23rd European Film Awards THE NOMINATIONS
23rd European Film Awards INDEX OF FILMS: ANOTHER YEAR ARMADILLO BAL (Honey) CARLOS CELDA 211 (Cell 211) LE CONCERT (The Concert) DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (Of Gods and Men) LA DOPPIA ORA (The Double Hour) EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) DIE FREMDE (When We Leave) THE GHOST WRITER THE ILLUSIONIST IO, DON GIOVANNI (I, Don Giovanni) Как я провел этим летом (How I Ended this Summer) KAWASAKIHO RŮŽE (Kawasaki’s Rose) LEBANON LOURDES MIESTEN VUORO (Steam of Life) MINE VAGANTI (Loose Cannons) NA PUTU (On the Path) NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ (Nostalgia for the Light) LA NOSTRA VITA (Our Life) NOTHING PERSONAL PLANET 51 LA PRIMA COSA BELLA (The First Beautiful Thing) PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE (The Temptation of St. Tony) SAMMY’S ADVENTURES: THE SECRET PASSAGE EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS (The Secret in their Eyes) SOUL KITCHEN SUBMARINO
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Actress / European Composer
ANOTHER YEAR
UK 129 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Mike Leigh PRODUCED BY: Georgina Lowe DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Dick Pope EDITOR: Jon Gregory PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Simon Beresford MAIN CAST: Jim Broadbent (Tom), Lesley Manville (Mary), Ruth Sheen (Gerri), Peter Wight (Ken), Oliver Maltman (Joe)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes.
ANOTHER YEAR Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, competition Sarajevo FF 2010 Norwegian IFF Haugesund 2010 Toronto IFF 2010, special presentation
Mike Leigh
Pictures: Simon Mein, Š Thin Man Films Ltd.
Filmography: 1971 BLEAK MOMENTS 1988 HIGH HOPES 1991 LIFE IS SWEET 1993 NAKED 1996 SECRETS & LIES 1997 CAREER GIRLS 1999 TOPSY-TURVY 2001 ALL OR NOTHING 2004 VERA DRAKE 2008 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Production: Thin Man Films Ltd 9 Greek Street London, W1D 4DQ UK tel. +44 207 734 7372 fax +44 207 287 5228
World Sales: FOCUS Features International Oxford House 76 Oxford Street London, W1D IBS UK tel. +44 207 307 1330 fax +44 207 307 1348
Press: FOCUS Features International Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street London, W1D IBS, UK tel. +44 207 307 1330 fax +44 207 307 1348 Anna.bohlin@focusfeatures.com Jenny.hennessy@focusfeatures.com
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Documentary - Prix ARTE
ARMADILLO
Denmark/Sweden 101 min.
DIRECTED BY: Janus Metz PRODUCED BY: Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockman DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Lars Skree EDITOR: Per K. Kirkegaard
ARMADILLO is an upfront account of growing cynicism and adrenaline addiction in young soldiers at war. Mads and Daniel are serving their first mission in Helmand, Afghanistan. Their platoon is stationed in Camp Armadillo, right on the Helmand frontline, fighting tough battles against the Taliban. The soldiers are there to help the Afghans, but as fighting gets tougher and operations increasingly hairy, Mads, Daniel and their friends become cynical, widening the gap between themselves and the Afghan civilisation. Mistrust and paranoia set in, causing alienation and disillusion.
ARMADILLO Festival Participation: Semaine de la Critique 2010 − Grand Prix Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 The Norwegian IFF Haugesund 2010 Toronto IFF 2010 Athens IFF 2010 Haifa IFF 2010 Rio de Janeiro FF 2010 Zürich FF 2010 Hamburg FilmFest 2010 Flanders IFF Ghent 2010 London FF 2010 Morelia IFF 2010 DOK Leipzig 2010 Sao Paulo IFF 2010 Moscow IFF 2010 DOC NYC, New York 2010 Seville European FF 2010 IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg 2010 Amsterdam IDFA 2010 PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights FF 2010
Janus Metz
Production: Fridthjof Film Skofabrikken. Spontinisvej 7, 2 2450 Copenhagen S DENMARK tel. +45 36 18 08 80 mail@f-film.com
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World Sales: DR TV, International Sales DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 Copenhagen K DENMARK tel. +45 35 20 30 40 fax +45 35 20 39 69 drsales@dr.dk
Press: Fridthjof Film Sara Stockman Skofabrikken. Spontinisvej 7, 2 2450 Copenhagen S DENMARK tel. +45 31 41 21 10 sara@f-film.com
www.f-film.com
European Film / European Director / European Cinematographer
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
BAL HONEY
Turkey/Germany 103 min.
WRITTEN BY: Semih Kaplanoğlu & Orcun Koksal DIRECTED BY: Semih Kaplanoğlu PRODUCED BY: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Johannes Rexin & Bettina Brokemper DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Barış Özbiçer EDITOR: Ayhan Ergürsel, Semih Kaplanoğlu &, S. Hande Guneri PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Naz Erayda MAIN CAST: Bora Altaş (Yusuf), Erdal Beşikçioğlu (Yakup), Tülin Özen (Zehra)
Yusuf (6) has started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father, Yakup (35), works far in the depths of a frightening forest. He is a honey-gatherer who hangs his hand-made beehives in the upper branches of tall trees in the forest. The forest is a place of mystery for Yusuf, who often accompanies his father. One morning Yusuf describes the dream he had seen that night to his father. This dream is to be an ever-lasting secret between the father and the son. On that same day, as Yusuf struggles to read before his entire classmates the text the teacher has given him, he begins suddenly to stutter and is ridiculed by his classmates. Yakup goes to a distant forest, looking for the Caucasian bees which seem to be mysteriously disappearing. His father gone, Yusuf slips into silence. Yusuf’s mother, Zehra (28), who works in the tea fields, is saddened to see her son in this state. No matter how much she tries, she cannot get her son to speak. Days pass and Zehra and Yusuf become anxious when Yakup doesn’t return. They fail to find Yakup at the festival being held on Sis (mist) Mountain. Yusuf goes deep into the forest to search for his father. Will the dream he has seen come true?
HONEY Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010 Golden Bear SARAJEVO FF 2010 Yerevan IFF Golden Apricot 2010 Medfilm Festival 2010
Semih Kaplanoğlu Filmography: 2000 AWAY FROM HOME 2005 ANGEL’S FALL 2007 YUMURTA 2008 SÜT 2010 BAL
Production: Kaplan Film Production Süreyya Agaoğlu Sok. Hatay Apü 41/7 34365, Tesvikiye Istanbul TURKEY tel. +90 212 2912995 fax +90 212 2912995 info@kaplanfilm.com
www.kaplanfilm.com
World Sales: The Match Factory Balthasarstrasse 79 - 81 50670 Cologne GERMANY tel. +49 221 539 709-0 fax +49 221 539 709-10 philipp.hoffmann@matchfactory.de
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Director / European EditoR
CARLOS
France/Germany 318 min.
WRITTEN BY: Olivier Assayas & Dan Franck based on an original idea by Daniel Leconte DIRECTED BY: Olivier Assayas PRODUCED BY: Daniel Leconte, Jens Meurer & Judy Tossell DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Yorick le Saux & Denis Lenoir EDITOR: Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Francois-Renaud Labarthe MAIN CAST: Edgar Ramirez (Carlos), Alexander Scheer (Johannes Weinrich), Nora von Waldstätten (Magdalena Kopp), Christoph Bach (Hans-Joachim Klein), Ahmad Kaabour (Wadie Haddad), Julia Hummer (Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann), Fadi Abi Samra (Michel Moukharbal)
Production: Egoli Tossell Film AG Torstr. 164 10115 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 30 24 65 65 0 fax: +49 30 24 65 65 24 contact@egolitossell.com
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Film en Stock 79, rue due Temple 75003 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 44 54 25 89 fax +33 1 42 74 18 21 dleconte@docenstock.com
CARLOS Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, out of competition Filmfest Munich, Nouveau Cinéma Français New York FF 2010
Olivier Assayas Filmography: 1986 DISORDER 1996 IRMA VEP 1998 ALICE ET MARTIN 2000 LES DESTINEES SENTIMENTALES 2002 DEMONLOVER 2004 CLEAN 2006 PARIS, JE T’AIME, episode Quartier des Enfants Rouges 2007 BOARDING GATE 2008 SUMMER HOURS
World Sales: Studio Canal Paris 1, place du Spectacle 92863 Issy-les Moulineaux FRANCE tel. +33 171 35 35 35
carlos.canalplus.fr www.carlos-derfilm.de
Pictures: Jean-Claude Moireau/Film en Stock/Egoli Tossell Film/Canal +
His real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but we all know him as Carlos. The Jackal. For 20 years he was the most wanted fugitive in the world − the inventor of international terrorism as we know it today. Under the protection of various Arab regimes and the Stasi secret police, Carlos founded a highly effective and sophisticated world-wide network of terror, and committed at least 80 successful terrorist attacks. In his heyday, Carlos lived a life of luxury, was the world’s most feared killer and collaborated with the Red Brigades, ETA, the German Red Army, various sections of the PLO, Saddam Hussein and Colonel Ghaddafi − all at the same time. This is the revealing and true story of the rise − and fall − of a notorious revolutionary who lost his faith and his energy and ended up as nothing more than a ruthless mercenary. The Cold War came to an end in 1989 and Carlos was no longer of use to his former masters. When French special agents caught up with him in Sudan in 1992, they found a debauched fat man, drunk by the hotel poolside, surrounded by expensive prostitutes.
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Actor / European Screenwriter
CELDA 211 CELL 211
Spain/France 114 min.
WRITTEN BY: Jorge Guerricaechevarría & Daniel Monzón DIRECTED BY: Daniel Monzón PRODUCED BY: Emma Lustres, Borja Pena, Juan Gordon & Álvaro Augustín DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Carles Gusi EDITOR: Mapa Pastor PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Alicia Tellería MAIN CAST: Luis Tosar (Malamadre), Alberto Ammann (Juan Oliver), Antonio Resines (Utrilla), Carlos Bardem (Apache), Marta Etura (Elena)
A novice prison official has the bad luck to start his new job on the same day the prisoners organize a riot. Caught up in a fast-changing and dangerous situation, he is forced to exploit to the maximum the only resource left to him: his cunning. He finds that far from being the shy, gentle and decent man he has long thought himself to be, he is a born survivor teetering on the edge of an abyss.
CELL 211 Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009 Toronto IFF 2009 International Fantastic FF of Catalunya 2009 Les Arcs European FF 2009: Audience Award Spanish Cinema Now – Lincoln Center (New York) 2009 Tokyo Spanish FF 2009 Chicago European FF 2010 Brussels Int’l Fantastic FF 2010: Best Thriller Buenos Aires Int’l Independent FF 2010 Sahara IFF 2010 8 GOYA Awards: Best Film, Director, Addapted Script, Male Leading Role, Female Supporting Role, New Actor, Editing and Sound. 10 Galician Audiovisual Academy Awards (Mestre Mateo): Best Film, Director, Script, Male Leading Role, Male Supporting Role, Production Design, Makeup & Hair, Costume Design, Sound and Editing. 2 José María Forqué Awards (EGEDA) for Best Film and Actor 3 Spanish Association of Actors Awards for Best Cinema Male Starring Actor, Male Supporting Actor and New Actor
Production: VACA FILMS Calle Real 11, 3º izq. 15003 A Coruña SPAIN tel. +34 881 917 566 fax +34 881 894 671 info@vacafilms.com
www.celda211.com
World Sales: FILMS DISTRIBUTION 34, Rue du Louvre 75001 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 53 10 33 99 fax +33 1 53 10 33 98 info@filmsdistribution.com
Press: VASAVER Passeig de Sant Joan 93, Ppal 2ª 08009 Barcelona. SPAIN tel. +34 93 45 83 966
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Screenwriter
LE CONCERT THE CONCERT
France 122 min.
WRITTEN BY: Radu Mihaileanu and Alain-Michel Blanc, with the collaboration of Matthew Robbins, based on an original story of Hector Cabello Reyes and Thierry Degrande DIRECTED BY: Radu Mihaileanu PRODUCED BY: Alain Attal DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Laurent Dailland EDITOR: Ludovic Troch PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Cristian Niculescu MAIN CAST: Alexeï Guskov (Andreï Filipov),Dmitry Nazarov (Sacha Grossman), Mélanie Laurent (Anne-Marie Jacquet), François Berleand (Olivier Morne Duplessis), Miou Miou (Guylène de La Rivière), Valeri Barinov (Ivan Gavrilov), Anna Kamenkova Pavlova (Irina Filipovna), Lionel Abelanski (Jean-Paul Carrère), Alexander Komissarov (Victor Vikitch), Ramzy (owner of the ‘Trou Normand’)
Andreï Filipov was a prodigy – the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner. During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players, – ‘Zionists and enemies of the people’ – including his best friend Sacha Grossman. Andreï sank into booze and depression. The director of the Bolshoi, an old apparatchik, has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon”, but he’s mocking him, humiliating him sadistically. For him, Andreï’s a has-been, and he’s doing him a big favour by keeping him on as a cleaner. Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a last-minute replacement for the indisposed San Francisco Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: he’ll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, removal men, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects…
Production: Les Productions du Trésor 12 rue Barbette 75003 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 43 38 48 84 contact@productionsdutresor.com
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World Sales: Wild Bunch 99 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris FRANCE tel. + 33 1 53 01 50 30 fax + 33 1 53 01 50 49 edevos@wildbunch.eu
THE CONCERT Festival Participation/Awards: Beauvais FFF 2009 Rome FF 2009 Seattle IFF 2010 Durban FF 2010 César Awards 2010: Best Music Written for a Film, Best Sound
Radu Mihaileanu Filmography: 1980 LES QUATRE SAISONS 1993 TRAHIR 1998 TRAIN DE VIE (Train of Life) 2005 VA, VIE ET DEVIENS (Live and Become) 2009 LE CONCERT
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Film / European Cinematographer
DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX OF GODS AND MEN
France 120 min.
WRITTEN BY: Etienne Comar & Xavier Beauvois DIRECTED BY: Xavier Beauvois DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Caroline Champetier EDITOR: Marie-Julie Maille PRODUCED BY: Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat & Etienne Comar PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michel Barthelemy MAIN CAST: Lambert Wilson (Christian), Michael Lonsdale (Luc), Olivier Rabourdin (Christophe), Philippe Laudenbach (Célestin), Jacques Herlin (Amédée), Loïc Pichon (Jean-Pierre), Xavier Maly (Michel), Jean-Marie Frin (Paul)
Pictures: Marie-Julie Maille / Why Not Productions
A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.
OF GODS AND MEN Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010 : Grand Prix du Jury
Xavier Beauvois Filmography: 1992 NORD (North) 1995 N’OUBLIE PAS QUE TU VAS MOURIR (Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die) 2002 SELON MATTHIEU (According to Matthieu) 2005 LE PETIT LIEUTENANT (The Young Lieutenant) 2010 DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (Of Gods and Men)
Production: Why Not Productions 3 rue Paillet 75005 Paris FRANCE tel. + 33 1 48 24 24 50 fax + 33 1 48 24 24 51. whynot@wanadoo.fr
World Sales: Wild Bunch 99 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris FRANCE tel. + 33 1 53 10 42 50 fax + 33 1 53 10 42 69
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
LA DOPPIA ORA THE DOUBLE HOUR
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)
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.
THE DOUBLE HOUR 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
Production: INDIGO FILM Via Torino 135 00184 Roma ITALY tel. +39 0677250255 fax +39 0677079042 info@indigofilm.it
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MEDUSA FILM Via Aurelia Antica 422-424 00165 Roma ITALY tel. +39 06 66 39 01 fax +39 06 66 390450 info@medusa.it
World Sales: SND 89 Avenue Charles de Gaulle 92575 Neuilly-sur-Seine FRANCE tel. + 33 141 92 7980 fax +33 141 92 7907
European Actor/ EFA Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE
Romania 94 min.
WRITTEN BY: Catalin Mitulescu & Florin Serban DIRECTED BY: Florin Serban PRODUCED BY: Catalin Mitulescu & Daniel 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 penitenciary), Marian Bratu (brother)
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE
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...
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 Filmography: 1999 preTEXT, short 2001 MECANO, short 2002 HALF OF THE CITY MAKES LOVE WITH THE OTHER HALF, short 2009 ANGEL 2009 IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE
Production/Press: Strada Film 41 Dr. Staicovici Str 050556 Bucharest ROMANIA tel. +40 722 163 279 fax +40 21 411 80 99 contact@stradafilm.ro
www.vreausafluier.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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European Actress / EFA Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
DIE FREMDE WHEN WE LEAVE
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)
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 realize is just how deep the wounds have gone and how dangerous her struggle for self-determination has become ...
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 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: pre-selection German Film Award (Lola) 2010: Best Feature Film in Bronze, Best Leading Actress
Feo Aladag
Production/Press: 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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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
www.diefremde.de
European Film / European Director / European Actor / European Screenwriter / European Editor / European Production Designer / European Composer
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
THE GHOST WRITER
France/Germany/UK 128 min.
WRITTEN BY: Robert Harris & Roman Polanski DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski PRODUCED BY: Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Pawel Edelman EDITOR: Hervé de Luze PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Albrecht Konrad MAIN CAST: Ewan McGregor (The Ghost), Pierce Brosnan (Adam Lang), Kim Cattrall (Amelia Bly), Olivia Williams (Ruth Lang), Tom Wilkinson (Paul Emmett)
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British prime minister Adam Lang, he quickty finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration’s harsh tactics. And as the ghostwriter digs into the politician’s past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
THE GHOST WRITER Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Silver Bear San Sebastian IFF: FIPRESCI Award Globo d’Oro
Roman Polanski
Pictures: Guy Ferrandis © RP Films
Filmography: 1962 LE COUTEAU DANS L’EAU 1964 LES PLUS BELLE ESCROQUERIES DU MONDE 1965 REPULSION 1966 CUL DE SAC 1967 LE BAL DES VAMPIRES 1968 ROSEMARY’S BABY 1971 MACBETH 1972 QUOI? 1974 CHINATOWN 1976 LE LOCATAIRE 1979 TESS 1986 PIRATES 1988 FRANTIC 1992 LUNES DE FIEL 1994 LA JEUNE FILLE ET LA MORT 1999 LA NEUVIEME PORTE 2002 LE PIANISTE 2005 OLIVER TWIST
Production: R.P. Films SAS 102 av. des Champs Elysées 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 568 92 400 fax +33 1 472 09 371 rp.features@rpproductions.fr
World Sales: Summit Entertainment 1630 Stewart Street, Suite 120 90404 Santa Monica USA tel. +1 310 309 8400 fax +1 310 828 4132
www.theghostwriter-movie.com
Press: Jean-Pierre Vincent 12 rue Poul Boudry 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 422 52 380 fax +33 1 428 95 434 jpvpresse@gmail.com
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Animated Feature Film
THE ILLUSIONIST
UK/France 90 min.
DIRECTED BY: Sylvain Chomet WRITTEN BY: Sylvain Chomet, based on an original screenplay by Jacques Tati PRODUCED BY: Bob Last & Sally Chomet ANIMATION: Laurent Kircher, Thierry Torres Rubio, Nic Debray, Victor Ens, Antonio Mengual Llobet, Charlotte Walton, Sandra Gaudi, Javier Martin Lapeyra & Manuel Garcia Galiana
THE ILLUSIONIST is a story about two paths that cross. An outdated, ageing magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city, and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act, meets a young girl at the start of her life’s journey. Alice is a teenage girl, with all her capacity for childish wonder still intact. She plays at being a woman without realising that the day to stop pretending is fast approaching. She doesn’t know yet that she loves the illusionist like she would a father; he already knows that he loves her as he would a daughter. Their destinies will collide, but nothing – not even magic or the power of illusion– can stop the voyage of discovery.
THE ILLUSIONIST Festival Participation Berlin IFF 2010 Edinburgh IFF 2010
Sylvain Chomet Filmography 1996 LA VIELLE DAME ET LES PIGEONS (short) 2004 THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE 2006 PARIS, JE T’AIME, episode Tour Eiffel
Production: Django Films 12/196 Rose Street Edinburgh EH2 4AT UK
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World Sales: Pathé Pictures International 2 rue Lamennais 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 71 72 33 05 fax +33 1 71 72 33 10 sales@patheinternational.com
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
I0, DON GIOVANNI I, DON GIOVANNI
European Production Designer
Austria/Italy/Spain 120 min.
WRITTEN BY: Carlos Saura, Raffaelo Uboldi & Alessandro Vallini DIRECTED BY: Carlos Saura PRODUCED BY: Andrea Occhipinti, Andres Vicente Gomez & Igor Uboldi DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Vittorio Storaro EDITOR: Julia Juaniz PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Paola Bizzarri & Luis Ramirez MAIN CAST: Lorenzo Balducci (Lorenzo da Ponte), Lino Guanciale (Mozart), Emilia Verginelli (Anneta), Ketevan Kemoklídze (Adriana Ferrarse / Donna Elvira)
Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte is leading a very cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna. Supported by his friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the king’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival’s ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist. But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.
I, DON GIOVANNI
Carlos Saura
World Sales: Roissy Films 58 rue Pierre Charron 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 53 53 50 66 vjimenez@roissyfilms.com
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Cinematographer
Как я провел этим летом (KAK YA PROVEL ETIM LETOM)
Russia 124 min.
HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Alexei Popogrebsky PRODUCED BY: Roman Borisevich & Alexandr Kushaev DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Pavel Kostomarov EDITOR: Ivan Lebedev PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Gennady Popov MAIN CAST: Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei Gulybin), Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel Danilov)
A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere.
HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Silver Bear for Best Actor, Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement (Camera) Go East – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2010: Award of the Federal Foreign Office, FIPRESCI PRIZE Polar Lights Arctic FF Murmansk: Grand Prix Sydney IFF 2010: Honourable Mention Art FF in Teplice: BLUE ANGEL AWARD for Best Feature Film Cinedécouvertes, Belgium 2010: Discovery Award “Cinedécouverte” New York IFF Karlovy Vary IFF San Francisco IFF Transilvania IFF Sarajevo IFF
Alexei Popogrebsky
Production: KOKTEBEL Film Company Mantulinskaya str. 7 123100 Moscow RUSSIA tel. +7 926 562 64 77 dima@koktebelfilm.ru
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World Sales: Bavaria Film International Bavariafilmplatz 7, Building 71 82031 Geiselgasteig GERMANY tel. +49 89 6499 2686 fax +49 89 6499 3720 international@bavaria-film.de
Filmography 2003 KOKTEBEL (Koktebel) (with Boris Khlebnikov) 2007 PROSTYE VESHCHI (Simple Things) 2010 KAK YA PROVEL ETIM LETOM (How I ended this Summer)
www.bavaria-film-international.com
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Composer
KAWASAKIHO RŮŽE KAWASAKI’S ROSE
Czech Republic 95 min.
WRITTEN BY: Petr Jarchovský DIRECTED BY: Jan Hřebejk PRODUCED BY: Rudolf Biermann & Tomas Hoffman DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin Sacha EDITOR: Vladimir Barak PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Milan Bycek MAIN CAST: Martin Huba (Pavel), Lenka Vlasakova (Lucie), Ladislav Chudik (Kafka), Antonin Kratochvil (Borek), Daniela Kolarova (Jana)
The year is 2009. Pavel Josek, an eminent scientist and former dissident, is due to receive a state honour for bravery. During the filming of a television documentary about his life it comes to light that at the beginning of the 1970s – under pressure from the secret police – he played a part in the discrediting of a former friend, who was ultimately forced to emigrate. The film recounts events that took place over thirty years earlier without using a single flashback. The family drama sheds light on the practices employed by the secret police to discredit its opponents. An emotional story of guilt and atonement, the pitfalls of memory and the need for forgiveness.
KAWASAKI’S ROSE Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010: Ecumenical Jury Prize of Panorama Section, CICAE Prize Finale Festival of Czech Films 2010: Best Feature Film, Audience Award Taormina FF 2010 Edinburgh IFF 2010 Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 Jerusalem IFF 2010 Film and Art Festival Two Riversides 2010: Best Feature Film Espoo Cine 2010 Pusan IFF 2010 Mumbai F 2010 Sao Paulo IFF 2010 Vancouver IFF 2010 Mill Valley FF 2010 Ghent IFF 2010 Cinemania FF 2010 Denver IFF Aspen FF 2010 Milwaukee IFF 2010 Philadelphia IFF 2010 Sarasota IFF 2010 Bergen IFF 2010
Jan Hřebejk Production: In Film Praha sr.o. Machova 21 Praha 2, 120 00 CZECH REPUBLIC tel. +42 0222515357 fax +42 0222510613 infilm@infilm.cz
World Sales: Menemshafilms 213 Rose Avenue, 2nd floor Venice, CA 90291 USA tel. +1 310 4521 775 fax +1 310 4523 740 neilf@menemshafilms.com
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Film / European Director / European Screenwriter / European Cinematographer / European Editor / EFA Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
LEBANON
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 Iahav-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)
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 center 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 self-sacrifice. 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. Lebanon is based on a true story about survival in the face of a palpable threat of death, a situation in which the conflict between basic instincts and human conscience claims its victims.
LEBANON 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
Production: Metro Communications 34 Allenby Tel Aviv, 63325 ISRAEL tel. +972-3-5177101/2 fax +972-3-5103311 Metro@metrocom.co.il
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World Sales: Celluloid Dreams 2, rue Turgot Paris 75009 FRANCE tel. +33-1-49-70-09-85 hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com
Filmography: 1998 THE KING LIVES, TV 2001 TOTAL ECLIPSE, TV doc. 2003 THE DEVIL FROM MOSCOW, video art combined with stage play 2005 THE INSUFFERABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, TV doc. 2009 LEBANON
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Actress
LOURDES
Austria/France/Germany 99 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jessica Hausner PRODUCED BY: Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober & Susanne Marian DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin Gschlacht EDITOR: Karina Ressler PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Katharina Wöppermann MAIN CAST: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Löwensohn, Bruno Todeschini, Gerhard Liebmann
Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome 40-year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this new-found chance for happiness, while her cure provokes envy and admiration. LOURDES
Portrait: Stefan Olah
Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: FIPRESCI Prize, SIGNIS Prize, La Navicella, Brian Award Viennale 2009: Vienna Film Award for Best Feature Film Warsaw IFF: Grand Prix Seville European FF: Golden Girardillo Thomas Pluch Award 2010 Max-Ophüls FF Saarbrücken: Supporting Award of the DEFA Foundation
Jessica Hausner
Production: coop 99 filmproduction Wasagasse 12/1 1090 Vienna AUSTRIA tel. +43 1 31 95 825 fax +43 1 31 95 825 - 20 welcome@coop99.at nina@coop99.at
www.lourdes-derfilm.at
World Sales: Coproduction Office 24, rue Lamartine 75009 Paris FRANCE tel. +31 5602 6000 fax +31 5602 6001 sales@coproductionoffice.eu press@coproductionoffice.eu
Filmography 1996 FLORA, short 1999 INTER-VIEW 2001 LOVELY RITA 2004 HOTEL 2006 TOAST 2009 LOURDES
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Documentary - Prix ARTE
MIESTEN VUORO STEAM OF LIFE
Finland/Sweden 84 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen PRODUCED BY: Joonas Berghäll DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Heikki Färm & Jani Kumpulainen EDITOR: Timo Peltola
STEAM OF LIFE
Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart and, in the warmth of rusty stoves, cleanse themselves, both physically and mentally, towards the film’s deeply emotional and unforgettable finale. The film travels through Finland joining men of all walks of life in many different saunas to let us hear their touching stories about love, death, birth, and friendship ─ about life. In all its simplicity the camera records the raw and rare beauty of landscapes, saunas and men in almost magical pictures. The presence of the characters and the depth of their emotion reaches a limit where it is almost intolerable for the viewer to watch. STEAM OF LIFE reveals the men’s naked souls in an exceptionally intimate and poetic way.
Festival Participation/Awards Docpoint Helsinki Documentary FF 2010 Tampere FF 2010 ─ Risto Jarva Award & Audience Award Visions du Réel, Nyon 2010 ─ Award of Interreligious Jury HotDocs Documentary FF, Toronto 2010 Doc Aviv FF, Tel Aviv 2010 ─ Main prize Planete Doc Review FF, Warsaw 2010 ─ Millenium Award Guth Gafa Gortahork, Donegal 2010 Midnight Sun FF, Sodankylä 2010 Documentarist, Istanbul 2010 Silverdocs, Silversprings, Maryland 2010 ─ Special Jury Mention Galway Film Fleadh 2010 Pänru Int. Documentary FF, Pärnu 2010 ─ Grand Prize DokuFest Prizren 2010 IDA DocuWeeks, Documentary Showcase, Los Angeles & New York 2010 Etats généraux du film documentaire, Lussas 2010 DMZ Docs, Bucheon-si 2010 DOK Leipzig 2010 Doclisboa, Lisbon 2010 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen 2010 ─ TOP:DOX IDFA, Amsterdam 2010 ─ Best of Fests
Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen
Production: OKTOBER OY Uutiskatu 3 00240 Helsinki FINLAND tel. +358 40 709 33 31 joonas@oktober.fi
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World Sales: Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montréal, Québec CANADA tel. +1 514 844 33 58 fax +1 514 844 72 98 janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
Press: OKTOBER OY Timo Vierimaa Uutiskatu 3 00240 Helsinki FINLAND tel. +358 40 707 9619 tinke@oktober.fi
www.oktober.fi
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Composer
MINE VAGANTI LOOSE CANNONS
Italy 116 min.
Stills: Romolo Eucalipto
WRITTEN BY: Ivan Cotroneo & Ferzan Ozpetek DIRECTED BY: Ferzan Ozpetek PRODUCED BY: Domenico Procacci DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Maurizio Calvesi EDITOR: Patrizio Marone PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Andrea Crisanti MAIN CAST: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini
Tommaso is the youngest child in the large, eccentric Cantone family who own a pasta factory in Puglia: his mother Stefania is loving but suffocated by bourgeois conventions; his father Vincenzo has unrealistically high expectations of his children; his aunt Luciana is an eccentric; his sister Elena a frustrated housewife; his brother Antonio works with their father at the pasta factory; and then there is his rebellious grandmother, trapped in the memory of an impossible love. Tommaso, an aspiring writer, has come home from Rome for an important family dinner at which his father will hand over the management of the pasta factory to him and his brother. Determined to assert his own personal choices, Tommaso plans to announce at the dinner that he is gay. But that evening, just as he begins to say “silence please”, he is upstaged by his brother who, to Tommaso’s surprise, and everyone else’s shock, reveals his own secret! Vincenzo orders Antonio out of the house, kicking him out of the family and the factory. He then collapses from a heart attack and the family is overwrought. Tommaso reluctantly steps in to run the factory but his heart isn’t it. He misses his friends and his life in Rome, but how can he come out now and risk damaging his father’s health further? A surprise visit from his friends forces the family secrets to the surface with other surprise revelations in this warm, generous and moving comedy.
Production: fandango srl Viale Gorizia 19 00198 Roma ITALY te. +39 685 21 81 11 fax +39 685 21 81 20 fandango@fandango.it
www.minevaganti.net
World Sales: Fandango Portobello Sales tel. +44 20 7605 1396 sales@fandangoportobello.com
LOOSE CANNONS
Ferzan Ozpetek Filmography: 1996 HAMAM (The Turkish bath) 1999 HAREM SUARE 2001 LE FATE IGNORANTI (The Ignorant Fairies) 2003 LA FINSETRA DI FRONTE (Facing Window) 2005 CUORE SACRO (Sacred Heart)
Press: fandango press Viale Gorizia 19 00198 Roma ITALY tel. +39 685 21 81 23 ufficiostampa@fandango.it
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Actress
NA PUTU ON THE PATH
Bosnia & Herzegovina/ Austria/Germany/Croatia 100 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jasmila Žbanić PRODUCED BY: Damir Ibrahimović, Bruno Wagner, Barbara Albert, Karl Baumgartner, Raimond Goebel, Leon Lučev DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Christine A. Maier EDITOR: Niki Mossböck PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Lada Maglajlic & Amir Vuk MAIN CAST: Zrinka Cvitešić (Luna), Leon Lučev (Amar), Ermin Bravo (Bahrija), Mirjana Karanović (Nada)
Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar’s dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...
ON THE PATH Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF 2010, competition Istanbul IFF 2010 CPH:PIX 2010 Crossing Europe Linz 2010 Karlovy Vary IFF 2010 Yerevan Golden Apricot FF 2010: FIPRESCI Jury Award Pula FF 2010: Golden Arena for Best Director, Best Actress Herceg Novi FF 2010: Golden Mimosa for Best Actress The Bernhard Wicki Film Prize 2010, German Cinema Award for Peace
Jasmila Žbanić
Production: Dekblokada Kranjceviceva 43 71000 Sarajevo BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA tel: +387 33 66 8559 fax: +387 33 66 8559
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World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH BalthasarstraBe 79-81 50670 Cologne GERMANY tel: +49 221 - 539 70 90 fax: +49 221 539 70 910 info@matchfactory.de
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Documentary - Prix ARTE
NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
France/Germany/Chile 90 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Patricio Guzmán PRODUCED BY: Renate Sachse DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Katell Djian EDITORS: Patricio Guzmán, Emmanuelle Joly & Ewa Lankiewicz
In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of the mummies, explorers and miners. But also the remains of the dictatorship’s political prisoners. Whilst the astronomers examine the most distant galaxies in search of probable extraterrestrial life, at the foot of the observatories, women are digging through the desert soil in search of their disappeared relatives… NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
Stills: Romolo Eucalipto
Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes FF 2010 ─ François Chalais Prize, Special Mention Toronto IFF 2010 ─ Audience Award San Sebastian IFF 2010 FID Marseille 2010 Festival Biarritz Amérique latine 2010 ─ Audience Award for best documentary DOK Leipzig 2010 Cinematek Âge d’Or/ Cinédécouvertes, Brussels 2010 ─ Cinédécouverte prize, Audience Award
Patricio Guzmán
Production: Atacama Productions 8, rue Titon 75011 Paris FRANCE tel./fax +33 43 72 47 66 atacama05@wanadoo.fr
World Sales: Pyramide Distribution 5 rue du Chevalier de Saint-George 75008 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 42 96 01 02 fax +33 1 40 20 02 21 elagesse@pyramide.com
http://nostalgiadelaluz.patricioguzman.com
Press: Laurence Granec and Karine Ménard 5 bis, rue Kepler 75116 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 47 20 36 66 laurence.karine@granecmenard.com
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Actor
LA NOSTRA VITA OUR LIFE
Italy 98 min.
WRITTEN BY: Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli & Daniele Luchetti DIRECTED BY: Daniele Luchetti PRODUCED BY: Ricardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini & Marco Chimenz DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Claudio Collepiccolo EDITOR: Mirco Garrone PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Giancarlo Basili MAIN CAST: Elio Germano (Claudio), Raoul Bova (Piero), Isabella Ragonese (Elena), Luca Zingaretti (Ari), Stefania Montorsi (Loredana), Giorgio Colangeli (Porcari), Alina Madalina Berzunteanu (Gabriela), Marius Ignat (Andrei), Awa Ly (Celeste), Emiliano Campagnola (Vittorio)
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against the injustice that fell upon. him. Love and support from his friends and family as well as the laughter of his children will help him to triumph against the odds.
OUR LIFE Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2010, competition
Filmography: 1988 IT’S HAPPENING TOMORROW 1990 THE WEEK OF THE SPHINX 1991 IL PORTABORSE 1993 ARRIVA LA BUFERA 1994 THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD (collective film) 1995 LA SCUOLA 1998 LITTLE TEACHERS 2000 12 POMERIGGI (documentaryperformance) 2003 GINGER AND CINNAMON 2007 MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD 2010 LA NOSTRA VITA
Production: Cattleya S.r.l. P.le Valerio Massimo, 7 00162 Roma ITALY tel. +39 06 367201 fax +39 06 3672050 info@cattleya.it
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World Sales: Celluloid Dreams 2, rue de Turgot 75009 Paris FRANCE tel.+33 1 49 70 03 70 fax +331 49 70 03 71 info@celluloid-dreams.com
Press: Le Public Systeme Cinema 40, rue Anatole France 92594 Levallois-Perret Cedex FRANCE tel. +33 1 41 34 20 32 / 21 09 adelagetoriel@ lepublicsystemecinema.fr
Pictures: Emanuela Scarpa © Cattleya srl 2010
Elio Germano & Daniele Luchetti
EFA Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI / European Actress
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
NOTHING PERSONAL
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 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
Urszula Antoniak Filmography 1993 VAARWEL (Farewell) 2004 BIJLMER ODYSSEY 2006 NEDERLANDS VOOR BEGINNERS (Dutch for non Advanced) 2009 NOTHING PERSONAL 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
www.nothingpersonalthemovie.com
Press: Reinier Selen Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV Kievitstraat 5 1221 KW Hilversum THE NETHERLANDS tel. +31 20 616 32 31 info@rinkelfilm.com
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Portrait: Elselien van der Wal
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?
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Animated Feature Film
PLANET 51
Spain/UK 90 min.
DIRECTED BY: Jorge Blanco CO-DIRECTED BY: Javier Abad & Marcos Martinez WRITTEN BY: Joseph Stillman PRODUCED BY: Ignacio Pérez Dolset & Guy Collins DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jorge Blanco ANIMATION: Javier Abad
American astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to set foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders... like Chuck!
PLANET 51 Festival Participation/Awards GOYA 2010 for Best Animated Film EGEDA Award (Jose Maria Forque) for Best Animated Film 2010 CEC Award (Cinema Writers Circle) for Best New Director 2010 to Jorge Blanco
Javier Abad & Marcos Martinez
Jorge Blanco
Production & Press: Ilion Animation Studios. C/ Calendula, 93, Ed H. 28109 Alcobendas SPAIN tel. +34 91 658 51 06 Sophie.macmahon@ilion.com
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World Sales: HandMade Films International/Almorah Services Ltd Maxwell Chambers 35-39 La Colomberie St Helier, Jersey JE2 4QB UK tel. +44 1534 868298. sarah.roberts@almorahsl.com
www.planet51.com
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Director
LA PRIMA COSA BELLA THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING
Italy 116 min.
WRITTEN BY: Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni & Paolo Virzi DIRECTED BY: Paolo Virzi PRODUCED BY: Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Nicola Pecorino EDITOR: Simone Manetti PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Tonino Zera MAIN CAST: Valerio Mastandrea (Bruno Michelucci 2009), Micaela Ramazzotti (Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci 1970- 1980), Stefania Sandrelli (Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci 2009), Claudia Pandolfi (Valeria Michelucci 2009), Marco Messeri (Nesi)
Summer, 1971. The youthful, stunning Anna Nigiotti is dubbed Miss Mamma of Livorno’s most famous bath house. Unaware of rousing the unwelcome attention of the male population; the suspicions of her husband Mario; the hidden embarrassment of her son Bruno. Today. Ever the heartthrob − despite her terminal illness − Anna blows the doctors away with her irresistible, contagious verve. Bruno, instead, has burned all bridges with his hometown, his family, his past. A passionless teacher in a trade school, he leads an obstinately disengaged life. But his sister Valeria persuades him to come home to see his mother for the last time. So Bruno makes his reluctant return to Livorno, to visit that vibrant, beautiful ball of energy, who seems to defy all the medical odds. That meeting, after years of hostility, forces Bruno to come to terms with the tumultuous past he had tried to forget at all costs. Those days and nights, years ago, spent wandering in search of a place to stay, with his still naïve, fragile sister. Thrown out of the house by their jealous father. Yet pressed on by their mother’s buoyant, dogged optimism. A family drama set against the narrow-mindedness of a provincial Italy that craves new desires, embodied in the indolent, fickle men who’d like to take advantage of Anna’s sensual charm and candor, but ultimately lack the courage and the strength; and especially in the malicious maneuvering of aunt Leda to usurp her talked-about sister’s husband and children. After the eleventh-hour discovery of an unknown brother, a surprise wedding and separation, our trio’s adventures lead to an unexpected reconciliation. A final life lesson, from an unconventional, unique mother. About keeping the faith in the little joys that life holds in store. Production: Indiana Production Company S.r.l. Via Argelati 33 20143 Milano ITALY tel. +39 02 8889111 fax +39 02 80581992 m.mignani@indianaproduction.com
World Sales: INTRAMOVIES Via E. Manfredi 15 00197 Rome ITALY tel. +39 06 8077252 fax +39 06 807 61 56 mail@intramovies.com
it.movies.yahoo.com/speciali/laprimacosabella/
THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING Festival Participation/Awards: Open Roads FF 2010 Shanghai FF 2010 David di Donatello 2010: Best Actor, Actress, Screenplay Nasti D’argento 2010: Best Director, Actress, Screenplay, Costume Design
Paolo Virzi
Press: Indiana Production Company S.r.l. Via Chiana 48 00198 Roma ITALY tel. +39 06 45555980 j.veselinovic@indianaproduction. com
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Production Designer
PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY
Estonia 114 min.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Veiko Õunpuu PRODUCED BY: Katrin Kissa DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Mart Taniel EDITOR: Thomas Lagerman PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Markku Pätilä & Jaagup Roomet MAIN CAST: Taavi Eelmaa (Tony), Ravshana Kurkova (Nadežda), Sten Ljunggren (Herr Meister), Tiina Tauraite (Tony’s wife), Denis Lavant (Count Dionysos Korzybski)
Eastern Europe, the new century. Wolf-like laws and a wolf-like appetite. There are still a few who look for the withered tree of knowledge of good and evil, planning to build quality office furniture out of it.
THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY Festival Participation/Awards: Sundance FF, official selection Rotterdam IFF, official selection Götteborg IFF Hong Kong IFF Sydney FF, Freak Me Out Programme Karlovy Vary IFF, East of the West: Special Jury Award ERA New Horizons IFF, international competition
Veiko Õunpuu Filmography: 2005 TÜHIRAND (Empty) 2007 SÜGISBALL (Autumn Ball) 2009 PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE (The Temptation of St. Tony) Production/Press: Homeless Bob Production Kentmanni 20a-26 Tallinn 10116 ESTONIA tel. +372 56 677 855 fax +372 642 40 11 kissa@too.ee
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World Sales: LevelK / Tine Klint Frederiksberg Alle 52 1820 Frederiksberg DENMARK tel. +45 2010 8580 tine.klint@levelk.dk
www.thetemptationofsttony.com
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
EFA Animated Feature Film
SAMMY’S ADVENTURES: THE SECRET PASSAGE
Belgium 85 min.
DIRECTED BY: Ben Stassen WRITTEN BY: Dominic Paris & Ben Stassen PRODUCED BY: Ben Stassen, Eric Dillens & Caroline Van Iseghem ANIMATION: Dirk De Loose
SAMMY’S ADVENTURES tells the life story of a sea turtle from birth in 1959 to maturity in 2009. This computergenerated animated tale is a coming of age movie about growing up and friendship. Spending fifty years in the oceans puts us in an unusual vantage point to witness some of the major changes that the ever growing human presence is having on our planet.
SAMMY’S ADVENTURES: THE SECRET PASSAGE
Ben Stassen Filmography Imax Films: 1996 THRILL RIDE: THE SCIENCE OF FUN 1998 ALIEN ADVENTURE ENCOUNTER IN THE THIRD DIMENSION 2000 HAUNTED CASTLE 2001 SOS PLANET 2002 MISADVENTURES IN 3D 2004 WILD SAFARI 2006 AFRICAN ADVENTURE: SAFARI IN THE OKAVANGO Features: 2007 FLY ME TO THE MOON
Production: nWave Pictures 282 rue des Alliès 1190 Brussels BELGIUM tel. +32 2 347 63 19 fax +32 2 347 24 54
www.samy-lefilm.com
World Sales: Studio Canal 1 Place du Spectacle 92863 Issy-Les-Moulineaux FRANCE tel. +33 171 35 1144 fax +33 171 35 1186
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Film
EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
Spain/Argentina 129 min.
WRITTEN BY: Eduardo Sacheri & Juan José Campanella DIRECTED BY: Juan José Campanella PRODUCED BY: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Félix Monti EDITOR: Juan José Campanella PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Marcello Pont MAIN CAST: Ricardo Darín (Benjamín Espósito), Soledad Villamil (Irene Menéndez Hastings), Pablo Rago (Ricardo Morales), Javier Godino (Isidoro Gómez), Guillermo Francella (Sandoval)
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
For 25 years, a murder case has remained indelibly etched on Benjamin Esposito’s mind. Now retired, he decides to go back over that story and take another look at a past full of love, death and friendship. But those memories, once released and replayed a thousand times over, will change his view of that past. And rewrite his future.
Festival Participation/Awards: Toronto IFF 2009 San Sebastian IFF 2009 Rio de Janeiro IFF 2009 Los Angeles AFI Festival 2009 Mar del Plata IFF 2009 Tokyo Latin Beat FF 2009 Istanbul History FF 2009 Havana FF 2009: Special Jury Prize, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Music, Audience Award Beaune Int’l Thriller FF 2010: Grand Prix Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts Awards (Premios Ariel): Best Latin-American Film Prize 13 Awards of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts of Argentinia (Premios Sur) incl. Best Film, Director, Actress, Actor, Screenplay (Adaptation), Editing, Art Direction, Music, Cinematography. GOYA 2010: Best Latin-American Film Prize Academy Award (Oscar) 2010: Best Foreign Language Film
Juan José Campanella
Production/Press: TORNASOL FILMS COMPANY C/Veneras, 9-7° 28013 Madrid SPAIN tel. +34 911023024 fax +34 915428710 tornasol@tornasolfilms.com
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World Sales: LATIDO FILMS COMPANY C/Veneras, 9-3° 28013 Madrid SPAIN tel. +34 915488877 fax +34 915488878 latido@latidofilm5.com
Filmography: 1991 THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH 1997 LOVE WALKED IN 1999 EL MISMO AMOR, LA MISMA LLUVIA (Same Love, Same Rain) 2001 EL HIJO DE LA NOVIA (Son of the Bride) 2004 LUNA DE AVELLANEDA (Avellaneda’s Moon) 2009 EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS
www.elsecretodesusojos.es
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Film
SOUL KITCHEN
Germany 99 min.
WRITTEN BY: Fatih Akin & Adam Bousdoukos DIRECTED BY: Fatih Akin PRODUCED BY: Fatih Akin & Klaus Maeck DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Rainer Klausmann (BVK) EDITOR: Andrew Bird PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Tamo Kunz MAIN CAST: Adam Bousdoukos (Zinos Kazantsakis), Moritz Bleibtreu (Illias Kazantsakis) Birol Ünel (Shayn Weiss), Anna Bederke (Lucia Faust), Pheline Roggan (Nadine Krüger), Dorka Gryllus (Anna Mondstein)
Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn‘t mend Zinos’s broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.
SOUL KITCHEN Festival Participation/Awards: Venice IFF 2009: Special Jury Award, Arca Cinema Giovani Toronto IFF 2009, special presentation Hamburg FF 2009: Art Cinema Award-winning
Portrait. Achim Kroepsch
Stills: corazón international / Gordon Timpen
Norddeutscher Filmpreis 2009: Best Screenplay
Fatih Akin
Production: corazón international GmbH & Co KG Ditmar-Koel-Str. 26 20459 Hamburg GERMANY tel. +49 40 311 82 38 0 fax +49 40 311 82 38 21 amt@corazon-int.de
www.soul-kitchen-film.com
World Sales: The Match Factory Balthasarstr. 79-81 50670 Köln GERMANY tel. +49 221 539 709 0 fax +49 221 539 709 10 info@matchfactory.de
Press: boxfish films Stubbenkammerstr. 4 10437 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 30 440 44 751 fax +49 30 440 44 691 info@boxfish-films.de
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010 NOMINATED FOR:
European Actor
SUBMARINO
Denmark 110 min.
WRITTEN BY: Tobias Lindholm & Thomas Vinterberg DIRECTED BY: Thomas Vinterberg PRODUCED BY: Morten Kaufmann DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Charlotte Bruus Christensen EDITOR: Valdis Oskarsdottir & Andri Stein Gudmundsson PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Torben Stig Nielsen MAIN CAST: Jakob Cedergren (Nick), Peter Plaugborg (Nick’s brother), Patricia Schumann (Sofie), Morten Rose (Ivan), Gustav Fischer Kjærulff (Martin)
Not yet out of elementary school, Nick and his younger brother have already been hardened by poverty, abuse and alcohol. But these two tough boys still find joy in their newborn baby brother. They gladly make up for the shortcomings of their neglectful alcoholic mother and give the infant the loving care which all children deserve. Although shortlived, this glimmer of hope will haunt them well into adulthood... Moody and anguished, 30-something Nick lives alone in a gloomy tenement shelter. He turns to lifting weights and strong beer to hold back painful memories and loneliness. He finds some comfort with faded beauty Sofie and mentally unstable Ivan, his ex-girlfriend’s brother. Nick has still not come to terms with Ana breaking up with him two years ago, an event which made him erupt into random violence and put him in prison. Nick’s inability to reach out and reconnect with his estranged brother only makes him angrier... Nick’s brother could lose custody of his six-year-old son Martin any day now. Being a responsible father is even tougher for a heroin addict. Although he has convinced himself that he turned to dealing drugs for his son’s benefit, the risky endeavor results in a painful separation from little Martin... Nick and his brother have spent their lives trying to love, trying to forget, trying to understand. The brothers will soon get their chance to reconnect and to finally realize that they’re not to blame for everything.
SUBMARINO Festival Participation/Awards: Berlin IFF, competition Krakow Off Plus Camera FF Transilvania IFF Festroia FF Cinema Jove IFF Karlovy Vary IFF Two Riversides FF
Thomas Vinterberg Filmography: 1996 THE BIGGEST HEROES 1998 FESTEN (The Celebration) 2003 IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE 2005 DEAR WENDY 2007 WHEN A MAN COMES HOME 2010 SUBMARINO
Production: Nimbus Film Hauchsvej 17 1825 Frederiksberg C DENMARK tel. +45 3634 0910 green@nimbusfilm.dk
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World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH Balthasarstr. 79-81 50670 Cologne GERMANY tel. +49 221 539 709 0 fax +49 221 539 709 10 info@matchfactory.de
www.submarino-filmen.dk
Regulations for the European Film Awards 2010 Eligibility Feature films participating in the European Film Awards 2010 must be European* feature-length fiction films intended for normal theatrical release which must have had their first official screening (be it at a festival or at a regular cinema) after 1 July 2009. The EFA Board has the right in exceptional cases to refrain from this rule. Submission deadline is 15 June 2010 Selection procedure The selection of app 40 films proposed to the EFA members to be considered for a nomination is made as follows: - in the 20 (twenty) European countries with the highest number of EFA members (as of 15 March 2010), these members vote directly for one film from among the national feature films released in their country or screened at festivals after 1 July 2009. The film having received the highest number of votes in each of these countries will automatically be included in the selection of films, provided it corresponds to the regulations of the European Film Awards; - the selection of the app 20 remaining films is made by a committee composed of members of the EFA Board and a group of experts appointed by the Board. These remaining films are selected from proposals submitted before 15 June by European film institutions, festivals, trade magazines, media partners, members of the European Film Academy and producers of European films. As a result, the committee recommends to the EFA members - around 40 (forty) films, half of them elected directly by EFA members, the others selected from all proposals received as explained above. The selection of films will be announced in the beginning of September 2010. To give all candidates an equal chance, the films selected are made available to the EFA Members on DVD and/or by VOD. The list of the films recommended by the committee is not exclusive. Producers of European films which are not among the recommended films may – upon payment of a fee – make their films available to the EFA Members by VOD.
Nomination procedure Based on the list of films recommended by the committee and/or the films made available by producers, the EFA Members vote for the nominations in the following categories: • • • • • • • •
EUROPEAN FILM EUROPEAN DIRECTOR EUROPEAN ACTRESS EUROPEAN ACTOR EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER EUROPEAN EDITOR EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER
The committee has the right to add one nomination in each of the above categories. Based on a simple majority of votes received and the nominations added by the committee, the European Film Academy announces the following: • • • • • • • •
EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN EUROPEAN
FILM: 6 nominations DIRECTOR: 5 nominations ACTRESS: 5 nominations ACTOR: 5 nominations SCREENWRITER: 4 nominations CINEMATOGRAPHER: 4 nominations EDITOR: 3 nominations PRODUCTION DESIGNER: 3 nominations
* The criteria whereby a film qualifies as European are based upon the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production, Appendix II, issued by the Council of Europe. A short film qualifies as European when the director was born in Europe or is of a European nationality. European, in the sense of the European Film Academy, shall include Israeli and Palestinian.
Election of the winners Based on the nominations, the members of the European Film Academy now vote for the winners which are announced at the European Film Awards Ceremony taking place in Tallinn / Estonia on 4 December 2010.
THE 23rd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS The European Film Awards 2010 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011, Estonian Ministry of Culture, the City of Tallinn, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Enterprise Estonia, Estonian Public Broadcasting, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and BDG.
PATRONS: CENTRE DU CINEMA OF THE FRENCH SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF BELGIUM ★ DANISH FILM INSTITUTE ★ EGEDA ★ EURIMAGES ★ FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG ★ FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND (VAF) ★ ICA - INSTITUTO DO CINEMA E DO AUDIOVISUAL ★ KORDA STUDIOS ★ MALTA FILM COMMISSION ★ MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE OF CYPRUS (CULTURAL SERVICES) ★ NETHERLANDS FILM FUND ★ POLISH FILM INSTITUTE ★ SEVILLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, A PROJECT OF ICAS, ORGANISED BY ANDALUCIA FILM COMMISSION AND SPONSORED BY EMASESA ★ AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI ★ SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE ★ TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A. (TVP) * UGC CINE CITE SAS ★
Founded in 1988, the European Film Academy (EFA) now unites more than 2,000 European film professionals with the common aim of promoting European film culture. Throughout the year, the EFA initiates and participates in a series of activities dealing with film politics as well as economic, artistic, and training aspects. The programme includes conferences, seminars and workshops, and a common goal is to build a bridge between creativity and the industry. These activities culminate in the annual presentation of the European Film Awards.