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49th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM January 22 – February 02, 2020 FEATURE FILM CONTACT LIST January 31, 2020 Angola Air Conditioner World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Fradique Prod. Countries: Angola Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 72 Genre: Fiction Company: Geração 80 Contact: Jorge Cohen Email: [email protected] Logline: Air conditioners mysteriously start falling from buildings in the Angolan capital. The search for a working unit forms the starting point for an pleasantly free film representing the city's heartbeat. A great jazzy soundtrack, a rap and the chaotic hum of the city guide us through its streets and buildings. Sold territories: All available Argentina Los que vuelven International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Laura Casabé Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: Reel Suspects Contact: Alejandro Israel Email: [email protected] Logline: In this drama dealing with fear and oppression in South America, supernatural powers are unleashed when, in desperation, the wife of a white landowner invokes the spirits of
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Transcript of Angola Argentina - IFFR
49th
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
ROTTERDAM
January 22 –
February 02, 2020
FEATURE FILM CONTACT LIST
January 31, 2020
Angola
Air Conditioner
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Fradique Prod. Countries: Angola Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 72 Genre: Fiction Company: Geração 80 Contact: Jorge Cohen Email: [email protected] Logline: Air conditioners mysteriously start falling from buildings in the Angolan capital. The search for a working unit forms the starting point for an pleasantly free film representing the city's heartbeat. A great jazzy soundtrack, a rap and the chaotic hum of the city guide us through its streets and buildings. Sold territories: All available
Argentina
Los que vuelven
International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Laura Casabé Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: Reel Suspects Contact: Alejandro Israel Email: [email protected] Logline: In this drama dealing with fear and oppression in South America, supernatural powers are unleashed when, in desperation, the wife of a white landowner invokes the spirits of
the indigenous people. Her stillborn child is brought back to life, but at a terrible price. Is this the feared retribution? Sold territories: Argentina
Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi
International premiere Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Laura Citarella, Mercedes Halfon Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 90 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: El Pampero Cine Contact: Ingrid Pokropek Email: [email protected] Logline: When a young journalist and poet inherits the oeuvre of Argentinian poet Juana Bignozzi, the question arises: What to do with it? And how do you make a film about poetry? Charming, universally understandable film about creativity and filmmaking by the El Pampero Cine team (La mujer de los perros, La Flor). Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAUdhXfcKk
Emilia
World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): César Sodero Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 97 Genre: Fiction Company: Tarea Fina Contact: Juan Pablo Miller Email: [email protected] Logline: After breaking up with her girlfriend, Emilia returns from the city to her village in
Patagonia. The calm, unchanging nature of the impressive landscape contrasts with her restless inner life, and the people from her past elicit old emotions and new insights, some of which are not so uplifting. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgAm8ievSzw Sold territories: All available
El cazador
World premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Marco Berger Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 101 Genre: Fiction Company: Wildstar Sales Contact: Murray Dibbs Email: [email protected] Logline: 15-year old homosexual Ezéquiel’s sexual awakening rapidly lands him in a moral dilemma. Compact, conspicuously subdued drama by Argentinian director Marco Berger, who won the Berlin festival's Teddy Award for Ausente in 2011. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Co6JL4yM1g Sold territories: All available
Si yo fuera el invierno mismo
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Jazmín López Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 92 Genre: Fiction Contact: Jazmín López Email: [email protected]
Logline: Four friends meet at a remote estate to create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic works by Jean-Luc Godard, Harun Farocki and Ana Mendieta. During the artistic process one of them becomes entangled in her memories of an ex-lover she can't forget. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7rt6Say0Is
La dosis
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Martín Kraut Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: Oration Films Contact: Timothy O’Brien Email: [email protected] Logline: An Argentine hospital thriller that doesn't speak ill of the dead. But what about the living? Experienced nurse Marcos loves his patients, which leads him to sometimes take drastic measures to end their suffering. His secret is made more complicated by the arrival of charismatic nurse Gabriel, who also has a dark secret. Sold territories: All available
Ofrenda
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Juan Mónaco Cagni Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 65 Genre: Fiction Contact: Juan Mónaco Cagni Email: [email protected]
Logline: Two women meet at the same places at various moments in their lives. Treading in the footsteps of great philosophers and masters of cinema, the exceptionally young director does not shy away from evoking existential questions from a provincial town on the pampas in his ultra-low-budget debut. Universal and unique. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hcPV4CMSM Sold territories: All available
Piedra sola
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf Prod. Countries: Argentina, Mexico, Qatar, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 82 Genre: Fiction Company: RamondaParis Contact: Pascale Ramonda Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 1 43586029 Logline: In the far north of Argentina, at a breathtaking four thousand metre elevation, a lama herder lives close to nature. When a puma threatens his herd, he goes in search of the predator. A mystical meeting ensues. Visually impressive portrait, at the intersection of fiction and documentary, of a centuries-old culture. Sold territories: All available
Australia
True History of the Kelly Gang
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Justin Kurzel Prod. Countries: Australia, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 124 Genre: Fiction Company: Memento Films International Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Email: [email protected] Logline: Mad Max meets Jesse James in this version of the life and crimes of the infamous nineteenth-century bush ranger Ned Kelly. An energetic and punky coming-of-age story about the dismal teenage years of a troubled rebel, in constant conflict with his British colonial masters. A cruel, violent portrait of the legendary Australian criminal. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiYcuPbTjk
Babyteeth
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Shannon Murphy Prod. Countries: Australia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 120 Company: Celluloid Dreams Contact: Hengameh Panahi Email: [email protected] Logline: Loving, tragic portrait of a terminally ill Australian teenager who falls in love with a no-good drugs dealer. A subtle, comic debut about love, pain and letting go, with a stunning performance from Eliza Scanlen in the lead role as a teenage girl who can all too briefly become a
young woman.
Austria
With Love – Volume One 1987-1996
World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns
Director(s): Michael Pilz Prod. Countries: Austria Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 111 Genre: Experimental Company: Michael Pilz Film Contact: Michael Pilz Email: [email protected] Logline: Austrian maverick master Michael Pilz is an obsessive collector of images. For him this almost invariably means encounters with people and moments of resonating silence that offer spaces for meditation and self-realisation. You are invited to enter his spiritual space. Sold territories: All available
Little Joe
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Jessica Hausner Prod. Countries: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 105 Genre: Fiction Company: Coproduction Office Contact: Christina Demetriou Email: [email protected] Logline: In this cold-blooded thriller, bio scientist Alice (Emily Beecham) dedicates her life to the invention of a new plant that makes its owners happy. But the prototype, ‘Little Joe’, maybe works too well. The users turn into anaesthetised zombies incapable of feeling any
other emotions. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt2WL9wIsfs
Sicherheit123
Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Julia Gutweniger, Florian Kofler Prod. Countries: Austria, Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 72 Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Julia Gutweniger Email: [email protected] Logline: Increasingly, the sublime beauty of the Alps is tainted by construction works intended to protect inhabitants from natural disasters. The makers avoid any commentary, but the critical distance that accompanies their laconic observations says it all. As if the forces of nature would ever obey the human desire for control. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcpKilBIV2k Sold territories: All available
Belgium
Il était un petit navire
International premiere Programme section: Marion Hänsel, à la vie Director(s): Marion Hänsel Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 65 Genre: Fiction Company: Doc & Film International Contact: Daniela Elstner Email: [email protected] Logline: "I open my eyes and I hear, I close my eyes and I see." During a hospital stay, life stands still, starting the filmmaker's poetic journey
through valuable memories: her childhood, her artistic vocation, her loved ones and her son, with whom she is close. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0Aua2TjdI Sold territories: Belgium
On a le temps pour nous
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Katy Léna Ndiaye Prod. Countries: Belgium, Burkina Faso, Senegal Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 67 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Indigo Mood Films Contact: Katy Léna Ndiaye Email: [email protected] Logline: The 1987 assassination of Marxist politician Thomas Sankara prematurely ended Burkina Faso's fledgling democracy. Rapper, poet and activist Smockey keeps the spirit alive, rapping social commentary, political commitment and solidarity with the oppressed. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBosUVnm1yA Sold territories: All available
Adoration
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Fabrice Du Welz Prod. Countries: Belgium, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Film Company: Memento Films International Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Email: [email protected] Logline: In this beautifully filmed road trip through the Ardennes, twelve-year-old Paul tries to take the young psychiatric patient Gloria to
her grandpa in Bretagne. Along the way, love-struck Paul has to deal with Gloria's unpredictability, bad weather and hunger. With strong performances by promising young actors Thomas Gioria and Fantine Harduin. Sold territories: Switzerland (Adok Films) Japan (King Records)
The Magic Mountain
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Eitan Efrat, Daniel Mann Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 68 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Messidor Contact: Sirah Foighel Brutmann Email: [email protected] Logline: In three chapters, each with a different focus on quarries, caves and tunnels, Mann and Efrat investigate the insatiable human desire to extract natural resources from the ground in relation to different modes of knowing, sensing and seeing the world. A geological exploration and cultural history of our relation to the subsoil of the Earth. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFAmk8M5u4Y Sold territories: All available
Filles de joie
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Frédéric Fonteyne, Anne Paulicevich Prod. Countries: Belgium, France Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Film Company: Be For Films Contact: Paméla Leu
Email: [email protected] Logline: Woe betide the man who crosses the three working girls in Filles de joie. This clever example of Walloon social realism is by turns poignant and funny and, although it plays with the narrative perspective, it always, always unconditionally takes the side of these resilient women. Sold territories: France (KMBO)
Ghost Tropic
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Bas Devos Prod. Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Contact: Meng Xie Email: [email protected] Logline: 58-year-old cleaner Khadija experiences a 'long night of the soul' when she falls asleep in the last metro after a long day at work and has to walk halfway across Brussels to get home. Along the way she has a series of congenial encounters with an eclectic range of night owls. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYETRJkmPE
Mother
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Kristof Bilsen Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 82 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Deckert Distribution Contact: Liselot Verbrugge Email: [email protected] Logline: Observational documentary about a Thai woman who works in a care home in
Thailand for European patients with Alzheimer's. Her own children are cared for by her mother and she only sees them sporadically. She is racked by guilt, but finds solace and love in caring for her Western patients. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrp-9PIeTqs
Muidhond
International premiere Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Patrice Toye Prod. Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Be For Films Contact: Paméla Leu Email: [email protected] Logline: Intense adaptation of Inge Schilperoord’s controversial novel about 23-year-old Jonathan, fresh out of prison. With his mother, he tries to rebuild his life and control his paedophilic tendencies. Unfortunately, the 10-year-old girl next door is determined to become friends with him. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nstW2eIlB0I Sold territories: Benelux (Imagine)
The Barefoot Emperor
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth Prod. Countries: Belgium, Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Be For Films Contact: Paméla Leu Email: [email protected]
Logline: Three years after their festival hit King of the Belgians, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth are back with the sequel in which a new Europe is created by the patients of a remote sanatorium. A refreshingly absurdist take on show politics with understated, top-class roles for Peter Van den Begin and Udo Kier. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_sNkVZX5h8 Sold territories: Benelux (Lumiere) Baltic States (Aone) China (Huanxi)
Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel
Programme section: Marion Hänsel, à la vie Director(s): Caroline D’hondt Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 63 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: ADV Productions Contact: Monique Marnette Email: [email protected] Logline: Striking portrait of Belgian cineaste Marion Hänsel (1949), to whom IFFR is devoting a retrospective. The relationship between characters and their natural surroundings plays an important role in her work, which is often based on novels. Hänsel composes precise images and evokes effective atmospheres through sound and expressive landscapes.
Bolivia
Chaco
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Diego Mondaca Prod. Countries: Bolivia, Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 77 Genre: Fiction Company: ColorMonster Contact: Georgina Baisch Email: [email protected] Logline: Drama set in 1934. Bolivian soldiers, led by a German commander, wander the inhospitable Chaco plain. The mismatched regiment has been searching for the Paraguayan enemies for ages, but they seem unfindable. Their mission becomes more fruitless by the day, particularly when thirst, hunger, dissent and exhaustion gain the upper hand.
Brazil
In Pieces
World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Ruy Guerra Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: Kinossaurus Filmes Contact: Janaina Diniz Guerra Email: [email protected] Logline: Ruy Guerra (88), legendary Cinema Novo maverick and co-founder of Mozambique's film culture, demonstrates that a certain Kafkaesque noir is timeless. One man, two
lovers: Ana and Anna, living in identical apartments. Paranoia is the name of the game in this hallucinatory Kammerspiel with echoes of Brecht.
Bacurau
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles Prod. Countries: Brazil, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 130 Genre: Fiction Company: SBS International Contact: Kevin Chneiweiss Email: [email protected] Logline: When a remote village in the north-east of Brazil suddenly disappears from all maps in this furious genre mash-up, it turns out to presage an invasion by trigger-happy gringos. Using elements from the Western, horror and sci-fi genres, Brazil’s pitiless reality is projected several years into the future. Winner Jury Prize in Cannes. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRXOw9avhQ&feature=youtu.be
A Yellow Animal
World premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Felipe Bragança Prod. Countries: Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 115 Genre: Fiction Company: Shellac Contact: Luís Urbano Email: [email protected] Logline: Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker
undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholy, tragicomic fable mixes animation, live action, voice-overs, genres and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past. Sold territories: All available
The Fever
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Maya Da-Rin Prod. Countries: Brazil, France, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Still Moving Contact: Pierre Menahem Email: [email protected] Logline: Middle-aged native widower Justino’s life is disrupted when his daughter tells him she wants to go study in Brasilia. This hypnotic fiction feature by Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin won the international film critics’ award in Locarno, where lead actor Regis Myrupu also won Best Actor. Sold territories: Brazil (Vitrine Filmes) UK (New Wave Films) France (in nego)
Desterro
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Maria Clara Escobar Prod. Countries: Brazil, Portugal, Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 125 Genre: Fiction Company: Terratreme Filmes Contact: Pedro Peralta Email: [email protected] Logline: The relationship between a young Brazilian couple seems to be heading for the rocks. Some time after she disappears, he is told
that her body is in Argentina. What now? An explosive, disturbing fiction debut, which seems to reinvent itself several times on its way to a poignant conclusion.
Death Inhabits at Night
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Eduardo Morotó Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 94 Genre: Fiction Company: Enquadramento Produções Contact: Leonardo Mecchi Email: [email protected] Logline: Based on Bukowski's writings, this portrait of a penniless writer and the women in his life is drenched in alcohol and cigarette smoke. Elegantly shot, somehow romantic and sad debut about the search for soulmates, balancing on the edge of the abyss in dilapidated hotel rooms and shabby bars. Sold territories: Brazil (Vitrine Filmes)
Canada
Une femme, ma mère
European premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Claude Demers Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 75 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Contact: Claude Demers Email: [email protected] Logline: Claude Demers created a portrait of his
biological mother and his search for her entirely from clips from documentary and fiction films from Canada's national archive. These perfectly fitting, fluidly edited images, the voice-over and the music represent the inner worlds of the maker and his troubled mother. Sold territories: Canada (K-Films Amérique)
Drag Kids
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Megan Wennberg Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 78 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Sideways Films Contact: Kazz Basma Email: [email protected] Logline: Can you be a drag queen at a young age? Of course you can: Stephan (9), Nemis (9), Jason (11) and Bracken (11) provide living proof. Only when they dress campily with fabulous make-up can they be themselves. Highlight: their performance at Montreal Pride. Sold territories: All available except for Canada, Israel and USA (Gravitas Ventures Inc)
Les fleurs oubliées
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): André Forcier Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Company: Filmoption International Inc. Contact: Isabelle Legault Email: [email protected] Logline: Brother Marie-Victorin is bored by heaven. So he returns to earth where he meets apiarist Albert, who lives on a boat and says wise things. This unlikely duo become the core of an
alternative community disgusted by the cultural mainstream, but too fun-loving to be depressed. A honey-sweet farce! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLrP9_ZuFs
Matthias et Maxime
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Xavier Dolan Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 119 Genre: Fiction Company: Seville International Contact: Anick Poirier Email: [email protected] Logline: A pretend kiss makes unexpected feelings surface in this energetic portrait of friendships between people in their 20s and the dilemmas of thirty-somethings. While their hard-partying friends suspect nothing, bourgeois type Matthias, who buries his emotions, and Maxime, who wears hers on her sleeve, attract then repulse one another. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HkfB20oDDI
Antigone
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Sophie Deraspe Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 109 Genre: Fiction Company: Wazabi Films Contact: Anick Poirier Email: [email protected] Logline: In this adaptation of the Greek tragedy,
Antigone is a 16-year-old Algerian immigrant in Canada. She tackles the legal system and ingrained prejudices when one of her brothers is jailed. Her indelible love of and loyalty to family go viral and make her a modern heroine. Sold territories: Canada – Maison 4:3 / USA – Cinema Libre Studios / Italy – Lucky Red / France and Belgium – Ligne 7 / Israel – Nachshon Films / Mexico – Cinemas Nueva Era / South Korea – Green Narae Media
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Programme section: Synergetic Director(s): Zacharias Kunuk Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 113 Genre: Fiction Contact: Samuel Cohn-Cousineau Email: [email protected] Logline: In 1961, Inuit hunters in the Arctic were visited by a Canadian civil servant who forced them to give up their nomadic lives and move to a settlement. The Inuit filmmakers' collective Isuma shot this powerful film from the Inuit perspective on the boundless snowfields, so they could shape their own history. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0ON1v_mTY Sold territories: Canada
The Lighthouse
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Robert Eggers Prod. Countries: Canada, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 109 Genre: Fiction Company: A24 Email: [email protected] Logline: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe
shine as lighthouse keepers in this 19th-century maritime nightmare by Robert Eggers (director of The Witch). They drink away the mind-numbing time, resulting in sexually charged tension, violent outbursts and supernatural hallucinations. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWyVGa0l9M&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9ShkzdccpUZo&index=22&t=0s
Chile
Ema
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Pablo Larraín Prod. Countries: Chile Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 102 Genre: Film Company: The Match Factory GmbH Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Email: [email protected] Logline: Platinum blonde Ema comes up with a master plan to get her adopted child Polo back. This audiovisual spectacle full of dance shows the smouldering streets of Valparaiso in all their glory and takes us into the (night)life of a group of young adults. With an ambient-reggaeton soundtrack by Nicolas Jaar. Sold territories: World except: Australia/New Zeland, Austria, Baltics, BeNeLux, Brazil, CIS, Cile, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK/Eire, U
Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): José Luis Torres Leiva Prod. Countries: Chile, Germany, Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 89 Genre: Fiction Company: Compañia de Cine Contact: Paulina Portela Email: [email protected] Logline: Two women who've been together a long time are forced to face the inevitable when one of them becomes incurably ill. In a cabin in the woods, they use their love to stave off sorrow while death awaits it chance. Poetic realism brimming with exceptional moments. Sold territories: Alemania, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland
China
Only You Alone
World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Zhou Zhou Prod. Countries: China Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: Yilisoo Films Contact: Ke MA Email: [email protected] Logline: Epilepsy has forced Chi Li to give up her dance career. The disease means she barely counts in Chinese society. However, Chi Li (great role by co-scriptwriter Chi Yun) is not the type to take things lying down. Zhou Zhou's second feature film is an homage to a marginalised, strong young woman. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARVFkkSm
DIQ Sold territories: All available
The Wild Goose Lake
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Diao Yi'nan Prod. Countries: China, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 113 Genre: Fiction Company: Memento Films International Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Email: [email protected] Logline: This stylised neo-noir dismembers a straightforward plot about a gang leader and a prostitute on the run into its almost abstract separate components. The heart of modern-day China lies hidden in the chaos that ensues. Meanwhile, Diao Yi'nan serves up one bloody, neon-lit visual tour de force after another. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xml1C07D72A
Wisdom Tooth
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Liang Ming Prod. Countries: China Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 104 Genre: Fiction Company: Parallax Films Contact: Liuying Cao Email: [email protected] Logline: Thriller/coming-of-age film in which Guxi and her half-brother’s harmonious lives are shaken up by an attractive woman who brings adventure and danger. Tension rises in a world that shifts from colourful and warm, to cold and threatening.
Balloon
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Pema Tseden Prod. Countries: China Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Contact: Meng Xie Email: [email protected] Logline: In this cheerfully melancholic story of Tibet in the 1980s, China's one-child policy comes up against belief in reincarnation, and condoms can become balloons. Mother Drolkar is at the heart of a family of shepherds as modernisation slowly starts to encroach on Buddhist tradition in their everyday lives. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3_u7v2Tpw Sold territories: Benelux, France, Japan, Switzerland
Damp Season
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Gao Ming Prod. Countries: China Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 109 Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Contact: Jing Xu, Zhang Yaoting Email: [email protected], Logline: A young Chinese working couple drift apart, ending up in the arms of others. Atmospheric study of the unsayable dynamics of human relationships, shot in a Southern city, where in early summer the weather grows dank and humid, and life becomes complex and ambiguous. Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmZ7_oCvOM
Colombia
Valley of Souls
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Nicólas Rincón Gille Prod. Countries: Colombia, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 137 Genre: Fiction Company: Best Friend Forever Contact: Martin Gondre Email: [email protected] Logline: In the Colombian interior in 2002, the simple river fisherman José discovers that a paramilitary gang has taken his two sons and probably killed them. Filled with silently borne sorrow, he sets out on a lonely odyssey, searching for humanity in a bizarre world. A drama like a river: great and gripping. Sold territories: Brazil Colombia
Czech Republic
Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Karel Vachek Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 335 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Background Films Contact: Mikuláš Novotný Email: [email protected] Logline: A comparison of two popular uprisings – the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution –
gives film essay giant Karel Vachek lots of food for thought on democracy, the relative nature of freedom and the perilous liberties offered by the World Wide Web. Nothing less than a monumental work of modern cinema. Sold territories: All available
Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace
World premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Adam Olha, Jan Daňhel Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 117 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Athanor - Film Production Company, Llc Contact: Adam Olha Email: [email protected] Logline: Over a period of three years, the directors followed the life of Jan Švankmajer, shedding light on his creative principles, as well as his collaboration with old friend and producer Jaromír Kallista. The film is also haunted by the memory of Eva Švankmajerová, his wife and creative partner, muse and inseparable other half.
We Intend to Cause Havoc
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Gio Arlotta Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 88 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Clam Jam Productions Contact: Gio Arlotta Email: [email protected] Logline: In the 1970s, Jagari was the most famous rock star in Zambia. Now, he earns a living as an anonymous miner. This
documentary digs up his musical past, resulting in a reunion of legendary Zambian rock band WITCH: an acronym for We Intend To Cause Havoc. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLp1WbFnk3g Sold territories: Scandinavia, Iceland, Baltics (Non Stop Entertainment) Germany, Swiss Germany, Austria (Mindjazz - in progress)
Cook, F**k, Kill
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Mira Fornay Prod. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 116 Genre: Fiction Company: Cercamon Contact: Sebastien Chesneau Email: [email protected] Logline: Layered, absurdist family drama about the vicious circle of domestic violence in central Europe. Anti-hero Jaroslav's complex relationship with his wife Blanka and their families is told in various ways − with cooking, a lot of blood and a falling jukebox as recurring elements. Sold territories: All available
Denmark
A Perfectly Normal Family
World premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Malou Reymann Prod. Countries: Denmark Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: New Europe Film Sales Contact: Jan Naszewski
Email: [email protected] Logline: Delicate Danish drama in which the father of two girls plants a bomb under their harmonious family life: he will spend the rest of his life as a woman. What will such a complex change do to their relationships? We experience the story through the eyes of the sensitive younger daughter, who fears losing her close bond with her father. Sold territories: France, Scandinavia
The Orphanage
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Shahrbanoo Sadat Prod. Countries: Denmark, Afghanistan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: Luxbox Contact: Valentin Carré Email: [email protected] Logline: With humour and a dash of nostalgia, we follow fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan's Soviet-oriented period in the 1980s. The realism is breached at crucial, dramatic moments by big songs done in full Bollywood style, with Qodrat imagining himself a film star in his own story. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_hKYSXxwIU Sold territories: Brazil (Supo Manga) Denmark (Scanbox) France (Rouge Distribution) India (In2Infotainment) Middle-East and Northern Africa (MAD) Sweden (Sveriges Förenades Studio) USA (1844 Entertainment)
The Trouble with Nature
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Illum Jacobi Prod. Countries: Denmark, France
Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 95 Genre: Fiction Company: La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma Contact: Xavier Rocher Email: [email protected] Logline: Eighteenth-century road movie shows in unparalleled lyrical imagery the pompous Edmund Burke, father of conservatism, who decides to go in search of 'the sublime' in the overwhelming nature of the French Alps. Orating as he goes, his belongings carried by a beautiful, exotic servant. The result is a superior piece of comic cultural criticism. Sold territories: All available
Gutterbee
Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Ulrich Thomsen Prod. Countries: Denmark, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 107 Genre: Fiction Company: Pro Tempore Film Aps Contact: Roxy Cohan Email: [email protected] Logline: Bipolar, German sausage maker Edward starts his own high-end sausage restaurant in small town America. Everyone loves it except the sheriff. He wants a hotdog not a Frankfurter. A bone-dry, layered comedy about Trump's racist America. Sold territories: All available
France
You Will Die at Twenty
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Amjad Abu Alala Prod. Countries: France, Egypt, Norway, Germany, Sudan, Qatar Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 105 Genre: Fiction Company: Pyramide International Contact: Alberto Alvarez Aguilera Email: [email protected] Logline: This Sudanese fiction feature is a marvellous fable of classic beauty about the straitjacket of tradition, the call of freedom and the power of cinema. Young Muzamil has been told he will die when he turns twenty. Can he break the spell? Dedicated to the victims of the Sudanese Revolution. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvqmVWZE7I Sold territories: France (Pyramide Distribution) MENA, South Africa, Switzerland (Trigon) China (Hualu) Serbia (Centar) Poland (Afrykamera) UK (New Wave)
Common Birds
International premiere Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson Prod. Countries: France, Greece Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 84 Genre: Experimental Company: Les Films du Bilboquet Contact: Eugénie Michel Villette Email: [email protected] Logline: Fed up with paying off debts, two friends decide to leave their city of Athens.
Waiting for a sign of a possible exit, they wander for days through a desolate urban landscape. Lured by the calls of black crows, they stumble into a mythological, ancient forest, where time flows differently. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2BEXCzrr9Q Sold territories: All available
Liberté
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Albert Serra Prod. Countries: France, Spain, Portugal, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 132 Genre: Fiction Company: Films Boutique Contact: Ruta Švedkauskaitė Email: [email protected] Logline: In an 18th-century woodland, a group of banished French libertines indulge in a night of De Sadean sexual excess. This much-discussed provocation from Catalan film auteur Serra is the sort of film that should come with a trigger warning. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Sold territories: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, USA
Sibyl
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Justine Triet Prod. Countries: France, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 100 Genre: Fiction Company: mk2 Films Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit
Email: [email protected] Logline: Sibyl is a psychotherapist with a troubled past. She is intrigued by her patient Margot, an up-and-coming actress, and secretly records their conversations. Margot’s stormy life story gives Sibyl plenty of inspiration for the novel she is having trouble writing.
Les misérables
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Ladj Ly Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 102 Genre: Fiction Company: Wild Bunch Contact: Esther Devos Email: [email protected] Logline: The day after the 2018 World Cup Final, won by France, tensions rise in Parisian banlieue Montfermeil. During cop Stéphane’s first day on the beat, some gypsies demand their stolen lion cub back and young Issa causes problems again. Impressive, explosive debut, partly inspired by the riots of 2005. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9COll5mUio
Les heures heureuses
Programme section: Regained Director(s): Martine Deyres Prod. Countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 77 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Sweet Spot Docs Contact: Anna Berthollet Email: [email protected] Logline: The psychiatric patients in this
documentary seem incredibly happy. They were allowed to roam free, work at a farm and even go on supervised holidays. The impact of this approach was far-reaching. Unique archival material shows how for decades Saint-Alban attracted therapists, artists and political rebels. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7H7XihsKF0 Sold territories: Switzerland (RTS)
Adults in the Room
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Costa-Gavras Prod. Countries: France, Greece Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 124 Genre: Fiction Company: Elle Driver Contact: Adeline Fontan Tessaur Email: [email protected] Logline: Kammerspiel-style political thriller showing how Greece's finance minister Varoufakis takes on Schäuble, Dijsselbloem, Lagarde and other servants of the political machine. Be aware, ye good people who like their art equivocal and measured: Costa-Gavras (86) is still a gutsy rabble-rouser unafraid to make things look clear-cut, and to drive his point home incisively! Sold territories: Elle Driver is the official world sales agent and has to be added manually on Sales Contact Lists
Proxima
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Alice Winocour Prod. Countries: France, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 107 Genre: Fiction Company: Pathé
Email: [email protected] Logline: As the only woman in an all-male crew, Sarah is a French astronaut training for a one-year mission in space. She has to deal with the idea of being separated from her 8-year-old daughter to achieve her dream. An intimate space film about science facts rather than science fiction, close to the heart and down to earth. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9V1Ed_VVz8
Énorme
International premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Sophie Letourneur Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Indie Sales Contact: Clément Chautant Email: [email protected] Logline: Thanks to her over-controlling husband, a famous and career-minded pianist unexpectedly becomes pregnant. The event changes the dynamics of their relationship. What starts out as an unnerving film on toxic masculinity morphs into a raw, wacky comedy about womanhood, fusional couples and classical music. Sold territories: Benelux
Les enfants d'Isadora
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Damien Manivel Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 84 Genre: Fiction Company: Shellac
Contact: Félicie Roger Email: [email protected] Logline: Director and dancer Damien Manivel follows four women attempting to understand and bring the challenging Mother to life. This choreography was created by renowned dancer and groundbreaking choreographer Isadora Duncan to process the tragic deaths of her two young children in 1913. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnP5S-Rp9aM Sold territories: Ecuador, Colombia (Vaivem) Japan (Copiapoa) Switzerland (Sister distribution) Portugal (Leopardo filmes) France (Shellac)
Le voyage du prince
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Jean-François Laguionie Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 77 Genre: Animation Company: Urban Distribution International Contact: Irene Cadavid Email: [email protected] Logline: In 1999, animation master Laguionie created one of his most beloved films, Le Château des singes: an allegory about distrust and division set in the monkey kingdom. This time he focuses on xenophobia – a timely subject, developed with empathy and a rare visual grandeur into a cautionary animated tale for all ages.
Cemetery
Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Carlos Casas Prod. Countries: France, United Kingdom, Poland, Uzbekistan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Phantom Contact: Olivier Marboeuf Email: [email protected] Logline: How great would the loss be to humanity if the last elephant were to die? Deep in the jungle of Sri Lanka, this suggestive and very patient film urges us to reflect philosophically about our bond with the largest land mammal on earth, notoriously blessed with a superior memory. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YMjygdPJG4 Sold territories: Spectre Production
Atlantique
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Mati Diop Prod. Countries: France, Senegal, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 104 Genre: Fiction Company: mk2 Films Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Email: [email protected] Logline: In Dakar, two young lovers have a star-crossed relationship. Souleiman is a construction worker who needs to leave the country for a better future, while Ada is the bride-to-be of someone else. Fate may bring bring them together in this beautiful darkly romantic tale, where realism can definitely be magical.
L'état sauvage
International premiere Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): David Perrault Prod. Countries: France, Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 118 Genre: Fiction Company: Pyramide International Contact: Alberto Alvarez Aguilera Email: [email protected] Logline: In this beautifully shot French western, a couple and their three daughters decide to return to Paris from snowbound Missouri during the American Civil War. Guiding them on their fraught journey is tormented ex-mercenary Victor, who has caught the eye of rebellious daughter Esther. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6v_ZnlL-t0 Sold territories: France (Pyramide Distribution) Canada (to be confirmed)
Jeanne d'Arc
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Bruno Dumont Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 138 Genre: Fiction Company: Luxbox Contact: Valentin Carré Email: [email protected] Logline: The story of 15th-century French national heroine Jeanne d'Arc has been filmed many times, but never this eccentrically and experimentally. After dealing with her youth in Jeannette, this sequel – another difficult, grinding musical – depicts her downfall when she was accused of heresy and witchcraft.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwlC6lgl87Y Sold territories: Canada, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Ex-Yougoslavia, France, Greece, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA
Nothing to Be Afraid of
Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Silva Khnkanosian Prod. Countries: France, Armenia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 69 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: La Huit Contact: Stephane Jourdain Email: [email protected] Logline: Without indulging in any contextual explanation, this film follows in the footsteps of five Armenian women, while they risk their lives daily to detect landmines. In the deceptive calmness of nature, their silent and slow procedure can lead to a dramatic explosion at any given moment. Sold territories: All available
Deux
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Filippo Meneghetti Prod. Countries: France, Luxembourg, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 95 Genre: Film Company: Doc & Film International Contact: Daniela Elstner Email: [email protected] Logline: This delicate drama is an actor's film about two elderly ladies who have been together half their lives without anyone knowing. Fate strikes when they finally want to tell the world. Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier star in a
moving, picture-perfect feature film debut.
Zombi Child
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): bertrand bonello Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Fiction Company: Playtime Contact: Joris Boyer Email: [email protected] Logline: Forget the clichés of the zombie genre. Bonello goes back to the origins of the living dead, rooted in Haitian folklore and colonialism. The result: an ambitious, conceptual genre film featuring the intriguing parallel stories of a Haitian teenager at a French boarding school today and a zombie slave on a sugar plantation in 1962. Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wphg5
QnDmbs&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9ShkzdccpUZo
Un film dramatique
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Eric Baudelaire Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 114 Genre: Experimental Company: Poulet-Malassis Contact: Eric Baudelaire Email: [email protected] Logline: For four years, Eric Baudelaire followed 20 schoolchildren in a Paris suburb, letting them use the camera. How do they observe the world? Reflecting on themes such as racism, immigration and identity, the children were co-directors of this collective film project and the
subject of their own and each other's lives. Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHw7H
Ut37fE
Terminal Sud
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche Prod. Countries: France, Qatar Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 96 Genre: Fiction Company: REASON8 Films Contact: Anna Krupnova Email: [email protected] Logline: A loyal doctor with a drinking problem tries to keep doing his job in an unnamed North African country. A difficult proposition where lawlessness, violence and fear have a chokehold on things. He should leave, says his girlfriend; but the doctor stays, and that takes its toll. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCUF-iAk6o Sold territories: French-speaking Europe (Potemkine Films) Middle East (Front Row Ent) Spain (Film Buro)
Germany
Fellwechselzeit
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Sabrina Mertens Prod. Countries: Germany Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 80 Genre: Fiction Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Contact: Sigrid Gairing Email: [email protected] Logline: Poignant psychological drama about Stephanie, a bright girl whose isolated life is characterised by her symbiotic relationship with
her mentally unstable mother. The everyday dilemmas of this unconventional family are captured in minutes-long, painstakingly framed tableaux, paying great attention to seemingly insignificant details. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiG_G9vlq3M Sold territories: All available
A Hidden Life
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Terrence Malick Prod. Countries: Germany, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 180 Genre: Fiction Company: Fox Searchlight Pictures Contact: Ebru Saglik Email: [email protected] Logline: With A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick returns to the historical dramas he is renowned for. He combines his characteristic lyrical audio-visual style and associative editing with a relatively more structured story of an Alpine farmer who refuses to submit to the Nazi occupation of Austria.
For the Time Being
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Salka Tiziana Prod. Countries: Germany, Spain, Switzerland Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 71 Genre: Fiction Company: Contact: Salka Tiziana Email: [email protected] Logline: Nine-year-old German twins arrive at their father's paternal home in rural Spain,
where they are received by their grandma and aunt. As father is delayed, they are all stuck with each other. Atmospheric drama in which time seems to curdle under the burning sun to a soundtrack of crickets. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QxMU7q3uw Sold territories: All available
Sebastian springt über Geländer
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Ceylan-Alejandro Ataman-Checa Prod. Countries: Germany Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 70 Genre: Fiction Company: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin Contact: Petra Palmer Email: [email protected] Logline: This refined, painstaking debut follows Sebastian through three phases of his life, on the road to self-discovery. This quiet boy learned to be independent at a very early age. As a young man, he finally wonders what remains of his childhood dreams. Sold territories: All available
An Impossible Project
World premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Jens Meurer Prod. Countries: Germany, Austria Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 93 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Autlook Filmsales GmbH Email: [email protected] Logline: Is the promised land virtual? Everyone lives digitally these days. But there is a way back!
This infectious documentary spends years following passionate advocates of the unique, unpredictable and distinctive analogue life. What could be better than blurry Polaroids, crackling gramophones and old-fashioned telephones? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlMlTHtZu4
Greece
Birds. Or How to Be One
World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Babis Makridis Prod. Countries: Greece Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 77 Genre: Experimental Company: New Europe Film Sales Contact: Ewa Bojanowska Email: [email protected] Logline: That sensation in your tummy on a swing, that's a deeply rooted, evolutionary desire to fly like the birds. This cinematic essay is a contemplation, a voyage of discovery searching for freedom. And perhaps also an indictment of the obstacles on our way to freedom. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI9gIYxjoQI
Guatemala
Los fantasmas
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Sebastián Lojo Prod. Countries: Guatemala, Argentina Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 75 Genre: Fiction Company: Patra Spanou Film Marketing and Consultancy Email: [email protected] Logline: In dangerous Guatemala City, handsome Koki lures men to a hotel where they are robbed. He accepts this life as a matter of course – until it suddenly disappears. Using the power of authentic locations and situations, the young director delivers a convincing and exciting character study, and one that makes us stop and think. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHuKHzndAI Sold territories: All available
Hong Kong
La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (animated version)
World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): René Viénet Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, France Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Experimental Company: Editions René Viénet Contact: René Viénet Email: [email protected] Logline: In 1972/73, Sinologist & Situationist
René Viénet bought the rights to Tú Guāngqǐ’s Crush. Through creative subtitling, he transformed it into a burlesque comedy about daft French Maoists and smart Anarcho-Syndicalists. Now,Viénet has re-worked his avant-garde classic for the masses by turning it into a digitally rotoscoped animation!
The Cube Phantom
International premiere Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong Director(s): Alan Lau Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 73 Genre: Experimental Company: Blue Island Production Company Contact: Peter Yam Email: [email protected] Logline: A unique, virtually wordless dance poem that explores the exultation and the tragedy of the city in ten site-specific sequences. Filmmaker Alan Lau, choreographer Jordann de Santis, composer Anthony Cheng and a troupe of fearless dancers have created a thrilling pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's indomitable people. Sold territories: All available
A Witness Out of the Blue
European premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Fung Chih-chiang Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 104 Genre: Fiction Company: One Cool Pictures Ltd. Contact: Christy Choi Email: [email protected]
Logline: An incompetent detective, a mysterious criminal and a talking parrot that is the major witness to a murder are just a few of the ingredients in this highly entertaining police thriller. Fung Chih-chiang, previously screenwriter for Stephen Chow and Johnnie To, again proves that no city is as perfect for genre cinema as Hong Kong. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormop5jYPRY
If We Burn
World premiere Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong Director(s): James Leong, Lynn Lee Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: - Company: Lianain Films Contact: Lynn Lee Email: [email protected] Logline: The Hong Kong protest movement through the eyes of Hong Kongers whose fates, like their city's future, now hang in the balance. James Leong and Lynn Lee seem always exactly in the right place and the right time: their cinematic eyes for indelible, strangely beautiful images of a city wracked by violence makes this essential viewing.
No.7 Cherry Lane Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Yonfan Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, China Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 125 Genre: Fiction Company: Far Sun Film Company Limited Contact: Joyce Yang
Email: [email protected] Logline: We had a 10-year wait for this film by legendary Hong Kong director Yonfan, and it was also his first animation. In the politically restless Hong Kong of the 1960s, a love triangle develops between student Ziming, 18-year-old Meiling and her mother. An ode to the city and cinema in nostalgic tones. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkx_fsFzQy8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9ShkzdccpUZo Sold territories: All available
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
International premiere Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong Director(s): Leung Ming-kai, Kate Reilly Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 78 Genre: Fiction Company: Contact: Kate Reilly Email: [email protected] Logline: Four stories together show how fiction and fact, humour and drama, the personal and political are complementary facets of the same fascinating realities that constitute Hong Kong. Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly's structural gambit delights and gently provokes, as their film plumbs the contradictions that underlie and activate Hong Kong's predicament today. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6qnbqQc0CA Sold territories: All available
The Cloud in Her Room
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Zheng Lu Xinyuan Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, China Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Contact: Yaoting ZHANG Email: [email protected] Logline: Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan's debut is a melancholy, palpably personal film about twenty-something Muzi returning home for the New Year's celebration. Everything seems the same, but different. An expressionist search for love, (in)dependence and connection, filmed in atmospheric shades of black and white.
We Have Boots
World premiere Programme section: Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong Director(s): Evans Chan Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 125 Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Williams Cole Email: [email protected] Logline: The Umbrella Movement of 2014 paved the way for Hong Kong's current upheavals, while unfolding in significantly different ways. This documentary focuses on the intellectual underpinnings of the actions of 2014: engaged intellectuals, students, activists, and artists including Benny Lai, Ray Chan, and Agnes Wong articulate a range of philosophies, motivations, and feelings about their movement. Sold territories: All available
Hungary
Eden
World premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Ágnes Kocsis Prod. Countries: Hungary, Romania Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 153 Genre: Fiction Company: HNFF World Sales Contact: Marta Benyei, Marta Benyei Email: [email protected], [email protected] Logline: Éva lives cut off from the outside world in her sterile blue apartment. She's allergic to just about everything. Are her allergies caused by a polluting multinational corporation, or is she so sensitive and vulnerable she's making herself ill? A science fiction love story that explores the ambiguity of the modern world. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVElGL_6w0
Empty Horses
Programme section: Regained Director(s): Péter Lichter Prod. Countries: Hungary Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 67 Genre: Experimental Company: Mindwax Ltd. Contact: Dóra Nedeczky Email: [email protected] Logline: In a metaphysical screening room, the spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy cross swords about life, love and art, while images from classics of twentieth-century cinema flicker past on the screen. A battle between a hero of
Hollywood’s 'Golden Age' and an avant-garde film pioneer. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ8djh3o9oU Sold territories: All available
Iceland
The Vasulka Effect
Programme section: Regained Director(s): Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir Prod. Countries: Iceland Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Juno Films, Inc Contact: Elizabeth Sheldon Email: [email protected] Logline: Documentary about video art’s free-spirited, groundbreaking pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka. They seemed forgotten, but there is renewed attention for their work. The artists look back on their eventful lives whilst creating their archive. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dTAFAA85g&feature=youtu.be
India
Shut Up Sona
International premiere Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Deepti Gupta Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Omgrown Music Contact: Sona Mohapatra
Email: [email protected] Logline: Sona Mohapatra is termed insane, dangerous and subversive. She is threatened and even receives death threats, yet the Indian singer continues to fight the patriarchy in general and the sexist music industry in particular. All while continuing to develop artistically. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx3-PEn1qfY Sold territories: All available
A Rifle and a Bag
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Isabella Rinaldi, Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe Prod. Countries: India, Romania, Italy, Qatar Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 89 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: NoCut Film Collective Contact: Cristina Hanes Email: [email protected] Logline: Intimate documentary about a family of ex-rebels trying to safeguard their son and unborn child's futures whilst living as third-rate citizens. Ex-Naxalite communists, they fought the government for tribal rights. Fighters could surrender and betray their comrades in exchange for citizenship. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvSisDXjL-s Sold territories: All available
Nasir
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Arun Karthick Prod. Countries: India, Netherlands, Singapore Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 78 Genre: Fiction Company: Stray Dogs Contact: Nathan Fischer Email: [email protected] Logline: Candid portrait of a gentle man living a degrading, second-class existence as a Muslim in an India characterised by rising Hindu nationalism. His poetry and love for his wife keep him going, while toxic intolerance bubbles just below the surface of everyday life. Until the explosion, as sudden as it is inevitable.
The Home & The World Today
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Aparna Sen Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 146 Genre: Fiction Company: SVF Entertainment Pvt Ltd Contact: Ahana Kanjilal Dutta Email: [email protected] Logline: One-time actress, now Indian's most important female filmmaker, Aparṇā Sēn adapts Tagore's classic novel Gharē Bāirē, previously filmed by her mentor Satyajit Rāẏ. She transforms the love-triangle story from an emotional tale of emancipation into an unflinching look at the current political malaise. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXNOs8-1ZyI
Bitter Chestnut
European premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Gurvinder Singh Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 100 Genre: Fiction Company: Contentflow Studios Contact: Avneesh Chhabra Email: [email protected] Logline: Kishan is at the crossroads of youth and adulthood. He wants more than the predictable life offered by his village in the Himalayas, but has heard from friends that life in the city can be hard. Against the background of global urbanisation, this intimate coming-of-age drama shows the strength of traditional village communities. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PW6Jrx1MvI Sold territories: All available
The Invitation
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Saurav Rai Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Fiction Company: Contact: Sanjay Gulati Email: [email protected] Logline: How do you get an invitation to a wedding if the bridegroom's father dislikes you? In a village in Darjeeling, a landowner's 10-year old helper nevertheless goes all out, perhaps even going too far. Endearing, realistic insight
into caste relations in a lesser-known part of India. Sold territories: All available
Jallikattu
Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Lijo Jose Pellissery Prod. Countries: India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 91 Genre: Fiction Company: Stray Dogs Contact: Nathan Fischer Email: [email protected] Logline: An escaped water buffalo leaves a trail of havoc through an Indian village, prompting the male villagers to set out on a wild hunt. Rising levels of adrenaline and testosterone cause tempers to fray, and the differences between man and beast become ever more blurred.
Indonesia
The Science of Fictions
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Yosep Anggi Noen Prod. Countries: Indonesia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 106 Genre: Fiction Company: Rediance Contact: Meng Xie Email: [email protected] Logline: Siman literally loses his tongue when in the 1960s - somewhere in Indonesia - he stumbles upon the moon landing being faked. In this mildly absurdist critique on re-writing history, fake news and the impact of technological progress, he becomes obsessed with his dream of being an astronaut.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8bAaZg230
Impetigore
European premiere Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Joko Anwar Prod. Countries: Indonesia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 107 Genre: Fiction Company: Base Entertainment Contact: Nadia Saraswati Email: [email protected] Logline: Indonesian horror film about mysticism, wayang puppets, a hellish village history in Java and the young woman held responsible for it. When 25-year old Maya returns to the village of her birth, the inhabitants prove to want her dead, as they think this will lift the curse. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZVv9swaAw Sold territories: North America - Ivanhoe Pictures Indonesia, Malaysia, & Brunei Darussalam - Base Entertainment The rest of the world - CJ Entertainment
Iran
Filmfarsi
Programme section: Regained Director(s): Ehsan Khoshbakht Prod. Countries: Iran, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 84 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Contact: Ehsan Khoshbakht Email: [email protected] Logline: Featuring clips from over 100 popular action thrillers and melodramas that survived the Iranian Revolution on illegal VHS copies, this essay highlights a flourishing film industry. Unearthed from history's dust, they reflect Iran's pre-revolutionary society between 1953 and 1979. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMtM3UMTKU Sold territories: All available
Just 6.5
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Saeed Roustaee Prod. Countries: Iran Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 135 Genre: Fiction Company: Iranian Independents Contact: Mohammad Atebbai Email: [email protected] Logline: Samad works for the drug squad in Iran. He and his colleagues start hunting feared drug baron Nasser Khakzad, but differences of opinion and Iranian bureaucracy interfere. Nothing is easy in this layered, nail-biting, superbly acted police film that maps out Iran's
drug problem. Sold territories: Benelux (Contact Film)
Women According to Men
World premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Saeed Nouri Prod. Countries: Iran Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: DreamLab Films Contact: Nasrine Médard de Chardon Email: [email protected] Logline: Until the revolution broke out, popular film stars in Iranian cinema portrayed a range of contradictory, ideologically coloured views of women. Clips from fiction films made between 1932 and 1979 show how traditional values and the policy of modernisation under the Shahs were reflected in the depiction of the lives of Iranian women.
Iraq
Sandlines
European premiere Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Francis Alÿs Prod. Countries: Iraq Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 61 Genre: Fiction Company: Galerie Jan Mot Contact: Jan Mot Email: [email protected] Logline: Young children from a mountain village near Mosul re-enact a century of Iraqi history, from the secret agreement of Sykes/Picot signed in 1916 to the realm of terror established by the
Islamic State in 2016. The children revisit their past to understand their present. Sold territories: All available
Israel
The Hidden Fountain – The World of Miriam Chalfi
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Raquel Chalfi Prod. Countries: Israel Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 100 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Costanza Film Distribution Contact: Raquel Chalfi Email: [email protected] Logline: Famous Israeli sculptor Miriam Chalfi didn't like being filmed: not even by her equally celebrated daughter, poet-cum-one-woman-avant-garde-cinema-vanguard Raquel Chalfi. It took the latter more than a quarter century of persuasion, seduction and insistence to get the former to reveal something of herself. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3GGY5asJE Sold territories: All available
Italy
I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Yervant Gianikian Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Creative Documentary Company:
Contact: Yervant Gianikian Email: [email protected] Logline: Sublime sequel to the film Gianikian made last year after the death of his life- and film-partner Ricci Lucchi. Diary and film excerpts provide insight into their lives and oeuvre as well as the artistic mission and methods of two of the most important filmmakers of the past 50 years. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAZIq3P_I8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9ShkzdccpUZo&index=14&t=0s
Fortezza
International premiere Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Ludovica Andò, Emiliano Aiello Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 72 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Associazione Compagnia Sanguegiusto Contact: Emiliano Aiello Email: [email protected] Logline: In every prison, the same dialectic can be found between resignation and hope of redemption. Inside, time does not fly. There is only the opportunity to look inside oneself. Real inmates act out The Tartar Steppe, the classic, existentialist novel by Dino Buzzati. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-520Y7gvxOY Sold territories: All available
Due scatole dimenticate
World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Cécilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 58 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: OfficinaVisioni Contact: Paolo Pisanelli Email: [email protected] Logline: Before becoming first a critic then a documentary maker, Cécilia Mangini was a photographer. In 1965, together with her husband, filmmaker Lino Del Fra, Mangini went to war-torn Vietnam to make a film they never finished. The pictures she took there trigger a stream of conscious-like reflection on her life.
Il colpo del cane
International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Fulvio Risuleo Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: True Colours Contact: Gaetano Maiorino Email: [email protected] Logline: Marti thinks she can make some easy money dog-sitting for a spoilt pug, but it doesn't turn out like that when the pooch gets pinched. But then, the thief isn't having an easy time of it either. The coincidences stack up comically, but there is also something deeply tragic about it all.
Rosa pietra stella
World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Marcello Sannino Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: P.F.A. Films Contact: Pier Francesco Aiello Email: [email protected] Logline: The 'rose, rock and star' of the title is the beautiful Carmela, who scrapes together a living doing a range of odd jobs. But this isn't enough to give her eleven-year-old daughter a harmonious youth in the lively, multicultural part of Naples where they live. An attractive Neorealist fiction debut from an experienced documentary maker. Sold territories: All available
Non c'è nessuna Dark Side (2007-2019)
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Erik Negro Prod. Countries: Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 215 Genre: Experimental Contact: Erik Negro Email: [email protected] Logline: After leaving school, a young Italian critic spent years filming his life, his friends, parties and trips (including to IFFR and the Berlinale). The result of this experiment is a kind of liminal phase in a historical, personal process of solidification, and acts as a unique mirror to our times and socially committed love of film. Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_W7bi7zLw
Japan
Shell and Joint
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Hirabayashi Isamu Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 154 Genre: Fiction Company: DASH CO., LTD. Contact: Katsumata Madoka Email: [email protected] Logline: Understated, intelligent comedy by award-winning director of short films Hirabayashi Isamu. Japanese capsule hotel users philosophise about sex, death and love. The tight framing and absurdist humour make it seem as if the makers of Toren C (offbeat Dutch TV series) and Roy Andersson have had a completely idiosyncratic Japanese love child. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37vIyKN1Q4o&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9ShkzdccpUZo Sold territories: All available
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Yamada Yoji Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 116 Genre: Fiction Company: Shochiku Co., Ltd. Contact: Hitomi Hosoda Email: [email protected] Logline: In 1969, Yamada Yōji made the first film featuring irascible anti-hero Tora-san, played by comedian Atsumi Kiyoshi, who went
on play the role another 47 times before his death. To mark this 50th anniversary, all surviving key members of the Tora-san family came together to create a moving elegy for a lost world. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCy8R6FA2c
First Love
Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Miike Takashi Prod. Countries: Japan, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 108 Genre: Fiction Company: HanWay Films Contact: Tejinder Jouhal Email: [email protected] Logline: Genre master Miike Takashi returns to his first love, characteristic of his 1990s career – Yakuza films. This contemporary take includes the usual explosive elements: talented, yet ill boxer Leo and call girl Monica become embroiled in a failed drug deal between local gangsters and a Chinese triad.
Cenote
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Oda Kaori Prod. Countries: Japan, Mexico Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 75 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Article Films Contact: Emi Ueyama Email: [email protected] Logline: Entrancing footage of cenotes, or holy springs, in Yucatan, Mexico. Long-lost memories
echo in a hallucinatory game of light and dark. Swimming in these, director Oda encounters mysterious shapes. The past and present of the people living around the cenotes coalesce in this place where nothing is forgotten.
Children of the Sea
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Watanabe Ayumu Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 112 Genre: Fiction Company: STUDIO4℃ Contact: Ayumi Inoguchi Email: [email protected] Logline: Strange things are happening with the ocean: whales appear in New York, a meteor crash attracts the sea life. Alienated teenager Ruka also feels an ever-deeper connection to the sea. This coming-of-age anime with an imaginative twist pulses with colourful, experimental images. The most enchanting animated film of the year. Sold territories: Australia + New Zealand / Madman France / Eurozoom Germany / polyband Italy / Dynit Latin America / Madness Entertainment North America / GKIDS Russia + CIS / CDland Spain / Selecta Vision Thailand.
Mr. Jimmy
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Peter Michael Dowd Prod. Countries: Japan, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 113 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: One Two Three Films Contact: Peter Michael Dowd Email: [email protected] Logline: Imitation as art in this film about a
Japanese Led Zeppelin fan who can play everything, note for note. Particularly intriguing when he gathers other musical master imitators around him. Because are they following Led Zeppelin or the Japanese perfectionist accompanying them? Sold territories: All available
Reiwa Uprising
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Hara Kazuo Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 270 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: My Theater D.D. Contact: Natsumi Hayashi Email: [email protected] Logline: Hara Kazuo started shooting on 18 June 2019, upon learning that economics professor and trans woman Yasutomi Ayumi was standing for election for the left-wing party Reiwa Shinsengumi. This activist epic on the need for change had its world premiere just four months later. Cinema as an arena for political combat! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ55qXb91Po Sold territories: All available
Tenzo
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Tomita Katsuya Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 62 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Kuzoku Contact: Terutarô Osanaï Email: [email protected] Logline: Two Buddhist monks help a local community in Japan. They are confronted by the
socio-economic consequences of the past and wonder how to go on living in the right way. A docudrama in which fiction unobtrusively interweaves with real events, resulting in a beautiful portrait of the monks and their useful lives. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4J0lg65CHo
Special Actors
European premiere Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Ueda Shinichiro Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 109 Genre: Fiction Company: Shochiku Contact: Hitomi Hosoda Email: [email protected] Logline: A money-grubbing cult involved in rice balls, a charming young damsel in distress and an improbable dork-hero who faints every time someone looks at him. How on earth can that end well? If only Rescueman were here! Sympathic absurdity from the maker of the unexpected cult hit One Cut of the Dead.
Labyrinth of Cinema
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Obayashi Nobuhiko Prod. Countries: Japan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 179 Genre: Fiction Company: AMG Entertainment Contact: Nobuhito Hayashi Email: [email protected] Logline: Obayashi = total pop surrealism and
avant-garde entertainment for the masses. With an urgent political message! A cinema is transformed into a kind of time machine that transports a group of youngsters to crucial, violent moments in Japanese history. The most flamboyant, inventive thing you'll see at IFFR 2020. Sold territories: All available
A Girl Missing
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Fukada Koji Prod. Countries: Japan, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 111 Genre: Fiction Company: mk2 Films Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Email: [email protected] Logline: In this calm, stylised revenge drama by Fukada Koji (Harmonium), nurse Ichiko feels the ground slipping away beneath her when her nephew is suspected of the kidnap of a good friend. Driven by madness and desire, it turns out that Ichiko herself also has a dark side.
Kazakhstan
A Dark, Dark Man
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Adilkhan Yerzhanov Prod. Countries: Kazakhstan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 130 Genre: Fiction Company: Arizona Productions Contact: Olga Khlasheva Email: [email protected] Logline: Jet-black, absurdist-comedy-coated, anti-Hollywood action film about corruption in a
Kazakh village. Detective Bekzat, charged with killing a suspect, has a change of heart when a female journalist from the city forces him to truly investigate the murder of a homeless boy.
Kenya
Lusala
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Mugambi Nthiga Prod. Countries: Kenya, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 61 Genre: Fiction Company: Rushlake Media Contact: Sélina Boye Email: [email protected] Logline: Lusala is almost a grownup. Time to leave the nest, according to his wealthy adoptive family. He dives head-first into his new life as a car mechanic with a tiny apartment in Nairobi but demons from his past block his path to adulthood. Sold territories: All available
Laos
The Long Walk
Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Mattie Do Prod. Countries: Laos, Spain, Singapore Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 116 Genre: Fiction Company: 108 Media Contact: Jordan Nutson Email: [email protected] Logline: If you change the past, you change the
future, as an old Laotian finds out when a ghost gives him the chance to travel back in time to his youth. In this ingenious mix of lo-fi sci-fi and melancholy ghost story, undoing the tragic event that has pressed on him for decades has unexpected consequences.
Lebanon
We Are From There
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Wissam Tanios Prod. Countries: Lebanon, France Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 82 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: The Bureau Sales Contact: Cendrella Abi Gerges, Geraldine Bryant Email: [email protected], [email protected] Logline: Two young Syrian brothers take a leap of faith and decide to start their lives from scratch in new cities. They leave everything behind except their passion for life, determination and hope for a better future. Their closest cousin, Wissam, decides to film their odysseys for over five years, exploring the human ability to cope with the most radical change. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHVpaAe7xnU Sold territories: All available
All This Victory
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Ahmad Ghossein Prod. Countries: Lebanon, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 94 Genre: Fiction Company: WTFilms Contact: Maxime Duchateau Email: [email protected] Logline: Minimalistic – and all the more effective for it – impression of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006. In the ruins of Southern Lebanon, five villagers hide from the fighting – and from the Israeli soldiers holed up on the floor above them. Incredibly claustrophobic award-winner in Venice. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJ6Lu6NogM
Lesotho
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Prod. Countries: Lesotho, Italy Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 120 Genre: Fiction Company: Memento Films International Contact: Gaëlle Palluel Email: [email protected] Logline: Modern, poetic fairy tale about the resilience of the human spirit. In Lesotho, Mantoa (80) is preparing for death when an existential threat rocks her community, rekindling her lust for life – her village will have to make way for a reservoir. Why should homes,
fields and cemetery make way for ‘progress’? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9X1Y6MULRM Sold territories: All available
Mexico
El diablo entre las piernas
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Arturo Ripstein Prod. Countries: Mexico, Spain Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 145 Genre: Fiction Company: Latido Films Contact: Marta Hernando Email: [email protected] Logline: Is it the stunning black-and-white photography that makes us unable to take our eyes off this older married couple, intimate enemies incarnate, living in a harmony of hate? Is it the convincing psychology that makes us fascinated by their sexual play? The fantastic actors? Ripstein's masterly directing? Or is it just that we've never seen the like of it? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk6zvlqVrhE Sold territories: All available
ColOZio
World premiere Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Artemio Narro Prod. Countries: Mexico Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: Contact: Artemio Narro Email: [email protected] Logline: An acid trip informs Diego and Gael that Mexican presidential candidate Colosio will be assassinated in three days' time. It's up to the dorky duo to save him so they can be heroes. Political reality inventively intertwined with mythology in this idiosyncratic, colourful road movie. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVv9QborX9o Sold territories: All available
Morocco
Adam
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Maryam Touzani Prod. Countries: Morocco, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 98 Genre: Fiction Company: Films Boutique Contact: Ruta Švedkauskaitė Email: [email protected] Logline: Reluctantly giving in to the urging of her eight-year-old daughter, widow Abla agrees to temporarily take in young, pregnant, unmarried Samia. Inside the walls of Abla's small apartment and adjoining bakery, a relationship develops between three very different women in this
modest, poignant feature debut. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFhxMXPOSsc
Le miracle du Saint Inconnu
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Alaa Eddine Aljem Prod. Countries: Morocco, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 100 Genre: Fiction Company: The Match Factory GmbH Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Email: [email protected] Logline: Bone-dry Moroccan crime film about religion, superstition and tradition. After a long prison sentence, a thief wants to pick up his loot, but the once-remote hiding place in the desert is now a holy shrine. There's only one thing he can do: infiltrate the religious community to get his illegal property. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_xP-6BvSc
Netherlands
Kala azar
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Janis Rafa Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Greece Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 85 Genre: Fiction Company: Heretic Outreach Contact: Ioanna Stais Email: [email protected] Logline: A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. Until they run over a dog, and their relationship loses its way.
Goud
World premiere Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Rogier Hesp Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: BALDR Film Contact: Frank Hoeve Email: [email protected] Logline: Young Timo's life is dominated by gymnastics. He is training intensively for the World Championships, aiming ultimately for Olympic gold. But the powerful feelings he develops for his physiotherapist Irene call everything into question – including his complex relationship with his demanding, disabled father. Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16L9zRo1TZM Sold territories: Benelux (September Film)
Dreamlife
World premiere Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Melvin Moti Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 85 Genre: Experimental Company: KeyFilm Contact: Josie Taalman Email: [email protected] Logline: Taking a 1960s scientific experiment as its starting point, this trippy, hypnotic exploration of human sleep allows visual artist Melvin Moti to expand his vocabulary in surprising ways. While staying faithful to his long-time obsessions, he also immerses the viewer in his laboratory, and allows his imagination to run wild.
New Neapolis
World premiere Programme section: RTM Director(s): Gyz La Rivière Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 105 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Contact: Jeroen S. Rozendaal Email: [email protected] Logline: Rotterdam, Liverpool, Marseilles and Naples should form a 'gang of cities'. In a rhythmically edited visual collage, filmmaker Gyz La Rivière sees similarities and connections beneath every paving stone. In a world where cities are becoming more important than
countries, these port cities could be in the vanguard of a new, sexy Europe. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cbd2gxlbHY Sold territories: All available
Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway
World premiere Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): David Kleijwegt Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 88 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Zeppers Film & TV Contact: Frank van den Engel Email: [email protected] Logline: Soul pioneer Donny Hathaway (1945-1979) peaked during the heyday of the American civil rights movement. However, racial tensions in the divided country increased in step with his schizophrenia. He felt hounded and committed suicide. David Kleijwegt's biographic film simultaneously portrays a generation of African Americans under enormous pressure. Sold territories: All available
Leonie, actrice en spionne
World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Annette Apon Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: SNG Film Contact: Digna Sinke Email: [email protected] Logline: Leonie Brandt is one of the most mysterious characters in 20th-century Dutch
history. German-born, Dutch by marriage: actress, playwright, café owner, double agent. Universally feared, not least for the dirty secrets she kept about the high and mighty. Who was Leonie Brandt really? Is there really a 'really'? A documentary thriller. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOtnZk76MI Sold territories: Netherlands (Mokum Filmdistributie - theatrical rights only)
Farewell Paradise
World premiere Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Sonja Wyss Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 93 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Basalt Film Contact: Simone van den Broek Email: [email protected] Logline: The idyllic life in the Bahamas of a family with four young daughters is cruelly disrupted when mother decides to return to Switzerland. The director is one of the daughters, who all returned with her. She reconstructs events on the basis of candid, at times painful, conversations with her parents and sisters. Sold territories: The Netherlands (Periscoop Film)
Drama Girl
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Vincent Boy Kars Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 90 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: HALAL
Contact: Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen Email: [email protected] Logline: Can drama help us understand ourselves and the world better? Assisted by experienced actors, including Pierre Bokma and Elsie de Brauw, director Vincent Boy Kars re-enacts scenes from the life of Leyla, a young woman who is subjected to a certain amount of confusion in this intriguing experiment. What is still real, and what is fiction? Sold territories: All available
Porselein
European premiere Programme section: RTM Director(s): Jenneke Boeijink Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: New Amsterdam Film Company Contact: Sander Verdonk Email: [email protected] Logline: Anna and Paul's perfect life is disrupted when their young son Thomas suddenly starts to exhibit aggressive tendencies. In their frustrating search for the cause, they are both confronted with their own defects, hidden below the veneer of seeming happiness. Slowly but surely the cracks in their existence get bigger. Sold territories: All available
Little Man, Time and the Troubadour
Programme section: RTM Director(s): Ineke Smits Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Belgium Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 104 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Deckert Distribution Contact: Heino Deckert Email: [email protected]
Logline: In this poetic road movie, an artist tours Abkhazia with an autobiographical puppet play. Between sun-drenched palm beaches and bullet-riddled ruins from the war with Georgia, he collects stories, dreams and memories. In this melting pot of peoples, he wonders: "What makes a country? What is home?" Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qJ-sFf53fI
Paradise Drifters
World premiere Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Mees Peijnenburg Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 85 Genre: Fiction Company: Orange Studio Contact: Ines Papo Email: [email protected] Logline: Yousef has no family. Chloe's teen pimp got her pregnant. Lorenzo wants to make a quick buck smuggling drugs geld. The leads in this raw road movie, intensely portrayed by the young cast, are desperate for help and love. A film that deals out hard blows whilst steering them towards the liberating finale. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip3t4dQCpzA
Norway
The Painter and the Thief
European premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Benjamin Ree Prod. Countries: Norway, Sweden Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 102 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Medieoperatørene Contact: Salma Abdalla Email: [email protected] Logline: Painter Barbora Kysilkova befriends the junky who stole two of her works. Driven by curiosity and thrill-seeking, Florence Nightingale syndrome and true compassion, she tries to get the monkey off his back. Ultimately, he frees her from her own demons. Sold territories: All available
Panama
Panquiaco
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Ana Elena Tejera Prod. Countries: Panama Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 80 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Too Much Panama Contact: Lidia Damatto Email: [email protected] Logline: What does it mean to be descended from Panama's indigenous population? Driven by nostalgia, Cebaldo returns to his roots from Portugal, only to find that the world of his youth is no more. The stunning images speak their own
language in this freely designed impression with a documentary edge. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tpYsQEXoE Sold territories: All available
Tierra adentro
European premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Mauro Colombo Prod. Countries: Panama Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 70 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: The Open Reel Contact: Marius Gabriel Stancu Email: [email protected] Logline: Colombo’s urgent documentary feature debut shows the filmmaker immersing himself in the Darién Gap, a dense and mysterious jungle that divides Panama and Colombia. At the dangerous border between these two countries, guerrillas, immigrants, indigenous people, farmers, drug traffickers, police, and wild animals cross paths. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tn-g8m2P5k&feature=youtu.be Sold territories: All available
Peru
En medio del laberinto
European premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Salomón Pérez Prod. Countries: Peru Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 65 Genre: Fiction Company: Contact: Salomón Pérez Email: [email protected] Logline: Peruvian director Salomón Pérez provides a dreamy, fictional, nostalgic coating to his memories of youth. Skateboarding teen Renzo does his best to impress the elusive Zoe in this coming-of-age film that provides unique insight into Trujillo's skateboarding scene.
Philippines
The Halt
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Lav Diaz Prod. Countries: Philippines Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 278 Genre: Fiction Company: Indie Sales Contact: Clément Chautant Email: [email protected] Logline: In this political fantasy of a future highly reminiscent of today, volcanic eruptions have thrown the Philippines into darkness, while a crazed leader threatens rebellious neighbourhoods with poison gas. Resistance is not an easy option. After a stirring rock
intermezzo, grand master Diaz calmly heads for the unexpected denouement. Sold territories: Thailand (Documentary Club)
Poland
Corpus Christi
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Jan Komasa Prod. Countries: Poland, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 116 Genre: Fiction Company: New Europe Film Sales Contact: Jan Naszewski Email: [email protected] Logline: Oscar-nominated drama about a 20-year-old delinquent sent on work experience, who ends up not in a sawmill but in the village church, where he is mistaken for the new priest. In this brand-new calling, he struggles with a village trauma, his own demons and the fear of being unmasked as a criminal. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYnzL5ifXsw Sold territories: Australia, Belarus, Benelux, Central America, Colombia, Czech Repulic and Slovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russia & CIS, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK & Ireland, USA and Canada.
Black Mercedes
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Janusz Majewski Prod. Countries: Poland Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 123 Genre: Fiction Company: WFDiF Contact: Marika Cieslik Email: [email protected] Logline: Rafał Król serves as an investigator with the 'Blue Police'. The year is 1942, the place Warsaw, the crime murder. Things get murkier still when the victim, Aneta Holzer, seems to have been someone quite different from she was said to be... An elegantly directed, quizzically smart piece of historical crime fiction. Sold territories:
Portugal
Vitalina Varela
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Pedro Costa Prod. Countries: Portugal Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 124 Genre: Fiction Company: Sociedade Óptica Técnica, Optec Contact: Vítor Carvalho Email: [email protected] Logline: Vitalina travels from her native Cape Verde in the footsteps of her recently deceased partner, ending up in the pitch-black vacuum of life for Portuguese immigrants. This Golden Leopard winner at Locarno is stunningly stylised by Pedro Costa, who isolates his characters in the darkness using a 4:3 ratio and bright spotlights. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjqzn_NWRI&feature=youtu.be
Sold territories: Portugal - Midas Filmes USA - Grasshopper Film UK and Ireland - Second Run Brazil - Zeta Filmes Mexico and Colombia - Interior X II I Germany and Austria - GrandFilm Japan – Cinematrix Greece – Video
Suzanne Daveau
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Luísa Homem Prod. Countries: Portugal Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 115 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Terratreme Filmes Contact: Pedro Peralta Email: [email protected] Logline: Rich documentary portrait of a passionate geographer way ahead of her time. Suzanne Daveau (1925, France) undertook field research in the most inhospitable environments: nothing could stop her. Using stunning photo series and footage, she tells the story of her life, in which work and private life became one. Sold territories: All available
Mosquito
World premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): João Nuno Pinto Prod. Countries: Portugal, France, Brazil Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 122 Genre: Fiction Company: Alfama Films Contact: Jason Bressand Email: [email protected] Logline: During World War I, heavy fighting also took place in East Africa, far from the European front. In 1917 a solitary Portuguese soldier (17) travels hundreds of kilometres on foot through
Mozambique, looking for his platoon. He almost succumbs to malaria and other deprivations. Intoxicating war film without war about a soldier without an army. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6eZ6AVwBZk
Romania
The Whistlers
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Corneliu Porumboiu Prod. Countries: Romania, France, Germany, Sweden Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 97 Genre: Fiction Company: mk2 Films Contact: Anne-Laure Barbarit Email: [email protected] Logline: A Romanian policeman, a factory owner hiding drugs in mattresses, a femme fatale, a beautiful Spanish island and a centuries-old secret language. Romanian maestro Porumboiu blends these together to create an elegant, drily comical thriller in which good and evil conspire side by side. Sold territories:
Russia
Fidelity
European premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Nigina Sayfullaeva Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 82 Genre: Fiction
Company: m-appeal Contact: Magdalena Banasik Email: [email protected] Logline: Jealousy drives married, yet sexually neglected Lena to take a series of lovers. Complex, explicitly shot psychological drama from a female perspective. Director Nigina Sayfullaeva studies the role of sex, power and vulnerability in relationships, revealing that what remains undiscussed soon begins to fester. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EG2EEzIQaY Sold territories: All available
Tinnitus
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Daniil Zinchenko Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 91 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Cosmosfilm Contact: Ekaterina Khazina Email: [email protected] Logline: Electronic noise with a death wish was the Russian alternative music scene's answer to Glasnost. Many of the musicians have since died, whether due to drugs, suicide or unknown reasons. A look back at the time when romance and punk started a deadly relationship. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoaeivEUyA Sold territories: All available
Babai
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Artem Aisagaliev Prod. Countries: Russia, USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 65 Genre: Fiction
Company: Badcut Inc Contact: Artem Aisagaliev Email: [email protected] Logline: Russian brothers Mark and Gesha struggle with their strict father, while their tough youth illustrates how fear and sadness are unavoidable elements of aging. Using claustrophobic close-ups, Russian filmmaker Artem Aisagaliev provides a universal impression of a human existence characterised by trauma. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9E0UO5DZ0 Sold territories: All available
The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks
World premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Andrey Khrzhanovsky Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 89 Genre: Crossmedia Project Company: School - Studio “SHAR” Contact: Anna Ostalskaya Email: [email protected] Logline: A cheerfully grim look at the last century's follies and foibles, anchored in Gogol's proto-surrealist 1836 novella The Nose. A late milestone by a giant of Soviet/Russian animation that with cheek and panache mixes styles and techniques, and knows how to play with visual puns and audio jests. A gem from the future and the past.
Beanpole
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Kantemir Balagov Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2019
Length: 134 Genre: Fiction Company: Wild Bunch Contact: Esther Devos Email: [email protected] Logline: In his visually overwhelming second film, mega-talent Kantemir Balagov reveals the war traumas of two women who fought in the Red Army. In a Leningrad ravaged by the siege, young women Iya and Masha pick up the pieces of their devastated lives in the autumn of 1945.
A Frenchman
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Andrei Smirnov Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 128 Genre: Fiction Company: All Media Company Contact: Larisa Leonova Email: [email protected] Logline: In the late 1950s, Pierre Duran travels to Moscow as an exchange student. While falling in love and making friends in the underground scene, he never loses sight of his real aim: to find his long-lost father. A mellow look back at a still sizzling Soviet Union by Brežnev-era cinema epitome Andrej Smirnov. Sold territories: All available
Heel-and-Toe
International premiere Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Maxim Tomash Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 77 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Stereotactic
Contact: Pavel Karykhalin Email: [email protected] Logline: Russian self-made rapper Anton makes upbeat, personal hip-hop, with increasing success. Touring Eastern Europe as Antoha MC, he needs little more than his trumpet, hamster and a good mood. This affectionate travel documentary shows how millennials all over Eastern Europe party to his equally playful and critical music. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH4LHxPxz8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9ShkzdccpUZo&index=19&t=3s
Saudi Arabia
The Perfect Candidate
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Haifaa Al Mansour Prod. Countries: Saudi Arabia, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 101 Genre: Fiction Company: The Match Factory GmbH Contact: Thania Dimitrakopoulou Email: [email protected] Logline: A female doctor in Saudi Arabia stands as a candidate for the municipal elections, the first woman to ever do so. Even her modest political ambitions such as surfacing the dirt road outside the local hospital seem too much. Multi-layered family drama as well as an inspiring homage to women in this conservative, patriarchal society.
Senegal
Nafi's Father
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Mamadou Dia Prod. Countries: Senegal Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 108 Genre: Fiction Company: Joyedidi Contact: Maba Ba Email: [email protected] Logline: Tokara wants to marry his cousin, the beautiful Nafi, bringing their fathers into conflict with one another: the children are pawns in a bitter dispute about tradition, progress and the true nature of Islam. Can their family ties help them overcome these ideological differences? Winner of two awards in Locarno, including best debut. Sold territories: Canal+ International (TV and online): Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Cap Vert, Comores, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypte, Erythre e, Ethiopie, Gabon, Gambie, Ghana, Guinee, Guinee Bissau, Guinee Equatoriale, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Lybie, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Maroc, Mauritanie, Maurice, Mozambique, Namibie, Niger, Nigeria, Ouganda, Republique Centrafricaine, Republique Democratique du Congo, Republique Sud-Africaine, Rwanda, Senegal, Sao Tome, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Soudan, Sud-Soudan, Swaziland, Tanzanie, Tchad, Togo, Tunisie, Zambie, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe. Hai ti (Drom).
Serbia
My Morning Laughter
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Marko Djordjevic Prod. Countries: Serbia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 94 Genre: Fiction Company: Altertise Contact: Miloš Pušic Email: [email protected] Logline: His father drives him mad, his mother treats him like a child and he's never had a girlfriend. High time for 28-year-old teacher Dejan to fly out of the nest. This happens in fits and starts in this Serbian tragicomedy, in which everything seems to look deliberately unpolished. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnzT7Bg8oQ Sold territories: All available
The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater
Programme section: Regained Director(s): Goran Radovanović Prod. Countries: Serbia Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 74 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Nama Film Contact: Goran Radovanović Email: [email protected] Logline: In June 1971, a public debate was held in Novi Sad on WR: Mysteries of the Organism, a controversial film that caused a dilemma for the Yugoslavian authorities. How far did the Tito regime's democratic freedoms really go? In the
mirror of history, a homage to filmmaker Dusan Makavejev (1932-2019). Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPdomZOzoY Sold territories: Ex-Yugoslavia (Nama Film)
Singapore
The Tree House
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Truong Minh Quý Prod. Countries: Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, France, China Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 84 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Levo Films Contact: Xiao-Dong Guo Email: [email protected] Logline: What does a filmmaker’s journey to Mars have to do with the Rục – an isolated ethnic group living in the mountains and caves of Vietnam? This original mix of science fiction and anthropology investigates the meaning of the concept of ‘home’. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvoksAojngg&feature=youtu.be Sold territories: All available
A Love Unknown
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): John Clang Prod. Countries: Singapore, USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 82 Genre: Fiction Company: Potocol
Contact: Jeremy Chua Email: [email protected] Logline: In New York and Singapore, an estranged mother and daughter independently try to fight their depressions and answer existential questions. This drama that subtly connects complex problems, harsh reality and hallucinations, portrays four days in the two women's lives. Do invisible connections exist? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQdrfox7Rw Sold territories: All available
South Africa
Moffie
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Oliver Hermanus Prod. Countries: South Africa Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Fiction Company: Portobello Film Sales Contact: Noah Reich Email: [email protected] Logline: Aged sixteen, Nicholas is conscripted into in the South African army. It is 1981, the apartheid era. Homophobia, xenophobia and white supremacism are the norm. Nicholas tries to explore his homosexuality during humiliating boot camps, but there is precious little scope for individual expression in this suffocating environment. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghpn-UI_2M Sold territories: USA, UK, South Africa
South Korea
Moving On
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Yoon Dan-bi Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 105 Genre: Fiction Company: M-Line Distribution Contact: Jamie Seo Email: [email protected] Logline: Financial and relationship problems force three generations of a family to live together under one roof. Tender, subtly structured portrait of five individuals discovering, exploring or critiquing the meaning of family and other relationships in their lives, each from their own perspective.
Bring Me Home
European premiere Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Kim Seungwoo Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 108 Genre: Fiction Company: Finecut Co. Ltd Contact: YoungKyung Sohn Email: [email protected] Logline: Yoonsu is still missing after six years when an anonymous caller assures his desperate mother Jungyeon that her son is living in a remote fishing village. She comes face-to-face with the local fishermen's gruesome secrets. An enthralling thriller full of twists, as can only be made in Korea. Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqygjcDFZF4 Sold territories: Hong Kong & Macau, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
Beasts Clawing at Straws
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Kim Yonghoon Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 109 Genre: Fiction Company: M-Line Distribution Contact: Michelle Son Email: [email protected] Logline: Debut director Kim Yonghoon assembles a great cast (Asura's Jung Woosung and Secret Sunshine star Jeon Doyeon) for his energetic film adaptation of Japanese hard-boiled crime novel Beasts Clawing at Straws. The result is an artfully constructed, black comedy/crime drama as well as a compelling summary of human shortcomings. But where did that bag come from?
Not in This World
International premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Park Jungbum Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 167 Genre: Fiction Company: M-Line Distribution Contact: Jamie Seo Email: [email protected] Logline: Tiger winner Park Jungbum shows rebellious teen girl Jisu refusing to conform to capitalist society's rules. Just like the mild-mannered Jeongcheol who is the only fan of her
rap songs and continues to defend her even when her extreme malevolence manifests itself.
Parasite (B&W Version)
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Bong Joon Ho Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 131 Genre: Fiction Company: CJ Entertainment Email: [email protected] Logline: Inspired by classic cinema, director Bong Joon Ho has made a black-and-white version of Parasite, which became a worldwide hit after winning the Golden Palm in Cannes. The eldest son of an unemployed family gets a well-paid tutoring job with a wealthy family. This brings opportunity.
The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Kim Dongryung, Park Kyoungtae Prod. Countries: South Korea Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 115 Genre: Fiction Company: CinemaDAL Contact: Evan Kang Email: [email protected] Logline: Sublime film about a former 'comfort woman' who lives next to an American military base in Korea. Faced with death, she re-writes her history as revenge against obscurity. A docufiction that transforms her unbearable existence into something increasingly spiritual, fantastical and touching. Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOOLcYQEM40 Sold territories: All available
Spain
The Rise of the Synths
Programme section: Regained Director(s): Iván Castell Prod. Countries: Spain, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 82 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Castell & Moreno Films SL Contact: Louise Rosent Email: [email protected] Logline: Synthwave is pure nostalgia for an era the musicians never experienced personally: the 1980s. They are inspired by the music, but definitely also by films from the era such as Top Gun and Lethal Weapon. An extensive introduction to the genre with director John Carpenter (The Fog, Halloween) as the narrator. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwdGD3b9E48 Sold territories: Spain ( Movistar+)
Longa noite
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Eloy Enciso Prod. Countries: Spain Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 90 Genre: Fiction Company: Filmika Galaika Contact: Beli Martínez Email: [email protected] Logline: During his trip through Spain, several years after the Spanish Civil War, a man in this
drama speaks to his countrymen about the effect that war has had on their daily lives. How did they experience the struggle, what relationships changed, what happened to their political views? Who feels like a victor − or a loser? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCIu7Bgxjjg
El año del descubrimiento
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Luis López Carrasco Prod. Countries: Spain, Switzerland Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 200 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Lacima Producciones Contact: Luis Ferrón Ferri Email: [email protected] Logline: An almost forgotten piece of social history is revived in a bar in Cartagena, Spain, through the stories of strikers who took part and discussions among young people about class consciousness, the economic crisis and the role of unions. Immersion in the present and a confrontation with past conflicts. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov05YCCDeu8 Sold territories: Spain and Switzerland
El crack cero
International premiere Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): José Luis Garci Prod. Countries: Spain Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 122 Genre: Fiction Company: Filmax International Contact: Ivan Diaz
Email: [email protected] Logline: Old-school film noir featuring private detective Germán Areta, the hero of two previous films by Garci dealing with the last year of Spain’s 'transición' period (1982). First fascism, then democracy – but this is irrelevant in this Dashiell Hammett-style universe. As long as money makes the world go round, there will always be fraudsters ready to pounce. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM08ILozjQ8
Fire Will Come
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Oliver Laxe Prod. Countries: Spain, France, Luxembourg Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 85 Genre: Fiction Company: Pyramide International Contact: Alberto Alvarez Aguilera Email: [email protected] Logline: Convicted arsonist Amador returns to his remote village in the mountainous Spanish region of Galicia. His mother is glad he’s back, but the other villagers don’t trust him. A raging fire breaks out – but did he start it? Or are the property developers destroying this impoverished rural community? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-s7paAwgw&feature=youtu.be Sold territories: Australia, Belgium, Eastern Europe (HBO), France, Greece, Luxembourg, MENA, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA.
My Mexican Bretzel
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Nuria Giménez
Prod. Countries: Spain Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 72 Genre: Fiction Company: Bretzel & Tequila Contact: Nuria Giménez Email: [email protected] Logline: The glamourous lives of Vivian and Léon Barrett immediately following World War II were full of love, success and tragedy, at times seeming too good to be true. Excerpts from the diary of a woman and beautiful footage shot in the post-war decades by a man together form an enchanting narrative. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARu-DELop0s Sold territories: All available
Blanco en blanco
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Théo Court Prod. Countries: Spain, Chile, Germany, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 100 Genre: Fiction Company: Stray Dogs Contact: Lison Hervé Email: [email protected] Logline: Mainly shot in the depths of winter in inhospitable Tierra del Fuego, Théo Court's second film is a hypnotic trip to the historic hell of Western expansionism. Around 1900, photographer Pedro (an amazing Alfredo Castro once again) travels to the southernmost part of South America, to photograph a wealthy landowner’s wedding. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTi0t2KVXxs&feature=youtu.be Sold territories: Spain (Elamedia) Korea (Daesung Films) Mexico (7MO)
Zumiriki
Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Oskar Alegria Prod. Countries: Spain Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 122 Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Oskar Alegria Email: [email protected] Logline: Like a modern-day hermit, a man retreats to a tree hut for four months, hoping to recapture the lost spontaneity of his youth. At once meditative and very playful, the filmmaker gets the maximum from his minimalist setting. He allows poetry to invade his time capsule and the rhythm of nature to take over. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBAFFkHTTdI Sold territories: All available
Sri Lanka
Children of the Sun
European premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Prasanna Vithanage Prod. Countries: Sri Lanka, India Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Fiction Contact: Prasanna Vithanage Email: [email protected] Logline: 1814, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The Tamil king has been deposed by Sinhalese Buddhists aided by the British army. Amid the tumult, a man and woman from very different castes are condemned to marry each other. The differences seem irreconcilable in this epic love story, but ultimately they realise that character is more important. Sold territories: All available
Sweden
Merry Christmas, Yiwu
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Mladen Kovacevic Prod. Countries: Sweden, Serbia, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 94 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Deckert Distribution Contact: Liselot Verbrugge Email: [email protected] Logline: The workers at over 600 factories in Yiwu, China manufacture Christmas decorations year round. The camera trails the workers at the factory and elsewhere – their conversations, love issues, a game of pool, shopping and eating, and the calls home, far away from Yiwu's prosperity. A portrait of a surreal society.
About Endlessness
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Roy Andersson Prod. Countries: Sweden, Germany, Norway Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 76 Genre: Fiction Company: Coproduction Office Contact: Christina Demetriou Email: [email protected] Logline: Anyone who has ever been enchanted by the empathy, humour and masterly tableaux vivants of Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living) will know what to expect: a kaleidoscope of vulnerable, comical characters and a melancholy ode to the finite,
eternally human.
The Longest Day
World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Jonas Selberg Augustsén Prod. Countries: Sweden, Finland Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 119 Genre: Fiction Company: Bob Film Sweden AB Contact: Andreas Emanuelsson Email: [email protected] Logline: Even when the sun shines day and night, people struggle with minor and major problems. This varies from slight discomfort to existential crises in a small Finnish-speaking community in northern Sweden. The individual stories about a range of characters in this melancholy ensemble film all converge at the midsummer night's party. Sold territories: All available
The Heart Is a Drum
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Jacob Frössén Prod. Countries: Sweden Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 74 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Epigram Contact: Jacob Frössén Email: [email protected] Logline: As one of the architects of the German krautrock scene's iconic 'Motorik Beat', the repetitive drumbeat that Neu! and Kraftwerk musician Klaus Dinger prefer to call 'the endless straight on'. This lends Swedish director Jacob Frössén a nice metaphor with which to catalogue this influential German musician's eventful life.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH3Zgfw6jVw Sold territories: All available
Meanwhile on Earth
World premiere Programme section: Wait and See Director(s): Carl Olsson Prod. Countries: Sweden, Denmark, Estonia Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 72 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: De Andra Film AB Contact: Caroline Drab Email: [email protected] Logline: One man's tragedy is another man's treasure. Or in this case rather a ready-made salad and nutritious smoothie. While the deceased await their final redemption, anonymous workers take charge of their bodily remains. With dignity, but often with an unintentional hint of absurdity as well. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oItgDnViXhg Sold territories: Sweden, SVT for TV rights only
Switzerland
L'île aux oiseaux
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Maya Kosa, Sérgio da Costa Prod. Countries: Switzerland Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 60 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Close Up Films Contact: Flavia Zanon Email: [email protected] Logline: After a period of isolation and illness, Antonin starts working for a bird rescue centre.
There troubled souls receive just as much care and attention as the injured birds and Antonin is given the opportunity to spread his wings. Minimalist, heart-warming quotidian poetry; also suitable for non-ornithologists. Sold territories: Switzerland & Liechtenstein (ADOK FILMS) Mexico (LA OLA CINE)
Syria
The End Will Be Spectacular
European premiere Programme section: Synergetic Director(s): Ersin Çelik Prod. Countries: Syria, Iraq, Spain Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 112 Genre: Fiction Contact: Diyar Hesso Email: [email protected] Logline: An uncompromising war film that tells the story of Zilan, a young woman who returns to her family and friends to honour the memory of her deceased brother. She becomes entangled in the struggle of a group of young resistance fighters trying to lift the siege of the historic heart of the Turkish-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwqiYys7ak
Taiwan
Detention
European premiere Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): John Hsu Prod. Countries: Taiwan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 103 Genre: Fiction Company: MandarinVision Co. Ltd. Contact: Desmond Yang Email: [email protected] Logline: In 1962's Chinese-occupied Taiwan, political literature is severely prohibited. This psychological horror film based on a popular, eponymous computer game is about the disappearance of the members of an illegal book club from a secondary school. One spooky night, two teens go in search of the horrific truth. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl33lvwGKI Sold territories: Hong Kong & Macao, South East Asia, Japan, South Korea
Synapses
International premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Chang Tso-chi Prod. Countries: Taiwan Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 119 Genre: Fiction Company: Swallow Wings Films Contact: Yao Albert Email: [email protected] Logline: How human is someone with no memories? Can you manipulate thoughts of the past? Taiwanese director Chang Tso-chi investigates this in a melancholy, beautifully
performed family epic centring on a man with worsening dementia and his daughter, whom he seems to have forgotten after her years in prison. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw2M1qYg29s
Thailand
Krabi, 2562
Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong Prod. Countries: Thailand, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 Genre: Experimental Company: Rediance Contact: Zhang Yaoting Email: [email protected] Logline: Krabi is a paradise irrevocably falling victim to mass tourism. But before it’s too late, a mysterious visitor takes in the sights, local history and stories of the inhabitants. Documentary, interview and fiction merge as seamlessly as prehistory, the recent past and present: the year 2562 in the Buddhist calendar. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tj0yhS_AsUb Sold territories: UK Thailand
Happy Old Year
European premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit Prod. Countries: Thailand Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 113 Genre: Fiction Company: GDH 559
Contact: Ruedee (Deedee) Pholthaweechai Email: [email protected] Logline: Sensitive drama with humorous moments about catharsis and letting go. Jean returns to her native Thailand after years abroad, to the home she shares with her mother and brother. When she decides to radically declutter the house, she is forced to first confront painful memories and unresolved emotions. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v8oNWqIy4Y
Tunisia
Tlamess
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Ala Eddine Slim Prod. Countries: Tunisia, France Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 120 Genre: Fiction Company: Be For Films Contact: Paméla Leu Email: [email protected] Logline: This largely silent diptych brings together two extremes of contemporary Tunisian society. Young army deserter S and rich man’s pregnant wife F are both fleeing oppressive situations. F finally ends up in the woods, where she meets a wild S. Intriguing juxtaposition of raw realism and hypnotic allegory. Sold territories: France (Potemkine) Switzerland (Sister Distribution) Middle-East (MENA) (Mad Solutions)
Un fils
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Mehdi M. Barsaoui Prod. Countries: Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 95 Genre: Fiction Company: Jour2Fête Contact: Clémence Michalon Email: [email protected] Logline: It is 2011, just after Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution and things are changing, but Fares and Meriem have lost hope. Intense family drama in which their son who has been shot is in danger of dying because they are not permitted to donate their own organs. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKE2k-loTMM
Turkey
You Know Him
World premiere Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Ercan Kesal Prod. Countries: Turkey, Serbia Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 103 Genre: Fiction Company: Ay Yapim Contact: Yamaç Okur Email: [email protected] Logline: Doctor Kemal's day starts promisingly. That evening, the leader of the party is to confirm his candidacy as mayor of a district of Istanbul. But as he makes the rounds of political leaders and voters, it becomes clear that he is no
match for the opportunism of the electorate. Sold territories: All available
Phases of Matter
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Deniz Tortum Prod. Countries: Turkey Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 71 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Istos film Contact: Anna Maria Aslanoglu Email: [email protected] Logline: Roaming freely around the old hospital in Istanbul where he was born, the filmmaker reveals its insular world of doctors, nurses, students and other workers. Between levity and severity, everyday and confrontational images, a sense of impermanence grows. Sober observation reaches poetic conclusions. Sold territories: All available
USA
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Marielle Heller Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 107 Genre: Film Company: Sony Pictures Releasing Int. Email: [email protected] Logline: Mister Rogers always manages to disarm even the most hardened cynics with his seemingly boundless friendliness. Director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) achieves the same with her heart-warming film about forgiveness that never becomes too soppy.
Actor Tom Hanks is phenomenal as the famous American kid's TV star. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidrMjPgnKo
Bring Down The Walls
World premiere Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Phil Collins Prod. Countries: USA, Germany Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 88 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Shady Lane Productions Contact: Sinisa Mitrovic Email: [email protected] Logline: Two contrasting phenomena developed in early-1980s USA: freedom-loving house music and the prison-industrial complex that resulted in exponential growth of the prison population. Phil Collins links the two at his campaign centre in New York. During the day it is a stage for political reform. At night, it's a club where everyone can be themselves.
How to Overthrow the US Government (Legally)
World premiere Programme section: Signatures Director(s): Caveh Zahedi Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 79 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Contact: Caveh Zahedi Email: [email protected] Logline: Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member of The Yes Men Jaques Servin give classes in bringing about political change and make a web
show of this. A hilarious and painfully honest report on this process, in which students and teachers slowly but surely get to know – and appreciate – one another. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--iqt4O1B-8 Sold territories: All available
Family Romance, LLC
Programme section: The Tyger Burns Director(s): Werner Herzog Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 89 Genre: Fiction Company: Film Constellation Contact: Chloe Tai Email: [email protected] Logline: There are many constants in Herzog's oeuvre. For example, the fact that the boundary between fake and faked has been pushed aside as irrelevant since time immemorial. Here, we are dealing with a Japanese business that delivers actors as surrogates for the real thing − for therapeutic purposes. Honest. But of course Herzog isn't satisfied merely with this objet trouvé. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36LeFtKjSQ Sold territories: UK
Boyz in the Wood
Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Ninian Doff Prod. Countries: USA, United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 87 Genre: Fiction Company: Endeavor Content Contact: Brian Coffey Email: [email protected] Logline: The hunt is on for four clueless teens on
the run from a duke with a shotgun during a trek through the Scottish Highlands. Idiotic decisions, wacky plot twists, paranoid local cops and lightning-fast editing complete the chaos.
Lydia Lunch – The War Is Never Over
International premiere Programme section: Beth B: War Is Never Over Director(s): Beth B Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 78 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: B Productions Contact: Josh Braun Email: [email protected] Logline: New York’s No Wave icon Lydia Lunch has been a musician and spoken-word artist since the 1970s. The lead vocalist of bands such as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks has never stopped being passionate, idiosyncratic and committed to the cause, and is still fighting for women's right to say 'fuck you'. A portrait. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DoEMeVVHk Sold territories: All available except for: U.S and Canada (Submarine Entertainment)
Little Women
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Greta Gerwig Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 135 Genre: Fiction Company: Sony Pictures Entertainment Logline: Director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has put together a world-class cast (Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet) for her adaptation of Little Women,which stresses
female ambition and resilience, combines crinoline-skirted romance with a dash of humour and gives the whole her own unique twist through her stunning use of colour alone. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8dSYNDNzyg
The Evening Hour
International premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Braden King Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 115 Genre: Fiction Company: Film Constellation Contact: Chloe Tai Email: [email protected] Logline: An empathetic portrait of economic decline and spiritual redemption in a rural American mining town where the drug trade has become part of the social fabric. Drugs dealer and carer for the elderly Cole Freeman is caught in a dilemma: his job contributes to a sense of solidarity, while his sideline devastates the lives of young people.
The Eyeslicer Season Two Episode 1-7
International premiere Programme section: Synergetic Director(s): various directors | The Eyeslicer Season Two Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 368 Genre: Experimental Company: Eyeslicer Releasing LLC Contact: Dan Schoenbrun Email: [email protected]
Logline: From retro pixelated-style digital animations to poignant coming-of-age stories, comical films parodying contemporary American visual culture or portraits van bizarre subcultures. This second season of mixtape-style cult series The Eyeslicer is crammed with weird and wonderful shorts that together make up an addictive feast for the eye.
Truth or Consequences
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Hannah Jayanti Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 102 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Contact: Sara Archambault Email: [email protected] Logline: This speculative documentary is set in a small desert town in the American state of New Mexico. Anchored in nonfiction footage, the film subtly takes place in a near-future when humans are leaving Earth to colonize other planets. A tender portrait of the desert town of Truth or Consequences and the inhabitants.
The Eyeslicer Season Two Episode 8-13
International premiere Programme section: Synergetic Director(s): various directors | The Eyeslicer Season Two Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 286 Genre: Experimental Company: Eyeslicer Releasing LLC Contact: Dan Schoenbrun
Email: [email protected] Logline: From retro pixelated-style digital animations to poignant coming-of-age stories, comical films parodying contemporary American visual culture or portraits van bizarre subcultures. This second season of mixtape-style cult series The Eyeslicer is crammed with weird and wonderful shorts that together make up an addictive feast for the eye.
Slow Machine
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Paul Felten, Joe DeNardo Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 72 Genre: Fiction Company: Dialectic Contact: Shrihari Sathe Email: [email protected] Logline: After her relationship with intelligence agent Gerard ends terribly, tired and disillusioned actress Stephanie hides in a house where a band is working on a record, which proves to be less of an escape than she imagined. A playful, non-linear and dark indie "screwball thriller", set in New York and shot on beautiful 16mm. Sold territories: All available
Uncut Gems
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 134 Genre: Fiction Company: A24 Email: [email protected]
Logline: Jeweler Howard is really getting himself into hot water – his problems stack up until he just can't see a way out. It's like he's playing a cliff-edge game of Jenga against himself. For this scintillating crime-thriller with a striking lead role for Adam Sandler, the brothers Safdie return to their beloved New York City.
Some Kind of Heaven
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Lance Oppenheim Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 81 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: 30WEST Contact: Melissa Oppenheim Lano Email: [email protected] Logline: Endless rounds of golf and exercises every morning – the ideal for more than 130,000 residents of one of the biggest ‘retirement reservations’ in the United States: The Villages in Florida. But what about those people who, in spite of all the fruit shakes, nevertheless end up facing sickness and death?
VHYes
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Jack Henry Robbins Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 72 Genre: Fiction Company: Yellow Veil Pictures Contact: Joe Yanick Email: [email protected]
Logline: Oh, the 1980s! Women in tight aerobics wear and Tel Sell ads for (Truly Fantastic!) ballpoints. A deliciously crazed, retro comedy shot in VHS with a pinch of Blair Witch and ... climate porn? Hilarious fun for everyone with a fruit fly's attention span and nostalgia for fast forwarding. Sold territories: North America (Oscilloscope Films)
Sound of Metal
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Darius Marder Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 130 Genre: Fiction Company: Protagonist Pictures Contact: Charlotte Lopez Email: [email protected] Logline: Emotion proves audible in this well-conceived feature-film debut. The precarious equilibrium in drummer Ruben's life threatens to be undone when he suddenly goes deaf. Intimate footage and immersive sound design help the audience comprehend the struggle between acceptance and the hope for a miracle cure.
I Blame Society
World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Competition Director(s): Gillian Wallace Horvat Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 84 Genre: Fiction Company: Nowhere Contact: Caroline Oliveira Email: [email protected] Logline: Gillian Horvat's feature film debut is a meta-commentary on the transgressions required to get your first film off the ground. Losing more than her friends and loved ones, her obsession with authenticity leads her to lose sight of where creativity ends and madness begins.
Sammy-Gate
World premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Noel Lawrence Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 88 Genre: Fiction Company: J.X. Williams Archive Contact: Noel Lawrence Email: [email protected] Logline: A psychedelic, deranged satirical trip into the heart of Nixon’s political darkness. Working for Nixon, celebrity Sammy Davis Jr uncovers a right-wing conspiracy set up by billionaire Howard Hughes, aiming to get the young black inner-city youth addicted to heroin. Why? Make war, not love. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNEkj7IUS8&list=PLF_RT4GM9bElRO9spC50K9Shkzd
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Ukraine
Atlantis
Programme section: Limelight Director(s): Valentyn Vasyanovych Prod. Countries: Ukraine Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 106 Genre: Fiction Company: Best Friend Forever Contact: Martin Gondre Email: [email protected] Logline: Traumatised Sergey joins volunteers who recover the bodies of fallen soldiers in eastern Ukraine. This brings him into contact with archaeologist Katya, who is literally and metaphorically digging into her past. Atlantis presents a grim but urgent portrait of Ukraine today, and the horrific consequences of the war with Russia. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc5hZBzAfBs Sold territories: Dutch Speaking Benelux (Film Freak), Norway (Arthaus)
United Kingdom
Passages
European premiere Programme section: Regained Director(s): Lúcia Nagib, Samuel Paiva Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 94 Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Lúcia Nagib
Email: [email protected] Logline: Fascinating journey through recent Brazilian film history – about how cinema, with other art forms, has reflected Brazilian society. Filmmakers such as Marcelo Gomes and Kleber Mendonça Filho show, on the basis of examples, how crucial music, photography, theatre and poetry are to their work. Sold territories: All available
AIDOL
Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Lawrence Lek Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 83 Genre: Fiction Contact: Francesca B Wilson Mariani Email: [email protected] Logline: Former superstar Diva hopes to rekindle her career by engaging an ambitious artificial intelligence in this sequel to Geomancer from 2017. Diva is our avatar in the futuristic gaming world of 2065 where mankind will battle the machines in an epic eSports final. Sold territories: All available
Saint Maud
Programme section: Rotterdämmerung Director(s): Rose Glass Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 83 Genre: Fiction Company: Protagonist Pictures Contact: Charlotte Lopez Email: [email protected] Logline: Young nurse Maud not only takes care of the bodily ills of her incurable patient, former dancer Amanda, but also sets out to save her soul. In this slow-burn horror, it gradually
transpires that Maud's devotion is a fragile mask for her own traumas. Sold territories:
Rocks
Programme section: Synergetic Director(s): Sarah Gavron Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 93 Genre: Fiction Company: Altitude Film Sales Contact: Karina Gechtman Email: [email protected] Logline: 15-year old Rocks from East London – really good at make-up and laughing with her friends – suddenly has to get by on her own when her mother disappears, abandoning her and her kid brother. A disturbing, warm, lively and enormously appealingly-acted drama by the director of Brick Lane and Suffragette. Sold territories: China, France, Korea, Middle East, Poland, UK (Airlines)
Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story
Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Posy Dixon Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, USA Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 63 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: LUCA Contact: Liv Proctor Email: [email protected] Logline: The story of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a composer of dreamy, electronic soul music so far ahead of his time, that he only met with sold-out venues at the age of 74. Also the story of an inspirational transgender who came out when homosexuality was still illegal.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urke1Jcjclw Sold territories: All available
Make Up
International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Main Programme Director(s): Claire Oakley Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 86 Genre: Fiction Company: Protagonist Pictures Contact: Charlotte Lopez Email: [email protected] Logline: An almost deserted caravan park in Cornwall is the backdrop to this psychological thriller about 19-year-old Ruth, who discovers powerful new emotions after moving into the park with her boyfriend Tom. Jealousy, fear and lust arise in this mysterious, ominous setting, fuelled by inexplicable events.
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
International premiere Programme section: Big Screen Competition Director(s): Thomas Clay Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 110 Genre: Fiction Company: Coproduction Office Contact: Christina Demetriou Email: [email protected] Logline: England, 1657. Fanny Lye has always been taught to subject herself to the discipline of God and her husband's hands. Until two strangers suddenly turn up at their remote farm. This genre mash-up of western, invasion thriller
and survival drama portrays the political and sexual liberation of a deeply religious woman, filmed on 35mm. Sold territories:
Rebel Dread
World premiere Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): William E. Badgley Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 87 Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Moviehouse Entertainment Contact: Mark Vennis Email: [email protected] Logline: When punk hit its peak, a smartly dressed DJ with Jamaican roots often spun reggae between the explosive band sets. And so began Don Letts' eventful career. A revealing documentary about the permanent fellow traveller for The Clash and many other bands he would go on to manage, film and accompany on stage. Sold territories: All available
Uruguay
Así habló el cambista
Programme section: Voices Main Programme Director(s): Federico Veiroj Prod. Countries: Uruguay, Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 97 Genre: Fiction Company: Film Factory Entertainment Contact: Vicente Canales Email: [email protected] Logline: Film adaptation of Juan Enrique Gruber's 1979 novel The Moneychanger, about opportunistic Humberto Brause (beautifully
played by Daniel Hendler). Set in Montevideo in 1975, 1956, 1962 and 1966, when military dictatorships and/or corrupt regimes held sway in the big neighbouring countries of Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbQYmmhW_Y
Venezuela
La Fortaleza
World premiere Programme section: Tiger Competition Director(s): Jorge Thielen Armand Prod. Countries: Venezuela, France, Netherlands, Colombia Prod. Year: 2020 Length: 108 Genre: Fiction Company: Reel Suspects Contact: Matteo Lovadina Email: [email protected] Logline: Stories from his father, who also plays the lead, inspired the filmmaker to make this intense drama. To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, a man retreats into the jungle and meets old friends. But their former happiness is transformed into evil intentions by the lure of gold. Sold territories: All avaialable
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