Catalogue International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013 by International Film Festival Rotterdam

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Using the Catalogue Catalogue & Festival Staff Foreword The Supportive Festival Jury Hivos Tiger Awards Competition Jury Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films Thanks to Partners & Sponsors

25 Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 43 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 53 Bright Future 91 Spectrum 131 Spectrum Shorts

tHis is reality not fiction

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Signals: Dominik Graf Signals: Kira Muratova Signals: Inside Iran Signals: Changing Channels Signals: Sound Stages Signals: Regained

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Addresses Print & Sales Film List by Country List of Premieres Index Directors Index Films & Compilation Programmes Programme Day by Day More Than Film

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USING THE CATALOGUE

Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

Awards for the new generation. Sixteen nominated filmmakers compete with their first or second feature for three equal Hivos Tiger Awards. Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

Awards for the short but sweet. Twenty-three films running less than sixty minutes were selected for this competition, for which there are three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films up for grabs.

Bright Future

Young blood. First or second films from filmmakers from whom the festival expects big things.

Spectrum Rotterdam at its most eclectic. The festival has selected contemporary, powerful and innovative work from all over the world, from veterans, maestros and lesser-known talents.

Spectrum Shorts

The strength of the short: films between one and fifty-nine minutes long, from all over. Brought together in compilation programmes or screened ahead of features.

Signals: Dominik Graf

Retrospective of the work of Dominik Graf, the most important chronicler of modern Germany. His oeuvre encompasses some sixty productions, most of them made for television. Graf is the best-kept secret in German filmmaking.

Signals: Kira Muratova

Contemporary Iranian cinema and video art from the lively underground circuit in Teheran, where galleries are meeting places for filmmakers and audiences.

Signals: Changing Channels

The best examples of ‘episodic storytelling’, featuring television and Internet series made by independent filmmakers, for one time only on the big screen – or in the special web lounge in Cinerama.

Signals: Sound Stages

Sound rather than image takes centre stage in Sound Stages. The festival as jukebox, with a whole range of cinematic sound experiences and live performances, installations and films to stimulate the ears. Both in and outside the cinema.

Signals: Regained

A sample of cinematic memory, with the focus on experiments, restored classics, special events and exhibitions, as well as current opinions on film, history and visual culture. A regular component of the Signals section.

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Prod = Producer • Prod Comp = Production Company • Sc = Screenplay • Cam = Camera • Ed = Editor • Prod Des = Production Design • Sound Des = Sound Design • With = The most important actors and actresses • Distr NL = Distributor in the Netherlands

2 = combined programme • DGZ = Doelen Grote Zaal •

DWBZ = Doelen Willem Burger Zaal • DJZ = Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal • SGZ = Schouwburg Grote Zaal • SKZ = Schouwburg Kleine Zaal • PA1 - PA7 = Pathé 1 - 7 • CI1 - CI7 = Cinerama 1 - 7 • LV1 - LV6 = LantarenVenster 1 - 6 • LUX = Oude Luxor • UN = De Unie All films are English spoken or subtitled in English, except for the films marked: d.s. = Dutch subtitles or f.s. = French subtitles, n.d. = no dialogue The films being screened at the festival can be found in the catalogue listed under the IFFR programme sections. Films are ordered by the director’s family name in the following sections: TG, BF and SP. Filmmakers from China, Japan and Korea (following the tradition) are listed with their family name first, followed by their given name. Check filmfestivalrotterdam.com for biographies, filmographies and programmers’ notes (for selected titles only).

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For the first time ever outside of Russia and the Ukraine, the complete oeuvre of one of the most exceptional Eastern European artists of the past half century has been brought together. An inimitable, irresistible oeuvre that respects no boundaries.

Signals: Inside Iran

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catalogue@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Chief Editor SaskiaGravelijn Editors Lot Piscaer, Harriëtte

Ubels, Tanja Vlieger

Copy Editors (English:)

Mark Baker, Jane Bemont, Christine Gardner, (Dutch:) Mariska Graveland, Pauline Kleijer, Mark Mallon Contributors Zara Abdullaeva, Niels Bakker, Leo Bankersen, Joost Broeren, Edo Dijksterhuis, KEES Driessen, Jan Pieter Ekker, Mariska Graveland, Christoph Huber, Pauline Kleijer, Omar Kholeif, Sietse Meijer, Olaf Möller, Maricke Nieuwdorp, Nicole Santé, Ronald Rovers, André Waardenburg and Festival Staff Translators (English:) Mark Baker, Martin Cleaver, Titus Verheijen, Dimitri Frenkel Frank, (Dutch:) Sjaan de Bruijn, Leo Reijnen, (Russian-Dutch:) Eelco den Boer

Photo Editor Amanda Harput Production Marieke Berkhout,

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Festival Staff 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam PO Box 21696 3001 AR Rotterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 10 890 9090 fax: +31 10 890 9091 tiger@filmfestivalrotterdam.com filmfestivalrotterdam.com Supervisory Board Pieter Broertjes, Mart Dominicus, Frans van Gestel, Francine Houben, Rudy Stroink Festival Director Rutger Wolfson Managing Director Janneke Staarink Management Team Afke Duinkerken, Marit van den Elshout, Eva de Jong, Chris Schouten, Juul Veenboer Programmers Edwin Carels, Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Peter van Hoof, Chinlin Hsieh, Inge de Leeuw, Bianca Taal, Gerwin Tamsma, Gertjan Zuilhof, (short films:) Peter van Hoof, Maaike Gouwenberg, Erwin van ’t Hart, Juliette Jansen, Peter Taylor, Theus Zwakhals Guest Curators Christoph Huber, Olaf Möller Programme Advisors Mary Davies, Christiane Gruen, Aihara Hiromi, Robert Gray, Shelly Kraicer, Miryam van Lier, Ralph McKay, Olivier Pierre, Diana Sanchez, Rada Sesic, Roberto Turigliatto, Miroljub Vickovic, Grace Winter Programme Department Chris Schouten, Pim Kipp, Robert de Rek, Melissa van der Schoor, Ioana Stanescu, Erik Tijman Press Bert-Jan Zoet, Lisa Gribling, Nancy van Oorschot, Justin Verhulst Communication & Marketing

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Martje van Nes, Kitty Bogte, Hedwig Hupkes, Barbara Korpershoek, Lennart Verschoor, Angela Visser CineMart Marit van den Elshout, Inke van Loocke, Tobias Pausinger, Nienke Poelsma, Emmy Sidiras, Jacobine van der Vloed, (consultants/ matchmakers:) Jolinde den Haas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, David Pope Hubert Bals Fund Iwana Chronis, Fay Breeman, Janneke Langelaan, Stien Meesters, Bianca Taal General Editors Anton Damen, Saskia Gravelijn Editor Lot Piscaer, Harriëtte Ubels, Tanja Vlieger Photo Editor Amanda Harput Website Loes Evers, Rik Mertens, Pete Wu Film Office Nikolas Montaldi, Maite Klis, Stien Meesters, Hanno Reeder, Myrthe Terpstra, (industry consultants:) Hayet Benkara, Mary Davies, Marina Kozul, Louis Tisné

Video Library Rob Duyser,

Samanta Telleri Distribution Juliette Jansen,

Melvin van Gent Education & Youth Marketing

Ronny Theeuwes, Jessica Teunissen Finance & Human Resources Eva de Jong, Geert Hoeven, Mirjam Klootwijk, Marleen de Kok, Mariska Korff, Karin Zuijderwijk Office Helma Haak, Almud Krejza, Anne-Mercedes Langhorst, Sophie van Westrenen, (assistant to Rutger Wolfson:) Mirjam Klootwijk Production Juul Veenboer, Remke Annema, Rembrandt Boswijk, Rob van Doggenaar, Arielle Fenton, Eefje Goderie, Johan Ista, Adam Verhaar, Randi de Vries, Paul Westerweel, (CIFFR:) Joost Trines Guest Department & Hospitality Susanne van Doorn, Yasmin Buisman, Isabelle de Klein, Mercedes Martinez-Abarca, Nasztazia Potapenko, Stella de Wit Jury Support Jeroen Achterberg, Jindra Span, Charlotte van Zanten, Ann de Vries Information & Communication Technology Cornell den Broeder,

Jeroen Diderik, Erik Gelsema, Marcel van Sprang, Victor Verheij Volunteers Coordination Annemarie van Leeuwen, Thomas van der Zel, Hannah Abbink Box Office Andrée van den Berg, Annekoos Logtenberg, Marco Oudewortel Film Technique Martin van Broekhoven, Dick Moesker Electronic Subtitling Els van der Meer Film Control Joop van Langen, Kathinka Verhoeven Car Service Marie-Louise Calame, Eline Kunz Q&A & Translators Maaike Boersma, Mirte Engelhard Talkshows Mieke van der Linden, Farid Tabarki Horeca Remco Ris CineMart International Advisory Board

Ido Abram, David Atlan-Jackson, Juan Gordon, Keith Griffiths, Claudia Landsberger, Scott Macaulay, Chris Paton, Lorna Tee, Susan Wendt International Liaison Lucius Barre CineMart Selection Committee

Jannie Langbroek, Frank Peijnenburg, Anita Voorham and CineMart/Festival Staff Hubert Bals Fund Selection Committee

Jan Pieter Ekker, Simon Field, Ilse Hughan, Jannie Langbroek, Amir Muhammad, Dicky Parlevliet, Lucas Rosant, Ineke Smits and HBF/Festival Staff Festival Groningen Gerben ter Haar, Hanneke van den Hoogen, Henk Klein Wassink, Lisa Klompe, Shanna Mank

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Foreword Rutger Wolfson & Janneke Staarink

For many years now, the legitimacy of cultural subsidies has been the subject of fierce debate in the Netherlands. It is an issue that, alongside a lot of good sense, also attracts a lot of nonsense. Such as the idea that the cultural sector is just a subsidy-devouring plaything of the elite – a sentiment which is by no means only typical of the Netherlands.

If there is one thing this debate has made clear over the years, it is that the arguments usually presented in the defence of culture have become threadbare. For example, presenting culture as a means of improving the masses, or on the other hand, simply as art for art’s sake. Or seeing the ‘creative industry’ as a driver of the economy or of urban renewal. Or putting forward culture as a solution to social problems that have so far proved impervious to attempts to fix them, such as failing social integration. All ideas that are still very much alive and kicking, but that somehow no longer seem as convincing as once they did. It is a discussion burdened with a sense of déjà vu, but which in actual fact has only really just begun. Because the only way to really convince the cynics is to redefine the value of culture. Such a redefinition demands new concepts, although defining these will be no easy task. One way to make a start, however, is to look at what is being done in cultural practice. For example – you guessed it – by International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). A festival that offers a range of opportunities to identify the value of culture. Visible Developments

The first of these is of course the films themselves. Film, alongside its undoubted value as entertainment, has unique qualities that are clearly of value. One of these is well illustrated by the work of German cineaste Dominik Graf. His sizeable and wide-ranging oeuvre – most of which was made for television – encompasses genre experiments as well as more essayistic documentaries. Graf can perhaps even be said to be one of the major chroniclers of modern Germany – as well as one of its sharpest critics. His films and television series enable the viewer to reflect on the many changes that have taken place in German society. Graf’s work makes the real world visible and understandable. The same is true for the works in the programme focusing on recent Iranian cinema and video art, Inside Iran. The festival has always paid close attention to Iranian cinema, and the current situation for filmmakers working in Iran is extremely delicate. This has led to the growth of a lively underground culture of film screenings and presentations in informal gallery spaces. Inside Iran makes these developments visible to us.

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Naturally, such developments are also made visible in other ways. By the media, for example, or through academic research. But film can do this in a unique, extremely powerful way. Film has this power because it keeps our eyes open and our minds curious – because film is constantly renewing itself – and sometimes is even reinvented entirely. Kira Muratova is a prime example of someone who has reinvented film. Muratova is without doubt one of the most phenomenal artists to emerge from Eastern Europe in the past fifty years. Her films do not fit into any film tradition except her own. The festival is therefore very proud to present the first tribute to her exceptional talent outside of Russia and the Ukraine. Innovation in film is not driven purely by filmmakers, however, but also by the way in which (where and how) we watch films. Questions such as ‘what is cinema?’ and ‘where is cinema?’ are now more relevant than ever. These questions are addressed in the Sound Stages programme. Future Sounds

Sound Stages is devoted to cinema as a ‘live event’, with sound as the key factor in creating a unique experience. It focuses on the collective experience that makes both cinema and live music performances so unique, and raises the question of whether this could be the future of cinema. Film is not only constantly in development, but is also – literally – forever moving. Film migrates constantly from the silver screen to other platforms. One of these, at present, is television. More and more IFFR directors are creating works for television and the internet and finding new opportunities within what could be called ‘episodic story telling’. Examples of this have been brought together in the Changing Channels programme. It is difficult to the define the intrinsic value of film in concrete terms, partly because this is so closely related to personal experience. Nevertheless, this is something no one would deny, as everyone has surely been touched by this at one time or another. Perhaps not yet by the most exceptional, adventurous and trail-blazing films – but this is exactly where a festival such as Rotterdam can make the difference. Adding Value

A second way of defining the value of culture using IFFR as an example is by borrowing a term from the realm of economics: ‘value added’. The festival adds value by supporting filmmakers in the production of their films at all stages of their careers. This year alone, the festival programme contains 16 former CineMart projects and 25 films that received support from the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), five of which have been selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Value added goes beyond the concrete value of the Hubert Bals Fund’s financial support for script development and postproduction, and the co-financing made possible by CineMart. A significant aspect of the value that the festival adds is recognition. The Tiger logo is also a valuable seal of approval that opens doors to critical acclaim, greater financing and new audiences. The value of this recognition can also be seen in the distribution

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of festival films supported by IFFR. This year, the festival presents a new competition, The Big Screen Award. This competition for films without a Benelux distributor is intended to raise the profile of the selected films internationally. But also to guarantee that more exceptional festival films are released. In addition, later in 2013, the festival will present a selection of films on iTunes, helping these exceptional films to find audiences beyond the period of the festival. This support is partly practical, but once again the Tiger logo is an important factor. Audiences will be able to find these films thanks to this logo. Meaningful Connections

Culture enriches you The BankGiro Lottery is the cultural lottery of The Netherlands and we are the main partner of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Together with our players we support museums, monuments, windmills and festivals by donating over 64 million euro every year. For more information, please visit www.bankgiroloterij.nl

A third perspective on the value of culture as illustrated by IFFR concerns the making of meaningful connections. During the festival, filmmakers, the industry and audiences come together and form a real community. A community that allows the public, critics, sales agents and distributors to discover new films. In addition, film projects are (partly) financed thanks to the CineMart. In all of these cases, meaningful new connections are forged. Connections that increasingly reach beyond the film industry and festival audiences. IFFR is also entering into ever more partnerships with other international players in the city, such as the Erasmus University and the Port of Rotterdam, aimed at exchanging knowledge, expertise and networks. This exchange is of great value to all those concerned, particularly given the current difficult economic climate. These partners can open up new audiences for the festival and forge yet more new connections. Or provide a concrete context that enriches the film programme. And vice versa, the festival makes the city more attractive – also for the businesses already established here. Or it may be interesting for a commercial partner to have a cultural partner who is very active in parts of the world that are of importance for the future of that business. Going Further

Like all forms of art and culture, film has an intrinsic value that goes further than what the market is prepared to pay for it. Not only IFFR, but all cultural institutions add value and make meaningful connections – each in their own way. We believe that stating this is instrumental to developing a convincing idea of the value of culture in today’s society. Having said that, in the case of IFFR, the experience of the festival itself will probably always be the most persuasive argument of all. As anyone who has ever taken the plunge into the festival will tell you, the value of the culture represented by this festival is plain to see. Of course, a festival like this doesn’t happen just like that. We would therefore like to say a huge thank you to everyone involved, and in particular to the members of the festival staff, for all their hard work. And we wish you all an exceptional festival!

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The Supportive Festival IFFR actively supports independent filmmaking from around the globe. The festival is a established international platform in Europe for launching new films and talent from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. CineMart, IFFR’s co-production market for international film projects, takes place at the festival from January 27 to 31, 2013. The festival’s Hubert Bals Fund contributes financially to film projects from developing countries. Each year, the festival programme contains a rich harvest of Hubert Bals Fund-supported films. IFFR promotes training and talent development within its Rotterdam Lab for young film producers and the IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics, as well as the new coaching course Boost! co-organised with the Binger Filmlab. Within the Netherlands, the IFFR’s DVD label Tiger Releases publishes several films annually supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, as part of its 10 to Watch series. Hubert Bals Fund

The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable, socially relevant and urgent feature films by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion. The HBF provides grants that often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realise their projects. Since the Fund started in 1989, close to one thousand projects from independent filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe have received support. Every year, completed films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund screen at International Film Festival Rotterdam. This year, IFFR proudly presents a total of 25 films supported by the HBF in various programme sections, including five HBF-supported films nominated for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Besides Rotterdam, many international film festivals keep a close eye on completed HBF-supported films and select them for their programmes. Each year, HBF-supported films are screened at the Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Toronto and Pusan film festivals, among others. The Hubert Bals Fund aims to support feature-length fiction projects that are original, authentic and rooted in the culture of the applicant’s country. Annually, the HBF has close to € 1.2 million at its disposal and is able to make individual grants in the following categories: script and project development, digital production, postproduction/final financing, distribution and special projects. The Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme is a scheme set up for Dutch producers, which aims to facilitate access to artistically interesting co-productions. Those projects that have been granted financial support from the HBF for script and project development are eligible. Every year, HBF Plus can support four projects with 50,000 Euro each, thanks to a contribution from the Netherlands Film Fund. Boost!

Boost! is the new coaching trajectory started in 2011 organised by Hubert Bals Fund, CineMart, Binger Filmlab and the NFDC of India and is supported by MEDIA Mundus. Yearly five projects selected for

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Hubert Bals Fund script and project development support are offered the opportunity to further develop their project at Binger Filmlab as part of the Binger On Demand programme. The collaboration with the NFDC of India entails the selection of one South Asian project that is presented at the Goa FilmBazar before travelling to Rotterdam. During the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Boost! projects are presented at CineMart. HBF Harvest 2013

The Hubert Bals Fund is proud to present this year’s HBF Harvest at the 42nd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam. Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

Noche, Leonardo Brzezicki (Argentina) Halley, Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico) Fat Shaker, Mohammad Shirvani (Iran) Penumbra, Eduardo Villanueva (Mexico) Longing for the Rain, Yang Lina (China) Bright Future

Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses, Yosep Anggi Noen (Indonesia) La Playa D.C., Juan Andrés Arango (Colombia) Los salvajes, Alejandro Fadel (Argentina) On Mother’s Head, Putu Kusuma Widjaja (Indonesia) Melaza, Carlos Lechuga (Cuba, France, Panama) Leones, Jazmín López (Argentina, France, Netherlands) Wadjda, Haifaa Al Mansour (Saudi Arabia, Germany) Poor Folk, Midi Z (Myanmar, Taiwan) Mai morire, Enrique Rivero (Mexico) Memories Look at Me, Song Fang (China) What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love, Mouly Surya (Indonesia) Spectrum

Kalayaan, Adolfo B. Alix Jr. (Philippines) Steel Is the Earth, Mes De Guzman (Philippines) One Day When the Rain Falls, Ifa Isfansyah (Indonesia) Something Necessary, Judy Kibinge (Kenya, Germany) Rio Belongs to Us, Ricardo Pretti (Brazil) Atambua 39° Celsius, Riri Riza (Indonesia) Harmonica’s Howl, Bruno Safadi (Brazil) Lukas nino, John Torres (Philippines) Signals: Inside Iran

Modest Reception, Mani Haghighi (Iran) CineMart

The 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam marks the 30th edition of its international co-production market, CineMart. This was the first platform of its kind to offer filmmakers the opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to find the right connections to get their projects financed. Launching some 33 projects in need of additional financing, CineMart also heralds an important start of the ‘film year’. Every year, CineMart invites a select number of directors/producers to present their film projects to co-producers, funds, sales agents, distributors, TV stations and other potential financiers. The CineMart staff organise the CineMart meetings prior to the event. After the project selection is completed, the CineMart staff draws up a dossier with information on the selected

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projects. Attending professionals then inform the CineMart of their interests and a master meeting schedule is set up. Upon arrival in Rotterdam, all guests receive their personal meeting schedule. During CineMart 2012, there were some 4,500 meetings between project representatives and potential financiers. One of CineMart’s trademarks is its highly productive, yet informal atmosphere. In order to maintain such an environment, the number of projects is kept to around 35 and the invitation process is selective. The four-day event takes place during IFFR and shares its location with the Festival Center, de Doelen, in the heart of Rotterdam.

CineMart events, such as networking, breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and other panels. Over the past few years, the Rotterdam Lab has expanded steadily, with more producers from more regions participating every year. The Lab has already resulted in many producers returning to CineMart, and films by producers who have attended the Lab have been screened in the official festival programme. By bringing together a mix of producers from around Europe and the rest of the world, the Rotterdam Lab has also generated many alluring international co-productions.

Former CineMart projects in IFFR 2013

Art:Film

CineMart is proud to present sixteen former CineMart projects now selected for this year’s film programme.

Leones, Jazmín López (Argentina, France, Netherlands) Call Girl, Mikael Marcimain (Sweden, Ireland, Norway, Finland) Diego Star, Frédérick Pelletier (Canada, Belgium) Ma belle gosse, Shalimar Preuss (France) Errors of the Human Body, Eron Sheean (Germany, Australia)

Art:Film is an initiative of IFFR/CineMart and CPH:DOX to further enhance, platform and nurture highly artistic cinema and visual arts. It reacts on the specific needs of radical art house cinema to expand in new fields of financing, production and distribution. As well as on the growing number of films by directors coming from the field of visual arts, which are successfully shown on festivals and theatres worldwide, thus proving a demand and also commercial success. The idea behind Art:Film is to connect people from the world of visual art and cinema, to exchange knowledge and contacts, and to support filmmakers and artists working on feature projects in between the two fields. Art:Film will carry on the selected projects over the ongoing year to follow up on their finance and development through organised workshops and case studies.

Spectrum

Distribution

Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

De wederopstanding van een klootzak, Guido van Driel (Netherlands, Belgium) Dummy Jim, Matt Hulse (United Kingdom) Silent Ones, Ricky Rijneke (Netherlands, Hungary) Bright Future

Kalayaan, Adolfo B. Alix Jr. (Philippines) Lasting, Jacek Borcuch (Poland, Spain) In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa (Germany, Russia, Belarus, Netherlands, Latvia) Post tenebras lux, Carlos Reygadas (Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany) Il futuro, Alicia Scherson (Chili, Germany, Italy, Spain) Kid, Fien Troch (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands) La cinqième saison, Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens (Belgium, Netherlands, France) Signals: Regained

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Sophie Fiennes (United Kingdom, Ireland) Rotterdam Lab

The CineMart staff also organise the Rotterdam Lab, a five-day training workshop for young and emerging producers designed to build up their international networks and their experience at an international festival and market. Participation in the Rotterdam Lab provides producers with the confidence and skills to navigate the festival circuit and meet professionals who can help finance their projects. Panel discussions are organised on topics such as development, financing, post-production, (digital) distribution, VOD and sales. In these panels, experts from the industry give the producers tools with which to present their project and build up an international network. Complimentary to the panels, participants take part in ‘speed-dating’ sessions, during which they have time to meet personally with industry delegates and receive advice on their projects. In addition to the organised programme, it is important that the producers take the chance to participate in all other

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IFFR is very active in the field of distribution; for years, the festival has organised the distribution of its own HBF films and often also the Tiger Award winners in the Netherlands. In this way, the festival strengthens an artistic film climate which is always vulnerable, particularly as far as non-Western cinema is concerned. Moreover, it is important to every maker for their work to be screened, also outside the festival circuit. In the field of distribution, IFFR pays a great deal of attention to digital developments. IFFR owns a YouTube channel that provides, for example, short film programmes and Hubert Bals Fund supported feature films. In 2011, IFFR launched the DVD & VoD (Video on Demand) series 10 to Watch; a package of 10 festival films, mainly Bright Future titles from the last festival edition, including a few Hubert Bals Fund-supported titles. The VoD releases are on the same day as the DVD releases, at the partner platforms Cinemalink, Ximon and since January 2012 also MUBI. This year’s package contains, for example, award-winners such as Clip, De jueves a domingo and Neighbouring Sounds. IFFR collaborates with Cinemalink.tv with a VoD page on the IFFR website, which means the general public can now also stream festival hits such as Shame and A Single Man at a reasonable price. Main sponsor UPC also took IFFR titles for their UPC on demand service. IFFR also wishes to play a mediating role for filmmakers by participating in the very successful platform Festivalscope, a website where sales agents, programmers and other professionals can view art films. This edition a new initiative will be launched; IFFR collaborates with aggregator Under the Milky Way to facilitate Bright Future and Spectrum selected filmmakers in having their films available on iTunes Benelux. 23 January, an IFFR room will be launched on iTunes Benelux. This filmmakers’ service can be extended to other territories outside the Benelux and VoD platforms.

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The Big Screen Award Competition

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This edition, the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam introduces a THE BIG SCREEN AWARD COMPETITION new competition in support of theatrical distribution of feature films in the Netherlands and Belgium. Over the past years, for cultural, demographical, economical or technological reasons, many things have changed in cinema distribution. Some of these changes have been beneficial, other have been problematic. But we feel some of the films in the festival’s line up have the potential to reach a wider audience than is possible during the festival. We have selected ten films, both from Bright Future and Spectrum sections, to be seen by an Audience Jury comprising five enthusiastic film lovers from the Netherlands. These ten films, including four world premieres, will also be eligible for the KNF Award, the prize given by Circle of Dutch Film Critics since 1984. The members of the Big Screen Award Jury 2013 are Menno van de Laars, Jeroen Laven, Ilse van de Spoel, Jorine Witte and Alexander Zwart. The members of the KNF Jury 2013 are Joost Broeren (De Filmkrant), Sven Gerrets (VPRO-gids/Cinema.nl), Fritz de Jong (De Persdienst DPd/De Filmkrant), Pim Wijers (Preview Magazine) and Dineke de Zwaan (Uitagenda Rotterdam). Both prizes come with a guaranteed distribution offer for the Benelux, in collaboration with local distributor Amstelfilm. We hope to develop The Big Screen Award further in years to come. The Big Screen Award Selection

These are the nominees for The Big Screen Award: Bright Future

Matei Child Miner, Alexandra Gulea (Romania, Germany, France) Northwest, Michael Noer (Denmark) Diego Star, Frédérick Pelletier (Canada, Belgium) Spectrum

Mater Dolorosa, Adolfo B. Alix Jr. (Philippines) Bellas mariposas, Salvatore Mereu (Italy) Soegija, Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) Il futuro, Alicia Scherson (Chile, Germany, Italy, Spain) Drug War, Johnnie To (Hong Kong) Odayaka, Uchida Nobuteru (Japan, USA) How to Describe a Cloud, David Verbeek (Netherlands)

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Jury Hivos Tiger Awards Competition The Tiger Awards Competition was established by IFFR in 1995. Having been a noncompetitive event up until then, the idea of it was to discover, to highlight and to support emerging film talents in world cinema. Every year, the jury of the Tiger Awards Competition names three equal winners. Since its inception, some 275 filmmakers have competed with their first or second feature film. Ai Weiwei is a conceptual artist, political activist, philosopher, architect, photographer and filmmaker. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp’s Dadaism, Ai became known for his continuing criticism of social and cultural changes in China. He makes intensive use of the internet and Twitter when condemning the human rights situation, economic exploitation and environmental pollution. The designer of, among other things, China’s Olympic stadium was named the world’s most influential artist by the magazine Art Review in November 2011. After spending 10 years living in New York, Ai returned to China in 1993 where he was arrested in 2011; officially for tax avoidance, unofficially due to his criticism of the Chinese government. Because he is not permitted to leave Beijing, Ai will perform his jury duties from a distance and will communicate with the other jury members using Skype.

Spaniard José Luis Cienfuegos is the artistic director of the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo. Between 1995 and 2011, he directed the Gijón International Film Festival where he supported the work of daring filmmakers whose productions had, until then, been unknown in Spain. He succeeded in developing the event into one of the most prestigious independent film festivals in Spain. He has also written and hosted programmes for Spain’s Radio 4 and has curated various programmes for the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid and the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón. He is a regular jury member at film festivals and for the past two years has been a panel member for the Lux Film Awards presented by the European parliament.

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Kees Hin interrupted his film studies in

1962 to become an assistant to filmmakers Fons Rademakers and Bert Haanstra. In 1965, he made his directorial debut under Haanstra with the documentary Onderaards, which heralded the start of a life-long scripting collaboration with Dutch author K. Schippers. Hin has made over 100 films and installations in his own unique style. From 2002 onwards, he developed a number of films in Mexico with Diego Gutierrez whom he met whilst lecturing at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 1985, he received the ‘L.J. Jordaan Prize’ from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts for his oeuvre. Between 1988-2003, he was a member of the board of International Film Festival Rotterdam and from 1991-2001, he occupied the same position at the Dutch Film Museum (currently known as EYE). Kees Hin is currently an advisor to the Rijksakademie. Filmmaker, editor and screenwriter Sergei Loznitza grew up in Kiev, Ukraine and

graduated in applied mathematics in 1987. During the years that followed, he became an artificial intelligence researcher and also worked as a translator from Japanese. Loznitza completed his filmmaking studies in 1997 and made 12 documentaries that brought him many national and international prizes. He has also made two feature films; In the Fog won the FIPRESCI prize in 2012. In 2013, International Film Festival Rotterdam will be screening two of his shorts: Letter has been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films and In the Fog is part of the Spectrum programme. Fatemeh Motamedarya was born in Tehran,

Iran. Motamedarya first became involved in theatre as a teenager. She now has over 80 national and international awards, making her the most acclaimed actress in Iran. In 2002, she received an honorary doctorate in the arts. Motamedarya is one of the founders of the Iranian House of Cinema and was a representative of the actors’ guild in Iran. In 2009, she provided seminars on Iranian film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Two years ago, Motamedarya was banned from acting for the theatre, in film and on television. She currently works as a drama lecturer at the University of Isfahan.

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Jury Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films In the IFFR section Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films, 23 films of up to 60 minutes in length will be presented to an international jury. The winners of the three Tiger Awards for Short Films, each with a cash prize of 3,000 Euros plus a video camera, will be announced on Monday, 28 January at 21:00 in WORM.

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interviewer and producer. He studied Drama and English at the University of Manchester and Fine Arts at the University of Ulster. In his films, photographs, installations and live events, Collins often investigates the complex and ambiguous relationship between the camera and its subjects. In 2006, Collins was nominated for the Turner Prize, a prestigious British annual award for artists. In recent years, IFFR has screened many of his films including He Who Laughs Last Laughs Longest (2006) and the meaning of style (2011). He currently lives in Berlin and Cologne where he is Professor of Video Art at the Academy of Media Arts. Solange Farkas is the director and curator

of the Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. She is also the founder and head curator of the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, a festival for art from the southern hemisphere. During her 25year career, Farkas has successfully organised major exhibitions by famous artists all over the world. Between 2007 and 2010, she worked as the director and head curator of the Bahia Museum of Modern Art, where she promoted the work of Brazilian and international artists. In 2004, Farkas won the Sergio Motta Hors Concours Award for her contribution to electronic art. Joost Rekveld has been the head of

the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague since 2008 and started making abstract films and light installations in 1991. In most of his animations, he uses computers to orchestrate and compose the precise movements of the optical components. He is interested in cybernetics, artificial life, possible extensions to the senses and robot architecture. Alongside his film work, he has been involved in many theatre productions as a lighting and projection designer. He also lectures and curates film programmes. European Film Academy – European Short Film Award

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At IFFR, the jury of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films will nominate one European film to enter the competition for the European Short Film Award. The nominee will be announced on Monday, 28 January at 21:00 in WORM. The members of the European Film Academy will vote for the overall winner, which will be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony in December.

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Noche

Su Re

Night

The King

Leonardo Brzezicki

Giovanni Columbu

Miguel was absolutely obsessed about recording sound. The silence of a church interior, the roaring sound of a train trip abroad, a stroll through the tall grass, the account of a nightmare in which his mother dies and turns out to be a transvestite – Miguel recorded all of it. Now that’s all that is left of him, plus some clothes, equipment and boxes on a farm where he spent his last days before committing suicide. Six of his friends stay there to pack everything. In the meantime, Miguel’s recordings stream day and night from the loudspeakers that are set up everywhere in and around the house. Night is a psychological drama in which the dividing line between present, past and future becomes increasingly vague. Miguel’s audio legacy is mixed with the natural sounds around the farm and changes the meaning of the actions of those left behind. The mutual tension keeps increasing. Miguel’s ex, Pedro, is in the worst state. He can’t cope with the sorrow and neglects his new friend Juan. Miguel’s best girlfriend Violeta has to watch as her former lover Matias seeks solace by the newcomer Laura. And then we have the nameless girl who is ignored by everyone. Rudderless twenty-somethings who are really just discovering life already have to discover what mortality is.

D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, George Stevens, Martin Scorsese, Norman Jewison, Mel Gibson, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Ciprì & Maresco: from the very first days of feature films, many willful directors have made their versions of the Passion of Christ. The Sardinian filmmaker Giovanni Columbu succeeds in adding a special chapter with his second film, Su Re (‘The King’). He takes his inspiration from the way in which the four Gospels provide different angles on the story, just as Kurosawa Akira did with Rashomon. While he is respectful toward the sources, in this way Columbu manages to give many characters unexpected depths. Just as painters for a long time used local landscapes as a backdrop when tackling biblical scenes, Columbu chose the dramatic landscape of his own birthplace. The Jesus figure is different from many films or paintings: he’s not a beautiful man, but was chosen to match the Biblical description that he was ‘the most unworthy among men’. The other roles, from the Apostles and Mary to the Scribes and the Roman soldiers, were played by local Sardinian amateur actors who wore their own scruffy clothing (augmented with robes designed for the occasion). Their weather-beaten faces provide a mood that is both authentic and contemporary, while being timeless and topical.

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Argentina, 2013 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Spanish

Italy, 2012 | colour, DCP, 87 min, Sardinian

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De wederopstanding van een klootzak

Gozetleme kulesi

Guido van Driel

Pelin Esmer

‘He’s totally different’, his mate Janus says a little shocked. ‘Just as Bruce Willis was totally different in The Sixth Sense from in Die Hard. He’s just not the old Ronnie anymore!’ The Amsterdam crook Ronnie (neck brace, large horn-rimmed glasses and a considerable belly) and his bodyguard/chauffeur Janus (sideburns, 1950s shirts) roam through the Friesian town of Dokkum, looking for a man with Dokkum’s coat of arms tattooed on his wrist. Then we see a flashback of ‘the old Ronnie’, a hardened crook with several obsessive neuroses. The eccentricities of Ronnie and Janus are intercut with those of Eduardo, a young asylum seeker from Angola who is in the refugee centre in Dokkum. Because Eduardo is unable to talk about the horrors he lived through, he sees his chances of a residence permit go up in smoke. The Resurrection of a Bastard is the feature debut by Amsterdam artist, graphic novelist and filmmaker Guido van Driel, based on his own graphic novel Om mekaar in Dokkum from 2004. The dialogues are challenging, the photography beautiful. Yorick van Wageningen is wonderful as the transforming Ronnie; the Dutch actor Jeroen Willems, who died on 3 December 2012, plays an impressive supporting role as a merciless gangster. Official Opening Film IFFR 2013.

‘Situation normal’, the fireman Nihat calls almost every day through his walkie-talkie, to indicate that the forests around the watchtower are not on fire. But in truth a lot is on fire in this indictment of conservative, patriarchal Turkey. Pelin Esmer does not package her fierce social realism in a noisy or emphatic statement. She chooses a subtle character study, presenting her themes more powerfully through the personal drama of Nihat and Seher. Nihat is a man with a guilt complex. He lost his wife and daughter in a car crash. Young Seher carries a scandal in her belly: a baby she doesn’t want. They have both withdrawn into a hiding place (him in the tower, her in a cellar), but fate decides that their paths will cross. Cautious overtures follow. Far from the inhabited world, in misty forests, they turn out to be able to help each other as no one else can. It’s obvious from her direct and honest style that Esmer had previously made documentaries. She isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. This forms a sharp contrast to the profound silence within Seher’s family. The cover-up is alive and well, not only among male chauvinists, but also their subservient wives. But behind the walls is where it hurts, as Esmer reveals in this powerful film.

The Resurrection of a Bastard

Watchtower

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Netherlands/Belgium, 2013 | colour, DCP, 90 min, Dutch

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Turkey/Germany/France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 96 min, Turkish

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Môj pes Killer

It Felt Like Love

My Dog Killer

Eliza Hittman

Mira Fornay A small village on the Slovak-Moravian border. Strangers are not welcome here. Locals seem to be suspicious even of each other. This is where eighteen-year-old Marek lives. His guard dog is his only true friend. Neglected by his relatives, he has found an illusory escape in the company of local skinheads. Nazi without a cause, he blindly follows them, and they train him exactly like he trains Killer, his dog. When his mother and young half-brother suddenly appear in his life, Marek faces a terrible dilemma. Either he will violently explode or he will find an inner capacity for the compassion he is so scared of. This subtle, sensitive film is not just about racists and ethnic conflicts in contemporary Europe. First of all, it is about wrong choices that, once made, cannot be altered. It is about chances that appear, only to be missed. Mira Fornay captures this state of terrifying apathy in a series of long contemplative shots. Calm on the surface, they are full of hidden anxiety and disturbing uncertainty. With no music, just natural sounds and real settings, Fornay makes what is almost a documentary portrait of totally lost human beings. The leading characters are very competently portrayed by native non-actors, and their huge contribution makes the film very authentic.

In her debut film, Eliza Hittman sketches a sensitive and often painful portrait of a 14-year-old girl on her way to adulthood. Something similar is often attempted, but the result is seldom as effective – and that is largely thanks to Hittman’s screenplay and directing. Unlike other coming-of-age dramas, this one focuses on the uneasy and embarrassing situations of growing up. Hittman is primarily interested in the turning points that form someone’s character and the inevitable disillusionments this process entails. Young Lila’s budding sexuality soon puts an end to the myth of romantic love. Lila is not looking for the love of her life; she wants sexual experience, and if possible she wants it now. The boy she focuses on isn’t really interested in her. Slowly but surely, Lila loses herself in this obsession. Her vulnerability is perfectly captured in a poetic visual style in which subjectivity and a very precise reflection of feelings are more important than a clear story or dialogue. With her radical approach to female sexuality, it’s no surprise that Hittman was inspired by directors such as Catherine Breillat. The result is a film that goes deep; Lila could be anyone, and her insecurity and unfortunate choices are familiar to all who remember anything about their puberty.

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Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2013 | colour, DCP, 90 min, Slovak/Czech

USA, 2013 | colour, DCP, 80 min, English

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Soldate Jeannette

Halley

Soldier Jane

Sebastián Hofmann

Daniel Hoesl Made in the most independent way, Soldier Jane is a film with a distinct personal signature in its impeccable aesthetics and original narrative, as well as in its philosophical account of freedom. Fanni is a middle-aged businesswoman living a lifestyle that only the most advanced post-postmodern capitalist society can offer: independence, financial speculation, compulsive consumerism, matcha, Taekwondo. She is well off – apparently – so much so that she can bypass real money to surround herself with luxury and its highest form of absurdity: buying to throw away. Yet, while indulging herself in the exuberance of extravagance and the ecstasy of momentary pleasures, her face seems incapable of the slightest expression. Before long, indeed, Fanni is at the end of the road. It’s time to fly away or sink. ‘We only live once, once and for all’, goes the song that welcomes Fanni at the farm as she arrives. She meets Anna, an attractive young woman in dire need of reinventing herself. Together, the comrades set out for new horizons, defying all conventions. ‘A rich man can fall because of market ruses while a poor man has nothing to lose’ – another song chanted innocently and loudly. Our heroines have indeed nothing to lose from now on.

Comets that circle the sun in less than 200 years have a sell-by date. That also applies for Halley’s Comet, the best-known in our solar system, which was first described in 466 BC and which appears every 76 years. Until the sun swallows it up and its seemingly eternal life comes to an end. Just like Halley, Alberto’s days are numbered. He has been dead for years, but can no longer hide the fact. Perfume and make-up don’t help to mask his physical decline; the end is now final for this silent zombie. He decides to withdraw from life, which for him primarily consists of working as a night watchman in a 24-hour gym and gazing at the TV in a cheerless flat. His manager Luly, however, takes an interest in him and takes him out. The rather stiff friendship that emerges ensures an unexpected upturn in Alberto’s condition in the autumn of his undead existence. At a fitting pace, Sebastián Hofmann shows us the world through the eyes of a zombie in decline, like a dislocating echoing-well filled with fading Christmas lights. There is not much contact between Alberto and his living neighbour. Yet Hofmann has no trouble in bridging the gap with the viewer. Halley is a contemporary Gothic story without spectacle, but with plenty of compassion. Also see Los micro burgueses in Signals: Changing Channels.

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Austria, 2012 | colour, DCP, 79 min, German/French

Mexico, 2012 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Spanish

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Dummy Jim

Eles voltam

Matt Hulse

They’ll Come Back

In May 1951, the deaf Scotsman James Duthie, better known as Dummy Jim, cycled from his small fishing village in Scotland to the Arctic Circle. When he got back home, he wrote down his experiences in the book ‘I Cycled into the Arctic Circle’, which he published himself. Years later, the mother of director Matt Hulse found this rarity and sent it to her son, who decided to film the eccentric story. Together with deaf actor and filmmaker Samuel Dore, Hulse set out on the long journey through northern Europe. Hulse mixed fictional and documentary elements into a virtuoso blend: unusual people in fictional Super-8 films, playful animated sequences and archive footage of the era in the countries traversed. Back to the present, where the community gives the local hero a memorial and a gravestone. Hulse follows events closely, sketching a fascinating portrait of this small fishing community in the 21st century. With his rhythmic editing and visual style, Hulse clearly takes into account a deaf audience. The exceptional soundtrack is an added extra for the hearing and completes the experience. Dummy Jim died after a traffic accident in 1965 and his story remained unknown for a long time. This film and the website are certainly going to change this. Presented at the CineMart in 2007.

For all its simplicity, the opening scene is extremely effective. From a great distance, we see a car stop by the side of the road in the middle of a panoramic landscape of hills. Two figures get out of the car. We don’t know why and can’t make any judgement. They turn out to be Cris (12) and her slightly older brother who – rightly or wrongly – have been ordered out of the car by their parents. They don’t know where they are; initially they assume that their parents will come back for them. In beautiful shots by cameraman Ivo Lopes Araújo, the film then shows the adventures of an upper-class teenager whose eyes slowly open on her quest for familiar territory: she realises who she is, where she comes from and in which country she lives. In his first fiction film after several documentaries, Marcelo Lordello shows a journey that is certainly universal for adolescents, but here subtly moves through a country that despite – or precisely because of – the rapid economic developments, is confronted with major contrasts between the classes. They’ll Come Back, which has already won several prizes at the festival in Brasilia, makes it clear that the creativity of filmmakers from Recife and Pernambuco is still going strong: among those previously successful in Rotterdam are Cláudio Assis, Gabriel Mascaro, Marcelo Gomes and Kleber Mendonça.

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UK, 2013 | colour/b&w, DCP, 90 min, English/French

Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 105 min, Portuguese

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Marcelo Lordello

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Silent Ones

Fat Shaker

Ricky Rijneke

Mohammad Shirvani

Young Dutch director Ricky Rijneke examines with meticulous shots the fragile dividing line between life and death in her feature debut. Hungarian Csilla wakes up inside a crashed car, somewhere in the countryside. Her younger brother Isti is nowhere to be found. Dazed, Csilla leaves the spot to begin a second life, as she promised her brother she would. She’ll never return. Persuaded by the shady Gabor – he is involved in ‘import and export’ – she sets off with him in a freighter to Western Europe. During the endless journey, Gabor violates her and Csilla loses her only reminder of Isti. Slowly, she loses her grip. Life on board the freighter is like a vacuum in which Csilla finds herself – a surrealistic twilight zone. For Silent Ones, a former CineMart project, Rijneke brought together dexterously a choice selection of prize-winning European film talent, including Gergely Pohárnok (Hukkle, Taxidermia) and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd (Bouli Lanners’ regular DOP) for the camera work. Andrej Dergatchev (who worked on The Return and The Banishment by Andrej Zvjagintsev) sets the tone for the film with his dreamy-ominous soundtrack. With her expressive face and few words, the Hungarian Orsi Tóth (Delta, Women Without Men) portrays a young woman fighting herself and her past.

Fat Shaker is no ordinary film – certainly not by Iranian standards. Its maker, Mohammad Shirvani, is an artist who uses powerful and occasionally absurd images. It’s fairly obvious that they say something about the situation in the country, but precisely what is left up to our imagination. Shirvani states concisely that the film aims to criticise the patriarchal system in Iran. The rest has to be told by the images. The story is about a fat father (obviously the ‘fat shaker’) who tries to con money from women with his young and attractive yet deaf-and-dumb son. The son allows himself to be picked up by a few young women for light diversion; then they are stopped by the father, who intimidates them and shows a pair of handcuffs. The women have to pay. At a certain point, father and son pick up a woman who does not allow herself to be intimidated, but takes things into her own hands. And then the film becomes even more surreal – if possible – and the images even stranger. When asked for an explanation, the maker refers to his dreams. The role of the father is played by Levon Haftvan. He also plays the striking protagonist in the film Parviz (also at this festival). As part of the Inside Iran programme, Mohammad Shirvani has also made a special installation; see Elephant in Darkness in Signals: Inside Iran.

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Netherlands/Hungary, 2013 | colour, DCP, 97 min, Hungarian

Iran, 2013 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Farsi

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Sao karaoke

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Karaoke Girl

The title 36 refers to the roll of film in the filmmaker’s old-fashioned analogue still camera. Each roll had 36 photos and it was always a surprise to find out after it had been developed what was on the negatives. Often the photos didn’t have much to do with each other, and often he didn’t know when and why he had taken a picture. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit also uses the number 36 to divide up his original, crisply-told film, which is made up of 36 shots. The filmmaker wanted to evoke something of the arbitrary nature of the old film rolls – and of memory – even though the story is told in a way that can be followed easily. The protagonist in this lightfooted and melancholy feature is Sai. She is a location scout and for her work she records a lot with her camera. One day it turns out that the hard disk of her laptop has crashed and she has lost a year’s worth of photos. She has the feeling that part of her own memory has been deleted and she does everything possible to get the photos back. In a playful way, this film tackles the issue of changing memory. These days a lot is remembered for us, but what do we still remember ourselves? Deeply hidden in the broken hard disk is also the picture of a possible lover. A persevering quest for lost digital time.

It’s often been tried and has often failed: mixing fiction and documentary. The elegant mix of both genres in this film raises the question of why it’s so complex, because here the effect is above all very natural. The film focuses on the Karaoke Girl – real-life person and dramatised one in a single character: Sa Sittijun, a sex worker in Bangkok. She grew up in a village in the countryside and at the age of 15 was sent to work in the big city. She worked for three years in a factory and concluded that the only way to support her family was to sell her body. At the moment when the director met Sa, she was a karaoke hostess with four years’ experience. The filmmaker and her ‘actress’ first spent several weeks together; only then did Visra Vichit Vadakan start writing a screenplay about her protagonist. By then she knew Sa like her own sister. For an intimate portrait of a sex worker, the film is remarkably discreet. It’s about dreams and feelings, not so much about paid sex. Visra and Sa become friends; there is no other way to describe it. Visra follows Sa on her way back to her birthplace and is received into the poor yet warm family. Sa steps into the imagination of the filmmaker in order to shape her own life. A unique amalgamation. And a singular cinematographic formula.

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Thailand, 2012 | colour, DCP, 68 min, Thai

Thailand, 2013 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 74 min, Thai

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Penumbra

Chunmeng

Eduardo Villanueva

Longing for the Rain

The border area between the Mexican coastal provinces of Jalisco and Colima is dry, rocky and wild. The sparse population of this poor and isolated region speaks a dialect difficult to follow for outsiders. Their everyday battle for existence is larded with rituals, in which spirits and natural faith play an important role. The film follows the old hunter Adelelmo Jimenez on his journeys through the forest, setting traps for wild animals and searching for medicinal plants. His pious wife Dolores stays at home, does the washing, prepares a frugal meal. ‘Penumbra’ is a term from optics and means half-shadow. Eduardo Villanueva shot his entire film in the hours between daylight and darkness. In this way, he augments the mood of a state in between, a social vacuum in which time seems to stand still. This is also a reference to the clair-obscur in paintings by for instance Caravaggio – intemperate, dramatic light-dark contrasts suggesting depth and volume. Besides being painterly, Penumbra is deeply human. Via the lives of an ageing married couple, the film portrays a world that is disappearing. Adelelmo Suffers from asthma, which not only affects his lungs but also his mental defences. Dolores mourns for her son, who was stabbed to death trying to cross the Mexican-American border. She’s waiting for the end.

In today’s China, the middle classes provide a supreme example of materialism, emptiness and yearning. The nouveau riche seem united only in their unstoppable race for more material wealth. Fang Lei, the protagonist in this feature debut by Chinese documentary maker Yang Lina, only has to care for her daughter. Safely cocooned in a loveless, sexless but also peaceful marriage, she spends much of her time shopping with girlfriends. Her anxieties – about dying, about her husband being unfaithful – only emerge in her dreams. One night, a mysterious young lover appears and makes passionate love to her. Time and again, he allows her to enjoy unprecedented pleasure and soon Fang Lei is no longer able to separate reality from dream and regards the man of her dreams as her real husband. She is happy, carefree and beautiful. Until a jealous rival looms up in her dreams. Yang Lina links various genres together in a surprising and successful way. Her film is an Asian ghost story in which documentary scenes – closely related to social satire – show how incongruous today’s reality can look in China. But Longing for the Rain can also be regarded as an original variation on a Freudian case, in which a worrying melange of social pressure, emptiness and female lust and eroticism is analysed and exposed.

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Mexico, 2013 | colour, DCP, 89 min, Spanish

Hong Kong, 2013 | colour, DCP, 98 min, Mandarin

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Yang Lina

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Insight

Six Day Run

Sebastian Diaz Morales

Mika Taanila

The ultimate spiritual exertion takes place on a tarmac road through a park. The Six Day Run is one of the most extreme endurance sports ever, with participants using meditation to try and go furthest in six days virtually without sleeping, all in memory of spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy. Taanila movingly portrays the strange mix of euphoric spirituality and the hardcore competitive element.

A world with a mirror image, one that can be accessed by crossing the mirror’s surface. Indeed, within the realm of fiction, mirrors provide characters and readers alike with a gateway to a different world. Interaction with that new environment, be it purely fantastic or disturbingly didactic, pushes one to expand one’s horizons and reconsider the concept of a real world. Also see Smoke Signal in Spectrum Shorts. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Netherlands/Argentina, 2012 | colour, DCP, 12 min, no dialogue

By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging

Greystone

Finland, 2013 | colour, DCP, 15 min, English

David Gatten

Inspired by 17th-century naturalist Robert Boyle, David Gatten took 14 years to collect and arrange his film into its current form with ‘experiments and considerations touching colours’ as its leitmotiv. The exceptional shots reveal how beautifully light manifests itself as colour and have been composed into a formal montage in accordance with the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet. An erudite, aesthetic work seemingly from another era. USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 8 min, no dialogue Prod: David Gatten | Cam/Ed: David Gatten | Print/Sales: David Gatten | www.davidgattenfilm.com

Nummer veertien, home Number Fourteen, Home Guido van der Werve

A complex, but beautifully layered film using the Requiem structure of three movements and 12 acts, which intertwines stories about Alexander the Great, Frédéric Chopin’s death and elements from Van der Werve’s own life in a poetic, exceptionally cinematic manner. When Chopin died in Paris, his sister smuggled his heart back to his homeland. Van der Werve followed the heart’s 1500-kilometre route from Warsaw to Paris by swimming, cycling and running seven times the distance of an Ironman triathlon.

In five parts, Greystone shows what may have happened the night Ned Doheny Jr. and his assistant Hugh Plunket were murdered. Perfectly shot in 1920s style in the same rooms the 1929 tragedy took place in. The scene is constantly re-played. Since 1950, Greystone Mansion has often been used as a film set. Artificial language and distanced acting aid the critical interrogation of the Hollywood film myth. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Secretion Willie Doherty

The air disease-laden, waters putrid and all research abandoned before there is even a ghost of a chance to discover the affliction… Secretion ‘draws upon the possibilities of lost and forgotten narratives located somewhere between recent history and a near future’, taking a landscape familiar to the Brothers Grimm as its setting and redeploying a memory translated from photographer Lee Miller as inspiration. Ireland, 2012 | colour, video, 20 min, English

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Kerry Tribe

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Immortelle David Verbeek

We see how a boy and a girl fare on the day their relationship ends. Back to the emptiness of their uninhabited modern villas. One in the city centre, the other high in Taiwan’s mountains. They are both overcome by hallucinations and strong feelings of degeneration. Immortelle slowly morphs into a study of the relationship between physical and emotional longing. Also see How to Describe a Cloud in Spectrum. WORLD PREMIERE

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Mae

The Mother Pimpaka Towira

Masterfully filmed, atmospheric moment. The period of mourning comes to an end at a temple-like funeral chapel. The final visitors are not mourners, but want to buy off their guilt. The mother wants to see a real confession. And money. The intense emotionality the death of a child evokes is, as it were, sculpted in space while the tension between the mother and the visitors is captured more subliminally by a roving camera. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

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Eris

The Tiger’s Mind

Claire Hooper

Beatrice Gibson

An exploration of strength, tracing the experiences of Danielle Marie Shillingford, a woman who has lost and struggles to regain custody of her children. In the film, the slippages between Danielle and her god-like alter ego Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, create a continuous blurring between the fantastical, the superhuman and the absolutely mundane. (CH)

Against the backdrop of a brutalist villa, this film explores the relationships between six characters: the sets, the music, the Foley, the special effects, narrator and author. Grappling, wrestling and dreaming with one another, they battle for control of the film. Like Cardew before her, Gibson’s forays into narrative and character are the remarkable results of a search for new and egalitarian modes of production.

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UK, 2012 | DCP, 36 min, English

UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 20 min, English

Thailand, 2012 | colour, DCP, 15 min, Thai

Janus

Fikon

Erik van Lieshout

Figs

The artist Erik van Lieshout plunges into Janus’s life by filming his family, neighbours and fellow-townspeople. Through interviews, he makes a connection with cultural-political subjects, such as the role of the artist and art grants. The images of Janus’s environment are interlaced with shots of Van Lieshout’s studio. Questions such as ‘What makes real art?’ and ‘What do I need to do?’ return in Van Lieshout’s existential monologues.

‘He loved the sperm, especially my sperm, which he said tasted like sugar from all the soda I was drinking daily.’ Memories of a brief, passionate affair. In all simplicity strongly portrayed debut with text and images engaging in a riveting battle. ‘I just wanted to make a normal film about two men having a simple relationship with each other, like everyone else – without having to categorise it.’ (TC)

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 51 min, Dutch

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Sweden, 2013 | colour, DCP, 5 min, Swedish

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Tony Cederteg

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Agit

The Lament

Though I Know the River Is Dry

Aydin Ketenag

Omar Robert Hamilton

Subdued fiction about loss and mourning. A little boy, his mother and his grandparents try to carry on after the death of the still-young man of the house. This atmospheric, dialogue-free film explores the relationship between humans and nature. Emulates Semih Kaplanoglu, maker of the much-lauded Honey, Milk and Egg trilogy, who is thanked in the credits; equally measured tempo, sound and camera work.

Alaa returns to Palestine after living in New York for some years to visit his dying uncle. On the way, he re-experiences the tough choice he made before emigrating to America: a passport for his unborn child or creating a safe haven for his brother, the activist. Now, new forces pull him towards his homeland.

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UK/Palestine, 2013 | colour, video, 20 min, Arabic

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Unsupported Transit Zachary Formwalt

A story that begins with Muybridge’s development of time-lapse photography. The use of this technique to show large buildings being constructed seemingly within minutes and without human intervention is reminiscent of what Karl Marx called the ‘abbreviated form of capital’, which seemingly breeds more of itself on the stock market without human agency, rather than being generated as surplus value through production. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Dentro Inside

Emiliano Rocha Minter

Dentro starts with a shot of a burnt tree stump in a forest. Materials are gathered. What are the various branches, stones and pieces of grass for and what will the silent activities lead to? Dentro slowly uncovers an act of human solidarity. The camera hovers around two boys, ramping up the tension, and is supported by an excellent soundtrack. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Tokyo Giants Nicolas Provost

Netherlands, 2011 | colour, DCP, 15 min, English Prod: Zachary Formwalt | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Zachary Formwalt | Print/Sales: Zachary Formwalt | www.zacharyformwalt.com

Provost focuses on everyday scenes, from a couple arguing to lost drunks in the hyperkinetic city at night. There is the suggestion of a murder, probably planned by the Yakuza. Provost doesn’t tell the story, but does incorporate the classic crime genre’s tension. Surreptitious music, meaningful glances, cell phones and sirens create powerful suspense that is never resolved. WORLD PREMIERE

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Da Vinci

Die ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik

Yuri Ancarani

workers leaving the factory (again)

The final part of Ancarani’s trilogy is set in an operating theatre where a fabulous journey through the human body is undertaken by robot arms, with the surgeon at the joystick. Science fiction-like, it is reminiscent of Fantastic Voyage (1966). Ancarani captures the whole operation with minute precision, beautifully lit (no bloody effects) like a dazzling choreography accompanied by an exciting soundtrack.

Katharina Gruzei

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A multitude of silent factory workers walk down a seemingly endless corridor towards the exit. The flashing neon transforms the space into a surreal light and sound show. At the end, they pose one last time for the camera before leaving the building. The automatic gates close slowly behind them. La sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon by the Lumière brothers dates back to 1895; now we face the end of the industrial age.

Italy, 2012 | colour, DCP, 25 min, no dialogue

Austria, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 11 min, no dialogue

Prod: Katharina Gruzei | Sc: Katharina Gruzei | Cam: Renate Bauer | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.katharinagruzei.blogspot.com

Museum of Imagination

Letter Sergei Loznitsa

Amit Dutta

In 2011 and 2012, director Amit Dutta spent quite some time recording a series of conversations with Professor B.N. Goswamy, a leading Indian art historian, about his entire oeuvre. There were also a couple of silences. Dutta structured his film around a number of these, weaving a web of ideas and images that substantiate the interviewee’s mental landscape. India, 2012 | colour, video, 20 min, Hindi/English

Over 10 years ago, Loznitsa shot astounding black-and-white footage at a psychiatric institution in a forgotten corner of Russia. Since then it has resided in his archive. In recent years, he has made documentaries all on the same subject: ‘Homo Sovieticus’. In Letter he describes this country as a place inhabited by unconscious prisoners. No human voice can be heard and the pain is stifled in this unsullied environment. Also see In the Fog in Spectrum. WORLD PREMIERE

Prod: Amit Dutta | Cam: Dhanajai Sing, Mrinal Desai | Ed: Amit Dutta | Sound Des: Amit Dutta | Print/Sales: Amit Dutta

Russia, 2013 | b&w, DCP, 20 min, no dialogue

Atropa

Continuity

Peter Conrad Beyer

Omer Fast

Atropa Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) is an important ingredient in flying ointment. The film Atropa takes us to the forgotten world of European shamanism and into the midst of a ritual in a river bounded by woodland. With her rituals, the shaman speeds up the natural elements around her, creating new energy and cohesion. In this way, the potent trance film Atropa accelerates to a higher level of consciousness.

Continuity reveals a German couple’s incapacity to get over the death of their son, who died in Afghanistan. Their endless attempts to get a grip on their emotions become clear from the repetition of a certain scene; hallucinatory and surreal moments; references to horror films. They culminate in disillusion. Sexual tension and frustrated excesses alternate in a very cinematographic film that Omer Fast was commissioned to shoot for dOCUMENTA 13.

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Germany, 2013 | colour/b&w, video, 30 min, no dialogue

Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 41 min, German

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BrIgHT fuTure

Bright Future

Vakansiy yang janggal dan penyakit lainnya

Miss Lovely Ashim Ahluwalia

Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses

Yosep Anggi Noen

India, 2012 | colour, DCP, 110 min, Hindi Prod: Sanjay Shah, Shumona Goel, Pinaki Chatterjee | Prod Comp: Future East Film | Sc: Ashim Ahluwalia, Uttam Sirur | Cam: Mohanan | Ed: Ashim Ahluwali, Paresh Kamdar | Prod Des: Ashim Ahluwali, Tabasheer Zutshi, Parichit Paralkar | Sound Des: Tarun Bhandari | With: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George, Zeena Bhatia, Ragesh Asthhanaa, Menaka Lalwani | Print/Sales: Fortissimo Films | www.miss-lovely.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 22:00 CI1 Wed 30-1 19:15 DJZ Fri 1-2 16:45 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 14:00 CI4

Mumbai in the 1980s: the brothers Vicky and Sonu make soft-porn horror films, supplying the city’s growing underground market. Sensitive Sonu, his conscience burdened by the work, is pressed on by Vicky, the ‘brains’ of the outfit, through a world of illegal trafficking, sex parties, police corruption and dangerous mobsters. The appearance of the beautiful ‘debutante’ Pinky in the run-down warehouse that is used as a film studio turns the brothers’ lives upside down as the naïve Sonu falls in love and takes irresponsible risks to finance a romantic mainstream film for his muse. Originally planning a documentary on the topic, director Ahluwalia – known for his remarkable documentary John & Jane – meticulously investigated Mumbai’s exploitation film industry and effectively incorporates the C-grade type of reels of the 1980s into this engaging and violent retro thriller.

A floresta de Jonathas

La Playa D.C.

Jonathas lives with his parents and elder brother Juliano in a distant corner of the Amazon region. The family sells fruit from their stall next to the motorway. It’s an ideal spot for the kids to come into contact with passers-by from different worlds. Juliano especially is keen to grab every opportunity for new adventures, to the great frustration of his father. Yet Jonathas also allows himself to be persuaded to camp in the jungle with his dear brother, together with an exciting girl from the Ukraine. In this formative weekend, the magic rainforest and the mysterious girl both turn out to have a major effect on Jonathas. Andrade, who comes from this remote part of Brazil himself, has made a beautiful, contemporary drama about people far from the modern world, where nature is a living, magic entity. With colourful shots and a hallucinogenic soundtrack, the viewer is sucked into a magic-realistic jungle drama.

There’s a world of difference between the west coast of Colombia and the district of La Playa in Bogata, the capital. Ever since teenager Tomas had to flee his birthplace by the Pacific Ocean because of the civil war, he has yearned for the tropical countryside where he grew up. Everywhere he can, he draws scenes of his birthplace. Life in the city is hard too. His stepfather throws him out, his little brother Jairo is an addict and in big trouble. Together with his elder brother Chaco he is saving for a journey to the North, either the USA or Europe. Just as the sun is about to shine and he’s about to start earning money as a talented hairdresser, both his brothers ask for help and Tomas faces an impossible choice. To the accompaniment of latino hiphop beats, the camera follows the stoical Tomas through the streets of Bogota. A glimpse of the city’s AfroColombian subculture – in which hairstyles play a major role.

Jonathas’ Forest Sérgio Andrade

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Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 99 min, Portuguese/English Prod: Sérgio Andrade | Prod Comp: Rio Taruma Filmes | Sc: Sérgio Andrade | Cam: Yure César | Ed: Fábio Baldo | Prod Des: Sidney Medina | Sound Des: Fábio Baldo, Tico Dias | Music: Ian Fonseca | With: Begê Muniz, Francisco Mendes, Viktoryia Vinyarska, Ítalo Castro, Socorro Papoula, Alex Lima, João Tavares | Print/Sales: FiGa Films | www.aflorestadejonathas.com.br Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 15:30 PA2 Sun 27-1 09:45 PA5 Mon 28-1 09:30 LV3 Thu 31-1 17:45 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 17:00 LV5

Ning is not happy in her work or her relationship. A new job in a furniture store – which looks like the most spotless place in Yogyakarta – gives her hope of better fortune. Together with sympathetic driver Mur, she has to deliver a beautiful red sofa to a remote village. We see how they cautiously grow closer along the way. While at home, Ning’s husband kills time with TV dating shows, a small street stall and pathetic paid sex. After several shorts, Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses, partly supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, is the first full-length feature by Yosep Anggi Noen. In this modest road movie, he tackles issues which tend to be difficult in Indonesian filmmaking, such as adultery and sexual problems. With a great feeling for mood, the film was shot in and around Yogyakarta, where the director lives.

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The Beach Juan Andrés Arango

Colombia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 90 min, Spanish Prod: Jorge Andrés Botero, Diana Bustamante | Prod Comp: Burning Blue, Séptima Films | Sc: Juan Andrés Arango | Cam: Nicolas Canniccioni | Ed: Felipe Guerrero | Prod Des: Angelica Perea | Sound Des: Pablo Bahamondez, Roberto Espinoza | Music: Erick Bongcam, Jacobo Vélez | With: Luis Carlos Guevara, Andres Murillo, James Solis, Einer Cortes, Hamilton Quinones | Sales: Doc & Film International | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 13:15 PA3 Fri 25-1 11:45 CI1 Sat 26-1 22:00 LV5 Thu 31-1 18:15 PA6

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Bright Future

Wasteland

UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 106 min, English Prod: Gareth Pritchard | Prod Comp: Moli-Mischief Films | Sc: Rowan Athale | Cam: Stuart Bentley | Ed: Kim Gaster | Prod Des: Chris Richmond | Sound Des: Burak Topalakci | Music: Neil Athale | With: Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon, Matthew Lewis, Gerard Kearns, Timothy Spall, Vanessa Kirby | Print/Sales: Bankside Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 22:00 DJZ Mon 28-1 21:45 SGZ Fri 1-2 12:45 PA5 Sat 2-2 20:00 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 14:00 CI7

L’étoile du jour

Rowan Athale

The Morning Star Sophie Blondy

Stylish heist film with a twist: the ingenious masterplan unfolds not in hip New York or gleaming Las Vegas, but in a grey town in northern England. The robbery is not at a jeweller’s or casino, but a working men’s club. It’s as if you hired Ken Loach to direct Ocean’s 11. It’s obvious from the start that the ingenious heist by Harvey Miller and his friends will not work out quite as planned. You see, Harvey tells the whole story in a police interrogation. How, fresh out of jail, he wanted to win back his girlfriend Nathalie, start a new life – but above all, get revenge on drug dealer Steven Roper, who framed him for his own crimes. Besides the story, in which of course nothing is as it seems, the camaraderie between the four robbers is a trump card in the film. Harvey and his mates Dempsey, Charlie and Dodd know each other through and through. For them, crime is the only way out in ‘broken Britain’.

The circus is a favourite backdrop for films that are anything but festive. In Sophie Blondy’s second feature, she introduces a motley mix of characters who are bound together in obscure ways. The story is set in a depressing town on the French coast, where the performances are held in front of halfempty benches. The real excitement is primarily outside the circus tent, where the sad clown Elliot (Holy Motors’ Denis Lavant) has an affair with ballerina Angèle, to the fury of the circus director Heroy – who will stop at nothing to conquer the object of his love. Apart from being plagued by the director, Elliot is also tormented by his silent yet eloquent conscience, surprisingly played by Iggy Pop. And in The Morning Star we also see Béatrice ‘Betty Blue’ Dalle, in her typecast role of flamboyant gypsy soothsayer.

France, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 98 min, French Prod: Alain Peyrollaz | Prod Comp: Tabo Tabo Films | Sc: Sophie Blondy, Philippe Benkemoun | Cam: Nathalie Durand | Ed: Anaïs Enshaian | Prod Des: Nikos Meletopoulos | Sound Des: Jean-Luc Rault Cheynet | Music: Steve Mackay, Jim Peuvrel | With: Denis Lavant, Iggy Pop, Tchéky Karyo, Natacha Régnier, Béatrice Dalle, Bruno Putzulu | Print/Sales: Wide Management Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 18:45 PA5 Thu 31-1 12:30 PA2 Fri 1-2 16:30 CI6 Sat 2-2 21:45 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 10:15 CI4

Blancanieves

DEAD BODY WELCOME

Snow White Pablo Berger

Spain/France, 2012 | b&w, DCP, 104 min, no dialogue Prod: Ibon Cormenzana, Jerome Vidal, Pablo Berger | Prod Comp: Arcadia Motion Pictures, Noodles Productions | Sc: Pablo Berger | Cam: Kiko de la Rica | Ed: Fernando Franco | Prod Des: Alain Bainée | Music: Alfonso de Vilallonga | With: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Pere Ponce, Angela Molina, Macarena García, Sofía Oria | Sales: UDream | Distr NL: A-Film Distribution | www.blancaniev.es Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 19:15 CI6 Sun 27-1 15:45 PA5 Mon 28-1 19:30 LUX Sat 2-2 21:45 CI6

Her mother dies in childbirth. Her father, a famous toreador, is skewered by a bull and ends up in a wheelchair. He marries his nurse, who turns out to be an evil stepmother. Instead of a mirror on the wall, she has a fashion magazine that tells her who is the most beautiful in the land. In this Spanish version of the Grimm classic, Snow White is called Blancanieves and hangs around with bullfighting dwarfs. But this is much more than a Spanish remake of a world-famous story; it’s a homage to the heyday of silent film. Pablo Berger, who worked on the film for eight years, situates the story in 1920s Seville. The stylish set is shot in sharp blackand-white. Dialogues are on inter-titles and are accompanied by a hot-blooded soundtrack with a large dose of flamenco. Blancanieves is a gloomy fairytale with an exotic undercurrent.

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Kees Brienen

WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 80 min, English/Dutch Prod: René Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp, Kees Brienen | Prod Comp: De Productie, KINO International | Sc: Desiree Duwel | Cam: Benito Strangio | Ed: Menno Boerema | Prod Des: Elisa Miller | Sound Des: REC Sound | Music: Martijn van Boven | With: Kees Brienen, Big Mama Amma Ongel, Geeta Prasaad Regmi, Mister Pala Bhutia, Raul Langa, Naresh Choowdri, Kallu Sahani | Print/Sales: De Productie Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:30 PA3 Sat 26-1 21:15 PA6 Tue 29-1 19:15 CI6 Thu 31-1 17:15 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 11:00 CI3

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Kees Brienen plays himself in this meditative road movie in which the protagonist, on arriving in India, finds out that the friend with whom he wanted to watch an eclipse of the sun has died. Shocked and dazed, he sets out on a long journey that takes him from chaotic urban bustle to a mountain village where he finds the body of the deceased. Helped by villagers who perform the last rites and carry the body over the hills, Brienen accompanies his friend to his final resting place. This simple story with hardly any dialogue is borne by impressions of Brienen’s state of mind and mood shots of the surroundings: from scruffy hotel rooms, bustling street life and endless roads to the serenity of the mountains, cloaked in clouds. Several encounters on the way teach him to accept the natural rhythm of life and death. Inspired by true events, something the documentary opening shot refers to. After previous experimental work, this is Brienen’s first feature.

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Bright Future

USA, 2012 | colour, DCP, 105 min, English/French Prod: Josh Mond, Sean Durkin, Matt Palmieri | Prod Comp: Borderline Films, FilmHaven Entertainment | Sc: Antonio Campos | Cam: Joe Anderson | Ed: Zachary StuartPontier | Prod Des: Nicolas de Boiscuillé | Sound Des: Coll Anderson | Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi | With: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop, Michael Abiteboul, Constance Rousseau, Lila Salot, Solo | Print/Sales: Fortissimo Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 09:45 PA5 Sun 27-1 21:45 LV1 Mon 28-1 14:15 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 10:00 CI4

Bright Future

Simon Killer

A Fallible Girl

Antonio Campos

Conrad Clark

After an unpleasant break-up, American recent graduate Simon (Brady Corbet) arrives in France. He sends unanswered emails to his ex, amuses himself with internet porn and roams the streets of a bleak and standoffish Paris. Simon wrestles with himself. When one day he seeks solace in a sex club, he gets to know the prostitute Victoria (a powerful role by former Tiger Award for Short Film winner Mati Diop). A relationship blossoms between the two lost souls, but it doesn’t do Simon much good. Gradually he starts to get involved in unpleasant practices. His suppressed fury then seeks a way out. With a pulsating techno soundtrack, Simon Killer shows the seamy side of a young and tormented ‘American in Paris’. Campos made his debut in 2008 with Afterschool, and wrote this script in cooperation with the protagonists, leaving plenty of room for personal interpretation.

More than 80% of the population in Dubai comes from outside the United Arab Emirates. Immigrants have virtually no rights. They work very hard, live soberly, save as much as possible, and leave. That does not apply to the Chinese girl Lifei. She has been bit by the bug of entrepreneurship and wants to rediscover herself as a businesswoman. With her best friend Yaya, the two women start a mushroom farm in the desert. Yaya pulls out at the very first sign of a setback and Lifei is left to fend for herself. She hires workers from Bangladesh, crosses the city to sell her wares and seeks investors. But when she finally succeeds, she is forced by family circumstances to return to China. As a foreigner and woman, Lifei is doubly handicapped in the maledominated Arab world. A Fallible Girl shows the harshness of life in Dubai, but has a purifying end. In her downfall, Lifei rediscovers herself.

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United Arab Emirates/China/ UK, 2013 | colour, DCP, 104 min, Mandarin/English Prod: Wendy Kuan, Yan Zhu, Chow Keung, Azza Aboul Magd | Prod Comp: Pract2 Entertainment Ltd, Xstream Pictures Limited, Soul Rebel Films | Sc: Conrad Clark | Cam: Raquel Fernandez Nuñez | Ed: Paul Monaghan | Prod Des: Yufang Lee | Sound Des: Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr | Music: Víg Mihály, Orchestra Elastique | With: Sang Juan, Huang Lu, Arthur Molinier | Print/Sales: PAD International Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:00 PA2 Mon 28-1 13:00 PA4 Wed 30-1 16:00 PA4 Thu 31-1 20:00 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 09:15 CI3

Four Ways to Die in My Hometown

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Toegetakeld door de liefde

Chai Chunya

Devastated by Love Ari Deelder

Every year, 15 million Chinese move from the countryside to the city. The metropolises are bursting apart with migrants looking for work. In the rural areas, only the old, sick and weak remain behind as the fabric of society falls apart. Four Ways to Die in My Hometown is a poetic portrayal of this decay. Ga Gui travels to her home village because she has a premonition that her father does not have much longer to live. The man has shut out the outside world for seven years by living in a coffin and, before his last breath is breathed, he receives a visit from a spirit that calls on him to bring enlightenment to his fellow villagers. The decay of the old community and the values that go along with it has to be stopped. An experimental film with a spiritual and philosophical message. The story is structured around the four elements of Buddhism: earth, water, fire and wind.

Arie is behind on the rent and has writer’s block – and the book he hasn’t yet written has to be finished in two months. Then he finds inspiration at the tram stop of his life, in the form of the redheaded tram driver Sonja. When her route is abolished, the infatuated Arie does everything he can to get in touch with his muse. ‘No Sonja, no book; no book, no writer; no writer, no life; no life, no Sonja.’ In this way, Arie gradually loses everything: his house, his self-respect, his hope. Ari Deelder based her tragicomic directing debut on a story by Aat Ceelen, who is also from Rotterdam. The familiar Rotterdam setting is juxtaposed with absurdist fantasies and animations. Supported by the jazz of the New Cool Collective and with a brilliant leading role for Raymond Thiry, who manages to communicate many emotions convincingly. Plus a tiny bit part for her father, Jules Deelder.

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Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 90 min, Dutch Prod: Jeroen Rozendaal | Prod Comp: StudioRev | Sc: Ari Deelder, based on a story by Aat Ceelen | Cam: Daan Nieuwenhuijs | Ed: Tim Roza | Prod Des: AMC Fok | Sound Des: Henk-Helle de Groot | Music: New Cool Collective | With: Raymond Thiry, Anna Hermanns, Stefan Degand, Leny Breederveld | Sales: StudioRev | Distr NL: Just Film Distribution Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:15 PA1 Sat 26-1 18:45 PA7 Tue 29-1 12:00 CI2 Fri 1-2 17:15 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 09:30 DJZ Sun 27-1 17:15 DJZ

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Bright Future

Las lágrimas

Krivina

The Tears Pablo Delgado Sánchez

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Mexico, 2012 | colour, DCP, 64 min, Spanish Prod: Guillermo Ortiz | Prod Comp: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica | Sc: Pablo Delgado Sánchez | Cam: Juan Pablo Ramírez | Ed: Gil González | Prod Des: Derzu Campos | With: Fernando Alvarez Rebeil, Gabriel Santoyo, Claudette Maillé | Print/Sales: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 15:30 PA2 Tue 29-1 11:45 CI1 Thu 31-1 09:452 PA4 Fri 1-2 09:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 15:45 CI4

The Mexican summer holiday is long and boring for Fernando and Gabriel. While their mother wallows in her sorrow about the absence of their father, they have to look after themselves. So the teenager Fernando loses himself in parties and drink, while little Gabriel lolls endlessly in front of the TV. Nature ought to offer a way out for the brothers, but things turn out differently. Pablo Delgado Sánchez made The Tears as a graduation film from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), a film school set up in 1975 in Mexico City that now has become one of the most important breeding grounds for young Mexican talent. Sánchez captures city life and the brother’s camping trip in dreamy images, shot in full-screen 16mm. The film, largely made using improvisation, was based on an outline only 20 pages long and won a Carte Blanche Prize for post-production at the Locarno Film Festival.

Igor Drljaca

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Canada/Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012 | colour, video, 70 min, Bosnian Prod: Igor Drljaca, Albert Shin | Prod Comp: TimeLapse Pictures | Sc: Igor Drljaca | Cam: Roland Echavarria | Sound Des: Matthew Chan | Music: Bojan Bodruzic | With: Goran Slavkovic, Jasmin Geljo, Edis Livnjak, Minela Ja ar, Neboj a Mijatovic, Petar Mijatovic, Jelena Mijatovic | Print/ Sales: Princ Films, Inc. | www. timelapsepictures.ca/krivina Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 22:002 CI3 Tue 29-1 14:152 CI3 Thu 31-1 17:002 CI5 Sat 2-2 13:45 CI3 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 09:00 LV3

Rengaine

Matterhorn

Hold Back Rachid Djaïdani

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 75 min, French/Arabic Prod: Rachid Djaïdani, Anne-Dominique Toussaint | Prod Comp: Rachid Djaïdani Productions, Les Films des Tournelles | Sc: Rachid Djaïdani | Cam: Julien Boeuf, Rachid Djaïdani, Karim El Dib, Elamine Oumara | Ed: Rachid Djaïdani, Svetlana Vaynblat, Julien Boeuf, Karim El Dib | Prod Des: Rachid Djaïdani | Sound Des: Benjamin Lécuyer | With: Slimane Dazi, Sabrina Hamida, Stéphane Soo Mongo | Print: The Festival Agency | Sales: Pathé Distribution | www.rengaine-lefilm.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:45 LV1 Sun 27-1 21:45 SGZ Tue 29-1 19:15 LV6 Fri 1-2 22:00 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 09:15 CI2

The winner of the FIPRESCI award at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes tackles the hypocrisy surrounding a forbidden love in Paris. French-Algerian Sabrina wants to get married to a black would-be actor, to the horror of her forty brothers. The two lovers try to build up a life together in these hostile surroundings. The brother who is most fiercely critical of the wedding has himself struck up a relationship with a Jewish woman. This energetic and topical variant on Romeo and Juliet, with Parisian Africans and Algerians as the Montagues and Capulets, charts new waters by looking at the racial gap between the two immigrant communities from different angles. For his feature debut, Rachid Djaïdani (boxing champion, novelist, actor, filmmaker) used extreme close-ups, rapid editing and a moving camera. His no-budget film, on which he worked for nine years, also has lighter moments, such as the scenes in which a few dance steps are unexpectedly made.

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Krivina is an elegiac consideration of the traumas of war and migration, and what we are to make of such memories. Miro fled the war in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and now lives in Toronto. His search for his childhood friend Dado, who is suspected of war crimes and every now and again appears in his home village like a ghost, brings Miro back to his homeland. Like Miro, the film seems caught between the present and the past; between Yugoslavia and Canada; between memory, dream and reality. The details of Miro’s journey remain unclear, as does Dado’s fate and the precise role of Drago, to whom Miro tells his woeful story of migration, and of an accident involving a bus full of children – the Yugoslav word ‘krivina’ can roughly be translated as a metaphorical ‘bend in the road’. A highly personal debut – director Drljac fled Yugoslavia with his parents for Canada as a ten-year-old boy.

Diederik Ebbinge

WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 87 min, Dutch Prod: Gijs van de Westelaken | Prod Comp: Column Film | Sc: Diederik Ebbinge | Cam: Dennis Wielaert | Ed: Michiel Reichwein | Prod Des: Elza Kroonenberg | Sound Des: Giel van Geloven | With: René van ‘t Hof, Ton Kas, Porgy Franssen, Ariane Schluter, Helmert Woudenberg, Elise Schaap, Alex Klaasen | Sales: Column Film | Distr NL: Cinéart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:30 PA1 Mon 28-1 13:00 PA6 Sat 2-2 13:00 PA4 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 13:00 LV3

Fred is a lonely 54-year-old man. Since the death of his wife, he has lived alone in a small village. His son disappeared from his life years ago. Fred rides around in the local bus, virtuously attending church and eating his green beans, meat and potatoes at 6 o’clock on the dot every day. One day, the tramp Leo wanders into his life. After an initial moment of suspicion, Fred takes Leo in. Like a strict father, he tries to educate his new housemate. He soon finds out that Leo has a special talent, as a result of which Fred again slowly starts to set out into the wide world. The style of this tragicomic story can in some ways be compared with the absurdism of Alex van Warmerdam. While the story is set in the present, the Dutch atmosphere of the 1950s presses heavily on the characters. The production design is also beautifully attuned to the God-fearing, stern mood the Dutch know so well.

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Bright Future

Los salvajes

Kern

The Wild Ones Alejandro Fadel

Argentina, 2012 | colour, DCP, 119 min, Spanish Prod: Agustina Llambi Campbell, Alejandro Fadel | Prod Comp: La Unión de los Ríos | Sc: Alejandro Fadel | Cam: Julian Apezteguia | Ed: Andrés P. Estrada, Delfina Castagnino | Prod Des: Laura Caligiuri | Sound Des: Santiago Fumagalli | Music: Sergio Chotsourian, Santiago Chotsourian | With: Leonel Arancibia, Roberto Cowal, Sofía Brito, Martín Cotari, César Roldan | Sales: Memento Films International | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 12:30 PA2 Sun 27-1 12:30 PA7 Wed 30-1 21:45 DJZ Thu 31-1 21:30 PA7

Visually impressive feature about a group of young delinquents who violently escape from youth prison and find themselves in the Argentine wilderness. The Wild Ones is very realistic in the opening scenes, but soon transcends time and place, with a sharp eye for the beauty of the landscape. Words clearly play a less prominent role than images, distinguishing the solo directing debut by Alejandro Fadel from the films he wrote for Pablo Trapero (Leonera, Elefante blanco). Cameraman Julian Apezteguia is also from Trapero’s crew. The first half of the film follows the four young men and a girl on their journey to an unknown destination. As a result of internal disagreements and accidents, the group falls apart, after which the story concentrates on the youngest of them. In the descent into an increasingly intangible and mythical world, fate brings the characters together briefly, after which they lose each other for good.

Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

Austria, 2012 | colour, DCP, 97 min, German Prod: Ulrich Seidl | Prod Comp: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH | Sc: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Cam: Harald Traindl | Ed: Birgit Bergmann, Nikolaus Eckhard | Sound Des: Severin Fiala | Print/ Sales: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH | www.facebook.com/kernfilm Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 17:15 CI2 Sun 27-1 10:00 CI4 Tue 29-1 17:002 CI2 Fri 1-2 21:302 CI4

Une histoire d’amour

Ship of Theseus

Tied Hélène Fillières

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

France/Luxembourg, 2012 | colour, DCP, 80 min, French Prod: Matthieu Tharot, Jani Thiltges | Prod Comp: Albertine Productions, Samsa Film | Sc: Hélène Fillières, based on a novel by Régis Jauffret | Cam: Christophe Beaucarne | Ed: Philippe Bourgueil | Prod Des: Véronique Sacrez | Sound Des: Gert Janssen | Music: Etienne Daho | With: Benoît Poelvoorde, Laetitia Casta, Richard Bohringer, Reda Kateb | Sales: Wild Bunch | Distr NL: Imagine Nederland Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 21:45 SGZ Sun 27-1 14:15 LV5 Tue 29-1 22:15 LUX Fri 1-2 22:30 DJZ Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 21:45 CI5

No love story is complete without a dose of pain. But when it comes to physical, forced pain and there are pistols and latex rompers in the game, then a love story takes on a darker side. A banker with masochistic tendencies (Benoît Poelvoorde) asks a beautiful woman (Laetitia Casta) to be his dominatrix. She is dragged along in his hunger for humiliation and subjection, but herself is emotionally chained to her husband, for whom she does everything. The love triangle heads for a fatal climax. Set in a romantic no man’s land somewhere between Europe and the USA, echoed in the mixture of French and American love songs on the soundtrack. In a moral sense, the film is also in a twilight zone. Judgement, questions of guilt, psychology, explanation – it is all left out. The protagonists are so neutral they don’t even have names. All that counts is trust, daring and the intensity of love.

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‘What kind of film are you actually making? Surely there’s no point?’ Peter Kern’s blunt criticism in the opening scene of this documentary dedicated to him is certainly not the last he will express. Yet the makers, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, continue to sketch a portrait of the homosexual Austrian director/actor/writer/singer. The more-than-obese Kern, who curses, groans and manipulates, is followed for 18 months – in his home, on the set and while he watches excerpts of his own work. ‘You’ll never see the real me’, he exclaims, but the camera captures revealing moments. For instance, when he sobs as he watches a scene from his documentary Knutschen, kuscheln, jubilieren (1998). Or when, his gigantic body bared, he sings a song at first reluctantly but later with increasing conviction. The last scenes put everything else in a totally different light. Might Kern be right after all?

Anand Gandhi

India, 2012 | colour, DCP, 139 min, Hindi/English Prod: Mukesh Shah, Anand Gandhi | Prod Comp: ReCyclewala Productions | Sc: Anand Gandhi | Cam: Pankaj Kumar | Ed: Sanyukta Kaza, Adesh Prasad, Satchit Puranik | Prod Des: Pooja Shetty, Rakesh Yadav | Sound Des: Gábor Erdélyi | Music: Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor | With: Aida ElKashef, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah, Vinay Shukla, Sameer Khurana | Print/Sales: Fortissimo Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 11:30 CI4 Mon 28-1 16:00 PA1 Sat 2-2 18:30 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 12:45 CI4

This original, idiosyncratic debut of philosophy graduate Anand Gandhi is a contemplative quest involving three parables. Plutarch’s paradoxical question of whether Theseus’s ship, when restored by replacing all of its parts, still remains the same ship, is applied to contemporary life issues. The first story focuses on a blind photographer who captures the essence of life through intuition, but faces an existential crisis when eye transplants restore her sight. In the second, a monk dedicated to animal rights, nonviolence and beliefs about cause and effect, refuses a life-saving transplant when faced with a lethal disease. Ethics and life-and-death decisions are the focus in the third tale about a stockbroker tracking down the culprits of an organ theft committed on a poor man in surgery. The stories, done in a cinematically refined manner, connect at the end in an ironic moment of belonging.

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Bright Future

Oh Boy

O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser

Jan Ole Gerster

The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser

Alberto Gracia

Germany, 2012 | b&w, DCP, 85 min, German Prod: Marcos Kantis | Prod Comp: Schiwago Film GmbH | Sc: Jan Ole Gerster | Cam: Philipp Kirsamer | Ed: Anja Siemens | Prod Des: Juliane Friedrich | Sound Des: Fabian Schmidt | Music: The Major Minors, Cherilyn MacNeil | With: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Andreas Schröders, Justus von Dohnányi, Arnd Klawitter, Ulrich Noethen, Martin Brambach, RP Kahl, Theo Trebs, Frederick Lau, Michael Gwisdek | Print: Schiwago Film GmbH | Sales: Beta Cinema | www.ohboy.x-verleih.de Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 12:15 PA7 Tue 29-1 16:30 LUX Fri 1-2 19:30 LV5 Sat 2-2 14:00 CI6

How hard can it be in today’s Berlin – hipster hangout no. 1 – to order a cup of coffee? Very hard, actually, as dropout Niko (Germany’s current ‘it-boy’ Tom Schilling) discovers one day. The day starts off unpromisingly enough with his (ex) girlfriend, and from then on it just gets worse. He loses his driving licence after a bizarre psychological test, his bank account is blocked and an encounter with an old schoolmate goes horribly wrong. Along the way, Niko begins to realise something. Until now, he has managed to get away with pretty much everything thanks to his big beautiful eyes; but now suddenly it’s time to grow up. The tragicomic Oh Boy, filmed in sunny black-and-white, is a portrait of a young man on the verge of adulthood. With the help of a jazzy soundtrack, debut director Jan Ole Gerster smoothly guides us from a cheerful slacker comedy into a poignant ode to Berlin, its residents and its past.

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Spain, 2013 | colour/b&w, DCP, 61 min, Galician (Gallegan)/Spanish Prod: Felipe Lage Coro | Prod Comp: Zeitun Films | Sc: Alberto Gracia | Cam: Mauro Herce | Ed: Alberto Gracia, Diana Toucedo | Prod Des: Oliver Laxe | Sound Des: Alberto Gracia, Enrico Fiocco | With: Josecho, Sara García, Oliver Laxe, Nando Vázquez, Alberto Gracia, Pedro Soler, Quique Amil | Print/Sales: Zeitun Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 17:00 CI3 Sat 26-1 09:30 CI4 Mon 28-1 22:00 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 22:00 CI5

Nairobi Half Life

Matei copil miner Matei Child Miner Alexandra Gulea

David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga

Kenya/Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 96 min, Swahili Prod: Sarika Hemi Lakhani | Prod Comp: One Fine Day Films | Sc: Serah Mwihaki, Charles ‘Potash’ Mwihaki, Samuel Munene | Cam: Christian Almesberger | Ed: Mkaiwawi Mwakaba | Prod Des: Naia Barrenechea | Sound Des: Matthias Lempert | Music: Xaver Von Treyer | With: Joseph Wairimu, Olwenya Maina, Nancy Wanjiku Karanja, Mugambi Nthiga, Paul Ogola | Print: The Festival Agency | Sales: One Fine Day Films | www.nairobihalflife-film.org Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 21:45 SGZ Sun 27-1 11:30 CI6 Thu 31-1 22:30 LUX Fri 1-2 19:00 CI4

Kenyan Oscar nomination, about a young actor from a peasant village in Kenya who hopes to make it in Nairobi, but soon finds out why it is called Nairobbery. He accidentally ends up in the world of crime while he has just got a position at the popular Phoenix Theatre. His double life has its advantages. One day he manages to stay on his feet among the criminals thanks to his acting talent, and another day he can play his theatre role as a thief with even more conviction. The well-oiled product of a training initiative by One Fine Day Films, DW Akademie and the Kenyan production company Ginger Ink, in which promising young African filmmakers were chosen to make a film under the supervision of Tom Tykwer and Soul Boy scriptwriter Billy Kahora. Gitonga is making his debut, and manages to capture the bustle and fury of downtown Kirinyaga Road very well. The incredibly filthy toilet in the prison is also portrayed very expressively.

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The story of Kaspar Hauser, the German ‘wild child’ who grew up for 16 years in silence and virtually in the dark in a stable with only a wooden horse as company, remains fascinating, also for filmmakers. Werner Herzog did a film on him in 1974. In The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser, mostly shot in atmospheric black-and-white on 16mm, we see impressions of his life and ‘civilising process’. On one side there is ubiquitous nature, a world without language, and on the other we see him in the company of several archetypes: a masked, sadomasochistic dwarf; a vamp-like girl; a seaman and a man in a Batman suit (played by the director, Alberto Gracia). The soundtrack also has a constant tension between the peaceful sounds of nature and ominous music. Gracia divides his ‘gospeL’of Kaspar Hauser into seven chapters. The sixth is an absurdist intermezzo with the archetypal characters’ dialogues in inter-titles.

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Romania/Germany/ France, 2013 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Romanian Prod: Thomas Ciulei, Florian Schneider, Céline Maugis | Prod Comp: Europolis Film, Lüthje & Schneider Filmproduktion, La vie est belle films associés | Sc: Alexandra Gulea | Cam: Reinhold Vorschneider | Ed: Alexandra GuleaPrzygodda | Prod Des: Mihaela Poenaru | Sound Des: Radu Stancu | Music: Stéphane Karo | With: Alexandru Czul, Remus Marginean | Print/Sales: Europolis Film Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 14:15 SGZ Mon 28-1 16:00 PA5 Wed 30-1 13:15 PA1 Fri 1-2 15:30 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 20:15 CI4

THE BIG SCREEN AWARD COMPETITION

The fiction debut of documentary maker Alexandra Gulea is about an 11-year-old boy, Matei, who has been living with his grandfather because his parents have gone to work in Italy. The boy is dismissed from school following a mix-up, and his normally understanding grandfather responds in an unexpectedly violent way. Matei runs away to Isidor, a shepherd in the hills. His life is changed by a visit to the Natural History Museum in Bucharest, but when he arrives back home, he faces more changes than he could possibly have wished for. When his mother arrives to take him away, he refuses to go. Matei thinks his future lies in Romania. He will now have to grow up quickly. Gulea films in beautiful, calm compositions, finding splendour – and even humour – in the gloomiest of settings. Her eye for the beauty of urban and natural landscapes alone make this film an exceptional addition to recent Romanian filmmaking. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

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Bright Future

Carne de perro

De nieuwe wereld

In Chile, people look to the future. They work, dream of success, lose themselves in shopping and saccharine soaps. They prefer not to think of the dictatorship of Pinochet, who drowned the country in fear from 1973 to 1990. Except, that is, for types like Alejandro. This shabby fifty-something worked in one of Pinochet’s torture prisons. Now he lives on the fringes of society, unable to reinvent himself. When one of his former colleagues commits suicide, this emotionally handicapped macho completely loses it. His wife and daughter leave him. His trusty yet noisy dog has to take the full force of his temper tantrums. Fernando Guzzoni makes his debut filming Alejandro very close up. His paranoia is almost tangible, the mood bordering on claustrophobia. Despite being oppressive, Dog Flesh is not moralistic. With a star role for Alejandro Goic, who was himself tortured by Pinochet’s bullies.

Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers near Schiphol Airport. Those entering the Netherlands as refugees stay ten days at most in this bunk-bedded vestibule to the promised land – a place and period that seems to stand outside of ordinary life. This no-man’s-land suits Mirte. She is a woman damaged by life, snappy and defensive, who seeks a hold in the routine of the mop, even keeping her little boy at a distance. But when the West African Luc turns up, she has to lower her shield. Luc scratches her open emotionally. A cautious love blossoms, after which the farewell is even more painful. The New World describes these grand emotions with expressive detail. The dialogue is sparse, the grey setting illustrative of a life on the fringe of society. The beautifully-maintained surly nature displayed by Bianca Krijgsman as Mirte ensures that this love-tragedy-in-ten-days does not get too sweet.

Dog Flesh Fernando Guzzoni

Chile/France/Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 81 min, Spanish Prod: Adrián Solar, Jacques Bidou, Gunter Hanfgarn | Prod Comp: Ceneca Producciones, JBA Production, Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion GbR | Sc: Fernando Guzzoni | Cam: Bárbara Alvarez | Ed: Javier Estévez | Prod Des: Bernardita Baeza | Sound Des: Carlo Sánchez | With: Alejandro Goic, Amparo Noguera, Maria Gracia Omegna, Alfredo Castro | Print/Sales: FiGa Films Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 16:30 CI6 Sun 27-1 09:15 PA6 Tue 29-1 21:45 LV1 Thu 31-1 14:00 CI6

The New World Jaap van Heusden

WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Dutch Prod: Marc Bary | Prod Comp: IJswater Films, NTR | Sc: Jaap van Heusden, Rogier de Blok | Cam: Jan Moeskops | Ed: Jasper Quispel | Prod Des: Jorien Sont | Sound Des: Marco Vermaas | Music: Minco Eggersman | With: Bianca Krijgsman, Issaka Sawadogo, Teun Stokkel, Janni Goslinga, Ali Ben Horsting, Tjebbo Gerritsma, Tarikh Janssen, Saskia Temmink | Print/Sales: IJswater Films Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 19:00 PA7 Thu 31-1 10:00 PA5 Fri 1-2 16:00 PA4 Sat 2-2 09:30 LUX Press & Industry SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 14:00 PA5 Wed 30-1 09:15 CI6

The Love Songs of Tiedan

De ontmaagding van Eva van End

The Deflowering of Eva van End Michiel ten Horn

Hao Jie

China, 2012 | colour, video, 89 min, Mandarin Prod: Sun Kui | Prod Comp: Beijing YuanQi Cultural Development Co.,LTD | Sc: Hao Jie, Ge Xia | Cam: Du Pu | Ed: Baek Seung-Hoon | Prod Des: Li Cunwang | Sound Des: Pan Xiaolong, Zhang Wenbo | Music: Xiao He | With: Feng Si, Ye Lan, Feng Yun, Li Yuqin, Hao Guoying, Du Huanrong, Ge Xia | Print/Sales: Beijing Yuan Qi Cultural Development Co.,LTD Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 10:00 PA4 Tue 29-1 19:00 PA3 Thu 31-1 13:00 PA4 Sat 2-2 17:00 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 19:45 CI5

Oh, the woman next door is so beautiful! 10-year-old Tiedan falls head-over-heels in love when his father forms a singing duo with ‘sister Mei from next door’. The pair achieve fame as performers of er-ren-rai, a form of mini-opera consisting of ‘oh-la-la’ texts and very popular in northwestern China. But Tiedan’s hot-tempered neighbour is not impressed, and drags his wife back home. Shortly afterwards, the Red Guards temporarily put an end to this form of entertainment in the name of the Cultural Revolution. When he’s grown up, Tiedan becomes an er-ren-rai singer of exceptional talent. And falls head-over-heels in love with all three daughters of the woman next door – one after the other. Love Songs of Tiedan is a musical comedy in a partly historical setting, with an ethnographic slant, a pinch of romance and a drop of tragedy. A film that is as wayward as it is engaging. And with an exceptional triple role for Ye Lan, who not only plays the woman next door, but also her eldest and youngest daughters.

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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 98 min, Dutch Prod: Iris Otten, Sander van Meurs, Pieter Kuijpers | Prod Comp: Pupkin Film BV | Sc: Anne Barnhoorn | Cam: Jasper Wolf | Ed: Sander Vos | Prod Des: Rikke Jelier | Sound Des: Michaël Sauvage | Music: Djurre de Haan | With: Vivian Dierickx, Abe Dijkman, Tomer Pawlicki, Jacqueline Blom, Ton Kas, Rafael Gareisen | Sales: m-appeal | Distr NL: Benelux Film Distributors | www. deontmaagdingvanevavanend.com Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 19:30 LUX Wed 30-1 20:30 PA1 Fri 1-2 11:45 CI3 Sat 2-2 13:00 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 27-1 13:00 DJZ

The very normal life of the Van End family swiftly changes thanks to the arrival of a German exchange student, who seems the perfect guy in every respect. From that day on, all members of the family get caught off balance: how could they ever have lived with all their imperfections? Mother Etty is stressed out, father Evert is a sweet guy but a weakling who can’t cope with his wife, while their three children – two teenagers and a young adult – suddenly see how far they have become removed from their ideals. They have only two weeks to reinvent themselves and their relationships. With all that this entails. This tragicomic debut is semiautobiographical – although very exaggerated. In its setting, soundtrack and absurdism, the story of the power and imperfections of family bonds is reminiscent of the films of Wes Anderson, but also of the equally crazy yet pitch-black works of Todd Solondz.

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Bright Future

Jam mot deuneun bam

My Sister’s Quinceañera

Sleepless Night Jang Kun-Jae

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Denmark, 2012 | colour, DCP, 97 min, Danish Prod: Andreas Johnsen, Kirstine Barfod | Prod Comp: KILLIT FILMS, Rosforth | Sc: Andreas Johnsen | Cam: Andreas Johnsen, Jamel Sundoo, Theis Mortensen | Ed: Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen | Sound Des: Rasmus Winther Jensen | Music: Cheff Records | Print/Sales: Rosforth Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 16:30 LUX Tue 29-1 22:15 CI1 Thu 31-1 21:45 PA5 Fri 1-2 11:30 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 09:30 CI5

Just as new feelings can drift to the surface during a stroll on hot summer night, intangible issues gradually take shape in this intimate study. Hyun-Soo and Joo-Hee have been happily married for two years, but in their innocent conversations on the sofa and in bed or in discussions with friends there are signs of discomfort. Minor irritations about unpaid overtime and of course the question of whether to have a child or not. Although the film is fairly minimalist dramatically, we can feel that a lot is at stake. The physical contact between Hyun-Soo and Joo-Hee is still tender, but a lot remains unanswered. Apart from in dreams. Then a stolen bicycle provides unexpected insights. In this film, made after his widely praised debut Eighteen (2009), Jang Kun-Jae incorporates his own personal experiences and those of his actors. Sleepless Night won the audience award at the Jeonju Festival in South Korea.

Aaron Douglas Johnston

WORLD PREMIERE

USA/Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 72 min, English Prod: Aaron Douglas Johnston | Prod Comp: Double Life Productions | Sc: Aaron Douglas Johnston | Cam: Hayo van Gemert | Ed: Xander Nijsten | Prod Des: Sanne Himmelreich, Rianne Ebeling | Sound Des: Luuk Hoogstraten | Music: Juho Nurmela, Alekos Vuskovic | With: Silas Garcia, Samantha Garcia, Becky Garcia, Elizabeth Agapito, Tanner McCulley, Nicole Streat, Josefina Garcia | Print/ Sales: Aaron Douglas Johnston Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 18:15 PA6 Tue 29-1 10:00 PA6 Thu 31-1 16:30 CI4 Sat 2-2 22:30 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 09:00 CI3

In a small industrial town in Iowa, Mexican-American Silas lives with his little sisters and brothers and mother. The father is absent. It is summer and boredom takes over. Silas wants to go to the big city, but he doesn’t have any fixed plans – he only knows he wants to leave. Even though he’s just embarked on a new romance. The family prepares for the festive celebration of the 15th birthday of Silas’ sister. The quinceañera is an important event, marking the moment when a girl becomes a woman. A beautiful dress is bought and a limousine is hired. Aaron Douglas Johnston has adopted more or less the same approach as in his debut Bumblefuck, USA: he doesn’t work with professional actors, but with people from the local community who seem to play themselves, more or less. This makes for a naturally acted, subdued feature with enchanting characters that we increasingly start to care about.

Kidd Life

I.D.

Andreas Johnsen

Kamal Karamattathil Muhammed

You only become famous once. Filmmaker Andreas Johnsen is there when Nicholas Westwood Kidd and his friends post their rap number on YouTube and rapidly become a hype in Denmark. Johnsen’s camera follows Kidd and his mates throughout a really extreme year, in which they produce, write and arrange everything themselves. They are transformed almost overnight from untrained, hard-up chaps into hugely popular stars. Johnsen records how Kidd is surprised but very happy about the hoards of teenage girls, the attention from the cultural elite and uncritical acceptance from the outside world. However, he also shows how, after a few months, Kidd is confronted by the other side of the coin: he drinks and parties too hard, and has unresolved issues to deal with. What’s more, Kidd shocks his friends and enemies alike with thoughtless comments. What are the consequences of consistently giving the world the finger? Johnsen always manages to film the crucial moments with his handheld camera: the highs, but also the very deep lows.

In this intriguing Indian merge between fiction and documentary, a cell phone serves as the catalyst through which events and encounters are reflected. Charu, a beautiful young migrant, shares an apartment with another migrant girl. Both are seeking a career in dynamic Mumbai. They are caught up in a chain of unpredictable events when a labourer painting their apartment suddenly collapses. As he has no identification on him, Charu faces a dilemma. Acting instinctively, she engages doctors, pays his medical bills and traces his identity. Led by his only possession, a cell phone, Charu’s investigation unveils lesser-known urban spaces and lifestyles that rarely get attention. Uncomfortable encounters mirror Charu’s own position as a migrant, but also address relevant issues: how do we define identity or connect with each other; what is left in us that we call a ‘humane’ attitude?

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India, 2012 | colour, DCP, 87 min, Hindi/English Prod: Kamal Karamattathil Muhammed | Prod Comp: Collective Phase One | Sc: Kamal Karamattathil Muhammed | Cam: Madhu Neelakandan | Ed: B. Ajithkumar | Prod Des: Sunil Babu | Sound Des: Resul Pookutty, Arunav Dutta | Music: John P. Varkey, Sunil Kumar | With: Geetanjali Thapa, Murari Kumar, Ruksana Tabassum, Shinjini Raval, Shashi Sharma, Alok Chaturvedi , Bachan Pachera | Print/Sales: Collective Phase One | www.idthemovie.net Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 19:45 CI1 Wed 30-1 17:30 LV3 Thu 31-1 16:45 SGZ Fri 1-2 19:15 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 21:45 CI6

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Bright Future

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Iran/France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 84 min, Farsi Prod: Bani Khoshnoudi, Christie Molia | Prod Comp: Pensee Sauvage Films, Moteur s’il vous plait (MSVP) | Sc: Bani Khoshnoudi, Nafisseh Zakeri | Cam: Shahriar Assadi | Ed: Miguel Schverdfinger | Sound Des: ClaireAnne Largeron | Music: Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides | With: Neda Razavipour, Morteza Sokhangou, Mohammad Ali Zolfaghari, Zahra Sadeghi | Print/Sales: Pensee Sauvage Films | www.ziba-film.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 18:15 PA6 Mon 28-1 11:452 CI1 Fri 1-2 17:002 LV5 Sat 2-2 16:30 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 27-1 09:30 LV5

Bright Future

Ziba

On Mother’s Head

Bani Khoshnoudi

Putu Kusuma Widjaja

Ziba is an upper-class housewife from Teheran who apparently has her life in order. Yet every day she is exhausted and feels paralysed in her daily routine. She can’t make it clear to anyone what exactly is wrong with her. When the silent Ziba and her irritated husband make a stopover on their way to the sea, they lose each other. Ziba literally gets stuck in a recently completed building owned by her husband. She kills time listening to a father and his rebellious daughter, who confides some very personal things to her, unasked. Director Bani Khoshnoudi does not so much make a portrait of Ziba, but shows through her character the suffocation experienced every day by many Iranians. Ziba is more a metaphor for the general state of oppression, alienation and imposed silence in today’s Iran, which is also referred to in the fragments of propaganda on TV and radio. Ziba results from the Cinéfondation Writing Residency at the Cannes Film Festival. Also see Scaffold in Signals: Inside Iran.

One day, grandmother Sari finds a young pig in a banana field. It’s a boar. Most villagers prefer sweeter and more obedient sows. When no one claims him, she takes him home, after which he grows up to be the most famous stud in the region. Because Grandma is getting on in years, daughter Ketut Norsy has taken on the responsibility of visiting the farmers with the pig. She also works in the building industry, carrying heavy baskets of bricks on her head. But with an unemployed husband and five children to feed, Ketut Norsy ends up having to borrow money. An unvarnished depiction of how harsh country life is on Bali. This documentary does not show the white beaches from the tourist brochures, but the troubles and drudgery that usually remain hidden from outsiders. For these three central characters – besides Grandma and daughter, there’s also granddaughter Ketut Fitry – life is primarily a question of survival.

WORLD PREMIERE

Indonesia, 2013 | colour, DCP, 94 min, Indonesian Prod: Putu Kusuma Widjaja | Prod Comp: Sang Karsa Production | Sc: Putu Kusuma Widjaja | Cam: Putu Kusuma Widjaja | Ed: Putu Kusuma Widjaja | Prod Des: Putu Kusuma Widjaja, Eti Suryani Made | Sound Des: Made Pirsawan | With: With: Ketut Norsy, Me Sari, Ketut Ardika, Gede Setiawan, Ketut Fitry, Komang Roy | Sales: Sang Karsa Production | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 21:15 PA6 Sun 27-1 14:00 CI2 Mon 28-1 16:30 CI4 Sat 2-2 09:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 14:00 CI5

Ilgugugu, myeon hue

Our Nixon

Sunshine Boys Kim Tae-Gon

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

The three best friends Sang-Won, Seung-Jun and Min-Wook all headed in different directions after secondary school. One is a student, the other is not completely ready for university and the third is in the army. One year after the graduation ceremony, Sang-Won and Seung-Jun set off to look for soldier Min-Wook. They have a Dear John letter for MinWook from his girlfriend. In the snowy village by the military barracks, they relive their friendship with the aid of lots of drink, snowballs and two prostitutes. The three boys, in many regards still novices, lose money, a camera and part of their innocence. Kim Tae-Gon finds a subtle balance between melancholy and humour in this Korean coming-of-age drama with a laugh (when all kinds of things go wrong for the clumsy kids) and a tear (when one of them is disillusioned about one more thing).

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Penny Lane

WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2013 | colour/b&w, video, 85 min, English Prod: Penny Lane, Brian Frye | Prod Comp: Dipper Films | Ed: Francisco Bello | Sound Des: Tom Paul | Music: Hrishikesh Hirway | Print/Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH | www.ournixon.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:45 CI1 Tue 29-1 19:15 LV1 Thu 31-1 11:45 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 16:00 CI5

Through an aquaintance, filmmaker Penny Lane came across a real treasure hidden away in an American archive: hours of amateur footage of Richard Nixon during his presidency, shot by three of his closest staff. Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, advisor John Ehrlichman and assistant Dwight Chapin were all enthusiastic amateur filmmakers, and recorded their work in the White House and much further afield for posterity on Super-8 film, even including a historic visit to Communist China (Nixon was the first US president to go there). Lane was able to have the film digitised thanks to a campaign on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform, and plans to make the entire archive available online. Although it also includes unique personal footage (such as the wedding of Nixon’s daughter), Lane’s film mainly follows the political story: from Nixon’s inauguration in 1969 to his resignation in 1974 after the Watergate scandal – as a result of which all three amateur filmmakers were convicted.

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Bright Future

Melaza

Leones

Molasses Carlos Lechuga

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Cuba/France/Panama, 2012 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Spanish Prod: Claudia Calvino, Samuel Chauvin | Prod Comp: Producciones de la 5ta Avenida, Promenades Films | Sc: Carlos Lechuga | Cam: Ernesto Calzado, Luis Franco | Ed: Luis Ernesto Doñas | Sound Des: Ruben Valdes | Music: Jesus Cruz | With: Yuliet Cruz, Armando Miguel Gomez, Lucho Gotti, Ana Gloria Buduen, Yaite Ruiz | Print/Sales: Latinofusion Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 16:45 LV1 Wed 30-1 12:00 LV2 Thu 31-1 09:30 PA2 Fri 1-2 19:45 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 11:30 CI4

In the Cuban village of Melaza, named after the once flourishing sugarcane fields, time stands still. Even when all kinds of things happen, nothing ever changes. The State pretends to take care of everything, but it shuts the rum factory and makes swimming lessons impossible. There’s no use complaining, think the inhabitants, that’s just how it is. Melaza is the heartwarming love story of Aldo and Monica, a photogenic couple who live in a much too small cottage with their fat daughter and grumpy grandma. They try very hard to earn some extra money. Their attempts finally get the couple into deeper and deeper trouble. But together, the lovers manage to pull through it. New talent Carlos Lechuga tells his critical story with humour and sparse dialogue, taking us on a journey to the beauties of rural Cuba. Far from the hotels and from Havana, but with a reality familiar to everyone who has ever been to Cuba – or faced a shortage of cash.

Jazmín López

Argentina/France/ Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Spanish Prod: Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli | Prod Comp: Rei Cine SRL | Sc: Jazmín López | Cam: Matías Mesa | Ed: Benjamin Domenech, Jazmín López | Prod Des: Barbi Arcuschin | Sound Des: Julia Huberman | With: Julia Volpato, Pablo Sigal, Macarena del Corro, Diego Vegezzi, Tomás Mackinlay | Print/Sales: Premium Films Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 19:15 CI4 Wed 30-1 21:45 CI6 Thu 31-1 15:45 PA5 Fri 1-2 16:30 CI4

Tang huang you di fu

To agori troi to fagito tou pouliou

Emperor Visits the Hell Li Luo

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Good stories are timeless and easily allow themselves to be told centuries later. This also applies for the novel Journey to the West, written during the Ming Dynasty (16th century). For Emperor Visits the Hell, Li Luo transplanted three chapters to modern China. The protagonists are now bureaucrats, party bosses and gangsters. In this modern adaptation, Emperor Li Shimin is a leader with a mysterious government post. When the criminal Dragon King tries to manipulate the weather for a wager and calls down on him the wrath of the heavenly messenger, he intervenes. But he finds himself between the devil and the deep blue sea and is fatally wounded. On his deathbed, he is plagued by the ghost of the Dragon King, a curse that can only be undone by paying a price to the underworld. This low-budget political satire was a great hit at the Vancouver International Film Festival, where the film won the Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema.

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A young woman walks along a winding path through a dark forest. The camera follows her very closely. On the soundtrack, the cheerful chirping of birds competes with the rustling of the wind through the treetops. ‘Sofi!?’ the girl calls when four shadows loom in the distance. ‘Isa?!’ is the answer. ‘Where are you?’ The five of them walk on through the forest, searching and feeling their way. The young people kiss, squabble and try to frighten each other (‘I see dead people!’). One boy has recording equipment, another has a gun. On the way, their mutual relationships become clearer. And we find out exactly where the journey is leading them. The existentialist, visually stunning and auditively overwhelming Leones is the feature debut by the Argentine Jazmín López. She developed the meticulous script partly at the Binger Institute. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and co-produced by the Dutch company Lemming Film.

Boy Eating the Bird’s Food Ektoras Lygizos

Greece, 2012 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Greek Prod: Yorgos Karnavas | Prod Comp: Stefi Productions | Sc: Ektoras Lygizos | Cam: Dimitris Kassimatis | Ed: Gregory Rentis | Prod Des: Klio Boboti, Yorgos Liokalos | Sound Des: Dimitris Kanelopoulos | With: Yannis Papadopoulos, Lila Baklesi, Kleopatra Peraki, Vangelis Kommatas, Charalambos Goyios | Print/Sales: Premium Films Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 18:002 CI4 Tue 29-1 09:302 PA7 1-2 22:152 LV1 Fri 2-2 12:30 LV3 Sat

The draconian austerity measures recently imposed in Greece as the country teeters on the verge of national insolvency give Boy Eating the Bird’s Food an exceptional relevance. Nevertheless, this update of Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger (1890) is more existential drama than political statement – even with a countertenor (the current euphemism for eunuch) in the lead role and hunger as its omnipresent theme. Alienated from his friends and family, Yorgos lives in a bare flat in Athens. He scours litter bins, steals the odd crumb from his neighbours and eats the seeds intended for his only companion, a canary that sings its heart out regardless. His only contact with the outside world is his stalking of an attractive hotel receptionist. When he is evicted from his flat, he is left with nothing at all. Boy Eating the Bird’s Food is raw, realistic and oppressive in tone, unlike the stylised absurdism of recent Greek Weird Wave cinema. This debut, reminiscent of Dostoyevsky and Camus, is already a proven festival hit.

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Bright Future

Wadjda

Callgirl

Haifaa Al Mansour

Call Girl Mikael Marcimain

Wadjda (10) lives with her parents in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Despite her conservative surroundings, Wadjda is a playful child who regularly takes things to the limit. When the girl wants a beautiful green bicycle, her mother is opposed to it: what would people around them think? Cycling is not a suitable pastime for a girl. Wadjda doesn’t care and decides to save the money herself. Her mother, who is distracted by her husband’s desire to take a second wife, hardly realises what plans – often very unsuitable – her daughter thinks up to earn money. Haifaa Al Mansour, regarded as the first female filmmaker from Saudi Arabia, tells an intimate story about a girl with big dreams. Wadjda stands for many girls and women from Saudi Arabia. The drama offers a glimpse of a society that is otherwise closed, with universal and familiar themes such as hope, courage and perseverance.

Stockholm, 1976. While politicians talk about liberalising the laws on incest and paedophilia, 14-year-old Iris finds herself in a reception centre. There she meets a girl who works for a ‘madam’ with clients in the highest circles. Iris is soon a popular call girl herself. The feature debut by Mikael Marcimain is based on a true scandal (in which Prime Minister Olof Palme also played a role) that was brushed under the carpet for a long time by Swedish authorities. But the film is about more than political intrigue; it also makes the hypocrisy of the free and easy 1970s painfully clear. It’s fairly obvious that Marcimain was directing assistant on Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The films share a cool tension and an incredible eye for detail. Cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema – who also shot Alfredson’s films – captured the atmosphere reminiscent of paranoia thrillers like All the President’s Men.

Sweden/Ireland/Norway/ Finland, 2012 | colour, DCP, 140 min, Swedish/English Prod: Mimmi Spång | Prod Comp: Garagefilm International AB | Sc: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten | Cam: Hoyte van Hoytema | Ed: Kristofer Nordin | Prod Des: Lina Nordqvist, Michael Higgins | Sound Des: Petter Fladeby, Per Nyström | Music: Mattias Bärjed | With: Pernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J. Berger, Sven Nordin, David Dencik, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Josefin Asplund, Magnus Krepper, Kristoffer Joner | Sales: TrustNordisk | Distr NL: Lumière Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 13:00 LUX Sat 26-1 21:30 PA2 Wed 30-1 15:30 PA2 Fri 1-2 19:15 LV1

F*ck for Forest

Hassel – Privatspanarna Roland Hassel Måns Månsson

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Sweden, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 74 min, Swedish Prod: Charlotte Most | Prod Comp: Anagram Produktion AB | Sc: Måns Månsson | Cam: Måns Månsson | Ed: George Cragg | Prod Des: Jovanna Remaeus Jönson | Sound Des: Patrik Strömdahl | Music: Anders Neglin, Louis Hackett | With: Lars-Erik Berenett, Mats Stoltz, Nils-Anders Ekberg, Anders Khemi, Claes-Håkan Carlsson, Sune Persson, Micke Frisell | Print/ Sales: Anagram Produktion AB | www.anagram.se/projekt/hassel Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:30 PA2 Sat 26-1 13:302 PA3 Wed 30-1 20:152 LV3 Sat 2-2 22:302 LV3

Swedish prime minister Olaf Palme was assassinated in 1986. The detective series Hassel – a precursor to Wallander and the Millenium trilogy – began the same year. In his feature debut, Måns Månsson interweaves these historic events to create an inventive mix of fiction and documentary. Retired detective Roland Hassel reemerges for one last job: to solve the murder of Olaf Palme. Hassel rounds up his (not all equally competent) assistants to re-examine every tiny detail and re-play all the cards. The investigation turns into an exciting hunt that exudes the tacky atmosphere of the 1980s. The film looks like a faded VHS tape, with LarsErik Berenett, the original TV Hassel, shining in the lead role. Månsson reopens a wound in the Swedish psyche with a reflective film that is both funny and serious. Putting Hassel on the Palme case is like calling in Columbo to investigate the murder of JFK.

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42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Michal Marczak

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Poland, 2012 | colour, DCP, 85 min, English/German/ Spanish/Norwegian Prod: Mikolaj Pokromski | Prod Comp: Pokromski Studio Warsaw | Sc: Michal Marczak, Lukasz Grudzinski | Cam: Michal Marczak | Ed: Dorota Wardeszkiewicz | Music: Marcin Masecki | Print/Sales: Dogwoof Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:45 PA3 Fri 25-1 12:30 PA2 Sat 26-1 14:00 CI4 Fri 1-2 19:30 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 09:15 LV6

Danny, a roaming twenty-something from Norway, moves in with neohippies in Berlin. His new housemates form a group that campaigns on behalf of nature through ‘ecoporn’. Surrounded by old-school clouds of incense and guitar music, they film their sexual exploits and then publish the films on their activist website. Visitors to the site pay to watch the films and the group uses the money to save rainforests. For this documentary, Marczak follows these extremely serious ‘erotic activists’ in Berlin and on their trips to Colombia and Peru, from which the well-intentioned hippies return rather disillusioned. The protagonists are introduced in a dryly comic voice-over that subtly confirms all the stereotypes. As do the protagonists themselves, who make coffee topless, incessantly smoke joints and say such things as: ‘I really like your energy level.’ Free love meets altruism meets twenty-first-century campaigning.

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Bright Future

Qiong Ren, Liu Lian, Ma Yao, Tou Du Ke

Foudre

Midi Z is one of the most promising talents in Asian cinema. A year ago, he presented Return to Burma, a tragicomic film about a povertystricken country where everything revolves around money. Poor Folk embroiders forth on this theme. The sister of protagonist A-Hong falls into the hands of human traffickers. He travels to Bangkok and starts life as a hustler. With other illegal Burmese, he rips off Chinese tourists and sells raw materials for amphetamines to heavily-armed gangsters. Once he earns enough money to buy his sister free, the trail leading to the traffickers has gone cold. Then he comes into contact with San Mei, a prostitute who mediates for the crooks in exchange for a promised residence permit. Poor Folk has all the ingredients for a crime film, but is primarily about uprooting and alienation. In the lengthy wide-angle shots, sadness and unexpected humour always simmer under the surface.

Lyrical, multiform essay about one of the most fascinating natural phenomena: lightning. In four chapters linked to the four seasons, the documentary maker looks for the meaning and influence of lightning. In chapter one, Autumn, lightningchaser Baal talks about his passion, and five victims describe their experiences, which are not purely negative. In Winter, we look at the healing effects of electricity with a psychiatrist who uses electric shocks. Spring stands for myths, articulated by an archaeologist and seer working in Syria; he talks for instance about the magical effects of the Kama truffle, which can be found once a year thanks to lightning. In Summer, love that strikes like lightning is portrayed in a poetic costume drama about two lovers on an island. Contemplative voiceovers and impressive images of inaccessible nature link the four parts; a tour de force which took over ten years to complete.

Lightning Manuela Morgaine

Poor Folk Midi Z

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Taiwan/Myanmar, 2012 | colour, DCP, 105 min, Mandarin/Thai Prod: Midi Z, Patrick Mao Huang | Prod Comp: Seashore Image Productions, Flash Forward Entertainment | Sc: Midi Z | Cam: Midi Z | Ed: Midi Z, Lin Sheng-wen | Sound Des: Chou Chen | Music: Sonic Deadhorse | With: Wang Shin-hong, Wu Ke-xi, Zhao De-fu, Zheng Meng-lan | Sales: Flash Forward Entertainment | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 18:15 PA6 Wed 30-1 14:30 LV2 Thu 31-1 16:30 CI6 Fri 1-2 12:00 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 13:45 CI5

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France, 2013 | colour, DCP, 230 min, French Prod: Mathieu Bompoint | Prod Comp: Mezzanine Films | Sc: Manuela Morgaine | Cam: Manuela Morgaine, Pauline Lormant, Giovanni Laniado, Hervé Labourdette | Ed: Gordana Othnin-Girard, Pauline Lormant | Music: Philippe Langlois, Emmanuel Hosseyn During | Print/Sales: Mezzanine Films | www.babeldoor.com/foudre Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 19:15 CI6 Fri 25-1 11:30 CI6 Mon 28-1 09:45 CI7

Bassa marea

Kayan

Low Tide Roberto Minervini

USA/Italy/Belgium, 2012 | colour, DCP, 92 min, Italian Prod: Roberto Minervini, Denise Lee, Luigina Smerilli, João Leite | Prod Comp: Pulpa, Ondarossa Film, Poliana Productios | Sc: Roberto Minervini | Cam: Diego Romero | Ed: MarieHélène Dozo | Prod Des: Roberto Minervini | Sound Des: Julian McKenna | With: Daniel Blanchard, Melissa McKinney, Vernon Wilbanks | Print/Sales: Doc & Film International Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 14:00 CI6 Sun 27-1 09:30 PA7 Thu 31-1 21:45 SGZ Fri 1-2 13:45 CI6

Low Tide is the documentary-like story of a 12-year-old boy who lives in a trailer with his mother who uses drugs and alcohol. He cares for and helps his mother in a loving and matter-of-fact way, despite her total lack of attention for him. The days pass in boredom – his mother is at her job in a nursing home or in the bar and his only friends are the animals he finds in and around the trailer. Nature gives him answers to the questions of life, but as the film progresses it becomes clear that there are major differences between human and animal society. Roberto Minervini shot his film with non-professional actors – including the angelic Daniel Blanchard as the nameless boy. Just like the raw camera work, the natural lighting and the basic soundtrack, this contributes significantly to the credibility and intimacy of this subdued drama.

Maryam Najafi

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The Iranian-born Maryam Najafi, now living in Canada, was obliged to live in many different countries. She takes her inspiration from the places where she has been and the people whom she has met. With a cast of non-professional actors, the lively Kayan shows how a Lebanese restaurant is a safe haven for immigrants from all over the world. Its owner, Hanin, is at the centre. Every day, she bravely dons her high heels to face up to all worries, with hardly any time left for her two teenage daughters, who sometimes fall asleep among the guests. Hanin yearns for a shoulder to lean on, but her boyfriend only reports in on her cell phone. While a flamenco orchestra provides a new musical atmosphere, Hanin wonders whether she should answer the advances of a recent arrival from Iran. This first full-length feature of Najafi’s shared a New Currents Award at Busan.

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Bright Future

Miryoku no ningen

Diego Star

The Charm of Others Ninomiya Ryutaro

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Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 89 min, Japanese Prod: Ninomiya Ryutaro | Sc: Ninomiya Ryutaro | Cam: Nishimura Yosuke | Ed: Ninomiya Ryutaro | Music: Pot au feu | With: Hosokawa Yoshitaka, Ninomiya Ryutaro, Ashihara Kensuke, Udagawa Daisuke, Minagawa Keisuke | Print/Sales: PIA Film Festival Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 22:00 CI1 Fri 25-1 10:15 PA3 Sat 26-1 19:30 LV5 Tue 29-1 16:30 LV6 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 14:15 CI5

Frédérick Pelletier THE BIG SCREEN AWARD COMPETITION

Hyper-realistic, comic drama about a group of workers in a small Japanese vending-machine factory. The young men gossip in their grubby canteen about women and each other. In order to drive out the boredom, they play soccer on the colourless industrial site. The relationships do not entirely run smoothly: ‘senior’ employee Takahashi enjoys making his colleague Yoda feel every day that he is at the bottom of the ladder. Yoda barely reacts. In the meantime, Sakata, a cheerful kid, tries in vain to make friends with the taciturn Yoda. This ensemble film shows in a dryly comic way the everyday lives of these so very normal Japanese kids, who still have one foot in childhood, but need to make choices as adults. The director himself plays the lead of the charming Sakata, who closely observes his colleagues. As he does in the role of filmmaker: his clear gaze soon reveals how it all fits together.

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Canada/Belgium, 2013 | colour, DCP, 91 min, French/ English/Russian Prod: Sylvain Corbeil, Pascal Bascaron, Nancy Grant, Marion Hänsel | Prod Comp: Metafilms inc., Man’s Films Productions | Sc: Frédérick Pelletier | Cam: Philippe Roy | Ed: MarieHélène Dozo | Prod Des: Marjorie Rhéaume | Sound Des: Frédéric Cloutier | With: Issaka Sawadogo, Chloé Bourgeois, Yassine Fadel, Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Nicole-Sylvie Lagarde, Marie-Claude Guérin | Print/Sales: FiGa Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 18:45 PA5 Sat 26-1 14:00 PA1 Mon 28-1 21:45 LV1 Fri 1-2 19:30 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 16:00 CI5

Nordvest

The Russian cargo ship on which African engineer Traoré works (Issaka Sawadogo, seen last year in Nicolas Provost’s The Invader), strands off the coast of a wintry Canada. Traoré is held responsible for the engine failure. Wrongfully, claims the mechanic: the engine was far too old. While the Canadian authorities investigate what really happened, the multicultural crew of the ship is housed with the local population. Traoré finds himself with Fanny, a single mother who wants to use this opportunity to earn some money on the side. At first she keeps her distance, but soon the lanky African wins her over with his gentle character. But then Traoré is sacked. He’s out in the cold, 10,000 kilometres from home. Diego Star is a beautifully-filmed social realistic drama about a world in which workers are regarded as collateral damage. Humanity flickers within this harrowing injustice. But is that enough? Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

Die Welt

Northwest Michael Noer

Alex Pitstra THE BIG SCREEN AWARD COMPETITION

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Denmark, 2013 | colour, DCP, 96 min, Danish Prod: Tomas Radoor, René Ezra | Prod Comp: Nordisk Film A/S | Sc: Rasmus Heisterberg, Michael Noer | Cam: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck | Ed: Adam Nielsen | Prod Des: Thomas Greve | Sound Des: Kasper Janus Rasmussen, Rasmus Winther Jensen | With: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Lene Maria Christensen, Nicholas Westwood Kidd, Roland Møller, Dulfi Al-Jaburi | Print: Danish Film Institute | Sales: TrustNordisk Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 21:00 PA5 Tue 29-1 13:15 PA1 Wed 30-1 19:30 LUX Sat 2-2 22:15 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 11:30 PA5

Michael Noer is fascinated by the Danish underworld. After the prison drama R (a Tiger Awards competitor in 2010), he has now made another rugged, adrenaline-fuelled crime drama in which disputes are settled by violence. 18-year-old Caspar wants to reach the top, no matter what. He carries out small-time break-ins for Jamal, before moving on to work for big player Björn. All goes well, until Jamal’s gang decide they want revenge. What starts with pushing and shoving soon escalates into armed conflict. This is a big test for Caspar: is he ruthless enough for this battle? And will he drag his younger brother into it? Noer, who wrote the screenplay himself, sets up a tense plot emphasizing the grim psychology of criminals. His background as a documentary maker shows in the style, reminiscent of socialrealism, with the camera constantly moving and the characters in merciless close-ups. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Arabic/English/Dutch Prod: Alex Pitstra | Prod Comp: Alex Pitstra Media | Sc: Alex Pitstra, Thijs Gloger, Abdallah Rezgui | Cam: Thijs Gloger | Ed: Alex Pitstra, Thijs Gloger, René Duursma | Prod Des: Mourad Negri | Sound Des: Renger Koning | Music: Renger Koning | With: Abdelhamid Nawara, Mohsen Ben Hassen, Rahma Ben Hassen, Ilse Heus | Print/Sales: Alex Pitstra Media | www.dieweltfilm.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 21:00 PA7 Sun 27-1 12:15 PA6 Mon 28-1 14:15 CI1 Thu 31-1 19:15 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 17:45 DJZ Tue 29-1 13:00 CI5

A young DVD seller in Tunesia named Abdallah tries to make ends meet in a society caught in a vacuum between democracy and dictatorship. It is 2011, shortly after the Jasmine Revolution and jobs are all but non-existent. Abdallah’s friends dream of Europe and its wealth, telling success stories about acquaintances in the rich West. But Addallah’s father, who was once a ‘guest worker’ in the Netherlands, tells a different story. ‘That world’, as he calls Europe, has had its day. Nevertheless, Abdallah’s frustration with life in Tunisia grows and after meeting a Dutch tourist, he cautiously starts to dream of a future in Europe. This contemporary fiction intertwines the personal anecdotes and perspective of the half-Dutch Tunisian filmmaker with stories from members of his family. Pitstra’s hybrid, documentarylike style provides colourful, realistic images of everyday life in the region.

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Bright Future

Towheads

WORLD PREMIERE

Dakujem, dobre

Shannon Plumb

Fine, Thanks Mátyás Prikler

Hauling stuffed baby carriages up rotting steps, a carpet of cornflakes on the floor after breakfast and no construction workers whistling at you any more – these are familiar issues for every young mother. New York video artist and filmmaker Shannon Plumb gives us a slapstick version of the vicissitudes of mother Penelope (played by Plumb herself). Torn between professional and artistic satisfaction and activities at home that consume time and energy, Penelope tries a variety of strategies. Would a more male attitude give her more empowerment? Or is a pole-dancing course the answer in this feminist issue? Plumb uses the physical humour of film legends such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin and her very expressive face as stylistic devices. Her whole family more or less plays themselves, including Plumb’s husband Derek Cianfrance (director of Blue Valentine) as the often-absent man of the house.

A realistic drama about a company in which everyone is hit by the financial crisis. In three main stories, we follow different Slovaks who wrestle with everyday worries and issues such as alcoholism, divorce and family dramas. For instance Miroslav, the boss, has to deal with problems in his company and at home. The lonely old Béla resists his adult children’s plan to put him in a nursing home. Béla’s sacked son Atilla refuses to see the consequences of his imminent divorce. A wedding finally brings all the characters together. It becomes an evening filled with misery, but also with hope of a better future. Director Mátyás Prikler and scriptwriter Marek Lešcák made this film based on events which they saw around them. Precisely because of the authentic story, they decided to use documentary methods; they filmed without extra lighting, with simple handheld cameras and a small crew.

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Slovakia, 2013 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 130 min, Slovak/Hungarian Prod: Mátyás Prikler | Prod Comp: MPhilms | Sc: Marek Lešcák, Mátyás Prikler | Cam: Peter Balcar, Milan Balog | Ed: Maro lapeta, Zuzana Cséplo | Prod Des: Erika Gadus | Sound Des: Du an Kozák | With: Attila Mokos, Miroslav Krobot, Béla Várady, Vladimír Ob il, Zuzana Mauréry, Jana Olhová, István Olasz | Print/ Sales: MPhilms | www.finethanks.sk Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 18:30 PA2 Sun 27-1 21:30 CI4 Mon 28-1 21:45 PA4 Thu 31-1 14:30 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 10:00 DWBZ

Ma belle gosse

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Frankenstein’s Army

My Blue Eyed Girl Shalimar Preuss

Richard Raaphorst

Seventeen-year-old Maden spends the summer in her family’s holiday home with her (half-) brothers and sisters. The days pass in lazy peace and quiet, with games, visits to the beach and secret bunkers in the dunes, lounging in the garden and the usual family quarrels born of petty squabbling. It slowly becomes clear that the maturing young woman is conducting a romantic correspondence with a much older, male inmate of a nearby prison. Initially, only her half-brother Vadim knows about this, but it is not long before everyone is aware of it. This raises tensions and acts as a catalyst for simmering irritations. The natural way this film comes across is aided by the use of a hand-held camera, filming with existing light and sound only, and the natural performances of the child actors in particular, whose ages range from five to seventeen years.

Toward the end of WWII, Russian soldiers break into the caves of a secret Nazi laboratory where insane experiments are performed in order to give Hitler total victory. Frankenstein’s Army starts as a foundfootage film with handheld fragments in various formats (filled with scratches and scorch marks) made by a Russian film student at the orders of Stalin. Gradually this WWII variation on The Blair Witch Project changes into a bloody, very filthy ‘Ten Little Niggers’ pastiche, in which one Iron-CurtainEnglish-speaking soldier after the other meets a sticky end. Richard Raaphorst worked for over ten years on his Nazi zombie project, initially under the title ‘Worst Case Scenario’. Raaphorst wrote the script with Chris W. Mitchell (Süskind) and Miguel Tejada-Flores (Beyond Re-Animator). For the cast, he managed to persuade Karel Roden (Hellboy) and Alexander Mercury (The Golden Compass), among others.

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Netherlands/Czech Republic/USA, 2013 | colour, video, 86 min, English Prod: Nick Jongerius | Prod Comp: Pellicola | Sc: Chris W. Mitchell, Miguel Tejada-Flores | Cam: Bart Beekman | Ed: Jasper Verhorevoort | Prod Des: Jindrich Kocí | Sound Des: Luis Flores | With: Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury | Print/Sales: MPI Media Group | www.frankensteinsarmy.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 18:30 PA4 Mon 28-1 22:152 CI1 Fri 1-2 21:302 PA2 Sat 2-2 22:302 LUX Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:45 CI5 Tue 29-1 22:30 PA2

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Bright Future

Syngué sabour

5 Jahre

In an unnamed country – that has all the characteristics of today’s Afghanistan – a young woman cares for her older husband, who is in a coma. He was shot during the fighting. She looks after their two young daughters and protects his motionless body against advancing militias. Meanwhile, she speaks increasingly openly to her husband, who was an oppressor when he was still healthy. She sees him more and more as the ‘patience stone’ from ancient Persian legend, to which you told all your secrets and sins before it broke, and in doing so delivered you from your guilty feelings. Atiq Rahimi’s film, based on his own book (which won the prestigious French Prix Goncourt), focuses continuously on the strong young woman, played with magnetic power by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani. The woman’s confessions sketch an open-hearted and revealing picture of this male-dominated society.

Turkish-German Murat Kurnaz was held from 2001 to 2006 in American detention camps in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. He was 19 when, as a fresh convert to Islam, he was on a pilgrimage to Pakistan and was promptly arrested on suspicion of terrorism. 5 Years is based on true events and tells his story: how he was tortured and interrogated continuously and mercilessly at Guantánamo Bay. The film concentrates on the harsh struggle between Kurnaz and his American interrogator, Gail Holford, who tries to win his trust in order to get him to confess, while the physical and psychological torture goes on. It cost Kurnaz enormous willpower to maintain his innocence under this pressure. Stefan Schaller chooses to seldom show the violence explicitly. He lets the imagination of the viewer do the work, which makes the horror of Kurnaz’s detention even more insistent.

The Patience Stone Atiq Rahimi

Mexico, 2012 | colour, DCP, 84 min, Spanish Prod: Paola Herrera, Fernando Delgado | Prod Comp: Una Comunión | Sc: Enrique Rivero, Aleka Rivero | Cam: Arnau Valls Colomer | Ed: Enrique Rivero, Javier Ruiz Caldera | Prod Des: Christopher Lagunes | Sound Des: Jose Muguel Enriquez | Music: Alejandro de Icaza | With: Margarita Saldaña, Amalia Salas, Juan Chirinos | Print/Sales: RAMONDAParis Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:30 CI4 Sat 26-1 10:15 PA7 Tue 29-1 11:30 CI6 Wed 30-1 14:00 CI6

5 Years Stefan Schaller

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Germany, 2013 | colour, DCP, 95 min, German/English Prod: Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach | Prod Comp: teamWorx Television & Film GmbH | Sc: Stefan Schaller | Cam: Armin Franzen | Ed: Simon Blasi | Prod Des: Julian Wagner | Music: Enik | With: Sascha A. Gersak, Ben Miles | Print/Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:45 PA7 Sat 26-1 11:30 CI6 Thu 31-1 16:45 LUX Sat 2-2 11:15 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 10:45 PA6

Mai morire

Big Boy

Enrique Rivero

Shireen Seno

Following on from the thriller plot and sting in the tail of his debut Parque vía, Enrique Rivero takes a different path in Mai morire. The minimal style remains, but this time there is no rigid structure. And this perfectly suits this meditative reflection on the passing of time and (ritually) taking leave from a loved one. Chayo, a middle-aged Mexican woman, hears that her mother is dying. She returns to her native village, via the waterways of Xochimilco, and takes on the everyday chores. She does the housework, is reunited with her husband and two children and prepares for the inevitable. Using sparse interraction and sparing dialogue, Rivero proves that he is able to tell a story with few narrative means. The drama is equally revealed in the lovely wide-screen images of fields, rivers, trees and distant mountain ranges. In combination with a dreamy soundtrack, these are beautiful metaphors for Chayo’s emotions, which seem calm on the surface, but underneath are raging. Pure poetry.

Shot on Super-8, the feature debut by visual artist Shireen Seno shows authentic-looking images of a family on the Philippine island of Mindoro in the middle of the last century. The ‘big boy’ from the title is Julio, a boy who is pulled from both ends every day in order to stretch him. His growth has to provide evidence of the effect of a growth serum that his parents sell. In the aftermath of World War II, the family finds a parachute with American goods, such as cans of food. In the former US colony, the discovery leads to an obsession with the American Dream – the dream of a different and better life. Seno shows that the idea of typically close-knit family life in the Philippines is a myth. And the memories she portrays of a Filipino past are not only nostalgic, but also about the violence often hidden just below the surface.

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Philippines, 2012 | colour, video, 89 min, Tagalog Prod: John Torres, Ronald Arguelles | Prod Comp: ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc. | Sc: Shireen Seno | Cam: Gym Lumbera, Shireen Seno | Ed: Shireen Seno, John Torres | Prod Des: Niki de los Reyes Torres | Sound Des: Teresa Barrozo, Manuel Nicolas Alvero | With: Ian Lomongo, Pam Miras, John Lloyd Evangelista | Print/ Sales: ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc. | www.bigboylovesyou.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 20:00 CI7 Sun 27-1 09:30 PA2 Mon 28-1 19:30 LV5 Fri 1-2 14:30 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 12:00 CI5

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Bright Future

Errors of the Human Body

Ixjana Józef Skolimowski, Michal Skolimowski

Eron Sheean

Germany/Australia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 101 min, English Prod: Darryn Welch | Prod Comp: Instinctive Film GmbH | Sc: Eron Sheean, Shane Danielsen | Cam: Anna Howard | Ed: Patrick Wilfert | Prod Des: Karin Betzler | Sound Des: Patrick Giraudi | Music: Anthony Pateras, Christan Meyer | With: Geoffrey Burton, Michael Eklund, Rebekka Fiedler, Karoline Herfurth, Jarek Novak, Tómas Lemarquis | Print/ Sales: MPI Media Group | www. errorsofthehumanbody.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 21:45 PA5 Sun 27-1 22:00 CI1 Fri 1-2 22:15 LUX Sat 2-2 19:15 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 11:15 CI2

Eron Sheenan spent six years as an artistin-residence at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He has written a grim suspense drama about the moral implications of genetic manipulation. Where is the boundary between science and ethics? Can a scientist allow his personal life to intrude into his work? Michael Eklund puts in a strong performance as Geoff Burton, an American geneticist doing stem cell research in Dresden. He is close to making a medical breakthrough, causing tensions with his colleagues to build. Then Burton also discovers a deadly virus – of which he is the first carrier. Burton undergoes a degenerative process that is not only physically painful but also takes an incredible psychological toll. As tumours and boils rage across his body, he is reminded of the terrifying death of his son, caused by a genetic mutation. The fine boundary it explores between science and madness, and its morbid horror atmosphere, mean Sheean’s eagerly anticipated debut can justifiably be compared to David Cronenberg’s classic The Fly.

Poland, 2012 | colour, DCP, 98 min, Polish Prod: Jacek Samojlowicz | Prod Comp: Film Media S.A | Sc: Michal Skolimowski, Józef Skolimowski | Cam: Adam Sikora | Ed: Jaroslaw Pietraszek | Prod Des: Katarzyna Boczek | Sound Des: Bartosz Putkiewicz | Music: Józef Skolimowski | With: Sambor Czarnota, Borys Szyc, Magdalena Boczarska, Ewa Hornich, Lukasz Simlat, Anna Derezowska, Jan Frycz | Print/Sales: Premium Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 21:45 CI4 Sun 27-1 13:15 PA3 Fri 1-2 21:45 CI6 Sat 2-2 20:00 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 11:15 DJZ

Vergiss mein nicht

Ji yi wang zhe wo

Four years ago he could already see the first signs, reflects David Sieveking in his very personal documentary portrait of his mother, Gretel (73). The many notes as reminders, the Christmas gift she forgot. Now he has come back to record how Gretel and his father, Malte, a retired mathematician, face up to her advancing Alzheimer’s. In the 1960s, Gretel and Malte were active in the student movement and had an open relationship. Their bond only just survived, and is now put to the test again by other factors. David experiences how difficult it is to care for his mother, but the question of whether a nursing home would be better is painful and hard to answer. They visit old haunts and Malte wonders whether he should have been there more for her. There are sides to Gretel that he only now discovers. Forget Me Not was named best film at the Critics’ Week in Locarno.

Song Fang is the protagonist in her own soberly filmed docudrama, in which she returns from Beijing to the house of her parents in Nanjing. The film is largely set indoors, where Song shares everyday life and many memories with her parents, sister-inlaw, brother and niece. Song is always on screen as they talk about relatives living and dead, about more or less successful careers, about old friends, illnesses and accidents, funerals and weddings. A young niece, Diandian, makes disarming comments that provide a lighter note. Between the conversations – that often take place around food – and rare excursions, we catch a glimpse of changing Chinese society. It is obvious that the norms and values of the older generation are being devalued, but that some deep-rooted traditions will probably continue for a very long time. Memories Look at Me received the Best First Feature prize in Locarno.

Forget Me Not David Sieveking

Germany, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 88 min, German Prod: Martin Heisler, Carl-Ludwig Rettinger | Prod Comp: Lichtblick Media GmbH, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH | Sc: David Sieveking | Cam: Adrian Stähli | Ed: Catrin Vogt | Sound Des: Björn Wiese | Music: Jessica de Rooij | Print/ Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH | www.vergissmeinnicht-film.de Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:15 CI2 Wed 30-1 11:30 CI4 Fri 1-2 09:15 CI1 Sat 2-2 10:00 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 16:30 CI7

The second film by the Skolimowski brothers, the sons of filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (Essential Killing) who was honoured in 2009 in Rotterdam with a retrospective. One of them, Józef Skolimowski, died in 2012 in India. The film is a dark and expressive glimpse into the soul of a young man plagued by guilty feelings. Faustian references and occult elements are amplified by the ominous soundtrack, written by Józef. The writer Marek has completed a successful debut novel, but is tormented by the memories of his best friend, Arthur, who was found dead in the garden after an extravagant costume ball in the villa of Marek’s publisher. What happened on that night filled with drink and drugs? And what was Marek’s role? He seeks advice from a soothsayer, the girl he and Arthur once quarrelled about. A mysterious figure with a black goatee beard also offers help. However, it comes at a price.

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Memories Look at Me Song Fang

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Bright Future

90 Minutter

Yang tidak dibicarakan ketika membicarakan cinta

90 Minutes Eva Sørhaug

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Russia, 2013 | colour, DCP, 90 min, Russian Prod: Sofiko Kiknavelidze | Prod Comp: White Mirror Film Company | Sc: Andrey Stempkovsky | Cam: Dmitry Ulyukaev | Ed: Natalia Strakhova | Prod Des: Anton Polikarpov | Sound Des: Stanislav Mikheev | With: Alexander Plaksin, Darya Ekamasova, Eugeniy Tkachuk, Juris Laucinsh | Print/ Sales: White Mirror Film Company Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 15:30 PA2 Wed 30-1 21:30 PA7 Fri 1-2 17:00 LUX Sat 2-2 22:00 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 21:45 DJZ

What happens in the last 90 minutes before a person commits murder? This is the central question in this trilogy of stories about men who mask frustration, emasculation and loss of face with violence. In an objective style, directorscreenwriter Eva Sørhaug weaves the three stories together as musical variations on a theme. The story of the businessman Johan, who arranges his affairs before he prepares an exuberant last supper for his wife; the policeman Fred, who loses control during the weekly visit to his ex-wife and children; the drug addict Trond, who terrorises his young wife and their newborn baby. The spotless houses in which the characters live slowly but surely turn into prisons. 90 Minutes does not answer any questions about domestic and social violence, does not seek psychological explanations, but simply shows the last hour and a half in these lives, which are often terrifyingly close to our own.

What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love

Mouly Surya

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

‘It’s always about love. It’s boring’, someone remarks about the romantic radio play her friend is listening to. That infinite variations on the theme of love are possible is proven by the second film by young Indonesian director Mouly Surya. She sets her film, for which she also wrote the screenplay, in a school for the blind and partially-sighted in Jakarta. Just like everyone else, the pupils here also have their desires. To attract the attention of the boy she is secretly in love with, Diana buys a bottle of her favourite perfume. In spite of her disability, Maya wants to be an actress, but has to put up with a lot of teasing about this from her boyfriend. Fitri is also taken for a ride – by a hard-of-hearing rocker, who poses as a mysterious doctor. Surya’s film, full of steadicam shots flowing through the corridors of the institute, is not only about blindness, but tackles all the senses: there is plenty of tasting, listening, sniffing and touching.

Raznoschik

Grand comme le Baobab

The Delivery Guy Andrey Stempkovsky

Tall as the Baobab Tree Jeremy Teicher

One thing is certain: Alexey can never pay for his father’s operation from his income as a pizza courier. Everything changes when the courier finds an envelope containing a Sim card. As soon as he activates it, Alexey gets instructions to do a dangerous yet lucrative job. Alexey doesn’t hesitate a moment. At least that’s how it looks, because the young Russian director deliberately leaves out any psychological explanation. As a result, the film has the matter-of-fact nature of a mathematical proposition: if A then B then C. And yet we are repeatedly confronted with unexpected events. Stempkovsky amplifies this dislocating tone by allowing apparently crucial events to pass unnoticed, while the camera focuses on what is known as ‘dead time’: the time between the actions. In the end, we wonder whether the whole thing happened by accident. Maybe that was the idea all along.

In a Senegalese village, modern life cautiously makes an entrance. The sisters Coumba and Debo are the first in their family to go to school. But when their brother has an accident, father wants to marry off the youngest daughter in order to pay the brother’s medical expenses. Coumba is fiercely opposed to the plan and does everything she can to prevent the forced marriage of her little sister. Jeremy Teicher was only 22 when he started on this film debut. As a student, he had previously made a documentary in the village of Sinthiou Mbadane with the pupils of the very first school there. He incorporated their experiences into this subtle, skilfully photographed portrait of a strong young woman who is caught between tradition and progress. The narrative tempo, accompanied by kora music, is as calm as the rhythm of life in the village, with grazing cows, washing women and transport by horse and cart.

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Senegal, 2012 | colour, video, 82 min, Wolof Prod: Mala Bawer | Prod Comp: Cybersmart Learning Institute | Sc: Jeremy Teicher, Alexi Pappas | Cam: Chris Collins | Ed: Sofi Marshall | Sound Des: Arjun G. Sheth | Music: Jay Wadley | With: Dior Kâ, Oumoul Kâ, Cheikh Dia, Alpha Dia, Mboural Dia, Mouhamed Diallo, Birame Ndour, Mamel Dia | Print/ Sales: Cybersmart Learning Institute | www.grandcommelebaobab.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 17:00 CI3 Fri 25-1 09:30 PA2 Wed 30-1 19:30 LV5

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Bright Future

The Radiant

Thallium shoujo no dokusatsu nikki

The Otolith Group

GFP Bunny

Tsuchiya Yutaka

The severe earthquake in the sea near Sendai on 11 March 2011, measuring 9 on the Moment Magnitude Scale, caused the death of tens of thousands Japanese people. It also caused severe damage to parts of the Fukushima I nuclear power station. As a result, radioactive material was released into the atmosphere. What consequences did this have for the Japanese population? In this experimental documentary, the makers travel through the history of nuclear energy in general and that of Japan in particular. With the aid of interviews, old public information films, newsreel items and jerky shots of disasters, questions are answered and new questions posed. How great is the radioactivity as described? How is it measured? Why have parts of Japan emptied and why do the inhabitants who remain behind live like high-class laboratory rats? And what does it say about a government which exposes its citizens to this danger?

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Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 82 min, Japanese Prod: Tsuchiya Yutaka | Prod Comp: W-TV Office | Sc: Tsuchiya Yutaka | Cam: Iizuka Ryo | Ed: Tsuchiya Yutaka | Sound Des: Tahara Isao | With: Kuramochi Yuka, Watanabe Makiko, Furutachi Kanji, Takahashi | Print/Sales: UPLINK Co. | http://gfp-bunny.info/en Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 19:45 CI1 Tue 29-1 10:15 PA3 Wed 30-1 21:45 LV1 Thu 31-1 22:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 27-1 18:00 CI3

Disappearing Landscape

Kuramochi Yuka plays an enquiring girl who is harshly bullied at school. Is that why she cuts open frogs, experiments with her mother’s goldfish and even administers thallium to her mother? ‘You’ve got it wrong!’ she argues. ‘It all has to do with control.’ The girl also protests when the director, who bases his film on a notorious case from 2005, states that he will experiment by moving the story to 2011. ‘There isn’t a story at all!’ GFP Bunny, named after genetically modified fluorescent rabbits, is a kaleidoscopic mix of fiction, documentary, diary notes and internet videos. The filmmaker and his protagonist wonder what biotechnology, cosmetic surgery, surveillance, avatars, extreme piercings and new religion can mean to us. A meeting with a body artist is the prelude to an unexpected and proud finale for the girl. Best film in the Japanese Eyes section of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Ninah’s Dowry Victor Viyuoh

Vladimir Todorovic

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Singapore/Serbia/Spain, 2013 | colour, DCP, 70 min, Japanese/ Mandarin/Serbian/Spanish Prod: Fran Borgia | Prod Comp: Akanga Film Asia | Sc: Vladimir Torodovic | Cam: Urata Hideho, Jelena Prekajski, Ferran Castera | Ed: Shantha Kumar | Prod Des: Urata Tomomi | Sound Des: Roberto Alonso | Music: Brian O’Reilly | With: Machida Hiroyuki, Bobbi Chen, Peter Vasiljevic, Adam Vukovic, Goran Andrejin, Ives Laboire, Carolina Torres, Jordi Palau Castro | Print/Sales: Akanga Film Asia Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 19:15 PA3 Thu 31-1 17:00 CI1 Fri 1-2 17:00 LV2 Sat 2-2 11:30 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 09:15 LV3

With taut, often symmetrical images of natural and industrial landscapes, artist Vladimir Todorovic tells three stories that are set in Singapore, Serbia and Spain. In all these countries, immigrants try to bond to landscapes and places with which they share no past, but of which they do form a part. In Singapore, a couple from China and Japan suffer from the monotony and loneliness of their expat life. They travel to a neighbouring island, where they feel just like the coral, trapped in an industrial landscape. A man returns after a ten-year stay in the USA to Serbia. The Serbian steppes through which he cycles evoke memories of landscapes from his past. He feels alienated from his own country. In Catalonia, Spain, a young couple from Colombia and Chile search for a better life. He has not yet found any work, but they face their uncertain future with self-confidence.

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It’s a euphemism to say it’s more difficult to make a film in Africa than elsewhere. It’s usually just plain impossible. That’s why the films that miraculously are made should be embraced. The Ninah from the title is a woman who doesn’t have any choice in life. She is married off and abused. But she is not the kind of woman who lets this all happen to her; she starts her own restaurant, but can’t escape from her own past. She was once traded like a cow, and that value continues to pursue her. The story should have been set in the hottest season, but a filmmaker doesn’t always have the choice. That’s why he had to shoot it in the rainy season and make the best of it. It seems symbolic for the situation of the film and basically for all African filmmaking. But some times necessity, that season, that African landscape, give something extra to a film. Survival is also an art. And every art has its own laws of beauty.

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Bright Future

Avanti popolo Michael Wahrmann

Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 72 min, Portuguese Prod: Sara Silveira | Prod Comp: Dezenove Som e Imagens | Sc: Michael Wahrmann | Cam: Rodrigo Pastoriza | Ed: Ricardo Alves Jr., Fellipe Barbosa | Prod Des: Ana Paula Cardoso | Sound Des: Daniel Turini, Fernando Henna | Music: Michael Wahrmann | With: André Gatti, Carlos Reichenbach, Eduardo Valente, Marcos Bertoni | Print: Dezenove Som e Imagens | Sales: FiGa Films | www.avantipopolofilm.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:152 CI6 Tue 29-1 16:302 CI4 Wed 30-1 17:002 LV2 Thu 31-1 15:452 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 09:45 CI6

Almost 30 years after the Brazilian dictatorship, Michael Wahrmann is afraid this period and its victims will be forgotten. This inspired him to make his first feature, in which he incorporates his own experiences as a young left-wing militant in Israel alongside themes such as family traumas and suppressed memories. Recently divorced André moves in with his father, who leads a withdrawn life in a stuffy flat. The ever-present absence is that of André’s brother, who studied in Russia in the 1970s and disappeared without a trace after his return. The claustrophobic fixed-frame scenes are intercut with Super-8 films shot by the brother, which André has found. In this way, bits of the past come to life. However, the father doesn’t want to know. In an aside, leaders of the dictatorship turn up in an art project. The protagonists are played by film academic André Gatti and the Nestor of Brazilian film, Carlos Reichenbach, who died in 2012.

Fahrtwind – Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden Fair Wind – Notes of a Traveller Bernadette Weigel

WORLD PREMIERE

In this journey with no destination, Bernadette Weigel heads East, without knowing where she will end up next day. She travels via the Danube Delta to Odessa, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. On the way, she passes locks, dancing couples, refugees from Abkhazia, nodding donkey pumps and a trunk full of apples. She also manages to capture dazzling water and the sun shining between her toes, as if the camera is a large butterfly net. Filmed on Super-8 with asynchronous sound, this travelogue without dialogue does not show any unusual events, but random moments in which Weigel uses her camera to bite a piece out of life. The essence of movement lies in immersion rather than progress through the world. Only then, when you need not go anywhere, do you realise where you are. ‘When I’m on the move, when I’m in-between, I feel light. Dancing is not about moving ahead. And travelling is like dancing.’ But when do you know that a journey has come to an end?

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SpeCTrum

Spectrum

Ping’an Yueqing

Mater Dolorosa

Ai Weiwei

Adolfo B. Alix Jr. THE BIG SCREEN AWARD COMPETITION

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On 27 December 2010, village chief Qian Yunhui died in a road accident in Yueqing, in Eastern China. He was crushed under the front wheel of an enormous red truck. That, at least, was the version spread by the Chinese authorities and the trucker was soon convicted. But there were also doubts; according to his family and many fellow villagers, he was murdered. Protests soon swelled, especially online, where gruesome photos appeared of his crushed body. Ai Weiwei Studio, the production company of the world’s most celebrated thorn in the side of the authorities, the artist Ai Weiwei, also took an interest in the case. In this thorough documentary, terrified villagers appear in front of the camera and the accident is reconstructed. It gradually becomes clear that Qian Yunhui was an irritation for the authorities and that this incident is not isolated. A tragic road accident or brutal murder?

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Philippines, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 86 min, Filipino Prod: Ronald Arguelles | Prod Comp: ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc. | Sc: Jerry Gracio | Cam: Albert Banzon | Ed: Benjamin Gonzales Tolentino | Prod Des: Adolfo Alix Jr. | Sound Des: Ditoy Aguila, Mark Locsin, Herbert Relagio, Joseph Santos | Music: Eigen Ignacio | With: Gina Alajar, Carlo Aquino, Alessandra de Rossi, Cogie Domingo, Felix Roco, Anita Linda, Bembol Roco | Print/Sales: ABSCBN Creative Programs Inc. Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 22:00 DJZ Mon 28-1 17:00 CI1 Fri 1-2 21:45 PA7 Sat 2-2 17:45 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 09:30 CI4

Kalayaan

Miroir mon amour

Filipino soldier Julian is stationed on an uninhabited island. Another character jokes that the island once beat Vietnam at basketball. In the first half of the film, Kalayaan follows the everyday life of the soldier. He sleeps, fishes, watches porn and masturbates. Occasionally, he listens to the radio, which reports on a rebellion against the president. His only companion is a turtle. In the second half, the solider’s intense loneliness seems to be leavened by the arrival of two other soldiers. They talk about things like spirits and mermaids; conversations that reveal the start of the film – in which a mermaid gives a naked man a blow job – in a different light. Julian increasingly withdraws into his own world and loses his grip on reality. Kalayaan makes beautiful use of the natural locations and takes its time to let us sense the boredom of Julian, played by Thai teenage idol Ananda Everingham.

Everyone knows that the hunter who had to kill Snow White didn’t do it. He was too soft-hearted. As a result, she remained the most beautiful in the land, instead of her evil stepmother. But what happened afterwards? This French film continues where the Brothers Grimm stopped. The girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony has grown up and is about to marry a prince. But she isn’t happy. The basis of her frustration can be found – indeed – with her mother. In this arty version of the fairytale, she is incredibly attractive for the opposite sex. And the spoilt Snow White thinks that now it’s her turn to shine. This comic fairytale about dysfunctional families does not only play with the classic story, but also with the design, in which there is room for castles and royal robes, but also for Rolls-Royces, aspirins and Christian Louboutins.

Wildlife Adolfo B. Alix Jr.

At the heart of every Filipino film is the family, according to Adolfo B. Alix Jr. In his cool yet charged Mater Dolorosa, the actress Gina Alajar, who is very well known in the Philippines, plays a woman who dominates illegal activities in an old district of Manila. Her family’s welfare has to be weighed against the interests of the criminal business she runs with her children. Her sons Joseph and Eli focus on stealing cars, drugs and gambling. Her daughter Fatima is the link with the corrupt police. She tries to keep Benjamin, the youngest, safe from harm. Just before New Year, everything moves into a dangerously higher gear when the mayor and his criminal son start a counterattack, while internal tensions threaten family harmony. A strikingly sober yet apt style (there is virtually no music) with powerful, carefully composed images in a palette that is almost black-and-white, focusing on the actors. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

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Mirror My Love Siegrid Alnoy

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 84 min, French Prod: Sylvette Frydman, JeanFrançois Lepetit | Prod Comp: Flach Film Production | Sc: Siegrid Alnoy, Lise Macheboeuf | Cam: Sabine Lancelin | Ed: Benoît Quinon | Prod Des: Véronique Barneoud | Sound Des: Simon Apostolou | Music: Gabriel Scotti, Vincent Haenni | With: Judith Chemla, Fanny Ardant, Laurent Stocker, Carlo Brandt, Aurore Clement, Jean-Pierre Kalfon | Print/ Sales: Pyramide International Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:30 CI1 Sat 26-1 10:00 PA4 Wed 30-1 19:30 CI7 Thu 31-1 21:45 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 09:45 CI7

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Spectrum

Jirafas

Après mai

Cuban cinema guarantees sultry sensual tension, but also the everpresent undertone of envy. You save your own skin, and if you’re lucky, you can improve things for yourself a bit. The young lovers Manuel and Lia manage to lay their hands on the keys of the house from which Tania has been evicted: no rent in a beautiful old house in the middle of the city. But Tania also refuses to give up her home. Jirafas takes us along in this silent war largely set indoors. Havana plays a role in the stories of the waitress Lia, who seems more interested in the good life than her boyfriend Manuel does. Three beautiful twenty-somethings in a house inevitably evokes more tension than just a question of who owns it. All the pent-up irritations and sensuality reach boiling point when a hurricane approaches. Álvarez, a well-known face at IFFR, made Jirafas with a group of promising young Cuban talent from the EICTV where he teaches.

Gilles, a student in Paris in the early 1970s, is mad about watching films and painting. These hobbies are reviled by his politically active contemporaries and his girlfriend after the student revolution in May 1968: Gilles is also expected to surrender everything. But the summer starts and, alongside revolution, there are holidays to be had. Gilles and his girlfriend take their first steps on the path of love in this turbulent period, discover the freedom of travel and the added value of art in their young lives. In this semi-autobiographical comingof-age drama by Olivier Assayas, an important period in French history is interwoven with personal events – without becoming nostalgic. Après mai, with music by Captain Beefheart, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake, was previously shown at film festivals in Toronto and Venice. At the latter, this French drama was nominated for a Golden Lion.

Giraffes Enrique Álvarez

WORLD PREMIERE

Cuba/Colombia/Panama, 2013 | colour, DCP, 94 min, Spanish/English Prod: Nicolás Ordoñez, Gina Villafañe, Ivonne Cotorruelo | Prod Comp: Galaxia 311, Open Roads Media, Producciones LargasLuces | Sc: Claudia Muñiz | Cam: Nicolás Ordóñez Carrillo | Ed: Johanna Montero | Prod Des: Ivonne Cotorruelo | Sound Des: Gina Villafañe | Music: Abel Omar Pérez | With: Claudia Muñiz, Olivia Manrufo, Yasmani Guerrero | Print/Sales: Galaxia 311 | www.jirafaspelicula.webs.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 16:15 PA3 Mon 28-1 22:00 LV5 Wed 30-1 14:15 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 21:45 CI5 Sun 27-1 12:30 CI3

Something in the Air Olivier Assayas

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The Master

USA, 2012 | colour, 70mm, 1:1.85, 137 min, English Prod: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison | Prod Comp: Annapurna Pictures | Sc: Paul Thomas Anderson | Cam: Mihai Malaimare Jr. | Ed: Leslie Jones, Peter McNulty | Prod Des: Jack Fisk, David Crank | Sound Des: Christopher Scarabosio | Music: Jonny Greenwood | With: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Ambyr Childers, Rami Malek, Jesse Plemons | Sales: The Weinstein Company USA | Distr NL: A-Film Distribution | www.themasterfilm.com Public SCREENINGS Wed 23-1 19:00 PA1 Fri 25-1 10:15 PA1 Sun 27-1 13:15 PA1 Wed 30-1 16:30 SGZ Fri 1-2 14:15 CI1

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God’s Horses Nabil Ayouch

The major winner in Venice with Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, 1999; There Will Be Blood, 2007) as best director and a shared acting award for Joaquin Phoenix and Anderson regular Philip Seymour Hoffman. The latter plays a charismatic sect leader, based on Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard, who enters into a kind of father-son relationship with Phoenix’s character, a traumatised and frustrated WWII veteran who distils illegal alcohol. While the authoritarian Master works hard to maintain unity among his followers, supported by his wife (Amy Adams), he also tries to convert his volatile protégé to his doctrine, The Cause. The Master was shot on the now rare 65mm format, and this is striking in the panoramic wide-angle shots. The soundtrack is by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, his second for Anderson after There Will Be Blood. Audience Opening Film IFFR 2013.

Inspired by the novel Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen by Mahi Binebine, Les chevaux de Dieu tells the story of two brothers who grow up in a poor neighbourhood in Casablanca. At an early age they become familiar with drugs and crime. Through a mixture of poverty, dissatisfaction and fury, they become fascinated by Islamic fundamentalism and decide to become martyrs for Al Qaeda. No one is born to be a martyr. The film can be regarded as a study of the motivations of terrorists: how do they reach the point where they want to give up their lives in an attack? A film that sows the seed of understanding for Islamic terrorists is automatically controversial. But it’s a clever achievement on the part of Nabil Ayouch that he manages to persuade the viewer not only to understand the protagonists, but also to empathise with them. The film does not condemn them, so we can’t simply judge them.

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Les chevaux de Dieu

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Morocco/France/Belgium, 2012 | colour, DCP, 115 min, French Prod: Nabil Ayouch, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Eric van Beuren, Patrick Quinet | Prod Comp: Les Films Du Nouveau Monde, Stone Angels, YC Aligator Film, Artémis Productions | Sc: Jamal Belmahi, based on a novel by Mahi Binebine | Cam: Hichame Alaouie | Ed: Damien Keyeux | Prod Des: Hafid Amly, Hind Ghazali | Sound Des: Zacharie Naciri, Eric Lesachet | Music: Malvina Meinier | With: Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek, Ahmed El Idrissi Amrani | Sales: Wild Bunch | Distr NL: Cinéart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 22:00 PA1 Tue 29-1 19:30 LV5 Thu 31-1 12:45 PA5 Fri 1-2 18:15 PA6

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Spectrum

Ja tozhe hochu

Io e te

Somewhere between Saint Petersburg and the town of Uglich is a deserted belltower. Those who enter the belltower go straight to heaven – if they are chosen. No one knows how it works. But it is certain that happiness awaits there. That is what a man, known as the bandit, tells his acquaintance the musician. The men do not hesitate for a moment: they want to go there. They don’t care that this mysterious portal to paradise is in an area seriously polluted with radiation. In the end, a group of five embark on the journey: the musician, the bandit, his friend, the latter’s old father and a female hitchhiker. Me Too is confrontational and grim, as we may expect from Balabanov (Of Freaks and Men, Cargo 200, Morphia), one of Russia’s leading directors. But the film also has an element of black comedy and an unexpectedly esoteric side. Take special note of what the boy with prophetic powers (played by Balabanov’s son) says in one of the first scenes.

Lorenzo is a 14-year-old, hyperintelligent loner with dark brown curls and bright blue eyes who is seeing a psychiatrist on the orders of his overly worried mother. Because he doesn’t want to go to ski camp with his classmates, he hides in the cellar of his parental home. There he receives his half-sister: the stunningly attractive, addicted and fairly unmanageable Olivia. Me and You – a coming-of-age film that also has something to say about family bonds and the state of Italy now – is a film version of the novel by Italian bestseller author Niccolò Ammaniti, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The director is the veteran Bernardo Bertolucci; it’s his first film since The Dreamers in 2003, and the first film he has made in Italy in 30 years. Debutant actors Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco are beautiful in the leading roles and the ever-present soundtrack features songs by The Cure, Arcade Fire, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers and David Bowie.

Me Too Alexey Balabanov

Russia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 83 min, Russian Prod: Sergey Selyanov | Prod Comp: CTB Film Company | Sc: Alexey Balabanov | Cam: Alexander Simonov | Ed: Tatyana Kuzmicheva | Prod Des: Anastasia Karimulina | Sound Des: Stanislav Miheev | Music: Leonid Fedorov | With: Yuri Matveyev, Alexandr Mosin, Oleg Garkusha, Alisa Shitkova, Alexey Balabanov, Viktor Gorbunov, Petr Balabanov | Print/ Sales: Intercinema Agency Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 22:15 PA1 Sun 27-1 19:30 SGZ Wed 30-1 19:15 LV1 Sat 2-2 16:15 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 10:15 DJZ

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India, 2012 | colour, DCP, 110 min, Hindi Prod: Dibakar Banerjee, Priya Sreedharan, Ajay Bijli, Sanjeev K Bijli | Prod Comp: PVR Pictures Limited, Dibakar Banerjee Productions | Sc: Urmi Juvekar, Dibakar Banerjee | Cam: Nikos Andritsakis | Ed: Namrata Rao | Prod Des: Vandana Kataria | Sound Des: Pritam Das | Music: Vishal & Shekhar | With: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Kalki Koechlin | Print/ Sales: Dibakar Banerjee Productions | www.shanghaithefilm.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:30 DJZ Sat 26-1 22:15 LUX Fri 1-2 14:00 CI4 Sat 2-2 19:15 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 18:15 DJZ

Me and You Bernardo Bertolucci

Italy, 2012 | colour, DCP, 103 min, Italian Prod: Mario Gianani | Prod Comp: Fiction SRL/ Wildside SRL | Sc: Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano, Bernardo Bertolucci, based on the novel by Niccolò Ammaniti | Cam: Fabio Cianchetti | Ed: Jacopo Quadri | Prod Des: Jean Rabasse | Sound Des: Remo Ugolinelli, Sandro Palmerini | Music: Franco Piersanti | With: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno, Pippo Delbono | Sales: HanWay Films | Distr NL: ABC – Cinemien Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 19:30 LUX Sun 27-1 15:00 PA2 Wed 30-1 19:45 CI1 Fri 1-2 19:30 SGZ

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Shanghai

Cherchez Hortense

Dibakar Banerjee

Pascal Bonitzer

An exciting political thriller from one of the most talented new directors in India today. A prominent professor, a social activist, is run over by a lorry; is it an accident or a politically motivated crime? It happens in a vibrant small town that is subjected to an ambitious infrastructure project supported by the corrupt ruling party. Multinational companies promise to establish economic growth in the region, after the example of Shanghai. The unfortunate victim was raising awareness among the working class, mobilising those who are paying the price for this prosperity. The professor’s assistant, a committed young woman, sets out on a dangerous investigation in search of truth and justice. A local pornographer witnessed the accident, but withholds the evidence he is suspected to have. The story is loosely based on Vassilis Vassiliko’s novel Z, but has been profoundly Indianised by imaginative scriptwriter Urmi Juvekar and the director himself.

Damien, a professor of Chinese Civilisation, is forced by his wife to ask his father a favour. As a senior civil servant, he could help a woman get residency papers. The request is a true horror for Damien, who hates to ask his father anything. But he doesn’t reveal this to his wife. She is very busy as a stage director and with a male colleague, on whom she focuses a suspicious amount of attention. In the meantime, Damien meets a young woman who shares his interests and is fascinated by his life. Plenty of starting points for a comic drama of relationships, which director and scriptwriter Bonitzer situates in the Parisian intellectual elite. The most important themes are identity and the quest for self-confidence: you don’t just get that, it has to be earned. Despite such serious themes as dysfunctional families and stalling relationships, Bonitzer keeps the tone pleasantly light.

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Spectrum

Nieulotne

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Poland/Spain, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 93 min, Polish/Spanish Prod: Piotr Kobus | Prod Comp: Mañana | Sc: Jacek Borcuch | Cam: Michal Englert | Ed: Beata Walentowska | Prod Des: Elwira Pluta | Sound Des: Maria Chilarecka | Music: Daniel Bloom | With: Jakub Gierszal, Magdalena Berus, Angela Molina, Juanjo Ballesta, Joanna Kulig, Andrzej Chyra | Print/Sales: Mañana Public SCREENINGS Thu 31-1 19:00 PA4 Fri 1-2 10:00 PA4 Sat 2-2 21:30 PA4 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 17:00 DWBZ Mon 28-1 12:45 DWBZ

Happiness Building 1

Lasting Jacek Borcuch

Chen Chieh-jen

Life is sunny and carefree for young Michal and Karina. The two Polish students meet in Valencia, Spain, where they have holiday jobs, and fall in love on the spot. But then Michal becomes involved in a fight in which someone dies and suddenly everything is different. The world that only a few moments earlier seemed so available falls apart, slowly yet inevitably. The mountainous landscape that was at first idyllic now becomes a threat. The tender holiday love turns into a nightmare. The protagonists – Jakub Gierszal, who is already known as the Polish James Dean and who drives round in this film on a big motorbike, and the former model Magdalena Berus – balance between hysteria, despair and emotional sincerity. Their mutual chemistry and intense acting makes this film more than a fateful love story. Lasting is close-up investigation into the humain condition.

Chen Chieh-jen asked Taiwanese born in the 1980s to write about their lives. From their prose and poetry, the filmmaker constructed his panoramic, subversive look at a country that has changed radically since the neoliberal reforms of 1984. The easing of restrictions on sacking employees and the dismantlement of social programmes and housing rights have created an insecure society that fears the future. To show this individualised world, the film presents the occupants of an apartment building soon to be demolished: an unemployed single woman, a lesbian whose father committed suicide, a handicapped actor who does performances of ‘standing still silently’ as a form of protest. Not only state companies have been privatised thanks to the neoliberal ideology. The lives and vicissitudes of a new generation of Taiwanese have also become completely disjointed. Contrived freedom, under the motto ‘everyone for themselves and no one for all of us’.

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Taiwan, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 84 min, no dialogue Prod: Chen Chieh-yi | Cam: Chien Ming-chi | Ed: Lee Chun-yi, Huang Hsiao-wen | Sound Des: Lo Songce | With: Li Cheng-hao, Hsiao Wen-hua, Cheng Chih-chung, Huang Pin-yueh , Chan Chia-ju | Print/Sales: Chen Chieh-jen Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 17:00 CI3 Wed 30-1 19:45 LV2 Thu 31-1 22:15 CI3 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 17:30 DJZ

Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro

La fille de nulle part

The Girl from Nowhere Jean-Claude Brisseau

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 91 min, French Prod: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Prod Comp: La Sorcière Rouge | Sc: JeanClaude Brisseau | Cam: David Chambille | Ed: Maria-Luisa Garcia, Julie Picouleau | Prod Des: Clemence Bry, Maria-Luisa Garcia | Sound Des: David Chambille | With: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Virginie Legeay, Claude Morel | Print/Sales: Wide Management Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 14:15 SGZ Sat 26-1 21:45 PA5 Sun 27-1 11:45 LV5 Tue 29-1 15:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 14:30 CI4

Always balancing between parody and gravity, The Girl from Nowhere plays with elements from French cinema. Femme fatale and amour fou dance together with didactic monologues about God and the unknown. This low-budget Golden Leopard winner is set in the Paris apartment of the director, who casts himself as Michel, a retired maths teacher and widower preparing for the end. Before it finally arrives, however, he takes into his house the young Dora, who was physically abused in front of his door by an ex-lover. While she recovers, strange things start to happen in the house. Jean-Claude Brisseau, Filmmaker in Focus at IFFR in 2003, constructed his story around the need for myths and illusions and their influence on our experience. Here and there, he mixes fiction and reality flamboyantly, to great comic effect. The power of illusions is finally confirmed when Michel’s tragic fate and the passing of time become tangible.

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Khavn De La Cruz

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This travel-shockumentary-vampire fiction could well be a disguised ode to the Mondo films of Jacopetti, but with Khavn you never really know. Our guide is Kristo Vampiro, who admits in a voice-over that he is willing to go very far to quench his thirst for blood. The entirely blood-red images show the continual self-castigation of people in the street, juxtaposed with cock fights and acted crucifixions, complete with mouth-organ music. According to Khavn, the film came about during a four-day tour of the Filipino archipelago which he gave an Italian friend. They stopped at the folk-&-roll bar Hobbit House, where all the waiters are dwarfs, and visited the Ringside brothel. They also stopped at several cock fights, which cost the losing gamblers a week’s income, but also made them believe that one good win could save them. Khavn also filmed the cemetery, ‘maybe the only real utopia in Southeast Asia’. Also see How to Raise a Smart & Happy Child from Age Zero to Five in Spectrum Shorts.

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Comrade Kim Goes Flying

Ang mundo sa panahon ng bakal

Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Kim Gwang-Hun

Belgium/UK/North Korea, 2012 | colour, DCP, 81 min, Korean Prod: Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Mi Hwa Ryom | Prod Comp: Another Dimension of an IDea, Koryo Group, KFEIC | Sc: Sin MyongSik, Kim Chol | Cam: Hwang Jin-Sok | Ed: Alain Dessauvage, Kim Yun-Sim, Gao Bing, Ren Jia | Prod Des: Kim Won-Song | Music: Ham Chol, Frederik Van de Moortel | With: Kim Chol, Han Jong-sim, Pak Chung-guk, Ri Yong-ho, Kim Son-nam | Print/ Sales: Another Dimension of an IDea | www.comradekimgoesflying.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 17:00 CI1 Sat 26-1 09:45 PA5 Sun 27-1 12:00 LUX Fri 1-2 11:45 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 11:30 CI6

A heroine strives to realise her dream, is thwarted by a haughty co-star but perseveres and is finally successful. It sounds like a standard recipe for a fairytale in the Hollywood mould. But this film comes from North Korea and adopts the form of cheerful melodramatic propaganda from the Stalinist utopia. The heroine in question is Kim YongMi. She’s a miner but, despite her fear of heights, wants to be a trapeze artist. She is scorned by the circus star Pak Jang-Phil. Aiming to perform at the workers’ festival, Kim perseveres with her training, wins the heart of her costar and finally shines in the ring. Although at first sight it is traditional, by North Korean standards Comrade Kim Goes Flying is quite unconventional. The protagonist is not a macho folk hero, but a woman, while party and state play a secondary role. It can’t be called subversive, but it is a new sound from the most isolated country in the world.

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Philippines, 2013 | video, 114 min, Filipino Prod: Mes De Guzman, Susan Santos, Rhea Operaña | Prod Comp: Sampaybakod Productions, Cinelarga | Sc: Mes de Guzman | Cam: Tristan Salas | Ed: Abbas Tabas, Ronnie de Acal | Prod Des: Seño Dee | Sound Des: Mon Ching | With: Jess Evardone, John Paul Escobedo, Abdul John Candelario, Zanderson Vicente, José Escobedo | Sales: Cinelarga | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 17:00 CI3 Fri 1-2 11:30 LV6 Sat 2-2 09:15 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 10:45 CI5

First Comes Love

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Steel Is the Earth Mes De Guzman Mes De Guzman builds his ‘earth trilogy’ around three raw materials – stone, steel and ice – that are at once elixir and poison. Necessary to survive, but also a threat to life. Carlito, protagonist of the second part, has a patent on steel. His motorbike and pistol are made of it, and in his business he uses it in many ways. Steel stands for cold, hard and mechanical, contrasting with the soft, warm emotional issues in his life. For instance love: Carlito is getting married. But he doesn’t dare tell his parents. He also takes advantage of the safety of the bartering rural community from which he commutes back and forth to work. Meandering loosely and with apparent improvisation – apparent because it’s based on a substantial script full of dry comic dialogue – the film works treacherously: the mood almost inconspicuously becomes grimmer as it heads for a fatal – or steely – conclusion.

Gebo e a sombra

Nina Davenport

Gebo and the Shadow Manoel de Oliveira

After Always a Bridesmaid (2000) and Parallel Lines (2004), documentary maker Nina Davenport again points the camera at herself with humour and openness. As a 41-year-old single woman, she decides to try and have a child and to film this process, difficult as it is with so many ethical and medical objections. In her own liberal surroundings, she’s not the only one who only wants to try and have a child after a successful career, and flying in the face of all the statistics. Davenport looks for support to her best girlfriend Amy and for sperm to her gay friend Eric. While she’s pregnant, she starts to have an affair with film critic John Anderson. The film not only tells the story of Davenport, but also shows that while the age and circumstances of mothers may change in modern society, pregnancy, birth and motherhood remain issues of patience, perseverance and tolerance.

This adaptation of Raul Brandão’s play from 1923 is about the poor patriarch Gebo who lives with his wife and daughter-in-law. Gebo is advanced in years, but has to carry on working as an accountant in order to maintain his family. The three talk a lot about the fate of the son, João. He ended up in the gutter; that much is known to both Gebo and his daughter-in-law Sofia, but they keep it secret from mother Doroteia, in order to avoid disrupting her ideal picture of her son. That turns out to have major consequences when João returns and moves in with his parents. Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira, the world’s oldest active filmmaker, once again persuaded great names to take part in his idiosyncratic production, among them Jeanne Moreau, Michael Lonsdale and Claudia Cardinale. With its static camera, use of symbolism and theatrical styling, Gebo and the Shadow is a vintage De Oliveira.

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Portugal/France, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 91 min, French Prod: Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Luís Urbano | Prod Comp: MACT Productions, O Som e a Fúria | Sc: Manoel de Oliveira, adopted from the play by Raul Brandão | Cam: Renato Berta | Ed: Valérie Loiseleux | Prod Des: Christian Marti | Sound Des: Henri Maikoff | With: Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau, Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Silveira, Luís Miguel Cintra | Print/ Sales: Pyramide International Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 17:15 CI2 Mon 28-1 12:00 CI2 Wed 30-1 13:00 PA4 Sat 2-2 20:15 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 12:00 DWBZ

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The Island of St. Matthews

Grenzgänger Crossing Boundaries Florian Flicker

Kevin Jerome Everson

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USA, 2013 | colour/b&w, DCP, 70 min, English Prod: Madeleine Molyneaux, Kevin Jerome Everson | Prod Comp: Picture Palace Pictures, Trilobite-ArtsDAC | Sc: Kevin Jerome Everson | Cam: Kevin Jerome Everson | Ed: Kevin Jerome Everson | Print/ Sales: Picture Palace Pictures Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 17:00 CI6 Tue 29-1 12:15 PA6 Wed 30-1 10:00 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 27-1 09:00 LV2

Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer – ‘they were all lost in the flood’ – sparked this trip to meet the inhabitants of Westport, a small town just to the west of Columbus, Mississippi. They reminisce about the great flood of the Tombigbee River in 1973, when some people lost everything. Many heirlooms and photos of the Eversons were swallowed up, and part of the family history disappeared. The independently operating and very productive filmmaker Everson has made many films about the workingclass culture of black Americans. Now he presents a serenade to the black inhabitants along the Tombigbee River: his family, a barber, a lock keeper, passers-by. They use the river for many different purposes. In long shots on 16mm stock, Everson shows a water skier, a lock filling up and a baptism in the same river that caused so much misery.

Austria, 2012 | colour, DCP, 87 min, German Prod: Mathias Forberg, Viktoria Salcher | Prod Comp: Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH | Sc: Florian Flicker, based on a novel by Karl Schönherr | Cam: Martin Gschlacht | Ed: Karina Ressler | Prod Des: Katharina Wöppermann | Sound Des: Heinz Ebner, Veronika Hlawatsch, Bernhard Maisch | Music: Eva Jantschitsch | With: Andreas Lust, Andrea Wenzl, Stefan Pohl | Print/Sales: Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH | www.grenzgaenger-derfilm.at Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 21:30 PA7 Fri 1-2 22:30 CI2 Sat 2-2 09:45 PA5

L’enclos du temps

Reality

The Enclosure of Time Jean-Charles Fitoussi

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 67 min, French Prod: Jean-Charles Fitoussi | Prod Comp: Aura été production | Cam: Jean-Charles Fitoussi | Ed: JeanCharles Fitoussi | Sound Des: JeanCharles Fitoussi, Erwan Kerzanet, Bruno Ehlinger, Ivan Gariel | With: Théophile Gady, Valentine Krasnochok, Bruno Passera, Luis Miguel Cintra, Frédéric Schiffter, Gabrielle Passera Chevallier, Jean-Claude Passera | Print/Sales: Aura été production Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 16:30 CI4 25-1 09:15 PA6 Fri Sat 26-1 21:45 CI6 Thu 31-1 20:15 CI2

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You can’t build castles on chance, they say in France, but Jean-Charles Fitoussi contradicts that. Under the name ‘The Castle of Coincidence’, he has been making films ever since 2002 in which chance is allowed to play a leading role, both in the stories and during the making. The Enclosure of Time is the eighth part in the series, which revolves around the key character, Saturn, and in which the tragicomic insecurity of life repeatedly predominates. This theme may sound ponderous, but Fitoussi – who has a background in philosophy and architecture and learnt filmmaking under Straub and Huillet – manages to keep his films lightfooted, filled with humorous references to the classics. In this way, the old Dr William Stein, who brings the dead back to life, is a great-grandson of Dr Frankenstein. But the nurse he sends when Théophile’s grandpa gets ill is something very different.

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Florian Flicker’s first feature in 12 years takes the triangluar relationship from Der Überfall and the Western ascetics from No Name City and combines them in a nerve-racking, sultry thriller. It’s 2001, at the EU border between Austria and Slovakia. Innkeepers Hans and Jana earn some cash by smuggling immigrants across the border. When the army hears of their illegal activities, they send the young soldier Ronnie to see them. He has to collect evidence against the couple by flirting with Jana. This increases the mutual mistrust – also between Hans and Jana. Flicker, who doesn’t take sides, explores boundaries: where does love end and where does treachery begin? The dusty boredom and bright blue skies evoke memories of classic Westerns. That only contributes to the shimmering psychological tension that slowly creeps under your skin in this contemporary adaptation of Der Weibsteufel (1914).

Matteo Garrone

Italy/France, 2012 | DCP, 115 min, Italian/English Prod: Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone | Prod Comp: Archimede Film, Fandango, Le Pacte, Garance Capital | Sc: Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso | Cam: Marco Onorato | Ed: Marco Spoletini | Prod Des: Paolo Bonfini | Music: Alexandre Desplat | Sales: Fandango Portobello | Distr NL: Imagine Nederland Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 14:30 LV5 Sun 27-1 11:45 SGZ Tue 29-1 21:45 SGZ Fri 1-2 20:00 DJZ

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In the same year when Woody Allen filmed a subplot about an insignificant Italian who was blasted from nowhere to hero of a reality show (To Rome With Love), Matteo Garrone (well known from the prize-winning Gomorrah, 2008) made a film about an insignificant Italian who wrongly believes the same thing happened to him. After the tough Mafia film Gomorrah, Garrone surprises us with a comedy of manners that pokes fun at the Italian obsession with television fame. Luciano does an audition for Grande Fratello (the Italian Big Brother) and then, all over the place, he sees ‘scouts’ for the programme who come to observe him in his everyday life. With Italian passion and machismo, Luciano challenges his wife’s reality checks, while the story displays parallels with Christianity – from always being seen or wanting to be, to the opportunism of good deeds intended to gain access to a better world. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes.

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Inori

Japan, 2012 | colour, DCP, 72 min, Japanese Prod: Naomi Kawase | Prod Comp: Nara International Film Festival | Sc: Pedro GonzálezRubio | Cam: Pedro GonzálezRubio | Ed: Pedro González-Rubio | Prod Des: Pedro González-Rubio | Sound Des: Osamu Takizawa | Music: Hector Ruiz | With: Fukui Sakae, Kotani Shigefumi, Yanase Tetsuo, Ikeo Ryo, Ikeo Noriko | Print/ Sales: Nara International Film Festival Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 11:30 CI4 Sun 27-1 09:30 CI6 Wed 30-1 17:15 CI2 Thu 31-1 17:30 LV3

La tendresse

Pedro González-Rubio

Tenderness Marion Hänsel

Pedro González-Rubio, who won the Tiger Award in 2010 with Alamar, was invited by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase to take part in the project NARAtive at her Nara Film Festival. The only condition was that the film be set in the surroundings of her birthplace, Nara, the capital of Japan in the eighth century. So the documentary Inori shows a life that has almost come to a halt in a mountain village beautifully situated in a valley between thickly forested hills with an abundance of water. You used to hear children playing everywhere, one inhabitant remembers, but now the school has closed. The lack of work has driven young people away. Only a few old people have remained behind, musing during their daily activities about the way things were. Soon the mountain will just be a mountain, someone remarks nostalgically. GonzálezRubio records it in calm images in which nature is ever present. A certain thematic link with Alamar is obvious.

For the first time in her lengthy career, Marion Hänsel entirely wrote her own screenplay for one of her films – without a cowriter and, possibly even more important, without a literary source to fall back on. The result is a surprisingly light road movie that does justice to its title, not only focusing on the tenderness between parents and son, but also between the son and his lover, and between the divorced parents themselves. Frans and Lisa have already separated for 15 years, so what is it that comes to the surface when they get in the car to drive from Brussels to the ski village Flaine deep in the Alps to pick up their injured son? Indifference? Jealousy? Friendship? Love? When they reach the village, designed in the 1970s by Le Corbusier, its concrete structures offer a unique background for this nimble reflection on broken love.

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Belgium/France/Germany, 2013 | colour, DCP, 81 min, French Prod: Marion Hänsel, Cedomir Kolar, Ernst Szebedits | Prod Comp: Man’s Films Productions, A.S.A.P. Films, Neue Pegasos | Sc: Marion Hänsel | Cam: Jan Vancaillie | Ed: Michèle Hubinon | Prod Des: Thierry Leproust | Sound Des: Henri Morelle | Music: René-Marc Bini | With: Marilyne Canto, Olivier Gourmet, Adrien Jolivet, Sergi Lopez | Sales: Doc & Film International | Distr NL: Cinéart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 17:00 PA1 Mon 28-1 18:15 PA5 Tue 29-1 17:00 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 09:15 PA2

White Epilepsy

Lee Towers: The Voice of Rotterdam

Philippe Grandrieux

Hans Heijnen

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 69 min, no dialogue Prod: Annick Lemonnier | Prod Comp: EPILEPTIC | Sc: Philippe Grandrieux | Cam: Philippe Grandrieux | Ed: Philippe Grandrieux | Sound Des: Corinne Thévenon, Philippe Grandrieux, Emmanuel Soland | With: Hélène Rocheteau, Jean-Nicolas Dafflon, Anja Röttgerkamp, Dominique Dupuy | Print/Sales: EPILEPTIC Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 22:30 CI2 Fri 25-1 16:30 CI6 Sat 2-2 17:45 LV3

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They are ghosts – do they really exist? A film like a dream or a nightmare. In the middle of a forest, two naked bodies, those of a man and a woman, perform a very slow and hideous choreography. It looks like an ageold ritual about domination and submission. The male ghost withdraws, but the woman doesn’t let him go: she throws herself at him. Philippe Grandrieux, the maker of Sombre (1999) and countless other films, often experimental, shows the ceremonial wrestling in slow motion, with the bodies sometimes seeming no more than a collection of muscles, tendons and pale flesh, as in paintings by Francis Bacon. Apart from being terrifying and violent, the dance occasionally looks sensual. White Epilepsy, created in collaboration with dancer Hélène Rocheteau, is the first part of the trilogy Unrest. The theme linking the three films/ installations is fear, with the viewer watching from a safe position – as if through a slit in a castle wall.

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Netherlands, 2013 | colour/ b&w, DCP, 93 min, Dutch Prod: Hans Heijnen | Sc: Hans Heijnen | Cam: Adri Schrover | Ed: Ozan Olçay | Sound Des: Bert van den Dungen | Print/Sales: Hans Heijnen Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:00 LUX Mon 28-1 11:30 CI6 Thu 31-1 21:45 CI4 Sat 2-2 09:00 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 11:45 CI3

Lee Towers: The singing crane driver. The Voice of Rotterdam. The man with the deep voice, spectacles, golden microphone and mobile elbows. His concerts in Rotterdam’s Ahoy arena were Galas of the Year, Las Vegas style. Complete with big band, showbiz stairs and dancers. In the 1980s such extravaganzas were unknown in the sober Netherlands. But few know the man behind the glamorous exterior: Leen Huijzer from Bolnes. A loving father, a calm and hard-working man who likes to tell jokes. We follow the singer around the time of the concert he gave in 2011 in Ahoy, after an 11-year break. The rehearsals and the emotions contrast starkly with the calm at home with his wife Laura. We also see Towers at his countless performances throughout the country. From herring parties to pirate festivals. And that, when he’s standing in the kitchen of a bar beside buckets of mayonnaise waiting to go on stage, he honestly states: ‘ I love my trade, really.’

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Gegenwart

Centro histórico

While the loved ones of the deceased mourn and pull themselves together, at the crematorium the dead are taken care of. Using stylish shots, Heise records the activities between Christmas Eve and the New Year in this ordered German enterprise. Without interviews or commentary, the long scenes show how advanced software programmes run the oldfashioned ovens, how employees push coffins through empty spaces and how equipment is maintained by technicians. In the meantime, a Christmas cake stands untouched on a desk. In the background, we always hear the humming of all kinds of machinery and there is very little talking. In solemn silence, an employee checks the deceased while another one puts ash in the grinding mill. With a sharp eye for detail, Heise reveals a confrontational world devoid of any magic; a both alienating and comforting experience. In the style of Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread), Heise shows what happens to us after we’ve died.

The Portuguese city of Guimarães was European Cultural Capital for 2012. To celebrate that, four directors – two local maestros, a neighbour (Basque) and an outsider (Finnish) – were asked to make an omnibus film on ‘the stories the city has to tell’. They give an idiosyncratic, varied picture in substance, style and tone. Aki Kaurismäki starts off with a bittersweet comedy without dialogue about a lonely barman, who sees a lot without really experiencing anything. Pedro Costa takes a reflective dive into the colonial past using a lift ride with a Cape Verdean migrant and a Portuguese soldier. In the only documentary part, the Basque Victor Erice pays homage to Guimarães’ 150-year-old textile industry, now almost entirely outsourced to Asia. The final word is for the world’s oldest active filmmaker, Manoel de Oliveira, with a spicy satire on wildly photographing tourists in Guimarães’ historic centre.

Consequence Thomas Heise

Historic Centre Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira

Portugal, 2012 | colour, DCP, 90 min, Portuguese Prod: Rodrigo Areias | Prod Comp: Fundação Cidade Guimarães | Sc: Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira | Cam: Timo Salminen, Pedro Costa, Lonardo Simoes, Valentín Alvarez, Fransisco Lagrifa Oliveira | With: Ilkka Koivula, António Santos, Manuel Furtado, Valdemar Santos, Amândio Martins, Ricardo Trêpa | Print/ Sales: Urban Distribution International Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 11:00 LV1 Fri 25-1 21:45 CI6 Wed 30-1 19:15 CI6

The View from Our House

Rumah dan musim hujan One Day When the Rain Falls Ifa Isfansyah

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Indonesia, 2013 | colour, video, 98 min, Indonesian Prod: Frederica, Ifa Isfansyah | Prod Comp: Falcon Pictures | Sc: Ifa Isfansyah | Cam: Gandang Warah | Ed: Edi Cahyono, Greg Arya | Sound Des: Khikmawan Santosa, Jantra Suryaman | Music: Krisna Purna Ratmara | Sales: Falcon Pictures | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 18:302 PA2 Wed 30-1 14:152 CI3 Thu 31-1 19:302 LV5 2-2 16:45 LV5 Sat Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 18:30 CI5

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In three chapters, the relationships are sketched within one Indonesian family. The first scenes are set in the father’s house, just after the dinner which ends the fast. The family is sitting at the table, minus mother: son Ragil with another new girlfriend, son Raga who still lives at home and daughter Ade. After the departure of the others, Raga and his father are left behind. Their visibly loving relationship, portrayed calmly and implicitly, is overshadowed by a secret. Chapter two is set on the way to, and in, the house of the divorced mother, where the daughter Ade lives and experiences events that transcend normal reasoning. The last part looks at Ragil, girlfriend Sukma and an ex-girlfriend who suddenly turns up. Although each chapter is told in the same calm tempo, they are different in character and tone and we see three films in one: drama, horror and comedy – always with an unexpected turn.

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Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin

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A photographer, a woman like any other, describes the everyday horrors of the Nazi regime in the prelude to World War II. Every day she walks past a SA prison, where the screaming of tortured prisoners can be heard through the walls. While the soundtrack presents excerpts from the diaries of this woman, we see the surroundings of this prison as it now is, filmed in static, tactile video and Super-8 shots. The notes continue chronologically in the voice-over (loosely based on real diaries and letters by an aunt of one of the makers) as the images keep returning to the same place from different corners and different seasons – the repetition of the recollection. When the narrator moves to England, the pictures remain in Germany, by those memories that will never fade.

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Nippon no higeki

Something Necessary

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Kenya/Germany, 2013 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Kikuyu/ English/Swahili Prod: Sarika Hemi Lakhani, Ginger Wilson | Prod Comp: One Fine Day Films, Ginger Ink Films | Sc: Mungai Kiroga, JC Niala | Cam: Adeyinka Edward Daniyan | Ed: Justin Kariuki Wachira | Prod Des: Carol Gaciku Wahome | Sound Des: Lucas Seeberger | Music: Matthias Petsche | With: Susan Wanjiru, Walter Lagat, David Koprotich, Anne Kimani, Caroline Kibet | Sales: VODconsulting | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund | www.somethingnecessary-film.org Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 19:15 CI6 Tue 29-1 09:00 LV1 Wed 30-1 15:00 CI7 Sat 2-2 18:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 12:00 LV5

Judy Kibinge

Japan’s Tragedy Kobayashi Masahiro

Election violence based on ethnicity is a recurrent phenomenon in Kenya, but the destruction in 2007 was unparalleled. Youth gangs egged on by politicians roamed the country for three months, plundering, raping and murdering. Some 1200 people were killed. Over 300,000 Kenyans fled. The International Court of Justice in The Hague is still investigating suspects. Anne is one of the victims: her husband dead, son in a coma, farm destroyed and she herself ended up in a hospital bed. For the sake of her child, she wants to build up her life again, whatever the cost. She meets Joseph, who was on the side of the culprits during the riots. He is burdened by guilt, but is still under the control of the gang he was a member of. Both look for a way out. Something Necessary tells the true story. The film primarily shows how complex things are when it’s not about the statistics of a conflict but the people behind the numbers.

This restrained family drama, shot almost entirely in black-and-white, is dedicated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, but also to the 31,560 people who committed suicide in Japan in 2010. The famous actor Nakadai Tatsuya (Kagemusha, Ran) plays a retired widower diagnosed with lung cancer. He doesn’t want to be treated, shuts himself up in the room with the altar for his deceased wife and refuses food and drink. This, despite the pleas of his son who lost his wife and daughter in the tsunami. Japan’s Tragedy is set entirely in this house, while in flashbacks the prior history unfolds: the son, who is hit by unemployment and depression, is sad that he cannot live up to the expectations of parents and family. Kobayashi (The Rebirth), Filmmaker in Focus 2008 and never afraid to tackle issues that are sensitive in Japan, chooses a sober, apparently classic style. This story about helplessness and loneliness again reveals his humanist gaze.

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Japan, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 101 min, Japanese Prod: Kobayashi Masahiro | Prod Comp: Monkey Town Productions | Sc: Kobayashi Masahiro | Cam: Ooki Sumio | Ed: Kaneko Naoki | Prod Des: Yamazaki Teru | Sound Des: Fukuda Shin | With: Nakadai Tatsuya, Kitamura Kazuki | Print/Sales: Monkey Town Productions Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 17:00 CI1 Thu 31-1 22:00 PA4 Fri 1-2 12:30 PA2 Sat 2-2 12:15 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 13:45 PA5

Pieta

Spring Breakers

Kim Ki-Duk

Harmony Korine

This feature by Kim Ki-Duk, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice film Festival, is closer to harsh, strange and morally confusing predecessors like Samaritan Girl and Bin-jip/3-Iron than to his modest contemplation Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring. Unlike the breathtaking natural beauty of that Buddhist reflection, Pieta is dark, nerve racking, urban and coarse. Yet the theme is just as existential. An unscrupulous sidekick in Seoul, who cruelly maims people who don’t pay their debts to a usurer in order to claim insurance money, is suddenly confronted with his long-lost mother. She pursues him until he allows her into his solitary, immoral life. And that brings him doubts about what he’s doing and who he is. In addition, Kim mixes the Christian symbolism of the pietà (Mary mourning over the dead Jesus on her lap) with black humour and sexual tension between mother and son.

The most mainstream film of perennial enfant terrible Harmony Korine (Gummo, 1997; Mister Lonely, 2007) is the most extreme for his protagonists: certainly for fresh Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens and to some extent also for James Franco, who plays a violent drug dealer, but then hilariously over the top, as he takes the still-naive bikini girls in Florida under his wing. With virtuosity, Korine films the gradual derailing of their pursuit of sex, alcohol and drugs, which forms the hollow core of the American ‘spring break’ tradition, in glossy, sexy, always undulating images (supported by Skrillex’s dubstep soundtrack). The only similarity with his previous feature, Trash Humpers (2009), shot on scratchy VHS tapes, is that the form again seamlessly matches the content. At the Venice festival, Korine called this a ‘liquid narrative’. ‘It’s meant to be about surfaces. The culture is about surfaces.’

USA, 2012 | colour, DCP, 92 min, English Prod: Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, David Zander | Prod Comp: Muse Films, Radar Pictures, O’Salvation Cine Ltd., Iconoclast Productions | Sc: Harmony Korine | Cam: Benoit Debie | Ed: Douglas Crise | Prod Des: Elliott Hostetter | Sound Des: Aaron Glascock | With: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Gucci Mane; Heather Morris | Sales: Kinology | Distr NL: Independent Films Nederland bv | www.springbreakersthemovie.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:45 CI4 Fri 25-1 22:15 PA1 Sat 26-1 15:30 PA6 Sat 2-2 22:15 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 18:30 CI5

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Bellas mariposas Pretty Butterflies Salvatore Mereu

Pablo Larraín

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Chile/France/USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 118 min, Spanish Prod: Juan de Dios Larraín, Daniel Marc Dreifuss | Prod Comp: Participant Media, Fabula Producciones | Sc: Pedro Peirano, based on a play by Antonio Skarmeta | Cam: Sergio Armstrong | Ed: Andrea Chignoli | Prod Des: Estefania Larraín | Sound Des: Miguel Hormazabal | With: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antónia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle, Nastor Cantillana, Jaime Vadell, Pascal Monteiro | Sales: Funny Balloons | Distr NL: Filmfreak Distribution Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:00 DJZ Mon 28-1 19:00 PA1 Sat 2-2 21:30 PA7

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The third film by Pablo Larraín about the Chilean Pinochet dictatorship, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. After portraying life under the dictatorship (Tony Manero, 2008, KNF winner in Rotterdam) and how it started (Post mortem, 2010), he now shows the deathblow for Pinochet’s regime: the pro-democratic ‘No’ vote in a referendum held in 1988 under international pressure. This time, Alfredo Castro, the protagonist of Tony Manero and Post mortem, has an important supporting role, while the lead is for Gael García Bernal, as a commercial advertising man who encourages the gloomy opposition to fight a cheerful and optimistic ‘No’ campaign. After the highly stylised design and black-comic tone of his two previous films, Larraín now uses a reportage style in which original news and advertising images have been integrated seamlessly into the film, thanks to the use of old U-matic video cameras. Also see Prófugos in Signals: Changing Channels.

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Italy, 2012 | colour, DCP, 102 min, Italian Prod: Elisabetta Soddu | Prod Comp: Viacolvento s.r.l. | Sc: Salvatore Mereu, based on a story by Sergio Atzeni | Cam: Massimo Foletti | Ed: Paola Freddi | Prod Des: Pietro Rais, Marianna Sciveres | Sound Des: Valentino Gianni, Stefano Sabatini | With: Sara Podda, Maya Mulas, Davide Todde, Micaela Ramazzotti, Luciano Curreli, Maria Loi, Rosalba Piras | Print: Viacolvento s.r.l. | Sales: RAMONDAParis Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 18:45 PA5 Wed 30-1 16:30 PA1 Thu 31-1 18:45 PA5 Sat 2-2 18:30 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 13:15 PA2

V tumane

Ai to Makoto

The western frontier of the Soviet Union in 1942; the local partisans are offering fierce resistance to the German occupiers. Two partisans are ordered to kill a local man who is suspected of collaborating. Sushenya, as the man is known, tries desperately to prove his innocence, while he is taken into the forest by his comrades. In the Fog is based on the book by the White Russian writer and social activist Vasil Bykov (1924-2003). The Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy) aptly portrays the ambivalent, heavyweight war drama in an infinite number of shades of grey. Co-produced by the Dutch company Lemming Film, with the support of the Netherlands Film Fund, In the Fog was a CineMart project in 2011. At the Cannes festival, this intriguing moral tale was awarded by FIPRESCI, the federation of film journalists. Also see Letter in Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.

Miike Takashi’s versatility needn’t really surprise us, yet the great contrast with Lesson of the Evil, Miike’s other film at the IFFR this year, is sharp to put it mildly. Blood, bullets and screaming have given way to the song and dance of the exuberant For Love’s Sake, in which love reigns supreme. The story is inspired by a popular manga from the 1970s by Ikki Kajiwara: The Legend of Love and Sincerity, which you could call the Japanese West Side Story. The respectable rich girl Ai falls for the hooligan Makoto, a boy from the lower class who saved her when she had a skiing accident. Ai does everything – almost as a slave – to help him climb the ladder, but you can’t tame a wildcat. The impossible love unfolds in a richly designed setting filled with choreographed fights, slapstick violence, campy musical numbers with Bollywood dance and an animation here and there. Old-fashioned enjoyment. Also see Lesson of the Evil in this section.

In the Fog Sergei Loznitsa

Germany/Russia/Belarus/ Netherlands/Latvia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 128 min, Russian Prod: Heino Deckert | Prod Comp: ma. ja.de fiction GmbH | Sc: Sergei Loznitsa, based on a novel by Vasil Bykov | Cam: Oleg Mutu | Ed: Danielius Kokanauskis | Prod Des: Kirill Shuvalov | Sound Des: Vladimir Golovnitski | With: Vladimir Svirski, Vlad Abashin, Sergei Kolesov, Vlad Ivanov, Julia Peresild, Nadezhda Markina | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: Contact Film | www.inthefog-movie.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 16:15 PA3 Thu 31-1 21:30 PA2 Fri 1-2 15:30 PA2

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Caterina (11) lives in a sombre, povertystricken neighbourhood of Cagliari, capital of Sardinia. She has a tyrannical father and a horde of brothers and sisters, most of whom are up to no good. And yet the girl is in a good mood. She talks openly – occasionally straight into the camera – about her love for Gigi, the boy next door, and her bond with her best friend Luna. Pretty Butterflies, based on a story by Sergio Atzeni, follows a day in Caterina’s life: the day on which she fears for Gigi because her brother Tonio has just threatened to kill him, and discovers that Gigi is in love with the local slut. But it is also the day when Caterina and Luna go to the beach, eats lots of ice cream, giggle and swim. In the best Italian tradition of films like Brutti, sporchi e cattivi and the recent Gomorrah, Salvatore Mereu shows poverty and misery, but thanks to Caterina’s gaze, the film is also a contemporary version of Zazie dans le métro – filled with youthful recklessness and unruffled optimism. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

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For Love’s Sake Miike Takashi

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Akuno kyoten

Soegija

Lesson of the Evil Miike Takashi

Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 129 min, Japanese Prod: Koji Higashi, Usui Hisashi, Saka Misako | Prod Comp: Toho International Co., OLM, Inc. | Sc: Miike Takashi, based on the novel by Yusuke Kishi | Cam: Kita Nobuyasu | Ed: Yamashita Kenji | Prod Des: Hayashida Yushi, Sakushima Eri | Sound Des: Shibasaki Kenji | Music: Endo Koji | With: Ito Hideaki, Nikaido Fumi, Sometani Shota, Hayashi Kento, Asaka Kodai, Mizuno Erina, Takayuki Yamada | Print/Sales: Toho International Co. | www.akunokyouten.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 19:15 CI1 Sat 26-1 22:15 CI7 Wed 30-1 15:30 DJZ Thu 31-1 19:30 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 12:15 DJZ

Mr Hasumi, English teacher at a Japanese secondary school, is every teenager’s dream. He is handsome, friendly and cool. He is also popular among the other teachers because of his clever methods of combating cribbing. Mr Hasumi defends his pupils: he efficiently tackles a gym teacher who can’t keep his hands off the kids. His motives are however far from altruistic. That’s no surprise. The viewer knows right from the terrifying start that disaster is looming. This clever thriller gradually goes off the rails in spilling blood à la Battle Royale meets American Psycho. Miike’s masterful signature can be seen in the crafted narrative, the stunning art direction and creative torture techniques, with a soldering iron proving its usefulness this time. Film for the fans. The creepy soundtrack, in which several versions of Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht’s Mack the Knife can be heard, will reverberate in everyone’s head for a long time to come. Also see For Love’s Sake in this section.

Garin Nugroho THE BIG SCREEN AWARD COMPETITION

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Indonesia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 120 min, Indonesian/ Dutch/English/Japanese/ Javanese/Cantonese/Latin Prod: Yoseph Iswarahadi | Prod Comp: Puskat Pictures/PT Alam Media | Sc: Armantono, Garin Nugroho | Cam: Teoh Gay Hian | Ed: Wawan I. Wibowo | Prod Des: Ong Hari Wahyu | Sound Des: Satrio Budiono | Music: Djaduk Ferianto | With: Nirwan Dewanto, Annisa Hertami, Wouter Braaf | Print/ Sales: Puskat Pictures/PT Alam Media | www.soegijathemovie.com Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 19:30 PA1 Wed 30-1 13:15 PA3 Fri 1-2 18:30 PA7 Sat 2-2 09:30 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 20:45 PA7

Kuroyuri danchi

Ji-seul

Since the overwhelming success of Ring, Ring 2 and Dark Water, Nakata Hideo has been one of the best-known representatives of J-Horror: Japanese horror focusing on the psychological and the supernatural. After a series of American remakes, things were fairly quiet on this front, but with the oppressive film The Complex, Nakata is back on familiar territory. The student nurse Asuka has moved with her parents and little brother to an apartment in a fairly dilapidated building. It’s a deserted, quiet spot. The neighbour shies away from any form of contact. At night, he keeps Asuka awake with exasperating, scratching sounds. Her family doesn’t seem to notice at all. In addition, it is impolite to complain to the neighbours if you’ve just moved in somewhere. Yet the girl sets off alone to investigate. Entirely in accordance with the laws of the genre, this starts off a terrifying sequence of events that severely try Asuka’s mental state.

On 3 April 1948, a rebellion broke out on the Korean island of Jeju, resulting in conflicts that lasted until September 1954 and tens of thousands of people dead. There are still disagreements about the cause of the bloodbath; thanks to the dubious role played by the South Korean government, the events were ignored for a long time in Korean history. O Muel, who himself comes from this island south of the Korean peninsula, now pays homage to the victims with a requiem. He does not focus on the large-scale struggle, but on the stories of ordinary people, occasionally with black humour and then again sad: quarrels, conflicts, reconciliation and comfort. The most important part of the film focuses on one of the forgotten stories in the rebellion, in which a group of villagers flees to a cave. They hide underground for months, cold and numb, far too close for comfort – just like the potatoes to which the title refers.

The Complex Nakata Hideo

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Japan, 2013 | colour, video, 106 min, Japanese Prod: Yuji Ishida | Prod Comp: Nikkatsu Corporation | Sc: Miyake Ryuta, Kato Junya | Cam: Hayashi Junichiro | Ed: Aono Naoko | Prod Des: Yakuchi Kyoko | Sound Des: Yano Masato | Music: Kawai Kenji | With: Maeda Atsuko, Narimiya Hiroki, Katsumura Masanobu, Nishida Naomi, Tanaka Kanau | Print/ Sales: Nikkatsu Corporation Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 22:00 PA4 Mon 28-1 22:15 LUX Fri 1-2 22:00 PA4 Sat 2-2 22:00 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 15:30 DJZ

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Soegijapranata, or Soegija as he was called, was the first Javanese bishop to be installed in the Dutch East Indies. That happened in 1940, the year when Japanese troops invaded Indonesia. Garin Nugroho tells the story of Indonesia’s complex multicultural society until after its independence, based on various characters whose lives touched each other and who were influenced by the ideas of Soegija. For instance, there is the nurse Maryem, whose brother is shot in the street. And Ling Ling, who is separated from her mother by the Japanese. And of course there are also roles for Dutch people: photographer Hendrick and soldier Robert. Nugroho shows there is no such thing as absolute good and evil; that the Dutch were anything but sweet, and that not all Japanese entered the war with great conviction. Nugroho previously made the IFFR opening films Leaf on a Pillow (1998) and Opera Jawa (2006). Soegija is nominated for The Big Screen Award.

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Jiseul O Muel

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Pearblossom Hwy

Stoker

Mike Ott

Park Chan-Wook

Pearblossom is a small desert town in California, where the Japanese immigrant Anne hangs out with the American Cory, who has not yet come out of the closet. Anna lives with her uncle and aunt and regularly calls her grandma in Japan, whom she misses terribly. To earn money for a trip to Japan, she works as a prostitute. Cory does nothing, except sing in an unsuccessful death-metal band and film himself, hoping to get a place in a reality show. Together with Cory’s conservative brother Jef, the two set off to San Francisco to look for Cory’s real father. The relationships between the three gradually emerge during the journey and it slowly becomes clear what lies behind the deeds (or lack thereof) of the travellers, whose life is set in grittily shot and depressing motel rooms, rainy streets and bars full of strangers, where the truth bubbles to the surface after you’ve had enough beer. The leading roles are played by Atsuko Okatsuka and Cory Zacharia, just as in Mike Ott’s first film, Littlerock.

It was Hitchcock’s Vertigo that made Park Chan-Wook decide to be a filmmaker. Blood-curdling tension, visual symbolism and characters who go off the straight-and-narrow in slow motion are regular ingredients in his films. Stoker, Park’s English-language debut, in which there is more than an echo of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, is a new high point in his oeuvre. Evelyn Stoker and her daughter India try to come to terms with father Richard’s fatal car crash. The sudden arrival of Richard’s brother Charlie puts the two women emotionally even further off balance. India soon finds out that the mysterious uncle has a hidden agenda. But instead of reacting with fury or shock, she falls in love with him. The title refers to Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula. But there are no vampires in the plot. There is an opportunist charmer who is targeting the mother and daughter. Stoker is a dark sexualpsychological drama about murder and betrayal. Closing Film IFFR 2013.

International PREMIERE

South Korea, 2012 | colour, DCP, 99 min, English Prod: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan | Prod Comp: Scott Free Productions, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Indian Paintbrush | Sc: Wentworth Miller | Cam: Chunghoon Chung | Ed: Nicolas De Toth | Prod Des: Thérèse DePrez | Sound Des: Chuck Michael | Music: Clint Mansell | With: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till | Sales: Fox Searchlight Europe | Distr NL: Warner Bros. Pictures Holland Public SCREENING Sat 2-2 21:00 DGZ

Vulgaria

Hong Kong, 2012 | colour, DCP, 92 min, Cantonese Prod: Subi Liang | Prod Comp: Making Film Productions Limited | Sc: Pang Hocheung, Lam Chiu-wing, Luk Yee-sum | Cam: Jason Kwan | Ed: Wenders Li | Sound Des: Ken Wong | Music: Alan Wong, Janet Yung | With: Chapman To, Ronald Cheng, Dada Chan, Susan Shaw, Simon Loui, Matt Chow, Jacqueline Chan, Kristal Tin | Print/ Sales: Golden Scene Company Ltd. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 14:30 CI2 Fri 25-1 22:15 LUX Thu 31-1 20:15 LV3 Fri 1-2 22:30 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 12:30 CI4

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Die Erbin

Pang Ho-cheung

The Heiress Ayse Polat

‘Your attention please. This film contains high doses of curses, political incorrectness, discrimination and sexual situations. Anyone who can’t cope with this has 10 seconds to leave the auditorium.’ Clearly, the latest film by provocateur Pang Ho-cheung is no paragon of good taste. Vulgaria is the humorous – occasionally evoking groans – story of down-and-out film producer To Wai-cheung (Chapman To) who explains to a group of film students what his profession exactly involves. It’s more like a confession than a lecture. One by one, the embarrassing depths of his career are plumbed, including a gruesome dinner with a Chinese Mafia boss who makes To do something indescribable with a mule. Pang is eager to show the banalities of making B-films (To is specialised in films with exploding body parts and/or porn). Yet the cheeky, satirical Vulgaria also has a heart – because the divorced film producer really wants nothing more than to make his little daughter proud.

Hülya is a young German-Turkish writer. Several years after the death of her father, she decides to write a novel about him. In order to get to know him better, she travels to Damal, the place where her father was born and grew up. She meets the people from his youth and reconstructs his life there – at school, at home and in the expansive landscape around the village. While she observes, she does not always get an equally positive picture of her father and the dramatic events that shaped his life and hers. Confusing memories fall into place. At the same time, present, past, reality and fantasy start mingling increasingly naturally and it becomes more and more clear that memory is a far-from-infallible instrument. Nature, idyllically one time and mercilessly next, forms the atmospheric decor for this reflection on the value of family bonds, love and honour.

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Ginger and Rosa

Trois exercises d’interpretation

Sally Potter

Cristi Puiu

UK/Denmark, 2012 | colour, DCP, 86 min, English Prod: Christopher Sheppard, Andrew Litvin, Jonas Allen | Prod Comp: Adventure Pictures, Miso Film | Sc: Sally Potter | Cam: Robbie Ryan | Ed: Anders Refn | Prod Des: Carlos Conti | With: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Annette Bening, Timothy Spall | Print/Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | www.sallypotter.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 13:002 PA5 Tue 29-1 22:302 PA1 Fri 1-2 09:452 PA5 Sat 2-2 16:452 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 20:30 DJZ

The teenage girls Ginger and Rosa are best friends who grow up in London in the 1960s, under the real threat of a nuclear war as a result of the Cuba crisis in 1962. The friendship between the two is put to the test: Ginger becomes obsessed by her desire to take action and joins protest movements. In the meantime, Rosa falls for the charms of Ginger’s father, who has just left her mother. The mood of the restless 1960s, which is not only shaped by political changes but also by sexual liberation, is effectively captured in atmospheric images supported by a jazzy soundtrack (Dave Brubeck’s Take Five). Sally Potter (Orlando) took on a cast including Annette Bening, Alessandro Nivola and Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks alongside the widely-praised leading lady, Elle Fanning, who was 13 when the film was shot.

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O Rio nos pertence

Morro dos Prazeres

This could be two films. Either it’s a film-noir thriller, in which information emerges in fits and starts in a rollercoaster ride to inevitable danger. Or it’s a psychological drama with a poetic bent, in which the viewer is immersed in the memories of the troubled protagonist. The protagonist is Marina, who returns to Rio de Janeiro after an absence of 10 years. The motivation was a mysterious postcard, but Marina herself doesn’t really know why she is back in town. She looks for answers with an ex-boyfriend and her sister, but doesn’t get any further. Gradually, daydreams and reality start to mingle and paranoia grips her. Rio Belongs to Us was made on a modest budget of less than 200,000 dollars, but that can’t be seen in the design. The camera effectively captures the light and space of the metropolis, which can be stunningly beautiful one minute and threatening the next.

Rio de Janeiro has some 700 favelas. The poorest of these slum districts have the most beautiful names, such as Morro dos Prazeres – Hill of Pleasures – where drugs gangs rule the roost and terrorise the population. To make matters worse, torrential rains in 2010 caused a mudslide resulting in 15 deaths and enormous havoc. Things were just starting to look up for these slums. Only two years earlier, the city council had introduced the Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora (UPP), a large-scale police force to combat the violence. This was of course in preparation for the football World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016. This skilful documentary shows life in the favela through the eyes of a policewoman, a bookseller, a community leader, a postman and a 13-year-old girl. Has their life got better in recent years? Does the UPP work, and is it as immune to corruption as the authorities say? And will protection be guaranteed after 2016?

Rio Belongs to Us Ricardo Pretti

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Brazil, 2013 | colour, DCP, 75 min, Portuguese/English Prod: Rita Toledo | Prod Comp: Daza Produção Cultural LTDA ME | Sc: Ricardo Pretti | Cam: Ivo Lopes Araújo | Ed: Luiz Pretti, Gustavo Parente | Prod Des: Rita Toledo | Sound Des: Bernardo Uzeda | Music: Bernardo Uzeda | With: Leandra Leal, Mariana Ximenes, Jiddu Pinheiro | Sales: Daza Produção Cultural LTDA ME | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 21:45 PA3 Sun 27-1 13:30 CI4 Tue 29-1 12:00 LV2 Fri 1-2 20:00 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 12:45 PA6

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This trilogy (consisting of the films The Cat is On the Chair, The Mouse is Under the Table and The Monkey is On the Branch) is the result of a workshop at the French artists’ studio Chantiers Nomades. Puiu was inspired by Three Conversations, the masterpiece by 19thcentury Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov. The treatise, subtitled ‘About War, Morality and Religion’, is embedded in refined character studies. In his subdued cinematography, Puiu always puts the acting first. In The Cat... Anne-Marie and her daughter Ludivine receive their old friends Diana and Bernabé for lunch. In The Mouse… the academic Ugo takes his childhood friend Jean-Benoit, a soldier, out to lunch with Patrick and his wife Marion. In The Monkey... we see the girlfriends Hillary, Perrine, Anne and Nathalie talk as they have lunch. All discuss life, friendship, war and faith. In the evening, all the groups meet in a light-footed scene in which they hold a séance.

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Hill of Pleasures Maria Ramos

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Netherlands/Brazil, 2013 | colour, video, 95 min, Portuguese Prod: Janneke Doolaard | Prod Comp: KeyDocs | Sc: Maria Augusta Ramos | Cam: Guy Gonçalves, Leo Bittencourt, Miguel Lindenberg | Ed: Karen Akerman | Print/Sales: KeyDocs Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 18:30 PA2 Wed 30-1 16:15 PA3 Thu 31-1 11:45 LV1 Sat 2-2 14:15 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 13:30 PA2

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El muerto y ser feliz

Spain/Argentina/France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 94 min, Spanish Prod: Luis Miñarro, José Nolla, Damián París | Prod Comp: Eddie Saeta S.A. Iconica, S.A., Lolita Films, | Sc: Lola Mayo, Javier Rebollo, Salvador Roselli | Cam: Santiago Racaj | Ed: Ángel Hernández Zoido | Prod Des: Miguel Ángel Rebollo | Sound Des: Pelayo Gutiérrez, Daniel Fontrodona | With: José Sacristán, Roxana Blanco, Valeria Alonso, Jorge Jellinek | Print/ Sales: Urban Distribution International | www.elmuertoyserfeliz.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 20:00 CI7 Mon 28-1 21:30 PA2 Tue 29-1 20:00 CI2 Fri 1-2 15:45 PA5

Atambua 39° Celsius

The Dead Man and Being Happy Javier Rebollo

Riri Riza

With a yellow case filled with morphine, which he bought from a nurse who also offers erotic services, the terminally-ill ex-hitman Santos embarks on his last journey. The destination of this ‘everyman’ is just as uncertain as it is sure, because however capricious his course, he cannot avoid death. Or is there maybe a way to live on? In his old car, which he lovingly calls Camborio, the equally charming and impenetrable Santos travels across panoramic Argentine plains, staying in scruffy hotels. On the way, he has the company of a young woman who also has a bond with death. A loving road movie with occasionally unexpected absurd elements and a contrary addition: a voice-over that provides a commentary on events and makes us aware of the fact that we are watching a film. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize from the international press in San Sebastian, where José Sacristán (Santos) won the best actor award.

Rootlessness gnaws at the souls of East Timorese refugees in the dusty border town of Atambua. Bus driver Ronaldo escaped when violence broke out over independence after the referendum in 1999. He left his wife and two daughters behind but took his son João with him. Embittered, he swears he will only return when his birthplace is Indonesian again. João is now a teenager who avoids his father, hangs out with friends and seeks solace in cassette recordings of his mother’s voice. Apart from Ronaldo being sacked for drinking, not much happens in their lives, that have ground to a halt, until João takes a fancy to Nikia, a girl he hasn’t seen for a long time and who holds a painful secret. Against the background of impressions of everyday life and religious customs on this largely Catholic island, we see how this encounter kick-starts the lives of the three again. A low-budget film with local actors by a director who also has commercial hits to his name.

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Post tenebras lux

Avant que mon coeur bascule

Carlos Reygadas

Before My Heart Falls

Sébastien Rose

Mexico/France/Netherlands/ Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 120 min, Spanish Prod: Jaime Romandía, Carlos Reygadas | Prod Comp: Mantarraya Producciones, NoDream Cinema | Sc: Carlos Reygadas | Cam: Alexis Zabe | Ed: Natalia López | Prod Des: Gerardo Tagle | Sound Des: Sergio Diaz | With: Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres, Rut Reygadas, Eleazar Reygadas | Sales: NDM | Distr NL: Wild Bunch Benelux Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:45 SGZ Fri 25-1 16:30 CI2 Wed 30-1 21:15 PA6 Thu 31-1 14:00 SGZ

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Mexican master Carlos Reygadas juxtaposes computer-generated images of a fiery red devil moving like the Pink Panther with B-film horror (a man pulls off his own head); group sex in a sauna with fairytale-like, slightly distorted images of a young girl pacing through a majestic landscape; and an affluent man and his stunningly beautiful wife having existential discussions about their relationship(s) with shots of a junior rugby team. Reygadas, whose feature debut Japón had its world premiere at the IFFR in 2002, compares the rough, associative and instinctive Post Tenebras Lux (‘light after darkness’) with an Expressionist painting in which he makes room for his deepest feelings, his memories, dreams, desires and fears. At the Cannes festival the film was booed, but Reygadas took home the prize for best direction. Partly financed by the Dutch Film Fund and co-produced by the Dutch company Topkapi Films.

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Canada, 2012 | colour, DCP, 96 min, French Prod: Paul Barbeau | Prod Comp: Reprisefilms | Sc: Stefanie Lasnier, Sebastien Rose | Cam: Nicolas Bolduc | Ed: Philippe Melançon | Prod Des: Marjorie Rhéaume | Sound Des: Gilles Corbeil | With: Sophie Lorain, Clémence Dufresne-Deslières, Alexis Martin, Sébastien Ricard, Étienne Laforge | Print/Sales: Reprisefilms Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 21:15 PA6 Wed 30-1 09:30 PA7 Fri 1-2 19:15 LV6 Sat 2-2 16:00 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 28-1 09:15 CI4

Unscrupulous teenager Sarah has an unusual life. In a strange, marginal ménage à trois with her contemporary Louis and the older Ji-Guy, she fills her days with petty crime. During the day she hangs around with Louis by motorways, where she deceives and robs innocent people offering a lift. One day things go wrong: a driver dies during a robbery attempt. Sarah can’t stop thinking about the dead man and goes looking for the wife he left behind. In her, she finally finds something of the security and friendship she had unconsciously been seeking for so long. But her alternative family doesn’t just let her go. Sébastien Rose films the story of this adolescent girl as she grows up and becomes conscious in very realistic images, against the sombre background of grey motorways and decaying industrial sites.

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La noche de enfrente

O uivo da gaita

This last film by Raúl Ruiz, who died in 2011, is an adaptation of the novel by Hernan del Solar and can be regarded as a long take through themes that the Chilean filmmaker tackled in over 100 films. Music, literature, cinema, flowing and circular time, childhood and political exile, as a result of which he was forced to leave his homeland for many years. It is Wednesday when the film starts. Don Celso has to retire in five days’ time. He doesn’t want to, even though he declares that he has no more ideas to enable him to do his work. When asked, he says he is waiting for a foreigner who is coming to murder him. Ruiz allows the present and past to overlap increasingly in the course of the film and, just like life and death, they are no longer separate categories. A melancholy reflection of what Ruiz was thinking about at the end of his life, but he always maintains his characteristically light tone.

In the opening scene, which lasts for minutes, we see a gigantic container ship slowly sailing by at dawn. At the end of the film, Brazilian director Bruno Safadi shows an enormous cruise ship, but then in the middle of the night, filmed in the same way with a fixed camera from a distance. In between, Safadi focuses on three beautiful, young, affluent people: Pedro, Antônia and Luana circle each other like floating islands. Restless. Adrift. Possessed by love. Possessed by themselves. The form is experimental; the title only appears on screen after half an hour and the powerful, penetrating soundtrack often tells a completely different story from the suggestive images. This hypnotic, alienating film is part of Operation Sonia Silk, a project supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and made by a collective of filmmakers, actors and crew who shot three feature films in two weeks on a very modest budget.

Night Across the Street Raúl Ruiz

Harmonica’s Howl Bruno Safadi

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Brazil, 2013 | colour, DCP, 72 min, Portuguese Prod: Rita Toledo, Bruno Safadi, Ricardo Pretti, Carolina Benjamín | Prod Comp: Daza Produção Cultural LTDA ME, TB Produções, Alumbramento Produções Cinematográficas Ltda | Sc: Bruno Safadi | Cam: Ivo Lopes Araújo | Ed: Luiz Pretti, Guto Parente | Prod Des: Luísa Horta | Sound Des: Edson Secco | Music: Guilherme Vaz | With: Mariana Ximenes, Leandra Leal, Jiddu Pinheiro | Sales: TB Produções | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 19:30 PA3 Sun 27-1 16:00 CI4 Tue 29-1 14:30 LV2 Fri 1-2 09:00 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 18:00 CI5

Éden

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 75 min, Portuguese Prod: Bruno Safadi, Jan Roldanus | Prod Comp: TB Produções, GreenGo Films | Sc: Antonia Pellegrino, Bruno Safadi | Cam: Lula Carvalho | Ed: Rodrigo Lima | Prod Des: Jan Roldanus | Sound Des: Edson Secco | Music: Guilherme Vaz | With: Leandra Leal, João Miguel, Julio Andrade, André Ramiro, Cristina Lago, João Zappa | Print/Sales: TB Produções Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 21:302 PA2 Sun 27-1 21:45 CI6 Thu 31-1 22:15 PA1 Fri 1-2 11:452 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 09:45 CI4

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The Unspeakable Act

Eden Bruno Safadi

Dan Sallitt

In the beautiful opening scene, a tear trickles from the left eye of a pretty young woman whose face is filmed in close-up. The droplet however does not fall down, but defies gravity and moves sideways. When the camera zooms out, it becomes clear that the woman is lying in a sky-blue indoor swimming pool, with both her hands clamped around her enormous belly. She is very pregnant. What follows is a penetrating portrait of a lonely, terrified woman in the last few days of her confinement. She desperately seeks support from a TV evangelist, who in front of his camera confronts her with the man who shot the father of her unborn child. Leandra Leal is amazing in the leading role, and the beautiful photography of the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro and the hypnotic soundtrack (Leal for instance gives a memorable if not entirely in tune interpretation of the Spandau Ballet hit True) contribute to the intense alienating mood.

The act that is unspeakable is the consummation of a forbidden love: that between 17-year-old Jackie and her elder brother Matthew, who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual, one-parent family in Brooklyn. A one-sided love, because while Matthew loves her, he is not sexually interested in his sister. That causes problems when he goes off to study and gets girlfriends. Jackie finds herself in a crisis and then on the sofa of a psychiatrist, where she analyses her romantic desires and the inevitable onset of maturity. She also makes half-hearted attempts to form relationships with boys other than her brother. In a voice-over, we follow closely the inner struggles of Jackie, who is played with great care and eye for detail by the newcomer Tallie Medel, directed by former film critic Dan Sallitt in what is already his third feature.

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USA, 2012 | colour, video, 91 min, English Prod: Shari Berman, Ania Trzebiatowska, Jaime Christley | Sc: Dan Sallitt | Cam: Duraid Munajim | Ed: Dan Sallitt | Prod Des: Bridget Rafferty | Sound Des: Dan Sallitt | With: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares, Kati Schwartz, Caroline Luft | Print/Sales: Dan Sallitt Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:30 PA2 Fri 25-1 19:15 SGZ Sun 27-1 14:30 LUX Fri 1-2 12:00 CI5

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Il futuro

The Future Alicia Scherson

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Chile/Germany/Italy/ Spain, 2013 | colour, DCP, 94 min, Italian/English Prod: Bruno Bettati | Prod Comp: Jirafa | Sc: Alicia Scherson, based on a novel by Roberto Bolaño | Cam: Ricardo de Angelis | Ed: Soledad Salfate, Ana Alvarez Ossorio | Prod Des: Tim Pannen, Marta Zani, Sebastián Muñoz | Sound Des: Miguel Hormazábal | Music: Eduardo Henriquez, Caroline Chaspoul | With: Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Rutger Hauer, Alessandro Giallocosta, Nicolas Vaporidis | Print/ Sales: Visit Films | www.jirafa.cl/il-futuro Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 16:30 PA1 Sun 27-1 21:30 PA2 Mon 28-1 09:15 CI1 Sat 2-2 10:00 PA4 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 22:30 CI3

Paradies: Glaube Paradise: Faith Ulrich Seidl

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When the parents of Bianca and Tomas suddenly die, the teenagers are left alone. The brother and sister try to carry on with their lives, made more difficult by the bright blue-green light that keeps them awake at night. Two friends persuade Bianca to work for Maciste, an old film star, as his ‘lady companion’. He is thought to have hidden a lot of cash in his villa – which could bring a better future for Tomas and Bianca. Il futuro, surprisingly enough the first filming of a novel by Roberto Bolaño, is as much about the past as it is about the future. This is primarily expressed in the figure of Maciste (a beautiful role by Rutger Hauer, with a nod to a famous role from his own past). Unexpressed emotions that are also tangible and an almost matter-offact magic realism, a soundtrack that tears and then is light, the play of light and darkness – these paradoxes in Scherson’s third feature are very cleverly forged into a whole. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

Austria/France/Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 113 min, German Prod: Ulrich Seidl | Prod Comp: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH | Sc: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz | Cam: Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman | Ed: Christof Schertenleib | Prod Des: Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser | Sound Des: Ekkehart Baumung | With: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalija Baranova, Rene Rupnik, Dieter Masur, Trude Masur | Sales: Coproduction Office | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 16:45 SGZ Mon 28-1 10:00 PA6 Fri 1-2 17:15 CI1 Sat 2-2 21:45 PA5 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 09:45 CI3

Fata Morgana

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Austria, 2013 | b&w, DCP, 140 min, German Prod: Peter Schreiner | Prod Comp: echt.zeit.film | Sc: Peter Schreiner | Cam: Peter Schreiner | Ed: Peter Schreiner | Sound Des: Johannes SchmelzerZiringer | Music: Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer | With: Awad Elkish, Christian Schmidt, Giuliana Pachner | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 18:15 PA6 Sat 26-1 11:00 CI2 Tue 29-1 19:15 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 16:45 CI5

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What started as one film project with three stories developed into the Paradise trilogy. After premieres at Cannes (Love, 2012) and Venice (Faith, 2012), the third part, Hope (2013), is debuting at the coming Berlin Festival – meaning that Ulrich Seidl has scored a unique hat-trick. Faith, hope and love do not guarantee happiness with the melancholy Austrian, who makes features and documentaries in more or less the same style, focusing on long, static shots of sombre, symmetrically shot spaces. Seidl’s subject is, as always, shocking. In Paradise: Faith, the Christian faith of an Austrian fundamentalist (regular Seidl heroine Maria Hofstätter), who sells statues of the Virgin Mary door to door, chastises herself and also professes her love of Jesus in a sexual way, clashes increasingly violently with the reactionary worldview of her Islamic and wheelchair-bound Egyptian husband. This earned the film the Special Jury Prize in Venice.

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Peter Schreiner

The Russian Novel Shin Yeon-Shick

Austrian experimental documentary maker Peter Schreiner undertakes a psychoanalytic quest for human existence. It’s a cross between Freud and Sartre, magical and minimalist, as long as you dare. Two wrinkled lovers, marked by life, expose their deepest inner emotions. Giuliana compares the vaults of her spirit with closed doors that you ‘have to open cautiously’. ‘But,’ Christian wonders, ‘does that make you happier?’ They talk slowly and calmly, looking for the right words for their inner demons. It all comes down to reason and feeling and where the two meet. About reality that looks both familiar and alienating. And about the impossibility of understanding yourself – let alone anyone else. Schreiner’s magnum opus is spiritualising but also stimulating. Majestic panoramic landscape shots fade into close-ups of faces, meticulously examined by the camera. As such, Schreiner is hard yet humane, merciless yet tender.

Many writers only become famous after their death. That also applies to a certain extent to the 27-year-old Shin-hyo, who in the first part of the film, shot in black-and-white, tries to become a successful writer. His books do not manage to find an interested audience, however. He seeks solace in the advice of a writer who is already successful, turns to excessive drinking and women, but all in vain. In the end he gives up and tries to commit suicide. But even that is a failure. The disappointed author ends up in a coma but recovers from his vegetative state 27 years later. Then he discovers that a book attributed to him, The Russian Novel, has become very popular and thus he is world-famous. As a result his life – shot in the second part in colour – is anything but orderly. It is more reminiscent of a Russian novel: long, complex and with many characters.

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South Korea, 2012 | colour, DCP, 140 min, Korean Prod: Shin Yeon-Shick | Sc: Shin Yeon-Shick | Cam: Choi Yong-Jin | Ed: Kim Jeong-Hoon | Prod Des: Choi Yong-Jin | Sound Des: Kim ChangHoon | Music: Kim Seen-Eel | With: Kang Shin-Hyo, Kyoung SeongWhan, Kim In-Soo, Lee Jae-Hye | Print/Sales: Shin Yeon-Shick Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:15 PA6 Fri 25-1 16:30 CI4 Sun 27-1 16:15 CI2 Sat 2-2 21:45 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 24-1 09:15 CI5

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Lore

Du zhan Drug War Johnnie To

Cate Shortland

Australia/Germany/UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 109 min, German/English Prod: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts, Paul Welsh, Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel | Prod Comp: Porchlight Films, Edge City Films Ltd., Rohfilm | Sc: Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee, based on a novel by Rachel Seiffert | Cam: Adam Arkapaw | Ed: Veronika Jenet | Prod Des: Silke Fischer | Sound Des: Sam Petty | Music: Max Richter | With: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Mika Seidel, André Frid | Sales: Memento Films International | Distr NL: ABC – Cinemien Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 11:30 CI1 Wed 30-1 16:15 LUX Fri 1-2 16:45 LV1 Sat 2-2 11:00 SGZ

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After the sensitive coming-of-age drama Somersault (2004), Australian Cate Shortland turns to a theme much further from home: the physical and mental ruins of Germany in 1945, directly after the capitulation. Yet this film is also about growing up and making choices. Lore is a girl with a firm faith in the values of her upbringing. That faith is put under pressure when, shortly after Hitler’s suicide, both her SS father and her mother disappear – probably thrown into jail. Lore is alone and has to get her younger sister and three little brothers to safety. With sensitive, glowing camerawork and a secure soundtrack, Shortland captures Lore’s state of mind. By consistently choosing the point of view of the girl, the film avoids making any all too easy moral judgements. Lore, an intimate story about indoctrination and the collapse of a world view, won the Locarno Festival’s audience award.

Hong Kong, 2012 | colour, DCP, 107 min, Mandarin Prod: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai | Prod Comp: Milkyway Image, Hairun Media | Sc: Wai Ka-fai, Yau Nai-hoi, Ryker Chan, Yu Xi | Cam: Cheng Siu-keung | Ed: David Richardson, Allen Leung | Prod Des: Horace Ma | Sound Des: Ricky Yip | Music: Xavier Jameux | With: Sun Honglei, Louis Koo, Huang Yi, Gao Yungxiang, Wallace Chung, Hao Ping, Gan Tingting | Print/ Sales: Media Asia Distribution Limited Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 16:15 LUX Thu 31-1 19:15 PA1 Fri 1-2 18:45 PA5 Sat 2-2 13:30 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 14:45 CI5

Touch

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The taciturn police commander Zhang leads an undercover drugs team and in his continuous battle against the ubiquitous drug barons, takes up arms against his arch enemy, Timmy Choi. When he gets hold of Choi, he makes a deal with him: in exchange for his life (in China you can get the death penalty for producing only 50 grams of drugs) the young criminal will help the police infiltrate a sizeable drug network. Zhang is helped by the young female detective Xiao Bei: undercover, they are the cheerful drug dealer Ha-ha and his vulgar wife. Johnnie To’s first action film on the Chinese mainland – again made in cooperation with scriptwriter Wai Ka-fai – is a grubby, realisticlooking glimpse of the work of the narcotics brigade. Accompanied by a driving score by Xavier Jamaux, the cinematogenic action scenes follow each other at high speed with pursuits, shoot-outs and explosions. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

Torres & cometas

Shelly Silver

Towers & Comets Gonçalo Tocha

A man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images – his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we look at them and share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse. Touch is an essay narrated from one man’s point of view. But it is also fiction, for this man is a made-up person, an amalgam of research, interviews, off-the-record comments, secrets, improbabilities, and free-floating desires. This man, who never tells us his name, returns as both insider and outsider to a neighbourhood from which he escaped, as a teenager, as fast as he could. Silver: ‘I want to focus on the act – particular, yet open-ended – that entrances my protagonist: an act that we, the audience, share with him. This is the act of watching. Looking. Seeing. What does it mean to look, to watch, to photograph, to film?’

Guimarães, founded in the ninth century A.D., is in northern Portugal. From this town, Afonso Henriques fought against the Spanish ruler and declared independence in 1128. Guimarães – now a world heritage site – was the first capital of the new kingdom. Last year, the town was European Cultural Capital, along with Maribor in Slovenia. In this context, several films were made, including Centro histórico by Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice and Manoel de Oliveira. Towers & Comets also fits in this list. Together with sound man Didio Pestana, Gonçalo Tocha circles the mediaeval town like a comet. Against the background of the city walls with their imposing battlements, in which the text ‘Portugal was born here’ is hewn, he dives into a lively past filled with saints, historical key figures and above all music – a lot of music – from string orchestras to party bands with accordions.

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Portugal, 2012 | colour, DCP, 61 min, Portuguese Prod: Gonçalo Tocha | Prod Comp: Fundação Cidade Guimarães | Sc: Gonçalo Tocha | Cam: Gonçalo Tocha | Ed: Gonçalo Tocha, Rui Ribeiro | Sound Des: Didio Pestana, Andre Neto | Music: Minhotos Marotos | With: Jerónimo Silva, José Paul, Júlio Castro, Roriz Mendes, José Novais | Print: Gonçalo Robalo | Sales: Gonçalo Tocha Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 17:152 CI4 Fri 1-2 16:452 LV6 Sat 2-2 11:002 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 09:00 CI5

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Lukas nino

Odayaka na nichijo

Lukas the Strange John Torres

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Philippines, 2013 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Tagalog Prod: John Torres | Prod Comp: Los Otros Films | Sc: John Torres, Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Dodo Dayao | Cam: Albert Banzon, Gym Lumbera | Ed: John Torres | Prod Des: Whammy Alcazaren, Jacyn Esquillon | With: Cheeno Dalog Ladera, Edilberto Marcelino | Sales: Los Otros Films | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:15 CI6 Sat 26-1 10:00 PA6 Mon 28-1 16:30 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 12:00 CI4

The films of John Torres have a highly personal style that results from a very unique, improvisational way of working. Here, he remains faithful to his improvisational approach with fragments of reality, but there is obviously more history, more drama and a certain level of convoluted strangeness. Lukas the Strange has a light and disruptive tone. Those who know Torres’ previous work will be surprised that special digital effects have now been given a role in his normally so documentary-like reality. Torres had several points of departure. He wanted to pay homage to the legendary Filipino filmmaker Ishmael Bernal, give the horrific news of the murder of 40 journalists a place and also tell his own story about a local maker of video letters for overseas lovers. All of this bathed in the benevolent light of Mindanao in the Philippines. A film in which the discovery of film is still implied.

Odayaka Uchida Nobuteru

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Japan/USA, 2012 | colour, video, 100 min, Japanese Prod: Kiki Sugino, Eric Nyari | Prod Comp: WA Entertainment Inc | Sc: Uchida Nobuteru | Cam: Tsunoda Shinichi | Ed: Uchida Nobuteru | Prod Des: Yamashita Shuji | Sound Des: Jo Keita | Music: Jo Keita | With: Sugino Kiki, Shinohara Yukiko, Yamamoto Takeshi, Watanabe Ami | Print/Sales: WA Entertainment Inc Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 14:15 CI1 Fri 25-1 13:00 PA4 Thu 31-1 19:30 CI1 Fri 1-2 13:30 DJZ Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 11:00 DJZ

Kid

The suburb of Tokyo where this latest film by Uchida Nobuteru is set may be far from the disaster zone in northeastern Japan, but this does not reduce the psychological aftershocks of the earthquake on 11 March 2011. Two young women are very worried about the radioactivity that escaped from the nuclear power plant at Fukushima and rebel against the common tendency to act as if everything is under control. Saeko, deserted on the day of the disaster by her husband, is accused of being a troublemaker at her daughter’s school. Yukako has great difficulty persuading her husband to ask for a transfer. Using the ironic title Odayaka na nichijo (which can be translated as ‘Calm Daily Life’), Japanese unity falls from its pedestal. While refugees from the disaster zone face discrimination, the fear and uncertainty of Saeko and Yukako leads to an emotional denouement. Just as in Love Addiction (Tiger Awards Competition 2011), in this realistic low-budget film, Uchida depends very much on his actors. Nominated for The Big Screen Award.

How to Describe a Cloud

Fien Troch

David Verbeek

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Kid is the youngest of two sons who live on a farm with their single mother – and for a long time we don’t find out what is up with their father. And it also soon becomes clear that they are in a desperate situation. There is no money and the mother is harassed by a bunch of shady types. In the meantime, Kid and his brother Billy go to school, where things are also far from easy. Kid’s life is captured in meticulously framed scenes with a static camera. In the house, in the classroom and in the headmaster’s office or in the desolate parking lot of the supermarket. Dramatic events and important conversations occur just out of sight and out of hearing of the youngsters, as is the case for all young children. And just like Kid, impressively played by Bent Simons, the audience has to make its own interpretation of the situation based on scant details.

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WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Mandarin Prod: Wout Conijn | Prod Comp: Conijn Film | Sc: David Verbeek | Cam: Jean Counet | Ed: Patrick Schonewille | Sound Des: Peter Warnier | With: Lu Huang, Yi Ching Lu, Pong Fong Wu | Print/Sales: Conijn Film Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 19:15 PA1 Sun 27-1 15:30 PA7 Mon 28-1 19:30 DJZ Thu 31-1 14:15 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:30 PA6 Tue 29-1 17:00 DJZ

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David Verbeek made this film on a tiny budget in the lull before his larger Dead & Beautiful had been fully financed. With its reflections on the role of spirituality in modern society, this film may be a precursor to his next, a socially critical vampire film. But How to Describe a Cloud can stand on its own two feet. The story of Liling seems to unfold intuitively. When her mother goes blind, the young musician is suddenly forced to leave her big-city cocoon and return to the small island where she grew up. There, her scientific approach to blindness, in which she presents the world to her mother through words on the advice of the doctor, clashes with her old mother’s spiritual approach. She argues that she can’t see the world around her any more, but can still sense it. Could the science-fiction drawings of the former scientist with whom she flirts in the city provide mediation? Nominated for The Big Screen Award. Verbeek’s Immortelle screens in Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.

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11.25 jiketsu no hi: Mishima Yukio to wakamono-tachi

Sightseers Ben Wheatley

11.25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate

Wakamatsu Koji

France/Hong Kong, 2012 | colour, DCP, 89 min, Mandarin Prod: Sylvie Faguer, Mao Hui | Prod Comp: Album Productions, Chinese Shadows | Cam: Huang Wenhai, Li Peifeng, Wang Bing | Ed: Louise Prince | Sound Des: Antoine Fournier | Print: Album Productions | Sales: Chinese Shadows Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:15 PA6 Wed 30-1 19:15 CI4 Thu 31-1 18:30 PA7 Sat 2-2 09:45 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 18:15 DJZ

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Besides a feted writer, Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) was a fanatical supporter of the Japanese Emperor and ‘bushido’ honour codes of the Samurai. Here, director Wakamatsu Koji, who died in October 2012, shows Mishima’s rightwing radicalisation in the turbulent 1960s. Japan was a polarised society in which extreme left-wing students occupied universities while the right tried to put Japanese nationalism back on the map, by revising the 1951 security treaty between Japan and the US that banned Japanese military intervention and allowed American military bases in Japan. The film, larded with archive footage, shows Mishima undergoing intensive military training and becoming increasingly radical, founding the paramilitary organisation Tatenokai (Shield Society) in order to organise a coup like the one in 1936. When this fails, there is nothing left for him than to commit seppuku (ritual suicide).

UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 89 min, English Prod: Nira Park, Claire Jones, Andrew Starke | Prod Comp: Big Talk Productions, Rook Films | Sc: Amy Jump, Alice Lowe, Steve Oram | Cam: Laurie Rose | Ed: Robin Hill, Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley | Prod Des: Jane Levick | Sound Des: Martin Pavey | Music: Jim Williams | With: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Jonathan Aris, Richard Glover, Monica Dolan | Sales: Protagonist Pictures | Distr NL: Cinéart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:30 LUX Sun 27-1 09:45 LV1 Tue 29-1 22:15 LV2 Sat 2-2 21:00 PA2 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 13:00 CI5

This very British, loose variation on Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands follows an apparently everyday couple who go on holiday together for the first time. Tina and Chris are both in their thirties. She lives at home with her dominant and fairly hysterical mother; he is a connoisseur of attractions such as the pencil museum in Keswick and the Valhalla for tram lovers, the Crich Tramway Village. Once on holiday, they get to really know each other. Tina discovers that good-natured, gentle Chris has a darker side – he doesn’t hesitate to kill people who annoy him. In turn, she surprises him with the ease with which she goes along with his murderous lusts. After the violent gangster comedy Down Terrace and the horror film Kill List, Ben Wheatley’s third film has a lighter tone. The screenplay was not written by himself this time, but by the protagonists Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, who come from the British comedy circuit.

Gu du

La cinquième saison

Alone Wang Bing

The Fifth Season Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens

His documentaries previously screened in Rotterdam, including the epic Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, have shown Wang Bing to be a gifted and sensitive observer of today’s China. For his documentary Alone, he went to the province of Yunnan where, in a very poor mountain village, he filmed the daily lives of three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4. The mother left three years ago for an unknown destination; father works in a remote town. It looks like the eldest girl seldom goes to school and has taken on the role of caring for her still playful sisters. Despite their difficult circumstances, they also have fun and occasionally drop in to see an aunt and grandpa. Their life changes drastically when father decides to take the youngest two with him and leave the eldest with grandpa. Until another surprising twist occurs. Alone is a shorter version of the film Three Sisters screened in Venice.

After Khadak (situated in Mongolia) and Altiplano (Peru), for this concluding part of their trilogy Brosens and Woodworth stay closer to home. The magic feeling is however the same. In a Belgian farming village, winter is driven out every year with a huge bonfire, but this time it refuses to catch light. It’s as if the world is hit by a mysterious disaster. Spring and summer remain barren and dead, the cock doesn’t crow, the cows give no milk and seeds don’t germinate in the fields. Even the tender love of Alice and Thomas does not seem able to survive this lapse of nature. Solidarity in the once lively village is affected and people go looking for a scapegoat. Once again, the impressive images and powerful visual styling are striking and painting is one of the inspirations of the makers. Often a cross between documentary realism and open-air theatre, it won the Young Cinema Award in Venice.

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Belgium/Netherlands/ France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 94 min, French/Dutch Prod: Peter Brosens, Diana Elbaum, Philippe Avril, Joop van Wijk | Prod Comp: Bo Films, Entre Chien et Loup | Sc: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Cam: Hans Bruch Jr. | Ed: Jessica Woodworth | Prod Des: Igor Gabriel | Music: Michel Schöpping | With: Aurélia Poirier, Django Schrevens, Sam Louwyck, Gill Vancompernolle | Sales: Films Boutique | Distr NL: Contact Film | www.thefifthseason.be Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 21:00 PA4 Sun 27-1 12:30 PA2 Fri 1-2 15:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 09:00 CI4

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Wo hai you hua yao shuo When Night Falls Ying Liang

When Wang Jingmei returned home on 1 July 2008, she was met by the police because her son had murdered six policemen. She was taken to a psychiatric hospital where she was held for months without being able to attend the trial or make a statement to support her son. In the docudrama based on these events, When Night Falls (Best Direction and Actress at Locarno), director-screenwriter Ying Liang focuses in calm scenes on the mother’s silent indignation and sorrow. Back in her poorly heated apartment in Beijing, she desperately wonders whether she can do anything for her son, who is on death row. In the meantime, she is besieged by activists protesting against the dubious court proceedings, a sensitive subject in China. This affair was also the subject of the documentary One Recluse by the artist and activist Ai Weiwei that was screened last year in Rotterdam.

Sedia elettrica – Il making-of del film Io e te Electric Chair – The Making-of the Film Me and You

Monica Stambrini

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Io e te is the first feature film by Bernardo Bertolucci since The Dreamers (2003) and his first in Italy since La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981) – and that despite the fact that the 72-yearold director has been confined to a wheelchair for some years now. Monica Stambrini follows the master – in his ‘electric chair’ as he calls it, and which he jokingly describes as ‘God’s punishment’ for the many dolly-shots in his oeuvre – around the set of Io e te. His new position seems to have influenced the style and content of his film. His lead, a surly teen, consciously limits his mobility by retreating to a basement. And the way in which Bertolucci’s camera glides after the boy reflects how the director moves around on set. Stambrini recorded Bertolucci’s doubts about digital cinema, his nervousness as he waits until the crew is ready, brief, intimate moments with his young leads and a visit to the set from Debra Winger and Richard Gere.

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Ai Is Japanese for Love

Beyond the Beyond

Two female Japanese directors examine family love. Kawase’s concluding part of a series of intimate portraits of her foster grandmother and an experimental work on sexuality by Oguchi.

Films that leave a lot to the imagination: but have a tangible basis.

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Point de Gaze Chiri

Jodie Mack

Naomi Kawase

Jodie Mack shoots analogue film and uses all manner of existing materials to create dizzying patterns. Point de Gaze features lace and intertwines gossamer threads into an exquisite optical film. Minute details become visible when projected.

Trace

You can view this as a sequel to birth/ mother (IFFR 2007), Naomi Kawase’s film about the elderly woman Uno who had always looked after her like a mother. In birth/mother she filmed Uno in the bath. Trace could also be called ‘death/mother’ as she once again films Uno’s body, but after she’s dead. A monument to Uno. Japan/France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 45 min, Japanese Prod: Naito Yuko | Prod Comp: Kumie Inc. | Cam: Naomi Kawase | Ed: Naomi Kawase | Sound Des: Osamu Takizawa | Music: Hasiken | Print/Sales: Kumie Inc. | www.kawasenaomi.com

USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 5 min, silent Prod: Jodie Mack | Cam: Jodie Mack | Print/Sales: Jodie Mack | www.jodiemack.com

Strange Lines and Distances Joshua Bonnetta

Aiga tomaranai

Don’t Dare to Stop Love Oguchi Yoko

A painful story from a filmmaker who originally made non-narrative work. She experimented with form and also with her, as yet largely undefined, masochistic tendencies. Here, she does so again, but now with a real story about a mother who believes herself to be dying and then oversteps her boundaries.

It was over 100 years ago that Marconi successfully made the first transAtlantic radio transmission. Strange Lines and Distances links radio stations in Newfoundland, Canada and Cornwall, England, that lie 3,500 km apart, into a single atmospheric image and sound work. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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2012 Makino Takashi

Tiger Award for Short Films winner Makino Takashi says 2012 developed almost subconsciously and marks a transitional year. Originally a live performance where he also provided the music, 2012 ultimately congealed into a film with a new dynamic by switching from analogue to digital. WORLD PREMIERE

Japan, 2013 | colour, video, 30 min, no dialogue Prod: Makino Takashi | Music: Makino Takashi | Print/Sales: Makino Takashi

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Blind Colour

Filme para poeta cego

How free are we really? Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Suddenly you can see colours. Lots of colours.

Gustavo Vinagre

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Releasing Human Energies Mark Toscano

Releasing Human Energies brings to life an iconic image that has come to symbolise the human face of disappearing analogue film culture, in the shape of an old-fashioned instructional on human capital and profit maximisation. Voiced by film artist Morgan Fisher. USA, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 6 min, English

Film for Blind Poet

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties for the work of the young director. In an ambiguous way the film reveals the fine line between high literature and fag-end vulgarity. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Twice Over Simon Payne

Prod: Mark Toscano | Print/Sales: Mark Toscano

Two Russians in the Free World Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager

Simon Payne’s Twice Over features layers of re-filmed video, from which the texture and noise of analogue decay, combined with the artist’s authoritative colour mixing, recalls antecedents such as the work of David Hall and Paul Sharits but allows the piece to enter a territory of its own. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

UK, 2012 | colour, video, 12 min, no dialogue

A dialogue between two men which poses a deeper question: Why and for whom do artists create? The narrative telescopes out to include the story of its own making, as the artists depict themselves debating plot-line and meaning as well as the virtues (or lack thereof) of their collaboration. Wonderful. WORLD PREMIERE

Prod: Simon Payne | Sound Des: Simon Payne | Print/Sales: LUX | www.simonrpayne.co.uk

Bust That Paradigm Paradigms are made to be broken! A programme that brings you Persian pickles, new ways of looking at familiar habitats and an Elysian electric toothbrush. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 12:30 LantarenVenster 2 Sat 26-1 19:45 LantarenVenster 2

Rear Window Timelapse

Persian Pickles

Jeff Desom

Jodie Mack

Fitting epilogue to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic with a reconstruction of the actual view on the courtyard, created using modern technology. An all-encompassing image littered with plot elements. Winner of the Golden Nica at the Ars Electronica festival.

During the psychedelic 1960s, paisley patterns – originally Iranian – became immensely popular. In Persian Pickles, Jodie Mack ups the ante by editing the colourful motifs on 16mm into a dazzling visual experience. Highfrequency cut and paste.

Luxembourg, 2012 | colour, DCP, 3 min, no dialogue

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Shana Moulton

Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1

A new-age soap opera that transforms pastel colours, the hysterically optimistic aesthetic of drug commercials, and Elysian memories of Enya into pure gold. Electric toothbrushes and kitschy household decorations become items with enigmatic and possibly magical properties. This is visual poetry of the highest order.

Can an image narrate a history? How do we deal with a history that brims so close to the present that it is impossible to distance one’s self from it? Close Encounters is a programme that seeks to articulate the present with one eye on the future and another inextricably linked to the past. Fragments of images – simulated and illusory, are pieced together to form a tense mise-en-scène. Curated by Omar Kholeif and Peter van Hoof.

Restless Leg Saga

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Fort Buchanan Benjamin Crotty

When Roger’s husband Frank is deployed to Djibouti, he is left alone with his group of female friends and his adopted daughter, the temperamental Roxy. Her violent outbursts finally drive Roger to begin boxing lessons. Empowered, Roger confronts Roxy. (BC)

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Nation Estate Larissa Sansour

A nine-minute science fiction film that offers a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the ‘Middle East conflict’. The film explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood: One colossal skyscraper housing the entire Palestinian population – now finally living the high life. WORLD PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 13 min, French

Denmark/Palestine, 2013 | colour, DCP, 9 min, Arabic/English

Habitat

2026

Robert Todd

Maha Maamoun

Habitat reveals where the filmmaker’s life take place in an exceptional manner. The various locations shift, merge and diverge again. This results in a meticulously camera-edited tableau of the chaos of everyday working life

Based on a text from the recent Egyptian novel The Revolution of 2053 by Mahmoud Uthman, and referencing a scene from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962). A time traveller recounts his vision of the future of the Pyramids area, and by extension Egypt, in the year 2026.

Sinais de serenidade por coisas sem sentido Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things

Sandro Aguilar According to the perpetual lunar calendar: ‘When sparks catch a pot of water, it signifies wind. When the hills echo loudly and the sea generates great noise, it signifies tempestuous winds and storms at sea. When dense fog forms at dawn, it signals two days’ serenity.’ Let’s wait and see. (SA) Portugal, 2012 | colour, video, 28 min, Portuguese Prod: Sandro Aguilar, Luís Urbano | Prod Comp: O Som e a Fúria | Sc/Ed: Sandro Aguilar | Cam: Rui Xavier | Sound Des: Pedro Melo | With: Isabel Abreu, Albano Jerónimo, Gustavo Sumpta, Cristovão Campos | Print/Sales: Agencia – Portuguese Short Film Agency | www.curtas.pt/agencia/filmes/301

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Contribute a Better Translation Sharif Waked Google Translate calls on its users to improve its translations by clicking on the link ‘Contribute a better translation.’ In this video, dozens of political slogans are considered, taken from the repertoire of Palestinian resistance, ranging from the left to the right, and from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 until today. Palestine, 2011 | colour, DCP, 5 min, English Prod: Sharif Waked | Ed: Eyas Salman | Print/Sales: Sharif Waked | www.sharifwaked.info

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Colorful Journey

Under a Rainbow

Arab Abu Nasser, Tarzan Abu Nasser

Roy Dib

The first film from the fictional Gazawood project by Tarzan and Arab, aka Gaza-born twin brothers Mohammed and Ahmed Abu Nasser, Colorful Journey is about factional infighting within Gaza. Tarzan and Arab depict a fratricidal war, their identical appearances reinforcing their message that Gazan brothers need to unite to face their common enemy. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

‘I did not grieve over the civil war, since I did not experience it. But along with my cousin, I always liked to pretend that our parents were killed in the war so that we could be like Remi.’ This experimental film intersperses VHS samples of a film starring the 1980s-era child performer Remi, female TV performers and archive footage of the Lebanese Civil War.

Palestine, 2010 | colour, video, 7 min, Arabic

Lebanon, 2011 | colour, video, 17 min, Arabic

Beace Brocess No. 1

How Can I Resist U

Sharif Waked

Sophia Al-Maria

12 July 2000. Ehud Barak in the role of Israel and Yasser Arafat in the role of the Palestine Liberation Organization meet under the patronage of Bill Clinton in the role of the USA at Camp David to promote the ‘peace process.’ Beace Brocess No. 1 duplicates and reconstructs into infinity the mutual dance of acknowledgment between Barak and Arafat. Palestine, 2010 | colour, DCP, 3 min, English Prod: Sharif Waked | Music: Kevin MacLeod | Print/Sales: Sharif Waked | www.sharifwaked.info

I’ve Heard Stories: Part 1 Marwa Arsanios This film explores various ways to narrate an incident that once took place in the mythical Hotel Carlton. Against images of the deserted hotel today, the artist sketches situations that evoke the rumours once circulated there about a murderous homosexual threesome.

A ‘love letter’ to dubstep and its role in the turbulent cultural meshing between the Middle East and London, How Can I Resist U melds together shots of stark South London projects with YouTube videos of pseudo-stripteases performed for private groups of Middle Eastern men, geometric patterns flickering over their bodies. Qatar/Kuwait, 2012 | DCP, 4 min, no dialogue Prod: Sophia Al-Maria | Cam: Sophia Al-Maria | Music: Fatima Al Qadiri | Print/ Sales: Sophia Al-Maria | www.sophiaalmaria.wordpress.com

Kawabis beeshu Beeshu’s Nightmare Jameel Al Abyad

CAMARADERIE

Part of the Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator, Part 1 series, Beeshu’s Nightmares paints a lacerating and hilarious picture of corruption under Syria’s Ba’ath regime. A finger puppet show produced by an anonymous theatre collective called Masasit Mati, led by Jameel, and distributed freely on YouTube. Masasit Mati utilises a level of satire never before seen under the Al-Assad regime.

Mahmoud Khaled

Prod: Jameel Al Abyad | Print/Sales: Jameel Al Abyad | www.masasitmati.org

Syria, 2011 | colour, DCP, 7 min, Arabic

CAMARADERIE is pulled together from YouTube footage showing Egyptian professional bodybuilders in different situations. By using techniques such as appropriation and cropping, the work attempts to understand the representative nature of the masculine body, in its many variations: from the official to the popular, ethical, personal and the erotic. Egypt, 2009 | colour, DCP, 11 min, Arabic Prod: Mahmoud Khaled | Prod Comp: Mashrabia Gallery | Sc: Mahmoud Khaled | Ed: Perry Moataz | Prod Des: Mahmoud Khaled | Sound Des: Mahmoud Khaled | With: voice of Bassam El Baroni | Print/Sales: Mahmoud Khaled | www.mahmoudkhaled.com/index.pl/camaraderie

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Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 2 For an explanation of the content, see the compilation programme Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 19:45 LantarenVenster 6 Sun 27-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 6

Gazing at the Catastrophe

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Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years Maha Maamoun Historically, the term ‘Night Visitor’ referred to undercover police investigators who would attack houses and arrest political activists under the darkness of night. On this occasion, the roles are reversed, and the hunted become the hunters. The video uses material that documents the recent Egyptian revolution, shot by the protagonists while storming the state security offices and later posted on the internet. Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 8 min, no dialogue Prod: Maha Maamoun | Ed: Maha Maamoun | Print/Sales: Maha Maamoun

Ali Cherri

In Gazing at the Catastrophe, Ali Cherri reflects on how suffering has become increasingly integrated into his daily life. Witnessing of atrocities, Cherri argues, seems to be an inevitable condition of modernity. The knowledge of war gained by those who have not experienced it firsthand is informed exclusively by mediated images found on the internet or in the media. Lebanon/France, 2012 | colour, video, 5 min, silent Prod: Imane Farès | Prod Comp: Galery Imane Farès | Sc: Ali Cherri | Cam: Ali Cherri | Ed: Ali Cherri | With: Ali Cherri | Print/Sales: Galery Imane Farès | www.alicherri.com

Home Video No. 1 Gaza (They Accepted the Pleasures of Morning) Basma Alsharif In an attempt to describe everyday life where people are struggling for the most basic human rights, Home Video No. 1 Gaza... introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for a decline in civilization, finding perspective in a domesticity that is complicated, derelict, impossible to separate from its politics. WORLD PREMIERE

Crop

Palestine, 2013 | colour, video, 15 min, Arabic

Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke

Crop is an experimental documentary film. By putting images of Egypt’s political leaders into historical perspective, the film reveals how the notion of image ‘framing’ has been utilised by state-controlled media up until the present day. The soundtrack is composed of interviews with writer and media theorist Maria Golia and photographer Yasser Alwan. WORLD PREMIERE

Prod: Basma Alsharif | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music: Basma Alsharif | With: Huda Abdel Shafi, Osama Abu Middain | Print/Sales: Basma Alsharif | www.basmalsharif.com

Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship Basim Magdy The film is about our understanding of time, how we construct our memories, and considers how these subtly unfold and fade into each other. This quiet paean exists without narration, and is accompanied by a delicately composed soundtrack by Magdy. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Egypt/Switzerland, 2012 | colour, DCP, 9 min, no dialogue

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Prod: Basim Magdy | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music: Basim Magdy | Print/Sales: Basim Magdy | www.basimmagdy.com

Katia Kameli

Cardboard boxes strewn along a pavement are seen to form a peculiar assemblage. From this fragile architecture, a woman emerges and makes a placard that contains no slogan; a wordless piece of cardboard. While raising the placard, the woman is joined by other women. A silent uprising is then set in motion. Can it be considered a revolution?

At Five in the Afternoon Mahmoud Khaled

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Mahmoud Khaled’s video work is a hushed elegy that explores one man’s struggle to reconcile his own desire and longing for love. Acted out in three spaces consecutively, the video uses the temporal languages of cinema to capture uncertain fear in a personal narrative.

Algeria/France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 3 min, silent

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Do-Say-Make-Think Variations on the American Dream: the self-made man, soap series, fantasy, Hollywood and the media turned into cleverly structured, moving, engaging films. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 20:15 LantarenVenster 3 Sun 27-1 16:30 LantarenVenster 6

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Mr. President Nina Yuen

An engaging stream-of-consciousness work with a dream-like aesthetic, grappling with themes of memory, childhood and loss while playing with the dichotomy between fantasy and tangibility. Yuen narrates using a varied collection of found texts and original material. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Noelia

USA, 2012 | colour, DCP, 5 min, English

María Alché

Noelia is lonely and has all the time in the world. She wanders around town with her little camera searching all over for homeliness, family ties, a mother. Not everyone is happy about this, but Noelia perseveres.

Hollywood Movie Volker Schreiner

Vengeance – Episode 1 Keren Cytter

Protagonists of mainstream cinema are assembled to speak a text about deconstructing film-watching. ‘You can make any Hollywood movie interesting, if you cut the movie several times and splice it again or put the lamp on and play a cheap transistor radio in your seat.’ A remodelling of Nam June Paik’s 1963 text ‘Film Scenario’. Germany, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 7 min, English

Clichéd texts and situations become absurd if they are dryly acted and yet deviate slightly from our collective soap memories. Steve Kaufman’s soundtrack and distinctive editing give the film its finesse. Cytter creates a space for viewers to project their own stereotypes and beliefs. Germany, 2012 | DCP, 15 min, English Prod: Keren Cytter | Sc: Keren Cytter | Cam: Keren Cytter | Ed: Keren Cytter | Prod Des: Keren Cytter | Sound Des: Keren Cytter | Music: Steve Kaufman | With: Alexander Kellogg, Anna Mosher, Jenny Grace, K.C. Leiber, Matt Decoaster | Print/ Sales: Christian Nagel Gallery | www.kerencytter.com/vengeance---episode-1

Desert Hopes Michael Patten

...Because Superglue Is Forever! Johan Grimonprez

Study of the history of happy endings starts with a casting in Los Angeles where children play love scenes from films, TV ads and YouTube videos. Low-budget film refers to vloggers and Facebook and ironically tackles our overconsumption of images. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

USA/Belgium, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 12 min, English

Trapped in his draughty apartment on New Year’s Eve, Roko, a middle-aged Aboriginal, tries to protect a litter of newborn rabbits from the cold. In the meantime he watches recordings of previous years’ New Year and dreams of better times.

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F for Fake Dramatic, overly theatrical, then abstract. Always structured. A series of sometimes absurd ideas takes us to new worlds. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:45 LantarenVenster 6 Sat 26-1 12:15 LantarenVenster 3

Abstract

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Gonda Ursula Mayer

In the play Ideal, Amy Rand unpacked her philosophical system of Objectivism, with its stubborn individualism and anti-altruism. As a critical counter, Gonda addresses cinematic and linguistic space by creating settings in which image, text and sound shift roles to affect presupposed ideals of identity and existence. Main actor is Dutch transgender model Valentijn de Hingh. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Hito Steyerl

UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 30 min, English

A reflection on image-making and its political economy, juxtaposing the Berlin lair of Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of assault weapons sold by the German government to the Turkish Army, with images of the bombed-out cave where Andrea Wolf, Steyerl’s friend and member of the PKK was killed in 1998. Germany/Poland, 2012 | colour, DCP, 7 min, Kurdish Prod: Aneta Szylak | Prod Comp: Wyspa Institue of Art | Sc: Hito Steyerl | Cam: Tina Leisch, Selim Yildiz, Christoph Manz, Vincent Grunwald, Leon Kahane, Esme Buden, Diana McCarty | Ed: Hito Steyerl, Christoph Manz | Prod Des: Aneta Szylak | Sound Des: Apo | With: Hito Steyerl | Print/Sales: Hito Steyerl

Guimarães: Rocking the Cradle In turbulent times, four jewels of Portuguese filmmaking, three international premieres – big questions, difficult translations and unfettered imaginations. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 14:15 LantarenVenster 5 Wed 30-1 22:15 Cinerama 3

Polis X Erkka Nissinen

Luís

In this video, Erkka Nissinen constructs a ‘kaleidoscope of human destinies’ that references the ancient Greek ideal of the city-state. Instead of a perfected state of utopian community, the viewer is confronted with the obscene historical traces of mankind’s inhumanity. USA/Hong Kong, 2012 | colour, video, 15 min, English Prod: Erkka Nissinen | Sc: Erkka Nissinen | Cam: Erkka Nissinen | Ed: Erkka Nissinen | Prod Des: Erkka Nissinen | Sound Des: Erkka Nissinen | Music: Erkka Nissinen | With: Erkka Nissinen | Print/Sales: Erkka Nissinen | www.erkkanissinen.com

João Lopes

Luís de Camões is considered Portugal’s national poet, an equivalent to England’s Shakespeare or Spain’s Cervantes. João Lopes’s film takes us on an otherworldly journey to Camões’s five-hundred-year-old epic Os Lusíada, which he composed in Macau whilst he was stationed in the colony. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Portugal, 2012 | colour, DCP, 23 min, Portuguese

Versions 2012 Oliver Laric

Since 2009, Oliver Laric has anchored his wide-ranging artistic output with a series of video works titled Versions. These act as gathering points for his theoretical, aesthetic and research concerns with bootlegs, remixes and hybrids. They bring up numerous examples of reuse and iconoclasm. Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 10 min, English Prod: Oliver Laric | Print/Sales: Tanya Leighton Gallery | www.oliverlaric.com

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Na escama do dragão On the Dragon’s Flake Ivo M. Ferreira

Set in Macau, in graceful almost magical-realist style, Ivo M. Ferreira’s film connects East and West and the politics of the present to its echoes in the past, paralleling the sinking of a 12th-century Portuguese galley and a Chinese junk, taking in some startling contemporary architecture along the way. WORLD PREMIERE

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Hauntological Futures Links between past, present and future. Juxtaposing and comparing culturally determined images. It is up to us to draw our own conclusions. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 17:00 LantarenVenster 2 Mon 28-1 17:00 LantarenVenster 2

Phantoms of a Libertine Ben Rivers

Cacheu

Glamorous destinations are handscrawled beside photographs. Fragments of fading figures are taped to the yellowing pages of an album. Since the departure of its occupant, an apartment has become a museum, rather than a mausoleum; a shrine to what has passed. (BR)

Filipa César

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UK, 2012 | colour/b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 10 min, no dialogue Prod: Ben Rivers | Cam/Ed/Sound Des/Music: Ben Rivers | Print/Sales: LUX | www.benrivers.com

Taking statues that are stored today at the Cacheu fortress, one of the first establishments for the slave trade in Guinea Bissau, César’s single-shot 16mm film traces historical moments when these represented symbolic conflicts, pointedly invoking Chris Marker, Alexander Kluge and Alain Renais. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Zwazo

A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) Jumana Manna

A tableau vivant alternating with archival material brings to life an unknown history in which the Palestinian bourgeoisie, led by Jaffa’s biggest landowner Alfred Roch, attended masked balls dressed as pierrots. Shot at the American Colony Hotel, the film explores traces of the past. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Birds

Norway/Palestine, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 8 min, English

Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes’s inventive and sunsoaked transposition of Aristophanes’s 414 BC play The Birds to a mournful, present-day Haiti. Echoing the dramatic structure of a typical Aristophanes play, Abrantes furthers his unique brand of pageantry and textual conflation, enlivened by the beauty of his 16mm images. Portugal, 2012 | colour, DCP, 17 min, Greek/Haitian Creole Prod: Natxo Checa | Prod Comp: A Mutual Respect Productions | Sc: Gabriel Abrantes | Cam: Natxo Checa, Gabriel Abrantes | Ed: Gabriel Abrantes | Prod Des: Natxo Checa, Gabriel Abrantes | Sound Des: Gabriel Abrantes | Print/Sales: A Mutual Respect Productions

Starring Sigmund Freud John Menick

After the 1950s, when pills replaced analysts’ couches, Sigmund Freud the father of psychoanalysis found a second career impersonating himself in everything from a John Huston clunker to a Star Trek episode. The video suggests that maybe in front of the camera, alongside surgically enhanced starlets and CGI chimeras, the ‘Herr Doktor’ will find his final resting place. (JM) USA/Germany/France, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 28 min, English/Italian/French/German Prod: John Menick | Prod Comp: Kadist Foundation, dOCUMENTA (13) | Sc: based on an essay by John Menick | Ed: John Menick | With: Alan Arkin, Montgomery Clift, Alec Guinness, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet, Max von Sydow | Print/ Sales: John Menick | www.johnmenick.com/projects/starring-sigmund-freud

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A Brief History of Collapses

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The Invisible World Jesse McLean

Mariam Ghani

The uncanny similarity between Kassel’s Museum Fridericianum and the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul – two buildings constructed two centuries and a continent apart – is exploited to explore parallels, divergences and connections between their present and past conditions, uses, narratives and contexts. (MG) Germany/Afghanistan/USA, 2012 | colour, video, 22 min, English Prod: Christoph Platz | Prod Comp: dOCUMENTA (13) | Sc: Mariam Ghani | Cam: Mariam Ghani | Ed: Mariam Ghani | Prod Des: Mariam Ghani, Erin Ellen Kelly | Sound Des: Andrew Munsey | Music: Qasim Naqvi | With: Erin Ellen Kelly, Parwana Riazi | Print/Sales: Mariam Ghani | www.kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam/collapses.html

Here, Today Close your eyes and leave the world behind. The films in Here, Today study, re-arrange and determine their own rules. Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 14:45 LantarenVenster 2 Mon 28-1 12:30 LantarenVenster 2

The Room Called Heaven Laida Lertxundi

Media artist McLean examines the media’s influence on our actions using home movies, YouTube videos and sci-fi films which demonstrate how individuals are increasingly enticed to give up their independence in a world which revolves around raising human productivity. USA, 2012 | colour, video, 19 min, English Prod: Jesse McLean | Sc: Jesse McLean | Cam: Jesse McLean | Ed: Jesse McLean | Print/Sales: Video Data Bank (VDB) | jessemclean.com

Dangerous Games Marina Abramovic

A game between two children’s armies, using toys, laser weapons and machine guns. As it progresses, they start imitating war scenes seen on TV, such as negotiations and death scenes. In over 20 countries, children are direct participants in war, with an estimated 250,000 child soldiers. USA/UK/Laos, 2012 | colour, DCP, 4 min, English Prod: Jacqui Davies | Cam: Alexandar Ilic, Dragan Rakicivic | Ed: Milica Zec | Sound Des: Phan Visutyothapibal | Print/Sales: Jacqui Davies

Poised Dryden Goodwin

Laida Lertxundi’s intimate composition of intrinsically cinematic human actions. The locations, sunlight and snippets of music evoke a mysterious emotion that resounds in every image during the exact length of a 16mm roll of film. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Poised explores the physical and emotional dynamics of a group of young female divers. Goodwin’s taut, pointed imagery and serpentine soundtrack lend the divers’ devotion and Zen-like composure an otherworldly quality that makes each sudden plunge into darkness even more poetic and poignant. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 28 min, English

Activated Memory I

Sabrina Ratté

Using video feedback, 3D animation and colour manipulation, Sabrina Ratté renders a new kind of space, a virtual world where fragments of reality live on. Natural phenomena, diamond variations and a musical accompaniment from Roger Tellier-Craig bring us to the point of serenity. WORLD PREMIERE

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It Starts with a Dot and Ends with a Bang Film as the beginning of the universe, from the smallest particle to a big bang. And, in this case, ignorance is bliss. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 14:30 LantarenVenster 3 Sun 27-1 12:00 LantarenVenster 6

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Odboy & Erordog Suite Marcus Fjellström

Marcus Fjellström unites the three main ingredients of his childhood: cartoons, basic computer games and nightmares. Filmmaker and modern composer Fjellström wrote the story, composed the soundtrack and animated this three-part film about the adventures of a boy and his dog. WORLD PREMIERE

Swan Song Anouk De Clercq, Jerry Galle, Anton Aeki

‘Swan song’ is a metaphorical phrase for a final effort or performance given just before death or retirement. Anouk De Clercq, Jerry Galle and Anton Aeki found inspiration in the age-old belief that the swan is shrouded in silence during its life – until just before its death. A sparkling, subtle animation. WORLD PREMIERE

The Cloud of Unknowing Ho Tzu Nyen Sensory film based on a 14th-century mystical text that uses a cloud as a metaphor for the nonsensical and the spiritual. Eight figures come into contact with the cloud and share their feelings of transcendence. Originally presented as an installation at the Venice Biennale. Singapore, 2011 | colour, DCP, 28 min, no dialogue

Belle comme le jour Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tristan Bera

The story of Severine before she married Pierre and became ‘Belle de jour’. Staying at the Hotel Regina next to rue de Rivoli, she goes to visit the Louvre and has a deeply disturbing conversation with a complete stranger. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Leaving Traces Three Asian stories about uncovering the truth. Three committed stories. All with their own, personal structure. Filmmakers on the world they live in. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:30 LantarenVenster 3 Wed 30-1 16:30 LantarenVenster 6

Pohn talay Overseas

Wichanon Somumjarn, Anocha Suwichakornpong

Hyper-realistic minidrama. An afternoon in the life of fish processing plant labourer Wawa Kai, one of the many migrants from Myanmar working in factories in Thailand. The film follows her every move, revealing what looks like a routine day, but in fact it’s a scary one for her, as she reports a crime. Thailand, 2012 | colour, DCP, 16 min, Thai/Burmese Prod: Maenum Chagasik | Prod Comp: Electric Eel Films | Sc: Anocha Suwichakornpong | Cam: Wichanon Somumjarn | Ed: Wichanon Somumjarn | Prod Des: Chulayarnnon Siriphol | Sound Des: Sorayos Prapapan | With: Wawa Ween | Print/Sales: Electric Eel Films | www.electriceelfilms.com

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Jalan Jati Teak Road

Experience in Material 52:DUBHOUSE

Lucy Davis

Suzuki Ryoji, Kei Shichiri

Trees have DNA too. So you can find out from the planks in your grandparents’ bed where the tree they came from once stood. Why? To find your way to your roots. Search for colonial history in animation carved from bed planks. Art meets science.

Mingling of two distinct visions: the architect as the instigator of darkness and the filmmaker as the bringer of light. The film has a dark part with drawings of the 11/3/2011 tsunami damage hidden in the emulsion, and a part in which the projector illuminates the darkness captured by architecture.

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Chan Ching-lin

Sou

Dramatic, realistic political film. Conflict between father and son. The former is an old, bitter activist who hates the government. The son is an ambitious cop. Dynamically shot in journalistic black-and-white. During a drought, the government turns off the water. Father immerses himself in demonstrating.

‘Geological time’ is hard to compare to our everyday sense of time. However, anything is possible in a darkened cinema. Sou cuts through soil layers and rock formations, going through millions of years in seconds, making time a fluid concept in the process.

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Tatsuto Kimura

Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 10 min, silent Prod: Tatsuto Kimura | Print/Sales: Tatsuto Kimura

Light over Darkness

Beyond Expression Bright

Calm observations and reflections in the darkness of the cinema. Boundaries between observation and imagination.

Erin Espelie

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Ten Minutiae Peter Miller

Our imagination is equally confounded, said the 18th-century Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet, by the infinitely great and by the infinitely small. Confounding, too, can be the instruments and empirical mechanisms we have to gauge immensity, particularly in their seemingly insurmountable limitations. (EE) INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Shot on 35mm CinemaScope and entirely hand-processed, Peter Miller’s series of brief exercises in cinematographic magic creates an experience comparable to the 1925 classic Five Minutes of Pure Cinema. In Miller’s own words: ‘Minutiae are “little things”. Here are ten. These little things form a small exhibition exalting the cinema.’

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Ritournelle Christopher Becks, Peter Miller

An elegant 16mm miniature that developed as a spontaneous ‘exquisite corpse’. Christopher Becks turned a single camera roll into an abstract light show without realising that fellow filmmaker Peter Miller’s hidden soundtrack was on the roll. The ghost track seems to have written the images. Germany, 2012 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 4 min, no dialogue Prod: Christopher Becks | Cam: Christopher Becks | Music: Peter Miller | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Dark Garden Nick Collins

16mm’s black can be as dark as a winter’s night. Dark Garden is akin to a black-and-white herbarium shot in the filmmaker’s garden on one such cold night. Frozen plant skeletons appear on the dark emulsion and reveal their delicacy in a silver glow.

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Looking Glass Self Unexpected consequences of me looking at you, you looking at me, us looking at each other, us looking at ourselves. John Smith’s dad, Lewis Klahr’s astounding collage, Seamus Harahan’s Belfast streets, De Stijl, the Republic of Korea: put your hands in the air! Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 16:30 LantarenVenster 6 Sun 27-1 14:15 LantarenVenster 6

Dad’s Stick John Smith

‘Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects my father showed me shortly before he died. Two of these were so steeped in history that their original forms and functions were almost completely obscured. The third object seemed instantly recognisable, but turned out to be something else entirely.’ (JS) EUROPEAN PREMIERE

UK, 2011 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 9 min, no dialogue Prod: Nick Collins | Cam: Nick Collins | Ed: Nick Collins | Print/Sales: Nick Collins

August and After Nathaniel Dorsky

Nathaniel Dorsky is still enjoying a productive period and maintains his sublime approach to the medium of 16mm film. August and After is his way of dealing with a sombre year. ‘After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.’ (ND) USA, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 19 min, silent Prod: Nathaniel Dorsky | Cam: Nathaniel Dorsky | Ed: Nathaniel Dorsky | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Temper Clay Kim Sung-Hwan

Temper Clay uses a refined, sensitive composition with recurring elements such as paper, fire and running through bare woods to look at history. Specific gestures, routines and objects elicit a magical feeling. The filmmaker’s love of structures is underlined by dogr’s music. WORLD PREMIERE

Kiss the Rain Lewis Klahr

When love fades, the world seems to collapse. However, feelings of love, security and hope survive the disaster. This intense cut-out animation is the first in a new series by Lewis Klahr entitled The Rain Couplets. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

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The Street of Everlasting Rain Lewis Klahr

In this follow-up to Kiss the Rain, the realisation of the end of a romance has finally dawned. But why did it go so wrong? Ends with Burt Bacharach’s A House is Not a Home. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

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Motion Pictures The power of images confirmed. Motion Pictures includes films without images, with deteriorated or contaminated images and with an overdose of images. Which is the most memorable? Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:45 LantarenVenster 2 Sun 27-1 12:30 LantarenVenster 2

1978 the 231st Day Sara Rajaei

Spell Ansuya Blom

Using texts by Kafka and photographs of Theo van Doesburg’s house in France, artist Ansuya Blom illustrates the mood of a man trying to regain control of his life. With a sense of despair and plenty of humour, Blom reveals his doubts and the banality of daily rituals. Netherlands, 2012 | b&w, DCP, 7 min, English Prod: Ansuya Blom | Sc: Ansuya Blom, based on Franz Kafka | Cam: Ansuya Blom | Ed: Ansuya Blom | Sound Des: Mark Glynne | With: Ian Hunt | Print/ Sales: Ansuya Blom | www.galerievangelder.com/artists/blom3.html

A dreadful incident not only causes hundreds of deaths but also marks a dramatic turn in Iran’s history. Although the story does not make a reference to any names or locations, the title of the work indirectly presents the date of the incident. WORLD PREMIERE

Orpheus (Outtakes) Mary Helena Clark

Cold Open Seamus Harahan

Seamus Harahan’s scrutinising lens reveals the gestures, machismo and arm-punching dynamics of Northern Irish youth. Intuitively looking, shooting, recording before thought intervenes, he exposes unexpected slices of the absurd, ushering us to where ‘inner and outer realities intersect’.

Fragments of Jean Cocteau’s classic Orphée, put together in the darkroom on the optical printer, reveal the other side of cinema in this new context. ‘An impossible film project: Buster Keaton stars in the outtakes from Cocteau’s Orphée, made by me for the cutting-room floor.’ (MHC) EUROPEAN PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 6 min, English Prod: Mary Helena Clark | Print/Sales: Mary Helena Clark

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The Toxic Camera Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson

Reflecting on the Chernobyl disaster but revealing the material nature of film, The Toxic Camera is inspired by filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko. Filming immediately after the Chernobyl disaster, his camera became so charged with radiation it was subsequently buried on the outskirts of Kiev. WORLD PREMIERE

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memento mori Dan Browne

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Kizarmis tavuk Fried Chicken Serdar Yilmaz

‘A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.’ (J.L. Borges)

In a quiet neighbourhood, women peer out of the windows hoping to catch a glimpse of a huge fried chicken. A little girl lives in her own world and sees things others can’t. Fried Chicken playfully and calmly examines rituals of contemporary Turkish society.

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Canada, 2012 | colour, video, 28 min, English

Turkey, 2012 | colour, DCP, 13 min, Turkish

Neural Pathways

Yi jia

About the stimuli that trigger understanding, or send us in very unexpected directions.

Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen

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Hole

Hanger

Like in a fairy tale. A dreamy girl or young woman in a cottage. Cockroaches seem to be the only thing hampering her. She fights back with a coat hanger. Quite stylish, a coat hanger. Carefully made. Beautifully lit. Deftly played. Perfect poetic cinema. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Wouter Venema

In Hole, nature is layered creating an artificial world. The sound of water splashing is overpowered by a soundtrack that creates new space. The title refers to the pinhole camera and underground landscapes. WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2013 | b&w, video, 4 min, no dialogue Prod: Wouter Venema | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music: Wouter Venema | Print/Sales: Wouter Venema | www.woutervenema.nl

Walk-Through Redmond Entwistle

Na sua companhia By Your Side

Marcelo Caetano

Caetano seeks to create an intimate space where people meet and approach, with all their differences and their similarities. Where people roam who like to watch and be watched. A sincere and high-spirited film about love in a modern Brazilian city, where relationships come and go. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Brazil, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 21 min, Portuguese

In a combination of documentary and fictionalised reconstruction, a multifaceted analysis of contemporary art education and the particular impact of Michael Asher’s ‘post-studio class’ at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s.

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Nation for Two

Exceptional Dutch film and video works from the last year, which we don’t want you to miss. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 18:00 LantarenVenster 6 Sat 26-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 6

We Lived Our Ordinary Lives Daya Cahen

A young Muslim girl’s childhood memories alternate with confessions from the accused at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague. Personal exploration of war’s influence on human life.. Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 19 min, Bosnian/English Prod: Daya Cahen | Cam: Daya Cahen | Ed: Daya Cahen | Sound Des: Arnoud Traa, De Auditieve Dienst | With: Latifa Imamovic | Sales: Daya Cahen | Distr. NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Hier Nu

Chaja Hertog, Nir Nadler

Desiring one another, a man and woman travel across the planet’s countless landscapes in an unorthodox manner. This powerful stop-motion animation demonstrates that love knows no nationality and no borders, and that every obstacle can be overcome. Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 15 min, no dialogue Prod: Floor Onrust | Prod Comp: Family Affair Films | Sc: Chaja Hertog, Nir Nadler | Cam: David Stragmeister | Ed: Chaja Hertog, Nir Nadler | Prod Des: Chaja Hertog, Nir Nadler | Sound Des: Giori Politi | Music: Selva de Mar | With: Chaja Hertog, Nir Nadler | Sales: Family Affair Films | Distr. NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.hertognadler.com

Grandpass Michal Owsinski

Michal Owsinski’s grandparents’ daily routine consists of constant repetitions, whereby the details are of little importance. Although his grandparents live together, they never meet. There is nothing between them anymore. Beautifully shot images of a banal life. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Here Now

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, Polish

Barbara Meter

Prod: Michal Owsinski | Sc: Michal Owsinski | Cam: Michal Owsinski | Ed: Michal Owsinski | Print/Sales: Michal Owsinski

Brief, poetic meditation by experimental filmmaker Barbara Meter on the transience of love and everything else. Written and read by Dutch writer Remco Campert and supported by atmospheric images of man and nature.

A Killer Reunion

Raw 1.0

Avi Krispin

A group of people in a living room keep repeating the same actions as if something terrible has just taken place. A cop comes by to see what happened. As he examines the mess and those present, it slowly becomes apparent that something else is going on. Israel/Netherlands, 2011 | colour, DCP, 8 min, no dialogue Prod: Avi Krispin | Sc: Avi Krispin | Cam: Daniella Nowitz | Ed: Avi Krispin | Prod Des: Jessica Kålbermann | With: Ori Sade, Avi Fisher, Ronit Hadad, Ronit Ziv, Adi Ben Yaccov | Print/Sales: Avi Krispin | www.avikrispin.com/pages/portfoliopages/killer2.html

Frans Zwartjes

Since the end of the 1960s, Zwartjes has been known for his grainy blackand-white films often featuring extravagantly clad, heavily made-up actors trapped in sexually tinged power games. Raw 1.0 is one of these films. It is a work presumed lost that recently surfaced while working on his photo book The Holy Family. Netherlands, 2012 | b&w, video, 5 min, silent Cam: Trix Zwartjes | Ed: Frans Zwartjes | Music: Frans Zwartjes | With: Frans Zwartjes, Eefje | Distr. NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Dream King Wendy Oakes

Once in a while, Ronald takes part in a created reality with fancy dinners and costume galas in castles. In Dream King, Ronald’s youthful dreams of money, power and allure briefly become real. Reality or fiction; where does one end and the other start? Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 13 min, Dutch Prod: Wendy Oakes | Sc: Wendy Oakes | Cam: Wendy Oakes, Teun Vonk, Philip Schuette | Ed: Wendy Oakes | Sound Des: Thijs Felperlaan | Sales: Wendy Oakes | Distr. NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

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Persistence of Vision Unusual films with a story or commitment centering on an exceptional place, event or story and, naturally, how this has been portrayed. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 20:15 LantarenVenster 6 Fri 25-1 16:30 LantarenVenster 6

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Snow Tapes Mich’ael Zupraner

This documentary presents various perspectives on the life of a Palestinian family with Israeli neighbours. Split screen structures this as a scene within a scene on the basis of a home movie that light-heartedly deals with an ongoing problem. Israel/Palestine, 2011 | colour, video, 14 min, Arabic

Presuda

Prod: Mich’ael Zupraner | Cam: Abu Talal Al-Haddad, Diaa Al-Haddad, Mich’ael Zupraner | Ed: Mich’ael Zupraner | Sound Des: Binya Reches | Print/Sales: Mich’ael Zupraner

The Verdict Ðuro Gavran

When Croatian war hero Ante Gotovina is tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, emotions run high among the crowd that has gathered in Zagreb’s central square. The Verdict zooms in on the faces, shows the solidarity, joy and dismay nationalist sentiments elicit. WORLD PREMIERE

I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard Matt Wolf

Brainard’s drawings, collages, assemblages and paintings, as well as his short essays and verbal-visual collaborations, were celebrated during his lifetime before he stopped making art in the mid-1980s. The film is an elliptical dialogue about friendship, nostalgia and the strange wonders of memory. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Skinningrove Michael Almereyda

Nobody has ever heard of Skinningrove in North Yorkshire, England, other than through Chris Killip’s pictures. Teenagers hanging around, children on the beach and fishermen in their boats. Director Michael Almeyreda looks Killip up. Thirty years later, they both look at the black-andwhite photographs on his laptop. USA, 2012 | colour, video, 15 min, English Prod: Chris Killip | Cam: Pacho Velez | Ed: Yossera Bouchtia, Andrew Coffman | Sound Des: Jenny Lim | With: Chris Killip | Print/Sales: Michael Almereyda

RECONNAISSANCE

Present Tense The here and now, reinforced by references to the recent or ancient past. Grotesque, raw fiction vs careful, precise documentation. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:15 LantarenVenster 6 Mon 28-1 16:30 LantarenVenster 3

Malaika

My Life Time

Johann Lurf

Katarina Zdjelar

Johann Lurf spent several months documenting the Morris Reservoir in California, for decades a military torpedo-testing site. Now decommissioned and rife with infrastructural oddities, the oftdocumented site is here transformed through subtle movements by Lurf’s sly investment in visual perception play. (TIFF 2012)

In this fragile performance, the originally energetic and proud composition Malaika gives voice to another side of our colonial past. The precise camera work and the diverging sound and images create space for reflection.

Austria, 2012 | colour, video, 5 min, silent

Prod: Johann Lurf | Sc: Johann Lurf | Ed: Johann Lurf | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.johannlurf.net

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The Shores of an Island I Only Skirted Sander Breure, Witte van Hulzen

We see images of nature on the island of Utøya. Then a collage of images from secondary sources on the internet. Besides a complex game with reality as fiction, topical themes such as the political tensions in Europe, security and mass migration and immigration give thrust to this work. WORLD PREMIERE

Crystal Pillars Constant Dullaart

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Rotterd@m Shorts 1 Overview of the best audio-visual productions from Rotterdam from the past year: documentary, dance film, fiction and experimental work. Public SCREENINGS Thu 31-1 19:15 LantarenVenster 1 Sat 2-2 17:30 Cinerama 5

Crops Gerco de Ruijter

Gerco de Ruijter cut thousands of circles from Google Earth and made this experimental video collage about irrigation in the United States. Sprayers rotate around a central axis and irrigate round fields of green crops and desert areas. Precursor to a larger project. WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2013 | colour, video, 4 min, no dialogue

While we see a video diary of Dullaart’s actual social encounters during the time he spent on Facebook, we are guided through personal experiences, marketing talk and disturbing perceptions of our new social world. In voice-over we hear Mark Zuckerberg, various terms of use and Dullart’s own words. WORLD PREMIERE

Des duivels Develish

Eelko Ferwerda, Jasper Wessels

The Saprophage Nathaniel Mellors, Gwendoline Christie

The Saprophage was shot on an iPhone (in L.A., London and Greece) and, in places, the footage was purposely distorted and damaged. Time, place and action are examined in a maelstrom of words and images. Every now and then, Mellors is also part of this fabulous, absurd saga. Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 10 min, English Prod: Nathaniel Mellors | Sc: Nathaniel Mellors | Cam: Aaron Kovalchik, Nathaniel Mellors | Ed: Nathaniel Mellors | Prod Des: Nathaniel Mellors, Gwendoline Christie | Sound Des: Nathaniel Mellors | Music: Andy Cooke | With: Gwendoline Christie, Johnny Vivash, David Birkin, Nathaniel Mellors | Print/Sales: Nathaniel Mellors

The past is relived when two old classmates bump into each other. Nothing has been forgotten and certainly nothing forgiven. Film about power and powerlessness that rouses the senses with stunts and special effects as the starting point. ‘The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn’t exist.’ WORLD PREMIERE

Edison Bay Michiel van Bakel

View from Rotterdam’s Edison Bay on Yangtze Harbour, where large containers from China are unloaded. The mingling of two more-or-less different realities: a floating human figure and an industrial horizon. With a soundtrack of natural and electronic sounds, recorded on the spot. WORLD PREMIERE

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Soigneur Rik van der Linden

Twenty years after his accident, cycling talent Simon van Beneden returns to the scene in the French Vosges to coach three amateurs on the steepest parts of the mountain. A final attempt to return to cycling. As a soigneur. WORLD PREMIERE

Het verzameld breiwerk van Loes Veenstra The Collected Knitwork of Loes Veenstra Christien Meindertsma

Since 1955, Loes Veenstra has knitted more than 500 sweaters and kept them in her house in RotterdamZuid. Up until the day of shooting, the sweaters had never been worn. Both the flashmob, the film and the accompanying book are an ode to Loes’s work. Sweet film with roles for all of her sweaters. Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 3 min, Dutch Prod: Christien Meindertsma | Cam: Roel van Tour | Ed: Tim Roza | Music: Peter de Koning | Print/Sales: Christien Meindertsma | www.dnacharlois.nl

Hier is Harry Merry Here is Harry Merry Joke Olthaar

Charming, respectful and amusing portrait of cult singer-songwriter Harry Merry, a Rotterdam phenomenon who plays experimental rock on his organ and always performs wearing a sailor suit. His mother supports him come what may; the department of social security doesn’t really understand though.

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Rotterd@m Shorts 2 Two documentaries with Rotterdam subjects: the bombing during WWII and writer Bob den Uyl. Public SCREENINGS Thu 31-1 21:45 LantarenVenster 1 Sat 2-2 15:00 Cinerama 5

Herinneringen aan vuur Memories of Fire Heddy Honigmann

Rotterdam was bombed on 14 May 1940. More than 800 people died and much of the city was destroyed. In this documentary, survivors tell their personal stories. About the day in question and about life afterwards. A valuable document for the city of Rotterdam. Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 52 min, Dutch Prod: Martin Lagestee | Prod Comp: Lagestee Film BV | Sc: Heddy Honigmann | Cam: Claire Pijman, Hans Bouma | Ed: Jeffrey De Vore | Sound Des: Hugo Dijkstal | Music: Florencia Di Concilio | Print/Sales: Lagestee Film BV | www.heddy-honigmann.nl

Tamelijk gelukkig Fairly Happy

Peter Scholten

Rotterdam documentary larded with short fiction about the rise and fall of the travel story writer Bob den Uyl. About his struggles with writing, war memories and insane phobias. With contributions by fellow authors and guest roles for Loes Luca and Jack Wouterse, among others. WORLD PREMIERE

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Short Profile: Mika Taanila Mika Taanila is an artist working fluently in the fields of documentary filmmaking and visual arts. He has created works in film, video, photography, sound and installation. Besides his most important earlier films, IFFR 2013 presents the world premiere of his latest film Six Day Run in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films, and two installation works at TENT. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:00 LantarenVenster 6 Mon 28-1 19:45 LantarenVenster 6

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Optinen ääni Optical Sound Mika Taanila

The subtitle of this work is: ‘Symphony # 2 for Dot Matrix printers’. A rhythmic choreography of printer parts and their now classic typography is juxtaposed with observations of life in office buildings. Man versus machine. The never-ending march of technology. The score is by the Canadian composer [The User]. Finland, 2005 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:2.35, 6 min, no dialogue

Täydellisen pimennyksen vyöhyke The Zone of Total Eclipse Mika Taanila

The Finnish artist Mika Taanila manipulates found scientific footage – a registration of an eclipse that took place in 1945 in northern Finland – that he shows in both positive and negative. Finland, 2006 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 6 min, no dialogue Prod: Cilla Werning | Prod Comp: Kinotar Oy | Ed: Mika Taanila | Sound Des: Olli Huhtanen | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution | www.kinotar.com/en/films/shorts/the+zone+of+total+eclipse

Futuro – tulevaisuuden olotila Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow Mika Taanila

The 100% plastic Futuro House designed by Matti Suuronen in 1968, an egg-shaped, prefabricated portable building, is an icon of space-age design. The film traces the short history of this structure, which symbolizes ‘the dream of the future’ of the late 1960s, examining the utopian ‘Made-In-Finland’ vision, and also how the oil crisis put an abrupt end to the project in 1974. Today the Futuro House stands for a utopia that almost came true. Finland, 1998 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 30 min, no dialogue Prod: Mika Taanila | Prod Comp: Kinotar Oy | Sc: Marko Home, Mika Taanila | Cam: Jussi Eerola | Ed: Mika Taanila | Prod Des: Kari Juusonen | Sound Des: Olli Huhtanen | Music: Ektroverde | Print/Sales: Kinotar Oy

Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä

Spectrum Shorts Installation The Most Electrified Town in Finland Mika Taanila Images of the gigantic structures are spread over three screens, many of them time-lapse shots on 16mm film, interspersed with scenes of everyday life in Eurajoki, whose spirit of optimism regarding ‘the plant’ seems oddly anachronistic from a contemporary perspective. The title stems directly from a slogan that the town itself is proudly promoting. Thu 24-Sat 2, 11:00-18:00, free admission, TENT Finland, 2012 | colour, video, 15 min, no dialogue Prod: Mika Taanila | Cam: Jussi Eerola | Sound Des: Olli Huhtanen | Music: Pan Sonic | Print/Sales: Kinotar Oy

Short Stories: Bad Weeds Grow Tall Growing up in confusing times isn’t easy anywhere on the globe. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 20:15 LantarenVenster 3 Sun 27-1 12:15 LantarenVenster 3

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

Mika Taanila

Friday Night

A portrait of Erkki Kurenniemi along with 1960s avant-garde music and film, the early history of microcomputers and questions of 21st-century science. Taanila links past to present by showing excerpts of Kurenniemi’s early experimental films alongside documentation of his current project, in which he obsessively catalogues details of his everyday life so he can be re-constructed in the future, after his death.

Gul Dharmani

Finland, 2002 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.85, 52 min, no dialogue

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India, 2013 | colour, DCP, 24 min, English/Hindi

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Three rich teenage girls sneak off to paint the town red. When their taxi ends up on the outskirts of town, they not only have to deal with the Indian underclasses, but also with each other. Surprising fiction by talented, young Indian filmmaker. Prod: Anay Goswamy | Sc: Gul Dharmani | Cam: Avinash Arun | Ed: Arindam Ghatak | Sound Des: Anthony Ruban | Music: Anjo John | Print/Sales: Gul Dharmani

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Ziegenort Tomasz Popakul

Summer in the fishing village of Ziegenort. Early in the day, an introverted boy and his father go fishing. He struggles with his fears and constant rejection. He is as trapped as the fish he sees gasping for air. Polish animation about teenage angst with magical, surreal scenes. WORLD PREMIERE

Echo Lewis Arnold Walking down the street, 17-year-old Caroline gets a call that her dad has had a serious motorbike accident. Passers-by help her out, even with her life. Exceptional, impressive story about mourning, in which reality and imagination intertwine. Based on a true story. WORLD PREMIERE

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Short Stories: Latin Treats Back again. Unique Latin shorts from Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Chile. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 22:15 LantarenVenster 3 Fri 25-1 12:15 LantarenVenster 3

Serra do Mar Sea Ridge Iris Junges

Jonas and his girlfriend live in a house in the Serra do Mar mountains that separate São Paolo from the coast. He watches the power stations on monitors. A fire breaks out. Beautiful, mysterious fiction that raises questions and was triumphant at major Brazilian festivals. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Para armar un helicóptero

To Put Together a Helicopter

Faraways

Izabel Acevedo

Audrey Lam

Two non-conformist girls skate, flypost and hang around in a desolate urban landscape. They’re not from round here, don’t belong here, but at least they have each other. Loneliness and togetherness convincingly portrayed; the spirit of Linklater’s Slacker is always near. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Ugly Night

17-year-old Oliverio lives in an apartment in Mexico City with rural immigrants. Together they make ends meet. When heavy rain makes their electricity cut out, Oliverio comes up with a solution. Original, authentic fiction about inventiveness and the will to survive. WORLD PREMIERE

Won Kang

Dongchul tries to save face by carrying out an important assignment. It’s the middle of the night and the two leads journey further and further into the dark. Things get darker with every scene. This raw story grabs you by the throat and drags you in. WORLD PREMIERE

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El acompañante

Przed minieciem

Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio

Bianca Lucas

In the slums of Lima a young male prostitute takes care of his silent, invalid father who used to paint woodwork in the traditional manner. It’s hard work and he tries to break free, but his father is too dependent on him. Unique, intimate fiction from Peru.

Deep in Poland’s countryside, the brisk winter air thickens with tension. It is the day before ‘Lunar Passing’ – a phenomenon that will change life on earth forever. Little Maria seeks out the company of 90-year-old Jerzy, the local ‘lunatic’ living in isolation. Subtle, enigmatic fairy tale in black-and-white.

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Peru, 2012 | colour, DCP, 22 min, Spanish

Poland, 2013 | b&w, video, 15 min, Polish

The Companion

Before Passing

No hay pan No Bread

Macarena Monrós

The older owner of a corner shop gets in trouble when he can no longer buy in bread. He’s also losing customers to the local supermarket. Lovingly made fiction about an important, global economic issue. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Short Stories: Lunar Eclipses Short, sometimes dreamy fictions which leave some riddles unsolved. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 17:45 LantarenVenster 3 Sat 26-1 12:00 LantarenVenster 6

La maison vide Cover Us

Mathieu Hippeau

The unhappy son of a locksmith helps out with a job for the lady of the manor. Her house contains a history that is of vital importance to him. Hippeau catalogues the subtle tensions of human interaction focusing on the search for security.

Het zwijgen van Helena Helena’s Silence Pieter Dumoulin

Helena, her brother and her mother are holidaying in the usual seaside town when the latter becomes very ill. Helena doesn’t know what to do and retreats into herself, leaving her brother to solve matters. Convincing, strongly cinematic graduation film (KASK, Ghent) about isolation and close brother-sister ties. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Light Plate Josh Gibson

Situated between tradition and modernity, dawn and night, pasta is made in Italian light. A handmade celluloid essay, conjuring up vistas of the Italian countryside. Time is invoked by window-framed intersections of near and far. Impressive cinematography with a nostalgic undertone and a traditional soundtrack. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

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Luz da manhã

Dom tsah

Cláudia Varejão

Ruslan Magomadov

Last part of a trilogy about family meetings. How paths cross – or sometimes fail to – by an inch. After a day of swimming at the lake, family ties are inexplicably disturbed. Morning Light makes the generation gap tangible between mother, daughter and granddaughter.

Beautiful, contained, documentary-style drama in Chechnya. An old man tries to stay alive in his home that is engulfed by war. Until he gets the chance to leave. Well-acted, sober fiction about the strong primal urge to survive. Based on a true story.

Portugal, 2012 | colour, video, 18 min, Portuguese

Russia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 26 min, Russian

Morning Light

Short Stories: Pull Together

Home

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Odete Clarissa Campolina, Ivo Lopes Araújo, Luiz Pretti

Humans get by, under any conditions. Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 22:15 LantarenVenster 3 Mon 28-1 14:30 LantarenVenster 6

Daimi Marie Grahtø Sørensen

Strong, much-lauded debut by Danish filmmaker about a young girl on her own at home over Christmas. Fantasy and reality mingle; is there a piglet running around, or is it a baby? Where is her mother? Sober, haunting, extremely affecting fiction thanks to the young lead’s fabulous acting. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Buenos días resistencia Good Morning Resistance Adrián Orr

Early morning. Almost in real time, we witness the daily ritual of a father waking his three young children and taking them to school. It’s quite a chore and seems to have been born from necessity. ‘We are a team and we all have our own responsibilities, okay?’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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An adult daughter goes to visit her aging mother who has just died. Before doing so, she wrote a moving letter to her offspring about their true relationship. Together the silence, emptiness and minimal movement as well as the repetitions on the soundtrack work like a mantra. Beautifully shot in Fortaleza, Brazil. Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 16 min, Portuguese Prod: Caroline Lousie | Prod Comp: Alumbramento Produções Cinematográficas Ltda | Sc: Clarissa Campolina, Ivo Lopes Araújo, Luiz Pretti | Cam: Ivo Lopes Araújo | Ed: Clarissa Campolina, Luiz Pretti | Prod Des: Thais de Campos | Sound Des: O Grivo | Music: O Grivo | With: Verônica de Sousa Cavalcanti | Print/Sales: Alumbramento Produções Cinematográficas Ltda

Short Stories: When the Going Gets Tough A glimmer of hope can be found in the strangest places. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 22:30 LantarenVenster 3 Mon 28-1 19:30 LantarenVenster 3

Un dimanche matin A Sunday Morning Damien Manivel

Where are a man and his dog going so early in the morning? The dawn chorus hasn’t even started. The man is the first person outside. He peeks over a fence and sits down. If only every Sunday were like this. A quiet film in which dawn slowly awakens the world. France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 18 min, no dialogue Prod: Marie-Anne Campos | Prod Comp: LE GREC | Sc: Damien Manivel | Cam: Julien Guillery | Ed: Suzana Pedro | Sound Des: Jérôme Petit | With: Ivan Borin, Stiki | Print/Sales: Agence du court-métrage

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Good Bye Sweet Pop’s Bérangère Allaux

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María Mary

Mónica Lairana

A young woman rushes to drop the children off. When she arrives at the theatre where she works, she proves to be totally distraught and incapable of rehearsing. In costume, she wanders outside and picks up her child, who immediately notices her odd behaviour. Moving fiction about despair with Sophie Quinton, from 38 Witnesses.

A tiny room, a young woman and her clients. The males put their weight on her battered body. Multi-talented Lairana once again has a good eye for the details of women’s lives, as she did in the award-winning Rosa, that was also screened at IFFR. Mary is a fabulous, very compassionate portrait.

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France, 2013 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 12 min, French

Argentina, 2012 | colour, DCP, 13 min, no dialogue

Yaderni wydhody Nuclear Waste

Miroslav Slaboshpitsky

Sergiy and Sveta live in Chernobyl. He drives trucks for a company that processes radioactive waste, she works at a launderette. Their lives have a certain rhythm. Every day they meet in a room for a standard ritual. Effective, austere, yet also moving fiction. Ukraine, 2012 | colour, DCP, 23 min, no dialogue Prod: Denys Ivanov, Volodymyr Tykhyy, Igor Savychenko | Prod Comp: Arthouse Traffic, Pronto Film | Sc: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Cam: Dmytro Sannykov | Ed: Kristof Hoornaert | Prod Des: Elena Slaboshpytskaya | Sound Des: Sergiy Stepanskiy | With: Svenlana Shtanko, Sergiy Gavryluk | Print/Sales: Arthouse Traffic

Ina Litovski André Turpin, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Soul Hotel A Soul Hotel is a hotel that also welcomes the dead. Rare hotels, but on the banks of the Mekong rarity is relative. Soul film. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 6 Fri 1-2 09:15 LantarenVenster 5

Maling

The Thieves Ismail Basbeth

Two thieves are captured by angry neighbours. Although the theft is insignificant (an old TV) people are no less angry, and the punishment is extreme. Basically a crime in itself. A few minutes in the dark woods and their fate is sealed forever. Brief morality play. WORLD PREMIERE

Outsider Sophie or Ina Litovski, as she prefers to be called, feels ignored by her lethargic mother with whom she lives in a small apartment. Tonight she’ll play her violin at the school concert and she decides to make this the turning point in her life. Canada, 2012 | colour, DCP, 11 min, French Prod: Stephanie Verrier | Prod Comp: Les Productions Flow | Sc: André Turpin, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | Cam: André Turpin | Ed: Elric Robichon | Prod Des: David Pelletier | Sound Des: Sylvain Bellemare | With: Marine Johnson, Geneviève Alarie | Print/Sales: Travelling

Not a Soul Jet Leyco

A man hides out in the mountains after accidentally killing a priest. However, the area is far from safe. Soldiers and rebels hunt one another there. The fateful location is visualised with a mixture of oppressive, moving and still, black-and-white images. Don’t move a muscle. WORLD PREMIERE

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Zero Gravity

Beyond Memory

Jakrawal Nilthamrong

Abdalla Mohamed

Visually and dramatically complex story set simultaneously in the present and the past. Zero Gravity returns to where a bizarre hostage situation ended in blood over ten years ago. Almost every conflict in or on the border of Thailand seem to be dealt with.

A beautiful girl in a room, filmed in black-and-white. Alone, she misses no one. She opens her memory and lets in Omar, who disappeared. How long ago is unclear, but her broken heart still hasn’t healed. The almost empty room has a portrait of Che Guevara on the wall.

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Thailand, 2012 | colour, video, 22 min, Thai

Sudan, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 8 min, Arabic

Mekong Hotel Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Few rivers have discharged more bodies than the Mekong. No wonder that the Apichatpong Hotel – with its otherworldly, filming hotelier – is not only home to living guests. They hang around on the veranda, listen to or play guitar and rehearse for a film that will no longer be made. Thailand/UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 57 min, Thai Prod: Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Prod Comp: Illuminations Films, Kick the Machine | Sc: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Cam: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Ed: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Sound Des: Akritcharlerm Kalayanamitr | Music: Chai Bhatana | With: Jenjira Pongpas, Maiyatan Techaparn, Sakda Kaewbuadee | Print/Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | www.the-match-factory.com/films/items/mekong-hotel.html

Rabbaba Man Mario Mabor Dhalbny

Light-hearted documentary portrait of Mohamed ‘Haraka’. Everyone in his neighbourhood Ombadda in Omdurman knows ‘the rabbabaman’. He cycles around with his bike and his instruments, selling his rabbabas and singing traditional songs. A guardian of his culture. No wonder everyone loves him. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Sudan’s Swinging Film Factory Khartoum is a post-war city. Sudan is divided to the core. But then there is music. Filming is learnt hesitantly. But no one has to tell them anything about music.

Cinema Behind Bars

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Closed cinemas. Primarily visually approached. Not spectacularly, but quietly and carefully. The symbolism of closed, derelict cinemas is strong. Their demise wasn’t for economic, but for political and religious reasons. A woman tells the story of her cinema.

In Search of Hip-Hop Issraa El-Kogali

Bahaeldin Ibrahim

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Sudan, 2012 | colour, DCP, 30 min, Arabic

The title is perfect. Sudan’s political and religious climate doesn’t exactly foster counter-culture. The filmmaker really had to hunt for some and found little, but what she encountered was disarmingly original. Portrait of rappers that have yet to learn how to rap.

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Nemra 12

Señal de humo

Mosaab Fadul

Sebastian Diaz Morales

A portrait of a man famous in Khartoum for being a professional football supporter. He doesn’t egg on the players, but whips the crowd into a frenzy to rhythmically support the team. Truly the 12th member of the team.

This work needs a closer reading. As if aiming to ‘get the picture’, we hear sounds of pages turning, wanting to get from one image to the next. In the cumulative process of reading the images, a situation gradually starts to be disclosed. The tension rises, the images want to take their own voice. Also see Insight in Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.

Number 12

Smoke Signal

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Nomads Mohamed Hanafi

Nomads is set in a messy, but busy car workshop in Khartoum. The mechanics all love music. Actually, you could call them professional musicians whose hobby is working on cars. Rhythmic documentary with a good sense of mechanical parts. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Survival Strategies We invited 14 distributors of experimental film and video art (DINAMO) to each submit a title for this survival strategiesthemed programme. Public SCREENING Sun 27-1 19:45 LantarenVenster 2

80 Million Mohamed Zayan, Eslam Zeen El Abedeen

Return power to the people! The makers have shaped a dream of the future as a breathtaking metaphor. A mirage of percussion instruments overwhelms to such an extent, seems so real, that it can only be a matter of time before 80 million Egyptians regain power.

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Our Protection Ayelen Liberona, Joseph Johnson-Cami

‘You hit bodies, while we hit streets.’ This accusation by vocalist Rosina Kazi is central to this richly animated video. How free is a Western country, if dancing in the streets is punished with tear gas and imprisonment in the name of our safety? WORLD PREMIERE

The Folded Edges Across the Rim John Forget

The banality of a summer promenade buffet, where waitress Marlene (artist Heather Wise) works, is transcended by a musical mantra and an electrified outfit with moving colours. Filling bowls of fortune cookies can be inspiring. WORLD PREMIERE

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NabelFabel NavelFable

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Mademoiselle Emilie Jouvet

Mara Mattuschka

Slowly revealing her face, which is covered in various materials, Mattuschka emerges like a butterfly from a cocoon. Her face laid bare for a moment, she emancipates. Or does she? A brush is used to re-transform her appearance. Beautiful 16mm print from 1984. Austria, 1984 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, no dialogue Prod: Mara Mattuschka | Sc: Mara Mattuschka | Cam: Mara Mattuschka | Ed: Mara Mattuschka | Sound Des: Mara Mattuschka | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com

A Forest Within a Forest AUJIK

A woman has found a way of getting the verbal harassment of men out of her system. She transforms their aggressive formulations into a wordless, glissando lament, which gradually becomes hilarious and creates an opening in the fraught situation. France, 2004 | colour, DCP, 4 min, French Prod: Emilie Jouvet | Sc: Emilie Jouvet | Cam: Emilie Jouvet | With: Estelle Germain | Print/Sales: Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC) | www.cjcinema.org

Two Islands Jan Ijäs

Out of the mist, an island gradually appears, low in the water. The camera floats towards a unique spot and perhaps the future’s most valuable archaeological find: a public cemetery for the lonely, homeless, nameless, poor inhabitants of New York. Finland, 2012 | b&w, video, 5 min, English Prod: Jan Ijäs | Sc: Jan Ijäs | Cam: Cristian Manzutto, Jan Ijäs | Ed: Okku Nuutilainen | Sound Des: Svante Colérus | Music: Vilunki 3000 | With: Voice of Morgan Devereaux | Print/Sales: AV-arkki | www.av-arkki.fi

Cantaert Hunter 890602

Ice/Fire Paul Kos

Ria Pacquée

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Where are these women heading? Towards one another or each to her own goal? Ceaselessly walking, the corn’s leaves sometimes hit them hard. Every step leads to the next strike, but stopping doesn’t seem an option. A beautiful image of indomitable perseverance.

USA, 2004 | colour, DCP, 5 min, English

Belgium, 2003 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue

Short but fascinating ode to human inventiveness. Paul Kos translates a well-known instruction from a survival manual into video: If there is no magnifying glass around to light kindling, try making fire with ice.

Austerity Measures Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell

At the Acropolis, a flat hand rises from the earth. Underneath, a marble base covered in flyers. Fists fill heads. Reminiscent of Eisenstein when the city steps herald the end: graffiti vanitas stares back from the walls. Greece, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 8 min, silent Prod: Guillaume Cailleau | Sc: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Cam: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Ed: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Prod Des: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Sound Des: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Print: Light Cone Distribution | Sales: Guillaume Cailleau | www.lightcone.org

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Whiplash Warren Sonbert

In spite of disease-ravaged vision and motor skills, Sonbert summoned his strength for his last ode to life. His comrade, Ascension Serrano, collected images on the basis of meticulous instructions. Former student Jeff Scher completed the film after the filmmaker’s death. USA, 1995 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 8 min, no dialogue Prod: Jon A. Gartenberg | Prod Comp: Gartenberg Media Enterprises, Inc | Sc: Warren Sonbert | Cam: Warren Sonbert | Ed: Warren Sonbert | Prod Des: Warren Sonbert | Print: Light Cone Distribution | Sales: Gartenberg Media Enterprises, Inc | www.lightcone.org

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Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas

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Manhã de Santo António

Morning of Saint Anthony’s Day João Pedro Rodrigues

How can we deal with war better? In this subversive, fake news item Adolfas Mekas, as Minister of War, gives us practical tips. He advises us to leave war to the experts and sees a prime role for the mafia. USA, 1968 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 4 min, English Prod: Jonas Mekas | Sc: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas | Cam: Jonas Mekas | Ed: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas | Prod Des: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas | Sound Des: Shirley Clarke | With: Adolfas Mekas | Print/Sales: Re:Voir | www.re-voir.com

Love-smitten people wander the streets in the waking hours of a day when Lisbon parties in commemoration of its patron saint. Informed by Fernando Pessoa, Rodrigues’s film also deftly recalls the melancholic humour, geometric choreographies and rampant absurdity of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati. Portugal/France, 2012 | colour, video, 25 min, Portuguese Prod: Joao Figueiras | Prod Comp: Blackmaria, Le Fresnoy | Sc: João Pedro Rodrigues | Cam: Rui Poças | Ed: Mariana Gaivão | Sound Des: Nuno Carvalho | With: Alexander David, Mariana Sampaio, Miguel Nunes, Lydie Bárbara, Maria Leite | Print/Sales: Agencia – Portuguese Short Film Agency

Orde van dienst Order of Service Henk Otte

Stoned Cho Seoungho

Order of Service is part of a larger project about the Reformed Church in the Netherlands. Together with a book of photographs and organograms, the artist seeks the core of the beliefs of this very austere church. The power of repetition plays an important role. Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 7 min, Dutch Prod: Henk Otte | Sc: Henk Otte | Ed: Henk Otte | Sound Des: Henk Otte | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Sales: Henk Otte | www.filmbank.nl

The poetic meditations of Korean artist Seoungho Cho often focus on isolation and alienation in relation to culture and landscape. With Stoned, Cho continues his meticulous manipulation of the moving image by making the ancient temple walls of Angkor Wat dance before our eyes. WORLD PREMIERE

Take Off It’s not about how you look, it’s about what you see. And what you think you see. Films that lift you to another reality – sometimes close by, sometimes far away. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 17:30 LantarenVenster 2 Fri 25-1 12:00 LantarenVenster 6

Lay Bare Paul Bush

Marian Ilmestys The Annunciation Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Classic religious depictions of the Annunciation become humane and ironic by having them re-enacted by a cast of unassuming yet wholly engaged women. Different layers of meaning and sensuality are constructed and narrated in an unpretentious and disarmingly witty way. What is the nature of a miracle? Finland, 2011 | colour, DCP, 38 min, Finnish

Over 500 people of different ages and nationalities modelled for this sample book of the human body. The surface is exposed in a manner generally reserved for the intimacy of family or lovers. The result is erotic, funny, beautiful and vulnerable.

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Terra Incognita

Wondering Alien Directors

Members of a subculture lead us to unfamiliar terrain and an undefined era. Where did our current civilization go?

No country cultivates genres like this. No country satirises them like this either. In a word: Japan.

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Doll Parts

Wandering Alien Detective Robin

Muzi Quawson

Lisa Takeba

Quawson examines the lives of people situated at the fringes of the mainstream. She is drawn to individuals who tend to assert their identity via a blending of references informed by cinema, music and the history of popular culture. Doll Parts functions as a quiet study on the nature of identity.

There are creepy films with hideous aliens and films that satirise the latter. There are also satires of hard-boiled detectives and basically every other genre. Young advertising director Takeba satirises them all, but in a romantic, endearing way. She really loves that ugly alien.

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USA, 2013 | colour, DCP, 10 min, no dialogue

Japan/USA, 2013 | colour/b&w, video, 19 min, Japanese/English

21 Chitrakoot Shambhavi Kaul

21 Chitrakoot shows us a kitschy, utopian world in which nostalgic, mythical and spectacular images have been destroyed. Low-fi techniques give the story a new, abstract twist. The abrupt end contributes to the highly alienating nature of this composed world. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

India, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue Prod: Shambhavi Kaul | Ed: Shambhavi Kaul | Print/Sales: Shambhavi Kaul

Circle in the Sand Michael Robinson

Akibahara Akiba-Field

Devi Kobayashi

In Japan, games, comics and genre films are taken more seriously than anywhere else on the planet. As a result, the satire on that pop culture is a class apart. An empty street signals the apocalypse. A sword, noble martial arts. Small film, big grin. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Columbos Kawai + Okamura

A band of ragged souls conjures up an unstable magic, fuelled by apathy and the poisonous histories imbedded in the junk they unearth. ‘Suspicion, boredom, garbage and glamour conspire in the languid pageantry of ruin. Feel the breeze in your hair, and the world crumbling through your fingers.’ (MR) INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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Legendary TV detective Columbo brought back to life. In his new life he vivaciously, contemplatively plays a stop-motion detective. A virtuoso scene, perfect down to the last detail, where every shadow has its place. The atmosphere is almost more classic than in Columbo. Sherlock Holmes next perhaps? WORLD PREMIERE

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Shibata to Nagao

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Malody

Shibata and Ngao

Phillip Barker

Yang Ik-June

This short, just like 2·11 by Tatsusi Omori, was made for Cinema Impact, a 14-day workshop for young filmmakers, producers and actors led by an experienced filmmaker; in this case, Korean Tiger winner Yang Ik-June (Breathless), who makes fun of workshops. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

2·11

Set inside a roadside diner, where a sick woman meets herself as a little girl in a reflection in a mirror. The diner is built within a large wooden wheel and is literally rolled through a studio. As the world turns upside down, the changing gravitational pull creates chaos and sets off a fateful chain of events. Screened before Krivina. Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 12 min, English Prod: Amanda Gordon | Sc: Phillip Barker | Cam: Kris Belchevski | Ed: Roland Schlimme | Prod Des: Rob Hepburn | Sound Des: Tom Third | Music: Tom Third | With: Alex PaxtonBeasley, Thomas Hauff, Ashleigh Warren | Print/Sales: Phillip Barker | www.phillipbarker.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:002 LantarenVenster 3 Mon 28-1 22:002 Cinerama 3

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Ao Lobo da Madragoa

Omori Tatsushi

To The Wolf of Madragoa

Like Shibata & Nagao by Yang Ik-June, this film was made at a Cinema Impact workshop. Yang poked fun at the improv acting workshop, but Omori shows the realistic strength of improvisation. A group of actors drive each other to distraction in an empty office building. Fullblown anarchy.

Pedro Bastos

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A poet, known to be of ‘turbulent character’, António Lobo de Carvalho was a 18th-century inhabitant of Guimarães. He wrote satirical poems filled with carcasses and sex, which led to him having to flee town later. Pedro Bastos presents him here with glorious lashings of colour, organ music and worship personified in female form. Screened before Towers & Comets.

Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 29 min, Japanese

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Preludes

Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 17:152 Cinerama 4 Fri 1-2 16:452 LantarenVenster 6

Short films screened before feature films at the festival. A collection of one-offs.

Lie ren yu ku lou guai The Hunter and the Skeleton Bai Bin

A colorful version of an Eastern Tibetan folk tale in a wonderful combination of flash with thangka (the traditional Tibetan paintings with embroidery), with a score that links native Tibetan music with modern influences. A hunter on his way up hunting in the mountains, meets a fearsome skeleton monster: are they friends or enemies? Screened before Emperor Visits the Hell. China, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 26 min, Tibetan Prod: Bai Bin | Sc/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Gentsu Gyatso | Music: Gentsu Gyatso, Wuhe Gyatso | With: Gentsu Gyatso, Dawa Gyatso, Gengar, Sonam Phuntsok | Print/Sales: Bai Bin Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 17:002 Cinerama 3 Tue 29-1 17:002 LantarenVenster 2

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How to Raise a Smart & Happy Child from Age Zero to Five Khavn De La Cruz Diabolically funny. Tricks from before cinema. A naked boy emerges from a barrel. And then another, and another. You keep laughing. You hang a little boy from a tree in a bag. Is there another in there? Videos to draw attention to child abuse, etc., are often too goody-goody to watch. That’s not the case here. Screened before Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro. WORLD PREMIERE

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The Flaneurs #3

Men of the Earth

Aryo Danusiri

Andrew Kavanagh

Jostling. A frightening mass, members of the new Islamic movement Maulid in Indonesia, that targets young people and is led by descendants of the ArabHadrami, older emigrants from what is now Yemen. The film is part of Sufi Bikers and Arab Saints, a multisensory project. Screened before One Day When the Rain Falls. WORLD PREMIERE

Strong fiction with unique perspective on an everyday situation: road works and a construction crew. However, this time their work is a little different. In an unexpected twist, the clothes of one of them are changed. Surprising short in long takes about the power of rituals, even or perhaps precisely in these times. Screened before Sleepless Night.

Indonesia/USA, 2013 | colour, video, 4 min, Arabic

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Prod: Aryo Danusiri | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music: Aryo Danusiri | With: Aryo Danusiri | Print/Sales: Aryo Danusiri Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:302 Tue 29-1 18:302 Wed 30-1 14:152 Thu 31-1 19:302

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Night of the Foxes Tom Haines

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Living Still Life Bertrand Mandico

A sultry summer mood in which not very much seems to happen is disrupted by an incident in the orchard. The exhausted fruit grower goes back to his wife. In the house, his daughter is preparing for a flirt. That night, the foxes take over. Good fiction that manages to surprise. Screened before The Tears. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Eclectic director Mandico involves graphic, photographic and written elements in his films. Fièvre, an enigmatic woman, collects dead animals. She brings them to life through animated films. One day, a man comes to see Fièvre: his wife is dead... Screened before Consequence. France/Belgium/Germany, 2012 | colour, DCP, 15 min, French Prod: Philippe Bober | Prod Comp: Coproduction Office | Sc: Bertrand Mandico | Cam: Pascale Granel | Ed: George Cragg, Laure St. Marc | Sound Des: Laure St. Marc | Music: Tazartes | With: Elina Löwensohn, Jean-Marc Montmont | Print/Sales: Coproduction Office | www. bertrandmandico.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:002 LantarenVenster 3 Thu 24-1 22:002 LantarenVenster 5

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Tunnel Maryam Kashkoolinia

Call it a political film, even though a tunnel could be anywhere. In desperate Gaza, not a country but a strip, people dig tunnels because the borders are too well guarded. Not even a sheep may cross the border. So a shepherd who has run out of ideas takes his sheep along with him into the tunnel. Desperate, absurd and yet comic. Sombre and monochrome. Animation as if modelled with soil. Screened before 111 Girls. Iran, 2012 | colour, video, 7 min, Arabic Prod: Mohammad Habbibi | Prod Comp: Honarhaye Tajassomi | Sc/Cam/Ed: Maryam Kashkoolinia | Sound Des: Hossein Mafi | Music: Hossein Mafi | Print/Sales: Maryam Kashkoolinia Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:302 LantarenVenster 3 Sat 26-1 11:452 Cinerama 1 Mon 28-1 10:002 Pathé 4

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Christos Nikou

Beautifully obtuse; unlocks a universe that takes all of ten minutes to spring to life and run its full course. Emotional distance smashed to smithereens; we’re placed in the driver’s seat of a relationship between a man and a woman, played by Aris Servetalis (Alps & L) and Evi Saoulidou. Screened before Boy Eating the Bird's Food. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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Dizem que os cães veem coisas

Lonely Bones Rosto

Dogs Are Said to See Things Guto Parente

A subtle exploration of morality during an exuberant poolside party. Suddenly disaster seems to strike the carefree gathering. Based on a short story by Moreira Campos. Screened before Avanti popolo. Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 12 min, Portuguese Prod: Caroline Louise, Guto Parente, Ticiana Augusto Lima | Prod Comp: Alumbramento Produções Cinematográficas Ltda | Sc: Guto Parente, based on the short story by Moreira Campos | Cam: Victor de Melo | Ed: Luiz Pretti, Ricardo Pretti | Prod Des: Lia Damasceno, Themis Memória | Sound Des: Pedro Diogenes | With: Marco Goulart, Karla Karenina, Guilherme Moreira, Cristina Francescutti, Miguel Filho | Print/Sales: KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:002 Sun 27-1 19:152 Tue 29-1 16:302 Wed 30-1 17:002 Thu 31-1 15:452

Rosto, one of the most extravagant and famous animators from the Netherlands, had to finance this film in France. Lonely Bones is a hallucinogenic film about dreams and making sacrifices. ‘Hail! To all the souls-Oh. Hiding on rotting floors. Little did they know that they would make today.’ (Rosto) Screened before Frankenstein's Army. WORLD PREMIERE

France/Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 10 min, English Prod: Nicolas Schmerkin, Claudius Gebele, Rosto A.D | Prod Comp: Autour de Minuit, STUDIO ROSTO A.D. | Sc/Cam/Ed: Rosto | Music: The Wreckers | Print/Sales: Autour de Minuit | www.rostoad.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:302 LantarenVenster 3 Mon 28-1 22:152 Cinerama 1

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Axel und Peter

John Skoog

Rosa von Praunheim

Nervously nibbling on a sausage and equipped with a red plastic rose, German director and actor Axel Ranisch waits for his Austrian counterpart, Peter Kern, at the airport in Berlin. The account of their very first meeting turns into a self-ironical, bitchy satire on the ‘rhythm of fat’ and gay desire. Screened before Kern. Germany/France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 41 min, German Prod: Rosa von Praunheim | Sc: Rosa von Praunheim | Cam: Dennis Pauls | Ed/Prod Des: Rosa von Praunheim | Sound Des: Markus Tiarks, Oliver Sechting | Music: Andreas Wolter | With: Axel Ranisch, Peter Kern | Print/Sales: m-appeal | www.rosavonpraunheim.de Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 17:002 Cinerama 2 Fri 1-2 21:302 Cinerama 4

Loosely based on a news story about an 11-year-old girl who stole her father’s hunting rifle and paraded with it down Main Street in the small town where she lives. The memory of the day is captured, but it’s hard to remember exactly what was the right order, how you got from one place to another, what someone said. Screened before Roland Hassel. WORLD PREMIERE

Sweden, 2013 | colour, DCP, 18 min, Swedish Prod: Erik Hemmendorff, Yasmine Perkins | Prod Comp: Plattform Produktion | Sc: John Skoog, Kettil Segergren | Cam: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt | Ed: Ireneusz Grzyb | Sound Des: David Gülich | With: Samantha Modén, Tony Martinsen, Ingrid Åkerhjelm, Alfred Göransson | Print/Sales: Plattform Produktion Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:302 Sat 26-1 13:302 Wed 30-1 20:152 Sat 2-2 22:302

Voice Over

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Sessiz/Bé deng

Martín Rosete

The voice of an old Frenchman guides us through three extreme situations under very different, yet basically the same conditions. Dead or alive? What is he trying to tell us? In the end, everything is clarified. Beautifully made, layered fiction about fate, coincidence and courage. Screened before Ginger and Rosa. Spain, 2012 | colour, DCP, 9 min, French Prod: Koldo Zuazua | Prod Comp: Kowalski Films | Sc: Luiso Berdejo | Cam: Jose Martin Rosete | Ed: Fernando Franco | Prod Des: Koldo Zuazua | Sound Des: Peter Memmer, Alvaro Lopez | Music: Jose Villalobos | With: Jonathan D. Mellor, Féodor Atkine, Javier Cidoncha, Luna Montignier Peiro | Print/Sales: Kowalski Films | www.kimuak.com/en/short/2012/voice-over Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 15:002 LantarenVenster 3 Fri 25-1 13:002 Pathé 5 Tue 29-1 22:302 Pathé 1

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Silent

Rezan Yesilbas

1984, Kurdish Zeynep visits her husband in prison where she may only speak Turkish; a language she does not know. She wants to give him shoes, but no outside items are allowed in. They nevertheless find a way to communicate. Subtle, moving fiction, the recipient of many awards. Screened before Eden. Turkey, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 14 min, Turkish/Kurdish Prod: Rezan Yesilbas | Sc: Rezan Yesilbas | Cam: Türksoy Gölebeyi | Ed: Bugra Dedeoglu, Rezan Yesilbas | Prod Des: Tuba Ataç | Sound Des: Furkan Atli | With: Belçim Bilgin, Cem Bender | Print/Sales: Rezan Yesilbas | www.rezanyesilbas.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:302 LantarenVenster 3 Fri 25-1 21:302 Pathé 2 Fri 1-2 11:452 LantarenVenster 5

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Mind the Gap Nights IFFR and Gonzo (circus) magazine came together thanks to their shared dedication to innovative, experimental, adventurous audio-visual culture. The result: a five-day late night programme, from 24 to 28 January, combining sound and images in all different disciplines and genres. Freejazz with animation, ‘folkdrones’ with 16mm projections, krautrockjazz with live glitch visuals. Many of these performances will be world or Dutch premieres during the festival. The whole shebang will be musically accompanied by the Gonzo (circus) DJs.

Mind the Gap: Thu 24

Floris Vanhoof, who works exclusively with analogue equipment, finds an accompaniment for his candy-coloured world in a folkdrone soundscape by Felicia Atkinson, and together with Tiger Shorts winner Makino Takashi will fill WORM with an eruption of images and sound. The music of Prairie could be seen as a soundtrack for a postapocalyptic thriller. The sense of impending doom is heightened by modified Super-8 images by Khristine Gillard. Using dictaphones, a plethora of effects pedals, unorthodox guitar playing and above all shedloads of attitude, gut feeling and musical intelligence, the super group Dans Dans create the most fantastic mixes from numbers by the greats who have inspired them. Visual stimulation is provided by Wim Lots and his digital pencil. Mika Taanila will add a dash of arctic hysteria. Thu 24, 22:00 till late, WORM

Mind the Gap: Fri 25

Gert-Jan Prins and Mariska de Groot bring the electric space to the attention of our ears, eyes and other senses with their performance Quadtone Extended. The layered compositions, full of the dark drones and muffled, stretched orchestral sounds of Kreng, fuse with acoustic improvisations by cellist Okkyung Lee, who is inspired by jazz, audio art, noise and classic Koreans music. Armed with drums, guitar, Casio and a huge arsenal of analogue electronics, genre-busting duo Knalpot play a hybrid mix of dub, rock, noise, ambient and jazz, accompanied by glitchy/defective video images by artist Rosa Menkman. Fri 25, 22:00 till late, WORM

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Mind the Gap: Sat 26

Marcus Fjellström, a major exponent of the new sound of Scandinavia, makes dark compositions in the minor keys, combining classical elements with mysterious drones and ‘musique concrète’. Felix Kubin’s music sounds like acid from a wall socket. The master of electro-pop has previously made music for the hand-made stop-motion animations by Martha Colburn, which are crammed with violence, sex, megalomania and religious symbolism. Their performance is simply ‘aussergewöhnlich’! Seldom have an artist and geography been so close: Deadbeat, the perfect headliner for Mind the Gap, is a dubtech hero and is the embodiment of the sound of emptiness and waning wealth – and fits perfectly with the oversized activity of the docks. Sat 26, 22:00 till late, WORM

Mind the Gap: Sun 27

During the screening of Habitat (Robert Todd, 2012), Eldorado (excerpt) (Romain Kronenberg & Benjamin Graindorge, 2013) and Maas Observation (Greg Pope & Karel Doing, 1997), composer Romain Kronenberg will fill the space with sound, using an electric guitar and various electronic devices. His live music will enter into dialogue with the images shown. Hyperbang unites filmmaker Gaëlle Rouard and her 16mm projectors with visual artist Christophe Cardoen, who mixes images and stroboscopic light, and musician David Chiesa, who expertly tortures his bass. This ‘kino-sonore’ performance has the physical and emotional dimensions of a real show. Splitsecond is saxophonist Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour’s new project. Combining sharp, loud sounds; dense, continuous frequencies that change subtly over time. Add Stefano Canapa’s specially prepared 16mm projectors and you have reel audio-visual art. Sun 27, 22:00 till late, WORM

Mind the Gap: Mon 28

Welcome to the wonderful world of Harry Merry! During his performances this blessed Rotterdam multi-instrumentalist constantly hovers between genius and madness. After the world première of Joke Olthaar’s Here Is Harry Merry (2013), the man himself will play a set. Before this, the winners of the three Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films 2013 will be announced in a short but sweet ceremony. Besides the award, the three winners receive a camera and € 3,000, presented by the jury: Joost Rekveld, Phil Collins and Solange Farkas. Mon 28, 21:00 till late, WORM

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DINAMO P&I Screenings

Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

DINAMO (Distribution Network of Artists’ Moving image Organizations) is a network of independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the USA, Canada and Europe. IFFR presents four Press & Industry programme slots in which 11 of the DINAMO distributors will show recently acquired work. These titles can also be seen in the festival video library. The film descriptions can be found on the IFFR website.

Disquieting Nature

DINAMO P&I Screenings 1

Fri 25, 10:00, LV2 V tape

Prod: Francisca Duran Print/Sales: CFMDC

Where She Stood in the First Place Lindsay McIntyre

Algonquin Travis Shilling

Canada, 2011 | b&w, video, 5 min, English Prod: Travis Shilling Print/Sales: V tape

Exercises in Faith: Bird Julieta Maria

Canada, 2010 | colour, video, 2 min, n.d. Prod: Julieta Maria Print/Sales: V tape

A Minimal Difference Jean-Paul Kelly

Canada, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 5 min, n.d. Prod: Jean-Paul Kelly Print/Sales: V tape

Roman Spring Leakage Andrew James Paterson

Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 8 min, n.d. Prod: Andrew James Paterson Print/Sales: V tape

Sight Thirza Cuthand

Canada, 2013 | colour, video, 3 min, English Prod: Thirza Cuthand Print/Sales: V tape

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) I Was Here

Canada, 2010 | b&w, 16mm, 10 min, n.d. Prod: Lindsay McIntyre Print/Sales: CFMDC

EYE Film Institute Netherlands La madre, il figlio e l’architetto Petra Noordkamp

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 16 min, English Prod: Petra Noordkamp Print/Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

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Cécile Fontaine

France, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 6 min, n.d. Prod: Cécile Fontaine Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Look Inside the Ghost Machine Péter Lichter

Hungary, 2012 | b&w, DCP, 4 min, n.d. Prod: Péter Lichter Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

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Polaroïd Versus Roman Photo Yves-Marie Mahé

Canada, 2012 | colour/b&w, 16mm, 5 min, English Prod: Heidi Phillips Print/Sales: CFMDC

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 3 min, n.d. Prod: Yves-Marie Mahé Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths

Paulo Abreu

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Asleep Portugal, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 12 min, English Prod: Paulo Abreu Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

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Edith Stauber

Austria, 2012 | colour, video, 11 min, n.d. Prod: Edith Stauber Print/Sales: sixpackfilm

Tic Tac Josephine Ahnelt

Austria, 2011 | b&w, 35 mm, 3 min, n.d. Prod: Josephine Ahnelt Print/Sales: sixpackfilm

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The Big Scene

Mon 28, 10:00, LV2

Tova Mozard

Re:Voir

Sweden, 2012 | colour, DCP, 31 min, Swedish Prod: Lars Jönsson Print/Sales: Filmform

AV-arkki Suddenly, Last Summer Juha Mäki-Jussila

Finland, 2013 | colour, video, 5 min, English Prod: Juha Mäki-Jussila Print/Sales: AV-arkki

In Memoriam Niina Suominen

Butterfly’s Effect

Star Light n°5 bis

Forsaken

Canada, 2013 | colour, video, 7 min, English

Sun 27, 10:00, LV6

Light Cone Distribution

France, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 5 min, n.d. Prod: Rose Lowder Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Francisca Duran

DINAMO P&I Screenings 3

Sat 26, 10:00, LV2

Canada, 2012 | b&w, 16mm, 10 min, n.d. Prod: Phillippe Léonard Print/Sales: CFMDC Heidi Phillips

Germany, USA, 2012 | b&w, DCP, 28 min, English Prod: Christine Meisner Print/Sales: Arsenal

Finland, 2013 | colour, video, 7 min, Finnish Prod: Niina Suominen Print/Sales: AV-arkki

Rose Lowder

Phillippe Léonard

Christine Meisner

Nachbehandlung

Anssi Kasitonni

Finland, 2013 | colour, video, 9 min, n.d. Prod: Anssi Kasitonni Print/Sales: AV-arkki

Embarkation

Postface à la brochure de 1942 Stanislav Dorochenkov

France, Russia, 2013 | colour, DCP, 27 min, Russian Prod: Pip Chodorov Print/Sales: Re:Voir

Video Data Bank (VDB) Dead World Order Dana Levy

France, 2012 | colour, video, 7 min, n.d. Prod: Dana Levy Print/Sales: VDB

Walt Disney’s ‘Taxi Driver’ Bryan Boyce

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 4 min, English Prod: Bryan Boyce Print/Sales: VDB

County Down Episode 1 Laura Parnes

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, English Prod: Laura Parnes Print/Sales: VDB

Plastic Rap with Frieda

Sini Pelkki

Finland, 2013 | colour, video, 7 min, n.d. Prod: Sini Pelkki Print/Sales: AV-arkki

Tom Rubnitz

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 4 min, English Prod: Tom Rubnitz Print/Sales: VDB

Argos Centre for Art and Media

Small Heroes Tommi Matikka

Senegal, 2013 | colour, video, 2 min, n.d. Prod: Tommi Matikka Print/Sales: AV-arkki

sixpackfilm Jackson/Marker 4am Ruth Beckermann

Austria, 2012 | colour, video, 4 min, n.d. Prod: Ruth Beckermann Print/Sales: sixpackfilm

Hotel Room Bernd Oppl

Austria, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, n.d. Prod: Bernd Oppl Print/Sales: sixpackfilm

A Day for Cake and Accidents Steve Reinke

Canada, 2013 | colour, DCP, 4 min, English Prod: Steve Reinke Print/Sales: Argos

nocturne #2 Pieter Geenen

Belgium, 2012 | colour, DCP, 12 min, n.d. Prod: Pieter Geenen, Samme Raeymaekers Print/Sales: Argos

Der Doppelgänger Bernard Gigounon

Belgium, 2013 | colour, DCP, 6 min, n.d. Prod: Bernard Gigounon Print/Sales: Argos

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Signals: Dominik Graf

Dominik Graf

The Savage Heart Olaf Möller & Christoph Huber

For many FRG filmmakers and critics, Dominik Graf is one of the nation’s three or four major contemporary auteurs. Who the other two or three are remains open to discussion in a culture so divided and at odds with itself. Many are the schools, philosophies, production strata – few are the zones of convergence. None of these groups would consider Graf one of their own – for each of them, he’s a key point of reference; revered, one-of-a-kind, a bit of an ideal, something of a hero with a sexy bad-boy edge. And no wonder: Graf’s films look like absolutely nothing else made in the FRG, and certainly like nothing ever made in the Berlin Republic. A distinction of vital importance to Graf: Bonn Republic vs Berlin Republic; the Old FRG vs the New; the contradiction-riddled Nazi Successor State vs its expanded version, Cold War Winner 2.0. Graf remains resolutely Bonn Republic in his manners and opinions: his Deutschland 09 – 13 Filme zur Lage der Nation contribution Episode 6: Der Weg, den wir nicht zusammen gehen (2009) fittingly comes off as a curse – here, and only here, the post-1989 FRG is referred to as a dictatorship. And this was no isolated incident or slip of the tongue. To give one more example: in his preface to a posthumously published collection of stories by TV auteur Oliver Storz – the subject of his extraordinary essay-documentary Lawinen der Erinnerung (2012) – Graf decries the FRG Now as the ‘allerdümmsten Zeiten, die unser Land seit dem Weltkrieg erlebt hat’ (most stupid times our country has seen since WWII). Of course, The Powers That Be prefer to ignore this and feel mighty magnanimously liberal for doing so – social democratic2 even. As Melba, the image consultant, has it in Die Sieger (1994) – arguably the bleakest film ever made on the early years of the Berlin Republic: ‘Wenn Wahlen wirklich etwas bewirken könnten, wären sie in diesem Land verboten’ (If elections could really change anything, they’d be outlawed in this country.) The same can be said of art: if a film could change anything, production would immediately be stopped. But isn’t this exactly what happened – at least twice – to Graf? Why did The Powers That Be feel the need to censor the screenplay of Die Sieger, and why was, in the mid-2000s, the Christoph Fromm-scripted project Die Macht des Geldes, a biopic à clef about Alfred Herrhausen, i.e. an epic about the Bonn Republic, suddenly red-lighted after years of preparation?

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Signals: Dominik Graf

Exploding TV

So, if Graf is so important to FRG film culture, and if his work has such a politically explosive dimension, how come he’s almost unknown beyond the borders of his native Germany? The biggest problem might be this: of Graf’s more than 60 works so far, only about one-sixth were made for cinema – the rest is television. With the exception of Die Katze (1987), Graf is mainly remembered for his small-screen works: his episodes for Der Fahnder, a cop show that completely redefined FRG crime TV; the coming-of-age drama Treffer (1983), which became a veritable text for a generation; his loose trilogy of prime-time melodramas Bittere Unschuld (1998), Deine besten Jahre (1998) and Kalter Frühling (2004), designed to confuse the shit out of their Marie Louise Fischer-conditioned audiences; the Zolaesque mini-series Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010). On the cinema hand, we have: the masterpiece manqué Die Sieger, which became synonymous with the idea of auteurial excess due to a production gone way over budget; both Spieler (1990) and Der Felsen (2002) were castigated as formalist experiments leading nowhere (which is, needless to say, utter bullshit). Finally, there’s Graf’s disastrous A-list festival competition track record: Spieler was given the cold shoulder in Venice 1990 and Der Felsen kicked up a scandal at the Berlinale 2002. All of which adds up to this: for most people, Graf is a TV director with occasional forays into theatrical feature-making, rather than an auteur who works wherever he finds some space. Heady Sensitivity

With his attitude of ‘smuggle your stuff through any which way you can’, Graf is the product of a very particular moment in FRG cinema history: the mid-1970s. Graf belongs to an early batch at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) in Munich, namely the 6th, called the F-Kurs (= F year), to be exact. The A and B Kurse had defined something of a house aesthetic: the Münchner Sensibilismus (Munich Sensitivity), which was a very heady mix

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Die Freunde der Freunde

Das Gelübde

of Warhol-Garrelian avant-garde strategies and a passion for pop culture, rock music as well as genre cinema – imagine the finest balance between Lesley Selander and Michael Snow, and you’re almost there. Graf et al rebelled against this: their ideal was the craftsman able to turn every assignment into something special, content to leave just traces and marks on his work. What they shared with the Münchner Sensibilisten was a fascination with the purity of genre, with its rules; what separated them from them were their respective visions of cinema: the Sensibilisten were happy with the hardcore few who’d go on a trip with them, while Graf or the Gies brothers wanted to reach the widest possible audience, to tunnel the mainstream. All that said: things weren’t as full-frontal as they sound, for it was two Münchner Sensibilisten, Michael Hild and Bernd Schwamm, who after finishing their studies went on to work for the Bavaria Film and Television Studios, where they created the kind of spaces Graf and his kind needed.

Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge (1997): this is the first time Graf says ‘I’. This is also the moment he begins to cultivate an aesthetic of fragmentation – maybe the true self always proves divided?

Arts and Craft

In his heart of hearts, Graf still thinks of himself as the craftsman he was (or at least played very well) in the 1980s. But he’s also acutely aware that by the mid-1990s he’d outgrown that idea, after the last three Fahnder episodes, Die Sieger and Tatort – Frau Bu lacht (1995). He had done everything the genre offered – especially with his construction set of choice, the flic flick – reaching the point where he couldn’t do anything new, only the same stuff with more furore, panache – Corbucci instead of Karlson. Tellingly, only one of his series efforts since, Polizeiruf 110 – Der scharlachrote Engel (2004), is a balls-out achievement, a mind-boggler by any standard – and this is a reworking of an earlier milestone, his final Fahnder: Nachtwache (1993), by way of a melodramatic mode he’d started to use in the late 1990s. The turning point of his career, the moment he accepted that he’d become an artist, a singular voice with a unique vision, is marked by his first foray into documentary filmmaking, his autobiographical essay Denk ich an Deutschland –

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Graf says that he’s less interested in a work’s overall construction than in its characters, their lines – he follows them wherever they go and whatever they do; and as human beings tend more towards the idiosyncratic than the logical, they also defy the pithy rules of plot development. His characters are searchers for a love supreme and therefore impossible – romantics against all odds, who know that the only thing waiting for them is another round of hurt. Graf’s cinema has a savage heart which makes for unruly works in which past, present and future, reality and dream and desire can suddenly collapse into one another; sometimes it’s difficult to say what we saw: was it a memory, or a vision, and if so, whose? Which makes each work, well-rounded and finely tuned as it invariably is, feel like a piece of a puzzle that changes as it grows. And then there are all these abysses, gazing back into us. And here, a few lines resound across the years, from the 1954 epilogue to Günther Eich’s 1951 audioplay Träume: ‘Wachet auf, denn eure Träume sind schlecht! Bleibt wach, weil das Entsetzliche näher kommt.’ (‘Awaken, for your dreams are bad! Remain awake, for the abominable approaches’.)

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Lawinen der Erinnerung

Das unsichtbare Mädchen

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Dominik Graf originally contacted writer-director Oliver Storz because he planned to make a film of his semiautobiographical novel Die Freibadclique (2008). But it didn’t work out that way: the two TV auteurs, roughly a generation apart, immediately liked each other, and when the older turned out to be terminally ill, the younger quickly raised money for an essay documentary about: one man’s journey from the ruins of the Third Reich into the era of post-war reconstruction; the beginnings of a new art in a new nation; opportunities rarely taken and too often forfeited; the many hopes crushed and the very few dreams actually realised. But Lawinen der Erinnerung is more than a testimony-rooted memoir: It’s a forlorn look back in rage and tenderness; a meditation on a culture and aesthetic of self-doubt and civil scepticism lost; and a scathing indictment of how we betrayed the best and most useful of what this generation created.

When cop Niklas Tanner arrives in the (fictional) Franconian border town of Eisenstein, he finds a community divided. About a decade ago, a child was murdered – her body never found. A simple soul confessed – case closed. The lead investigator back then, Josef Altendorf, was retired soon after raising doubts about the conviction. His successor, Wilhelm Michel, ensures the case stays closed; he knows only too well what worms would crawl out if that particular can were opened again... An off-beat mix of police procedural, Heimatfilm and revenge flick whose most memorable character is a smart young sister in the blue brotherhood, Evelin Fink, played with cleverness, fresh sexiness and a fury all her own by the exquisite Anja Schiffel. Das unsichtbare Mädchen is already worth seeing for the scene in which she suddenly explodes in Tanner’s face and a verbal bitch-slapping contest turns into a martial arts duel almost to the death. Quite stunning.

Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 105 min, German Prod Comp: ZDF / ARTE, Cinecentrum Berlin | Sc: Friedrich Ani, Ina Jung | Cam: Michael Wiesweg | Ed: Claudia Wolscht | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Gunnar Voigt | Music: Sven Rossenback, Florian van Volxem | With: Elmar Wepper, Ulrich Noethen, Ronald Zehrfeld, Silke Bodenbender, Anja Schiffel, Tim Bergmann, Lisa Kreuzer | Print/Sales: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 22:15 CI7 Fri 1-2 09:30 LV2

Dreileben: Komm mir nicht nach

Das Gelübde The Vow Dominik Graf

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around Dominik Graf

Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 88 min, German Prod Comp: Bayerischer Rundfunk | Sc: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf | Cam: Michael Wiesweg | Ed: Claudia Wolscht | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Gunnar Voigt | Music: Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem | With: Jeanette Hain, Susanne Wolff, Misel Maticevic, Malou Hein, Lisa Kreuzer, Rüdiger Vogler, Stefan Kurt | Print/Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Thu 31-1 15:30 PA2 Fri 1-2 22:15 LV2

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Police psychologist Jo is sent to the small Thuringian city of Dreileben to assist in the hunt for escaped sex offender Frank Molesch. The real driving force behind the story, however, is Jo’s meeting with an old friend from her university days, Vera, who has moved to Dreileben with her husband, Bruno, a writer of undemanding fiction. Jo discovers that she and Vera were once in love (and in bed) with the same guy – and he’s still on both their minds... Dreileben was an experiment in ‘fence-free filmmaking’, as Christian Petzold called it. He, Christoph Hochhäusler and Graf each made a film set in Dreileben and constructed around Molesch’s escape, sharing some of the actors and allowing their respective stories to intermittently intersect. Yet, each of the three films is a stand-alone work. Graf’s turned out to be the most intriguing of the triptych: a woman’s picture in crime garb about times lost and regained, love consumed yet undigested, ancient lust glowing like embers – and life never fully adding up.

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Germany, 2007 | colour, 35mm, 92 min, German Prod Comp: Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH, WDR | Sc: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf | Cam: Michael Wiesweg | Ed: Claudia Wolscht | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Guido Zettier | Music: Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem | With: Misel Maticevic, Tanja Schleiff, Arved Birnbaum, Anke Sevenich, Waldemar Kobus, Michael Abendroth, Philipp Quest | Print: Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH | Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 20:00 CI7 Wed 30-1 22:30 CI2

In 1818, writer Clemens Brentano went to Dülmen in Prussian-ruled Westphalia to chronicle the visions of stigmatized nun Anna Katherina Emmerick. Brentano stayed there for six years, until her death, producing tomes in which documentation becomes pensée, file fiction, observational tract. Times were heady – a nation called Germany was in the making, the scent of revolution filled the air. But: what kind of revolution, and to create what kind of Germany? Prussian enlightenment in its protestant dourness clashes with a down-to-earth, flesh-and-bones catholic radicalism over the shape and soul of a nation that shall prove to be never whole, never at ease and peace with itself. Which means that Das Gelübde is not only the story of a most unusual meeting, but also a brooding conspiracy thriller whose subtext – about the use and abuse of religion in politics – is only too timely. One of Graf’s most outstanding works.

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Eine Stadt wird erpresst

Kalter Frühling Dominik Graf

Dominik Graf

Germany, 2006 | colour, video, 90 min, German Prod Comp: ZDF / ARTE | Sc: Rolf Basedow, Dominik Graf | Cam: Alexander Fischerkoesen | Ed: Hana Müllner | Prod Des: ClausJürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Rainer Haase, Olaf Kutscher | Music: Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem | With: Uwe Kockisch, Misel Maticevic, Julia Blankenburg, Thomas Neumann, Hubertus Hartmann, Arved Birnbaum, Lutz Teschner | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Public SCREENINGS Thu 31-1 11:45 CI3 Sat 2-2 09:15 LV5

Georg Kalinke has been with the Leipzig Police Department since the 1970s. For many of his younger (oftentimes Bonn Republic-born and bred) colleagues, he’s but a relic from a bygone era. When the biggest case in a long time – Leipzig will be bombed to rubble if it doesn’t cough up 20 million in diamonds – lands in this lone wolf’s lap, folks get nervous. If things go wrong, some of them will have some serious questions to ask. Kalinke also has problems of his own. All the leads point towards Gralwitz, a (fictional) village he knows only too well from a case that went sour back in the Honecker days. Landscape after the battle. Possibly the best piece of genre filmmaking about the economic – as well as psychological – toll ‘unification’ has taken on the people of the ‘Five New States of the Federation’. A bleak, pissed-off look at a nation still divided.

Germany, 2004 | colour, video, 89 min, German Prod Comp: ZDF / ARTE, Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH | Sc: Markus Busch | Cam: Hanno Lentz | Ed: Christel Suckow | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Wolfgang Schukrafft | Music: Dieter Schleip | With: Jessica Schwarz, Angela Roy, Friedrich von Thun, Misel Maticevic, Matthias Schweighöfer, Tanja Gutmann, Markus Boysen | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 11:45 LV5 Fri 1-2 09:45 CI7

Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel

Sylvia Berger, heir apparent to a major family business based in the FRG’s former capital Bonn, first makes a mess of her studies and then catches a disease from a rent boy she fucked to win a bet. Disowned by her parents, she falls in love with one Casper Milquetoast, who soon enough gets hooked on drugs; pretty soon, Sylvia is selling her fine body for small change. But when some sinister relatives plot a takeover of ‘her’ company, Sylvia gets creative – with quite a bit of help from all the men who, in one way or another, had something to do with her downfall. The last part of a loose trilogy of pulp melodramas Graf made around the turn of the millennium, this is the most abstract and obviously subversive of the three. Imagine Douglas Sirk and Alfred Vohrer joining forces to help Jean-Marie Straub adapt a particularly outrageous Rosamunde Pilcher rip-off, and you get some idea of the sheer weirdness you’re in for.

Hotte im Paradies Dominik Graf

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Germany, 2005 | colour, video, 90 min, German Sc: Günter Schütter | Cam: Alexander Fischerkoesen | Ed: Ulla Möllinger | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Quirin Böhm | Music: Sven Rossenbach, Florian von Volxem | With: Michaela May, Edgar Selge, Nina Kunzendorf, Tayfun Bademsoy, Martin Feifel, Ursula Gottwald, Claudia Messner | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 21:452 CI5 Sat 2-2 11:002 CI3

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Graf quietly remade several of his own works – second chances to finally get it right, he’d probably say. Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel is arguably the richest of these variations. The basic set-up here is somewhat similar to that of Der Fahnder: Nachtwache (augmented by elements from Der Fahnder: Verhör am Sonntag), only this time a woman living out her exhibitionist desires is under attack by a messianic sex psycho who’s out to deliver her... Florentine Engelhard (nickname Flo, internet porno handle Angel, embodied by Nina Kunzendorf) is one of Graf’s most touching creations: pale, slender, with short curly hair and round, curious eyes, she remains unapologetic about her passions, whatever spiritual devastation they leave in their wake. She’s confident, composed, smart, sexy and almost impossible to faze. In the film’s most stunning scene, she meets some net clients in court – the ‘hello’ with which she greets them is in itself reason enough to fall in love with her. Screened together with Der Fahnder: Nachtwache.

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Germany, 2003 | colour, video, 118 min, German Prod Comp: WDR, Bayerischer Rundfunk | Sc: Rolf Basedow | Cam: Hanno Lentz | Ed: Hana Müllner | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Friedrich Hertzberg | Music: Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem | With: Misel Maticevic, Nadeshda Brennicke, Birge Schade, Isabell Gerschke, Stefanie Stappenbeck, Oliver Stritzel, Mark Zak | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 17:00 CI7 Thu 31-1 22:00 LV5

‘If you want, you can have a different piece of pussy every day. That’s the true life. The other is false.’ Yep, that’s Hotte for you; he’s actually a very sweet, mildmannered pimp who’s finally striking the medium-big time with a handful of feisty hookers, one cuter than the next; all charismatic and clever in a way society usually doesn’t know how to deal with. Hotte knows: ‘Easy life is hard work.’ And, as he finds out, there’s no falseness in true love, but a lot of true love in falseness. Digital video-verité goes neo-Zilleesque naturalism in a world of bordellos, gambling dens and fitness studios, tacky interiors and skimpy dresses, false smiles and real asses. After all the macho banter is done, every pill and bottle has been downed, what lingers are memories of a carefree afternoon by a lake and first thoughts about old age, beer bellies and sagging tits. But, as the wise old pimp says, ‘You know, life changes so that things don’t get boring.’

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München – Geheimnisse einer Stadt

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A Map of the Heart Dominik Graf

Germany, 2002 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 122 min, German/ English/French/Swedish Prod Comp: Bavaria Film International | Sc: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf | Cam: Benedict Neuenfels | Ed: Hana Müllner | Prod Des: Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Tom Weber | Music: Dieter Schleip | With: Karoline Eichhorn, Antonio Wannek, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Ralph Herforth, Peter Lowmeyer, Caroline Schreiber, Ulrich Gebauer | Print/ Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 21:45 CI2 Fri 1-2 14:15 LV5

Katrin has reached a point in life that spells n.o. r.e.t.u.r.n. – at least, that’s how it feels to her: neither young nor old, still close to teenhood but not so far from retirement. A middle-aged wasteland. She’s in Calvi, not alone, but lonely; drifting all day through this city of strangers, tourists like her, sans papiers, soldiers (the 2 Régiment Etranger de Parachutistes is based here). Katrin meets Malte, a kid who got himself into trouble and is now doing time in a juvenile correctional facility. Katrin does what she shouldn’t... One of Graf’s most extraordinary works, this late modernist portrait, with its disjunctive editing and DV images that look like they’ve been drawn in sand, perfectly expresses the lonely searcher’s state of mind. Katrin is on the brink of taking the plunge and dragging Malte down with her. But he’ll resurface, and grow through all this useless, fantastic pain.

Germany, 2000 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 120 min, German Prod Comp: Bayerischer Rundfunk | Sc: Dominik Graf, Michael Althen | Cam: Martin Farkas | Ed: Rolf Wilhelm | Prod Des: Renate Schmaderer | Sound Des: Gunnar Voigt, Max Vornehm | With: Arthur Althen, Teresa Althen, Simon Baum, Jojo Beck, Tim Bergmann, Rolf Boysen, Frantisek Dockal | Print/ Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 09:15 LV5 Sat 2-2 15:00 LV3

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Die Sieger The Invincibles Dominik Graf

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Germany, 2002 | colour, video, 89 min, German Prod Comp: WDR | Sc: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf | Cam: Hanno Lentz | Ed: Christel Suckow | Prod Des: ClausJürgen Pfeiffer | Sound Des: Rupert Medele | Music: Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem | With: Matthias Schweighöfer, Sabine Timoteo, Florian Stetter, Jessica Schwarz, Tanja Schleiff, Tabea Heynig, Peter Benedict | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 14:45 CI3 Thu 31-1 19:15 LV6

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Adaptation of Henry James’s 1896 novella The way it came in a contemporary setting: a boys’ boarding school. Gregor is a bit of a wimp, or a dreamer, while his mate Arthur is quite the lady’s man. At a party, Gregor meets an enigmatic waif called Billie, while Arthur fools around with a carefree lass named Pia. Billie and Arthur have one thing in common: both witnessed a phenomenon called ‘death projection’: seeing images of people at the moment of their demise, miles away. These apparitions are brief, the dying look very real and most alive; call it life’s afterglow. Destiny has it that something will happen when two people who have faced death this way meet... Less an exercise in intellectually refined Gothic horror than a melancholic coming-of-age tale with supernatural elements, Graf’s use of DV makes this world look like the beyond, or a neverscape – haunted and hard to see.

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Munich: Secrets of a City Dominik Graf This film is not about Munich – even if it does teach us more about the Bavarian capital than we ever felt the need to know. Munich – according to Graf and Althen – doesn’t exist. Munich is but a dream projected onto the surface, the skin of a settlement that has grown over the centuries into a city. It could just as easily be New York, Rotterdam or Djakarta. The details may be different, but the questions and reveries remain the same. The blind narrator could find the buildings and bodies for his stories anywhere. The lovers of the future live in an ‘Erewhon’ all of their own anyway. Diana Zgubic embodies the girl we see but never chat up in every café, concert hall or football stadium. But who is Diana Zgubic? And do dwellings dream of inhabitants made from bricks? A Markerian exercise in documentary daydreaming, with Bitomskyian twists and Šubian flourishes. And a key to Graf’s filmmaking.

Germany, 1994 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 130 min, German/French/Italian Prod Comp: Bavaria Film International | Sc: Norbert Ehry | Cam: Diethard Prengel | Ed: Christel Suckow | Prod Des: Götz Weidner | Sound Des: Rolf W. Hapke | Music: Dominik Graf, Helmut Spanner, Loy Wesselburg | With: Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Hans Czypionka, Thomas Schücke, Heinz Hoenig, Hannes Jaenicke | Print/ Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 16:45 CI2 Wed 30-1 09:15 CI7

During an operation that’s going wrong, SWAT team member Karl Simon sees his former colleague Heinz Schaefer – who is dead. Simon discovers what he saw is not a ghost, nor a hallucination: Schaefer is alive, working undercover in a gray operation that is turning black... Graf’s masterpiece manqué: the original screenplay, which tackled links between the political establishment, the secret services and state-supported terrorism, was rejected by the funding bodies, who said they’d only support the project if it wasn’t about terrorism. Graf and scenarist Schütter obliged (and hate themselves for it to this day). While Graf was shooting the film, the mystery-riddled Bad Kleinen incident occurred, leaving an RAF member and a GSG-9 police officer dead... The most politically significant film made in the FRG during the Berlin Republic’s first decade. Ramming home that – particularly in the light of recent events (the neo-Nazi ‘Zwickau cell’) – certain zones here remain opaque.

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The Gamblers Dominik Graf

Jojo and Tom are gamblers – adrenaline junkies who make the best of their perennial losing streak. That said, if they won, where would the rush come from? Accompanied by Jojo’s cousin Kathrin, they embark on a trip towards the big time they’ll never see. Thank God there’s a benign narrator up in the clouds who sees to it that the glass always looks half-full. The craziest of Graf’s creations and his sole attempt at comedy that really works, Spieler doesn’t exactly offer nonstop laughs – it’s more like a serene, 111-minute state of suspension and wonder. At its best, Spieler plays like Nouvelle Vague Relaunched – it has the goofiness of Chabrol circa Marie-Chantal contre le Docteur Kha (1965); the perplexing lightness of the Swiss’ Une femme est une femme (1961) and the sardonic aspects of Rohmer around the time of Le signe du lion (1959). Woaaaaaa! Does this explain the histrionics-prone acting, shrill dialogues and generally campy look? You bet! (And yes, Spieler is also corny.)

Die Katze The Cat Dominik Graf

West Germany, 1988 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 118 min, German Prod Comp: Bavaria Film International | Sc: Christoph Fromm, based on the novel Das Leben einer Katze by Uwe Erichsen | Cam: Martin Schäfer | Ed: Christel Suckow | Prod Des: Matthias Kammermeier | Sound Des: Günther Stadelmann | Music: Andreas Köbner | With: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Richter, Ulrich Gebauer, Sabine Kaack | Print/ Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:15 CI2 Fri 1-2 20:00 CI7

‘In two hours there will be war down there’, says Probek to his lover/ accomplice Jutta Ehser after the last good fuck of their lives. ‘Down there’ is the bank where Jutta’s unloved hubby works. Down there, Probek’s front men Junghein and Britz will see to it that a robbery goes wrong and escalates into a full-blown hostage crisis – stiff ransom included. Probek will stay where he is now, in a hotel, looking down onto the theatre of combat like a Field Marshal; from down there, seasoned cop Voss will reply to every single one of his moves. Graf’s first masterpiece is, a quartercentury after its release, arguably still the very best crime action film ever made in whichever Germany. Imagine a mystic union of Jean-Pierre Melville and John Guillermin, both at their toughest, iciest, most symmetryobsessed materialistic, and you will get an idea of what you’re in for.

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Denk ich an Deutschland – Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge Dominik Graf When Dominik Graf started shooting this portrait of his father, actor Robert Graf, he was already older than him – an eerie notion familiar to many children born shortly after a war. This is the starting point of this existentialist essay on 1950s FRG culture, its zero hour-Kahlschlag-minimalism of pregnant pauses and anguished silences – its severe beauty and ethics. Germany, 1997 | colour/b&w, video, 59 min, German Prod Comp: megaherz, WDR, Bayerischer Rundfunk | Sc: Michael Alten, Dominik Graf | Cam: Martin Gressman | Ed: Rolf Wilhelm | Sound Des: Stefan Ravasz | Music: Dominik Graf, Helmut Spanner | With: Robert Graf, Selma Urfer, August Everding, Ruth Vesper, Joachim Kaiser, Ruth Leuwerik, Franz Peter Wirth | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Global Screen GmbH

Deutschland 09 – Der Weg, den wir nicht zusammen gehen Dominik Graf Ruinscapes. Urban wastelands. Houses from the 1950s and 1960s destined for destruction. Façades of Brave New Berlin Republic steel-and-glass monstrosities. Dominik Graf talks to these sights about: the threatened memory of postwar history; architectural and linguistic despotism; the odours, smells and scents of a rapidly vanishing torn civilisation. Germany, 2009 | colour, video, 15 min, German Prod Comp: Herbstfilm Produktion | Sc: Dominik Graf | Cam: Martin Gressman | Ed: Katja Dringenberg | Sound Des: Ansgar Frerich | With: Dominik Graf, Jeanette Hain, Florian KrügerShantin, Reynold Reynolds, Klaus Sakelarides | Print/Sales: The Match Factory GmbH

Prelude Der Fahnder: Nachtwache Dominik Graf A stylish lady in white waits in a white room for her killers to arrive. She’s a prosecution witness in a major case. Only one man stands between her and them: Faber, the shaggy dog of FRG TV crime. A deliriously vulgar modernist journey to the end of the night. Screened together with Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel. West Germany, 1984 | colour, video, 50 min, German Prod Comp: WDR | Sc: Günter Schütter | Cam: Diethard Prengel | Ed: Romy Schumann | Prod Des: Renate Schmaderer | Music: Dominik Graf, Helmut Spanner | With: Klaus Wennemann, Dietrich Mattausch, Hans-Jürgen Schatz, Maja Maranow, Henry van Lyck, Thomas Kollhoff, Norbert Steinke | Print: Deutsches Historisches Museum | Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS

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Anarchy and Reckoning Zara Abdullaeva & Evgeny Gusyatinskiy In the documentary Kira , Muratova says her dream is ‘to disappear, and that only the films remain, which some will like, but the majority won’t.’ Muratova, Russian by blood, grew up in Romania. She studied at the Literature Faculty of Moscow State University but soon transferred to VGIK, the All-Union (now AllRussian) State Institute of Cinematography, where she studied under S.A. Gerasimov. After she graduated, she was sent to work in Odessa. She ended up staying and still lives there.

She made her first two films, On the Steep Cliff and Our Honest Bread, together with her husband, director Alexander Muratov. These are typical Soviet films. The real, dramatic and unabashed career of Muratova begins in 1967 with her debut film Brief Encounters (1967, released in 1987). Between 1968 and 1986 Muratova only made four films, of which Brief Encounters and Getting to Know the Big Wide World were the only ones to enjoy a limited release. Long Farewells remained shelved until Perestroika. The film Among Grey Stones had been so ruthlessly censored that Muratova didn’t want to release this disfigured version under her own name and used the colourless pseudonym ‘Ivan Sidorov’ instead. Muratova never sought to mythologize her life. She never complained about the fate of ‘the unfortunate artist’ who was kept from making films by the Soviet authorities. Wallowing in the role of martyr was something she detested. At the end of the 1980s, in the years before the revolution, Muratova was rediscovered. Her old films were shown and she acquired a cult status, even though she had never been a dissident. With the Soviet authorities she had only had ‘stylistic disagreements’, in the words of the outstanding Russian scholar Andrey Sinyavsky, who emigrated to France after spending years in a Soviet prison camp. The discovering of Muratova – and this ought to be stressed above all – revolved around the fact that she preferred the grandeur of illusion to the dominant tradition. This singularity had condemned her very divergent films – to some extent also determined by the audience – to public isolation. In contrast to the prophetic pathos of the best Russian directors, such as Tarkovsky, Muratova offered brilliant play, as well as a peculiar capriciousness in persisting in an art that is ultra-realistic and visionary at the same time. This is a quality of a director with the imaginative power of a Fellini. However, Muratova may live by the sea, but it’s not the Mediterranean. Living and working in isolation in Odessa, not in Moscow or St Petersburg, helped Muratova stay true to her aesthetic principle of distance as a director. Language

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language of film have managed to change our image of the relationship between God and humanity, the individual and society, realist and surrealist conceptions of reality. But no director in the history of cinema, especially Russian cinema, has operated as freely as Muratova: averse to posing as the victim of circumstances or being misunderstood, averse to cultural stereotypes and to received ideas; free in her observations. Muratova’s freedom is severe and demanding on her public, however, and definitely not whimsical. Looking at avant-gardist art demands great commitment, and during this process it is, in the words of Boris Groys, ‘no longer the viewer who judges the artwork, but the work itself that judges the audience, and often condemns it.’ Muratova’s work seems to allow itself to be divided into lyrical films (Brief Encounters, Long Farewells, Getting to Know the Big Wide World) and tragic ones (Change of Fortune, The Asthenic Syndrome). From the early 1990s onward, however, she films in ever-new poetics. She creates an absurd fairy tale (The Sentimental Policeman) and a tragic farce (Passions). She plays with genres, giving a new twist to the laws of the crime drama, the eccentric thriller, the detective and the Christmas story (Three Stories; Second Class Citizens; The Tuner and Melody for a Street Organ, respectively). In her latest film, Eternal Homecoming, her capricious and many-sided muse elegantly treats – with the aid of film material supposedly shot by an unknown and dead director – the problem of the manysidedness of the one-sidedness (and vice versa) of people, their relationships and the situations in which they find themselves. Muratova’s twenty films feature civil servants, the petty bourgeoisie, murderers, workers, teachers, children, poets, lunatics, clowns, nurses, dancers, acrobats, inhabitants of Odessa, old intellectuals, new Ukrainians, twins, gravediggers, swindlers, couples in sham marriages, geologists and artists, as well as collective farmers (the heroes of her early film Our Honest Bread). An enormous, overloaded world. In black-and-white and in colour. A poetical, grotesque, complex universe in which every character has his or her own maniacal passions, hopes, slights, claims and unchangeable tics. At the end of the 1980s, Muratova confessed that she doesn’t feel time – its pressure and course – and doesn’t divide time up into decades. At the end of the 1990s she said that ‘in this new time many different times are revived’. She examines and distorts those times in her curious, funny, light-footed, playful and philosophical films.

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Defiance – against any form of certainty or conventional reception – as well as playfulness: these are the two sides of her talent that Muratova uses by turns in her desperate, farcical and challenging films. The romantic Brief Encounters was criticized for being banally realistic. The nervous but ideologically innocuous and rhythmically flawless Long Farewells was qualified as alien to the Soviet public. In the film Among Grey Stones, she illustrates the social conflict between rich and poor, but also her love of farce and Grand Guignol. In Getting to Know the Big Wide World, she makes short shrift of the laws of the production film and creates an avant-gardist utopia of the ‘house of the film’ from the chaos of the Soviet state. In The Asthenic Syndrome, a magnificent fresco of time stopped short and a universe devoid of life, she is the first to speak about the protection which apathy can offer against everyday terror. In Change of Fortune, several scenes of which were shot in Tajikistan, she investigates the type of the demonic woman and exotic nature. In Chekhov’s Motifs, she sets in the present the wedding of characters from a different age, so that the audience is made to feel uncomfortable watching this traditional ceremony, and the concept of perception, or the concept of reality show, is itself put into question. Muratova’s work is replete with contradictions and tends towards the grotesque. And the grotesque, says Meyerhold, who is probably the most important theatrical innovator of the 20th century, ‘rides roughshod over all details and thus creates (in the “conditional improbability”, of course) the fullness of life’. It is often said of the actors in Muratova’s films that they play ‘badly’. But that is the director’s intention. The way in which Muratova orchestrates and combines ensembles is not without significance. She finds stimulation in the field of tension between amateurs and professionals. Eccentrics interest her. She keeps analysing the human tendency to dissimulate, to play a part. Just as matter can become spirit in her films and man finds himself turning into an animal, a character can transform into an artist. These baroque transformations of people probably form the central, expressive and innovative motifs of the filmmaker Muratova. She makes films where a strong passion for the exceptional, buffo, the body language and the expressiveness of the Über-Marionette, as well as unexpected notes in the distributed score, determine the interpretations of the characters. Just as the prison guard in Change of Fortune finds out that white people

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have something exotic in their appearance, there is something disturbing in Muratova’s characters. And vice versa. On the one hand, Muratova places the multifacetedness of the material of which her film is composed under a magnifying lens. On the other hand, she creates distance from the richness of the material in the intermezzi and divertissements. The image is intersected by rhythmical and expressive fragments, foregrounds and backgrounds. This assembled totality comes together in the pupil of the eye and is shown in a new perspective on our retina. For that reason, the clarté of the director is sometimes regarded as deformation, the artistic norm as the absurdity of life, the organicity of the acting as artificial, the refrains as the ‘height of pretence’ and not as the passionate love for rhythm that forms the cement of her atonal compositions. The refrains of the very concrete and wayward director Muratova reveal unsuspected possibilities of film imagery and the mechanism with which illusions (the resemblances of reality) are created by mixed images as well as by new forms. But at the same time, these refrains repudiate the automatism of repetitions and sound like an appeasement ritual, like the fragments of an aria in an opera, and multiply the number of subjects and objects in Muratova’s visible world. Artistic Irritation

Muratova is an artist with a ‘double centre’ herself, and she selects actors who at least also possess such a double centre. That’s why the title Two in One has a deeper meaning for the director. In Muratova’s universe – and this distinguishes her from the classic romantic artists – the doubling of characters (repartees, mise-enscène) reinforces their personalities, and the multiplication in copies destroys the illusion of the repetition, the imitation of life in the conditional world of art. It is not without reason, therefore, that the director invariably answers questions about the artificiality of her film world by saying that ‘the root of the word artificial is art’. But the mechanism of the refrains is just as ambiguous as the tendency of characters towards multiplication and imitation is unlimited. Moreover, the refrains in the non-illusionary poetics of Muratova form the illusion of the natural speech of the exalted residents of Odessa. The ‘copies without original’ disconcert the viewer and in a certain sense treat the viewer condescendingly with the puzzle of meanings, the overwhelming southern coloring of the actors or the representation of a nightmare. But what is of importance is that all those repetitions are an attack on conventionalities of any kind. And it should be mentioned too that the unpredictable logic of Muratova’s repetitions also provokes the unexpected. Muratova the conceptualist, the genius of intuitive insights, has in practice shown herself to be a master of artistic irritation. Her epic (in the Brechtian sense of the term) constructions unexpectedly bring the viewer from one state into a totally different one. Elements distinct from one another form the building blocks of the structural regularity and rhythm in her films, with which the string of beads of poetry and farce, drama and burlesque, dynamic and rest is threaded together. With her clear vision Muratova has made the boundaries between the art forms transparent. In this way she has not only, as Roland Barthes would call it, ruptured the boundaries of the language of film, she has ruptured the boundaries of cinematographic awareness and thought. Even if she has thereby unwittingly hindered the reception of her own films.

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Vecnoe vozvrascenie

Dva v odnom

On screen, images of a casting with various actors. The viewer doesn’t immediately realise this. Towards the finale, Muratova employs a trick. The black-and-white images are broken off and the film continues in colour. In the screening room, the producer and a potential investor, a sugar magnate, discuss the material of the uncompleted film. The director has died and there is no money to finish the movie. Muratova asked big stars of Russian cinema and stage as well as amateurs who played in her previous films to collaborate on this movie. In her filming of a casting, she once again uses her cherished device of refrains: the repetition of the same scene over and over, with the same replies in the same interior, with a number of actors playing the same part, acquiring non-trivial significance, becoming ironic and philosophical. Muratova is fascinated by the multisidedness of one-sidedness and vice versa. And by possibilities of aesthetic transformations between the world of the past and the one we perceive now.

One of Muratova’s strangest films. Two stories capriciously represent and contradict each other. Nowhere else does Muratova so urgently ask for the collaboration of the viewer, whom she makes a co-author. The film is seen by some as contemporary art. The first part is filmed as a play on stage, the second as a carnivalesque spectacle. First, the viewers are the audience of a play being staged at a theatre in the province. Later, they see the fireworks heralding the new year. The first act is like a Shakespearean tragedy with themes from Hamlet, played by amateurs. The second act is like a Shakespearean comedy, in which famous actors shine and ham it up. In the first act, Muratova chooses improvisation. The second act is presented as a show, full of intermezzos and burlesque. When the curtain rises, the actors either play grotesquely or pseudo-psychologically. As such, Muratova confuses the viewers, who don’t know if they are watching theatre or a ‘real’ film. Here she not only explodes genres, but also art forms.

Eternal Homecoming Kira Muratova

Two in One Kira Muratova

Ukraine, 2007 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 130 min, Russian Prod: Oleg Kokhan, Ruben Dishdishyan | Prod Comp: Sota Cinema Group, Central Partnership Sales House | Sc: Evgeny Golubenko, Renata Litvinova | Cam: Vladimir Pankov | Ed: Tamara Denisova | Prod Des: Evgeny Golubenko | Music: Valentin Silvestrov | With: Bogdan Stupka, Alexander Bashirov, Sergei Bekhterev, Natalya Buzko, Renata Litvinova | Print: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre | Sales: Sota Cinema Group Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 22:00 CI2 Tue 29-1 22:00 CI2

Melodiya dlya sharmanki

Nastroyshchik The Tuner Kira Muratova

Melody for a Street Organ Kira Muratova

Ukraine, 2009 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 153 min, Russian Prod: Oleg Kokhan | Prod Comp: Sota Cinema Group | Sc: Kira Muratova, Volodymyr Zuyev | Cam: Vladimir Pankov | Ed: Tamara Denisova | Prod Des: Evgeny Golubenko | Sound Des: Alexander Schepotin | Music: Valentin Silvestrov | With: Lena Kostyuk, Roma Burlaka, Natalya Buzko, Zhan Daniel, Georgiy Deliev, Renata Litvinova, Nina Ruslanova, Oleg Tabakov | Print: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre | Sales: Sota Cinema Group Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:00 CI2 Sat 2-2 15:30 PA4

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Two kids – brother and sister – escape from the orphanage and try to find their long-lost father. They don’t know what he looks like and have no information about him except his address. This epic journey takes them from one social milieu to another: they meet people who live on the very edge and those who travel only by limousines. It also happens to be Christmas and everybody is waiting for miracles to come, even those who don’t believe in them. While Muratova does not believe in miracles either, this extremely tragic and bitter film looks like a Christmas fairytale or a classic coming-of-age story (in the style of Dickens). But both genres are reversed and deconstructed. Melody for a Street Organ is in the same vein as Among Grey Stones (1983), another of Muratova’s portraits of sensitive and sensible children who behave like adults, and reckless adults who behave like spoiled children.

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Russia/Ukraine, 2004 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 154 min, Russian Prod: Sergey Chliyants, Aleksandr Bokovikov | Prod Comp: Pygmalion Production Film Co., Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine | Sc: Kira Muratova, Evgeny Golubenko, Sergei Chetvertkov | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | Ed: Valentina Oleynik | Prod Des: Evgeny Golubenko | Sound Des: Yefim Turetsky, Alexei Shulga | Music: Valentin Silvestrov | With: Renata Litvinova, Georgy Deliev, Nina Ruslanova, Alla Demidova, Alexei Pavlovsky | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 16:452 CI7 Fri 1-2 16:302 CI7

The story of a couple of swindlers – a poor musician, Andrei, and his ambitious girlfriend, Lina – and their victims, two elderly women. Anna Sergeevna, a rich aristocratic widow, lives alone in a luxurious apartment and spends a lot of time with her best friend, Luba. Andrei and Lina plan to steal the widow’s savings. But first Andrei has to gain her confidence by posing as a piano tuner... Muratova transforms her satirical crime drama into an existential one about human relations, totally controlled and fatally damaged by social and economic conventions. Every character virtuously exploits the feelings of the others, and none doubt for a moment that love, devotion and friendship do cost money. As usual, Muratova contrasts different cinematic and artistic techniques. The diversity and interplay of her methods give rise to a very particular aesthetic. Highly explosive, yet perfectly balanced.

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Chekhovskie motivy

Tri istorii

Constructed according to the two-in-one principle: by combining Chekhov’s story Difficult People and his humorous play Tatiana Repina, Muratova enforces a way of looking that is unusual even in modern art. Chekhov disregarded theatrical conventions. Muratova breaks with cinematic conventions that determine what you can show. In Chekhov’s Motifs, a family drama and a wedding between two strangers form a counterpoint in an unusual cinematographic time-frame. Muratova treats the phenomenon of the spectacle/show by filming a Russian Orthodox wedding ceremony in the present. She films the sacred ritual as a documentary, as a reality show, thereby desecrating the spectacle but not the sacred mystery. By connecting images, rhythms from different ages and leitmotifs of her own, Muratova makes time the protagonist of the film. The metaphysics of time erupt from the cracks of everyday life and manifest themselves in prose and poetry, in beauty and ugliness: charade and ritual at the same time. Muratova is at the mercy of her own independence. Maybe that’s why her art is said to be impracticable.

Three novellas about murder, violence and death. But mainly about males and females, infants and old people. About paradoxes of human nature and human behaviour. A dark comedy; so dark that its humour makes you shiver and feel scared of your own laughter. ‘I don’t like men. I don’t like women. I don’t like children. I’m not fond of people. I would give this planet a zero mark.’ This famous statement by Ofa (Renata Litvinova), the femme fatale and serial killer from the second novella, is wrongly considered by some critics to be a ‘message’ of the film and even Muratova’s personal motto. As a result she has been accused of misanthropy. But that’s just a common misconception of the highly provocative nature of Three Stories. In fact, this film is a brilliant example of Muratova’s ‘dangerous method’, which unmasks and undermines common morals in a very playful way, without any fear or sentimentality.

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Russia/Ukraine, 2002 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 120 min, Russian Prod: Igor Kalyonov | Prod Comp: Intercinema Agency, Nikola Film, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine | Sc: Evgeny Golubenko, Kira Muratova | Cam: Valeri Makhnev | Ed: Valentina Oleynik | Music: Valentin Silvestrov | With: Sergei Bekhterev, Nina Ruslanova, Natalya Buzko, Philip Panov, Zhan Daniel | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 22:00 CI3 Wed 30-1 12:00 CI2

Three Stories Kira Muratova

Russia/Ukraine, 1997 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 105 min, Russian Prod: Aleksandr Bokovikov, Igor Tolstunov | Prod Comp: Odessa Film Studio, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, PROFIT | Sc: Sergei Chetvertkov, Renata Litvinova, Vera Storozheva | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | Ed: Valentina Oleynik | Prod Des: Evgeny Golubenko | Sound Des: Emmanuil Segal | With: Sergei Makovetsky, Leonid Kushnir, Zhan Daniel, Renata Litvinova, Ivan Okhlobystin, Oleg Tabakov, Liliya Murlykina | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 14:30 CI2 Thu 31-1 22:15 PA3

Vtorostepennye lyudi

Uvlecheniya

A young woman gets into big trouble and embarks on an adventure while trying to get rid of the dead body of her husband. She is assisted by a strange guy who has just escaped from the local mental hospital. Both of these heroes are walking disasters and manage to make things even worse than they really are. Probably the most bizarre and eclectic of Muratova’s films, it switches from one mood of the characters (and the viewer) to another, takes us from drama to absurd comedy, moves from satire to burlesque and even Grand Guignol. Mourning is followed by celebration, howls of despair transform into songs of joy. Doctors accidentally kill their patients, the insane happen to be the only normal and humane people, life suddenly turns into death and vice versa. And all this happens in leaps and bounds. A hilarious topsyturvy experience that makes you feel happy, mad and melancholy at once.

A town by the sea. An hippodrome inhabited by peculiar characters. Horse races and male duels, love triangles and extravagant monologues written and performed by charismatic Renata Litvinova, a professional scriptwriter who was discovered by Muratova and immediately became a member of her on-screen ‘family’, as well as a cult star of the new Russian cinema. Their collaboration started with this film and continues to be fruitful. Passions is a turning point in Muratova’s filmography, marking the final transition from more or less ‘narrative’ films to ones where the plot is not as important as the form, which is always free and innovative. While she can be compared to Federico Fellini, this the only film in which she fully reveals and at the same time undermines the ‘Fellinian’ nature of her cinema.

Second Class Citizens Kira Muratova

Ukraine, 2001 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 105 min, Russian Prod: Aleksandr Bokovikov, Anna Chmil, Sergey Grinevsky | Prod Comp: Odessa Film Studio, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine | Sc: Sergei Chetvertkov, Kira Muratova | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | Ed: Leonid Pavlovsky | Prod Des: Evgeny Golubenko | Sound Des: Yefim Turetsky | With: Natalya Buzko, Sergei Chetvertkov, Nikolai Sadnev, Zhan Daniel, Philip Panov | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 21:302 CI7 Thu 31-1 13:452 CI7

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Russia, 1994 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 112 min, Russian Prod: Igor Kalyonov | Prod Comp: Nikola Film | Sc: Kira Muratova, Evgeny Golubenko | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | With: Svetlana Kolenda, Renata Litvinova, Sergei Popov, Albina Skarga | Print: Gosfilmofond | Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Thu 31-1 22:15 CI2 Sat 2-2 09:45 CI7

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Cuvstvitelnyy milicioner

Ukraine/France, 1992 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 115 min, Russian Prod: Aleksandr Andreev, Hugues Borgia, Yuri Kovalenko | Prod Comp: Parimedia, Primodessa Film | Sc: Evgeny Golubenko, Kira Muratova | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | Ed: Valentina Oleynik | Prod Des: Alexei Bokatov, Evgeny Golubenko | Sound Des: Sergei Dubkov, Rem Sobinov | With: Nikolai Shatokhin, Irina Kovalenko, Natalya Ralleva, Dasha Koval, Yuri Shlykov, Vladimir Karasyov | Print: Gosfilmofond | Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 17:15 CI7 Sat 2-2 17:00 CI7

USSR, 1989 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 153 min, Russian Prod: Micha Lampert | Prod Comp: Goskino, Odessa Film Studio | Sc: Alexander Chernykh, Kira Muratova, Sergei Popov | Cam: Vladimir Pankov | Ed: Valentina Oleynik | Prod Des: Oleg Ivanov | Sound Des: Elena Demidova | With: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdayeva, Natalya Buzko, Alexandra Svenskaya, Pavel Polishchuk, Natalya Ralleva, Galina Kasperovich | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 14:00 CI2 Sat 2-2 12:00 PA3

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The Sentimental Policeman Kira Muratova A policeman finds a girl in a vegetable patch and dreams of adopting her. The child functions as a trigger for natural, social and biological urges and human traumas. After The Asthenic Syndrome’s exhausted intellectual, Muratova now switches to a complete character: a simple man with a sentimental philosophical mask. The title is an oxymoron. Muratova doesn’t allocate power to the policeman, but to miserable, hypocritical post-Soviet citizens. The interplay of situation and fate is the key to the intrigue in The Sentimental Policeman. It is reminiscent of the cruel developments in the stories of Daniil Kharms. The film is built up of transitions between anecdote and Grand Guignol, farce and melodrama, pantomime and court sessions. The director’s daring is circumscribed by cunning, as she rewards the ‘naive savage’ with love and philosophical questions. Incidentally, a poster of Malevich’s Black Square hangs on a wall in his apartment. The most under-appreciated of Muratova’s films.

Peremena uchaste Change of Fortune Kira Muratova

USSR, 1987 | colour, 35mm, 109 min, Russian Prod Comp: Odessa Film Studio | Sc: Kira Muratova, based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham | Cam: Valeri Myulgaut | Prod Des: Oleg Ivanov, Umirzak Shmanov | Sound Des: Igor Skinder | With: Natalya Leble, Yuri Shlykov, Vladimir Karasyov, Leonid Kudryashov, Umirzak Shmanov, Oksana Shlapak | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 22:15 CI2 Tue 29-1 17:00 CI7

Maria has a fit of rage and fires six shots at the lover who deceived her. She ends up in prison. The plot of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter served as guideline for this little tragedy. After the romantic, noble Soviet woman, Muratova now turns to the ‘wild white woman’. With her eruptions, determination, tenderness, composure and fears, she is a woman par excellence. The well-bred lady harbouring diabolical passions. The desire to create an unimaginably exotic setting for the action. Muratova doesn’t romanticize her heroine, a horrifying and magnificent flower of evil. She analyses the shadow side of the perfect form (of a woman, of things, of concepts). What’s most important here is the infernal power of the unusual actress Natalya Leble. Uncompromising in her role, coquettish and weak, and dangerous as a pent-up force of nature. ‘It’s impossible to alter your fate,’ the director says, ‘One prison will change the other… Maria…becomes a prisoner in her own prison, the prison of her daydreaming.’

Astenicheskiy sindrom

Sredi serykh kamney

The Asthenic Syndrome Kira Muratova

Among Grey Stones Kira Muratova

This has been called ‘a magnificent fresco’, an ‘apocalypse’ (Silver Bear, Berlin 1990). But it proved to be a diagnosis of an era. Muratova captured the state of Russia and Eastern Europe in images that are typical of an era on the eve of revolution, full of aggression and apathy. The Asthenic Syndrome is constructed like The Well-Tempered Clavier, full of polyphonous elements. The first part is in black-and-white and is a film within a film, nervously shot like Muratova’s first films. The second part is in colour and tells the story of the life of an insignificant author and literature teacher who suffocates in the dull routine of his mindless environment. Muratova’s realism is full of contrasts, irony and rage and shows every character from different sides. She presents a complete picture of personal syndromes and collective apathy, meanwhile stunning the viewer with shock therapy and destroying every illusion.

Based on a short story called In Bad Company by the Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko. A judge mourns the death of his wife, unable to come to terms with the dreadful reality. Meanwhile, his son befriends a couple of street urchins. Muratova delicately explores ‘respectable’ society and its ‘underground’ as two opposing worlds that have nothing in common except for feelings of alienation, hopelessness and doom. This was the first time she worked with children, portraying them in a totally unconventional way, and the result is astonishing. Among Grey Stones was heavily censored by the Soviet officials. In response, Muratova withdrew her name from the credits and took a pseudonym: Ivan Sidorov, which, being one of the most common of Russian male names, reads as ‘Mr Average’.

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USSR, 1983 | colour, 35mm, 88 min, Russian Prod Comp: Odessa Film Studio | Sc: Vladimir Korolenko | Cam: Alexei Rodionov | Prod Des: Valentin Gidulyanov | Sound Des: Vladimir Bogdanovsky, Igor Skinder | With: Igor Sharapov, Oksana Shlapak, Stanislav Govorukhin, Roman Levchenko, Sergei Popov, Viktor Aristov | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:30 CI3 Thu 31-1 20:00 CI7

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Poznavaya belyy svet

Korotkie vstrechi

The chef d’oeuvre of the young Muratova. The story of the construction of a tractor factory filmed in a way that was inconceivable at the time. Muratova uses a poetic cinematographic idiom to give shape to the shapeless space, the unfinished building and the unstable relationships of the characters. She makes a tender movie about the shabby and at the same time exalted completion of the building. In this lyrical film, picturesque images merge with lifelike scenes, larded with intermezzos in folksy and Socialist settings. Muratova chose a scenario about construction and the fantasy of love that ‘isn’t produced in factories’. She rewrote it, added images, lyrics, expressive caesuras and primitivistic collages, thus making a sophisticated patchwork. Just as the strength of the common people in Fellini’s experimental art reinforces the lyrical backdrop of his talent, the unbridled emotionality in this film democratises Muratova’s sophisticated art.

Valentina is a young woman who has everything in life: husband, a good job, high social status. But this does not fill the void around her. Her husband – a geologist (Russian cult singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky) – is always away, her work in public administration tedious, her apartment empty. When a young girl (Nina Ruslanova) arrives in town and falls in love with her husband, Valentina observes this with a mix of curiosity, compassion and detachment. Muratova considers this film the real start of her turbulent artistic career. It indeed distinguishes her unique voice and vision. Both are based on paradoxes: the romanticism comes together with the disillusionment, the passionate tone turns into aloofness, and vice versa. When the lead actress dropped out at the last minute, Muratova was forced to play the part of Valentina herself. She gave an impressive performance, but has never acted in films again.

Getting to Know the Big Wide World Kira Muratova

USSR, 1979 | colour, 35mm, 75 min, Russian Prod Comp: Lenfilm Studios | Sc: Grigori Baklanov, Kira Muratova | Cam: Yuri Klimenko | Prod Des: Alexei Rudakov | Sound Des: G. Belenki | With: Nina Ruslanova, Sergei Popov, Alexei Zharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Natalya Leble | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:45 CI3 Thu 31-1 12:00 CI2

USSR, 1971 | b&w, 35mm, 97 min, Russian/English Prod Comp: Odessa Film Studio | Sc: Natalya Ryazantseva | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | Ed: Valentina Oleynik | Prod Des: Enrique Rodríguez | Sound Des: Igor Skinder | Music: Oleg Karavaychuk | With: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko, Yuri Kayurov, Svetlana Kabanova, Lidiya Dranovskaya, Lidiya Brazilskaya | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 12:15 CI7 Mon 28-1 22:30 CI2

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USSR, 1967 | b&w, 35mm, 96 min, Russian Prod Comp: Odessa Film Studio | Sc: Kira Muratova, Leonid Zhukhovistky | Cam: Gennady Karyuk | Ed: Olga Charkova | Prod Des: Alexandra Konardova, Oleg Peredery | Sound Des: Igor Skinder | Music: Oleg Karavaychuk | With: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vyotsky, Kira Muratova, Elena Bazilskaya, Olga Vikland, Alexei Glazyrin | Print/Sales: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 20:00 CI2 Wed 30-1 14:45 CI2

Dolgie provody

Nash chestnyy khleb

Long Farewells Kira Muratova

Our Honest Bread Kira Muratova, Alexander Muratov

Evgenia is a single mother and is very devoted to her only son. When she lets him spend the vacation with his father, he comes back a changed person and tells his mother that he does not want to live with her any more. Long Farewells came after Brief Encounters and was banned for almost twenty years. The two films are in fact a diptych. Both are shot in beautiful, poetic black-and-white. Both are about the nature of romance, even if it’s a romance between mother and son, which Muratova sees as a metaphor for any male-female relationship. Finally, both are astonishing portraits of women – and of longing, loneliness and unrequited love. Muratova has always been keen to discover new talents, especially actors. The star and discovery of this film is Zinaida Sharko, who plays the mother. Impulsive and fragile, she turns Long Farewells into a profound exploration of femininity and motherhood.

Muratova’s black-and-white debut is wholly in keeping with the tradition of Soviet cinema. The honest chairman of a collective farm cannot accept the doctored harvest yields his son has reported to the State. For his noble action the old man is sent into retirement. Outside the main story line, the directors use two highlights, a funeral and a wedding, to portray daily life in the village. In the background, a funeral procession is moving along. Shadows of people with lots of bicycles. We see wheels and spokes, parts of the whole. Perhaps a metaphor for the circle of life. The black silhouettes of the workers on the kolkhoz look like ghosts. The funeral of the old woman, played by the young Muratova, is connected to the wedding of the young heroes. A crowd dances itself into a frenzy. A lengthy song is sung. An old man and his wife leave for another village. After this film Muratova parted with her co-director and embarked on her own incomparable career as a director.

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Two friends from Odessa try to compose a video message to their pals, emigrants to the United States. One of them rents his apartment to a tricky girl who invents various excuses not to pay the rent. An exceptional story about people on the verge of despair who nonetheless manage to enjoy life, even if these joys are beyond good and evil. Screened together with On the Steep Cliff.

The title is slang for counterfeit money. On a boulevard in Odessa a street artist receives a counterfeit banknote. Muratova presents several variations on the theme. Characters have the same name. Grotesque situations develop around mistaken identities and deception, and the storyline about trust is imbued with sarcasm. The intrigue is based on the response of plain folk and pseudo-swindlers. The resulting confusion is equal to that of Gogol. Screened before Second Class Citizens.

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Ukraine/Russia, 2005 | colour, video, 32 min, Russian Prod: Oleg Kokhan | Prod Comp: Sota Cinema Group | Sc: Sergei Chetvertkov, Evgeny Golubenko | Cam: Volodymyr Pankov | Prod Des: Evgeny Golubenko | Sound Des: Yefim Turetsky | With: Natalya Buzko, Alexandra Svenskaya, Iakov Kucherevsky, Leonid Kushnir, Yuri Nevhamonny, Anatoly Trukhin | Print: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre | Sales: Sota Cinema Group Public SCREENINGS Wed 30-1 21:302 Cinerama 7 Thu 31-1 13:452 Cinerama 7

U krutogo yara On the Steep Cliff

Kira Muratova, Alexander Muratov Setting: a village. Protagonist: a bird catcher and hunter. Scenery: idyllic. The bold, ominous score by Oleg Karavaychuk, with whom Muratova will work more often, is full of melancholy and sadness. This graduation film as yet bears no mark of the ‘dangerous’ Muratova, the ‘scandal seeker’ and ‘anarchist’. It is the director’s prenatal period, although an important theme can already be glimpsed: the relationship between people and animals. But for now this is harmonious. Screened together with Letter to America.

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The Certificate Kira Muratova A very worried man comes to a hospital and asks the staff to issue a death certificate for his mother, who he claims is dead. This lovely short is made of footage that was not included in the final cut of The Tuner and features one of its leading characters (nurse Luba). A perfect prologue to Muratova’s epic tale about tricks and tricksters. Screened before The Tuner.

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On ‘Elephant in Darkness’ and Other Telling Images Bianca Taal & Gertjan Zuilhof

Over the years, we have welcomed very many Iranian filmmakers to Rotterdam, including those who make their films abroad and directors who let their cameras roll in Iran itself, in great secrecy. Our conversations with them only served to make us more curious. From their stories about the hidden artistic life of filmmakers and artists, we gathered that, although public and official life in Iran may be difficult, a great deal is still possible behind closed doors. That encouraged us to visit Iran to find out what is possible and what isn’t in this country with its ancient and opulent culture. It was a very new and different experience for both of us. Southwards with Panahi

Gertjan Zuihof: ‘In the lead-up to IFFR 2010, I gave a presentation to the festival staff about a project with African filmmakers whom I had taken to a workshop in China. Afterwards, a staff member who was a native of Iran came up to me and asked why I didn’t do something like this for Iranian filmmakers. At first I was surprised. After all, Iranian filmmakers are among the very best in the world, and surely I don’t need to take them to a workshop? But she was interested in the fact that religious and political developments had been making the position of Iranian filmmakers increasingly difficult. She wanted to focus attention on this. I promised to think about it. It made me alert in my further encounters with Iranians in the film world. There is a diaspora of professional Iranian filmmakers throughout the world, so I met them on my travels through Southeast Asia and South Africa, but also in Sweden and the Netherlands. I have listened to many colourful stories that Iranian filmmakers tell about their country when they were still able to live and work there.

‘I went to Iran for this project. It was my first visit. I wrote to all my contacts in the diaspora and asked them for their film connections in Iran and then I asked those new contacts for more contacts. As a result I knew who to call as soon as I left the airport. Some contacts proved to be more useful than others. I have known my oldest Iranian friend, Alireza Khatemi (who happens to be very young), ever since he studied in Malaysia. He has an exceptional network in artistic as well as social circles. He understood what and who I was looking for. He also encouraged me not to get stuck in Tehran’s affluent northern side, but to get out and visit the real people in the southern part. In the end I was driven to the south by no one less than Jafar Panahi. I could tell Alireza that I had seen the city he is no longer allowed to see.’ Unwanted Vacation

Bianca Taal: ‘A generous invitation from the film festival of Isfahan took me to Iran. It seemed a wonderful opportunity, also to work on researching our programme. It was a strange experience. I had never previously been to a film festival where films could not be seen. Without any information, I was driven around every day in tourist buses with other international invitees. Whenever I tried asking questions (“Can I go to a film?” “Will there be any directors there?” “Is it possible to go back to Tehran earlier?”), the answer was always “We’ll look into it for you”. Travelling back to the capital under my own steam was out of the question – the hotel “looked after” my passport until the end of the festival. Even the really simple question of “Where is the tour taking us today?” evoked no more response than “Sit down in the bus and then we’ll tell you more”. Imprisoned in an unwanted vacation.’ ‘What did I experience? Several official excursions to impressive parks, palaces and mosques, and an enormous PR machine. About three times a day there was a camera crew that wanted to make another interview with the same queries: Whether I thought the people in Iran were friendly and hospitable and whether I could describe how beautiful the country was. Call it getting to know the official side of the country. The side where you are hospitably received but also the side that continually leaves you ignorant.’ ‘And sometimes you don’t have to go to Iran to meet Iranian filmmakers. The festival in Dubai this year was one of the primary locations where I met many of the filmmakers from our programme – filmmakers from various generations, working inside or outside Iran.’ From realistic to strangely symbolic

These encounters and discoveries in Iran (and elsewhere) were not all that formed the motivation for this programme. At least as important is the question of what has happened to the Iranian new-wave cinema of Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Jalili and others. After all, about 15 years ago, Iranian cinema was among the best in the world. For some time now, Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf have made their work outside the borders of Iran. Kiarostami

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made his latest film in Japan, while Makhmalbaf made his latest in Israel, an unlikely spot for an Iranian. But several of these filmmakers stayed in the country. Evidence that Iranian cinema is still alive and well in Iran is given by a vital new film featured in the programme, Darvag by Abolfazl Jalili, in which he shows in a realistic and satirical way how difficult it can be to survive economically in today’s Iran. We also soon came into contact with an intriguing new generation of cineastes. They make very different work from the older generation of ‘realistic new-wave’ filmmakers. Their films can be strangely symbolic, absurd and surrealistic. Mohammad Shirvani is such a talent, as is Majid Barzegar, whose very powerful Parviz is being screened in the programme. But also keep an eye out for Vahid Vakilifar, who provides the first Iranian sci-fi.

The programme consists of new and topical films – a conscious choice. They are high-quality films which certainly belong in the festival and so recent that they often have not yet had their world premiere. In fact, they are films that could easily be screened in competition – which is why three Inside Iran films are also being screened outside the Inside Iran programme. It may not be a coincidence that these are powerful examples of certain elements within the programme. For instance, Kayan by young Maryam Najafi, a filmmaker of Iranian extraction, is a beautiful example of films made in the Iranian diaspora. The film is set in Canada, even though this is scarcely evident in the film itself. The main location is a Lebanese restaurant, and the camera follows its female owner closely. The film expresses a great sense of melancholy for the culture of the Middle East – the food, social life, music, basically everything. A Middle East that may no longer exist – certainly not in Iran, with the bad situation there, but living on in the nostalgic memories of those who live in exile. Ziba by the above-mentioned Bani Khoshnoudi may be a good example of what is just barely possible in Iran. Khoshnoudi now lives in Mexico, but this powerful and almost stern film about the inability of a married woman to break out of her role was shot in Iran, and is one of the most important films in the programme. Fat Shaker by Mohammad Shirvani, included in the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, may be the real find of the programme: a film with its very own expressive quality that is rooted in both imagination and reality. It proves that it is still possible to make surprising and idiosyncratic cinema in Iran. It proves that there are artistic reasons to leave realism for what it is. And finally, it proves that Iranian films can also be hopeful at this moment in time.

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Tehran has a lively circuit of galleries. Their primary role is to show the latest work by local artists. But they have another important function. They are meeting places for filmmakers and artists. Amirali Ghasemi is a young artist and curator from Tehran who organises exhibitions and video screenings in his underground art centre, Parking Gallery. For IFFR, he has made a compilation of the latest work from the young art and film scene in his city. And precisely because so much happens in the galleries in Tehran, we have set up a mini-gallery during the festival. This is the place to see work by the Iranian talent in the festival while drinking tea or smoking a water pipe. Tiger candidate Mohammed Shirvani built his installation Elephant in Darkness especially for Rotterdam and director Bani Koshnoudi is presenting her film Ziba and the video installation Scaffolds. The protagonist from her film, Neda Razavipour, is not an actress by profession but a successful multimedia artist. Her varied portfolio includes photography, stage design, video art and installations. Among her works that we are presenting is the brand-new Tehran Through the Window.

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A reflection by a sensitive artist and filmmaker on her experiences of a city (Tehran) permanently subject to construction and reconstruction. Strangely enough, she also sees this process at the cemetery in Tehran, where there is constant renewal and digging for the never-ending stream of dead. It also pays homage to all migrant workers, above all from Afghanistan and Kurdistan, who do all the heavy manual labour. Working by the roadside in the city and digging graves in the cemetery are presented side-by-side, as a result of which the various images fraternise to form one continuous process. It’s a dichotomy in the form of an installation for which this medium is intended: image and time blend. This blending is amplified by a mysterious soundtrack. Bani Khoshnoudi works successfully in two different media; she is a productive video artist, but also a talented filmmaker, as her film Ziba (see Bright Future) reveals. Thu 24-Sat 2, 10:00-21:00, free admission & tea, Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran de Doelen

Tehran Through the Window was a film with two parallel images from the time when the artist still dared to film in the street. The latest installation by Neda Razavipour is the result of almost candid-camera filming, because recently you can’t be seen in the street with a camera anymore – a secondary effect of combating enemy espionage. This hostility of course also affects the local population. The two images are the same; at least that’s the impression. But the instruction ‘find the differences,’ as puzzles ask in popular magazines, suggests that someone is missing on one image. In a country like Iran, a person can suddenly disappear one day. That’s also the power of this work. Without explicit, political references, it looks at the horror of disappearances. The artist says that looking for the erased person is basically a sick game in a cynical society. A courageous work by a courageous artist. Thu 24-Sat 2, 10:00-21:00, free admission & tea, Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran de Doelen

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Mohammad Shirvani is a busy as well as versatile filmmaker and video artist. His Tiger-Award candidate Fat Shaker, one of the most remarkable films at this festival, was screened at Sundance and before that he made his installation for the Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran. Now he has made a sort of sculpture, an analogue interactive artwork. Inspired by a short story by Iranian poet Rumi, its basis is a wooden cube, wrapped as a package sent by post from Iran. The box has various holes, so that one can feel its contents. Inside a variety of objects with different textures. It’s a kind of box of horrors – or a box of pleasures, more erotic than scary. Shirvani does not explain the meaning of the box, but it looks obvious that he wants to say something about the situation in his country in a metaphorical way. His films are filled with images like this, making him one of today’s most original Iranian filmmakers. Also see Fat Shaker in Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Thu 24-Sat 2, 10:00-21:00, free admission & tea, Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran de Doelen

The artist Neda Razavipour is present in various guises at the festival. Not only does she play the lead in the film Ziba; several of her works can also be seen and experienced in the Tea House/ Gallery Inside Iran. Razavipour exhibits internationally with her installations Dialogue with Open Eyes and Find the Lost One. Her works are a personal approach to Iranian society, captured in moving images. This work emerges from an artistic commission on the theme of ‘dialogue’. Razavipour thought about it for a long time and also actually wrote a dialogue, but decided at the last moment that silence would be more eloquent. Dialogue with Open Eyes is an intimate experience. A conversation without words with Razavipour herself on a small monitor. A work about the urge for communication, but the inability to speak. An unbearable silence. In its theme, the work fits in seamlessly with the film Ziba. Thu 24-Sat 2, 10:00-21:00, free admission & tea, Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran de Doelen

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Rhino Season Bahman Ghobadi

Neda Razavipour

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It’s difficult to record public life in Tehran. Most films in the Signals programme Inside Iran were shot indoors. The stories are often set in a private world, in the house or in the car. Or the films were made abroad. In Tehran Through the Window, we get to know the other side of the metropolis – we look from the inside out. With a secretly-placed camera, Razavipour films a bus journey that crosses Tehran. Through the window of the bus, we see the city move past us. On the second screen of the installation, we see how life in the city progresses from a fixed point: a table at the window in a bar, where people walk past at random. Uncensored and unedited life in the city. Neda Razavipour is an Iranian multimedia artist and also plays the lead in the film Ziba (Bani Koshnoudi), which can be seen in the Bright Future section of the festival.

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The Iranian-Kurdish poet Sahel and his wife Mina were wrongly arrested during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Sahel spent 30 years in prison, while Mina, convinced that her husband was dead, fled to Turkey with her two children. Two lovers driven in part by a political injustice and a personal vendetta. The Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who won the IFFR audience award in 2005 with Turtles Can Fly, based Rhino Season on the diaries of his friend, the Kurdish poet Sadeh Kamangar. His earlier work was characterised by an almost documentary approach. In the meantime, Ghobadi has developed into a poetic and lyrical storyteller, and the non-actors from his earlier films have made way for an impressive cast, including Monica Belucci and Iranian star Behrooz Vossoughi. Ghobadi no longer makes films in Iran. Rhino Season is the first film he made abroad; the film was shot entirely in Turkey.

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Parviz is 50 and does not fit in with social norms. Unmarried and unemployed, he has lived his whole life in his father’s house. Parviz has a comfortable life in the calm and respectable suburb at the heart of turbulent Tehran. He does the housekeeping and odd jobs for local inhabitants. When his father decides to remarry, he throws Parviz out overnight. The same neighbours for whom Parviz had taken the children to school for years now look down on him. Then Parviz starts to realise that respect and acceptance do not have to emerge from a social position and there are other ways to make people accept you. After his successful debut Rainy Seasons, in his second feature Majid Barzegar presents a sharp and powerful portrait of a man who does not comply with the norm, sketching the suppressed intolerance of an apparently harmonious community. With a beautiful role by Levon Haftvan as Parviz.

Evoking memories of classic Iranian road movies, this film takes us to Iranian Kurdistan. Donyadid, an official envoy, is on his way to a remote and partly depopulated area. He has taken little Shirkou with him as a guide and interpreter. His striking admission has an urgent deadline. Namely, 111 Kurdish girls have written a letter to the president in which they describe a very major problem. There are hardly any men left in the area, so they have to go through life unmarried. All are threatening to commit suicide collectively in four days’ time by jumping into a ravine. Their travelling companions and the people they meet on the way illustrate the plethora of ethnic groups and religions. It gives a picture of the specific region, but also a cross-section of Iranian society. Nahid Ghobadi, herself Kurdish, tells an ambitious and committed story, but does so lightly and occasionally even comically.

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Modest Reception Mani Haghighi

Iran, 2012 | colour, DCP, 100 min, Farsi Prod: Jalal Shamsian | Sc: Mani Haghighi, Amir-Reza Koohestani | Cam: Hooman Behmanesh | Ed: Haydeh Safi-Yari | Prod Des: AmirHossein Ghodsi, Negar Nemati | Sound Des: Amir-Hossein Ghassemi | Music: Jeremy Strachan, David Weinkauf | With: Taraneh Alidoostai, Mani Haghighi, Saied Changizian, Esmail Khalaj, Saber Abar, Mohammad Aghebati | Print/ Sales: Iranian Independents Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:15 PA6 Wed 30-1 17:00 CI1 Sat 2-2 15:45 PA5

An urban man and woman, a large car with a trunk stuffed with big bags of money: they are an unusual apparition in the grim frontier area, to put it mildly. The man and the woman hand out bags of money to the needy they meet on their way. To get rid of the money, they first have to enter into bizarre negotiations. But while their car ploughs on through the terrible landscape, their ‘charity’ acquires an increasingly painful and sadistic character. Director Mani Haghigi is also an actor. Here, he plays the lead, alongside Taraneh Alidoosti. He is also a scriptwriter, and has written screenplays for Oscar-winner Asgar Farhadi and the Iranian master Dariush Mehrjui, among others. As in so many Iranian films, Haghigi’s work is charged with social criticism. But he does not translate this criticism into realistic drama. Modest Reception is an absurd and bitingly cynical road movie with a touch of Beckett.

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The most American of all film genres is the Western. They also made them in Italy, but a Western from Iran? In the old city of Shiraz, a certain Negahdar Jamali has been making Westerns for 35 years. They are purely amateur, to be sure. Jamali is also an eccentric – in the most positive sense of the word. He’s a man with an unbridled enthusiasm for his hobby who also manages to get all his relatives and friends in front of the camera as Indians or bounty hunters. Thirty-five years ago, his film activities must have been regarded as strange, but since the revolutionary changes in his country and the growing hatred of everything American, it is becoming increasingly unusual. The cowboy filmmaker from Shiraz. Once upon a time, famous wine was made in Shiraz, until the country fell prey to prohibition. Fortunately, they still make Westerns.

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Yousef Saeedi is the hero of the film. Or rather, the anti-hero. He looks pretty goofy, but appearances can be deceptive. Yousef is not stupid; he’s a former student at university and also someone who doesn’t give up easily. The film is set against the background of the turbulent and allegedly fraudulent elections in 2009 in Iran. Many students were arrested or stopped their studies. Yousef also had to go looking for work. He chose the risky profession of ‘loan shark’, and we follow him during his enervating and also comic adventures. Abolfazl Jalili, who was Filmmaker in Focus in 1999 in Rotterdam, is a representative of the Iranian ‘new wave’ and he has remained faithful to this realistic school. As a documentary maker – always wielding the camera himself – he follows characters who are true to life. ‘Darvag’ is the name of a small green frog that lives at the top of a tree waiting for rain, with which the filmmaker wants to say: one day it’s going to rain again.

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf makes unusual films, and this may be his most unusual of all: an Iranian who makes a film in Israel – even those who don’t follow the news will realise how usual that is. Makhmalbaf went with his son, cameraman Maysam, to Israel in order to tell a very unusual story of the Bahá’í faith, an extraordinary religion that started 170 years ago in Iran and now has 7 million followers. In Iran, the faith was banned, after which it found a new home in the Israeli city of Haifa. Gardens play a prominent position in the religion. The creation and maintenance of these beautiful gardens is part of the spiritual ritual. All holy places are surrounded by these gardens, and they are the main location for the film. This is indirectly a story about the history of Iran, where an innocent ‘gardener’s faith’ could not remain, and where Makhmalbaf, once a proponent of the Islamic Revolution, is also no longer able to make his films.

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This is supposed to be a ‘personal’ documentary, but a more powerful word is needed because the filmmaker tells her highly personal story with such dedication. Nahid Sarvestani was a young left-wing student when the Iranian revolution broke out in 1979. The winners are well-known, and the left-wing political movement was among the losers. Many of her fellow students vanished into jail and never came out again. Her brother met his end that way too. Nahid fled to Sweden, was given Swedish nationality and became an internationally renowned documentary maker. Thirty years after the revolution, protest reawakened in Iran. The motivation: a presidential election. Old, suppressed memories came back to life for Nahid. She decided to make a film about her days as a student activist in Iran and looked up the few of her comrades who survived. As you can imagine, the reunion was very emotional.

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Far Away Films about fleeing from Iran and films made outside of Iran. This programme isn’t just about physical distance. Even two people in a single room or car can be far removed from one another. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 19:45 Cinerama 3 Sat 26-1 16:15 Pathé 3 Sun 27-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 5

Mist Parisa Yousef Doust In a beautifully stylised work, Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Parisa Yousef Doust sketches the tormented spirit of an Iranian refugee, who tries to replace her horrific memories of war and revolution with beautiful and peaceful dreams of her country of birth. Entangled in a web of images and sounds from her past, the refugee starts to lose touch with reality. WORLD PREMIERE

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No overwhelming traffic and turmoil, but a futuristic and deserted Tehran – a labyrinth of dark and empty roads, corridors, stairways and tunnels. This is the Lynchian world Vahid Vakilifar takes us to in his experimental science-fiction film Taboor. A lonely man, dressed in an aluminium suit and living in a trailer covered with aluminium, tries to arm himself against the daily rise in temperature. Only in the evening does he go outside to kill cockroaches for his clients. It’s the future. A future in which people are isolated and lonely, where cockroaches are the only bond with nature and in which light seems to be the only way out. Vakilifar was previously a guest at IFFR in 2011 with his debut film Gesher. In Taboor, he breaks with the semi-documentary approach of his earlier film but remains faithful to his fascination with alienation from a world created by mankind.

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A Few Kilometers Away Ebrahim Irajzad

The car, a small private world in itself, is regularly used in Iranian cinema as a primary location. This is also the case in A Few Kilometres Away. A 40-year-old woman gives a pregnant hitchhiker a lift. She has to draw a painful conclusion. Cleverly constructed confrontation. WORLD PREMIERE

Az Tehran Be London From Tehran to London Mania Akbari Ava is imprisoned in an unhappy marriage with Ashkan. When the housekeeper disappears – Maryam was Ava’s help in everything – the marital crisis gets worse. Akbari had reached this point in the story when several directors were arrested in Iran. She left Iran, also leaving behind her original vision of the film. She completed it in the United Kingdom, re-titling it From Tehran to London. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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Invisible Present Tense A special collection of art and underground videos, fresh from Tehran. Curated by Amirali Ghasemi, programmer and artist, who is a spider in the web of informal filmmaking in Iran and whose Parking Gallery is the place to be for young artists. Ghasemi will be present to introduce his programme. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 5 Sun 27-1 12:15 Cinerama 7 Tue 29-1 14:30 Cinerama 7

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Acrophobia 0.1. Anahita Hekmat How can we remember the passing time? A lost memory, even recorded but taken out of its context, can just belong to the past, a time defined by its disappearance. Acrophobia attempts to deconstruct and reconstruct a moment, a breath infinitely repeating in an empty space, virtually endless. WORLD PREMIERE

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Raining Ashes Nassrin Nasser

Zibai ye Bazgasht Napazir Irreversible Beauty

Raining Ashes is a symbolic illustration of an illusory relationship between a prisoner in solitary confinement and an activist. The prisoner imagines the activist is writing to her out of vigilance and sympathy. Finally, the illusion turns out to belong more to the writer than the prisoner. Iran/UK, 2011 | colour, DCP, 8 min, Farsi Prod: Nassrin Nasser | Sc: Nassrin Nasser | Cam: Kaveh Shahmohamadlou | Ed: Nassrin Nasser | Sound Des: Gavin Moon | Print/Sales: Nassrin Nasser

Ayeneh haye posht rikhteh

Shahrzad Malekian Video documentation of the latest experimental performance by Shahrzad Malekian. A self-healing/self-destructing process which takes place in front of the camera as a witness, for unknown reasons. WORLD PREMIERE

Worn Out Mirrors

My Glorious Childhood

Amir Bastan

Golrokh Nafisi The series Worn Out Mirrors is a response to the question: To what extent can a meaning be elaborated or expanded? It explores the definitions of reality, art and the artist’s personal mental disorder, for which he was undergoing treatment. In this series, the artist investigates his inner self, hidden under delusions and mixed feelings about his being. Iran, 2012 | colour, DCP, 3 min, no dialogue Prod: Amir Bastan | Sc: Amir Bastan | Cam: Amir Bastan | Ed: Amir Bastan | Prod Des: Amir Bastan | Sound Des: Amir Bastan | With: Amir Bastan | Print/Sales: Amir Bastan

The Memories of Others Bahar Samadi

About trying to find a perfect balance between past and present. The performance visualises the invisible effects of the past, which we carry into our present and which shape our new relationships with places and people. It includes Nafisi’s body walking in public space with a doll that represents her childhood, and interaction with people who come close or keep a distance. Iran, 2010 | colour, DCP, 6 min, no dialogue Prod: Golrokh Nafisi | Sc: Golrokh Nafisi | Cam: Dorel Gillerman | Ed: Golrokh Nafisi | Prod Des: Golrokh Nafisi | Sound Des: Golrokh Nafisi | With: Golrokh Nafisi | Print/Sales: Golrokh Nafisi

Perpendicular to the Path Mahan Moalemi

Memories and lost moments on found photos. Photos that no longer have an owner. The faces of the people portrayed are often difficult to identify, time has left its traces. By combining these found images again, the story emerges about death. WORLD PREMIERE

There is a need for a spot to be occupied, for a moment to be owned, a moment in the scheduled course of the day. The successive manner, the simplified repetitive action, continues to grow, to block the path, to create a path of its own. The public and quite scenic manifestation finally transforms into self-driven therapeutics. Iran, 2011 | colour, DCP, 10 min, no dialogue Prod: Mahan Moalemi | Cam: Hooman Najafi | Ed: Zeinab Shahidi | With: Mahan Moalemi | Print/ Sales: Mahan Moalemi

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Damn Garbage

Make Art, Not War

Hamed Safaee

Sasan Sadeghpour, Saman Sadeghpour

In a residential complex in Tehran, a woman is stuck outside of her house and can’t get in. She seeks a way to enter.

ICY and SOT are the stage names of the Sadeghpour brothers, Iranian graffiti artists who make street art both in Iran and beyond. Make Art, Not War! is a stop-motion animation about war – a recurring theme in the work of the brothers. A tank rolls into a cardboard city. Not to destroy the surroundings, but precisely to beautify them with pictures of love and peace.

Sazdahani

The Harmonica

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Shadi Noyani This film borrows its name and starting point from Amir Naderi’s The Harmonica (1974). The film, which includes found footage from Noyani’s family archive, narrates the story of a boy called Amirou who is fascinated by this instrument owned by another boy, and how he is willing to do anything for that boy in order to play it. The harmonica is a symbol for colonialism in third world countries. Iran, 2011 | colour, DCP, 4 min, Farsi Prod: Shadi Noyani | Sc: Shadi Noyani | Cam: Ali Noyani, Alireza Zarrin Dast | Ed: Shadi Noyani | Prod Des: Shadi Noyani | Sound Des: Shadi Noyani | With: Masoud Goudarzi, Mehdi Javadi, Shadi Noyani | Print/Sales: Shadi Noyani

Fath-e Behesht

Conquest of Paradise Hadi Fallahpisheh A single-channel video split into two frames about the American dream. One frame shows a wooden board with a basketball net, with white and red lines in the background. The other is a low-angle shot of a building and a white sky, in which blue and white balls fall like shooting stars. The two frames portray an illusion of how the ball scores a goal and the dream of going to heaven comes true. EUROPEAN PREMIERE

In yek Bastani Nist!

Red Thing Ramin Rahimi Ramin Rahimi calls himself a narrative artist. He writes, draws, illustrates and makes animations – like Red Thing. While a woman talks obliviously on the telephone, a gigantic, red, Godzilla-like being lands in the city. The creature does everything in its power to attract her attention. Iran, 2010 | colour, DCP, 1 min, no dialogue Prod: Ramin Rahimi | Sc: Ramin Rahimi | Cam: Shayan Khalil Beigy | Sound Des: Armin Rahimi | Print/Sales: Ramin Rahimi | www.raminrahimi.com

Immersed Mohamedreza Heydary Varesh Darvish is a filmmaker, dancer and performer; her husband Heydary also makes films. They made Immersed together, a work in which she – pregnant and dressed in black – dances and moves as if in slow-motion. She is shown in fragments as a rhythmic soundtrack plays. WORLD PREMIERE

Roozhaye khoobe koodaki Good Childhood Days

This Is Not an Ice Cream

Aliyar Rasti, Siavash Naghshbandi

Niloofar Zolfaghari

Through a nostalgic journey, the viewer is transported to the childhood of Aliyar Rasti and Siavash Naghshbandi in the 1980s. The music was composed by Iranian rock band Bomrani and is based on a famous Iranian kindergarten song from that period.

Juxtaposes footage of recent scenes of combat led by the United States with an image of a girl who is cold-heartedly enjoying every bite of her ice cream. Iran, 2011 | colour, DCP, 5 min, no dialogue Prod: Niloofar Zolfaghari | Sc: Niloofar Zolfaghari | Cam: Niloofar Zolfaghari | Ed: Niloofar Zolfaghari | Sound Des: Niloofar Zolfaghari | With: Niloofar Zolfaghari | Print/Sales: Niloofar Zolfaghari

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Odd Couples Three Iranian films about unusual relationships. A man and his yet-to-be-found wife. An Iranian director and American comedian Jerry Lewis. And the flirt a man dreams up for his own wife. Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 09:45 Cinerama 7 Tue 29-1 19:30 Cinerama 5 Wed 30-1 11:15 LantarenVenster 1

Mory zan mikhad Mory Wants a Wife Abtin Baktash A semi-documentary about Mory, a religious man without a wife. His work does not pay enough to find an apartment of his own. That’s why his first two wives left him. But Morteza is only human. His yearning gets in the way so much that, in conflict with his faith, he sees no other alternative than self-gratification. So: Mory wants a wife. A comic look at a side of Iranian society not often seen. WORLD PREMIERE

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Keep Us, Keep Us Ehsan Amani In cosmopolitan Tehran, people spend a lot of time in the car. Keep Us, Keep Us is accordingly filmed entirely from the dashboard. In one shot, we follow the journey of a married couple and a good friend. The mood is spontaneous and humorous. After an inappropriate practical joke with a mobile phone, the inside of the car changes from a relaxed private space into a nervewracking cookie tin stuck in traffic. WORLD PREMIERE

Jerry & Me Mehrnaz Saeedvafa At one time, you could see a different American film in Tehran every night. Mehrnaz Saeedvafa, who grew up there, became a great fan of crazy American comic Jerry Lewis. She left Iran at an early age, becoming a filmmaker and Film & Video Professor in Chicago. In this ingenious film, she looks back on her childhood through images of her beloved Jerry. USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 38 min, English Prod: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa | Sc: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa | Cam: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa, Robert Buchar | Ed: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa, John Cavallino | Prod Des: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa | Sound Des/Music: Diego Trejo | With: Jerry Lewis, John Wayne, Mehrnaz Saeedvafa | Print/Sales: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa

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Preludes Tunnel Maryam Kashkoolinia Call it a political film, even though a tunnel could be anywhere. In desperate Gaza -not a country but a strip- people dig tunnels because the borders are too well-guarded. Not even a sheep may cross the border. So a shepherd who has run out of ideas takes his sheep along with him into the tunnel. Desperate, absurd and yet comic. Sombre and monochrome. Animation as if modelled with soil. Screened before 111 Girls. Iran, 2012 | colour, video, 7 min, Arabic Prod: Mohammad Habbibi | Prod Comp: Honarhaye Tajassomi | Sc/Cam/Ed: Maryam Kashkoolinia | Sound Des: Hossein Mafi | Music: Hossein Mafi | Print/Sales: Maryam Kashkoolinia Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 12:302 LantarenVenster 3 Sat 26-1 11:452 Cinerama 1 Mon 28-1 10:002 Pathé 4

When the Curtain Falls Alireza Khatami A delicate play. A woman behind glass, like a model for a painter. A suggestion of nudity. The painter doesn’t paint. He writes. In calligraphy. Beautifully, swiftly and with a modern marker pen. On the glass, a poem appears by Omar Khayyam, the most famous of the Persian poets. As the poem progresses, it conceals the woman like a veil. Screened before Ziba. USA/Iran, 2011 | colour, DCP, 5 min, silent Prod: Alireza Khatami, Afshin Farhad | Sc: Alireza Khatami | Cam: Marcel Morschhauser | Ed/ Prod Des: Alireza Khatami | With: Afshin Farhad, Chantel Louise Tattoli | Print/Sales: Alireza Khatami Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 11:452 Cinerama 1 Fri 1-2 17:002 LantarenVenster 5

Magnificent Life of the Prince Mahsa Shoja Araghi An animation film by a student who was obviously paying attention in stop-motion class. Not only is it technically impressive; her film is metaphorical and tells a complex and humorous story concisely. Science fiction with a snake and a fox that even manage to pluck a floating television from the universe. The maker is coming to the festival, so she can explain what a television travelling in space means to Iran. Screened before Taboor. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Iran, 2011 | colour, video, 14 min, no dialogue Prod: Ehsan Kafash, Mahsa Shoja Araghi | Sc: Mahsa Shoja Eraghi, Ehsan Kafash | Cam: Ehsan Kafash | Ed: Masih Noroozi | Pd: Mehdi Aghajaani | Sound: Rahime Shojaei, Amir Pooyan Bashti | Music: Yashar Amini | Print/Sales: Mahsa Shoja Araghi Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 13:452 LantarenVenster 1 Tue 29-1 14:152 Cinerama 1 42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

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To Be Continued... Inge de Leeuw This is the heyday of the series – on television and on the Internet. With the development of television drama and internet series, breeding grounds for innovation have emerged in the field of storytelling. More and more film talent is being brought in. In the programme Changing Channels, IFFR is presenting television series by independent film directors from all over the world and is looking at a typically American phenomenon: the web series.

Cross fertilization between film and television is not a new phenomenon. Filmmakers were (and still are) regularly called on to direct a single episode of a completely scripted show. In former times, however, few leading filmmakers worked successfully in both media. Often the step to television was motivated by financial needs and they had relatively little input in the creative process. Since the late 1990s, television, and above all cable television, has grown to become a more innovative medium that offers space for productions with complex, deep character development and narrative lines. There is a movement in the opposite direction at the major American film studios: less and less interest in original scripts and idiosyncratic drama. It was high-quality drama such as The Sopranos and The Wire, both commissioned by the pay-TV channel HBO, that heralded the present golden age of television. The opportunities to experiment with an expansive story had already awoken the interests of famous directors such as David Lynch (Twin Peaks), but the new status of the pay TV channels and series by Martin Scorsese, Gus Van Sant and Lena Dunham brought a new wave of film talents who worked for both film and television. These days, the small screen is unthinkable without film directors. With increasing regularity, they are developing original series for television and the internet, either commissioned by a channel or entirely independently.

Going Home

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The production of quality series is not only restricted to the United States, however. Productions where well-known directors are given carte blanche, are made all over the world, often produced by payTV channels. In the past, European public broadcasting companies regularly commissioned well-known filmmakers to make a TV series, such as Heimat by Edgar Reitz, Berlin Alexanderplatz by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and The Kingdom by Lars von Trier. These days, public broadcasting companies have less and less money and space in their programming. In Europe, but also often in Latin America and Asia, a large part of the higher quality series is therefore produced by pay-TV channels such as Canal+ and the local branches of HBO. HBO has greatly encouraged the production of original, local series in Latin America and Eastern Europe – for example, Prófugos by the Chilean director Pablo Larraín and Burning Bush by the Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Also in Japan and France, TV channels are interested in working with established names from the film industry, in Japan with Kore-eda Hirokazu (Going Home) and in France with Fabrice Gobert (Les revenants). All these series within Changing Channels reflect the characteristic styles of the various filmmakers clearly, despite the fact that they are often industrial works. For instance, Going Home focuses on Kore-eda’s well-known theme of family relationships, and Prófugos is filled with Larraín’s typical marginal characters, who bear the recent history of Chile within them. The traditional demarcation line in television between writer and director does not exist in the case of these series. Generally speaking, the writer holds the creative strings, but here the responsibility for both the idea and the completion is in the hands of the filmmaker. Not only in the style, but also in production, this approach increasingly resembles that of a feature film. Technological Developments

The introduction of new and increasingly large and sharp digital televisions with surround sound, together with the relevant supply of quality television shows, has ensured that the cinema experience can almost be duplicated at home. With ‘smart’ televisions, it is increasingly easy using broadband internet to watch available online content on a quality screen. These technological developments

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have also contributed to the greater production of series and a greater variety of productions. While the opportunities for production and distribution of a series were previously primarily with the broadcasting companies and networks, these days it’s even possible to make a series yourself and distribute it via the web. This has in recent years stimulated the making of all kinds of more experimental and avant-garde series, which are occasionally bought by (small) broadcasting companies but more often acquire a large number of followers on the web. Web Series

In the United States, there has been a flourishing web-series industry for several years now. Thanks to the small scale of these series, novice filmmakers can acquire a lot of experience in a lowthreshold way. Partly because of the format, most web series are comic in nature and often innovative in both form and substance. The large measure of freedom, the relatively simple production process and the low costs also appeal to experienced directors. In web series, they can easily experiment with new ideas. For instance, Ry Russo-Young made her first comedy with the web series Muscle Top. She directed this between the production of several successful features. Another interesting aspect is that many web series offer a counterbalance to the stereotypes of minorities in mainstream media. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, about a young, black woman, and The Slope, about the life of two lesbians, are striking examples of this. The rise of the web series is primarily linked to technological progress. From 2006 on, streaming became increasingly easy thanks to improvements in broadband internet. Joe Swanberg, an American independent filmmaker, experimented in 2006 with this new medium in his long-running web series Young American Bodies. The improved opportunities for video-on-demand also ensured that the position of American online broadcasters, such as Netflix and Hulu, has become increasingly powerful. They now form serious competition for television networks, which also keep a close eye on the web in the hope of discovering new talent. The above-mentioned Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl was for instance recently picked up by the American network ABC. Not long ago, we entered a new phase in the web series: not only online broadcasters, but also the traditional television networks have started producing original programmes especially for the web. AMC (well-known from Mad Men) made her first web series with The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks, while Sebastián Silva directed the web series The Boring Life of Jacqueline for HBO Digitals. In this way, the networks are trying to maintain their position, not only on television but also on the web. These days, web series have a regular place in the oeuvre of young American filmmakers and we are also slowly seeing growth of web series in the rest of the world, for instance the Mexican Los micro burgueses by Sebastián Hoffman (director of Halley, 2012). Also in Europe, sixty YouTube channels offering original online content. The web series is a breeding ground for (film) talent and this is surely only set to increase in the future. With thanks to my colleagues Gerwin Tamsma and Erik Tijman for the additional research and to Scott Macaulay and Alicia Van Couvering (Filmmaker Magazine) for the use of the title ‘Changing Channels’.

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Claun (Parte 1: Os dias aventurosos de Ayana) Claun (Part 1: Ayana’s Week of Adventures) Felipe Bragança

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Brazil, 2013 | colour, DCP, 69 min, Portuguese Prod: Felipe Bragança | Prod Comp: Duas Mariola Filmes, Bananeira Filmes | Sc: Felipe Bragança | Cam: Andrea Capella, Flora Dias | Ed: Marina Meliande | Prod Des: Manuela Custiss, Patrícia Ramos, Lana Martires, Raquel Araújo, Patrícia Araújo, Isabella Barcelos | Sound Des: Fernando Henna | Music: Lucas Marcier | With: Jennifer Melo, Márco Vito, Junior Moura, Remo Trajano, Eduardo Speroni, André Souza, Carolina Lavigne, Sil Esteves, Isabela Flach, Begê Muniz, Sandro Matos, Marina D`Elia | Print/Sales: Duas Mariola Filmes Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 18:30 PA2 Sat 26-1 14:15 CI1 Sat 2-2 19:45 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 31-1 11:15 CI5

The mysterious world of masked clowns in Rio de Janeiro forms the basis for this pilot episode of Bragança’s multimedia project that he wants to develop further. Dream and reality mingle smoothly in Part 1: Ayana`s Week of Adventures. Ayana’s father, a gang leader in the suburbs of Rio, is murdered during a carnival evening. The 13-year-old girl, looking for the culprits, soon finds herself in the strange, chaotic and dangerous world of the ‘bate-bolas’: masked clowns that traditionally populate the streets during carnival. With this imaginative fable, Bragança does justice to the history of this frightening yet artistic clown figure from his country. The maker is planning to augment his Claun project with six ‘webisodes’ in which Ayana grows to adulthood among the clowns, a graphic novel and a site filled with documentation and interviews about the origins of masked carnival clowns in Brazil – and their existence today.

Les revenants

Rebound Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Mermoud

France, 2012 | colour, video, 200 min, French Prod: Caroline Benjo, Jimmy Desmarais | Prod Comp: Haut et Court TV | Sc: Fabrice Gobert | Cam: Patrick Blossier | Ed: Peggy Koretzky, Bertrand Nail, Mike Fromentin, Laurence Bawedin | Prod Des: Frédérique Lapierre, Frédéric Lapierre | Sound Des: Alexandre Widmer | Music: Mogwai | With: Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme, Céline Sallette, Samir Guesmi, Grégory Gadebois, Guillaume Gouix, Pierre Perrier, Jean- François Sivadier, Alix Poisson, Yara Pilartz, Jenna Thiam, Swann Nambotin, Ana Girardot | Print/Sales: Zodiak Rights | http://lesrevenants.canalplus.fr/ Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 19:45 CI1 Fri 1-2 19:45 CI3

In a mountain village, dead people suddenly appear on the doorstep of their relatives’ homes, precisely as old as on the day they died. They hope to pick up their lives again, as if nothing terrible had happened to them. At the same time, a serial killer is roaming the provincial town and his modus operandi is frighteningly familiar to the villagers. In this eight-part French series, that can measure up to Twin Peaks in its gruesomeness, each episode focuses on one person. For instance, we meet the teenager Camille who died in a bus accident, little Victor who was killed by burglars and the suicide case Simon. Slowly but surely, all the mysterious cases are unravelled. Creator of the series, co-writer and co-director Fabrice Gobert (Lights Out) based this stylish work for Canal+ on the film by Robin Campillo from 2004. Gobert interchanged directing with colleague Frédéric Mermoud. The dark, seamlessly apt soundtrack comes from the Scottish band Mogwai. Episode 1, 2, 3 and 4 screen in this programme.

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Shokuzai

Czechoslovakia, 1969: in the middle of Prague, Jan Palach sets fire to himself. It is Palach’s alarming protest against the Soviet occupation of his country. In his farewell letter, the student who would soon be famous, promises that other young people will follow his action if the occupation does not quickly. While unrest soon stirs within the student community, the government tries to suggest Palach’s deed was an accident. Palach’s mourning mother refuses to accept that and involves the committed lawyer Dagmar Burešová to clear her son’s name. This three-part series for HBO focuses on that important moment in the history of the country and on events surrounding the Prague Spring. Together with cameraman Martin Štrba, Holland presents a visually attractive and cinematographic series with universal themes such as the fight for freedom, self -sacrifice and justice. The production design of this story based on true events is perfect right down to the last detail.

Four girls see how their friend Emili is taken away by a man, after which she is found murdered. Emili’s mother Asako blames the children for the fact that they couldn’t tell the police the identity of the murderer and forces them to do penance. As far as the vindictive mother is concerned, the rest of their lives will be dominated by crime and punishment. Fifteen years later, when the girls have grown up, that is indeed the case. In five episodes, we follow them one by one as they wrestle with their traumatic past. What does their penance look like and what role does Asako play? And who killed poor Emili? Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Tokyo Sonata) made the transition to television with this psychological thriller series. He adapted Minato Kanae’s bestseller Shokuzai (2009) into a series, where he takes plenty of time for character development. He manages to build up the tension to great heights using a mixture of remarkable absurdity and exciting scenes.

Burning Bush Agnieszka Holland

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Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 225/270 min, Japanese Prod: Kumagai Kiichi, Yôko Toyofuku | Prod Comp: TV Man Union, Inc. | Sc: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Ed: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Music: Matsumura Titi, Mikami Gonzalez | With: Abe Hiroshi, You, Yamaguchi Tomoko, Miyazaki Aoi, Yasuda Ken, Arai Hirofumi | Print/Sales: TV Man Union, Inc. Public SCREENINGS (Part 1-5) Sat 26-1 14:30 CI3 Sun 27-1 10:00 CI5 Sat 2-2 15:30 CI3 Public SCREENINGS (Part 6-11) Sun 27-1 14:30 CI5 Sat 2-2 19:45 CI3

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Japan, 2012 | colour, DCP, 270 min, Japanese Prod: Tomomi Takashima, Yumi Arakawa, Nobuhiro Iizuka | Prod Comp: WOWOW, Inc., Nikkatsu Corporation, Django Film, Inc. | Sc: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, based on a novel by Minato Kanae | Cam: Ashizawa Akiko | Prod Des: Matsumoto Chie | With: Koizumi Kyoko, Kagawa Teruyuki, Aoi Yu, Koike Eiko, Ando Sakura, Ikewaki Chizuru | Sales: Free Stone Productions | Distr NL: Lumière Public SCREENING Sun 27-1 11:45 CI1

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Prófugos

(Part 1-5 ) & (Part 6-11 ) Going Home Kore-eda Hirokazu

Pablo Larraín

Kore-eda Hirokazu, well-known from highly regarded films such as Maborosi and Still Walking, is making his first television series. Just like in his films, it focuses on family relationships and he works with his favourite actors, Abe Hiroshi and You. Tsuboi Ryota is an advertising man with a happy family life. His wife, a famous food stylist, his wayward daughter and colleagues make life difficult for him. This changes when his father ends up in hospital after an accident and Ryota receives a visit from an unknown woman. Curious as to her identity, he ends up in the village where his father was born, where stories about the mythical Kuna awake his interest. He obsessively continues his father’s quest to find this Kuna and slowly his own life starts to merge with life there. With the calm tempo, the many details that are apparently unimportant for the story and his typical visual style, Kore-eda seems to have chosen a primarily cinematographic approach in Going Home.

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Chile, 2011 | colour, video, 120 min, Spanish Prod: Juan de Dios Larraín, Rodrigo Flores, Cristián de la Fuente | Prod Comp: Efe3 Chile, Fabula Producciones, HBO Latin America Group | Sc: Pablo Illanes, Josefina Fernández, Mateo Iribarren, Enrique Videla, Pablo Larraín | Cam: Sergio Armstrong | Prod Des: Polin Garbisu | Sound Des: Maricio López | Music: Camila Moreno | With: Néstor Cantillana, Francisco Reyes, Benjamín Vicuña, Luis Gnecco, Marcelo Alonso | Print/Sales: HBO Latin America Group Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:30 PA2 Tue 29-1 09:15 CI1 Thu 31-1 22:00 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 21:00 CI5

In Prófugos, we follow four Chilean men who have to smuggle a batch of cocaine from Bolivia to Chile for a considerable reward. However, this operation goes completely wrong and the four men have to flee from both the law and the Mafia. The Chilean Pablo Larraín (No) sketches a complex web of ambitions, interests and corruption, where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. From the second episode onwards, the emphasis is increasingly on Larraín’s favourite theme: marginal, complex characters who personify the past and the present situation in Chile. Packaged as a typical action series, Prófugos shows a grim reality, often shot on location, that not only maps the social geography, but also provides a picture of the country’s actual geography. The first two episodes can be seen as one long pilot. This is Larraín’s first television series, which he made for the Latin-American branch of the HBO network. Also see No in Spectrum.

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The Boring Life of Jacqueline Sebastián Silva

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Jacqueline is an unemployed actress in bustling New York. Her life is however far from exciting; usually she sits in her apartment and she is continuously looking for significant relationships in real life and on the internet. This doesn’t really work out for her. Her day is filled with her dreams, obsessive twittering, a voicemail relationship with her friend and her crush on Abraham, the doorman of her building. Her search for friendship, love and success often puts Jacqueline in fairly embarrassing yet humorous situations. In order to get closer to Abraham, she pretends she wants to learn French and on the internet she meets all kinds of other people, including the actor Michael Cera, who has a cameo role in the series. The Boring Life of Jacqueline provides a glimpse into the head and life of this neurotic young woman who is looking for the meaning of life – sometimes humorously, sometimes painfully, but always recognisably. It provides a fresh look at modern life. Made for HBO Digitals. Sebastián Silva broke through in the USA with his film La nana.

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TV Night: Girls, Girls and Boys Anything is possible in New York City. Meet the young hipsters in search of dates, success or just themselves? New York has everything – but it’s all in Brooklyn. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 19:15 Cinerama 4 Sun 27-1 22:15 Cinerama 5

I Hate Being Single Rob Michael Hugel, Dan Opsal A comic glimpse into the life of a single twenty-something in Brooklyn. Rob is obviously a nice guy; he’s just pretty naive in how he lives his life. Fortunately he has several good friends who support him in his often clumsy search for real love. Comedian and brain behind the series, Rob Michael Hugel, created a very sympathetic character, for whom the American audience has fallen en masse. Episodes 1 and 2 screen in this programme. USA, 2012 | colour, DCP, 11 min, English Prod: Rob Michael Hugel | Sc/ Ed: Rob Michael Hugel | Cam: Giga Shane | Sound Des: Matt Cook | Music: Jake Zavracky | With: Rob Michael Hugel, Shannon Coffey, Dom Manzolillo, Jennifer Leigh Schwerer, Kelly Hudson, Emily Strachan | Print/Sales: Rob Michael Hugel | www.ihatebeingsingleseries.com

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The Changing Channels Web Lounge in Cinerama is the place where visitors can submerge themselves in the world of web series. All day long, you can zap between a variety of American web series. For instance, Young American Bodies (2006-2009) by Joe Swanberg, one of the first independent filmmakers to experiment with this medium. Or the web hits The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2011-2012) by Issa Rae, and Broad City by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. The Slope (2012), by filmmakers Ingrid Jungermann and Desiree Akhavan, is about the ups and downs of a lesbian couple, while I Hate Being Single (2012) by Rob Michael Hugel shows the vicissitudes of the bachelor Rob. Visual artists have also experimented with the format, as in County Down (2012) by Laura Parnes and the exciting and comic series Nights in UltraViolet (2012) by The Cheap Thriller and the artists’ collective Goddamn Cobras – ‘Twin Peaks meets Seinfeld’. Thu 24-Sat 2, 09:00-closing time Cinerama, free admission, foyer Cinerama

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Muscle Top was made for the American Paper Magazine. The show follows Clara Latham and Seth Garrison as they set up a gay band. Instead of integrating the homosexual characters in a heterosexual world, as in the series Glee, Russo-Young enters into a dialogue with gay culture by opting for stereotypical characters. Expect small dogs, Tracy Chapman and Susan Sontag. A comedy filled with song and dance, with two whole seasons still being made. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 screen in this programme. USA, 2011 | colour, DCP, 11 min, English Prod: Ry Russo-Young | Prod Comp: Helavanna Productions | Sc: Clara Latham, Seth Garrison, Ry Russo-Young | Cam: Sam Fleischner | Ed: Ry Russo-Young, Clara Latham | Sound Des: Clara Latham, Seth Garrison | Music: Clara Latham, Seth Garrison | With: Clara Latham, Seth Garrison, Ry Russo-Young | Print/Sales: Helavanna Productions | www.ryrussoyoung.com

Girls Lena Dunham Girls is a comedy drama series that provides an occasionally painful, often humorous but always realistic picture of the life of a group of close female friends. Dunham, not only director but also protagonist, bases much of the series on her own experiences. She attracted the attention of the HBO network with her film Tiny Furniture (2010) and was allowed to make a pilot for Girls. Episodes 1 and 2 from the second season screen in this programme. USA, 2013 | colour, DCP, 60 min, English Prod: Lena Dunham, Judd Apatow | Prod Comp: Apatow Productions | Sc: Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner | Cam: Tim Ives | Ed: Shawn Paper | Prod Des: Kelley Burney | With: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver | Sales: HBO Films New York | Distr. NL: HBO Nederland

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TV Night: Showtime Nothing is too crazy for these series in TV Night: Showtime. The makers were inspired by Jackass, sleazy 1970s shows and A Clockwork Orange. Funny, sometimes extreme and really enthusiastic. It’s showtime! Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 17:30 Cinerama 7 Fri 1-2 14:30 Cinerama 5

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TV Night: So You Think You Can Act It isn’t so much a matter of whether the people in this cinematic web series can act or not: it’s more whether they can do anything. Direct? Write? Date? The life of a creative is no bed of roses. Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 19:45 Cinerama 7 Wed 30-1 19:45 Cinerama 3

The Eric Andre Show Andrew Barchilon, Kitao Sakurai The Eric Andre Show may well be the most manic and unorthodox late-night talk show ever made. In a technical sense, the show really is a talk-show – including interviews with real and fake celebrities and planned comedy sketches – but the host Eric Andre and his sidekick Hannibal Buress (30 Rock) go berserk and create a surrealistic and apocalyptic world. The makers Sakurai and Barchilon, both with their roots in independent film, directed this series ‘in character’ as inexperienced producers. Episodes 1 and 9 screen in this programme. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 22 min, English Prod: Andrew Barchilon, Kitao Sakurai | Prod Comp: Abso Lutely Productions | Sc: Eric André | Ed: Doug Lussenhop, Luke Lynch, Eric Notarnicola | Prod Des: Katie Byron, Rosie Sanders | With: Eric André, Hannibal Buress, David Haskin, Dolph Lundgren, Huynh Quang, Beverly Swanson, Evangelos Themelis, Eden Wood, Gary Anthony Williams | Print/Sales: Cartoon Network | theericandreshow.tv

Los micro burgueses Sebastián Hofmann Sebastián Hoffman (Halley) is the brain behind and actor in this comedy miniseries. He worked on this social satire together with a group of friends, without any budget, and the enthusiasm explodes from the screen. Three boys from Tecamachalco, a suburb of Mexico City, blow up the pretensions of the affluent bourgeoisie to the extreme. Nothing is too crazy: kidnappings with a severed ear and colourful collages, full of references to cinema. Episodes 1, 2 and 5 screen in this programme. Also see Halley in Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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In the Production Office Tricia Vessey In the Production Office is a comedy web series about two girlfriends, Coco and Myra, who want to start a film production company, without experience or any knowledge of the craft. With their unconventional approach, they make more enemies than friends; for instance Coco’s mother, in whose house they establish the production office, or the acting coach from whom Coco and Myra take acting lessons. The dry humour lies primarily in the sharp dialogues and often selfish actions of the unusual twosome. Episodes 3 and 5 screen in this programme. USA, 2011-2012 | colour, video, 22 min, English Prod: Tricia Vessey | Sc: Tricia Vessey, Jen George | Cam: Sam Tuthill | Ed: Tricia Vessey | Music: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti | With: Tricia Vessey, Jen George, Kevin Breznahan, Hermann Vessey | Print/Sales: Tricia Vessey | www.triciavessey.com

The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks Peter Glanz Arthur Banks is a married theatre-maker who keeps seducing other women before the première of a new play. He discusses his disastrous life and loves with his therapist and his best friend. Told in a style reminiscent of Woody Allen, this ‘web noir’ is a visual feast. It is AMC’s (Mad Men, Breaking Bad) first series especially for the web and fits in entirely with AMC’s unique and intelligent programming. USA, 2011 | b&w, video, 45 min, English Prod: Neda Armian, Peter Glanz | Prod Comp: Armian Pictures | Sc: Peter Glanz, Juan Iglesias | Cam: Eric Koretz | Ed: Peter Glanz | Prod Des: Ashley Fenton | Music: Jay Israelson | With: Adam Goldberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Pete Chekvala, Wendy Glenn, Laura Clery, Fabianne Therese | Print/Sales: AMC Networks | www.amctv.com/shows/the-trivial-pursuits-of-arthur-banks

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All Together Now Edwin Carels This year, IFFR is focussing special attention on cinema as an ‘event’; as a one-off in which the acoustic experience amplifies its unique character. Film theatres are increasingly becoming concert halls. Not only has the trend of putting new scores to silent films brought live music back into the dark auditorium, top operas are also occasionally broadcast to a selection of film theatres all over the world. Occasionally, a concert film itself is screened in a whole series of auditoria at exactly the same time. The cinema as a democratic alternative for the concert experience?

With the programme Sound Stages, IFFR is plumbing the underlying tendencies of such promotional stunts and upgrades. What makes the film experience so closely related to live music these days, certainly within the context of a festival? Which ways are still left to experience this pleasant paradox: the quest in the dark for a collective and simultaneously unique experience? The cinema screen will never completely be able to replace the concert stage, although it does take advantage of the same kind of desires. We no longer go to the cinema in order to isolate ourselves in the dark and each experience an individual dream. Thanks to the increasing supply of DVDs, internet channels and other digital formats, we no longer really need to leave home. The same

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has applied for some time to the experience of music: despite the countless possibilities for listening to music, music festivals are doing better than ever. Watching films is increasingly a group event, a social happening that is concentrated in place and time. Sound Stages does not focus on film or pop stars, but more on the collective experience that makes both film and music unique – sound and visuals as the mobilising power that brings people together. The only constant in this programme is that virtually every presentation, every constellation, becomes a unique snapshot, an experience which you either miss or share with friends and chance participants alike. In the context of film history, the term ‘sound stage’ refers to the first film studios that were suitable for recording both film and sound. Sound Stages deliberately doesn’t focus on one genre, one scene or one trendsetter. The eclectic mix of Sound Stages is that of the age-old jukebox. At one time, that device had something to offer all tastes: you could impose your mood in a bar by keying in a simple combination of numbers and letters. In the 1960s there was even the ‘scopitone’, which also showed a short film on a screen above the jukebox to accompany each of the singles – the direct precursor to the music video. In the meantime, this multiplechoice possibility has been extended infinitely and YouTube now fulfils the role of a contemporary scopitone, but then for the living room, the individual user. At the same time, the boom in social media indicates just how important we still think it is to share our enthusiasm, to experience something together, to move as one. The ambition of Sound Stages is to have each component of the programme bring together different audiences around a separate configuration of visuals and sound.

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2 Film Concerts – Ibragimova & Rudy

Hit Parade Christof Migone

Brothers Quay

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The Brothers Quay have always allowed music to guide their inspiration. Now they also allow themselves to be inspired by the specific talent and personality of a musician. Both filmic choreographies were conceived as commissions and are only to be screened during a live performance by Ibragimova and Rudy respectively. However, the Quays’ images do follow their own course, independent of the music, so that we start to ‘see’ the music and ‘hear’ the images. While Ibragimova performs Bartok on her 1775 Anselmo Bellosio violin, the exploration of Bartok’s mindset leads to a mesmerising meditation on life’s evanescence in a hallucinating play of light. At Rudy’s invitation, the Quays finally confront themselves with the metaphysical angst of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. They take their obsessive insistence on detail into new territories, with a grotesque pantomime, animated as a digital collage. Sat 26, 21:00-23:00, Arminiuskerk

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(Pop, Terror, Critique) Remix

As a Canadian thinker, artist, musician and writer, Christof Migone is interested in simple, open-ended concepts that we can test out together and that expand on ideas of language, voice, bodies, performance, space, intimacy, complicity and endurance. Working since the mid-1980s, Migone weaves together a multitude of media, from radio to telephones to digital objects, to form a stunning and highly dynamic practice. His latest book, Sonic Somatic (Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, 2012), is a radical auditory study that includes the complexity of silence and mutism, identity and abjecthood, and language and its utterances. Hit Parade is a typical example of his DIY and body-oriented approach. Earlier versions of this performance took place in Montreal, New York, Porto, Quebec, Seoul, Toronto and Winnipeg. Mon 28, 17:00, free admission, Schouwburgplein

Your Eyes Are Dead Alexis Milne

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This installation is a reworking of Retro (Pop, Terror, Critique), Tony Cokes’s first solo exhibition (REDCAT, Los Angeles, 2012). The repurposing of existing works to this end furthers the repetition of images, sounds and texts that has been characteristic of the artist’s work since his acclaimed Black Celebration (1988), which pairs newsreel footage of uprisings by urban blacks in the 1960s with textual commentary and popular music references from the 1980s. For many years, Cokes has been developing several strands of work: ‘Pop Manifestos’ (1997-present), ‘The Evil Series’ (2001-present) and ‘Art Critique Series’ (2008-present). Like sophisticated music videos, they seductively appropriate popular music and contemporary imagery. In the spirit of Barbara Kruger and her graphic manipulations, Cokes creates an altered visual and sonic dialogue that questions dominant capitalist modes of operation. Thu 24-Sat 2, 19:00-23:00, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg

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An immersive media project utilizing sampled and cut-up moving images to examine the roots of autonomous subculture uprisings, and in particular the origins of Hip Hop. The performance begins by focusing on Robert Moses, the architect of the Cross Bronx Expressway, which was partly responsible for isolating areas of the South Bronx (widely acknowledged as one of the centres of Hip Hop’s development in New York) and contributed to the policy of neglect that led to the the area’s subsequent decay. This dilapidation is reconfigured in a video collage that samples footage from Wolfen, a 1982 cult political horror video situated in the South Bronx, about a killing spree by shapeshifting Native American Indians. The seminal Hip Hop record Beat Bop-Rammellzee vs K-Rob (1983) is another important reference. Thu 24-Sun 3, 12:00-18:00, Fri 25, Opening Installation, doors open 17:00, performance 18:00, free admission, Joey Ramone Gallery

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Stimulus Progression (Rotterdam)

Aura Satz

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Spiral Sound Coil (2010) is an immersive psychoacoustic installation. Automamusic (2008) looks at selfplaying instruments such as the pianola, wind-up music boxes and organs, filmed at the Museum of Music Automatons in Switzerland. Theremin (2010) is part of a series of videos characterised by their unusual sculptural relation to their performer. Sound Seam (2010) uses microscopic close-ups of gramophone grooves and the anatomy of the ear, while the accompanying music includes wax cylinder recordings and otoacoustic sounds emitted by the ear. Oramics (2011) is a homage to Daphne Oram, pioneer of British Electronic Music and creator of hand-wrought, drawn sound. Vocal Flame (2012) is a sound sculpture made using a Ruben’s Tube, an acoustic device that visualises sound as a standing wave of small flames, with music by Steven Severin (of Siouxsie and the Banshees). Thu 24-Sat 2, 12:0018:00, free admission, Blaak10 Gallery

Finland, 2005 | colour, video, 4 min, no dialogue Prod: Lasse Saarinen | Cam: Jussi Eerola | Print/Sales: Kinotar Oy

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With his documentary Thank You for the Music (1997), Taanila already expressed his fascination for a musical phenomenon often disregarded as ‘elevator music’. For Taanila, however, music is not just something to fill silent moments, but a very important part of the way he makes films. Some documentary makers shun the use of music, but for him it is just the opposite. In Thank You for the Music there was music playing practically all the time. Observing a society filled with technology is the sustaining theme throughout Taanila’s work. Stimulus Progression (Rotterdam) consists of contemporary muzak ‘field recordings’ at department stores, indoor car parks, IKEA, etc. Taanila likes to consider his ‘city symphony’ as the urban equivalent of the influential historical etnographical music projects that Alan Lomax did for Folkways Records, capturing fragile beauty and tradition before it is all gone. Also see Short Profile: Mika Taanila and Mind the Gap: Thu 24 in Spectrum Shorts. Thu 24-Sat 2, 11:00-18:00, free admission, TENT

Dance Swine Dance

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Matt Stokes

Larry Sider

Stokes often collaborates with people or groups who are part of subcultures. ‘My interest in music comes from looking at the communities that surround certain music scenes,’ he explains. ‘I feel there is something really important in the way that music subcultures, particularly those away from the mainstream, shape people’s lives, beliefs and outlooks.’ Often a work focuses on their interests, knowledge or skills, sometimes bringing these together in combination with outwardly conflicting groups, to create outcomes that reframe or invert perceptions about specific ‘scenes’. Stokes designed a graphic character and also provided the animator with video clips of each dance style. The animated character energetically goes through a cycle of moves, subtly highlighting threads between each one. The film is silent, which highlights the dancer’s shifts in movement and enjoyment of his own actions. Thu 24Sat 2, 17:00-18:00, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg

Since 1998, THE SCHOOL OF SOUND has presented a provocative series of master classes by professional practitioners, artists and academics exploring the creative use of sound. The central guest of this IFFR is Manfred Eicher, the legendary founder of the ECM record label, and a custodian of recent Godard soundtracks. Mon 28, 11:00-15:00, free admission, Van Capelle Zaal de Doelen

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Vinylmania – When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute

The Secret Disco Revolution Jamie Kastner

Paolo Campana

Music mediums are changing relentlessly (iPods, downloading and now the SoundCloud), and thus tapes and CDs have fallen from grace without much regret. But paradoxically, one format appears to be on its way back: the vinyl record is coveted more than ever by an increasing number of collectors and professionals. Vinylmania – When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions Per Minute demonstrates how global this phenomenon is, with testimonies by recognized artists including Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project), Winston Smith (Dead Kennedys, Green Day record sleeve artist), Peter Saville (Joy Division, New Order record sleeve artist) and DJ Kentaro (2002 DMC World DJ Champion). Each vinyl-fanatic has his or her own arguments. Some verge dangerously close to the brink of a pathological collector’s drive, but at the end of this documentary many will empathise with them.

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Why won’t disco die? Through interviews with Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Kool and the Gang and others, along with a goldmine of vintage clips, Jamie Kastner presents a comic-ironic investigation into disco and its mysterious longevity. One of the main protagonists is the academic Alice Echols, whose book Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture refers to Donna Summer’s 20-minute Love to Love you Baby as a statement within a ‘musical critique for the feminist crusade against three-minute sex’. Director Kastner counterweighs Echols’ revisionist, politically-correct arguments with a campy trio of ‘Disco Masterminds’; conspirators from outer space who manipulate music and culture at large. Finding its home in dark nightclubs where class, gender, race and sexual boundaries disappeared completely, early disco was indeed a genre that brought people together, almost like a virus.

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This attempt at documenting a broad social history behind a wide range of popular music from the 1980s till now consists of an exuberant mixedmedia collage incorporating art, music, animation and performance. The film brings together 50 writers, playwrights, painters, poets, skateboarders, dancers, musicians and rights advocates, each revealing that we can re-imagine the world we live in and take an active role in making that vision a reality. When D’Ambrosio first wrote a book under the same title, he mostly focussed on The Clash’s Joe Strummer. Now his canvas is so broad, he seems a bit all-over-the-place. And while clearly preaching to the converted, individual soundbites like, ‘It’s about being for something, not against it’ or ‘We are all born citizens of the world’ of course keep their relevance, even when coming from a ‘leftist hobbyist’.

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The eclectic record label of Marc Hollander had already brought out a Congotronics series with ‘tradi-modern’ Congolese bands with an urban sound. In 2010, that led to the double album Congotronics vs Rockers, with 26 songs on which Western bands set about making music with these contemporary African sounds. Because the sale of CDs barely earns any money, the label also decided to try organising live concerts. A session band with the same name as the double album was put together. This included 19 musicians who had never played together before: Konono No. 1 & Kasai All Stars, Deerhoof, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Juana Molina and Skeletons. This fusion of six bands and just as many cultures brought the necessary headaches (visas, transport, rehearsals, etc.), but the documentary focuses exclusively on the musical interaction, which takes us on tour from Brussels via Metz, Paris and London to the Japanese Fuji Rock Festival.

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Tropicália

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Marcelo Machado

Mike Redman

Tropicália was a short-lived artistic movement that exploded out of Brazil in the late 1960s, with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as its chief instigators, and Glauber Rocha as their counterpart in cinema. It was a reaction to the country’s turbulent socio-political history of the 1960s and 1970s. Like the Brazilian Modernists before them, the Tropicalistas believed in ingesting aspects of the European and American vanguard as well as traditional Afro-Brazilian and indigenous cultures, with the aim of creating a contemporary music that was uniquely hybrid. The influence of the music, with its heretic use of elements ranging from ‘imported’ electric guitars of The Beatles to traditional pífanos (flutes) played by folk musicians, had in return a long lasting effect with contemporary musicians. Beck and David Byrne, Nelly Furtado and Sonic Youth are some of its most well-known acolytes.

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La région centrale

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Hearing unusual interferences coming from radio vacuum tubes one night during World War I, French musician and educator Maurice Martenot (1898-1980) dreamed of an instrument that would turn the new element of the times, electricity, into music. From early French films and Hollywood classics such as Lawrence of Arabia to the romance of Amélie Poulain or the epic There Will Be Blood, the sound of the Ondes Martenot has infiltrated the soundtracks of our time. Shot in Canada, France, the UK, the US and Japan, Wavemakers features reckless engineers, rockstars and repairmen: an ensemble of fascinating characters in their quest to revive a sophisticated instrument that is anything but obsolete. Mixing direct cinema, musical moments and neverbefore-seen archival material, this film journey uncovers the Martenot as a missing link in the cultural history of the 20th century, a fantastic – if a little cursed – legacy.

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Recycling within literature, architecture, the internet and art is all the rage. But that doesn’t make it any less delicate an issue. On one hand, creatives prefer to keep the sources of their samples secret because they don’t want to be imitated, while on the other hand there’s always the threat of a court case for violation of copyright. Documentary maker Mike Redman himself has very loose criteria and repeatedly lards his films with knowing video and audio winks. He managed to get pioneers like Afrika Bambaata, Public Enemy, DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, Jazzy Jeff, Madlib and many others in front of his camera in an unorthodox way. They converse with jazz and funk greats such as Maceo Parker, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Larry Graham and Idris Muhammad. The film primarily focuses on the creative aspect, bridging the gap between different musical generations, and is already a valuable document for the future.

Michael Snow

Canada, 1971 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 180 min, no dialogue Prod: Michael Snow | Ed: Michael Snow | Prod Des: Michael Snow, Pierre Abbeloos | Sound Des: Michael Snow | Print/Sales: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Public SCREENING Fri 25-1 13:30 UN

Made over the course of five days, a robotized camera captured moving images that heretofore could not possibly be observed by the human eye. The vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed of Snow’s equipment was determined by a machine designed and built by Pierre Abaloos. The camera lens could pass within inches of the ground and zoom into the infinity of the sky. Initially, the camera pans through 360° and then it begins to provide progressively stranger views (on its side, upside down) through circular and back-and-forth motions. The last hour culminates in unbelievably highspeed twisting and swirling motions, rendering dynamic colour and line abstractions. The weird soundtrack was constructed from the electronic sounds of the programmed controls. Arguably the most spectacular experimental film made anywhere in the world. Also see Single Frame Snow in Signals: Regained.

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Berberian Sound Studio Peter Strickland

UK, 2012 | colour, DCP, 92 min, Italian/English Prod: Keith Griffiths, Mary Burke | Prod Comp: Illuminations Films, Warp X | Sc: Peter Strickland | Cam: Nic Knowland | Ed: Chris Dickens | Prod Des: Jennifer Kernke | Sound Des: Joakim Sundström | Music: Broadcast | With: Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, Fatma Mohamed, Salvatore Li Causi, Chiara D’Anna, Tonia Sotiropoulou | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 16:15 PA1 Sun 27-1 17:30 CI1 Tue 29-1 20:15 LV3 Thu 31-1 12:30 PA7

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Angola/USA, 2012 | colour, video, 83 min, Portuguese Prod: Jeremy Xido, Joseph Castelo, David Gallagher | Prod Comp: Coalition Films | Cam: Johan LeGraie, Jeremy Xido | Ed: Todd Holmes | Sound Des: Timothy Bright | Music: Christian Frederickson | With: Sónia Ferreira, Wilker Flores, Yuri Almeida, Alberto Jongolo, Queirós Ladino Cumpanhe, Jayro Cardoso, Wilson Pipas | Print/Sales: Coalition Films | www.deathmetalangola.com Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 22:30 CI5 Tue 29-1 18:15 SKZ

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Not since Brian De Palma’s Blow Out has the role of a humble sound engineer been foregrounded to this point. However, Strickland’s second feature is just as much indebted to David Lynch’s Eraserhead and, even more explicitly, to Mulholland Drive. A musician himself, the director first planned to make a movie about the real-life avant-garde composers and performers who paid the bills moonlighting on giallo soundtracks; the title alludes to avant-garde singer Cathy Berberian. Instead of emulating the gore and sleaze of this 1970s horror genre, Strickland cunningly leaves it to our imagination. With an extremely limited number of claustrophobic locations, our ears perceive more than our eyes. The visual focus is almost entirely on vintage sound recording equipment and a cornucopia of mashed and dismembered vegetables. Additional music comes from the bands Broadcast and Nurse with Wound.

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Reverberations Two live performances by Michael Snow as a sound artist and musician. Reverberlin (2006) is his own visual intepretation of a concert by his pioneering New Music trio, CCMC. Snow in Vienna (2012) is a brand new documentation of Snow’s solo performances by Laurie Kwasnik. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 22:15 LantarenVenster 2 Fri 25-1 17:15 Cinerama 7

Snow in Vienna Laurie Kwasnik In 2012, Canadian pianist Michael Snow gave a rare solo performance at the Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna). An internationally acclaimed visual artist and experimental filmmaker for over 40 years, Snow shows his remarkable musical sensitivity and artistry throughout this 32-minute set. Documented by filmmaker Laurie Kwasnik for her upcoming film Fields of Snow. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Death Metal Angola

Reverberlin

Jeremy Xido

Michael Snow

After a fourteen-year struggle for independence followed by more than a quarter-century of civil war, Angola is a country sunk in devastation. Hardcore death metal, thrash metal and melodic death-core: this is the music of a generation of people growing up with the failed promises of the post-war world in Angola. They consider themselves on the brink of a new history, but are disappointed by failed attempts to reconstruct their country after the war. Through music and the truth it expresses, they are picking up the fragments and starting to tell a compelling new story. Huambo was one of the hardest-hit cities in the war, and is where the orphanage is situated, and so there is great symbolic importance in having this concert here. Far from the nihilist connotations we attach to death metal, in this context it is very much a lifeaffirming event.

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Using concert footage of the freeimprovisation ensemble he co-founded in 1974, Snow digitally weaves together images and sounds from performances that have taken place across the globe. ‘I desired an equivalence of seeing and hearing so that one could actually listen, pay attention to the music, as well as follow the picture development,’ writes Snow. Only the music remains unedited, unmodified. Also see Single Frame Snow in Signals: Regained. Canada, 2006 | colour, DCP, 55 min, no dialogue Prod: Michael Snow | Ed: Michael Snow | Sound Des: Michael Snow | Music: CCMC | With: John Oswald, Paul Dutton, Michael Snow | Print/ Sales: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

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Space Harmonics Two literally far-reaching film projects that purposefully employ music to relate human knowledge to the structures that prevail in our universe. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 18:15 Schouwburg Kleine Zaal Sat 26-1 14:45 Cinerama 7 Tue 29-1 16:45 LantarenVenster 5

Just Ancient Loops Bill Morrison Using archival footage, chemical processes and animation, Bill Morrison presents a unique view of the heavens inspired by the traditional notion of ‘music of the spheres’. The cello becomes an ‘Über-instrument’, laying down drones, building rhythmical grooves on top of each other, singing melismatic melodies, and reaching up to the stratosphere as the music evolves and builds into a massive, exhilarating climax. WORLD PREMIERE

The International Space Orchestra Nelly Ben Hayoun Music, like the science of space, is a universal language written in the stars. The participants believe that understanding the crucial and elemental necessity of embracing both music and science will enable us to endure and thrive on our journey into space. The orchestra plays original music by Damon Albarn, the Penguin Café Orchestra and Bobby Womack. WORLD PREMIERE

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USA, 2009 | colour/b&w, video, 90 min, English Prod: Tony Conrad | Cam: Sophie Hamacher, Liz Flyntz | Ed: Tony Conrad, Joe Gibbons | Print/ Sales: Tony Conrad Public SCREENING Sun 27-1 22:00 LV4

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USA, 2013 | colour, video, no dialogue Prod: Andrew Lampert | Ed: Andrew Lampert | Print/Sales: Anthology Film Archives | www.andrewlampert.com

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The Endless Tedium of Capitalism

Festschrift for an Archive

Tony Conrad

Jason Simon

Tony Conrad, creator of the original music for Jack Smith’s notorious underground film Flaming Creatures (1962), has been revisiting this experience throughout his career. After having put out two CDs, he is now planning a vinyl release of an improvised rant by the flamboyant Smith, as recorded on January 20th, 1963. The visuals for this unique audiopreview stem from Conrad’s fourand-a-half hour musical performance ‘Impacted Crustacean Jack Smithian Delirium’, which was his contribution to the ‘LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World’ event in Berlin in 2009. Conrad has a talent for turning film refuse into art. In recent years, he has also presented five 16mm loops created between 1963 and 2009, showcasing out-takes from the original Flaming Creatures, edited at the time by Smith in Conrad’s apartment.

The largest and most active of its kind, MoMA’s Film Still Archive was closed down when the museum embarked on a $650 million expansion and renovation. Even the protests of Martin Scorsese, the New York Film Critics’ Circle, and university film departments could not prevent this immense resource from being put in cold storage in rural Pennsylvania. Mary Corliss, the associate curator who managed the archive for 34 years, was laid off in the wake of her leadership role in the MoMA strike of 2000. She took her case to court. In a Farockian manner, Simon’s institutional critique appeals to our sense of history and offers us the opportunity to judge for ourselves. This archiving of an archive is both a book and an exhibition, including an interview with Corliss, legal texts and vintage film stills depicting people at work, uniting labour and cinema. Thu 24-Sun 3, 12:00-18:00, free admission, PrintRoom

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All Magic Sands

Piece by Piece

Andrew Lampert

Maarten Visser

Like Ken Jacobs did before him with Perfect Film (1986), Lampert adopted a set of found film reels as his own, completed work, without any altering of the images. Only in the combination of the individual reels and unedited shots is there the hand of the artist. For the installation version, Lampert presents a double projection of cycles broken down into approximately three-minute sections. These sections reflect the original nature of the 16mm production footage, which consists of around 20 uncut camera rolls. The idea is that the two screens are not in a fixed relationship, meaning that the footage is randomized and not always juxtaposed in the same way, so there is a chance element as to which images are being projected at the same time. As the original film All Magic Sands was left unfinished, Lampert’s version leaves the piece incomplete and permanently in flux. Thu 24-Sun 3, 12:00-17:00, free admission, Sub Urban Video Lounge

Thanks to recent restorations at EYE, there is increasing appreciation of the work of the late Maarten Visser (1929-2009). In his spare time, this teacher spent years working on moving abstract compositions, which became increasingly refined in image and movement, but which he did not want to show in public. Visser primarily allowed himself to be inspired by the art of the early 20th century – for instance the work of Paul Klee and the ‘visual music’ of Norman McLaren and Bauhaus filmmakers like Oskar Fischinger. In the case of Visser, the projection surface is always made up of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. He plays with the mosaic structure like a chessboard; by making motifs partly in line and partly in colour, the artist combines two visual components together in counterpoint. Often his works are also variations on the same motif, choosing a visual counterpoint of line and colour, thematic variations, mirror images and inversions, metamorphoses and the play with motif versus background. Thu 24-Sat 2, 17:45-18:15, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg

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Netherlands | colour, no dialogue Prod: Maarten Visser

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Single Frame Snow

Empire of the Sun

An ultra-rare opportunity to discover one of the least-known aspects of the work of this Canadian avant-garde artist. All three projects date from a period when Snow focussed on the theatrical presentation of still images. Snow will operate the slide carousel himself. Also see La région centrale and Reverberlin in Signals: Sound Stages.

A post-cinema work/installation combined with an essay on visual technologies from the pre-cinema era. A contemporary study of the passage of time on earth followed by a historic documentation of the orbit of the planet Venus.

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Slidelength Michael Snow

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Empire Philip Solomon

Consisting of traditional 35mm slides, arranged like a filmic sequence, this photographic slide installation is usually shown as a looped projection in a gallery. Here seen in a theatre, it appears closely related to Wavelength (1967), Snow’s landmark exploration of a room with a photograph on a wall.

Considerably shorter than the 1964 Andy Warhol film on which it is based, this remake from high atop the isle of Manhattan still challenges our perceptive alertness. We see the ‘Rotterdam Tower’, or what is more recognizable as the Empire State Building, in captivating HD, replete with troubling details.

Canada, 1971 | colour, 20 min, no dialogue

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Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Michael Snow

Black Drop Simon Starling

Starting with ‘raw’ material which he has already formed on some other occasions for some other purposes is a recurring strategy in Snow’s work. The film consists of the projecting, and Snow’s verbal identification of, slides of paintings in various media made by him from 1955 to 1965. The recycling leads to a renewal in perception. Canada, 1970 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 20 min, no dialogue Prod: Michael Snow | Cam: Michael Snow | Ed: Michael Snow | Prod Des: Michael Snow | Sound Des: Michael Snow | Print/Sales: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

In 2012, Venus’s last transit of the sun was recorded on celluloid (the next will occur in 2117). Black Drop tracks the development of a device designed to counter human error in timing the crucial moments of Venus’s contact, which inspired Janssen’s photographic revolver, Marey’s chronophotographic gun and the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph. Germany/UK/Denmark, 2012 | b&w, video, 28 min, English Prod: Annette Ueberlein | Prod Comp: Ueber Productions | Sc: Simon Starling | Cam: Christoph Manz | Ed: Christovao A. Dos Reis | Sound Des: Jochen Jezussek | Print/Sales: Simon Starling

A Casing Shelved Michael Snow ‘Slides have a particularly frozen quality if you look at them for a while, that little bit of instability. Being a movie would be entirely another matter because it would introduce motion… no matter what you’d do you’d have the flicker and you’d have the things that happened in the projector.’ (MS) Canada, 1970 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 45 min, no dialogue Prod: Michael Snow | Print/Sales: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

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Ghost Tracks In this compilation programme, each artist transcends the deconstruction of a classic feature film, shifting the focus onto our contemporary understanding of the world. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 14:45 Cinerama 7 Sat 26-1 16:45 LantarenVenster 3

Zabriskie Point Redacted Stephen Connolly Juxtaposing Antonioni’s original notes with commentary from a contemporary cultural researcher, Connolly reflects and refracts original scenes and background materials. This essay investigates both unexpected changes in people’s behaviour, such as riots, and in cultural creation over the centuries. WORLD PREMIERE

The Wife Jelena Vanoverbeek By zooming in on the details of both subtitles and images, Jelena Vanoverbeek gives a radical, subjective interpretation of Nicole Kidman’s famous monologue from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. She examines the scene in an abstract manner that is almost perverse, rooting around for the underlying structures of the audio-visual image. WORLD PREMIERE

Belgium, 2013 | colour, video, 3 min, English Prod: Jelena Vanoverbeek | Sc/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Jelena Vanoverbeek | Print/Sales: Jelena Vanoverbeek

Beyond Sunset and Sunrise Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács Scripts and characters from movies such as Sunset Boulevard, Badlands, Wild at Heart and All About Eve are connected in such a way that the characters form one community. The fictional world of the film merges with the reality behind the actors, the ‘authentic’ cinematic universe in which these persons are situated.

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The Mirror Jelena Vanoverbeek The verbal poetry which accompanies an inner struggle is transformed into audio-visual lyricism. A woman steps into her own shadow: the structure of a narrative film is disrupted by a technologically compelled multiplication of meanings that leaves viewers hypnotised. WORLD PREMIERE

Belgium, 2013 | colour, video, 2 min, no dialogue Prod: Jelena Vanoverbeek | Sc/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Jelena Vanoverbeek | Print/Sales: Jelena Vanoverbeek

To Become, Shift, Transfer, Copy and Erase JANET LEIGH Jeroen Offerman The famous shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho serves as the starting point for examining whether an actor and the character they play can be separated, by making several variations. And can the bare bones of a scene be revealed by removing the actor entirely? The set was previously exhibited as an autonomous sculpture. WORLD PREMIERE

The Mother Jelena Vanoverbeek For The Mirror (1975) Tarkovski cast actress Margarita Terechova in a double role. The setting and photography added even more depth to her character. Vanoverbeek digitally adds a ghostly dimension. An image encountering itself, incorporating complexity in a single glance. WORLD PREMIERE

Belgium, 2012 | colour, video, 1 min, no dialogue Prod: Jelena Vanoverbeek | Sc/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Jelena Vanoverbeek | Print/Sales: Jelena Vanoverbeek

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Hanoun, à revoir

Losing Dwoskin

A homage, and regrettably also a farewell, to small scale, fine-tuned cinematographic craftmanship, as only Marcel Hanoun for many decades managed to maintain within the French film industry.

A double farewell to one of the most remarkable figures from the golden days of avant-garde cinema; and for many years a familiar face at IFFR.

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L’entrefilm Francesca Solari From 2000 onwards, Francesca Solari was involved in the films of French director Marcel Hanoun (1929-2012). Solari shot L’entrefilm whilst Hanoun made his final film, Cello. We see behind-the-scenes shots and contemplative interviews about cinema and life. Hanoun: ‘To film the real is to film dreams.’

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Cinexpérimentaux Stephen Dwoskin Michel Amarger, Frédérique Devaux

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In 2006, filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012), a fixture at International Film Festival Rotterdam, hosted two French admirers for a week and candidly told them about his experimental films, his cameras, life with a handicap (he contracted polio as a child) and his main themes: desire and loneliness. Interlarded with images from his films.

France, 2012 | colour, video, 54 min, French

France, 2012 | colour, video, 59 min, English

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Lost Dreams

Cello

Stephen Dwoskin

Marcel Hanoun French filmmaker Marcel Hanoun’s swansong. Hanoun, who died in September 2012, made the film in his own home, where he had two actresses sit behind a table and read texts from a music stand, replete with references to Dante and James Joyce, among others. ‘Cello’ was Hanoun’s nickname: (Mar)cello. France, 2012 | colour, video, 61 min, French Prod: Francesca Solari | Prod Comp: Filmcare | Sc: Marcel Hanoun | Cam: David Grinberg | Ed: Agnès Mouchel, Boris du Boullay | Sound Des: Frédéric Acquaviva | With: Lucienne Deschamps, Stéphanie Serre, Marcel Hanoun | Print/Sales: Filmcare

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Often implicating the viewer in a voyeuristic situation, Dwoskin uses the camera as an extension of the eye – looking and capturing spontaneously as it relates, responds, feels about the other (the model), the eyes being the extension of the ‘mind’. In this film, these staged meetings take place in retrospect. UK, 2003 | colour, video, 20 min, no dialogue Prod: Stephen Dwoskin | Cam: Stephen Dwoskin | Ed: Stephen Dwoskin | Sound Des: Stephen Dwoskin | Print/Sales: LUX

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Mirror Mirror

Quote Unquote

This programme unites two very different studies in reflexivity. A documentary self-portrait is mirrored by a highly stylized re-use of old, anonymous footage.

Key images and concepts of classic films undergo a process of alchemy, and deliver us their surprising, yet often hermetic meanings.

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Iza ogledala

It’s All About Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau)

Behind the Looking Glass Jagoda Kaloper For years, Croatian actress and artist Jagoda Kaloper filmed her reflection in mirrors or windows or puddles. Behind the Looking Glass alternates these shots with archival footage from the Yugoslav films she was in between 1965 and 2010. An actress who has always played roles in search of herself. Croatia, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 47 min, Croatian Prod: Nenad Puhovski | Prod Comp: Factum Documentary | Sc: Jagoda Kaloper | Cam: Jagoda Kaloper | Ed: Martin Semencic, Miran Mio ic | Prod Des: Nenad Puhovski | Print/Sales: Factum Documentary

All This Can Happen Siobhan Davies, David Hinton

Anna Franceschini Shot in a taxidermy workshop, the work investigates the boundary between life and death. It also deals with the perception of living beings, now transfixed into an eternal representation of life. This is what cinema does: repeating a dead photographic pose 24 times per second, giving the illusion of a perpetual movement. Italy/Netherlands, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 2 min, no dialogue Prod: Anna Franceschini | Cam: Pierluigi Laffi | Prod Des: Anna Franceschini | Print/Sales: Vistamare

Audition Karen Yasinsky

Consists entirely of found footage from the early days of cinema. These exquisitely processed images (using split screens and freeze frames) serve to ‘illustrate’ an exciting cinematic version of the short story The Walk (1917) by Swiss modernist Robert Walser.

Radiating with deep melancholy, the alternation of a woman prancing across a strip club stage in bright colours with a black-and-white sequence of a hand leafing through an old photo book remains utterly enigmatic. Questioning our perceptual habits, both the visuals and the soundtrack oppose distortion with clarity.

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and yes I said yes I will Yes. Angel Vergara Borrowed from the closing line of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, the title also serves as a pretext to proclaim, over and over again, a feeling of jubilation with regard to painting. A video compilation like a celebrity casting is used as a canvas for an emancipated approach to painting. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact Karen Yasinsky Radically deconstructive in its interpretation of a famous Tarkovskysequence, Yaskinksy reverses the original order of the sequence and blends it with white noise and hand-drawn sequences. She also ties her act of appropriation in with a suicide scene from Bresson and other, more serene images and sounds.

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Unveiling Avery Willard A recent portrait and a series of vintage homo-erotic films by a forgotten pioneer from the 1960s; a Broadway photographer with a string of hidden talents: physique artist, gay activist, experimental filmmaker, leatherman, pornographer, founder of NY’s first gay newspaper. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 2 Sun 27-1 22:15 LantarenVenster 2

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Dream Boy

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

A play with the porn standard of a minimum of narrative in order to stage a series of ritualised stripteases. Stored in a cardboard box in New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, the Avery Willard Collection contained several gems so wonderfully strange and enchanting that they suggested a fascinating life behind them.

Fabrice Aragno A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Aragno did not want to make a documentary ‘on’ but ‘with’ Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minute sequences, and have 4 shots in each sequence, all recycled from his work. Switzerland, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 26 min, French Prod: Gaspard Lamunière | Prod Comp: RTS Swiss Television | Sc: Jean-Luc Godard | Print/Sales: RTS Swiss Television

Avery Willard

USA, 1966 | colour, DCP, 15 min, no dialogue Prod: Avery Willard | With: Paul Ritchards | Print/Sales: New York Public Library

In Search of Avery Willard Cary Kehayan

Crystal World Pia Borg Pia Borg uses stop-motion film and liveaction choreography to evoke modern and historical visions of the future. A viral crystal transforms trees, animals and humans into jewels, suspended forever in the present. The crystallisation is visualised by mirrors, prisms, models and time-lapse photography. WORLD PREMIERE

During the production of the feature film Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs and Cary Kehayan heard about Willard through singer Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons. Through unique documents and rare interviews with collaborators, friends and preeminent film historians, they trace Willard’s provocative career. USA, 2012 | colour, video, 23 min, English Prod: Cary Kehayan, Amanda Hammett | Prod Comp: Charlie Guidance Productions | Cam: David Barreda | Ed: Cary Kehayan | Music: Daniel Quinn | Print/Sales: Charlie Guidance Productions

Reflections Avery Willard Double exposure was a recurring technique in Willard’s film work. As the camera moves elegantly across Paul Ritchards’ body, abstract, superimposed images of New York City drift in and out of frame. The urban landscape begins to align with the landscape of the male physique. USA, 1966 | colour, DCP, 7 min, no dialogue Prod: Avery Willard | With: Paul Ritchards | Print/Sales: New York Public Library

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Easy Rider

Salome: The Dance of the Seven Veils

James Benning

Avery Willard The story of Salome, who danced for the head of John the Baptist, has long been a source of fascination to scholars and artists. The film remained in Arango’s possession, unwatched until many, many years later when drag historian and NYU professor Joe Jeffreys made it public. USA, 1965 | colour, DCP, 10 min, English Prod: Avery Willard | Cam: Avery Willard | With: Adrian | Print/Sales: Joe E. Jeffreys

Leather Narcissus

Avery Willard Filmed in and around New York City, the film tells the fascinating story, in modern fantasy, of the Narcissus myth. The only protagonist in the film is Fernando, at the time a well-known personality at the bars and gay restaurants in New York. His ‘outing’ is shot in a straight-forward, yet lyrical way. USA, 1967 | colour, DCP, 28 min, English Prod: Avery Willard | With: Fernando, Dean Peters, Rand Brooks | Print/Sales: Hull Distribution, LLC

Prelude

Faces James Benning

La pionnière The Pioneer Daniela Abke A compilation of images from the remaining films of Alice Guy (1873-1968), the almost forgotten first female director in film history. She worked originally in France for Gaumont and set up a production company in 1910 in the United States together with her husband. On the soundtrack, we hear Guy looking back on her work. Screened before The Dancing Soul of the Walking People. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

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Filmmaker James Benning visited the locations for the classic road movie Easy Rider (1969). In his characteristic long takes, he for instance shows a litup vacancy sign while the soundtrack treats us to a line from Easy Rider: ‘You’ve got a room?’ Sometimes the images are more abstract, like the 10-minute shot of a flowing brook. But there is always a connection with Easy Rider. For example, Benning ‘copies’ its association between a real horse and a gleaming motorcycle: both have their strength expressed in horse power. An image Benning returns to five times is that of a camp fire so that viewers can think back to the scene in which Jack Nicholson expresses one of the film’s themes to Billy (Dennis Hopper) saying: ‘What you represent to them is freedom.’ With songs by Sadie Benning, Chan Marshall, Suzy Soundz and The Sibleys – the music Benning listened to on the road.

USA, 2011 | b&w, DCP, 135 min, no dialogue Prod: James Benning | Ed: James Benning | Print/Sales: James Benning Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 21:45 CI7 Wed 30-1 14:00 CI4

Experimental filmmaker James Benning created a radical, dialogue-free remake of John Cassavetes’ marriage crisis film Faces (1968). He based his eponymous ‘reconstruction’ on three rules: 1) Only close-ups of the faces of the actors in Faces, who included Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and John Marley. 2) Every actor should be on screen the same length of time that they were in the original. 3) Every scene should last as long as it did in Cassavetes’ film. So if the original features Gena Rowlands for 15 minutes in a 30-minute scene, then Benning will have her on screen for 15 minutes in his version. To this end, Benning sometimes had to really slow down shots, giving free reign to the human fascination with faces. Unhampered by story or dialogue, viewers can concentrate fully on the faces and study and clarify the various expressions at their leisure.

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USA, 2003 | colour/b&w, video, 62 min, English Prod: Tony Conrad | Cam: Tony Conrad, Chris Hill | Ed: Tony Conrad, Joe Gibbons, Zeljko McMullen, Ragnheidur Gestsdottir | Sound Des: Rhys Chatham, Daniel Conrad | With: Frances Francine, Jim Burton, Phill Corner | Print/Sales: Tony Conrad Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 12:00 LV5 Tue 29-1 14:00 LV6

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Bouncing off the Walls

The Dancing Soul of the Walking People

Tony Conrad

Paula Gladstone

Waterworks (1972-2012, 18’) is a documentation of a community celebration of the equinox, organized by Tony and Beverly Conrad in the middle of Times Square for their neighbourhood. Palace of Error (1982-2011, 8’55”) is a theoretical discourse involving three participants, enacted in silhouette. The Space of Writing is the Surface of the Skin (Super-8 to video, ca. 1986- 2011, 2’24”) is a Conrad performance at Tikal, Guatemala. I’ve Never Been… (2003-2011, 3’20”) consists of an original song with guitar and special effects. Landscape Is a Wish for Motion (2003-2011, 4’05”) is a spoken piece with film projections. In Santa Fe with Tony Conrad and Steina Vasulka (2004-2011, 4’03”) shows a bowed string performance with video image processing. A Handful of Earth and a Box (2008-2011, 7’50”) documents a visit to the graves of composers in the Vienna Central Cemetery. Indirect Measurement (2004-2011, 7’45”) consists of images of a vibrating mirror. Weak Bodies and Strong Wills (1986, 5’) is a political lament for a dying economy.

‘Under the Boardwalk’ sing The Drifters on the soundtrack, literally summarising the film. Between 1974 and 1976, artist Paula Gladstone filmed life under the boardwalk at Coney Island, the place where she was born. The moody black-and-white images of this Super-8 film concentrate on the play of light caused by the gaps in the planking above. Now and then, people walk under the boardwalk to the beach and briefly look into the camera. Two boys throw sand that causes beautiful reflections in the sunlight. The soundtrack, which puts viewers in a trance-like state, consists of the hoof beats of horses and music by Duke Ellington, Alice Coltrane and Anthony Braxton – (experimental) jazz, among other things. Gladstone also reads a couple of her erotic poems. Gladstone originally screened her film in 1980, but only recently did it become technically possible to restore and conserve it. Also see The Pioneer.

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The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

All Magic Sands/ Chappaqua

Sophie Fiennes

Andrew Lampert

Fidel Castro is a huge fan of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). To him, the shark symbolises the ruthless capitalism that threatens ordinary Americans. This is an example of the ideologically-charged interpretation that the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek refers to in The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, the follow-up to The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, which was screened to great success at IFFR in 2006. Using highly detailed sets re-created from such films as The Sound of Music and Taxi Driver, Žižek analyses famous and lesser-known film scenes. Psychoanalytical terms are used to review many ideologies: capitalism, fascism, communism, religion. Alongside the ‘revealing’ analyses of film scenes, Žižek also scrutinises Coca Cola, the Kinder Eggs, Starbucks and Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ (the finale of his Ninth Symphony). Žižek demonstrates that ideological perspectives genuinely affect everything.

June 15-17, 1965. Ornette Coleman’s trio record 80 minutes of new music for Conrad Rooks’ in-progress feature film Chappaqua, which will remain unused as the soundtrack. July 1965. Nashville TV bigwig Al Gannaway produces a 16mm Christian children’s adventure movie with the working title All Magic Sands. The story centres on an orphaned quartet (boy, two girls, a baby) washed ashore on a desert island in what just might be the Bahamas. There, they encounter a pile of branches that transforms into a dubious Jesus-esque bearded man, as well as a doppelganger family of naked black children. A failed epic that is equal parts semiprofessional production and curiously cruel home movie, the original footage was left sitting untouched for many decades in a lab that went out of business. Made, conceived and executed at the same time, an unfinished film and a rejected soundtrack finally form a perfect match.

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Japan/Vietnam, 2013 | colour, video, 97 min, Japanese/ English/Vietnamese Prod: Isomura Kenji | Prod Comp: Presario Corp. | Sc: Osada Norio | Cam: Shiizuka Akira | Ed: Ohashi Nobuyo | Sound Des: Kikuchi Shinpei | Music: Tsuhima Toshiaki | With: Kawazu Yusuke, Lan Tanh, Isomura Kenji, Kikuchi Eiichi | Print/Sales: Presario Corp. Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 16:45 LV5 Sat 26-1 09:15 CI1 Sat 2-2 19:30 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 09:00 LV5

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Number 10 Blues/ Goodbye Saigon

Stom Sogo: Ultimately

Osada Norio

Stom Sogo

To escape from Vietnam, a businessman decides to head north on a military road under battle conditions with his lover Lanh and Taro, who is the halfblood son of an ex-Japanese soldier and a Vietnamese woman. On the road towards liberation or total catastrophe? As a scriptwriter working with Fukasaku Kinji in the 1970s and 1980s, Norio chose a Vietnamese production company for his feature debut. The film was shot on locations all over Vietnam under real combat conditions during the final stage of the Vietnam war, between December 1974 and April 1975. Intiated as a cheap B-class action film, a lack of financial resources and the bankruptcy of the production company prevented it from being finished and shown to the public. Many years later, the film was rediscovered at the National Film Center of Japan. After overcoming several difficulties, the film was completed in the Autumn of 2012.

‘[A] movie’s reality should be as nasty and fucked up as possible, so we want to get the fuck out of the theater and hope for something better in life…. I try not to have a message or even word in my movie. But I usually have some sick stories behind each of the movies. Those are just mental eye candy that it tastes sweet first, seizure second.’ (SS) A dynamo whose thunderous potential was cut short by his premature death in July, 2012, Japanese moving-image artist Stom Sogo was a romantic rebel if ever there was one. For over two decades he created a hair-raising, retina-burning body of distinctive and aggressively beautiful films and videos. His psychically charged work revels in optic and aural attacks just as much as it attempts a sincere connection with the viewer. (Andrew Lampert)

Japan, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 90 min, no dialogue Prod: Stom Sogo | Print/ Sales: Anthology Film Archives Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 14:30 LV4 Wed 30-1 22:00 LV5

Final Cut – Hölgyeim és uraim

Celluloid Man Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen György Pálfi

Hungary, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 85 min, English/ Hungarian/Russian/ Cantonese/Italian/French Prod: Béla Tarr, Viktor Dénes Huszár, Gábor Téni, György Pálfi, Peter Miskolczi, Gábor Váradi | Prod Comp: T.T. Filmmühely, HvD Productions, Eurofilm Studio Budapest, Filmax International | Sc: György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay | Ed: Judit Czakó, Károly Szalai, Nóra Richter, Réka Lemhényi | Sound Des: Tamás Zányi, Gábor Balázs, Barna Balázs | Print/Sales: Wild Bunch | www.finalcut-movie.com Public SCREENINGS Tue 29-1 16:30 CI6 Thu 31-1 16:45 LV1 Fri 1-2 09:00 CI6

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When the Hungarian film subsidy system collapsed and there was no more money for director Pálfi to make his own film, he decided to do things differently. The result is a playful, dizzying film comprised of approximately 500 clips from other films, from Avatar to The Wizard of Oz. In a superbly fluid edit, Pálfi recycled this material into a new film containing the essence of cinema: boy meets girl – looking and being looked at. He referred to it as ‘the ultimate film about the ultimate man and woman’. The ultimate couple consists of dozens of actors and actresses who effortlessly transform into one another. When Rita Hayworth sings ‘Put the Blame on Mame’ from Gilda, we not only see her perform, but also other seductresses such as Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minnelli and Marlene Dietrich. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen is a film quiz that simultaneously joyously analyses cinema’s basic ingredients.

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India, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 164 min, English/ Hindi/Bengali/Kannada Prod: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur | Prod Comp: Dungarpur Films | Cam: Santosh Thundiyil, K.U. Mohanan, Avik Mukhopadhyay, P.S. Vinod, H.M. Ramachandra, R.V. Ramani, Vikas Sivaraman, Mahesh Aney, Kiran Deohans, Ranjan Palit, V.Gopinath | Ed: Irene Dhar Malik | Sound Des: Mohandas | Music: Ram Sampath | With: P.K. Nair, Krzysztof Zanussi, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar, U.R. Ananthamurthy, Kumar Shahani, Naseeruddin Shah, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Santosh Sivan, Shabana Azmi, Girish Kasaravalli, Ketan Mehta | Print/Sales: Dungarpur Films | www.facebook.com/celluloidman Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 21:00 CI4 Thu 31-1 09:45 CI7

The idea that you should actively conserve films and the history of cinema only took hold in the 1930s. In the 1940s and 1950s, almost every country set up a national film archive aimed at conserving films made in that country for posterity and restoring these where necessary. Celluloid Man is about P.K. Nair, who set up the Indian National Film Archive in 1964 and worked to collect as many Indian films as possible. Almost all the 1,700 silent films made in India were lost, but Nair did manage to save a few. He is also an indefatigable promoter of cinema, which, to him, is the same as life itself. He screened not only Indian films, but also foreign ones and influenced many budding directors this way. In Celluloid Man, he talks about his life and his obsession for film. Others are interviewed about Nair’s importance to the conservation of Indian film heritage.

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NEW IN TOWN!

restaurant

Sample modern European cuisine at this urban and contemporary bar and restaurant situated in the city centre of Rotterdam. Stadshal is conveniently located opposite the Old Luxor theatre and alongside the vibrant Coolsingel. The restaurant has been designed to cover 140 seats, but evokes a friendly and intimate atmosphere through its various seating areas for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu offers a wide selection of brasserie-style European dishes, with a distinct and contemporary twist, at a friendly price and allows guests to enjoy a full meal or a less voluminous dish for a small appetite. The bar fulfils a prominent and central role in Stadshal, without compromising any of its restaurants charm, and can be visited for any occasion – the perfect destination for any business lunch, after work cocktail or a refreshing drink after a long day sight-seeing. Definitely a new ‘hotspot’ in town!

Kruiskade 9 | +31 10 710 8028 | www.stadshal.com

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Industry services & facilities

ACCREDITATIONS For the 2013 edition, International Film Festival Rotterdam is providing four different types of accreditations. Accreditation assignment is at the discretion of the Festival. Badges and delegate bags can be collected from the Accreditation Desk on the third floor of Festival Center de Doelen. An administration fee or accreditation fee may be applicable. 1. CineMart accreditation

(for professionals taking part in CineMart) • Access to all CineMart events and CineMart Meeting Request Service • Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events • Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box office required) • Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (ticket not necessary) • Use of the Video Library and other Film Office services • Listing in the Industry Manual • Access to the Industry Club

For more information, please visit the Accreditation, Guest, CineMart or Press Desk.

DESKS All desks are located on the third floor of de Doelen. The members of the desk teams will assist you in finding your way through the Festival. Opening Hours

Accreditation Desk 09:00-20:00 Wed 23-Sat 2 Guest Desk 09:00-20:00 Wed 23-Sat 2 CineMart Desk 09:00-20:00 Wed 23-Wed 30 Press Desk 09:00-20:00 Wed 23-Wed 30 09:00-18:00 Thu 31-Sat 2

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tickets they’ve purchased via their MyIFFR account, so these tickets are available again for regular sale. Central Box Office

The Central Box Office is located on the ground floor of de Doelen (entrance Willem Burgerkwartier, Kruisplein 40). Open to the public and badge holders. Opening Hours

09:00-21:00 Wed 23 09:00-23:00 Thu 24-Fri 1 09:00-18:00 Sat 2 From Sat 2, 18:00, the Central Box Office will move to Pathé Schouwburgplein Guest Box Office

The Guest Box Office is located next to the Central Box Office and only open to badge holders.

Press & Industry Screenings

Opening Hours

(for filmmakers with a film in the Festival) • Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events • Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box office required) • Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (subject to availability of seats)

Screening Schedule

4. Press accreditation

Tickets for Public Screenings

FILM OFFICE The Film Office facilitates contacts between representatives of films in the official programme, festival programmers and international buyers present at the festival. The Film Office offers consultancy meetings to all attending filmmakers and organizes the Industry panels and debates, open to all Industry guests at IFFR. The Dark Room, a facility for private screenings, will be available exclusively to sales agents, sellers and producers. Together with the Programme Department, the Film Office offers a range of possibilities and facilities to ensure that distributors and buyers are fully informed about and able to view the newly completed films in the Festival programme. The Film Office distributes all relevant film and contact data to distributors, sales agents and producers worldwide. Available information includes the Sales Letter (overview of feature-length films that are currently not represented by an international sales agent), Distributor Letter (rights information for all selected festival films), Sales & Print Source List, and Viewing Reports of the Video Library and Press & Industry Screenings. During the festival period itself the Film Office team can be found on the 3rd floor of Festival Center de Doelen. Contacts: Nikolas Montaldi, Myrthe Terpstra, Maite Klis filmoffice@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

2. Industry accreditation

(for professionals active in the international film industry) • Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events • Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box office required) • Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (ticket not necessary) • Use of the Video Library and other Film Office services • Listing in the Industry Manual • Access to the Industry Club 3. Director accreditation

(for journalists and media representatives seeking coverage of the Festival) • Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events • Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box office required) • Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (ticket not necessary) • Use of the Video Library and Press Desk services

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Accredited guests (CineMart, Industry and Press guests) are welcome to attend the extensive programme of Press & Industry Screenings. As Public Screenings tend to be very busy and often fully booked, we strongly advise you to schedule your personal programme around the Press & Industry Screenings which take place from Thursday 24 January through Friday 1 February, during the day and in the evening in de Doelen, Cinerama, LantarenVenster and Pathé Schouwburgplein. All venues are within walking distance except LantarenVenster. For access to the Press & Industry Screenings, badge holders do not have to get a ticket. At the entrance of the Press & Industry screening auditoriums, your badge will be scanned. In the IFFR catalogue, the Press & Industry Screening Schedule is combined with the Public Screenings. Schedule changes are published in the Daily Tiger and on the Festival website. The latest print versions of schedule changes are also available at the Box Offices and at the Guest and Press Desk. On Monday 21 January from 12 noon, guests can order tickets online for the whole festival period. If tickets for a film screening are no longer available, it is still possible to obtain tickets which may become available later. These tickets will be available online from 8 pm on the evening before the day on which the film is screened and can be bought from the central box office. Guests can cancel

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Video Library

Accredited industry and CineMart

guests are welcome to use the Video Library on the 4th floor of de Doelen to view festival titles. Please note that demand can be high, especially during CineMart (Sun 27-Wed 30), and certain restrictions may apply. Opening hours

09:00-23:00 Thu 24-Fri 1 09:00-20:00 Sat 2 Contact: Samanta Telleri videolibrary@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Consultancy Meetings & Panels

As part of the Film Office’s services, a time slot can be pre-booked with our Industry Consultants. They assist filmmakers and buyers in making the right contacts at IFFR and can give information about the selected films, the attending industry guests, film market developments and the international festival circuit. The Film Office also sets up a number of industry panels aimed at filmmakers and industry guests. Information on the panels and meetings will be available on the notice boards on the 3rd and 4th floor of de Doelen and in the Industry Programme. Panels and consultancy meetings take place on the 4th floor of Festival Center de Doelen in the Industry Club. Industry Consultants: Hayet Benkara, Mary Davies, Marina Kozul and Louis Tisne. Coordinators: Nikolas Montaldi, Myrthe Terpstra consultancy@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Industry Club

The Industry Club is an efficient and relaxing work place, centrally located in the festival headquarters De Doelen, on the 4th floor, directly opposite the Video Library. During the festival, the Industry Club hosts the Industry panels and debates with international guests (Sat 26–Wed 30), the consultancy meetings and network gathering for all attending film professionals to animate connections. It offers: • Comfortable meeting areas • Information stands • Reading table with industry periodicals • Coffee counter • Wi-Fi connection Opening hours

09:30-17:30 Thu 24-Fri 1 Hostess: Lerato Phiri Coordinators: Nikolas Montaldi, Myrthe Terpstra filmoffice@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

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Mailboxes

Mailboxes are located behind the desks on the 3rd floor. You can find the CineMart and Guest mailboxes behind the corresponding desks. You are kindly asked to regularly check and collect your mail. Please ask the staff behind the desks for assistance. Print Facilities

Professional guests will find print and photo copying facilities to use at their own expense in de Doelen behind the Guest Desk.

PRESS The Press Office of IFFR can be contacted all year for information on the IFFR organization, the IFFR programme, CineMart, the Hubert Bals Fund and all other IFFR events. During the festival, the Press Office is located at IFFR Festival Center ‘de Doelen’ (3rd floor, right behind the Press Desk). IFFR Press Officers will be present for comments, information and upon request for arranging interviews with the IFFR staff members. Press Office Contacts: Bert-Jan Zoet, Head of Media Relations & International PR Nancy van Oorschot, Press Officer Lisa Gribling, Press Accreditation Justin Verhulst, Intern Press Office press@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Press Desk

The Press Desk is the first point of reference for accreditated journalists and media representatives. The Press Desk publicists provide information, presskits and image material from films and events in Official Selection. The team can answer questions about the attending filmmakers and arrange interviews with them. As each of the members of the Press Desk is specialised in a group of festival titles and associated attending talent, please do not hesitate to ask for more information. Interview requests and interpreters

IFFR Press badge holders are invited to contact the Press Desk for arranging their interview requests with attending talent. If possible, interviews take place on a ‘one-to-one’ basis; there is a possibility – in agreement with the filmmaker – of a photo call and an interview room. We ask for your understanding if the attendance period of talent does not allow for all interview requests to be honored. For interview schedules with directors from films acquired for distribution within the Netherlands, the Press Desk collaborates with the

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distributor’s representatives. In case an interpreter is needed during the interview session, the Press Desk will arrange for this. During the Festival, the Press Desk is reachable for any further information. pressdesk@filmfestivalrotterdam.com. Press Materials

Upon request, the Press Desk will provide additional information about feature films and documentaries within the Festival programme. Hi-res stills from films in the programme selection are also available for download on the press page of the Festival website: filmfestivalrotterdam.com/ professionals/press/film-stillsIFFR-2013 We advise all press to use the information available online. For the purpose of television broadcast, the Press Office provides free use of clips from a select number of 2013 titles on Betacam SP tapes. Please call the Press Desk first to ask if a DVD, EPK or Betacam tape is available. The tapes are available for copying at own cost and have to be returned to the Press Office the same day. The Festival does not provide copying or editing services. For copying purposes, the Press Office Intern Justin Verhulst, can provide addresses and contact information of nearby Rotterdam based companies.

MERCHANDISE Festival T-shirts, bags, sweaters and other souvenirs can be purchased in the Festival Shops on the ground floor of de Doelen and LantarenVenster, along with the catalogue and DVDs from the Festival’s own Tiger Releases label. You can also purchase various products from the Festival’s webshop by visiting: filmfestivalrotterdam.com/webshop Opening hours

de Doelen daily 09:00-22:00 LantarenVenster daily from 09:00 until fifteen minutes after the start of the last screening

PUBLICATIONS/ SOURCES The following list comprises the main points of reference published in English by the Festival in print and/or online as well as official documents sent out to film representatives before and after the Festival. IFFR’s Festival Catalogue is the complete and essential guide to all festival films and events, including all industry, sales and print information.

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The catalogue is also a practical guide to the Festival; it includes a concise programme overview and schedule.

and during the Festival. The printed version is distributed to CineMart guests upon arrival.

All practical information and the latest Festival news can be found on the Festival Website. There is a public part (in Dutch and English) for the general audience and a professional part (in English) for our international Industry and Press guests: filmfestivalrotterdam.com/ professionals

The Rotterdam Lab Reader contains information on the programme and participants of the Rotterdam Lab. The reader is only available for Rotterdam Lab participants.

The Daily Tiger is IFFR’s bilingual (Dutch and English) Festival newspaper, written by professionals, published daily, available at all festival venues and online, and containing the latest news, announcements, programme changes, interviews and more. During the Festival,the Daily Tiger Topics E-newsletter, a daily version of the monthly digital Tiger Topics newsletter is sent out to international relations of the Festival, informing them about festival highlights. The Events List is an overview of all official Festival events, both those which are open to all badge holders as well as those events which are accessible by invitation only. The Delegates List is a quick reference to all Festival and CineMart guests attending the 2013 edition, including the dates of their stay and where to find them. A quick reference guide to all Industry companies and representatives attending CineMart and the Festival is the Industry Manual. There is an online version available prior and during the Festival for CineMart and Industry badge holders. The Sales Letter is sent out several times prior to the festival and available during the Festival, details all featurelength films not currently represented by an international sales agent. The Distributor Letter lists all feature films in the festival with full contact information. The CineMart Dossier has detailed information for all CineMart projects including synopses, directors’ biographies and filmographies, production company background, budget and technical specifications, and more. The CineMart Dossier is also available online for all CineMart badge holders prior to

The HBF Harvest-booklet is the guide to the Hubert Bals Fund activities and results. It presents all Hubert Bals Fund supported films that are screened at the festival, an overview of the projects that received support in 2012 and the fund’s regulations and application deadlines. All accredited guests who attend a Press & Industry Screening will have their badge scanned. These data are compiled in the Screening Report – Press & Industry Screenings and sent out to the contact person for each film. The Video Library staff keeps detailed records of viewings and provides this information in the Screening Report – Video Library Viewings to the contact person for each film.

FESTIVAL CENTER de Doelen

Kruisplein 40

SCREENING VENUES de Doelen

Kruisplein 40 Screens: 3 Capacity: 425-1516 www.dedoelen.nl Rotterdamse Schouwburg

Schouwburgplein 25 Screens: 1 Capacity: 600 www.schouwburg.rotterdam.nl Pathé Schouwburgplein

Schouwburgplein 101 Screens: 7 Capacity: 205-760 www.pathe.nl/schouwburgplein Cinerama Filmtheater

Westblaak 18 Screens: 7 Capacity: 103-291 www.cineramabios.nl LantarenVenster

Otto Reuchlinweg 996 Screens: 5 Capacity: 91-240 www.lantarenvenster.nl Oude Luxor Theater

Kruiskade 10 Screens: 1 Capacity: 850 www.luxortheater.nl

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AddreSSeS prInT & SAleS

ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Dutch Distributors

Print & Sales

A-Film Distribution

A European Film Conspiracy

Hubert Bals Fund

Meeuwenlaan 98-100 1030 BG,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3445144 F: +31 20 3445145

P.O. Box 21696 3001 AR,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 8909090 F: +31 10 8909091

office@a-film.nl www.a-film.nl

hbf@filmfestivalrotterdam.com www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

ABC – Cinemien

Imagine Filmdistributie Nederland

Amsteldijk 10 1074 HP,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5776010 F: +31 20 5776029

Prinsengracht 452 1017 KE,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6252653 F: +31 20 6268978

info@cinemien.nl www.cinemien.nl

info@imaginefilm.nl www.imaginefilm.nl

Amstelfilm

Independent Films Nederland

Meeuwenlaan 100 1021 JL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4283025 F: +31 20 6268978

Y-Point Building Van Diemenstraat 366 1013 CR,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +32 32 011 050 F: +31 20 5314256

info@amstelfilm.nl www.amstelfilm.nl

Benelux Film Distributors

De Poort 40 3991 DV,Houten Netherlands T: +31 20 6255296 F: +31 30 6381312

info@independentfilms.nl www.independentfilms.nl

Just Film Distribution

bfd-nederland@bfdfilm.com www.bfdfilm.com

Cinéart Netherlands

Herengracht 328-III 1016 CE,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5308848 F: +31 20 5308849

Melkpad 51 1217 KB,Hilversum Netherlands T: +31 35 6882834 F: +31 35 6882800

jean@justfilmdistribution.nl www.justbridge.nl

Lumière

KNSM-Laan 171 1019 LC,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3031280 F: +31 20 3031290

info@cineart.nl www.cineart.nl

info@lumiere.be www.lumiere.be

Contact Film

PO Box 3100 6802 DC,Arnhem Netherlands T: +31 26 4434949 F: +31 26 3511316

Warner Bros. Pictures Holland

info@contactfilm.nl www.contactfilm.nl

Postbus 59226 1040 KE,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6802300 F: +31 20 6802306

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Wild Bunch Benelux

PO Box 37767 1030 BJ,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5891400 F: +31 20 6833401 info@eyefilm.nl www.eyefilm.nl

info@wildbunch.nl www.wildbunch.nl

Filmfreak Distribution

A Mutual Respect Productions

Rua da Barroca 59 1200-047,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 2 13430205

mutualrespectproductions@ gmail.com www.mutualrespectproductions. blogspot.com

Abke, Daniela

Ostbarthauser Strasse 1 33829,Borgholzhausen Germany T: +49 173 7010569 F: +49 54 254087 daniela.abke@gmx.de www.2d-film.de

ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc.

8th Floor, ELJ Communications Center Building Eugenio Lopez Drive 1103,Quezon City Philippines T: +63 9 178084190 F: +63 2 4152272 leilani_deguzman@abs-cbn.com

Agence du court-métrage

2, rue de Tocqueville 75017,Paris France T: +33 1 44692606 F: +33 1 44692669 info@agencecm.com www.agencecm.com

Agencia – Portuguese Short Film Agency

Auditório Municipal, Praca de Republica 4480-715,Vila do Conde Portugal T: +351 252 646683 F: +351 252 638027 agencia@curtas.pt www.curtas.pt/agencia

Ai Weiwei StudioBeijing China T: +86 10 84561233 aiweiwei.fake@gmail.com www.aiweiwei.com

35 Kelantan Lane #02-02 208652,Singapore Singapore T: +65 62994068 F: +65 62994069

info@filmfreaks.nl www.filmfreaks.nl

info@akangafilm.com www.akangafilm.com

Barbara Strozzilaan 201 1083HN,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 2402700 info@itsHBO.nl www.itsHBO.nl

kathi.posch@gmx.at www.soldatejeannette.com

Akanga Film Asia

Schippersstraat 7 1011 AZ,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4864940 F: +31 20 4864941

HBO Nederland

Haarlemmerdijk 159 1013 KH,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5357550 F: +31 20 5357551

Wassergasse 8/22 1030,Vienna Austria T: +43 6 9911003271

Akbari, Mania

54 Crown Lodge 12 Elystan St. SW3 3PR,London United Kingdom T: +98 21 2863260 F: +98 21 2858962

maniavideoart@gmail.com www.mania-film.com

Al Abyad, JameelBeirut Lebanon T: +961 7 6182472 info.topgoon@gmail.com

Al-Maria, Sophia sophia.almaria@gmail.com www.sophiaalmaria.wordpress.com Album Productions

57, rue des Trois Frères 75018,Paris France T: +33 1 46060690 F: +33 1 46063634

Alex Pitstra Media

Jacobstraat 13 9724 JN,Groningen Netherlands T: +31 6 52613513

Almereyda, Michael

info@anotherdimension.be www.anotherdimension.be

auraete@wanadoo.fr

Anthology Film Archives

216 East 12th St. # 5A 10003,New York, NY USA T: +1 646 2020223 F: +1 212 7410424

32 Second Avenue NY 10003,New York USA T: +1 212 5055181 F: +1 212 4772714

almereyda@aol.com

Alsharif, Basma

3600 N Lake Shore Drive # 2805 IL 60613,Chicago USA T: +33 787 519559 basmalsharif@gmail.com www.basmalsharif.com

Alumbramento Produções Cinematográficas Ltda

Rua Coronel Ferraz, 72 – Centro 60060-150,Fortaleza Brazil T: +55 85 30773138

publicity@ anthologyfilmarchives.org www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

Argos Centre for Art and Media

13, rue du Chantier 1000,Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 2290003 F: +32 2 2237331 info@argosarts.org www.argosarts.org

Arsanios, Marwa

contato@alumbramento.com.br www.alumbramento.com.br

Mar Mikhael el Nahar, Madrid Street Khaniguian bldg – 2n 1104,Beirut Lebanon T: +961 1 336446

marwaarsanios@hotmail.com

Amani, Ehsan

No.15 Ghandi Sq., Shariati Ave. 15569,Tehran Iran T: +98 21 88511326 F: +98 21 8888 31957

Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

bruvoa@yahoo.com

AMC Networks

11 Penn Plaza, 2nd Floor NY 10001,New York USA T: +1 212 3244835 info@amctv.com www.amctv.com

American Trance Productions

678 Hart Street NY 11221,New York USA T: +1 917 6867109

erikplusamanda@gmail.com www.americantrance.com

Anagram Produktion AB

Lilla Fiskaregatan5 SE-222 22,Lund Sweden T: +46 46 159750 F: +46 46 131120

Potsdamer Strasse 2, Im Filmhaus 10785,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 26955100 F: +49 30 26955111

mail@arsenal-berlin.de www.arsenal-berlin.de

Arthouse Traffic

30/39 Shchekavytska St., Apt. 282 04071,Kiev Ukraine T: +380 44 5037860 F: +380 44 5011047

producer@arthousetraffic.com www.arthousetraffic.com

Artists Public Domain

225 West 13th Street NY 10011,New York USA T: +1 646 2985019

info@artistspublicdomain.org www.artistspublicdomain.org

info@anagram.se www.anagramproduktion.se

Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd

AS Film

Sleephellingstraat 102 3071 VP,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 3400374 asfilm@gmail.com www.asfilm.nl

3 Inglis Street SE59QT,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 72743110 F: +44 20 76357533

ATOMS&VOID

films@paulbushfilms.com www.paulbushfilms.com

Animate Projects Limited

89 Borough High Street SE1 1NL,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 74073944

distribution@animateprojects.org www.animateprojects.org

Laurierstraat 187 – 189 1016 PL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3302066 F: +31 20 3302065 info@annetgelink.com www.annetgelink.com

Aura été production

Bollenberg 76 3210,Lubbeek Belgium T: +32 4 75653565 F: +32 1 6633369

alexpitstra@gmail.com www.dieweltfilm.com

Annet Gelink Gallery

Another Dimension of an IDea

Kaiserst. 11 12209,Berlin Germany T: +31 6 11006099

atomypustota.info@gmail.com

Auguste Orts

Aalststraat 7-11 1000,Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 8808560 F: +32 2 2133637

info@augusteorts.be www.augusteorts.be

AUJIK

Svarvargatan 2 112 49,Stockholm Sweden T: +46 8 6518426

6, rue de l’Essai 75005,Paris France T: +33 6 64715432 F: +33 1 47704391

Autlook Filmsales GmbH

Spittelbergasse 3/14 A-1070,Vienna Austria T: +43 7 20346934 F: +43 7 20553572

welcome@autlookfilms.com www.autlookfilms.com

Autour de Minuit

21, rue Henry Monnier 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 42811728 F: +33 1 42811729

festivals@autourdeminuit.com www.autourdeminuit.com

AV-arkki

Tallberginkatu 1 C 76 00180,Helsinki Finland T: +358 50 4356092 F: +358 9 6944187

submissions@av-arkki.fi www.av-arkki.fi

Baby Pictures

98 Bergen Street #2 NY 11201,New York USA T: +1 212 9240202

nina.davenport@gmail.com

Bai Bin

No.123 Huayuan Street Jinjiang District 610066,Chengdu China T: +86 28 84778096 F: +86 28 84778096 gyatsohum@hotmail.com

Bandit HQ

112 Holland Road W14 8HD,London United Kingdom T: +44 7957 154797

tishnamolla@gmail.com

Bando à Parte

Urb. Quinta do Mosteiro, lote 5 4º E 4810-015,Guimarães Portugal T: +351 91 861754

areias@bandoaparte.com www.bandoaparte.com

Bankside Films

Douglas House 3 Richmond Buildings, 4th Floor W1D 3HE,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 77343566 F: +44 20 32301059

films@bankside-films.com www.bankside-films.com

Barker, Phillip

225 Macdonell Avenue M6R 2A4,Toronto Canada T: +1 416 4028722 pbarker@passport.ca www.phillipbarker.com

Barong Tagalog Films

Buencamino St Poblacion 2780,Makati City Philippines T: +63 2 8905056 jetbleyco@gmail.com

i-n-f-o@q-n-q.com q-n-q.com

albumprod@gmail.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Bastan, Amir

No.1 ,4th Milad Alley, Milad St. Dadman Blvd. Shahrak-e Gharb – Tehran 1468644373,Tehran Iran T: +98 021 44041849 Amirbstn@gmail.com

Beijing YuanQi Cultural Development Co.,LTD

No.2906, Building2, Ao Cheng Rong Fu Center Olympic Village 100107,Peking China T: +86 10 84933301 sk3918@sina.com

Benning, James

24700 McBean Parkway 2397 CA 91355,Valencia USA T: +1 661 2537825 F: +1 661 2537824 jbenning@calarts.edu

Majakovskeho 19 90201,Pezinok Slovakia T: +421 9 04881384

juraj.buzalka@mirafox.sk

Cahen, Daya

Biesboschstraat 48-III 1078 MX,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 50628728 daya@cahen.nl

Cailleau, Guillaume

skalitzerstr. 78 10997,Berlin Germany T: +49 17621536242

mail@guillaumecailleau.com

Can June International

F5, NO.84, Sec.2, FuXing South Road 106,Taipei Taiwan T: +886 2 27081279 F: +886 2 27087795

service@canjune.com.tw www.canjune.com.tw

Beta Cinema

Gruenwalder Weg 28d 82041,Oberhaching Germany T: +49 89 673469828 F: +49 89 673469888

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

beta@betacinema.com www.betacinema.com

Beyer, Peter Conrad

Kalk-Mühlheimer-Strasse 194 51103,Köln Germany T: +49 221 56934805 compleks@web.de www.sector16.de

Blom, Ansuya

245-401 Richmond St, W M5V 3A8,Toronto Canada T: +1 416 5880725 F: +1 416 5887956 cfmdc@cfmdc.org www.cfmdc.org

CaRTe bLaNChe

165 rue de Paris 93100,Montreuil France T: +33 9 70440371

tmk@c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com www.c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com

Binnenkant 38-HS 1011 BM,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6254307 F: +31 20 6254307

Cartoon Network

1065 Williams Street GA 30309,Atlanta USA T: +1 404 5756247

ansuyablom@xs4all.nl www.galerievangelder. com/artists/blom2.html

www.cartoonnetwork.com

Bonnetta, Joshua

Cavu Pictures

Cpma. Department Ithaca College 953 Danby Road 14850,Ithaca, NY USA T: +1 514 5129379

630 9th Avenue Suite 411 NY 10036,New York USA T: +1 212 2466300

joshua.bonnetta@gmail.com www.joshuabonnetta.com

Boo Productions

Lerou Lochou Street 26 15124,Athens Greece T: +30 21 06100730 F: +30 21 06106790 info@booproductions.gr www.booproductions.gr

cavupictures@aol.com www.cavupictures.com

Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica

Calzada de Tlalpan 160, Col. Country Club, Delegación Coyoacán C.P. 04220,Mexico City Mexico T: +52 55 41550090 F: +52 55 12539492 web@elccc.com.mx www.elccc.com.mx

Breure, Sander

Lijnbaansgracht 148A 1016 VW,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 51948084

César, Filipa

Potsdamer strasse 98 10785,Berlin Germany T: +49 151 40109820

info@sanderbreure.com www.sanderbreurewittevanhulzen.com

filipacesarsstudio@gmail.com

Broersen & Lukács

Chai Chunya

Ceintuurbaan 300-2 1072 GL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6763634

No.126 North St. Xiaopu Songzhuang,Tonghzou District 101118,Beijing China T: +86 10 80856827

pm@pmpmpm.com www.pmpmpm.com

Browne, Dan

545 Palmerston Blvd. Unit 3 M6G 2P4,Toronto Canada T: +1 647 2674373

Buzalka, Juraj

chaichunya1975@163.com

ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Chan Ching-lin

Cloudy Pixel

Conrad, Tony

Deckert Distribution GmbH

chinglin.chan@gmail.com

leeandluo@gmail.com www.luolifilms.wordpress.com

conrad@buffalo.edu

info@deckert-distribution.com www.deckert-distribution.com

Chantiers Nomades

Coalition Films

com@chantiersnomades.com www.chantiersnomades.com

info@coalition-films.com www.coalition-films.com

3F, 41, Lane 290 Section 6, Zhongshan N. Rd., Shilin District 111,Taipei City Taiwan T: +886 921 066607

3, rue de la Paix 38800,Le Pont de Claix France T: +33 4 76252195 F: +33 4 76625140

Charlie Guidance Productions

176 Grand St. #601 NY 10013,New York USA T: +1 917 6019612 F: +1 212 4315135

isoawfilm@gmail.com www.keepthelightsonfilm.com/ archives/category/avery-willard

Chavezmontes, Julio

Shakespeare 60 Col. Anzures 11590,Mexico City Mexico T: +52 55 11865584

julio@somospiano.com www.somospiano.org

Chen Chieh-jen

6F, 33, Lane 98, Section 3, Ho-Ping East Rd. 10675,Taipei Taiwan T: +886 2 23630973 F: +886 2 23649828 studio2.chen@gmail.com

Chinese Shadows

Unit 2005, 248 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai 999077,Hong Kong Hong Kong T: +852 8 1971297

chineseshadows@gmail.com

Christian Nagel Gallery

Weydingerstr. 2/4 10178,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 40042641 F: +49 30 40042642

cn.berlin@galerie-nagel.de www.galerie-nagel.de

ChromaSonic Pictures Inc

404 Euclid Ave. M6G 2S9,Toronto Canada T: +1 416 9257207

lkwasnik@gmail.com

Cinelarga

33-41 Newark Street, Suite 3C 07030,Hoboken USA T: +1 201 6837547 F: +1 201 6837546

126 Livingston Street NY 14213,Buffalo USA T: +1 716 4008738 F: +1 716 8853868 Coproduction Office

24 rue Lamartine 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 56026000 F: +33 1 56026001

info@coproductionoffice.eu www.coproductionoffice.eu

Crystal Eye Ltd

Cokes, Tony

152 Elmgrove Avenue, Apt. 6 RI 02906-4266,Providence USA T: +1 401 3691944 F: +1 401 8632158 shrinkmedia@brown.edu

Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC)

18 rue Henri Barbusse 94110,Arcueil France T: +33 1 98390959

Lämmittäjänkatu 4 A 00880,Helsinki Finland T: +358 9 6942308 F: +358 9 6947224 mail@crystaleye.fi www.crystaleye.fi

Cybersmart Learning Institute

201 Lloyd Road 07924,Bernardsville, NJ USA T: +1 908 2211516

admin@cjcinema.org www.cjcinema.org

mala@cybersmart.org www.tallasthebaobabtree.com

Collective Phase One

41, Aram Nagar Part 2 Versova, Andheri West, 400061,Mumbai India T: +91 99 20145889

info@collectivephaseone.com www.collectivephaseone.com

Collins, Nick

East Wing, Malling Deanery Church Lane BN7 2JA,Lewes United Kingdom T: +44 1273 476518 F: +44 1273 476518 nickcollins637@btinternet.com

Colonel Blimp

Danish Film Institute

Gothersgade 55 1123,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 33 743400 F: +45 33 743401 dfi@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk

Danusiri, Aryo

Komplek PWI Blok B3 No.6 13420,Jakarta Indonesia T: +62 81 387151861 F: +1 6173359519 danusiri@gmail.com www.ragam.org

Darlings & Muscles

181 Wardour Street W1F 8WZ,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 74940747

tamsin@colonelblimp.com www.colonelblimp.com

Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH

Moltke Strasse 131 D-50674,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 9514040 F: +49 221 9514044

coloniamedia@coloniamedia.de www.coloniamedia.de

Column Film

Skabelonloftet no. 8 Refshalevej 171 A 1432,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 31126040

info@darlingsmuscles.dk www.darlingsmuscles.dk

Darvish, Varesh

Johannelundsgatan 17 LGH 1202 50640,Borås Sweden T: +46 72 2845571 varesh.hd@gmail.com www.vareshdarvish.com

Sarphatikade 13 1017 WV,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5722700 F: +31 20 5722701

Davies, Jacqui

6-7-17-401 Shinjyuku 160-0022,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 62732158 F: +81 3 62732158

Conijn Film

Daza Produção Cultural LTDA ME

Clark, Mary Helena

Connolly, Stephen

maryhelena.clark@gmail.com

steve@bubblefilm.net www.bubblefilm.net

1 Madison St,Executive Village ParkwoodsPasig City Philippines T: +63 906 3085259 cinelarga@yahoo.com

Cinema Impact Inc.

ma345to5@cinemaimpact.net www.cinemaimpact.net

3327 Telegraph Avenue Apt. 1 CA 94609,Oakland USA T: +1 803 9749306

safetydpt@gmail.com www.mementomorifilm.com

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2-2-101, Bin Jiang Yuan, Jiang An District 430010,Wuhan China T: +1 778 8343582

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89 Borough High Street SE1 1NL,London United Kingdom T: +44 7711 416621

info@columnfilm.com www.columnfilm.com

jacqui.davies@o2.co.uk www.animateprojects.org

Govert Flinckstraat 178-2 1072 EP,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 641235289 wout@conijnfilm.com www.conijnfilm.com

41 Miranda Road N19 3RA,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 5033877

Rua Professor Estelita Lins, 184/205 Laranjeiras 22245-150,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 35028521 daza@dazacultural.com.br www.dazacultural.com.br

De Productie

Gashouderstraat 9 3061 EH,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4763388 F: +31 84 8731525

Marienplatz 1 04103,Leipzig Germany T: +49 341 2156638 F: +49 341 2156639

Desbun Filmes

Rua Cônego Eugênio Leite 682 ap. 74 05414-000,São Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 982637372 marcelo.desbun@gmail.com www.nasuacompanhia. wordpress.com

Desom, Jeff

4, Rue de la Corniche 5518,Remich Luxembourg T: +352 621720603 jdesom@gmail.com www.jeffdesom.com

Deutsches Historisches Museum

Unter den Linden 2 10117,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 203040 F: +49 30 20304444 info@dhm.de www.dhm.de

Devi Kobayashi

501 3-14-25 Chuohon Cho, Adachi Ku 121-0011,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 38404706 F: +81 3 38404706 bewild@mcinternet.jp www.facebook.com/ devikobayashi

Dezenove Som e Imagens

Rua Conde Silvio Alvares Penteado 56 05428-040,São Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 30313017 F: +55 11 30313017 sara@dezenove.net www.dezenove.net

Dharmani, Gul

501 Green View, Air India Colony, Yari Road Andheri West 400061,Mumbai India T: +91 98 19001801 gul.dharmani@gmail.com

Diaz Morales, Sebastian

Westerdoksdijk 191 1013 AD,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 38375920

sdm@sebastiandiazmorales.com www.sebastiandiazmorales.com

Dib, Roy

Mar Mikhael el Nahar 1104,Beirut Lebanon roydeeb@gmail.com www.vimeo.com/roydib

Dibakar Banerjee Productions

1st Floor, Super Processor Compound, Chiwda Galli, Lalbaugh Industrial Estate, Near Punya Nagari Press, Lal Baug-Parel 400012,Bombay India T: +91 22 64502135 F: +91 22 24220470 pria.sreedharan@gmail.com

info@deproductie.nl www.deproductie.nl

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Doc & Film International

Ecce Films

Falcon Pictures

Films Boutique

sales@docandfilm.com www.docandfilm.com

eccefilms@yahoo.fr

erica@falcon.co.id

info@filmsboutique.com www.filmsboutique.com

13 rue Portefoin 75003,Paris France T: +33 1 42775687 F: +33 1 42773656

El Abedeen, Eslam Zeen

Dogwoof

Unit 211 Hatton Square Business Centre, 16-16a Baldwins Gardens EC1N 7RJ,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 78317252 F: +44 20 79003270 global@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com

The Nerve Centre 7-8 Magazine Street BT48 6HJ,Derry United Kingdom T: +353 74 9195902

Ossastrasse 13 12045,Berlin Germany T: +49 178 6066218

179/7 Supalai Place Sukhumvit 39 Klongton, Wattana 10110,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 2 6622869 F: +66 2 6622869

internationalsales@ entonegroup.com www.entertainmentonegroup.com

mail@johannadomke.net www.johannadomke.net

EPILEPTIC

Dovzhenko National Film Centre

3, rue des Goncourt 75011,Paris France T: +33 6 87143829

Vasylkivska Str. 1 03040,Kiev Ukraine T: +38 044 2016574

info@dovzhenkocentre.org www.dovzhenkocentre.org

DreamLab Films

14 chemin des chichourliers 06110,Le Cannet France T: +33 4 93387561 F: +98 4 93387561 nasrine@dreamlabfilms.com www.dreamlabfilms.com

Duas Mariola Filmes

Rua Pinheiro Machado 57, 403b 22231-090,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 22622701 F: +55 21 22622701 duasmariola@gmail.com www.duasmariola.com.br

Dullaart, Constant

Urbanstrasse 27 10967,Berlin Germany T: +31 616 464649

annicklemonnier@free.fr www.epilepticfilmbookmusic.com

Erik van Lieshout BV

Volmarijnstraat 137a 3021 XN,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 22406779 F: +31 10 4773593

erikstudio@xs4all.nl www.erikvanlieshout.com

Espelie, Erin

864 Gold Run Road 80302,Boulder, CO USA T: +1 303 4470074

erinespelie@gmail.com www.erinespelie.com

Europolis Film

Str. Tudor Arghezi 14 020945,Bucharest Romania T: +40 21 3168079 F: +40 1 2116875

office@europolisfilm.com

email@constantdullaart.com www.constantdullaart.com

Dumoulin, Pieter

Karel Mirystraat 41 9000,Gent Belgium T: +32 49 9716758

pieter_dumoulin@telenet.be www.vimeo.com/user13241627

Dungarpur Films

727 / 728, Arun Chambers, Near AC Market, Tardeo Road 400034,Bombay India T: +91 22 67367777 F: +91 22 66528224 dungarpurfilms@gmail.com www.dungarpurfilms.com

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Electric Eel Films

175 Bloor Street East Suite 1400, North Tower M4W 3R8,Toronto Canada T: +1 416 6462400 F: +1 416 6462399

Domke, Johanna

33amit@gmail.com

mohamed-zayan@hotmail.com

Entertainment One Films International

info@williedoherty.com

8/108 Vijaypur Samba 184120,Jammu India T: +91 96 97166177

Egypt T: +49 30 26955100

info@electriceelfilms.com www.electriceelfilms.com

Doherty, Willie

Dutta, Amit

16, rue Bleue 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 47702723 F: +33 1 47704391

Extra Virgin Co., Ltd.

15/67 Soi Chokchai Ruammit Vibhavadi Rangsit Road 10900,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 2 2770824 F: +66 2 2770825 info@extravirginco.com www.extravirginco.com

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

PO Box 37767 1030 BJ,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5891400 F: +31 20 6833401 info@eyefilm.nl www.eyefilm.nl

Factum Documentary

Nova Ves 18 10 000,Zagreb Croatia T: +385 1 4854821 info@factum.com.hr www.factum.com.hr

JL. Duren Tiga Raya No. 35 12760,Jakarta Indonesia T: +62 21 81514699998 F: +62 21 7992680 Fallahpisheh, Hadi

Apartment No 6. Shaghayegh Building, Last Deadend Sherkat Gaz St. Taleghani Cross 31339-85437,Karaj Iran T: +98 26 44323514 hadi_fallahpisheh@yahoo.com

Family Affair Films

Entrepotdok 77a 1018 AD,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 7071713 F: +31 20 6272589

info@familyaffairfilms.nl www.familyaffairfilms.nl

Fandango Portobello

12 Addison Avenue W11 4QR,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 76051396 F: +44 20 976051391

sales@fandangoportobello.com www.portobellopictures.com

Ferreira, Ivo M.

Rua Sacadura Cabral 6 2A 0000,Macau Hong Kong T: +85 3 28562708 F: +351213012975 ivomferreira@yahoo.com

FiGa Films

3925 Cazador Street CA 90065,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 2299816 F: +1 323 2585241 contact@figafilms.com www.figafilms.com

Film and Video Umbrella

8 Vine Yard SE1 1QL,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 74077755 F: +44 20 74077766 info@fvu.co.uk www.fvumbrella.com

Filmcare

30, rue Tiquetonne 75002,Paris France T: +33 1 42330350

contact@filmcare.info www.filmcare.info

Filmes do Tejo II

Av. da Liberdade 85, 3º 1250-140,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 21 3234400 F: +351 21 3417087

filmesdotejo@filmesdotejo.pt www.filmesdotejo.pt

Filmform

Svarvargatan 2 SE-112 49,Stockholm Sweden T: +46 8 6518426 F: +46 8 6518426 info@filmform.com www.filmform.com

Filmgalerie 451

Saarbrucker Strasse 24 10405,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 33982800 F: +49 30 33982810 info@filmgalerie451.de www.filmgalerie451.de

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Köpenicker Strasse 184 10997,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 69537850 F: +49 30 69537851

Calle 59 A Bis # 5-40 (401) 00000,Bogotá Colombia T: +57 01 4678686 niorcano@gmail.com www.niorcano.com

Galerie Juliette Jongma

Finecut Co, Ltd

Gerard Doustraat 128 A 1073 VX,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4636904

4F Incline Bldg., 89137 Daechi-dong Gangnam-gu 135-280,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 5698777 F: +82 2 5699466

info@juliettejongma.com www.juliettejongma.com

Galery Imane Farès

cineinfo@finecut.co.kr www.finecut.co.kr

41, rue Mazarine 75006,Paris France T: +33 1 46331313

Fintu Films LLC

contact@imanefares.com www.ifgalerie.com

3730 West 27th STreet #401 CA 90018,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 7359577 F: +1 323 7359577

Galleria Zero

Via Tadino 20 20124,Milan Italy T: +39 02 87234577 F: +39 02 87234580

vickevi@hotmail.com www.ninahsdowry.com

gloria@galleriazero.it www.galleriazero.it

Firma Film

Bergselaan 292D 3038 CK,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 46141913

Gartenberg Media Enterprises, Inc

rikvdlinden@gmail.com www.firmafilm.nl

Flash Forward Entertainment

7/F, 358 Zhonghe Road Zhonghe District 23574,New Taipei City Taiwan T: +886 2 29262839 F: +886 2 29262834 info@ffe.com.tw www.ffe.com.tw

Forma

143 West 96th Street, Suite 7B NY 10025,New York USA T: +1 212 2808654 F: +1 212 2808656 jon@gartenbergmedia.com www.gartenbergmedia.com

Gatten, David

864 Gold Run Road CO 80302,Boulder USA T: +1 303 4470074 F: +1 6 072747078

david.gatten@gmail.com www.davidgattenfilm.com

2–8 Scrutton Street EC2A 4RT,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 74567820 F: +44 20 74567821

Gavran, Duro

Zoricicev trg 5 10000,Zagreb Croatia T: +385 98 1688358

info@forma.org.uk www.forma.org.uk

Formwalt, Zachary

djuro@pipser.hr www.pipser.hr

Het Hoogt 334 1025 HJ,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 31995835

Gazawood

mail@zacharyformwalt.com www.zacharyformwalt.com

Fortissimo Films

Van Diemenstraat 100 1013 CN,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6273215 F: +31 20 6261155

Gaza Aljalaa ST 00972,Gaza Palestine T: +970 2 599462311 F: +970 2 599462311 arab.ver@gmail.com

Ghani, Mariam

info@fortissimo.nl www.fortissimofilms.com

Fox Searchlight Europe

Twentieth Century House 31/32 Soho Square W1D 3AP,London United Kingdom T: +44 207 7537104 F: +44 207 7530112 Free Stone Productions

313-3-25-18 Jingumae Shibuyaku 150-0001,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 34980728

372 DeKalb Avenue 3i NY 11205,New York USA T: +1 917 6768322

mariam@kabulreconstructions.net www.kabul-reconstructions. net/mariam

Gibson, Josh

918 N Mangum St. NC 27701,Durham USA T: +1 919 6679093 joshigi@duke.edu

Gladstone, Paula

miyukit48@live.jp http://freestone.main.jp

Funny Balloons

Galaxia 311

4 Bis, rue Saint-Sauveur 75002,Paris France T: +33 1 40130586 F: +33 1 42333499

3640 Butter Drive CA 94602,Oakland USA T: +1 510 5302672 F: +1 510 5316119

pagladstone@gmail.com

Global Screen GmbH

Sonnenstrasse 21 80331,München Germany T: +49 89 2441295580 F: +49 89 244195520 info@globalscreen.de www.globalscreen.de

Golden Scene Company Ltd.

15 B Astoria Building, 34 Ashley Road. Tsim Sha Tsui . KowloonHong Kong Hong Kong T: +852 22 659999 F: +852 23 020938 info@goldenscene.com www.goldenscene.com

Gosfilmofond

M. Gnezdikovsky Str. 7 103877,Moscow Russia T: +7 495 234861 filmfond@aha.ru www.gosfilmofond.ru

HanWay Films

24 Hanway Street W1T 1UH,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 72900750 F: +44 20 72900751

info@hanwayfilms.com www.hanwayfilms.com

Haos Film

Agiou Markou 10 10560,Athens Greece T: +30 21 03222466 F: +30 21 03222466 info@haosfilm.com www.haosfilm.com

Harahan, Seamus

64 Henderson Avenue Flat 6 BT15 5FQ,Belfast United Kingdom T: +44 7 715545641

s_harahan@hotmail.com

HBO

2500 Broadway Ste 400 CA 90404,Santa Monica USA T: +1 310 3823000 www.hbo.com

HBO Czech Republic

Jankovcova 1037/49 170 00,Prague Czech Republic T: +420 261 094 444 F: +420 261 094 455

tereza.polachova@hbo.cz www.hbo.cz

HBO Films New York

1100 Avenue of the Americas NY 10036,New York USA T: +1 212 5121000 F: +1 212 5125698 www.hbo.com

HBO Latin America Group

396 Alhambra Circle Suite 400 FL 33134,Coral Gables USA T: +1 305 6488100 www.hbo-la.com

Heijnen, Hans

Molenveldlaan 284 6523 RR,Nijmegen Netherlands T: +31 24 3481851

hansheijnenfilms@planet.nl www.hansheijnenfilms.nl

info@funny-balloons.com www.funny-balloons.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Hekmat, Anahita

Chez Mlle Siboni 6, rue Achille Domart 93300,Aubervilliers France T: +33 6 59180713

Indiestory Inc.

Kennedy, Anthea

indiestory@indiestory.com www.indiestory.com

anthea.kennedy@ btopenworld.com www.antheakennedy. wordpress.com

4Fl Baekak Building 135-4 Tongin-dong, Jongno-gu 110-043,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 7226051 F: +82 2 7226055

hekmatana@gmail.com www.anahitahekmat.net

Helavanna Productions

625 Greenwich Street NY 10014,New York USA T: +1 646 6493839

ryrussoyoung@gmail.com www.ryrussoyoung.com

Hidden Rooster Films

411/1 Soi Rajchadanives Prachauthid Road, Samsennok, Huay-Kwang 10310,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 2 2742858

rooster@hiddenroosterfilms.com www.hiddenroosterfilms.com

Hide Project Indonesia

Ngadisuryan KT 1/67 Patehan, Kraton 55133,Yogyakarta Indonesia T: +62 21 5364018

Intercinema Agency

Hofmann, Sebastián

Revolución 1089 Int. 101 01000,Mexico City Mexico T: +52 55 56641465

Ketenag, Aydin

Iranian Independents

aketenag@gmail.com www.aydinketenag.com

post@intercin.ru www.intercinema.ru

PO Box 15875-4769Tehran Iran T: +98 21 22271157

info@iranianindependents.com www.iranianindependents.com

Jeffreys, Joe E. drj247@hotmail.com

Hugel, Rob Michael

Johnston, Aaron Douglas

Khatami, Alireza

kurosu@kadokawa-pictures.co.jp www.kadokawa-pictures.jp

189 Frost Street #3R NY 11211,Brooklyn USA

roberthugel@gmail.com www.robmichaelhugel.com

Kafkagarden

Hull Distribution, LLC

Strandvägen 35b 92331,,Storuman Sweden T: +46 70 4547123

radioactivemedia@yahoo.com

Kameli, Katia

kafkagarden@gmail.com www.kafkagarden.com

7821 Noble Avenue CA 91405,Los Angeles USA Hypnotic Pictures

400 E. 10th St NY 10009,New York USA T: +1 917 4458529 F: +1 212 4738268

IJswater Films

Kromme Mijndrechtstraat 110/4 1079 LD,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4421760 F: +31 20 4421725 films@ijswater.nl www.ijswater.nl

Illumina Films

Leidsestraat 106 1017 PG,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6248395 F: +31 20 3308155 robin@illuminafilms.nl www.illuminafilms.nl

32 rue de Sambre et Meuse 75010,Paris France T: +33 6 20512876 katia.kameli@gmail.com www.katiakameli.com

info@billmorrisonfilm.com www.billmorrisonfilm.com

Kamias Road, Ltd

27 Kamias Road Quezon City 1102,Manila Philippines T: +63 2 9904257 F: +63 2 3737416

info@kamiasroad.org www.kamiasroad.org

Kashkoolinia, Maryam

No. 32 Zafar Street, Unit 6 Shariari Ave.Tehran Iran T: +98 21 22272206 F: +98 21 77538432 kashkoolinia@yahoo.com

Kaul, Shambhavi

918 N Mangum St. NC 27701,Durham USA T: +1 919 5979327

shambhavikaul@me.com www.shambhavikaul.com

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info@keydocs.nl www.keydocs.nl

khmahmoud@ mahmoudkhaled.com www.mahmoudkhaled.com

1-8-19 Fujimi Chiyoda-ku 102-8302,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 68933603 F: +81 3 68933607

info@shellysilver.com www.shellysilver.com

Van Diemenstraat 332 1013 CR,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4222607 F: +31 20 4227387

jiff_film2@jiff.or.kr www.jiff.or.kr

Kadokawa Shoten Co., Ltd.

22 Catherine street #6 NY 10038,New York USA T: +1 212 7322986

KeyDocs

Khaled, Mahmoud

aarondjohnston@gmail.com

House Productions

Kocaeli University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Department Anitpark Campus 41300,Izmit Turkey T: +90 2623116064

5F, Girin Officetel, 155-1 Gosa-dong, Wansan-gu 560-706,Jeonju South Korea T: +82 2 22850562 F: +82 2 22850560

Utrechtsedwarsstraat 29-II 1017 WB,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 14558634

batann@gmail.com www.lasuertedivina.com

57 Ravensworth Road NW10 5NP,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 89693817 F: +44 20 89693817

Druzhinnikovskaya, 15 123242,Moscow Russia T: +7 499 2559052 F: +7 499 2559053

Jeonju International Film Festival

contact@ hideprojectindonesia.com www.hideprojectindonesia.com

ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

17 Soliman Mahmoud Street, CleopatraAlexandria Egypt T: +20 1 114111679

425 E 31st Street GA 31401,Savannah USA T: +1 912 4843464

a.r.khatami@gmail.com

Kim Sung-Hwan

250 West 19th Street Apt. 10E NY 10011,New York USA T: +1 917 4557154

shkimpado@yahoo.com

Kimura, Tatsuto

Chikusaku,Shinikecho1-18-4 ProudHigashiyamakouen505 464-0027,Nagoya Japan T: +81 90 99194514 fsunrain@gmail.com

Kinology

30, rue Moret 75011,Paris France T: +33 9 51474344 F: +33 9 56474344

Kowalski Films

Pº Duque de Mandas 6 Plt. 4 A 20012,San Sebastián Spain T: +34 6 36958622 kozua@arrakis.es www.kowalskifilms.com

Admiraal de Ruijterweg 336/3 1055MZ,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 14473102 krispinavi@gmail.com www.avikrispin.com

2-14-2 Shitaya, Taito-ku 110-0004,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 55254428 F: +81 3 59424610 noirmam@sepia.ocn.ne.jp www.kawasenaomi.com

KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V.

kinotar@kinotar.com www.kinotar.com

Klahr, Lewis

1938 N. Commonwealth Avenue CA 90027,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 9061734 F: +1 323 9061736 engram66@sbcglobal.net

Kokhan, Oleg

4 Khreschatyk Office12 01001,Kiev Ukraine T: +380 44 5380947

kokhan@sotacinema.com www.sotacinema.com

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sanpuraa@gmail.com

Los Otros Films

Lam, Audrey

59 Mahabagin St. Teacher’s Village East Quezon City 1101,Metro Manila Philippines T: +63 919 8885189 F: +63 2 9292982

6 Middle Street 4101,Highgate Hill Australia T: +61 40 5265152 F: +61 7 38461870 mail@audreylam.net www.audreylam.net

johnotros@gmail.com www.johntorr.es

Latinofusion

Domingos Ferreira 198-302 22050-012,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 22 26291170 F: +55 22 26291170 acalvino@latinofusion.com.mx www.latinofusion.com.mx

Le Pacte

1, rue de Rocroy 75010,Paris France T: +33 6 12433175

lesfilmsdubal@yahoo.fr

LUX

Prinzessinnenstrasse 16 10969,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 61507505 F: +49 30 27582872 sales@m-appeal.com www.m-appeal.com

M-Line distribution

190 Monterey Rd APT C 91030,South Pasadena, CA USA T: +1 323 5595605

Les Films du Bal

bianca.j.lucas@gmail.com

m-appeal

pierre@lespectre.com www.lespectre.com

lertxundi@gmail.com www.laidalertxundi.net

Sielecka 10 m. 13B 00-738,Warsaw Poland T: +48 517 340140

distribution@lux.org.uk www.lux.org.uk

28, rue Labat 75018,Paris France T: +33 1 46066300 F: +33 1 46066298

Lertxundi, Laida

Lucas, Bianca

3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane E8 2EZ,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 75033977 F: +44 20 75031606

5, rue Darcet 75017,Paris France T: +33 1 44695959 F: +33 1 44695941

Le Spectre

Työpajankatu 10 A FI-00580,Helsinki Finland T: +358 9 7740040 F: +358 9 77400444

Warakuso 201 3-7-3 Yoyogi, Shibuyaku 151-0053,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 6216 8901

info@lagesteefilm.nl www.lagesteefilm.nl

Kinotar Oy

lightcone@lightcone.org www.lightcone.org

Lisa Takeba

Sint Olofssteeg 8 a 1012 AK,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6273374 F: +31 842 261607

Mack, Jodie

Magdy, Basim

157 rue de Crimée, atelier 105 75019,Paris France T: +33 1 46590153 F: +33 1 46590312

charlottelim527@gmail.com

Lagestee Film BV

mariomabor@gmail.com

Light Cone Distribution

No 46, Jalan PU 8/1A Taman Puchong Utama 47100,Selangor Malaysia T: +60 1 23310400 F: +60 3 79579046

kfa@shortfilm.com www.shortfilm.com

Khartoum 11111,Khartoum Sudan T: +249 183 77783

Department Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College 319 Wilson Hall HB 6194 NH 03755,Hanover USA T: +1 773 5952312

Lim Lay Kuen, Charlotte

Friedensallee 7 D-22765,Hamburg Germany T: +49 40 39106319 F: +49 40 39106320

Mabor Dhalbny, Mario

Tomtebogatan 18 11338,Stockholm Sweden T: +46 73 6810472

Libraryman

tony@libraryman.se www.libraryman.se

Kumie Inc.

contact@le-pacte.com www.le-pacte.com

Gl. Kongevej 137 B, 3rd Fl. DK – Frederiksberg C 1850,Denmark Norway T: +47 22 474500 stineo@nfi.no www.levelk.dk

Krispin, Avi

festivals@kinology.eu

LevelK Aps

6F Samhwa Bldg 536 Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu 135-889,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 7962426 F: +82 2 7962429

sales@mline-distribution.com www.mline-distribution.com

Maamoun, Maha

6 Road 7 Maadi 11431,Cairo Egypt T: +20 100 1866114

jodienmack@gmail.com www.jodiemack.com

Klingentalgraben 15 4057,Basel Switzerland T: +41 78 9099137

basim.magdy@yahoo.com www.basimmagdy.com

Magomadov, Ruslan

Gotvalda 21/2-54 620028,Yekaterinburg Russia T: +7 92 22033024

ruslan_magomadov@mail.ru

Makino Takashi

2-16-6 Nakasato Meko Haitsu 401, Kitaku 114-0015,Tokyo Japan T: +81 070 69420141 makinotakashi@gmail.com www.festivalscope.com/ director/takashi-makino

Malekian, Shahrzad

No 8. 10th Azadegan Street Mini City junction 19557-58783,Tehran Iran T: +98 21 88606133

schahrzad.malekian@gmail.com

Mañana

Chelmska 19/21 00-724,Warsaw Poland T: +48 22 8511097 F: +48 22 8511097

manana@manana.pl www.manana.pl

Manna, Jumana

Kottbusser Strasse 10 10999,Berlin Germany T: +47 458 89712

jumana.manna@gmail.com www.jumanamanna.com

Marker

88 Heddington Grove N7 9SZ,London United Kingdom T: +44 79 46628360

edlawrenson@yahoo.com

Massa Real Filmes

Rua Euclides Andrade, 55 05030-000,São Paulo Brazil T: +55 19 91531543

massareal@massareal.com.br www.massareal.com.br

mec film

Irit Neidhardt Emdener Strasse 48d 10551,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 66766700 F: +49 30 66766699 info@mecfilm.de www.mecfilm.de

mahamaamoun@yahoo.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Media Asia Distribution Limited

24/F Causeway Bay Plaza II 463-483 Lockhart RoadCauseway Bay Hong Kong T: +852 2314 4288 F: +852 2314 4247 wwdist@mediaasia.com www.mediaasia.com

intlsales@mk2.com www.mk2.com

No. 85, 10th Alley, Asadabadi Street 14317-64743,Tehran Iran T: +98 912 8026358

Aachener Strasse 24 50674,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 51091891 F: +49 221 51091899

mahan.moalemi@live.com

Mocushura

info@medialuna.biz www.medialuna.biz

Meindertsma, Christien

Provenierssingel 59B 3033 EH,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 26540843

cmeindertsma@gmail.com www.christienmeindertsma.com

Mellors, Nathaniel

Da Costastraat 135 HL 1053 ZM,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 14027337

nathanielmellors@gmail.com

Memento Films International

9 cité Paradis 75010,Paris France T: +33 1 53349020 F: +33 1 42471124

sales@memento-films.com http://international. memento-films.com

Menick, John

113 West 27th St. Floor 2 NY 10001,New York USA T: +1 347 5925672

601-203 Sangnim Maeul apt, Eunpyeong New Twon, Jingwan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu 122-736,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 3572019 wrkim21@gmail.com www.mocushura.egloos.com

Monavarian

No 160, Golshan Town, Quran Sq 7144995419,Shiraz Iran T: +98 711 2283852

info@negahdarjamali.com www.negahdarjamali.com

Monkey Town Productions

5-2-29-402 Satsukigaoka Ikeda 563-0029,Osaka Japan T: +81 90 91028671 F: +81 72 7347991

miyukit48@live.jp www.monkeytownproductions. com

Moulton, Shana

1868 Bleecker St. Apt. 2L NY 11385,Ridgewood USA T: +1 347 7994403

johnmenick@gmail.com www.johnmenick.com

smoulton@gmail.com www.shanamoulton.info

Meter, Barbara

Orteliuskade 28/I 1057 AD,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4895604

Mozard, Tova

Ljusstöparbacken 1 117 65,Stockholm Sweden T: +46 7 22101576

b.meter@chello.nl

tova.mozard@gmail.com

Mezzanine Films

17 rue Julien Lacroix 75020,Paris France T: +33 1 58535710 F: +33 1 42814250

MPhilms

info@mezzaninefilms.com www.mezzaninefilms.com

Mij Film

SB Özel Group/ Mijfilm Kültür Sokak No. 1 Kat. 5 D. 123, Metroport AVM Busidence Center Bahcelievler 34180,Istanbul Turkey T: +90 53 66448977 info@mijfilm.com www.mijfilm.com

Horná 5 83152,Bratislava Slovakia T: +421 944201190

mphilms@mphilms.sk www.mphilms.sk

MPI Media Group

16101 South 108th Avenue, Orland Park IL 60467,Illinois USA T: +1 800 3230442 info@mpimedia.com www.mpimedia.com

Nakouzi, Iván

Ricardo Lyon 2994 Ñuñoa 7770157,Santiago Chile T: +56 2 28950095

Miles Films

RC Veteran Raya 555, Unit F & G 12330,Jakarta Indonesia T: +62 21 73889880 F: +62 21 7342049

milespublicist@yahoo.com www.milesfilms.net

Ministry for Culture and Arts

nfo@mincult.gov.ua www.mincult.kmu.gov.ua

55, rue Traversière 75012,Paris France T: +33 1 44673000 F: +33 1 143413230

Moalemi, Mahan

Media Luna New Films

St. John Franco, 19 01601,Kiev Ukraine T: +380 44 2262645

MK2

ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Nasser, Nassrin

3 St. Stephens Road E3 5JD,London United Kingdom

nassrin.nasser@gmail.com

National Film and Television School

Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road Beaconsfield HP9 1LG,Bucks United Kingdom T: +44 14 94671234 F: +44 14 94674042 festivals@nfts.co.uk www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk

National Film Board of Canada

3155 Cote de Liesse H4N 2N4,Ville Saint-Laurent Canada T: +1 514 2833690 F: +1 514 4964372 festivals@nfb.ca www.nfb.ca

NDM

Sultepec 47, Hipodromo Condesa C.P. 06170,Mexico City Mexico T: +52 55 52730230 F: +52 55 52116369 fm@mantarraya.com www.mantarraya.com

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)

Netherlands T: +31 20 6237101 F: +31 20 6244423 info@nimk.nl www.nimk.nl

Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio

78 Brooksbys Walk E9 6DA,London United Kingdom T: +44 79 69534911 hello@nellyben.com www.nellyben.com

Neverheard Inc

315 Berry Street 304 11249,Brooklyn, NY USA T: +646 361 7177

contact@neverheardinc.com www.neverheardinc.com

New Europe Film Sales

Slowicza 12/2 05-075,Warsaw Poland T: +48 66 6525788

jan@neweuropefilmsales.com www.neweuropefilmsales.com

New Folder Studio & Ferdydurke

Calle de San Rogelio 6 28039,Madrid Spain T: +34 91 2224866

fernandofranco@gmail.com

New York Public Library

Manuscripts and Archives Division 5th Avenue and 42nd Street NY 10018,New York USA T: +1 212 9309262

ivan.nakouzi@gmail.com

tlannon@nypl.org www.nypl.org

Nara International Film Festival

Nikkatsu Corporation

45 Takama-cho 630-8141,Nara Japan T: +81 74 2955780 F: +81 74 2263507 info@nara-iff.jp www.nara-iff.jp

3-28-12 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku 113-0033,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 56891014 F: +81 3 56891044 international@nikkatsu.co.jp www.nikkatsu.com

Nikola Film

Patten, Michael

Krukov kanal 12 190068,St. Petersburg Russia T: +7 812 7145717 F: +7 812 1140126

54 Knickerbocker Avenue #3F NY 11237,New York USA T: +1 415 5770303

mail@nikolafilm.ru

iammichaelpatten@gmail.com www.iammichaelpatten.com

Nissinen, Erkka

32 A The Palace 83 Broadcast Drive Kowloon Tong,Hong Kong Hong Kong T: +85 2 92220006

Pensee Sauvage Films

Norwegian Film Institute

Phoenix Features

erkkamies@gmail.com www.erkkanissinen.com

PO Box 485 Sentrum N-0105,Oslo Norway T: +47 2 2474500 F: +47 2 2474599 int@nfi.no www.nfi.no/english

48, rue de Ménilmontant 75020,Paris France T: +33 1 43585674

info@penseesauvagefilms.com www.penseesauvagefilms.com

Unit A, Lot 10, Block 22, Sunday Street Addas Village 1, San Nicolas 2 4102,Bacoor Philippines T: +63 2 7497425 arleencuevas@gmail.com

Noyani, Shadi

No.11, Baghcheh Hesar Alley, Deh-vanak 19957-94743,Tehran Iran T: +98 21 88049639

shadi_noyani@yahoo.com

Oakes, Wendy

Buiten Oranjestraat 10-II 1013 HX,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 14031399 wendy.oakes@gmail.com www.wendyoakes.com

PIA Film Festival

1-2-20 Higashi Shibuya-ku 150-0011,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 57745296 F: +81 3 57745396 international@pff.jp www.pff.jp

PicArt Film Distribution Co.

PO Box 41708Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates T: +971 50 4154880 fariba@picartfilm.com www.picartfilm.com

Offerman, Jeroen

Picture Palace Pictures

St. Severusstraat 26E 5616 NZ,Eindhoven Netherlands T: +31 40 7112357

jeroen_offerman@hotmail.com www.jeroenofferman.com

One Fine Day Films

PO Box 645 Prince Street Stn. NY 10012,New York USA T: +1 212 2523187 picturepalacesale@yahoo.com www.picturepalacepictures.com

Kastanienallee 79 10435,Berlin Germany T: +49 172 7624534 F: +49 30 7542356

Plano 9 Produções

Otte, Henk

Plattform Produktion

martajurkiewicz@eyefilm.nl

mail@plattformproduktion.se www.plattformproduktion.se

Owsinski, Michal

Pop Pictures Co. Ltd.

mail@onefinedayfilms.org www.onefinedayfilms.org

contact via Eye Film Institute Netherlands IJpromenade 1 1031 KT,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 7582351

Rua Conde de Irajá, 499/301B 50710-310,Recife Brazil T: +55 81 32282715 contato@plano9.art.br www.plano9.art.br

Vallgatan 9d 411 16,Göteborg Sweden T: +46 31 7116660 F: +46 31 7116660

De Rijpgracht 4-2 1055 VR,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 44594765

owsinski.michal@gmail.com

PAD International

#511, 39 Hung To Road Kwun TongHong Kong Hong Kong T: +852 81 767262 F: +852 301 73946

chow@padinternational.net www.padinternational.net

Pathé Distribution

2 rue Lamenais 78008,Paris France T: +33 1 71723305 F: +33 1 71723310

504/23 Pracharaj-Bumphen Samsen-nok, Huai Kwang 10310,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 2 6916770 F: +66 2 6916771 info@pop-pictures-ltd.com www.pop-pictures-ltd.com

Premium Films

130 rue de Turenne 75003,Paris France T: +33 1 77373368

olivier.heitz@premium-films.com www.premium-films.com

Presario Corp.

sales@patheinternational.fr www.patheinternational.com

Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting

3-9-1 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku 151-0051,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 54135077 F: +81 3 54131757

Preta Portê Filmes e Produções Culturais

Rua Cônego Eugênio Leite 682 ap. 74 05414-000,São Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 25073503 F: + 55 11 25073509

contato@pretaportefilmes.com.br www.pretaportefilmes.com.br

Princ Films, Inc.

9106 Cold Stream Lane MN 55347,Eden Prairie USA T: +1 763 4581967 F: +1 952 6812722 info@princfilms.com www.princfilms.com

Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH

Rathausstr. 3/18 1010,Vienna Austria T: +43 1 4063770 F: +43 1 406377020 office@prismafilm.at www.prismafilm.at

Productions EDA

67, rue Marcadet 75018,Paris France T: +33 1 42585872

devamar@devamar.fr

Protagonist Pictures

4th floor, Waverley House, 7-12 Noel Street W1F 8GQ,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 77349000 F: +44 20 73068044

info@protagonistpictures.com www.protagonistpictures.com

PunktPunktPunkt Filmproduktion

Mittenwalder Strasse 14 10961,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 61621410 office@3p-film.de www.3p-film.de

Puskat Pictures/ PT Alam Media

Balai Budaya Sinduharjo – Studio Audio Visual Puskat Jl Kaliurang km 8,5 Sinduharjo 55581,Yogyakarta Indonesia T: +62 274 887325 F: +62 274 883538 office@savpuskat.or.id www.savpuskat.or.id

Pygmalion Production Film Co.

Tverskoi Bulvar, building 14/5 123104,Moscow Russia T: +7 495 9174369 pr@pgmfilm.ru www.pgmfilm.ru

Pyramide International

5, rue du Chevalier de Saint-Georges 75008,Paris France T: +33 1 42960101 F: +33 1 40200551

distribution@pyramidefilms.com www.pyramidefilms.com

Quaghebeur, Rolf

T: +32 22 290003 rolf@argosarts.org

isomura@presario.jp

Yorck Strasse 22 40476,Düsseldorf Germany T: +49 30 33982800 F: +49 30 33982810 spanoupa@yahoo.de

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Rajaei, Sara

Robalo, Gonçalo

Sang Karsa Production

sixpackfilm

sarajaei@yahoo.com www.sarajaei.com

goncalorobalo@yahoo.com

sangkarsa@hotmail.com

office@sixpackfilm.com www.sixpackfilm.com

Segbroeklaan 214 2565 DS,Den Haag Netherlands T: +31 70 3467702 F: +31 70 3467702

Rua António Pedro, 129 – 2ºesq. 1000-037,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 96 9616999

Rocha Minter, Emiliano

Ramonda, Pascale

91 rue de Menilmontant 75020,Paris France T: +33 1 43586029 F: +33 1 49700371

pascale@pascaleramonda.com www.pascaleramonda.com

RAMONDAParis

91 rue de Menilmontant 75020,Paris France T: +33 6 62013241

pascale@pascaleramonda.com www.pascaleramonda.com

Rasti, Aliyar

Shahrake Gharb 98734-56321,Tehran Iran T: +98 88070131

funkof@gmail.com

Roofvogel

Stadhouderskade 139D 1074 BA,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6328435 info@roofvogel.org www.roofvogel.org

Rosforth

Sturlasgade 14B 2300,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 60734555

rosforth@rosforth.com www.rosforth.com

aliyar_r13@yahoo.com www.cargocollective. com/aliyarrasti

RTS Swiss Television

Quai Ernest-Ansermet 20 P.O. Box 234 1211,Genève Switzerland T: +41 58 2368936 F: +41 58 2368921

Ratté, Sabrina

5198 Rivard H2J 2P1,Montréal Canada T: +1 514 6594431

gaspard.lamuniere@rts.ch www.rts.ch

sabrinaratte@gmail.com www.sabrinaratte.com

Ruijter, Gerco de

Re:Voir

Lloydstraat 11d 3024 EA,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 22864728

43 rue du Faubourg Saint Martin 75010,Paris France T: +33 9 54225111 F: +33 1 42400427

gcderuijter@online.nl www.gercoderuijter.nl

info@re-voir.com www.re-voir.com

S.I.G. Inc.

3-301 Samon-tyo, Shinjuku-kuTokyo Japan T: +81 3 62730120 F: +81 3 33732135

Redrum Flix

PO Box 61184 3002 HD,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 44107210

info@sig-inc.co.jp www.sig-inc.co.jp

info@redrumrecordz.com www.redrumrecordz.com

Sacher Distribuzione

Reprisefilms

5333 Casgrain Suite 512 H2T 1X3,Montreal Canada T: +1 514 2730007 F: +1 514 9255808 paul@reprisefilms.com www.reprisefilms.com

Viale Tunisia n° 36 20124,Milan Italy T: +39 2 6704399 F: +39 2 67386386

info@sacherdistribuzione.it www.sacherdistribuzione.it

Saeedvafa, Mehrnaz

7906 Lotus Avenue 60053,Morton Grove, IL USA T: +31 20 1234567 F: +31 20 1234567

Rewind My Future

Bermudez 2460 depto. A 1417,Buenos Aires Argentina T: +54 11 45664557

msaeedvafa@colum.edu

leobrzezicki@yahoo.com

Sallitt, Dan

301 Cumberland St. Apt. F1 NY 11238,New York USA T: +1 718 8525998

Rioabajo

Aranguren 561, 1ºA 1405,Buenos Aires Argentina T: +54 11 49027657

sallitt@post.harvard.edu www.sallitt.blogspot.com

papecora@yahoo.com www.elsueniodelperro. blogspot.com

Samadi, Bahar

4, rue de Jarente 75004,Paris France T: +33 1 42774411

RiverDry Film

18 Abdel Aziz Street Heliopolis 11351,Cairo Egypt T: +20 10 63810977

Quintana roo 93 int 1 col roma sur 06760,Mexico df Mexico T: +52 55 55746421

bahareh_samadib@yahoo.com www.vimeo.com/user3895919

lblewarne@riverdryfilm.com www.riverdryfilm.com

Jln Dewi Sartika Utara 56 A 81116,Singaraja Indonesia T: +62 36 241615 F: +62 21 5531190 SBS Productions

29, rue Danielle Casanova 75002,Paris France T: +33 1 45636660 F: +33 1 45638369

contact@sbs-productions.com www.sbs-productions.com

Schiwago Film GmbH

Bavariafilmplatz 7 82031,Geiselgasteig Germany T: +49 30 6953980 F: +49 89 64981833 info@schiwagofilm.de www.schiwagofilm.de

Schreiner, Volker

Sallstrasse 82 30171,Hannover Germany T: +49 511 5422090 F: +49 511 5422090

mail@volkerschreiner.de www.volkerschreiner.de

Sedna Films

120, Quai de la Loire 75019,Paris France T: +33 1 43720680 F: +33 1 48784779 sednafilms@free.fr www.sednafilms.fr

Setak Film Sanandaj

PO Box 66135-137Sanandaj Iran T: +98 918 8709237 info@setakfilm.com www.setakfilm.com

Shin Yeon-Shick

88-15 4th floor Kuki Dong Chongro-gu 110-803,Seoul South Korea T: +82 11 90854398 woodyshin@hanmail.net

Shirvani, Mohammad

No.336, 6 exit Block b1, Akbatan 13937,Tehran Iran T: +98 21 44697852 F: +98 21 44697852

mim.shirvani@gmail.com

Shoja Araghi, Mahsa

Neubaugasse 45/13 1070,Vienna Austria T: +43 1 5260990 F: +43 1 5260992

Tanya Leighton Gallery

Topkapi Films

info@tanyaleighton.com www.tanyaleighton.com

info@topkapifilms.nl www.topkapifilms.nl

Kurfürstenstrasse 156 10785,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 221607770

TB Produções

Small Talk Inc.

Rua Fadel Fadel, 186/701 22430-170,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 22398057 F: +55 212 2398057

34-19-404 Chigusadai, Aoba-ku Kanagawa-ken 227-0051,Yokohama Japan T: +81 45 9723394

tbproducoes@gmail.com www.greengofilms.com

gshohreh@ybb.ne.jp

Telecican, Ramona

Solomon, Philip

1/553 Rathdowne Street 3054,Carlton North Australia T: +61 42 3909634

6 Pinon Place CO 80020,Broomfield USA T: +1 303 4381485 F: +1 303 4921362

ramona@telecican.com www.ramona.telecican.com

solomon@colorado.edu www.philsolomon.com

The Festival Agency

Sota Cinema Group

4 Khreschatyk Office12 01001,Kiev Ukraine T: +38 44 5370945 F: +38 44 5370945

Starling, Simon

St. Kongensgade 75B, 5th 1264,Copenhagen Denmark T: +44 7 973191702 info@simonstarling.com www.simonstarling.com

Körtestrasse 5 10967,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 70125131

hito.steyerl@googlemail.com

Stichting FilmTent

info@matchfactory.de www.the-match-factory.com

The Migrant Ecologies Project

lucydavis@ntu.edu.sg www.migrantecologies.org

1517 Gardena Ave. CA 91204,Glendale USA T: +1 310 6669373

kerrytribe@earthlink.net www.kerrytribe.com

Tocha, Gonçalo

Zwarte Paardenstraat 173 3012 VK,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 43028581

mahsa_3475@yahoo.com

info@studiorev.nl www.studiorev.nl

Campo de Santa Clara 111, 2ºesquerdo 1100-472,Lisboa Portugal T: +351 96 3655276

Siobhan Davies Dance

Sudan Film Factory

Todd, Robert

SIRI Producciones

Camino Real 390, Torre Central Piso 11 San Isidro 27,Lima Peru T: +51 1 513 3030 alvaro@apoyo.com.pe

nuubia76@hotmail.com www.goethe.de/ins/su/kha/ kue/sff/hin/en9834758.htm

Suzuki Ryoji

2-1-622 Utagawacho Shibuyaku 150-0042,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 54591521

gtocha.filmz@gmail.com www.naterranaonalua.com

57 Cornwall Street #3 MA 02130,Boston USA T: +1 617 5106470 F: +1 617 8248803

robert_todd@emerson.edu www.roberttoddfilms.com

Toho International Co.

1-2-2 Yurakucho Chiyodaku 100-8415,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 35913530 F: +81 3 35916610

ryoji@ryoji.co.jp www.ryoji.co.jp/menu.html

info@trustnordisk.com www.trustnordisk.com

5-53-67 Cosmos Aoyama Jingumae Shibuya-Ku 150-0001,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 54781611 F: +81 3 54788140 info@tvu.co.jp www.tvu.co.jp

Tzulogical Films

PO Box 543 Serangoon Central 915502,Singapore Singapore T: +65 9 8367131 tzulogy@gmail.com

info@umedia.eu www.umedia.eu

StudioRev

film@siobhandavies.com www.siobhandavies.com

TrustNordisk

international@weinsteinco.com www.weinsteinco.com

Thomson/Tribe Studios

Goethe Institut Sudan Sharia Al-Mek Nimr; Po Box 1866 11111,Khartoum Sudan T: +249 1 83777833

info@travellingdistribution.com www.travellingdistribution.com

UDream

217 Mahdi 1 st-Etaati st-Janbazan BoulevardJalal al ahmad Highway 14647-76684,Tehran Iran T: +98 21 88256023

85 St. George’s Road SE1 6ER,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 70919650

1425 place de l’Hotel-de-Ville C.P. 368 G9A 5H3,Trois-Rivières Canada T: +1 514 4678160

The Weinstein Company USA

Studio Ancarani

info@yuriancarani.com www.yuriancarani.com

Travelling

TV Man Union, Inc.

Balthasarstrasse 79-81 50670,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 5397090 F: +49 221 53970910

375 Greenwich Street, 3rd Floor NY 10013,New York USA T: +1 212 9413800

Via Giulio Cesare Procaccini n°4 20154,Milan Italy T: +39 333 1712591

+1 310 2473032

The Match Factory GmbH

Voorburgstraat 136b 3037 PR,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 1234567 patrick@filmtent.nl www.filmtent.nl

1313 North Vine Street CA 90028,Los Angeles USA T: +1 310 2473016

Filmbyen 28 2650,Hvidovre Denmark T: +45 36 868788 F: +45 36 868750

12 Wilton Close 138762,Singapore Singapore T: +65 92760796

Steyerl, Hito

Toscano, Mark

14, rue des Jeuneurs 75002,Paris France T: +33 9 54904863

info@thefestivalagency.com www.thefestivalagency.com

kohan@sota.net.ua www.sotacinema.com

Rapenburgerstraat 123 1011 VL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3032494

tohointl@toho.co.jp www.toho.co.jp

Avenue Louise 235 1050,Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 5440000 F: +32 2 3729138

Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH

Wasserburgergasse 5/7 1090,Vienna Austria T: +43 1 3102824 F: +43 1 3195664 office@ulrichseidl.at www.ulrichseidl.com

UPLINK Co.

4F, 37-18 Udagawacho Shibuya-ku 150-0042,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 68216821 F: +81 3 34858785 film@uplink.co.jp www.uplink.co.jp

Urban Distribution International

14, rue du 18 Août 93100,Montreuil sous Bois France T: +33 1 48707376 F: +33 1 49720421 contact@urbandistrib.com www.urbandistrib.com

V tape

401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 M5V 3A8,Toronto Canada T: +1 416 3511317 F: +1 416 3511509 info@vtape.org www.vtape.org

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Vanoverbeek, Jelena

Waked, Sharif

Voormuide 106 9000,Gent Belgium T: +32 49 6988565

Israel

sharifwaked@gmail.com www.sharifwaked.info

jelenavanoverbeek@gmail.com

Venema, Wouter

Slaghekstraat 36a 3074 LM,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 47016103

WDR

Appellhofplatz 1 50667,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 22 080 21 F: +49 221 22 048 46 studio.koeln@wdr.de www.wdr.de

w.venema@gmail.com ww.woutervenema.nl

Wessels, Jasper

Vergara, Angel

Philips Willemstraat 53b 3051PN,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4045525

67, rue Joseph Bens 1180,Brussels Belgium T: +32 47 2517692

vergara.angel@gmail.com www.angelvergarasantiago.com

Vessey, Tricia

desduivels2012@gmail.com www.phantomworks.nl

White Mirror Film Company

Starovolinskaya street, 15-5-17 119501,Moscow Russia T: +7 499 1302112

99 Macon Street #6 NY 11216,New York USA T: +1 917 6871389

sofiko1@gmail.com

triciavessey@gmail.com www.triciavessey.com

Wide House

9, rue Bleue 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 53950464 F: +33 1 53950465

Viacolvento s.r.l.

Via Gramsci n° 66 08100,Nuoro Italy T: +39 3 403596798 F: +39 0784 32270

infos@widehouse.org www.widehouse.org

viacolvento@gmail.com

Video Data Bank (VDB)

112 S. Michigan Avenue IL 60647,Chicago USA T: +1 312 3453550 F: +1 312 5418073 distro@vdb.org www.vdb.org

Wide Management

9, rue Bleue 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 53950464 F: +33 1 53950465

infos@widemanagement.com www.widemanagement.com

Wild Bunch

Villanueva, Eduardo

Yesilbas, Rezan

Ikbaliye Mah. Zeamet Sok. No: 26 /2 Gül Apt. Acibadem-Kadiköy 34718,Istanbul Turkey T: +90 5385199899 F: +90 2122445222

rezanyesilbas@gmail.com www.rezanyesilbas.com

Yilmaz, Serdar

Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Faculty of Fine Art and Design Mahmutbey Dilmenler Cad. No:26, Bagcilar 34217,Istanbul Turkey T: +90 2126040137 F: +90 212 4459255 seryil71@hotmail.com www.serdaryilmaz.org

Zap-O-Matik

Brandhoutkaai 37 bus 6 1000,Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 2190018 F: +32 2 2190018 info@zapomatik.com www.zapomatik.com

Zdjelar, Katarina

Wolphaertstraat 27C 3082 BK,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 7861886

zdjelar.k@gmail.com www.katarinazdjelar.net

Zeitun Films

Plaza de la Gaiteira, nº2, 5ºA 15006,A Coruña Spain T: +34 98 19077252 info@zeitunfilms.com www.zeitunfilms.com

99, rue de la Verrerie 75004,Paris France T: +33 1 53104267 F: +33 1 53104269

Zinc Garden

vilas129@gmail.com

distribution@wildbunch.eu www.wildbunch-distribution.com

Visit Films

Wildside SRL

Zodiak Rights

info@visitfilms.com www.visitfilms.com

info@wildside.it www.wildside.it

1 de Mayo 56 28450,Comala Mexico T: +52 312 3156372 F: +52 312 3156372

173 Richardson Street NY 11222,New York USA T: +1 718 3128210 F: +1 718 3624865

Viale Giuseppe Mazzini n° 9 00195,Rome Italy T: +39 06 94516900 F: +39 06 94516919

Vistamare

Largo dei Frentani n° 13 65127,Pescara Italy T: +39 085 694570 info@vistamare.com www.vistamare.com

400-3 jinheoungbill 202 Mangwon-dong, Mapo-gu 121-230,Seoul South Korea T: +82 10 90778963 wonwon002@naver.com

VOD-consulting

Xstream Pictures Limited

Weyertal 15 50937,Cologne Germany T: +49 170 8956244

philipp@vod-consulting.net www.vod-consulting.net

Vox Lucida Distribution

4 cité Griset 75011,Paris France T: +33 1 49295190

1502 244 Des Voeux Road CentralHong Kong Hong Kong T: +852 9615 9825 F: +86 10 82354938

chowkeung@yahoo.com

Yasinsky, Karen

21570 Bar Neck Cove Rd. MD 21671,Tilghman USA T: +1 410 8861096

info@cameralucida.fr www.holdingpcl.com

yasinsky@earthlink.net www.karenyasinsky.com

WA Entertainment Inc

2-20-8 Terabun Kamakura 247-0064,Kanagawa Japan T: +81 90 16021599 F: +81 46 7677104

Won Kang

Hooidrift 122 A 3023KV,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4259772

zincgarden@xs4all.nl www.michielvanbakel.nl

Immeuble Le France 115-123 avenue Charles de Gaulle 92200,Neuilly-sur-Seine France T: +33 1 53109100 F: +33 1 53109451

contactus@zodiakrights.com www.zodiakrights.com

Zolfaghari, Niloofar

No. 8, Banafsheh Alley, Valiasr Alley, Kouhsar St., Shahran Ave., Unit 13 14869-83711,Tehran Iran T: +98 21 44322926 nilootus@yahoo.com

Zupraner, Mich’ael

21 Ha’Ayin Het Street 95112,Jerusalem Israel T: +972 5 27382180 zupraner@gmail.com

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Postfach 4040 D-55100,Mainz Germany T: +49 6131 703307 F: +49 6131 702157 www.zdf.de

kousuke@waentertain.com www.waentertain.com

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film LIST By COUNTRy

Afghanistan

film LIST By COUNTRy

Cuba

Death Metal Angola

Harmonica’s Howl Hill of Pleasures Na sua companhia Odete Rio Belongs to Us Serra do Mar They’ll Come Back Tropicália

Argentina

Cambodia

Denmark

A Brief History of Collapses The Patience Stone Algeria

Untitled Angola

Insight Leones María El muerto y ser feliz Noche Noelia Los salvajes

Stoned

Cameroon

Ninah’s Dowry Canada

Australia

Crystal World Errors of the Human Body Faraways Lore Men of the Earth Austria

Die ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik Fahrtwind - Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden Fata Morgana Find the Lost One Grenzgänger Hotel Room Jackson/Marker 4am Kern NabelFabel Nachbehandlung Paradies: Glaube RECONNAISSANCE Snow in Vienna Soldate Jeannette Tic Tac Belarus

In the Fog Belgium

and yes I said yes I will Yes. ...Because Superglue Is Forever! Cantaert Hunter 890602 Les chevaux de Dieu La cinquième saison Comrade Kim Goes Flying Diego Star Der Doppelgänger Kid Kinshasa Superband Living Still Life Low Tide The Mirror The Mother nocturne #2 Swan Song La tendresse Tokyo Giants De wederopstanding van een klootzak The Wife Het zwijgen van Helena Bosnia and Herzegovina

Krivina Brazil

Chile

Carne de perro Il futuro No No hay pan La noche de enfrente Prófugos China

Emperor Visits the Hell A Fallible Girl Four Ways to Die in My Hometown The Hunter and the Skeleton The Love Songs of Tiedan Memories Look at Me Ping’an Yueqing When Night Falls Colombia

Avanti popolo Claun (Part 1: Ayana’s Week of Adventures) Dogs Are Said to See Things Éden Film for Blind Poet A floresta de Jonathas

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Activated Memory I Algonquin Avant que mon coeur bascule A Casing Shelved A Day for Cake and Accidents Diego Star Emperor Visits the Hell Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths Exercises in Faith: Bird The Folded Edges Across the Rim Forsaken Hit Parade Ina Litovski I Was Here Kayan Krivina Malody memento mori A Minimal Difference Our Protection La région centrale Reverberlin Roman Spring Leakage The Secret Disco Revolution Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Sight Slidelength Snow in Vienna Strange Lines and Distances Wavemakers Where She Stood in the First Place

Jirafas La Playa D.C. Croatia

Behind the Looking Glass The Verdict

Film for Blind Poet Jirafas Melaza Czech Republic

Burning Bush Frankenstein’s Army My Dog Killer Black Drop Daimi Ginger and Rosa Kidd Life Nation Estate Northwest Egypt

2026 80 Million CAMARADERIE Crop Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship Finland

The Annunciation Butterfly’s Effect Call Girl Embarkation The Future Is Not What It Used to Be Futuro - A New Stance for Tomorrow In Memoriam The Most Electrified Town in Finland Optical Sound Six Day Run Stimulus Progression (Rotterdam) Suddenly, Last Summer Two Islands The Zone of Total Eclipse France

Acrophobia 0.1. Alone Après mai Axel und Peter Belle comme le jour Blancanieves Carne de perro Cello Cherchez Hortense Les chevaux de Dieu Chiri Cinexpérimentaux Stephen Dwoskin La cinquième saison Dead World Order Un dimanche matin L’enclos du temps L’entrefilm L’étoile du jour La fille de nulle part Fort Buchanan Foudre Gazing at the Catastrophe Gebo and the Shadow Good Bye Sweet Pop’s Une histoire d’amour Kinshasa Superband Leones Living Still Life Lonely Bones Ma belle gosse Mademoiselle La maison vide

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Manhã de Santo António Matei Child Miner Melaza Miroir mon amour El muerto y ser feliz No La noche de enfrente Paradies: Glaube The Patience Stone Polaroïd Versus Roman Photo Post tenebras lux Postface à la brochure de 1942 Reality Rengaine Les revenants The Sentimental Policeman Soigneur Sources Star Light n°5 bis Starring Sigmund Freud La tendresse Trois exercises d’interpretation Untitled Vinylmania - When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute Watchtower White Epilepsy Ziba Germany

5 Jahre Abstract Atropa Axel und Peter Black Drop A Brief History of Collapses Carne de perro Continuity Crop Crystal Pillars Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge Deutschland 09 - Der Weg, den wir nicht zusammen gehen Disquieting Nature Dreileben: Komm mir nicht nach Die Erbin Errors of the Human Body Der Felsen Die Freunde der Freunde Il futuro Gegenwart Das Gelübde Hollywood Movie Hotte im Paradies In the Fog Kalter Frühling Kid Lawinen der Erinnerung Living Still Life Lore Matei Child Miner München - Geheimnisse einer Stadt Nairobi Half Life Odboy & Erordog Suite Oh Boy Paradies: Glaube The Patience Stone La pionnière Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel

Post tenebras lux Ritournelle Die Sieger Something Necessary Spieler Eine Stadt wird erpresst Starring Sigmund Freud Ten Minutiae La tendresse Das unsichtbare Mädchen Vengeance - Episode 1 Vergiss mein nicht Versions 2012 Vinylmania - When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute Wadjda Watchtower Greece

Austerity Measures Boy Eating the Bird’s Food km Pearblossom Hwy Guinea-Bissau

Cacheu

Hong Kong

Alone Drug War Longing for the Rain Polis X Vulgaria Hungary

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen Look Inside the Ghost Machine Silent Ones India

21 Chitrakoot Celluloid Man Friday Night I.D. Miss Lovely Museum of Imagination Shanghai Ship of Theseus Indonesia

Atambua 39° Celsius The Flaneurs #3 On Mother’s Head One Day When the Rain Falls Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses Soegija The Thieves What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love Iran

111 Girls Acrophobia 0.1. Conquest of Paradise Damn Garbage Darvag Dialogue with Open Eyes Elephant in Darkness Fat Shaker A Few Kilometers Away From Tehran to London The Gardener Good Childhood Days Immersed Irreversible Beauty Keep Us, Keep Us

Magnificent Life of the Prince Make Art, Not War The Memories of Others Mist Modest Reception Mory Wants a Wife My Glorious Childhood My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns Parviz Perpendicular to the Path Raining Ashes Red Thing Sazdahani Scaffold Taboor Tehran Through the Window This Is Not an Ice Cream Tunnel When the Curtain Falls Worn Out Mirrors Ziba Ireland

Call Girl The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Secretion Israel

A Killer Reunion Snow Tapes Italy

Bellas mariposas Da Vinci Find the Lost One Il futuro Io e te It’s All About Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau) Light Plate Low Tide Reality Sedia elettrica - Il makingof del film Io e te Su Re Vinylmania - When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute Japan

11.25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate 2·11 2012 Akiba-Field The Charm of Others Chiri Columbos The Complex Don’t Dare to Stop Love Experience in Material 52:DUBHOUSE For Love’s Sake A Forest Within a Forest GFP Bunny Going Home Inori Japan’s Tragedy Lesson of the Evil Number 10 Blues/ Goodbye Saigon Odayaka Penance Shibata and Ngao Sou Stom Sogo: Ultimately

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film LIST By COUNTRy

Wandering Alien Detective Robin Kenya

Nairobi Half Life Something Necessary Kurdistan

Rhino Season Kuwait

How Can I Resist U Laos

Dangerous Games Latvia

In the Fog Lebanon

At Five in the Afternoon Gazing at the Catastrophe I’ve Heard Stories: Part 1 Kayan Under a Rainbow Luxembourg

Une histoire d’amour Rear Window Timelapse Macau

Na escama do dragão Malaysia

Hanger

Mexico

Dentro Halley Las lágrimas Mai morire Los micro burgueses Para armar un helicóptero Penumbra Post tenebras lux Scaffold Morocco

Myanmar

Poor Folk

1978 the 231st Day Beyond Sunset and Sunrise La cinquième saison Crops Crystal Pillars DEAD BODY WELCOME Des duivels Dream King Edison Bay Frankenstein’s Army Grandpass Herinneringen aan vuur Hier is Harry Merry Hier Nu Hill of Pleasures Hole How to Describe a Cloud In the Fog Insight It’s All About Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau) Janus Kid A Killer Reunion Lee Towers: The Voice of Rotterdam Leones Lonely Bones La madre, il figlio e l’architetto Matterhorn

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North Korea

Comrade Kim Goes Flying Norway

90 Minutes Call Girl The Shores of an Island I Only Skirted A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) Palestine

Les chevaux de Dieu

Netherlands

Mist My Life Time Nation for Two De nieuwe wereld Nummer veertien, home De ontmaagding van Eva van End Orde van dienst Piece by Piece Post tenebras lux Raw 1.0 Sample: Not For Sale The Saprophage Señal de humo The Shores of an Island I Only Skirted Silent Ones Soigneur Spell Tamelijk gelukkig To Become, Shift, Transfer, Copy and Erase JANET LEIGH Toegetakeld door de liefde Unsupported Transit Het verzameld breiwerk van Loes Veenstra We Lived Our Ordinary Lives De wederopstanding van een klootzak Die Welt

film LIST By COUNTRy

F*ck for Forest Ixjana Lasting Ziegenort Portugal

Ao Lobo da Madragoa Asleep Cacheu Centro histórico Gebo and the Shadow Luís Luz da manhã Manhã de Santo António Na escama do dragão Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things Torres & cometas Zwazo

Big Boy How to Raise a Smart & Happy Child from Age Zero to Five Kalayaan Lukas the Strange Mater Dolorosa Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro Not a Soul Steel Is the Earth Poland

Abstract Before Passing

Switzerland

Romania

Syria

Matei Child Miner Trois exercises d’interpretation Russia

The Certificate Chekhov’s Motifs The Delivery Guy Dummy Home In the Fog Letter Me Too Passions Postface à la brochure de 1942 Three Stories The Tuner Saudi Arabia

Wadjda

South Korea

Philippines

The Big Scene Call Girl Figs Förår Immersed My Stolen Revolution Odboy & Erordog Suite Roland Hassel

How Can I Resist U

Panama

El acompañante

Sweden

Quod Erat Demonstrandum Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship

Senegal

Peru

Beyond Memory Cinema Behind Bars In Search of Hip-Hop Nomads Number 12 Rabbaba Man

Qatar

Beace Brocess No. 1 Colorful Journey Contribute a Better Translation Home Video No. 1 Gaza (They Accepted the Pleasures of Morning) Nation Estate A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) Snow Tapes Though I Know the River Is Dry Jirafas Melaza

Sudan

Small Heroes Tall as the Baobab Tree Serbia

Disappearing Landscape Singapore

The Cloud of Unknowing Disappearing Landscape Teak Road Slovakia

Fine, Thanks My Dog Killer Jiseul Pieta The Russian Novel Sleepless Night Stoker Sunshine Boys Temper Clay Ugly Night When Night Falls Spain

Blancanieves Buenos días resistencia Disappearing Landscape The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser Il futuro Lasting El muerto y ser feliz The Room Called Heaven Voice Over

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Beeshu’s Nightmare Taiwan

A Breath from the Bottom Happiness Building 1 Immortelle Poor Folk Thailand

36 Karaoke Girl Mekong Hotel The Mother Overseas Zero Gravity Turkey

Die Erbin Find the Lost One Fried Chicken The Lament Rhino Season Silent Watchtower Ukraine

Chekhov’s Motifs Dummy Eternal Homecoming Letter to America Melody for a Street Organ Nuclear Waste Second Class Citizens The Sentimental Policeman Three Stories The Tuner Two in One United Arab Emirates

A Fallible Girl

United Kingdom

2 Film Concerts - Ibragimova & Rudy All This Can Happen Berberian Sound Studio Black Drop Cold Open Comrade Kim Goes Flying Crystal World Dad’s Stick Dance Swine Dance Dangerous Games Dark Garden Dummy Jim Echo Eris A Fallible Girl From Tehran to London Ginger and Rosa

Gonda Lay Bare Lore Lost Dreams Mekong Hotel Night of the Foxes The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Phantoms of a Libertine Poised The Radiant Raining Ashes Sample: Not For Sale School of Sound Sightseers Soundfigures Though I Know the River Is Dry The Tiger’s Mind The Toxic Camera Twice Over The View from Our House Walk-Through Wasteland Your Eyes Are Dead Zabriskie Point Redacted USA

All Magic Sands All Magic Sands/Chappaqua Audition August and After ...Because Superglue Is Forever! Beyond Expression Bright Beyond Sunset and Sunrise The Boring Life of Jacqueline Bouncing off the Walls A Brief History of Collapses By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging Changing Channels Web Lounge Circle in the Sand County Down Episode 1 The Dancing Soul of the Walking People Dangerous Games Death Metal Angola Desert Hopes Disquieting Nature Doll Parts Dream Boy Easy Rider Empire The Endless Tedium of Capitalism The Eric Andre Show Faces Festschrift for an Archive Find the Lost One First Comes Love The Flaneurs #3 Frankenstein’s Army Girls Greystone Habitat I Hate Being Single I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard Ice/Fire In Search of Avery Willard In the Production Office The International Space Orchestra The Invisible World The Island of St. Matthews It Felt Like Love Jerry & Me Just Ancient Loops

Kiss the Rain Leather Narcissus Let Fury Have the Hour Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact Light Plate Low Tide The Master Mr. President Muscle Top My Sister’s Quinceañera Ninah’s Dowry No Odayaka Orpheus (Outtakes) Our Nixon Pearblossom Hwy Persian Pickles Plastic Rap with Frieda Point de Gaze Polis X (Pop, Terror, Critique) Remix Reflections Releasing Human Energies Restless Leg Saga The Room Called Heaven Salome: The Dance of the Seven Veils Sample: Not For Sale Simon Killer Skinningrove Spring Breakers Starring Sigmund Freud Stoned The Street of Everlasting Rain Temper Clay Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel Touch Towheads The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks Two Russians in the Free World The Unspeakable Act Walk-Through Walt Disney’s ‘Taxi Driver’ Wandering Alien Detective Robin When the Curtain Falls Whiplash USSR

Among Grey Stones The Asthenic Syndrome Brief Encounters Change of Fortune Getting to Know the Big Wide World Long Farewells On the Steep Cliff Our Honest Bread Vietnam

Number 10 Blues/ Goodbye Saigon West Germany

Der Fahnder: Nachtwache Die Katze

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List of Premieres

Feature length World premiere

Number 10 Blues/Goodbye Saigon

The Russian Novel

On Mother’s Head

Stoker

One Day When the Rain Falls

Su Re

Our Nixon

Sunshine Boys

Penumbra

They’ll Come Back

Rio Belongs to Us

Torres & cometas

Silent Ones

Trois exercises d’interpretation

Something Necessary

Wavemakers

Osada Norio (Japan, Vietnam)

All Magic Sands

Putu Kusuma Widjaja (Indonesia)

All Magic Sands/Chappaqua

Ifa Isfansyah (Indonesia)

Claun (Part 1: Ayana’s Week of Adventures)

Penny Lane (USA)

Andrew Lampert (USA) Andrew Lampert (USA)

Felipe Bragança (Brazil)

Eduardo Villanueva (Mexico)

The Complex

Nakata Hideo (Japan)

Ricardo Pretti (Brazil)

Darvag

Abolfazl Jalili (Iran)

Ricky Rijneke (Netherlands, Hungary)

DEAD BODY WELCOME Kees Brienen (Netherlands)

The Delivery Guy

Andrey Stempkovsky (Russia)

Diego Star

Frédérick Pelletier (Canada, Belgium)

Disappearing Landscape

Vladimir Todorovic (Singapore, Serbia, Spain)

Dummy Jim

Matt Hulse (United Kingdom)

Die Erbin

Ayse Polat (Germany, Turkey)

Fahrtwind - Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden Bernadette Weigel (Austria)

A Fallible Girl

Fata Morgana

Peter Schreiner (Austria)

The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser Alberto Gracia (Spain)

Manuela Morgaine (France)

Frankenstein’s Army

Richard Raaphorst (Netherlands, Czech Republic, USA)

Harmonica’s Howl

Marion Hänsel (Belgium, France, Germany)

Toegetakeld door de liefde Ari Deelder (Netherlands)

Touch

Shelly Silver (USA)

Towheads

Shannon Plumb (USA)

The View from Our House

Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin (United Kingdom)

De wederopstanding van een klootzak

International premiere 5 Jahre

Bellas mariposas Salvatore Mereu (Italy)

Big Boy

Shireen Seno (Philippines)

The Boring Life of Jacqueline

Bruno Safadi (Brazil)

Sebastián Silva (USA)

Hill of Pleasures

Maria Ramos (Netherlands, Brazil)

How to Describe a Cloud David Verbeek (Netherlands)

The Island of St. Matthews Kevin Jerome Everson (USA)

Jirafas

Enrique Álvarez (Cuba, Colombia, Panama)

Karaoke Girl

Visra Vichit Vadakan (Thailand)

Kinshasa Superband

Pierre Laffargue (France, Belgium)

Lee Towers: The Voice of Rotterdam Hans Heijnen (Netherlands)

Longing for the Rain

Burning Bush

Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic)

The Dancing Soul of the Walking People Paula Gladstone (USA)

Éden

Bruno Safadi (Brazil)

F*ck for Forest

Michal Marczak (Poland)

A floresta de Jonathas Sérgio Andrade (Brazil)

GFP Bunny

Tsuchiya Yutaka (Japan)

Going Home

Kore-eda Hirokazu (Japan)

Une histoire d’amour

Yang Lina (Hong Kong)

Hélène Fillières (France, Luxembourg)

Lukas the Strange

It Felt Like Love

John Torres (Philippines)

Eliza Hittman (USA)

Matei Child Miner

Alexandra Gulea (Romania, Germany, France)

Matterhorn

Diederik Ebbinge (Netherlands)

Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines)

My Dog Killer

Mira Fornay (Slovakia, Czech Republic)

My Sister’s Quinceañera Aaron Douglas Johnston (USA)

My Stolen Revolution

Nahid Persson Sarvestani (Sweden)

De nieuwe wereld

Jaap van Heusden (Netherlands) Leonardo Brzezicki (Argentina)

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La tendresse

Sébastien Rose (Canada)

Foudre

Michael Noer (Denmark)

Mes De Guzman (Philippines)

Avant que mon coeur bascule

Mátyás Prikler (Slovakia)

Northwest

Steel Is the Earth

Stefan Schaller (Germany)

Fine, Thanks

Noche

Judy Kibinge (Kenya, Germany)

Guido van Driel (Netherlands, Belgium)

Conrad Clark (United Arab Emirates, China, United Kingdom)

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Kidd Life

Andreas Johnsen (Denmark)

Krivina

Igor Drljaca (Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Las lágrimas

Pablo Delgado Sánchez (Mexico)

Ma belle gosse

Shalimar Preuss (France)

Mater Dolorosa

Adolfo B. Alix Jr. (Philippines)

Melaza

Carlos Lechuga (Cuba, France, Panama)

Miroir mon amour Siegrid Alnoy (France)

Ninah’s Dowry

Victor Viyuoh (Cameroon, USA)

Roland Hassel

Måns Månsson (Sweden)

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Short films World premiere 1978 the 231st Day

Sara Rajaei (Netherlands)

Giovanni Columbu (Italy)

2012

Makino Takashi (Japan)

Kim Tae-Gon (South Korea) Marcelo Lordello (Brazil)

Gonçalo Tocha (Portugal) Cristi Puiu (Romania, France)

Acrophobia 0.1.

Anahita Hekmat (France, Iran)

Activated Memory I Sabrina Ratté (Canada)

Atropa

Peter Conrad Beyer (Germany)

Before Passing

Bianca Lucas (Poland)

Caroline Martel (Canada)

European premiere

Beyond Sunset and Sunrise

Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács (Netherlands, USA)

111 Girls

Butterfly’s Effect

Columbos

Atambua 39° Celsius

Crop

The Charm of Others

Crops

Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zamanpira (Iran) Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand) Riri Riza (Indonesia)

Ninomiya Ryutaro (Japan)

Death Metal Angola

Jeremy Xido (Angola, USA)

Emperor Visits the Hell Li Luo (China, Canada)

Fat Shaker

Mohammad Shirvani (Iran)

First Comes Love Nina Davenport (USA)

Four Ways to Die in My Hometown Chai Chunya (China)

Kawai + Okamura (Japan) Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke (Egypt, Germany) Gerco de Ruijter (Netherlands)

Crystal Pillars

Constant Dullaart (Netherlands, Germany)

Crystal World

Pia Borg (United Kingdom, Australia)

A Day for Cake and Accidents Steve Reinke, Jessie Mott (Canada)

Des duivels

Eelko Ferwerda, Jasper Wessels (Netherlands)

Doll Parts

Muzi Quawson (USA)

Il futuro

Alicia Scherson (Chile, Germany, Italy, Spain)

The Gardener

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran)

Halley

Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico)

Happiness Building 1 Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan)

Japan’s Tragedy

Kobayashi Masahiro (Japan)

Jiseul

O Muel (South Korea)

Kayan

Maryam Najafi (Lebanon, Canada)

Lasting

Jacek Borcuch (Poland, Spain)

My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns Kamran Heydari (Iran)

Odayaka

Uchida Nobuteru (Japan, USA)

De ontmaagding van Eva van End Michiel ten Horn (Netherlands)

Ping’an Yueqing Ai Weiwei (China)

Der Doppelgänger

Bernard Gigounon (Belgium)

Echo

Lewis Arnold (United Kingdom)

Edison Bay

Michiel van Bakel (Netherlands)

Embarkation

Sini Pelkki (Finland)

Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths Francisca Duran (Canada)

A Few Kilometers Away Ebrahim Irajzad (Iran)

Figs

Tony Cederteg (Sweden)

The Flaneurs #3

Aryo Danusiri (Indonesia, USA)

The Folded Edges Across the Rim John Forget (Canada)

Förår

John Skoog (Sweden)

Friday Night

Gul Dharmani (India)

Good Bye Sweet Pop’s Bérangère Allaux (France)

Good Childhood Days

Poor Folk

Midi Z (Taiwan, Myanmar)

Prófugos

Aliyar Rasti, Siavash Naghshbandi (Iran)

Hier is Harry Merry

Joke Olthaar (Netherlands)

Pablo Larraín (Chile)

Hole

Shanghai

Dibakar Banerjee (India)

Soegija

Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)

Soldate Jeannette Daniel Hoesl (Austria)

Watchtower

Pelin Esmer (Turkey, Germany, France)

Die Welt

Alex Pitstra (Netherlands)

What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love Mouly Surya (Indonesia)

Ziba

Anssi Kasitonni (Finland)

Bani Khoshnoudi (Iran, France)

Wouter Venema (Netherlands)

Home Video No. 1 Gaza (They Accepted the Pleasures of Morning) Basma Alsharif (Palestine)

How to Raise a Smart & Happy Child from Age Zero to Five Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines)

Immersed

Mohamedreza Heydary (Sweden, Iran)

Immortelle

David Verbeek (Taiwan)

In Memoriam

Niina Suominen (Finland)

The International Space Orchestra Nelly Ben Hayoun (USA)

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List of Premieres

Irreversible Beauty

The Verdict

I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard

Just Ancient Loops

Wandering Alien Detective Robin

The Invisible World

Keep Us, Keep Us

The Wife

I Was Here

Letter

Zabriskie Point Redacted

Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact

Ziegenort

Luís

Shahrzad Malekian (Iran)

Duro Gavran (Croatia)

Bill Morrison (USA)

Lisa Takeba (Japan, USA)

Ehsan Amani (Iran)

Jelena Vanoverbeek (Belgium)

Sergei Loznitsa (Russia)

Stephen Connolly (United Kingdom)

Karen Yasinsky (USA)

Lonely Bones

Tomasz Popakul (Poland)

Matt Wolf (USA)

European premiere 21 Chitrakoot

Shambhavi Kaul (India)

Jesse McLean (USA)

El acompañante

Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Peru)

Phillippe Léonard (Canada)

Asleep

Paulo Abreu (Portugal)

Christos Nikou (Greece)

By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging

João Lopes (Portugal)

Magnificent Life of the Prince

David Gatten (USA)

Conquest of Paradise

La maison vide

International premiere

The Memories of Others

2·11

The Mirror

Akiba-Field

Mist

Algonquin

Mory Wants a Wife

All This Can Happen

The Mother

and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Na escama do dragão

Ao Lobo da Madragoa

Nation Estate

At Five in the Afternoon

Not a Soul

Audition

Nummer veertien, home

...Because Superglue Is Forever!

Odboy & Erordog Suite

Belle comme le jour

Our Protection

Beyond Expression Bright

Para armar un helicóptero

Beyond Memory

Postface à la brochure de 1942

A Breath from the Bottom

Scaffold

Buenos días resistencia

Señal de humo

Cacheu

The Shores of an Island I Only Skirted

Cinema Behind Bars

Sight

Circle in the Sand

Six Day Run

Cold Open

Small Heroes

Colorful Journey

Soigneur

Da Vinci

Stoned

Daimi

Suddenly, Last Summer

Dentro

Swan Song

Desert Hopes

Tamelijk gelukkig

Empire

Tehran Through the Window

L’entrefilm

Temper Clay

The Eric Andre Show

The Thieves

Eris

Though I Know the River Is Dry

Experience in Material 52:DUBHOUSE

To Become, Shift, Transfer, Copy and Erase JANET LEIGH

Film for Blind Poet

Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship

Forsaken

Walt Disney’s ‘Taxi Driver’

From Tehran to London

Zero Gravity

Rosto (France, Netherlands) Mathieu Hippeau (France) Bahar Samadi (Iran)

Jelena Vanoverbeek (Belgium, Belgium) Parisa Yousef Doust (Iran, Netherlands)

Omori Tatsushi (Japan) Devi Kobayashi (Japan) Travis Shilling (Canada) Siobhan Davies, David Hinton (United Kingdom)

Abtin Baktash (Iran)

Jelena Vanoverbeek (Belgium) Ivo M. Ferreira (Macau, Portugal) Larissa Sansour (Denmark, Palestine)

Angel Vergara (Belgium) Pedro Bastos (Portugal)

Mahmoud Khaled (Lebanon) Karen Yasinsky (USA)

Jet Leyco (Philippines) Guido van der Werve (Netherlands) Marcus Fjellström (Sweden, Germany) Ayelen Liberona, Joseph Johnson-Cami (Canada) Izabel Acevedo (Mexico)

Stanislav Dorochenkov (France, Russia) Bani Khoshnoudi (Iran, Mexico) Sebastian Diaz Morales (Netherlands)

Sander Breure, Witte van Hulzen (Netherlands, Norway)

Johan Grimonprez (USA, Belgium)

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tristan Bera (France) Erin Espelie (USA)

Abdalla Mohamed (Sudan) Chan Ching-lin (Taiwan) Adrián Orr (Spain)

Filipa César (Portugal, Guinea-Bissau) Bahaeldin Ibrahim (Sudan) Michael Robinson (USA)

Thirza Cuthand (Canada)

Seamus Harahan (United Kingdom)

Mika Taanila (Finland)

Arab Abu Nasser, Tarzan Abu Nasser (Palestine)

Tommi Matikka (Senegal) Rik van der Linden (Netherlands, France) Cho Seoungho (USA, Cambodia) Juha Mäki-Jussila (Finland)

Anouk De Clercq, Jerry Galle, Anton Aeki (Belgium) Peter Scholten (Netherlands) Neda Razavipour (Iran)

Kim Sung-Hwan (South Korea, USA)

Yuri Ancarani (Italy) Marie Grahtø Sørensen (Denmark) Emiliano Rocha Minter (Mexico) Michael Patten (USA) Philip Solomon (USA) Francesca Solari (France) Andrew Barchilon, Kitao Sakurai (USA) Claire Hooper (United Kingdom)

Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia) Omar Robert Hamilton (United Kingdom, Palestine)

Jeroen Offerman (Netherlands)

Suzuki Ryoji, Kei Shichiri (Japan) Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil, Cuba)

Tokyo Giants

Heidi Phillips (Canada)

The Toxic Camera

Mania Akbari (Iran, United Kingdom)

Two Russians in the Free World

Ursula Mayer (United Kingdom)

Nicolas Provost (Belgium) Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson (United Kingdom) Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager (USA)

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Mahsa Shoja Araghi (Iran)

Hadi Fallahpisheh (Iran)

Make Art, Not War

Sasan Sadeghpour, Saman Sadeghpour (Iran)

María

Laura Parnes (USA)

memento mori

Dad’s Stick

Dan Browne (Canada)

Los micro burgueses

Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico)

A Minimal Difference Jean-Paul Kelly (Canada)

John Smith (United Kingdom)

Don’t Dare to Stop Love Oguchi Yoko (Japan)

Exercises in Faith: Bird Julieta Maria (Canada)

My Life Time

Katarina Zdjelar (Netherlands)

Na sua companhia

Faraways

Audrey Lam (Australia)

Fried Chicken

Marcelo Caetano (Brazil)

Serdar Yilmaz (Turkey)

No hay pan

Greystone

Macarena Monrós (Chile)

Kerry Tribe (USA)

Nomads

Hanger

Mohamed Hanafi (Sudan)

Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen (Malaysia)

Number 12

Home

Mosaab Fadul (Sudan)

Ruslan Magomadov (Russia)

Persian Pickles

Ice/Fire

Jodie Mack (USA)

Paul Kos (USA)

La pionnière

In Search of Hip-Hop

Daniela Abke (Germany)

Polaroïd Versus Roman Photo Yves-Marie Mahé (France)

Issraa El-Kogali (Sudan)

Insight

Sebastian Diaz Morales (Netherlands, Argentina)

Rabbaba Man

Mario Mabor Dhalbny (Sudan)

Restless Leg Saga

Jackson/Marker 4am Ruth Beckermann (Austria)

Kiss the Rain

Shana Moulton (USA)

The Room Called Heaven Laida Lertxundi (Spain, USA)

Serra do Mar

Lewis Klahr (USA)

The Lament

Aydin Ketenag (Turkey)

Light Plate

Iris Junges (Brazil)

A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) Jumana Manna (Norway, Palestine)

Snow in Vienna

Laurie Kwasnik (Canada, Austria)

Sou

Josh Gibson (Italy, USA)

Men of the Earth

Andrew Kavanagh (Australia)

The Mother

Pimpaka Towira (Thailand)

Mr. President Nina Yuen (USA)

Tatsuto Kimura (Japan)

Strange Lines and Distances Joshua Bonnetta (Canada)

Night of the Foxes

Tom Haines (United Kingdom)

Orpheus (Outtakes)

The Tiger’s Mind

Beatrice Gibson (United Kingdom)

Twice Over

Simon Payne (United Kingdom)

Ugly Night

Mary Helena Clark (USA)

Phantoms of a Libertine Ben Rivers (United Kingdom)

Plastic Rap with Frieda Tom Rubnitz (USA)

Won Kang (South Korea)

Unsupported Transit

Zachary Formwalt (Netherlands)

Untitled

Katia Kameli (Algeria, France)

Where She Stood in the First Place Het zwijgen van Helena Pieter Dumoulin (Belgium)

Omer Fast (Germany)

County Down Episode 1

Mónica Lairana (Argentina)

Lindsay McIntyre (Canada)

Continuity

Poised

Dryden Goodwin (United Kingdom)

Shibata and Ngao Yang Ik-June (Japan)

Star Light n°5 bis

Cécile Fontaine (France)

The Street of Everlasting Rain Lewis Klahr (USA)

Basim Magdy (Egypt, Switzerland) Bryan Boyce (USA)

Jakrawal Nilthamrong (Thailand)

Gonda

Grandpass

Michal Owsinski (Netherlands)

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Index DIRECTORS

bedeen, Eslam Zeen El 180 Abke, Daniela 293 Abramovic, Marina 149 Abrantes, Gabriel 146 Abreu, Paulo 197 Abu Nasser, Arab 138 Abu Nasser, Tarzan 138 Al Abyad, Jameel 139 Acevedo, Izabel 171 Aeki, Anton 150 Aguilar, Sandro 136 Ahluwalia, Ashim 54 Ahnelt, Josephine 204 Ahtila, Eija-Liisa 185 Ai Weiwei 92 Akbari, Mania 244 Al-Maria, Sophia 139 Alché, María 142 Alix Jr., Adolfo B. 92, 93 Allaux, Bérangère 176 Almereyda, Michael 162 Alnoy, Siegrid 93 Alsharif, Basma 141 Alvarez, Enrique 94 Amani, Ehsan 255 Amarger, Michel 286 Ancarani, Yuri 50 Anderson, Paul Thomas 94 Andrade, Sérgio 54 Anggi Noen, Yosep 55 Aragno, Fabrice 289 Arango, Juan Andrés 55 Arnold, Lewis 170 Arsanios, Marwa 138 Assayas, Olivier 95 Athale, Rowan 56 AUJIK 182 Ayouch, Nabil 95

ai Bin 188 Bakel, Michiel van 165 Baktash, Abtin 255 Balabanov, Alexey 96 Banerjee, Dibakar 96 Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs 176 Barchilon, Andrew 266 Barker, Phillip 189 Barzegar, Majid 241 Basbeth, Ismail 177 Bastan, Amir 245 Bastos, Pedro 189 Beckermann, Ruth 197 Becks, Christopher 154 Ben Hayoun, Nelly 279 Bera, Tristan 150 Berger, Pablo 56 Bertolucci, Bernardo 97 Beyer, Peter Conrad 50 Blom, Ansuya 156 Blondy, Sophie 57 Bonitzer, Pascal 97 Bonner, Nicholas 100 Bonnetta, Joshua 133 Borcuch, Jacek 98 Borg, Pia 290 Boyce, Bryan 206 Bragança, Felipe 257 Breure, Sander 164 Brienen, Kees 57 Brisseau, Jean-Claude 98 Broersen, Persijn 284 Brosens, Peter 129 Brothers Quay 269 Browne, Dan 158 Brzezicki, Leonardo 26 Bush, Paul 184

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aetano, Marcelo 159 Cahen, Daya 160 Cailleau, Guillaume 182 Campana, Paolo 273 Campolina, Clarissa 175 Campos, Antonio 58 Cederteg, Tony 47 César, Filipa 146 Chai Chunya 58 Chan Ching-lin 152 Chen Chieh-jen 99 Cherri, Ali 140 Cho Seoungho 185 Christie, Gwendoline 164 Clark, Conrad 59 Clark, Mary Helena 157 Cokes, Tony 269 Collins, Nick 154 Columbu, Giovanni 27 Connolly, Stephen 283 Conrad, Tony 279 Costa, Pedro 107 Crotty, Benjamin 136 Cruz, Khavn De La 99, 189 Cuthand, Thirza 196 Cytter, Keren 142

’Ambrosio, Antonino 273 Daelemans, Anja 100 Danusiri, Aryo 190 Davenport, Nina 100 Davies, Siobhan 287 Davis, Lucy 152 De Clercq, Anouk 150 De Guzman, Mes 101 de Oliveira, Manoel 101, 107 Deelder, Ari 59 Delgado Sánchez, Pablo 60 Delgado-Aparicio, Alvaro 172 Desom, Jeff 134 Devaux, Frédérique 286 Devi Kobayashi 187 Dharmani, Gul 169 Diaz Morales, Sebastian 45, 181 Dib, Roy 139 Djaïdani, Rachid 60 Doherty, Willie 45 Domke, Johanna 140 Dorochenkov, Stanislav 205 Dorsky, Nathaniel 154 Driel, Guido van 28 Drljaca, Igor 61 Dullaart, Constant 164 Dumoulin, Pieter 173 Dunham, Lena 265 Duran, Francisca 196 Dutta, Amit 50 Dwoskin, Stephen 286

bbinge, Diederik 61 El-Kogali, Issraa 178 Entwistle, Redmond 158 Erice, Víctor 107 Esmer, Pelin 29 Espelie, Erin 153 Everson, Kevin Jerome 102

adel, Alejandro 62 Fadul, Mosaab 180 Fallahpisheh, Hadi 247 Fast, Omer 51 Ferreira, Ivo M. 146 Ferwerda, Eelko 165 Fiala, Severin 63 Fillières, Hélène 62 Fitoussi, Jean-Charles 102 Fjellström, Marcus 151 Flicker, Florian 103 Fontaine, Cécile 197 Forget, John 181 Formwalt, Zachary 48 Fornay, Mira 30 Franceschini, Anna 288 Franz, Veronika 63

Galle, Jerry 150

Gandhi, Anand 63 Garrone, Matteo 103 Gatten, David 44 Gavran, Duro 162 Geenen, Pieter 208 Gerster, Jan Ole 64 Ghani, Mariam 148 Ghobadi, Bahman 241 Ghobadi, Nahid 241 Gibson, Beatrice 47 Gibson, Josh 173 Gigounon, Bernard 208 Gitonga, David ‘Tosh’ 64 Glanz, Peter 268 Gobert, Fabrice 258 Gonzalez-Foerster, Dominique 150 González-Rubio, Pedro 104 Goodwin, Dryden 149 Gracia, Alberto 65 Graf, Dominik 209-222 Grahtø Sørensen, Marie 174 Grandrieux, Philippe 104 Grimonprez, Johan 143 Gruzei, Katharina 51 Gulea, Alexandra 65 Guzzoni, Fernando 66

aghighi, Mani 242 Haines, Tom 190 Hamilton, Omar Robert 49 Hanafi, Mohamed 180 Hanoun, Marcel 285 Hänsel, Marion 105 Hao Jie 66 Harahan, Seamus 156 Heijnen, Hans 105 Heise, Thomas 106 Hekmat, Anahita 245 Hertog, Chaja 161 Heusden, Jaap van 67 Heydari, Kamran 242 Heydary, Mohamedreza 253 Hinton, David 287 Hippeau, Mathieu 172 Hittman, Eliza 31 Ho Tzu Nyen 151 Hoesl, Daniel 32 Hofmann, Sebastián 33, 267 Holland, Agnieszka 258 Honigmann, Heddy 167 Hooper, Claire 46 Horn, Michiel ten 67 Hugel, Rob Michael 264 Hulse, Matt 34 Hulzen, Witte van 164

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Ibrahim, Bahaeldin 179

Kameli, Katia 140 Karamattathil Muhammed, Kamal 69 Kashkoolinia, Maryam 190, 247 Kasitonni, Anssi 197 Kastner, Jamie 273 Kaul, Shambhavi 186 Kaurismäki, Aki 107 Kavanagh, Andrew 191 Kawai + Okamura 187 Kawase, Naomi 132 Kehayan, Cary 291 Kei Shichiri 153 Kelly, Jean-Paul 196 Kennedy, Anthea 107 Ketenag, Aydin 48 Khaled, Mahmoud 138, 141 Khatami, Alireza 257 Khoshnoudi, Bani 70, 239 Kibinge, Judy 108 Kim Gwang-Hun 100 Kim Ki-Duk 108 Kim Sung-Hwan 155 Kim Tae-Gon 70 Kimura, Tatsuto 153 Klahr, Lewis 155, 156 Kobayashi Masahiro 109 Kore-eda Hirokazu 258 Korine, Harmony 109 Kos, Paul 182 Krispin, Avi 161 Kurosawa Kiyoshi 259 Kusuma Widjaja, Putu 71 Kwasnik, Laurie 278

aamoun, Maha 137, 141 Mabor Dhalbny, Mario 179 Machado, Marcelo 274 Mack, Jodie 133, 135 Magdy, Basim 141 Magomadov, Ruslan 175 Mahé, Yves-Marie 197 Makhmalbaf, Mohsen 242 Mäki-Jussila, Juha 197 Makino Takashi 133 Malekian, Shahrzad 245 Mandico, Bertrand 191 Manivel, Damien 175 Manna, Jumana 147 Mansour, Haifaa Al 74 Månsson, Måns 74 Marcimain, Mikael 75 Marczak, Michal 75 Maria, Julieta 196 Martel, Caroline 274 Matikka, Tommi 197 Mattuschka, Mara 182 Mayer, Ursula 145 McIntyre, Lindsay 196 McLean, Jesse 149 Meindertsma, Christien 166 Meisner, Christine 197 Mekas, Adolfas 184 Mekas, Jonas 184 Mellors, Nathaniel 164 Menick, John 147 Mereu, Salvatore 111 Mermoud, Frédéric 258 Meter, Barbara 160 Midi Z 76 Migone, Christof 270 Miike Takashi 111, 112 Miller, Peter 152, 154 Milne, Alexis 270 Minervini, Roberto 76 Moalemi, Mahan 246 Mohamed, Abdalla 179 Monrós, Macarena 172 Morgaine, Manuela 77 Morrison, Bill 279 Moskowitz, Erik 134 Mott, Jessie 207 Moulton, Shana 136 Mozard, Tova 197 Muratov, Alexander 236, 238 Muratova, Kira 223-238

Nadler, Nir 161

Ijäs, Jan 183 Irajzad, Ebrahim 244 Isfansyah, Ifa 106

Jalili, Abolfazl 242

Jang Kun-Jae 68 Johnsen, Andreas 68 Johnson-Cami, Joseph 181 Johnston, Aaron Douglas 69 Jouvet, Emilie 183 Junges, Iris 171

Kaloper, Jagoda 287

affargue, Pierre 274 Lairana, Mónica 177 Lam, Audrey 170 Lampert, Andrew 280 Lane, Penny 71 Laric, Oliver 144 Larraín, Pablo 110, 259 Lechuga, Carlos 72 Léonard, Phillippe 196 Lertxundi, Laida 148 Levy, Dana 205 Leyco, Jet 177 Li Luo 72 Liberona, Ayelen 181 Lichter, Péter 197 Lieshout, Erik van 46 Lim Lay Kuen, Charlotte 159 Linden, Rik van der 166 Lisa Takeba 187 Lopes Araújo, Ivo 175 Lopes, João 145 López, Jazmín 73 Lordello, Marcelo 35 Lowder, Rose 197 Loznitsa, Sergei 51, 110 Lucas, Bianca 173 Lukács, Margit 284 Lurf, Johann 162 Lygizos, Ektoras 73

Nafisi, Golrokh 246 Naghshbandi, Siavash 254 Najafi, Maryam 77 Nakata Hideo 112 Nasser, Nassrin 244 Nikou, Christos 191 Nilthamrong, Jakrawal 178 Ninomiya Ryutaro 78 Nissinen, Erkka 144 Noer, Michael 78 Noordkamp, Petra 196 Noyani, Shadi 246 Nugroho, Garin 113

O Muel 113

Oakes, Wendy 161 Offerman, Jeroen 284 Oguchi Yoko 132 Olthaar, Joke 166 Omara, Marouan 140 Omori Tatsushi 188 Oppl, Bernd 197 Opsal, Dan 264 Orr, Adrián 174 Ott, Mike 114 Otte, Henk 184 Owsinski, Michal 161

Pacquée, Ria 183

Pang Ho-cheung 114 Parente, Guto 192 Park Chan-Wook 115 Parnes, Laura 206 Paterson, Andrew James 196 Patten, Michael 142 Payne, Simon 135 Pedro Rodrigues, João 185 Pelkki, Sini 197 Pelletier, Frédérick 79 Persson Sarvestani, Nahid 243 Phillips, Heidi 196 Pitstra, Alex 79 Plumb, Shannon 80 Polat, Ayse 115 Popakul, Tomasz 170 Potter, Sally 116 Praunheim, Rosa von 192 Pretti, Luiz 175 Pretti, Ricardo 116 Preuss, Shalimar 80 Prikler, Mátyás 81 Provost, Nicolas 49 Puiu, Cristi 117

Quawson, Muzi 186 R

aaphorst, Richard 81 Rahimi, Atiq 82 Rahimi, Ramin 253 Rajaei, Sara 157 Ramos, Maria 117 Rasti, Aliyar 254 Ratté, Sabrina 148 Razavipour, Neda 239, 240, 241 Rebollo, Javier 118 Redman, Mike 276 Reinke, Steve 207 Reygadas, Carlos 118 Rijneke, Ricky 36 Rivero, Enrique 82 Rivers, Ben 147 Riza, Riri 119 Robinson, Michael 186 Rocha Minter, Emiliano 49 Rose, Sébastien 119 Rosete, Martín 192 Rosto 193 Rubnitz, Tom 207 Ruijter, Gerco de 165 Ruiz, Raúl 120 Russell, Ben 182 Russo-Young, Ry 265

Sadeghpour, Saman 256 Sadeghpour, Sasan 256 Saeedvafa, Mehrnaz 256 Safadi, Bruno 120, 121 Safaee, Hamed 246 Sakurai, Kitao 266 Sallitt, Dan 121 Samadi, Bahar 245 Sansour, Larissa 137 Satz, Aura 271 Schaller, Stefan 83 Scherson, Alicia 122 Scholten, Peter 167 Schreiner, Peter 122 Schreiner, Volker 143 Seidl, Ulrich 123 Seno, Shireen 83 Sheean, Eron 84 Shilling, Travis 196 Shin Yeon-Shick 123 Shirvani, Mohammad 37, 240 Shoja Araghi, Mahsa 257 Shortland, Cate 124

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Sider, Larry 272 Sieveking, David 84 Silva, Sebastián 259 Silver, Shelly 124 Simon, Jason 280 Skolimowski, Józef 85 Skolimowski, Michal 85 Skoog, John 193 Slaboshpitsky, Miroslav 176 Smith, John 155 Snow, Michael 276, 278, 281 Solari, Francesca 285 Solomon, Philip 282 Somumjarn, Wichanon 151 Sonbert, Warren 183 Song Fang 85 Sørhaug, Eva 86 Stambrini, Monica 130 Starling, Simon 282 Stauber, Edith 197 Stempkovsky, Andrey 86 Steyerl, Hito 144 Stokes, Matt 271 Strickland, Peter 277 Suominen, Niina 197 Surya, Mouly 87 Suwichakornpong, Anocha 151 Suzuki Ryoji 153

Taanila, Mika 44,

Wahrmann, Michael 90

Wakamatsu Koji 128 Waked, Sharif 137, 138 Wang Bing 128 Weerasethakul, Apichatpong 178 Weigel, Bernadette 90 Werve, Guido van der 44 Wessels, Jasper 165 Wheatley, Ben 129 Wiblin, Ian 107 Willard, Avery 291, 292, 293 Wilson, Jane 157 Wilson, Louise 157 Wolf, Matt 163 Won Kang 170 Woodworth, Jessica 129

Xido, Jeremy 277 Yang Ik-June 188

Yang Lina 41 Yasinsky, Karen 288, 289 Yesilbas, Rezan 193 Yilmaz, Serdar 159 Ying Liang 130 Yousef Doust, Parisa 243 Yuen, Nina 143

Zamanpira, Bijan 241

168, 169, 272 Teicher, Jeremy 87 Thamrongrattanarit, Nawapol 38 The Otolith Group 88 To, Johnnie 125 Tocha, Gonçalo 125 Todd, Robert 136 Todorovic, Vladimir 88 Torres, John 126 Toscano, Mark 134 Towira, Pimpaka 47 Trager, Amanda 134 Tribe, Kerry 45 Troch, Fien 126 Tsuchiya Yutaka 89 Turpin, André 176

Zayan, Mohamed 180 Zdjelar, Katarina 163 Zolfaghari, Niloofar 247 Zupraner, Mich’ael 163 Zwartjes, Frans 160

Uchida Nobuteru 127 V

akilifar, Vahid 243 Vanoverbeek, Jelena 283, 284, 285 Varejão, Cláudia 174 Venema, Wouter 158 Verbeek, David 46, 127 Vergara, Angel 288 Vessey, Tricia 268 Vichit Vadakan, Visra 39 Villanueva, Eduardo 40 Vinagre, Gustavo 135 Visser, Maarten 280 Viyuoh, Victor 89

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11.25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate 128 11.25 jiketsu no hi: Mishima Yukio to wakamono-tachi 128 111 Girls 237 111 dokhtar 237 1978 the 231st Day 157 2 Film Concerts - Ibragimova & Rudy 264 2012 133 2026 137 21 Chitrakoot 186 2·11 188 36 38 5 Jahre 83 5 Years 83 80 Million 180 90 Minutes 86 90 Minutter 86 (Pop, Terror, Critique) Remix 264 ...Because Superglue Is Forever! 143

bstract 144 Acompañante, El 172 Acrophobia 0.1. 243 Activated Memory I 148 After Treatment 197 Afterword to the Pamphlet of 1942 197 Agit 48 Ai Is Japanese for Love 132 Ai to Makoto 111 Aiga tomaranai 132 Akiba-Field 187 Akibahara 187 Äkkiä viime kesänä 197 Akuno kyoten 112 Algonquin 196 All Magic Sands 276 All Magic Sands/Chappaqua 291 All This Can Happen 284 Alone 128 Aman, aman 246 Among Grey Stones 223 And yes I said yes I will Yes. 285 Ang mundo sa panahon ng bakal 101 Annunciation, The 185 Ao Lobo da Madragoa 189 Après mai 95 ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik, Die 51 Asleep 196 Astenicheskiy sindrom 222 Asthenic Syndrome, The 222 At Five in the Afternoon 141 Atambua 39° Celsius 119 Atropa 50 Audition 285 August and After 154 Austerity Measures 182 Avant que mon coeur bascule 119 Avanti popolo 90 Axel und Peter 192 Ayeneh haye posht rikhteh 242 Az Tehran Be London 241

Bagheban 239

Bassa marea 76 Beace Brocess No. 1 138 Beach, The 55 Beats Being Dead: Don’t Follow Me Around 204 Beeshu’s Nightmare 139 Before My Heart Falls 119 Before Passing 173 Behind the Looking Glass 284 Bellas mariposas 111 Belle comme le jour 150 Berberian Sound Studio 272 Beyond Expression Bright 153 Beyond Memory 179 Beyond Sunset and Sunrise 280 Beyond the Beyond 133 Big Boy 83 Big Scene, The 197 Birds 146 Black Drop 279 Blancanieves 56 Blind Colour 134 Boring Life of Jacqueline, The 256 Bouncing off the Walls 290 Boy Eating the Bird’s Food 73 Breath from the Bottom, A 152 Brief Encounters 225 Brief History of Collapses, A 148 Buenos días resistencia 174 Burning Bush 254 Bust That Paradigm 135 Butterfly’s Effect 197

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By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging 44 By Your Side 159

Cacheu 146

Call Girl 75 Callgirl 75 CAMARADERIE 138 Cantaert Hunter 890602 183 Carne de perro 66 Casing Shelved, A 278 Cat, The 210 Cello 282 Celluloid Man 293 Centro histórico 107 Certificate, The 227 Chand kilometr dortar 241 Change of Fortune 223 Changing Channels Web Lounge 256 Chant des ondes, Le 270 Charm of Others, The 78 Chekhov’s Motifs 220 Chekhovskie motivy 220 Cherchez Hortense 97 Chevaux de Dieu, Les 95 Chiri 132 Chunmeng 41 Cinema Behind Bars 179 Cinexpérimentaux Stephen Dwoskin 283 Cinquième saison, La 129 Circle in the Sand 186 Claun (Part 1: Ayana’s Week of Adventures) 253 Claun (Parte 1: Os dias aventurosos de Ayana) 253 Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1 137 Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 2 140 Cloud of Unknowing, The 151 Cold Open 156 Collected Knitwork of Loes Veenstra, The 166 Colorful Journey 138 Columbos 187 Companion, The 172 Complex, The 112 Comrade Kim Goes Flying 100 Conquest of Paradise 244 Consequence 106 Continuity 51 Contribute a Better Translation 137 County Down Episode 1 197 Cover Us 172 Crop 140 Crops 165 Crossing Boundaries 103 Crystal Pillars 164 Crystal World 286 Csendesek, A 36 Cuvstvitelnyy milicioner 222

a Vinci 50 Dad’s Stick 155 Daimi 174 Dakujem, dobre 81 Damn Garbage 244 Dance Swine Dance 266 Dancing Soul of the Walking People, The 291 Dangerous Games 149 Dark Garden 154 Darvag 239 Day for Cake and Accidents, A 197 DEAD BODY WELCOME 57 Dead Man and Being Happy, The 118 Dead World Order 197 Death Metal Angola 272 Deflowering of Eva van End, The 67 Delivery Guy, The 86 Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge 211 Dentro 49 Des duivels 165 Desert Hopes 142 Deutschland 09 - Der Weg, den wir nicht zusammen gehen 211 Devastated by Love 59 Develish 165 Dialogue with Open Eyes 234 Diego Star 79 Dimanche matin, Un 175 DINAMO P&I Screenings 1 196 DINAMO P&I Screenings 2 196 DINAMO P&I Screenings 3 197 DINAMO P&I Screenings 4 197 Disappearing Landscape 88

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Disquieting Nature 197 Dizem que os cães veem coisas192 Do-Say-Make-Think 142 Dog Flesh 66 Dogs Are Said to See Things 192 Dolgie provody 224 Doll Parts 186 Dom tsah 175 Don’t Dare to Stop Love 132 Doppelgänger, Der 197 Dream Boy 287 Dream King 161 Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around 204 Dreileben: Komm mir nicht nach 204 Drug War 125 Du zhan 125 Dummy 227 Dummy Jim 34 Dva v odnom 219

asy Rider 289 Echo 170 Eden 120 Éden 120 Edison Bay 165 Electric Chair - The Making-of the Film Me and You 130 Elephant in Darkness 235 Eles voltam 35 Embarkation 197 Emperor Visits the Hell 72 Empire 279 Empire of the Sun 279 Enclos du temps, L’ 102 Enclosure of Time, The 102 Endless Tedium of Capitalism, The 276 Entrefilm, L’ 282 Erbin, Die 115 Eric Andre Show, The 258 Eris 46 Errors of the Human Body 84 Eternal Homecoming 218 Étoile du jour, L’ 57 Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths 196 Exercises in Faith: Bird 196 Experience in Material 52:DUBHOUSE 153

F for Fake 144

F*ck for Forest 75 Faces 289 Fahnder: Nachtwache, Der 211 Fahrtwind - Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden 90 Fair Wind - Notes of a Traveller 90 Fairly Happy 167 Fallible Girl, A 59 Far Away 241 Faraways 170 Fat Shaker 37 Fata Morgana 122 Fath-e Behesht 244 Felsen, Der 208 Festschrift for an Archive 277 Few Kilometers Away, A 241 Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser, The 65 Fifth Season, The 129 Figs 47 Fikon 47 Fille de nulle part, La 98 Film for Blind Poet 135 Filme para poeta cego 135 Final Cut - Hölgyeim és uraim 292 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen 292 Find the Lost One 235 Fine, Thanks 81 First Comes Love 100 Flaneurs #3, The 190 Floresta de Jonathas, A 54 Folded Edges Across the Rim, The 181 For Love’s Sake 111 Fores 193 Forest Within a Forest, A 182 Forget Me Not 84 Forsaken 196 Fort Buchanan 136 Foudre 77 Four Ways to Die in My Hometown 58 Frankenstein’s Army 81 Freunde der Freunde, Die 208 Friday Night 169 Fried Chicken 159 From Tehran to London 241 Future Is Not What It Used to Be, The 168 Future, The 122 Futuro - A New Stance for Tomorrow 168

Futuro - tulevaisuuden olotila 168 Futuro, Il 122 Förår 193

FP Bunny 89 Gamblers, The 210 Gardener, The 239 Gazing at the Catastrophe 140 Gebo and the Shadow 101 Gebo e a sombra 101 Gegenwart 106 Gelübde, Das 205 Getting to Know the Big Wide World 224 Ghost Tracks 280 Ginger and Rosa 116 Giraffes 94 Girl from Nowhere, The 98 Girls 257 God’s Horses 95 Going Home (Part 1-5) 254 Goingu mai hoomu 254 Gonda 145 Good Bye Sweet Pop’s 176 Good Childhood Days 245 Good Morning Resistance 174 Gozetleme kulesi 29 Grand comme le Baobab 87 Grandpass 161 Grenzgänger 103 Greystone 45 Gu du 128 Guimarães: Rocking the Cradle 145

Habitat 136

Halley 33 Hanger 159 Hanoun, à revoir 282 Happiness Building 1 99 Harmonica’s Howl 121 Harmonica, The 244 Hassel - Privatspanarna 74 Hauntological Futures 147 Heiress, The 115 Helena’s Silence 173 Here Now 160 Here is Harry Merry 166 Here, Today 148 Herinneringen aan vuur 167 Hier Nu 160 Hier is Harry Merry 166 Hill of Pleasures 117 Histoire d’amour, Une 62 Historic Centre 107 Hit Parade 265 Hold Back 60 Hole 158 Hollywood Movie 143 Home 175 Home Video No. 1 Gaza (They Accepted the Pleasures of Morning) 141 Horící ker 254 Hotel Room 197 Hotte im Paradies 207 How Can I Resist U 139 How to Describe a Cloud 127 How to Raise a Smart & Happy Child from Age Zero to Five 189 Hunter and the Skeleton, The 188

Hate Being Single 257 I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard 163 I Was Here 196 I’ve Heard Stories: Part 1 138 I.D. 69 Ice/Fire 182 Ilgugugu, myeon hue 70 Immersed 245 Immortelle 46 In Memoriam 197 In Search of Avery Willard 287 In Search of Hip-Hop 178 In the Fog 110 In the Production Office 259 In yek Bastani Nist! 244 Ina Litovski 176 Inori 104 Inside 49 Insight 45 International Space Orchestra, The 274 Invincibles, The 209 Invisible Present Tense 242 Invisible World, The 149 Io e te 97 Irreversible Beauty 243

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Index films & compilation programmes

Island of St. Matthews, The 102 It Felt Like Love 31 It Starts with a Dot and Ends with a Bang 150 It’s All About Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau) 285 Ixjana 85 Iza ogledala 284

a tozhe hochu 96 Jackson/Marker 4am 197 Jalan Jati 152 Jam mot deuneun bam 68 Janus 46 Japan’s Tragedy 109 Jerry & Me 246 Ji yi wang zhe wo 85 Ji-seul 113 Jirafas 94 Jiseul 113 Jonathas’ Forest 54 Just Ancient Loops 274

Kalayaan 92

Kalter Frühling 207 Karaoke Girl 39 Katze, Die 210 Kawabis beeshu 139 Kayan 77 Keep Us, Keep Us 246 Kern 63 Kid 126 Kidd Life 68 Killer Reunion, A 161 King, The 27 Kinshasa Superband 269 Kiss the Rain 155 Kizarmis tavuk 159 Km 191 Korotkie vstrechi 225 Krivina 61 Kukla 227 Kuroyuri danchi 112 Kuuden päivän juoksu 44

a Playa D.C. 55 Lágrimas, Las 60 Lament, The 48 Larzanandeye charbi 37 Lasting 98 Lawinen der Erinnerung 204 Lay Bare 184 Leather Narcissus 288 Leaving Traces 151 Lee Towers: The Voice of Rotterdam 105 Leones 73 Lesson of the Evil 112 Let Fury Have the Hour 268 Letter 51 Letter to America 226 Lie ren yu ku lou guai 188 Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact 286 Light Plate 173 Light over Darkness 152 Lightning 77 Living Still Life 191 Lonely Bones 193 Long Farewells 224 Longing for the Rain 41 Look Inside the Ghost Machine 196 Looking Glass Self 155 Lore 124 Losing Dwoskin 283 Lost Dreams 283 Love Songs of Tiedan, The 66 Low Tide 76 Lukas nino 126 Lukas the Strange 126 Luz da manhã 174 Luís 145

a belle gosse 80 Mademoiselle 183 Madre, il figlio e l’architetto, La 196 Mae 47 Magnificent Life of the Prince 247 Mai morire 82 Maison vide, La 172 Make Art, Not War 245 Malaika 163 Maling 177 Malody 189 Man Negahdar Jamali, western misazam 238 Manhã de Santo António 185 Map of the Heart, A 208

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Marian Ilmestys 185 Mary 177 María 177 Master, The 94 Matei Child Miner 65 Matei copil miner 65 Mater Dolorosa 93 Matterhorn 61 Me Too 96 Me and You 97 Mekong Hotel 178 Melaza 72 Melodiya dlya sharmanki 218 Melody for a Street Organ 218 Memento mori 158 Memories Look at Me 85 Memories of Fire 167 Memories of Others, The 242 Men of the Earth 191 Micro burgueses, Los 258 Mind the Gap: Thu 24 196 Mind the Gap: Fri 25 196 Mind the Gap: Sat 26 197 Mind the Gap: Sun 27 197 Mind the Gap: Mon 28 197 Minimal Difference, A 196 Miroir mon amour 93 Mirror Mirror 284 Mirror My Love 93 Mirror, The 281 Miryoku no ningen 78 Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro 99 Miss Lovely 54 Mist 241 Modest Reception 238 Môj pes Killer 30 Molasses 72 Morning Light 174 Morning Star, The 57 Morning of Saint Anthony’s Day 185 Morro dos Prazeres 117 Mory Wants a Wife 246 Mory zan mikhad 246 Most Electrified Town in Finland, The 169 Mother, The 281 Mother, the Son and the Architect, The 196 Motion Pictures 157 Môj pes Killer 30 Mr. President 143 Muerto y ser feliz, El 118 München - Geheimnisse einer Stadt 209 Munich: Secrets of a City 209 Muscle Top 257 Museum of Imagination 50 My Blue Eyed Girl 80 My Dog Killer 30 My Glorious Childhood 243 My Life Time 163 My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns 238 My Sister’s Quinceañera 69 My Stolen Revolution 240

Na escama do dragão 146

Na sua companhia 159 NabelFabel 182 Nachbehandlung 197 Nairobi Half Life 64 Nash chestnyy khleb 225 Nastroyshchik 219 Nation Estate 137 Nation for Two 161 NavelFable 182 Nemra 12 180 Neural Pathways 158 New World, The 67 Nieulotne 98 Nieuwe wereld, De 67 Night 26 Night Across the Street 120 Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years 141 Night of the Foxes 190 Ninah’s Dowry 89 Nippon no higeki 109 NL Int. 160 No 110 No Bread 172 No hay pan 172 Noche 26 Noche de enfrente, La 120 Nocturne #2 197

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Noelia 142 Nomads 180 Nordvest 78 Northwest 78 Not a Soul 177 Nuclear Waste 176 Number 10 Blues/Goodbye Saigon 292 Number 12 180 Number Fourteen, Home 44 Nummer veertien, home 44

dayaka 127 Odayaka na nichijo 127 Odboy & Erordog Suite 151 Odd Couples 246 Odete 175 Oh Boy 64 On Mother’s Head 71 On the Dragon’s Flake 146 On the Steep Cliff 226 One Day When the Rain Falls 106 Ontmaagding van Eva van End, De 67 Optical Sound 169 Optinen ääni 169 Orde van dienst 184 Order of Service 184 Orpheus (Outtakes) 157 Our Honest Bread 225 Our Nixon 71 Our Protection 181 Overseas 151

Para armar un helicóptero 171

Paradies: Glaube 123 Paradise: Faith 123 Parviz 236 Passions 221 Patience Stone, The 82 Paziraie sadeh 238 Pearblossom Hwy 114 Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses 55 Penance 255 Penumbra 40 Peremena uchaste 223 Perpendicular to the Path 243 Persian Pickles 135 Persistence of Vision 162 Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, The 290 Phantoms of a Libertine 147 Piece by Piece 277 Pieta 108 Ping’an Yueqing 92 Pioneer, The 288 Pionnière, La 288 Pismo v Ameriku 226 Plastic Rap with Frieda 197 Pohn talay 151 Point de Gaze 133 Poised 149 Polaroïd Versus Roman Photo 196 Polis X 144 Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel 206 Poor Folk 76 Post tenebras lux 118 Postface à la brochure de 1942 197 Poznavaya belyy svet 224 Preludes 1 188 Present Tense 163 Presuda 162 Pretty Butterflies 111 Prófugos 255 Przed minieciem 173

Qiong Ren, Liu Lian, Ma Yao, Tou Du Ke 76 Quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser, O 65 Quod Erat Demonstrandum 286 Quote Unquote 285

ECONNAISSANCE 162 Rabbaba Man 179 Radiant, The 88 Raining Ashes 242 Raw 1.0 160 Raznoschik 86 Reality 103 Rear Window Timelapse 134 Rebound 253 Red Thing 245 Reflections 287 Releasing Human Energies 134 Rengaine 60 Reosian seoseol 123

Restless Leg Saga 136 Resurrection of a Bastard, The 28 Revenants, Les 253 Reverberations 273 Reverberlin 273 Rhino Season 237 Rio Belongs to Us 116 Rio nos pertence, O 116 Ritournelle 154 Roland Hassel 74 Roman Spring Leakage 196 Room Called Heaven, The 148 Roozhaye khoobe koodaki 245 Rotterd@m Shorts 1 165 Rotterd@m Shorts 2 167 Rumah dan musim hujan 106 Russian Novel, The 123 Région centrale, La 271

Salome: The Dance of the Seven Veils 288

Salvajes, Los 62 Sample: Not For Sale 271 Sao karaoke 39 Saprophage, The 164 Sazdahani 244 Scaffold 234 School of Sound 267 Sea Ridge 171 Second Class Citizens 220 Secret Disco Revolution, The 269 Secretion 45 Sedia elettrica - Il making-of del film Io e te 130 Sentimental Policeman, The 222 Serra do Mar 171 Sessiz/Bé deng 193 Señal de humo 181 Shanghai 96 Shibata and Ngao 188 Shibata to Nagao 188 Ship of Theseus 63 Shokuzai 255 Shores of an Island I Only Skirted, The 164 Short Profile: Mika Taanila 168 Short Stories: Bad Weeds Grow Tall 169 Short Stories: Latin Treats 171 Short Stories: Lunar Eclipses 172 Short Stories: Pull Together 174 Short Stories: When the Going Gets Tough 175 Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film 278 Sieger, Die 209 Sight 196 Sightseers 129 Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things 136 Silent 193 Silent Ones 36 Simon Killer 58 Sinais de serenidade por coisas sem sentido 136 Single Frame Snow 278 Six Day Run 44 Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade), A 147 Skinningrove 162 Sleepless Night 68 Slidelength 278 Small Heroes 197 Smoke Signal 181 Snow Tapes 163 Snow White 56 Snow in Vienna 273 Soegija 113 Soigneur 166 Soldate Jeannette 32 Soldier Jane 32 Something Necessary 108 Something in the Air 95 Sou 153 Soul Hotel 177 Soundfigures 266 Sources 196 Space Harmonics 274 Spell 156 Spieler 210 Spravka 227 Spring Breakers 109 Sredi serykh kamney 223 Stadt wird erpresst, Eine 206 Star Light n°5 bis 196 Starring Sigmund Freud 147 Steel Is the Earth 101 Stimulus Progression (Rotterdam) 267 Stoker 115

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Index films & compilation programmes

Stom Sogo: Ultimately 293 Stoned 185 Stora Scenen 197 Strange Lines and Distances 133 Street of Everlasting Rain, The 156 Su Re 27 Sudan’s Swinging Film Factory 178 Suddenly, Last Summer 197 Sunday Morning, A 175 Sunshine Boys 70 Survival Strategies 180 Swan Song 150 Syngué sabour 82

V Night: Girls, Girls and Boys 257 TV Night: Showtime 258 TV Night: So You Think You Can Act 259 Taboor 240 Take Off 184 Tall as the Baobab Tree 87 Tamelijk gelukkig 167 Tang huang you di fu 72 Teak Road 152 Tears, The 60 Tehran Through the Window 236 Temper Clay 155 Ten Minutiae 152 Tenderness 105 Tendresse, La 105 Terra Incognita 186 Thallium shoujo no dokusatsu nikki 89 They’ll Come Back 35 Thieves, The 177 This Is Not an Ice Cream 244 Though I Know the River Is Dry 49 Three Stories 221 Tic Tac 196 Tied 62 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 1 44 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2 45 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 3 46 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 4 47 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 5 48 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 6 50 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 7 51 Tiger’s Mind, The 47 Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship 141 Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel 184 To Become, Shift, Transfer, Copy and Erase JANET LEIGH 281 To Put Together a Helicopter 171 To The Wolf of Madragoa 189 To agori troi to fagito tou pouliou 73 Toegetakeld door de liefde 59 Tokyo Giants 49 Torres & cometas 125 Touch 124 Towers & Comets 125 Towheads 80 Toxic Camera, The 157 Trace 132 Tri istorii 221 Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks, The 259 Trois exercises d’interpretation 117 Tropicália 270 Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä 168 Tuner, The 219 Tunnel 190 247 Twice Over 135 Two Islands 183 Two Russians in the Free World 134 Two in One 219 Täydellisen pimennyksen vyöhyke 168

View from Our House, The 107 Vinylmania - When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute 268 Voice Over 192 Vow, The 205 Vtorostepennye lyudi 220 Vulgaria 114

Wadjda 74

Walk-Through 158 Walt Disney’s ‘Taxi Driver’ 197 Wandering Alien Detective Robin 187 Wasteland 56 Watchtower 29 Wavemakers 270 We Lived Our Ordinary Lives 160 Wederopstanding van een klootzak, De 28 Welt, Die 79 What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love 87 When Night Falls 130 When the Curtain Falls 247 Where She Stood in the First Place 196 Whiplash 183 White Epilepsy 104 Wife, The 280 Wild Ones, The 62 Wildlife 92 Wo hai you hua yao shuo 130 Wondering Alien Directors 187 Workers leaving the factory (again) 51 Worn Out Mirrors 242

Programme Day by Day

Yaderni wydhody 176

Yang tidak dibicarakan ketika membicarakan cinta 87 Yi jia 159 Your Eyes Are Dead 265

Zabriskie Point Redacted 280 Zero Gravity 178 Ziba 70 Zibai ye Bazgasht Napazir 243 Ziegenort 170 Zone of Total Eclipse, The 168 Zwazo 146 Zwijgen van Helena, Het 173

krutogo yara 226 Ugly Night 170 Uivo da gaita, O 121 Under a Rainbow 139 Unsichtbare Mädchen, Das 205 Unspeakable Act, The 121 Unsupported Transit 48 Untitled 140 Unveiling Avery Willard 287 Uvlecheniya 221

tumane 110 Vakansiy yang janggal dan penyakit lainnya 55 Vecnoe vozvrascenie 218 Vengeance - Episode 1 142 Verdict, The 162 Vergiss mein nicht 84 Versions 2012 144 Verzameld breiwerk van Loes Veenstra, Het 166

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336 12.00 12.00

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Prijzen voor de nieuwe generatie. Zestien genomineerde filmmakers strijden met hun eerste of tweede speelfilm om drie gelijkwaardige Hivos Tiger Awards.

hIvoS aWardS 10.00TIger 11.00 12.00 comPeTITIe 13.00 14.00

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Cinerama 7

Cinerama 5

Cinerama 4

Cinerama 3

de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal

LantarenVenster 6

VPRO Previewdag

Dan Sallitt

91’

12:30

90’

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VPRO Previewdag VPRO Previewdag SP

90’

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16:15

Centro histórico diverse regisseurs SP

SP 109’

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12:30 Preludes 1 compilation 12:30 90’ Preludes 1 prog.

Lore Cate Shortland

11:00

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Centro histórico diverse regisseurs Centro histórico diverse regisseurs

VPRO Previewdag

10:00

Alone Wang Bing Lore Cate LoreShortland Cate Shortland 12:15

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10:00

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14:00

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11.00

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compilationSH prog. 14:15 Guimarães: Rocking the CradleSH 14:15 Guimarães: compilation prog. Rocking the Cradle 15:00 Preludes 2 81’

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Taanila

09:15

de liefde

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Siegrid Alnoy

09:45 Miroir mon amour SP

The Russian Novel Shin Yeon-Shick

Simon Killer Antonio Campos

Chai Chunya 10:00

84’

My Hometown

90’

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Wasteland Rowan Athale

Ninomiya Ryutaro

139’

90’

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Others

Guido van Driel

van een klootzak

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Ship of Theseus Anand Gandhi

14.00 13:45 De wederopstanding

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Touch Shelly Silver

12:45

Ninah’s Dowry Victor Viyuoh

105’

Nahid P. Sarvestani

Revolution

12:00 My Stolen

Halley Sebastián Hofmann

11:45

11:30

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Ari Deelder

09:45 Four Ways to Die in

09:30 Toegetakeld door

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18.00

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Après mai Olivier Assayas

122’

SIgnalS: InSIde Iran

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20.00

21.00

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130’

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Carlos Reygadas

85’

140’

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Modest Reception Mani Haghighi Modest Reception Mani Haghighi

101’

Manoel de Oliveira 17:00 Kobayashi Tall as theMasahiro BF Baobab Tree 17:00 Tall BF as the Jeremy Teicher Baobab Tree 17:15 Gebo and the

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Kobayashi Masahiro

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Fata Morgana Peter Schreiner

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Vergiss mein nicht David Sieveking

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Hao Jie

Tiedan

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Hélène Fillières

d’amour

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Gegenwart Thomas Heise

22:00 Living Still Life

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230’ SP Spring Breakers Harmony Korine BF 230’ Rengaine 92’ BF Rachid Djaïdani Rengaine 75’ BF Rachid Djaïdani 75’ 22:15 Reverberations 230’ 22:15 compilation prog. Reverberations BFprog. compilation Rengaine Rachid 22:15Djaïdani Short Stories: Latin

SP HarmonyBreakers Korine Spring 22:00 Harmony Korine Motifs Chekhov’s Kira Muratova BF

21:45 Une histoire

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compilation prog.

of Vision

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18.00

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Short Films 1 Manuela 19:45 Morgaine Losing Dwoskin 19:45 compilation prog. Losing Dwoskin 20:00 compilation prog. Tiger Awards

Chai Chunya 19:15 Foudre Manuela Morgaine 19:15 Manuela CC Morgaine TV Night: Girls, Girls and20:00 Boys Tiger Awards compilation 85’ Competition 20:00prog. Tiger Awardsfor Short Films Competition1for 19:15 Foudre

74’ compilationRG prog. Losing Dwoskin 74’ prog. 19:30 The compilation BF Patience Stone 85’ 81’ Goodbye10 Saigon 19:30 The RG Atiq Rahimi Number Blues/ Patience Stone BF Osada Norio 97’ Goodbye Saigon 17:45 Short Stories: 20:15 Neural Pathways 98’ SH SH Atiq Rahimi Osada17.00 Norio 97’ 98’ Lunar Eclipses compilation 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 18:00 20:15 SH SH Persistence prog. NL Int.prog. compilation 83’ 74’ of Vision 18:00 20:15 Persistence SH compilation prog. SH NL Int. compilation prog. 80’ 74’ Vision 19:30 RG BF compilation prog. Number 10 Blues/ The Patienceof Stone compilation prog. 80’ Atiq Rahimi 74’ Goodbye Saigon Osada Norio 97’ 98’

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Short Stories: A. Kennedy / I.Wiblin 76’ Lunar Eclipses 17:45 Short Stories: compilation prog. SH 17:30 TakeLunar Off Eclipses compilation compilation prog.prog. RG Number 10 Blues/

Our House

Longing for the Rain Yang Lina

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A. OurKennedy House / I.Wiblin 76’ A. Kennedy / I.Wiblin 17:30 Take Off76’ 17:30 compilation Take Off prog. SP prog. The View from compilation

67’

Jeremy Teicher

CC TV Night: Girls, compilation prog.to Die in 85’ BF GirlsFour and Ways Boys 19:30 prog. 85’ My Hometown 19:15 compilation Foudre

120’

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Philippe Epilepsy 22:00 The Charm BF of Grandrieux Philippe Grandrieux 22:00 Others Chekhov’s Motifs Ryutaro 89’ 22:00 Ninomiya Kira MuratovaMotifs Chekhov’s SP Kira22:30 Muratova White

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Ninomiya Ryutaro Others

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23.00 SP

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18:15 Fahrtwind – Aufzeich- BF einer Reisenden 18:15 nungen BF Fahrtwind – Aufzeich-

Bernadette Weigel nungen einer Reisenden SIgnalS: Sound Bernadette WeigelSTageS

of in de speciale weblounge in Cinerama.

SP L’ enclos du Jean-Charles Fitoussi temps 17:00 Tall as the 67’ Jean-Charles FitoussiTree 67’ Baobab

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compilation prog.

compilation prog. Rocking the Cradle

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20:30 VPRO Filmnacht SP Olivier Assayas mai is het volledige oeuvre VoorAprès het eerst van een van de meest uitzonderlijke Oost-Europese 122’ Olivier Assayas 122’ jaar buiten Rusland en Oekraïne te zien. kunstenaars afgelopen vijftig tenebras lux 17.00 van de18.00 19.00 20.00 21.0021:45 Post22.00 Carlostenebras Reygadas lux Een onnavolgbaar en onweerstaanbaar oeuvre dat geen grenzen kent. 21:45 Post

16:30 L’ enclos du SP temps 16:45 The View from Jean-Charles Fitoussi Our House 16:45 The View from

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79’

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SP SP

15:00 Preludes 2 SH compilation 15:00 Preludes 2 prog. SH

compilation prog.

92’

14:45 Ai Is Japanese for Love 14:45 Ai compilation prog.for Love Is Japanese

Ping’an Yueqing Ai Weiwei

92’

92’ 100’

100’

The Russian Novel Shin Yeon-Shick SP

Odayaka Uchida Nobuteru Odayaka Uchida Nobuteru 14:30 Vulgaria 14:30 Vulgaria Pang Ho-cheung 14:15 Odayaka Pang Ho-cheung Uchida Nobuteru Ping’an Yueqing Ai WeiweiYueqing Ping’an 14:30 Vulgaria Ai Weiwei Pang Ho-cheung 14:15 14:15

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De fraaiste voorbeelden dieForest 21:45 F*ck for SP van ‘episodic storytelling’ met televisie- en internetseries In the Fog Sergei Loznitsa gemaakt zijn door onafhankelijke filmmakers, voor één keer groot(s) te zien Michal op hetMarczak scherm

SP Wang Bing minuten Shin Yeon-Shick Alone Russian Novel De10:00 kracht van kort: films van één tot12:15 negenenvijftig lang, uit alle windstreken.The 89’ Wang Bing Shin Yeon-Shick VPRO Previewdag 89’ lange films vertoond. Ze10:00 worden gebundeld in compilation prog.’s of in combinatie met VPRO Previewdag

10:00 VPRO Previewdag SPecTrum ShorTS 12:15 Alone

Juan Andrés Arango

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The Master Paul The Thomas MasterAnderson Paul Thomas Anderson

21:45 Post tenebras lux SP Carlos Reygadas 18:30 Fine, Thanks 21:30 Prófugos BF Roland Hassel BF 91’ en Mátyás videokunst, 18:30 21:30 Pablo Måns Månsson Prikler afkomstig uit hetBFlevendige undergroundcircuit Larraín Roland Hassel BF Actuele Iraanse cinema Fine, Thanks Prófugos 74’ 130’ Måns Månsson Mátyás Prikler Pablo Larraín van Teheran waar galeries ontmoetingsplaatsen zijn voor makers en publiek. 74’ 130’ 16:15 In the Fog 21:45 F*ck for Forest SP 16:15 In 21:45 F*ck SP Sergei Michalfor Marczak theLoznitsa Fog Forest 128’ 18:30 21:30 Prófugos BF SergeiBFLoznitsa Michal Marczak Roland Hassel Fine, Thanks 128’ Mátyás Prikler Måns Månsson Pablo Larraín

91’

Sh The Russian Novel

15:30

10:00 VPRO Previewdag Rotterdam op zijn breedst. Het festival selecteerde actueel, krachtig91’en 10:00 VPRO Previewdag vernieuwend werk uit alle windstreken, van veteranen bekende BF regisseurs. 13:15 tot Laminder Playa D.C.

SPecTrum

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La Playa D.C. JuanPlaya AndrésD.C. Arango La Juan Andrés The Unspeakable Act SPArango Dan Sallitt

91’

La fille Vers bloed. Eerste of tweede speelfilm van filmmakers waarvan het14:15 festival in de nulle part Jean-Claude Brisseau 12:30 The Unspeakable Act SP 15:30 de toekomst nog veel goeds verwacht. 12:30 The 15:30 Dan Unspeakable Sallitt Act SP 10:00

BrIghT FuTure VPRO Previewdag VPRO Previewdag

10:00 10:00

Jean-Claude Brisseau

Jean-Claude Brisseau La fille de nulle part

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21.00 22.00 19:00 de SPhet hedendaagse Retrospectief van Dominik Graf, belangrijkste chroniqueur van The Master Paul Thomas Anderson Duitsland. Met een oeuvre van zestig producties – voornamelijk voor137’televisie – het best bewaarde geheim van de Duitstalige film.

Press & Industry Screenings Wednesday 23 January

Schouwburg Grote Zaal GroteLuxor Zaal Oude Pathé 1 Pathé 1 Schouwburg Grote Zaal Pathé 2 Pathé 2 Pathé 1 Pathé 3 Pathé 3 Pathé 2 Pathé 4 Pathé 4 Pathé 3 Pathé 5 Pathé 5 Pathé 4 Pathé 6 Pathé 6 Pathé 5 Pathé 7 Pathé 7 Pathé 6 Cinerama 1 Cinerama 1 Pathé 7 Cinerama 2 Cinerama 2 Cinerama 1 Cinerama 3 Cinerama 3 Cinerama 2 Cinerama 4 Cinerama 4 Cinerama 3 Cinerama 6 Cinerama 6 Cinerama 4 LantarenVenster 1 LantarenVenster 1 Cinerama 6 LantarenVenster 2 LantarenVenster 2 LantarenVenster 1 LantarenVenster 3 LantarenVenster 3 LantarenVenster 2 LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 3 09.00 LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 5

public screenings Thursday 24 January

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Pathé 1

Pathé 1 Pathé 1

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public screenings Wednesday 23 January public screenings wednesday 23 January

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Ninomiya Ryutaro

The Love Songs of Tiedan

Ninomiya Ryutaro Simon Killer Antonio Campos 10:00 BF

105’

89’

12:15

at Me

85’

13:15 Memories Look

at Me

OverSP 13:00 VoiceSong Fang

F*ck for Forest Song Fang Michal Marczak 13:00 Odayaka 85’ Uchida Nobuteru 13:15 Memories Look

137’

140’

91’

90’

95’

91’

100’

15:15

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Our House

17:00 Rhino Season Wakamatsu Koji Bahman Ghobadi

Chose His Own Fate

16.00

Wakamatsu Koji 16:00 11.25 The Day Mishima 91’

BF 90’

76’

and Other Illnesses

Majid Barzegar Shin Yeon-Shick 16:00 Peculiar Vacation BF 107’ 140’

A. Kennedy / I. WiblinIISP 76’ Parviz The15:45 Russian Novel

Our House

16:15 The View from Yosep Anggi Noen

My Hometown Chai16:00 Chunya Peculiar Vacation90’ and Other Illnesses

15:30 Four Ways to Die in BF A. Kennedy / I. Wiblin

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140’

mai

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SS BF Berberian Roland 16:15 Hassel Måns MånssonSound Studio 17:00 Rhino Season 92’ 74’ Peter Strickland Bahman Ghobadi 16:15toIn BF Four Ways Die inFog the My Hometown Sergei Loznitsa 16:15 Berberian SS Chai Chunya 90’ Sound Studio 16:15 The SP 92’ from PeterView Strickland

15.00 SP

Jean-Claude Brisseau BF

BFD.C. F*ck for13:15 Forest La Playa Michal MarczakJuan Andrés Arango

91’

Alone Ginger and Rosa Wang Bing 13:00 Odayaka Sally Potter 89’ Uchida Nobuteru

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137’

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14:15 La fille de nulle part

16.00 Chose His Own Fate Olivier Assayas

16:00 11.25 The Day 17:00 Mishima Après

128’

18:30

122’

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Act

Sightseers Ben Wheatley The Unspeakable

Big Talk Banerjee 19:30 Dibakar

Kees Brienen

WELCOME

19:30 DEAD BODY Guido van Driel

van een klootzak

19:00 De wederopstanding 69’

Claun Felipe Bragança CC

WELCOME

19:30 Ari Deelder DEAD BODY

de liefde

69’

CC Dan Sallitt Felipe Bragança 19:15 Toegetakeld door

Act

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nungen einer Reisenden Frédérick Pelletier 19:00 De wederopstanding Bernadette Weigel 85’ van een klootzak

91’

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Rowan Athale Carlos Reygadas 22:15 SP Vulgaria 110’ Pang Ho-cheung 21:45 Nairobi Half Life BF 115’ David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga 22:00 SP BF Wasteland 96’ Rowan Athale 22:15 Spring BreakersCC SP 21:30 110’ Prófugos Harmony Korine Pablo Larraín 21:45 Nairobi Half Life BF 120’ David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga 21:30 21:45 SP BF 96’ ÉdenF*ck for Forest BrunoMichal Safadi Marczak 22:15 Spring Breakers SP 75’ 85’ Harmony Korine 22:00 Towheads BF Shannon Plumb 21:30 Éden SP 86’ Bruno Safadi 22:00 Ninah’s Dowry BF 75’ Viyuoh 22:00 Victor BF Towheads 95’ Shannon Plumb 21:45 Reception 21:15 Modest BF 86’ II Errors of the Human Body Mani Haghighi 22:00 Ninah’s Dowry BF Eron Sheean 101’ 100’ Victor Viyuoh 21:15 On Mother’s Head BF 95’ Putu21:45 Kusuma Widjaya BF

23.00 SP BF

Vulgaria Pang Ho-cheung

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21.00 22.00 21:45 22:00 SP PostWasteland tenebras lux

115’

SP VPRO Filmnacht

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19.00 20.00 19:30 Shanghai

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20.00 Sightseers Ben Wheatley

19:30 Big Talk

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Shanghai Dan Sallitt Dibakar Banerjee 19:15 Toegetakeld door Fine, Thanks de liefde Mátyás Prikler 19:15 The Unspeakable Ari Deelder

90’

18:30 90’ SP Claun

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18:45 Diego 18:15 Fahrtwind BF – AufzeichStar BFKees Brienen

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SPJie Previewdag Hao VPRO

89’

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Take Off compilation prog.

Paradigm

12:30 Bust That compilation prog.

SH 85’

SH 98’

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Competition for

Taanila

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Present Tense compilation prog.

Pictures

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Miike Takashi

Su Re Giovanni Columbu

09:30 Fifth Gospel

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Longing for the Rain Yang Lina

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Inori

CJP Serveert 12:00 Gebo and the

87’

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F*ck for Forest

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Miike Takashi Eliza Hittman 14:00 Diego Star Frédérick Pelletier

Love

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For13:45 Love’s Sake It Felt Like

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80’

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Johnnie To Jeannette

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WarTG

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16:30 Persistence

157’

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74’

Hanoun, à revoir compilation prog.

compilation prog.

of Vision

For Love’s Sake Drug War public&screenings saturday 26 January Press Industry Screenings Friday 25 January

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Short à Films 2 18:00 NL Int.82’ RG Hanoun, revoir

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Short Films 3 SH 20:15 Short Stories: Bad Persistence

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HaifaaBig AlTalk Mansour 19:30

19.00 Wadjda

Io e te Bernardo Bertolucci

19:30 Big Talk

SH F for Fake compilation prog.

70’

68’

Nahid Persson Sarvestani

Revolution

20:00 My Stolen

75’

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Shanghai Dibakar Banerjee

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Soul Hotel compilation prog.

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compilation prog. 22:30 Neural Pathways SH 110’ compilation prog. SH 74’ Soul Hotel compilation prog. II Invisible Present Tense 99’ compilation prog.

Une 22.00 histoire d’amour

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compilation prog. RG

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123’

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Weeds Grow Tall

SP compilation prog. 68’ Touch Shelly Silver 20:15 Short Stories: Bad

Beyond

19:45 Beyond the SH compilation prog.

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80’

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225’

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12:15 Short Stories: Latin

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SP 90’ Guido van Driel Fata Morgana temps Peter18:45 Schreiner 09:45 Simon Killer 13:00 Voice Over 15:45 Parviz BF SP II BF Errors of the Human Diego Star Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ 140’ 94’ Body Ginger and Rosa Antonio Campos Majid Barzegar Frédérick Pelletier 14:45 18:30 SP 21:30 Longing 11:30 105’ 14:15 Odayaka 17:00 Japan’s Tragedy 22:00 BF BF SP Potter SP SP BF 101’ Eron The Sheean 95’ 5 Jahre 107’ 91’ Sally Charm of TG Halley 19:15 LessonTG for the Rain Lore 12:15 Oh Boy of the Evil Others Jan Ole Gerster Stefan Schaller Sebastián Hofmann Yang Lina Cate Shortland Uchida Nobuteru Kobayashi Masahiro Miike Takashi 18:15 Fata Morgana 21:15 On Mother’s Head SP BF SP L’ enclos du Ninomiya Ryutaro 85’ 95’ 85’ 96’ 109’ 100’ 101’ 129’ 89’ temps Peter Schreiner Putu Kusuma Widjaya 11:45 La Playa D.C. 14:30 Miroir 17:00 17:15 19:15 Après mai 22:00 Miss 20:00 Brief Encounters 22:30 SP BF SP SP KM SP BF Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ 140’ mon amour SPSP Comrade GeboKim and the SP White94’ La noche de enfrente Lovely Vulgaria GoesShadow Flying Epilepsy Siegrid Alnoy Raúl Ruiz Juan12:15 Andrés Arango Olivier Assayas Ashim Ahluwalia Pang Ho-cheung Kira Muratova 14:45 5 Jahre 21:30 Longing for the Rain TG BF BF TG Oh Boy diverse regisseurs Manoel de Oliveira 18:30 Philippe Grandrieux 69’ 110’ 110’ 90’ 84’ 92’ 81’ Halley 122’ 91’ 96’ Jan Ole Gerster Stefan Schaller Sebastián Hofmann Yang Lina 19:00 Melody 17:00 19:30 for 22:00 22:15 KM KM SP16:30 BFSP KM 85’14:00 14:15 95’ Post 85’ 96’ ChangeMotifs of Fortune Tall as lux the Four toOrgan Die in BF Vergiss mein nicht BF tenebras a Ways Street Ping’an Yueqing Chekhov’s Baobab Tree My Hometown Kira Muratova David Sieveking Carlos Reygadas Kira Muratova Ai Weiwei Kira Muratova 11:45 14:30 17:00 19:15 22:00 SP BF SP SP BF Miroir mon amour SP Comrade Kim La noche de enfrente La Playa D.C. 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Organ 85’ 142’ 88’ 61’ 98’ 80’ 67’ 92’ Kira Muratova David Sieveking Carlos Reygadas Kira Muratova 11:30 Ship of Theseus 14:30 Fahrtwind – Aufzeich- BF 16:30 The Russian Novel 21:45 19:15 19:30 BF BF BF BF 88’ 120’SP 153’ Ixjana 109’ Mai morire Foudre nungen einer Reisenden Shin17:00 Yeon-Shick Gandhi Enrique Rivero Józef22:15 Skolimowski / Manuela Morgaine 11:00 Ping’an Anand 14:30 Among Grey Stones KM 19:45 SP BF II SP Fifth Gospel Pearblossom Yueqing Far Away Bernadette Weigel 139’ 85’ 140’ 84’ 98’ 230’ Michal Skolimowski of Kaspar Hauser Hwy Kira Muratova Ai Weiwei compilation prog. 11:30 histórico 16:30 19:15 21:45 11:00 Centro 16:45 20:00 BF SP SP SP Alberto Gracia SP SP TS BF Mike Ott 142’ 88’ 61’ 98’ 80’ The View from Tiger Awards White Foudre Lukas the Strange Centro histórico Rengaine Our House for Epilepsy Manuela Morgaine John Torres Competition BF diverse regisseurs diverse Rachid Djaïdani 11:30regisseurs 14:30 Fahrtwind – Aufzeich- BF 16:30 The Russian Novel 19:30 21:45 Ixjana BF SP BF Ship of Theseus90’ Mai morire Short Films 185’ A. 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Baobab Tree 10:00 Jeremy Teicher 82’ of The Love Songs VPRO Previewdag Tiedan 10:15 The Charm of Hao Jie Others

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13.00 Call Girl Mikael Marcimain

Dan Sallitt

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The Master Paul Thomas Anderson

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Baobab Tree

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09:30 Tall as the

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Girl Mikael Marcimain public screenings FridayCall 25 January

Drug Shanghai Die Welt Hélène Fillières 100’ 80’ Io e te Dibakar Banerjee Alex Pitstra 16:30 Il futuro 79’ 19:15 22:15 Me Too SP 107’ SP 123’ Bertolucci to Describe Daniel Hoesl 80’ HowBernardo a Cloud Alicia Scherson Alexey Balabanov 19:15 Wadjda 21:45 Une histoire BF BF 17:00 19:15 21:15 SP SP BF SP David Verbeek 91’ 94’ 80’ Reality Lasting Roland Hassel Lore d’amour HaifaaMånsson Al Mansour Shadow Matteo Garrone Måns Cate Shortland 12:30 Los salvajes 15:30 A floresta de Jonathas BFJacek Borcuch 18:30 Darvag 21:30 BF II 100’ 80’ Call Hélène Girl Fillières Manoel de Oliveira 91’ 115’ 93’ 74’ 109’ Sérgio Andrade16:30 Alejandro Fadel Abolfazl Jalili Mikael Marcimain 14:00 Diego Star 19:15 How to Describe SP 22:15 Me Too BF SP Il futuro 10:45 5 Jahre 12:45 Rio Belongs 14:30 119’ 16:30 BF SP SP BF 99’ 100’ How to Describe F*ck for Forest a Cloud Frédérick Pelletier Alicia Scherson Alexey Balabanov to Us 13:30 Förår a Cloud Michal Marczak 10:45 Stefan 16:15 Far Away 19:30 21:45 Rio Belongs BF II SP DavidThe Verbeek 91’ 94’ Harmonica’s SP80’ TouchSchaller SP Ricardo Pretti Roland Hassel David Verbeek 95’ 75’ 80’ 85’ Howl to Us Shelly Silver prog. Pathé 3 12:30 15:30 A floresta de compilation 18:30 Darvag 21:30 Call Girl II Jonathas BF salvajes Bruno Safadi Ricardo Pretti 70’ Human LosBF 92’ 98’ 72’ 75’ Måns MånssonBF 09:15 Rengaine 11:15 Errors of the BF Sérgio Andrade Alejandro Fadel Abolfazl Jalili Mikael Marcimain Pathé 2 Rachid Djaïdani Cinerama 2 10:00 Miroir mon amour SPBody 13:15 Halley 16:00 It Felt Like Love 18:30 Frankenstein’s 21:00 La cinquième saison SP TG TG BF 119’ 99’ 100’ Eron Sheean 75’ 101’ Army Siegrid Alnoy Eliza Hittman Sebastián Hofmann Jessica Woodworth Pathé 4 10:45 Touch 13:30 Förår 16:15 Far Away 19:30 The Harmonica’s SP 21:45 Rio Belongs SP BF II SP Richard Raaphorst 84’ 85’ 80’ 86’ 94’ / Peter Brosens II Howl to Us Roland Hassel Shelly Silver compilation prog. Pathé09:00 3 Darvag 09:45 Comrade Kim 13:00 Rhino Season 15:45 Su Re 18:45 Soldate 21:45 Ricardo SP TG BrunoTG Safadi 70’ 92’ 98’ 72’ Cinerama 3 Abolfazl Jalili Måns Månsson II La fille Pretti de nulle part 75’SP 100’ Goes Flying Jeannette Jean-ClaudeSP Brisseau Bahman Ghobadi Giovanni Columbu Pathé 5 10:00 Miroir mon amour SP 13:15 16:00 18:30 21:00 TG TG BF It Felt Like Love Frankenstein’s Halley La cinquième saison diverse regisseurs SP 81’ Daniel Hoesl 90’ 87’ 79’ 09:45 Éden Army Siegrid Alnoy Eliza Hittman Sebastián Hofmann Jessica Woodworth Pathé 4 10:00 12:30 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology 15:30 Spring Breakers 18:15 La noche 21:15 RG85’ SP SP BF 94’ Richardde Raaphorst 80’ 86’ / Peter Brosens BrunoLukas Safadithe Strange SP 84’ DEAD BODY Cinerama 4 enfrente 75’ WELCOME Sophie Fiennes John Torres Harmony Korine Raúl18:45 Ruiz Pathé 6 09:45 Comrade 13:00 Rhino Season 15:45 SP II TG TG SP Kim Soldate La fille de nulle Su Re Kees21:45 Brienen 85’ 136’ 92’ 110’ 80’ part 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 19:45 22:00 BF BF BF SP BF Goes Flying Jeannette The Fifth Jean-Claude BrisseauBF Harmonica’s Frankenstein’s Bahman Ghobadi On Mother’s Head Giovanni Columbu Big Boy Diego Star Pathé 5 10:15 12:45 16:00 18:45 21:00 BF TG TG BF BF diverse regisseurs Daniel Hoesl door Army79’ Gospel of Kaspar 81’ 90’ 87’ Howl Toegetakeld Mai morire De wederopstanding Die Welt Shireen Seno Longing for the RainPutu Kusuma Widjaja Frédérick Pelletier Cinerama 5 Hauser van een klootzak Bruno Safadi de liefde72’ Richard Raaphorst 89’ 94’ 91’ 61’ Enrique Rivero Yang Lina Alex86’Pitstra Pathé 7 10:00 Lukas the Strange SP 12:30 The Pervert’s 15:30 Spring Breakers 18:15 La noche de enfrente 21:15 SP BF Guide to Ideology 96’ RG DEAD BODY Ari Deelder Guido van DrielSP 84’ 90’ 90’ 80’ WELCOME 09:30 The Gardener Sophie Fiennes John Torres II Harmony Korine Raúl Ruiz Pathé 6 14:15 Claun 136’ 17:00 Ninah’s 19:45 Les revenants II CC BF CC Kees Brienen 85’11:45 Tunnel 92’ 110’ 80’ 10 Blues/ Dowry Mohsen Makhmalbaf RG Cinerama 6 09:15 Number Goodbye Saigon 111 Girls VictorTGViyuoh Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud 87’ Cinerama 1 12:45 Longing for the Rain TG Felipe Bragança 16:00 De wederopstanding 18:45 Toegetakeld door Fabrice 21:00 Die BF BF BF Welt Osada Norio 10:15 Mai morire97’ 69’ 95’ 200’ N. Ghobadi / B. Zamanpira 86’ de liefde van een klootzak Enrique Rivero SH 10:00 DINAMO Yang Lina Alex Pitstra Pathé 7 P&I 14:00 The Asthenic 20:00 Peculiar 22:00 Two in SP BF Ari Deelder GuidoKM van Driel 17:15 Kern90’ 84’ 96’ 90’ 80’ One Vacation Syndrome Screenings 111:00 Fata Morgana LantarenVenster 2 and Other Illnesses Peter Schreiner Kira Muratova Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala Kira Muratova Cinerama 2 09:15 Number 10 Blues/ compilation RG prog. 81’ 11:45 Tunnel 14:15 Claun 17:00 Ninah’s Dowry 19:45 Les revenants II CC BF CC Yosep Anggi Noen 140’ 153’ 138’ 90’ Goodbye Saigon 111 Girls Felipe Bragança Victor Viyuoh Fabrice Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud Cinerama 1 09:45 Towheads BF 14:30 Going Home (Part 20:00 Kalayaan CC SP Osada Norio 97’ 69’ 95’ 200’ N. Ghobadi / B. Zamanpira 86’ 1-5) Shannon Plumb LantarenVenster Kore-eda Hirokazu Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Cinerama 3 3 86’ Morgana 11:00 Fata 14:00 The Asthenic Syndrome 17:15 Kern 20:00 Peculiar Vacation 22:00 Two in One SP KM BF 225’ 115’ and Other Illnesses Peter Schreiner Kira Muratova Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala Kira Muratova Cinerama09:00 2 Number 10 Blues/ 11:00 Après 17:00 RG SP BF A floresta de Jonathas 09:30 Fifth Gospel 11:30mai 14:00 F*ck for Forest 17:15 Trois exercises d’interpretation BF SP BF Yosep Anggi Noen 140’ 153’ 138’SP 90’ Inori GoodbyeofSaigon SérgioCristi Andrade Olivier Assayas LantarenVenster Kaspar Hauser Pedro González-Rubio Michal Puiu Cinerama 5 4 Osada Norio 14:30Marczak 20:00 Kalayaan CC SP 97’ 122’ 99’ Going Home (Part 1-5) Alberto Gracia 61’ 72’ 85’ 157’ Kore-eda Hirokazu Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Cinerama 3

Schouwburg Grote Zaal de Doelen Oude Luxor Jurriaanse Zaal Pathé 1 Schouwburg de Doelen Grote Zaal Willem Burgerzaal Pathé 2 Pathé 6 1 Pathé

Oude Luxor

LantarenVenster 6

LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 5

LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 3

3 LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 2

2 LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 1

1 LantarenVenster 3 Cinerama 7

Cinerama 7 LantarenVenster 2 Cinerama 6

Cinerama 6 LantarenVenster 1 Cinerama 4

4 Cinerama 6 Cinerama 3

Cinerama 3 4 Cinerama 2

Cinerama 2 3 Cinerama 1

Cinerama 1 2 Pathé 7

Pathé 1 7 Cinerama Pathé 6

Pathé 6 7 Pathé 5

5 Pathé 6 Pathé 4

Pathé 4 5 Pathé 3

Pathé 3 4 Pathé 2

de Doelen Schouwburg Jurriaanse Grote Zaal Oude Luxor Schouwburg Pathé 1 Grote Zaal de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal Pathé 1 2 Schouwburg Grote Zaal Pathé 2 3 Pathé 1

Oude Luxor

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public screenings

press & industry screenings

340

Take Off compilation prog.

SH 85’

14:15

Present Tense compilation prog.

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11.00

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14.00

15.00

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09.00

10.00

11:00

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12.00

Miike Takashi

13.00

13:15

14.00

134’

15.00

Johnnie To

16.00

16:15

17.00

compilation prog.

of Vision

16:30 Persistence

For Love’s Sake Drug War Press Industry Screenings Friday 25 January public&screenings saturday 26 January

09.00

72’

SH 74’

107’

18.00

86’

19.00

19:15

Io e te Bernardo Bertolucci

20.00

SH F for Fake compilation prog.

19:30 Big Talk

19.00

19:45 68’

123’

21.0021:45

21.00

22:00

23.00

90’

23.00

Shanghai Dibakar Banerjee

22.00

22:15

22.00

Soul Hotel compilation prog. 99’

SP 110’

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

LantarenVenster 6

LantarenVenster 2

Cinerama 5

Cinerama 4

Cinerama 3

09:00

64’

Tony Conrad

compilation prog.

Eclipses

62’

12:00 Short Stories: Lunar

SH 94’

Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1

14:15 Close Encounters:

86’

09:15

64’

Soul of the Walking People

90’

104’

compilation prog.

87’

63’

79’

12:00

80’

93’

13:45

85’

Penumbra Eduardo Villanueva

14.00 Fat Shaker Mohammad Shirvani

13.00 13:15

It Felt Like Love Eliza Hittman

Hans Heijnen

Voice of Rotterdam

12.00

11:45 Lee Towers: The

Daniel Hoesl

Jeannette

11.00 11:15 Soldate

10:15 The Dancing

Screenings 2

10:00 DINAMO P&I

Guido van Driel

van een klootzak

72’

09:30 De wederopstanding

A Fallible Girl Conrad Clark

10.00

Su Re Giovanni Columbu

09.00 09:15

TG 89’

15:30

16.00

16:00

Our Nixon Penny Lane

Pablo Delgado Sánchez

The Complex Nakata Hideo

15:45 Las lágrimas BF

15.00

compilation prog.

Glass Self

115’

16:30 Looking

64’

106’

85’

17.00

Press & Industry Screenings Saturday 26 January

Die Erbin Cinerama 2 Ayse Polat

de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal

LantarenVenster 6

67’

18:00

Silent Ones Ricky Rijneke

18.00

19.00

97’

89’

SH 98’

80’

21:45

21.00

Alexandra Gulea

Miner

20:15 Matei Child

20.00

Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 2

Ninomiya Ryutaro

19:45 Close Encounters:

22:15

80’

Il futuro Alicia Scherson

23.00

SP 94’

Cherchez Hortense Pascal Bonitzer

22:30

22.00

NL Int. compilation prog.

Jirafas Enrique Álvarez

22:00

SP 100’

SP 94’

24.00

129’

24.00

Une histoire Wadjda CJP Serveert Schouwburg d’amour Haifaa Al Mansour 16:15 Drug WarTG 19:30 Big Talk 22:15 09:30 Su Re 11:30 Longing for the Rain TG13:15 For 13:45 17:45 Die Welt SP 15:45 Soldate SP SP TG BF Grote Zaal Love’s Sake Shanghai It Felt Like Love TG Hélène Fillières 100’ 80’ de Doelen Io e te Jeannette Miike Takashi Johnnie To Dibakar Banerjee Giovanni Columbu Yang Lina Eliza Hittman Alex Pitstra Oude Luxor 14:00 16:30 19:15 22:15 Me Too BF SP SP SP to Describe Jurriaanse Zaal 134’ 107’ 123’ 110’ Diego Star Bertolucci Daniel Hoesl Il futuro 79’ 87’ 96’ 80’ 80’ HowBernardo a Cloud Frédérick Pelletier Alicia Scherson Alexey Balabanov Pathé 1 11:00 CJP Serveert BF 12:00 Gebo and the 14:30 Reality 17:00 Lasting 19:15 Roland SP SP SP SP Wadjda David Verbeek 91’ 94’ 83’ Hassel BF 80’ BF 21:15 Lore21:45 Une histoire Schouwburg de Doelen d’amour HaifaaMånsson Al Mansour Shadow Matteo Garrone Jacek Borcuch Måns Cate Shortland 12:30 15:30 18:30 21:30 BF BF II BF Grote Zaal A floresta de Jonathas Hélène Fillières 100’ 80’ Los salvajes Darvag Call Girl Willem Burgerzaal Manoel de Oliveira 91’ 115’ 93’ 74’ 109’ Sérgio Andrade Alejandro Fadel Abolfazl Jalili Mikael Marcimain Pathé 2 14:00 16:30 Il futuro 99’ 19:15 How to Describe 22:15 Me Too BF SP 10:45 5 Jahre 12:45 Rio Belongs 14:30Star 16:30 SP Diego SP BF SP BF 119’ 100’ SP 140’ How to Describe F*ck for Forest a Cloud Frédérick Pelletier Alicia Scherson Alexey Balabanov Pathé 6 1 to Us 13:30 Förår a Cloud Michal Marczak Pathé 10:45 Stefan 16:15 Far Away 19:30 21:45 Rio Belongs BF II SP The Harmonica’s SP80’ David Verbeek 91’ 94’ 83’ TouchSchaller SP Ricardo Pretti Roland Hassel David Verbeek 95’ 75’ 80’ 85’ Howl to Us Shelly Silver compilation prog. Pathé 3 12:30 Los salvajes 18:30 Darvag 21:30 Call Ricardo II BF Bruno Safadi Girl Pretti 70’ Human 92’ 15:30 A floresta de Jonathas BF 98’ 72’ 75’ Måns MånssonBF 09:15 Rengaine 11:15 Errors of the BF BF Sérgio Andrade Alejandro Fadel Abolfazl Jalili Mikael Marcimain Pathé 2 2 Rachid Djaïdani Cinerama 10:00 Miroir mon amour SPBody 13:15 Halley 16:00 It Felt Like Love 18:30 Frankenstein’s 21:00 La cinquième saison SP TG TG BF 119’ 99’ 100’ 140’ Eron Sheean 75’ 101’ Army Siegrid Alnoy Eliza Hittman Sebastián Hofmann Jessica Woodworth Pathé 4 10:45 Touch 13:30 Förår 16:15 Far Away 19:30 The Harmonica’s 21:45 Rio Belongs 94’ SP SP II SP Richard Raaphorst 84’ 85’ BF 80’ 86’ / Peter Brosens 09:00 Darvag II Howl to Us Roland Hassel Shelly Silver compilation prog. Pathé 3 09:45 Comrade Kim 13:00 Rhino Season 15:45 Su Re 18:45 Soldate 21:45 La SP TG Cinerama 3 Abolfazl Jalili fille Pretti de nulle part 75’SP Bruno TG Safadi Ricardo 70’ 92’ 98’ 72’ Måns Månsson II 100’ Goes Flying Jeannette Jean-Claude Brisseau Bahman Ghobadi Giovanni Columbu Pathé 5 10:00 13:15 Halley 16:00 It Felt Like Love 18:30 Frankenstein’s 21:00 La cinquième saison SP TG TG BF Miroir mon amour 81’SP diverse regisseurs Daniel Hoesl 90’ 87’ 79’ 91’ 09:45 Éden Army Siegrid Alnoy SP Eliza Hittman Sebastián Hofmann Jessica Woodworth Pathé 4 10:00 12:30 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology 15:30 Spring Breakers 18:15 La noche 21:15 RG85’ SP SP BF 94’ BrunoLukas Safadithe Strange SP 84’ DEAD BODY Cinerama 4 Richardde Raaphorst 80’ 86’ / Peter Brosens enfrente 75’ WELCOME Sophie Fiennes John Torres Harmony Korine Raúl18:45 Ruiz Pathé 6 09:45 Comrade Kim 13:00 15:45 21:45 SP II TG TG SP Soldate La fille de nulle Rhino Season Su Re Kees Brienen 85’ 136’ 92’ 110’ 80’ part 12:00 Big Boy 14:00 On Mother’s Head 16:00 Diego Star 18:00 Harmonica’s Jeannette 19:45 Frankenstein’s 22:00 BF BF BF SP BF The Fifth Goes Flying Jean-Claude BrisseauBF Bahman Ghobadi Giovanni Columbu Pathé 5 10:15regisseurs 12:45 Longing for the RainPutu 16:00 Frédérick 21:00 Die Welt BF TG Kusuma BF Gospel of Kaspar Howl 18:45 Toegetakeld Mai morire De wederopstanding diverse Daniel Hoesl door ArmyBF 81’ 90’ 87’TG 79’ 91’ Shireen Seno Widjaja Pelletier Cinerama 5 Hauser van een klootzak Bruno Safadi de liefde72’ Richard Raaphorst 89’ 94’ 91’ 61’ Enrique Rivero Yang Lina Alex86’Pitstra Pathé 7 10:00 Lukas the Strange SP 12:30 15:30 18:15 21:15 RG SP SP BF The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology DEAD BODY Spring Breakers La nocheAri deDeelder enfrente Guido van Driel 84’ 96’ 90’ 90’ 80’ WELCOME Sophie Fiennes John Torres II Harmony Korine Raúl Ruiz Pathé 6 09:15 09:30 The Gardener Tunnel 11:45 14:15 17:00 19:45 RG II CC BF CC Number 10 Blues/ Kees Brienen 85’ 92’ 110’ 80’ Claun 136’ Ninah’s Dowry Les revenants Mohsen Makhmalbaf Cinerama 6 Goodbye Saigon 111 Girls Felipe Bragança Victor Viyuoh Fabrice Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud 87’ Cinerama 1 12:45 16:00 De wederopstanding TG 18:45 21:00 Die Welt BF BF BF Longing Osada Norio 10:15 Mai morire97’ 86’ for the Rain TG 69’ 95’ Toegetakeld door 200’ N. Ghobadi / B. Zamanpira de liefde 10:00 DINAMO van een klootzak Enrique Rivero SH Yang Lina Alex Pitstra P&I Pathé 7 11:00 Fata Morgana 14:00 The Asthenic 17:15 Kern 20:00 Peculiar 22:00 Two in SP KM BF KM Vacation Ari Deelder Guido van Driel 84’ 96’ 90’ 90’ 80’ Syndrome One Screenings 1 LantarenVenster 2 and Other Illnesses Peter Schreiner Kira Muratova Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala Kira Muratova Cinerama 2 09:15 Number 10 Blues/ compilation RG prog. 81’ 11:45 Tunnel 14:15 Claun 19:45 II CC BF CC Yosep Anggi Noen 140’ 153’ 17:00 Ninah’s Dowry 138’ Les revenants 90’ 130’ Goodbye Saigon 111 Girls 09:45 Towheads Felipe Bragança Victor Viyuoh Fabrice Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud BF Cinerama 1 14:30 Going Home (Part 20:00 Kalayaan CC SP Osada Norio 97’ 69’ 95’ 200’ 1-5) N. Ghobadi / B. Zamanpira 86’ Shannon Plumb LantarenVenster Kore-eda Hirokazu Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Cinerama 3 3 86’ 11:00 Fata 14:00 The Asthenic Syndrome 17:15 Kern 20:00 Peculiar Vacation 22:00115’Two in One SP KM BF KM Morgana 225’ and Other Illnesses Peter Schreiner Kira Muratova Veronika / Severin Kira Muratova Cinerama09:00 2 Number 11:00 Après 17:00 A floresta RG SP BFFiala Blues/ deFranz Jonathas 09:30 10 11:30mai 14:00 F*ck for Forest 17:15 Trois exercises SP BF Fifth Gospel BF Yosep Anggi Noen 140’ 153’ 138’SP 90’ 130’ Inori d’interpretation GoodbyeofSaigon SérgioCristi Andrade Olivier Assayas LantarenVenster Kaspar Hauser Pedro González-Rubio Michal Marczak Puiu Cinerama 5 4 Osada Norio 97’ 122’ 99’ 14:30 Going Home (Part 20:00 CC SP Alberto Gracia 1-5) 61’ 72’ 85’ 157’ Kalayaan Kore-eda Hirokazu Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Cinerama 3 20:00 My Stolen II 225’ 115’ Revolution Cinerama 5 09:30 Fifth Gospel 11:30 Inori 14:00 F*ck for Forest 17:15 Trois exercises d’interpretation BF SP BF SP Nahid Persson Sarvestani 75’ of Kaspar Hauser Pedro González-Rubio Michal Marczak Cristi Puiu Cinerama 4 09:15 11:30 14:00 16:30 19:15 21:45 BF BF BF BF BF SP Memories L’ enclos du AlbertoLook Gracia 61’ 72’ 85’ 157’ 5 Jahre Low Tide Carne de perro Blancanieves at Me temps Stefan Schaller Roberto Minervini Fernando Guzzoni Pablo Berger Cinerama 6 20:00 My Stolen Song Fang Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ 91’ 95’ 92’ 81’ 104’II Revolution Cinerama 5 09:45 Living Still Life 12:00 Hanoun, à revoir 14:45 Space Harmonics SS 17:15 The Sentimental Policeman KM 20:00 Big 22:15 Lesson of the Evil SP RG BF SP NahidBoy Persson Sarvestani 75’ compilation prog. Kira Muratova compilation prog. Shireen Seno Miike Takashi Cinerama 7 09:15 MemoriesGegenwart 14:00 117’Low Tide 19:15115’Blancanieves 21:45 BF BF BF BF SP Look Heise BF L’ enclos du 80’ 11:30 5 Jahre 84’16:30 Carne de perro 89’ Thomas at Me temps Stefan Schaller Roberto Minervini Fernando Guzzoni Pablo Berger Cinerama 6 12:00 Tiger Awards 14:15 Tiger Awards 16:30 Tiger Awards 20:00 Tiger Awards 22:15 Four TS 92’ TS Ways67’to Die in BF Song Fang Jean-Charles Fitoussi 91’ 95’ TS 81’ 104’TS Competition for Competition for Competition for Competition for My Hometown LantarenVenster 1 09:45 Living Still Life 12:00 Hanoun, 14:45 17:15 20:00 Big 22:15 Chai SP RG SS BF SP Space Harmonics Policeman KM Short Filmsà3revoir Short Films 2 Short Films 4 The Sentimental ShortBoy Films 5 Lesson of the Evil Chunya 89’ 82’ 74’ 77’ 90’ Gegenwart compilation prog. Kira Muratova compilation prog. Shireen Seno Miike Takashi Cinerama 7 12:30 Light over Darkness SH 14:45 Beyond the 17:00 Hauntological 19:45 Bust That 22:00 Unveiling Avery SH SH SH RG 80’ 117’ 84’ 115’ 89’ Thomas Heise Beyond Futures Paradigm Willard compilation prog. LantarenVenster 2 12:00 Tiger Awards 16:30 Tiger Awards 20:00 22:15 TS TS prog. Tiger Awards Four Ways compilation TS prog. compilation compilation prog. 66’ TS compilation prog.to Die in 88’BF 79’ 14:15 Tiger Awards 68’ 72’ Competition for Competition for Competition for Competition for My Hometown LantarenVenster 1 12:15 14:30 16:45 20:15 22:30 SH 89’ SH ShortFFilms 3 ShortItFilms 2 with SH 82’ ShortGhost Films 4Tracks ShortDo-Say-MakeFilms 5 for Fake Starts Chai When Chunyathe Going SH90’ 74’ RG 77’ Think a Dot and Ends Gets Tough compilation prog. compilation prog. LantarenVenster 3 12:30 Light over Darkness 76’SH 14:45 17:00 Hauntological 19:45 Bust That compilation 22:00 Unveilingcompilation SH SH 85’ SH prog. RG Avery withBeyond a Bangthe prog. 69’ 70’ 82’ Beyond Futures Paradigm Willard compilation prog. LantarenVenster 2 14:00 Snow RG prog. compilation prog. compilation prog. 66’ compilation prog. 79’ Single Framecompilation 68’ 72’ 88’ compilation prog. LantarenVenster 4 12:15 F for Fake 14:30 It Starts with 16:45 Ghost Tracks 20:15 Do-Say-Make22:30 When the Going SH SH RG SH SH 88’ Think a Dot and Ends Gets Tough compilation prog. compilation prog. LantarenVenster 3 09:45 The Radiant BF 12:00 Bouncing 14:30 Reality 17:15 Towheads 19:30 The Charm ofcompilation 22:00 La Playacompilation RG SP BF BF prog. BF with a Bang prog. 76’ 69’ 85’ 70’ 82’ D.C. off the Walls Others The Otolith Group Matteo Garrone Shannon Plumb Juan Andrés Arango LantarenVenster 5 14:00 RG Single Frame Snow Tony Conrad Ninomiya Ryutaro 64’ 62’ 115’ 86’ 89’ 90’ compilation prog. LantarenVenster 4 12:00 Short Stories: Lunar SH 14:15 Close Encounters: 16:30 19:45 22:00 SH SH SH SH Looking Close Encounters: 88’ NL Int. Peripheral Images and Glass Self Peripheral Images and Eclipses compilation prog. LantarenVenster 6 09:45 The Radiant BF 12:00 Bouncing 14:30 17:15prog. 19:30 The Charm 22:00 La Playa D.C. RG SP BF BF 2 BF Histories of the Present 1 86’ Historiesofof the Present compilation Reality Towheads compilation prog. 94’ 67’ 98’ 80’ off the Walls Others The Otolith Group Matteo Garrone Shannon Plumb Juan Andrés Arango LantarenVenster 5

Oude Luxor

12:00

Saturday 26 January public screenings saturday 26 January

public screenings

LantarenVenster 6

press & industry screenings

341

342

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

09.00

10.00

12.00

13.00

10:00

10.00

11.00

12.00

various directors

95’

81’

81’ SP

13.00

Tall

Weeds Grow Tall

It Starts with

12:00

It Starts with a Dot and Ends with a Bang

Jean-Claude Brisseau

a Dot and Ends 11:45 La fille dea nulle with Bangpart 69’

SH 69’

91’

12:15 Short Stories: Bad

Jean-Claude Brisseau

12:00

compilation Picturesprog. compilation prog. 74’

Weeds Grow RG 12:30 Motion

ShortShort Films Stories: 5 12:15 Bad77’

compilation 11:45 La fille de SP nulle partprog.

compilation prog.

11:45

11:00 Quote Unquote

VPRO Previewdag

various directors Reality Matteo Garrone

Goes Flying

12:00 Comrade Kim

14.00

15.00

115’

15.00 SP

Dan Sallitt

91’

65’

96’

compilation prog.

Glass Self

14:15 Looking

compilation prog. d’amour Hélène Fillières

Self 14:15 Glass Une histoire

Hélène Fillières Ultimately Stom Sogo SH Looking

d’amour 14:30 Stom Sogo:

67’

Stom Sogo prog. compilation

Ultimately 14:30 Terra Incognita

14:30 Stom Sogo:

14:15 Une histoire

14:15

74’ SH

80’

91’

16:45

16.00

91’

16.00

80’

69’

RG 90’

90’

RG 73’

compilation prog.69’

compilation prog. 14:45 Here, Today

ShortTerra Films 4 14:30 Incognita

Alexandra Gulea

Miner

14:15 Matei Child

Jean-Claude Brisseau 14:30 The Unspeakable Act SP

14.00

14:15 La fille de nulle part

14:30 The Unspeakable Act SP

17.00 17.00

Après mai Olivier Assayas

Paradies: Glaube Ulrich Seidl

17:00

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM SP

09:30

70’

343

Cinerama 2 Cinerama 1

Pathé 7 Pathé 6

09:15

Screenings 3

Il futuro Alicia Scherson

87’

95’

113’

TG 68’

12:30

70’

12.00

Factory

A Fallible Girl Conrad Clark Matterhorn Diederik Ebbinge

BF ZibaManoel de Oliveira

the Curtain Falls 11:45 WhenShadow

12:00 Gebo and the

Ziba 12:30 Penumbra 89’ Bani Khoshnoudi Eduardo Villanueva 91’

14:15

89’

14:15

89’

87’

104’

85’

104’

85’

90’

compilation prog.

Think

16:30 Do-Say-Make-

19.00

122’ Hans Heijnen

15:15

14:30

17.00 de liefde

15:30

II 87’

Watchtower 80’ Pelin Esmer

16:45

80’

96’

80’

68’

96’

Adolfo B. Alix Jr.

96’ Die Sieger

Dominik GrafDolorosa 17:00 Mater

Mater Dolorosa TG Adolfo B. Alix Jr. 17:00

Alexandra Gulea TG Watchtower Pelin Esmer Ma belle gosse BF Shalimar Preuss

Miner

80’

TG Alexandra36 Gulea 80’ Nawapol ThamMa belle gosse BF rongrattanarit Shalimar 16:00 PreussMatei Child BF

Miner 16:30

16:00 Matei Child

Pablo Delgado Sánchez 64’ 16:30 36 Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Pablo Delgado 16:00 Sánchez Ship of Theseus 64’ Anand Gandhi

Ship of Theseus Anand Gandhi

105’

15:30 Las lágrimas BF

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18:30

18.00 Building 1

80’

17:30 Happiness

16:00 What They Don’t Talk About BF

17.00

Andrew Lampert

16:30 All Magic Sands/ RG

Chappaqua

Andrew Lampert compilation prog.

prog. All Magiccompilation Sands/ RG

Futures

compilation prog. 17:00 Hauntological

David Verbeek No Pablo Larraín

a Cloud

Aaron Douglas Johnston 72’19:45 SP

compilation Hauntological SH prog. Futures

16:30 Chappaqua Present Tense 114’

85’

94’

TV Night: Showtime

Kayan compilation prog. Maryam Najafi

115’ 17:00

16:45

16:30 Present Tense

16:30

20.00

Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 2

compilation prog. 22:00 Close Encounters:

21:45 Penumbra TG 22:15 The Complex BF Eduardo Villanueva Blancanieves Nakata Hideo 89’ 124’ Pablo Berger 20:00 Misericordia 19.00 20.00 SP SP21.00 22.00 23.00 19:30 How to Describe Khavn De La Cruz Cloud Big Talk 19:30 a 22:15 The Complex 70’ BF David Verbeek 80’ Blancanieves Nakata Hideo 124’ Pablo Berger 21:45 BF Wasteland Rowan Athale 19:30 How to Describe SP 82’

Aaron Douglas Johnston 72’ Marion Hänsel Noche Leonardo Brzezicki My Sister’s BF

18:30

76’

Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1

19:30 Big Talk

19.00

18:15 Quinceañera La tendresse

SP Lukas the Strange 115’ compilation prog. John Torres 85’ 16:45 Kayan BF Maryam Najafi 17:30 TV Night: SP CC

17:30

19:00

18:15 My Sister’s

18:30

86’ 17:00 The Hunter and the Skeleton BF

90’

Paula Gladstone 19:30 Close Encounters:

Hill of Pleasures Maria Ramos 19:00 No 95’ Pablo Larraín 139’ 19:15 It Felt Like Love TG Eliza Hittman 18:30 Hill of Pleasures SP 80’ Maria Ramos 95’ TG 19:00 Dummy Jim Matt Hulse 19:15 It Felt Like Love TG 90’ Eliza Hittman 80’ 18:15 La tendresse SP Marion Hänsel 19:00 Dummy Jim TG 81’ Matt Hulse

96’ Die Sieger Dominik GrafDolorosa 17:00 Mater Adolfo B. Alix Jr.

On Mother’s Head Putu Kusuma Widjaya Lukas the Strange John Torres

16:30

They’ll Come Back Marcelo Lordello

15.00 15:15

96’

80’

68’

18.00

GFP Bunny Tsuchiya Yutaka

18:00

Mater Dolorosa TG Adolfo B. Alix Jr.

17:00

18.00

Emperor Visits the Hell 16:45 Die Sieger 89’ Luo Li Dominik Graf 16:30 On Mother’s Head BF Putu17:00 Kusuma The Widjaya Hunter and the Skeleton BF 94’ Emperor Visits the Hell 89’ Luo Li

KM 81’ 16:30

81’

87’

16:45

80’

Alexandra Gulea TG Watchtower Pelin Esmer Ma belle gosse BF Shalimar Preuss

Miner

80’

TG Alexandra36 Gulea 80’ Nawapol ThamMa belle gosse BF rongrattanarit Shalimar 16:00 PreussMatei Child BF

Miner 16:30

16:00 Matei Child

Pablo Delgado Sánchez 64’ 16:30 36 Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

15:30 Las lágrimas BF

17.00

96’

Ari Deelder 17.00

Kidd Life Andreas Johnsen

Ship of Theseus Anand Gandhi

105’

16:30

16.00

15:30 Watchtower 80’ Pelin Esmer II The Gardener Mohsen Makhmalbaf BF Die Welt 87’ Alex Pitstra

15:15

85’

TG Watchtower 16:30 Kidd Life Pelin Esmer Andreas Johnsen

16.00

71’

de liefde

75’

17:15 Toegetakeld door

Pablo Delgado 16:00 Sánchez Ship of Theseus 64’ Anand Gandhi

The Dominik Gardener Graf Mohsen Makhmalbaf SP Die Erbin Ayse Polat14:45 Die Freunde der

14:15

89’

104’

85’

104’

Die87’Welt Alex Pitstra

90’ 85’

13:45 Magnificent Life of the Prince

89’

Competition for 12:30 Here, Today 75’ Short Films 7 12:00 Tiger Awards

12:00

14:15

89’

87’

16:00

105’ 15:30 Las lágrimas BF

Taboor 14:45 Kalayaan 98’ Vahid Vakilifar Adolfo B. Alix Jr. 230’ 12:30 Here, Today 14:45 Blind Colour SH compilation prog. 13:45 Magnificent Life of thecompilation prog. Prince II 73’ Taboor Vahid Vakilifar 14:15 Tiger Awards Tiger Awards TS TS 98’

Hans Heijnen

Voice of Rotterdam

Hans Heijnen

Voice of Rotterdam

Manoel de Oliveira

Shadow

12:00 Gebo and the

ZibaManoel de Oliveira Bani Khoshnoudi

the Curtain Falls 11:45 WhenShadow

Ziba 12:30 Penumbra 89’ Bani Khoshnoudi Eduardo Villanueva

Mohammad Shirvani

A Fallible Girl

Conrad 13:15 FatClark Shaker

13:15

90 Minutes Eva Sørhaug Fat Shaker Mohammad Shirvani

13:15

Simon Killer Antonio Campos

15.00

BF 90 Minutes Eva Sørhaug 14:15 Simon Killer 90’ Antonio Campos

14:15

14.00

94’

13:15

13.00

TG Penumbra Eduardo 13:00 Villanueva Matterhorn Diederik Ebbinge

12:00 Gebo and the

11:30 Lee Towers: The

99’

110’

113’

13:00

Jirafas

113’ the Curtain Falls 11:45 When

12:30

11:30 Lee Towers: The

95’

68’

12.00

prog. 16.00 compilation 17.00

Think

16:30 Do-Say-Make-

Press & Industry Screenings monday 28 January

Dominik Graf

einer Stadt

09:15 München – Geheimnisse

Dominik Graf Sérgio Andrade

einer Stadt 09:30 A floresta de Jonathas

94’

87’

TG Su Re Giovanni 10:00 Columbu Paradies: Glaube 87’ Ulrich Seidl SP Il futuro AliciaSu Scherson 09:30 TG Re 94’ Giovanni Columbu

09:45

86’

111 Girls N. Ghobadi /Glaube B. Zamanpira 86’ Paradies: Ulrich Seidl

10:00 Tunnel 10:00

11.00

111 Girls N. Ghobadi / B. Zamanpira 86’

10:00 Tunnel

09:15 München – Geheimnisse

09:15

09:30

09:00 My Sister’s

Pathé 7

Pathé 5

Pathé 2

de Doelen Willem Burgerzaal

de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal

LantarenVenster 6

LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 5

LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 3

LantarenVenster 3 LantarenVenster 2

LantarenVenster 2 LantarenVenster 1

LantarenVenster 1 Cinerama 7

Cinerama 7 Cinerama 6

Cinerama 6 Cinerama 5

Cinerama 5 Cinerama 4

Cinerama 4 Cinerama 3

Cinerama 3 Cinerama 2

Cinerama 2 Cinerama 1

Cinerama 1 Pathé 7

Pathé 7 Pathé 6

Pathé 6 Pathé 5

Li Luo 11.00

the Hell

11:15 Emperor Visits BF

de Doelen Cinerama 4 Jurriaanse Zaal Oude Luxor 09:00 The Island of SP Schouwburg LantarenVenster 2 St. Matthews Grote Zaal Kevin Jerome Everson 70’ de Doelen 10:00 Kayan Jurriaanse Zaal Maryam Najafi LantarenVenster Pathé 3 1 Schouwburg 09:30 Ziba BF Grote Zaal Bani Khoshnoudi LantarenVenster Pathé 5 2 84’ Pathé 1 10:00 DINAMO P&I Screenings 3 LantarenVenster 6 Pathé 3 compilation prog. Pathé 2

Pathé 5 Pathé 4

91’

Nawapol ThamEnrique Álvarez 28 January public screenings monday rongrattanarit

09:15

Cinerama 3 Leonardo Brzezicki Oude Luxor

Pathé 4 Pathé 3

Shaker public screenings monday 28 January Fat Mohammad Shirvani

Silent Ones de Doelen Ricky Rijneke Jurriaanse Zaal 09.00 10.00 09:00

It Starts with a Dot and Ends with a Bang 12.00

11.00 13.00 Monday 28 January

12:00

Hélène Fillières Press & Industry Screenings Sunday 27 JanuaryNahid Persson Sarvestani

09.00 10.00 public screenings

LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 6

press & industry screenings

346

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

09.00

10.00

12.00

13.00

14.00

15.00

10:00

10:00 10:00

10:00

GFP Bunny Tsuchiya Yutaka

Tsuchiya Yutaka VPRO Previewdag Rhino Season Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi 10:15 GFP Bunny

VPRO Season Previewdag Rhino

10:15

90’

11.00

VPRO Previewdag

10.00

82’

13:15

13:00

Dummy Jim Matt Hulse

Eduardo Villanueva

Dummy Jim

Nordvest 91’ Michael Noer La Playa D.C. Penumbra Juan Andrés Arango Eduardo Villanueva

MattPenumbra Hulse 13:15

13:15 13:15

Dan Sallitt 13:15

90’

BF TG

89’

90’ 89’

BF 96’

15:30

15:30 15:30 100’

16:15

17.00

Mouly Surya Ricky Rijneke

15:45 What They Don’t Talk About BF When They Talk About Love 16:30 Silent Ones

101’

BF Roland Hassel The Delivery Guy Måns Månsson Andrey Stempkovsky 16:15 Cherchez Hortense 74’ Pascal Bonitzer90’ 16:15 In the Fog BF The DeliverySergei Guy Loznitsa Andrey Stempkovsky 90’ 16:30 Silent Ones Ricky Rijneke

17.00 85’

100’

122’

19:30

128’

18:45

Salvatore MereuGirl 19:00 Karaoke

Hao Jie Bellas mariposas

Tiedan

Ifa Isfansyah 19:00 Karaoke Girl TG VisraLove VichitSongs Vadakan 19:00 The of

Jie the Rain Falls One Day Hao When

74’

102’

102’ Garin Nugroho

Michiel ten Horn Soegija Garin Nugroho

Mátyás Prikler One Day When theSoegija Rain Falls 19:30

Ifa Isfansyah

21.00

21.0021:45 21:45

89’

BF 130’

118’

BF VPRO Filmnacht BF

23.00

Hélène Fillières Voice Over 22:30

d’amour

120’

21:45

85’

22:00

Pieta Kim Ki-Duk

SP 104’

115’

80’

115’120’

Hélène Fillières 80’ 22.00 23.00SPSP Post tenebras lux Reality Carlos Reygadas Matteo Garrone 22:15 BF Une histoire

d’amour

22.00 22:15 Une histoire

Ginger and Rosa SP Reality Matteo GarroneSally Potter 21:30 Prófugos CC SP Pablo Larraín 22:30 Voice Over 120’ Ginger and Rosa 21:45 120’ BF Sally Potter F*ck for Forest Michal Marczak

SP 118’

De ontmaagding van Eva van End

20.00

Michiel ten Horn

19:30 Big Talk

19.00

20:30

20.00 De ontmaagding van Eva van End

19:30 Big Talk

19.00

19:00 The Love Songs of Tiedan #3 18:30 The Flaneurs SP

97’

18:30 Fine, The Flaneurs #3 18:30 Thanks

18.00

100’

SP 85’

17:00 Après mai BF Oh Boy Olivier Assayas Jan Ole Gerster

Oh Boy Jan Ole Gerster Cherchez Hortense Pascal Bonitzer

16:30

16.00

91’ 100’

15.00 SP BF

Jean-Claude Brisseau Haifaa Al Mansour

14.00

14:15 La fille de nulle part 14:15 Wadjda

BF Nordvest Michael Noer 14:15 Wadjda 96’ Haifaa Al Mansour

13.00

12:30 The Unspeakable Act SP

12.00

16:30

16.00

95’

24.00

Quinceañera

10:00 My Sister’s

Wang Bing St. Matthews

12:15 Alone 12:15 The Island of

Tony Conrad

off the Walls

14:00 Bouncing

RG 62’

16:15

109’ SP

18.00

17.00

89’

17.00

Michael Noer

19:30 Big Talk 19.00 20.00 Nordvest

20.00

Rengaine Rachid Djaïdani

19.00

19:15

18:15 97’ Fahrtwind – Aufzeich- BF 18:15 Poor Folk

75’

21.00

21:15

116’

BF 21.00

22.00

23.00

86’

23.00

24.00

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

347

Cinerama 2 Cinerama 1

Cinerama 1 Pathé 7

Pathé 7 Pathé 6

LantarenVenster Pathé 3 6 Pathé 5

09:15

70’

Parviz Majid Barzegar

Sébastien Rose

bascule

MajidAvant Barzegar 09:30 que mon coeur

Parviz

Sébastien Rose

bascule

11:00

09:30 Avant que mon coeur

Vladimir Todorovic

Landscape

09:15 Disappearing

09:15

96’

107’

96’

12:15

12:30

They’ll Come Back Marcelo Dummy JimLordello TG Matt Hulse 11:45 Burning Bush Agnieszka12:30 Holland They’ll Come Back Marcelo Lordello 12:00 Chekhov’s Motifs Kira Muratova 11:45 Burning Bush Agnieszka Holland

85’

90’

13:00 Manoel de Oliveira 100’ 12:15TG Halley TG Dummy Jim Matterhorn Sebastián Hofmann Matt Hulse Diederik Ebbinge

120’

105’

91’

14:45

87’

96’

17:00

TG My Dog Killer Mira16:00 Fornay UPCinema-dag

UPCinema-dag

My Dog Killer Mira240’ Fornay KM Brief Encounters Kira Muratova CC 15:30

15:30

16:00

17:00

SP Inori PedroReception González-Rubio Modest Mani Haghighi

90’ 17:15

Modest Reception Mani Haghighi

90’

104’

II 72’

74’

100’

19:00

160’

85’

98’

19:45 Io e te BernardoBFBertolucci De nieuwe wereld Jaap van Heusden 20:00 Spieler85’ Graf 19:45 Io e Dominik te Bernardo Bertolucci

BF L’ étoile du jour Sophie Blondy 19:00 De nieuwe wereld BF Jaap van Heusden 160’

18:45

21:30

BF SP 90’

103’

120’

105’ making-of

del film Io e te

96’

120’

del film IoBF The making-of Delivery Guy47’ e te Monica Stambrini 47’ Andrey Stempkovsky 90’ 22:30 Das Gelübde DG 21:45 Sedia elettrica Dominik – Il SP Graf

21:45 Sedia elettrica – Il

Post tenebras lux Carlos Reygadas 21:45 Watchtower Pelin Esmer 21:30 The Delivery Guy Stempkovsky 21:15 PostAndrey tenebras lux Carlos Reygadas

DG 92’

How to Describe 18.00 111 Girls Odayaka 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 19.00 20.00 21.0021:45 22.00 23.00 24.00 de Doelen 09.00 a17.00 CloudSP 15:30 Lesson of the Evil 19:15 Miss Lovely Nahid Ghobadi / Uchida Nobuteru BF BF Los salvajes de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal David Verbeek SP 79’ 100’ 80’ Bijan Zamanpira Talk Miike Takashi AshimBig Ahluwalia Alejandro Fadel 16:15 Lore 19:30 BF Jurriaanse Zaal 09:15 129’ 110’ 119’ Nordvest 11:15 13:30 20:45 22:30 Cate Shortland TG TG SP II BF Oude Luxor My Name Is Frankenstein’s My Dog Killer They’ll Come Back Hill of Pleasures 109’ 116’ Michael Noer 14:15 Jirafas 16:30 The Master Negahdar Jamali Army SP SP Mira Fornay Marcelo Lordello Maria Ramos Pathé 2 Schouwburg and I Make Westerns 90’ 105’ 65’ 86’ Enrique Álvarez 95’ 15:30 Lesson of the Evil Paul Thomas Anderson 19:15 Miss Lovely 21:45 Los SP BF salvajesRichard Raaphorst BF Grote Zaal de Doelen 137’ Miike 94’ Takashi Ashim Ahluwalia Alejandro Fadel 09:00 De wederopstanding 11:30 Silent Ones 14:00 De nieuwe wereld BF 21:30 Ma belle TG TG gosse BF Jurriaanse Zaal van een klootzak 110’ 119’ 13:15 Matei Child Jaap van 16:30 Bellas mariposas 129’ 20:30 De ontmaagding BFHeusden SP van Ricky Rijneke ShalimarBFPreuss Pathé 5 Miner Eva van End Guido van Driel 90’ 97’ 85’ SP 80’ Salvatore Mereu 14:15 16:30 The Pathé 1 SP Master Schouwburg Alexandra Gulea Jirafas Michiel ten Horn 80’ 102’ 98’ Enrique Álvarez Paul Thomas Anderson 11:30 Blancanieves BF Grote Zaal 94’ 137’ 15:30 Call Girl 18:45 Pieta 21:30 First Comes Love BF SP SP Pablo Berger Cinerama 3 Mikael Marcimain Kim Ki-Duk Nina Davenport 13:15 16:30 20:30 Pathé 2 104’ BF SP BF Matei Child De ontmaagding van Bellas mariposas 140’ 104’ 107’ Miner Eva van End Salvatore Mereu Pathé 1 09:30 Mater Dolorosa 12:00 Lukas the Strange SP 14:00 Miss Lovely SP BF Michiel ten Horn 80’ 102’ 98’ 11:00 How to Raise ... 13:15 Alexandra 16:15 Hill of Pleasures 19:15 Disappearing BF 22:15 SP SP TG Soegija Gulea Silent Ones Adolfo B. Alix Jr. John Torres Ashim Ahluwalia SP Cinerama Landscape Misericordia Garin Nugroho Maria Ramos Ricky Rijneke 15:30 18:45 21:30 Pathé 4 3 BF SP SP 86’ 85’ 110’ Call Girl Pieta Vladimir Todorovic 70’ First Comes Love 75’ 120’ 95’ 97’ Khavn de la Cruz Mikael Marcimain Kim Ki-Duk Nina Davenport Pathé09:00 2 10:45 Steel Is the Earth 13:00 Die Welt 15:00 The View from SP SP BF SP Torres & 140’ 104’ 107’ 10:00 Cherchez Hortense 13:00 Gebo and the 16:00 A Fallible Girl 18:30 Karaoke Girl 22:00 Kayan SP SP BF TG BF Our House cometas Mes De Guzman Alex Pitstra Cinerama Shadow How to Raise ... Pascal Bonitzer11:00 Conrad Clark Visra Vichit Vadakan Maryam Najafi 13:15 16:15 19:15 22:15 Pathé 5 4 Gonçalo Tocha SP SPKennedy / I. Wiblin SP TG Disappearing BF Soegija Hill of Pleasures Silent Ones A. 61’ 114’ 80’ 76’ Manoel de Oliveira 100’ 91’ 104’ 74’ 86’ Landscape Misericordia Garin Nugroho Maria Ramos Ricky Rijneke Pathé 3 09:45 Avanti popolo BF 75’ 120’ 95’ 70’ 97’ Khavn de la Cruz 18:45 L’ étoile Vladimir 21:45 Watchtower BF TG du jour Todorovic Michael Wahrmann Cinerama SophieGirl Blondy TG PelinKayan Esmer 10:00 13:00 Gebo and the 16:00 A Fallible Girl 18:30 Karaoke 22:00 Pathé 6 5 SP SP BF BF Cherchez Hortense 72’ 98’ 96’ Shadow Pascal Bonitzer Conrad Clark Visra Vichit Vadakan Maryam Najafi Pathé 4

Cate Shortland

Ninomiya Ryutaro

Others

16:30 The Charm of

15:15 The Russian Novel SP SP 15:15 La fille de nulle part Shin15:45 Yeon-Shick Jean-Claude Brisseau What They Don’t Talk About BF

Pieta 102’ Visra Vichit Vadakan Kim Ki-Duk 21:15 Modest Reception 74’ 104’ 21:15 BF Avant que mon coeur SPII nungen Reisenden Mani Haghighi bascule Midi18:45 Z einer SP BernadetteBellas Weigel mariposas 89’ 140’ 85’ Aaron Douglas Johnston 72’ Kevin Jerome Everson 70’ Sébastien Rose 91’ Love 105’ 96’100’ When They Talk About Salvatore Mereu Mouly Surya 10:00 101’ 102’ 09:30 km 12:30 36 15:30 My Dog Killer 18:30 They’ll Come Back 21:30 Grenzgänger BF TG TG TG SP VPRO Previewdag Boy 10:00 EatingMy the Bird’s Food BF Nawapol Mira Florian Flickercoeur SP 12:15 The Island 15:15 La fille 18:15 PoorMarcelo 21:15 Avant SP BF Sister’s ofThamdeFornay nulle part SP que mon Folk Lordello Ektoras Lygizos 90’ 68’ 90’ 105’ 87’ rongrattanarit Quinceañera St. Matthews bascule Jean-Claude Brisseau Midi Z Aaron Douglas Johnston Kevin Jerome Everson Sébastien Rose 11:30 14:15 17:00 19:15 22:00 72’ 70’ 91’ 105’ SP SP SP SP BF Magnificent Life of the Prince The Charm of 09:15 Prófugos 11:45 14:15 Odayaka 17:00 La 19:45 of 22:15 Kidd Life 96’ CC II BF BF LoreLas lágrimas BF Japan’s Tragedy SP Lesson tendresse I.D.the Evil Others Cate Shortland Uchida Nobuteru 15:30 Kobayashi Masahiro 18:30 Miike Takashi Taboor Pablo Delgado Pablokm Larraín Hänsel Kamal Karamattathil 09:30 12:30 36 21:30 GrenzgängerAndreas Johnsen BF TG TG Marion TG SP My Dog Killer They’ll Come Back Ninomiya Ryutaro 109’ 100’ 101’ 89’ Sánchez 120’ 64’ 98’ 81’ 87’ 129’ 97’ Muhammed Vahid Vakilifar Boy Eating the Bird’s Food Nawapol ThamMira Fornay Marcelo Lordello Florian Flicker Ektoras Lygizos 14:30 Vulgaria 17:15 20:00 Brief 22:30 White 87’ 90’ 68’ 90’ 105’Encounters SP KM SP KM SP rongrattanarit Axel und Peter Gebo and the 12:00 Toegetakeld 14:30 17:00 20:00 22:00 BF BF SP KM door Three Stories El muerto y ser feliz Two in One Shadow Epilepsy Pang Ho-cheung de liefde BF Kern Life of the Prince II Kira Muratova JavierMuratova Rebollo Kira Muratova 09:15 Prófugos 11:45 Las lágrimas 14:15 Magnificent 17:00 La 19:45 I.D. Kira 22:15 SP BF BF CC tendresse Kidd Life Manoel de Oliveira Philippe Grandrieux 92’ 91’ 96’ 69’ Deelder 90’ 105’ 138’ 94’ 130’ VeronikaHänsel Franz / Severin Fiala Taboor PabloAri Delgado Pablo Larraín Marion Kamal Karamattathil Andreas Johnsen Sánchez 14:00 14:15 17:00 Tall as the 19:30 19:45 22:00 22:15 120’ 64’ 98’ 97’ SP BF KM Muhammed Vahid Vakilifar Malody FourAtambua Ways to Die 17:00 BF SP 81’ Ping’an Yueqing Chekhov’s Motifs SP Happiness 39° in BF SP 87’ When Night Baobab Tree My Hometown Ai Weiwei 1 Celsius Falls Krivina Axel und Peter 12:00 Toegetakeld door 14:30 17:00 Building 20:00 22:00 Kira BF KM BF SP KM Three Stories El muerto y ser feliz TwoMuratova in One JeremyChieh-jen Teicher Chai Riri Chunya 142’ 82’ 90’ 120’ Chen Riza Ying Liang 82’ 84’ 90’ 70’ Igor Drljaca de liefde Kern Kira Muratova Javier Rebollo Kira Muratova Ari Deelder 16:30 19:15 TV 21:45 90’ 105’ 138’ Night: Girls, 94’ Spring Breakers 130’ SPFranz CC SP Veronika Dogs Are Said ... BF/ Severin Fiala L’ enclos duto See 16:30 19:15 BF Leones temps Girls and Boys Harmony Korine Night Avanti Jazmín López 14:15 Malody 17:00popolo 19:45 22:15 When BF SP SP SP Happiness Atambua Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ compilation prog. 39° 80’85’ 92’ 84’ Michael Wahrmann Building 1 Celsius Falls Krivina Riza Ying Liang BF 19:15 19:30 82’ 84’ SP 90’ 70’ Igor Drljaca Nachtwache 17:00 Chen 21:45 Der Fahnder: II DG Foudre First Chieh-jen Comes Love OddRiri Couples Morgaine Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel to Davenport See ... BF Nina compilation prog.BF 16:30 Dogs Are Said 19:15 Manuela Leones 230’ Dominik Graf 107’ 104’ 140’ Avanti popolo Jazmín López 11:00 Centro 16:45 20:00 21:45 84’ 80’ TS BF Michael Wahrmann The View from 11:30 histórico 14:00 Kid 16:30 Final 19:15 DEAD BODY Tiger Awards BF SP RGSP BF Rengaine Cut: Ladies Mai morire SP Our House Competition for diverse regisseurs Djaïdani and17:00 Gentlemen WELCOME Der Fahnder: Nachtwache Enrique Rivero Fien Troch 19:30 21:45 Rachid SP II DG First Comes Love Odd Couples Films 1 A. Kennedy / I.Wiblin 76’ 90’ 80’ 75’ György Pálfi Kees compilation Brienen Short 84’ 90’ Polizeiruf 110: Der scharlachrote Engel Nina Davenport 85’ prog. 80’ 17:30 Take Off 19:45 22:15 Graf 107’ 104’ 140’ SH SS RG Ai Is Japanese for Love IISH 09:45 My Stolen 12:00 Après mai 14:30 14:45 17:00 Change 19:45 TV 21:45 Dominik II SP KM Losing Reverberations Night:Dwoskin So You CC RG Invisible Present Tense of Fortune Faces compilation prog. compilation prog. compilation prog. compilation prog. Think You Can Act Revolution Olivier Assayas compilation prog. Kira Muratova James Benning 11:30 Mai morire 14:00 Kid 16:30 Final Cut: 19:15 DEAD BODY BF SP RG BF Ladies 89’ compilation prog. Nahid Persson Sarvestani 75’ 122’ 110’101’and Gentlemen 109’85’ 69’ 81’ 135’ WELCOME Enrique Rivero Fien Troch György Pálfi 12:30 Preludes 17:45 Short 22:15 Short Stories: 85’ Stories: SH SH SH SH 290’ 11:15 Darvag 13:45 16:45 19:15 Kees SP II 84’ 1 BF BF BF 80’Pathways SH 21:45 Carne Something Memories Look 15:00 Preludes Melaza Our Brienen Nixon 20:15 Neural de perro BF Latin Lunar EclipsesKM compilation prog. prog. compilation prog. Necessary at Abolfazl Jalili Carlos Lechugaof Fortune Penny Lane Fernando Treats Guzzoni 09:45 My Stolen 12:00 Après mai 14:30 Invisiblecompilation 17:00 19:45 21:45 Faces II SPMe II RG TV Night: So You CC Present Tense Change compilation prog. compilation prog.81’ 79’ 74’ 83’ 74’ 102’ Judy Kibinge Revolution 89’ Song Fang 91’ 80’ Think You Can Act 85’ Olivier Assayas 100’ compilation prog. Kira Muratova James Benning Living Still Life prog. Nahid Persson Sarvestani 75’ 14:15 22:00 22:15 122’ 14:30 110’ 16:45 17:00 109’ 19:15 19:30 The compilation 69’ 135’ SHSP RG BF BF The Hunter and the Skeleton Guimarães: Number 10 Blues/ 12:00 Rio Belongs SP SP SP Patience Stone The Fata Morgana Sightseers SP Rocking the Cradle Goodbye Saigon Gegenwart Atiq Rahimi to Us Harmonica’s Howl Emperor Visits the Hell PeterNixon Schreiner Ben Wheatley 11:15 Darvag 13:45 Memories Look 16:45 Melaza 19:15 Our 21:45 Carne de SP II BF BF BF BF Something perro compilation prog. OsadaLuo Norio 81’ 72’ 97’ 98’ 80’ Thomas Heise Bruno Safadi 75’ 96’ 140’ 95’ Li Necessary at Me Abolfazl Jalili Ricardo Pretti Carlos Lechuga Penny Lane Fernando Guzzoni Judy Kibinge Song Fang 15:00 Short 20:15 Persistence 89’ 100’ 80’ Int. SP 85’ 81’ SH Profile: Mika II SH 15:00 17:30 Die 18:00 20:15 Berberian SoundSH SS The 91’ Gardener ErbinNL of Vision Taanila compilation prog. 19:15 and the Skeleton Mohsen Makhmalbaf Polat 12:00 Rio Belongs 14:30 The 22:15 Sightseers 17:00 The HunterAyse SP SP BF SP Fata Morgana Studio compilation prog. SP74’ compilation prog. 80’ Peter Strickland 87’ 98’ 72’ 92’ to Us Harmonica’s Howl Emperor Visits the Hell Peter Schreiner Ben Wheatley Ricardo Brunoder Safadi 96’ 140’ 22:00 How to Raise ... 95’ LuoHarmonics Li Deutschland 0975’ 16:45 Space 19:30 Les chevaux de Dieu 12:30Pretti DG 14:15 Lawinen DG 72’ SS SP SP Denk ich an Deutschland Erinnerung Misericordia compilation Nabil Ayouch 15:00 17:30prog. 20:15 Berberian Sound II SP SS Gardener Die Erbin 84’ Dominik Graf Dominik Graf The 89’ 115’ 75’ 74’ Khavn de la Cruz Studio Mohsen Makhmalbaf Ayse Polat Peter Strickland 72’ 92’ 14:00 Bouncing 16:30 87’The Charm of 19:15 Rengaine RG BF BF off the Walls der Others Rachid Djaïdani 16:45 19:30 22:00 How to Raise ... 12:30 Deutschland 09 SP DG 14:15 DG SP Lawinen Space Harmonics SS Les chevaux de Dieu TonyErinnerung Conrad Ninomiya Ryutaro 62’ 89’ 75’ Denk ich an Deutschland Misericordia compilation prog. Nabil Ayouch Dominik Graf Dominik Graf 89’ 84’ 115’ 75’ 74’ Khavn de la Cruz

09.00

public screenings Tuesday 29 January

public screenings wednesday 30 January Press & Industry 29 January 09.00 10.00 11.00 Screenings 12.00 13.00 Tuesday 14.00 15.00 16.00 Lore 09.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 Oude Luxor public screenings wednesday 30 January

LantarenVenster 6

LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 5

LantarenVenster 5 LantarenVenster 3

LantarenVenster 6 3 LantarenVenster 2

LantarenVenster09:00 5 2 LantarenVenster 1

LantarenVenster 3 1 Cinerama 7

09:00

LantarenVenster 2 Cinerama 7 Cinerama 6

LantarenVenster 1 Cinerama 6 Cinerama 5

Cinerama 6 5 Cinerama 4

Cinerama 4 Cinerama 3

Cinerama 3 Cinerama 2

Cinerama 2 Cinerama 1

Cinerama 1 Pathé 7

Pathé 7 Pathé 6

Pathé 6 Pathé 5

Pathé 5 Pathé 4

Pathé 4 Pathé 3

Pathé 3 Pathé 2

Pathé 1 Schouwburg Grote Zaal Pathé 2 Pathé 1

Schouwburg Grote Zaal Oude Luxor

Oude Luxor

11.00

TuesdayThursday 29 January public 24January January public screenings screenings Tuesday 29

public screenings

press & industry screenings

348 My Dog Killer

09:15

79’

11:00

11.00

Odayaka Uchida Nobuteru

12.00

100’

11:15

They’ll Come Back

13:30

13.00

Hill of Pleasures

14.00

15.00

public screenings wednesday 30 January

10.00

111 Girls Nahid Ghobadi / Bijan Zamanpira

09.00

09:15

17.00 17.00

17:00 How to Describe

a Cloud Lore Cate ShortlandDavid Verbeek

16.00

16:15 109’

80’

18.00 18.00

115’

BF 116’

21.00 21.00

20:45 My Name Is

20.00 20.00 Nordvest Michael Noer

19:30 Big Talk

19.00 19.00 II

23.00 23.00

22:30 Frankenstein’s

22.00 22.00

90’

24.00 24.00

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 09:45

10:30

10.00

09:15

09:00

90’

89’

Ying Liang

compilation prog.

14:00 Ai Is Japanese for Love

85’

SP 108’

II 90’

12:30

81’

Kid Fien Troch

BF 85’

The Master Paul Thomas Anderson

13:00

Sunshine Boys Kim Tae-Gon

diverse regisseurs

Goes Flying

113’

12:15

11:30 Comrade Kim

Rhino Season Bahman Ghobadi

10:30 70’

94’

Jiseul O Muel

De nieuwe wereld Jaap van Heusden

10:15

74’

98’

14.00

BF 74’

90’

Les chevaux de Dieu Nabil Ayouch

13.00 13:15

Roland Hassel Måns Månsson

12:45

12.00

Ixjana Józef Skolimowski / Michal Skolimowski

11.00 11:15

TG Karaoke Girl Visra Vichit Vadakan

Paradies: Glaube Ulrich Seidl

Dummy Jim Matt Hulse

09.00 09:15

Krivina LantarenVenster 3 Igor Drljaca

Cinerama 6

Cinerama 5

09:00

70’

101’

16:30

Leaving Traces compilation prog.

137’

15:00

115’

15:30

16.00

No Pablo Larraín

Reality Matteo Garrone

15.00

SP 115’

17.00

118’

Press & Industry Screenings Wednesday 30 January

Kevin Jerome Everson

La cinquième saison Cinerama 4 Jessica Woodworth / Peter Brosens

Cinerama 3

de Doelen Willem Burgerzaal

de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal

LantarenVenster 6

SH 85’

18:30

18.00

Spring Breakers Harmony Korine

SP 92’

20.00

Jeremy Teicher

90 Minutes Eva Sørhaug

19.00

19:15

21:00

92’

82’

Prófugos Pablo Larraín

21.00

22.00

Stom Sogo

CC 120’

23.00

24.00

11.00 12.00 13.00 Maria Ramos 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00SP 18.00 19.00 22.00 Army 23.00 BF 24.00 15:30 Lesson of 19:15 21:45 Los salvajes BF 21.00 Negahdar Jamali the Evil Miss Lovely 20.00 Mira Fornay 10.00 Marcelo Lordello 2 09.00 dePathé Doelen and I Make WesternsAlejandro Miike Takashi Ashim Ahluwalia FadelRichard Raaphorst 90’ 105’ 95’ 65’ 86’ 16:15 Lore 19:30 Big Talk Jurriaanse Zaal 129’ SP 110’ BF 119’ 09:00 De wederopstanding 11:30 Silent Ones 14:00 De nieuwe wereld BF 21:30 Ma belle gosse BF TG TG Nordvest Cate Shortland Oude Luxor 14:15 16:30 SP SP 109’ 116’Shalimar Preuss Jirafas The Master Michael Noer Ricky Rijneke Jaap van Heusden Pathé 5 van een klootzak Schouwburg Enrique Álvarez 15:3085’ Paul Thomas Anderson 90’ 97’ 80’ 21:45 Los salvajes SP BF BF Grote Zaal Guido van Driel Lesson 94’ of the Evil 137’ 19:15 Miss Lovely de Doelen 11:30 Blancanieves BF Miike Takashi Ashim Ahluwalia Alejandro Fadel 13:15 Matei Child 16:30 Bellas mariposas 129’ 20:30 De ontmaagding Jurriaanse Zaal BF SP BF van 110’ 119’ Pablo Berger Cinerama 3 Miner Eva van End Salvatore Mereu Pathé 1 104’ 14:15 Jirafas 16:30 The Master SP SP Alexandra Gulea Michiel ten Horn 80’ 102’ 98’ Schouwburg Paul Thomas Anderson 09:30 Mater Dolorosa 12:00 Lukas the Strange SP 14:00 MissEnrique BF SP LovelyÁlvarez 15:30 Call 18:45 Pieta 21:30 First Comes Love Grote Zaal BF SP SP 94’ 137’ Girl Adolfo B. Alix Jr. John Torres Ashim Ahluwalia Cinerama Mikael110’Marcimain Kim Ki-Duk Nina Davenport Pathé 4 2 86’ 85’ 13:15 Matei 16:30 Bellas mariposas 20:30 104’ BF BF Child De ontmaagding van 140’ SP 107’ Miner Eva van End Salvatore Mereu Pathé09:00 1 Torres & 10:45 11:00 13:00 13:15 15:00 The View from SP BF SP SP to Raise ... SteelHow Is the Earth Die Welt 16:15 19:15 Disappearing BF 22:15 SP SP SP TG Alexandra Gulea Michiel ten Horn 80’ 102’ 98’ Silent Ones Soegija Hill of Pleasures Our House Mes De Guzman Alex Pitstra Cinerama Landscape Misericordia Garin Nugroho Maria Ramos Ricky Rijneke Pathé 5 3 cometas A. Kennedy / I. Girl Wiblin 76’ 15:30 18:45 Pieta 21:30 First Comes Love Gonçalo Tocha 61’ 114’ 80’ BF 95’ SP Call Vladimir Todorovic SP 70’ 75’ 120’ 97’ Khavn de la Cruz Mikael Marcimain Kim Ki-Duk Nina Davenport Pathé 2 09:45 10:00 BF 13:00 Gebo and the 16:00 A Fallible Girl 18:30 Karaoke Girl 22:00 Kayan Avanti popolo Hortense SP SP BF TG BF 140’ 104’ 107’ Cherchez Michael Wahrmann Shadow Cinerama Pascal Bonitzer11:00 How to Raise ... Conrad Clark Visra Vichit Vadakan Maryam Najafi Pathé 6 4 13:15 16:15 Hill of Pleasures 19:15 Disappearing 22:15 Silent Ones SP SP SP104’ BF 72’ Soegija Manoel de Oliveira 100’ 91’ 74’ 86’ TG Landscape Misericordia Garin Nugroho BF Maria Ramos Ricky Rijneke Pathé 3 09:15 Disappearing BF 11:00 Halley 13:00 Matterhorn TG 18:45 L’ étoile Vladimir 21:45 Watchtower BF 70’ TG 75’ 120’ 95’ 97’ du jour Todorovic Khavn de la Cruz Landscape Sebastián Hofmann Diederik Ebbinge Sophie Blondy Pelin Esmer LantarenVenster Pathé 3 5 13:00 Gebo and the 16:00 A Fallible Girl 18:30 Karaoke Girl 22:00 Kayan SP SP 87’ BF TG BF 96’ Cherchez Hortense Vladimir 10:00 Todorovic 70’ 85’ 98’ Shadow Pascal Bonitzer Conrad Clark Visra Vichit Vadakan Maryam Najafi Pathé 4 12:15 16:00 21:15 SP Oliveira 100’ 91’ 104’ 74’ 86’ Dummy Jim Manoel deTG UPCinema-dag Post tenebras lux Matt Hulse Carlos Reygadas Pathé 6 18:45160’L’ étoile du jour 21:45 Watchtower BF TG120’ 90’ Sophie Blondy Pelin Esmer Pathé 5 09:30 Avant que mon coeur SP 12:30 They’ll Come Back 15:30 My Dog Killer 19:00 De nieuwe wereld BF 98’ 21:30 The Delivery Guy TG TG BF 96’ bascule Marcelo Lordello Mira16:00 Fornay Jaap van Heusden Andrey Stempkovsky Pathé 7 12:15 Dummy Jim 21:15 Post tenebras lux TG SP UPCinema-dag 90’ Sébastien Rose 96’ 105’ 85’ 90’ Matt Hulse Carlos Reygadas Pathé 6 09:15 11:45 Burning Bush 17:00 Modest Reception 19:45 Io e te II CC II 160’ SP 21:45 Sedia elettrica – Il SP 90’ 120’ Parviz making-of del film Io e te Majid Barzegar Agnieszka12:30 Holland Mani Haghighi Bernardo Bertolucci Cinerama 1 09:30 Avant que mon coeur SP 107’ 15:30 My Dog 19:00 De nieuwe wereld BF 21:30 103’ TG TG Stambrini They’ll Come Back Killer The Monica Delivery Guy47’ BF47’ 240’ 100’ bascule Marcelo Lordello Mira Fornay Jaap van Heusden Andrey Stempkovsky Pathé 7 12:00 Chekhov’s Motifs 17:15 20:00 Spieler85’ 22:30 Das Gelübde KM KM SP DG DG Sébastien Rose 96’ 105’ 14:45 Brief Encounters 90’ 90’ Inori Kira Muratova Kira Muratova Pedro González-Rubio Dominik Graf Dominik Graf Cinerama 2 09:15 11:45 Burning Bush 17:00 Modest Reception 19:45 Io e te Sedia elettrica – Il SP II CC II SP 21:45 105’ Parviz 120’ 96’ 72’ 92’ making-of del film Io e te Majid Barzegar Agnieszka Holland Mani Haghighi Bernardo Bertolucci Cinerama 1 14:15 The Flaneurs #3 17:00 Steel Is the Earth 19:45 TV Night: So You CC 22:15Stambrini SP SP SH Guimarães: Monica 107’ 240’ 100’ 103’ 47’ 47’ Think You Can Act Rocking the Cradle One Day When the Rain Falls Mes De Guzman Cinerama 3 12:00 Chekhov’s Motifs 14:45 Brief Encounters 102’ KM 17:15 Inori 20:00 22:30 KM SP DG compilation Spielerprog. Das Gelübde compilation prog. Ifa Isfansyah 90’ 69’ 81’ DG Kira Muratova Kira Muratova Pedro González-Rubio Dominik Graf Dominik Graf Cinerama 2 11:30 Vergiss mein nicht BF 14:00 120’ 17:15 Ao Lobo da Madragoa SP 19:15 Alone 21:45 105’ What They Don’t Talk About BF RG SP 96’ 72’ 92’ Faces When They Talk About Love Torres & cometas David Sieveking James Benning Wang Bing Cinerama 4 The Flaneurs #3 14:15 17:00 Steel 19:45 TV Night: So You CC 22:15 SP SH Guimarães: Mouly Surya Is theTocha Earth SP68’ 88’ 135’ 89’ 101’ Gonçalo Think You Can Act Rocking the Cradle One Day When the Rain Falls Mes De Guzman Cinerama 3 14:00 Mai Ifa 16:30 Ma belle gosse 19:15 Centro histórico 21:45 Leones compilationBF BF BF SP compilation prog. prog. Isfansyah 102’ 90’ 69’ 81’ morire Enrique Rivero Shalimar 17:15 PreussAo Lobo da Madragoa diverse regisseurs Jazmín López Cinerama 6 11:30 Vergiss mein nicht BF 14:00 Faces 19:15 Alone 21:45 What They Don’t Talk About80’ BF SP SP 90’ RG 84’ 80’ When They Talk About Love Torres & cometas David Sieveking James Benning Wang Bing Cinerama 4 09:15 Dummy 12:00 15:00 17:00 19:30 22:00 DG SP SP DG KM Something Miroir mon amour SP Mouly Surya 135’ 68’ 89’ 101’ Die Sieger Ping’an Yueqing88’ Hotte im Paradies Gonçalo Tocha Necessary Second Class Citizens Siegrid Alnoy Dominik Graf Ai Weiwei Dominik Graf Cinerama 7 14:00 Mai morire 16:30 89’ 19:15 Centro histórico 21:45 Leones BFKibinge SP Ma belle gosse BF Judy 130’ 142’ 118’ 84’ 137’ Kira Muratova BF Enrique Rivero Shalimar Preuss diverse regisseurs Jazmín López Cinerama 6 11:15 Odd Couples 13:45 Men of the Earth 16:45 Atambua 39° 19:15 Me Too 21:45 GFP Bunny II BF SP BF 80’ 84’ 80’ SP 90’ Celsius Sleepless Night compilation prog. Alexey Balabanov Tsuchiya Yutaka LantarenVenster 1 09:15 12:00 Ping’an Yueqing104’ 15:00 75’ 17:00 19:30 Miroir mon amour 83’SP 22:00 Dummy DG SP SP DG KM Something Die Sieger Hotte im Paradies 90’ Riri Riza 82’ Jang Kun-Jae Necessary Second Class Citizens Siegrid Alnoy Dominik Graf Ai Weiwei Dominik Graf Cinerama 7 12:00 Melaza 14:30 17:00 Dogs Are Said to See ... BF 19:45 Happiness 22:15 SP SP BF BF Pearblossom Judy Kibinge 130’ 142’ Poor Folk 89’ 118’ 84’ 137’ Kira Muratova Building 1 Hwy Avanti popolo Carlos Lechuga Midi Z LantarenVenster 2 Men of the Earth 11:15 Odd Couples 19:15 Me Too Chen Chieh-jen 21:45 GFP Bunny II BF SP 39° Mike Ott BF 80’ 13:45 105’ 16:45 Atambua 84’ 84’ 80’ Michael WahrmannSP Celsius Sleepless Night compilation prog. Alexey Balabanov Tsuchiya Yutaka LantarenVenster 1 15:00 75’La pionnière 20:15 Förår 83’ RG BF BF Riri Riza 17:30 I.D. 104’ 90’ 82’ Jang Kun-Jae The Dancing Soul... Roland Hassel Kamal Karamattathil LantarenVenster 3 to See ... BF 12:00 Melaza 14:30 Poor Folk 17:00 Dogs Are Said 19:45 Happiness Paula Gladstone BF 76’ BF SP SP 87’ 92’ 22:15 Pearblossom Muhammed Måns Månsson Building 1 Hwy Avanti popolo Carlos Lechuga Midi Z LantarenVenster 2 10:00 The Island of 11:45 Kalter Frühling 14:15 When Night 19:30 Tall as 22:00 Stom SP DG SP SP RG theChieh-jen BF Sogo: Chen Mike Ott 80’ 105’ 16:45 Kalayaan 84’ 84’ 80’ Michael Wahrmann St. Matthews Falls Baobab Tree Ultimately Dominik Graf Adolfo B. Alix Jr. LantarenVenster 5 15:00 La pionnière 17:30 I.D. 20:15 Förår RG BF BF Kevin Jerome Everson 70’ Ying Liang Jeremy Teicher Stom Sogo 89’ 70’ 115’ 82’ 90’ The Dancing Soul... Roland Hassel Kamal Karamattathil LantarenVenster 3 14:00 Ai Is Japanese forPaula 16:30 19:15 90 Minutes SH SH LoveGladstone 76’ 87’ 92’ Leaving Traces Muhammed Måns BF Månsson compilation prog. compilation prog. Eva Sørhaug LantarenVenster 6 10:00 The Island of 11:45 Kalter Frühling 14:15 When Night 16:45 Kalayaan 19:30 Tall as the 22:00 Stom Sogo: SP DG SP SP BF 92’ RG 101’ 85’ St. Matthews Falls Baobab Tree Ultimately Dominik Graf Adolfo B. Alix Jr. LantarenVenster 5

de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal Oude Luxor

29 January public screenings wednesday 30 January 09.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00

public screenings Press & Industry Screenings Tuesday Wednesday 30 January

press & industry screenings

349

350 09.00

10.00

12.00

13.00

14.00

15.00

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

12.00

compilation prog.

11:30 Empire of the Sun

11.00

RG 78’

13.00

09.00

10.00

11.00

12.00

13.00

15.00

compilation prog.

Factory

14.00

15.00

14:00 Sudan’s Swinging Film

Jean-Claude Brisseau

14.00

16.00

117’

16.00 Dowry Victor Viyuoh 16:45

15:30 Ninah’s 14:15 La fille de nulle part SP

public screenings Friday 1 February

10.00

17.00

17:00

17.00

compilation prog.

Directors

17.00

17:00 Wondering Alien

mai StefanOlivier Schaller Assayas

16:45 17:00 5 Jahre Après

16.00 95’

18.00

SP 122’

19.00

19:30

19.00

20.00

21.00

20.00

129’

21.0021:45

20:30 SP Lesson of the Evil VPRO Filmnacht Miike Takashi 22:30

22.00

23.00 Nairobi Half Life David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga BF 96’

24.00

09.00

10.00

11.0011:45

12.00

13.00

100’

16:30

17:00

98’

90’

95’

19:30

20:00

Diego Star Frédérick Pelletier

20.00

89’

91’

21.00

20.00 21.00 Reality Matteo GarroneBF Diego Star Frédérick Pelletier 19.00 21.00 19:30 Io e te 20.00 SP 91’ Bernardo 20:30 Ginger and Rosa 20:00 Bertolucci SP Reality 103’ Matteo Garrone Sally Potter 20:00 Surprise Film 89’ 19:30 Io e te SP Bernardo Bertolucci

19.00

19:30

19.00

Dominik Graf

Freunde

19:15 Die Freunde der

19:30

115’

22:15

d’amour Errors of the Human Hélène Fillières Body

22.00 23.00 22:30 Une histoire

Eron Sheean

23.00 Errors of the Human Body

22.00 22:15

80’

24.00

101’

24.00

10:15

Me Too Alexey Balabanov

Myregisseurs Dog Killer diverse Mira Fornay

12:00

Comrade Kim Goes Flying

81’

13:30 TG

Andrey Stempkovsky18.00 14.00 15.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 14:15 22:00 Rengaine SP 16.0016:45 Miss17.00 BF 90’ 101’ Eron Sheean BF La noche de enfrente Lovely Raúl Ruiz SP Ahluwalia Rachid 16:30 The Ashim 22:30Djaïdani SP SP BF Une histoire 75’ Odayaka Patience Stone BF18:15 Alone110’ 110’ d’amour Uchida Nobuteru Atiq Rahimi Wang Bing 13:15 Après 16:15 Watchtower 22:30 Hélène SP100’ TG SP Fillières 98’ 115’ 80’ 83’ 90’ mai 86’ Vulgaria Olivier Assayas14:15 Pelin16:45 Esmer Pang Ho-cheung 11:45 Comrade Kim 22:00 Rengaine SP SP BF BF SP La noche de enfrente Miss Lovely Lesson of the Evil 122’ 96’ 92’ Goes Flying Raúl Ruiz Ashim Ahluwalia Rachid Djaïdani Miike Takashi 10:00 Taboor 12:30 Japan’s Tragedy 15:30 In the Fog 18:30 Atambua 21:30 Lonely Bones II SP SP SP BF diverse regisseurs 81’ 110’ 110’ 103’ 75’ 39° 129’ Celsius Frankenstein’s Army Vahid Vakilifar Kobayashi13:15 Masahiro Sergei Loznitsa 16:15 Watchtower 20:00 Surprise Film 22:30 Vulgaria SP TG SP Après mai SP Riri Riza 84’ 101’ 128’ 90’ 96’ Richard Raaphorst Ping’an Yueqing Olivier Assayas Pelin Esmer Pang Ho-cheung Ai Weiwei 10:15 Tiger Awards 13:15 Tiger Awards 16:00 Wadjda 19:15 Karaoke Girl 22:00 Pearblossom TS TS BF TG SP 122’ 96’ 92’ 142’ Competition for Competition for Hwy Haifaa Al Mansour Vadakan Pathé 3 10:00 10:15 12:30 Japan’s Tragedy 15:30 In the Fog 18:30 Atambua 39° Visra Vichit 21:30 Lonely Bones II SP SP SP BF Taboor Short Films 5 Short Films 4 12:30 14:30 BF SP SP Mike Ott 77’ 74’ 100’ 74’ 80’ L’étoile du jour Vulgaria La fille de nulle part Celsius Frankenstein’s Army Vahid Vakilifar Kobayashi Masahiro Sergei Loznitsa Pathé 2 Sophie Blondy Pang13:00 Ho-cheung Jean-Claude Brisseau 16:00 Cinerama 4 10:00 Lasting 19:00 Men of the Earth 22:00Raaphorst SP TG BF SP Riri Riza 84’ 101’ 128’ 90’ 96’ Richard Fat Shaker De nieuwe wereld BF The Complex 98’ 92’ 91’ Sleepless Night JacekTiger Borcuch Mohammad Shirvani TS van Heusden Hideo Pathé 4 10:15 13:15 16:00 Jaap 19:15 Karaoke Girl 22:00 Nakata BF TG SP Awards 11:15 TS 93’ Tiger Awards Pearblossom Wadjda 85’ 75’ 106’ Jang Kun-Jae 13:00 Sightseers CC SP 85’14:45 Drug War SP Claun Competition for Competition for Hwy Haifaa Al Mansour Visra Vichit Vadakan Pathé 3 Ben Wheatley Johnnie To 15:45 El muerto y ser feliz SP Cinerama 5 Short Films 4 09:45 Voice OverShort Films 5 12:45 Wasteland 18:45 Drug War 21:45 90 Minutes SP Felipe77’Bragança BF 74’ SP 74’ BF Mike Ott 100’ 80’ 69’ 89’ 107’ Ginger and Rosa Rowan Athale Javier Rebollo Johnnie To Eva Sørhaug Pathé 5 Men of the Earth 10:00 Lasting 13:00 16:00 19:00 22:00 SP TG BF SP Fat Shaker De nieuwe wereld BF94’ The Complex 95’ 106’ 107’ 92’ Sally Potter Sleepless Night Jacek Borcuch Mohammad Shirvani Jaap van Heusden Nakata Hideo Pathé 4 09:15 11.25 The Day Mishima 12:15 My Dog Killer 15:15 La cinquième saison SP 18:15 Les chevaux Jang 21:15 What They Don’t Talk About BF SP TG SP 93’ 85’ 85’ 75’ 106’ Kun-Jae de Dieu When They Talk About Love Chose His Own Fate Mira12:45 Fornay Jessica Woodworth Nabil18:45 Ayouch Pathé 6 09:45 Voice Over 15:45 21:45 SP BF SP SP BF Wasteland El muerto y ser feliz Drug War 90 Minutes Mouly Surya Wakamatsu Koji 119’ 90’ 94’ 115’ 101’ / Peter Brosens Ginger and Rosa Rowan Athale Javier Rebollo Johnnie To Eva Sørhaug Pathé 5 12:45 15:30 18:30 21:45 BF BF SP SP 95’ 106’ 94’ 107’ 92’ Sally Potter Matei Child Sunshine Boys Soegija Mater Dolorosa Miner Tae-Gon TG Garin Nugroho B. Alix Jr. Pathé 7 09:15 11.25 The Day Mishima 12:15 My Dog Kim 15:15 La cinquième saison SP 18:15 Les chevaux 21:15 What TheyAdolfo SP SP Don’t Talk About BF Killer de Dieu Alexandra Gulea 85’ 80’ 120’ 86’ When They Talk About Love Chose His Own Fate Mira Fornay Jessica Woodworth Nabil Ayouch Pathé 6 09:15 Wakamatsu 14:15 17:15 20:00 22:15 BF SP SP RG BF Mouly Surya Koji 119’ 90’ 94’ 115’ 101’ / Peter Brosens Rotterdam Vergiss mein nicht The Master Paradies: Glaube Kayan Classics: David Sieveking Paul Thomas Anderson Ulrich Seidl Maryam NajafiSP Cinerama 1 12:45 Sunshine Boys 15:30 Matei Child 18:30 Soegija 21:45 Mater Dolorosa BF BF SP Andor von Barsy 67’ 88’ 137’ 113’ 86’ Miner Kim Tae-Gon Garin Nugroho Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Pathé 7 12:00 Poor Folk 20:00 Rio Belongs 22:30 Grenzgänger BF II BF SP SP Alexandra Gulea 85’14:30 Rhino Season 80’ 17:15 Toegetakeld door 120’ 86’ de liefde to Us Midi Z Ghobadi Florian Flicker Cinerama 2 09:15 Vergiss mein nicht BF 14:15 The Bahman 17:15 Paradies: Glaube 20:00 Rotterdam 22:15 Kayan SP SP BF Master Ari Deelder Ricardo Pretti RG 105’ 90’ 90’ 75’ 87’ Classics: David Sieveking Paul Thomas Anderson Ulrich Seidl Maryam Najafi Cinerama 1 09:15 La pionnière 11:45 De ontmaagding van 14:15 Lawinen der 19:45 Les revenants RG BF DG SP CC Andor von Barsy 67’ 88’ 137’ 17:00 Living Still Life 113’ 86’ The Dancing Soul... Eva van End Erinnerung Gegenwart Fabrice Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud Cinerama 3 12:00 Poor Folk 14:30 Rhino Season 17:15 Toegetakeld door 20:00 Rio Belongs 22:30 Grenzgänger BF II BF SP SP Paula Gladstone Michiel ten Horn Dominik Graf 76’ 98’ 89’ 80’ 200’ Thomas Heise de liefde to Us Midi Z Bahman Ghobadi Florian Flicker Cinerama 2 Axel und Peter 09:00 The 11:30 Kidd Life 14:00 16:30 Leones 19:00 21:30 SP BF SP BF BF Ari Deelder Pretti 105’ 90’ 90’ 75’ 87’ Shanghai Nairobi Half LifeRicardoBF Harmonica’s Howl Kern Andreas Johnsen Dibakar Banerjee Jazmín López David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga Cinerama 4 09:15 La pionnière Living Still Life 11:45 De ontmaagding van 14:15 Lawinen der 17:00 19:45 Les revenants RG BF DG SP CC Bruno Safadi 72’ 97’ 110’ 80’ 96’ 138’ Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala

Oude Luxor Schouwburg Grote Zaal de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal Pathé09:00 1 Schouwburg Cinerama 2 Grote Zaal Pathé09:00 2 Pathé 3 1 Cinerama

13:30

The Delivery Guy Andrey Stempkovsky public screenings Friday 1 February 09.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 Odayaka14.00 15.00 16.00 The Patience 17.00 18.00 Stone de Doelen Press & Industry Screenings Thursday 31 January Uchida Nobuteru Atiq Rahimi The Delivery Guy Jurriaanse Zaal

Oude Luxor

LantarenVenster 6

de Doelen Schouwburg Jurriaanse Grote Zaal Oude Luxor Schouwburg Pathé 1 Grote Zaal de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal Pathé 1 2 Schouwburg Grote Zaal Pathé 2 3 Pathé 1

09.00

public screenings Thursday 31 January

22.00 23.00 24.00 BF SP Ma belle Post22:15 tenebras luxgosse Shalimar Preuss Carlos Reygadas 22:30 5 Jahre Lesson of the Evil Nairobi Half Life 80’ 120’BF 95’ 91’ Stefan Schaller Miike Takashi David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga 14:00 Post tenebras lux 16:45 I.D. 19:15 Kid 21:45129’Low Tide 10:00 VPRO Previewdag SP BF SP BF 95’ 96’ Carlos Reygadas Kamal Karamattathil Fien Troch Roberto 15:30 Ninah’s Dowry 22:15Minervini BF Ma belle gosse 92’BF 120’ 87’ 90’ Muhammed Victor Viyuoh Shalimar Preuss 13:15 They’ll 19:15 Drug War 22:15 Éden 12:30 The Unspeakable 15:30 Roland 16:15 18:30 Fine, Thanks 21:30 Prófugos TG BF SP SP BF BF CC SP 95’ 80’ ActCome Back Sunshine Boys Hassel Dan Sallitt Marcelo Lordello Tae-Gon To MånsSP MånssonKim16:45 Mátyás Prikler Pablo Larraín Bruno Safadi BF 14:00 Post tenebras lux 19:15 Johnnie 21:45 BF SP I.D. Kid Low Tide 105’ 85’ 107’ 91’ 74’ 130’ 120’ 89’ Carlos Reygadas Kamal Karamattathil Fien Troch Roberto Minervini 09:30 Melaza 12:30 L’ étoile13:15 15:30 Dreileben: 18:30 90 Minutes 21:30 21:45 16:15 BF BF DG BF BF SP BF 120’ Komm 87’ 90’ 92’ SP Muhammed du jour In the Fog La Playa D.C. In the Fog F*ck for Forest mir nicht nach Carlos Lechuga Sophie Blondy Eva Sørhaug SergeiMichal Loznitsa Andrés Arango Sergei Loznitsa 13:15 Juan 19:15 Drug War 22:15Marczak TG BF SP SP They’ll Come Back Éden Dominik 16:15 Graf Sunshine Boys 80’ 98’ 88’ 92’ 128’ 90’ 128’ 85’ Marcelo Lordello Kim Tae-Gon Johnnie To Bruno Safadi Men of the Earth 13:15 111 Girls 16:15 Tiger Awards 19:15 Tiger Awards 22:15 Three Stories 10:00 10:15 II TS TS KM 105’ 85’ 107’ 89’ VPRO Previewdag BF Competition for Competition for Sleepless Night Nahid Ghobadi / Kira Muratova Pathé 3 4 09:30 Melaza 12:30 L’ étoile du jour 15:30 Dreileben: Komm 18:30 90 Minutes Short FilmsBF 21:30 In the Fog BF BF DG2 SP Short Films 3 75’ 79’ 82’ 89’ 105’ Bijan Zamanpira Jang Kun-Jae mir nicht nach Carlos Lechuga Sophie Blondy Eva Sørhaug Sergei Loznitsa Pathé 2 Night of the Foxes 09:45 10:00 13:00 The Love Songs of 98’ BF 19:00 Lasting 22:00 Japan’s Tragedy BF TG SP SP 128’ Dominik 16:15 Graf Noche 80’ 88’ 92’ VPRO Previewdag Tiedan Las10:15 lágrimas Brzezicki Jacek Borcuch Kobayashi Masahiro Pathé 4 5 Men of the Earth 13:15 111 Girls 16:15 Leonardo 19:15 22:15 BF II TS TS KM Tiger Awards Tiger Awards Three Stories Hao Jie 89’ 85’ 93’ 101’ Pablo Delgado Sánchez 78’ Competition for Competition for Sleepless Night Nahid Ghobadi / Kira Muratova Pathé 3 Short FilmsBF 2 Short 10:00 De nieuwe 12:45 Les chevaux 18:45 Bellas 21:45 Reception 12:15 Alone 15:15 The15:45 18:15 Fahrtwind 21:15 Modest SP79’ SP BF SP 82’ BFFilms 3 II 89’ 105’ BijanSP Zamanpira Jang Kun-Jae – Aufzeichwereld BF 75’ de Dieu Leones mariposas Kidd Life Russian Novel nungen einer Reisenden van Heusden Nabil Ayouch Jazmín López Salvatore Mereu Andreas Johnsen Wang Bing Shin Yeon-Shick Mani Haghighi 5 Pathé 6 of the Foxes 09:45 NightJaap 13:00 16:15 19:00 22:00 BF BF TG SP SP The Love Songs of Noche Lasting 85’ Japan’s Tragedy Bernadette Weigel 85’ 115’ 80’ 102’ 97’ 89’ 140’ 100’ Tiedan Las lágrimas Leonardo Brzezicki Jacek Borcuch Kobayashi Masahiro Pathé 4 Dogs Are Said to See ... 12:15 15:45 18:15 21:15 10:00 RG BF BF TG Jie to Ideology 89’ 85’ 93’ 101’ PabloVPRO Delgado Sánchez 78’ The Pervert’sHao Guide La Playa D.C. 36 Previewdag Avanti popolo Sophie Fiennes Juan18:45 Andrés Arango Nawapol Pathé 6 7 10:00 De nieuwe wereld BF 12:45 15:45 Leones 21:45 ThamSP SP BF Les chevaux de Dieu Bellas mariposas Kidd Life 68’ 136’ 90’ rongrattanarit Michael Wahrmann BF 84’ Jaap van Heusden Nabil Ayouch Jazmín López Salvatore Mereu Andreas Johnsen Pathé 5 12:30 BerberianSP 15:30 MovieZone 18:30 21:30 11:3085’ Lore 17:00 19:15 22:00 SS 14:15 Odayaka SP BF SP SP SP 115’ 80’ 102’ 97’ Sound The Charm of Award Alone Los salvajes Japan’s Tragedy Lesson of the Evil Studio Others Wang Bing Cate Shortland Nobuteru MiikeBF Takashi Pathé 1 7 Cinerama 12:15 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Uchida 15:45 Dogs Are Said to See ... BFKobayashi Masahiro 18:15 La Playa 21:15 36 Alejandro Fadel TG RG Peter Strickland109’ Ninomiya Ryutaro 92’ 89’ 119’ 180’ 101’ D.C. 100’ 129’ 89’ Avanti popolo Sophie Fiennes Juan Andrés Arango Nawapol ThamPathé 6 09:15 When Night 11:45 Our Nixon 14:15 14:30 19:30 Odayaka 22:00 Prófugos 20:00 22:30 SP BF TS BF SP CC SP SP KM SP 84’ Gebo and the 90’ 68’ White rongrattanarit Michael Wahrmann17:00 17:15 Tiger136’ Awards Disappearing Vulgaria Brief Encounters Competition for Falls Landscape Shadow Epilepsy Penny Lane Uchida Nobuteru Pablo Larraín Pang Ho-cheung Kira Muratova Cinerama 1 2 12:30 Berberian Sound 21:30 Los salvajes 15:30 MovieZone Award SS SP BF Short Films 1 Ying Liang Vladimir Todorovic Manoel de Oliveira70’18:30 Alone Philippe Grandrieux 70’ 85’ 80’ 100’ 120’ 92’ 91’ 96’ 69’ Studio Wang Bing Alejandro Fadel Pathé 7 12:00 Getting to 17:45 A floresta 20:15toL’Die 14:00 Ping’an 17:00 Tall as the 19:30 Four Ways 22:00 22:15 KM BF SP SP BF de180’ KMKM Peter Strickland 92’ 14:30 Fine, 89’ 119’ Know Jonathas BF enclos du in BF Thanks Passions Yueqing Chekhov’s Motifs the Big Wide World temps Baobab Tree Sérgio Andrade My Hometown Mátyás Prikler Kira Muratova Ai Weiwei Kira Muratova Cinerama 2 3 09:15 When Night SP 11:45 Our Nixon 14:15 Tiger Awards 17:00 Disappearing BF 19:30 Odayaka 22:00 Prófugos TS SP CC Kira Muratova BF 75’ Jeremy Teicher 130’ 99’ Chai Chunya Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ 142’ 82’ 90’ 120’112’ Competition for Falls Landscape Penny Lane Uchida Nobuteru Pablo Larraín Cinerama 1 Hunter andCC the Skeleton BF Films 1 Life of Jacqueline 11:45 Eine Stadt wird 14:15 Short 19:45 The 22:15 Breakers 16:30CCL’ enclos Vladimir 19:15 TV Night: 21:45 Spring DG85’ BF SP Ying Liang 70’ 80’ 70’ 100’ 120’ Happiness SP du 17:30SPTodorovic Girls, The Boring Kayan erpresst Building 1 temps Girls andEmperor Boys Visits the Hell Sebastián Silva Maryam Najafi Harmony Korine Cinerama 3 4 12:00 Getting to Know KM 14:30 17:45 20:15 22:15 BF BF SP KM Fine, Thanks Passions Dominik Graf Chen Chieh-jen Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ A floresta de Jonathas compilation 90’ 143’ 86’ 96’ 84’ 85’ du 92’ Luoprog. Li L’ enclos the Big Wide World temps Sérgio Andrade Mátyás Prikler Kira Muratova Cinerama 2 16:30 My130’ 19:15 Die BF BF Kira Muratova Jean-Charles Fitoussi 67’ 21:45 Lee Towers: The BF SP 75’ 99’ Welt 112’ Sister’s Foudre Quinceañera Voice of Rotterdam Alex Pitstra Manuela Morgaine 4 Cinerama 6 The Hunter and the Skeleton BF 11:45 Eine Stadt wird 14:15 The Boring Life of Jacqueline 17:30 Kayan 19:45 SP DG CC BF Happiness Aaron Douglas Johnston Hans22:15 Heijnen 72’ 80’ 230’ 93’ erpresst Building 1 Emperor Visits the Hell Sebastián Silva Maryam Najafi Cinerama 3 Malody 17:00 20:00 22:30 11:00 Centro histórico 16:45 21:45 BF BF BF SP SP TS 96’ BF Dominik Graf ChenGFP Chieh-jen 90’ 143’ The View from 86’ 84’ Luo LiTiger AwardsGirl A Fallible Bunny Rengaine Our House Competition Krivina BF ConradBF Clarkfor diverse regisseurs Rachid DjaïdaniTsuchiya Yutaka Cinerama 5 LantarenVenster 1 16:30 My Sister’s 19:15 Die Welt 21:45 Lee SP Towers: The Short Films 1 A. Kennedy / I.Wiblin 76’ 82’ 104’ 82’ 90’ 80’ 75’ Igor Drljaca Quinceañera Voice of Rotterdam Alex Pitstra Cinerama 4 09:00 Fahrtwind – Aufzeich- BF 11:30 Memories Look 14:00 Carne de 16:30 19:15 21:45 14:45 17:30 19:45 22:15 BF BF BF SP SP SH SH RG SS Aaron Douglas Johnston Hans Heijnen 72’ 80’ 93’ Miroir mon amour Ai Is Japanese for Love perro Poor Folk Jiseul Losing Dwoskin Take Off Reverberations at Me Siegrid Alnoy compilation prog. Fernando Guzzoni Midi17:00 Z Malody compilation BF O Muel 20:00 prog. compilation prog. compilation prog. Cinerama 6 LantarenVenster 2 nungen einer Reisenden 22:30 BF BF A Fallible Girl GFP Bunny Bernadette Weigel Song Fang 85’ 91’ 81’ 105’ 108’ 84’ 101’ 85’ 81’ 89’ Krivina Conrad Clark Tsuchiya Yutaka Cinerama 5 09:45 Celluloid Man 13:45 17:15 20:00 20:15 12:30 15:00 Preludes 2 17:45BODY 22:15 22:30 KM SH RG Preludes 1 BF SH Dummy SH SH SHRG 82’ 104’ 82’ Igor Drljaca Neural Pathways DEAD Among Grey Stones KM Short Stories: Short Stories: Latin Easy Rider WELCOME Lunar Eclipses Treats compilation prog. compilation prog. compilationSPprog. Second Class Citizens Kira Muratova Shivendra Singh Dungarpur 11:30 James Benning Cinerama09:00 7 LantarenVenster 3 Fahrtwind – Aufzeich14:00 Carne de perro 16:30 Poor Folk 19:15 Jiseul 21:45 Miroir mon amour BF BF BF BF SP Memories Look 164’ Kees Brienen compilation prog. compilation prog. 137’ 74’ 80’ 88’ 79’ Muratova 83’ 74’ 102’ 95’ Kira at Me Siegrid Alnoy Fernando Guzzoni Midi Z O Muel Cinerama 6 nungen einer Reisenden Living StillShorts Life 11:15 Hill of 13:45 Pearblossom 16:45 Final 19:15 19:30 21:45 22:00 14:15 Guimarães: SP SP SH Bernadette Weigel SH BF 108’ Song Fang 85’ 91’ 81’ 84’ SH Cut: Rotterd@m Number 10Ladies Blues/ RG RG105’ Pleasures Rotterd@m 2 SP The Patience Stone Hwy and Gentlemen Shorts 1 Rocking the Cradle Goodbye Saigon Gegenwart Maria Ramos compilation prog. Atiq Rahimi LantarenVenster 1 5 09:45 Celluloid Man 13:45 Dummy 17:15 DEAD BODY 20:00 Among Grey Stones KM 22:30 Easy Rider RG KM BF RG Mike Ott compilation prog. György Pálfi compilation prog. Osada Norio 95’ 80’ 85’ 97’ 84’ 81’ 98’ 80’ 107’ Thomas Heise WELCOME Second Class Citizens Kira Muratova Shivendra Singh Dungarpur James Benning Cinerama 7 15:00 Peculiar 17:30 20:15 Persistence 18:00 NL Int. SP80’ BFSH SH SH 88’ SP Kees Inori Brienen 164’ 137’ 95’ Kira Muratova Vacation Short Profile: Mika Vulgaria of Vision and Other Illnesses Taanila Pedro González-Rubio Pang Ho-cheung compilation prog. 3 LantarenVenster 6 11:15 Hill of Pleasures 13:45 Pearblossom 16:45 Final Cut: Ladies 19:15 Rotterd@m 21:45 Rotterd@m Shorts 2 SP SP RG SH SH compilation prog. Yosep Anggi prog. Noen compilation 90’ 98’ 72’ 92’ 80’ 74’ Hwy and Gentlemen Shorts 1 Maria Ramos compilation prog. LantarenVenster 1 The Flaneurs 11:45 Die Erbin 16:45 What 19:30 22:00 Hotte im Paradies SP95’ SP SP Mike14:15 Ott How to Describe György Pálfi compilation prog.#3 80’ 84’ 107’ DG They Don’t Talk About 85’BF When They Talk About Love a Cloud One Day20:15 When the Rain Falls Ayse Polat Dominik Graf LantarenVenster 5 15:00 Peculiar Vacation 17:30 Inori BF SP SP Mouly Surya David Verbeek Ifa Isfansyah Vulgaria 72’ 80’ 101’ 102’ 118’ and Other Illnesses Pedro González-Rubio Pang Ho-cheung LantarenVenster 3 11:30 Empire of the Sun RG 14:00 Sudan’s SwingingYosep 17:00 Wondering Alien 19:15 Die Freunde der SH SH DG 90’ 72’ 92’ FilmAnggi Noen Factory Directors Freunde compilation prog. LantarenVenster 6 11:45 Die Erbin 14:15 How to Describe SP 16:45 What They Don’t Talk About BF 19:30 The Flaneurs #3 22:00 Hotte im Paradies SP SP DG compilation prog. compilation prog. Dominik Graf 78’ 117’ 95’ 89’ When They Talk About Love a Cloud One Day When the Rain Falls Ayse Polat Dominik Graf LantarenVenster 5 Mouly Surya David Verbeek Ifa Isfansyah 72’ 80’ 101’ 102’ 118’

Oude Luxor

11.00

Thursday 31 January public public screenings screenings Thursday Thursday 24 31 January January

public screenings

press & industry screenings

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

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42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

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78’

compilation prog.

Factory

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09.00

10.00

99’

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13.00 13:30

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public screenings Friday 1 February

15.00

14:00 Sudan’s Swinging Film

16.00 16:30

16.00

117’

17:00

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18.00

The Delivery Guy Andrey Stempkovsky

17.00

compilation prog.

Directors

17:00 Wondering Alien

90’

95’

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19:30

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20:00

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Diego Star Frédérick Pelletier

Dominik Graf

Freunde

19:15 Die Freunde der

85’

89’

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91’

21.00

22.00 22:30

Eron Sheean

23.00

Errors of the Human Body

22.00 22:15

108’

LantarenVenster 6

11:30

Bruno Safadi

Steel Is the Earth Mes De Guzman

75’

SP 114’

14:30

Losing Dwoskin compilation prog.

RG 81’

122’

68’

Bani Khoshnoudi

Torres & cometas Gonçalo Tocha

16:45 Ao Lobo da Madragoa SP

89’

Sébastien Rose

bascule

19:15 Avant que mon coeur

SP 96’

21:45

Wavemakers Caroline Martel

SS 96’

107’

24.00

101’

24.00

Une histoire Odayaka The Patience Stone Reality de Doelen d’amour Uchida Nobuteru Atiq17:00 Rahimi Matteo Garrone 19:30 Diego Star 22:15 Errors BF BF80’ Jurriaanse Zaal of the Human The Delivery Guy 98’ BF Hélène Fillières 100’ 115’ Body Andrey Stempkovsky Frédérick Pelletier Oude Luxor 11:45 Comrade Kim 14:15 La noche de enfrente 16:45 Miss Lovely 19:30 Io e te 22:00 SP SP BF 90’ SP 91’ 101’ Eron Sheean BF Rengaine Schouwburg Goes Flying Raúl Ruiz Ashim Ahluwalia Bernardo Bertolucci Rachid Djaïdani 20:00 Reality 22:30 Une histoire 75’ SP BF SP BF Grote Zaal diverse regisseurs 81’ 13:30 Odayaka 110’ 16:30 The Patience Stone 110’ 103’ de Doelen d’amour Uchida Nobuteru Atiq Rahimi Matteo Garrone 13:15 Après mai 16:15 Watchtower 20:00 Surprise Film 22:30 Vulgaria SP100’ TG SP Jurriaanse Zaal Hélène Fillières 98’ 115’ 80’ Olivier Assayas14:15 Pelin16:45 Esmer Pang Ho-cheung Pathé 1 11:45 Comrade Kim 19:30 Io e te 22:00 Rengaine SP SP BF SP BF La noche de enfrente Miss Lovely 122’ 96’ 92’ Schouwburg Goes Flying Raúl Ruiz Ashim Ahluwalia Bernardo Bertolucci Rachid Djaïdani 10:00 Taboor 12:30 Japan’s Tragedy 15:30 In the Fog 18:30 Atambua 21:30 Lonely Bones BF II SP SP SP Grote Zaal 39° diverse regisseurs 81’ 110’ 110’ 103’ 75’ Celsius Frankenstein’s Army Vahid Vakilifar Kobayashi13:15 Masahiro Sergei Loznitsa Pathé 2 16:15 Watchtower 20:00 90’ 22:30 Vulgaria 96’ SP TG SP Après mai Surprise Film Riri Riza 84’ 101’ 128’ Richard Raaphorst Olivier Assayas Pelin Esmer Pang Ho-cheung Pathé 1 10:15 Tiger Awards 13:15 Tiger Awards 16:00 Wadjda 19:15 Karaoke Girl 22:00 Pearblossom TS TS BF TG SP 122’ 96’ 92’ Competition for Competition for Hwy Haifaa Al Mansour Visra Vichit Vadakan Pathé 3 10:00 Taboor 12:30 Japan’s Tragedy 15:30 In the Fog 18:30 Atambua 39° 21:30 Lonely Bones II SP 100’ SP BF Short Films 5 Short Films 4 SP Mike Ott 77’ 74’ 74’ 80’ Celsius Frankenstein’s Army Vahid Vakilifar Kobayashi Masahiro Sergei Loznitsa Pathé 2 10:00 Lasting 13:00 Fat Shaker 16:00 De nieuwe wereld BF 19:00 Men of the Earth 22:00Raaphorst SP TG BF SP Riri Riza 84’ 101’ 128’ 90’ 96’ The Complex Richard Sleepless Night Jacek Borcuch Mohammad Shirvani Jaap van Heusden Nakata Hideo Pathé 4 10:15 Tiger Awards 13:15 Tiger Awards 16:00 Wadjda 19:15 22:00 Pearblossom TS 93’ TS 85’ BF TG SP Karaoke Girl 85’ 75’ 106’ Jang Kun-Jae Competition for Competition for Hwy Haifaa Al Mansour Visra Vichit Vadakan Pathé 3 Voice Over 09:45 12:45 Wasteland 15:45 El muerto y ser feliz SP 18:45 Drug War 21:45 90 Minutes BF 74’ SP 74’ BF Short Films 5 SP Short Films 4 Mike Ott 77’ 100’ 80’ Ginger and Rosa Rowan Athale Javier Rebollo Johnnie To Eva Sørhaug Pathé 5 Men of the Earth 10:00 13:00 16:00 19:00 22:00 SP TG BF BF SP Fat Shaker De nieuwe wereld 94’ The Complex 95’ 106’ 107’ 92’ Sally Lasting Potter Sleepless Night Jacek Borcuch Mohammad Shirvani Jaap van Heusden Nakata Hideo Pathé 4 09:15 12:15 My Dog Killer 15:15 La cinquième saison SP 18:15 Les chevaux Jang 21:15 What They Don’t Talk About BF SP TG SP 11.25 The Day Mishima 93’ 85’ 85’ 75’ 106’ de Dieu Kun-Jae When They Talk About Love Chose His Own Fate Mira12:45 Fornay Jessica Woodworth Nabil18:45 Ayouch Pathé 6 Voice Over 09:45 15:45 21:45 SP BF SP SP BF Mouly Surya Wasteland El muerto y ser feliz Drug War 90 Minutes Wakamatsu Koji 119’ 90’ 94’ 115’ 101’ / Peter Brosens Ginger and Rosa Rowan Athale Javier Rebollo Johnnie To Eva Sørhaug Pathé 5 12:45 15:30 18:30 21:45 BF BF SP SP Matei Child 95’ 106’ 94’ 107’ 92’ Sunshine Boys Soegija Mater Dolorosa Sally Potter Miner Kim Tae-Gon Garin Nugroho Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Pathé 7 09:15 11.25 The Day Mishima 12:15 My Dog Killer 15:15 La cinquième 18:15 Les chevaux de Dieu 21:15 What They Don’t Talk About BF SP TG SP saison SP 80’ Alexandra Gulea 85’ 120’ 86’ When They Talk About Love Mira Fornay Jessica Woodworth Nabil Ayouch Pathé 6 09:15 Chose His Own Fate BF 14:15 The Master 20:00 Rotterdam SP SP RG BF Mouly Surya 22:15 Kayan Wakamatsu Koji nicht 119’ 90’ 94’ 17:15 Paradies: Glaube 115’ 101’ / Peter Brosens Vergiss mein Classics: David Sieveking Paul Thomas Anderson Ulrich Seidl Maryam Najafi Cinerama 1 12:45 Sunshine Boys 15:30 Matei Child 18:30 Soegija 113’ 21:45 Mater Dolorosa BF BF SPvon Barsy SP Andor 88’ 137’ 67’ 86’ Miner Kim Tae-Gon Garin Nugroho Adolfo B. Alix Jr. Pathé 7 12:00 Poor Folk 20:00 Rio Belongs 22:30 Grenzgänger BF II BF SP SP Alexandra Gulea 85’14:30 Rhino Season 80’ 17:15 Toegetakeld door 120’ 86’ de liefde to Us Midi Z Bahman Ghobadi Florian Flicker Cinerama 2 09:15 17:15 Ari 20:00 Ricardo 22:15 Kayan SP BF Rotterdam Vergiss mein nicht BF Paradies: Deelder Glaube Pretti RG 105’ 14:15 The Master 90’ 90’ SP 75’ 87’ Classics: Sieveking Paul Thomas Anderson Ulrich Seidl Maryam Najafi Cinerama 1 09:15 David La pionnière Living Still Life 11:45 De ontmaagding van 14:15 Lawinen der 19:45 Les revenants RG SP BF DG CC Andor von Barsy 67’ 88’ 137’ 17:00 113’ 86’ The Dancing Soul... Eva van End Erinnerung Gegenwart Fabrice Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud Cinerama 3 12:00 14:30 17:15 20:00 Rio Belongs 22:30 Grenzgänger SP SP Paula Gladstone Toegetakeld door 80’ BF Poor Rhino Michiel ten Folk Horn Dominik GrafSeason 76’ 98’ BF 89’II 200’ Thomas Heise de liefde to Us Midi Z Bahman Ghobadi Florian Flicker Cinerama09:00 2 Axel und Peter 11:30 Kidd Life 14:00 16:30 Leones 19:00 21:30 BF SP BF SP BF The Ari Deelder Pretti 105’ 90’ 90’ 75’ 87’ Shanghai Nairobi Half LifeRicardoBF Harmonica’s Howl Kern Andreas Johnsen Dibakar Banerjee Jazmín López David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga Cinerama 4 09:15 La pionnière Living Still Life 11:45 14:15 17:00 19:45 DG SP CC De ontmaagding van 97’BF Lawinen der Les revenants96’ Bruno Safadi 72’RG 110’ 80’ 138’ Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala The Dancing Soul... Eva van End Erinnerung Gegenwart Fabrice Gobert / Frédéric Mermoud Cinerama 3 The Hunter and the Skeleton 09:30 12:00 14:30 17:00 19:45 22:30 BF SP CC SP BF BF PaulaLas Gladstone TV Night: lágrimas Theten Unspeakable Act 98’ Michiel Horn Dominik Graf 76’ 89’ 80’ 200’ Touch Melaza Thomas Heise Showtime Emperor Visits the Hell Pablo Delgado Dan Sallitt Shelly Silver Carlos Lechuga Cinerama09:00 5 The Axel und Peter 11:30 Kidd Life 14:00 Shanghai 16:30 Leones 19:00 Nairobi Half Life BF BF BF BF Sánchez SP compilation prog. SP 64’ 91’ 69’ 70’ 80’ 21:30 96’ Luo Li Kern Andreas Johnsen Dibakar Banerjee Jazmín López David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga Cinerama09:00 4 Harmonica’s Howl RG 11:30 13:45 16:30 19:15 21:45 BF BF BF BF Final Cut: Ladies Peculiar Vacation Bruno Safadi 72’ 97’ 110’ 80’ 96’ 138’ Low Tide L’ étoile du jour I.D. Ixjana Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala BF and Gentlemen and Other Illnesses Roberto Minervini Sophie Blondy Kamal Karamattathil Józef Skolimowski / Cinerama 6 The Hunter and the Skeleton BF 09:30Pálfi 12:00 14:30 TV Night: 17:00 19:45 22:30 CC SP BF Las lágrimas BF85’ The Unspeakable90’Act SP Touch Melaza György Yosep Anggi Noen 92’ 98’ 87’ 98’ Muhammed Michal Skolimowski Showtime Emperor Visits the Hell Pablo Delgado Dan Sallitt Shelly Silver Carlos Lechuga Cinerama 5 09:45 12:00 Letter to America KM 14:00 Easy Rider 16:30 The Certificate 20:00 Die Katze 22:30 First DG KM DG SP Sánchez compilation prog.RG 69’ 64’ 91’ 70’ 80’ 96’ Kalter Frühling Luo LiComes Love On the Steep Cliff The Tuner Dominik Graf James Benning Dominik Graf Nina Davenport Cinerama09:00 7 Final Cut: Ladies 11:30 13:45 Low Tide 16:30 Kira 19:15 164’ 21:45 Ixjana RG BF BF BF BF Peculiar Kira Vacation L’ étoile du jour I.D. 89’ 70’ 95’ 118’ Muratova BF Muratova and Other Illnesses Roberto Minervini Sophie Blondy Kamal Karamattathil Józef Skolimowski / Cinerama 6 and Gentlemen km 12:15Noen 13:45 11.25 The Day Mishima 16:45 Lore 19:15 Call 22:15Skolimowski SP BF My Name Is 90’ II György Pálfi Yosep Anggi 85’ 92’ 98’ SP 87’ 98’ BF Muhammed Michal Girl Boy Eating the Bird’s Food Chose His Own Fate Negahdar Jamali Cate Shortland Mikael Marcimain LantarenVenster 1 to America KM 09:45 Kalter Frühling 12:00 LetterKamran 14:00 16:30 The Certificate 20:00 Die Katze 22:30 DG RG KM SP Ektoras Lygizos Easy Rider First Comes Love 90’ Wakamatsu Koji 65’ 119’ 109’ 140’ DG Heydari On the Steep Cliff The Tuner Dominik Graf James Benning Dominik Graf Nina Davenport Cinerama 7 09:30 Das unsichtbare 12:00 Spieler 14:30 Big Boy 19:30 22:15 Dreileben: Komm DG 89’ DG BF DG Disappearing BF 70’ 95’ BF 164’ 118’ F*ck for Forest Kira Muratova Kira 17:00 Muratova Mädchen Landscape mir nicht nach Dominik Graf Shireen Seno Michal Marczak LantarenVenster 2 km 12:15 My Name Is 13:45 105’ 16:45 LoreVladimir Todorovic 19:15 Call Girl 22:15 Dominik II SP BF BF 88’ 11.25 The Day Mishima Dominik Graf Graf 105’ 89’ 70’ SP 85’ Boy Eating the Bird’s Food Chose His Own Fate Negahdar Jamali Cate Shortland Mikael Marcimain LantarenVenster 1 09:15 11:45 Silent 14:15 Der 17:00 When the Curtain Falls 19:30 Oh Boy SP SH DG BF BF SP 90’ Ektoras Lygizos Wakamatsu Koji 65’ 119’ 109’ 140’ 22:00 Jiseul Kamran Heydari Soul Hotel Felsen Éden Ziba compilation prog. Dominik Graf Jan Ole Gerster O Muel LantarenVenster 5 09:30 Das unsichtbare 12:00 14:30 Big Boy 17:00 Bani 19:30 F*ck for Forest 22:15 Dreileben: Komm DG BF BF 85’ DG Disappearing 99’ DG 75’ 122’ 89’ 108’ BrunoSpieler Safadi Khoshnoudi BF Mädchen Landscape mir nicht nach Dominik Graf Shireen Seno Michal Marczak LantarenVenster 2 Ao Lobo da Madragoa 11:30 14:30 16:45 19:15 21:45 SP SP Avant que mon coeur SP 85’ Dominik Graf Vladimir Todorovic Dominik Graf SS 105’ 105’ 89’ 70’ 88’ Steel Is the Earth Losing Dwoskin RG Wavemakers bascule Torres & cometas Mes DeSilent Guzman compilation prog. Caroline Martel LantarenVenster 6 09:15 When the Curtain Falls 11:45 14:15 17:00 19:30 22:00 SH SP DG BF BF SP Soul Hotel Der Felsen Oh Boy Jiseul Sébastien Rose 114’ 81’ 68’ 96’ 96’ Gonçalo Tocha Éden Ziba compilation prog. Dominik Graf Jan Ole Gerster O Muel LantarenVenster 5

Oude Luxor

Friday 1 February

compilation prog.

11:30 Empire of the Sun

public screenings Friday 1 February

public screenings

LantarenVenster 6

354

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

355

09.00

09:30

10.00

85’

11.00

12:00

12.00

13.00

14.00

10.00

11.00

12.00

13.00

134’

14.00

15.00

16.00

15.00

16.00

Chose His Own Fate

15:00 11.25 The Day Mishima

De nieuwe wereld Love’s Sake public screenings For saturday 2 February Jaap van Heusden Miike Takashi Wakamatsu Koji 17:00 SP

17.00

18.00

17.00

119’

18.00

17:45 Mater Dolorosa Après mai Olivier AssayasAdolfo B. Alix Jr.

19.00 122’ 86’

19.00

SP SP

20:00

20.00

21.00

20.00

21.00

20:30 VPRO Filmnacht BF Wasteland Rowan Athale 106’

23.00

22.00

23.00

Frankenstein’s Army Richard Raaphorst

22:30 Lonely Bones

22.00 BF 96’

Alle zalen

Doelen Grote Zaal

Schouwburg Grote Zaal Oude Luxor

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11.00

12.00

13.00

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between a broad selection of the best examples of American web series, a new medium with which filmmakers have been experimenting since 2006, 09:00 until closing time, free admission, foyer Cinerama 10:00 Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran The ideal spot to see more of and to talk about the Signals: Inside Iran programme, 10:00–21:00, free admission & tea for free, de Doelen 11:00 Stimulus Progression (Rotterdam) Stimulus Progression was a (pseudo-)scientific method in which music served to increase productivity. For this installation, Mika Taanila went looking for contemporary examples. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 11:00-18:00, free admission, TENT 11:00 The Most Electrified Town in Finland The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power station in the Finnish village Eurajoki is the most powerful in the world. Pico critical video installation on three screens with time-lapse recordings by Mika Taanila. See also Spectrum Shorts, 11:00-18:00, free admission, TENT 11:00 Kids on the Floor: no melons, no lemon Installation project on super widescreen that is only made up of cinema graphs taken from Internet. A moving mosaic filled with cinephile winks, made by Roderik Bösensell, 11:00-16:30, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 12:00 Soundfigures In this installation by Aura Satz about sound and acoustics, old music machines meet the first gramophone rolls and the Theremin is confronted with a unique film instrument for synthetic sounds. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 12:0018:00, free admission, Blaak10 Gallery 12:00 All Magic Sands Film archiver and multimedia artist Andrew Lampert came across an intriguing set of film bobbins without beginning or ending credits. He presents them in a double projection without any manipulation. See also Signals: Regained, 12:00-17:00, free admission, Sub Urban Video Lounge* 12:00 Festschrift for an Archive Once MoMA’s Film Still Archive in New York provided access to 4,000,000 categorised images. Until the management eliminated the treasurer. Jason Simon literally records the process of a silent death. See also Signals: Regained, 12:00-18:00, free admission, PrintRoom*

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12:00 Your Eyes Are Dead This installation examines the roots of subcultural revolts, especially the origins of hiphop. On the opening evening, Friday 25, Alexis Milne provides a live media performance with The Cult of Rammellzee. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 12:00-18:00, Joey Ramone Gallery* 16:00 Tea House/Gallery Inside Iran Iranian filmmakers and connoisseurs talk during High Tea about their work and about Iran, free admission & tea, de Doelen 15:00 Kids on the Floor: Zadkine With the animation and film projections for the youngest festivalgoers, the latest generation of visitors has plenty to do, 15:00-17:30 and on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday: 13:00-17:30 with a workshop at 15:00, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 16:30 Kids on the Floor: Film hour Various animation films for young (from 4 to 12) and old are screened, as diverse in style and technique as the ‘adult’ programmes of IFFR, 16:30-17:30 pm, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 17:15 Dance Swine Dance Video installation in which Matt Stokes investigates the visual and social codes of specific dance cultures. An anonymous comic-strip figure demonstrates various dances. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 17:15-18:15, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 17:45 Piece by Piece Maarten Visser, offshoot of the avant-garde and pioneer of computer animation, based his technique on the principles of ancient mosaic art. His abstract oeuvre is accompanied by piano improvisations. See also Signals: Regained, 17:45-18:15, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 18:00 Scopitone Café Ecstatic mix of documentaries about music and musical experience with visuals and talks afterwards, 18:00-21:00, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 19:00 (Pop, Terror, Critique) Remix A giant screen shows more than 45 videos and animations in which Tony Cokes stresses the hypocrisy of the music industry, consumer culture, the art world and American politics. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 19:00-23:00, free admission, foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 23:00 Party Every evening from 23:00, various DJs turn the Kleine Zaal into a party space. Also in the foyer, every day there is a VJ/ DJ combination, until 23:00 free admission for everyone, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket, Rotterdamse Schouwburg * also open on Sunday 3 February

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One-Off Wed 23 January 18:30 Kick-off: The Master and Opening Party The 42nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam opens in Pathé 1 with The Master (on 70mm!) by Paul Thomas Anderson. Afterwards, we raise our glasses during the opening party in de Doelen, 18:30 doors open, 19:00 film starts, €13/€10, Pathé & de Doelen

One-Off Thu 24 January 22:00 Mind the Gap Accompany the Belgian pioneers to unknown terrain filled with boiling sounds and beats featuring Floris Vanhoof, Felicia Atkinson & Makino Takashi, Prairie, Dans Dans, DJ Mika Taanila, Gonzo (circus) DJs and presentation Mind the Gap #100. See also Spectrum Shorts, 22:00 to late, €11/€8, WORM

One-Offs & Talks Fri 25 January 16:15 Critics’ Talk Filmmaker Cristi Puiu talks about his trilogy Trois exercises d’interpretation, three films based on Three conversations by the Russian writer and philosopher Vladimir Soloviov, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 17:00 Your Eyes Are Dead Opening installation with live media performance by Alexis Milne and The Cult of Rammellzee, a group that refers to the rapper, graffiti artist and philosopher of the same name from the 1980s, and a discussion afterwards. See also Signals: Sound Stages, doors open 17:00, performance 6 pm, free admission, Joey Ramone Gallery 18:15 Scopitone Screening Space Harmonics, compilation programme with The International Space Orchestra (Nelly Ben Hayoun) + Just Ancient Loops (Bill Morrison), in which music is used to link the capacity to understand to the structures of the universe. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 19:00 Festschrift for an Archive Opening installation by Jason Simon, 19:00-22:00, free admission, PrintRoom 19:30 Big Talk Ben Wheatley talks about his film Sightseers, a hilarious black comedy in which a caravan trip through the English countryside doesn’t turn out as expected, Film + Big Talk €11, Oude Luxor 21:00 SmartTalk: De Avonden The daily cultural information radio programme by the VPRO broadcasting company, to be heard on Radio 6, is recorded live at the IFFR, 21:00-23:00, free admission, coffee corner in de Doelen

22:00 Mind the Gap Three unexpected combinations of musical and visual extremes featuring GJ Prins & Mariska De Groot, Kreng & Okkyung Lee, Knalpot & Rosa Menkman and Gonzo (circus) & guest DJs. See also Spectrum Shorts, 22:00 to late, €11/€8, WORM

One-Offs & Talks Sat 26 January 14:00 Single Frame Snow Rare acquaintanceship with unknown aspects from the oeuvre of the Canadian avant-gardist Michael Snow, compilation programme with Slidelength + Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film + A Casing Shelved. Snow himself operates the slide projector. See also Signals: Regained, 14:00-15:30 pm, €11/€8, LantarenVenster 4 14:30 The film Odboy & Erordog Suite from the compilation programme It Starts with a Dot and Ends with a Bang is given a live soundtrack, performed by maker Marcus Fjellström and the chamber quartet The Peärls Before Swïne Experience. See also Spectrum Shorts, 14:30 pm-15:45, €11/€8, LantarenVenster 3 16:15 Critics’ Talk Filmmaker Matteo Garrone talks about his film Reality, a comedy about a man who, after an audition in the famous Cinecittà Studios, convinces himself that he has been cast in Big Brother, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 18:15 Scopitone Screening Screening of Vinylmania – When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute, in which director Paolo Campana investigated in 11 cities in 11 countries the role that vinyl records still play in the 21st-century. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 18:45 SmartTalk: De Winter van de Liefde Volkskrant Talkshow about the film language of love. Volkskrant readers and members of the dating site Parship can see the film Devastated by Love by Ari Deelder prior to the talkshow, €15, Film 18:45 in Pathé 7, Talkshow 21:00 in Jurriaanse Zaal de Doelen 19:30 Big Talk Bernardo Bertolucci talks about his new film Io e te, about the young, fierce adolescent Lorenzo who hides in the basement with his junkie half-sister, based on a short story by Niccolò Ammaniti, Film + Big Talk €11, Oude Luxor 21:00 2 Film Concerts - Ibragimova & Rudy Inspired by Bartok, Janacek and the classical soloists Alina Ibragimova and Mikhail Rudy, the Brothers Quay open a series of unsuspected spaces and die mentions. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 21:0023:00, €11/€8, Arminiuskerk

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22:00 Mind the Gap Hypnotic performances to help you trip, dream and dance featuring Marcus Fjellström, Felix Kubin & Martha Colburn, Deadbeat and Gonzo (circus) & guest DJs. See also Spectrum Shorts, 22:00 to late, €11/€8, WORM

One-Offs & Talks Sun 27 January 13:30 Critics’ Talk Filmmaker Hélène Fillières talks about her film Une histoire d’amour, a love story with a dark side about a threecornered relationship that heads for a deadly climax, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 15:45 Critics’ Talk Filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau talks about his film La fille de nulle part, in which a homeless young woman one-day penetrates the calm life of the widower Michel, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 17:30 Berberian Sound Studio This film about a British soundman who provides the electronic music and sound effects in an Italian studio for a grubby low-budget horror film is accompanied on Sunday 27 live by a foley artist. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 17:30-19:00, €11/€8, Cinerama 1 18:15 Scopitone Screening The Secret Disco Revolution (Jamie Kastner), about the question of why disco doesn’t die out, with interviews with e.g. Gloria Gaynor, Village People and Kool and the Gang, as well as a treasure house of old music videos. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 21:00 SmartTalk: smartTV Changing Channels Filmmakers and other connoisseurs, led by Ruben Maes, discuss the future of web series and the transition from film to (web) television, in cooperation with the Dutch Media Fund, free admission, coffee corner de Doelen 22:00 The Endless Tedium of Capitalism Unreleased audio recording (1963) of the Thai raid by the underground legend Jack Smith is combined on the spot with video images from Conrad’s performance: Impacted Crustacean Jack Smithian Delirium (2009). See also Signals: Regained, 22:00-23:30, €11/€8, LantarenVenster 4 22:00 Mind the Gap Nouveaux territoires français! An intense Sunday evening featuring Romain Kronenberg, Hyperbang, Splitsecond: Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui, Ryan Kernoa & Stefano Canapa and Gonzo (circus) DJs. See also Spectrum Shorts, 22:00 to late, €11/€8, WORM

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One-Offs & Talks Mon 28 January

One-Offs & Talks Tue 29 January

11:00 School of Sound Challenging masterclasses of THE SCHOOL OF SOUND by professionals, artists and academics will investigate the creative use of sound. Central guesting cooperation with the Piet Zwart Institute is the musician and filmmaker Michael Snow. See also Signals: Sound Stages, 11:00-15:00, free admission, Van Capelle Zaal de Doelen 16:30 pm Critics’ Talk IFFR 2013 is screening a retrospective by the Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova. She talks about her work. See also Signals: Kira Muratova, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 17:00 Hit Parade Experimental performance by Christof Migone. A group of people lies down on the floor to hit the floor of thousand times with a microphone, each in their own rhythm and intensity. Everyone’s sound is amplified separately. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Schouwburgplein 18:15 Scopitone Screening Tropicália (Marcelo Machado), a homage to the innovators in Brazilian music in the 1960s, with a lively collage of news footage, music videos, photos and psychedelia. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 19:30 Big Talk Discover the deeper meanings of filmmaker Pablo Berger, who talks about Blancanieves, his exciting, silent, Snow White reprieves in black & white, Film + Big Talk €11, Oude Luxor 21:00 SmartTalk: Film Quiz Night Who plays the lead in the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson? What is the title of the Spanish original of Vanilla Sky? Every film connoisseur meets his match in this film quiz, organised by IFFR and the Erasmus University, registration from 20:30 on the spot, free admission, coffee corner de Doelen 21:00 Uitreiking Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films 23 films are competing for one of the three coveted Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films. The winner is chosen by the jury, made up of Joost Rekveld, Phil Collins and Solange Farkas, free admission, WORM 21:00 Mind the Gap Here is Harry Merry, the world premiere of Joke Olthaar’s idiosyncratic and open-hearted documentary about this unusual Rotterdam musician, followed by a festive show by Harry Merry. See also Spectrum Shorts, 21:00 to late, €11/€8, WORM

14:00 17.000 Islands Filmmakers Edwin and Thomas Østbye launch via the website 17000islandsinteractive. com an interactive trans-media documentary in which visitors can create new films by freeing fragments. The makers talk about this new form of filmmaking, 14:00-16:00, Jurriaanse Zaal de Doelen 16:00 Critics’ Talk IFFR 2013 is screening a retrospective by the German director Dominik Graf. Graf talks about his many faceted oeuvre. See also Signals: Dominik Graf, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 18:15 Scopitone Screening Death Metal Angola (Jeremy Xido) is about Angola, the epicentre of African hardcore music. Two leaders of an orphanage realise their dreams: they organise the first national rock concert. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 19:30 Big Talk Michiel ten Horn talks about his film The Deflowering of Eva van End. When the attractive German exchange student Veit comes to stay with the insecure teenager Eva, he brings out a lot in her – and in the rest of the dysfunctional family, Film + Big Talk €11, Oude Luxor 21:00 SmartTalk: Erasmus Tiger College The ideal combination of film and science. Three prominent Erasmus scholars provide a mini lecture in their field about one of the top films from IFFR 2013, free admission, Jurriaanse Zaal de Doelen

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One-Offs & Talks Wed 30 January 16:30 Critics’ Talk Director Midi Z talks about his film Poor Folk, a gangster film that doesn’t look or feel like a gangster film, but like life itself, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 18:15 Scopitone Screening In Let Fury Have the Hour (Antonio D’Ambrosio), well known musicians discuss how their art is largely a reaction to the conservative politics of Reagan and Thatcher. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 19:30 Big Talk Michael Noer talks about his film Nordvest, in which a native burglar in the suburbs does jobs for immigrant gangsters, and major problems result from the extra income, Film + Big Talk €11, Oude Luxor

21:00 SmartTalk: Debat: Filmkritiek nu en morgen Is there still space for film criticism in the newspaper, or is it being pushed into the fringe? Led by Prof Maarten Doorman, a discussion between Bor Beekman (the Volkskrant), Peter de Bruijn (the Volkskrant) and Dana Linssen (De Filmkrant), free admission, coffee corner de Doelen

One-Offs & Talks Thu 31 January 16:00 Critics’ Talk Director David Verbeek talks about his film How to Describe a Cloud, about a young woman in Taipeh who is confronted with the blindness of her mother, who is however convinced she has a sixth sense, free admission, foyer LantarenVenster 18:15 Scopitone Screening Kinshasha SuperBand (Pierre Lafargue), documentary about the formation and international tour of a super group, made up from Congolese and Western bands. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 21:00 SmartTalk: Studio Erasmus@IFFR The monthly talkshow of the Erasmus University, this time live from the festival. Science on its side. Shop and committed. With interviews, many lectures and live music, free admission, coffee corner de Doelen

One-Offs Fri 1 February 17:00 Award Ceremony On this evening the major winners of the 42nd edition of IFFR are announced. With, e.g. the presentation of the Hivos Tiger Awards & The Big Screen Awards, free admission, Arcadis Zaal de Doelen 18:00 Scopitone Screening In the documentary Sample: Not For Sale (Mike Redman), the most important leaders within sampling are brought together. Sampling is the musical term for the reuse of existing material. See also Signals: Sound Stages, free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg

One-Off Sat 2 February 21:00 Closing Film & Closing Party The festival will be closing in style with the screening of the film Stoker in the Grote Zaal of de Doelen followed by a closing party with DJs and live acts. The theme of the evening is already known: Rock ‘n’ Roll Pool Party! 21:00 Closing Film starts, 23:00 Closing Party starts, €28/€22 for film & party, €15/€12 for the party

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Monsieur Lazhar van Philippe Falardeau winnaar van de UPC Publieksprijs IFFR 2012.

42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Film ontroert, boeit, maakt je aan het lachen, zet je aan het denken. Film is opwindend. UPC is gek op film. En deelt deze passie graag met u. Daarom biedt UPC thuis toegang tot duizenden films. Gewoon via uw afstandsbediening. Bovendien participeren we in Nederlandse films. Zoals in ‘DEAL’ van Eddy Terstall. We zijn partner van eu1, het platform waar jonge filmmakers sponsors, financiers en publiek elkaar ontmoeten. Opgericht door Waldemar Torenstra en Ruben Nicolai. We sponsoren diverse filmfestivals in Nederland. Zoals het International Film Festival Rotterdam, waar de UPC Publieksprijs aan verbonden is. Films die op dit festival te zien zijn maken wij ook toegankelijk via UPC On Demand. Zo kan een breed publiek uit en thuis kennismaken met de kwaliteit van festivalfilms. Want film is voor iedereen.

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The camera takes in the position of João, in a room where the atmosphere is ecstatic. Everywhere in the crowded room, people are drinking, and dancing wildly. The camera shifts fast and unsteadily, from one part of the room to another, mostly out of focus. Lights are flashing. The music sounds tropical but somewhat distorted and delayed. On top of the music we hear people’s voices. João moves through the dancing crowd. Slowly, bumping into people. At least twenty people appear into the frame one by one. Their expressions are cheerful, sometimes laughing, sometimes clearly annoyed, looking directly into the camera. This goes on for three minutes. Then João reaches the bar. The camera turns to the bartender, who looks directly into the lens. BARTENDER: Yes? JOÃO: I have some information about your brother José.