23rd European Film Awards European Discovery 2010 Prix FIPRESCI The Nominations
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LA DOPPIA ORA THE DOUBLE HOUR
European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
Italy, 95 min.
WRITTEN BY: Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi & Stefano Sardo DIRECTED BY: Giuseppe Capotondi PRODUCED BY: Nicola Giuliano & Francesca Cima DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Tat Radcliffe EDITOR: Guido Notari PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Totoi Santoro MAIN CAST: Ksenia Rappoport (Sonia), Filippo Timi (Guido), Antonia Truppo (Margherita), Gaetano Bruno (Riccardo), Fausto Russo Alesi (Bruno), Michele Di Mauro (Dante) THE DOUBLE HOUR
Sonia comes from Ljubljana and works as a waitress in a hotel. Guido is a former policeman and works as a security guard in a villa outside the city. They meet at a speed dating event. He is a regular customer. For her, it is the first time and it shows. There are few words, but an instinctive attraction. In a few days, they get to know each other, and learn to open up their hearts and to disclose their wounds. They are on the brink of falling in love… when suddenly Guido dies, during a robbery at the villa where he works. Sonia is left alone to deal with a grief she cannot come to terms with, and for which some even seem to hold her responsible. As Sonia’s past re-surfaces with all its skeletons, the reality around her starts to tremble to the point of collapsing. Everything begins to change, all certainties crumble and nobody is the same any longer. Not even Sonia. But who is she really? Above all, is the man she continues to see – beyond all plausible logic – Guido, or is she out of her mind? And what will she do when she is given another chance? The answers arrive only at the end, in a continuous twist and turn of events. Production: INDIGO FILM Via Torino 135 00184 Roma ITALY tel. +39 0677250255 fax +39 0677079042 info@indigofilm.it
MEDUSA FILM Via Aurelia Antica 422-424 00165 Roma ITALY tel. +39 06 66 39 01 fax +39 06 66 390450 info@medusa.it
Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: Volpi Cup – Best Actress, Pasinetti Award – Best Actor, Young Cinema Award Best Italian Movie Toronto IFF 2009 The Times BFI London FF 2009 Seville European FF 2009 Italian FF Madrid 2009 IFF Marrakech 2009 Italian FF Venice/Pechino 2009 Bari Intl. Film &TV Festival 2009 Beaune FF 2010 Italian FF Tokyo 2010 Munich FF 2010 New Zeland IFF 2010 Magna Grecia FF 2010 Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 Jerusalem IFF 2010 Galway Film Fleadh 2010 Gallio FF 2010 FF Oostende 2010 Film by the sea IFF 2010 Italian FF Annecy 2010
Giuseppe Capotondi
World Sales: SND 89 Avenue Charles de Gaulle 92575 Neuilly-sur-Seine FRANCE tel. + 33 141 92 7980 fax +33 141 92 7907
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EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE WRITTEN BY: Catalin Mitulescu & Florin Serban DIRECTED BY: Florin Serban PRODUCED BY: Catalin Mitulescu DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marius Panduru EDITOR: Sorin Baican & Catalin Cristutiu PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Ana Ioneci MAIN CAST: George Pistereanu (Silviu), Papn Chilibar (Ursu), Ada Condeescu (Ana), Clara Voda (mother), Mihai Constantin (head of the penitentiary), Marian Bratu (brother)
European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
Romania, 94 min.
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Silver Bear (Jury Grand Prix), Alfred Bauer Award Beaune Int’l Thriller FF 2010: Best Sang Neuf Film Zlín FF 2010: The Europe Award Art Film Fest: Blue Angel Award (Best Actor) Transilvania IFF: Best Romanian Film
Florin Serban
Silviu has only five days left before his release from the juvenile detention centre. But five days becomes an eternity when his mother returns from a long absence to take his younger brother away. A brother whom he raised like a son. Moreover, he has fallen in love with a beautiful social worker. With time running out and his emotions boiling over, Silviu closes his eyes... Freedom, the wind, the road, his first kiss. Anything can happen to him now... www.vreausafluier.ro
Production: Strada Film 41 Dr. Staicovici Str 050556 Bucharest ROMANIA tel. +40 722 163 279 fax +40 21 411 80 99 contact@stradafilm.ro
World Sales: Celluloid Dreams 2 rue Turgot 75009 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 49 70 85 64 fax +33 1 49 70 03 71 johan@celluloid-dreams.com
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DIE FREMDE WHEN WE LEAVE
European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
Germany 119 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Feo Aladag PRODUCED BY: Feo Aladag & Züli Aladag DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Judith Kaufmann EDITOR: Andrea Mertens PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Silke Buhr MAIN CAST: Sibel Kekilli (Umay), Settar Tanriögen (Kader), Derya Alabora (Halime), Nizam Schiller (Cem), Tamer Yigit (Mehmet), Florian Lukas (Stipe), Alwara Höfels (Atife), Almila Bagriacik (Rana), Serhad Can (Acar), Nursel Köse (Gül) WHEN WE LEAVE Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Europa Cinema Label Award Tribeca FF 2010: Best Film, Best Actress German Camera Prize 2010 German/Turkish FF Nuremberg 2010: Best Actress Créteil Womens FF 2010: Audience Award Recklinghausen FF 2010: Best Film IFF Istanbul 2010 CPH:PIX 2010 Seattle IFF 2010 Shanghai IFF 2010 Moscow IFF 2010
What would you sacrifice for your family’s love? Your values? Your freedom? Your independence? German-born Umay flees her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her young son Cem with her. She is hoping to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival creates intense conflict. Her family is trapped in their conventions, torn between their love for her and the values of their community. Ultimately they decide to return Cem to his father in Turkey. To keep her son, Umay is forced to move again. She finds the inner strength to build a new life for her and Cem, but her need for her family’s love drives her to a series of ill-fated attempts at reconciliation. What Umay doesn’t realise is just how deep the wounds have gone and how dangerous her struggle for self-determination has become ...
New Faces Award 2010: Best Debut Film The Bernhard Wicki Film Prize 2010, German Cinema Award for Peace PRIX LUX 2010, Film Prize of the European Parliament: nomination German Film Award (Lola) 2010: Best Feature Film in Bronze, Best Leading Actress
Feo Aladag
www.diefremde.de World Sales: CINEPOOL – A Division of TELEPOOL Sonnenstr. 21 80331 München GERMANY tel. +49 (0)89 55876-0 fax +49 (0)89 55876-19106 cinepool@telepool.de
Production: Independent Artists Filmproduktion Joseph-Haydn-Str. 1 10557 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 30 280447-06/-7 fax +49 30 28879835 office@independent-artists-filmproduktion.de
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LEBANON
European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
Israel/Germany/France 94 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Samuel Maoz PRODUCED BY: Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Uri Sabag, Einat Bickel, Benjamina Mirnik & Illan Girard DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Giora Bejach EDITOR: Arik Lahav-Leibovich PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Ariel Roshko MAIN CAST: Yoav Donat (Shmulik), Itay Tiran (Assi), Oshri Cohen (Hertzel), Michael Moshonov (Yigal), Zohar Strauss (Jamil), Raymonde Amsalem (Lebanese Mother) LEBANON
The First Lebanon War, June 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. The mission gets out of control and turns into a death trap. Night falls and the wounded troops remain trapped in the centre of a town in ruins, unable to communicate with the central command and surrounded by Syrian commandos closing in on all sides. The film’s heroes are the tank crew: Shmulik the gunner, Assi the commander, Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver, four 20-year-old boys, operating a killing machine. They are not courageous war heroes, eager for battle or selfsacrifice. All they have is a terrible fear of death. They find themselves losing their way amid the chaos of war. Shmulik, the gunner, is the last link in the chain of death. He is the one who sees the target through the cross-hairs, pulls the trigger and kills. He has to make horrendous split-second decisions under massive pressure. But he’s not cut out for it and his failure to function exposes his comrades to death that lurks everywhere.
Production: Metro Communications 34 Allenby Tel Aviv, 63325 ISRAEL tel. +972 35177101/2 fax +972 35103311 Metro@metrocom.co.il
World Sales: Celluloid Dreams 2, rue Turgot Paris 75009 FRANCE tel. +33 149700985 hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com
Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: Golden Lion, Nazareno Taddei Award (Vatican), SIGNIS Award – Honorable Mention Thessaloniki IFF 2009: Human Values Award Cameraimage Lodz 2009: Golden Frog Toronto IFF 2009 New York FF 2009 Pusan IFF 2009 Göteborg IFF 2010 IFF Rotterdam 2010 Moscow FF 2010 Karlovy Vary FF 2010 San Francisco IFF 2010 Transilvania IFF Cluj Israeli Film Academy Awards 2009: Best Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound, Supporting Actor
Samuel Maoz
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NOTHING PERSONAL
European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
the Netherlands/Ireland 85 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Urszula Antoniak PRODUCED BY: Reinier Selen & Edwin van Meurs DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Bouquet EDITOR: Nathalie Alonso Casale PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Jane English MAIN CAST: Lotte Verbeek (Anne), Stephen Rea (Martin)
NOTHING PERSONAL
Urszula Antoniak
www.nothingpersonalthemovie.com Production: Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV Kievitstraat 5 1221 KW Hilversum THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31 20 616 32 31 info@rinkelfilm.com
World Sales: Thorsten Ritter Bavaria Film International Bavariafilmplatz 8 82031 Geiselgasteig GERMANY tel. +49 172 858 70 14 fax +49 896 499 37 20 thorsten.ritter@bavaria-film.de
Press: Reinier Selen Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV Kievitstraat 5 1221 KW Hilversum THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31 20 616 32 31 info@rinkelfilm.com
Portrait: Elselien van der Wahl
A young female rebel and an old sage challenge each other in a story about personal freedom and attachment. She is a young Dutch woman who, after throwing away all her possessions, becomes a vagabond by choice and finds the solitude she was looking for in an austere landscape of Irish Connemara. He is an old man who lives a solitary life in a secluded house in Ireland. She is radical and uncompromising. He is wise and ironic. What connects them is solitude they both see as freedom. He proposes her to work for him in exchange for food. She agrees but on one condition: there will be no personal contact between them, just work. Soon the two of them become curious about each other and want both: to keep their ‘nothing personal’ deal and to break it. He knows that breaking the deal and becoming personal may result in her leaving the house. For her, showing any interest in him will equal compromising her radical freedom, which she defines as staying alone and refusing contact with people. Their simple life follows the cycle of days and nights, work and rest, but slowly brings the two of them closer to each other. Who will be the first one to break the deal and admit the personal interest?
Festival Participation/Awards: Netherlands FF 2009: Golden Calf for Best Feature, Director, Photography, Sound Design Locarno IFF 2009: Leopard for Best First Feature, Actress, Youth Jury First Prize, FIPRESCI Award, Special Mention Eucumenical Jury, Art & Essai CICAE Prize Seville European FF 2009: Silver Giraldillo Official Section, ASECAN Award, prize of the Andalusian Film Critics IFF Marrakech 2009: Best Female Performance Northern FF 2009: Audience Award
IMPRINT: European Film Academy e.V., ★ Pascal Edelmann (editor) ★ graphic design: Andrés Castoldi ★ Unless otherwise indicated all pictures appear courtesy of the respective production companies.
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