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WestEnd in the saddle on Mules BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
WestEnd Films has acquired worldwide rights to drug thriller Mules, produced by Everest director Baltasar Kormakur. Commercials director Borkur Sigthorsson, who collaborated with Kormakur and Agnes Johansen on hit Icelandic TV series Trapped, will take the reins on the Iceland-Denmark-Sweden co-production, which is due to shoot in all three countries in the spring. In Mules, two brothers decide to smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule, but the plan goes awry. Kormakur will produce with fellow RVK Studios producer Johansen (Virgin Mountain). Coproducers are Anni Faurbye Fernandez (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Stinna Lassen for Good Company Films in Denmark, and Mimmi Spang and Rebecka Lafrenz for Garage Film in Sweden.
Weltkino snaps up Berlin pair BY MARTIN BLANEY
Mia Hansen-Love’s Berlin Competition title Things To Come (l’Avenir) and Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart, have been snapped up for German distribution by Weltkino Filmverleih. Sales of Things To Come are handled by Les Films du Losange while MK2 sells Personal Shopper.
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dorned portrait of American life,” the sales companies said in a joint statement. Haigh’s most recent film 45 Years, which was also backed by the BFI and Film4, premiered in Competition at the Berlinale last year and went on to win two Silver Bears for the lead performances of
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giant creatures on Mars, with a cast including Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Tomohisa Yamashita, Takayuki Yamada and Shun Oguri. Warner Bros is releasing the film in Japanese theatres on April 29. Gaga has all international rights
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Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Haigh has also signed on to direct a biopic of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen for producer Damian Jones and Pathé, written by Chris Urch. Celluloid Dreams handled international sales of last year’s Golden Bear winner, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi.
Gaumont targets See You Up There BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
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producer. Paradigm handles North American sales and represents Fimmel, Donaldson and Corsan.
Gaga brings Miike’s sci-fi Terraformars to EFM Japan’s Gaga Corporation is handling international sales on Takashi Miike’s sci-fi title Terraformars, produced by a film committee headed by Warner Bros Pictures Japan. Based on a bestselling manga, the film follows a crew that battles
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Fimmel moves on Western Front The Corsan World Sales team expects a spirited response to its All Quiet On The Western Front adaptation this week after revealing that Travis Fimmel will star. The Australian will soon be seen in Universal-Legendary Pictures’ summer tentpole Warcraft. Roger Donaldson will direct All Quiet… from a script by Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson of Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment. Corsan chief Paul Breuls serves as
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Paris-based The Bureau Sales and Celluloid Dreams have partnered to secure international distribution rights to Lean On Pete, the latest project from 45 Years director Andrew Haigh. The two companies are launching sales on the film, an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel, here at EFM. The film unites Haigh with his regular producer Tristan Goligher. The BFI and Film4 are backing the project, with the latter having also supported development. The story centres on homeless teenager Charley, whose best friend is a failing racehorse named Lean On Pete. Shooting is scheduled to commence in the US this summer for a spring 2017 delivery. “The story of Charley is never sentimental but always compassionate, a heartbreaking and una-
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outside of Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand. Gaga is also selling Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After The Storm and Hana’s Miso Soup, directed by Tomoaki Akune. Liz Shackleton
Gaumont has boarded Albert Dupontel’s $22.5m (¤20m) drama See You Up There. Set after the First World War, the film centres on two former soldiers out for revenge on a former commander who sent them and their comrades on a deadly and futile final assault. Based on Pierre Lemaitre’s novel The Great Swindle, Dupontel has been developing the screenplay in collaboration with Lemaitre since 2013. The cast includes Dupontel, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup, Emilie Dequenne and Mélanie Thierry. Scheduled to shoot this March, delivery is expected in spring 2017. Dupontel’s previous film 9-Month Stretch drew 2 million admissions in 2013.
IM Global nets Chow’s Mermaid BY LIZ SHACKLETON
IM Global has picked up international rights to Stephen Chow’s comedy The Mermaid, which grossed a record $41m on its opening day (February 8) in China. Through its fast-growing Anthem division, IM Global has also picked up Zao Wang’s The Precipice Game, produced by Shanghai-based Fundamental Films. Released on the first day of the Chinese New Year holiday, The Mermaid’s opening-day box office is the biggest ever for a Chinese title and second only to Furious 7’s $63m opening-day haul. Sony Pictures will release The Mermaid in the US on February 19. IM Global has international rights outside of North America, UK, Australia/New Zealand and Asia. The comedy stars Deng Chao as a young tycoon whose plans to drive marine wildlife away from his island development are thwarted by a beautiful young mermaid. The cast also includes Lin Yun, Show Luo, Kris Wu and Kitty Zhang. Meanwhile, The Precipice Game stars Ruby Lin, Peter Ho and Jin Shijia in the story of a young couple who join a treasure hunt on a cruise ship that turns into a battle for survival.
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Clooney to woo buyers Buyers are steeling themselves for a possible feeding frenzy today as sales agents present Suburbicon, Loving and Deep Water. George Clooney, in town for this evening’s opening night gala of the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, will meet buyers to talk up Suburbicon, which he will direct from a screenplay by the Coens. Bloom handles international sales and CAA represents US rights. Insiders and CAA are showing footage of Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, starring Natalie Portman as former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
CAA will also show footage from Loving, Jeff Nichols’ timely tale of racism. The film-maker’s Midnight Special premieres in Competition tomorrow. James Gray’s long-gestating adventure, The Lost City Of Z, and the crime drama I.T., starring Pierce Brosnan, are also on offer. Sierra/Affinity hosts the first of four market screenings of Bryan Cranston thriller The Infiltrator, from Good Films. Broad Green will distribute the film in the US. Studiocanal will show footage from Deep Water, James Marsh’s drama about yachtsman Donald
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Films Boutique has sold UK rights to Studiocanal for PieterJan De Pue’s Sundance winner The Land Of The Enlightened. The film, centred on Afghan children who dig up old landmines, won a cinematography award at Sundance last month before playing in competition at Rotterdam, ahead of its market premiere here.
UK production outfit GFM Films is launching a new sales division, GFM Evolution, which will focus on selling low-budget genre films. The company is launching with a three-strong EFM slate that includes Eat Local, a vampire thriller starring Charlie Cox (Daredevil), Mackenzie Crook (Pirates Of The Caribbean) and Dexter Fletcher.
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Creative Control
Buyers take up Creative Control By Geoffrey Macnab
Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has secured a raft of sales on Benjamin Dickinson’s SXSW award winner Creative Control. Ahead of its market premiere here this week, Coproduction Office has confirmed sales of the sci-fi drama, starring and directed by Dickinson, to Canada (Mongrel), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Poland (Against Gravity) and Turkey (Kurmaca Film). Amazon Studios acquired the US rights and Magnolia Pictures will distribute in theatres before the film plays on Amazon. Theatrical release is set for March 11, followed by DVD and VoD windows. Coproduction Office’s Berlin slate also includes new projects by Swedish auteurs Ruben Ostlund, Roy Andersson and Thomas Clay. All three as-yet-untitled films are in pre-production.
CMG dances worldwide Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has closed a raft of sales on Born To Dance ahead of its European premiere in Generation 14plus, led by a US deal with FilmBuff. FilmBuff plans a theatrical release this spring before an exclusive SVoD run. Further distribution deals are for Germany (Capelight Pictures), France (Family Films), China (HGC Entertainment), Middle East (Front Row), South Korea (Thanks And Love), Philippines (Captive Entertainment) and India (Picture Works). MVP will distribute in Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, while Captive Entertainment has also acquired international airlines. Jeremy Kay
Crowhurst. It stars Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz. WME Global and XYZ Films are touting North American rights to Toa Fraser’s Iranian embassy siege thriller 6 Days, and the former also represents horror title The Limehouse Golem. Pathé hosts a promo event that includes Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom and Daniele Thompson’s Cezanne Et Moi, while Wild Bunch will show 10 minutes from Radu Mihaileanu’s The History Of Love. Independent has a promo of Gabe and Ben Turner’s Usain Bolt documentary, I Am Bolt.
GFM Evolution is also launching with two completed films: Gangland, a sequel to 2010’s Bonded By Blood, and We Still Steal The Old Way, a sequel to 2014’s We Still Kill The Old Way. Both of the original titles were directed by Sacha Bennett, who will return for the latter, while The Plague director Greg Hall will take the reins for Gangland.
EFP’s SHOOTING stars 2016 Tihana Lazovic Croatia Biggest inspiration? There wasn’t one particular inspiration. I like to say everything in my life happened in a logical order. When I was 16 I went to a theatre audition and said to myself: “If you pass the audition, you’ll be an actress. If not, you’ll do something else.” Fortunately, I passed and the rest is history. Big break? My first feature film Hush... by Lukas
Nola. He saw me in the hallways of the academy where I am a student and he was interested because he thought I was a rebel. My role in Dalibor Matanic’s The High Sun [winner of the Un Certain Regard jury prize, Cannes 2015], followed after that. Next up? A TV series called Newspapers, directed by Matanic, as well as being one year from graduating in acting. Sarah Cooper
FilmSharks seals No Kids remakes By Jeremy Kay
FilmSharks has licensed a raft of sales and remake rights on Ariel Winograd’s smash ArgentinaSpain comedy No Kids (Sin Hijos). Guido Rud — who has hired returning staffer and former
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Primer Plano executive Valeria Fanego as senior VP of international sales — has closed a deal with Palace Cinemas for Australia. Rights have gone in Scandinavia and CIS (Maywin Media), central Europe pay TV (HBO CE),
Bolivia (Multicines) and airlines (Global Eagle and Inflight Dublin). France’s Albertine Productions in association with Selective Films has taken French remake rights, while Colorado Films has optioned Italy, and Elisa Salinas has taken Mexico. A US studio is preparing to announce Indian remake rights.
berlin briefs Considine pulls on gloves Paddy Considine is re-teaming with producer Diarmid Scrimshaw on his second feature as director, boxing drama Journeyman. Financed by Film4 with the BFI, Screen Yorkshire and the Wellcome Trust, Studiocanal will handle the UK release, while Cornerstone will oversee international sales.
FilmNation adds Zero Glen Basner will commence international sales in Berlin on Participant Media’s cyber warfare documentary Zero Days by Alex Gibney ahead of its world premiere here in Competition.
Carnaby strikes for West’s Thunder Run By Andreas Wiseman
UK sales outfit Carnaby has acquired world rights to longgestating Simon West (Con Air) action thriller Thunder Run. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino’s non-fiction book Thunder Run: The Armored Strike To Capture Baghdad, the script has been adapted by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and Robert Port (Numb3rs). Jib Polhemus and Harry Stourton will produce under the Simon West Productions banner, together with Carnaby’s Sean O’Kelly and Andrew Loveday. Production is planned for the first quarter of 2017, with casting underway and Carnaby planning a buyer presentation in Berlin. Thunder Run tells of the capture of Baghdad by US forces at the onset of the Iraq War. Carnaby will screen the film at EFM. Carnaby has also boarded world rights to comedy drama Sticky Notes, starring Ray Liotta, Rose Leslie and Justin Bartha. Amanda Sharp’s directorial debut is produced by rising producer Katie Mustard (Shelter) under the Mustard & Co banner. The deal was secured by Carnaby CEO Sean O’Kelly and director of international sales Tania Sarra, together with Mustard and Mustard & Co.
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Raven takes Buffalo stance BY JEREMY KAY
Toronto-based Raven Banner Entertainment, here at EFM kicking off sales on Owen Egerton’s horror thriller Follow, has moved to bulk up its pipeline with a first-look financing and distribution deal with The Forbidden Room producers Buffalo Gal Pictures. Buffalo Gal’s Insidious Pictures, a genre label with
credits including Silent Night, The Lazarus Project and The Haunting In Connecticut, will generate the projects. The arrangement with Buffalo Gal, based in Winnipeg, is aimed at modestly budgeted, auteurdriven, elevated genre films for global audiences from renowned genre film-makers and emerging Canadian talent.
Ants plates up sales in Asia BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Fortissimo has secured a number of deals on culinary feature doc Ants On A Shrimp in advance of its Berlinale premiere. The film, which follows chef René Redzepi as he sets up his world famous Noma restaurant in Tokyo for a two-month residency, has
now gone to Singapore and Brunei (Golden Village) Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Hong Kong (Edko), Japan (Aya Pro) and former Yugoslavia (2i Film). World air rights are with Jaguar. Directed by Maurice Dekkers, the film premieres here on February 16.
Pathé Cow comedy attracts the herds BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Pathé International is hoping to capitalise on growing buzz for French cross-cultural comedy One Man and His Cow (La Vache). The film, from the production team behind global hit Intouchables, will receive its market premiere here at EFM and centres on an Algerian farmer who crosses France on foot with his prize cow to fulfil a life-
long dream of attending the Paris Agricultural Show. It has already pre-sold to Germany and Austria (Alamode), Belgium (Alternative Film) and Switzerl a n d ( Pa t h é ) . Pa t h é International sales chief Muriel Sauzay has said there is potential for the film to travel even wider. The sales team had hoped to bring the film’s bovine star to Berlin but this proved too compli-
Pistorius doc in the blocks BY WENDY MITCHELL
Western Edge Pictures is producing Oscar Pistorius: Killing A Dream, building on the success of boxing
documentary Mr Calzaghe. Vaughan Sivell, founder of Western Edge and director of Mr Calzaghe, will direct the documentary about the
cated. Visitors to the Pathé stand can instead enjoy a life-size cardboard stand-in. Other titles on Pathé’s EFM slate include Daniele Thompson’s Cezanne Et Moi; Tran Anh Hung’s homage to French life and its women, Eternity, starring Audrey Tautou, Bérénice Bejo and Mélanie Laurent; and Bavo Defurne’s Souvenir, starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paralympic athlete, for delivery early 2017. Filming starts in March and will explore Pistorius’s role in Reeva Steenkamp’s death alongside South Africa’s recent turbulent history.
BERLIN DEALS LevelK bites Pear LevelK has boarded animation The Incredible Story Of The Giant Pear. Directed by Philip Einstein Lipski and Jorgen Lerdam, it is based on Jakob Martin Strid’s children’s book and is in production for Nordisk and Danish animation powerhouse A. Film. Wendy Mitchell
M-Appeal Trips up M-Appeal has sold its new feature Paradise Trips to Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Artcam). The film, about a retired bus driver who takes one final journey, marks Raf Reyntjens’ debut as a feature director and is screening at the market today. M-Appeal has also acquired Panorama title Jonathan. Geoffrey Macnab
Toho brings Rage to Berlin BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Japanese studio Toho is launching sales here at EFM on suspense drama Rage by Lee Sang-il (Unforgiven), which features a stellar cast including Ken Watanabe. Based on a novel by Shuichi Yoshida, the film revolves around three couples who become suspicious of people they have
recently befriended, following a brutal double murder in a Tokyo satellite city. In addition to Watanabe (Inception, The Last Samurai), the strong ensemble cast includes Kenichi Matsuyama (Norwegian Wood), Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), Mirai Moriyama (Love Strikes), Go Ayano (The Light Shines Only There), Suzu Hirose (Our
Little Sister) and Aoi Miyazaki (Eureka). The film is in post-production and is being lined up for a summer release in Japan. Toho’s slate also includes upcoming reboot Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Gojira), codirected by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, and Kankuro Kudo’s fantasy comedy Too Young To Die!. » See feature, page 32
EFP’S SHOOTING STARS 2016 REINOUT SCHOLTEN VAN ASCHAT NETHERLANDS Big break? The Heineken Kidnapping, a film based on a kidnap in the 1980s in Amsterdam. It was my first big part in a movie and I got to perform with Rutger Hauer. Biggest challenge of your career to date? In my most recent film, Beyond Sleep, I play a student who is lost in the mountains. I’m in every scene and during the shoot
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we improvised a lot. To prepare I wandered around the mountains of Norway with a compass, some food and a tent. Next up? I just finished a play about Charles Manson, with my theatre group Lars Doberman, and I’m doing a low-budget film, the debut of young Dutch director Viktor van der Valk. Sarah Cooper
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Hail, Caesar! Reviewed by Tim Grierson After focusing in recent years on sombre comedies such as A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis that tackled existential themes — faith, destiny, the meaning of life — film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen have turned their attention to a zany Hollywood-golden-age lark… which ends up being consumed by some of the same questions. Don’t let the jolly exclamation mark in the title throw you: Hail, Caesar! may on its surface be one of the Coens’ kooky-character pieces, complete with a kidnapping plot they have recycled many times before, but underneath there is a gentle but serious investigation into the ways people try to find purpose in lives that are busy but unfulfilling. Uneven and only occasionally inspired, Hail, Caesar! is nonetheless engrossing and funny thanks to its off-kilter energy and a lead performance from Coens regular Josh Brolin that is a model of quietly controlled chaos. Set in 1951, the film stars Brolin as Eddie Mannix, who has the title head of physical production at a big Hollywood studio when, in fact, he is more of a fixer, constantly putting out fires, soothing egos and making sure filming is running smoothly on the lot. Hail, Caesar! kicks into gear when Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), a dim-witted star of a cheesy Roman biblical epic, is held for ransom by a group of Communists who dub themselves The Future. Mannix has to negotiate to get Whitlock back, but he also must deal with a pregnant ingénue
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Opening Film, out of competition US. 2016. 106mins Directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Production companies Working Title Films, Mike Zoss Productions Contact Universal Pictures Producers Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner Executive producer Robert Graf Cinematography Roger Deakins Production design Jess Gonchor Editor Roderick Jaynes Music Carter Burwell Main cast Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum
(Scarlett Johansson) and a fussy director (Ralph Fiennes), unhappy with the cowboy actor (Alden Ehrenreich) who has been assigned to his new cosmopolitan comedy. Although the Clooney plot is the film’s central focus — the name of Whitlock’s Bible epic is, in fact, Hail, Caesar! — the Coens are more interested in studying Mannix, seeing how he stays calm amid the swollen budgets and myriad demands thrown at him. Brolin is winningly reserved in the role, only slowly revealing aspects of his personality that give us a more complete picture of the man. (He’s a tortured Catholic who goes to confession every day, even though he doesn’t really sin. He’s trying to break a smoking habit. And he fervently believes in the transcendent power of motion pictures.) At first, Mannix might seem to have the potential to be a Coen caricature like the crazed studio executives of Barton Fink or the screwball journalists in The Hudsucker Proxy. But instead, the film-makers and Brolin bring a sneaky humanity to the character, illustrating how Mannix’s smooth talk and hyper-organised mind are ways of pushing back the doubts he has about his profession. The different subplots, also featuring a musical-comedy star played by Channing Tatum, allow the Coens to lovingly parody different studio-system genres, everything from two-bit westerns to Busby Berkeley-style extravaganzas. Working with long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins, composer Carter Burwell and production designer Jess Gonchor, the Coens
re-create these filmic styles, producing some knowing chuckles without ever being particularly uproarious. Likewise, their observations about mid-century Hollywood minutiae — the gossip columnists and the gender inequality — are always clever, if never insightful or novel. Unlike their great Hollywood period piece Barton Fink, Hail, Caesar! lacks a rancour or surreal edge. But perhaps that is because the film-makers, now 25 years on from Barton Fink, have a more compassionate — or, at least, bemused — outlook on the people entranced by the film industry. The phoniness of Hollywood is apparent from the film’s first moments, and so the question is how different characters reconcile the inner conflict between their integrity, personal ambitions and the pressures of the business. It is here that Hail, Caesar! is at its most effective, finding the telling details that explain, for instance, the sweetness of Ehrenreich’s dopey cowboy or the real motives for Whitlock’s capture. Brolin’s performance is the most layered, while Clooney has a ball playing a big, dumb movie star. Tilda Swinton gets to portray not one but two columnists, essentially endowing them both with the same loopy air. More than 30 years after their first movie, the double-cross thriller Blood Simple, the Coens continue to find fresh ways to use stories about kidnapping to explore themes that interest them. With Hail, Caesar!, a pilfered movie star is just another way for Mannix and others to ask why they are living the lives they are.
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Little Men Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Small and intimate it may be — and Ira Sachs’ Little Men is more compact than his last slowburn hit Love Is Strange — but there is no end to the discreet pleasures on screen here. Viewing the gentrification of Brooklyn through the innocent friendship of two mismatched 13-year-old boys, this is a deftly handled, sparkly little jewel that will find its audience, whatever the mode of delivery. Moving on from gay marriage, Sachs deals here with gentrification — the poorer, mostly immigrant families being forced out of inner-city New York neighbourhoods that have now become fashionable, particularly Brooklyn. His two young leads, superbly cast and played by newcomers Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri, are standouts in a cast of beautifully nuanced performances. The camera lets us quietly, unfussily see that Jake (Taplitz) is an awkward soul in the briefest of brush strokes. He doesn’t join in the classroom ruckus when the teacher is out of the room — then, hurt from being unfairly blamed, he hugs the maid who picks him up from his Manhattan school for just a few beats too long. Jake’s grandfather has died and the family moves from Manhattan to Brooklyn, where jobbing-actor dad Greg Kinnear and bread-earner mum Jennifer Ehle are met stiffly by Leonor (Paulina Garcia, from Gloria), who runs a small dress shop beneath the house that has now been bequeathed to them. It feels like there is a history between them. She hasn’t been invited to the funeral, for example, but turns up with a cake. Leonor’s son, the outgoing Tony (Barbieri), bonds with Jake immediately. They rollerblade and skate, have sleepovers, go to a teenage disco and talk about attending LaGuardia High School, where Jake wants to be an artist and Tony would like to be an actor like his friend’s dad. Sachs and co-writer Mauricio Zacharias are spot-on when it comes to capturing the boys’ friendship and it always feels perfectly natural and unforced. But class and money are lurking behind these youthful hopes. Egged on by his sister, Brian would like to get market — or close to market — rent from Leonor. And Leonor, who hails from Chile and is a single mother to Tony, is proud and prickly and cannot afford it. She is no pushover and she is not always nice. Sachs is evenhanded here as the story plays out. In fact, the remarkable, magical thing about this film is that, at 85 minutes, it is so whole. With its fully formed people and acute sense of place, Little Men is a film a viewer can live in, and think about while they are there.
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Generation Kplus US. 2016. 85mins Director Ira Sachs Production companies Faliro House, Parts & Labor, Race Point Films, Raptor Films, RT Features, Water’s End Productions International sales Mongrel International, charlotte@mongrel media.com Producers Lucas Joaquin, Ira Sachs, Christos V Konstantakopoulos, Jim Landé, LA Teodosio Executive producers Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen Screenwriters Mauricio Zacharias, Ira Sachs Cinematographer Oscar Duran Editors Mollie Goldstein, Affonso Goncalves Music Dickon Hinchliffe Main cast Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri
A college freshman doesn’t come of age so much as slam into the strangeness of adulthood and first love in Indignation, a minor-key drama enriched by a genuinely offkilter tone that borders on angry paranoia. Based on Philip Roth’s 2008 novel, the directorial debut of longtime screenwriter and producer James Schamus exudes a tasteful reserve, but actor Logan Lerman cuts through the seeming gentility in a performance that seethes with his character’s burgeoning arrogance and cynicism. Indignation was picked by Summit for North American distribution after its Sundance bow, and with no marquee names populating the cast, good reviews will be essential for this proudly peculiar period drama that isn’t an easy sell for arthouses. Lerman plays Marcus, an exceptionally bright young man who, in the 1950s, leaves New Jersey to go to college in Ohio, where he is one of the campus’s few Jewish students. Focused on getting into law school, he is nonetheless bewitched by beautiful blonde Olivia (Sarah Gadon), whose sexual assertiveness both attracts and repels him. Indignation has all the earmarks of a prestige picture — respected source material, excellent production design, a sombre voiceover — but the film’s overly refined air is a bit of a feint. In fact, this university’s seemingly comforting conservatism and well-adorned facilities soon prove to be a stifling, unwelcoming environment for Marcus, who appears to have picked up some of the anxiety and mistrust that riddle his butcher father (Danny Burstein). Schamus, who adapted Roth’s book, seeds the film with these anxieties and the fears of the era so delicately that they seem to transfer over to college for Marcus, whose attraction to Olivia is mitigated by his fear of being inexperienced with girls. The narrative is not being pushed forward, per se, but Schamus’s no-fuss directorial style helps to weave a blunt cultural snapshot of 1950s America, as Cold War paranoia, suffocating conformity and a blossoming youth rebellion all conspire to turn the country into a powder keg. Lerman’s portrayal of Marcus is knowingly stilted; he has conceived the character as intellectually superior to his peers (and perhaps even the headmaster), and Marcus makes no apologies for his haughty demeanour. The only thing that seems to please Marcus is Olivia, whom we will soon learn is a troubled soul. But, again, Indignation does not paint her with the usual brushstrokes. Like Olivia, the film has a benign, even familiar surface — but underneath are hints that nothing is quite right.
Panorama Special US. 2015. 110min Director James Schamus Production companies RT Features, BFB Entertainment, X-Filme Creative Pool, FilmNation Entertainment, Likely Story, Symbolic Exchange US distribution Summit Entertainment International sales FilmNation Entertainment, info@ filmnation.com Producers Anthony Bregman, James Schamus, Rodrigo Teixeira Executive producers Caroline Jaczko, Avy Eschenasy, Stefanie Azpiazu, Lourenco Sant’Anna, Sophie Mas, Woody Mu, Logan Lerman, Lisa Wolofsky, Jonathan Bronfman Screenplay James Schamus, based on the novel by Philip Roth Cinematography Christopher Blauvelt Production design Inbal Weinberg Editor Andrew Marcus Music Jay Wadley Main cast Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield
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Goat Reviewed by Anthony Kaufman
Chi-Raq Reviewed by Tim Grierson A powerful plea for an end to black-on-black violence almost gets lost among the tonal shifts and stylistic quirks of Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s scattershot comedy drama — adapted from an ancient Greek satire — about life in a gang-ridden part of modern-day Chicago. A topical theme and a tasty cast that includes Angela Bassett, Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack should stoke interest in Lee’s latest brash polemic. But audiences, both black and white, may be as confused as they are moved or amused. As the first production from Amazon Original Movies, the film made a limited Oscar-qualifying US theatrical launch in December, through Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions, followed by an exclusive streaming run on Amazon Instant Video before moving to the Berlinale. Lee and co-writer Kevin Willmott (writer-director of CSA: The Confederate States Of America) based their script on Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata and got their title from the street-slang comparison of part of Chicago with war-torn Iraq. In the film, the neighbourhood is plagued by gun violence involving the gangs of rapper Demetrius ‘Chi-raq’ Dupree (Nick Cannon, from TV’s Brooklyn Nine Nine) and his rival Cyclops (Wesley Snipes). When a schoolgirl is killed by a stray bullet, Demetrius’s girlfriend Lysistrata (Dear White People’s Teyonah Parris) decides — with backing from a local peace activist (Bassett) and a white pastor (Cusack) — to persuade women from both sides to withhold sex until their men make peace. After a sobering title sequence listing Chicago violence statistics (2,500 people shot in the first 10 months of 2015) against a brooding rap-music track, the film starts shifting moods and tones, taking in raunchy sex scenes, broad comedy, solemn drama, choreographed dance and stylised musical numbers. In keeping with the play, much of the dialogue is in verse and the story’s most violent events are kept out of sight. Standing in for a Greek chorus is street poet Dolmedes (Jackson), who delivers a poetry slam-style commentary on the action direct to camera. Jackson’s intermittent presence is a big plus, though Parris is also fun to watch and Cusack makes the most of his limited role. But the film itself is frustratingly inconsistent and never finds a rhythm to carry it from scene to scene. Though it sometimes recalls the irresistibly energetic, genre-bending feel of Lee’s best films — Do The Right Thing in particular — it lacks the assurance and unifying thrust that made those features work so well.
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Out of Competition US. 2015. 127mins Director/producer Spike Lee Production companies 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Amazon Studios International sales IM Global, www.imglobalfilm.com Executive producers Jon Kilik, Kevin Willmott Screenplay Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee Cinematography Matthew Libatique Production design Alex DiGerlando Editors Ryan Denmark, Hye Mee Na Costume designer Ruth E Carter Music Terence Blanchard Main cast Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Harry Lennix, John Cusack, DB Sweeney
Based on a true story, Andrew Neel’s powerful drama opens on a striking image: a slow-motion medium shot of a group of bare-chested young men, bobbing up and down, mouths wide open, mid-barbaric scream. Though surreal and lacking context, the disturbing shot is a brilliant encapsulation of Goat’s harrowing exploration of masculinity, both its extremes and the fragility beneath. Neel, an experienced non-fiction film-maker (Alice Neel, Darkon) proves more than up to the challenge of this dark, captivating feature, bringing forth a searing emotional truth. With breakout performances by handsome newcomers Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief) and Nick Jonas (of the Jonas Brothers fame), along with its controversial subject matter, Goat has the potential to do healthy arthouse business worldwide. The film starts off strongly. After leaving his older brother Brett Land (Jonas) at a party, 19-year-old Brad (Schnetzer) offers a ride home to two strangers. Quickly it becomes apparent that Brad’s nice-guy kindness will be rewarded with brutality. In an unnerving scene, the two thugs beat Brad to a bloody pulp, leaving him for dead in the woods. The incident leaves him physically and psychologically shaken, with his masculinity in tatters (“Do you think I’m a pussy?” he tearfully asks his brother). But with college on the horizon, Brad perseveres. Looking to fit in and get his life back on track, he sets out to join his brother’s fraternity. When the ritual of testing young pledges enters ‘Hell Week’, it reaches the limits of Brad’s psychology and his relationship with Brett. Neatly divided into three acts, Goat careens along like a car headed for a violent crash. During the mid-section, Neel presents an unflinching and unremitting picture of the rituals of fraternity hazing. Brad and his cohorts are subjected to an array of humiliations, involving bingedrinking, bodily fluids and physical abuse, which might test the patience (and stomachs) of some viewers. The near-complete absence of the brothers’ parents may strike some viewers as odd. Yet there is a hermetic quality to their lives, perhaps reflecting the experiences of many young adults who feel the need to cultivate new families once they are of a certain age. This helps raise the stakes, and explains Brad’s need for acceptance. Produced by Killer Films, Goat recalls the company’s powerful 1999 exploration of transgender sexuality, Boys Don’t Cry. Goat is a potent reminder that even traditional gender roles can be rife with angst, anxiety and devastating social pressures.
Panorama Special US. 2015. 96mins Director Andrew Neel Production companies Killer Films, Rabbit Bandini International sales Great Point Media, info@ greatpointmedia.com Producers Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, James Franco, Vince Jolivette Executive producers Robert Halmi, Jim Reeve, John Wells Screenwriters Andrew Neel, Mike Roberts, David Gordon Green Cinematographer Ethan Palmer Editor Brad Turner Main cast Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty, Virginia Gardner, Jake Picking
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As Berlin welcomes international sellers to the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Screen correspondents profile some of the hottest projects, at various stages of production, on offer at the European Film Market NORTH AMERICA By Jeremy Kay Bloom’s impeccably timed Suburbicon
comes hot on the heels of Berlinale opening-night selection Hail, Caesar! and reunites the Coen brothers with George Clooney. The latter will direct Matt Damon and Julianne Moore from a script by the Coens about the horrors that lurk behind suburban life. Black Bear is fully financing the dark comedy and Silver Pictures and Smokehouse Pictures are producing. CAA is handling US rights. Lionsgate International commences talks with buyers on Destin Daniel Cretton’s drama The Glass Castle, to star Woody Harrelson and Brie Larson. The Solution Entertainment Group is in Berlin with political thriller Official Secrets. Justin Chadwick is in line to direct Paul Bettany, Natalie Dormer, Martin Freeman, Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins. UTA Independent Film Group packaged the project and is representing US rights on the story of a journalist who uncovers an NSA spy operation to trigger the invasion of Iraq. In Woman Walks Ahead, Jessica Chastain will star as the 19th-century Brooklyn artist Catherine Weldon, who tried to help Native American chief Sitting Bull hold on to his rightful land in the face of US government intimidation. IM Global will introduce the project to
buyers at EFM this week. Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz produce while CAA has US rights. Content is kicking off talks on The Worker, an action thriller starring Michael Peña as a former Mexican Special Forces operative whose wife and son are kidnapped by a cartel. Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield’s The Combine produce with Content’s Tom Butterfield. CAA represents North American rights. Foresight Unlimited has an eye for a sales storm, and this year in Berlin might be no different with Category 5. Rob Cohen will direct the tale of a coastal facility heist that takes place during a ferocious storm. Casting is under way for a spring/summer start. Sierra/Affinity is touting 24 Hours To Live from China’s Fundamental Films and Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures. Ethan Hawke will play a hitman who is brought back to life after he dies on the job. FilmNation is reportedly working with Steven Soderbergh on a Nascar heist film to star Channing Tatum. New to the Fortitude International slate is sci-fi comedy drama Marjorie Prime starring Jon Hamm, Lois Smith, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins. Writerdirector Michael Almereyda is in post on the story of an ageing violinist who turns to a hologram service to bring back her husband as he was in his 30s and 40s. Epic Pictures has boarded world sales rights for Jonathan Geva’s Abulele and will directly distribute in the US. The
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BUZZ Israeli fantasy drama drew more than 100,000 admissions at the local box office and tells of enormous, furry and sometimes dangerous monsters visible only to children who are in need of a friend. Brenton Thwaites and Jane Levy star in Office Uprising, an action comedy being sold by The Exchange. The story follows a slacker who must infiltrate the weapons manufacturer where he works to rescue his true love after a new energy drink has turned their colleagues into homicidal maniacs. Radiant Films International is kicking off sales proper on Rita Hayworth With A Hand Grenade, based on an intriguing premise by writer Antony Neely. Elizabeth Banks will play a Second World War war photographer shot down and marooned for 30 years on a Pacific island with a Japanese soldier. Sloane U’Ren directs. UTA Independent Film Group is representing North American rights. Anthony Scott Burns’ Our House gets its market premiere, with XYZ Films representing worldwide rights and co-representing the US with WME Global. Thomas Mann plays a youth living with his younger brother who invents a machine that engages the supernatural with unintended results. Cinema Management Group will be tempting buyers with Blue Fox Entertainment’s horror thriller Havenhurst starring Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan and Belle Shouse. The story centres on a guilt-ridden young mother who checks out of rehab and into a swanky apart-
(Pictured above from left) Myriad Pictures’ Altamira, Spotlight Pictures’ Angelica and VMI Worldwide’s Outlaws And Angels
ment complex plagued by dark forces and run by a sadistic manager. Mongrel International is talking up Lovesong, So Yong Kim’s recent Sundance selection. It stars Jena Malone, Riley Keough and Rosanna Arquette and is about a neglected wife who falls out with her best friend on a road trip and must reconcile her feelings years later at the friend’s wedding. Cassian Elwes of Elevated Film Sales and Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content jointly represent North American rights. Visit Films jets into town with Morris From America, Chad Hartigan’s fish-outof-water film about a black teenager who moves with his single father to Germany where he is dealt a double dose of culture shock and infatuation with a rebellious girl. A24 snapped up the US distribution rights in Park City. Myriad Pictures arrives with international rights — excluding Spain/ Andorra, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Latin America, which are all Fox International — to Altamira, a true story of an archaeologist and his daughter who cause uproar when they discover some cave paintings. Hugh Hudson directed and Rupert Everett stars. Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks is showcasing Daniel Burman’s Panorama opener The Tenth Man (El Rey Del Once). Disney holds Latin American rights to the »
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portrait of life in Once, the Jewish quarter of Argentina’s capital. Burman won the Silver Bear in 2004 for Lost Embrace. Bleiberg Entertainment has the sales rights and a promo to Back In The Day, the gritty, Brooklyn-set story of a parentless young boxer who comes under the protection of a mob boss. William DeMeo and Alec Baldwin star; the project is in post-production. Toronto-based Raven Banner Entertainment is presenting the claustrophobic horror thriller Follow. Owen Egerton’s directing debut premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and tells of a painter who wakes up to find a gun in his hand and his girlfriend dead. Noah Segan stars. Premiere Entertainment Group is talking up The Preppie Connection, based on the true story of 1980s private school students who tried to smuggle $300,000 of cocaine into the US. Thomas Mann from Me And Earl And The Dying Girl stars. IFC holds US rights. Luke Wilson, Chad Michael Murray, Francesca Eastwood and Teri Polo star in Sundance selection Outlaws And Angels, which VMI Worldwide is representing in Berlin. Momentum holds North American, Latin American and German rights to the story of a gang of fugitives who hide in the wrong house. Double Dutch International arrives with The Bounce Back starring Kali Hawk, Nadine Velazquez, and Shemar Moore, about a relationship expert on a book tour who falls for a TV therapist. Shoreline Entertainment is championing Afghanistan’s Utopia, about a woman who travels to the UK for artificial insemination only for things go wrong. MPI Media Group is commencing sales on Catfight, an action comedy starring Sandra Oh, Anne Heche and Alicia Silverstone. The plot concerns two former college friends who meet up at a fancy cocktail party, where dormant jealousies bubble up to the surface. 13 Films is in town with the completed romantic comedy Worlds Apart from writer-director-star Christopher Papakaliatis. The film centres on three separate love stories set against the backdrop of Greece’s economic turmoil. Spotlight Pictures is screening and will introduce buyers to gothic drama Angelica from Teeth director Mitchell Lichtenstein. Jena Malone, Janet McTeer and Ed Stoppard star in the drama about a married couple in Victorian London who endure psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child. Faisal Toor and Galen Christy’s Los Angeles-based sales company Empress Road Pictures has boarded Taking Earth, a sci-fi thriller about an alien invasion to uncover the one human boy who can destroy the marauding species.
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Embankment Films is introducing buyers to Wim Wenders’ love story Submergence based on the novel by JM Ledgard. Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy will star in the drama about a long-distance romance between a deep-sea diver and an accused spy held captive by jihadist fighters in Somalia. HanWay Films is at EFM with biopic Colette, set to star Keira Knightley and written by the Still Alice team of Wash Westmoreland and the late Richard Glatzer. Westmoreland will also direct the film about the iconic French writer, which will be produced by Carol collaborators Number 9 Films and Killer Films. Protagonist Pictures comes to market with writer-director Oren Moverman’s drama The Dinner, a look at how far parents will go to protect their children. Rebecca Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Charlie Plummer star in the feature, which is based on Dutch writer Herman Koch’s 2009 novel. Mister Smith Entertainment will commence pre-sales on Charles Stone’s dance comedy Ain’t No Half Steppin’. Produced by Broad Green Pictures and Straight Outta Compton’s Matt Alvarez, the film centres on a college girl who agrees to teach the art of ‘stepping’ — an African-American percussive dance — to a group of sorority girls. Cornerstone has boarded writer, director and actor Paddy Considine’s boxing drama Journeyman, which Studiocanal will release in the UK. The shoot is due to get underway in early March on the film, which teams Considine with his Baftawinning Tyrannosaur producing partner Diarmid Scrimshaw. Altitude Film Sales is in town with thriller Ghost Stories, which is set to star Martin Freeman and George MacKay, and is being produced by Claire Jones alongside Warp Films’ Robin Gutch. Production is due to get under way in September on the adaptation of the hit UK theatre production. Bankside Films brings Panorama entry War On Everyone, John Michael McDonagh’s comedy about two corrupt cops in New Mexico who set out to blackmail every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Alexander Skarsgard, Theo James and Michael Peña star. WestEnd Films is continuing to talk to buyers about director Benedict Andrews’ anticipated feature debut Una, starring Rooney Mara. Based on David Harrower’s play Blackbird, it follows a young woman’s journey to reclaim her past. »
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Salt Film will be at EFM with fatherson survival drama Walking Out from The Help producer Brunson Green of Harbinger Pictures. It stars Matt Bomer, Bill Pullman and Josh Wiggins. K5 International is showcasing Jim Jarmusch’s comedy Paterson, featuring Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Adam Driver. Golshifteh Farahani co-stars in the film, which is co-financed by K5 and Amazon Studios. Independent Films will be touting Usain Bolt documentary I Am Bolt from the team behind Manchester United football doc The Class Of ’92 and concert film One Direction: This Is Us, which took $63m worldwide. The film will follow Bolt in the lead up to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics where he is gunning for another three gold medals. Goldcrest Films’ slate includes the Joe Dante-directed genre title Labirintus, about a paranormal investigator and psychiatric researcher who join forces to explore an abandoned subterranean Soviet research facility. The Works International is in Berlin with drama The Last Photograph, which is in post-production. Directed by and starring Danny Huston and co-produced by Cat Villiers and Farah Abushwesha,
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the cast also includes Sarita Choudhury, Stacy Martin and Jonah Hauer-King. SC Films has picked up international rights to Japanese animated adventure film Gamba (3D), on which Marvel Studios founder Avi Arad is an executive producer. Released by Japanese distributor Toei in October 2015, it charts the story of a town mouse who wants to go on an adventure and visit the ocean. SC Films is also handling Marina Fuentes’ 6 Sales slate at EFM, and will show new footage of family animation Ozzy. Metro International is in town with crime comedy Mr. Cranky, in which Brendan Gleeson is to star as a crime boss who is saddled with a seven yearold girl. The Railway Man’s Jonathan Teplitzky is on board to direct. Celsius Entertainment is talking to buyers about the animated film Bling, which features the voices of Taylor Kitsch, James Woods, Carla Gugino, Jon Heder and Tom Green. Metrodome International will be shopping The Hatton Garden Job, a feature from Simon Cluett’s original script based on last year’s Hatton Garden raid in London — a heist that saw thieves make off with $20m in jewels. Producers are Mark Harris and Ben Jacques.
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Carnaby’s slate includes the comingof-age drama Kids In Love, starring model and actress Cara Delevingne, Will Poulter, Sebastian De Souza, Alma Jodorowsky and Jamie Blackley. Ealing Studios Entertainment’s Ben Latham-Jones and Barnaby Thompson are the producers. GFM Films’ EFM slate includes the vampire action-thriller Eat Local, the directing debut of Jason Flemyng, which is in production. Charlie Cox stars alongside Mackenzie Crook and Dexter Fletcher. Kaleidoscope is shopping horror film The Windmill Massacre, about a devilworshipping miller who, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor and Patrick Baladi. Timeless Films’ animation Happy Family features the voices of Jason Isaacs, Emily Watson, Nick Frost, Jessica Brown Findlay, Celia Imrie and Catherine Tate. 4 Square Films recently boarded the thriller B&B, the directing debut of Trance co-writer Joe Ahearne. Paul McGann, Tom Bateman and Sean Teale star in the story of a gay couple who return to bait the owner of a remote bedand-breakfast one year after they sued him for not allowing them to share a bed. Devilworks’ slate includes Bigfoot
horror Valley Of The Sasquatch, starring actor-director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, whose well-received directing debut As You Are premiered at Sundance. Moviehouse’s slate includes ID2: Shadwell Army, the sequel to the iconic 1995 football-hooligan film ID. Simon Rivers and Linus Roache star in director Joel Novoa’s crime thriller. Producers are Sally Hibbin and Patrick Cassavetti. Universal will release in the UK. Starline Entertainment is in Berlin with The Marriage Of Reason And Squalor, artist Jake Chapman’s surreal romantic fiction starring Rhys Ifans and Sophie Kennedy Clark. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Brock Norman Brock. Jinga Films will shop zombie rom-com Night Of The Living Deb, which Icon Film Distribution will release in the UK. Maria Thayer, Michael Cassidy and Ray Wise star in the story of a one-night stand that leads to the zombie apocalypse. Parkland Pictures is here with Martin Stitt’s crime thriller Love Me Do starring Rebecca Calder, Jack Gordon and Max Wrottesley. The film tells the story of a female investment banker who lets an outof-work actor into her life for a romantic adventure, with chilling results. »
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French Sellers By Melanie Goodfellow Wild Bunch is kicking off sales on Claire Denis’ sci-fi drama High Life starring Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette and Mia Goth, as well as Spanish comedy Kiki Love To Love and a no-holds-barred documentary about Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi. The company is also showing new footage for a handful of Cannes hopefuls including Radu Mihaileanu’s The History Of Love, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After The Storm and Emir Kusturica’s On The Milky Road. Les Films du Losange is launching sales on Axelle Ropert’s romantic comedy The Apple Of My Eye and mystery drama Daydreams, revolving around an artist residency at Rome’s Villa Medici and starring Caroline Deruas. The company is also handling Mia Hansen-Love’s Golden Bear contender Things To Come and Eugene Green’s Forum entry The Son Of Joseph. It will also market screen Antoine Cuypers’ Prejudice, which had a buzzy premiere at Rotterdam. Pathé International is showing new promo reels for Daniel Thompson’s Cezanne Et Moi, starring Guillaume Gallienne and Guillaume Canet as the eponymous artist and his best friend Emile Zola, and Tran Anh Hung’s drama Eternity, starring Audrey Tautou, Bérénice Bejo and Mélanie Laurent. The title, which he describes as an homage to French women and the French way of life in the 20th century, is already generating Cannes buzz. Memento Films International
launches writer-director Stéphane Robelin’s romantic comedy Mr Stein Goes Online, starring Pierre Richard as an elderly widower who tries online dating. The company is continuing sales on Martin Provost’s The Midwife and Asghar Farhadi’s untitled project. It is also handling a trio of Berlinale titles: News From Planet Mars (out of competition), All Of A Sudden (Panorama) and Girl Asleep (Generation 14Plus). Indie Sales is launching sales on Justine Triet’s comedy drama In Bed With Victoria, starring Virginie Efira as a workaholic lawyer whose life unravels at a friend’s wedding, and hosts the market premiere of Lola Doillon’s Second World War feature debut Fanny’s Journey. It is also selling Danish film-maker Ali Abbasi’s psychological horror Shelley, involving a young couple and a surrogate mother, which premieres in Panorama. Versatile is kicking off sales on Mexican film-maker Everardo Valerio Gout’s Again — the follow-up to his cult debut Days Of Glory — about the onstage assassination of a rock singer. Versatile
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is also showing a teaser for Chris Peckover’s home-invasion thriller Safe Neighborhood and is handling Romanian director Adrian Sitaru’s Forum-screener Illegitimate. Elle Driver is launching sales on Andrew Rossi’s documentary The First Monday In May, which captures the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s extravagant fashion exhibition ‘China: through the looking glass’ featuring a cast of fashion and celebrity figures including Anna Wintour, film-makers Wong Kar Wai and Baz Luhrmann, and fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld. It is also handling Golden Bear contender Being 17 and Rachid Bouchareb’s Panorama title Road To Istanbul. Gaumont is holding the market premiere of writer-director Laurent Tirard’s romantic comedy Up For Love, co-starring Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira, and is also unveiling details of an ambitious $20m post-First World War drama from actor-director Albert Dupontel. Kinology kicks off sales on Xavier Gens’ sci-fi horror thriller Cold Skin. It is also showing new footage of Rebecca Zlotowski’s 1930s-set thriller
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Planetarium starring Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp. Celluloid Dreams will kick off sales on Andrew Haigh’s upcoming Lean On Pete, based on Willy Vlautin’s novel about a boy who embarks on a journey in search of his long-lost aunt. The company is sharing the mandate with The Bureau Sales. The latter also brings Peter Mackie Burns’ feature debut Daphne, starring Emily Beecham as a London restaurant worker desperate to change her frenetic life, and Tessa Morgan’s documentary The Pioneers, The Story Of Street Dance.
Other upcoming films include Vatche Boulghourjian’s Tramontane, which follows a young blind man as he travels across Lebanon in search of his identity. Films Distribution’s line-up includes Francois Ozon’s post-First World War drama Frantz, starring Pierre Niney, Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx and Katell Quillévéré’s organ-transplant drama The Heart. Berlinale titles on its slate include Handl Klaus’s Tomcat, which premieres in Panorama. The company will also give a market screening to Anne Fontaine’s Agnus Dei, fresh from its buzzy premiere at Sundance. Documentary specialist Wide House is hosting a buyers-only screening of Johan Grimonprez’s arms-trade exposé Shadow World. It is also handling a trio of festival titles: Those Who Jump (Forum), Young Wrestlers (Generation) and Who Is Oda Jaune? (Perspective). Pyramide International has a market premiere for Léa Fehner’s drama Ogres, about a travelling circus troupe, and Mikhael Hers’ This Summer Feeling. Upcoming films include Thierry de Peretti’s A Violent Life, which traces the trajectory of a Corsican criminal banished from the island, and Frédéric Mermoud’s adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s thriller Moka. TF1 is launching sales on Marjane Satrapi’s global adventure The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir, featuring Indian star Dhanush, Uma Thurman and Gemma Arterton. Other new titles include Marie Madinier’s lab-set fantasy romance Arctic Heart, starring Guillaume Canet and Charlotte Le Bon, and Fred Cavayé’s Penny Pincher, starring Dany Boon as a miserly violinist forced to change his ways by two new women in his life. MK2 Films is beginning sales on Serge Bozon’s black comedy Mrs Hyde, starring Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu and Romain Duris, which is in pre-production. Upcoming titles include Joan Chemla’s If You Saw His Heart, which stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Marine Vacth, Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper with Kristen Stewart, and Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life. Studiocanal will focus its sales drive on a trio of previously announced titles: Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of The Moon, starring Marion Cotillard as a free-spirited woman fighting for love, Fatih Akin’s road movie Goodbye Berlin and Kai Wessel’s Nazi euthanasia drama Fog In August. Bac Films International will market premiere Diane Kurys’ comedy Vive Le Cinema, starring Sylvie Testud as a young actress trying to make a film in the company of an unscrupulous, megalomaniac producer played by Josiane Balasko. Still Moving is handling Argentinian »
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drama The Black Frost (Panorama) and In The Last Days Of The City, which is about a film-maker trying to record his home city of Cairo in the lead-up to the 2011 revolution. Le Pacte is kicking off sales on the late Solveig Anspach’s L’Effet Aquatique, about a crane operator who falls for a swimming instructor. Other upcoming titles include Joachim Lafosse’s L’Economie Du Couple (working title), starring Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn as an estranged couple forced to cohabit for financial reasons, and Franco-American writer Jonathan Littell’s documentary Wrong Elements about Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Doc & Film is handling a quartet of Berlinale titles, led by Gianfranco Rosi’s Golden Bear contender Fire At Sea, which captures life on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the face of a daily influx of migrants. The company also brings Forum titles Between Fences and A Maid For Each, and Jamais Contente, which premieres in Generation. Further titles include Marion Hansel’s Upstream. Other Angle has a new script available for John Hay’s Second World War spy thriller Lives In Secret, starring Tim Roth and Kelly Reilly. It will also give market premieres to a number of its trademark comedies including football-themed A Mighty Team, starring Gérard Depardieu opposite Medi Sadoun. Films on UDI’s slate include Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Samui Song, about a Thai soap actress whose wealthy ex-pat husband joins a cult, and Joe Cinque’s Consolation, about the real-life case of an Australian student who killed her boyfriend. The company is also continuing sales on feature animation Zombillenium. SND will launch sales on a trio of titles: Chilean screenwriter Hector Cabello Reyes’ cross-cultural comedy An Indian Tale (Un Conte Indien), starring Benoit Poelvoorde and Indian actor Pitobash; Family Heist, starring Jean Reno as
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a master thief who joins forces with his daughters; and Second World War drama The Confession by Nicolas Boukhrief, director of Made In France. Stray Dogs is selling Xavier Seron’s Death By Death, winner of best first film at Palm Springs International Film Festival, and Austrian director Daniel Hoesl’s WinWin, a finance satire that premiered at Rotterdam. Reel Suspects is market premiering Babak Jalali’s Radio Dreams, which took the top prize at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Alpha Violet kicks off sales on Bauddhayan Mukherji’s The Violin Player and unveils Sébastien Betbeder’s alternative comedy Marie And The Misfits, featuring Eric Cantona. EuropaCorp arrives at EFM with a packed slate of English-language fare topped by Luc Besson’s sci-fi extravaganza Valérian, which is currently shooting in Paris with a promised July 21, 2017 release date, as well as John Madden’s Miss Sloane, starring Jessica Chastain as a ruthless Washington political strategist. Wide Management is here with Chilean director Alex Anwandter’s You’ll Never Be Alone, about a factory manager dealing with a violent assault on his gay son, and Nakom, revolving around a talented medical student forced to return to the family farm after his father dies. Both films screen in Panorama. Other festival titles include We Are Never Alone (Forum), Before The Streets (Generation) and One Of Us (Perspektive Deutsches Kino). New Paris-based sales and co-production company Luxbox heads to EFM with Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi and Mexican Joaquin del Paso’s Maquinaria Panamericana. Cercamon is handling sales on Croatian director Zrinko Ogresta’s Panorama title On The Other Side, about a Zagreb nurse whose warcriminal husband is released from jail, and will market screen Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film.
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ITALIAN SELLERS By Melanie Goodfellow In its biggest outing since launching last year at the International Audiovisual Market in Rome, True Colours is showing first footage on a trio of productions: Andrea Molaioli’s teenage pregnancy drama Slam (Tutto Per Una Ragazza), which transposes Nick Hornby’s novel to Italy; Francesco Patierno’s feature documentary Naples ’44, which brings Norman Lewis’s war diary to life and features narration by Benedict Cumberbatch; and Roberto Ando’s political thriller The Confessions. Minerva Pictures is launching sales on Stefano Lodovichi’s thriller Deep In The Wood, which revolves around the disappearance of a young child. It is Sky Cinema Italia’s first production. Minerva will also screen Mimmo Calopresti’s drama One For All, about three friends harbouring a terrible secret that re-emerges when one of their sons gets into a violent fight at school. It will also release details about its upcoming Naples-set police thriller Falchi. Intramovies is market premiering Edoardo Falcone’s hit comedy God Willing, which follows a successful surgeon’s attempts to stop his gay son entering the priesthood. Falcone won the David di Dona-
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tello award for best first-time director for the film, which drew 3 million spectators in Italy. The company is also handling another popular comedy, Edoardo Leo’s The Legendary Giulia And Other Miracles, about a group of city dwellers on a farmhouse holiday who kidnap a local mobster when he knocks on their door to demand protection money. Turin-based indie auteur specialist The Open Reel is at EFM with Samuele Sestieri and Olmo Amato’s enigmatic The Bear Tales, about a mechanical monk who follows a funny red man in a world abandoned by humans. The film premiered in the Bright Future section of International Film Festival Rotterdam. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises will show first footage of its documentary about late cinematographer Carlo Di Palma. Water And Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, The Colours Of Life features interviews with Woody Allen, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders. Rai Com will market premiere Enrico Pau’s Sardinia-set drama Accabadora revolving around the Accabadora, island’s tradition of appointing one w o m a n p e r ge n e ra t i o n charged with euthanising the old and sick, and Alex Infascelli’s documentary S Is For Stanley Stanley, revolving around Stanley Kubrick’s long-time driver Emilio God Willing D’Alessandro. »
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NORDIC REGION By Wendy Mitchell Completed films on the TrustNordisk slate include Thomas Vinterberg’s Competition title The Commune; Pernilla August’s A Serious Game, a period drama written by Lone Scherfig that will receive a Special Gala presentation in Berlin; Hans Petter Moland’s A Conspiracy Of Faith (the third film in the successful Department Q series adapted from Jussi Adler-Olsen’s novels); Swedish boxoffice hit A Man Called Ove; Culinary Cinema selection Noma: My Perfect Storm; and Mads Matthiesen’s Englishlanguage debut and Teddy Bear followup, The Model. Further TrustNordisk titles in post-production are The Lion Woman, an epic period drama from the producers of Max Manus: Man Of War and starring Connie Nielsen and Rolf Lassgard; You Disappear, Peter Schonau Fog’s anticipated follow-up to The Art Of Crying starring Trine Dyrholm, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Michael Nyqvist; Danish dramas The Day Will Come, starring Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Grabol, Across The Waters; Finnish drama Devil’s Bride; and Norwegian thriller Pyromaniac. Svensk Filmindustri has the market debut of Swedish box-office hit A Holy Mess, a comedy drama about a young gay couple expecting a child with their best friend. Helena Bergstrom directs. Another Svensk market debut is children’s feature Siv Sleeps Astray, Catti Edfeldt and Lena Hanno Clyne’s film about a girl who meets some talkative badgers during a sleepover. The film opens Generation Kplus. Further titles on the Svensk slate are children’s film Casper And Emma On Safari, drama Heaven On Earth and romantic comedy Love Is The Drug. LevelK has just boarded The Incredible Story Of The Giant Pear, a family animation about an elephant and a cat who live in an idyllic village. The Nordisk and A. Film production is based on the bestselling children’s book of the same name. LevelK also has Puk Grasten’s feature debut 37, a US-Denmark drama inspired by the infamous true story of the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in New York, in which 37 of her neighbours were said to have listened to her fight for survival without intervening. The cast includes Samira Wiley (Orange Is The New Black) and Michael Potts (True Detective), with Asger Hussain and Yaron Schwartzman of Game 7 Films (Precious) producing. LevelK is also kicking off sales on Australian psychological thriller Rabbit, which first-time director Luke Shanahan starts shooting in May.
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The Yellow Affair is selling Forum selection The Yard, which was also Goteborg’s opening film, about a single father and would-be poet who loses his job as a literary critic and has to do manual labour at a shipping yard. Mans Mansson directs the adaptation of Kristian Lundberg’s bestselling Swedish novel. Yellow Affair also has market screenings for another Goteborg competitor, Finnish thriller The Mine, about a young man who discovers environmental hazards at a nickel and uranium mine in Lapland. There is also the first market screening for The Carer, which stars Brian Cox as a grumpy, ageing actor who meets an ambitious young actress. Gilbert Adair (The Dreamers) wrote the UK-Hungary co-production, directed by Janos Edelenyi. Further first market screenings are planned for Mika Kaurismaki’s fatherdaughter story Homecoming and Anupam Sharma’s Australian romantic comedy Unindian, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee (Angry Indian Goddesses). Eyewell has the market premiere of Nordic crime thriller The Look Of A Killer. Lauri Nurkse directs the Zodiak Finland production; Samuli Edelmann, Martti Suosalo and Ville Haapasalo star. The film follows the 2011 TV series of the same name, with a story based on Matti Ronka’s novels about Viktor
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Karppa, a former elite soldier of the Red Army who settles in Finland and finds himself drawn into a plan to assassinate the president of Russia. Also on Eyewell’s slate is Zone 261. In post-production for a spring delivery, Fredrik Hiller’s Swedish thriller is set in a city where people have been infected by a virus that turns them into monsters. Eyewell also has the completed films 1944 directed by Elmo Nuganen, a war film about two brothers fighting at the bloody Battle of Tannenberg Line; horror Psalm 21; war film Beyond The Border; and comedy horror American Burger. From Finland, producer Tero Kaukomaa and director Timo Vuorensola are discussing Iron Sky: The Coming Race, as well as the new TV series in development, Iron Sky — Houston We Have a Problem. The Icelandic Film Centre is representing Asgrimur Sverrisson’s bittersweet comedy drama Reykjavik. Ingvar Thordarson and Julius Kemp produce for Icelandic Film Company. The film was presented in Goteborg’s Nordic Nick — Off Duty Film Market.
German powerhouse Beta Cinema is introducing buyers to Australian comedy Ali’s Wedding, which has just finished shooting. Directed by Jeffrey Walker and shot by Donald McAlpine (Moulin Rouge), the story follows Ali, the charming son of a Muslim cleric, who is caught between his sense of family duty and following his heart. Beta’s Berlin slate is headlined by Competition contender 24 Weeks from director Anne Zohra Berrached, and Elite Zexer’s Panorama entry Sand Storm, a prize winner at Sundance. The Match Factory has Competition titles Death In Sarajevo by Danis Tanovic and Letters Of War from Ivo M Ferreira, as well as Udi Aloni’s Junction 48 and Omer Fast’s Remainder, both in Panorama. The company is also handling Felix van Groeningen’s Belgica and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild. M-Appeal has added Paradise Trips by Raf Reyntjens to its EFM slate and has already sold the film to the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Artcam). The company has also announced it will be handle sales on Panorama title Jonathan by debut director Piotr J Lewandowski. Fellow German outfit Global Screen is holding first market screenings for Til Schweiger action drama Nick — Off Duty and Sundance award-winning Colombian feature Between Sea And Land. The company will also market premiere The Devil’s Mistress, about how actress Lida Baarova turned down a career in Hollywood to become Joseph Goebbels’ mistress, and begin pre-sales on a pair of 3D animated features: Richard The Stork and Luis And His Friends From Outer Space. Films Boutique is also holding first market screenings for Pieter-Jan De Pue’s The Land Of The Enlightened, fresh from its Sundance and Rotterdam screenings. Other market debuts include Lav Diaz’s Competition title A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery, Philippe Grandrieux’s Despite The Night and Hungarian film-maker Bence Fliegauf ’s Lily Lane. Production and sales outfit Atlas Film is continuing pre-sales on the Iron Sky sequel, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, which has been shooting in Antwerp and is expected to launch in 2017. Further dramas on its slate include Hubert Toint’s Mirage Of Love starring Marie Gillain. »
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Aktis Film International is handling pre-sales here on several international co-productions. These include Betty Kaplan thriller Simone, starring Steph Song and due to shoot in the spring; medieval thriller Gloucester; Stephan Komandarev’s Bulgaria-set cab-driver drama Compatibility; and Sebastian Cordero’s crime thriller Sin Muertos No Hay Carnaval, which is in post. Aktis is also handling the road-movie-meets-war drama Ursus — The Caucasian Bear by Otar Shamatava, a project that has been delayed by the conflict in Ukraine. Arri’s slate is headed by Xavier Koller’s Swiss box-office hit Little Mountain Boy. Eastwest Filmdistribution is giving market premieres to Esa Illi’s coming-of-age drama Other Girls and Arend Agthe’s children’s film Raffi. Cologne-based Media Luna is introducing buyers to Mexican comedy I’m Not A Rebel, while Stuttgartbased family movie specialist Sola Media is screening the animated feature Louis & Nolan: The Big Cheese Race. Austrian documentary specialist Autlook has taken world sales rights to Becoming Zlatan by Fredrik and Magnus Gertten. The film tells the story of Swed-
ish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, using unique footage the Gerttens shot when he was a teenager making his way in the game. Autlook also has three films in official selection: the Switzerland-Germany co-production Europe, She Loves, by director Jan Gassmann, the Heymann Brothers feature doc Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Forum selection Homo Sapien, the third part of a trilogy that includes Our Daily Bread (2006) and Abendland (2014). Belgrade-based Soul Food Distribution is handling Nikola Ljuca’s debut feature Humidity, which is co-produced by Dutch outfit Lemming. The film is about a charismatic businessman whose life begins to unravel after his wife vanishes. HNFF World Sales, the sales arm of the Hungarian National Film Fund, is screening Krisztina Goda’s drama Home Guards and Andras Gyorgy’s very black comedy My Night Your Day. Belgian outfit Be For Films is beginning sales on Galloping Mind, the feature debut of Belgian dance star Wim Vandekeybus. The company is also screening Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Black, the controversial film selected for SXSW,
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Keeper from Guillaume Senez, which will be released in France by Happiness Distribution on March 23, and Valéry Rosier’s Parasol, the French release of which will be handled by Bodega in the summer. From the Netherlands, Pim van Collem’s Dutch Features Global Entertainment is showcasing Jelle de Jonge’s Bon Bini Holland, the highest-grossing Dutch comedy of 2015, and Croatian prize-winner You Carry Me (Ti Meme Nosis). It is also screening footage of action drama Riphagen, which is based on the true story of a Dutch war criminal. From Spain, Vicente Canales’ Film Factory is handling Much Ado About Nothing from Alejandro Fernandez Almendras. Among its other titles, the company is talking to buyers about Spanish box-office hit Spanish Affair 2. Filmax is holding invitation-only screenings of 1930s-set thriller The Chosen, about a plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, and Spanish romantic comedy Our Lovers, starring Eduardo Noriega and Michelle Jenner. Latido is handling pre-sales on two Spanish-Argentina co-productions: thriller At The End Of The Tunnel, star-
ring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Federico Luppi, and comedy The Distinguished Citizen from Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn, the team behind Sundance winner The Man Next Door. Latido is also working on Tornasol Films’ thriller May God Save Us, and Konstantin Bojanov’s road movie I Want To Be Like You, produced by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor. Australian outfit Odin’s Eye is selling Mill Pictures’ animated feature Throne Of Elves (the Chinese distributor, already signed, is Enlight). The company is also holding a work-in-progress screening of Matthew Holmes’ western The Legend Of Ben Hall, as well as screening action comedy Bad Cat and Nathan Adloff ’s drama Miles, starring Molly Shannon, Missi Pyle, Paul Reiser and Tim Boardman. Just prior to the market, Odin’s Eye picked up sales rights to three 3D animated children’s films featuring the Kikoriki, nine furry animals that live on a tropical island. Queensland-based Galloping Films is giving a market debut to Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave A Damn, a feature doc about The Scarlet Pimpernel star who died in mysterious circumstances during s the Second World War. n
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BERLINALE LINE-UP A Road Dir Daichi Sugimoto Sugimoto plays himself in A Road (Aru Michi), a blend of documentary and fiction in which a film-school student explores the innocence and inevitable end of childhood through carefree memories of catching lizards with his friends. Receiving its international premiere in the Forum section, the film is produced by Japan’s Pia Film Festival, which supports up-and-coming and independent Japanese film-makers. Contact Pia Film Festival international@pff.jp (Right) Hidetoshi Nishijima in Creepy
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Creepy Dir Kiyoshi Kurosawa An adaptation of an award-winning novel by Yutaka Maekawa, Kurosawa’s drama follows a detective who re-opens an unsolved case involving a family that disappeared under mysterious circumstances. At the same time, his wife attempts to make friends with a reclusive neighbour. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi and Teruyuki Kagawa head the cast of the film, which is screening as a Berlinale Special Gala. Kurosawa’s Journey To The Shore won the directing prize in Ca n n e s’ Un Ce r t a i n Regard last year, while his 2008 Tokyo Sonata won the Un Certain Regard jury prize. Contact Shochiku shion_komatsu@ shochiku.co.jp
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Dir Kaori Momoi Receiving its world premiere in the Forum section, the second directorial effort of actor Momoi (Memoirs Of A Geisha) follows a Japanese psychiatrist in Los Angeles as he works with a disturbed woman who has been accused of murder. Momoi also wrote and stars in the film, which is based on a short story by award-winning writer Fuminori Nakamura. It is executive produced by Kazuyoshi Okuyama (The Eel, Sonatine) of Yoshimoto Kogyo’s film production arm Katsu-do. Momoi’s previous film as director, Faces Of A Fig Tree, received the NETPAC prize in Berlin in 2007, among other awards. Elsewhere in Berlin’s selection, Momoi stars in Doris Dörrie’s Fukushima Mon Amour. Contact Free Stone Productions miyuki.takamatsu@freestone.jp
While The Women Are Sleeping Dir Wayne Wang Based on a short story by Spanish writer Javier Marias, Wang’s Japaneselanguage drama follows a writer at a summer resort who is pulled into the disturbing world of a fellow guest and his much younger female companion. Hidetoshi Nishijima plays the writer while Beat Takeshi (aka Takeshi Kitano) plays the unnerving guest and Shiori Kutsuna (Unforgiven) the young woman. Premiering in Panorama, While The Women Are Sleeping is produced by Yukie Kito for production outfit CAL with backing from Dentsu and Toei. US-based Wang’s credits include The Joy Luck Club, Smoke, Maid In Manhattan and A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers. Contact Toei dai_yashiki@toei.co.jp
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After The Storm Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda Scheduled for Japanese release in May, the latest drama from Kore-eda follows a prize-winning author turned private detective attempting to re-establish a bond with his young son. Abe Hiroshi (Still Walking) plays the burnt-out detective, while Maki Yoko (Like Father, Like Son) plays his ex-wife, Kiki Kilin (An) his mother and Yoshizawa Taiyo (Strayer’s Chronicle) his son. A Cannes regular, Kore-eda’s last film, Our Little Sister, premiered in Cannes’ Competition in 2015 and was sold to Sony Pictures Classics for North America.
Singapore. The film is currently in postproduction. Contact Nikkatsu kawai@nikkatsu.co.jp
Persona Non Grata Dir Cellin Gluck Filmed in Poland, NTV’s historical drama tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat working in Lithuania during the Second World War who rescued thousands of Jewish people by issuing them with transit visas, without Japanese government approval. The film stars Toshiaki Karasawa, Koyuki, Borys Szyc and Agnieszka Grochowska. It grossed more than $6m on its Japanese theatrical release in December 2015 and is screening at EFM on Saturday.
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Nikkatsu is handling Asian sales on this Indonesian action thriller starring Iko Uwais (The Raid). Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films will release in North America and co-ordinate a simultaneous worldwide VoD release across multiple platforms with theatrical in select territories. Chelsea Islan, Julie Estelle and Sunny Pang also star in a story about an amnesiac who washes ashore with a mysterious head injury. Nikkatsu was one of the financiers along with Screenplay Infinite Film, Surya Citra Media and Amuse Entertainment
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A stellar ensemble cast has been assembled for this suspense drama, including Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Kenichi Matsuyama, Go Ayano, Aoi Miyazaki and Satoshi Tsumabuki. The story, based on a novel by Shuichi Yoshida, revolves around three couples who start to develop suspicions about the people around them following a brutal double murder in a Tokyo satellite city. Japanese release is scheduled for the summer. Lee’s credits include Hula Girls, Unforgiven and Villain.
Prompted by Hollywood’s successful remake of its iconic Godzilla property, Japanese studio Toho has rebooted the franchise with co-directors Anno, known for the hit Evangelion anime series, and Attack On Titan director Higuchi. Human cast includes Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi and Satomi Ishihara, while Toho promises the new version of the monster will be bigger and more terrifying than anything that has stomped on Tokyo before. The Japanese release is scheduled for July 29.
Based on Hideo Yokoyama’s novel 64, this two-part crime drama from Zeze (Strayer’s Chronicle) revolves around a detective attempting to solve the murder of a young girl. As the crime took place 14 years previously, the statute of limitations for the case is about to expire, meaning the detective has to move quickly or a lawsuit cannot be filed. Koichi Sato plays the detective and the cast also includes Masatoshi Nagase and Tomokazu Miura. The two parts of the drama will be released in Japan in May and June respectively.
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MY REVOLUTION
Director: Ramzi Ben Sliman Producers: Jérôme Dopffer, Sébastien Haguenauer Cast: Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei (My Little Princess), Lubna Azabal (Incendies), Samir Guesmi (Camille Rewinds, The Returned) While trying to impress his crush, a French-Tunisian teenager accidentally becomes the face of the Arab Spring in Paris.
MARKET SCREENINGS: Feb 14 / 9:15 / CinemaxX 4 Feb 15 / 15:30 / Kino Arsenal 2 Feb 18 / 11:30 / CinemaxX 2
MY FRIEND FROM THE PARK
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: Feb 14 / 17:00 / HKW Feb 17 / 14:00 / CinemaxX 3 Feb 20 / 12:30 / Zoo Palast 1 Feb 21 / 16:30 / CinemaxX 3
Director: Ana Katz (A Stray Girlfriend) Cast: Julieta Zylberberg (Wild Tales), Ana Katz (A Stray Girlfriend), Maricel Álvarez (Biutiful), Mirella Pascual (Whisky) When Liz, a lonely stay-at-home mom, forms a liberating alliance with the spontaneous Rosa, she gets sucked into a world of stolen cars, unstable sisters, and paranoia. “Engaging (...) likely to strike an emotional chord.” – Screen International “[An] extremely clever premise and unique sense of unease.” – RogerEbert.com “A lovely, intelligent film.” – Criterion Cast MARKET SCREENING: Feb 12 / 11:20 / CineStar 6
JACQUELINE (ARGENTINE)
Director: Bernardo Britto Cast: Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Camille Rutherford (Mary Queen of Scots) A young French woman hires a filmmaker to document her self-imposed political asylum in Argentina after supposedly leaking highly confidential government information. “Quick-witted (…) satirical, wry.” – Newsweek “[An] engaging performance (...) The first post-Snowden existential indie comedy thriller.” – Indiewire “Driven by Cenac’s drily witty performance (…) a hilarious, low-key misadventure.” – Vibe MARKET SCREENING: Feb 12 / 17:10 / Parliament
SUNTAN
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos (Wasted Youth) Cast: Makis Papadimitriou (Chevalier, L), Elli Tringou, Milou Van Groessen, Dimi Hart On a hedonistic Greek island, a doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends. “Confident, unflinching filmmaking (...) Secures a place for Papadimitropoulos alongside Yorgos Lanthimos, Alexandros Avranas and Athina Rachel Tsangari on the list of emerging filmmaking talent from Greece.” – Screen International “Captures the explosive aura of youth (...) Tringou’s astonishing sexuality burns up the screen.” – Variety MARKET SCREENINGS: TODAY / 14:20 / Kino Arsenal 1 Feb 14 / 17:00 / Kino Arsenal 2
TANNA
Director: Bentley Dean and Martin Butler (Contact, First Footprints) Cast: The People of Yakel In one of the world’s last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe’s future. “Told with captivating simplicity and yet richly cinematic (…) a haunting love story.” – The Hollywood Reporter “A universally accessible and emotionally affecting romantic drama.” – Variety “A warm, shimmering vitality. Like the trees and the birds, the frame feels alive.” – The Guardian MARKET SCREENING: Feb 13 / 16:15 / CinemaxX Studio 19
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Berlin venues ACUDKINO Veteranenstrasse 21 10119 Berlin AKADEMIE DER KuNSTE (HANSEATENWEG) Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin Arsenal Cinema Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin AUDI BERLINALE LOUNGE Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin
HAU HEBBEL AM UFER (HAU1, HAU2, HAU3) HAU1: Stresemannstrasse 29 HAU2: Hallesches Ufer 32 HAU3: Tempelhofer Ufer 10 10963 Berlin HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE Schaperstrasse 24 10719 Berlin
BABYLON KREUZBERG Dresdener Strasse 126 10999 Berlin
HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin
BERLINALE PALAST Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin
Il KINO Nansenstrasse 22 12047 Berlin (Neukolln)
BOTSCHAFT VON KANADA Leipziger Platz 17 10117 Berlin
Kino INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin
CinemaxX Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Strasse 5, Entrance Voxstrasse 10785 Berlin
KINO UNION Bolschestrasse 69 12587 Berlin (Friedrichshagen)
CineStar in the Sony Centre Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin CINESTAR imax Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin CITY KINO WEDDING (in the Centre Francais de Berlin) Mullerstrasse 74 13349 Berlin
MARRIOTT HOTEL Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1 10785 Berlin MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU (MGB) Niederkirchnerstrasse 7 10963 Berlin NEUE KAMMERSPIELE Karl-Marx-Strasse 18 14532 Kleinmachnow
Colosseum Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin
PREUSSISCHER LANDTAG (BERLIN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) Niederkirchnerstrasse 5 10111 Berlin
Cubix Alexanderplatz, Rathausstrasse 1, 10178 Berlin
SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER Gerichtstrasse 35 13347 Berlin
Delphi Filmpalast Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin
SPUTNIK KINO Hasenheide 54 10967 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK Filmhaus, Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin
TONI & TONINO Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin
FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin FRIEDRICHSTADT-PALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin GROPIUS MIRROR RESTAURANT Niederkirchnerstrasse 10963 Berlin
Zeughauskino Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin ZOO PALAST Hardenbergstrasse 29a 10623 Berlin
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Festival & Press
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11:30 Havarie
(Germany) 93mins. Dir: Philip Scheffner. Cast: Rhim Ibrir, Abdallah Benhamou, Leonid Savin, Guillaume Coutu-Lemaire, Emma Gillings, Terry Diamond, Jackie Kelly. A three-minute video clip of a tiny dinghy floating in the Mediterranean is extended to feature-length. The coastguard’s radio broadcasts, the accounts of those possibly on the boat and the hobby film-maker each leave their mark on the voiceover. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
11:45 Hail, Caesar!
(US, UK) Video nas Aldeias. 106mins. Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum. A peek behind the scenes of 1950s Hollywood reveals the dream factory at its most highly strung. A star-studded comedy from the Coen brothers, full of quirky humour and gorgeous set-pieces from
the great studio era. Competition (Out of Competition) press only CinemaxX 7
12:00 Hail, Caesar!
(US, UK) Video nas Aldeias. 106mins. Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum. Competition (Out of Competition) press only CinemaxX 3
13:30 And-Ek Ghes...
(Germany) 93mins. Dir: Philip Scheffner, Colorado Velcu. Cast: Colorado Velcu. The German director passes the camera on to Roma Colorado Velcu to document his family’s new life in Berlin. A witty, self-deprecating portrait of a fresh start in which Velcu is happy to put his own stamp on how he is represented. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
15:30 Lily Lane
15:30 Lily Lane
(Hungary) 91mins. Dir: Bence Fliegauf. Cast: Angela Stefanovics, Balint Sotonyi, Miklos Szekely B, Maria Gindert, Maja Balogh, Bence Somkuti. The relationship between
One woman lands in a prison run by the drug cartels, while another loses her daughter: over images of a journey through Mexico, the two testimonies are woven together into this stormriven account of a country in the grip of organised crime. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
19:30 Hail, Caesar!
(US, UK) Video nas Aldeias. 106mins. Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum. Competition (Out of Competition) invitation only Berlinale Palast
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17:30 Tempestad
(Mexico) 105mins. Dir: Tatiana Huezo.
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(Japan) Barzegar Production. 72mins. Dir: Kaori Momoi. Cast: Kaori Momoi, Yugo Saso,
Rebeka and her young son Danny is inextricably linked to stories and fantasy: the account of a childhood in which time and space flow together and little separates divorce, death and reunion. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
Ayako Fujitani, Chris Harrison, Brian Sturges, Natalie Miles, Marion Fisher, Janilee Svardstal, Sarah Kei Brooks, Osode Momoi, Melody Thi, Mimosa Pagkaliwangan. An ageing prostitute accused of murder must now be assessed by a therapist. In a series of bizarre sessions, the different fragments of her memory emerge: a fatal fire, an unwanted pregnancy, a violent lover, truth or lies? Forum press only CinemaxX 6
20:30 Hail, Caesar!
(US, UK) Video nas Aldeias. 106mins. Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum. Competition (Out of Competition) Friedrichstadt-Palast
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A finance crook on the run and a dry cleaner who’s just been dumped by his fiancee land on a desert island after a plane crash.
21:00 Homo sapiens
(Austria) 94mins. Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter. Abandoned buildings, places and areas being reclaimed by nature, myriad locations that each carry the traces of erstwhile human existence. In precisely framed wide shots of incredible visual power, the present post-apocalypse comes into focus.
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11:30 A Decent Man
(France) Bac Films, 111mins. Dir: Emmanuel Finkiel. Cast: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Melanie Thierry, Driss Ramdi. After getting mugged, Eddie wrongly blames Ahmed, a perfect scapegoat. But upon realising how serious his accusation was, Eddie will do everything to bring the truth to light.
Forum press only CinemaxX 6
I, Olga Hepnarova
(Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic, France) 106mins. Dir: Tomas Weinreb, Petr Kazda. Cast: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlat, Klara Meliskova, Marika Soposka, Juraj Nvota, Marta Mazurek, Zuzana Stavna. Olga is a disturbed and lonely young woman engaged in a fascinating but shocking bid for independence. At 22, she turns into a mass murderer. The true story of the woman who in 1975 was the last person to be publicly executed in Czechoslovakia. Panorama CinemaxX 7
Market screenings
09:00 Gaumont Promoreels
(France) Gaumont, 90mins. Dir: various. CineStar 3
09:30 Mr Pig
(US) Mundial, 92mins. Dir: Diego Luna. Cast: Danny Glover, Maya Rudolph, Jose Maria Yazpik, Johanna Murillo. Eubanks, an old-school pig farmer from Georgia on the brink of losing his family farm, sets off on a road trip with Howard, his beloved and very large pig. CineStar IMAX
11:15 Solo
(Italy) True Colours, 97mins. Dir: Laura Morante. Cast: Laura Morante, Piera Degli Esposti, Francesco Pannofino, Marco Giallini. Surrounded by her sons, Minor, Lauren Gibson. A psychological portrait of 11-year-old Toni — a tomboy assimilating to a tight-knit dance team in Cincinnati’s West End. Kino Arsenal 1
09:45 Halal Love (and Sex)
(Germany) Films Distribution, 95mins. Dir: Assad Fouladkar. Cast: Darine Hamze, Rodrigue Sleiman, Zeinab Khadra, Hussein Mokaddem. Four tragicomic interconnected stories about devoted Muslim men and women trying to manage their love lives and desires without breaking any religious rules. CinemaxX 14
10:00 Pathe International Promoreel Screening
(France, UK) Pathe International, 90mins. Dir: various. CineStar 4
The Fits
(US) Mongrel International, 72mins. Dir: Anna Rose Holmer. Cast: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Da’Sean
CinemaxX 19
Market
her two ex-husbands, their “too-perfect-tobe-true” new wives and her tyrannical friends, Flavia tries to regain independence and selfconfidence with the help of a wise and seraphic psychoanalyst. Parliament
10:15 Last of the Elephant Men
(Canada, France) Filmoption International, 86mins. Dir: Arnaud Bouquet. For centuries, the Bunong indigenous people of Eastern Cambodia lived with elephants. The film follows three men of the Bunong tribe as they attempt to prevent the disappearance of the elephant at the heart of their culture. CineStar 2
10:45 Dark Inclusion
(France, Belgium) Films Distribution, 116mins. Dir: Arthur Harari. Cast: Niels Schneider, August Diehl, Hans-Peter Cloos. Pier Ulmann blames his family of diamond dealers for his father’s tragic life and death. To make amends he returns among them with a robbery in mind. Kino Arsenal 1
Voltage Promo Screening
(US) Voltage Pictures, 90mins. Dir: various. CineStar 7
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Inside the Cell
(France) WTFilms, 93mins. Dir: Nicolas Boukhrief. Cast: Dimitri
Storoge, Malik Zidi. A journalist infiltrates a terrorist cell in Paris. MGB-Kino
11:00 Antboy III
(Denmark, Germany) Attraction Distribution, 86mins. Dir: Ask Hasselbalch. Cast: Oscar Dietz, Samuel Ting Graf, Nicolas Bro, Paprika Steen. In the last chapter of this highly anticipated trilogy, our pint-sized superhero rises once again to the occasion by forming unexpected alliances and saving the town from destruction. CinemaxX 17
Between Sea and Land
(Colombia, US) Global Screen, 98mins. Dir: Manolo Cruz. Cast: Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernandez, Viviana Serna, Jorge Cao. Alberto lives on a swampy marsh next to the Caribbean sea and is afflicted with a neurological disorder that confines him to his bed. His mother, Rosa, lovingly protects and takes care of him. CinemaxX 9
The Master
(Hong Kong, China) Golden Network Asia, 109mins. Dir: Haofeng Xu. Cast: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang. A Wing Chun master must train — then sacrifice — a disciple to establish his martial arts school, only to become
a pawn in a political conspiracy.
Embankment Promo Reel
CinemaxX 5
(UK) Embankment Films, 60mins. Dir: various.
11:15
CineStar IMAX
Dogwoof Promo Reel
(UK) Dogwoof, 108mins. Dir: Dogwoof Global. CinemaxX 15
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The Terrible Privacy of Mr Sim
(France) SND — Groupe M6, 101mins. Dir: Michel Leclerc. Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Valeria Golino, Mathieu Amalric. A carefully directed film that shines a ray of hope on the over-burdened main character. CinemaxX 2
11:20 Me and Kaminski
(Germany, Belgium) The Match Factory, 124mins. Dir: Wolfgang Becker. Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar. A sleazy journalist tries to boost his career by writing the biography of the forgotten but alive genius painter Kaminski. Dreaming of making the headlines with his book, the young man ends up on an adventurous road trip with Kaminski. CinemaxX 10
The Shipwrecked
(France) Other Angle Pictures, 95mins. Dir: David Charhon. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Laurent Stocker.
Havarie
(Germany) Forum/ Office, 94mins. Dir: Philip Scheffner. Cast: Rhim Ibrir, Abdallah Benhamou, Leonid Savin. A three-minute video clip is stretched out to a full 90 minutes to convey the drifting of a dinghy carrying refugees in the Mediterranean, while the coastguard, the filmmaker and stories from those on the boat are heard in voiceover. CinemaxX 6
Little Men
(US) Mongrel International, 85mins. Dir: Ira Sachs. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Paulina Garcia, Jennifer Ehle, Theo Taplitz. Jake, a quiet, sensitive middle schooler, forms an unlikely friendship with the affably brash Tony. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between their parents threatens to become contentious. CineStar 6
Tickled
(New Zealand) Magnolia Pictures, 92mins. Dir: David Farrier. A journalist stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him »
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11:45 THE FREE WORLD
(US) Memento Films International, 102mins. Dir: Jason Lew. Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Elisabeth Moss. Mo has finished serving time for a crime he did not commit. Under constant suspicion, he finds solace working at a dog shelter.
Media, 104mins. Dir: Xavier Koller. Cast: Jonas Hartmann, Marcus Signer, Tonia Maria Zindel, Leonardo Nigro. Ursli is a real mountain boy, living with his family and his beloved animals in the Swiss Alps. When an accident occurs all the kids in his village mock him. CineStar 4
MILES
LITTLE MOUNTAIN BOY
(US) Odin’s Eye Entertainment, 85mins. Dir: Nathan Adloff. Cast: Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, Missi Pyle, Stephen Root. After discovering his recently deceased father had squandered his tuition fund in an affair, a young gay man desperate to get out of his small Illinois farming town joins the girls’ volleyball team to win a college scholarship.
(Switzerland) ARRI
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HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE
(New Zealand) Protagonist Pictures, 102mins. Dir: Taika Waititi. Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison. A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. CineStar 7
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
(Chile) Film Factory Entertainment, 95mins. Dir: Alejandro Fernandez. Cast: Agustin Silva, Paulina Garcia, Alejandro Goic, Luis Gnecco. One night while partying Vicente becomes the main suspect of a hit-and-run incident that caused a death. Vicente claims he is not the driver, but the son of a powerful politician is. CineStar 2
11:50 IRREPLACEABLE
(France) Le Pacte, 103mins. Dir: Thomas Lilti. Cast: Francois Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt. Dr Werner spends his life working as a general practitioner in the countryside. When he finds out that he suffers from a serious illness, he has to find a replacement. CineStar 5
12:00 VIGILANTE DIARIES
SEASONS
(France) Pathe International, 96mins. Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud. A poetic chronicle of Europe over the past 15,000 years, filmed through the eyes of animals. A natural symphony on the mysteries of the forests, plains and mountains. CinemaxX 1
(US) CineTel Films, 107mins. Dir: Christian Sesma. Cast: Paul Sloan, Michael Jai White, Michael Madsen, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson. A team of black ops agents turned crime-fighters are led by a brooding antihero, known only as The Vigilante. CinemaxX 16
12:15 THE CARER
(Hungary, UK) The Yellow Affair, 89mins. Dir: Janos Edelenyi. Cast: Brian Cox, Emilia Fox, Anna Chancellor, Coco Konig. A heartwarming story about a man finding his way back to the stage and final recognition. CinemaxX Studio 12
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“CONFIDENT, UNFLINCHING FILMMAKING.”
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“[TRINGOU] BURNS UP THE SCREEN.”
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(Spain) Filmax International, 92mins. Dir: Juan Cruz, Jose Corbacho. Cast: Ernesto Alterio, Carlos Areces, Lola Dueñas, Aida Folch. There really are no limits to human stupidity.
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CinemaxX 9
12:50 MEET THE GUILBYS
(France) Films Distribution, 83mins. Dir: Arthur Delaire. Cast: Stephane De Groodt, Isabelle Carre, Alex Lutz, Josephine Japy. The Guilbys are an odd family. Two half families fighting under one roof. A funeral forces them to live together, on a road trip to Willouby.
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ROSALIE BLUM
(France) SND — Groupe M6, 95mins. Dir: Julien Rappeneau. Cast: Noemie Lvovsky, Kyan Khojandi, Alice Isaaz. A refreshing, unconventional and moving comedy with a charming touch of romance. CinemaxX 5
TOO CLOSE TO OUR SON
(France) Be for Films, 103mins. Dir: Yves Angelo. Cast: Sylvie Testud, Gregory Gadebois, Mathilde Bisson, Zacharie Chasseriaud. During an investigation, a judge realises that the defendant is the biological mother of her adopted son. Far from recusing herself, she keeps hounding Juliette. CinemaxX 2
13:15 TIKKUN
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(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 110mins. Dir: Sarik Andreasyan. Cast: Victor Verzhbitsky, Veniamin Smekhov, Yuri Chursin. The distant future. In need of a new kind of entertainment, society created ’Mafia’, a live action game that became the most popular TV show.
(Ireland) Mongrel International, 99mins. Dir: Paddy Breathnach. Cast: Hector Medina, Jorge Perugorria, Luis Alberto Garcia. Set in contemporary Cuba. A tender love story of a father and son struggling to escape from opposing expectations, duty and the burden of past sins.
(France) Studiocanal,
CineStar 3
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(Greece, France) Reel Suspects, 88mins. Dir: Joyce A Nashawati. Cast: Ziad Bakri, Yannis Stankoglou, Mimi Denissi, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing. In a remote Nepalese village during the Maoist Civil war, Prakash and Kiran, two 12-year-old boys, are best friends despite belonging to different casts. CinemaxX 17
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LIFE IS A TRUMPET
(Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 92mins. Dir: Antonio Nuic. Cast: Bojan Navojec, Iva Babic, Goran Navojec, Mirela BrekaloPopovic. Taking place around two big family gatherings: a wedding and Christmas Eve, this is a story about Boro Bura, a young jazz musician who is trying to reconcile his quarreling family members.
CineStar 1
BLIND SUN
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(Italy) True Colours, 103mins. Dir: Ivan Cotroneo. Cast: Rimau Grillo Ritzberger, Valentina Romani, Leonardo Pazzagli. Lorenzo, Blu and Antonio are three high school sophomores. For three unique reasons, they are all outsiders. They quickly become best friends and find the strength to fend off the bullies. One day everything changes.
(France) TF1 International, 92mins. Dir: Yann Samuell. Cast: Audrey Fleurot, Michael Youn, Michele Laroque. For an 18th-century ghost, it is a tough job being scary in 2015!
12:30
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ONE KISS
(Israel) Bleiberg Entertainment, 119mins. Dir: Avishai Sivan. Cast: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich, Gur Sheinberg. An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.
CinemaxX 18
On a hedonistic Greek island, a doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends.
102mins. Dir: Igor Gotesman. Cast: Pierre Niney, Igor Gotesman. Sam, Tim, Nestor, Vadim and Julia are inseparable friends who realise their teenage dream: sharing a cool apartment in Paris. Things are going well until Sam is financially cut off by his parents and unable to pay the rent.
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13:00 THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
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13:25 The Correspondence
(Italy) Umedia International, 122mins. Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore. Cast: Jeremy Irons, Olga Kurylenko. A passionate and tragic love affair between a university professor and a younger woman.
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About Heaven
(Switzerland) Doc & Film International, 85mins. Dir: Stephane Goel. If Switzerland is sometimes perceived as heaven on Earth, the question that follows is: do its inhabitants believe in heaven?
Market 13:30 The Sound of Trees
(Canada) Alpha Violet, 78mins. Dir: Francois Peloquin. Cast: Antoine L’Ecuyer, Roy Dupuis. Sometimes when you amusing self-depiction in documenting his family’s new start in Berlin. CinemaxX 6
CinemaxX 19
(Germany) Forum/Office, 94mins. Dir: Philip Scheffner. Cast: Colorado Velcu, Parizan Nistor, Casino Nistor, Eldorado Velcu. German documantary film-maker Philip Scheffner passes the camera on to Colorado Velcu, who demonstrates a true talent for
(Turkey) Odin’s Eye Entertainment, 87mins. Dir: Mehmet Kurtulus. Cast: Ugur Yucel, Demet Evgar, Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan, Guven Kirac. An animated epic for young adults featuring the unforgettably bad cat Shero and his foulmouthed gang in action.
CinemaxX 13
are rejected, you need to compromise less. Seventeen-year-old Jeremie dreams of a better life, away from the family sawmill. Parliament
romance with Joseph Goebbels, State Minister of Propaganda in the Third Reich. CineStar 6
The Devil’s Mistress And-ek Ghes...
CineStar 8
(Germany) The Match Factory, 97mins. Dir: Nicolette Krebitz. Cast: Lilith Stangenberg, Georg Friedrich, Silke Bodenbender, Saskia Sophie Rosendahl. An anarchistic story of a protagonist who breaks the tacit contract with civilisation and fearlessly decides on a life without safety net or hypocrisy.
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is, how she leads her life and what she wants.
Wild
CineStar 2
(Poland) HanWay Films, 83mins. Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. Cast: Richard Dormer, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra. A cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine.
An evil lord, eager to rule the Valley of Knights, steals a magic suit of armour and chases the young queen for the missing part, the snowmaking glove.
(Czech Republic, Germany) Global Screen, 110mins. Dir: Filip Renc. Cast: Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhardt, Tatiana Pauhofova, Zdena Prochazkova. More than half a century has passed since the days when Lida Baarova was feted as the star of Czechoslovakian cinema and since her ill-fated
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a certain Alexandre, who found her cell phone. They make a date. CinemaxX 10
La vache
(France) Pathe International, 96mins. Dir: Mohamed Hamidi. Cast: Fatsah Bouyahmed, Lambert Wilson, Jamel Debbouze. Fatah is a humble farmer in Algeria. His pride and joy is his cow Jacqueline, and he dreams of taking her to the Paris Agricultural Show. CinemaxX 1
Up for Love
(France) Gaumont, 100mins. Dir: Laurent Tirard. Cast: Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira. Diane is a beautiful woman, a brilliant lawyer with a good sense of humour. One evening she receives a phone call from
Valley of Knights — Mira’s Magical Christmas
(Norway) Sola Media, 94mins. Dir: Thale Persen. Cast: Nils Jorgen Kaalstad, Kyrre Hellum, Tone Mostraum, Bjarte Tjostheim.
13:45 The Adventure Club
(Canada) Double Dutch International, 90mins. Dir: Geoff Anderson. Cast: Billy Zane, Kim Coates, Robin Dunne. With the discovery of an ancient puzzle box, a boy, with the help of his friends, begins an adventure to find his fortune. dffb-Kino
Complete Unknown
(US) Protagonist Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Joshua Marston. Cast: Michael Shannon, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Danny Glover. When Alice shows up at Tom’s birthday dinner in NYC, the guests are immediately charmed by her. But things become complicated as questions arise as to who she really
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Danny Says
(US) Magnolia Pictures, 104mins. Dir: Brendan Toller. Cast: Justin Bond, Judy Collins, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop. Documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields, who worked for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed and the Ramones. CinemaxX 18
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(US) Raven Banner Entertainment, 74mins. Dir: Owen Egerton. Cast: Haley Lu Richardson, Don Most, Noah Segan. When he blacks out after receiving a strange Christmas gift from his girlfriend, Quinn wakes the next morning to find his whole world crumbling around him. CinemaxX 16
14:10 Comeback
(Denmark) Attraction Distribution, 89mins.
Dir: Natasha Arthy. Cast: Anders W Berthelsen, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Peder Thomas Pedersen, Roberta Hilarius Reichhardt. Comedian Thomas Vang is a failure, his career a disaster. Resurfacing from his forgotten past, his cheeky teen daughter is back. Only she can save him — but is he really worth the trouble? CinemaxX 17
14:20 Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
(US) Optimum Productions, 94mins. Dir: Spike Lee. Cast: Michael Jackson. With rare archival footage and interviews from those who were there and those whose lives its success and legacy impacted, the film explores Jackson’s journey from child prodigy to King of Pop, catapulted by the ‘Off The Wall’ album. MGB-Kino
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(Greece) Visit Films, 104mins. Dir: Argyris Papadimitropoulos. Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Dimi Hart, Hara Kotsali. On a hedonistic Greek island, a local doctor becomes obsessed with a young female tourist when she lets him tag along with her friends. Kino Arsenal 1
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M6, 93mins. Dir: Stephan Archinard. Cast: Jose Garcia, Manon Valentin. A hilarious, fast-paced comedy about a family going off the tracks.
an advertising executive uses a new augmented reality technology to conduct an illicit affair with his best friend’s girlfriend, or so it seems.
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14:55 Ants on a Shrimp
(Netherlands) Fortissimo Films, 93mins. Dir: Maurice Dekkers. Cast: Rene Redzepi, Lars Williams, Rosio Sanchez, Thomas Frebel. The world’s best restaurant in Copenhagen, NOMA, and its renowned chef-owner, Rene Redzepi, relocate to the Tokyo Mandarin Oriental Hotel for eight weeks. CinemaxX 15
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(UK) Altitude Film Sales, 90mins. CineStar 3
This Beautiful Fantastic
(US, UK) Ambi Distribution, 92mins. Dir: Simon Aboud. Cast: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine. A young woman who dreams of being a children’s author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower. CinemaxX 7
Creative Control
(US) Coproduction Office, 97mins. Dir: Benjamin Dickinson. In a near-future Brooklyn,
Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
(US) Magnolia Pictures, 98mins. Dir: Werner Herzog. Society depends on the internet for nearly everything but rarely do we step back and recognise its endless intricacies and unsettling omnipotence. CineStar 1
Reset
(France) Studiocanal, 110mins. Dir: Thierry Demaiziere, Alban Teurlai.
small-time Lebanese drug dealer makes a brilliant discovery and, with the help of an underrated film-maker, slyly manipulates public opinion.
pregnant. Everyone gets excited by this news, which causes him a lot of resentment.
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(Denmark) Forum/Office, 80mins. Dir: Moritz Siebert. The Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco is a gateway to Europe and therefore one of the most highly militarised frontiers in the world. The film portrays Abou’s as yet failed attempts to climb over the eight-metre fence.
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(France) Pathe International, 92mins. Dir: Eric Lavaine. Cast: Alexandra Lamy, Josiane Balasko, Mathilde Seigner, Jerome Commandeur. We all love our parents, but to go back and live with them when you are an adult is another story. This is the situation Stephanie finds herself in — faced with a loving yet smothering mother. CineStar IMAX
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Those Who Jump
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What We Become
(Denmark, Germany) Indie Sales, 85mins. Dir: Bo Mikkelsen. Cast: Mille Dinesen, Mikael Birkkjaer, Troels Lyby, Marie Boda. In the idyllic town of Sorgenfri, a family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of flu spreads into town and they are forced to extremes to escape alive.
(Italy) Rai Com, 105mins. Dir: Gabriele Muccino. Cast: Matilda Lutz, Brando Pacitto, Joey Haro, Taylor Frey. Two teenagers are on a road trip through America, but an encounter with a gay couple changes the way that they will look at their lives forever.
(UK, France) Cinephil, 90mins. Dir: Peter Middleton, James Spinney. In 1983, after years of decline, writer/theologian John Hull became blind. To help cope with the upheaval in his life, he created an audio diary. A poetic, intimate story of loss, rebirth and transformation.
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(France) Films Distribution, 90mins. Dir: various.
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(Lebanon) Be for Films, 107mins. Dir: Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya. Cast: Alain Saadeh, Fouad Yammine, Tarek Yaacoub, Alexandra Kahwaji. Intending to smuggle the amphetamine Captagon across the borders, a
(Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands) Les Films du Losange, 105mins. Dir: Antoine Cuypers. Cast: Nathalie Baye, Arno Hitjens, Thomas Blanchard, Ariane Labed. At a family dinner, Cedric learns that his sister is
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Holiday bus driver Mario, spending his whole life shuttling pensioners, decides to accept one final trip. This soon turns into a fascinating journey that not only confronts him with his prejudices but also with his long-lost son. Marriott 1
15:30 History’s Future
(Netherlands, Germany, Ireland) Mongrel International, 95mins. Dir: Fiona Tan. Cast: Mark O’Halloran, Denis Lavant, Anne Consigny, Johanna ter Steege. Part fiction, part documentary, part speculative essay on the contemporary world. About one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil — and through his own mind. CineStar 2
One Floor Below
(Romania, France, Germany) Films Boutique, 93mins. Dir: Radu Muntean. After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbours: one is the bizarre murderer. CinemaxX Studio 12
unIndian Paradise Trips
(Belgium) m-appeal — Raspberry & Cream, 90mins. Dir: Raf Reyntjens. Cast: Gene Bervoets, Jeroen Perceval, Noortje Herlaar, Cedric Van Den Abbeele.
(Australia) The Yellow Affair, 107mins. Dir: Anupam Sharma. Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Brett Lee, Supriya Pathak Kapur, Akash Khurana. Things are about to get
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spicy when Meera, an AussieIndian, single mother and successful professional, falls in love with tall blond Aussie Will. CinemaxX 16
15:45 The Ardennes
(Belgium, Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 93mins. Dir: Robin Pront. Cast: Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens, Kevin Janssens, Viviane de Muynck. Brotherhood is tested in this intense drama. CinemaxX 17
Crazy About Tiffany’s
(US) Dogwoof, 86mins. Dir: Matthew Miele. Tiffany & Co has captured the dreams of the world with its timeless elegance and sophistication. This film seeks to explore how a simple jewellery store has woven itself into the American consciousness. CinemaxX 18
15:50 All These Sleepless Nights
(Poland) HanWay Films, 103mins. Dir: Michal Marczak. Cast: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Ewa Lebeuf. Warsaw has become a city emergent, teeming with a new generation of twentysomethings trying to discover their place in a city uncomfortably torn between its traumatic past and the bold future that always seems just out of reach. CinemaxX Studio 11
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17:00 Gamba
(Japan) SC Films International, 93mins. Dir: Tomohiro Kawamura. Cast: Kate Bekinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry. An exquisite comedy of matchmaking and heartbreaking. CinemaxX 5
Wild Soccer Bunch — The Legend Lives!
(Germany) Global Screen, 100mins. Dir: Joachim Masannek. Cast: Michael Sommerer, Aaron Kissiov, Ron Anthony Renzenbrink, Vico Mucke. Six boys and the girl called ’Muller’ get the chance of their lives: they have to prove that they are wild enough to compete against the team of Dicker Michi. Kino Arsenal 1
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(Spain, Argentina) Film Factory Entertainment, 96mins. Dir: Daniel Calparsoro. Cast: Luis Tosar, Rodrigo de la Serna, Raul Arevalo, Jose Coronado. Six armed men attack a bank. The gang has a seemingly cut-and-dry mission: to clear out the most safe deposit boxes possible and escape through a tunnel that was dug out in one of the bank’s offices. But nothing goes as planned.
(Turkey) Turkish Films, 116mins. Dir: Zeki Demirkubuz. Cast: Zeki Demirkubuz, Sebnem Hassanoughi, Oyku Karayel, Cemre Ebuzziya. Tells the story of well-to-do academic Ahmet. As an individual who acts as if he has never felt and prefers not to remember the pain of personal tradegy, he inhabits a society that acts as if it has never felt.
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Gamba, a town mouse with a brave, adventurous spirit, must go from zero to hero in this 3D family romp. CineStar 4
Moran Rosenblatt, Roy Assaf, Arie Tcherner. A kindly and strong-willed young woman with a mild mental disability embarks on a relationship — much to the concern of her protective mother. Parliament
16:45 A Quiet Passion
(UK, Belgium) Double Dutch International, 125mins. Dir: Terence Davies. Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Emma Bell. The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognised artist. CinemaxX 10
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Wedding Doll
(Ireland, UK, France) Protagonist Pictures, 94mins. Dir: Whit Stillman.
(Israel) Gilady Nitzan Films, 82mins. Dir: Nitzan Gilady. Cast: Asi Levi,
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
(France) Le Pacte, 104mins. Dir: Alexandre Poncet. Based on interviews with all the greatest artists in the genre, and hours of exclusive footage from classics (from Gremlins to Spider-Man 2), this documentary focuses on the stunning relationship between the creatures and their makers. CinemaxX 14
16:50 Heidi
(Germany) Studiocanal, 111mins. Dir: Alain Gsponer. Cast: Anuk Steffen, Bruno Ganz.
Heidi, the young orphan girl, spends the happiest days of her childhood with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. But these carefree days come to a sudden end when Heidi’s aunt Dete takes her to the large German city of Frankfurt. CinemaxX 4
17:00 Camino
(US) Bleiberg Entertainment, 104mins. Dir: Josh C. Waller. Cast: ZoeBell, Nacho Vigalondo, Francisco Barriero, Sheila Vand. In the jungles of Colombia, a photojournalist captures the truth behind a group of missionaries who may not be what they seem. Marriott 1
Chasing Niagara
(Austria) Red Bull Media House, 80mins. Dir: Rush Sturges. Cast: Rafa Ortiz, Rush Sturges, Evan Garcia, Gerd Serrasolse. Rafa Ortiz and a crew of professional kayakers chase a dream — to ride the Niagara Falls. But unforeseen challenges put the set goal in question. dffb-Kino
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Good Luck Sam
(France, Belgium) Films Distribution, 90mins. Dir: Farid Bentoumi. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Chiara Mastroianni, Franck Gastambide. Sam, 43, is a professional ski manufacturer. To save his business, he trains to become a cross-country skier, and competes for Algeria, »
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representing his country at the Winter Olympics. CineStar 7
Harry Benson: Shoot First
(US) Magnolia Pictures, 87mins. Dir: Matthew Miele. Cast: Harry Benson, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin, Mel Brooks. Chronicles the career of the prolific photographer who rose to fame alongside The Beatles, having been assigned to cover their inaugural trip to the US. Now 85, he has no intention of stopping. EFM Cinemobile
Morris from America
(Germany, US) Visit Films, 91mins. Dir: Chad Hartigan. Cast: Markees Christmas, Lina Keller, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri. Thirteen-year-old Morris, a hip-hop loving American, moves to Germany with his father. He falls in love with a local girl, befriends his German tutor, and attempts to navigate the unique trials and tribulations of adolescence. CineStar 1
Sheep and Wolves
(Russia) Wizart, 80mins. Dir: Maxim Volkov, Andrey Galat. Cast: Ruby Rose, Tom Felton, China McClain. In a magical faraway land, in a picturesque little village nestled among green meadows, lives a flock of carefree sheep. But their pastoral and stress-free life is interrupted when a pack of wolves sets up camp in the nearby ravine. CineStar 5
Vicky Banjo
(France) Gaumont, 89mins. Dir: Denis Imbert. Cast: Victoria Bedos, Chantal Lauby, Francois Berleand. Already almost 30, Victoire is the baby of the famous Bonhomme family, the eternal angelic child of the tribe, who finally decides to break free, to discover alcohol, sex and her voice. CineStar 3
Welcome to Norway
(Norway, Sweden) Beta Cinema, 90mins. Dir: Rune Denstad
Langlo. Cast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Olivier Mukata, Henriette Steenstrup, Nini Bakke Kristiansen. A comedy about a racist and broke hotel owner who starts a refugee reception centre at the family’s mountain resort in order to save their business. CineStar IMAX
Who’s Your Daddy?
(France) Bac Films, 89mins. Dir: Sylvain Desclous. Cast: Gilbert Melki, Pio Marmai, Sara Giraudeau. Serge is one of the best kitchen salesmen in France, and he sacrificed all for his career. When the son he never sees reaches out for a job, Serge reluctantly gets him hired. Against all odds, Gerald finds out he has a gift. CinemaxX 13
17:10 Hangman
(US) Myriad Pictures, 87mins. Dir: Adam Mason. Cast: Jeremey Sisto, Kate Ashfield, Ryan Simpkins. Returning from vacation, the Millers find their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. Little do they know, the nightmare has only just begun.
zone and extra bedrooms. CinemaxX 8
17:15 Burning Love
(Italy) True Colours, 96mins. Dir: Alberto Caviglia. Cast: Davide Girodano, Anna Ferruzzo, Omero Antonutti. Leonardo is just an ordinary guy, but is infamous for his fights in defence of anti-Semitism. When he disappears, his neo-nazi fans are left in despair. CinemaxX 18
Happy Birthday
(US) Arclight Films, 90mins. Dir: Casey Tebo. Cast: Matt Bush, Riley Litman. When two friends embark on a journey to Mexicali for a birthday celebration, they soon realise their psychedelic shenanigans have taken a turn for the worse. CinemaxX Studio 12
Kikoriki: Legend of the Golden Dragon
(Russia) Art Pictures, 80mins. Dir: Denis Chernov. The lovably simple residents of peaceful Kikoriki Island are thrown kicking and screaming into a big madcap adventure when their scientist invents an amazing device – a helmet called ‘the Improverizor’. CinemaxX 7
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Uncle Howard
(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 110mins. Dir: Viktor Lakisov. Cast: Robbie Daymond, Michael Gross, Enn Reitel, Alanna Ubach. A conflict flares up between local Mandarin Ducks and the Military Mallards who land on the Chinese island. But only together can they battle their foe, the daunting Ms Knout, who seeks to destroy the sun.
(UK, US) Pinball London, 96mins. Dir: Aaron Brookner. Cast: Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver, Tom DiCillo, Brad Gooch. A tale of past and present. New York filmmaker Howard Brookner captured the 1970s and ’80s cultural revolution. Some 25 years later, his nephew embarks on a personal journey to unearth his uncle’s films and a life cut short by AIDS.
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(France) SND — Groupe M6, 96mins. Dir: Francois Desagnat. Cast: Andre Dussollier, Berengere Krief, Arnaud Ducret, Julia Piaton. A fast-paced comedy about giving up your comfort
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77mins. Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson. Chronicles the outlandish world of the circus in the 19th and 20th centuries. CinemaxX 19
17:30 Norfolk
(UK) Amadeus Entertainment, 83mins. Dir: Martin Radich. Cast: Denis Menochet, Barry Keoghan, Eileen Davies, Sean Buckley. A haunting thriller about a reclusive father and son whose close relationship is threatened when the father’s violent past catches up with them. CinemaxX 16
Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass
(Vietnam) Fortissimo Films, 103mins. Dir: Victor Vu. Cast: Thinh Vinh, Trong Khang, Thanh My, My Anh. A coming-of-age story set in Vietnam during the late 1980s, as perceived through the eyes of a 12year-old boy. CinemaxX 17
17:45 The Devil’s Candy
(US) HanWay Films, 80mins. Dir: Sean Byrne. Cast: Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kiara Glasco. An artist and his family move into the house of their dreams, but slowly satanic forces start to invade his work and threaten his family. CinemaxX Studio 11
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(Canada) Mongrel International, 60mins. Dir: various. MGB-Kino
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The Show of Shows
(US) Hyde Park International, 92mins. Dir: Robert Legato. Cast: Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick. Four friends break into an insane asylum nicknamed Eloise, where they fight to escape not only the confines of the institution, but their own minds.
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(France) Wild Bunch, 90mins. Dir: various. CineStar 8
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(France) Kinovista, 191mins. Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand. A collection of stories and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
(Belgium, France, Netherlands) The Match Factory, 127mins. Dir: Felix van Groeningen. Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermier, Helene De Vos, Charlotte Vendermeersch. Two brothers open the club Belgica — a self-declared den of sin, where rock ’n’ roll splashes off sweaty walls. The sky seems the limit, at least for a while, for nightlife is an addictive trip.
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(Iceland) Truenorth, 91mins. Dir: Oskar Jonasson. Cast: Snorri Engilbertsson, Hafdis Helga Helgadottir, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Svandis Dora Einarsdottir. Introverted Hubert resorts to his uncanny ability to mimic others to break the ice with Hanna, a school teacher. As their relationship develops, Hubert’s impersonations get out of hand, with unforeseen consequences. CinemaxX 15
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(Turkey, Hungary) Turkish Films, 139mins. Dir: Mustafa Kara. Cast: Haydar Sisman, Hanife Kara, Ibrahim Kuvvet, Temel Kara. The ralistic, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living in a mountain village. CinemaxX 13
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(US) Protagonist Pictures, 104mins. Dir: Rob Zombie. Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Torsten Voges. Five people kidnapped at random. Twelve hours in hell. Who can survive this deadly game?
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Alpha Violet, 72mins.
(Argentina, Spain) Filmsharks International, 100mins. Dir: Ariel Winograd. Cast: Diego Peretti, Maribel Verdu. Gabriel, separated, is devoted to his daughter Sofia. The arrival of Vicky, a believer in the No Kids movement, shakes up his love life and, in order to keep the relationship afloat, Gabriel decides to keep his daughter a secret.
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(Italy) True Colours, 102mins. Dir: Maria Sole Tognazzi. Cast: Margherita Buy, Sabrina Ferilli, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Ennio Fantastichini. Marina and Federica have been together for five years. They share the same apartment, bed and face cream, they laugh, they fight, but sometimes they are not sure if they are a couple or not.
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(France) SND — Groupe M6, 81mins. Dir: Julien Leclercq. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Guillaume Gouix. CinemaxX 2
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(South Africa) The Exchange. 87mins.
(US) Spotlight Pictures, 104mins. Dir: George Mendeluk. Cast: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Terence Stamp. During Stalin’s deliberately engineered genocidal famine of the Ukraine, a young pacifist man must find a way to fight for freedom and love.
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Ben Attia’s feature debut is a romantic drama about a man whose life is ruled by his domineering mother. On the eve ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ of his wedding to a girl of his mother’s choosing, he goes on a business trip where he discovers the meaning of love.
Midnight Special (US) Jeff Nichols
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Boris without Beatrice (Can) Denis Coté
Set in Quebec where Boris (James Hyndman) cares for his wife Béatrice (Simone-Elise Girard), bedridden with a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ mysterious depression. The appearance of a stranger (Denis Lavant) forces Boris to confront his preconceptions.
Fire at Sea (It-Fr) Gianfranco Rosi
Rosi’s documentary captures life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, one of the first points of call for hundreds of ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees and migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe.
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Things to Come (Fr-Ger) Mia Hansen-Love
Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy teacher forced out of a rut when her husband walks out at the same time as her ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ demanding mother dies. Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob and André Marcon co-star.
Letters from War (Por) Ivo M Ferreira
Set in the final years of the Angolan war of independence against Portugal (1961-74), Ferreira’s third feature is inspired ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ by a collection of letters sent by novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes to his pregnant young wife back in Lisbon.
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24 Weeks (Ger) Anne Zohra Berrached
Julia Jentsch plays cabaret artist Astrid, who is six-months pregnant when she learns her child is likely to have Down’s ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ syndrome and a serious heart complaint. Together with her husband, she is faced with a life-or-death decision.
Being 17 (Fr) André Téchiné
Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila co-star as adolescent boys who are forced to live under the same roof due to ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ family circumstances. An autobiographical tale about growing up gay in a working-class neighbourhood.
Death in Sarajevo (Fr-Bos Herz) Danis Tanovic
Silver Bear winner Tanovic adapts Bernard-Henri Lévy’s play Hotel Europe. On the eve of the 2014 commemoration of ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ the start of the First World War, a Frenchman sits in his Sarajevo hotel room recalling the Bosnian War.
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Alone in Berlin (Ger-Fr-UK) Vincent Pérez
Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson star in this English-language adaptation of Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel, based ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ on the true story of a working-class couple who conduct a series of anonymous protests against the Nazi regime.
Crosscurrent (Chi) Yang Chao
This long-gestating project by China’s Yang is about the young captain of a cargo ship sailing up the Yangtze River who ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ witnesses the life of a woman backwards over a period of 20 years. Blind Massage’s Qin Hao stars.
Soy Nero (Ger-Fr-Mex) Rafi Pitts
A 19-year-old Mexican boy dreams of emigrating north of the border. However, the only way for him to achieve this ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ may be to enlist in the US Army and fight in the Middle East as a so-called ‘green-card soldier’.
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Genius (UK-US) Michael Grandage
Grandage makes his feature debut with the story of Max Perkins, a US book editor who oversaw works by Thomas ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald among others. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law star.
Zero Days (US) Alex Gibney
Oscar-winning documentary film-maker Gibney turns his critical eye to hacking and cyber security in this film about ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ the battles between online criminals and the white-hat hackers who try to stop them.
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The Commune (Den-Swe-Neth) Trine Dyrholm and Ulrich Thomsen portray a married couple in a commune whose bond is strained when the wife ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Thomas Vinterberg realises she is replaceable. At the same time, their daughter (Martha Sofie Wallstrom Hansen) discovers first love.
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A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Phil-Sing) Lav Diaz
Diaz’s 482-minute period epic marries history, literature and mythology with interconnected narrative threads on the ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Philippine revolution against the Spanish colonising force. John Lloyd Cruz and Piolo Pascual lead the ensemble cast.
United States of Love (Pol-Swe) Tomasz Wasilewski
Set in Poland in 1990 immediately after the fall of communism, Wasilewski’s third feature focuses on four seemingly ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ happy women of different ages who share an irresistible urge to change their lives and fulfil their desires.
A Dragon Arrives! (Iran) Mani Haghighi
Iranian director Haghighi returns with an intriguing story following a detective’s unauthorised investigation into ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ mysterious earthquakes on the remote island of Qeshm. Amir Jadidi and Homayoun Ghanizadeh star.
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