than she could even count. But when it seemed like her life was almost over she bought a computer, taught herself how to use it, and started a blog. Soon she had over half a million readers. In her new life Dagny mingles at celebrity parties and premieres, speaks at political rallies, and makes new acquaintances. “Don’t come to me and say that things were better before, because they weren’t. I have a few years left, it’s time to live it up”, says Dagny.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales
PRODUCTION SVT Åsa Blanck
Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 73 3651 151 http://
svtsales.com
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
She has been called ”The world’s oldest blogger” and ”Sweden’s most up-todate veteran”. Meet Dagny Carlsson, 103 years old.
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Life to Come La vie à venir Claudio Capanna
Belgium, 2016 color, HDcam, 76’/52’ Original Language: French Subtitles: Dutch/English www.lavieavenir.com
The twins Eden and Léandro were born severely premature. Once out of the belly of their mother, Laurence, they find themselves propelled into the hostile and worrying world of the hospital, full of the sounds of machines and of doctors in white coats. Surrounded by the medical team, Laurence lives to the rhythm of the twins, caught between the hope for improvement, fatigue, the everpresent possibility that things will go wrong and the fear they will die. The bond between mother and children is organic, vital. Together, they fight fiercely for life.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstraße 50
PRODUCTION Stenola Productions Anton Iffland Stettner
8050 zurich
CO-PRODUCTION Associate Directors – Belgium,
Switzerland
Take Five – Belgium,
tel: +41 443 122 060
Centre du Cinéma et de la
www.firsthandfilms.com
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles –
esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms. The Netherlands, com
Flanders Audiovisual Fund – Belgium, Wallonie Image Production – Belgium INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France, RTBF – Belgium, Al Jazeera – Qatar, Proximus – Belgium
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Life, Animated Roger Ross Williams
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 91’ http://
dogwoofglobal.com/life-animated
Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with verite scenes from Owen’s life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar, and Ariel forge a conduit for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality. Beautiful, original animations further give form to Owen’s fruitful dialogue with the Disney oeuvre as he imagines himself heroically facing adversity in a tribe of sidekicks. Not available in North America, Asia, Benelux, F. Yugoslavia, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
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SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION Motto Pictures
Dogwoof
Julie Goldman
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen Suskind, a boy diagnosed with Autism, found in Disney animation a pathway to language for making sense of the world.
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Like Dew in the Sun Peter Entell
Switzerland, 2016 color / black and white, video, 108’ Original Language: Ukranian/Russian Subtitles: English/French www.dewinthesun.com
Why can’t people live together in peace? After centuries of hatred, violence and massacres, Ukraine is at war once again. An opera about a filmmaker’s journey to the land of his ancestors . . .
SALES / CONTACT Peter Entell
PRODUCTION Show and Tell Films Peter Entell
Chemin de Pacoty 22 1297 Founex
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Radio Télévision Suisse –
Switzerland
Switzerland
tel: +41 79 376 5557 www.dewinthesun.com pentell@bluewin.ch
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Living with Giants Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Sébastien Rist
Canada, 2016 color, video/HDcam, 79’ Original Language: English/Inuktitut Subtitles: English www.livingwithgiants.ca
Living with Giants delves into the imaginative world of Paulusie Kasudluak, a young Inuk facing responsibilities and transitions into adulthood. The film portrays his thoughts, his dreams and his beliefs and allows for an intimate immersion into his life. What begins as the story of an innocent teenager quickly becomes the struggle of a young man coping with the guilt of having done a huge mistake. Living with Giants is a poetic journey of resilience that echoes issues that are far greater than Paulusie’s personal story.
SALES / CONTACT Jean-Simon Chartier MC2 Communication Media
PRODUCTION MC2 Communication Media Jean-Simon Chartier
160 St-Viateur Est, #405 H2T 1A8 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-509-8933, ext 248 www.mc2.ca jeansimon@mc2.ca
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In the Arctic, where legends and harsh realities coexist, a young Inuk struggles with the guilt of having committed a huge mistake.
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Nature / Environment
The Lost City La Ciudad Perdida Francisco Hervé
Chile / France, 2016 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: French/Spanish/English
Aysén, a region in Chilean Patagonia, is the size of England but has only 90 thousand inhabitants. They live isolated, with nearly no roads, in a stunning, rough landscape. Somewhere in this lost world, a mysterious city is hiding. Five hundred years ago a group of conquerors built a city entirely in gold. They are alive. Whoever sets foot on it becomes immortal, but loses memory. It is The Lost City of the Caesars and you are here to find it.
SALES / CONTACT Francisco Hervé
PRODUCTION Panchito Films
Panchito Films
Verónica Lyon
Eulogia Sánchez 015, D. 30 7500895 Santiago Chile tel: +56 9 78075885 www.panchitofilms.cl francisco@panchitofilms.cl
Suddenly you remember why you’ve travelled so far. Somewhere in this landscape a mysterious city is hiding. It is the City of Caesars, and you have come to find it.
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Love...
Armastus... Sandra Jõgeva Estonia, 2016 color, video, 78’ Original Language: Estonian Subtitles: English
Once-promising art student Veronika despises ordinary life, so she lets binge drinking and style games fill the void. Her sidekick, gorgeous homosexual Raivo is deeply but platonically in love with her. The love triangle is completed by ex-con Fred, a tragic figure who wants to abandon his past. He sees Veronika as his only savior, even after she stabs him severely. And there’s a baby on the way…
SALES / CONTACT Igor Ruus
PRODUCTION Laterna
Nõlvaku põik 10-9
Igor Ruus
76401 Saue Estonia tel: +372 56 677024 igorruus@gmail.com
Veronika despises ordinary life, so she lets binge drinking and style games fill the void. Her sidekick, gorgeous homosexual Raivo is platonically in love with her and then there’s Fred... 264
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LoveTrue Alma Har’el
Israel / USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/lovetrue
Non-Fiction LoveTrue offers a unique exploration of the challenges that love can present and how our past and present experiences shape the decisions we make when the fantasy of True Love dissipates. Using cinematic expressions of past memories and possible futures, the film also examines non-fiction performance as a documentation of truth and a purveyor of memory. Following three surprising love stories in starkly different American landscapes, we dive into the mysterious, the familiar, the dysfunctional, and the imaginary aspects of their relationships. LoveTrue is a poetic roller-coaster down the inevitable nature of our shifting perspective on love.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Delirio Films Christopher Leggett
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Non-Fiction LoveTrue offers a unique exploration of the challenges that love can present and how our past and present experiences shape the decisions we make. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Science / Technology
Pitched at the Forum 2014
Machine of Human Dreams Roy Cohen
Israel / England, 2016 color/ Unknown, HDcam/DCP, 90’/75’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/machine-
of-human-dreams
A. I. guru Ben Goertzel grew up in a hippie community during the Vietnam War. Inspired by science fiction, he imagined a perfect rational world that would transcend the violence of 1970s’ America. Since then, Ben has dedicated his life to developing OpenCog, a software that models the human mind. If Ben’s design works, OpenCog will become a human-like general intelligence. But for OpenCog to work, it needs a body.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Roast Beef Productions Mike Lerner
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Ben Goertzel, a renowend computers expert, has dedicated his life to developing a higher form of intelligence. 266
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Machines Rahul Jain
India / Germany / Finland, 2016 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Hindi Subtitles: English
Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanizing physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent preindustrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality and oppression, humans and machines.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Jann Pictures Rahul Jain
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Pallas Film
1070 Wien
Thanassis Karathanos
Austria
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
A visually compelling look behind the doors of a giant textile factory in India, exploring the meaning of modern day labor, exploitation and the human cost of mass production. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Maize in Times of War Maíz en tiempos de guerra Alberto Cortés Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English http://
sic.conaculta.gob.mx
/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=12845
Maize In Times Of War traces the yearly cycle of four Indigenous maize plots (called milpas due to the diversity of crops they entail) in different regions of México. This film draws the exceptional process of growing maize, the delicacy of selecting seeds and preparing the land that will receive them, the tenacity and the nuances involved in taking care of the whole process, until the harvest arrives after working for months and the family enjoys the vital uses of its fruits.
SALES / CONTACT Sofia Marquéz Mexican Film Institute Insurgentes Sur 674, col. Del Valle, del. Benito Juárez
PRODUCTION Bataclán Cine Ana Solares CO-PRODUCTION Mexican Film Institute – Mexico
03100 Ciudad de México Mexico tel: +52 5215554510785 www.imcine.gob.mx lvigas2000@yahoo.com
Maize In Times Of War traces the yearly cycle of four Indigenous maize plots (called milpas due to the diversity of crops they entail) in different regions of México. 268
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The Man Who Wanted to Change the World Mariette Faber
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
www.themanwhowantedtochangetheworld.com
Should we stop waiting for science to solve our problems and take action ourselves? Artist and visionary Peter Westerveld thinks so. Growing up in Africa, he witnessed the desert advancing and he dedicated himself to finding solutions for the ongoing erosion and desertification of the land. The film follows him and the NGO that works with him to realize his project to build contour trenches that capture and store rain water under the surface and regreen desert land. Results in a small area are impressive but getting money for trenches from the Indian Ocean to Mt. Kilimanjaro proves difficult.
SALES / CONTACT Robin Brinster Illumina Films
PRODUCTION Minx Media Mariette Faber
Plantage Middenlaan 27
Springfilm
1018DB Amsterdam
Jacco Groen
The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Human – The Netherlands
tel: + 31206248395 www.illuminafilms.nl robin@illuminafilms.nl
Artist Peter Westerveld claims he has found the solution to desertification. Moved by his impressive results on a small scale he aims to construct a Hydrologic Corridor across Kenya. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 108’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/mapplethorpe-
look-at-the-pictures
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. The one thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life. Intimate revelations from family, friends and lovers are topped only by Mapplethorpe’s candor, revealed in a series of rediscovered, never before heard interviews, made public here for the first time. This is the unique portrait of an artist who turned photography into contemporary fine art with a bold vision that ignited a culture war still raging to this day. Not available in North America, Australia/New Zealand, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Scandinavia and Switzerland
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SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION World of Wonder
Dogwoof
Fenton Bailey
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Randy Barbato
EC1V 3QN London
Mona Card
England
Katharina Otto-Bernstein
tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
The only thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life.
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Martha & Niki Tora Mårtens
Sweden, 2015 color, video, 93’ Original Language: English/Swedish Subtitles: English/Swedish www.marthaniki.com
In 2010 Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international Street Dance Competition, Juste Debout in Paris. It was the first time ever two women became World Champions in Hip Hop. This film depicts their love of dance, each other and about friendship put to the test. About desires, yearning and finding the right path in life. With music by The Roots, Jungle Brothers, Method Man, Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth, Das EFX, N. O. R. E, Damon Frost, Chapee. Sweden not available (Free TV & Theatrical) New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Austria not available (Pay TV)Greece not available (Theatrcial)West Balkan not available (Theatrical, VOD, Free & Pay TV)
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber
PRODUCTION Neo Publishing AB
Magnetfilm
Tora Mårtens
Ilsensteinweg 35
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
14129 Berlin Germany tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
Martha and Niki become the first female Hip Hop Street Dance world champions. They embark upon a life of travel and dancing while their friendship is put to the test.
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Investigative | Politics / Society
The Master Plan Generalplans Juris Pakalnin
Latvia / Lithuania / Estonia, 2016 color, DCP, 52’ Original Language: English/ Latvian/Lithuanian/Estonian Subtitles: English/Latvian/ Lithuanian/Estonian www.mistrusmedia.lv
/productions#documentaries/the-masterplan
The Master Plan explores the methods through which Russia influences the domestic policy of the Baltic States – by dividing the local community, promoting nostalgia for the Soviet Union and dismissing the recovered independence of the Baltic States. The film will expose a set of instruments the Kremlin is using, show Russia’s propaganda machine and reveal how the same set of actions is tested and used in several European countries. How is this info war being fought in reality? What the EU and NATO are doing about it? And,last but not least, are Russia’s policies succeeding?
SALES / CONTACT Oksana Dykovska
PRODUCTION Mistrus Media
Taskovski Films
Elina Gedina - Ducena
19-21 Christopher Street
Gints Grübe
EC2A 2B London England
CO-PRODUCTION Monoklis – Lithuania,
tel: + 38 050 985 49 87
Allfilm – Estonia
www.taskovskifilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS acquisitions1@taskovskifilms.com Latvian Television – Latvia, Estonian Public Broadcasting – Estonia, LRT – Lithuania
An investigative documentary about the new Russia whose expanding influence is based on old sentiment, past fears and misguided feeling of enemy encirclement.
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Mattress Men Colm Quinn
Ireland, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.taskovskifilms.com
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In an attempt to save his struggling mattress business, sixty-something Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online personality ‘Mattress Mick’ under the guidance of his good friend Paul Kelly. Paul, burdened with debts and living with his family in inner city Dublin yearns to get a full time contract working with Mick. Using all his marketing savvy and entrepreneurial skills, Paul embarks on a mission to make Mattress Mick a viral sensation.
SALES / CONTACT Tijana Djukic
PRODUCTION David Clarke
Taskovski Films
El Zorrero Films
19-21 Christopher Street
Ciarán Deeney
EC2A 2BS London England tel: +33 4 93 47 59 65 www.taskovskifilms.com sales@taskovskifilms.com
In an attempt to save his struggling mattress selling business, sixtysomething Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona “Mattress Mick”. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back Maura Axelrod
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 94’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/maurizio
An art world upstart, provocative and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that send up the artistic establishment, until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 finally solidified his place in the contemporary art canon. Axelrod’s equally playful profile leaves no stone unturned in trying to figure out: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Not available in North America
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof 19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
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PRODUCTION Maura Axelrod
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Mauro Mingardi. A Western Movie Without Horses Davide Rizzo
Italy, 2016 color / black and white, video, 80’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Unknown Maestro of Italian Cinema, Mauro Mingardi, has always shied away from success. Following his death, a number of self-interviews is found in his basement, leading to a retelling of his eccentric life and the mystery behind a train to Rome he never managed to catch in time.
SALES / CONTACT Adam Selo Elenfant Film Via De Coltelli 5 73010 Bologna
PRODUCTION Elenfant Film Davide Rizzo CO-PRODUCTION Imago Orbis Sas – Italy
Italy tel: +39 46 2472 176 www.elenfant.com daviderizzo.work@gmail.com
The fabulous adventures of the unknown director Mauro Mingardi through fifty years of movies “without horses.” International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Art / Music / Culture
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 114’ Original Language: English www.mayaangeloufilm.com
The remarkable, daring life of poet, writer, and activist Maya Angelou unfolds in this in-depth portrait. Angelou narrates an entrancing chronicle of a youth shaped by the vicious racism of the Jim Crow South and sexual abuse. Rare footage traces her varied pre-writing career as a nightclub dancer and singer, her courage as a political activist, and her transformative friendships with James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr. , and Malcolm X. Features Cicely Tyson, Alfre Woodward, President Bill Clinton, Common, Sec. Hillary Clinton, Quincy Jones, Lou Gossett, Jr. and Oprah Winfrey. Not available in U.S. Broadcast and non-theatrical
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SALES / CONTACT Tom Koch
PRODUCTION Media Process Group
PBS Distribution
Bob Hercules
2100 Crystal Drive
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS PBS Distribution – USA
22202 Arlington USA tel: +1 703.739.5093 www.pbsbdistribution.org tkoch@pbs.org
The first feature documentary about the incomparable poet, performer, activist Maya Angelou.
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A Memory in Three Acts Uma memória em três atos Inadelso Cossa
Mozambique, 2016 color / black and white, video/HDcam, 64’ Original Language: Portugese/Shangaan Subtitles: English
Mozambique colonial history left a big wound in today country’s collective memory, A Memory In Three Acts it’s a poetic tale on post colonial trauma and collective memory loss where voiceless people who had resist in the underground against PIDE where banned to tell they story after independence. On the other side we have family members of former PIDE agents who also are victims of that violence, the film its a journey into reconciliation.
SALES / CONTACT Inadelso Cossa
PRODUCTION 16mmfilmes
16mmfilmes
Inadelso Cossa
Avenida Ahmed Sekou Touré no 1740, Maputo Mozambique Maputo Mozambique
CO-PRODUCTION Weltfilm – Germany DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
tel: +25 88 2867 89 Inadelsocossa@gmail.com
Former political prisoners decide to back to the places where they use to be torture to meet their ghosts as a treatment to their post torture trauma
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Nature / Environment
The Mermaid Kingdom El Reino de la Sirena Luis Rincon
Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
In a fishing community of Nicaragua divers are getting sick. They descend to the sea looking for lobster and return to the surface with the body paralyzed. Without an explanation for a disease never before seen in the community, the old men spoke out to indicate that divers had raised the anger of the mermaid.
SALES / CONTACT Sofia Marquéz Mexican Film Institute
PRODUCTION Mexican Film Institute Lariza Melo Preciado
Insurgentes Sur 674,
Paloma Negra Films
col. Del Valle, del. Benito Juárez
Cristina Velasco
03100 Ciudad de México Mexico
CO-PRODUCTION Paloma Negra Films – Mexico,
tel: +52 5554485344
Mexican Film Institute – Mexico
www.imcine.gob.mx sales@imcine.gob.mx
In a fishing community of Nicaragua divers are getting sick. 278
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Mies goes to Hollywood Mies gaat naar Hollywood Natasja Wijk
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Subtitles: English
Mies Goes to Hollywood tells the story of Mies (11) who knows one thing for sure: she will become a famous actress. Mies is fortunate to have a successful director as her father; the relocation of her family from Amsterdam to Hollywood is the chance for Mies to pursue that dream. With the help of a manager, coaches, dance classes and auditions she does everything she can to succeed. But she must also learn the language, do a lot of homework, make new friends and go to the orthodontist. Will Mies be able to realize her dream of becoming an actress?
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION KeyDocs Janneke Doolaard
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Hanneke Niens
1202 JJ Hilversum
CO-PRODUCTION VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Mies Goes to Hollywood tells the story of Mies (11) who knows one thing for sure: she will become a famous actress. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues
Miller & Fried - The Birth of Football’s Nation Luiz Ferraz
Brazil, 2016 color / black and white, video, 71’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English/Spanish www.oleproducoes.com.br
/film/its-a-wonderful-life-2/
In the begining of 20th century Brazil was boiling. The end of slavery, the arrival of immigrants and urbanization moved the country. In this scenario, football comes from England with the young Charles Miller and undergoes a revolution in the magical feet of Arthur Friedenreich .
SALES / CONTACT Carolina Rapp
PRODUCTION Olé Produções
Globo FIlmes
Gal Buitoni
Avenida das Américas, 700, Bloco 2, 301
CO-PRODUCTION Globo FIlmes – Brazil,
22640100 Rio de Janeiro
Globonews – The Netherlands
Brazil tel: +55 21 2540 1516 http://
globofilmes.globo.com/en/filme/
miller-fried carolina.rapp@tvglobo.com.br
In the begining of 20th century Brazil was boiling. In this scenario, football comes from England with the young Charles Miller and undergoes a revolution with Arthur Friedenreich. 280
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Miss Kiet’s Children De kinderen van juf Kiet Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 113’ Original Language: Dutch/Arabic Subtitles: French/English/Arabic www.dekinderenvanjufkiet.nl
Kiet Engels is the kind of teacher one wishes every schoolchild could have. She is strict but never harsh. Loving but never soft. Her patience is endless. Miss Kiet’s pupils have only just arrived in Holland. Everything is new and confusing. But Miss Kiet’s firm but loving hand brings calm and awakens trust. She not only teaches her pupils to read and write Dutch, but also helps them learn to solve problems together and respect one another. Slowly the children gain skills and confidence. Miss Kiet’s Children chronicles changes that are small yet at the same time immense.
SALES / CONTACT Marty de Jong Lataster & Films Waterpoortweg 367 1051 PW Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Lataster & Films Peter Lataster INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6627 776 www.latasterfilms.nl martydejong@telfort.nl
Margaret Stanneveld from NPO Sales will represent Miss Kiet’s Children during IDFA. Please contact Margaret Stanneveld: margaret. stanneveld@npo.nl+31 (0) 651135080
Immigrant children finding their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don’t understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Mission Beirut Post Beiroet Maria Mok, Meral Uslu
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: French/ English/Arabic/Dutch Subtitles: English
The Dutch embassy in Lebanon, under the leadership of Hester Somsen, has the difficult mission to encourage the stability in a country where ISIS is rattling at the gates, where the gouvernment is disfunctional and where the huge stream of refugees from neighbouring country Syria undermines the country and introduces problems of radicalisation. What are the interests of The Netherlands in Lebanon and how much space does an ambassador have in a country that is captured in the explosive balance of forces in the Middle-East?
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SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
PRODUCTION CEM media Meral Uslu CO-PRODUCTION KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
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Science / Technology | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Mixed Match Jeff Chiba Stearns
Canada, 2016 color, video/HDcam, 96’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.mixedmatchproject.com
Mixed Match is an important human story told from the perspective of mixed race blood cancer patients who are forced to reflect on their multiracial identities and complex genetics as they struggle with a seemingly impossible search to find bone marrow donors, all while exploring what role race plays in medicine. With the multiracial community becoming one of the fastest growing demographics in North America, being mixed race is no longer just about an identity, it can be a matter of life and death.
SALES / CONTACT Jeff Chiba Stearns Meditating Bunny Studio Inc.
PRODUCTION Meditating Bunny Studio Inc. Jeff Chiba Stearns
8534 Timber Court V5A 4B6 Burnaby, British Columbia Canada tel: +17 78 9914 533 www.meditatingbunny.com jeff@meditatingbunny.com
When being mixed race is more than just an identity, it’s a matter of life of death. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Modern Jungle Charles Fairbanks, Saul Kak
USA / Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 72’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.taskovskifilms.com
/?film=the-modern-jungle
The Modern Jungle portrays life in rural Chiapas, Mexico, where Juan, a shaman, falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed nutritional supplement. Dense with beauty yet decidedly unromantic, The Modern Jungle documents Juan’s struggles with the encroaching forces of capitalism, commodity fetish, and the director of this film.
SALES / CONTACT Tijana Djukic
PRODUCTION Charles Fairbanks
Taskovski Films
Saul Kak
19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2BS London England tel: +33 4 93 47 59 65 www.taskovskifilms.com sales@taskovskifilms.com
The Modern Jungle documents the life of don Juan, a Mexican shaman who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed nutritional supplement. 284
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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
Molenbeek, A Radical Generation Molenbeek, Génération Radicale Chergui Kharroubi, José-Luis Peñafuerte France / Belgium / Switzerland / Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 65’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Since the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks through the arrest of Sala Abdeslam, Molenbeek, a neighbourhood in the heart of the European capital, has been referred to as the cradle of European Jihadism by the international media. This documentary invites us, as privileged viewers, to an uncompromising immersion into the day-to-day reality of this popular and disinherited area in the centre of Brussels.
SALES / CONTACT Rita Boey Sonuma 15, Bld Raymond Poincaré
PRODUCTION Triangle 7 Philippe Sellier
4020 Liège
CO-PRODUCTION RTBF – Belgium,
Belgium
ARTE France – France
tel: +32 2 737 43 94 www.sonuma.be
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium,
rib@rtbf.be
ARTE France – France, RTS – Switzerland, Radio Canada – Canada
Since the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks Molenbeek has been referred to as the cradle of European Jihadism by the international media. Is this so? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Art / Music / Culture Pitched at the Forum 2014
Monsieur Mayonnaise Trevor Graham
Australia / Germany, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 95’/58’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English
Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artist’s epic adventure into his family’s secret past. Australian artist and filmmaker, Philippe Mora, investigates his father’s clandestine role in the French Résistance in WW2 and his mother’s miraculous escape enroute to Auschwitz. Philippe, a Hollywood culthorror movie director packs his paints and easel, as he embarks on a journey to create an audacious comic book about his parents, their survival and the Holocaust. From LA to Berlin, Paris to Melbourne, Monsieur Mayonnaise is a richly layered, road movie starring artists, real life heroes, Nazi villains … and baguettes with lashings of tasty French mayonnaise! France, Germany, Australia and French speaking Pacific not available
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SALES / CONTACT Fiona Gilroy Flame Distribution
PRODUCTION Yarra Bank Films Pty Trevor Graham
Unit 2, 65 Whiting Street
Ned Lander Media
2064 Artarmon
Ned Lander
Australia tel: +61 2 8065 4899
CO-PRODUCTION Yarra Bank Films Pty – Australia,
fgilroy@flamedistribution.com
Lichtblick Filmproduktion – Germany INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF/ARTE – Germany
An epic adventure starring artists, werewolves, heroes, Nazis, a comic book & baguettes….with lashings of French mayonnaise!
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Monster in the Mind Jean Carper
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English www.monsterinthemind.com
Using herself as guinea pig for hightech testing and with top experts in the field as advisors, filmmaker Jean Carper examines the irrational fear, drug failures, dangerous misconceptionsand hidden facts about Alzheimer’s, leading to a surprising and inspiring happy ending, that reveals how to save yourself and the world from dementia. With unique credibility (as she carries the major gene for Alzheimer’s) humor, and intelligence, she enlightens and liberates by showing that almost everything we believe about this most dreaded disease worldwide is simply wrong.
SALES / CONTACT Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc
PRODUCTION Jean Carper Productions LLC Jean Carper
21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
Monster in the Mind is a semi-satirical and often even funny film by 83-yearold CNN veteran journalist and first time filmmaker Jean Carper, about our so-called “global epidemic: Alzheimer’s disease.” International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Morgenrot Michal Korchowiec
Poland, 2016 color, video, 68’ Original Language: Polish/German/English Subtitles: English
A personal, intergenerational story of the director’s family. After WW II Poland pursued the policy of the ethnic flattening of the Polish society. Thanks to that policy the issue of the postwar problems of native inhabitants of Recover Territories was eliminated from the public discourse. The director’s grandmother, afraid of domestic aggression and public humiliation, had never revealed her national identity. The director discovered the indirect influence of the war on his own life as a result of the way his mother was raised. Now it is only honesty that can help them reconstruct their relations.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion
PRODUCTION Ersatz Michal Korchowiec
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
After WW II Poland pursued the policy of the ethnic flattening. The director’s grandmother, afraid of domestic aggression and public humiliation, had never revealed her national identity. 288
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The Most Beautiful Woman HAYAFA BANASHIM Maya Sarfaty
Israel, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 32’ Original Language: German/Hebrew/English Subtitles: English
A tragic love story between Helena a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and the SS officer Franz Wunsch. The forbidden relationship resolved in Franz saving Helena’s sister out from the gas chambers, back into the living, but the sister’s two children were left there to die. As of today, a surprising channel of communication opened between the SS officer’s daughter and the children of Helena and Rosa. For the first time, they are willing to look bravely straight into the past and unveil the silenced episodes in the life of their mothers.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION Nir Sa’ar
Go2Films Isser Natanzon, 37/8 97787 Jerusalem Israel tel: +972 2 5831371 www.go2films.com hedva@go2films.com
A tragic love story between a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and SS officer. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture | Youth
The Most Important Boy in the World Najvazniji decko na svetu Tea Lukac
Serbia, 2016 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Croatian/Serbian Subtitles: English
www.themostimportantdocumentary.com
Boris Mitrovic is the biggest Justin Bieber fan in the Balkans. Inspired by his idol, and armed with his manager, a Lamborghini and a fan base on Facebook, Boris is trying to make his show-business dreams come true. While some fans dream about the day they will meet their idol, other fans dream about the day when they will become someone’s idol. The film explores the distance between these dreams of love and success and the everyday lives of the fans.
SALES / CONTACT Mladen Vusurovic
PRODUCTION Faculty of Dramatic arts
Tricontinental
Belgrade
Peke Pavlovica 1
Zoran Jankovic
81250 Cetinje Montenegro tel: +38 11 1324 8873 mladen@beldocs.rs
Distance between dreams of love and success and everyday lifes of the fans of teenage idols.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues Pitched at the Forum 2014
Mrs.B, A North Korean Woman Madame B, histoire d’une nord-coréenne Jero Yun South Korea / France, 2016 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Korean/Chinese Subtitles: English
While illegally leaving North Korea, Mrs. B. is sold by her smugglers to a Chinese farmer. She becomes a smuggler herself and engages in a struggle to reunite with her sons. But the Intelligence Service gets involved… France, Denmark and South Korea not available
SALES / CONTACT Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin
PRODUCTION Zorba Production Guillaume de la Boulaye CO-PRODUCTION Su:m – South Korea
75003 Paris France tel: +33 01 4277 5687
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark
www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
The incredible story of Mrs B, a North-Korean woman who illegally cross the Chinese border for her family.
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The Mute’s House 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
PRODUCTION The Sam Spiegel Film & TV
Cinephil
School
Levontin Street 18
Tamar Kay
6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
A building in Israeli Hebron, which has been deserted by Palestinian occupants, is called “The Mute’s House” by the Israeli soldiers stationed there and by the tour guides.
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My Brothers and Sisters in the North Meine Brüder und Schwestern im Norden Sung-Hyung Cho Germany, 2016 color, video, 109’/90’ Original Language: German/Korean Subtitles: English/German
www.meinebruederundschwesternimnorden.de
North Korea. Land of military mass parades, leader cult, nuclear tests, public enemy No. 1. Right? As a native of South Korea, filmmaker SungHyung Cho grew up with the idea oft he neighboring country in the north being populated by monsters. As the first South Korean filmmaker ever, she obtained permission to film in the country on the other side oft he border and thus earned the chance to say goodbye to prejudice and to revise the ready-made image oft the human robots of the North. Germany not available (Theatrical, Free TV)
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber Magnetfilm
PRODUCTION Kundschafter Filmproduktion Andreas Banz
Ilsensteinweg 35
Dirk Engelhardt
14129 Berlin
Matthias Miegel
Germany tel: +49 163 8010753
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS HR – Germany,
www.magnetfilm.de
WDR – Germany
georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
The first South Korean director to be allowed to film and travel in North Korea, Sung-Hyung Cho portrays its citizens in every day life and work. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
My Escape
Firas Fayyad, Henrik Grunnet
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 53’ Original Language: Arabic/English Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
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The film focuses on the largest refugee crisis since the World War II – through the eyes of two boys out of the many thousands of children who are fleeing alone. Their journey is told from their point of view, and some of it is recorded by themselves with their own mobile cameras. It’s a world away from news hosts in trouble spots – simply told as honestly as possible by the children themselves.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen DR Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
PRODUCTION Heartland Gitte Taekker INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark
Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
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My Father from Sirius Isäni Tähtien Takaa Einari Paakkanen
Finland / Germany, 2016 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English www.pohjolafilmi.fi
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When filmmaker Einari was a boy in smalltown Finland, his father Veikko was an ordinary guy with a job at the local tax office. Until he disclosed to his 12 year old son that he was a messenger between Earth and Outer Space. Henceforth, Veikko was a super-being who believed he could cure cancer, see extraterrestrial beings and contact the afterlife. 25 years later, Einari returns and confronts his father with his own doubts. Wonderfully told father and son film about belief and disbelief in the spiritual world. Finland not available
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Strasse 29/30
PRODUCTION Pohjola-filmi Elina Pohjola
10997 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS YLE – Finland,
Germany
ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany
tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
Einari Paakkanen grew up believing his father was a messenger from outer space. Now 35, he wants to find out what is true in his father’s worldview.
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My Friend, Yaniv Maayan Schwartz
Israel, 2016 color, HDcam, 45’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English/Hebrew https://
www.facebook.com/myfriendyaniv/
Maayan (the filmmaker) and Yaniv have been friends for over 10 years. The film provides a glimpse into their honest companionship. Recently, Yaniv shares with Maayan his desire to leave home in order to become truly independent for the first time, even at the cost of risking his own life. Yaniv takes us on a journey full of humor, which challenges conventional thinking about what it means to be alive. The film displays life as a constant struggle between desire and determination, between body and spirit and between helplessness and optimism.
SALES / CONTACT Maayan Schwartz
PRODUCTION Sapir CollegeSchool of Media,
Neve Shalom, DN Shmshon
Film and Cultural Studies
99761 neve Shalmom
Moran Nakar
Israel tel: +97 2523666998 maayans20@gmail.com
A glimpse into an honest companionship that display life as a constant struggle between desire and determination, between body and spirit and between helplessness and optimism. 296
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My Matthäus Mijn Matthaus Simonka Jong
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
My Matthaus is a film about impassioned amateur performers singing Bach’s Matthäus Passion. Their intimate stories about separation, suffering and consolation bring the Biblical themes back to human measures. The choirboy with a cracking voice, the man whos’ life is centering on getting older and saying goodbye, and the woman who found comfort in singing after a great personal loss. All individuals have their own connection to the Matthäus Passion. Their moving stories combined with the music as its décor make it hard to ever listen to the Matthäus in the same way again.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum
PRODUCTION De Haaien Paul Beek CO-PRODUCTION EO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
My Matthaus is a film about impassioned amateur performers singing Bach’s Matthäus Passion. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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My Name is Hungry Buffalo Jmenuji se hladov Bizon Pavel Jurda
Czech Republic / Slovakia, 2016 color, video, 83’ Original Language: Czech/English Subtitles: English/Czech
Born to be blind! A documentary tragicomedy about a man who learnt to see with no eyes. Hungry Buffalo is blind from birth and going deaf. He laps up books about Indians using braille writing and in one of them he comes across the Navajo medicine man Blackhorse, who agrees to perform a healing ritual, which could improve his hearing. “My name is Hungry Buffalo,” he introduces himself to all and sundry but the Indians find it hard to understand what he is saying but laugh merrily as his joy of life is infectious. Blackhorse is rather aloof at first. He doesn´t believe in this European romantic palaver. In the end, even he succumbs…
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SALES / CONTACT Radim Prochazka Produkce Radim Prochazka
PRODUCTION Produkce Radim Prochazka Radim Prochazka
Rehorova 1039/54 13000 Prague Czech Republic tel: +420 603 862 161 radim@radimprochazka.com
Born to be blind! A documentary tragicomedy about a man who learnt to see with no eyes.
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The Nailhouse - One Says No! André Dayong, Zhao Dayong
Germany / Hong Kong / China, 2016 color, video, 98’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
A “nailhouse” is a more recent Chinese term for homes belonging to people (“stubborn nails”) who refuse relocate for property developments. When in Guangzhou begins the regeneration process for the first group of 10+ of its 138 urban villages, Yangji Village was among the first urban villages to face the process of demolition and removal. Li Qizhong, known to his friends as “Ah Zhong,” and a number of other villagers are resolutely opposed to the demolition terms which offered a significant lowering of the property’s value. Perhaps many billings are forcibly demolished without the automation of the owners.
SALES / CONTACT Paul Thiltges Paul Thiltges Distributions
PRODUCTION Lantern Films China Company David Bandurski
Filmland - 27, zone industrielle
Filmfee
8287 Kehlen
Georg Prokop
Luxembourg tel: +35 22 5039 3
CO-PRODUCTION Paul Thiltges Distributions –
www.ptd.lu
Luxembourg
info@ptd.lu
Reports of entire city’s districts demolition seem to belong everyday life in China. Evictions face no relevant resistance. No one protests. What happens when one says “NO”? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment
Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale Ben Bowie, Geoff Luck
USA / The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: English www.naledifilm.com
Naledi tells the true story of a baby elephant born into a rescue camp in the Botswana wilderness. When she’s suddenly orphaned at one month, the keepers and scientist looking after the herd become tireless surrogate mothers to keep her alive. Camp scientist Mike Chase knows the stakes. He has launched the most ambitious census ever of African elephants across the continent; a last ditch effort to help them survive. Now, he must race to defend an entire species while struggling to save a single life.
SALES / CONTACT Ellen Windemuth Off The Fence
PRODUCTION Vulcan Productions Jannat Gargi
Herengracht 105-107
Off The Fence
1015 BE Amsterdam
Emre Izat
The Netherlands tel: +31(0)20 5200 213
CO-PRODUCTION Off The Fence – The Netherlands,
www.offthefence.com
Vulcan Productions – USA
ellen@offthefence.com
Naledi is the story of an elephant born into a rescue camp in Botswana. When she’s suddenly orphaned, the camp keepers become tireless surrogate mothers to keep her alive. 300
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Naomi’s Secret Naomi’s geheim Saskia Gubbels
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 16’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
For the first time, Naomi is taking her best friend Sam to visit her mother who lives in a locked institution. Naomi explains that she also uses drugs in addition to being psychotic. When she is going through old photos with her aunt, we discover that Naomi has been living with her since the age of five. It gradually becomes clear that the situation has had a considerable impact on Naomi’s life. A testimony to hope and love, a sincere portrait of the strong young woman that Naomi has become thanks to the unconditional support of the people around her.
SALES / CONTACT Jan de Ruiter Selfmade Films
PRODUCTION Selfmade Films Anja Cloosterman
Nieuwpoortkade 2a
Niek Koppen
1055 RX Amsterdam
Jan de Ruiter
The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6060 789 www.selfmadefilms.nl janderuiter@selfmadefilms.nl
Naomi, an optimistic teenager who faithfully visits her mother at the mental health unit where she lives, decides to take her best friend along, for the first time. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone Marlene Morris
USA, 2016 color / black and white, video, 56’ Original Language: English http://
anewcolordocumentary.com
A New Color is a joy-filled, heart-rending story about community, art and lives that matter. Bay Area artist and civil rights activist Edythe “Edy” Boone is a sprightly septuagenarian who seems only to gain energy over the years. Edy paints walls to build bridges toward unity when the chokehold death of her nephew Eric Garner and his final words - “I Can’t Breathe” - ignite a national outcry for racial justice. An audience Favorite at Mill Valley Film Festival, A New Color will air nationally on US public television America ReFramed series in 2017.
SALES / CONTACT Marlene Morris
PRODUCTION Galewind Films
Galewind Films
Marlene Morris
2727 Claremont Blvd. 94705 Berkeley USA tel: +15 10 9280 858 anewcolordocumentary.com anewcolor.doc@gmail.com
Celebrated muralist paints walls to build bridges toward unity when the chokehold death of her nephew and his final words,”I Can’t Breathe, ignite a national outcry for racial justice. 302
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No Dress Code Required Etiqueta no rigurosa Cristina Herrera, Cristina Herrera Bórquez Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Victor and Fernando are beauty professionals in Baja California, Mexico. They are known for beautifying Mexicali socialites. For many of their customers they were a lovely couple, until they decided to marry and become the first gay couple in the state to fight for their rights in a place filled with homophobia and inequality.
SALES / CONTACT Sofia Marquéz Mexican Film Institute
PRODUCTION La Cleta Films S de RL de CV Cristina Herrera
Insurgentes Sur 674,
Mexican Film Institute
col. Del Valle, del. Benito Juárez
Lariza Melo Preciado
03100 Ciudad de México
CO-PRODUCTION Mexican Film Institute – Mexico
Mexico tel: +52 5554485344 www.imcine.gob.mx sales@imcine.gob.mx
A couple in love from Baja California Mexico are in the middle of the preparations for a huge wedding, the only problem is that their marriage is not legal.
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No Rio e No Mar! Jan Willem den Bok, Floor Koomen
The Netherlands / Brazil, 2016 color, HDcam, 57’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English/Dutch
The beautiful island of Ilha de Maré in Brasil was once a rare habitat full of life. Now this little paradise is seriously threatened by the petrochemical industry. Eliete Paraguaçu and Marizelia ‘Nega’ Carlos Lopes, two combative women from the fishing community, stand up against the polluting industry and lenient government authorities. Together with Marcos Brandão, counsel for the Fishermen’s Union, they take the initiative for a popular protest.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
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PRODUCTION EO Herma van Boven
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Nordic Noir: The Rise of Scandi Drama Lars Hogéus
Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 51’/58’ Original Language: Danish/English www.drsales.dk/programmes/ nordic-noir-rise-scandi-drama/
With Scandinavian crime drama at the forefront of TV excellence, the documentary looks at multiple case studies including Netflix’s original series Lilyhammer, the BAFTA-winning Borgen, The Killing, Wallander, and the Prix Europa award-winning Bron, whose success triggered two hugely popular remakes in Hollywood and in Europe:The Bridge and The Tunnel. Most importantly, the documentary analyses what it really is that makes Scandinavian stories and characters so gripping and how and why they have become ambassadors of Scandinavian culture.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Shoot For the Moon
DR
Caroline Palstierna
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
Through exclusive interviews with some of TV’s most celebrated talent, the documentary unravels the mystique of Nordic noir and investigates the challenges involved in taking a Scandinavian drama to international audiences. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Normal Autistic Film Normální autistick film Miroslav Janek
Czech Republic, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: Czech Subtitles: English
Direct and thoughtful, Luká has a distinctive sense of humor. Piano virtuoso Denis is able to play demanding classical pieces. He adores The Little Prince so much that he keeps rereading it. Majda likes to rap and isn’t shy about it. Marjamka is able to tell long stories in English, while her tireless brother Ahmed is uncommonly friendly. Five remarkable children that society has consistently and unflatteringly labeled “autistic. ” A unique authorial vision challenges us once and for all to stop perceiving autism as a medical diagnosis and try to understand it as a fascinating way of thinking.
SALES / CONTACT Jan Macola Mimesis Film Premyslovska 48/13 13000 Prague Czech Republic tel: +42 07 2493 8883
PRODUCTION Mimesis Film Jan Macola CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television – Czech Republic INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Czech Television – Czech Republic
www.mimesis.cz jan@mimesis.cz
Czech Republic not available
Let’s take hold of the surrounding chaos and overload our senses! In such a state one may understand autism as a fascinating way of thinking that’s often maddeningly difficult to decipher. 306
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Experimental | Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment
November December Novembro dezembro Bruno Jorge
Brazil, 2016 color, video, 23’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
In a fairy-tale documentary, an artistic couple moves from São Paulo to a rural town after having their first child. While struggling to overcome the fear and anxiety entailed by such circumstances, they anticipate the day the filmmaker will have to return to the city, leaving his wife and son behind in order to finish the movie he had begun before the baby’s birth.
SALES / CONTACT Bruno Jorge João de Barro Cinema Independente
PRODUCTION João de Barro Cinema Independente Bruno Jorge
rua Pascoal Vita, 342, ap. 31
Fernanda Preto
05445000 Sao Paulo Brazil tel: +55 35 997330590 www.brunojorge.com bruno@brunojorge.com
The film uses a magical realism to reveal a relationship in crisis of a couple who have been moved to a rural village.
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Nowhere Boy Los niños de la Cruz Jaime Villa
Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Compelled by the precarious conditions of their families, Gabriel and Esther attend elementary school in a boarding school for children of low-income families. Away from their parents and siblings, between games, lessons, dreams and fights, both kids must learn that this is the best option they will have to shape a future. Nonetheless, going hand in hand to school with their parents or grandparents each monday and waiting until friday to go back home with them, will test their strenght and capabilities to successfully overcome this ordeal that makes them adults when they are still children.
SALES / CONTACT Sofia Marquéz Mexican Film Institute
PRODUCTION Mexican Film Institute Lariza Melo Preciado
Insurgentes Sur 674,
SilvaR Producciones
col. Del Valle, del. Benito Juárez
Karen Silva
03100 Ciudad de México
CO-PRODUCTION Mexican Film Institute – Mexico
Mexico tel: +52 5554485344 www.imcine.gob.mx sales@imcine.gob.mx
Gabriel and Esther are two children who live in a boarding school for lowincome families.
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Nowhere to Hide Zaradasht Ahmed
Norway / Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 85’/59’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English/Norwegian
Nowhere to Hide follows male nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change, providing unique access into one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas – the “triangle of death” in central Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of a better future as American troops retreat from Iraq in 2011, conflicts continue with Iraqi militias, and the population flees accompanied by most of the hospital staff. Nori is one of the few who remain. When ISIS advances on Jalawla in 2014 and takes over the city, he too has to flee with his family at a moment’s notice, and turns the camera on himself.
SALES / CONTACT Diana Holtzberg East Village Entertainment, LLC 166 Second Avenue
PRODUCTION Ten Thousand Images Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas
10003 New York
CO-PRODUCTION Pasaremos AS – Norway,
USA
Mantaray Film – Sweden
tel: +1 212 614 28 08
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NRK – Norway,
www.eastvillageentertainment.com
diana@eastvillageentertainment.com SVT – Sweden
Norway and Sweden not available
Nowhere to Hide follows the medic and family man Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change after the American retreat from Iraq in 2011. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Ocean Wings Alas de mar Hans Mülchi
Chile, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 79’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Celina and Rosa, two of the few remaining people of Kawésqar origin, return to the seas where they sailed in canoes before being relocated to western civilization. Christoph and Marcia accompany them, two Swiss scientists whom they teach of their world of whales and icebergs. On the journey, the filmmaker tries to portray the Kawésqar with dignity, after the many abusive instances which they have had to endure.
SALES / CONTACT Flor Rubina Blume Producciones
PRODUCTION Blume Producciones Flor Rubina
Guillermo Tell 5740 7870046 Santiago Chile tel: +56 99 8752 842 flor@blume.cl
Celina was born in a kawésqar cabin in the Strait of Magellan and was forced to move to Punta Arenas. Now he goes back to the shore where he was born.
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Off the Rails Adam Irving
USA, 2016 color, video, 87’ Original Language: English www.offtherailsmovie.com
Off the Rails tells the remarkable true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger’s syndrome whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for impersonating New York City bus drivers and subway conductors and driving their routes. North America not available
SALES / CONTACT Annie Edwards Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION Gemini Pictures Adam Irving
4 High Street
Zipper Brothers Films
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
Glen Zipper
England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
The remarkable true story of Darius McCollum.
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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Offended Los ofendidos Marcela Zamora Chamorro El Salvador / Mexico, 2016 color, video/HDcam, 85’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.kinoglazfilms.com
When I turned 33, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadoran civil war, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is to know the truth.
SALES / CONTACT Marcela Zamora Chamorro Kino Glaz
PRODUCTION Kino Glaz Julio López Fernández
Colonia La Sultana, calle Los Lirios, Antiguo Cuscatlán 24b
CO-PRODUCTION Argos Comunicación – Mexico
000 La Libertad El Salvador tel: +503 77375903 www.kinoglazfilms.com marcelazamora1980@gmail.com
In the Salvadoran civil war, my father and thousands more were captured and tortured by the State. These are some of their stories.
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Oleg’s Choice
Le Choix d’Oleg James Keogh, Elena Volochine France, 2016 color, HDcam, 75’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: French/English http://
olegschoice.com
Starting in the summer of 2014, thousands of young Russians poured into the Donbass Region of Eastern Ukraine. Driven by the propaganda on Russian television, they believed they were fulfilling their patriotic duty. Among them were Oleg and Max. Oleg was appointed battalion commander, while Max became a soldier. Told through their own words, their story is shattered on the night of June 3rd 2015, when Oleg leads his men to their death. The battle leaves the battalion in pieces and these young Russians facing the consequences of their choices.
SALES / CONTACT Roch Bozino Java Films
PRODUCTION Little Big Story Valérie Montmartin
38 quai du point du jour 92100 Boulogne France tel: +33 1 74 71 33 13 www.javafilms.fr rbozino@javafilms.fr
Summer 2014, Donbass. Oleg command a battalion ; Max, he is a soldier. Two vision of patriotism shattered in one night of June 2015. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Olympic Pride - American Prejudice Deborah Riley Draper
USA, 2016 color, video, 73’/52’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English
Narrated by executive producer and Hollywood actor Blair Underwood, Olympic Pride - American Prejudice is set against the turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America with the 16 men and two women torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics and participating in the Games. 2016 is the 80th anniversary of the most controversial summer Olympic games in it´s history.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Coffee Bluff Pictures
Autlook Filmsales
Deborah Riley Draper
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
The film is set against the turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America with the 16 men and two women torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics and participating in the Games. 314
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On Call La permanence Alice Diop
France, 2016 color, HDcam, 97’ Original Language: Spanish/English/French Subtitles: English/French
The consulting service is located in the Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny. It’s an outpost at the end of a corridor. A large room where sick men show up, bearing physical scars, and whose pain seems closely linked to the suffering of exile. They keep coming back here because they still harbor hopes that this place will give them the means to stay afloat, to survive the turmoil of their lives hitting rock bottom. Not available in France
SALES / CONTACT Sophie Salbot Athénaïse
PRODUCTION Athénaïse Sophie Salbot
2 quater, place du Général de Gaulle INVOLVED TV CHANNELS 93100 Montreuil ARTE France – France France tel: +331 41720275 www.athenaise.com athenaises@orange.fr
Sick men whose pain says the sentences of exile are received in consultation at the permanence of the Avicenne hospital. They try, with the support of doctors, to hold on. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues
On the Bridge of Death and Life Lola Jia Liu
Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 97’/52’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English www.lichtfilm.de
In Nanjing lives a lonely and unique person who saves people who want to jump from the bridge: Chen Si. For the past ten years he has sacrificed every free weekend for them, driving his motorcycle back and forth across the huge bridge spanning the Yangtze River. The documentary follows Chen Si as he makes his rounds, and as we accompany him we meet some of the victims of China’s rapid economic development. We encounter real-life stories of people that have tried to climb the ladder of prosperity and have failed.
SALES / CONTACT Wolfgang Bergmann Lichtfilm Aquinostr. 15 50670 Köln
PRODUCTION Lichtfilm Wolfgang Bergmann INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF – Germany
Germany tel: +49-221-9726517 www.lichtfilm.de wolf.berg@lichtfilm.de
Chen Si has saved over 200 people from jumping from the Yangtze Bridge in Nanjing. The film takes a fascinating look at why they ended up on the bridge. 316
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One Big Home Thomas Bena
USA, 2016 color, video, 89’ onebighomethemovie.com
Mega-mansions are being built all across America. On Martha’s Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the island’s unique character. Not only do these “starter castles” stand in stark contrast to traditional cottages, most sit empty for ten months a year, yet are heated year round! One Big Home follows one carpenter’s twelve-year journey to understand the trend toward giant houses. When he feels complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, he takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera. Bumping up against angry homeowners and builders who look the other way, he works with his community and attempts to pass a new bylaw to limit house size.
SALES / CONTACT Thomas Bena
PRODUCTION Elephant In The Room
P.O. Box 142
Productions, LLC.
02535 Chilmark
Thomas Bena
USA tel: +1 5085601332
CO-PRODUCTION The Media Darlings –
www.onebighomethemovie.com
The Netherlands
thomas@onebighomethemovie.com
A community determines its destiny.
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One Ticket Please Matiss Kaza
USA / Latvia, 2016 color, video, 65’ Original Language: English www.oneticketfilm.com
A 78-year-old Indian woman in New York is the world’s most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane been going to at least one play every day for more than 25 years. Always taking along her large bags, Nicki is ready to fight for a free seat at any show that’s worth her time. She has developed an array of ingenious means by which she acquires free tickets to most New York theaters. When small talk with the box office managers doesn’t get her a free ticket, Nicki stands outside the theater entrance, holding a sign which says “One Ticket Please“ hoping that a stranger will have an extra ticket to spare. Disliked by theater staff for her behavior, Nicki prides herself with a staunch dedication to the art. But at what point does passion turn into addiction? As Nicki rushes around Manhattan from one theater to the next, we find out about her personality, family and the choices she has made in order to make a life at the theatre possible.
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SALES / CONTACT Una Celma Fenixfilm
PRODUCTION Fenixfilm Una Celma
Caka 33-43
Apriori, LLC
LV1011 Riga
Reid Hannaford
Latvia tel: +37 12 9475 390 fenixfilm@inbox.lv
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One Way Ticket To ISIS Enkele reis naar het Kalifaat Hetty Nietsch
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 50’ Subtitles: English
About 240 Dutch boys, girls, men and women have left The Netherlands to join the so-called Islamic State. For the first time, and giving us unprecedented access, their families and friends talk openly on camera about the shock they experienced at finding out their youngsters were gone. They talk about their grief and sense of powerlessness. Had they overlooked something, why hadn’t they noticed what was going on?But also - what would happen if they came back? Surely they must have changed for the worse, after having seen and done horrifically brutal things to other human beings?
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales
PRODUCTION BNN / VARA Maaike den Hoed
Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
One Way Ticket To ISIS tells the devastating story of the families of Dutch teenagers who have run away from home to join ISIS. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Operation Popcorn David Grabias
Vietnam / USA, 2015 color / black and white, video, 52’/80’ Original Language: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com
/home/films/operation-popcorn/
A thrilling tale, Operation Popcorn explores the fate of ten Hmong American leaders and a retired U. S. Army officer who are accused of conspiring together to overthrow the communist government of Laos. Seven years in the making, the film sheds light on the fragile relationships between individuals and the American surveillance state. Directed by Emmy award-winning David Grabias.
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Artifact LA Anne Edgar
611 Broadway, suite 630 10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
Forty years after the Vietnam War, a CIA operative approaches a Hmong human rights activist about buying weapons to continue the fight.
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Operation Wedding MIVTZA HATUNA Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov
Israel / Latvia / USA / Russia, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 62’/58’ Original Language: Russian/English/Hebrew Subtitles: English www.operation-wedding-documentary.com
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB, they were sentenced to years in the Gulag and two were sentenced to death. They never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, regarded as “heroes” in the West and “terrorists” in Russia.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt Go2Films
PRODUCTION Sasha Klein Productions Sasha Klein
Isser Natanzon, 37/8
Ego Media
97787 Jerusalem
Guntis Trekteris
Israel tel: +972 2 5831371
CO-PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment –
www.go2films.com
Germany
hedva@go2films.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Channel 1 – Israel
Filmmaker tells the story of her parents, Russian dissidents sentenced to Gulag after plotting to hijack an empty plane to escape the USSR in 1970.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Politics / Society
The Opposition Hollie Fifer
Australia, 2016 color, HDcam, 76’ Original Language: Tok Pisin/English Subtitles: English http://
theoppositionfilm.com
“Mothers Day, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 2012: policemen wielding machetes and guns descend on the Paga Hill Settlement to bulldoze their houses to the ground. Residents are beaten and policemen open fire on the crowd. This brutal demolition is to make way for a multi-million development which will include a five star hotel and marina wharf. The Opposition, an investigative documentary, follows Joe Moses as he struggles to save his community before they are forcibly evicted. Despite betrayals, police brutality and risks to his own life, Joe battles through the courts fighting to save his home. “
SALES / CONTACT Rebecca Barry
PRODUCTION Beacon Films
Media Stockade
Rebecca Barry
62 Ivy Street
Hollie Fifer
2008 Darlington
Madeleine Hetherton
Australia tel: +61 41 2085 881 www.mediastockade.com rebecca@mediastockade.com
In a David-and-Goliath battle over a slice of Papua New Guinea paradise, Joe Moses, leader of the Paga Hill Settlement, struggles to save his 3,000 people before they are evicted. 322
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The Orchid Seller El vendedor de orquídeas Lorenzo Vigas Mexico / Venezuela, 2016 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Oswaldo Vigas, a renowned Venezuelan painter, returns, in his eighties, to the towns where he was raised, searching for a painting that was lost during his teenage years. If he finds it, he and his wife, Jeannine, will be able to complete an exhibition about the early stages of his career. This search becomes more than an opportunity to revisit the early influences on his art. During this exploration, he is confronted with a chapter of his youth that marked him for the rest of his life and defined him as a human being and as a creator.
SALES / CONTACT Sofia Marquéz Mexican Film Institute
PRODUCTION Lucia Films Michel Franco
Insurgentes Sur 674,
Malandro Films, Lucia Films
col. Del Valle, del. Benito Juárez
Lorenzo Vigas
03100 Ciudad de México
CO-PRODUCTION Mexican Film Institute – Mexico
Mexico tel: +52 55554485344 www.imcine.gob.mx sales@imcine.gob.mx
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OSTKREUZ - Agency of Photographers Maik Reichert
Germany, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
OSTKREUZ, today’s most famous photographers’ agency in Germany, was founded with the Magnum agency as a role model in East Germany shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Today 20 photographers from East and West organize it, united by their humanistic worldview and documentary photography that is engaged. Maik Reichert’s film shines a spotlight on the otherwise very different photographers and their own working practices, portraying their joint passion of making images to picture our society.
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber Magnetfilm
PRODUCTION Nachtaktivfilm Brigitte Kramer
Ilsensteinweg 35
Maik Reichert Photography
14129 Berlin
Maik Reichert
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION Maik Reichert – Germany
tel: +49 163 8010753 www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RBB / ARTE – Germany
Germany not available (Theatrical & Free TV)
OSTKREUZ, the most famous photographers’ agency in Germany, was founded in East Germany shortly after the Berlin Wall fell. This film tells its story. 324
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The Other Half Of The Sky - Stories of Chinese Businesswomen Patrik Soergel
Switzerland / Germany, 2016 color, video, 80’/52’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
The film explores the huge transformation taking place in China today, from the perspectives of four of the country’s most powerful businesswomen. Women who experienced the austerity of China’s Cultural Revolution, followed by the economic boom. Though growing up in a patriarchal society, they have risen from nothing and have become symbols of change, representing a forceful break with the past. The protagonists give insight into how they created their empires, the social and economic context in which they operate and the price they had to pay in terms of their private and family lives. Switzerland not available (Free TV)
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber
PRODUCTION PiCfilm sa
Magnetfilm
Nicola Genni
Ilsensteinweg 35 14129 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –
Germany
Switzerland,
tel: +49 163 8010753
SRG SSR Idée Suisse – Switzerland
www.magnetfilm.de georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
An exploration on the huge transformation taking place in China today, from the perspectives of four of the country’s most powerful businesswomen.
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Out of Darkness
Medellín, Beirut, Sarajevo, Kigali. Ciudades a Contraluz. Francesc Relea Spain / Colombia, 2016 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: English/Spanish/ Arabic/Bosnian/Kinyarwanda Subtitles: Spanish/English
The desperate flight of thousands of syrian citizens trying to reach Europe puts on the table the role of cities as a refuge for those fleeing from hell. It isn’t a new issue. It happens that migrations, violence and famine only attract Gov’ts and public attention when the consequences reach the developed nations. Out Of Darkness is a documentary film mapping out the soul of four cities, Kigali, Sarajevo, Beirut and Medellín, whose names conjure up the idea of destruction and pain. Today, these same cities are examples of how a city can be reborn from the ashes, and examples of the reconstruction of a new society. Spain and Colombia not available
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SALES / CONTACT Isabel Jubert
PRODUCTION What’s Up Doc sl.
What’s Up Doc sl.
Isabel Jubert
Provenza 211
CO-PRODUCTION OtroCuento – Colombia
08008 Barcelona Spain tel: +34 93 4518 226
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Radio Televisión Española – Spain,
www.whatsupdoc.tv
TV3 Televisió de Catalunya –
isajubertm@gmail.com
Spain
A journey in search of the ‘soul’ of cities that have suffered to unimaginable limits, and today instil hope. A portrait of Medelli´n, Sarajevo, Beirut and Kigali transformation.
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Out of Fashion Moest väljas Jaak Kilmi, Lennart Laberenz Estonia, 2016 color, video, 58’ Original Language: English/Estonian Subtitles: English www.homelessbob.ee
/movies/out-of-fashion/
The fashion industry is at the forefront of causing ecological damage. Fashion designer Reet Aus has the ambitious plan to change the world. The film follows her on her mission around the world to create cutting edge fashion out of the trash material of the industry. She wants to convince the big players how easy it could be to make their business eco-friendly. . . Estonia not available
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin
PRODUCTION Jaak Kilmi
Rise and Shine World Sales
Homeless Bob Production
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Katrin Kissa
10997 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
The Estonian designer Reet Aus has an ambitious plan to convince big players of fast fashion industry how easy it could be to make their business ecofriendly. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture | Experimental
Paa Joe & The Lion Benjamin Wigley
England, 2016 color / black and white, video, 69’/73’ Original Language: GA/English Subtitles: English www.paajoeandthelion.com
Ghana. Inside a roadside shack sleeps Paa Joe, Grandfather of the fantasycoffin trade. Cars hurtle by as he dreams of his past – carrying money home in briefcases, building caskets for US presidents. Now, there are no customers, no tourists, there are no coffins to make. His son watches on, wishing to take his father back to his glory days. Over the next four years they stand together, conquering death with love and embracing a life changing opportunity to travel to the UK. It’s the start of their future – father and son, master and apprentice…Paa Joe & The Lion
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SALES / CONTACT Anna Griffin Artdocs Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad Street NG1 3AL Nottingham England tel: +44 7979 807 316 anna@artdocs.org
PRODUCTION Artdocs Anna Griffin
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Paolo Ventura. Vanishing Man Paolo Ventura. De verdwijnende man Eric van Empel The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 100’ Subtitles: English
With the relics of a human life - objects found in a flea market - Italian artist Paolo Ventura fights the fleeting nature of life. Paolo Ventura gave up a successful career as a fashion photographer because he just had to photograph the images that haunted him. Images that the artist had imagined as a child when his grandmother told him about her adventures during the war. In a barn on top of a secluded mountain he creates a timeless melancholic world that resonates the isolation in which he grew up. But is it a dreamworld or a nightmare?
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2
PRODUCTION Zuidenwind Filmproductions Joost Seelen
1202 JJ Hilversum
CO-PRODUCTION Westerdok Film –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands,
tel: +31 35 6772 960
NTR – The Netherlands
www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
In the documentary Paolo Ventura. Vanishing Man, director Erik van Empel creates a complex portrait of this fascinating artist and dissects the themes of Ventura’s body of work. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Paradise Behind the Fence Lumi Punasel Lagedal Aljona Sur ikova
Estonia / Austria, 2016 color, HDcam, 46’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English www.amrion.ee
/index2.php?id=10759
At the end of the 19th century, 65 families left Estonia in search of a better life. 37 of them reached a beautiful place by the Black Sea where they established an Estonian village. When Sochi was selected to hold the Olympic Games in 2007, active development began. The blossoming trees were cast under asphalt, animals killed as they were not welcome in the Olympic village. New roads and houses were erected, but after being used for only weeks they now stand empty. The film consisting of portraits tells about how drastically the world of Estonians living in Sochi changed.
SALES / CONTACT Riina Sildos Amrion OÜ
PRODUCTION Amrion OÜ Riina Sildos
Nurme 45 11616 Tallinn Estonia tel: + 3726776363 www.efsa.ee info@amrion.ee
Everyday life of ancient village which was stormed by 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. 330
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Paris is voguing Gabrielle Culand
France, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 67’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Lasseindra Ninja and Stephane Mizrahi are two French pioneers of Voguing, a dance created in the 70s in the gay community of Harlem. These two “mothers” took on the mantle of passing on this extensively codified homosexual culture to the youth of the French suburbs each in their own way. Through rigor and patience they teach their “children” how to dance, be elegant as well as to be proud of their genre and skin color.
SALES / CONTACT Anne Littardi
PRODUCTION Kidam
Beliane
Pascal Barneville
11 rue Adolphe Mille 75019 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION VICE Media – France INVOLVED TV CHANNELS FRANCE 4 – France
tel: +33 97 7219 135 anne.littardi@beliane.com
Two “mothers” teach the voguing dance to French suburbs.
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Experimental | Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment
Passage - A Boatmovie Ben Hendriks, Jascha de Wilde
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 55’
In Passage - a Boatmovie, the audience is encapsulated as it is taken on a trip on a barge, a Spits riverboat, along a network of special shipping lanes from The Netherlands, through Belgium to the south of France. Because of the simultaneous projection of 3 images the viewer is submerged in a world of ever changing movement and time. The sound impelling as a pounding, yet bland and gentle motor, giving the intense and pervasive music a new meaning. A continuum of movement and rithm symbolizing the intriguing conflict between nature and culture and the transiency of human ingenuity.
SALES / CONTACT Jascha de Wilde Second Skin Film Karperstraat 29 2hg
PRODUCTION Molenwiek Film Joop van Wijk
1075KX Amsterdam
CO-PRODUCTION Second Skin Film –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6797 523 www.secondskinfilm.nl jaschadewilde@me.com
In Passage - a boatmovie, the audience is immersed and taken on a Spits cargo ship, along a network of canals and rivers from The Netherlands to the Mediterranean. 332
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | History
El patio Elvira Diaz
France / Chile, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/French www.cosmographe.com/en/el-patio
The General cemetery of Santiago, Chile, is a serene park, where the gravediggers have learnt to cohabit peacefully alongside death. Yet, the wounds of 1973 are still present. The victims of the dictatorship and their families are still waiting for justice. Under the soil, the unidentified corpses still lie secretly. For several months, in 1973, Lelo, Rogelio and Perejil were obliged to secretly bury hundreds of “desaparecidos“. For 40 years, their painful stories remained untold. As time closes in on them, they have decided to speak out. Will the dead ever finally be able to rest in peace in Chile?
SALES / CONTACT Nathalie Combe Cosmographe Productions 7, rue Alexandre Cabanel 34000 Montpellier
PRODUCTION Cosmographe Productions Nathalie Combe CO-PRODUCTION Las Películas del Pez – Chile
France tel: +33 4 67 63 82 42 www.cosmographe.com nathalie.combe@cosmographe.com
In 1973, the gravediggers of Santiago (Chile) were obliged to secretly bury hundreds of “desaparecidos“, victims of Pinochet’s dictatorship. In their twilight years, they have decided to speak out. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Pavlensky - Man and Might Irene Langemann
Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 58’/99’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English/German http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/pavlensky-man-and-might/
In 2012, the Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky attracted international attention when he sewed his mouth to demonstrate his solidarity with the convicted members of Pussy Riot. According to Pavlensky, political artists in Putin’s Russia are being robbed of their voice and condemned to silence. His most dangerous performance Pavlensky staged 2015. The artist set fire to the door of the headquarters of the FSB, the Russian secret service, to protest against “state terror”. He spent seven months in prison. The film shows Pyotr Pavlensky and his preoccupation with the liberty of the individual confronted by the power of the state.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION Lichtfilm Wolfgang Bergmann
04109 Leipzig
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SWR – Germany,
Germany
ARTE – France
tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
The film shows the political activist Pyotr Pavlensky and his preoccupation with the liberty of the individual confronted by the power of the Russian state.
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The Pearl of Africa Jonny von Wallström
Sweden, 2016 color, 16mm/35mm, 76’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English http://
pearlofafrica.tv
The Pearl of Africa captures an intimate struggle for the right to love. Following a Ugandan transgender girl, forced to leave her country, it’s an emotional journey of love, hate and being transgender, in one of the worlds most transphobic places. It’s a first hand testament that love conquers all. A documentation of a couple going through their most difficult time. Through an intimate single character perspective and beautiful cinematic visuals, it leaves nobody untouched. Sweden not available.
SALES / CONTACT Andre Wallström Rough Studios AB
PRODUCTION Rough Studios AB Andre Wallström
unungesslingan 37
Jonny von Wallström
76031 edsbro
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS UR – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 730770450 http://
roughstudios.com
andre@roughstudios.com
An intimate struggle for the right to love. Following a Ugandan transgender girl, forced to leave her country, it’s an emotional journey of love, hate and being transgender in Uganda. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Pearl
Jessica Dimmock, Christopher LaMarca
USA, 2016 color, video, 94’ Original Language: English www.thepearlfilm.com
The Pearl explores the raw emotional and physical experience of being a middle aged to senior transgender woman against the backdrop of postindustrial logging towns in the Pacific Northwest. The film leans into the struggle of those who were reared and successful as men and have reached middle age or later with a burdensome secret that they can no longer keep.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Kate Barry
Cinephil
Jessica Dimmock
Levontin Street 18
CO-PRODUCTION Impact Partners – USA
6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
Set against the hyper-masculine culture of Pacific Northwest logging towns, The Pearl sensitively follows four middle-aged transgender women as they struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love. 336
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per song Dongwu yuan Shuchang Xie
Germany, 2016 black and white, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
With its 37 million inhabitants, Chongqing is one of the largest agglomerations in the world. This is where Sloth, Shrek, Yoyo, Shark and Pomeranian live. The five friends are getting ready for the coming night. In the background, the radio plays Western pop and Chinese hits. They smoke, drink and talk about love, sex and their past relationships, their dreams and their wounds. This film has been distributed by Cinelibre initiative in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
SALES / CONTACT Shuchang Xie
PRODUCTION Shuchang Xie
C/O Offermanns Eichenstrasse 43 20255 Hamburg Germany tel: +49 17 4182 9337 wassermannbo@icloud.com
Each of us claims to have the biggest problem, but how can one measure the magnitude of one problem in relation to another?
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society
Perm-36. Reflexion Perm-36. Otrazhenie Sergei Kachkin
Russia, 2016 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English http://
perm36reflexion.ru/en
Three former political prisoners - S. Kovalev, M. Meylakh and V. Pestov - tell the story of their imprisonment in the “Perm-36” prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite, mirror-like, reflects the condition of Russian society haunted by phantom pains after the fall of the Soviet Union. The red-brown activists zealously rail against the existence of the museum and the forum. In time they manage to attract the attention of society and of the government. As a result, dark clouds gather over the museum…
SALES / CONTACT Olga Kolegaeva
PRODUCTION april filmlab
Reflexion Films
Sergei Kachkin
Golovinskoe shosse St. 12
Reflexion Films
125130 Moscow
Konstantin Nafikov
Russia
CO-PRODUCTION Reflexion Films – Russia
tel: +79 03 6667 444 www.reflexionfilms-russia.com forummoscow@gmail.com
3 former prisoners speak of their time in Perm-36 gulag, now a museum. Pilorama reflects Russian society haunted by phantom pains. Red-brown activists denounce the existence of Perm-36. Dark clouds gather. 338
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Peshmerga Bernard-Henri Lévy
France, 2016 color, HDcam, 92’ Original Language: French/ Kurdish/Arabic/English Subtitles: English
From July to December 2015, BernardHenri Lévy and a team of cameramen travelled the 1000 kilometres of the frontline that separates Iraqi Kurdistan from Daesh’s troupes. From this journey, comes a logbook in images that offers a privileged view of a war that is unfinished but whose stakes are of global importance. In close quarters with the Peshmergas, these Kurdish fighters who show unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadi fundamentalism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar Mountains passing on the way via the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Bernard-Henri Lévy
Cinephil
Margo Cinema
Levontin Street 18
Francois Margolin
6511207 Tel Aviv Israel
CO-PRODUCTION ARTE France – France,
tel: +972 3 566 4129
Margo Cinema – France,
cinephil.com
Arte France Cinéma – France,
info@cinephil.com
Canal+ – France
http://
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Peter Lindbergh - The Eye Deutschland, deine Künstler: Peter Lindbergh Gero von Boehm Germany, 2016 color / black and white, video, 52’ Original Language: French/English/German Subtitles: English
The documentary shows the personality of Peter Lindbergh who positions himself towards the German expressionist’s films of the twentieth and towards the free dance of that period. Based on an avant-garde aesthetics and by incorporating the unpretentious and down-to-earth artist Peter Lindbergh something new is being formed, a distinctive ”verité approach“.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION Interscience Film
First Hand Films
Anton Kaiser
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Christiane von Boehm
8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
He is the only German photographer belonging to a select company of ace photographers who shape the global world of fashion and commercials.
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PIONEERS: Daniel C. Dennett / Do Lobsters Have Free Will? Karol Jalochowski
Poland, 2015 color, HDcam, 46’ Original Language: English
Pioneers, At the Edge of Understanding A series of intimate encounters with the greatest minds of the modern world (seven episodes and counting) Daniel C. Dennett (b. 1942) from Tufts University is probably the most important philosopher today and a great reformer in the field of knowledge. For nearly half a century he has been searching for the answer to the following questions: What is consciousness? What is free will? Is faith a natural phenomenon? What are the roots of irrationalism? The film is a recording of a one-to-one meeting with the philosopher at his home in northern New England.
SALES / CONTACT Piotr Zmelonek POLITYKA sp. z o.o. S.K.A.
PRODUCTION POLITYKA sp. z o.o. S.K.A. Piotr Zmelonek
Ul. Slupecka 6 02-309 Warszawa Poland tel: +48 60 7388 929 polityka.pl p.zmelonek@polityka.pl
What is consciousness? What is free will? How is reality born and how does it evolve? Daniel Dennett, the most important philosopher of the mind of our times, explains it all. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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PIONEERS: Freeman Dyson / Space Dreamer Karol Jalochowski
Poland, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 47’ Original Language: English
Pioneers, At the Edge of Understanding A series of intimate encounters with the greatest minds of the modern world (seven episodes and counting) Freeman Dyson (b. 1923) is a legendary scientific figure who has influenced countless fields of knowledge. He is also known for his optimistically subversive views on key world problems. The world needs heretics to challenge prevailing orthodoxies, he explains. Dyson has been involved in all the major nuclear disarmament initiatives. He has also been a lone proponent of long-term deep space colonization and sailing to the moons of Jupiter, the subjects of this movie.
SALES / CONTACT Piotr Zmelonek POLITYKA sp. z o.o. S.K.A.
PRODUCTION POLITYKA sp. z o.o. S.K.A. Piotr Zmelonek
Ul. Slupecka 6 02-309 Warszawa Poland tel: +48 60 7388 929 polityka.pl p.zmelonek@polityka.pl
Freeman Dyson has been a lone proponent of long-term deep space colonization, and of sailing to the moons of Jupiter this movie is about. 342
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PIONEERS: Julian Barbour / Bottom’s Dream Karol Jalochowski
Poland, 2015 color, HDcam, 46’ Original Language: English
Pioneers, At the Edge of Understanding A series of intimate encounters with the greatest minds of the modern world (seven episodes and counting) Julian Barbour (b. 1937) is an independent physicist, and a science historian. For 40 years he has been removing what he believes to be unnecessary terms from the physics toolbox. One of them is time, which, according to Barbour, is an illusion. In recent years, he has been working on a theory explaining where our sense of the passage of time and its direction comes from. We meet Barbour at his home in a small village near Oxford, accompanying him in his daily household chores.
SALES / CONTACT Piotr Zmelonek POLITYKA sp. z o.o. S.K.A.
PRODUCTION POLITYKA sp. z o.o. S.K.A. Piotr Zmelonek
Ul. Slupecka 6 02-309 Warszawa Poland tel: +48 60 7388 929 polityka.pl p.zmelonek@polityka.pl
For 40 years, Barbour has been removing what he believes to be unnecessary terms from the physics toolbox. One of them is time, which, according to Barbour, is an illusion. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment
Pipelines, Power and Democracy Olivier D. Asselin
Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: English
The expansion of Canada’s oil sands industry—one of the most polluting on the planet—represents a huge environmental challenge. And, as the documentary Pipelines, Power and Democracy makes clear, when it comes to fossil fuels, political power doesn’t always lie where we think it does.
SALES / CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada 3155 Cote de liesse Road
PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Colette Loumède David McCready
H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
Who holds the real power for change
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
The Pit
Yama Anton Yaremchuk Ukraine, 2016 color, video, 26’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
What does it mean to be a student and at the same time a conductor? How to deal with the organization problems and a hostile orchestra that doesn’t want to collaborate? How to get through all of this without lowering the artistic standards your master has been trying to pass on you for many years? A film not just about the personal story of a young musician, but about the process of academic artistic education in general.
SALES / CONTACT Anton Yaremchuk
PRODUCTION Loud Film Collective
Vasylia Lypkivskoho 37 A (flat 192)
Danila Okulov
03035 Kiev
National I. K. Karpenko-Kary
Ukraine tel: +38 06 3947 7537 antonsavenkoy@googlemail.com
Theatre, Cinema and Television University
Dmytro Tiazhlov
There is “no royal way to learn geometry” and neither is there one in Arts. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
A Place Called Lloyd Un lugar llamado Lloyd Sebastian Cordes
Denmark, 2015 color, video, 80’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English lloyddoc.squarespace.com
When Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, one of the world’s oldest airlines, went bankrupt in 2008 many of their employees decided to just continue working. To this day, 7 years later, they still check life vests, stitch covers for plane seats and keep their books despite their planes are grounded. Un Lugar Llamado Lloyd (A Place Called Lloyd) portrays these employees and their daily lives at the airline that does not fly.
SALES / CONTACT Niels Wee
PRODUCTION Niels Wee
Vilhelm Thomsens Alle 24 1tv 2500 Valby Denmark tel: +45 3124 0588 nmwee@squarespace.com nmw@breidablikfilm.com
The documentary about a Bolivian Airline, whose employees have been working without pay, since they went bankrupt in 2008.
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Experimental | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
A Place To Rest Aram Gah Hamid Akbari
Iran, 2016 color, video, 16’
Haruki Murakami — ‘Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it’
SALES / CONTACT Pooyan Sedghi
PRODUCTION Hamid Akbari
No 6th apartment, No112, 6.1 Street, Kaj Avenue, Golha Sq, Fatemi Aq 1431613413 Tehran Iran tel: +98 91 2619 1827 pooyan.sedghi@gmail.com
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Planeta Petrila Andrei Dascalescu
Romania, 2016 color, video, 86’ Original Language: Romanian Subtitles: English
A colorful wall, a small mining town: “Petrila, a unique place on Earth, resembling nothing and nobody from anywhere”. Across the street, a cemetery reminding of “coal rush” times sacrificed lives, when workers from all over Europe flooded such towns. Today, while bulldozers demolish the surface buildings, a handful of miners still dig out the coal. Petrila’s mine is closing, depriving the city’s reason of being. In contrast with the dark perspectives, parts of the town bear colorful artwork. Behind it, is Ion Barbu: a 61 y/o ex-miner turned artist - activist, fighting to save the buildings, slices of culture and history. Not available for HBO Europe territories: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Republica Moldova, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Croatia, F.Y.R.O.M, Slovenia, Kosovo, Netherlands, Andorra, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway
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SALES / CONTACT Anamaria Antoci
PRODUCTION Filmlab
Filmlab
Anamaria Antoci
40 Argentina Street 011754 Bucharest
CO-PRODUCTION HBO Europe – Romania
Romania tel: +40 74 0155 602 www.filmlab.ro anamaria.antoci@gmail.com
Petrila, a unique place on Earth, resembling nothing and nobody from anywhere.
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Nature / Environment | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Plastic China Jiu-liang Wang
China, 2016 color, video/HDcam, 81’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English www.cnex.org.cn
An unschooled 11-year-old girl Yi-Jie who learns the world through the United Nations of Wastes while working with her parents in this recycle workshop thousand miles away from their hometown. And the ambitious boss of the workshop Kun, who works so hard for trying to have a better life. Through the story of these two families, the film discovers their dilemma and choices of suffering irreversible damages on life just to make a living. It also observes that the world is flat and issues don’t go away by changing time and location - we’re all in this together.
SALES / CONTACT Tammy CHANG CNEX
PRODUCTION CNEX Ruby Chen
6F., No.223, Sec. 1, Tiding Blvd., Neihu Oriental Companion Media Dist.
Jing Liu
11494 Taipei
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Taiwan tel: +886 2 2796 5820 distribution@cnex.org.tw
A global child in a global garbage land, her destiny, is in the hands of many on the other side. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Porno e Liberta Carmine Amoroso
Italy, 2015 color / black and white, video, 78’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Porno e Liberta is the first documentary giving an insight on the Italian 70’s and tracing porn’s incredible genesis from the first magazines, photoshoots, censorship issues to its political and social repercussions — such as the election of Porn-star Ilona Staller (Cicciolina), the first to become parliament’s member. It also offers food for thought about the 70’s & 80’s periods, years of transformations in which, pornography became a tool of protest and liberation, a real language.
SALES / CONTACT Anaïs Clanet Wide House
PRODUCTION Zutfilm srl Paolo Ferrari
9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris France tel: +331 53 95 04 64 www.widehouse.org ac@widehouse.org
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Nature / Environment
Priorat
David Fernandez de Castro
Spain, 2016 color, HDcam, 68’ Original Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/priorat
Priorat. A region boasting 150 wineries, high-end wines on worldwide top ten lists and at fancy restaurants across the globe. But just 30 years ago, it had just 4 wineries and they were producing table wine. This is the story of The Magnificent Five and the people of Priorat. How together, they turned a declining area into one of the most vibrant wine producing regions in Spain and the world, and found a future in their wine. Not available in Spain
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION Lastor Media Tono Folguera
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Un Capricho de Producciones
EC1V 3QN London
Belen Sanchez
England tel: +44 207 2536244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Five men took a land with no future and turned it into one of the most important wine producing regions in the world. Today, they are known as The Magnificent Five. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues Pitched at the Forum 2015
Prison Sisters Nima Sarvestani
Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 58’/90’ Original Language: Swedish/Dari/Farsi Subtitles: English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/authors-documentaries/prison-sisters/
Two young women after being released from prison in Afghanistan: fearing for her life Sara escapes to Sweden, while Najibeh is forced to stay behind. In Sweden a new world opens up for Sara but she struggles to free herself from the forces of her old life. Meanwhile her prison mate Najibeh disappears and shortly after Sara gets the news that Najibeh has been stoned to death. Sara and the filmmaker are feverishly trying to establish the truth behind Najibeh’s death, only to encounter a maze of halftruths on the streets of Afghanistan.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION Nima Film Maryam Ebrahimi
04109 Leipzig
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden,
Germany
DR TV – Denmark,
tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38
IKON – The Netherlands,
www.deckert-distribution.com
NRK – Norway,
info@deckert-distribution.com
TVO – Canada
Two young women after being released from prison in Afghanistan: Sara escapes to Sweden to find a brighter future, while Najibeh is forced to stay in the Taliban nest.
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Science / Technology | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Progress vs Regress Melanie Bonajo
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.melaniebonajo.com
Progress vs Regress investigates the ways modern inventions changed social relationships seen through the eyes of those almost a century old. This generation has lived through the most rapid and widespread industrial, technological, and digital changes in the history of humankind. Progress vs Regress documents the most influential of these inventions with regards to how they shaped our idea of value and how we ourselves are shaped by them. Implicitly the film shows how we as a society deal with our elderly.
SALES / CONTACT Melanie Bonajo
PRODUCTION Bernie Deekens Sasha Dees
Hugo de Grootkade 84/3 1052LX Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 617804848 www.melaniebonajo.com melaniebonajo@gmail.com
Progress vs Regress documents the ways modern inventions changed social relationships seen through the eyes of those almost a century old. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative Pitched at the Forum 2013
The Promise
Karin Steinberger, Marcus Vetter Germany / USA, 2016 color, 35mm, 131’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English/German/French/Spanish http://
promise-movie.com/the-movie/
They were an unlikely couple - Jens Soring, the son of a German diplomat and Elizabeth Haysom, the worldly, aloof daughter of a steel executive. The discovery of the bodies of Elizabeth’s brutally murdered parents panicked their rural Virginia community into thoughts of a serial killer on the loose. Suspicion turned to Jens and Elizabeth when they fled the country, leaving a trail of passionate love letters, eventually landing in the UK where they were arrested for writing bad checks. Jens says his love for Elizabeth drove him to confess the murders. It’s the story of a deadly love.
SALES / CONTACT Louise Rosen
PRODUCTION Filmperspektive
Louise Rosen
Marcus Vetter
16 High Street ME 04011 Brunswick
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SWR – Germany,
USA
BR – Germany,
tel: +1 617 899 6629
ARTE Deutschland – Germany,
www.louiserosenltd.com
DR – Denmark,
louise@louiserosenltd.com
BBC – England
Their youthful obsessions became life behind bars.
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A Queer Country Lisa Morgenthau
Israel, 2016 color, HDcam, 73’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Israel, a country synonymous with war, conflict and religion is also fast becoming the LGBT capital of the world. This film explores this extraordinary contradiction. It investigates the thriving gay scene in Tel Aviv that has now become host to one of the world’s largest pride parades and explores the wider political implications of the government’s tolerance towards the LGBT community and vitally how this impacts the psyche of the country.
SALES / CONTACT Tijana Djukic Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION Harriet Davies
19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2BS London England tel: +33 4 93 47 59 65 www.taskovskifilms.com sales@taskovskifilms.com
A film exploring the extraordinary contradiction of Israel, a country synonymous with war, conflict and religion, fast becoming the LGBT capital of the world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Youth | Author’s Point of View
A Quiet Place Hier is het nooit stil Sjoerd Oostrik
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 80’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
In a juvenile prison three young delinquents are forced to reinvent themselves under the preventive custody of the state. Through long meandering shots we descend into their hidden world of coerced re-education, tedious psychotherapy and the continuous possibility of violent eruptions. In all of this the three juveniles are struggling to hold their own. But at night alone in their cell, the camera changes hands, and the boys take us into the bewildering maze of their mind, where feelings of rage, guilt and despair are alternated with sudden moments of intimacy and freedom.
SALES / CONTACT Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen Halal Docs Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 1072BD Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Halal Docs Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen INVOLVED TV CHANNELS IKONdocs / EO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391 402 www.halal.amsterdam olivia@halal.amsterdam
The Netherlands not available
In a juvenile prison 3 young delinquents are forced to reinvent themselves. Alone in their cell feelings of rage, guilt and despair are alternated with sudden moments of freedom. 356
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues
Rabbi Wolff - A Gentleman before God Rabbi Wolff - Ein Gentleman vor dem Herrn Britta Wauer Germany, 2016 color, video, 90’/52’ Original Language: English/Dutch/ German/Russian/Hebrew Subtitles: German/English www.rabbiwolff.com
/en/home.html
William Wolff, born in Berlin, carries a British passport and lives near London. Now nearly 90, he still works as State Rabbi in north-eastern Germany. His regular midweek commute takes him from Heathrow to Hamburg, and on to his Jewish communities in Schwerin and Rostock. After Saturday services, it’s back home, unless he’s visiting relatives in Jerusalem, going on a fasting retreat or placing a bet at Royal Ascot. Willy Wolff says, “life has to be fun”. Often entertaining, but also eyeopening and inspiring, the film gives an honest, intimate insight into the world of Judaism with humour and charm. Germany (theatrical) & Germany / France (Free TV) not available
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber
PRODUCTION Britzka Film
Magnetfilm
Britta Wauer
Ilsensteinweg 35 14129 Berlin
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France,
Germany
RBB – Germany,
tel: +49 163 8010753
ARTE Deutschland – Germany,
www.magnetfilm.de
ARD – Germany
georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
Rabbi Wolff is the portrait of a deeply religious man who, blessed with a tremendous joie de vivre, defies all conventions. A film that will touch and inspire its audience. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Radio Kobani Reber Dosky
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Kurdish/Arabic Subtitles: English/Dutch
The Syrian border town of Kobanî was occupied and destroyed by IS. When liberation came, 20-year-old Kurdish reporter Dilovan started a radio station. She reports on refugee camps, talks to survivors and interviews fighters and musicians. The broadcasts seem to offer their listeners comfort and a sense of stability, as reconstruction gets underway and cautiously they dare to think about the future again. The film documents events in Kobanî over a three-year period, both during and after the fighting. Over subdued images of the war-torn town, Dilovan reads a letter to the child she hopes to have one day, describing the merciless terror to which IS subjected Kobanî and the terrible effects this has had on the lives of her friends and family. Slowly but surely, Dilovan is able to enjoy the lighter sides of life again: listening to music, flirting in the park, falling in love.
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SALES / CONTACT Jos de Putter Dieptescherpte BV WG Plein 385 1054SG Amsterdam
PRODUCTION Dieptescherpte BV Jos de Putter INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Human – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6766 717 jos@deepfocus.nl
Radio Kobani tells the story of the fight against IS and the return to daily life in Kurdish bordertown Kobani, as witnessed and told by young female radioreporter Dilovan.
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Raving Iran
Susanne Regina Meures
Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 84’/52’ Original Language: Persian/German/English Subtitles: English/German www.ravingiran.com
Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their illegally printed music album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world. Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them.
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Strasse 29/30
PRODUCTION Christian Frei Filmproductions Christian Frei
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Zürcher Hochschule der Künste –
Germany
Switzerland
tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SRF – Switzerland,
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
3sat – Switzerland
Switzerland not available
Two Iranian DJs defy the Islamic regime by organizing secret rave parties until one of them gets arrested and hope vanishes, but then they receive a phone call from Switzerland. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society | Youth
Raw in Ramallah Rauw in Ramallah Jan Bosteels
Belgium, 2016 color, video, 25’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Raw is an internationally awarded show, starring 7 children, 2 dancers and a musician. It speaks about growing up in hardship, seen through the eyes of children, in a performance demonstrating their resilience, hope and idealism. The documentary film Raw in Ramallah tells the story about their appearance at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival 2016 in Palestine. With the same hopeful, childlike look as in the performance, they tell the story of a courageous passage in a country where hope and naivety is hard to find. Both on and off stage, they inspire us to self-reflection.
SALES / CONTACT Jan Bosteels Beeldstorm
PRODUCTION Beeldstorm Jan Bosteels
dendermondsesteenweg 102C 9000 gent Belgium tel: +32 48 4928 270 www.vimeo.com/janbosteels jan@beeldstorm.be
Raw in Ramallah tells the story of 7 Belgian children, appearing at a dancefestival in Palestine. Both on and off stage, their hopeful, childlike look inspires us to self-reflection. 360
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History | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
Re: A Pier Archie Lauchlan
England, 2016 color / black and white, ProRes, 96’ Original Language: English https://
www.facebook.com/reapierfilm
Everybody loves piers. They’re focal points for our memories of the seaside: days of fun, fancy, freedom. Hastings Pier has more going for it than any other, though, because it used to turn very rock ’n’ roll at night. From 19562006 pop royalty like Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Who, Kinks and Sex Pistols appeared in the Ballroom at the end of the pier. We hear from Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) and Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) along with the Hastings people who experienced those gigs and lived through the pier’s disastrous fire and amazing rebirth.
SALES / CONTACT Archie Lauchlan Domestic Science
PRODUCTION Domestic Science Archie Lauchlan
2 Portland Terrace TN34 1QG Hastings England tel: +44 1424 446775 www.domestic-science.com archie@domestic-science.com
The story of Hastings Pier and the rock ‘n’ roll royalty who played in its Ballroom over five decades: the ultimate end-of-the-pier show. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Art / Music / Culture
Rebels On Pointe Bobbi Jo Hart
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’/58’ Original Language: English/Italian/Spanish Subtitles: English
Exploring universal themes of identity, dreams, family and love, this is the first-ever documentary film celebrating the famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The all male, comic ballet company was founded in the 70s ago on the heels of New York’s Stonewall riots and has a huge worldwide cult following. The film juxtaposes behind-the-scenes access, rich archives and history, intimate characterdriven stories, and amazing dance performances shot in North America, Europe and Japan. A story which ultimately proves that a ballerina is not only a woman dancing -- but an act of revolution in a tutu. Not available in Canada
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SALES / CONTACT Sydney Neter
PRODUCTION Adobe Productions
SND Films
International
P.O. Box 15703
Robbie Hart
1001 NE Amsterdam The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS The Documentary Channel –
tel: +31 20 4040 707
Canada
www.sndfilms.com info@sndfilms.com
Exploring universal themes of identity, dreams, family and love, this is the first-ever documentary film celebrating the famous all male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Reflections Speglingar Sara Broos
Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 80’/58’ Original Language: Swedish/Latvian Subtitles: English www.broosfilm.com
The director takes her mother Karin Broos, a famous Swedish painter, on a seaside trip to Latvia, hoping to close the silent gap between them. Out of this experience came an intimate and poetic film exploring the innermost rooms of the human mind and the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship. The will to live, and lack thereof. Life and art, serenity and nightmare. A cinematic catharsis, dreams, diary notes, the mother’s paintings. A glimpse into the unconventional world of an artistic family in the countryside of Nordic Europe, set to a soundtrack that totally draws you into the story.
SALES / CONTACT Gitte Hansen First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Alma Film Sara Broos
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Broos Film
8050 Zürich
Sara Broos
Switzerland
CO-PRODUCTION SVT – Sweden
tel: + 41 44 312 2060 www.firsthandfilms.com gitte.hansen@firsthandfilms.com
A poetic film exploring the innermost rooms of the human mind and the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship. Life and art, health and illness,serenity and nightmare. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Rem
Tomas Koolhaas
USA / The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 75’ Original Language: English ww.remdocumentary.org
Rem explores Rem Koolhaas’s life, working methods, philosophy and internal landscape, from a perspective of intimacy and immediacy. There is no extraneous narrator mediating for the viewer. Rem’s ideas are not merely explained as intellectual concepts but the viewer also sees these ideas in practice -the reality on the ground. They see how these ideas come to fruition in concrete and metal. The film shows how these structures, some massive and some small -dotted all around the globe- affect every aspect of the lives of the people that build, use and inhabit them.
SALES / CONTACT Tomas Koolhaas
PRODUCTION Tomas Koolhaas
530 molino st #214 90013 los angeles USA tel: +1-818-915-1616 tomaskoolhaas@hotmail.com
Rem is an exploration of what architecture means to those who create it, and to those who inhabit it. 364
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Reporters Against Power The Pen and the Sword Kees Schaap
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 42’ Original Language: Dutch/English/Russian/ Turkish/Burmese/Spanish/Chinese Subtitles: English
A daughter of Turkish immigrants in The Netherlands, Fidan Ekiz studied journalism. She was a news correspondent in Turkey for some years. Upon her return to the The Netherlands Fidan started making documentaries and became a television celebrity. At age 38 she tries to redefine the importance of journalism.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
PRODUCTION Episode One Production Joanne Becker Anja Van Oostrom
8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 443 122 060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
Fidan Ekiz visits the courageous people that practice journalism under dictatorship or oppression and becomes a part of their adventurous daily life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Restoring the Sky Restaurare il Cielo Tommaso Santi
Italy, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 46’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Restoring the Sky It is the story of an epic restoration, that of Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It is the story of a group of Italian restorers from 2013 works to the restoration and preservation of Basilica of the Nativity Monument World Heritage Site. A modern Opera del Duomo who restored before the complex roof of the church, then all the decorations, returning to its former glory a single cycle of mosaics in the world. Restoring the Sky follow step by step this monumental work, to show up the newfound beauty of Basilica of the Nativity.
SALES / CONTACT Tommaso Santi Kove srls via Ferrucci 232 59100 Prato
PRODUCTION Kove srls Tommaso Santi CO-PRODUCTION Piacenti spa – Italy
Italy tel: +39 349 4644146 www.kovelab.com info@kovelab.com
Restoring the Sky It is the story of an epic restoration, that of Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem in Palestine. 366
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Resurrecting Hassan Carlo Guillermo Proto
Canada / Chile, 2016 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: French/English Subtitles: English
Resurrecting Hassan traces the lives of the Hartings, a blind Montreal family of three who make their living singing in the city’s subway stations. The Hartings lost their only sighted child Hassan in a tragic drowning accident, and have since turned to the teachings of Russian mystic Grigori Grabovoi, hoping to resurrect their son. Resurrecting Hassan is an exploration of this family’s legacy of grief, tragedy and abuse; the film will follow them on their path to redemption.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Maria Paz González
Cinephil
The Handshake Productions
Levontin Street 18
Carlo Guillermo Proto
6511207 Tel Aviv Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
Resurrecting Hassan is an exploration family legacy of grief, tragedy and abuse; the film will follow them on their path to redemption. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Return Zahavi Sanjavi
Sweden, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Kurdish/Arabic/Swedish Subtitles: English
A Yazidi refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan is a home for more than 20 000 refugees, many of whom are victims of terrorist attacks by ISIS. Shilan is a young Kurdish nurse who volunteered to take care of them. Every tent in the camp has a story, and Shilan takes the responsibility to hear the refugees out, empathising with the pain they are suffering. One day Shilan hears about a tent where a woman is refusing to eat her food and have any sort of contact with the outside. She decides to take action.
SALES / CONTACT Zahavi Sanjavi AVB Production AB Kanotvägen 13
PRODUCTION AVB Production AB Zahavi Sanjavi
17545 Järfälla
CO-PRODUCTION Fenixfilm – Latvia,
Sweden
Layen Film Production –
tel: + 46707256073
The Netherlands
zahavi.sanjavi@gmail.com
Shilan, a nurse in the Yazidi refugee camp in Kurdistan, takes up the task of hearing out refugees who have suffered from the unimaginable cruelties committed by ISIS. 368
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Art / Music / Culture
Richard Linklater: dream is destiny Karen Bernstein, Louis Black
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/richard-
linklater-dream-is-destiny
Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled by the auteur from his small-town Texas roots to his warm reception on the awards circuit. Long before he directed Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s intense desire to create fueled his work outside the Hollywood system. Rather than leave Texas, he chose to collaborate with like-minded artists crafting modest, low-budget films in a DIY style. His ability to showcase realistic characters and tell honest stories was evident from his films, and others soon took notice of his raw talent.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION Karen Bernstein
Dogwoof
Arts + Labour
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Dawn Johnson
EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Not available in North America, Hong Kong, Italy and Japan
This documentary looks at the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater, his fiercely independent style of filmmaking and how his films sparked a low budget movement around the world. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Right Side of Cello Wariacja na wiolonczele solo Aleksandra Rek Poland, 2016 color, video, 37’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English https://
www.facebook.com/rightsideofcello
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Right Side of Cello is a documentary about an exceptional cello player Dominik Polonski. The film showcases an unusual relationship between the man and his instrument. For a musician, the cello is something more than a piece of wood, that produces a sound. This one, made by his luthier friend is special, because it reminds him of his illness: it has only four strings, it is imperfect, “defected”, just like him after this brain surgery. Despite all that, our hero is using the instrument to full capacity of possibilities.
SALES / CONTACT PRODUCTION Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o. Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o.
Adam Slesicki
Chelmska 21
Iga Wójcik
00-724 Warsaw Poland tel: + 48 500 248 514 www.wajdaschool.pl arostropowicz@wajdastudio.pl
Right Side of Cello is a documentary about an exceptional cello player Dominik Polonski. The film showcases an unusual relationship between the man and his instrument. 370
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Experimental | Politics / Society
The Road Movie Dmitrii Kalashnikov
Belarus / Russia / Serbia / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Croatia, 2016 color, HDcam, 67’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
Anything can happen on Russian roads and is precisely shot by the dashboard camera. Super-objective video registration grows into the strong image of Russian national character – with its permanent awaiting for the miracle and habitual approach to real dramas. A forest on fire as a symbol of Russian hell, a military tank at a car wash and car chase in the vicinity of Kremlin shot with a dashboard cam at the same time when Boris Nemtsov, the leader of political opposition, was shot dead near Kremlin. Dashboard cam depicts life in it’s purity as an unbiased observer.
SALES / CONTACT Aleksandar Govedarica Syndicado
PRODUCTION Volia Films Volia Chajkouskaya
Beaconsfield Ave. #300 M6J 3J5 121 Toronto, Ontario
CO-PRODUCTION Novi Film – Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Canada
Eight and a Half Studio –
tel: +42 19 4963 5890 aleksandar@syndicado.com
Objective dashboard cam videos come up as a strong image of Russian national character with its permanent awaiting for the miracle and habitual approach to real dramas. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Road to Madness Vägen till vansinnet Åsa Blanck
Sweden, 2015 color, HDcam, 59’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English http://
svtsales.com
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Kent – musician, poet and life artist. He used to be down and out, but late in life Kent finally finds some peace of mind. This film follows him as he sings his way out of homelessness and drug addiction, through relapses, friends lost and new aquaintances made. One turning point in Kent’s life is when he starts attending an activity centre for people with light intellectual disabilities. Here he feels a sense of belonging and gets at chance to explore his love for music. With his mesmerising deep voice and passion for cool jazz Kent slowly starts to embrace life.
SALES / CONTACT Paulette Rosas Hott SVT Sales
PRODUCTION SVT Åsa Blanck
Oxenstiernsgatan 26 S-10510 Stockholm
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS SVT – Sweden
Sweden tel: +46 73 3651 151 http://
svtsales.com
paulette.rosas-hott@svt.se
Kent used to be down and out, but at 58 he finally finds some peace of mind. Follow Kent as he sings his way out of homelessness and drug addiction.
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Politics / Society | History | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Road to Reconciliation La via della conciliazione Raffaele Brunetti France / Italy, 2016 color / black and white, video, 52’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Via della Conciliazione in Rome is one of the world´s most famous roads: When it was built as a triumphal route to lead directly to St. Peter´s Basilica a whole neighbourhood was demolished. A consequence of the deal Pope Pius XI and Mussolini signed in 1929 to seal Church-State relations. With amazing archive material this brilliant history film tells the story of The Pope, Mussolini and the birth of the Vatican. Italy
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997 Berlin
PRODUCTION B&B Film Raffaele Brunetti CO-PRODUCTION YUZU Productions – France
Germany tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
The Pope, Mussolini and the birth of the Vatican. A film about Church-State relations seen through the construction of Rome´s most famous street, Via della Conciliazione. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Robinù
Michele Santoro
Italy, 2016 color, video, 97’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
A disturbing look at the criminal underworld of Naples, consisting of teenage drug runners and gang members known as ‘baby killers’ in the media. Robinù is the directorial debut of Santoro, a prominent Italian journalist and news anchor who has also served in the European Parliament. “Santoro gives voice to a doomed city” – Roberto Saviano (author of Gomorrah) “Raw, pure, necessary” – L’unità “Shocking. A complex and multilayered film” – Il fatto quotidiano“
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SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION Videa Next Station Sandro Parenzo
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Zerostudio’s
1070 Wien
Michele Santoro
Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
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The Rock Bard Hamid Jafari
Iran, 2015 color, HDcam, 25’ Original Language: Farsi
In the South of Iran, a woman goes to the mountain every day with her sledgehammer and crowbar, breaks rocks, and sells them to support her family. SALES / CONTACT Hamid Jafari
PRODUCTION Hamid Jafari
2nd Floor, No 13, Koye Mehregan, Hormozan, Faze 2, Shahrak e Gharb 14666 Tehran Iran tel: +98 91 2606 6251 hamidjafarii@gmail.com
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Rock’n’roll hijab - Women beyond the veil Porto il velo, adoro i Queen Luisa Porrino Italy, 2016 color, video, 52’/75’ Original Language: Italian/English Subtitles: English www.portoilvelo.com
The Islamic world is diverse and complex, but is often subject to oversimplification and prejudice. The point of view of female Muslims is virtually absent from the current debate. Sumaya (blogger, first Muslim city councilor in Milan), Takoua (cartoonist from Rome) and Batul (psychiatrist from Trento) are three emancipated, ambitious and opinionated Muslim women living in Italy. Providing an unusual and powerful portray of young Muslim females in today’s Europe, they cover most of the issues inflaming the debate on the relation between the West and the Muslim world. From the uncertain outcome of the Arab Springs, to growing islamophobia.
SALES / CONTACT Francesco Tocci GA&A Productions Srl.
PRODUCTION Fargo Entertainment Luisa Porrino
Via Cicerone 64 00193 Rome Italy tel: +39 06 3613 480 www.gaea.it francesco.tocci@gaea.it
Three emancipated, ambitious and veiled Muslim women provide an unusual and powerful female point of view on the debate on the relation between the West and the Muslim world 376
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Rocknrollers Rocknrollertjes Daan Bol
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 24’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English https://
www.facebook.com/rocknrollertjes
/?fref=ts
Vinyl records, rehearsal rooms, 1970s blouses and ditto music, lots of music: those are the main ingredients in the lives of Sia (15), Bas (14) and Vince (13). Best friends for many years now, together they form the psychedelic rock band Morgana’s Illusion. But recently everything changed: Sia suffers from a depression, so Bas and Vince have to rehearse without him. That alone is very boring, but it also means the future of the band is at stake. Will they ever be on stage again, the three of them? the Benelux not available
SALES / CONTACT Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION BALDR Film
NPO Sales
Katja Draaijer
Bart de Graaffweg 2
VPRO
1217ZL Hilversum
Thu Ha Nguyen Thi
The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
tel: +31 356773561 www.nposales.com kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
RocknRollers is a swinging youth rockumentary about friendship, growing up, and the power of music.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View Pitched at the Forum 2014
Rodnye (Close Relations) Vitaly Mansky
Latvia / Germany / Estonia / Ukraine, 2016 color, HDcam, 112’/60’ Original Language: Russian/Ukranian Subtitles: English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/rodnye-close-relations/
Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. Below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the RussianUkrainian conflict’s deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.
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SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution
PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment Simone Baumann
Gottschedstr. 18
Baltic Film Production
04109 Leipzig
Marianna Kaat
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION 435 FILMS – Ukraine
tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany
Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan Revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family.
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The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America Paul Dugdale
USA / England, 2016 color, HDcam, 105’ Original Language: Spanish/ English/Portugese Subtitles: English www.stonesoleoleole.com
‘Olé Olé Olé: A Trip Across Latin America’, is a feature documentary that follows The Rolling Stones’ tour of early 2016 through 10 Latin American cities as the band attempt to pull off a once in a lifetime open air concert in Havana, Cuba. A road movie that celebrates the revolutionary power of Rock n Roll exhilarating and exploratory the film chronicles the tour, local culture and unique bond that exists between the Latin American people and The Rolling Stones. The film combines electrifying live performance footage with intimate insight into the world of The Rolling Stones. Not available in UK, USA and Japan
SALES / CONTACT Camilla Jorgensen Eagle Rock Film Productions
PRODUCTION JA Digital Sam Bridger
Eagle House, 22 Armoury Way SW18 1EZ London England tel: +44 20 8875 85010 camilla.jorgensen@eagle-rock.com
This documentary film follows The Rolling Stones on a cultural adventure across Latin America.
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Sacred
Thomas Lennon
USA / Japan, 2016 color, HDcam, 86’ Original Language: English/French/ Polish/Haitian Creole/Arabic/Marathi/ Burmese/Malagasy/Japanese/ Spanish/Nepalese/Krio/Amharic/ Hebrew/Punjabi/Tagalog/Pashtu Subtitles: English
At a time when religious hatreds dominate the world’s headlines, Sacred explores faith as primary human experience: how people turn to ritual and prayer to navigate the milestones and crises of private life. The film’s director commissioned or sourced footage from top independent filmmakers from more than 25 countries, each team contributing a single scene. The film is a tour de force that unifies these scenes into a single work, told without narration, without experts and, for long stretches, without words at all. Director Thomas Lennon has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, winning in 2007.
SALES / CONTACT Thomas Lennon
PRODUCTION Thomas Lennon
825 Eighth Avenue
Jessica Wolfson
10019 New York
CO-PRODUCTION WoWoW – Japan
USA tel: +1 917 2876047 tlennonfilms@gmail.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS WNET – USA
Shot by over 40 filmmaking teams around the world, Sacred, sweeping in global reach and yet intensely intimate, immerses the viewer in the daily use of faith and spiritual practice. 380
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Sacred Water L’Eau sacrée Olivier Jourdain
Belgium, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French/Kinyarwanda Subtitles: French/English https://
www.facebook.com/Sacred-Water
-122177421513507/
A discovery of Rwandan sexuality in search of holy water, which gushes out the female body, the fountain woman. Guided by Vestine, an extravagant star of radio nights, in her educative mission, the film reveals with humor and spontaneity the mystery of female bliss. But is female pleasure really central in this society? With all the lightness but also seriousness the subject requires, the film let us reflect on sexuality in occident.
SALES / CONTACT Thierry Detaille Ventes - CBA/WIP Sales c/o WIP, PIL, bat T, 36, rue de
PRODUCTION Nameless Production Michel Dutry
Mulhouse
CO-PRODUCTION Wallonie Image Production –
4020 Liège
Belgium
Belgium
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium
tel: +32 43 4010 40 www.ventes-cbawip-sales.be ventes-cbawip-sales@skynet.be
Sacred Water reveals with humor and spontaneity the mystery of fountain women in Rwanda International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Same People as Always Los de siempre José Pedro Charlo
Uruguay, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: Portugese/English www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
In a very poor neighborhood in Montevideo, a group of neighbors came together years ago to form a choir. Many of them are over 70 years old. They know their neighborhood’s problems, its virtues, and its history. The choir unites them and motivates them. A story of senior citizens, a neighborhood, and the desire to live.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16
PRODUCTION Margarita Brum CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
111711198 Bogotá Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
In a poor neighborhood in Montevideo, a group of neighbors came together years ago to form a choir. A story of senior citizens and the desire to live. 382
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Samuel in the Clouds Samuel en las nubes Pieter Van Eecke
Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 55’/70’ Original Language: English/Spanish/Aymara Subtitles: Spanish/French/English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/human-interest-society/samuel-in-the-clouds/
In Bolivia, the glaciers are melting. Samuel, an old ski lift operator, is looking out of a window on the rooftop of the world. Through generations his family lived and worked in the snowy mountains, but now snow fails. While scientists are discussing and measuring ominous changes, Samuel honors the mountain spirits. The clouds continue to drift by.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION Clin d’Oeil Films Hanne Phlypo
04109 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION BALDR Film – The Netherlands,
Germany
A Private View – Belgium
tel: +49 341 2156638 www.deckert-distribution.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VRT – Belgium,
info@deckert-distribution.com
IKON – The Netherlands, YLE – Finland
High in the Bolivian Andes, the old ski lift operator Samuel remains hopeful that the snow will return, even though climate change has caused the glacier to vanish for good. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Santa’s Slave: A Colonial Hangover Sunny Bergman
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English https://
www.journeyman.tv
/film/6908/santas-slave-a-colonial-hangover
Every Christmas in The Netherlands, the same debate rages over Black Pete, Santa’s black-faced assistant who is played by a blacked-up white person. Sporting an afro and huge red lips, the character is reminiscent of racist colonial caricatures of black people, like the infamous ‘gollywog’. But in Holland there is huge resistance to its banning, with supporters claiming it is an innocent tradition for children. The debate reveals a society at odds over how to deal with racism, and unable to confront its colonial legacies. The Netherlands and Japan not available
SALES / CONTACT Annie Edwards Journeyman Pictures 4 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
PRODUCTION De Familie Film & TV Monique Busman INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
England tel: +44 20 8398 4616 www.journeyman.tv/
https://
sales@journeyman.tv
Did you know Santa uses a black slave to help out with all those presents? Well in Holland he does! 384
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Santoalla
Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: English/Galician Subtitles: English www.santoalla.com
Progressive Dutch couple, Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool, had only one dream – to live off the land, far from the constraints and complications of the city. But, when they arrive in the crumbling, Spanish village of Santoalla, the foreigners challenge the traditions of the town’s sole remaining family, igniting a decade-long conflict that culminates in Martin’s mysterious disappearance. As this once forgotten landscape is thrust into the center of controversy, Margo finds herself searching not only for answers, but for the strength to persevere.
SALES / CONTACT Daniel Mehrer
PRODUCTION Cristina de la Torre
What Delicate Pictures
What Delicate Pictures
572 union street, 3b
Daniel Mehrer
11215 Brooklyn
CO-PRODUCTION Radical Media – USA
USA tel: +1 6462326214 daniel.mehrer@gmail.com
A mysterious disappearance looms over a crumbling Spanish village, notorious for years of hostility between its residents.
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SCORE: A Film Music Documentary Matt Schrader
USA, 2016 color, video, 94’ Original Language: English www.score-movie.com
This documentary brings Hollywood’s premier composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world’s most widely known music genre: the film score.
SALES / CONTACT Jason Ishikawa Cinetic Media 555 W. 25th Street 10001 New York City USA tel: +1 212 204 7979 www.cineticmedia.com jason@cineticmedia.com
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PRODUCTION Epicleff Media Robert Kraft
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Scott & Julia Annelies Kruk
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 22’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English www.hollandsehelden.nl/Scott-Julia
Scott is 15 when he is involved in a terrible accident. He may never walk again. Fortunately, he’s got Julia, his great love and support. “When she’s here, it feels like I’m part of the normal world again. “ But Julia has her own busy life, she can not always be there. Scott wants to be able to do things by himself, without asking for help. Then Dexter comes along. A young and jumpy puppy that will help him in his struggle for independence. But Dexter still has a lot to learn. . .
SALES / CONTACT Albert Klein Haneveld Hollandse Helden Overleek 29 1141 PE Monnickendan
PRODUCTION Hollandse Helden Albert Klein Haneveld INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: + 31 6 22 80 81 05 www.hollandsehelden.nl albert@hollandsehelden.nl
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A Seafish From Africa - Il Mio Amico Banda giulio filippo giunti
Italy, 2016 color, HDcam, 62’ Original Language: English/Italian Subtitles: Italian/English www.popcultdocs.com
At a time when immigration to Europe is becoming more vast and it seems that the only solution is to forget the Schengen agreements and for everyone to shut themselves off from each other within their own national borders, here is a story that makes you think about how incredibly different cultures can try to build a dialogue. A simple and yet unique story at the same time: the equal relationship between an African fifty years old, black, an illegal immigrant, semiliterate and Muslim known as ‘Banda’ and Giulio, a European in his forties, white, well-educated and uninterested in religion.
SALES / CONTACT Giusi Santoro
PRODUCTION POPCult
POPCult
Giusi Santoro
via Pietralata, 3
CO-PRODUCTION CARTA BIANCA – Italy
40121 Bologna Italy tel: +39(0)510391746 www.popcultdocs.com popcult@libero.it
Banda feels the fish spirit freely swimming in the sea, in majestic beauty. He is, however, destined to a tiring job that he has been inevitably linked to since childhood. 388
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Sealers - One Last Hunt Gry Elisabeth Mortensen, Trude Berge Ottersen
Norway, 2016 color, video, 98’/52’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English
Ocean, ice and bitter cold in a seemingly untouched corner of the world. A crew who can only trust each other in the kingdom of polar bears and sudden storms. Until now this has been an annual ritual for the obstinate, ageing skipper Bjørne and his first mate Espen. In the beginning of the 20th century, more than 200 Norwegian sealing vessels were active, now there’s only one ship left. Massive international condemnation and the EU ban on all imports of seal products has almost wiped out the industry. But the skipper and his first mate refuse to give in. With a motley crew of greenhorns and oldtimers, they set out on the dangerous journey into the polar ice. They are the last seal hunters of Norway. Sealers is a chilling feelgood roadtrip story of blood, sweat and frosted cream cakes.
SALES / CONTACT Emma Simpson Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION Koko Film Trude Berge Ottersen
4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton
Gry Elisabeth Mortensen
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NRK – Norway
England tel: +44 208 786 6051 www.journeyman.tv emma@journeyman.tv
A stubborn, old skipper refuses to accept the demise of Norwegian sealing. He gathers a motley crew and sets out on a hazardous journey through the polar ice.
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Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton
England, 2016 color, HDcam, 89’ Original Language: English www.taskovskifilms.com
/?film=the-seasons-in-quincy-four-portraits-of-john-berger
The four essay films which comprise The Seasons in Quincy each take different aspects of British writer and thinker John Berger’s life in the Haute-Savoie, and combine ideas and motifs from Berger’s own work with the atmosphere of his mountain home. Each film was created as an individual work of art but they combine to make a feature film, showing how film can move beyond text, and beyond fine art, to offer a multifaceted and multilayered portrait.
SALES / CONTACT Tijana Djukic Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION Derek Jarman Lab Colin MacCabe
19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2BS London England tel: +33 4 93 47 59 65 www.taskovskifilms.com sales@taskovskifilms.com
A series of short essay films made by the Derek Jarman Lab in collaboration with Tilda Swinton, Christopher Roth and Colin McCabe. 390
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The Secret Revolution Die heimliche Revolution Carmen Butta Germany, 2016 color, video, 45’ Original Language: English
www.newdocs.de/the-secret-revolution
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, women are calling for change. Despite all kinds of resistance, some are achieving professional and political success. This film portrays pioneers who want to reshape society: an editor-inchief, a lawyer and a politician. Not available in Germany and German speaking Switzerland
SALES / CONTACT Elina Kewitz
PRODUCTION Hanfgarn & Ufer Film/TV
New Docs
Production
Dasselstraße 75-77
Gunter Hanfgarn
50674 Cologne Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
tel: + 4922116819743
Deutsche Welle – Germany
www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, women are calling for change. A portrait of pioneers who want to reshape society: an editor-in-chief, a lawyer and a politician.
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Art / Music / Culture | Experimental
The Secret Universe of Paul Laffoley Alvin Case
USA, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English/German Subtitles: English www.paullaffoleyfilm.net
Paul Laffoley saw his imagination as an ever burning fire of revelation. Visionary artist, architect of living buildings, researcher into the workings of human thought and the invisible universe. He was also considered a kook, a walking encyclopedia “of stuff”, and a man who could find hidden meanings in B-movie sci-fi. Until his death in 2015 Paul Laffoley consistently and methodically worked on his complex paintings in the studio he called The Boston Visionary Cell. He allowed unfettered access to the director in capturing his thoughts and his working methods during the last years of his life.
SALES / CONTACT Alvin Case
PRODUCTION Square Medium
Square Medium
Alvin Case
123 Stoughton Street 02125 Boston, MA USA tel: +01 61 7291 1826 alvincase.net alvin.case@mac.com
A documentary portrait of the late Visionary Art painter Paul Laffoley, in his own words.
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See You In Chechnyà Alexander Kvatashidze
France / Germany / Georgian Republic / Estonia, 2016 color, video, 69’ Original Language: Italian/Georgian/ French/English/Russian Subtitles: English www.seeyouinchechnya.com
After falling in love with a photographer a young man follows her to war and steps into the shoes of a war reporter. ARTE/WDR is holding rights for France/Germany
SALES / CONTACT Alexander Kvatashidze Lokokina
PRODUCTION Made in Germany Filmproduktion
42/2 Nutsubidze Street, Apt. #5
Melanie Andernach
0177 Tbilisi
Kepler 22
Georgian Republic
Juliette Cazanave
tel: +995 322396738 lokokina.com
CO-PRODUCTION EXIT OÜ – Estonia,
sandygeorgia@gmail.com
Petit à Petit production – France, Kepler 22 – France, Exitfilm – Estonia INVOLVED TV CHANNELS WDR – Germany, ARTE France – France, Lyon Capitale TV – France, YLE – Finland
If you go to war, war will come home with you. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology
Seed: The Untold Story Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel
USA, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 54’/94’ Original Language: English/Hindi/Spanish Subtitles: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com
/home/films/seed
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds. Worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. As agri-business companies (such as Bayer & Monsanto megamerger recently announced) control the more and more of our seeds, farmers, scientists and indigenous custodians fight a David and Goliath battle to defend, with no exaggeration, the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds. US not available
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SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing 611 Broadway, suite 630
PRODUCTION Collective Eye Films Jon Betz Taggart Siegel
10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
As many irreplaceable seeds near extinction, SEED reveals the story of passionate seed keepers who wage a David and Goliath battle to defend our 12,000 year food legacy.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
The Settlers Shimon Dotan
Israel / France / Canada / Germany, 2016 color / black and white, video, 95’ Original Language: Hebrew/English Subtitles: English
In the nearly 50 years since Israel’s decisive victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have established expanding communities in the occupied territories of the West Bank. Frequently coming into direct conflict with the region’s Palestinian inhabitants, and facing the condemnation of the international community, the settlers have been viewed by some as the righteous vanguard of modern Zionism and by others as overzealous squatters who are the greatest impediment to the possibility of peace in the region. France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Netherlands, Canada not available
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky Cinephil
PRODUCTION Talisma Productions Jonathan Aroch
Levontin Street 18
Filmoption International Inc.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Paul Cadieux
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France,
cinephil.com
Yes docu DBS – Israel,
info@cinephil.com
NDR – Germany,
http://
SVT – Sweden, VPRO – The Netherlands
An intimate look at those people at the core of the most daunting challenges facing Israel and the international community today as the Palestinians and Israelis resume talks again. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | History
Sex, Sermons and Politics Sexo Pregações e Politica Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Michael Gimenez Brazil, 2016 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English/French https://
www.facebook.com/Sex0PregacoesePolitica
/?fref=ts
Brazil builds and sells an image of its society where sexuality is liberated and sexual orientation respected. However, this same Brazil reveals itself as a conservative country, where women die as a result of the prohibition on abortion and where the highest amount of murders of homosexuals and transsexuals occurs in the world. From the victims to the political sphere, this film provides a critical look into the paradox of Brazilian sexual freedom. Brazil is not available.
SALES / CONTACT Stephanie Lebrun Babel Press Rua Gaco Coutinho, 6 - house 28 22221-070 RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil
PRODUCTION Stephanie Lebrun CO-PRODUCTION Canal Brasil – Brazil INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Canal Brasil – Brazil
tel: +55 21 9987 59022 www.babelpresstv.com stephanie.lebrun.bresil@gmail.com
With the election of the most conservative parliament since the 80’s dictatorship, Brazilian society is facing a regression regarding individual freedom achievements. Which are the forces involved in this fight? 396
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Shade of the Orange Tree La Sombra del Naranjo Óscar Herrera
Costa Rica, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: Portugese/English www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
Following a brain injury, Óscar Naranjo is no longer the same. The man who was once the tree that provided shelter for the entire family is the one who now is in need of his loved ones. The film goes inside a family that will have to face tough challenges to remain united, as if the tree that sheltered them all their life were still offering the same shade.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica Calle 11 # 5-16 111711198 Bogotá
PRODUCTION TIEMPO LIQUIDO Patricia Velásquez CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
Óscar Naranjo who was once the tree that provided shelter for the entire family is the one who now is in need of his loved ones. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Investigative Pitched at the Forum 2012
Shadow World Johan Grimonprez
USA / Belgium / Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’ Original Language: English
The film Shadow World reveals how the international trade in weapons - with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents - fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering. Not available in USA, Canada, Benelux, Italy
SALES / CONTACT Morgane Delay
PRODUCTION Louverture Films, LLC
Wide House
Joslyn Barnes
9 rue Bleue
Dillywood, Inc.
75009 Paris
Anadil Hossain
France tel: +331 53 95 04 64
CO-PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real – Denmark,
www.widehouse.org
Cassette for Timescapes –
festivals@widehouse.org
Belgium
Feature documentary that reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives.
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Shalom Italia Tamar Tal-Anati
Israel / Germany, 2016 color, video, 70’ Original Language: Hebrew/Italian Subtitles: English
This is the story of three brothers, (ages 74, 82 and 84) who set off on a journey to find a cave in the woods of Tuscany, the place where, as children, they hid to escape the Nazis. But more than a search to find a geographical location, the brothers are on their way to locate the common ground of memory, the nexus where the conflicting versions of their stories can come to rest. The result is a profound portrait of memory and history.
SALES / CONTACT Lucas Verga The Film Sales Company
PRODUCTION kNow Productions Hilla Medalia
165 Madison Ave, # 601
Tamar Tal Films
10016 New York
Tamar Tal-Anati
USA tel: +1 2124815020 www.filmsalescorp.com lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com
Three brothers, (74, 82, 84) set off on a journey to find a cave in the woods of Tuscany, the place where, as children, they hid to escape the Nazis.
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Art / Music / Culture
Shanghai Deco Denise Richards
USA / China, 2016 color, video, 60’ Original Language: English/Chinese Subtitles: English www.shanhaideco.net
During the 1920s and 30s, Shanghai was the most glamorous, cosmopolitan city in Asia. Dubbed “The Paris of the East,” it had both an expatriate community and a middle-class Chinese population that adopted an Art Deco lifestyle that included sophisticated advertising, jazz, movies, and nightclubs. The film focuses on the contributions of the Chinese deco designers and the problems of artistic repression in times of war and political upheaval, as well as the factors that led up to the adoption and eventual demise of Art Deco in Shanghai.
SALES / CONTACT Denise Richards Dog’s Life Productions 2411 47th ave 94116 San Francisco
PRODUCTION Dog’s Life Productions Denise Richards CO-PRODUCTION Nanjing Holding Media – China
USA tel: +1 415 7597306 dogslifeproductions.com denise_dogslife@comcast.net
Art Deco design is where our modern world began. 1930s Shanghai may have been the place where art deco enjoyed its most diverse interpretation.
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Sharp Families Patrick Grassi
Italy, 2016 color, DCP, 52’ Original Language: English/Italian Subtitles: English/Italian www.sharpfamilies.com
For over a century men from the Dolomites (Alps Region, Northern Italy) emigrated to England to sharpen knives. Today the sons and grandsons of these emigrants dominate the London knife grinding market, a profitable business managed by a few family run enterprises. These families created a tight knitted monopoly, keeping competition at bay. Sharp families narrates the evolution of this community through the work and ties to the homeland of three families, raised and living between a small mountain village and London, dealing with running a now global business. Switzerland with italian language is no longer available
SALES / CONTACT maud corino
CO-PRODUCTION JumpCut – Italy
ZALAB nino bixio 80/a 00185 rome Italy tel: +39 33 3612 7483 www.zalab,org distribuzione@zalab.org
Two generations of emigrants through a past of sacrifices, a successful present to a very uncertain future
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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A Shattered Dynasty: the Empain Barons Les Barons Empain, la dynastie oubliée Tanguy CORTIER, Alice Gorissen France / Belgium, 2016 color, video, 52’/90’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English http://
andanafilms.com
/catalogueFiche.php?idFiche=1222&rub=Nouveaut%C3%A9
This is the uplifting and dramatic story of three generations of Belgian industry tycoon, narrated among others by Jean-Edouard Empain, whose abduction in 1978 signed the downfall of an extraordinary family empire. His voice and those of researchers mingle with rich archives, films and photographs, a teeming and exciting journey through a century of capitalism, between great history and intimate tragedies.
SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet
PRODUCTION Flair Production
Andana Films
Guillaume Roy
25 route de l’Echelette 07170 Lussas France
CO-PRODUCTION To Do Today – Belgium
tel: +33 4 75943467
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium,
www.andanafilms.com
ARTE G.E.I.E. – France,
contact@andanafilms.com
France Télévisions – France
The uplifting and dramatic story of three generations of Belgian industry tycoon, narrated among others by Jean-Edouard Empain, whose abduction in 1978 signed the downfall of an extraordinary family empire. 402
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Shingal, Where Are You? Kani Shingal? Angelos Rallis
Greece / Austria / Belgium, 2016 color, video, 99’ Original Language: Kurdish/Arabic Subtitles: English www.angelosrallis.com
Shingal, Where Are You? presents a portrait of uprooted Yezidis whose identities and very existence are once more threatened. Set in an abandoned coal mine on the Turkish border with Syria and Iraq, where Yezidis found refuge after ISIS overran their homeland Shingal kidnapping 3000 women. The story is told in raw cinematography from the parallel perspective of 3 generations of Yezidis. Between attempting to reach sanctuary in Europe and rebuilding their destroyed religious homeland, choices are hard to make.
SALES / CONTACT Angelos Rallis AR Productions Telamonos 21, Byronas 16231 Athens Greece tel: +30 69 0761 5544
PRODUCTION AR Productions Angelos Rallis CO-PRODUCTION ERT – Greece INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ERT S.A. – Greece
www.angelosrallis.com production@angelosrallis.com
Shingal Where Are You? is the story of Yezidi refugees to reunite with their family members kidnapped by ISIS. A persecuted minority’s quest for a new homeland. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Shipwrecked America Nouvelle-Orléans, laboratoire de l’Amérique Alexandra Kandy Longuet France, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: English
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the most violent storm in the history of the United States, ravages New Orleans. The city’s entire population is displaced. In the land of opportunity, the disaster seems to provide an opportunity for a city’s rebirth on a fairer basis. But against all expectations and despite the Obama presidency, the Crescent City turns into a ground zero for imposing economic shock therapy, intensifying drastically the economic, social and racial inequalities that existed before. Portrait of the city that became the US laboratory and reveals the divisions of a whole country.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Crescendo Films
CAT&Docs
Serge Guez
18 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION Eklektik Productions – Belgium INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium
tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
A disaster. Emergency responses. Through the eyes of its inhabitants, portrait of a city that became the US laboratory and ground zero for disastrous capitalism. 404
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Experimental
Shooting Ourselves Christine Cynn
Norway, 2016 color, video, 60’/87’ Original Language: English/Russian/ German/French/Arabic Subtitles: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com ; /home/films/shootingourselves/
http://
shootingourselves.org
Christine Cynn, co-director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Act of Killing, returns with a scathing examination of the arms trade, told through the personal stories of victims, soldiers, manufacturers, and activists from around the world. The conversation surrounding the weapons industry is too often relegated to the political and economic sphere here, we meet real people and their interactions with weapons. The subjects turn the cameras on one another and themselves, engaging important questions about war, politics and the many unique human experiences that are deeply affected by a world in conflict.
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Substans Film AS Kristian Mosvold
611 Broadway, suite 630
Øya Film AS
10012 New York
Kristian Mosvold
USA
CO-PRODUCTION Crash – Denmark
tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
Norway not available
A portrait of the global arms trade, Shooting Ourselves is the personal stories of victims, soldiers, manufacturers and activists from around the world. From Christine Cynn (The Act of Killing). International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock Barnaby Clay
USA, 2016 color, video, 91’ Original Language: English
Legendary music photographer Mick Rock is best known for his iconic photographs of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, and countless others. In a documentary as rock-n-roll as its subject, Mick Rock guides us through his psychedelic, shambolic first-hand experiences as the visual record-keeper of these myths and legends.
SALES / CONTACT Lorna-Lee Sagebiel Magnolia Pictures International 49 West 27th Street, 7th Floor
PRODUCTION VICE Jim Czarnecki Danny Gabai
10001 New York USA tel: +1 917 444 6569 www.magpictures.com LSagebiel@magpictures.com
In a documentary as rock-n-roll as its subject, Mick Rock guides us through his psychedelic, shambolic first-hand experiences as the visual record-keeper of these myths and legends. 406
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Siberian Love Olga Delane
Germany, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 80’/52’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/SiberianLoveFilm
After 20 years of living in the liberalminded Berlin, Olga goes to visit her relatives in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditional views of relationships and love. By close observing of her relatives of different generations, Olga shows a unique and vivid picture of the relationship entangles in a Siberian village and finds out which „values“ lie behind a true Siberian relationship. Germany and France not available
SALES / CONTACT Frank Müller Doppelplusultra Repsoldstraße 45
PRODUCTION Doppelplusultra Frank Müller
22043 Hamburg
CO-PRODUCTION Bildschön Filmproduktion Linda
Germany
Matern – Germany
tel: +49 172 77 88 135 www.doppelplusultra.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RBB / ARTE – Germany,
mail@doppelplusultra.de
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel – Qatar
Without a family you are not a women!” International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Sicily Jass - The World’s First Man in Jazz Michele Cinque
Italy, 2015 color / black and white, video, 52’/75’ Original Language: English/Italian Subtitles: English www.sicilyjass.com
/en/
2017 will mark a century from the recording of what is historically considered the first Jazz record, but very few know that it was recorded by a Sicilian emigrant to New Orleans: Nick La Rocca. The record sold a million and half copies! Featuring exclusive interviews to American music critics, historians and archivists, as well as amazing archive picturing New Orleans at the beginning of the century, Sicily Jass takes us on a journey through music and history, telling the story of the world’s first man in Jazz. Italy and Portugal not available
SALES / CONTACT Francesco Tocci GA&A Productions Srl. Via Cicerone 64
PRODUCTION GA&A Productions Srl. Gioia Avvantaggiato CO-PRODUCTION MRF5 – Italy
00193 Rome Italy tel: +39 06 3613 480
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RAI – Italy
www.gaea.it francesco.tocci@gaea.it
Sicily Jass reveals the Sicilian chromosome of Jass and the story of the man who did everything (wrong) to find a place among the stars of music.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Nature / Environment
SILA and the Gatekeepers of the Arctic Corina Gamma
USA / Greenland / Switzerland, 2016 color, video, 52’/70’ Original Language: Inuktitut/English Subtitles: English
The documentary explores the Greenlandic concept of SILA - meaning weather and consciousness - and illustrates the impact our industrialized world has on isolated Arctic communities. In the fragile ecosystem of the North, climate change is most visible. Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly, attracting curious scientists to study its cause and effect. At the island’s periphery, indigenous Inuit have relied on the seasonal sea ice for many Centuries, for food and for clothing. Today, their lives are greatly affected by the changing climate, weather and water.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 443 122 060 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com4x zelfde bedrijf + 2 CO-PRODUCTION tellfilm – Switzerland
With interweaving stories between Inuit subsistence hunters and an international team of researchers, the film explores the Greenlandic concept of SILA, a term that encompasses weather, consciousness and the universe. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment
Silent Land, the fight for fair food Jan van den Berg
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 75’ Original Language: Khmer Subtitles: English www.silentland.org
Seng Channeang, a young Cambodian farmer, sees her farm and way of life threatened by large scale companies and land grabbers. We follow her on her hunt for security for her family, for 4 dramatic years. His Excellency Mong Reththy, one of the richest men in the country, built an empire in agricultural production. His large scale production is possible since the Khmer Rouge eradicated all property titles. The two meet. Seng Channeang learns, and keeps looking for the middle way. She hopes her new born baby will study law for the rights of the small scale farmers.
SALES / CONTACT Jan van den Berg DRSfilm Prins Hendriklaan 63 3583 EE Utrecht The Netherlands
PRODUCTION DRSfilm Jan van den Berg CO-PRODUCTION DRSfilm – The Netherlands
tel: +31 62 1826 888
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands,
www.drsfilm.tv
BodhiTV – The Netherlands
info@drsfilm.tv
Cambodian farmer Seng Channeang sees her farm and way of life threatened by companies and land grabbers. We follow her on her hunt for security, for 4 dramatic years. 410
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Silent Wilderness Stille wildernis Mathijs Vleugels
Belgium, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Dutch/ Hungarian/English Subtitles: English www.intifilms.com
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A Belgian couple, Aimé and Yvonne, nearing the end of the search for their missing adoptive Korean son, Tim. The film, through personal diaries of the absent boy, creatively illustrates a portrait of an adoptive child, struggling with feelings of alienation and the pressures of society.
SALES / CONTACT Peter Krüger Inti Films
PRODUCTION Inti Films Peter Krüger
Werfstraat 2 B-1000 Brussels Belgium tel: +32 485 117 818 intifilms.com peter@intifilms.com
Aimé and Yvonne nearing the end of the search for their long lost adoptive Korean son, Tim. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues Pitched at the Forum 2015
Singing with Angry Bird Hyewon Jee
South Korea, 2016 color, video, 88’ Original Language: Marathi/Korean/English Subtitles: English
A popular Korean opera singer started the Banana Children’s Choir in Pune, India. His quick temper earned him a nick-name ‘Angry Bird. ’ Frustrated by the lack of support from the parents, the Angry Bird decides to train the parents to sing for a joint concert with their children. Probably the toughest challenge of his life. A journey full of tears and laughters.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Upright Media Productions
Autlook Filmsales
Sunah Kim
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NHK TV – South Korea,
Austria
KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands,
tel: +43 72 0346 934
BBC – England,
www.autlookfilms.com
CBC – Canada,
salma@autlookfilms.com
American POV – The Netherlands
Korean opera singer „Angry Bird“ starts a children’s choir in Pune, India. Frustrated by lack of parental support, he comes up with a solution: include them in the choir.
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Site of Sites
El sitio de los sitios Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada Dominican Republic, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/Portugese www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
Somewhere in the Caribbean they are building artificial beaches. A young model waits for her girlfriends next to the swimming pool; a gardener and a housekeeper fantasize about buying luxurious furniture; a group of street sweepers philosophizes about love, and some amateur golfers try to put the ball in the hole, while the tourists, amidst machines and loud noise, go out for a walk.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo DOCTV Latinoamérica
PRODUCTION Faula Films Natalia Cabral
Calle 11 # 5-16
Oriol Estrada
111711198 Bogotá
CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
Somewhere in the Caribbean, artificial beaches are being built. A community immersed in their problems, divided by a fence; all while tourists go for a stroll amidst cacophony and machines. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Skulls, of My People Vincent Moloi
South Africa, 2016 color, HDcam, 69’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English
Between 1904 and 1908, Germany perpetrated the first genocide of the 20th century in the former German colony of South West Africa, now renamed Namibia. Over 100 000 people were killed. And hundreds of skulls of Herero & Nama people were taken to Germany for racial scientific profiles. This film is a testimonial account of the descendants of the Herero victims of that genocide and their fight for their land and reparation from Germany today.
SALES / CONTACT Vincent Moloi Puo Pha Productions
PRODUCTION Puo Pha Productions Makgano Mamabolo
24 Bokmakierie
Lodi Matsetela
2188 Randburg
Vincent Moloi
South Africa
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
tel: +27 11 782 0889 moloiv@gmail.com
Even people who died 100years ago, they can return to haunt you. Herero victims’ descendants are demanding return of their ancestors skulls. 414
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Sluizer Speaks Dennis Alink
The Netherlands, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 58’ Original Language: Dutch/English Subtitles: English
NEW 2016, ONE HOUR CUT. Sluizer Speaks tells the story of international filmmaker George Sluizer (Spoorloos, The Vanishing, Dark Blood). The documentary follows the director from the moment he decided to finish his final film, Dark Blood, until his death in 2014. During this period Sluizer looks back on his life and his films. Mixed with wonderfu footage of his entire film career.
SALES / CONTACT Sydney Neter
PRODUCTION Dennis Alink Films
SND Films
Dennis Alink
P.O. Box 15703
Molenwiek BV
1001 NE Amsterdam
Joop van Wijk
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4040 707
CO-PRODUCTION – The Netherlands,
www.sndfilms.com
– The Netherlands
info@sndfilms.com
Sluizer Speaks tells the story of international filmmaker George Sluizer (The Vanishing, Dark Blood).
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Snow Monkey George Gittoes
Australia / Norway, 2015 color, 35mm/HDcam, 98’ Original Language: Pashtu/English/Arabic Subtitles: English http://
snowmonkeymovie.com
Snow Monkey is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Gittoes Films
Cinephil
Unicorn Films
Levontin Street 18
Lizzette Atkins
6511207 Tel Aviv
CO-PRODUCTION Piraya Film AS – Norway
Israel tel: +972 3 566 4129 http://
cinephil.com
info@cinephil.com
Daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis. 416
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Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows: The Voices of Women in Metal Mark Hardwood
Canada, 2015 color, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: English
Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows celebrates the stories of eight female vocalists in the heavy metal genre. Through personal interviews, behind the scenes insights, and concert footage, these women describe in their own words, their choices, their lives, and the hardships and triumphs of being center stage in what is widely perceived as a male-dominated music scene.
SALES / CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION Rising Moon Productions Mark Hardwood
3155 Cote de liesse Road H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
Explore the energy and emotion of heavy metal through the stories and voices of some of the most prominent women who bring it to life. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Sochi a Year After The Olympic Winter Games. Sotsji een jaar later na de Olympische Winterspelen Christine van Hout The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 50’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
This film is about Sochi between the Olympic Winter Games 2014 and the World Championship Football 2018. It shows images of the Olympic Park, the new village built for people who had to move due to the construction of the Olympic objects, the town of Sochi with all the new buildings, the coast, sporting in the open air, a ski-resort and a tulip nursery. Local people and some Russian turists tell of their life in Sochi, how they see Putin, what their views are of the MH17 disaster, the Nemtsov’s murder, and the war in Ukraine. Also they tell what they think about America, Europe and The Netherlands.
SALES / CONTACT Christine van Hout Van Hout filmproducties
PRODUCTION Van Hout filmproducties Christine van Hout
Egelantiersgracht 612 1015RS Amsterdam, Noord-Holland The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6250 144 christien.van.hout@12move.nl
Life in Sochi after the Olympic Winter Games in 2015. Short interviews with inhabitants and turists. Topics: The war in Ukraine, Putin, how people think about America, Europe and The Netherlands. 418
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Investigative | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues Pitched at the Forum 2014
Solitary Kristi Jacobson
USA, 2016 color, 16mm, 80’ Original Language: English http://
rocofilms.com
/film.php?code=SOLI
Solitary tells the stories of inmates sent to maximum security prisons across the US, built to hold inmates in solitary confinement cells, 23 hours-a-day. With unprecedented access, this immersive film weaves through prison corridors and cells, capturing the chilling sounds and haunting atmosphere of prison. Profoundly intimate, reflective interviews with inmates reveal violent childhoods, the dangers of prison life, and struggles to maintain sanity in the unrelenting monotony of confinement. Interwoven with their stories are the voices of the corrections officers, who are serving a different type of time right alongside the prisoners, and struggle themselves to maintain their humanity. All rights currently available. Roco Films represents rights outside of US and Canada.
SALES / CONTACT Cristine Dewey
PRODUCTION Motto Pictures
Roco Films
Julie Goldman
80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite #8
Catalyst Films
94965 Sausalito
Kristi Jacobson
USA tel: +1 415-332-6471 www.rocofilms.com cristine@rocofilms.com
Filmed over the course of one year, Solitary tells the stories of people in the complex America penal system and raises provocative questions about “cruel and unusual” punishment today. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Some Had Crocodiles Manche hatten Krokodile Christian Hornung
Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 87’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/manchehattenkrokodile/
Decades ago, they came to Hamburg St. Pauli, Germany, hoping to escape the narrow-mindedness of the petite bourgeoisie. They struggled as dancers, strippers, sailors and pimps. Now they turn up at their favorite bars, divey spots in the city’s red light district, reminiscing about gold hunting, sinking ships and contraband crocodiles. And of course the savings clubs, which they continue to be members of to this day, even though they were never the money-saving types. But it gave them a chance to keep a little nest egg safe – primarily from themselves. Through the years the savings clubs became a home.
SALES / CONTACT Mathieu Dolenc Tamtam Film
PRODUCTION Tamtam Film Dirk Decker
Behringstraße 16a
Andrea Schütte
22765 Hamburg
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NDR – Germany
Germany tel: +49 40 3252 2330 www.tamtamfilm.com festivals@tamtamfilm.com
They came to Hamburg St. Pauli in search of a different life, struggling as dancers, strippers, sailors and pimps. Today, retired, they are all members of their local savings club. 420
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Human Interest / Social Issues
The Sonjai Family Sven Mundt
Germany, 2016 color, video, 115’ Original Language: Thai Subtitles: English
Sonjai Körner interviews her Thai family, relatives of the mother who died when Körner was three. Posing the same questions to all her subjects, she attempts to pinpoint the experiences and events which have been key in shaping their lives. She wanted to understand the conflicts which simmer between them all, but which they are incapable of talking to each other about. Through this series of life stories, The Sonjai Family delivers fascinating insights into the Thai mentality, Thailand’s underlying social conflicts, the traditional family hierarchies currently being overturned and the fragility of a nation facing an uncertain future.
SALES / CONTACT Sven Mundt
PRODUCTION Sonjai Körner
Pasteurstr. 13
Sven Mundt
10407 Berlin Germany tel: +49 174 8332504 sven@svenmundt.com
Interview film that sheds light on the hopes, fears, outlook and values of three generations of a Thai family in Bangkok. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story NC Heikin
USA, 2015 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: English http://
frankmorganstory.com
As a teenager, Frank Morgan was an accomplished saxophonist, playing with Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. He was also a heroin addict, pimp and thief, landing him in and out of prison for over 30 years. In San Quentin he formed the San Quentin All Stars, one of the leading 16 man jazz groups in the country. The Sound of Redemption chronicles Morgan’s life and offers a reflective look at African-American culture in 1950s America culminating in a tribute concert to one of jazz’s greatest. Sweden and Finland not available
SALES / CONTACT Elizabeth Sheldon Bond/360
PRODUCTION Wild at Heart Films James Egan
1841 Broadway Suite 911
Frank Morgan Project LLC
10023 New York
NC Heikin
USA tel: + 1 212 354 2650 bond360press.com elizabeth@bondinfluence.com
Frank Morgan was a lauded saxophonist who spent his adult life in prison, where he formed the San Quentin All Stars. This doc celebrates one of jazz music’s greatest. 422
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Art / Music / Culture
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Sour Grapes Reuben Atlas
France / England, 2016 color, HDcam, 85’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/sourgrapes
With pockets full of cash, charisma and a preternatural memory for vintages, an unassuming young Rudy Kurniawan earns the reputation of a wine savant, surrounding himself with some of high society’s most fervent wine connoisseurs. But when Bill Koch, a top US collector, and, Laurent Ponsot, a Burgundian wine producer, discover suspicious bottles, a humorous and suspenseful investigation begins into one of the most ingenious cons of our time. Not available in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION Al Morrow
Dogwoof
Catherine Siméon
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Controversy erupts when an unassuming young man floods the American wine market with fake vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the wine world elite. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Deborah Esquenazi
USA, 2016 color, 35mm/HDcam, 91’ Original Language: English www.southwestofsalem.com
The award winning critically acclaimed Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four chronicles the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez - four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas over 20 years ago during the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s-1990s. Despite flawed medical evidence and convictions based solely on the testimony of two young children, the women always maintained their innocence - and have waged an ongoing fight for exoneration.
SALES / CONTACT Jess Mills Film Rise
PRODUCTION Deborah S. Esquenazi Productions LLC
34 35th Street 4th Floor
Deborah Esquenazi
11232 Brooklyn
Sam Tabet Pictures
USA
Sam Tabet
tel: +1 718-369-9090 filmrise.com jess@filmrise.com
After being wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls during the Satanic Panic witchhunt era of the 80s and 90s, four Latina lesbians fight against mythology, homophobia, and prosecutorial fervor. 424
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History | Politics / Society | Investigative
The Spy Hunter Tzayad Hameraglim Eyal Tavor
Israel, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 88’ Original Language: Hebrew/German/English Subtitles: English
Abraham Wolfensohn served in the Shin Bet. He was in charge of thwarting soviet spying attempts in Israel. Wolfensohn uncovers for the first time, how 3 soviet spies were captured: Zeev Avni, who spied for the soviets during WWII, infiltrated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After getting caught, he turned his life around in an unexpected way. Prof. Kurt Sitte, a Christian from Czechoslovakia, played a key role in founding the Israeli Nuclear program. He was caught “red handed” moving sensitive information to a soviet agent. Lieutenant Colonel Israel Beer leaked confidential materials straight out of the Ministry of Defense.
SALES / CONTACT Itay Nevo-Landsberg IBA - Channel 1
PRODUCTION IBA - Channel 1 Itay Nevo-Landsberg
17 Tota Metzion st. 9440124 Jerusalem Israel tel: +972 2 5301126 inevoinevo@gmail.com
Abraham Wolfensohn, a counter-intelligence operative in the Shin Bet, played a role very much like John le Carre’s “Smiley”, acting to uncover “moles”, who have infiltrated Israel’s top secret organizations. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Spy Nation ja-baek Seung-ho CHOI
South Korea, 2016 color, DCP, 87’ Original Language: Korean/ Chinese/Japanese Subtitles: English
Over 2,000 North Korean defectors come to South Korea annually. But on their journey to freedom, they end up in solitary confinement and undergo interrogation for up to six months, as the NIS (National Intelligence Service) sees them as potential spies. While investigating a North Korean defector charged with espionage, journalist and filmmaker Choi Seung-ho found the NIS has been “making spies” for many years. This film exposes how the government spies on citizens and “makes spies” using national security as an excuse. It also demonstrates how the government suppresses citizens’ freedom through fear-mongering using an “enemy” like North Korea.
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SALES / CONTACT Hyejin Lee
PRODUCTION Jae-hwan Kim
CinemaDAL 2F,11-3,Sungkyunkwan-ro, Jongno-gu 03073 Seoul South Korea tel: +82-2-337-2135 www.cinemadal.com sales@cinemadal.com
2016, the perfect plot to create a spy.
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Stendhal’s Vertigo Le vertige de Stendhal Alexis Taillant
Italy / France / Belgium, 2015 color, video, 52’ Original Language: French/English/Italian Subtitles: English http://
andanafilms.com
/catalogueFiche.php?idFiche=1217&rub=Nouveaut%C3%A9
Franco, Joanna, Audrey, Lia and Philippe were all stricken by brutal and unexplained uneasiness in front of some artworks during a trip to Florence, Paris or Barcelona. They tell their story: What happened? Sunstroke? Drop in blood pressure? Loss of bearings? An investigation begins. Graziella Magherini, a psychiatrist in Florence, comes back to questions that obsessed her while she was trying to solve this modern day suffering with her patients: Travel sickness? Disorder linked with places haunted by History, FEAR OF BEAUTY, ART PAIN? A mysterious and breathtaking investigation revealing the STENDHAL SYNDROME!
SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet Andana Films
PRODUCTION Wendigo Films Nadège Labé
25 route de l’Echelette
Alexis Taillant
07170 Lussas France
CO-PRODUCTION Ambiances... asbl – Belgium,
tel: +33 4 75943467
Altara Films – Italy
www.andanafilms.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTBF – Belgium,
contact@andanafilms.com
Vosges Télévision – France
Franco, Joanna and Philippe were all stricken by brutal and unexplained uneasiness in front of some artworks during a trip to Florence. A mysterious and breathtaking investigation revealing the STENDHAL SYNDROME! International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Stranger in Paradise Guido Hendrikx
The Netherlands, 2016 color / black and white, video, 72’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English http://
zeppers.nl/en/film/stanger-paradise
In a classroom in Sicily, just inside the walls of Fortress Europe, recently arrived refugees receive lessons from a teacher (Valentijn Dhaenens) who has some rather unbalanced traits. One moment he mercilessly rejects the refugees – the next, mollifyingly, he embraces them. Operating at the intersection of documentary and fiction, Stranger in Paradise investigates the power relations between Europe and refugees. Europe is represented by a teacher who drags his class of refugees down into his despair. A plea that borders on the immoral; a welcome charged with a guilt complex; and the compromise between these, made policy: Stranger in Paradise is an unflinching film essay on the mechanisms through which Europe tackles the refugees’ desire for happiness.
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SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Zeppers Film & TV
CAT&Docs
Frank van den Engel
18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
France tel: +33 1 44 617748 http://
catndocs.com
info@catndocs.com
In a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifarious Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.
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Strike a Pose Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan
The Netherlands / Belgium, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 83’/52’ Original Language: English www.strikeaposefilm.com
In 1990, seven young male dancers - 6 gay, 1 straight - joined Madonna on her most controversial tour. On stage and in the iconic film Truth or Dare they showed the world how to express yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the truth about life during and after the tour. Strike a Pose is a dramatic tale about overcoming shame and finding the courage to be who you are. North American sales: XYZ Films
SALES / CONTACT Rosan Boersma
PRODUCTION CTM Docs
CTM Docs
Rosan Boersma
Emmastraat 21
CO-PRODUCTION Serendipity Films – Belgium
1211 NE Hilversum The Netherlands tel: +31 35 647 4040
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS NTR – The Netherlands,
rosan@ctm.nl
SVT – Sweden, Channel 8 – Israel, SWR/ARTE – Germany
What does it take to express yourself? The surprising and moving story of Madonna’s most famous troupe of dancers.
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Sugar Sisters
Hannah Donegan, Ann Shin
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 44’/65’ Original Language: English
Sugar Sisters is a one hour/feature length documentary following Hannah, a queer twenty-something filmmaker, and her two sisters as they explore the globally popular phenomenon of sugardating where women in their 20s date older, wealthier men in what amounts to dating in exchange for money. Hannah’s exploration into the lucrative life of a sugar baby challenges her morals and feminist ideals as she tries to maintain her personal relationships whilst her satisfying sugar daddies. Not easy. Canada is not available for first window.
SALES / CONTACT WILL STAPLEY TVF International
PRODUCTION Fathom Film Group Hannah Donegan
375 City Road London
Ann Shin
EC1V 1NB London
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS CBC – Canada
England tel: +44 20 7183 73000 www.tvfinternational.com will.stapley@tvf.co.uk
Sugar Sisters follows Hannah and her two sisters as they try and pay off their debt by finding a sugar daddy - a wealthy, older, man that pays for dates. 430
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Youth | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Surviving International Boulevard: Domestic Child Sex Trafficking Sian Gowan
USA, 2016 color, DCP, 20’
www.survivinginternationalboulevard.com
Driving along International Boulevard, a hub for child sex trafficking in Oakland, California, a mother recounts her wild determination to rescue her 15-yearold daughter from a sex trafficker ‘boyfriend,’ while an experienced survivor and nonprofit advocate shares her expertise as well as unveiling the tragic reality of her own childhood.
SALES / CONTACT Sian Gowan Red Scarf Films LLC
PRODUCTION Red Scarf Films LLC Sian Gowan
2995 Woodside Road, Suite 400 94062 Woodside USA tel: +1 415 312 3316 www.redscarffilms.com sian@redscarffilms.com
Surviving International Boulevard reveals the complex reality of domestic child sex trafficking through the stories of two resilient women in Oakland, California. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Take me away Portami via Marta Santamato Cosentino Italy, 2016 color, HDcam, 57’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
The intimate photograph of the metamorphosis of the life of Jamal and his family: from the tortures of Assad’s regime to a new beginning, in Turin. A bridge of dreams, fears and expectations they crossed safely thanks to humanitarian corridors, a pilot project that was the brainchild of the Italian civil society. A personal journey through the implications of the Syrian crisis, the difficulties of being a refugee in Lebanon, the restlessness of being caught between the attachment to its traditions and the gamble of a future in Europe that begins boarding a plane.
SALES / CONTACT Marta Santamato Cosentino Invisibile Film
PRODUCTION Invisibile Film Gabriella Manfrè
Alzaia Naviglio Grande 42 20144 Milano Italy tel: +39 34 9584 2365 http://
invisibilefilm.com
marta.s.cosentino@gmail.com
Traveling from Lebanon to Italy with a Syrian family, holding hands.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Team Gaza
Frederick Mansell, Laurens Samsom
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 85’/55’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English www.teamgaza.com
Team Gaza records the lives of four young people daring to dream in Gaza, a land strip sealed off from the outside world. Stuck between walls these four Gazans try to build their lives. One wants to marry his niece, a second tries to rebuild his bombarded house, a third tries to flee the strip and the last turns to weapons. Together they unite in a football team, the only place where they can forget about everything. Outside of the football pitch, they pray and they fight for a better future, despite the hardships in war-torn Gaza.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION dimdocs
CAT&Docs
Frederick Mansell
18 Rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION BNN / VARA – The Netherlands INVOLVED TV CHANNELS BNN / VARA – The Netherlands
tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
Team Gaza provides an exclusive view of real life inside the Gaza Strip, discretely capturing the lives of young Gazans, looking for happiness.
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Tempestad Tatiana Huezo
Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam/video, 105’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English www.tempestadthefilm.com
A road movie: 2000 kilometres by bus. Inspections by martial-looking men armed to the teeth, omnipresent fear. The viewer never sees the protagonist but just hears her voice. The images create space for our own imagination and help us digest the monstrosity of the account. When they create identification, they’re deceiving us, for they’re inviting us to think of other stories, other destinies. This film conveys the paralysing power of fear: fear as a sickness that prevents you from taking a stand on your life, on the future of your children; which clouds your ability to dream and grow.
SALES / CONTACT Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION Pimienta Films
Cinephil
Nicolas Celis
Levontin Street 18
Sebastián Celis
6511207 Tel Aviv Israel
CO-PRODUCTION Cactus Films – Mexico,
tel: +972 3 566 4129
Terminal Pictures – Indonesia
cinephil.com
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
http://
info@cinephil.com
France and Germany not available
A group of innocent people is charged with human trafficking and thrown into prison. The authorities announce they’ve dealt a blow to organised crime; the public is reassured. 434
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Author’s Point of View
Thank you, Doctor! Adilet Karzhoev, Adilet Karzhoev
Kyrgyzstan / France / Poland, 2016 color, video, 27’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
A surgeon named Ernst Akramov is famous even abroad Kyrgyzstan. The gifted doctor is 80 years old and 59 years of his life he dedicated to surgery and learned all its secrets of this craft. Often he is the last of hope of his patients. But he is not like other people. He prefers to be alone. Ernst has been living in a small room of a hospital and has been working there for many years. He is an excellent doctor however he never had a family. All that he has is a writing desk and sick patients.
SALES / CONTACT Adilet Karzhoev
PRODUCTION Ayai Media
Ayai Media
Adilet Karzhoev
Tunguch 4/24 720048 Bishkek
CO-PRODUCTION Impakt Film S.C. – Poland,
Kyrgyzstan
SANOSI PRODUCTIONS – France
tel: +99 63 1244 7484
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Lion Capital TV – France
adilet.karzhoev@gmail.com
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Ernst Akramov has dedicated all his life to surgery. He is 80. Ernst has been living in the hospital for 25 years.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Thea
Halvor Nitteberg
Norway, 2016 black and white, video, 13’ Original Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English
Thea is 12 years old. She likes to play football and to be with her friends. But why does she want to grow up to be an air ambulance pilot? SALES / CONTACT Halvor Nitteberg Nitteberg Film & Tv Rideveien 36b 1361 Østerås Norway tel: +47 40225958 halvor@2bak.org
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PRODUCTION Nitteberg Film & Tv Elisabeth Aspelin Halvor Nitteberg
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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
There Will Be Water Per Liebeck
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/there-will-be-water/
Accessible fresh water around is rapidly disappearing. The global demand for water is growing while at the same time the world’s available freshwater levels are dropping at alarming rates. More than a 1. 5 billion people live in water stressed areas. And, the Middle East is drying up - water scarcity is causing severe political and regional tensions - some even think that the next war in the Middle East will be a water war.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Copenhagen Film Company
DR
Ulrik Gutkin
Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C Denmark
CO-PRODUCTION Teknopilot AS – Norway
tel: +45 35 2022 99
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark,
www.dr.dk/
NRK – Norway
kimc@dr.dk
Engineer Bill Watts has a quest; to create a saltwater infrastructure in the desert and make greenhouses in the driest part of the planet, thus being able to supply fresh water International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Things Arab Men Say Nisreen Baker
Canada, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: English
Worldwide, Arab men are depicted by the mainstream media as terrorists, suicide bombers, or at best, extremists. In Things Arab Men Say, Egyptian-born filmmaker Nisreen Baker paints a very different picture. Join Jay, Ghassan, and their friends as they gather at Jamal’s Eden Barber Shop for a haircut, a shave, and a lively discussion on politics, religion and identity. Although located in St. Albert, an Edmonton suburb, Jamal’s shop could be anywhere, serving as a microcosm of the Arab community.
SALES / CONTACT Lorne Price National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION National Film Board of Canada Bonnie Thompson
3155 Cote de liesse Road H4N 2N4 Montreal Canada tel: +1-514-951-6512 www.nfb.ca l.price@nfb.ca
Worldwide, Arab men are depicted by the mainstream media as terrorists, suicide bombers, or at best, extremists. In Things Arab Men Say, Egyptianborn filmmaker Nisreen Baker paints a very different picture. 438
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This is the Way I Like it II Como me da la gana II Ignacio Agüero Chile, 2016 color / black and white, video, 86’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
This is the way I like it II is a remake of a film Ignacio Agüero did 30 years ago in which he interrupted the shooting by filmakers who were making films at that time, to ask them about the sense of filmmaking under the dictatorship of Pinochet. Today, he interrupts the shooting of those filming today to ask them where the cinematographic essence of their films is.
SALES / CONTACT Amalric De Pontcharra Agüero & Asociadoa
PRODUCTION Ignacio Agüero & Associates Amalric De Pontcharra
Carlos Antunez 2329, Providencia
Agüero & Asociadoa
750320 Santiago
Amalric De Pontcharra
Chile tel: +56 22 3349 090 amaldep@gmail.com
This is the way I like it II is a remake of a film Ignacio Agüero did 30 years ago.
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Those from the Shore Tamara Stepanyan
Armenia / France / Lebanon / Qatar, 2016 black and white, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Armenian/French Subtitles: English http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/those-from-the-shore/
Marseille, 2014. Dozens of Armenian asylum seekers trying to survive while waiting for their application to be considered. All fled Armenia because, for one reason or another, they would incur a risk of imprisonment or death. Forced stillness, impotence, they live in an in-between: between two countries, between two lives. In a time and abstract space, made of nothing, where their life escapes them completely.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Gottschedstr. 18
PRODUCTION Cosmographe Productions Nathalie Combe CO-PRODUCTION VISAN – Armenia
04109 Leipzig Germany tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38 www.deckert-distribution.com info@deckert-distribution.com
Marseille, 2014. Dozens of Armenian asylum seekers trying to survive while waiting for their application to be considered.
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Those Who Jump
Les sauteurs Abou Bakar Sidibé, Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner Denmark, 2016 color, video, 82’ Original Language: French/Bambara Subtitles: English
In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African migrants, watching the fence. Abou from Mali is one of them – the protagonist in front of the camera, as well as the person behind it. For over a year, he has ceaselessly persisted in attempting to jump the fence. As Abou portrays the struggle for human dignity and freedom on one of the World’s most militarized frontiers, LES SAUTEURS ultimately becomes a movie about the empowerment of a filmmaker armed only with his camera and his aspirations.
SALES / CONTACT Morgane Delay Wide House
PRODUCTION Final Cut for Real Heidi Elise Christensen
9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris France tel: +331 53 95 04 64 www.widehouse.org festivals@widehouse.org
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In northern Morocco, lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above, live over a thousand hopeful African migrants. Abou from Mali is one of them International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Thunder Feast Los Truenos de San Juan Santiago Maza Mexico, 2016 color, video, 84’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
The Deputy is the only legal authority in San Juan de la Vega. Jose is an enthusiast of detonating his homemade bombs with his crew. Saul is a devout cowboy who has lead San Juanito’s pilgrimage for decades. Each one is preparing himself for the dispute that the immemorial Thunder Feast brings within.
SALES / CONTACT Juan Sarquis Filmaciones de la Ciudad Durango 272A Col. Roma Norte 06600 Mexico
PRODUCTION Filmaciones de la Ciudad Juan Sarquis CO-PRODUCTION Mamutt Creatividad – Mexico
Mexico tel: +52 55 6395 5757 www.filmacionesdelaciudad.com juan@filmacionesdelaciudad.com
The carnival of a small town is denied by the Church and persecuted by the law due to the colossal blasts that are blown up during the ancestral party.
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To Be a Miss
Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf
Venezuela / USA, 2016 color / black and white, video, 84’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com
/home/films/tobeamiss/
A journey through the inner workings of Venezuela’s beauty factory that explores the hopes and dreams of young models as they strive to become the next Miss Venezuela. Following three central protagonists, the film exposes the risks and rewards associated with this multi-billion dollar industry while showing how nationalism, personal ambition and the influence of mass media have transformed the lives of ordinary women in the country.
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing 611 Broadway, suite 630
PRODUCTION Mosaic Films Flor Salcedo Aaron Woolf
10012 New York USA tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
To Be a Miss reveals the inner workings of Venezuela’s beauty factory, exploring the hopes and dreams of young models as they strive to become the next Miss Venezuela. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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To Stay Alive - A Method Overleven - een handleiding Erik Lieshout The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’/70’/55’ Original Language: English/French Subtitles: English www.seriousfilm.nl
Iggy Pop presents us a method to stay alive as a willful individual in an unpersonal world. The manifesto To Stay Alive – a method by Michel Houellebecq, and Iggy Pop’s personal experiences as a starting rock artist, are the starting points. Did Michel and Iggy help eachother to stay alive?
SALES / CONTACT Maëlle Guenegues CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix #133 F-75004 Paris France tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
PRODUCTION seriousFilm Marc Thelosen CO-PRODUCTION AT-Production – Belgium INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands
www.catndocs.com info@catndocs.com
Iggy Pop presents a method to stay alive as a willful individual in an unpersonal world, the method is based on To Stay Alive - a method by Michel Houellebecq. 444
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Tomorrow x 3 Catherine Henegan
Italy / The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 70’ Original Language: Italian/English https://
tomorrowx3.com
South African singers take on a modern version of Verdi’s Macbeth. Interweving the opera and life touring the world, the film focusses on the lives of the 3 principal singers and how they choose a career in this dominantly European domain. We follow the artists from the bright lights of some of the world’s most prestigious theatres, back to the daily grind of their lives in South Africa. 3 inspiring singers dispel all stereotypes of the stuffy highbrow opera world as we know it. An uplifting look at the power of an age old art in a fresh new form.
SALES / CONTACT Ouida Smit Produzione Straordinaria Srl perugia
PRODUCTION Produzione Straordinaria Srl Ouida Smit
06019 italy
CO-PRODUCTION FREE STATE PRODUCTIONS –
Italy
The Netherlands
tel: +39 34 0764 2656 https://
tomorrowx3.com
ouidas@augustuscolor.it
A radical remake of Verdi’s Macbeth. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Nature / Environment | Investigative | Politics / Society
The Toxic Circle De Gifcirkel Wilfried Koomen
The Netherlands, 2015 color, HDcam, 50’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Campania, the area around Naples, is known as the biggest illegal landfill for chemical waste in Europe. This is where the Camorra, the local mafia, dumps industrial waste from all over Europe and even from outside the continent. They pour it in the rivers, they bury it in farmlands or burn it by the side of the road. For the inhabitants of Campania, it is virtually impossible to escape the toxins caused by this illegal practice. As a result, the cancer rate in the area is four times higher than the national average.
SALES / CONTACT Margaret Stanneveld NPO Sales Bart de Graaffweg 2 1202 JJ Hilversum
PRODUCTION Dieptescherpte BV Jos de Putter CO-PRODUCTION KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 35 6772 960 www.nposales.com margaret.stanneveld@npo.nl
Campania (Italy) is known as the biggest illegal landfill for chemical waste in Europe. This is where the Camorra, the local mafia, dumps industrial waste from all over the world. 446
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Transit Havana Daniel Abma
Germany / The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 88’/52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English/German http://
transithavana-film.com
In Cuba, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malú wait for genital surgery performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president‘s daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. Filmed during the transition period 2014/2015, Transit Havana shows us an unknown face of Cuba. Is the socialist island changing into a queer paradise? Germany & The Netherlands not available
SALES / CONTACT Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales
PRODUCTION Witfilm
Kloos & Co. Medien
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
Stefan Kloos
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Kloos & Co. Medien – Germany
Germany tel: +49 30 4737 2980 www.riseandshine-berlin.de
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RBB/ARTE – Germany
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
In Cuba, Fidel Castro’s daughter Mariela is leading sexual revolution under the auspices of the socialist state.
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Transumanza Tour Valerio Gnesini
Italy, 2016 color, HDcam, 99’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English
Transumanza Tour is a journey through 6 different farms across Italy from Basilicata to Liguria. Its eyes are those of a music band, its chance that of wwoofing, used by the band as a form of exchange for food and lodging. Through the band’s experiences, endeavours and strains, it’s introduced to farm’s innkeepers, bearers of the traditions of an archaic world and at the same time witnesses of a new social phenomenon: return to the land, return to the archaic. Return of young graduates, families tired of the tyranny of consumerism, the unemployed looking for a way out of mere survival
SALES / CONTACT Valentina Damiani
PRODUCTION Kaleidoscope Factory
Via Diciotto Fanciulli 3/26
Valentina Damiani
16155 Genova
CO-PRODUCTION Free U – Italy
Italy tel: +39 34 7545 4985 vale.damiani84@gmail.com
A folk trio – voice, violin, guitar – on a reversed tour across Italy, for a “ruralmusical” journey exploring wwofing and the new forms of rurality 2.0 448
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Trembling Mountain Kesang Tseten
Nepal, 2016 color, HDcam, 84’ Original Language: Tibetan/Nepalese Subtitles: English
Among the worst hit in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake was paradise-like Langtang, a prime trekking destination. A glacial collapse caused an avalanche of rock, ice and mud, resulting in an airblast, equal to half the force of the Hiroshima atom bomb. About 400 died, among them tourists and a fourth of Langtang’s community, the survivors evacuated to Kathmandu. In showing the much dwindled community’s response to the disaster, until their resettlement a year later, the film reveals the transformation, profound and yet often taken for granted, that has been sweeping the Himalaya over the last decades.
SALES / CONTACT Kesang Tseten Lama Shunyata Film Production 153/36 kholagalmarg 011 kathmandu
PRODUCTION Shunyata Film Production Kesang Tseten DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Nepal tel: +977 146 503 88 www.shunyatafilm.com shunyatafilm@gmail.com
The film shows the response of a paradise-like mountain community in the Himalaya to the devastation of the 2015 earthquake, revealing the transformation overtaking the community. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Trespassing Bergman Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas
Sweden, 2011 color, video, 107’ Original Language: Japanese/Chinese/ English/Swedish/French/Danish Subtitles: English
Ingmar Bergmans life and his key films as seen and told by the greatest actors and directors of our time. Candid, funny and explicit interviews with the likes of Lars Von Trier, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Isabella Rossellini and Michael Haneke - some shoot at Bergmans last home on the island of Fårö - interwoven with never before seen footage from behind-the-scenes at many of the Swedish masters films.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
PRODUCTION Gädda Five AB Fatima Varhos
8050 Zürich
CO-PRODUCTION Pretty Pictures – France,
Switzerland
Gotlands Filmfond – Sweden
tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
A light and entertaining look at the big stories and their makers: having exclusive access to Bergman’s private archive with more than 1500 films, an eclectic collection of films was found. 450
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Turn Over the Stones Lahafoh et ahavanim Nir Dvortchin
Israel, 2016 color, HDcam, 29’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English
Long after he was locked in jail, isolated from society, Sami won his freedom, but he still had a hard time forgiving himself. Sami is living his life in a small container in the middle of the desert, while the big house he build for his wife Kohava, stands empty. Sami suffers from Mania-Depression, a mental disorder that makes him experience reality in a unique, volatile and an uncompromising way. His letters to Kohava, which he sent from all around the world, while he was doing jail time, contains his wounded soul’s stories from past and present times.
SALES / CONTACT Nir Dvortchin Sapir Academic College Hagai 18
PRODUCTION Sapir CollegeSchool of Media, Film and Cultural Studies Nir Dvortchin
9091700 Givat Zeev Israel tel: +972 544 672 972 Nir_dvortch3@walla.com
In a tiny container at the heart of the desert, Sami stares at the endless space with a gloomy smile on his face. He has no intention of going anywhere.
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Politics / Society
Pitched at the Forum 2013
TUTTI A CASA - Power to the People? Lise Birk Pedersen
Denmark / Italy / Finland / Norway, 2016 color, video, 93’/52’ Original Language: Italian/English Subtitles: English
Banned from state TV and shunning the Berlusconi media empire, Italian comedian and political activist, Beppe Grillo, turns to the streets and the internet to fight political arrogance and corruption. His popular protest movement, Movimento 5 Stelle, vows to send all politicians home and bring the people to power. They win a stunning 25% of the vote to become the single largest party in Italy, and send 163 ordinary people into Parliament.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria
PRODUCTION Magic Hour Films Lise Lense-Møller CO-PRODUCTION Piraya Film AS – Norway
tel: +43 72 0346 934
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VPRO – The Netherlands,
www.autlookfilms.com
DR Danish Broadcasting
salma@autlookfilms.com
Corporation – Denmark, YLE – Finland, NRK – Norway, SRF – Switzerland
Italian comedian and political activist, Beppe Grillo, turns to the streets and the internet to fight political arrogance and corruption with his popular protest movement, Movimento 5 Stelle. 452
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The Twilight of the Goddesses El Ocaso de las Diosas Carlos Medellín Mignon
Mexico, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: Portugese/English www.doctvlatinoamerica.com
The Mignon sisters try to bridge the distance between them and rebuild their relationship, amidst old grudges and a terminal cancer. Silvia, the eldest, understands that memory is not immutable, and that they will have to work with the present to heal old wounds. She is constantly alongside Judith, her younger sister, as she fights her illness. El Ocaso de Las Diosas is a portrait of two sisters confronting the concepts of sisterhood and mortality.
SALES / CONTACT Consuelo Castillo
PRODUCTION Santiago De la Paz
DOCTV Latinoamérica
Carlos Medellín Mignon
Calle 11 # 5-16
CO-PRODUCTION DOCTV Latinoamérica – Colombia
111711198 Bogotá Colombia tel: +57 13 4241 00 consuelo.doctv@gmail.com
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Two schools Dvije kole Srdjan Sarenac
Bosnia-Herzegovina / Serbia / Croatia, 2016 color, HDcam, 43’ Original Language: Croatian/ Serbian/Bosnian Subtitles: English
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From 1993 until 1994 in Central Bosnia the bloodiest conflict was between the Croatian Defense Council and the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Washington Agreement, ended the conflict. The joint language and education system were divided into Croatian and Bosnian. The biggest differences are in the so-called national group of subjects: language, religious education, history and geography. Twenty years after the war the education system is still divided. Two schools are currently situated in the once famous Travnik Gymnasium building: The Catholic School Center “Petar Barbaric”, which teaches the Croatian curriculum and the Public Co-Educational High School “Travnik”, which teaches the Bosnian curriculum. The curricula most differ in the socalled national group of subjects. A steel wire fence divides the two schools and their students. Vinko Martinovic, principal of the Catholic School Center Gymnasium, each year organizes the traditional Christmas Indoor Soccer Tournament. That is the only event which brings together the students of those two schools in the same building. The film follows two indoor soccer school captains: Muhamed Lepir and Josip Papak.
SALES / CONTACT Srdjan Sarenac Novi Film Rudolfa Rude Tomica 34
PRODUCTION Novi Film Srdjan Sarenac
71000 Sarajevo
CO-PRODUCTION Novi Film – Serbia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Provid – Croatia
tel: +38 76 1158 164 www.novi-film.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Al Jazeera Balkans – Bosnia-
production@novi-film.com
Herzegovina DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Famous Travnik Gymnasium building after the war in Bosnia has been divided into 2 schools. Christmas football tournament is the only thing that unites children from both schools.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Two Trains Runnin’ Sam Pollard
USA, 2016 color / black and white, video, 82’ Original Language: English www.twotrainsrunnin.com
In this searing documentary Sam Pollard explores the explosive events that unfolded in Mississippi in the summer of 1964, when Freedom Summer coincided with the captivating hunt for musicians Son House and Skip James. Narrated by Common, and featuring new music by Gary Clark Jr. , Two Trains Runnin’ is a must-see film about hot-button issues—police brutality, racism, civil rights, and the legacy of black music—that are as urgent today as they were in 1964.
SALES / CONTACT Benjamin Hedin Avalon Films 609 Wellingham Drive 27713 Durham, NC
PRODUCTION Avalon Films Benjamin Hedin CO-PRODUCTION Freedom Road Productions – USA
USA tel: +1 917 5232392 twotrainsrunnin.com benjamin.hedin@gmail.com
Two Trains Runnin’ is about the search for two forgotten blues singers, set in Mississippi during the height of the American civil rights movement. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Type Hunters Safari Typo Thomas Sipp
France, 2016 color, HDcam, 6’ Original Language: English/Spanish/French Subtitles: English
Typography is at the heart of our contemporary culture. The film plunges us into the “typographic cauldron” of the great modern metropolis. We are taken on safaris through some of the great European cities by typographers who will decipher for us the “jungle” of typefaces swarming all around us. France and Spain not available
SALES / CONTACT Gorka Gallier Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin
PRODUCTION Les Films d’Ici Valérianne Boué
75003 Paris
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France,
France
Movistar + – Spain
tel: +33 014 2775687 www.docandfilm.com g.gallier@docandfilm.com
Type Hunters will plunge us into the unprecedented “typographic cauldron” of the great modern metropolis. 456
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Unbinding our Feet Laetitia Schoofs
The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
In the 21st centurry China has become the new super power, but for half its population the world has only just begun to change. Sex therapist Hongli Zhen, an expert on recent social developments in China, gives sex workshops that encourage women – including our main characters – to see their sexuality differently, and use techniques that make them happy. We meet widowed Xiao (50) trying to create a new life for herself, and the 32-year-old writer Wen Wen. She is what is officially known as a ‘leftover’, a term used in China for single, childless women over 25. They are considered a social problem because, even though many are highly educated and attractive, today’s Chinese males fear their strength and intellect. (Please note that Unbinding Our Feet is the one hour TV version of Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves)
SALES / CONTACT Jan Röfekamp Films Transit International Inc
PRODUCTION Silk Road Film Salon Jia Zhao
21 Place Epernay J6Z 4K9 Lorraine, (Quebec) Canada tel: + 1 514 844 3358 www.filmstransit.com janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
An intimate portrait of women of different generations in Beijing today who discover their sexuality in a rapidly-changing society, dogged by tradition.
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Unchained Alex C Rivera
England, 2016 color, HDcam, 80’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.unchainedmovie.net
Unchained follows the work of Carol Buckley (Elephant Aid International (EAI)) and her team, to enhance captive elephant welfare in Nepal, showing by gentle persuasion and example that there is a ‘better way’ to treat elephants in human captivity.
SALES / CONTACT Daniel Boluarte
PRODUCTION Wake Up Films Production
Principal Media
Limited
9378 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 320
Alex C Rivera
CA 90212 Beverly Hills
Leticia Ruiz
USA tel: +1 424 253 1542 dboluarte@principalmedia.com
There is always a better alternative to keeping any living being in chains.
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Uncle Howard Aaron Brookner
USA / England, 2015 color / black and white, video, 100’ Original Language: English http://
unclehowardfilm.com
Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present. New York filmmaker Howard Brookner died of AIDS in 1989, while making his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work, which captured the late 70s and early 80s cultural revolution, was buried in William S. Burroughs’ bunker for 30 years. Now in a personal journey, his nephew Aaron unearths Howard’s filmmaking legacy and the memory of everything he was. Produced by Pinball London in association with Itaca Films, Creative Europe, Jerome Foundation, The Filmaker Fund, Bertha Foundation Executive Producer: Jim Jarmush Australia, USA, Spain and United Kingdom not available
SALES / CONTACT Pauline Saint-Hilaire Upside Distribution 33 quai de Dion Bouton
PRODUCTION Pinball Aaron Brookner Paula Vaccaro
92800 Puteaux France tel: +33 1 58 47 92 94 www.upsidetelevision.com pauline.saint-hilaire@ upsidetelevision.com
A look at Howard Brookner’s legacy, from executive producer Jim Jarmusch.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Politics / Society
Under the Gun Stephanie Soechtig
USA, 2016 color, video, 105’ Original Language: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com
/home/films/underthegun
This is the definitive film on the gun epidemic in America. A drastic rise in mass shootings has ripped across the US in recent years. Despite a growing body count and the chorus of outrage that comes with it, America has failed to respond. Under the Gun explores why this is and how the firearms lobby group the NRA became such a powerful voice in American life. Searing and powerful, Under the Gun ultimately gives a human face to a crisis that is scarring the conscience of a nation. Directed by Stephanie Soechtig (Fed Up), narrated by Katie Couric.
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION Atlas Films Joshua Kunau
611 Broadway, suite 630
Olivia Ahnemann
10012 New York
Kristin Lazure
USA
Stephanie Soechtig
tel: +1 212 995 8139 Katie Couric Regina Kulik Scully
USA, Canada, Central & Eastern Europe and Germany not available
“The film’s achievement is its deep understanding of the people who worship guns...” -BBC
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Under the Sun Vitaly Mansky
Russia / Latvia / Germany / Czech Republic / North Korea, 2015 color, HDcam, 58’/106’ Original Language: Korean Subtitles: Czech/Russian/English/German http://
deckert-distribution.com
/film-catalogue/under-the-sun/
This is a film about the ideal life in an ideal country – North Korea. We see an ideal girl in an ideal school, the daughter of ideal parents, working at ideal factories, living in an ideal apartment in the centre of the capital. The girl is prepared to be a part of this ideal society, living in the eternal rays of the sun, the symbol of the great leader of the people, Kim Il-sung.
SALES / CONTACT Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution
PRODUCTION Vertov. Real Cinema Natalia Manskaya
Gottschedstr. 18
Vertov
04109 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
Saxonia Entertainment – Germany, Hypermarket Film – Czech Republic
A year in the life of an average North Korean family - is this reality or a propagandist ploy?
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS MDR Germany – Germany, Czech Television – Czech Republic
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro Max Lewkowicz
USA, 2016 color, video, 70’ Original Language: English http://
cargofilm-releasing.com
/home/films/underfire/
An HBO Documentary Film. With a $47 camera and developing the negatives in his helmet at night, WWII infantryman Tony Vaccaro created one of the most comprehensive, haunting and intimate photographic records of combat. Underfire engages timeless ethical issues surrounding war photography and how images shape public perceptions of conflict. Featuring contributions from Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times photographer Tyler Hicks, Lynsay Addario, 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.
SALES / CONTACT David Piperni Cargo Film & Releasing
PRODUCTION HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins
611 Broadway, suite 630
dog green productions
10012 New York
Valerie Thomas
USA
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS HBO Enterprises – USA
tel: +1 212 995 8139 cargofilm-releasing.com dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
The remarkable story of WWII infantryman, photographer Tony Vaccaro created one of the most comprehensive and haunting photographic records of the war using a smuggled $47 camera. An HBO Doc. 462
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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Until Cancer Do Us Part Tills Cancern Skiljer Oss Åt Jan-Olof Svarvar Sweden / Finland, 2016 color, video/DCP, 86’/52’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English
A man in his prime learns that he suffers from the most aggressive form of brain cancer, also known as “the terminator”. The doctors gave him a year to live. In this documentary we follow him, his wife and the children, through the road with both love and despair – from diagnosis to death. Everyone knows someone who has suffered from cancer. Although many can be cured today, a cancer diagnosis always reminds us about the important values of life. The film shows that even in the midst of the darkest tragedy the lust for life and fighting spirit can survive.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133 75004 Paris
PRODUCTION Pampas Production Jan-Olof Svarvar INVOLVED TV CHANNELS YLE – Finland
France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
A man learns that he suffers from a brain tumor. We follow him and his family to the end. Most of all it’s a story about the power of love. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Author’s Point of View | History | Youth
#Uploading_Holocaust Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir
Israel / Germany / Austria, 2016 color, video, 75’ Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English/German
www.keshetinternational.com
/show/documentary-and-docu-drama/uploading_holocaust/
Thousands of young Israelis join “The journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. As the last Holocaust survivors are nearing the end of their lives, young Israelis are eager to immortalize the collective trauma. Video sharing becomes a central tool in the commemoration efforts. Teenagers, teachers and parents film every testimony, gas chamber and ceremony, as well as late night hang-outs in the hotel corridors and personal blogs. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reviles a moving and troubling image about the way the collective memory is formed in the web age. Germany, Austria and Israel not available
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SALES / CONTACT Orianne Lichtenstein
PRODUCTION Christian Beetz
Keshet International
Sagi Bornstein
Raul Valenberg 12
Udi Nir
6971910 Tel Aviv
Tanja Schmoller
Israel
CO-PRODUCTION Loop Creative – Israel
tel: +97 23 7676 320 KeshetInternational.com orianne.l@keshet-tv.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Keshet Broadcasting – Israel, BR – Germany, RBB – Germany, ORF – Austria
#uploading_holocaust is the first documentary based entirely on existing YouTube materials.
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Uzu
Gaspard Kuentz
Japan, 2015 color, video, 27’ Original Language: Japanese Subtitles: French/English
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines that can weigh up to a ton collide them together in a holy battle, leaving many injured and exhausted. Uzu is an immersive documentary film that focuses on the physical and spiritual experience of the festival from its inside. A thrilling ride into its violence as well as a penetrating glance on its meaning, Uzu propounds a unique cinematic experience, between sensory ethnography and “war” reporting.
SALES / CONTACT Gaspard Kuentz Jingumae Produce
PRODUCTION Jingumae Produce Koji Tsujimoto
Nishiwada 1-15-15-201 381-0037 Nagano Japan tel: +81 70 4408 8176 gatsby@shaiprod.com
The Dogo Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals in Japan. A thrilling ride into its violence and a penetrating glance on its meaning, Uzu propounds a unique experience. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Venus
Mette Carla Albrechtsen, Lea Glob
Denmark / Norway, 2016 color, HDcam, 90’/60’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
Venus is an honest bed-sheet-portrait of young women in the sexual liberated Kingdom of Denmark. 15 young women have been chosen to record their own erotic diaries and finally the five most exciting, peculiar and brave women will re-enact and re-live their most memorable sexual experiences. The film is based on two Danish female directors’ sexual frustrations growing up in this (allegedly) sexual liberated society and their desire to confront their own erotic identities.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen DR
PRODUCTION House of Real Kirstine Barfod
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Jesper Jack
2300 København C
Anna Ljungmark
Denmark
CO-PRODUCTION Faction Film AS – Norway
tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark, UR – Sweden
Female sexuality is too often portrayed in stereotypes, leaving women with a thin vocabulary. Venus offers an alternative and authentic inside perspective on how modern females perceive themselves. 466
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Verhoeven versus Verhoeven Elisabeth van Zijll Langhout
The Netherlands / France, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 54’ Original Language: English
Filmmaker explicit in the areas of sexuality and violence, Verhoeven creates chaotic universe where the characters are dominated by pleasurable and destructive impulses. Today aged 77, Paul Verhoeven returned to Europe with a more psychological and introspective cinema. France - The NetherlandsGermany (Arte)
SALES / CONTACT Vincent Sacripanti
PRODUCTION Michel Rotman
Kuiv Productions
Kuiv Productions
55 BIS RUE DE LYON
Vincent Sacripanti
75012 PARIS
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS AVROTROS – The Netherlands
France tel: +33 (0) 1 44 75 79 15 www.kuiv.com v.sacripanti@kuiv.com
Paul verhoeven freely talks about himself, his childhood in the Second World War that will forge his imagination, his family, film, Europe, the United States, his personal and artistic choices. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach Louise Osmond
England, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 93’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com
/vsthelifeandfilmsofkenloach
Versus presents a surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of Ken Loach’s career as he prepares to release his latest feature film I, Daniel Blake. Director Louise Osmond was granted exclusive access on set and uses this as a starting point to look at Loach’s career, from his first job as understudy in a Kenneth Williams revue to groundbreaking TV dramas like Cathy Come Home and later as an award- winning feature director of films like Kes, RiffRaff and The Wind That Shakes the Barley. As well as interviews with Loach, Osmond talks with a host of his friends and collaborators.
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente Dogwoof
PRODUCTION SIXTEEN FILMS Rebecca O’Brien
19-23 Ironmonger Row EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Not available in France & Germany, Australia, Hong Kong, Portugal, Turkey
Versus is a funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach. 468
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Violently Happy Paola Calvo
Germany, 2016 color / black and white, video, 92’/58’ Original Language: German/English Subtitles: English/Spanish/German www.violentlyhappymovie.com
A sensual and intimate experience about a group of postmodern Berliners, looking for new ways of love and experimenting with sexual fantasies. Is the practice of violence in a controlled and friendly space an evolution in our civilization?
SALES / CONTACT Georg Gruber
PRODUCTION lüthje schneider hörl FILM
Magnetfilm
Andreas Hörl
Oranienburger Str. 50 10117 Berlin Germany tel: +49 30 2205 65615
CO-PRODUCTION dffb – Germany INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RBB – Germany
www.magnetfilm.de info@magnetfilm.de
Love, Nature, Dance and SM in Berlin
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Voices of Violence Claudia Schmid
Germany, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: Unknown Subtitles: English
www.newdocs.de/voices-of-violence
A film about the unimaginable violence against women in the the DR Congo and a political and social system that turns a blind eye to these atrocities. Women are systematically exposed to the practice of rape as a weapon of war. Director Claudia Schmid gives women a voice and reveals the structures underlying the violence. Not available in Germany and german speaking Switzerland
SALES / CONTACT Elina Kewitz New Docs Dasselstraße 75-77
PRODUCTION Bildersturm Filmproduktion Birgit Schulz
50674 Cologne
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS WDR – Germany,
Germany
NDR – Germany
tel: + 4922116819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
A film about the unimaginable violence to which women in the DR Congo are subjected and a political and social system that turns a blind eye to these atrocities. 470
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The Wait Emil Langballe
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 60’/90’ Original Language: Danish/Pashtu/Dari Subtitles: English
Rokhsar Sediqi is 14 years old and in the 7 th grade. She lives with her mom, dad and five siblings in a small village in Denmark. It has been almost five years since Rokhsar and her family fled Afghanistan. But the Danish Immigration Service questions whether they are in fact being persecuted by the Taliban in Afghanistan and denied the family asylum several times. Now Rokhsar and her family will be deported.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS TV 2 Norway – Denmark
DR Emil Holms Kanal 20 2300 København C Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/ kimc@dr.dk
A film about an Afghan girl and her family, who were denied asylum and now await deportation
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Politics / Society
Waiting for Giraffes Als de giraffes komen Marco de Stefanis
The Netherlands / Belgium, 2016 color, video, 84’/55’ Original Language: Arabic/English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
Dr. Sami is the veterinarian of Qalqilya Zoo (Palestine), the only zoo in the world in occupied territory. He loves his animals and to improve their situation and replace the giraffes they lost in the last intifada he needs to collaborate with the Israeli’s and he needs international recognition. Will he manage?
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION Volya Films
CAT&Docs
Fleur Knopperts
18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133
Denis Vaslin
75004 Paris France
CO-PRODUCTION Cassette for Timescapes –
tel: +33 14461 7748
Belgium
www.catndocs.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VRT – Belgium
cat@catndocs.com
Dr. Sami, the vet of Palestine’s only zoo, wants international recognition in order to improve his zoo. He will need the help of the Israeli’s. Will he manage?
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Walking in the Opposite Direction (a documentary about Adrian Borland and the Sound) Marc Waltman
The Netherlands, 2016 black and white, video, 95’ Original Language: Dajo/English Subtitles: English
www.walkingintheoppositedirection.info
The songs of Adrian Borland mean comfort and a source of optmism for a lot of people in the world. At the same time Adrian Borland himself suffers from depressions and has a constant “Sophie’s Choice” between being a musical artist or a man, cut of any emotion by medication . . . . Adrian’s choice: Walking in the Opposite Direction.
SALES / CONTACT Jean-Paul van Mierlo Stichting Opposite Direction Koningin Julianastraat 40 2631 BM Nootdorp
PRODUCTION Stichting Opposite Direction Jean-Paul van Mierlo CO-PRODUCTION Boegbeeld – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 6 22127293 www. walkingintheoppositedirection.info mierlo@casema.nl
A music documentary about Life and Music of Adrian Borland and the Sound. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Walking Spark Nauka chodzenia Marcin Kopec
Poland, 2016 color, video, 52’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
The main protagonist of the film, Piotr, is a former member of Warsaw mafia, who after being released from prison, decides to try and change himself for the better. We watch the protagonist, who takes his first steps into normal society, struggling with his weaknesses but at the same time glorifying his gangster past.
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
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PRODUCTION Shipsboy Dawid Janicki
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Wall of Death, and All That Zid smrti, i tako to Mladen Kovacevic
Serbia / Croatia, 2016 color, HDcam, 62’/52’ Original Language: Serbian/Romany Subtitles: English www.horopter.rs
Brankica was the central attraction at country-fairs, when she was just 10 years old. Her big brothers were star acrobats on the wall of death, legends in former Yugoslavia, she was the princess on the wall. Now, her brothers are long gone, she is the only one left behind. A 43-year-old grandmother of six grandchildren, she is repeating the same old stunts on her motorcycle while riding on the sidewalls of the 6 meters wide wooden barrel. She lingers between her melancholic memories and the claustrophobic existence around the last remaining wall of death.
SALES / CONTACT Mladen Kovacevic Horopter film production Vardarska 12 11000 Belgrade
PRODUCTION Horopter film production Mladen Kovacevic CO-PRODUCTION Restart – Croatia
Serbia tel: +381 69 8409283 www.horopter.rs mladen.kovacevic@horopter.rs
She is spending her life defying gravity on the road that literary has no beginning or end. She has nothing to hope for. She has only her memories. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Wall Writers Roger Gastman
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 78’ Original Language: English http://
wallwritersthemovie.com
Wall Writers explores graffiti’s eruption into mainstream society during a period of social turmoil in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, and takes a closer look not only at early graffiti’s place on the wall but its place in the culture of the time. It reveals the start of a movement that would eventually grow to transform city life, public transit, public art, and ultimately visual art the world over. Featuring unprecedented access to and exclusive interviews with graffiti’s originators CORNBREAD, TAKI 183, LSD OM, and more than a two-dozen others.
SALES / CONTACT Elizabeth Sheldon Bond/360
PRODUCTION R. Rock Enterprises Roger Gastman
1841 Broadway Suite 911 10023 New York USA tel: + 1 212 354 2650 bond360press.com elizabeth@bondinfluence.com
Graffiti and street art today are largely considered the rock n’ roll of visual art, and Wall Writers is the story of its birth in the late 60s. 476
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Science / Technology | Politics / Society
War and Games Krieg und Spiele Karin Jurschick
Germany, 2016 color, video, 52’/90’ Original Language: English www.newdocs.de/war-and-games
Drones, remote-controlled weapons and war robots are the war technology of the future. Controlling them via a screen is like playing a computer game. Does this new remote-controlled war technology provide us with reconnaissance information and security or is it paving the way for a surveillance state? New perspectives on a complex, fascinating subject. Not available in German speaking territories and USA
SALES / CONTACT Elina Kewitz New Docs Dasselstraße 75-77
PRODUCTION Bildersturm Filmproduktion Birgit Schulz
50674 Cologne
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS WDR – Germany,
Germany
ZDF/3sat – Germany
tel: + 4922116819743 www.newdocs.de elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
Drones, remote-controlled weapons and robots are the war technology of the future. Controlling them via a screen is like playing computer games. We visit laboratories, games designers and guardians of morality. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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War and Peace of Mind Sota ja Mielenrauha Ari Matikainen
Finland, 2016 color / black and white, 16mm/35mm, 72’ Original Language: Finnish Subtitles: English http://
sotajamielenrauha.fi
War and Peace of Mind is a documentary about the ways to survive a war mentally. It’s a story about men and women, their heroic deeds and guilt during the Continuation War, based on war materials, memories and the newest research information. The documentary tells a touching story about young people’s personal mental battles and ways to survive through the atrocities of the war. After 70 years, the documentary opens a discussion about how the war has affected people and how it still affects us, the descending generations.
SALES / CONTACT Maria Vilkki Kinocompany
PRODUCTION Napafilms Liisa Juntunen
Pursimiehenkatu 23
Kinocompany
00150 Helsinki
Ari Matikainen
Finland
CO-PRODUCTION Napafilms – Finland
tel: +358 40 6474 777 maria@kinocompany.fi
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS YLE – Finland
War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. 478
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The War Show
Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon
Denmark, 2016 color, HDcam, 100’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.drsales.dk
/programmes/the-war-show/
Knowing the Arab Spring will forever change their country, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future are tested by violence, imprisonment and death. Obaidah leaves Damascus and journeys around the country, from her hometown of Zabadani, to the center of the rebellion in Homs, to northern Syria where she witnesses the rise of extremism.
SALES / CONTACT Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION Fridthjof Film
DR
Alaa Hassan
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Miriam Nørgaard
2300 København C
CO-PRODUCTION Oktober Oy – Finland
Denmark tel: +45 35 2022 99 www.dr.dk/
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS DR – Denmark,
kimc@dr.dk
NRK – Norway, UR – Sweden, TVO – Canada, IKON – The Netherlands
In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and friends join the street protests against the oppressive regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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We Are Egyptian Armenians Hanan Ezzat, Waheed Sobhi
Egypt, 2016 color, HDcam/DCP/dvd, 90’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
We Are Egyptian Armenians is a message of tolerance and acceptance of the others. It outlines Egypt during the time when it opened its doors to people from all over the world to live, work and share their culture with the society they live in. Through the Armenians who came to Egypt after the Massacres of 1915 we follow the stories that were shared and transmitted from generation to generation. This documentary shows how Egypt gave the Armenians equal rights as citizens and allowed them to preserve their language, culture and heritage by building their own schools, sporting clubs and churches. Furthermore it demonstrates how the Armenians contributed to the Egyptian social and economic life by giving their best to their new homeland. We want to share these unique stories with everybody and to let them know that diversity is strength and unity.
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SALES / CONTACT Waheed Sobhi
PRODUCTION Waheed Sobhi
44,montasir bullding,Giza 12555 Giza Egypt tel: +20 12 8544 4061 Waheedsobhi@gmail.com
This 90 minutes documentary covers the lives and tribulations of Armenians in Egypt as told by Egyptian Armenians Starting with the era of Mohamed Ali when Armenians were given great opportunities.
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We’ll Be Alright Manuel de libération Alexander Kuznetsov
France, 2016 color, HDcam, 77’ Original Language: Russian Subtitles: English
In Siberia, Russia, Alexander Kuznetsov follows Yulia & Katia who went from an orphanage to a neuropsychiatric institution. Deprived of freedom, work and family, they had no say in it and getting those fundamental rights back is a long and painful bureaucratic process. We’ll Be Alright is their path to freedom.
France, Corsica, Monaco, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, USA not available
SALES / CONTACT Morgane Delay
PRODUCTION Petit à Petit production
Wide House
Rebecca Houzel
9 rue Bleue 75009 Paris France tel: +331 53 95 04 64 www.widehouse.org festivals@widehouse.org
Crazy institutions, blooming generation
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues Pitched at the Forum 2014
Weaving Fang Zhi Cheng Yang Wang
China / Japan, 2016 color, video, 93’ Original Language: Chinese Subtitles: English
In 2016, the last textile weaving factory from the communist era in North-West China was demolished. Weaving follows two textile worker families during the five year demolition process as they struggle to adapt to outside change while trying to keep their families intact. Where old and new social values collide, their story allows us to take a closer look inside China’s changing family dynamic in an increasingly materialistic and complex society.
SALES / CONTACT Chris Huang
PRODUCTION Chris Huang
1-11-10 Nakano-ku Nakano, Higashi-
CNEX
nakano Terrace No.11
Ben Tsiang
164-0001 Tokyo
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Japan tel: +81 80 8039 1783 h3236337@icloud.com
Weaving is an intimate study of family values during modern China’s rapid social and economic shift. 482
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Week 23 Ohad Milstein
Israel, 2016 color, video, 60’ Original Language: Hebrew/German/English Subtitles: English
For the first time, director Ohad Milstein points his camera at his own home. His partner Rahel, the daughter of a Swiss bishop, is pregnant with identical twins. In her 23rd week, she learns that one of the fetuses died in utero. Due to high risks of disability for the remaining twin, doctors unanimously recommend terminating the pregnancy. This presents the couple with a critical dilemma. Clinging only to faith and her maternal instincts, Rahel confronts everyone around her over the right of her surviving fetus to live, regardless of how perfect or imperfect it is.
SALES / CONTACT Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix Ste 133
PRODUCTION Ohad Milstein INVOLVED TV CHANNELS YES – Israel
75004 Paris France tel: +33 14461 7748 www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com
Rahel is coping with a difficult pregnancy. One of the twin she is carrying died in utero and it’s causing a threat to its sibling. Doctors recommend to terminate the pregnancy. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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The Weight of Dreams Francesco Mattuzzi
Italy, 2016 color, video/HDcam, 60’ Original Language: Italian Subtitles: English www.planckstudio.com
/the-weight-of-dreams
Aurelio and Latifa are a couple. They spend the most of their lives on their truck, dreaming to become like an ordinary family one day. This ideal has to deal with a heavy work schedule, challenging deadlines and, “nonplaces”. The freight transport system, articulating through the European corridors, totally invades and violates their privacy, crushing their dreams in a truck cab. In the background, a changing Europe and its great migratory movements.
SALES / CONTACT Francesco Mattuzzi PLANCK FILMS Largo Cavalieri di Malta 12 20146 Milan
PRODUCTION PLANCK FILMS Francesco Mattuzzi CO-PRODUCTION SORAWAY – Italy
Italy tel: +39 32 8432 1307 www.planckstudio.com info@francescomattuzzi.com
A couple of truck drivers live on a truck. They will have to face the freight transport rules, dead lines and a claustrophobic cohabitation in a cockpit. 484
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Politics / Society
Weiner
Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
USA, 2016 color, HDcam, 96’ Original Language: English http://
dogwoofglobal.com/weiner
With unprecedented access to Anthony Weiner, his family, and his campaign team as they mount his New York City mayoral campaign, the film documents the impending political meltdown of epic proportions. What begins as an unexpected comeback from a disgraced ex-congressman takes a sharp turn once Weiner is forced to admit to new sexting allegations. As the media descends and rips apart his every move, Weiner tries desperately to forge ahead, but the increasing pressure and crippling 24-hour news coverage halts his political aspirations dead in their tracks. Not available in North America and The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION Edgeline Films
Dogwoof
Josh Kriegman
19-23 Ironmonger Row
Elyse Steinberg
EC1V 3QN London England tel: +44 20 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com ana@dogwoof.com
Many politicians have seen their careers careen off the tracks, but few instances have been captured so completely on film as the incisive and painfully funny Weiner
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Welcome to Refugeestan Bienvenue au Réfugistan Anne Poiret
France, 2016 color, video, 70’/52’ Original Language: Arabic/ Kirundi/English/French Subtitles: English http://
andanafilms.com
/catalogueFiche.php?idFiche=1219&rub=Nouveaut%C3%A9
The UNHCR manages camps that shelter more than sixteen million refugees all around the world, creating a virtual country as large as The Netherlands. How does the UNHCR run these camps and train its representatives? How can they deal with the urgent needs of thousands of new refugees that arrives each day? How has this emergency response turned into a durable situation with an average stay of over fifteen years? Shot in several camps all around the world - Kenya, Tanzania, Jordan, the border of Greece/Macedonia - and in the UNHCR offices in France, England and Switzerland.
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SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet Andana Films
PRODUCTION Quark Productions Juliette Guigon
25 route de l’Echelette
Patrick Winocour
07170 Lussas
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
France tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com
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What He Did
Det Han Gjorde Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Jonas Poher Rasmussen Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 62’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English www.taskovskifilms.com
/?film=what-he-did
What He Did is the story of psychologist and author Jens Michael Schau, who in 1988 killed his boyfriend of 13 years, Christian Kampmann, in a fit og jealousy. Kampmann was at the peak of his literary career at the time, and had gone to the small Danish island Læsø with Jens Michael Schau to write the continuation of the beloved television series ‘Matador’. During this stay something went wrong - but what and why? In What He Did - which is made as an experimental dialogue between theatre and documentary - Schau tells his story for the first time.
SALES / CONTACT Tijana Djukic
PRODUCTION House of Real
Taskovski Films
Jesper Jack
19-21 Christopher Street EC2A 2BS London England tel: +33 4 93 47 59 65 www.taskovskifilms.com sales@taskovskifilms.com
How do you live your life, having done something unforgivable?
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Author’s Point of View | Experimental | Human Interest / Social Issues
What I Could Be if I Were O que eu poderia ser se eu fosse Bruno Jorge Brazil, 2015 color, video, 100’ Original Language: Portugese Subtitles: English
In an attempt to fathom his own fatherhood which awaits him around the corner, the filmmaker dives into the couple’s eventful yet delicate daily life, starting with his wife’s distant memories, all of which seem to point toward her sister Vanessa’s untimely death as a teen. Fernanda’s experience equivalent to maternity leads to a series of anxiety-driven conflicts, including determining how the movie itself should be made. From then on, it becomes an unusual metafictional movie, exposed and highly personal, where there is ample space to ponder the role of its creator.
SALES / CONTACT Bruno Jorge João de Barro Cinema Independente
PRODUCTION João de Barro Cinema Independente Bruno Jorge
rua Pascoal Vita, 342, ap. 31 05445000 Sao Paulo Brazil tel: +55 35 997330590 www.brunojorge.com bruno@brunojorge.com
A confession in the form of film-process in which filmmaker captures the workings of his daily life alongside his wife in the months preceding the birth of his son. 488
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Politics / Society | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Whatever the Weather Bei Wind und Wetter Remo Scherrer Switzerland, 2015 black and white, video, 11’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English www.zeitraumfilm.ch
Wally’s childhood is increasingly turned upside down by her mother’s alcohol addiction. She experiences the excesses and consequences of addiction first hand. Desperately, the eight-year-old tries to keep up normality in her own life and the life of her family by any means. A roller coaster ride between helplessness, excessive demands and desperation begins. It’s a daily struggle for survival.
SALES / CONTACT Christian Gesell interfilm Berlin Management Tempelhofer Ufer 1a
PRODUCTION Zeitraum Film Carola Kutzner
10961 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION Hochschule Luzern Design &
Germany
Kunst, Studienrichtung Film –
tel: +49 30 2529 1323
Switzerland,
christian@interfilm.de
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen – Switzerland, SRG SSR Idée Suisse – Switzerland INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen – Switzerland
Animated documentary about a childhood with an alcohol addicted mother. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Experimental | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
When I Hear the Birds Sing Når jeg hører fuglene synge Trine Vallevik Håbjørg Norway, 2016 color, video, 8’ Original Language: French Subtitles: English
Five ivorian children fled the war that broke out in the Ivory Coast after the presidential election in 2010. Now they live in a refugee camp in Liberia, on the other side of the border from their homeland. The children talk about hopes and dreams for the future.
SALES / CONTACT Trine Vallevik Håbjørg Råsalt AS
PRODUCTION Råsalt AS Trine Vallevik Håbjørg
Krokstrandveien 51 1555 Son Norway tel: + 47 91375102 www.raasalt.no trine@raasalt.no
Five ivorian children escaped war; in a refugee camp they tell stories about hope and dreams for the future. 490
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Politics / Society
When Siberia will be Chinese Quand la Sibérie sera chinoise Richard Prost France, 2015 color, HDcam, 52’ Original Language: French/Russian Subtitles: English
Far Eastern Siberia was Chinese in the 16th century and became Russian after the defeat of the Middle Kingdom by Nicolas I. Today could Siberia become Chinese again? Some 7 million Russians monitor 148 million Chinese who cross the Amur River to live on the other side of the border. A peaceful invasion that concerns Russian diplomacy and unveils China’s expansionistic dreams.
SALES / CONTACT Anne Littardi Beliane 11 rue Adolphe Mille 75019 Paris
PRODUCTION Beliane Guillaume Roy INVOLVED TV CHANNELS ARTE France – France
France tel: +33 97 7219 135 anne.littardi@beliane.com
Could Siberia become Chinese again? Some 7 million Russians monitor 148 million Chinese who cross the Amur River. A peaceful invasion that concerns Russian diplomacy. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
Where You’re Meant to Be Paul Fegan
Scotland, 2016 color, video, 76’ Original Language: English www.whereyouremeanttobe.com
Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs. He doesn’t count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart – a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat’s folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for updating. She does not. With Stewart’s wrath ringing in his ears, Moffat embarks on a road trip that finds him dressed for battle in a Highland graveyard, caught between feuding monster-hunters at Loch Ness – before facing Stewart in Glasgow for a final showdown, in this funny wee film about music and death.
SALES / CONTACT Paul Fegan Better Days Productions
PRODUCTION Better Days Productions Paul Fegan
17 Bruce Road G41 5EE Glasgow Scotland tel: +44 7899841888 www.betterdays.co.uk paul@betterdays.co.uk
When a Scottish indie-pop artist decides to re-write his country’s oldest songs, the only things standing in his way are a travelling folk balladeer – and centuries of history. 492
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Politics / Society Pitched at the Forum 2014
White Rage Arto Halonen
Finland, 2016 color, video, 52’/70’ Original Language: Finnish/English Subtitles: English
Lauri is an academic researcher and respected scientist specialized in human aggression and violence. Yet when he was growing up he experienced extreme bullying. At two points – as a teen and again as a university student – he began to develop serious fantasies about committing mass murder. The documentary goes through Lauri’s life journey; how he became a carrier of white rage and how he survived this heavy burden by recognizing it and taking to action.
SALES / CONTACT Esther van Messel First Hand Films
PRODUCTION Art Films Production Arto Halonen
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich Switzerland tel: +41 44 312 20 60 www.firsthandfilms.com stories@firsthandfilms.com
The story of victims of childhood traumata: victims full of white rage, which may lead to school shootings and other extreme acts of violence. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Who We Were Dem vi var Sine Skibsholt
Denmark, 2015 color, HDcam, 81’ Original Language: Danish Subtitles: English
Their life looks like that of so many others: Kristian and Mette Line met 12 years ago. They fell in love, travelled, and focused on their careers. Later ”you and me” became a family when they had their children, Celeste and Cyron. Two years ago they bought their dream house in Kgs. Lyngby where they were supposed to live out their many dreams and ideas about life. But one day, 39-year-old Kristian collapses from a blood clot that destroys one third of his brain. The damage is irreversible, and life as they know it comes to an abrupt end.
SALES / CONTACT Tine Klint
PRODUCTION Made in Copenhagen
LevelK
Helle Faber
Gammel Kongevej 137B 3rd floor 1850 Frederiksberg Denmark tel: +45 20 1085 80 www.levelk.dk tine@levelk.dk
Who We Were follows a young family during the first year after a fateful accident and is a portrait of love in the face of catastrophe.
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Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann
Israel / England, 2016 color, video, 82’/54’ Original Language: English/Hebrew Subtitles: English
Saar is an HIV positive gay man living in London, where he found refuge from the religious kibbutz where he grew up in Israel. Ever since he was diagnosed with HIV, Saar has craved his family’s love, while they struggle with fears and prejudices. Acclaimed Heymann Brothers crafted a highly accessible and powerful meta-documentary about the power of forgivness and the power that home has, no matter how far we go.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Heymann Brothers Films
Autlook Filmsales
Barak Heymann
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Tomer Heymann
1070 Vienna Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934 www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
Acclaimed Heymann Brothers crafted a highly accessible and powerful meta-documentary about the power of forgivness and the power that home has, no matter how far we go. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society Pitched at the Forum 2011
Whose Country? Balad meen? Mohamed Siam
Egypt / France / USA, 2016 color, video, 58’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: English
Through verité footage and in oneon-one interviews, Abou H reveals the ways in which the security forces abused his role in society. Abou is torn between his convictions and the risk to lose his job. He hopes to change the system, speaking directly to the director, who at the same time, grapples with issues of guilt and morality and the memory of his father, a former criminal investigator.
Not available: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Qatar, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, USA
SALES / CONTACT Morgane Delay Wide House
PRODUCTION Linked Productions Talal Al-Muhanna
9 rue Bleue
ArtKhana
75009 Paris
Mohamed Siam
France tel: +331 53 95 04 64
CO-PRODUCTION ITVS – USA,
www.widehouse.org
Pumpernickel Films – France
festivals@widehouse.org
DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
Spanning the period from the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, Whose Country? is a first-person account of one Cairo-based filmmaker’s interactions with an Egyptian policeman, Abou H 496
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WIM
Lut Vandekeybus
Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016 color, ProRes/DCP, 112’ Original Language: Spanish/ English/Dutch/French Subtitles: English www.lutvandekeybus.be
Wim is not only a visual journey through Wim Vandekeybus’ artistic work; it is also a journey of discovery through the relationship of the choreographer with the various dramas of everyday life and how he incorporates these into his dance and film performances. Dancers and co-workers testify to Vandekeybus’ visionary talent and rousing enthusiasm, but also his drive for perfection and sometimes erratic temperament. Lut Vandekeybus uses an abundance of unpublished archive material, unique home videos and in-depth interviews to deliver an inspired portrait of her brother’s impressive career.
SALES / CONTACT Lut Vandekeybus
PRODUCTION Danbiel De Valck
Khadouj Films
Khadouj Films
Parmastraat 11
Lut Vandekeybus
1060 Brussel Belgium
CO-PRODUCTION Dieptescherpte BV –
tel: +32 497 822557
The Netherlands,
www.lutvandekeybus.be
Cobra Films – Belgium
khadouj@glo.be
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS VRT – Belgium, RTBF – Belgium
In Wim, documentary filmmaker Lut Vandekeybus takes you on a journey through the energetic, poetic and complex universe of her brother, the lauded choreographer and director Wim Vandekeybus. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Win by Fall Schultersieg Anna Koch
Germany, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’ Original Language: German Subtitles: English www.schultersieg-film.de
Four German teenage girls are getting ready for an exciting school year. The young wrestlers Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle have been accepted to the Elite School of Sports, a boarding school in Frankfurt that follows East German traditions in getting talented athletes to the top. The girls can expect years of exhausting, intensive training schedules, strict diets and extreme pressure to perform. In their free time they hang out together, listen to music and long for home – they aren’t all built for this kind of regime. Michelle struggles with her weight, Lisa is homesick, Jenny feels insecure within the group, and Debby sets the bar very high. For years on end the film follows the girls at school, during the grueling workouts, in the intimacy of their lodgings and on the mat – the place where it’s all really supposed to happen. In slow motion, hair swings about and faces show strain as they maneuver themselves and their opponents into astonishing positions. While each win provides a euphoric moment, the film is dominated by scenes of sadness, frustration and anger. Still there’s also the will to always get back up and rise to the challenge. 498
SALES / CONTACT Anna Wendt Anna Wendt Filmproduktion
PRODUCTION German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)
Meinekestr. 24
Jolanka Hoehn
10719 Berlin
Romana Janik
Germany
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RBB – Germany
tel: +49.30.254 32 100 www.annawendtfilm.de office@annawendtfilm.de
A feature documentary about four girls who went forth to learn how to fight.
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The Wind Knows That I´m Coming Back Home El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa José Luis Torres Leiva Chile, 2016 color, video, 103’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: French/English www.elvientosabe.cl
Chilean documentary maker Ignacio Agüero is working on his first long feature fiction film based on an old documentary project he never carried out. In the early 80’s in the Meulín Island, in the region of Chiloé, a young couple disappeared in the woods of the area, leaving no trace at all. A whole myth grew around this mysterious and tragic love story. Ignacio Agüero will travel to the place where this took place, looking for locations, non-professional actors to finally, little by little, give shape to the development of his film.
SALES / CONTACT Catalina Vergara Globo Rojo Producciones
PRODUCTION Globo Rojo Producciones Catalina Vergara
Los Conquistadores 2238 B 7520218 Santiago Chile tel: +56 99 6530 493 www.globorojofilms.com catalina@globorojofilms.com
Chilean filmmaker, Ignacio Agüero prepares his first film based mainly on the tragic love story searching casting and locations in Meulin Island, Chiloé. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Woman and the Glacier Audrius Stonys
Lithuania / Estonia, 2016 color / black and white, HDcam, 56’ Original Language: Russian/Lithuanian Subtitles: English
Kazakhstan. Tian Shan mountains. Tuiuksu glacier. Glaciological station in the height of 3500 m. Here, for thirty years lives a woman. Totally alone and without any connection with the civilized world. She devoted all her life to science to keep her finger on the pulse of the planet. The film is going to tell a story of the fragile Woman and the eternal Glacier.
SALES / CONTACT Radvile Sumile Studio UKU Pilies g 42-5 01123 Vilnius
PRODUCTION Studio UKU Radvile Sumile CO-PRODUCTION Vesilind OU – Estonia
Lithuania tel: +37 06 1530 910 radvile.varanaviciute@gmail.com
The film is going to tell a story of the fragile Woman and the eternal Glacier. 500
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The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev Hamamlacha Hamuflaa Shel Papa Alaev Tal Barda, Noam Pinchas Israel / France, 2016 color, DCP, 74’/52’ Original Language: Hebrew/Tajik/Russian Subtitles: Hebrew/French/English www.go2films.com
/New-Releases/The-Wonderful-Kingdom-of-Papa-Alaev
A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 begins to lose his grip on the ‘family business’, sending them on a rigid and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy. As generations clash over new musical directions, competing personal interests and Papa’s advancing age, the family show must go on, but who will lead the band? Set to a blazing tribal soundtrack, drama and drumbeats sing out from every entertaining exchange in this grand family affair.
SALES / CONTACT Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION Tal Barda
Go2Films
Alegría Productions
37/8 Issar Natanzon Street
Christine Camdessus
97787 Jerusalem Israel
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Channel 8 – Israel,
tel: +972 2 5831371
ARTE France – France,
www.go2films.com
IKON – The Netherlands,
hedva@go2films.com
CBC – Canada
A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic patriarch, who at the age of 80 begins to lose his grip on the ‘family business’ International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Art / Music / Culture
The World makes Music de Wereld maakt Muziek Margriet Jansen The Netherlands, 2016 color, HDcam, 82’/50’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
www.theworldmakesmusic.nl
A documentary about the significance of world music for Western music lovers. They are put in the spotlight to relive the emotions they experienced during their favorite live performances. They recall how this moment has influenced or even changed their lives. The numerous concert recordings demonstrate that music doesn’t stop at the borders of the Western world. A music documentary that pays tribute to the universal language of music from all over the globe. All territories available. All sync licenses are cleared for the Benelux. Sync license fee outside the Benelux: 82’ version per sale 1.000 euro 50’ version per sale 750 euro Master use license fee: 82’ version per sale 1.250 euro 50’ version per sale 750 euro
SALES / CONTACT Jean Hellwig Vista Far Reaching Visuals Javastraat 713 1095 DS Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 62 1271 555
PRODUCTION Vista Far Reaching Visuals Jean Hellwig CO-PRODUCTION MJCpro – The Netherlands INVOLVED TV CHANNELS RTV Utrecht – The Netherlands
www.vistavisuals.nl info@hellwig.nl
Documentary that pays tribute to the universal language of music from all over the globe. Western music lovers recall how ‘world music’ has influenced or even changed their lives. 502
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The World of Kim & Bob De Wereld van Kim & Bob Sanne Rovers
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 16’ Original Language: Dutch Subtitles: English http://
witfilm.nl
/en/projects/the-world-of-kim-bob
Kim and Bob have been best friends since birth. Both have a rich fantasy and love playing together in the worlds they create themselves (brought to life by animation in the film), even though they are almost thirteen. But Kim and Bob are growing up. Bob still completely feels like a child, but Kim increasingly senses she can’t focus on their play anymore. What will change and what will stay the same? Will the impending adolescence change their special bond?
SALES / CONTACT Jantien Ekkes Witfilm
PRODUCTION Witfilm Boudewijn Koole
De Kempenaerstraat
Iris Lammertsma
1051CJ Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6885 049 www.witfilm.nl jantien@witfilm.nl
A film about the very close and imaginative friendship between a boy and a girl at the end of their childhood. Will the impending adolescence impact their friendship? International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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Wrestling Alligators Andrew Shea
USA, 2016 color, video, 90’/56’ Original Language: English www.wrestlingalligators.com
Indian gaming is the greatest change to Native Americans since the dawn of the 20th century, a revolution that has finally made self-reliance attainable. James Billie, the father of Indian casinos, grew up wrestling alligators for tourists, but in 1979 became chairman of his tribe and brought them previously unimagined prosperity. Controversial and daring, James used his charm and wit to beat the white man at his own game. Now faced with new battles, James again finds his tribe’s way of life challenged. Wrestling Alligators uses the Seminoles’ own words and footage to tell their unique, truly American story.
SALES / CONTACT James Eowan Seventh Art Releasing 6579 Pickwick Street
PRODUCTION Wrestling Alligators, Inc. Udy Epstein James Eowan
90042 Los Angeles USA tel: +1 323 2598259 www.7 thart.com seventhart@7 thart.com
James Billie is the father of Indian gaming, and the bigger than life leader of what is now one of the largest gaming businesses in the world.
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Wrong Elements Jonathan Littell
France / Germany / Belgium, 2016 color, video, 133’ Original Language: English Subtitles: English www.le-pacte.com
/international/new-films/single/wrong-elements/
Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s Resistance Army. An “army” that grew by abducting teenagers – more than 60 000 over 25 years – of which less than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Mike, a group of friends, as well as Lapisa, were among these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they did not fully understand, they are forever the “Wrong Elements” that society struggles to accept.
SALES / CONTACT Camille Neel
PRODUCTION Veilleur de Nuit
Le Pacte
Jean-Marc Giri
5 rue Darcet 75017 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION Zero One Film – Germany,
France
Wrong Men – Belgium
tel: + 33 1 44 69 59 54 www.le-pacte.com
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS Canal + – France,
c.neel@le-pacte.com
ARTE Deutschland – Germany, RTBF – Belgium
Germany & Belgium not available
Geofrey, Nighty, Mike and Lapisa were abducted by the LRA, a rebel movement formed in 1989 in Uganda by Joseph Kony. Today, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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You Have No Idea How Much I Love You Nawet nie wiesz, jak bardzo cie kocham Pawel Lozinski Poland, 2016 color, video, 80’ Original Language: Polish Subtitles: English
The story of the tragedy of two women, mother and daughter, bound together by a difficult, complicated feeling. For the protagonists, the crucial event is a meeting with a third person, a stranger who becomes a close one, an experienced therapist. His basic tools are words and empathy. In an intimate conversation old wounds and deeply hidden emotions of the protagonists slowly come to the surface. Will it be possible for them to leave the circle of long-standing grudges? Or to cut the umbilical cord connecting them without the risk of losing their bond?
SALES / CONTACT Katarzyna Wilk KFF Sales & Promotion
PRODUCTION Lozinski Production Pawel Lozinski
Basztowa 15/8a 31-143 Krakow Poland tel: +48 12 2946 945 www.polishdocs.pl katarzyna@kff.com.pl
In an intimate conversation of three people, old wounds and deeply hidden emotions of the protagonists slowly come to the surface. 506
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Zaatari Djinn Zaatari Kids Catherine van Campen
The Netherlands, 2016 color, video, 90’ Original Language: Arabic Subtitles: Dutch/English
Children are masters at making something out of nothing. A ball of paper becomes a football, a grasshopper becomes the first inhabitant of a mini zoo. We see this on a large scale in the Jordanian desert, where there’s nothing but sand, unbearable summers and winters with snowstorms. In the middle of this desert, a few tents were placed for a couple of hundred Syrian refugees. Out of nothing a city arose, with shops, districts, bars and playgrounds, a city with 90. 000 inhabitants of which 80 per cent are children.
SALES / CONTACT Nazima Mintjes
PRODUCTION Witfilm
Witfilm
Boudewijn Koole
De Kempenaerstraat 11B
Iris Lammertsma
1051CJ Amsterdam
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS KRO-NCRV – The Netherlands
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6885 049 www.witfilm.nl/en nazima@witfilm.nl
Zaatari Djinn is a film about the Refugee Camp Zaatari. Via the perspective of four children, it sheds light on the human ability to create something out of nothing.
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Zaineb Hates the Snow Kaouther Ben Hania
Tunisia / United Arab Emirates / France / Qatar / Lebanon, 2016 color, video, 94’/52’ Original Language: Arabic/French Subtitles: English
Big changes await 10-year-old Zaineb from Tunisia: her mother takes her to Canada, to move in with her new husbands and his kids. A playful and emotional look into the widely discussed integration process of a young Muslim family and the true meaning of a “patch work family”.
SALES / CONTACT Salma Abdalla
PRODUCTION Cinetelefilms
Autlook Filmsales
Habib Attia
Spittelberggasse 3/14 1070 Wien Austria tel: +43 72 0346 934
CO-PRODUCTION 13 productions – France DISTRIBUTION BENELUX: IDFA Bertha Fund
www.autlookfilms.com salma@autlookfilms.com
A playful and emotional look into the widely discussed integration process of a young Muslim family and the true meaning of a “patch work family”.
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Zona Franca Georgi Lazarevski
France, 2016 color, video, 100’ Original Language: Spanish Subtitles: English http://
andanafilms.com
/catalogueFiche.php?idFiche=1188&rub=Nouveaut%C3%A9
Zona Franca is a large outdated shopping district at the heart of the Chilean Strait of Magellan. Everywhere this area shows the scars of the upheaval which transformed the last wild place of the original America into a window display of today’s commercial society. Among the wreckage of history and the tourists on a quest to discover the end of the world, a gold prospector and a truck driver resist the change. Modern antiheroes, they demonstrate what can’t be found in the tour brochures: a violence rooted in this place which comes to light when a strike paralyses the region.
SALES / CONTACT Stephan Riguet Andana Films
PRODUCTION CIAOFILM Moira Chappedelaine-Vautier
25 route de l’Echelette
Les Films du Poisson
07170 Lussas
Estelle Fialon
France
CO-PRODUCTION CIAOFILM – France
tel: +33 4 75943467 www.andanafilms.com contact@andanafilms.com
France Theatrical Rights not available
Near the Strait of Magellan, Zona Franca is a large outdated shopping district where the last wild place of the original America is a window display of today’s commercial society. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016
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