Berlinale booklet 2016 by SWISS FILMS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Swiss films at the 66th Berlinale Berlinale screening schedule

Panorama 5 Catherine Ann Berger Managing Director caberger@swissfilms.ch T +41 76 368 02 65

Selina Willemse Head of Festivals & Markets swillemse@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 286 51 88

Aida Suljicic Head of Programmes & Festival Advisor asuljicic@swissfilms.ch T +41 77 431 87 79

Forum 7 Generation Kplus

Generation 14plus

Lola at Berlinale

Kacey Mottet Klein - Shooting Star

Berlinale Talents

Berlinale Market Screenings

Coming Soon

In Production

Peter Da Rin Manager Festivals & Markets pdarin@swissfilms.ch Cover: EUROPE, SHE LOVES by Jan Gassmann Back cover: ALOYS by Tobias Nรถlle

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Title Little Mountain Boy About Heaven Heidi Europe, she loves Free To Run Aloys Keeper Wonderland

Director(s)

Xavier Koller Stéphane Goël Alain Gsponer Jan Gassmann Pierre Morath Tobias Nölle Guillaume Senez Michael Krummenacher / Jan Gassmann et al. Little Mountain Boy Xavier Koller Aloys Tobias Nölle Europe, she loves Jan Gassmann Molly Monster Ted Sieger / Michael Ekblad / Matthias Bruhn Katabui – In The Heart Of Okinawa Daniel Lopez Europe, she loves Jan Gassmann Molly Monster Ted Sieger / Michael Ekblad / Matthias Bruhn Above And Below Nicolas Steiner Europe, she loves Jan Gassmann Rio Corgo Maya Kosa / Sergio Da Costa Heidi Alain Gsponer Cats & Dogs Jesús Pérez / Gerd Gockell The Teeny-Weeny Fox Sylwia Szkiladz / Aline Quertain Keeper Guillaume Senez Molly Monster Ted Sieger / Michael Ekblad / Matthias Bruhn Amateur Teens Niklaus Hilber Free To Run Pierre Morath

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Lola at Berlinale Panorama Dokumente Panorama Special

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Lola at Berlinale Panorama Dokumente Forum Lola at Berlinale Generation Kplus Generation Kplus Generation Kplus

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CineStar 1 CinemaxX 17 CinemaxX 1 Zoo Palast 1 Filmtheater am Friedrichshein CinemaxX 14 CinemaxX 7 CinemaxX 1 CineStar 8 Zoo Palast 1 Zoo Palast 1 Cubix 9 CinemaxX 1 CinemaxX 1 HKW Delphi Filmpalast CineStar 7 Filmtheater am Friedrichshein Filmtheater am Friedrichshein CinemaxX 1 Akademie der Künste Zoo Palast 2 Colosseum 1 International

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Aloys Cats & Dogs Lick Us, Meow, Meow! Aloys Molly Monster

Panorama Special Generation Kplus Generation 14plus Panorama Special Generation Kplus

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The Miracle Of Tekir Aloys Lick Us, Meow, Meow! Rio Corgo Cats & Dogs The Teeny-Weeny Fox Aloys Cats & Dogs The Teeny-Weeny Fox Lick Us, Meow, Meow! Rio Corgo Europe, she loves Cats & Dogs

Tobias Nölle Jesús Pérez / Gerd Gockell Marie de Maricourt Tobias Nölle Ted Sieger / Michael Ekblad / Matthias Bruhn Ruxandra Zenide Tobias Nölle Marie de Maricourt Maya Kosa / Sergio Da Costa Jesús Pérez / Gerd Gockell Sylwia Szkiladz / Aline Quertain Tobias Nölle Jesús Pérez / Gerd Gockell Sylwia Szkiladz / Aline Quertain Marie de Maricourt Maya Kosa / Sergio Da Costa Jan Gassmann Jesús Pérez / Gerd Gockell

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The Teeny-Weeny Fox

Sylwia Szkiladz / Aline Quertain

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Lick Us, Meow, Meow! Rio Corgo

Marie de Maricourt Maya Kosa / Sergio Da Costa

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Rio Corgo Europe, she loves Aloys

Maya Kosa / Sergio Da Costa Jan Gassmann Tobias Nölle

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Aloys Tobias Nölle

Switzerland / France Fiction, February 2016, 90 min. Original languages: German/Swiss-German World premiere: Berlinale 2016 Cast: Georg Friedrich / Tilde von Overbeck Production: Hugofilm Productions, Zurich Petit Film, Paris SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR | ARTE World Sales: New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw T +48 600 173 205 jan@neweuropefilmsales.com www.neweuropefilmsales.com German & International Press WOLF Consultants, Gordon Spragg, Laurin Dietrich, Michael Arnon T +49 157 74 74 97 24 hello@wolf-con.com

A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as “telephone walking”. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.

* 1976 in Zurich. Tobias Nölle studied film at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His short film RENÉ (2008) was screened at numerous festivals worldwide and won several awards such as the Pardino d’oro in Locarno for the Best Swiss Short. Nölle is one of the directors of WONDERLAND, which premiered at the Festival del film Locarno 2015 (International Competition). ALOYS is his first feature, which he wrote, directed and edited. It was developed at the Torino Film Lab and selected for Les Arcs “work in progress”.

P a n o r ama D o k u m e n t e

Europe, she loves Jan Gassmann

Europe on the verge of social and economic change. A close up into the shaken vision of four couples, daily struggles, fights, kids, sex and passion. A movie about the politics of love. Seville, Tallinn, Dublin, Thessaloniki. Europe, she loves. * 1983 in Zurich. Jan Gassmann studied documentary film directing at HFF (Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film) Munich. His award-winning first feature CHRIGU (2007) premiered at the Berlinale Forum and became an international festival hit. Gassmann is the co-director of KARMA SHADUB (2013) as well as one of the initiators and directors of WONDERLAND, which premiered at the Festival del film Locarno 2015 (International Competition).

www.europesheloves.com

Switzerland / Germany Documentary, February 2016, 100 min. Original languages: English/Estonian/Greek/ Spanish World premiere: Berlinale 2016 Production: 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich Lüthje Schneider Hörl FILM GbR, Munich ARTE World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna T +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com Press Agent: (((NOISE))) Film PR Mirjam Wiekenkamp T +49 176 28 77 18 39 mirjam@noisefilmpr.com

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Rio Corgo Maya Kosa / Sergio Da Costa

Switzerland / Portugal Documentary, October 2015, 95 min. Original language: Portuguese World premiere: Doclisboa 2015 Production: Close Up Films, Geneva O Som e a Fúria, Lisbon World Rights: Close Up Films, Geneva T +41 22 808 08 46 flavia@closeupfilms.ch www.closeupfilms.ch

Silva, an old drifter, arrives at a small and isolated Portuguese village where he meets the young Ana. They develop a relation in between friendship and initiation. Fascinated by that wondrous man, Ana progressively falls into his universe. A life populated by supernatural figures including her long lost friend Carolina. But strange fits weaken Silva, bringing him to the hospital, where a dozen women start inhabiting him. Will they save him?

Maya Kosa * 1985 in Geneva. Maya Kosa studied directing at the HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design – Genève) from 2005–10. In 2010 she founded Pó Films. RIO CORGO is her first feature film. Sergio Da Costa * 1984 in Lausanne. Joint Swiss and Portugese citizenship. Sergio Da Costa received his degree from HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design – Genève) in 2010. RIO CORGO is his first feature film.

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Molly Monster Ted Sieger Michael Ekblad Matthias Bruhn

Ted Sieger * 1958 in Chile. Ted Sieger is a Swiss independent director, animator and designer of animation films and series, comics and picture books. Since 2004 Sieger also lectures at film schools. His short THE SMORTLYBACKS (2013) was screened and awarded at many festivals worldwide including Stuttgart, Villa do Conde, Baden, Clermont-Ferrand and Leipzig. Michael Ekbladh * 1960 in Sweden. Attended Sheridan College in Oakville. Since 1985 works as animator, designer and director for animations. Co-owner of Sluggerfilm in Malmö. Matthias Bruhn * 1962 in Germany. Studied Graphic Design at FHD (Fachhochschule Düsseldorf). Since 1998 co-owner, co-manager and art director of Trickstudio Lutterbeck. Bruhn lectured at the HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst) and now works as lecturer at the school of animation La Poudrière in Valence.

Molly Monster is experiencing something new. She is no longer the centre of attention in her family. The focus has now become the egg, which Mama has laid and Papa is hatching. Little Molly’s parents have absolutely no time left for her. In Monsterland parents bring the eggs to the island to hatch them. Molly, however, must stay at home in her uncle’s care. What’s more, Molly has knitted a lovely hat for the new Monster baby and now her parents have forgotten it at home. Molly thus sets out on the long and difficult journey to the egg island.

Switzerland / Germany / Sweden Animation, February 2016, 72 min. Original language: English World premiere: Berlinale 2016 Production: Little Monster GmbH, Zurich Alexandra Schatz Filmproduktion, Hannover Trickstudio Lutterbeck GmbH, Cologne Sluggerfilm AB, Malmö Senator Film München GmbH, Munich Peacock Film AG, Zurich deutschfilm GmbH, Berlin World Sales: Global Screen GmbH, Munich T +49 89 24 41 29 55 00 www.globalscreen.de Press Agent: Freebird Pictures GmbH Barbara Pörschmann | T +49 157 74 74 67 25 bnp@freebirdpicture.de

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Cats & Dogs

The Teeny-Weeny Fox

Jesús Pérez / Gerd Gockell

Le renard minuscule Sylwia Szkiladz / Aline Quertain

Switzerland / Germany | Animation | September 2015 | 6 min. Without dialogue World premiere: Fantoche 2015

France / Switzerland / Belgium | Animation | February 2016 | 8 min. Without dialogue World premiere: Clermont-Ferrand 2016

Production: Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion, Luzern Anigraf Filmproduktion, Hannover SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Magnetfilm, Berlin T +49 163 801 07 53 www.magnetfilm.de An animated short film for children about friendship. One can’t force a friendship, but an emergency can.

Production: Folimage, Bourg-Les-Valences Nadasdy Film Sarl, Geneva La Boîte, … Productions, Brussels World Sales: Folimage, Bourg-Les-Valences T +33 4 75 78 48 68 www.folimage.fr In the middle of a luxuriant garden, a teeny-weeny fox meets a daring little girl who grows giant plants! By lucky coincidence, they realise that they can grow objects too; the clever little devils think up all sorts of things to do.

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Lick Us, Meow, Meow! Léchez-nous, Miaou, Miaou! Marie de Maricourt

Jeannette lives in an institution. Eager for an emotional and sexual life, she is confronted with the authority represented by her family and the institution itself. Other residents join the revolt to support her. * 1987 in Paris. Marie de Maricourt studied film editing then worked for several years in culture management in Paris. She is currently taking a degree at HEAD (Haute école d’art et design – Genève).

Switzerland Fiction, November 2015, 15 min. Original language: French International premiere: Berlinale 2016 Cast: Aida Grifoll / Clément Langlais / Frédéric Payens / Marie Colin / Coralie Moreau / Stéphane Guérin / Yoram Gué / Nadia Sadji / Stiva Paterno / Stéphane Brunier / Thomas Caspar Production and World Rights: Haute école d’art et de design – Geneva T +41 22 388 58 89 cinema.head@hesge.ch head.hesge.ch/cinema

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Above And Below Nicolas Steiner

Switzerland / Germany Documentary, January 2015, 118 min. Original language: English World premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 Production: maximage GmbH, Zurich Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ZDF / 3sat World Rights: maximage GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 274 88 66 www.maximage.ch

Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty, heated Californian nowhere land, to beyond the stratosphere where Mars now lives on earth. “A festival treasure that treats its subjects with a dignity that transcends judgment and a poetic sensibility that ranks it among the year’s most remarkable cinematic discoveries.” Peter Debruge, Variety www.aboveandbelowfilm.com

* 1984 in Sitten. Nicolas Steiner attended the European Film College in Denmark 2005–06 and studied directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg 2007–14. He attends San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Fellow 2010–11. In 2014 Steiner was Canton Valais’ Artist in Residence in New York. His short IT’S ME HELMUT (2009) was shown at over 240 festivals. His first documentary BATTLE OF THE QUEENS (2011) premiered at the Berlinale. ABOVE AND BELOW became a huge festival hit and was selected by Variety for their Critics’ Choice section at 50th KVIFF.

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Heidi Alain Gsponer

This is the story of Heidi, the internationally famous young mountain-girl, who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Her happiness ends when her aunt takes Heidi to Frankfurt. www.heidi-film.ch * 1976 in Zurich. Joint Swiss and German citizenship. Alain Gsponer attends Schule für Gestaltung Bern 1996–97 and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Directing department 1997–2002. He has recently directed the award-winning films THE LITTLE GHOST (2013) and AKTE GRÜNINGER (2014). Gsponer lives and works in Berlin and is currently working on a screen adaptation of Ödön von Horváth’s “Jugend ohne Gott”. HEIDI is Switzerland’s best international cinema release ever.

Switzerland / Germany Fiction, December 2015, 105 min. Original languages: German/Swiss-German Cast: Anuk Steffen / Bruno Ganz / Quirin Agrippi / Isabelle Ottmann / Anna Schinz / Katharina Schüttler Production: Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH, Munich Studiocanal GmbH, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Teleclub AG World Sales: StudioCanal / International Sales, Issy-les-Moulineaux T +33 1 71 35 35 35 www.studiocanal.com

Kac e y M ott e t K l e i n

S H O O T IN G S T A R Kac e y M ott e t K l e i n S h oot i n g S ta r 2 0 1 6 Switzerland

Kacey Mottet Klein made his screen acting debut at the age of ten in Ursula Meier's HOME, winning a Swiss Film Award for Best Emerging Talent. For SISTER he received the Swiss Film Award for Best Actor as well as a César nomination. He became known to a wider audience in France after portraying the young Serge Gainsbourg in GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE. At 16, Kacey decided to concentrate on his acting career and has since played leads for films such as KEEPER by Guillaume Senez or BEING 17 by André Téchiné.

Being 17

Quand on a 17 ans

André Techiné 2016 | France | Fiction | 116 min. Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila

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BEING 17, 2016 by André Techiné (France) KEEPER, 2015 by Guillaume Senez (Belgium / Switzerland / France)

17-year-old Damien lives with his mother, Marianne, while his father is on a military mission abroad. In school, Damien is constantly bullied by Tom, the adopted son of local farmers. But to help out Tom’s sick mother, Marianne offers to take him in. Forced to live together, the tension between the two boys becomes more and more palpable…

S e l e ct e d f i l ms

Feb. 13, 21:30, CinemaxX 9:

advanced press screening for daily press only

Feb. 14, 15:30, CinemaxX 7 + 9:

official press screening, directly followed by photo call, then press conference at the HYATT

Feb. 14, 22:00, Berlinale Palast (Premiere) Additional screenings:

www.efp-online.com www.shooting-stars.eu © Ona Pinkus

SISTER, 2012 by Ursula Meier (Switzerland / France) GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE, 2010 by Joann Sfar (France) HOME, 2008 by Ursula Meier (Switzerland / France / Belgium)

www.efp-online.com www.shooting-stars.eu

Feb. 15, 15:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast Feb. 15, 17:35, CinemaxX 10 (Market Screening) Feb. 15, 21:00, Zoo Palast 1 Feb. 19, 09:30, Friedrichstadt-Palast Feb. 21, 19:30, Berlinale Palast

B ERLIN A LE T A LEN T S

Claudio Cea

Editor, Producer

* 1977 in Switzerland. Swiss editor and producer working for feature films, documentaries, commercials and film trailers. Claudio Cea is a member of the European Film Academy, the Swiss Film Academy and the Canadian Cinema Editors. He is an alumnus of the Vancouver Film School in Canada and the International Film School of Cologne in Germany and is experienced in working in English, French, German and Italian.

Projects (selection): Il mangiatore di pietre (2016) by Nicola Bellucci, Editing | Jean-Pierre (short animation) by Jakob & Martin Krattiger, Producer | Miséricode (working title) (2016) by Fulvio Bernasconi, Editing | Katzen (2015) by Moritz Gerber (short), Producer | ThuleTuvalu (2015) by Matthias von Gunten, Editing | Therapy For A Vampire (2014) by David Rühm, Editing | Tutti Giù – Everybody Sometimes Falls (2012) by Niccolo Castelli, Editing | The Sandman (2011) by Peter Luisi, Editing

Michela Pini

Producer

* 1980 in Switzerland. Swiss film producer, working for national and international coproductions, with the aim to discover and produce young directors. Michela Pini began working in production with Imagofilm and Amka Films after her film studies in 2005. In 2005 she also founded Cinédokké, a company engaged in casting, production services and press office as well as producing works of young Swiss directors. She is a member of the board of Film and Audiovisual Association of Ticino and president of the Ticino Film Commission Foundation.

Projects (selection): Marrakech by Niccolò Castelli, Imagofilm, Development | The Birch Tree by Susanne Kaelin, Cinédokké, Development | Becaaria by Erik Bernasconi, Cinédokké, Development | Selam by Caterina Mona, Cinédokké, Development | La mer à boire (short) by Tania Zambrano Ovalle, Cinédokké, Pre-Production | Pietrapaola by Daniel Kemeny, Cinédokké, Pre-Production | Cronofobia by Francesco Rizzi, Imagofilm, Production | Il vicino by Klaudia Reynicke, Amka Films Productions SA, Post-Production | Persi (2015) by Caterina Mona, Cinédokké, Production | 17 anni (2013) by Filippo Demarchi, Cinédokké, Production | Goal (2012) by Fulvio Bernasconi, Cinédokké, Production

Bigna Tomschin

Editor, Director

* 1990 in Switzerland. Bigna Tomschin works as director and editor in Zurich and Hamburg. She studied at the Zurich University of the Arts. Her short films Tapeten (2013) and Blue Blue Sky (2014) have been screened at numerous international festivals and honoured with awards, including the German Camera Award 2014. The film Unlikely Heroes (2014), which she edited, celebrated its premiere on the Piazza Grande in Locarno, where it received the Audience Award.

Projects (selection): My Fidelity (working title) (documentary), In Production, Sterntaucher Filmproduktion Hamburg, Director | Blue Blue Sky (2014) (short), Zurich University of the Arts, Director | King (2015) by Jan-Eric Mack (short), Zurich University of the Arts, Editor | Inland (2015) by Piet Baumgartner, (short), Zurich University of the Arts, Editor | Unlikely Heroes (2014) by Peter Luisi, Spotlight Media Productions AG, Editor (Audience Award, Festival del film Locarno 2014)

B e r l i n a l e M a r k e t S c r e e n i n gs

About Heaven

Amateur Teens

Fragments du paradis Stéphane Goël

Niklaus Hilber

Switzerland | Documentary | August 2015 | 85 min. Original language: French World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2015

Switzerland | Fiction | September 2015 | 92 min. Original language: Swiss-German World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2015

Production: Association Climage, Lausanne RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Sales: Doc & Film International, Paris | T +33 1 42 77 56 87 www.docandfilm.com Switzerland is often perceived as heaven on earth. But do its inhabitants believe in heaven? Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. What is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.

Cast: Fabrizio Borsani / Annina Walt / Chiara Carla Bär / Luna Wedler / Benjamin Dangel / Jérôme Humm / Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen et al. Production: A Film Company, Zurich | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Film Republic, London | T +44 203 287 91 12 | filmrepublic.biz A group of ordinary 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zurich with the common yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence. 15

B e r l i n a l e M a r k e t S c r e e n i n gs

Free To Run

Katabui, In The Heart Of Okinawa

Pierre Morath

Katabui, au coeur d’Okinawa Daniel Lopez

Switzerland / France / Belgium | Documentary | February 2016 | 100 min. | Original languages: French/English

Switzerland / Japan | Documentary | 80 min. | Original languages: French/Japanese

Production: PointProd SA, Geneva | Yuzu Production, Paris Eklektik Productions, Brussels | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse | ARTE France | RTBF World Sales: Jour2Fête, Paris | T +33 1 40 22 92 15 | www.jour2fete.com From the streets of New York to trails in the Swiss Alps, men and women, champions or unknown people… every year tens of millions of people run. Fifty years ago, running was still considered to be eccentric, an almost deviant practice reserved for male athletes in stadiums. The film recounts the epic story of this solitary sport, which has become a universal passion.

Production: Thelma Film AG, Undervelier Kukuru Vision Inc., Naha-City World Sales: Outside The Box, Delémont | T +41 32 423 17 78 info@outside-thebox.ch During their struggle against the US military bases, the Okinawan people have found the ability to peacefully resist. They have been able to maintain an inexplicable identity, which is fascinating even to the Japanese.

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Keeper

Little Mountain Boy

Guillaume Senez

Schellen-Ursli Xavier Koller

Belgium / Switzerland / France | Fiction | August 2015 | 90 min. Original language: French World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2015

Switzerland | Fiction | October 2015 | 104 min. Original languages: Swiss-German/German/French/Italian

Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein / Galatea Bellugi / Catherine Salée / Sam Louwyk / Laetitia Dosch Production: Iota Production, La Hulpe Louise Productions, Lausanne Offshore, Paris Savage Film, Brussels RTS | SRG SSR | Be TV, Brussels | RTBF World Sales: Be For Films, Brussels | T +32 4 89 80 21 23 | www.beforfilms.com Maxime and Mélanie are in love. They are both 15 years old and barely out of childhood. One day, Mélanie finds out she’s pregnant. Maxime wants to keep the baby no matter what. www.keeper-film.com

Cast: Jonas Hartmann / Marcus Signer / Tonia Maria Zindel / Leonardo Nigro / Martin Rapold / Sarah Sophia Meyer / Julia Jeker / Laurin Michael / Andrea Zogg / Herbert Leiser / René Schnoz / Peter Jecklin Production: C-Films AG, Zurich | La Siala Entertainment, Bergün | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR | RTR Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha | Teleclub AG World Sales: Arri Media Worldsales, Munich T +49 89 38 09 12 88 | www.arriworldsales.de Based on the famous children’s book “A Bell For Ursli” (“SchellenUrsli”) by Selina Chönz and Alois Carigiet. www.schellen-ursli.com 17

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The Miracle Of Tekir

Wonderland Heimatland

Le miracle de Tekir Ruxandra Zenide

M. Krummenacher / J. Gassmann / L. Blatter / G. Frei / B. Jaberg / C. Jaquier / J. Meier / T. Nölle / L. Rupp / M. Scheiwiller

Switzerland / Romania | Fiction | September 2015 | 88 min. Original language: Romanian World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2015

Switzerland / Germany | Fiction | August 2015 | 99 min. | Original languages: German/French World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2015

Cast: Dorotheea Petre / Elina Löwensohn / Bogdan Dumitrache / George Piștereanu Production: Elefant Films Sàrl, Geneva | Elefant Film, Bucharest | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse | SRG SSR World Sales: Ultraviolet Media, Bucharest T +40 72 388 91 69 | www.ultravioletmedia.eu In the heart of the Danube Delta, earth and water, superstition and religion are mixed together to make up the mysterious Tekir’s mud. Accused of witchery and chased away from her village, Mara finds a job at the Tekir Hotel. She is in charge of the rich and eccentric Mrs. Lili, providing her treatment with this miraculous mud. The relationship between the two women becomes the key of the miracle of Tekir. themiracleoftekir.com

Cast: Peter Jecklin / Michèle Schaub-Jackson / Liana Hangartner / Nicolas Bachmann / Morgane Ferru / Viola von Scarpatetti / Dashmir Ristemi Production: Contrast Film Bern GmbH, Bern 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich Passanten Filmproduktion GbR, Munich World Sales: WIDE, Paris | T +33 1 53 95 04 64 | www.widemanagement.com A hurricane of catastrophic proportions is brewing over Switzerland. The country is in a state of emergency. Ten directors from a new generation of filmmakers imagine how the Swiss would deal with the worst possible disaster: the downfall of their country. www.heimatland-film.com

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Expected Spring 2016

Cahier africain Heidi Specogna

Switzerland / Germany Documentary, 117 min. Original languages: German/French Production: PS Film GmbH, Zurich Filmpunkt GmbH, Cologne Specogna Film, Berlin ZDF / 3sat World Rights: PS Film GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 481 31 70 psfilm@hotmail.com

Taking centre stage in the film is a small notebook, an ordinary exercise book with fancy racing cars on the cover. But in place of vocabulary, its pages are filled with courageous testimonies by 300 Central African women and girls. They reveal what was done to them by Congolese mercenary soldiers in the course of military disputes in October 2002. The notebook is their self-made piece of evidence to indict the crimes of rape committed against them.

* 1959 in Switzerland. Heidi Specogna worked as a journalist before studying film at the DFFB Berlin from 1982–88 and founded her own production company Specogna Film in 1990. Specogna is known for her award-winning documentaries CARTE BLANCHE (2011), THE GOALGETTER’S SHIP (2010) and THE SHORT LIFE OF JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ (2006). She works as a lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the Film Academy BadenWürttemberg in Ludwigsburg.

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Expected Spring 2016

The Chinese Lives Of Uli Sigg Michael Schindhelm

* 1960 in Germany. Michael Schindhelm is a writer, filmmaker, performing arts expert and cultural advisor for international organisations. He worked also as playwright, television presenter and translator. His previous film BIRD’S NEST (2008), co-directed with Christoph Schaub, on the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in China was screened at several international festivals.

The Swiss Uli Sigg had an impact on China’s shifting economic policy after the Mao era. He has also established the world’s most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art. The majority of this collection will be transferred to Hong Kong’s M+ museum, due to open in 2019. A documentary about the entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg in the tense and ongoing transformation of Chinese society from the late 1970s until today. www.ulisiggmovie.com

Switzerland Documentary, 93 min. Original languages: Swiss-German/German/ English/Chinese Production: T&C Film AG, Zurich World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna T +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com

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Expected Spring 2016

The Idea Of A Lake La idea de un lago Milagros Mumenthaler

Switzerland / Argentina Fiction, 82 min. Original language: Spanish Cast: Carla Crespo / Rosario Bléfari Production: Alina film Sarl, Geneva RTS Radio Télévision Suisse Ruda cine, Buenos Aires World Rights: Alina film Sarl, Geneva T +41 76 372 21 96 www.alinafilm.com Ruda cine, Buenos Aires www.rudacine.com.ar

Inès, 35 years old, is a photographer. She is in an emotionally fragile phase and begins putting together a book of personal poems and photographs. Gradually, the process of bringing a book to fruition becomes a very personal and unfettered exploration of her past: of her relationship with her mother; the role of the family home in the south, which seems to have been frozen in time; and how the absence of her father – who disappeared in 1977 during the dictatorship – influenced all of those years.

* 1977 in Argentina. Joint Swiss and Argentinian citizenship. Milagros Mumenthaler received her degree in film directing from the Universidad del cine, Buenos Aires in 2005. She has directed four short films, selected and awarded at many festivals. Her first feature ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS (2011), developed at the Cannes residence Cinéfondation, won the Pardo d’oro at the Festival del film Locarno and was screened at numerous international festivals.

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Expected Fall 2016

The Soul Of The Tiger

L’âme du tigre François Yang

* 1978 in Fribourg. François Yang attended ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne), cinema department 1998–2003 as well as a scriptwriting workshop at Fémis, Paris in 2005. He is known for his documentaries. THE SOUL OF THE TIGER is his first featurelength fiction film.

Alex, a young man of Chinese descent, feels like a free man on the top of a mountain, with his French girlfriend. But he suddenly has to face the mysterious death of his brother. He returns to his family in the Chinese district of Paris. The rites and tradition he is unable to follow reveal the full extent of his estrangement from his father’s heritage. With the help of his beautiful and disturbing cousin Lily, and coping with his own ignorance of his father’s culture and language, he tries to unravel a family secret. Will he be strong enough to forgive the past and to reconcile with his family?

Switzerland / France / Belgium Fiction, 88 min. Original languages: French/Mandarin Cast: Frédéric Siuen / Xin Wang / Audrey Bastien / Bing Yin / Marianne Basler / Yvan Yan / Ariane Wang Production: P.S. Productions Sàrl, Châtel-St-Denis Tarantula Belgique, Liège Banshee Films, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: P.S. Productions Sàrl, Châtel-St-Denis T +41 21 922 03 72 www.ps-productions.ch

I n P r od u ct i o n

Almost There

Der kleine Diktator

Eldorado

Jacqueline ZĂźnd

Dani Levy

Markus Imhoof

Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich Intermezzo Films SA, Geneva Documentary Planned for Fall 2016

X Filme Creative Pool GmbH, Berlin Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich Fiction Planned for Fall 2016

Thelma Film AG, Undervelier Ormenis Film AG, Zurich zero one film GmbH, Berlin Documentary Planned for Summer 2016

Jean Ziegler (working title)

Like Dew In The Sun

Wild Plants

Nicolas Wadimoff

Peter Entell

Nicolas Humbert

Dreampixies, Vevey Documentary Planned for Spring 2016

Show and Tell Films, Founex Documentary Planned for Spring 2016

Close Up Films, Geneva Leykauf Film, Munich Documentary Planned for Spring 2016

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